DOMINE DIRIGE NOS   blazon or coat of arms   

THE SURVEY OF LONDON: CONTAINING The Original, Increase, Modern Estate and Government of that City, Methodically set down.  
With a Memorial of those famouser Acts of Charity, which for public and Pious Uses have been bestowed by many Worshipful Citizens and Benefactors.  
As also all the Ancient and Modern Monuments erected in the Churches, not only of those two famous Cities, LONDON and WESTMINSTER, but (now newly added) Four miles' compass.  
Begun first by the pains and industry of JOHN STOW, in the year 1598.  
Afterwards enlarged by the care and diligence of A. M. in the year 1618.  
And now completely finished by the study & labour of A. M. H. D. and others, this present year 1633.  
Whereunto, besides many Additions (as appears by the Contents) are annexed diverse Alphabetical Tables: especially two,  
The first, and Index of Things.  
The second, a Concordance of Names.  
LONDON, Printed for Nicholas Bourn, and are to be sold at his Shop at the South Entrance of the ROYAL-EXCHANGE▪ 1633.   


Adrian Drift Esqr.   blazon or coat of arms   

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RALPH FREEMAN, now Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON, Sir Edward Barkham, Sir Martin Lumley, Sir john Gore, Sir Hugh Ham●●●rsley, Sir Richard Deane, Sir james Cambell, Sir Robert Ducy, Sir George whitmore, Sir Nicholas Raynton, Knights; Edward Litleton, Esquire, Recorder of LONDON: And to all the other Aldermen, Brethren-Senators in the state of so famous a City; All of them being my Honourable and worthy Masters: A. M. Wisheth the fruition of all temporal Felicities in this life; and the neverfailing fullness of blessedness in the life to come.  
RIGHT HONOURABLE,  
THis famous City hath now enjoyed the peaceful succession of more than one and thirty worthy Lord Majors, since Master john Stow (the painful Searcher into Reverend Antiquity) did first present LONDON'S SURVEY to this Honourable Senate, Sir Robert Lee, than Lord Maior, with gracious and favourable acceptance.  
Who purposing to add increase to this Work (according to the dignity of the Subject) but prevented by infirmity, and Sicknesse-bringing Death, imparted not only his good Intentions, but best Collections also unto me, by his importunacy now persuaded both to correct the Errors, and perfect so well deserving a Work: And had his request been wanting, the respect and honour I owe to this Royal City (the tender Mother and Nurse to us both) had been incitement enough to further a Book of such consequence, as far as my weak abilities would give leave.  
Having therefore at first drawn a brief Discourse thereof, lest I might unadvisedly dash on the Rocks of Displeasure, I delivered it to the Right Worshipful, Sir Henry Montague, than Recorder of London, by whom commanded to appear before your Worships in the Council Chamber at Guild-Hall, I received Encouragement and Authority, with promise of help and furtherance, to perfect this worthy Monument. Which accordingly (after the care and pains of twelve years' travel about it) I presented unto this Honourable Senate, in the year 1618.  
But now that I might add a Compliment to this Survey, which might best become it, have I done my diligent endeavour (unto which have I called the assistance of other learned Antiquaries) to set down Methodically, 
M. D.  the Original, Increase, Modern Estate, and Government of this City; as also by what Name, or Office rather, whether of Portgraves, Portreeves, Barons, Provosts, or Bailiffs, the Governors, Rulers, and Magistrates were anciently distinguished.  
Before all other, I find the name of Alderman, well worthy observation, as being derived from most venerable Antiquity: 
Combed. in Brit.  For ancient Records say, that in the days of King Edgar, there was a worthy Noble man, of the Blood Royal, named Ailwine, in great authority and favour with the King, insomuch that he was therefore termed, Healf-Koning, as much to say, as Halfe-King; and by Office was styled, Alderman of all England: as appears by this Epitaph engraven on his Tomb, in that Famous Monastery (by him founded) in the I'll of Ely:  
Hic requiescit D. Ailwinus, incliti Regis Edgari Cognatus, totius Angliae Aldermannus, & huius sacri Coenobii miraculosus Fundator.  
Here resteth Lord Ailwine, Cousin to the Noble King Edgar, Alderman of all England, and miraculous Founder of this holy Abbey.  
Which plainly showeth, that in those times of ancient and venerable respect, this Title of Alderman, was only given, for a further addition of Repute and Honour.  
Some Authors have delivered, 
Math. Paris. Geoffrey Monm. Will, Malmes. Pol▪ Virgil.  that men bearing such a Style, were sometimes called Doomesmen, sometimes Ealdermen, Judges of the King's Courts, etc. As being distinguished by those additions of Honour and Esteem from other men, for their greater maturity of judgement, gravity of years, experience and person; and therefore the fitter for weighty employment in the State-affairs, by apt correspondency of their trust and fidelity. Which name of dignity declaring the most eminent degree of Magistracy, doth still (as heretofore it hath) extend itself throughout all England, in Cities, Towns, and Corporations; and in some the Alderman only is the chief Commander: Even so is it much more Majestical here, in the supreme City of the whole Land, London, the Metropolis of Great Britain, the Mother of authentic Memory, the Ancient and Modern Seat of our Kings, yea, the very Chamber Royal for Majesty itself, and the open Haven for all Merchandise and Commerce, as being the rich Storehouse of Peace and Plenty.  
It shall be needless to trouble your Honour, and the rest of my worthy Masters, with repetition here of those Officers and Governors, that ruled this Great City in elder times, because you shall find them sufficiently set down in their apt and distinct places, until this higher degree of Honour came to full perfection, I mean the Mayoralty, which some hold to be in King john's time, but most maintain & avouch it to be in the first year of King Richard the first, whose Virtue and Courage won him the name of Cueur-de-lion. From which happy beginning, it hath neither been mine, nor my most industrious and helpful Friends good fortune, 
W. W.  to rank down in formal order the successive line of the Sheriffs, Majors, and Aldermen, according to my former intended purpose, concerning their Birth-place, and Parentage; nor how many of them this Honourable City itself then yielded, as challenging them her own Offspring, she being as well a loving Mother to breed them in her own Bowels, as a careful Nurse afterward to bring them up.  
For myself, London's Offspring, though the meanest, yet hold I it no small attribute of Honour to record it, how much more Glory then for you (equal in worth and rank) to read it, and what comfort for Posterity to remember and acknowledge it, that this Ancient, Famous, and Renowned Mother City, never wanted from time to time Honourable Sons of her own bearing and breeding, to sit at Stern, to undergo all Offices of Credit and Authority, yea, even the Mayoralty, from Father to Son in the third Generation; and they to boast their Grandfathers, and great Grandfathers, 
Witness Garrards'. Bar●es. Rowe●. Branch, etc.  borne & bred in this worthy City, some to the fourth, others the third, but many the second Generation, as in the Reportary following will more at large appear.  
I forbear to speak of such as have been Aldermen and Sheriffs; 
Witness Barnhams, Father and Son.  first, the Fathers; then, the Sons; yet neither living to enjoy the Maioralties Dignity. As also what fluent plenty of Magistrates in the same high Office, the several Sheirffes of England have yielded, wherewith the said Discourse will more familiarly acquaint you.  
And now, let me beseech your Honour and Worships, to allow this Survey of London your gracious entertainment; and the rather, for that it now comes in a fairer Volume than ever, replete with plenty and enlargement of memorable Additions, not only with the splendour of Arms, and other glorious Ensigns of Honour, but with special observations of venerable Antiquity, and infinite supplements of Ancient and Modern Monuments, as well of the Churches in the famous Cities of London and Westminster, as in four miles' compass round about them, such as before this instant were never published.   

To the Reader.  
THat I may give you a reason of such things as the judicious and severe Censurer may deem blemishes and imperfections in this Work: For the Order, you may be pleased to understand, it is not so absolutely Methodical as I could wish it were, yet needs none other Apology, than the length of time it hath been growing to this Bulk, and Mortality of the Authors, who have spent (two of them now) their lives in the disquisition of venerable Antiquity concerning this City. The Learned know, Men are all various in their Opinions, as in their Faces you hardly find of a Nation two that resemble in all proportions, so in their Minds is there as much discrepancy, and then must there needs be the same or more in their Writings, the express Image of their Minds. And this is the Fate of our present Work, which begun Methodically, hath not been so well prosecuted, whether out of difference in judgement, or want of Information, I dispute not: Probable it may be, the desire of inserting all things for the delight of the Reader, might breed this want of Method, and the rather am I induced to incline thereto, since every day's Experience teaches, how unstable oftentimes and incertain Friendship is, when she promises Information in this kind: Yet this, the ingenuity of a courteous Reader will excuse, since the Benefit compensates the Wrong.  
And to administer a salve to this sore, and prevent Distraction in the Reader, in this last Impression have you variety of Tables, succinct and pithy, yet not obscure: In the beginning, the whole body of the Book dissected into sixty Chapters, whose short Contents epitomise the Substance of the Work: Then brief Schemes as well of all the Churches in and about London and Westminster four miles' compass, as of all the Halls and Companies of this Honourable City, both Alphabetically ranged with reference to their proper places. Lastly, that nothing might be wanting which should bring ease and furtherance to the Studious Reader, have you a Catalogue of Authors, on whose authority the truth of our Assertions may depend.  
Neither leave we you hear: In the end also have we furnished it with two exact Tables; The first an Index, containing in it the chief Streets, Lanes, Conduits, stately Houses of Noblemen, Inns of Court, Chancery, and other ancient Monuments of this City, not without the admixion also of worthy Actions and Customs of Citizens. The other a Concordance of those, whose Honour in their Office, Charity in their Alms, Memory in their Monument, hath acquainted Posterity with their Names: By this Guide, he who boasts his Birth in a Magnificent City (as the Ancient did in Rome or Athens) may with great facility find his Ancestors in their Honours, Alms giving, Tombs, or other memorable and worthy Actions here recorded: For instance (not to exceed our Memories) find the name of Anderson in the Concordance, and according to the first figures (105. a. ¶) turn to the Page, and you have his Liberality or Benefaction to Brazen-nose College in Oxford; then consult the second (291. a. ¶) in like manner, and you have his Monument in Saint Olave Vpwel's Church: so the third (592. b. ¶.) and you shall find him there Sheriff, Anno Dom. 1601. The same order is observed in the rest, only for distinction sake, I have added these letters. B. to such as have been Bishops, and M. to those that have borne the Office of Maior.  
Thus have we endeavoured to prevent Distraction, and reduce the copious Variety of this Work to heads, for the Readers ease; not without a great deal of Pains, Care, and Charge: The ●udicious can give the best estimate of the Pains; of the Care none better than he that hath reaped benefit by the reading; as for the Charge, the proportion of the Volume speaks, especially to the skilful in that Mystery; to which if you add the length of time (now almost three years) it hath lain under the Press, there is none but may conceive the greatness thereof. Yet no small satisfaction to all these may you afford (Gentle Reader) by your candid and courteous acceptance, with a future encouragement (in this, or the like) to the ready endeavours of him that will study to be  
Your Servant, C. I   

The Contents of the several Chapters of this BOOK.  

CHAP. I  
OF the Original, Antiquity, and Increase of this City of London. Fol. 1   

CHAP. II.  
Of the Wall about the City. 4   

CHAP. III.  
Of the ancient and present Brooks, Boornes, Pools, Wells, and Conduirs of fresh Water, serving the City: as also of the D●ch compassing the Wall of the same for defence thereof. 8   

CHAP. IU  
Of the ancient and famous River of Thames, from whence she deriveth her head or original, and so conveyeth herself to the City's service, being supplied by diverse other sweet Rivers in her course. 14   

CHAP. V.  
A further testimony concerning the River of Thames, and of the right and authority of the Lord Mayor of London, to the conservacy and defence of the said famous River. 20   

CHAP. VI  
Of Towne-Ditch about the City Walls. 26   

CHAP. VII.  
Of the Bridges of this City. 27   

CHAP. VIII.  
Of the several Gates in the Wall of the City, and of their increasing and new building from time to time, as occasion served. 31   

CHAP. IX.  
Of Towers and Castles in and about this City. 40   

CHAP. X.  
Of the rights that belonged anciently to Robert Fitzwalter, chastilion and Banner-bearer of London, Lord of Wadeham, etc. 50   

CHAP. XI.  
Of Schools and other houses of Learning. 63   

CHAP. XII.  
Of Houses and Inns of Students in the Common Law. 66   

CHAP. XIII.  
Of orders and customs observed by the Citizens in elder times. 67   

CHAP. XIV.  
Of great Families kept in ●lder times. 70   

CHAP. XV.  
Of charitable almsgiving in ancient times. 74   

CHAP. XVI.  
Of Sports and Pastimes used of old in this City. 75   

CHAP. XVII.  
Of Watches in this City, and other Matters commanded, and the causes why. 83   

CHAP. XVIII.  
Of the honour of London's Citizens, and the worthiness of men and women dwelling in the same City, by their liberal bounty and charity to good and godly uses from time to time. 86   

CHAP. XIX.  
The division of the City of London into Parts, Precincts, and Wards. 113  
Of the 26. WARDS.   

CHAP. XX.  
1 Portsoken Ward, with the Parish Churches, Monuments, and Halls of Companies therein 115   

CHAP. XXI.  
2 Towerstreet Ward. 225   

CHAP. XXII.  
3 Ealdgate Ward. 144   

CHAP. XXIII.  
4 Limestreet Ward. 161   

CHAP. XXIV.  
5 Bishopsgate Ward. 16●   

CHAP. XXV.  
6 Broad-street Ward. 183   

CHAP. XXVI.  
7 Cornhill Ward. 206   

CHAP. XXVII.  
8 Langborne Ward, and Fenny about. 217   

CHAP. XXVIII.  
9 Belins-gate Ward. 225   

CHAP. XXIX.  
10 Bridge Ward within. 230   

CHAP. XXX.  
11 Candlewickstreet, or Candlewright street Ward. 234   

CHAP. XXXI.  
12 Walbrooke Ward. 241   

CHAP. XXXII.  
13 Downegate Ward. 248   

CHAP. XXXIII.  
14 Vintrie Ward. 254   

CHAP. XXXIV.  
15 Cordwainer street Ward. 264   

CHAP. XXXV.  
16 Cheap Ward. 272   

CHAP. XXXVI.  
17 Coleman street Ward. 287   

CHAP. XXXVII.  
18 Bassing Hall Ward. 297   

CHAP. XXXVIII.  
19 Creplegate Ward. 301   

CHAP. XXXIX.  
20 Aldersgate Ward. 320   

CHAP. XL.  
21 Faringdon Ward within. 335   

CHAP. XLI.  
22 Breadstreet Ward. 390   

CHAP. XLII.  
23 Queenehiche Ward. 397   

CHAP. XLIII.  
24 Castle Baynard Ward. 404   

CHAP. XLIV.  
25 Faringdon Ward without. 414   

CHAP. XLV.  
26 Bridge Ward without, consisting of the Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey. 442   

CHAP. XLVI.  
Of the Suburbs without the Wall of London, as also without the Liberties. 461   

CHAP. XLVII.  
Of the Liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster without the Suburbs. 489   

CHAP. XLVIII.  
Of the City of Westminster, with the Antiquities, Bounds, and Liberties thereof: As also a Breviate of the first Foundation, Alterations, and Rebuilding of that famous ancient Abbey, from time to time, till it came to be called a Collegiate Church; together with a brief description of most of the worthy Monuments in that Church. 493   

CHAP. XLXIX.  
Of the Government of the City of London: and first of the Ecclesiastical Governors, the Bishops of London, what time they sat in that See, with the places of their burials. 527   

CHAP. L.  
Of the Temporal Government of this City, with the Names and Arms of all the Lord Mayor, as also the Order and Arms of all the Companies in London. 535 

Whereunto is added also:  
The Statutes of the Streets. 665  
An Act for Reformation of diverse abuses crept into the Wardmote Inquest. 669     

CHAP. LI.  
An Apology for the City of London. 631   

CHAP. LII.  
Stephanides, or a description of London. 703   

CHAP. LIII.  
A Relation of the two Lordships of Stepney and Hackney, together with their free Customs, Privileges, etc. 715   

CHAP. LIV.  
The Charter of London: and an Ordinace for the Affiz● and Weight of Bread. 739   

CHAP. LV.  
The Pope's Bull, and other Bishops their Letters, concerning the Offerings (or Tithes) of the Parishes of London, to their Curates. 747   

CHAP. LVI.  
The Patrons (anciently) of all the Benefices in the City of London. 751   

The REMAINS, wherein is contained:  

CHAP. LVII.  
First, many memorable things which should have been inserted in due place, had the Author's friends supplied them in due time, as the College of Dulwich, etc. 757   

CHAP. LVIII.  
Then, a Perambulation four miles about London, with the Monuments of all the Churches in that compass, and observation of many other worthy matters. 783   

CHAP. LIX.  
Besides, a Return of London, with particular notes of the Reparations and Adornments of every Church therein. 819   

CHAP. LX.  
And lastly, a Review of the sixteen Parishes without the Walls, and the nine out Parishes. 872. 889     

All the Churches in and about LONDON, four miles' compass (Alphabetically digested) with reference to the several places where their Situation, Monuments, Reparations, and other memorable things recorded throughout this whole Book.  

The 97. Churches within the Walls.  

Names. Fol.  
Albans Woodstreet. 308. 819  
All-hallows 

Barking. 130. 820  
Breadstreet. 391. 820  
Great. 251. 821  
Honilane. 282. 822  
Less. 251. 822  
Lumbardstreet. 219. 822  
Staining. 222. 822  
The Wall. 183. 823    
Alphage. 305. 823  
Andrew Hubbard. 228. 824  
Audrew Vndershaft. 151. 824  
Andrew Wardrobe. 407. 825  
Anne Aldersgate. 326. 825  
Arm Blackfriars. 374. 826  
Antholins'. 265. 827  
Augustine's. 351. 827  
Bartholomew Exchange. 191. 827  
Bennet Fink. 189. 828  
Bennet Grasse-Church. 231. 773. 828  
Bennet Paul's wharf. 406. 829  
Bennet Sherehog. 276. 829  
Botolph Belins-gate. 225. 829  
Christ's Church. 341. 763. 830  
Christopher's. 192. 831  
Clements Eastcheap. 235. 832  
Dionis Backe-Church. 218. 832  
Dunstan's East. 138. 832  
Edmund's Lombard street. 221. 833  
Ethelborough. 178. 833  
Faiths. 355. 833  
Fosters. 338. 773. 836  
Gabriel Fenchurch. 217. 836  
George Botolphlane. 228. 836  
Gregory's by Paul's. 411. 836  
Hellins. 178. 837  
james Duke's place. 148. 837  
james Garlikhithe. 262. 838  
johu Baptist. 246. 838  
john Evangelist. 395. 838  
john Zacharie. 321. 838  
Katherine Coleman. 158. 839  
Katherine Creechurch. 149. 839  
Laurence jewrie. 284. 840  
Laurence Pountney. 239. 843  
Leonard Eastcheap. 231. 843  
Leonard Fosterlane. 325. 844  
Magnus. 230. 844  
Margaret Lothbury. 292. 845  
Margaret Moses. 395. 845  
Margaret New fish-street. 230. 845  
Margaret Pattons'. 137. 228. 846  
Mary Abchurch. 235. 846  
Mary Aldermanburic. 303. 847  
Marry Aldermary. 266. 847  
Mary le Bow. 268. 848  
Mary Bothaw. 246. 849  
Mary Colechurch. 275. 850  
Marry Hill. 227. 850  
Mary Mounthawe. 400. 850  
Mary Summerset. 400. 850  
Mary Staynings. 321. 851  
Marry wool-church. 244. 851  
Mary Woollnoth. 223. 852  
Martin's Ironmonger lane. 282. 852  
Martin's Ludgate. 372. 852  
Martin's Orgars. 2●8. 853  
Martins Oteswich. 188. 853  
Martin's Vintry. 261. 853  
Matthew Frydaystreet. 350. 854  
Maudlin's Milkestreet. 306. 854  
Maudlin's Oldfishstreet. 409. 855  
Michael Bassingshall. 299. 855  
Michael Cornhill. 212. 856  
Michael Crookedlane. 236. 856  
Michael Queenhithe. 400. 857  
Michael Querne. 387. 857  
Michael Royal. 256. 859  
Michael Woodstreet. 311. 859  
Mildred Breadstreet. 392. 859  
Mildred Poultry. 273. 861  
Nicholas Acons. 223. 862  
Nicholas Coleabby. 398. 863  
Nicholas Olaves. 399. 863  
Olaves Harestreet. 134. 863  
Olaves Jewrie. 290. 863  
Olaves Silverstreet. 324. 865  
Pancras Soperlane. 277. 866  
Peter's Cheap. 337. 866  
Peter's Cornhill. 210. 867  
Peter Paul's wharf 400. 867  
Peter's Poor. 184. 868  
Stevens Colemanstreet. 293. 869  
Stevens Walbrooke. 244. 870  
Swithins. 241. 870  
Thomas Apostle. 258. 871  
Trinity Church. 397. 872    

The 16. Churches without the Walls, standing part within the Liberties, and part without.  

Andrew Holborn. 4●8. 763. 770. 872  
Bartholomew great. 420. 873  
Bartholomew less. 415. 874  
Brides Church. 437. 762. 875  
Bridewell Precinct. 312. 876  
Botolph Aldersgate. 330. 772. 867  
Botolph Algate. 118. 878  
Botolph Bishopsgate. 169. 780. 879  
Dunstan's West. 431. 879  
George Southwark. 454. 793. 882.  
Giles Cripplegate. 312. 762. 778. 883  
Olaves Southwark. 457. 884  
Saviour's Southwark. 450. 884  
Sepulchers. 423. 779. 885  
Thomas Southwark. 457. 887  
Trinity Minories. 146. 888    

The 9 out Churches in Middlesex and Surry.  

Clement Danes. 491. 889  
Giles in the Fields. 488. 800. 894  
james Clarkenwell. 484. 899  
Katherine Tower. 117. 900  
Leonard Shoreditch. 471  
Martins in the Fields, 493. 800. 901  
Marry Whitechapell. 469. 903  
magdalen's Bermondsey. 460. 905  
Savoy Church. 490. 905    

The 17. Churches four miles' compass about London, and in the City of Westminster.  

Battersey. 795  
Chelsey. 786  
Detford. 805  
Fulham. 783  
Greenwich. 803  
Hackney. 796  
Islington. 798  
Kensington. 799  
Lambeth. 790  
Westmin. 

Marg. 499. 519. 773. 807  
Peter. 500 763. 774. 814.    
Putney. 784  
Newington. 792  
Roderith. 806  
Stepney. 787  
Stratford Bow and Bromley. 789  
Wandsworth. 793     

All the Companies in LONDON, Alphabetically ordered, together with their several Halls, and Arms, with reference to the places where they are spoken of in this Worke.  

Their Halls.  
Arms.  
Armourers. 293. 624  
Apothecaries. 〈…〉 645  
Bakers 

White.  
Browne. 138. 

624  
642      
Barber-Surgeons. 339. 623  
Blacksmithes. 409. 635  
Bottle-makers, and Home-makers 638  
Bowyers. 312. 634  
Brewers. 311. 622  
Bricklayers and Tilers. 144. 634  
Butchers. 340. 627  
Carpenters. 184. 628  
Clerks. 255. 644  
Clothworkers. 137. 610  
Cooks and Pastelars. 330. 633  
Cooper's. 299. 633  
Cordwainers. 395. 628  
Curriers. 311. 629  
Cutlers. 258. 626  
Dyer's. 249. 621  
Drapers. 187. 601  
Farriers. 640  
Fishmongers. 231. 602  
Fletchers. 156. 635  
Founders. 293. 631  
Fruterers. 256. 637  
Girdlers. 297. 626  
Glasiers. 261. 644  
Goldsmiths. 323. 603  
Grocers. 274. 600  
Haberdashers. 312. 606  
Imbroderers. 338. 632  
Inneholders'. 249. 631  
joiners. 249. 636  
Ironmongers. 156. 608  
Leathersellers. 179. 622  
Lorimers. 641  
Masons, or Marblers. 297. 630  
Mercers. 281. 599  
Merchantaylors. 188. 605  
Painterstayners. 399. 629  
Paviers. 641  
Pewterers. 217. 623  
Pinner's, now Plasterers. 310. 636  
Plumbers. 256. 630  
Poulters. 632  
Sadlers. 338. 627  
Saltars. 392. 607  
Scriveners. 638  
Skinners. 248. 604  
Stationers. 372. 639  
Tallow-Chandlers. 248. 625  
Turner's. 643  
Vintners. 255. 609  
Upholsters. 643  
Watermen. 645  
Waxe-chandlers'. 312. 625  
Weavers. 297. 637  
Woodmongers. 408. 642  
Wooll-packers. 640   

The Companies of the Merchants.  

Their Arms.  
ADventurers. 612  
Adventurers new French Merchants. 618  
East Indian. 617  
Of Elbing. 614  
French. 619  
Turkish. 615  
Russian. 613  
Spanish. 616  
Of the Staple. 611  
Virginian. 620     

A Catalogue of Authors, venerable for Antiquity, out of whom the Truth of those worthy and Ancient Matters contained in this Book is excerpted: Ranged into an Alphabetical order.  

Abbess Floriacensis  
Alfred of Beverley.  
Antonius Florentinus.  
Arnold Rich.  
Asserius Menevensis.  
Baconthorpe john.  
Baldock Ralph.  
Bale john.  
Bannester john.  
Beda.  
Benedict of Whirhall.  
Beware the Cat.  
Body William.  
Bradshaw Henry.  
Buchanan.  
Burchard.  
Caesar's Commentaries.  
Camden Clarencieux.  
Capgrave john.  
Caxtons' Chronicle.  
Chancery Rolls.  
Chaucer.  
Chronica Chronicorum.  
Chronicle of Abingdon.  
Chronicle of S. Alban.  
Chronicle of Britain.  
Chronicle of Dunstable.  
Chronicle of Scarborow.  
Clifford Thomas.  
Cooper Thomas.  
Dedicato Radulphus.  
Doctor Dee.  
Dion Rom.  
Dunthorne William.  
Dyson Humphrey.  
Edm●rus.  
Edmond de Hadenbam.  
Elderton William.  
Eversden joh.  
Fabians Chronicle.  
Fabians Manuscript.  
Fitz-Stephen.  
Flores Historiarum.  
Floria●●nsis Wigorniensis  
Fox his Monuments.  
Froisard.  
Gaguin Rebert.  
Geoffrey of Monmouth.  
Gervase of Tilburie.  
Glastenbury Antiquities  
Giraldus Cambrensis.  
Gower john.  
Grafton Richard.  
Guildas.  
Hall's Chronicle.  
Hall Edward.  
Hardings' Chronicle.  
Harrison William.  
Henry of Leicester.  
Henry of Marleborow.  
Higeden Ranulph.  
Historia Tripartita.  
Holinshed Raphael.  
Horn Andrew.  
Hoveden Roger.  
Huntingdon Henry.  
joceline of Furneiss.  
john de Bavow.  
john of Beverley.  
Ingulphus.  
jucliffe Roger.  
Knighton Henry.  
Lambert William.  
Lanquet Thomas.  
Leyland john.  
Lhuyd Humphrey.  
Lib. Albo.  
Lib. S. Bartholomew.  
Lib. Bermondsey.  
Lib. Burton sup. Trent.  
Lib. Bury S. Edmond.  
Lib. Chartsey.  
Lib. de Clarkenwell.  
Lib. Colchester.  
Lib. Constitutionum.  
Lib. Customs London.  
Lib. Dunmow.  
Lib. Dunthorne.  
Lib. Ely.  
Lib. Erswicke.  
Lib. Fleetwood.  
Lib. de S. Katherine's.  
Lib. de Knighton Guild.  
Lib. S. Mariae Eborum.  
Lib. S. Mariae Oueris.  
Lib. S. Martins.  
Lib. Osney.  
Lib. de Papie.  
Lib. Roffens.  
Lib. Tewksbury.  
Lib. Trinitatis.  
Lib. Waverley.  
Lib. de Woodbridge,  
Lidgate john.  
Lily George.  
Lily William.  
Livius.  
London john.  
Lucan.  
Magna Charta.  
Malverne john.  
Manuscripts.  
Manuscript French.  
Marianus Scotus.  
Matthew Paris.  
Matthew of Westminster.  
Melancthon.  
Merimouth Adam.  
More Thomas, Knight.  
Mountgomery john.  
Nevil Alexander.  
Osbernus' Dorobernensis.  
Otherborne Henry.  
Packenton William.  
Paradine William.  
Paston William.  
Patten William.  
Patent de jugham.  
Philip Com●●ines.  
Politianus.  
Poly Chronicon.  
Polydore Virgil.  
Pomponius M●la.  
Price john, Knight.  
Ptolomaeus.  
Ralph Cogshall.  
Records Canterbury.  
Records of Guildhall.  
Records Parliament.  
Records Patent.  
Records of Pontfract.  
Records in the Rolls.  
Records of the Tower.  
Records of the Vintry.  
Register of Brockesden.  
Rishanger William.  
Robert de Amesbury.  
Roger of Wendover.  
Rouse john.  
Savage Dennis.  
Scoggan Henry.  
Simon of Durham.  
Smith Thomas, Knight.  
Socrates.  
Sorocold Thomas.  
Spelman Henry.  
Spot Thomas.  
Strabo.  
Sulcardus.  
Tacitus.  
Textor john.  
Thorn William.  
Tuke Brian, Knight.  
Vita Erkenwaldi.  
Walsingham Thomas.  
Walter of Coventry.  
Whethamsted.  
William of Huntingdon.  
William of Malmesbury.  
Witchendus.  
Wolf Reginald.   
To these might be added many more, who cover rather the benefit and furtherance of so necessary a Work, than vainglory and reputation amongst men.   

THE SURVEY OF LONDON: Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate, and Description of that City.  
AS the Roman Writers, to glorify the City of Rome, drew the Original thereof from gods & demygods, by the Trojan progeny: so Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Welsh Historian, deduceth the foundation of this famous City of London, for the greater glory thereof, and emulation of Rome, from the very same Original. For he reporteth, that Brute lineally descended from the demigod Aeneas, the son of Venus, daughter of jupiter, about the year of the world 2855. and 1108. before the nativity of Christ, builded this City near unto the River now called Thames, 
Trinobantum hath the written copy. Livi●.  and named it Troynovant, or Trenovant. But herein, as Livy (the most famous Historiographer of the Romans) writeth, Antiquity is pardonable, and hath an especial privilege, by interlacing divine matters with humane, to make the first foundation of Cities more honourable, more sacred, and as it were, of greater Majesty.  
King Lud (as the aforesaid Geoffrey of Monmouth noteth) afterward, not only repaired this City; but also increased the same with fair Buildings, Towers and Walls, and after his own name, called it Caire-Lud, 
Cairo Lud, the City of Lud, but Luds-towne is a Saxon word.  as Luds Town, and the strong Gate which he builded in the West part of the City, he likewise (for his own honour) named Ludgate.  
This Lud had issue two sons, Androgeus, and Theomantius, or Tenanticus, who being not of age to govern at the death of their Father; their Uncle Cassibelan took upon him the Crown; about the eighth year of whose reign, julius Caesar arrived in this Land, with a great power of Romans to conquer it. The manner of which Conquest, I will summarily set down out of his own Commentaries, which are of far better credit, than the relations of Geoffrey Monmouth.  
The chief government of the Britain's, 
Caesar's commentaries, lib. 5.  and ordering of the Wars, was then (by common advice) committed to Cassibelan, whose Signiory was separated from the Cities towards the Sea-coast, by the River called Thames, about 80. miles off from the Sea. This Cassibelan in times past, had made continual war upon the Cities adjoining; but the Britain's being moved with the Romans invasiton, had resolved in that necessity to make him their Sovereign and General of the Wars. Caesar having knowledge of their intent, marched with his Army to the Thames, 
The River of Thames to be passed afoot in Caesar's time.  into the Signory of Cassibelan. This River can be passed but only in one place on foot, and that very hardly. When he came thither, he saw a great power of his enemies in battle array, on the other side of the River. Now was the Bank sticked full of stakes, sharpened at the end; and likewise other stakes (of the same making) were driven into the Channel, and hidden with the water. Caesar having understanding thereof, by his Prisoners and Runne-awaies, sent his Horsemen before, and commanded his Footmen to follow immediately after them. But the Roman Soldiers went with such speed and force, having no more than their heads only above the water: that the enemy being not able to withstand the violence of the Footmen, and the men of Arms, forsook the bank, and took them to flight. Cassibelan despairing of his good success, by fight in plain battle, sent away all his greater powers, 
The policy of Cassibelan upon his ill success.  and keeping still about four thousand Waggoners, watched which way the Romans went, and drew somewhat aside out of the way, hiding himself in cumbersome and woody places. And wheresoever he knew the Romans should march, he drove both cattle and people thence into the Woods. When the Romans Horsemen ranged any thing freely abroad into the fields for forage, or to harry the Country: he sent his Waggoners by always and paths out of the woods, upon their men of Arms, 
His advantage against the Roman horsemen.  and encountered with them to their great prejudice, through the fear whereof, he kept them short from ranging at their pleasure.  
So the matter was brought to this pass, that Caesar would not suffer his Horsemen to stray any farnesse from his main Battle of Footmen, and adventured no further to annoy his enemies, in wasting their fields, and burning their houses, than he could compass by the travail of his Footmen, as they were able to journey.  
In the mean while, 
Trinobants Citizens of London.  the Trinobants, which was the strongest City, well-near, of all those Countries, and out of which City, a young Gentleman called Mandubrace, upon confidence of Caesar's help, coming unto him into the main Land of Gallia, now called France, had thereby escaped death, which he should have suffered at Cassibelans hand, (as his Father Imanuence had done, who had reigned in that City:) sent Ambassadors to Caesar, 
Mandubrace and the Trinobants yield to Caesar, and he defended them.  promising to yield unto him, and to do what he should command them. Instantly desiring him, to protect Mandubrace from the furious Tyranny of Cassibelan, and to send him into the City, with authority to take the government thereof upon him. Caesar accepted the offer, and appointed them to give unto him 40. Hostages, and withal to find him grain for his Army, and so sent he Mandubrace unto them.  
When others saw that Caesar had not only defended the Trinobants against Cassibelan, but had also saved them harmless from the pillage of his own Soldiers: then also did the Cenimagues, Segontians, Aucalits', Bibrokes, and Cassians likewise submit themselves unto him, 
Cassibelans Town west from London, for Caesar saith, 80. miles from the Sea.  and by them he learned, that not far from thence was Cassibelans Town, (fortified with woods and marish grounds) into the which he had gathered a great number both of men and cattle.  
For the Britain's call that a Town, 
Cities of the Britain's were cumbersome woods fortified.  when they have fortified a cumbersome wood with a ditch and Rampire, and thither they resort to eschew the invasions of their enemies. To this place therefore marched Caesar with his Legions; he found it excellently fortified, both of nature, and by man's advice: nevertheless, he resolved to assault it in two several places at once; whereupon the Britain's being not able to endure the force of the Romans, fled out at another part, and left the Town unto him: a great number of cattle he found there, and many of the Britain's he slew, and others he took in the chase.  
Whilst these things were a doing in these quarters, Cassibelan sent messengers into Kent, which lieth upon the Sea, and in which there reigned then four particular Kings, named, Cingetorix, Carvil, Taximagul, and Segonax, whom he commanded to raise all their forces, and suddenly to set upon, and assault the Romans in their Trenches by the Sea side: the which when the Romans perceived, they sallied out upon them, slew a great sort of them, and taking Cingetorix their noble Captain prisoner, retired themselves to their Camp in good safety.  
When Cassibelan heard of this, and had formerly taken many other losses, and found his Country sore wasted, and himself left almost alone, by the defection of the other Cities, he sent Ambassadors by Comius of Arras to Caesar, to entreat him concerning his own submission: the which Caesar did accept; and taking Hostages, assessed the Realm of Britain to a yearly Tribute, to be paid to the people of Rome, 
Britain ses●ed to pay a yearly tribute to Rome.  giving strait charge to Cassibelan, that he should not seek any revenge upon Mandubrace, or the Trinobants, and so withdrew his Army to the Sea again.  
Thus far out of Caesar's Commentaries, concerning this History, which happened in the year before Christ's nativity, 54. In all which process, there is for this purpose to be noted, that Caesar nameth the City of Trinobantes, which hath a resemblance with Troy nova, or Trinobantum, 
Trinobant, new London.  having no greater difference in the Orthography, than changing (b) into (v), and yet maketh an error, whereof I will not argue. Only this I will note, that diverse learned men do not think Civitas Trinobantum, to be well and truly translated, the City of the Trinobantes: but it should rather be the state, communality, or Signiory of the Trinobantes, for that Caesar in his Commentaries useth the word Civitas, only for a people living under the selfsame Prince and Law. But certain it is, 
Cities of the Britain's not artificially builded with houses, nor walled with stone  that the Cities of the Britons were (in those days) neither artificially builded with houses, nor strongly walled with stone, but were only thick and cumbersome Woods, plashed within, and trenched about: and the like (in effect) do other the Roman and Greek Authors affirm, 
Strabo.  as Strabo, Pomponius Mela, 
Pomponius Mela.  and Dion, a Senator of Rome, which flourished in the several reigns of the Roman Emperors, 
Tacitus.  Tiberius, 
Dion.  Claudius, Domitian, and Severus: to wit, that before the arrival of the Romans, the Britons had no Towns, but called that a Town, which had a thick entangled Wood, defended (as I said) with a ditch and bank, the like whereof the Irishmen, our next neighbours, do at this day call fastness. But after that these hither parts of Britain's were reduced into the form of a Province, by the Romans, who sowed the seeds of civility over all Europe; this City, whatsoever it was before, began to be renowned and of fame. 
London most famous for merchants and intercourse.  For Tacitus, who first of all Authors nameth it Londinium, saith, that in the 26. year after Christ, it was, albeit no Colony of the Romans, yet most famous for the great multitude of Merchants, provision, and intercourse. At which time, in that notable revolt of the Britaines from Nero, in which threescore and ten thousand Romans and their confederates were slain; this City, with Verulamium, near Saint Alban, and Maldon in Essex, than all famous, were ransacked and spoiled. For Suetonius Paulinus, than Lieutenant for the Romans in this I'll, abandoned it, as not then fortified, and left it to the spoil.  
Shortly after, 
The Britain's had no houses, but cottages.  julius Agricola, the Roman Lieutenant, in the time of Domitian, was the first that (by adhorting the Britain's publicly, and helping them privately) won them to build houses, for themselves, Temples for the gods, and Courts for Justice, to bring up the Noble men's children in good Letters, and humanity, and to apparel themselves Roman like. 
The Britain's wen● naked, their bodies painted.  Whereas before (for the most part) they went naked, painting their bodies, etc. as all the Roman Writers have observed.  
True it is, I confess, that afterward many Cities and Towns in Britain, under the Government of the Romans, were walled with Stone, and baked Bricks, 
Richborrow in Kent.  or Tiles; as Richborrow, Ryptachester, 
Verulamium.  in the I'll of Thanet, till the channel altered his course; 
Cilcester.  besides Sandwich in Kent, 
Wroxcester.  Verulamium, besides Saint Albans in Hartfordshire, 
Kencester.  Cilcester in Hampshire, 
Leyland.  Wroxcester in Shropshire, Kencester in Herefordshire, there miles from Hereford Town; Ribcester, seven miles above Preston, on the water of Rible; Aldeburge, a mile from Borrowbridge, or Wathelingstreet, on Vre River, and others.  
And no doubt but this City of London was also walled with Stone, 
Of the wall about London.  in the time of the Roman Government here, but yet very lately. For, it seemeth not to have been walled in the year of our Lord 296. because in that year, when Alectus the Tyrant was slain in the Field, the Franks or Franconians easily entered London, and had sacked the same, had not GOD (of his great favour) at the very instant, brought along the River of Thames, certain Bands of Roman Soldiers, who slew those Franks in every street of the City.   

Wall about the City of LONDON.  
IN few years after, as Simeon of Durham, 
Simeon of Durham.  an ancient Writer, reporteth, Helen, the Mother of Constatine the great, was the first that inwalled this City, about the year of Christ, 306. But howsoever those walls of stone might be builded by Helen, yet the Britain's (I know) had no skill of building with stone, as it may appear by that which followeth, about the year of Christ, 399. when Arcadius and Honorius, the sons of Theodosius Magnus, governed the Empire, the one in the East, the other in the West. For Honorius having received Britain, the City of Rome was invaded and destroyed by the Goths; 
The Romans left to govern in Britain.  after which time the Romans left to rule in Britain, as being employed in defence of their Territories nearer home. Whereupon the Britain's, not able to defend themselves against the invasions of their enemies, were many years together under the oppression of two cruel Nations, the Scots and Picts, 
The Scots and Picts invade this Land.  and at length were forced to send their Ambassadors, with Letters and lamentable supplications to Rome, requiring aid and succour from thence, upon promise of their continual fealty, so that the Romans would rescue them out of the hands of their enemies. Hereupon, the Romans sent unto them a Legion of armed Soldiers, which coming into this Island, and encountering with the enemies, overthrew a great number of them, and drove the rest out of the frontiers of the Country. And so setting the Britaines at liberty, counselled them to make a Wall, extending all along between the two seas, which might be of force to keep out their evil neighbours, and then returned home with great triumph. The Britain's wanting Masons, builded that wall, 
Britain's unskilful of building with stone.  not of stone (as they were advised) but made it of turf, and that so slender, that it served little or nothing at all for their defence. And the enemy perceiving that the Roman Legion was returned home, forthwith arrived out of their Boats, invaded their borders, overcame the Country, and (as it were) bore down all that was before them.  
Whereupon, Ambassadors were eftsoons dispatched to Rome, lamentably beseeching, that they would not suffer their miserable Country to be utterly destroyed. Then again, another Legion was sent, which coming on a sudden, made a great slaughter of the enemy, and chased him home, even to his own Country. These Romans at their departure told the Britain's plainly, that it was not for their ease or leisure, to take upon them (any more) such long and laborious journeys for their defence, and therefore bade them practise the use of Armour and Weapons, and learn to withstand their enemies, whom nothing else did make so strong, as their faint heart and cowardice. And for so much as they thought, that it would be no small help and encouragement unto their tributary friends, whom they were now forced to forsake: they builded for them a wall of hard stone, 
Witchendus.  from the West Sea to the East Sea, 
Wall of stone builded by the Romans, betwixt the Britain's and Scots.  right between those two Cities, which were there made to keep out the enemies, in the selfsame place where Severus before had cast his Trench: the Britain's also putting to their helping hands as labourers.  
This Wall they builded eight foot thick in breadth, and twelve foot in height, right as it were by a line from East to West; as the ruins thereof, (remaining in many places till this day) do make to appear. Which work thus perfected, they gave the people strait charge to look well to themselves, they teach them to handle their weapons, and instruct them in warlike feats. And lest by the Sea side Southwards, where their Ships lay at harbour, the enemy should come on Land; they made up sundry bulwarks, each somewhat distant from other, & so bid them farewell, as minding no more to return. This happened in the days of Theodosius the younger, almost 500 years after the first arrival of the Romans here, about the year after Christ's Incarnation, 434.  
The Britaines after this continuing a lingering and doubtful war with the Scots and Picts; made choice of Vortiger to be their King and Leader: which man (as saith Malmesbury) was neither valorous of courage, 
Malmesb.  nor wise of counsel, 
Bede.  but wholly given over to the unlawful lusts of his flesh. 
The Britain's given to gluttony, drunkenness, pride, and contention.  The people likewise (in short time) being grown to some quietness, gave themselves to gluttony and drunkenness, pride, contention, envy, and such other vices, casting from them the yoke of Christ. In the mean season, a bitter Plague fell among them, 
The Brintaines Plagued for their sinful life.  consuming in short time such a multitude, that the quick were not sufficient to bury the dead: and yet the remnant remained so hardened in sin, that neither death of their friends, nor fear of their own danger, could cure the mortality of their souls; whereupon a great stroke of vengeance ensued upon the whole sinful Nation. For, being now again infested with their old neighbours, the Scots and Picts, they consult with their King Vortiger, 
Witchendus.  and send for the Saxons, who shortly after arrived here in Britain; 
Bede.  where, 
The Saxons Sent for to defend the Britain's, but they drove them into the Mountains.  saith Bede, they were received as friends: but as it proved, they minded to destroy the Country as enemies. For after they had driven out the Scots and Picts, they also drove the Britain's, some over the Seas, some into the waste mountains of Wales and Cornwall, and divided the Country into diverse Kingdoms amongst themselves.  
These Saxons were likewise ignorant of building with stone, 
Saxons unskilful of building with stone.  until the year 680. for then it is affirmed, that Bennet, Abbot of Wirrall, Master to the reverend Bede, 
Bennet, a Monk, brought in Masons.  first brought Artificers of stone houses, and glass windows into this Island, amongst the Saxons: Arts, before that time, unto them unknown, and therefore used they but wooden buildings. And to this acordeth Polychronicon, 
Wooden churches, and golden priests.  who saith, that then had ye wooden Churches; nay wooden Chalices, and golden Priests; but since, golden Chalices, and wooden Priests. And, to knit up this Argument, King Edgar, in his Charter to the Abbey of Malmesbury, dated the year of Christ 974. hath words to this effect: All the Monasteries in my Realm, 
Monasteries of rotten timber  to the outward sight, are nothing but wormeaten and rotten Timber, and boards; and that worse is, within they are almost empty and void of divine Service.  
Thus much be said for walling, not only in respect of this City, but generally also of the first within the Realm. Now to return to our Trinobant, (as Caesar calls it;) the same is (since) by Tacitus, Ptolomaeus, and Antonius, called Londinium, Longidinium; of Ammianus, Lundinum, and Augusta, who calleth it also an ancient City. Of our Britain's, Lundaine; of the old Saxons, Lunden-ceaster, Lundenbirig, Londennir. Of strangers, Londra and Londres; of the inhabitants, London: whereof you may read a more large and learned Discourse, and how it took the name, in that Work of my loving friend, Master Camden, now Clarenceaulx, which is called Britania.  
Concerning Mr. Camden, in his more absolute relation of London, the Argument we have now in hand; I will be so bold as to borrow his own words, as he hath set them down in his Britania. Summing over the several names then given and attributed thereto, as formerly hath been declared: he comes to his own judgement:  
For mine own part, 
Camden in his Britannia concerning the name of London.  (saith he) seeing that Caesar and Strabo do write, that the ancient Britain's called those Woods and Groves, by the name of Cities and Towns, which they had fenced with Trees, cast down and plashed, to stop up all passage: Seeing also I have understood, that such Woods or Groves are in the British Tongue named Llhwn: 
Of British Towns and Cities  I incline a little to the opinion, that London thence took name, as one would say, by way of excellency; The City, or A City thick of Trees. But if herein I fail of the truth; let me (with good leave) give my conjecture. And here would I have no man to charge me with inconstancy, while I disport in conjecture; that whence it had the fame, 
London received nama from Ships and shipping.  thence also it took name, even from Ships, which the Britain's in their language call Lhong: so that Londinum may seem to sound as much as a Ship-Road, or City of Ships. For the Britain's term a City Dinas, 
Dinas Brit.  whence the Latins have fetched their Dinum. 
Dinum Lat.  And hence it is, that elsewhere it is called Longidinium; and in the Funeral Song or Dump of a most ancient British 
* Po●●.  Bard, Lhong-porth, that is, An Harbour or Haven of Ships. And by this very term Bononia, or Bolen in France, which Ptolomee calleth Gessoriacum Navale, in the British glossary is named Bolunglhong: 
How many cities have derived their names from Ships.  as Naupactus, Naustathmos, Nauplia, Navalia Augusti, etc.  
But of these, none hath better right to assume unto it the name of a Ship-Roade, or Haven, than our London. For in regard of both Elements, most happy and blessed it is; 
The situation of London.  as being situated in a rich and fertile soil, abounding with plentiful store of all things, and on the gentle ascent and rising of an Hill, hard by the Thames side, the most mild Merchant (as one would say) of all things that the world doth yield: which swelling at certain hours with the Ocean Tides, by his safe and deep Channel (able to entertain the greatest Ships that be) daily bringeth in so great riches from all parts, 
The benefit of the Thames ebbing and flowing, & also of the shipping.  that it striveth at this day with the Mart-Townes of Christendom for the second Prize, and affordeth a most sure and beautiful Road for Shipping. A man would say that seeth the Shipping there, that it is (as it were) a very Wood of Trees, disbranched to make glades and let in light: So shaded it is with Masts and Sails.  
Who was the first Founder, 
Concerning the first founder of London.  is by length of time grown out of knowledge: and intruth, very few Cities there are, that know theier own first Founders, considering they grew up to their greatness by little and little. But as other Cities, so this of ours, fathereth her original upon the Trojans, as verily believing that Brute (the Nephew in the third descent of great Aeneas) was the builder thereof. 
Brute supposed to be the builder.  But whosoever founded it; the happy and fortunate estate thereof hath given good proof, that built it was in a good hour, and marked for life and long continuance. 
Antiquity of London.  And that it is for Antiquity Honourable, Ammianus Marcellinus giveth us to understand; who called it in his time, (and that was 1200. years ago) An old Town. And Cornelius Tacitus in like manner, who in Nero's days, 1540 years since, reported it to have been a place Very famous for fresh trade, concourse of Merchants, & great store of victuals, and all things necessary. This only at that time was wanting to the glory thereof, 
London no free City, nor Colony in the Romans time.  that it had the name neither of a free City, nor of a Colony. Neither verily could it have stood with the Romans profit, if a City flourishing with Merchandise, should have enjoyed the right of a Colony or Free City. And therefore it was (as I suppose) that they ordained it to be a Praefectura: 
London a Praefectura, governed by Officers yearly sent to it from Rome.  for so they termed all Towns where Marts were kept, and justice ministered: Yet so, as that they had no Magistrates of their own: but Rulers were sent every year to govern in them, and for to minister Law, which in public matters, namely of Tax, Tributes, Tolles, Customs, Warfare, etc. they should have from the Senate of Rome. Hence it cometh that Tacitus, the Panegyrist, and Marcellinus call it only a Town.  
And although it was not in name loftier; 
London flourished equal with any other place.  yet in wealth, riches and prosperity, it flourished as much as any other: yea and continued in manner always the same, under the dominion of Romans, English-Saxons, and Normans, seldom or never afflicted with any great calamities. In the reign of Nero, when the Britaines had conspired to recover and resume their liberty under the leading of Boadicia; 
Suetonius Paulinus, Lieutenant for Rome.  the Londoners could not with all their weeping tears, hold Suetonius Paulinus, but that after he had levied a power of the Citizens to aid him, he would needs dislodge and remove from thence, leaving the City naked to the enemy; who forthwith surprised and slew some few, whom either weakness of sex, feebleness of age, or sweetness of the place had detained there.  
This City of London having been destroyed & burnt by the Danes & other Pagan enemies, 
The City of London destroyed by the Danes and again repaired.  about the year of Christ 839; was, by Alfred, King of the Westsaxons, in the year 886. repaired, honourabley restored, 
The City of London lay waste, & not inhabited for the space of almost 50 years.  and made again habitable: Who also committed the custody thereof unto his son in law, Ethelred, Earl of Mercia, unto whom before he had given his daughter Ethelfled.  
And that this City was then strongly walled, may appear by diverse accidents; 
W. Malmesbury.  whereof William of Malmesbury hath, 
Assur.  that about the year of Christ, 994 the Londoners did shut up their gates, 
Marianu●.  and defended their King, 
Florentius.  Ethelred, within their Walls against the Danes.  
In the year 1016. Edmund Ironside, reigning over the Westsaxons, Canutus the Dane, bringing his Navy unto the west part of the Bridge, did cast a trench about the City of London, and then attempted to have won it by assault: but the Citizens repulsed him, and drove them from their Wals.  
Also in the year 1052. Earl Godwin, with his Navy sailed up by the South end of the Bridge, and so assailed the Walls of this City.  
William Fitzstephen, 
W. Fitzstephen.  in the reign of Henry the second, writing of the Walls of this City, 
The City of London walled round about by the River of Thames.  hath these words: the wall is high and great, well towered on the North side, with due distance between the Towers. On the South side also, the City was walled and towered: but the fishfull River of Thames, by his ebbing and flowing, hath long since subverted them.  
By the North side, he meaneth from the River of Thames in the East, to the River of Thames in the West: for so stretched the Wall in his time, and the City being far more in length from East to West, than in breadth from South to North; and also narrower at both ends, than in the midst, is therefore compassed with the Wall on the Land side, in form of a bow, except denting in betwixt Cripplegate and Aldersgate. But the Wall on the South side, along by the River of Thames, was strait, as the string of a bow, and all furnished with Towers or Bulwarks, (as we now term them) in due distance every one from other, as witnesseth our Author, and ourselves may behold for the Land side. This may suffice for proof of a Wall, and form thereof about this City, and the same to have been of great Antiquity, as any other within this Realm.  
And now touching the maintenance and repairing the said Wall, 
Walls of London repaired.  I read, that in the year 1215. the 6. of King john, the Barons entering the City by Ealdgate, 
Roger of Randover.  first took assurance of the Citizens, 
Mat. Paris.  than broke into the jews houses, 
Ranul.  searched their coffers, 
Co●shal.  to fill their own purses: and after, 
Mat. Paris.  with great diligence repaired the walls and gates of the City, with stones taken from the jews broken houses. In the year 1257. Henry the third caused the walls of this City, which were sore decayed, and destitute of Towers and Towrets, to be repaired in more seemly wise than before, at the common charges of the City. Also, in the year 1282 King Edward the first, having granted to Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canterbury, licence for the enlarging of the Black Friar's Church, to break and take down a part of the Wall of the City, from Ludgate to the River of Thames: He also granted to Henry Waleis, Maior, and the Citizens of London, the favour to take toward the making of the wall, and enclosure of the City, certain customs, or toll, as appear by his Grant. This wall was then to be made from Ludgate west to Fleetbridge, along behind the houses, and along by the water of the Fleet unto the River of Thames. Moreover, in the year 1310. Edward the second commanded the Citizens to make up the Wall already begun, and the Tower at the end of the same Wall, within the water of Thames, near unto the Black Friars, etc. 1322. the second of Edward the third, the Walls of this City were repaired. 
Patent.  It was also granted by King Richard the second, in the tenth year of his reign, that a toll should be taken of the wares, sold by Land or by Water, (for ten years) towards the repairing of the Walls, and cleansing of the Ditch about London. In the 17. of Edward the fourth, Ralph joseline Maior, caused part of the Wall about the City of London to be repaired; to wit, betwixt Ealdgate and Aldersgate. He also caused the Moore-field to be searched for clay, and brick thereof to be made and burnt: he likewise caused chalk to be brought out of Kent, and to be burnt into lime in the same Moore-field, for more furtherance of the work. Then the Skinners, to begin in the East, made that part of the Wall, betwixt Ealdgate and Buries marks, towards Bishopsgate; as may appear by their Arms in three places fixed there. The Mayor, with his Company of Drapers, made all that part betwixt Bishopsgate and All-hallows Church in the same Wall, and from All-hallows towards the Postern called Mooregate. A great part of the same Wall was repaired by the Executors of Sir john Crosby, late Alderman, as may appear by his Arms in two places there fixed: And other Companies repaired the rest of the Wall to the Postern of Cripplegate.  
In a Record which I have seen, and affirmed also by john Rouse, and (after him) by Raphael Holinshed, I find thus written: In Anno 1477. by the diligence of Ralph joseline, Maior of London, the Wall about London was new made, betwixt Aldgate and Creplegate. He caused the Moorfields to be searched for clay, and brick to be made and burnt there. He caused chalk also to be brought out of Kent, and in the same Moorfields to be burnt into lime, only for the furtherance of that work. The Mayor, with his company of Drapers, made all that part betwixt Bishopsgate and All-hallows Church in the same wall. 
Bishopsgate new builded.  Bishopsgate itself was new built by the Merchants Almains of the Stillyard. And from All-hallows Church in the wall, towards Mooregate, a great part of the same was builded, of the goods, and by the Executours of Sir john Crosby, sometimes an Alderman, and Mayor of London, as may appear by his Arms thereon fixed in two places. The Company of Skinners made that part of the wall between Ealdgate and Buries marks, towards Bishopsgate; as may appear by their Arms in three places fixed. The other Companies of the City, made the other deal of the wall: which was a great work to be done in one year.  
The Goldsmiths repaired from Creplegate towards Aldersgate, and there the work ceased. The circuit of the wall of London on the lands side, to wit, from the Tower of London in the East, unto Ealdgate, 
Circuit of the Wall from the East to the West, and accordingly to every gate.  is 82. Perches: from Ealdgate to Bishopsgate, 86. Perches: from Bishopsgate in the North, to the Postern of Creplegate, 162. Perches: from Creplegate to Aldersgate, 75. Perches: from Aldersgate to Newgate, 66. Perches: from Newgate in the West, to Ludgate, 42. Perches: in all, 513. Perches of assize. From Ludgate to the Fleet-Dike West about 60. Perches: from Fleet-bridge South to the River Thames, about 70. Perches: and so the Totall of these Perches amounteth to 643. every Perch consisting of 5. yards and an half; which do yield 3536. yards and an half, containing 10608. foot, which make up two English miles, and more by 608. foot.   

Of Ancient and present Rivers, Brooks, Boorns, Pools, Wells, and Conduits of fresh Water, serving the City, as also of the Ditch compassing the Wall of the same, for Defence thereof.  
ANciently, until the conquerors time, and two hundred years after, the City of London was watered (besides the famous River of Thames on the south part) with the River of Wells, as it was then called: on the west, with water called Walbrooke, running thorough the midst of the City into the River of Thames, serving the heart thereof: and with a fourth water or Boorne, which ran within the City, through Langboorne Ward, watering that part in the East. In the West Suburbs was also another great water, called Oldborne, which had his fall into the River of the Wels.  
Then were there three principal fountains or wells in the other Suburbs; to wit, Holy-Well, Clement's Well, and Clerks Well. near unto this last named Fountain, were diverse other wells; to wit, Skinners Well, Fags Well, Toad Well, Loders Well, and Radwell. All which said Wells having the fall of their overflowing into the foresaid River, much increased the stream, and in that place, gave it the name of Well. In west Smithfield there was a Pool, in Records called Horsepoole, and another near unto the parish Church of S. Giles without Creplegate. Besides all which, they had in every street and lane of the City, diverse fair Wells, and fresh Springs: and after this manner was this City then served with sweet and fresh waters, which being since decayed, other means have been sought to supply the want; as shall be showed: but first of the afore-named Rivers and other waters, is to be said as followeth:  
Thames, 
River of Thames.  the most famous River of this Island, beginneth a little above a Village called Winchcomb in Oxfordshire, and still increasing, passeth first by the University of Oxford, and so (with a marvellous quiet course) to London, and thence breaketh into the French Ocean by main tides, which twice in twenty four hours doth ebb and flow, more than threescore miles in length, to the great commodity of Travailours, by which all kind of Merchandises are easily conveyed to London, the principal Storchouse, and Staple of all commodities within this Realm. So that, omitting to speak of great ships, and other vessels of burden, there appertaineth to the City of London, Westminster, and the Burrow of Southwark, above the number (as is supposed) of two thousand Wherries, 
Wherries on the Thames.  and other small Boats, whereby three thousand poor men (at least) be set on work, and maintained.  
That the River of Wells in the West part of the City, 
River of Wels.  was of old so called of the Wells, it may be proved thus: William the Conqueror, in his Charter to the College of Saint Martin le grand in London, hath these words: I do give and grant to the same Church, all the land and the Moor without the Postern which is called Creplegate, on either part of the Postern: that is to say, from the North corner of the Wall (as the River of the Wells, there near running, departeth the same Moor from the Wall) unto the running water which entereth the City. This water hath been long since called, the River of the Wells; which name of River continued, and it was so called in the Reign of Edward the first: as shall be showed, with the decay also of the said River.  
In a fair book of Parliament records, 
D●cay of the River of the Wels.  now lately restored to the Tower, it appeareth, 
Parliament Record.  that a Parliament being holden at Carlisle, in the year 1307. the 35. of Edw. the first, Henry Lacie, Earl of Lincoln, complained, that whereas (in times past) the course of water, running at London under Oldborne-bridge, and Fleet-bridge into the Thames, had been of such breadth and depth, that ten or twelve Ships, 
River of Wells bare Ships.  Navies at once with Merchandises, were wont to come to the foresaid Bridge of Fleet, and some of them unto Oldborne-bridge: Now the same course (by filth of the Tanners, and such others) was sore decayed; also by raising of Wharfes, but especially, by a diversion of the water, made by theni of the New Temple, for their Milles standing without Baynard's Castle, 
Patent Record.  in the first year of King john, 
Milles by Baynard's Castle, made in the first of K. john.  and by divers others impediments, so as the said Ships could not enter as they were wont, and as they ought. Wherefore he desired, that the Mayor of London, with the Shiriffeses, and other discreet Aldermen, might be appointed to view the said course of the said water, and that by the oaths of good men, all the foresaid hindrances might be removed, and it to be made as it was wont of old. Whereupon Roger le Barbason, the Constable of the Tower, with the Mayor and Shiriffeses, were assigned to take with them honest and discreet men, and to make diligent search and enquiry, how the said River was in former time, and that they leave nothing that may hurt or stop it, 
River so called in the year 1307.  but keep it in the same estate that it was wont to be. So far the Record.  
Whereupon it followed, that the said River was at that time cleansed, these Milles removed, and other things done for the preservation of the course thereof: notwithstanding never brought to the old depth and breadth: whereupon the name of River ceased, and it was since called a Brook; namely, Turnemill or Tremill Brooke, 
Turnemill Brooke.  for that diverse Milles were erected upon it, as appear by a fair Register Book, containing the foundation of the Priory at Clarkenwell, and donation of the lands thereunto belonging, as also by diverse other Records.  
This Brook hath been diverse times since cleansed, namely, and last of all to any effect, in the year one thousand five hundred and two, the seventeenth of Henry the Seventh, the whole course of Fleet-Dike, then so called, was scoured (I say) down unto the Thames, so that Boats with Fish and Fewell were rowed to Fleet-bridge and Oldborne-bridge, as they of old time had been accustomed, which was a great commodity to all the inhabitants in that part of the City.  
In the year 1589. was granted a fifteen by a common Council of the City, for the cleansing of this Brook or Dike: 
Fleet-Dike promised to be cleansed, the money collected, and the Citizens deceived.  the money amounting to a thousand marks, was collected, and it was undertaken, that by drawing diverse Springs about Hampsted Heath into one head and course, both the City should be served of fresh water in all places of want, and also, that by such a follower, (as men call it) the channel of this Brook should be scoured into the River of Thames. But much money being therein spent, the effect failed; so that the Brook, by means of continual incrochments upon the banks, getting over the water, and casting of soylage into the stream, is now become worse cloyed than ever it was before.  
The running water, so called by William Conqueror in his said Charter, which entereth the City, etc. (before there was any ditch) between Bishopsgate and the late-made Postern called Mooregate, entered the wall, and was truly of the wall called Walbrooke, not of Gualo, as some have far fetched. It ran through the City, with diverse windings from the North towards the South, into the River of Thames; and had (over the same) diverse Bridges along the streets and lanes through which it passed. I have read in an old Book, long since printed, that the Prior of holy Trinity within Ealdgate, aught to make over Walbrooke in the Ward of Broadstreet, against the stone wall of the City, viz. the same bridge that is next the Church of All Saints at the Wall. Also, that the Prior of the New Hospital, S. Marry spital, without Bishopsgate, aught to make the middle part of one other Bridge next to the said Bridge towards the North: and that in the 28. year of Edward the first, it was by Inquisition found before the Mayor of London, that the Parish of S. Stephen upon Walbrooke, aught of right to scour the course of the said Brook; and therefore the Shiriffeses were commanded to distrain the said Parishioners so to do. In the year 1300. the keepers of those bridges at that time, were William jordan, and john de Bever. This watercourse having diverse Bridges, was afterwards vaulted over with Brick, 
Walbrooke vaulted and paved over.  and paved level with the streets and lanes, wherethrough it passed; and since that also, houses have been builded thereon, so that the course of Walbrooke is now hid under ground, and thereby hardly known.  
Langborne water, 
Langborne.  so called of the length thereof, was a great stream breaking out of the ground in Fen Church street, which ran down with a swift course, west, through the street, thwart Grastreet, and down Lombard street, to the west end of Saint Mary Wolnoths' Church, and then turning the course South, 
Shareborne Lane.  down Shareborne Lane (so termed of sharing or dividing) it broke into diverse rilles or rillets to the River of Thames. Of this Boorne that Ward took the name, and is to this day called Langborne Ward. 
Langborne Ward.  This Boorne is also long since stopped up at the head, and the rest of the course filled up, and paved over, so that no sign thereof remaineth, more than the names aforesaid.  
Oldborne or Hilborne, 
Oldborne.  was the like water, breaking out about the place where now the Bars do stand, and it ran down the whole street to Oldborne bridge, and into the River of the Wells, or Turne-mill brook. This Boorne was likewise (long since) stopped up at the head, and in other places, where the same hath broken out: but yet till this day, the said street is there called, high Oldborne hill, and both the sides thereof, (together with all the grounds adjoining, that lie betwixt it and the River of Thames) remain full of Springs, so that water is there found at hand, and hard to be stopped in every house.  
There are (saith Fitzstephen) near London, 
Fitzstephen.  on the North side, special Wells in the suburbs, sweet, wholesome and clear, among which, Holy Well, Clerks Well, and Clements Well, are most famous, and frequented by scholars and youths of the City in summer evenings, when they walk forth to take the Air.  
The first, 
Holy Well,  to wit, Holy Well, is much decayed and spoiled, with filthiness purposely laid there, for the heightening of the ground for Garden plots.  
The Fountain called Saint Clements Well, 
Clement's Well.  North from the Parish Church of S. Clement's, and near unto an Inn of Chancery, called Clement's Inn, is fair kerbed square with hard stone, clean for common use, and is always full.  
The third is called Clerks Well, 
Clarks Well.  or Clarkenwell, and is kerbed about square with hard stone: not far from the west end of Clarkenwell Church, but close without the Wall that encloseth it. The said Church the took name of the Well; and the Well took name of the Parish Clerks in London, who (of old time) were accustomed there yearly to assemble, and to play some large History of holy Scripture. For example, of later time, to wit, in the year 1390. the 14. of Richard the second, I read, 
Plays by the Parish Clarks at Clarks Well.  that the Parish Clerks of London, on the 18. of july, played Interludes at Skinners Well, near unto Clerks Well, which Play continued three days together, the King, Queen, and Nobles being present. Also the year 1409. the tenth of Henry the fourth, they played a Play at the Skinners Well, 
Plays at the Skinners well.  which lasted eight days, and was of matter from the Creation of the world: there were to see the same, the most part of the Nobles and Gentiles in England, etc.  
Other smaller Wells were many near unto Clerks well; 
Skinner's well.  namely Skinners well, so called, for that the Skinners of London held there certain Plays, yearly played of holy Scripture, etc. In place whereof, 
Wrestling place.  the wrestle have of latter years been kept, and is in part continued at Bartholomewtide.  
Then was there Fags well, 
Fags well.  near unto Smithfield, by the Charter-house, now lately dammed up. Todwell, Loders well, and Radwell are all decayed, and so filled up, that their places are hardly now discerned.  
Somewhat North from Holy well, is one other Well, kerbed square with stone, and is called Dame Annis the clear; and not far from it, but somewhat west, is also another clear water, called Perilous Pond, because diverse Youths (by swimming therein) have been drowned. And thus much be said for Fountains and Wels.  
Horsepoole in West smithfield, was sometime a great water; and because the inhabitants in that part of the City did there water their Horses, the same was in old Records called Horsepoole. It is now much decayed, the Springs being stopped up, and the Land-water falling into the small bottom, remaining enclosed with Brick, is called Smithfield Pond.  
By S. Giles Churchyard was a large water, 
Poole without Creplegate.  called a Pool: I read in the year 1244. that Anne of Lodbury was drowned therein. This Pool is now (for the most part) stopped up; but the Spring is preserved, and was coopeped about with stone, by the Executors of Richard Whittington.  
The said River of Wells, the running water of Walbrooke, the Boornes aforenamed, and other the fresh waters that were in and about this City, being in process of time, by encroachment for buildings, and heightenings of grounds, utterly decayed, and the number of Citizens mightily increased; they were forced to seek fresh waters abroad; whereof some, at the request of King Henry the third, in the 21. year of his reign, 
Patent, 1236.  were (for the profit of the City, and good of the whole Realm thither repairing; to wit, for the poor to drink, and the rich to dress their meat) granted to the Citizens, 
Water conveyed from Teyborne.  and their Successors, by one Gilbert Sanford, with liberty to convey water from the Town of Teyborne, by pipes of lead into their City.  
The first Cistern of lead, 
Andr. Horn. Great Conduit in west Cheap.  castellated with stone in the City of London, was called the Great Conduit in west Cheap, which was begun to be builded in the year 1285. Henry Wales being then Mayor: 
Water coenveyed from Teyborne to London.  the watercourse from Paddington to james head, hath 510. rods; from james head on the hill, to the Mewsgate, 102. rods; from the Mewsgate to the Cross in Cheap, 484. rods.  
The Ton upon Cornhill was cisternated in the year 1401. 
Ton upon Cornhill.  john Sandworth then being Mayor.  
Bosses of water at Belins-gate, 
Bosse of Belins-gate, and other Bosses.  by Paul's wharf, and by S. Giles Church without Creplegate, made about the year 1423.  
Water conveyed to the Gaoles of Newgate and Ludgate, 1432.  
Water was first procured to the Standard in west Cheap, about the year 1285. which Standard was again new builded by the Executors of john Welles, as shall be showed in another place.  
King Henry the sixth, in the year 1442. granted to john Hatherley, Maior, licence to take up 200. fodar of Lead, for the building of Conduits, of a common Granery, and of a common Granery, and of a new Cross in west Cheap, for the honour of the City.  
The Conduit in west Cheap, by Paul's gate, (commonly called, The little Conduit) was builded about the year 1442. one thousand marks was granted by common Council for the building thereof, and repairing of the other Conduits.  
The Conduit in Aldermanburic, and the Standard in Fleetstreet, were made and finished by the Executors of Sir William Eastfield, in the year 1471. A Cistern also was added to the Standard in Fleetstreet, and a Cistern was made at Fleet bridge, and another without Creplegate, in the year 1478.  
Conduit in Grastreet, in the year 1491.  
Conduit at Oldborne Cross, about 1498. again new made by Mr. William Lamb, 1577.  
Little Conduit by the Stocks Market, about 1500.  
Conduit at Bishopsgate, about 1513.  
Conduit at London wall, against Colemanstreet, about 1528.  
Conduit at Ealdgate without, about 1535.  
Conduit in Lothbury, and in Coleman-street, near to the Church, 1546.  
Conduit of Thames water at Dowgate, 1568.  
Thames water conveyed into men's houses by pipes of Lead, 
Thames water conveyed into men's houses in the east part of the City.  from a most artificial Forcier standing near unto London Bridge, and made by Peter Morbis, Dutchman, in the year 1582. for the service of the City on the East part thereof.  
Conduits of Thames water by the parish Churches of S. Mary Magdalen, 
Conduits in old Fish-street.  and S. Nicholas cole-Abbey, near unto old Fish-street, in the year 1583.  
One other new Forcier was made near to Broken Wharfe, 
Thames water conveyed into the west part of the City.  to convey Thames water into men's houses of west Cheap, about Paul's, Flectstreet, etc. by an English Gentleman, named Bevis Bulmer, in the year 1594.  
Another Conduit was also built at Aldersgate, without the Gate, in Anno 1610. and Thames water conveyed unto it in pipes of wood and stone, by an English Gentleman, named Mr. Thomas Hayes.  
Next to the Conduit water thus conveyed to Aldersgate, and as you have already heard; that famous (and never to be forgotten) new River, brought from Chadwell and Amwell, by the only care, cost, and liberal expenses of one worthy man, Sir Hugh Middleton, Knight and Barornet, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, deserveth to be recorded in everlasting memory.  
I spare here to speak of the length of time that such an intent was in talking on, like much good matter, well motioned, though little minded; long debated, but never concluded, till courage and resolution lovingly shaken hands together, as it appears it did in the Soul of this (no way to be daunted) wellminded Gentleman.  
For, 
Malignant enemies to all honest and commendable actions.  if those enemies to all good endeavours, Danger, Difficulty, Impossibility, Detraction, Contempt, Scorn, Derision, yea, and Desperate Despite, could have prevailed by their accursed and malevolent interposition, either before, at the beginning, in the very birth of proceeding, or in the least stolen advantage of the whole prosecution; this Work of so great worth had never been accomplished.  
I am not ignorant of an Act of Parliament, 
In or about the 10. year of her reign.  granted by Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory, to her Citizens of London, for cutting and conveying a River from any part of Middlesex or Hertfordshire, to the City of London, with a limitation of ten years' time for the performance thereof: But the expiration of her Royal life sooner came, than any such matter would be undertaken.  
Also our late gracious Sovereign King james pleased to grant the like Act (but without date of time) for the same effect: and when all else refused, Sir Hugh Middleton undertook it, to bring his intended River from Chadwell and Amwell, to the North side of London, near Is●ington, where he builded a large Cistern to receive it.  
The Work began the 20. day of February, 
When the River began at the first, and finished in 5. years.  Anno Dom. 1608. and in five year's space was fully accomplished: concerning the conveyance of it along to London, from Chadwell and Amwell, I myself (by favour of the Gentlemen) did diverse times ride to see it, and diligently observed, that admirable Art, pains and industry were bestowed for the passage of it, by reason that all grounds are not of a like nature, some being ozie and very muddy, others again as stiff, craggy and stony.  
The depth of the Trench (in some places) descended full thirty foot, 
The ingenious conveying of the River in some places.  if no● more; whereas (in other places) it required as sprightful Art again, to mount it over a valley in a Trough, between a couple of hills, and the Trough all the while borne up by wooden Arches, some of them fixed in the ground very deep, and rising in height above 23. foot.  
Being brought to the intended Cistern, 
The Lord Maior and Aldermen road to see the Cistern.  but not (as yet) the water admitted entrance thereinto: on Michaelmas day, in Anno 1613. being the day when Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, (Brother to the said Sir Hugh Middleton) was elected Lord of London for the year ensuing; in the afternoon of the same day, Sir john Swinerton, Knight, and Lord Mayor of London, accompanied with the said Sir Thomas, Sir Henry Montague, Knight, and Recorder of London, and many of the worthy Aldermen, road to see the Cistern, and first issuing of the River thereinto: which was performed in this manner:  
A troop of Labourers, 
The workmen in the Cistern.  to the number of 60. or more, well apparelled, and wearing green Monmouth Caps, all alike, carried Spades, Shovels, Pickaxes, and such like instruments of laborious employment, marching after Drums twice or thrice about the Cistern, presented themselves before the Mount, where the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and a worthy company beside, stood to behold them, and one man (in behalf of all the rest) delivered this Speech.  

The Speech at the Cistern, according as it was delivered to me.  

LOng have we laboured, long desired & prayed  
For this great works perfection: & by th'aid  
Of Heaven, and good men's wishes, 'tis at length  
Happily conquered by Cost, Art, and Strength.  
And after five years dcare expense in days,  
Travail and 〈◊〉, beside the infinite Ways  
Of Malice, 〈◊〉, false suggestions;  
Able to daunt the spirits of mighty ones  
In wealth and courage: This, a work so rare,  
Only by one man's industry, cost and care,  
Is brought to 〈◊〉 effect, so much withstood;  
His only aim, the City's general good.  
And where (before) many 〈◊〉 complaints,  
Enviously 〈…〉 oft restraints,  
Stops, and great crosses, to our Master's charge,  
And the Works hindrance: favour n●w at large  
Spread itself open to him, and commends  
To admiration both his pains and ends.  
(The King's most gracious love) Perfection draws  
Favour from Princes, and (from all) applause.  
Then worthy Magistrates, to whose content,  
(Next to the State) all this great care was bend,  
And for the public good (which grace requires)  
Your loves and furtherance chiefly he desires,  
To cherish these proceedings, which may give  
Courage to some that may hereafter live,  
To practise deeds of Goodness, and of Fame,  
And gladly light their Actions by his Name.  
Clerk of the Work, reach me the Book to show,  
How many Arts from such is Labour flow.   

First, hered the Overseer, 
All this he readeth in the Clarks Book.  this tried man,  
An ancient Soldier, and an Artisan.  
The Clerk, next him Mathematician,  
The Master of the rimber-worke takes place  
Next after these; the Measurer, in like case,  
Bricklayer, and Engineer; and after those;  
The Borer and the Pavier. Then it shows  
The Labourers next; Keeper of Amwell-head,  
The Walkers last: so all their names are read.  
Yet these but parcels of six hundred more,  
That (at one time) have been employed before.  
Yet these in sight, and all the rest will say,  
That all the week they had their Royal pay.   

Now, 
At the letting open of the Sluice.  for the fruits then: Flow forth; precious Spring,  
So long and dear sought for, and now bring  
Comfort to all that love thee: loudly sing,  
And with thy Crystal murmurs struck together,  
Bid all thy true wellwishers welcome hither.   
At which words the Floodgates flew open, the stream ran gallantly into the Cistern, Drums and Trumpets sounding in triumphal manner, and a brave Peal of Chambers gave full issue to the intended entertainment.  
Thus much for waters serving this City; first by Rivers, Brooks, Boorns, Fountains, Pools, etc. And since by Conduits, partly made by good and charitable Citizens, and otherwise by charges of the Communality, as shall be more amply showed in our description of the Wards wherein they are placed.  
And now some Benefactors to these Conduits shall be remembered. 
Benefactors towards the Water-Conduits.   
In the year 1236. certain Merchant strangers, of Cities beyond the Seas, to wit, of Amiens, Corby, and Nele, for privileges which they enjoyed in this City, gave 100 l. towards the charges of conveying water from the Town of Teyborne.  
Robert Large, Mayor, 1439. gave to the new water Conduits then in hand, 40. Marks; and towards the vaulting over of Walbrooke, near to the parish Church of S. Margaret's in Lothbury, 200. Marks.  
Sir William Eastfield, Maior, 1438. conveyed water from Teyborne to Fleetstreet, to Aldermanburic, and from Hightory to Creplegate.  

William Combs, Sheriff, 1441. gave to the work of the Conduits. 10. l.  
Richard Rawson, one of the Sheriffs, 1476. gave 20. l.  
Robert Revel, one of the Sheriffs, 1490. gave 10. l.  
john Matthew, Maior, 1490. gave 20. l.  
William Buck, Taylor, in the year 1494. towards repairing of Conduits, gave 100 Marks.  
Dame Thomasin widow, late wife to Sir john percival, Merchant Taylor, Maior, in the year 1498. gave toward the Conduit in Oldborne, 20. Marks.  
Richard Shore, one of the Sheriffs, 1505. gave to the Conduit in Oldborne, 10. l.  
The Lady Ascue, widow to Sir Christopher Ascue, 1543. gave towards the Conduits, 100 l.  
David Woodroofe, Sheriff, 1554. gave toward the Conduit at Bishopsgate, 20. l.  
Edward jackman, one of the Sheriffs, 1564. gave towards the Conduits, 100 l.  
Barnard Randulph, common Sergeant of the City, 1583. gave to the water Conduits, 900. l.   
Thus much for the Conduits of fresh water to this City.    

Of the Ancient and famous River of Thames, whence it deriveth her head or original, and so conveyeth itself on to the City's service, being supplied by diverse other sweet Rivers in her course,  
YOU have already heard, what Rivers, Brooks, Boornes, Pools and Conduits of fresh water have liberally afforded (out of their plenty) most commodious help for the service of so great a City. And yet the River of Thames, 
The River of Thames a chief honour to the whole Land, and especially to the City of London.  much more famous than all the reft, yielding by Forniers, Conduits, and other means of conveyance, inestimable benefit to the City, we have said little or nothing of her due worth, neither of her antiquity, course and original, all which deserve to be more especially respected. According therefore to the advice of very wise and learned judgements, and borrowing such helps as they have gladly lent me, I will begin with the head or spring of this famous River, and show how it glideth along in current, until it come to embrace the bosom of the Sea, and there to take up her entertainment in his liquid arms. Giving credit to such men's writings, 
The head or beginning of the Thames out of the side of an Hill in Cotsall, neete to Tetbury.  as have (of set purpose) sought out the Spring of the Thames, it is faithfully affirmed, That this famous stream hath her head or beginning, out of the side of an Hill, standing in the Plains of Cotsall, about a mile from Tetbury, near unto the Fosse, (an highway so called of old) where it was sometime named Isis, 
Isis, or the Ouse.  or the Ouse, although diverse do (ignorantly) call it Thames even there; rather of a foolish custom, than any skill, because they either neglect, or are utterly ignorant, how it was named at the first. From hence it runneth directly toward the East, (as all good Rivers should do) and meeteth with the Cirne or Churn, a Brook, 
The Cirne called corinium.  called in Latin Corinium: whereof Cirncester Town (by which it cometh) doth take the denomination in most opinions.  
From hence it hasteth unto Creekelade, 
Creekelade.  alias Crekanford, 
Lechlade.  Lechlade, Radcotebridge, Newbridge, 
Radcotebridge.  and Evesham, receiving (by the way) an infinite sort of small Streams, 
Newbridge.  Brooks, 
Evesham.  Becks, Waters and Rundels. And here (on this side of the Town) divideth itself into two courses, of which one goeth strait to Botley and Hinksey; the other passeth by Godstow, a Village not far off. This later spreadeth itself also (for a whi●●) into sundry smaller branches, which 〈◊〉 not far, before they be reunited, and then beclipping sundry pleasant Meadows, 
Oxford or Ouseford, so called of the River Charwell.  it passeth at length by Oxford, of some supposed rather to be called Ouseford, of this River, where it meeteth with the Charwell. A little from whence the original branches do join, and go together by Abbandune (alias Sensham or Abbington, 
Abbandune or Abbington.  as we call it,) although no part of it (at the first) came so near the Town as it now doth, 
Some write that the main streamè was brought thither, which ran before between Andredes● & Culingham.  till a branch thereof was led thither from the main stream, through the industry of the Monks, as (beside the testimony of old Records thereof, yet extant to be seen) by the decay of Cair Dour, now Dorchester itself, sometime the thoroughfare from Wales, and the West Country unto London, which ensued upon this fact, 
Cair Dour, Dorchester.  is easy to be seen.  
From hence it goeth to Dorchester, and so unto Thame, where joining with a River of the same denomination, it loseth the name of Isis or Ouse, 
Ousenie at Oxford.  (whereof Ousennie at Oxford is producted) and from thence is called Thamesis all along as it passeth. 
Thamesis at Thame, and so forward  From Thame it goeth to Wallingford, and so to Reding, which (in time passed) of the number of Bridges there, 
Reding sometime Pontium.  was called Pontium. Albeit that the English name doth rather proceed from the or Ree, the Saxon word for a watercourse or River: which may be seen in Overee, 
S. Maryover Rhee.  or Suthree, for over the Ree, or south of the Ree; as to the skilful doth readily appear. Yet some hold, (and not altogether against probability and likelihood) that the word Sutheree, is so called of Sudrijc; 
Sudrijc the South Kingdom.  to wit, the south Kingdom, whereunto (in part) the Thames is a bound. But that holdeth not in denomination, either of the said Church, or name of the foresaid County. Other affirm likewise, that Reding is so called of the Greek word (REO) which is to overflow. 
(REO) Reding, to overflow.   
Surely, as neither of these conjectures are to be contemned, so the last cometh most near to mine aid, who affirm, that not only the course of every water itself; but also his overflowing, 
The Saxon name to watercourses & overflows.  was in times past called Rhee, by such Saxons as inhabited this Island. And even to this day, in Essex, I have oft observed, that when the lower grounds (by rage of waters) hath been overflown; the people beholding the same have said; 
All is on a Rhee, All is now a River.  All is on a Rhee; as if they would have said; All is now a River. Albeit the word River is derived from the French, and borrowed by them from the Latins: but not without corruption, as it was brought to them. I will not here give notice how far they are deceived, which call the aforesaid Church by the name of Saint Mary Auderies, 
S. Marry Auderies, S. Marry over Isis or Ice.  or Saint Mary over Isis, or IIse: but I will proceed with the course of this Noble Stream; which, howsoever these matters stand, 
Reding.  it hath passed by Reding, and there received the Kenet, 
Kenet.  which cometh from the Hills that lie West of Marleborough; 
Thetis, coming from Thetisford.  and then the Thetis, commonly called the Tide, that cometh from Thetisford. It hieth thence to Sudlington, 
Sudlington.  otherwise called Maidenhead, 
Maidenhead Windleshore.  and so to Windleshore, or Windsor, Aeton, 
Eton.  and then to Chertsey, where Erkenwald Bishop of London, 
Chertsey.  sometime builded a Religious House or Cell, as I do read.  
From Chertsey it hasteth directly unto Stanes, 
Stanes.  and receiving another Stream by the way, 
Cole. Colebrook.  called the Coal, (whereupon Colebrook standeth) it goeth by Kingston, 
Kingston.  Shene, 
Shene. Zion.  Zion, and Brentford, or Bregentford: 
Brentford,  where it meeteth with the Brane or the Brene, 
Bregentford.  another Brook descending from Edgeworth. 
Brane, Brene.  Upon this Brook also, Sir john Thin had sometime a sumptuous and stately House, 
Mortlach.  with a marvellous provision to enclose and retain such Fish, 
Putney.  as should come about the same. 
Fulham.  From Brentford it passeth by Mortlach, 
Battersey.  Putney, 
Chelsey.  Fulham, Battersey, 
Lambeth.  Chelsey, Lambeth, and so to London. 
London.   
Our famous River being thus brought to London, and hasting on apace, to meet with Oceanus her amorous Husband: the first water that it then meeteth withal, 
Tham●s beyond London, eastward.  is the Brome on Kent side, west of Greenwich, whose head is Bromis in Bromley Perish, 
Brome on Kent side.  and going thence to Lewsham, 
Lewsham.  it taketh in a water from the East, and so directeth its course forthright unto the Thames.  
The next water that it meeteth withal, 
Wolwich. Lee or Luie on Essex side.  is on Essex side, almost against Wolwich, and that is the Lee or Luie. And being past that, the Darwent also meeteth with our Thames on Kent side, 
Darwent on Kent side.  two miles and more beneath Erith, it rising at Tanridge. The next River that falleth into the Thames, 
The Wany Iles.  is West of the Wanie Iles, a Rill of no great fame, neither long course: for, rising about Coringham, it runneth not many miles East, and by South, till it falls into the mouth of this River, which I do now describe. Last of all we come to the Medway, a notable River, in mine opinion, watering all the South, and Southwest parts of Kent, in whose description we cannot (at this time) proceed any further.  
Having (in this manner) briefly touched this Noble River, and such Brooks as fall into the same: I will insert a word or two, 
Commodities of this noble River.  concerning the commodities of the said River, which I will perform with so much brevity as is possible; hereby also finding out her whole tract and course from the head, to the fall thereof into the Sea. It appeareth evidently, that the length thereof is (at the least) an hundred and eighty miles, 
The length of the Thames, from the head to the fall into the Sea.  if it be measured by the journeys of the Land. And as it is in course, the longest of the three famous Rivers of this I'll: so is it nothing inferior to them, in abundance of all kind of Fish, whereof it is hard to say, which of the three have either most plenty, or greatest variety, if the circumstances be duly weighed.  
What some other write, concerning the Rivers of their Countries, it skilleth not, neither will I (as diverse do) invent strange things of this Noble stream, therewith to nobilitate, 
An honourable affirmation of the River of Thames.  and make it more honourable: But this will I in plain terms affirm, That it neither swalloweth up bastards of the Celtish Brood, nor casteth up the right-begotten, that are thrown in, (without hurt) into their Mother's lap: as Politian fableth of the Rhine, 
Position in lib. 8. Epist. Epist. ●.  Epistolarum lib. 8. Epist. 6. nor yieldeth clots of gold, as the Tagus doth: but an infinite plenty of excellent, sweet and pleasant Fish, wherewith such as inhabit near to her banks, are fed and fully nourished.  
What should I speak of the fat and sweet Salmon, 
The great plenty of fat & sweet Salmon taken in the Thames daily.  daily taken in this stream, and that in such plenty, (after the time of the Smelled is passed) as no River in Europe is able to exceed it? But what store also of Barbels, Trout, Chevins, Perches, Smelts, Breames, Roches, Daces, Gudgeons, Flounder, Shrimps, Eels, etc. are commonly to be had therein, I refer me to them that know by experience better than I, by reason of their daily trade of fishing in the same. And albeit it seemeth from time to time, to be (as it were) defrauded in sundry wise, 
The spoil and havok of covetous Fishermen.  of these her large commodities, by the insatiable avarice of Fishermen: yet this famous River complaineth commonly of no want, but the more it loseth at one time, the more it yieldeth at another. 
Carp a Fish late brought into England, and later into the Thames.  Only in Carp it seemeth to be scant, sith (not long since) that kind of Fish was brought over into England, and but of late (to speak of) into this stream; by the violent rage of Land-floods, that break open the heads and dams of diverse gentlemen's Ponds, by which means it became somewhat partaker also of this said commodity, whereof (before) it had no portion that I could ever hear.  
O that this worthy River might be spared but one year from Nets, etc. but alas, then should many a poor man be undone. 
The River choked up with sands and shelves in many places, a matter much pitied, and requiring redress.  In the mean time it is lamentable to see, how it is and hath been choked of late, with sands and shelves, by the penning and wresting of the course of the water for commodities sake. But as this is an inconveniency easily remedied, if good order were taken for the redress thereof: so now, the fine or pay set upon the Ballast, sometimes freely given to the Merchants by Patent, even to the Lands end, (jusques aupoinct) will be another cause of harm to this noble stream: and all through an advantage taken at the want of an (ay) in the word ponct: which grew through an error committed by an English Notary, unskilful in the French tongue, wherein that Patent was granted.  
Furthermore, the said River floweth and filleth all her channels, 
The River ebbeth & floweth every 12. hours, for the length of seventy miles.  twice in the day and night; that is, in every 12. hours once, and this ebbing and flowing holdeth on for the space of 70. miles within the main Land: the stream or Tide being always highest at London, when the moon doth exactly touch the north-east, and south or west points of the heavens, of which one is visible, the other under the earth, 
The alteration and difference of the tides.  & not in our sight. These Tides also differ in their times, each one coming later than other, by so many minutes as pass, yet the revolution and natural course of the heavens do reduce and bring about the said Planet, to these her former places, whereby, the common difference between one Tide & another, is found to consist of 24. minutes, which wanteth but 12. of a whole hour in 24. as experience doth confirm. In like sort, 
The just distance between one tide & another.  we see by daily trial, that each Tide is not of equal height and greatness. For at the full and change of the Moon, we have the greatest floods, and such is their extraordinary course, that as they diminish from their changes & fools, unto the first and last quarters: so afterwards they increase again, until they come to the full and change.  
Sometimes also they rise so high, 
The extraordinary rising of the tides, and how caused.  (if the wind be at the North or North-east, which bringeth in the water with more vehemency, because the Tide that filleth the channel, cometh from Scotland ward) that the Thames overfloweth her banks near unto London: which happeneth especially in the fools and changes of january and February, wherein the lower grounds are (of custom) soon drowned. This order of flowing in like sort is perpetual, so that when the Moon is on the South-west and North of points, then is the water at London at the highest. Neither do the Tides alter, except some rough winds out of the West or South-west, do keep back and check the stream in her entrance: 
The stream oftentimes checked in her entrance into the Land.  as the East and North-east do hasten the coming in thereof, or else some other extraordinary occasion put by the ordinary course of the Northern Seas, which do fill the said River by their natural return and flowing. And that both these do happen eftsoons among, I refer me to such, as have not seldom observed it: as also the sensible chopping in of three or four Tides in one natural day, whereof the unskilful do descant many things, according to their minds.  
But howsoever these small matters do fall out, 
Two several times of the Moon, the waters find their true course  and how often soever this course of the stream doth happen to be disturbed: yet at two several times of the Moon, the Waters return to their natural course and limits of time exactly. Polydore saith, 
The error of Polydore Virgil.  that this River is seldom increased, or rather never overfloweth her banks by land-flouds: but he is herein very much deceived, as it shall more apparently be seen hereafter. For the more that this River is put by of her right course, the more the water must (of necessity) swell with the white waters, which run down from the Land: because the passage cannot be so swift and ready in the winding, as in the strait course.  
The Land-flouds also do greatly stain the fineness of the stream, 
Land-floods do much stain the streams fineness.  insomuch that after a great land-floud, you shall take up Haddocks with your hands beneath the Bridge, as they float aloft on the water: whose eyes are so blinded with the thickness of that element, that they cannot see where to become, and make shift to save themselves before death take hold on them. 
Thames water as clear as that of the Sea.  Otherwise, the water (of itself) is very clear, and, in comparison, next unto that of the Sea, which is most subtle & pure of all other; as that of great Rivers is most excellent in comparison of small brooks. 
The objection of Aristotle answered.  Although Aristotle will have the salt water to be most gross, because a Ship will bear a greater burden on the Sea, than on the fresh water, and an Egg sinks in this, that swimmeth in the other. But he may easily be answered, by the quantity of room, and abundance of waters in the Sea, whereby it becometh of more force, to sustain such vessels as are committed to the same, and whereunto the greatest Rivers are nothing comparable.  
I would here make mention of sundry Bridges over this noble stream: of which, that of London is most chiefly to be commended: for it is (in a manner) a continual street, well replenished with large and stately houses on both sides, and situate upon twenty Arches, whereof each one is made of excellent free stone, every of them being threescore foot in height, and full twenty in distance one from another, as I have often viewed. In the like manner, I could entreat of the infinite number of Swans daily to be seen upon this River, and of two thousand Wherries and small Boats, 
Two thousand boats upon the Thames, and 3000. poor-men maintained by the same, whole gains come in most in the Term time.  whereby three thousand poor Watermen are maintained, through the carriage and recarriage of such persons as pass or repass (from time to time) upon the same. Beside, those huge Tide-boats, Tiltboats, and Barges, which either carry passengers, or bring necessary provision from all quarters of Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, and Kent, unto the City of London.  
Having thus far proceeded in the description of this famous River, even from her head and original, till her embracing the Sea: I thought good to go on a little further, concerning the extent of the Thames jurisdiction, 
The extent of the River of Thames under the jurisdiction of the L. Maior, Communality and Citizens of London.  from a place called Colnie Ditch, a little above the Bridge of Stanes westward, to London Bridge: and from thence to a certain place called Yendall, alias Yenland, alias Yenleete, and of the Water of Medway, as being matter more proper to the City of London's Survey, than any other discourse else whatsoever. For many years, the authority and jurisdiction of this River, hath undoubtedly belonged to the Lord Maior, Communality, and Citizens of London, by the sufficient testimony of diverse Grants, Charters, and Confirmations, made by the precedent Kings and Queens of this Land, 
Acts of Parliament for the City's prerogative on the River.  and by our late deceased King james of happy memory, besides sundry Acts of Parliament ordained to that end.  
But because some question appeared to be not long since made by the Lord high Admiral of England, concerning that case of Power or Jurisdiction, a full and final conclusion was at length established, between the Lord high Admiral, and the Lord Maior and Communality of London also, concerning the Prerogative then questioned.  
Whereby, as in former ancient privileges, the right and title hath been always evident; so than it appeared a plain and manifest case, that the Lord Mayor of London for the time being, and his successors for ever in that eminent dignity, 
The Lord Mayor of London his title and authority over the River, and to inflict punishment on all offenders.  have full power and authority over the said Rivers, the Lord Maior bearing the style and title of Conservator or preserver of them, within the forenamed bounds and limits; Having absolute power, of inflicting punishment for all unlawful fishings, either by Fishermen or any other, fishing within the same at any time: yea, and to search, oversee and punish all such, as shall abuse his lawful authority in those proceedings from time to time. And because his great and serious employments withhold him from such attending on this important business, as the urgent necessity thereof doth (almost continually) require: 
The water Bailiff of London, his power on the River under the L. Maior.  he hath a Deputy or Substitute, named the Water-Bayliffe of London, who under his Honour's authority, and by virtue of his more absolute power, doth continually search, oversee and punish all offenders, that dare infringe those rights of duty, belonging to so famous a River, or make spoil of that intended for general benefit.  
And whereas there are a certain company of Fishermen, 
Tinckermen mighty destroyers of the Fry of Fish.  called Tinckermen, frequenting the River of Thames, Eastward, who (in times past) not only have been reported, but also manifestly approved, and found out, to make an infinite destruction of the young brood and Fry of Fish, by use of unlawful Nets, and unpermittable Engines, feeding and glutting their Hogs with them, as M. Doctor Dee reporteth: By the diligent and extraordinary cost and care of the Lord Maior, his Brethren, and the rest of the Citizens of London, as also the vigilant respect of his worthy Officer the Water-Bayliffe, day and night attending to cut off such an horrible abuse; those unlawful Nets and Engines are now quite suppressed, and a true & orderly form of fishing brought into use, 
Waste and spoil very providently prevented and cut off.  that such waste and havoc may no more be made. Through which restraint of robbery, and application of continual providence, our River of Thames (the honour and beauty of this whole Island) is become again most rich and plentiful, yielding daily out of her bountiful bosom, great store of Fish of all kinds, and at much more reasonable rate, than in many years past hath been seen, as our weekly Markets in this Honourable City, can better testify, than I report: a matter highly to be commended, and (no doubt) but will be as heedfully continued.  
Upon a great complaint lately made to the Lord Maior, 
Timbers in the Thames at Tilbury hope no mean hurt to the River.  concerning Timbers being and standing in Tilbury Hope, beneath Gravesend, a matter not only perilous to passengers upon the River, but a cause also to destroy (infinitely) the young brood and fry of Fish, by the harms those Timbers did to Fishermens' Nets, by reason of their continual standing in the main course, and speedy current of the stream, which was mightily annoyed and injured thereby: his honourable care extended so far, that by the pains and diligence of his Water-Bayliffe, being thereto by his Office and place warrantably directed, those grievous hurts and annoyances were all taken up, and conveyed to the Guildhall in London, as an example to all that should dare to offend in the like nature, or presume to prejudice such an honourable course of our fishing, as it is faithfully reported, at every Tide, by day and night, four Bushels of small Fish and Fry, (continually throughout the whole) are saved and preserved by this worthy providence, 
The benefit ensuing by taking up those annoying Timbers out of the stream.  which otherwise had remained to the former desperate spoil, and continued a great hindrance to the abounding increase now likely to ensue thereby.  
The Lord Maior and Communality, not many years since, have caused this Noble River of Thames westward, 
The clearing and cleansing of the River westward of stops & hatches.  to be cleared and cleansed of 79. stops or hatches, consisting of diverse great stakes and piles, purposely erected by Fishermen for their private gain, and standing dangerous for passengers near unto the fair deep: so that none of them do now remain upon the River, but only such as stand out of the passable to fair way, and can be no prejudice to passengers. For otherwise, they serve as a great succour to the young breed and Fry, being planted at the water's bottom, and placed so remotely on the River; that they relieve and comfort many poor Fishermen thereon dwelling. 
Some things seeming hurtful, may be beneficial as they are used.  Beside, in the great heat and drought of Summer, when usually water is most scanty, these are then the cause of raising it so high, that Barges may well and safely pass, with all kind of goods to our ancient Mother City; whereas else they would be grounded, how many soever, and be void of passage, by lowness of the water.  
There are likewise a number of Fishermen belonging to the River of Thames, 
Tinckermen, Hebbermen, Petermen, Trawlermen, All great abusers of God's blessings in the River.  some styled by the name of Tinckermen, others, Hebbermen, Petermen, Trawlermen, etc. that have lived (in precedent times) by very unlawful fishing on this River, and to the great injury of her abounding store. But by means of this welprovided restriction, so forwarded in the main Magistrate, and followed in the diligent endeavour of the careful Water-Bayliffe, (making no spare of his pains at all times whatsoever) their insolence hath been reduced to a more temperate qualification, and the awful hand of civil Government appeareth to carry much better respect, than formerly it did.  
Nor let this provident care, both for the safety of passengers on the River, 
Care had of the River of Thames in former times.  and preservation of the Breed, Fry, and Fish in the River, be understood as a matter of novelty, without any precedent example in elder days; when it plainly appeareth, that the very like course was kept and effected in the time of King Henry the fourth, the seventh year of his reign, Anno Dom. 1405. Also more late in the days of King Henry the eighth, etc. As appeareth by Records in diverse Chronicles, and so warranted and avouched, as already hath been said, and shall (in more ample manner) hereafter appear.  
Concerning the controversial question, 
The end of controversy concerning the Thames and Medway.  about the Rivers of Thames and Medway, all variance and difference was absolutely concluded, in the year 1613 the twentieth day of Mary: Sir john Swynnerton Knight, being then Lord Maior, and careful Conservator of the said Rivers rights; and Thomas Sparrey, Esquire, his Substiture, and respective Water-Bayliffe, for the performing of such a main trust reposed in him, appertaining justly unto his place and office.  
At eight several times yearly, 
Courts kept for the yearly preservation of the River.  within the four Countries of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex, the Lord Mayor of London for the time then being, with his Brethren the Aldermen, for the better maintaining of the River's rights and privileges, do sit in person judicially, and charge four Juries by oath, to make inquisition after all offences, committed upon the River of Thames. And as the verdict (presented by the said Jury) maketh appearance, so do they accordingly proceed to the punishment of the transgressors, answerably to the nature of their offences, and as to Justice shall see me expedient: Wherein, the River's prosperity, safety of passengers, and general good of the Commonwealth, are their chiefest respects.  
And because it may appear more probably unto all men, 
A late and honourable testimony what care the City hath for the River's conservation.  in what worthy manner the Lord Maior and his Brethren do proceed in this case, by the help of Master Edmund Howes, Gent. I have hereto added, the last Courts that were kept about this River's service, in the time of Sir john jolles, Knight, to take away all sinister scruple or doubt, that can be otherwise alleged. For he being present in the Journey, (as I myself might also have been, if my leisure would have so permitted) observed the course of all that then passed, and as he delivered it to me, so have I set it down, with some other few collections of mine own, out of such Antiquities as have come to my hands.   

A further testimony concerning the River of Thames, and of the right and authority of the Lord Mayor of London, to the conservancie of the said River, etc.  
IN the year 1616. on Wednesday, being the third of july, Sir john jolles, Knight, L. Mayor of the City of London, and Conservator of the River of Thames, 
What Aldermen & other went with the L. Maior in the journey.  and waters of Medway, assisted and accompanied by Francis jones, Edward Rotheram, Alexander Prescot, Martin Lumley, Aldermen of London; and William Gore, Alderman, and Sheriff (at that time) of the said City; Thomas jones Esquire, Common Sergeant of the said City, in the absence of Sir Henry Montague, Recorder of the same City, attended by Thomas Sparrey, Esquire, Subconservator of the said River of Thames, with fifty Officers and other servants, took Barges at Belins-gate, and (within few hours) arrived at Gravesend in Kent, where a Session for the Conservancie of the said River was kept, before the said Lord Maior, and his forenamed Assistants.  
At which time and place, 
A jury of Freeholders of the said country.  a Jury of Freeholders of the said Country, being sworn to inquire of all offences committed in any part of that River whatsoever within the said County; Master Common Sergeant delivered them a charge to this effect:  
That, 
The effect of Mr. Common Sergeants charge to the Iury.  forasmuch as there had not been any Session of Conservancy in many years past, kept by any Lord Mayor of London in that place: it was probable and evident, that they could not be well informed, neither of the Lord Mayor's jurisdiction and power, to reform annoyances and offences there, and to inflict due punishment upon the offenders, nor of the nature of the service by them to be performed, in the course of their enquiry. And therefore he thought it convenient, to make known unto them, both the one and the other.  
And hereupon he showed them, that the Jurisdiction of the City of London, 
The extendure of the City of London's jurisdiction in the River of Thames.  in the River of Thames, from Stanes Bridge Westward, unto the points of the River next the Sea Eastward, appeared to belong to the City, in manner and form as followeth:  

In point of Right  
1. By Prescription.  
2. By allowance in Eire.  
3. By ancient Charters.  
4. By Acts of Parliament.  
5. By Inquisitions.  
6. By Decrees upon Hearing Coram Rege ipso, & in Camera Stellata.  
7. By Letters Patents.  
8. By Proclaimations.  
9 By Report of the King's Council learned.  
10. By a Quo Warranto.   

In point of Usage  
1. By ancient Ordinances.  
2. By punishment of offenders.  
3. By Writs and Precepts.  
4. By accounts for charges of Searches, from 17. R. 2. till 2. Eliz. Regina.  
5. By Commissions.  
6. By continual claim ever since 37. Hen. 8. when the Lord Admiral first interrupted the City, to exercise her authority below London Bridge.   
And to crown all these points both of right and usage, 
To cut off all controversies in times to come.  Et ad omnem controversiam temporibus futuris tollendam: the City of London hath King james his most gracious and liberal Charter in that point granted, in the third year of his Majesty's happy reign.  

1. By Prescription.  
IT appeareth by an ancient Book, called Dunthorne, 
Ex Lib. vocat. Dunthorn.  that Civitatis fundationis, aedificationis & constructionis, causa erat Thamesis Fluvius; quorum vero Civitatis & fluminis gubernationem tam Deuces, Maiores, Custodes, Vicecomites, Aldr. 
The City's go●●vernment of the River.  & Magnates Civitatis memoratae hucusque obtinuerunt & habuerunt. So as the government of the River hath belonged to the City time out of mind.  
In 21. H. 3. Iorden Coventry, 
Kidels removed by the Sheriff of London, sent by the Mayor and Aldermen.  one of the Shiriffeses of London, was by the Mayor and Aldermen sent, to remove certain Kiddels that annoyed the Rivers of Thames and Medway; who ultra Yenland versus Mare, did take diverse persons that were offenders, and imprisoned them. Whereupon, complaint being made to King H. 3. he took the matter ill at the first, and sent for the Lord Maior & Citizens to Kennington; and upon hearing of the matter before the said King, 
The City's jurisdiction on the River, approved before King Hen. 3.  the City's Jurisdiction on the River was set forth and allowed, and the Complainants' convicted, and every of them amerced at 10. pounds, and the Amercements adjudged to the City; and their Nets were afterwards burned, by judgement given by the Lord Maior and Aldermen in the Hustings.  
37. H. 3. 
In the 37-yeere of King Hen. 3.  Eodem Anno, ante Pentecostem, Vicecomites London, quia aqua Thamisiae pertinet ad London, per praecetum dict. Dom. Regis, deriverunt omnes alios gurgites à London usabque; Mare.  
1. R. 2. Writs to the Shiriffeses of Kent and Essex, 
The Citizens not to be troubled in their liberties.  reciting the City's title, with command, not to suffer the Citizens of London to be molested, contrary to the liberties formerly granted and allowed unto them.   

2. In Eire.  
In 41. H. 3. Before Hugh Bigot, 
The City's jurisdiction on the River, called in question.  being Justice Itinerant, the Shiriffeses and Citizens of London were called in question, for their jurisdiction exercised on the Thames. Before whom, it was found by a Jury in Southwark, Quod nullus aliquid juris habet in Thamisia, usque ad novum gurgitem, nisi Cives London.  
14. Ed. 2. Lib. Antiq. Reg. 156. The Constable of the Tower was indicted by diverse Wards of London, 
The Constable of the Tower indicted by the Wards of London.  before the Justices in Eire at the Tower: De muneris & recep. cove. pro Kidellis in Thamisijs. Et Constabularius ad Kidellas respondet, quod justic. non habent jurisdictionem extra London, plitum. inde cognoscere cum praedict. Kidelli sunt in aliis Comitatibus. Et justic, dixerunt, aqua Thamisiae pertinet ad Civitatem London, usque mare; & si velit respondeat: who then pleaded, Not guilty.   

3. By Charters.  
8. R. 1. Dom. 
K. Richard the first his Charter.  Richardus Rex, filius Regis Henrici secundi, concessit & firmiter praecepit, ut omnes Kidelli qui sunt in Thamisia amoveantur, ubicunque fuerint in Thamisia.  
1. joh. Rex concessit & firmiter praecepit, 
K. john his Charter.  ut omnes Kidelli qui sunt in Thamisia vel in Medway amoveantur, & ne caeteri Kidelli alicubi ponantur in Thamisia vel in Medway, super forf. x. li. sterlingorum.  
Henry the third, son to King john, granted this Charter to the City, in form following:  
HENRY by the Grace of God, 
The Charter of K. Hen. 3. as it is recorded in the ancient Book called the Customs of London.  King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Earl of Anjou: Unto Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, justices, Sheriffs, Stewards, Ministers, and to all Bailiffs, and to all his true men, greeting: Weteth well, that we, for the health of our soul, and the health of the soul of King john our Fader, and the souls of all our Ancestors; and also for common profit of our City of London, and of all our Realm, have granted and steadfastly commanded: That all the Wears that been in Thames or in Medway, where that ever they be in Thames or in Medway, be done away: And that from henceforth, no Wears be set in Thames nor in Medway, upon the forfeiture of ten pounds. Also we claim quite to our Citizens of London, all that that the Constable of our Tower of London was wont to take of the said Wears. Wherefore we will, and steadfastly command, that no Constable of the aforesaid Tower, at any time from henceforth forward, any thing ask, nor any grievance do to any of the same City, by enchesen of the same Wears. It is to us known enough, and by our true men do us to understand, that most privacy and least profit might fall unto the same City, and to the whole Realm, by enchesen of the same wears: which we make forever firm and stable to the same City, as the Charter of our Lord King john our Fader, which our Barons of London thereof have reasonably witnessed. Witnesses, Eustace of London, Peter of Winchester, joceline of Bath, Richard of Salisbury, bishop: Hubert of Burgh, Earl of Kent, our justice; Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford; Ralph Fitz-Nichol, and Richard of Argentine, our Stewards. Given by the hand of our Worshipful Fader, Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, our Chancellor, at Westminster, the 18. day of February, the year of our reign, eleven.  
In the 68 Article also are these words: 
Authority of the Citizens for punishment.  And that the said Citizens remene and do away all the Wears in Thames and Medway, and that they have the punishment thereof longing to us.  
Likewise in the 68 Article are these words: 
The Constable of the Tower to make no prices of victuals.  And the Constable of the Tower of London make no prices by Land nor by water, of victual or any other things whatsoever they been, of men of the aforesaid City, nor of none other, coming to the City, nor going out. Nor he shall not arresten by any manner of way, Ships ne Boats, bringing or leading victual or other merchandises to the City, or fro the City aforesaid.  
11. H. 3. Concessimus etiam eisdem Baronibus nostris, 
Anno 11. Hen. 3.  & Carta nostra confirmavimus, quod habeant bone & in pace libere & quiet, omnes libertates suas quibus hactenus usi sunt, tam in Civitate London, quam extra; tam in aquis, quam in terris & omnibus aliis locis.  
7. E. 3. Volumus & concedimus, 
Anno 7. Ed. 3.  quod dicti Cives amoveant & capiant omnes Kidellas in aqua Thamistae & Medway, & habeant punitiones ad nos inde pertinentes.   

4. By Acts of Parliament.  
W. 2. Ca 47. An. 13. L. 1. No Salmon to be taken, 
Against taking of Salmon.  from the nativity of our Lady, unto S. Martin's day, in all points. Nor none to be taken in Mill. pools, from the midst of April, until Midsummer.  
1. Offence, 
Punishment of offenders.  burning the Nets and Engines.  
2. Imprisonment for a quarter of a year.  
3. For a whole year.  
13. R. 2. Cap. 19 Confirms the other, 
Anno 13. Ric. 2●.  and restrains the taking of young Salmon in many waters, from the midst of April until Midsummer, upon the same pain.  
None (within that time) to use any Nets called Stalkers, 
Nets called Stalkers.  nor any other Engines, by which the Fry may be destroyed, upon the same pain.  
17. R. 2. Cap. 9 Justices of peace shall be Conservators, 
justices of peace conservators for destruction of the Fry & brood.  and to surveyed all offences against the said Statutes, and shall surveyed and search all the Wears, that they be not straight, for the destruction of the Fry and brood, but of reasonable wideness, 
Appointment of under-conservators, and their charge.  after the old assize. And they shall punish according to the said Statutes; and they to appoint under-conservators, who shall be sworn. And the same Justices shall inquire, as well ex officio, as by information of the under-conservators: And such as be indicted, they shall cause to come before them; and if they be thereof convicted, they shall have imprisonment, and make fine after the discretion of the same Justices. And if the same be at the information of any of the under-conservators, he shall have half the fine.  
11. Hen. 7. Cap. 15. The like power is granted to the Mayor of London, 
Power of the Lord Mayor of London, in breaches and creeks▪  in Breaches and in Creeks, as in the River, so far as it ebbeth and floweth: except in the King's ground, or in the liberties and franchises of others.  
1. Eliz. Chap. 17. None shall with any manner of Net, 
Against Nets, Weeles, and other Engines, for the destroying of Fish.  we'll, But-eayning, Kepper, Lymecreele, Raw Fagnet, Trolnet, Trymnet, Scalboat, Weblister, Sturlamet, or with any other device or engines, made of cheer, woollbine, canvas; or shall by any heeling-Nets, or Trimbleboat, or any other device, engine, cautels, ways or means soever, heretofore made or devised, or hereafter to be made or devised, take and kill any young brood, spawn, or fry of Eels, Salmon, Pike or Pickerel, or of any other Fish, in any floudgate, pipe or the tail of any Mill, Weare, or in any strait, streams, brooks, Rivers, salt or fresh.  
Secondly, 
For killing of Salmon and Trowes out of season.  none shall take and kill any Salmon and Trout, not being in season, being kepper Salmon, or kepper Trout, or shedder Salmon or shedder Trout.  
Thirdly, 
Length of Pike, Pickerel, Salmon, Trout, Barbel, etc.  none shall take and kill any Pike or Pickerel, not being in length ten intches Fish, and more; nor any Salmon, not being 16. intches fish, and more; nor any Trout, not being eight intches; nor any Barbell, not being 12. intches, and more.  
Fourthly, 
Order for fishing with Nets and Trammels.  none to fish with any Nets, Trammels, Keep, Wear, Helme, Creele; or by any other Engine, device, ways or means; but only with Net or Tramell; whereof every mesh or mash shall be two intches and an half broad; Angling excepted.  
A Provisio, 
An Exception.  that this shall not extend to Smelts, Roches, Minoes, Bulheads, Gudgeons or Eels, in place where the same have been used to be taken. 
Penalty for offenders.   
The Offenders to lose for every offence 20. shillings, and the fish; and also the unlawful Nets, Engines and Instruments.  
The Mayor of London (inter alia) shall have full power and authority by this Act, 
The Mayor of London his power for enquiry, etc.  to inquire of all offences committed contrary to this Act, by the oaths of twelve men or more, and to hear and determine all and every the same.  
The pains and forfeitures to be at the use of every such person and persons (being no body politic nor corporate, 
For the pains & forfeitures.  or head of the same) before whom such conviction shall be had: and to the use of every body politic and corporate, that hereafter have lawfully had any fines, etc. upon such conviction.   

5. By Inquisition.  
By two Inquisitions, 
Inquisitions at Raynam & at Gravesend, before the Lord Mayor of London, Conservator, etc.  the one taken at Raynam in Essex, the other at Gravesend in Kent: 9 Hen. 5. before William Cambridge, Grocer, than Lord Mayor of London, and Conservator of the waiters of Thames and Medway; it was presented, That where by the ancient ordinances of London, the Mesches of Nets should be two intches in the forepart, and one intch in the hinderpart. And further, it was thereby found, that the offences in the same Inquisition, are contra libertates & consuetudines Civitatis. And it was adjudged, that the Nets should be burned, according to the ancient custom in that behalf provided.   

6. By Decrees.  
In 8. H. 4. The Mayor and Aldermen of London did exhibit their humble Petition to the King's Council, 
The long conservation of the River of Thames exhibited to the Council of K. Hen. 4.  reciting that (time out of mind) they have had the Conservation and correction of the River of Thames, and of all Trinckes, Nets and other Engines whatsoever, in the Rivers of Thames and Medway placed, and have used to make a Subconservator under them: And complained, that Alexander Bonner, than Subconservator, having done his duty in removing Kiddels, 
Abusers of the subconservator of the River.  he was evil entreated by the owners: the same owners dwelling in Erith, Pratriferry, Barking, Woolwich, and other places in the Counties of Kent and Essex. And upon hearing of the matter in Camera Stellata, they were found guilty, and constrained to submit themselves to the Lord Maior, and ordered (always) to bring their Nets to the Lord Maior, before they should use them: And that the Kiddels then taken, should be at the disposition of the Lord Maior: and the offenders made their submission accordingly.   

7. By Letters Patents.  
A Grant made by King E. 4. to the E. of Pembroke, 
A Grant to the Earl of Pembroke for building of a Wear in the Thames canceled afterward.  for building a Wear in the River of Thames: which Grant was canceled at the request of the Lord Maior and Aldermen, upon showing of their right, for that it was contrary to their ancient liberties. At which time the City's title to the conservacie of the River of Thames and Medway, was at large set forth, and is recited to have been shown to the Lord Chancellor, and to the Earl and his Council; and was afterward allowed, and the Patent thereupon canceled.   

8. By Proclamations.  
By Proclamation made by King H. 8. in 34. of his Reign, 
The conservacy of the Thames to the Lord Maior, without interruption.  it is affirmed, that the Lord Maior and his predecessors, have had by diverse Grants of the Kings of England, and by Acts of Parliament, and have also long enjoyed the conservacy of Thames, without interruption or impediment of the said King Hen. 8. or of any of his Subjects. And by the same Proclamation it was commanded, that none should resist, deny, or impugn the Lord Maior and his Deputy, in doing or executing any thing, for the conservacie of the River, and of the Fish and Fry within the same.   

9 By Report.  
A Controversy being between the Lord Admiral and the Lord Maior, 
For measuring of Coals, and other things on the River of Thames, a controversy.  for the measuring of Coals and other things upon the Thames: it than fell into consideration, to whom the conservacie of the said River did belong. Which cause, in Anno 1597. was by the Lords of the Queen's most Honourable Privy Council, referred to the then Attorney general, and Solicitor; who certified (among other things) that the conservacy of the River of Thames did, and aught to belong to the City of London.   

10. By Quo Warranto.  
3. jacobi Regis, 
A Quo Warranto brought against the City for the River's conservacie.  A Quo Warranto was brought against the City in the Exchequer, to know, by what title they claimed the conservacie of the River of Thames, and of the waters of Medway: The City made their title to the same, by ancient prescription: and judgement was given for them.   

For proof of Usage.  

1. By ancient Ordinances. 2. By punishment of offenders.  
THe Lord Mayor and Aldermen have (time out of mind) made Ordinances, 
Times & manner of fishing.  concerning the good government of the River of Thames, for the times and manners of Fishing beneath London Bridge Eastward, to be observed upon pains. And it appeareth, (that from time to time) from the time of King Hen. 3. and so downward, 
Removing of all unlawful Engines for fishing.  the Lord Maior hath removed Kiddels, Wears, Trinkes, and other unlawful Engines, and hath reform the disorders of such as have offended in the River of Thames; 
Punishment of offenders.  and punished offenders, sometimes by imprisonment, sometimes by Fine, and by burning of their unlawful Nets.   

3. By Writs and Precepts.  
9 H. 5. Precepts under the Teste of the Lord Maior, 
Precept for the recurning of juries.  to the Shiriffeses of Kent and Essex, for the returning of Juries before the Lord Maior, to inquire of offences done in the River of Thames.   

4. By Accounts.  
In the accounts of the Chamberlain of London, 
Accounts of the Chamberlain of London.  from 17. of R. 2. to 11. of Eliz. Reginae, it appeareth, that the Water-Bailiffe of London hath made search for unlawful Nets, in the waters of Thames and Medway.   

5. By Commissions.  
9 H. 5. Commission to the Lord Maior, 
Commission for execution of Acts of Parliament.  to put in execution the Acts of Parliament, made for the conservacie of Thames and Medway; and to inquire of all offences made or done in the said waters, and to punish the delinquents for the same.  

A like Commission 3. H. 6.  
A like Commission 1. Eliz.  
A like Commission 1. jacobi.   
And all these, or the like Commissions in this case, were and are directed to the Lord Mayor for the time being.   

6. By continual claim.  
37. H. 8. Letters from the Lord Admiral, 
A stay moved for matters in question, by letters from my Lord Admiral.  for stay of such matters as were then in question, between his Lordship and the City, concerning the Jurisdiction of this City upon the Thames.  
3. Edw. 6. Order, that the Chamberlain should take care, 
An order for stay of Inquests.  for stay of certain Inquests, charged by virtue of a Commission, directed to the Lord Admiral, to inquire of abuses used in fishing beneath the Bridge.  
4. Edw. 6. Master Common Sergeant, 
The City's authority to pull down wears in the River.  appointed to repair to the Duke of Somerset, and to inform his Lordship of the City's authority, in pulling down Wears within the River of Thames.  
6. Edw. 6. Order, that suit should be made to the King's Majesty and his Council, 
Determination of the City's jurisdiction.  for the determination and allowance of the City's Jurisdiction and interest in the River of Thames.  
1. Mariae Reginae, A great number of the Fishermen of the East side of London, present in the Court of the Lord Maior and Aldermen, 
Obedience commanded to the Water-Bayliffe.  were commanded to obey the Water-Bayliffe: And that one Hunter of the Admiralty, should be warned to be before the Lord Maior and Aldermen, at the next Court to be holden for the same matter.  
1. Eliz. Reginae, 
Committees appointed about the controversy.  Certain Committees appointed to confer with the L. Admiral, touching the controversy between his Honour and the City, concerning the conservacie of the River of Thames.  
3. Eliz. 
Committees for the jurisdiction of the River.  Certain Committees appointed to attend the Lord Admiral, concerning the Jurisdiction of the River of Thames.  
7. Eliz. 
For the same cause.  The Lord Admiral to be conferred with, touching the City's Jurisdiction in the River of Thames.  
8. Eliz. 
The Cities right to the conservacy.  L. Admiral to be conferred with, touching the City's right to the conservacy of the River of Thames.  
13. Eliz. L. Admiral to be moved, that the City may enjoy their liberties in Thames and Medway. 
The City's liberty in the River.   
17. Eliz. 
The City's title Eastward.  Aldermen and others, to confer with the Lord Admiral, for the City's title in the River eastward.  
23. Eliz. 
The Conservacy below the Bridge.  Mr. Norton and others appointed to attend on the Lord Treasurer of England, and to inform his Lordship touching the City's title to the conservacie of the River of Thames below London Bridge.  
23. Eliz. Sessions appointed for the conservancie of the River of Thames, 
Sessions for the conservacy Eastward.  the ninth of October at Barking in Essex, and on Wednesday following, to be kept at Woolwith in Kent.  
24. Eliz. 
Aldermen about the conservacy.  Certain Aldermen appointed to treat with the Lord Admiral, touching the conservacy.  
29. Aldermen appointed to the L. Admiral, 
Aldermen again appointed about the City's right.  and to inform his Lordship touching the City's right to the conservacie of the River of Thames, from London Bridge, to Yenland and the Reculvers.  
In the Letters Patents, 
The king's letters patents to the City.  granted by King james of happy memory, in the 3. year of his reign; the City's title to the conservacie of the River of Thames and the waters of Medway, is recited and set down at large. And therein mention is made, that the City hath been interrupted in the said office, and a doubt conceived, that the same did not belong to his Highness' City of London. His Majesty therefore (of his especial grace and favour to the City of London) Ad omnem controversiam in hac parte temporibus tam praesentibus quam futuris tollendam, ac omne dubium amovendum: did by those his Letters Patents, grant, ratify and confirm to the City of London, the conservacie of the said River of Thames, and waters of Medway.  
So much concerning the Right and Usage.  
Now, 
Concerning the extent of the word conservacy.  de re ipsa. This word Conservancie, doth extend itself to the preservation of the stream, and the banks of the River; as also the Fish and Fry within the same. For by the Laws of the Land, all navigable Rivers are the high streams of the King, 
Navigable Rivers are as Via Regia.  for the passage of Ships, Boats, etc. As the highway is Via Regia, for the people to pass by. And if the banks be not kept from decaying and encroachment: it will not only be an annoyance to the River itself, by diverting the water, and hindering the Navigation; but will also annoy the grounds next adjoining to the same. 
Due seasons for taking fish  And if the Fish be taken at undue seasons, and the Fry not kept and preserved, the fishing will be soon destroyed.  
And first touching the stream: 
Enquirie for the stream, Wears, Kidels, Engines, etc. in the Rivers for hindering passage.  you are to inquire whether any person or persons have erected any Wears, Kiddels, or Engines, or knocked any Posts, Piles, or Stakes within the Rivers, or any part thereof, which may (in any sort) hinder the stream, or the navigation, or passage of any Ships, Barges, Boats, or vessels within the same. And whether any have cast any soil, dust or rubbish, or other filth whatsoever, into the same. You are to present the persons, times, and places, touching the committing of every such offence.  
Secondly, you are to inquire of all encroachments upon the River, and the banks of the same: 
For encrochments on the River and banks.  and of all Bridges, Floodgates, Mill-dammes, and such like annoyances, erected and builded upon, or near to the banks of the same River; and where, and by whom, and when the same were done.  
Thirdly, 
For fishing at undue seasons, & with unlawful nets, etc.  for the preservation of the Fish and Fry within the River, you are to inquire, whether any Fishermen, or others, have fished at any undue or prohibited seasons, or with any unlawful and prohibited Nets, or Engines: and when, where, and by whom every such offence was committed.  
Thus much for a general direction. But for your more particular instruction, and for the ease of your memories, here are certain printed Articles, 
Articles for more particular instruction.  which you shall have with you; to every one of which you shall give a particular answer.  
The like charge was given by the said Master Common Sergeant, on the next day following, at Lee, in the County of Essex; and the like Sessions kept there for the same purpose.     

The Towne-ditch without the Wall of the CITY.  
THe Ditch, which partly now remaineth, 
Lib. Dunstable.  and compassed the wall of the City, 
Ditch about London 200. foot broad Lib. Trin.  was begun to be made by the Londoners, in the year 1211. and finished 1213. the 15. of K. john: this ditch being then made of 200. foot broad, caused no small hindrance to the Canons of the holy Trinity, whose Church stood near Ealdgate, for that the said ditch passed through their ground from the Tower unto Bishopsgate. This Ditch being originally made for the defence of the City, was also long time together carefully cleansed and maintained, as need required: but now of late neglected, and forced either to a very narrow, and the same a filthy channel, or altogether stopped up, for Gardens planted, & houses builded thereon, even to the Wall, and in many places upon both Ditch & Wall, houses are builded, to what danger of the City, I leave to wiser consideration than mine own: and can but wish that reformation might be had.  
In the year of Christ 1354. 28. Ed. 3. the ditch of this City flowing over the bank into the Tower ditch, 
Ditch of the City overflowed the bank, into the Tower Ditch.  the King commanded the said ditch of the City to be cleansed and so ordered, that the overflowing thereof, should not force any filth into the Tower ditch.  
Ann. 1379. john Philpot, Maior of London, caused this ditch to be cleansed, and every household to pay 5. d. which was for a days work toward the charges thereof. R. 2. in the 10. of his reign, granted a Toll to be taken of wares sold by water or by land for 10. years, towards repairing the wall, & cleansing the ditch.  
Thomas falconer Maior, 1414. caused the ditch to be cleansed.  
Ralph joseline Maior, 1477. caused the whole ditch to be cleansed, and so from time to time it was cleansed and otherwise reform: namely, in 1519. the 10 of Hen. 8. for cleansing and scouring the ditch, between Ealdgate and the Postern next the Tower ditch: the chief ditcher had by the day 7. pence, the second ditcher 6. pence, the other ditchers, 5. pence. And every vagabond (for so were they then termed) one penny the day, meat and drink, at the charges of the City.  

Sum. 95. l. 3. s. 4. d.  
In my remembrance also the same was cleansed, namely the Moor ditch, when Sir William holies was Maior, in the year 1540 and not long before, from the Tower of London to Ealdgate.  
It was again cleansed in the year 1549. Henry Ameotes being Mayor, at the charges of the Companies. And again 1569. the 11. of Q. Eliz. for cleansing the same Ditch, between Ealdgate and the Postern, and making a new Sewere, and Wharfe of Timber, from the head of the Postern into the town ditch, 814. l. 15. s. 8. d. Before the which time, the said ditch lay open, without wall or pall, having therein great store of very good fish, 
Plenty of good fish in the Town ditch.  of diverse sorts, as many men yet living, who have taken and tasted them, can well witness: but now no such matter, the charge of cleansing is spared, and great profit made by letting out the banks, with the spoil of the whole ditch.  
I am not ignorant of two Fifteen granted by a common Council, in the year 1595. for the reformation of this ditch, and that a small portion thereof, to wit, between Bishopsgate and the Postern called Mooregate, was cleansed, and made somewhat broader than it was before: but filling again very fast, by reason of over-raising the ground near adjoining, therefore never the better: and I will so leave it, for I cannot help it.    

Bridge of this City.  
THe original foundation of London bridge, 
London Bridge first of ●imber.  by report of Bartholomew Linsted, alias Fowl, last Prior of Saint Mary Overees Church in Southwark, 
A Ferry over the Thames between London Bridge & Southwark.  was this: A Ferry being kept in the place where now the Bridge is builded, at length the Ferryman and his wife deceasing, left the same Ferry to their only Daughter, a Maiden, named Mary, which with the goods left her by her parents, as also with the profits rising of the said Ferry, builded an House of Sisters, in place where now standeth the East part of Saint Mary Overees Church, above the Queer, where she was buried, unto which house she gave the oversight and profits of the Ferry. But afterward, the said House of Sisters being converted into a College of Priests, the Priests builded the Bridge of Timber, as all other the great Bridges of this Land were, and from time to time kept the same in good reparations; till at length, considering the great charges which were bestowed in the repairing the same, there was (by aid of the Citizens and others) a Bridge builded with stone, as shall be showed.  
But first of the Timber Bridge, 
W. Malmes.  the Antiquity thereof being great, but uncertain: I remember to have read, that in the year of Christ 994. Sweyn King of Denmark besieging the City of London, both by water and by land, the Citizens manfully defended themselves, and their King Ethelred, so as part of their enemies were slain in battle, and part of them were drowned in the River of Thames, because in their hasty rage they took no heed of the Bridge.  
Moreover, in the year 1016. Can●tus the Dane, with a great Navy came up to London, and on the South of the Thames, caused a Trench to be cast, through the which his Ships were towed into the west side on the Bridge, and then, with a deep Trench and strait siege he compassed the City about.  
Also 1052. E. Goodwin, with the like Navy, taking his course up the River of Thames, and finding no resistance on the Bridge, he sailed up the South side. Further, 1067. William. Conq. in his Charter to the Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, confirmed to the Monks, serving God there, a Gate in London, then called Buttolph's Gate, with a Wharfe, which was at the head of London Bridge.  
We read likewise, that in the year 1114. the 14. of Henry the first, the River of Thames was so dried up, and such want of Water there, that between the Tower of London & the Bridge, and under the Bridge, 
Men went dryshod under London bridge.  not only with horse, but also a great number of men, women and children did wade over on foot.  
In the year 1122. the 22. of Hen. 1. Thomas Arden gave to the Monks of Bermondsey, 
Lib. Bermond.  the Church of S. George in Southwark, and five shillings rend by the year, out of the Land pertaining to London Bridge.  
I have also seen a Charter under seal, to the effect following:  
Henry King of England, 
Henry 1.  to Ralph Bishop of Chichester, and all the Ministers of Sussex, sendeth greeting. Know ye, etc. I command by my Kingly authority, that the Manor called Alceston, which my Father gave, with other Lands, to the Abbey of Battle, be free and quiet from Shires and Hundreds, and all other Customs of earthly servitude, as my Father held the same, most freely and quietly; and namely, from the work of London bridge, and the work of the Castle at Pevensey: and this I command upon my forfeiture. Witness William de Pontlearche at Berry.  
The which Charter, with the seal very fair, remaineth in the custody of joseph Holland, Gent.  
In the year 1136 the first of King Stephen, 
Lib. Berm.  a fire began in the house of one Ailewarde, 
Lib. Trin.  near unto London stone, which consumed East to Ealdgate, and West to S. Erkenwalds' shrine in Paul's Church: 
London Bridge brent.  the Bridge of Timber over the River of Thames was also burnt, etc. but afterwards again repaired. For Fitz stephen writeth, that in the Reign of King Stephen, and of Henry the 2. when pastimes were showed on the River of Thames, men stood in great number on the Bridge, Wharfes, and Houses, to behold.  
Now in the year 1163. the same Bridge was not only repaired but new made of timber, 
London Bridge of Timber new built.  as before, by Peter Colechurch, Priest and Chaplain.  
Thus much for the old timber-bridge, maintained partly by the proper Lands thereof, partly by the liberality of diverse persons, and partly by taxations in diverse Shires, as I have proved for the space of 215. years, before the Bridge of stone was built.  
Now touching the foundation of the stone Bridge, 
London Bridge of stone founded.  it followeth: About the year 1176. the stone Bridge over the River of Thames at London, was begun to be founded by the foresaid Peter of Colechurch, near unto the Bridge of Timber, but somewhat more towards the West: for I read, that Buttolph-Wharfe was in the conquerors time at the head of London Bridge. 
Lib. Waverley.  The King assisted this work: A Cardinal then being Legate here, and Richard Archbish. of Cant. gave one thousand marks towards the foundation. The course of the River (for the time) was turned another way about by a Trench, cast for that purpose; beginning (as is supposed) east about Radriffe, and ending in the west about Patricksey, now termed Battersey. This work, to wit, the Arches, Chapel, and stone Bridge over the Thames at London, 
London Bridge 33. years in building.  having been 33. years in building, was in the year 1209. finished by the worthy Merchants of London, Serle Mercer, William Almain, and Benedict Botewrite, principal masters of that work: for Peter Colechurch deceased four years before, and was buried in the Chapel on the Bridge, in the year 1205.  
King john gave certain void places in London to build on, the profits thereof to remain towards the charges of building and repairing of the same Bridge. A Mason, being Master-workman of the Bridge, builded (from the foundation) the large Chapel on that Bridge, 
Chapel on the Bridge, on the East side.  of his own charges; which Chapel was then endowed for two Priests, four Clerks, etc. besides Chanteries; since founded by john Hatfield, and others. After the finishing of this Chapel, which was the first building upon those Arches, sundry houses (at times) were erected, and many charitable men gave lands, 
Gifts given to London Bridge, in a table noted for posterity.  tenements, or sums of money towards the maintenance thereof; all which was sometimes noted, and in a Table fair written for posterity: remaining in the Chapel, till the same Chapel was turned to a dwelling house, and then removed to the Bridge-house. The effect of which Table I was willing to have published, in this Book, if I could have obtained the sight thereof: but making the shorter work, I find by the account of William Mariner and Christopher Eliot, Wardens of London Bridge, from Michaelmas the 22. of Hen. 7. until Michaelmas next ensuing, by one whole year, that all the payments and allowance came to 815. l. 17. s. 2. d. ob. as there is showed by particulars: by which account then made, may be partly guessed the great charges and discharges of that Bridge at this day, when things be stretched to so great a price. And now to actions on this Bridge.  
The first action to be noted, was lamentable: 
Actions on London Bridge to be noted.  for within four years after the finishing thereof, to wit, in the year 1212. on the 10. of july at night, the Borrought of Southwark, upon the South side of the River of Thames, as also the Church of our Lady of the Canons there, being on fire, and an exceeding great multitude of people passing the Bridge, either to extinguish and quench it, or else to gaze and behold it; suddenly the North part, 
Liber Dunmew.  by blowing of the South wind, was also set on fire, and the people which were even now passing the Bridge, 
Gua●t. Covent.  perceiving the same, 
W. Packenton.  would have returned, 
London Bridge perished by fire.  but were stopped by the fire; and it came to pass, that as they stayed or protracted the time, the other end of the Bridge also, namely, the South end, was fired; so that the people thronging themselves between the two fires, did nothing else but expect present death. Then there came to aid them many ships and vessels, into which the multitude so unadvisedly rushed, that the ships being thereby drowned, they all perished. It was said, that through the fire and shipwreck, there were destroyed above three thousand persons, whose bodies were found in part, or half burned, besides those that were wholly burnt to ashes, and could not be found. 
Five arches of London Bridge borne down.   
About the year one thousand two hundred eighty two, through a great frost and deep snow, five Arches of London Bridge were borne down, and carried away.  
In the year 1289. the Bridge was so sore decayed for want of reparations, 
Patent the 14. of Edw. the 2.  that men were afraid to pass thereon, and a Subsidy was granted towards the amendment thereof, Sir john Britain being Custos of London, 1381. a great collection or gathering was made, of all Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiastical persons, for the reparations of London Bridge.  
In Anno 1381. Wat Tyler, and other Rebels of Kent, by this Bridge entered the City, as ye may read in my Summary and annal.  
In the year 1395. on S. George's day, was a great just on London Bridge, betwixt David Earl of Craford of Scotland, and the Lord Wells of England: In the which, the Lord Wells was at the third course borne out of the Saddle: Which History proveth, that at that time the Bridge (being coaped on either side) was not replenished with houses builded thereupon, as since it hath been, and now is.  
The next year, 
Nine persons crowded to death on London Bridge.  on the 30. of November, the young Queen Isabel, commonly called the little, (for she was but 8. years old) was conveyed from Kennington, beside Lambeth, through Southwark, to the Tower of London; and such a multitude of people went out to see her, that on London Bridge nine persons were crowded to death, of whom the Prior of Tiptre, a place in Essex, was one, and a Matron on Cornhill, was another.  
The Tower on London Bridge, at the North end of the drawbridge, 
Tower on London Bridge builded.  (for that bridge was then readily to be drawn up, as well to give passage for ships to Queenehith, as for the resistance of any foreign force) was begun to be builded in the year 1426. john Rainwell being Maior.  
Another Tower there is on the said Bridge, over the Gate at the South end towards Southwark, whereof in another place shall be spoken.  
In the year 1450. jack Cade, 
jack Cade entered the City by the Bridge  and other Rebels of Kent, by this Bridge entered the City, he strake his sword on London stone, and said himself then to be Lord of the City; but they were by the Citizens overcome on the same Bridge, and put to flight, as in my Annals.  
In the year 1471. Thomas the Bastard Fawconbridge besieged this Bridge, 
Bastard Fawconbridge besieged the Bridge.  burned the Gate, and all the Houses to the drawbridge, being at that time 13 in number.  
In the year 1481. an house, 
An house of the Bridge fell down.  called The common siege, on London Bridge, fell down into the Thames: through the fall whereof five men were drawned.  
In the year 1553. the third of February, 
Sir Thomas Wyatt lay in Southwark at the Bridge foot.  Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Kentish men, marched from Depeford towards London, after knowledge whereof, forthwith the drawbridge was cut down and the Bridge gates shut. 
The drawbridge cùt down.  Wyatt and his people entered Southwark, where they lay till the 6. of Feb. but could get no entry of the City by the Bridge, the same was then so well defended by the Citizens, the Lord W. Howard assisting: wherefore be removed towards Kingston, etc. as in my Annals.  
To conclude, of this Bridge over the said River of Thames, 
The bridge described.  I affirm, as in other my descriptions, That it is a work very rare, having with the drawbridge 20. arches, made of square stone, of height 60. foot, and in breadth 30. foot, distant one from another 20. foot, compact and joined together with vaults and cellars; upon both sides be houses builded, so that it seemeth rather a continual street than a bridge: for the fortifying whereof, against the incessant assaults of the River, it hath overseers and officers, (viz.) Wardens, as aforesaid, and others.  
Fleet-bridge in the west, 
Fleet bridge.  without Ludgate, a bridge of stone, fair coaped on either side with iron pikes, on the which towards the South, be also certain Lanterns of stone, for lights to be placed in Winter evenings, for commodity of travellers. Under this Birdge runs a water, sometimes called (as I have said) the River of the Wells; since, Turnemill brook; now, Fleet Dike, because it runneth by the Fleet, and sometime about the Fleet, so under Fleet-bridge into the River of Thames.  
This Bridge hath been far greater in times past; but lessened, as the watercourse hath been narrowed.  
It seemeth, this last Bridge to be made or repaired at the charges of john Wells Mayor, in the year 1431: for on the coping is ingraved, Wells embraced by Angels, like as on the Standard in Cheap, which he also builded. Thus much of the Bridge: for of the watercourse and decay thereof, I have spoken in another place.  
Oldborne-bridge, 
Oldborne bridge.  over the said River of Wells more towards the North, was so called, of a Boorne that sometimes randowne Oldborne Hill, into the said River: This bridge of stone, like as Fleet-bridge, from Ludgate west, serveth for passengers, with carriage or otherwise, from Newgate toward the West and by North.  
Cowbridge, more North over the same water, 
Cowbridge.  by Cowbridge street, or Cow-lane: this bridge being lately decayed, another of timber is made somewhat more North, by Chicklane, etc.  
Bridges over the Towne-ditch, there are diverse: 
Bridges over the Towne-Ditch.  to wit, without Ealdgate, without Bishopsgate, the Postern called Mooregate, the Postern of Creplegate, without Aldersgate, the Postern of Christ's Hospital, Newgate and Ludgate: all these be overpaved level with the streets. But one other there is of Timber, over the River of Wells, or Fleet dike, between the precinct of the Black Friars, and the House of Bridewell.  
There have been of old time also, 
Bridges over the course of Walbrooke.  diverse bridges in sundry places over the course of Walbrooke, as before I have partly noted; besides Horse-shoe bridge, by the Church of S. john Baptist, 
Horse-shoe bridge.  now called S. john's upon Walbrooke. I read that of old time, every person having Lands on either side of the said brook, should cleanse the same, and mend and repair the bridges so far as their Lands extended.  
More, in the eleventh of Edward the third, the inhabitants upon the course of this brook, were forced to pile and wall the sides thereof.  
Also, that in the third of Henry the fifth, this watercourse had many bridges, 
Walbrooke vaulted over, and paved with stone  since vaulted over with brick, and the streets wherethrough it passed, so paved, that the same watercourse is now hardly discerned. For order was taken in the second of Edw. the fourth, that such persons as had any ground lying on either side of the River of Walbrooke, should vault and pave it over, so far as his ground extended. And thus much for Bridges in this City may suffice.   

Gates in the Wall of this City.  
GAtes in the Wall of this City of old time, were four: 
Gates of London, 4. East, West, North, & South.  to wit, Ealdgate, for the East, Aldersgate for the North, Ludgate for the West, and the Bridgegate over the River of Thames for the South; but of later times, for the ease of Citizens and passengers, diverse other Gates and Posterns have been made, as shall be showed.  
In the reign of Henry the second (saith Fitzstephen) there were seven double gates in the wall of this City, 
Seven double gates in the wall of this City.  but he nameth them not. It may therefore be supposed, he meant for the first, the Gate next the Tower of London, now commonly called, the Postern: the next, to be Ealdgate; the third, Bishopsgate; the fourth, Aldersgate; the fist, Newgate; the sixth, Ludgate; the seventh, Bridge-gate. 
Other gates builded beside.   
Since the which time hath been builded the Postern called Mooregate, a Postern from Christ's Hospital towards S. Bartholomewes' Hospital, etc. Now of every of these Gates, and Posterns in the Wall, and also of certain water-gates over the River of Thames, severally somewhat may, and shall be noted, as I find authority, or reasonable conjecture to warrant me.  

The first Gate Eastward.  
FOr the first, 
Postern by the Tower.  now called the Postern by the Tower of London, it showeth by that part which yet remaineth, to have been a fair and strong arched Gate, partly builded of hard stone of Kent, and partly of stone brought from Cane in Normandy, since the Conquest, and foundation of the high Tower, and served for passengers on foot out of the East, from thence through the City to Ludgate in the West. The ruin and overthrew of this Gate and Postern began in the year 1190. the second of Richard the first, when William Longshampe, Bishop of Ely, Chancellor S. England, caused a part of the City Wall; to wit, from the said Gate towards the River of Thames, to the white Tower, to be broken down, 
Wall embattelled about the Tower of London.  for the enlarging of the said Tower, which he then encompassed far wide about with a Wall embattelled, and is now the outer Wall. 
Ditch about the Tower.  He also caused a broad and deep ditch to be made without the same Wall, intending, to have derived the River of Thames with her Tides, to have flowed about it, which would not be. But the South side of this Gate, being then by undermining at the foundation loosed, and greatly weakened; at length, to wit, after 200. years and odd, 
Postern sell down.  the same fell down, in the year 1440. the 18. of Henry the sixth, and was never since by the Citizens re-edified. Such was their negligence then, which hath bred some trouble to their successors; since, they suffered a weak and wooden building to be there made, inhabited by persons of lewd life, often by inquest of Portsoken Ward presented, but not reform: whereas in former times, the said Postern was accounted of, as other Gates of the City, and was appointed to men of good credit. Amongst other, I have read, that in 49. Ed. 3. john Cobbe was admitted Custos of the said Postern, and all the habitation thereof, for term of his life, by W. Walworth, than Mayor of London, 1374. being the first time of his Mayoralty; for he was L. Maior again in An. 1380. More, that john Credy Esquire, in the 21. of Rich. 2. was admitted Custos of the said Postern and appurtenances, by R. Whittington, Maior, the Aldermen and Communality, etc.   

Ealdgate.  
THe next Gate in the East, 
Ealdgate.  is called Ealdgate, of the antiquity or age thereof. This is one, and the first of the four principal Gates, and also one of the seven double Gates, mentioned by Fitzstephen. It hath had two pair of Gates, though now but one, the hooks of them both remain.  
Also there hath been two Portcloses, the one of them remained till the new building of the Gate, the other wanteth, and the place of letting down was manifest. For Antiquity of the Gate, it appeareth by a Charter of King Edgar, 
Lib. Trinit.  to the Knights of Knighton Guild, that in his days, the said Port was called Ealdgate, as ye may read in the Ward of Portsoken. Also Matild the Queen, wife to Henry the first, having founded the Priory of the Holy Trinity within Ealdgate, gave to the same Church, to Norman, the first Prior, and the Canons that devoutly served God there in the Port of Ealdgate, 
Soak or Court.  the Soak or Franches thereunto belonging, with all customs, as free as she held the same. In the which Charter, she nameth the House Christ's Church, and reporteth Ealdgate to be of its demaine.  
More, 
Mat. Paris.  I read in the year 1215. that in the civil Wars between King john and his Barons, the Londoners assisting the Baron's faction, who then besieged Northampton, and after came to Redford Castle, where they were well received by William Beauchampe, and Captane of the same: having then also secret intelligence, that they might enter the City of London, if they would; they removed their Camp to Ware, from whence in the night coming to London, they entered Ealdgate, and placing guardians or keepers of the Gates, they disposed of all things in the City at their pleasure.  
They spoilt the Friar's houses, 
Radul. co●sh.  and searched their coffers: which being done, Robert Fitzwater, jeffrey Magnavile, Earl of Essex, and the Earl of Gloucester, chief Leaders of the Army, applied all diligence to repair the Gates and Walls of this City, with the stones taken from the jews broken houses; namely Ealdgate, being then most ruinous, (which had given them an easy entire) they repaired, 
Ealdgate new builded.  or rather newly builded, after the manner of the Normans, strengly arched, with bulwarks of stone, brought from Cane in Normandy, and small Brick, called Flanders tile, was brought from thence, such as hath been here used since the Conquest, and not before.  
In the year 1471. the 11. of Edward the 4. Thomas the Bastard Fawconbridge, 
W. Dunthorne.  having assembled a riotous company of Shipmen and other, 
Thomas L. Fawconbridge set upon Ealdgate.  in Essex and Kent, came to London with a great Navy of Ships, near to the Tower: whereupon the Mayor and Aldermen, by consent of a common Council, fortified all along the Thames side, from Bainard's Castle to the Tower, with armed men, Guns, and other instruments of war, to resist the invasion of the Mariners, whereby the Thames side was safely preserved and kept, by the Aldermen and other Citizens, that assembled thither in great numbers. Whereupon the Rebels being denied passage thorough the City that way, set upon Ealdgate, Bishopsgate, Creplegate, Aldersgate, London bridge, and along the River of Thames; shooting arrows and guns into the City, 
Suburbs burnt.  fired the Suburbs, and burned more than threescore houses. And further, on Sunday the eleventh of May, five thousand of them assaulting Ealdgate, won the Bulwarks, 
Rebels won the Bulwarks of Ealdgate.  and entered the City; but the Portclose being let down, such as had entered, were slain: and Robert Basset, Alderman of Ealdgate Ward, with the Recorder, commanded in the Name of God to draw up the Portclose: which being done, they issued out, and with sharp shot and fierce fight, put their enemies back so far as Saint Buttolphus Church; by which time the Earl Rivers, and the Lieutenant of the Tower, 
Lieutenant of the Tower assisted the Citizens against the Rebels.  was come with a fresh company; which joining together, discomfited the Rebels, and put them to flight; whom the aforesaid Robert Basset, with other Citizens, chased unto the Miles end, and from thence, some to Popular, some to Stratford; flew many, and took many of them prisoners. In the mean while, the Bastard having assayed other places upon the Water side, and little prevailing, fled towards his Ships. Thus much for Ealdgate, as it was, and continued in those elder days: But the new building thereof remaineth till I come to speak of the Ward wherein the same Gate is situated.   

Bishopsgate.  
THe third and next Gate toward the North, 
Bishopsgate.  is called Bishopsgate: for that (as it may be supposed) the same was first builded by some Bishop of London; though now unknown, when, or by whom: but true it is, that this Gate was first builded for the case of passengers toward the East, and by North; as into Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge-shire, etc. The travellers into which parts (before the building of this Gate) were forced (passing out at Ealdgate) to go East till they came unto the Miles end, and then turned on the left hand to Blethenhall-greene, to Cambridge-heath, and so North, or East and by North, as their journey's lay. If they took not this way, 
A further way winding about.  by the East out at Ealdgate, they must then take their way by the North out at Aldersgate, through Aldersgatestreet, and Goswellstreet, towards Iseldon, and by a cross of stone on their right hand, set up for a mark by the North end of Golding-lane, to turn eastward through a long street, unto this day called Alderstreet, to another cross then there standing, where now a Smith's forge is placed, by Sewers ditch Church; and then to turn again North towards Tottenham, Enfield, Waltham, Ware, etc.  
The eldest note that I read of this Bishopsgate, is, that william Blund one of the Shiriffeses of London, in the year 1210 sold to Serle Mercer, & william Almain, Procurators or Wardens of London Bridge, 
Lib. Trim.  all his Land, with the Garden, in the Parish of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, between the Land of Richard Casiarin, towards the North, and the Land of Robert Crispy towards the South, and the highway called Bearwards lane on the East, etc.  
Next, 
Charter.  I read in a Charter, dated the year 1235. that Walter Brune, Citizen of London, and Rosia his Wife, having founded the Priory or new Hospital of our blessed Lady, since called S. Marry spital, 
Bishopsgate street without.  without Bishopsgate, confirmed the same to the honour of God and our blessed Lady, for Canons regular.  
Also in the year 1247. Simeon Fitz-Mary, 
Record.  one of the Shiriffeses of London, in the 29. of Henry the third, founded the Hospital of S. Mary called Bethlem, without Bishopsgate. Thus much for antiquity of this Gate.  
And now for repairing the same: 
Reparations of Bishopsgate.  I find, that Henry the 3. confirmed to the Merchants of the Haunce▪ that had a house in the City, called Gi●●●alla Theutonicorum, certain Liberties and Privileges: Edward the first also confirmed the same; in the tenth year of whose reign it was found, that the said Merchants ought of right to repair the said Gate, called Bishopsgate.  
Whereupon Gerard Marbod, 
Bishopsgate repaired by the merchants of the Haunce.  Alderman of the Haunce, and other, then remaining in the City of London, for themselves and all others, Merchants of the said Haunce, granted 210. marks sterling to the Mayor and Citizens: and covenanted, that they and their successors should (from time to time) repair the same Gate. 
Bishopsgate new builded.  This Gate was again beautifully builded in the year 1479. in the reign of Edward the fourth, by the said Hans Merchants.  
Moreover, 
Bishopsgate provided to have been new builded.  in the year 1551. These Haunce Merchants, having prepared stone for that purpose, caused a new Gate to be framed, there to have been set up: but then their liberties, through suit of our English Merchants, were seized into the King's hand, and so that work was stayed, and the old Gate yet remaineth.   

Postern of Mooregate.  
TOuching the next Postern, called Mooregate, 
Postern called Mooregate.  I find, that Thomas Falconer, Maior about the year 1415. the third of Henry the 5. caused the Wall of the City to be broken near unto Colemanstreet, and there builded a Postern now called Mooregate, upon the Mooreside, where was never Gate before. This Gate he made for ease of the Citizens, that way to pass upon Cawseys into the Field for their recreation: 
The Fiold a mere marish ground.  for the same Field was (at that time) a Marish. This Postern was re-edified by William Hampton, Fishmonger, Mayor, in the year 1472. In the year also 1511. the third of Hen. 8. Roger Achely Maior, caused Dikes and Bridges to be made, and the ground to be leveled, and made more commodious for passage; since which time the same hath been heightened so much, that the Dikes and Bridges are covered: and it seemeth to me, that if it be made level with the Battlements of the City Wall, yet will it be little the dryer, such was then the moorish nature of that ground.   

Postern of Creplegate.  
THe next is the Postern of Creplegate, 
Postern of Creplegate.  so called long before the Conquest. For I read in the History of Edmund, King of the East Angles, 
Abba Floriacensis.  written by Abba Floriacensis, and by Burchard, 
Burchard.  sometime Secretary to Offa, King of Mertia; but since then, by john Lidgate, Monk of Bury, that in the year 1010. the Danes spoiling the Kingdom of the East Angles, Alwyne Bishop of Helmeham, caused the body of King Edmund the Martyr, to be brought from Bedrisworth, (now called Bury S. Edmunds) through the Kingdom of East Saxons, and so to London, in at Creplegate. A place, saith mine Author, so called of Cripples begging there: and at which Gate, (it was said) the body entering, miracles were wrought, and some of the lame to go upright, praising God. The body of King Edmund rested, for the space of three years, in the Parish Church of Saint Gregory, near unto the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul. Moreover, the Charter of William the Conqueror, confirming the foundation of the College in London, 
Martin le grand.  called Saint Martin the great, hath these words: I do give and grant to the same Church, 
Liber S. Barlilmew.  and Canons serving GOD therein, all the lands, and the Moor without the Postern, which is called Creplegate, on either part of the Postern. More I read, that Alfune builded the Parish Church of S. Giles, nigh a Gate of the City, called Porta contractorum, or Cripplesgate, about the year 1090.  
This Postern was sometime a Prison, 
Creplagate a prison for trespassers  whereunto such Citizens and others, as were arrested for debt, or common trespasses, were committed, as they be now to the Compters. Which thing appeareth by a Writ of Edward the first in these words: Rex Vic. London salutem. 
Record.  Ex gravi querela B. captain. & detent. in prisona nostra de Criplesgate pro x. l●. quas coram Radulpho de Sandwico, tunc Custod. Civitatis nostrae London, & I. de Blackwell Civis recognit. debit. etc.  
This Gate was new builded by the Brewers of London, 
Creplegate new builded.  in the year 1244. as saith Fabians Manuscript.  
Edmund Shaw Goldsmith, Maior in the year one thousand four hundred eighty three, at his decease, appointed by his Testament his Executors, with the cost of four hundred Marks, and the stuff of the old Gate, called Cripplesgate, to build the same Gate anew, which was performed and done in the year one thousand four hundred ninety one.   

Aldersgate.  
THe next is Aeldersgate or Aldersgate, 
Aldersgate.  so called, not of Aldrich, or of Elders, that is to say, ancient men, builders thereof; nor of Eldern trees, growing there more abundantly than in other places, as some have fabuled ●●but for the very antiquity of the Gate itself, 
In a book called, Beware the C●t.  as being one of the first four Gates of the City, and serving for the Northern parts, as Ealdgate for the East; which two Gates being both old Gates, are for difference sake called, the one Ealdgate, and the other Aldersgate. This is the fourth principal Gate, and hath at sundry times been increased with buildings; namely, on the South side, or inner side, a great frame of Timber hath been added and set up, containing diverse large rooms and lodgings. Also on the East side, is the addition of one great building of Timber, 
A Well of great depth at Aldersgate.  with one large floor, paved with stone, or tile, and a Well therein kerbed with stone, of a great depth, and rising into the said Room, two stories high from the ground: which well is the only peculiar note belonging to that Gate; for I have not seen the like in all this City, to be raised so high. john Day Stationer, a late famous Printer of many good Books, in our time dwelled in this Gate, and builded much upon the Wall of the City, towards the Parish Church of Saint Anne.  
Concerning the late new building of this Gate, we shall speak more thereof, in the description of the Ward.   

Postern out of Christ's Hospital.  
THen there is also a Postern gate made out of the Wall, 
〈◊〉 postern out of Christ's Hospital.  on the North side of the late dissolved Cloister of Friar's Minors, commonly of their habit called Grey Friars, now Christ's Church and Hospital.  
This Postern was made in the sixth year of Edward the sixth, to pass from the said Hospital of Christ's Church, unto the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew in Smithfield: and licence was given to the Lord Maior and Aldermen, to break down so much of the City's Wall as should suffice to make the same passage: by virtue of an Act of common Council, made 1. Augusti, Anno 6. E. 6. in the Mayoralty of Sir Richard Dobbes, Knight.   

Newgate.  
THe next Gate on the West and by North, 
Newgate.  is termed Newgate, a latelier builded than the rest, & is the fifth principal Gate. This Gate was first erected about the reign of Henry the first, or of King Stephen, upon this occasion. The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, 
Paul's Church in London new builded.  being burnt about the year 1086. in the Reign of William the Conqueror, Mauritius, than Bishop of London, repaired not the old Church, as some have supposed; but began the foundation of a new work, such as men then judged would never have been performed, it was to them so wonderful for height, length, and breadth; as also in respect it was raised upon Arches or vaults, a kind of workmanship brought in by the Normans, and never known to the Artificers of this Land before that time, etc. After Mauritius, Richard Beaumore did wonderfully advance the work of the said Church, purchasing the large Streets and Lanes round about, wherein were wont to dwell many lay people; which grounds he began to compass about with a strong wall of stone, and Gates.  
By means of this increase of the Church territory, but more by enclosing of ground for so large a Coemitery, or Churchyard; the high and large Street, stretching from Ealdgate in the East, to Ludgate in the West, was in this place so crossed and stopped up, that the carriage through the City westward, was forced to pass without the said Churchyard wall on the North side, through Pater noster row, and then South down Ave Marry lane, and again West through Bowyer row to Ludgate: or else out of Cheap, or Wathelingstreete, to turn South, through the old Change, than West through Carter lane, again North up Creed lane, and then west to Ludgate. Which passage, by reason of so often turning, was very cumbersome and dangerous, both for horse and man. For remedy whereof, a new Gate was made, 
Newgate first builded, and the cause why.  and so called, by which men and cattle, with all manner of carriages, might pass more directly (as before) from Ealdgate, through West Cheap by Paul's, on the North side, through S. Nicholas shambles and Newgate Market, to Newgate: and from thence to any part Westward over Oldborne-bridge, or turning without the Gate into Smithfield, and through Iseldon, to any part North and by West.  
This Gate hath of long time been a Gaol or Prison for Felons and Trespassers, as appeareth by Records in the reign of King john, and of other Kings: amongst the which, I find one testifying, that in the year 1218. the third of King Henry the third, 
Close Roll.  the King writeth unto the Shiriffeses of London, 
Newgate a Gaol or prisonhouse.  commanding them to repair the Gaol of Newgate, 
The King repaired it  for the safe keeping of his prisoners, promising that the charges laid out, should be allowed unto them upon their account in the Exchequer.  
Moreover, in the year 1241. the jews of Norwich were hanged, for circumcising a Christian child, their house called the Thor, was pulled down and destroyed. Aaron, the son of Abraham, a jew, at London, and the other jews were constrained to pay twenty thousand Marks, at two Terms in the year, or else to be kept perpetual prisoners in Newgate of London, and in other prisons.  
1255. King Henry the third lodged in the Tower of London, upon displeasure conceived towards the City of London, for the escape of john Offrem, a prisoner, being a Clerk convict, out of Newgate, which had killed a Prior that wa●, of alliance to the King, as Cousin to the Queen: he sent for the Mayor and Sheriffs to come before him, to answer the matter. The Mayor laid the fault from him to the Sheriffs, forasmuch as to them belonged the keeping of all prisoners within the City, and so the Mayor returned home; but the Sheriffs remained there prisoners, 
The Sheriffs of London prisoners in the Tower, for escape of a prisosoner out of Newgate  by the space of a month and more; and yet they excused themselves, in that the fault chiefly rested in the Bishop's Officers: For whereas the prisoner was under custody, they (at his request) had granted licence, to imprison the offender within the Gaol of Newgate; but so, as the bishop Officer's were charged to see him safely kept. The King notwithstanding all this, demanded of the City 3000. Marks for a fine.  
In the year 1326. Robert Baldock, 
The King's Chancellor prisoner in Newgate.  the King's Chancellor, was put in Newgate the third of Edward the 3.  
In the year 1237. Sir john Poultney gave four Marks by the year, to the relief of prisoners in Newgate.  
In the year 1358. William Walworth gave somewhat, to relieve the prisoners in Newgate, so have many others since.  
In the year 1414. the Gaolers of Newgate and Ludgate died, and prisoners in Newgate, to the number of 64.  
In the year 1418. the Parson of Wortham in Kent was imprisoned in Newgate.  
The year 1412. the first of Henry 6. licence was granted to john Coventre, jenken Carpenter, and William Grove, executors to Richard Whittington, to re-edify the Gaol of Newgate, 
Newgate new builded.  which they did with his goods.  
Thomas Knowels, Grocer, sometimes Mayor of London, by licence of Reynold, Prior of S. Bartholomews' in Smithfield, and also of john Wakering, Master of the Hospital of S. Bartholomew, and his brethren, conveyed the waste of water, at the Cistern near unto the common. Fountain, 
Water conveyed to Newgate & Ludgate.  and Chapel of S. Nicholas, (situate by the said Hospital) to the Gaoles of Newgate and Ludgate, for the relief of the prisoners.  
Tuesday next after Palm Sunday, 1431. all the prisoners of Ludgate were conveyed into Newgate, 
Prisoners of Ludgate removed to Newgate  by Walter Chartsey and Robert Large, Sheriffs of London. And on the 13. April, the same Sheriffs (through the false suggestion of john Kingesell, Jailer of Newgate) did fetch from thence 18. persons, freemen, and these were led to the Compters pinioned, as if they had been Felons. But on the 16. of june, Ludgate was again appointed for freemen, prisoners for debt, and the same day, the said freemen entered by ordinance of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commons, and by them Henry Deane Taylor, was made keeper of Ludgate.  
In the year 1457. a great Fray was in the North Country, between Sir Thomas Percy, Lord Egremond, and the Earl of Salisburies' Sons, whereby many were maimed and slain: but in the end, the Lord Egremond being taken, was by the King's Council found in great default, and therefore condemned in great sums of money, to be paid to the Earl of Salisbury, and in the mean time committed to Newgate. Not long after, 
L. Egremond and others, broke prison out of Newgate.  Sir Thomas Percy Lord Egremond, and Sir Richard Percy his Brother, being in Newgate, broke out of Prison by night, and went to the King, the other prisoners took the Leads of the Gate, and defended it (a long while) against the Sheriffs and all their Officers, insomuch that they were forced to call more aid of the Citizens, whereby at last they subdued them, and laid them in Irons. And this may suffice for Newgate.   

Ludgate.  
IN the West is the next; and sixth principal Gate, 
Ludgate.  and is called Ludgate, at first builded (saith Geoffrey Monmouth) by King Lud, a Britain, about the year before Christ's Nativity, 66. Of which building, and also of the name, as Ludsgate or Fludsgate, hath been of late some question among the learned, wherefore I overpasse it, as not to my purpose; only referring the Reader to that I have before written out of Caesar's Commentaries, 
Roger Windover.  and other Roman Writers, 
Mat. Paris.  concerning a Town or City amongst the Britain's. This Gate I suppose to be one of the most ancient; and as Ealdgate was builded for the East, so was this Ludsgate for the West. I read, as I told you, that in the year 1215. the 17. of King john, the Barons of the Realm, being in Arms against the King, entered this City, and spoiled the jews Houses: which being done, Robert Fitzwater, and Geffrey de Magna villa, Earl of Essex, and the Earl of Gloucester, chief leaders of the Army, applied all diligence to repair the Gates and Walls of this City, with the stones of the jews broken houses; especially (as it seemeth) they then repaired (or rather new builded) Ludgate. 
Ludgate new built.  For in the year 1586. when the same Gate was taken down, to be new builded, there was found couched within the wall thereof, a stone taken from one of the jews houses, wherein was graved in Hebrew Characters, 
jews houses spoiled.  these words following: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Haec est statio Rabbi Moses, filij insignis Rabbi Isaac: which is to say, This is the Station or Ward of Rabbi Moses, the son of the Honourable Rabbi Isaac. And it had been fixed upon the front of one of the jews houses, as a note or sign that such an one dwelled there.  
In the year 1260. this Ludgate was repaired, 
Patent.  and beautified with Images of Lud, and other Kings, as appear by Letters Patents of licence given to the Citizens of London, to take up stone for that purpose, dated the 25. of Henry the third. These Images of Kings, in the reign of Edward the sixth, had their heads smitten off, and were otherwise defaced, by such as judged every Image to be an Idol; and in the reign of Queen Mary were repaired, as by setting new heads on their old bodies, etc. All which so remained, until the year 1586. the 28. of Queen Elizabeth, 
judgate again new builded.  when the same Gate (being fore decayed) was clean taken down, the prisoners in the mean time remaining in the large Southeast quadrant of the same Gate adjoining; and the same year, the whole Gate was newly and beautifully builded, with the Images of Lud and others (as afore) on the East side, and the picture of her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, 
Ludgate enlarged in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.  on the West side. All which was done at the common charges of the Citizens, amounting to 1500. pounds, or more.  
This gate was made a free Prison in the year 1378. the first of Richard the second, 
Ludgate a free prison.  Nicholas Bremer being Maior. The same was confirmed in the year 1382. john Northampton being Maior, 
Record Guildhall.  by a Common Council in the Guild-hall: by which it was it was ordained, that all freemen of this City, should for debt, trespasses, accounts, and contempts, be imprisoned in Ludgate; and for Treasons, Felonies, and other criminal offences, committed to Newgate, etc.  
In the year 1439. the tenth of King Henry the 6. john Wells being Mayor, a Court of common Council established ordinances, (as William Stanley and Robert Chicheley, late Majors before had done) touching the Guard and government of Ludgate, and other Prisons.  
Also in the year 1463. the third of Edward the fourth, Matthew Philip being Maior, in a common Council, at the request of the well-disposed, 
Memory of worthy wodan.  blessed, and devout Woman, Dame Agnes Forster, Widow, late wife to Stephen Forster, Fishmonger, sometime Mayor, for the comfort and relief of all the poor prisoners, 
Articles for relief of the poor prisoners in Ludgate.  certain Articles were established. Imprimis, That the new works, then lately edified by the same Dame Agnes, for the enlarging of the Prison of Ludgate, from thenceforth should be had and taken, as a part and parcel of the said Prison of Ludgate, so that both the old and new work of Ludgate aforesaid, to be one Prison, Gaol, Keeping, and charge for evermore.  
The said Quadrant, 
The length, breadth, & largeness of the quadrant.  strongly builded of stone, by the forenamed Stephen Forster and Agnes his Wife, containing a large walking-place by ground, of 38. foot and an half in length, besides the thickness of the walls, which are at the least 6 foot, makes all together 44. foot and an half; the breadth within the walls is 29. foot and an half; so that the thickness of the walls maketh it 35. foot and an half in breadth. The like room it hath over it for lodgings, and over it again fair Leads to walk upon, well embattelled, all for fresh air, and ease of prisoners, to the end they should have lodging and water free without charge; as by certain Verses graven in Copper, and fixed on the said Quadrant, I have read, 
At Ludgate engraved on a Copper plate.  in form following: 
Devout souls that pass this way,  
For Stephen Forster, late Mayor,  
heartily pray,  
And Dame Agnes his spouse,  
to God consecrate,  
That of pity, this house made  
for Londoners in Ludgate.  
So that for lodging and water,  
prisoners here naught pay,  
As their keepers shall all answer  
at dreadful doomsday.   
This place, and one other of his Arms, being 3. broad Arrow-heads, taken down with the old Gate, I caused to be fixed over the entry of the said Quadrant: but the verses being unhappily turned inward to the wall, procured the like in effect to be engraven outward in prose, declaring him to be a Fishmonger, because some, upon a light occasion (as a Maiden's head in a glass window) had fabled him to be a Mercer, and to have begged there at Ludgate, etc. Thus much for Ludgate.  
Next this, 
A breach in the Wall against Bridewell.  there is a breach in the Wall of the City, and a Bridge of Timber over the Fleet-dike, betwixt Fleet-bridge and Thames, directly over against the house of Bridewell. Thus much for the Gates in the Wall.  
Water-gates on the banks of the River Thames, 
Watergates.  have been many, which being purchased by private men, are also put to private use, and the old names of them forgotten. But of such as remain, from the West, towards the East, may be said as followeth.  
The Black Friar's stairs, 
Black Friars.  a free landing place.  
Then a Water-gate at Puddle wharf, 
Puddle wharf.  of one Puddle, that kept a wharf on the West side thereof, and now of Puddle water, by means of many horses watered there.  
Then Paul's wharf, also a free landing place with stairs, 
Paul's wharf.  etc.  
Then Broken wharf, 
Broken wharf.  and other such like.  
But Ripa Regina, 
Queen Heath  the Queen's Bank, or Queen hithe, may well be accounted the very chief and principal Water-gate of this City, being a common strand or landing place, yet equal with, and (of old time) far exceeding Belins-gate, as shall be showed in the Ward of Queen Hithe.  
The next is Downgate, so called of the sudden descending, or down going of that way, from Saint john's Church upon Walbroke unto the River of Thames, whereby the water in the Channel there hath such a swift course, that in the year 1574. on the fourth of September after a strong shower of rain, 
A Lad of 18 years old drowned in a Channel at Downegate.  a Lad of the age of eighteen years, minding to have leapt over the Channel, was taken by the feet, and borne down with the violence of that narrow stream, and carried toward the Thames with such a violent swiftness, as no man could rescue or stay him, till he came against a Cartwheel, that stood in the Watergate, before which time, he was drowned and stark dead.  
This was sometime a large water-gate frequented of ships, and other vessels, like as the Queen's Hithe, 
An inquisition concerning Dewnegate.  and was a part thereof, as doth appear by an inquisition, made in the 28. year of Henry the third, wherein was found, That aswell corn as fish, and all other things coming to the Port of Downgate, were to be ordered after the customs of the Queen's Heath for the King's use. 
Merchants of the Hanse, landed their corn betwixt their house and the Black Friars.  As also, that the corn arriving between the gate of the Guild-hall of the Merchants of Cullen: the (Stilyard) which is East from Downegate, and the house then pertaining to the Archbishop of Canterbury, west from Bainard's Castle; was to be measured by the measure, and measurer of the Queens Soak, or Queen Hithe. I read also, in the 19 of Edward the third, That customs were then to be paid for ships and other vessels, resting at Downgate, as if they road at Queen Hith, and as they now do at Belins-gate. But now it is fallen to such great decay, that not only there is no use made thereof, but also by reason that the Water-gates are not repaired, it is very dangerous to passengers travelling through in the night season. And thus much for Downegate may suffice.  
The next was called Wolves gate in the Ropary, 
Wolves gate in the Ropary.  in the Parish of All-hallows the less, of later time called Wolves lane, but now out of use: for the lower part was builded on by the Earl of Shrewsbury, and the other part was stopped up, and builded on by the Chamberlain of London.  
The next is Ebgate, 
Lib. Horn.  a Water-gate so called of old time, 
Lib. S. Alban.  as appeareth by diverse Records of tenements, 
Ebgate.  near unto the same adjoining. 
Lib. Trinitat.  It standeth near unto the Church of Saint Laurence Pountney, 
Lib. S. Alban.  but is within the Parish of Saint Marten Ordegare. 
Record E. 3.  In place of this gate, is now a narrow passage to the Thames, and is called Ebgate lane, but more commonly the Old Swan.  
Then is there a Watergate at the Bridge foot, 
Oystergate.  called Oystergate, of Oysters that were there (of old time) commonly to be sold, and was the chiefest Market for them, and for other shell Fish. There standeth now an engine or Forcier, for the winding up of water to serve the City, whereof I have already spoken.   

Bridgegate.  
THe next is the Bridgegate, so called of London Bridge, 
Bridge-Gate.  whereon it standeth: This was one of the four first and principal Gates of the City, long before the Conquest, when there stood a Bridge of Timber; and is the seventh and last principal Gate mentioned by W. Fitzstephen, 
The Bridg-Gate often times repaired by diverse good Benefactors.  which gate being new made, when the Bridge was builded of stone, hath been oftentimes since repaired. This Gate, with the Tower upon it, in the year 1436. fell down, and two of the farthest Arches Southwards also fell therewith, and no man perished or was hurt thereby. To the repairing whereof, diverse wealth Citizens gave large sums of money, namely Robert Large, sometime Mayor, 100 Marks, Stephen Forster, 20. l'. Sir john Crosby Alderman, 100 l'. etc. But in the year 1471. 
W. Dunthorne.  the Kentish Mariners, 
Gate at the Bridge foot burned.  under the conduct of Bastard Fauconbridge, burned the said Gate, and thirteen houses on the Bridge, besides the Beer houses at Saint Katherine's, and many other in the Suburbs.  
The next is Buttolph's gate so called of the Parish Church of S. Buttolph near adjoining. 
Buttolph's Gate.  This Gate was sometime given, 
K. William the Conqueror his gift of the Gate.  or confirmed by William Conqueror, to the Monks of Westminster, in these words: William. Rex Angliae, etc. William King of England, sendeth greating to the Sheriffs, and all his Ministers, as also to all his loving subjects, French and English, of London. Know ye, that I have granted to God and Saint Peter of Westminster, and to the Abbot Vitalis, the gift which Almundus, of the Port of S●●nt Buttolph, gave them, when he was there made Monk: that is to say, his Lords Court, with the houses, and one Wharfe, which is at the head of London Bridge, and all other his lands which he had in the same City, in such sort, as King Edward more beneficially, and amply granted the same: And I will and command, that they shall enjoy the same well, and quietly, and honourably, with sake and soak, etc.  
The next is Belins-gate, 
Belins-gate.  used as an especial Port, or Harbour for small Ships and Boats coming thereto, and is now most frequented, the Queen Heath being almost forsaken. How this Gate took that name, or of what Antiquity the same is, 1 must leave uncertain, as not having read any ancient Record thereof, 
Geoffrey Monmouth.  more than that Geffrey Monmouth writeth, that Belin, a King of the Britan's, about 400. years before Christ's Nativity, builded this Gate, and named it Belins-gate, after his own Name: And that when he was dead, his body being burned, the Ashes in a Vessel of Brass, 
Belin's Urn of Brass.  were set upon a high pinnacle of stone over the same Gate. But Caesar, and other Roman writers affirm of Cities, Walls and Gates, as ye have before heard, and therefore it seemeth to me, not to be so ancient; but rather to have taken that name, of some later owner of the place, haply named Beling, or Biling, as Somars key, Smarts key, Frosh wharf, and others there-by, took their names of their owners: Of this Gate more shall be said, when we come to speak of Belins-gate Ward.  
Then have you a Water-gate on the West side of Wool-wharfe, 
Watergate by the Custom house.  or Customers key, which is commonly called the Watergate, at the South end of Water lane.  
One other Water-gate, 
Watergate by the Tower.  there is by the Bulwark of the Tower, and this is the last and farthest Water gate East ward on the River of Thames, so far as the City of LONDON extendeth within the Walls: both which last named Water-gates be within the Tower Ward.  
Besides these common Water-gates, 
Wharfes and keys.  were diverse private Wharfes and Keys, all along from the East to the West of this City, on the bank of the River of Thames; where Merchants (of all Nations) had landing places, Warehouses, Cellars, and stowage of their goods and Merchandises, as partly shall be touched in the Wards adjoining to the said River. Now for the ordering and keeping of these Gates of this City in the night time, it was appointed in the year of Christ 1258. by Henry the 3. the 42. of his reign, that the Ports of England should be strongly kept, 
Mat. Paris. Gates of London to be kept & watched.  and that the Gates of London should be new repaired, and diligently kept in the night, for fear of French deceits, whereof one writeth these verses:  
Per noctem portae clauduntur Londoniarum, Moenia, ne fortè fraus frangat Francigenarun.    

Of Towers and Castles.  
THE City of London (saith Fitzstephen) hath in the East, 
The Tower of London.  a very great, and a most strong Palatine Tower, whose Turrets and Walls do rise from a deep foundation, the mortar thereof being tempered with the blood of beasts. In the West part are two most strong Castles, etc.  
To begin therefore with the most famous Tower of London, situate in the East, near unto the River of Thames; it hath been the common opinion, and some have written, (but of none assured ground) that julius Caesar, the first Conqueror of the Britain's, was the original Author and Founder, aswell thereof, as also of many other Towers, Castles, 
In my Annals.  and great buildings within this Realm. But (as I have already before noted) Caesar remained not here so long, nor had he in his head any such matter; but only to dispatch a conquest of this barbarous Country, and to proceed to greater matters. Neither do the Roman Writers make mention of any such buildings erected by him here.  
And therefore leaving this, and proceeding to more grounded authority, I find in a fair Register Book, containing the acts of the Bishops of Rochester, 
Edmund de Hadenham.  set down by Edmund de Hadenham: that William the first, surnamed Conqueror, builded the Tower of London; 
Tower of London built by W. Conqueror, namely the white Tower.  to wit, the great white and square Tower there, about the year of Christ, 1078. appointing Gundulph then Bishop of Rochester to be principal Surveyor and Overseer of that work; who was (for that time) lodged in the house of Edmere, a Burgess of London. The very words of which mine Author are these in Latin:  
Gundulphus Episcopus, mandato Willielmi Regis magni praefuit operi magnae Turris London, quo tempore hospitatus est apud quendam Edmerum, Burgensem London, qui dedit unum Were Ecclesiae Roffen.  
Ye have before heard, that the wall of this City was all round about furnished with Towers and Bulwarks, in due distance every one from other, and also that the River of Thames, with her ebbing and flowing, on the Southside, had subverted the said Wall, and Towers there. Wherefore King William, for defence of this City, in place most dangerous, and open to the enemy, having taken down the second Bulwark in the East part of the Wall, from the Thames, builded this Tower, which was the great square Tower, now called the white Tower; and hath been since (at diverse times) enlarged with other buildings adjoining, as shall be showed. This Tower was bytempest of wind sore shaken, 
〈◊〉. Huntingdon.  in the year 1092. the 4. of Wil 
W. Malmes.  Rufus, 
Mat. Paris.  and was again, by the said Rufus and Henry the first repaired. 
joh. London.  They also caused a Castle to be built under the said Tower; 
Castle by the Tower builded.  namely, on the Southside toward the Thames, and also incastellated the same round about.  
Henry Huntingdon, libro sexto, hath these words: William Rufus challenged the investure of Prebates, he peeled and shaved the people with Tribute, especially to spend about the Tower of London, and the great Hall at Westminster.  
Othowerus, 
First Constables of the Tower  Acolinillus, Otto; and Geffrey Magnaville Earl of Essex, were 4. the first Constables of this Tower of London by succession: all which held by force, a portion of Land (that pertained to the Priory of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate) that is to say, 
Eastsmith field a Vineyard.  Eastsmith field, near unto the Tower, making thereof a Vineyard, and would not depart from it, 
Ex Charta.  till the second year of King Stephen, when the same was adjudged and restored to the Church.  
This Geffrey Magnaville was Earl of Essex, 
Geffrey Magnaville Earl of Essex, Constable of the Tower and Sheriff of London.  Constable of the Tower, Sheriff of London, Middlesex, Essex, and Hertfordshire, as appeareth by a Charter of Maude the Empress, 1141. He also fortified the Tower of London against King Stephen; but the King took him in his Court at S. Albans, and would not deliver him, till he had rendered the Tower of London, with the Castles of Walden and Plashey in Essex.  
In the year 1153. the Tower of London and the Castle of Windsor were by the King delivered to Richard de Lucy, 
Richard de Lucy Custos of the Tower.  to be safely kept.  
In the year 1155. Thomas Becket, being Chancellor to Henry the second, 
Roger Windover.  caused the Flemings to be banished out of England, their Castles lately builded, to be pulled down, and the Tower of London to be repaired.  
About the year 1190. the second of Richard the first, 
john Bever.  William Longshampe, Bishop of Ely, Chancellor of England, for cause of dissension betwixt him and the Earl john, the King's Brother, that was Rebel; 
The Tower of London compassed about with a wall and a ditch.  enclosed the Tower and Castle of London with an outward wall of stone embattled; and also caused a deep Ditch to be cast about the same, thinking (as I have said before) to have environed it with the River of Thames. By making of this enclosure and ditch in Eastsmithfield, the Church of the holy Trinity in London, lost half a mark rend by the year; and the Mill was removed, that belonged to the poor brethren of the Hospital of S. Katherine, 
S. Katherine's Mill stood where is now the Iron gate of the Tower.  and to the Church of the holy Trinity aforesaid; which was no small loss and discommodity to either part. And the Garden, which the King had hired of the brethren for six marks the year, for the most part was wasted and marred by the ditch. Recompense was often promised, but never performed, till King Edward coming after, gave to the Brethren five Marks and an half, for that part which the ditch had devoured: and the other part thereof without he yielded them again, which they hold; and of the said rend of five Marks and an half, they have a Deed, by virtue whereof they are well paid to this day.  
It is also to be noted, and cannot be denied, but that the said enclosure and ditch, took the like or greater quantity of ground from the City within the Wall; namely, on that part called the Tower Hill, besides breaking down of the City Wall, from the white Tower to the first Gate of the City, called the Postern. Yet have I not read of any quarrel made by the Citizens, or recompense demanded by them for that matter; because all was done for good of the City's defence thereby, and to their good like.  
But Matthew Paris writeth, 
Mat. Paris.  that in the year 1239. King Henry the third fortified the Tower of London to another end; 
Bulwarks of the Tower builded.  wherefore the Citizens fearing, lest that was done to their detriment, complained, and the King answered: That he had not done it to their hurt; But (saith he) I will from henceforth do as my brother doth, in building and fortifying Castles, who beareth the name to be wiser than I am.  
It followed in the next year, 
West gate and Bulwarks of the Tower fell down  (saith mine Author) the said Noble buildings of the stone Gate and Bulwark, which the King had caused to be made by the Tower of London, on the West side thereof, was shaken as it had been with an Earthquake, and fell down; which the King again commanded to be built in better sort than before, which was done.  
And yet again, in the year 1241. the said Wall and Bulwarks that were newly builded, 
Wall and Bulwarks again fall down, and new builded.  wherein the King had bestowed more than twelve thousand Marks, were unrecoverably quite thrown down, as afore: for the which chance, the Citizens of London were nothing sorry: for they were threatened, that the said wall and Bulwarks were builded, to the end, that if any of them would contend for the liberties of the City, they might be imprisoned: And that many might be laid in diverse prisons, many lodgings were made, that no one should speak with another.  
Thus much Matthew Paris avoucheth for this building.  
More of Henry the third his dealings against the Citizens of London, we may read in the said Author, in 1245. 1248. 1249. 1253. 1255. 1256. etc. But concerning the said Wall and Bulwark, the same was finished, though not in his time. For I read, That Edward the first, in the second of his reign, commanded the Treasurer and Chamberlain of the Exchequer, to deliver out of his Treasury, unto Miles of Andwarp, 200. Marks, of the fines taken of diverse Merchants, 
Ditch made about the Bulwark, without the West gate of the Tower.  or Usurers of London (for so be the words of the Record) toward the work of the ditch, then new made about the said Bulwark; now called the Lion Tower.  
I find also recorded, that Henry the third, in the 46. of his reign, wrote to Edward of Westminster, commanding him, 
H. 3. his Orchard by the Tower.  That he should buy certain Perie Plants, and set the same in the place without his Tower of London, the ninth of Edward the second.  
Edward the fourth in place whereof builded a wall of Brick. But now for the Lion-Tower, and Lions in England, the original, as I have read, was thus:  
Henry the first builded the Manor of Woodstock, 
First Park in England.  with a Park which he walled about with stone, seven miles in compass, destroying for the same, diverse Villages, Churches and Chapels, and this was the first Park in England; the words of the Record are these following: He appointed therein (beside great store of Decree) diverse strange beasts, to be kept and nourished, such as were brought to him from far Countries; as Lions, Leopards, 
Lions in Woodstock Park.  Lynxes, Porpentines, and such other: For such was his estimation among outlandish Princes, that few would willingly offend him.  
More I read, that in the year 1235. Frederick the Emperor sent to Henry the third, three Leopards, 
Lions sent to Hen. 3. and kept in the Tower.  in token of his regal Shield of Arms, wherein three Leopards were pictured: since which time, those Lions, and others, have been kept in a part of this Bulwark, now called the Lion Tower, and their keeper there lodged. King Edward the second, in the twelfth year of his reign, commanded the Sheriffs of London, to pay the keeper of the King's Leopards in the Tower of London, 6. d the day, for the sustenance of the Leopards; and three halfpences a day, for diet of the said keeper, out of the fee-farm of the said City.  
More, the 16. of Edward the third, one Lion, one Lioness, one Leopard, and two Cat's Lions, in the said Tower, were committed to the custody of Robert, the son of john Bower.  
Edward the fourth fortified the Tower of London, 
Edw. the 4. builded bulwarks without the Tower▪  and enclosed with Brick (as is aforesaid) a certain piece of ground, taken out of the Tower hill, west from the Lion Tower, now called the Bulwark. His Officers also, in the fifth of his reign, set upon the said Hill both Scaffold and Gallows, 
Scaffold and Gallows first set on Tower Hill.  for the execution of offenders; whereupon the Mayor & his brethren complained to the King, and were answered, that the same was not done in derogation of the City's Liberties; and therefore caused proclamation to be made, etc. as shall be showed in Towerstreet.  
Richard the third repaired and builded this Tower somewhat. 
Rich. 3. repaired the Tower.   
Henry the 8. in 1532. repaired the white Tower, 
White Tower repaired by Hen. 8.  and other parts thereof.  
In the year 1548. the second of Edward the sixth, on the 22. of November, in the night, a Frenchman lodged in the round Bulwark, betwixt the West Gate and the Postern, or draw bridge, called the Warders Gate, by setting fire on a barrel of Gunpowder, 
A bulwark of the Tower blown up.  blew up the said Bulwark, burned himself, and no more persons. This Bulwark was again forthwith new builded.  
And here, because I have (by occasion) spoken of the west gate of this Tower; the same (as the most principal) is used for the receipt and delivery of all kinds of carriages; 
Gates and Posterns of the Tower.  without the which Gate, be diverse Bulwarks and Gates, turning towards the North, etc. Then near within this West gate, opening to the South, is a strong Postern for passengers, by the Ward-house, over a drawbridge, let down for that purpose. Next, on the same South side, toward the East, is a large water-gate, for receipt of Boats and small vessels, partly under a stone bridge, from the River of Thames. Beyond it is a small Postern, with a drawbridge, seldom let down, but for the receipt of some great persons, prisoners. Then towards the East is a great and strong Gate, commonly called the Iron gate, but not usually opened. And thus much for the foundation, building, and repairing of this Tower, with the Gates and Posterns, may suffice. And now somewhat of accidents in the same, shall be showed.  
In the year 1196. 
Actions of the Tower  William Fitzosbert, a Citizen of London, seditiously moving the common people to seek liberty, and not to be subject to the rich and more mighty; at length was taken, and brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Tower, 
justices sat in the Tower.  where he was by the Judges condemned, and by the heels drawn thence to the Elms in Smithfield, and there hanged.  
1214. King john wrote unto Geffrey Magnaville, 
Patent the 15. of King john.  to deliver the Tower of London, with the Prisoners, Armour, and all other things sound therein, belonging to the King; to William, Archdeacon of Huntingdon.  
The year 1216. the first of Henry the third, 
Mat. Paris.  the said Tower was delivered to Lewes of France, and the Barons of England.  
In the year 1206. Pleas of the Crown were pleaded in the Tower: 
Pleas of the crown pleaded in the Towers  likewise in the year 1220. and likewise in the year 1224. and again in the year 1243. before William of York, Richard Passelew, Henry Brahe, Jerome of Saxton, Justicers.  
In the year 1222. the Citizens of London having made a tumult against the Abbot of Westminster; 
Mat. Paris.  Hubert of Burgh, chief Justice of England, came to the Tower of London, and called before him the Mayor and Aldermen, of whom he inquired for the principal Authors of that sedition: Amongst whom, 
Constantine Fitz Aelulfe hanged  one named Constantine Fitz Aelulfe avowed, that he was the man, and had done much less than he thought to have done. Whereupon, the Justice sent him (with two other) to Falks de Brent, who with armed men brought them to the Gallows, where they were hanged.  
In the year 1244. 
Griffith of Wales fell from the Tower.  Griffith the eldest son of Leoline, Prince of Wales, being kept prisoner in the Tower, devised means of escape; and having (in the night) made of the hangings, sheets, etc. a long line, he put himself down from the top of the Tower. But in the sliding, the weight of his body, being a very big and a fat man, broke the Rope, and he fell on his neck, and broke his neck withal: whose miserable carcase, being found in the morning by the Tower wall, was a most pitiful sight to the beholders: for his head and neck were driven into his breast, between both the shoulders. The King hearing thereof, punished the watchmen, and caused Griffiths son, that was imprisoned with his Father, to be more straight kept.  
In the year 1253. 
Sheriffs of London prisoners in the Tower.  King Henry the third imprisoned the Sheriffs of London in the Tower more than a month, for the escape of a prisoner out of Newgate, as ye may read in the Chapter of Gates.  
In the year 1260. King Henry, 
K. Henry lodged in the Tower and held his Parliament there.  with his Queen (for fear of the Barons) were lodged in the Tower. The next year he sent for his Lords, and held his Parliament there.  
In the year 1263. when the Queen would have removed from the Tower by water, 
Citizens of London despised the Qu. Wife to Hen. 3.  towards Windsor, sundry Londoners got them together to the Bridge, under the which she was to pass, and not only cried out upon her with reproachful words, but also threw mire and stones at her, by which she was constrained to return for the time. But in the year 1265. the said Citizens were fain to submit themselves to the King for it, and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs were sent to diverse prisons, and a Custos also was set over the City; to wit, Othon, Constable of the Tower, etc.  
Leoline Prince of Wales, 
Leoline, Prince of Wales, his head set on the Tower.  came down from the Mountain of Snowdon, to Mountgomery, and was taken at Bluith Castle: where using reproachful words against the Englishmen, Roger le Strange ran in upon him, and with the Sword wherewith he was girt, cut off his head, leaving his dead body on the ground. Sir Roger Mortimer caused the head of this Leoline to be set upon the Tower of London, crowned with a wreath of Ivy. Such was the end of Leoline, betrayed by the men of Bluith: And this was the last Prince of the Britain's blood, that bare rule and dominion in Wales.  
In the year 1290. diverse Justices, 
justices of the bench sent to the Tower.  as well of the Bench, as of the Assizes, were sent prisoners to the Tower, which with great sums of money redeemed their liberty.  
Sir Thomas Weyland had all his goods, 
Adam Meri. chro. Dun. Rad. Bald. Sca. Chro. Io. Rouse.  both movable and unmoveable, confiscated, and himself banished. Sir Rafe Hengham, chief Justice of the higher Bench, offered seven thousand Marks: Sir john Lovelet, Justice of the lower Bench, three thousand Marks. Sir William Bromtone, Justice, six thousand Marks. Of their Clerks, for their redemption; of Robert Littlebury, 1000 Marks; and of Roger Leicester, 1000 Marks: And of a certain Clerk of the Courts, called Adam de Straton, 32000. Marks, of old money and new; beside Jewels (without number) and precious vessels of Silver, which were found in his house, and a King's Crown, which some men said was King john's. Moreover, the King constrained the Justices to swear, that (from thenceforth) they should take no pension, see or gift of any man, except only a breakfast or such like present.  
Edward 2. the 14. of his reign, appointed for prisoners in the Tower, a Knight, 2. d. the day, an Esquire, 1. d. the day, to serve for their diet.  
In the year 1320. the Kings Justices sat in the Tower, 
justices sat in the Tower.  for trial of matters: whereupon, john Gissors, late Mayor of London, and many other, fled the City, for fear to be charged of things which they had presumptuously done.  
In the year 1321. the Mortimers yielding themselves to the King, he sent them prisoners to the Tower, where they remained long, and were judged to be drawn and hanged.  
But at length, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, 
Mortimer made an escape out of the Tower.  by giving his Keepers a sleepy drink, escaped out of the Tower, and his Uncle Roger being still kept, there died about five years after.  
In the year 1326. the Citizens of London won the Tower, 
Citizens of London wrested the keys of the Tower from the Constable.  wresting the keys out of the Constable's hands, delivered all the prisoners, and kept both the City and Tower to the use of Isabel. the Queen, and Edward her son.  
In the year 1330. Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, 
Mortimer drawn from the Tower to the Elms, and there hanged.  was taken and brought to the Tower, from whence he was drawn to the Elms, and there hanged on the common Gallows, where he hung two days and two nights by the King's commandment, and then was buried in the Grey Friar's Church. He was condemned by his Peers, and yet never was brought to answer before them. For it was not then the custom, after the death of the Earls of Lancaster, Winchester, Gloucester, & Kent: wherefore this Earl had that law himself, which before he had appointed for others.  
In the year 1344. King Edward the third, in the 18. year of his reign, 
A Mint in the Tower, Florence's of gold coined there.  commanded Florence's of Gold to be made, and coined in the Tower; that is to say, a penny a piece, of the value of 6. shillings and eight pence; the halfpenny piece, of the value of 3. shillings and four pence; and a farthing piece, worth 20. pence. Percevall de Port of Lake, being then Master of the coin. And this is the first coining of Gold in the Tower, whereof I read, and also the first coinage of Gold in England.  
I find also recorded, that the said King, 
The King's exchange in Buckles bury.  in the same year, ordained his Exchange of money to be kept in Sernes Tower, a part of the King's house in Buckles Bury. And here, to digress a little (by occasion offered) I find, that in times before passed, all great sums were paid by weight of gold or silver, as so many pounds, 
Round plates, called blanks, delivered by weighr, Argent. and Pecunia, after called Easterling.  or marks of silver, or so many pounds or marks of gold, cut into blanks, and not stamped, as I could prove by many good authorities, which I overpasse. The smaller sums also were paid in starlings, which were pence so called: for other coins they had none.  
The antiquity of this starling penny usually in this Realm, is from the reign of Henry the second: notwithstanding the Saxon coins (before the Conquest) were pence of fine silver, the full weight and somewhat better than the latter starlings, as I have tried by conference of the pence of Burghrede King of Mercia, Aelfred, Edward, and Edelred, Kings of the West Saxons, Plegmond Archbishop of Canterbury, and others.  
William the conquerors penny also was fine silver, of the weight of the Easterling, and had on the one side stamped, 
IV. Conqueror did wear no beard.  an armed head, with a beardless face, (for the Normans ware no beards) with a Sceptre in his hand. The Inscription in the circumference, 
IV. Malmesbury.  was this, Le Rei Wilam. On the side, a cross double to the Ring, between 4. rowels of six points.  
King Henry the first his penny was of the like weight, fineness, form of face, cross, etc.  
This Henry, in the eighth year of his reign, ordained the penny which was round, so to be quartered by the cross, that they might easily be broken into half pence and farthings.  
In the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth of King Richard the first his reign, 
R. Hoveden.  and afterwards, I find commonly Easterling money mentioned, and yet ofttimes the same is called Argent, as afore, and not otherwise.  
The first great sum that I read of to be paid in Easterlings, was in the fifth of Richard the first, when Robert Earl of Leicester, being prisoner in France, proffered for his ransom a thousand marks Easterlings; notwithstanding, the Easterling pence were long before.  
The weight of the Easterling penny may appear by diverse Statutes, namely, of weights and measures, made in the 51. year of Henry the third, in these words: 
Weight of starling pence 32. grains of wheat.  Thirty two grains of Wheat, dry and round, taken in the midst of the ear, should be the weight of a starling penny; twenty of those pence should weigh one ounce, twelve ounces a pound Troy. It followeth in the Statute, Eight pound to make a gallon of Wine, and eight gallons, a bushel of London measure, etc. Notwithstanding which Statute, I find in the eighth of Edward the first, Gregory Rokesley, Maior of London, being chief Master or Minister of the King's Exchange or Mints, a new coin being then appointed, the pound of Easterling money should contain (as afore) 12. ounces, to wit, fine silver, such as was then made into foil, and was commonly called silver of Guthurons' lane; 11. ounces, two Easterlings, and one ferling or farthing, and the other 17. pence halfpenny farthing to be lay. Also the pound of money ought to weigh 20. shillings 3. pence by account; so that no pound ought to be over 20. shillings 4. pence, nor less than 20. shillings 2. pence by account; the ounce to weigh 20. pence, the penny weight 24. grains. Which 24. by weight then appointed, were as much as the former 32. grains of Wheat: a penny force, 25. grains and an half; the penny deble or feeble, 22. grains and an half, etc.  
Now for the penny Easterling, 
The penny Easterling how it took the name.  how it took that name, I think good briefly to touch. It hath been said, that Numa Pompilius, the second King of the Romans, commanded moneys first to be made, of whose name they were called Numi; and when copper pence, silver pence, and gold pence were made, (because every silver penny was worth ten copper pence, and every gold penny worth ten silver pence) the pence were therefore called in Latin, Denarij; and oftentimes, the pence are named of the matter or stuff of gold or silver. But the Money of England was called of the workers and makers thereof: as the Floren of gold is called of the Florentines, 
H. 2. made a new coin in the third of his reign.  that were the workers thereof; and so the Easterling pence took their name of the Easterlings, which did first make this money in England, in the reign of Henry the second.  
Thus have I set down, according to my reading in Antiquity, of money matters; 
Starling money, when it took beginning in this Land.  omitting the imaginations of late Writers; of whom some have said, Easterling money to take that name of a star stamped in the border or ring of the penny: othersome, of a bird, called a Stare or Starling, stamped in the circumference: and other (more unlikely) of being coined at Strivelin or Starling, a Town in Scotland. etc.  
Now concerning halfpences and farthings, 
Of half pence and farthings.  the account of which is more subtler than the pence, I need not speak of them more, than that they were only made in the Exchange at London, and no where else: First, pointed to be made by Edward the first, in the eighth of his reign: and also at the same time, the said King's coin was some few groats of silver, but they were not usual. The King's Exchange at London was near unto the Cathedral Church of S. Paul, and is to this day commonly called, the Old Change; 
The Old Change.  but in Evidences, the Old Exchange.  
The King's Exchanger in this place, was to deliver out to every other Exchanger throughout England, or other the King's Dominions, their Coining Irons, that is to say, one Standard or Staple, and two trussels, or Punchions: and when the same were spent and worn, to receive them with an account, what sum had been coined, and also their Pix, or Box of assay, and to deliver other Irons new graven, etc. I find that in the 9 of King john, 
Mints in England. Patent 9 John.  there was, besides the Mint at London, other Mints, at Winchester, Excester, Chichester. Canterbury, Rochester, Ipswich, Norwich, Linne, Lincoln, York, Carlisle, Northampton, Oxford, S. Edmondsbury, and Durham. The Exchanger, Examiner and Tryer, 
Diminishing of coin.  buyeth the silver for coinage: answering for every hundred pound of silver, bought in Bolion, or otherwise 98. l. 15. s. for he taketh 25. s. for coinage.  
King Edward the first, in the 27. of his reign, 
Starling money forbidden to be transported.  held a Parliament at Stebunbeth, in the house of Henry Waleis, Maior of London, wherein amongst other things there handled, the transporting of starling money was forbidden.  
In the year 1351. William Edington, Bishop of Winchester, 
Thom. Walls.  and Treasurer of England, a wise man, but loving the King's commodity more, than the wealth of the whole Realm and common people (saith mine Author) Caused new coin, 
First groats and half coined.  called a Great and half a Groat to be coined and stamped, the Groat to be taken for 4. d. and the half Groat for 2. d. not containing in weight according to the pence called Easterling, but much less, to wit, by 5. s. in the pound: by reason whereof, victuals and merchandizes became the dearer through the whole Realm.  
About the same time also, the old coin of gold was changed into a new; but the old Floren or Noble, then so called, was worth much above the taxed rate of the new. And therefore the Merchants engrossed up the old, and conveied them out of the Realm, to the great loss of the Kingdom. 
Coins of gold enhanced.  Wherefore a remedy was provided, by changing of the stamp.  
In the year 1411. King Henry the fourth caused a new coin of Nobles to be made, of less value than the old, by 4. d. in the Noble, so that fifty Nobles should be a pound, Troy weight.  
In the year 1421. was granted to Henry the fifth a fifteen to be paid at Candlemas, and at Martinmasse, of such money as was then current gold, or silver, not overmuch clipped or washed, to wit, That if the Noble were worth 5. s. 8. d. then the King should take it for a full Noble, of 6. s. 8. d. And if it were less of value, than 5. s. 8. d. then the person that gold, to make it good to the value of 5. s. 8. d. the King always receiving it for an whole Noble of six shillings 8. d. And if the Noble so paid were better than 5. s. 8. d. the King to pay again the surplusage, that it was better than 5. s. 8. d. Also this year was such scarcity of white money, 
More plenty of coin in gold than in silver.  that though a Noble were so good of gold, and weight, as six shillings eight pence; men could get no white money fro them.  
In the year 1465. King Edward the fourth caused a new coin, both of gold and silver to be made, 
Coins of gold allayed, and also raised in value.  whereby he gained much, for he made of an old Noble, a Royal: which he commanded to go for ten s. Nevertheless to the same Royal was put 8. d. of allay, and so weighed the more, 
Rose Nobles.  being smitten with a new stamp, to wit, a Rose. He likewise made half Angels of 5. s. And farthings of 5. s. 6. d. Angelets of 6. s. 8. d. And half Angels 3. s. 4. d. He made silver money of three pence, a groat, and so of other coins after that rate, to the great harm of the Commons.  
W. Lord Hastings the King's Chamberlain, being Master of the King's Mints, saith the Record, undertook to make the moneys under form following: to wit, of gold a piece of 8. s. 4. d. starling, which should be called a Noble of gold, of the which there should be fifty such pieces in the pound weight of the Tower. Another piece of gold, 4. s. 2. d. of starling, and to be of them an hundred such pieces in the pound. And a third piece of gold, 2. s. 1. d. starling, two hundred such pieces in the pound, every pound weight of the Tower to be worth 20. l', 16. s. 8. d. of starlings, the which should be 23. Carits, 3. grains, and half 5. etc. and for silver, 37. s. 6. d. of starlings, the piece of 4. pence, to be 112. Groats, and 2. pence in the pound weight.  
In the year 1504 King Henry the seventh appointed a new coin; 
Half faced groats.  to wit, a Groat, and half a Groat, which bore but half faces. The same time also was coined a Groat, which was in value 12. d. but of those but a few, after the rate of forty pence the ounce.  
In the year 1526. the 18. of Hen. the eight, the Angel Noble, being then the sixth part of an ounce Troy, so that six Angels were just an ounce, which was 40. shillings starling, and the Angel was also worth two ounces of silver; so that six Angels were worth 12. ounces of silver, 
Gold and silver enhanced.  which was 40. s. A Proclamation was made on the 6. of September, that the Angel should go for 7. s. 4. d. the Royal for 11. s. and the Crown for 4. s. 4. d. And on the 5. of November following, again by Proclamation, the Angel was enhanced to 7. s. 6. d. and so every ounce a gold to be 45. s. and the ounce of silver at 3. 9 d. in value.  
In the year 1544. the 35. of Henry the 8. on the 16. of May, 
Base moneys coined and currant in England.  Proclamation was made, for the enhancing of gold to 48. shillings, and silver to 4. shillings the ounce. Also the King caused to be coined base moneys, towi, pieces of 12. d. 6. d. 4. d. & 1. d. in weight as the late starling, in show good silver, but inwardly Copper. These pieces had whole or broad faces, and continued currant after that rate, till the 5. of Edward the 6. when they were on the 9 of july called down, the shilling to 9 d. the Groat to 3. d. etc. and on the 17. of August from 9 d. to 6. d. etc. And on the 30. of October, was published new coins of silver and gold to be made, 
Crowns and half Crowns of silver coined.  a piece of silver 5. s. starling, a piece 2. s. 6. d. of 12. d. of 6. d. a penny with a double Rose, a half penny a single Rose, and a farthing with a Portclose. Coins of fine Gold, a whole Sovereign of ●0. s. an Angel of 10. s. an Angeler of 5. s. Of Crown gold, a Sovereign 20. S. half Sovereign 10. s. 5. s. 2. s. 6. d. and base moneys to pass as afore, which continued till the 2. of Queen Elizabeth then called to a lower rate, taken to the Mint, and refined, the silver whereof being coined with a new stamp of her Majesty, the dross was carried to foul highways, to heighten them. This base moneys (for the time) caused the old starling moneys to be hoarded up, 
Starling moneys hoarded up, 21. c. currant, given for an Angel of gold.  so that I have seen 21. s. currant, given for one old Angel to gilled withal. Also rends of lands and tenements, with prices of victuals, were raised far beyond the formerrates, hardly since to be brought down. Thus much for base moneys, coined and currant in England have I known: But for Leather moneys, as many people have fond talked, I find no such matter. 
Philip Coming.  I read that King john of France, being taken prisoner, by Edward the black Prince, at the Battle of Poytiers, paid a ransom of 3. Millions of Florence's, whereby, he brought the Realm of France into such poverty, 
Leather money in France.  that many years after they used Leather money, with a little stud or nail of silver in the midst thereof. Thus much for Mint, and coinage, by occasion of this Tower (under correction of other more skilful) may suffice. And now to other accidents there.  
In the year 1360. the peace between England and France being confirmed, 
French K. prisoner in the Tower.  King Edward came over into England, and strait to the Tower, to see the French King than prisoner there, whose ransom he assessed at 3. Millions of Florence's, and so delivered him from prison, and brought him with honour to the Sea.  
In the year 1381. and the fourth year of the reign of King Richard the second, 
A grievous tax and tallage granted to the King, which caused a great rebellion in England.  was granted to the King a grievous tax and tallage of his subjects, both spiritual and temporal: through the which was raised in England a shipwreck of great troubles. For diverse Courtiers, desirous to enrich themselves with other men's goods, informed the King and his Court, that the tallage was not gathered up faithfully to the King's use by the Collection. Whereupon, they offered to the King, that they would pay a great sum of money for the farm of that, which they would gather over and above that which had been paid, if they might be by the King thereunto authorised.  
Some of them getting the King's Letters and Authority, 
The people misused in very base manner.  sat in diverse places of Essex and Kent, and handled the people sore and uncourteously, almost not to be spoken, for the levying of the said sum of money: which some of the people taking in evil part; they secretly took counsel together, gathered assistants, and resisted the exactors, rising against them, of whom, some they slew, some they wounded, and the rest fled.  
This tumult began principally in Kent, 
The Kentish men arise in a tumult, for there the mischief began.  and after this manner, as I find the same set down in a Chronicle of S. Alban: One of the Collectors of the Groats, or pole money, coming to the house of john (others say Watt) Tylar, in the Town of Dartford in Kent, demanded of the Tylars wife, for her Husband, for herself, for her servants, and for their daughter (a young maiden) every one of them a Groat; 
The pole groat called (by some) the grope groat.  which the Tylars wife denied not to pay, saving for her daughter; who (she said) was a child, and not to be accounted as a woman. That will I soon weet (answered the Collector) and taking the young maiden dishonestly turned her up to search whether she were undergrowne with hair, or not; for in many places they had made the like shameful trial. Whereupon, 
The husband cometh home hastily from his work.  her mother cried out, which caused neighbours to come in, and her husband (being at work in the same Town, tyling of an house) when he heard thereof, caught his Lathing-staffe in his hand, and ran presently home: where reasoning with the Collector; who made him to be so bold? The Collector answered with stoutwords, & strake at the Tylar. But the Tylar avoiding the blow, 
The Collector slain by the Tylar.  smotethe Collector with his Lathing-staffe, that the brains flew out of his head: wherethrough great noise arose in the streets, and the poor people being glad, every one prepared to support the said john Tylar.  
Thus the Commons being drawn together, 
The Commons flock together in the Tylars defence.  went to Maidstone, and from thence back again to Black-heath, and so (in short time) they stirred all the Country (in a manner) to the like commotion. Then, besetting the ways that led to Canterbury, arrested all passengers, compelling them to swear: 
An oath exacted by the Rebels on all passengers.  First, that they should keep allegiance to King Richard, and to the Commons: And that they should accept no King that was named john: in envy they bore unto john Duke of Lancaster, who named himself King of Castille: And that they should be ready whensoever they were called, and that they should agree to no tax, to be levied (from thenceforth) in the Kingdom, nor consent to any, except it were a fifteen.  
The Fame of these doings spread into Sussex, 
Evil news do always quickly spread themselves.  Hertford, Essex, and Cambridgeshires, Norfolk, suffolk, etc. And when such assembling of the common people daily took increase, and that their number was now made almost infinite, so that they feared no man to resist them: they began to show some such desperate Acts, as they had rashly considered on in their minds: And took in hand to behead all men of Law, 
justice, Lawyers, and jurors beheaded.  as well Apprentices, as utter-Baristers, and old Justices, with all the Jurors of the country, whom they might get into their hands. They spared none whom they thought to be learned, especially, if they found any to have a Pen and Inkhorn about him: they pulled off his Hood, and all with one voice crying, Hale him out, and cut off his head. 
Bondmen of Essex join with them of Kent.  The bondmen and other of Essex, being joined with them of Kent on Black-heath, there came Knights to them from the King, to inquire the cause of their assembly: to whom they made answer, That for certain causes, they were come together, to have talk with the King: And therefore willed the Knights to tell him, that he must needs come unto them, that he might understand the desire of their hearts.  
The King was counselled by some, to make haste unto them: 
Ex Chron. Dun.  but Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor, and Robert Hales of Saint john's, Treasurer, affirmed: that it was not meet for the King to go to such a rude company, but rather some order to be taken for their suppression. 
Insolent fury is easily moved.  Which when the Commons heard, being moved to a furious rage, they swore, that they would go seek the King's Traitors, to take off their heads. Forthwith they took their journey towards London, and came to Southwark, where they felled all the places of that Borough, and in the Country about. 
The Palace of the Archbishop at Lambeth spoiled.  They spoilt the Archbishop's Palace at Lambeth, for despite they bore him. The Lord Mayor of London and Aldermen (fearing the City's spoil) decreed to shut up the Gates: But the Commons of the City, especially the poorer people, favouring the Commons of the Country; would not suffer the Mayor to shut them out, but threatened death to them that went about it.  
All the night following, to wit, Corpus Christi Even, 
The Commons of London heartened on by the Rebels.  the Rebels enjoyed free ingate and outgate, and encouraged the Commons of London, as also of all the Realm, to favour their cause. For, said they, their purpose was but to search out the Traitors of the Land, and so to cease. The more credit was given to speeches, because they took nothing from any man, but at a just price: and if they found any man which theft, they beheaded him. The morrow after, to wit, on Corpus Christi day, coming into the City, talking with the Commons of procuring liberty to them, and apprehending of Traitors (as they termed them) especially the Duke of Lancaster: they shortly got all the poorer Citizens to conspire with them. 
The poorer Citizens join with the Rebels, and burn the Savoy, the Duke of Lancaster's house.  And the same day after it was waxen somewhat warm, and that they had tasted diverse Wines (for the Citizens did set open their Cellars for them, to enter at their pleasure) they exhorted each other, that going to the Savoy, the Duke of Lancaster's house (to the which there was none in the whole Realm to be compared, for beauty and stateliness) they might set it on fire, and burn it down to the ground.  
Straightway they ran thither, and setting fire on it round about, applied their travel to destroy it. And that it might appear to the Communality, that they did not any thing for avarice: they caused to be proclaimed, that none (upon pain of losing his head) should presume to convert to his own use, 
The Rebels would have nothing to any private man's use.  any thing that was there; but that they should break such Plate, and vessels of Gold and Silver (as was there in great plenty) into small pieces, and then to throw the same into the Thames, and to all (whatsoever) was destroyed. But one of the Rebels (saith Henry Kniton) contrary to the Proclamation, 
Ex Hen. Kniton.  took a goodly silver piece, and hid it in his bosom: but another that espied him, told his fellows, who (forthwith) hurled him and the piece of Plate into the fire, 
The Rebels burn one of these fellows.  saying, We be zealous of Truth and justice, and not thiefs or robbers. Also, two and thirty of those Rebels entered a Cellar of the Savoy, 
Two and thirty Rebels mured up in a Cellar.  where they drank so much of sweet Wines, that they were not able to come out again in time: but were shut in with wood and stones, that mured up the door, where they were heard crying and calling seven days after, but none came to help them our, till they were all dead.  
These things being done, 
The new Temple of London burnt, in anger to Sir Robert Hales.  they broke down the place called the new Temple at the Bar, in which place, Apprentices at the Law were lodged: for anger which they had conceived against Sir Robert Hales, Master of Saint john's Hospital, unto which Hospital of St. john's the Temple belonged, where many Monuments, which the Lawyers had in their custody, were consumed with fire. After a number of them had sacked this Temple: what with weariness of labour, and what with Wine, being overcome, 
The Rebels murder one another.  they lay down under the walls and housing, and were slain like Swine; one of them killing another for old grudges, and other also made quick dispatch of them.  
Another troop (in the mean time) set fire on the noble house of Saint john at Clarkenwell, 
The Priory of Saint john beyond Smithfield burnt.  causing it to burn by the space of seven days together, not suffering any to quench it. On Friday, they burned the Manor of Highburie, 
The Manor of Highbury burnt.  the whole number of the Common people (being at that time) divided into three parts. Of the which division, 
The Rebels divided into 3. bands.  one part was attending to destroy the Manor of Highbury, and other places belonging to the Priory of Saint john. Another company lay at the Miles-end, East of the City. The third kept at the Tower-hill, There to spoil the King of such victuals, as were brought toward him. The company that were assembled on the Miles-end, sent to command the King, that he should come to them without delay, 
The Rebels command the King, and he goeth to them to the Miles-end.  unarmed, or without any force: which if he refused to do, they would pull down the Tower, neither should he escape alive. The King taking counsel, with a few unarmed, went toward them in great fear on Horseback: and so the Gates of the Tower being set open, a great multitude of them entered into it.  
There was (at the same time) within the Tower 600. Armed valiant persons, 
The Rebels entered into the Tower of London, and their impudent behaviour there.  and expert in Arms, and six hundred Archers: all which did quail in stomach, and stood as men amazed. For the basest of the Rustics (not many together, but every one by himself) durst presume to enter the King's Chamber, and his Mothers, with their weapons, to put in fear each of the men of War, Knights and other. Many of them went into the King's Privie-Chamber, and played the wantoness, in sitting, lying and sporting them on the Kings Bed. And that which is much more saucily, 
Their bold insolence to the King's Mother.  invited the King's Mother, to kiss with them: yet durst none of those men of War (strange to be said) once withstand them: they went in and out like Masters, that were but base slaves, and of most vile condition.  
While these rude wretches sought for the Archbishop, 
The Rebels sought for the Archbishop of Canturbury.  running up and down with terrible noise and fury: at length, finding one of his servants, they charged him to bring them where his Master was, whom they named Traitor. The servant not daring to displease them, brought them to the Chapel: where, after Mass had been said, and having received the Communion, the Archbishop was busy in his prayers: for, 
The Archbishop dreadless of the Rebel's cruelty, and his speeches with them.  not unknowing of their coming and purpose, he had passed the last night in confessing of his sins, and in devout prayers. When therefore he heard that they were come, with great constancy, he said to his men: Let us now go, surely it is best to die, when it is no pleasure to live. 
The Archbishop is fetched out of the Tower, and dragged to the Tower hill.  And with that, the tormentors entering, cried, Where is the Traitor? The Archbishop answered: Behold, I am the Archbishop, whom you seek, not a Traitor. They therefore laid hands on him, and dragging him out of the Chapel, they drew him forth of the Tower gate, to the Tower-hill, where being compassed about with many thousands, and seeing swords about his head drawn in excessive manner, threatening death to him, he spoke unto them in these words.  
What is it (dear brethren) you purpose to do? 
The Archbishop's words to the Rebels on Tower hill.  What is mine offence committed against you, for which you will kill me? You were best to take heed, that if I be killed, who am your Pastor, there come not on you the indignation of the just Revenger, or (at the least) for such a fact, all England be not put under interdiction. Uneath could he pronounce these words, before they cried out with an horrible noise: That they neither feared the interdiction, nor allowed the Pope to be above them. The Archbishop seeing death at hand, with comfortable words (as he was an eloquent man, and wise, beyond all the wise men of the Realm) spoke fairly to them. 
The Archbishop of Canturbury most cruelly beheaded by the Rebels.  Lastly, after forgiveness granted to the executioner, that should behead him, kneeling down, he offered his neck to him that should imite off his head. Being stricken in the neck, but not deadly, he putting his neck, said, Aha, it is the hand of God. He had not removed his hand from the place where the pain was, but that being suddenly stricken again, his fingers ends being cut off, and part of the Arteries, he fell down, but yet he died not, till being mangled with 8. several strokes in the neck and head, he fulfilled most worthy Martyrdom. 
The inhumanity to his body after he was dead  There lay his body unburied all that Friday, and the morrow till afternoon, none daring to deliver his body to Sepulture. His head those wicked villains took, and nailing thereon his Hood, they fixed it on a pole, and set it on London Bridge, in place where before stood the head of Sir john Minstarworth.  
This Archbishop, Simon Tibald, alias Sudbury, 
A further relation concerning this worthy Archbishop, and his religious actions.  Son to Nicholas Tibald, Gentleman, borne in the Town of Sudbury in Suffolk, Doctor of both Laws, was eighteen years' Bishop of London, in the which time, he builded a goodly College, in place where his Father's house stood, and endued it with great possessions: furnishing the same with secular Clarks, and other Ministers, being valued at the suppression, at 122. l. 16. s. in Lands by the year. He builded the upper end of St. Gregory's Church at Sudbury. Afterward, being translated to the archbishopric of Canturbury, 
The Walls of Canturbury re-edified by this Archbishop.  in An. 1375. he re-edified the Walls of that City, from the Westgate (which he builded) to the Northgate: which had been destroyed by the Danes, before the Conquest of King Williane the Bastard.  
He was slain, as you have heard, and afterward buried in the Cathedral Church of Canturbury. 
The Lord Prior of Saint john's beheaded with the Archbishop.  There died with him Sir Robert Hales, a most valiant Knight, Lord of Saint john's, and Treasurer of England, and john Degge, one of the King's Sergeants at Arms, and a Franciscane Friar, named W. Apledore, the King's Confessor. Richard Lions also, a famous Lapidary and Goldsmith, late one of the Sheriffs of London, was drawn out of his house, 
Many beheaded both Flemings and English to fulfil the headstrong cruelty of the commons.  and beheaded in Cheap. Many that day were beheaded, as well Fleming's, as Englishmen, for no cause; but only to fulfil the cruelty of the rude Commons. For it was a solemn pastime to them, if they could take any that was not sworn to them, to take from such a one his Hood, with their accustomed clamours, and forthwith to behead him. Neither did they show any reverence to sacred places; for in the very Churches they did kill any whom they had in hatred. They fetched 13. Fleming's out of the Augustine's Friars Church in London, and 17. out of another Church, and 32. in the Vintry, and so in other places of the City, as also in Southwark, all which they beheaded: except they could plainly pronounce Bread and Cheese. 
The villains made a pastime of putting men to death.  For if their speech sounded any thing on Brot or cause, off went their heads, as a sure mark that they were Fleming's.  
The King coming to the Miles-end, the place before recited, was greatly afraid, beholding the madheaded Commons: who (with froward countenances) required many things, which they had put in writing, and to be confirmed by the King's Letter Patents.  

The demands made by the Rebels to the King at Miles-end.  
THat all men should be free from servitude and bondage; 
The first Article.  so as (from thenceforth) there should be no bondmen.  
That he should pardon all men, 
The second Article.  of what estate soever, all manner actions and insurrections committed, and all manner of Treasons, Felonies, transgressions and extortions, by any of them done, and to grant them peace.  
That all men (from thenceforth) might be enfranchised to buy and sell in every County, 
The third Article.  City, Borough, Town, Fair, Market and other place within the Realm of England.  
That no Acre of Land, 
The fourth Article.  holden in bondage or service, should be holden but for four pence: And if it had been holden for less in former time, it should not hereafter be enhanced.  
These, and many other things they required: 
Reprehension of the King's government.  And told him moreover, that he had been evilly governed till that day: but from that time forward he must be governed otherwise.  
The King perceiving that he could not escape, 
A hard extremity for a king.  except he granted to their request, yielded to the same: and so, craving Truce departed from them, 
The Essex men returned home.  and the Essex men returned homeward. On the morrow, being Saturday, and the 15. of june, the King (after dinner) went from the Wardrobe in the Royal in London, to Westminster, to visit the Shrine of Saint Edward the King, 
The King goeth to Westminster.  and to see if they had done any mischief there. Then went he to the Chapel, called our Lady in the Piew, where he made his prayers: and returning by the Suburbs of West Smithfield, he found all that place full of people, to wit, the Kentish men. 
The King sendeth to the Kentish men.  Wherefore he sent to show them, that their fellows the Essex men were gone home, and that he would grant to them the like form of Peace, if it liked them to accept thereof.  
Their chief Captain, named john, or, 
Walter Hilliard, alias, Tylar their chiere Captain.  as other affirm, Walter Hilliard, alias Tylar, being a crafty fellow, and of an excellent wit, but wanting grace, answered, That he desired peace, but with conditions to his liking, meaning, to seed the King with fair words until next day, that he might in the night time have compassed his purpose. For they thought (the same night) to have spoiled the City, 
The wicked and bloody intent of the Rebels in the night time.  the King being first slain, and the great Lords that were about him: then to have burnt the City, by setting fire in four parts thereof. But God that resisteth the proud, did suddenly disappoint him. For whereas the form of peace was written in three several Charters, and thrice sent to him: none of them could please him. Wherefore at length, 
The King sendeth Sir john Newton to Wat Tylar about his own demands.  the King sent to him one of his Knights, named Sir john Newton, not so much to command, as to entreat him (for his pride was well enough known) to come and talk with him, about his own demands, to have them put into his Charter: of which demands I will set down one, that it may plainly appear, how contrary to reason all the rest were.  
First, 
One of Wat Tylars arrogant demands made to the King.  he would have a Commission to behead all Lawyers, Escheators, and others whatsoever, that were learned in the Law, or communicated with the Law, by reason of their office. For he had conceived in his mind, that this being brought to pass, all things afterward should be ordered, according to the fancy of the Common people. And indeed it was said, that he had (but the day before) made his vaunt, putting his hand to his own lips: 
A hold brag of a Rebel.  that before four days came to an end, all the Laws of England should proceed from his mouth. When Sir john Newton was in hand with him for dispatch, he answered with indignation: If thou art so hasty, thou mayst get thee to thy Master, for I will come when it pleaseth me. Notwithstanding, he followed on horseback a slow pace: and by the way, 
john Tickle the Doubblet maker his coming to Wat Tylar, and what answer he made him.  there came to him a Doublet maker, who had brought to the Commons threescore Doublers, which they bought and wore, and he demanded thirty Marks for them, but could have no payment, Wat Tylar ansered him, saying, Friend, appease thyself, thou shalt be well paid before this day be ended: keep thee near to me, I will be thy Creditor.  
Setting spurs to his horse, he departed from his company, 
Wat Tylar his coming to the King, and his audacious words to him.  and came so near to the King, that his horse had touched the crupper of the King's horse, and the first words he spoke, were these: Sir King, seest thou all yonder people? Yea truly, quoth the King, wherefore sayest thou so? Because (said he) they be all at my commandment, and have sworn to me their faith and truth, to do all that I will have them. In good time, replied the King, I believe it well. Then said Wat Tylar, believest thou, King that these people, 
A lamentable case when a King should be in such distress.  and as many more as be in London, at my command, will depart from thee thus, without having thy Letters? No, said the King, ye shall have them, they be ordained for you, and shall be delivered to every one of them.  
At these words, What Tylar seeing the Knight Sir john Newton near to him on horseback, bearing the King's sword, was offended, and said, 
Wat Tylars words to Sir john Newton who did hear the King's sword.  It had become him better to be on foot inhiss presence. The Knight (not having forgot his old accustomed manhood) answered, That it was no harm, seeing himself was also on horseback. Which words so offended Wat, that he drew his Dagger, and offered to strike the Knight, call him Traitor. The Knight answered, that he lied, and drew his Dagger likewise. Wat Tylar, not suffering such an indignity to be done him, and before his rustic companions, made as if he would have run upon the Knight. 
The Knight commanded to alight on foot before the Rebel.  The King therefore, seeing the Knight in danger, to assuage the rigour of Wat for the time, commanded the Knight to alight on foot, and to deliver his Dagger to Wat Tylar. But when his proud mind could not be so pacified, but he would also have his Sword: the Knight answered, It was the king's sword, and (quoth he) thou art not worthy to have it, nor durst thou ask it of me, if here were no more but thou and I. By my faith, said Wat Tylar, I shall never eat, until I have thy head, and would have run in upon the Knight.  
At that very instant came to the King William Walworth, 
The coming of William Walworth L. Mayor of London to checking and his worthy words to him.  Lord Mayor of London, a bold, courageous and brave minded man, with many Knights and Squires to assist the King, and he said; My Liege, it were a great shame, and such as never had before been heard of, if in that presence, they should permit a Noble knight to be shamefully murdered, and before the face of their Sovereign: wherefore he ought to be rescued, and Tylar the Rebel to be ararrested. Which words being heard, the king, although he were but of tender years, taking boldness and courage to him, commanded the Mayor of London to lay hand upon him. The Mayor, being a man of an incomparable spirit and boldness, without any further delay or doubting, strait arrested him with his Mace upon the head, 
William Walworth Lord Mayor of Lond. arrested Wat Tylar and felled him to the ground.  and in such sort, that he fell down at the feet of his horse. By and by, they which attended on the king, environed him round about, whereby he was not seen of his company. And an Esquire of the Kings, called john Cavendish, alighted from his horse, and thrust his Sword into Wat Tylars belly: albeit more opinions do hold, that the Mayor did it with his Dagger, and many beside did thrust him in, in many places of his body, and then drew him from among the people, 
Wat Tylar the Rebel slain in Smithfield.  into the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew. Which when the Commons perceived, they cried out, that their Captain was traitorously slain, heartening one another to fight, and to revenge his death, bending their Bows. But the King road to them, saying, 
The kings kind words to the rude multitude  What a work is this, my men? What mean you to do? Will you shoot at your king? Be not quarrelous, or sorry for the death of a Traitor and Ribald: I am your king, I will be your Captain and Leader: follow me into the Field, there to have whatsoever you will require.  
This the king did, lest the Commons, being bitterly bend in mind, should set fire on the houses in Smithfield, where their Captain was slain. They therefore followed him into the open Field, 
They followed the King into the field.  and the Soldiers that were with him, not knowing as yet, whether they would kill the king, or be in rest, and departed home with the king's Charter. In the mean while, worthy Walworth, the (for ever) famous Mayor of London, to second his first piece of service, that fell out to so good purpose, only with one servant, riding speedily into the City, began to cry, You good Citizens, come to help your king, 
Another worthy action performed by the Lord Maior.  that is in doubt to be murdered, and succour me your Mayor, that am in the like danger: Or if you will not succour me, yet leave not the king destitute. When the Citizens heard this, in whose hearts the love of the king was engrafted, suddenly, and very seemly prepared, 
A Noble and loyal forwardness in truehearted Citizens, for the succour of their king, being in great distress.  (to the number of a thousand) they tarried in the streets, for some one of the knights to lead them (with the Lord Maior) to the king. And by good fortune, Sir Robert Knowles, a Freeman of the City, came in the very instant, whom they all required to be their Leader. He gladly undertook part of them; and Perducas Dalbert, the Lord Maior, and some other knights, led on the rest to the king's presence. The king, and all that were with him, rejoicing not a little at the unhoped for coming of these brave armed Citizens, suddenly compassed the whole multitude of the Commons.  
There might a man have seen a wonderful change of God's right hand, 
A wonderful alteration among the Rebels  how the Commons did now throw down their weapons, and fall to the ground, beseeching pardon; who lately before did glory that they had the king's life in their power; and now were glad to hide themselves in caves, ditches, corne-fields, etc. The knights therefore, desirous to be revenged, besought the king to permit them to take off the heads of and hundred or two ofthem. 
Great wisdom and discretion in the king being so young.  But the king would not condescend to their request, but commanded the Charter which they had demanded, written and sealed, to be delivered to them for the time, to avoid any more mischief: As knowing well, that Essex was not yet pacified, nor Kent stayed, the Commons and Rustics of which Countries were ready to rise again, if he did not satisfy them the sooner. The Commons having got the Charter, departed homeward, and the rude people being disperted and gone, the king called for his valiant Mayor of Lond. W. Walworth, 
W Walworth, L. Mayor of London knighted in the field and other Aldermen with him.  whom (with great honour) he knighted there in the field, and as he had very worthily deserved. The like he did to Nicholas Brember, joh. Philpot, Robert Lawnd, john Standish, Nicholas Twiford, and Adam Frances, Aldermen. Afterward, the king, with his lords and his company, orderly entered into the City of London with great joy, and went to his royal Mother, who was lodged in the Tower Royal, called then the Queen's Wardrobe, and there she had remained two days and two nights, very much abashed and amazed. But when she saw the king her son, she was highly comforted, and said, Ah fair Son, what great sorrow have I suffered for you this day! 
The comfortable words of the King to his mother.  The king answered, and said: Certainly, Madam, I know it well: but now rejoice, and thank God, for I have this day recovered mine Heritage, and the Realm of England, which I had near-hand lost. The Archbishop's head was taken off the Bridge, and Wat Tylars head set up in the place.  
Here we are further to consider, that for an eternal remembrance of this happy day, 
The Arms or London augmented by addition of a Dagger.  and the City's honour withal, the king granted, that there should be a Dagger added to the Arms of the City, in the right quarter of the shield, for an augmentation of the same Arms, and a memory of the Lord Maior his valiant act, as doth appear unto this day. For till that time, the City bore only the Cross without the Dagger.  
And whereas it hath been far spread abroad by vulgar opinion, 
Concerning vulgar mistaking the Captain's name of the Rebels  that the Rebel smitten down so manfully by Sir William Walworth, the then worthy Lord Mayor of London, was named jack Straw, and not Wat Tylar: I thought good to reconcile this rash conceived doubt, by such testimony as I find in ancient and good Records. The principal Leaders and Captains of the Commons, were Wat Tylar, 
The name of the chief Captains and ringleaders in the rebellion.  as the first man that took himself to be offended. The second, was john or jack Straw: the third, was john Kirkby: the fourth, Allen Thredder: the fifth, Thomas Scot: the sixth, Ralph Ruyg. These and many other were Leaders of the Kentish and Essex men. At Mildenhall and Bury in Suffolk, was Robert Westbrome, that made himself a king; and was most famous, next to john Wrawe, who being a Priest, could not set Crown upon Crown: but left the name of king and Crown to the same Robert. At Norwich, john Litester a Dyer, exercised the name and power of a king, till he was taken and hanged for his pains. Thus dangerously had this Rebellion dispersed itself abroad. 
The rebellion had extended itself into many places.  But the happy and prosperous success at London, with other good care for them further off, gave a gracious issue to all in the end. After the death of Wat Tylar, and jack Straw being taken, with diverse other, as chief actors in this monstrous disorder: the forenamed Lord Mayor sat in judgement upon the offenders, and pronounced the sentence of death upon them. 
The Lord Maior sat in judgement on the Rebels, and his words that he used to jack Straw.  At which time, the Lord Maior spoke openly to him thus: john (quoth he) behold, thy death is at hand without all doubt, and there is no way through which thou mayst hope to escape: wherefore, for thy soul's health, without making any lie, tell us what you purposed to have done among you, and to what end you did assemble the Commons. When he had stayed a while, as doubtful what to say, the Mayor began thus again to him: Surely thou knowest, john, that the thing which I demand of thee, if thou do it truly, it will redound to thy soul's health, etc. He therefore, animated by the Lord Mayor's good words, began as followeth:   

The Confession of jack Straw, to the Lord Mayor of London, before his death.  
NOw it booteth not to lie, neither is it lawful to utter any untruth: especially, understanding that my Soul is to suffer more straighter torments if I should so do. And because I hope for two commodities by speaking the truth: first, that what I shall speak, may profit the Commonwealth: and secondly, after my death, I trust by your suffrages to be succoured, according to your promises, which is to pray for me: I will speak faithfully, and without any deceit.  
At the same time as we were assembled upon Black-heath, 
What they intended to do at Black heath.  and had sent to the King to come unto us: our purpose was, to have slain all such Knights, Squires and Gentlemen, 
Their intent for keeping the King.  as should have given their attendance thither upon him: And as for the King, we would have kept him among us, to the end that the people might more boldly have repaired to us: sith they would have thought, that whatsoever we did, the same had been done by his authority. Finally, when we had gotten power enough, that we needed not to fear any force which might be made against us, we would have slain all such Noblemen as might either have given counsel, or made any resistance against us: especially, we would have slain the Knights of the Rhodes or Saint john's, 
The kill of all Noblemen. Killing the King & all that had any possessions.  and lastly, were would have killed the King himself, and all men of possessions: with Bishops, Monks, Canons, and Parsons of Churches. Only Friars Mendicants we would have spared, that might have sufficed for Ministration of the Sacraments.  
When we had made a riddance of all those, 
Laws devised by themselves.  we would have devised Laws, according to which Laws the subjects of the Realm should have lived. For we would have created Kings, 
Creation of kings among them.  as Wat Tylar in Kent, and other in other Countries. But because this our purpose was disappointed by the Archbishop of Canturbury, 
Their malice to the Archbishop.  that would not permit the King to come to us: we sought by all means to dispatch him out the way, as at length we did. Moreover, the same evening that Wat Tylar was killed, we were determined (having the greatest part of the Commons of the City bent to join with us) to have set fire in four corners of the City, 
Their intent to burue London.  and so to have divided among ourselves, the spoil of the chiefest riches that might have been found at our 〈◊〉 pleasure. And this (said he) 〈…〉, as God may help me now at 〈…〉.  
After this confession ●●de he was beheaded, and 〈◊〉 ●ad set on London bridge by Wat Tylars, and many other.  
In the year 1387. King Richard held his feast of Christmas in the Tower. 
Richard the 2. prisoner in the Tower.  And in the year 1399. the same King was sent prisoner to the Tower.  
In the year 1414. Sir john Oldcastle broke out of the Tower. 
Porter of the Tower beheaded.  And the same year a Parliament being holden at Leicester, a Porter of the Tower was drawn, hanged and headed, whose head was sent up, and set over the Tower Gate, for consenting to one Whitlooke, that broke out of the Tower.  
In the year 1419. Friar Randulph was sent to the Tower, and was there slain by the Parson of Saint Peter in the Tower.  
In the year 1426. there came to London a lewd fellow, 
A counter, feit Physician his head set on the Tower of London.  feigning himself to be sent from the Emperor, to the young king Henry the sixth, calling himself the Baron of Blackamoor, and that he should be the principal Physician in this Kingdom: but his subtlety being known, he was apprehended, condemned, drawn, hanged, headed and quartered, his head set on the Tower of London, and his quarters on tower Gates of the City.  
In the year 1458. in Whitsunweek, the Duke of Somerset, with Anthony Rivers, 
lusting in the tower.  and other four, kept justs before the Queen in the Tower of London against three Esquires of the Queens, and others.  
In the year 1465. King Henry the sixth was brought prisoner the Tower, where he remained long.  
In the year 1470. the Tower was yielded to Sir Richard Lee Mayor of London and his Brethren the Aldermen, who forthwith entered the same, delivering King Henry of his imprisonment, 
Henry the 6 murdered in the Tower.  and lodged him in the King's lodging there, but the next year he was again sent thither prisoner, and there murdered.  
In the year 1478. George Duke of Clarence, 
Duke of Clarence drowned in the Tower.  was drowned in a Butt of Malmsey in the Tower: and within 5. years after King Edward the fifth, with his Brother, 
Edward the 5. murdered in the Tower.  were said to be murdered there.  
In the year 1485. john Earl of Oxford was made Constable of the Tower, 
Pacent 1. of Henry the 7. just and turneying in the Tower.  and had custody of the Lions granted him.  
In the year 1501. in the month of May, was royal Turney of Lords and Knights in the Tower of London before the king.  
In the year 1502. Queen Elizabeth, wife to Henry the 7. died of Childbirth in the Tower.  
In the year 1512. the Chapel in the high white Tower was burned. In the year 1546. Queen Anne Bullein was beheaded in the Tower. 1541. Lady Katherine Howard, wife to king Henry the eighth, was also beheaded there.  
In the year 1546. the 27. of April, 
William Foxley slept in the Tower 14. days and more without waking.  being Tuesday in Easter week William Foxley, Potmaker for the Mint of the Tower of London, fell asleep, and so continued sleeping, and could not be wakened with pricking, cramping, or otherwise burning whatsoever, till the first day of the term, which was full 14. days, and 15. nights, or more, for that Easter term beginneth not afore 17. days after Easter. The cause of his thus sleeping could not be known, though the same were diligently searched after by the King's Physicians, and other learned men: yea, the king himself examined the said Wil Foxley, who was in all points found at his wakening, to be as if he had slept but one night, and he lived more than forty years after in the said Tower, to wit, until the year of Christ, 1587. and then deceased on Wednesday in Easter week.  
Thus much for these accidents: and now to conclude thereof in summary. This Tower is a Citadel, to defend or command the City: 
Use of the Tower to defend the City.  a Royal place for assemblies and treaties: a Prison of Estate, for the most dangerous offenders: The only place of coinage for all England at this time: the Armoury for warlike provision: the Treasury of the Ornaments and jewels of the Crown, and general conserver of the most Records of the king's Courts of justice at Westminster.   

Tower on London Bridge.  
THe next Tower on the River of Thames, 
Tower at the north end of the Draw-bridge.  was on London Bridge, at the north end of the Draw-bridge. This Tower was new begun to be builded 1426. john Reynwell, Maior of London, laid one of the first corner-stones in the foundation of this work; the other three were laid by the Sheriffs and Bridgemasters: upon every of these four stones was engraven in fair Roman letters, the name of Jesus'. And these stones I have seen laid in the Bridge Storehouse, since they were taken up, when that Tower was of late newly made of timber.  
This Gate and tower was at the first strongly builded up of stone, and so continued until the year 1577. in the month of April, when the same stone arched gate and tower, being decayed, was begun to be taken down, and then were the heads of the traitors removed thence, and set on the tower over the gate at the Bridge foot, towards Southwark. This said tower being taken down, a new foundation was drawn, and Sir john Langley, Lord Maior, laid the first stone, in the presence of the Sheriffs and Bridge masters.  
On the 28 of August, and in the month of September, the year 1579. the same tower was finished, a beautiful and chargeable piece of work, all above the Bridge being of timber.   

Tower on the South of London Bridge.  
ANother tower there is on London Bridge, 
Tower at the south end of the bridge.  to wit, over the gate at the South end of the same Bridge, toward Southwark. This gate, with the tower thereupon, and two Arches of the Bridge fell down, and no man perished by the fall thereof, in the year 1436. Towards the new building whereof, diverse charitable Citizens gave large sums of moneys: which Gate being then again new builded, 
W. Dunthorne.  was, with thirteen houses more on the Bridge, 
The fourth gate on London bridge burned.  in the year 1471. burned by the Mariners and Sailors of Kent, Bastard Fawconbridge being their Captain.   

Baynard's Castle.  
IN the west part of this City (saith Fitzstephen) are two most strong Castles, 
Baynard's Castle.  etc. Also Gervasim Tilbury, 
Fitzstephen.  in the Reign of Henry the second, 
Gervas. Tilbery.  writing of these Castle 〈◊〉 to this effect: Two Castles (saith he) 〈◊〉 built with walls and rampires, whereof one is in right of possession Baynard's: the other, the Barons of Mountfitchet. The first of these Castles, banking on the River Thames, was called Baynard's Castle, of Baynard, a Nobleman that came in with the Conqueror, and then builded it, and deceased in the reign of William Rufus: after whose decease Geffrey Baynard succeeded, and then William Baynard, in the year 1111 who by forfeiture for Felony, lost his Baronry of little Dunmow, and king Henry gave it wholly to Robert, the son of Richard, the son of Gilbert of Clare, and to his heirs, together with the honour of Baynard's Castle. This Robert married Maude de Sent Licio, Lady of Bradham, and deceased 1134. was buried at Saint Needs by Gilbert of Glare his Father: Walter his son succeeded him, he took to wife Matilde de Bocham; and after her decease, Matilde the daughter and coheyre of Richard de Lucy, on whom he begat Robert, and other: he deceased in the year 1198. and was buried at Dunmow: after whom succeeded Robert Fitzwater, a valiant knight.  
About the year 1213. there arose a great discord betwixt king john and his Barons, 
Lib. Dunmow.  because of Matilda, surnamed the fair, daughter to the said Robert Fitzwater, whom the king unlawfully loved, but could not obtain her, nor her Father would consent thereunto: whereupon, and for other like causes, ensued war through the whole Realm. The Barons were received into Lond. where they greatly endamaged the King, but in the end, the king did not only (therefore) banish the said Fitzwater amongst other, 
Robert Fitzwater banished.  out of the Realm, but also caused his Castle, called Baynard, and other his houses to be spoiled. 
Baynard's Castle destroyed.  Which then being done, a Messenger being sent unto Matilda the fair, 
Virginity defended with the loss of worldly goods and life of the body, for life of the soul.  about the king's suit, whereunto she would not consent, she was poisoned: Robert Fitzwater, and other being then passed into France and some into Scotland, etc.  
It happened in the year 1214. king john being then in France with a great Army, that a truce was taken betwixt the two kings of England and France, for the term of five years, and a River, or arm of the Sea 〈◊〉 then betwixt either host. There was a Knight in the English host, that cried to them of the other side, willing some one of their Knights, to come and just a course or twain with him: whereupon, without stay, Robert Fitzwater, being on the French part, made himself ready, ferried over, and got on horseback, without any man to help him, and showed himself ready to the face of his challenger, whom at the first course, he struck so hard with his great Spear, that horse and man fell to the ground: and when his Spear was broken, he went back again to the king of France. Which when the king had seen, by God's tooth, 
King john's oath.  quoth he (after his usual oath) he were a king indeed, that had such a Knight. The friends of Robert hearing these words, kneeled down and said: 
Robert Fitzwater restored to the King's favour.  O king, he is your knight; it is Robert Fitzwater, and thereupon the next day he was sent for, and restored to the king's favour: By which means, peace was concluded, 
Baynard's Castle again builded.  and he received his livings, and had licence to repair to his Castle of Baynard, and other Castles.  
The year 1216. the first of Henry the third, the Castle of Hartford, being delivered to Lewes the French, and the Barons of England, 
The keeping of Hertford Castle belonged to Robert Fitzwater.  Robert Fitzwater requiring to have the same; because the keeping thereof did by ancient right and title pertain to him, was answered by Lewes; That English men were not worthy to have such holds in keeping, because they did betray their own Lord, etc. This Robert deceased in the year 1234. and was buried at Dunmow, and Walter his son succeeded him, 1258. and his Barony of Baynard, was in the ward of King Henry in the nonage of Robert Fitzwater. This Robert took to his second wife, Aelianor, daughter and heir to the Earl of Ferrars, in the year 1289. and in the year 1303. on the 12. of March. Before john Blondon, Maior of London, he acknowledged his service to the same City, and swore upon the Evangelists, that he would be true to the liberties thereof, and maintain the same to his power, and the counsel of the same to keep, etc.   

The rights that belonged to Robert Fitzwater, Chastilian and Banner-bearer of London, Lord of Wodeham were these.  
THe said Robert and his heirs, 
Robert Fitzwater, Castilian and Banner bearer of London.  aught to be, and are chief Bannerers of London, in fee for the Chastilary, which he and his ancestors had by Castle Baynard, in the said City. In time of war, the said Robert and his heirs ought to serve the City in manner as followeth: that is;  
The said Robert ought to come, he being the twentieth man of Arms on horseback, covered with cloth, or Armour, unto the great West door of St. Paul, with his Banner displayed before him, of his Arms. And when he is come to the said door, mounted and apparelled, as before is said, the Mayor with his Aldermen and Sheriffs, armed in their Arms, shall come out of the said Church of Saint Paul unto the said door, with a Banner in his hand all on foot, 
Banner of S. Paul.  which Banner shallbe Gules, the Image of Saint Paul gold: the face, hands, feet, and sword of silver: and as soon as the said Robert shall see the Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs come on foot out of the Church, armed with such a Banner, he shall alight from his horse, and salute the Mayor, and say to him; Sir Maior, I am come to do my service, which I owe to the City.  
And the Mayor and Aldermen shall answer:  
We give to you, as to our Banneret of fee in this City, the Banner of this City to bear and govern, to the honour and profit of this City, to your power.  
And the said Robert and his heirs shall receive the Banner in his hands, and shall go on foot out of the gate, with the Banner in his hands; and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Shiriffeses shall follow to the door, and shall bring an horse to the said Robert, worth twenty pound, which horse shall be saddled with a saddle of the Arms of the said Robert, and shall be covered with sindals of the said Arms.  
Also they shall present to him twenty pounds' starling money, and deliver it to the Chamberlain of the said Robert, for his expenses that day. Then the said Robert shall mount upon the horse which the Mayor presented to him, with the Banner in his hand, and as soon as he is up, he shall say to the Mayor, that he cause a Marshal to be chosen for the host, one of the City; which Marshal being chosen, the said Robert shall command the Mayor and Burgesses of the City, to warn the Commons to assemble together, and they shall all go under the Banner of S. Paul, and the said Robert shall bear it himself unto Ealdgate, and there the said Robert and Maior shall deliver the said Bauner of Saint Paul from thence, to whom they shall assent or think good. And if they must make any issue forth of the City; then the said Robert ought to choose two forth of every Ward, the most sage personages, to foresee to the safe keeping of the City, after they be gone forth. And this counsel shall be taken in the Priory of the Trinity near unto Ealdgate. And again, before every Town or Castle, which the host of London shall besiege, if the siege continue a whole year, the said Robert shall have for every siege, of the Communality of London, one hundred shillings for his travel, and no more.  
These be the rights that the said Robert hath in the time of war. 
Rights belonging to Robert Fitzwater in the time of peace.  Rights belonging to Robert Fitzwater and to his heirs in the City of London in the time of peace, are these; that is to say, The said Robert hath a Soak or Ward in the City; that is, a wall of the Canonrie of Saint Paul, as a man goeth down the street before the Brewhouse of Saint Paul, unto the Thames, and so to the side of the Mill, which is in the water that cometh down from the Fleet-bridge, and goeth so by London walls, betwixt the Friar's preachers and Ludgate, and so returneth back by the house of the said Friars, unto the said wall of the said Canonrie of Saint Paul; that is, all the Parish of Saint Andrew, which is in the gift of his Ancestors, by the said Signiority: and so the said Robert hath appendent unto the said Soak, all these things under-written: That he ought to have a Sokeman, and to place what Sokeman he will, so he be of the Sokemanrie, or the same Ward; and if any of the Sokemanry be impleaded in the Guildhall, of any thing that toucheth not the body of the Mayor that for the time is, or that toucheth the body of no Sheriff, it is not lawful for the Sokeman of the Sokemanrie of the said Robert Fitzwater, to demand a Court of the said Robert; and the Mayor and his Citizens of London ought to grant him to have a Court, 
A Court to be granted Robert Fitzwater for his Sokeman.  and in his Court he ought to bring his judgements, at it is assented and agreed upon in the Guild-hall, that shall be given them.  
If any therefore be taken in his Soak. manry, he ought to have his Stocks and imprisonment in his Soak; and he shall be brought from thence to the Guild-hall, before the Mayor, and there they shall provide him his judgement that ought to be given of him: but his judgement shall not be published till he come into the Court of the said Robert, and in his liberty.  
And the judgement shall be such, 
judgement for diversity of offence.  that if he have deserved death by treason, he to be tied to a post in the Thames at a good Wharfe, where Boats are fastened, two ebbings and two flow of the water.  
And if he be condemned for a common thief, he ought to be led to the Elms, and there suffer his judgement as other Thiefs. And so the said Robert and his heirs hath honour, that he holdeth a great Franches within the City, that the Mayor of the City and Citizens are bound to do him of right; that is to say, that when the Mayor will hold a great Council, he ought to call the said Robert and his heirs, to be with him in council of the City; and the said Robert ought to be sworn, to be of counsel with the City, against all people, saving the King and his heirs. And when the said Robert cometh to the Hustings in the Guild hall of the City, the Mayor or his Lieutenant ought to rise against him, and set him down near unto him, and so long as he is in the Guild-hall, all the judgements ought to be given by his mouth, according to the Record of the Recorders of the said Guildhall. And so many waifes as come so long as he is there, he ought to give them to the Bailiffs of the Town, or to whom he will, by the counsel of the Mayor of the City.  
These be the Franchises that belonged to Robert Fitzwater in London, in time of peace, which, for the antiquity thereof, I have noted out of an old Record.  
This Robert deceased in the year 1305 leaving issue, Walter Fitzrobert, who had issue, Robert Fitzwalter, unto whom, in the year 1320. the Citizens of London acknowledged the right, which they ought to him and his heirs for the Castle Baynard. He deceased 1325. unto whom succeeded Robert Fitzrobert, Fitzwalter, etc. More of the Lord Fitzwater may ye read in my Annals, in the 51 of Edward the third. But how this honour of Baynard's Castle, with the appurtenances, fell from the possession of the Fitzwaters, I have not read: only I find, that in the year 1428. the seventh of Henry the sixth, 
Baynard's Castle perished by fire.  a great fire was at Baynard's Castle, and that Humphrey Duke of Gloucester builded it new. By his death and attaindor, 
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, new builded it.  in the year 1446. it came to the hands of Henry the sixth, and from him to Richard Duke of York, of whom we read, 
Richard, Duke of York, owner of Baynard's Castle.  that in the year 1457. he lodged there as in his own house.  
In the year 1460. the 28 of February, the Earls of March and of Warwick, with a great power of men, (but few of name) entered the City of London, where they were of the Citizens joyfully received; and upon the third of March, being Sunday, the said Earl caused his people to be mustered in S. john's field: where, unto that host was showed and proclaimed, certain Articles & points, wherein King Henry, as they said, had offended, and thereupon it was demanded of the said people, whether the said Henry was worthy to raingne as King any longer, or not: whereunto the people cried, nay. Then it was asked of them, whether they would have the E. 
Edward the 4 elected in S. john's field.  of March for their King: and they cried, yea, yea. Whereupon certain Captains were appointed to bear report thereof to the said Earl of March, then being lodged at his Castle of Baynard. Whereof when the Earl was by them advertised, he thanked God, and them for their election: notwithstanding, he showed some countenance of insufficiency in him, to occupy so great a charge, till by exhortation of the Archbishop of Canturbury, 
Edward the 4. took on him the Crownein Baynard's Castle.  the Bishop of Excest. and certain Noblemen, he granted to their petition: and on the next morrow at Paul's, he went on Procession, offered, and had Te Deum sung. Then was he with great Royalty conveyed to Westminster, and there in the great Hall, set in the Kingsses Seat, with Saint Edward's Sceptre in his hand.  
In the seventh year of King Edward's reign, 
Ex lib. Erswick. Treason surmised against many men  many men were arrested of treason, surmised against them, wherethough many of them were put to death, and other escaped for great sums of money. Amongst whom were, Sir Thomas Cook, 
Divers Aldermen unjustly charged with treason.  Sir johan Plummer, Knights, Humphrey Heyward, and other Aldermen of London arrested, and charged with treason: whereof they were acquitted, but they lost their goods to the King, to the value of 40000. Marks, or more, as some have written. And for example, Sir Thomas Cook, lately before L. Maior of London, was by one, named Hawkins, appeached of Treason, for which he was committed to the Tower, his place in London seized on by the Lord Rivers; and his Lady and servants clearly put out thereof, the cause being thus:  
The forenamed Hawkins came (upon a time) to the said Sir Thomas Cook, 
The reason of Sir Thomas Cook his troubles.  requesting him to lend him a thousand Marks upon good surety; whereunto he answered, that he would first know for whom it should be: At length understanding that it should be for the use of Queen Margaret, he answered; he had no currant wares, whereof any shift might be made, without too much loss, and therefore required Hawkins to move him no further, for he intended not to deal therewithal. Yet the said Hawkins requested but one hundred pounds at length, and went away without it, or the value of one penny, and never after came again to move him; which rested so for two or 3. year after, till the said Hawkins was committed to the Tower; and brought at length to the Brake or Rack, commonly called, 
The Brake or Rack in the Tower, usually called the Duke of Excesters' Daughter  the Duke of Excesters' daughter, because he was the deviser of that torture. By means of which pain, he revealed many things: and among the rest, the motion, which he had made to Sir Thomas Cook, was one. In regard whereof, the said Sir Thomas was troubled, as you have heard, and a jury, by the means of Sir john Fog, endighted him of treason. After which, an Oyer determiner was held in the Guildhall, 
An Oyer determiner for the trial of Sir Thomas Cook.  where sat the Lord Maior, the Duke of Clarence, the Earl of Warwick, the Lord Rivers, Sir john Fog, with other of the king's Council.  
To this place was the said Sir Thomas brought, and there arraigned upon life and death: where he was acquitted of the said endightment, 
Sir Thomas Cook acquitted by the Iury.  and sent to the Counter in Breadstreet, and from thence to the Kings Bench. Being thus acquitted, his Wife got possession again of his house, the which she found in a very evil plight: for the servants of Sir john Fog, and of the Lord Rivers, had made havoc of what they listed. Also, at his place at Giddy Hall in Essex, 
When men are in distress much spoil is made of them.  anóther sort had destroyed the Dear in his Park, his Coneys and Fish, and spared not Brass, Pewter, Bedding, and all that they could carry away; for which, never a penny might be gotten back again in recompense, nor Sir Thomas Cook be delivered, until he had paid 8000. pounds to the King, and 800. pounds to the Queen. And because that Sir john Markham knight, then chief justice of the Pleas, determined somewhat against the king's pleasure (that the offence done by Sir Thomas Cook was no treason, but misprision, the which was no desert of death, but to be fined at the king's pleasure: 
Sir john Markham Lord chief justice lust his Office for doing justice. ) the Lord Rivers, and the Duchess of Bedford his wife, procured, that he lost his Office afterward.  
Edward the fourth being dead, leaving his eldest son Edward, and his second son Richard, both infants; Richard Duke of Gloucester, 
Richard the third took on him the Crown in Baynard's Castle.  being elected by the Nobles and Commons in the Guildhall of London, took on him the title or the Realm and kingdom, as imposed upon him in this Baynard's Castle, as ye may read pended by Sir Thomas Moor, and set down in my Annals.  
Henry the seventh, 
Of Baynard's Castle.  about the year 1501. the 16. of his reign, repaired or rather new builded this house, not imbattelled, or so strongly fortified Castlelike▪ but far more beautiful and commodious for the entertainment of any Prince or great Estate: he also kept a Royal Turney, and justs in the Tower of London, for his Lords, knights and other. In the seventeenth of his reign, he with his Queen were lodged there, and came from thence to Fauls Church, where they made their offering, dined in the Bishop's Palace, and so returned.  
The 18, of his reign he was lodged there, 
Henry the lodged in Baynard's Castle.  and the Ambassadors from the King of the Romans, were thither brought to his presence, and from thence the king came to Paul's, and was there sworn to the King of the Romans, as the said King had sworn to him.  
The twenty of the said King, 
Henry the seventh and Knights of the Garter road in then habits from the Tower to Pault Church.  he with his Knights of the Order, all in their habits of the Gatter, rode from the Tower of London through the City, unto the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, and there heard Evensong, and from thence they road to Baynard's Castle, where the king lodged, and on the next morrow, in the same habit they road from thence again to the said Church of St. Paul's, went on Procession, heard the divine Service, offered and returned. The same year the King of Castille was lodged there.  
In the year 1553. the 19 of july, the Council, 
The counsel assembled at Baynard's Castle, & proclaimed Queen Mary.  partly moved with the right of the Lady Maries cause, partly considering, that the most of the Realm was wholly bend on her side, changing their mind from Lady jane, lately proclaimed Queen; assembled themselves at this Baynard's Castle, where they communed with the Earl of Pembroke and the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Sir john Mason, Clerk of the Council, sent for the Lord Maior, and then riding into Cheap to the Cross, where Garter King at Arms (Trumpets being sounded) proclaimed the Lady Marie, Daughter to King Henry the eight, and Queen Katherine, Queen of England, etc.  
This Castle now belongeth to the Earl of Pembroke.  
Next adjoining to this Castle, was sometime a Tower, the name thereof I have not read, but that the same was builded by Edward the second, is manifest by this that followeth:  
King Edward the third, 
A Tower by Baynard's Castle builded by Edward the second.  in the second year of his reign, gave unto William de Ros, of Hamelake in Yorkshire, a Tower upon the water of Thames, by the Gastle Baynard, in the City of London, which Tower his Father had builded, he gave the said Tower and appurtenances to the said William Hamesake, and his heirs, for a Roseyeerely to be paid for all service due, etc.  
This Tower as it seemeth to me, was since called Legates Inn, the 7. of Edward the fourth.   

Tower of Mountfiquit.  
THe next Tower or Castle, 
Tower of Mountfiquit.  banking also on the river of Thames, was (as is afore showed) called Mountfiquits Castle, belonging to a Nobleman, Baron of Mountfiquit, the first builder thereof, who came in with William the Conqueror, and was afterward named, William le Sir Monntfiquit. This Castle he builded in a place, not far distant from Baynard's, towards the West. The same William Mountfiquit lived in the reign of Hen. the 1. and was witness to a Charter then granted to the City for the Shiriffeses of London, Richard Mountfiquit lived in king john's time, and in the year 1213. was by the same king banished the Realm into France, when (peradventure) king john caused his Castle of Mountfiquit, amongst other Castles of the Barons, to be overthrown. The which, after his return, might be by him again re edified; for the total destruction thereof, was about the year 1276. when Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canturbury, began the foundation of the Friar's Preachers Church there, commonly called, the Black Friars, as appeareth by a Charter, in the fourth of Edward the first, in these words.  
Gregory Rokesley, 
Cant. Récord ex Charta. The preaching Friars Church founded by Baynard's Castle; before which time their Church was in Oldborne.  Lord Maior, and the Barons of London, granted, and gave to the Archbishop of Canturbury Robert Kilwarby, two lanes or ways, lying next to the street of Baynard's Castle, and the Tower of Mountfiquit, or Mountfichet to be destroyed. In the which place, the said Robert builded the late new Church of the Black Friars, with the rest of the stones that were left of the said Tower. For the best and choice stones the Bishop of London had obtained of King William Conqueror, to re-edify the upper part of Saint Paul's Church, which was then (by chance of fire) decayed.  
One other Tower there was also, 
Tower on the Thames  situate on the River of Thames, near unto the said Black Friars Church, on the West part thereof, builded at the Citizen's charges, by licence and commandment of Edward the first, and of Edward the second as appeareth by their gránts. Which Tower was then finished, and so stood for the space of 300. years; and was at the last taken down by the commandment of john Shakstone, Maior of London, in the year 1502.  
Another Tower or Castle also was there, 
Tower or Castle on the west of London by Saint Bride's Church.  in the West part of the City, pertaining to the king. For I read, that in the year 1087. the 20. of William the first, the City of London, with the Church of Saint Paul, being burned, Mauritius then Bishop of London, afterward began the foundation of a new Church, whereunto king William (saith mine Author) gave the choice stones of his Castle, standing near to the bank of the River of Thames, at the west end of the City. 
In vita Arkenwald.  After this Mauritius, Richard his successor purchased the streets about Paul's Church, compassing the same with a wall of stone, and gates, King Henry the first gave to this Richard, so much of the Moat or wall of the Castle, on the Thames side to the South, as should be needful to make the said wall of the Churchyard, and so much more as should suffice to make a way without the wall on the North side.  
This Tower or Castle being thus destroyed, stood, as it may seem, in place where now standeth the House called Bridewell. For notwithstanding the destruction of the said Castle or Tower, the house remained large, so that the Kings of this Realm long after were lodged there, 
The king's house by S. Brides in Flceistreet.  and kept their Courts. For until the 9 year of Henry the third, the Courts of Law and justice were kept in the King's house, wheresoever he was lodged, and not elsewhere. And that the Kings have been lodged, and kept their Law Court in this place, I could show you many, authors of record; but for a plain proof, this one may suffice: Haec est finalis concordia, facta in Curia Dom. 
Lib. Barton super Trent.  Regis apud Sanct. Bridgid. Lond. a die Sancti Michaelis in 15. dies Anno regni Regis johannis 7. Coranto G. Fil. Petri, Eustacio de Fauconberg, johanne de Gestlinge, Osbart filio Hervey, Walter de Crisping, justiciar. & aliis Baronibus Domini Regis. More (as Matthew Paris hath) about the year 1210. King john, 
Mat. Paris Manuscrip. Parliament at S. Brides.  the 12. of his reign, summoned a Parliament at S. Brides in London, where he exacted of the Clergy and religious persons, the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, and besides all this, the white Monks were compelled to cancel their privileges, and to pay 40000. l. to the King, etc. This house of S. Birds of later time being left, and not used by the Kings, fell to ruin, insomuch that the very platform thereof remained (for great part) waste, and as it were, but a lay-stall of filth and rubbish, only a fair Well remained there. A great part of this house, namely on the west, as hath been said, was given to the Bishop of Salisbury; 
Bridewell builded by King Henry the eighth.  the other part toward the East remained waste, until King Henry the 8. builded a stately and beautiful house thereupon, giving it to name, Bridewell, of the Parish and Well there. This house he purposely builded for the entertainment of the Emp. Charles the 5. who in the year 1522. came into this City, as I have showed in my Summarie, annal, and large Chronicles.  
On the Northwest side of this City, near unto Redcrosse-street, there was a Tower, commonly called Barbican, 
Barbican or Burhkenning  or Burhkenning, for that the same, being placed on an high ground, and also builded of some good height, was (in old time) used as a Watch-Tower for the City, from whence a man might behold and view the whole City towards the South, and also into Kent, Suffex and Surrey, and likewise every other way, East, North, or West.  
Some other Burhkennings or Watch-Towers there were of old time, in and about the City, all which were repaired, yea and others new builded, by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, in the reign of King Henry the third, when the Barons were in Arms, and held the City against the King. But the Barons being reconciled to his favour, in the year 1267. he caused all their Burhkennings, Watch-Towers, and Bulwarks, made and repaired by the said Earl, to be plucked down, and the ditches to be filled up, so that naught of them might seem to remain. 
The destruction of the Barbicun.  And then was might seem to remain. And then was this Burhkenning, amongst the rest, overthrown and destroyed: and although the ditch near thereunto, then called Hounds-ditch, was stopped up, yet the street (of long time after) was called Hounds-ditch, and of late time (more commonly) called Barbican. The plot or feat of this Burhkëning or watchtower, King Edward the third, in the year 1336. the tenth of his reign, gave unto Robert Vfford, Earl of Suffolk, by the name of his Manor of Basecourt, in the Parish of S. Giles without Creplegate of London, commonly called the Barbican.  
Tower Royal was of old time the king's house, 
Tower Royal.  King Stephen was there lodged; but since called the Queen's Wardrobe. The Princess, mother to King Richard the 2. in the 4. of his reign, was lodged there, being forced to fly from the Tower of London, when the Rebels possessed it. But on the 15. of june, (saith Frosard) Wat Tylar being slain, 
job. Frosard  the King went to this Lady Princess his mother, then lodged in the Tower Royal, called the Queen's Wardrobe, where she had tarried two days and two nights: which Tower (saith the Record of Edward the third, the thirty sixth year) was in the Parish of the Saint Michael de Pater noster, etc.  
In the year 1386. King Richard with Queen Anne his wife, 
Lib. S. in Eborum.  kept their Christmas at Eltham, whither came to him Lion King of Ermonie, 
The King of Ermonie came into England.  under pretence to reform peace betwixt the Kings of England and France; but what his coming profited, he only understood. For, besides innumerable gifts that he received of the King and of the Nobles, the King lying then in this Tower Royal, 
Richard 2. lodged in the Tower Royal.  or the Queen's Wardrobe in London, granted to him a Charter, of a thousand pounds by year during his life. He was, as he affirmed, chased out of his Kingdom by the Tartarians. More concerning this Tower shall you read, when you come to the Vintry Ward, in which is standeth.  
Sernes Tower in Bucklersberie, 
Sernes Tower in Bucklersbery.  was sometimes the King's house. Edward the third, in the eighteenth year of his reign, appointed his Exchange of moneys therein to be kept, and in the two and thirtieth, he gave the same Tower to his free Chapel of S. Stephen at Westminster.    

Of Schools and other Houses of Learning.  
IN the reign of King Stephen, 
Famous schools of Philosophy by privilege in London.  and of Henry the second, (saith Fitzstephen) there were in London 3. principal Churches, which had famous Schools, either by privilege and ancient dignity, or by favour of some particular persons, as of Doctors, which were ●●ceounted notable and renowned, for knowledge in Philosophy. And there were other inferior Schools also.  
Upon Festival days, 
Solemn meetings and disputing of scholars Logically and demonstratively.  the Masters made solemn meetings in the Churches, where their Scholars disputed Logically and demonstratively: some bringing Enthimems, other, perfect Syllogisms: some disputed for show; others to trace out the truth; and cunning Sophisters were brave scholars, when they flowed with words. Others used fallacies: Rhetoricians spoke aptly to persuade, observing the precepts of Art, and omitting nothing that might serve their purpose. The Boys of diverse Schools did cap or pot verses, and contended of the principles of Grammar.  
There were some, 
Grammar schools & scholars their exercises.  which (on the other side) with Epigrams and Rhymes, nipping and quipping their fellows, and the faults of others, though suppressing their names, moved thereby much laughter among their Auditors.  
Hitherto Fitzstephen, for schools and scholars, and for their exercise in the City in his days,: sithence the which time, as to me it seemeth, by increase of Colleges of students in the Vaiversities of Oxford and Cambridge, the frequenting of schools, and exercises of scholars in the City, as had been accustomed, very much decreased.  
The three principal Churches which had these famous schol=ols by privileges, must needs be the cathedral Church of S. Paul for one: seeing that by a general Council, 
Mat. Paris. Every Cathedral Church had his school for poor scholars.  holden in the year 1176. at Rome, in the patriarchy of Lateran, it was decreed, that every Cathedral Church should have his schoolmaster, to teach poor scholars, and others, as had been accustomed, and that no man should take any reward for licence to teach. The second, as most ancient, may seem to have been the Monastery of S. Peter's at Westminster, whereof Ingulphus, Abbot of Crowland, in the reign of William the Conqueror, writeth thus: 1 Jngulphus, an humble servant of God, borne of English parents, in the most beautiful City of London, 
Free school at Westminster in the reign of Edward the Confessor.  for to attain to learning, was first put to Westm. & after to study at Oxford, etc. And writing in praise of Queen Agitha, wife to Edward the Confessor: I have seen (faith he) often, when being but a Boy, I came to see my Father, dwelling in the King's Court, and often coming from School, when I met the Queen, she would oppose me touching my learning and lesson. And falling from Grammar to Logic, wherein she had some knowledge, she would subtly conclude an Argument with me. And by her handmaiden give me three or four pieces of money, and send me unto the Palace, where I should receive some victuals, and then be dismissed.  
The third School seemeth to have been in the Monastery of S. Saviour, at Bermondsey in Southwark. For other Priories, as of Saint john by Smithfield, Saint Bartholomew in Smithfield, Saint Mary Overie in Southwark, and that of the Holy Trinity by Ealdgate, were all of later foundation, and the Friar's Colleges, and Hospitals in this City, were raised since them, in the reigns of Henry the 3. Edward the 1, 2, and 3. etc. All which houses had their Schools, though not so famous as these first named.  
But touching Schools more lately advanced in this City, I read, that King Henry the fifth, having suppressed the Priories Aliens, 
Priories Aliens.  whereof some were about London, namely, Our Lady of Rouncivall by Charingcross: one other Hospital in Oldborne: one other without Creplegate; and the fourth without Aldersgate: besides other that are now worn out of memory, and whereof there is no monument remaining, more than Rouncivall, converted to a Brotherhood, which continued till the reign of Henry the eighth, or Edward the 6. This, I say, and other of their Schools, being broken up and ceased, King Henry the 6. in the 24. of his reign, 
Henry the sixth appointed Grammar Schools.  by Patent appointed, that there should be in London Grammar-Schooles, besides S. Paul's, at S. Martins le grand, S. Marry le Bow, in Cheap, S. Dunstan's in the west, and S. Anthony's. And in the next year, to wit, 1394. the said King ordained by Parliament, 
Grammar schools appointed by Parliament.  that four other Grammer-Schooles should be erected, to wit, in the Parishes of Saint Andrew in Oldborne, All-hallows the great, in Thames street, Saint Peter upon Cornhill, and in the Hospital of Saint Thomas of Acons in west Cheap. Since the which time, as diverse Schools, by suppressing of religious houses (whereof they were members in the reign of Henry the eighth, have been decayed: so again have some others been newly erected and founded for them. 
Paul's School new builded.  As namely, Paul's school, in place of an old ruined house, was builded in most ample manner, and largely endowed in the year 1512. by john Collet, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Paul's, for 153. poor men's children: for which there was ordained a Master, Submaster or Usher, and a Chaplain. 
Free schools in Christ's Hospital.  Again, in the year 1553. after the erection of Christ's Hospital, in the late dissolved house of the Grey Friars, a great number of poor children being taken in, a school was also ordained there, at the Citizen's charges.  
Also in the year 1561. the Merchant Tailors of London, 
Free schools founded by the Merchant Tailors.  founded one notable free Grammar-schoole, in the Parish of Saint Laurence Poultney, by Candle-weeke street; Richard Hils, late Master of that Company, having given 500 pound toward the purchase of an House, called the Manor of the Rose, sometime the Duke of Buckingham's, wherein the school is kept.  
As for the meeting of Schoolmasters on festival days, at festival Churches, and the disputing of their scholars Logically, etc. whereof I have before spoken, the same was long since discontinued. But the arguing of schoolboys about the principles of Grammar, hath been continued even till our time: for I myself (in my youth) have yearly seen, on the Eve of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, the scholars of diverse Grammar-schooles, 
Scholars disputed in S. Bartholomews' Churchyard.  repair unto the Churchyard of Saint Bartholomew the Priory in Smithfield, where, upon a bank boarded about under a Tree, some one scholar hath stepped up, and there hath opposed and answered, till he were by some better scholar overcome and put down. And then the overcommer taking the place, did like as the first: and in the end, the best opposers and answerers had rewards, which I observed not: but it made both good schoolmasters, and also good scholars (diligently against such times) to prepare themselves for the obtaining of this Garland.  
I remember there repaired to these exercises, (amongst others) the Masters and scholars of the free schools of S. Paul's in London, of Saint Peter at Westminster, of Saint Thomas Acons' Hospital, and of Saint Anthony's Hospital: whereof the last named, commonly presented the best Scholars, and had the prize in those days.  
This Priory of Saint Bartholomew being surrendered to Henry the eighth, those disputations of Scholars in that place surceased, 
Disputation of scholars in Christ's Hospital.  and was again, only for a year or twain, in the reign of Edward the sixth, revived in the Cloister of Christ's Hospital, where the best Scholars, (than still of S. Anthony's School) were rewarded with Bows and Arrows of silver, given to them by Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith.  
Nevertheless, howsoever the encouragement failed, the Scholars of Paul's, meeting with them of Saint Anthony's, would call them Saint Anthony's Pigs, 
Anthony's Pigs.  and they again would call the other Pigeons of Paul's; 
Pigeons of Paul's.  because many Pigeons were bred in Paul's Church, and S. Anthony was always figured with a Pig following him: and mindful of the former usage, did for a long season, disorderly in the open street, provoke one another, with Salve tu quoque, placet tibi mecum disputare? placet. And so proceeding from this to questions in Grammar, they usually fell from words to blows, with their fatchels full of books, many times in great heaps, that they troubled the streets and passengers: so that finally they were restrained with the decay of Saint Anthony's School.  
Out of this School have sprung diverse famous persons, whereof although time hath buried the names of many, yet in mine own remembrance may be numbered these following: Sir Thomas Moor, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England: Doctor Nicholas Heath, sometime Bishop of Rochester, after of Worcester, and lastly, Archbishop of York, and Lord Chancellor of England: Doctor john Whitgift, Bishop of Worcester, and after Archbishop of Canturbury, etc.  
Of later time, 
Lecture in chirurgery.  in the year of Christ 1582. there was founded a public Lecture in chirurgery, to be read in the College of Physicians in Knight-riders-street, to begin in the year 1584. on the sixth of May, and so to be continued for ever twice a week, on Wednesdsy & Friday, by the honourable Baron, john, Lord Lombley, and the learned Richard Chadwell, Doctor in Physic: the Reader whereof to be Richard Forster, Doctor of Physic, during his life.  
Furthermore, 
Mathematical Lecture read.  about the same time, there was also begun a Mathematical Lecture, to be read in a fair old Chapel, builded by Simon Eayre, within the Leaden-hall; whereof a learned Citizen borne, named Thomas Hood, was the first Reader. But this Chapel, and other parts of that Hall, being employed for stowage of goods, taken out of a great Spanish Carrack, the said Lecture ceased any more to be read, and was then in the year 1588. read in the house of Master Thomas Smith in Grasse-street, etc.  
Last of all, 
Sir Thomas Gresham.  Sir Thomas Gresham knight, Agent to Queen Elizabeth, by his last Will and Testament, made in the year 1579. gave the Royal Exchange, and all the buildings thereunto appertaining; that is to say, the one moiety to the Mayor and Communality of London, and their successors, upon trust, that they perform as shall be declared: and the other moiety to the Mercers, 
Lectures to be read in London.  in like confidence. The Mayor and Communality are to find four, to read Lectures of Divinity, Astronomy, Music and Geometry, within his dwelling house in Bishopsgatestreet, and to bestow the sum of two hundred pound; to wit, fifty pound apiece, etc. The Mercers likewise are to find three Readers; that is, in Civil Law, Physic and Rhetoric, within the same dwelling house, the sum of 150. pound, to every Reader 50. pound, etc. Which gift was (since that time) confirmed by Parliament, to take effect, and began after the decease of the Lady Anne Gresham, which happened in the year 1596. and so is to continue for ever.  
Whereupon, 
Names of the 7. first Lecturers.  the Lectures were accordingly chosen, and appointed to begin their Readins in the Month of june, 1597. Whose names were, Master Anthony Wotton, for Divinity; Master Doctor Matthew Gwyn, for Physic; Doctor Henry Mountlow, for the Civil Law; Doctor john Bull, for Music; Master Breerewood, for Astronomy; Master Henry Bridges, for Geometry; and Master Caleb Willis, for Rhetoric. These Lectures are read daily, Sundays excepted, in the Termetimes, by every one upon his day, in the morning betwixt nine and ten, in Latin: in the afternoon betwixt two and three, in English; save that Doctor Bull was dispensed with to read the Music Lecture in English only, and upon two several days, Thursday and Saturday in the afternoons, betwixt 3. and 4. of the clock.  
The Readers of the seven Liberal Sciences at Gresham College, june 27. 1631. were these following:  
First, Master Richard Holdsworth, Reader of Divinity, on Monday.  
Doctor Eton, Reader of Civil Law, on Tuesday.  
Doctor Winston, Reader of Physic, on Saturday.  
Master john Taverner, Reader of Music, on Saturday.  
Master Henry Gilibrand, Reader of Astronomy, on Wednesday.  
Master john Greaves, Reader of Geometry, on Thursday.  
And Master Edward Wilkinson, Reader of Rhetoric, on Friday.   

Houses of Students in the Common Law.  
But beside all this, 
An University of Students in and about this City.  there is in and about this City, a whole University, as it were, of Students, practisers or pleaders, and judges of the Laws of this Realm, not living of common stipends, as in other Universities it is for the most part done, but of their own private maintenance, as being altogether fed, either by their places, or practice, or otherwise by their proper Revenues, 
Houses of Students of the Common Law, & judges.  or exhibition of parents and friends: for that the younger sort are either Gentlemen or the sons of Gentlemen, or of other most wealth persons. Of these Houses there be at this day fourteen in all, whereof nine do stand within the Liberties of this City, and five in the Suburbs thereof: 
 VIZ. 

Within the Liberties. 
Of every of these Inns, ye may read more in their several places where the stand   


For judges and Sergeants only.  
Sergeant's Inn in Fleetstreet,  
Sergeant's Inn in Chancery Lane,    


In Fleetstreet, Houses of Court.  
The Inner Temple,  
The middle Temple,    


Houses of Chancery.  
Clifford's Inn in Fleetstreet,  
Thavies Inn in Oldborne,  
Furnevals Inn in Oldborne,  
Barnard's Inn in Oldborne,  
Staple Inn in Oldborne,     

Without the Liberties.  


Houses of Court.  
Gray's Inn in Oldborne,  
Lincoln's Inn in Chancerie-lane, by the old Temple.    


Houses of Chancery without Temple bar, in the liberty of Westminster.  
Clement's Inn,  
New Inn,  
Lions june,      
There was sometime an Inn of Sergeants in Oldborne, 
A Sergeant's Inn in Oldborne  as ye may read of Scroope's Inn, over against Saint Andrews Church.  
There was also one other Inn of Chancery, 
Chester's Inn, or Strand Inn, in place whereas standeth Somerset House.  called Chester's Inn, for the nearness to the Bishop of Chester's house, but more commonly termed Strand Inn, for that it stood in Strand street, and near unto Strand bridge without Temple Bar, in the liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster. This Inn of Chancery, with other houses adjoining, were pulled down in the reign of Edw. the 6. by Edward Duke of Somerset, who in place thereof raised that large and beautiful house, called Somerset House.  
There was moreover, in the reign of King Henry the sixth, a tenth House of Chancery, mentioned by justice Fortescue, in his book of the Laws of England: but where it stood, or when it was abandoned, I cannot find, and therefore I will leave it, and return to the rest.  
The Houses of Court be replenished, 
Houses of Court, what they be.  partly with young students, and partly with Graduates and practisers of the Law: but the Inns of Chancery, being (as it were) provinces, severally subjected to the Inns of Court, be chiefly furnished with Officers, Attorneys, Solicitors and Clerks, that follow the Courts of the King's Bench, or Common Pleas. And yet there want not some other, being young students, that come thither sometimes from one of the Universities, 
Some students coming from the Universities.  and sometimes immediately from Grammar Schools, and these having spent some time in studying upon the grounds of the Law, and having performed the exercises of their own houses, (called Boltas Mootes, and putting of cases) they proceed to be admitted, and become students in some of these four houses or Inns of Court, where continuing by the space of seven years, or thereabouts, they frequent Readins, Meetings, Bolting, and other learned exercises, whereby growing ripe in the knowledge of the Laws, and approved withal, 
The preferment of students according to their deserving.  to be of honest conversation, they are either by the general consent of the Benchers, or Readers, (being of the most ancient, grave, and judicial men of every Inn of the Court, or by special privilege of the present Reader there, selected and called to the degree of Utter Barristers, and so enabled to be common Counsellors. and to practise the Law, both in their Chambers, and at the Bars.  
Of these, after that they be called to a further step of preferment, called the Bench, there are two (every year) chosen among the Benchers of every Inn of Court, 
Readers in every Inn of Court.  to be Readers there, who do make their Readins at two times of the year also: that is, one in Lent, and the other in the beginning of August.  
And for the help of young Students in every one of the Inns of Chancery, they do likewise choose out of every one Inn of Court a Reader, being no Bencher, but an Utter Barrister there, in ten or twelve years' continuance, and of good profit in study. Now from these of the said degree of Counselors, or Utter Barristers, having continued therein the space of fourteen or fifteen years at the least, the chiefest and best learned are (by the Benchers) elected to increase the number, as I said, of the Bench amongst them; and so in their time do become, first single, and then double Readers, to the students of those houses of Court.  
After which last Reading, they be named Apprentices at the Law, 
Apprentices at Law.  and in default of a sufficient number of Sergeants at Law, these are, at the pleasure of the Prince, to be advanced to the places of Sergeants.  
Out of which number of Sergeants also, 
Sergeants & judges.  the void places of judges are likewise ordinarily filled, albeit (now and then) some be advanced by the special favour of the Prince, to the estate, dignity, and place both of Sergeant and judge, as it were in one instant. But from thenceforth, they hold not any room in those Inns of Court, by being translated to one of the said two Inns, called Sergeants Inns, where none but the Sergeants and judges do converse.   

Of Orders and Customs.  
OF Orders and Customs in this City, Fitzstephen (in his time) said as followeth: 
Men of all Trades in dictinct places.  Men of all Trades, sellers of all sorts of Wares, labourers in every work, every morning are in their distinct and several places. 
Wine in Ships, and Wine in Taverns.  Furthermore, in London, upon the River side, between the wine in Ships, and the wine to be sold in Taverns, 
Cook's row in Thames street.  is a common Cookery, or Cook's Row, where daily for the season of the year, men might have meat, roast, sod, orfryed fish, flesh, fowls, fit for rich and poor. If any come suddenly to any Citizen from afar, weary, and not willing to tarry till the meat be bought, and dressed, while the servant bringeth water for his master's hands, and fetcheth bread, he shall have immediately (from the River's side) all viands whatsoever he desireth, What multitude soever, either of Soldiers, or strangers do come to the City, whatsoever hour, day or night, according to their pleasures, may refresh themselves, and they which delight in delicateness, may be satisfied with as delicate dishes there, as may be found elsewhere. And this Cook's row is very necessary to the City: and according to Plato in Gorgius; next to Physic is the office of Cooks, as part of a City.  
Without one of the Gates is a plain field, both in name and deed, 
Smithfield for a plain smooth ground, is called smeth and smothie.  where every Friday, unless it be a solemn bidden Holiday, is a notable show of horses to be sold, Earls, 
Market for horses and other cattle.  Barons, Knights and Citizens repair thither to see, or to buy: there may you of pleasure see amblers, pacing it delicately: there may you see trotters, fit for men of arms, setting more hardly: there there may you have not able young horses not yet brokene may you have strong steeds, well limmedgeldings, whom the buyers do especially regard for pace, and swiftness. The boys which ride these horses, sometime two, sometime three, do run razes for wagers, with a desire of praise, or hope of victory. In another part of that fieldare to be sold all implements of husbandry, as also fat swine, milch kine, 
Merchants of all Nations traded at this City, and had their several keys and wharfes.  sheep and Oxen: there stand also Mares and Horses, fit for Ploughs and Teams, with their young Colts by them. At this City, Merchant strangers of all Nations, had their keys and wharses: the Arabians sent gold: the Sabeans spice and Frankincense: 
The Author's opinion of this City, the antiquity thereof.  the Scythian Armour, Babylon oil, Indian purple garments, Egypt precious stones, Norway and Russia Ambexgreece and sables, and the Frenchmen wine. According to the truth of Chronicles, this City is ancienter than Rome, built by the ancient Troyans' and by Brute, 
This City divided into Wards more than 400. years since, and also had then both Aldermen and Sheriffs.  before that was built by Romulus and Remus; and therefore useth the ancient customs of Rome. This City, even as Rome, is divided into Wards. It hath yearly Sheriffs, in stead of Consuls. It hath the diginity of Senators, in aldermans. It hath under-Officers, Common Sewers, and Conducts in streets, 
Customs of London.  according to the quality of causes. It hath general Courts and assemblies upon appointed days. I do not think that there is any City, wherein are better customs, in frequenting the Churches, in serving God, in keeping Holidays, in giving alms, in entertaining strangers, in solemnising Marriages, in furnishing banquets, celebrating funerals, and burying dead bodies.  
The only plagues of London, 
Casualties of fires when houses were covered with church.  is immoderate quaffing among the foolish sort, and often casualties by fire. Most part of the Bishops, Abbots, and great Lords of the land, have houses there, whereunto they resort and bestow much, when they are called to Parliament by the King, or to counsel by their Metropolitan, or otherwise by their private business.  
Thus fir Fitzstephen, of the estate of things in his time, whereunto may be added the present, by conference whereof, the alteration will easily appear. 
Change of place and tradesmen.   
Men of trades and sellers of wares in this City have oftentimes since changed their places, as they have found their best advantage. For whereas Mercers, and Haberdashers used wholly then to keep their shops in west Cheap; of later time, they held them on London bridge, where some of them do as yet remain. The Goldsmiths of Gutherons' lane, and the Old Exchange, are now (for the most part) removed into the South side of West Cheap. The Pepperers & Grocers of Sopers' lane, are now in Bucklesbury, and other places dispersed. The Drapers of Lombardstreet, and of Cornhill, are seated in Candleweeke street, and Watheling street. The Skinners from St. Marry Pellipers, or at the Axe; into Budgerow and Walbrook. 
Stockfish monger row, old Fish street, and new Fish street.  The Stockfishmongers in Thames street: wet Fishmongers in Knightriders street, and Bridge-street. The Ironmongers of Ironmongrs' lane, and Old jury, into Thames street. The Vintners, from the Vinetree, into diverse places. But the Brewers (for the most part) remained near to the friendly water of Thames. The Butchers in Eastcheap, St. Nicholas Shambles, and the Stocks Market. The Hosiers (of old time) in Hosier lane, near unto Smithfield, are since then removed into Cordwayner street, the upper part thereof by Bow-Church, and last of all, into Burchoverlane by Cornhill. The Shoemakers and Curriors of Cordwayner street, removed, the one to Saint Martin's legrand, the other to London Wall, near to Mooregate. The Founders remain by themselves in Lothbury. Cooks or Pastelars, (for the most part) were in Thames street, the others dispersed into diverse parts. Poulters of late removed out of the Poultry, betwixt the Stocks and the great Conduit in Cheap, into Grasse-street and S. Nicholas shambles. Bowyers from Bowyers' row by Ludgate, into diverse parts, and almost worn out with the Fletcher's. Pater noster-makers, of old time, or Bead-makers, and Text-writers, are gone out of Pater noster row, and are called Stationers of Paul's Churchyard. Patten-makers, of Saint Margaret Pattens Lane, clean worn out. Labourers, every workday to be found in Cheap, about Sopers' lane end. Horse-coursers, and sellers of Oxen, sheep, swine, and such like, remain in their old Market of Smithfield, etc.  
That Merchants of all Nations had their Keys and Wharfes at this City, 
Merchants of all nations.  whereunto they brought their Merchandizes, before, and in the reign of Henry the second, mine Author wrote (of his own knowledge) to be true, though for the Antiquity of the City, he took the common opinion. Also, that this City was (in his time, and before) divided into Wards; had yearly Sheriffs and Aldermen, general Courts and assemblies, and such like notes by him set down, in commendation of the Citizens, whereof there is no question. He wrote likewise of his own experience, as being borne and brought up amongst them.  
And to confirm his opinion, concerning Merchandizes then hither transported, whereof haply may be some argument; 
Tho. Clifford.  Thomas Clifford (before Fitzstephens' time) writing of King Edward the confessor, saith to this effect: King Edward, intending to make his Sepulchre at Westminster, for that it was near to the famous City of London, and the River of Thames, which brought in all kind of Merchandizes from all parts of the world, etc. And William of Malmesbury, that 
W. Malmesb.  that lived in the reign of William the first and second, Henry the first, and King Stephen, calleth this A Noble City, full of wealth Citizens, frequented with the trade of Merchandizes from all parts of the world. Also I read in diverse Records, that (in old time) No woad was stowed or harboured in this City, but all was presently seld in the Ships, except by licence purchased of the Sheriffs; till of more later time, to wit in the year 1236. Andrew Bokerell, being Mayor, by assent of the principal Citizens, the Merchants of Amiens, Nele and Corby, purchased Letters ensealed with the common seal of the City, that they, when they came, might harborough their Woads, and therefore should give the Mayor every year 50. Marks starling. And the same year they gave an hundred pound toward conveying of water from Tyborn to this City, as already hath been related.  
Also the Merchants of Normandy made fine, for licence to harbour their Woads, till it was otherwise provided, in the year 1263. Thomas Fitzthomas being Maior, etc. Which proveth, that then (as before) they were here, among other Nations, privileged.  
It followeth in Fitzstephen; 
Plagues of London, immoderate quaffing, and casualties by fire.  That the plagues of London (in that time) were immoderate quaffing among fools, and often casualties by fire.  
For the first, to wit, of quaffing, it continueth still as afore, or rather, is mightily increased, though greatly qualmed among the poorer sort, not of any holy abstinency, but of mere necessity: Ale and Beer being small, and Wines in price above their reach.  
As for prevention of casualties by fire, the houses in this City (being then builded all of timber, and covered with thatch of straw or reed;) 
Lib. Constit.  it was long since thought good policy in our forefather, 
Lib. Horn.  wisely to provide; 
Lib. Clarkenwell.  namely, in the year of Christ, 1189. the first of Richard the first, Henry Fitzalwine, (being then Mayor) that all men in this City should build their houses of stone up to a certain height, and to cover them with slate or baked tile. Since which time, thanks be given to God, there hath not happened the like often consuming fire in this City, as before.  
But now in our time, instead of these enormities, 
Purprestur in and about this City.  others are come in place, no less meet to be reform, namely, Purprestures, or encroachments on the highways, lanes, and common grounds, in and about this City. Whereof a learned Gentleman, 
W. Paucns.  a grave Citizen, hath (not many years since) written and exhibited a Book to the Mayor and communality, which Book, whether the same hath been by them read, and diligently considered upon, I know not; but sure I am, nothing is reform since concerning this matter.  
Then the number of Cars, Drays, Carts, 
Carts and Drayes not well governed in this City dangerous.  and Coaches, more than hath been accustomed, the streets and lanes being straightened, must needs be dangerous, as daily experience proveth.  
The Coachman rides behind the horse tails, lasheth them, and looketh not behind him. The Dray-man sitteth and sleepeth on his Dray, and letteth his horse lead him home. 
L. S. Marry Aborum.  I know, that by the good Laws and Customs of this City, shod Carts are forbidden to enter the same, except upon reasonable causes, as service of the Prince, or such like, they be tolerated. Also that the fore-horse of every carriage should be led by hand: but these good orders are not observed. Of old time, Coaches were not known in this Island, 
Riding in Whirlicotes.  but Chariots or Whirlicotes, than so called, and they only used for Princes or great Estates, such as had their footmen about them. And for example to note, I read that Richard the second being threatened by the Rebels of Kent, rode from the Tower of London to the Miles-end, and with him, his Mother, because she was sick and weak, in a Whirlicote, the Earls of Buckingham, Kent, Warwick, and Oxford, Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Robert Knowles, the Mayor of London, Sir Aubery de Vere that bore the King's sword, with other Knights and Esquiers attending on horseback. It followed in the next year, that the said King Richard, who took to wife Anne, daughter to the King of Boheme, that then was, first brought hither the riding upon side Saddles, 
Riding on side Saddles, that were wont to ride a stride.  and so was the riding in those Whirlicotes and Chariots forsken; except at Coronations and such like spectacles. But now of late years, the use of Coaches, brought out of Germany, 
Riding in Coaches.  is taken up, and made so common, as there is neither distinction of time, nor difference of persons observed: for the world runs on wheels with many, whose Parents were glad to go on foot.  
Last of all, 
W. Fitstephen.  mine Author, in this Chapter hath these words: Most part of the Bishops, Abbots, and great Lords of the land, as if they were Citizens and Freemen of Lond. had many fair houses to resort unto, and many rich & wealth Gentlemen spent their money there. And in another place, he hath these words: Every Sunday in Lent, a fresh company of young men comes into the fields on horseback, and the best horsemen conduct the rest, then march forth the Citizens Sons, and other young men with disarmed Lances and Shields, and practise feats of War. Many Courtiers likewise, and attendants on Noblemen, repair to this exercise, and whilst the hope of victory doth inflame their minds; they do show good proof, how serviceable they would be in Martial affairs, etc. Again he saith, This City, in the troublesome time of King Stephen, showed at a Muster 20000. armed horsemen, and 40000. footmen, serviceable for the Wars, etc. All which sayings of the said Author well considered, do plainly prove, that in those days, the inhabitants and repaireres to this City (of what este soever, spiritual or temporal) having houses here, lived in amity with the Citizens, every man observing the customs and orders of the City, and chose to be contributory to charges here, rather than in any part of the land whersoever. 
The causes of greater shows and musters in this City of old time, more than of late.  This City being the heart of the Realm, the King's Chamber, and Prince's seat, whereunto they made repair, and showed their forces, both of Horses and of men, which caused in troublesome time, as of King Stephen, the Musters of this City to be so great in number.  

Great Families of old time kept.  
ANd here to touch somewhat of great Families and households, 
Great families of old time kept.  kept in former times by Noble men, and great estates of this Realm, according to their honours and dignities. I have seen an account made by Henry Leicester, Cofferer to Thomas Earl of Lancaster, 
Tho. Earl of Lancaster, his housekeeping and charge thereof for one year.  for one whole years' expenses in the Earl's house, from the day next after Michaelmas, in the seventh year of Edward the second, until Michaelmas in the eight year of the same King, amounting to the sum of seven thousand, 
Record of Pontfract, as I could obtain of M. Cudnor.  nine hundred, fifty seven pound, thirteen shillings, four pence half penny, as followeth.  
To wit, in the Pantry, Buttery, and Kitchen, 3405. l. etc.  
For 184. Tuns, 1. pipe of Red or Claret wine, and one Tun of White wine, bought for the house 104. l. 17. s. 6. d.  
For Grocery ware, 180. l. 17. s.  
For six Barrels of Sturgeon, nineteen pound.  
For 6800. Stockfish, so called, and for dried fishes, of all sorts, as ling, Haberdines, and other, 41. l. 6. s. 7. d.  
For 1714. pound Wax, with Vermilion and Turpentine to make red Wax, 314. l. 7. s. 4. d. ob.  
For 2319. pound of Tallow candles for the household, and 1870. of lights for Paris candles, called Perchers, 31. l. 14. s. 3. d.  
Expenses on the Earls great Horses, and the Keeper's wages, 486. l. 4. s. 3. d. ob.  
Linen cloth for the Lord and his Chaplains, and for the Pantry 43. l. 17. d.  
From 129. dozen of Parchment, with Ink, 4. l. 8. s. 3 ob.  
Sum. 1230. l'. 17. d. 7. d. ob.  
Item, for two clothes of Scarlet for the Earl against Christmas, 
159. clothes in Liveries against Christmas.  one cloth of Russet, for the Bishop of Anjou, 70. clothes of blue for the Knights, (as they were then termed) 15. clothes of Medley for the Lords clerks, 28. clothes for the Esquire, 15. clothes for Officers, 19 clothes for Grooms, 3. clothes for Archers, 4. clothes for Minstrels and Carpenters, with the sharing and carriage for the Earls Liveries at Christmas, 460. l. 15. d.  
Item, for 7. Furs of variable Miniver (or powdered Ermine) 7. Hoods of purple, 395. Furs of Budge, for the Liveries of Barons, Knights, and Clerks, 123. Furs of Lamb, for Esquires, bought at Christmas, 147. l. 17. s. 8. d.  
Item, 65. clothes Saffron colour, 
104. clothes in Liveries in summer.  for the Barons and Knights: in summer, 12. red clothes mixed, for Clerks, 26 clothes ray, for Esquires, one cloth ray, for Officers coats in summer, and four clothes ray, for carpets in the Hall, 345. l. 13. s. 8. d.  
Item, 100 pieces of green silk for the Knights, 14. Budge Furs for surcotes, 13. hoods of Budge for Clerks, and 75. Furs of Lambs, for the Lords liveries in summer, with Canvas and cords to truss them, 72. l. 19 s.  
Item, Saddles for the Lords liveries in summer, 51. l. 6. s. 8. d.  
Item, for one Saddle for the Earl, of the Prince's arms 40. s.  
Sum. 1079. l. 18. s. 3. d.  
Item, for things bought, whereof nothing can be read in my note, 241. l. 14. s. 1. d. ob.  
For horses lost in service of the Earl 8. l. 6. s. 8. d.  
Fees paid to Earls, Barons, Knights, and Esquires, 623. l. 15. s. 5. d.  
In gifts to Knights of France, the Queen of England's Nurses, to the Countess of Warren, Esquires, Minstrels, Messengers and riders, 92. l. 14. s.  
Item, 
Northern Russt half yard and half quarter broad, I have seen sold for four pence the yard, and was good cloth of a mingled colour.  168. yards of Russet cloth, and 24. coats for poor men, with money given to the poor on Maundy Thursday, 8. l. 16. s. 7. d.  
Item, 24 silver Dishes, so many saucers, and so many Cups for the Buttery, one pair of Pater nosters, and one silver coffin bought this year, 103. l. 5. s. 6. d.  
To diverse Messengers about the Earl's business, 34. l. 19 s. 8. d.  
In the Earl's Chamber 5. l.  
To diverse men for the Earls old debts, 88 l. 16. s. ob. q.  
Sum. 1270. l. 7. s. 11. d. ob. q.  
The expenses of the Countess at Pickering, for the time of this account, as in the Pantry, Buttery, Kitchen, and other places concerning these Offices, two hundred, fourscore and 5. pounds thirteen shillings, half penny.  
In Wine, Wax, Spices, Clothes, Furs, and other things for the Countess' Wardrobe, an hundred fifty four pounds, seven shillings, four pence, half penny.  
Sum. 439. l. 8. s. 6. d. q. Summa totalis of the whole expenses, 7957 l' 13. s. 4. d. ob.  
This much for this Earl of Lancaster.  
More, 
Record Tower.  I read that in the 14. of the same Edward the second, 
Hugh Spencer the elder, his provision for housekeeping, which showeth a great family to be kept in household.  Hugh Spencer the elder (condemned by the comunalty) was banished the Realm, at which time, it was found by inquisition, that the said Spencer had in sundry shires. 59 Manors, He had 28000. sheep, 1000 Oxen and Streeres, 1200. Kine with their Calves, 40. Mares with their Colts, 160. drawing horse, 2000 Hogs, 300. Bullocks, 40. Tuns of Wine, 600. Bacon's, 80. Carcases of Martilmasse Beef, 600. Muttons in Larder, 10. Tuns of Sidar. His Armour, plate, jewels, ready money, better than 10000 pound, 36. sacks of Wool, and a Library of Books. Thus much the Record: which provision for household, showeth a great Family there to be kept.  
Nearer to our time, 
Rob. Fabian manuscript.  I read in the 36. of Henry the sixth, that the greater estates of the Realm being called up to London.  
The Earl of Salisbury came up to London with 500 men on horseback, and was lodged in the Herber.  
Richard Duke of York with 400. men lodged at Baynard's Castle.  
The Duke of Excester and Somerset with 800. men.  
The Earl of Northumberland, the Lord Egremont, and the Lord Clifford, with 1500. men.  
Richard Nevell, 
Nevell Earl of Warwick his house keeping.  Earl of Warwick, with 600. men all in red jackets, Embroidered with ragged staves before and behind, and was lodged in Warwick lane: in whose house there was oftentimes six Oxen eaten at a breakfast, and every Tavern was full of his meat, for he that had any acquaintance in that house might have there so much of sodden and roast meat, as he could prick and carry upon a long Dagger.  
Richard Redman, 
Richard Redman Bishop of Ely.  Bishop of Ely, 1500. the 17. of Henry the seventh, besides his great family, housekeeping, Alms dish, and relief to the poor, wheresoever he was lodged. In his travaiing, when at his coming, or going to or from any Town, the Bells being rung, all the poor would come together, to whom he gave every one six pence at the least.  
And now to note of our own time somewhat. 
The worthy house keeping of Thomas Woolsey Lord Archbishop of York.  Not omitting in this Thomas Woolsey, Archbishop of York, and Cardinal. You shall understand, that he had in his hall (continually) three tables or boards, kept with three principal Officers, to wit, a Steward, who was always a Priest, a Treasurer a Knight, and a controller an Esquire. Also a Cofferer, being a Doctor, three Marshals, three Yeomen Ushers in the Hall: besides two Grooms and Almners. Then in the Hall kitchen, two Clerks of the kitchen, a Clerk controller, a Survevor of the dressor, a clerk of the Spicery: all which (together) kept also a continual Mess in the Hall. 
Officers for the Hall kitchen.  Also, in his Hall-kitchin, he had of Master cooks two, and of other cooks, labourers, 
Master-Cookes and other.  and children of the kitchen, twelve persons: four Yeomen of the ordinary scullery, four Yeomen of the silver scullery, two Yeomen of the Pastry, with two other Pastelers under the Yeomen.  
In the Privy kitchen, 
For the Privy kitchen.  he had a Master cook, who went daily in Velvet and Satin, with a chain of Gold about his neck, and two other Yeomen, and a Groom. 
Scalding house, Pantry, Buttery.  In the scalding house, a Yeomen and two Grooms. In the Pantry, two Yeoman. In the Buttery, two Yeomen, 
Chandery.  two Grooms, and two Pages. 
Wafary.  In the Chandery two Yeomen. In the Wafary two Yeomen. 
Wardrobe of beds.  In the Wardrobe of Beds, the Master of the Wardrobe, and ten other persons attending. 
Laundery.  In the Laundery a Yeoman, a Groom, thirty Pages, two Yeomen Purveyors, 
Bakehouse  and one Groom. In the Bakehouse a Yeoman and 2 Grooms. In the Woodyard a Yeoman and a Groom. 
Woodyard.  In the Barn one. 
Barn.  In the Garden a Yeoman and two Grooms: 
Garden.  A Yeoman of his Barge; 
Barge.  a Master of his Horse, a Clerk of the Stable, 
Stable.  a Yeoman of the same; the Saddler; the Farriar; a Yeoman of his Chariot; a Sumpter-man,; a Yeoman of his Stirrup; a Muleteer, and sixteen Grooms of his Stable, every one of them keeping 4. Geldings. Porters at his gate, 
Porters.  two Yeomen and two Grooms. In the Almnorie, a Yeoman and a Groom.  
In his Chapel he had a Dean, 
The order of his Chapel.  a great Divine, and a man of excellent learning: a Subdeane, a repeater of the Choir, a gospeler, a Pisteler, of singing Priests ten, a master of the children, twelve Seculars, being singingmen of the Chapel; ten singing children, with a servant to attend upon the children. In the Revestry, a Yeoman and two Grooms; over and beside diverse retainers, that came thither at principal Feasts.  
For the furniture of his Chapel, 
The rich furniture of his Chapel.  it exceedeth my cpacity to declare, or to speak of the number of costly ornaments and rich Jewels that were used in the same continually. There hath been seen in procession about the Hall, four and forty very rich Coaps worn, all of one suit; besides the rich Crosses and Candlesticks, and other ornaments belonging to the furnishment of the same. He had two Crossebearers, and two Pillar-bearers in his great Chamber. 
Crossebearers & pillar-bearers.  And in his Privie-chamber these persons: First, the chief Chamberlain and Vice-chamberlaine. 
His privy chamber.  Of Gentlemen Ushers (beside one in his Privie-chamber) he had twelve daily waiters: and of Gentlemen waiters, 
Gentlemen waiters.  in his Privie-Chamber, 
Lords and their attendants.  he had six; of Lords nine or ten, who had (each of them) two men allowed to attend upon them: except the Earl of Derby, who always was allowed 5. men. Then had he of Gentlemen, Cupbearers, Carvers, Sewers, both of the Privy chamber and of the great chamber, 
For the privy and great chamber.  with Gentlemen (daily waiters there) 40. persons. Of Yeomen Ushers 6. of Grooms in his chamber, 8. of Yeomen in his chamber 45. daily. He had also Almesmen, sometime more in number than at other times.  
There was attending on his Table daily, 
Daily attendants on his Table.  of Doctors and Chaplains, (beside them of his Chapel) 16. A Clerk of his Closet, two Secretaries, 2 Clerks of his Signet; and four Counselors, learned in the Laws. And forasmuch as it was necessary to have diverse Officers of the Chancery to attend upon him; 
Officers of the Chancery.  that is to say, the Clerk of the Crown, a riding Clerk, a Clerk of the Hamper, and a Clerk of the Wax; then a Clerk of the Check, (aswell upon the Chaplains, as on the Yeomen of his chamber,) he gave allowance to them all. 
His Footmen.  He had also four Footmen, who were clothed in rich running coats, whensoever he road on any journey. Then had he an Herald at Arms, 
A Herald and Sergeant at Arms.  a Sergeant at Arms, a Physician, an Apothecary, four Minstrels, a keeper of his Tents, an Armourer, an instructor of his Wards, two Yeomen of his Wardrobe of Robes, and a keeper of his chamber continually in the Court. He had also in his house the Survey or of York, 
Surveyor of York, & Clerk of the Greenecloth.  and a Clerk of the Green cloth. All these were daily attending, down lying and uprising; as we use to say, and at meals. He kept in his great chamber, a continual Table for the Chamberers and Gentlemen Officers: having with them a Mess of the young Lords, 
Young Lords and Gentlemen  and another of Gentlemen. And besides all these, there was never an Offices, Gentleman, or other worthy person, but he was allowed in the house, 
Attendants allowed in the house.  some three, some two, and all other, one at the least, which grew to a great number of persons.  
Thus far out of the Checke-roll: besides other Officers, servants and retainers, and Suitors, that most commonly dined in the Hall.  
Nicholas West, 
Lib. Ely.  in the year 1532. kept continually in his house 100 servants, 
West, Bishop of Ely  giving to the one half of them 53. s. 4. d. apiece yearly: to the other half, each 40. s. apiece: to every one for his winter Gown, four yards of broadcloath, and for his Summer Coat three yards and an half. He daily gave at his Gates, besides bread and drink, warm meat to two hundred poor people.  
The housekeeping of Edward late Earl of Derby is not to be forgotten, 
Edward, Earl of Derby.  who had 220. men in check-roll: his feeding aged persons twice every day, 60. and odd, beside all comers, thrice a week appointed for his dealing days, and every Good-friday, 2700. with meat, drink, and money.  
Thomas Audley, 
Thomas Lord Audley.  Lord Chancellor, his family of Gentlemen before him, in coats guarded with velvet, and chains of gold, his Yeomen after him, in the same Livery not guarded.  
William Powlet or Pawlet, 
Every Livery coat had three yards of bread cloth.  Lord great Master, marquis of Winchester, kept the like number of Gentlemen and yeomen, in a Livery of Reading tawny, and great relief at his gate.  
Thomas Lord Cromwell, 
Tho. Lord Cromwell.  Earl of Essex, kept the like or greater number in a Livery of grey Marble; the Gentlemen guarded with Velvet, the Yeomen with the same cloth, yet their skirts large enough for their friends to sit upon them.  
Edward, 
Duke of Somerset.  Duke of Somerset was not inferior in keeping a number of tall and comely Gentlemen and Yeomen, though his house was then in building, & most of his men were lodged abroad.  
The Earl of Oxford hath been noted within these fifty years, 
Earl of Oxford.  to have ridden into this City, and so to his house by London-stone, with fourscore Gentlemen in a Livery of Reading Tawny, and chains of gold about their necks, before him; and one hundred tall Yeomen in the like Livery to follow him, without Chains, but all having his Cognizance of the blue Boar, embroidered on their left shoulder.   

Of charitable Alms in old time given.  
THese, as all other of their times, gave great relief to the poor. I myself, in that declining time of charity, 
Alms given at the Lord Cromwel's gate.  have oft seen at the Lord Cromwel's gate in London, more than 200 persons, served twice every day with bread, meat and drink sufficient; for he observed that ancient and charitable custom, as all Prelates, Noblemen, or men of honour and worship his predecessors, had done before him: whereof somewhat to note for example: Venerable Bede writeth; that Prelates of his time, having peradventure but wooden Churches, had (notwithstanding) on their board at their meals, one Alms dish, into the which was carved some good portion of meat, out of every other dish brought to their Table, all which was given to the poor, besides the fragments left. Insomuch as in a hard time, a poor Prelate wanting victuals, hath caused his Alms dish, being silver, to be divided amongst the poor, therewith to shifted as they could, till God should send him better store.  
Such a Prelate was Ethelwald, Bishop of Winchester, in the reign of King Edgar, about the year of Christ, 963. He in a great famine, sold away all the sacred vessels of his Church, 
Bishop of Winchester his saying touching the relief 〈◊〉 the poor.  for to relieve the almost starved people, saying: That there was no reason that the senseless Temples of God should abound in riches, and lively Temples of the Holy Ghost to lack it.  
Walter de Suffilde, Bishop of Norwich, was of the like mind, 
Bishop of Norwich sold his plate.  about the year 1245. In a time of great dearth, he sold all his Plate, and distributed it to the poor every pennyworth.  
Robert Winchelsey, 
Archbishop of Canturbury his charity  Archbishop of Canturbury, about the year 1293. besides the daily fragments of his house, gave every Friday and Sunday to every beggar that came to his gate, a loate of bread sufficient for that day, and there were usually every such alms day in time of dearth, to the number of 5000. and otherwise 4000 at the least. More, he used every great Festival day, to give 150. pence to so many poor people, and sent daily meat, bread, and drink, to such as by age, or sickness, were not able to fetch his Alms, and did send meat, money and apparel to such as he thought needed it.  
I read in 1171. that Henry the second, 
Pater de Ioh●●. Ten thousand poor people daily fed and sustained by Henry the third.  after his return into England, did penance for the slaughter of Thomas Becket, by whom (a sore dearth than increasing) ten thousand persons, from the first of April; till new corn was inned, were daily fed and sustained.  
More I find recorded, that in the year 1236. the 20. of Henry the third, 
Record of the Tower Hen. 3. fed 6000. poor people in one day.  William de Haverhull, the King's Treasurer, was commanded, that upon the day of the Circumcision of our Lord, 6000. poor people should be fed at Westminster, for the state of the King, Queen, and their children. The like commandment the said King Henry gave to Hugh Gifford, & William Brown, that upon Friday next after the Epiphanie, they should cause to be fed in the great Hall at Windsor, at a good fire, all the poor & needy children that could be found, and the King's children being weighed and measured, their weight and measure to be distributed for their good estates. These few examples for charity of Kings may suffice.  
I read in the reign of Edward the 3. that Richard de Berry, 
Richard de Berry, Bishop of Durham.  Bishop of Durham, did weekly bestow for relief of the poor, eight quarters of wheat made into bread, besides his Alms dish, fragments of his house, and great sums of money given to the poor when he journied. And that these Alms dishes were as well used at the Tables of Noblemen, as of the Prelates, one note may suffice in this place.  
I read in the year 1452. that Richard Duke of York then claiming the Crown, the Lord Rivers should have passed the Sea about the King's business, but staying at Plinouth till his money was spent, and then sending for more; 
Duke of Gloucesters' Alms dish contained a great quantity of silver.  the Duke of Somerset sent him the Image of S. George in silver and gold, to be sold, with the Alms dish of the Duke of Gloucester, which was also of great price: for coin had they none.  
To end the Orders and Customs in this City, as also of great families kept by honourable persons thither repairing, and of charitable Alms of old time given: I say, for conclusion, that all Noble persons, and other of honour and worship, in former times lodging in this City, or liberties thereof, did without grudging, bear their parts in charges with the Citizens, according to their estimated estates, as I have before said, and could prove it by examples.  
But let men call to mind Sir Thomas Cromwell, 
Tho. Cromwell at the great Muster.  than Lord Privy Seal, and Vicar general, lying in the City of London, he bore his charges to the great Muster there, consisting of 15000, besides Whisslers and other waiters, all in bright harness, with coats of white silk or 〈◊〉, and chains of gold, in three great battles.  
In Anno 1539. he sent his men (in great number) to the Miles end, and after them their Armour in Carres, with their coats of white cloth, and the Arms of this City, to wit, a red cross and a sword, on the breast and back, which Armour and Coats they ware amongst the Citizens, without any difference, and marched thorough the City to Westminster.    

Sports and Pastimes of old time used in this City.  
LEt us now (saith Fitzstephen) come to the Sports and Pastimes, 
Of sports and pastimes in this City.  seeing it is fit that a City should not 〈◊〉 be commodious and serious, 
Every thing hath his time, a time to weep, a time to laugh, a time to mourn, & a time to dance. Eccles. 3.  but also merry and sportful. Whereupon, in the seals of the Popes, until the time of Pope Leo, on the one side was Saint Peter fishing, with a key over him, reached as it were by the hand of God out of Heaven, and about it this verse: Tu pro me naven liquisti, suscipe clavem.  
And on the other side was a City, and this inscription on it, Aurea Roma. Likewise to the praise of Augustus Caesar and the City, in respect of the shows and sports, was written, 
Nocte pluit tota, redeunt spectaculs mane, etc.  
All night it raines, and shows  
at morrowtide return again;  
And Caesar with almighty jove  
hath matched an equal reign.   
But London for the shows upon theatres, 
Stageplays.  and Comical pastimes, hath holy plays, representations of miracles, which holy Confessors have wrought; or representations of torments, wherein the constancle of Martyrs appeared.  
Every year also on Shrove-Tuesday, (that we may begin with children's sports, seeing we all have been children:) the Schoolboys do bring Cocks of the game to their Master, and all the forenoon they delight themselves in cockfighting. 
Cocke-fighting.  After dinner, all the youths go into the fields to play at the Ball. 
Ball-play.   
The scholars of every School have their Ball, or bastion in their hands: the ancient and wealth men of the City come forth on horseback, to see the sport of the Youngmen, and to take part of the pleasure, in beholding their agility.  
Every Friday in Lent, 
Exercises of warlike feats on horseback with disarmed Lances.  a fresh company of youngmen comes into the field on horseback, and the best horsemen conduct the rest. Then march forth the Citizens sons, and other youngmen with disarmed Lances and Shields, and there they practise feats of War.  
Many Courtiers likewise, when the King lieth near, and attendants on Noblemen, do repair to these exercises, and while the hope of victory doth inflame their minds, they show by good proof how serviceable they would be in Martial affairs.  
In Easter Holidays, 
Battle on the water.  they fight battles on the water, a Shield is hanged upon a pole, fixed in the midst of the stream; a Boat is prepared without Oars, to be carried by violence of the water, and in the forepart thereof standeth a youngman, ready to give charge upon the Shield with his Lance. If so be he break his Lance against the Shield and doth not fall, he is thought to have performed a worthy deed. If so be without breaking his Lance, he runneth strongly against the Shield, down he falleth into the water; for the Boat is violently forced with the Tide; but on each side of the Shield ride two Boats, furnished with youngmen, which recover him that falleth, as soon as they may. Upon the Bridge, Wharfes and houses by the River's side, stand great numbers to see, and laugh thereat.  
In the Holidays all the Summer, the youths are exercised in leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling, casting the stone, and practising their Shields: the Maidens trip with their Timbrels, 
Fight of Boars, baiting of Bears & Bulls.  and dance as long as they can well see. In Winter, every Holiday before dinner, the Boars prepared for brawn are set to fight, or else Bulls or Bears are baited.  
When the great Fen or Moor, which watereth the walls of the City on the North side is frozen, many young men play upon the Ice; some striding as wide as they may, do slide swiftly: others make themselves seats of Ice, as great as Millstones. One sits down, many (hand in hand) do draw him, and one slipping on a sudden, all fall together. Some tie bones to their feet, and under their heels, and shoving themselves by a little piked staff, do slide as swiftly as a bird flieth in the air, or an arrow out of a Crossbow, Sometime two run together with poles, and hitting one the other, either one or both do fall, not without hurt: some break their arms, some their legs: but youth (desirous of glory in this sort) exerciseth itself against the time of war. 
Hawking & hunting  Many of the Citizens do delight themselves in Hawks and Hounds, for they have liberty of hunting in Middlesex, Hertfordshire, all Chiltron, and in Kent to the water of Cray. Thus far Fitzstephen of sports.  
These or the like exercises have been continued till our time, namely in Stageplays, whereof ye may read, in Anno 1391. a Play by the Parish Clerks of London at the Skinners Well besides Smithfield; 
A stage-play that continued 3. days, A stage-play that lasted 8. days.  which continued three days together, the King, Queen, and Nobles being present. And of another in the year 1409. which lasted eight days, and was of matter from the Creation of the World, whereat was present most part of the Nobility, and Gentry of England.  
Of late time, 
Theatre & Curtain for Comedies and other shows,  in stead of those Stageplays, have been used Comedies, Tragedies, Interludes, and Histories, both true and sained: for the acting whereof, certain public places have been erected. Also Cocks of the game are yet cherished by diverse men for their pleasures, much money being laid on their heads, when they fight in pits, whereof some be costly, made for that purpose.  
The Ball is used by Noblemen and Gentlemen in Tennis-courts, 
The Ball at Tennis play.  and by people of meaner sort in the open fields and streets.  
The marching forth of Citizen's sons and other young men on horseback, with disarmed Lances and Shields, there to practise feats of war, man against man, hath long since been left off, but in their City they have used on horseback, to run at a dead mark, called a Quinten.  
Certain of the King's servants, because the Court lay then at Westminster, came, 
The king's servants deriding the Citizens, were fore beaten, but the Citizens were fined by the King.  as it were, in despite of the Citizens, to that game, and giving reproachful names to the Londoners, which for the dignity of the City, and the ancient privilege which they ought to have enjoyed, were called Barons: the said Londoners being wrongfully abused, fell upon the King's servants, and beaten them shrewdly, so that upon complaint made to the King, he fined the City to pay a thousand Marks. This exercise of running at the Quinten, was practised by the youthful Citizens, aswel in summer as in winter; namely, in the feast of Christmas. I have seen a Quinten set upon Cornhill, 
Quinten upon Cornhill.  by the Leaden Hall, where the attendants of the Lords of merry disports have run, and made great pastime: for he that hit not the broad end of the Quinten, was of all men laughed to scorn; and he that hit it full, if he road nor the faster, had a sound blow in his neck with a bag full of sand, hanged on the other end.  
I have also in the Summer season, seen some upon the River of Thames, 
Running with staves on the Thames.  rowed in Whirries, with staves in their hands, flat at the fore-end, running one against another, and for the most part, one or both overthrown, and well dowked.  
On the Holidays in Summer, 
Leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling.  the Youths of this City have in the Field exercised themselves, in leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling, casting of the stone or ball, etc.  
And for defence and use of the Weapon, there is a special profession of men that teach it. 
Mat. Paris.  I read that in the year 1222. and the 6. of King Henry the 3. on Saint james day, the Citizens of London kept games of defence and wrestling, near to the Hospital of Matilda, at S. Giles in the field, where they got the mastery of the men of the Suburbs.  
The Bailiff of Westminster devising to be revenged, 
A game at Westminster on Lammas day.  proclaimed a game to be at Westminster upon Lammas day: whereunto the Citizens willingly repaired.  
When they had played a while, the Bailiff, with the men of the Suburbs, harnessed themselves treacherously, and fell to such fight, that the Citizens (being sore wounded) were forced to run into the City, where they rung the common Bell, and assembled the Citizens in great number. When the matter was declared, every man wished to revenge the fact: 
The advice of 〈◊〉 L. Maior.  but the Lord Mayor of the City, being a wise and quiet man, willed them first to move the Abbot of Westminster in the matter, and if he would promise to see amends made, it was sufficient. 
The bad counsel of Constantine Fitz Arnulit as bad followed.  But a certain Citizen, named Constantine Fitz Arnulit, willed, that all the houses of the Abbot and Bailiff should be pulled down. Which desperate words were no sooner spoken, but the common people (as unadvisedly) issued forth of the City without any order, and fought a cruel battle, Constantine pulling down diverse houses; and the people (as praising Constantine) cried; The joy of the Mountain, the joy of the Mountain; God help, and the Lord Lodowick.  
A few days after this tumult, the Abbot of Westminster came to London, 
Cl●on. Don. The Abbot of Westminst. put to his shifts.  to Philip Dawbeney, one of the king's Council, to complain of the injuries done to him: the Londoners perceiving it, beset the house about, and took by violence twelve of the Abbot's horses away, cruelly beating his men, etc.  
But whilst the said Dawbeney laboured to pacific the uproar, the Abbot got out at the back door of the house, and so, by a Boat on the Thames, hardly escaped, the Citizens throwing stones after him in great abundance.  
These things being thus done, 
The Lord chief justice entered the City of London with an Army.  Hubert de Burge, chief justice of England, with a great Army of men, came to the Tower of London, and sent for the Mayor and Aldermen, of whom he enquired for the principal Authors of this Faction. Constantine, being constant in the sedition, was more constant in the answer; affirming, that he had done it, and that he had done much less than he meant to have done.  
The Justice took him, and two other with him, and that morning sent him to Faulcatius by water, with a great number of armed men, who brought Constantine to the Gallows.  
But when he saw the Rope about his neck, 
Constantine and other hanged.  he offered for his life fifteen thousand Marks, yet it would not seem to save him: so he was hanged, with Constantine his Nephew, and Galfrid that proclaimed his proclamation, on the 16. of August.  
Also in the year 1453. of a tumult made against the Mayor, 
Gamos of defence.  at the wrestling besides Clerks well, etc. Which is sufficient to prove, that (of old time) the exercising of wrestling, and such like, hath been much more used than of latter years.  
The youths of this City also have used, on holidays, after Evening Prayer, 
Playing at the Bucklers.  at their Master's doors, to exercise their Wasters and Bucklers: and the Maidens, one of them playing on a Timbrel, 
Dancing for Garlands in the streets  in sight of their Masters and Dames, to dance for Garlands, hanged thwart the streets, which open pastimes in my youth, being now suppressed, worse practices within doors are to be feared.  
As for the baiting of Bulls and Bears, they are till this day much frequented, namely in Bearegardens on the Bankside, 
Bear and Bull baiting.  wherein be prepared scaffolds for beholders to stand upon.  
Sliding on the Ice is now but children's play: but in Hawking and Hunting many grave Citizens at this present have great delight, and do rather want leisure than goodwill to follow it.  
Of triumphant shows made by the Citizens of Lond. 
Mal. Paris.  ye may read in the year 1236. the twentieth of Henry the third, 
Shows for triumphs.  Andrew Bockrell then being Mayor, how Elinor, daughter to Reymond, Earl of Provence, riding thorough the City toward Westminster, there to be crowned Queen of England, the City was adorned with silks, and in the night with Lamps, Cressets, and other lights, without number, besides many Pageants, and strange devices there presented; the Citizens also road to meet the King and Queen, 
The Citizens road.  clothed in long garments embroidered about with gold, 
Embroidered garments.  and silks of diverse colours, their horses gallantly, trapped, to the number of 306. every manbearing a Cup of gold or silver in his hand, and the King's Trumpeters before them: These Citizens did minister Wine, as Buttlers', which is their service at the Coronation.  
More, in the year 1298. for victory obtained by Edward the first against the Scots, every Company, according to their several Trade, made their several show: 
Fishmonger's Procession for triumph of victory, more than 1000 horsemen.  but specially the Fishmongers, which in a solemn Procession passed thorough the City, having amongst other Pageants and shows, four Sturgeons gi●t, carried on four horses; then, four Salmon of silver, on four horses, and after them six and forty armed Knights, riding on horses, made like Luce's of the Sea, and then one presenting Saint Magnes, because it was upon Saint Magnes day, with a thousand horsemen, etc.  
One other show in the year 1377. made by the Citizens for disport of the young Prince Richard, son to the black Prince, in the Feast of Christmas, and in this manner:  
On the Sunday before Candlemas, 
A show by Torchlight, being a Mummery of more than 100: men on horseback  in the night, one hundred and thirty Citizens, disgnised and well horsed, in a Mummery, with sound of Trumpets, Sackbuts, Cornets, Shawms, and other Minstrels, and innumerable Torch-lights of Wax, rode from Newgate thorough Cheap, over the Bridge, through Southwark, and so to Kennington besides Lambeth, where the young Prince remained with his Mother, and the Duke of Lancaster, his Uncle, the Earls of Cambridge, Hertford, Warwick, and Suffolk, with diverse other Lords.  
In the first rank did ride 48. in the likeness and habit of Esquires, two and two together, clothed in red coats, and gowns of Say or Sendal, with comely vizors one their faces.  
After them came riding 48. Knights, in the same Livery of colour and stuff.  
Then followed one richly arrayed, like an Emperor; and after him some distance, one stately tired like a Pope, who was followed by 24. Cardinal's: and after them eight or ten with black vizors, not amiable, as if they had been Legates from some foreign Princes.  
These Maskers, after they had entered the Manor of Kennington, alighted from their horses: and entered the Hall on foot; which done, the Prince, his Mother, and the Lords came out of the chamber into the hall, whom the Mummers did salute: showing by a pair of Dice on the Table, their desire to play with the young Prince: which they so handled, that the Prince did always win when he cast at them.  
Then the Mummers set to the Prince three Jewels, 
The Prince did win three jewels of the Maskers.  one after another; which were, a Bowl of gold, a Cup of gold, and a Ring of gold, which the Prince won at three casts.  
Then they set to the Prince's Mother, the Duke, the Earls, and other Lords, to every one ● Ring of gold, which they did also win. After which they were feasted, and the Music sounded, the Prince and Lords danced on the one part with the Mummers, who did also dance: which jollity being ended, they were again made to drink, and then departed in order as they came.  
The like was to Henry the fourth, in the second of his reign, he then keeping his Christmas at Eltham, twelve Aldermen of London, and their sons, rode in a mumming, and had great thanks.  
Thus much for sportful shows in Triumphs may suffice.  
Now for sports and pastimes yearly used.  
First, in the Feast of Christmas, there was in the King's house, wheresoever he was lodged, 
Lord of Misrule at Christmas  a Lord of Misrule, or Master of merry disports, and the like had ye in the house of every Nobleman of honour, or good worship, were he spiritual or temporal. Among the which, The Mayor of London, and either of the Sheriffs had their several Lords of misrule, ever contending, without quarrel or offence, who should make the rarest pastimes to delight the beholders. These Lords beginning their rule at Alhallon Eve, continued the same till the mocrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Candlemas day: In all which space, there were fine and subtle disguise, Masks and Mummeries, with playing at Cards for counters, nails and points in every house, more for pastime than for gain.  
Against the Feast of Christmas, every man's house, as also their Parish Churches, were decked with Holme, Ivy, Bays, and whatsoever the season of the year afforded to be green: The conduits and standards in the streets were likewise garnished. Among the which, I read, that in the year 1444. by tempest of thunder and lightning, on the first of February at night, 
Tempests of lightning and thunder fired Paul's steeple, overthrew the standard at Leaden hall, and threw stones of the payment into men's houses.  Paul's steeple was fired, but with great labour quenched: and toward the morning of Candlemas day, at the Leaden Hall in Cornhill, a Standard of tree being set up in the midst of the payment, fast in the ground, nailed full of Holme and Ivy, for disport of Christmas to the people; was torn up, and cast down by the malignant Spirit (as was thought) and the stones of the payment all about, were cast in the streets, and into diverse houses, so that the people were sore aghast at the great tempests.  
In the week before Easter, 
Twisted trees ●et from the woods.  had ye great shows made, for the fetching in of a twisted Tree, or With, as they termed it, out of the woods, into the king's house, and the like into every man's house of Honour or Worship.  
In the Month of May, 
May games  namely on May day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet Meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet Flowers, and with the harmony of Birds, praising God in their kind. And for example hereof, 
Edward Hall.  Edward Hall hath noted, that King Henry the eighth, as in the third of his reign, and diverse other years, so namely in the seventh of his reign, on May day in the morning, with Queen Katherine his wife, accompanied with many Lords and Ladies, road a Maying from Greenwich to the high ground of Shooters-hill: where as they passed by the way, they espied a company of tall Yeomen, clothed all in green, with green hoods, and with bows and arrows, to the number of 200. One, being their Chieftain, 
Robin Hood and his men shot before the King.  was called Robin Hood, who required the King and all his company to stay and see his men shoot: whereunto the King granting, Robin Hood whistled, and all the 200. Archers shot off, losing all at once; and when he whistled again, they likewise shot again: their Arrows whistled by craft of the head, so that the noise was strange and loud, which greatly delighted the King, Queen, and their company.  
Moreover, this Robin Hood desired the King and Queen, with their retinue, to enter the green Wood, where, in Arbours made with boughs, and decked with flowers, they were set and served plentifully with venison and wine, by Robin Hood and his meyny, to their great contentment, and had other Pageants and Pastimes, as ye may read in my said Author.  
I find also, that in the month of May, the Citizens of London (of all estates) lightly in every Parish, or sometime two or three Parishes joining together, had their several Maynings, and did fetch in Maypoles, with diverse warlike shows, with good Archers, Morris-dancers, and other devices for pastime all the day long; and towards the evening, they had stage-plays, and Bonfires in the streets.  
Of these Maying, we read in the reign of Henry the sixth, that the Aldermen and Sheriffs of London, being on May day at the Bishop of London's Wood in the Parish of Stebunheath, 
Bishop's Wood  and having there a worshipful dinner for themselves and other comers, 
Bishop's Hall by Ble●henhall green.  Lydgate the the Poet, that was a Monk of Bury, sent to them by a Pursuivant a joyful commendation of that seasen, containing sixteen staves in meeter Royal, beginning thus:  

Mighty Flora, Goddess of fresh flowers,  
which clothed hath the soil in lusty green, 
The pleasant month of May commended.   
Made buds to spring, with her sweet showers,  
by influence of the Sun shine,  
To do pleasance of intent full clean,  
unto the States which now sit here,  
Hath Ver down sent her own daughter dear,   

Making the virtue, that dared in the root,  
Called the virtue, the virtue vegetable,  
for to transcend, most wholesome & most soot,  
Into the top, this season so agreeable:  
the baw my liquor is so commendable,  
That it rejoiceth with his fresh moisture,  
man, beast, and fowl, and every creature, etc.   
About the ninth year of the reign of King Henry the eight, a great he artburning and malicious grudge grew amongst the Englishmen of the City of London, against strangers: and namely, the Artificers found themselves much aggrieved; 
The number of strangers in London misliked.  because such number of strangers were permitted, to resort hither with their Wares, and to exercise Handicrafts, to the great hindrance and impoverishing of the King's Liege people. Which malice grew to such a point that one john Lincoln a Broker, 
john Lincoln a Broker beginner of the insurrection  busied himself so far in the matter, that about Palm Sunday, or the fifth of April, he came to one Doctor Henry Standish, with these words; Sir, I understand, that you shall preach at the spital on Monday in Easter-weeke, and so it is, that English men, both Merchants and other, are undone by strangers, who have more liberty in this Land than they, which is against reason, and also against the Commonweal of this Realm: I beseech you therefore, 
A bill offered by Lincoln to Doctor Standish.  to declare this in your sermon, and in so doing, you shall deserve great thanks of my Lord Mayor, and of all his Brethren. And herewith he offered unto the said Doctor a bill, containing the matter more at large. But Doctor Standish wisely considering, that there might more inconvenience arise thereof, than he would wish, if he should deal in such a sort: both refused the bill, and told Lincoln plainly, that he meant not to meddle with any such matter in his Sermon.  
Whereupon, the said Lincoln went unto one Doctor Bell, a Canon of the foresaid spital, 
Doctor Be●●●dertooke to read Lincoln's bill in the Pulpit.  that was appointed likewise to preach upon Tuesday in Easter-weake at the same spital, whom he persuaded to read his said bill in the Pulpit: which bill contained (in effect) the griefs that many found with strangers, for taking the livings away from Artificers, and the intercourse from Merchants, the redress whereof must come from the commons knit in one; for as the hurt touched all men, so must all set to their helping hands. Which letter he read, 
The bill contained much seditious matter.  or the chiefest part thereof, comprehending much seditious matter. And then he began with this sentence: Coelum coeli Domino, terram autem dedit filiis hominum. And upon this Text he entreated, how this Land was given to Englishmen, and as Birds defend their nests, so ought Englishmen to cherish and maintain themselves, and to hurt and grieve Aliens, for respect of their Commonwealth. And on this Text, Pugna pro Patria, he brought in, how (by God's Law) it was was lawful to fight for their Country: 
Pugna pro Patria.  and thus he subtly moved the people to rebel against strangers. By this Sermon, many a lightheaded person took courage, and openly spoke against strangers: and by mishap, there had been diverse evil parts (of late) played by strangers, in and about the City of London, which kindled the people's rancour the more furiously against them.  
The twenty eighth day of April, 
Quarela urged to strangers as they were in the streets  diverse youngmen of the City picked quarrels with certain strangers, as they passed along the streets: some they smote and buffeted, and some they threw in the channel: for which, the Lord Maior sent some of the Englishmen to prison, as Stephen Studley, Skinner, Stevenson, Bets, and other.  
Then suddenly rose a secret rumour, and no man could tell how it began, that on May-day next following, 
Evil May-day.  the City would slay all the Aliens: insomuch that diverse strangers fled out of the City.  
This rumour came to the knowledge of the King's Council: whereupon the Lord Cardinal sent for the Mayor, and other of the Council of the City, giving them to understand what he had heard.  
The Lord Maior (as one ignorant of the matter) told the Cardinal, that he doubted not so to govern the City, but as peace should be observed.  
The Cardinal willed him so to do, and to take good heed, that if any riotous attempt were intended, he should by good policy prevent it.  
The Mayor coming from the Cardinal's house, 
A meeting of the L. Maior and his brethren at Guildhall.  about four of the clock in the afternoon on May Eve, sent for his Brethren to the Guild-hall, yet was it almost seven of the clock before the Assembly was set. Upon conference had of the matter, some thought it necessary, that a substantial watch should be set of honest Citizens, which might withstand the evil doers, if they went about any misrule. Other were of contrary opinion, as rather thinking it best, that every man should be commanded to shut in his doors, and to keep his servants within. Before 8. of the clock, Master Recorder was sent to the Cardinal, with these opinions: who hearing the same, 
The Recorder & Sir Thomas More sent to the Cardinal.  allowed the latter. And then the Recorder, and Sir Thomas More, late undersheriff of London, and now of the King's Council, came back again to the Guild-hall, half an hour before nine of the clock, and there showed the pleasure of the King's Council: whereupon every Alderman sent to his Ward, that no man (after nine of the clock) should stir out of his house, but keep his doors shut, and his servants within, until nine of the clock in the morning.  
After this commandment was given, 
An Alderman resisted, and put to flight.  in the Evening, as Sir john Mundy Alderman, came from his Ward, he found two youngmen in Cheap, playing at the Bucklers, and a great many of youngmen looking on them, for the command seemed to be scarcely published; he commanded them to leave off; and because one of them asked him why, he would have him sent to the Counter. But the Prentices resisted the Alderman, taking the youngman from him, and cried Prentices, Prentices, Clubs, Clubs: then out at every door came Clubs and other weapons, so that the Alderman was forced to flight. Then more people arose out of every quarter, and forth came Servingmen, Watermen, Courtiers, and other, so that by eleven of the clock, there were in Cheap, 6. or 7. hundred, and out of Paul's Churchyard came about 300. From all places they gathered together, and break up the Counter, took out the Prisoners, which had been committed thither by the Lord Maior, for hurting the strangers: also they went to Newgate, and took out Studley and Bets, committed thither for the like cause. The Mayor and Sheriffs were present, and made Proclamation in the King's name, but nothing was obeyed.  
Being thus gathered into several heaps, 
Sir Thomas More laboured to pacify the rude multitude.  they ran thorough Saint Nicholas shambles, and at Saint Martin's Gate, there met with them Sir Thomas More, and other, desiring them to go to their lodgings.  
As they were thus entreating, and had almost persuaded the people to depart, they within Saint Martins threw out stones and bats, so that they hurt diverse honest persons, which were with Sir Thomas More, persuading the rebellious Rout to cease. Insomuch as at length, one Nicholas Dennis, a Sergeant at Arms, being there sore hurt, cried in a fury, 
〈◊〉 Den●●, a Sergeant 〈◊〉 ●●mes sore hurt.  Down with them: and then all the unruly persons ran to the doors and windows of the houses within St. Martin's, and spoiled all that they found. After that they ran into Cornhill, and so on to a house East of Leadenhal, called the Greengate, where dwelled one Mewtas a Piccard or Frenchman, within whose house dwelled diverse French men, 
Mewtas a Piccard.  whom they likewise spoilt: and if they had found Mewtas, they would have stricken off his head.  
Some ran to Blanchapleton, and there broke up the stranger's houses, 
The stranger's houses broken up at Blanchapleton.  and spoiled them. Thus they continued till 3. a clock in the morning, at which time, they began to withdraw: but by the way they were taken by the Mayor and other, and sent to the Tower, Newgate and Counters, to the number of 300. The Cardinal was advertised by Sir Thomas Parr, whom in all haste he sent to Richmond, 
The King sendeth to know the state of the City.  to inform the King: who immediately sent to understand the state of the City, and was truly informed. Sir Roger Cholmeley Lieutenant of the Tower, during the time of this business, shot off certain pieces of Ordnance against the City, but did no great hurt. About five of the clock in the morning, the Earls of Shrewsbury and Surrey, Thomas Dockery, Lord Prior of Saint john's, 
The Lords came with power to London.  George Nevil, Lord Aburgaveny, and other, came to London with such powers as they could make, so did the Inns of Court; but before they came, the business was done, as ye have heard.  
Then were the prisoners examined, 
Doctor Bell sent to the Tower for his Sermon.  and the Sermon of Doctor Bell called to remembrance, and he sent to the Tower. A Commission of Oyer and Determiner was directed to the Duke of Norfolk, and other Lords, for punishment of this insurrection. The second of May, the Commissioners, with the Lord Maior, Aldermen and justices, went to the Guildhall, where many of the offenders were indicted, whereupon they were arraigned, and pleaded not guilty, having day given them till the 4. of May.  
On which day, 
The Duke of Norfolk entered London with 1300 men.  the Lord Maior, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey and other, came to sit in the Guildhall. The Duke of Norfolk entered the City with one thousand three hundred men, and the prisoners were brought through the streets tied in ropes, some men, some lads but of thirteen or fourteen years old, to the number of 278. persons. That day john Lincoln and diverse other were indicted, and the next day thirteen were adjudged to be drawn, hanged, and quartered: for execution whereof, 
Ten pair of Gallows set up in diverse streets of London.  ten pair of Gallows were set up in diverse places of the City, as at Aldgate, Blanchapleton, Grasse-street, Leaden-hall, before either of the Counters; at Newgate, Saint Martins, at Aldersgate and Bishopsgate. And these Gallows were set upon wheels, to be removed irom street to street, and from door to door whereas the prisoners were to be executed.  
On the seventh of May, john Lincoln, one Shirwin, and two brethren, named Betts, 
john Lincoln the Broker executed, but the rest respited by the King.  with diverse other were adjudged to die. They were on the Hurdles drawn to the Standard in Cheap, and first was Lincoln executed: and as the other had the ropes about their necks, there came a commandment from the King, to respite the execution, and then were the prisoners sent again to prison, and the armed men sent away out of the City.  
On the thirteenth of May, the King came to Westminster-hall, and with him the Lord Cardinal, the Dukes of Norfolk, and suffolk, the Earls of Shrewsbury, Essex, Wiltshire, and Surrey, with many Lords and other of the King's Council; the Lord Mayor of London, Aldermen and other chief Citizens, were there in their best liveries, by nine of the clock in the morning. 
The prisoners were brought before the King at Westminster Hall.  Then came in the prisoners, bound in ropes in a rank one after another, in their shirts, and every one had a Halter about his neck, being in number 400. men, and 11. women.  
When they were thus come before the King's presence, the Cardinal laid sore to the Mayor and Aldermen their negligence, and to the prisoners he declared how justly they had deserved to die. Then all the prisoners together cried to the King for mercy, 
The King graciously pardoned all the prisoners.  and therewith the Lords besought his grace of pardon: at whose request, the King pardoned them all. The general pardon being pronounced, all the Prisoners shouted at once, and cast their Halters towards the roof of the Hall. The prisoners being dismissed, the Gallows were taken down, and the Citizens took more heed to their servants: keeping (for ever after) as on that night, a strong watch in Armour, in remembrance of Evil May-day. 
Evil May-day.   
These great Maying and May-games made by the Governors and Masters of this City, with the Triumphant setting up of the great shaft (a principal Maypole in Cornhill, before the Parish of Saint Andrew) therefore called Vndershaft, by mean of that insurrection of youths, against Aliens on May-day, 1517. the 6. of Henry the eight, have not been so freely used as before. And therefore I leave them, and will somewhat touch of Watches, as also of shows in the night.   

Of Watches in this City, and other matters commanded, and the cause why.  
WIlliam Conqueror commanded, 
Curfew Bel at 8. of the clock commanded fire & candle to be quenched.  that in every Town and Village, a Bell should be nightly rung at eight of the clock, and that all people should then put out their fire, and candle, and take their rest. Which order was observed through this Realm during his reign, and the reign of William Rufus: but Henry the first, restoring to his Subjects the use of fire and lights, as afore, it followeth (by reason of Wars within the Realm) that many men also gave themselves to robbery and murders in the night: for example whereof in this City, Roger Hoveden writeth thus:  
In the year 1175. a council was kept at Nottingham, 
Roger Hoveden manuscript.  in time of which Council, a brother of the Earl Ferrer, being in the night privily slain at London, and thrown out of his Inn into the dirty street when the King understood thereof he swore that he would be revenged on the Citizens. For it was then (saith mine Author) a common practice in this City; that a hundred or more in a company, young and old, would make nightly invasions upon houses of the wealth, to the intent to rob them, and if they found any man stirring in the City within the night, that were not of their crew, 
Nightwalkers murdered all they met.  they would presently murder him: insomuch, that when night was come, no man durst adventure to walk in the streets. When this had continued long, it fortuned, that as a crew of young and wealth Citizens assembling together in the night, assaulted a stone house of a certain rich man, and breaking through the wall, the good man of that house, having prepared himself with other in a corner, when he perceived one of the thiefs, named Andrew Bucquint, to lead the way, with a burning brand in the one hand, and a pot of coals in the other, which he assayed to kindle with the brand, he flew upon him, and smote off his right hand, and then with a loud voice cried thiefs. At the hearing whereof, the thiefs took their flight, all saving he that had lost his hand, whom the good man (in the next morning) delivered to Richard de Lucy the King's justice. 
Rich thiefs most worthy to be hanged.  This thief, upon warrant of his life, appeached his confederates, of whom many were taken, and many were fled. Among the rest that were apprehended, 
The judgement of fire and water called Ordalii, was condemned by Pope Innocent the third 1205. Decretal. lib. 5.  a certain Citizen of great countenance, credit, and wealth, named john Senex, who for as much he could not acquit himself by the Water-doome (as that law was then termed) he offered to the King five hundred pounds of silver for his life. But forasmuch as he was condemned by judgement of the Water, the King would not take the offer, but commanded him to be hanged on the Gallows, 
Cause why watches in the night were commanded and when.  which was done, and then the City became more quiet for a long time after.  
But for a full remedy of enormities in the night, I read, that in the year of Christ 1253. Henry the third commanded Watches in Cities, and Borough Towns to be kept, for the better observing of peace and quietness amongst his people.  
And further, by the advice of them of Savoy, he ordained, that if any man chanced to be robbed, or by any means damnified, by any thief or robber; he to whom the charge of keeping that Country, City or Borough chiefly appertained, where the robbery was done, should competently restore the loss. And this was after the use of Savoy; but yet thought more hard to be observed here, than in those parts: and therefore leaving those laborious Watches, I will speak of our Pleasures and Pastimes in watching by night.  
In the Months of june and july, 
Bonfires and banqueting in the streets  on the Vigils of Festival days, and on the same Festival days in the Evenings, after the Sunsetting, there were usually made Bonfires in the streets, every man bestowing wood or labour towards them. The wealthier sort also before their doors, near to the said Bonfires would set out Tables on the Vigils, furnished with sweet bread, and good drink, and on the Festival days with meats and drinks plentifully, whereunto they would invite their neighbours and passengers also to sit, and be merry with them in great familiarity, praising God for his benefits bestowed on them. These were called Bonfires, as well of amity amongst neighbours, that being before at controversy, were there by the labour of others reconciled, and made of bitter enemies, loving friends; as also for the virtue that a great fire hath, to purge the infection of the air. On the Vigil of Saint john Baptist, 
Marching watch at Midsummer.  and on Saint Peter and Paul the Apostles, every man's door being shadowed with green Birch, long Fennel, Saint john's wort, Orpin, white Lilies, and such like, garnished upon with Garlands of beautiful flowers, 
Garnishing of men's doors, & furnishing them out.  had also Lamps of glass, with Oil burning in them all the night; some hung out branches of Iron curiously wrought, containing hundreds of Lamps lighted at once, which made a goodly show, namely in new Fish street, Thames-street, etc. Then had ye besides the standing watches, all in bright harness, in every Ward and street of this City and Suburbs, a marching watch, that passed through the principal streets thereof, to wit, from the little Conduit by Paul's gate, through West Cheap, by the Stocks, through Cornhill, by Leaden hall to Aldgate, then back down Fen-Church street, by Grasse-Church, about Grasse-Church Conduit, and up Grasse-Church street into Cornhill, and through it into West Cheap again, and so broke up. 
Almost 1000 cressets light, for the watch at Midsummer.  The whole way ordered for this marching watch, extended to 3●00. Tailor's yards of assize, for the furniture whereof with lights, there were appointed 700. Cressers, 500 of them being found by the Companies, the other 200. by the Chamber of London. Besides the which lights, 
More than 240. Constables in London, the one half of them each night went in the marching watch, the otherhalfe kept their standing watch in every street and lane.  every Constable in London, in number more than 240. had his Cresset: the charge of every Cresset was in light two shillings four pence, and every Cresset had 2. men, one to bear or hold it, another to bear a bag with light, and to serve it: so that the poor men pertaining to the Cressets, taking wages, besides that every one had a strawen hat, with a badge painted, & his break fast in the morning, amounted in number to almost 2000 The marching watch contained in number 2000 men, part of them being old Soldiers, of skill to be Captains, Licutenants, Sergeants, Corporals, etc. Wiffers, Drummers, and Fifes, Standard and Ensigne-bearers, Sword-players, Trumpeters on horseback, demilances on great horses, Gunners with handguns, or half hakes, Archers in coats of white fustian, signed on the breast and back with the Arms of the City, their bows bend in their hands, with sheaves of arrows by their sides, Pike-men in bright Corslets, Burganets etc. Holbards, the like Billmen in Almain Rivets, and Aperns of Mail in great number.  
There were also diverse Pageants, Morris dancers, Constables, the one half which was 120. on St. john's Eve, the other half on Saint Peter's Eve in bright harness, some overgilt, and every one a Jornet of Scarlet thereupon and a chain of Gold, his Henchman following him, his Ministrels before him, and his Cresset light passing by him: the Waits of the City, the Mayor's Officers, for his guard before him, all in a Livery of Worsted or Say jackets, party coloured, the Mayor himself well mounted on horseback, the Sword-bearer before him in fair Armour, well mounted also, the Mayor's footmen, and the like Torchbearers about him; Henchmen twain, upon great stirring horses following him. The Sheriff's Watches came one after the other in like order, but not so large in number as the Majors: for where the Mayor had beside his Giant three Pageants, each of the Sheriffs had beside their Giants, but two Pageants; each their morrins-dance, and one Henchman, their Officers in Jackets of Worsted, or Say, particoloured, differing from the Majors, and each from other, but having harnessed men a great many, etc.  
This Midsummer Watch was thus accustomed yearly, time out of mind, until the year 1539. the 31. of Henry the eighth, in which year, on the S. of May, 
A great Muster at London.  a great Muster was made by the Citizens at the Miles end, all in bright harness, with coats of white silk or cloth, and chains of gold, in three great battles, to the number of 15000. which passed thorough London to Westminister, and so through the Sanctuary, and round about the Park of S. james, and returned home thorough Oldborne.  
King Henry then considering the great charges of the Citizens, for the furniture of this unusual Muster, forbade the marching Watch provided for at Midsummer for that year; which being once laid down, was not raised again till the year 1548. the second of Edward the sixth, Sir john Gresham then being Mayor, who caused the marching Watch, both on the Eve of Saint john Baptist, and of S. Peter the Apostle, to be revived and set forth, in as comely order as it had been accustomed; which Watch was also beautified by the number of more than 300. Demilances and light-horsemen, prepared by the Citizens to be sent into Scotland, for the rescue of the Town of Haddington, and others, kept by the Englishmen since this Mayor's time.  
The like marching Watch in this City hath not been used, though some attempts have been made thereunto, as in the year 1585. a Book was drawn by a grave Citizen, 
john Mountgomery.  and by him dedicated to Sir Tho. Pullison, then L. Maior, and his brethren the Aldermen, containing the manner and order of a marching Watch in the City upon the Evens accustomed, in commendation whereof, namely, in times of peace to be used, he hath words to this effect:  
The Artificers of sundry sorts were thereby well set a-work, 
Commodities of the watch at Midsummer, in the time of peace.  none but rich men charged, poor men helped, old Soldiers, Trumpeters, Drummers, Fifes, and Ensigne-bearers, with such like men, meet for the Prince's service, kept in ure, wherein the safety and defence of every Commonweal consisteth. Armour and Weapons being yearly occupied in this wise, the Citizens had of their own readily prepared for any need, whereas by intermission hereof, armourers are out of work, Soldiers out of ure, weapons overgrown with foulness, few or none good being provided, etc.  
In the Month of August, 
Wrestling at skinner's we●●, ne●re unto Clerks well before the Mayor.  about the Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, before the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of London, placed in a large Tentneere unto Clarkenwell, of old time were diverse days spent in the pastime of wrestling; where the Officers of the City, namely the Sheriffs, Sergeants, and Yeomen, the Porters of the King's Beam, or weigh-house, (now no such men) and other of the City, were challengers of all men in the Suburbs, to wrestle for games appointed. And on other days, before the said Mayor, 
Shooting the standard, broad arrow and flight before the Mayor.  Aldermen and Sheriffs, in Fensbury field, to shoot the standard, broad-arrow and flight, for games. But now of late years, the wrestling is only practised on Bartholomew day in the afternoon, and the shooting some three or four days after, in one afternoon and no more. What should I speak of the ancient daily exercises in the long Bow by Citizens of this City, 
Shooting in the long bow suppressed Bowling-alleys erected and frequented.  now almost clean left off and forsaken? Lover-passe it: for by the means of closing in of Common grounds, our Archers, for want of room to shoot abroad, creep into Bowling-Alleys, and ordinary Dicing-houses, nearer home, where they have room enough to hazard their money at unlawful Games, and there I leave them to take their pleasures.   

Honour of Citizens, and worthiness both of men and women in the same.  
THis City (saith Fitzstephen) is glorious in Manhood: furnished with munitions, populous with inhabitants; insomuch that in the troublesome time of King Stephen, it hath showed at a Muster 20000. armed Horsemen, and threescore thousand Footmen, serviceable for the Wars. Moreover (saith he) the Citizens of London, wheresoever they become, are notable before all other Citizens, in civility of manners, attire, table, and talk. 
The modest Matrons that have been, & aught to be.  The Matrons of this City, are the very modest Sabine Ladies of Italy. The Londoners, sometime called Trinobants, repelled Caesar, who always made his passage by shedding blood: whereupon Lucan sung: Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis.  
The City of London hath bred some, 
Worthiness of men, Citizens of London.  which have subdued many Kingdoms, and also the Roman Empire. It hath also brought forth manyothers, whom Virtue and Valour hath highly advanced, according to Apollo in his Oracle to Brute, Sub occasu Solis, etc. In the time of Christianity, it brought forth that Noble Emperor Constantine, 
Constatine the Emperor borne in London.  which gave the City of Rome, and all the Imperial signs, to God, Saint Peter, and Pope Silvester, choosing rather to be called a Defender of the Church, than an Emperor. And lest peace might be violated, and their eyes troubled by his presence, he retired from Rome, and built the City of Constantinople. London also in late time hath brought forth famous Kings: Maude the Empress, King Henry, son to Henry the second, and Thomas the Archbishop, etc.  
This Thomas, surnamed Becket, borne in London, 
A Sheriff's Clerk of London became chancellor of England, and Archbishop of Canturbury.  brought up in the Priory of Marton, and a Student at Paris, became the Sheriff's Clerk of London for a time, then Parson of S. Mary-hill, he had a Prebend at London, another at Lincoln, studied the Law at Bononie, etc. was made Chancellor of England, and Archbishop of Canturbury, etc. Unto these might be added innumerable persons of honour, 
Honourable actions done by the worthy citizens of London.  wisdom and virtue, borne in London: but of actions done by worthy Citizens, I will only note a few, and so to other matters.  
The Citizens of London, 
Hospital of S. James in the fields.  time out of mind, founded an Hospital at Saint james in the fields, for leprous women of their City.  
In the year 1197. Walter Brune, 
Walter Brune.  a Citizen of London, and Rosia his wife, founded the Hospital of our Lady, called Domus Dei, or S. Marry spital, without Bishopsgate in London, an house of such relief to the needy, that there was found standing at the surrender thereof, ninescore beds, well furnished for receipt of poor people.  
In the year 1216. the Londoners sending out a Navy, took 95. ships of Pirates and Sea-robbers, besides innumerable others that they drowned, which had robbed on the River of Thames.  
In the year 1247. 
Simon Fitzmary.  Simon Fitzmary, one of the Sheriffs of London, founded the Hospital of S. Mary, called Bethlem, without Bishopsgate.  
In the year 1283. Henry Wallis, 
Henry Wallis,  than Mayor, builded the Tun upon Cornhill, to be a Prison for nightwalkers, and a Market-house called the Stocks, both for fish and flesh, standing in the midst of the City. He also builded diverse Houses on the West and North side of Paul's Churchyard, the profits of all which buildings are to the maintenance of London Bridge.  
In the year 1332. William Elsing, 
William Elsing,  Mercer of London, founded Elsing spital, within Creplegate, for fustentation of an hundred poor blind men, and became himself the first Prior of that Hospital.  
Sir john Poultney, Draper, 
Sir john Poultney.  4. times Mayor, 1337. builded a fair Chapel in Paul's Church, wherein he was buried. He founded a College in the Parish Church of S. Laurence, called Poultney. He builded the Church called little All-hallows, in Thames street: and the Carmelite Friars Church in Coventry: he gave relief to prisoners in Newgate and the Fleet, and ten shillings the year to Saint Giles Hospital by Oldborne for ever, and other legacies long to rehearse.  
john Stody Vintner, 
〈…〉.  Mayor, 1358. gave to the Vintners all the Quadrant, wherein the Vintner's Hall now standeth, with all the tenuments round about, from Stodies Lane, where is founded thirteen Almshouses, for so many poor people, etc.  
Henry Picard, 
Henry Picard.  Vintner, Mayor, 1357. In the year 1363. did in one day sumptuously feast Edward the third, King of England; john, King of France; David, King of Scots; the King of Cypress, than all in England; Edward, Paince of Wales, with many other Noblemen, and after kept his Hall for all comers, that were willing to play at dice and hazard; the Lady Margaret his wife kept her chamber to the same effect, etc.  
john Lofken Fishmonger, 
job. Lofken.  four times Mayor, 1367. builded an Hospital called magdalen's, at Kingston upon Thames, gave thereunto 9 tenements, 10. shops, one Mill, 125 acres of Land, 10 acres of meadow, 120. acres of pasture, etc. More, in Lond. he builded the fair parish Church of Saint Michael in crooked Lane, and was there buried.  
john Barnes, 
Joh. Barnes.  Maior, 1371. gave a Chest with three locks, & 1000 marks therein, to be lent to young men upon sufficient pawn, and for the use thereof, to say De profundis, or Pater noster, and no more: he also was a great builder of S. Thomas Apostles Parish Church, as appeareth by his Arms there both in stone and glass.  
In the year 1378. john Filpot, 
joh. Filpot.  sometime Mayor, hired with his money 1000 Soldiers, and defended the Realm from incursions of the enemy; so that in small time his hired men took john Mercer, a Sea-rover, with all his ships, which he before had taken from Scarborrow, and fifteen Spanish ships, laden with great riches.  
In the year 1380. Thomas of Woodstock, Thomas Percy, Hugh Calverley, Robert Knowles, & others, being sent with a great power to aid the Duke of Britain, the said john Filpot hired Ships for them of his own charges, and released the Armour, which the Soldiers had pawned for their victuals, more than a thousand in number.  
This most Noble Citizen, (saith Thomas Walsingham) that had traveled for the commodity of the whole Realm, more than all other of his time, had often relieved the King, by lending him great sums of money, and otherwise. He deceased in the year 1384. after that he had assured lands to the City, for the relief of thirteen poor people for ever.  
In the year 1381. William Walworth, 
William Walworth● valianey.  than Mayor, a most provident, valiant, and learned Citizen, did by his arrest of Wat Tylar, (a presumptuous Rebel, upon whom no man durst lay hands) deliver the King and Kingdom from the danger of most wicked Traitors, and was for his service knighted in the field, as before hath been related.  
Nicholas Brembar, john Filpot, Robert Land, Nicholas Twiford, and Adam Francis, aldermans, were then for their service likewise Knighted, and Sir Robert Knowles, for assisting of the Mayor was made free of the City.  
Sir Robert Knowles, 
Ro. Knowles.  thus worthily enfranchised a Citizen, founded a College with an Hospital at Pountfract: he also builded the great stone bridge at Rochester, over the River of Medway.  
john Churchman Grocer, 
john Churchman.  one of the Sheriffs, 1386. for the quiet of Merchants, builded a certain house upon Wool wharse, in Tower ward to serve for Ternage, or weighing of wools, and for the Customer, Comptrollers, Clerks, and other Officers to sit, etc.  
Adam Bamme, 
Adam Bamme.  Goldsmith, Maior, 1091, in a great dearth, procured corn from diverse parts beyond the Seas, to be brought hither in such abundance, as sufficed to serve the City, and the Countries near adjoining: to the furtherance of which good work, he took out of the Orphans Chest in the Guild-hall, 2000 Marks to buy the said corn, and each Alderman laid out 20. pound to the like purpose.  
Tho. Knowles, 
Thomas K●●●les.  Grocer, Mayor, 1400. with his brethren the Aldermen, began to new build the Guild-hall in London, and in stead of an old little Cottage in Alderman-bury street, made a fair and goodly house, more near unto S. Laurence Church in the Jury. He re-edified S. Anthony's Church, and gave to the Grocers his house near unto the same, for relief of the poor for ever. More, he caused water to be conveied to the gates of Newgate and Ludgate, for relief of the prisoners there.  
john Hind, 
john Hind.  Draper, Maior 1405. newly builded his parish Church of Saint Swithen by London stone, his monument is defaced, save only his Arms in the glass windows.  
Thomas Falconer Mercer, 
Thomas Falconer.  Maior, 1414 lent to King Henry the 5. towards maintenance of his wars in France, 10000 marks upon jewels: more, he made the postern called Mooregate, caused the ditches of the City to be cleansed, and did many other things for good of the same City.  
William Sevenock Grocer, 
William Sevenock.  Mayor 1419. founded in the Town of Sevenock in Kent, a free school for poor men's children, and 13. Almshouses: his Testament saith 20. poor men and women.  
Richard Whittington Mercer, 
Richard Whittington.  3. times Mayor, in the year 1421. began the Library of Grey Friars in London, to the charge of four hundred l. his executors (with his goods) founded and builded Whittington College, with Almshouses for 13. poor men, and Divinity Lectures to be read there for ever. They repaired Saint Bartholomews' Hospital in Smithfield, they bore some charges to the glazing and paving of the Guildhall, they bore half the charges of building the Library there, and they builded the west gate of London, of old time called Newgate, etc.  
john Carpenter, 
john Carpenter.  Town-clerk of London, in the reign of Henry the fifth, caused (with great expenses) to be curiously painted upon board, about the North Cloister of Paul's, a monument of death, leading all estates, with the speeches of death, 
Dance of death, called the dance of Paul's.  and answer of every state. This Cloister was pulled down 1549. He also gave Tenements to the City, for the finding and bringing up of four poor men's children, with meat, drink, apparel, learning at the Schools in the University, etc. until they might be preferred, and then other in their places for ever.  
Robert Chichley, 
Ro. Chichley.  Grocer, Mayor, 1422. appointed by his Testament, that on his birthday, a competent dinner should be ordained for two thousand four hundred poor men, householders of this City, and every one to have two pence in money. More, he gave one large plot of ground, thereupon to build the new parish Church of S. Stephen near unto Walbrooke, etc.  
john Rainwell Fishmonger, 
joh. Rainwell.  Mayor, 1427. gave Tenements to discharge certain Wards of London of Fifteen, and other payments.  
john Welles Grocer, 
joh. Wells.  Mayor, 1433. a great builder of the Chapel or College of the Guild-hall, and was there buried: he caused fresh water to be conveyed from Teyborne, to the Standard in West Cheap, for the service of the City.  
William Eastfield Mercer, 
William Eastfield.  1438. appointed his executors, of his goods, to convey sweet water from Teyborne, and to build a fair Conduit by Aldermanbery Church, which they performed, as also made a Standard in Fleetstreet, by Show-lane end: they also conveyed water to Creplegate, etc.  
Stephen Browne Grocer, 
Stephen Browne.  Mayor 1439. sent into Prusia, causing corn to be brought from thence, whereby he brought down the price of Wheat, from three shillings the bushel, to less than half that money: for corn was then so scarce in England, that poor people were enforced to make them bread of Fearne roots.  
Philip Malpas, 
Philip Malpas.  one of the Sheriffs, 1440. gave by his Testament 125. l. to relief of poor prisoners, and every year for five years, 400. shirts and smocks, 40. pair of sheets, and 150. gowns of Frieze to the poor. To 500 poor people in London, every one six shillings eight pence: to poor maids marriages, 100 marks: to highways, an hundred marks: twenty marks the year to a Graduate to preach, twenty pounds unto Preachers at the spital on the three Easter holidays, etc.  
Robert Large Mercer, 
Robert Large.  Maior 1440. gave to his parish Church of S. Olive in Surrey 200. l. to S. Margaret's in Lothbery 25. l. to the poor twenty pounds: to London bridge one hundred marks. Towards the vaulting over the watercourse of Walbroke two hundred marks. To poor Maid's marriages, one hundred marks: to poor Householders, one hundred pounds, etc.  
Richard Rich Mercer, 
Richard Rich.  one of the Sheriffs, 1442. founded Alms houses at Hodsdon in Hertfordshire.  
Simon Eyre Draper, 
Simon Eyre.  Mayor, 1346. builded the Leaden-hall, for a common Garner of corn, to the use of this City, and left five thousand marks to charitable uses.  
Godfrey Bullein, 
Godfrey Bullein.  Maior of London, 1458. by his Testament gave liberally to the prisons, hospitals, and Lazer-houses; besides a thousand pound to poor householders' in London, and 200. l. to poor householders in Norfolk.  
Richard Rawson, 
Richard Rawson.  one of the Sheriffs, 1477. gave by Testament large Legacies to the Prisoners, Hospitals and Lazer-houses. To other poor, to high ways, to the water-conduits, beside to poor Maid's marriages, 340. pounds, and his executors to build a large house in the Churchyard of S. Marry spital, wherein the Mayor and his brethren do use to sit, and hear the Sermons in the Easter holy-days.  
Thomas Ilam, 
Tho. Ilam.  one of the Sheriffs, 1480. newly builded the great Conduit in Cheap, of his own charges.  
Edward Shaw Goldsmith, 
Edw. Shaw.  Maior 1483 caused Creplegate of London to be builded of his own goods, etc.  
Thomas Hill Grocer, 
Tho. Hill.  Mayor, 1485. caused of his goods, the Conduit of Grasse-street to be builded.  
Hugh Clopton Mercer, 
Hugh Clopton.  during his life a bachelor, Mayor 1492. builded the great stone arched Bridge at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire, and did many other things of great charity, as in my Summary.  
Robert Fabian, 
Robert Fabian.  one of the Sheriffs, 1494. gathered out of diverse good Authors, aswell Latin as French, a large Chronicle of England and of France, which he published in English, to his great charges, for the honour of this City, and common utility of the whole Realm.  
Sir john percival Merchant-Taylor, 
john percival.  Mayor, 1498. founded a Grammar-schoole at Macklefield in Cheshire, where he was borne, he endowed the same school with sufficient Lands, for the finding of a Priest, master there, to teach freely all children thither sent, without exception.  
The Lady Thomasine his wife, 
Rich. Carew.  founded the like Freeschoole, together with fair lodgings for the Schoolmasters, Scholars, and other, and added twenty pound of yearly revenue for supporting the charges, at Saint Mary Wike in Devonshire, where she was borne.  
Stephen Gennings, 
Stephen Gennings.  Merchant-Taylor, Mayor 1509. founded a fair Grammar-schoole at Vlfrimhampton in Staffordshire, left good lands, and also builded a great part of his Parish Church, called Saint Andrew's Vndershaft in London.  
Henry Keble Grocer, 
Hen. Keble.  Mayor 1511. in his life a great benefactor to the new building of old Mary Church, and by his Testament gave a thousand pounds toward the finishing thereof. He gave to highways two hundred pound; to poor Maid's marriages, one hundred marks. To poor husbandmen in Oxford and Warwickshires', one hundred and forty Ploughshares, and one hundred and forty Cultars of iron, and in London to seven Almesmen, six pence the week for ever.  
john Collet, 
joh. Collet.  a Citizen of London by birth, and by dignity Deane of Paul's, Doctor of Divinity, etected and builded one Free-school in Paul's Churchyard, 1512. for 3. hundred fifty three poor men's children, to be taught free in the same school, appointing a Master, a submaster and a Chaplain, with sufficient stipends to endure for ever, and committed the oversight thereof to the Mercers in London, because himself was son to Henry Collet, Mercer, Maior of London, and endowed the Mercers with Lands, to the yearly value of 120. pound, or better.  
Sir William Fitzwilliam the elder, 
William Fitzwilliam  being a Merchant-taylor, and servant sometime to Cardinal Wolsey, was chosen Alderman of Breadstreet Ward in London, in Anno 1506. Going afterward to dwell at Milton in Northamptonshire, in the fall of the Cardinal his former master, he gave him kind entertainment there at his house in the Country. For which deed being called before the King, and demanded how he durst entertain so great an enemy to the State? His answer was, that he had not contemptuously or wilfully done it; but only because he had been his Master, and (partly) the means of his greatest fortunes. 
A just and royal disposition in the King.  The King was so well pleased with his answer, that saying, himself had too few such servants, immediately he knighted him, and afterward made him a Privy Counsellor.  
This worthy Knight dying, 
The liberal and bountiful mind of this Fitz-William. His death.  gave an hundred pounds to poor maids marriages. His debts and debtors (over whose names he had written, Amore Dei remitto) he freely forgave. He gave to the Universities forty pounds; to the poor, thirty pounds; to mend the high ways betwixt Chigwell and Copersall in Essex, fifty pounds. To mend other high ways, about Thorney and Sawtry Chapel, and the Bridge, fifty pounds more. And to the Merchant-Taylors his Brethren, he gave his best standing Cup, as a friendly remembrance of him for ever.  
john Tate, Brewer, 
john Tate.  than a Mercer, Maior, 1514. caused his Brewhouse, called the Swan, near adjoining to the Hospital of Saint Anthony in London, to be taken down, for the enlarging of the said Church, then new builded, being a great part of his charge: This was a goodly foundation, with Alms houses, a Free School, etc.  
George Monnox Draper, 
George Monnox.  Maior 1515. re-edified the decayed Parish Church of Waltamstow or Walthamstow in Essex, he founded there a Free School, and Almshouses for thirteen Almes-people: He made also a causeway of Timber over the Marshes, from Walthamstow to Locke-Bridge, etc.  
Sir john Milborne, 
john Milborne.  Draper, Maior, 1522. builded Almshouses, fourteen in number, by the crossed Friar's Church in London, there to be placed fourteen poor people, and left to the Drapers, certain Messages, Tenements, and Garden-plots, in the Parish of Saint Olaves in Hartstreet, for performance of stipends to the said Alms people, and other uses. Look more in Aldgate Ward, where you shall be further satisfied.  
Robert Thorn, 
Robert thorn.  Merchant-Taylor, deceasing a Bachelor, in the year 1532. gave by his Testament to charitable actions, more than four thousand, four hundred and forty pounds, and legacies to his poor kindred more, five thousand, one hundred forty two pounds, besides his debts forgiven, etc.  
Sir john Allen, 
Sir john Allen.  Mercer, Maior of London, and of counsel to King Henry the 8. deceased 1544. buried at Saint Thomas of Acres, in a fair Chapel by him builded. He gave to the City of London a rich collar of gold, to be worn by the Mayor, which was first worn by Sir William Laxton. He gave five hundred Marks to be a stock for Sea-coal, his Lands purchased of the King, the rent thereof to be distributed to the poor in the Wards of London for ever.  
He gave beside to the Prisons, Hospitals, Lazer houses, and all other poor in the City, or two miles without, very liberally, and overlong to be recited.  
Sir William Laxton, 
Sir William Laxton.  Grocer, Mayor, 1545. founded a fair free School at Owndale in Northamptonshire, with six Almshouses for the poor.  
Sir john Gresham, 
Sir john Gresham.  Mercer, Maior 1548 founded a Free school at Holt, a Market Town in Norfolk: He gave to every Ward in London ten pounds, to be distributed to the poor; and to 120. poor men and women, every one of them three yards of broad cloth, of 8. or 9 shillings the yard, to be made in Gowns ready to their backs. He gave also to Maid's marriages, and to the Hospitals in London, above 200. pounds in ready money.  
Sir Rowland Hill, 
Sir Rowland Hill.  Mercer, Maior, 1550. caused to be made diverse cawseyes, both for horse and man: he made four Bridges, two of stone, containing 18. Arches in them both. He builded one notable Free-school at Drayton in Shropshire: he gave to Christ's hospital in London, 500 pounds, etc.  
Sir Andrew jud Skinner, 
Sir Andrew jud.  Maior 1551. erected one notable Free-scoole at Tunbridge in Kent, and Almshouses nigh Saint Helen's Church in London, and left to the Skinners, Lands to the value of threescore pounds, 3. shillings eight pence the year, for the which they be bound to pay 20. l. to the Schoolmaster, 8. l. to the Usher yearly for ever, and four shillings the week to the six alms people, and twenty five shillings four pence the year in coals, for ever.  
Sir Thomas White, 
The famous memory of Sir Thomas White.  Lord Mayor of this honourable City in Anno 1554. and a worthy Brother likewise of the Merchant-Taylors Society, being a lover of learning, & an earnest furtherer thereof, first purchased the Hall in Oxenford, called Gloucester Hall, 
Gloucester Hall in Oxenford.  for Scholars and Students, to receive there the benefit of learning. But his private thoughts very often soliciting him, that he should (in time) meet with a place, where two Elms grew, and that there his further purpose should take effect. At length, he found out the place, where (at his own cost and expenses) he founded the famous College, called Saint john Baptist College, 
The building of S. john Baptist College in Oxenford.  and where these two Elms (as I have heard) are yet standing endowing it with such liberal gifts, lands and revenues, as would require too much time, here to be remembered of set down.  
Beside his provision for learning in this worthy place, 
Other Schools by him builded & maintained.  he erected other Schools: as at Bristol, Reading, and a College at Higham Ferries. More, he gave to the City of Bristol, the sum of two thousand pounds to purchase land, 
His great bounty to the City of Bristol.  amounting to the yearly value of an hundred and twenty pound: The Mayor and Citizens paying therefore yearly an hundred pounds. Eight hundred pounds must be lent to sixteen poor Clothiers, fifty pounds each man, for the space of ten years, sufficient security being given by them for the same. Afterward that eight hundred pounds, was to pass to other sixteen poor clothiers, according to the discretion of them put in trust. 
Provision of Corn for the poor.  Two hundred pounds beside was reserved, for provision of corn, and needful occasions for the poor, in the order and care of the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens, etc.  
Then according to his will, which remaineth yet to be seen, out of this bountiful gift to Bristol, 
His order out of his gift to Bristol.  these memorable branches, and benevolences, were (by himself) devised, and thus ordered, beginning in the year 1577. and so thence forward, they went on according to his own direction. Then on the Feast of Saint Bartholomew was brought to the Merchant-Taylors Hall, 
An hundred and 4. pounds brought to Merchant Tailor's Hall always on Bartholomew day.  an hundred and four pounds, the hundred pound to be lent (for ten years' space) to four poor young men in the City of York, Freemen and Inhabitants being Clothiers: and the four pound overplus, to be employed about the charges and pains, that no man (used in the business) might receive discontentment. Then in 1578. the like sum was to be delivered thence to Canturbury: and so thence forward, the same sums (yearly) to the Cities and Towns following orderly.  
To 

1579 Reading. 
The order of the yearly lending.   
1580 The Merchant-Taylors themselves.  
1581. Gloucester.  
1582 Worcester.  
1583 Excester.  
1584. Salisbury.  
1585. West-Chester.  
1586 Norwich.  
1587. Southampton.  
1588. Lincoln.  
1589 Winchester.  
1590. Oxenford.  
1591. Hereford East.  
1592. Cambridge.  
1593. Shrewsbury.  
1594 Linne.  
1595 bath.  
1596 Derbie.  
1597 Ipswich.  
1598. Colchester.  
1599 Newcastle.    
This sum of one hundred and four pounds, 
The hundred and four pounds is yearly delivered at the Merchant Tailors Hall.  passing thus yearly to the forenamed places, is delivered still at the Merchant-Taylors Hall, and to the good intended uses of the giver; and that there might be no breathing while for so just a Steward's talon, but to have it still kept in continual employment for the poor: the same order was appointed, to take beginning again (as before) at the City of York, and so successively (while the world endureth) to the Towns before named, 
Passing still in order from place to place.  in the selfsame course as it had the Original; with great care and observance in them, to whom it belongeth, that the dead may not be abused, nor poor men's right injured.  
But did he thus shut up his purse, and say to himself; I have given sufficient? No, 
His liberal bounty to the City of Coventry, it being then in great distress.  he did cast his pitying eye next on the City of Coventry, distressed (at that time) in great and grievous manner: What his instant benevolence was, he took it to be but as an hour's Sunshine after a whole day of storm and tempest; although it might yield some comfort, were the season never so short. But to establish a certainty, that no dismay or doubt should ever after be able to remove (even as a worthy Pyramids erected to perpetuity) he gave to the City of Coventry, 1400. pounds, therewith to purchase lands, rising to the annual value of seventy pounds. 
Twelve poor aged Inhabitants of Coventry yearly.  Twelve aged poor inhabitants of that City, were to have (in free Alms) 24. pounds, each man 40. shillings yearly, on the eleventh day of March, or within six days after Four poor young men also were to have 40. pounds lent them in free loan, 
Four poor young men of the same City.  ten pound each man, and for nine year's space, upon sufficient security given. And their turns being thus served, than four other poor young men were to have the like sums, and for like limitation, and so from 9 years to nine years for ever.  
Afterward, it was ordered (in free loan) to two poor men of the same City, and lastly, to one: in which nature (according to the several limitations) it doth yet, and doubtless shall for ever continue. Also the same sum was appointed to one young man in Northampton for 9 years in free loan, 
Northampton.  next, to one in the City of Leicester; 
Leicester.  thirdly, to one in Nottingham; 
Nottingham Warwick.  fourthly, to one in Warwick; and for the like time. Then returning again to Coventry for one year, it repasseth to the said Towns again, each after other in like nature, for ever. And lest his worthy intent should fail in the continuance, he enlarged his first gift to Coventry of 1400. l. to 2000 and 60. pound to be employed as hath been remembered: 40. l. being yearly paid out of it, to Saint john Baptist College in Oxenford, and allowances also by himself given in each place, that bonds should be made, without any charge to the receiver.  
Edward Hall Gentleman, 
Edward Hall.  of Gray's Inn a Citizen by birth and office, as common Sergeant of Lond. & one of the judges in the Sheriff's Court, he wrote and published a famous and eloquent Chronicle, entitled, The uniting of the two noble Families, Lancaster and York.  
Richard Hils Merchant-Taylor, 
Richard Hils.  1560. gave 500 pound towards the purchase of an house, called, the Manor of the Rose, wherein the Merchant-Taylors founded their free School in London: he also gave to the said Merchant-Taylors one plot of ground, withcertainsmal Cottages on the Tower hill, where he builded fair Almshouses for fourteen sole women.  
About the same time, 
W. Lambert.  William Lambert Esquire, free of the worshipful Company of. Drapers, borne in London, a justice of the peace in Kent, founded a College for the poor, which he named of Queen Elizabeth in East Greenwich.  
William Harper. Merchant-Taylor, 
Sir William Harper.  Mayor, 1562. sounded a a free School in the Town of Bedford where he was borne and also buried.  
Sir Thomas Gresham Mercer, 
Sir Thomas Gresham.  1566. builded the Royal Exchange in London, and by his Testament left his dwelling house in Bishopsgate street, to be a place for readings; allowing large stipends to the Readers, and certain Almshouses for the poor.  
William Patten Gentleman, 
W. Patten.  a Citizen by birth, and customer of London outward, justice of Peace in Middlesex, the Parish Church of Stokenwenton being ruinous, he repaired or rather new builded.  
Sir Thomas Rowe Knight, 
Sir Thomas Rowe his worthy liberality.  Lord Mayor of the City of London, in 1568. a worthy brother also of the Merchant-Taylors Company, beside his charitable cost and charges, in building the new Church yard in Bethlem, containing near one Acre of ground, and enclosed with a wall of brick, and a Sermon to be preached every Whit-Sunday in the morning, in presence of the Lord Maior and Aldermen; as also giving one hundred pounds, to be lent to eight poor men: gave to the merchant-Taylors, lands, or tenements, 
Ten poor men to be maintained for ever.  out of them to be given 40. pounds yearly, to maintain ten poor men for ever, such as were not brethren of his own society, but chosen out of five several Companies, 
Clothworkers.  viz. Clothworkers, Armourers, Carpenters, Tylars, and Plasterers. 
Armourers.  As considering, that by over toiling labour, 
Carpenters.  dangers, 
Tylars.  fall, bruises and such like inconveniences, 
Plasterers  they were soon like to become impotent, and unable to help or maintain themselves. Therefore, to each of these ten men, he freely gave the sum of four pounds, quarterly to be paid them at the Merchant-Taylors Hall, during their lives. And then to succeed to other men in the same Companies, according to due consideration of just cause, and most necessity.  
Ambrose Nicholas Salter, 
Ambrose Nicholas.  Maior 1576. founded 12. Almshouses in Monks-well street, near unto Creplegate, wherein he placed 12. poor people, having each of them 7. d. the week, and once every year, 5. sacks of coals, and one quarter of a hundred Faggots, all of his gift for ever.  
William Lamb Esquire, sometime a Gentleman of the Chapel to King Henry the eighth, 
William Lamb Citizen and Clothworker of London.  and in great favour with him: was also a free Brother of the worshipful Company of Clothworkers, and a kind loving Citizen to the City of London. Out of his love to Learning and Scholars, in the Town of Sutton Valens in Kent, where he was borne, at his own proper cost and charges he erected a free Grammar-Schoole, 
A free Grammar School at Sutton Valens in Kent.  for the education & instruction of youth, in the fear of God, good manners, knowledge, and understanding, allowing yearly to the Master twenty pounds, and ten powds yearly to the Usher, from time to time, as either place shall be supplied by succession, and for their yearly stipends or perpetual pensions.  
In the same Town of Sutton also, 
Almshouses at Sutton for the poor.  for the relief of poor people, he caused to be builded six Almshouses, having an Orchard and Gardens, and the sum of ten pounds yearly paid them.  
At Maidstone likewise in Kent, 
Free School at Maidstone.  he hath given ten pounds yearly to the free School for ever: with this special caution, that needy men's children may be preferred only, to the enjoying of this benefit.  
The Gentleman foresecing, 
His relief to poor Clothiers in diverse places.  in his life time, the decay of sundry Trades and Occupations, to the utter undoing of very many, especially poor Clothiers, whose impoverishing deserved greatly to be pitied, freely gave to the poor Clothiers in Suffolk, in Bridgenorth and in Ludlow in Shropshire, 300. pounds to be paid by even portions: to each several Town of the said Counties, one hundred pounds apiece, for their supportation and maintenance, at their work or occupation.  
And as his charity extended itself thus liberally abroad in the Country, 
His building of the Conduit near to Oldborn, and the Standard at Oldborn bridge.  so did the City of London likewise taste thereof not sparingly. For near unto Holborn he founded a fair Conduit, and a standard with a Cock at Holborn bridge, to convey thence the waste. These were begun the six and twentieth day of March, 1577. and the water carried along in pipes of Lead, more than two thousand yards, all at his own cost and charges, amounting to the sum of fifteen hundred pounds, and the work fully finished the four and twentieth of August in the same year.  
Moreover, 
Poor women benefited by the Conduit.  he gave to poor women, such as were willing to take pains, 120 Pails, therewith to carry & serve water.  
Being a member (as I have already said) of the Clothworkers Company, 
His gift to the worshipful Company of Clothworkers.  and to show that he was not unmindful of them, he gave them his dwelling house in London, with other Lands and Tenements to the value of thirty pound yearly, beside, 4. pounds more also yearly, by them to be thus bestowed; to wit, for the hiring of a Minister to read divine Service, thrice every week, as Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, throughout the year, in the Chapel or Church belonging to his house, called by the name of Saint james in the Wall, 
Allowance for four yearly Sermons.  by Creplegate; and for four Sermons there to be preached, a competent allowance for each. And also out of the thirty pounds yearly, 
Every pooreman and poor woman, a shirt, a smock and a gown, and a pair of shoes, etc.  it is provided, that a deduction be made by the said Clothworkers, for apparelling of twelve men, and as many women, in form as followeth: To every of the twelve men a Frieze gown, one Lockeram shirt, and a good strong pair of Winter shoes. To the twelve women likewise, a Frieze gown, a Lockeram smock, and a good pair of Winter shoes, all ready made for their wearing. Always remembered, that they be persons both poor and honest, to whom this charitable deed is to be extended; and this is yearly done on the first of October.  
To the Parish Church of Saint Giles without Creplegate, 
S Giles without Creplegate.  he gave fifteen pound to the Bells and Chime, intending a further liberality thereto, if they had taken due time.  
To the worshipful Company of the Stationers he gave a legacy of six l. 13. s. 4. d. for perpetual relief of the poor, 
His gift to the Company of Stationers.  in the Parish Church of Saint Faiths under Paul's: namely, to twelve poor people, twelve pence in money, and twelve pence in bread, every Friday throughout the year.  
To Christ's Hospital in London, 
His gift to Christ's Hospital.  toward the bringing up of poor men's children he hath given 6. l. yearly for ever: and an hundred pounds in ready money together, therewith to purchase Lands, that their relief (by the revenues of the same) may be perpetual.  
To Saint Thomas spital or Hospital in Southwark, 
His gift to S. Thomas Hospital.  towards the succour of the sick and diseased, he gave four l. yearly for ever.  
An hundred pounds he intended to the Hospital called the Savoy, 
His intent to the Savoy.  but by reason that such agreements could not be made as he thought convenient, his contribution that way, (much against his mind) went not forward.  
For the relief of poor prisoners in the two Compters, 
His relief for poor prisoners.  Newgate, Ludgate, the Marshalseas, the Kings-Bench, and the White Lion, he dealt very bountifully and discreetly; giving unto the two Compters six pound apiece, and to be paid unto them by twenty shillings each month. To the other Prisons forementioned, six mattresses apiece, the whole number being two dozen and an half.  
He was not unmindful of poor maids marriages, 
Marriage money for poor maids.  but gave twenty pounds to be equally divided among forty, by equal portions of ten shillings apiece. Yet with this proviso, that those poor maids to be married, should be of good name and fame.  
His love and bounty to his servants, 
His love and liberality to his servants.  as also the hundred and eight Frieze gowns ready made, which he bequeathed at his Funeral to poor men and women, with dispersing the remnant of all his goods after his burial, where need and reason required, I am contented to pass over, referring what else is further to be said of him, till I come to speak of the place where he lieth buried.  
Sir T. Offley, 
Sir Thomas Offley bequeathed much to the poor.  Merchant-Taylor, Mayor, deceased 1580. appointed by his Testament, the one half of all his goods, and two hundred pounds deducted out of the other half, given to his son Henry, to be given and bestowed in deeds of charity, by his executors, according to his confidence and trust in them.  
Barnard Randulph, 
Bernard Randolph, Common Sergeant of London, his liberal bounty.  Common Sergeant of London, 1583. This man (in his life time) somewhat before his death, gave and delivered with his own hand, to the Company of Fishmongers in London, the sum of nine hundred pounds; of good and lawful money of England, to be employed towards the conducting of Thames water, cesterning the same in lead, 
For conveying of Thames water.  and cas●eling it with stone, in the Parishes of Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint Nicholas Cold-Abbey, near unto old Fish-street, seven hundred pounds. The other two hundred pounds, to pay for ever yearly, the sum of ten pounds: to wit, towards the maintenance of a poor Scholar, 
For a poor Scholar.  in the University of Oxenford, yearly, four pounds. Towards mending the highways in the Parish of Tisehurst, 
For mending high ways.  in the County of Sussex where the said Barnard was borne, every year four pounds. 
For the poor in diverse parishes.  And to the poor people of the Parishes of Saint Nicholas Olive in Breadstreet, and St. Mary Magdalen near to old Fish-street, forty shillings; to wit, twenty shillings to either Parish for ever.  
More he willed and bequeathed by his last will and testament, to be bestowed in land or annuities, for relief of the poor, inhabiting in the Wards of Queen Hith, and Castle Baynard in the City of London, and in the forenamed Parish of Tisehurst, in the County of Sussex, the sum of 1000 pounds.  
Master Thomas Ridge, 
Master Tho. Ridge.  Grocer, gave 1163. l. 6. s. 8. d. to godly and charitable uses in form following.  
To the Company of Grocers, 
Benefit of young beginners.  for the benefit of Youngmen, free of the same Society, and to be lent unto them for a certain time one hundred pound.  
To the Hospitals in and about London, 100 l.  
For the relief of poor Preachers, 
Love to Religion. Care of poor tradesmen  400. l.  
For the help of poor and decayed Trasedmen, in and about London, 300. l.  
To a Lecture in Grasse-Church in London, 100 l.  
To his men and maid servants, 63. l.  
In gowns for poor men, 100 l.  
Master john Haydon Mercer, 
Master john Haydon his bountiful charity.  Alderman, and one of the Sheriffs of London, deceasing in the time of his Shrievalty 1583. gave these christian and liberal gifts following.  
An hundred gowns, which cost 100 l. given to an hundred poor men, 
To the poor in gowns.  and every man 12. d. in money beside.  
For the benefit of young beginners in the world he gave, 
Benefit of young beginners.  to his own Company of the Mercers, 600. l. to be lent to young men, after the allowance of 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. in the hundred pound. And the 20. pound yearly arising by that money, yearly to be given to the poor.  
To the same Company also he gave 400. l. more, to be likewise lent out, according to the former rate: and the benefit ensuing thereby; of 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. yearly, 
Love to Religion.  allowed towards the maintaining of a Lecture at Saint Michael's Church by Pater noster row, called St. Michael's in the Querne.  
He gave to Christ's Hospital 500 l.  
He gave to the eleven chief worshipful Companies, 
Care for young beginners and the poor.  beside his own, the sum of 1100. l. to be lent out (for time) to young beginners, at 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. in the hundred pound, and the benefit of 20. pound arising thereby yearly, to go to the Hospitals, and sixteen pound beside to the poor yearly. 
To several Cities for the benefit of young beginners and the poor prisoners.   
He gave to the City of Excester one hundred pound.  
To the City of Bristol one hundred pound.  
To the City of Gloucester, one hundred pound.  
This money is intended to be lent to poor young beginners in trading, at the rate of benefit (by the money) of 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. in the 100 l. And that benefit should go to the relief of poor prisoners, and other poor people.  
He gave to the Town of Wardbury, in the County of Gloucester, 6. l. 13. s. 4. d.  
He gave to his Company of the Mercers, 
Remembrance of his Company and of his servants.  to make them a Cup, 40. l.  
He gave to his servants among them all, 〈◊〉. l.  
What remained out of this moiety, as an overplus, he gave to the before remembered Companies, viz. 50. pound to each of them and to the uses forenamed.  
Master Richard Walter Girdler, 
Richard Walter.  2200. pound to the four Hospitals of London. And 500 pound towards building and maintaining a Free-school at Thiryden in Northampton shire.  
William Norton, Stationer, sometime Treasurer of Christ's Hospital, 
William Norton his benevolence.  gave the sum of 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. yearly to his Company to be lent to young men, free of the same Society: And 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. yearly for ever, he gave also unto Christ's Hospital.  
Thomas jennings, 
Thomas jennings his love to the poor.  Fishmonger, to 7. Parishes in London, gave 4. l. 13, s. 2. d. yearly.  
To Christ's Hospital he gave 40. s. yearly.  
To the Town of Braughin in Hartford shire, where he was borne, he gave 6. l. 13. s. 4. d.  
Master Peter blundel, 
Peter blundel his most liberal charity.  Clothier of London, a man very godly and christianly disposed all his life time, dying in Anno 1599 gave by his last will and testament, these bountiful gifts following.  
He gave to Christ's Hospital in London, 
To Hospitals in and about London.  500 l.  
To S. Bartholomews' Hospital 250. l.  
To S. Thomas Hospital 250. l.  
To Bridewell Hospital yearly 8. l.  
To the Church of Tiverton, in which Town he was borne, 50. l.  
Towards mending the Highways there, 100 l.  
To the twelve chief Companies in London, 
For the relief of poor prisoners.  to each of them 150. l. toward the relieving of poor prisoners, and other charitable uses, the whole sum amounting to 1800. l.  
Towards the help of poor Maid's marriages in the Town of Tiverton, 
To poor maid's marriages  400. l.  
He gave to the City of Excester, 
To help poor Artificers.  to be lent there to poor Artificers nine hundred pound.  
He gave toward the building of a free Grammar-Schoole in Tiverton, 
To a free School and Officers thereto belonging.  2400. pound.  
More afterward laid out by his executors 1000 pound.  
To the Schoolmaster yearly, fifty pounds.  
To the Usher yearly, 13. l. 6. s. 8. d.  
To the Clerk yearly, 40. s.  
To place four boy's Apprentices in husbandry yearly 20. pound. 
For Apprentices.   
For the maintenance of six Scholars yearly, 
His love to Learning and Scholars.  three in Oxenford, and the other three in Cambridge, 2000 l.  
Robert Coming, 
Robert Chilcot a worthy servant to so good a Master.  alias Chilcot, servant sometime to the said Peter blundel, imitated the worthy steps of his Master, so far as power permitted him leave, giving as ensueth.  
He gave to Christ's Hospital in London, 100 l.  
To poor prisoners, 
Relief of poor prisoners.  whose debts did not amount above five pound, 100 l.  
Towards the building of an ordinary Free-school, 
His love to learning and the poor.  that children might be made apt and ready for his Master's free Grammar-Schoole in Tiverton, where he himself also was borne, 400. l.  
Towards the maintaining of the said lesser school, 
To the School and the attending Officers.  and for relief of certain poor people yearly, 90. l.  
To the Schoolmaster yearly 20. pound.  
To the Clerk yearly 3. l.  
For reparations yearly 4. s.  
For 15. poor men's Gowns, 
For the poor.  and each of them 2. s. in money yearly 16. l. 10. s.  
To 15. poor Artificers 15. pound.  
To as many poor people weekly, 
Repairining the Church.  6. d. to each.  
Towards repairing the Church 19 l. 10. s.  
To mend the Highways there ten pound.  
To other uses four pound.  
john Holmes Draper, 
john Holms.  gave to the Parish of Saint Sepulchers, in Anno 1588. his dwelling house in the same Parish, yielding yearly, 32. pound.  
Thomas Atkinson Baker, 
Thomas Atkinson.  gave also to the same Parish, 10. l. yearly.  
Master Thomas Cure, Sadler, and Squire Sadler to Queen Elizabeth, 
Thomas Cure his hospital in Southwark.  as his son also was after him, did build an Hospital in Southwark, having some help afforded him by the Parish of St. Saviour: but the main and chief charge was his own proper cost. The house was for 18. poor people each of them having two Chambers, and allowance of 4. pound ten shillings to each person yearly. The building of the Hospital cost above three hundred pounds.  
Master George Bishop, Stationer, gave 6. pound yearly to his Company: 
George Bishop his memorable charity.  and hath allowed ten pound yearly for ever towards maintaining Preachers at Paul's Cross. He gave likewise six pound yearly to Christ's Hospital.  
Master Richard Culverwell, 
Richard Culverwell.  Brewer, gave to the Hospital of Bridewell, two hundred pound.  
Master William Whitmore, 
William Whitmore  Haberdasher, gave also to the same hospital, 200. pound.  
Master john Norton, 
john Norton mindful of the poor, and of his Company.  Stationer, gave to his own Company the sum of one thousand pound to purchase lands amounting to the value of fifty pound yearly, and some part to be lent to poor young men.  
He gave also one hundred and fifty pounds to the Parish of S. Faiths under Paul's, to purchase seven pounds ten shillings yearly for ever, to be given to the poor.  
Master Henry Fisher, Fishmonger, gave to his Company nine pound yearly, 
Henry Fisher his love to learning.  to maintain a Scholar in the College of Brazen-nose in Oxenford, with the allowance of nine pound and two shillings yearly for two Sermons.  
Master Thomas Aldersey, 
Thomas Aldersey his love to religion and the poor.  Haberdasher, out of an Appropriation which he had at Bunbery in Cheshire, gave the allowance of two hundred Marks yearly, one hundred Marks whereof was for the maintenance of a Preacher.  
He gave to the Minister 20. pound.  
He gave to a School, thirty pound.  
He gave to the poor, ten pound.  
Master Robert Offley, 
Robert Offley his liberal charity.  Haberdasher, to the Mayor and communality of Chester gave six hundred pound to be lent there to young Traders.  
For relief of the poor, and men in prisons, besides other charitable uses two hundred pound.  
More, he gave two hundred pounds, to pay ten pounds yearly to the poor of the Company.  
More, 
Relief for two poor scholars yearly.  he gave two hundred pounds, that ten pounds might be yearly given to either of the Universities, toward the maintaining of two Scholars there, one in each.  
He gave to Bethlem, one hundred pounds.  
He gave to the other Hospitals, to prisons, and to the poor, one hundred and threescore pounds.  
Master Thomas Fisher, 
Tho. Fisher his love to learning, and respect of the poor.  Skinner, gave forty five pounds yearly, out of which, twenty pounds was to be yearly allowed, for a Free-school at Standon in the County of Hertford.  
To buy paper, books, pens and ink, yearly for the Scholars, 5. poends.  
To Christ's Hospital yearly, ten pounds.  
For the redemption of Prisoners in either of the Compters and Ludgate, lying there for three pounds' debt, twenty pounds.  
Master Florence Caldwell, 
Florence Caldwell his charity  Haberdasher, to diverse poor Parishes in London gave twenty pounds yearly.  
Divers well-disposed Citizens of London, 
The love of diverse Citizens to learning.  desirous (as yet) not to be named, being born in or near to Ashborn in the Peake, in the Country of Derby, combining their loving benevolence together, have builded there a fair School-house, with convenient lodgings for a Master and Usher, and liberal maintenance yearly allowed thereto.  
Master Robert Rogers, 
The Christian and charitable works of Robert Rogers  Leatherseller, and a Bachelor, like a most liberal and bountiful benefactor, gave these gifts following:  
To the Prisons in and about London, twelve pounds.  
To the poor of two several Towns in the west Country, thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence.  
To the poor of the Town of Poole, where he was borne, ten pounds.  
For the building of Almshouses there, three hundred thirty three l.  
For the relief of poor prisoners, 
A special note of a godly disposition.  such as were neither Atheists nor Papists, and might be delivered, each man at the sum of twenty Nobles, an hundred and fifty pounds.  
For the benefit of poor Preachers, 
Care of Religion.  allowing to each man ten pounds, an hundred pounds.  
For the comfort of poor decayed Artificers, being charged with wife and children, and of known honest reputation, one hundred pounds.  
He gave to the Company of Merchant Adventurers, 
His care for poor decayed brethren.  for the relief of poor decayed people, and toward the support of young Freemen, four hundred pounds.  
He gave to Christ's Hospital, to purchase Lands for the relief of the house, five hundred pounds.  
For the erection of certain Almshouses in and about London, 
His provident care for the poor in diverse places and Parishes.  and also for the maintenance of twelve poor people, six hundred pounds.  
To the Parish wherein he dwelled, 10. l.  
That two dozen of bread may every Sunday (through the year) for ever be given to the poor, an hundred pounds.  
He gave to Christs-Church Parish, fifteen pounds.  
For relief of the poor in sundry Parishes without the walls, as Newgate, Creplegate, Bishopsgate, and the Parish of S. George in Southwark; unto every one of them he gave twenty six pounds, thirteen shillings, fourepences.  
Moreover, he gave to S. George's Parish in Southwark, Saint Sepulchers, S. Olaves beyond the Bridge, Saint Giles without Creplegate, and S. Leonard in Shoreditch, to buy coals for the poor in each Paris, thirty pounds apiece.  
He gave beside to either Parish of S. Buttolph, without Aldgate and Bishopsgate, twenty pounds.  
For the maintaining of four Scholars, 
His love and liberality to Learning.  two in Oxenford, and two in Cambridge, Students in Divinity, 400, l. Of which the Company of Leathersellers have great respect, and not only see it diligently performed; but also have added their bounty thereto.  
Master john Fuller, 
john Fuller his Almshouses and charity.  Esquire, and one of the Judges in the Sheriff's Court in London, by his last will and testament, bearing date the 10. of june, 1592. appointed his wife, her heirs and assigns, to erect certain Almshouses in the Parish of Stoken-heath, for twelve poor aged single men, being aged fifty years or upwards.  
He appointed also the like Almshouses to be builded in the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch, 
For poor aged widows.  for twelve poor Widow women of the like age, and she to endow them with the yearly maintenance of one hundred pounds; namely, to each fifty pounds by the year for ever. And that money to be deducted out of his Lands in Lincolnshire, assuring over the same to certain Feoffees in trust, by a Deed of Feoffement.  
Moreover, 
Feoffees put in trust to see his will performed.  he gave his Messages, Land, and Tenements, lying and being in the several Parishes of S. Bennet, and S. Peter by Paul's wharf, to Feoffees in trust, yearly for ever, to disburse all the issues and profits of the said Lands and Tenements, to the relieving and discharging of poor prisoners, in the Hole or Twopenny wards, 
Care for the relief and discharge of poor prisoners.  in either of the Compters in London, by equal portions to each Compter. Provided, that the debt do not exceed the sum of twenty shillings eight pence, for every prisoner at any time to be set free.  
Master Edward Elmer, 
Edward Elmer.  Grocer, gave to both the Compters in London, an hundred pounds, partly to be laid out in Faggots for the Prisoners in cold weather; and for two load of straw yearly to Bethlem.  
Master William Nelson, 
William Nelson his love to learning.  Grocer, towards the maintaining of twelve poor Scholars in Oxenford and Cambridge, gave four hundred pounds, to be paid yearly to each place twenty pounds; and thirty three shillings four pence to each man. And to the Prisons, 33. l.  
Master Rafe Newberry, 
Rafe Newberry.  Stationer, gave a stock of Books, and privileges of Printing, to be sold for the benefit of Christ's Hospital and Bridewell.  
Master Robert Row, Haberdasher, for the furtherance of poor Scholars in both the Universities, 
Robert Row a savourer of learning.  gave 20. l. yearly, and the remainder of his goods that were not bequeathed.  
Master Edmond Stile, 
Edmond Style his charity.  Grocer, and Sheriff of London, gave to be distributed among the said Hospitals in London, the sum of threescoure pounds.  
john Stockley, 
john Stockley his charity and love to learning.  Merchant-taylor, gave to Christ's Hospital, and the other Hospitals beside, towards the education of poor children in the fear of God, the sum of forty pounds.  
He gave beside to the Universities, forty pounds more, towards the maintenance of four poor Scholars, to be disposed by the Master and Wardens of the Merchant-taylors', with consent of his Executors and Overseers; desiring that S. john Baptists College in Oxenford should have the prerogative of the gift, if such be there to be found, as are capable of the same.  
Gaius Newman, 
Gaius Newman his charity.  Goldsmith, gave to Christ's Hospital, five pounds: to Saint Bartholomews' Hospital, six pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence: and to the hospital of Bridewell, three pounds.  
john Newman, 
john Newman his charity.  Grocer, gave to Christ's Hospital; three pounds: to Saint Bartholomews' hospital, six pounds: and to Saint Thomas in Southwark, and Bridewell hospital, forty shillings to each house.  
Richard May, 
Richard May his love-token to London, and charity to the poor.  Merchant-taylor, gave (by his last will and testament) to the Chamber of London, the sum of three hundred pounds, toward the new building of old, ruined and decayed Blackwell Hall, in London: It being a Market place for the selling of woollen clothes, on such usual market-days as are thereunto assigned. Upon the receipt of this gift, the said Hall was taken down, a new foundation laid; and within the space of ten months following, the work was finished, with the full charge of 2500. pounds.  
He gave beside to Christ's Hospital, the sum of ninety pounds.  
Peter Chapman, 
Peter Chapman his charity, & love to learning.  Ironmonger, gave to the eight Prisons in and about London, the sum of threescore pounds.  
He gave also to two poor Scholars of Oxenford, studying Divinity, 5. l. to each yearly.  
To poor Scholars in Cambridge also, following the same study, he gave the like sum of money.  
To the poor of the Town of Cokeham in Berkshire, where it appeared he was borne, he gave the sum of five pounds yearly.  
john Car, 
john Car his care for learning, and the poor.  Ironmonger, gave a gift of twenty pounds yearly, for the space of one and twenty years. Five pounds thereof was to go to a Preacher at Standon in Essex.  
Concerning the other 15. pounds, it was ordered to pass in this manner of course.  
The first year, it was for the benefit of certain poor Parishes in London, thereto appointed.  
The second year it was for the help of two poor Scholars, one in Oxenford, and the other in Cambridge.  
The third year it was appointed for relief of the poor in Standon. And so (according to this course) to continue for time and place, during the space of one and twenty years.  
Henry Cowche, 
Henry Cowche his charity.  or Crouch, Merchant-Taylor, gave unto Christ's Hospital the benefit of his house, known by the name of the Crown without Aldgate, having diverse years as then to come in the Lease, and yielding yearly the sum of fifteen pounds. Five pound is yearly appointed to be paid to the poor of the Parish, and ten shillings to a Preacher. The rest remaineth to the Hospital, and after the Leases expiration, it is judged to yield above an hundred marks yearly.  
David Smith, 
David Smith his care of the poor.  Embroiderer, at his own charge did build certain Almshouses, upon the hill called S. Peter's hill, near unto old Fish-street, allowing sufficient maintenance to them.  
He gave also five and twenty pounds yearly to the Company of Ironmongers, appointing it to be distributed among the poor, in the Wards of Queen Hithe, and Castle Baynard.  
john Scot, 
john Scot his charity to the poor.  Salter, gave to his Company the sum of twenty pounds yearly, because they should allow to the six poor Almesmen of the Company, each man twelve pence weekly. The rest is to be divided among other poor, and thirty shillings to be bestowed in Coals yearly for the poor.  
William Stoder, 
William Stoder his charity.  Grocer, gave to Christ's hospital, for relief of the poor children there, fifty pounds yearly.  
William Mascall, 
William Mascall his charity.  Brewer, gave to the same hospital, and to the same intent, nine pounds yearly.  
Stephen Skidmore, 
Stephen Skidmore his love & charity to the poor.  Vintner, gave a gift of forty four pounds yearly, and ordered in this manner:  
To seventeen poor Parishes in London, appointed by nomination, seventeen pounds.  
To the poor of the Parish of S. Stephen in Colemanstreet, twelve pence weekly in bread.  
To the poor of Cork in Ireland, (where it seemeth he was borne) being twelve in number, to each poor body forty shillings.  
Richard jacob, 
Richard jacob his charity to hospitals & prisons.  Vintner, gave a gift of sixteen pounds for ever, that it should be distributed to Christ's Hospital, Saint Bartholomews', Bridewell, and Saint Thomas in Southwark, forty shillings to each house yearly: and the other eight pounds to be given to certain appointed poor Parishes in London.  
He gave moreover (for so long time as two hundred years should last) the sum of twenty eight pounds yearly. 
A time of honest & large continuance.  Of which portion of money, sixteen pounds was appointed for poor Prisoners, that lay imprisoned in any of the eight Prisons in and about London yearly; to each Prison forty shillings: as the Gatehouse, the Fleet, both the Compters of the Poultry and Woodstreet, Ludgate, the Marshallsea, the King's Bench, and the White Lion.  
What remained of the over plus of the money, was to be distributed to the poor of diverse appointed Parishes.  
john Russell, 
john Russell his charitable deeds.  Draper, gave the sum of fourscore pounds yearly for ever: out of which these sums following should be deducted, and the rest remain to be employed by the Company of Drapers.  
He gave thirteen pounds nine shillings yearly to thirteen poor people.  
For relief of the poor, 
His especial respect of the poor.  to be bestowed in bread yearly, two and fifty shillings.  
To be bestowed in Coals yearly for the poor, three pounds.  
For the maintaining of Preachers yearly at Paul's Cross, 
His love to religion and learning.  ten pounds.  
Toward the maintaining of two Scholars, one in Oxenford and the other in Cambridge, the sum of thirteen pounds six shillings eight pence.  
For maintaining a Schoolmaster at Burton in Staffordshire, thirteen pounds, six shillings, eight pence.  
Item, 
Rob. Gale his love to learning, and respect of the poor.  To the Visher, five pounds.  
And to the Visitors, thirty shillings.  
Robert Gale, Vintner, out of his Lands lying in diverse places, gave the sum of one hundred and forty pounds yearly, to be employed in manner following, after the decease of Dorothy his wife.  
To six of the poorer sort of Scholars in Corpus Christi College, in the University of Oxenford, usually commorant and residing in the said College, and yearly to be chosen on the Feast day of Saint Thomas the Apostle, by George Lacocke, his heirs or assigns, under his or their hand and seal: To each Scholar he gave three pounds, six shillings eight pence yearly for ever, to be paid by the said Lacocke, his heirs or assigns for ever, out of his Lands in Claipoole, in the County of Lincoln, and Brassington, in the County of Derby.  
To the poor Town of Chippenham, in Wiltshire, he gave twenty pounds.  
To the Preacher there, 20. shillings.  
To the Bailiff and Burgesses, as a friendly remembrance, yearly twenty shillings.  
To Christ's Hospital in London, twenty pounds.  
To the Company of Vintners, twenty pounds.  
To the poor in Lincoln, 20. pounds.  
To a Preacher there yearly, ten shillings.  
To the Mayor and Chamberlain, twenty shillings.  
To the Minister of S. Marks Church there, ten shillings.  
john Quarles, 
john Quarles his charity.  Draper, gave yearly to be bestowed in bread, for relief of the poor, six pounds.  
William Dummer, 
William Dummer his charity.  Draper, gave to the poor the sum of 13. pounds, 18. shillings, 4. pence yearly for ever.  
William Parker, 
W. Parker his charity  a Brother also of the same Society, gave towards the maintaining of a Lecture yearly at Saint Antlin, six pounds.  
Owen Clun, another Brother also of the same Society, 
Owen Clun his charity  gave to the poor of the said Company yearly for ever, the sum of twenty five pounds.  
james Stoddard, 
james Stoddard his love to Learning.  Grocer, for the maintaining of two poor Scholars, the one in the College of Brazen-nose in Oxenford, and the other to be of Queen's College in Cambridge, gave 10. l. yearly to be paid for ever, out of his Tenement called the Swan with two necks, in the Parish of S. Laurence old Jury.  
john Skeete, 
john Skeete his respect of the poor, and his love to learning.  Draper, for relief and maintenance of the poor, in the Hospitals in and about London, gave the sum of three hundred pounds.  
Moreover, he gave to four poor Scholars studying Divinity in the University of Oxford, and which are not able to proceed in their degrees, five pounds to each Scholar, to be paid at the next Act or Commencement.  
The like liberality he gave to the other University of Cambridge, for so many Scholars, five pound to each, and at the same time.  
Roger Owfield, 
Roger Owfield, his love to learning.  Fishmonger, gave the sum of one hundred pounds towards the maintenance of poor Scholars, that studied. Divinity in the Universities of Oxenford and Cambridge, or else where. And his desire was, that some of them might be of the Town of Ashborne, if any such could there be found fit for it. Otherwise he appointed the money to be employed in Scholarships, in Sidney or Emanuel College in Cambridge. Beside, he gave to Christ's Hospital one hundred pounds.  
john Berriman, 
john Berryman his respect of the poor.  of Bishops Tawton, in the County of Devonshire, Clothier, and said to be a free Draper of London, gave to Christ's Hospital, an hundred pounds: to Saint Bartholomews', five pounds: to Saint Thomas, six pounds: to Bridewell, forty shillings: and to Bethlem fifty pounds.  
john Ireland, 
john Ireland his charity  Salter, gave to Christ's Hospital, four pounds: to Saint Bartholomews', four pounds: to Saint Thomas and Bridewell, twenty shillings to each house.  
Thomas Thorney, 
Thomas Thorney his charity.  Barber Chirurgeon, gave to Christ's Hospital, five pounds, and to Bridewell, five pounds.  
Francis Evington, 
Francis Evington his charity & love to learning.  Merchant-Taylor, gave to Christ's Hospital, ten pounds, and to Saint Bartholomews' Hospital, ten pounds.  
He gave also to poor Scholars in both the Universities, six pounds to each Scholar.  
Henry Butler, Draper, gave to Saint Thomas Hospital, 
Henry Butler his charity.  ten pounds: to Christ's Hospital, five pounds: and to S. Bartholomews' and Bridewell, five pounds to each house.  
Peter Hall, 
Peter Hall his charity  Draper, gave to Christ's Hospital, ten pounds: to Saint Bartholomews', three pounds: and the like to Saint Thomas.  
Roger jenkin's, 
Roger jenkin's his love to Learning.  Barber Chirurgeon, to the poor Scholars in Christ's Hospital, gave five pounds, to buy them Books at the discretion of the Treasurer.  
George Chamberlain, 
George Chamberlain his charity  Ironmonger, gave to Christ's Hospital, ten pounds; to Saint Thomas, five pounds: to Saint Bartholomews', five pounds: and to Bridewell, ten pounds.  
Thomas Church, 
Tho. Church his charity  Draper, gave to Christ's Hospital, ten pounds: to Bridewell, ten pounds: to Saint Bartholomews' five pounds; and to Saint Thomas, five pounds.  
Andrew Banning Grocer, gave for ever, 
Andrew Banning his love to learning.  120. pounds to the Company of Grocers, therewith to purchase lands of five pounds value yearly, for the relief of some poor Scholar in the University of Cambridge.  
Randall Manning, 
Randall Manning His love to Learning.  Skinner, gave toward the relief of four poor Scholars yearly, forty shillings to each Scholar, being of Christ's and Emanuel Colleges in Cambridge, and this gift to continue the space of thirty years. Katherine, wife to the said Randall Manning, gave also the sum of one hundred pounds, that her husbands will might the more effectually be kept and performed.  
Hugh Cappe, 
Hugh Cappe his liberal charity.  Plasterer, gave for relief of the poor children in Christ's Hospital, the sum of 100 pounds. He gave also to the two Hospitals of Saint Bartholomews' and S. Thomas in Southwark, ten pounds to each house.  
Lewes Randall, 
Lewes Randall his charity.  Pewterer, gave unto Christ's Hospital, fifty pounds: and to S. Thomas Hospital, twenty shillings.  
Henry van Hilton, 
A stranger's charity.  Merchant Stranger, and a free Denizen of London, gave unto Christ's Hospital, thirty pounds.  
Humphrey Fox, 
Hufrey Fox his charity.  Draper, gave to the poor children's succour in Christ's Hospital, the sum of fifty pounds.  
William Parker, 
William Parker his bountiful charity.  Merchant-taylor, gave to Christ's Hospital, to purchase lands for maintenance of the poor children, five hundred pounds.  
He gave also to the Treasurer of Bridewell, to set forty Boys on work, which should be taken up begging in the streets, and there bound Apprentices for 7. years, to learn several Trades; for each boy should five pound be paid to the Treasurer, until the sum of two hundred pound should fully be run out.  
Of this man expect more when I come to speak of the new building of Aldersgate.  
George Palin, 
George Palin his bountiful charity.  Merchant, and free of the Girdlers' Society, by his last Will and Testament, 
Those Almshouses are builded near to Creplaegate.  to good and charitable uses gave these gifts following:  
First, he gave nine hundred pounds towards the erection or building of certain Almshouses, in or about the City of London, wherein six poor people should have the yearly allowance of six pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence to each person.  
More, he gave towards the having a sweet Chime in Bow Church in London, one hundred pounds.  
He gave to Saint john Baptist, 
His care & love to Learning.  and Brazen-nose Colleges in Oxenford, towards the maintaining of four Scholars there yearly, three hundred pounds, to each College, and to each Scholar, four pounds yearly.  
To the six several Prisons in and about London, 
His care for prisoners, and the poor.  he gave threescore pounds.  
He gave unto Christ's Hospital to purchase Lands after the rate of twenty pounds yearly, for benefit of the poor children there, the sum of three hundred pounds.  
Moreover, 
His zeal to learning.  in further expression of his zeal and love to learning, and for the like uses as we have before declared, he gave to Trinity and Saint john's College in Cambridge, the sum of six hundred pounds.  
To the Hospital of Saint Thomas in Southwark, he gave fifty pounds.  
Towards the bearing of such Scholars charges, 
The fruits of a Christian faith  as should come (from time to time) to preach at Paul's Cross, he gave the sum of 200. pounds.  
He gave 132. pounds to be distributed to certain Parishes in London, to some ten pounds, to others twenty pounds.  
He gave to the Town of Wrenbury in Cheshire, 
His care of poor people in the country  200. l. to purchase Lands, after the rate of twenty marks by the year, for relief of the poor there.  
He gave also for behoof of the Church there, the sum of thirty pounds.  
He gave for forty poor Gowns, forty pounds.  
Laurence Camp, 
Laurence Camp his love to learning.  Draper, gave forty pounds towards the maintenance of poor Scholars in Cambridge, at the discretion of Robert Meakin, Preacher of S. john's Church in Walbrooke.  
Robert Dove, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, 
The worthy charitable gifts of Master Robert Dove  gave (in his life time, and long before he died) to the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of that worshipful Company, the sum of two thousand, nine hundred, fifty eight l.. ten shillings, to be yearly employed in these good uses following:  
First, 
This charity extendeth only to poor brethren of the same company.  for the mantaining of thirteen poor Almesmen, in gowns of good cloth, well lined, with a silver Dove upon each man's left sleeve. And six other poor men, termed Reversioners, to succeed in the rooms of the deceased Gownemen, they wearing Cloaks of good cloth in the mean time, with a silver Dove also upon each man's left arm: the yearly allowance to perform this is one hundred and seven pounds.  
He gave to the Schoolmaster eight pounds.  
He gave also to the poor of Saint Buttolph's without Aldgate, in which Parish he dwelled and died, twenty pounds, nine shillings.  
To Saint john Baptists College in Oxenford he gave 100 pounds. 
His love to learning.   
To the prisoners in the two Counters of London, and to the Prisons of Ludgate and Newgate, he gave twenty pounds.  
He gave to Christ's Hospital in London, to purchase Lands, after the rate of ten pounds yearly, and for one to instruct the boys in singing, two hundred and forty pounds.  
He gave to the Parish of S. Sepulchers the sum of fifty pounds, 
A notable and most Christian care for poor condemned persons, and their going to their death.  that after the several Sessions in London, when the Prisoners remain in the Gaol, as condemned men to death, expecting execution on the morrow following, the Clerk of the Church should come in the night time, and likewise early in the morning, to the window of the prison where they lie, and there ringing certain toules with a hand-bell, appointed for the purpose, he doth afterward (in most Christian manner) put them in mind of their present condition, and ensuing execution, desiring them to be prepared therefore as they ought to be. When they are in the Carts, and brought before the wall of the Church, there he standeth ready with the same Bell, and after certain toules, rehearseth an appointed Prayer, desiring all the people there present to pray for them. The Beadle also of Merchant-taylors' Hall hath an honest allowed stipend, to see that this be duly done.  
What else remaineth concerning this man, expect when I come to speak of the Hall.  
Randulph Woolley, 
Randulph Wolley his love to learning, and care for the poor.  Merchant-Taylor, gave to the Governors of Christ's Hospital, therewith to pay yearly for ever, five pounds, to the Reader of Oar Chapel, in the Parish of Mucklestone, in the County of Stafford, by fifty shillings at each half year. For which he is to teach freely the children of the inhabitants of Aston, in the forenamed Parish of Mucklestone.  
He gave more to the said Hospital one hundred pounds, for the allowing of fifty shillings yearly every Easter day, that the poor children may then eat roast meat.  
He gave moreover to the said Governors one hundred pounds, therewith to pay yearly unto the poor of the Parish of Muckle stone five pounds.  
He gave also to Saint Bartholomews' Hospital, three pounds.  
Henry Walcot, 
Henry Walcot, his charity.  Grocer, gave to Saint Bartholomews' Hospital twenty pounds: to Christ's Hospital, five pounds: to S. Thomas in Southwark, five pounds: to Bridewell, three pounds six shillings, eight pence: and to Bethlem, three pounds, six shilling eight pence.  
Henry Woolaston, 
Henry Woolaston his charity.  Draper, gave to S. Thomas Hospital, forty pounds: and to the four Beadles, Coats of good new cloth.  
Also he gave to every Governor, going to his burial, and staying there the Sermon time, half a crown to each man, to dine together afterward.  
john Vernon, 
john Vernon his charity.  Merchant-Taylor, gave to Christ's Hospital, forty pounds: to S. Bartholomews' Hospital, fifty pounds: to Bridewell and S. Thomas, five pounds to each house.  
Edward Harvist, 
Edward Harvist his charity.  Brewer, gave unto Christ's Hospital, the sum of one hundred pounds: and fifty pounds, to be equally divided between the two Hospitals of S. Bartholomews' and S. Thomas in Southwark.  
john Brown, 
john Brown his charity.  Woolwinder, and Magdalen his wife, gave certain lands lying in Barking in Essex, amounting then to 5. l. 6. s. 8. d. yearly. And this gift they gave unto Christ's Hospital for ever.  
john Porter, 
john Porter his charity.  of Porter's Key, Fishmonger, gave unto Christ's Hospital, twenty pound.  
Lewis Randall, 
Lewis Randall his charity.  Pewterer, but a Brewer by his profession, of his own free cost and charge, paved (with fair free Stone) the East I'll of Christ's Hospital Cloister, and renewed all the Armouries of former liberal Benefactors to that house, whereof himself was one of the Governors.  
He gave beside 50. pound to the Treasurer, 
His love to the children.  that the poor children there maintained, might eat roast-meat, at dinner, on every Saint Mathias day, if it fall out of Lent. But if it fall in Lent, than they are to eat good and well made Furmenty, both at dinner and supper.  
john Whithall, 
john Whithall his charity.  Skinner, gave to the children's relief in Christ's Hospital, 40. pound.  
William jones, 
William jones his bountiful charity.  Merchant, and free of the worshipful Company of Haberdashers, in his life time did many charitable deeds, and by his Will and Testament ordained many more, putting his own Society in trust to see them performed, as shall briefly be declared.  
First, 
His Christian care for Religion in his country.  many years before he died, he allowed 50. pound yearly to a Preacher at Monmouth, there to instruct the people in Gods true Religion. Afterward he grew to settle a certain stipend there, amounting to the sum of 100 Marks yearly, to maintain a good Preacher there. Providing also, that a convenient house should be built for him, with all necessary matters belonging to it, that he might (with the more comfort) dwell there among them. 
His care for the maintenance of Learning.   
Also, for the instruction of youth in Learning and Religion, he ordained to have a fair Free-school there built at his own charge, and a fair house also to be erected for the chief Master. Allowing him yearly (for ever) 60. pound, and 30. pound also yearly to the Visher.  
Beside, 
His providence for the poor and needy people in Monmouth.  being Christianly mindful of the poor and needy people in those parts, he took order for the building of an Hospital in the same Town, ordaining it for twenty poor people: giving to every one of them a good Gown yearly, and 2. shillings 6. pence apiece weekly. And because himself (being far absent) could be no Surveyor of these works, he committed the care thereof to the loving Brethren of his Company, paying to them (in his life time) the sum of 8000. pound. And left them by his will, 1000 pound more, for the full finishing of so good a work.  
More, 
Still his Piety and Christian Charity walk hand in hand together.  he appointed to the said Company of Haberdashers, the sum of 5000. pound by them to be disbursed, for the maintenance of a good Preacher at Newland in Gloucester shire, and of certain poor people in the same Parish.  
More, 
His care for poor decayed brethren of the Company.  He gave to the same Society, one thousand four hundred and forty pounds, to allow unto nine poor men, being free Brethren of the same Company, eight pounds apiece yearly for ever.  
Moreover, 
His maintaining of a Preacher in the City of London for ever.  he left (by his will) 600. pound in money, and a fair house in the City of London, to the disposition of the Company, to bestow the yearly profits, for the yearly maintenance of a godly Preacher in this City for ever, which Preacher from time to time is to benominated by the Company. As already they have thereto appointed Master john Downham, Bachelor in Divinity, and a very learned Preacher.  
More, 
His love to poor Preachers.  he gave the sum of 1000 pound to be faithfully distributed among poor Preachers here in England.  
To be distributed among the several Hospitals in London, 
His charity to Hospitals and poor people beyond the Seas.  he gave the sum of 500 pound.  
To the poor in Stoad he gave 200. pound.  
To the poor of Hamborough, he gave 50. pound.  
Beside, to such poor English men as lived in Hamborough, he gave 50 pound.  
He gave likewise a good sum of money (by way of gratitude and thankfulness) to his own Company, 
His love to his own Company  as a token of his love, for their care and painstaking, in the managing of so serious a business.  
The Hospital at Monmouth was built (by the Company) in his life time, 
What care and diligence the worthy Company have taken in the execution of his will, according to the times and several appointed places.  and the poor people placed in it.  
Since his death, the house for the Preacher there, the Free-school, and the house for the Schoolmaster, all these are (by this time) near hand finished.  
An house also for the Preacher at Newland, and the Hospital for ten poor people there, is already (by them) begun, and in very good forwardness.  
His intended care for a Preacher in London, is already performed, and the same continued in a Lecture, at S. Bartholomews' Church, near to the Exchange, every Thursday in the afternoon.  
Whatsoever else remaineth, concerning the trust reposed in them, they will (with all speed) both truly and faithfully effect.  
Here I could enter into a further relation, 
Divers men yet living, have been and still are most bountiful benefactors to the poor, and many other religious uses  concerning some men yet living, whose liberal bounty and most Christian charity, doth deserve no mean commendation, and is very little inferior to many of them already named.  
But because they accounted it honour enough to them, that diverse poor people (in private) should rather sufficiently find it, than the world (in public) know it, I am content to spare their nomination, as knowing very well, that they who have been so liberal in their life time, have (no doubt) set down extraordinary determinations, which neither death, nor any deceiving Executors, can or shall frustrate and disappoint.  
Let me commend that truly-religious man, 
The testimony of a good and godly conscience indeed.  who perceiving the heavy want of diverse honest householders', laboriously endeavouring (night and day) to maintain their charge; but that the world's extremity frowned too fiercely upon them. I know the man, and oftentimes in tears hath he said to me; Here is true poverty indeed, too modestly silent in speaking their mighty need and misery, and therefore justly deserving pity. To two, three, four, and many times more of these, hath he been, and is, a liberal Benefactor (weekly) with his own hands: yet not in his own name, or as coming from himself, (he being so meanly disguised at such times of his coming to them, and so sudden also in departing from them, that they were not able to distinguish him;) but alleging, that the relief was sent them from some, who understood their need (almost) as well as themselves, and willed them to be thankful only to God for it.  
O that London had a Park near adjoining to it, stored with many such choice Dear; as doubtless it hath, though not easily known. For some build Almshouses, Free-Schooles, Cawseyes and Bridges in very needful places: yea, and repair old ruined Churches, relieving Hospitals also in very bountiful manner, and are weekly Benefactors to Prisons: yet performed by such agents faithfully, that the true bestowers are not noted, though vehemently suspected; and the glory they shun here, will (for ever) shine on them elsewhere. But God stir up the minds of many more, to imitate them in this tongueless liberality.  
Master William Masham, 
William Masham his love to Learning.  Grocer, and Alderman of London, gave (beside his liberal charity to the Hospital) toward the maintenance of poor Scholars, at both the Universities, twenty pounds.  
Master Henry Prannel, 
Henry Prannel his charity.  Vintner, and Alderman of London, gave among the said Hospitals the sum of 50. pounds yearly.  
Master William Elkin, 
William Elkin his bountiful charity.  Mercer, and Alderman of London, in the year 1593. gave to Christ's Hospital in London, and for certain charitable uses, the sum of 800. pounds.  
He gave also to the Prisons in and about London, threescore pounds.  
Beside, he gave to Emanuel College in Cambridge, five pounds, and to both the Universities together, threescore pounds.  
Master Richard Gurney, 
Richard Gurney his charity.  Slater and Alderman of London, gave to be distributed among the several Hospitals in and about London, threescore pound. And to the Universities yearly five pound.  
Master Hugh Offley, 
Hugh Offley his love to learning and care for the poor.  Leather seller and Alderman of London, gave for the maintaining of Scholars in both the Universities, 77. pound.  
He gave to Christ's Hospital in London, the like sum of 77. pound.  
Beside, he gave to the prisoners in and about London, 20. pound, and 35. shillings yearly to continue for certain years.  
Master Robert Brooke, 
Robert Brook his charity.  Grocer and Alderman of London, gave to be distributed among the Hospitals in London, the sum of six and thirty pound.  
Master Benedict Barnham, 
Benedict Barnham, his charity.  Draper and Alderman of London, gave to be distributed among the several Prisons in London, fifty pounds.  
Master Robert Taylor, 
Robert Taylor his charity.  Haberdasher and Alderman of London, gave in distribution to the Hospitals in London, the sum of one hundred pound.  
Master Paul Banning, 
Paul Banning his charity.  Grocer, and sometime an Alderman of London, gave unto Christ's Hospital the sum of one hundred pounds.  
Sir Richard Goddard, 
Sir Richard Goddard.  Draper and Alderman of London, gave to the Hospital of Bridewell, two hundred pound.  
Master William Walthall, 
William Walthall his charitable benevolence  Mercer and Alderman of London, gave to the Hospitals of London, two hundred pounds.  
More, he gave to poor Scholars in Cambridge, nine pound yearly.  
To the Prisons beside, in and about London, he gave one hundred thirty five pounds.  
Beside his former gifts, he gave ten pound yearly to Christ's Hospital.  
To his Company of the Mercers he gave five hundred pounds to be lent to young men that begin the world. 
Care for young beginners.   
Sir Robert Hampson, 
Sir Robert Hampson, his charity.  Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, gave to the charitable relief of poor prisoners, one hundred and fifty pounds in ready money, and the reversion of two Tenements beside.  
Sir Henry Anderson, 
Henry Anderson, his love to learning.  Grocer and Alderman of London, and Richard Anderson his son, gave to the College of Brazen-nose in Oxenford, for the relief of poor Scholars there, one hundred and thirteen pounds.  
Sir William Glover 
William Glover his charity.  Dyer and Alderman of London, gave also to the Hospitals, in and about London, the sum of two hundred pounds,  
Sir William Rumney, 
Willia, Rumney his charity.  Haberdasher, and Alderman of London, gave also to be distributed among the same Hospitals, the sum of threescore and five pounds.  
Sir Roger jones, 
Roger Jones his charity.  Dyer and Alderman of London, gave likewise to the said Hospitals, two and twenty pounds.  
Master Richard Faringdon, 
Richard Faringdon his charity.  Clothworker, and Alderman of London, gave also to be distributed among the same Hospitals, the sum of threescore and six pound thirteen shillings four pence.  
Nicholas Style, 
Nicholas Style, his charity, and care for poor Seamen.  Grocer, and Alderman of London, gave unto Christ's Hospital five pound, to St. Bartholomews', 10. pound, and to St, Thomas Hospital three pound.  
Moreover, he gave to poor maimed Seafaring soldiers, in S. Bartholomews' Hospital ten pound, if no house were erected in or about London, for the harbour and relief of such maimed Souldidiers and Saylors.  
Master jeffrey Elwes, 
jeffrey Edwes his charity.  Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, gave unto Christ's Hospital the sum of one hundred pounds. And to the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, and St. Thomas in Southwark ten pounds to each house.  
Master Cuthbert Martin, 
Cuthbert Martin his charity.  Skinner, and Alderman of London, gave unto Christ's Hospital, the sum of twenty pounds.  
Sir james Deane, 
james Dean his charity.  Draper, gave to be distributed among the several Hospitals in and about London, the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds. And to the Prisoners threescore and ten pounds.  
Master George Smiths, 
George Smiths his charity.  Goldsmith, and Alderman of London, gave to Christ's Hospital, ten pounds. And to Bridewell ten pounds.  
Sir William Bowyer, 
William Bowyer, his charity.  Grocer, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1543. gave to the several Prisons in and about London, the sum of two hundred pounds.  
Sir john Lion, Grocer, Alderman, and Lord Mayor of Lond, 
Sir john Lion his charity.  in the year 1554. gave to Christ's Hospital. St. Bartholomews', S. Thomas in Southwark, and Bridewell, one hundred pounds.  
Sir Richard Champion, 
Sir Richard Champion his charity for relief of the poor.  Drapet, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year, 1565. gave the sum of nineteen pound and fourteen shillings yearly, to a Christian and charitable work, formerly begun by Sir john Milbourne, Draper, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London likewise, and with the like yearly allowance of nineteen pounds and fourteen shillings towards the maintenance of 13. poor Almshouses at Tower-hill, and near to the dwelling of the Lord Lumley.  
Sir Christopher Draper, 
Sir Christopher Draper his charity.  Ironmonger, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1566. gave to the Prisons in and about London, and Bethlem withal, threescore and eight pounds.  
Sir Lionel Ducket, 
Sir Lionel Ducket his charity.  Mercer, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1572. gave to be distributed among the Hospitals in London, the sum of one hundred pounds.  
Sir Thomas Ramsey, 
Sir Thomas Ramsey his charity.  Grocer, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1577. gave also in distribution among the said Hospitals threescore pounds.  
Sir Wolstane Dixie, 
Sir Wolstane Dixie his charitable benevolence  Skinner, Maior, 1586. gave as followeth.  
He founded a Free-school at Bosworth and endowed it with twenty pound yearly.  
To Christ's Hospital in London he gave yearly for ever two and forty pounds.  
For a Lecture in St. Michael's Bassing Hall, yearly, ten pounds.  
To the poor of Newgate, twenty pounds. 
His bounty to Prisons in diverse places.   
To the two Compters, and to Ludgate and Bethlem, to each of them ten pounds.  
To the four Prisons in Southwark, twenty pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence.  
To the poor of Bassing Hall, ten pounds.  
To Emanuel College in Cambridge, 
Out of his love to learning.  to buy lands for the maintenance or two Fellows, and two Scholars, six hundred pounds.  
To the building of the College, fifty pounds.  
To be lent unto poor Merchants, 
To poor Merchants.  five hundred pounds.  
To the Hospitals of Saint Bartholomew, 
To Hospitals and poor maids marriages, etc.  and Saint Thomas, fifty pounds to each.  
To the the poor of Bridewell, twenty pounds.  
To poor Maid's marriages, one hundred pounds.  
To poor Strangers of the Dutch and French Church, fifty pounds.  
Towards the building of the Pesthouse, 
To the Pesthouse.  two hundred pounds.  
Sir john Hart, 
Sir john Hart his care of Learning, and respect of the poor.  Grocer, Alderman and Lord Maior London, in the year 1589. erected and founded a Free-school in Yorkshire, with the allowance of thirty pound yearly to a Master and an Usher.  
Sir john Allot, 
Sir john Allot his charity.  Fishmonger, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, gave likewise in distribution among the said Hospitals, threescore and six pound thirteen shillings.  
Sir William Webbe, 
Sir William Webbe his charity.  Salter, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1591. gave likewise to be distributed among the said Hospitals, fourscore pound.  
Sir Stephen Slanie, 
Sir Stephen Slanie, his charity.  Skinner, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1595. beside his bountiful charity to the several Hospitals, gave to be bestowed among the several Prisons, the sum of one hundred pounds.  
Master Thomas Skinner, 
Thomas Skinner his charity.  Clothworker, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1596. gave to the several Hospitals in and about London one hundred and twenty pound to be equally divided among them.  
Sir Robert Lee, 
Sir Robert Lee his charity.  Merchant-Taylor, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, 1602. gave also in distribution among the said Hospitals, two and forty pound.  
Sir john Wattes, 
Sir john Wats, his charity.  Clothworker, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1606. gave unto Christ's Hospital the sum of ten pound, and to Saint Thomas hospital in Southwark, twenty pounds.  
Sir Henry Rowe, 
Sir Henry Rowe his charity.  Mercer, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, 1607. gave likewise to be distributed among the same hospitals, the sum of one hundred pounds.  
Sir Humphrey Weld, 
Sir Humphrey Wield his charity.  Grocer, and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1608. gave to be distributed among the several hospitals, the sum of one hundred pounds.  
Sir Thomas Cambell, 
Sir Thomas Cambell his charity.  Ironmonger, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1609. gave to Christ's Hospital the sum of twenty pounds. And to the two Hospitals of S. Bartholomews', and Saint Thomas, five pound to each house.  
Sir james Pemberton, 
Sir james Pemberton his love to learning and to the poor.  Goldsmith, and lately Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1611. in his life time founded a Free-school at Heskin in the Parish of Ekklesden, in Lamcashire, endowing it with fifty pounds yearly.  
He gave also to Christ's Hospital, five hundred pounds.  
He gave to his Company of Goldsmiths, two hundred pounds.  
To diverse Prisons he gave one hundred pounds.  
And to sundry poor Parishes he gave charitably, leaving it to his Executors discretion.  
Sir john Swinnerton, 
Sir john Swinnerton his charity.  Merchant-Taylor, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1612. gave unto Christ's Hospital the sum of one hundred pound. And to the other three hospitals, of Saint Bartholomews', Saint Thomas, and Bridewell, ten pound to each house.  
Sir Henry Rowe, 
Sir Henry Rowe his love to learning.  Mercer, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, beside his former bounty to the hospitals, gave to the two Universities, Oxenford and Cambridge, forty pound to poor scholars that study Divinity: and when they shall proceed Masters of Arts, to each scholar forty shillings.  
Sir Thomas Hunt, 
Sir Thomas Hunt his charity.  Skinner, gave to be divided among the poor of Christ Church, Saint Bartholomews', Saint Thomas in Southwark, and Bridewell, one hundred pounds.  
Sir William Rumney, 
William Rumney his love to learning.  Haberdasher, and Alderman of London, beside his former liberality to the hospitals, gave to 40. poor scholars in Cambridge, the sum of twenty pounds.  
Sir William Stone, 
William Stone his charity.  Clothworker, gave to the several Prisons in London, the sum of fifty pounds.  
Master jeffrey Elwes, 
jeffrey Elwes his love to learning.  Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, over and beside his bountiful charity to the Hospitals in London, gave to the Chancellor, Master and scholars of the University of Oxenford, to the use of the body and corporation of the said University, and to Saint john Baptist College, the sum of three hundred pounds.  
Thus much for famous Citizens have I noted, concerning their charitable actions, for the most part done by them in their life time. The residue left in trust to their Executors, I have known some of them hardly (or never) performed. Wherefore I wish men to make their own hands their Executors, and their eyes their Overseers, not forgetting the old Proverb, 
Women be forgetful,  
Children be unkind,  
Executors be covetous,  
and take what they find.  
If any body ask where  
the deads' goods became,  
They answer;  
So God me help and holydome,  
he died a poor man.   
And now of some women, Citizens wives, deserving memory, for example to posterity, shall be noted.  
Dame Agnes Foster widow, 
Agnes Foster.  sometime wife to Sir Stephen Foster, Fishmonger, Mayor, 1455. having enlarged the Prison of Ludgate, in 1463. she procured in a common Council of this City, certain Articles to be established for the ease, comfort and relief of poor Prisoners there, as in the Chapter of Gates I have set down.  
Avicen Gibson, 
Avicen Gibson founded a Chapel, a Free-school, and Alms houses at Radcliffe.  wife unto Nicholas Gibson, Grocer, one of the Sheriffs, 1539. by licence of her husband, founded a Free-school at Radcliffe near unto London, appointing to the same for the instruction of threescore poor men's children, a Schoolmaster and Usher with fifty pound. She also builded Almshouses for fourteen poor and aged persons, each of them to receive quarterly six shillings eight pence the piece for ever. The government of which Free-school and Almshouses, she left in confidence to the Cooper's in London.  
This virtuous Gentlewoman, was afterward joined in marriage with Sir Anthony Knevet, 
Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's mark, have I read.  Knight, and so called the Lady Knevet. A fair painted Table of her picture was placed in the Chapel, which she had built there, but of late removed thence, by the like reason, as the Grocer's Arms (fixed on the outer wall of the Schoole-house, are pulled down, and the Cooper's set in place.  
Margaret dan, 
Margaret dan.  Widow to William Danne, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffs of London, 1570. gave by her testament to the Ironmongers two thousand pounds, to be lent to young men of that Company, paying after the rate of 5. pounds the year for every hundred, which hundred pounds so arising yearly was to be employed on charitable actions, as she then appointed; but not performed in more than thirty years after.  
The Lady Baineham, sometime an Alderman's Widow of this City, 
The Lady Baineham her charity.  gave to the poor of the Draper's Company, ten pounds yearly for ever.  
The Lady Forman gave to be distributed among the several hospitals forty pounds. 
The Lady Forman her charity.   
The Lady Barn, 
The Lady Barn her charity.  Wife to Sir George Barn, Haberdasher, and Lord Mayor of London, gave also to the said hospitals, fourscore pounds.  
The Lady Anne Saunders, 
The Lady Saunders her charity.  sometime also an Alderman's wife of London, gave unto the relief of the said Hospitals, the sum of one hundred and twenty pound.  
The Lady Anne Hunt, 
The Lady Hunt her charity.  Wife to Sir Thomas Hunt, Skinner, gave in like manner for relief of the several Hospitals in London, the sum of one hundred and fourscore pounds.  
The Lady Frances jerningham, 
The Lady jerningham her charity.  Widow, out of her Christian and charitable disposition to the said Hospitals, gave liberally the sum of three hundred and forty pounds.  
The Lady Frances, 
The Countess of Sussex her charity.  sometime Countess of Sussex, but a great friend and well-willer to the City of London, and known to be a very godly and religious Lady, gave to the said Hospitals the sum of one hundred pounds.  
The Lady Katherine Constable, 
The Lady Constable her charity.  being said to be bred and brought up in this Honourable City, declared her love thereto at her death, and gave unto the Hospitals the sum of two hundred pounds.  
The Lady Webbe, sometime Wife to Sir William Webbe, 
The Lady Web her charity.  Ironmonger, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, gave to be distributed among the several Hospitals, the sum of three hundred pounds.  
The Lady Gresham, wife sometime to Sir Thomas Gresham, 
The Lady Gresham her charity,  Mercer, and Agent beyond the Seas to Queen Elizabeth of famous memory, gave also to the Hospitals, fourscore and ten pounds.  
The Lady Mary Ramsey, 
The Christian and bountiful charity of the Lady Ramsey.  wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey, Grocer, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, about the year one thousand, five hundred, seventy seven, being seized of Lands in Fee-simple of her own inheritance, amounting to the yearly value of two hundred forty three pounds; by consent of her said husband, gave the same to Christ's Hospital in London, towards the relief of the poor children there, and other charitable uses, as shall be declared.  
To the Master and Usher of the School belonging to Christs-Church, she gave yearly twenty pounds.  
To the Schoolmaster of Hawsted, 
Her love to learning.  by the year for ever, she gave twenty pounds.  
To ten poor Widows, beside apparel and houses, yearly twenty pounds.  
To two poor people, 
Her care of the poor.  a man and a woman by her appointed, during their lives she gave unto each of them yearly, two pounds thirteen shillings and four pence.  
To two Fellows of Peter-house, in the University of Cambridge, and towards the relief of four Scholars yearly forty pounds.  
To St. Bartholemews' Hospital, ten pounds.  
To Newgate, Ludgate, and both the Compters, 
Her charity to the poor prisoners.  each of them, ten pounds.  
After the expiration of certain Leases, there is to come unto Christ's Hospital yearly the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds.  
To three several Parishes in London, 
To parishes in London.  namely, Saint Andrews Vndershaft, Saint Peter's the poor, and Saint Mary Wolnoth in Lumbardstreet, ten pounds to each.  
Towards the maintenance of six poor Scholars in Cambridge, twenty pounds.  
Towards the relief of ten poor maimed Soldiers, 
Care for poor maimed Soldiers.  beside cassoks, caps, hose and shoes yearly, the sum of twenty pounds.  
For two Sermons yearly, forty shillings.  
She gave to the poor of Christschurch Parish yearly for ever, the sum of fifty shillings.  
To the poor of the Company of Drapers in London, she gave ten pounds yearly.  
All these gifts already rehearsed, are to continue for every yearly.  
Moreover, to each of these five Companies, 
Her care for poor beginners in the world.  of Grocers, Drapers, Goldsmiths, Haberdashers, and Merchant-Tailors, she gave the sum of one thousand two hundred pounds, to be lent to young Tradesmen for four years.  
She gave to the Mayor and Communality of Bristol, a thousand pounds, to be employed toward the new hospital there, and other charitable uses, by the consent of her Executors.  
To certain Parishes in the Country, 
Her charity to diverse Parishes in the country.  as Berden, Newport, Clavering, Langley, Rickling, Quenden, Stocking, Pelham, and Walden, she gave the sum of one hundred pounds, to buy forty Gowns of Frieze for women, and sixty Coats for men, the remainder and overplus to go to the poor.  
She gave to poor maids marriages, forty pounds.  
Moreover, she gave the sum of five hundred pounds, towards the releasing of such prisoners, as lie for the debt of forty shillings, in any of the prisons in London and Southwark.  
She gave beside, the sum of three thousand pounds, to other good and godly uses.  
The Lady Elizabeth Billingsley, 
The Lady Billingsley her love to learning.  wife to Sir Henry Billingsley, Haberdasher, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, gave to her said husband, the sum of 4000 pounds, therewith to purchase lands in convenient time, and willed, that the residue of the profits of the said lands, should be bestowed upon a Scholarship and a Fellowship, in the University of Cambridge, in Saint john's College, or any other College there at his discretion.  
The Lady Anne jones, sometime wife to Sir Roger jones, 
The Lady jones her love to learning.  Dier, and Alderman of London, gave towards the encouragement of poor Scholars in the Universities, 29. pounds, at the discretion of her Executors.  
The Lady Spencer, 
The Lady Spencer her charity.  sometime wife to Sir john Spencer, Clothworker, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, gave to be distributed among the Hospitals, the sum of threescore and ten pounds.  
The Lady Anne Glover, 
The Lady Glover her charity.  sometime wife to Sir William Glover, Dier, Alderman of London, gave to relief of the Hospitals, the sum of fourscore pounds.  
The Lady Barbara Stone, 
The Lady Stone her charity.  sometime wife to Sir William Stone, Clothworker, gave to the relief of Christ's Hospital, one hundred pounds.  
Mistress Elizabeth Walter, 
Mistress Walter her love to learning.  sometime wife to Richard Walter, Girdler, gave 2. Fellowships to Emanuel College in Cambridge.  
More, for the relief of poor Preachers, such as want livings, she gave the sum of three hundred pounds.  
Mistress Alice Barnham, 
Mistress Barnham her love to learning.  mother to M. Benedict Barnham, Draper and Alderman of London, gave to both Universities, 20. pound.  
Mistress Elizabeth Scot, 
Mistress Scot, her love to learning.  sometime wife to john Scot, Salter, gave to the relief of poor Scholars in the Universities, forty pounds.  
Mistress Katherine Garway gave also to the same benefit of poor Scholars, 
Mistress Garway her love to learning.  twenty pounds.  
Mistress Cicely Hawes, 
Mistress Hawes her love to learning.  gave to poor Scholars in the Universities, twenty pounds.  
Mistress Alice Hill, 
Mistress Hill her charity.  Widow, gave for the relief of poor prisoners, in the several Prisons in and about London, one hundred pounds.  
Mistress Elizabeth Packingten, 
Mistress Packingten her charity.  Widow, gave to Christ's Hospital, 
Mistress Packington her charity.  threescore pounds.  
Mistress Elizabeth Smith, 
Mistress Smith her charity.  Widow, gave to be distributed among the Hospitals, fourscore pounds.  
Mistress Elizabeth Flicton, 
Mistress Election her charity.  sometime wife to Robert Election, Grocer, gave unto Christ's Hospital, the sum of 66. pounds.  
Mistress margery Simcotes, 
Mistress Simcotes her charity.  sometime wife to George Simcotes, Grocer, gave unto Christ's Hospital, for relief of the poor Children, one hundred pounds.  
Mistress Margaret Search, 
Mistress Search her charity.  Widow, gave unto Christ's Hospital, twenty pounds.  
Mistress jane Allington, 
Mistress Allington her charity.  Widow, gave unto Christ's Hospital, twenty pounds.  
Mistress jane Baker, 
Mistress Baker her charity.  widow gave to the relief of poor maids marriages, an hundred pounds.  
Mistress Sambach, 
Mistress Sambach her charity.  widow, gave to the poor of the parish of Saint Brides in Fleetstreet, the sum of twenty five pounds yearly.  
Mistress Venables, 
Mistress Venables her charity.  widow, in her love to Christian Religion, gave for the help of poor Preachers, the sum of five thousand pounds.  
Mistress Clarke, 
Mistress Clarke her love to Learning.  widow, late wife of Roger Clarke, Salter, and Alderman of London, in the Parish of Saint Margaret Moses, gave for the maintenance of poor Scholars, and other charitable uses beside, the sum of one thousand four hundred pounds.  
Mistress joan Doxy, 
Mistress Doxy her charity.  Widow, of Saint Bennet Grasse-Church in London, gave unto Christ's Hospital 5. pounds.  
She gave to poor Maid's marriages, twenty pounds.  
She gave to the Company of Armourers, for relief of four poor widows, for ever yearly, five pounds to each widow, desiring to have it called The poor Widow's Mite.  
She gave also towards the maintenance of the Lecture in Grasse-Church, fifty shillings yearly.  
Mistress Bakhouse, 
Mistress Bakhouse her love to learning.  widow, gave to the worshipful Company of Haberdashers, the sum of forty pounds yearly, towards the maintaining of 8. poor Scholars in the Universities; allowing to each Scholar yearly five pounds.  
Mistress Katherine Woodward, 
Mistress Woodward her charity.  widow, gave two hundred pounds to the Company of Ironmongers, to be lent out to young men for their help.  
She gave two hundred pounds more, to be distributed unto poor Scholars, the Hospitals, poor Prisoners, poor Parishes, poor Householders, poor Maid's marriages: and three pounds thereof for three Sermons yearly.  
Mistress jane Baker, 
Mistress Baker her love to learning.  widow, over and beside her former gift, for the help of poor Maid's marriages, gave to three poor Scholars in Cambridge, and as many in Oxenford, the sum of twenty four pounds, that when they shall severally take degree of Bachelors of Arts, they are to receive four pounds each man.  
Mistress Sibilla jacob, 
Mistress jacob her charity.  widow unto Richard jacob, Vintner, gave unto Christ's Hospital, three pounds, and to Saint Thomas, three pounds.  
Mistress Margery Philip's, 
Mistress filips her charity.  widow, gave unto Christ's Hospital five pounds, and to Saint Thomas, five pounds.  
Mistress Anna Whitmore, 
Mistress Whitmore her liberal charity.  sometime wife to Master William Whitmore, Haberdasher, out of her most bountiful charity, gave unto Christ's Hospital the sum of four hundred pounds.  
More, she gave to Saint Thomas Hospital, twenty pounds.  
To Saint Bartholomews' Hospital, threescore pounds.  
She gave also to the Hospital of Bridewell, to set the poor on work, an hundred pounds.  
Mistress Margaret Awdley of Hackney, 
Mistress Awdley her charity.  Widow, gave unto Christ's Hospital, one hundred pounds.  
She gave to Saint Bartholomews', fifty pounds.  
And to Saint Thomas Hospital, fifty pounds.  
Mistress Alice Elkin, 
The worthy charity of Mistress Alice Owen.  widow to Master William Elkin, Mercer and Alderman of London, was afterward married to the learned Lawyer, Master Thomas Owen, one of the learned Judges of the Land. This Mistress Alice Owen, caused (in her life time) an Hospital to be builded at Istington, for ten poor women, with very convenient rooms, and Gardens to them adjoining. Many other good works were by her performed, and in her life time: and according as she frankly and freely gave them, so will I set them down in order, as followeth.  
First, 
The manifest testimony of her affection to learning.  she gave to the Library in the University of Oxenford, the sum of two hundred pounds.  
She gave also to the Library in the University of Cambridge the sum of twenty pounds.  
For the foundation of one Fellowship, as also one Scholarship, in Emanuel College in the University of Cambridge, she gave a sum of money, the certain value thereof is not as yet come to my hands.  
She gave unto Christ's Hospital in London, 
Her care of the poor.  to the end that twelve pence a piece weekly might be given to certain poor people of Islington, threescore pounds.  
Towards the beautifying of the Cloisters of Christ's Hospital, she gave the sum of sixty six pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence.  
She gave, towards the maintaining of a Schoole-house at Edmonton, twenty pounds.  
For a great Bell, 
A token of her love to the Country.  to be rung and used in the Parish of Condover in Shropshire, she gave the sum of fifty pounds.  
Item, The building of the Almshouses at Islington, and purchasing of the Land laid to them, did cost her the sum of one thousand, four hundred and fifteen pounds.  
Close to the said Almshouses, 
Her providence for the poor in her almshouses.  she builded a schoolhouse and a Chapel of ease, that the poor might not go overfar to Church, the charges whereof did cost her the sum of three hundred, sixty one pounds.  
Yearly also she gave good sums of money, 
All these things were done in her life time.  to poor Preachers unbeneficed, as also to the Prisons in and about London, all these being done in her life time.  
By her last Will and Testament, 
Gifts appointed by her william.  she hath provided, that 22. pounds yearly shall be purchased, for the maintenance of the School at Islington.  
She hath bequeathed to poor Preachers the sum of 35. pounds.  
She hath given to the Parish of Bashingshaw, (wherein sometime she dwelled) to increase the stock of the poor there, twenty pounds.  
She hath given to the Prisons, eight pounds.  
To the Company of Brewers in London, to whose trust and care she hath committed the government and oversight of the forenamed Almshouses and Schoole-house at Islington; as a grateful remembrance of her love, and that their pains should not go altogether unregarded, she hath given in plate and money, one hundred pounds.  
And here let me tell you, that the charity of this virtuous and religious woman, 
A worthy example, and well deserving imitation.  deserveth the more to be remembered, and commended also to posterity; because she made her own eyes the witnesses, to all or the greater part of the several sums, first mentioned and given in her life time.  
And yet at the time of her death, of children and children's children, she had no less than two and twenty: A motive very able to hinder charity, especially in a worldly and covetous mind.  
Nevertheless, looking on all the parts disposed to her children, and the other dividents beside, she selected out so bountiful a portion for those poor members of Christ, that (even to the world's end) may successively remember her good done to them, and justly term her their liberal and merciful mother.  
One thing (above the rest) I may not forget; because in deliverances from any dangers, we owe a more special duty and gratitude to God.  
This worthy woman being borne at Islington, 
A great danger she escaped in her childhood.  in the time of her childhood, she happened there to escape a great danger, by means of an Arrow shot at random in the field, where she was then sporting among other children, the Arrow missing all the other, pierced quite thorough the hat on her head, and (God be praised for it) did not touch her with any other harm: 
The reason of erecting her Almshouses.  whereupon, in the Town of her birth, and where she escaped such an expected peril, she made choice to express her thankfulness to GOD, upon the Altar of her charitable Almshouses and School.  
Thus much for the worthiness of Citizens (both men and women) in this City, 
john Lidgate, in praise of Londoners of his time.  touching whom, john Lidgate, a Monk of Bury, in the reign of King Henry the sixth, made (amongst other) these Verses following: 
Of seven things I praise this City:  
Of true meaning and faithful observance,  
Of righteousness, truth and equity;  
Of stableness ay kept in Legiance,  
And for of virtue thou hast suffisance:  
In this land here, and other londs all,  
The King's Chamber of Custom men thee call.   

Having thus in a generality handled the Original, the Walls, Gates, Ditches, and fresh Waters; the Bridges, Towers and Castles; the Schools of Learning, and Houses of Law; the Orders and Customs, Sports and Pastimes, Watchings and Martial Exercises; and lastly, the honour and worthiness of the Citizens: I am now to set down the distribution of this City into Parts; and more especially, to declare the Antiquities (note worthy) in every of the same: and how both the whole and parts have been (from time to time) ruled and governed.  
THe ancient division of this City, 
The City of London divided from East to west, into a South half and a North half.  was into Wards or Aldermanries: and therefore I will begin at the East, and so proceed thorough the high and most principal street of the City to the West, after this manner:  
First, through Aldgate street, to the West corner of Saint Andrews Church, called Vndershaft, on the right hand, and Limestreet corner on the left; all which is of Aldgate Ward. From thence through Cornhill street, to the West corner of Leaden-hall; all which is of Limestreet Ward. From thence, leaving the street that leadeth to Bishopsgate on the right hand, and the way that leadeth into Grasse-street on the left, still through Cornhill street, by the Conduit, to the West corner against the Stocks; all which is in Cornhill Ward. 
The Stocks market the midst of the City.  Then by the said Stocks (a Marketplace both of Fish and Flesh, standing in the midst of the City) through the Poultry, (a street so called, to the great Conduit in West Cheap, and so through Cheap to the Standard, which is of Cheap Ward, except on the South side from Bowlane to the said Standard, which is of Cordwayner-street Ward. Then by the Standard to the great Cross, which is in Creplegate Ward on the North side, and in Breadstreet Ward on the South side: and to the little Conduit by Paul's gate, from whence (of old time) the said high street stretched strait on to Ludgate, all in the Ward of Farringdon within, then divided truly from East to West: but since, 
S. Paul's Church burned in the Conqueror time.  by means of the burning of Paul's Church, which was in the reign of William the first, Mauricius, than Bishop of London, laid the foundation of a new Church, so far in largeness exceeding the old, that the way towards Ludgate was thereby greatly straightened, as before I have discoursed.  
Now, from the North to the South, 
The City divided from north to south, into an east half & a west half.  this City was (of old time) divided, not by a large highway or street, as from East to West, but by a fair Brook of sweet water, which came from out the North Fields, through the Wall and midst of the City, into the River of Thames, and which division is (till this day) constantly and without change maintained. This water was called (as I have said) Walbrooke; 
The course of Walbrooke, and reason of the name.  not Gallus brook, of a Roman Captain, slain by Asclepiodatus, and thrown therein, as some have fabuled; but of running through and from the Wall of this City. The course whereof, (to prosecute it particularly) was and is from the said Wall, to Saint Margaret's Church in Lothbury; from thence, beneath the lower part of the Grocer's Hall, about the East part of their Kitchen, under Saint Mildred's Church, somewhat West from the said Stocks Market: from thence, through Buckles berry, by one great house builded of stone and Timber, called the old Barge; because Barges out of the River of Thames were then rowed up so far into this Brook, on the backside of the houses in Walbrooke street, (which street taketh name of the said Brook) By the West end of S. john's Church upon Walbrooke, under Horse-shoe Bridge, by the West side of Tallow-Chandlers Hall, and of the Skinner's Hall, and so behind the other houses to Elbow lane, and by a part thereof, down Greenwich lane, into the River of Thames.  
This is the course of Walbrooke, 
The course of Walbrooke arched over.  which was (of old time) bridged over in diverse places, for passage of horses and men, as need required: but since, by means of encrochment on the banks thereof, the channel being greatly straightened, and other annoyances done thereunto, at length the same (by common consent) was arched over with brick, and paved with stone, equal with the ground, wherethrough it passed, and is now in most places builded upon, that no man may by the eye discern it; and therefore the trace thereof is hardly known to the common people.  
This City being thus divided from East to West, 
This City divided intowards  and from North to South; I am now further to show, how the same was (of old time) broken into diverse parts, called Wards, whereof Fitzstephen, 
Fitzstephen.  more than four hundred years since, writeth thus: This City (saith he) even as Rome, is divided into Wards: it hath yearly Sheriffs, in stead of Consuls: It hath the dignity of Senators in Aldermen, etc.  
The number of these Wards in London, 
Wards in London 24. Patent Record.  were both before and in the reign of Henry the third, 24. in all: whereof 13. lay on the East side of the said Walbrooke, and 11. on the West. Notwithstanding, these 11. grew much more large than those on the East: and therefore in the year of Christ, 1393. the seventeenth of Richard the second, Faringdon Ward, which was then one entire Ward, but mightily increased of buildings without the gates; was by Parliament appointed to be divided into twain, and to have two Aldermen, to wit, Faringdon within, and Faringdon without, which made up the number of twelve Wards on the West side of Walbrooke, and so came the whole number of 25. on both sides. 
Wards in London 25.   
Moreover, in the year 1550. the Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of London, purchasing the liberties of the Burrow of Southwark, appointed the same to be a Ward of London; and so became the number of thirteen wards on the East, twelve on the West, and one South the River Thames, in the said Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey; 
Wards in London and the Borough of Southwark, 26.  which in all arise to the number of 26. Wards, and 26. Aldermen of London to govern them.  



Wards on the East part of Walbrook are these:  
1. Portsoken ward, 
Names of wards in London.  without the walls.  
2. Towerstreet ward.  
3. Ealdgate ward.  
4. Limestreet ward.  
5. Bishopsgate ward, within the walls, and without.  
6. Broadstreet ward.  
7. Cornhill ward.  
8. Langbourne ward.  
9 Billingsgate ward.  
10. Bridge ward within.  
11. Candlewikestreet ward.  
12. Walbrooke ward.  
13. Downgate ward.     

Wards on the West side of Walbrook are these:  
14. Vintry ward.  
15. Cordwainerstreet ward.  
16. Cheap ward.  
17. Colman-street ward.  
18. Bassingshall ward.  
19 Creplegate ward, within and without.  
20. Aldersgate ward, within and without.  
21. Faringdon ward within.  
22. Breadstreet ward.  
23. Queen Hith ward.  
24. Castle Baynard ward.  
25. Faringdon ward without the walls.   
One ward is south the River of Thames in the Burrow of Southwark, by the name of, 

26. Bridge ward without.      

OF PORTSOKEN WARD: The first Ward in the East part.  
SEeing that of every of these Wards I have to say somewhat, 
Portsoken ward.  I will begin with Portsoken ward without Ealdgate.  
This Portsoken, which soundeth the Franchise at the gate, was sometime a Guild, 
Lib. Trinit. Knighten Guild.  and had beginning in the days of King Edgar, more than six hundred years since. Therewere then 13. Knights or Soldiers, well beloved to the King and Realm, for services by them done, who requested to have a certain portion of Land on the East part of the City, being left desolate and forsaken by the Inhabitants, by reason of too much servitude. They besought the King to have this Land, with the liberty of a Guild forever. The King granted to their request, with conditions following; to wit, That each of them should victoriously accomplish three Combats; one above the ground, one under ground, and the third in the water.  
And after this, at a certain day in East Smithfield, they should run with Spears against all comers; all which was gloriously performed; and the same day the King named it Knighten Guild, 
Bounds of Knighten Guild, or Portsoken ward.  and so bounded it, from Ealdgate, to the place where the bars now are toward the East, on both the sides of the street, and extended it towards Bishopsgate in the North, unto the house then of William Presbyter, afterward of Geffrey Tanner, and then of the heirs of Clover; after that, of john Easeby: but since of the Lord Bourchier, etc. And again, towards the South, unto the River of Thames, and so far into the water, as a Horseman entering the same, might ride at a low water, and throw his Spear. So that all East Smithfield, with the right part of the street that goeth to Dodding Pond, into the Thames, and also the Hospital of Saint Katherine, with the Mills, that were founded in King Stephen's days, and the outward stone wall, and the new ditch of the Tower, were of the said Fee and Liberty: for the said wall and ditch of the Tower, were made in the time of King Richard the first, when he was in the holy Land, by William Longshampe, Bishop of Ely, as before I have noted unto you.  
These Knights had as then none other Charter, by all the days of Edgar, Ethelred, and Cnutus, until the time of Edward the Confessor, whom the heirs of those Knights humbly besought to confirm their liberties: whereunto he graciously granting, gave them a Deed thereof, 
Lib. Trinit.  as appeareth in the Book of the late house of the holy Trinity. The said Charter was fair written, in the Saxon letter and Tongue.  
After this, King William, the son of William the Conqueror, made a confirmation of the same Liberties, unto the heirs of those Knights, in these words:  
William, King of England, to Maurice, Bishop, and Godfrey de Magum, and Richard de Parr, and to his faithful people of London, greeting: Know ye me to have granted to the men of Knighten Guild, the Guild that belonged to them, and the Land that belonged thereunto, with all Customs, as they had the same in the time of King Edward, and my Father. Witness Hugh de Buche; at Rething.  
After him, King Henry the first confirmed the same by his Charter, to the like effect, 
Priory of the Trinity within Ealdgate.  the recital whereof I pretermit for brevity. After which time, the Church of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate of London, being founded by Queen Matilde, wife to the said Henry, the multitude of brethren praising God therein, in short time so increased, that all the City was delighted in beholding of them: insomuch that in the year 1115. certain Burgesses of London, of the progeny of those Noble English Knights; to wit, Radulphus Fitzalgod, Wilmarde le Devereshe, Orgare le Prude, Edward Hupcornehill, Blackstanus, and Alwine his kinsman, and Robert his brother, the sons of Leofstanus the Goldsmith, Wiso his son, Hugh Fitzvulgar, Algare Secusme, coming together into the Chapter house of the said Church of the holy Trinity, 
Knighten Gild given the Canons of the holy Trinity.  gave to the same Church and Canons serving God therein, all the Lands and Soak called in English, Knighten Guild, which lieth to the wall of the City without the same gate, and stretcheth to the River of Thames: they gave it, I say, (taking upon them the brotherhood and participation of the benefits of that house) by the hands of Prior Norman.  
And the better to confirm this their Grant, they offered upon the Altar there, the Charter of Edward, together with the other Charters which they had thereof; and afterward they did put the foresaid Prior in seisin thereof, by the Church of Saint Buttolph's, which is builded thereon, and is the head of that Land. These things were thus done, before Bernard Prior of Dunstable, john Prior of Derland, Geffrey Clinton Chamberlain, and many other Clerks and Laymen, French and English: Orgare le Prude (one of their company) was sent to King Henry, beseeching him to confirm their gift, which the King gladly granted by his deed.  
Henry, King of England, to R. Bishop of London, to the Sheriffs and Provost, and to all his Barons, and faithful people, French and English, of London and Middlesex, greeting: Know ye me to have granted and confirmed to the Church and Canons of the holy Trinity of London, the Soak of the English Knighten Guild, and the Land which pertaineth thereunto, and the Church of S. Buttolph, as the men of the same Guild have given and granted unto them: And I will and straightly command, that they may hold the same well, and honourably and freely, with Sack and Soak, Toll and Thea, infangthefe, and all customs belonging to it, as the men of the same Guild in best sort had the same in the time of King Edward, and as King William my Father, and brother, did grant it to them by their Writs. Witness, A. the Queen, Geffrey Clinton the Chancellor, and William of Clinton: at Woodstock.  
All these prescribed witings (saith my Book) which sometime belonged to the Priory of the holy Trinity, are registered in the end of the Book of Remembrances, in the Guildhall of London, marked with the letter C. folio 134. The King sent also his Sheriffs, to wit, A●bery de Vere, and Roger, Nephew to Hubert, which (upon his behalf) should invest this Church with the possessions hereof, which the said Sheriffs accomplished by coming upon the ground, Andrew Buchevite, and the forenamed witnesses, and other standing by; notwithstanding, Othowerus, Acolivillus, Otto, 
Constables of the Tower.  and jeffrey, Earl of Essex, Constables of the Tower by succession, withheld by force a Portion of the said land, as I have before delivered. 
Part of Knighten Gild withheld by the Constables of the Tower.  The Prior and Canons of the holy Trinity, being thus seized of the said land and soak of Knighten Guild, a part of the Suburb without the wall, (but within the liberties of the City) the same Prior was for him, and his successors, admitted as one of the Aldermen of London, 
Prior of the Trinity an Alderman of London.  to govern the same land and soak. According to the Customs of the City, he did sit in Court, and road with the Mayor and his Brethren the Aldermen, as one of them in Scarlet, or other livery as they then used; until the year 1531. at the which time, the said Priory (by the last Prior there) was surrendered to King Henry the eight in the 23. of his reign, who gave this Priory to Sir Thomas Audley, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England, and he pulled down the Church. Since the which dissolution of that house, the said Ward of Portsoken, hath been governed by a temporal man, one of the Aldermen of London, and elected by the Citizens, as by the Aldermen of other Wards. Thus much for the out-bounds of Knighten Guild, or Portsoken Ward, and for the antiquity and government thereof.  
Now for the parts therein, this is specially to be noted. First, the East part of the Tower standeth there, than an Hospital of Saint Katherine, founded by Matilde the Queen, wife to King Stephen, by licence of the Prior and Covent of the holy Trinity in London, on whose ground she founded it. 
Hospital of Saint Katherine's. A second Foundress.  Elinor the Queen, wife to King Edward the first, a second Foundress, appointed to be there, one Master, three Brethren Chaplains, and three Sisters, ten poor women, and six poor Clerks; she gave to them the Manor of Clarton in Wiltshire, and Vpchurch in Kent, etc. Queen Philip, wife to King Edward the third, 1351. founded a Chantry there, and gave to that Hospital ten pound land by year; it was of late time called a free Chapel, a College, and an Hospital for poor sisters. The Choir, which (of late years) was not much inferior to that of Paul's, was dissolved by Doctor Wilson, a late Master there, the brethren and sisters remaining. This house was valued at 315. l. 14. s. 2. d. being now of late years enclosed about or pestered with small Tenements, and homely cottages, having inhabitants English and Strangers, more in number than in some City in England. There lie buried in this Church, the Countess of Huntingdon, Countess of the March, in her time 1429. john Holland Duke of Excester, and Earl of Huntingdon, 1447. and his two wives, in a fair Tomb on the North side the Choir: Thomas Walsingham Esquire, and Thomas Ballard Esquire by him 1465. Thomas Fleming Knight, 1466. etc.  
On the East and by North of the Tower, 
New Abbey on East-smithfield.  lieth Eastsmithfield and Tower hill, two plots of ground so called, without the wall of the City, and East from them both was sometime a Monastery, called, New Abbey, founded by King Edward the third, in the year 1359. upon occasion as followeth.  
In the year 1348. the 23. of Edward the third, 
Burial for the dead prepared in time of pestilence.  the first great pestilence in his time began, and increased so sore, that for want of room in Churchyards to bury the dead of the City, & of the Suburbs, one john Corey Clerk, procured of Nicholas, Prior of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate, one toft of ground near unto Eastsmithfield, for the burial of them that died, with condition that it might be called the Churchyard of the holy Trinity, which ground he caused by the aid of diverse devout Citizens to be enclosed with a wall of stone. Robert Elsing, son of William Elsing, gave five pounds thereunto: and the same was dedicated by Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London, where innumerable bodies of the dead were afterward buried, and a Chapel built in the same place, to the honour of God: to the which King Edward setting his eye (having before in a Tempest on the Sea, and peril of drowning, made a vow to build a Monastery to the honour of God, and our Lady of grace, if God would grant him grace to come safe to land) builded there a 
* Causing it to be named Eastminster.  Monastery, placing an Abbot, and Monks of the Cistercian, or white order. The bounds of this plot of ground, together with a decree for tithes thereof, are expressed in the Charter, the effect whereof I have set down in another place, and have to show.  
This house at the late general suppression was valued at 546. l. 10. d. yearly, it was surrendered in the year 1539. the 30. of Henry the 8. Since the which time, the said Monastery being clean pulled down, by Sir Arthur Darcy, Knight, and other; of late time (in place thereof) is builded a large Storehouse for Victual, 
The King's Storehouse.  and convenient Ovens are builded there, for baking of Biscuit to serve his Majesty's Ships. The grounds adjoining and belonging to the said Abbey, are employed in building of small Tenements.  
For Tower-hill, 
Tower-hill.  as the same is greatly diminished, by building of tenements and Garden plots, etc. So it is of late, to wit, in the year of Christ, 1593. on the North side thereof, and at the West end of Hogstreet, 
Merchant-Taylors Almshouses at the Tower hill.  beautified by certain fair Almshouses, strongly builded of Brick and Timber, and covered with Slate for the poor, by the Merchant-Taylors of London, in place of some small Cottages, given to them by Richard Hils, sometime a Master of that Company, one hundred loads of Timber for that use, being also given by Anthony Radcliffe, of the same Society, Alderman.  
In these Almshouses 14. charitable brethren of the said Merchant-Taylors then living, caused to be placed fourteen poor sole women, which receive each of them of their Founders sixteen pence, or better, weekly, beside 8. l. 15. s. yearly, paid out of the common Treasury of the same Corporation for fuel.  
From the West part of this Tower-hill, towards Ealdgate, being a long continual street, amongst other smaller buildings in that row, there was sometimes an Abbey of Nuns of the order of S. Clare, 
Abbey of S. Clare Nuns called the Minories.  called the Minories, founded by Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Derby, brother to King Edward the first, in the year 1293. the length of which Abbey contained 15. perches and seven foot, near unto the King's street, or highway, etc. as appeareth by a deed dated 1303. A plague of pestilence, being in this City, in the year 1515. there died in this house of Nuns professed, to the number of 27. besides other lay people, servants in the house. This house was valued to dispend 418. l. 8. s. 5. d. yearly, and was surrendered by Dame Elizabeth Savage, the last Abbess there, unto King Henry the 8. in the thirty of his reign, the year of Christ, 1539.  
In place of this house of Nuns, 
Storehouse for Armour.  is now builded with diverse fair and large Storehouses for Armour, and habiliments of war, with diverse workhouses serving to the same purpose: 
Parish Church of S. Trinity.  There is also a small Parish Church for inhabitants of the Close, called, Saint Trinity.  
near adjoining to this Abbey, 
A farm by the Minories, wherein hath been sold three pints of milk for one halfpenny, in memory of men living.  on the South side thereof, was sometime a Farm belonging to the said Nunnery, at the which Farm, I myself (in my youth) have fetched many a halfpenny worth of milk, and never had less than three ale pints for a half penny in the Summer, nor less than one ale quart for a halfpenny in the Winter, always hot from the Kine, as the same was milked and strained. One Trolop, and afterwards Goodman, were the Farmers there, and had thirty or forty Kine to the pail. Goodman's son, being heir to his father's purchase, let out the ground, first for grazing of horses, and then for Garden plots, and lived like a Gentleman thereby. He lieth buried in S. Buttolph's Church.  
On the other side of that street, 
Ditch of the City lay open and was cleansed, but now filled up.  lieth the Ditch without the walls of the City which of old time was used to lie open, always (from time to time) cleansed from filth and mud, as need required, of great breadth, and so deep, that diverse watering horses, where they thought it shallowest, were drowned both horse and man. But now of later time, the same Ditch is enclosed, and the banks thereof let out for Garden plots, Carpenters yards, Bowling Allies, and diverse houses thereon builded, whereby the City wall is hidden, the Ditch filled up, a small Channel left, and that very shallow.  
From Ealdgate East, lieth a large street, and highway, sometime replenished with few, but fair and comely buildings; on the North side whereof, first was and is, the Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, in a large Cemitery, or Church-yard.  
This Church hath been lately new builded, 
Parish Church of S. Buttolph.  at the special charges of the Priors of the holy Trinity, Patroness thereof, as it appeareth by the Arms of that house engraven on the stone work. The Parishioners of the Parish, being of late years mightily increased, the Church is pestered with lofts and seats for them. Monuments of this Church are few, Henry Iorden founded a Chauntery there, john Romany, Olarie and Agnes his wives were buried there, about Anno 1408. Richard Chester Alderman, one of the Sheriffs 1484. Thomas Lord Darcy of the North, Knight of the Garter, beheaded, 1537. Sir Nicholas Carew of Bedington in Surrey, Knight of the Garter, beheaded, 1538. Sir Arthur Darcy, youngest son to Thomas Lord Darcy, deceased at the new Abbey on the Tower-hill, and was buried there.  
There is a fair Vault under ground, purposely made (as appeareth) for the whole Family. Over which Vault (being in the East end of the Chancel, but leaning somewhat to the North) is a fair ancient Tomb of Alabaster, ingeniously wrought: having these lines following engraven thereon: Here lieth Thomas Lord Darcy of the North, and sometime of the Order of the Garter. Sir Nicholas Carew, Knight, sometime of the Garter. Lady Elizabeth Carew, Daughter to Sir Francis Brian, Knight: and Sir Arthur Darcy Knight, younger son to the abovenamed Lord Darcy. And Lady Mary his dear wife, Daughter to Sir Nicholas Carew Knight; who had ten Sons, and five Daughters. Here lie Charles, William and Philip, Mary and Ursula, Sons and Daughters to the said Sir Arthur, and Mary his Wife: whose souls God take to his infinite mercy. Amen.  
On the North side of this Tomb, there is a small Monument, fixed in the wall, bearing this inscription: Here lieth Sir Edw. Darcy, Knight, third Son of Sir Arthur Darcy, Knight, of the Privy Chamber to the late Queen Elizabeth. He married the Daughter of Thomas Asteley, Esquire, by whom he had fifteen Children. Sir Robert Darcy, Knight, his eldest Son, caused him to be buried in this Vault amongst his Ancestors, according to his desire. He died at his house called Dartford-Place in Kent, the 28. day of October. Anno Dom. 1612. He being 69. years old.  
Another smaller Monument is also fixed in the same wall, but somewhat more toward the South, having this inscription: Here lieth buried the corpse of Robert Taylor, of Silverdale, in the Parish of Warton in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, the Father of john Taylor, Citizen and Draper of London, and of this Parish Beere-brewer. He departed this life, about the age of 80. years, the 15. day of February, An. Dom. 1577.  
Upon the ground, under the head of the Communion Table, lieth an ancient fair stone, and these lines engraven thereon in brass: Hic jacet joannes, Episc. Bathon. & Wellensis, qui cum obiissit plures insig. Legation. tandem obiit summum in Legatione Clevensis, in januarii. M. C. XL. Cujus anima propitietur Deus.  
near unto the place where the Minister readeth Divine Service, there is a small brass plate fixed in the wall, a very unworthy Monument (in my mind) for a man of so great charity and bounty, not having so much as a graven stone bestowed on him upon the ground. The Plate containeth these lines following.  Here before this Pew lieth buried the body of Robert Dow, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, with Lettuce his Wife, and Thomas his Son. Which Robert deceased the second day of May, in the year, 1612. His age was 89. years. Who amongst other his charities done in this City, and elsewhere sundry ways, as to several Hospitals abroad and at home, Prisons, and to nineteen poor householders, of the Merchant-Taylors Company in perpetuum, gave to this Parish of S. Buttolph's without Aldgate (whereof he was a member) the nomination of two Almes-women freely relieved. And twenty pound yearly to be distributed to threescore poor aged and impotent men and women, by Nobles a piece upon every S. Thomas Eve for ever. Ad gloriam Dei. Per Nepotem ac Haeredem Zachari Dow, Posthumum. 
In the North I'll of the Chancel, lieth a fair stone on the ground, with this inscription upon it, engraven in brass: Here lieth the body of William Couch, one of the ordinary Yeomen of her Majesty's Chamber, Citizen and In-holder of London. He deceased the 13. day of july, An. Dom. 1583. Who hath given (after the decease of joan his Wife) the house, called the Crown, being at the East end of this Church, called S. Buttolph's without Aldgate, unto Christ's Hospital for ever. Out of the which house after the decease of the said joan his Wife, is to be paid by the Governors of the said Hospital, five pound yearly for ever, to the poor of Portsoken Ward, within the said Parish.  
In the middle I'll of the Church, before the entrance into the Chancel, lieth a fair Grave-stone on the ground, having this inscription engraven upon Brasle upon it: 
Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt, & ego sicut foenum aresco.  
Here under this Stone lieth buried the body of Robert Cocks, late Citizen and Tallow-Chandler of London: Who by his last will and Testament, gave to this Ward of Portsoken (wherein he dwelled) the sum of one hundred pounds, to be employed for the use and benefit of the poor of the said Ward. He departed this mortal life the 20. day of September, An. Dom. 1609. and was here interred the 3. day of October next following: Aetatis suae. LXVII.  
Vixi dum volui, volui dum Christe volebas, Christ mihi spes es, vita, corona, salus.   
In the same I'll, but a little lower, lieth another fair grave-stone, having (in a whiter kind of stone) a coat of Arms on it, and a description in well form letters, speaking thus: 
Here underneath this stone, lieth the body of Daniel Balgay, sometime an Inhabitant of this Parish; of good account and credit: being a Citizen of this honourable City of London, and free of the worshipful Company of the Mercers: Who parted this mortal life the 20. day of DDDecember, in the year of our Lord, 1608 being the day of the Nativity of our Lord jesus Christ.  
Christus mihi vita.   
In the Churchyard Southward, and toward the street, standeth a handsome Ttombe, well defenced over from weather, and a fair Grave-stone upon it. Beneath, on the outside of the Tomb, are engraven the Arms belonging to the Vintners, and the Barber Surgeons: upon the Grave-stone is a fair plate of Brass, with all these following lines engraven on it: Here under this Stone lieth the body of George Clarke, Citizen and Vintner of London, who by his last Will and Testament, gave for diverse good and charitable uses, these Legacies hereafter following.  
First, for a public School in the University of Oxenford, the sum of two hundred pounds.  
To the use of the poor of the four Precincts of the Ward of Portsoken, being in the Parish of St. Buttolps without Aldgate, the sum of 293. pounds 6. shillings, 8. pence.  
To the Parish of White Chapel, for the relief of the poor there, the sum of 230. pound.  
To the Parish of S. Leonards in Shoreditch, to the use of the poor there, the sum of 106. pound, 15. shillings, 4. pence.  
To the Company of the Vintners, he gave the sum of ten pounds.  
And to the poor of Christ's Hospital he gave the sum of 5. pounds.  He deceased the 19 day of April, Anno Dom. 1606. And was here buried the 24. day of the same next following: Aetatis suae 63. 
East from this Parish Church, there are certain fair Inns, for receipt of Travellers repairing to the City, up towards Hog-lane end, somewhat within the Bars, and a mark there showing, how far the liberties of the City do extend.  
This Hog-lane stretcheth North toward S. Marry spital, 
Hog-lane.  without Bishopsgate, and within these 40. years, had (on both sides) fair hedge-rowes of Elm Trees, with Bridges and easy Styles to pass over into the pleasant fields, very commodious for Citizens therein to walk, shoot, and otherwise to recreate and refresh their dulled spirits, in the sweet and wholesome air, which is now (within few years) made a continual building throughout, of Garden houses, and small Cottages: and the fields on either side be turned into Garden plots, Tenter-yards, Bowling Allies, and such like; from Hounds-ditch in the West, so far as White Chapel, and further towards the East.  
On the South side of the Highway from Aldgate, were some few tenements thinly scattered here and there, with many void spaces between them up to the Bars. But now that street is not only replenished with buildings outward, and also pestered with diverse Alleys, on either side to the Bars; but to White Chapel and beyond.  
Amongst the which late buildings, 
Water-Conduit at Aldgate.  one, memorable for the commodity of that East part of this City, is a fair water-Conduit, hard without the gate, the building whereof, in the year 1535. Sir Bohn Allen being Maior, two fifteen were granted by the Citizens, for the making, and laying of pipes to convey water from Hackney to that place, and so that work was then finished.  
Here I may not omit to tell you, that although this Water-Conduit was very beneficial to the people inhabiting there round about: yet in regard of the situation, being then upon the streets South side, and immediately descending down many steps or stairs of stone, it was troublesome to the poor people fetching water there, in coming up laden with their Tubs, Pails, anand Tankards. Beside, until the turn of each party came by order and due course, their Tankards, Tubs, and Pails did greatly pester the passage about and thorough the Gate, endangering diverse personal harms, and other great inconveniences. Which since then, at the taking down of the old Gate, that a new might be builded in the same place, is exceeding commendably amended, to the City's honour, their credit that had care for the disposing of the work, and great case of the poor. Water-bearers, and all passengers. For now there is a fair spacious Court, wherein all the Tankards and other vessels orderly stand, (without any annoyance to the Street:) and the descent to the Conduit is made very convenient, free from offending one another in their labour, the passage to and fro is so aptly ordered, and the room so large for their attendance.  
The old ruinous Gate being taken down, and order provided for a new foundation: diverse very ancient pieces of Roman coin, 
The two pieces of Coin were of Traionus & Dioclesianus Emperors▪  were found among the stones and rubbish; which as Mr. Martin Bond (a Worshipful Citizen, and one of the Surveyors of the work) told me, two of them (according to their true form and figure) he caused to be carved in stone, and fixed on either side of the Gates Arch without, Eastward.  
The rest of these stamped Roman pieces, were sent for by the Lord Maior an his brethren to the Guild-hall, where as yet they remain to be seen. Moreover, under his own hand-writing, he delivered me this brief note, which (for mine own discharge) I have here set down.  The 10. day of March, Anno 1607. I Martin Bond, laid the first foundation stone of Ealdgate, Northward. The bottom of which foundation was sixteen foot deep, and eight foot broad. 
Now concerning the building of the Gate, 
Begun to be taken down in An. 1606. and finished in An. 1609.  what time it was in hand, and the care and pains taken about it: it would require a larger explanation, than here I am limited unto. But the Gate being very worthily and famously finished, it may be thus described to posterity.  
Eastward, upon the height of the Gate, standeth a fair golden Sphere, with a goodly Vane on it. On the upper Battlements (as vigilant Sentinels, and kept waking by Fame's golden Trumpet) are placed the shapes of two armed ancient Soldiers, each holding a great stone in his hand, as denying the entrance of any bold enemy, or such as are not friends to the City.  
Beneath, in a fair large square, standeth the imaginary figure of our Royal Sovereign King james, in bright gilt Armour, at whose feet (on either side) lie the Lion and golden-chained Unicorn mildly couching, as expressing awe and humility in so great a presence.  
So much for the outside of the Gate, with the two Roman Coins before remembered.  
Westward, or within, highest of all, standeth Fortune, ingenuously carved and guilded, standing upon her Globe or Mound, with her Sail spreading over her head, and looking with a graceful and auspicious countenance upon the City.  
Beneath her, in a large square, are placed the King's Arms, richly wrought and engraven, bearing the Motto, 
DIEV EST MON DROIT.  
And a little lower,  
VIVATE REX.   
Somewhat lower, and to grace each side of the Gate, are set two feminine personages, the one Southward, appearing to be Peace, with a silver Dove upon her one hand, and a guilded wreath or garland in the other. On the North side standeth Charity, with a child at her breast, and another led in her hand: Implying (as I conceive) that where Peace, and love or Charity do prospero, and are truly embraced, that City shall be for everblessed.  
Over the Arch of the Gate is thus fairly engraven: 
Senatus Populusque Londinens. fecit, 1609.  
And underneath:  
HUMPHREY WELD, Maior.   
From Ealdgate Northwest to Bishopsgate, 
Hounds-ditch.  lieth the Ditch of the City, called Hounds-ditch, because that in old time, when the same lay open, much filth (conveyed forth of the City) especially dead dogs, were there laid or cast: wherefore (of later time) a mud wall was made, enclosing the Ditch, to keep out the laying of such filth as had been accustomed.  
Over against this mud wall, on the other side of the street, was a fair field, sometime belonging to the Priory of the Trinity, and since, by Sir Tho. Awdley, given to Magdalen College in Cambridge. This field (as all other about the City) was enclosed, reserving open passage thereinto, for such as were disposed. Towards the street were some small Cottages, of two stories high, and little Garden-plots backward, for poor bedrid people, (for in that street dwelled none other) builded by some Prior of the holy Trinity, to whom that ground belonged.  
In my youth, I remember, devout people, 
Bedrid people in Hounds-ditch.  as well men as women of this City, were accustomed oftentimes (especially on Friday's weekly to walk that way purposely) there to bestow their charitable Alms, every poor man or woman lying in their bed within their window, which was towards the street, and open so low, that every man might see them; a clean linen cloth lying in their window, and a pair of Beads, to show that there lay a bedrid body, unable but to pray only. This Street was first paved in the year 1503.  
About the latter end of the reign of King Hen. 8. three brethren that were Gun-founders, 
Brass ordnance 〈◊〉 in Hounds-ditch.  surnamed Owens, gate ground there to build upon, and to incloze for casting of Brass Ordnance. These occupied a good part of the street on the field side, and in short time diverse others also builded there, so that the poor bedrid people were worn out, and in place of their homely Cottages, such houses builded, as do rather want room than rend; which houses be for the most part possessed by Brokers, sellers of old apparel, and such like. The residue of the field was for the most part made into a Garden, by a Gardener named Cawsway, one that then served the Markets with herbs & roots: and in the last year of King Edw. the 6. the same was parceled into Gardens, wherein are now many fair houses of pleasure builded.  
But as it is fatal to the Suburbs of every great City, 
A matter greatly deserving reformation in Hounds-ditch.  to be infected with some foul and unclean Birds, that there build their nests, although not with professed and ignominious stain of lewd life; because (within the limits of Hounds-ditch) dwell many a good and honest Citizen, that will never endure such scandalous neighbourhood: yet there are crept in among them a base kind of vermin, well-deserving to be ranked and numbered with them, whom our old Prophet and Countryman Gyldas, 
The unconscionable broking Usurers their living.  called Aetatis atramentum, the black discredit of the Age, and of place where they are suffered to live. Or rather (as S. Bernard thinks it more convenient to term them) Baptisatos judaeos; who take themselves to be Christians, when they are worse (indeed) than the jews ever were for usury. 
The jews were never any such gripple Extortioners.   
These men, or rather monsters in the shape of men, profess to live by lending, and yet will lend nothing but upon pawns; neither to any, but unto poor people only, and for no less gain, than after fifty or threescore l. in the hundred. The pawn of the poor borrower, must needs be more than double worth the money lent upon it, and the time of limitation is no longer than a month; albeit they well know, that the money needs not be repaid back, until a twelvemoneths' end. By which time, the interest grows to be so great, that the pawn, which (at the first) was better than twice worth the money borrowed on it, doth not (in the end) prove to be valuable to the debt, which must be prayed, before the poor party can redeem it. By which extorting means of proceeding, 
Such gains are the greedy Usurer's glory.  the poor borrower is quite cheated of his pawn, for less than the third part, which it was truly worth indeed.  
It is a great error (in my poor opinion) that in so ancient and famous a City, abounding (otherwise) in most Christian Alms and works of mercy, that among so many worthy liberalities bestowed on the poor in diverse and distinct Parishes, 
A public stock would do well for the poor in every Parish.  no order is taken for such a public stock, for the truely-poore, that when in their urgent necessity, either by want of means, sickness and other hindrances, their pawns may not go to the cutthroat Usurer; but remain to their own good (living or dying) or to theirs; without any other benefit, than that it may still serve for the like relief.  
And let me not here be mistaken, that I condemn such as live by honest buying and selling, and make a good conscience of their dealing: no truly, I mean only the judas Broker, that lives by the Bag, and (except God be more merciful to him) will follow him that did bear the Bag.  
On the ditch side of this street, the mud wall which was, is also (by little and little) taken all down, the Bank of the ditch being raised, made level ground, and turned into Garden-plots, and Carpenters yards, and many large houses are there builded, for the uses before remembered; the filth of which houses, as also the earth cast out of their vaults, is turned into the ditch; by which means the ditch is filled up, and both the ditch and wall so hidden, that they cannot be seen of the passers by.  
Here, according to my purpose in all other Wards and Parishes, I mean not to forget God's blessings bestowed, by the hands and merciful minds of charitable Benefactors. In this Parish of Saint Buttolph's without Aldgate, these persons following do justly deserve memory.  Benefactors to the Poor. 
Master William Newton, 
For relief of the poor in the Parish of S. Buttolph's without Aldgate.  Citizen and Saddler of London, gave diverse Tenements in the high street.  
Mistress Mary Bristol, gave a Tenement to the poor, the yearly rent being, 3. l. 6. s. 8. d.  
Mistress joice Ripton, gave the sum of 40. l. that fuel may be given thrice yearly for ever to the poor.  
Master William Couch (of whom we have already spoken) gave 5. l. yearly to the poor, and for a Sermon also ten shillings.  
Mr. Anthony Duffield gave the sum of 20. l. to have 400. of good Faggots yearly given to the poor.  
Mistress joan Duffield gave 10. l', to have 200. of good Faggots given yearly to the poor.  
Mr. john Frank gave an annuity of 20. s. yearly for ever to the poor.  
Mistress Margaret Holigrave gave the like sum of 20. s. and for the like intent yearly to the poor.  
Mr. Bernard Williamson gave yearly a sum of money, (which since is made up twenty pounds) that a load of Charcoals, and a certain sum of money, may yearly for ever be given to the poor.  
Mr. Toby Wood, Esquire, gave a tenement of 6. l. rend yearly; the rent whereof is quarterly given to the poor, and for 4. Sermons.  
Mistress Anne Clarke, widow, of Hounds-ditch, gave 40. l. to have four Sermons yearly, and a certain allowance of bread given to the poor.  
Mr. Henry Iorden, sometime Citizen and Fishmonger of London, gave an annuity of twenty shillings yearly for ever, to be given in fuel to the poor.  
Mr. George Palin, Girdler, gave 10. l. for ever, to be employed for the benefit of the poor.  
Mr. Robert Rogers, late Citizen and Leatherseller, gave 20. l. to be laid out yearly in Coals, that the poor may have them at a reasonable price in winter.  
Mr. Stephen Seudamour, late Citizen and Vintner, gave 20. s. yearly for ever, to be given in fuel to the poor.  
Mr. Francis Tirrell, late Citizen and Grocer, gave 10. l. in money to the poor, and 5. Chauldrons of Coals yearly for ever.  
Mr. Robert Dow, a great Benefactor, both in his life time, and for ever after death: as also Mr. George Clarke, and Mr. Robert Cox, we have spoken of before.  
Now, 
The limits of Fortsoken Ward, and of the whole Parish, which extendeth a great way further than the Ward doth.  concerning the bounds and limits, both of the Parish and Ward, and how far they extend themselves every way; there can be no better direction therein, than following the order of their own yearly perambulation, which for avoiding of prolixity, thus I observe.  
Walking down Hounds ditch Northward, so far as the dwelling house of one Edward Ansell, Carpenter, they there cross the way Eastward into Still and Hand Alley, passing on along by a Garden brick wall, belonging to a fair goodly Place, termed sometime, Fishers Folly. Thence they proceed into Hoggelane, in the middle of which lane, is the partition between the two Parishes of White Chapel and S. Buttolph's. There they go on to the Bars in the common street, and crossing the way Southward, go thorough a now Tavern house, known by the name of the Castle, where turning back again, the breadth of two small Gardens, they then pass on right forward (west) to the Minories wall, until they come to the Minories bars.  
There (at the further end) they turn down into an Alley, called Brownes Alley, to a Wall being by Goodman's Fields, and so along by that wall, so far as to Goodman's gate. Where, by reason of a controversy happening between the Parish of White Chapel and Saint Buttolph's, and a Barn and other buildings erected in the way, they are constrained to turn up into the street again. Then they go down Red-Lion Alley, to the house of one Derby Morgan, passing on thence directly into Rosemary lane. Then down on the South side, till they come to the East side of a new Churchyard, there builded at the Parishes cost, and for their help in times of sickness. There they go thorough an house, then thorough the Churchyard, and afterward thorough the house of one john Batcheler. Thence they go down Nightingale lane, on the West side, until they come to the middle of a Ford, which sometime turned Wapping Mill; and there the foresaid two Parishes are divided again by that Ford. Then go they on so far as M. Duppa, or Duppers house, and so round about Saint Katherine's, till they come to the sign of the Maidenhead, and there they fix their mark.  
And then pass over Tower-hill, to the house of one john Atkinson, near to the Postern gate; and then go directly Northward up the Minories street, till they come to the Portcullis under Aldgate, where the testimony of their mark concludeth all.  
In these, or the most part of these latter directions, I have been greatly favoured by Master john Brigges, the painful and industrious Minister of S. Buttolph's, who by the help of the Clerk and Sexton, most lovingly and gently befriended me.  
This Portsoken Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy; common Counselors, 6. Constables, 4. Scavengers, 4. for the Wardmore inquest, 18. and a Beadle. To the Fifteen it is seized at 4. l. 10. s.   

TOWER-STREET WARD.  
THe first Ward in the East part of this City, 
Towerstreet Ward.  within the wall, is called Tower-street Ward and extendeth along the River of Thames, from the said Tower in the East, almost to Belingsgat in the West: one half of the Tower, the ditch on the West side, and Bulwarks adjoining, do stand within that part, where the wall of the City (of old time) went strait from the Postern gate South to the River of Thames, before that the Tower was builded. From and without the Tower ditch west and by north, is the said Tower Hill, 
Tower hill.  sometime a large plot of ground, now greatly straightened by encroachments (unlawfully made and suffered) for Gardens and houses, some on the bank of the Tower-ditch, whereby the ditch is marred, and more near unto the wall of the City from the Postern north, till over against the principal foregate of the Lord Lumleyes' house, etc. but the Tower ward goeth no further that way.  
Upon this Hill is always readily prepared (at the charges of the City) a large Scaffold and Gallows of timber, for the execution of such Traitors or Transgressor's, as are delivered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Sheriffs of London by writ, there to be executed. I read, that in the fifth of King Edward the fourth, a Scaffold and Gallows were there set up by other the King's Officers, and not of the City's charges; whereupon the Mayor and his Brethren complained, but were answered by the King, that the Tower hill was of the liberty of the City; and whatsoever was done in that point, was not in derogation of the City's liberties, and therefore commanded Proclamation to be made, aswell within the City as in the Suburbs, as followeth:  
Forasmuch as the seventh day of this present month of November, Gallows were erect and set up besides our Tower of London, within the liberties and franchises of our City of London, in derogation and prejudice of the liberties and franchises of this City: The King our Sovereign Lord would have it be certainly understood, that the erection and setting up of the said Gallows was not done by his commandment: wherefore, the King our Sovereign Lord willeth, that the erection and setting up of the said Gallows, be not any precedent, or example thereby hereafter to be taken, in hurt, prejudice or derogation of the franchises, liberties and privileges of the City, which he at all times hath had, and hath in his benevolence, tender favour, and good grace, etc.  Apud Westminst. nono die Novembris, Anno regni nostri quinto. 
Many Controversies have been in times past, betwixt the Lord Maior and Citizens of London, on th'one party, and the Lieutenant of the Tower of London on th'other party, touching their liberties: The Lieutenant usurping diverse privileges which were against the Laws of the Realm: as for example:  
If A. B. were indebted to C. D. dwelling in the precinct of the Tower, and would suffer himself to be arrested and prosecuted by the said C. D. in the Court held within the Tower, and there to have judgement upon the said debt obtained against him: after which judgement obtained, a Precept was awarded under the seal of office of the Lieutenant, redirected unto the Porter of the Tower or to his deputy, to take A. B. in execution for the same debt. And after that A. B. is so taken in execution, there is return made of the execution of the said Precept; and thereupon the Lieutenant not only appointeth about a dozen or more Keepers to the said A. B. and such as the said A. B. will nominate; 
This pretended Privilege is directly against the Laws of the Realm, as hereunder is resolved by the judges.  but also suffereth the said A. B. to go at liberty, giving unto him a Protection under the seal of his Office: And thereby commandeth all Officers in any wise to forbear to arrest or trouble the said A. B. for the space of one whole year, being his prisoner. Then if it shall happen that the said A. B. shall be arrested, being in the custody of any of his Keepers, and having the said Protection to show; if immediately upon the showing of the same, he be not set at liberty again, In such case, the Lieutenant pretendeth that he hath power to arrest the body of any person, dwelling in such City or County, wherein the said A. B. was so arrested and troubled, if any such person can be found within the liberties of the Tower, and the body of the same person to detain in safe custody, until such time as the said A. B. shall be enlarged.  
By which means the execution of the Laws of the Realm is hindered, and the Subjects wronged.  

The form of a Precept of the Lieutenant of the Tower, for the taking of one in execution, with the return of the same Precept.  
PRaeceptum est janitori Turr. 
Tur. Lond.  praedict. quod capiat Willm. Aston de Lond. Civem & Haberdasher: Ita quod habeatur corpus ejus coram Edwardo Warner, milite, Locumtenen. Dominae Reginae Turr. praed. & ejus Senescall. ibi ad prox. Cur. infra Turr. praed. tenend. ad satisfaciend. Johanni Thomson viginti lib. legalis monetae Angliae, quas idem Johannis in eadem Curia recuperavit adversus praefat. Willm. & xxj. s. pro miss. & custag. Curiae, quae eidem Iohanni in eadem Curia adjudicat. fuerunt. Et qualiter hoc Praeceptum per te fuerit executum constare fac, adpraefat. Cur. Et hoc non omit. periculo incumbent.  
Dat. apud Turr. praed. sub sigillo quo utor in hoc officio, decimo tertio die Novembris, Anno Regni Elizabethae, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, primo. janitori Turris Lond. aut suo Deputato.   

RESPONS.  
CEpi Corpus supranominati Willm. Aston, & eum paratum habeo, prout mihi superiùs prcaeipitur.  
Hugh Pope, john Laston, john Sparrow, Edward Sanders, Thomas Browne, Gregory Newman, Henry Hudson, john Woodward, Thomas Bullen, William Law-man, Matthew Hind, etc. His Keepers appointed.  
Christoph. Southows.   

The form of a Protection, granted by the Lieutenant of the Tower, to a Prisoner being in execution for debt, to go at large.  
EDwardus Warner Miles, 
Tur. Lond.  Locum-tenens Dominae Reginae Turr'. suae praedict. omnibus Officiariis, ministris, & subditis dictae Dominae Reginae, salutem. cum secundum privilegium & consuetudinem in Curia Turris praedictae ab antiquo usitat. & opprobat. quilibet condemnatus in Curia praedictae ad sectam alicujus in placito debiti, ac in custodia dicti Locum-tenentis siuè ejus deputat. pro eodem debito existen. super certas considerationes ipsum Locumtenentem moventes, praedict. condemnat. ire & redire quò voluerit infra regnum Angliae permissus fuerit. Et quia Willm. Aston de London Civis & Haberdasher, coram me praefato Locumtenente & Senescall. in Curia Turris praedictae, venit ad sectam cujusdam Johannis Thomson in placito debiti, super demand. viginti librarum bonae & legalis monetae Angliae, & xxj. s. pro missis & custagiis Curiae condemnat. existit, & in prisona Turris praedictae sub custodia mei praefati Locumtenentis, prout mos est, pro eodem debito existen. Sciatis me praefatum Locumtenentem considerantem statum & paupertatem praedicti Willm. Aston, ac eò quòd citiùs debitum suum praedictum de amicis & bonis suis propriis levare possit, presentium. Willm. cum custode seu latore praeseatium super considerationem praedictam, quo voluerit, dimiss. fore a die dat. praesentium pro uno Anno integro prox-futuro. Igitur ex parte dictae Dominae Reginae, vobis & cuilibet vestrii mando, Quod praedictu Willm. prisonarium meum, cum Custode sen latore praesentium, in aliquo non molestatis nec arrestetis pro aliqua personali actione. Nec quantum in vobis ab aliis infer. permitt. periculo incumbent.  
Dat. apud Turr. praed. sub sigillo quo utor in hoc officio, Decimo tertio die Novembris, An. Regni Elizabethae, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reginae, fidei Defensoris, etc. Primo. Edward Warner.    

Also in the year of our Lord God, 
Ex Relatione Hum. Dyson Notaris Pub.  1585. Sir Owen Hopton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, by colour of his office, pretending title to a Garden-plot near the Tower, did cause his servants violently to take possession thereof, and to bring those persons before him that kept the possession, whom he imprisoned in the Tower. Whereupon, a Writ of Habeas Corpus was sued forth of the King's Bench for the removing of the body of Robert Shapeley, one of the prisoners, which Writ was brought and delivered unto the Lieutenant by Robert Smith, than Solicitor of the City of London, but the Lieutenant would not receive nor obey the Writ, but would have compelled the said Robert Smith to carry it back again with him: which he refusing, the Lieutenant put the Writ into his pocket, and abused and imprisoned also the said Robert Smith in the Tower: For redress of which wrongs, and of many others, there was complaint made to the Lords of the Privy Council, who referred the hearing of those controversies, and the examination of the rights and privileges which the Lieutenant pretended to belong unto his Office, to the Lords chief justices and to the Master of the Rolls, who were to certify their opinions thereof in writing, as by the letters of the Lords of the Council in that behalf sent and directed unto them, of the tenor following, appear.  

The Counsels letters to the Lords chief justices, and to the Master of the Rolls.  
AFter our very hearty Commendations, etc. There hath been complaint made unto us in the behalf of the Lord Maior and Citizens of London, against Sir Owen Hopton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, whom they charge with some disordered dealing by him used towards one Robert Smith, a Solicitor for the City, sent lately unto him with a Writ of Habeas Corpus, out of the Court of her Majesty's Bench, for the removing of the body of one Robert Shapeley, a servant to one William Wikins a Citizen, imprisoned by the Lieutenant upon some pretended quarrel of privilege; the manner whereof shall best appear unto you by the several complaints and articles herein enclosed, exhibited unto us by the said Smith and Wikins.  
And forasmuch as the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of London, have heretofore oftentimes found themselves grieved, with sundry actions of unkind and violent dealings, offered by the said Lieutenant and his Officers as they have informed, to the breach of their Charters and liberties, whereby there is grown some division and dissension between them (which we desire by all good means to have removed;) and whereas▪ the Lieutenant seemeth to warrant his doings by ancient privileges and customs of the Tower, whereunto the Citizens on their parts, upon opinion of the validities of their Charters, refuse to yield: We considering what inconvenience may ensue of the private dissension between them, have thought good to require you, call Master Lieutenant before you, and the parties, whose complaints are herewith sent unto you; with such proofs and witness as may be produced, effectually to examine the matters thereby informed against him: and that you also take knowledge of such other complaints and controversies, as the L. Maior and the Recorder of London shall deliver unto you against the Lieutenant of the Tower concerning their former debates and strifes, for matter of liberties, prescriptions and customs, and the like on the behalf of the Lieutenant against them, praying you to take some pains to ●●are the matters at large on both sides; and to see upon what privileges, customs, and prescriptions, their several claims are grounded and pretended: as also to consider of their strength and validity in Law, wherein after you shall have spent some time, and heard and understood the matters at large, we require you then to make report unto us what you shall have found on both sides, as well touching the complains of Smith and Wikins, as of the Lord Maior and Citizens, with your opinions of their said complaints and controversies, and what course were fittest to be taken between them, which we pray you to do with as convenient speed as you may: And so bid you heartily farewell.  
From the Court at Greenwich. Subscribed by 

Bromley Cancellarius.  
Leicester.  
Hunsdon, Chamberl.  
M. Treasurer.  
M. Controller.  
M. Secretary.  
Sir Walter Mildmay.    
Directed to the Lords chief jusices, and to the Master of the Rolls.   
Upon the receipt of which letters, the said Lords chief justices, and Master of the Rolls, did at large hear the allegations and proofs of both parties, and did accordingly certify their opinions thereof to the Lords of the Privy Council in manner following:  

The Certificate, touching as well the Articles and Complaints made to your Honours, by Robert Smith and William Wikius, against Sir Owen Hopton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, as the controversies between the Mayor and Citizens of London and the said Lieutenaut.  
FIrst, upon examination of the matter, touching the said Smith and Wikins, mentioned in your Honour's letters, it appeareth unto us, that (some controversy being between the Mayor and Citizens, and the said Lieutenant, touching a Garden-plot near the said Tower) one Ralph Gasken, servant to the said Lieutenant, violently did draw forth of the said Garden, one Shapeley, servant to the said Wikins, then labouring there for his said Master, in such violent manner, as thereby blood was drawn of him in several places, and carried him to the Tower, and there kept him in prison eight days; and that one Shawe, another of the Lieutenant's servants, was present with the said Gasken aiding him, but that he did not hurt the said Shapeley; which Gasken and Shawe did detain some of the apparel of the said Shapeley, and yet do for any thing knowene to us.  
And that likewise one pain was taken forth of the said Garden, and carried to the Tower, and there imprisoned three days, and then delivered upon bond, to render his body to the Tower when he should be required, and that pain hath left a pawn of the value of ten shillings for his meat and drink.  
And that Her Majesties Writ of Habeas Corpus for the body of Shapeley was sued forth of her Bench, directed to the Lieutenant, which carried and delivered to him by the said Smith, who prayed the said Lieutenant to make allowance thereof, and paid him the Fee due therefore. But forthwith he would have forced the said Smith to have received the money again and the Writ: which Smith refused to do, praying him not to be offended for bringing of her Majesty's Process.  
And thereupon Master Lieutenant said he would put his Writ in his pocket, as he had done many, and therewith rubbed Smith on the cheeks, and threatened to imprison him, if he would not carry back the Writ again and the money: whereupon the said Lieutenant imprisoned Smith, and detained him about three hours, until upon a Bill of his hand to return to prison when the Lieutenant should send for him, he was delivered; which matter the Lieutenant confesseth to be true.  
And touching such liberties as Master Lieutenant claimeth to have been used for the Officers and Attendants in the Tower, as not to be arrested by any Action in the City of London, and Protections to be granted to them by Master Lieutenant, and not obeying of Writs of Habeas Corpus, we think such persons as are daily attendant in the Tower, serving her Majesty there, are to be privileged, and not to be arrested upon any plaint in London. But for Writs of execution, or Capias ut ligatum, and such like, we think they ought to have no privilege.  
Moreover, touching Protections granted by Master Lieutenant, for such as be condemned in any action in the Court kept in the Tower, to go at large, and not to be arrested by any Process out of the Queen's high Courts, or elsewhere, or any other Protection to that effect, for any privileged person, we think the same against Her Majesty's Laws and dignity.  
Item, That Matter Lieutenant ought to return every Habeas Corpus, out of any Court at Westminst. so as the Justices before whom it shall be returned, (as the cause shall require) may either remand it with the body, or retain the matter before them, and deliver the body, as Justice shall require.  
As touching the jurisdiction of the Court in the Tower, and the controversies for certain liberties upon the Tower-hill, and the soil there, and diverse places about the Tower, we are not yet fully resolved, but desire your Lordships to have some further time to consider thereupon: for, that there be many matters alleged, and to be showed in writing for the same, as we are informed, which we have not yet seen.  
Item, The said Lieutenant doth claim a liberty, that if any person privileged in the Tower be arrested in London, that he may take the body of any Citizen that shall come within the liberties of the Tower, and keep his body there, until the other be delivered: which we think altogether against the Laws of this Realm.  


Christopher Wray.  
Edmond Anderson.  
Gilbert Gerrard.      

After the Lords of the Privy Council had received the same Certificate, they did thereupon make this final Order and Decree following, viz.  

At Non such, the third day of October. 1585.  
Present, 

Lord Treasurer.  
Lord Admiral.  
Lord Chamberlain.  
Master Treasurer.  
Master Secretary.    
WHereas sundry variances & contentions have heretofore arisen, and have of late years depended, betwixt the Lord Maior and Communality of the City of London, on the one part; and the Lieutenant of Her Majesty's Tower of London, on the other part, touching matters of liberties, prescriptions, customs, and other claims and pretences: by reason whereof, and for lack of order for stay of those variances and contentions, diverse tumults have heretofore grown, and Her Majesty's Peace hath many times been in hazard to be dangerously broken; whereupon, several complaints have been heretofore exhibited to the Lords and others of Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, by the Lord Maior and Communality aforesaid, against the said Lieutenant, for diverse injuries alleged to be offered on his part to the Citizens of London, without order of Law or equity: After consideration had of which several complaints, it pleased their Lordships (having care to procure an end of those controversies, for avoiding of inconveniences that might ensue) by their Honourable letters to give order to Sir Christopher Wray, Knight, Lord chief Justice of England; Sir Edmond Anderson, Knight, Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and to Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Knight, Master of the Rolls, that they (calling the said Lieutenant and the parties complainants before them) should effectually hear and examine the controversies (on both sides,) and certify their Lordships what they should find, together with their opinions touching the same, who having called the parties accordingly before them, and advisedly and with good deliberation sundry times heard their Allegations and answers, as well by writing as by word, with counsel learned on all parts, have signified their opinions of the said controversies in writing, as hereafter followeth:  
First, touching such liberties as M. Lieutenant claimeth to have been used for the Officers and Attendants in the Tower, as not to be arrested by any action in the City of London, and protections to be granted to them, by Master Lieutenant, and not obeying of writs of we think such persons as be daily attendant in the Tower serving her Majesty there, are to be privileged and not to be arrested upon any plaint in London, but for writs of Executions, or 〈…〉 and such like, we think they ought to have no privilege.  
Secondly, concerning protections granted by Master Lieutenant for such as be condemned in any action in the Court, kept in the Tower, to go at large, and not to be arrested by any Process out of the Queen's high Courts, or elsewhere, or any other protection to that effect for any privileged person, we think the same against her Majesty's laws and dignity.  
Thirdly, that M. Lieutenant ought to return every Habeas Corpus out of any Court at Westminster, so as the justices before whom it shall be returned (as the cause shall require) may either remand it with the body, or retain the matter before them, and deliver the body as justice shall require.  
Lastly, whereas the Lieutenant doth also claim a liberty, that if any person privileged in the Tower be arrested in London, he may take the body of any Citizen that shall come within the liberties of the Tower, and keep his body there until the other be delivered, we think the same to be altogether against the laws of the Realm.  
The Lords therefore of her Majesties said Privy Council, upon grave and deliberate considerations had of the certificate and opinions of the said Lords chief justices and Master of the Rolls, and to the end occasions of contention, trouble, and disorder, and the danger of breach of her Majesty's peace, which have heretofore of late years arisen and grown upon the controversies aforesaid, may from henceforth cease, and be althougher removed and taken away;  
It was this day by their Lordships ordered and decreed, betwixt the Lord Maior, Communality and Citizens of London, and their successors, and the Lieutenant of her Highness said Tower of London, and all other Lieutenants and Officers of the Tower at any time hereafter to succeed: That the matters, points and articles contained in the Certificate of the said justices and Master of the Rolls before mentioned, wherein their resolutions, opinions and determinations be set down, declared and signified, shall at all times from henceforth stand and remain for rules and resolutions and final determination and decision: for so much and so many of the points of controversies as are contained in the said Certificate (whereof they have delivered their opinions) to be for ever hereafter duly observed and kept, and that nothing be hereafter at any time done, or attempted on either part, to the violating or interrupting of the same.  
On the North side of this hill, is the said Lord Lumleyes' house, and on the West side, diverse houses lately builded, and other encroachments along South to Chick lane, 
Chick lane.  on the East of Barking Church, at the end whereof you have Tower-street, stretching from the Tower-hill, West to Saint Margaret Pattens Church Parsonage.  
Now therefore, 
Tower-street All-hallows Barking a Parish Church.  to begin at the East end of the Street, on the North side thereof, is the fair Parish Church, called, All-hallows Barking, which standeth in a large, but sometime far larger Cemitery or Church-yard. On the North side whereof was sometime builded a fair Chapel, 
Barking Chapel of our Lady.  founded by King Richard the first; some have written that his heart was buried there under the high Altar. This Chapel was confirmed and augmented by King Edward the first. Edward the fourth gave licence to his Cousin john, Earl of Worcester, to found there a Brotherhood for a Master and Brethren, and he gave to the Custos of that fraternity, which was Sir john Scot, Knight, Thomas Colt, john Tate, and john Croke, the Priory of Totingbecke, and the avousion of the Parish Church of Stretham in the Country of Surrey, with all the members and appurtenances, and a part of the Priory of Okeborne in Wiltshire, 
The King's Chapel of Barking.  both Prior's Aliens, and appointed it to be called the King's Chapel of Chantry, In Capella beatae Mariae de Barking.  
King Richard the third, new builded and founded therein a College of Priests, etc. Hamond de Lega was buried in that Chapel. Robert Tate, Maior of London, 1488. and other were there buried.  
This College was suppressed and pulled down in the year 1548. the second of, 
john Rowse.  King Edward the sixth, the ground was employed as a Garden-plot during the reigns of King Edward, Queen Mary, and part of Queen Elizabeth, till at length a large strong frame of Timber and Brick was set thereon, and employed as a Storehouse of Merchant's goods brought from the Sea, by Sir William Winter, etc.  
Monuments in the Parish Church of All-hallows Barking, not defaced are these:  
Sir Thomas Studinham of Norwich Diocese, Knight, 1469.  
Thomas Gilbert Draper, and Merchant of the Staple, 1483.  
john Bolt, Merchant of the Staple, 1459.  
Sir john Stile, Knight, Draper, 1500.  
William Thin, Esquire, one of the Clarks of the Green cloth, and Master of the Household to King Henry the 8. 1546.  
Humfery Monmouth, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, 1535. buried in the Church yard.  
William Denham, one of the Sheriffs, 1934.  
Henry Eoward, Earl of Surrey beheaded, 1546.  
Sir Richard Devereux, son and heir to the Lord Ferrer of Chartley.  
Richard Brown Esquire, 1546.  
Philip Dennis, Esquire, 1556.  
Andrew Evenger, Saiter.  
William Robinson, Mercer, Alderman 1552.  
William Armorer, Clothworker, Esquire, Governor of the Pages of Honour, or Master of the Hance men, servant to Henry the eight, Edward the sixth and Queen Mary, buried 1560. Beside, which, there be diverse Tombs without inscription.  
john Crolys and Thomas Pike, Citizens of London, founded a chantry there, 1388.  
Upon further view of this Parish Church, and the monuments, I find these following:  
In the Chancel lieth a fair Marble stone with a plate of Brass engraven, bearing this inscription: Hic jacet joannes Ruche, 
All these Mounments are in the Chancel on the ground near to one another as they are here set down.  Generosius, qui obiit octavo die Mensis Maii, An. Dom. 1493. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.  
Upon a fair large Marble stone, by occasion lately taken up, and being buried somewhat deep in the ground, on a Brass plate fixed thereon was this inscription: Hic concluduntur ossa jacobi Zamboni, illustrissimi Dom. Veneti Secretarii, Agentis apud Serenissimum hunc Angliae, etc. Regem.  
On a fair Marble stone, but without any plate, are these lines following engraven.  
In this Vault hereunder lieth Elizabeth, late Wife unto William Denham, Alderman of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Calais: Who departed unto God, on Wednesday, at 5. of the clock in the afternoon, in Easter-weeke, the last day of March, 1540 On whose soul jesus have mercy, Amen.  
And by the Grace of God, the said William Denham, purposing to lie here by her, departed unto God the day of etc.  
Close by it is another stone thus inscribed: Hic jacet Dom. Thomes Vyrby, quondam Vicari●● istius Eccles. Qui obiit 2. die Mensis Decemb. 1453. Cujus anima, etc.  
near unto it is another stone, thus inscribed: Hic jacet Nicholaus Bremisgrave, quondam Vicarius istius Eccles. Qui obiit II. die Mens. August. An. Dom. 1416. Cujus, etc.  
By it also another stone, thus inscribed: Hic jacet M. Radulphus Darling, Almae Vniver. Oxoniae olim Magist. in Artibus, & huius Eccles. quondam Vicarius peritissimus. Qui obiit An. Dom. 1500. 9 die Mens. Octob. Cuius, etc.  
By it also another stone, thus inscribed: Hic jacet tumulatus M. Thomas Cayfi. Can. & Baccalaurius in Art. vir perit. & unus Vicar. istius Eccles. Qui obiit 6. die Mens. Feb. 1475. Cuius, etc.  
By it also another stone, thus inscribed: Hic jacet Dom. Willielm. Tylling, quondam Capellanus istius Eccles. Qui obiit 24. die Mens. julii, An. Dom. 1430. Cuius, etc.  
On the same stone: Ac Johannes Vale, nuper Capellanus, & bonus reparator Cantar. ejusdem Eccles. Qui obiit 10. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1563. Cuius, etc.  
Upon a very fair Marble stone, verged about with plates of brass, and concluding with the like plates in the middle, is thus engraven: Pray for the soul of M. William Thin, Esquire, one of the Master of the honourable household to King Henry the 8. our Sovereign Lord. He departed from the prison of this frail life, the 10. day of August, An. Dom. 1546. in the 38. year of our said Sovereign Lord the King, which body, and every part thereof, in the last day shall be raised up again, at the sound of the Lords Trumpet. In whose coming, that we may all joyfully meet him, our heavenly Father grant us, whose mercy is so great towards us, that he freely offertth to all them that earnestly repent their sins, everlasting life, through the death of his dear beloved Son, jesus: To whom be everlasting praise. Amen.  
Before the entrance into the Vestry, lieth a fair Marble stone, without any plate of Brass, but thus engraven upon it:  
Nicholas Andrew's to his dearest wife Anne, doth this last office of love: for she was, 

Religious,  
Chaste,  
Discreet,  
Loving,  
Fair,  
Obedient.   She lived but 25. years, and died at Chigwell in Essex, the 12. day of june, 1606. and was here-under interred (in great sorrow) the monday following: leaving behind her living, two sons, William and Nicholas.  
Hard by it is another stone, thus inscribed: Here resteth the body of Agnes Bond, Widow, sometime the wife of William Bond, Esquire; the which William and Agnes had issue betwixt them, 8. sons and 8. daughters; which Agnes deceased the 4. day of February, in the year of our Lord God, 1552.  
Lower in the Chancel toward the door, is another fair stone plated, and thus engraven: Hereunder lieth the body of Roger James, late of London, Brewer, who being of the age of 67. departed this life the second day of March, An. Dom. 1591. leaving behind him Sara his wife, eight sons, and one daughter.  
near unto it, another stone, thus inscribed: Here under this Marble stone lieth, M. Henry Poulsted, Esquire, and Alice his wife; the which Henry deceased the 10. of December, 1556. and begot of her body one son and one daughter, Richard and Mabell, etc.  
Close by it, another smaller stone, thus inscribed: Here lieth buried Barbara Thornix, Daughter of Thomas Thornix Esquire, who deceased the eleventh day of April, 1613. being of the age of three years.  
By it another fair stone, thus inscribed: Here lieth the body of Mary Burnell, late wife of john Burnell, Citizen and Merchant of London, the only daughter of Matthew Brownrig of Ipswich, in Suffolk, Esquire, a woman sincerely living in the fear of God, and dying constantly in the faith of Christ jesus. She departed this life the 5. day of April, 1612. being of the age of 20. years: Having finished in wedlock with her said husband 2. years and 5. months, and bearing him issue, one son, whereof she died in childbed, and expecteth now (with the Elect of God) a joyful resurrection.  
Then there is a goodly ancient fair Tomb, dividing the North I'll from the Chancel, bearing these engraven lines: Hic jacet johannes Bacon, quondam Civis & Woolman London, Qui obiit 6. die Mens. Maii, Anno Dom. 1437. Et joanna Vx. eius.  
There is a very goodly Tomb, 
In the North I'll of the Qeire.  but much defaced, and the Brass plates stolen off from it: but so many of the words as are remaining, are these: Stapulo fuit seniorum, & unius Londi●lls habitans, sermene fidelis, cum Marga yera Domina costaque beata. Hunc rapuit Michael ad Coeli gaudi a lati, etc.  
By it is a fair Monument in the wall, bearing this inscription: Hic facet Hieronymus Benalius, Bergami netus, qui dum vixit, pietatem coluit, & futurae vitae resurrectionem expectat. Obiit 4. dic Martii, An. Dom. 1585. Aetatis suae, 58.  
On the ground in the midst of the way, lieth a fair stone, by the appearance, entering into a Vault. The stone is thus engraven: 
This stone belongeth to Francis Cherry, Merchant, Vintner, and to his heirs.  
Here lieth Margaret Cherry, the wife of Francis Cherry, by whom he had issue 11. children, 4. sons, and 7. daughters, and died of the 12. child, 1695.   
A small Brass plate is fixed in the wall East, thus inscribed: Of your charity praiser the soul of Philip Dennis, of London, Esquire: whose body lieth buried before this stone. Who died the 3, day of September, 1556.  
A fair Marble Tomb much defaced, 
In the South I'll o● the Q●●re.  whereon are figured kneeling, a man and a woman, he having three sons kneeling behind him, and she four Daughters. A label proceedeth from his mouth, with these words: Ego resurgam, & in carne mea videbe te jesum, Deum Sabvatorem meum.  
Another from her, thus: Qui Lazarum resuscitasti à monumento fetidum, dona nobis requiem.  
Upon the ground, somewhat near to one another, are diverse fair Gravestones, bearing these inscriptions: 
Under this stone lieth William Roberts, Citizen and Mc●cer of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Calais, son of William Roberts, Alderman of the said place: which William his son deceased the seventh day of january, Anno Domini, 1555.  
Here lieth buried the body of Christopher Rawson, late Mercer of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Calais, who deceased the second day of October, Anno Domini, 1518.  
Here-under lieth Master William Robinscn, Alderman of London, Citizen and Mer●●r, and Merchant of the Staple as Calais, and Elizabeth his wife. He deceased the thirtieth day of December, 1552.  
Here under this stone lieth buried the body of Mistress jane Russell, one of the Genth women of the Privy Chamber to Qu. Marry, andwife to William Russell, Sergeant of the Cellar to our late Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth: A●d deceased the 16. day of january, Anno Domini, 1558.   
God's blessings bestowed on the poor of this Parish, by the benevolence and charity of well-disposed people.  
Given by Margaret Martin, of the Parish of All-hallows Barking in London, in the year 1557. to and amongst the poor of the said Parish, yearly for ever, 26. s. 8. d. And to the Churchwardens for their pains, 20. d. to each, to be paid them yearly for ever.  
Given by Mr. William Armorer, to hold for ten years, one load of Charcoals, and two hundred of Faggots, by his wife to be delivered every Christmas, to and amongst the poor of the same Parish.  
Given by Mistress Alice Polsted, to the use of the poor of the same Parish, the sum of 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. to be paid them yearly for ever.  
Given by Mr. William Haines, 5. l. a year for ever, after the death of Alice his wife.  
Given by Richard Smith, his dwelling house, known and called by the name of the White-Lion, situate near to the Tower Hill, to the use of the poor of the said Parish: after the decease of his wife, and Richard and Margaret his children, if they happen to die without issue.  
Given by Mr. Wilkinson, after the decease of his wife, the lease of the house situate at Tower Hill, to be let by the Churchwardens of the said Parish: and they to give out of the same rent, during the said lease, forty shillings yearly to the poor of the Parish, and twenty shillings yearly to the Preacher or Lecturer there. And the residue of the said rend to be distributed in such sort as in her will is mentioned.  
Concerning the bounds and limits of this Parish, according to our precedent order: They go Northward from the Church, so far as the corner, where is the back gate, sometime belonging to Sir Francis Walsingham, but now to Sir Nicholas Salter. Thence they go on aalong by the Garden wall belonging to the Lady Lumley, to the East corner: where going over, they pass on so far as the house of one Peter Porter, right over against the great gate of the Lady Lumleyes' house, where turning back down a passage to the South part of Mr. Covelles garden, in the midst whereof Eastward, upon London wall, their mark is fixed. Returning back that way again, they cross Southward over Tower Hill, where sometime stood a Cross, distinguishing the Tower liberty and All-hallows.  
So they go on the Tower-docke, to the house of Mr. Day, Brewer, where they go up petty Wales, to the Customhouse gate. And there they turn up Water-lane, on the East side only, till they come forth thereof, and cross over into Martlane, so far as Sir Henry Bakers house, where they turn over East, and so pass on that end of Martlane South, where turning again East to Sydon-lane, they go up that Lane North, so far as part of the house belonging to Sir Nicholas Salter, and there fix their mark; returning to Chappell-Alley, and there ending where they began.  
Here I confess myself beholding to Mr. Edward Abbot, Parson of All-hallows Barking, and the Officers that there gave me friendly assistance.  
By the West end of this Parish Church and Chapel, 
Sydon-lane.  lieth Sydon-lane, now corruptly called Sything-lane, from Tower-street up North to Hartstreet.  
In this Sydon-lane diverse fair and large houses are builded; namely, one by Sir john Allen, sometime Mayor of London, and of Council unto King Henry the eighth: Sir Francis Walsingham, Knight, principal Secretary to the Queen's Majesty that then lived, was lodged there, and so was the Earl of Essex, etc.  
At the Northwest corner of this lane standeth a proper Parish Church of Saint Olave, 
Parish Church of S. Olave in Hartstreet.  which Church, together with some houses adjoining, and also others over against it in Hartstreet, are of the said Tower-street Ward.  
Monuments in this Parish Church of Saint Olave, be these:  
Richard Cely, and Robert Cely, Felmongers', principal builders and benefactors of this Church.  
Dame joan, wife to Sir john Zouch, 1439.  
john Clarentiaulx, King of Arms.  
Thomas Soul.  
Sir Richard Haddon, Mercer, Maior, 1512.  
Thomas Burnell, Mercer, 1548.  
Thomas Morley, Gentleman, 1566.  
Sir john Radcliffe, Knight, 1568. And Dame Anne his wife, 1585.  
Chapone, a Florentine Gent. 1582.  
Sir Hamond Vaughan, Knight.  
George Stoddard, Merchant, etc.  
In the wall, 
In the Chancel.  on the North side, is an ancient Monument, but very much defaced, appearing to belong to Sir Richard Haddon, Mercer and Lord Mayor of London, with some show of two wives, two sons, and three daughters: but the plates of memory are gone.  
A fair Marble stone lieth by the Communion Table, 
On the ground.  and a large plate upon it, on the top whereof these Latin Verses are engraven: 
Ortu praeclarus curans illustrior Arte  
Efficier, patriam deserit iste suam,  
Discendi studio varias transiverat oras,  
Heu tandem febrius Anglia fintiter.  
Nobilitas, virtus, pietas, doctrina bearunt,  
Schraderum si vis pergere plura scies.   
In the midst are two fair Coats of Arms, the one having Schrader as the Motto, and the other, Non Wechtelt.  
Lower is this inscription fairly engraven: Georgius Schraderus, Brunswigae, An. 1580. Mens. Februarii, nobili Familia Patre autore Schradero, à Consiliis secretissimis illustrissimorum Duc. Brunswig & Luneb. Matre Catharina à Vechtelt natas, in vera Dei notitia educatus, postquam maximum Germaniae partem, totam Galliam, Brabant. Fland. vidisset, in Angliam se recepit, inde domum ut rediret, febri verè correptus, placidè in Domino obdornivit, 3. Octob. An. salutis, 1605. Aetatis suae, 24. & in hoc tumulo requiescit.  
Two fair Marble stones lie something near to this, bearing these inscriptions: 
Orate pro anima Roberti Byrche, Woolpacker: Qui obiit vicessimo septimo die julii, Anno Dom. 1433. Cuius animae propitietur Deus.  
D. O. M.  
Matthaeo Babalio, Nobili Ragusino, pietate ac probitate insigni, immaturáque morte vita defuncto, Anno aetatis suae, 27. Domini vero, 1567. Mens. junio.  
Nicholaus Gozzius amicus posuit.   
A fair Marble Tomb, with a Knight in Armour lying along on it, and his wife kneeling by him, thus inscribed: 
Hic jacet Joannes Radcliffe, Miles, filius Roberti, Comitis Sussexiae: Qui obiit (nullis susceptis liberis) nono die Novembris, Anno Domini, 1585.  
Here lieth Dame Anne, the wife of Sir John Radcliffe, Knight, who died the tenth of Decemb. An. Dom. 1568.   
A fair Monument, erected behind the Tomb of Sir john Radcliffe, but somewhat higher, with half the lively figure of the party it concerneth, inscribed thus: 
Memoriae Sacrum  
Petro Turnero, Gulielmi Turneri Patris inclyto filio, probitatis ac eruditionis fama, illustrique Medicinae Doctori peritissimo; quem Cantabrigia aluit, Heidelbrigia Doctoris insignibus honoravit, Oxonium cohonestavit, Pascha Turnera Conjux moestissima aeternum pietatis, amoris ac doloris sui Monumentum. L. M. P.  
Henricus Parreus Episc. Wigorniensis,  
Paschae Turnerae frater moeroris consors,  
Piis defucti manibus hoc Epicedium parentavit. Obiit Maii 27. Anno Dom. 1614 Aetatis suae, 72.   
In the Southeast wall, a stone engraven, with out any plate, bearing this inscription: Gulielmo Turnero, Medico, ac Theologo peritissimo, Decano Wellens. Per Annos triginta in utraque scientia exercitatissimus, Ecclesiae & Reipublicae profuit, & contra utriusque pernitiosissimos hosts; maximè vero Romanum Antichristum fortissimus Jesus Christi Miles acerrimè dimicavit, ac tandem corpus senio & laboribus compertum, in spem beatissim. resurrectionis hic deposuit; devictis Christi virtute mundi, carnisque civibus cap. triumphant in aeternum.  
Magnus Apollinea,  
quondam Turnerus in art,  
Magnus & in vera  
religione fuit:  
Mors tamen obrepens,  
majorem reddidit illum,  
Civis enim Coeli  
regna superna tenet.  
Obiit 7. die julii, An. Dom. 1568.  
Under it, upon a small plate is thus engraven:  
In God is my whole trust. I. O. 1591.  
john Orgen, and Helen his wife.  
As I was, so be ye,  
As I am, you shall be.  
What I gave, that I have,  
What I spent, that I had:  
Thus I count all my cost,  
What I left, that I lost.  
There is a very fair Tomb erected in the South wall of the Choir, whereon these lines are engraven: Hic juxta in Choro situs est Jacobus Deane, Eques auratus, vir bonus & in operibus charitatis, qui primo Susannam filiam Christopheri Bumsted Generos. Vxorem habuit, ex qua unicum suscepit filiolum. Postea Elizab. filiam Hugon. Offley Armigeri, Alderm. Lond. Deinde Elizab. filiam Richardi Thornehill Armig. & viduam Christopheri Web Arm. duxit conjugen, ex qua duas genuit filiolas, nullam tamen relinquens prolem, se moriente, superstitem, An. Aetatis, 63. 15. Maii, 1608. in Domino.  
Two fair stones plated, one by another, thus inscribed: 
Here lieth buried (in the mercy of God) the bodies of Thomas Beckingham, Esquire, Merchant of the Staple at Calais, and Anne his wife. He deceased the 4. day of Decemb. An. Dom. 1576. And she the 22. of May, 1565.  
Here lieth Thomas Prenthoit, Citizen and Upholder of London, and Joan his wife. He deceased the 7. day of April, Anno Domini, 1521.   
A fair Alabaster Tomb, 
In the Northside of the Quire.  and the figure of a man kneeling on it, thus inscribed: 
D. O. M.  
Hic situs est Petrus Caponius, Florentinus in vita Nobilitate clarus, morum integritate, summis Principibus gratissimus, exilium quod iniquiore fato subierat constanter tulit. Obiit An. aetaris, 32. Sal. 1582. 6. Cal. Novembris.  
Mortuum Britannia, quem vivum in sinu tulerat, in sinu nec dum discincto conservat.  
Petrus Landus, ex parentibus Florentinis, apud Lugdunum Galliae natus, hoc amoris & moeroris Monumentum P.   
Upon two plates fixed in the wall, these inscriptions: 
Here-under lieth buried the body of Philip Van Wyllender, Esquire, Musician, and one of the privy Chamber to King Henry the eight of most famous memory, and to King Edward the sixth. Who died the 24. day of February, Ann. Dom. 1553. And had issue by Frances his wife, four sons, and two daughters, etc.  
Here lieth buried the body of Thomas Burnell, late Citizen and Mercer of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Calais. He deceased the 26. day of February, Ann. Dom. 1448.   
Coming now to the charities given to the poor in this Parish, I find no nomination of any, but of one Mistress Bainham, and Sir james Deane, whose gifts are benevolence in bread weekly to the poor. There standeth also in the lower part of the Church, a memory of one yet living, inscribed thus: john High-Lord, signior, of London, Skinner, in his life time, and in the 85. year of his age, gave forty shillings yearly for ever, to be bestowed in Newcastle Coals, for the relief of the poor in this Parish of S. Olave in Harestreet.  
There are many men of great and good account in this Parish, who at diverse times are bountiful unto the poor in money, and as they send it, it is faithfully divided among them.  
Now for the limits and bounds of the Parish, they go on from the Church West, and turning down on the East side of Martlane, cross the way over to Sir Henry Bakers house, and so go up on the West side, till turning into Hartstreet, they go on into Sydon-lane, so far as their mark standeth, on the house of Sir Nicholas Salter, joining to theirs of Barking Parish. Then they go over on the West side, and so pass down Crotchet Friars, to Tower-hill, to the further part of the Lady Lumleys garden wall, and the back gate of the foresaid Sir Nicholas, where turning back to Porter's house, and going on Northward, they go into an Alley, which guideth them to the North end of Master Covels garden, and there they fix their mark by theirs of Barking, on London Wall.  
So returning again, they go up towards Aldgate on the East side, so far as directly against the sign of the Cock, returning back on the West side to the Pump in Crotchet Friars, and then to the place where they began.  
Here I was favoured by Master john Simpson, Parson of S. Olaves, and the friendly Officers there.  
Then have ye out of Tower street also on the North side, 
Martlane, of a Mart kept about Blanch Chappelton, or Appleton.  one other lane, called Martlane, which runneth up towards the North, and is for the most part of this Tower-street Ward; which lane is about the third quarter thereof, divided from Aldgate Ward, by a chain to be drawn thwart the said lane, above the West end of Hartstreet. Cokedon-lane, sometime at the South-west end of Martlane, I read of.  
A third lane out of Tower-street on the North side, 
Mincheon lane.  is called Mincheon-lane, so called of Tenements there, sometime pertaining to the Minchuns or Nuns of S. Helen's in Bishopsgatestreet: This Lane is all of the said Ward, except the corner house towards Fen-Church-street.  
In this lane of old time dwelled diverse strangers borne, of Genoa and those parts; these were commonly called Galley-men, 
Galley-men dwelled there.  as men that came up in the Galleys, brought up Wines and other Merchandises, which they landed in Thames street, at a place called Galley Key: they had a certain coin of silver amongst themselves, which were half pence of Genoa, and were called Galley halfpences. These halfpences were forbidden in the 13. year of King Henry the 4. and again by Parliament in the 4. of Henry the 5. it was enacted, that if any person bring into this Realm Galley halfpences, Suskins, or Dodkins, he should be punished as a Thief, and he that taketh or payeth such money, shall lose an hundred shillings, whereof the King shall have the one half, and he that will sue, the other half: notwithstanding in my youth I have seen them pass currant, but with some difficulty, for that the English halfpences were then (though not so broad) somewhat thicker and stronger.  
The Clothworkers Hall is in this Lane. 
Cloth. workers Hall.  Then at the West end of Tower-street, have ye a little turning towards the North, 
Gristes' house.  to a fair house, sometime belonging to one named Griste, for he dwelled there in the year 1449. And jack Cade, Captain of the Rebels in Kent, being by him in this his house feasted, when he had dined, like an unkind guest, robbed him of all that was there to be found worth the carriage.  
Next to this is another fair house, sometime builded by Angel Dunne, Grocer, 
john Champneis, Alderman blind.  Alderman of London; since possessed by Sir john Champneys, Alderman and Mayor of London. He builded in this house an high Tower of Brick, the first that ever I heard of in any private man's house, to overlook his neighbours in this City. But this delight of his eye was punished with blindness some years before his death. Since that time, Sir Percevall Hart, a jolly Courtier, and Knight Harbinger to the Queen, was lodged there, etc.  
From this house somewhat West, is the Parish Church and Parsonage house of Saint Margaret Pattens, to the which Church and house on the North side, and as far over against on the South, stretcheth the farthest West part of this Ward. And therefore, to begin again at the East end of Tower-street; on the South side have ye Beare-lane, wherein are many fair houses, and runneth down to Thames-street. The next is Sporiar-lane, 
Sporiar lane or Water-lane, or Hart-lane.  of old time so called, but since and of later time, named, Water-lane, because it runneth down to the Water-gate by the Custom House in Thames-street: 
Harpe-lane.  then is there Hart-lane for Harp-lane, which likewise runneth down into Thames-street.  
In this Hart-lane is the Baker's Hall, sometime the dwelling house of john Chichley, 
Baker's Hall.  Chamberlain of London, who was son to William Chichley, Alderman of London, brother to William Chichley, Archdeacon of Canturbury, Nephew to Robert Chichley, Maior of London, and to Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canturbury.  
This john Chichley (saith our Leyland) had four and twenty children. Sir Tho. Kitrioll of Kent, after he had been long prisoner in France, married Elizabeth, one of the Daughters of this Chichley, by whom he had this Chichleyes' house.  
This Elizabeth was secondly married to Sir Ralph Ashton, Knight Martial: and thirdly, to Sir john Bourchier, Uncle to the late Bourchier, Earl of Essex, but she never had child. Edward Poynings made part with Bourchier, and Elizabeth to have Ostenhanger in Kent, after their death, and entered into it they living.  
In Tower-street, between Hart-lane, and Church-lane, 
Galley Row.  was a quadrant, called Galley Row, 
Church lane. by East.  because Galley men dwelled there. 
Church lane in the West.  Then have ye two lanes out of Tower-street, both called Church-lanes, because one runneth down by the East end of Saint Dunstan's Church, and the other by the West end of the same: out of the West lane, turneth another lane, West toward Saint Mary Hill, and is called Fowle-lane, 
Fowl lane.  which is for the most of Tower-street Ward.  
This Church of Saint Dunstane is called in the East, 
Parish Church of S. Dunstane in the East.  for difference from one other of the same name in the West: it is a fair and large Church of an ancient building, and within a large Churchyard: it hath a great Parish of many rich Merchants, and other occupiers of diverse trads; namely Salters and Ironmongers.  
The Monuments in that Church be ●hese:  
In the Choir john Kennington Parson there buried, 1374.  
Willim Islip, Parlon, 1382.  
john Kiryoll Esquire, brother to Thomas Kiryoll, 1400.  
Nicholas Bond.  
Thomas Barry, Merchant, 1445.  
Robert Shelley, Esquire, 1420.  
Robert Pepper, Grocer, 1445.  
john Norwich, Grocer, 1390.  
Alice Brome, wife to john Coventry, sometime Mayor of London, 1433.  
William Isaac, Draper, Alderman, 1508.  
Edward Skales, Merchant, 1521.  
john Ricroft, Esquire, Sergeant of the Larder to Henry the seventh and Henry the eighth, 1532.  
Edward Waters, Esquire, Sergeant at Arms, 1558.  
Sir Bartholomew james, Draper, Maior 1479. buried under a fair Monument, with his Lady.  
Ralph Greenway, Grocer, Alderman, put under the stone of Robert Pepper, 1559.  
Thomas Bledlow, one of the Sheriffs, 1472.  
james Bacon, Fishmonger, Sheriff, 1573.  
Sir Richard Champion, Draper, Maior 1568.  
Henry Herdson, Skinner, Alderman, 1555.  
Sir james Granado Knight.  
William Hariot, Draper, Maior, 1481. buried in a fair Chapel, by him builded, 1517.  
john Tate, son to Sir john Tate, in the same Chapel, in the North wall.  
Sir Christopher Draper, Ironmonger, Maior, 1566. buried 1580. and many other worshipful personages beside, whose monuments (for the most part) are altogether defaced, but such as remain, and merit memory, I will declare them in this order following.  
On the South side of the Chancel, standeth an ancient Marble Tomb, 
In the Chancel.  cooped about with filleting of brass plates, bearing these words engraven on them: Hic jacet Bartholomeus james, Miles, Civis & Pannarius, ac Aldermannus, necnon quondam Maior hujus inclitae Civitatis London, etc.  
Close by it standeth another very fair Alabaster Tomb, richly and curiously gilded, and two ancient figures of Aldermen in Scarlet kneeling, the one, at one end of the Tomb in a goodly Arch, the other, at the other end in like manner, and a comely figure of a Lady between them, who was wife to them both. By the one standeth a Table, with this inscription: 
Here lieth Henry Heardsons' corpse,  
within this Tomb of stone:  
His soul (through faith in Christ's death,)  
to God in Heaven is gone.  
While that he lived an Alderman,  
and Skinner was his state:  
To Virtue bore he all his love,  
To vice he bore his hate.  
His Alms that weekly he bestowed,  
within this Parish here,  
May witness to the poors relief,  
what goodwill he did bear.  
He had to wife one Barbara,  
which made this Tomb you see:  
By whom he had of issue store,  
eight Sons and Daughters three.  
Obiit 22. Decemb. An. Dom. 1555.   
By the other standeth the like Table, thus inscribed: 
The corpse of Richard Champion, Knight,  
Maior and Draper, herein doth rest●  
Whose soul by most assured hope,  
with Christ in heaven is blessed.  
His life was such, and so employed,  
to right from wrong; that he  
Whom God did so direct in life,  
must needs with comfort die:  
Both rich and poor did like him well,  
and yet do praise his name:  
Though he behind him left no child,  
which might declare the same.  
His weekly alms that is bestowed,  
within this Parish here:  
Doth witness to the poors comfort,  
the good will he did bear.  
Obiit 30. Octobris, An. Dom. 1568.   
There is a fair Alabaster Tomb, 
In the South I'll of the Quire.  principally belonging to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight, yet bearing all these inscriptions following, in regard of the several marriages of his daughters: 
Sir Christopher Draper; Knight, Ironmonger, and Lord Mayor of London, 1560. deceased, being 70. years of age. Lady Margaret his wife made this Monument for him.  
Sir William Webbe, Knight, Salter and Lord Mayor of London, 1591. deceased the fourth day of july, 1599 Lady Bennet his Wife, yet living, Daughter to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight performed this in her love to him.  
Sir Wolstane Dixie, Knight, Skinner and Lord Mayor of London, An. Dom. 1582. deceased, being 69. years of age. Lady Agnes his Wife, Daughter to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight, deceased in the 37. year of her age.  
Sir Henry Billingsley, Knight, Haberdasher, and Lord Mayor of London, 1596. yet living in An. 1602. Mistress Bridget his Wife, Daughter to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight, deceased in the 44. year of her age. Master Christopher Woodroffe, son to the said Mistress Bridget, deceased 37. years of age.  
Hoc Monumentum amoris ergo posuit Domina Benet Webbe superstes in memoriam sui coniugis dignissimi equitis Guilford Webbe, defuncti 4. julii, 1599 Vt etiam in observantiam officii erga parentes suos Dom. Christ. Draper, & Margaretam Vxorem eius, necnon caeteros tune sorores tum posteros praefixos.   
Underneath it is an ancient Marble Monument, and upon a plate are these words engraven: Here lieth buried james Bacon, late of London Alderman, who departed this mortal life, the 5. day of june, Anno Dom. 1573. Having issue by Mary 〈◊〉 first wife, one Son and three Daughters. And by Margaret his second wife, three sons, and one Daughter. And by Anne his third wife, no child, etc.  
On the North side of the Chancel is a fair Monument erected in the wall, bearing this inscription: johannes Hawkins, Eques Auratus, clariss. Regiae Marinarum causarum Thesaurarius. Qui cum XLIIII. annos muniis bellicis, & longis periculosisque navigationibus detegendis novis regionibus, ad Patriae utilitatem, & suam ipsius gloriam, strenuam & egregiam operam navasset, in expeditione, cui Generalis praefuit ad Indiam occidentalem dum in Auchoris ad portum S. joannis in insala Boriquena staret, Placidè in Domino ad Coelestem Patriam emigravit, 12. die Novembris, Anno salutis, 1595. In cujus memoriam ob virtutem, & resgestas, Domina Margareta Hawkins, Vxor moestissima, hoc monumentum cum lacrymis posuit.  
By the Tomb hangs a fair Table, fastened in the wall, with these Verses in English: 
Dame Margaret,  
a Widow well affected,  
This Monument  
of memory erected,  
Deciphering unto  
the viewers sight,  
The life and death  
of Sir john Hawkins, Knight,  
One fearing God,  
and loyal to his Queen,  
True to the State  
by trial ever seen,  
Kind to his Wives,  
both Gentlewomen borne,  
Whose counterfeits  
with grace this work adorn.  
Dame Katherine  
the first, of rare report,  
Dame Margaret  
the last, of Court consort,  
Attendant on  
the Chamber and the Bed  
Of England's Queen  
ELIZABETH, our head  
Next under Christ,  
of whom all Princes hold  
Their Sceptres, States,  
and Diadems of Gold:  
Free to their friends  
on either side his kin,  
Careful to keep  
the credit he was in:  
Unto the Seamen  
beneficial,  
As testifieth  
Chattams Hospital.  
The poor of Plymouth,  
and of Debtford Town,  
Have had, now have,  
and shall have many a crown;  
Proceeding from  
his liberality,  
By way of great  
and gracious Legacy.  
This Parish of  
Saint Dunstane standing East,  
(Wherein he dwelled  
full thirty years at least)  
Hath of the springs  
of his good will a part,  
Derived from  
the Fountain of his heart,  
All which bequests,  
with many more unsaid,  
Dame Margaret  
hath bountifully paid.  
Deep of conceit,  
in speaking grave and wise,  
Endighting swift,  
and pregnant to device;  
In conference  
revealing haughty skill,  
In all affairs  
having a Worthies will,  
On Sea and Land  
spending his course & time,  
By steps of years  
as he to age did climb.  
God hath his soul,  
the Sea his body keeps,  
Where (for a while)  
as jonas, now he sleeps;  
Till he which said  
To Lazarus, Comeforth;  
Awake this Knight,  
and give to him his worth.  
In Christian faith,  
and faithful penitence,  
In quickening hope,  
and constant patience,  
He running ran  
a faithful Pilgrim's race,  
God giving him  
the guiding of his grace.  
Ending his life  
with his experience,  
By deep decree  
of God's high providence,  
His years to six times  
ten and three amounting,  
The ninth, the seventh  
Climactericke by counting:  
Dame Katherine,  
his first religious Wife,  
Saw years thrice ten  
and two of mortal life:  
Leaving the world the sixth,  
the seventh ascending,  
Thus he and she,  
alike their compass ending,  
Asunder both  
by death of flesh alone,  
Together both insoule,  
two making one,  
Among the Saints above,  
from troubles free,  
Where two in one shall meet,  
and make up three.  
The Christian Knight  
and his good Ladies twain,  
Flesh, Soul and Spirit  
united once again;  
Beholding Christ,  
who comfortably saith,  
Come, mine Elect,  
receive the Crown of faith.  
Lenvoy.  
Give God, saith Christ,  
give Caesar lawful right,  
Owe no man, saith Saint Paul,  
ne mine, ne mite  
Save love, which made  
this chaste memorial,  
Subscribed with  
Truth's restimoniall.    
FINIS.   

Now, in regard that this Parish of S. Dunstane is the last (in our account) of Tower-street Ward, we are to speak of God's blessings there to the poor, which I find to be seven shillings three pence every Sunday through the year, given in ready money, beside bread and other gifts, according to the wills and dispositions of Sir Richard Champion, and Master Alderman Heardson, with Coals given beside at certain times. More, I find, that one man hath given yearly for ever, an whole Ox to be distributed by a quarter thereof quarterly, and a peck of Oatmeal there withal to the poor. But yet so discreetly ordered, that they that have the quarter of Beese and peck of Oatmeal at one quarter, must stay till other poor be so served, and that it comes to their turn again. Other charities there are which came in gifts of ready money, and are accordingly truly distributed.  
In the perambulation of this Parish, they go first so far North from the Church, as to the house next William Offington, and thence returning, walk down on the North side of Tower-street, so far as Mincheon-lane, and to the house of Master Dumbelowe, next to Clothworkers Hall, where they return again, and so go on to the sign of the Dolphin in Tower-street, being a Tavern. There they cross the way, and go down the West side only of Water-lane, and then walk along Thames-street, leaving the Custom house, passing on to Smarts-key; whence returning back into the Crosse-lane, so far as Sir Cuthbert Buckles house, now in the custody of Sir john Lemnian, Knight, and Lord Mayor of London, they go home to the place where they began. Here I was favoured by Master john Childerlay, Doctor of Divinity, my worthy good friend, and his diligent Officers.  
Now as concerning the two Church-lanes, they meeting on the South side of this Church and Church-yard, do join in one: and running down to the Thames-street, the same is called Saint Dunstan's Hill: at the lower end whereof the said Thames-street (toward the West, on both sides almost to Belins-gate but towards the East up to the Water-gate, by the Bulwark of the Tower) is all of Tower-street Ward. In this street on the Thames side, are diverse large landing places, called Wharffes, or Keys, for Cranage up of Wares and Merchandise, as also for shipping of Wares from thence to be transported.  
These Wharffes and Keys commonly bear the names of their owners, and are therefore changeable. I read, in the 26. of Henry the sixth, that in the Parish of Saint Dunstane in the East, a tenement called Passekes Wharf, 
Passekes Wharf, and Horners Key.  and another called Horners Key in Thames-street, were granted to William Harindon Esquire. I read also, that in the sixth of Richard the second, john Churchman Grocer, for the quiet of Merchants, did newly build a certain house upon the Key, called Wool-wharffe, 
Wool-wharffe by Customers Key.  in the Tower-street Ward, in the Parish of Alballewes Barking, betwixt the tenement of Paul Salisbury, on the East part, and the Lane called the Water-gate on the West, 
Water-gate by Wool Key.  to serve for Tronage, or weighing of Wools in the Port of London: 
Custom house.  Whereupon, the King granted, that during the life of the said john, 
Tronage of Wools.  the aforesaid Tronage should be held an kept in the said house, with easements there for the Balances and Weights, and a counting place for the Customer, Controwlers, Clerks and other Officers of the said Tronage, together with ingress and regress to and from the same, even as was had in other places, where the said Tronage was wont to be kept, and that the King should pay yearly to the said john (during his life) forty shillings, at the terms of S. Michael and Easter, by even portions by the hands of his Customer, 
Custom house.  without any other payment to the said john, as in the Indenture thereof more at large appeareth.  
near unto this Customers Key, towards the East, is the said Water-gate, and West from it, 
Porter's Key or Porter's lane.  Porter's Key: then Galley Key, 
Galley Key.  where the Galleys were used to unlade, and land their Merchandizes and wares: and that part of Thames street was therefore of some called Galley row, but more commonly, Petty-Wales. 
Petty-Wales.   
On the North side, as well as on the South of this Thames-street, are many fair houses, large for stowage, builded for Merchants, towards the East end thereof, namely, over against Galley Key, Wool Key, and the Customhouse. There have been of old time some large buildings of stone, the ruins whereof do yet remain, but the first builders and owners of them are worn out of memory: wherefore the common people affirm julius Caesar to be the builder thereof, as also of the Tower itself, but thereof I have spoken already. Some are of another opinion, and that a more likely, that this great stone building, was sometime the lodging appointed for the Princes of Wales, when they repaired to this City, and that therefore the street in that part is called Petty Wales, 
Princes of Wales their lodging.  which name remaineth there most commonly until this day: even as where the Kings of Scotland were used to be lodged betwxit Charing-cross, and Whitehall, it is likewise called Scotland: and where the Earls of Britain were lodged without Aldersgate, the street is called Britain street, etc.  
The said building might (of old time) pertain to the Princes of Wales, as is aforesaid, but is since turned to other use.  
It is before noted of Galley Key, that the Galleys of Italy, 
The Merchants of Italy their lodging by their Galleys.  and other parts, did there discharge their Wines and Merchandizes brought to this City. It is like therefore that the Merchants and Owners procured the place to build upon for their lodgings and storehouses, as the Merchants of Haunce of Almain were licenced to have an house, called Guilda Teutonicorum, the Guild-Hall of the Germans.  
Also the Merchants of Bordeaux were licenced to build at the Vintry, strongly with stone, as may yet be seen, and seemeth old, though often repaired: much more cause have these buildings in Petty Wales (though as lately builded, and part●y of the like stone brought from Cane in Normandy) to seem old, 
No Galleys landed here in memory of men living.  which for many years, to wit, since the Galleys left their course of landing there, hath fallen to ruin, and been let out for stabling of horses, to Tipplers of Beer, and such like. Amongst others, one Mother Mampudding (as they termed her) for many years kept this house, or a great part thereof, for victualling: and it seemeth, that the builders of the Hall of this house were Shipwrights, and not house-Carpenters: for the frame thereof (being but low) is raised of certain principal posts of main timber, 
A strange kind of building by the Shippewrights or Galley-men.  fixed deep in the ground, without any groundsel, boarded close round about on the inside, having none other wall from the ground to the roof: those boards not exceeding the length of a Clapboord, about an inch thick, every board ledging over other, as in a Ship or Galley nailed with Ship nails called rough, and clench, to wit, rough nails with broad round heads, and elenched on the other side with square plares of Iron. The roof of this Hall is also wrought of the like board, and nailed with rough and clench, and seemeth as it were a Galley, the Keel turned upwards: and I observed, that no worm or rottenness is seen to have entered into either board or timber of that Hall, and therefore, in mine opinion, of no great antiquity.  
I read in the 44. of Edward the third, 
An Hospital for lunatic or frenzy people.  that an Hospital in the Parish of Barking Church, was founded by Robert Denton Chaplain, for the sustentation of poor Priests, and other both men and women, that were sick of the Frenzy, there to remain till they were perfectly whole, and restored to good memory.  
Also I read, that in the sixth of Hen. 5. there was in the Tower ward, a Message or great house, called Cobham's Inn: 
Cobham's Inn.  and in the 37. of Henry the sixth, a Message in Thames street, pertaining to Richard Longvile, etc. Some of the ruins before spoken of, may seem to be of the foresaid Hospital, belonging peradventure to some Prior Alieu, and so suppressed amongst the rest, in the reign of Edward the third, or Henry the fifth, who suppressed them all.  
Thus much for the bounds and Antiquity of this Ward, wherein noted, first, the Tower of London, three Parish Churches, the Customhouse, and two Hals of Companies; to wit, the Clothworkers, and the Bakers.  
This Ward hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsellors eight, Constables thirteen, Scavenger's twelve, Ward-mote men thirteen, and a Beadle: it is taxed to the Fifteen at six and twenty pounds.   

EALDGATE WARD.  
THE second Ward within the Walls on the East part, 
Ealdgate ward.  is called Ealdgate Ward, as taking name of the same Gate. The principal street of this Ward beginneth at Ealdgate, stretching West to sometime a fair Well, where now a Pump is placed. From thence (the way being divided into twain) the first and principal street, (called Aldgate-street) runneth on the South side to Lime-street corner, and half that street down on the left hand, is also of that Ward.  
In the mid way on that South side, betwixt Ealdgate and Lime-street, is Hart-horne Alley, 
Hart-horne Alley.  a way that goeth thorough into Fen-Church street, over against Northumberland House. Then have ye Brick-layers Hall, 
Bricklayers Hall. Sprinkle Alley.  and another Alley, called Sprinkle Alley, now named Sugarloaf Alley, of the like sign.  
Then is there a fair house, with diverse Tenements near adjoining, sometime belonging to a late dissolved Priory, but since possessed by Misti is Cornewallies, widow, and her heirs, by the gift of King Henry the eighth, in reward of fire puddings (as it was commonly said) by her made, wherewith she had presented him: such was the Princely liberality of those times. Of later time, Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, Knight, was lodged there.  
Then somewhat more west is Belzetters lane, 
Belzetters Lane.  so called of the first builder and owner thereof; now corruptly called Billitar lane. Betwixt this Belzetters lane and Limestreet, was (of later time) a frame of three fair houses, set up in the year 1590. in place where before was a large Garden-plot, enclosed from the high street with a Brick wall, which wall being taken down, and the ground digged deep for Cellarage, there was found right under the said Brick wall, another wall of stone, 
Wall, gate and windows of stone 〈◊〉 under ground.  with a gate arched of stone, and gates of timber to be closed in the midst towards the street; The timber of the gates was consumed, but the hinges of iron still remained on their scaples on both the sides.  
Moreover, in that Wall were square windows, with bars of iron on either side the gate● this wall was under ground above two fathoms deep, as I then esteemed it, and seemeth to be the ruins of some house burned in the reign of King Stephen, when the fire began in the house of one Aleward, near London stone, and consumed East to Ealdgate; whereby it appeareth, how greatly the ground of this City hath been in that place raised.  
On the North side, this principal street stretcheth to the West corner of Saint Andrews Church, and then the Ward turneth towards the North, by S. Mary street, 
S. Marry street  on the East side, to S. Augustine's Church in the Wall, and so by Buries marks again, or about by the Wall to Ealdgate.  
The second way from Ealdgate, more towards the South, from the Pump aforesaid, is called Fen-Church street, and is of Ealdgate Ward, till ye come to Calver Alley, 
Culver Alley.  on the West side of Ironmongers Hall, where sometime was a lane, which went out of Fenchurch street to the midst of Limestreet: but this lane was stopped up, for suspicion of Thiefs that lurked there by night.  
Again, to Ealdgate, (out of the principal street, even by the gate, and wall of the City) runneth a lane South, to Crossed or Cro●●●ed Friars, and then Woodroofe lane, to the Tower-hill, and out of this Lane West, a street called Hartstreet, 
Hartstreet.  which of that ward stretcheth to Sydon-lane, by S. Olaves' Church. One other lane more West from Ealdgate, goeth by Northumberland House toward the Crossed Friars: then have ye on the same side, the North end of Mart lane, and Blanch-axleton or Chappelton, where that Ward endeth.  
Thus much for the bounds: Now for Monuments, or places most ancient and notable. I am first to begin with the late dissolved Priory of the holy Trinity, called Christs-church, on the right hand within Ealdgate. This Priory was founded by Matilda, Queen, wife to Henry the first, in the same place where Siredus sometime began to erect a Church, in honour of that Cross, and and of S. Mary Magdalen, of which the Dean and Chapter of Waltham were wont to receive thirty shillings. The Queen was to acquire her Church thereof, and in exchange gave unto them a Mill. King Henry her Husband confirmed her gift. This Church was given to Norman, 
Priory of the Trinity of Canons regular.  the first Canon regular in all England.  
The said Queen also gave unto the same Church, and those that served God therein, the plot of Ealdgate, and the Soak thereunto belonging, with all customs, so free as she had held the same, and 25. l. Blanks, which she had of the City of Excesser, as appeareth by her Deed, wherein she nameth the house of Christs-church, and reporteth Ealdgate to be of her Demains, which she granteth, with two parts of the rent of the City of Excest. Norman took on him to be Prior of Christs-church, in the year of Christ, 1108. in the Parishes of S. Mary Magdalen, S. Michael, S. Katherine, and the blessed Trinity, which now was made but one Parish of the holy Trinity, and was (in old time) of the holy Cross, or holy Rood parish.  
The Priory was builded on a piece of ground in the parish of Saint Katherine, towards Ealdgate, which lieth in length betwixt the King's street, by the which men go towards Ealdgate, near to the Chapel of Saint Michael towards the North, and containeth in length eighty thee else; half quarter, and half quartern of the King's Iron Eln, and lieth in breadth; etc. The Soak and Ward of Ealdgate was then bounded, as I have before shown: the Queen was a mean also, that the land and English Knighten Guild was given unto the Prior Norman, and the Honourable man Geffrey de Clinton was a great helper therein, and obtained, that the Canons might enclose the way betwixt their Church and the wall of the City, etc. This Priory in process of time became a very fair and large Church, rich in Lands and ornaments, and passed all the Priories in the City of London, or shire of Middlesex, 
Prior of Christs-Church an Alderman of London.  the Prior whereof was an Alderman of London, to wit, of Portsoken Ward.  
I read, that Eustacius, the eighth Prior, about the year 1264. because he would not deal with temporal matters, instituted Theobald Fitz juonis, Alderman of Portsoken Ward under him, and that William Rising, Prior of Christs-Church, was sworn Alderman of the said Portsoken Ward, in the first of Richard the second. These Priors have sitten and ridden amongst the Aldermen of London, in Livery like unto them, saving that his habit was in shape of a spiritual person, as I myself have seen in my childhood: at which time, the Prior kept a most bountiful house of meat and drink, both for rich and poor, aswell within the house, as at the gates, to all comers, according to their estates.  
These were the Monuments in this Church:  
Sir Robert Turk, and Dame Alice his wife.  
john Tirell, Esquire.  
Simon Kempe, Esquire.  
james Manthrope, Esquire.  
john Ascue, Esquire.  
Tho. Fauset of Salset, Esquire.  
john Kempe, Gentleman.  
Robert Chirwide, Esquire.  
Sir john Henningham, and Dame Isabel his wife.  
Dame Agnes, wife to Sir William Bardolph, and then to Sir Thomas Mortimer.  
john Ashfield, Esquire.  
Sir john Deddam, Knight.  
Sir Ambrose Charcam.  
joan, wife to Thomas Nucke, Gent.  
john Husse, Esquire.  
john Beringham, Esquire.  
Thomas Geodwine, Esquire.  
Ralph Walls, Esquire.  
Dame Margaret, daughter to Sir Ralph Cheny, wife to Sir john Barkley, to Sir Thomas Barnes, and to Sir W. Bursire.  
William Roose.  
Simon Frances.  
john Breton, Esquire.  
Helling, Esquire.  
john Malwen and his wife.  
Anthony Wells, son to john Wels.  
Nicholas de Avesey, and Margery his wife.  
Anthony, son to john Milles.  
Baldwine, son to King Stephen, and Matilda, daughter to King Stephen, wife to the Earl of Mellen.  
Henry Fitzalwine, Maior of London, 1213.  
Geffrey Mandevile, 1215. And many other.  
But to conclude of this Priory: King Henry the eighth, minding to reward Sir Thomas Audley, Speaker of the Parliament against Cardinal Woolsey, as ye may read in Hall, sent for the Prior, commending him for his hospitality, promised him preferment, as a man worthy of a far greater dignity; which promise surely he performed, and compounded with him, though in what sort I never heard, 
Priory of the holy Trinity surrendered and suppressed  so that the Priory, with the appurtenances, was surrendered to the King, in the month of july, in the year 1531. the 23. of the said King's reign. The Canons were sent to other houses of the same order, and the Priory, with the appurtenances, King Henry gave to Sir Thomas Audley, newly Knighted, and afterwards made Lord Chancellor.  
Sir Thomas Audley offered the great Church of this Priory, with a ring of nine Bells well tuned (whereof four the greatest were since sold to the Parish of Stebunhith, and the five lesser to the parish of S. Stephen in Coleman-street) to the parishioners of S. Katherine Christs-Church, in exchange for their small Parish Church, minding to have pulled it down, and to have builded there towards the street: But the parishioners, having doubts in their heads of after-claps, refused the offer.  
Then was the Priory Church and steeple proffered to whomsoever would take it down, and carry it from the ground; but no man would undertake the offer. Whereupon, Sir Thomas Audley was fain to be at more charges, than could be made of the stones, timber, lead, iron, etc. For the workmen, with great labour, beginning at the top, loosed stone from stone, and threw them down, whereby the most part of them were broken, and few remained whole, and those were sold very cheap: for all the buildings then made about the City, were of Brick and Timber. At that time, any man in the City, might have a Cartload of stone for paving, brought to his door for 6. d. or 7. d. with the carriage.  
The said Thomas Lord Audley builded and dwelled on this Priory during his life, and died there in the year 1544. since the which time, the said Priory came (by marriage of the Lord Audley's daughter and heir) unto Thomas, 
The Duke Place.  late Duke of Norfolk, and was then called the Duke's Place.  
At this time the Inhabitants, 
The inhabitants the Duke place 〈◊〉 themselves Parishionem of St. Katherine Cree 〈◊〉 by lacked a Church of their own.  dwelling and abiding in the said Duke's place, became utterly destitute of any Parish Church, for resorting to God's Divine Service, and the administration of the blessed Sacraments, which in the time of their former blind zeal, the demolished Priory not only seemed for their use, but infinite other thereto resorting. In which respect, the Parish Church of S. Katherine being so near, and standing in the Coemitery or Churchyard of the late dissolved Priory of the Holy Trinity, whereby it was called Saint Katherine Christ's Church: they resorted thither at the hours of Divine Service, and benefit of the blessed Sacraments; whereby (to speak rightly) they became a burden to the said Parish, yet well enough borne withal, in regard of the benefit ensuing by them. So that they carried the respect of equal Parishioners, exercising and accomplishing all duties there, even as if it had been their own proper Parish.  
The long continuance of them in this kind, 
The time of such continuance, did merely make a custom of it in opinion.  although some much misliked, and giadly would have compassed means for remedy thereof: yet their power not stretching so far, nor the way (as yet fitting for their purpose; they remained contented against their wills, till time would fit them with more convenient opportunity. Ground they wanted not, for raising a sufficient Parish Church to themselves, neither did any good will fail in them for the effecting their purpose: but only were kerbed by the lack of strength, how and which way to bring it about.  
At length, perceiving their ground (intended for so good a use to themselves) aimed at for buildings to private men's benefits, that so they might be frustrate of any such help, when occasion should in better manner shine on them: Some of the best advised among them, by petition solicited the Lord Archbishop of Canturbury, to make their desire and intention known to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 
The Archbishop moved King james in the justice of the suit.  which most graciously he did. And the King finding the case so truly honest and religious, for new erecting a Church where such necessity required, and where superstition had so long time formerly been harboured: not only gave the Lord Archbishop and the suitors both thanks and commendation; but also under his Hand and broad Seal, authorizable warrant for their proceeding. The Lord Maior and Senate of Aldermen having intelligence in the case, and perceiving what an honour would redound thereby, first to God, who inspired them thereto, next to the King for so Royally granting the suit, and then to the City for furthering it to effect: notwithstanding contrary opposition by them, who would have had them still continue, as formerly they were, without benefit of a parish Church of their own, it proceeded on with good and prosperous success, to the no mean honour and commendation of the Lord Maior then being, Sir Edward Barkham by name, 
The 〈◊〉, decayed ruins of 〈◊〉 Christ-Church in the Duke's place.  the Court of Aldermen, and state of this famous City, by whose good means it is made a very beautiful and ●●mely Parish Church, it being called in the time of re-edifying, Trinity Christ's Church, raised out of the long decayed ruins, of Trinity Priory in the Dukes-place.  
On a fair Table hanging in the Chancel, are these Verses depicted: 
Ac David could  
h●● eyes no rest afford,  
Till he had found  
a place out to the Lord,  
To build an Altar:  
So this man of worth,  
The mirror which  
these later days brings forth  
Barkham the Worthy,  
whose immortal name,  
Marble's too weak to hold,  
for this works fame.  
He never ceased  
in industry and care,  
From ruins to  
redeem this House of Prayer;  
Following in this  
the holy Patriaks ways,  
That ready were  
him Altars still to raise,  
Where they received a blessing:  
So this Lord,  
Scarce warm in Honour's seat,  
did first accord  
To this most pious work,  
in which is shown,  
God's blessing, and his thanks  
met both in one.  
The charge  
the honourable City bears,  
Whose bounty  
in full Nobleness appears  
To acts of best condition,  
in such wise,  
That all things, bettering  
by their ruin, rise.  
Two noble faithful  
Supervisors then,  
Amongst a Senate  
of religious men,  
Selected wear,  
to whom the care they gave,  
Generous Hamersley,  
and Cambell the grave,  
Each being a masterpiece  
of zeal and care  
Towards Gods own Temple,  
fit for truth's affair.  
Now at the blessed Foundress  
I arrive,  
Matilda, whom  
Henry the first did wive,  
The Christendom she gave it  
held the same,  
Till James our Sovereign  
gave it his own name.  
And since I touch  
Antiquity so near,  
Observe what notes  
remarkable appear: 
Norman, the first Prior, was made an Alderman of London, and road with them on solemn days, but in an Ecclesiastical habit.   
An Alderman of London  
was at first  
Prime Prior of this Church.  
Falling to worst,  
It is now raised  
by encouragement and care  
Of a Lord Mayor of London,  
which is rare,  
And worth observing.  
Then, as I began,  
I end best with  
the honour of the man.  
This Cities first Lord Maior  
lies buried here,  
Fitz-Alwine, 
This is mistaken by Mr. Stowe.   
of the Draper's Company,  
And the Lord Maior,  
whose fame now shines so clear,  
Barkham,  
is of the same Society.   
By this time the work is grown to such fullness and perfection, as now nothing wanteth but the windows glazing, which was performed in this manner:  
The main and great East light in the Chancel, 
The windows glazed, and by whom.  Sir Edward Barkham himself undertook, and effected it at his own charge, as expressionitestifieth in the same window. The other sideling by it, but inclining more Southerly, the two Worshipful Gentlemen, Master George Whitmore, 
These two Gentlemen were Sheriffs then  and Master Nicholas Ranton, worthily performed. And the third, standing Northerly in the same Chancel; Mr. Walter Leigh, who had been a Sergeant at Arms to the King's Majesty, and now Sword-bearer of London, did likewise at his own charge perform. The two Western lights in the bottom of the Church, being (indeed) very fair lights; the honourable Company of Drapers effected the one, and the Woodmongers worshipful Society finished the other. Beside, the two Southerly windows, the one done at the charge of Master Cornelius Fish, Chamberlain of London, and the other by Mr. Waldron, then Marshal. So now ye have the Church of Saint james complete.  
Only there is a fair Monument in the East end of the Chancel, 
An artificial Sun, and the ingenious forming of it.  made in resemblance of a golden Sun, with beams and rays very ingeniously form, charactering these Verses in and among them: 
The rising here  
of the clear Gospel's Sun,  
Is through the Senate's  
free donation.  
The Globe of that bright Sun,  
the God of might,  
Christ jesus is the rising  
and the light.  
The heat the blessed Spirit  
of Truth and Right:  
And as these three,  
the Globe, the light, the heat,  
Are all one Sun,  
so Three One God complete:  
Thrice Allelujah  
speaks about the rays,  
That Three in One  
may only have the praise.   
This Temple received Consecration the morrow after Newyears day, in the year 1622.  
The Right Honourable, Sir Peter Proby being then Lord Maior; and the Right Worshipful, Mr. john Hodges, and Sir Humphrey Hanford, Knight, Sheriffs, and Aldermen.  
The names of all the rest of the Honourable Senators, all worthy Patrons of this pious work, and then present at the consecration: 
Sir john Garrard.  
Sir Thomas Bennet.  
Sir Thomas Lowe.  
Sir Thomas Middleton.  
Sir john Leman.  
Sir William Cokayne.  
Mr. Martin Lumley.  
Mr. William Goare.  
Mr. john Goare.  
Mr. Allen Cotton.  
Mr. Cuthbert Hacket.  
Mr. William Holliday.  
Mr. Robert johnson.  
Mr. Richard Hearne.  
Mr. Richard Deane.  
Mr. Robert Ducie.  
Aldermen.   
This Sacred Structure,  
which this Senate fames,  
Our King hath styled,  
The Temple of S. James.  
Nor could I have said so much of this new Church, but only by the firendly help and assistance of my honest well-willer, George Cooper, Clerk there, who under his own hand delivered the same to me.  
The Parish Church of S. Katherine standeth in the Coemetorie of the late dissolved Priory of the holy Trinity, 
Parish Church of S. Katharin Christs-Church, commonly called Cree-church  and is therefore called S. Katherine Christs-Church. This Church seemeth to be very old; since the building whereof, the high street hath been so often raised by payements, that now men are fain to descend into the said Church by diverse steps, seven in number. But the Steeple or Bell-tower thereof hath been lately builded; to wit, about the year 1504 For Sir john percival, Merchant-taylor, than deceasing, gave money towards the building thereof.  
Now concerning this Parish Church of Saint Katherine Christ's Church, 
The new building of S. Katharin Cree-Church.  commonly Cree-Church, as formerly hath been said, it had a descent down into it by seven steps or stairs. But being now newly built, and made a very fair Church indeed: the ascenting into the Church is by four or five degrees. Very gladly would I have delivered further satisfaction concerning the new structure thereof: but I was answered, they would admit no meddling therewith, until they had new built the Sreeple, and other necessary occasions thereto belonging.  
The Monuments formerly mentioned in my last Edition of this Book, I find (by their report) to remain their still, with the Tomb of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, and the rest there named; but I find no newer, to be spoken of.  
There be Monuments of Sir Thomas Fleming, Knight, of Rolls in Essex, and Margaret his wife, 1464.  
Roger Martial, Esquire.  
Lane Horn, wife to Roger Martial.  
Wil Multon alias Bordeaux, Herald.  
john Goad, Esquire, and joan his wife.  
Beatrix, daughter to William Browne.  
Thomas Malton, Esquire, son to Bordeaux, Herald.  
john Chitcroft, Esquire.  
john Wakefield, Esquire.  
William Criswicke.  
Anne, and Sewch, daughters to Ralph Shirley, Esquire.  
Sir john Rainsford, Knight, of Essex.  
Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, chief Butler of England, one of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, Ambassador, etc. 1570. who hath a fair Alabaster Tomb, in the South side of the Chancel. His figure lieth therein in Armour, with this description engraven by it: 
Here lieth the body of Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, 
In the South side of the Chancel.  Knight, the fourth son of Sir George Throlemorton, Knight. The which Sir Nicholas was chief Butler of England, one of the Chambelaines of the Exchequer, and Ambassador Lieger to the Queen's Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, in France. And after his return into England, he was sent Ambassador again into France, and twice into Scotland. He married Anne Carew, daughter to Sir Nicholas Carew, Knight, and begat of her ten sons and three daughters. He died the 12. day of February, Anno Dom. 1570. aged 57 years.  
Here lieth the buried the body of Frances Croke, 
A fair Tomb in the midst of the Chancel.  the loved and beloved wife of Paulus Ambrose Croke, of the inner Temple, Esquire. She was one of the daughters and heirs of Francis Wellesborne, Esquire, of Hanny in the County of Berk, who deceased the 10. day of july, Anno Domini, 1605. aged 22. years.   
Well borne she was,  
but better borne again.  
Her first birth  
to the flesh did make her debtor,  
The latter, in the Spirit  
(by Christ) hath set her.  
Freed from Flesh's debts,  
Death's first and latter gain.  
Wives pay no debts,  
whose Husbands live and reign.  Here lieth the body of Master john Smith, Esquire, Citizen and Mercer of London, who had two wives, the first named Anne, 
A fair stone plated in the North I'll of the Quare.  the daughter of Fulke Mullert, in the County of Surrey, Esquire, which brought him one daughter, named Mary. His other wife was Mary, daughter to Sir james Hawes, Knight, and Lord Mayor of London, by whom he had no issue. He deceased the 24. day of December, Anno Domini, 1594. Aetatis suae, 63. 
God's blessings to the poor of this Parish, by the gifts of Christian Benefactors.  
Mr. William Gilborne, Draper, by his last Will and Testament, gave four Marks yearly for ever, to be bestowed in one dozen of bread, and to be distributed on every Sabbath day to the poor of the said Parish: which said sum is yearly paid out of the rent of his late dwelling house in the said Parish. Also he gave twenty pounds more, towards the building of a Gallery in the said Church.  
Mr. john Smith, Mercer, in like manner, gave three pounds yearly for ever, out of his late dwelling house in the said Parish, to be paid by the Churchwardens for the time being, to and amongst the poor of the said Parish, at every Christmas yearly.  
Mr. George Lee, Sadler, gave twenty shillings yearly for ever to the poor, out of his rent in the said Parish.  
Mistress Dane, Widow, gave eight shillings yearly for ever to the poor, paid by the Ironmongers to M. deputy in a greater sum.  
Mistress Alice Bateman, appointed and gave in her life time, the sum of 42. pounds, 6. shillings, to the said Parish, the profits thereof to be distributed yearly to the poor for ever.  
Mr. john Bedow, Gentleman, gave ten pounds, to be distributed in bread yearly to the poor.  
Mr. George Hothersall, Merchant-taylor, gave four and twenty shillings yearly for ever out of his Land, to the poor of this Parish.  
Mr. john Waddis, Cook, borne in this Parish, gave to the poor thereof three pounds, to be distributed among them in bread yearly for ever.  
Stephen Roberts, Cook, gave also four and forty shillings yearly for ever, to be distributed in bread.  
The bounds and limits of this Parish are in this manner: From the Church into the Churchyard, to the corner westward, where turning East, they cross the Churchyard thorough a great house, where sometime dwelled one Master Wilford, but bought since by Sir Henry Billingsley, and converted into diverse tenements. So on into the street to the Pump, and westward on to the sign of the Rose, sometime the dwelling house of one Thomas Shepheard. There crossing the street to the Smith's house, his name john Tatum, next to the sign of the Moorfields Tavern: thence they go back East to the Pump, turning at the corner West, to Hartshorn Alley to the midst, to Homes his house and over against him, so back to Billeter-lane, to the house of john Lemote, crossing the street there, to the house of Peter Rutt, Taylor. And so back to the end of Billeter-lane, turning west to a Brick house, sometime in the custody of Master Leese, but possessed now by Widow Dewen. There crossing the street to the house next Master Leaning, they go East to the Church lane, and then North, through a lane between Heneadge house and the Duke's Place, to Buries marks. Then West by Heneadge house, to the wall of Sir james Lancaster's house, sometime belonging to Sir Francis Walsingham: where they go back, and cross the way to London wall to the compassed place, where stands the City's Arms. Thence forward by the wall to the outer part of Ealdgate, and so South towards the Croched Friars, to the house of Master Peers, where a piece of an Iron Gun stands fixed in the ground.  
Then back, crossing the street to the house of Mistress Smith, going forward to the Bell Tavern, and so up to the sign of the Rose, ending where Thomas Shepheard did dwell. My help here was by Master Stephen Denison, Minister, but more especially, by john Beard, Clarke.  
At the North-West corner of this Ward in the said high street, standeth the fair and beautiful Parish Church of S. Andrew the Apostle, with an addition, to be known from other Churches of that name, 
Parish Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft.  of the Knape or Vndershaft, and so called S. Andrew Vndershaft, because that of old time, every year (on May-day in the morning) it was used, 
A shaft or Maypole higher than the Church Steeple.  that an high or long shaft, or Maypole, was set up there, in the midst of the street, before the South door of the said Church, which shaft when it was set on end, and fixed in the ground, was higher than the Church Steeple. Geffrey Chawcer, writing of a vain boaster, hath these words, meaning of the said shaft.  
Right well aloft,  
and high ye bear your head, 
Chawcer chance of dice.   
The Weathercock with flying,  
as ye would kill,  
When ye be stuffed,  
bet of wine, than bread,  
Then look ye,  
when your womb doth fill,  
As ye would bear.  
the great shaft of Cornhill.  
Lord so merrily  
crowdeth then your croak,  
That all the street  
may hear your body cloak.  
This shaft was not raised at any time since evil May day (so called of an insurrection made by Prentices, 
As hath been at large before declared.  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 row 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 amny years, till the third of King Edward the sixth, that one Sir Stephen, 
Shaft or Maypole preached against at Paul's Cross.  Curate of Saint Katherine Christ's Church, preaching at Paul's Cross, said there, that this shaft was made an Idol, by naming the Church of Saint Andrew, with the addition of under that shaft: he persuaded therefore, that the names of Churches might be altered: Also, that the names of days in the week might be changed, the fish days to be kept any days, except Friday and Saturday, and the Lent any time, save only betwixt Shrovetide and Easter. I have ofttimes seen this man, forsaking the Pulpit of his said Parish Church, preach out of an high Elm tree in the midst of the Churchyard, 
The said Elm tree his preaching place is lately taken down.  and then entering the Church, forsaking the Altar, to have sung his high Mass in English, upon a Tomb of the dead towards the North. I heard his Sermon at Paul's Cross, and I saw the effect that followed: for in the afternoon of that present Sunday, the neighbours, and Tenants to the said bridge, over whose doors the said Shaft had lain, after they had dined, to make themselves strong, 
Shaft or Maypole saved in pieces and burnt.  gathered more help, and with great labour 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 laid 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 this Idol (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, straight orders being taken for the suppression of rumours, diverse persons were apprehended, and executed by Marshal Law; amongst the which, the Bailiff of Rumford in Essex was one, 
Bailiff of Rumford executed within Ealdgate for words spoken to the priest of the parish.  a man very well beloved: he was early in the Morning of Mary magdalen's day (then kept holiday) brought by the Sheriffs of London, and the Knight Martial, to the Well within Ealdgate, there to be executed upon a Gibbet set up that morning, where being on the Ladder, he had words to this effect;  
Good 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 news in the Country? I answered, heavy news. 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 judge, etc. Upon these words of the Prisoner, Sir Stephen to avoid reproach of the people, left the City, and was never heard of sinceamongst them to my knowledge. I heard the words of the prisoner for he was executed upon the pavement of my door, where I than kept house.  
Thus much by digression: 
Parish Church of Saint Andrew Vndershaft new builded.  now again to the parish Church of Saint Andrew Vndershaft, for it still retaineth the name, which hath been new builded by the Parishioners there, since the year 1520. every man putting to his helping hand, some with their purses, other, with their bodies. Stephen jennings Marchant-Taylor, sometime Mayor of London, caused (at his charges) to be builded the whole North side of the great middle I'll, both of the body and Choir, as appeareth by his Arms over every pillar graven, and also the North I'll, which he roofed with timber and seeled: also the whole South side of the Church was glazed, and the pews in the South Chapel made of his costs, as appeareth in every Window, and upon the said pews. He deceased in the year 1524. and was buried in the Grey Friar's Church. john Kirby Marchant-Taylor, sometime one of the Sheriffs, john Garland, Merchant 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.  
Buried in this Church, Philip Malpas, one of the Sheriffs, 1439.  
Sir Robert Dennie, Knight, and after him Thomas Dennie his son, in the year, 1421.  
Thomas Stokes, Gentleman, Grocer, 1496.  
In the New Church, john Nichell, Merchant-Taylor, 1537.  
William Draper, Esquire, 1537. Isabel and Margaret his wives.  
Nicholas Levison, Mercer, one of the Sheriffs, 1534.  
john Gerrard, Woolman, Merchant of the Staple, 1546.  
Stepten Kyrton, Merchant-Taylor, Alderman, 1553.  
David Woodroffe, Haberdasher, one of the Sheriffs, 1554.  
Stephen Woodroffe his son, gave 100 l. in money, for the which, the poor of that Parish receive two shillings in bread weekly for ever.  
Sir Thomas Offley, Merchant-Taylor, Mayor, 1556. he bequeathed the one half of all his goods to charitable actions, but the Parish received little benefit thereby. 
Stephen Woodroffe the best Benefactor to the poor in that Parish.   
Thomas Starkey, Skinner, one of the Sheriffs, 1578.  
Hugh Offley, Letherseller, one of the Sheriffs, 1588.  
William Hanbury, Baker.  
These other Monuments I find there beside: 
Nicholai de Nate, 
On a fair plated Stone in the Chancel.  Rag●sini caro hoc in tumulo repulverescit, spiritus ad Celum reversus reassumptionem carnis expectat. Obiit die 1. januar. 1566. A nativitate vixit, An. 50. Mens. 7. dies 29. Augustinus amantissimo fratri moerens ponere curavit.  
Henry Man, 
Before the door within the Chancel.  Doctor of Divinity in the University of Oxenford, and sometime Bishop of Man. Which Henry departed this life the 19 day of October, An. Do. 1556. and lieth buried under this stone.  
Memoriae Sacrum.  
Resurrectionem in Christo hic expectat joannes Stowe, 
At the upper end of the North I'll in the Quire.  Civis Londinensis: Qui in antiquis Monumentis eruendis accuratissima diligentia usus, Angliae annal, &, Civitatis Londini synopsim bene de sua, bene de postera aetate meritus luculente s●ripsit, vitaeque study pie & probe decurso. Obiit Aetatis Anno 80. die 5. Aprilis, 1605.  
Elizabetha Coniux, ut perpetuum sui amoris testimonium dolens.  
near to this place, 
A fair guilded plate in the wall.  lieth buried the body of Simon Burton, Citizen & Wax-Chandler of London, a good Benefactor to the poor of this Parish. Who was three times Master of his Company, and one of the Governors of Saint Thomas Hospital and of the Common Council of this Ward 29. years. He had two Wives, Elizabeth and Anne, and had issue by Elizabeth one son and four daughters. He deceased the 23. day of May, Anno Dom. 1593. being aged 85. years: In whose remembrance, his loving Daughter Alice Coldocke erected this Monument.  
near unto this Monument, lieth Alice Bing in a Vault with her Father, Simon Burton: 
In the wall close by the other.  she had three husbands, all Bachelors and Stationers. Her first was Richard Waterson, by him she had a Son. Next him was Francis Coldock, by birth a Gentleman, he bore all the Offices in his Company, and had issue two daughters, joan and Anne, with whom she lived 40. years. Lastly, Isaac Bing, Gent. who died Master of his Company. She died the 21. day of May Anno Dom. 1616. Aged 73. years, 5. Months, and 25. days.  
near unto this Monument, lieth buried the body of Dorothy Greswolde, 
A handsome small Monument in the wall, South in the Quire.  the only Daughter of Roger Greswolde, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London: which Roger was the third Son of Richard Greswolde, of Solyhull, in the County of Warwick, Esquire. She was first married to john Weld, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who was the second Son of john Weld of Eton, in the County of Chester, Gent. By whom she had four Children, viz. john, Elizabeth, joan and Dorothy. After his decease, she married Hugh Offley, Citizen and Alderman of London, and by him had only one Daughter, named Susanna. After his death she lived a Widow sixteen years, and being of the age of 60. years, died in the true faith of Christ, and hope of eternal happiness, the 29. of june, 1610.  
Here before this place, lieth buried the body of Margery, 
In the I'll beneath the Choir and on the same side, a comely Monument in the wall.  late the Wife of Humphrey Turner, Gent. who deceased the 10. day of December, 1607. being of the age of 56. years. As also the body of her first husband, Master Isaac Sutton, late Citizen and Goldsmith of London: who deceased the 2. day of May, 1589. By which Husband she had issue, 6. Sons and 6. Daughters. All deceasing at the time of her death, only joan excepted, daughter and heir of the said Isaac, married unto William Howpill, Gent.  
Tempus & Patientia.   
Death hath added to the ornaments of this place, the blessed memorial of 
Edward Warner Esquire a worthy Citizen and Merchant of London, who departed this mortal life the 28. day of October, 1628. he was the second Son of Francis Warner, of Parham in the County of Suffolk Esquire, by Mary his second wife, Daughter and Coheir of Sir Edmund Rouse of the said County, Knight. Which Francis Warner was truly and lineally descended from the ancient and generous Family of the Warners, who possessed a place of their own name at Warners Hall in great Waltham in the County of Essex.  
He died without issue, and made Francis Warner of Parham aforesaid Esquire, his Nephew and next heir in blood, the Executor of his Will, and principal heir to his estate, who out of duty and affection to the memory of his dear Uncle, hath dedicated this Monument.  
He had to his first wife Mary, 
In the lower part of the Monument.  daughter of Master Aylmer of Risden in Hartfordshire; And to his second, Margaret, daughter of Master john Cheynie.   
At entrance into the Choir, and before the Pulpit: Here lieth buried joan Cartwright, 
A fair Grave-stone, with the persons of him and her engraven in brass.  the Wife of Abraham Cartwright, Citizen and Draper of London; who had issue by him four Sons and five daughters. And died the 24. of November, An. Dom. 1609.  
God's blessings by Christian Benefactors, to the poor of this Parish.  
Master Stephen Woodroffe, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, by his last will and testament, bearing date the 20. of April, 1576. gave one hundred pound in money, to the use of the poor of this Parish: with which sum, and 20. l. 12. s. 4. d. more laid out by the said Parish, they purchased a house, called by the name of the White Horse in Holy-well street, in the Parish of S. Leonard in Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex. Out of which, is and hath been given to the poor of the said Parish, every Sabbath since his death, 2. s. in bread, and so shall continue for ever, 5. l. 4. s. per annum.  
Master Simon Burton, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, by his deed indented, dated the 14. of january, 1579. hath appointed 32. s. to be given yearly for ever to eight poor Widows, or poor householders of the said parish: to be issuing out of all that Message or Tenement, set and being in the said parish, late in the tenure or occupation of Peter Hewes, and Edward Hide: to be paid to the Churchwardens of the said parish, for the use of the poor aforesaid, every quarter 8. s. or within 40. days after every quarter for ever quarterly, to every of the said 8. persons, 12. d. a piece.  
Also, he gave unto S. Thomas Hospital, two Closes of Land or Meadow ground, lying in the parish of Shoreditch, upon condition, that the Governors of the said Hospital, or their Assigns, shall give unto 30. poor persons of the said parish (whereof the Minister, Clark and Sexton to be three of them) on the 21. 22. or 23. days of December, yearly for ever, the sum of 26. s. whereof 20. s. to be paid amongst the 30. poor, by 8. d. apiece, and the other 6. s. for a Sermon yearly to be made for ever in Lent.  
Master Hugh Offley Citizen and Alderman of London, by his last will and testament, dated the 2. day of October, 1594. and by an Indenture of the same date, explaining his mind; gave to the Parson and Churchwardens of the said parish, and their successors for ever, an Annuity or rend charge of 4. l. to be issuing out of his Messages or tenements in Limestreet, London, and within the said parish: then or lately in the several tenors of Thomas Offley his son, john Norman, james Boomer, Susanna Garret, Widow, Thomas Blomefield, and Widow Allison, or their assigns: To be paid yearly at the Feast of the Birth of our Lord God, and the Nativity of S. john Baptist, or within 14. days next ensuing either the said Feasts, by even portions, with a distress for non payment thereof▪ to the end & intent, that on the first Sunday in every month, monthly for ever, there shall be given to 12. of the poorest persons inhabiting in the said parish, to be named and appointed by the Parson and Churchwardens, for the time being, receiving the Communion in the said Church, if any be there celebrated, each of them 3. d. apiece in money and a penny loaf of bread. And to the Clerk monthly 4. d. in money, and to the Sexton 3. d. in money, and one penny loaf, being the advantage of the 12. d.  
Also, he gave 5. s. a year, for ever yearly, to be paid to such Parson or Curate, as shall monthly minister the Communion to the said poor people: and to a learned Preacher for four several Sermons, to be made in the said parish Church at four several days yearly for ever, five shillings for every Sermon.  
Master William Hanbury, Citizen and White-baker of London, by a surrender, bearing date the 11. day of August, 1595. did give unto his daughter, Mistress Elizabeth Spearing, wife of Master George Spearing Merchant, certain copyhold land, lying and being in Stebunheath and Radcliffe, in the County of Middlesex. Upon condition, that she, her heirs or assigns, shall pay to the Parson and Churchwardens of the said parish, for the use of the poor people there, 52. s. yearly for ever, at the Birth of our Lord God and the Purification of our Lady the Virgin: which (by consent of the parish) is bestowed among the poor abroad, on Wednesday weekly 12. d.  
Mistress Alice Hanbury, widow, by her last will and testament, dated the 3. day of December, 1595. did give unto the said Master George Spearing, one tenement in the said parish, wherein William Bridges a Tailor then dwelled: upon condition, that the said George, his heirs or assigns, shall pay to the Churchwardens of the said parish, and their successors, to the use of the poor and impotent people there, 13. s. 4. d. yearly for ever, at the Feasts of the Annunciation of our Lady, and Saint Michael the Archangel, by even portions: Or else to assure to the said parish, the like value in some other place: which sum (by consent of the parish) is given in coals amongst the poor yearly for ever at Christmas.  
Mr. Ralph Carter, Citizen and Salter of London, by his Deed indented, dated the 22. day of October, 1576. hath given to diverse Feoffees, between the Parishes of All-hallows in Lumbard-street, and Saint Andrews Vndershaft, after the decease of Alice his wife, one Message, with a Garden, called the Halfmoon in Eastsmithfield, in the parish of Saint Buttolph's without Ealdgate, to the end that there should be distributed to the poor in either Parish, in bread every Sunday weekly for ever, twelve pence, and thirty shillings in Coals to either parish, between Midsummer and Christmas for ever.  
Mistress Margaret Moor, widow, late wife of William Moor, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, by her deed indented, dated the tenth day of May, 1583. hath given to diverse Feoffees of the said parish, one message, which she had by the gift of her said husband, and situate in the same parish, now in the occupation of Thomas Fitall; to the end that there should be distributed to the poor there yearly for ever, 20. shillings, at the discretion of the Parson and Churchwardens: And to a Preacher to make four Sermons quarterly, every year for ever 20. shillings.  
Dame Mary Ramsey, late wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey, Knight, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, by her Testament and last Will, dated the 19 of Jan. 1596. gave to the L. Maior, Communality and Citizens of London, one message or tenement, situated in the Parish of Saint Peter the poor, in Broadstreet Ward, London, then or late in the occupation of Richard Hull, Citizen and Draper; to the end that they should yearly (after her decease) pay to the Parson and Churchwardens of this Parish, forty shillings, to be distributed among the poor of the said Parish, at the discretion of the Parson and the Churchwardens then being, and by direction and allowance of two of the chiefest Parishioners: And to the like use for ever, twenty shillings more yearly for ever, after decease of one Elizabeth Worley, in the County of Northhampton, to be paid and distributed in the like manner.  
Mr. john Hide, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, by his last Will and Testament, dated the 8. day of September, 1604. did give unto the Parson and Churchwardens of the said Parish and their successors, a yearly rent of Coals, to be issuing out of all his Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in the Precinct of the Minories without Ealdgate, London, to be paid yearly at the ●east of the Nativity of S. john Baptist for ever, or within 30 days next ensuing with distress for nonpayment thereof: To the intent that there should be bestowed yearly in old cleft Charcoles, 30. shillings thereof, and one other 12. d. yearly given to some trusty body, to see the due measuring thereof: And the same coal to be delivered to the poor of the same Parish, always two days before S. Michael the Archangel yearly, by advice of the Parson and Churchwardens for the time being, and 3. or 4. Ancients of the said parish.  
Mr. Edmond Hill, Citizen and Draper of London, by his testament and last will, dated the 5. day of August, 1609. did give and bequeath to the Churchwardens and parishioners of this parish the sum of 52. pounds, to be employed by the parishioners, as in a stock for ever, and the benefit thereby arising, to be given weekly to the poor in bread.  
Master Laurence Overton, Citizen and Mercer of London, by his testament and last will, dated the 3. day of Sept. 1612. did give and bequeath to the poor of the said parish (whereof then he was a parishioner) the sum of 20. pounds, to be distributed at the discretion of the Churchwardens for the time being, and his Executors.  
Their bounds and limits are thus: First they go East, so far as the house of one Allen Barker, Grocer, over against Billeter lane end, and so North all the side of the high street, to Mr. Francis Philip's house, over against the Kings-head Tavern, West. There, on the South side of the high street, beginning at the Italian Ordinary of jeronymo di Soldi, they turn East to one Thomas George's, two houses beyond the Pewter Pot. Then they turn back into Limestreet, South, on both sides the way, so far as the house of Nicholas Hobland, Merchant stranger, on the one side, and William Ruddock, Tailor, on the other. Returning back, they cross the way into S. Mary Axe, all the West side throughout the whole street, with some certain houses over against London wall towards Bishopsgate, the last whereof is the dwelling house of Griffin Martin, Trumpeter. So turning back into S. Mary Axe, they go upon the East side, from the house of Master john Holding, commonly called Fletcher's hall, and so on to Master George Sares, adjoining to the Church, and there end. Master Henry Mason is Parson there, but my friendly furtherance was by Thomas johnson the Clerk.  
Now down St. Marry street, by the West end of the Church towards the North, 
S. Marry street.  stand diverse fair houses for Merchants, and other: namely, one fair great house builded by Sir William Pickering the father, possessed by Sir William his Son, 
Pickering house.  and since by Sir Edward Wootton of Kent. North from this place is the Fletcher's hall, 
Fletcher's Hall.  and so down to the corner of that street over against London wall; and again Eastwards to a fair house lately new builded, partly by Mr. Robert Beale, one of the Clerks of the Council.  
Then come you to the Papey, 
Papey a brother hood or Hospital for poor Priests.  a proper house, wherein sometime was kept a Fraternity or brotherhood of S. Charity, and Saint john Evangelist, called the Papey, or poor impotent Priests, (for in some language, Priests are called Papes) founded in the year, 1430. by William Oliver, William Barnaby and john Stafford Chaplens, or Chantry Priests in London, for a Master, two Wardens, etc. Chaplains, Chantry Priests, Conducts, and other brethren and sisters, that should be admitted into the Church of Saint Augustine Papey in the wall. The brethren of this house becoming lame, or otherwise into great poverty, were here relieved, as to have Chambers, with certain allowance of bread, drink, and coal, and one old man and his wife to see them served and to keep the house clean. This brotherhood (amongst others) was suppressed in the reign of Edward the sixth, since the which time, in this house hath been lodged Master Morris of Essex, Sir Francis Wal●ingham, principal Secretary to her Majesty, Master Barret of Essex, etc.  
Then next is one great house, large of rooms, fair courts and garden plots, sometime pertaining to the Basset's, since that, 
The Abbot of Bury his Inn.  to the Abbots of Bury in Suffolk, and therefore called Buries marks, corruptly, 
Bevis marks.  Bevis marks, and since the dissolution of the Abbey of Bury, to Thomas Heneage the father, and to Sir Thomas his son. Then next unto it, is the before spoken Priory of the holy Trinity, to wit, the West and North part thereof, which stretcheth up to Ealdgate, where we first begun.  
Now in the second way from Ealdgate, more toward the South, from the Well or Pump aforesaid, 
Fen Church street.  lieth Fenne-Church street, on the right hand whereof, somewhat west from the South end of Belzetters lane, 
Ironmongers hall.  is the Ironmongers hall: which company was incorporated in the third of Edward the fourth: Richard Fleming was their first Master, Nicholas Martial and Richard Cox were Custos 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 Woodroffe lane, 
Woodroffe lane by the wall of the Tower hil●.  and out of this lane toward the West, a street called Hartstreet. In this street, at the Southeast corner thereof, 
Crossed F●●ers Church.  sometime stood one house of Crouched or (Crossed) Friars founded by Ralph Hosier; and William Sabernes, about the year, 1298. Stephen the 10. 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 Sabernes, who afterwards became Friars of S. Cross: Adam was the first Prior of that house. These Friars founded their house in the place of certain tenements, purchased of Richard Wimblush, the 12. Prior of the Holy Trinity, in the year, 1319. which was confirmed by Edward the third, the seventeenth of his reign, valued at 52. l. 13. s. 4. d. surrendered the 12. of November, the 30. of Henry the eighth.  
In this house was buried Master john Tirres.  
Nicholas the son of William Kyriell, Esquire.  
Sir Thomas Mellington, Baron of Wemese, and Dame Elizabeth his Wife, daughter of Wil Botear, Baron of Wome.  
R●. Mellington, Esquire, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter to Ferreis of Ousley.  
Henry lovel, son to Wil Lord Lovel.  
Dame Isabel, wife to William Edward's, Maior of London, 1471.  
Wil Norborow, and Elizabeth his wife.  
Wil Norborow, and Beatrix his wife.  
William Brosked, Esquire.  
William Bowes.  
Lionel Mollington, Esquire, son of Robert Mollington.  
Nicholas Couderow, and Elizabeth his wife.  
Sir john Stratford, Knight.  
Sir Tho. Asseldey, Knight, Clerk of the Crown, Submarshall of England, and Justice of the Shire of Middlesex.  
john Rest, Grocer, Mayor of Lond. 1516.  
Sir john Skevington, Knight, Merchant-taylor, Sheriff, 1520.  
Sir john Milborne, Draper, Maior in the year 1521. was buried there, but removed since to S. Edmond in Lombard street.  
Sir Rice Griffith, beheaded on the Tower hill, 1531.  
In place of this Church is now a Carpenter's yard, a Tennis-court, and such like: the Friar's Hall was made a glass-house, or house wherein was made glass of diverse sorts to drink in; which house in the year 1575. on the 4. of Septemb. burst out into a terrible fire, 
The glass house burned.  where being practised all means possible 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 itself, having within it about 40000. billets of wood, was also consumed to the stone walls, which nevertheless greatly hindered the fire from spreading any further.  
Adjoining unto this Friar's Church, 
Alms houses by Crossed Friars.  by the East end thereof in Woodroffe lane, towards the Tower hill, are certain proper Almshouses, 
Testamont of Sir john Milborne.  14. in number, builded of brick & timber, founded by Sir joh. Milborn, Draper, sometime Mayor, 1521. wherein be placed 13. aged poor men and their wives, if they have wives: these have their dwelling rent-free, and 2. s. 4. d. apiece, the first day of every month for ever.  
Whereas there is mention made by Mr. Stow (in this his Survey) of a monthly pension of 4. s. to belong to a foureteenth house, being one of the said almshouses; also of certain bread & coals, to be delivered to the Parishes of S. Edmund in Lombard street and S. Michael in Cornhill: and of diverse messages and garden-plots in the Parish of S. Olave in Hartstreet, London, mentioned to be given to the Company of Drapers, for the performance thereof: Upon a perfect view of the Will itself, by which the said Almshouses were given to the Company of Drapers, and upon other writings touching the same; And withal, upon diligent and painful search touching that matter; I find that Mr. Stowe was much deceived or mistaken in that matter; and that there was no such bread and coals given to those Parishes, neither at any time had the Company and such houses or gardens, whereby to perform the same. But the Company, by the Will, had lands given them in other Parishes, (which now they do enjoy) only to maintain the Almshouses, and for payment of the pensions there, and to pay some small sums of money to the Officers and others of that Company, for the looking to the houses, and pains taking in paying the pensions, according as by the Will is limited, and for no other use or purpose.  
Next to these Almshouses is the Lord Lumleyes' house, 
L. Lumleys house.  builded in the time of King Henry the 8. by Sir Thomas Wyatt the father, upon one plot of ground of late pertaining to the foresaid Crossed Friars, where part of their house stood: And this is the farthest part of Ealdgate Ward toward the South, and joineth 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 Ealdgate.  
Then have ye on the South side of Fenne-Church street, over against the wall or Pump, amongst other fair and large-builded houses, one that sometime belonged to the Prior of Monte joves', 
Prior of Horne-Church in Essex.  or Monastery Cornute, a Cell to Monte joves' beyond the Seas. In Essex it was the Prior's Inn, when he repaired to this City. Then a Lane that leadeth down by Northumberland house, towards the Crossed Friars, as is aforeshewed.  
This Northumberland house, in the Parish of Saint Katherine Coleman, belonged to Henry Percy, 
Northumb. house.  Earl of Northumberland, in the 33. of Hen. the 6. 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 comers for their money, there to bowl and hazard. But now of late, so many Bowling-Alleys, and other houses for unlawful gaming, have been raised in other parts of the City and the Suburbs, that this their ancient and only patron of misrule, is left and forsaken of her 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 Ealdgate toward the Crossed Friars, 
The poor Jury.  of old time, were certain tenements, called the Poor jury, of jews dwelling there.  
Next unto this Northumberland house, 
Parish Church of S. Katherine Coleman.  is the Parish Church of S. 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 S. Katherine, and All Saines, called Coleman Church.  
Monuments in this Church, I find none recorded by Mr. Stowe; and upon my view, these were the most remarkable that I found there: 
Here lieth the body of Henry Webbe, 
In the North-east end of the Chancel, an ancient Tomb.  Esquire, Gentleman Usher to King Henry the eighth. And here lieth also Barbara his wife. She died the 5. day of February, An. Dom. 1552. And he the last day of March, 1553.  
Here lieth the body of Sir Henry Billingsley, 
A fair stone on the ground by the Communion Table.  Knight, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, who died the 22. day of November, An. Dom. 1606. And also the body of Elizabeth his first wife, who departed this life the 29. of july, 1577.  
Here lieth the body buried, 
A small Alabaster Monument fixed in the wall.  of Elizabeth, late wife to Henry Billingsley, one of the Queen's Majesty's Customers in the Port of London, who died the 29. day of july, An. Dom. 1577.   
In obitum ejus.  
Stat sua cuique dies,  
atque ultima funeris hora,  
Cum Deus hinc & Mors  
insidiosa vocant.  
Nec tibi, vel pietas tua,  
velforma Elizabetha,  
Praesidium fate  
ne trahereris erat,  
Occidis exactis terris  
cum conjuge lustris,  
At septem vitae  
lustra fuêre tua.  
Fecerat & proles  
jam te numerosa parentem,  
Filiolae trinae  
caetera turba mores,  
Vndecimo in partu,  
quum Mors accessit & una  
Matrem te & Patrem  
sustulit undecimum,  
Scilicet ex mundo,  
ex terrena faece malisque  
Sustulit, at superis  
reddidit atque Deo,  
Est testis sincera fides,  
testis tua virtus.  
Grata viro virtus,  
grata fidesque Deo,  
Hic charitas dormit, 
At the door 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 Cha●●● a very 〈◊〉 fair 〈◊〉 on the ● gro●●   
nominata beata Beatrix,  
Atque Dei donum,  
quoniam fuit optima Conjux.  
Filia Georgii Cotton, Arm. Vxor Roberti Barners.  
Obiit 5. Novemb. Anno Dom. 1616.  
I had rather be a Doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the Palaces of Princes.  

An Epitaph on the death of the Noble, virtuous, and charitable Gentlewoman, Mistress Barners, whose body lieth under the stone you tread on.  
IN ancient times, 
In the north 〈◊〉 just against the Grave-stone.   
the friends surviving gave  
Some rich memorial  
to the dead friends grave,  
Gold, Pearls or Gems,  
which custom did intend,  
Our riches ought  
to wait upon our friend,  
In life and death.  
O blessed Ages, when  
Men parted fortunes,  
and not fortunes men●  
But now perverted  
are our present ends,  
That (for wealth) sell  
the fame of living friends:  
The dead we live by,  
now can scant afford  
The rites and sacrifice  
of one good word:  
Of which, lest I be one,  
though I can bring  
(For worthy Obsequy)  
no precious thing;  
My gratitude  
presents unto her Hearse,  
My tears for Balme●  
For Offering, my sad Verse.  
Give leave then, grief,  
let my drowned Muse declare  
What she that's dead was,  
unto them that are.  
The Rule and Index  
to find all the good  
That ever Heaven dealt  
upon womanhood:  
For if we but  
anatomize her life,  
We find both a good woman,  
and good wife:  
First, she loved God,  
Not like the Pharisee,  
In ostentation  
and hypocrisy;  
But even with all her heart,  
and all her soul:  
She secretly  
did raging sin control:  
For she (for goodness sake)  
was innocent,  
And not for glory,  
or fear of punishment.  
Next, to her neighbour  
did her love extend,  
Ready to help at need,  
and to befriend  
The poor, and those  
that never could repay,  
But with their prayers  
at the latter day:  
The remnant of her love  
she did bestow  
Upon her Husband,  
not in outward show,  
Or else in feigned  
adulterate flattery;  
But in sound truth,  
and deep sincerity.  
Thus did she live,  
divided in her love  
From this unworthy world:  
and Nature then,  
Which had but lent her,  
took her back again.  
Where let us live in peace,  
and let us try  
To live like her,  
that we like her may die.  
Come hither, Women,  
leave your vanities,  
Your lust, your scorns,  
your pride, your fooleries?  
For hither you must all.  
The Dust and grave  
All your adored  
braveries must have:  
And all those beauties  
that are now afraid  
Of Air, of Sun,  
must in the ground be laid.  
Then deck your souls,  
unto whose quintessence,  
Nor time, nor death,  
nor grave can bring offence.  
For so you may  
(for ever) beautify  
Yourselves as Angels,  
in eternity.   
FINIS.   

Concerning Charity to the poor in this Parish, besides the Christian disposition of the parishioners themselves, I find by information, that Sir james Deane hath given two shillings weekly in bread for ever, which is duly performed every Friday. And as much they themselves do give in bread every Sunday.  
Sir Henry Billingsley (by his will) gave the sum of 200. l. for relief of the poor in this Parish; but by not making his own eyes Overseers, and his hands his trustiest Executors, his good intent is injured, and the poor disappointed.  
The limits and bounds of this Parish need no relation, because they are contained within so small a compass, and at every place where their mark is fixed, there is likewise a Katherine wheel of iron, not easy to be broken off or removed. Mr. Wright, the learned Parson here, gave me his gentle furtherance, showing me a glass window in the South I'll of the Church, where is figured the shape of an Alderman in Scarlet, kneeling on his knees, and the words set down by him, do express his name to be William White, Maior of this honourable City. Whereby his is persuaded, and I am likewise of his opinion, (by diverse opinions thereto inducing) that all that I'll was either of his building, or (at least) repairing, it appeareth so novel to the rest.  
Then have ye Blanch Apleton, 
Manor of Blanch Apleton.  whereof I read in the thirteenth of Edward the first, that a lane behind the same Blanch Apleton, was granted by the King to be enclosed and shut up. This Blanch Apleton was a Manor, belonging to Sir Thomas Roos of Hamelake, Knight, the seventh of Richard the second, standing at the North-east corner of Mart lane, 
Mart lane.  so called, of a privilege 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 that not uncorruptly termed Mark lane.  
I read that in the third of Edward the fourth, all Baskert-makers, 
Basket-makers at Blanch Apleton,  Wyerdrawers, and other Foreigners, were permitted to have shops in this Manor of Blanch Apleton, and not elsewhere within this City, or suburbs thereof.  
And this also being the farthest West part of this Ward on that Southside, I leave it, with three Parish Churches; Saint Katherine Christs-Church, S. Andrew Vndershaft, and S. Katherine Coleman; and three Halls of Companies; the Brick-layers Hall, the Fletcher's Hall, and the Ironmongers Hall.  
It hath an Alderman, his Deputy, common Counselors, six; Constables, six; Scavengers, nine; Ward mote men for Inquest, eighteen, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen in London, at five pounds.   

LIMESTREET WARD.  
THe next is Limestreet Ward, 
Limestreet Ward  and taketh the name of Limestreet, 
Limestreet.  of making or selling of lime there (as is supposed:) the East side of this Limestreet, from the North corner thereof, to the midst of Ealdgate Ward, as is aforesaid: the West side, for the most part, from the said North corner, southward, is of this Limestreet Ward: the South end on both sides is of Langbourn Ward: the body of this Limestreet Ward, 
High street of Cornhill.  is of the high street called Cornhill street, which stretcheth from Limestreet on the South side, to the West corner of Leaden-hall: and on the North side, from the South-west corner, to S. Marry street, to another corner over against Leaden-hall.  
Now for Saint Mary street, the west side thereof is this Limestreet Ward, and also the street which runneth by the North end of this S. Mary street, on both sides; from thence west to an house called the Wrestbers, a sign so called, almost to Bishopsgate. And these are the bounds of this small Ward.  
Monuments or places notable in this Ward, be these: In Limestreet are diverse fair houses for Merchants and others: there was sometime a mansion house of the Kings, 
An house in Limestreet, called the King's Artirce.  called the King's Artirce, whereof I find record in the 14. of Edward the first, but now grown out of knowledge. I read also of another great house in the West side of Limestreet, having a Chapel on the South, and a Garden on the West, then belonging to the Lord Nevil, which Garden is now called the Green yard of the Leaden hall.  
This house, in the ninth of Richard the second, 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 Northwest corner of Limestreet, was (of old time) one great Message, 
Benbridges Inn.  called Benbridges Inn: Ralph Holland, Draper, about the year 1452. gave it to john Gill, Master, and to the Wardens and Fraternity of Tailors, and Linen Armourers of Saint john Baptist in London, and to their successors for ever. They did set up in place 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 diverse proper Tenements. All which the Merchant-taylors' in the reign of Edward the sixth, sold to Stephen Kirton, Merchant-taylor and Alderman: he 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 worshipful 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.  
Next unto this on the high street was the Lord Sowches' message or tenement, 
Message of the L. Sowch.  and other. In place whereof, Richard Wethell, Merchant-Taylor, builded a fair house, with an high Tower, the second in number, the first of timber that ever I learned to have been builded, to overlook neighbours in this City.  
This Richard, than a young man, became in short time so tormented with gouts in his joints, of his hands and legs, that he could neither feed himself, nor go further than he was led, much less was he able to climb, and take the pleasure of the height of his Tower.  
Then is there another fair house, builded by Stephen Kirton, Alderman: Alderman Lee did then possess it, and again new builded it: but now it is in the custody of Sir William Cravon.  
Then is there a fair house, 
Message called the Greengate.  of old time called the Greene-gate, by which name one Michael Pistoy, a Lombard, held it, with a tenement and nine shops, in the reign of Richard the second, who in the 15. of his reign, gave it to Roger Corphull and Tho. Bromester, Esquires, by the name of the Greene-gate, in the Parish of S. Andrew upon Cornhill, in Limestreet Ward: since the which time, Philip Malpas, sometime Alderman, and one of the Sheriffs, dwelled therein, and was there robbed and spoiled of his goods, 
Philip Malpas rob  to a great value, by jack Cade, and other Rebels, in the year 1449.  
Afterwards, in the reign of Henry the seventh, it was seized into the King's hands, and then granted first unto john Alston, after that, unto William de la Rivers, and since by Henry the eighth, to john Mutas, a Pickard, or Frenchman, who dwelled there, and harboured in his House many Frenchmen, that kalendred wolsteds, and did other things, contrary to the Franchises of the Citizens. Wherefore on evil May day, which was in the year 1517. the Prentices and other spoilt his house, and if they could have found Mutas, 
Mutas house spoiled.  they would have stricken off his head. Sir Peter Mutas, son to the said john Mutas, sold this house to David Woodroofe, Alderman, whose son, Sir Nicholas Woodroofe, Alderman, sold it over to john Moor, Alderman, that then possessed it.  
Next is a house called the Leaden Porch, 
Leaden Porch.  lately divided into two tenements, whereof one is a Tavern, and then one other house for a Merchant, likewise called the Leaden Porch, but now turned to a Cook's house.  
Next is a fair house and a large, wherein diverse Maioralties have been kept, whereof twain in my remembrance; to wit, Sir William Bowyer, and Sir Henry Huberthorne.  
The next is Leaden-Hall, 
Manor of Leaden Hall.  of which I 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, & other Churches, to Rich. Earl of Arundel and Surrey, 1362.  
More, in the year 1380. Alice Nevil, widow to Sir john Nevil, Knight, of Essex, confirmed to Thomas Cogshall, and others, the said Manor of Leaden Hall, and the advousions, etc.  
In the year 1384. Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, had the said Manor. And in the year 1408. Robert Rikeden of Essex, and Margaret his wife, confirmed to Richard Whittington, and other Citizens of London, the said Manor of Leaden Hall, with the Appurtenances, the advousion of S. Peter's Church, S. Margaret Pattens, etc.  
And in the year 1411. the said Whittington and other confirmed the same to the Mayor and Communality of London, whereby it came to the possession of the City.  
Then in the year 1443. the 21. of Henry the sixth, john Hatherley, Maior, purchased licence of the said King to take up 200. 
Licence to take up Led to the building of a common granary.  fodder of Lead, for the building of water Conduits, a common Granary, and the Cross in West Cheap, more richly, for the honour of the City.  
In the year next following, the Parson and Parish of Saint Dunstane in the East of London, seeing the famous and mighty man (for the words be in the Grant; Cum nobilis & potens vir,) Simon Eyre, Citizen of London, among other his works of Piety, effectually determined to erect and 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 enlarging of the said Granary, granted to Henry Frowicke, than Mayor, the Aldermen and Communality 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, etc.  
Also, certain Evidences of an Alley and Tenements pertaining to the Horse-mill, 
Horse-mill in Grasse-street.  adjoining to the said Leaden-Hall in Grasse-street, given by William Kingston, Fishmonger, unto the parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill, do specify the said Granary, to be builded by the said honourable and famous Merchant, 
Simon Eyre sometime an Upholster, then by changing of his Copy a Draper. Leaden-hall new builded to be a common Garner.  Simon Eyre, sometime an Upholster, and then a Draper, in the year, 1419. He builded it of squared stone in form as now it showeth, with a fair and large Chapel 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, 
A Chapel builded in Leaden hall.  on the north wall was written, Honorandus famosus Mercator Simon Eyre, hujus operis, etc. In English thus: The honourable and famous Merchant Simon Eyre, founder of this work, once Mayor of this City, Citizen and Draper of the same, departed out of this life the 18. day of September, the year from the incarnation of Christ, 1459. and the 38. year of the reign of King Henry the 6. He was buried in the Parish Church of St. Mary Wolnoth in Lombard street: he gave by his Testament, which I have read, to be distributed to all Prisons in London, or within a mile of that City, somewhat to relieve them.  
More, 
Legacies given by Simon Eyre. Daily Service by note, etc. and three free schools in the Leaden Hall.  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 his Chapel 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 8. pounds, every other Clerk, 5-pounds, 6. shillings, 8. 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 as is aforesaid, within two years after his decease. And if they refused, than the three thousand Marks to be disposed by his Executors, as they best could device in works of charity.  
Thus much for his Testament, not performed by establishing of divine service in his Chapel or Free Schools for Scholars; 
Liber albus.  neither how the stock of three thousand Marks (or rather five thousand Marks) was employed by his Executors, could I ever learn: he left issue Thomas, who had issue Thomas, etc. True it is, that in the year 1464. the third of Edward the fourth, it was agreed by the Mayor, 
Beam for Tronage of wools at Leaden-hall.  Aldermen and Communality of London, that notwithstanding the King Letters patents, lately before granted unto them, touching the Tronage or weighing of Wares to be holden at the Leaden-Hall; yet suit should be made to the King for new letters patents, to be granted to the Mayor of the Staple, for the Tronage of Wools to be holden there, and order to be taken by the discretion of Thomas Cook, than Mayor, the Counsel of the City, Geffrey Filding then Mayor of the Staple at Westminster, and of the King's Council, 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, etc.  
Touching the Chapel there, 
A brotherhood of 60 Priests in the Chapel of Leaden hall.  I find, that in the year 1466. by licence obtained of King Edward the fourth in the 6. of his reign, a Fraternity of the Trinity of 60. Priests (beside other brethren and sisters) in the same Chapel, was founded by William Rouse, john Risby, and Thomas Ashby Priests, some of the which 60. Priests, every Market-day in the forenoon, did celebrate Divine Service there, to such Market people as repaired to prayer, and once every year they met all together, and had solemn Service, with Procession of all the Brethren and Sisters. This foundation was in the year 1512. by a common Council confirmed to the 60. Trinity Priests and to their successors, at the will of the Mayor and Communality.  
In the year 1484. a great fire happened upon the Leaden-Hall, 
Leaden-hall burned.  by what casualty I know not, but much housing was there destroyed, with all the stocks for Guns, and other provision belonging to the City, which was a great loss, and no less charge to be repaired by them.  
In the year 1503. the eighteenth of Henry the seventh, 
Rich. Arol.  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 Maior, Aldermen, and Common Council, 
A request of the Citizens to the Mayor and Aldermen.  to enact, that all Frenchmen bringing Canvas, Linen cloth, and other wares to be sold, and all Forreins bringing Wolsteds, Says, Stamins, Kivering, Nails, Iron work, or any other wares, and also all manner Forreins, bringing Lead to the City to be sold; Shall bring all such their wares aforesaid, to the open Market of the Leaden-Hall, 
Leaden hall Market for Canvas and linen cloth.  and no where else to be showed, sold, and uttered, like as of old time it hath been used, upon pain of forfeiture of all the said wares, showed or sold in any other place than aforesaid: And the show of the said wares to be made three days in a week, that is to say, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It is also thought reasonable, that the common Beam be kept from henceforth in the Leaden-hall, and the Farmer to pay therefore reasonable rent to the Chamber: for better it is that the Chamber have advantage thereby, than a foreign 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 Leadenhall, 
Common Beam to be kept in Leaden hall. Leaden hall pertaining to the Communality.  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 Communality. Also that Forraines bringing Wools, Fels, or any other Merchandizes or wares to Leaden-hall, 
Wools, Fels, and other Merchandizes to be sold in 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, 
Leaden hall used as a Garner.  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, 
Roger Achley Maior made good provision for the City.  this one may suffice: Roger Acheley Mayor of London in the year 1512. the third of Henry the 8. when the said Mayor entered the Mayoralty, there was not found 100 quarters of Wheat in all the Garners of this City, 
Bread Carts of Stratford the Bow.  either within the liberties, or near adjoining. 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's mornings, and from thence he went to other Markets, to the great comfort of the Citizens.  
I read also, that in the year, 1528. the 20. of Henry the 8. Surveyors were appointed to view the Garners of the City, namely, the Bridgehouse and the Leaden-hall, how they were stored of Grain for the service of the City. And because I have here before spoken of the bread Carts coming from Stratford at the Bow, ye shall understand, that of old time, the Bakers of bread at Stratford were allowed to bring daily (except the Sabbath and principal Feasts) diverse long Carts laden with bread, the same being two ounces in the penny wheaten loaf heavier than the penny wheaten loaf baked in the City, the same to be sold in Cheap, three or four Carts standing there, between Gutherans lane and Fausters' lane end, one cart on Cornhill, by the Conduit, and one other in Grasse-street. And I have read, that in the fourth year of Edward the second, Richard Reffeham being Maior, a Baker named john of Stratford, for making Bread lesser than the Assize; 
Liber. D. A Baker of Stratford punished in London for baking bread under the Assize.  was with a fool's hood on his head, and loaves of bread about his neck, drawn on a Hurdle through the streets of this City. Moreover, in the 44. of Edward the third, john Chichester being Mayor of London, I read in the visions of Pierce Ploughman, a Book so called, as followeth.  
There was a careful common, 
john Malverne.  when no Cart came to town with Basket bread from Stratford: 
Bread Carts from Stratford miss in this City in time of scarcity.  though 'gan beggars weep, and workmen were aghast, a little this will be thought long in the date of our Dirt, in a dry Averell a thousand and three hundred, twice thirty and ten, etc.  
I read also in the 20. of Henry the 8. Sir james Spencer being Mayor▪ six Bakers of Stratford were merced in the Guild-hall of London, for baking under the size appointed. These Bakers of Stratford left serving this City, I know not upon what occasion, above forty years since.  
In the year 1519. a petition was exhibited by the Commons to the Common Council, 
A Petition of the Commons concerning the use of the Leaden hall.  and was by them allowed, concerning the Leaden-hall, how they would have it used, viz.  
Meekly beseeching, showeth unto your good Lordship, and Mastership's, diverse Citizens of this City, which (under correction) think, that the great place called the Leaden-hall, should nor ought not to be let out to farm, to any person or persons, and in especial, to any fellowship or company incorporate, to have and hold the same Hall for term of years, for such inconveniences as thereby may ensue, and come to the hurt of the Common weal of the said City in time to come, as somewhat more largely may appear in the Articles following.  
First, if any assembly, or hasty gathering of the Commons of the said City, for suppressing or sub duing of misruled people within the said City, hereafter shall happen to be called or commanded by the Mayor, Aldermen and other Governors and Counsellors of the said City for the time being; there is none so convenient, meet and necessary a place to assemble them in, within the said City, as the said Leaden-hall, both for largeness of room, and for their sure defence in time of their counselling together about the premises. Also, in that place hath been used the Artillery, Guns, and other Armours of the said City, to be safely kept in a readiness, for the safeguard, wealth and defence of the said City, to be had and occupiedat time's when need required. As also the store of timber, for the necessary reparations of the tenements belonging to the Chamber of the said City, there commonly hath been kept.  
Item, if any Triumph or Nobleness were to be done, or showed by the Communality of the City, for the honour of our Sovereign Lord the King, and Realm, and for the worship of the said City: the said Leaden-hall is the most meet and convenient place, to prepare and order the said Triumph therein, and from thence to issue forth to the places thereof appointed.  
Item, at any largesse or do●e of any money, made unto the poor people of this City; it hath been used, to be done and given in the said Leaden-hall, for that the said place is most meet therefore.  
Item, 
〈…〉 the people to stand dry.  the honourable Father, that was ma●●r of the said Hall, had a special will, intent and mind, that (as it is commonly said) the Market men and women, that came to the City with victuals and other things, should have their free standing within the said Leaden-hall in wet weather, to keep themselves and their wares dry, and thereby to encourage them, and all other, to have the better will and desire, the more plenteously to resort to the said City, to victual the same. And if the said Hall should be let to farm, the will of the said honourable Father should never be fulfilled, nor take effect.  
Item, if the said place, which is the chief fortress and most necessary place within all the City, for the tuition and safeguard of the same, should be let out to farm, out of the hands of the chief heads of the same City, and especially to any other body politic, it might at length (by likelihood) be an occasion of discord and debate between the said bodies politic, which God defend.  
For these and many other great and reasonable causes, which hereafter shall be showed to this honovoable Court, your said beseechors think it much necessary, that the said Hall be still in the hands of this City, and to be surely kept by sad and discreet Officers in such wise, that it might always be ready to be used and occupied, for the common weal of the said City when need shall require, and in no wise to be let to any body politic. Thus much for the petition.  
About the year 1534. great means was made about the Leaden Hall, 
Leaden Hall, meant to have been made a Burse for Merchants.  to have the same made a Burse for the Assembly of Merchants, as they had been accustomed in Lumbard-street: many Common Counsels were called to that end but in the year 1535. john Champneis being Mayor, it was fully concluded, that the Burse should remain in Lumbard-street, as afore, and Leaden Hall no more to be spoken of concerning that matter.  
The use of Leaden Hall in my youth was thus: In a part of the North Quadrant, on the East side of the North gate, were the common beams, for weighing of Wool and other Wares, as had been accustomed: On the West side of the gate was the Scales to weigh meal: the other three sides were reserved (for the most part) to the making and resting of the Pageants showed at Midsummer in the watch: the remnant of the sides & Quadrants were employed for the stowage of Woolsacks, but not closed up: the lofts above were partly used by the Painters, in working for the decking of Pageants and other devices, for beautifying of the Watch and Watchmen, the residue of the lofts were let out to Merchants, the Wool-winders and Packers therein to wind and pack their Wools. And thus much for Leaden-hall may suffice.  
Now on the North of Limestreet Ward, in the high street are diverse fair houses for Merchants, and proper tenements for Artificers, with an Alley also called Shaft Alley, of the Shaft or Maypole sometime resting over the gate thereof, as I have declared in Ealdgate Ward.  
In the year 1576. partly at the charges of the parish of S. Andrew, 
A Pump in the high street of Lime-street Ward.  and partly at the charges of the Chamber of Lond. a water-Pumpe was raised in the high street of Limestreet Ward, 
Cornchill street in some place raised two fathom higher than of old time, as appeared by buildines found so deep.  near unto Limestreet corner: for the placing of the which Pump, having broken up the ground, they were forced to dig more than two fathom deep, before they came to any main ground, where they found a Hearth made of Britain, or rather Roman Tile, every Tile half yard square, and about two inches thick: they found Coale lying there also (for that lying whole will never consume) then digging one fathom in the main, they found water sufficient, made their prall, and set up the Pump, which Pump, with o●● repairing and great charges to the parish, continued not 24. years, but being rotten, was taken up, and a new set in the place, in the year 1600. Thus much for the high street.  
In Saint Mary street had ye (of old time) a parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, 
St. Marry street Parish Church of Mary, St. Ursula, and 11000. Virgins, called at the Axe, let out of a warehouse.  St. Ursula, and the 11000. Virgins, which Church was commonly called Saint Mary at the Axe, of the sign of an Axe, over against the East end thereof, or Saint Mary Pellipar, of a plot of ground lying on the North side thereof, pertaining to the Skinners in London. This parish about the year, 1565. was united to the parish Church of Saint Andrew Vndershaft, and so was Saint Mary at the Axe suppressed, and let out to be a warehouse for a Merchant. Against the East end of this Church, was sometime a fair wall, now turned to a pump. Also against the North end of this St. Marry street, was sometime one other parish Church of Saint Augustine, 
Parish Church of S. Augustine in the wall, made a Chapel to the Papey, and since pulled down and made a stable.  called Saint Augustine in the wall, for that it stood adjoining to the wall of the City, and otherwise called Saint Augustine's Papey, or the Poor, as I have read in the reign of Edward the 3. About the year, 1430. in the reign of Henry the sixth, the same Church was allowed to the brethren of the Papey, the house of poor Priests, whereof I have spoken in Ealdgate Ward. The Parishioners of this Church were appointed to the Parish Church of All-hallows in the wall, which is in Broadstreet Ward: and this brotherhood called Papey, being suppressed, the Church of Saint Augustine was pulled down, and in place thereof one Grey, Apothecary, builded a Stable, a Hayloft, etc. It is now a dwelling house. Those two Parish Churches, both lying in the Ward of Limestreet, being thus suppressed, there is not any one parish Church or place for Divine Service in that Ward, but the inhabitants thereof repair to Saint Peter in Cornhill Ward, Saint Andrew in Ealdgate Ward, All-hallows in the wall, in Broadstreet Ward, and some to Saint Dennis in Langbourne Ward.  
Now because of late there hath been some question, to what Ward this Church of S. Augustine Papey should of right belong; for the same hath been challenged by them of Ealdgate Ward, and (without reason) taken into Bishopsgate Ward, from Limestreet Ward, I am somewhat to touch it.  
About thirty years since, 
Houses by London wall in the ward of Limestreet.  the Chamber of London granted a Lease of ground (in these words) Lying near London Wall, in the Ward of Limestreet, from the West of the said Church or Chapel of Saint Augustine Papey, towards Bishopsgate, etc. On the which plot of ground, the Leasee builded three fair tenements, and placed Tenants there: these were charged to bear scot and lot, and someof them to bear office in Limestreet Ward: all which they did willingly without grudging. And when any suspected or disordered persons were by the Landlord placed there, the Officer's of Limestreet Ward fetched them out of their houses, committed them to ward, procured their due punishments, and banished them from thence: whereby in short time that place was reform, and brought into good order: which thing being noted by them of Ealdgate Ward, they moved their Alderman, Sir Thomas Offley, to call in those houses to be of his Ward. But I myself showing a fair Ledgier book, sometime pertaining to the late dissolved Priory of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate, wherein were set down the just bounds of Ealdgate Ward, before Sir Thomas Offley, Sir Rowland Hayward, the Common Counsel, and Ward. moat Inquest of the said Limestreet Ward; Sir Thomas Offley gave over his challenge, and so that matter rested in good quiet, until the year 1579. that Sir Richard Pipe (being Mayor, and Alderman of Bishopsgate Ward) challenged those houses to be of his ward, 
A part of Limestreet ward unjustly withheld by Bishopsgate ward.  whereunto (without reason showed) Sir Rowland Hayward yielded: and thus is that side of the street, from the North corner of S. Marry street, almost to Bishopsgate, (wherein is one plot of ground, let by the Chamberlain of London, to the parish of S. Martins Oteswich, to be a Churchyard or burying-place for the dead of that Parish, etc.) unjustly drawn and withheld from the ward of Limestret.  
Dives other proofs I could set down, but this one following may suffice. The Mayor and Aldermen of London made a grant to the Fraternity of the Papey, in these words:  
Be it remembered, that where now of late the Master and Wardens of the Fraternity of the Papey, have made a brick wall, closing in the Chapel of S. Augustine, called Papey Chapel, situate in the Parish of All Saints in the Wall, in the Ward of Limestreet of the City of London: from the Southeast corner of the brick wall, is a Scutcheon of 12. foot of assize from the said corner Eastward: And from the said Scutcheon there, to a Message of 55. foot and an half Westward: the said Scutcheon breaketh out of line right Southward, betwixt the measures aforesaid, three foot and five inches of assize, upon the common ground of the City aforesaid: Ralph Verney, Maior, and the Aldermen of the same City, the 22. day of October, the 6. year of Edward the 4. granted to John Hod, Priest, M. John Bolt, and Tho. Patchet, Priests, wardens of the Fraterniey of Papey aforesaid, and to their successors for ever, etc. yielding 4. d. sterling yearly at Michaelmas. 
Lib. Papey.  And this is (saith my book) enrolled in the Guild-hall of London: which is a sufficient proof, the same plot of ground to be of Dimestreet ward, and never otherwise accounted or challenged.  
On the South side of this street, stretching west from Saint Mary street, towards Bishopsgate street, there was (of old time) one large Message builded of stone and timber, in the parish of S. Augustine in the wall, now in the parish of All-hallows in the same wall, belonging to the Earl of Oxford; 
Patent. Oxford Place.  (for Rich. de Vere, Earl of Oxford, possessed it in the 4. of Henry the 5.) but in process of time, the Lands of the Earl fell to Females; amongst the which, one being married to Wingfield of Suffolk, this house with the appurtenances, fell to his lot, and was by his heir, Sir Robert Wingfield, sold to Mr. Edward Cook, at the time when this was written, the Queen's Attorney General. This house being greatly ruinated, of late time, for the most part hath been let out to Poulters, for stabling of Horses and stowage of Poultry, but now lately new builded into a number of small tenements, let out to strangers, and other mean people.  
It was ordered by the Lord Maior and Aldermen, 
Hum. Dyson  at a Court holden on Thursday, the 24. of April, in the 4. year of Edward the 6. That the Chamberlain of London should yearly pay unto the Scavenger of Limestreet ward, twenty shillings by even portions, out of the profit coming by the Butcher's stalls in Leaden-hall, toward the clesing and sweet keeping of the same Ward.  
One note more of this Ward, and so an end: I find of record, that in the year 1371. the 45. of Edward the 3. a great Subsidy of 100000. pounds was granted towards the King's wars in France, whereof the Clergy paid 50000. pounds, and the Laity 50000. pounds, to be levied in 39 shires of England, containing Parishes 8600. of every parish, 5. l. 16. s. the greater to help the lesser. This City (as one of the Shires) then containing 24. wards, and in them 110. 
Subsidy of parishes, Limestreet ward, in the year 1371.  was therefore assessed to 635. l. 12. s. whereof Limestreet Ward did bear 34. s. and no more; so small a Ward it was, and so accounted, as having no one whole parish therein, but small portions only, of two parishes in that Ward.  
This Ward hath an Alderman, his Deputy, common Counselors, four; Constables, four; Seavengers, two; Ward-mote Inquest, sixteen, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen at 1. l. 19 s. 2. d. ob. q.   

BISHOPSGATE WARD.  
THe next is Bishopsgate Ward, 
Bishopsgate Ward.  whereof a part is without the Gate, and of the Suburbs, from the Bars by S. Mary spital to Bishopsgate, and a part of Hounds-ditch, almost half thereof, also without the Wall, of the same Ward.  
Then within the Gate is Bishopsgate street, so called of the Gate, to a pump, where sometime was a fair Well with two buckets, by the East end of the parish Church of S. Martin Oteswich, and then winding by the west corner of Leaden Hall, down Grasse-street, to the corner over against Grasse-Church: and these are the bounds of that Ward. 
Parish Church of S. Buttolph without Bishopsgate.   
Monuments most to be noted, are these: The parish Church of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, in a fair Churchyard, adjoining to the Towne-Ditch, upon the very bank thereof, but of old time enclosed with a comely wall of brick, lately repaired by Sir William Allen, Maior in the year 1571. because he was borne in that parish, where also he was buried.  
An Anchoress (by Bishopsgate) received forty shillings the year of the Sheriffs of London.  
The Monuments that I observed in the Church of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, were these:  
Johannes Threll Armig. 
Fair plared stones lying one by another on the ground in the Chancel.  Nobilli familia Sussexiae ortus, hic jacet. Vixit usque ad annum sexagesimum tertium: Mortuus est sexto die Octobris, Anno Domini, 1609.  
Sub hoc Marmore jacet corpus Johannis Redman, quondam hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris bene meriti: qui ab hac luce migravit tertio die julii, Anno Domini, 1523.  
Hic jacet Johannes Picking, Magister Artium, nuper Rector istius Ecclesiae, qui Obiit 6. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1490.  
Hereunder lieth the body of Joan Wood, 
At the entrance into the Quite, in the middle I'll.  wife to Robert Wood, Citizen and Brewer of London, who had issue, two sons, and three daughters; viz. john, Richard, joan, Anne and Francis. She deceased the 25. day of November, An. Dom. 1600. She gave large gifts and legacies to this Parish, as hereunder is expressed:  
At her burial she gave ten pounds to the poor.  
She gave ten shillings yearly for a Sermon on Midsummer day.  
For a friendly meeting among the neighbours, forty shillings.  
In bread weekly to the poor for ever, two shillings.  
Also four load of Charcoals yearly to the poor for ever.  
To the Parson of the parish yearly for ever, ten shillings.  
To the Two Churchwardens, ten shillings to each in like manner.  
To the Clerk 6. s. 8. d. and to the Sexton, 5. s. yearly for ever.  
For a friendly meeting of the Parson and parishioners, accompanying him yearly in walking the bounds of the parish, thirty shillings.  
To the poor of the parish, in money yearly (for ever) to be distributed, eight pounds.  
And the remainder of the yearly rents for the half Moon, and half Moon Alley, to remain in the Church stock, towards the repairing of the Church.  
Over and beside the memorable charity of this worthy Widow, Mistress Wood, God hath raised diverse other good Benefactors to the poor in the same Parish, as appeareth by this small recordation.  
john Heyward, 
This gift is performed by the Company of Tallow-Chandlers yearly.  Citizen and Alderman of London, had his last Will and Testament enroled in the Court of Hustings in the Guild-Hall of London, on monday next before the Feast of Saint Cuthbert the Bishop, in the thirteenth year of Edward the fourth, after the Conquest.  
Wherein he gave to the poor people of this Parish, five and twenty Quarters of Charcoals, yearly to be delivered by the Company of Tallow-chaundlers', betwixt the Feast of All Saints, and the Nativity of our blessed Saviour; with a penalty of for-feiture of twenty shillings for the first Quarter, if they be not delivered as aforesaid; and forty shillings for the second Quarter; four pounds for the third Quarter; and eight pounds for the whole year, if they be not delivered: And so double still from Quarter to Quarter, if defect of payment herein be made.  
john Bricket, Citizen and Tooth-drawer of London, (by his last Will and Testament, dated the eleventh day of February, 1554.) gave for ever at the Feast of Easter, twelve Sacks of Charcoals, to the poor of this Parish: out of two Tenements, the one now in the occupation of Andrew Partridge, Tallow-Chaundler; the other late in occupation of Andrew Seywell, Bricklayer, both joining together at the South side of Bell Alley gate in this Parish.  
We receive of the gift of Mistress Mary Wilkinson deceased, out of 2. fair houses in S. Marry spital, 4. load of coalés out of each house, 30. quarters being. 2. load: the first 30. quarters to be given to the poor of this parish, in the month of November for ever; the next thirty quarters to be likewise given to the poor of this parish, in December for ever: provided that out of each load, the Overseers of the Precinct of Norton Folgate shall have ten Sacks, to be by them given to the poor of that Precinct.  
Likewise is paid yearly by the Company of Ironmongers, the sum of thirty shillings per annum, of the gift of Sir William Allen, to be distributed among the poor in bread.  
Also of the Company of Vintners, the sum of twenty shillings, yearly for ever, of the gift of Sir Stephen Scudamore, Knight, and Alderman of London.  
Also of Mistress Wood, the Relict of Master Thomas Wood, late of Saint Buttolph's without Ealdgate, the sum of ten shillings yearly for ever, to be received on Saint Thomas day, issuing out of certain Tenements in Katharinwheele Alley, in this Parish, of the gift of Mary Webster, Widow.  
Mistress Price, 
The mirror of this Age for a matchiefe woman.  in the time of her widowhood, did at her own charge new build the Pulpit, in the year of our Lord, 1614 and shortly after, did likewise send (to furnish the same) fair and rich Ornaments for the said Pulpit, as also for the Communion Table. For the Pulpit, a costly Cloth of Crimson Velvet, edged in the bottom with a deep gold fringe, and laced about with a fair gold lace.  
Likewise, a Cushion suitable to the same, with a very fair Verge to adorn the upper part of the Pulpit, edged likewise with a deep gold fringe.  
And for the Communion Table, a goodly large Carpet of Crimson Velvet, 
Nor did she this worthy service to God here only, but in other Parishes beside, as at Paul's, Christs-Church, etc.  edged with a deep gold fringe; also a fair Tablecloth of fine Cambric, to be used upon the Communion days, with a Cambric Cloth laced, to cover the Bread upon the Table: Also a fair Surplice of Cambric, for the Parson's use: all which were, with a new hair Brush, kept in a Sarsanet Case, to be locked up in a new wainescot Chest, by her bought for the same purpose, and so carefully kept for their several uses. To the which Chest was set two Locks; the two several Keys whereof the one to be kept by the Parson of the parish, the other by the Churchwarden of the same parish, for the safe keeping thereof.  
As for the King's Arms embroidered upon the said Pulpit Cloth; 
The thankful gratitude to God of Humphrey Swan Imbroide, rer.  it was made, set on and freely given by Humphrey Swan of this parish, Imbroiderer, in remembrance of God's great mercy extended towards him, in the year of the great visitation, 1625. for in that year he had buried his wife, with diverse of his family; himself also, lying a long while under the Lords heavy hand, without all hope of recovery; by God's gracious providence he was at the last restored to his former health. In regard whereof, and to express his further thankfulness to Almighty God, he adorned the said Pulpit Cloth as now it is.  
Moreover, in the same Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, among other benevolences given thereto, may not be omitted the bountiful gift of Master William Hobby, Citizen and Alebrewer of London, to wit, the Tenor Bell in the Steeple, bearing his own name, and called Hobby, which he caused to be founded at his own cost and charges: And afterwards to be re-cast two several times, only to make it tuneable with the other Bells in the Steeple; which was performed accordingly, and they are now as perfect and pleasing a ring of Bells, as can be wished.  
When he gave this Bell to the Parish, he enjoined this condition, that at what time soever any man deceased, that had borne any place of eminence and office in the Parish, and afterward happened (by any cross or misadventure) to fall in decay: That yet he should have the benefit of this Bells service freely bestowed on him at his burial, not paying any costs or duties therefore to the Church. No doubt but this man had an honest meaning, and most charitable mind, both in the promise (which was in merriment, and when he expected not place of degree or office to fall on him) and likewise in the performance; wherein he showed himself no way slack, but so forward as any man could be. Let his worthy example incite on others; to the like good inclination (one way or other) towards the Church.  
Mr. Ralph Pinder, Citizen and Draper of London, Alderman's Deputy of this Ward, 
M. Pinder gift of three ●core pounds.  who was buried the 28. of May, 1622. gave to the poor of this Parish in money 60. l. for which is given to 13. poor people every Sunday in the year for ever 2. pence a piece in good wheaten bread.  
In the year, 1626. Nicklas Reive, 
The benevolence of Nicholas Reive a Scrivener in Cornhill  Scrivener in Cornhill (whose Father was Clerk of this Parish) gave by his last will and testament, the sum of 406. l. 5. s. to the said parish, to buy so much land as the said moneys will extend unto, and the rents and profits thereof to be given and distributed to the comfort of such people within this parish. With which moneys was purchased certain lands lying at Stratford Bow, now in the tenure of Henry Chester, the rent of which lands is 25. l. per annum.  
In the year, 1628. the 20. of june, 
The charity of the Eearle of Devonshire.  William Earl of Devonshire died at Devonshire house without Bishopsgate, and gave 100 l. for ever, to the use of the poor of this parish, for which the Churchwardens do give every Sunday in the year to 15. poor people of this parish 2. d. a piece in good wheaten bread.  
WHereas the sixth day of November last passed, T. C. Citizen and Armourer of London, humbly petitioned unto the Court, that they would be pleased to receive into the Chamber of London the sum of 100 l. presently to be paid, in allowing and paying therefore yearly from the Birth of our Lord God 1629. for ever to the relief & comfort of 5. aged poor Widows of the Parish of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, London, the sum of five pounds to be given and equally distributed to and amongst them, eighteen days before Christmas yearly, as of the free gift and benevolence of him the the said T. C. at the oversight and direction of the Parson and Churchwardens, for the time being of that parish. whereupon in furtherance of that pious and charitable work, this Court was pleased to accept of the said 100 l. and to grant performance of that his petition: As by an order in that behalf made it may and doth appear: which said 100 l. was the 13. day of the said month of November last, accordingly paid and delivered by the said T. C. into the said Chamber of London, to and for the intent and purpose aforesaid. Now the said T. C. in further declaration of his full mind and intent concerning the distribution of the said five pounds, yearly and for ever, as aforesaid; he hath expressed and declared, that the same shall be done and performed in this manner, viz. tha● of and with the same five pounds yearly and for ever, there shall be bought and provided by the said T. C. during his life, and after his decease by the Parson and Churchwardens of the said parish of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate aforesaid for the time being and their successors, five Waistcoats and five Kirtles, ready made up of good Kersey or Cloth, the Kersey or Cloth of every Waistcoat and Kirtle to be worth fifteen shillings at the least, and five pair of Stockings and five pair of shoes, every pair of the same Stockings to be worth eighteen pence at the least, and every pair of the said shoes to be worth two shillings at the least. Which Waistcoats, Kirtles, Stockings and shoes, shall be yearly and for ever delivered on the Feast day of S. Thomas the Apostle, as the free gift of the said T. C. After in the parish Church of St. Buttolph without Bishopsgate aforesaid, unto five aged poor Widows within the same parish, being known or reputed to be of honest life and conversation, and past their labour (that is to say) to every of the same five poor Widows a Waistcoat and Kirtle, a pair of Stockings and a pair of Shoes. And that the same five ●oore Widows shall be yearly nominated and appointed by the said T. C. during his life, and after his decease the same five poor Widows shall be at the nomination and appointment of the Parson and Churchwardens of the said parish of S. Buttolph without Bishopsgate aforesaid, for the time being, and their successors yearly and for ever. Wherein the meaning and desire of the said T. C. is, that those five poor Widows, or so many of them which shall be living at the time of his decease, that shall be nominated by him in his life time, for to have receive the gifts and benevolences aforesaid, shall and may every one of them yearly, during their lives, respectively have and receive one Waistcoat and Kirtle, a pair of Stockings and a pair of Shoes, of the gift aforesaid; provided that they and either of them be of good life and conversation.  
Now without this Churchyard wall, was a Causeway, 
Petty-France, near to the Town ditch.  leading to a Quadran● called Petty-France, of diverse Frenchmen dwelling there, and to other dwelling houses, lately builded on the bank of the said ditch by some Citizens of London, that more regarded their own private gain, than the common good of the City. For by means of this Causeway raised on the bank, and soylage of houses, with other filthiness cast into the ditch, the same became enforced to a narrow channel, and almost filled up with unsavoury things, to the danger of impoisoning the whole City.  
For prevention whereof, and in a worthy charitable disposition of so honourable a City (in regard that this parish was greatly unprovided of the burial for their dead) that needless Causeway or passage to Petty-France, was given by the City to the said Parish, 
A new place of burial, made by the other Churchyard.  for the same intent; which they have (since then) made good and firm ground, walling it about with a good strong brick wall, serving as a lower and supplying Churchyard by itself; and towards the charges whereof, diverse good Parishioners (that desire to be nameless) gave large and honest contribution. And because they would not show themselves unthankful to the City for so great a benefit, their expression standeth thus fixed over the Gate, at entrance into the said Churchyard.  
Coemeterium hoc inferius Civitate Londinensi huic Parochiae concessum, sumptib●s ejusdem Parochiae mure lateritio septum est. An. Dom. 1615. Stephano Gossono, Rectore, Thomo Johnsono & Johanne Hedicio, Ecclesiae Gardianis.  
This Churchyard being consecrated the 4. day of june, 1617. the first man buried therein chanced to be a Frenchman borne; upon whose burial, these Verses were written by my friend Mr. Th. Collins.  
A Frenchman borne,  
hight Martin de la Tours,  
Was the first man  
was buried in this ground,  
A Schoolmaster he was:  
And this a part of our  
Neere-neighbouring point,  
of Petty France small bound,  
So Martin of the Tower  
may well be said  
T'have died in England,  
yet in France was laid.  

August 10. 1626.  
In Petty France out of Christian burial, 
The memory of a Persian buried out of the Churchyard.  was buried Hodges Shaughsware a Persian Merchant, who with his son came over with the Persian Ambassador, and was buried by his own Son, who read certain prayers, and used other Ceremonies, according to the custom of their own Country, 
This was thus Englished by his interpreter.  Morning and Evening, for a whole month after the burial: for whom is set up at the charge of his Son, a Tomb of stone with certain Persian Characters thereon; the exposition thus, This Grave is made for Hodges Shaughsware, the chiefest servant to the King of Persia, for the space of 20. years, who came from the King of Persia and died in his service. If any Persian cometh out of that Country, let him read this and a prayer ●er him, the Lord receive his soul, for here lieth Maghmore Shanghsware, who was borne in the Town of Novoy in Persia.  
The bounds of Saint Buttolph's Parish without Bishopsgate, London, are thus: From Bishopsgate (under a part of which the City Ditch runneth) Westward, close by the Ditch, they pass along by Petty France, into Moore-field: under the wall and Causeway thereof (towards Bethelem;) there did run a ditch, and from the North part of the said Field, still doth, so far as Hog lane, which is at the upper end of the Garden Alleys. Close to which ditch, the Parish extendeth all along on the inside, and taketh in one side of Hog-lane.  
Thence strait forth, it beginneth on the further side of Norton Folgate: thence into S. Mary spital, and thence into a part of Petticoat lane, so far as Gravell-lane end: and so through diverse Gardens on the back side of Fishers-Folly, into Hounds-ditch, at the sign of the Hand and Still. So to the Ditch and City Wall: thence right opposite, on to Bishopsgate again. My friendly furtherance here, was by the help of Mr. Richard Weoley, Parish Clerk there.  
Next unto the Parish Church of S. Buttolph, 
Hospital of Bethelem.  was a fair Inn for receipt of Travellours: then an Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlem, founded by Simon Fitz Mary, one of the Sheriffs of London, in the year 1246. He founded it to have been a Priory of Canons, with Brethren and Sisters: and King Edward the third granted a Protection (which I have seen) for the brethren, Militiae beatae Mariae de Bethlem, within the City of London, the 14. year of his reign. It was an Hospital for distracted people. Stephen Gennings, Merchant-taylor, gave 40. l. toward purchase of the Patronage, by his Testament, 1523. The Mayor and Communality purchased the patronage thereof, with all the Lands and Tenements thereunto belonging, in the year 1546.   

The Copy of an ancient Deed of Gift, given to Bethlem or Bedlam, by Simon the son of Mary.  
TO all the children of our Mother holy Church, to whom this present writing shall come; Simon the son of Mary sendeth greeting inour Lord. Where among other things, and before other Lauds, the high altitude of the heavenly Counsels, marvellously wrought by some readier devotion, it ought to be more worshipped; of which things the mortal sickness (after the fall of our first Father Adam) hath taken the beginning of this new repairing: Therefore forsooth, it beseemeth worthy, that the place, in which the Son of God is become man, and hath proceeded from the Virgin's womb, which is increaser and beginner of man's redemption, namely aught to be with reverence worshipped, and with beneficial portions to be increased. Therefore it is, that the said Simon, son of Mary; having special and singulor devotion to the Church of the glorious Virgin at Bethelem, where the same Virgin of her brought forth our Saviour incarnate, and lying in the Cratch, and with her own milk nourished; and where the same Child to us there borne, the Chivalry of the heavenly Company, sang the new Hymn, Gloria in excelsis Deo. The same time, the increaser of our health, (as a King, and his Mother a Queen) willed to be worshipped of Kings: a new star going before them at the honour and reverence of the same Child, and his most meek Mother: And to the exaltation of my most Noble Lord, Henry, King of England; whose wife and child the foresaid Mother of God, and her only Son, have in their keeping and protection: And to the manifold increase of this City of London, in which I was borne: And also for the health of my soul, and the souls of my predecessors and successors, my Father, Mother, and my friends: And specially for the souls of Guy of Marlowe, John Durant, Ralph Ashwye, Maud, Margaret, and Dennis, women: Have given, granted, and by this my present Charter, here have confirmed to God, and to the Church of S. Mary of Bethelem, all my Lands which I have in the Parish of S. Burtolph without Bishopsgate of London; that is to say, whatsoever I there now have, or had, or in time to come may have, in houses, gardens, pools, ponds, ditches and pits, and all their appurtenances, as they be closed in by their bounds; which now extend in length from the King's high street East, to the great ditch in the West, the which is called Deep ditch and in breadth, to the Lands of Ralph Downing in the North: and to the Land of the Church of Saint Buttolph in the South. To have and to hold the foresaid Church of Bethelem in free and perpetual Alms: And also to make there a Priory, and to ordain a Prior and Canons, Brothers and also Sisters, when jesus Christ shall enlarge his grace upon it. And in the same place, the Rule and order of the said Church of Bethelem solemnly professing, which shall bear the token of a Star openly in their Copes and Mantles of profession, and for to say divine Service there for the souls aforesaid, and all Christian souls: And specially to receive there the Bishop of Bethelem, canons, Brothers and Messengers of the Church of Bethelem for evermore, as often as they shall come thither. And that a Church or Oratory there shall be builded, as soon as our Lord shall enlarge his grace: under such form, that the order, institution of Priors, Canons, Brothers, Sisters of the visitation, correction and reformation of the said place, to the Bishop of Bethelem and his successors, and to the Charter of his Church, and of his Messengers, as often as they shall come thither, as shall seem them expedient, no man's contradiction notwithstanding, shall pertain for evermore: Saving always the services of the chief Lords, as much as pertaineth to the said Land. And to the more surety of this thing, I have put myself out of this Land, and all mine: And Lord Godfrey, then chosen of the Nobles of the City of Rome, Bishop of Bethelem, and of the Pope confirmed then by his name in England, in his name, and of his successors, and of his Chapter of his Church of Bethelem, into bodily possession: I have indented and given to his possession, all the foresaid lands, which possession he hath received, and entered in form abovesaid. And in token of subjection and reverence, the said place in London without Bishopsgate, shall pay yearly in the said City, a Mark sterling at Easter, to the Bishop of Bethelem, his Successors of his Messengers, in the name of a Pension. And if the faculties or goods of the said place (our Lord granting) happen to grow more, the said place shall pay more, in the name of pension, at the said term, to the Mother Church of Bethelem. This (forsooth) gift and confirmation of my deed, and the putting to of my Scale for me and mine heirs, I have steadfastly made strong, the year of our Lord God, 
Anno 39  A thousand, two hundred, 
Hen. 3.  forty seven, the Wednesday after the Feast of S. Luke the Evangelist: These being witnesses, Peter the son of Allen, than Mayor of London, Nicholas Bet, than Sheriff of the said City, and Alderman of the said Ward; Ralph Sparling, Alderman; Godfrey of Camps, Simon Comicent, Simon Ronner, Rob. of Woodford, Thomas of Woodford, Walter Pointell, Walter of Woodford, etc.  
The same year, King Henry the 8. gave this Hospital unto the City: the Church and Chapel whereof were taken down in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and houses builded there, by the Governors of Christ's Hospital in London. In this place, people that be distraught in their wits, are (by the suit of their friends) received and kept as afore, but not without charges to their bringers in. 
H●m. 〈◊〉   
At a Court of Aldermen, holden on Tuesday, the 20. of january, An. 4. Ed. 6. a Carre-roome was freely given to the inhabitants of Bishopsgate Ward, to the intent, that they should cause the utter parts of the said Ward without the gate to be kept clean.  
Also, at a Court of Aldermen, holden on Tuesday the 7. of April, An. 5. Edw. 6. 
H●m. Diso●  It was ordered that the inhabitants within the precinct of Bethlem should be (from thenceforth) united to the parish Church of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, and so by the Parson and parishioners of the same parish accepted and taken; and to be allotted and charged with them, to all offices and charges (Tithes and Clerks wages excepted:) In consideration whereof, the Parson of the said parish was to receive yearly out of the Chamber of London 20 shillings, and the Parish Clarke 6. shillings 8. pence.  
In the year 1569. Sir Thomas Roe, 
Burial for the dead prepared.  Merchant-Taylor, Mayor, caused to be enclosed (with a wall of brick) about one Acre of ground, 
Deep ditch by Bethlem.  being part of the said Hospital of Bethlem, to wit, on the bank of a deep ditch so called, parting the said Hospital of Bethlem from the Moor field: this he did for burial, and ease of such parishes in London, as wanted ground convenient within their Parishes. The Lady his wife was there buried (by whose persuasion he enclosed it) but himself borne in London, was buried in the Parish Church of Hackney.  
From this hospital Northward upon the streets side, many houses have been builded with Allies backward, of late time too much pestered with people (a great cause of infection) up to the Bars.  
The other side of this high street from Bishopsgate and Hounds-ditch, 
Dolphin without Bishopsgate.  the first building is, a large Inn for receipt of travellers, and is called the Dolphin, of such a sign.  
In the year 1513. Margaret Ricroft Widow, gave this house with the Gardens and appurtenances, unto William Gam, R. Glye, their wives, her daughters, and to their heirs, with condition, they yearly give to the Warden or Governor of the Grey Friar's Church within Newgate forty shillings, to find a Student of Divinity in the University for ever.  
Then is there a fair house of late builded by john Powlet. Next to that, a far more large and beautiful house, with Gardens of pleasure, howling allies, 
Fisher's folly.  and such like, builded by jasper Fisher, free of the Goldsmiths, late one of the six Clerks of the Chancery, and a justice of peace. It hath since (for a time) been the Earl of Oxford's place. The late Queen Elizabeth hath lodged there: It now belongeth to the Earl of Devonshire. This house being so large and sumptuously builded, by a man of no great calling, possessions or wealth, (for he was indebted to many) was mockingly called Fishers folly, and a Rhythm was made of it, and other the like, in this manner;  
Kirbies' Castle, and Fisher's Folly,  
Spinilas' pleasure, and Megses glory.  
And so of other like buildings about the City, by Citizens, men have not letted to speak their pleasure.  
From Fisher's folly, 
Berwards lane.  up to the west end of Berwards lane, of old time so called, but now Hog lane, because it meeteth with Hog lane, which cometh from the Bars without Ealdgate, as is aforeshewed; is a continual building of tenements, with Allies of Cottages, pestered, 
Tazell Close.  etc. Then is there a large Close, called Tazell Close, sometime, for that there were Tazels planted for the use of Clothworkers: since let to the Crossbow makers, wherein they used to shoot for games at the Popingey. Now the same being enclosed with a Brick wall, 
Artillery yard.  serveth to be an Artillery yard, or Garden, whereunto the Gunners of the Tower weekly do repair; namely, every Thursday, and there levelling certain Brass Pieces of great Artillery against a But of earth, made for that purpose, they discharged them for their exercise. Present use is made thereof, by diverse worthy Citizens, Gentlemen and Captains, using Martial Discipline, and where they meet (well-near) weekly, to their great commendation in so worthy an exercise, whereof hereafter I will speak more at large.  
Then have ye the late dissolved Priory and Hospital, 
Walter Brune Mercer, one of the Sheriffs of London, 1203.  commonly called, Saint Marie spital, founded by Walter Brune, and Rosia his wife, for Canons regular; Walter, Archdeacon of London, laid the first stone in the year 1197. William of Saint Mary Church, than Bishop of London, dedicated it to the honour of jesus Christ, and his Mother the perpetual Virgin Mary by the name of Domus Dei, and Beatae Mariae, extra Bishopsgate, in the parish of S Buttolph, the bounds whereof, as appear by composition betwixt the Parson & Prior of the said Hospital, 
Berwards lane.  concerning tithes, beginneth at Berwards lane toward the south & extendeth in breadth to the Parish of S. Leonard of Sores ditch towards the North, 
Soreditch so called more than 400. years since.  and in length, from the King's street on the West to the Bishops of London's field, called Lollesworth on the East. The Prior of this Saint Mary spital, for the emortising and propriation of the Priory of Bikenacar in Essex, to his said house of S. Marry spital, gave to Henry the seventh 400. l. in the two and twentieth of his reign. This Hospital surrendered to Henry the eighth, was valued to dispend 478 l. wherein was found, besides ornaments of the Church, and other goods pertaining to the Hospital, 180. beds well furnished, for receipt of the poor: for it was an Hospital of great relief. Sir Henry Plesington, Knight, was buried there, 1452.  
In place of this Hospital, 
Pulpit Cross at the spital.  and near adjoining, 
Charnel and Chapel of S. Edmond and of Mary Magdalen.  are now many fair houses builded, for receipt and lodging of worshipful persons. A part of the large Churchyard pertaining to this Hospital, and severed from the rest with a Brick wall, yet remaineth as of old time, with a Pulpit Cross therein, 
Sermons in the Easter holidays at the spital.  somewhat like to that in Paul's Churchyard. And against the said Pulpit on the South side before the Charnel and Chapel of Saint Edmond the Bishop, and Mary Magdalen, which Chapel was founded about the year 1391. by W. Euesham, Citizen and Peperer of London, who was there buried; remaineth also one fair builded house of two stories in height for the Mayor, and other honourable persons, with the Aldermen and Sheriffs to sit in, there to hear the Sermons preached in the Easter holidays. In the Loft over them stood the Bishop of London, and other Prelates; but now the Ladies, and Alderman's Wives do there stand at a fair Window, or sit at their pleasure.  
And here is to be noted, that time out of mind, it hath been a laudable custom, that on good Friday in the afternoon, some especial learned man, by appointment of the Prelates, hath preached a Sermon at Paul's Cross, treating of Christ's passion: and upon the three next Easter Holidays, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the like learned men, by the like appointment, have used to preach on the forenoons at the said spital, to persuade the Article of Christ's resurrection: and then on Low Sunday, one other learned man at Paul's Cross, to make rehearsal of those four former Sermons, either commending or reprooving them, as to him (by judgement of the learned Divines) was thought convenient. And that done, he was to make a Sermon of his own study, which in all were five Sermons in one. At these Sermons so severally preached, the Mayor with his Brethren the Aldermen were accustomed to be present in their Violets at Paul's on good Friday, and in their Scarlets at the spital in the Holidays, except Wednesday, in Violet, and the Mayor with his Brethren on Low Sunday in Scarlet, at Paul's Cross, continued until this day.  
Touching the Antiquity of this Custom, I find that in the year 1398. King Richard having procured from Rome, confirmation of such statutes, and ordinances, as were made in the Parliament, begun at Westminster, and ended at Shrewsbury, he caused the same confirmation to be read and pronounced at Paul's Cross and at Saint Mary spital, in the Sermons before all the people. Philip Malpas one of the Sheriffs in the year 1439. gave 20. shillings by the year to the three Preachers at the Spittle. 
House in S. Marry spital Church-yard builded for the Mayor and Aldermen Pulpit Cross in spital Church-yard new builded.  Stephen Forstor Mayor in the year 1594. gave forty pounds to the Preachers of Paul's Cross and spital. I find also, that the aforesaid house, wherein the Mayor and Aldermen do sit at the spital, was builded (for that purpose) or the goods, and by the executors of Rich. Rawson Alderman, and Isabel his wife, in the year 1488. In the year 1594. this Pulpit being old, was taken down, and a new one set up, the Preachers face turned towards the South, which was before toward the West. Also a large house (on the East side of the said Pulpit) was then builded, 
A house in spital Church-yard builded for the Governors and Children of Christ's Hospital.  for the Governors and Children of Christ's Hospital to sit in: and this was done of the goods of William Elkin Alderman, late deceased. But within the first year, the same house decaying, and like to have fallen, was again (with great ●ost) repaired at the City's charge.  
Here I may not omit an especial matter, because in my remembrance, nor else (in my reading) I find not the like. On Monday in Easter week, 
On Monday in Easter week, An. Dom. 1617. A Saint Mary spital.  being April 21. 1617. our most Gracious Sovereign King james, being gone on his Journey to Scotland: It pleased diverse Lords and other of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, to visit this place of Saint Mary spital, and there to remain in company (during the Sermon time) with the Lord Maior, Sir john Leman, and his worthy Brethren the Aldermen of this City. The Sermon being ended, they road home with the Lord Mayor to his house near Belingsgat, where they were lovingly and honourably both welcomed and entertained with a most liberal and bountiful Dinner, and all the Gentlemen attending on them. The Lords, were the right reverend Father in God, George Lord Archbishop of Canturbury, Sir Francis Bacon, Lord keeper of the great Seal of England; the Earl of Worcester; the Lord Lis●e, Lord Chamberlain to her Majesty, the Lord Bishop of London; the Lord Carew; the Lord Knivet; Sir julius Caesar; Sir Thomas Edmond; Sir john Digby, with diverse other Knights and worthy Gentlemen, etc. And the Preacher that then preached, was Master Doctor Page, of Detford in Kent.  
On the East side of this Churchyard lieth a large field, 
Lolesworth field.  of old time called Lolesworth, 
Burial of the Romans in spital field.  now spital field, which about the year 1576. was broken up for Clay to make Brick: in the digging thereof many earther pots called Vrnae, were found full of Ashes, 
Old Monuments of the Romans found.  and burnt bones of men, to wit of the Romans that inhabited here. For it was the custom of the Romans, to burn their dead, to put their Ashes in an Urn, and then bury the same with certain Ceremonies, in some field appointed for that purpose near unto their City.  
Every of these pots had in them (with the Ashes of the dead) one piece of Copper money, with the inscription of the Emperor then reigning: some of them were of Claudius, some of V●spasian, some of Near, of Antoninus Pius, of Trajanus, and others. Besides those Urns, many other pots were found in the same place, made of a white earth, with long necks, and handles, like to our stone Jugs: these were empty, but seemed to be buried full of some liquid matter, long since consumed and soaked through. For there were found diverse Vials, and other fashioned Glasses, some most cunningly wrought, such as I have not seen the like, and some of Crystal, all which had water in them, nothing differing in clearness, taste, or savour from common spring water; whatsoever it was at the first. Some of these Glasses had Oil in them very thick, and earthly in savour. Some were supposed to have Balm in them, but had lost the virtue: many of these pots and Glasses were broken in cutting of the Clay, so that few were taken up whole.  
There were also found diverse Dishes and Cups, of a fine red coloured earth, which showed outwardly such a shining smoothness, as if they had been of Coral. Those had (in the bottoms) Roman letters printed, there were also Lamps of white earth and red, artificially wrought with diverse Antiques about them, some three or four Images, made of white earth, about a span long each of them: one I remember was of Pallas, the rest I have forgotten. I myself have reserved (amongst diverse of those antiquities there) one Urn, with the Ashes and bones, and one pot of white earth very small, not exceeding the quantity of a quarter of a wine pint, made in shape of a Hare, squatted upon her legs, and between her ears is the mouth of the por.  
There hath also been found (in the same field) diverse Coffins of stone, 
Troughs of Stone found in the spital field.  containing the bones of men: these I suppose to be the burials of some special persons, in time of the Britons, or Saxons, after that the Romans had left to govern here. Moreover, there were also found the scuis and bones of men, without Coffins, or rather whose Coffins (being of great timber) were consumed. 
Great Nails of Iron found in the field and fond opinions of men.  Divers great Nails of Iron were there found, such as are used in the Wheels of shod Carts, being each of them as big as a man's finger, and a quarter of a yard long, the heads two inches over. Those Nails were more wondered at than the rest of the things there sound, and many opinions of men were there uttered of them, namely, that the men there buried, were murdered by driving those Nails into their heads; a thing unlikely: for a smaller Nail would more aptly serve to so bad a purpose, and a more secret place would lightly be employed for such burial.  
But to set down what I have observed concerning this matter, I there beheld the bones of a man lying (as I noted) the head North, the feet South, and round about him (as thwart his head, along both his sides, and thwart his feet) such Nails were found. Wherefore I conjectured them to be the nails of his Coffin, which had been a trough, cut out of some great tree, and the same covered with a plank of a great thickness, fastened with such Nails, and therefore I caused some of the Nails to be reached up to me; and found under the broad heads of them, the old wood, scant turned into earth, but still retaining both the grain and proper colour. Of these Nails (with the wood under the head thereof) I reserved one, as also the neither jawbone of the man, the teeth being great, sound, and fixed, which (amongst many other Monuments there found) I have yet to show; but the Nail lying dry, is by scaling greatly wasted. And thus much for this part of Bishopsgate Ward, without the Gate: for I have in another place spoken of the Gate, and therefore I am to speak of that other part of this Ward, which lieth within the Gate.  
And first to begin on the left hand of Bishopsgate street, 
Clerks Hall and their almshouses in Bishopsgate street.  from the Gate ye have certain Tenements of old time pertaining to a brotherhood of St. Nicholas, granted to the Parish Clerks of London for two Chaplains to be kept in the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, near unto the Guild hall of London, in the 27. of Henry the sixth. The first of these house towards the North, and against the Wall of the City, was sometime a large Inn or Court, called the Wrestlers of such a sign, and the last in the high street towards the South, was sometime also a fair Inn called the Angel, of such a sign. Amongst these said Tenements was (on the same street side) a fair Entry or Court to the common Hall of the said Parish Clarks, with proper Almshouses, seven in number, adjoining, for Parish Clerks, and their Wives, their Widows, such as were in great years not able to labour. One of these, by the said Brotherhood of Parish Clerks, was allowed sixteen pence the week, the other six had each of them nine pence the week, according to the Patent thereof granted. This Brotherhood (amongst other) being suppressed: In the reign of Edward the sixth, the said Hall with the other buildings there, was given to Sir Robert Chester, a Knight of Cambridge-shire, against whom the Parish Clerks commencing suit, in the reign of Queen Mary, and being like to have prevailed, the said Sir Robert Chester pulled down the Hall, sold the timber, stone and lead, and thereupon the suit was ended. The Almshouses remained in the Queen's hands, and people were there placed, such as could make best friends. Some of them taking the pension appointed, have let forth their houses for great rent, giving occasion to the Parson of the Parish, to challenge tithes of the poor, etc.  
Next unto this is the small Parish Church of Saint Ethelburge, 
Parish Church of S. Ethelbiage.  Virgin, and from thence some small distance is a large Court, called little S. Helen's, because it pertained to the Nuns of St. Helen's, 
Priory of S. Helen's and almshouses.  and was their house: there were seven Almes-roomes or houses for the poor, belonging to the Company of Leathersellers. Then somewhat more West is another Court with a winding lane, which cometh out against the West end of Saint Andrew Vndershafts Church. In this Court standeth the fair Church of Saint Helen, 
Parish Church of S. Helen.  sometime a Priory of black Nuns, and in the same a parish Church of S. Helen.  
This Priory was founded before the reign of Henry the third. William Basin, Deane of Paul's was the first Founder, and was their buried, and William Basin, one of the Sheriffs of London, in the second year of Edward the second, was holden also to be a Founder, or rather an helper there. This Priory being value at 314. l. 2. s. 6. d. was surrendered the 25. of November, the 30. of Henry the 8. The whole Church, th●●rtition betwixt the Nun's Church and Parish Church being taken down, remaineth now to the Parish, and is a fair Parish Church, but wanteth such a steeple, as Sir Thomas Gresham promised to have builded, in recompense of ground in their Church filled up with his Monument.  
The Nun's Hall, and other housing thereto pertaining, 
Leathersellers Hall.  was since purchased by the Company of Leather sellers, and is their common Hall: which Company was incorporate in the 21. year of Richard the second.  
In the Church of S. Helen, have ye these Monuments of the dead:  
Thomas Langton, Chaplain, buried in the Choir, 1350.  
Adam Francis, Maior 1354.  
Elizabeth Vennar, wife to William Vennar, Alderman, one of the Sheriffs of London, 1401.  
joan, daughter to Henry Seamer, wife to Richard, son and heir to Robert Lord Poynings, died a Virgin, 1420.  
john Swinflat, 1420.  
Nicholas Martial, Ironmonger, Alderman, 1474.  
Sir john Crosby, Alderman, 1475. and Anne his wife.  
Thomas Williams, Gentleman, 1495.  
joan Cocken, wife to john Cocken, Esquire, 1509.  
Marry Orrell, wife to Sir Lewes Orrell, Knight.  
Henry Summer, and Katherine his wife.  
Walter Huntingdon, Esquire.  
John Langthrop, Esquire, 1510.  
John Gower, Steward of Saint Helen's, 1512  
Robert Rochester, Esquire, Sergeant of the pantry to Henry the eighth.  
Sir William Sanctlo, and Sir William Sanctlo, father and fonne.  
Elinor, daughter to Sir Thomas Butler, Lord Sudley. John Southworth.  
Nicholas Harpsfield, Esquire.  
Thomas Sanderford, or Sommerford, Alderman.  
Alexander Cheney.  
Walter Dawbeney.  
George Fastolph, fonne to Hugh Fastolph.  
Robert Liade.  
Thomas Benolt, alias Clarentiaulx, King at Arms, 1534.  
William Hollis, Maior, 1540  
John Fauconbridge, Esquire, 1545.  
Hacket, Gentleman of the King's Chapel.  
Sir Andrew jud, Maior, 1551.  
Sir Thomas Gresham, Mercer, 1579.  
William Skegges, Sergeant Poulter.  
Richard Gresham, fonne to Sir Thomas Gresham, 1564.  
Quiescit hic Gulielmus Pickeringus, Pater, Equestris Ordinis vir, Miles Mariscallus. Qui obiit 19 die Maii, Anno Salutis a Christo, 1542.  
jacet hic etiam Gulielmus Pickeringus, Films, Miles, corporis animique bonny insigniter ornatus; Literis excultus, & Religione Sincerus; linguas exacte percalluit. Quatuor Principibus Summa cum laude inservivit: Henrico Scilicet octavo, Militari virtue: Edvardo sexto, Legatione Gallica: Regine Mariae, negotiatione Germanica: Elizabethae, Principi omnium illustrissimae, summis officiis devotissimus. Obiit Londini, in adibus Pickeringiis, Etate 58. Anno Gratie, 1574. januarii quarto.  
Cujus Memory, Thomas Henneagius, Miles, Camer & Regi & Thesaurarius; Johannes Asteley, Armiger, jocalium Magister; Drugo Drureius, & Thomas Wotton Armig. Testamenti Sui Executores, Monumentum hoc posuere.  
Here lieth the body of William Bond, Alderman, and sometime Sheriff of London; A Merchant Adventurer, and most famous (in his age) for this great adventures both by Sea and Land. Obiit 30. die Maii, 1576.  
Flos Mercatorum,  
quos terra britanna creavit,  
Ecce sub hoc tumulo  
Gulielmus Bondus humatur.  
Ille mari multum  
pass us per saxa per undas,  
Vitavit Patrias  
Peragrinis mercibus oras.  
Magnanimum Greci  
mirantur jasona vates,  
Aurea de gelido  
retulit guiavellera Phasi.  
Grecia decta tace,  
Graii concedite vates,  
Hicjacet Argolico  
Mercator jafone Major.  
Vellera multa tulit,  
magis aurea vellere phryxi,  
Etsreta multa Scidit  
magis ardua Phasidos undis:  
Hei mihi quod nullo  
morsest Superabilis auro,  
Fles Mercatorum,  
Gulielmus Bondus humatur.  
Hicsitus eft joannes Spencer, Eques Aurasus Civis & Senator Loadinenfis, ejufdem Civitatis Praetor, An. Dom. 1594. Lui ex Alicia Bromefeldia Vxore, unican reliquit Filiam Elizabeth, Gulielmo, Earoni Compton enuptam. Obits 30. die Martii, Anno falutis. M.D. C.IX  
Socero bene merico Gulielmus Baro Compton gener pofuis.  
Within this monument lieth the earthly parts of john Robinson, Merchant of the Staple in England, free of the Merchant Tailors, and sometime Alderman of London: And Christian his wife, eldest daughter of Thomas Anderson, Grocer. They spent together in holy wedlock 36. years, and were happy (besides other worldly blessings) in nine Sons and Seven Daughters. She changed her mortal habitation for a heavenly, on the 24. day of April, An. Dom. 1592. Her Husband following her, on the 19 day of February, 1599 Both much beloved in their lives, and more lamented at their deaths; especially by the poor, to whom their good deeds (being alive) begot many prayers, now (being dead, many tears. The Glaffe of his life held 70. years and then ran out. To live long, and happy, is an honour; but to die happy, a greater glory: Both these aspired to both. Heaven (no doubt) bathe their fowls, and this house of stone their bodies, where they Sleep in peace, till the summons of a glorious resurrection wakens them.  
Here lieth the body of William Kerwin, 
A comely Alabaster Tomb, standing in the midst of the Church below.  of this City, free Mason. Who departed this life the 26. day of Decemb. 1594.  
Aedibus Attalicis  
Londinum qui decoravi,  
Exiguum tribuunt  
hanc mihi fata domum.  
Me duce surgebant  
aliis regalia tecta,  
Me duce conficitur  
ossibus urna meis.  
Here also lieth the body of Magdalen Kerwin, his wife, by whom he had issue, two sons and two daughters. She deceased the 23. day of August, 1592.  
Magdalena jacet  
virtus post fata superstes,  
Conjugiique fides,  
Religioque manen●.  
Corpus humo tectum,  
Christo veniente resurget,  
Vt mentis consors  
astra suprema colat.  
Christus mihi vita.  
Mors mihi lucrum.  
Nos quos certus amor  
primis conjunxit ab annis,  
junxit idem Tumulus,  
junxit idemque polus.  
There is a fair Grave-stone, engraven on the plain stone, being there laid in memorial of Mr. Abraham Orelius, a learned Preacher of the French Church; it lieth near to Sir john Spencer's Tomb, in the South I'll of the Chancel; but none new else beside.  
A young newborn child was taken up, 
A printed memory hanging up in a Table, at the entranced to the Church door.  between the great Warehouse and Sir john Spencer's back gate, being (by a most unnatural mother) there buried in a great dunghill of Sea-coal ashes, with the face upward; yet found alive by Richard Atkinson, who used to make clean the passage there of the soil, carrying it thence with his wheel-barrow. The child had not any rag or cloth about it, but was all bloodied, by reason that the Navillstring was untied, and the body merely crusted over with the Sea-coal dust. Yet being made clean by the poor man's wife, it was found to be a most goodly Manchild, strong and well featured, without any blemish or harm upon it: but strangled inwardly, by sucking in the noisome filth and ashes.  
It was christened, and named job clnere extractus; job taken out of the ashes. It lived 3. days, and dying, lies buried in the Churchyard, the 5. of September, 1612. Richard Ball, Minister; William Robinson, and Richard Westney, Churchwardens; Thomas Edwards and Abraham Grammar, Sidemen; john Harvey, Clerke.  
The charity that I find in this Parish given to the poor, is 2. s. every Sunday (for ever) in Bread, allowed by the gift of the fore-remembred Mr. Robinson. And 1. s. also in Bread every Sunday given by Mistress Scioll.  
The bounds and limits of S. Helen's Parish, called Bishopsgatestreet, the furthest house on the East side, wherein Thomas Child now dwelleth, towards the South, abutteth upon the tenement now in the occupation of james Austen, in the Parish of Saint Martins Oteswich. The furthest house, wherein Edward Higges, Sadler, now dwelleth, towards the North, abutteth upon the Parsonage house of Saint Ethelburges Parish, enclosing (withal) little S. Helen's Close, wherein the Leathersellers Hall, other Tenements, and Almshouses belonging to the said Company, do stand. As also great Saint Helen's Close; wherein the Parish Church, with a thoroughfare to the back-gate, leading into S. Mary at the Axe; and the utmost house belonging to the said Parish, is next adjoining to the said gate towards the South, and openeth into the street there, commonly called Saint Mary at Axe.  
On the West side of the street, called Bishopsgatestreet, the furthest house, wherein Thomas Goodson now dwelleth, (towards the South) abutteth upon the gate, wherein Mr. Richard Fox, Alderman's Deputy, 〈◊〉 dwelled, in the Parish of S. Martin Oteswich. And the furthest house, wherein Nathaniel Wright then also dwelled, towards the North, abutteth upon the message or Tenement Inue, called the Black Bull, in the said Parish of Saint Ethelburge. By me, Io. Warner, Parish-Clerke there.  
Then have ye one great house, 
Of 〈◊〉 place, and of Sir john 〈◊〉  called Crosby Place, because the same was builded by Sir john Crosby, Gracer and Woollman, in place of certain Tenements, with their appurtenances, let to him by Alice Ashfeld, Prioress of S. Helen's, and the Covent, for ninety nine years, from the year 1466. unto the year 1565. for the annual rent of eleven pounds six shillings eight pence. This house he builded of stone and timber, very large and beautiful, and the highest at that time in London: he was one of the Sheriffs, and an Alderman in the year 1470. knighted by Edward the fourth, in the year 1471. and deceased in the year 1475. so short a time enjoyed he that his large and sumptuous building.  
He was buried in Saint Helen's, the Parish Church, a fair Monument of him and his Lady is raised there: he gave towards the reforming of that Church five hundred marks, which was bestowed with the better, as appear by his Arms, both in the stone-worke, roof of Timber, and glazing.  
I hold it a fable said of him, to be named Crosby, of being found by a cross; for I have read of other to have that name of Crosby before him; namely, in the year 1406. the 7. of Henry the 4. the said King gave to his servant john Crosby, the wardship of john, daughter and sole heir to john jordaine, Fishmonger, etc. This Crosby might be Father or Grandfather to Sir john Crosby.  
Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Lord Protector, afterward King, by the name of Richard the third, was lodged in this house: since which time, among other, Anthony B●nvice, a rich Merchant of Italy, dwelled there; after him Garmain Cioll. Then William Bond, Alderman, increased this house in height, with building a Turret on the top thereof: He deceased in the year 1576. and was buried in Saint Helen's Church. Divers Ambassadors have been lodged there; namely, in the year 1586. Henry Ramelius, Chancellor of Denmark, Ambassador unto the Queen's Majesty of England, from Frederick the second, King of Denmark: An Ambassador of France, etc. Sir john Spencer, Alderman, lately purchased this house, made great reparations, kept his Mayoralty there, and since builded a most large warehouse near thereunto.  
From this Crosby place, up to Leaden Hall corner, and so down Grasse-street, among other tenements, are diverse fair and large-builded houses for Merchants and such like.  
Now for the other side of this Ward, namely the right hand, 
Water-conduit at Bishopsgate.  hard by within the Gate, is one fair water-Conduit, which Tho. Knesworth, Maior in the year 1505. founded, he gave 60. pounds, the rest was furnished at the common charges of the City. This Conduit hath since been taken down, and new builded. David Woodroffe, Alderman, gave 20. pounds towards the conveyance of more water thereto. From this Conduit have ye (amongst many fair tenements) diverse fair Inns, large for receipt of travellers, and some houses for men of Worship; namely, one most spacious of all other there about, builded of brick and timber, 
Sir Thomas Gresham's house builded.  by Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, who deceased in the year 1579. and was buried in S. Helen's Church, under a fair Monument, by him prepared in his life: he appointed by his Testament, this house to be made a College of Readers, as before is said in the Chapter of schools and houses of learning.  
Somewhat West from this house, is one other fair house, wherein Sir William Hollis kept his Mayoralty, and was buried in the Parish Church of Saint Helen. Sir Andrew jud also kept his Mayoralty there, and was buried at S. Helen's. 
Sir Andrew jud his Alms houses.  He builded Almshouses for six poor Almes-people, near to the said Parish Church and gave Lands to the Skinners, out of which they are to give 4. shillings every week to the six poor Almes-people, 8. d. the piece, and 25. s. 4. d. the year in Coals amongst them for ever.  
Then in the very West corner, over against the East end of S. Martins Oteswich Church, (from whence the street windeth towards the south, you had, of old time, a fair Well with two Buckets, so fastened, that the drawing up of the one let down the other; but now of late that Well is turned into a Pump.  
From this to the corner over against the Leaden Hall, and so down Grasse-street, are many fair houses for Merchants and Artificers, and many fair Inns for travellours, even to the corner where that Ward endeth, over against Grasse-Church.  
Thus much for this Bishopsgate Ward shall suffice: which hath an Alderman, two Deputies, one without the Gate, another within; Common Counsellors, 6. Constables, 7. Scavengers, 7. for Wardmore inquest, 13. and a Beadle: it is taxed to the Fifteen at 13. l.    

BROADSTREET WARD.  
THe next is Broadstreet Ward, 
Broadstreet Ward.  which beginneth within Bishopsgate, from the Water Conduit, Westward, on both sides of the street, by Alhallows Church, to an Iron grate on the channel, which runneth into the watercourse of Walbrooke, before ye come to the Postern called Mooregate: and this is the farthest West part of that Ward. Then have ye Broadstreet, whereof the Ward taketh name, which stretcheth out of the formerstreet, from the East corner of All-hallows Church-yard, somewhat South, to the Parish Church of Saint Peter the poor, on both sides; and then by the South gate of the Augustine Friars, West, down Throkmorton street, by the Draper's hall, into Lothbury, to another grate of Iron over the channel there, whereby the water runneth into the course of Walbrooke, under the East end of S. Margaret's Church; certain posts of timber are there set up: and this is also the farthest West part of this Ward, in the said street. Out of the which street, runneth up Bartholomew Lane, South, to the North side of the Exchange: then more East out of the former street, from over against the Friars Augustine's Church South gate, runneth up another part of Broadstreet, south, to a Pump over against S. Bennets Church.  
Then have ye one other street, 
Three Needle street.  called Three Needle street, beginning at the Well with two buckets, by S. Martins Oteswich Church wall. This street runneth down on both sides to Finkes lane, and half way up that Lane, to a gate of a Merchant's house on the West side, but not so far on the East. Then the aforesaid street, from this Finkes lane, runneth down by the Royal Exchange, to the Stocks, and to a place formerly called the Scalding house, or Scalding wick, but now, Scalding Alley, by the west side whereof, under the Parish Church of Saint Mildred, 
Parish Church of All-hallows in the wall.  runneth the course of Walbrooke: and these be the bounds of this Ward. Especial Monuments therein are these:  
First, the Parish. Church of All-hallows in the wall; so called of standing close to the wall of the City, in which have been buried:  
Thomas Durrem, Esquire, and Margaret his wife.  

Robert Beale, Esquire, 1601.  
Deo Opt. Max. Sacrum & Memoriae. 
A fair Menument in the wall close by the Pulpit, on the west side thereof.   
Nobilis viri Dominici ab Heila, ex antiqua apud Flandros Equestri familia, ob singularem sidem in Principem & Patriam, in Historiis subinde celebrata oriundi, qui cum Orthodoxae Religionis ergo, relicta Patria, cui cum laude diu inservierat; in Angliam, ut tutum fidelium refugium, se recepisset, ibidem XXIV. Postremos senectutis annos in Diveni verbi jugi studio, pauperumque subventione potissimii transegisset, & diu ante, ut quotidie moriturus, de domo sua disposuisset. Dissolvi, & cum Christo esse cupieus: tandem satur dierum placidè in Deo Salvatore obdomivit, 28. Aprilis, An. Christi, M. D.CVIII. Aetatis, 82. Londini Anglorum.   

Item Memoriae.  
Nobilis Matronae, Gulielmae ab Heila, Conjugis ipsius, natae Patre Joanne Domino Haleme & Finae, prope Insulas Flandorum, ex Salopia Equaestri spud Artesios Familia.. Quae marito Patriam ob Religionem relinquenti, in utraque fortuna fida socia, & in educandis piè liberis, curandaque re domestica Materfamilias incomparabilis. Obiit in Christo, die ult. Maii. An. M.D.CU. Aetatis 70. Conjugii, LI.  
Huic utrique Parenti optimè de se merito, debiti Honoris & gratitudinis ergo, Petrus ab Heila, F. Serenissimi Electoris Palatini Consiliarius,   

H. M. Moest. P.  
Charities in this Parish are few or none, but ordinary benevolences from the parishioners themselves: except some slender moiety, issuing from certain Almshouses, builded by London wall, near to Bishopsgate, by Mr. Kempe, and in his life time, as I have been informed.  
The bounds of the Parish are needless to be spoken of, because their circuit containeth no great extent of ground. 
Carpenter's Hall.  Mr. Andrew Geneway, the Parson, used me here very kindly.  
On the otherside of the street, among many proper houses, (possessed for the most part by Curriers) is the Carpenter's Hall, which Company was incorporated in the 17. year of Edward the fourth. 
Curriers Row.   
Then East from the Curriers Row, is a long and high wall of stone, enclosing the North side of a large garden, adjoining 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. Thorough this Garden, which (of old time) consisted of diverse parts, now united, was sometimes a fair foot way, 
Lane stopped up.  leading by the west end of the Augustine Friars Church strait North, and opened somewhat West from All-hallows Church against London wall, towards Mooregate, which footway 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 Peter's Church, 
Sir William Powlet, L. Treasurer's house in Broad-street.  and the East end of the said Friar's Church, and all the said great place and Garden of Sir william Powlet to London wall, and so to Mooregate.  
This great house adjoining to the Garden aforesaid, stretcheth to the North corner of Broadstreet, and then turneth up Broadstreet, all that side, to and beyond the East end of the said Friar's Church. It was builded by the said Lord Treasurer, in place of Augustine Frier house, cloister, and gardens, etc. The Friar's Church he pulled not down, but the west end thereof, enclosed from the Steeple and Choir, was in the year 1550. granted to the Dutch Nation in London, to be their Preaching place. The other part, namely, the Steeple, Choir, and side Isles to the Choir adjoining, he reserved to household uses, as for stowage of corn, coal, and other things; his son and heir, marquis of Winchester, sold the Monuments of Noblemen (there buried) in great number, the paving stone, and whatsoever, (which cost many thousands) for one hundred pounds, and in place thereof made fair stabling for horses. He caused the lead to be taken from the roofs, and laid tile in place; which exchange proved not so profitable as he looked for, 
Sir Tho. Gresams' Almshouses.  but rather to his disadvantage.  
On the East side of this Broadstreet, amongst other buildings, on the back part of Gresham house, which is in Bishopsgate street, he placed eight proper Almshouses, builded of brick and timber, by Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, for eight Almesmen, which be now there placed rent-free, and receive each of them by his gift, 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. yearly for ever. 
Parish Church of S. Peter the poor.   
Next unto Powlet house, is the Parish Church of S. 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 Merchants, and others.   

Buried in this Church:  
Richard Fitzwilliams, Merchant-taylor, 1520.  
Sir William Roch, Maior, 1540  
Robert Calthrope, Maior, 1588.  
Dominus Joannes Hales, 
On a fair ancient place, in the wall North the Quire.  à pueritia literis deditus, excellenti ingenio, docilitati, memoriae, study & industria singulari, adjuncta Linguarum, disciplinarum juris antiquitatis-rerum divinarum, atque humanarum, magna & multiplici doctrina instructissimus, evasit innocentia, integritate, gravitate, constantia, fide, pietate, Religione, gravissimae etiam aegrotationis, & rerum difficilium diuturna perpessione, & in patientia ornatissimus fuit, vitae honestissime sanctissimeque actae, diem supremum quinto Cal. januar. 1572. clausit anima excorporis; reliquiae hoc loco sitae sunt.  
Expecto resurrectionem morta●●orum, & vitam aeternam.  
Two other Plates there are beneath in the same wall, the one of john Quarles, Draper, and the other of Edward Catcher, Pewterer.  
Here under this stone, 
A fair plated stone on the ground in the Chancel.  are buried the bodies of John Lucas, of S. John's beside Colchester, Esquire, Master of the Requests to the most virtuous, Noble, and worthy Prince, King Edward the sixth. He departed this life the 26. day of Octeber, An. Dom. 1556. And his daughter Margaret, late wife to Thomas Penny, Doctor of Physic, here buried the 13. day of November, 1587.  
Here lieth the body of the Worshipful Mr. William Cockaine the elder, 
A comely Monument fixed in the wall, at the east end of the Chancel.  Citizen and Skinner of London, who departed this life the 18. day of November, 1599 Also here lieth the body of Elizabeth Medcalfe, his first wife; by whom he had 7. sons and 4. daughters. All which daughters departed this life, before any of them accomplished the age of 10. years. The 7. sons lived, and the youngest of them (at his death) was fully 28. years of Age. which said Elizabeth departed this life, the 5. day of April, 1589. Here also lieth the body of Katherine Wonton, his second wife, who died the 19 of September, 1596. by whom he had no issue.  
In the East end of the North I'll, 
A beautiful Monument in the North I'll.  there is a fair and comely Monument, There raised and placed, in the remembrance of Sir William Garaway, Knight, and his wife. This Monument standeth highest of all, next to the doors entrance.  
Thomas Lowe, 
Too mean a remembrance (in my mind) for a man so deserving.  Eques Auratus, D. Majoris Civitatis London, Ann. Domini, 1604. Vir probus & prudens. Obiit 11. die Aprilis, An. 1623. Aetat. 78. Cui 28. die jan. 1615. Aetatis suae 67. a●●essit Anna lectissima foemina ex eodem Thoma matter, 15. liberorum; vixerum suavissima conjunctione, An. 48.  
The Charities given yearly to the poor of this Parish, are these ensuing:  
The Lady Payton, deceased, hath given yearly for ever, in bread and otherwise, the sum of 40. s.  
The Lady Ramsey, deceased, hath given the sum of 4. l. yearly for ever.  
Mr. john Quarles, Citizen and Draper of London, deceased, hath given the sum of 5. l. yearly for ever.  
Mr. William May, Merchant-taylor, deceased, hath given yearly for ever, 2. s.  
Other gifts have been there bestowed, to the poors relief, as one of forty shillings, and another of twenty shillings yearly: but being tied to no certainty, I am the more willing to omit them.  
Then next have ye the Augustin friar's Church and Churchyard, 
Frier Augustine's Church, part whereof is the Dutch Church.  the entering thereunto, by a South gate, to the West Porch, a large Church, having a most fine spired steeple, small, high, and straight, I have not seen the like: founded by Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, in the year 1253. Reginald Cobham gave his Message in London, to the enlarging thereof, in the year 1344. 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 1362. but was raised of new, as still it might have stood, had not private benefit (the only devourer of Antiquity) pulled it down. Both that goodly Steeple, and all that East part of the Church, hath lately been taken down, and houses (for one man's commodity) raised in the place, whereby London hath lost so goodly an ornament, & times hereafter may more talk of it.  
This house was valued at 57 pound, and was surrendered the 12. of Novemb. the 13. of Henry the 8.  
There lie buried in this Friar's Church, amongst others, Edmond, first son to joan, Mother to King Richard the second.  
●uy Meri●●arle ●arle of S. Paul. 
What persons of note and name. 〈◊〉 bu●●ed in the augustines 〈…〉.   
Lucy, Countess of Kent, and one the Heirs of Barnaby, Lord of Mill●● with an Epitaph.  
Dame Ide, wife to Sir Thomas▪  
Dame Margaret West.  
〈◊〉 Steven Lindericle, Esquiring  
〈◊〉 Humphrey Bohun, 〈…〉 and Essessex, Lord of Bre●●● 〈…〉.  
Ric●●● 〈◊〉 great●rundell ●rundell, Surrey● 〈…〉 1397.  
Sir 〈…〉 Dame Elizabeth his wife.  
Sir Francis Atcourt, Earl of Pembroke, which married Alice, Sister to the Earl of Oxeford.  
Dame Lucy Knowles, of Kent.  
Sir Peter Garinsers of France.  
The Lord john Vere, Earl of Oxford, beheaded on the Tower-hill, 1463.  
Aubery de Vere, son and heir to the Earl of Oxford.  
Sir Thomas Tudnam, Knight.  
William Bourser, Lord Fitz Warren.  
Sir Thomas de la Land, Knight.  
Dame joan Norris, the Lady of Bedford.  
Anne, Daughter to john, Viscount Welles.  
Walter Nevell, Esquire.  
Sir john Manners, Knight.  
The Wife of Sir David Cradocke, Knight.  
The Mother to the Lord Spencer's Wife.  
Sir Bartholomew Rodlegete.  
john, son to Sir john Wingfielde.  
Sir Walter Mews.  
Robert Newenton, Esquire.  
Philip Spencer, son to Sir Hugh Spencer.  
Dame Isabella, daughter to Sir Hugh Spencer.  
The Lords Barons, slain at Barnet field, buried there, 1471. In the body of the Church.  
Dame julian, Wife to Sir Richard Lacy.  
Sir Thomas Courtney, son to the Earl of Devonshire, and by him his sister, wedded to Cheverstone.  
The Daughter of the Lord Beaumond.  
Two sons of Sir Thomas Morley, to wit, William and Ralph.  
Sir William Talmage, Knight.  
Nicholas blondel, Esquire.  
Sir Richard Chamberlain.  
john Halton, Gentleman.  
Sir john Gifford, Knight.  
Thomas Manningham, Esquire.  
Sir William Kenuda, Knight.  
Sir William, son to Sir Thomas Terrill.  
joha Surill, Gentleman.  
In the East Wing, Margaret Barentine, Gentlewoman.  
john Spicer, Esquire, and Lettuce his wife.  
john le Percers, Esquire.  
Roger Chibary, Esquire.  
Peter Morens, Esquire.  
Thomas, son to Sir William Beckland.  
james Cuthing, Esquire.  
john Chornet, Esquire.  
William Kenely, Esquire.  
Margery, wife to Thomas Band, and daughter to john Huch.  
The L. William, marquis of Barkeley, and Earl of Nottingham, and Dame joan his wife.  
In the West Wing, Sir john Tirrell, and Dame Katherine his wife.  
Sir Walter of paul, Knight.  
Sir john Blanckwell and his wife.  
Dame jane Sayne, daughter to Sir john Lee.  
Sir john Dawbeny, son and heir to Sir Giles Dawbeny.  
William, son to Sir Roger Scroop.  
Dame joan Dawbeny, wife to Sir William Dawbeny.  
Thomas Charles, Esquire.  
Sir john Dawbeny, Knight, and his son Robert.  
Sir james Bell, Knight.  
Sir Oliver Manny Knight.  
Henry Deskie, Esquire.  
Sir Diones Mordaske.  
Sir Bernard Rollingcort.  
Sir Peter Kayor.  
Sir William Tirell, and Sir William his brother, Knights.  
William Collingborne, Esquire, beheaded, 1484.  
Sir Roger Clifford, Knight.  
Sir Thomas Coke, Maior in the year 1462.  
William Edward, Maior, 1471.  
Sir james Tirell, Sir john Windany, Knights, beheaded, 1502.  
Sir john Dawtrie, Knight, 1519.  
Dame Margaret Reed, 1510.  
Edward, Duke of Buckingham, beheaded, 1521.  
Gwiscard, Earl of Huntingdon.  
On the South side, and at the West end of this Church, 
Throkmorton street.  many fair houses are builded, namely in Throkmorton street, one very large and spacious, builded in the place of old and small tenements, 
T. Cromwell his house.  by Thomas Cromwell, Master of the King's Jewell-house; after that, Master of the Rolls, than Lord Cromwell, Knight, Lord Privy Seal, Vicar general, Earl of Essex, high Chamberlain of England, etc. This house being finished, and having some reasonable plot of ground left for a Garden, he caused the pales of the Gardens adjoining to the North part thereof, on a sudden to be taken down, 22. foot to be measured forthright into the North of every man's ground, a line there to be drawn, a trench to be cast, a foundation laid, and an high brick wall to be builded. My Father had a Garden there, & there was a house standing close to his South pale: this house they loosed from the ground, and bare upon Rulers into my Father's Garden 22. foot, ere my Father heard thereof: no warning was given him, nor other answer, (when he spoke to the surveyors of that work) but that their Master, Sir Thomas, commanded them so to do: no man durst go to argue the matter, but each man lost his Land; and my Father paid his whole rent, which was 6. shillings 8. pence the year, for that half which was left. Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men, causeth them to forget themselves.  
The Company of Drapers in London bought this house, 
The Draper's hall.  and now the same is their common Hall. This Company obtained of King Henry the 6. in the seventeenth of his reign, to be incorporate; john Gedney was chosen to be their first Master; and the 4. Wardens were, 1. Wotton, I. Derby, Robert Breton, 
The Draper's Arms.  and T. Cook. The Arms granted to the said Company, by Sir William 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 Walbrooke, have ye diverse fair houses for Merchants and other, from the which grates back again on the other side in Lotisbury (so called in Record of Edward the third, 
Lotisbury or Lothbury.  the 38. year, and now corruptly called Lothbury) are Candlestick-founders placed, till ye come to Bartholomew Lane, so called of Saint Bartholomews' Church, at the South East corner thereof. In this Lane also are diverse fair builded houses on both sides, and so likewise have ye in the other street, which stretcheth from the Friars Augustine's 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 Alban. john Catcher, 
Abbot of S. Alban his Inn.  Alderman (after dwelled there. Then is the free school, pertaining to the late dissolved Hospital of Saint Anthony, 
S. Anthony's school▪  whereof more shall be showed in another place, and so upto Three Needle street.  
On the South part of which street, 
Three Needle street.  beginning at the East, by the Well with two buckets, now turned to a Pump, 
S. Martins Oteswitch.  is the Parish Church of S. Martin called Oteswitch, of Martin de Otestwich, Nicholas de Oteswich, William Oteswich, and john Oteswich, founder's thereof, and all buried there, as appear by their ancient Monument.  
There be Monuments in this Church, of William Constantine, Alderman, and Emme his wife.  
Katherine, wife to Benedict Augustine.  
Sir William Drifield, Knight.  
john Oteswich and his wife, under a fair Monument on the South side.  
john Churchman, one of the Sheriffs in the year 1385.  
Richard Naylor, Taylor, Alderman, 1483.  
james Falleron.  
john Melchborne.  
Thomas Hay and Ellen his wife.  
William Clitherow and Margeret his wife.  
Oliver and William, sons to john Woodroofe, Esquire.  
Hugh Pemberton, Taylor, Alderman, 1500. and Katherine his wife.  
Matthew Pemberton, Merchant-Taylor, about 1514. he gave 50. l. to the repairing of S. Laurence chapel.  
Illustri ac Nobilissimo V. Domino Jacobo Falckio, 
A fair engraven stone on the South side of the Communion Table.  Domino Zelandiae Thesaurario, summo Consiliario ordinum ejusdem Provinciae, post plurimas apud plerosque Europae Reges, ac Principes obitas Honorificè Legationes, & regendarum rerum infinitas, cum omnium laude, ac admiratione curas, in extremis Ecclesiae ac Patriae cum hostibus luctis defuncto, Legati munere communi Patriae totius Provinciarum Belgicarum foederatarii apud Serenissimum & potentissimun Jacobun 1. Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hyberniae Regem: Hoc intestinorum receptaculum. Reliquum à funere totius molem, in Patria Zelandia pietati inter planctus posuit affinis ex Sorore Antonius Taymon. Obiit 4. Nonas junii. 1603.  
Parte solo recubo  
peregrino, parte paterno,  
Hoc bene si didici  
vivere, & hocce mori.  I. Murdisonius. 
Quae natat Oceano  
Zelandia corpus, Olympus  
Ipse animam, peregrè  
hoc viscera marmor habet.  A. Hunterus. 
Viscera terra Britanna  
tegit, Zelandia corpus,  
Sic mea divisit  
funera parce mihi.  I. Meursius. 
Here lieth the body of Clemens Langley, 
A fair stone, on the other side of the Table.  late wife of Richard Langley, and Daughter to Thomas Whitton, Gent. And of Joan his first wife, daughter of Robert Cresset, Esquire: who yielded her soul to her Redeemer, the last of April, 1603.  
Thyzealous care to serve thy God,  
thy constant love to Husband dear:  
Thy harmless heart to every one  
remains alive, though corpse lie here.  
Spes vermis & ego. R. L.  
Vivit post funera Virtus. C. L.  
Also the 19 day of March, 1612. Richard Langley her husband was here buried.  
Here resteth the body of the Worshipful M. Rich. Staper, 
A very goodly Tomb erected in the wall on the South side of the Church.  elected Alderman of this City, 1594. He was the greatest Merchant in his time, the chiefest Actor in discovery of the Trades of Turkey and East India: A man humble in prosperity, painful and ever ready in the affairs public, and discreetly careful of his private. A liberal housekeeper, bountiful to the poor: an upright dealer in the world, and a devout aspirer after the World to come. Much blessed in his posterity, and happy in his and their alliances. He died the last day of june, An. Dom. 1608. Intravit ut exiret.  
Sir Henry Rowe allowed 5. l. yearly for ever to the poor of this Parish, to be bestowed in bread and coals. And Mistress Sotherton yearly for ever in bread, 50. s.  
The aforesaid john Churchman, for William and john Oteswich, (by licence of H. the fourth, the sixth of his reign) gave the Advouson or Patronage of this Church, four messages and 17. shops with the appurtenances, in the Parish of S. Martins Oteswich, etc. to the Master and Wardens of Tailors and Linen Armourers, keepers of the Guild and Fraternity of S. john Baptist in London, and to their successors, in perpetual Alms, to be employed upon the poor Brethren and Sisters. Whereupon, adjoining upon the West end of this Parish Church, the said Master and Wardens builded (about a proper quadrant or squared Court) seven Almshouses, 
Tailors & Linen Armourers their alms houses in Broadstreets Ward: look more in Portsoke●● ward.  wherein they placed seven Almesmen of that Company, and their wives, (if they had wives) each of these seven, of old time, had 14. pence the week; but now of later time, their stipend by the said Master and Wardens hath been augmented to the sum of 26. shillings the quarter, which is 5. l. 4. s. the year to each of them, beside coals. More, to each of them 20. s. the year, by gift of Walter Fish, sometime Master of that Company, and Tailor to Her Majesty.  
Some small distance from thence is the Merchant-Taylors Hall, 
Tailors & Linen Armerers Hall.  pertaining to the Guild and Fraternity of Saint john Baptist, time out of mind called of Tailors and Linen Armourers of London. 
Antiquity of the Tailors feast by authority.  For I find that King Edward the first, in the 28. of his reign, confirmed this Guild by the name of Tailors and Linen Armourers, and also gave to the brethren thereof, authority every year at Midsummer to hold a Feast, and to choose unto them a Governor or Master, with Wardens: whereupon, the same year, 1300. on the Feast day of the Nativity of Saint john Baptist, they chose Henry de Ryall to be their Pilgrim. For the Master of this Mystery (as one that traveled for the whole Company) was then so called, until the 11. year of Richard the second: and the four Wardens were then called Purveyors of Alms, (now called Quartredge) of the said fraternity.  
This Merchant-Taylors Hall, sometime pertaining to a Worshipful Gentleman, named Edmond Crepin, Dominus Creeping, 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, 
Tailor's purchase their Hall.  made his grant thereof, by the name of his principal Message, in the Wards of Cornhill and Broadstreet, which Sir Oliver Ingham, Knight, did then hold; to john of Yakley, the King's Pavilion-maker. This was called the New Hall, 
Tailor's Hall.  or Tailor's Inn, for a difference from their old Hall, which was about the back side of the Red Lion in Basin lane, and in the Ward of Cordwayner street.  
The 21. of Edward the fourth, Thomas Holme, alias Clarentiaulx, King of Arms for the South part of England, granted by his Patents, to the said fraternity and Guild of Saint john Baptist, of Tailors and Linen Armourers, to bear in a Field Silver, 
The Merchant-tailors Arms.  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 purple, garnished with gold, etc.  
After this, King Henry the 7. was himself a Brother of this Fraternity, or Gild of S. john Baptist, of Tailors or Linen Armourers, (as diverse others of his predecessors Kings had been) to wit, Richard the 3. Edward the 4. Henry the 6. Henry the 5. Henry the 4. and Richard the 2. And for that diverse of that Fraternity had (time out of mind) been great Merchants, and had frequented all sorts of merchandises into most parts of the world, to the honour of the King's 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 Merchandises; especially, of woollen cloth, as well in gross, as by retail, throughout all this Realm of England, and chiefly within the said City: 
Tailors & Linen Armourers incorporated Merchant Tailors.  therefore he 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 the Merchant Tailor's Hall, 
Finke lane.  is Finkes-Lan; 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 S. Bennet commonly called Finke, of the Founder; his Tenements were both of S. Bennets Parish, and Saint Martins Oteswich parish: the one half of this Fink lane is of Broadstreet 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 Cornhill. Then without this Lane, in the aforesaid Three Needle street, 
Parish Church of S. Bennet Finke.  is the said Parish Church of S. Bennet, a proper Church, in which are these Monuments:  
Robert Simson, and Elizabeth his wife.  
Roger Strange, Esquire, Treresse.  
William Coolby. john Frey.  
Thomas Briar, Plummer, 1410. etc.  
By this Pillar was buried the body of Dame Anne Awnsham, who died the 23. of December, 1613. being near 12. years the wife of Sir Gedeon Awnsham, of Istleworth in the County of Middlesex, Knight: And before the wife to William Barradaile, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, dwelling in this parish together some 30. years. He died in March, 1600. who by his will gave 5. pounds to the poor of this parish, and 6. pounds, 13. shillings, 8. pence, toward the building a loft in the Church, besides his other Legacies to the poor in other places. And the said Dame Anne, besides her other good deeds to Istleworth, and other places, she also appointed five pound to the poor of this Parish, which the said Sir Gedeon paid. As they both (thanks be to God) lived godly and well: so they could not but die well, by the only mercy of jesus Christ.  
Some distance West is the Royal Exchange, whereof more shall be spoken in the Ward of Cornhill, and so down to the little Conduit, called the Pissing Conduit, by the Stocks Market, and this is the South side of Three Needle street.  
On the North side of this street, from overagainst the East corner of St. Martin's Oteswich Church, 
Hospital of Saint Anthony sometime a Synagogue of the jews.  have ye diverse fair and large houses, till you come to the Hospital of St. Anthony, sometime a Cell of Saint Anthony's of Vienna. For I read, that King Henry the third, granted to the Brotherhood of Saint Anthony of Vienna, a place amongst the jews, which was sometime their Synagogue, and had been builded by them, about the year 1231. 
Patent record.  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 Saint Anthony's in London. It was founded in the Parish of Saint Bennet Finke, for a Master, two Priests, one Schoolmaster, and twelve poor men: after which foundation, amongst other things, was given to this Hospital one Message and Garden, whereon was builded the fair large free-school, 
Free School of S Anthony's builded.  and one other parcel of ground containing 37. foot in length, and 18. foot in breadth, whereon were builded the Almshouses of hard stone and Timber, 
Almshouses of S. Anthony builded.  in the reign of Henry the sixth, which said Henry the sixth, 
Gift of Henry the sixth to Saint Anthony's.  in the 20. of his reign, gave unto john Carpenter, Doctor of Divinity, and Master of S. Anthony's Hospital, and to his brethren and their successors for ever, his Manor of Poinington, with the appurtenances, with certain pensions and portions of Milburn, Burneworth, Charlton, and Vp-wimburne, in the County of Southampton, 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 College of Eton, founded by the said King.  
In the year 1474. Edward the fourth granted to William Say, Batcheler of Divinity, Master of the said Hospital, to have Priests, Clerks, Scholars, poor men, and brethren of the same, Clerks, or Lay men, Queristers, Proctors, Messengers, Servants in household, and other things whatsoever, like as the Prior, and Covent of Saint Anthony's of Vienna, etc. He also annexed, united, and appropriated the said Hospital, unto the Collegiate of Saint George in Windsor.  
The Protectors of this house were to collect the benevolence of charitable persons, towards the building and supporting thereof. And amongst other things observed in my youth, I remember, that the Officers (charged with oversight of the Markets in this City) did diverse time take from the Market people, Pigs starved, or otherwise unwholesome for man's sustenance: these they did slit in the ear. 
Saint Anthony's Pigs fed on the dunghills.  One of the Proctors for St. Anthony's tied a Bell about the neck, and let it feed on the Dunghills, no man would hurt, or take it up: but if any gave to them bread, or other feeding, such would they know, watch for, and daily follow, whining till they had somewhat given them: whereupon was raised a Proverb, Such an one will follow such an one, & whine as it were an Anthony Pig: but if such a Pig grew to be fat, and came to good liking (as oft times they did) then the Proctor would take him up to the use of the Hospital.  
In the year, 1499. Sir john Tate, sometime Alebrewer, than a Mercer, caused his Brewhouse, called the Swan near adjoining to the said Free Chapel, College, or Hospital of Saint 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 their buried, under a fair Monument by him prepared. Doctor Tailor 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. year of Henry the 8. to be 55. pounds, 6. shillings, 8. pence.  
One johnson, 
Schoolmaster of S. Anthony's made Prebend of Windsor, spoiled the school and hospital.  (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 Choir, conveyed away the Plate and Ornaments, than the Bells, and lastly put out the Almesmen from their houses, appointing them portions of 12. pence the week to each. But now I hear of no such matter performed; for their houses, with other, be let out for rent, and the Church is a Preaching-place for the French Nation.  
This School was commended in the reign of Henry the sixth, and since commended above other; but now decayed, and come to nothing, by taking that from it which thereunto belonged.  
Next it the Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew, 
Parish Church of S. Bartholomew.  at the end of Bartholomew lane. Thomas Pike, Alderman, with the assistance of Nicholas You, one of the Sheriffs of London, about the year 1438. new builded this Church.  
Sir john Fray, Knight, was buried there.  
Margery his daughter and heir, wife to Sir john Lepington, Knight, founded there a Chantry, the 21. of Edward the fourth.  
Alderban, a Gascoigne, was buried there.  
Sir W. Capell, Maior, 1509. aded unto this Church a proper Chapel, on the South side thereof, and was buried there.  
Giles Capell was also buried there.  
james Wilford, Taylor, one of the Sheriffs, 1499. appointed by his Testament, a Doctor of Divinity, every Good Friday for ever, to preach there a Sermon of Christ's passion, from six of the clock till eight before noon, in the said Church.  
Io. Wilford, Merchant-Taylor, Alderman, 1544.  
Sir james Wilford, 1550.  
Sir George Barn, Mayor, 1552.  
john Dent.  
Miles Coverdale, Bishop of Excester.  
Thomas Dancer, and Anne his wife.  
In Obitum Reverendissimi Patris, 
A fair plated stone on the ground in the Chancel.  Milanis Coverdal, OGDOASTICON.  
HIc tandem requiemque  
ferens finemque laborum,  
Ossa Coverdali  
mortua Tumbus habet.  
Oxoniae qui Praesul  
erat dignissimus olim,  
Insignis vitae  
vir probitate suae.  
Octoginta annos  
grandevus vixit, & nullum  
Indigni passus  
saepius exilium.  
Sic dimitti variis  
jactabam casibus, ista  
Excepitur gremio  
terra benigna sua.  
Here lieth buried the body of Richard Bowdler, 
Several fair plated stones in the Chancel.  Citizen and Draper of London, being one of the Society of Merchant's Adventurers in England, for Moscovia and the East-Indiaes. Here lieth also Anne his wife, by whom he had issue, 7. children, 5. sons, and 2. daughters; whereof three deceased, but the other four were living at the time of his death. He died the 16. day of November, 1603. And she, etc.  
Here lieth the body of john Dent, whilst he lived, Citizen and Merchant of London, borne at Halloughton in Leicester-shire, and free of the Salter's Company, as also of the Spanish and Moscovia Companies: but his chief trading was to France. He was once chosen Sheriff of London, and once Alderman, and fined for the same. His last fine was 1000 Marks, towards the repairing of Christ's Hospital in London. He married twice; his first wife was Margaret, by whom he had one son, who died, and the mother. The second wife was Alice, by whom he had 3. Daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Elizab. The first died in her Father's life time, the rest with the Mother remained living. He being aged 63. years, died the 10. of Decemb. 1595.  
Here lieth the body of Master Thomas Church, Citizen and Draper of London. He was helpful to many, hurtful to none, and gave every one his due. In memory of whose love to them, and theirs to him, Marry Bagwell, his sister, William Bagwell, her son, his Executors, and Bernard Cooper, the second Husband to the said Mary Bagwell, caused this stone to be laid here, the 28. day of May, 1617. He departed this life in August the 26. day, 1616. being aged 55. years.  
A good life hath the days numbered, but a good name endureth for ever.   

To God's Glory.  
In pious Memory of the nobly-virtuous, 
A fair Monument in the North wall or the Chancel.  and religions Matron, Margarite, wife of Robert Hall, Doctor of Divinity, and Pastor of this Parish.  

HEre lies a Margarite  
that the most excelled,  
(Her Father Wits,  
Her Mother Lichterveld,  
Rematcht with Metkerke)  
of remark for birth,  
But much more gentle  
for her genuine worth:  
Wits (rarest) jewel,  
so her name bespeaks)  
In pious, prudent,  
peaceful, praiseful life,  
Fitting a Sara  
and a Sacred's Wife,  
Such as Saravia,  
and (her second) Hill,  
Whose joy of life,  
Death in her death did kill.   
quam piè obiit, Puerpera, Die 29. junii, Anno Salutis, 1615. Anno Aetatis, 39 Pignus Amoris, Sigum Honoris, ac Moeroris, Posuit Rob. Hill. Composuit Io. Syl.   

Vxor Foelix.  
Loquitur post Funera Virtus.  
FRom my sad Cradle  
to my sable Chest,  
Poor Pilgrim, I  
did find few months of rest.  
In Flanders, Holland,  
Zealand, England, all,  
To Parents, troubles;  
and to me did fall.  
These made me pious,  
patient, modest, wise:  
And, though well borne,  
to shun the Gallants guise:  
But now I rest my soul,  
where rest is found,  
My body here,  
in a small piece of ground,  
And from my Hill,  
that Hill I have ascended,  
From whence (for me)  
my Saviour once descended.  
Live ye to learn that die you must,  
And after come to Judgement just.   

Maritus moestissimus.  
Thy rest gives me a restless life,  
Because thou wert a matchless Wife;  
But yet I rest in hope to see  
That day of Christ, and then see thee.  MARGARITA, a Jewel. 
ay, like a jewel  
tossed by Sea and Land,  
Am bought by him,  
who wears me on his hand.  MARGARITA, MARGARETA. 
Margarita beaten, sed Margareta beavit.  
O utinam possit possit, ista beaten.  
One night, two dreams,  
made two Propheticals,  
Thine of thy Coffin,  
mine of thy Fwerals.  
If women all were like to thee,  
We men for wives should happy be.  
R. H.  MARGARITA surreptus est, Mons exarvit. 
Then lower down, 
Parish Church of Saint Christopher.  towards the Stocks Market, is the Parish Church of Saint Christopher, but re-edified of new: for Richard Shore, one of the Sheriffs, 1506. gave money towards the building of the steeple.  
There lie buried, Richard Sherington, 1392. who gave Lands to that Church.  
The Lady Margaret Norford, 1406.  
john Clavering, 1421. who gave lands thereunto.  
john Godney, 
An Alderman of London put to penance by the Clergy, for wedding a widow professed to chastity.  Draper, Maior, 1427.  
This Godney, in the year 1444. wedded the Widow of Robert Large, late Mayor, which Widow had taken the Mantle and Ring, and the vow to live chaste to God term of her life; for the breach whereof, the marriage done, they were troubled by the Church, and put to penance both he and she.  

William Hampton, Maior, 1472. was a great benefactor, and glazed some of the Church windows.  
Sir William Martia, Maior, 1492.  
Roger Acheley, Maior, 1511. He dwelled in Cornhill Ward, in a house belonging to Cobham College, rent by the year, 26. s. 8. d.  
Robert Thorn, Merchant-Taylor, a Bachelor, 1532. he gave by his Testament in charity, more than 4445. pounds.   
john Norryholme. Ralph Batte.  
Alice percival. jane Drew.  
William Borresbie. john Broke.  
Richard Sutton. William Batte.  
james Well.  
Henry Beecher, Alderman, 1570.  
Robertus cubat hic  
Thornus Mercator honestus, 
A very fair Tomb of pure Touch, in the South side of the Quire.   
Qui sibi legitimas  
Arte paravit opes.  
Huic vitam dederat  
puero Bristollia quondam,  
Londinum hoc Tumulo  
clauserat ante diem.  
Ornavit studiis,  
patriam virtutibus auxit,  
Gymnasium exexit,  
sumptibus ipse suis.  
Lector quisquis ades,  
requiem cineri precor optes,  
Supplex et precibus  
numina flecte tuis.   

Obiit 1532. aetatis vero suae, Au. 40.  
here lie the bodies of Henry Beecher, Alderman, and late Sheriff of London; and of Alice his first wife, one of the daughters to Thomas Heron of Edgecomb, in the County of Surrey, Esquire, by who he had 10. children. After whose decease he married with jane, the widow of one Oliver Loveband, of London, Gent. with whom he lived three years, and died the 15. day of january, Anno Dom. 1570.  
Here lieth the body of john Tryon, who departed this life at Paris in France, the 15. of August, and was here interred the 14. day of September, An. Dom. 1612.  
Having seen and observed the said Parish Church of S. Christopher, 
Robert Thorn, a bountiful Bachelor, buried in the same Parish of S. Christopher.  with all the Gravestones and Monuments therein: and finding a fair Tomb of Touch, wherein lieth the body of Robert thorn, Merchant-Taylor, and a Bachelor buried, having given by his Testament in charity, 4445. pounds, and to pious uses. Then looking for some such memory, as might adorn and beautify the name of another famous Bachelor, Mr. john Kendrick; and finding none, but only his Hatchments and Banners, yet he being buried so long since; I thought it fit to let his own last Will and Testament speak his due and deserved praises, according, and as (among other) it came to my hands.   

The last Will and Testament of Mr. john Kendrick, Citizen and Draper of London:  

Who departed this life the 30. day of December, Anno, 1624.  
IN the Name of God, 
Present at thi● godly work, Io. Skinner, Andrew Kendrick, Tho. Singleton, etc.  Amen. The nine and twentieth of December, Anno Domini, 1624. And in the two and twentieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King james, etc.  
I john Kendrick, of the City of London, Draper, being sick in body; but of good and perfect memory, (for which I give most humble and hearty thanks to Almighty God) do make, ordain and declare this my last Will and Testament, in manner and form following: That is to say:  
First, 
Disposition of his soul to God.  and before all things, I commend and commit my soul to Almighty God, my Creator; trusting most assuredly to be saved by the death, passion and only merits of jesus Christ, my Saviour and Redeemer.  
And I will that my body be decently interred in Christian burial, 
For burial of his body.  in the Parish Church of S. Christopher, where I dwell; as mine Executor, hereafter named, shall order and appoint.  
Item, I give and bequeath to threescore poor men, 
For poor mourners.  to every of them a Gown of broadcloth, to wear on the day of my burial: and twelve pence a piece in money, to pay for their dinners. The same poor men to be such as my Executor shall appoint.  
Item, I give and bequeath black Gowns and Cloaks, 
For kindred, friends, & servants mourners.  to be worn at my burial by my kindred, friends, and servants, as my Executor shall think meet: not exceeding the sum of six hundred pounds in the said Gowns and Cloaks, and the rest of the charges of my Funeral.  
Item, I give and bequeath the sum of threescore pounds, 
A Dinner for his friends, and the Parish inhabitants.  to be bestowed upon a Dinner, to be provided for my friends, and the inhabitants of the Parish of Saint Christopher, where I now dwell, upon the day of my burial, and in such place as my Executor shall think meet and convenient.  
Item, 
His gift to the Mayor & Burgesses of Reading.  I give and bequeath to the Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Reading, in the Country of Berkshire, (I mean, to the body corporate, or Corporation of the said Town of Reading, by whatsoever name or addition the same is made known) the sum of seven thousand & five hundred pounds, upon especial trust and confidence, that they shall therewith perform the uses following: That is to say:  
The said Mayor and Burgesses shall buy and purchase unto them and their successors for ever, 
The uses intended for the said sum.  (I say, to the body corporate of the said Town of Reading, by whatsoever name or addition the same is made or known) Lands and Here ditaments, of the clear value of fifty pounds by the year, over and above all charges and reprises. Which sum of fifty pounds a year, my will and 〈◊〉 aning is, shall be paid by the said Mayor and Burgesses, and their successors, unto my Sister Anne Newman, 
Care of his Sister.  yearly during her natural life. And after her decease, the same yearly sum of fifty pounds, shall be paid by the said Mayor and Burgesses, and their successors, to the Overseers of the poor of the said Town of Reading (for the time being) yearly for ever: And by them the said Overseers (for the time being) shall be bestowed and distributed to and among the poor people of the said Town for ever: To wit, the moiety thereof every half year, in such sums, and to such persons, as the said Overseers (for the time being) shall think meet, according to the necessity and desert of the same several persons.  
Provided always, 
The usual benevolence of the rich is not to be hindered by this gift.  and my meaning is, that this my yearly gift shall not any way abridge the said poor of the ordinary allowances, usually assessed and collected of the wealthier sort of the inhabitants of the said Town, towards the relief of the said poor people: but shall be unto them as an additament, and clear increase of relief yearly for ever.  
And if this my gift and provision shall happen (which I trust it shall not) to be by the said Mayor and Burgesses, 
For negligence in the distribution of this gift.  or by the said Overseers for the time being, ordered and disposed contrary to my meaning thus declared; or that my will and desire above expressed, touching the bestowing and distribution of the said sum of fifty pounds yearly, be omitted, neglected, or left unperformed by the space of one whole year, after it is by this my Will appointed to be distributed and bestowed as aforesaid: Then my will and meaning is, that the said sum and revenue of fifty pounds a year, shall be by the said Mayor and Burgesses, and their successors for the time being for ever, paid unto the Treasurer of Christ's Hospital: and by the Governors of the same Hospital, 
How to be bestowed upon their negligence.  employed and bestowed in the relief and education of the poor children, of the said Hospital. Or else, that the said Mayor and Burgesses for the time being; shall by their Deed in Law, convey and make over the Lands and Hereditaments of the said yearly value of fifty pounds, unto the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, and their successors for ever, unto the use of the said Hospital, to be employed as aforesaid.  
Provided always, that the said fifty pounds a year, be yearly paid unto my said Sister Anna Newman, 
Payment to his Sister during her natural life.  during her natural life: And after her decease, to the charitable uses aforesaid.  
Moreover, my will and meaning is, as also my trust and confidence in the said Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Reading is, 
A house to be purchased for setting the poor to work.  that with another competent part of the said sum of seven thousand five hundred pounds, so byme devised as aforesaid; they the said Mayor and Burgesses shall buy and purchase unto them and their successors for ever, a fair plot of ground, within the said Town of Reading, or the liberties thereof. And thereupon shall erect and build a strong house of Brick, fit and commodious for setting the poor on work therein: Or else shall buy and purchase such an house, being already built, if they can find one already fitting, or that may with a reasonable sum be made fit for the said use. 
The house is to have a Garden thereto adjoining.  The same house to have a fair Garden adjoining, and to be from time to time kept in good and sufficient reparations, by the said Mayor and Burgesses for the time being, for ever. Which house and Garden, my will is, shall be used and occupied by such as the said Mayor and Burgesses, and their successors from time to time for ever shall appoint and ordain, 
Employing and using the stock of money.  for the employing and handling of the stock of money, by me hereby left and devised to that purpose.  
And my will and meaning is, that the said Lands and Hereditaments of the yearly value of fifty pounds, and also the said house and Garden, being bought and purchased as aforesaid, with parcel of the said sum of seven thousand five hundred pounds: Then the whole residue and remainder of the same seven thousand and five hundred pounds, 
How the remainder of the money is is to be employed for a common stock  shall make and be a common stock, to be employed and bestowed in Trades of clothing; either in making of coloured clothes, or whites, as the time shall require. And also in working of Wool, Hemp, Flax, Iron, grinding of Brazill woods, and other stuffs for dying, or otherwise, as to the said Mayor and Burgesses aforesaid, and their successors for ever shall seem meet and convenient, for the employment of poor people, and for the preservation and increase of the said common stock.  
And the said Mayor and Burgesses, 
For handling and husbanding the common stock in the house.  and their successors for ever, shall have the election, placing and ordering, as also the displacing (if cause be) of all and every person and persons, to be employed in the handling and husbanding, of the common stock in the house aforesaid: according to their the said Mayor and Burgesses good discretion, from time to time for ever.  
Wherein yet my desire is, that they shall prefer the poor of the said Town to the said work and employment; before others of other places.  
And for the performance of these premises, 
In what manner the 7500. pounds is to be paid.  my will is, that the somme of seven thousand and five hundred pounds, before (for this end) by me bequeathed to the said Mayor and Burgesses, or their successors: shall be paid unto them or their successors, in man and form following; that is to say, Two thousand pounds thereof at the end of one year next after my decease: Other two thousand pounds thereof, at the end of two years, next after the day of my decease. And the residue of the said whole sum, being three thousand and five hundred pounds, at the end of three years next ensuing, after and from the day of my decease.  
But if it shall happen (as my trust is it will not) that the said Mayor and Burgesses, 
For misemploying the stock contrary to the Doners william.  or their successors, shall neglect, omit or fail to perform the premises, according to my will and meaning above declared; or shall misimploy the said stock, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this my device and disposition, for the good of the poor, and their honest employment and maintenance as aforesaid; and that such their neglect shall continue at any time, by the space of one whole year together: Then my will and meaning is, that my said whole Legacy of seven thousand and five hundred pounds, and every part and parcel thereof, shall be thence utterly void, frustrate and of none effect, as to, for and concerning the said Mayor and Burgesses and their successors; and as to, for and concerning the uses thereof before limited and expressed. And that the said whole common stock, shall be by them the said Mayor and Burgesses, and their successors for the time being; 
His intent for London upon their failing.  forthwith paid unto the Mayor and Communality and Citizens of the City of London, to the use of Christ's Hospital in London, according as I have above devised and disposed, touching the revenue of fifty pounds a year for ever, first bequeathed to the use and relief of the poor people of the Town of Reading.  
As also my will and meaning is, that in this case of non-performance by the said Mayor and Burgesses, the house and Garden to be purchased in Reading, 
Concerning the house and Garden at Reading devised.  as aforesaid: Shall be by the said Mayor and Burgesses, and their successors, conveyed and made over by their deed sufficient in Law, unto the said Mayor and Communality and Citizens of the City of London, and their successors for ever, to the like use of Christ's Hospital in London, as aforesaid.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury in the County of Berks (I mean the body corporate of the same Town, 
For purchasing a house and Garden at Newberry to set the poor on work. ) the sum of four thousand pounds, to buy and purchase therewith a commodious house, and Garden within the same Town, or the liberties thereof; to set the poor on work. And with the residue of the same sum, to make a common stock, for the employment of the poor in the said house; according to the good discretion of the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses from time to time for ever. And according to my meaning before declared, in the devising of the sum of seven thousand and five hundred pounds, to the Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Reading, to the like use.  
But my will and meaning is, that if it shall happen (which I trust will not) that the said Mayor, 
For neglect and misimployment of the stock committed unto their trust.  Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury, or their successors, shall neglect or fail to perform my trust and meaning, hereby committed unto them, or shall misimploy the said stock, contrary to my good intent to the poor before declared, by the space of one whole year (at any time) after my said Legacy shall be paid unto them: Then my will and meaning is, that my said whole Legacy of four thousand pounds, and every part and parcel thereof, shall thenceforth be utterly void, and of none effect, as to, for and concerning the said Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury, and their successors for ever. And that the said whole common stock, be by them the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Newbury, and their successors for the time being, 
Returned over to Reading and employed to the use of the poor there.  forthwith paid over unto the Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Reading in the same County. To be by them and their successors for ever employed, bestowed and used in like manner, as I have by this my Will devised and appointed another stock common for the poor in the same Town of Reading: as by my said devise and disposition (before herein more at large expressed) doth and may appear.  
In the like manner also my will and meaning is, that in case of such non-performance of my will and intent, by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury, 
For non performance of the T●●tors will and intent in the Town of Newbury  the house and Garden by them so to be purchased and built, as aforesaid: Shall be by said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury, and their successors; conveyed and made over by their deed sufficient in Law, unto the Mayor and Burgesses of the said Town of Reading, and their successors for ever; to be by them sold and converted into money, and the same money to be used and employed in their common stock for the poor in the said Town of Reading aforesaid, in such sort, as I have formerly hereby expressed.  
And for the performance of the said trust and uses, by the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury aforesaid, 
In what manner the four thousand pounds is to be paid to the Town of Newbury  my will and meaning is: that the said sum of four thousand pounds so to them bequeathed and devised as aforesaid; shall be paid unto them, or their successors, in manner as followeth; that is to say, One thousand pounds thereof at the end of one year, next ensuing after the day of my decease: One other thousand pounds thereof, at the end of two years from and after my said decease. And the residue (being two thousand l.) shall be paid them, at the end of three years next after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the Company of Drapers of the City of London (of which Company I am free) the sum of two thousand and four hundred pounds, 
Two thousand four hundred pounds given to the Company of Draper's London.  to purchase Lands and He●editaments, to the clear yearly value of one hundred pounds for ever: over and above all charges and reprises. And with the same to perform these good uses hereafter mentioned; that is to say:  
The sum of twenty four pounds thereof yearly for ever, 
For the yearly releasing of six poor Prisoners.  to be bestowed in the month of December, for the releasing of six poor prisoners, out of these Prisons in London, to wit, the two Compters, Ludgate, Newgate and the Fleet, by four pounds for each in Prisoner.  
Or if such cannot be found in the said Prisons, 
For releasing Prisoners in other Prisons, etc.  or some of them to be released for these sums: Then the same (or the residue thereof) to be bestowed in like releasing of other Prisoners, out of some of the Prisons near London, and out of the liberties thereof; as to the Wardens of the said Company (for the time being) shall seem meet.  
More, twenty pounds yearly for ever, 
To the Curate of the Parish Church of S. Christopher's.  to the Curate of the Parish of St. Christopher, wherein I now dwell: To read divine Service in the said Parish Church at six a clock in the morning every day of the week for ever. In like manner as is now used in the Chapel, at the great Northgate of Saint Paul's Church in London.  
More, 
To the Clerk and Sexton of S. Christopher.  to the Clerk and Sexton of the said Parish of Saint Christopher, to each of them fifty shillings yearly for ever: to do their several attendance and assistance at the time of Divine Service every morning.  
More, 
To the poor of the Parish  to the Churchwardens of the same Parish of Saint Christopher: five pounds yearly for ever, for the maintenance of lights in the Winter time.  
More, three pounds yearly for ever, to the poor of the said Parish of Saint Christopher.  
More, 
To the Compters and Newgate.  to the poor Prisoners in London ten pounds yearly for ever: namely, to the Prisoners of the Compters in the Poultry and Woodstreet, and in Newgate; to each of these Prisons forty shillings yearly for ever.  
To the poor Prisoners in Ludgate and in the Fleet; 
To Ludgate and the Fleet.  to each house thirty shillings for ever.  
And to the poor Prisoners in Bethlem, 
To Bedlam.  or Bedlam; twenty shillings yearly.  
More, 
To the Clerk of the Drapers.  to the Clerk of the Company of the Drapers, for the time being: for his pains herein, forty shillings for ever.  
More, 
To the Beadles of the Livery and Yeomanry.  to the Beadle of the said Company; thirty shillings for ever.  
More, to the Beadle of the Yeomanry of the same Company; ten shillings yearly for ever.  
More, 
For poor Clothworkers and their widows.  five and twenty pounds yearly for ever to be distributed by the said Wardens, among poor and religious men and women in the City of London; to some more and to some less, as the said Wardens shall find their necessity and desert to be: Wherein my desire is, that poor Clothworkers and their Widows shall be first preferred; and next, the poor of the Draper's Company. The residue of the said sum of one hundred pounds a year, being four pounds yearly for ever, 
A remembrance to the four Wardens.  I entreat the four Wardens of the said Company, to accept for their pains, to be equally divided between them by twenty shillings to each of them, for the time being for ever.  
And if the said Company of Drapers, do either of purpose or negligence, omit and not perform the premises; but shall leave the same unperformed one whole year, after they shall have received this my Legacy of two thousand & four hundred pounds (which I will shall be paid them at the end of one year next after my decease:) Then my will and mind is, 
If the Drapers omit performance of this Legacy of two thousand and four hundred pounds.  that the Governors of Christ's Hospital in London, shall recover the whole two thousand and four hundred pounds, before specified, or the Lands and the Hereditaments, that the said Company shall have bought with the same money: And keep twenty pounds yearly for ever of the same rent, for the maintenance of the poor Children in the said Hospital, as if the same had been first given to them. And the Draper's Company to have nothing to do with it, or the rest of the said hundred pounds yearly for ever.  
And that in this case, 
A restraint of the other Legacies given and bequeathed to the Company.  the yearly payment of eight pounds unto the Clerk, Beadles and Wardens of the said Company, as also twelve pounds, parcel of the said five and twenty l. a year before devised, to be paid and distributed by the said Company, among poor and religious men and women in the City of London, utterly and for ever to cease.  
But this twenty pounds a year, being so converted (as aforesaid) to the use of the Hospital, the residue of the said yearly rent of one hundred pounds a year, I will that the Governors of the said Hospital, 
Concerning the residue of the yearly rent.  shall pay and distribute yearly for ever, in manner and form as the said Company of Drapers should have done.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the said Company of Drapers, one hundred pounds, to be paid within a year after my decease; 
An hundred pounds to be bestowed in Plate.  and by the Wardens of the said Company to be bestowed in Plate: such as they shall think good, for the use of their common Hall in London, at their meetings and dinners there.  
Item, 
Five hundred pounds given to Christ's Hospital in London.  I give and bequeath to the poor of Christ's Hospital in London, five hundred pounds, to be by the Governors thereof bestowed in Lands and Hereditaments, for and towards the yearly maintenance of the Children of the said Hospital for ever. This sum to be paid to the said Governors, or the Treasurer of the said Hospital, so soon as they shall have found out a fit purchase to bestow it, and a greed on the price of the same.  
Item, I give and bequeath towards the curing of sick, 
Fifty pounds to S. Bartholomews' Hospital.  fore and diseased persons in Saint Bartholomews' Hospital in London, the sum of fifty pounds.  
Item, I give and bequeath towards the curing of sick, 
To the poor of S. Thomas Hospital.  sore and disea-sed persons in Saint Thomas Hospital in Southwark near London, the sum of fifty pounds.  
Item, I give and bequeath towards the repairing of the Parish Church of Saint Christopher, 
Repairing of S. Christopher's Church.  where I now dwell, the sum of forty pounds: To be paid to the Churchwardens of the same Parish, within one year after my decease.  
Item, 
Repairing S. Paul's Church in London.  I give and bequeath towards the repairing of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London, the sum of one thousand pounds: to be paid to the Chamberlain of London, at such time as that work of repairing the same Church, shall be ready to proceed with effect; and to be disposed by the direction and appointment of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the said City.  
Item, I give and bequeath to be given at the marriages of poor Maids within the City of London, 
To poor Maid's marriages in London.  two hundred pounds: to be distributed by forty shillings a piece upon the days of their marriage; to such as have served one Master or Mistress, by the space of five years together.  
Item, 
To poor Maid's marriages in the Town of Reading.  I give and bequeath to be given and distributed to poor Maids in Town of Reading, in the County of Berks, and at their several marriages, by forty shillings a piece, at the discretion of the Mayor and Burgesses of that Town; the sum of one hundred pounds. Provided, none enjoy the benefit thereof, but such as have served Master, Mistress or Dame, by the space of seven years together. This hundred pounds to be paid to the said Mayor and Burgess (for the use aforesaid) within one year next after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the Mayor, 
To twenty five poor Maid's marriages in the Town of Newbury.  Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury in Berkshire, the sum of fifty pounds: to be by them bestowed and distributed to twenty five Maid's marriages, on their several days of their weddings in the same Town. None to enjoy this gift; but such as have well and honestly served with one Master, Mistress of Dame, by the space of seven years at the least. And this fifty pounds to be paid to the said Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses, within one year next after my decease.  
Item, 
For setting poor vagrant Boys on work in Bridewell.  I give and bequeath towards the setting on work of forty idle vagrant Boys, such as go up and down the streets in the City of London, begging and pilfering, the sum of two hundred pounds: to be paid to the Treasurer for the time being, being of the house of correction, called Bridewell in London, in manner and form following, that is to say, When any such Boy is taken up by my Executor or his Assigns, in any place within the liberties of this City of London, and by the Treasurer of the same House of Correction, and Governors there for the time being, placed and bound Apprentice with a Master, for the term of seven years at the least, with a Master or Art-masters, as Glover's, Pinner's, Shoemakers, or any other occupation of Art, which they shall be thought most fit for, to learn in the said house; whereby (in time) they may prove good members, and live like honest men in the Commonwealth. I say, with every one of these Boys shall be paid to the Treasurer and Governors for the time being; the sum of five pounds, until the said sum of two hundred pounds be fully paid for that use.  
Item, 
50. pound for S. Mary's in Reading.  I give and bequeath towards the finishing of the Pinnacles of the Steeple of the Parish of Saint mary's in Reading, in Berkshire, fifty pounds; to be paid to the Churchwardens of the same Parish, within one month after the same Pinnacles shall be finished.  
Item, 
Five hundred pounds to be lent to several parties in Reading.  I give and bequeath to the Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Reading aforesaid, the sum of five hundred pounds, to be first lent to these parties, and in the sums hereafter named, for seven years, gratis: That is, to james Winche, two hundred pounds: and to Walter Rye, Richard Stamp, and William Blacknall, Clothiers, one hundred pounds apiece: each of them giving Bond with two sufficient sureties, for repayment thereof to the said Mayor and Burgesses, at the end of the said seven years. And afterwards, the same five hundred pounds shall be lent to ten several honest industrious poor Clothiers, free men of the same Town, by fifty pounds apiece, gratis, for three years, upon like good security: and no man to have the use of this money twice. But if there shall not be Clothiers enough found in the said Town, 
For lack of Clothiers, the same money lent to other Tradesmen of the same Town.  to enjoy this loan in manner aforesaid: That then the said money shall be lent also unto other Tradesmen, free of the said Town, by the sums and terms of years last before appointed; to such as set most poor people a-work, according to the discretion of the said Mayor and Burgesses: And this said sum of five hundred pounds shall be paid to the said Mayor and Burgesses, (to the use aforesaid) at the end of one year next after my decease.  
Item, 
Other five hundred pounds to Clothiers of Newbury lent freely  I give and bequeath to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury, in the County of Berks, the sum of five hundred pounds, to be lent first for the term of seven years, gratis, unto these several Clothiers here named; that is to say, To Thomas Newman, one hundred pounds: to Richard Avery, one hundred pounds: to Martin Broker, fifty pounds: to William Goodwin the elder, fifty pounds: to Timothy Avery, fifty pounds: to Robert Bacon, fifty pounds: and to Griffin Forster, fifty pounds. Every of the said several parties entering into bond, with 2. sufficient sureties, for repayment of the said sums to the said Mayor and Aldermen and Burgesses at the end of seven years. And afterwards, the same five hundred pounds shall be lent to ten several honest industrious poor Clothiers, 
To ten other poor Clothiers the same money lent afterwards.  free of the said Town of Newburie, by fifty pounds apiece, gratis, for three years: And after that in like manner, from three years to three years for ever; and no man to have the same money twice. But if there shall not be Clothiers enough found in the same Town of Newbury, to enjoy this loan in manner as aforesaid; then the same money shall be lent also unto other Tradesmen, free of the same Town, by the sums and terms of years last before appointed, to such as set most poor people on work, according to the discretion of the said Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses; to whom this said five hundred pounds shall be paid, to the use aforesaid, at the end of one year after my decease.  
Item, 
Nine hundred pounds given to the Merchant Adventurers.  I give and bequeath to the Governor, Assistants, and fellowship of Merchant Adventures of England, the sum of nine hundred pounds, to be lent by three hundred pounds in a parcel, for three years, gratis, unto three honest, industrious and frugal young men, free of that Company, none of them being partners with each other; and every of them giving Bond with two sufficient sureties, to be tried and allowed by ballotting, and not otherwise, for repayment of the same money to the said Company. And so the same money to be lent out by the said Company in this manner, from three years to three years, for ever.  
And my will and desire is, that these my five present servants, 
His servants first preferred to the benefit of the loan.  shall be (upon security as aforesaid) first preferred to the enjoying of this loan; to wit, William paul, Thomas Newman, and Simon Gundy, the first three years; and Andrew Kendricke and Christopher Pack, the next two parcels that shall come in, and be received in, after they shall be freemen of that Company. And for performance hereof, the said nine hundred pounds shall be paid unto the Treasurer of the said Company in London, for the time being, at the end of one year next after my decease.  
Item, 
To his Brother William Kendrick and his children.  I give and bequeath to my brother William Kendrick of Reading in the County of Berks, Clothier, and to his Children now borne and living, the sum of two thousand pounds: whereof one third part for himself, and the other two parts for his said Children. The same two third parts of the said sum of two thousand pounds, to be equally divided to and amongst his said children, share and share like.  
And my will is, that the said two thousand pounds be paid to my said brother, 
Payment of the two thousand pounds to his Brother and children, and how.  at the end of three years next after my decease: and that he shall pay his said children their several shares thereof before limited; that is to say, to his Son his share and part, when he cometh to the age of twenty four years: And to his Daughter, her share and part, when she cometh to the age of one and twenty years, or at the day of her marriage, which shall first happen.  
And if it fortune either of my said brothers children to die or decease, before their respective Legacies aforesaid shall grow due, 
For mortality in either of the children.  as above; that then the part of such child so deceasing, shall accrue and be paid to the survivor of the said children, at the day and time before appointed.  
Item, 
The gift of his gold Ring.  I give and bequeath to my said brother William Kendrick, my gold Ring which was my Fathers; with the Letters T. K. therein engraven, and a knot between the same Letters.  
Item, I give and bequeath to my Sister Anne Newman of Reading in the Country of Berks, 
A thousand Marks given to his sister.  the sum of one thousand Marks, to be paid unto her at the end of one year next after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath unto the Children of my said Sister, 
Two thousand Marks given to his Sister's children, and in what manner.  Anne Newman, the sum of two thousand Marks; to be equally divided amongst them share and share like. And the shares of such as are already married (if they be Daughters) or are four and twenty years of age, to be paid them at the end of one year after my decease. And the shares of the rest, to be paid to such as be Sons; when they shall be four and twenty years of age. And to the Daughters, at their day of marriage; or when they shall come to one and twenty years of age respectively, which of these shall happen to be first.  
And if it shall happen any of the said Children of my said Sister to die, before the age and time so prefixed for payment, 
In case of mortality or death happening among the children.  as aforesaid (I mean, those that be yet under that age, and unmarried) than my will is: That the share and part of such as shall so die, shall accrue and be paid unto the rest of the same Children then surviving, share and share like; and at the days and times of payment before appointed, for their own several shares and parts.  
But my will and meaning is, that Thomas Newman, son of my said Sister; shall not have any part or share of this said Legacy of two thousand Marks: 
Thomas Newman excepted from this Legacy.  because I give him a large Legacy apart by this my william. Therefore the said two thousand Marks is to be divided and shared among the rest of the Children of my said Sister, as aforesaid.  
Item, I do hereby absolutely acquit and forgive my brother in law Thomas Newman, 
A Bond forgiven to his Sister's husband.  of Reading aforesaid, husband to my Sister Anne Newman; the sum of one hundred Marks, which he oweth me by his bond, due the second day of November, An. Dom. 1623. being all that he oweth me at the date of this my william.  
Item, I give and bequeath to my Sister Alice Vigures of Excester, 
Five hundred pounds given to his Sister Alice Vigures.  in the County of Devon, the sum of five hundred pounds; to be paid her at the end of two years next after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the children of my said Sister Alice Vigures the sum of one thousand pounds, 
A thousand pounds given to his said Sisters Children, and in what manner.  to be equally divided among them share and share like. And if any of them being Sons) be of the age of four and twenty years; or any of them (being Daughters) be of the age of one and twenty years, or married, than the share and parts of such respectively, shall be paid at the end of two years next after my decease. And the shares and parts of the rest, shall be paid to such as are Sons, at the age of four and twenty years: and to such as be Daughters, at their age of one and twenty years, or at the days of their marriage, which of them shall first happen to come respectively.  
But my will and meaning is, that Simon Gandy, Son of my said Sister Alice Vigures, 
Simon Gandy excluded from this thousand pounds and the intent of this distribution.  shall not have any part or share of this Legacy of one thousand pounds: because I give him a large Lecy apart by himself in this my William. But my meaning is, that this said Legacy of one thousand pounds, so given as aforesaid, shall be equally divided among the rest of the Children of my said Sister; excluding the said Simon Gandy from all part and share of the same: And if it shall happen any of the said Children of my said Sister Alice Gandy, to die before the age and time of payment appointed as aforesaid (I mean, when they be under that age, and unmarried:) than my will and meaning is, that the share and part of such as shall so die; shall be paid and accrue unto the rest of the same Children so surviving, 
In case of mortality and death of the Children.  to each of them equally, and share and share like: and at the days and times of payment before appointed, for their own several shares and parts.  
Item, I give and bequeath to my Brother james Winche of Parley in the County of Berks, 
To his Brother james Winche, and his Children.  and to his Children, the sum of one thousand pounds: whereof one third part for himself, the other two third parts for his said Children. The same two third parts to be divided equally amongst the said Children of my said Brother, share and share like.  
And my will is, that this said sum of one thousand pounds, 
The payment of this thousand pounds to his Brother and Children.  shall be paid to my said Brother james Winche, at the end of one year next after my decease, and that he shall pay forthwith unto such of this Children, as (being sons, and of the age of four and twenty years, or married) their several shares and proportions of the said two third parts of this sum of one thousand pounds. The shares and parts of the rest of his Children, he shall retain in his own hands, until his said Children (being Sons) shall be of the age of four and twenty years: And being Daughters, shall be of the age of one and twenty years, or be married; and then he shall pay every of them their several shares and parts respectively.  
And if it shall happen any of the said younger Children to die, 
In case of death and mortality of the younger Children.  before the time of payment so limited as aforesaid: Then my will and meaning is, that the part and share of such as shall so decease shall accrue unto the rest of the said Children of my said Brother, that shall then survive; to be equally divided amongst them share and sharelike, and to be paid at the days and times before appointed.  
Item, I give and bequeath to thirty of my poorest Kindred in the Town of Reading in Berkshire, 
Three hundred pounds to his poorest Kindred in Reading.  the sum of three hundred pounds, to be paid unto my Brother William Kendrick, within three months after my decease. And by him to be distributed by ten pounds in every parcel, as he in his discretion shall think good: wherein I pray him to be very careful, to bestow the same where there is most need and best desert.  
Item, 
Fifty pounds to old Elizabeth Kendricke of Reading.  I give and bequeath to old Elizabeth Kendrick of Reading, Daughter to my Father's Brother William Kendrick (as I take it) the sum of fifty pounds; to be paid her within three months after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to my Kinsman Thomas Newman, now residing at Delft in Holland, the sum of one thousand pounds. To be paid him upon the five and twenty day of October which shall be in the year of our Lord God, 
To Thomas Newman of Delft in Holland.  1626. when his time of service expireth. Provided, that he remain with my partner Mr. Laurence Halstead, and serve him his said full time.  
Item, 
One thousand pounds to Simon Gandy.  I give and bequeath to my kinsman and late servant, Simon Gandy, the sum of one thousand pounds, to be paid him within one year next after my decease.  
Item, 
Five hundred pounds to Arthur Aynscombe.  I give and bequeath unto Arthur Aynscombe, Merchant, now residing at Antwerp; who hath a share with me in trade; the sum of five hundred pounds, to be paid him within 2. years after my decease. Provided that he go forward in trade with Mr. Laurence Halstead, (if he the said Master Halstead shall desire it) unto the end of our Contract, which will be the five and twentieth day of October, Anno Dom. 1626.  
Item, 
Five hundred pounds to Barney Reymer.  I give and bequeath to Barney Reymer, Merchant, now residing at Delft, who hath also a share with me in trade; the sum of five hundred pounds, to be paid him within two years' next after my decease. Provided that he go forward in trade with Mr. Laurence Halstead, (if he the said Mr. Halstead shall desire it) unto the end of our contract, which will be the five and twentieth day of October, Anno Dom. 1626. as is abovesaid.  
Item, 
Five hundred pounds to his Master Io. Quarles, living in the house.  I give and bequeath to Master john Quarles, who was my Master, the sum of five hundred pounds, to be paid him within a year next after my decease. And my earnest request unto Mr. Laurence Halstead is, that unto the end of our contract of Partnership, (which will be the five and twentieth day of October, Anno Domini 1626.) the same Mr. Quarles may have his diet, lodging and washing, in his the said Mr. Halsteads' house, free, and without paying any thing therefore, as he now hath it with me. And my desire also is, that he may continue to keep the books of our partable account, until the aforesaid twenty fifth day of October, 1626. and be paid his wont yearly allowance of fifty pounds for the same. And I do hereby freely and absolutely forgive the said Mr. john Quarles, the sum of three hundred pounds, which he oweth me, payable at pleasure, being lent him the last of March, Anno 1615. and being all that he oweth me at the date of this my William.  
Item, 
Three hundred pounds to Mr. George Lowe.  I give and bequeath to Master George Lowe, heretofore my partner, the sum of three hundred pounds, to be paid him within one year next after my decease. And I do hereby absolutely forgive him, all that is due unto me for his lodging, diet, firing and washing, which he hath had of me now six years together.  
Item, 
Two hundred li. to Thomas Bilingsley.  I give and bequeath to Thomas Billingsley, son of Sir Henry Bilingsley, Knight, and Alderman of London, deceased, the sum of two hundred pounds, to be paid him within one year next after my decease. And I do absolutely forgive him the sum of two hundred pounds, which he oweth me by his Bond, due the twentieth of December, Anno, 1625. and lent him the twentieth of this present Month, for a year.  
Item, 
300. li. to Thomas jacksons' Executors▪  I give and bequeath to the Executors of Thomas jackson, of London, Merchant, deceased (whom I take to be Miles jackson, the son of the said Thomas) the sum of three hundred pounds, to be paid at the end of one year next after my decease.  
Item, 
50. li. to Lucas van Peenen.  I give and bequeath to Lucas van Peenen of Middleburgh in Zealand, son of Roger van Peenen of that Town, deceased; the sum of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid over by Exchange, within two months after my decease: Payable at Usance to john Mount-Stephen, now residing in that Town, to be paid over to the said Lucas van Peenen, forthwith after he hath received it, in the full Flemish sum which the same shall produce.  
Item, 
20. pound 10 jeremias Poets of Middle-burgh.  I give and bequeath to Iremias Poets, of the same Town of Middle-burgh in Zealand, (if he be the Executor of his brother Hance Poets, deceased) the sum of twenty pounds sterling: to be made over by Exchange within two months after my decease. Payable at Usance, to john Mount-Stephen aforenamed; and by him forthwith (after his receipt thereof) to be paid over to the said jeremias Poets, in the full Flemish sum which the same shall produce.  
Item, I give and bequeath to William paul my covenant Servant, 
Two hundred pounds to his servant William paul.  the sum of two hundred pounds: to be paid him within six months after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to Andrew Kendricke my Apprentice, 
Three hundred pounds to his Apprentice Andrew Kendricke.  the sum of three hundred pounds: to be paid him, when he shall have served seven years, from the commencement of the term of his Indenture.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the said Andrew Kendricke, 
One hundred pounds more to the same person.  the sum of one hundred pounds more: in lieu of so much given me with him by his Father john Kendricke; to be paid him within three months next after my decease, upon acquittance to be given by his said Father therefore.  
Item, 
To Christopher Pack his Apprentice one hundred pounds.  I give and bequeath to Christopher Pack mine Apprentice, the sum of one hundred pounds: to be paid him within three months' next after my decease.  
Item, 
Twenty pounds to his Horsekeeper.  I give and bequeath to Thomas Mail my Horsekeeper, the sum of twenty pounds: to be paid him within two months next after my decease.  
Item, 
Twenty pounds to his Maid Dorothy,  I give and bequeath to my Maid Dorothy, the sum of twenty pounds; to be paid her within two months next after my decease.  
Item, 
Twenty pounds to his Maid Margaret.  I give and bequeath to my Maid Margaret the sum of twenty pounds; to be paid her within two months next after my decease.  
Item, 
To his Drawer Hutwith fifty pounds.  I give and bequeath unto john Hutwith my Drawer, the sum of fifty pounds; to be paid him within three months after my decease.  
Item, 
To his Drawer Bird five and twenty pounds.  I give and bequeath to Walter Bird my Drawer, five and twenty pounds; to be paid him within three months after my decease.  
Item, 
Among the servants of Hutwith twenty five pound▪  I give and bequeath to the present men servants of john Hutwith my Drawer, the sum of twenty five pounds; whereoften pounds to Charles, and the other fifteen pounds to be equally divided amongst the rest, as well Apprentices as Journeymen; to be paid within two months' next after my decease.  
Item, 
To his twelve Clothworkers, 130. pounds.  I give and bequeath to my twelve Clothworkers, that usually row and shear my Clothes; the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds: whereof twenty pounds to Owen Dobbins, and ten pounds a piece to the rest; to be paid within three months next after my decease.  
Item, 
To Bigge and Salisbury 25. pounds.  I give and bequeath to William Bigge and William Salisbury, that usually press and fold my Clothes; the sum of twenty five pounds: whereof fifteen pounds to William Bigge, and ten pounds to William Salisbury, to be paid them within three months next after my decease.  
Item, 
To his Porters twenty pounds.  I give and bequeath to my Porters at the waterside, ten pounds, to be equally divided among them. And ten pounds to my Porters, that usually pack in my house; to be paid within two months next after my decease.  
Item, 
Ten pounds to his Water-bearer and Washer.  I give and bequeath to my Water-bearer three pounds: And to my Washer Anthony five pounds, to be paid them forthwith after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to William Beadle of Reading Clothier, 
To William Beadle of Reading 50. pounds.  the sum of fifty pounds, if he be yet living; and if he be dead; then to his Executors: to to be paid within three months next after my decease. And I do hereby also forgive the said William Beadle the ten pounds he now oweth me.  
Item, 
To Slye of Readins Executors 50. li.  I give and bequeath to the Executors of Mark Slye of Reading Clothier deceased, the sum of fifty pounds; to be paid within three months next after my decease.  
Item, 
100 li. to Newman of Newbury.  I give and bequeath to Thomas Newman of Newbury Clothier, the sum of one hundred pounds, to be paid him within three months after my decease.  
Item, 
100 li. to John Skinner.  I give and bequeath to john Skinner, Secretary to the Merchant's Adventurers; the sum of one hundred pounds, to be paid within three months next after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the Widow Harison and her Daughter, dwelling in the Alley next to my dwelling house, 
To Widow Harison and her daughter five pounds.  five pounds, to be paid within one month next after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to Master Richard Bennet, 
To Master Bennet 300. li.  who was heretofore my Partner, the sum of three hundred pounds, to be paid at the end of one year next after my decease.  
Item, I give and bequeath to Master William Towerson Skinner, 
Ten pounds to make two Rings.  Deputy of the Merchant Adventurers, five pounds to make him a Ring. And to Master Thomas Smith Skinner, five pounds to make him a Ring; to be paid them forthwith after my decease.  
Item, 
To three men five pound a piece.  I give and bequeath unto Rafe Barnet, William Ellets and john Southern Officers of the Merchant Adventurers, five pounds a piece; to be paid them forthwith after my decease.  
Item, 
For Service by six a clock every morning at Reading.  I give and bequeath to the Mayor and Burgesses of the Town of Reading, in the County of Berks; the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds; to be paid them at the end of one year next after my decease: Therewith to purchase Lands and Hereditaments, to the clear yearly value of ten pounds for ever; to maintain Divine Service to be said in the Parish Church of St. Mary in that Town, by the Parson or his Curate every morning of the week, at six of the clock for ever.  
Item, 
For the like Divine Service every morning at Newbury.  I give and bequeath to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury, in the County of Berks, the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, to be paid them at the end of one year next after my decease: Therewith to purchase Lands or Hereditaments, of the clear yearly value of ten pounds for ever; to maintain Divine Service to be said in the Parish Church of that Town by the Parson or his Curate, every morning of the week at six of the clock, to continue for ever.  
Item, 
To his Kinsman Buy 100 li.  I give and bequeath to my Kinsman William Buy, dwelling near the Alum Mines in Yorkshire, the sum of one hundred pounds; to be paid him within three months after my decease. And I do hereby forgive him the ten pounds, which he oweth me by his Bond, due long since.  
Item, 
Forty pounds for his funeral dinner at Drapers Hall.  I give and bequeath to the Company of Drapers in London, the sum of forty pounds, to be bestowed upon a dinner for the Livery of that Company, to be at their Hall upon the day of my burial: This to be paid forthwith after my decease.  
And my will and meaning is, that in case any of the persons aforenamed, to whom I have bequathed Legacies as aforesaid, 
Disposition of the Legacies, if any study in the mean time.  and not especially disposed for case of their decease, shall happen to die before the same Legacies grow due unto them. Then the Legacy or Legacies so by me given to them as aforesaid, shall be paid unto their Executors or Administrators, at such time as I have before severally appointed unto them my Legataries.  
And I do make and ordain my loving Friend and Partner, 
Appointment of his Executor.  Master Laurence Halstead, my sole Executor, of this my last Will and Testament: Charging him, as he will answer it before Almighty GOD at the last Day of Judgement, that he truly and punctually (in every particular) perform this my said last Will and Testament; as I nothing doubt but he will be careful to do it. 
The 〈◊〉 of his estates to his Executor.  Hereby giving and bequeathing unto him my said Executor, all the residue and remainder of my estate; my Legacies before bequeathed being first paid and discharged.  
In witness of the premises, I have unto this my last Will and Testament, contained in eighteen several sheets of Paper, put my hand and Seal. That is, my Seal once at the top, and my name under every several sheet, the day and year first above written.  
John Kendricke.  
Sealed, pronounced and delivered by the said john Kendricke, as his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us,  


john Skinner.  
Andrew Kendricke.  
Thomas Singleton.       

West from this Church have ye Scolding Alley, 
Scalding house of Scalding wick.  of old time called Scalding house, or Scalding wick, because that ground (for the most part) was then employed 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 S. Nicholas flesh shambles.  
This Scalding wick is the farthest part of Broadstreet Ward, and is (by the water called Walbrooke) parted from Cheap Ward.  
This Broadstreet Ward hath an Alderman, with his Deputy, Common Counsellors, ten, Constables, ten; Scavengers, eight; Wardmote inquest, thirteen, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen in London, at seven and twenty pounds, and accounted in the Exchequer after twenty five pounds.   

CORN HILL WARD.  
THe next Ward towards the South, 
Cornhill Ward.  is Cornhill Ward: so called of a Cornmarket, 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 Birchovers' 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 Marketplace, especially for corn, and since for all kind of victuals, as is partly showed in Lime-street Ward.  
It appeareth of record, that in the year 1522. the Rippiers of Rye and other places, sold their fresh Fish in Leaden Hall Market, upon Cornhill; but foreign Butchers were not admitted there to sell flesh, till the year 1533.  
And it was enacted, 
Flesh Market at Leaden hall, and alteration of prizes in short time.  that Butchers should sell their Beef not above a half penny the pound; and Mutton, half penny, 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 Ox was sold at London, for 26. s. 8. d. at the most: a fat Wether for 3. s. 4. d. a fat Calf the same price; a fat Lamb for 12. d. pieces of Beef weighed two pounds and a half at the least; yea, three pound or better, for a penny, on every Butcher's stall in this City; and of those pieces of Beef, thirteen or fourteen for twelve pence: fat Mutton for eight pence the quarter, and one hundred weight of Beef for 4. s. 8. d. at the dearest.  
What the price is now, I need not to set down: many men thought the same act to rise in price, by reason that Graziers 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 six score, of which every one killed 6. Oxen a piece weekly: which is in 46. weeks, 33120. Oxen, or 720. Oxen weekly.  
The foreign Butchers (for a long time) stood in the high street of Lime-street Ward, on the North side, twice every week; viz. Wednesday and Saturday, and were some gain to the Tenants, before whose doors they stood, and into whose houses they set their blocks and stalls: but that advantage being espied, 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 Ward, 
Standard of Thames water by Leaden hall  are these: First, at the East end thereof, in the middle of the high street, and at the parting of four ways, have ye a water-standard, placed in the year 1582. in manner following: A certain Germane, named Peter Morris, having made an artificial Forcier for that purpose, conveyed Thames water in pipes of lead, over the steeple of Saint Magnus' Church, at the North end of London Bridge, and from thence into diverse men's houses in Thames street, new Fish-street, and Grasse-street, up to the northwest corner of Leaden Hall, the highest ground of all the City, 
The highest ground of the City of London.  where the waste of the main pipe rising into this Standard, (provided at the charges of the City) with four spouts, did at every tide run (according to covenant) four ways, plentifully serving to the commodity of the inhabitants near adjoining in their houses, and also cleansed the Channels of the street toward Bishopsgate, Aldgate, the Bridge, and the Stocks Market; but now no such matter, whose default I know not.  
Then have ye a fair Conduit, of sweet water, castellated in the midst of that Ward and street. This Conduit was first builded of stone, in the year 1282. by Henry Wallis, 
The Tun upon Cornhill a prisonhouse for nightwalkers.  Maior of London, to be a prison for nightwalkers, and other suspicious persons, and was called the Tun upon Cornhill, because the same was builded somewhat in fashion of a Tun, standing on the one end.  
To this prison, 
Temporal men punish spiritual persons for incontinency.  the night Watches of this City committed not only nightwalkers, 
The Bishop complaineth.  but also other persons, as well spiritual as temporal, whom they suspected of incontinency, and punished them according to the customs of this City: but complaint thereof being made, 
The King forbids the Laity for punishing the Clergy men.  about the year of Christ, 1297. King Edward the first writeth to his Citizens thus:  
Edward by the grace of God, etc. whereas Richard Gravesend, Bishop of London, hath showed unto us, that by the great Charter of England, the Church hath a privilege, that no Clerk should be imprisoned by a Layman, without our commandment, and breach of peace; which notwithstanding, some Citizens of London, upon mere spite, do enter in their Watches into Clerks chambers, and then (like Felons) carry them to the Tun, which Henry le Wallis, sometime Mayor, built for nightwalkers. Wherefore we will that this our commandment be proclaimed in a full Hoysting, and that no Watch hereafter enter into any Clerk's chamber, under the forfeit of 30. pound. Dated at Carlisle, the 18. of March, the 25. of our Reign.  
More, 
Citizens of London break up the Tun upon Cornhill  I read that about the year of Christ, 1299. the 27. of Edward the first, certain principal Citizens of London; to wit, T. Roman, Richard Gloucester, Nicholas Faringdon, Adam Helingbury, T. Saly, john Dunstable, Richard Ashwy, john Wade, and William Stortford, broke up this prison called the Tun, and took out certain prisoners, for the which they were sharply punished, by long imprisonment, and great fines. It cost the Citizens (as some have written) more than 20000. 
Thomas Walsingham.  Marks, which they were amerced in, before William de March, Treasurer of the King's Exchequer, to purchase the King's favour, and the confirmation of their liberties.  
Also, 
Citizens of London punished fornication and adultery in Priests and other, without partiality.  that in the year 1383. the seventh of Richard the second, the Citizens of London taking upon them the rights that belonged to their Bishops, first imprisoned such women aswere taken in fornication or adultery, in the said Tun; and after, bringing them forth to the sight of the World, they caused their heads to be shaved, after the manner of Thiefs, whom they named Appellators, and so to be led about the City, in sight of all the inhabitants, with Trumpets and Pipes sounding before them, that their persons might be the more largely known: Neither did they spare such kind of men a whit the more, but used them as hardly, saying; They abhorred not only the negligence of their Prelates, but also detested their avarice, that studied for money, omitted the punishment limited by Law, and permitted those that were found guilty, to live favourably by their fines. Wherefore they would themselves, they said, purge their City from such filthiness, lest through God's vengeance, either the Pestilence or Sword should happen to them, or that the Earth should swallow them. Last of all to be noted, I read in the charge of the Wardmote inquest in every Ward in this City, 
Priests punished in the Tnn upon Cornhill forced to forswear this City.  these words: If there be any Priest in service within the Ward, which beforetime hath been set in the Tun in Cornhill for his dishonesty, and hath forsworn the City, all such shall be presented.  
Thus much for the Tun in Cornhill have I read.  
Now, for the punishment of Priests, in my youth, one note and no more. john Atwod, Draper, dwelling in the Parish of Saint Michael upon Cornhill, directly against the Church, having a proper woman to his wife, such an one as seemed the holiest amongst a thousand, had also a lusty Chantry Priest of the said Parish Church, repairing to his house, with the which Priest, the said Atwod would sometime after supper play a game at Tables for a pint of Ale. It chanced on a time, having haste of work, and his game proving long, he left his wife to play it out, and went down to his shop: but returning to fetch a pressing-iron, he found such play (to his misliking) that he forced the Priest to leap out at a window, over the Penthouse into the street, and so to run to his lodging in the Churchyard. Atwod and his wife were soon reconciled, so that he would not suffer her to be called in question; 
A Priest punished for lechery.  but the Priest being apprehended and committed, I saw his punishment to be thus: He was on three Market days conveyed thorough the high street and Markets of the City, with a paper on his head, wherein was written his trespass. The first day he road in a Carry; the second, on a horse, his face to the horse tail; the third, led betwixt twain, and every day rung with Basins, and proclamations made of his fact at every turning of the streets, and also before john Atwods' Stall, and the Church door of his Service, where he lost his Chantry of twenty Nobles the year, and was banished the City for ever.  
By the West side of the foresaid prison, 
A fair Well in Cornhill.  than called the Tun, was a fair Well of Spring water, kerbed round with hard stone: 
The Tun upon Cornhill made a Conduit of sweet water.  but in the year 1401. the said Prisonhouse called the Tun, was made a Cistern for sweet water, conveyed by pipes of Lead from Tyburn, and was from thenceforth called the Conduit upon Cornhill. 
Cage, stocks and pillory in Cornhill.  Then was the Well plancked over, and a strong prison made of Timber, called a Cage, with a pair of Stocks therein, set upon it; 
Bakers, Millers, Bawds, Scolds, & common jurors for rewards, punished on the pillory.  and this was for nightwalkers. On the top of which Cage was placed a Pillory, for the punishment of Bakers, offending in the assize of bread; for Miller's stealing of Corn at the Mill; for Bawds, Scolds, and other offenders.  
As in the year 1468. the 7. of Ed. 4. diverse persons, being common jurors, such as at Assizes were forsworn for rewards, or favour of parties, were judged to ride from Newgate to the Pillory in Cornhill, with Mitres of paper on their heads, there to stand, and from thence again to Newgate, and this judgement was given by the Mayor of London.  
In the year 1509. the first of Henry the 8. Derby, Smith, and Simson, Ringleaders of false inquests in London, rode about the City with their faces to the horses tails, and papers on their heads, and were set on the Pillory in Cornhill, and after brought again to Newgate, where they died for very shame, 
Ringleaders of inquests will proffer their service, and bend every way for gain.  saith Robert Fabian. A Ringleader of Inquests, as I take it, is he, that making a gainful occupation thereof, will appear upon Nisi prius ere he be warned, or procure himself to be warned to come on by a Tallis. 
Careful choice of jurors in to be had● a man derected, & that had sworn foolishly against his brother, is not to be admitted a common juror, ne●ther Butcher not Surgeon is to be admitted.  He will also procure himself to be Foreman, when he can, and take upon him to overrule the rest to his opinion: such an one shall be laboured by plaintiffs and defendants, not without promise of rewards; and therefore to be suspected of a bad conscience. I would wish a more careful choice of jurors to be had: for I have known a man carted, rung with Basins, and banished out of Bishopsgate Ward, and afterward, in Aldgate Ward admitted to be Constable, a grand jurie-man, and Foreman of their Wardmote inquest. What I know of the like, or worse men, preferred to the like offices, I forbear to write, but wish to be reform.  
The foresaid Conduit upon Cornhill was in the year 1475. enlarged by Robert Drop, 
Conduit on Cornhill enlarged.  Draper, Maior, that then dwelled in that Ward, he increased the cistern of this Conduit with an east end of stone, and castellated it in comely manner.  
In the year 1546. Sir Martin Bowes, Maior, dwelling in Lombard street, and having his back gate opening into Cornhill, against the said Conduit, minded to have enlarged the Cistern thereof with a West end, like as Robert Drop before had done towards the East. View and measure of the plot was taken for this work: but the Pillory and Cage being removed, they found the ground planked, and the Well aforesaid worn out of memory, which Well they renewed and restored to use; it is since made a Pump: they set the Pillory somewhat west from the Well, and so this work ceased.  
On the North side of this street, from the East unto the West, have ye diverse fair houses for Merchants and others; amongst the which, one large house is called the Wey house, 
The weyhouse or King's beam upon Cornhill.  where Merchandises brought from beyond the Seas, are to be weighed at the King's beam. This House hath a Master, and under him four Master Porters, with Porters under them; they have a strong Cart, and four great Horses, to draw and carry the wares from the Merchant's houses to the Beam, and back again. Sir Tho. Lovel, Knight, builded this house, with a fair front of Tenements toward the Street, all which he gave to the Grocers of London, himself being free of the City, and a Brother of that Company.  
Then have ye the said Finkes lane, the South end of which lane on both the sides, is in Cornhill Ward.  
Then next is the Royal Exchange, 
The Burse upon Cornhill, or the Royal Exchange.  erected in the year 1566. after this order, viz. Certain houses upon Cornhill, and the like upon the back thereof, in the Ward of Broadstreet, with three Alleys; the first called Swan Alley, 
Swan Alley.  opening into Cornhill; 
New Alley.  the second, New Alley, passing thorough out of Cornhill into Broadstreet Ward, over against S. Bartholomew lane; 
S. Christopher's Alley.  the third, S. Christopher's Alley, opening into Broadstreet Ward, and into Saint Christopher's Parish, containing in all 80. households; 
Householders displaced for building of the Burse.  were first purchased by the Citizens of London, for more than 3532. pounds, and were sold for 478 pounds, to such persons as should take them down, and carry them thence; also the ground or plot was made plain at the charges of the City, 
The City charged with buildings of the Burse.  and then possession thereof was by certain Aldermen (in name of the whole Citizens) given to Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, agent to the Queen's Highness, there-upon to build a Burse, or place for Merchants to assemble in, at his own proper charges: and he, on the seventh of june, laying the first stone of the foundation, being Brick, accompanied with some Aldermen, every of them laid a piece of gold, which the workmen took up, and forthwith followed upon the same such diligence, that by the month of November, in the year 1567. the same was covered with slate, and shortly after fully finished.  
In the year 1570. on the 23. of january, 
Queen Elizabeth came to the Burse.  the Queen's Majesty, attended with her Nobility, came from her house at the Strand, called Somerset House, and entered the City by Temple-bar, through Fleetstreet, Cheap, and so by the North side of the Burse, through Three-needle street, to Sir Thomas Gresham's house in Bishopsgate street, where she dined. After dinner, her Majesty returning through Cornhill, entered the Burse on the South side, and after she had viewed every part thereof above the ground; especially the Pawn, which was richly furnished with all sorts of the finest wares in the City: she caused the same Burse, 
The Burse called the Royal Exchange.  by an Herald and a Trumpet, to be proclaimed the Royal Exchange, and so to be called from thenceforth, and not otherwise.  
Next adjoining to this Royal Exchange, remaineth one part of a large stone house, and is now called the Castle, of such a sign at a Tavern door; there is a passage thorough out of Cornhill into Three-needle street: the other part of the said stone house was taken down, for enlarging the Royal Exchange. This stone house was said of some to have been a Church, whereof it had no proportion. Of others, a jews house, as though none but jews had dwelled in stone houses: but that opinion is without warrant.  
For beside the strong building of stone houses, against invasion of thiefs in the night, when no watches were kept: In the first year of Richard the first, (to prevent the casualties of fire, which often had happened in the City, when the houses were builded of timber, and covered with Reed or straw, 
The cause of stone houses builded in London.  Henry Fitz Alwine being Maior) it was decreed, that from thenceforth, no man should build within the City, but of stone, until a certain height, and to cover the same building with slate, or burnt tile. This was the very cause of such stone buildings, whereof many have remained till our time, that for gaining of ground they have been taken down, and in place of some one of them, being low (as but 2. stories above the ground) many houses of 4. or 5. stories high are placed.  
From this stone house down to the Stocks, are diverse large houses, especially for height, for Merchants and Artificers.  
On the South side of this high street, is the Parish Church of Saint Peter upon Cornhill, 
Parish Church of S. Peter upon Cornhill.  which seemeth to be of an ancient building, but not so ancient as fame reporteth; for it hath been lately repaired, if not all new builded, except the steeple, which is ancient.  
The roof of this Church, and glazing, was finished in the reign of Edward the fourth, as appear by Arms of Noblemen, and Aldermen of London then living. There remaineth in this Church a Table, wherein it is written, I know not by what authority, but of no late hand; that King Lucius founded the same Church, to be an Archbishop's Sea, Metropolitan and chief Church of his Kingdom, and that it so endured the space of four hundred years, unto the coming of Augustine the Monk.  
Now, because many have urged it very earnestly to me, to let them be further acquainted therewith: I have here inserted the same verbatim, as it is there recorded in the Table.  

A Copy taken out of the Table, fast chained in S. Peter's Church on Cornhill.  
BE it known unto all men, that the years of our Lord God, C. lxxix. Lucius, the first Christian King of this Land, then called Britain, founded the first Church in London, that is to say, the Church of Saint Peter upon Cornhill. And he founded there an Archbishops See, and made that Church the Metropolitan and chief Church of this Kingdom: and so endured the space of CCCC. years, unto the coming of S. Austin, the Apostle of England, the which was sent into this Land by S. Gregory, the Doctor of the Church, in the time of King Ethelbert. And then was the Archbishops See and Palls removed from the foresaid Church of Saint Peter upon Cornhill, unto Dereberniam, that now is called Canturbury, and there remaineth to this day. And Millet, Monk, the which came into the Land with S. Austen, was made the first Bishop of London, & his See was made in Paul's Church. And this Lucius King, was the first founder of Saint Peter's Church upon Cornhill. And he reigned in this Land after Brute, a M. C C. Xlu. years. and the years of our Lord God, a C. xxiv. Lucius was crowned King, and the years of his reign were Lxxvij. years. And he was (after some Chronicle) buried at London: And (after some Chronicle) he was buried at Glowcester, in that place where the Order of S. Francis standeth now.  
joceline of Furneiss writeth, that Thean or Theon, the first Archbishop of London in the reign of Lucius, builded the said Church, by the aid of Ciran, chief Butler to King Lucius; 
Library 〈◊〉 S. 〈◊〉 upon 〈◊〉, now a Gram●●● school.  and also that Elvanus, the second Archbishop, builded a Library to the same adjoining, and coverted many of the Druids, learned men in the Pagan law, to Christianity.  
William Harrison, discoursing hereon more at large, 
Out of the description of betaine, written by William Harrison.  discoursing hereon more at large, hath these very words:  
There is a Controversy (faith he) moved among our Historiographers, whether the Church that Lucius builded at London, stood at Westminster, or in Cornhill. For, there is some cause, why the Metropolitan Church should be thought to stand where Saint Peter now doth, by the space of four hundred and odd years, before it was removed to Canturbury by Austin the Monk, if a man would lean to one side, without any conference of the asseverations of the other. But herein (as I take it) there lurketh some scruple: for, beside that S. Peter's Church stood in the East end of the City, and that of Apollo in the west, the word Cornhill, a denomination given of late (to speak of) to one street, may easily be mistaken for Thorney.  
For, as the word Thorney proceedeth from the Saxons, who called the West end of the Citied by that name, where Westminster now standeth, because of the wilderness and bushinesse of the soil: so do I not read of any street in London called Cornhill, 
No street in London called Cornhill, before the Normans Conquest.  before the Conquest of the Normans. Wherefore, I hold with them, which make Westminster to be the place, where Lucius builded his Church, upon the ruins of that 
* There were three Archflamines, 1. at London, the 2. at York, the 3. at Caerlbeon upon the River Vske, builded by Belinus, and called Glamorgantia, now Chester, all destroyed by Lucius, because they were erected to Apollo, Mars and Minerva: he builded 3. other Churches in their stead.  Flamine, 264. years (as Malmesbury saith) before the coming of the Saxons, and 411. before the arrival of Augustine. Read also his Appendix in lib. 4. Pontif. where he noteth the time of the Saxons in the 444. of Grace, and of Augustine in 596. of Christ, which is a manifest account, though some Copies have 499. for the one, but not without manifest corruption and error.  
And now to return where we left: True it is, that a Library there was pertaining to this Parish Church, of old time builded of stone, and of late repaired with Brick, by the Executors of Sir john Crosby, Alderman, as his Arms on the South end do witness.  
This Library hath been (of late time) to wit, within these 70. years, well furnished of Books, john Leyland viewed and commended them; but now those Books are gone, 
Io. Leyland.  and the place is occupied by a Schoolmaster, and his Usher, for a number of Scholars learning their Grammar rules, etc. Notwithstanding, before that time, a Grammar School had been kept in this Parish, as appeareth in the year, 1425.  
I read, 
Grammar Schools commanded by Parliament.  that john Whitby was Rector, and john Steward Schoolmaster there: and in the 25. of Henry the sixth it was enacted by Parliament, that 4. Grammar Schools in London, should be maintained, viz. In the Parishes of All-hallows in Thames street: Saint Andrew in Oldborne: Saint Peter upon Cornhill; and Saint Thomas of Acres.  
Monuments of the dead in this Church defaced.  
I read that Hugh Waltham,  
Nicholas Pricot, Mercer, Alderman,  
Richard Manhall; 1503.  
William Kingston, Fishmonger, gave his Tenements called the Horse-mill in Grasse-street, to this Church, and was there buried, about the year, 1298.  
john Vnisbrugh, Poulter, 1410.  
john Law.  
Also, Peter Mason Taylor, gave to this Church seven pound starling yearly for ever, out of his Tenements in Colechurch Parish, and deceased about the year, 1416.  
john Foxton founded a Chantry there.  
A Brotherhood of Saint Peter was in this Church established by Henry the fourth, the fourth of his reign.  
William Brampton, and William Askham, Fishmongers and Aldermen, were chief procurers thereof, for the Fishmongers of late buried there Sir William Bowyer, Maior, 1543.  
Sir Henry Huberthorne, Maior, 1546.  
Sir Christopher Morice, Master Gunner of England to King Henry the eight.  
Edward Elrington, Esquire, chief Butler to Edward the sixth.  
Thomas Gardener, Grocer.  
Justice Smith, and other beside. 
A salt ancient Tomb for Sir William Bowyer in the south I'll of the Quire.   
In the year of jesus  
Christ's Incarnation,  
One thousand, five hundred,  
forty and four,  
The 22. day of April,  
by just computation;  
In this place was buried  
with great honour,  
Which proved a man  
Meet to be a Governor,  
For the Commonwealth  
of this high and famous City:  
Called Sir William Bowyer,  
Lord of the Mayoralty,  
Which departed not with  
finding great calamity:  
And pray we to GOD,  
to grant his Soul mercy.  
O London, if thou look  
to the Lacedemonies,  
There to find Lycurgus  
that noble and kind King;  
Or if thou seek for Cicero's  
men most of prize,  
Or if thou apply thee to have  
all the whole desiring  
Of Amphyon, Orpheus,  
or of Maecenas demeaning a  
Seek no further to find,  
for here he is buried,  
Which had all their properties  
for London's good ordering.  
Be we then of his honourable  
degree well conceiving,  
For his acts for ever  
be registered in London's meaning.  Here lieth Sir Henry Huberthorne, 
A fair Marble stone under the Communion Table, plated about.  sometime Lord Maior and Merchant-taylor of this City of London, and Dame Elizabeth his Wife. He departed this life, etc. And the said Dame Elizabeth left this transitory life in Anno Domini, 1551. 
Hereunder lieth buried  
William Mess of this City, 
A fair plated stone, near to the other.   
Whilst he lived, free  
of the Grocer's Company,  
And Julian his wife,  
to whom 24. years married was he,  
By whom God sent him  
five sons and daughters three,  
And to Gods will  
his heart was always bend,  
So did his death  
show a life well spent.  
Here this is written,  
that other may remember,  
His godly departure  
from this world the 26. of September.  
In the same Vault with Sir William Bowyers body, is Mr. Alderman Walthals also laid, but no Monument as yet made for him, beside his Funeral Banners.  
The Charities of the Parish of Saint Peter upon Cornhill.  
Lancelot Tompson of London, Draper, was buried in this Parish Church, and gave 20. l. for the yearly preaching of five Sermons, until the money should be fully run out. Which Sermons were all preached by Doctor Ashbold, Parson there. Also he gave 100 l. to the Draper's Company, and they to allow 5. l. yearly for ever, for Bread and Coals for the poor of the said parish.  
Boniface Tatam of London, Vintner, buried in the said Parish the third of February, 1606. gave 40. s. yearly to the Parson, for preaching four Sermons every year, so long as the Lease of the Mermaid in Cornhill, (a Tavern so called) shall endure. He gave also to the poor of the Parish thirteen penny loaves every Sunday, during the foresaid Leaf.  
Mr. William Walthal, late of London, Alderman, buried in the said Parish Church the second of September, 1606. gave twenty pound to the stock of the Parish. Next, he gave forty Marks, for forty Sermons to be preached in the said Church. Also he gave two hundred pounds, to be employed as followeth: Ten young men, trading and dwelling in the Parish, with two sufficient sureties, each man, from four years to four years, to enjoy the benefit thereof. And every one of them, for the time being, having the usage of the said money, is to pay yearly to the good of the poor of the said Parish, for bread and coals, the sum of thirteen shillings four pence, which amounteth in the whole, to the sum of six pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence. He hath also allowed to the Churchwardens and Overseers for the poor, five shillings yearly among them, to see his good meaning effectually performed.  
Robert Warden, of London, Poulter, buried in the same Church the 18. of November, 1609. hath given out of one Message or Tenement, lying and being in Bishopsgate street, in the said Parish, the sum of three pounds twelve shillings, yearly for ever, viz. 52. shillings in wheaten bread every Sunday, for the poor of the Parish, 10. s. a year for two Sermons, to be preached to the Company of Poulters, 4. s. for the Clerks attendance at the said Sermons, and 2. s. a year for the Sexton, allowed by the said Company.  
Mr. john Malin, Physician, buried in the said Church the 25. of May, 1613. gave to the poor of this Parish the sum of 40. l. to be weekly bestowed on them, on Friday mornings for ever.  
Then have ye the Parish Church of S. Michael the Archangel: 
The Parish Church of S. Michael on Cornhill.  for the Antiquity thereof, I find that Alnothus the Priest gave it to the Abbot and Covent of Covesham; Reynold Abbot, and the Covent there, did grant the same to Sparling the Priest, in all measures, as he and his Predecessors before had held it: to the which Sparling also, they granted all their Lands which they there had, except certain Lands which Orgar le Proud held of them, and paid two shillings yearly. For the which grant, the said Sparling should yearly pay one Mark of rent to the said Abbot of Covesham, and find him his lodging, salt, water, and fire, when he came to London; this was granted 1133. about the 34. of Henry the first. Thus much for antiquity.  
Of later time I find, that Elizabeth Peake, Widow, gave the Patronage or gift of this Benefice to the Drapers in London: she lieth buried in the Belfry, 1518. her Monument yet remaineth. This hath been a fair and beautiful Church, but of late years, since the surrender of their lands to Edward the sixth, greatly blemished by the building of four Tenements on the North side thereof, towards the high street, in place of a green Churchyard, whereby the Church is darkened and other ways annoyed. The fair new Steeple or Bell-Tower of this Church, was begun to be builded in the year, 1421. which being finished, 
This was accounted the best Ring of 6. Bells to be rung by 6. men that was in England for harmony, sweetness of sound and tune.  and a fair ring of five Bells therein placed; a sixth Bell was added, and given by john Whitwel, Isabel his wife, and William Rus, or Rous Alderman and Goldsmith, about the year, 1430. which Bell named Rus, (nightly at eight of the clock, and otherwise for Kneels, and in Peals, rung by one man, by the space of 160. years) of late over-haled by four or five at once, hath been thrice broken, and new cast, within the space of ten years, to the charges of that Parish, more than 100 Marks.  
And here note of this Steeple, as I have oft heard my Father report. 
Lightning and thunder, with ugly shaps seen in S. Michael's Steeple.  Upon Saint james night, certain men in the Loft next under the Bells, ringing of a Peal, a Tempest of Lightning and Thunder did arise, and an ugly shapen sight appeared to them, coming in at the South window, and lighted on the North, for fear whereof, they all fell down, and lay as dead for the time, letting the Bells ring and cease of their own accord. When the Ringers came to themselves, 
The print of claws to be seen in hard stone.  they found certain stones of the North window to be razed and scrat, as if they had been so much Butter printed with a Lion's claw: the same stones were fastened there again, and so remain till this day. I have seen them oft, and have put a feather or small stick into the holes, where the claws had entered 3. or 4. inches deep.  
At the same time, certain main timber posts at Queen Hith, 
Pulpit-Crosse in Paul's Churchyard overturned.  were scrat and cleft from the top to the bottom, and the Pulpit Cross in Paul's Churchyard was likewise scrat, cleft, and overturned. One of the Ringers lived in my youth, whom I have oft heard to verify the same to be true; but to return.  
William Rus was a special Benefactor to this Church, his Arms yet remain in the Windows.  
William Comerton, Simon Smith, Walter Belengham were buried there, and founded Chaunteries there.  
john Grace, 1439.  
Robert Drop, Mayor, buried on the North side the Choir, under a fair Tomb of Grey Marble, 1485. he gave to poor Maid's marriages of that Parish twenty pound, to the poor of that Ward ten pound; Shirts and smocks three hundred, and gowns of broadcloth, one hundred, etc.  
jane his wife, matching with Edward Grace, Viscount Lisle, was buried by her first husband 1500. She gave 90. pound in money to the beautifying of that Church, and her great Message with the appurtenance, which was by her Executors, W. Caple and other, 1517. the ninth of Henry the eighth assured to john Wardroper, Parson, T. Clerk, W. Dixson, and john Murdon, Wardens of the said Church, and their successors for ever, they to keep yearly for her an Obits, or Anniversary; to be spent on the poor, and otherwise, in all three pounds, the rest of the profits to be employed in reparation of the Church.  
In the 34. year of Henry the eighth, Edward Stephan, Parson, T. Spencer, P. Guntar, and E. Grouch, Churchwardens, granted to T. Lodge, a Leaf for threescore years of the said great Message, with the appurtenances, which were called the Lady Lisles' Lands, for the rent of eight pound, thirteen shillings, four pence the year. The Parishioners since gave it up as Chantry land, and wronged themselves; also the said Robert Drop and Lady Lisle (notwithstanding their liberality to that Church and Parish) their Tomb is pulled down no Monument remaineth of them. Peter Houghton, late Alderman, is laid in their Vault, 1569.  
Robert Fabian Alderman, that wrote and published a Chronicle of England, and of France, was buried there, 1511. with this Epitaph.  
Like as the day his course doth consume,  
And the new morrow springeth again as fast,  
So man and woman by nature's custom,  
This life to pass, at last in earth are cast,  
Enjoy, & sorrow, which heretheirtime do waist  
Never in one state, but in course Transitory,  
So full of change, is of this world the glory.  
His Monument is gone: Richard Garnam, 1527. buried there.  
Edmond Trindle, and Robert Smith.  
William Dickson, and Margaret his wife, buried in the Cloister under a fair Tomb now defaced.  
Thomas Stow my Grandfather, about the year, 1526. and Thomas Stow my Father, 1559.  
john Tolus, Alderman, 1548. he gave to john Willoby, 
john Tolus his gift to the church not performed but concealed.  Parson of that Church, to Thomas Lodge, G. Hind, P. Bold, Churchwardens, and to their successors (towards the reparation of that Church, and relief of the poor for ever) his Tenement, with the appurtenances in the Parish of Saint Michael, which he had lately purchased of Alvery Randalph, of Badlesmeere in Kent: but the Parish never had the gift, nor heard thereof, by the space of 40. years after: such was the conscience of G. Barn, and other the Executors to conceal it to themselves, and such is the negligence of the Parishioners, that (being informed thereof) make no claim thereunto.  
Philip Gunter, that was Alderman for a time, and gave 400. pound to be discharged thereof, was buried in the Cloister, about the year 1582. and Anne his wife, etc.  
Thomas Haughton father to the said Peter Haughton.  
Francis benison, and William Towerson.  
Philip Gunter, 
A handsome Monument in the wall of the Chancel, the south side.  Skinner, sometime Alderman of this City, departed this life the 15. day of February, 1582. and lieth buried in the Cloister of this Church: who married Anne, Daughter of Henry Barley, of Albery, in the County of Hereford, Esquire; and had issue by her 11. Sons, and four daughters. He left good maintenance for two Sermons yearly for ever in this Church: the one on the 15. day of March, the other the 25. of December.  
Here lieth buried the body of Peter Houghton, 
A very fair Monument richly guided, in the Chancel wall on the Nor●● side.  of London Alderman: he was free of the Grocer's Company, a Merchant of the Staple in England, and a Merchant Adventurer. He was one of the Sheriffs of this City, in An. 1593. and died the last day of December, 1596. He gave to the four Hospitals (that is to say) Saint Bartholomewes', Christ Church, St. Thomas and Bridewell, 600. pound, equally to be divided between them. He gave also to the Grocer's Company 400. pound to be lent to eight young men of the same Company (gratis) from two years, to two years, for ever. Which 1000 pound was paid by john Vernon, Merchant-Taylor, accordingly. He had to wife Mary Houghton, who sithence married with Sir Thomas Vavasor, Knight Martial. He had children by her, two Sons, named Hatton, and Peter, who died young; and two Daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Marry was married to Sir james Scudamore, Knight, and Elizabeth to Sir Henry Bedingfield, Knight.  
Here lieth buried (by a desired promise made to Alderman Houghton while he lived) the body of john Vernon, 
His Picture standeth alo●● on the other Monument.  Merchant-Taylor: who was Master of the said Company, in An. 1609. And he was also a Merchant of the Staple in England. He died the day of An. Dom.   

Nemo ante obitum felix.  
Here in the Vault lieth buried the bodies of of john Taylor, 
In the South I'll of the Choir a handsome Monuments in the wa●.  Citizen and Draper of London, and Constance his wife, one of the Daughters and Coheires of Reginald Wooddeson, of Alresford in Hampshire, Gent. They had issue between them three Sons, john, who died young, Robert and john. He departed this life the 4. day of April, 1597. being about the age of 63. years: and she, being the age of 67. the 29. of October, 1614 Votum S. Pauli. Phil. 1. Adepti.  
In March; 1588.  
was buried in this place, 
In the same wall lower, a handsome small Monument.   
Alexander Every, Merchant  
but 40. years of age,  
Whose godly gifts, by will,  
are warrants of God's grace  
In him. By whom,  
think on thyself, and on the stage  
Thou standest, and measure it,  
and other worldly things:  
As streams that swiftly slide  
down from their springs.  
An. Dom. 1570. primo Feb.  
Here lieth Francis Benneson,  
a Citizen was he, 
A plated stone in the same I'll on the ground.   
A Merchant Adventurer also,  
and of the Mystery  
Of Haberdasher's Company.  
A man of honest name,  
Who here on earth to fear of God,  
his vital days did frame.  
Two wives he had, the first of them  
in Antwerp borne she was;  
The other he a Widow left,  
so God brought it to pass.  
His Soul (no doubt) doth now remain  
with God among the rest  
Of other worthy Christians,  
who evermore are blessed.  
Hereunder lieth buried the body of the worshipful, 
A fair small Monument on a Pillar right against the Pulpit.  John Harby, Citizen and Skinner of London, and free of the Merchant Adventurers Company, for Muscovia, Spain, and the East judiaes': who had two wives, Anne Mording, Widow, by whom he had issue four Sons, and one Daughter, viz. Thomas, Francis, John, William, and Emme. And lastly he married with Anne Saltonstal, Daughter to Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight, sometime Lord Mayor of this City: by whom he had two Sons, Richard and Daniel; which John Harby after 74. years, departed this life the 15. day of April, 1610. Expecting a joyful resurrection by jesus Christ.  
Hic dormivit in Christo Joannes Cowper, Armiger; 
A fair Tomb in the Cloister South.  Vxorem habuit Elizabeth Ironside ante se mortuam. Obiit 3. junii. An. Dom. 1609.  
There is a comely Monument, 
In the wall on the North side of the Chancel.  although of no great cost or charge, there placed for Master Laurence Caldwell, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Mary his wife. Great pity it is, that it is no better kept and looked unto, for shortly the inscriptions engraven thereon, will not any way possibly be read, etc.  
This Parish Church hath on the south side thereof a proper Cloister, 
Pulpit-Crosse in S. Michael Church-yard.  and a fair Churchyard, with a Pulpit-crosse, not much unlike to that in Paul's Church yard. Sir john Rudstone Maior, caused the same Pulpit-Crosse, in his life time to be builded, the Churchyard to be enlarged, by ground purchased of the next Parish, and also proper houses to be raised, for lodging of Choir men, such as at that time were assistants to Divine Service, then daily sung by Note, in that Church.  
The said Io. Rudstone deceased, 1531. and was buried in a Vault under the Pulpit-Crosse: he appointed Sermons to be preached there, not now performed. His Tomb before the Pulpit-Crosse is taken thence, with the Tomb of Richard Yaxley, Doctor of physic to King Henry the eighth and other.  
The Choir of that Church being dissolved, the lodgings of the Choir men were (by the grave Fathers of that time) charitably appointed for receipt of ancient decayed parishioners; namely, widows, such as were not able to bear the charge of greater rents abroad, which blessed work of harbouring the harbourless, 
Mat. 2. 5.  is promised to be rewarded in the Kingdom of Heaven.  
Then have ye Birchover lane, 
Birchovers' lane.  so called of Birchover, the first builder and owner thereof, now corruptly called Birchin lane, the North half whereof is of the said Cornhill Ward, the other part is of Langborne Ward.  
This lane and the high street near adjoining, hath been inhabited (for the most part) with wealth Drapers, from Birchovers' lane on that side the street, down to the Stocks. In the reign of Henry the sixth, 
Upholders sellers of old stuff in Cornhill.  had ye (for the most part) dwelling there, Frippers or Upholders, that sold apparel and old household stuff.  
I have read of a Country man, that then having lost his hood in Westminster Hall, found the same in Cornhill, hanged out to be sold, which he challenged, but was forced to buy, or go without it: for their stall (they said) was their market. 
Pope's head Tavern on Cornhill.  At that time also, the Winedrawer of the Popes-head Tavern, (standing without the door in the high street) took the same man by the sleeve, and said, Sir, will you drink a Pint of Wine? 
Wine one pint for a penny, & bread given free.  Whereunto he answered, A penny spend I may: and so drank his Pint: for bread nothing did he pay, for that was then allowed free.  
This Popes-head Tavern, with other houses adjoining, strongly builded of stone, hath of old time been all in one, pertaining to some great Estate, 
The King's house in Cornhill.  or rather to the King of this Realm, as may be supposed, both by largeness thereof, and by the Arms; to wit, 3. Leopard's passant gardant, which was the whole Arms of England, before the reign of Edward the third, that quartered them with the Arms of France, three Flower de Luce's.  
These Arms of England, 
Arms of England supported by Angels  supported then between two Angels, are fair and largely graven in stone on the forefront towards the high street, over the door or stall of one great house, lately (for many years) possessed by Mr. Philip Gunter. The Popes-head Tavern is on the back part thereof, towards the South, as also one other house, called the stone house in Lombard street. Some say this was King John's house; which might so be: for I find in a written copy of Matthew Paris his History, that in the year 1232. Henry the third sent Hubert de Burgho, 
Hubert de Burgho, Earl of Kent, sent into Cornhill.  Earl of Kent, to Cornhill in London, there to answer all matters objected against him: where he wisely acquitted himself. The Popes-head Tavern hath a footway through, from Cornhill into Lombard street. And down lower on the high street of Cornhill, is there one other way thorough by the Cardinal's Hat Tavern, 
The Cardinal's Hat Tavern.  into Lombard street. And so let this suffice for Cornhill Ward. In which be Governors, an Alderman, his Deputy, Common-Counsellours, four, or six; Constables, four; Scavengers, four; Wardmote inquest, 16. and a Beadle: it is charged to the Fifteen at 16. pounds.    

LANGBOURNE WARD, And Fenny about.  
LAngbourne Ward, so called, 
Langbourne Ward, and Fenny about  of a long Borne of sweet water, which (of old time) breaking out into Fenne-Church-street, ran down the same street, and Lombard street, to the West end of S. Mary Woolnoths Church, where turning South, and breaking into small shares, rils or streams, 
Shareborne or South borne lane.  it left the name of Shareborne lane, or Southborne lane, (as I have read) because it ran South to the River of Thames. This Ward beginneth at the West end of Ealdgate Ward, in Fen-Church street, by the Ironmongers Hall, which is on the North side of that street, 
Culver Alley.  at a place called Culver Alley, where sometime was a lane, through the which men went into Limestreet; but that being long since stopped up, 
Lane stopped up.  for suspicion of Thiefs that lurked there by night, as is showed in Limestreet Ward; there is now in this said Alley a Tennis Court, etc.  
Fenne-Church street took that name of a Fenny or Moorish ground, 
Fenchurch street.  so made by means of this Boorne, which passed thorough it; and therefore (until this day) in the Guild-hall of this City, that Ward is called by the name of Langborne, and Fenny about, and not otherwise: yet others be of opinion, that it took that name of Foenum, that is, Hay, sold there, as Grasse-street-tooke the name of Grass or Herbs there sold.  
In the midst of this street standeth a small Parish Church, 
Parish Church of S. Mary & S. Gabriel.  called S. Gabriel Fenne-Church, corruptly, Fan-Church.  
Helming Legget, Esquire, by licence of Edward the third, in the 49. of his reign, gave one Tenement, with a curtelarge thereto belonging, and a garden with an entry thereto leading, unto Sir john Hariot, Parson of Fen-Church, and to his successors for ever; the house to be a Parsonage house; the Garden to be a Churchyard, or burying place for the Parish.  
Then have ye Lombard street, 
Lombard street so called before Ed. 2.  so called of the Longobards, and other Merchants, strangers of diverse Nations, assembling there twice every day, of what original, or continuance, I have not read of record, more than that Edward the second, in the twelfth of his reign, confirmed a Message sometime belonging to Robert Turk, abutting on Lombard street toward the South, and toward Cornhill on the North, for the Merchants of Florence: which proveth that street to have had the name of Lombard street before the reign of Edward the second. The meeting of which Merchants and others there, continued until the 22. of December, in the year 1568. on the which day, the said Merchants began to make their meetings at the Burse, a place then new builded for that purpose, in the ward of Cornhill, and was since by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, named the Royal Exchange.  
On the North side of this Ward, is Limestreet, 
Limestreet.  one half whereof (on both sides) is of this Langborne Ward, and therein on the west side, is the Pewterer's Hall, 
Pewterer's Hall.  which Company were admitted to be a Brotherhood, in the 13. of Edward the fourth.  
At the South-west corner of Limestreet, standeth a fair Parish Church of S. Dionis called Backe-Church, lately new builded in the reign of Henry the sixth. john Bug, Esquire, was a great Benefactor to that work, as appeareth by his Arms, three water-Budgets, and his Crest, a Morions head, graven in the stone-worke of the Choir, at the upper end, on the North side, where he was buried.  
Also john Derby, Alderman, added thereunto a fair Isle or Chapel on the South side, and was there buried, about the year 1466. He gave (besides sundry ornaments) his dwelling house and others unto the said Church.  
The Lady which, widow to Hugh Which, sometimes Mayor of London, was there buried, and gave Lands for Sermons, etc.  
john Master, Gent. was by his children buried there, 1444.  
Thomas Britain. Henry Travers of Maidstone in Kent, Merchant, 1501.  
john Bond, about 1504  
Robert Paget, Merchant-Taylor, one of the Sheriffs 1536.  
Sir Tho. Curteis, Pewterer, than Fishmonger, Mayor 1557.  
Sir james Harvie, Ironmonger, Maior, 1581.  
William Peterson, Esquire. William Sherington. Sir Edward Osborne, Clothworker, Mayor, etc.  
Thomas Curticius  
sub Marmore conditus iste, 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the North I'll of the Choir, upper-most Eastward.   
Quem mundo eripuit  
Parca severa senem:  
Quemque suum Cives  
voluere augere Senatum,  
justitia & gravitas  
hunc meruere gradum.  
Purpuriens sic  
Praeturam gessit in urbe,  
Ferret ut hoc multum  
laudis ab officio.  
Animus huic Consul  
Sceptroque insignis & ense,  
Londinium vexit  
dexteritate bona.  
Thomam progenuit  
solumque moestis humanis,  
Vita adeo fragili  
sort fugax●ue datur.  
Vnica neptis avo,  
est Anna haeres, filia Thomae,  
Dignaque neptus avo,  
dignaque nata patre.  
Stuclea haec nupsit  
Generoso stemmata certo,  
Fraeclaroque domi  
Militiaeque viro.  
Fumus & umbra sumus,  
quicquid mortale peribat,  
Sola manet pietas,  
quae sine fine viret.  
near unto it is a very goodly Monument, belonging to Sir james Harvey, but without any inscription or Epitaph.  

D. D. M. S.  
Emanuel de Meteren, Mercatori Antwerpiensi, 
A small Monument in the wall on the same side.  atque inter ordinis ejusdem Belgas Londini, quondam Cos. Des. viro pio, viro docto. Qui rerum in Belgia guessed. Historiam opus ●luculentum & fidei plenum posteris reliquit.  
Esther de Corput. conjux conjugi liberique ix. parenti optimo P. P. Obiit die 8. Aprilis, Anni CIC. ICC. XII. Cum vixisset An. lxxuj. Mens. 3.   

Animae super Aethera vivunt.  
jacobo Colio G. F. Belgol. 
On a pillar in the midst of the Chancel.  Regis Henrici 8. munere Angl. indignae Mercatori probo. Qui obiit Ann. Chri. CIC. IC. XCI. suo Lxxiix. Et Elizab. Orteliae, Qui obiit Anno Christi, CIC. IC. XC III. Connubio nuper nunc Tumulo junctis jac. Colins parentibus pientiss.   

M. H. F. C.  
Christo duce, & ossa resurgent.  
This Tomb of Sir Edward Osborne, Knight, 
A goodly Monument in the South I'll of the Quire.  sometime Lord Mayor of this Noble City, who was buried An. Dom. 1591. And of Dame Margaret his second wife, who married after with M. Baron Clarke, (by whom this Tomb was erected) and was buried, An. Dom. 1602.  
Mistress Katherine Woodward, 
In the west end of the Church, but on the south side.  widow, having (in her life time) been a godly, religious, and virtuous Matron, charitable to the poor, and not sparing of her purse to pious uses: Two worthy Gentlemen (her Executors) have there raised a comely remembrance of her to all posterity.  
This Monument was erected for the Worshipful M. John Hewet, Gent. Citizen and Merchant of London, and free of the Clothworkers Company: who in his life time was loving to all, and pitiful to the poor: witness the yearly pension he hath given for ever, of five pounds to the poor of this Parish. He changed this mortal habitation the third day of july, Anno Domini, 1602.  
This Charity, and 12. d. beside, given every Sunday in bread to the poor, is all that there I understand of.  
Then by the four corners (so called of Fenchurch street in the East, 
The four corners, a place so called, of 4. ways meeting.  Bridge-street on the South, Grasse-street on the North, and Lombard street on the west) in Lombard street is one fair Parish Church, 
Parish Church of All-hallows in Lambard street. Lib. Trin.  called All-hallows Grasse-church in Lambard street. I do so read it in Evidences of Record, for that the Grassemarket went down that way, when that street was far broader than now it is, being straightened by incrochments.  
This Church was lately new builded. john Warner, Armorer, and then Grocer, Sheriff, 1494. builded the South I'll; his son Robert Warner, Esquire, finished it, in the year 1516. The Pewterers were Benefactors towards the North I'll, etc. The Sleeple or Bel-tower thereof was finished in the year 1544. about the thirty and sixth of Henry the eighth. The fair stone Porch of this Church, was brought from the late dissolved Priory of S. john of jerusalem by Smithfield, so was the frame of their Bells; but the Bells being bought, were never brought thither, by reason that one old Warner Draper of that Parish deceasing, his son Mark Warner would not perform what his Father had begun and appointed; so that fair Steeple hath but one Bell, as Friars were wont to use.  
The Monuments of this Church be these: 
A fair Monument in the wall, at the East end of the North I'll of the Quire.  the said Warners, and john Walden, Draper.   

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Spe certa in Christo resurgendi, hic requiescit Christopherus Tolderney, Armiger, vir prudens, & optimis studiis innutritus: Atque Susanna Vxor, Filia Joannis Alnwici, Generos. Qui cum plures annos fide & amore conjugali concordissimè vixissent; Obiit illa nono die januarii, An. Domini, M. D. CXII. Ille Martii sequentis die 20. Quatuor liberis superstitibus, Christopher & Joanne, jana, (Roberto Darello de Calehill, Militi enupta) & Elizabetha.  
Here under this stone resteth (in assured hope of a joyful resurrection) the body of Rebecca Crispe, 
A very goodly stone plated, on the ground in the same I'll.  Daughter to john Pake of Bromefield in Essex, Gent. and late wife to Nicholas Crispe of Lond. Merchant. She departed this life the 27. day of April, An. Dom. 1616. and in the 37. of her age: Giving to the world (both in her life and death) undoubted testimony of her faith in Christ jesus: Having had issue 3. sons, and 8. daughters.  
Here lieth buried the body of Simon Horsepoole, 
In the Chancel a fair stone plated, against his Pew door.  free of the Draper's Company: also free of the ancient Wooll-staple; free of the Merchant's Adventurers of the old Haunce and Moscovia. He was chosen sheriff of London, in An. 1591. He married Elizabeth Smith, daughter to john Smith of Cosham, in the County of Wiltshire, Gent. and sister to Thomas Smith, Customer of London. And by her he had issue 3. sons and 3. daughters, William, Simon and Thomas, Elizabeth married with Alexander King, one of the Queen's Majesty's Auditors. Hawys married with Francis Dorington, Merchant of Tripoli. And joan, married with john Whitbrooke, Gent.  
He dwelled in Grasse-Church street in this Parish, 35. years, and he appointed to this Parish of All Saints, four pounds and four shillings every year for ever: and also four pounds and four shillings to the Parish of Saint Christopher by Cornhill, where he was borne, and where his Father john Horsepoole (also free of the Draper's Company, and borne in Leicestershire) dwelled, and lieth buried: That every Sunday after Morning Service, there be given to twelve poor people of this Parish, to every one of them one penny loaf of wheaten bread; and also every Sunday to twelve poor people of Saint Christopher's Parish, to every one of them one penny loaf of wheaten bread; and every year upon Saint Thomas the Apostles day, to every one of the said 24. poor people, twelve pence in money: and every year upon the said Saint Thomas his day, to the two Paris-Clerkes of the said Parises, to every of them for their pains, 13. s. 4. d. and to the two Sextons of the said Parishes, to every of them for their pains, 6. s. 8. d.  
In performance whereof, 
Yet living, and of whom I received these instructions.  William Horsepoole, son of the said Simon Horsepoole, hath granted two several annuities and Rents, charge of four pounds and four sillings apiece, out of an house in Corbets Alley in Grasse-Church street, in the Parish of Saint Peter, to certain parishioners of the said Parishes respectively, and their heirs in trust, to the foresaid uses for ever.  
He died the 14. day of january, 1601. Aged 75. years.  
Virtue is not dead. 
A fair plated stone lying by the other.   
The soul in Heaven,  
the body here of Izan lies,  
By her John Edward's good,  
and by her parents both:  
She dear to her all three,  
that living, still she cries,  
Lay me by them.  
for other Grave I loathe.  
O God that heard'st  
the cry of this thy creature,  
Make Izans many,  
in virtue, grace, and feature.  
As love (in life)  
eonjoyned us once,  
And God (by death)  
disjoined us twain:  
So love (by death)  
rejoined our bones,  
And God (in joy)  
joined us again.  
Stand here firm (God permitting) ever, a pattern, 
A fair Monument erected in the South I'll of the Choir for the same person.  a spur to sacred virtue: In memory of a blessed Matron here buried: Rich in true piety, virtue, and reverend modesly, from her Cradle to her Cousin: an ornament (of her sex) for true constancy in both fortunes: the only mother and beauty of her race, in her time, named Izan Wright by her Father, Edward's by her first husband, both of this Parish, and also here buried. Her shining to the vain world (to whom Adversity is Vice, and Prosperity is Virtue) was eclipsed by a second marriage, wherein she deceased the fifth day of March, An. Dom. 1613. Aged about 66. years.  
Here under this place lieth buried the body of Thomas Walker, 
A come●y samll Monumeat in the South 〈◊〉 of the Choir, East.  Citizen and Vintner of London, who deceased the 25. day of january, 1599 Which said Thomas Walker had two wives, Joan and Mary. By Joan he had issue eight children, four sons, and four daughters. Joan his wife lieth hereunder buried, who deceased the 29. day of August, 1592. Aetatis suae, 69.  
Man's life, betimes tryit who shall,  
Shall find no time in it to trust:  
Sometime to climb, sometime to fall,  
Till life of man be brought to dust.  
Next is a common Osterie for travellours, called the George, of such a Sign, This is said to have pertained to the Earl Ferrer, and was his London lodging in Lombard street: And that to the year 1175. a brother of the said Earl, being there privily slain in the night, was there thrown down into the dirty street, as I have afore showed in the Chapter of Night-watches.  
Next is the Parish Church of S. Edmond the King and Martyr, 
Parish Church of S. 〈…〉  in Lombard street, by the South corner of Birchover lane.  
This Church is also called. S. Edmond Grasse-Church, because the said Grassemarket came down so low.  
The Monuments in this Church, are these:  
Sir john Milborne, Draper, Maior, deceased, 1535. buried there by Dame joan and Dame Margaret his wives, under a Tomb of Touch.  
Humphrey Heyford, Goldsmith, Maior, 1477.  
Sir William Chester, Draper, Maior, 1560. with his wives, amongst his predecessors.  
Sir George Barn, Mayor, 1586.  
D. joanni Milburno, vitrico,  
D. joanni Chestero, patri.  
D. Roberto Tempesto, genero.  
Gulielmus Chesterus, ●osuit.  
 
by Birchovers' lane, (the one half of which Lane is of this Ward) and so down, be diverse fair houses; namely, one with a fair forefront towards the street, builded by Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith, since Mayor of London: And then one other, sometime belonging to William de la Pole, 
Noblemen of this Realm, of old time, as also of late years, have dealt in Merchandises.  Knight Baronet, and yet the King's Merchant, in the 14. of Edward the third; and after him, to Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in the 24. of Richard the second, and was his Merchant's house, and so down toward the Stocks Market, lacking but some three houses thereof.  
The South side of this Ward beginneth in the East, at the chain to be drawn thwart Mart lane, up into Fen-Church street, and so west, by the North end of Mincheon lane, to Saint Margaret Pattens street, or Rood lane, and down that street, to the midway towards S. Margaret's Church: 
Philpot lane.  Then by Philpot lane, (so called of Sir john Philpot that dwelled there, and was owner thereof) and down that Lane, some six or eight houses on each side, is all of this Ward.  
Then by Grasse-Church corner, into Lombardstreet, 
S Clements lane.  to S. Clement's lane, and down the same to S. Clement's Church: then down Saint Nicholas lane, and down the same to S. Nicholas Church, and the same Church is of this Ward.  
Then to Abchurch lane, and down some small portion thereof: then down Sherborne lane, a part thereof, and a part of Bearebinder lane, be of this Ward: and then down Lombard street to the sign of the Angel, almost to the corner over against the Stocks Market.  
On the South side of this Ward, somewhat within Mart lane, have ye the Parish Church of All-hallows, 
Parish Church of All-hallows Stane Church.  commonly called Stane-Church, (as may be supposed) for a difference from other Churches of that name in this City, which (of old time) were builded of timber, and since were builded of stone. In this Church have been diverse fair Monuments of the dead; namely,  
john Costin, 
Of late it is fixed there in better manner than ever it was before.  Girdler, a great benefactor: he deceased 1244. his name remaineth painted in the Church roof: if it had been set in brass, it would have been fetched down. He gave out of certain Tenements to the poor of that Parish, an hundred quarters of Charcoals yearly for ever.  
Sir john Test, Knight of the holy Sepulchre, and Dame joan his wife, about 1486.  
Robert Stone.  
Sir john Stiward, and Dame Alice his wife.  
john Bostocke, Esquire.  
Christopher Holt.  
Sir Richard Tate, Knight, Ambassador to King Henry the eighth, buried there, 1554. His Monument remaineth yet; the rest being all pulled down, and swept out of the Church, the Churchwardens were forced to make a large account, twelve shillings that year for Brooms, beside the carriage away of stone and brass, at their own charge.  
And here I am to note, that being informed of the Writhsleys to be buried there, I have since found them and other, to be buried at Saint Giles without Creplegate, where I mind to leave them.  
Our Holt (alas) hath stint his hold, 
A fair Marble Tomb is the South wall of the Quire.   
by Death called hence in haste,  
Whose Christian name being Christopher  
with Christ is better placed.  
In Sawton borne of gentle race,  
in London spent his days,  
A Clerk that served in Customehouse,  
in credit many ways.  
So that we lose the loss  
of this so dear a Friend,  
Whose life well while he was here,  
hath gained a better end.  
john Mun, 
A small Monu●●● in the 〈◊〉 wall.  Citizen and Mercer of London, who deceased the third day of june, 1615. gave towards the repairing of this Church, 100 l.  
Marry Benam, lying here buried, 
Beneath in the lower part of the Church, 〈◊〉 fair plated stone.  gave 10. l. 4. s. for ever yearly to this Parish, and the Parish of Saint Olaves in Hartstreet, which is in money truly performed every Sunday, 2. s. in each place to the poor.  
By this Church sometime passed a lane called Craddockes lane, 
Craddocks' lane.  from Mart lane, winding by the North side of the said Church into Fenne-church street: the which Lane being straightened by encroachments, is now called Church-Alley.  
Then is the parish Church of Saint Nicholas Acon, 
Parish Church of S. Nicholas Hacon.  or Hacon (for so have I read it in Records) in Lombard street. Sir john Bridges Draper, Maior, 1520. newly repaired this Church, and imbattled it, and was there buried.  
Francis Bowyer, Grocer, one of the Sheriffs, was buried there, 1580. with other of the Bowyers.  
So was julian, wife to john Lambard, Alderman.  Here resteth in hope of a joyful resurrection the body of Francis Bowyer, late Alderman of London, who was borne in Chichester, the Son of Robert Bowyer of Chichester, and Margaret his wife. He had Brethren, Robert eldest, William, Henry, and Peter: which Sons together with their Mother Margaret, do rest in this Church. He married Elizabeth, daughter to William Tillesworth: with whom he lived most lovingly and faithfully, the space of 27. years: And by her had seven Sons and four Daughters, of whom remained living at his death four Sons, William, Robert, Francis, and John: And three Daughters, Joan, Margaret, and Elizabeth. Obiit 14. junii. An. Dom. 1581. 
Then is there (in the high street) a proper Parish Church of Saint Mary Wolnoth, 
Parish Church of S. Mary Wolnoth.  of the Nativity, the reason of which name I have not yet learned. This Church is lately new builded. Sir Hugh Brice, Goldsmith, Maior in the first year of Henry the seventh, Keeper of the King's Exchange at London, and one of the Governors of the King's Mint in the Tower of London, under William Lord Hastings, the fifth of Edward the fourth deceased, 1496. He builded in this Church a Chapel, called the Charnel, as also part of the body of the Church and of the Steeple, and gave money toward the finishing thereof, besides the stone that he had prepared; he was buried in the body of the Church, and Guy Brice or Boys, was also buried there.  
Dame joan, Wife to Sir William Peach.  
Thomas Nocket, Draper, 1396: he founded a Chantry there.  
Simon Eyre, 1459. he gave the Tavern, called the Cardinal's Hat in Lombard street, with a Tenement annexed on the East part of the Tavern, and a mansion behind the East Tenement, together with an Alley from Lombard street to Cornhill with the appurtenances, all which were by him new builded toward a Brotherhood of our Lady in Saint Mary Wolnoths' Church.  
john Mo●ger, Pewterer, and Emme his wife in S. john's Chapel.  
Sir john percival, Merchant-Taylor, Mayor, about 1504  
Thomas Roch, and Andrew Michael, Vintners, and joan the Wife of them both.  
William Hilton, Merchant-Taylor, and Tailor to King Henry the eighth, was buried there, 1519. under the Chapel of Saint George, which Chapel was builded by George Lufken, sometime Tailor to the Prince.  
Robert Amades, Goldsmith, Master of the King's Jewels.  
Sir Martin Bowes, 
Langborne Ward discharged of Fifteen.  Maior, buried about 1569. he gave Lands for the discharge of that Langborne Ward, of all Fifteen to be granted to the King by Parliament.  
George Hasken.  
Sir Thomas Ramsey, late Mayor, etc.  
Sir john percival, 
A fair Tomb in the Chancel.  Knight, sometime Lord Mayor of this City, and Dame Thomasine his Wife, worthy Benefactors to this parish, lie both here buried, etc.  
The several wills made by them both in ancient writing, are (to the parishes great commendation) very carefully kept and preserved in this Church, in a goodly enclosure made for the purpose and to be turned open like folding Tables: I have not seen the like in any other Church.  
Moreover I read (concerning this man) that he was one of the Mayor of London's Officers, 
An observation out of Richard Grafton.  and was the Carver at the Mayor's Table. And when the Mayor (as the custom of London is) doth elect one of the Sheriffs of London for the year ensuing, by taking and drinking a cup of Wine to such a man as he pleaseth to name: The Mayor at that time (whose name was Sir Henry Collet, Knight, and free of the Mercers) took the cup of Wine and drank to the aforesaid john Percival, 
john percival, Carver to the Lord Maior or chosen Sheriff of London.  his Carver, standing bareheaded waiting before him, and called him Sheriff of Lond. for the year ensuing: forthwith the said Mayor caused the same percival to sit down at his own Table, and to cover his head. And the same percival took upon him the office of Sherivalty, and afterward was Lord Mayor of London, and made knight. Register of Mayor.  
Here lieth buried the body of Sir Martin Bowes, 
A goodly Marble close Tomb under the Communion Table.  Knight, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, and also free of the Goldsmith's Company: with Cicilie, Dame Anne and Dame Elizabeth, his wives. The which Sir Martin Bows deceased the 4. day of August, An. Dom. 1566.  
His will also is there kept in a fair Table.  
Here lieth interred the body of Sir Thomas Ramsey, 
A very goodly Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  Knight, a most worthy Citizen, and lately Lord Mayor of London, being free of the Grovers Company, with whom (by will) he hath left a perpetual relief for poor young men, Retaylours of the said Company, which he saw performed in his life-time. He was a most careful Magistrate, walked in the fear of God, and loved peace. He lived 79. years, and died (without issue) in the faith of jesus Christ, the 19 day of May, Anno Dom. 1590. Whose godly end was a true testimony of his virtuous life.  
Here lieth buried also Dame Alice, the first wife of the said Sir Thomas Ramsey, she being eldest daughter to Bevis Lea of Enfield in the County of Stafford, Gent. Unto whom he was married 37. years: and having lived 85. years, she departed this life the 18. day of january, An. Dom. 1577.  
Dame Mary, the second wife to the said Sir Thomas Ramsey, was eldest daughter to William Dale of Bristol, Merchant, unto whom he was married 12. years. In regard therefore of so worthy a Knight, and his two virtuous Ladies: This Monument is here placed, by the Executors to the said Sir Thomas Ramsey, the 18. day of November, Anno Dom. 1596.  
Thus have ye seven Parish Churches in this Ward; one Hall of a Company; diverse fair houses for Merchants; and other Monuments none. It hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common-Counsellors, 8. Constables, 15. Scavengers, 9 Men of the Wardmote inquest, 17. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen, in the Exchequer, at 20. l. 9 s. 8. d.    

BELINS-GATE WARD.  
BElinsgate Ward beginneth at the West end of Tower-street Ward in Thames street, 
Belins-gate Ward.  about Smarts Key, & runneth down along that street, on the South side, to Saint Magnus' Church at the Bridge foot, and on the North side of the said Thames street, from over against Smarts Key, till over against the Northwest corner of Saint Magnus' Church aforesaid.  
On this North side of Thames street is S. Marry Hill lane, up to Saint Margaret's Church, and then part of S. Margaret Pattens street, at the end of Saint Mary Hill Lane. Next out of Thames street is Lucas lane, and then Buttolph lane, and at the North end thereof Philpot lane: Then is there Rother lane, of old time so called, and thwart the same lane is Little Eastcheap: And these be the bounds of Belins-gate Ward.  
Touching the principal Ornaments within this Ward: On the South side of Thames street, beginning at the East end thereof, 
Smarts Key  there is first the said Smarts Key, so called, of one Smart, sometime owner thereof.  
The next is Belins-gate, 
Belins-gate.  whereof the whole Ward taketh name, the which (leaving out of the fable thereof, feigning it to be builded by King Belinus, a Britain, long before the incarnation of Christ) is at this present a large Water-gate, Port or harbour for Ships and Boats, commonly arriving there with Fish, both fresh and salt, Shell-fish, Salt, Oranges, Onions, and other Fruits and Roots; Wheat, Rye, and Grain of diverse sorts for service of the City, and the parts of this Realm adjoining.  
This Gate is now more frequented than of old time, when the Queen's Heath was used, as being appointed by the Kings of this Realm, to be the special or only Port for taking up of all such kind of Merchandises, brought to this City by strangers and Foreigners; because the Draw-bridge of timber at London Bridge, was then to be raised, and drawn up for passage of Ships with tops thither.  
Touching the ancient customs of Belins-gate; 
Customs of Belins-gate.  in the Reign of Edward the third, every great Ship landing there, paid for standage, two pence; every little Ship with Orelockes, a penny; the lesser Boat, called a Battle, a halfpenny. Of two quarters of Corn measured, the King was to have one farthing; of a Comb of Corn, a penny; of every weight going out of the City, a halfpenny; of two quarters of Sea-coals measured, a farthing; and of every Tun of Ale going out of England beyond the Seas, by the Merchant's stranger, 4. pence; of every thousand Herring, a farthing, except the Franchises, etc.  
Next to this is Summer's Key, 
Summer Key,  which likewise took that name of one Summer dwelling there, 
Lion Key.  as did Lion Key of one Lion, owner thereof, and since of the sign of the Lion.  
Then is there a fair Wharfe or Key, 
Buttolph Wharfe.  called Buttolphs-gate, by that name so called in the time of William the Conqueror, and of Edward the Confessor, as I have showed already in the description of the Gates.  
Next is the Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, 
Parish Church of S. Buttolph.  a proper Church, and hath had many fair Monuments therein, now defaced and gone: notwithstanding, I find by testimonies abroad, that these were buried there, to wit:  
Roger Cogger, 1348.  
Andrew Pikeman, and joan his wife, 1391.  
Nicholas james, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffs, 1423.  
William Rainwell, Fishmonger, and john Rainwell his son, Fishmonger, Mayor, 1426. and deceasing, 1445. buried there, with this Epitaph:  
Citizens of London, 
john Rainwell His Epitaph.   
call you to remembrance  
The famous john Rainwell,  
sometime your Mayor,  
Of the Staple of Calais,  
so was his chance.  
Here lieth now his corpse,  
his soul bright and fair,  
Is taken to heaven's bliss,  
thereof is no despair.  
His acts bear witness,  
by matters of accord,  
How charitable he was,  
and of what record:  
No man hath been  
so beneficial as he,  
Unto the City  
in giving liberally, etc.  
He gave a stone house to be a Revestry to that Church for ever: 
Belins-gate Ward, Downegate Word, and Ealdgate Ward discharged of all Fifteen.  More, he gave Lands and Tenements to the use of the Communality, that the Mayor and Chamberlain should satisfy, unto the discharge of all persons, inhabiting within the Wards of Belins-gate, Downegate, and Ealdgate, as oft as it shall happen any Fifteen, by Parliament of the King to be granted. Also to the Exchequer, in discharge of the Sheriffs, ten pounds yearly, which the Sheriffs used to pay for the Farm of Southwark, so that all men of the Realm, coming or passing with carriage, should be free quitted and discharged of all Toll and other payments, aforetime claimed by the Sheriffs.  
Further, that the Mayor and Chamberlain shall pay yearly to the Sheriffs eight pounds, so that the Sheriffs take no manner Toll or money of any person of this Realm, for their Goods, Merchandises, Victuals and Carriages, for their passages at the great Gate of the Bridge of the City, nor at the Gate called the Drawbridge, etc.  
The overplus of money coming of the said Lands and Tenements, divided into even portions, the one part to be employed to instore the Grainaries of the City with Wheat, for the relief of the poor Communality; and the other moiety to clear and cleanse the shelves, and other stoppages of the River of Thames, etc.  
Stephen Forster, Fishmonger, Mayor in the year 1454. and Dame Agnes his wife, lie buried there.  
William Bacon, Haberdasher, one of the Sheriffs, 1480. was there buried; besides many other persons of good worship, whose Monuments are all destroyed by bad and greedy men of spoil.  
This Parish of S. Buttolph is no great thing; 
The number of stranger lately to created in this 〈◊〉.  notwithstanding diverse Strangers are there harboured, as may appear by a presentment, not many years since made, of Strangers inhabitants in the Ward of Belins-gate, in these words:  
In Belins-gate Ward were one and fifty households of Strangers; whereof thirty of these Householders inhabited in the Parish of Saint Buttolph, in the chief and principal houses, where they give 20 pounds a year for an house lately let for four Marks. The nearer they dwell to the water side, the more they give for houses, and within thirty years before, there was not in the whole Ward above three Netherlanders, at which time, there was within the said Parish levied for the help of the poor, seven and twenty pounds by the year; but since they came so plentifully thither, there cannot be gathered above eleven pounds: for the Stranger will not contribute to such charges as other Citizens do.  
Thus much for that South side of this Ward.  
On the North side is Bosse Alley, 
Bosse Alley and the Boss of Belins-gate.  so called of a Boss of Spring water continually running, which standeth by Belins-gate, against this Alley, and was sometimes made by the Executors of Richard Whittington.  
Then is S. Marry Hill lane, 
S. Marry Hill lane.  which runneth up North from Belins-gate, to the end of S. Margaret Pattens, commonly called Rood lane, and the greatest half of that lane is also of Belins-gate Ward. In this S. Mary Hill lane, is the fair Parish Church of S. Mary, called, on the Hill, because of the ascent from Belins-gate.  
This Church hath been lately builded, as may appear by this that followeth.  
Richard Hackney, one of the Sheriffs in the year 1322. and Alice his wife, were there buried; as Robert Fabian writeth, saying thus:  
In the year 1497. in the month of April, 
Alice Hackney found uncorrupted, more than 150. years after she was buried.  as labourers digged for the foundation of a wall, within the Church of Saint Mary Hill, near unto Belins-gate, they found a Coffin of rotten timber, and therein the Corpse of a woman, whole of skin, and of bones undissevered, and the joints of her arms pliable, without breaking of the skin, upon whose Sepulchre this was engraven:  
Here lie the bodies of Richard Hackney, Fishmonger; and Alice his wife: The which Richard was Sheriff in the 15. of Edward the second.  
Her body was kept above ground 3. or four days, without noyance; but than it waxed unsavoury, and was again buried.  
john Mordant, Stockfishmonger, was buried there, 1387.  
Nicholas Exton, Fishmonger, Mayor, 1387.  
William Cambridge, Maior, 1420.  
Richard Goslin, Sheriff, 1422.  
William Philip, Sergeant at Arms, 1473.  
Robert revel, one of the Sheriffs, 1490. gave liberally toward the new building of this Church and steeple, and was there buried.  
William Remington, Maior, 1500.  
Sir Thomas Blank, Mayor, 1582.  
William Holstocke, Esquire, Controller of the King's Ships.  
Sir Cuthbert Buckle, Maior, 1594.  
Here lieth a Knight in London borne, 
A fair Tomb in the east end of the Chancel.   
Sir Thomas Blank by name,  
Of honest birth, of Merchant's trade,  
A man of worthy fame.  
Religious was his life to God,  
To men his dealing just:  
The poor and Hospitals can tell  
That wealth was not his trust.  
With gentle heart, and spirit mild,  
And nature full of pity,  
Both Sheriff, Lord Maior and Alderman;  
He ruled in this City.  
The Good Knight was his common name,  
So called of many men:  
He lived long, and died of years,  
Twice seven, and six times ten.  Obiit 28. Octob. An. Dom. 1588. 

An Epitaph upon the death of Dame Margaret Blank, who departed this life the second of February, An. Dom. 1596.  
DEath was deceived, 
On the other side of the Tomb, southward▪   
which thought these two to part:  
For though this Knight  
first left this mortal life,  
Yet till she died,  
he still lived in her heart.  
What happier husband,  
or more kinder wife?  
Whom four and forty  
changes of the Spring,  
In sacred wedlock,  
mutual love had linked:  
The dear remembrance  
of so dear a thing,  
Was not by death  
in her chaste breast extinct.  
Building this Tomb  
not long before she died,  
Her latest duty  
to his Funeral Rite,  
Crowned with her virtues,  
like an honest Bride,  
Here lies at rest  
by her beloved Knight.  
Though worthy Blank  
her name it still endures,  
Yet, Traves, boast,  
her birth was only yours.   

Beati qui moriuntur in Domino.  
Here lie entombed the bodies of Sir Robert Hampson, 
A very fair Monument in the South wall of the Quire.  Knight, and Alderman of London; who deceased the 2. day of May, 1607. in the 50. year of his age: And of Dame Katherine his wife, at whose charge this Monument is erected. They had issue, nine children, whereof four are living. The said Dame Katherine deceased, etc.  
This Lane on both sides is furnished with many fair houses for Merchants, and hath at the North end thereof one other Lane, 
S. Margaret Pattens lane.  called S. Margaret Pattens, because of old time Pattens were usually there made and sold: but of latter time this is called Rood lane, of a Rood there placed, in the Churchyard of S. Margaret, 
Parish Church of S. Margaret Pattens.  whilst the old Church was taken down, and again new builded; during which time, the oblations made to this Rood, were employed towards building of the Church. But in the year 1538. about the 23. of May in the morning, the said Rood was found to have been in the night preceding (by people unknown) broken all to pieces, together with the Tabernacle, wherein it had been placed.  
Also on the 27. of the same month, in the same Parish, amongst the Basket-makers, 
Fire in Reod lane.  a great and sudden fire happened in the night season, which within the space of three hours, consumed more than a dozen houses, and nine persons were brent to death there. And thus ceased that work of this Church, being at that time nigh finished to the steeple.  
The Monuments that I find in this Parish Church, are these following:  
Here lieth buried Mr. Reginald West, 
In the midst of the Chancel, under the Communion Table a fair plated stone.  Bachelor in divinity, and late Parson of this Parish, who deceased the second day of October, Anno Domini, 1563. for whose sincere, pure and godly Doctrine, as also his virtuous end, the Lord be praised for evermore.  
Here-under lieth buried Thomas Gelson, 
The like stone, and near to the other.  Citizen and Grocer of London, who deceased the 16. day of September, Anno Dom. 1563. And in the same Church also lieth buried Jane his wife: for whose virtuous lives and godly departing, God be praised for ever.  
Here lieth buried the body of Richard Glover, 
A very fair stone well plated by the other twain.  Citizen and Pewterer of London, who was twice Master of his Company, and one of the Common Council of this City: Having two wives, Elizabeth, and Mary; and had issue by his first wife, three sons; and by his second, he had eight sons and four daughters. He deceased the 16. day of August, An. Dom. 1615. being aged 59 years.  
The Lane, on both sides beyond the same Church, to the midway towards Fenchurch street, is of Belins-gate Ward.  
Then again, out of Thames street, by the West end of S. Marry Hill Church, runneth up one other Lane, of old time called Rope Lane, 
Rope lane Lucas.  since called Lucas lane, of one Lucas, owner of some part thereof, and now corruptly called Love lane; it runneth up by the East end of Saint Andrew Hubbert, 
Parish Church 〈◊〉 S. Andrew Hubbert.  or S. Andrew in Eastcheap. This Church, and all the whole Lane called Lucas Lane, is of this Belins-gate Ward.  
Then have ye one other Lane out of Thames street, called Buttolph lane, because it riseth over against the Parish Church of S. Buttolph, and runneth up North by the East end of Saint George's Church, to the West end of S. Andrews Church, and to the South end of Philpot lane.  
This Parish Church of S. George in Buttolph lane, 
Parish Church S. George Buttolph lane.  is small, but the Monuments (for two hundred years past) are well preserved from spoil.  
Whereof one is of Adam Bamme, Maior, 1397.  
Richard Bamme, Esquire his son, of Gillingham in Kent, 1452.  
john Walton, Gentleman, 1401.  
Marpor, a Gentleman, 1400.  
john Saint-Iohn, Merchant of Levant, and Agnes his wife, 1400.  
Hugh Spencer, Esquire, 1424.  
William Combs, Stockefishmonger, one of the Sheriffs, 1452. who gave forty pounds towards the Works of that Church.  
john Stocker, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, 1477.  
Richard Dryland, Esquire, and Katherine his wife, daughter to Morris Brune, Knight of Southukenton in Essex, Steward of the household to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, 1487.  
Nicholas Partridge, one of the Sheriffs 1519. in the Churchyard.  
William Forman, Maior, 1538.  
james Mountford, Esquire, Surgeon to King Henry the eighth, buried, 1544.  
Thomas gale, Haberdasher, 1340.  
Nicholas Wilford, Merchant-Taylor, and Elizabeth his wife, about the year 1551.  
Edward Heyward, 1573. etc.  
Roger Delakere, founded a chantry there.  
Then have ye one other Lane, 
Rother lane, or Red-Rose lane.  called Rother lane, or Red Rose lane, of such a sign there; now commonly called Pudding lane, because the Butchers of East- Cheap have their Scalding-house for Hogs there, and their Puddings, with other filth of Beasts, are voided down that way to their dung-boats on the Thames.  
This Lane stretcheth from Thames street to little Eastcheap, chiefly inhabited by Basket-makers, Turner's, and Butchers, and is all of Belins-gate Ward.  
The Garland in Little Eastcheap, sometime a Brewhouse, with a Garden on the backside, adjoining to the Garden of Sir john Philpot, was the chief House in this Eastcheap: It is now divided into sundry small Tenements, etc.  
This Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy; Common Counsellors, 7. Constables, eleven; Scavengers, six; for the Wardmore Inquest, fourteen, and a Beadle, it is taxed to the Fifteen in London, at two and thirty pounds; and in the Exchequer, at one and thirty pounds, ten shillings.    

BRIDGE WARD Within.  
BRidge Ward within, 
Bridge Ward within.  so called of London Bridge; which Bridge is a principal part of that Ward, and beginneth at the stumps on the south end by Southwark, runneth along the Bridge, and North up Bridge-street, commonly called (of the Fishmarket) New Fish-street: from Fish street hill, up Grasse-street, to the North corner of Grasse-church. All the Bridge is replenished on both the sides, with large, fair and beautiful buildings, inhabitants for the most part rich Merchants, and other wealth Citizens, Mercers and Haberdashers.  
In New Fish-street be Fishmongers and fair Taverns: on Fish-street Hill and Grasse-street, men of diverse Trades, Grocers and Haberdashers.  
In Grasse-street have ye one fair Conduit of sweet water, 
Water Conduit in Grasse-street.  castellated with crest and vent, made by the appointment of Thomas Hill, Maior, 1484. who gave by his Testament a hundred marks towards the conveyance of water to this place. It was begun by his Executors, in the year 1491. and finished of his goods whatsoever it cost.  
On the East side of this Bridge ward, have ye the fair Parish Church of S. Magnus, 
Parish Church of S. Magnus.  in the which Church have been buried many men of good Worship, whose Monuments are now for the most part defaced. I find,  
john Blund, Maior, 1307.  
Henry Yevele, Free Mason to Edward the third, Richard the second, and Henry the fourth, who deceased 1400. his Monument yet remaineth.  
William Brampton.  
john Michael, Maior, 1436.  
john French, Baker, Yeoman of the Crown to Henry the seventh, 1510.  
Robert Clarke, Fishmonger, 1521.  
Richard Turk, one of the Sheriffs, 1546.  
William Steed, Alderman.  
Richard Morgan, Knight, chief Justice of the Common P●eas, 1556.  
Mauricius Griffith, Bishop of Rochechester, 1559.  
Robert Blanch, Girdler, 1567.  
Robert Belgrave Girdler.  
William Brame.  
john Cooper, Fishmonger, Alderman, who was put by his turn of Mayoralty, 1584.  
Sir William Garrard, 
This Monument 〈◊〉 lately re-edified, 〈◊〉 new fenced by Sir john 〈◊〉, his son, & L. Maior 1602.  Haberdasher, Mayor 1555. a grave, sober, wise and discreet Citizen, equal with the best, and inferior to none of our time, deceased 1571. in the Parish of Saint Christopher, but was buried in this Church of Saint Magnus, as in the Parish where he was borne. A fair Monument is here raised on him.  
Robert Harding, Salter, one of the Sheriffs, 1568.  
Simon Low, Merchant-Taylor, Equire, etc.  
Then is the Parish Church of Saint Margaret's on Fish-street Hill, a proper Church; but Monuments it hath none; only one of no●e, and well worth the observation, being unknown, and nor ●ound till very lately; whereof Master Wood (the reverend Parson of the Church, made me acquainted by his Clerk, to have me come see it; which I did very thankfully. Finding it to be the figure of a man of good respect, lying upon his Tomb, according to the manner of persons of Antiquity. And this inscription he delivered me, written with his own hand:  
Joannes de Coggeshall, Civis & Cordarius de Parochiae S. Margaretae de Bridgestreet, London. Anno 1384.  
An. Reg. Richardi Secundi, Octavo.  
Testamentum irrotulat. in Hustingo London, die Lunae in Festo S. Leonai di Abbatis. An. Reg. Richardi Secundi, 9  
He lieth buried in the said Church wall, under the Marble stone in the Window, next to S. Peter's Altar on the North side of the Church.  
A footway passeth by the South side of this Church, from Fish-street hill into Rotherlane.  
Up higher on this Hill, is the Parish Church of Saint Leonard Milkechurch, 
Parish Church of S. Leonards Milkechurch  so termed of one William Melker, an especial builder thereof, but commonly called Saint Leonards Eastcheap, because it standeth at Eastcheap corner.  
Monuments there be of the Doggets, namely;  
Walter Dogget, Vintner, one of the Sheriffs, 1380.  
john Dogget, Vintner, and Alice his wife, about 1456.  
This john Dogget gave Lands to that Church.  
William Dogget, etc. And none else of note.  
This Church, and from thence into Little Eastcheap, to the East end of the said Church, is of the Bridge Ward.  
Then higher in Grasse-street, 
Grasse-Church of S. Bennet Grasse-church.  is the Parish Church of Saint Bennet, called Grasse-Church, of the Herb Market there kept: this Church also is of the Bridge Ward, and the farthest North end thereof. Some Monuments remain there undefaced:  
As of john Harding, Salter, 1576.  
john Sturgeon, Haberdasher, Chamberlain of London.  
Philip Cushion, or Corsine, a Florentine, and a famous Merchant, 1600.  
The Customs of Grasse-church Market, in the reign of Edward the third, as I have read in a Book of Customs, 
Customs of Grasse-street Market.  were these: Every foreign Cart, laden with Corn, or Malt, coming thither to be sold, was to pay one halfpenny. Every foreign Cart bringing Cheese, two pence. Every Cart of Corn and Cheese together (if the Cheese be more worth than the Corn) two pence; and if the Corn be more worth than the Cheese, it was to pay a halfpenny. Of two horses laden with Corn or Malt, the Bailiff had one farthing: the Cart of the Franchise of the Temple, and of S. Marry le Grand, paid a farthing: the Cart of the Hospital of S. john of jerusalem, paid nothing of their proper goods: and if the corn were brought by Merchants to sell again, the load paid a halfpenny, etc.  
On the West side of this Ward, at the North end of London Bridge, 
Thames street.  is a part of Thames street, which is also of this Ward; to wit, so much as of old time was called Stockfishmonger Row, 
Stockfishmongers' Row.  of the Stockfishmongers dwelling there, down West to a Water gate, of old time called Ebgate, 
Ebgate lane  since Ebgate lane, and now the Old Swan, which is a common stair on the Thames, but the passage is very narrow, by means of encroachments.  
On the South side of Thames street, about the midway betwixt the Bridge foot and Ebgate lane, 
Fishmonger's Hall.  standeth the Fishmonger's Hall, and diverse other fair houses for Merchants.  
These Fishmongers were sometimes of two several Companies, to wit Stockfishmongers, 
Antiquities of the Fishmongers, 1290  and Saltfishmongers, of whose antiquity I read, that by the name of Fishmongers of London, they were for forestall, etc. contrary to the Laws and constitutions of the City, fined to the King at 500 Marks, the 18. of King Edward the first. More, that the said Fishmongers, 
A triumphant show made by the Fishmongers for the victory of the King▪  hearing of the great victory obtained by the same King against the Scots, in the 26. of his reign, made a triumphant and solemn show thorough the City, with diverse Pageants, and more than 1000 horsemen, etc. as in the Chapter of Sports and Pastimes. These two Companies of Stockefishmongers and Saltfishmongers, of old time had their several Halls, to wit, in Thames street twain, in New Fish-street twain, and in Old Fish-street twain: 
Fishmongers had 6. Hals in London.  in each place one for either Company; in all six several Hals, the Company was so great, as I have read, and can prove by Records.  
These Fishmongers have been jolly Citizens, 
Fishmongers, 6. of them Majors in 24. years.  and six Majors of their Company in 24. years; to wit, Walter Turk, 1350. john Lofkin, 1359. john Wroth, 1361. john Pechie, 1362. Simon Morden, 1369. and William Walworth, 1374. It followed, that in the year 1382. through the counsel of joh. Northhampton, Draper, then being Mayor, William Issex, john More, Mercer, and Richard Northbury, 
Fishmongers for their greetings envied of the other companies.  the said Fishmongers were greatly troubled, hindered of their liberties, and almost destroyed, by congregations made against them: So that in a Parliament at London, the controversy depending between the Mayor and Aldermen of London, and the Fishmongers there, 
Nicholas Exton for the Fishmongers craved the King's protection.  Nic. Exton, Speaker for the Fishmongers, prayeth the King to receive him and his Company into his protection, for fear of corporal hurt. Whereupon it was commanded, either part to keep the peace, upon pain of losing all they had. Hereupon a Fishmonger starting up, replied, that the complaint brought against them by the moovers, etc. was but matter of malice; for that the Fishmongers, in the reign of Edward the third, being chief Officers of the City, 
Fishmongers by Parliament restored to their liberties.  had for their misdemeanours then done, committed the chief exhibiters of those petitions to prison. In this Parliament, the Fishmongers (by the King's Charter patents) were restored to their Liberties. Notwithstanding, in the year next following, to wit, 1383. john Cavendish, Fishmonger, craveth the peace against the Chancellor of England, 
john Cavendish craved the peace againg the Chancellor, challenged him of taking a bribe.  which was granted, and he put in sureties, the Earls of Stafford and Salisbury. Cavendish challengeth the Chancellor for taking a bribe of 10. l. for favour of his Case: which the Chancellor by oath upon the Sacrament avoideth. In further trial, it was found, that the Chancellors man (without his Master's privity) had taken it. Whereupon Cavendish was adjudged to prison, and to pay the Chancellor 1000 Marks for slandering him.  
After this, many of the Nobles assembled at Reding, to suppress the seditious stirs of the said john Northampton, or Combarton, late Mayor, that had attempted great and heinous erterprises, of the which he was convict; and when he stood mute, nor would utter one word, it was decreed, that he should be committed to perpetual prison, his goods confiscate to the King's use, and that he should not come within 100 miles of London during his life. He was therefore sent to the Castle of Tintegall, 
Principal adversaries to the Fishmongers condemnted to perpetual prison.  in the confines of Cornwall, and in the mean space the King's servants spoiled his goods. john More, Richard Northbury, and other, were likewise there convict, and condemned to perpetual prison, and their goods confiscate, for certain congregations by them made against the Fishmongers in the City of London, 
Paten●  as is aforesaid; but they obtained and had the King's pardon, in the 14. of his reign, as appeareth of Record: and thus were all these troubles quieted.  
Those Stock-fishmongers and Saltfishmongers were united in the year 1536. the 28. of Henry the 8. their Hall to be but one, 
Stock-fishmongers and Saltfishmongers united.  in the house given unto them by Sir john Cornwall, Lord Fanhope, and of Ampthull, 
Sir joh. Cornwall created Baron 〈◊〉 the 6. of Edw. 6.  in the Parish of Saint Michael in Crooked-lane, in the reign of Henry the sixth.  
Thus much have I thought good to note of the Fishmongers, men ignorant of their Antiquities, and not able to show a reason why, or when they were joined in amity with the Goldsmiths, 
Fishmongers joined in amity with the Goldsmiths.  do give part of their Arms, etc. Neither to say aught of Sir William Walworth (the glory of their Company) more than that he slew jack Straw, which is a mere fable: 
W. Walworth slandered by a fable of jack Straw, T. Wal●●● H. Knights Lib. Eb●●.  for the said Straw was after the overthrow of the Rebels, taken, and by judgement of the Mayor beheaded; whose confession at the Gallows is extant in my Annals, where also is set down the most valiant and praiseworthy act of Sir William Walworth, against the principal Rebel, Wat Tylar: as in reproof of Walworth Monument in S. Michael's Church, I have declared, and wished to be reform there, as in other places.  
On that South side of Thames street, 
Drink water Wharfe.  have ye Drinkewater Wharfe, and Fish Wharfe, 
Fish wharf  in the Parish of S. Magnus. On the North side of Thames street is S. Martin's lane, a part of which lane is also of this Ward; to wit, on the one side to a Well of water, and on the other side, as far up as against the said Well. Then is S. Michael's Lane, part whereof is also of this Ward, up to a Well there, etc.  
Then at the upper end of New-Fish-street, 
Crooked lane.  is a Lane turning towards Saint Michael's Lane, and is called Crooked-lane, of the crooked windings thereof. Above this Lanes end, upon Fish-street Hill, is one great house, for the most part builded of stone, which pertained sometime to Edward the black Prince, son to Edward the third, 
Edward the black Prince.  who was in his life time lodged there.  
It is now altered to a common Hosterie, having the Black Bell for a sign. Above this house, at the top of Fish-street Hill, is a turning into Great Eastcheap, and so to the corner of Lombard street, over against the Northwest corner of Grasse-Church. And these be the whole bounds of this Bridge Ward within: The which hath an Alderman and his Deputy; for the Common-counsel, 16. Constable, 15. Scavengers, 6. for the Wardmore Inquest, sixteen, and a Beadle. It is is taxed to the Fifteen in London, at forty seven pounds.   

CANDLEWICKE STREET WARD.  
CAndlewicke street, 
Candlewick street, or Candle-wrightstreet Ward.  or Candlewright street Ward, beginneth at the East end of Great Eastcheap, it passeth West thorough Eastcheap to Candlewright street, and thorough the same down to the North end of Suffolk lane, on the South side, and down that Lane, by the west end of S. Laurence Church-yard, which is the farthese West part of that Ward. The street of Great Eastcheap, 
Great Eastcheap.  is so called of the Market there kept in the East part of the City, as West-Cheap is a Market so called, being in the West.  
This Eastcheap is now a fleshmarket of Butchers, 
Eastcheap a Cook's row.  there dwelling on both sides of the street; it had sometime also Cooks mixed amongst the Butchers, and such other as sold victuals ready dressed of all sorts. For of old time, when friends did meet, and were disposed to be merry, they went not to dine and sup in Taverns, but to the Cooks, where they called for meat what them liked, which they always found ready dressed, and at a reasonable rate, as I have before showed.  
In the year 1410. the 11. of Henry the fourth, 
The king's sons beaten in East Cheap.  upon the Even of Saint john Baptist, the King's sons, Thomas and john, 
There was no Tavern then in Eastcheap▪  being in Eastcheap at Supper, (or rather at breakfast; for it was after the Watch was broken up, betwixt two and three of the clock after midnight) a great debate happened between their men, and other of the Court, which lasted one hour, till the Mayor and Sheriffs with other Citizens appeased the same: for the which afterwards, the said Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs, were called to answer before the King; his sons and diverse Lords being highly moved against the City. At which time, William Gascoigne, Chief justice, required the Mayor and Aldermen, for the Citizens, to put them in the King's grace: whereunto they answered, that they had not offended, but (according to the Law) had done their best in stinting debate, and maintaining of the peace: upon which answer the King remitted all his ire, and dismissed them.  
And to prove this Eastcheap to be a place replenished with Cooks, it may appear by a Song, called London lickepenny, made by Lidgate a Monk of Bury, in the reign of Henry the fifth, in the person of a Countryman coming to London, and travelling thorough the same. 
In West-Cheap linen clothe sold, but no silks spoken 〈◊〉  In Westcheape (saith the Song) he was called on to buy fine Lawn, Paris thread, Cotton Vmble, and other linen clothes, and such like: (he speaketh of no silks) In Cornhill, to buy old apparel, and householdstuff, where he was forced to buy his own Hood, 
Fripparia Upholders upon Conhill, sellers of old apprrell and householdstuff.  which he had lost in Westminster Hall: In Candlewright street, Draper's proffered him cheap Cloth: In Eastcheap, the Cooks cried hot Ribs of Beef roasted, Pies well baked, and other victuals: There was clattering of Pewter pots, 
Eastcheap.  Harp, Pipe and Sawtrie; yea by cock, nay by cock, for greater oaths were spared: some sang of jenkin and julian, etc. all which melody liked well the passenger, but he wanted money to abide by it, and therefore got him into Gravesend Barge, and home into Kent.  
Candlewright (so called in old Records of the Guild-hall of Saint Mary Oueris, 
Candle-wright or Candlewick street is a working place.  and other) or Candlewicke street; took that name (as may be supposed) either of Chandler's, or makers of Candles, both of Wax and Tallow: for Candlewright is a maker of Candles; or of week, which is the Cotten or Yarn thereof: or otherwise Wike, which is the place where they used to work them; as Scalding-wike by the Stocks Market, was called of the Poulters dressing and scalding their Poultry there. And in diverse Countries, Dayrie-houses, or Cottages wherein they make Butter and Cheese, are usually called Wickes. There dwelled also of old time, diverse Weavers of woollen Clothes, 
Weavers in Candlewick street.  brought in by Edward the third. For I read that in the 44. of his reign, the Weavers brought out of Flanders, 
Weavers brought out of Flanders & Brabant.  were appointed their meetings to be in the Churchyard of S. Laurence Poultney, and the Weavers or Brabant in the Churchyard of S. Mary Somerset. There were then in this City, Weavers of diverse sorts, to wit, of Drapery or Tapery, and Nappery. These Weavers of Candlewicke street, being in short time worn out, their place is now possessed by rich Drapers, sellers of woollen cloth, etc.  
On the North side of this Ward, at the West end of Eastcheap, have ye S. Clements lane, 
S. Clement's lane.  a part whereof (on both sides, is of Candlewicke street Ward; to wit, somewhat North, beyond the Parish Church of S. Clement in East-cheap. 
Parish Church of S. Clement in Eastcheap.  This is a small Church, void of Monuments, other than of,  
Francis Barnam, Alderman, who deceased 1575. and of Benedict Barnam his son, Alderman also 1598.  
William Chartney and William Overie founded a Chauntery there.  
Francisci Barneham, 
A fair Tomb on the North side of the Choir, made into the wall.  Civis, Senatoris, Vicecomitis Londinensis: Aliciaeque Vxoris suae, è Bradbrigeorum Familia aeternae memoriae.  
Vixit Annos L X. Obiit X. Maii, 1576.  
Filios genuit 

Martinum.  
Stephanum.  
Antonium.  
Benedictum.    

Deo & Posteris.  
Benedictus Barneham, filius junior Francisci Barneham, 
Another beautiful Tomb on the South side of the Quire.  Senatoris, & quondam Vicecomitis London, cum iisdem honoribus, quibus Pater summa cum laude in hac Vrbe functus fuisset. Et ex Dorothea Vxorae charissima, filia Ambrosii Smith, unius è filiis joannis Smith, de Wocock, in Com. Leicestriae, Armigeri; Quinque filias, Elizabetham, Aliciam, Dorotheam, Bridgettam & Benedictam superstites & haeredes reliquisset: Quarii minor natu Benedicta, paulo post hunc erectum Tumulum diem obiit. Ipse quod à terra accepit, hîc terra commendavit. Quod verò è Coelo, laetus lubensque Christo reddidit, summumque sui desiderium omnibus bonis ob eximiam prudentiam, doctrinam, eloquentiam, & praeclara in hanc Vrbem merita reliquit.   

Vixit Annos 39 Obiit Aprilis die tertio, Anno Dom. 1598.  
Next is Saint Nicholas Lane, for the most part on both sides of this Ward, almost to S. Nicholas Church.  
Then is Abchurch lane, 
Abchurch lane.  which is on both sides, almost wholly of this ward: 
The Parish Church of S. Mary Abchurch.  the Parish Church there (called of S. Mary Abchurch, Apechurch, or Vpchurch, as I have read it) standeth somewhat near unto the South end thereof, on a rising ground: It is a fair Church: Simon de Winchcomb founded a Chaunterie there, the 19 of Richard the second. john Littleton founded another, and Thomas Hondon another: and hath the Monuments of,  
I Long, Esquire, of Bedfordshire, 1442.  
William Wilkenson, Alderman, 1519.  
William jawdrell, Taylor, 1440.  
Sir james Hawes, Maior, 1574.  
Sir john Branch, Maior, 1580.  
john Minors.  
William Kettle, etc.  
Joanni Branch, 
A comely Monument in the South wall of the Quire.  Equiti, hujus Vrbis olim Praetori, viro bono, & prudenti, 24. julii, Anno Dom. 1588. Aetatis suae 73. vita functo in Sepulchro Wilkinsoni Avi Materni humato: Daniel Dun, Legum Doctor, ipsius ex Sorore Nepos posuit.  
In felicem Memoriam, 
A fair Tomb in the wall at the East end of the Church.  piae, pulchrae & pudicae feminae, Dominae Helenae Branch, filiae venerabilis Gulielmi Nicolson, olim Civis & Pennarii London:  
Quondam (per quadraginta annos & eo amplius) uxoris viri dignissimi, joannis Minors, Civis, acetiam Pannarii London: Cui peperit filium unum Rogerum, & filias tres, josnnam, Ripinam, & Margaretam, omnes sine prole defunctos; nuper (ad annum usque vigessimum) uxoris venerabilissimi viri joannis Branch, militis Aurnati, Qnondam praeclarissimae Civitatis London H●rnoratissimi Majoris.  
Robertus Nicolson Generosus, exfratre Nepos, utriusque heres, & dictae Dominae solus Executor, suis sumptibus spontaneis hoc Monumentum posuit.  
Quam ter felicem, pietas, opulentia, forma Fecêre in terris, modo suffragante popello, Suff●agante Deo fidei, Constantia vivae, Aeternum in coelis, te nunc jubet esse beatam.  
Nonagenaria obiit 10. Aprilis, Anno Salutis, 1594.  
This Dame Helen Branch, Widow to Sir john Branch, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, An. 1580. gave fifty pounds to be lent to two young men of the Company of Drapers, from four years to four years for ever, 50. l. Which Lady, gave also to poor Maid's marriages 10. l. And to the poor of Abchurch 10. l. To the poor Prisoners in and about London, 20. l. Besides, 26. Gowns to poor men and women, 26. l. And many other worthy Legacies to the Universities, etc.  
On the South side of this Ward, 
S. Michael's lane.  beginning again at the East, is S. Michael's lane, which lane is almost wholly of this Ward, on both sides down towards Thames street, to a Well or Pump there. On the East side of this lane is Crooked lane aforesaid, 
Crooked lane.  by St. Michael's Church, towards New-Fishstreet. One the most ancient house in this lane, 
Leaden Porch in Crooked lane.  is called the Leaden Porch, and belonged sometime to Sir john Merston, Knight, the first of Edward the fourth: It is now called the Swan in Crooked lane, possessed of strangers, and selling of Rhenish Wine. The Parish Church of this S. Michaels, 
Parish Church of S. Michael in Crooked lane.  was sometime but a small and homely thing, standing upon part of that ground, wherein now standeth the Parsonage house: and the ground thereabout was a filthy plot, by reason of the Butchers in East-cheap, who made the same their Laystall.  
W. de Burgo gave two Messages to that Church in Candlewick street, 1317. john Loveken Stockfishmonger, four times Mayor, builded (in the same ground) this fair Church of S. Michael, and was there buried in the Choir, under a fair Tomb, with the Images of him and his wife in Alabaster: the said Church hath been since increased with a new Choir, and side Chapels by Sir W. Walworth, Stockfishmonger, Mayor, sometime servant to the said john Loveken. Also the Tomb of Loveken was removed, and a flat stone of grey Marble, garnished with plates of Copper laid on him, as it yet remaineth in the body of the Church.  
This William Walworth is reported to have slain jack Straw: 
Fable of W Walworth and jack Straw● reproved.  but jack Straw being afterward taken, was first adjudged by the said Mayor, and then executed by the loss of his head in Smithfield. True it is, 
Praise of W. Walworth for his manhood in arresting of Wat Tylar.  that this William Walworth, being a man wise, learned, and of an incomparable manhood arrested Wat Tylar, a presumptuous Rebel, upon whom no man durst lay hand, whereby he delivered the King and Kingdom from most wicked tyranny of Traitors. The Mayor arrested him on the head with a sound blow: whereupon Wat Tylar furiously struck the Mayor with his Dagger, 
The Mayor was well armed, and had on his head a Basenet.  but hurt him not, by reason he was well armed. The Mayor having received his stroke, drew his Basiliard, and grievously wounded Wat in the neck, and withal, gave him a great blow on the head: 
T. Wal●●●g, H. Knight●● Li. S. Ma●y Aborum.  in the which conflict, an Esquire of the King's house, called john Cavendish, drew his sword, and wounded Wat twice or thrice, even to the death: and Wat spurring his horse, cried to the Commons to revenge him: the horse bore him about 80. 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 diverse places of his body, and drew him into the Hospital of Saint Bartholemew, from whence again the Mayor caused him to be drawn into Smithfield, and there to be beheaded. In reward of this service (the people being dispersed) the King commanded the Mayor to put a Basenet on his head: 
Maior made Knight, and otherwise rewarded.  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 Merchant, and had to live by his Merchandise only. Notwithstanding, the King made him to put on his Basenet, 
Order of making a Knight for service in the field.  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 3. other Citizen's Knights (for his sake) in the same place, to wit, john Philpot, 
Aldermen Knighted.  Nicholas Brember, and Robert Launde, Aldermen. The King gave to the Mayor 100 pound land by year, and to each of the other 40. pound land yearly, to them and their heirs for ever.  
After this, 
S. Michael's Crooked lane.  in the same year, the said Sir William Walworth founded in the said Parish Church of Saint Michael, a College, of a Master and nine Priests or Chaplains, and deceasing 1385. was there buried in the North Chapel by the Choir: 
Monument of Sir W. Walworth defaced and since falsified, and so remaineth.  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 jack Straw, in stead of Wat Tylar: a great error, meet to be reform there, and elsewhere; and therefore have I the more at large discoursed of this matter.  
It hath also been, and is now grown to a common opinion, that in reward of this service done by the said William Walworth against the Rebel; that King Richard added to the Arms of this City (which was Argent, a plain Cross Gules) a Sword, 
Dunthorne.  or Dagger, (for so they term it) whereof I have read no such Record, but to the contrary. I find, that in the fourth year of Richard the second, in a full assembly made in the upper Chamber of the Guildhall, summoned by this William Walworth, than Mayor, as well of Aldermen, as of the Common Council in every Ward, for certain affairs 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, 
Old Seal of the Mayoralty broken, and a new Seal made.  being very small, old, unapt, and uncomely 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 honourable for the exercise of the said Office thereafter in place of the other. In which new Seal, 
The Arms of this City were not altered, but remain afore: to wit, Argent, a plain Cross Gules, a Sword of S. Paul in the first quarter, and no Dagger of W. Walworth, as is fabuled.  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 Lions supporting the same, and two Sergeants 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 broke it, and in place thereof, was delivered the new Seal to the said Mayor, to use in his Office of Mayoralty, as occasion should require. This new Seal seemeth to be made before William Walworth was Knighted, for he is not there entitled 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 Mayoralty. Which may suffice to answer the former Fable, without showing of any evidence sealed with the old Seal which was the Cross, and Sword of Saint Paul, and not the Dagger of William Walworth.  
Now, of other Monuments in that Church, Simon Mordon, Maior, 1368. was buried there.  
john Olney, Maior, 1446.  
Robert March, Stockefishmonger, gave two pieces of ground to be a Churchyard.  
john Radwell, Stockfishmonger, buried, 1415.  
George Gowre, Esquire, son to Edward Gowre Stockfishmonger, Esquire, 1470.  
Alexander Purpoynt, Stockfishmonger, 1373.  
Andrew Burel, Gentleman of Gray's Inn, 1487.  
john Shrew, Stockfishmonger, 1487. with this Epitaph.  
Farewell, my friends,  
the tide abideth no man,  
I am departed hence,  
and so shall ye.  
But in this passage,  
the best song that I can,  
Is Requiem aeternam,  
now jesus grant it me:  
When I have ended  
all mine adversity,  
Grant me in Paradise  
to have a mansion,  
That sheddest thy blood  
for my redemption.  
john Finkell, one of the Sheriffs, 1487. was Knighted, and gave 40. pound to this Church, the one half for his Monument.  
john Pattesley, Maior, 1441.  
Thomas Ewen, Grocer, bore half the charges in building of the Steeple, and was buried, 1501.  
William Combs, Gent. of Stoke by Gilford in Surrey, 1502.  
Sir john Brudge, Mayor, 1530. gave 50. pound for a house, 
Colledge-house in Crookedlane.  called the College in Crooked lane: he lieth buried in S. Nicholas Hacon.  
Walter Faireford, Robert Bar, Alexander Heyban, john Motte, john Gramstone, john Brampton.  
john Wood, Stockfishmonger, 1531.  
Sir Henry Amcots, Maior, 1548. etc.  
Hic jacet Richardus Gurneyus, Civitatis London Aldermanus: 
A comely small Monument in the East end of the South I'll.  Qui tam summis quam infimis viris gratus, charusque semper fuit, tum ob integritatem vitae ac humanitatem, tum propter curam Reipublicae singularem: vixit cum dulcissima uxore sua Anna Annos Suscepitque ex ea duodecim liberos, quorum septem superstites reliquit, cum summo omnium dolore excessit è vita quinto die Martii, Anno Domini 1596. Aetatis suae LXXII.  
Hic etiam uxor ejus Anna jacet, quae post viri obitum Annos tres, menses & septimanas totidem vidua vivens, tandem justè Aetatis morito, viro Nobili nupsit, qui etiamsi ab illa magna commoda, emolumenta, immo honores accepit, multa tamen illi contra spem, & merita amore juxta conjungali benevolentia defecit, hoc nomine sibi accelerato senio. Cum jam Annos duodecim, menses duos, & dies quinque illocum conjunxit, prae dolore ac angore, tricesmo primo Augusti, 1612. Annum agens septuagesimum, secundam vitam clausit.  
Relictis ex priore marito Richardo Gourneyo liberis quinque, justa e● solennia (à marito superstite denegata per filium unicum suum) Thoma Gourney piè peragebantur, sumptibus ejus propriis, & in vita ipsi eo nomine mandatis, vicesimo secundo Septemb. Anno Salutis humanae, Millesimo sexcentesimo duodecimo.  
Here-under lieth the bodies of Sir Henry Amcores, 
A goodly ancient Tomb within the Southgrated Chapel.  Knight, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, and Dame joan his wife. Which Sir Henry Amcotes deceased the 5. day of September, Anno 1554, And the said Dame joan deceased the 4. day of September, Anno Dom. 1573.  
Hard by this Saint Michael's Church, 
Houses in Crookedlane. blown up with Gunpowder.  on the South side thereof, in the year 1560. on the fifth of july, through the shooting of a Gun, which broke into the house of one Adrian Arten, a Dutch man, and set fire on a Firkin and Barrel of Gunpowder, four houses were blown up, and diverse other sore shattered, eleven men and women were slain, and sixteen so hurt and bruised, that they hardly escaped with life.  
West from this Saint Michael's Lane, 
S. Martins Orgar lane and Parish Church.  is Saint Martins Orgar lane, by Candlewicke street, which Lane is on both sides down to a Well, replenished with fair and large houses for Merchants, & it is of this Ward: one of which houses was sometime called Beauchamps Inn, as pertaining unto them of that family. Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canturbury, commonly for his time was lodged there.  
The Parish Church of Saint Martin Orgar is a small thing William Crowmer Maior, 
Parish Church of S. Martin Orgar.  builded a proper Chapel on the South side thereof, and was buried there in an ancient Tomb, 1533.  
john Matthew, Maior, 1490.  
Sir William Huit Maior, 1559. with his Lady and daughter, wife to Sir Edward Osburne.  
Relph Tabinham, Alderman.  
Alice, wife to Thomas Winslow.  
Thorndon, Benedick Reading, Thomas Harding, james Smith.  
Richard Gainsford, Esquire.  
john Bold, etc.  
An ancient Tomb in the East end of the North I'll, of Robert Cousin, Esquire; Elizabeth his wife, and Robert his son, Gent. All there buried.  
Tumulus Walburgis Gretsiin, Georgii Stecher, P. M. viduae. Obiit An. 1597. 19 julii. Filiaeabque; moerentes P. P.  
A Memorial of John Frank, 
A fair Monument in the wall of the Chancel, East.  Esquire, and Cecilie his wife, who had issue 4. sons; viz. John. a Soldier; Peter, Gentleman-usher, and daily waiter to Queen Anne; Robert, Gentleman Usher, and Quarter-wayter to the said Queen: and Edward, a Soldier. And four Daughters, viz. Elizabeth, Dorothy, Hester, and jane.  
For remembrance of whom, the said Peter Frank, who lieth interred near unto this place, bestowed the charge of this Monument. And the said Robert (being his Executor) caused the same to be erected. And the which Peter died the 24. day of October, 1612.  
Then is there one other Lane, called S. Laurence, of the Parish Church there. This Lane, down to the South side of the Churchyard, is of Candlewicke-street Ward.  
The Parish Church of Saint Laurence was increased with a Chapel of jesus, by Thomas Cole, for a Master and Chaplain: the which Chapel and Parish Church was made a College of jesus, and of Corpus Christi, 
Parish Church of S. Laurence Poultney, made a College.  for a Master and seven Chaplains, by john Poultney, Maior, and was confirmed by Edward the third, the twentieth of his reign. Of him was this Church called S. Laurence Poultney in Candlewick street, which College was valued at 79. l. 17. s. 11. d. and was surrendered in the reign of Edward the sixth.  
Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, and Henry Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, were buried there.  
Alderman Beswicke was buried there.  
john Olive, Alderman.  
Robert Browne, and others.  
Here-under lieth the body of William Beswyke, 
An ancic Monument in the North I'll, Eastward.  of Beswyke, Citizen, while he lived, and Draper, and sometime Alderman of London, who deceased the 5. day of May, An. Dom. 1567.  
john Olyffe, Alderman, lying under this stone, died the 26. day of june, 1577. 
A fair stone on the ground in the same I'll.  Aged 65. years: He was married forty years to joan his wife: He had seven children; Anne, john, joan, john, Thomas, Matthew, and Edward, who died all without issue, save only joan, who married john Leigh, Esquire, and heir of Addington in Surrey, and had issue Olyffe Leigh, now living.  

EVery Christian heart  
seeketh to extol  
The glory of the Lord, 
A very fair stone and fairly plated, in the South Ile and body of the Church.   
Our only Redeemer:  
Wherefore Dame Fame  
must needs enrol  
Paul Withypoll his child,  
by love and Nature,  
Elizabeth, the wife  
of Emanuel Lucar,  
In whom was declared  
the goodness of the Lord,  
With many high virtues,  
which truly I will record.   

She wrought all Needle-workes  
〈…〉 men exercise,  
With Pen; Frame, or Stool,  
all Pictures artificial,  
Curious Knots or ●railes,  
what fancy would device,  
Beasts, Birds, or Flowers,  
even as things natural:  
Three manner hands could she  
write, them fair all.  
To speak of algorithm,  
or accounts, in every fashion,  
Of women, 〈◊〉 like  
(I think) in all this Nation.   

Dame Cunning her gave  
a gift right excellent,  
The goodly practice  
of her Science Musical,  
In diverse tongues to sing,  
and play with Instrument,  
Both Vial and Lute,  
and also Virginal;  
Not only upon one,  
but excellent in all.  
For all other virtues  
belonging to Nature,  
God her appointed  
a very perfect creature.   

Latin and Spanish,  
and also Italian,  
She spoke, writ, and read,  
with perfect utterance;  
And for the English,  
she the Garland won,  
In Dame Prudence School,  
by Grace's purveyance,  
which clothed her with Virtues,  
from naked Ignorance:  
Reading the Scriptures,  
to judge light from dark,  
Directing her faith to Christ,  
the only Mark.   
The said Elizabeth deceased the 29. day of October, An. Dom. 1537. Of years not fully 27. This Stone, and all hereon contained, made at the cost of the said Emanuel, Merchant-Taylor.  
Thus much for this Ward, and the Antiquities thereof. It hath an Alderman and his Deputy; common. Counselors, eight; Constables, eight, Scavengers, six; Ward-mote Inquest men, twelve, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen at sixteen pounds.    

WALBROOKE WARD.  
WAlbrooke Ward beginneth at the west end of Candlewicke street Ward. 
Walbrooke Ward.  It runneth down Candlewicke street, West toward Budge row. It hath on the North side thereof S. Swithens Lane, so called of S. Swithens, a Parish Church by London-stone. This Lane is replenished (on both the sides) with fair builded houses, and is wholly of Walbrooke Ward. 
Parish Church of S. Swithen.  The said Parish Church of S. Swithen standeth at the South-west corner of this lane. Licence was procured, to new build and increase the said Church and Steeple, in the year 1420. Sir john Hend, Draper, Maior, was an especial Benefactor thereunto, as appeareth by his Arms in the Glass-windows, even in the tops of them; which is in a Field Argent, a chief Azure, a Lion passant Argent, a Cheveron Azure, three Escalops Argent. He lieth buried in the body of this Church, with a fair stone laid on him, but the Plates and inscriptions are defaced.  
Roger Depham, Alderman.  
Thomas Aylesbourgh, William Neve, and Matilde Caxton, founded Chauntries, and were buried there.  
john Butler, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, 1420.  
Ralph jocoline, Maior, a Benefactor, buried in a fair Tomb.  
William White, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, 1482. and others.  
Stephanus Slanie, 
A fair Tomb in the East end of the North I'll.  Miles, Senator, Vicecocomes et Praetor clementissimae istius Vrbis; Cum summa fide, nec minore prudentia iis Honoribus functus fuisset, Et ex Margareta Conjuge, Filia Gaspari Pheasant, Armig. quinque filios & sex filias suscepisset: Tandem satur annis, Aetatis 84. Salutis, 1608. Decembris 27. Animam Coelo, corpus humo reddidit.  
Stephanus, filior, natu maximus, superstite Anna unica filia ex Catharina, filia Walteri Aston, Militis. Obiit Gasparus & Thomas Coelibes, Richardus Biennis, Timotheus Bimestris obierunt. Maria primogenita superstes, nupta primum Richard Broadgate, Mercatori, deinde Humphrey Weld, Militi, Maiori istius Civitatis: Alicia moritur, Elizabetha superstes nupta Samueli Lennard, Militi. Alicia obiit: Anna nupta Thomae Culpepper, Armig. cui cum tres liberos superstites peperisset, è vita migravit. Martha Coelebs expiravit.  

In Obitum viri verè Venerabilis, Domini joannis Hart, Equitis, olim hujus Civitatis Praetoris, & hujus Ecclesiae Patroni, Carmen Funebre.  
QVis laudes memorare  
tuas? 
A goodly Tomb, East, in the upper end of the South I'll,  Quis facta valebit  
Nuper ad Aethereos  
Harte reverse polos?  
Quis genium ingenium  
magnaeque capacia Curae  
Pectora, Londino  
pectora grata tuo?  
Aspice qui dubitas,  
surgentia culmina Musis,  
Illa sub arctois  
qua jacet ora plagis,  
Nunc obiit. Cohibe  
lachrymas, nec credito Lector  
Vitam, quae fuerat  
non nisi sancta, brevem.  
near this place lieth the body of the worshipful, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Church.  Randall Manning, Esquire, Merchant-Adventurer, Citizen and Skinner of London: who had to wife, Katherine, daughter of Nicholas Dewren, Citizen and Goldsmith of London: And had by her sundry children, whereof eight married, and six of them were living at his death. He departed this life at the age of 78. years, on the nineteenth day of january, Anno Domini, 1611.  
Master Bartholomew Barnes, 
A small Memory on a pillar in the middle Isle  Citizen, Mercer, and Merchant-Adventurer, a worshipful and wise Gentleman, and a worthy friend and favourer of Religion. He had fined both for Sheriff and Alderman, and at last, being 61. years old, sickened, died, and was buried at bath, October the first, 1606. and left behind him Margaret his wife; by whom he had issue, Bartholomew, Margaret and Mary.  
Bartholomaeus adest  
tumulo Barnesius isti  
Nomen adest, non cum  
nomine corpus inest.  
Sexaginta nimis,  
quem sex donasse ministros  
Constat, erat tantus  
Religionis amor.  
Attigerat sums  
quos abnuit urbis honores,  
Subcomitis fasces,  
patriciamque togam.  
jamque sui luctum  
desideriumque reliquit  
Nato & natabus  
cum genetrice tribus.  
In the middle I'll lieth the body of Walter Plummer, 
In the middle I'll upon a pillar.  of this City and Parish, Merchant-taylor, who departed this life in March, 1607. Also of Elizabeth his Wife, daughter of Robert Delacre, who died in Anno 1595. And had together five sons, and one daughter, and left living three sons, John, Edward and Thomas. John Plumber of London, Esquire, one of those sons, died in September, 1603. and lieth here buried: who had two sons, and one daughter, whereof John and Elizabeth were living at his death, and his wife with child of a third son.  
Discesserunt è vita Anno Aetatum suarum 78. & 58.  
No living creature lives so long, 
A fair plated stone in the middle I'll.   
but once must needs give place,  
When doleful Death, that Champion strong,  
arrests them with his Mace.  
Example take by me,  
which did my life enjoy  
The space of sixty years, lack three,  
which Death did then destroy.  
Like thee I was sometime,  
but now am turned to dust,  
As thou at length (O earth and slime)  
return to ashes must.  
Of the Company of Clothworkers  
a brother I became,  
A long time in the Livery,  
I lived of the same.  
Then Death that deadly stroke did give,  
which now my joys doth frame,  
In Christ I died, by Christ to live,  
John Rogers was my name.  
My loving wife and children two,  
my place behind supply,  
God grant them living so to do,  
that they in him may die.  
He departed the 5. day of August, An. Dom. 1576. And she then living, did also decease the, etc.  
Triste puer Carmen  
Patris posui Monument,  
Hic lapis ut possit  
Carmina scripta loqui.  
This sorrowful Verse, I silly son  
my Father's Grave did give,  
That it might speak now he is dead,  
as though he still did live.  
On the North side of this Church and Church-yard, is one fair and large builded house, 
Prior of Tortington his Inn.  sometime pertaining to the Prior of Tortington in Sussex, since to the Earls of Oxford, lately to Sir john Hart, 
Oxford Place by Londonsi●nt.  Alderman, and now to Master Humphrey Smith, Alderman of this City: which house hath a fair Garden belonging thereunto, lying on the West side thereof. On the backside of two other houses in Walbrooke, in the reign of King Henry the seventh, Sir Richard Empson, 
Empson and Dudley.  Knight, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, dwelled in one of them, and Edmond Dudley, Esquire, in the other: either of them had a door of intercourse into this Garden, wherein they met, and consulted on matters at their pleasures. In this Oxford Place Sir Ambrose Nicholas kept his majoralty: since him, the said Sir john Hart; and now the said Master Humphrey Smith dwelleth in it.  
On the South side of this high street, 
London stone.  near unto the channel, is pitched upright a great stone, called London-stone, fixed in the ground very deep, fastened with bars of Iron, and otherwise so strongly set, that if Carts do run against it through negligence, the wheels be broken, and the stone itself unshaken.  
The cause why 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, 
Lib. Trint.  given to Christ's Church in Canturbury, 
Antiquity of London stone.  by Ethelstane, King of the West Saxons, I find noted of Lands or Rents in London belonging to the said Church, whereof one parcel is described to lie near unto London-stone. Of later time we read, that in the year of Christ, 1135. the first of King Stephen, a fire, which began in the house of one Aliward, near unto London-stone, consumed all East to Ealdgate, in which fire the Priory of the holy Trinity was burnt, and West to S. Erkenwalds' shrine in Paul's Church: and these be the eldest notes that I read thereof.  
Some have said, 
Read Mr. john Speed, what he saith thereof, and of the like stones.  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 days and times, till of later 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 one john 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, Thomas at Style, William at Wall, or at Well, etc.  
Down west from this Parish Church, and from London-stone, 
Walbrooke street.  have ye Walbrooke corner: from whence runneth up a street, North to the Stocks, called Walbrooke, 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, 
Stocks Market.  1282. Henry Wallis, Maior, caused diverse houses in this City to be builded towards the maintenance of London Bridge; namely, in one void place, near unto the Parish Church, called wool-church, on the North side thereof, where sometime (the way being very large & broad) had stood a pair of stocks, for punishment of offenders. This building took name of those stocks, and was appointed (by him) to be a Marketplace for fish and flesh in the midst of the City. 
The midst of the City.  Other houses be builded in other places, as by Patent of Edward the first it doth appear, dated the tenth of his reign.  
After this, in the year 1322. the 17. of Edw. 2. a decree was made by Hamond Chickwell, Maior, that none should sell fish or flesh out of the markets appointed, to wit, Bridge-street, East-cheap, Old fish-street, S. 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 17. of his reign: and then was this Stocks let to farm for 46. l. 13. s. 4. d. by year. 
Ro. Fabian.  This Stocks Market was again begun to be builded, in the year 1410. in the 11. of Henry the 4. and was finished in the year next following. In the year 1507. the same was rent 56. l. 19 s. 10. d. And in the year 1543. john Cotes being Mayor, there was in this Stocks Market for Fishmongers, 25. boards or stalls, rent yearly to thirty four pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence: there was for Butchers 18. boards or stalls, rent at one and forty pounds, sixteen shillings, four pence; and there were also Chambers above, sixteen, rent at five pounds thirteen shillings four pence, in all, 82. l. 3. s.  
Next unto this Stocks is the Parish Church of S. Marry wool-church, 
Parish Church of S. Marry Wool Church.  so called of a Beam placed in the Churchyard, which was thereof called wool-church Haw, of the Tronage or weighing of Wool there used. 
Tronage or weighing of wool, caused the Church to be called Wooll-church Haw.  And to verify this, I find amongst the Customs of London, written in French, in the reign of Edward the second, a Chapter entitled, Les Customes de Wooll-church Haw, wherein is set down, what was there to be paid for every parcel of Wool weighed. This Tronage, or weighing of Wool, till the sixth of Richard the second, was there continued: john Churchman then builded the Customhouse upon Wool Key, to serve for the said Tronage, as is before showed in Tower-street Ward.  
This Church is reasonable fair and large, and was lately new builded, by Licence granted in the 20. of Henry the sixth, with condition to be builded 15. foot from the Stocks Market, for sparing of light to the said Stocks. The Parson of this Church is to have 4. marks the year, for tithe of the said Stocks, paid him by the Masters of the Bridge-house, by a special decree made the second of Henry the seventh.  
john Wingar, Grocer, Mayor 1504 was a great helper to the building of this Church, and was there buried, 1505. He gave unto it by his Testament, two large Basins of Silver, and 20. pounds in money.  
Also Richard Shore, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, 1505. was a great Benefactor in his life, and by his Testament, gave twenty pounds, to make a Porch at the West end thereof, and was there buried.  
Richard Hatfield of Steplemorden in Cambridge-shire, lieth entombed there, 1467.  
Edward Deoly, Esquire, 1467.  
john Hanford, Grocer, made the Font of that Church, very curiously wrought, painted and guilded, and was there buried.  
john Archer, Fishmonger, 487.  
Anne Cawood founded a chantry there, etc.  
In Sevenoke, 
A fair stone at the Chancel door within.  into  
the world my Mother brought me,  
Hawlden House in Kent,  
with Arms ever honoured me;  
Westminster Hall  
(thirty six years after) knew me.  
Then Seeking Heaven,  
Heaven from the world took me.  
Whilom alive,  
Thomas Scot men called me:  
Now laid in Grave,  
Oblivion covereth me.  
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 Woolchurch, 
Bearebinder lane.  have ye Bearebinder lane, a part whereof is of this Walbrooke Ward.  
Then down lower in the street called Walbrooke, 
Parish Church of S. Stephen by Walbrooke.  is one other fair Church of S. Stephen, lately builded 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.  
Robert Chichly, Maior in the year 1428. the sixth of Henry the sixth, gave to this Parish of S. Stephen one plot of ground, containing 208. foot and a half in length, and 66. foot in breadth, thereupon to build their new Church, and for their Churchyard. And in the seventh of Henry the sixth, the said Robert (one of the Founders) said the first stone for himself, the second for William Stondon, Maior, with whose goods the ground that the Church standeth on, and the housing, with the ground of the Churchyard, was bought by the said Chichley for two hundred marks from the Grocers, which had been let before for 26. marks the year. Robert Whittingham, Draper, laid the third stone. Henry Barton then Mayor, etc.  
The said Chichler gave more 100 l. to the said Work, and bore the charges of all the Timberwork on the Procession way, and laid the Lead upon it of his own cost. He also gave all the timber for the roofing of the two side Isles, and paid for the carriage thereof.  
This Church was finished in the year 1439. The breadth thereof is 67. foot, and length 125. foot; the Churchyard 90. foot in length, and 37. in breadth, and more. Robert Whittingham (made Knight of the Bath) in the year 1432. purchased the patronage of this Church from john, Duke of Bedford, Uncle to Henry the sixth, and Edward the fourth, in the second of his reign, and gave it to Richard Lee, than Mayor.  
There be Monuments in this Church of Thomas Southwell, first Parson of this new Church, who lieth buried in the Quire.  
john Dunstable, Master of Astronomy and Music, in the year 1453.  
Sir Richard Lee, Maior twice, who gave the said Parsonage to the Grocers.  
Rowland Hill, Maior, 1549.  
Sir Thomas Pope, first Treasurer of the Augmentations, with his Wife Dame Margaret.  
Sir john Cootes, Maior, 1542.  
Sir john York, Knight, Merchant-Taylor, 1549.  
Edward jackman, Sheriff, 1564.  
Richard Acheley, Grocer.  
Doctor Owen, Physician to King Henry the 8.  
john Kirkbie, Grocer, 1578. and others.  
A friend to Virtue, 
In the South I'll on the ground, a fair stone   
a lover of Learning,  
A foe to Vice,  
and vehement Corrector,  
A prudent person,  
all Truth supporting,  
A Citizen sage,  
and worthy Counsellor,  
A lover of Wisdom,  
of justice a furtherer:  
Lo, here his corpse lieth,  
Sir Rowland Hill by name,  
of London late Lord Maior,  
and Alderman of fame.  
Venerabili viro Rogero Fenton, 
Under the Communion Table.  Lancastriensi, Aulae Penbrochianae in Academia Cantabrigiensi olim socio, Sacrae Theologiae Doctori, viro insigniter docto, pio, dilecto, sed immatura nimis morte obrepto: Sancti Stephani sua (dum viveret) Parochia, ex justo sensu & sui & communis damni; hoc pii doloris testimonium cordibus prius impressum viventium, jamque lapide tantum expressum Monumentum, ut sacrum amoris sui memoriale,  
Cum perpetuae memoriae voto posuit. Qui obiit 16. Jan. An. Dom. 1615. Aetatis suae, 50.  

Clauditur hoc tumulo, 
Two fair plated stones in the Chancel, each by other.   
qui Coelum pectore clausit  
Dunstaple 1. juris,  
Astrorum conscius illo  
judice novit hiramis  
abscondita pandere coeli.  
Hic vir erat tua laus,  
tua lux, tua musica princeps,  
Quique tuas dulces  
per mundum sperseratonus,  
Anno Mil. Equater,  
semel L. trius jungito Christi.  
Pridie natale sidus  
transmigrat ad astra,  
Suscipiant proprium  
civem coeli sibi cives.   

Musarum doctus  
pietatis fidus alumnus, 
Another fair stone close by it.   
Edwardus Monecroft  
corpus inane jacet:  
Spiritus Aetherea superest  
tamen arce receptis,  
Quo sibi dum vixit  
januit ante viam.  
Mens pia, larga manus  
parsim dispersit egenis,  
Divitias Coeli  
Divitiasque Soli.   

Within this Grave entombed lies, 
In the Chancel aside.   
a man of honest fame,  
A Grocer of this Noble Town,  
john Kirkbie was his name.  
He lived forty years and nine,  
in credit with the best:  
He died such time as here you see,  
his soul in heaven doth rest.   Obiit 17. die julii, An. Dom. 1578. 
Hic jacet Thomas Pope, 
An ancient Tomb in the North I'll of the Quire.  primus Thesaurarius Augmentationum: Et domina Margareta uxor ejus: Quae quidem Margareta obiit 16. die januarii, An. Dom. 1538.  
This life hath on earth  
no certain while,  
Example by John, Mary, 
A fair Grave-stone in the North Cloister.   
and Oliver Style,  
Who under this stone  
lie buried in the dust,  
And putteth you in memory  
that die all must.  
John Style borne in An. 1582.  
the 22. of May,  
Died in An. 1583.  
of june the 25. day.  
Also the 5. of October, 1583.  
Marry Style borne was,  
The 5. of August, 1585.  
out of this life did pass.  
Oliver Style the 25. of February, 1584.  
this mortal life begun,  
And ended the same the 9 of August, 1585.  
his course then being run.  
Thus may you see,  
that as you are, so were we,  
And as we now be,  
even so shall ye.  
Yet none can tell  
the hour, nor when,  
That gift was never  
given to man:  
Therefore while you  
have time and space,  
Pray unto God  
for mercy and grace.  
Lower down from this Parish Church, be diverse fair houses, namely one, wherein of late Sir Richard Baker, a Knight of Kent, was lodged, and wherein also dwelled Mr. Thomas Gore, a Merchant famous for Hospitality.  
On the West side of this Walbrooke street, over against the Stocks Market, is a part of the high street, called the Poultry, on the Southside west, till over against S. Mildred's Church, and the Scalding wike, is of this Ward.  
Then down again Walbrooke street, 
Buckles Bury.  some small distance, is Buckles Bury, a street so called of Buckle, that sometime was owner thereof; part of which street on both sides, three or four houses, to the course of the Brook, is of this ward, and so down Walbrooke street, to the South corner: from whence, West, down Budge Row, some small distance, to an Alley, and thorough that Alley, South, 
S. john upon Walbrooke  by the West end of Saint john's Church upon Walbrooke, by the South side and East end of the same, again to Walbrooke corner. This Parish Church is called S. john upon Walbrooke, because the West end thereof is on the very bank of Walbrooke, 
Horse-shoe Bridge in Horse-shoe Bridge street.  by Horse-shoe Bridge, in Horshooe-Bridge street.  
This Church was also lately new builded: for about the year 1412. licence was granted by the Mayor and Communality, to the Parson and Parish, for the enlarging thereof, with a piece of ground on the North part of the Choir, one and twenty foot in length, seventeen foot in breadth, and three inches; and on the South side of the Choir, one foot of the common soil.  
There be no Monuments in this Church of any account, only these:  
William Combarton, Skinner, who gave Lands to that Church, was there buried 1410.  
john Stone, Taylor, one of the Sheriffs, 1464. was likewise buried there.  
On the South side of Walbrook Ward, from Candlewicke street, in the midway betwixt London-stone and Walbrooke corner, is a little Lane, with a turnepike in the midst thereof, and in the same a proper Parish Church, 
Parish Church of S. Mary Bothaw.  called S. Mary Bothaw, or Boathaw, by the Erbar. This Church being near unto Downegate, on the River of Thames, hath the addition of Bothaw, or Boathaw, of near adjoining to an Haw, or Yard, wherein (of old time) Boats were made, and landed from Downegate, to be mended, as may be supposed: for other reason I find none, why it should be so called.  
Within this Church and the small Cloystrie adjoining, diverse Noblemen and persons of Worship have been buried, as appeareth by Arms in the windows, the defaced Tombs, and print of plates, torn up and carried away: There remain only of john West, Esquire, buried in the year 1408.  
Thomas Huytley, Esquire, 1539. but his Monumeut is defaced since.  
Lancelot Bathurst, etc.  
Here lieth the body of Lancelot Bathurst, Citizen, Grocer, and chosen Alderman of this Honourable City: who deceased the 27. day of September, 1594. etc.  
But the most memorable Monument of all other there, was that of Sir Henry Fitz-Alwine, 
The first Lord Maior of London, Sir Henry Fitz-Alwine, buried there.  Draper, the first Lord Maior of London that ever was, and continued (by several elections) in the majoralty above 24. years. His dwelling house remaineth yet in the Parish, divided now into two or three houses. His Monument can be proved to be in that Church, as his Arms in the glass windows and Gravestones do sufficiently show. Besides, those houses were his gift to the Drapers, and they pay a quitrent in his name yearly for ever. All which are sufficient to testify that he was not buried in the Priory of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate, (now called the Duke's Place) as formerly hath been avowched by Mr. Stowe; but that there his body resteth, in undoubted hope of a joyful resurrection. Such as make any doubt hereof, may be further satisfied in the Drapers Hall.  
The Erbar is an ancient place so called, but not of Walbrooke Ward, and therefore out of that Lane, to Walbrooke corner, and then down, till over against the South corner of Saint john's Church upon Walbrooke.  
And this is all that I can say of Walbrooke Ward. It hath an Alderman, and his Deputy; Common-Counsellours, 11. Constables, 9 Scavengers, 6. for the Wardmote Inquest, 13. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen in London, at 33. pounds, 5. shillings.    

DOWNEGATE WARD.  
DOwnegate Ward begin that the south end of Walbrooke Ward, 
Downegate Ward.  overagainst the East corner of Saint john's Church upon Walbrooke, and descendeth on both the sides to Downegate, on the Thames, and is so called, of that downe-going or descending thereunto: and of this Downgate the Ward taketh name. This Ward turneth into Thames street Westward, some ten houses on a side, to the course of Walbrooke, but East in Thames street (on both sides) to Ebgate lane, or Old Swan, the landside whereof hath many Lanes turning up, as shall be showed when I come to them.  
But first to begin with the highstreet called Dowgate: 
Conduit upon Downegate.  at the upper end thereof is a fair Conduit of Thames water, castellated, and made in the year 1568. at charges of the Citizens, and is called the Conduit upon Downegate. The descent of this street is such, that in the year 1574. on the fourth of September in the afternoon, there fell a storm of rain, wherethrough the channels suddenly arose, and ran with such a swift course towards the common shores, that a Lad of eighteen years old, 
A Lad of 18. years old drowned in the Channel.  minding to have leapt over the channel, near unto the said Conduit, was taken with the stream, and carried from thence towards the Thames with such a violence, that no man, with staves, or otherwise, could stay him, till he came against a Cartwheel, that stood in the said Water-gate, before which time he was drowned, and stark dead.  
On the West side of this street, is the Tallow-Chandlers Hal, 
Tallow-Chandlers Hall.  a proper house, which Company was incorporated in the second year of Edward the fourth.  
Somewhat lower standeth the Skinner's Hall, 
Copped Hall, now Skinner's Hall.  a fair house, which was sometime called Copped Hall, by Downegate, in the Parish of S. john upon Walbrooke. In the 19, year of Edward the second, Ralph Cobham possessed it, with five shops, etc.  
This Company of Skinners in London, was incorporate by Edward the 3. in the first of his reign: they had two Brotherhoods of Corpus Christi, viz. one at St. Marry spital, the other at St. Mary Bethlem, without Bishopsgate. Richard the second, in the eighteenth of his reign, granted them to make their two Brotherhoods one, by the name of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi of Skinners. Divers royal persons were named to be Founders, and Brethren of this Fraternity, 
Six Kings Brethren with the Skinner's Company in 〈◊〉.  to wit; Kings six, Duke's nine, Earls two, Lords one. Kings, Edward the third, Richard the second, Henry the fifth, Henry the sixth, and Edward the fourth.  
This Fraternity had also once every year, 
Their pompous Procession.  on Corpus Christi day, after noon a Procession, which passed through the principal streets of the City, wherein was borne more than one hundred Torches of Wax (costly garnised) burning light, and above two hundred Clerks and Priests in Surpleffes and Copes, singing. After the which, were the Sheriff's servants, the Clerks of the Compters, Chaplains for the Sheriffs, the Mayor's Sergeants, the Council of the City, the Mayor and Aldermen in Scarlet, and then the Skinners in their best Liveries. Thus much to stop the tongues of unthankful men, such as use to ask, Why have ye not noted this, or that, and give no thanks for what is done?  
Then lower down was a College of Priests, called jesus Commons, a house well furnished with Brass, Pewter, Nappery, Plate, etc. besides a fair Library well stored with Books, all which of old time were given to a number of Priests, that should keep Commons there, and as one left his place (by death or otherwise) another should be admitted into this room; but this order within this thirty years being discontinued, the said house was dissolved and turned to Tenements.  
Down lower have ye Elbow-lane, and at the corner thereof was one great stone house, 
Elbow-lane.  called Old-hall: it is now taken down, and diverse fair houses of Timber placed there. This was sometime pertaining to William de pont le Arch, 
William de pont le Arch his house.  and by him given to the Priory of S. Mary Overy in Southwark, in the reign of Henry the first. In this Elbow-lane is the Inholders hall, 
Inholders Hall.  and other fair houses: this lane runneth West, and suddenly turneth South into Thames street, and therefore (of that bending) is called Elbow-lane. On the East side of this Downegate street, is the great old house before spoken of, called the Erbar, near to the Church of Saint Mary Bothaw; 
The Erbar S. Mary Bothaw.  Geffrey Scroop held it by the gift of Edward the third in the foureteenth of his reign. It belonged since to john Nevell, Lord of Raby, then to Richard Nevell, Earl of Warwick; Nevell, Earl of Salisbury was lodged there, 1457. Then it came to George Duke of Clarence, and his heirs males, by the gift of Edward the fourth in the fourteen year of his reign. It was lately builded by Sir Thomas Pullison Maior, and was afterward inhabited by Sir Francis Drake, that famous Navigator. Next to this great house, is a lane turning to Bush-lane, (of old time called Carter-lane, of Carts, and Carmen having Stables there) and now called Chequer-lane, or Chequer-Alley, of an Inn called the Chequer.  
In Thames street, 
Greenwich lane, or Friar lane.  on the Thames side West from Downgate, is Greenwitch-lane, of old time so called, and now Friar lane, of such a sign there set up. 
joiners' Hall.  In this lane is the Joiners Hall, and other fair houses.  
Then is Granthams' lane, 
Granthams' lane.  so called of john Grantham, sometime Mayor and owner thereof, whose house was very large and strong, builded of stone, as appear by gates arched yet remaining. Ralph Dodmer, first a Brewer, than a Mercer, Maior, 1529. dwelled there, and kept his majoralty in that house: it is now a Brewhouse, as it was before.  
Then is Downgate, whereof is spoken in another place. 
Cousin lane.  East from this Downgate, is Cousin lane, named of one William Cousin, that dwelled there, in the fourth of Richard the second, as diverse his predecessors, Father, Grandfather, etc. had done before him. William Cousin was one of the Sheriffs in the year 1306. That house standeth at the South end of the lane, having an old and artificial conveyance of Thames water into it, and is now a Dye-house, called Lambards' Message. Adjoining to that house, 
A Gin to convey Thames water to Downegate Conduit.  there was lately erected an engine, to convey Thames water unto Downegate Conduit aforesaid.  
Next to this lane, on the East, is the Steleyard (as they term it) a place for Merchants of Almain, 
Steleyard for Merchants of Almain.  that used to bring hither, as well Wheat, Rye, and other grain, as Cables, Ropes, Masts, Pitch, Tar, Flax, Hemp, Linen Cloth, Wainscots', Wax, Steel, and other profitable Merchandizes. Unto these Merchants, in the year, 1259. Henry the third, at the request of his Brother Richard, Earl of Cornwall, King of Almain, granted, that all and singular the Merchants, having a house in the City of London, commonly called Guilda Aula Theutonicorum, 
Guilda Aula Theutonicorum.  should be maintained and upholden through the whole Realm, by all such freedoms, and free usages or liberties, as by the King and his Noble Progenitors time they had and enjoyed, etc. Edward the first renewed and confirmed that Charter of Liberties, granted by his Father. And in the tenth year of the same Edward, Henry Wallis being Maior, a great controversy did arise between the said Mayor, and the Merchants of the Haunce of Almain, about the reparations of Bishopsgate, then likely to fall, for that the said Merchants enjoyed diverse privileges, in respect of maintaining the said Gate, which they now denied to repair: for the appeasing of which controversy, the King sent his Writ to the Treasurer, and Barons of his Exchequer commanding, that they should make inquisition thereof: Before whom the Merchants being called, when they were not able to discharge themselves, sith they enjoyed the liberties to them granted for the same; a Precept was sent to the Mayor and Sheriffs, to distrain the said Merchants to make reparations, namely, Gerard Marbod, Alderman of the Haunce; Ralph de Cussarde, a Citizen of Colen, Ludero de Denevar, a Burgess of Trivar; john of Aras, a Burgess of Trivon; Bartram of Hamburgh; Godestalke of Hundondale, a Burgess of Trivon; john de Deal, a Burgess of Munstar, then remaining in the said City of London, for themselves, and all other Merchants of the Haunce: and so they granted 210. Marks sterling to the Mayor and Citizens, and undertook, that they and their successors should (from time to time) repair the said Gate, and bear the third part of the charges in money, and men to defend it, when need were.  
And for this agreement, the said Mayor and Citizens granted to the said Merchants their liberties, 
Merchants of the Haunce, of Almain, licenced to lay up their corn in Garners, but to sell it within 40. days after.  which till of late they have enjoyed, as namely, amongst other, that they might lay up their Grain, which they brought into this Realm, in Inns, and sell it in their Garners, by the space of forty days after they had laid it up; except by the Mayor and Citizens they were expressly forbidden, because of dearth, or other reasonable occasions. Also, they might have their Aldermen, as they had been accustomed, foreseen always, that he were of the City, and presented to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City, so oft as any should be chosen, and should take an oath before them, to maintain justice in their Courts, and to behave themselves in their Office according to Law, and as it stood with the Customs of the City.  
Thus much for their Privileges: Whereby it appeareth, that they were great Merchants of Corn, brought out of the East parts hither, insomuch, that the occupiers of husbandry in this Land were enforced to complain of them, for bringing in such abundance, when the Corn of this Realm was at an easy price. 
Act of Parliament forbidding Corn to be brought from beyond Se●.  Whereupon it was ordained by Parliament, That no person should bring into any part of this Realm, by way of Merchandise, Wheat, Rye, or Barley, growing out of the said Realm, when the quarter of Wheat exceeded not the price of 6. s. 8. d. Rye 4. s. the Quarter, and Barley 3. shillings the Quarter, upon forfeiture the one half to the King, the other half to the seisor thereof. These Merchants of the Haunce had their Guild hall in Thames street, in place aforesaid, by the said Cousin lane. Their Hall is large, builded of Stone, with three arched Gates towards the street, the middlemost whereof is far bigger than the other, and is seldom opened, the other two be mured up: the same is now called the Old Hall.  
Of later time, to wit, in the sixth of Richard the second, they hired one house next adjoining to their old Hall, which sometime belonged to Richard Lions, a famous Lapidary, one of the Sheriffs of Lond. in the 49. of Edward the third, and in the fourth of Richard the second, by the Rebels of Kent drawn out of that house, and beheaded in West Cheap. This also was a great house, with a large Wharfe on the Thames: and the way thereunto was called Windgoose, or Wild-goose lane, 
Windgoose lane.  which is now called Windgoose Alley, for that the same Alley is (for the most part) builded on by the Stilyard Merchants.  
The Abbot of S. Alban had a Message here, with a Key given to him, in the 34. of Henry the sixth.  
Then is one other great house, which sometime pertained to john Rainwell, Stockfishmonger, Mayor, and it was by him given to the Mayor and Communality, to the end, that the profits thereof should be disposed in deeds of piety: which house in the 15. of Edward the fourth, was confirmed unto the said Merchants in manner following, viz.  
It is ordained by our Sovereign Lord and his Parliament, 
Patent.  that the said Merchants of Almain, being of the Company called the Guildhall 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 Steele-house, yielding to the Mayor and Communality an annual rent of threescore and ten pounds, three shillings, four pence, etc.  
In the year 1551. the fifth of Edward the sixth, 
Steelyard put down.  through complaint of the English Merchants, the liberty of the Steelyard Merchants was seized into the King's hands, and so it resteth.  
Then is Church lane, 
Church lane.  at the West end of All-hallows Church, called All-hallows the more in Thames street, 
Parish Church of All-hallows the more.  for a difference from All-hallows the less, in the same street. It is also called All-hallows ad foenum in the Ropery, because Hay was sold near thereunto, at Hay Wharfe, and Ropes of old time made and sold in the high street. This is a fair Church, with a large Cloister on the South side thereof, about their Churchyard, but foully defaced and ruinated.  
The Church also hath had many fair Monuments, but now defaced: There remain in the Choir some Plates on Gravestones, namely of William Lichfield, Doctor of Divinity, who deceased the year 1447. He was a great Student, and compiled many Books, both Moral and Divine, in Prose and Verse; namely one, entitled, The complaint of God unto sinful man. He made in his time 3083. Sermons, as appeared by his own hand-writing, and were found when he was dead.  
One other Plate there is of john Brickles, Draper, who deceased in the year 1451. He was a great Benefactor to that Church, and gave by his Testament certain Tenements, to the relief of the poor.  
Nicholas Loven, and William Peston, founded Chauntries there.  

Willielmus dudum  
Lichfield quem mors fora pressit, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion Table.   
Ista post ludum  
mundi sub rupe quiescit.  
In domum rure  
cultor, sator ac operosus,  
Dum preciat ture,  
pastor vigil, & studiosus.  
Hanc aedem rexit,  
ornavit & amplificavit,  
Pignora provexit,  
ac sacro dogmate pavit.  
Pauperibus carus,  
inopes in ment gerebat,  
Consilio gnarus  
dubitantibus esse solebat.  
Christ pugil forcis  
ejus dissolve reatus,  
Vt vivat mortis  
post morsum glorificatus.  
Luce bis X. quat' I  
migrat Octobris sine panno,  
Equat' X. quat' V.  
semel I. ter. I. M. Karus.   

Staprecor intern, 
Another fair stone lying by it▪   
qui transis aspice, cerne,  
Non nitidis pannis,  
sed olentibus oss'a Johannis  
Brickles, ista mei  
specus includit requiei,  
Taliter indutus  
tumulabere tu resolutus.  
Dormit in hac cella  
mea conjuge ac Isabel,  
Appollinaris quam  
vixit lux nece stratratus.  
Aequater X. ter V.  
semel I. bis & M. sociatis.   
At the East end of this Church goeth down a Lane, 
Haywharfe Lane.  called Hay-Wharfe lane, now lately a great Brewhouse, builded there by one Pot; Henry Campion, Esquire, a Beere-brewer, used it, and Abraham his son since possessed it.  
Then was there one other Lane, 
Woolseys' 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, and the other end is builded on and stopped up by the Chamberlain of London. john 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 All-hallows Parish the less.  
Then is there the said Parish Church of All-hallows, 
Parish Church of All-hallows the less.  called the less; and by some, All-hallows on the Cellars, for it standeth on Vaults: it is said to be builded by Sir john Poultney, sometimes Mayor. The Steeple and Choir of this Church, stand on an arched Gate, being the entry to a great house, called Cold Harbour: 
Cold Harbour.  the Choir of late being fall'n down, is now again at length, in the year 1594. by the Parishioners new builded.  
Touching this Cold Harbour, I find, that in the 13. of Edward the second, Sir john Abel, Knight, demised or let unto Henry Stow, Draper, all that his capital Message, called the Cold Harbour, in the Parish of All Saints ad foenum, and all the purtenances within the Gate, with the Key which Robert Hartford, Citizen, son to William Hartford, had, and aught, and the foresaid Robert paid for it the rent of 33. shillings the year. This Robert Hartford being owner thereof, as also of other lands in Surrey; deceasing without issue male, left two daughters his Coheires, to wit, Idonia, married to Sir Ralph Bigot, and Maude, married to Sir Stephen Cosenton, Knights, between whom the said house and lands were parted. After the which john Bigot, Son to the said Sir Ralph and Sir john Cosenton, did sell their moities of Cold Harbour unto john Poultney, son of Adam Poultney, the eighth of Edward the third. This Sir john Poultney dwelling in this house, and being 4. times Mayor, the said house took the name of Poultney's Inn. Notwithstanding, this Sir john Poultney, the 21. of Edward the third, by his Charter gave and confirmed to Humphrey de Bohune, Earl of Hereford and Essex, his whole tenement, called Cold Harbour, with all the Tenements and Key adjoining, and appurtenances sometime pertaining to Robert de Herford, on the way called Haywharfe lane, etc. for one Rose at Midsummer, to him and his heirs, for all services, if the same were demanded. This Sir john Poultney deceased 1349. and left issue, by Margaret his wife, William Poultney, who died without issue: and Margaret his Mother was married to Sir Nicholas Lovel, Knight, etc. Philip S. Clear gave two Messages, pertaining to this Cold Harbour, in the Ropery, towards the enlarging of the Parish Church and Churchyard of All-Saints, called the less, in the 20. of Richard the second.  
In the year 1397. the 21 of Richard the second, john Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, 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 find, that Edmond, Earl of Cambridge, was there lodged: notwithstanding, the said house still retained the name of Poultney's Inn, 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 Writh, alias Garter, principal King of Arms of English men, and to the rest of the King's Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms, all that Message with the appurtenances, called Cold Harber, in the Parish of All Saints the little in London, and their successors for ever. Dated at Westminster the second of March, Anno regni suiprimo, without fine or see. How the said Heralds departed, therewith, I have not read, but in the reign of Henry the eighth, the Bishop of Durhams' house, near Charing Cross, being taken into the King's hand, Cuthbert Tunstal, 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 deceased Earl took it down, and in place thereof builded a great number of small Tenements now let out for great rents, to people of all sorts.  
Then is the Dyer's Hall, which Company was made a Brotherhood or Guild, 
The Dyer's Hall.  in the fourth of Henry the sixth, and appointed to consist of a Guardian or Warden, and a Communality the 12. of Edward the fourth. Then be there diverse large Brewhouses, and others, till you come to Ebgate lane, where that Ward endeth in the East. On the North side of Thames street be diverse lanes also, the first is at the South end of Elbow-lane before spoken of, west from Downegate, overagainst Greenwich lane: then be diverse fair houses for Merchants, and others all along that side. the next lane East from Downegate, is called Bush lane, 
Bush-lane.  which turneth up to Candlewicke street, 
Suffolk lane.  and is of Down-gate Ward. Next is Suffolk lane, likewise turning up to Candlewicke street: 
Merchant Taylor School.  in this lane is one notable Grammar School, founded in the year 1561. by the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Merchant-taylors', in the Parish of S. Laurence Poultney; Richard Hils, sometimes Master of that Company, having before given 500 l. toward the purchase of an house, 
The Manner of the Rose.  called the Manor of the Rose, sometime belonging to the Duke of Buckingham, wherein the said School is kept.  
Then is there one other Lane, 
S. Laurence Lane.  which turneth up to S. Laurence Hill, and to the South-west corner of Saint Laurence Church-yard: 
Poultney Lane.  then other Lane, called Poultney Lane, that goeth up, of this Ward to the Southeast corner of S. Laurence Church-yard, and so down again, and to the West corner of Saint Martin Orgar lane, and over against Ebgate lane: 
13. Wards on the east side of Walbrook, not having one house on the west of the said Brook.  and this is all of Downegate Ward, the 13. in number lying East from the watercourse of Walbrooke, and hath not any one house on the west side of the said Brook.  
It hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common-Counsellors, nine; Constables, eight; Seavengers, five; for the Wardmote Inquest, fourteen, and a Beadle: it is taxed to the Fifteen at eight and twenty pounds.   

WARDS ON THE WEST SIDE OF WALBROOKE: AND FIRST, OF VINTRIE WARD.  
NOw I am to speak of the other Wards, 
Wards on the West side of Walbrooke, and first, of Vintrie Ward.  12. in number, all lying on the West side of the course of Walbrook: and first of the Vintry ward, so called of Vintners, and of the Vintrie, a part of the bank of the River of Thames, where the Merchants of Bordeaux, craned their Wines out of Lighters, and other Vessels, and there landed and made sale of them, within forty days after, until the twenty eighth of Edward the first, at which time the said Merchants complained, that they could not sell their wines, paying poundage, neither hire houses or cellars to lay them in: and it was redressed by virtue of the King's Writ, directed to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, dated at Carlaveroke, or Carlisle. Since the which time, many fair and large houses (with Vaults and Cellars for stowage of Wines, and lodging of Bordeaux Merchants) have been builded, in place where before time were Cooks houses: for Fitzstephen, in the reign of Henry the second, writeth, that upon the River's side, between the Wine in Ships, and the Wine to be sold in Taverns, was a common Cook's Row, etc. as in another place I have set down. whereby it appears, that in those days, (and till of late time) every man lived according to his own professed Trade, 
Every man lived by his several professed trade.  not any one interrupting another. The Cooks dressed meat, and sold no wine; and the Taverner sold wine, but dressed no meat for sale, etc.  
This Ward beginneth in the East, at the West end of Downegate Ward, at the watercourse of Walbrooke, which parteth them, to wit, at Granthams' lane, on the Thames side, and at Elbow lane, on the Land side: it runneth along in Thames street, West, some three houses beyond the Old Swan, a Brewhouse, and on the Land side, some three houses West, beyond Saint james at Garlic hithe.  
In breadth, this Ward stretcheth from the Vintrie North, to the wall of the West gate of the Tower Royal: the other North part is of Cordwainer street Ward.  
Out of this Royal street by the South gate of Tower-Royall, runneth a small street, East to Saint john's upon Walbrooke, 
Horshoo-bridge street  which street is called Horse-shoo-bridge, of such a bridge sometime over the brook there, which is now vaulted over.  
Then from the South gate West, runneth one other street, 
Knightriders street.  called Knightriders street, by Saint Thomas Apostles Church, on the North side, and Wringwren lane, by the said Church, at the West end thereof, and to the East end of the Trinity Church in the said Knightriders street, where this Ward endeth on that South side the street: but on the North side, it runneth no farther than the corner against the new builded Tavern, and other houses, in a plot of ground where sometime stood Ormond place. Yet have ye one other lane lower down in Royal street, stretching forth from over against Saint Michael's Church, to and by the North side of Saint james Church by Garlic hith, 
Kerion lane.  this is called Kerion lane: And thus much for the bounds of the Vintrie Ward. Now on the Thames side west from Granthams' lane, have ye Herbert lane, 
Brickles lane.  or Brickles lane, so called of john Brikles, sometimes owner thereof.  
Then is Simpsons' lane, 
Simpsons' lane.  of one Simpson; or Emperours-head lane, of such a sign: then the Three Cranes lane, so called, not only of a sign of three Cranes at a Tavern door, but rather of three strong Cranes of Timber, placed on the Vintrie wharf by the Thames side, to crane up Wines there, as is afore showed: this Lane was of old time, to wit, the 9 of Richard the second, 
Painted Tavern, or three Cranes lane.  called the Painted Tavern lane, of the Tavern being painted.  
Then next over against Saint Martin's Church, is a large house builded of stone and timber, with vaults for the stowage of wines, 
The Vintry Record.  and is called the Vintrie. There dwelled john Gisers, Vintner, Mayor of London, and Constable of the Tower, and then was Henry Picard, Vintner, Mayor. In this house Henry Picard feasted four Kings in one day; as in my Summary I have showed.  
Then next is Vannars lane, 
Vanners Lane.  so called of one Vannar that was owner thereof, it is now called Church lane, of the coming up from S. Martin's Church.  
Next is Broad lane, for that the same is broader for the passage of Carts from the Vintrie Wharfe, 
Broad lane.  than be the other lanes. At the Northwest corner of this lane is the Parish-Clerks Hall, 
Parish Clerks Hall.  lately by them purchased, since they lost their old Hall in Bishopsgate street. Next is spital lane, of old time so called; since, Stodies lane, 
Stodies lane  of the owner thereof, named Stodie. Sir john Stodie, Vintner, Mayor in the year 1357. gave it, with all the Quadrant wherein Vintner's Hall now standeth, 
Vintner's Hall.  with the Tenements round about, unto the Vintners: the Vintners builded for themselves a fair Hall, 
Almshouses of the Vintners.  and also 13. Almshouses there, for 13. poor people, which are kept of charity, rent-free.  
The Vintners in London were (of old time) called Merchants Vintners of Gascoigne, and so I read them in the records of Edward the 2. the 11. year, and Edward the 3. the ninth year, they were as well Englishmen, as strangers borne beyond the Seas, but then subjects to the King of England, great Bordeaux Merchants of Gascoigne and French wines; diverse of them were Majors of this City; namely, joh. Adrian, Vintner, Reignold at Conduit, john Oxenford, Henry Picard, that feasted the Kings of England, France, Scotland, and Cypress: john Stodie, that gave Stodies lane to the Vintners: which four last named, were Majors in the reign of Edward the third, and yet Gascoigne Wines were then to be sold at London, not above 4. pence, nor Rhenish Wines above 6. pence the Gallon.  
I read of sweet Wines, that in the 50. of Edward the third, john Peachie, Fishmonger, was accused, for that he procured a Licence for the only sale of them in London: which notwithstanding he justified by Law, he was imprisoned and fined.  
More I read, that in the 6. of Hen. 6. the Lombard's corrupting their sweet Wines, when knowledge thereof came to john Rainwell, Maior of London, he (in diverse places of the City) commanded the heads of the Butts and other vessels, in the open streets, to be broken, to the number of one hundred and fifty, so that the liquor running forth, passed thorough the City like a stream of rain water, in the sight of all the people; from whence there issued a most loathsome savour.  
I read in the reign of Henry the 7. that no sweet Wines were brought into this Realm, but Malmsies, by the Longobards, paying to the King for his Licence, 6. ●. 8. d. of every But, besides 12. d. for Bottell-large. I remember, within these 54. years, Malmsey not to be sold above 1. d. ob. the pint. For proof whereof, it appeareth in the Church-book of S. Andrew Vndershaft, that in the year 1547. I. G. and S. K. then Churchwardens, for 80. pints of Malmsey, spent in the Church, after 1. d. halfpenny the pint, paid at the years end for the same ten shillings.  
More I remember, that no Sacks were sold, but Rumney, and that for Medicine more than for drink: but now many kinds of Sacks are known and used. And so much for Wines.  
For the Vintrie, 
The King's sons supped in the Vintrie  to end therewith, I read, that in the reign of Henry the 4. the young Prince Henry, T. Duke of Clarence, I. Duke of Bedford, and Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, the King's sons, being at supper amongst the Merchants of London in the Vintrie, in the house of Lewes john, 
H●n. Scogan  Henry Scogan sent to them a Ballad, beginning thus:  
My Noble Sons,  
and oak my Lords dear,  
I your Father  
called unworthily,  
Send unto you  
this Ballad following here,  
Written with mine  
own hand full rudely:  
Although it be,  
that I not reverently  
Have written to your  
Estates, I you pray,  
Mine uncunning  
take benignly,  
For God's sake,  
and harken what I say.  
Then follow in like Meeter, 23. staves, containing a persuasion from losing of time foolishly, in lust and vice, but to spend the same in virtue and godliness; as ye may read in Geffrey Chawcer his Works, 
Chawcer fol. 334 & 33●.  lately printed. The successors of those Vintuers and Wine-drawers, that retailed by the Gallons, pottle, Quartfield, 
Wine-tunners incorporated the 15. of Hen. 6.  and Pint, were all incorporated by the name of Wine-tunners, in the reign of Edward the third, and confirmed the 15. of Henry the sixth.  
Next is Palmer's Lane, 
Palmer's lane, or Anchor lane. Plumers Hall.  now called Anchor Lane. The Plumbers have their Hall there, but are Tenants to the Vintners.  
Then is Worcester House, 
Worcester House.  sometimes belonging to the Earls of Worcester, now divided into many tenements. 
Fruiterer's Hall.  The Fruiterers have their Hall there.  
Then is the Old Swan, 
Old Swan.  a great Brewhouse. And this is all, on the Thames side, that I can note in this Ward.  
On the Land side, is the Royal street, and Pater noster Lane, 
Pater noster Lane,  I think of old time called Arches: for I read, that Robert de Suffolk gave to Walter Darford, 
〈◊〉. S. Ma●● Ov●●●●.  his tenement with the appurtenance, in the Lane called Les Arches, in the parish of S. Michael de Pater noster Church, between the wall of the Field called Winchester field, on the East, and the same Lane on the West, etc. More I read of a stone House, called Stoda de Winton, juxta Stodum bridge, which in that Lane was over Walbrooke water.  
Then is the fair Parish Church of S. Michael, 
Parish Church of S. Michael 〈…〉, a College, one Almshouse or Hospit●●●.  called Pater noster Church in the Royal. This Church was new builded, and made a College of S. Spirit, and S. Mary, founded by Richard Whittington, Mercer, four times Mayor, for a Master, four Fellows, Masters of Art, Clerks, Conducts, Chorists, etc. and an Almshouse, called God's house or Hospital, for thirteen poor men, one of them to be Tutor, and to have 16 pence the week, the other twelve, each of them to have 14. pence the week for ever, with other necessary provision, an Hutch with three locks, a common scale, etc.  
These were bound to pray for the good estate of Richard Whittington, and Alice his wife; their Founders; and for Sir William Whittington, 
R. Whittington, ●●n to Sir W. Whittington Knight.  Knight, and Dame joan his wife; and for Hugh Fitzwarren, and Dame Mould his wife, the Fathers and Mothers of the said Richard Whittington, and Alice his wife; for King Richard the second, and Thomas of Woodslocke, Duke of Gloucester, special Lords and Promoters of the said Richard Whittington, etc.  
The Licence for this foundation was granted by King Henry the fourth, the eleventh of his reign: and in the twelfth of the same King's reign, the Mayor and Communality of London, granted to Richard Whittington a vacant piece of ground, thereon to build his College in the Royal: all which was confirmed by Henry the 6. the third of his reign, to john Coventry, jenkin Carpenter, and William Grove, Executors to Richard Whittington.  
This foundation was again confirmed by Parliament, the tenth of Henry the sixth, and was suppressed by the Statute of Edward the sixth. The Alms houses, with the poor men, do remain, and are paid by the Mercers.  
This Richard Whittington was (in this Church) three times buried: 
Richard Whittington thrice buried.  first, by his Executors, under a fair Monument: then, in the reign of Edward the sixth, the Parson of that Church, thinking some great riches (as he said) to be buried with him, caused his Monument to be broken, his body to be spoiled of his Leaden sheet, and again the second time to be buried. And in the reign of Queen Mary, the Parishioners were forced to take him up, to lap him in Lead, as afore, to bury him the third time, and to place his Monument, or the like, over him again, which remaineth, and so he resteth.  
Thomas Winford, Alderman, was buried in this Church, 1448.  
Arnold Macknam, Vintner a Merchant of Bordeaux, 1457.  
Sir here Tanke, or Hartancleux, Knight of the Garter, borne in Almain, a noble Warrior in Henry the fifth and Henry the sixth's days.  
Sir Edmond Mulshew, Knight, near to Thomas Cockham, Recorder of London.  
The Lady Kyme.  
Sir William Oldhall, Knight, 1460.  
William Barnocke.  
Sir john Young, Grocer, Mayor 1466.  
Agnes, daughter to Sir john Young, first married to Robert Sherington, after to Robert Mulleneux, then to William Cheyney, Esquire.  
john Having, Gentleman.  
William Roswell, Esquire.  
William Postar, Clerk of the Crown, 1520.  
Sir William Bayly, Draper, Maior, 1533. with Dame Katherine his Wife, leaving sixteen children.  
john Haydon, Mercer, Sheriff, 1582. who gave Legacies to the 13. Almesmen, and otherwise for a Lecture.  

Vt fragrans Nardus, 
A goodly plain Marble Tomb in the Chancel, with new Banners to adorn it, very lately hung up.   
famâ fuit iste Ricardus,  
Albificans villam  
qui justè rexer at illam.  
Flos Mercatorum,  
fundator Presbyterorum,  
Sic & regonarum  
testis sit certus eorum.  
Omnibus exemplum  
barathrum vincendo morosum,  
Condidit hoc Templum  
Michaelis, quam speciosum?  
Regia spes & pres:  
divinis res rata turbis.  
Pauperibus pr.  
& Maior qui fuit urbis,  
Martius hunc vicit,  
en Annos gens tibi dicit.  
Finiit ipse dies,  
sis sibi Christe quies.   
Ejus sponsa pia, Generosa, probata, sophia jungitur, etc.  

Hic jacet Eduardus  
Lupton cognomine dictus,  
Occidit heu juvenis  
cum spes foret omnibus una.  
Pauperibus fuerat  
studiosis ille patronus,  
Mille & quingintos  
tersaevos vidit ademptos  
Moribus & studiis  
qui vivens claruit olim;  
Spiritus iste jesus  
mens à te suscipiatur.   
Quisquis ades plora fata dolenda viri, 
A fair plated stone before the Communion Table.   
Hujus Collegii quique Magister erat;  
Doctor, & in sacre Dogmate clarus erat;  
Qui obiit Octobris & quoque nona fuit.  
Credere nuncfas est spiritus astra tenet:  
Spes me tua Iesus es, gratia, non opera.  
At the upper end of this Street, 
Tower-Royall builded about Henry the 1. as may be supposed.  is the Tower Royal, whereof that street taketh name. This Tower and great place was so called, of pertaining to the Kings of this Realm: 
King Stephen was lodged there.  but by whom the same was first builded, or of what Antiquity continued, I have not read more, than that in the reign of King Edward 1. second, fourth, and seventh years, it was the tenement of Simon Beawmes. Also, that in the 36. of Edward the third, the same was called the Royal, in the Parish of S. Michael de Pater noster, 
Frisard.  and that in the three and fortieth of his Reign, he gave it by the name of his Inn, called the Royal, in his City of London, in value twenty pounds by year, unto his College of S. Stephen at Westminster. Notwithstanding, in the reign of Richard the second, it was called The Queen Wardrobe, as appeareth by this that followeth:  
King Richard, having in Smithfield overcome and dispersed the Rebels, he, his Lords and all his Company, 
The Lady Princess lodged in the Tower Royal.  entered the City of London, with great joy, and went to the Lady Princess his Mother, who was then lodged in the Tower-Royall, called the Queen's Wardrobe, where she had remained three days and two nights, right sore abashed. But when she saw the King her Son, she was greatly rejoiced and said, Ah Son, what great sorrow have I suffered for you this day! The King answered and said; Certainly, Madam, I know it well, but now rejoice, and thank God, for I have this day recovered mine heritage, and the Realm of England, which I had near-hand lost.  
This Tower seemeth to have been (at that time) of good defence, for when the Rebels had beset the Tower of London and got possession thereof, taking from thence whom they listed, as in my Annals I have showed; the Princess being force to fly, came to this Tower Royal▪ where she was lodged, and remained safe as ye have heard, and it may be also supposed, that the King himself was at that time lodged there. I read, that in the year 1386. Ly●n King of Armony, being chased out of his Realm by the Tartarians, received innumerable gifts of the King and of his Nobles, 
King Richard lodged in the Tower-Royall.  the King then lying in the Royal, where he also granted to the said King of Armony, a Charter of a thousand pounds by year during his life. This for proof may suffice, that Kings of England have been lodged in this Tower, though the same (of later time) hath been neglected, and turned into stabling for the Kings, horses, and now let out to diverse men, and divided into Tenements.  
In Horse-bridge street is the Cutler's Hall, 
Culters' Hall.  Richard de Wilehale 1295. confirmed to Paul Butelor, this house and edifices, in the Parish of Saint Michael Pater noster Church, and Saint john's upon Walbrooke, which sometime Laurence Guysors, and his son Peter Guysors did possess, and afterward Hugonis de Hingham, and lieth between the Tenement of the said Richard towards the South, and the lane called Hors-shoo bridge towards the North, and between the way called Pater noster Church on the West, and the course of Walbrooke on the East, paying yearly one Clove of Gillyflowers at Easter, and to the poor and Covent of Saint Mary Overy, 6. s. this house sometime belonged to Simon Dolesly, Grocer, Mayor, 1359. They of this Company were (of old time) three Arts, or sorts of Workmen, to wit, the first were Smiths, Forgers of Blades, and therefore called bladders, and diverse of them proved wealth men, 
bladders or Blade-Smiths.  as namely, Walter Nele, Blader, one of the Sheriffs, the twelfth of Edward the third deceased, 1352. and buried in S. james Garlic hith. He left Lands to the mending of Highways about London, betwixt Newgate and Wicombe, Ealdgate and Chelmesford, Bishopsgate and Ware, Southwark and Rochester, etc. The second were makers of Hafts, and otherwise garnishers of Blades: 
Haft-makers.  The third sort were Sheathmakers for Swords, 
Sheathmakers.  Daggers, and Knives. In the 10. of Henry the fourth certain ordinances were made betwixt the bladders, and the other Cutlers, and in the fourth of Henry the sixth, they were all three Companies drawn into one Fraternity or Brotherhood, by the name of Cutlers.  
Then is Knight rider's street, 
Knight rider's street.  so called (as is supposed) of Knights well armed and mounted at the Tower Royal, riding from thence through the street, West to Creed lane, and so out at Ludgate towards Smithfield, when they were: there to Tourney, Just, or otherwise to show activities before the King and States of the Realm. In this street is the Parish Church of Saint Thomas Apostles, 
Wringwren lane,  by Wringwren lane, a proper Church, 
Parish Church of S. Thomas the Apostle.  and in the year 1629. well repaired and finely garnished; but Monuments of antiquity, I find none beyond the reign of Henry the eighth, except some Arms in the windows, as also in the stone-worke, which some suppose to be of john Barns Mercea, Maior of London, in the year 1371. a great builder thereof, H. Causton Merchant, was a Benefactor, and had a Chantry there about, 1396. T. Roman, Maior 1310. had also a Chantry there 1319. Fitz-Williams also a Benefactor, had a Chantry there. More, Sir William Littlesbury, alias Horn, (for King Edward the fourth so named him) because he was a most excellent blower in a Horn, he was a Salter, and Merchant of the Staple, Maior of London in the year 1487. and was buried in this Church, having appointed (by his Testament) the Bells to be changed for four new Bells of good time and found; but that was not performed: he gave 500 Markers towards the repairing of highways between London and Cambridge; his dwelling house, with a Garden, and appurtenances in the said Parish, to be sold, and bestowed in charitable actions, as his Executors would answer before God.  
His house called the George in Breadstreet he gave to the Salters, 
George in Breadstreet given to the Salters upon conditions not performed.  they to find a Priest in the said Church, to have six pounds, thirteen shillings, four pence the year, to every Preacher at Paul's Cross, and at the spital, 4. pence for ever; to the Prisoners of Newgate, Ludgate, Marshalsey, and King's Bench, in victuals ten shillings at Christmas, and ten shillings at Easter for ever; which Legacies are not performed.  
William Shipton, William Champneis, and john de Burford, had Chauntries there: john Martin, Butcher, one of the Sheriffs, was buried there 1533. Those Monuments that be extant of these latter times, be these following:  
There lieth buried near this Monument, 
On the North side of the Chancel.  Margaret one of the daughters of the Lord Broke, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, in the reign of King Henry the eighth: who lineally descended of the House of Broke of in Cheshire; which said Margaret was first married to William Whorwood, second son to John Whorwood of Compton in the County of Stafford, Esquire, which said William died Attorney General to the said King Henry the 8. After whose death, she took to her second Husband, William Sheldon of Beeley in the County of Worcester, Esquire; who also died, leaving her a Widow, and so she continued many years after; and then died, being about the age of 80. years, and was buried in March, 1589. in the 32. year of Qu. Elizabeth.  
On the South side of the Chancel, a very fine, neat and well-contrived Monument, but without any date, whereon these Verses are insculpt:  

In mortem suam haec Carmina dum vixerat scripsit D. Katherine Killigreia.  
Dormio nunc Domino,  
Domini vitute resurgam;  
Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meum  
carne videbo mea.  
Mortua ne dicar,  
fruitur pars altera Christo,  
Et surgar capiti,  
tempore, tota, meo.   

Elizabethae in Obitum Katharinae Sororis Epicaedia.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Chara val●to Soror,  
in Caelo morte triumphas,  
Mors tua vita tibi,  
mors tamen illa tuis.  
Mens tua labe carens,  
pietas, doctrina, modesta  
Vita, lepos suavis  
digna fuere Deo.  
Vt junxit Sanguis,  
nos jungat in aethere Christus:  
Interea taceo  
mortua morte tua.   

Felicissimae & in Christo charissimae Memoriae Katharinae Kiligreiae, Robertus Massonus Formanus Pastor Ecclesiae Londino-Gallicae, his Versibus parentavit.  
Coelestem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
conclusam pectore mentem  
Audivi, aspexi,  
saepius obstupui;  
Caelicolam sancto  
seclusam corpore mentem,  
Quam colui carus,  
maestus ovansque cano.  
Quis non ereptas  
tot dotes lugeat? & quis  
Coelo caelestes  
lividus invideat?  
Cedere sed Patri  
gnatos, terrena supernis  
Est aequum, sequimur:  
tu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 praei.   

Epitaphium praestant. Feminae, Katharinae Kiligreiae Autore Andrea Melvino.  
Palladis & Phoebi  
comes una, & Pieris una,  
Pieridumque Soror,  
Pieridumque Parens.  
Gratia, Suada, Lepos,  
Gravitas, Constantia, Candor,  
Relligio, Pietas,  
& Pudor & Probitas,  
Atque Palestinae,  
& Latiae, Graiaeque Camenae  
Clausit olim uno  
omnes pectore, nunc tumulo.   

Aliud Epitaphium Autore Guilielmo Charco.  
Hic Katharina jacet  
de stemmate nobilitato  
Cociadum, & claro  
Kiligreio nupta marito:  
Hoc satis est, Hospes:  
Rhodanus nam caetera novit,  
Et dives Rhenus'  
celebrat, sic fama Sororem  
Musarum, & magnam  
magnae Pietatis Alumnam.  
Under the Communion Table, a stone engraven.  Here lies interred the body of Mr. John FFoy, 
Under the Communion Table.  Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, who departed this life 1. Decemb. 1625. and left issue 4. Sons, (viz.) John, George, Henry and Richard: He lived and died in the true faith of Christ jesus, which he hath amply expressed, in a worthy annual contribution towards the poor of this Parish. 
Then West from the said Church on the same side, 
Ipres Inn.  was one great Message, sometime called Ipres Inn, of William of Ipres a Fleming, the first builder thereof. This William was called out of Flanders, 
King Stephen lodged in the Tower-Royall.  with a number of Flemings to the aid of King Stephen, against Maude the Empress, in the year 1138. and grew in favour with the said King for his service, so far, that he builded this house near unto Tower-Royall, in the which Tower it seemeth the King was then lodged, as in the heart of the City, for his more safety.  
Robert Earl of Gloucester, Brother to the Empress, being taken, was committed to the custody of this William, to be kept in the Castle of Rochester, till King Stephen was also taken, and then the one was delivered in exchange for the other, and both set free: This William of Ipres gave Edredes Heath, now called Queen's Heath, to the Prior and Canons of the holy Trinity in London: he founded the Abbey of Borley in Kent, etc. In the first of Henry the second, the said William, with all the other Flemings (fearing the indignation of the new King) departed the Land, but it seemeth that the said William was shortly called back again, and restored both to the King's favour, and to his old possessions here, so that the name and family continued long after in this Realm, as may appear by this which followeth.  
In the year 1377. the 51. of Edward the third, the Citizens of London minding to have destroyed john of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and Henry Percy Marshal, (for causes showed in my Annals) sought up and down, and could not find them, for they were that day to dine with john of Ipres at his Inn, which the Londoners wist not of, but thought the Duke and Martial had been at the Savoy, and therefore posted thither. But one of the Duke's Knights seeing these things, came in great haste to the place where the Duke was, and after that he had knocked, and could not be let in, he said to Haveland the Porter, If thou love my Lord and thy life, open the Gate: with which words he got entry, and with great fear he tells the Duke, that without the gate were infinite numbers of armed men, and unless he took great heed, that day would be his last. With which words the Duke leapt so hastily from his Oysters, that he hurt both his legs against the form: Wine was offered, but he could not drink for haste, and so fled with his fellow Henry Percy out at a back gate, and entering upon the Thames, never stayed rowing, until they came to a house near the Manor of Kennington, 
Kennington besides Lambeth.  where at that time the Princess lay, with Richard the young Prince; before whom he made his complaint, etc.  
On the other side, I read of a Message, called Ringed hall: King Henry the eighth the 32. of his reign, gave the same (with four Tenements adjoining) unto Morgan Philip, alias Wolf, in the Parish of St. Thomas Apostles in London, etc.  
Overagainst Ipres Inn in Knightriders street, at the corner towards Saint james at Garlic hith, was sometime a great house builded of stone, and called Ormond place, for that it sometime belonged to the Earls of Ormond. 
Ormond place.  King Edward the fourth in the fifth of his reign, gave to Elizabeth his wife, the Manor of Greenwich, with the Tower and Park, in the County of Kent. He also gave this Tenement called Ormond place, with all the appurtenances to the same situate in the Parish of St. Trinity in Knightriders street in London. This house is now lately taken down, and diverse fair Tenements are builded there, the corner house whereof is a Tavern.  
Then lower down in Royal street, is Kerion lane, 
Kerion lane.  of one Kerion sometime dwelling there. In this lane be diverse fair houses for Merchants; and amongst others, 
Glasiers Hall.  is the Glasiers Hall.  
At the South corner of Royal street, 
Parish Church of S. Martin in the Vintrie.  is the fair Parish Church of Saint Martin, called in the Vintrie, sometime called S. Martin de Beremand Church. This Church was new buided about the year 1399. by the Executors of Matthew Columbars, 
Li. Trinitate London.  a stranger borne, a Bordeaux Merchant of Gascoine and French Wines: His Arms yet remain yet in the East Window; and is a Cheveron, between three Columbins. There lie buried in this Church, Sir john Guysors, Maior, 1311. Henry Guysors, his son, 1343. and john Guysors, his brother, 1350. He gave to his son T. his great Mansion house, 
Guysors Hall, corruptly called Gerard's Hall.  called Guysors Hall, in the Parish of Saint Mildred in Breadstreet. This Thomas had issue, john and Thomas: john made a Feoffement, and sold Guysors hall, and other his Lands in London, about the year 1386. Thomas deceased 1395. Henry Vennar. Bartholomew de la Vauch. Thomas Cornwallis, one of the Sheriffs, 1384. john Cornwallis Esquire, 1436. john Mustrell, Vintner 1424. William Hodson. William Castleton. john Grace. Robert Dalusse, Barber, in the reign of Edward the fourth, with this Epitaph.  
As flowers in field, 
Epitaph.   
thus passeth life,  
Naked, then clothed,  
feeble in the end.  
It showeth by Robert Dalusse,  
and Alison his Wife:  
Christ them save  
from the power of the Fiend.  
Hic jacet Petrus de la Genebra, 
A fair Stone beyond the Pulpit.  filius & heres joannis de la Genebra, quondam Burgensis, & Mercatoris de Civitate Burdegali. Qui obiit 27. die Martii, An. Domini 1439. Civis animae propitietur Deus.  
Hic jacet Willielmus Stokesby, 
A very fair plated Stone under the Communion Table.  quondam Civis & Vintner London, & juliana uxor ejus. Qui obbiit 25. die Decemb. An. Dom. 1381. Cujus, etc.  
Hic jacet Thomas Cornwaleis, 
Another close by it.  quondam Civis London. Qui obiit quarto die januarii, Anno Domini 1384. Cujus, etc.  
Honorabilis viri Radulphi Astri Militis, 
A very goodly plated Stone at the entrance into the Quire.  nuper Maioris ac Aldermanni & Piscenarii Civitatis London: & praecarissimarum Dominae Margeria, ac Margareta uxorum ejus. Qui quidem Radulphus obiit 18. die Novembris, An. Dom. 1494. Et dicta Domina Margareta obiit die Ac praedicta Margeria ab hoc saeculo migravit 10. die Martii. An. Dom. 1492. Cujus, etc.  
Micolt, 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the Chancel.  quondam Civis & vinitarius London, & joanna uxor ejus, ac pueri eorundem. Qui quidem Iohannes obiit 17. die Aprilis, An. Dom. 1424. Quorum animae per Dei immensam misericordiam in pace perpetua permaneant, ac requiem possideant.  
Es testis, Christ,  
quod non jacet hic lapis iste,  
Corpus ut ornatur,  
sed spiritus ut memoretur.  
Hunc tu qui tum sis  
magnus parvus puer ansis  
Pro me funde preces,  
quod sic mihi fit veniae spes.  
Radulphus Astry, 
Another fair stone close by the other.  Generos. unus filiorum Rad. Astry, Militis, quondam Maioris Civitatis London. Qui quidem Rad. filius in sua florida juventute, ab hoc saeculo migravit, 19 die mens. Septembris, Anno Domini, 1501.  
Henry Guysors gist yci, Dieu de sa ' Am tien pity, è Iohn le filz à mercy. Qui morust le veille de S. Katherine, En l' An de Grace, 1343.  

Martis Pascha tenes, 
All these stones, fairly plated, are in the body of the Church.   
Edward Rex luce tiburci  
Hunc del Foorll. Dominum,  
strage ruisse dolet.  
Is dabat Gascon,  
Anglus sum cord joannes,  
In Campis Barnet  
mortis amara tulit.  
Bis septingeno,  
decies sept. & simul uno,  
Mane resurgente  
obviat iste jesu.  
Anglicus haec relegens,  
miserere tui Peregrini,  
Et pro te moriens,  
te sciat esse pium.   

Haec petra substrati  
Kirkman tegit ossa Roberti,  
Qui Rector fuerat  
istius Ecclesiae.  
M. D. dame quater  
septem Christi cadit Anno,  
Aprilis terna  
raptus ab orbe die.  
Artibus ille Magister  
erat, Ecclesia tandem,  
Tristia post fati  
gaudia dentur ei.   
Sir Ralph Austrie, or Astry, Fishmonger, Mayor, new roofed this Church with Timber, covered it with Lead, and beautifully glazed it. He deceased 1494. and was there buried, with his two wives. Ralph Austrie his son, Gent. William Austrie, and other of that name. Bertrand, wife to Grimond Descure, Esquire, a Gascione, and Merchant of Wines, 1494. Thomas Batson, Alice Fowler, daughter and heir to john Howton, wife to john Hulton. james Bartlet and Alice his wife. William Fennor, Roger Cotton, Robert Stocker, john Pemberton, Philip de Plasse, john Stapleton, john Mortimer, William Lee, William Hamsteed, W. Stokesbie, and Gilbert March, had Chantries there.  
Then is the Parish Church of Saint james, 
Parish Church of St. james Garlic Hith.  called at Garlic Hith, or Garlic hive, for that (of old time) on the River of Thames, near to this Church, Garlic was usually sold. This is a proper Church, whereof Richard Rothing, one of the Sheriffs, 1326. is said to be the new builder, and lieth buried in the same: so was Walter Nele, Blader, one of the Sheriffs, 1337. john of Oxenford, Vintner, Mayor, 1341. I read in the first of Edward the third, that this john of Oxenford gave to the Priory of the holy Trinity, in London, two Toasts of Land, one Mill, fifty Acres of Land, two Acres of Wood, with the appurtenances, in Kentish Town, in value twenty shillings and three pence by year.  
Richard Goodcheape, john de Cressingham, and john Whitthorne, and before them, Galfrid Moncley, 1281. founded a Chantry there.  
Monuments remaining there: Robert Gabeter, Esquire, Mayor of Newcastle upon Tine, 1310.  
john Guysors, William Tiligham, john Stanley, L. Strange, eldest son to the Earl of Derby, 1503.  
Nicholas Staham. Robert de Luton, 1361.  
Richard Lions, a famous Merchant of Wines, and a Lapidary, sometime one of the Sheriffs, beheaded in Cheap by Wat Tylar, and other Rebels, in the year 1381. his picture on his Grave-stone very fair and large, is with his hair rounded by his ears, and curled, a little beard forked, a gown girt to him, down to his feet, of branched Damask, wrought with the likeness of flowers, a large Purse on his right side, hanging in a Belt from his left shoulder, a plain Hood about his neck, covering his shoulders, and hanging back behind him.  
Sir john Wrotch, Fishmonger, Mayor, 1361. deceased 1407.  
Thomas Stonard of Oxfordshire.  
john Bromer, Fishmonger, Alderman, 1474.  
The Lady Stanley, mother to the Lord Strange.  
The Countess of Huntingdon, The Lady Herbert.  
Sir George Stanley.  
Gilbert Bovet, 1398.  
A Countess of Worcester, and one of her children.  
William Venor, Grocer, Mayor, 1389.  
William More, Vintner, Mayor, 1395.  
Robert Chichley, Maior, 1421.  
james Spencer, Vintner, Mayor, 1543.  
Richard Plate, Brewer, founded a free School there, 1601.  
Rogerus jones, 
A fair Tomb in the East end of the Chancels South I'll.  Middletoni, in Comitatu Lancastrensi natus, vix puberta egressus, se Londinum contulit, ubi Civitate donatus, & Artem Tinctoriam exercens, Agnetem, Thomae Hacketti filiam, Matrimonio sibi junxit. Ex qua filios novem, quatuor verò filias Suscepit. Quarum una Patre adhuc superstite diem obiit. hic cum varia Civitatis munia laudabiliter obiisset, tandem in celebrem supremi ordinis Senatum, Aldermannorum scilicet, cooptatus est; Mox Aeques abillustrissimo Rege Iacobo creatus est, & paulo post Vicecomes Civitatis London est designatus. Quo Magistratu nondum expleto, non sine magno bonorum luctu, vicesimo quinto die mensis julii, Anno Domini 1605. piè in Domino requiescit.  
Here lieth buried the body of Richard Plate Brewer, 
A comely Monument in the wall of the South I'll.  and sometime chosen Sheriff of London. The Founder of a free School, and six Almshouses, in Aldenham, in the County of Hertford. He died the 28. of November, 1600. having taken to wife Alice Birtles, the daughter of John Birtles, Esquire, and having issue four sons and one daughter.  
Here Edmund Chapman, 
In the same wall a comely Monument.  closed in clay,  
undoubtedly doth rest,  
Who to his Neighbours (while he lived)  
the fruits of love expressed:  
Fine pews within this Church he made,  
and with his Arms support,  
The Table, and the Seats in Choir,  
he set in comely sort.  
To Prisoners, and to Hospitals,  
he living, was a friend,  
And ever sought, the innocent  
from danger to defend.  
Esquier-Ioyner to our Queen,  
he in his life time was,  
And Yeoman of her Armoury  
at Greenwich, in like case:  
Wherein he like a servant just,  
for duty duly done,  
Unto himself of Prince and Peers  
the love and favour won.  
Threescore seven years he lived here,  
in worship and good name,  
And left this life, to live with Christ,  
to his eternal fame.  
His Soul, the fourteenth day of May,  
did from his body fleet,  
Which he with cheerful voice did yield  
to Christ his Saviour sweet:  
And on the eighteenth of that month,  
by computation just,  
A thousand five hundred eighty eight,  
his body was laid in dust.  
But body and soul at last, be sure,  
through God's abundant grace,  
Shall rise, and knit again in one,  
and stand before his face:  
Where, with his Saints elect (we hope)  
he shall receive a Crown,  
And live for ever with sweet Christ,  
in glory and renown.  
Thus, friends (by this dear friend of ours)  
let's learn to live and die,  
That after death we may have 〈◊〉  
above the starry sky.  
And thus an end of Vintrie Ward, which hath an Alderman, with a Deputy, common Counsellors 9 Constables 9 Scavengers 4. Ward-mote inquest 14. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen, 6. pound, 13. shillings, 4. pence.    

CORDWAINER STREET Ward.  
THe next is Cordwainer street Ward, 
Cordwainer street ward.  taking that name of Cordwainers, or Shoemakers, Curriers, and workers of Leather dwelling there: for it appeareth in the Records of Henry the 6. the ninth of his reign, that an order was taken then for Cordwainers and Curriers in Corney street, and Sopers' lane.  
This Ward beginneth in the East, on the West side of Walbrooke, and runneth West thorough Budge row, 
Budge Row.  (a street so called of Budge, Fur, and of Skinners dwelling there:) then up by Saint Anthony's Church, thorough Atheling (or Noble-street) as Leyland termeth it, 
Wathling street.  commonly called Wathling-street, to the Red Lion, a place so called, of a great Lion of Timber placed there, at a gate entering a large Court, wherein are diverse fair and large shops, well furnished with broad-cloathes, and other Draperies of all sorts to be sold: and this is the farthest West part of this Ward.  
On the South side of this street from Budge row, lieth a lane turning down by the West gate of the Tower Royal, and to the South end of the stone Wall beyond the said gate, which is of this Ward, and is accounted a part of the Royal street.  
Against this West gate of the Tower Royal, is one other Lane, that runneth West to Cordwainer street, and this is called Turnebase lane: 
Turnebase Lane.  on the South side whereof is a piece of Wringwren lane, to the Northwest corner of Saint Thomas Church the Apostle. Then again out of the high street called Watheling, is one other street which runneth thwart the same, 
Cordwainer street.  and this is Cordwainer street, whereof the whole Ward taketh name.  
This street beginneth by Westcheape, and Saint Mary Bow Church is the head thereof on the West side, and it runneth down South, 
Hosier lane in Cordwainer street.  thorough that part, which of latter time was called Hosier lane, now Bow lane, and then by the west end of Aldermary Church, to the new-builded houses, in place of Ormond-House, and so to Garlickehill or heath, to S. james Church.  
The upper part of this street towards Cheap, was called Hosier lane, of Hosiers dwelling there in place of Shoemakers: but now those Hosiers being worn out by men of other trades, (as the Hosiers had worn out the Shoemakers) the same is called Bow lane, of Bow Church.  
On the west side of Cordwainer street, is Basin lane, 
Basin lane.  right over against Turnebase lane. This Basin lane, west, to the back gate of the Red Lion in Wathling street, is of this Cordwainer street Ward.  
Now again on the North side of this high street, is Budge row: by the East end of Saint Anthony's Church, have ye Saint Scythes lane, 
S. Scythes lane.  so called of S. Scythes Church, (which standeth against the North end of that Lane) and this is wholly of Cordwainer street Ward: also the South side of Needlers' lane, which reacheth from the North end of Saint Scythes lane, 
Needlers' lane.  west to Sopers' lane: then west from S. Anthony's Church, is the South end of Sopers' lane, 
Sopers' lane.  which lane took that name, not of Sope-making, as some have supposed, but of allen le Sopar, in the ninth of Edward the second. I have not read of Sope-making in this City, till within this hundred years, that john Lamb, dwelling in Grasse-street, set up a boiling-housing: for this City (in former time) was served of white Soap in hard cakes (called Castle Soap, and other) from beyond the Seas, 
Grey Soap made in London, dearer than bought from Bristol.  and of grey Soap, speckled with white, very sweet and good, from Bristol, sold here for a penny the pound, and never above penny farthing, and black Soap for an halfpenny the pound.  
Then in Bow lane (as they now call it) is Goose lane, 
Goose lane.  by Bow Church. William Essex, Mercer, had tenements there, in the 26. of Edward the third.  
Then from the South end of Bow lane, up Wathling street, till over against the Red Lion: And these be the bounds of Cordwainer street Ward.  
Touching Monuments therein: first, you have the fair Parish Church of S. Anthony's in Budge row, 
Parish Church of S. Anthony's.  more vulgarly known by the name of Saint Antlin, on the North side thereof. This Church was lately re-edified by Thomas Knowles, Grocer, Mayor, and by Thomas Knowles, his son, both buried there, with Epitaphs of the Father, thus:  
Here lieth graven  
under this stone, 
Epitaph of Tho. Knowles.   
Thomas Knowles,  
both flesh and bone,  
Grocer and Alderman  
years forty,  
Sheriff, and twice  
Mayor truly.  
And for he should  
not lie alone,  
Here lieth with him  
his good wife Joan:  
They were together  
sixty year,  
And nineteen children  
they had in fear, etc.  
Thomas Holland, Mercer, was there buried, 1456.  
Thomas Windent, Mercer, Alderman, and Katherine his wife.  
Thomas Hind, Mercer, 1528. He was a Benefactor to this Church, to Aldermarie Church, and to Bow.  
Hugh Acton, Merchant-Taylor, buried 1520. He gave 36. pounds to the repairing of the Steeple of this Church.  
Simon Street, Grocer, lieth in the Church wall toward the South: his Arms be three Colts, and his Epitaph thus:  
Such as I am, 
Simon Street his Epitaph.   
such shall you be:  
Grocer of London  
sometime was I,  
The Kings Weigher  
more than years twenty:  
Simon Street  
called in my place,  
And good fellowship  
fain would trace:  
Therefore in Heaven,  
everlasting life  
jesus send me,  
and Agnes my wife.  
Kerlie Merlie,  
my words were the,  
And Deo gratias  
I coupled thereto.  
I passed to God  
in the year of grace,  
A thousand  
four hundred it was, etc.  
Henry Collet, Mercer, Maior, a great Benefactor to this Church. The pictures of him, his wife, ten sons, and ten daughters, remain in the glass-window, on the North side of the Church: but the said Henry Collet was buried at Stebunhith. Henry Halton, Grocer, one of the Sheriffs, deceased 1415. Thomas Spite, Merchant-Taylor, 1533.  
john Grantham and Nicholas Bull had Chauntries there.  Here lieth William Dauntesey, 
An ancient Tomb in the South side  Mercer and Alderman of this City, and Merchant of the Staple of Calais; and Agnes his wife: the which William deceased the 23. day of April, in the year of our Lord God, 1543. 
Unto Sir Roger  
Martin, Knight, 
A very goodly Tomb in the Chancel.   
A Mercer and  
a Merchant late;  
By wisdom, and  
by ways upright,  
That so both wealth  
and worship gate.  
Well famed, beloved  
of each estate,  
Pleasant and sage  
in gravity,  
Rose by degrees  
in dignity.  
First Alderman  
elected here,  
Then Shrieve, and then  
Lord Maior he was:  
Passed all with praise.  
His faithful Fear,  
Dame Elizabeth,  
erected has  
This Monument,  
in mind, that as  
With him a while  
in Tomb to stay,  
So afterward in bliss  
to joy always.  
Ex D. Elizabeth octo prolum Parens. Obiit in Christo, die 20. Decemb. An. Don. 1573. & regni Reg. Eliz. 16.  
Here lies the Lady  
Martin eke,  
Of Grecia soil,  
and Castlynes' race,  
Both constant, virtuous,  
wise and meek,  
That showed herself  
in any place.  
And God endued her  
so with grace,  
That she both lived  
and died with praise.  
Two husbands had she  
in her days,  
Whose corpse are both  
enclosed here,  
Together with  
the foresaid Dame:  
Her love to them  
was ay so dear,  
Her cost and charge  
sustained the same:  
These three, their deeds  
will show their fame:  
Who as she lived in amity,  
So here she sleeps in unity.  
Domina Elizab. cum Maritis.  
Credimus quod Redemptor noster vivit, & in novissimo die videbimus Deum Salvatorem nostrum, job 19  

And Thomas Knowles  
is placed here, 
At the west end of the same Tomb.   
Whose bones from Bow  
were hither borne:  
His godly life  
did well appear,  
In helping those  
that were forlorn,  
And virtue did  
him so adorn,  
That he beloved  
was of all:  
Mercer he was,  
when death did call,   

In prime of years  
his life always:  
Who dying like  
a worthy wight,  
Did hope in Christ,  
to live for ay.  
His wife him wails  
in woeful plight,  
And for mere love,  
him here she pight,  
With her second Spouse  
to sleep in peace;  
And she with them,  
when life shall cease.   
Ex eadem Domina Elizab. trium prolum parens. Qui quidem Thomas obiit 11. die julii, An. à Messia nato, 1550.  
Over a little door in the South side of the Choir, 
This is said to be the true portraiture of john Wells, whose Executors builded the Standard in West-d cap.  at the time of late new repairing the Church, was found an ancient figure of a man, clothed in Scarlet furred, holding open his hands, as in admiration; having rings on the thumb and fingers of his left hand, and two books before him, one closed, and the other lying open, with these words to be read:  
Recogitabo tibi omnes annos meos in amaritudine animae meae. 
On one leaf.   
Mercy and Grace, 
On the other.  and for ever mercy, sweet jesus, Ego rogo.  
Next on the South side of Budge row, by the West corner thereof, and on the East side of Cordwainer street, is one other fair Church, called Aldermarie Church, because the same was very old, and elder than any Church of Saint Mary in the City, till of late years the foundation of a very fair new Church was laid there by Henry Keble, Grocer, Mayor, who deceased 1518. and was there buried in a vault by him prepared, with a fair Monument raised over him on the North side of the Choir, now destroyed and gone. He gave by his Testament 1000 l. toward the building up of that Church; and yet was not permitted a resting place for his bones there. Thomas Roman, Maior, 1310. had a chantry there. Richard Chawcer, 
Richard Chawcer, Father to Geffrey Chawcer the Poet, as may be supposed.  Vintner, gave to that Church his tenement and Tavern, with the appurtenances, in the Royal street, the corner of Kirion lane, and was there buried, 1348. john Briton, Ralph Holland, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, deceased, 1452. William Taylor, Grocer, Mayor, deceased, 1483. He discharged that Ward of Fifteen to be paid by the poor. Thomas Hind, Mercer, buried in S. Anthony's, gave 10. Fodder of Lead to the covering of the middle I'll of this Aldermary Church. Charles Blount, Lord Montjoy, was buried there, about the year 1545. he made or glazed the East window, as appear by his Arms: his Epitaph made by him in his life time, thus:  
Willingly have I sought;  
and willingly have I found  
The fatal end that wrought  
thither as duty bound:  
Discharged I am of that I ought,  
to my Country by honest wound,  
My soul departed Christ hath bought:  
the end of man, is ground.  
Sir William Laxton, Grocer, Mayor, deceased 1556. and Thomas Lodge, Grocer, Mayor, 1583. were buried in the Vault of Henry Keble, whose bones were unkindly cast out, and his Monument pulled down, in place whereof Monuments are set up of the later buried. William Blount, Lord Montjoy, buried there, 1594.  

Here is fixed the Epitaph of  
Sir Henry Kebyl, Knight,  
Who was sometime of London Mayor,  
a famous worthy wight,  
Which did this Aldermary Church  
erect and set upright.   

Though death prevail with mortal wights; 
On the outside of the folding Tables which hang in the uppe● end of the Chancel.   
and hasten every day,  
Yet virtue overlives the Grave,  
her fame doth not decay:  
As memories do show revived,  
of one that was alive,  
Who being dead, of virtuous fame,  
none should seek to deprive;  
Which so in life deserved renown,  
for facts of his to see,  
That may encourage other now,  
of like good mind to be.  
Sir Henry Keble, Knight, Lord Mayor  
of London, here he sat,  
Of Grocer's worthy Company,  
the chiefest in his state,  
Which in this City grew to wealth,  
and unto worship came,  
When Henry reigned, who was the seventh  
of that redoubted name:  
But he to honour did achieve  
the second golden year  
Of Henry's reign, so called the eighth,  
and made his fact appear.  
When he this Aldermanry Church  
began build with great expense,  
Twice thirty years agone, no doubt,  
counting the time from hence:  
Which work began the year of Christ,  
well known of Christian men,  
One thousand and five hundred just,  
if ye will add but ten.  
But lo, when man purposeth most,  
God doth dispose the best,  
And so before this work was done,  
God called this Knight to rest.  
This Church as then not fully built;  
he died about the year,  
When Ill May day first took his name,  
which is down fixed here: 
1516.   
Whose works became a Sepulchre,  
to shroud him in that case:  
God took his soul, but corpse of his  
was laid about this place.  
Who when he died, of this his work  
so mindful still he was,  
That he bequeathed a thousand pounds  
to have it brought to pass.  
The execution of whose gift,  
or where the fault should be,  
The work as yet unfinished  
shall show you all for me▪  
Which Church stands there; if any please  
to finish up the same,  
As he hath well begun, no doubt,  
and to his endless fame;  
They shall not only well bestow  
their Talon in this life,  
But after death, when bones be rot,  
their fame shall be most rife;  
With thankful praise and good report  
of our Parochians hear,  
Which have of right Sir Henry's fame,  
afresh renewed this year.  
God move the minds of wealth men,  
their works so to bestow  
As he hath done, that though they die,  
their virtuous fame may flow.  
Inclita perpetuo durabit tempore Virtus,  
Et floret fato non violenda truci.   

Sir William Laxton lies interred  
Within this hollow vault, 
A fair Tomb in the Chancel.   
That by good life had happy death,  
the end for which he sought.  
Of poor and rich he was beloved,  
his dealings they were just,  
God hath his soul, his body here  
consumed is to dust.   

Here lives by fame, that lately died,  
Sir William Laxtons wife,  
That ever was a doer of good,  
and lived a virtuous life:  
A mindful Matron of the poor,  
and to the learned sort,  
A true and faithful Citizen,  
and died with good report.   He died the 29. day of July, 1556. 
Here lieth buried Sir Thomas Lodge, 
A small Monument laid on the ground by the Tomb, within the iron grate  Knight, and Dame Anne his wife. He was L. Maior in the year of our Lord God, 1563. when God did visit this City with a great plague for our sins.  
For we are sure that our Redeemer liveth, and that we shall rise out of the earth in the latter day, etc. Job 19  
At the upper end of Hosier lane, toward Westcheape, is the fair Parish Church of S. Mary Bow. This Church in the reign of William the Conqueror, being the first in this City builded on Arches of stone, 
New Mary Church, or S. Marry Bow in West Cheaping. L. Colchester  was therefore called new Mary Church, of Saint Mary de Arcubus, or le Bow, in West Cheaping: As Stratford Bridge, being the first builded (by Matilda, the Queen, wife to Henry the first) with Arches of stone, was called Stratford le Bow, which names to the said Church and Bridge, remain till this day. The Court of the Arches is kept in this Church, and taketh name of the place, not the place of the Court; but of what antiquity or continuation that Court hath there continued, I cannot learn.  
This Church is of Cordwainer street Ward, and for diverse accidents happening there, hath been made more famous than any other Parish Church of the whole City, or Suburbs. First we read, that in the year 1090. and the third of William Rufus, by tempest of wind, the roof of the Church of Saint Mary Bow in Cheap was overturned, 
Roof of Bow Church overturned by tempest.  wherewith some persons were slain, and four of the rafters of six and twenty foot in length, with such violence were pitched in the ground of the high street, that scantly four foot of them remained above ground, which were fain to be cut even with the ground, because they could not be plucked out; for the City of London was not then paved, but a moorish ground.  
In the year 1196. William Fitz Osbert, 
Bow steeple fortified.  a seditious Traitor, took the steeple of Bow, and fortified it with munitions and victuals; but it was assaulted, and William with his complices, were taken (though without bloodshed) for he was forced by fire and smoke to forsake the Church, and then being by the judges condemned, he was by the heels drawn to the Elms in Smithfield, 
A false accuser of his elder brother, in the end was hanged.  and there hanged with nine of his fellows, where because his favoures came not to deliver him, he forsook Mary's Son, (as he termed Christ our Saviour) & called upon the Devil to help and deliver him. Such was the end of this deceiver, a man of an evil life, a secret murderer, a filthy fornicator, a polluter of concubines, and (amongst other his detestable facts) a false accuser of his elder brother, who had (in his youth) brought him up in learning, and done many things for his preferment.  
In the year 1271. a great part of the Steeple of Bow fell down, 
Bow steeple fell down.  and slew many people, men and women. In the year 1284. the thirteenth of Edward the first, Laurence Ducket, Goldsmith, having grievously wounded one Ralph Crepin in West Cheap, fled into Bow Church, into the which (in the night time) entered certain evil persons, friends unto the said Ralph, and slew the said Laurence lying in the Steeple, and then hanged him up, placing him so by the window, as if he had hanged himself, and so was it found by inquisition. For the which fact, Laurence Ducket being drawn by the feet, was buried in a ditch without the City. But shortly after (by relation of a Boy, who lay with the said Laurence at the time of his death, and had hid him there for fear) the truth of the matter was disclosed. For the which cause, jordan Good-cheape, Ralph Crepin, Gilbert Clarke, and Geffrey Clarke were attainted, and a certain woman named Alice, that was chief causer of the said mischief, was burned, and to the number of sixteen men were drawn and hanged; beside others, that being richer, after long imprisonment, were hanged by the purse.  
The Church was interdicted, 
Bow Church interdicted.  the doors and windows were stopped up with Thorns: but Laurence was taken up, and honestly buried in the Churchyard.  
The Parish Church of Saint Mary Bow, by means of encroachment, and building of houses, wanting room in their Churchyard for burial of the dead, john Rotham, or Rodham, Citizen and Tailor, by his Testament dated the year 1465. gave to the Parson and Churchwardens a certain Garden in Hosier lane, to be a Churchyard: which so continued near a hundred years, but now is builded on, and is a private man's house. The old Steeple of this Church was by little and little re-edified, and new builded up, at the least so much as was fallen down; many men giving sums of money to the furtherance thereof: So that at length, to wit, in the year 1469. it was ordained by a Common Council, 
Bow Bell to be rung nightly at nine of the clock.  that the Bow Bell should be nightly rung at nine of the clock.  
Shortly after, john Donne, Mercer, by his Testament dated 1472. according to the trust of Reginald Longdon, gave to the Parson & Churchwardens of Saint Mary Bow, two Tenements, with the appurtenances, since made into one, in Hosier lane, than so called, to the maintenance of Bow Bell, the same to be rung as aforesaid, and other things to be observed, as by the Will appeareth.  
This Bel being usually rung somewhat late, as seemed to the young men Prentices, and other in Cheap, they made and set up a time against the Clerk, as followeth:  
Clerk of the Bow-Bell  
with the yellow locks,  
For thy late ringing,  
thy head shall have knocks.  
Whereunto the Clerk replying, wrote:  
Children of Cheap,  
hold you all still,  
For you shall have the  
Bow-bell rung at your william.  
Robert Harding, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs 1478. gave to the new work of that Steeple forty pound. john Haw, Mercer, ten pound, Doctor Allen, four pound, Thomas Baldry four pound, and other gave other sums, so that the said work of the Steeple was finished in the year 1512. The Arches or Bows thereupon, 
Bow or Arches on Bow steeple.  with the Lanterns five in number, to wit, one at each corner, and one on the top in the middle upon the Arches, were also afterward finished of stone, brought from Cane in Normandy, delivered at the Customers Key for four shillings eight pence the Tun. William Copland Taylor, the King's Merchant, and Andrew Fuller, Mercer, being Churchwardens 1515. and 1516. It is said that this Copland gave the great Bell, which made the fifth in the ring, to be rung nightly at nine of the clock. This Bell was first rung (as a knell) at the burial of the same Copland. It appeareth, that the Lanterns on the top of this Steeple, were meant to have been glazed, and lights in them placed nightly in the winter, whereby travellers to the City might have the better sight thereof, and not to miss of their ways.  
In this Parish also was a Grammar School, 
Grammar school in Bow Church-yard.  by commandment of King Henry the sixth, which School was (of old time) kept in an house for that purpose prepared in the Churchyard; but that School being decayed, as others about this City, the Schoole-house was let out for rent, in the reign of Henry the eighth, for four shillings the year, a Cellar for two shillings the year, and two Vaults under the Church for fifteen shillings both. 
Vaults under Bow Church.   
The Monuments in this Church be these, viz. of sir john Coventry, Mercer, Maior, 1425. Nicholas Alwine, Mercer, Maior, 1499. Robert Harding, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs, 1478. john Locke, one of the Sheriffs, 1461. Edward Banks, Alderman, Haberdasher, 1566. john Ward, William Pierson, Scrivever, and Attorney in the common place. In a proper Chapel on the South side the Church, standeth a Tomb, elevate and arched: Ade de Book, Hatter, glazed the Chapel, and most part of the Church, and was there buried.  
All other Monuments be defaced.  
Hauley and Sowtham had chauntries there.  
Here lieth Richard Lambert, 
An ancient Marble tomb in the Chancel, plated about on the North side.  Grocer, late Alderman and Sheriff of London, Merchant-Adventurer, & free of Muscovia and Russia, who deceased in the time of his Shrievalty, the fourth day of April, An. Dom. 1567. etc.  
Magnificus sed justificus, 
The like ancient Marble Tomb on the North side of the Quire.   
miseris sed amicus,  
Vir speciosus, vir  
generosus, virque pudicus.  
Et peramabilis, &  
venerabilis, atque piarum,  
Vis, dux, lex, lampas,  
flos Maior Londoniarum.  
In terrae ventre jacet  
hic john rite Coventre  
Dictus, quem necuit  
veluti decuit lue plenus,  
Bis septingenus  
tricenus si trahis unum  
Martius in sole,  
triceno si trahis unum,  
Virgins à partu carnis  
modo mortuus artu,  
Vivus erit Coelis tuba  
clanxerit ut Gabrielis. Amen.  
Here lieth the body of Humphrey Walcot, 
A fair grave-stone in the Chancel.  of Walcot, in the County of Salop, Esquire, Merchant-Adventurer, and of the company of Grocers in this City of London. He died the 28. day of August, 1616. being about the age of seventy one: Leaving behind him his wife Alice, the daughter of Richard Halsy, Esquire: and by her he had ten children, five sons, and five daughters; having had by her eight more, who died young.  
Without the North side of this Church of Saint Mary Bow, 
A shed or standing for the King called Crown Silde.  towards West Cheap, standeth one fair building of stone, called in Record Sidam, a shed which gratly darkeneth the said Church: for by means thereof, all the windows and doors on that side are stopped up. King Edward the third, upon occasion, as shall be showed in the Ward of Cheap, caused this sild or shed to be made, and strongly to be builded of stone for himself, the Queen, and other Estates to stand in, there to behold the justings, and other shows at their pleasures. And this house (for a long time after) served to that use: namely, in the reign of Edward the third, and Richard the second: but in the year 1410. Henry the fourth, in the twelfth of his reign, confirmed the said shed or building to Stephen Spilman, William Marchford, and john Wattle, Mercers, by the name of one new Sildam, shed or building, with shops, cellars, and edifices whatsoever apperataining, called Crounsilde or Tamersilde, 
Crounsilde.  situate in the Mercery in West Cheap, and in the Parish of Saint Mary de Arcubus in London, etc.  
Notwithstanding which grant, the Kings of England, and other great Estates, as well of foreign Countries repairing to this Realm, as inhabitants of the same, have usually repaired to this place, therein to behold the shows of this City, passing through West Cheap; namely, the great Watches accustomed in the night, on the Even of Saint john Baptist, and Saint Peter at Midsummer, the examples whereof were overlong to recite: wherefore let it suffice briefly to touch one. 
K. Henry the eight came in the likeness of a Yeoman of his Guard, to the King's head in Cheap.   
In the year 1510. on Saint john's Even at night, king Henry the eight came to this place, than called the King's head in Cheap, in the livery of a Yeoman of the Guard, with an Halberd on his shoulder, and there beholding the Watch, departed privily, when the Watch was done, and was not known to any but whom it pleased him. But on Saint Peter's night next following, he and the Queen came royally riding to the said place, and there with their Nobles beheld the Watch of the City, and returned in the morning.  
This Church of Saint Mary, with the said shed of stone, all the housing in or about Bow Church-yard, and without, on that side the high street of Cheap to the Standard, be of Corndwayner street Ward. These houses were (of old time) but sheds: for I read of no housing otherwise on that side the street, but of diverse sheds, from Sopers' lane to the Standard, etc. Amongst other, I read of three shops or sheds by Sopers' lane, pertaining to the Prior of the holy Trinity within Aldgate: the one was let out for twenty eight shillings, one other for twenty shillings, and the third for twelve shillings by the year. Moreover, that Richard Goodcheape, Mercer, and Margery his wife, son to jordan Goodcheape, did let to john Dalinge there younger, Mercer, their shed and chamber in West Cheap, in the Parish of Saint Mary de Arches, for three shillings four pence by the year. Also the men of Breadstreete Ward contended with the men of Cordwainer street Ward, for a sild or shed, opposite to the Standard on the South side, and it was found to be of Cordwainer street Ward, William Waldrone being then Mayor, the 1. of Henry the sixth.  
Thus much for Cordwayner street Ward: Which hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsellors eight, Constables eight, Scavenger's eight, Wardmote in quest men fourteen, and a Beadle. It standeth taxed to the Fifteen in London, at fifty two pounds sixteen shillings, in the Exchequer at fifty two pounds six shillings.   

CHEAP WARD.  
NExt adjoining is Cheap Ward, 
Cheap Ward.  taking name of the Market there kept, called West Cheaping: which Ward, as a river that hath 3. heads, and running along to the uttermost of his bounds, issueth out on the sides into little streams: So this Ward, beginning on the course of Walbrooke, and is not the meanest of the Wards (if for no other cause, yet because it is nearest to the heart of the City) hath his beginning on the East from three places; The high street of the Poultry, The lower end of Buckles bury, and The neither part of the Venell or Entry into Scalding Alley; and so running along, as far as unto the North-east corner of Bow lane on the South side, & from thence into Bow lane on the East side, until ye come to the channel overagainst the cellar door under the Church; and then, on the North side of Cheap, up to the Standard, stretching itself into diverse Lanes and Pieces on the right hand, and on the left hand, as it cometh along.  
First, for the high street of the Poultry (which is the main body of this Ward:) On the South side thereof, toward the East, this Ward beginneth at the corner house, now in the tenure of one Robert Knight, in the way going down to Saint Mary Woolchurch, anciently known by the sign of the Lion: the out-most part of which house, and of this Ward there (the house being divided) is at the crosse-channell overagainst (or very near) the great West door of Woolchurch, and so it goeth along on the South side of the Poultry to the great Conduit, and so into Bow lane, as is aforesaid.  
Secondly, for Buckles bury, this Ward beginneth there toward the lower end: On the North side, at a Channel near to the end of the house, bearing the sign of the Christopher, toward the East, now in the tenure of one john Hodges: On the South side, it beginneth at the East end of the great new Frame of Building, overagainst the said Christopher; which is the Tenement on the East side, next to the black Bull; and so it goeth into all the Barge. And then Westward, it goeth on both sides the way, viz. on the North side, to the great Conduit, and so to Bow lane, as is aforesaid; and on the South side, to the end of Saint Sythes lane. Then crossing over the Channel, to S. Bennet Shorhogs Church, it stretcheth all along through Needlers' lane, by St. Pancrates Church, on the same side, until ye come to a great Gate, which is in the nook of a little passage or entry to the West, and is the back gate of a house, standing in Bow lane, sometime the dwelling house of Master Paruis. Then again it stretcheth from the Chain in the midst of Sopers' lane (on both sides the Lane) upward toward the North, into Cheap on the South side, and so into Bow lane, as is aforesaid.  
Thirdly, for the last place of this Wards beginning: On the North side of the high street, near unto the Stockes-Market, is an Alley or Lane, called Scalding Alley, not erroneously (as some have published) but truly, as nearest to the most ancient denomination thereof; which was, Scalding-house, alias, Scalding-wike, and Scalding lane, as appeareth by good records extant of two hundred years' continuance. Within the Venell or entry of this Lane or Alley, near unto the Well, that standeth in a corner to the West, this Ward beginneth at the end of the stone wall, wherein is the door leading unto the Parsonage house and Church of Saint Mildred (of which, more anon) and it runneth on that side the Channel along to the East corner of the said Church, and from thence on the North side of the street, into the Compter, and Cony-hoope lane, and within Cony-hoope lane, into all Skinner's Alley, and the Grocer's Hall and Garden; and then back again into the Old jewry Lane, on the West side as far as Alderman Wields house, and on the East side as far as the dead stone Wall of the great house overagainst it, sometime Alderman Andersons house. Then to return to the west end of Old jewry again, this Ward stretcheth along on the North side by the Mercer's Hall unto Ironmongers lane, (which all wholly on both sides is in this Ward) and so into Catton street. In Catton street this Ward entereth, toward the East, at a house anciently known by the sign of the Talbot, on the South side, now in the tenure of Master Packhurst; and overagainst it, on the North side, at a deep Channel, issuing out of a house, and so goeth up to the west on both sides, videlicet, on the South side of the way, beyond the end of Saint Laurence lane, until ye come to that middle part of the Church wall, which is beyond the Church Porch; and on the North side, from that corner of the Church wall, it goeth on the East side of the Channel to the Church yard; and from thence, on both sides the way, unto the outward gate leading unto Guildhall yard, and adjoining to the Tavern of the three Tons. Then again to come into Cheap, there, on the North side, is Saint Lawrence lane, all which is wholly of this Ward, and so is Hony lane above that; and so it reacheth westward as far as a shallow Channel, close beyond the Standard. And thus stand the bounds of Cheap Ward.  
Now, for Antiquities, and things worthy of memory in Cheap Ward.  
First, in the main body of this Ward, that is, the Poultry, standeth the proper little Church, that beareth the name of Saint Mildred in the Poultry, 
S. Mildred's Church.  the Virgin; which name was given surely for distinction, not for superstition: For so was the custom of the Kingdom (and yet is) in building these thing for the service of God, that the Founders called them by the name of some Apostle, Saint, Martyr, or Confessor, as best liked their own conceit at the present time, to distinguish them from others.  
Who this Mildred was; whether she was that eldest daughter of Merwaldus, King of West- Mercians, as some think, or that she was daughter of Ethelbert, King of Kent, one of the Founders of Paul's Church; I find no Record to specify, neither is it much material: but it is probable, that she was some holy and devout Maid, which the people of that age held to be a Saint afterward in heaven.  
In what years this Church was first erected, or who was the first Founder of it, we find not: But it appeareth by some ancient Evidences of the said Church, that from the beginning it had not so much spare ground about it, as to make a Church yard of; until in the year of our Lord God 1420. and the eighth of King Henry the fifth, Thomas Morsted, Esquire, and Chirurgeon to the Kings, Henry the fourth, Henry the fifth, and Henry the sixth, (and afterward, in Anno Dom. 1436. was Sheriff and Alderman of London) gave unto the Church a parcel of ground, 
The Church yard given.  lying between his dwelling house and the said Church (and adjoining unto the said Church toward the North) to make a Church yard of, for the burial of their dead; containing in length, from the course of Walbrooke, toward the west, forty five foot, and in breadth, from the Church toward the North, thirty five foot.  
Within short time after, 
The Parsonage house and chambers.  some body, of religious and charitable disposition, erected upon the sides of the said Church yard, but upon Posts and Pillars, with Cloisters underneath, toward the west, a Parsonage house, or Mansion and free dwelling of the Ministers and Rectors of the said Church: and toward the East four chambers, than called the Priest's Chambers; now converted into a Tenement or dwelling house, and demised for yearly rent. But the Church yard is much abridged, and of late foully defaced, and the lights of the said Parsonage hindered by additions of Pieces to the said ancient chambers, which ought not to be.  
After some years expired, 
Church taken down and new built.  the Parson and Parishioners, as it seemeth, seeing the Church to be very old, purposed to take it down, and to build it new again: Which they began to do about the year of our Lord God, 1456. At what time Robet Snell and john King were Churchwardens, and continued in the office till the end of the year 1467. Toward the which Building, as it may appear by their Accounts, john Saxton being Rector or Parson of the said Church, gave thirty two pounds; and afterward Richard Bowyer being Parson, gave six pound and fifteen shillings.  
Of later days, to wit, Anno Domini 1594. and 35. of Queen Elizabeth, of blessed memory, this Church yard, and all the Buildings thereon, 
Church yard and Buildings supposed to be concealed.  which had been thus long in the free possession of the Ministers and Parishioners of the said Church, were, through the information of an evil minded man, than Tenent in the chambers, sold for concealed land; whereby the said Tenement, Church yard, and Cloisters, were like to be lost from the possession of the Church, and the Ministers of the Church to be charged with an yearly rend of their Parsonage house for ever. But the Parson and Parishioners, by a judicial proceeding then in her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, cleared all the whole Soil from that encumbrance: the trial whereof was held by Nisi prius in the Guild-hall of London, and the Record is kept in Master Fanshawes' Office for the Exchequer.  
Richard Shore, Draper, one of the Sheriffs in the year 1505. gave fifteen pounds to the making of a Porch to this Church.  
In the great East window of this Church are the Arms of diverse Gentlemen, as Benefactors: and namely, the Arms of Lovel and Pury, quartered, and the Arms of Richard Keston, single.  
All the rooffing of the Church is garnished with the Arms of one Thomas Ashehill, who had lent a great sum of money toward the new building of the said Church, and was one of the Churchwardens there, in the year 1474. and lieth buried there in the South Chapel: His Arms also are to be seen in the same Chapel, in the window to the East.  
Besides this Thomas Ashehill are buried in this Church, as by their Monuments appear, john Saxton, of whom we heard before, with this Epitaph;  
Hanc subter speciem  
corpus jacet eccè johannis,  
Saxton qui fuerat  
vocitatus ejus in Annis:  
Hunc qui plasmavit  
de terra, suppeditavit,  
Nunc Pater & Flamen  
sibi dent cum Prole locamen,  
Qui obiit die Mens.  
Anno 14 Cujus, etc.  
Others buried here, as appear by Monuments.  
john Hildie, Poulter, 1416. john Kendal, 1468. john Garland, 1476. Robert Bois, 1485. and Simon Lee, Poulters, 1487. Thomas Lee, of Essex, Gentleman, William Harlingridge, Christopher Seliocke, 1494. Robert Draiton, Skinner, 1484. john Christopherson Doctor of Physic, 1524 William Turner, Skinner, 1536. Blaze White, Grocer, 1558. Thomas Hobson, Haberdasher, 1559. William Hobson, Haberdasher, 1581. Thomas Tusser, 1580. with this Epitaph:  
Here Thomas Tusser,  
clad in earth, doth lie,  
That sometime made  
the points of Husbandry:  
By him then learn thou mayst;  
here learn we must,  
When all is done, we sleep,  
and turn to dust:  
And yet, through Christ,  
to Heaven we hope to go;  
Who reads his books,  
shall find his faith was so.  
And last of all, Thomas Iken, Skinner, with this Epitaph:  
In Hodnet and London  
God blessed my life  
Till forty and six years,  
with children and wife:  
And God will raise me  
up to life again,  
Therefore have I thought  
my death no pain.  

Thomas Iken, qui obiit 10. die Martii, 1590.  
And there also lieth buried Elizabeth his wife, and diverse of their children: where, on a Pillar in the Chancel, toward the South, is this Monument:  
In this Chancel lieth the body of Thomas Iken, Citizen and Skinner of London, who was borne in Hodnet in the County of Salope, and had to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Roger Smith of newport-pagnel in the County of Buckingham, by whom he had six sons and eight daughters: which Thomas departed this life the tenth day of March, Anno Dom. 1590.  
In the year 1594. Thomas Lane, Citizen and Serivener of London, by his last Will and Testament gave his small Tenement, over against London Wall, near Bishopsgate, unto the Church towards the reparations thereof, and relief of the poor of the Parish.  
On the North side of the said Church yard, remain two Tombs of Marble, but not known of whom, or otherwise than by tradition, it is said they were of Thomas Muschampe, and William Brothurs', about 1547, etc.  
Some four houses West from this Parish Church of Saint Mildred, 
Counter in the Poultry.  is a Prisonhouse, pertaining to one of the Sheriffs of London, and is called the Counter in the Poultry. This hath been there kept and continued time out of mind; for I have not read of the original thereof. West from this Counter, was a proper Chapel, called of Corpus Christi, 
Chapel of Corpus Christi.  and Saint Mary at Cony hope lane end, in the Parish of Saint Mildred, founded by one named jonnirunnes, a Citizen of London, in the reign of Edward the third, in which Chapel was a Guild or Fraternity, that might dispend in Lands better than twenty pound by year: it was suppressed by Henry the eighth, and purchased by one Thomas Hobson, Haberdasher: he turned this Chapel into a fair Warehouse and shops towards the street, with lodgings over them.  
Then is Cony hope lane, 
Cony hope lane.  of old time so called, of a sign of three Coneys hanging over a Poulter's stall at the Lanes end. Within this Lane standeth the Grocer's Hall, which Company, being of old time called Pepperers, were first incorporated by the name of Grocers, in the year 1345. at which time they elected for Custos or Guardian of their Fraternity, 
Grocer's Hall purchased & builded.  Richard Oswin, and Laurence Hallwell, & twenty Brethren were then taken in, to be of their Society. In the year 1411. the Custos or Guardian, and the Brethren of this Company, purchased of the Lord Robert Fitzwaters, one plot of ground with the building thereupon in the said Coney hope lane, for 320. Marks, and then laid the foundation of their new common Hall.  
About the year 1429. the Grocers had licence to purchase 500 Marks land: since the which time, near adjoining unto the Grocer's Hall, the said Company had builded seven proper houses for seven aged poor Alms people. 
Almshouses by the Grocer's hall.  Thomas Knowles, Grocer, Mayor, gave his Tenement in Saint Anthony's Church yard to the Grocers, towards the relief of the poor Brethren in that Company. Also Henry Keble, Grocer, Mayor, gave to the seven Alms people, six pence weekly for ever, which pension is now increased by the Masters, to some of them two shillings a piece weekly, and to some of them less, etc. Henry Ady, Grocer, 1563. gave a thousand Marks to the Grocers to purchase lands. And sir Henry Pechy, Knight Banneret, free of that Company, gave them five hundred pound to certain uses: he builded Almshouses at Ludingstone in Kent, and was there buried.  
West from this Coney hope lane is the old jury, whereof some portion is of Cheap Ward, as afore is showed: at the South end of this Lane, is the Parish Church of S. Marry Colechurch, 
Parish Church of S. Marry Colechurch.  named of one Cole that builded it: this Church is builded upon a vault above ground, so that men are forced to go to ascend up thereunto by certain steps. I find no Monuments of this Church more, than that Henry the fourth granted licence to William Martial and others, to found a Brotherhood of Saint Katherine therein, because Thomas Becket and Saint Edmond the Archbishop were baptised there. More I read of Bordhangly lane, to be of that Parish: and thus much for the North side of the Poultry. The South side of the said Poultry, beginning on the bank of the said brook, overagainst the Parish Church of Saint Mildred, passing up to the great Conduit, hath diverse fair houses, which were sometimes inhabited by the Poulters, but now by Grocers, Haberdashers, and Upholsters.  
Concerning other Antiquities there: first, 
Buckles bury of one Buckle.  is Buckles bury, so called of a Manor and Tenements pertaining to one Buckle, who there dwelled, and kept his Courts. This Manor is supposed to be the great stone-building, yet in part remaining on the South side of the street, which of late time hath been called the Old Barge, of such a sign hanged out, near the gate thereof. This Manor, or great House, hath of long time been divided and let out into many tenements: and it hath been a common speech, 
Barges towed up Walbrook unto Buckles bury.  that when Walbrooke did lie open, Barges were rowed out of the Thames, or towed up so far: and therefore the place hath ever since been called the Old Barge.  
Also, on the North side of this street, directly over-gainst the said Buckles bury, was one ancient and strong Tower of stone the which Tower King Edward the third, in the eighteenth of his reign, by the name of the King's house, called Cornet stour in London, 
Cornet stour in Buckles bury the King's Exchange. Exchequer.  did appoint to be his Exchange of money, there to be kept. In the 29. he granted it to Frydus Guynysane, and Landus Bardoile, Merchants of Luke, for twenty pound the year. And in the 32. he gave the same Tower to his College, or free Chapel of Saint Stephen at Westminster, by the name of Cornet stour at Buckles bury in London.  
This Tower, of late years, was taken down by one Buckle, a Grocer, meaning, in place thereof, to have set up and builded a goodly frame of Timber: but the said Buckle greedily labouring to pull down the old Tower, a part thereof fell upon him, which so sore bruised him, that his life was thereby shortened: and another that married his widow, set up the new prepared frame of Timber, and finished the work.  
This whole street, called Buckles bury, on both the sides throughout, is possessed of Grocers and Apothecaries. Toward the west end thereof, on the South side, breaketh out one other short Lane, 
Peneritch street.  called in Records Peneritch street, it reacheth but to Saint Sythes lane, 
Parish Church of S. Sith Benet Shrog. Needlers' lane.  and Saint Sythes Church is the farthest part thereof; for by the west end of the said Church, beginneth Needlers' lane, which reacheth to Sopers' lane, as is aforesaid. This small Parish Church of St. Sith, hath also an addition of Bennet shorn, (or Shrog, or Shorehog) for by all these names have I read it, but the ancientest is Shorne: wherefore it seemeth to take that name of one Benedict Shorne, sometime a Citizen and Stockefishmonger of London, a new builder, repairer, or benefactor thereof, in the year of Edward the second: so that Shorne is but corruptly called Shrog, and more corruptly Shorehog.  
There lie buried in this Church, john Froysh, Mercer, Maior, 1394. john Rochfort, Rob. Rochfort, john Hold, Alderman, Hen. Frowike, Mercer, Maior, 1435. Edw. Warrington, john Morrice, john Huntley, Richard Lincoln, Fell-monger, 1548. Sir Ralph Warren, Mercer, Maior, 1553. Sir john Lion, Grocer, Mayor, 1554. these two last have Monuments, the rest are all defaced. Edward Hall, Gentleman of Greyes' Inn, common Sergeant of this City, and then Under-sheriff of the same, he wrote the large Chronicles from Richard the second, till the end of Henry the eighth, was buried in this Church.  
Grace and Religion, 
A fair Monument in the East wall of the Chancel.   
with the best of Nature,  
All striving to excel,  
yet all agreeing  
To make one absolute  
and perfect creature:  
Would any see a sight,  
so worth the seeing?  
He comes too late:  
here she lies buried,  
With whom they lately lived,  
and now are dead.   

In the Vault there by,  
Lieth buried the body of Anne 〈◊〉 of john Farrar, Gentleman, and Merchant Adventurer of this City, daughter of William Shepheard, of Great Rowlright, in the County of Oxenford, Esquire. She departed this life the 12. day of july, An. Dom. 1613. being then about the age of 21. years. To whose welldeserving memory, this Monument is by her said husband erected.  
Here was a Bud, 
A small gilt engraven Plate fastened under the Monument.   
beginning for her May:  
Before her Flower,  
Death took her hence away.  
But for what cause?  
That friends might joy the more,  
Where their hope is,  
she flourisheth now before.  
She is not lost,  
but in those joys remain,  
Where friends may see,  
and joy in her again.  
Here lieth buried the right Worshipful, 
A fair ancient Marble Tomb in the Chancel.  Sir Ralph Warren, Knight, Alderman, and twice Lord Mayor of this City of London, Mercer, Merchant of the Staple at Calais; with his two wives, Dame Christian, and Dame joan: Which said Sir Ralph departed this life the 11. day of july, An. Dom. 1553.  
Here lieth Katherine Prettyman, 
A fair plated stone in the midst of the Chancel.   
a Maid of seventeen years,  
In Suffolk borne, in London bred,  
as by her death appears.  
With Nature's gifts she was adorned,  
of honest birth and kin,  
Her virtuous mind, with modest grace,  
did love of many win.  
But when she should with honest match  
have lived a wedded life,  
Stay there (quoth jove) the world is naught,  
for she shall be my wife,  
And Death, since thou hast done thy due,  
lay nuptial rites aside,  
And follow her unto the grave,  
that should have been your Bride:  
Whose honest life, and faithful end,  
her patience therewithal,  
Doth plainly show, that she with Christ  
now lives, and ever shall.  She departed this life the 11. day of August, 1594. 
Quod mihi dilectissimus  
& memorabile pii, 
A plated stone in the North I'll.   
Donavit, breviter  
abstulit ecce Deus.  
Dulcis joannes  
artorum parvule-cultor  
Occidis heu pietas  
& lachrymosa dies.  
Affer opem quicunque  
pores medicabile vultu,  
Et aliud dederis  
si mihi sancte Deus.  
Obijt 3. die Aprilis, 1592.  
Then, 
Parish Church of S. Pancrate.  in Needlers' lane have ye the Parish Church of Saint Pancrate, a proper small Church, but diverse rich Parishioners therein, and hath had, of old time, many liberal Benefactors: But of late, such as (not regarding the order taken by Queen Elizabeth) the least Bell in their Church being broken, 
justices charged to punish such as sell Bells from their Churches, Eliz. 14.  have rather sold the same for half the value, than put the Parish to charge with new casting: late experience hath proved this to be true, besides the spoil of Monuments there.  
In this Church are buried Sir Acre, john Acre, john Barnes, Mercer, Maior, 1370. john Beston, and his wife, Robert Rayland, john Hamber, john Gage, john Rowley, john Lamb, john Hadley, Grocer, Mayor, 1379. Richard Gardener, Mercer, Maior, 1478. john Stockton, Mercer, Maior, 1470. john Dane, Mercer, john Parker, Robert Martial, Alderman, 1439. Robert Corcheford, Robert Hatfield, and Robert Hatfield, Nicholas Wilfilde, and Thomas his son, the Monuments of all which be defaced and gone.  
There do remain, of Robert Burley, 1360. Richard Wilson, 1525. Robert Packenton, Mercer, slain with a Gun, shot at him in a morning, as he was going to morrow Mass from his house in Cheap, to Saint Thomas of Acars, in the year 1536. The murderer was never discovered, but by his own confession, made when he came to the Gallows at Banbury, to be hanged for Felony. T. Wardbury, Haberdasher, 1545. james Huysh, Grocer, 1590. Ambrose Smith, etc.  
Hereunder lieth buried james Huysh, 
A fair Monument in the North wall of the Quire.  Citizen and Grocer of London, third son of john Huysh, of Beuford, in the County of Somerset, Esquire: which james had to his first wife, Margaret Bourchier; by whom he had issue eleven children: And to his second wife, Marry Moffet, by whom he had issue, 18. children. He died the 20. day of August, Anno Dom. 1590.  
Hac defunctus Huysh  
tenui sub mole quiescit,  
Nec tamen hac totus  
mole quiescit Huysh.  
Corpus inest Tumulo,  
colit aurea spiritus astra,  
Scilicet hunc Coelum  
vendicat, illud humus.  
Londinensis erat Civis  
dum fata sinebant:  
jam cum sydereo  
Millre Miles agit.  
Bis Thalami sociam  
duxit, prior edidit illi  
Vndenas proles,  
altera bisque novem.  
Munificam persaepe  
manum porrexit egenis,  
Virtutum fautor,  
Pieridumque fuit.  
Nil opus est plures  
illi contexere laudes,  
Sufficit in Coelo▪  
jam reperisse locum.  
Hoc qualecunque Monumentum, Rowlandus, dicti jacobi haeres, posuit pietatis ergo.  
Here lies a Mary,  
mirror of her sex  
For all that best their  
souls or body decks.  
Faith, form, or fame,  
the miracle of youth,  
For zeal and knowledge  
of the sacred truth,  
For frequent reading  
the whole holy Writ.  
For fervent prayer,  
and for practise fit,  
For meditations,  
full of use and art,  
For humbleness,  
in habit and in heart,  
For pious, prudent,  
peaceful, praiseful life,  
For all the duties  
of a Christian wife;  
For patient bearing  
seven dead-bearing throws,  
For one alive, which  
yet dead with her goes.  
From Travers her dear  
Spouse, her father Hayes,  
Lord Maior, more honoured  
in her virtuous praise.  Quam piè obiit puerpera die octavo Martii, Anno Aetatis 29. Anno Salutis 1614 
Then is a part of Sopers' lane, turning up to Cheap.  
By the assent of Stephen Abunden, 
Pepperers in Sopers' lane.  were admitted to sell all such Spices, and other Wares, as Grocers now use to sell, retaining the old name of Pepperers in Sopers' lane; till at length, in the reign of Henry the sixth, the same Sopers' lane was inhabited by Cordwainers and Curriers, after that the Pepperers or Grocers had seated themselves in a more open street, to wit, in Buckles bury, where they yet remain. Thus much for the South Wing of Cheap Ward.  
At the West end of this Poultry, and also of Buckles bury, 
West Cheap a large Market place.  beginneth the large street of West Cheaping, a Market place so called, which street stretcheth West, till ye come to the little Conduit by Paul's gate, but not all of Cheap Ward. In the East part of this street standeth the Great Conduit, 
Great Conduit in West Cheap.  of sweet water, conveyed by pipes of Lead under ground from Paddington, for service of this City, castellated with stone, and cisterned in Lead, about the year 1285. and again new builded and enlarged by Thomas Ilam, one of the Sheriffs, 1479.  
About the midst of this street is the Standard in Cheap; of what antiquity, the first foundation I have not read. But Henry the sixth, by his Patent dated at Windsor the 21. of his reign, which Patent was confirmed by Parliament, 1442. granted licence to Thomas Knolles, john Chichle, & other, executors to john Wells, Grocer, sometime Mayor of London, with his goods to make new the highway, which leadeth from the City of London towards the Palace of Westminster, before and nigh the Manor of Savoy, parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster; a way then very ruinous, and the pavement broken, to the hurt and mischief of the subjects: Which old pavement, then remaining in that way, within the length of five hundred foot, and all the breadth of the same, before and nigh the site of the Manor aforesaid, they to break up, and with stone, gravel, and other stuff, one other good & sufficient way there to make, for the commodity of the subjects. And further, 
The old Standard in Cheap, with a Conduit therein, taken down, and new-builded.  that the Standard in Cheap, where diverse executions of the Law beforetime had been performed, which Standard at that present was very ruinous with age, in which there was a Conduit should be taken down, and another competent Standard of stone, together with a Conduit in the same, of new, strongly to be builded, for the commodity & honour of the City, with the goods of their said Testator, without interruption, etc.  
Of executions at the Standard in Cheap, 
Executions at the Standard in Cheap.  we read, that in the year 1293. three men had their right hands smitten off there, for rescuing of a prisoner, arrested by an Officer of the City. In the year 1326. the Burgesses of London caused Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter, Treasurer to Edward the second, and other, to be beheaded at the Standard in Cheap (but this was by Paul's Gate.) In the year 1351. the 26. of Edward the third, two Fishmongers were beheaded at the Standard in Cheap, but I read not of their offence. 1381. Wat Tyler beheaded Richard Lions and other there. In the year 1399. Henry the fourth caused the Blank Charters, made by Richard the second, to be burnt there. In the year 1450. jack Cade, Captain of the Kentish Rebels, beheaded the Lord Say there. In the year 1461. john Davy had his hand stricken off there, because he had stricken a man before the judges at Westminster, etc.  
Then next is the great Cross in West Cheap: 
Great Cross in West Cheap first builded.  Which Cross was there erected in the year 1290. by Edward the first, upon occasion thus: Queen Elinor his wife died at Hardeby (a Town near unto the City of Lincoln) her body was brought from thence to Westminster, and the King in memory of her, caused in every place where her body rested by the way, a stately Cross of stone to be erected, with the Queen's Image and Arms upon it; as at Grantham, Woborne, Northhampton, Stony-Stratford, Dunstable, S. Alban's, Waltham, West Cheap, and at Charing, from whence she was conveyed to Westminster, and there buried.  
This Cross in West Cheap, 
Cross in Cheap new builded.  being like to those other which remain till this day, & being by length of time decayed; john Hatherley, Maior of London, procured in the year 1441. licence of K. Henry the sixth, to re-edify the same in more beautiful manner, for the honour of the City: & had licence also to take up 200. fodder of Lead for the building thereof, of certain Conduits, & a common Granary. This Cross was then curiously wrought, at the charges of diverse Citizens: joh. Fisher, Mercer, gave 600. Marks towards it, the same was begun to be set up, 1484. and finished 1486. the second of Henry the 7. It was after gilded over, in the year 1522. against the coming in of Charles the fifth Emperor, in the year 1553. against the Coronation of Queen Anne, new burnished against the Coronation of Edward the sixth, and again new gilt 1554. against the coming in of King Philip: since the which time, 
Cross in Cheap indicted, the Images broken.  the said Cross having been presented by diverse Juries (or Quests of Wardmote) to stand in the highway, to the let of carriages (as they alleged) but could not have it removed; it followed, that in the year 1581. the twenty one of June, in the night, the lowest Images round about the said Cross (being of Christ his resurrection, of the Virgin Mary, King Edward the Confessor, and such like) were broken, and defaced. Proclamation was made, that whoso would bewray the doers, should have forty Crowns; but nothing came to light: the Image of the blessed Virgin, at that time was robbed of her Son, & her arms broken, by which she stayed him on her knees, her whole body was also haled with ropes, and left likely to fall: but in the year 1595. was again fastened & repaired, & in the year next following, a new misshapen Son, as born out of time, all naked, was laid in her arms, the other Images remaining broke as afore. But on the East side of the same Cross, the steps being taken thence under the Image of Christ's resurrection defaced, was then set up a curious wrought Tabernacle of grey Marble, 
Image of Diana let upon the Cross in Cheap.  & in the same an Alabaster Image of Diana, & water conveyed from the Thames, prilling from her naked breast for a time, but now decayed. 
Socrat. li. 1. cap. 13.   
In the year 1599 the timber of the Cross at the top being rotten within the lead, 
Top of the cross being feared to fall, was taken down.  the arms thereof bending, were feared to have fallen, to the harming of some people; 
Cross in Cheap commanded to be repaired.  & therefore the whole body of the Cross was scaffolded about, and the top thereof taken down, meaning in place thereof to have set up a Pyramid; but some of her Majesty's honourable Counsellors directed their letters to sir Nicholas Mosley, than Mayor, by her Highness' express commandment concerning the Cross, forthwith to be repaired, and placed again as it formerly stood, etc. Notwithstanding, the said Cross stood headless more than a year after: whereupon the said Counsellors in greater number, meaning not any longer to permit the continuance of such a contempt, 
Command again sent for repairing the Cross in Cheap, it being an ancient Ensign of Christianity.  wrote to Wil Rider, than Mayor, requiring him by virtue of her Highness said former direction & commandment, without any further delay, to accomplish the same her Majesty's most princely care therein, respecting especially the antiqity & continuance of that Monument, ancient Ensign of Christianity, etc. dated the 24. of December, 1600. After this a cross of timber was framed, set up, covered with lead, & gilded, the body of the Cross downward cleansed of dust, the Scaffold carried thence. About 12. nights following, the Image of our Lady was again defaced, by plucking off her crown, & almost her head, taking from her her naked child, and stabbing her in the breast, etc. Thus much for the Cross in West Cheap.  
Then at the West end of West Cheap street, was sometime a Cross of stone, called the Old Cross. Ralph Higden in his Polycronicon sait, that Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter, Treasurer to Edward the 2. was by the Burgesses of London beheaded at this Cross, than called the Standard, without the North door of S. Paul's Church, and so is it noted in other writers, that then lived. This old Cross stood and remained at the East end of the Parish Church, called S. Michael in the Corn by Paul's gate, near to the North end of the Old-Exchange, till the year 1390. the 13. of Richard the 2. in place of which old Cross then taken down, the said Church of S. Michael was enlarged, & also a fair water-Conduit builded about the 9 of Henry the sixth.  
In the reign of Edward the 3. diverse justings were made in this street, 
justings and Tournament in West Cheap.  betwixt Sopers' lane & the great Cross, namely, one in the year 1331. about the 21. of September, as I find noted by diverse writers of that time. In the middle of the City of London (say they) in a street called Cheap, the stone pavement being covered with sand, that the horse might not slide, when they strongly set their feet to the ground, the King held a Tournament 3. days together with the Nobility, 
Edward the 3. held Tournament or justs in West Cheap 3. days together.  valiant men of the Realm, & other, some strange Knights. And to the end the beholders might with the better ease see the same, there was a wooden Scaffold erected cross the street, like unto a Tower, 
Queen Philip and her ladies fell from a Scaffold in Cheap.  wherein Queen Philip, & many other Ladies, richly attired and assembled from all parts of the Realm, did stand to behold the Justs: but the higher frame in which the Ladies were placed, broke in sunder, whereby they were (with some shame) forced to fall down, by reason whereof the Knights and such as were underneath were grievously hurt: wherefore the Queen took great care to save the Carpenters from punishment, and through her prayers (which she made upon her knees) pacified the King & Council, & thereby purchased great love of the people. 
A shed or standing made for the King to behold the shows in Cheap.  After which time the King caused a Shed to be strongly made of stone for himself, the Queen, & other States to stand on, & there to behold the Justings, and other shows at their pleasure, by the Church of S. Marry Bow, as is showed in Cordwainer street Ward. Thus much for the high street of Cheap.  
Now let us return to the South side of Cheap Ward: 
Southside of Cheap street so fat as Cheap Ward reacheth.  from the great Conduit west be many fair and large houses, for the most part possessed of Mercers, up to the corner of Cordwainer street, corruptly called Bow lane, which houses in former times were but sheds, or shops, with sollors over them, as of late one of them remained at Sopers' lane end, wherein a woman sold seeds, roots, and herbs: but those sheds or shops, by encroachments on the high street, are now largely builded on both sides outward, and also upward, some three, four, or five stories high.  
Now of the North side of Cheap street and Ward, 
North side of Cheap Ward.  beginning at the great Conduit, and by S. Mary Cole Church, where we left. Next thereunto Westward is the Mercer's Chapel, sometime an Hospitali, entitled of S. Thomas of Acon, or Acars, 
Hospital of S. Tho. of Acars.  for a Master and Brethren, Militia hospitalis, etc. saith the Record of Edward the third, the 14. year, it was founded by Thomas Fitztheobald de Heili, & Agnes his wife. Sister to Thomas Becket, in the reign of Henry the second. They gave to the Master and Brethren the lands with the appurtenances, that sometimes were Gilbert Beckets', father to the said Thomas, in the which he was borne, there to make a Church. There was a Charnel and a Chapel over it of S. Nicholas & S. Stephen. This Hospital was valued to dispend 277. pounds, three shillings four pence surrendered the 30. of Henry the eighth, the 21. of October, and was since purchased by the Mercers, by means of sir Richard Gresham, and was again set open on the Eve of S. Michael, 1541. the 33. of Henry the 8. It is now called the Mercer's Chapel, 
Mercer's Chapel.  therein is kept a free Grammar School, 
A free School in the Hospital of S. Thom. of Acars.  as of old time had been accustomed, commanded by Parliament. Here be many Monuments remaining, but more have been defaced: james Butler, Earl of Ormond, and Dame joan his Countess, 1428. john Norton Esquire, Stephen Cavendish, Draper, Maior, 1362. Thomas Cavendish, William Cavendish, Thomas Ganon called Pike, one of the Sheriffs, 1410. Hungate of Yorkshire, Ambrose Cresacre, john Chester, Draper, john Trusbut, Mercer, 1437. Thomas Norland, Sheriff, 1483. Sir Edmond Shakstone, Goldsmith, Maior, 1482. Sir Thomas Hill, Maior, 1485. Thomas Ilam, Sheriff, 1479. Lancelot Laken, Esquire, Ralph Tilne, Sheriff, 1488. Garth, Esquire, john Rich, Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, 1515. Sir W. Butler, Grocer, Mayor, 1515. William Browne, Mercer, Maior, 1523. john Locke, 1519. Sir Thomas Baldry, 
Lock his Arms in the windows.  Mercer, Maior, 1523. Sir W. Lock, Mercer, Sheriff, 1548. Sir I. Allen, Mercer, Maior, 1525. deceased 1544. Sir Thomas Leigh, Mercer, Maior, 1558. Sir Richard Malory, Mercer, Maior, 1564. Humphrey Baskervile, Mercer, Sheriff, 1561. Sir George Bond, Maior, 1587., etc.  
Before this Hospital towards the street, was builded a fair and beautiful Chapel arched over with stone, and thereupon the Mercer's Hall, a most curious piece of work: Sir john Allen, Mercer, being founder of that Chapel, was there buried, but since his Tomb is removed thence into the body of the Hospital Church, & his body-roome divided into shops, are let out for rent. These Mercers were enabled to be a Company, & to purchase lands to the value of 20. li. the year, the 17. of Richard the 2. they had 3. messages & shops in the Parish of St. Martin Oteswich, in the Ward of Bishopsgate, for the sustentation of the poor, & a Chantry, the 22. of Richard the second. Henry the fourth in the 12. of his reign, confirmed to Stephen Spilman, W. Marchford, & john Whatile, Mercers, by the name of one new Seldam, shed, or building, with shops, cellars, and edifices whatsoever appertaining, called Crownsilde, situate in the Mercery in West Cheap, 
Crownsilde, under Bow Church.  in the Parish of St. Marry de Arcubus in London, etc. to be holden in Burgages, as all the City of London is, & which were worth by year, in all issues according to the true value of them, 7. li. 13. s. 4. d. as was found by inquisition before Thomas Knolles, Maior, and escheator in the said City. Henry the sixth, in the 3. of his reign, at the request of john Coventry, john Carpenter, and William Grove, granted to the Mercers to have a Chaplain, & a Brotherhood, for relief of such of their Company, as came to decay by misfortune on the Sea. In the year, 1536. on Saint Peter's night, King Henry the eighth, and Queen jane his wife, stood in this Mercer's Hall, then new builded, and beheld the marching Watch of the City, most bravely set out, sir john Allen, Mercer, one of the King's Council, being Mayor.  
Next beyond the Mercer's Chapel, 
Ironmonger lane.  and their Hall, is Ironmonger lane, so called of Ironmongers dwelling there, whereof I read in the reign of Edward the first, etc. In this Lane is the small Parish Church of St. Martin, 
Parish Church of S. Martin's Pomary.  called Pomary, upon what occasion I certainly know not. It is supposed to be of Apples growing, where now houses are lately builded: for myself have seen large void places. Monuments in that Church none to be accounted of.  
Farther west, 
S. Laurence lane.  is St. Laurence lane, so called of St. Laurence Church, which standeth directly overagainst the north end thereof. Antiquities in this Lane I find none other, than that among many fair houses, there is one large Inn for receipt of Travellers, called Blossoms Inn, 
Blossoms Inn.  but corruptly Bosoms Inn, and hath to sign S. Laurence the Deacon, in a border of Blossoms or Flowers.  
Then near to the Standard in Cheap, 
Honey lane.  is Hony lane, so called, not of sweetness thereof, being very narrow, and somewhat dark, but rather, of often washing and sweeping, to keep it clean. In this Lane is the small Parish Church, called All-hallows in Hony lane: 
Parish Church of All-hallows Hony lane.  There be no Monuments in this Church worth the nothing. I find, that john Norman, Draper, Maior, 1453. was buried there: He gave to the Drapers his Tenements on the North side the said Church, they to allow for the Beam light and Lamp, 13. shillings 4. pence yearly, from this Lane to the Standard. And thus much for Cheap Ward, in the high street of Cheap; for it stretcheth no farther.  
Now, for the North Wing of Cheap Ward, 
Catte-street.  have ye Catte-streete, corruptly called Catteten street, which beginneth at the North end of Ironmonger lane, and runneth to the west end of St. Laurence Church, as is afore showed.  
On the North side of this street is the Guild-hall, wherein the Courts for the City be kept: namely, 1. The Court of Common Council, 
The Guild-Hall, and Courts kept.  2. The court of the Lord Maior & his Brethren the Aldermen, 
Lib. Fle●●●.  3. The court of Hustings, 4. The court of Orphans, 5. The 2. courts of the Sheriffs, 6. The court of the Wardmote, 7. The court of Hallmote, 8. The court of Requests, commonly called the Court of Conscience, 9 The Chamberlains court for Prentices, and making them free. This Guild-hall, saith Robert Fabian, was begun to be builded new in the year 1411. the twelfth of Henry the fourth, by Thomas Knoles, than Mayor, & his Brethren the Aldermen: The same was made of a little cottage, a large and great house, as now it standeth; towards the charges whereof, the Companies gave large benevolences. Also offences of men were pardoned for sums of money towards this Work, extraordinary Fees were raised, Fines, Amercements, and other things employed, during 7. years, with a continuation there of 3. years more, all to be employed to this building.  
The first year of Henry the sixth, john Coventry and john Carpentar, Executors to Richard Whitington, gave towards the paving of this great Hall twenty pound, and the next year fifteen pound more to the said Pavement with hard stone of Purbecke: They also glazed some Windows thereof, and of the Mayor's Court, on every which Window, the Arms of Richard Whitington are placed. The foundation of the Mayor's court was laid in the third year of the reign of Henry the sixth; and of the Porch, on the South side of the Mayor's court, in the fourth of the said King. Then was builded the Mayor's Chamber, and the Council Chamber, with other rooms above the stairs.  
Having here so just occasion, speaking of that former ancient Council Chamber, 
The new Council Chamber at the Guild-Hall, and the building thereof.  which hath continued so ever since; I cannot but accounted it expedient (as in no place better fitting) to remember the fair and goodly new Council Chamber; a worthy Act and Honour, whereby to renown deservedly the City for ever. The said new Council Chamber, with a fair Room over the same, appointed for a Treasury, wherein to preserve the Books and Records belonging to the City; and another room also underneath the said Chamber, reserved for necessary use and employment, began to be builded the first week after Easter, in the time of the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight and Alderman; in the year of our Lord, 1614 It was fully finished shortly after Michaeh●as, 1615. at the latter end of the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Hayes, Knight and Alderman. But the Lord Maior, and the Aldermen his brethren, kept their first Court in the said new Council Chamber, 
The first Court keep in the new Council Chamber.  on the seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1615. Sir john jolles, Knight and Alderman, being then Lord Maior: By whose order and direction, the said building was performed, from the first beginning thereof, to the final finishing of the same; amounting to the charge of 1740. pounds: than which, no money (in my mind) could be better bestowed, nor more to the City's credit and renown.  
Last of all, a stately Porch, entering the great Hall, was erected, the front thereof towards the South, being beautified with Images of stone, such as is showed by these verses following, made about some thirty years since, by William Elderton, at that time an Attorney in the Sheriff's Courts there:  
Though most the Images  
be pulled down, 
Verses made on the Images over the Guild-hall gate.   
And none be thought  
remain in Town,  
I am sure there be  
in London yet  
Seven Images, such,  
and in such a place,  
As few or none,  
I think, will hit:  
Yet every day  
they show their face,  
And thousands see them  
every year,  
But few, I think,  
can tell me where:  
Where jesus Christ  
aloft doth stand, 
Names of Images.   
Law and Learning  
on either hand;  
Discipline in  
the Devil's neck,  
And hard by her  
are three direct;  
There justice, Fortitude  
and Temperance stand,  
Where find ye the like  
in all this Land?  
Divers Aldermen glazed the great Hall, and other Courts, as appeareth by their Arms in each window. William Hariot, Draper, Maior, 1481. gave forty pound to the making of two Loovers in the said Guildhall, and toward the glazing thereof. 
Kitchens by the Guild-hall.  The Kitchens, and other houses of Office adjoining to this Guild-hall, were builded of later time, to wit, about the year 1501. by procurement of Sir john Shakstone, Goldsmith, Maior, (who was the first that kept his Feast there) towards the charges of which work, the Mayor had of the Fellowships of the City (by their own agreement) certain sums of money; as, of the Mercers forty pounds; the Grocers, twenty pounds; the Drapers, thirty pounds; and so of the other Fellowships thorough the City, as they were of power.  
Also Widows, and other well-disposed persons, gave certain sums of money: as, the Lady Hill, ten pounds; the Lady Austrie, ten pounds; and so of many other, till the work was finished. Since the which time, the Mayor's Feasts have been yearly kept there, which beforetime had been kept in the Tailor's Hall, and in the Grocers Hall. Nicholas Alwin, Grocer, Mayor, 1499. deceased 1505. gave by his Testament, for a hanging of Tapestry, to serve for principal days in the Guild-hall, 73. l. 6. s. 8. d. How this gift was performed, I have not heard: for Executors of our time, having no conscience, (I speak of my own knowledge) prove more Testaments than they perform.  
Now for the Chapel or College of our Lady Mary Magdalen, 
Chapel or College at Guildhall. Patent.  and of All Saints by the Guild-Hall, called London College: I read, that the same was builded about the year 1299. and that Peter Fanelore, Adam Francis, and Henry Frowicke Citizens, gave one Message with the appurtenances, in the Parish of S. Foster, to William Brampton, Custos of the Chantry, by them founded in the said Chapel, with four Chaplains, and on the other house in the Parish of S. Giles without Creplegate, in the 27. of Edward the third, was given to them.  
Moreover I find, that Richard the 2. in the 20. of his reign, granted to Stephen Spilman, Mercer, licence to give one message, three shops, and one garden, with the appurtenances, being in the Parish of S. Andrew Hubberd, to the Custos and Chaplains of the said Chapel, and to their successors, for their better relief and maintenance for ever.  
King Henry the 6. in the eighth of his reign, gave licence to john Barnard, Custos, and the Chaplains, to build of new the said Chapel or College of Guild Hall: 
Chapel or College at Guildhall new builded.  and the same Henry the 6. in the 27. of his reign, granted to the Paris-Clerks in London, a Guild of S. Nicholas, for two Chaplains, by them to be kept in the said Chapel of S. Mary Magdalen, near unto the Guild-hall, and to keep 7. Almes-people. Henry Barton, Skinner, Maior, founded a Chaplain there: Roger Depham, Mercer, and Sir William Langford, Knight, had also Chaplains there. This Chapel or College had a Custos, 7. Chaplains, 3. Clerks, and 4. Choristers.  
Monuments there have been sundry, as appeareth by the Tombs of Marble yet remaining, seven in number, but all defaced. The uppermost in the Choir, on the South side thereof, above the Revestrie door, was the Tomb of john Welles, Grocer, Mayor 1451. The likeness of Wells are graven on the Tomb, on the Revestrie door, and other places on that side the Quire. Also in the glass window, is the likeness of Welles, with hands elevated out of the same Wells, holding scrolls, wherein is written, Mercy: the writing in the East window (being broken) yet remaineth Welles. 
john Welles a principal benefactor to Gild hall College.  I found his Arms also in the South glass window: all which do show, that the East end and South side of the Choir of this Chapel, and the Revestire, were by him both builded and glazed. On the North side of the Choir, the Tomb of Thomas Knesworth, Fishmonger, Mayor 1505. who deceased 1505. who deceased 1515. was defaced, and within these 44. years again renewed by the Fishmongers. Two other Tombs lower there are, the one of a Draper, the other of a Haberdasher, their names not known: Richard Stomin is written in the window by the Haberdasher. Under flat stones do lie diverse Custos of the Chapel, Chaplains and Officers to the Chamber.  
Amongst others, john Clipstone, Priest, sometime Custos of the Library of the Guild-hall, 1457. Another of E. Alison, Priest, one of the Custos of the Library, 1510. etc. Sir john Langley, Goldsmith, Maior, 1576. lieth buried in the vault, under the Tomb of john Welles beforenamed. This Chapel or College, valued to dispend 12. l. 8. s. 9 d. by the year, was surrendered amongst other: the Chapel remaineth to the Mayor and Communality, wherein they have service weekly, as also at the election of the Mayor, and at the Mayor's Feast, etc.  
Adjoining to this Chapel on the South side, 
Library at Guildhall.  was sometime a fair and large Library, furnished with Books, pertaining to the Guild-hall and College.  
These Books (as it is said) were, in the reign of Edward the 6. sent for by Edward Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, with promise to be restored shortly: men jaded from thence three Carries with them, but they were never returned. This Library was builded by the Executors of R. Whitington, and by W. Bury. The Arms of Whitington are placed on the one side in the stone-worke: and two letters, to wit, W. and B. for William Bury, on the other side: it is now losted through, and made a store-house for Clothes.  
South-west from this Guild-hall, 
Parish Church of S. Laurence, in the jury.  is the fair Parish Church of S. Laurence, called in the jury, because (of old time) many jews inhabited thereabout. This Church is fair and large, and hath some Monuments, as shall be showed. I myself, more than 70. years since, have seen in this Church the shank bone of a man (as it is taken) and also a tooth of a very great bigness, 
The tooth of some monstrous Fish as I take it.  hanged up, for show, in chains of iron, upon a pillar of stone; the tooth (being about the bigness of a man's fist) is long since conveyed from thence: the thigh or shank bone, 
A shank bone of 25. inches long, of a man, as is said, but might be of an Elephant.  of 25. inches in length by the Rule, remaineth yet fastened to a post of timber, and is not so much to be noted for the length, as for the thickness, hardness and strength thereof; for when it was hanged on the stone pillar, it fretted (with moving) the said pillar, and was not itself fretted, nor (as seemeth) is not yet lightened, by remaining dry: but where or when this bone was first found or discovered, I have not heard; and therefore, rejecting the fables of some late Writers, I overpasse them. Walter blundel had a Chantry there, the 14. of Edward the second, There lie buried in this Church, Elizabeth, wife to john Fortescue; Katherine Stoketon, john Stratton, Philip Albert, john Fleming, Philip Agmondesham, William Skywith, john Norlong, john Baker, Thomas Alleyne, William Barton, Mercer, 1410. William Melrith, Mercer, one of the Sheriffs, 1425. Simon Barlet, Mercer, 1428. Walter Chartsey, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, 1430. Richard Rich, Esquire of London, the Father, and Richard Rich his son, Mercer, one of the Sheriffs, 1442. deceased, 1469. with this Epitaph:  
Respice quod opus est  
Praesentis temporis aevum,  
Omne quod est, mihil est,  
Praeter amare Deum.  
This Richard was Father to john, buried in S. Thomas Acars, which john was Father to Thomas, Father to Richard Lord Rich, etc. john Pickering, honourable for service of his Prince, and for the English Merchants beyond the Seas, who deceased, 1448. john Atkenson, Gentleman, Dame Mary S. Maure, john Waltham, Roger Bonifant, john Chayhee, john Abbot, john Martial, Mercer, Maior, 1493. William Purchat, Maior 1498. Thomas Burgoyne, Gentleman, Mercer, 1517. A wife to a Master of Defence, servant to the Princes of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, and Countess of Chester.  
Sir Michael Dormer, Mayor, 1541.  
Robert Charsey, one of the Sheriffs, 1548.  
Sir William Rowe, Ironmonger, Maior, 1593.  
Samuel Thornhill, 1597.  
Lo here the Lady Margaret North, 
An ancient Tomb in the Chancel.   
in Tomb and earth doth lie;  
Of husbands four the faithful Spouse,  
whose fame shall never die.  
One Andrew Frances was the first,  
the second Robert hight,  
Surnamed Chartsey, Alderman:  
Sir David Brooke, a Knight,  
Was third. But he that passed all,  
and was in number fourth,  
And for his virtue made a Lord,  
was called, Sir Edward North.  
These all together do I wish  
a joyful rising day:  
That of the Lord, and of his Christ,  
All honour they may say.  Obiit 2. die junii, An. Dom. 1575. 
Hic jacet Simon Bennington, Civis & Pannarius London, 
An ancient Tomb in the South wall▪  Sustentatorum istius Capellae, ac unius Capellani, in eadem divina quotidie celebratis. Cujus animae Propitietur Deus.  
Hic incineratur corpus quondam Galfridi Bullayne, 
A grave-stone on the ground, well plated.  Civis, Merceri, & Maioris London, Qui ab hac— Ann. Dom. 1463. Cujus animae pax sit perpetua. Amen.  
The word (Now thus) 32. times dispersed in Brass all over the Grave-stone.  
Hic jacet Thomas Boleyne, de Comitatu Norfolciae, Armiger: Qui obiit ultimo die Mensis Aprilis, An. Dom. 1571. Cujus, etc.  
Here lieth Sir Richard Gresham, 
An ancient Tomb East in the wall.  Knight, sometimes Lord Mayor of London and Audrey his first wife, by whom he had issue, Sir john Gresham, and Sir Thomas Gresham, Knights, William and Margaret: which Sir Richard deceased the 20. day of February, An. Domini, 1548. And the third year of King Edward the sixth his reign. And Adurey deceased the 28. day of December, An. Dom. 1522.  
Here lieth the body of Geffrey Felding, 
A grave-stone plated before the Tomb.  sometime Mayor of this City, and Angel his wife, and Thomas, Richard, and john, sons of the said Geffrey, Ann. Dom. 1517.  
Hic jacet johannes Martial, Civis & Mercerus Civitatis London. 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the North side of the Quire.  Qui quidem Iohannes obiit 4. die Januarii, An. Dom. 1498. Et Ioanna Vxor ejus: quae quidem Ioanna obiit 18. die Decembris, 1484. Quorum, etc.  
Hereunder lieth buried the body of the Lady Alice Avenon, 
A fair Monument in the North wall of the Quire.  being one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas Huchen, Citizen and Mercer of London, whose last husband was Sir Alexander Avenon, Alderman, and late L. Mayor of this City of London. Her second husband, was john blundel, of London, Mercer, by whom she had issue one son, named Philip, deceased, and eight daughters, whereof five lived until they were married, and they were coheirs to their Father; namely, Elizabeth, married unto Edmond Hogan, of London, Mercer; Marry, unto Sir Gerard Crockar, of Oxfordshire, Knight; Theodora, married first unto John Denton, of Oxfordshire, Gent. and after unto Justinian Champneis, of Kent, Esquire; Anne, married to Thomas Cordel, of London, Mercer; and Susanna, unto Richard Freston, of London, Gent. The which Alice Blundel, in the time of her widowhood, left a foundation within the Mercer's Hall in London, for thirteen penny joaves of good sweet bread, to be given (in her name) among thirteen poor folks of this Parish of Saint Laurence in the Old jewrie, every Sunday at Morning Prayer for ever, in the presence of the worshipful of the same Parish. And her first husband was Hugh Methwold of London, Mercer, by whom she had issue, William, her son and heir, and a daughter named Anne, deceased. The which Dame Alice departed this world, the 21. day of November, Ann. Dom. 1574. unto whom God send (through jesus Christ) a joyful resurrection. Amen. Aetatis suae, 61.   

Qualis vita, finis ita.  
Hereunder resteth, 
A small Monument on a pillar in the North I'll.  in assured hope of the resurrection, the bodies of john Fox, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and Johanna his wife: whose lives as they were blameless and holy, so their end was full of peace. The said John was the Founder of the free School of Deane, in the County of Cumberl. beside 18. d. weekly to an Almsman, belonging to the Goldsmiths Hall. And other charitable deeds, to the poor prisoners, and Hospitals in the City of London: The memory of whose good deeds, God grant others to do the like. The said John, being of the age of 78. fell on sleep the 8. day of june, 1597. And johanna his wife, of the age of 87. departed this life the 9 of February, 1600.  
Fiducia Christianorum, Resurrectio Mortuorum.  
Thus much for Cheap Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common Counselors, 11. Constables, 11. Scavengers, 9 for the Wardmote Inquest, 12. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen, at 72. l. 16. s. and in the Exchequer, at 72. l. 11. s.    

COLEMAN STREET Ward.  
NExt to Cheap Ward, on the North side thereof, is Coleman street Ward, and beginneth also in the East, on the course of Walbrooke, in Lothbury, and runneth West, (on the South side) to the end of Ironmongers lane, and on the North side, to the West corner of Basings Hall street. On the South side of Lothbury, is the street called the Old jewrie, the one half, and better, on both sides towards Cheap, is of this Ward.  
On the North side lieth Coleman street, whereof the Ward taketh name, wholly on both sides North to London wall, and from that North end along by the Wall, and Mooregate, East, to the course of Walbrooke. And again, from Coleman street, West, to the Iron grates: and these be the bounds of this Ward.  
Antiquities therein to be noted, are these: 
Lothbery.  First, the street of Lothbery, Lathbery, or Loadbery, (for by all these names have I read it) took the name (as it seemeth) of a Bery, or Court of old time there kept, but by whom, it is grown out of memory. This street is possessed (for the most part) by Founders, that cast Candlesticks, Chafing-dishes, Spice Mortars, and such like Copper or Latin works, and do afterward turn them with the foot, and not with the wheel, to make them smooth and bright, with turning and scratting, (as some do term it) making a loathsome noise to the bypassers, that have not been used to the like; and therefore by them disdainedly called Lothburie. On the South side of this street, amongst the Founders, be some fair houses and large, for Merchants; namely, one that of old time was the jews Synagogue, 
The jews Synagogue.  which was defaced by the Citizens of London, after that they had slain 700. jews, and spoiled the residue of their goods, in the year 1262. the 47. of H. the 3. And not long after, in the year 1291. King Edward the first banished the remnant of the jews out of England, as is afore showed.  
The said Synagogue being so suppressed, certain Friars got possession thereof: For in the year 1257. (saith Matthew Paris) there were seen in London a new order of Friars, 
Fratres de Saccae, or de poenitentia.  called De Poenitentia jesu, or Fratres de Sacca, because they were apparelled in Sackcloth, who had their house in London, near unto Aldersgate, without the gate, and had licence of Henry the third, in the 54. of his reign, to remove from thence to any other place: and in the 56. he gave unto them this jews Synagogue. After which time, Eleanor the Queen, wife to Edward the first, took into her protection, and warranted unto the Prior and brethren De poenitentia jesu Christi of London, the said land and building in Colechurch street, 
Colechurch street, or Old jewise.  in the parish of Saint Olave in the jury, & S. Margaret in Lothburie, by her granted, with consent of Stephen de Fulborn, under-warden of the Bridge-house, and other brethren of that house: for threescore Marks of Silver, which they had received of the said Prior and brethren of repentance, toward the building of the said Bridge. This order of Friars gathered many good scholars, and multiplied in number exceedingly, until the Council at Lions, by the which it was decreed, that (from that time forth) there should no more Orders of begging Friars be permitted, but only the four Orders; to wit, the Dominicke or Preachers, the Minorites or grey Friars, the Carmelites or white Friars, and the Augustine's: and so from that time the begging Friars decreased and fell to nothing.  
Now it followed, that in the year 1305. Robert Fitzwalter requested and obtained of the said King Edward the first, 
Ro. Fitzwalter his house.  that the same Friars of the Sack, might assign to the said Robert their Chapel or Church, of old time called the Synagogne of the jews, near adjoining to the then mansion place of the same Robert, which was in place where now standeth the Grocer's Hall: and the said Synagogue was at the North corner of the Old jewry. Robert Large, Mercer, Maior, in the year 1439. kept his majoralty in this house, and dwelled there until his dying day.  
This house standeth and is of two Parishes, as opening into Lothbury, of Saint Margaret's Parish, and opening into the Old jewry, of Saint Olaves Parish. The said Robert Large gave liberally to both these Parishes, but was buried at S. Olaves.  
Hugh Clopton, 
The Wind mill Tavern in the old jury.  Mercer, Maior, 1492. dwelled in this house, and kept his Mayoralty there. It is now a Tavern, and hath to sign a Windmill.  
And thus much for this house, sometime the jews Synagogue, since, an house of Friars, than a Nobleman's house, after that, a Merchant's house, wherein Maioralties have been kept, and now a Wine-Taverne.  
Then is the Old jury, 
The Old jury.  a street so called of jews sometime dwelling there, and near adjoining, in the Parishes of S. Olave, 
The jews brought from Rone by William Duke of Normandy.  S. Michael Bassing Hall. S. Martin Ironmonger lane, S. Laurence, called the jewrie, and so West to Woodstreet. William, D. of Normandy, first brought them from Rone to inhabit here.  
William Rufus favoured them so far, 
W. Rufus favoured them.  that he swore by Luke's face, his common Oath, if they could overcome the Christians, he would be one of their Sect.  
Henry the second grievously punished them for corrupting his coin. 
Hen. the 1. punished them.   
Richard the first forbade jews and women to be present at his Coronation, 
Rich. the 3. forbade them to come to his coronation.  for fear of enchantments: for breaking of which commandment, many jews were slain, who being assembled, to present the King with some gift, one of them was stricken by a Christian, which some unruly people perceiving, fell upon them, beaten them to their houses, and brent them therein, or slew them at their coming out.  
Also the jews at Norwich, S. Edmondsbury, Lincoln, Stanford, and Lyn, were robbed and spoiled; and at York, to the number of 500 besides Women and children, entered a Tower of the Castle, proffered money to be in surety of their lives, but the Christians would not take it: whereupon they cut the throats of their own wives and children, and cast them over the walls on the Christians heads, and then entering the King's lodging, they burned both the house and themselves.  
King john, in the eleventh of his reign, commanded all the jews, 
King john tormented the jews.  both men and women, to be imprisoned and grievously punished, because he would have all their money: some of them gave all they had, and promised more, to escape so many kinds of torments; for every one of them had one of their eyes at the least plucked out. Amongst whom there was one, which being tormented many ways, would not ransom himself, till the King had caused (every day) one of his great teeth to be plucked out, by the space of seven days, and then he gave the King ten thousand Marks of silver, to the end they should pull out no more: the said King at that time spoilt the jews of sixty six thousand marks.  
The 17. of this King, 
The Barons rifled the jews.  the Barons broke into the jews houses, rifled their coffers, and with the stone of their houses, repaired the gates and walls of London.  
King Henry the third, in the eleventh of his reign, 
〈◊〉. of Hen. 3. Hen 3. excheted the lands and goods of the jews.  granted to Semaine or Ballaster, the house of Benomye Mittun the Jew, in the Parish of S. Michael Bassing-hanghe, in which the said Benomye dwelled, with the fourth part of all his Land in that Parish, which William Elie held of the fee of Hugh Nevell, and all the land in Coleman street, belonging to the said Benomye, and the fourth part of the land in the Parish of S. Laurence, which was the fee of Thomas Buckerell, and were excheted to the King for the murder which the said Benomye committed in the City of London, to hold to the said Semaine, and his heirs, of the King, praying at Easter a pair of gilt Spurs, and to do the service thereof due unto the Lords Court.  
In like manner, and for like services, the King granted to Guso for his homage, the other part of the Lands of the said Benomye in S. Michael's Parish, which Law the Painter held, and was the Kings Exchete; and the Lands of the said Benomye, in the said Parish, which Walter Turner held, and 15. foot of Land which Hugh Harman held, with 15. iron els of Land, and an half, in the front of Ironmonger lane, in the Parish of S. Martin, which were the said Benomyes', of the see of the Hospital of S. Giles, and which Adam the Smith held, with 2. stone houses, which were Moses the Jew of Canturbury, in the Parish of S. Olave, and which are of the fee of Arnold le Reus, and are the Kings Exchetes, as aforesaid.  
The 16. of the said Henry, 
The jews builded them a Synagogue in London.  the jews in London builded a Synagogue, but the King commanded it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady, and after gave it to the Brethren of S. Anthony of Vienna, and so was it called S. Anthony's Hospital.  
This King Henry founded a Church and house for converted jews, 
Hen. the 3. founded an house for converted jews.  in a new street by the Temple, whereby it came to pass, that (in short time) there was gathered a great number of Converts.  
The 20. of this King Henry, seven jews were brought from Norwich, 
jews stale a child and circumcised him, and minded to have crucified him.  which had stolen a Christened child, had circumcised, and minded to have crucified him at Easter, wherefore their bodies and goods were at the King's pleasure. The 26. the jews were constrained to pay to the King 20000. Marks, at two terms in the year, or else to be kept in perpetual prison.  
The 35. he taketh inestimable sums of money of all rich men; 
Hen. 3. exacteth money of the jews.  namely, of Aaron, a jew borne at York, 14000. marks for himself, and ten thousand marks for the Queen, and before, he had taken of the same jew as much, as in all amounted to 30000. marks of silver, and two hundred marks of gold to the Queen.  
In the 40. year were brought up to Westminster 202. jews' from Lincoln, 
jews' hanged for crucifying of a child.  for crucifying a child, named Hugh, 18. of them were hanged.  
The 43. a jew at Tewkesburie fell into a Privy on the Saturday, and would not that day be taken out, for reverence of his Sabbath; wherefore Richard Clare, Earl of Gloucester, kept him there till Monday, that he was dead.  
The 47. the Barons slew of the jews at London, 
700. jews' slain at London.  700. the rest were spoiled, and their Synagogue defaced, because one jew would have forced a Christian to have paid more than 2. s. for the lone of 20. s. a week.  
The third of Edward the first, 
Usury forbidden.  in a Parliament at London, usury was forbidden to the jews: and that all Usurers might be known, the King commanded that every Usurer should wear a Table on his breast, the breath of a paveline, or else to avoid the Realm.  
The sixth of the said King Edward, a reformation was made for clipping of the King's Coin; for which offence, 267. jews' were drawn and hanged; 
English jews hanged.  three were English Christians, and other were English jews.  
The same year the jews crucified a child at Northampton, 
jews hanged at London, for crucifying a child at Northampton.  for the which fact, many jews at London were drawn at horse tails and hanged.  
The eleventh of Edward the first, john Perkham, Archbishop of Canturburie, commanded the Bishop of London to destroy all the jews Synagogues in his Diocese.  
The 16. of the said Edward, 
All the jews in England apprehended & redeemed for money.  all the jews in England, were (in one day) apprehended by precept from the King, but they redeemed themselves for 12. thousand pounds of silver; notwithstanding in the 19 of his reign he banished them all out of England, giving them only to bear their charge till they were out of his Realm: the number of jews then expulsed, were 15060. persons. 
All the jews banished this Realm.  The King made a mighty mass of money of their houses, which he sold, and yet the Commons of England had granted, and gave him a fifteenth of all their goods, to banish them. And thus much for the jews.  
In this street called the Old jewrie, 
Parish Church of S. Olave Vpwell in the jewrie.  is a proper Parish Church of S. Olave Vpwell, so called in Record, 1320. john Brian, Parson of Saint Olave Vpwell, in the jewry, founded there a Chantry, and gave two messages to that Parish, 
A Well was under the East end of this Church, late turned to a Pump, but decayed.  the 16. of Edward the second, and was by the said King confirmed. In this Church, to the commendation of the Parsons and Parishioners, the Monuments of the dead remain less defaced than in many other. First, of William Dikman, Fereno, or Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffs of London, 1367. Robert Havelocke, Ironmonger, 1390. john Organ, Mercer, one of the Sheriffs, 1385. john Forrest, Vicar of Saint Olaves, and of Saint Stephen, which at that time was as a Chapel annexed to S. Olave, 1399. Henry Friole, Taylor, 1400. Thomas Morsted, Esquire, Chirurgeon to Henry the fourth, fifth, and sixth, one of the Sheriffs, 1436.  
He builded a fair new I'll, to the enlargement of this Church, on the north side thereof, wherein he lieth buried, 1450. Adam Breakspeare, Chaplain, 1411. William Kirkbie, Mercer, 1465. Robert Large, Mercer, Maior, 1440. He gave to that Church 200. l'. john Belwin, Founder, 1467. Gabriel Rave, Fuller, 1511. Wentworth, Esquire, 1510. Thomas Michael, Ironmonger, 1527. Giles Dewes, servant to Henry the seventh, and to Henry the eighth, Clerk of their Libraries, and Schoolmaster for the French tongue to Prince Arthur, and to the Lady Mary, 1535. Edmond Burlacy, 1583. john Brian.  
Here lieth under this Tomb, 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the East end of the Quite.  the body of Richard Chamberlain, Ironmonger, Alderman and late Sheriff of London, Merchant Adventurer, and free of Russia, who had two wives, Anne, the first of whom he had issue, 8. sons and 5. daughters. Of Margaret his last wife no issue, which Richard died the 19 day of November, An. Dom. 1566.  
To the poor he was liberal,  
and gave for God's sake,  
But now his fame is plentiful,  
and he an heavenly Make,  
He was like one of us,  
according to our mould,  
But now he is unlike us,  
in heaven where he would.  
His time was short, in sickness rare,  
as to all is known:  
But now his time shall long endure,  
and never be cast down.  
Hic requiescit in Gratia & misericordia Dei, 
A placed stone on the ground in the South I'll.  Robertus Large, quondam Mercerui & Maior istius Civitatis. Qui obiit 24. die Aprilis, 1441. Et Elizabeth uxor ejus, ac pueri eorundem. Cujus, etc.  
Humfrido Weld militi, & nuper Maiori Civitatis London, vire integerrimo, sanctissimo, summa in Deum pietate, in homines fide ac comitate praedito: Joanne Weld unicus filius & haeres, hoc Monumentum pietatis ergo moerens posuit.  
Habuit ex Anna uxore, primâ filiâ Nicholai wheler Armigeri, filios duos, Humfridum, olim defunctum, & joannem Maritum Franciscae filiae Gulielmi Whitmore Armig. & quinque filias, joannam, nuptam Roberte Brooke, de Cockfield, in Com. Suff. militi. Annam, nuptam Ricardo Corbet, de Stoke super Terne, in Com. Salop. Armigero, Mariam, Saram & Elizabetham, olim defunctas. Post cujus obitum, duxit uxorem secundam Mariam, filiam Stephani Slani Militis, adhuc superstitem.  Obiit 29. die Novembris, An. Dom. 1610. Aetatis suae, 64. 
Quem tegit hoc marmor, 
A goodly Tomb is the South I'll.   
Quem cassum lumine flemus,  
Abstulit una dies,  
Quantum si forte requiris,  
Weldus erat nomen,  
Maior celeberrimus urbis;  
Justitiae splendour,  
verae pietatis Imago,  
Religionis amans,  
aevi prudentia nostri,  
Mens humilis, purusque  
animus, patiensque laborum,  
Frons hilaris, faciles  
aures, pectusque fidele,  
Os verax, mites  
oculi, gravitate refulgens  
Vultus; Cor placidum  
studiosis, dextra benigna,  
Quos non instimulent  
nobis reticentibus ipsi,  
Incipient scopuli  
vivis sermonibus uti;  
justè Welde minor  
si spes, si fama fuisset,  
De te Welde minor  
nostra querela foret.  
Thomas Cambell Eques, 
A very fair and costly Tomb in the East end of the Chancel.  secundo Regis jacobi, Civis London ejusdem Vrbis patricius & Praetor aequissimus & prudentissimus: domicilium sibi hoc in perpetuam memoriam dicatum habet: feliciter bis nuptus erat, & ex 1. conjugio filii nati sunt 6. filiae, 7. ex inde vero nepotes 39 quem cives privatim & publicè, honorificè omnes colebant. Annos autem 78. cum adimplesset, suorum & omnium honestorum cum luctu, fato concessit, 13. die Februarii, An. Dom. 1613.  
Transiit ad vivos  
è vivis Pacis alumnus,  
justitiae columen;  
Qui decus inde suum  
Extulit egregiè:  
Pietatem caetera praeter  
Dilexit: cultus,  
Religione, side.  
Non patrem tantum  
proles, sine murmure luctus  
Percipit; at vetuit  
mors superare modum:  
Vulnus opemque ferens,  
aequè. Quid plangitis ultra?  
Angelus en factus!  
nec minor ante fuit.  
Quae potuit cuiquam,  
optari Mors, vitaque honore  
Fulta: & amicitiis  
inclita; prole, fide.  
Obtigit haec, Cambelle,  
tibi, utraque scilicet annis  
Maturis, meriti  
& plenus amoris obis.  
Digna viro tibi vita  
fuit, qui viveret ultra,  
Dignaque mors vitâ  
sed meliora frui.  
Terminus incertae  
mors vitae, & certa salutis  
Spes promissa rapit,  
non colit ima fides. 
A very fair Monument in the neither part of the Church.   

Memoriae.  
Henrici Anderson, Equitis Aurati, Alderdermanni Civitatis London, & Elizabethae uxoris ejus, filiae Fran. Bowyer, Alderm. Lond. Qui 8. liberos habuêre, viz. 2. filios, Georg. defunct. & Rich. qui uxorem duxit Mariam, fill. primogenit. Rob. Spencer, Dom. Wormeleiton. Kath. nuptam Tho. Derham, de West Derham, in Com. Norff. Armig. Elizab. nupt. Tho. Cowley, Mercat. Lond. Francise. nupt. Rob. Nedeham, de Shaurigton, in Com. Salop. Armig. Saram & Mariam innupt. Qui obiêre: Haec jul. 9 1599 Ille 13. April. 1605.   

Pietatis ergo moerens posuit Rich. Anderson filius haeres.  
Edwinus Smith, 
An engraven plate, in the South wall of the Quire.  filius Roberti Smith, Civis & Aromatarii Londinensis, apud Cantabrigiensis in Artibus Magister, ibidemque Collegii Iesus Socius praedilectus, propter summam ingenii ubertatem, memoriam, noticiam, pietatem, modestamque festivitatem, omnibus gratus: singulare sui generis ornamentum, & par decus Collegii (non dicam Academiae) futurus, diem obiit, horum omnium cum incredibili luctu, nono Calend, Septembris, qui festus D. Bartholomaeo fuit. Anno salutis, 1598. Aetatis suae, 23.   

Ecclesiast. 44. ver. 8. Reliquit nomen, narrantur laudes.  
From this Parish Church of S. Olave, to the North end of the Old jewrie, and from thence West to the North end of Ironmonger lane, & from the said corner into Ironmonger lane, almost to the Parish Church of S. Martin, was (of old time) one large building of stone, very ancient, made in place of Jew's houses, but of what antiquity, or by whom the same was builded, or for what use, I have not learned, more than that King H. the 6. in the 16. of his reign, gave the office of being Porter or keeper thereof, 
King's Palace in the Old jewrie.  unto john Stint, for term of his life, by the name of his Principal Palace in the Old jewry. This was (in my youth) called the Old Wardrobe: but of later time, the outward stone wall hath been by little and little taken down, and diverse fair houses builded thereupon, even round about.  
Now for the North side of this Lothburie, beginning again at the East end thereof: Upon the Watercourse of Walbrooke, have ye a proper Parish Church, called S. Margaret, which seemeth to be newly re-edified and builded, about the year 1440. For Robert Large gave to the Choir of that Church one hundred shillings, and 20. pounds for Ornaments, more, to the vaulting over the watercourse of Walbrooke by the said Church, for the enlarging thereof, two hundred Marks.  
There be Monuments in this Church, of Reginald Coleman, Son to Robert Coleman, buried there, 1483. This said Robert Coleman may be supposed the first builder or owner of Coleman street, and that Saint Stephen's Church, then builded in Coleman street, was but a Chapel belonging to the Parish Church of S. Olave in the jewry: for we read (as afore) that john Forrest, Vicar of Saint Olaves, and of the Chapel annexed of S. Stephen, deceased in the year 1399. Hugh Clopton, Mercer, Maior, deceased, 1496. Anselm Becket, john julian, William Ilford, Chanteries there, Sir Brian Tuke, Knight, Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eighth, and Dame Grisilde his wife, that deceased after him, were there buried 1536. john Fetiplace, Draper, Esquire, 1464. and joan his wife, Sir Hugh Witch, Mercer, Maior, son to Richard Witch, entombed there, 1466. He gave to his third wife three thousand pound, and to Maid's marriages five hundred marks.  
Here lieth buried Dame Grisilde Tuke, late wife of Sir Brian Tuke, 
A fair ancient Tomb in the North I'll of the Quire.  Knight, Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eighth. She died the 28. day of December, 1538.  
Under this stone lieth George Beamon, 
A plated stone by the Communion Table.  Clerke, and Doctor in Divinity, who departed this life the 29. day of April, An. Dom. 1571. A man merciful and good to the poor, and borne in Kinnegall in Cumberland: whose body and Soul God grant a joyful resurrection.   

Se piu Si puote.  

No wealth, no praise, 
A goodly ancient Tomb in the Chancel.   
no bright renown, no skill,  
No force, no fame,  
no Princes love, no toil,  
Though foreign Lands  
by travels search you will,  
No faithful service  
of thy Country foil,  
Can life prolong  
one minute of an hour:  
But death at length  
will execute his power.   

For Sir john Leigh,  
to sundry Countries known,  
A worthy Knight,  
well of his Prince esteemed:  
By seeing much,  
to great experience grown:  
Though safe on seas,  
though sure on land he seemed,  
Yet here he lies,  
too soon by death oppressed,  
His fame yet lives,  
his soul in heaven hath rest.   
Here lieth joh. Dimock, 
A fair plated stone before the ascending to the Communion Table.  son to john Dimock, Esquire, sometimes Citizen & Draper of London: he married Anne his first wife, by whom he had one son: which Anne died the year of Christ, 1558. After whom he married his second wife Mary, by whom he had a daughter. He served the Princes of famous memory, King Henry the eighth, and King Edward the sixth. For his faithful and good service he was well esteemed; for his upright dealing he was well beloved of his equals; for his benevolence to the poor, he was both praised and prayed for. He lived 100 years lacking 7. very commendably, and the 14. of july, 1585. he died Christianly.  
Here lieth the body of Christian Towerson, 
A fair Pyramid erected against the South wall of the Quire.  wife of William Towerson of London, Merchant, who lived together 21. years and 6. months, and had issue 10. children. Leaving behind her john, William, Robert, Elizab. and Mary. She left this life the 19 day of February, 1611.  
Here resteth in hope of a joyful resurrection, 
A small Monument newly erected in the East end of the Quire.  the body of Nicholas Style, late Alderman of London, who was borne at Langley, in the Parish of Beckingham, in the County of Kent: the son of Humphrey Stile, Knight, and of Dame Bridget his wife. He married Gertrude, the daughter of Thomas Bright of London, Ironmonger, with whom he lived most lovingly and faithfully the space of forty years, and by her had three sons and four daughters; of whom remained living at his decease, one son, Humphrey, and one daughter, Mary. He died the sixteenth day of November, An. Dom. 1615.  
By the West end of this Parish Church, 
Conduit in Lothbery.  have ye a fair Water-conduit, builded at the charges of the City, in the year 1546. Sir Martin Bows being Mayor, two Fifteen were levied of the Citizens, toward the charges thereof: This water is conveyed (in great abundance) from diverse springs, lying betwixt Hoxton and Iseldon.  
Next is the Founder's Hall, 
The Founders Hall.  a proper house: and so to the South-west corner of Bassing Hall street, have ye fair and large houses for Merchants; namely, the corner house, at the end of Bassing Hall street, an old piece of work, builded of stone, sometime belonging to a certain jew, named Mansere, the son of Aron, the son of Coke the jew, the seventh of Edward the first: since, to Rahere de Sopars' lane; then, to Simon Francis. Thomas Bradbery, Mercer, kept his Mayoralty there, 
Bay Hall,  deceased, 1509. Part of this house hath been lately employed as a Market-house, for the sale of woollen Bays, Watmoles, Flanels, and such like. Alderman Bennet now possesseth it.  
On this North side, against the Old jury, 
Coleman street.  is Coleman street, so called of Coleman, the first builder and owner thereof, as also of Colechurch, or Coleman-church, against the great Conduit in Cheap. This is a fair and large street, on both sides builded with diverse fair houses, besides Alleys, with small tenements, in great number. On the East side of this street, almost at the North end thereof, 
Armourers Hall.  is the Armourers Hall, which Company of Armourers were made a Fraternity or Guild of S. George, with a Chantry in the Chapel of S. Thomas, in Paul's Church, in the first of Henry the 6. Also on the same side is King's Alley, 
King's Alley-Love lane.  and Love Lane, both containing many tenements. And on the west side, towards the South end, is the Parish Church of S. Stephen, wherein the Monuments are defaced: Notwithstanding, I find, that William Crayhag founded a Chantry there, in the reign of Edward the second, and was buried there. Also john Essex, the 35. of Edward the third. Adam Goodman, the 37. of Edward the third. William King, Draper, sometime own of King's Alley, the 18. of Richard the second. john Sokeling, the tenth of Henry the sixth. john Arnold, Leather-seller, the seventeenth of Henry the sixth. Thomas Brudbery, Mercer, Maior, the first of Henry the eighth. His Tomb remaineth on the North side of the Quire. Richard Hamney, 1418. Kirnigham, 1468.  
Sir john Garme, Richard Colsel, Edmond Harbeke, Currier: all these were Benefactors, and buried there.  
Here lieth in peace the body of the Right Worshipful, 
A fair Monument in the Chancel.  Sir William Glover, Knight, late Citizen and Alderman of London, who for the many good gifts, both in sincere Religion, wisdom, and gravity, wherewith he was very plentifully graced, was elected Sheriff of London, and served the same, Anno Domini, 1601. He had lived in good name and fame fifty eight years, and very blessedly departed this transitory life, the seventeenth day of Decemb. 1603. Leaving two sons, (viz.) Thomas and William; and five daughters, viz. Anne, married to Barn Roberts, of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire; Susan, Elizabeth, Mary, and Alice, behind him, to condole the want of so kind and loving a Father.  
To whose dearest Memory, the Lady Anne Glover, the most sorrowful Widow of the said Sir William, lamenting his death, and her own unrecoverable loss; at her own charge erected this Monument, in testification both of her love and duty.  
Here lieth the body of Barn Roberts, eldest son of Francis Roberts of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire; who took to wife Anne, eldest daughter of Sir William Glover, Knight, and Alderman of Lond. by whom he had issue, three sons, and five daughters. The said Barn Roberts died the 30. day of january, 1610. being of the age of 34. years, and five months. In remembrance of whom, his said wife, (of her very kind and loving affection) at her own proper cost and charges, hath caused this Monument to be made and erected, An. Dom. 1611.  
If humane worth  
could have preserved him still, 
Another close by the greater.   
He had been much  
too strong for death to kill.  
Yet being conquered,  
he got by the strife,  
A better being,  
in a better life:  
So that great Victor  
over Nature, left him  
More happiness ten fold  
than he bereft him.  
Gulielmo Danieli, Equiti Aurato, alteri è judicibus communium Placitorum, 
A fair Tomb in the East end of the South I'll.  qui Maii 19 Annos natus septuaginta tria, An. Do. 1610. diem ult. explevit, devotum Carmen.  
Qui Patriae Leges  
aequo moderamine flexit,  
Et judex populo  
gratus amansque fuit,  
Hoc decorat genio  
marmor placidoque pioque,  
Stabit in aeternum  
quod bona fama tegit.  
Gentem si quaeras?  
erat ille Checestriensis,  
Overtabelio  
nobilis ortus agro.  
Vxores binas duxit,  
nec pignora desunt,  
Connubii duplicis  
pulchra, pudica, pia.  
Filius egregii nominis  
speciemque parentis,  
Qui celebrat primi  
munus amoris erat.  
Elizabetha illi soror est,  
ab utroque parent  
Onsyloi vivit  
quae sociata toro.  
Conjugii sed Martha  
decus non sola secundi,  
Coco Equiti nupta est,  
nec satiatur Hymen,  
Nam binas expectat  
adhuc sub matre sorores,  
Foelices thalamos  
utraque digna manet.  
Margareta & illis  
paulo est maturior annis,  
Nomine judithae  
sit tibi nota minor.  
Sic numero florins  
natorum, munere judex,  
Ordine Eques obiit,  
plenus honore senex.  
Anna defuncti judicis piissima vidua, in perpetuum amoris memoriaeque testimonium, lugubre hoc Monumentum extrui fecit.  
In this I'll lie the bodies of George Golding, 
A hans●● small Monument is the wall by the other.  Esquire, buried the 27. day of November, 1584. and of Anne Bartelet, widow, buried 12. day of june, 1596. and of Mary Golding, widow, late wife of the said George, and daughter of the said Anne, buried the 29. of April, 1612. by her said husband and mother, according to her own desire. She lived a widow 28. years, religiously to God, hospitably to her friends, and charitably to all, especially to poor widows: and deceased the 25. day of April, 1612. being then 79. years of age.  

An honest heart, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Quite.   
religiously affected,  
A zealous soul,  
a charitable mind,  
True dealing conscience,  
all untruth rejected;  
All these in one  
are hard and far to find:  
Yet in the course,  
both time and truth have tried,  
In youth and age,  
john Taylor lived and died.   

His honest heart,  
his honest friends have found;  
His zeal to God,  
God and the godly know;  
His charity,  
His true relief may sound,  
That on the poor  
his bounty did bestow:  
His heavenly rest,  
upon this point resolved,  
To be with Christ,  
I wish to be dissolved.   Here lieth buried the body of john Taylor, Esquire, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who married Berseba, daughter of Edward Hall, late Citizen and Haberdasher of London, deceased, and had by her only one daughter, named Elizabeth; first married to Francis Smith, Citizen and Mercer of London, deceased, by whom she had one son, named Francis Smith; and since married to Thomas Freak, of serve, in the County of Dorset, Esquire, by whom she hath five sons and daughters, now living. He hath given by his Will 200. pound in money, to be delivered and lent to young men of the Company of Haberdashers; to distribute every Sunday (weekly, for ever) two shillings in bread and the advantage, to poor householders of this Parish. And also twenty pound more for a stock, to be yearly employed for ever, in buying and providing of Fuel for the same poor. 
The blessed token of  
the Daughter's love,  
Unto the Father's kind  
and loving care,  
May to the world  
this Monument approve,  
How blessed Parents  
in their Children are:  
And blessed God, that  
so his love expresseth,  
Who thus both Parents  
and the Children blesseth.  
Sepelitur hic cor. Philippi Paskin, 
A grave stone in the same I'll.  Qui obiit 12. Calend. junii, Anno Dom. 1580. Anno Aetat. 52. duos post se reliquit fill. Tho. & Ric. & unig. filiam Ioannam ex chariss. sibi Con. Anna.  
Here lieth Dame jane, 
A comely Monument on a Pillar in the Quire.  daughter and sole heir of john White, of this Parish, Esquire: First married to Samuel Thornehill, of Bromley, in the County of Kent, Esquire, by whom she had issue two sons, Timothy and john, and one daughter, named Elizabeth. She secondly married Sir Richard Smith, Knight, son of Thomas Smith, of Oestenhanger, in the County of Kent, Esquire, and had issue by him but one daughter, named Mary. The said Dame jane died the 13. of October, 1607. being about the age of 33. years. In whose remembrance, her said husband caused this Monument to be made, 1608.  
Lady Bradvery gave 30. s. per annum in Charcoals to the poor of this Parish for ever from the worshipful Company of Mercers.  
On the Southside of the Chancel is a fair grave-stone, with this Epitaph in brass:  
Georgius heu quondam jacet  
hic Skeffingtonus humatus,  
Mercator Stapulae  
clarus in urbe fuit.  
Quae spes divitiis  
bona quam fallacia mundi,  
Quam subito pereunt  
quae valuere vide?  
Ast qui terram olim  
vano fragilem pede pressit,  
Aeterna hic petiit  
firmior astra fide.  Obiit An. Dom. 1581. die 1. julii. A. vero aetatis suae 43. 
On the lower end of the Chancel is a fair grave-stone with this Epitaph in brass:  
Our life is all but death,  
time that ensueth  
Is but the death of time  
that went before.  
Youth is the death of  
childhood, age of youth,  
Die once to God, and  
then thou diest no more.  
Agnes the wife of  
Leonard Darr, whose sight  
By sickness much impaired,  
in heavenly light  
Look, lived, and died,  
as dimness her were given,  
That her soul's eyes might  
better look to heaven.  
Leonardus Darr nuper Maior ville de Totnes, posuit in mortem Agnetae charissimae conjugis suae. Obiit 29. januarii 1596.  
john White, Citizen and Haberdasher, 1585. gave 12. d. weekly in bread to the poor of this Parish for ever.  
William Man, Citizen and Merchant-taylor, 1585., gave the remainder of a lease of years to come in a lease of Tenements in Swan alley, to the poor of this Parish, and the Town of Buckingham, 2. l. 10. s.  
Stephen Scudamore, Citizen and Vintner, 1585. gave weekly 12. d. in bread to the poor of this Parish for ever.  
john Taylor, Citizen and Haberdasher, gave in stock 20. l. for Billets, Faggots, or Coals, for provision for the poor of this Parish for ever; and 2. s. weekly in bread for ever to the poor householders, 1600.  
Dame Anne Glover gave a stock of ten pounds for provision for the poor of this Parish, for wood or coal for ever, 1612.  
Mistress Dane, widow, gave to the poor 10. s. per annum for ever, from the Company of Ironmongers, 1614  
Henry Gibs, sometimes servant to Sir Maurice Abbot, Knight and Alderman of London, gave to the poor of this Parish 50. l.  
Dame Daniel, sometimes wife to Sir William Daniel, gave a stock for the poor of this Parish 30. l. 1616.  
Hugh Cap, Citizen and Plasterer of London, gave 100 l. to purchase lands for the poor of this Parish for ever, 1616.  
john Terry, stranger, gave in stock to the poor of this Parish 10. l. for ever, 1617.  
Christopher Ayer, Merchant, Citizen, and Letherseller of London, gave 240. pounds for the building of six Almshouses, and 400. pounds to purchase lands towards the maintenance of six poor couple of this parish for ever, 1624.  
Sir Richard Smith, Knight, gave in stock for provision of Sea-coals for the poor of this Parish, one hundred pounds every year to be returned for the use of the poor for ever, 1627. And another hundred pounds afterward for relief of the poor also.  
I obtained these instructions, by the help and assistance of my loving friend and brother, Thomas Price, Parish Clarke there.  
This Church was sometime a Synagogue of the jews, 
Parish Church of S. Stephen, sometime a Synagogue of the jews.  than a Parish Church, than a Chapel to St. Olaves in the jewry, until the seventh of Edward the fourth, and was then incorporated a Parish Church.  
By the East end of this Church is placed a Cock of sweet water, 
Cocked water▪ Saint Streets Church  taken out of the main Pipe that goeth into Lothbery. Also, in London Wall, 
Co●● at 〈◊〉 Wall.  directly against the North end of Coleman street, is a Conduit of water, made at the charges of Thomas Exmew, Goldsmith, Maior, 1517.  
And let here be the end of this Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy, common Counsellors four, Constables four, Scavenger's four, of the Wardmote Inquest thirteen, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen, fifteen pound, sixteen shillings, nine pence.    

BASSING HALL. WARD.  
THe next adjoining to Coleman street Ward, 
Bassing Hall Ward.  on the West side thereof, is Bassing Hall Ward, a small thing, and consisteth of one street, called Bassing Hall street, of Bassing Hall, the most principal house, whereof the Ward taketh name. It beginneth in the South, by the late spoken Market house, called the Bay Hall, which is the last of Coleman street Ward. This street runneth from thence North down to London Wall, and some little distance both East and West, against the said Hall: And this is the bounds of Bassing Hall Ward.  
Monuments on the East side thereof, amongst diverse fair houses for Merchants, have ye three Hals of Companies; 
Mason's Hall.  namely, the Mason's Hall for the first; but of what antiquity that Company is, I have not read. The next is the Weavers Hall: 
Weavers Hall.  which Company hath been of great antiquity in this City, as appeareth by a Charter of Henry the second, in these words; Rex omnibus ad quos, etc. to be englished thus:  
Henry, King of England, Duke of Normandy, 
Patent of Henry 2.  and of Guian, Earl of Anjou, to the Bishop, justices, Sheriffs, Barons, Ministers, and all his true Liege's of London, sendeth greeting: Know ye, that we have granted to the Weavers in London their Guild, with all the Freedoms and Customs that they had in the time of King Henry my Grandfather: 
Henry 1.  so that none but they intermit within the City of their Craft, but he be of their Guild; neither in Southwark, or other places pertaining to London, otherwise than it was done in the time of King Henry my Grandfather. wherefore I will and straightly command, that over all lawfully they may treat, and have all aforesaid, as well in peace, free, worshipful, and wholly, as they had it, freer, better, worshipfullier, and whollier, than in the time of King Henry my Grandfather. So that they yield yearly to me two Marks of Gold, at the Eeast of Saint Michael. And I forbid, that any man to them do any unright, or disease, upon pain of ten pound. Witness Thomas of Canterbury, Warwick fili Gar, Chamberlain, at Winchester.  
Also I read, 
Patent.  that the same Henry the second, in the 31. of his reign, made a Confirmation to the Weavers, that had a Guild of Fraternity in London; wherein it appeareth, that the said Weavers made woollen cloth, and that they had the correction thereof. But amongst other Articles in that Patent, it was decreed, That if any man made cloth of Spanish wool, mixed with English wool, the Portgrave or principal Magistrate of London ought to burn it, etc.  
Moreover, 
Matthew Paris.  in the year 1197. King Richard the first, at the instance of Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, and justiciar of England, ordained, That the woollen clothes in every part of this Realm, should be in breadth two yards within the Lists, and as good in the midst as in the sides, etc. King Henry the third granted to the Citizens of London, that they should not be vexed for the Burels, or Clothlisted, according to the constitution made for breadth of cloth the 9 of his reign, etc. Richard the 2. in the third of his reign, granted an order of agreement between the Weavers of London, Englishmen, and Aliens or Strangers borne, brought in by Edward the third.  
Lower down, 
Girdlers Hall.  is the Girdlers' Hall: and this is all touching the East side of this Ward.  
On the West side, 
Bakewall Hall.  almost at the South end thereof, is Bakewell Hall, corruptly called Blackwell Hall. Concerning the original whereof, I have heard diverse opinions, which I overpass as fables, without colour of truth: for though the same seemed a Building of great antiquity, yet (in mine opinion) the foundation thereof was first laid since the Conquest of William, Duke of Normandy: for the same was builded upon Vaults of stone, which stone was brought from Cane in Normandy. The like of that of Paul's Church, builded by Mauritius and his successors, Bishops of London. But that this house hath been a Temple, or jewish Synagogue (as some have fantasied) I allow not, seeing that it had no such form of roundness, or other likeness. Neither had it the form of a Church, for the assembly of Christians, which are builded East and West: but chose, the same was builded North and South, and in form of a Noble man's house: and therefore the best opinion (in my judgement) is, that it was (of old time) belonging to the Family of the Bassing, which was in this Realm a name of great antiquity and renown, and that it bore also the name of that Family, and was called therefore Bassing Haugh, 
Bassing Hall.  or Hall. Whereunto I am the rather induced, for that the Arms of that Family were (of old time) so abundantly placed in sundry parts of that house, 
Arms of the Bassing.  even in the stone-worke, but more especially on the walls of the Hall, which carried a continual painting of them on every side so close together, as one Escocheon could be placed by another, which I myself have often seen and noted, before the old Building was taken down. These Arms were a Gerond of twelve points, Gold and Azure. 
How Bassing Hall Ward took that name  Of the Bassing therefore, builders of this House, and owners of the ground near adjoining, that Ward taketh the name; as Coleman street Ward of Coleman, and Faringdon Ward of William and Nicholas Faringdon, men that were principal owners of those places.  
And of old time the most Noble persons that inhabited this City, were appointed to be principal Magistrates thereas was Godfrey de Magun (or Magnavilla) Portgrave or Sheriff, in the reign of William the Conqueror, and of William Rufus; Hugh de Buch, in the reign of Henry the first; Aubery de Vere, Earl of Oxford. After him, Gilbert Becket, in the reign of King Stephen. After that, Godfrey de Magnavilla, the son of William, the son of Godfrey de Magnavilla, Earls of Essex, were Portgraves or Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. In the reign of Henry the second, Peter Fitzwalter: after him, john Fitznigel, etc. So likewise in the reign of King john, the 16. of his reign, a time of great troubles, in the year 1214. Solomon Bassing, 
Solomon Bassing and other of that name  and Hugh Bassing, Barons of this Realm, as may be supposed, were Sheriffs; and that the said Solomon Bassing was Mayor in the year 1216. which was the first of Henry the third. Also Adam Bassing, son to Solomon (as it seemeth) was one of the Sheriffs, in the year 1243. the 28. of Henry the third.  
Unto this Adam de Bassing, King Henry the third, in the 31. of his reign, gave and confirmed certain Messages in Aldermanburic, and in Milk street (places not far from Bassing Hall) and the advowson of the Church at Bassing Hall, with sundry liberties and privileges.  
This than was afterwards Mayor, in the year 1251. the 36. of Henry the third. Moreover, Thomas Bassing was one of the Sheriffs, 1269. Robert Bassing, Sheriff, 1279. and William Bassing was Sheriff, 1308, etc. For more of the Bassing in this City I need not note, only I read of this Family of Bassing in Cambridge shire, called Bassing at the Bourne, 
Bassing Bourne.  and more shortly, Bassing-Bourne, and gave Arms, as is afore showed, & was painted about this old Hall. But this Family is worn out, and hath left the name to the place where they dwelled. Thus much for this Bassing Hall.  
Now how Bakewell Hall took that name, 
Bakewell Hall given to the City.  is another question: For which I read, that Thomas Bakewell dwelled in this house, in the 36. of Edward the third, and that in the 20. of Richard the second, the said King, for the sum of fifty pounds, which the Mayor and the Commonalty had paid into the Hanapar, granted licence, so much as was in him, to john Frosh, William Parker, and Stephen Spilman (Citizens and Mercers) that they, the said Message, called Bakewell Hall, and one Garden, with the appurtenances, in the Parish of St. Michael of Bassing Haugh, and of St. Laurence in the jewry of London, and one Message, two Shops, and one Garden, in the said Parish of S. Michael, which they held of the King in Burgages, might give and assign to the Mayor and Commonalty for ever.  
This Bakewell Hall thus established, 
Bakewell Hall a Market place for woollen clothes.  hath been long since employed, as a weekly Market place for all sorts of woollen clothes, broad and narrow, brought from all parts of this Realm there to be sold. In the 21. of Richard the second, Richard Whitington, Maior; and in the 22. Drew Barringtine being Mayor, it was decreed, that no Foreign or Stranger should sell any woollen cloth, but in the Bakewell Hall, upon pain of forfeiture thereof.  
This house (of late years) growing ruinous, & in danger of falling, Richard May, Merchant-Taylor, at his decease gave towards the new building of the outward part thereof, 300. pounds, upon condition that the same should be performed within 3. years after his decease. 
Bakewell Hall new builded.  Whereupon the old Bakewell Hall was taken down, and in the month of February next following, the foundation of a new, strong, and beautiful Storehouse being laid, the work thereof was so diligently applied, that within the space often months after, to the charges of 2500. pounds, the same was finished, in the year 1588.  
Next beyond this house, are placed diverse fair houses for Merchants, and others, till ye come to the back gate of Guild-Hall, which gate, and part of the building within the same, is of this Ward. Some small distance beyond this gate, 
Cooper's Hall.  the Cooper's have their common Hall.  
Then is the Parish Church of Saint Michael, 
Parish Church of S. Michael.  called St. Michael at Bassing Hall, a proper Church, lately re-edified or new builded: whereto john Burton, Mercer, and Agnes his wife, were great Benefactors; as appeareth by his mark, placed throughout the whole Roof of the Choir, and middle I'll of the Church. He deceased in the year 1460. and was buried in the Choir, with this Epitaph:  
john Burton lieth under here,  
Sometimes of London Citizen & Mercer;  
And Jenet his wife with their progeny,  
Been turned to earth, as ye may see.  
Friends free, what so ye be,  
Pray for us, we you pray;  
As you see us in this degree,  
So shall you be another day.  
Francis Cook, john Martin, Edward Bromflit, Esquire of Warwickshire, 1460.  
Richard Barnes, sir Roger Roe, Roger Velden, 1479.  
Sir james Yerforde, Mercer, Maior, deceased 1527. buried under a fair Tomb, with his Lady, in a special Chapel by him builded, on the north side of the Quire.  
Sir john Gresham, Mercer, Maior, deceased, 1554. Sir john Ailife, Chirurgeon, than a Grocer, one of the Sheriffs, 1548. Nicholas Bakhurst, one of the Sheriffs, 1577. Sir Wolston Dixi, Skinner, Maior, 1585. And sir Leonard Hallyday, Maior, 1605. but no Monuments were made for them, nor so much as any Grave-stone laid.  
Hereunder lieth buried the bodies of Sir james Yerforde, 
An ancient Monument in the North I'll of the Quire.  Knight, Mercer, and sometimes Lord Mayor of this City of London; and of Dame Elizabeth, his wife. The which Sir james deceased the 22. day of june, An. Dom. 1527. And the said Elizabeth deceased the 18. day of August, An. Dom. 1548.  
In Chirurgery brought up in youth,  
a Knight here lieth dead; 
An ancient Marble 〈◊〉 in the Chancel   
A Knight, and eke a Surgeon such,  
as England seld hath bred.  
For which so sovereign gift of God,  
wherein he did excel,  
King Henry 8. called him to Court,  
who loved him dearly well.  
God gave the gift, the king gave goods,  
the gift of God t' enhance;  
Where God & such a Prince do join,  
such man hath happy chance.  
King Edward for his service sake,  
bade him rise up a Knight;  
A name of praise, and ever since,  
he Sir john Ailife height.  
Right Worshipful, in name and charge,  
in London lived he than;  
In Blackwell Hall, the Merchant chief,  
first Sheriff, than Alderman. 
Blakewell Hall was his dwelling house   
The Hospitals bewail his death,  
the Orphan children moan,  
Their chief Erector being dead,  
and Benefactor gone.  
Dame Isable, who lived with him,  
his faithful Wife and Make,  
With him (as dearest after death)  
doth not her Knight forsake.  
The Knight, 
1548.  the 24. of October  
yielded up his breath,  
And she soon after followed,  
to live with him in death.  
Here lieth buried under this Tomb, 
An ancient Marble tomb in the South I'll of the Quire.  the body of Sir john Gresham, Knight; sometime Alderman and Lord Mayor of this City of London; who had two wives, Dame Mary his first wife, by whom be had issue five sons and six daughters: by Dame Katherine, his last wife, no issue. Which Sir john deceased the 23. day of October, Anno Domini, 1556. And Dame Mary died the 21. day of September, 1538. Dame Katherine died,—  
His jacet Dom. Richard. Sarich, 
Under the Communion Table.  quondam Rector istius Eccles. Qui obiit 13. Novemb. An. Dom. 1359. Cujus animae propitieture Deus.  
Thus have you noted one Parish Church of St. Michael Blackwell Hall, a Market place for woollen clothes; the Mason's Hall, Weavers Hall, Girdlers' Hall, and Cooper's Hall. And thus I end this Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy, for Common Counsel four, Constables two, Scavengers two, for the Wardmote inquest seventeen, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen in London 7. pounds, and likewise in the Exchequer at 7. pounds.   

CREPLEGATE WARD.  
THe next Ward is called of Creplegate, 
Creplegate Ward.  and consisteth of diverse streets & lanes, lying as well without the Gate and Wall of the City, as within. First, within the Wall on the East part thereof, towards the North, it runneth to the west side of Bassing Hall Ward: & towards the South, it joineth to the Ward of Cheap, it beginneth at the west end of St. Laurence Church in the jury, on the North side, and runneth west to a Pump, where sometime was a Well with 2. Buckets, at the South corner of Alderman bury street, which street runneth down North to Gayspur lane, & so to London Wall, which street and lane are wholly (on both sides) of this Ward, and so be some few houses (on both the sides) from Gayspur lane, by and against the Wall of the City, East to the Grates, made for the watercourse of the channels, and west to Creplegate.  
Now on the South side, 
From the Standard to the Cross in Cheap, on the North side, is of Creplegate Ward.  from overagainst the west end of Saint Laurence Church to the Pump, & then up Milk-street, South unto Cheap, which Milk-street is wholly (on both the sides) of Creplegate Ward, as also without the South end of Milkstreet, a part of West Cheap, to wit, from the Standard to the Cross, is all of Creplegate Ward. Then down great Woodstreet, which is wholly of this Ward on both the sides thereof; so it little Woodstreet, which runneth down to Creplegate.  
Out of this Woodstreet be diverse lanes; namely, on the East side is Lad lane, which runneth East to Milkstreete corner; down lower in Woodstreet is Love lane, which lieth by the South side of S. Alban Church in Woodstreet, and runneth down to the Conduit in Aldermanburic street. Lower down in Woodstreet, is Addlestreete, out of the which runneth Philip lane down to London Wall. 
Philip lane.  These be the Lanes on the East side.  
On the west side of Woodstreet, is Huggen lane, by the South side of S. Michael's Church, and goeth thorough to Gutherous lane. Then lower is Maiden lane, which runneth West to the North end of Gutherons' lane, and up the said Lane on the East side thereof, till against Kery lane, and back again: then the said Maiden Lane, on the North side, goeth up to Staining lane, and up a part thereof on the East side, to the farthest North part of Haberdasher's Hall; and back again to Woodstreet, and there lower down is Silverstreete, which is of this Ward, till ye come to the East end of St. Olaves' Church on the South side, and to Monkes-well street on the North side; then down the said Monkes-well street on the East side thereof, and so to Creplegate, do make the bounds of this Ward within the walls.  
Without Creplegate Forestreete runneth thwart before the Gate, from against the North side of Saint Giles Church, along to More lane end, and to a Postern lane end, that runneth betwixt the Town ditch on the South, and certain Gardens on the North, almost to Moregate; at the East end of which lane is a Potmakers house, which house, with all other the Gardens, Houses, and Allies on that side to Morefields, till ye come to a Bridge and Cowhouse, near unto Fensbury Court, is all of Creplegate Ward.  
Of these Morefields you have formerly read, 
An. 1477. Rose joccline then being L. Maior.  what a moorish rotten ground they were, unpassable, but for Cawswaies purposely made to that intent; what they were also in our own nearer times of memory, even till Sir Leonard Hallyday was Lord Mayor of London, I am very well assured many do perfectly remember: And what they are now at this instant, by the honourable cost and care of this City, and the industrious pains and diligence of that worthy Citizen, Master Leate, we all (to our continual comfort) do evidently behold. M. john Speed, my especial kind friend; acquainted me with the draught of a Map, done after that true shape and model, as at the first (by the forenamed Gentleman) they were intended, and laboured with the then Lord Maior, and Court of Aldermen, that the same might have been accordingly effected. But how it was prevented, I know not, only I purposed to have been at so much charge, as to have had that Map (in some apt & convenient form) printed in this book: but that I could not attain thereto; being promised, that at the next impression I shall have it.  
For the Walks themselves, and continual care of the City, to have them in that comely & worthy manner maintained: I am certainly persuaded, that our thankfulness to God being first truly performed, they are no mean cause of preserving health and wholesome air to the City, and such an eternal honour thereto, as no iniquity of time shall ever be able to deface.  
Then to turn back again through the said Postern lane to More lane, which More lane, with all the Allies and buildings there, is of this Ward. After that is Grubstreete, more than half thereof to the straightening of the street, next is White-crosse street, up to the end of Beech lane; and then Red-crosse street wholly, with a part of Golding lane, even to the Posts there placed, as a bounder.  
Then is Beech lane before spoken of, the East side of the Red-crosse, and the Barbican street, more than half thereof, toward Aldersgate street, and so have you all the bounds of Creplegate Ward without the walls.  
Now for Antiquities and Ornaments in this Ward, to be noted: I find, first at the meeting of the corners of the Old jury, 
A Pump at the corner of Alderman-bury street.  Milkstreet, Lad lane, and Alderman bury, there was (of old time) a fair Well with two Buckets, of late years converted to a Pump. How Alderman bury street took that name, many fables have been bruited, all which I overpasse, as not worthy the counting: but to be short, I say, this street took the name of Alderman's bury (which is to say, a Court) there kept in their Bery, or Court Hall, now called the Guild Hall, which Hall (of old time) stood on the East side of the same street, not far from the West end of Guild Hall now used.  
Touching the Antiquity of this old Alderman's bury or Court, I have not read other, 
〈…〉 Alderman bury Hall by Alderman bury Church.  than that Richard Renery, one of the Sheriffs of London, in the first of Richard the first, which was in the year of Christ, 1189. gave to the Church or Saint Mary at Osney by Oxford, certain ground and rents in Alderman bury of London, as appeareth by the Register of that Church, as is also entered into the Hoisting of the Guild Hall in London.  
This old Bery, Court, or Hall continued, and the Courts of the Mayor & Aldermen were continually holden there, until the new Bery, Court, or Gild hall that now is, was builded & finished, which Hall was first begun to be founded in the year 1411. and was not fully finished in 20. years after. I myself have seen the ruins of the old Court Hall, in Alderman-bury street, which of late hath been employed as a Carpenter's yard, etc.  
In this Alderman-bury street be diverse fair houses on both the sides, meet for Merchants or men of worship, & in the midst thereof is a fair Conduit, made at the charges of W. Eastfield, sometime Mayor, who took order as well for water to be conveyed from Teyborne, & for the building of this Conduit, not far distant from his dwelling house; as also for a Standard of sweet water to be erected in Fleetstreet, all which was done by his Executors, as elsewhere is showed.  
Then is the Parish Church of S. Mary Aldermanburic, 
Parish Church of S. Mary Aldermanburic.  a fair Church, with a Churchyard & Cloister adjoining, in the which Cloister is hanged & fastened a shanke-bone of a man (as is said) very great, 
Shanke-bone of a man 28. inches & a half long.  and larger by 3. inches & a half, than that which hangeth in S. Laurence Church in the jury; for it is in length 28. inches and a half of assize, but not so hard and steely, like as the other, for the same is light, and somewhat pory and spongy. This bone is said to be found amongst the bones of men removed from the Charnel house of Paul's, or rather from the Cloister of Paul's Church: of both which reports I doubt, for that the late Rein Wolf, 
Rein Wolf a grave Antiquary, collected the great Chronicles, increased, & published by his Executors, under the name of Ralph Holenshead.  Stationer (who paid for the carriage of those bones from the Charnel to the More-fields) told me of some thousands of Car loads and more to be conveyed, whereof he wondered; but never told of any such bone in either place to be found, neither would the same have been easily gotten from him, if he had heard thereof, except he had reserved the like for himself, being the greatest preserver of antiquities in those parts for his time.  
True it is, that this bone (from whence soever it came) being of a man, as the form showeth) must needs be monstrous, and more than after the proportion of five shank bones of any man now living amongst us. There lie buried in this Church Simon Winehcombe, Esquire, 1391. Robert Combarton, 1422. john Wheatly, Mercer, 1428. Sir William Estfild, Knight of the Bath, Maior, 1438. a great Benefactor to that Church, under a fair Monument: he also builded their steeple, changed their old Bells into 5. tuneable Bells, and gave 100 l. to other works of that Church.  
Moreover, 
Conduit in Aldermanburic.  he caused the Conduit in Aldermanburic, which he had begun, to be performed at his charges, and water to be conveyed by pipes of Lead, from Teyborne to Fleetstreet, as I have said. And also from High Bery, to the parish of S. Giles without Creplegate, where the Inhabitants of those parts incastellated the same in sufficient Cisterns. john Middleton, Mercer, Maior, 1472. john Tomes, Draper, 1486. William Buck, Taylor, 1501. Sir William Browne, Maior, 1507. Dame Margaret jenings, wife to Stephen jenings, Maior, 1515. A Widow, named Starkey, sometime wife to Mody. Ralph Woodcock, Grocer, one of the Sheriffs, 1586. Dame Mary Gresham, wife to Sir john Gresham, 1528. Thomas Godfrey, Remembrancer of the Office of the First fruits.  
Thomas Digges, Esquire, son and heir of Leonard Digges, of Wotton, in the County of Kent, Esquire, & of Bridget his wife, daughter to Thomas Wilford, Esquire, which Thomas deceased the 24. day of August, An. Dom. 1595.  
Agnes, 
A fair Tomb in the North side of the Chancel.  wife to Thomas Digges, Esquire, daughter of Sir William Sentleger, Knight, and of Ursula his wife, daughter of George Nevil, Lord of Aburgaveny, by whom the said Thomas had issue, Dudley, his son and heir; Leonard, his second son; Margaret and Ursula, now living, beside William and Mary, who died young.  

Deo Opt. Max. & memoriae.  
Hic resurrectionem mortuorum expectat Thomas Digsaeus, Armiger, ex Antiqua Digsaeorum in Cantia Familia oriundus, vir fide & pietate in Deum singulari, rei militaris admodum peritus, optimarum literarum studiosus, & scientiis Mathematicis ad miraculum (ut ex libris editis constat) eruditissimus: Quem Deus in Coelestem Patriam, Anno salutis, 1595. evocavit: charissimo Marito Vxor moestissima posuit.  
Here lieth in an assured hope to rise in Christ, Thomas Digges, Esquire, sometime Muster-Master of the English Army in the Low-countrieses: A man zealously affected to true Religion, wise, discreet, courteous, faithful to his friends, and of rare knowledge in Geometry, Astrology, and other Mathematical sciences: who finished this transitory life with a happy end, in Anno 1595.  
That the dead might live, Christ died.  
Here lieth buried, 
A plated stone by the Communion Table.  Elizabeth Norreis, daughter of the right Honourable Sir Henry Norreis, Knight, Lord Norreis of Ricot, who deceased the 18. day of April, 1574.  
Armig. hic Jon. Constantinus positus; 
A marvellous ancient plated stone.  genetrici subjacet; aeternè laetenur in arce polorum. Qui Februo cessit. Mil. 1. Cent. quatuor bis & octo.  
Here lieth entombed, 
A very fair Tomb in the South side of the Quire.  Ralph Woodcock, Grocer and Alderman of London, who departed this life the first day of September, 1586. aged, 67. years. He had four wives, Helen Collier, by whom he had five son and three daughters.  
Good Bower, by whom he had ten sons and five daughters. Elinor Carew, by whom he had one daughter. And Mary Lovyson, by whom he had no issue.  
Elizabeth, 
A fair plated stone by the Communion Table.  whose  
husband Davy hight,  
Lieth buried here till  
time the Trumpet blow:  
But sure the heavens  
possess her sacred spirit,  
Her virtuous life and  
godly end did show.  
And they that knew her  
paths of perfect love,  
The sundry gifts that  
garnished her life,  
Can witness well, and  
by her end approve,  
There seldom hath been  
seen a better wife.  
Give God the praise for  
such her happy race:  
And pray, that we  
like virtues may embrace.  
She died the 12. day of August, 1569.  
Beneath this Church have ye Gayspur lane, 
Gayspur lane.  which runneth down to London Wall, 
Priory or Hospital called, Elsing spital.  as is afore showed. In this lane, at the North end thereof, was (of old time) a house of Nuns, which house being in great decay, Wil Elsing, Mercer, in the year of Christ, 1329. the 3. of Edward the 3. began in place thereof the foundation of an Hospital, for sustentation of 100 blind men. Towards the erection whereof, he gave his 2. houses in the Parishes of S. Alphage, & our blessed Lady in Aldermanburic, near Creplegate.  
This house was after called a Priory or Hospital of S. Marry the Virgin, founded in the year 1332. by W. Elsing, for Canons regular: the which W. became the first Prior there. Robert Elsing, son to the said W. gave to the said Hospital, 12. l. by the year, for the finding of 3. Priests, he also gave 100 s. towards the enclosing of the new Churchyard without Ealdgate: 
Charter-house Churchyard without Aldosgate, and one other the like without Ealdgate.  and 100 s. to the enclosing of the new Churchyard without Aldersgate: to Tho. Elsing his son, 80. l. the rest of his goods to be sold, and given to the poor. This house valued, 193. l. 15. s. 5. d. was surrendered the eleventh of May, the 22. of Henry the 8.   

A brief remembrance of ZION College, in the Parish of Saint Alphage.  
IN the same place where the foresaid Elsing spital and Priory were formerly situated; 
A College for the Clergy of London.  there is now newly erected a College for the Clergy of London, and liberties thereof, called by the name of Zion College: And Almshouses for twenty poor people, ten men, and ten women.  
This was done by the especial care and pains of M. john Simson, Rector of S. Olaves Hartstreet London, one of the Executors of the last Will and Testament of M. Thomas White, 
Doctor White of S. Dunstanes in the West.  Doctor in Divinity, Vicar of S. Dunstanes in the west, and one of the Canon's Residentiary of S. Paul's Church London: which forenamed Thomas White (besides sundry sums of money, and great yearly 〈…〉 by him to pious and charitable uses in diverse places) gave 3000. l. to purchase and build the foresaid College for the use of the Clergy, and Almshouses for the 20. poor people aforesaid.  
He also gave unto the said College and Almshouses 160. l. per annum for ever, 
An hundred and threescore pounds yearly allowed.  whereof there is 120. l. yearly allowed for the maintenance of the poor Almesmen & women. And 40. l. yearly for 4. dinners for the Clergy, who are to have 4. Latin Sermons in the year; one every quarter, and upon these days are to dine together in the College.  
In the same College the aforenamed john Simson did in his life time at his own proper costs and charges build a very fair and spacious Library, 
A fair & goodly Library in Zion College.  containing 121. foot in length, within the walls, & above 25. foot in breadth. And hath furnished it with wainscot, stalls, desks, seats, and other necessary and useful ornaments befieting the place.  
He likewise at his cost and charges erected the new building adjoining to the Library, 
A new building joined to the Library.  all along the Southside of the College Court, for lodging for the Governors, or others at their appointment.  
to this Library there have been already diverse bountfull and well disposed Benefactors, 
Liberal Benefactors to the Library, & their gift.  who have given large sums of money towards the furnishing of it with books.  
The right Honourable Paul, Lord Viscount Bayning, gave fifty pounds.  
The right Honourable Anne, Vicountesse Bayning, his wife, gave 50. l.  
Sir George Croke, Knight, one of his Majesty's justices of his Pleas before him assigned to be holden, gave 100 l.  
Rebecca, Lady Rumney, widow to Sir William Rumney, late Alderman of London, gave 100 l.  
M. Thomas Gonnell, late Citizen and Merchant-Adventurer of London, gave by his Will 100 l.  
M. john Greenough, late Citizen and Woolman of London, gave by his Will fifty pounds.  
M. Robert Parkhurst, Citizen and Alderman of London, gave fifty pounds.  
Besides diverse others; whose names, legacies, gifts, and books bought therewith: are (by way of a grateful memorial) registered in a fair Book kept in the Library.  
The Monuments that were in this Church defaced, Thomas Cheney, son to William Cheney, Thomas, john, and William Cheney, john Northampton, Draper, Maior, 1381. Edmond Hungerford, Henry Frowike, joan, daughter to Sir William Cheney, wife to William Stokes, Robert Edarbroke, Esquire, 1460. Dame joan Ratcliff, William Fowler, William Kingston, Thomas Swineley, and Helen his wife, etc.  
The principal I'll of this Church, towards the North, was pulled down, & a frame of four houses set up in place: the other part from the steeple upward, was converted into a Parish Church of S. Alphage, 
Parish Church of S. Alphage.  & the Parish Church which stood near unto the Wall of the City by Creplegate, was pulled down, the plot thereof made a Carpenter's yard, with saw-pits.  
The Hospital itself, the Prior, and Canon's house, with other Lodgings, were made a dwelling house, the Churchyard is a Garden plot, and a fair Gallery on the Cloister: the lodgings for the poor are translated into stabling for horses.  
In the year 1541. Sir john Williams, Master of the King's Jewels, dwelling in this house, on Christmas Even at night, about seven of the clock, 
Elsing spital burned.  a great fire began in the Gallery thereof, which burned so sore, that the flame firing the whole house, and consuming it, was seen all the City over, and was hardly quenched; whereby many of the King's jewels were burned, and more imbeselled (as was said.)  
Sir Rowland Hayward, Maior, dwelled in this spital, & was buried there, 1593. Richard Lee, alias, Clarenciaulx, King of Arms, 1597.  
Here lieth the body of Sir Rowland Hayward, 
A very goodly Monument in the wall of the Choir on the South side.  Knight, twice Lord Mayor of this City of London, and living an Alderman the space of 30. years, and (at his death) the ancientest Alderman of the said City. He lived beloved of all good men, and died (in great credit and reputation) the fifth day of December, Ann. Dom. 1593. And the 36. year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth. He had two virtuous wives, and by them many happy children.  
joan, daughter of William Tillesworth, Esquire, was the first wife to Sir Rowland Hayward, by whom he had issue, 3. sons and 5. daughters, which 3. sons, and 2. of the daughters died in their infancy. The eldest of the surviving daughters, named Elizabeth, was first married to Richard Waren, Esquire, and (after his decease) to Thomas Knevet, Esquire, one of her Majesty's Privy Chamber. Susanna, the second daughter, was married to Henry Townsend, Esquire. joan the third daughter, was married to john Thin, Esquire.  
Katherine, the second wife of Sir Rowland Hayward, was daughter to Thomas Smith, Esquire, by whom he had likewise issue three sons and five daughters, whereof one son and one daughter died infants. The two sons and four daughters yet living, are George, john, Alice, Katherine, Mary, and Anne, all young, and unmarried at their father's death.   

Decus vitae, est honorata Mors.  
This Tomb was erected by the appointment of Edward Pilsworth, and William Cotton, Citizens of London, and Executors of the said Sir Rowland.  Here lieth buried under this stone the body of Robert Hodgson, 
A Grave-stone at the entrance into the Choir door.  Esquire, one of the Auditors of the Queen's Majesty's Court of Exchequer, who died the 26. day of May, in the year of our Lord 1577. 
Now to return to Milkestreet, so called of milk sold there, there be many fair houses for wealth Merchants and other: among the which I read, that Gregory Rokesley, 
Gregory Rokesley, Maior of London, his house rend 20. shillings the year.  Maior of London, in the year 1275. dwelled in this Milkstreete, in an house belonging to the Priory of Lewes in Sussex, whereof he was Tenant at will, paying 20. s. by the year without other charge: such were the rents of those times.  
In this Milkestreete, 
Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen.  is a small Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, which hath of late years been repaired: William Browne, Maior, 1513. gave to this Church forty pounds, and was buried there. Thomas Exmew, Maior, 1528. gave forty pounds, and was buried there: so was john Milford, one of the Sheriffs, 1375. john Olney, Maior, 1475. Richard Rawson, one of the Sheriffs, 1476. Henry Kelsey. Sir john Browne, Maior, 1497. Thomas Muschampe, one of the Sheriffs, 1463. Sir William Cantilow, Knight, Mercer, 1462. Henry Cantilow, Mercer, Merchant of the Staple, who builded a Chapel, and was buried there, 1495. john West, Alderman, 1517. john Machel, Alderman, 1558.  
Thomas Skinner, Clothworker, Mayor, 1596.  
Here lieth the corpse of Thomas Skinner, late Citizen and Alderman of London, 
A comely Monument in the South I'll of the Quire.  borne at Saffron Walden in Essex, who in the 63. year of his age, and on the 5. day of December, Anno Dom. 1596. being then Lord Mayor of this City, departed this life, leaving behind him three sons, john, Thomas, and Richard: and three daughters, Aunc, julian, and Elizabeth.  
Here lieth interred the body of Mistress Mary Collet, wife of M. John Collet, Citizen and Salter of London, who deceased the 22. of December, An. Dom. 1613. being aged 35. years.  
This Marble witness, 
A fair Stone in the same I'll before the Monument forenamed.   
dew-dropt with the eyes  
Of grieved Niobe, ●els  
thee, that here lies  
Her second husband joy,  
her first content,  
Her parent's comfort,  
her friend's ornament,  
Her neighbours welcome,  
her dear kindred's loss,  
Her own health's foe,  
deeming all pleasure dross,  
The world a jail, whence,  
through much pain we see  
Her soul at length  
hath purchased liberty;  
And soared on high where  
here Redeemer lives:  
Who (for her torment)  
rest and glory gives.  
Here lie the bodies of Gerard Gore, 
A comely 〈◊〉 the Chancel, by another much more ancient Tomb of Henry Cantilowe.  Citizen, Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, and of Helen his wife: who lived together married 57 years. The said Gerard died the 11. day of December, 1607. in the 91. year of his age. And she departed this life the 13. day of February, in the foresaid year, being 75. years old.  
Here lieth the body of Thom. Henshawe, 
A fair Stone at the entrance into the Quire.  Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, who had to wife Flower Henshawe, and had issue by her 9 sons, and 4. daughters. He deceased the 11. day of january, 1611. aged, 76. years: and she died the 6. of March, 1615. aged, about 60. years.  
Here lieth the body of sir William Stone, 
A very fair Monument in the Chancel on the North side.  Knight, free of the Clothworkers and Turkey Companies, sometime Alderman of this City. He was the son of Reynold Stone, Citizen and Fishmonger of London. The said Sir William departed this life the 14. of September, 1609. aged, 63. years, etc.  

As the Earth, the  
Earth doth cover,  
So under this stone  
lies another.  
Sir William Stone,  
who long deceased,  
E'er the world's love  
him released,  
So much it loved him.  
For they say,  
He answered death  
before his day,  
But 'tis not so:  
for he was sought  
Of one that both him  
made and bought.  
He remained  
the great Lords treasure,  
Who called for him  
at his pleasure,  
And received him.  
Yet be'it said,  
Earth grieved that heaven  
so soon was paid.   

Here likewise lies  
inhumed in one bed,  
Dame Barbara,  
the well-beloved wife  
Of this remembered Knight:  
whose souls are fled  
From this dim Vale,  
to everlasting life.  
Where no more change,  
nor no more separation  
Shall make them fly  
from their blessed habitation.   

Grass of levity,  
Span in brevity,  
Flowers felicity,  
Fire of misery,  
Wind's stability  
Is mortality.   

Their Riches were  
like corn lent to the field,  
What it received  
it manifold did yield.  
Their bodies have a grave  
their virtues none,  
But shall with time grow green,  
when they are gone.   

Stone walls, brass Towers,  
decay as flowers:  
One gone, their good  
is, Lo, here they stood.  
So transitory  
is our glory.   
This Stone, 
A comely Monument in the east end of the South I'll.  this Verse,  
too Mountford's do present,  
The corpse of one,  
the others Monument:  
Two lovely brethren,  
by their virtues known,  
Whom Cambridge, and  
King's College called their own.  
Osbert and Richard,  
of which worthy pair,  
The first employed  
by Sea in great affair,  
Made Heaven his Haven,  
and at that Port, the other  
(By land) did overtake  
his elder Brother.  
So now the bones  
of both are laid asleep,  
These in this Church,  
those in the Eastern Deep:  
Till all the dead  
shall wake from Sea and Land,  
Before the judge  
of quick and dead to stand.  
Amen.  
We sonless parents,  
yet not childless left,  
Bewail (as men)  
our seed untimely reft.  
As Christians, we hope,  
and joy, and say;  
Heaven is our home,  
and thither, Death the way.  
By Sea or Land,  
it skils not, so we mind  
The Faithful Pilgrims  
narrow path to find.  

Mort. Osbert, Mense Decemb. 1614  
Mort. Richard, Mense jan. 1615.   
Then next is Woodstreet, 
Woodstreet.  by what reason so called, I know not; true it is, that (of old time) according to a Decree made in the reign of Richard the first, the houses in London were builded of stone, for defence of fire, which kind of building was used for two hundred years or more; but of later time, for the winning of ground, taken down, and houses of timber were set up in place. It seemeth therefore, that this street hath been of the later building, all of timber, (for not one house of stone hath been known there) and therefore called Woodstreet; otherwise it might take the name of some builder or owner thereof.  
Tho. Wood, one of the Sheriffs, in the year 1491. dwelled there: he was an especial Benefactor towards the building of S. Peter's Church at Woodstreet end, which is called Goldsmith's 〈◊〉, garnished with the likeness of Woodmen: his predecessors might be the first builders, owners and namers of this street, after their own name.  
On the East side of this street is one of the Prison houses, 
〈…〉.  pertaining to the Sheriffs of London, and is called the Compter in Woodstreet, which was prepared to be a prisonhouse, in the year 1555. and on the Eve of S. Michael the Archangel, the prisoners that lay in the Compter in Breadstreet, were removed to this Compter in Woodstreet. Beneath this Compter is Lad Lane, 
Ladle lane, corruptly called Lad lane.  or Ladle Hall; for so I find it of Record, in the Parish of Saint Michael Woodstreet, and beneath that is Love Lane, 
Love lane.  so called of wantoness.  
By this Lane is the ancient Parish Church of S. Alban. 
Parish Church of S. Alban.  One note of the great antiquity of it, is the name: by which it was at first dedicated to Saint Alban, the first Martyr of England. Another character of the antiquity of it, is to be seen in the manner of the turning of the Arches in the windows, and heads of the Pillars. A third note appears in the Roman bricks, here and there inlaid amongst the stones of the building. Very probable it is, that this Church is at least of as ancient a standing, as King Adelstane the Saxon, who, as the Tradition says, had his house at the East end of this Church. This King's house having a door also into Adelstreet, in this Parish, gave name, as 'tis thought, unto the said Adelstreet: which in all Evidences to this day, is written King-Adelstreet. One great square Tower of this King's house seems yet remaining: to be seen at the North corner of Love Lane, as you come from Alderman-bury: which Tower is of the very same stone and manner of building with S. Albans Church. This Church, decayed with mere age, is this year beginning to be taken down, and to be new builded.  
It hath the Monuments of Sir Rich. Illingworth, Baron of the Exchequer, Thomas Catworth, Grocer, Mayor, 1443. john Woodcock, Maior, 1405. john Collet and Alice his wife: Ralph Thomas, Ralph and Richard, sons of Ralph Illingworth, which was son to Richard Illingworth, Baron of the Exchequer. Thomas, son of Thomas Fitzwilliams; Thomas Halton, Mercer, Maior, 1550. Thomas Ostrich, Haberdasher, 1483. Richard Swetenham Esquire; and William Dunthorne, Town-Clerke of London, with this Epitaph:  
●aelix prima dies  
postquam mortalibus aevi,  
Cesserit, hic morbus  
subit, atq, repentè senectus,  
Tum mors qua nostrum  
Dunthorn cecidisse Wile●mum,  
Haud cuiquam latuisse  
reor, dignissimus (inquam,)  
Artibus hic Doctor,  
necnon celeberrimus hujus  
Clericus Vrbis erat  
primus, nullique secundus,  
Moribus, ingenio,  
study, nil dixeris illi,  
Quin dederit natura  
boni, pius ipse modestus,  
Longanimus, solis  
patience, super omnia gratus,  
Quique sub immensas  
curas variosque labores,  
Anxius atteritur vitae,  
dum carpserit auras,  
Hoc tetro in tumulo,  
compostus pace quiescit.  
Simon Morsted, Thomas Pikehurst, Esquire, Richard Take, Robert Ashcombe, Thomas Lovet, Esquire, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1491. john Spoore, 1429. Katherine, daughter to Sir The Mirley, Knight, William Linchlade, Mercer, 1392. john Penny, Mercer, 1450. john Thomas, Mercer, 1485. Christopher Hawse, Mercer, one of the Sheriffs, 1503. William Sharborough, Vintner, Simon de Berching. Sir john Cheke, Knight, Schoolmaster to King Edward the 6. deceased, 1557. doth lie here.  
Hunc posuit Tumulum  
frater, 
A Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  superaddidit illi  
Triste Nepos Carmen;  
dignus utroque fuit.  
Cur Tumulum? justo  
ne funus honore careret.  
Cur Carmen? laudes  
ne tegerentur humo.  
Vita pia, & foelix mors,  
vitam morte prehendunt,  
Et pensant-Coeli  
munere, damna soli.  
Here lieth buried M. Albayne Hill, Doctor of Physic, who died the 26. day of December, An. Dom. 1559.  
Here also lieth buried Mistress Alice Hill, 
A monument in the South wall of the Chapel.  sometime wife to the said M. Dr. Hill: who died the last day of May, An. Dom. 1508.  
Ethelreda White, 
An ancient plate fixed in the wall of the North Chapel.  quondam uxor Henrici White, Armigeri, & unius filiarum & haeredum Roberti Frother, Aldermanni London. Quae quidem Ethelreda obiit in vigilia S. johan. Baptist. An. Regis Henrici 8. 26. An. Dom. 1534.  
The 13. day of September, 
A fair plated Grave-stone in the North Chapel of the Quire.  1557.  
Doctrinae tamen  
Chekus uterque Magister,  
Aurea naturae  
sabrica morre jacer.  
Non erat è multis  
unus, sed praestitir unus  
Omnibus & Patriae  
flos erat ille suae:  
Gemma Britanna fuit,  
tam magnum nulla tulerunt  
Tempora Thesaurum,  
tempora nulla ferent.  
Hic jacet Benedictus Trotter, 
A grave-stone in same Chapel.  nuper Civis, & Grocerus London, Mercator Stapulae villae Caliciae. Qui obiit ultimo die Mensis Octobris, 1496. Cujus, etc.  
Hic jacet Willielmus Hinchlade, 
A fair plated stone by the Communion Table.  quondam Civis & Mercerus London. Qui obiit 9 die januarii, An. Dom. 1392. Et Alicia uxor ejus. Quorum, etc.  
Of William Wilson, 
A fair plated stone in the body of the Church.  joan his wife,  
and Alice their daughter dear,  
These lines be left to give report,  
these three lie buried here;  
And Alice was Henry Deacons wife,  
which Henry lives on earth,  
And is the Sergeant Plummer unto  
Queen ELIZABETH.  
With whom this Alice left issue here,  
her virtuous daughter jane,  
To be his comfort every where,  
now joyful Alice is gone.  
And for these three departed souls,  
gone up to joyful bliss;  
Th' Almighty praise be given to God,  
to whom the glory is.  
Alice died, the eleventh day of March, 1572.  
Ad sacros cineres, 
A small Monument on a pillar in the middle I'll.  & piam memoriam Alleni Downer, Civis London, è libertate Potifica, & aetate & officio aliquando senioris, & Mariae Vxoris Parentum integritate quadrata, Thomas Filius unus, & uncus superstes, ultimum hoc pli & filialis amoris testamentum assert.  
Si vere dicunt  
monumenta monentia men●●●,  
Mille mihi monumenta  
pii posuenre parents.  
Ingratus ne sim  
monumento hoc miile rependo.  
Upon the Wall by the North door, a fair Monument in stone, with these inscriptions:   

Misericordiam Dei per Jesum Christum obtinuimus.  
Here lie the bodies of Anne, the wife of Laurence Gibson, Gent. and of their three sons. She was a most faithful and loving wife, and a right-religious, wise, virtuous and modest woman, and adorned with many other such excellent and commendable gifts and qualities, that she is worthy of perpetual memory. She was of the ancient Family of the Bamfords' in Lincolnshire: and the 29. day of December, 1611. she patiently and Christianly ended this mortal life.   

Spe resurgendi ad vitam aeternam requiescimus.  
Hoc moestissimus ejus maritus, in piam memoriam Vxoris suae, talis, tamque charissimae construi fecit: eundemque hic cum illa esse sepulturum sperat & exoptat.   

In Christo filii sumus Dei, & haeredes aeternae vicae.  

Mentis vis magna.  

What, is she dead?  
doth he survive?  
No: both are dead,  
and both alive.  
She lives, he's dead,  
by love, though grieving,  
In him, for her,  
yet dead, yet living.  
Both dead, and living?  
then what is gone?  
One half of both,  
not any one.   

One mind, one Faith,  
one hope, one Grave,  
In life, in death,  
they had, and still they have.    

Amor conjugalis aeternus.  

Hic jacet in requiem  
Woodcocke john, 
An Ancient Tomb in the Chancel, lately intruded on with new pews.  vir Generosus,  
Maior Londiniae,  
Mercerus, valdè morosus.   

Hic jacet Tom Shot-hose,  
sine Tomb, sine Sheets, sine Riches,  
Qui vixit sine Gown,  
sine Cloak, sine Shirt, sine Breeches.   
In the Vestry South Window, there is the figure of Thomas Heritagh, in a red Mantle: Right before him in another pane is the Mercer's Arms, of which Company (it seems) he was free. This man was the builder of this Vestry-house.  
At the East end of the Chancel, on the right hand, is a fair Monument, with this inscription:  
To the sacred Memory of Thomas Shelly, eldest son and heir of Henry Shelly of Patcham in the Country of Sussex, Esquire, departed this life the second day of Decemb. 1620. being 23. years of age: by his most sorrowful wife, Marry Shelly, eldest daughter of Thomas Stephens of the middle Temple, Esquire, Attorney General to Prince Henry.  
If Youth, Religion,  
Virtue, and the rest  
Of Graces that  
in frail Man are the best,  
Could have consered long life,  
this Funeral Verse  
Had not so soon  
been offered at thy Hearse  
By thy sad Widow:  
whose Fate did allow  
Her only three week's  
happiness, to know  
How good thou wert:  
and what remains of life,  
To her yields sorrow:  
she was once a wife  
To such an husband,  
whose like 'twere in vain,  
And flattery to her grief,  
to hope again.  
But thou wert flesh,  
and that to earth must turn,  
Thy pure soul blessed;  
she only left to mourn.  
Adjoining to this on the right hand, is a fair Marble Monument in Oval:    

Deo Trino & Vno opt. max. sacrum, ac  
Aeternae Memoriae ornatissimae & laudatissimae feminae, Annae Walleriae in Icenis oriundae, unius atque unicae parentum prolis; Ingenio, Genio & Genere conspicuae: Guilielmi Waadi, Regii Consistorii sanctiorisque Concilii Serenissimae Heroinae, Dominae Elizabethae, Angliae, etc. Reginae, à secretis.   

Conjugis,  
Quae annos enata Xix in puerperio, 10. Calendas Septembris, Anno Salutis jesu merito restitutae, M. D.XIC. ex hac peritura ad perennam vitam emigravit.   

Cui  
Placidè in Christo gentis humanae sospitatore obdormienti, hoc mortale immortalis amoris Monumentum Conjux moestissimus posuit.  
On the South side of the Church, on the wall adjoining to the Vestry, is an ancient Monument, in the memory of Christopher Hawes, Mercer and Alderman of London, who died the 25. of October, 1508. and is interred in a Vault under the foundation of the Church.  
Then is Adle street, 
Adle street.  in old Evidences written King-Adel-street; and so called from King Adel stane the Saxon. At this present it is replenished with fair buildings on both fides: 
Pinner's Hall, now the Plasterers Hall.  Amongst which, there was sometime the Pinner's Hall: but that Company being decayed, it is now the Plasterers Hall.  
Not far from thence is the Brewer's Hall, 
Brewer's Hall.  a fair house: which Company of Brewers was incorporated by King Henry the sixth, in the 16. of his reign; confirmed by the name of Saint Mary and Saint Thomas the Martyr, the 19 of Edward the fourth.  
From the West end of this Adle street, Little Woodstreet runneth down to Creplegate: and somewhat East (from the Sun Tavern, against the wall of the City) is the Curriers Hall. 
Curriers Hall.   
Now on the West side of Woodstreet have ye Huggen lane, 
Huggen lane  so called of one Hugan, that of old time dwelled there. He was called Hugan in the Lane, as I have read in the 34. of Edward the first. This Lane runneth down by the South side of S. Michael's Church in Woodstreet; and so growing very narrow by means of late encroachments, to Guthurons' lane.  
The Parish Church of Saint Michael in Woodstreet is a proper thing, 
Parish Church of S. Michael in Woodstreet.  and lately well repaired. john Iue, Parson of this Church, john Forster, Goldsmith, and Peter Fikeldon, Taylor, gave two Messages and Shops, with Sollars, Cellars, and other Edifices, in the same Parish and street, and in Ladle Lane to the reparations of the Church, Chancel, and other works of charity, the 16 of Richard the second.  
The Monuments here, be of William Bambrough, the son of Henry Bambrough of Shardborough, 1392.  
William Turner, Waxe-Chaundler, 1400.  
john Peke, Goldsmith, 1441.  
William Taverner, Girdler, 1454.  
William Mancer, Ironmonger, 1465.  
john Nash, 1466. with an Epitaph.  
john Allen, Timber-monger, 1441.  
Robert Draper, 1500.  
john Lambard, Draper, Alderman, one of the Sheriffs of London, who deceased 1554. and was father to William Lambard, Esquire, well known by sundry learned Books that he hath published.  
john Medley, Chamberlain of London.  
john Marsh, Esquire, Mercer, and Common Sergeant of London, etc.  
Here lieth joh. Blount, Citizen and Clothworker of Lond. eldest son of W. Blount of Mauggareffield, 
A comely small Monument in the East end of the North Choir, in the wall.  in the County of Glocest. Esquire, who had to wife Anne Layton, of whom he had issue, six sons and eight daughters, and lived together man and wife nine and twenty years, in worshipful and good reputation, and died at the age of threescore and three years, the first day of May, 1599  
Here lieth the body of Nicholas Waren, 
A smaller Monument in the same I'll and wall.  Citizen and Grocer of London, borne at Whitby in Yorkshire, who had to wife Margaret Crome, who lived together married two and twenty years and eleven months. He died in joy and peace of a faithful confession, the tenth day of April, 1614 being about the age of two and fifty years.   

JOB 17. Vers. 5.  
My breath is corrupt, my days are cut off, the Grave for me.  
The body of William Harvie, 
A comely Monument in the same wall & Ile.  Citizen and Grocer of London, and Deputy to the Alderman of this Ward of Creplegate within, was buried the twentieth day of March, Anno Domini, 1597. of the age of 68 years. Maudlin, his first wife, by whom he had issue, four sons and one daughter, was buried the 16. day of November, 1581. Margaret, his second wife, by whom he had issue, one son, was buried the 14. of january, 1593. Joan, his third wife, survived.  
Robert Harvie, 
A Memory on the same Monument.  his eldest son, Citizen and Grocer of London, was buried in his Father's Grave the ninth of November, 1608. out of his house in the Old jewry, being of the age of 47. years, 5. months, and 10. days; when he had served his Prince, controller of the Customhouse, and Warden of the Grocers. He had to wife Sara Audley, of whom he had issue, three sons and three daughters, etc.  
There is also (but without any outward Monument) the head of james, 
james, the 4. King of Scots, his head buried in S. Michael's Church in Woodstreet.  the fourth King of Scots of that name; slain at Flodden field, and buried here by this occasion: After the Battle, the body of the said King being found, was closed in Lead, and conveyed from thence to London, and so to the Monastery of Sheyne in Surrey, where it remained for a time, in what order I am not certain. But since the dissolution of that house, in the reign of Edward the sixth, Henry Grace, Duke of Suffolk, being lodged and keeping house there; I have been showed the same body, so lapped in Lead, close to the head and body, thrown into a waste room amougst the old Timber, Led, and other rubble. Since the which time, workmen there (for their foolish pleasure) hewed off his head: And Lancelot Young, Master Glazier to Queen Elizabeth, feeling a sweet savour to come from thence, and seeing the same dried from all moisture, and yet the form remaining, with the hair of the head and beard red; brought it to London, to his house in Woodstreet, where (for a time) he kept it for the sweetness: but in the end, caused the Sexton of that Church to bury it amongst other bones, taken out of their Charnel, etc.  
I read in diverse Records, 
Black Hall in Woodstreet, in S. Michael's Parish.  of a house in Woodstreet, then called Black Hall; but no man at this day can tell thereof.  
On the North side of this Saint Michael's Church, is Maiden lane, now so called, 
Ingene lane, or Maiden lane.  but (of old time) Ingenelane, or Inglane. In this Lane the Waxchandlers' have their Common Hall, 
Waxchandlers' Hall.  on the South side thereof: and the Haberdashers have their like Hall on the North side, at Staining lane end. This Company of the Haberdashers, 
Haberdashers Hall.  or Hurrers, of old time so called, were incorporated a Brotherhood of S. Katherine, 
Record in the Rolls  the 26. of Henry the 6. and so confirmed by Henry the seventh, the 17. of his reign; the Cappers and Hat-merchants, or Hurrers, being one Company of Haberdashers.  
Down lower in Woodstreet is Silver street, 
Silver street  (I think, of Silversmiths dwelling there) in which be diverse fair houses.  
And on the North side thereof is Monkes-well street, 
Monks-well street.  so called, of a Well at the North end thereof, where the Abbot of Garendon had an house or Cell, called Saint james in the Wall by Creplegate, and certain Monks of their house were the Chaplains there; wherefore the Well (belonging to that Cell or Hermitage) was called Monkes-well, and the street of the Well, Monkes-well street. The East side of this street, down against London wall, and the south side thereof to Creplegate, be of Creplegate Ward, as is afore showed.  
In this street, 
Bowyers' Hall.  by the corner of Monks-well street, is the Bowyers Hall.  
On the said East side of Monks-well street, 
Alms. houses in Monks-well street.  be proper Almshouses, twelve in number, founded by Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Salter, Maior, 1575. wherein be placed twelve poor and aged people rent-free, having each of them 7. pence the week, and once the year each of them five sacks of Charcoals, and one quarter of an hundred of Faggots, of his gift for ever.  
On the North side of the way, turning towards Creplegate, and even upon, or close to London Wall, (as it were) are certain new-erected Almshouses, six in number, of the cost and gift of Mr. Robert Rogers, Leather-seller, and very good maintenance allowed (for ever) to such people as are appointed to dwell in them.  
Then, in little Woodstreet, 
Alms. Chambers in little Woodstreet.  be seven proper Chambers in an Alley on the West side, founded for seven poor people, therein to dwell rent-free, by Henry Barton, Skinner, Maior, 1516.  
Thus much for the Monuments of this Ward within the Walls.  
Now without the Posteme of Creplegate, 
Parish Church of S. Giles without Creplegate▪  first is the Parish Church of Saint Giles, a very fair and large Church, lately repaired, after that the same was burned, in the year 1545. the 37. of Henry the eighth; by which mischance, the Monuments of the dead in this Church are very few. Notwithstanding, I have read of these following:  
Alice, William and john, wife and sons to T. Clarell.  
Agnes, daughter to Thomas Niter, Gentleman.  
William Atwell.  
Felix, daughter to Sir Thomas Guysors, and wife to Thomas Travars'.  
Thomas Mason, Esquire.  
Edmond Wartar, Esquire.  
joan, wife to john Chamberlain, Esquire, daughter to Roger Lewkner, Esquire.  
William Friar.  
john Hamberger, Esquire.  
Hugh Moresbye.  
Gilbert Prince, Alderman.  
Oliver Cherley, Gentleman.  
Sir john Wright, or Writhesley, alias Garter, King at Arms.  
joan, wife to Thomas Writhesley, son to Sir john Writhesley.  
Garter, daughter and heir to William Hall, Esquire.  
john Writhesley the younger, son to Sir john Writhesley and Eleanor.  
Eleanor, second wife to john Writhesley, daughter and heir to Thomas Arnold, sister and heir to Richard Arnold, Esquire.  
john, her son and heir.  
Margaret, with her daughter.  
john Brigget. Thomas Ruston, Gent.  
john Talbot, Esquire, and Katherine his wife.  
Thomas Warfle, and Isabel his wife.  
Thomas Lucy, Gentleman, 1447.  
Ralph Rochfort, Knight, 1409.  
Edmond Watar, Esquire.  
Elizabeth, wife to Richard Barns, sister and heir to Richard Malgrave Esquire, of Essex.  
Richard Govere, and john Govere, Esquires.  
Sir Henry Grey, Knight, son and heir to George Grey, Earl of Kent, 1562.  
Reginald Grey, Earl of Kent.  
Richard Choppin, Tallow-Chandler, one of the Sheriffs, 1530.  
john Hamber, Esquire, 1573.  
Thomas Busbie, Cooper, who gave the Queen's head Tavern to the relief of the poor in the Parish, 1575.  
john Wheler, Goldsmith, 1575.  
Richard Bolene, 1563.  
William Bolene, 1575.  
W. Bolene, Physician, 1587.  
Robert Crowley, Vicar there, all these four under one old stone in the Quire.  
The learned john Fox, Writer of the Acts and Monuments of the English Church, 1587.  
The skilful Robert Glover, alias Somerset, Herald, 1588.  
johannis Hambei, 
An ancient Marble Tomb on the North side of the Chancel.  Armigeri, caro hoc in Tumulo repulverescet, sicut & janae charissimae Conjugis. Qui dum vixit, Edovardo sexto, Mariae & Elizabethae Angliae Regibus, in variis calculorum & rationum generibus, tam praestitorum & exterorum, quam decimarum & primitiarum ratiocinator dignissimus extiterat. Obiit autem johannes 8. Calend. Aprilis, Anno Salutis à Christo, 1573. Quem Iana secundo post Mense insecuta est, 16. scilicet Calend. junii. Quorum spiritus ad Coelum reversi reassumptionem carnis expectant.  
Francisco Borono, Nobilissimi Mediolanensi, 
Another fair Marble Tomb close adjoining.  & Annae Baptistae Boroni uxori, necnon & filio; Quorum ossa hoc clauduntur Tumulo. Idem Baptista Baronus, Francisci frater, ac Annae maritus, in eorum memoriam hanc posuit scriptionem. Obiit Franciscus Londinensis, 16. die Aprilis, Anno Domini, M.D.XXXIII. Aetatis suae, XXXI. Anna vero & filius, ultimo die Octobris, M.D.XLVI.  
Hic jacet Henricus Giffard, filius tertiogenitus johannis Giffard, 
A small Monument at the South wall of the Chancel.  nuper de North-hall, in Comitatu Middless. Armigeri. Qui cum corporis castitatem quadraginta trium annorum coelibatu comprobasset, Animam Sponso suo jesu Christo piam sanctamque tradidit, 15. die julii, Anno Domini, 1602.   

Christo S. S.  johanni Foxo, 
A very faire Marble stone set up on end in the same wall.  Ecclesiae Anglicanae Martyrologo fidelissimo, Antiquitatis Historicae Indagatori sagacissimo, Evangelicae veritatis propugnatori acerrimo, Thaumaturgo admirabili; Qui Martyres Marianos, tanquam Phoenices, ex cineribus redivivos praestitit. Patri suo omni pietatis officio imprimis colendo, Samuel Foxus illius primogenitus, hoc Monumentum posuit, non sine lachrymis.  

Obiit die 18. Mens. April. An. Dom. 1587. jam septuagenarius. Vita vitae mortalis est, Spes vitae immortalis.  
Here lieth the body of Robert Crowley, 
A fair plated stone on the ground in the Chancel.  Clerke, late Vicar of this Parish; who departed this life the 18. day of june, An. Dom. 1588.  
Sacra sub hoc saxon  
tria corpora mista quiescunt, 
A Plate engraven on a fair stone near to the other.   
Gulielmi Bullen  
Medici, Fratrisque Richardi,  
Ac Johannis Foxi:  
qui tres mihi crede fuerunt  
Doctrina clari,  
rari & pietatis alumni.  
Gulielmus Bullen  
Medicamina semper habebat,  
Aequè pauperibus danda,  
ac locupletibus aequè.  
Sicque Richardus erat  
benefacere & ipse paratus,  
Omnibus ex aequo  
quibus ipse prodesse valebat.  
At Foxus noster  
per multas hos parasangas,  
Vita praecurrit,  
studiisque accedimus omnes.  
Extant quae scripsit  
tormenta cruenta piorum,  
Extant perdoctè  
permulta volumina scripta,  
Quae scripsit Foxus:  
nulli fuit ipse secundus.   

Obiit An. Dom. 1587. April. 16.  
Here lieth buried William Bullen, 
On the same stone.  who died the seventh day of january, 1576.  
Under this stone sleepeth the body of Richard Bullen, a faithful Servant and Preacher of jesus Christ: And was buried the sixteenth day of October, Anno Domini, 1563.  
Here lieth the body of Richard Western, one of the sons of Richard Western, 
Another plated stone in the Chancel.  of London, Grocer, who being aged 25. years, deceased the 15. day of December, Anno Domini, 1602.   

Christus mihi vita, Mors mihi lucrum.  
here lieth buried Sir Henry Grey, 
A fair Tomb in the South I'll of the Quire.  Knight, son and heir to George, Lord Grey, of Ruthen, and Earl of Kent. The which Sir Henry Grey departed this life the 24. day of September, in the year of Christ, 1562.  
Anna Thomae Tumulo  
jacet hoc uxorcula Strangae, 
A fair plated stone in the same I'll.   
Quae quia bella fuit,  
placuitque marita marito,  
Marmore sic texit,  
dulci devictus amore.   

Obiit Anno Salutis, 1573. Aetatis suae, 19 Februarii vicessimo quarto. Tolerandum, Sperandum. 
A comely Monument in the South wall of the Quire.   
Roberto Glovero, alias Somerset, Feciali celeberrimo: Heraldicae Scientiae, & veritatis antiquae, vindici acerrimo: summam laudem & benevolentiam ob praeclarum ingenium, per acre judicium; ex multa veterum scriptorum (labour indefesso) perscrutatione; ob morum facilitatem, vitaeque innocuae sanctimoniam, apud omnes consecuto; Auunculo chariss. Thomas Milles Nepos, amoris hoc Monumentum moerens posuit.  
Robertus iste, natus Ashsordiae Cantii emporio, parentibus ingenuis, liberaliter educatus, in multis apprimè versatus, Heraldicae unicè peritissimus evasit. Fratrem unicum Gulielmum ex Tho. & Mildreda P. P. Sorores autem 5. habuit. ex Elizabetha Flower Conjuge, 5. tantum, superstites reliquit liberos, filios scilicet 3. filiasque 2. Tandem cum jam Patriae orbique post varia exantlata studia acuminis peritiae, & diligentiae stupendae gustum insignem praebere, atque Principi Sereniss. suis meritis gratissimus esse ceperit. 10. April. 1518. aetat. suae 45. vitam erumnosam cum morte piè & placidè, in uno Christo commutavit. Idque omnium cum doctissimorum tum optimorum undique pro tanto literar. pietatis & virtutis alumno dolore ac gemitu utpote; Quem fata tantum terris ostendisse videantur, nec amplius esse sinant.  R. G. moriens ut viverat, vixit ut moriturus. 
In the North I'll of the Choir, hangeth up the Ensigns of Arms belonging to Thomas Hawley, alias Clarentiaulx, King at Arms, buried 1573. but no other Monument there made for him.  
Roger Mason, of this Parish, Citizen and Vintner of London, gave to the poor of the freedom of this Parish, 200. pounds, wherewith an yearly rent of 16. pounds or thereabout, is purchased for ever; to be bestowed on ten Gowns of black Cloth lined, to be distributed yearly upon ten poor men of the freedom of this Parish, upon All Saint's day, at the discretion of the Vicar, and Churchwardens for the time being. He died the 3. day of Septemb. 1603. Aetat-suae, 37. Leaving his wife jane, by whom he had three sons and three daughters; whereof one only now liveth, named Katherine. Which jane truly paid the above mentioned two hundred pounds, and joined the erection of this Monument, set up, An. Dom. 1606. May the 8. day: john Buckeridge, Doctor of Divinity, being Vicar; Edward Sikling, Richard May, David jones, and Roger Webbe, than Churchwardens.  
William Day, 
Another small Monument in the wall of the same I'll in the Quire.  Citizen and Vintner of London, the son of Thomas Day of Boseham, in Sussex, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, gave to the poor of this Parish 80. pounds, which was paid by his brother George Day, wherewith an yearly rent of six pounds, or thereabout, is purchased for ever: to be bestowed on twelve Coats of green Cloth, to be distributed yearly upon twelve poor Orphans, upon All Saint's day; at the discretion of the Vicar and Churchwardens for the time being. He lieth buried in his Parish Church of S. Michael in Cornhill, and died the 22. day of September, 1603. Aetatis suae, 32. Set up Anno Domini, 1606. May the 8. day: john Buckeridge, Doctor of Divinity, being Vicar, and the fore-remembred Churchwardens.  
Here lieth the body of Edward Harvist, 
A very fair Monument in the North wall of this I'll.  Citizen and Brewer of London, Alderman's Deputy of this Parish, and one of His Majesty's Gunners; and Anne his beloved wife. They were both very charitable persons: as in giving Land to this Parish perpetually, for the relief of poor Widows; as also Land to the Company whereof he was free, for mending of the high way between Edgeworth and Paddington. He gave great Legacies to his poor kindred, and departed this life the foureteenth day of March, 1610. She departed this life the four and twentieth day of May, Anno Domini, 1610. Expecting both a glorious resurrection in jesus Christ.   

A Remembrance of Tho. Busbie, Citizen and Cooper of London, who departed this life in the year 1575. and was buried the 11. day of july.  
This Busbie, 
A comely Monument by the other.  willing to relieve the poor,  
with fire and with bread,  
Did give the house wherein he dwelled,  
then called the Queens Head.  
Four full Loads of the best Charcoals  
he would have bought each year,  
And forty dozen of Wheaten Bread,  
for poor Householders here.  
To see these things distributed,  
this Busbie put in trust  
The Vicar and Churchwardens,  
thinking them to be just.  
God grant that poor Householders here,  
may thankful be for such;  
So God will move the minds of more,  
to do for them as much:  
And let this good example move  
such men as God hath blessed,  
To do the like, before they go  
with Busbie to their rest.  
Within this Chapel, Busbies' bones,  
in dust a while must stay,  
Till he that made them, raise them up,  
to live with Christ for ay.   

A Remembrance of Master Richard Roper, etc.  
If you on earth that live, 
An engraven Plate fixed in the wall.  did know  
what rest the dead possess,  
You would not wish to wander here,  
in Vale of wretchedness.  
Good Helen, wife to me that was,  
prepare thyself with speed,  
That thou and I, with this young Maid,  
a Plant of both our Seed,  
May rest in one, and rise in three,  
by power of Godheads might,  
When we with Angels shall assemble,  
to everlasting light.  
Richard Roper lived 70. years, and died the 28. day of Septemb. An. Dom. 1578.  
Helen Roper lived 65. years.  
joan Roper lived the age of two years.  
Within this I'll lieth buried the body of Charles Langley, sometime of this Parish, Alebrewer, who was buried the eighth day of june, An. Dom. 1602. And did give bountifully to the poor of this Parish.  
If Langleys life you list to know, 
A comely Monument in the wall beneath the Choir   
read on, and take a view,  
Of faith and hope I will not speak,  
his works shall show them true:  
Who whilst he lived, with counsel grave,  
the better sort did guide;  
A stay to weak, a staff to poor,  
without backbite or pride:  
And when he died, he gave his Mite,  
all that did him befall,  
For ever (once a year) to clothe  
S. Giles his poor withal.  
All Saints he pointed for the day,  
Gowns twenty ready made,  
with twenty Shirts, and twenty Smocks,  
as they may best be had.  
A Sermon eke he hath ordained,  
that God may have his praise,  
And other might be won thereby,  
to follow Langleys ways.  
On Vicar and Churchwardens then,  
his trust he hath reposed,  
As they will answer him one day,  
when all shall be disclosed.  
Thus being dead, yet still he lives,  
lives, never for to die,  
In Heaven's bliss, in World's fame;  
and so I trust shall I  


Lancelot Andrew's, Vicar.  
john Taylor, Wil Hewet,  
Edw. Sickling, Rich. May, Churchwardens.     

Charities to the poor in the Parish of Saint Giles without Creplegate.  
Master Thomas Busbie, 
Thomas Busbie his gift to the poor.  Cooper, gave forty dozen of Wheaten Bread, and four Loads of Charcoals, to be distributed yearly for ever unto the poor of this Parish, in manner following: The week before Alhallontide, one load of Charcoals, and ten dozen of bread; the week before Christmas; the week before the five and twentieth day of January; and the week before Easter, the foresaid proportion of bread and Coals.  
Mr. Blighton, 
Mr. Blighton his gift.  Butcher, gave 40. dozen of wheaten bread, and 2. load of Charcoals, to be distributed at the same time, and in the same proportion.  
Master Charles Langley, Brewer, gave twenty Gowns for men and women, 
Charles Langley his gift.  to be distributed, and twenty shirts for twenty other men, and twenty smocks for twenty other women yearly for ever, at the Feast of All Saints: and a remainder of money to be given amongst the poor people the same day, and forty shillings also that day allowed for a Sermon.  
Master Roger Mason, Vintner, gave two hundred pounds in Money, 
Roger Mason his gift.  with the which sum, ten Gowns are likewise to be provided for ten poor men or women, on the same Feast day of All Saints, for ever.  
Master William Day, 
William Day his gift.  Vintner, gave fourscore pounds: with the which sum are to be provided twelve Coats, for twelve poor men's Children, for ever yearly, and to be distributed at the said Feast of All Saints.  
Mistress Anne Harvist gave four tenements in Monks-well street, 
Anne Harvist her gift.  near Creplegate, amounting to the yearly rent of twenty pounds, to be distributed quarterly to twenty poor widows, to each of them 5. shillings the quarter.  
Master Robert Smith hath given four Bibles in Octavo, 
Rob. Smith his gift.  well buffed and bossed, to four poor men's children, such as can best deserve them by reading, to be distributed yearly for ever at Easter. And also two and fifty dozen of Wheaten bread, every week one dozen for ever.  
Master Richard Hanbury, 
Rich. Hanbury and Richard Budd their gift.  and Master Richard Budd, have given six new Books of Common Prayer in Quarto, well buffed and bossed, to be given yearly for ever at Easter, to six poor men's children, such as can best deserve them by reading. And also 52. dozen of wheaten bread, to be given every week for ever.  
Master Roger Bellow, 
Roger Bellow his gift.  Brewer, hath given the Lease of an house in Moore-lane, called the sign of the Cock, the yearly rent whereof is twenty pounds. Out of the which sum, ten pounds is yearly to be given to the poor, at the Feast of Christmas: And the remainder (except twenty shillings, otherwise by his will disposed) is yearly to be reserved, for the purchasing of some parcel of Land, towards the relief of the poor.   

The circuit of the Parish of S. Giles without Creplegate.  
THe Parishioners, in their Perambulation, first strike down the Alley (which hath sometime been part of their Churchyard) close by S. Giles his Well, and crossing the Towne-ditch, keep along by the City Wall, almost to Aldersgate, where they should cross the Ditch again, and take in certain Garden-houses, which stand near the Ditch, and so coming down a little Garden Alley, (through which sometime hath been a way into Aldersgate street) return again by S. Giles his Well, the same way they went in.  
Then walking up the West side of Red-crosse street, and the South side of Barbican, till they come toward the farther end thereof, over against the sign of the Boar's head, they set up their marks upon a great Post (as it seemeth set there for the same purpose) where they should cross over to the North side, right over against the said bound, thorough certain Garden Alleys, lying on the West side of Willoughby House: but by reason of some contention, that course is of late denied them, so that they pass through Barbican, and turn up Goswell street, (being part of S. Buttolph's Parish) until they come a little beyond the Bars, where they enter their own bounds again, and setting up their marks, pass along the right side of the King's high way, leading to Islington, and leaving the Mount Mill upon their right hand, they proceed on, till they come within three rods of a little Bridge, (at the lower end of the Close next unto Islington, over which lieth a footpath toward Newington Greene,) where they dig a way over the Ditch, and so keep upon the top of the Ditch bank, all the breadth of the lower end of the said Close; where they turn again Southeast, and taking in all the Laystalles, and low grounds, where brick hath been made, strike over between those low grounds and the Brickhills, that now are adjoining to the footpath, leading from the Pest-house to Islington, which they leave on the left side; in the South end of which Brickhill, there is a stone set, now almost digged down: From the which stone, they come strait South, till they come over a Bridge, which is laid purposely for them, and after removed; which as soon as they have passed, they strike down, by the said Ditch side Eastward, to the farthest Conduit head, where they give the Children Points.  
From whence they keep a strait course into the King's high way, to Dame Anne de Clare, upon the right side of which way they keep, till they come to the Butts, where a plank is purposely laid for them, over which they pass into Holywell Close, and so keep directly to the farthest of the six Milles, next unto Holywell, which they leave on their left hand, and so passing over the high way, keep a strait course over the Walks, to the farthest Wall, South of the middle Walk, (leaving the Butcher's Close, and the lower Gardens, some three Rods on the left hand) in the which Wall there is a mark or Bound: From thence (not entering the lowest Walk at all) they turn full West, over the high way leading from Moregate, and coming into little Morefields, (as we call it) they keep close to the Pales and Tentors (for they have not passing eight or ten foot of ground from the Pales) till they come to the Postern, where they set up their mark; and so through the Postern they make their return, etc.  
There was in this Church (of old time) a Fraternity or Brotherhood of our blessed Lady, 
Brotherhood in S. Giles Church.  or Corpus Christi and S. Giles, founded by john Belancer, in the reign of Edward the third, the 35. year of his reign.  
Some small distance from the East end of this Church, 
Water-Conduit without Creplegate.  is a water-conduit, brought in pipes of lead from Highbery, by john Middleton, one of the Executors to Sir William East field, and of his goods. The inhabitants adjoining, castellated it of their own coses and charges, about the year 148●  
There 〈◊〉 also a Boss of clear water in the Wall of the Churchyard, 
Bosse in the Wall of S. Giles Church-yard.  made at the charges of Richard Whitington, sometimes Mayor, and was like to that of Belins-gate. Of late the same was turned into an evil Pump, and so is clean decayed.  
There was also a fair Pool of clear water, 
Poole of Spring water.  near unto the Parsonage, on the west side thereof, which was filled up in the reign of Henry the sixth. The Spring was cooped in, and arched over with hard stone, and stairs of stone to go down to the Spring, on the bank of the Town ditch. And this was also done of the goods, and by the Executors of Richard Whitington.  
In Whitecrosse-street, 
White-crosse-street.  King Henry the fifth builded one fair House, and founded there a Brotherhood of S. Giles, to be kept: which House had sometime been an Hospital of the French Order, 
Hospital of the French Order.  by the name of Saint Giles without Creplegate, in the reign of Edward the first; the King having the Jurisdiction, and pointing a Custos thereof, for the precinct of the Parish of Saint Giles, etc. Patent Rich. 2. the 15. year: Which Hospital being suppressed, the Lands were given to the Brotherhood, for relief of the poor.  
One Alley, of diverse Tenements, over against the North wall of S. Giles Church-yard, was appointed to be Almshouses for the poor, wherein they dwelled rent-free, and otherwise were relieved: but the said Brotherhood was suppressed by Henry the 8. since which time, Sir john Gresham, Maior, purchased the Lands, and gave part thereof to the maintenance of a Free School, which he had founded at Holt, a Market Town in Norfolk.  
In Red cross street, 
Red-crosse street.  on the West side from S. Giles Church-yard, up to the said Cross, be many fair houses builded outward, 
Liber. S. Butto●ph.  with diverse Alleys, turning into a large plot of ground, of old time called the jews Garden, 
The jews Garden, or place to bury their dead.  as being the only place appointed them in England, wherein to bury their dead; till the year 1177. the 24. of Henry the second, that it was permitted them (after long suit to the King and Parliament at Oxford) to have a special place assigned them in every quarter where they dwelled.  
This plot of ground remained to the said jews, till the time of their final banishment out of England and is now turned into fair Garden-plots and Summer-houses for pleasure.  
On the East side of this Red-crosse street, be also diverse fair houses, up to the Cross. And there is Beech lane, 
Beech lane.  peradventure so called of Nicholas de la Beech, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, put out of that Office in the 13. of Edward the third. This Lane stretcheth from Red-crosse street, to White-crosse street, replenished, not with Beech trees, but with beautiful houses of stone, brick and timber. Amongst the which, was (of old time) a great house, pertaining to the Abbot of Ramsey for his lodging, 
The Abbot of Ramsey his Inn.  when he repaired to the City: It is now called Drewrie House, of Sir Drew Drewrie, a worshipful owner thereof.  
On the North side of this Beech lane, towards White-crosse street, the Drapers of London have lately builded 8. Almshouses of brick and timber, 
Almshouses in Beech lane.  for eight poor Widows of their own Company, whom they have placed there rent-free, according to the gift of the Lady Askew, Widow to Sir Christopher Askew, sometime Draper, and Mayor, 1533.  
Then in Golding lane, 
Golding lane.  Richard Gallard, of Islington, Esquire, Citizen and Painter-stainer of London, 
Alms people there.  founded 13. Almshouses, for so many poor people placed in them rent-free.  
He gave to the poor of the same Almshouses, 2. d. the piece weekly, & a load of Charcoals among them yearly for ever; he left fair Lands about Islington, to maintain his foundation. T. Hayes, sometime Chamberlain of London, in the latter time of H. the 8. married Elizabeth his daughter and heir; which Hays and Elizabeth had a daughter named Elizabeth, married to john Iron-monger, of London, Mercer, who now hath the order of the Almes-people.  
On the West side of Red-crosse street is a street called the Barbican, 
Burghkenning, or Barbican.  because sometime there stood on the North side there of a Burghkenning, or Watchtower of the City, called in some language a Barbican, as a Bikening is called a Beacon. This Burghkenning, by the name of the Manor of Base Court, was given by Edward the third, to Robert Vfford, Earl of Suffolk, and was lately pertaining to Peregrine Barty, Lord Willoughby of Ersby.  
Next adjoining to this, is one other great house, 
Garter Place.  called Garter Place, sometime builded by Sir Thomas Writhe, or Writhesley, Knight, alias, Garter, principal King of Arms, second son of Sir john Writhe, Knight, alias Garter, and was Uncle to the first Thomas, Earl of Southampton, Knight of the Garter, and Chancellor of England: He built this house, and in the top thereof a Chapel, which he dedicated by the name of S. Trinitatis in Alto. Thus much for that part of Creplegate Ward without the Wall, whereof more shall be spoken in the Suburb of that part. This Ward hath an Alderman & his Deputy within the gate. Common Council, 8. Constables, 9 Scavengers, 12. for Wardmote Inquest, 15. and a Beadle.  
Without the gate, it hath also a Deputy, Common Council, 2. Constables, 4. Scavengers, 4. Wardmote Inquest, 17. and a Beadle. It is taxed in London to the Fifteen, at 40. pounds.    

ALDERSGATE WARD.  
THe next is Aldersgate Ward, 
Aldersgate Ward.  taking name of that North Gate of the City; this Ward also consisteth of diverse Streets and Lanes, lying as well within the Gate and Wall, as without; and first, to speak of that part within the Gate, thus it is. The East part thereof joineth unto the West part of Creplegate Ward in Engain lane or Maiden lane. It beginneth on the North side of that Lane, at Staining lane end, and runneth up from the Haberdasher's Hall, to St. Mary Staining Church: and by the Church East winding almost to Woodstreet. 
Oat lane.  And west through Oat lane, and then by the South side of Bacon house in Noble street, 
Noble street  back again by Lilipot lane, which is also of that Ward to Maiden lane, and so on that North side west to Saint john Zacharies' Church, and to Foster lane.  
Now on the South side of Engaine or Maiden lane, is the west side of Gutherons' lane, to Kery lane, and Kery lane itself (which is of this Ward) and back again into Engaine lane, by the North side of the Goldsmith's Hall, to Foster lane, almost wholly of this Ward, which beginneth in the South toward Cheap, on the East side, by the North side of Saint Foster's Church, & runneth down Northwest by the west end of Engaine lane by Lilipot lane, 
Noble street  and Oat lane, to Noble street, and through that by Shelly house, (of old time so called, 
Shelleyes house, now Bacon house.  as belonging to the Shellies') Sir Thomas Shelley, Knight, was owner thereof in the first of Henry the fourth. It 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 Sergeant Fleetwoods' house, Recorder of London, who also new builded it to Saint Olaves Church in Silverstreete, which is by the Northwest end of this Noble street.  
Then again in Foster lane, this Ward beginneth on the west side thereof, overagainst the South-west corner of Saint Foster's Church, and runneth down by Saint Leonards Church, by Pope lane end, and by Saint Anne's lane end, which Lane is also of this Ward, North to the stone wall, by the wall of the City, overagainst Bacon house, which stone wall, and so down North to Creplegate on that side, is of Faringdon Ward.  
Then have ye the main street of this Ward, 
S. Martin's lane.  which is called Saint Martin's lane, including 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.  
Now, before we speak of that part of the wall without, let us say somewhat of the Gate itself. Aldersgate being very old, ruinous, and in danger of some further decay; the Lord Maior & his Brethren, with the advice of the worthy Commoners, determined to have it taken down, and builded again in beautiful manner. For the more hastening of which intention, a worthy Citizen, 
M. William Parker, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of london, gave three thousand pounds towards the new building of Aldersgate.  Master William Parker, (of whose Christian and liberal charities, we have in brief manner spoken before) out of his own bountiful disposition, gave the sum of three thousand pounds, towards the furtherance of so good a work, in new re-edifying and building the Gate, requiring & appointing (by his Will) that it should be new builded, within the space of three years after his decease. And the money to be paid (by his Executor) to the Lord Mayor of London, and the Alder men his Brethren (for the time being) for the said use of new building the said Gate, in manner and form following.  
That is to say, 
The manner and form of paying the said money.  200. pounds thereof at the taking down of the first Tile: Other 200. l. thereof, at the laying of the first stone, which was laid by the right Worshipful, 
The first Tile was taken down the last day of March, 1617.  Sir William Cravon, Knight, and Alderman of the City of London, on Monday, the 26. day of May, 1617. Other 200. l. thereof, when the new building should be a yard in height above the ground. Other 200. l. thereof, when the new building should be arched over the Gate. And the other 200. l. in full payment, when the said building shall be full finished. Master Richard Fox, Citizen and Clothworker of London (a most painful and industrious Gentleman) having the oversight, direction, and ordering of the said building.  
Without the Gate, 
Aldersgate street.  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 Bars. 
Goswell street.   
And on the west side of Aldersgate street, by Saint Buttolph's Church, is Briton street, 
Briton street.  which runneth west to a Pump, and then North to the Gate, which entereth the Churchyard, sometime pertaining to the Priory of Saint Bartholomew on the East side: and on the west side towards Saint Bartholomewes' spital, to a pair of posts there fixed. And these be the bounds of this Aldersgate Ward without.  
The Antiquities be these: 
Staining lane.  First, in Staining lane, of old time so called, as may be supposed, of Painterstainers dwelling there.  
On the East side thereof, adjoining to the Haberdasher's Hall, 
Almshouses there.  be ten Almshouses, pertaining to the Haberdashers, wherein be placed ten Alms people of that Company, every of them having eight pence the piece every Friday for ever, by the gift of Thomas Huntlow, Haberdasher, one of the Sheriffs, in the year, 1539.  
More, Sir George Barn gave them ten pounds by the year for ever.  
Then is the small Parish Church of Saint Mary, 
Parish Church of St. Mary Staining.  called Staining, because it standeth at the North end of Staining lane. In the which Church, being but newly builded, there remain no Monuments worth the noting, but one lately erected.  
Here lieth the body of George Smiths, 
A goodly Monument in South wall of the Chancel.  Goldsmith and Alderman of London, who took to wife, Sarah, the daughter of Anthony Wolhouse, Citizen, and Haberdasher of London: by whom he had issue four sons and five daughters. He departed this life the eleventh day of july, Anno Domini, 1615. being 52. years of age.  
To whose memory, Sarah his wife, being sole Executrix of his last Will and Testament, at her own proper cost and charges, caused this Monument to be erected.  
Then is Engaine lane, or Maiden lane, and at the Northwest corner thereof, the Parish Church of Saint john Zacharie, 
Parish Church of Saint john Zachary.  a fair Church, with the Monuments well preserved, of Thomas Lichfield, who founded a Chantry there, in the foureteenth of Edward the second, of Sir Nicholas Twiford, Goldsmith, Maior, 1388. and Dame Margery his wife: of whose goods the Church was made and new builded, with a Tomb for them, and others of their race, 1390. Drugo Barentine, Maior, 1398. He gave fair lands to the Goldsmiths: he dwelled right against the Goldsmiths Hall. Between the which Hall and his dwelling house, he builded a Gallery thwarting the street, whereby he might go from the one to the other, he was buried in this Church, and Christian his wife, 1427. john Adis, Goldsmith, 1400. and Margaret his wife. john Francis, Goldsmith, Maior, 1400. and Elizabeth his wife, 1450. I. Sutton, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs, 1413. Bartholomew Seman, Goldbeater, Master of the King's Mints, within the Tower of London, and the Town of Calais, 1430. john Hewet, Esquire, 1500. William Breakespeare, Goldsmith, 1461. Christopher Eliot, Goldsmith, 1505. Bartholomew Read, Goldsmith, Maior, 1502. was buried in the Charter-house, and gave to this Parish 100 l. His wife was buried here with a fair Monument, her picture in habit of a widow. Thomas Keyton, Lorimar, 1522. William Potken, Esquire, 1537. john Cornish with an Epitaph, 1470. Robert Fenrbuther, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs in the year, 1512.  
Hereunder lieth buried sir Nicholas Twiford, 
These words are engraven on an ancient place in the Chancel.  Knight, sometime Lord Mayor of this City, and Dame Margery his wife; of whose goods this Church was made a Tomb for themselves, and for many other more. He died in Anno Domini, 1390.  
Hic jacet johannes Adys, 
A fair plated in the South I'll of the Quire.  Civis, & Aurifaber London, & Margareta uxor ejus, Obiit ultimo die Februarii, 1461. Et Margareta, etc.  
Here lieth john Hewet, 
The like stone close by it.  of London, Esquire, the which john deceased the first day of May, in the year of our Lord God 1510. and in the fifth year of the reign of King Henry the seventh, etc.  
Here lieth the body of john Sutton, 
The like stone and in the same I'll.  Citizen, Goldsmith, and Alderman of London, who died the 6. day of july, 1450.  
Here lieth buried before this place, 
A small Plate with his Arms in the South wall.  the body of john Strelley, Esquire, who deceased the ninth day of December, 1595. being about 86. years of age.  
Here lieth buried within this I'll, 
A comely Monument in the East end of the South I'll.  the bodies of john Greenwood, Citizen, and Painter-Stainer of Lond. who descended of a younger house of Greenwood, of Greenwoodley in Yorekshire: And Elizabeth his wife, by whom he had many children; but at the time of their death, left only one son and a daughter, Robert, and joan, which Robert, after many years spent in this Parish, was laid by his father and mother the 23. of june, 1585. In memory of whom this Monument was erected by his sister's son, Samuel Thompson, the sixth of September, Anno 1602.  
Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Randolf, 
A fair stone within the Chancel door.  Capellanus. Qui obiit 29. die Novembris, Anno Domini, 1459. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.  
Hic jacet joannes Frances, 
A very fair plated stone by the Communion Table.  Civis, & Aurifaber, & quondam Mayor London. Qui obiit 13. die Decemb. An. Dom. 1405. Cujus, etc.  
Hic jacet Elizabeth ux. dict. joan. Qui obiit 11. Mensis Octobris, An. Dom. 1432. Cujus, etc.  
Hic jacet Drugo Barantine, 
The like fair plated stone close by the other.  Civis & Aurifaber, & quondam Mayor London. Qui obiit 15. die Mensis Decemb. An. Dom. 1415. Cujus, etc.  
Hic jacet Christiana, ux. dict. Drugonis. Quae obiit 11. die Mensis Martii, An. Dom. 1427. Cujus, etc.  
This Monument is erected to the memory of Sir james Pemberton, 
A very goodly Monument in the East end in the Chancel.  Knight, who being Sheriff of this City at the coming in of King JAMES, entertained near 40. Earls and Barons in his house on the day of the Kings being proclaimed. Afterwards, Anno 1612. was elected Mayor of this most honourable City of London. He erected a Free-school in the Parish of Ecleston in Lancashire, sixteen years before his death, and gave fifty pounds by the year to the maintaining thereof for ever. He gave also five hundred pounds to Christ's Hospital, and two hundred pounds to the Company of Goldsmiths, besides many liberal gifts to the poor of his Kindred, and many other most charitable uses: He died the eighth day of September, 1613. aged, 68 years.  

Marble nor Touch,  
nor Alabaster can  
Reveal the worth of  
the long buried man:  
For oft (we see) men's goods,  
when they are gone,  
Do pious deeds, when  
they themselves did none.  
Mine (while I lived) no  
goodness did express,  
'Tis not Inscriptions make  
them more or less:  
In Christ I hope to rise  
amongst the Just,  
Man is but grass, all must  
to Worms and Dust.  
Virtue and Death being  
both enamoured  
On worthy PEMBERTON,  
in heat of Love,  
To be possessed of  
that each coveted,  
Thus did they dialogue,  
and thus they strove.   Virtue. 
WHat Virtue challengeth,  
is but her right.  Death. 
What Death lays claim to,  
who can contradict?  Vert. 
Virtue, whose power  
exceeds all other might.  Dea. 
Where's Virtue's power,  
when Death makes all submit?  Vert. 
I gave him life;  
and therefore he is mine.  Dea. 
That life he held  
no longer than I list.  Ver. 
I made him more than  
mortal, mere Divine.  Dea. 
How happed he could not  
then Deaths struck resist?  Ver. 
Because (by Nature)  
all are borne to die.  Dea. 
Then thine own tongue  
yields Death the victory.  Ver. 
No, Death, thou art deceived,  
thy envious stroke  
Hath given him life  
immortal, 'gainst thy will:  Dea. 
What life can be, but  
vanisheth as smoke?  Vert. 
A life that all thy darts  
can never kill.  Dea. 
Have I not locked his  
body in my grave?  Vert. 
That was but dust, and  
that I pray thee keep.  Dea. 
That is as much  
as I desire to have,  
His comely shape in  
my eternal sleep.  Vert. 
But where's his honourable  
life, renown, and fame?  Dea. 
They are but breath,  
them I resign to thee.  Ver. 
Them I most covet.  Dea. 
I prefer my claim,  
His body mine.  Ver. 
Mine his Eternity.  

And so they ceased,  
Death triumphs o'er his grave,  
Virtue o'er that which  
Death can never have.   

And as fair Trophies,  
fit to beautify  
His Hearse, Virtue hangs  
up these Ornaments:  
His Justice, Wisdom,  
and Integrity,  
His courage, dreadless  
of what are events,  
His upright soul  
in that high dignity,  
Which London gives  
her chiefest Precedents.  
Free from compare  
with such as went before,  
Or should succeed.  
It was his sole desire  
Truth might report those  
actions less or more,  
Which honest thoughts  
did in his heart inspire.  
His care of learning  
and his liberal mind  
Unto the poor,  
love to his Company,  
Kindred and Friends, to  
whom he was most kind,  
And with whom he dealt  
truly bounteously:  
These graces better do  
become his Grave,  
Than wasteful words  
of fruitless flattery,  
And their due merit  
(doubtless) he shall have,  
Among the blessed  
in Eternity.  
Whereto fair Virtue now  
hath brought her son,  
Worthily honoured,  
Sir james Pemberton.   
A. M.   

On the East side of this Foster lane, 
The Goldsmiths Hall.  at Engaine lane end, is the Goldsmith's Hall, a proper house, but not large. And therefore to say that Bartholomew Read, Goldsmith, Maior in the year, 1502. kept such a feast in this Hall, 
R. Grafton.  as some have fabuled, is far incredible, and altogether impossible, considering the smallness of the Hall, and number of the guests, which as they say, were more than 100 persons of great estate. For the messes and dishes of meats to them served, the paled Park in the same Hall, furnished with fruitful trees, beasts of Venery, and other circumstances of that pretended feast well weighed, Westminster Hall would hardly have sufficed; and therefore I will overpass it, and note somewhat of principal Goldsmiths.  
First, I read, that Leofstane, Goldsmith, was Provost of this City, in the reign of Henry the first. Also, that Henry Fitz Alewin, 
The first Mayor of London was a Goldsmith.  Fitz Leafstane, Goldsmith, was Mayor of London, in the first of Richard the first. Also, that Gregory Rocksly, chief Say-master of all the King's Mints within England (and therefore by my conjecture, 
Principal men of the City, Goldsmiths.  a Goldsmith) was Mayor in the third of Edward the first, and continued Mayor seven years together. Then William Faringdon, Goldsmith, Alderman of Faringdon Ward, one of the Sheriffs, 1281. the ninth of Edward the first, who was a Goldsmith, as appear in record, and shall be showed in Faringdon Ward. Then Nicholas Faringdon his son, Goldsmith, Alderman of Faringdon Ward, four times Mayor in the reign of Edward the second, etc. For the rest of later time are more manifestly known; and therefore I leave them: the men of this mystery were incorporated or confirmed in the sixteenth of Richard the second.  
Then at the North end of Noble street is the Parish Church of Saint Olave in Silver street, 
Parish Church of S. Olave in Silver street  a small thing, and without any noteworthy Monuments, but these following.  
Here under this stone lieth buried the body of john Darcy, 
A fair plated stone in the Chancel.  second son to john, Lord Darcy of Ehie, who died in An. 1593. aged, 33-yeeres.  
Here lieth Grisseild Windsor, 
Another stone near to it.  daughter of Henry, Lord Windsor, and Lady Anne his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Rivet, Knight, who departed this life the seven and twentieth day of june, and in the year of our Lord God, 1600.  

A Remembrance of Master JOHN BANESTER, Chirurgeon, and Licentiate in Physic.  

GReat men that ne'er did  
good in all their days,  
But at the very instant  
of their death,  
Find yet no mean  
commenders of their praise,  
Although it lasts no  
longer than a-breath:  
Shall then good men,  
though lesser in degree,  
Find none to give  
them right and equity?   

If one shall say, The great  
man's life was such,  
So good, so full  
of hospitality:  
When God doth know,  
he ne'er did half so much,  
Though thus he must  
be graced with flattery.  
Shall mean men, who  
such works truly did,  
Be nothing spoken of?  
O God forbid.   

Not then, as equalling  
with any Great,  
My fatherly good  
friend, john Banester:  
No more but truth of  
thee let me repeat,  
A Son's Love-teares,  
thy body to inter.  
That such as knew thee  
better same than I:  
May say, Thy virtues  
did not with thee die,   

Thy Skill and Practice,  
that itself commends,  
Some of the best have  
truly found the same,  
Not partially employed  
to wealth friends,  
But even the poorest wretch,  
the sick and lame  
Felt of the best. Some  
difference there might be:  
The rich paid somewhat,  
poor men had it free.   

Thy care and cost laid out  
for common good,  
In greater measure  
than came in again:  
But that heaven's blessing  
with thy bounty stood,  
Hardly had stretched  
so many to sustain.  
But it is true: The  
liberal heart God loves,  
And from him still all  
cause of lack removes,   

Thy weekly charity  
given to the poor  
In Bread, beside, in  
money from thy Purse:  
Even in the hardest years  
dealt at thy door,  
When some repined that  
every day did worse;  
Makes poor men say:  
Our good relief is gone,  
Let them go to thy  
find-faults and have none.   

Poor maimed Soldiers,  
sore-sicke hearted men,  
That under miseries  
hard Crouch did bow,  
Were freely cured, me thinks  
they cry: Lord, when,  
Where shall we find  
our good Physician now?  
I doubt not, but some  
others will as much:  
Yet (in these days) we  
find not many such.   

Sleep then, thou happy  
Soul, in endless rest,  
All good men's groans  
be poured on thy grave:  
Live thou in Abraham's  
bosom with blessed;  
Where Faith and Works  
due recompense shall have,  
My sight grows dim,  
sighing my heart makes sore:  
Tears blot my paper,  
I can write no more.   
On the west side of Foster lane is the small Parish Church of S. Leonards, 
Parish Church of St. Leonard in Foster lane.  for them of St. Martin's le grand. A number of Tenements being lately builded in place of the great Collegiate Church of Saint Martin, that Parish is mightily increased.  
In this Church remain these Monuments: First, without the Church is graven in stone on the East end, john Broke it well, an especial reedifier or new builder thereof.  
In the Choir graven in brass, Ro. Purfet, Grocer, 1507.  
Robert Traps, Goldsmith, 1526. with this Epitaph:  
When the Bells be merrily rung,  
And the Mass devoutly sung:  
And the meat merrily eaten,  
Then shall Robert Traps his wife  
and children be forgotten.  
Sub hoc Marmore requiescit corpus Humfred. Barret, 
A stone at the entering into the Choir  filli johannis Barret, Generosus. Qui obiit, An. Domini 1501.   

Live to die.  
All flesh is grass, 
A fair stone in the Chancel, nameless.  and needs must fade,  
To earth again, whereof it was made.  
Felici, piae, & munificentissimae feminae, 
A fair Monument in the North wall of the Chancel.  jodocae Franckland viduatae, siliae Roberti & joannae Traps Londinensium: Gratitudinis hoc officii & pietatis Monumentum adoptione filii Principalis & Scholar's Collegii de Brasennose apud Oxoniensee exhibùûre.  
Dilecti cineres, non sic  
requiescitis urna  
In tenui, ut vobis sola haec  
monumenta parantur,  
Quae tandem vel sera  
dies pessundare possit:  
Aenea vos monumenta tegunt,  
vivumque Trophaeum  
(Aeternum meruistis enim  
vivumque Trophaeum)  
Vobis vestra dedit jodoca,  
perenniùs aere,  
Nes etenim aeternumqne omnes,  
quos postera nobis  
Secla dabunt vobis sumus  
immortal Sepulchrum.  
Then in Pope lane, so called of one Pope that was owner thereof, 
Pope lane.  on the North side is the Parish Church of Saint Anne in the willows, 
Parish Church of S. Anne in the willows.  so called, I know not upon what occasion: but some say, of willows growing thereabouts: but now there is no such void place for willows to grow, more than the Churchyard, wherein do grow some high Ash trees.  
This Church by causualty of fire, in the year 1548. was burnt, so far as it was combustible; but since being newly repaired, there remain a few Monuments of antiquity, of Thomas Lekhimpton, Clarke of the Pipe, who was buried there, 1499. Ralph Caldwell, Gentleman of Greyes' Inn, 1527. john, Lord Sheffeld, john Herenden, Mercer, Esquire, 1572. And these Verses are on an ancient Table, hanging in the Quire.  
Vt tibi praeceptis mens  
conformetur honestis,  
Sex animo semper,  
sunt repetenda tuo.  
Principio Deus est, 
Deus.  noster  
servator & Author,  
Host in opposita  
stat regione Satan. 
Diabolus.   
Tertia res praesens est, 
Vita.   
vita simillima ventis,  
Mors sequitur nobis, 
Mors.   
quae prope semper adest.  
Ordine sunt quinto, 
Coelum.   
Coeli palatia summis,  
Tartara sunt sexto, 
Inferuum.   
constituenda loco.  
Haec animo tacitè secum,  
qui saepe revolvit,  
Miror in hoc vitij,  
siquid inesse potest.  
Gualterus Haddonus.   


A table in the North I'll of the Chancel.  
Queen os an guis Tris ti deiro c 'em vul near stra vit  
h os san guis Chris ti mi ro T 'em mu near la vit   

Corda, manus, oculos,  
aures, animosque levemus,  
Et Domino, voces, sua sunt,  
& ei sua demus.   

Quos amor aeterno vivos  
in foedere junxit,  
Concords tumulo mors  
sic conjunxit in uno.  
Non sors unanimes, nec  
mors disjungit amantes,  
Sed post fata vides  
inviolata amant.   
Here lieth buried the body of Edward Herenden, 
A handsome small Monument in the North wall of the Quire.  Esquire, Citizen and Mercer of London, and Millescent his wife, daughter of Richard Samond, of Ansley Woodhouse, in the County of Nottingham, Esquire: who had issue then living, Edmund, Henry, and Seymore their sons; Frances, Martha, Magdalene, and Judith, their daughters: which Edward Herenden was son and heir of Richard Herenden of West Farleige, in the County of Kent, Esquire, An. 1572.   

Memorare novissima, & in aeternum non peccabis. Eccles. 7.  
Here lieth the bodies of Edmund Herenden, 
A smaller Monument by the other.  Gentleman, son and heir of Edward Herenden, Esquire, whose Monument next adjoineth. Which Edmund had to his first wife, Helen, daughter of William Dunkeyn, Citizen, and Merchant-Taylor of London: And he had issue by her nine sons, and four daughters. He had to his second wife, Helen, daughter of john Bird, Citizen and Draper of London. Obiit 10. die Aprilis, 1590.  
Here-under this stone lieth the body of Stephen Brakynbury, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion table.  Gent. Usher to King Henry the 8. Edward the 6. Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, and joan his wife: which Stephen died the 2. day of Febru. An. 1563. & joan died, etc.  
Orate devotè pro anima Magistri joannis Pemberton, 
Another stone by the Communion Table.  utriusque Juris Baccalaurii, quond. Residentiar. Eccles. Cath. de Rippon, Ebor. Diocesis, hujusque alius Eccles. Rectoris. Qui obiit 12. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1499. Cujus, etc.  
William Gregory, Skinner, Maior of London in the year 1451. was there buried, and founded a Chantry, but no Monument of him remaineth.  
Then in St. Martin's lane was (of old time) a fair and large College, of a Dean and secular Canons or Priests, 
College of Saint Martins le grand.  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 College claimed great privileges of Sanctuary, 
Lib. S. Martin.  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 Soldier, prisoner in Newgate, as he was led by an Officer towards the Guild hall of London, there came out of Pannier Alley five of his fellowship, and took him from the Officer, brought him into Sanctuary, at the West door of Saint Martin's Church, and took grithe of that place. But the same day Philip Malpas, and Robert Marshal, than Sheriffs of London, with many other entered the said Church, and forcibly took out with them the said five men thither fled; led them fettered to the Compter, 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 privileges, like as his Predecessors had done, etc. All which complaint and suit, the Citizens by their council, Markam, Sergeant at the Law, john Carpenter, 
Argument against privilege challenged by the Dean of S. Martin's.  late Common Clerk of the City, and other, learnedly answered, offering to prove, that the said place of Saint Martin had no such immunity or liberty as was pretended; namely, Carpenter offered to lose his live-lode, if that Church had more immunity than the least Church in London: notwithstanding, after long debating of this controversy, by the King's commandment, and assent of his Council in the Star-chamber, the Chancellor 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 All-hallowss. On which day, the said Sheriffs, with the Recorder and Council of the City, brought and delivered them accordingly, afore the said Lords, whereas the Chancellor, after he had declared the King's commandment, sent them to Saint Martins, there to abide freely, as in a place having franchises, whiles them liked, etc.  
Thus much out of that Book have I noted concerning the Privilege of that place, challenged in those days; since the which time, to wit, in the year 1457. the 36. of the said Henry the sixth, an Ordinance was made by the King and his Council, concerning the said Sanctuary men in S. Martin's le grand, whereof the Articles are set down in the Book of K. within the Chamber of the Guild hall, in the leaf 299.   

Henricus Dei gratia, Rex Angliae & Franciae, & Dominus Hyberniae: Omnibus ad quos presentes literae perventium, salutem. Inspeximus tenorem quondam ordinationis, concessionis, & stabilimenti certorum Articulorum infra Sanctuarin liberae Capellae nostrae, S. Martini infra Civitatem nostram London observandam & custodiendam, coram Nobis & Concilio nostro, 5. die Februarii ultimo praeterito, apud Westmon. in Camera Stellata, ordinatorum & stabilitorum, Nobis in Cancellar. nostram de mandato nostro missum factum in haec verba:  
THe fifth of Feverer, 
Set down according to the English then used, and as it standeth in the Record.  the year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King Henry the 6. thirty fifth: at Westminster, in the stirred Chamber, our said Sovereign Lord, calling to his high remembrance, the good and blessed intent that his full Noble Pregenitours have at all times had, to the honour, worship, conservation and we'll of the Free Chapel of Saint Martins, within the City of London, of the which the King our said Sovereign Lord is founder and Patron: desiring to do all that may serve to th' ease and restful roll of the same; and conservation of the Sanctuary, Immunity, Privileges and Liberties, as appertain to the said Chapel and place, willing that hereafter none occasion be yeven, to the breach or hurting of them. 
Offence taken by the City, against the indirect courses used in the Sanctuary.  Remembering also the great complaints, grudging, and displeasure that his subjects have taken, and specially the Citizens and Commonalty of the said City of London, of the demeaning of misruled persons coming and abiding in the said place, under umbre and colour of the Sanctuary there, the which have at diverse times issued out of the said Sanctuary, and committed many riots, robberies, manslaughters, and other mischiefs; wherethrough the said Sanctuary hath be greatly dislaundered, and (over that) great inconvenience like to ensue.  
After great deliberation and communication had as well with Doctors of Divinity, as of Law Civil and Canonical, called also thereto the judges of this our Land, and their advices had in that behalf, other men also of great wisdom and experience for the weal and conservation of the said Sanctuary, and to eschew the said misgovernance and mischief, called also before our said Sovereign Lord and his Council the Mayor and the Aldermen of the said City, and Master Richard Cawdre, Deane of the said place of Saint Martins. 
Order from the King and his Council to the Dean of the Sanctuary.  Our said Sovereign Lord (by the advice of his Council above said) Ordained, granted, and established certain Articles under written, to be kept and observed within the said Sanctuary, from this time forth, without any interruption of them. Willing and ordaining, that the said Deane that now is promit by his oath the observance of the same for the time that he shall be Deane there. And that every Dean after him in his admission to the said Deanary, be sworn to keep the said Articles in semblable wise, and make them to be kept within the said Sanctuary: the which Articles been such as follow:  

1. First, 
For fugitives claiming benefit of the Sanctuary, & the causes moving th●●● thereto.  That every person fugitive coming unto the said Sanctuary for tuition, and challenge to enjoy the immunities and privileges thereof, at his entry, as soon as he commodiously and reasonably shall now present himself unto the said Deane, his Commissary, or Depute in that behalf, and before him declare the cause of the fear moving him to come to the said Sanctuary, be it for treason, felony, surmised upon him, or for other causes, and that the said declaration and cause be registered in the common Register, ordained therefore in the said Sanctuary, and the name of the said fugitive.  
2. Item, That he at his first entry present and deliver unto the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute, all manner of weapon and armour that he bringeth with him as well invasive as defensive, 
Against armour & weapons in the Sanctuary  and that he be not suffered to wear or use any such weapon or armour, or it to have in his keeping within the said Sanctuary in any wise, Except a reasonable knife, to kerve withal his meat, and that the said knife be pointless.  
3. Item, That every ervaunt and open Thief, 
For thiefs, felons, murderers, and infamous persons.  Robber, Murderer, and Felon, notoriously noised by the common fame of the people, or if the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute be credibly informed, or due proof be yoven or made, that he is such one repairing to the said Sanctuary, to the intent that he shall not (under colour of the said Sanctuary) intent to do further mischief, find sufficient seurte to be made unto the King, as well by his own obligation, as by the obligations of other, of his good bearing for the time of his abode (within the said Sanctuary, and for a quarter of a year after his departing out of the same. And that he be kept in ward into the time he have found and made the said seurte: And if it so be, that it be complained or showed unto the King's Highness, 
Concerning security for good behaviour to be given.  that the said seurte be not sufficient, that then at the commandment of the said Council (if it be thought necessary) the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute shall take other and better securte, or else commit them to ward unto the time better securte be sound. Foreseen always that if the said fugitive will depart out of the said Sanctuary, that he may so do when he william.  
4. Item, That all the out gates, as well posterns, doors, as all other issues outward whatsoever they be of the said Sanctuary, 
For close keeping the gates and posterns of the Sanctuary nightly.  be surely closed and shut nightly at nine of the clock. And so remain shut from the same hour, unto six of the clock in the morning, from the Feast of All-hallows, unto the Feast of Candlemas. And the remanent of the year nightly from the said hour of nine unto four of the clock in the morning, or unto the time that the first Mass beginneth within the said place: And that all those that been fled to the said Sanctuary for treason or felony, be within the closure on night's time.  
5. Item, 
For bringing stolen goods into the Sanctuary▪  If any such thief, murderer, or fellow resort to the said Sanctuary for tuition of the same, with any manner robbery, or stolen goods, if the party rob make fresh suit therefore, and prove by open evidence, that the same fellow hath brought into the said Sanctuary the said goods so stolen thence, the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute, shall put in true devoir, withouten any dissimulation, fraud, or malengyne, to make full restitution unto the party so grieved of the same stolen goods, if they can be had. And semblably, if any Fugitive come to the said Sanctuary with other men's goods, merchandise, or things, intending there to live with the same: And the owner of the said goods, merchandise, or things, make proof that they be his, and verify that they be brought into the said Sanctuary, the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute shall put him in full devoir, to make restitution, to the party so proving, that the same goods, merchandizes, or things were his. And no Fugitive, nor none dwelling within the said Sanctuary shall receive, conceal, nor buy any such goods; but that they be brought to the said Deane, Commissary, 
For restitution or amends making to the owners.  or Depute, to the intent the owners may have the sooner knowledge of them. And if the said goods so stolen and brought to the said Sanctuary, be concealed from the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute, and bought by any dwelling in the said Sanctuary: that then the ovyer (abiding there) make restitution or satisfaction to the party grieved, proving the said goods so stolen to be his, and so sold in the same Sanctuary.  
6. Item, 
For offences committed by Sanctuary persons.  If any person having tuition of the said Sanctuary, from thence issue out by day or by night, and commit or do any robbery, murder, treason, felony, or battery, without the said Sanctuary. And thereupon resort again to the said Sanctuary for tuition; the said Deane, Commissary, or Depure, shall upon credible information given unto him of the said robbery, murder, treason, felony, or battery so done (withoutensorth) commit the same misdoer to ward, there to remain as long as he will abide in the said Sanctuary. And if so be he will depart from thence, he shall depart at an hour to be assigned unto him by day betwixt sun and sun.  
7. Item, 
For Picklock's, counterfeiters of diverse notorious crimes.  That subtle pickers of Locks, counterfeitours of Keys, contrivers of Sealx, forgers of false evidences, workers of sergeant Chains, Beads, Brouches, Ouches, Rings, Cups, Spoons silvered, and plates of Copper gilt, uttered for Gold, unto the common hurt of the people, be not suffered in the said Sanctuary. And if any being within the said Sanctuary be holden suspect of the things abovesaid, let him be committed to ward, till he find sufficient surety, as in the third Article abovesaid.  
8. Item, 
For strumpets, bawds, & other foul livers.  That common Putuers, Strumpers, and Bawds be not supported in the said Sanctuary: And if they claim the tuition of the said Sanctuary, that they be set in open ward on day times, till shame cause them to depart, or to amend their vicious living.  
9 Item, 
Against unlawful games.  That deceitful games, as plays at hazard, the Dice, the Guek, the Kayelles, the Cloysh, and other such unleefull and reprovable games be not used, supported, nor cherished within the said Sanctuary.  
10. Item, 
For Artificers dwelling in the Sanctuary.  That all Artificers dwelling within the said Sanctuary (as well Barbours' as other) keep holy the Sundays and other great Festival days without breach, or exercising of their craft, in such wise as done the Inhabitants of the said City of London. And if they do the contrary, to be committed to ward, till they find sufficient surety, as in the third Article abovesaid, to use their crafts in manner and form as do the Inhabitants of the said City, and according to the ordinances of the same City.  
11. Item, 
For such as come to live in the Sanctuary, to take an oath.  That every person coming to the said Sanctuary for immunity and tuition of the same, that he at his admission to the said Sanctuary, be sworn on a book, to obey, keep, and observe the Articles abovesaid, and every each of them with their pains and rules appertaining to the same. And the King by the advice abovesaid would, granted and ordained, that this Act be exemplified under his great Seal, and be enroled in his Chancellary, to the intent that the ordinance abovesaid remain of Record, and that his subjects may have knowledge thereof.  
Nos autem tenore praecedentium ad requisitinem dilecti & fidelis nostri Galfridi Baleyne, Maioris Civitatis nostrae London, & Aldemannorum ejusdem Civitatis, duximus exemplificandum per praesentes: In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes, Teste meipso apud Westmon. 24. die Novembris, Anno Regni nostri, 36.  
Examinatur per 

Clericos.  
johannem Fankes, &  
Thomam Ive've.   By the means and friendly help of Master William Williams, clerk of the Chamber of London, I prevailed to have the true copy of the said Articles: and therefore in this manner have here inserted them.   
This College was surrendered to King Edward the sixth, the second of his reign, the year of Christ, 1548. And the same year, the College Church being pulled down, in the East part thereof a large Wine-taverne was builded; and withal, down to the west, and throughout the whole precinct of that College, many other houses were builded, and highly priced, let to strangers, borne, and other such as there claimed benefit of privileges, granted to the Canons, serving God day and night (for so be the words in the Charter of William the Conqueror) which may hardly be wrested to artificers, buyers, and sellers, otherwise than is mentioned in the 21. of S. Matthewes Gospel. 
Matth. 21.   
Lower down, on the west side of Saint Martin's lane, in the Parish of St. Anne, almost by Aldersgate, is one great house, commonly called Northumberland house: it belonged to Henry Percy. King Henry the fourth, in the seventh of his reign gave this house, with the tenements thereunto appertaining, to Queen jane his wife, and then it was called her Wardrobe: it was afterward a Printing-house; but now a Tavern.  
Without Aldersgate, on the East side of Aldersgate street, 
Cook's Hall.  is the Cook's Hall: Which Cooks (or Pastelars) were admitted to be a Company, and to have a Master and Wardens, in the two and twentienth of Edward the fourth. From thence, along unto Hounsditch, 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 Britain street, 
Britain street.  which took that name of the Dukes of Britain lodging there, 
Parish Church of S. Buttolph.  is one proper Parish Church of Saint Buttolph: In which Church was sometime a Brotherhood of Saint Fabian and Sebastian, founded in the year 1377. the 51. of Edward the third, and confirmed by Henry the fourth, in the sixth of his reign. Then Henry the sixth, in the 24. of his reign, to the honour of the Trinity, gave licence to Dame joan 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, etc. This Brotherhood was endowed with Lands, more than thirty pounds by the year, & was suppressed by Edward the sixth.  
There lie buried, john de Bath, Weaver, 1390.  
Philip at Vine, Capper, 1396.  
Benet Gerard, Brewer, 1403.  
Thomas Bilsington founded a Chantry there, and gave to that Church an house, called the Helmet upon Cornhill.  
john Bradmote, Chirurgeon, Margaret and Katherine his wives, 1411.  
john Michael Sergeant at Arms, 1415.  
Allen Bret, Carpenter, 1425.  
Robert Malton, 1426.  
john Trigilion, Brewer, 1417.  
john Mason, Brewer, 1431.  
Rob. Cawood, Clerk of the Pope in the King's Exchequer, 1466.  
Rich. Emmesey, john Walpole.  
I. Hartshorne, Esquire, servant to the King, 1400. And other of that Family, great Benefactors to that Church.  
W. Marrow, Grocer, Mayor, and Katherine his wife, were buried there, about 1468.  
The Lady Anne Packington, widow, late wife to john Packington, Knight, Chirographer of the Court of Common Pleas: she founded Alms houses near unto the white Friar's Church in Fleetstreet, the Clothworkers in London have oversight thereof.  
Here lie buried the bodies of Richard Downis, 
An ancient Tomb in the South I'll of the Quire.  and Joan his wife. which Richard deceased the day of 1500. And the said Joan died the 13. day of january, 1519.  
Hic jacet Johannes Rukeby, 
In the South I'll a plated Grave-stone.  nuper Civis & Atturnatus London, & Elizabetha uxor ejus. Qui quidem joh. obiit 1 die Mensis Septembris, 1427.  
The Corpse of john Milsam lieth here, 
A grave-stone in the South I'll of the Quire.   
Who lived fourscore and one year.  
Free of the Notaries he was,  
a friendly Citizen;  
And eke a long time in Guild-Hall,  
an Attorney hath been:  
Who willingly this mortal life  
did yield with constant mind,  
Inperfect hope through Christ his blood,  
th' immortal life to find:  
And now is gone the way before,  
that we also must wend;  
For Death is due to every man,  
by it all things must end.  
january the 18. day, 1567.  
Out of this life he took the way.  
Domina Margareta & Lichtervelde filia Iohannis supremi Flandriae Praetoris, 
In the same I'll upon a painted Table.  nuptum primum Nobili viro Johanni Wits, Topatchae Bouchardiriae, & Franconatus apud Flandros, Burghi Magistro: Peperit ei Ferdinandum, Jacobum, & Margaretam, D. Domino Adolpho à Meetkerck Equiti Aurato, & summo Flandriae, ex quo Mater facta est Edovardi, Elizabethae & Salome's. Matrona excellentissimo ingenio, ornatissimis moribus, insigni pietate, aliisque summis praedita virtutibus. Marito in utraque fortuna assidua comes, Exiliiq, postremi fida socia. Vixit Ann. 45. Mens. 7. dies 14. Piè in Deo obdormivit, Idus Novembris, M. D.XC.IIII. Londini Anglorum. His additus est tumulus Nobilis viri Pauli Knibbii, i Ser. Daniae Regis, Consiliarii generei supradicti Adolphi à Meetkerck, qui dum apud Ser. Aug. Reginam dicti Regis Legatum agit Lond. Piè defunct. est, 8. Id. Octob. M.D.XII.  
Cinibus hosce suis  
posuit Van Heilus honores  
Digna horum meritis  
alii Monumenta reponent.  
Patience Vaincra.   

DEO.  
Here resteth the body of William Purde, 
A grave-stone in the same South I'll.  Esquire, late Clerk of the Pipe and Privy Seal, which paid the general tribute of Nature, divided from the mundane vexations by natural death, the 15 day of August, the 31. year, in the reign of King Henry the eighth.  
Hic jacet Petrus Swift, de London, 
A grave-stone in the same I'll:  Generos. dum vixit Auditor Eccles. Cathedrali D. Pauli London. Qui obiit 2. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1562. Cujus, etc.  

Pars Terrestris.  
Joannis Coston, 
A small Monument on a pillar in the same I'll.  Registrarii sedis Archiepiscopalis Cantuar. Principalis, Almaeque Curiae Cant. de Arcubus Lond. Procuratorum generalium unius. Sexaginta annos cum multa pietate & probitate sub Polo praetergressus, 3. julii, 1614 animam efflavit. Relictis Simone & Anna, flio & filia unicis in sacros cineres redact. sub pedibus diem novum expectat.  
here lieth Robert Greene, Gentleman, who departed this world on Thursday, the twelfth of November, and was buried in this Church, upon Saturday, the foureteenth day of the same Month, 1590.  
Here under this Tomb lieth the body of Dame Anne Packington, 
An ancient Tomb in the East end of the Chancel.  widow, late wife of Sir john Packington, Knight, late Chirographer in the Court of Common Pleas: which Dame Anne deceased the 22. day of August, in the year of our Lord God, 1563.  
johannes Sotherton, 
A small Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  Baro Scaccarii, sincera fretus in Deum pietate, studiosa in Principem fidelitate, spectata in omnes humanitate & benevolentia, annum aetatis ingress. octogesimum, placidè in Christo obdormivit, 26. Octob. Anno Domini, 1605. & una cum duabus conjugibus, Francisca & Maria castiss. feminis hic sepultus.  
Francisca, filia & haeres de johannes Smith de Cromer, Norff. Per quam habuit unum filium Christopherum, obiit Octob. 1563.  
Maria, filia Edovardi Woton, Medicinae Doctoris, per quam habuit alterum filium johannem, & unicam filiam Mariam. Obiit 10. junii.  
johan. primogenitus Franciscae, unigenitus Mariae privignus, non ingratus Christopherus Sotherton posuit.   

An. Dom. 1604. Martii 31. Obiit.  
Michael Crud, 
A small Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  Divini Verbi Concionator, atque hujus Ecclesiae Past or fidelis, post vitam piè gestam, tam in partibus transmarinis, quam in natali solo, in Anno aetatis suae quinquagesimo, pacificè dormivit in Christo, atque juxta tumulatur impensis Margaretae ejus relictae, quae hoc fieri in foelicem Marici memoriam curavit.   

D. O. M.  
Gulielmo Mill, 
A comely Monument in the End of the Chancel.  Armigero, fide, charitate, & in arduis constantia celeberrimo, Marito charissimo conjunx amantissima, in honoris perpetui tesseram Monumentum hoc lugubre moerens posuit.  
Gulielmus iste Croydoniae (Surriae Comitatus emporio) natus, Gulielmi Mill, & Hawisiae Harwell secundo genitus, ex antiqua Millorum de Horscombe (Agri Governiensis) familia oriundus, liberaliter educatus, Graiensis Hospitii Alumnus, in literis foeliciter versatus, Consilii Sanctioris in Camera quam Stellatam dictitant amanuensis prius per annos quinquaginta, deinde Clericus, & Actuarius summus, viginti plus minus ibidem suis meritis evasit. Fratres duos Nicholaum & johannem innuptos, Elizabetham, Franciscam, Milicentam, Margaretam atque Annam, uterinas, & Margaretam sororem habuit. Margaretam, Thomae Greek, Fisci Regii Baronis, filiam, (Gulielmi Butleri viduam) in uxorem grandaevus duxit. Tandem Londini in Carthusianis 16. die julii, Anno Verbi incarnati, 1608. Aetatis suae 71. (nulla suscepta prole) vitam erumnosam ut Christo viveret, piè sed placidè commutavit.  
Non temerè sepimur,  
nec nos Fortuna gubernat,  
Sed Deus es vitae,  
Dux es & ipse via.   

Fraternae Pietatis Symbolum.  
johannis Mill, 
A small Monument on a pillar in the Chancel.  Gulielmi Patris Armigeri, de Croyden, filius secundò genitus, vita integerrima defunctus hic coelebs requiescit, corpore autem sub Marmore istic pulverescente; Animus in Coelis secundam per Christum jesum, repurgatae carnis assumptionem expectat. Obiit 27. die Mensis Augusti, An. Domini, 1595. Aetatis suae 57 Gulielmo Fratre primaevo atque unico (sanctioris in Camera Stellata Consilii Clerico) superstite.  
What Epitaph  
shall we afford this Shrine?  
Words cannot-grace  
this Pyramid of thine: 
A fair Pyramids erected against a pillar.   
Thy sweet perfections,  
all summed up, were such,  
As Heavens (I think)  
for faith did think too much.  
Religious zeal  
did thy pure heart command,  
Pity thine eye,  
and Charity thy hand:  
These Graces, joined  
with more of like degree,  
Make each man's word  
an Epitaph for thee.  
Calm was thy death,  
well-ordered was thy life,  
A careful Mother,  
and a loving wife.  
Ask any, how  
these Virtues in thee grew?  
Thou wast a Spencer,  
and a Montague.   

Katherine Montague obiit 7. die Decembris, Anno Domini, 1612.  
Mortua Tamworthi  
spectas Monumenta viator? 
A fair Tomb of white stone in the Chancel.   
Quin potius vivus,  
disce quis ille fuit.  
Si proavos quaeras,  
Generoso sanguine ductus,  
Vsque per innumeros  
invenietur Avos.  
Si mores, dicam mores?  
nec amantior aequi,  
Nec Patriae quisquam,  
nec probitatis erat.  
Si quae conditio,  
(si quid sit laudis in illa)  
Vita sub illustri  
Principe clara fuit.  
Et si Principibus  
laus est placuisse probatis,  
Laudibus haec pars est  
annumeranda suis.  
jam volucris sua justra  
novem transegerat aetas,  
Quum Mors hunc saeva  
falce cruenta metat.  
Haec satis hospes, abi,  
nec vivere differ in horas,  
Quae sua pars hodie,  
cras tua forsan erit.   

Obiit 19 die Aprilis, 1569.  
johanni Morlcio Armigero, 
Another beautiful Pitamides directly opposite to the other.  & Elizabethae Wotton Conjugi, parentibus charissimis, johannes Morleius de Halnaker, in Comitatu Sussexiae, Miles, & Edwardus filii, pietatis & memoriae ergô hoc posuerunt.  
Vixerunt Conjuges annos 16. Ille obiit die 20. Novembris, 1587. Illa die 7. Novembris, 1603. Tres filios totidemque filias superstites reliquerunt: johannem, Edwardum, Willielmum Mariam, Elizabetham, & Magdalenam.  
Hereunder lieth buried in the mercy of God, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion Table.  the body of Thomas Goodwin, Esquire, who married Anne the daughter of Thomas Peacocke, by whom he had issue, one daughter, named Anne. which Thomas deceased the 27. day of january, An. Dom. 1565.  
Hoc latet in Tumulo  
praestanti corpore Nympha  
Margareta quidem  
repsque parente sata. 
A fair Grave-stone by the said Table.   
Censor erat genitor,  
Sponsus venerabilis extat,  
Woodhouse; bis decies  
quinaque arista tulit.  
Siste pedes igitur  
sternis qui busta prophanus,  
Nam Christi cupiens,  
sic bonitatis erat.  
Vixit & illa piè,  
moriens & sancta vocatur,  
Exemplo simili  
vivere disce piè.  
Here lieth buried the body of Frances, 
Another stone, by the said Table.  late wife of john Sotherton, foreign Apposer of the Queen's Majesty's Exchequer; who departed this present life, in the true faith of Christ, the 20. of Octob. 1563.  
Barbara Bradburii  
simul & Marianna Someri, 
Another.   
Progenies pariter  
Tumulo conduntur in isto,  
Vtraque Conjugio  
Thomae conjuncta Pagetto,  
una virum moriens  
septena in prole reliquit,  
Altera fuit sterilis  
parili quoque tempore conjux;  
Ambarum pia vita fuit,  
pia morsque secuta est.  
Primae 24. Februarii, An. Dom. 1583.  
Alterae Decembris ultimo, Anno, 1598.  
here lieth buried the body of Thomas Greek, 
A grave-stone in the North I'll of the Quire.  one of the Barons of the Queen's Majesty's Court of Exchequer; who died the 18. day of November, in the 20. year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth. He lived 63. years.  
Here under lieth buried the body of Thomas Neale, 
Another in the same I'll.  the son of Francis Neale Esquire, one of her Majesty's Auditors of the Exchequer; who deceased the 8. day of December, 1597. Aetatis suae, 99  
Here lieth the body of Anne, 
A fair Garvestone in the same North I'll.  daughter of John Branche, Citizen and Draper of London, by joan his wife, daughter and heir of john Wilkinson, sometime Alderman of this City. She was married first to Robert Dunne, and (after his death) to Richard Stoneley, Esquire. By Dunne she had three sons; Sir Daniel Dunne, Knight, and Doctor of Law, her eldest; Samuel Dunne, and William Dunne, the youngest, Doctor of Physic. And by Stoneley she had diverse children, whereof two lived to be married, Dorothy, to William Dantrey, of Sussex; Anne, to William Higham of Essex, Esquire. Her life was virtuous and godly, and so died the eleventh day of january, An. Dom. 1611. being of the age of fourscore and six years, having seen her children's children, to the fourth generation: and lies here buried between her husbands, and among some other of her children, according to her desire.  
Hic jacet Susanna, 
A small Monument in the South wall in the body of the Church.  Andreae Lionis Patria Garnseyensis, unica filia, uxor Roberti Creswell, alias Blew-mantle, Prosecutoris ad Arma Serenissimae Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae.  
Quae modo fida Deo,  
quae vixit chara marito,  
Non invita animam  
Christo moribunda reliquit.  
— 23. Decemb. Anno  
Domini, 1590.  
And thus and end of this Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common Counsellors, five; Constables, eight; Scavengers, nine; for the Wardmote inquest, fourereene, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen in London, seven pounds, and in the Exchequer, six pounds, nineteen shillings.     

FARINGDON WARD Infra, or within.  
ON the South side of Aldersgate Ward, 
Faringdon Ward within.  lieth Faringdon Ward, called infra, or within, for a difference from another ward of that name, which lieth without the walls of the City, 
Faringdon extra. and Faringdon infra, all one Ward, and then divided into 2 by Parliament.  and is therefore called Faringdon extra. These two Wards (of old time) were but one, and had also but one Alderman, till the 17. of Richard the second, at which time, the said Ward (for the greatness thereof) was divided into twain, and by Parliament ordered to have two Aldermen, and so it continueth till this day. The whole great Ward of Faringdon, both infra and extra, 
Faringdon Ward took that name of W. Farendon.  took name of W. Farendon, Goldsmith, Alderman of that Ward, and one of the Sheriffs of London, in the year 1281. the 9 of Edward the first: He purchased the Aldermanrie of this Ward, as by the abstract of Deeds which I have read thereof, may appear.  
Thomas de Arderne, 
Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, Alderman of that ward, now called Faringdon, in the reign of Hen. 3.  son and heir to Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, granted to Ralph le Feure, Citizen of London, one of the Sheriffs in the year 1277. all the Aldermanrie, with the appurtenances, within the City of London, and the Suburbs of the same, between Ludgate and Newgate, and also without the same Gates: which Aldermanrie, Ankerinus de Avernus held during his life, by the Grant of the said Thomas de Arderne, to have and to hold to the said Ralph, and to his heirs, freely without all challenge, yielding therefore yearly to the said Thomas and his heirs, one Clove or Slip of Gilli flowers, at the Feast of Easter, for all secular service and customs, with warranty unto the said Ralphle Feure, and his heirs, against all people, Christians and jews, in consideration of twenty Marks, which the said Ralph de Feure did give beforehand, in name of a Gersum, or Fine, to the said Thomas, etc. Dated the fifth of Edward the first. Witness, G. de Rokesley, Maior, R. Arrar, one of the Sheriffs. H. Wales, P. le Taylor, T. de Basin, I. Horn, N. Blackthorn, Aldermen of London.  
After this, 
john le Feure, Alderman.  john le Feure, son and heir to the said Ralph le Feure, granted to William Farendon, 
W. Farendon Alderman and one of the Sheriffs of London.  Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and to his heirs, the said Aldermanry, with the appurtenances, for the service thereunto belonging, in the seventh of Edward the first, in the year of Christ, 1279. 
Nicholas Farendon Alderman and Maior.  This Aldermanry descended to Nicholas Farendon, son to the said William, and to his heirs: which Nicholas Farendon, also a Goldsmith, was four times Mayor, and lived many years after; for I have read diverse Deeds, whereunto he was a witness, dated the year 1360. He made his Testament, 1361. 
Nicholas Farendon lived 53. years after he had been once Mayor.  which was fifty three years after his first being Mayor, and was buried in Saint Peter's Church in Cheap. So this Ward continued under the government of William Farendon the father, and Nicholas his son, by the space of fourscore and two years, and retaineth their name until this present day.  
Whereas Master Stowe saith, 
Either Mr. Stowe was much wronged in information, or else it was no true Deed which he saw at that time.  That Thomas de Arderne, son and heir to Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, granted to Ralph le Feure, Citizen of London, and one of the Sheriffs of the same City, in the year 1277. all the Aldermanrie, with the appurtenances within the City of London, and Suburbs of the same, between Ludgate and Newgate, and also without the same gates. Which Aldermanrie, Ankerinus de Avernus held, during his life, by the Grant of Thomas de Arderne, to have and to hold to the said Ralph, and to his heirs, freely without all challenge, yielding therefore yearly to the said Thomas and his heirs, one Clove or Slip of Gillyflowers, at the Feast of Easter, for all secular service and customs, with warranty to the said Ralph le Feure, and his heirs against all people, Christians and jews, in consideration of 20. marks, which the said Ralph de Feure did give beforehand in name of a Gersum or Fine, to the said Thomas, etc. Dated the fifth of Edward the first. Witness, G. de Rokesley, Maior, R. Arrar, one of the Sheriffs, H. Wales, P. le Taylor, T. de Basin, I. Horn, and N. Blackthorn, Aldermen.  
I find (to the contrary) by an especial Deed (yet to be seen) delivered me by that worthy favourer of Antiquities, 
M. john Speed can testify this to be true ● for I brought the sealed Deed to him, and to diverse other beside, who can bear me witness, that herein I do no way deprave Mr. Stowe, but set down the truth, as I received it.  Master john Williams, Goldsmith, all the former Deed, verbatim, to be granted by William de Farndon, Citizen and Alderman of London, (of whom the Ward, both within and without the Gates forenamed, being then but one, and governed by one Alderman only, took name) to Nicholas, the son of Ralph de Feure, Citizen of London, in the very same manner and form as hath been recited, for a Clove or Slip of Gillyflowers, twenty pounds, and not Marks, given for a Gersum, or Fine, and the very same warranty or defence against all people for ever.  
To which Deed, sealed with his own Seal, as he calleth it, being the very same of the Goldsmith's Arms, yet engraved about in this manner: Sigilli Willi. de Farndon; he nameth as witnesses, Domino joh. le Bretonn, Milite, tune Custode London, Elia Russel, and Henry le Bole, tunc Vicecom. London; Steph. Assewy, joh. de Bachkewelle, Roberts de Basin, William. de Bettune, Rad. le Blund, Walt. de Finchingfeld, joh. de Blund, Thoma de Estanes, Richardo Assewy, & multis aliis.  

Anno Reg. Ed. fill. R. Hen. xxj.  
This Ward of Faringdon within the walls, is bounded thus: Beginning in the East, at the great Cross in West Cheap, from whence it runneth West, On the North side, from the Parish Church of Saint Peter, which is at the South-west corner of Woodstreet, unto Guthurons' lane, and down that Lane, to Hugon lane on the East side, and to Kery lane on the West.  
Then again into Cheap and to Foster lane, and down that Lane on the East side, to the North side of Saint Foster's Church, and on the west, till over against the South-west corner of the said Church, from whence, down Foster lane, and Noble street, is all of Aldersgate street Ward, till ye come to the stone wall in the west side of Noble street, as is afore showed. Which said wall, down to Nevil's Inn, or Windsor House, and down Monkes-well street, on that west side, then by London wall, to Creplegate, and the west side of that same Gate, is all of Faringdon Ward.  
Then back again into Cheap, and from Foster lane end to Saint Martin's lane end, and from thence through S. Nicholas Shambles, by Pentecost lane, and Butcher's Alley, and by Stinking lane, through Newgate Market to Newgate: All which is in the North side of Faringdon Ward.  
On the South, from against the said great Cross in Cheap, west to Fridays street, and down that street on the East side, till over against the North-east corner of Saint Matthews Church, and on the west side, till the South corner of the said Church.  
Then again along Cheap to the Old Exchange, and down that Lane, (on the East side) to the Parish Church of S. Augustine, which Church and one house next adjoining in Watheling street, be of this Ward; and on the west side of this Lane, to the East Arch or Gate by S. Augustine's Church, which entereth the South Churchyard of Saint Paul's, which Arch or Gate was builded by Nicholas Farendon, about the year 1361. and within that Gate on the said north side, to the Gate that entereth the north Church-yard, and all the north Church-yard is of this Faringdon ward.  
Then again into Cheap, and from the North end of the Old Exchange, west by the north gate of Paul's Churchyard up Pater noster Row, by the two lanes out of Paul's Church, and to the sign of the Golden Lion, which is some twelve houses short of Ave Mary lane, the West side of which lane is of this Ward.  
Then at the South end of Ave Mary Lane, is Creed lane, the West side whereof is also of this Ward.  
Now betwixt the South end of Ave Mary lane, and the North end of Creed lane, is the coming out of Paul's Churchyard, on the East, and the high street, called Bowyer Row, to Ludgate, on the West, which way to Ludgate is of this Ward. On the north side whereof is S. Martin's Church: and on the South side a turning into the Black Friars.  
Now to turn up again to the north end of Ave Marry lane, there is a short lane, which runneth West some small distance, and is there closed up with a gate into a great house: and this is called Amen lane. 
Amen lane.   
Then on the North side of Pater noster Row, beginning at the Conduit over against the Old Exchange lane end, and going west by Saint Michael's Church: at the West end of which Church, is a small passage thorough toward the north. And beyond this Church some small distance, is another passage, which is called Panier Alley, 
Panier lane.  and cometh out against S. Martin's lane end.  
Then further West in Pater noster Row, 
Ivy Lane.  is Ivy lane, which runneth North to the West end of S. Nicholas Shambles: and then West Pater noster Row, till over against the Golden Lion, where the Ward endeth for that street.  
Then about some dozen houses, which is of Baynard's Castle Ward, to Warwick lane end: which Warwick lane stretcheth North to the high street of Newgate Market. And the West side of Warwick lane is of this Foringdon Ward: For the East side of Warwick lane, of Ave Mary lane, and of Creed lane, with the west end of Pater noster Row, are all of Baynard's Castle Ward.  
Yet to begin again at the said Conduit by the old Exchange, on the North side thereof is a large street, that runneth up to Newgate, as is aforesaid. The first part, or South-west side thereof, from the Conduit to the Shambles, is called Bladder street. 
Bladder street.  Then on the back side of the Shambles be diverse slaughter-houses, and such like, pertaining to the Shambles: and this is called Mount Goddard street. 
Mount Goddard street.  Then is the Shambles itself, and then Newgate Market. And so the whole street on both sides up to Newgate, is of this Ward: and thus it is wholly bounded.  
Monuments in this Ward be these: First, the great Cross in West Cheap street, but in the Ward of Faringdon, the which Cross was first erected in that place by Edward the first, as before is showed in West Cheap street.  
At the South-west corner of Woodstreet, 
Parish Church of S. Peter in Cheap.  is the Parish Church of S. Peter the Apostle, by the said Cross, a proper Church, lately new builded. john Shakstone, Goldsmith, Maior, deceased 1503. appointed by his Testament, the said Church and Steeple to be new builded of his goods, with a flat roof. Notwithstanding, Tho. Wood, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs, 1491. is accounted a principal benefactor, because the roof of the middle I'll is supported by Images of Woodmen.  
I find to have been buried in this Church, Nicholas Farendon, Maior, Richard Hadley, Grocer, 1592.  
john Palmer, Fishmonger, 1500.  
Wil Rous, Goldsmith, Sheriff, 1429.  
Thomas Atkins, Esquire, 1400.  
john Butler, Sheriff, 1420.  
Henry Warley, Alderman, 1524.  
Sir john Mund, Goldsmith, Maior, deceased, 1537.  
Augustine Hind, Clothworker, one of the Sheriffs, in the year 1550. whose Monument doth yet remain, with this inscription here-under, etc. the other being gone.  
Sir Alexander Avenon, Maior, 1579.  
Here-under this Stone lieth buried the body of Augustine Hind, Clothworker, Alderman, and late Sheriff of London: who deceased the tenth day of August, Anno Domini, 1554. Here also lieth Dame Elizabeth his wife, by whom he had issue four sons and two daughters: which Dame Elizabeth deceased the 12. day of july, An. Dom. 1569.  
God grant us all such race to run:  
To end in Christ as they have done.  
The long Shop or Shed, encroaching on the high street before this Church wall, 
Long shop in Cheap.  was licenced to be made in the year 1401. yielding to the Chamber of London, 30. s. 4. d. yearly for the time. Also the same Shop was let by the Parish, for three pounds at the most, many years since.  
Then is Guthuruns lane, 
Guthuruns Lane.  so called of Guthurun, sometime owner thereoof: the inhabitants of this lane (of old time) were Goldbeaters. as doth appear by Records in the Exchequer. For the Easterling money was appointed to be made of fine silver, such as men made into foil, and was commonly called silver of Guthuruns lane, 
Imbroiderers Hall.  etc. The Imbroiderers Hall is in this Lane. john Trowstone Imbroiderer, than Goldsmith, Sheriff, deceased 1519. gave 40. l. towards the purchase of this Hall. 
Hugon lane.  Hugon lane, on the East side, 
Kery lane.  and Kery lane (called of one Kery) on the West.  
Then in the high street on the same North side, 
Saddler's Hall.  is the Saddler's Hall: and then Foster lane, 
Foster lane.  so called, of Saint Fosters, a fair Church, 
Parish Church of S. Fosters.  lately new builded. Henry Coote, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs, deceased, 1509. builded S. Dunstanes Chapel there. john Throwstone, one of the Sheriffs, gave to the building thereof 100 pounds by his Testament. john Browne, Sergeant-Painter, Alderman, deceased 1532. was a great Benefactor, and was there buried. William Trist, Selerar to the King, 1425. john Standelfe, Goldsmiths, lie buried there. Richard Galder, 1544. Agnes, wife to William Milborne, Chamberlain of London, 1500.  
Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Baby, 
A fair Stone in the Chancel.  quondam Capellanus Aurifabrorum London. Qui obiit 3. die Mens. Novemb. An. Dom. 1452. Cujus, etc.  
Here lieth buried the body of John Lonyson, 
A fair stone by the Communion Table.  Esquire, Master of the Mint of England, Citizen and Goldsmith of London: who most joyfully changed this miserable and wearisome life, with the felicity and happiness of God's Kingdom, in good Religion and godly charity, in true fear and steadfast faith, with a full persuasion of remission in the blood of jesus Christ, the one and twentieth day of May, An. Dom. 1583. being about the 59 year of his age.  
Here lieth interred the body of Christopher Wase, 
A Monument in the wall, South of the Quire.  late Citizen and Godsmith of London, aged 66. years, and died the 22. of September, 1605. who had to wife Anne the daughter of William Prettyman, and had by her three sons and three daughters.  
Reader, stay,  
and thou shalt know  
What he was  
that here doth sleep:  
Lodged amidst  
the stones below,  
Stones that oft  
are seen to weep.  
Gentile was his  
birth and breed,  
His carriage gentle,  
much contenting:  
His word accorded  
with his deed,  
Sweet his nature,  
soon relenting.  
From above  
he seemed protected,  
Father dead  
before his birth,  
An Orphan, only  
but neglected,  
Yet his branches  
spread on earth,  
Earth, that must  
his bones contain,  
Sleeping till Christ's  
Trump shall wake them,  
joining them  
to soul again,  
And to bliss  
eternal take them.  
It is not this rude  
and little heap of stones,  
Can hold the fame,  
althoughed contains the bones.  
Light be the earth,  
and hallowed for thy sake,  
Resting in peace,  
peace that so oft didst make.  
Under the Stone right against this Monument, 
A small Monument in the wall with a gilt plate.  lie buried the bodies of Robert Marsh, Citizen and Grocer of London, and Florence his first wife, by whom he had issue seven Sons. By Elizabeth, his second wife, (left living) he had issue three sons and a daughter. He departed this life the 7. day of October, Anno Dom. 1602. after he had lived 65. years and three days.  
Here-under lieth buried the body of Mistress Martha Prescot, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion Table.  the wife of Alexander Prescot, Citizen and Alderman of London: whose soul the Lord took to his mercy the 26. day of Novemb. 1616. when she had lived a married wife just 23. years that day, and 40. years, 2. months, 3. weeks, and odd days, from the time of her birth. She had issue by her said Husband, 6. Sons, and 5. daughters, and her youngest of all, being a daughter, named Elizabeth, lieth hereunder interred, in the same Grave, on the same day of burial with her said mother.  
Lord, 
A fair plated Grave-stone in the middle I'll.  of thine infinite  
grave and pity,  
Have mercy on me  
Agnes, sometime the wife  
Of William Milborne,  
Chamberlain of this City,  
Which took my passage  
fro this wretched life,  
The year of Grace,  
one thousand, one hundred and five,  
The twelfth day of july,  
no longer was my space,  
It pleased then my Lord  
to call me to his grace.  
Now ye that are living,  
and see this picture,  
Pray for me here  
while ye have time and space,  
That God of his goodness  
would me assure,  
In his everlasting mansion  
to have a place.  
Then down Foster Lane, and Noble street, both of Aldersgate street Ward, till ye come to the stone wall, which encloseth a Garden-plot before the wall of the City, on the West side of Noble street, and is of this Faringdon Ward. This Garden-plot, containing 95. else in length, 9 else and an half in breadth, was by Adam de Bury, Mayor, the Aldermen, and Citizens of London, let to john de Nevell, Lord of Raby, Radulph and Thomas, his sons, for threescore years, paying 6. s. 8. d. the year. Dated the 48. of Edw. 3. having in a seal pendant on the one side, 
Barons of London their seal.  the figure of a walled City, and of S. Paul, a Sword in his right hand, and in the left a Banner; 3. Leopards, about that Seal, on the same side written, Sigillum Baronium Londoniarum. On the other side, the like figure of a City, a Bishop sitting on an Arch, the inscription, Me: quae: ●e: peperi: ne: Cesses: Thoma: tueri.  
Thus much for the Barons of London, their common seal at that time.  
At the North end of this Garden-plot, is one great house builded of stone and timber, now called the Lord Winsors house, of old time belonging to the Nevels, as in the 19 of Rich. 2. it was found by inquisition of a jury, that Elizabeth Nevell died, seized of a great Message in the Parish of S. Olave in Monkes-well street in London, holden of the King in free Burgages, which she held of the gift of john Nevell of Raby, her husband, and that john Latimer was next son and heir to the said Elizabeth.  
In this West side is the Barber Surgeons Hall. 
Barber Surgeons their Hall.  This Company was incorporated by means of Thomas Morestede, Esquire, one of the Sheriffs of London, 1436. Chirurgeon to the Kings of England, Henry the fourth, fifth, and six. He deceased 1450. Then jaques Fries, Physician to Edw. the fourth, and William Hobbs, Physician and Chirurgeon for the same King's body, continuing the suit the full time of twenty years, Edward the fourth, in the second of his reign, and Richard Duke of Gloucester, became Founders of the same Corporation, in the Parish of Saint Cosme and Damiane. The first assembling of that Mystery was by Roger Strip, William Hobbs, Thomas Goddard, and Richard Kent, since the which time they builded their Hall in that street, etc.  
At the North corner of this street, 
Hermitage of S. james in the wall.  on the same side, was sometime an Hermitage or Chapel of Saint james, called in the wall, near Creplegate: it belonged to the Abbey and Covent of Garadon, as appeareth by a Record, the seven and twentieth of Edward the first: And also the 16. of Edward the third, William de Lions was Hermit there, and the Abbot & Covent of Garadon found two Chaplains, Cestercian Monks of their house: in this Hermitage one of them, for Aymor de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and Mary de Saint Paul, his Countess.  
Of these Monks, and of a Well pertaining to them, the street took that name, and is called Monkes-well street. This Hermitage with the appurtenances, was in the reign of Edw. the 6. purchased from the said King, by W. Lamb, one of the Gentlemen of the King's Chapel, Citizen and Clothworker of London: He deceased in the year 1577. and then gave it to the Clothworkers of London, with other Tenements, to the value of fifty pounds the year, to the intent they shall hire a Minister to say divine Service there.  
Again, to the high street of Cheap, from Foster Lane end to S. Martin's, and by that Lane to the Shambles or Fleshmarket, on the North side whereof is Pentecost lane, 
Pentecost Lane.  containing diverse slaughter-houses for the Butchers.  
Then was there of old time a proper Parish Church of S. Nicholas, 
Parish Church of S. Nicholas.  whereof the said Fleshmarket took the name, and was called S. Nicholas Shambles.  
This Church, with the Tenements and Ornaments, was by Henry the eight given to the Mayor and Communality of the City, towards the maintenance of the new Parish Church, then to be erected in the late dissolved Church of the Grey Friars: so was this Church dissolved and pulled down: in place whereof, and of the Churchyard, many fair houses are now builded, in a Court with a Well, in the midst whereof the Church stood.  
Then is Stinking lane, 
Stinking Lane, or Chick lane.  formerly so called, or Chick lane, at the East end of the Grey Friar's Church: it is now kept clean and free from annoyance, and called by the name of Butchers-Hall Lane; and there is the Butchers Hall.  
In the third of Richard the second, motion was made, that no Butcher should kill any flesh within London, but at Knightsbridge, or such like distant place from the walls of the City.  
Then the late dissolved Church of Grey Friars, 
Grey Friar's Church.  the original whereof was thus:  
In the year 1224. being the 8. year of the reign of King Henry the third, 
How the Grey Friar's house became first to a Friary, collected out of an ancient Manuscript delivered to me by a friend.  there came out of Italy nine Friars of the Order of the Franciscans, or Friar Minors, five whereof were Priests, and the other four Laymen. The Priests placed themselves at Canturbury in Kent: but the other four came to London, and were lodged (for some short while) among the preaching Friars, who lived then in Oldborne. Afterward, they obtained to be placed in Cornhill, London, in an house belonging to one john Travars', who was then one of the Sheriffs of London, in the same year 1224. In which house they made themselves Cells, and inhabited there for a certain time; till their number so increased, and the Citizen's devotion grew to be so great, that (within few years after) they were thence removed, by the means of one john Ewin, Mercer, who purchased a void plot of ground, near to Saint Nicholas Shambles, where to erect an House for the said Friars.  
Divers Citizens seemed herein to join with the said john Ewin, and erected there very beautiful buildings, upon the same ground so formerly purchased by john Ewin, and a great part builded at his own charge, which he appropriated to the Communality of London, and then entered into the same Order of Friars, as a Lay Brother.  
William joiner, 
The building of a Chapel for them.  Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1239. builded them a Chapel, which cost him two hundred pounds Sterling, which Chapel made part of the Chancel, as it now standeth.  
Henry Walleis, 
The body of a Church.  who was likewise Lord Mayor of London, builded them a body of a Church, which afterward was pulled down, and made as now it is.  
Mr. Walter Porter, 
Their Chapterhouse builded.  Alderman of London, builded a Chapterhouse for them, and gave diverse vessels of Brass for the Kitchen service; building places also for sick persons, and other Offices beside.  
Thomas Felcham builded the Vestry house. 
The Vestry house.   
Gregory Rokesley, 
The Dorters and Chambers.  Lord Mayor of London, builded their Dorters and Chambers, and gave Beds to them.  
M. Bartholomew of the castle, 
The Hall or Refectory.  builded a fair house or Refectory for them.  
Mr. Peter de Helyland builded the Infirmitory, and diverse places for diseased persons.  
Mr. Bevis Bond, Herald, and King at Arms, builded the studies.  
Margaret, Queen, second wife to Edward the first, began the Choir of their new Church, in the year 1306. to the building whereof, in her life time she gave 2000 marks, and 100 marks by her Testament.  
john Britain, Earl of Richmond, builded the body of the Church, to the charges of 300. pounds, and gave many rich jewels and ornaments to be used in the same.  
Marry, Countess of Pembroke 70. l.  
Gilbart de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and bestowed 20. great beams out of his Forest of Tunbridge, 20. l. starlings.  
Lady Helianor le Spencer, Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, Sister to Gilbert de Clare, gave sums of money, and so did diverse Citizens, as Arnold de Tolinea, one hundred pounds.  
Robert Picae Lisle, who became a Friar there, 300. pounds.  
Bartholomew de Almain, 50. pounds.  
Also Philippe, Queen, wife to Edward the third, gave 62. pounds.  
Isabel, Queen, Mother to Edward the third, gave threescore and ten pounds. And so the work was done within the space of 21. years, 1537.  
This Church, thus furnished with windows, made at the charges of diverse persons; the Lady Margaret Segrave, Countess of Norfolk, bore the charges of making the Stalls in the Choir, to the value of 350. marks, about the year 1380. Richard Whitington, 
Library of the Grey Friars.  in the year 1429. founded the Library, which was in length, one hundred twenty and nine foot, and in breadth, thirty one; all seeled with Wainscot, having 28. Desks, and eight double Settles of Wainscot. Which (in the next year following) was altogether finished in building, and within three years after, furnished with Books, to the charges of five hundred fifty six pounds, ten shillings, whereof Richard Whitington bore 400. pounds, the rest was borne by Doctor Thomas Winchelsey, a Friar there: and for the writing out of D. Nicholas de Lira his Works, in two Volumes to be chained there, 100 Marks, etc.  
The ●eeling of the Choir at diverse men's charges, 200. marks, and the painting at 50. marks: their Conduit head and watercourse was given them by William Tailor, Taylor to Hen. 3.  
This whole Church contained in length 300. foot, 
Length & breadth of Grey Friar's Church.  of the feet of S. Paul, in breadth eighty nine foot, and in height from the ground to the roof, 64. foot, and 2. inches, etc. It was consecrated, 1325. and at the general suppression, was valued at 32. pound, 19 shillings, surrendered the 12. of November, 1533. the 30. of Hen. 8. the ornaments and goods being taken to the King's use: the Church was shut up for a time, and used as a Storehouse of goods taken prizes from the French: But in the year 1546. on the third of january, it was again set open. On the which day preached at Paul's Cross the Bishop of Rochester, where he declared the King's gift thereof to the City, for the relieving of the poor, which gift was by Patents.  
S. Bartholomews' spital in Smithfield, lately valued at 305. pounds, 
Grey Friar's Church made a Parish Church.  6. shillings, 7. Pence, and surrendered to the King; of the said Church of the Grey Friars, and of two Parish Churches, the one of Saint Nicholas in the Shambles, and the other of Saint Ewins in Newgate Market, they were to be made one Parish Church in the said Friar's Church. In Lands he gave for maintenance of the said Church, with divine service, reparations, etc. 500 marks by year for ever.  
The 13. of january, 
The Mayor and Communality of London Parsons of Christ's Church, the Vicar to be at their appointment.  the 38. of Henry the 8. an agreement was made betwixt the King and the Mayor, and Communality of London, dated the 27. of December: by which the said gift of the Grey Friar's Church, with all the Edifices and ground, the Fratrie, the Library, the Dortar, and Chapterhouse, the great Cloistrie and the lesser; Tenements, Gardens and vacant grounds, Led, Stone, Iron, etc. The Hospital of Saint Bartholomew in West Smithfield, the Church of the same, the Lead, Bells, and Ornaments of the same Hospital, with all the Messages, Tenements and appurtenances.  
The Parishes of S. Nicholas and of S. Ewin, and so much of S. Pulchers Parish as is within Newgate, were made one Parish Church in the Grey Friar's Church, ● and called Christ's Church, founded by King H. the 8.  
The Vicar of Christ's Church was to have 26. l. 13. s. 4. pence the year. The Vicar of S. Bartholomew 13. l. 6. s. 8. pence. The Visitor of Newgate (being a Priest) ten pounds. And other 5. Priests in Christ's Church, all to be helping in divine Service, ministering the Sacraments and Sacramentals, the five Priests to have 8. pounds the piece. Two Clerks, 6. pounds to each. A Sexton, 4. pounds. Moreover, he gave them the Hospital of Bethlem, with the Laver of Brass in the Cloister, by estimation eighteen foot in length, and two foot and an half in depth, and the watercourse of Lead to the said Frier-house belonging, containing by estimation in length, 18. Acres.  
In the year 1552. began the repairing of the Grey Friar's House, 
Christ's Hospital.  for the poor fatherless children. And in the month of November the children were taken into the same, to the number of almost 400. On Christmas day in the afternoon, while the Lord Maior and Aldermen road to Paul's, the children of Christ's Hospital stood, from Saint Laurence lane end in Cheap, towards Paul's, all in one Livery of Russet Cotton, three hundred and forty in number; and at Easter next they were in Blue at the spital, and so have continued ever since.  
What further I have read and understood, concerning the first beginning and erection of this famous Hospital, followeth, 
Ex R. Grafton.  according to the original Copy, set down by M. Richard Grafton.  
Mr. Doctor Ridley, 
Doct Ridley preached before King Edw. 6. Mercy & Charity.  than Bishop of London, came and preached before the King's Majesty at Westminster. In which Sermon, he made a fruitful and godly Exhortation to the rich, to be merciful unto the poor: and also to move such as were in authority, to travail by some charitable way and means, to comfort and relieve them. Whereupon, the King's Majesty (being a Prince of such towardness and virtue for his years, as England before never brought forth, and being also so well retained and brought up in all godly knowledge, as well by his dear Uncle the late 
* Edw. S●imer Duke of Somerset  Protector, as also by his virtuous and learned Schoolmasters) was so careful of the good government of the Realm, and chiefly to do and prefer such things as most especially touched the honour of Almighty God. And understanding, that a great number of poor people did swarm in this Realm, and chiefly in the City of London, and that no good order was taken for them, did suddenly (and of himself) send to the said Bishop, as soon as his Sermon was ended, willing him not to depart, until that he had spoken with him. And this that I now write, was the very report of the said Bishop Ridley, who (according to the King's command) gave his attendance. And so soon as the King's Majesty was at leisure he called for him, and caused him to come unto him in a great Gallery at Westminster, where (to his knowledge, and the King likewise told him so) there was present no more persons than they two; and therefore made him sit down in one Chair, and he himself in another, which (as it seemed) were before the coming of the Bishop there purposely set, and caused the Bishop, maugre his teeth) to be covered, and then entered communication with him in this manner:  
First, giving him hearty thanks for his Sermon and good Exhortation: he therein rehearsed such special things as he had noted, and that so many, that the Bishop said:  
Truly, truly (for that commonly was his Oath) I could never have thought that excellency to have been in his Grace, but that I beheld, and heard it in him.  
At the last the King's Majesty much commended him for his Exhortation, for the relief of the poor.  
But my Lord (quoth he) you willed such as are in authority to be careful thereof, 
A most virtuous and noble saying of King Edw. to Bishop Ridley.  and to device some good order for their relief: Wherein, I think you mean me, for I am in highest place; and therefore am the first that must make answer unto God for my negligence, if I should not be careful therein, knowing it to be the express Commandment of Almighty God, to have compassion of his poor and needy members, for whom we must make an account unto him. And truly, my Lord, I am (before all things else) most willing to travail that way, and I doubting nothing of your long and approved wisdom and learning, who having such good zeal, as wisheth help unto them; but also that you have had some conference with others, what ways are best to be taken therein, the which I am desirous to understand: and therefore I pray you to say your mind.  
The Bishop thinking least of that matter, and being amazed, to hear the wisdom & earnest zeal of the King, was (as he said himself) so astonished, that he could not well tell what to say. But, after some pause, said, That he thought (at this present) for some entrance to be had, it were good to practise with the City of London, 
The Citizens of London moved to be assistants in this charitable action.  because the number of the poor there are very great, and the Citizens also are many and wise; and he doubted not but that they were also both pitiful and merciful; as the Mayor and his Brethren, and other the Worshipful of the said City. And that if it would please the King's Majesty to direct his gracious Letters unto the Mayor of London, willing him to call unto him such assistants as he should think meet, to consult of this matter, for some order to be taken therein; he doubted not but good would follow thereon. And he himself promised the King to be one himself that should earnestly travail therein.  
The King (forthwith) not only granted his Letter, 
The king's letter sent by the Bishop to the Lord, Maior of London.  but made the Bishop tarry until the same was written, and his hand and Signet set thereto: And commanded the Bishop not only to deliver the said Letter himself; but also to signify unto the Mayor, that it was the King's especial request and express commandment, that the Mayor should therein travel; and so soon as he might conveniently, give him knowledge how far he had proceeded therein. The Bishop was so joyous of the having of this Letter, and that now he had an occasion to travel in so good a matter, wherein he was marvellous zealous, that nothing could have more pleased and delighted him: wherefore the same night he came to the Lord Mayor of London, who was the Sir Richard Dobbs, Knight, and delivered the King's Letter, and showed his message with effect.  
The Lord Maior not only joyously received this Letter: 
The readiness of the Lord Mayor to prefer this good deed.  but with all speed agreed to set forward the matter; for he also favoured it very much. And the next day, being Monday, he desired the Bishop of London to dine with him, and against that time the Mayor promised to send for such men, as he thought meetest to talk of this matter, and so he did. He sent first for 2. Aldermen and 6. Commoners, and afterward more were appointed, to the number of 24. In the end, after sundry meetings (for by the means and good diligence of the Bishop, it was well followed) they agreed upon a Book that they had devised, wherein first they considered on nine special kinds and sorts of poor people, 
9 Sorts of poor people distinguished into 3. degrees.  and those they brought into these three Degrees: 

Three degrees of Poor.  
1. The poor by impotency.  
2. Poor by casualty.  
3. Thriftless poor.    
1. The Poor by Impotency are also divided into three kinds; that is to say: 

1. The fatherless poor man's child.  
2. The aged, blind, and lame.  
3. The diseased person by Leprosy, Dropsy, etc.    
2. The Poor by Casualty are likewise of three kinds; that is to say: 

1. The wounded Soldier.  
2. The decayed Householder.  
3. The visited with any grievous disease.    
3. The Thristlesse Poor are 3. kinds in like manner; that is to say: 

1. The rioter, that consumeth all.  
2. The Vagabond, that will abide in no place.  
3. The Idle person, as Strumpets and others.    
For these sorts of Poor, 
The first beginning of Hospitals.  three several houses were provided: First, for the Innocent and Fatherless, which is the Beggar's child, and is (indeed) the seed and breeder of beggary, they provided the house that was the late Grey Friars in London, and called it by the name of Christ's Hospital, where poor children are trained up in the knowledge of God, and some virtuous exercises, to the overthrow of beggary.  
For the second degree was provided the Hospitals of Saint Thomas in Southwark, 
The first beginning of S. Thom. and S. Bartholm. Hospitals.  and Saint Bartholomew in West Smithfield, where are continually (at least) 200. diseased persons, which are not only there lodged and cured, but also said and nourished.  
For the third degree they provided Bridewell, 
The first beginning of Bridewell,  where the vagabond and idle Strumpet is chastifed, and compelled to labour, to the overthrow of the vicious life of idleness.  
They provided also for the honest decayed Householder, 
Relief for decayed householders' & Lazars.  that he should be relieved at home at his house, and in the Parish where he dwelled, by a weekly relief and pension. And in like manner they provided for the Lazer, to keep him out of the City, from clapping of dishes and ringing of Bells, to the great trouble of the Citizens, and also to the dangerous infection of many; that they should be relieved at home at their houses, by several pensions.  
Now after this good order taken, 
The king acquainted with the City's furtherance.  and the Citizens (by such means as were devised) willing to further the same: the report thereof was made to the King's Majesty, and his Grace (for the advancement thereof) was not only willing to grant such as should be Overseers and Governors of the said houses, a Corporation and authority for the government of them: but also required, that he might be accounted as the chief Founder and Patron thereof.  
And for the furtherance of the said work, 
K. Edward. the sixth Founder of the Hospitals in London.  and continual maintenance of the same; he of his me●● mercy and goodness granted, that whereas (before) certain land● were given, to the maintaining of the ho●● of the Savoy, founded by King 〈…〉 ●●eventh, for the loding of 〈…〉 and Strangers, and that the same 〈◊〉 now made but a loding for Loy●●re●, Vagabonds, and Strumpets, that lay all day in the fields, and at night were harboured there, 
The 〈◊〉 land for rendered to the King, and given to the City of London.  the which was rather the maintenance of beggary, than any relief to the poor: gave the same lands, being first surrendered by the Master and Fellowes there (which lands were of the yearly value of 600. pounds) unto the City of London, for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid.  
And for a further relief, a Petition being made to the King's Majesty, for a licence to take in Mortmain, or otherwise without licence, lands to a certain yearly value, and a space left in the Patent, for his Grace to put in what sum it would please him: He looking on the void place, called for pen and ink, and with his own hand wrote this sum, in these words, 4000 Marks by the year, and then said in the hearing of his Council, 
The words of a blessed King.  Lord, I yield thee most hearty thanks, that thouhast given me life thus long, to finish this work to the glory of thy Name. After which foundation established, he lived not above two days: whose life would have been wished equal to the patriarchs, if it had pleased GOD so to have prolonged it.  
By example of the charitable act of this virtuous young King, 
Sir William Chester, and Io. Calthrop, Draper.  Sir W. Chester, Knight, and Alderman of London, and Io. Calthrop, Citizen and Draper of the same City, at their own proper costs and charges, made the brick walls and way on the back side, which leadeth from the said new Hospital, unto the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew, and also covered and vaulted the Town-ditch, from Aldersgate to Newgate, which (before) was very noisome, and contagious to the said Hospital.  
This Hospital being thus erected, 
Rich. castle, Shoemaker, The Cock of Westminster  and put into good order, there was one Richard Castell, alias Casteller, Shoemaker, dwelling in Westminster, a man of great travail and labour in his faculty with his own hands, and such a one as was named, The Cock of Westminster, because both Winter and Summer he was at his work before four of the clock in the morning. This man thus truly and painfully labouring for his living, God blessed and increased his labours so abundantly, that he purchased lands and tenements in Westminster, to the yearly value of forty and four pounds. And having no child, with the consent of his wife (who survived him, and was a virtuous good woman) gave the same lands wholly to Christ's Hospital aforesaid, to the relief of the Innocent and Fatherless Children, and for the succour of the miserable, sore and sick, harboured in the other Hospitals about London.  
Saint Bartholomews' Hospital is incorporated by the name of the Mayor, 
The incorporation of St. Bartholomews' Hospital in West Smithfield.  Communality, and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Hospital for the poor, called Little Saint Bartholomews', near to West Smithfield, of the Foundation of King Henry the 8.  
Christ's Hospital, 
The incorporation of the Hospitals of King Edward the sixth.  Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle in Southwark, are incorporated by the names of the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospitals of Edward King of England, the sixth, of Christ, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle, etc.  
The defaced Monuments in this Church were these: 
Monuments in Christ's Church.  First, in the Choir, of the Lady Margaret, daughter to Philip, King of France, and wife to Edward the first, Foundress of this new Church, 1317.  
Of Isabel, 
4. Queens buried In this Church.  Queen, wife to Edward the second, daughter to Philip, King of France, 1358.  
joan of the Tower, Queen of Scots, wife to David Bruise, daughter to Edward the second, died in Hartford Castle, and was buried by Isabel her mother, 1362.  
William Fitzwaren, Baron, and Isabel his wife, sometime Queen of the Isle of Man.  
Isabel, daughter to Edward the third, wedded to Lord Couse, of France, after created Earl of Bedford.  
Eleanor, wife to john, Duke of Britain.  
Beatrix, Duchess of Britain, daughter to Henry the third.  
Sir Robert Lisle, Baron, the Lady Lisle, & Margaret de Rivers, Countess of Devon, all under one Stone.  
Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, beheaded, 1329.  
Patar, Bishop of Carbon in Hungary, 1331.  
Gregory Rocksley, Maior, 1282.  
Sir john Devereux, Knight, 1385.  
john Hastings, Earl of Pembroke, 1389.  
Margaret, daughter to Thomas Brotharton, Earl Martial, she was Duchess of Norfolk, and Countess Martial, and Lady Segrave, 1389.  
Richard Havering, Knight, 1388.  
Robert Trisilian, Knight, Chief Justice, 1308.  
Geffrey Lucy, son to Geffrey Lucy.  
john Aubry, son to john Mayor of Norwich, 1361.  
john Philpot, Knight, Maior of London, and the Lady Lane Stamford his wife, 1384.  
john, Duke of Bourbon, and Angue, Earl of Claremond, Mountpencier, and Baron Beangen, who was taken prisoner at Agincourt, kept prisoner eighteen years, and deceased 1433.  
Robert Chalons, Knight, 1439.  
john Chalons.  
Margaret, daughter to Sir john Philpot, first married to T. Santlor, Esquire, and after, to john Neyband, Esquire.  
Sir Nicholas Brembar, Mayor of London, buried 1386.  
Elizabeth Nevil, wife to john, son and heir to Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, & mother to Ralph Earl of Westmoreland, and daughter to Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, 1423.  
Edward Burnel, son to the Lord Burnel.  
In All-hallows Chapel; james Fines, Lord Say, 1450. and Helenor his wife, 1452.  
john Smith, Bishop of Landaffe, 1478.  
john, Baron Hilton.  
john, Baron Clinton.  
Richard Hastings, Knight, Lord of Willoughby and Wells.  
Thomas Burder, Esquire, beheaded, 1477.  
Robert Lisle, son and heir to the Lord Lisle.  
In our Lady Chapel: john Guysors of London, Knight, and Lord Maior.  
Humphrey Stafford, Esquire, of Worcestershire, 1486.  
Robert Bartram, Baron of Bothell.  
Ralph Barons, Knight.  
William Apleton, Knight.  
Reynold de Cambrey, Knight.  
Thomas Beaumond, son and heir to Henry Lord Beaumond.  
john Butler, Knight.  
Adam de Howton, Knight, 1417.  
Bartholomew Caster, Knight of London.  
Reinfredo Arundel, Knight, 1460.  
Thomas Covil, Esquire, 1422.  
In the Apostles Chapel; Walter Blunt, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Mountjoy, Treasure of England, son and heir to T. Blunt, knight, Treasurer of Normandy, 1474.  
E. Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, 1475.  
Alice Blunt, Mountjoy, sometime wife to Wil Browne, Maior of London, and daughter to H. Kebel, Maior, 1521.  
Anne Blunt, daughter to I. Blunt, knight, Lord Mountjoy, 1480.  
Sir Allen Cheiny, knight, and Sir T. Greene, knight.  
William Blunt, Esquire, son and heir to Walter Blunt, Captain of Gwynes, 1492.  
Elizabeth Blunt, wife to Robert Curson, Knight, 1494.  
Bartholomew Burwash, and john Burwash, his son,  
john Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, Captain of Gwynes and Hames, 1485.  
john Dinham, Baron, sometime Treasurer of England, knight of the Garter, 1501.  
Eleanor, Duchess of Buckingham, 1530.  
john Blunt, knight, 1531.  
Rowl. Blunt, Esquire, 1509.  
Robert Bradbury, 1489.  
Nicholas Clifton, knight.  
Francis Chape.  
Two sons of Allayne, Lord Cheiny, and john, son and heir to the same Lord Allayne Cheiny; knight.  
john Robsart, knight of the Garter, 1450.  
Allayne Cheiny, knight.  
Thomas Malory, knight, 1470.  
Thomas Young, a Justice of the Bench, 1476.  
john Baldwin, Fellow of Gray's Inn, and Common Sergeant of London, 1469.  
Walter Wrotsley, knight, of Warwickshire, 1473.  
Sir Stephen jennings, Maior, 1523.  
Thomas a Par, and john Wiltwater, slain at Barnet field, 1471.  
Nicholas poins, Esquire, 1512.  
Robert Elkenton, knight, 1460.  
john Water, alias York, Herald, 1520.  
john More, alias Nory, King of Arms, 1491.  
George Hopton, knight, 1489.  
Between the Choir and the Altar, Ralph Spiganel, knight.  
john Moyle, Gentleman of Gray's Inn, 1495.  
William Huddy, knight, 1501.  
john Cobham, a Baron of Kent.  
john Mortaine, knight.  
john Deyncort, knight.  
john Norbery, Esquire, high Treasurer of England.  
Henry Norbery his son, Esquire.  
john Southlee, knight.  
Tho. Sakvile.  
Tho. Lucy, knight, 1525.  
Robert de la Rivar, son to Mauricius de la Rivar, Lord of Tormerton, 1457.  
Io. Malmaynas, Esquire, and Tho. Malmaynas', knight.  
Hugh Acton, Taylor, 1530.  
Nicholas Malmaynas.  
Hugh Parsal knight, 1490.  
Alexander Kirketon, knight, etc.  
In the body of the Church; William Paulet, Esquire, of Somersetshire, 1482.  
john Moyle, Gentleman, 1530.  
Peter Champion, Esquire, 1511.  
Io. Hart, Gentleman, 1449.  
Alice Lat. Hungerford, hanged at Tyburn for murdering her husband, 1523.  
Edward Hall, Gentleman of Gray's june, 1470.  
Ri. Churchyard, Gentleman, Fellow of Gray's Inn, 1498.  
john Bramre, Gentleman of Gray's Inn, 1498.  
john Mortimer, knight, beheaded, 1423.  
Henry Frowike, Alderman.  
Reynold Frowike.  
Philip Pats, 1518.  
William Porter, Sergeant at Arms, 1515.  
Tho. Grantham, Gentleman, 1511.  
Edmond Rotheley, Gentleman, 1470.  
Henry Roston, Gentleman of Gray's Inn, 1485.  
Nicholas Mountgomery, Gentleman, son to Io. Mountgomery of Northamptonshire, 1485.  
Sir Bartholomew Emfield, knight.  
Sir Barnard S. Peter, knight.  
Sir Ralph Sandwich, knight, Custos of London.  
Sir Andrew Sakevile, knight.  
john Treszawall, Gentleman, and Tailor of London, 1520.  
All these, and five times so many more have been buried there, whose Monuments are wholly defaced: for there were nine Tombs of Alabaster and Marble, environed with strikes of Iron, in the Choir, and one Tomb in the body of the Church, also coped with Iron, all pulled down, besides sevenscore Gravestones of Marble, all sold for fifty pounds, or thereabouts by Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith and Alderman of London, of late time buried there.  
These two, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Quire.  Sir Christopher Edmond, and, Dame Dorothy his wife, lived together 44. years, in perfect love and society: both servants to one Prince; and in great credit both in the Court and Country where they lived, both for their Religion, fidelity to their Sovereign, and liberality to the Poor.  
This is the Monument of Sir Christopher Edmond, Knight, who was a domestical servant to the most sacred Queen ELIZABETH, both before her Coronation, and after, so long as he lived. He was of great credit and estimation in his Country, for his integrity of life, uprightness in justice, and hospitality, and gave to this Hospital of Christ's Church three hundred pounds, towards the maintenance of the poor children. He lived seventy and two years, and died Anno Domini, 1596.  
This is the interrement of Dame Dorothy Edmond, wife to the said Sir Christopher, and daughter to Christopher Litcot, Esquire; who also served the most gracious Mayden-Queene, ELIZABETH, being (ever since her Coronation, and before) of her most Honourable Privy Chamber: who joined with the said Sir Christopher, her husband, in the said gift of three hundred pounds to this Hospital, being a Legacy (only spoken of by him) and performed by her.   

Time's Triumph on the death of Master Robert Rogers, who deceased Anno. 1601. in the manner of a Dialogue, between Time, Death, and Rogers.  

Death.  
STand fairly encountered both, 
A fair Monument close by, in the same wall.   
Grave, Sovereign Time;  
Borne of Eternity,  
Age's Father:  
Prince of all Power; all  
Powers on earth are thine,  
That dost my Ruins  
truest Records gather;  
Lend thy consent, thy  
helping hand to mine;  
And Death will make Time's  
Sovereignty as great  
As the three Sisters,  
Ladies of stern Fate.   

Time.  
Impartial Death, Honour's  
respectless foe,  
Grim, meager Caitiff,  
wherefore dost thou come?  
Must Virtues children  
to the slaughter go,  
In thy bloud-yawning  
Cell to fill a room?  
Can none but they, quench  
thy bloody thirst? Death. No;  
Rogers I come for: Time,  
thou canst not save him,  
This Dart must strike him,  
and grim Death will have him.   

Rogers.  
Death, welcome; all by thee  
(I know) must end;  
Nor do I care for  
for longer life than this;  
I thank thee, thou hast stayed  
so long; (kind friend.)  
Sweere Time, be patient,  
pardon mine amiss,  
If I have time misspent;  
alas, we all offend.  
If, said I? yes, 'tis  
certain, sure I have;  
For which offence (dear  
Time) I pardon crave.   

Time.  
Death, grant me this (sweet)  
do not kill him  
Till I return but  
from the Destinies.  
Dea. I cannot stay a moment.  
Reg. O will him  
(Grave Time) to strike me then:  
I Death despise.  
Dea. There lie thou dead.  
Time. Thou canst not spill him:  
Time shall erect a Trophy  
of such fame,  
That while Time lives,  
die shall not Roger's name.   

TIMES Epitaph.  
Give me an Adamantine Pen,  
and Leaf of Brass,  
To character his name,  
whose like ne'er was.  
A single life he led,  
loving to all,  
The poor man's succour,  
the relief of thrall:  
Virtue's example, guide  
to eternal life;  
In carriage courteous,  
all devoid of strife.  
Here lieth he interred,  
Rogers his name,  
Times only Son,  
eternised by Fame.  
Ugly Detraction, fly,  
and black Oblivion, hence;  
Whilst Roger's dust lies here,  
Time will his fame commence.    

Behold the Works of God, 
Upon a Monument on a Pillar by the Tomb. First, on the one Table.  done by his Servant, Dame MARY RAMSEY.  
SHe hath given a yearly maintenance for two Fellows, and four Scholars in Cambridge.  
More, two Livings of good value, when they shall become fit to supply them.  
More, towards certain Sermons to be preached in this Church yearly.  
More, in Christ's Hospital a free Writing-Schoole for poor men's children.  
More, in the Country a free Grammar-Schoole for the poorer sort.  
All which several gifts before remembered, are to continue yearly for ever.  
Forma, Decus, Mores,  
Sapientia, Res & Honours,  
Morte ruunt subita;  
vivit post funera Fama.   

The rest of the godly Works done by this good Lady.  
SHe hath given a worthy maintenance to the poor of Christ's Hospital. 
Secondly, on the other Table.   
More, a bountiful gift for the healing of poor wounded Soldiers.  
More, a liberal maintenance for ten poor maimed Soldiers.  
More, a liberal maintenance for ten poor aged Widows.  
More, a bountiful gift to release poor men out of prison.  
More, a bountiful gift to relieve poor men in prison.  
More, a yearly Stipend to poor Maid's Marriages.  
More, to the relief of the Poor of four several Parishes.  
All which several gifts are for ever.  
Her faith hath wrought, her Tree was not barren. And yet an unprofitable Servant. 1596.  

Gamaliel Pie, 
A fair plated stone in the Choir▪  under this Stone  
doth lie in peace and rest,  
Whose service to his Prince and Realm,  
well known not to be least:  
At Bullen, Muttrel, & each place else,  
where then the King had wars,  
Not any one that served in Camp,  
less feared wounds and scars.  
In age he lived in peace and love,  
abhorring world's inconstancy,  
And chosen was eleven times  
the Warden of his Company.  
The poor, sick, lame, abroad, at  
home, his bounty ever felt,  
But chiefly his own Parishioners,  
where threescore years he dwelled.  
He held disdain to brawl, or seek  
what others had to do;  
And with his wife he lived  
full forty years and two,  
He lived devout, and died devout,  
the chiefest way to Heaven;  
The complete date of this his life,  
was fourscore years and seven.   

Mole sub hac, si fortè rogues  
quis (Candid Lector)  
Vel qualis recubat?  
Gamaliel Pius est.  
Vita pium, nomenque pium,  
mors sancta piumque  
Exhibet, & vita est,  
nomine, morte Pius.   

S. Memoriae.  
Gualtero Haddono, 
A fair Monument in the wall, at the upper end of the Chancel.  Equestri loco nato jurisconsulto, Oratori, Poetae celeberrimo, Graecae, Latinaeque eloquentiae sui temporis facilè principi, sapientia & sanctitate vitae, in id evecto, ut Reginae Elizabethae à supplicum libellis Magister esset: Destinareturque majoribus nisi fato immaturius cessisset: Interim in omni gradu viro longè eminentissimo, Coniugi suo optimo meritissimoque Anna Suttona, uxor eius 2. flens, moerens desiderii sui signum posuit. Obiit Anno Salut. hum. 1572. Aetatis 56.  
Within this Grave enclosed here,  
Anne Beaumont now doth rest, 
A fair plated stone by the Communion Table.   
A loving and a faithful wife,  
with many children blessed.  
She served God with zeal of truth,  
and learned to fly from sin;  
And as she learned his holy will,  
so lived and died therein.  
A friend to such as virtue sought,  
a foe unto no wight;  
A help to those that feared God,  
with all her power and might.  
The poor shall oft bewail her want,  
by whom they found relief;  
Whose mind with earnest care was bend,  
to ease them of their grief.  
Thus happy she, that now is gone  
from hence, reward to find;  
Unhappy yet for such her friends,  
as she hath left behind:  
But thrice unhappy for his loss,  
that doth her praise rehearse;  
A woeful praise unto her Son,  
who wrote this doleful Verse.  
Anne, wife unto Nicholas Beaumond, of Coleoverton, in Leicesteshire, Esquire, and daughter unto William Saunders, of Welford, in Northhamptonshire, Esquire, and half sister unto Walter Haddon, Master of the Requests, departed this life the 7. day of September, An. Dom. 1581. leaving behind her six children.  
Hic jacent corpora Wil Drewe, Armig. fill. Joh. Drewe, de Ken, in Com. Devon. 
Another plated stone on the other side of the Table.  Armig. & Eliz. ux. ejus. fill. & haered. Wil Cecil. ac consang. & haered. Tho. Cecil. Armig. Quae quidem Elizab. obiit 10. die Novemb. Anno Dom. 1586. Et praedict. Wil Drewe obiit, etc.  
We die to live, that lived to die,  
Through Jesus Christ, and so did I:  
Which Christ, as I have loved best,  
Among his Saints I trust to rest.  
Under this Stone lieth buried the body of Robert Smith, 
A fair plated stone in the South fide of the Quire.  Gentleman: who had to his first wife, Elizabeth Reycroft, by whom he had issue three daughters, viz. Margaret, julian, and joan. And he had to his second wife, Margaret Larkin, by whom he had no issue. The which Robert died the eighth day of December, Anno Domini 1581. whose soul resteth with God.  
Here lieth buried Margaret, 
A fair plated stone in the South I'll.  the wife of Laurence Hussie, Doctor of Law, and daughter of sir john White, Knight, for her virtuous life, worthy of memory: who died the third day of August, 1569.   

D. Opt. Max. Laus.  
Gulielmo Herberto, naturali F. Georgii Herberti de Swansey, 
A plated stone at entering into the Quire.  Militis, joannes eiusdem Georgii ex filio Nepos, ac Sereniss. Elizabethae Angliae Reginae à sup. libellis. H. S. moesto animo P. K. januar. 1590.  
Here lieth the body of john Tredwey, of Easton, 
A Grave-stone in the North Chapel of the Quire.  in the County of Northampton, Gentleman; who died the 10. day of May, An. Dom. 1610.  
Rodolpho Waddingtono, huius scholae per annos 48. Moderatori digniss. Qui postquam una cum uxore sine prole, 
A small Monument erected in the School wall, in the Cloister, where (according to his desire) he lieth buried.  anno 47. suavissimè degisset, An. aetatis 84. An. Dom. 1614 Aug. 24. in Domino placidè obdormivit.   

joanna uxor ejus moestiss. posuit.  
Hic Waddingtonus tenui  
requiescit in urna,  
Nestor verè annis,  
& gravitate Cato.  
Tullius eloquio, Damon  
sincerus amico,  
Et par praeceptis  
(Quintiliane) tibi.  
Dulcis, amoenus, amans,  
cultis, praestante, probata,  
Vir, Vates, Coniux,  
Moribus, Arte, Fide.  
Tales secla puto paucos  
antiqua dedissnet:  
Postera non multos  
secla datura pares.   

Vita.  
Angligenae hunc peperit  
Londinum gloria gentis,  
Aetona huic Artis  
semina prima dedit.  
Granta tulit segetem  
fructumque tumescere fecit,  
Londini Messes  
Orphana turba tulit.  
From this Church, West to Newgate, is of this Ward.  
Now for the South side of this Ward, beginning again at the Cross in Cheap, from thence to Friday street, and down that street, on the West side, till overagainst the Northwest corner of Saint Matthewes Church. 
Parish Church of S. Matthew in Friday street.  And on the West side, to the South corner of the said Church, which is wholly in the Ward of Faringdon. This Church hath these few Monuments:  
Thomas Pole, Goldsmith, 1395.  
Rob johnson, Goldsmith, Alderman,  
john Twiselton, Goldsmith, Alderman, 1525.  
Ralph Allen, Grocer, one of the Sheriffs, deceased 1546.  
Anthony Gamage, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffs, deceased 1579.  
john Mabbe, Chamberlain of London, etc.  
Allen at Conduit, and Thomas Warlingworth founded a Chantry there.  
Sir Nicholas Twiford, Goldsmith, Maior, gave to that Church an House, with the appurtenances, called the Griffon on the Hope, in the same street.  
Anthony Cage entombed  
here, 
A comely Monument in the wall, on the Chancels South side.  doth rest,  
Whose wisdom still  
prevailed the Commonweal:  
A man with God's good  
gifts so amply blessed,  
That few, or none,  
his doings may impleale.  
A man unto the widow  
and the poor,  
A comfort and  
a succour evermore.  
Three wives he had,  
of credit and of fame:  
The first of them,  
Elizabeth, that hight;  
Who buried here, brought  
to this Cage by name,  
Seventeen young Plants,  
to give his Table light.  
The second wife (for her  
part) brought him none;  
The third and last,  
no more but only one.   

He deceased the 24. day of june, Anno Domini, 1583.  
In the midst of this Choir lieth the body of Gaius Newman, 
A fair Monument in the North wall of the Chancel.  Citizen and Goldsmith of London, of the age of 66. years. He had issue by his wife Anne, the daughter of Nicholas Cullum, of London, Merchant-Taylor, 7. sons and 5. daughters, Gabriel, Gaius, Robert, Nicholas, Francis, Thomas, and Hugh; Elizabeth, Mary, Anne, Sarah, and judith. He deceased the third day of March, 1613.  
Here lieth buried the body of john Perte, 
Another Monument in the same wall.  Citizen and Fishmonger of London; who took to wife Elizabeth Eyre, the daughter of Henry Eyre, Citizen and Skinner of Lond. by whom he had issue one only daughter, named Mary. The said john deceased the tenth day of October, Anno Domini 1604. being aged 51. years.  
As Man liveth, 
A Plate in the South wall of the Chancel.  so he dyeth;  
As Tree falleth, so it lieth:  
Anne Middleton, thy life well past,  
Doth argue restful bliss at last.  
Obiit Anno à partu Virginis Mariae, 1596. Mens. januar. die 11.  
Anno Reg. Reginae Elizabethae, 39 Aetatis suae, 54.  
From this Friday street; 
Old Change.  West to the Old Exchange, a street so called, of the King's Exchange there kept, which was for the receipt of Bullion, to be coined. For Henry the third, in the sixth year of his reign, wrote to the Scabines and men of Ipre, that he and his Council had given prohibition, that none, Englishmen, or other, should make change of Plate, or other Mass of Silver, but only in his Exchange at London, or at Canturbury. Andrew Bukerell then had to farm the Exchange of England, and was Mayor of London in the reign of Henry the third. john Somercote had the keeping of the King's Exchange over all England. In the eighth of Edward the first, Gregory Rocksly was keeper of the said Exchange for the King. In the fifth of Edward the second, William Hausted was keeper thereof. And in the 18. Roger de Frowicke, etc.  
These received the old Stamps, or Coyning-Irons, from time to time, as the same were worn, & delivered new to all the Mints in England, as more at large in another place I have noted.  
This street beginneth by West Cheap in the North, and runneth down South to Knight-Rider street; that part thereof which is called Old Fish-street: But the very Housing and Office of the Exchange & coinage, was about the midst thereof, South from the East gate that entereth Paul's Churchyard, and on the West side, in Baynard's Castle Ward.  
On the East side of this Lane, betwixt West Cheap and the Church of St. Augustine, Henry Walleis, Maior, (by licence of Edward the first) builded one row of houses, the profits rising of them, to be employed on London Bridge.  
The Parish Church of St. Augustine, 
Parish Church of S. Augustine▪  and one house next adjoining, in Watheling street, is of this Ward called Faringdon. This is a fair Church, and lately well repaired, wherein be Monuments remaining, of H. Reade, Armorer, one of the Sheriffs, 1450.  
Robert Bellesdon, Haberdasher, Mayor, 1491.  
Sir Townley.  
Wil Dear, one of the Sheriffs, 1450.  
Robert Raven, Haberdasher, 1500.  
Thomas Apleyard, Gentleman, 1515.  
William Moncaster, Merchant-Tailor, 1524.  
Wil Holt, Merchant-Taylor, 1544.  
Hic jacet Magister Robertus Bursted, Baccalaurius juris civilis, 
A plated stone under the Communion Table.  & hujus Ecclesiae quondam Rector. Qui obiit 16. die mens. Augusti, An. Dom. 1417. Cujus, etc.  
Hic jacet Magister johannes Battle, quondam Rector huius Ecclesiae. 
The like stone by the other.  Qui obiit Anno Domini, 1426. sexto die Mensis Augusti, Cuius, etc.  
Ecce ut defuncti  
cineres mirere beats,  
Ecce in tantillo  
temporis quantus honour.  
Dudum vita mihi fuerat,  
quae patria mundus,  
Sed mihi jam Coelum  
Patria, vita Deus.  
Dudum mortis eram  
peccato victima, sed jam  
justiae Christo victima;  
quantus honour?  
Hic requiescit in pace corpus Roberti Brett, 
A small Monument in the East end of the Quires South I'll.  Civis & Mercatoris-Scissoris London, filii & haeredis Roberti Brett, de Whitstanton, in Com. Somerset, Armig. Qui uxorem duxit Elizabeth, filiam Reginaldi Highgati, Armig. Ex ea genuit 11. filios, & 3. filias, è quibus 4. filii & 1. silia superstites sunt. Idem Robertus & Elizabetha in sancto conjugii statu 31. An. vixerunt. Et obiit 9 Aprilis, An. Domini, 1586. Aetatis 63.  
Hunc Tumulum propriis sumptibus fieri fecit Elizabeth uxor ejus, 10. die Septemb. Anno Domini, 1596. Cum jam post obitum marti praedicti, decem annos viduam vixisset, atque hic etiam sepeliri decrevit, quando. cunque Deo placuerit ex hac naturali vita tollere.  
Here resteth the body of Edward Wyatt, 
A fair plated stone at the entrance into the Quire.  late of Tillingham, in the County of Essex, Esquire, who deceased the 24. of August 1571. He had one only wife, Marry, the daughter of Sir William Waldegrave, of Smalbridge, in the County of Suffolk, Knight, by whom he had issue three sons and four daughters; but all his said children died young, except one son, named Edward, whom he left behind him alive, about the age of eleven years. His said wife, his Executrix, caused this Monument to be made.  
Hic jacet Richardus Warner, dum vixit, Cives Civitatis London, ac quondam Magister Fraternitatis Sancti Joannis Baptistae, Scissor, in Civit. praedict. & Margareta uxor ejus. Qui quidem Richardus obiit 18. die Mens. Januarii, 
One fair stone for both these, in the body of the Church.  Anno Domini, 1476.  
Here lieth Richard Cox, sometime Citizen and Skinner of London, which deceased the eight day of March, Anno Domini, 1467. And Agnes his wife; the which deceased the 13. day of April, Anno Dom. 1472.  
Then in the North Churchyard of Paul's, 
Cathedral Church of S. Paul.  in the which standeth the Cathedral Church, first founded by Ethelbert King of Kent, about the year of Christ, 610. He gave thereto lands, as appeareth: Aethelbertus, Rex, Deo inspirante, pro animae suae remedio, dedit Episcopo Melito terram quae appell●tur Tillingeham, ad Monasterii sui solatium, scilicet, 
Doctoris Gentium.  S. Pauli: & ego Rex Aethelbertus ita firmiter concedo tibi praesuli Melito potestatem ejus habendi & possidendi, ut in perpetuum in Monasterii utilitate permaneat; etc. Athelstan, Edgar, Edward the Confessor, and others also, gave lands thereunto. William the Conqueror gave to the Church of Saint Paul, and to Mauricius, than Bishop, and his successors, the Castle of Stortford, with the appurtenances, etc. He also confirmed the gifts of his Predecessors, in these words: Omne 1. Rex Angl. Clamo quietas in perpetuum, 24. Hidas quas Rex Aethelbert dedit S. Paulo juxta murum London, etc. The Charter of King William the Conqueror, exemplified in the Tower, Englished thus:  
William, by the grace of God, King of Englishmen, to all his well beloved French and English people, greeting. Know ye, that I do give unto God and the Church of Saint Paul of London, and to the Rectors and Servitors of the same, in all their Lands which the Church hath, or shall have, within Borough, and without, Sack and Sock, Thole and The, Infangtheefe, and Grithbriche, and all free, Ships by Sea, and by Land, on Tide, and off Tide, and all the Rights that into them Christendom by rad and more speak, and on Buright hamed, and on Buright work, afore all the Bishoprickes in mine Land, and on each other man's Land. For I will, that the Church in all things be as free, as I would my Soul to be in the day of judgement. Witnesses, Osmond our Chancellor, Lanfrank the Archbishop of Canturbury, and T. Archbishop of York, Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury, Alane the County, Geffrey de Magna villa, and Ralph Peverel.  
In the year 1087. this Church of S. Paul was burnt with fire, 
S. Paul's Church burnt.  and therewith the most part of the City: which fire began at the entry of the West gate, and consumed the East gate. Mauricius, 
Foundation of the new Church of S. Paul builded.  than Bishop, began therefore the foundation of a new Church of S. Paul; a work, that men (of that time) judged would never have been finished, it was to them so wonderful, for length and breadth; and also the same was builded upon Arches (or Vaults) of stone, for defence of fire; which was a manner of work (before that time) unknown to the people of this Nation, and then brought in by the French: 
Stone brought from Cane in Normandy.  and the stone was fetched from Cane in Normandy. This Mauricius deceased in the year, 1107.  
Richard Beaumor succeeded him in the Bishopric, who did wonderfully increase the said Church, purchasing (of his own cost) the large Streets & Lanes about it, wherein were wont to dwell many Law-people; which ground he began to compass about with a strong wall of stone, 
Wall about Paul's Churchyard.  and gates. King Henry the first gave to the said Richard so much of the Mote (or Wall) of the Castle, on the Thames side, to the South, as should be needful to make the said Wall of the Church, and so much as should suffice to make a Wall without the way on the North side, etc.  
It should seem, that this Richard enclosed but two sides of the said Church or Cemitory of Saint Paul, to wit, the South and North side: for King Edw. the second, in the 10. of his reign, granted, that the said Churchyard should be enclosed with a wall, where it wanted, for the Murders and Robberies that were there committed. 
The common Bell in Paul's Churchyard, rung for the calling together of the Citizens to their Folkemotes.  But the Citizens than claimed the East part of the Churchyard, to be the place of assembly to their Folkemotes; and that the great Steeple, there situate, was to that use, their common Bell, which being there rung, all the Inhabitants of the City might hear and come together. They also claimed the West side, that they might there assemble themselves together, with the Lord of Baynard's Castle, for view of their Armour, in defence of the City. This matter was in the Tower of London referred to Harvius de Stanton, and his fellow justice's Itenerantes: but I find not the decision or judgement of that controversy.  
True it is, that Edward the third, in the 17. of his reign, gave commandment for the finishing of that Wall: which was then performed, and to this day it continueth; although now on both the sides (to wit, within and without) it be hidden with dwelling houses.  
Richard Beaumor deceased in the year 1127. and his successors (in process of time) performed the work begun.  
The Steeple of this Church was builded and finished in the year 1222. 
Paul's steeple.  The Cross on the said Steeple fell down, and a new was set up in the year 1314.  
The new work of Paul's (so called) at the East end above the Choir, 
The new work of Paul in the East.  was begun in the year 1251. Henry Lacie, Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, and Custos of England, in his time was a great Benefactor to this work, and was there buried, in the year 1310. Also Ralph Baldock, Bishop of London, in his life time gave 200. Marks to the building of the said new work, and left much by his Testament towards the finishing thereof: he deceased in the year 1313. and was buried in the Lady Chapel. Also the new work of Paul's, to wit, the cross Isles, were begun to be new builded in the year 1256.  
The first of February, 
Paul's steeple fired by Lightning.  in the year 1444. about two of the clock in the afternoon, the Steeple of Paul's was fired by Lightning, in the midst of the Shaft or Spire, both on the West side, and on the South: but by labour of many well disposed people, the same (to appearance) quenched with Vinegar; so that all men withdrew themselves to their houses, praising God. But between 8. and 9 of the clock in the same night, the fire burst out again more fervently than before, and did much hurt to the Lead and Timber, till by the great labour of the Mayor and people that came thither, it was throughly quenched.  
This Steeple was repaired in the year 1462. and the Weathercock again erected: 
Paul's steeple repaired.  Robert Godwin winding it up, the rope broke, and he was destroyed on the Pinnacles, and the Cock was sore bruised. But Burchwood (the King's Plumber) set it up again. 
Weathercock of Paul's steeple.  Since the which time, needing reparation, it was both taken down, and set up in the year 1553. At which time it was found to be of Copper, gilded over, and the length, from the bill to the tail, being 4. foot, and the breadth over the wings 3. foot and a half, it weighed 40. l. the Cross, from the Bowl, to the Eagle (or Cock) was 15. foot and 6. inches of assize; the length thereof, overthwart, was 5. foot and 10. inches, and the compass of the Bowl was 9 foot and 1. inch. The inner body of this Cross was Oak, the next cover was Led, and the outermost was of Copper, red varnished. The Bowl and Eagle, or Cock, were of Copper, and gilded also. 
Height of the steeple.  The height of the Steeple was 520. foot, whereof the stone-worke was 260. foot, and the Spire was likewise 260. foot. 
Length of Paul's Church.  The length of the whole Church, is 240. Tailor's yards, which make 720. foot. The breadth thereof is 130. foot: And the height of the body of that Churc, is 150. foot.  
This Church hath a Bishop, 
Governors of this Church.  a Dean, a Presenter, Chancellor, Treasurer, and five Archdeacon's, to wit, of London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and Saint Alban: It hath Prebendaries thirty, Canons twelve, Vicar's Coral six, etc.  
The College of Petty Canons there, 
Petty Canons of Paul's.  was founded by King Richard the second, in honour of Queen Anne his wife, and of her Progenitors, in the seventeenth of his reign. Their Hall and Lands was then given unto them, as appear by the Patent, Master Robert Dokesworth then being Master thereof. In the year 1408. the Petty Canons then building their College, the Mayor and Communality granted them their Watercourses, and other easements.  
There was also one great Cloister, 
Great Cloystry of Paul's.  on the North side of this Church, environing a plot of ground, of old time called Pardon Church-yard; whereof Thomas More, Deane of Paul's, was either the first Builder, or a most especial Benefactor, and was buried there.  
About this Cloister, was artificially and richly painted the Dance of Machabray, 
Dance of Paul's.  or Dance of Death, commonly called the Dance of Paul's; the like whereof was painted about S. Innocents' Cloister at Paris in France: the Metres or Poesy of this Dance were translated out of French into English by john Lidgate, Monk of Bury, the Picture of Death leading all estates; at the dispense of jenken Carpenter, in the reign of Henry the sixth. In this Cloister were buried many persons, some of Worship, and others of Honour: The Monuments of whom, in number and curious workmanship, passed all other that were in that Church.  
Over the East Quadrant of this Cloister, 
Library of Paul's.  was a fair Library, builded at the costs and charges of Walter Sherington, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the reign of Henry the sixth: which hath been well furnished with fair written books in Vellum; but few of them now do remain there.  
In the midst of this Pardon Church-yard, 
Chapel in Pardon Church-yard  was also a fair Chapel, first founded by Gilbert Becket, Portgrave, and principal Magistrate of this City, in the reign of King Stephen, who was there buried. Thomas More, Deane of Paul's, before named, re-edified or new builded this Chapel, and founded three Chaplains there, in the reign of Henry the fifth.  
In the year 1549. on the tenth of April, the said Chapel, by commandment of the Duke of Somerset, was begun to be pulled down, with the whole Cloystrie, the Dance of Death, the Tombs and Monuments: so that nothing thereof was left, but the bare Plot of ground, which is since converted into a Garden for the Petty Canons.  
There was also a Chapel at the North door of Paul's, 
Chapel at the North door of Paul's.  founded by the same Walter Sherington, by licence of Henry the sixth, for two, three, or four Chaplains, endowed with 40. l. by the year. This Chapel also was pulled down in the reign of Edw. the sixth, & in place thereof a fair house builded.  
There was furthermore a fair Chapel of the holy Ghost in Paul's Church, on the North side, founded in the year 1400. by Roger Holmes, Chancellor and Prebendary of Paul's, for Adam Bery, Alderman and Mayor of London, 1364. john Wingham and others, for seven Chaplains, 
Holmes College.  and called Holmes his College. Their common Hall was in Paul's Churchyard on the South side, near unto a Carpenter's yard. This College was with others suppressed in the reign of Edward the sixth. Then under the Choir of Paul's is a large Chapel, first dedicated to the name of JESV, 
jesus chapel.  founded, or rather confirmed the 37. of Hen. the 6. as appeareth by his Patent thereof, dated at Crowdowne to this effect:  
Many Liege-men and Christian people, having begun a Fraternity and Guila to the honour of the most glorious name of jesus Christ our Saviour, in a place called the Crowds of the Cathedral Church of Paul's in London, which hath continued long time peaceably, till now of late: whereupon they have made request, and we have taken upon us the name and charge of the foundation, to the laud of Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost, and especially to the honour of jesus, in whose honour the Fraternity was begun, etc.  
The King ordained William Say, than Deane of Paul's, to be the Rector, and Richard Ford (a Remembrancer in the Exchequer) and Henry Bennis (Clerk of his Privy Seal) the Guardians of these Brothers & Sisters; they and their successors to have a common seal, licence to purchase lands or tenements, to the value of 40. l. by the year, etc.  
This foundation was confirmed by Henry the seventh, the 22. of his reign, to Doctor Collet, than Deane of Paul's, Rector there, etc. And by Henry the 8. the 27. of his reign, to Richard Pace, than Deane of Paul's, etc.  
At the West end of this jesus Chapel, under the Choir of Paul's, also was and is a Parish Church of S. Faith, 
Parish Church of S. Faith.  commonly called Saint Faith under Paul's, which served (as still it doth) for the Stationers, and others dwelling in Paul's Churchyard, Pater noster Row, and the places near adjoining.  
The said Chapel of jesus, being suppressed in the reign of Edward the 6. the Parishioners of S. Faith's Church were removed into the same, as to a place more sufficient for largeness and lightsomness, in the year 1551. and so it remaineth.  
The Monuments there are these:  
Here buried is Elizabeth, 
A fair plated stone over a Vault in the East end of the Church.   
of honour worthy Dame,  
Her Husband erst Lord Shandoys was,  
her Son hath now like name:  
Her Father was of Wilton Lord,  
a Grey of puissant fame,  
Her Brother left with us behind,  
now Lord is of the same.  
Her virtuous life yet still doth live,  
her honour shall remain,  
Her corpse, though it be grown to dust,  
her Soul the heavens contain,   

Quae obiit 29. die Decembris, Ann. Dom. 1559.  
Lo, 
A fair plated stone near to the former  Thomas Mond, Esquire by birth,  
doth under buried lie,  
To show, that men (by Nature's Law)  
are borne to live and die:  
In Shropshire at the Mindtowne borne,  
the time we here prefix,  
And died the seventh of February,  
in Anno, seventy six.  
Threescore and seven years he saw,  
though body lie in Tomb:  
His soul (immortal) lives in heaven,  
by God's eternal doom.   

Natus octavo Mensis Julii, 1510. Obiit septimo Februarii, 1576.  
Here under this stone resteth, in the mercy of God, 
Another stone close adjoining  the body of M. Thomas Dockwray, Notary, late one of the Proctors of the Arches, Citizen and Stationer of London, and Anne his wife. The which Thomas deceased the 23. day of june, An. Dom. 1559. etc.  
Cur Sacerdos eram,  
jam factus vile cadaver?  
Et cito pulvis erit: 
This stone is covered with a Pew, that nothing can be seen but these verses.   
Quaeso memento mei.  
Siste gradum qui me  
teris hic, & funde precatus  
Me Deus ut levet hinc,  
ducat ad usque Polum.   

William Babham, and Alice Butcon his wife, 
In the middle I'll a fair plated stone.  An. Dom. 1577.  

Lo here the certain end  
of every mortal one,  
Behold, alive to day,  
to morrow dead and gone.  
Live well, so endless life  
(by death) you shall obtain,  
Naught loose the good by death,  
since life thereby they gain.   

Dum mihi persuasi  
me quaesivique 
A fair plated stone in the Chancel.  salutem,  
En morior dixit,  
nam Deus esse diem:  
Non equidem invideo,  
peccati debita merces,  
Cum sit mors nostri,  
cum reus omnis homo,  
Cumque operum requires,  
& sit mihi vita perennis,  
In Christo morior,  
mors mihi gratus adest,  
Quem mors sic raputi;  
Cujus sunt ista sepulchra  
Si quaeras, subsunt  
quae tibi cuncta notant.   
Lodovicus Nicols, Civis London, fililius tertius Thomae Nicols, Northhamptoniensis hic sepelitur. Obiit 22. Aprilis, 1592. Anno Aetatis suae, 28.  
Ad vocem Tubae resurgent mortui.  
Here lieth the body of George Whitgift, 
Another stone in the Chancel.  Esquire, one of the natural brothers of john Whitgift, late Lord Archbishop of Canturbury: which George deceased the 19 day of April, An. Dom. 1611.  

William Lamb,  
so sometime was my name, 
Upon a brass plate fixed on a Pill● by the Tomb in the open Church beneath   
Whiles I alive  
did run my mortal race,  
Serving a Prince  
of most immortal fame,  
Henry the eighth,  
who of his Princely grace,  
In his Chapel  
allowed me a place.  
By whose favour,  
from Gentleman t'Esquire,  
I was preferred,  
with worship for my hire.   

With wives three  
I joined wedlock band,  
Which (all alive)  
true lovers were to me:  
joan, Alice and joan,  
for so they came to hand,  
What needeth praise,  
regarding their degrees?  
In wively truth  
none steadfast more could be.  
Who though in earth  
death's force did once dissever,  
Heaven yet (I trust)  
shall join us all together.   

O Lamb of God,  
which sin didst take away,  
And (as a Lamb)  
wast offered up for sin;  
Where I (poor Lamb)  
went from thy flock astray,  
Yet thou (good Lord)  
vouchfafe thy Lamb to win  
Home to thy Fold,  
and hold thy Lamb therein?  
That at the Day, when  
Lambs and Goats shall sever,  
Of thy choice Lambs,  
Lamb may be one for ever.   
Under which remembrance there are two Verses more added, 
The benevolence is given every Friday ordinarily throughout the year.  containing both a petition, and an injunction of duty to the poor, who weekly receive their allowance, at the hands or appointment of the Worshipful Company of Sationers: To whom he bearing great affection, and having also no small affiance in them, made them his disposers and Stewards in that behalf. The Verses are these:  
I pray you all  
that receive bread and pence,  
To say the Lords Prayer  
before you go hence.  
As for the Verses engraven upon the upper stone of the Tomb, they are these:  
As I was, so are ye,  
As I am, you shall be.  
That I had, that I gave,  
That I gave, that I have.  
Thus I end all my cost,  
That I left, that I lost.  
Then was there on the North side of this Churchyard, 
Charnell-house with a Chapel▪  a large Charnell-house for the bones of the dead, and over it a Chapel of an old foundation, such as followeth:  
In the year 1282. the 10. of Edward the first, it was agreed, that Henry Walleis, Maior, and the Citizens, for the cause of shops by them builded, without the wall of the Churchyard, should assign to God, and to the Church of S. Paul, ten Marks of rent by the year for ever, towards the new building of a Chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary, and also to assign five Marks of yearly rent to a Chaplain to celebrate there.  
Moreover, in the year 1430. the 8. of Henry the sixth, licence was granted to jenken Carpenter (Executor to Richard Whitington) to establish upon the said Charnel, a Chaplain, to have eight Marks by the year. Then was also in this Chapel two Brotherhoods. Robert Barton, Henry Barton, Maior, and Thomas Mirfin, Maior, all Skinners, were entombed, with their Images of Alabaster over them, grated or cooped about with iron, before the said Chapel; all which was pulled down in the year 1549. The bones of the dead, couched up in a Charnel, under the Chapel, were conveyed from thence into Finsbury field, (by report of him who paid for the carriage) amounting to more than one thousand Cart loads, 
Rein Wolf.  and there laid on a moorish ground, in short space after raised by soylage of the City upon them, to bear three Milles. The Chapel and Charnel were converted into dwelling houses, warehouses, and Sheds before them, for Stationers in place of the Tombs.  
In the East part of this Churchyard standeth Paul's School, 
Paul's School.  lately new builded, and endowed in the year 1512. by john Collet, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Paul's, for 153. poor men's children to be taught free in the same School, for which he appointed a Master, a Surmaster or Usher, and a Chaplain, with large stipends for ever, committing the oversight thereof to the Masters, Wardens and Assistants of the Mercers in London, because he was son to Henry Collet, Mercer, sometime Mayor. He left to these Mercer's Lands, to the yearly value of 120. l. or better.  
near unto this School, on the North side thereof, 
Clochier in Paul's Churchyard.  was (of old time) a great and high Clochier, or Bellhouse, four square, builded of stone, and in the same a most strong frame of timber, with four Bells, the greatest that I have heard; these were called jesus Bells, and belonged to jesus Chapel, but I know not by whose gift. The same had a great spire of timber, covered with Lead, with the Image of Saint Paul on the top, but was pulled down by Sir Miles Partridge, Knight, in the reign of Henry the eighth. The common speech than was, that he did set one hundred pounds, upon a cast at Dice against it, and so won the said Clochier & Bells of the King: and 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 place of this Clochier, of old time, the common Bell of the City was used to be rung, 
Common Bell of the City.  for the assembly of the Citizens to their Folkemotes, as I have before showed.  
About the midst of this Churchyard, 
Pulpit-crosse in Paul's Churchyard.  is a Pulpit-crosse of timber, mounted upon steps of stone, and covered with Lead, in which are Sermons preached by learned Divines, every Sunday in the forenoon. The very antiquity of which Cross is to me unknown.  
I read, that in the year 1259. King Henry the third commanded a general Assembly to be made at this Cross, where he in proper person commanded the Mayor, that on the next day following, he should cause to be sworn before the Aldermen, every Stripling, of 12. years of age, or upward, to be true to the King and his heirs, Kings of England.  
Also, in the year 1262. the same King caused to be read at Paul's Cross, a Bull, obtained from Pope Vrban the fourth, as an absolution for him, and for all that were sworn to maintain the Articles made in Parliament at Oxford.  
Also, in the year 1299. the Dean of Paul's accursed, at Paul's Cross, all those which had searched in the Church of S. Martin in the field, for an hoard of gold, etc.  
This Pulpit-crosse was by tempest of lightning and thunder, defaced. Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London, new builded it, in form as it now standeth.  
In the year 1561. the fourth of june, betwixt the hours of three and four of the clock in the afternoon, 
Paul's steeple and Church newly burn.  the great spire of the steeple of S. Paul's Church, was fired by lightning, which broke forth (as it seemed) two or three yards beneath the foot of the Cross, and from thence it burned downward the spire to the battlements, stone-worke, and Bells, so furiously, that within the space of 4▪ hours, 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's Majesty directed her Letters to the Mayor, 
Speedy repairing of Paul's Church.  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, 
The Queen's gift.  one thousand Marks; with a warrant for a thousand Loads of Timber, to be taken out of her Woods, or elsewhere.  
The Citizens also gave first a great benevolence, and after that three Fifteen to be speedily paid.  
The Clergy of England, within the Province of Canturbury, 
Benevolence.  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 Diocese, granted the thirtieth part of all that paid first fruits, and the twentieth part of such as had paid their fruits.  
Six Citizens of London, and two Petty Canons of Paul's Church, had charge to further and oversee the work, wherein such expedition was used, that within one Month 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 Isles of the Church were framed out of new timber, covered with lead, and fully finished.  
The same year also, the great roofs of the West and East ends were framed out of great timber in Yorkshire, brought thence to London by Sea, and set up, and covered with lead, the North and South ends were framed of timber, and covered with lead, before April, 1566.  
Concerning the Steeple, diverse models were devised and made, but little else was done, through whose default God knoweth: it was said, that the money appointed for the new building of the Steeple, was collected.  
Monuments in this Church, be these:  
First, 
Monuments in Paul's  as I read of Erkenwalde, Bishop of London, buried in the old Church, about the year of Christ, 700. whose body was translated into the new work, in the year 1140. being richly shrined, above the Choir, behind the high Altar.  
Sebba, or Seba, King of the East Saxons, was first buried in the old Church, afterward removed into the new, and laid in a coffin of stone, or grey Marble, having this Inscription hanging by it:  Hic jacet Sebba, 
Church. At the entrance of the north side or I'll of the Quire.  Rex orientalium Saxonun, qui conversus fuit ad fidem per Erkenwaldum, Londonens. Episcopum, Anno Christi, 677. Vir multum Deo devotus, actibus religiosis, crebris precibus, & piis Eleemosynarum fructibus plurimum intentus, vitam privatam & Monasticam cunctis Regni divitiis & honoribus praeferens. Qui cum regnasset Ann. 30. habitum Religiosum accepit, per benedictionem Waltheri Londinensis Antistitis, qui praefato Erkenwaldo successit. De quo Venerabilis Beda, in Historia Gentis Anglorum, etc. 
Ethelred, King of the West Saxons, was like wise buried in the old Church, and after removed, lying next unto King Sebba, and this Inscription fastened by him:  Hic jacet Ethelredus, Anglorum Rex, filius Edgari Regis, 
In another coffin of grey Marble by the other.  cui in die consecrationis hic post impositam Coronam, 
Etbelred, surnamed the unready.  fertur S. Dunstanus Cantuar. Archiepiscopus dira praedixisse his verbis: Quoniam aspirasti ad Regnum per mortem fratris tui, in cujus sanguine conspiraverunt Angli, cum ignominiosa Matre tui: Non deficiet Gladius de domo tua, saeviens in te omnibus vitae tuae, interficiens de semine tuo, quousque Regnum tuum transferatur in Regnum alienum, cujus ritum & linguam, gens cui praesides non novit; nec expiabitur, nisi longa vindicta peccatum tuum, & peccatum Matris tuae, & peccata virorum, qui interfuêre consilio illius nequam. Quae sicut à viro sancto praedicta erant, evenerunt: Nam Ethelredus variis praeliis per Suanum Danorum Regem, filiumque suum Canutum fatigatus & fugatus, ac tandem Londini arcta obsidione conclusus, miserè diem obiit, Anno Dominicae Incarnationis, 1017. postquam Annis 36. in magna tribulatione regnasset. 
William Norman, Bishop of London, in the reigns of the Kings, Edward the Confessor, and William the Conqueror, deceased Anno 1070. and was after newly buried in the body of the Church, with this Epitaph or Memory:  
Gulielmo, viro sapientia & vitae sanctitate claro, 
Being first buried in the Choir, & afterward removed into the body of the Church, at the Citizens earnest suit, and upon good occasion.  qui primùm Edwardo Regi & Confessori familiaris, nuper in Episcopum Londinensem erectus; nec multò pòst apud invictissimum Principem Guilielmum Angliae Regem ejus nominis primum: Ob prudentiam, fidemque singularem, in Concilium adhibitus; Amplissima tunc urbi celeberrimae privilegia ab eodem impetravit: Senatus populusque Londinensis bene merenti posuit. Sedit Episcopus Annos 20. Decessit Anno à Christo nato, 1070.  
Haec tibi (clare Pater)  
posuerunt Marmora Cives,  
Praemia non meritis  
aequiparanda tuis.  
Namque sibi populus  
te Londoniensis amicum  
Sensit, & huic urbi  
non leve praesidium.  
Reddita libertas duce  
te, donataque multis:  
Te duce, res fuerat  
publica muneribus.  
Divitias, genus, & formam  
brevis opprimat hora,  
Haec tua sed pietas  
& benefacta manent.  
To william, a man famous in wisdom and holiness of life, who first with S. Edward the King and Confessor being familiar, of late preferred to be Bishop of London, and not long after (for his prudency and sincere fidelity) admitted to be of Council with the most victorious Prince, William, King of England, of that name the first, who obtained of the same, great and large privileges to this famous City. The Senate and Citizens of London, to him, having well deserved, have made this. He continued Bishop twenty years, and died in the year after Christ's Nativity, 1070.  
These Marble Monuments to thee  
thy Citizens assign,  
Rewards (O Father) far unfit  
to those deserts of thine.  
Thee unto them a faithful friend  
thy London people found,  
And to this Town, of no small weight,  
a stay both sure and sound.  
Their Liberties restored to them,  
by means of thee have been,  
Their Public weal by means of thee,  
large gifts have felt and found.  
The Riches, Stock, and beauty brave,  
one hour hath them suppressed:  
Yet these thy virtues and good deeds,  
with us (for ever) rest.  
The Lord Mayor of London, 
This man is termed by some Richard de Gravesend.  and the Aldermen his brethren, upon those solemn days of their resort to Paul's, have long time used to walk to the Grave-stone, where this Bishop lieth buried, in remembrance of their former privileges by him obtained.  
And now of late years, there is an Inscription fastened to that Pillar which is next his Grave; 
Right against the little South doorein the lower Church.  termed, The revivali of a most worthy Prelate's remembrance: There erected at the sole cost and charges of the Right Honourable and worthily affected, Sir Edward Barkham, Knight, Lord Mayor of the City of London, Anno 1622. speaking thus to the walkers in Paul's:  
Walkers,  
whosoe'er ye be, 
Set up at the Lord Mayor's cost and charges.   
If it prove  
you chance to see  
Upon a solemn  
Scarlet day,  
The Citie-Senate  
pass this way,  
Their grateful Memory  
for to show  
Which they the  
reverend ashes owe  
Of Bishop Norman,  
here inhumed,  
By whom this City  
hath assumed  
Large proviledges:  
Those obtained  
By him, when  
Conqueror William reigned:  
This being by thankful  
Barkham's mind renewed,  
Call it The Monument  
of Gratitude.  
Hic jacet Magister Fulco Lovel, 
An inscription in the wall.  quondam Archidiaconus Colcestriae. Floruit sub Henrico 3. Rege.  
Hic requiescit in Domino Rogerus cognonomento Niger, 
In the midst of Choir, near to the place where they stand to hear Sermons.  quondam Canonicus hujus Ecclesiae S. Pauli: Ac deinde in Londinens. Episcopum consecratus Anno Salutis, 1228. vir in literatura profundus, moribus honestus ac per omnia laudabilis, Christianae Religionis amator, ac defensor strenuus. Qui cum pastorale Officium vigilanter & studiosè rexisset Annis 14. diem suum clausit extremum, apud Manerium suum de Stebunheath, 3. Calend. Octob. An. Christi, 1241. Regnante Rege Henrico 3.  
Contigit his diebus, dum Episcopus iste Rogerus in hac Ecclesia ante majus Altare staret infulatus ad celebrandum divina, quod tanta in aëre facta est nubium densitas, ut vix alterum discernere possit, quam confestim secuta est tonitrui horribilis concussio, cum tanta fulminis coruscatione, ac faetore intolerabili, ut omnes qui aderunt rapidè fugientes, nihil verius quam mortem expectarent. Solus Episcopus cum uno Diacono remansit intrepidus. Aëre tandem purgato, Episcopus residuum rei divinae explevit.   

Epitaphium ejus super Tumulo.  
Ecclesiae quondam  
Praesul praesentis, in Anno  
M. bis C. quater X.  
jacet hic Rogerus humatus.  
Hujus erat manibus  
Domino locus iste dicatus:  
Christ suis precibus  
veniam des, tolle reatus.  
Hic infra jacet corpus Magistri Thomae de Evre, 
At the entering the middle door of the Choir, a faire plated stone.  Legum Doctoris, istius Ecclesiae S. Pauli quondam Decani, qui die nono Mensis Octobris, Anno Domino Millesimo, quadringentesimo, & sui Decanatus Anno 12. diem suum clausit extremum. Cuius animae propitietur Deus, Amen.  
Hic in Domino obdormivit Iohannes Gandavensis, 
A very goodly Tomb, curiously framed of white stone, having his Lance & Target hanging by it.  vulgò de Gaunt, à Gandavo Plandriae urbe loco natali, ita denominatus, Edwardi 3. Regis Angliae filius, à patre Comitis Richmondiae titulo ornatus. Tres sibi uxores in Matrimonio daxit: Primam, Blancham, filiam & haeredem Henrici, Ducis Lancastriae, per quem amplissimam adiit haereditatem: Nec solum Dux Lancastriae, sed etiam Leicestriae, Lincolniae, & Derbiae Comes effectus: E●cuius sobole Imperatores, Reges, Principes, & Proceres propagati sunt plurini. Alteram habuit uxorem Constantiam (quae hic contumelatur) filiam & haeredem Petri, Regis Castiliae & Legionis, cuius iure optimo titulo Regis Castiliae & Legionis usus est. Haec unicam illi peperit filiam Katharinam, ex qua ab Henrico Reges Hispaniae sunt propagati. Tertiam vero uxorem duxit Katharinan, ex Equestri Familia, & eximia pulchritudine foeminam, ex qua numerosam suscepit prolem: unde genus ex Matre duxit Henricus 7. Rex Angliae prudentissimus, cuius foe licissimo coniugio cum Edwardi 4. filia, è stirpe Eboracensi, Regiae illae Lancastriensium & Eboracensium Familiae, ad exoptatissimam Angliae pacem coaluerunt.  
Illustrissimus hic Princeps, cognomento Plantagenet, Rex Castiliae & Legionis, Dux Lancastriae, Comes Richmondiae, Leicestriae, Lincolniae & Derbiae, Locumtenens Aquitaniae, Magnus Senescallus Angliae, Obiit Anno 22. Regni Regis Richardi 2. Annoque Domini, 1399.  
Hic requiescit Simon Burley, 
Under a faire Monument in the North Walk against the Quire.  Banerettus, Quinque Portuum Praefectus, Ordinis Garterii Miles, & Richardo 2. Consiliarius longè charissimus. Connubio sibi coniunctas habuit ex amplissimis Familiis duas uxores: alteram Staffordiae, alteram Baronis de Roos filiam. Ver● difficilimo illo tempore, cum inter Angliae proceres omnia sub iuvene Principe simultatibus agitarentur, in tantum nonnullorum odium incurrit, ut Parliamentaria authoritate capite plect●●etur, Anno Domini, 1388. Posteri autem eadem postea authoritate sub Rege Henrico quarto sunt restituti. Obiit Anno Salutis, 1398.  
Per versus patet hos,  
Anglorum qui jacet hic flos, 
Within the North wall buried.   
Legum qui tuta  
dictavit vera statuta:  
Ex Hengham dictus,  
Radulphus vir benedictus.   

Anno 1308.  
In the North Walk, against the Choir, lie all these buried:  
Sir john Poultney, Citizen, Draper, and Lord Mayor of London, in the year 1348. lieth buried in a fair Chapel, builded by himself, on the North side of Paul's Choir, wherein he founded 3. Chaplains.  
Hamond Chickwell, six times L. Mayor of London, 1328.  
Henry Guildford, Clarke, at the Altar of the Apostles, 1313.  
Richard Newport, Bishop of London, 1318.  
William Chatesleshunt, Canon in the New Work, who had a chantry there.  
Sir Nicholas Wokendon, Knight, at the Altar of S. Thomas, in the new Work, 1323.  
john Cheshul, Bishop of London, 1279.  
Robert Monden, and john Monden, his brother, both Canons, in the New Work, 1332.  
Richard de Plesseys' lieth in the North Walk, just before S. George's Chapel, Anno 1361.  
William Melford, and Richard de Placito, both Archdeacon's of Colchester, 1345. lie buried before Saint Thomas Chapel.  
Adam de Bury, 
Holmes College.  Lord Mayor of London in the year 1364. lies buried in a Chapel of S. Mary Magdalen, or the Holy Ghost, called Holmes College, because Roger Holmes, Chancellor and Prebend of Paul's, was there buried, in the year 1400.  
The Duchess of Bedford, Sister to Philip, Duke of Burgundy, Anno Dom. 1433.  
Robert Fitz-Hugh, 
In the Quire.  Bishop of London, Anno, 1435.   

Perpetuae pietati Sacrum.  
Guil. Herberto, Pembrochiae Comiti, Equiti Aurato, 
A very beautiful Tomb, wherein he lieth buried with his wife.  praenobilis ordinis Anglici. Hen. 8. à Cubiculis: Edwardi 6. R. Equitum Magistro: Walliae Praesidi: Tumultu Occidentali cum Russello & Grayo Baronibus paribus auspiciis summae rerum praeposito: Maria Reginae contra perduelles ac expeditione ad Augustam Veromanduorum bis totius exercitus duci: bis summo in agro Caletum limitum Praefecto: Elizabethae Reginae Officiorum seu magno Regiae Magistro. Pariter & Dominae Annae ex vetustae Parorum gente oriundae, Sorori Katharinae Reginae, Hen. 8. R. sexto matrimonio conjunctae, ac Marchionis Northhamptionii, prudentissimae Feminae, pietatis, religionis, probitatis, omnisque Avitae virtutis retinentissimae fidis Comitis conjugi. Secunda conjuge superstite, Georgio Salopiae Comite genita, insigni praeter antiquum Nobilitatis Decus, virtute femina.  
Liberis relictis ex prima 

Henrico Pembr  
Comiti.  
Edwardo Equiti Aurato.  
Domina Anna, Bar.  
Talbot nupta.    
Henr. F. ac Comes P. P. Chatis. sibi ac suis P.  
Obiit 

Aetatis,  
Salutis, 

Anno 

63.  
1569.        
Si quis erat prude●s  
unquam fidusque Senator, 
Right over against the F●●le of Pembroke's Tomb, in the same I'll.   
Si quis erat Patriae  
charus amansque suae,  
Si quis ad externas  
Legatus idoneus oras,  
Si cui justitiae  
cura bonique suit,  
Is Masonus erat,  
sit tota Britannia testis,  
Testis amor Procerum,  
sit populique favor,  
Tempore quinque suo,  
reguantes ordine vidit,  
Ho●●● à Consiliis  
quacuor ille fuit.  
Tres & sex decies  
vixit non amplius annos;  
Hic tegitur corpus,  
spiritus astra tenet.  
Hunc Tumulum Conjux  
posuit dilecta marito,  
Quemque viro posuit,  
destinat ipsa sibi.  
Triste Nepos Carmen,  
quem fecit adoptio natum,  
Tum Patris inscripsit,  
tum Patrui Tumulo.   

Obiit Anno, 1566.  
Alexandro Nowello, 
A fair Monument in the wall above john of Caunts' Tomb.  Lancastriensi, prisca Nowellorum gente oriundo, Theologiae Doctori, Aedis S. Pauli Decano, ad exemplum hospitali, Rob. Nowelli, cujus hic cum suis miscentur cineres, Fratri, & opum quae sibi jure testamentario cesserunt, diribitori pientissimo. Marianis temporibus propter Christum exulanti: Reducum●. verae Religionis, contra Angliae Papistas duobus Libris assertori primae & ultimae quadragesimalis Concionis per an. 30. p. m. continuos ad S. Elizabetham, summa libertate Praeconi; Scholae Middletonianae Patrono; Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxonii, ubi ab anno aetatis 13. Annos 13. studuit, 13. studiosis & 200. Libris annuis opera, & impensis suis ampliati: Praesidi Scholae Paulinae plurimorum bonorum auctori: Pietatis frequentissimis Concionibus & triplici Catechismo propagatori: qui publicum se in utriusque Academiae, & Ecclesiarum exterarum testimonium, atque aeternorum Principum Edwardi 6. & Elizabethae judicum procerumque provocavit: Pauperum (Literatorum praecipuè) nutritori: afflictorum morbis corporis vel animi consolatori.  
Hoc Sepulchrum ob munificentiam & merita erga Remp. & optimum statum Ecclesiae suae ab eo pervigili administrat. redditum, Exec. O. D. S. M. Posuit.  

Quam speciosa Vestigia  
Evangelizantium pacem!   

Exul quae amisit  
primaevo flore Nowellus,  
Foenore centena  
repperit aucta redux  
Dat Christus, reddit  
danti longaevus honores,  
Reddenti aeternos  
gratia dantis habet,  
Praeco, Auctor, Condus,  
Christo, Colit, Ampliat, ornat,  
Voce, Libris, Opibus,  
Sabbatha, Templa, Schola;  
Dans, meditans, orans,  
Christi expiravit in ulnis,  
Sic oritur, floret,  
demoriturque Deo.   
Sedit B. R. P. & Ecclesiae P. M. 42. Nonagenarius, cum nec animi nec corporis occuli caligarent. Obiit, Anno Domini, 1601. Feb. 13.   

Virtuti & Honori Sacrum.  
Franciscus Walsinghamus, 
There is neither Tomb, or any other Monument, but only this Inscription.  ortus Familia multis seculis illustri, claritatem generis Nobilitate, ingenii praestantibusque animi dotibus superavit. Puer, ingenuè domi educatus, generosis moribus artibusque optimis animum excoluit. Adolescens, peregrinatus in exteras Regiones, earum Instituta, Linguas, Policiam, ad civilem scientiam reique publicae usum didicit. juvenis, exilium Maria regnante subiit voluntarium Religionis ergo. Serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, matura jam aetate, Orator fuit apud Gallum, turbulentissimo tempore, annis compluribus: rursum bis in Galliam, semel in Scotiam, semel in Belgiam, super gravissimis Principis negotiis Legatione functus est: eique annis sedecim ab intimis Conciliis & secretis fuit, ac triennium Cantellarius Ducatus Lancastriae. Quibus in muneribus tanta cum prudentia, abstinentia, munificentia, moderatione, pietate, industria & sollicitudine versatus est; ut à multis periculis Patriam liberarit, servarit Rempublicam, conformarit pacem, juvare cunctos studuerit, imprimis quos doctrina aut bellica virtus commendarit, seipsum denique neglexerit, quo prodisset aliis, eosque valetudinis & facultatum suarum dispendio sublevaret.  
In Matrimonio habuit lectissimam feminam Vrsulam, è stirpe S. Barborum, antiquae Nobilivatis: E quq unicam filiam suscepit, Franciscam, Philippo Sydneio primùm nuptam: deinde honoratissimo Comiti Essexiae   

Obiit Apr. 6. 1590.  
Shall Honour, 
These Verses, called Acrostics are also there hanged up.  Fame,  
and Titles of renown  
In clods of clay  
be thus enclosed still?  
Rather will I,  
though wiser wits may frown,  
For to enlarge his fame,  
extend my skill.  
Right gentle Reader,  
be it known to thee,  
A famous Knight  
doth here interred lie,  
Noble by birth,  
renowned for policy,  
Confounding foes,  
which wrought our jeopardy.  
In foreign Countries  
their intents he knew,  
Such was his zeal  
to do his Country good,  
When dangers would  
by enemies ensue,  
As well as they themselves  
he understood.  
Launch forth ye Muses  
into streams of praise,  
Sing and sound forth  
praiseworthy harmony;  
In England Death  
cut off his dismal days,  
Not wronged by death,  
but by false treachery.  
Grudge not at this  
unperfect Epitaph,  
Herein I have  
expressed my simple skill,  
As the first fruits  
proceeding from a graft,  
Make then a better  
whosoever william.  
Disce quid es, quid eris,  
Memor esto quod morieris  
E. W.  
England, 
A Table hung upon the same Pillar by the other of Sir Francis Walsongham, without any other Monument for each of them.  Netherlands, the  
Heavens and the Arts,  
The Soldiers and the  
World have made six parts  
Of the Noble Sidney,  
for none will suppose,  
That a small heap of  
stones can Sidney enclose.  
His body hath England,  
for she it bred.  
Netherlands his blood,  
in her defence shed.  
The Heavens have his Soul,  
the Arts have his Fame;  
All Soldiers the grief:  
the World his good Name.  Hic jacet Robertus Benn, de Newport Cranley, in Comitatu Surrey, Generosus. Qui obiit decimo die mensis Februarii, Anno Verbi Incarnati, 1606. Cum ante annos triginta, in vigore scilicet aetatis suae, mortis non immemor, Sepulturae sibi locum in hac Ecclesia à Decano & Capitulo impetraverat. hanc novissimam & ultimam suam voluntatem, Elizabetha Benn, dilecta Conjux ejus executa est.  

Veniet iterum qui me in lucem reponet dies.  joannes Wolleius, Eques Auratus, Reginae Elizabethae à Secretioribus Conciliis, Secretarius Linguae Latinae, Cancellarius Ordinis Periscelidis: Doctrina, Pietate, Fide, Gravitate clarissimus.  

Obiit Anno 1595.  

Wolleii, 
A very goodly Tomb, erected between the Chapels of St. George, and our Lady, enclosing the bodies of Sir john Wolley, his wife, and Sir Francis Wolley, his son, buried in Anno 1611.  clarum nomen,  
Natusqüe Paterque,  
Ambo Equites, Natus  
Franciscus Patre joanne:  
Clarus, ut haeredem  
virtutis, amoris, honoris  
Praestaret, Monumenta sibi  
haec, & utrique Parenti  
Constituit, generis, qui  
nominis, unicus haeres:  
Tam citò claros est  
defecisse dolendum.   

Ille Pater, lumen  
literarum Nobile, sydus  
Oxoniae, ex meritis  
Reginae accitus Elizae,  
Vt qui à Secretis cum  
scriberat illa Latinè,  
Atque à Conciliis cum  
consultaret in Aula,  
At Periscelidis qui  
Cancellarius esset,  
Tantum illo ingenio voluir,  
tantum instat in illo.   

Non minùs omnimoda  
virtute illa inclyta Mater,  
Nobilibus Patre & Fratre  
illustrissima Moris;  
Clara domo per se:  
sed Elizam ascivit Eliza  
Clarior ut fieret  
Wolleio ornata marito,  
Quo viduata, viro, quo  
non praeclarior alter,  
Nubat Egertono, repetat  
sed mortuae primum.   

Franciscus tandem, at nimium  
citò, utrumque secutus,  
Hic jacet ante pedes  
Eques Illustrissimus, illis,  
Haec poni jussit, seque  
& tria nomina poni,  
Sic voluit, placuit Superis  
pia grata voluntas.  
Discite mortales, memores  
sic esse Parentum,  
Discite qui legitis, sic,  
sic petit aethera virtus.   

Inclyta joannes  
Londini gloria gentis, 
A comely Tomb, at entering into the South I'll of the Quire.   
Is tibi qui Quondam  
Paul Decanus erat,  
Qui toties magno  
resonabat pectore Christum,  
Doctor & interpres  
fidus Evangelii:  
Qui mores hominum  
multum sermone diserta  
Formârat, vitae  
sed probitate magis.  
Quique Scholam struxit  
celebrem cognomine jesu,  
Hac dormit tectus  
membra Coletus humo.    

Floruit sub Henrico 7. & Henrico 8. Reg. Obiit Anno Domini, 1519.  
Disce mori mundo,  
Vivere disce Deo.  
This Epitaph was made by William Lily, the first Schoolmaster of Paul's School: which was founded by john Colet, Doctor in Divinity, and Deane of Paul's: son to Sir Henry Colet, Mercer, twice Lord Mayor of London.   

Memoriae S.  
Gulielmo Hewit, 
Next above this Tomb in the same South I'll.  Armigero  
Roberti Hewit  
A. Killamarch, in Agro. Derbiensi  
Filio, secundo genito.  
Qui mortuo Fratre, Natu majore,  
Paternam crevit haereditatem,  
Posterisque transmittit:  
Nobilem Mercaturam exercuit.  
Vita integerrima fuit, & moribus suavissimis. Bonarum literarum studia promovit. Egenorum proventus largiter auxit.  
Liberalitate,  
Charitate,  
Insignis,  
Nec minor Pietate.  
Religionem, cum Ministris sacris, &  
coluit & fovit.  
Ita per omnia se ubique gessit, ut  
Probitatis,  
Comitatis,  
Candoris  
Vivum exemplar.  
Christum Redemptorem cogitans,  
Vitam ante mortem consummaverit.  
Filios genuit quatuor,  
joannem,  
Salomonem,  
Thomam,  
Gulielmum:  
Et Filias duas.  
Mariam,  
Elizabetham.  
Annum LXXVII. agens,  
XII. jun. CIO. D. XCIX. ad patriam  
coelestem evocatus,  
Magnum sui desiderium reliquit  
Posteris,  
Qui hoc piè ac moeven.   

M. S.  
Gulielmus Cokainus Eques Auratus, 
Adjoining to the other in that Isle▪  Civis & Senator Bondinensis, septemque ab hinc annis Vrbis Praefectus: Antiquâ Cokainorum Derbiensium Familiâ oriundus. Qui bono publico vixit, & damno publico decessit, & gaudio publico, Regem jacobum, ad decorem hujus domus Dei senescentis jam & corrugatae restituendum, solenniter huc venientem consulatu suo, magnificè excepit: Idcirco in Templo publico, ad aeternam rei memoriam  
Hîc situs est.  
At verò & Famae celebritas, quae viget in ore Hominum, & gloria Beatitudinis, quam migrando adeptus est, & splendor Sobolis, quam numerosam genuit, atque nobilèm reliquit, junctim efficiunt omnia, ne dicatur  
Hîc situs est.  
Vnà cum illo, tot homines mortui, quot in illo defunctae sunt virtutes; simulque & acies ingenii, & popularis eloquii suada, & morum gravitas, & probitas vitae, & candor mentis, & animi constantia, & prudentia singularis, & veri Senatoris insignia  
Hîc sepulta sunt.  
Jam tuum est Lector, felicitatis ad culmen anhelare per ista vestigia laudis, & venerandi imitatione exempli curare, ne unquam virtutis sic semina, intereant, ut dicatur  
Hîc sepulta sunt.   

Obiit 20. Octob. An. Dom. 1626. Et Aetatis suae 66.  
Hic Nicolaum me  
Baconem conditum  
Existima illum, 
A fair Tomb in the midst of the Chancel, in the same I'll.  tam  
diu Britannici  
Regni secundum  
Columen, exitium Malis,  
Bonis Asylum, coeca  
quem non extulit  
Ad hunc honorem sors,  
sed equitas, fides,  
Doctrina, Pietas,  
unica & Prudentia,  
Neu morte reptum crede:  
qui unica brevi  
Vita perennes  
emeruit duas, agit  
Vitam secundam  
coelites inter animos,  
Fama implet orbem,  
vita quae illi tertia est.  
Hac positum in Ara est  
corpus, olim animi domus,  
Ara dicata  
sempiternae memoriae.   

Sacrum Memoriae.  
D. Chr. Hattoni, 
A very fair and goodly Tomb out of the Chancel, above it.  Guil. Fil. Io. Nepo. Antiquiss. Hattonorum Gente oriundi. Regiae Majestatis D. Elizabethae ex Nobilibus Stipatoribus: L. Vici: Sacratioris Camerae Generosorum unius, Praetorianorum Militum Ducis: Regii Pro-Camerarii: Sanctioris Concilii Senatoris, Summi Angliae ac Oxon. Acad. Cancellarii: Ordinis Nobiliss. San-Georgiani de Periscellide Equitis.  
Maximo Principis omnium que bonorum moerore (cum 51. Annos coelebs vixisset) 20. Novemb. Anno 1591. in Aedibus suis Holburnae piè fato functi.  
Guil. Hattonus, Eques Auratus, ejus ex Sorore, Nepos, adoptione Filius, ac haeres moestissimus, Pietatis ergô posuit.  

Quae vero, 
These says are inscribed on the other side of the Tomb.  quae digna  
tuis virtutibus (Heros)  
Constituent Monumenta  
tui? Si qualia debet,  
Posteritas, si quanta  
tibi prudentia justi  
Quantus amor, si quanta  
fuit facundia Linguae,  
Et docus & pulchro  
veniens in corpore virtus,  
Illaque munificae  
semper tibi copia dextrae;  
Denique quanta fuit  
magna tibi gratia quondam  
Principis, Eque tuis  
quae creverat inclyta factis.  
Gloria tanta tibi  
statuant Monumenta Nepotes.  
Ipsa tuos caperet  
vix tota Britanuia Manes.   

Stay, 
Upon a Monument fixed on a Pillar by the Tomb▪  and behold the mirror  
of a dead man's house,  
Whose lively person would  
have made thee stay and wonder;  
Look, and withal learn to know  
how to live and die renowned;  
For never can clean life  
and famous Hearses sunder.   

Hatton lies here,  
whose name Hugh Lupus gave,  
Lupus the Silices,  
son of William Conqueror,  
For Nigel, his clear servants sake,  
Worship and Laud:  
Lo, there the Spring; look here  
the Honour of his Ancestry.   

When Nature moulded him,  
her thoughts were most on Mars;  
And all the Heavens to make  
him goodly, were agreeing:  
Thence was he valiant, active,  
strong, and passing comely,  
And God did grace his mind  
and spirit with gifts excelling.   

Nature commends her  
workmanship to Fortune's charge;  
Fortune presents him to  
the Court, and to the Queen:  
Queen Eliz. (O God's  
dear Handmaid) his most Miracle,  
Now harken, Reader,  
rarity not heard nor seen.   

This blessed Queen, Mirror  
of all that Albion ruled,  
Gave favour to his faith,  
and precepts to his hopeful time;  
First, 
First, she made him one of her Moble Pensioners.  trained him in the stately  
band of Pensioners:  
Behold, how humble hearts  
make easy steps to climb.   

High carriage, honest life,  
heart ever loyal,  
Diligence, delight in duty,  
God doth reward:  
So did this worthy Queen,  
in her just thoughts of him, 
Next, Captain of her guard.   
And (for her safety) made  
him Captain of her Guard.  
Now doth she prune this Vine, 
Next, Vice Chamberlain, and of the Council.   
and from her sacred breast  
Lessons his life, makes wise  
his heart for her great Counsels,  
And so Vice-Chamberlaine;  
where foreign Prince's eyes  
Might well admire her choice,  
wherein she most excels.   

So sweetly tempered was  
his soul with virtuous Balm;  
Religious, 
Lastly, L. Chancellor of England.  just to God  
and Caesar in each thing;  
That he aspired to  
the highest Subjects Seat,  
Lord Chancellor (measure  
and conscience of an holy King.)   

Robe, Choler, Garter,  
dead Figures of great Honour,  
Almsdeeds, with faith,  
honest in word, frank in dispense,  
The poor's friend, not popular,  
the Church's Pillar;  
This Tomb shows the one,  
the Heaven's shrine all the other.    

Franciscus Florus ad memoriam Heri sui defuncti luctusque sui solatium posuit. Anno Domini, 1593.  
Thomas Heneage, Eques Auratus, ex antiqua Heneagiorum Familia, 
A very goodly Tomb Eastward behind the high Altar.  in Comitatu Lincolniensi oriundus; Ingenii splendore, morum, elegantia, orationis facultate, & optimis studiis ornatissimus, Camerae Regiae Thesaurarius, Pro-Camerarius, Ducatus Lancastriae Cancellarius, & ab intimis Conciliis Elizabethae Reginae, cui privatae & principi, fide & fama integra maximis negotiis spectatus, summa cum gratia, Annis 38. inservivit: Hic secundum Christi   

Adventum in pace expectat.  
una cum Anna, uxore charissima, filia Nicolai Points, Equitis Aurati, ex Joanna, filia Thomae Baronis Berkley, femina lectissima, sanctissimis moribus, & à teneris ad mortem usque Elizabethae Reginae praedilecta Famula. Que illi unicum filiolum infantia praereptum, & unica enixa filiam, Haeredem Elizabetham, Moylo Finch, Equiti Aurato, enuptam.  
Obiit ille 17. Octob. An. Dom. 1594.  
Praeivit illa Novemb. An. Dom. 1592.  
Optimis & charissimis parentibus, Elizabethae Finch moestissima hoc posuit.  
john Elmar, 
Both these lie before S. George's Chapel without Monuments.  Bishop of London, buried in Anno, 1594.  
Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, buried in Anno, 1596.  

These are the glories  
of a worthy praise,  
Which (Noble Baskervile)  
here now are read,  
In honour of thy life,  
and latter days,  
To number thee  
among the blessed dead.   

A pure regard  
to thy Immortal part,  
A spotless Mind,  
a Body prone to pain,  
A giving Hand,  
and an unvanquished Heart,  
And all these Virtue's  
void of all disdain.  
And all these Virtues  
yet not so unknown,  
But Netherlands, Seas,  
Indias, Spain, and France,  
Can witness that these  
Honours were thine own;  
Which they reserve,  
thy merit to advance:  
That Valour should not  
perish void of Fame,  
Nor Noble Deeds,  
but leave a Noble Name.   
Eustacius de Fauconbridge, Regis justiciarius, 
Buried in the South I'll above the Choir within the wall.  una atque altera Legatione perfunctus in Gallia, sub joanne & Henrico 3. Regibus: Quibus ab intimis Conciliis, & supremus Angliae Thesaurarius fuit: Post Concessionem Guil. de Sancta Maria huius Ecclesiae Antistitis, Electus est in Episcopum Londinensem, Anno Verbi Incarnati, 1221. Consecratus à Benedicto, Roffensi Episcopo, cum jam obesset Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis. Quumque sedisset Annos 7. Menses 6. obiit diem pridiè Cal. Novemb. Anno Salutis, 1228.  
Henricus de Wengham, 
He lies also buried in the same South I'll above the Quire.  Regi Henrico 3. à sacris, & Cancellarius, Decanus de Totenhale, & S. Martini London, Camerarius Gasconiae; Virro (ut inquit Florilogus) curialis, discretus, & circumspectus. 
He also lieth buried there  Electus Anno Christi 1259. Wintoniensis Episcopus, consentire noluit. Tandem, post mortem Fulconis Basset, hujus Ecclesiae Pontificis, eodem anno in Episc. Londin. consecratus fuit, sed vix tribus annis sedit.   

Obiit Anno Salutis 126●. 
At the East end behind the high Altar.   
Hoc in loco requiescit in Domino Erkenwaldus 3. post Anglo-Saxonum in Britannia ingressum Episcopus Londinensis. 
Episcopi.  Cujus in Episcopatu & ante Episcopatum vita & conversatio fuit sanctissima; 
1. Mellitus. 2. Wina. 3. Erkenwaldus. 4. Walcherus. 5. Ingualdus 6. Egulplnes. 7. Wigherus. 8. Edbrithus. 9 Edgarus. 10. K●ewalchus. 11. Edbaldus. 12. Edbertus. 13. Osmondus. 14. Ethehtothus. 15. Celbertus. 16. Rebulpbus. 17. Swithulphus. 18. Eadsinus. 19 Wilsive. 20. Ethelwardus. 21. Eadstanus.  ex Nobili Prosopia oriundus. Offae, Orientalium Saxonum Regis erat filius, ad fidem Christianam à Mellito primo London. Episcopo, Anno Domini 642. conversus.  
Is priusquam Episcopus factus esset, dua praeclara construxit Monasteria sumptibus suis, de bonis quae jure haereditario sibi obvenerunt: unum sibi in finibus Australium Saxonum loco, qui Certesey vocatur: Alterum Edelburgae Sorori suae feminae laudatiffimae, ad Berching in ditione Orientalium Saxonum.  
In Episcopatum vero Anno Salutis, 675. à Theodoro, Dorobernensium sive Cantuariae Archiepiscualia sacratus est. Sebbam, Orientalium Saxonum Regem ad Christi fidem convertit, & salutari Baptismatis unda suis manibus perfudit, qui statim mundo renuncians, 
Isli Episcopi in Margin notati, post Erkenwaldum, seriatim in Cathedra Londinens. usque in tempora Edwardi senioris Anglorum Regis successerunt. Quorum omnium adeo obsolevit memoria, ut nec eorum acta, nec mausolea s●●an●ur.  se totum Deo addixit, & in hac ipsa Ecclesia Archa Marmorea (quae ad nostra usque tempora permanet) sepultus est. Idem Erkenwaldus celeberrimum hoc S. Pauli Templum novis aedificiis auxit, proventubus locupletavit, & eidem immunitates nonnullas à Regibus impetravit. Tandem, circiter Annum Domini 683. spiritum Deo reddidit, postquam Annis 11. in Pontificatu sedisset, & magnifico Sepulchro hic conditus est. quod nostra memoria circiter Annum Domini 1533. hoc loco visebatur.  
Michael Norborow, 
In the new works of S. Dunstanes chapel.  Bishop of London, 1361.  
Robert Brewer, Deane of Paul's, 1366.  
Adam de Bury, Lord Mayor of London, 1390.  
Ralph Baldock, 
In our Lady Chapel, at the East end of the Quire.  Bishop of London, 1313.  
Robert Breybrooke, Canon of Lichfield, Bishop of London, & made Lord Chancellor in the sixth year of King Richard the second. 
R. Baldock was Founder of that Chapel.  He sat Bishop 20. years, and deceased in Anno 1404.  
john Stokesley, Bishop of London, Anno 1539.  
Henry Lacie, 
In the new work of Paul's between our Lady Chapel and Saint Dunslanes.  Earl of Lincoln, had a fair Monument erected for him with his picture in Armour, lying on it crosslegged (like a Knight Templer) as one that professed his uttermost endeavour, for defence of the holy Land against the Infidels. He was buried in Anno 1310. and his Monument is greatly defaced.  
Some have noted that in digging the foundation of this new work, 
Wil Paston. Chapel on the South I'll of Paul's builded▪ Scalps of Oxen found in digging the foundation.  namely, of a Chapel on the South side of Paul's Church, there were found more than an hundred scalps of Oxen or Kine, in the year one thousand three hundred and sixteen, which thing (say they) confirmed greatly the opinion of those, which have reported, that (of old time) there had been a Temple of jupiter, and that there was daily sacrifice of beasts.  
Othersome both wise and learned, have thought the Bucks head borne before the Procession of Paul's, on Saint Paul's day, to signify the like. But true it is, I have read an ancient Deed to this effect:  
Sir William Bawd, Knight, the third of Edward the first, in the year 1274. on Candlemas day, granted to Harvy de Borham, Deane of Paul's, and to the Chapter there, that in consideration of twenty two Acres of ground or land, by them granted within their Manor of Westley in Essex, to be enclosed into his Park of Curingham; he would (for ever) upon the Feast day of the Conversion of Paul in Winter give unto them a good do, seasonable and sweet, and upon the Feast of the Commemoration of Saint Paul in Summer, 
A Bucks head ●orn before the Procession at Paul's.  a good Buck, and offer the same at the high Altar, the same to be spent amongst the Canon's residents: the Do to be brought by one man at the hour of Procession, and thorough the Procession to the high Altar; and the bringer to have nothing: the Buck to be brought by all his many in like manner, and they to have paid unto them by the Chamberlain of the Church twelve pence only, and no more to be required.  
This Grant he made, and for performance, bound the Lands of him and his heirs to be distrained on: and if the Lands should be evicted, that yet he and his heirs should accomplish the gift. Witnesses, Richard Tilbery, William de Wockendon, Richard de Harlowe, Knights, Peter of Stanford, Thomas of Waldon, and some others.  
Sir Walter Bawd, son to William, confirmed this gift, in the thirtieth of the said King; and the witnesses thereunto, were Nicholas de Wockendon, Rich. de Rokeley, Thomas de Mandevile, john de Rochfort, Knights, Richard de Broniford, William de Marks, William de Fulham, and other. Thus much for the Grant.  
Now, what I have heard by report, and have partly seen, it followeth:  
On the Feast day of the Commemoration of Saint Paul, the Buck being brought up to the steps of the high Altar in Paul's Church, at the hour of Procession, the Dean and Chapter being apparelled in Copes and Vestments, with Garlands of Roses on their heads, they sent the body of the Buck to baking, and had the head fixed on a Pole, borne before the Cross in their Procession, until they issued out of the West door; where the Keeper that brought it, blowed the death of the Buck, and then the Horners that were about the City, presently answered him in like manner: For the which pains, they had each man of the Dean and Chapter, four pence in money, and their Dinner, and the Keeper that brought it, was allowed, during his abode there (fore that service) Meat, Drink, and Lodging, at the Dean and Chapters, charges, and five shillings in money at his going away, together with a Loaf of bread, having the picture of Saint Paul upon it, etc.  
There was belonging to the Church of Saint Paul, for both the days, two special suits of Vestments, the one embroidered with Bucks, the other with Does, both given by the said Bawds (as I have heard.) Thus much for that matter.  
Now to the residue of the Monuments which are beneath the stairs, in the sides and body of the Church.  
Sir john Beauchamp, 
In a comely Chapel in the body of the Church, on the South side.  Constable of Dover, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Knight of the Garter, the son of Sir Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and brother to Thomas Earl of Warwick, lieth buried in the body of the Church, on the South side, 1358. within a proper Chapel purposely made for him.  
This deceased Nobleman (by ignorant people) hath been erroneously mistermed, 
Divers fond people's opinion concerning Duke Humphrey, buried in Paul's Church.  and said to be Duke Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester: who lieth honourably buried at Saint Alban, in Hartfordshire, twenty miles from London. In idle and frivolous opinion of whom, some men (of late times) have made a solemn meeting at his Tomb, upon Saint Andrew's day in the morning (before Christmas) and concluded on a breakfast or dinner, as assuring themselves to be servants, and to hold diversity of offices under the good Duke Humphrey.  
Likewise on May-day, Tankard-bearers, Watermen, and some other of like quality beside, would use to come to the same Tomb early in the morning, and (according as the other) have delivered serviceable presentation at the same Monument, by strewing herbs, and sprinkling fair water on it, as in the duty of servants, and according to their degrees and charges in Office. But as Master Stowe hath discreetly advised such as are so merrily disposed, or simply profess themselves to serve Duke Humphrey in Paul's: 
A due and fit Penance for fond Duke Humfrey's idle servants.  if punishment of losing their dinners daily there, be not sufficient for them; they should be sent to St. Alban, to answer there for their disobedience, and long absence from their so highly welldeserving Lord and Master, because in their merry disposition they please so to call him.  
Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury, in the Crowds, or jesus Chapel, as appeareth by an Inscription on a Pillar there.  Here before the Image of JESUS, lieth the Worshipful and right Noble Lady Margaret, 
Margaret Countess of Shrewsbury, her Monument painted over the entry of jesus chapel.  Countess of Shrewsbury, late wife of the true and victorious Knight, and redoubtable Warrior, 1. Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury; which Worshipful man died in Guien, for the right of this Land. She was the first daughter, and one of the heirs of the right famous and renowned Knight, Richard Beauchamp, late Earl of Warwick (which died in Roan) and of Dame Elizabeth his wife; the which Elizabeth was daughter and heir to Thomas, late Lord Berkly, on his side, and on her mother's side, Lady Lisle, and Ties. Which Countess passed from this world the fourteenth day of june, in the year of our Lord 1468. On whose soul JESUS have mercy, Amen. 
Wenlocke, by his last Will, dated 1477. appointed, that there should be dispended upon a Monument, over the Lady of Shrewsbury, where she is buried, afore jesus, one hundred pounds. He left Sir Humphrey Talbot his Supervisor. This Sir Humphrey Talbot, Knight, Lord Martial of the Town of Calais, made his Will the year 1492. He was the younger son of john Earl of Shrewsbury, and Margaret his wife. He appointed a Stone to be put in a Pillar, before the grave of his Lady Mother in Paul's, of his Portraiture and Arms, according to the Will of john Wenlock: But for want of room and lightsomeness in that place, it was concluded, that the Image of Jesus should be curiously painted on the wall in Paul's Church, over the door that entereth into the said Chapel of jesus, and the Portraiture also of the said Lady Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury, kneeling in her mantle of Arms, with other of her Progeny; all which was so performed, and remaineth till this day.  
In the Chapel of Jesus, Thomas Dowroy, William Lamb, 1578. and many other have been interred.  
john of London under the North Rood, 1266.  
john Lovel, Clarke.  
john Roman.  
john of Saint Olave.  
Walter Bloxley.  
Sir Allen Boxhul, Knight of the Garter, Constable of the Tower, Custos of the Forest and Park of Clarendon, the Forest of Brokholt, Grovel, and Melchet, buried beside S. Erkenwalds' Shrine.  Hic jacet Dominus Richardus de Piriton, 
An Inscription in brass, by sir john Beauchamps Tomb.  quondam Archidiaconus Colcestriae, Canonicus & Stagiar, hujus Ecclesiae. Qui obiit 26. die Augusti, Anno Domini, 1387. Cujus animae propitietur Deus. 
john Nevil, 
In Saint Thomas Chapel, near the North door.  Lord Latymer, in Anno 1542. whose widow was the last wife unto King Henry the eighth, lieth there interred; but his Tomb is very much wronged and defaced.  
Thomas Lynacrus, 
A brass Plate above in the wall, near the North door.  Regis Henrici 8. Medicus, Vir & Graecè & Latinè atque in re Medica longè eruditissimus. Multos aetate sua languentes, & qui jam animam desponderant, vitae restituit: Multa Galeni opera Latina lingua mira & singulari facundia vertit. Egregium opus de emendata structura Latini sermonis, amicorum rogatu, paulò ante mortem edidit. Medicinae studiosis Oxoniae publicas lectiones duas, Cantabrigiae unam in perpetuum stabilivit. In hac Vrbe Collegium Medicorum fieri sua industria curavit, cujus & Praesidens proximus electus est: Frauds dolosque mirè perosus, fidus amicis, omnibus ordinibus juxta charus: Aliquot annis antequam obierit Presbyter factus. Plenus annis, ex hac vita migravit multùm desideratus, Ann. Domini 1524. die 7. Octob.  
Vivat post Funera Virtus.    

Thomae Lynacro clarissimo Medico, joannes Caius posuit, Anno 1557.  

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Edwardo Stanhopo, Michaelis Stanhopiex ordine Equestri filio, 
A Monument erected in the wall, near to the stairs going up into the North Quire.  Equiti Aurato, Legum Doctori, Episcopi L●ndinensis Cancellario, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis Vicario Generali, in publicis Ecclesiae & Reipublicae negotiis versatissimo. Qui certa spe in Christo resurgendi, piè placideque animam Deo reddidit, die 16. Martii, 1608.  joannes, Baro Stanhopus de Harington, & Michael Stanhopus, Eques Auratus, fratres moestissimi, Officiosae Pietatis ergo P. P. 
Thomas Kempe, 
A comely Chapel founded by himself on the north side the body of the Church.  Bishop of London, in a proper Chapel, termed of the Trinity, lieth there buried in Anno 1489. As appeareth not only by his name and Arms thereon in diverse places; but likewise by this ensuing inscription, engraven on a Plate, and fixed in the same Chapel.  Infra Capellam istam requiescit corpus D. Thomae Kemp, quondam Episcopi London, fundatoris eiusdem, & unius Cantariae perpetuae in eadem. Qui multa bona tempore vitae suae Ecclesiae Sancti Pauli dedit, & stetit 39 Annis, 84. diebus Episcopus London. Ac obiit 28. die mensis Martii, An. Domini 1489. Cujus animae propitietur Deus. Amen. 
Richard Vaughan, 
In the same Chapel.  likewise Bishop of London, lieth buried in the said Chapel, 1607.  
Richard Fitz-Iames, 
Beneath the northwest Pillar, that supports Paul's steeple, in a Chapel builded by himself.  Bishop of London, lieth buried under a fair Tomb, and in Saint Paul's Chapel, builded of Timber, with stairs mounting up thereto, over his Tomb of grey Marble, in Anno 1521. But this Chapel was burned by fire falling from the steeple, and his Tomb taken thence.  
Gulielmo Lilio, 
A Brass plate fixed in the wall, by the great North door.  Pauliae Scholae olim Praeceptori Primario, & Agnetae Conjugi, in sacratissimo hujus Templi Coemiterio hinc à tergo nunc destructo consepultis: Georgius Lilius, hujus Ecclesiae Canonicus, parentum memoriae piè consulens, Tabellam hanc ab amicis conservatam, hic reponendam curavit.  
Obiit ille G. L. An. Dom. 1522. Calend. Mart. Vixit An. 54.   

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Thomas Ravis, 
A fair Tomb in the wall, at the upper end of the North I'll, below.  claris natalibus Mauldenae in Suthreia natus, Regius Alumnus in Schola Westmonasteriensi educatus, in Academiam Oxoniensem adscitus, omnes Academicos honores consecutus, & Margistratibus perfunctus, Decanus Ecclesiae Christi ibidem constitutus, & bis Academiae Pro-Cancellarius. Vnde ob doctrinam, gravitatem, & spectatam prudentiam, à Rege jacobo, primùm ad Episcopatum Glocestrensem provectus, deinde ad Londinensem translatus, & demum à Christo, dum Ecclesiae, Patriae, & Principi vigilaret, in Coelestem Patriam evocatus, placidè pieque emigravit, & quod mortale fuit, certa spe resurgendi hic deposuit, die 14. Decembris, An. Salutis 1609.  
Gulielmus Harington, 
In S. 〈◊〉 Chapel, near to the great South door.  jurisconsultus, Protonotarius Apostolicus, D. Pauli Canonicus, ex illis quos Residentiarios dicunt: Patria Eboracensis natus, in pago qui Estryngton vocitatur, Patre Gulielmo Haringtono, viro claro, genere orto in pago Commerlandiae non ignobili, qui Neubyging nuncupatur; & Matre joanna, Filia Gulielmi Haskae, aliter Balivi dicti, viri Generosi in eodem pago Estryngton nata: memor exitus vitae, qui omnibus horis impendet, hoc sibi Sepulchrum posuit. Anno Salutis humanae, 1523.  
Six Lines this Image  
shall delineate, 
A Table hanging on a Pillar, in the South I'll.   
Height Croft, high-born,  
in spirit and virtue high;  
Approved, beloved, a Knight,  
stout Mars his mate,  
Loves fire, War's flame,  
in Heart, Head, Hand, and Eye:  
Which flame, War's Comet,  
Grace now so resigns,  
That fixed in Heaven, in  
Heaven and Earth it shines.   

Prosopopeia.  
The Womb and Tomb  
in Name be not so near,  
As Life to Death,  
and Birth is to the Beer.  
Oh! then how soon to Beer  
are Captains brought,  
That now do live, and die  
now with a thought?  
Then, Captains, stay and  
read, still think on me,  
For, with a thought,  
what I am, you may be.  
As Mars near Mors doth sound,  
So Mors near Mars is found.  
1. Da. of H.  
Hoc Saxo tegitur corpus Thomae Creke, 
Somewhat near to the Convocation stairs, a fair plated stone upon the ground.  L. Doctoris, & Almae Curiae Cantuar. de Arcubus Londini Advocatorum unius, viri utriusque juris tam Canonici quam Civilis scientia non modo peritissimi, sed & eorundem usu & praxi longo tempore exercitatissimi. Cujus in Clientem causas defendendo, industria quanta fuit, quanta integritas, quanta fides, quanta denique si quid contra votum, & (ut sibi videbatur) aequitatem, accidebat solicitudo, & two qui ejus usi sunt patrocinio optimè praedicare possunt, & celebris illius famae memoria nunquam moritura verissimè praedicavit.  
Honestè vixit,  
Neminem laesit,  
Suum cuique tribuit.  
Hic requiescit in Domino Gulielmus Dethick, 
In the body of the Church, on the South side, a fair stone, thus inscribed.  Eques Auratus, filius & haeres Gilberti Dethick, Equitis Aurati. Qui ambo fuerunt Garterii Principales Reges Armorum Angliae. Cor. hic An. 1584. Aetatis suae 48. Ille Anno 1612. Aetatis suae 70. in Domino obdormierunt, expectantes resurrectionem per Jesum Christum Salvatorem nostrum.  
Domina Thomasina sup. 40. Annos uxor praedict. Williel. & filii Georgius, Gilbertus & Henricus pietatis ergo posuerunt.  
Hic jacet Robertus Hare, 
A fair plated stone in the West end of the middle I'll.  quondam Cler. Thesaur. & Scriptor Rotulorum de receipt. & exitu Thesaur. Scaccarii. Qui obiit senex die 2. Novemb. An. 1611.  
Now, to close up all these Memories, concerning this Cathedral Church of Saint Paul's, London, we may not be unmindful of a very bountiful Benevolence given thereto, by Master William Parker, whose worthy gifts deserve Volumes of Remembrance. 
Five hundred pounds given by M. William Parker, towards the glazing of Paul's windows.  By his last Will and Testament he hath given the sum of five hundred pounds, to be employed in the repairing of the Windows of Paul's Church, from the upper end of the Stairs, from the first entering of the Choir, unto the upper end of the Church: By the order and direction of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and the Right Worshipful the Aldermen, his Brethren, for the time being. So are the express words, set down in the Codecill annexed to his William.  
Without the North gate of Paul's Church, 
Pater noster Rowe.  from the end of the Old Exchange, West up Pater noster Rowe, by the two Lanes out of Paul's Church, the first out of the Cross Isle of Paul's, the other out of the body of the Church, about the midst thereof, and so West to the golden Lion, be all of this Ward, as is aforesaid. The houses in this Street, from the first North Gate of Paul's Churchyard, unto the next Gate, were first builded without the Wall of the Churchyard, by Henry Walleis, Maior, in the year 1282. The Rents 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, etc.  
There dwelled also Turner's of Beads, 
Pater noster makers.  and they were called Pater noster makers, as I read in a Record of one Robert Nikke, Pater noster maker, and Citizen, in the reign of Henry the fourth, and so of other.  
At the end of this Pater noster Rowe, 
Ave Mary lane.  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, 
Creed lane.  late so called, but sometime Spurrier Rowe, of Spurriers dwelling there. 
Amen lane.  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, 
Duke of Britain's house, since Pembroke's Inn, than Aburgaveny house, and now Stationer's Hall.  is one great House, builded of stone and timber, of old time pertaining to john Duke of Britain, Earl of Richmond, as appear by the Records of Edward the second. Since that, it was called Pembroke's Inn, near unto Ludgate, as belonging to the Earls of Pembroke in the times of Richard the second, the 18. year, and of Henry the sixth, in the 14. year. It was after called Aburgaveny house, and belonged to Henry late Lord of Aburgaveny. But the Worshipful Company of Stationers have (since then) purchased it, and made it the Hall for the meeting of their Society, converting the stonework 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 coming out of Paul's Churchyard, on the East, and the high street on the West, towards Ludgate, and this was called Bowyer Rowe, 
Bowyer Rowe.  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 Saint Martin, a proper Church, 
Parish Church of S. Martin by Ludgate.  and lately new builded: for in the year 1437. john Michael, Maior, and the Communality, granted to William Down, Parson of S. Martin's at Ludgate, a parcel of ground, containing in length 28. foot, and in breadth 24. foot, to set and build their steeple upon, etc.  
The Monuments here have been of William Seven-oake, Mayor, 1418.  
Henry Belwase, and john Gest, 1458.  
William Taverner, Gentleman, 1466.  
john Barton, Esquire, 1439.  
Stephen Peacock, Maior, 1533.  
Sir Roger Cholmley.  
Gulielmo Huseo Coelebi, 
● comely Monuments, each by other, in the East end of the Quire.  Almae Curiae Cantuariensis Registro, literarum scientia, vitae probitate, morumque urbanitate claro, notis E. amicis omnibus dilecto. Antonius & Katherine conjuges, Chari parent's orbati filio Monumentum hoc dolentes posuerunt. Obiit quinto Kalendas Novembris, Anno Dom. 1559. vixit annos 28. menses 3. dies 7.  
Obdormiat in Domino.  
Hic situs est Antonius Huse, Armiger, Londini natus, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, atque Capitulis de Pauli Londinen. Registrarius primarius. Qui aliquot annos Judicis causarum Maritimarum officio integrè functus, ac etiam in Magistratorum Curiae Cancellariae concessum cooptatus, vergente demum aetate ad Praefectum Collegiorum Mercatorum Angliae, tam apud Belgas, quam apud Moscovitas, & Rhutenos commercia exercentium accitus, lingua facundus, memoria tenax, ingenio, prudentia, doctrinaque pollens, morum comitate & probitate gratiosus, Laurentio, Gulielmo, Gilberto, & Ursula liberis, ex Katharina conjuge procreatis non infelix, sexagesimo tertio aetatis Anno è vita excessit, Kalendis Junii, An. Dom. 1560.  
Here lie the bodies of Florens Caldwell, 
Another sightly Monument in the same wall.  Esquire, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Alderman's Deputy of the Ward of Faringdon without: And Marry Wild, his first wife; by whom he had issue one daughter, named Mary, married to Thomas Gourney, Esquire. And Sibyl Greene, his second wife. which Florens deceased the 〈◊〉 and Mary his wife the 19 day of june, An. Dom. 1590. etc.  

Earth goes to  
Earth treads on  
Earth as to  
Earth shall to 

Earth 

As Mould to Mold,  
Glittering in Gold,  
Return nère should,  
Go ere he would.       

Earth upon  
Earth goes to  
Earth though on  
Earth shall from 

Earth 

Consider may,  
Naked away,  
Be stout and gay,  
Pass poor away.       
Be merciful and charitable,  
Relieve the poor as thou art able,  
A shroud to thy grave,  
Is all thou shalt have.  
Thomas Cook, 
A very fair new Monument in the same wall.  Citizen and Haberdasher of London, of little Wolton, in the County of Lancaster, had to wife joice Hanbury, with whom he lived thirty years, and had issue one son, and three daughters; whereof two (viz. Elizabeth, wife to john Bourman, Mercer, and Mary, wife to Thomas Bayly, Skinner) be yet living. He departed this life the 17. day of April, 1608. in the 55. year of his age. She (his said wife, sole Executrix of his last Will and Testament) yet surviving (to the memory of her dear husband) erected this Monument, 1612.  
To God, his Country,  
and the Poor, he had  
A zealous soul, true heart,  
and liberal mind:  
His wife, his children,  
and his kindred sad,  
Lack of his love, his care  
and kindness find:  
Yet is their sorrow suaged,  
with the thought,  
He hath attained the  
Happiness he sought.   

Dies mortis, aeternae vitae natalis est.  
To the Memory of William Yeardley, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, sometime of this Parish. He died the 28. day of October, 1523. She died the 20. day of july, 1593.  
William Yeardley, 
A Table hanging on a pillar in the Chancel.  and  
Elizabeth his wife,  
Who lived on earth  
free from strife,  
Not far from this,  
in earth doth lie,  
To show, that all  
that live, must die:  
Where they do  
quietly expect,  
To rise again,  
as Gods elect,  
They left four  
daughters, and a son,  
Who left them this,  
when they were gone.  
jaspero Cholmley, 
A comely Monument in the same wall, but on the quires South side.  Armig. Wigorniensi, Clerico Recognitionum capiendi, sive recognosc. Virtute cujusdam statuti fact. & ordinati 23. Hen. 8. pro debit. recuperan. justiciario Pa. & Quor. Dom. Reginae in Com. Middl. Patri suo chariss. & amantiss. joannes Cholmley, hoc Monu. dolens posuit, decem liberos ex Margareta sua unica conjuge procreatos, viz. joannem, Thomam, Gulielmum, Hugonem, Franciscum, Mariam, julianam, Margaretam, Annam & janam tempore mortis superstites reliquit. Obiit ultimo die Octob. Anno a●tatis suae 48. & Salutis nostrae 1586.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Antrobus, 
A new fair Monument in the same wall.  Esquire, who deceased the first day of May, 1611. Having issue by Elizabeth his late wife (the daughter of Ralph Woodcocke, Citizen and Alderman of London) three sons and two daughters, viz. Thomas, John, Richard, Elizabeth, and Margaret.  
Here-under lieth buried Amy Edlyn, 
A small Monument in the same wall.  and her son with her, the daughter of Richard Edlyn, of Woodhau●e, in Middlesex, and the wife of Robert Gomersall, Citizen & Ironmonger of London, who departed this life the 2. day of September, 1586. and left behind her one son and one daughter.  
On the South side of this Street, 
The Black Friars.  is the turning into the Black Friars: which Order (sometime) had their houses in Oldborne, where they remained for the space of five and fifty years; and then, in the year 1276. Gregory Rocksley, 
Maior & Barons of this City.  Maior, and the Barons of this City, granted and gave to Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canturbury, two Lanes or Ways next the Street of Baynard's Castle, and also the Tower of Mountfitchit to be destroyed; in place of which, the said Robert builded the late new Church of the Black Friars, and placed them therein. King Edward the first and Eleanor his wife were great benefactors thereunto. This was a large Church, and richly furnished with Ornaments: wherein diverse Parliaments, and other great meetings have been holden: Namely, in the year 1450. the 28. of Henry the sixth, a Parliament was begun at Westminster, and adjourned to the Black Friars in London, and from thence to Leycester. In the year 1522. the Emperor Charles the fifth was lodged there.  
In the year 1524. the fifteenth of April, a Parliament was begun at the Black Friars, wherein was demanded a Subsidy of 800000. pounds, to be raised of goods and lands, 4. s. in every pound, and in the end was granted 2. s. of the pound, of their goods and lands, that were worth 20. pounds, or might dispend 20. l. by the year, and so upward, to be paid in two years.  
This Parliament was adjourned to Westminster, 
Parliament at the Black Friars, called the Black Parliament.  amongst the black Monks, and ended in the King's Palace there the 14. of August, at nine of the clock in the night, and was therefore called the Black Parliament.  
In the year 1529. Cardinal Campeius the Legate, with Cardinal Woolsey, sat at the said Black Friars, where before them, as Legates and judges, was brought in question the King's marriage with Queen Katherine, as to be unlawful, before whom the King and Queen were cited and summoned to appear, etc. whereof read more at large in my Annals, as I have touched it.  
The same year, in the month of October, began a Parliament in the Black Friars, in the which Cardinal Woolsey was condemned in the Praemunire: this house valued at 104. l. 15. s. 5. d. was surrendered the 12. of November, the 30. of Henry the eighth.  
There were buried in the ancient Church, Margaret, Queen of Scots.  
Hubert de Brugh, Earl of Kent, translated from their old Church, by Old Bourne.  
Robert de Attabeto, Earl of Bellimon.  
Dame Isabel, wife to Sir Roger Bygot, Earl Martial.  
William and jame Huse, children to Dame Illis, Countess of Arundel, and by them lieth Dame Illis, daughter to the Earl Warren, and after Countess of Arundel.  
Dame Ide, wife to Sir Walter daughter to the Lord Ferrer of Chartley.  
Richard de Brews.  
Richard Strange, son to Robert Strange.  
Elizabeth, daughter to Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere, wife to Sir William Behan, Earl of Northampton.  
Marsh, The Earls of March and Hereford, and Elizabeth, Countess of Arundel.  
Dame joan, daughter to S. Io. Carne, first wife to Sir Gwide Brian.  
Hugh Clare, Knight, 1295.  
The heart of Queen Heleanor the Foundress.  
The heart of Alfence her son.  
The hearts of john and Margaret, children to William Valence.  
Sir William Thorpe, justice.  
The Lord Lioth, of Ireland.  
Maude, wife to Geffrey Say, daughter to the Earl of Warwick.  
Dame Sible, daughter to Wil Pattehulle, wife to Roger Beauchampe, and by her Sir Richard or Roger Beauchampe.  
The Lord S. Amand, and Dame Elizabeth his wife, daughter to the Duke of Lancaster.  
Sir Stephen Collington, Knight.  
Sir William Peter, Knight.  
The Countess of Huntingdon.  
Duchess of Exeter, 1425.  
Sir john Cornwall.  
Lord Fanhope died at Ampthill in Bedfordshire, and was buried here, 1443.  
Sir john Triptofte.  
Earl of Worcester, beheaded, 1470. and by him in his Chapel, james Turchet.  
Lord Audley, beheaded, 1497.  
William Paston, and Anne, daughter to Edmond Lancaster.  
The Lord Beaumond.  
Sir Edmond Cornwall, Baron of Burford.  
The Lady Nevil, wedded to the Lord Dowglas, daughter to the duke of Exeter  
Richard Scrope, Esquire.  
Dame Katherine Vaux, alias Cobham.  
Sir Thomas Browne, and Dame Elizabeth his wife.  
jane powel.  
Thomas Swinforth.  
john Mawsley, Esquire, 1432.  
john de la Bear, Nicholas Ear, Geffrey Spring, William Clifford, Esquires.  
Sir Thomas Brandon, Knight of the Garter, 1509.  
William Stalworth, Merchant-Taylor, 1518.  
William Courtney, Earl of Devonshire, nominate, but not created, the third of Henry the eighth, etc. 
Parish Church of S. Anne new builded in the Black Friars.   
There is a Parish of St. Anne, within the Precinct of the Black Friars, which was pulled down with the Friar's Church, by sir Thomas Corden: but in the reign of Queen Mary, he being forced to find a Church to the Inhabitants, allowed them a lodging Chamber above a stair, which since that time, to wit, in the year 1597. fell down, and was again (by collection therefore made) new builded and enlarged in the same year, and was dedicated on the eleventh of December.  
Here I thought good to insert the Copy of an ancient Record, concerning the Privileges and Liberties (in elder times) granted to the said Black Friars, which happened to my hands by friendly information, and the original thereof brought me, as here Verbatim it followeth:    

Notes and Articles for maintenance of the ancient Liberties and Privileges of the late dissolved Black Friars, near Ludgate in London.  
1. FIrst, it appeareth, that on the 25. day of November, 
job. Alforde executed at Tyburn.  1484. john Alforde, Shoemaker, dwelling within the Black Friars in London, was apprehended and put to death at Tyburn for Felony, Thomas Newland, alias Norland, and William Martin then being Sheriffs of London, who sought to have had the goods of the said Felon; but the Prior of the said Black Friars withstood them, and possessed the same goods to the use of the Lord of S. john's, of whom the same Friars was then holden.  
2. Item, 
The Bridge at the Black Friars.  The Lord of St. john's hath usually made the Bridge at the Thames, adjoining to the said Friars, and not the City of London, etc.  
3. Item, 
Incorporating of the Prior & Covent▪  The Prior and Covent were incorporated by Act of Parliament, in the time of K. Hen. the 6. whereby they might prescribe, and did always use & keep the Liberty inviolately, and clearly exempted from the Citizens.  
4. Item, 
No arrest within the Friar's Precinct.  The Precinct hath always been of such liberties, as that no man hath been arrested within the same, by any of the Sheriff's Officers. And if at any time any Officers of the City hath taken upon him to execute within the four Gates, he was rescued by the Friars and Inhabitants of Antiquity.  
5. Item, 
Foreigners traded in the Precinct freely.  At all times there hath dwelled within the Precinct diverse and many persons not free, and yet they have used their occupations there, without controlment of the City and Citizens.  
6. Item, 
Craftsmen come out of the countries.  Always at sundry times (of long continuance) diverse and many Carpenters, Masons, and such like, have been sent out of the Country, and have wrought within the Precinct aforesaid; which is not sufferable within the Liberties of the City, by their own customs and ordinances.  
7. Item, 
The inquiry after the death of any one slain, by the Coroner of the Verge.  Upon the view of any person slain, the Coroner of the Verge did always make enquiry thereof. And the Deodand is due to the Lord of Saint john's, and not to the City; but now to the Queen's Highness due by law, equity, and good conscience, whose right and lawful title the owners and inhabitants of the said exempted place and Precinct, do seek with their bodies & goods to defend and maintain against all pretended title and claim of the Citizens. Notwithstanding diverse of the said Precinct & Liberty have been greatly vexed and troubled with often imprisonments within the Compters of the City.  
8. Item, 
Freedom from watching, warding, etc.  The inhabitants within the said Precinct were never charged to watch or ward, or to be within the compass of any imposition; such as the Citizens are used and accustomed unto by their laws.  
9 Item, In the time of K. Edw. the 6. sir Andrew jude then being Mayor, 
A Riot committed in the Black Friars.  there was a Riot committed in the Black Friars, in the house of one Master Lucas, by one Crouchman of the City, and other persons with him. The force whereof was soon overswayed by Sir Thomas Saunders, and Sir Henry jerningham, Knights, Master William Moor, Esquire, with other Gentlemen inhabiting in the said Friars. And the parties by pursuit were twice endighted in the Marshalsea court holden in Southwark: Sir Nicholas Hare then being Steward, and sitting at the doing thereof. After which time, the said Crouchman (with other Confederates with him) sought to endight the said Gentleman by an especial Sessions in the said City. For stay whereof the Lords of the King's Privy Council, understanding the lewd practices of the said Crouchman and other, and that the Lord Maior had nothing to do within the said Precinct; 
Letters from the Council to the Lo. Maior.  wrote their letters unto the said Sir Andrew jude, than Mayor, willing him not to disturb the said Gentlemen for the said fact, to the infringing of the Liberties of the said Friars: The said Sir Thomas Saunders, and Master William Moor being bearers of the said Letters to the said Lord Maior; who upon deliberation, made answer to the said bearers by word of mouth, That forasmuch as there was a complaint made to him of a Riot committed within the City; he must needs (within one month after) inquire by Sessions of the same, which he said could not be prejudicial unto them, being out of the Jurisdiction of the City: for that the same should be Non coram judice, and yet they discharged of the peril of the Statute. And so they proceeded with the said Letters notwithstanding: Whereupon, the said Sir Thomas, and Master William Moor, making report of their success with the Mayor to the Lords of the Council; they wrote e●tsoones other Letters to the said Mayor, but of such force touching the premises, which were also carried and delivered by the said Sir Thomas and Master Moor: Whereupon, the said Mayor stayed from any further proceeding therein, or any other, etc.  
10. Item, In Queen Mary her time, the Council of the City put a Bill into the Parliament house, 
A Bill put into the Parliament house.  seeking by the same to have the Liberties of the said Friars, which Bill, with all their surmises, were so utterly rejected, that their Bill never came to the question, but was so suppressed, by argument openly in the same house.  
11. Item, The Liberties granted to Master Cawarden, 
Cawardens Letters Patents.  by Letters Patents of King Edward the sixth, the goods of Felons therein not granted, and so due to the Queen's Majesty, whose right and title the City hath not had, nor can be suffered to enjoy, according to their seeking; by the only resistance of the said owners and inhabitants within the said Liberty and Precinct, clearly exempted from the City, by meats and bounds on every side.  
12. Item, The said Precinct hath always been shut up and kept by Walls and Gates, 
Walls and gates belonging to the Precinct.  so as there was no egress that way, but by licence of the Porters, who were maintained and placed by the owners of the said Friars, and Liberties of the same, by especial and general words, granted by Letters Patents under the great Seal of England, to diverse owners and Freeholders' there of the Queen's Majesty. And in especial above all other, to Sir Thomas Cawarden, Knight, deceased, in his Letters Patents dated the 12. day of May, in the fourth year of King Edward the sixth; in as large, ample and full manner, and with as many pithy and effectual words, as ever was read or seen in any Patent, made for grant of Liberties of any place exempted, as by the same Patent more largely appeareth: The true copy whereof is annexed to these Articles, by the delivery of Master Moor, true owner of the most part of the said liberties.  
13. Item, That james Norrice, Curate of S. Peter's in Cornhill, being sometime one of the Friars, 
The Curate of S. Peter's in Cornhill his affirmation.  and Brethren of the Black Friars aforesaid, near Ludgate in London, saith and affirmeth, That one Robert Struddell, late Prior of the said Friars, was by order of Law constrained to pave the high street adjoining round about the channel walls, from the Flower-de-Lize towards the hill at Creed lane end. And a Cage at that time standing on that side the street, adjoining to the foresaid wall, within the Parish of Saint Andrew, which Cage was plucked down by the said Prior, and not since set up again; the Prior aforesaid saying; Seeing they of the City cause me to pave all this side of the street next my wall, they shall have no Cage of others standing on my ground, against mine own wall: And so the City never builded Cage on that side after.  
14. Item, Moreover, the said Master Norrioe saith, That the Liberties of the Black Friars in the said Prior's days were such, 
The Liberties of the Precinct in the Prior's days.  that the Lord Mayor of the City of London, nor the Sheriffs did arrest any man within the said Liberty for any thing, as free, as he well remembreth in all his time.  
15. Item, 
Four Gates belonging to the Friars and Porters.  He remembreth, that four Gates were shut in during the Friar's time, by the commandment of the Prior. And one Father Seagar, being then Porter, appointed by the said late Prior, Robert Struddell, with others after him, at the appointment of other Priors than succeeding: And not by the Mayor of London, nor any other.   

The saying of Thomas Vlverston, alias Wolverston, of Garlic Hithe, Officer to the Vintners of London, and sometime a Friar of the Black Friars: Taken before me Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, the 30. day of May, Anno Domini, 1562.  
16. ITem, He saith, he hath heard say many times among the Friars and others, 
Of other men's doors into the Black Friars.  that Master Peacock of London, and his Predecessors, had never door into the Black Friars out of his house; but by fine and agreement, made for the same with the Prior of Black Friars, long before his time of remembrance.  
17. Item, He saith, that the Porters of the Friars always kept their four Gates (time out of mind) by the appointment of the Prior and Covent, 
How the Porters of the Friars kept their four Gates.  clear exempted from the City. And when the Porters perceived any suspected persons or malefactors within the limits of the Friars; they declared it to the Prior, who forthwith commanded them, to take the aid of the honest Inhabitants within the Friars, to make search and watch for the apprehension of such lewd persons: which so found, were always examined by Sir William Kingston, Knight, and other good men there inhabiting within the Friars, at the Porter's desire, and not otherwise.  
18. Item, 
No search or watch within the Precinct, etc.  He never heard, nor did know in all his time, any search or watch to be made within the Precinct of the Friars, by any Watchman or Constable of the City, who could never come within any of the Friar's Gates, but by the Porter's licence of the same Friars.  
19 Item, 
Paving the street by the Prior and Covent.  He saith, that the Prior and Covent did once pave the Streets (by his time) from the Friar's Turne-gate, unto the Flower-de-Lize, along by the Wall, to the Channel of the same Street. But as for pulling down of any Cage, he doth not well remember.  
20. Item, 
For punishing disordered persons.  He saith, if any Vagabond, or any Drunkard, or misordered person, were taken culpable within the Precinct of the Friars, they were always punished in the Friar's Stocks against the Church door, by the Prior's commandment; and not by the Lord Mayor, or Sheriffs of London.  
21. Item, 
Against claiming the Liberties of Black Friars.  Sir john Portenary, Knight, inhabiting within the late Black Friars, near Ludgate in London, about 30. years past, doth well remember, That after the suppression of the said Black Friars, the Lord Mayor of London would have entered into the said Black Friars, and claimed the Liberties of the said Black Friars. For the which, the Lord Cobham, the Lord Zanche, Sir Thomas Cheyney, Sir William Kingston, Sir Francis Brian, Knights, with many other Worshipful Gentlemen, then being Inhabitants within the Liberties and Precinct of the said late Black Friars, denied the Lord Maior and Citizen's entrance, and would not permit nor suffer them, or any of them, to enter within the same. And shortly after, Sir Francis Brian, and Sir Thomas Cheyney, moved the King's Majesty, then being King Henry the eighth; how the said Mayor and Citizens would have entered into the said Friars. And then the King's Majesty said unto them these words following: Are not We as able to keep our Privileges and Liberties, as the Friars did keep their Privileges always before time, free from the City. Whereupon, they all (by one consent and agreement) sent the said Lord Maior word of the King's Majesty his answer and pleasure therein. Whereupon the Lord Maior and Aldermen were satisfied, and would no further proceed upon the King's right and title of Liberties; as than they promised and affirmed by the mouth of the Recorder, being sent by the Mayor to the Worshipful of the said Friars. And the said Sir john Portenary further saith, That after the said Friars were suppressed, the Lord Cromwell, Vicar General, caused to be delivered unto the said Sir john Portenary, the keys of all the said Friars, safely to keep from the said City, and to provide, that all within the said Liberty should be in safety and safeguard. The which keys were afterward delivered by the said Sir john Portenary, to the hands of Doctor Layton, and Doctor Wendie, they being Visitors there. For the which, the said Sir john Portenary had a certain reward paid unto him by the Lord North, then being Chancellor of the Augmentation Court. All which matter the said Sir john Portenary will depose to be most certain and true, as he will answer at the dreadful day of judgement upon his soul.  
22. Be it in remembrance perpetual for infallible truth, 
Two Aldermens● entering into the Liberties of the Black Friars.  that one Alexander Avenon, being Sheriff of London, and one other, being Alderman of the Ward of Faringdon infra, came and entered very stoutly into the Liberty of the Black Friars near Ludgate, the fifteenth day of May, 1562. to carry away all the Hosiers and Tailors, to come to the Guild-Hall in London, according to the Queen's new Proclamation. Which Hosiers and Tailors denied to go with the said Sheriff, affirming and saying, That they had put in Bonds (before their coming) to the Lord Cobham, and to Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, two of the Queen's justices of the Peace within the said Liberty (being within the Verge, and exempted from the City of London) according to the Queen's Proclamation. And thereupon, one john Bradford, being Constable of the same exempted place, and within the Liberty of the said Queen's Verge; caused the four Porters of the said Friars, to shut all the Gates; which being perceived by the said Sheriff and Alderman; the said Sheriff commanded the Gates to be opened; whereunto the said Constable of the Friars said, That they should not be opened, before the justice's pleasures of the Friars were known. And then the Sheriff of London said, That he was of greater authority than the justices were. The Constable affirming him so to be within the City of London, but not within the Precinct of the Liberty of the Black Friars. For the Constable said, that he had greater power & authority there than the Sheriff had. Which being heard, and scant well digested by them; fearing further inconvenience to arise thereupon (as by sudden changing of the grieved countenance was plainly declared) the said Sheriff and Alderman (with gentle language) desired the Constable to open the Gates quietly, and suffer them to pass thence. Which he did at their gentle request and entreaty: And so they departed out of the Liberty of the Black Friars, by the Porter's commandment, and gave to the Porters for opening the Gates money.  
People of Saint Martins, 
What ensued upon this business in the Black Friars.  as well Strangers as other (in the open high Street) marveling and wondering at the said Sheriffs and Alderman's enclosure within the said Friars Gates: On the morrow after, being the sixteenth day of May, 1562. one Hardford being Constable of Saint Martin's Parish within Ludgate, in the high Street there, took one Tretheru, a Hosier and Taylor, dwelling in the said Friars, and carried him to the Lord Mayor of London. Who by and by (without delay, or any further speech) commanded the said Gilbert to the Counter in London. Whereupon, the said Sir Thomas Saunders, as one of the justices of the said Liberty, went to the Earl of Arundel, Lord Steward to the Queen's most honourable Household, declaring the whole circumstance of the said Sheriff and Alderman's enterprise. And obtained a token to the Lord Maior, no further to enter the said Liberty within the Verge; until by Law, or the Privy Counsels judgement, the question moved were determined, concerning the infringing of the said ancient Liberty. All this was spoken in the presence of Peter Baugh, Lewes Rawbone, and diverse other Strangers. In witness and probatior whereof, the said Sir Thomas hath subscribed his name, with diverse other here-under written, which were present.  
23. Be it had in perpetual memory, 
A further testimony concerning one Robert Flower, Tailor and Hosier in the same precinct of Black Friars.  for a continual perfect declaration of the truth, whereunto all matters of variance and controversy should be referred and advanced; and not the sparks of troth to be hidden (as a Candle, bearing perfect light, under a Bushel) and so washed away in the flowing waters of unmindful oblivion, which (amongst all good Christian men) is at all times, and in all ages to be rejected, and not to be embraced; but rather to be buried in the bottom of the earth, never to rise again.  
In consideration whereof, by these presents, it is for an infallible truth, to be holden with all men, which shall hear or see this present writing: That Robert Flower, Taylor and Hosier, dwelling within the Precinct and liberties of the late Black Friars, near Ludgate in London; was by order and commandment of the whole Bench or Aldermen, committed into one of the Compters of London, the 20. day of May, 1502. For that the same Robert Flower refused to be bound (according to order taken) from the making of monstrous great Hosen, according to the Queen's gracious Proclamation in that behalf: Because the said Robert Flower had (amongst other persons) put in Bonds before the Honourable Warden of the Five Ports, and Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, Justices within the Liberty of the Queen's Verge. After which revealed and known to the Honourable Earl of Arundel, Lord Steward of the Queen's most Honourable Household, who caused the Knight Martial to go to the said Lord Maior, requiring the deliverance of the said prisoner. The Lord Maior (being sickly) made answer, that he knew nothing thereof; but desired him to speak with Master Recorder: who made answer, that the said imprisonment was done by the whole Bench of Aldermen, and he (as one particular person) could not deliver the prisoner, until the next Court day, which could not be till two days after, to the great charges and hindrance of the said prisoner.  
Whereupon the Lord Steward sent for Master Cholmeley, he being then Recorder of London, and commanded him to deliver the prisoner; or else he would imprison the Mayor of London, and the said Recorder, and the fattest Alderman in the City, which he could get within the Verge: And declared, that the Queen's Liberties and Franchises should not be overcome by the Lord Maior and Bench of Aldermen, so long as he was Officer: with many other words against the Citizens, which were too long to write. Adding further, that the Mayor did not meddle with Saint Martins, being within the City, and a parcel of Westminster Deanery; much less should he meddle with the said liberty of the Friars, bounded out by walls and gates from the City, being in the County of Middlesex, and not within the City. And so commanded the Recorder to send home the prisoner into the liberty presently: which was so done accordingly: Promising, that if the L. Maior could declare or show any good Title, whereby to break the Liberty, the Queen's learned Council should answer him and them therein. And then the Recorder said, he never heard before that time, that the Lord Steward did claim the precinct of the said Black Friars, to be within the liberty of the Queen's Verge: Out of which Jurisdiction the City of London is exempted by the Statute of 32. Hen. 8. Cap. 2. Under colour of which Statute, the Mayor would bring the said Friars to be in London; which in all the Friar's time was freely exempted.  
All the which matter was debated in the presence of Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight; Master Robert Hopton, one of the Knight Marshals, and Mr. Bromeley, under Steward of the Marshalsea, the day and year abovewritten.  
24. Item, 
A man slain in the liberty of the Black Friars.  That in Queen Mary's time, or King Edward's time, her Brother, there was a man slain within the said precinct of the Black Friars: and the goods of him that was supposed to do the deed, were stayed within the said Friars, and an Inventory taken by the next Justice of Peace within the Verge, Roger Cholmeley, Knight, by the commandment of Sir Thomas Cheney, Knight; and afterward one Master Garrard and the Recorder of London, came unto the said Sir Thomas Cheney's house within the same precinct, and would have made an Inventory of the goods of the party offender aforesaid, now deceased. But the said Sir Thomas Cheyney would not permit nor suffer them so to do; for that he had made stay of the same goods for the Queen before, if it were lawfully found that the said party had slain the man dead. Which afterward was otherwise found by a Quest of twelve men, sitting super visum corporis of the dead, by the Coroner of the Verge within the said Liberty: where the Mayor of London and Bench of Aldermen have not to do, nor intermit with the Inhabitants therein: Because the whole Friar's liberties, and franchises of the same, were freely given unto King Henry the eighth, by Act of Parliament: whereby the Lord Mayor of London, and Bench of Aldermen are clearly barred and secluded from the Friar's Liberties, and the inhabitants thereof franchised, and clean exempted from all the Citizens, and their impositions or other taxations.   

The true Copy of the Vicar of Bromley's Letter in Kent, sent to Master Thomas Walsingham of Scadborough in the said County, Esquire: who sent the same Letter to Sir Tho. Saunders, Knight, he being also one of the Queen's justices of the Peace in the said County; to examine the several particulars therein, concerning the liberty of the said Friars, etc.  
RIght Worshipful; you shall understand that I have received your kind Letter; according whereunto, 
The Vicar of Bromley dwelled formerly in the Black Friars.  these are to satisfy your mind; That I was dwelling in the Black Friars four or five years, and came thither from Oxford, where I had been a Student of Divinity. I was also Curate of the Parish within the Black Friars, called Saint Agnes. We had within us a Porter, who did shut all the Gates every night; at nine of the clock in the Winter, and at ten of the clock in the Summer. No Sheriff, Bailiff or Constable, nor yet the Mayor of London, took interest there at any time, nor foreign porters had to do within our Privilege: And the Friars did pave both within the Turn-gate and without, unto Saint Andrews Church, down by the great Garden wall: And without the Turne-gate there was a Cage, pulled down by my time, which was set up by the Lord Mayor of London. The inhabitants within the Friars never watched, neither the Constable of Saint Martin's Parish warned any watch there, neither came within the Gates, after the hour appointed at any time. The Sheriffs of London had no Felons goods there, neither did arrest any person within the Precinct of the house. As for Bakers and Brewers that belonged to the house, they be dead.  
There is one james Norrice, 
The same man spoken of before.  Curate, alive, who was brought up in the house, and dwelling at Saint Michaels in Cornhill, he can give you further instructions: whether there be any more living, I know not.   

The fatal VESPER, or dismal EVENSONG, happening at the Black Friars on Sunday in the afternoon, it being the 26. day of October. 1623.  
THere were upon that day, being dedicated to the service of God, assembled together in the Black Friars near the French Ambassadors house in ordinary, above three hundred persons of sundry Nations, as English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish, to hear a Sermon, & after that to celebrate Evensong, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Romish Church. Of which number it is certainly known and confidently reported, that about the number of threescore of them, had that morning both confessed themselves, and received the Sacrament, according to the order of the Romish Church. He that was to supply that exercise for the present, was Father Drury, a jesuit by profession, and by birth a Gentleman, being extracted out of the house of the Norfolcian Druries, and son unto Doctor Drury, late professor of the Civil Law, and practiser thereof in the Court of the Arches here in London. He was by those of the Romish religion reputed to be a man of great learning, as having studied many years beyond the Sea, with much approbation and allowance of his Superiors. And although he were opposite in point of faith and belief unto the Religion now professed in England, yet was he held by the generality of our Nation, both Protestants and Papists, who knew him, and could make a true estimate of his virtues and vices by the outward circumstance and appearance of his actions, to be a man of a good moralllife, and of a plausible and laudable conversation. So that in respect of these endowments, there could nothing have been desired more by us of the Reformed Church, than that he had not been a Papist, but a member of our Church, Religion, and Profession. All the day before, which was the last that ever his eyes beheld, he was observed to be wondrous sad and pensive, contrary unto his wont humour and disposition, he being a man of a free, merry and affable conversation, as though that some spirit of prediction had foretold him of that fatal disaster, which was at hand. Thus we read of Caesar, that he was possessed with a strange and unwonted sadness that morning when he entered into the Senate house, where he was stabbed to death by the Senators. And so was that Assassin Cass●● much perplexed and troubled in mind before that mortal and bloody battle of Pharsalia. By means of which affection, Father Drury finding an indisposition in himself, he would (if with his reputation he could) have made a retraction of his promise, and a demur of the intended exercise. But being pressed on by diverse of his friends, who told him that the Audience was great, and their expectation far greater, he did then again resolve to go forward with the enterprise.  
The place wherein this Congregation was assembled, was not the French Ambassadors Chapel, according as the first report went currant; for that was reserved for the use of himself and his family, to celebrate their Evensong after their own manner and custom, but it was a Chamber near unto the gate, some three stories high, being some threescore foot long, and twenty foot broad, or thereabouts. The walls were not made of Lome, composed of Laths and Rafters, and covered over with Clay and Lime, as some at first reported: but were of Brick and Stone, which are held by all Architects to be the strongest and the surest building. But howsoever, a Gentlewoman of a noble house, and of a quick and judicious spirit, who was then present, and had taken a curious view of the pressing multitude of the people, which was at length their own oppression, and of the unfitness and uncapacity of the place beside, told him, That she thought it would prove an action full of danger, if he should offer to preach in that place respectively in respect of the premises. But he being led on by a divine and fatal necessity, which blinds the judgement of the wise men of this world, he told her that he did mean as then to preach, and to go forward with the greatest expedition he could, with his intended Sermon. For the accomplishment of which design, the Father predicant being clad in those robes and ornaments which are used by those of his Order, being a jesuit, having a Surplice girt about his middle with a linen girdle, a red Cap with a white one underneath, turned up about the brims of his Cap, and his other accoutrements belonging, which the Ignatian Orders have imposed upon them: and being placed in a Chair about the midst of the room, which Chair was raised up something higher than the ordinary level of the floor: he crossing himself with the sign of the Cross, and having ended some private prayers, accommodated himself to his Text, between three and four of the clock in the afternoon of the foresaid Sunday. The words of the Text were part of the Gospel appointed for the present day, according to the order and instruction of the Church of Rome, being their fifth of November, which account is thought to be the truest by the Roman Catholics, and begins ten days before that of England. The Gospel was written in the eighteenth Chapter of St. Matthewes Gospel, and delivered unto us by the holy Spirit, in these words: Therefore is the Kingdom of Heaven likened unto a certain man that was a King, which would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him which ought him ten thousand Talents. But forasmuch as he was not able to pay, his Lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant fell down and besought him, saying: Sir, have patience with me and I will pay thee all. Then had the Lord pity of that servant, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. So the same servant went out, and found one of his fellows which ought him an hundred pence: And he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying: Pay that thou owest. And his fellow fell down and besought him, saying: Have patience with me and I will pay thee all. And he would not, but he went out and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. So when his fellows went and saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told their Master all that happened. Then his Lord called him and said unto him: O thou ungracious servant, I forgave thee all that debt thou desiredst me, shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee, & c?  
The words which he insisted especially upon, were these: 
* Note that this Text was divided into three parts; whereof the first part treated of God's mercy, the second of man's ingratitude, the third of the Remedies which man might use for the procuring of God's mercy, and cure himself from this contagicus disease of his ingratitude. Which first part only in part he handled.  O thou ungracious servant, I forgave thee all the debt thou oughtest me, shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee? Upon which subject discoursing with much vehemency, and implying out of it the infinite mercy and goodness of God, whereby he doth not only give us all that we have, but forgives us all our trespasses and offences, be they never so deeply stained with the scarlet die and tincture of our guiltiness: which merciful act of God is parabolized unto us by a certain man that was a King, who took account of his servants, and after much entreaty and submission, forgave one ten thousand Talents, which he ought him. And also dilating by way of blame and reprehension of the ungrateful and unrelenting heart of man, who doth not forgive trespasses as God doth forgive him; but out of his swelling and malignant humour, writes benefits in the sand, and injuries in marble, which uncharitableness of theirs is intimated in the Parable by the ungracious servant, who would not forgive his fellow a small debt, although his Master had forgiven him one of a far greater value. Moreover, upon the application of these words, he did inveigh with much bitterness, as some give out (but I know not how truly) against the manners and doctrine of the Protestants.  
But having proceeded thus far, lo what a sudden and unexpected accident fell out. The Sermon inclining towards the midst, and the day declining towards an end, it being almost four of the clock in the afternoon, the multitude and crowd of the assembly breaking down with their over-bearing weight the beams and side-timbers wherewith this room was supported, they fell down into the next Chamber, the floor whereof being broken down also with the descending weight of them and the ruins, they fell at last upon the lowest Chamber of the edifice, where some of them perished, some were hurted and maimed, othersome were free from all hurt and danger except of that which the present fright and terror did impose upon them, and those were they especially who fell not at all, but remained in one angle or corner of the Chamber, which was free from falling. Which persons being thought to be between twenty and thirty in number, as I heard by one, who was one of them, perplexed and frighted thus as they were, by consideration of that most fearful danger, whereinto they had seen their fellows and brethren to fall, who did lift up their hands for help, and beaten their breasts for life, whereof they then were spectators; and being doubtful that they should be Actors with them presently in that Scene of their calamity; the place being weak, tottering and unassured, for this cause fear and necessity giving motion and strength unto their arms, they opened with their Knives a Loam wall, which parted that room and a Chamber belonging to the Ambassador's Lodging. By which means, after much difficulty and labour, they got their passage, and live as yet to glorify God for their deliverance.  
Presently upon the report of the fall and cry, diverse persons of all sorts resorted unto the place, some out of charity, to help those that were thus distressed; for which cause they brought Spades, Pickaxes, and other instruments fit for that purpose; others out of mere curiosity came thither, to see this wonderful event, and this object so full of admiration. Where, after the guards were set upon all the Advenues and passages leading into the Black Friars, and from thence into the Ambassador's house, by the direction and command of Sergeant Finch, Recorder of the City, who was exceeding careful that my Lord Ambassador and his servants should not suffer any detriment in their goods or persons, being jealous in this point of the Kings, his own, and the City's honour: and matters being thus disposed for the safety and assurance of the strangers, after they had broken down a wall, and opened some doors, they fell to work upon the ruins itself, with all possible diligence and dexterity: where at the opening of every board, plank, and piece of Timber, there were objects which presented themselves full of horror and confusion.  
Here you might have seen a man shaking of his legs, and striving for life: There you might have seen another, putting forth his bloody hands, and crying for help: Here you might have seen one like some spectre, thrusting out his head out of the grave: There you might have seen his fellow half dead and half living, entombed in that grave which he was not long to keep. Here you might have seen the living thus pressed, as they were mourning for the dead; and there the dead senseless, as they were embracing of the living. So that since the Sicilian Vespers, there was never an Evensong more dolorous unto the French, nor more lamentable unto the Scots and English. The Count of Tillier, who was Ambassador here in ordinary for the most Christian King, which place he hath executed with great dignity and authority for many years together, to the general liking and applause of both Nations, although he was fortunate in this, that not one of his retinue perished, was much aggrieved with this unlucky accident, with whom the Spanish Delegates did condole, as by mutual reference feeling that grief, which fellow-feeling had made their own.  
Moreover, it was reported by one who had good intelligence in Elie house, that Don Carlos Colom's Steward should say, that his Master would not for a million of gold, this accident should have fall'n out in his or Exeter house. A report like enough to be believed of those, who know how strangely zealous this Nation is in their Religion, and how jealous they are beside of their own, their Kings, and of their Country's honour.  
Neither were the sorrows meaner amongst the naturals of this Kingdom, and the inhabitants of the City of London. So that here some men lost their wives, women their husbands, parents their children, children their parents, masters their servants, and one friend lamented the loss of another. So that Rachel was weeping for her children because they were not. job was lamenting for his sons and daughters, because they were slain together by the downfall of an house, whilst they were eating of their last banquet. Insomuch that the streets did echo with their dolorous moans, the walls and houses did resound with their cries and lamentations. The subsequent night was so full of horror unto many, that it may be truly said of it, as was said of another dismal night in the like kind: 
Quis cladem illius noct is,  
quis funera fando  
Explicit? aut potis est  
lachrymis aequare dolorem?   
When the bodies were drawn forth of those heaps of earth and timber, which task of charity they were accomplishing all that night, and part of the next day following, they were found to be 95. persons, or thereabout, of diverse conditions, besides those who were bruised, maimed or wounded. Amongst whom were diverse persons of worth and quality: as Father Drury, who was the Preacher; Father Redyate, in whose lodging this calamity befell; the Lady Web, descended of the Family of the Treshams, and sister unto my La. Morley, & my La. Sturton, and many more beside of that weaker sex, who then and there were assembled at their accustomed devotions. Yet were there many who were in that unfortunate downfall, which escaped the danger strangely and wonderfully. Amongst whom was Mistress Lucy Penruddocke, extracted from a worthy and Noble Family, who fell between the Lady Webbe and her own maid-servant, both of which perished, yet she was preserved alive, by means of a Chair which fell hollow upon her, and sheltered her from further danger. So was young Mistress Webbe, daughter to my Lady Webbe, who fell near unto her mother, and Elinor Sanders, who was covered, with many others, whose lives were saved within the heaps of these blood-guilty ruins.  
There was also a Minister, whose name I cannot learn, and therefore although he survives this misfortune, it must be buried as yet in silence, who being present at the Sermon, as being invited by some Romish Catholic to that exercise; who also gave him the conduct unto the place; he fell with the rest of the multitude assembled there together; and being covered with the rubbish, boards, and other timbers, which fell upon him from the higher rooms, and pressed with the weight of diverse persons beside, whereof some were dead, and some were living: being in this agony, which his present pain, and the fear of death, in his own judgement even hanging over his head, did impose (and that not without just cause) upon him; being (I say) thus distressed, and striving under those heaps & ruins for life, the hope whereof, in respect of the premised impediments, had almost forsaken him; one of the French Ambassadors Gentlemen, hearing the noise and report of this great and dismal fall, suddenly (as he could) opened a door, which gave entrance into that chamber, upon the floor whereof, the heaps and ruins, together with the oppressed multitude, as then lay. Who perceiving light by the door then opened, the place before being covered over with darkness, he strove with all the strength and agilicy he could, which in him was not mean, he being a man of a very strong and able body, and at last, after the loss of his cloak and renting of his clothes, he recovered himself, without any further hurt. Which the Gentleman perceiving, came and demanded of him, whether or no he were hurt, or that he stood in need of any thing that might do him service, or procure him comfort. But he being almost exanimated and astonished, could not at first apprehend those courteous proffers which were tendered unto him by this stranger, who presently went and brought him into a Chamber; where after he had sat a while, and refreshed himself with wine, which was brought unto him; and having thus recovered his strength and spirits, he returned to the foresaid place again, and used his best endeavours for the relieving of others from that calamity, whereof but even now he was a fellow-sufferer. His man who attended on him, was recovered amongst the rest, he being something bruised and hurt in the arm.  
Moreover, there was a young girl, about the age of ten years, as is supposed, (when this Minister, out of his charitable and commiserating disposition, was labouring for the safety and preservation of them, whose necessities did then require it) came crying unto him, and said, O my Mother, O my Sister, which are down under the timber and rubbish. But he wished her to be patient for a time, and by God's grace they should get forth quickly. Upon which speech the child replied presently, that howsoever this accident would prove a great scandal to their Religion. A speech which is worth admiration in all men, as this Relator did truly admire it, that a child of so tender years, wherein amongst the most towardliest, there is scarce ability to discern between good and evil, should next unto that grief, which the danger of her mother and sister did inflict upon her, lament for nothing more than for the scandal which their cause was like to suffer by the disaster.  
It was reported also that many more were drawn out alive the next morning: but I will not stand too much upon the justification of this report, lest I should seem to be too credulous of those things, which are contrary to the rules of reason and nature.  
The day following, which was Monday, and the Eve of Simon and jude, there was great care had for viewing the place, and for burial of the dead. For this cause the Recorder and Sheriffs, about one of the clock in the afternoon, met at the French Ambassadors house, having first shut up Ludgate, to prevent the throng and resort of the people, which was exceeding great and turbulent in those places: and then having doubled their guards upon every Port and passage, and given express charge unto the warders, upon pain of their displeasure and punishment, that no man should enter in without theirs, or the Coroners Warrant, they fell at length to consult about the business, and after mature consideration, concluded, that this doleful accident fell out, not by any indirect practice or conspiracy (as was by some maliciously reported) but that those fourscore and odd persons fell by means of their own weight, and the weakness of those timbers which did support the Chamber.  
The jury having thus brought in their verdict, they disposed presently for the burial of the dead, some of whom were carried by their friends unto Churches, far remote, there to receive their due obsequies; others were buried in the same place, & those were of the meanest rank, whereof some twenty, or thereabout, were laid in one Sepulchre, having a common grave, as they had a common death and downfall. The conjectures concerning this event were diverse: For some gave out, that it was the just punishment and vengeance of God inflicted upon them for their Idolatry. Moreover, there were diverse doubting spirits amongst the Roman Catholics, who thought that this was some conspiracy of the Protestants. But if the building had been demolished and overthrown by their indirect & treacherous means, it must have been done either by blowing it up with Gunpowder, by sapping away the earth from the foundation, by undermining it, or by cutting off, or taking away those supporters and pillars, upon whom the frame and machine of the building was grounded. All which were found to be false, upon most diligent search and inquiry made in that behalf. But that which carried apparent appearance of truth, and that which the Protestants and Papists did allow, who were of the more milder, temperate, and sounder judgement, was thus: That this disaster happened not by means of any divine miracle, or humane malice; but by the defect and weakness of the place, into which such a multitude were crowded and assembled together, the judgement of God concurring therewithal.  
The Society of the Jesuits did suffer much, in losing the persons of Father Drury and Father Redyate. And diverse persons of both Religions, but especially the Priests, who are men of as great care and vigilancy, but of a far greater moderation, did tax and blame them, for that they brought their flock into a place of no greater safety or assurance; and beside, because their conventicle and meeting was so public, there being diverse Protestants assembled at it, some of whom were reported to have a share in this calamity, and the times as yet not serving for such assemblies, the Kings pardon being not yet published, which was granted, as they say to all the Roman Catholics of these Kingdoms. But whatsoever thou be, Protestant or Papist, that doth see this mournful object, judge not, lest thou be judged. Neither think thou, that those 18. men, upon whom the Tower of Silom fell, or those persons whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifice, were more grievous sinners than all the rest of the children of Israel; or that these who perished thus together, were more notorious offenders than all the rest of their brethren and Religion: for assure thy self, that except thou repent, thou also shalt perish. And this repentance of thine must not be propter scandalum mundi, for the scandal and offence of the world, for so did Saul repent, when out of a foolish and State-spoiling pity, he had spared Agag the cursed Tyrant of Amalecke; and but of a fair yet foul pretence, had spared the fairest of the cattle for sacrifice: for being rebuked by the Prophet Samuel, he doth repent, and desires him to honour him in the sight of the Elders, and to turn unto him, and he would turn unto the Lord his God. Neither must it be propter poenam peccati, for their punishment, that is due unto sin; for so did Ahab repent, when he was reproved by Elias for killing of Naboth, and detaining of his Vineyard, he rend his clothes, and girded himself in sackcloth, as the Text hath it: But after that the fright and terror of Gods must terrible sentence was worn out of his mind, and the custom of sin began to prevail again, he sold himself to commit such abominations, the like whereof were never committed in Israel. But our repentance must be propter reatum peccati, for the guilt of sin, as sin is a breach of the Law, and a transgression of God's Commandment. Quae sic dolet commissa, ut non doleat committenda: Which repentance doth grieve for sins committed, as though it meant to commit no more; and mourn for offences past, as though it did mean to pass over no more.  
We must take Repentance as job did, in dust and ashes. Being dust, we must take it in dust; and being ashes, we must take it in ashes. Our transgressions in this Kingdom and in this City have been most grievous, therefore our contrition should be eminent and exemplar. Our pride hath made us, with Lucifer, to superbire & superire, to look over ourselves, not into ourselves, and to esteem ourselves like unto God, when we are scarce men.  
Neither is this pride simplex peccatum, a single and simple sin, but it draws after it excess and riot, as it were, with a cart-rope: unto which luxury of ours, neither Persian nor Roman were equal. After which follow fornications and adulteries, which are so frequent in this place, that in vain may we speak of the Bordellas' of Rome, or the Stews of Venice, since the Suburbs of this sinful City, are as bad as the Suburraes of Rome or Venice.  
Moreover, our drunkenness is such, that although our eyes look red, and our hearts are as fat as brawn with drinking of Wine, yet, we rise up early to drink strong drink: which when it hath inflamed our blood and spirits, we are ready, with Lot, to fall into all pollution and uncleanness.  
And last of all, we are so uncharitable, so stonyhearted and close-fisted, that we may be fitly compared unto lumps of clay, tempered with blood, although we are statues of flint, without the blood or life of charity.  
For this cause, repent, o England, repent, o London; repent Protestants, repent Papists, for your transgressions and offences: repent, repent; for by these wonderful signs and tokens, it doth appear most clearly, that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.   

A Note of such persons as were slain, by the fall of the Room wherein they were, in the Black Friars, at Father Druries' Sermon, Octob. the 26. 1623.  
MAster Drury the Priest.  
Mr. Redyate the Priest.  
Lady Webbe.  
Lady Blackstones Daughter.  
Thomas Webbe, her man.  
William Robinson, Taylor.  
Robert Smith, Master Hicks man the Apothecary.  
Mr. Davisons Daughter.  
Anthony Hall his man.  

Anne Hobdin,  
Mary Hobdin, 

lodging in Mr. Davisons' house.     
john Galloway, Vintner.  

Mr. Peirson,  
his wife,  
two sons 

In Robin-hood Court in Shoo-lane.     
Mistress Vudall.  
Abigal her maid.  
Two more in her house.  
john Netlan, a Tailor.  
Nathaniel Coals.  
john Halifaxe.  
Mistress Rugbie in Holborn.  
john Worrals son in Holborn.  
Master Becket, a Cornish man.  
Thomas Mersit, his wife and his son and maid, in Montague Close.  
Mistress Summel, and Mary her Maid, in Black Friars.  
Andrew white daughter in Holborn.  
Mr. Staker, Taylor in Salisbury court.  
Elizab. Summer, in Gray's Inn lane.  
Mr. Westwood.  
judeth Bellowss.  
A man of Sir Lues Pembertons.  
Elizabeth Moor, widow.  
john james.  
Morris Beucresse, Apothecary.  
Davie Vaughan.  
Anne Field.  
Mr. Ployden.  
Robert Heifime.  
One Medalfe.  
Mr. Maufield.  
Mr. Simons.  
Dorothy Simons.  
Thomas Simons, a Boy.  
Robert Paverkes.  
Anne Davison.  
Anthony Hall.  
Mistress Morton and her Maid.  
Francis Downes.  
Edmond Shey.  
I●sua Perry.  
john tully.  
Robert Drury.  
Thomas Draper.  
john Staiggs.  
Thomas Elis.  
Michael Butler in Woodstreet.  
Edmund Rivals.  
Edmund Welsh.  
Bartholomew Bavin.  
Davie, an Irishman.  
Richard Price.  
Thomas Wood  
Christopher Hobbs.  
Elizabeth Astime.  
john Butler.  
Clarentia, a Maid.  
jane Turner.  
Mistress Milbourne.  
Frithwith Anne.  
Mistress Elton.  
Mistress Walsteed.  
Margaret Barrom.  
Henry Becket.  
Sarah Watsonne.  
john Bethoms.  
Master Harris.  
Mistress Tompson.  
Richard Fitguift.  
George Ceaustour.  
Master Grimes.  

One Barbaret,  
One Hucble,  
Walter Ward,  
Rigaret. 

enquired for.     
john Brabant, a Painter in Little Britain.  
A manservant of Master Buckets, a Painter in Aldersgate street.  
Now to turn again to the Black Friars, through Bowyer Row, Ave Mary lane, and Pater noster Row, to the Church of Saint Michael ad Bladum, or at the Corn, (corruptly, at the Querne) so called, because in place thereof, was sometime a Corne-Market, 
Corne-market by Pater noster Row.  stretching up West to the Shambles. It seemeth that this Church was new builded, about the reign of Edward the third. 
Parish Church of S. Michael ad bladum.  Thomas Newton, first Parson there, was buried in the Choir, in the year 1461. At the East end of this Church stood a Cross, 
Old cross in Westcheape.  called the Old Cross in West Cheap, which was taken down in the year 1390. since the which time, the said Parish Church was also taken down; but new builded and enlarged, in the year 1430. the eighth of Henry the 6. William Eastfield, Maior, and the Communality, granted of the common ground of the City, three foot and an half in breadth on the North part, and four foot in breadth toward the East, for the enlarging thereof. This is now a proper Church, and hath the Monuments of Thomas Newton, first Parson.  
Roger Woodcock, Harter, 1475.  
Thomas Russell, Brewer, 1473.  
john Hulton, Stationer, 1475.  
john Oxney. Roger North, 
Roger North▪  Merchant, Haberdasher, 1509.  
john Leyland, the famous Antiquary.  
Henry Prannell, Vintner, one of the Sheriffs, 1558.  
Wil Elkin, one of the Sheriffs, 1586.  
Thomas Banks, Barber-chirurgeon, 1598.  
Here lieth buried the body of Henry Prannell, 
A comely Monument in the South side of the Chancel.  late Citizen and Alderman of London, and free of the Vintners, who deceased the 22. day of October, Ann. Dom. 1589. Anno aetatis suae, 58. He had to wife Anne, the daughter of Edmond Baxtar, and had issue by her, three sons and one daughter.  
Here lieth the body of William Elkin, 
Another like Monument in the same wall.  Mercer, late Citizen and Alderman of London, who deceased the last day of October, 1593. Anno aetatis suae, 70. who took to wife Alice Robinson, the Daughter of Thomas Wilkes, by whom he had issue one daughter, named Ursula.  
Thomas Banks, 
A smaller Monument in the same wall.  Barber Chirurgeon, Deputy of this Ward, who had to wife Joan Laurence, by whom he had issue seven sons and ten daughters.  
john Mundham had a Chantry there in the fourth of Edward the second.  
At the East end of this Church, in place of the old Cross, 
Water-Conduit by Paul's gate.  is now a water-Conduit placed; William Eastfield, Maior, the ninth of Henry the sixth, at the request of diverse Common-Councels, granted it to be: whereupon, in the 19 of the same Henry, 1000 Marks was granted by a Common Council, towards the works of this Conduit, and the reparations of other: this is called the Little Conduit in West Cheap, by Paul's gate.  
At the West end of this Parish Church, 
Passage thorough S. Michael's Church.  is a small passage for people on foot thorough the same Church, and West from the said Church, some distance, is another passage out of Pater noster row, and is called (of such a sign) Pannier Alley, 
Pannier Alley.  which cometh out into the North, over against Saint Martins Lane.  
Next is Ivy Lane, 
Ivy lane.  so called of Ivy growing on the walls of the Prebends houses, but now the Lane is replenished on both the sides with fair houses, and diverse Offices have been there kept, by Registers, namely, for the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canturbury, the Probate of Wills, which is now removed into Warwick lane, and also for the Lord Treasurer's Remembrance of the Exchequer, etc.  
This Lane runneth North, to the West end of Saint Nicholas Shambles. Of old time there was one great house, sometimes belonging to the Earls of Britain, since that, to the Lovels, and was called Lovels Inn: 
Lovels Inn.  for Matild, wife to john Lovel, held it in the first of Henry the sixth.  
Then is Eldenese Lane, 
Eldenese or Warwick Lane.  which stretcheth North to the high street of Newgate Market, the same is now called Warwick lane, of an ancient house there builded by an Earl of Warwick, and was since called Warwick Inn. 
Warwick Inn.  It is in Record called a Message in Eldenese Lane, in the Parish of S. Sepulchre, the 28. of Henry the sixth. Cicilie, Duchess of Warwick, possessed it.  
Now again, from the Conduit by Paul's gate, on the North side is a large street, running West to Newgate, the first part whereof, from the Conduit to the Shambles, (of selling Bladders there) called Bladder street. 
Bladder street.  Then behind the Butcher's shops be now diverse slaughter-houses inward, and Tiplinghouses outward. 
Mountgoddard street.  This is called Mountgoddard street, of the Tippling-houses there, and the Goddards mounting from the Tap to the Table, from the Table to the mouth, and sometimes over the head.  
This street goeth up to the North end of Ivy lane. Before this Mountgoddard street, Stall-Boords were of old time set up by the Butchers, to show and to sell their Flesh meat upon; over the which Stall-Boords, they first builded sheds, to keep off the weather: but since that (encroaching by little and little) they have made their Stall-boords and Sheds, fair houses, meet for the principal Shambles.  
Next is Newgate market, 
Newgate Market.  first of Corn and Meal, and then of other Victuals, which stretcheth almost to Eldenese lane. A fair new and strong Frame of Timber, covered with Lead, was therefore set up at the charges of the City, near to the West corner of S. Nicholas Shambles, for the Meal to be weighed, in the first of Edward the sixth; Sir john Gresham being then Mayor.  
On this side the north corner of Eldenese lane, stood sometime a proper Parish Church of S. Ewine, 
Parish Church of S. Ewine.  as is before said, given by Henry the eighth towards the erecting of Christ's Church: It was taken down, and in place thereof, a fair strong frame of Timber erected, wherein dwell men of diverse Trades. And from this frame, to Newgate, is all of this Ward: and so an end thereof.  
It hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsel, twelve; Constables, seventeen; Scavengers, eighteen; Wardmote Inquest, eighteen, and a Beadle: and is taxed to the Fifteen, fifty pounds.    

BREADSTREET WARD.  
BReadstreet ward beginneth in the high street of West Cheap, 
Breadstreet Ward.  to wit, on the South side, from the Standard to the great Cross. Then is also a part of Watheling street of this Ward, to wit, from over against the Red Lion, on the North side, up almost to Paul's gate; for it lacketh but one house of Saint Augustine's Church. And on the South side, from the Red Lion Gate to the Old Exchange; and down the same Exchange, on the East side, by the West end of Maiden Lane, or Distar lane, to Knightriders street, or, as they call that part thereof, Old Fish-street. And all the North side of the said Old Fish-street, to the South end of Breadstreet, and by that, still in Knightriders street, till over against the Trinity Church, and Trinity Lane.  
Then is Breadstreet itself, 
Breadstreet.  so called, of Bread in old time there sold: for it appeareth by Records, that in the year 1302. which was the 30. of Edward the first, the Bakers of London were bounden to sell no bread in their shops or houses, but in the Market; and that they should have four Hallmotes in the year, at four several terms, to determine of enormities belonging to the said Company.  
This street, giving the name to the whole Ward, beginneth in West Cheap, almost by the Standard, and runneth down South, through or thwart Watheling street, to Knightriders street aforesaid, where it endeth. This Breadstreet is wholly on both sides of this Ward. Out of the which street, on the East side, is Basin lane, a piece whereof, to wit, to and over against the back gate of the Red Lion in Watheling street, is of this Breadstreet Ward.  
Then is Friday street, 
Friday street.  beginning also in West Cheap, and runneth down South through Watheling street, to Knight Rider's street, or Old Fish-street. This Friday street is of Breadstreet Ward, on the East side, from over against the North-east corner of Saint Matthewes Church, and on the West side, from the South corner of the said Church, down as aforesaid.  
In this Friday street, on the West side thereof, is a Lane, commonly called Maiden Lane, or Distaff Lane, corruptly for Distar Lane, which runneth West into the Old Exchange: and in this Lane is also one other lane, on the South side thereof, likewise called Distar Lane, which runneth down to Knightriders street, or Old Fishe-street: And so be the bounds of this whole Ward.  
Monuments to be noted here: first at Breadstreet corner, the North-east end 1595. of Thomas Tomlinson, causing in the high street of Cheap a Vault to be digged and made, there was found at fifteen foot deep, 
A fair paved way found, 15. foot deep, in Cheap street.  a fair pavement, like unto that above ground; and at the further end, at the Channel, was found a Tree, sawed into five steps, which was to step over some Brook, running out of the West, towards Walbrooke: and upon the edge of the said Brook, as it seemeth, there were found lying along, the bodies of two great Trees, the ends whereof were then sawed off, and firm Timber, as at the first when they fell; part of the said Trees remain yet in the ground undigged. It was all forced ground, until they went past the Trees aforesaid, which was about seventeen foot deep, or better; thus much hath the ground of this City (in that place) been raised from the main.  
Next to be noted, the most beautiful Frame of fair houses and shops, 
Goldsmith's Row in Cheap.  that be within the Walls of London, or elsewhere in England, commonly called Goldsmith's Row, betwixt Breadstreete end and the Cross in Cheap, but is within this Breadstreete Ward; the same was builded by Thomas Wood, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs of London, in the year 1491. It containeth in number ten fair dwelling houses, and fourteen shops, all in one Frame, uniformly builded four stories high, beautified towards the street with the Goldsmith's Arms, and the likeness of Woodmen, in memory of his name, riding on monstrous Beasts; all which is cast in Lead, richly painted over, and gilt: these he gave to the Goldsmiths, with stocks of money to be lent to young men, having those shops, etc. This said Front was again new painted and gilded over in the year 1594. Sir Richard Martin being then Mayor, and keeping his Mayoralty in one of them; serving out the time of Cuthbert Buckle, from the second of july, till the 28. of October.  
Then for Watheling street, 
Watheling street.  which Leyland calleth Atheling or Noble street: but since he showeth no reason why, I rather take it to be so named, of the great highway of the same calling. True it is, that at this present the inhabitants thereof are wealth Drapers, retailers of Woollen Clothes, both Broad and Narrow, of all sorts, more than in any one street of this City.  
Of the Old Exchange, 
Knightriders street.  I have noted in Faringdon Ward: Wherhfore I pass down to Knightriders street, whereof I have also spoken in Cordwainer street Ward. But in this part of the said Knightriders street, is a Fishmarket kept, and therefore called Old Fish-street, for a difference from New Fish-street.  
In this Old Fish-street is one Row of small houses, 
Fishmarket, called Old Fish-street.  placed along in the midst of Knightriders street, which Row is also of Breadstreet Ward. These houses, now possessed by Fishmongers, were at the first but movable Boards (or Stalls) set out on Market days, to show their Fish, there to be sold: but procuring licence to set up Sheds, they grew to Shops, and by little and little, to tall Houses, of three or four stories in height, and now is called Fish-street. Walcer Turk, Fishmonger, Mayor, 1349. had two Shops in Old Fish-street, overagainst Saint Nicholas Church, the one rent five shillings the year, the other four shillings.  
Breadstreet, 
Breadstreet.  so called of Bread sold there (as I said) is now wholly inhabited by rich Merchants, and diverse fair Inns be there, for good receipt of Carriers, and other Travellers to the City.  
On the East side of this street, 
Parish Church of All-hallows in Breadstreet.  at the corner of Watheling street, is the proper Church of All-hallows in Breadstreete, wherein are the Monuments of james Thame, Goldsmith.  
john Walpole, Goldsmith, 1349.  
Thomas Beaumond, Alderman, one of the Sheriffs, 1442.  
Robert Basset, Salter, Maior, 1476.  
Sir Richard Chaury, Salter, Maior, 1509.  
Sir Thomas Pargitar, Salter, Maior, 1530.  
Henry Sucley, Merchant-Taylor, one of the Sheriffs, 1541.  
Richard Read, Alderman, that served and was taken prisoner in Scotland, 1542.  
Robert House, one of the Sheriffs, 1589.  
William Albany, Richard May, and Roger Abdy, Merchant-Taylors.  
Hic jacent Thomas Beaumond, 
An ancient grey Marble tomb, as in a Chapel by itself.  Civis, Salter, & quondam Vicecomes Civitatis London, Alicia, & Alicia uxores ejus. Qui quidem Thomus obiit 14. die mensis Augusti, Anno Domini, 1457. Quorum animabus propetietur Deus. Es testis christ, etc.  
Corporis ut Christi  
festum possit venerari,  
Hic magis instituit  
Salter iter Beaumond.  
Cui Deus uxoribus  
binis Coeleste solamen,  
Detque suis pueris: 
All these have fair plate● 〈…〉 other.   
Sat benedictus. Amen.  
Here lieth buried the body of William Albany, Esquire, Citizen, and Merchant-Taylor of London, with his two wives, Thomasine, by whom he had issue five sons, and four daughters, who deceased the 15. of December, 1565. And joan, who died without issue, the 7. of july, 1579. And the said William yielded his soul to the Almighty the 18. day of February, 1589. being of the age of 82. years: so rest they all here in the assured hope of a blessed resurrection.  

Respice & prospice finem.  
Here lieth Henry Suckley, late Sheriff, Citizen, and Merchant-Taylor of London, which Henry deceased the one and twentieth day of july, Anno Domini, 1564. And his four wives, Anne Boughton, Elizabeth English, Alice Fletcher, and Agnes Cachemaide, etc.  
Here lieth Robert Mellishe, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, which deceased the thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini 1562. etc.  
Robert Hulson lieth here, 
A white stone by itself, near to the Tomb.   
In his time well known to all;  
He lived well, and died so,  
When God from hence did him call.  
In the three and twentieth of Henry the eighth, the seventeenth of August, two Priests of this Church fell at variance, that the one drew blood of the other: Wherefore the same Church was suspended, 
Church suspended.  and no Service sung or said therein for the space of one month after; the Priests were committed to prison, and the fifteenth of October, being enjoined penance, went before a general Procession, bareheaded, barefooted, and barelegged, before the Children, with Beads and Books in their hands, from Paul's, through Cheap, Cornhill, etc.  
More to be noted of this Church, 
Spire of A●hallowes, steeple smitten by Tempest.  which had sometime a fair spired Steeple of stone. In the year 1559. the fifth of September, about midday, fell a great Tempest of Lightning, with a terrible clap of Thunder, which struck the said spire about 9 or 10. foot beneath the top; out of the which place fell a stone, that slew a Dog, and overthrew a man that was playing with the Dog. The same Spire, being but little damnified thereby, was shortly after taken down, for sparing the charges of reparation.  
On the same side is Salter's Hall, 
Salter's Hall.  with six Almshouses in number, builded for poor decayed Brethren of that Company. This Hall was burned in the year 1539. and again re-edified.  
Lower down, 
Parish Church of S. Mildred in Breadstreet.  on the same side, is the Parish Church of St. Mildred the Virgin.  
The Monuments in this Church be, of the Lord triumphant, of Saint Alban, Knight, who was supposed to be either the new builder of this Church, or best Benefactor to the Works thereof, about the year 1300. and certain Cornish Gentlemen, 1312.  
William Palmer, Blader, a great Benefactor also, 1356.  
john Chadworth, Maior, 1401. who gave the Parsonage house, a Revestry, and Churchyard to that Parish, in the year 1428. notwithstanding, his Monument is pulled down.  
Stephen Budge, Gentleman; his Arms be three Water-Budges, 1419.  
Henry Budge founded a Chantry there, 1419.  
Roger Ford, Vintner, 1440.  
Thomas Barnwell, Fishmonger, one of the Sheriffs, 1424.  
Sir john Hawlen, Clarke, Parson of that Church, 
Parson of S. Mildred & his man burned.  who built the Parsonage house newly, after the same had been burned to the ground, together with the Parson and his man also, burned in that fire, 1485.  
john Parnell, 1510.  
William Hurstwaight, Pewterer to the King, 1526.  
Christopher Turner, Chirurgeon to King Henry the eighth, 1530.  
Ralph Simonds, Fishmonger, one of the Sheriffs, in the year 1527.  
Thomas Langham gave to the Poor of that Parish 4. Tenements, 1575.  
Thomas Hall, Salter, 1582.  
Thomas Collins, Salter, Alderman.  
Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Salter, Maior, 1575. was buried in sir john Chadworths' Vault.  
An Obite consecrated to the happy Memorial of Sir JOHN CHADWORTH, 
A very ancient Tomb in the North side of the Chancel.  or SHADWORTH, Knight, sometime Mercer, and Lord Mayor of this City of London; who gave a Vestry to this Church, an house for the Pastor to dwell in, and a Churchyard to the Parishioners, wherein to bury their dead. He deceased the 7. day of May, An. Dom. 1401.  
Here lieth a man, 
A fair inscription on the wall.  that  
Faith and Works did even  
(Like fiery Chariots)  
mount him up to Heaven:  
He did adorn this Church.  
When words were weak,  
And men forget, the  
living Stones will speak,  
He left us Land: This  
little Earth him keeps,  
These black words Mourners,  
and the Marble weeps.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Copynger, 
A plated stone before the Communion table▪  the which deceased the 14. day of November, in the year of our Lord God, 1513. On whose soul, etc.  
Here lieth buried Thomas Clivelod, 
The like stone by the other.  of Warmoster, in the County of Wiltshire, Clothier; who deceased the 24. day of june, An. Dom. 1558.  
Here lieth Sir Cuthbert Barn, 
One fair stone plated, for both these, by the Communion table.  Knight, who deceased the 16. day of October, in the year of our Lord God, 1521. On whose, etc.  
Here lieth Roger Ford, Vintner of London, with joan and Margaret his wives. The which Joan deceased the eighth day of August, Anno Domini, 1467. And Margaret deceased the eleventh day of june, Anno Domini. 1492. And the foresaid Roger deceased, etc.  
Here lie buried the bodies of john Ireland, 
A fair plated stone in the South Quire.  Citizen and Salter of London, and Elizabeth his wife, who were married together about nine and forty or fifty years: And he had issue by her six sons and six daughters, and he lived in this Parish sixty years. He was Deputy of this Ward fifteen years, and was the first Master of the Company of Salters. She deceased the second day of April, 1613. being of the age of seventy and five years. And he deceased the five and twentieth day of june, being aged 83. years.  
So rest they both here in the bed of death, in hope of a joyful resurrection.  
Respice & prospice finem.  
Out of this Breadstreet, 
Basin lane called the Bakehouse.  on the same side, is Basin lane, a part whereof (as is afore showed) is of this Ward, but how it took the name of Basin I have not read. In the twentieth year of Richard the second, the same was called the Bakehouse, whether meant for the King's Bakehouse, or of Bakers dwelling there, and baking Bread to serve the Market in Breadstreet, where the Bread was sold, I know not: but sure I am, I have not read of Basin, or of Gerrard the Giant, to have any thing there to do.  
On the South side of this Lane is one great house, of old time builded upon arched Vaults, and with arched Gates of stone brought from Cane in Normandy. The same is now a common Ostrey for receipt of Travellers, commonly and corruptly called Gerard's Hall, of a Giant said to have dwelled there. In the high roofed Hall of this house sometime stood a large Firre-Pole, 
A Pole of 40. foot long and 15. inches about, ●abuled to be the just staff of Gerard a Giant.  which reached to the roof thereof, and was said to be one of the staves that Gerard the Giant used in the wars to run withal. There stood also a Ladder of the same length, which (as they said) served to ascend to the top of the staff. Of later years this Hall is altered in building, and diverse rooms are made in it. Notwithstanding, the Pole is removed to one corner of the Hall, and the Ladder hanged broken, upon a wall in the yard. The Hosteler of that house said to me, the Pole lacked half a foot of forty in length. I measured the compass thereof, and found it fifteen inches. Reason of the Pole could the Master of the Hostery give me none, but ●ade me read the great Chronicles; for there he heard of it. Which answer seemed to me insufficient: for he meant the description of Britain, for the most part drawn out of john Leyland his Commentaries, (borrowed of myself) and placed before Rein Wolves Chronicle, as the labours of another (who was forced to confess, that he never traveled further than from London to the University of Oxford) he writing a Chapter of Giants or monstrous men, hath set down more matter than troth, as partly (against my will) I am enforced here to touch. R. G. in his brief Collection of Histories (as he termeth it) hath these words:  
I the writer hereof, did see the tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1504 and had the same in my hand, the tooth of a man, which weighed ten ounces of Troy weight: and the scull of the same man is extant and to be seen, which will hold five pecks of wheat; and the shinbone of the same man, is six foot in length, and of a marvellous greatness: this saw R. G.  
The error thereof is thus: 
R. G. saw a stone, and said the same to be a tooth, but being by myself proved a stone, there failed both scull and shank-bone, and followed a cluster of lies together, yet since increased by other.  he affirmeth a stone to be the tooth of a man, which stone (so proved) having no shape of a tooth, had neither scull nor shinbone. Notwithstanding, it is added in the said description, that by conjectural symmetry of those parts, the body to be twenty and eight foot long or more. From this he goeth to another like matter, of a man with a mouth sixteen foot wide, and so to Gerard the Giant, and his staff. But to leave these fables, and return where I left, I will note what myself hath observed concerning that house.  
I read, that john Guysors, Maior of London, 
Gerard's Hall restored to his old name.  in the year 1245. was owner thereof, and that Sir john Guysors, Knight, Maior of London, and Constable of the Tower 1311. and diverse others of that name and family, since that time owed it. William Guysors was one of the Sheriffs, 1329. More, john Guysors had issue, Henry and john: which john had issue, Thomas: Which Thomas deceasing in the year 1350. left unto his son Thomas his message, 
Gerard's Hall overthrown with Gerard the 〈…〉 great Spear.  called Guysors Hall, in the Parish of Saint Mildred in Breadstreet: john Guysors made a Feoffment thereof 1386. etc. So it appeareth, that this Guysors Hall of late time (by corruption, hath been called Gerard's Hall, for Guysors Hall, as Bosom's Inn, for Blossoms june, Bevis Marks, for Buries Marks, Mark lane, for Mart lane, Billiter lane, for Belzetters lane, Gutter lane, for Guthuruns lane, Cry Church, for Christ's Church, Saint Michael in the Querne, for Saint Mihel at Corn, and such others. Out of this Guysors Hall, at the first building thereof, were made diverse arched doors yet to be seen, which seem not sufficient for any great Monster, or other than men of common stature to pass thorough. The Pole in the Hall might be used of old time (as then the custom was in every Parish) to be set up in the Summer a Maypole, before the principal house in the Parish or Street, 
Every man's house of old time was decked with Holly and Ivy in the Winter, especially at Christmas.  and to stand in the Hall before the Scrine, decked with Holme and Ivy, at the Feast of Christmas. The Ladder served for the decking of the Maypole, and Roof of the Hall. Thus much for Guysors Hall, and for that side of Breadstreet may suffice.  
Now on the West side of Breadstreet, amongst diverse fair and large houses for Merchants, and fair Inns for passengers, had ye one Prisonhouse, pertaining to the Sheriffs of London, called the Compter in Breadstreet: but in the year 1555. the Prisoners were removed from thence, 
Compter in Breadstreet.  to one other new Compter in Woodstreet, provided by the City's purchase, and builded for that purpose: the cause of which remove was this: Richard Husband, Pastelar, keeper of this Compter in Breadstreete, 
Prisoners removed from the Compter in Breadstreet to a new Copter in Woodstreet▪ Keeper of the Compter sent to Newgate.  being a wilful and headstrong man, dealt (for his own advantage) hard with the prisoners under his change, having also servants, such as himself liked best for their bad usage, and would not for any complaint be reform: whereupon, in the year 1550. Sir Rowland Hill being Mayor, by the assent of a Court of Aldermen, he was sent to the Goal of Newgate, for the cruel handling of his prisoners: and it was commanded to the Keeper, to set those Irons on his legs, which are called the Widow's alms. These he ware from Thursday, till Sunday in the afternoon, and being by a Court of Aldermen released on the Tuesday, was bound in an hundred Marks, to observe from thenceforth an Act made by the Common Council, for the ordering of prisoners in the Compters: all which notwithstanding, he continued as afore, whereof myself am partly a witness: For being on a jury, 
Quest of inquiry indight the Keepers of the Goals for dealing hardly with their prisoners.  to inquire against a Sessions of Goal delivery, in the year 1552. we found the prisoners hardly dealt withal for their achates and otherwise, as also that Thiefs and Strumpets were there lodged for four pence the night, whereby they might be safe from searches that were made abroad: 
They indicted the Bowling-Al●ies, etc.  for the which enormities, and other not needful to be recited, he was indicted at that Session, but did rub it out, and could not be reform, till this remove of the prisoners: for the house in Breadstreete was his own by lease, or otherwise, so that he could not be put from it. Note that jailors, buying their offices, will deal hardly with pitiful prisoners.  
Now in Friday street, 
Friday street.  so called of Fishmongers dwelling there, and serving Friday's Market, on the East side is a small Parish Church, 
Parish Church of S. john Evangelist, sometime of S. We●bridge.  commonly called Saint john Evangelist. The Monuments therein, be of john Dogget, Merchant-Taylor, one of the Sheriffs in the year 1509.  
Sir Christopher Askew, Draper, Maior, 1533.  
William de Avinger, Farrier, was buried there in the 34. of Edward the second.  
Then lower down is one other Parish Church of S. Margaret Moses, 
Parish Church of S. Margaret Moses.  so called (as seemeth) of one Moses, that was founder or new builder thereof.  
The Monuments there, be of Sir Richard Dobbes, Skinner, Maior, 1551.  
William Dane, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffs, 1569.  
Sir john Allot, Fishmonger, Mayor, 1591.  
There was of elder time buried, Nicholas Stanes, and Nicholas Bray, they founded Chauntries there.   

Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur. APOC. 14.  
To William Dane that sometime was  
An Ironmonger; 
A Monument in the South wall of the Chancel.  where, each Degree  
He worthily (with praise) did pass.  
By wisdom, truth, and heed, was he  
Advanced an Alderman to be:  
Then, Sheriff; that, he with justice pressed,  
And cost, performed with the best.  
In Alms frank, of Conscience clear;  
In grace with Prince, to People glad:  
His virtuous wife, his faithful Phèere,  
Margaret, this Monument hath made:  
Meaning (through God) that as she had  
With him (in house) long lived well;  
Even so in Tombs bliss to dwell.  
Obierunt in Christo.  
Ille, Sabat. 5. Septemb. 1573. Aetatis 56.  
Haec vero 18. Novemb. An. 1579.  
April. 5. An. Domini, 1593.  
The Monument of the Right Honourable Sir john Allot, 
A fair Monument in the North wall of the Chancel.  Knight, late Lord Mayor of this City of London, and Mayor of the Staple of England; who deceased the seventeenth day of September, Anno 1591. in the time of his Mayoralty. Aetatis suae 66.  
Here lieth the body of Alice Daniel, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion table  the wife of john Daniel, Esquire, and mother of Gerard Daniel, Fishmonger. Which Alice deceased the thirteenth day of October, Anno Domini 1481. On whose, etc.   

Ever do well.  
On the West side of this Friday street is Maiden lane, 
Maiden lane, or Disiar lane.  so named of such a Sign, or Distaff lane, for Distar lane, as I read in Record of a Brewhouse, called the Lamb in Distar lane, the sixteenth of Henry the sixth.  
In this Distar lane, 
cordwainers Hall.  on the North side thereof, is the cordwainers or Shoemaker's Hall; which Company were made a Brotherhood or Fraternity, in the eleventh of Henry the fourth.  
Of these cordwainers I read, that since the fifth of Richard the second, (when he took to wife Anne, daughter to Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia) by her example the English people had used piked Shoes, 
Long piked shoes, tied to the knees.  tied to their knees with Silken Laces, or Chains of Silver and Gilt: Wherefore in the fourth of Edward the fourth it was ordained and proclaimed, 
Piked shoes forbidden.  that Beakes of Shin and Boots should not pass the length of two inches, upon pain of cursing by the Clergy, and by Parliament to pay 20. s. for every pair. And every Cordwayner that shod any man or woman on the Sunday, to pay 30. s.  
On the South side of this Distar lane, is also one other Lane, called Distar lane; which runneth down to Knightriders street, or Old Fish-street.  
And this is the end of Breadstreete Ward: Which hath and Alderman, his Deputy, Common Council ten, Constables ten, Scavenger's eight, Wardmote Inquest thirteen, and a Beadle. It standeth taxed to the Fifteen in London, at seven and thirty pounds, and in the Exchequer, at six & thirty pounds, eighteen shillings, two pence.    

QUEEN HITH WARD.  
NExt unto Breadstreete Ward on the South side thereof, 
Queen Hith Ward  is Queen Hith Ward, so called of a Water-gate, or harborough for Boats, Lighters, and Barges, and was (of old time) for Ships, at what time, the Timber Bridge of London was drawn up, for the passage of them to the said Heath, as to a principal stand for landing and unlading against the midst and heart of the City. This Ward beginneth in the East, 
Knight Rider's street.  in Knightriders street, on the South side thereof, at the East end of the Parish Church called the Holy Trinity, and runneth West on the South side, to a Lane called Lambart hill, which is the length of the Ward in Knightriders street. Out of the which street are diverse Lanes, running South to Thames street, and are of this Ward. The first is Trinity lane, 
Trinity lane.  which runneth down by the West end of Trinity Church. Then is Spuren lane, or Spooners lane, 
Spuren lane, or Huggen lane.  now called Huggen lane. Then Breadstreet hill. Then St. Marry Mounthaunt: out of the which Lane, on the East side thereof, is one other Lane, turning East through S. Nicholas Olaves Churchyard, to Breadstreet hill. This Lane is called Finimore lane, 
Finimore, or Five foot lane.  or Five foot lane, because it is but five foot in breadth at the West end. In the midst of this Lane, runneth down one other Lane broader, South to Thames street, I think the same to be called Desborne lane, 
Desborne lane.  for I read of such a Lane to have been in the Parish of S. Mary Summerset, in the 22. of Edward the third, where there is said to lie between the Tenement of Edward de Montacute Knight, on the East part, and the Tenement sometime pertaining to William Gladwine, on the West, one plot of ground, containing in length towards Thames street twenty five foot, etc.  
Last of all, 
Lambart hill.  have you Lambart hill, so called of one Lambart owner thereof: and this is the farthest West part of this Ward.  
On the North side, coming down from Knightriders street, the East side of Lambart hill is wholly of this Ward: and the West side from the North end of the Black-smiths Hall (which is about the midst of this Lane) unto Thames street. Then part of Thames street is of this Ward, to wit, from a Cook's house called the sign of King David, three houses west from the Old Swan Brewhouse in the East, unto Huntingdon house, overagainst Saint Peter's Church in the West, near unto Paul's Wharse: And on the Lane side, from a Cook's house called the Blue Boor, to the West end of Saint Peter's Church, and up Saint Peter's hill, two houses North above the said Church. And these be the bounds of this Ward: in which are Parish Churches seven, Hals of Companies two, and other Ornaments, as shall be showed.  
First, 
Parish Church of the Trinity.  in Knightriders street is the small Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, lately very old, & in danger of down falling: collections were made for the repairing thereof, but they would not stretch so far, until a general means was made, as appeareth by a public notice thereof declared in the said Church.  
john Brian, Alderman in the reign of Henry the fifth, was a great benefactor: john Chamber had a Chantry there. Thomas Rishby, Esquire, and Alice his wife buried within the Chancel. john Mirfin, Auditor of the Exchequer, 1471. Sir Richard Fowlar of Riches in Oxfordshire, 1528. George Cope, second son to Sir john Cope of Copes-Ashby, in Northamptonshire, 1572.  
Towards the West end of Knightriders street, 
Parish Church of S. Nicholas Cold Abbey.  is the Parish Church of Saint Nicholas Cold Abbey, a proper Church, somewhat ancient, as appeareth by the ways raised thereabout, so that men are forced to descend into the body of the Church. It hath been called of many Colden Abbey, of some Cold Abbey, or Cold Bey, and so have the most ancient writings, as standing in a cold place, as Cold Harbour, and such like. The Steeple or tall Tower of this Church, with the South Isle, hath been of later building, to wit, the first of Richard the second, when it was meant that the whole old Church should have been new builded, as appeareth by the Arching begun on the East side the Steeple, under the which, in the stone work, the Arms of one Buckland, Esquire, and his wife, daughter to Beaupere, are cut in stone, and also are in the Glass windows; whereby it appeareth, he was the builder of the Steeple, and repairer of the residue. The six and twentieth of Edward the third, Andrew Aubery being Mayor, Thomas Frere, Fishmonger, gave one piece of ground to the said Parish Church of Saint Nicholas, containing fourscore and six foot in length, and three and forty foot at one end, and four and thirty at another, in breadth for a Cemitory or Churchyard. The twentieth of Richard the second; Thomas Barnard, Castle Clerk. john Sonderash, Clerke, and john Nouncy, gave to the Parson and Churchwardens of the said Church and their successors, one Message and one Shop, with the appurtenances in Distaff lane, and Old Fish-street, for the reparation of the body of the late Church, the Belfry or Steeple, and Ornaments.  
Buried in this Church, john Calf, and William Cogeshall, 1426.  
Walter Turk, Fishmonger, Mayor, 1349.  
Richard Esgastone, Fishmonger, 1330.  
Nicholas Wolberge, Fishmonger, 1407.  
Thomas Paddington, Fishmong. 1485.  
Robert Harry Fishmonger.  
john Suring, 1490.  
Roger Darlington, Fishmonger, 1557.  
Rich. Lacie, Parion, under a fair tomb on the North side of the Choir, 1491.  
Richard Bradburge, 1497.  
William Clarke, 1501.  
james Pitman, 1507.  
Richard Farneford, 1525.  
Thomas Nicholas, Fishmonger, 1527.  
William Brade, Fishmonger, 1528.  
The 14. day of May, An. Dom. 1601.  
Leonard Smith, Fishmonger, 
A fair plated stone in the East end of the chancel.   
ended his days,  
He feared the Lord,  
and walked in his ways:  
His body here  
in earth doth rest,  
His Soul with Christ  
in heaven is blessed.  
Here lie buried the bodies of Dorothy Halye, 
A fair plated stone by the Communion table.  late wife of Robert Halye, of Ipswitch, in the County of Suffolk, Merchant: And of William Wymer, son of William Wymer, and Mary his wife, daughter of the said Robert and Dorothy, which William the son deceased the 19 day of August; and the said Dorothy the 20. day of September next following, An. Dom. 1601.  
Hic jacet Magister Wil Sandhill, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion table.  Canonicus Eccle.— magni London. Et huius Ecclesiae quondam Rector; Qui obiit 26. die Mens. Augusti. An. Dom. 1445. Cuius animae, etc.  
Hic jacet in cossa, 
A fair plated stone in the middle Isle.   
Putredo mortis & ossa,  
Cum mulieris quie  
in coelis vivit amoenè,  
Vt puto per vitam  
morum signis redimitam,  
Anno Millino  
qt. i C. X. quae seno  
Bissque die deno  
cum perit en Elena,  
Cum quarto pleno,  
requiem tenet hic in ceno,  
Quo cuius jane  
consternis corpus inane.  
On the North side of this Church, 
Water Conduit.  in the wall thereof, was of late builded a convenient Cistern of Stone & Lead for receipt of Thames water, conveyed in pipes of Lead to that place, for the ease & commodity of the Fishmongers; and other inhabitants in and about Old Fishstreate. Barnard Randolph, Common Sergeant of the City of London, did (in his life time) deliver to the Company of Fishmongers, the sum of nine hundred pounds, to be employed towards the conducting of the said Thames water, and cesterning the same, etc. In the Parishes of St. Mary Magdalen, and Saint Nicholas Cold Abbey, near unto Fish-street, seven hundred pounds, and other two hundred pounds to charitable deeds. He deceased 1583. and shortly after, this Conduit with the other was made and finished.  
In Trinity lane, 
Painter stainers Hall.  on the West side thereof is the Painter-stainers Hall; for so of old time were they called: but now that workmanship of staining is departed out of use in England.  
Lower down in Trinity lane, 
Earl of Cornwall his house.  on the East side thereof, was sometime a great Message, pertaining unto john, Earl of Cornwall, in the 14. of Edward the third.  
On Breadstreet hill, down to the Thames, on both sides, be diverse fair houses, inhabited by Fishmongers, Cheefemongers, and Merchants of diverse Trades. On the West side whereof is the Parish Church of Saint Nicholas Olave, 
Parish Church of S. Nicholas Olave.  a convenient Church, having the Monuments of W. Newport, Fishmonger, one of the Sheriffs, 1375.  
Richard Welles, Parson, 1391.  
Richard Sturges, Fishmonger, 1470.  
Thomas Dewen, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffs, 1537. who gave his Message (with the appurtenances) wherein he dwelled, with 14. Tenements in the said Parish of S. Nicholas, to be had, after the decease of Agnes his wife, to the Ironmongers, and they to give stipends, appointed to Almesmen, in five houses by them builded in the Churchyard of that Parish; but now they are converted into four. More to poor Scholars in Oxford and Cambridge, etc.  
Blitheman, an excellent Organist of the Queen's Chapel lieth buried there, with an Epitaph, 1591.  
Hic jacet Richardus Sturges, 
An ancient Tomb in the South wall of the Quire.  Civis & Piscenarius London, & Katherine uxor ejus. Qui quidem Rich. obiit 3. die mensis julii, Anno. Dom. 1479. Et praedicta Katharina obiit, etc.  
Hic jacet Dominus Henricus Welleus, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion table.  quondam Rector istius Ecclesiae. Qui obiit 4. die Maii, An. Domini 1391. Cujus animae. etc.  
Here Blitheman lias, a worthy wight, 
An engraven plate in the North wall of the Chancel.   
who feared God above,  
A friend to all, a foe to none,  
whom rich and poor did love.  
Of Prince's Chapel, Gentleman,  
unto his dying day;  
Whom all took great delighe to hear  
him on the Organs play.  
Whose passing skill in Mustokes Art,  
a Scholar left behind;  
john Bull (by name) his Master vein  
expressing in each kind.  
But nothing here continues long;  
nor resting place can have;  
His soul departed hence to Heaven,  
his body here in Grave.  

He died on Whitsunday, Anno Domini 1591.  
Here, before this place, 
A small Monument in the North wall of the Chancel.  lieth buried the body of john Widnell; Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, sometime Master of that Company, and Deputy of this ward; who deceased the 15. day of February, 1601. being of the age of 70.  
Here lie the bodies of Thomas Lewen, 
An ancient Tomb in the North Isle of the body of the Church:  Ironmonger, and sometime Alderman of this City of London, and Agnes his wife. Which Thomas deceased the 29. day of june, Anno Domini 1555. And the said Agnes deceased the 26. day of October, An. Dom. 1562.  
The next is Old Fish-street hill, a passage so called, 
Old Fish-street hill.  which also runneth down to Thames street. In this Lane, on the East side thereof, is the one end of Finimbre, or Five foot lane.  
On the west side of this Old Fish-street hill, 
Bishop of Hereford's house.  is the Bishop of Hereford's Inn, or Lodging; an ancient House, and large Rooms, builded of Stone and Tiber, which sometime belonged to the Mounthaunts in Norfolk. Radulphius de Maydenstone, Bishop of Hereford, about 1234. bought it of the Mounthaunts, and gave it to the Bishops of Hereford, his successors; Charles, both Bishop of Hereford, and Chancellor of the Marches, about the year 1517. repaired it: Since the which time, the same is greatly ruinated, and is now divided into many small Tenements: the Hall and principal rooms, are an house to make Suger-loaves, etc.  
Next adjoining is the Parish Church of Saint Mary de Monte alto, 
Parish Church of S. Mary Monte alto.  or Mounthaunt, this is a very small Church, and at the first builded, to be a Chapel for the said house of the Mounthaunts, and for Tenements thereunto belonging. The Bishop of Hereford is Patron thereof.  
Monuments in this Church of john Gloucester, Alderman, 1345. who gave Salt-wharfe, for two Chauntries there.  
john Skip, Bishop of Hereford, 1539. sat 12. years, died at London in time of Parliament, and was buried in this Church.  
There was sometime a fair house in the said Parish of Saint Mary Mounthaunt, belonging to Robert Belkenape, one of the King's justices, 
Robert Belkenape his house given to W. Wickham.  but the said Belkenape being banished this Realm, King Richard the second, in the twelfth of his reign, gave it to William Wickham, Bishop of Winchester.  
On the East side of this Old Fish-street hill, 
One old Hall of the Fishmongers.  is one great house, now let out for rent, which house sometime was one of the Hals pertaining to the Company of Fishmongers, 
Fishmonger Hallmotes, six in number.  at such time as they had six Hallmotes or meeting places: namely, twain in Bridgestreet, or New Fish-street, 
Patents.  twain in Old Fish-street, whereof this was one, and twain in Stockfishmonger Rowe, or Thames street, as appeareth by a Record the 22. of Richard the second.  
Next Westward, is one other Lane, called Lambard hill, 
Lambard Hill.  the East side whereof is wholly of this Ward, and but half the West side, to wit, from the North end of the Black-smiths Hall. 
Black-smiths Hall.   
Then in Thames street, of this Ward, and on the North side overagainst the Queen's Heath, 
Parish Church of S. Michael at Queen Hith.  is the parish Church of S. Michael, a convenient Church, but all the Monuments therein are defaced.  
I find that Stephen Spilman, Gentleman, of that Family in Norfolk, sometime Mercer, Chamberlain of London, than one of the Sheriffs, and Alderman, in the year 1404. deceasing without issue, gave his Lands to his Family the Spilmans, and his goods to the making or repairing of Bridges, and other like godly uses: and amongst others, in this Church he founded a Chantry, and was buried in the Quire.  
Also Richard Marlowe, Ironmonger, Maior, 1409. gave twenty pounds to the poor of that Ward, and ten Marks to the Church.  
Richard Grace, 
His Monument yet remaineth.  Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffs, 1515. gave 40. l'. to that Church, and was there buried.  
At the West end of that Church, goeth up a Lane, called Pyellane. 
Pyellane. Parish Church of S. Mary Summerset.  On the same North side, at the South end of S. Mary Mounthaunt lane, is the Parish Church of Saint Mary Summerset, overagainst the Broken Wharfe: it is a proper Church, but the Monuments are all defaced, except a Grave-stone lately there laid, with this inscription:  
Here lieth buried the body of Master Richard Randall of this Parish, 
A fair plated stone in the chancel by the communion Table.  who had issue by Margaret his first wife four sons and seven daughters, one only daughter surviving, named joice. He was by freedom a Pewterer, by trade a Brewer, and one of the Governors of Christ's Hospital. He departed this life the 7. day of june, An. Domini 1616. being aged 75. years.  
No cause to mourn,  
though here he lie,  
That gave to many  
cause to cry.  
For though his body  
turn to dust,  
His Soul doth live  
among the just.  
I think the same to be of old time called Summers' Heath, 
Summer Hith.  of some man's name, that was owner of the ground near adjoining, as Edreds' Heath was so called of Edred, owner thereof, and since called Queen Hith, as pertaining to the Queen, etc.  
Then is a small Parish Churcch of St. Peter; 
Parish Church of S. Peter Parva by Paul's Wharf.  called Parva, or little, near unto Paul's Wharfe: In this Church no Monuments do remain.  
At the West end thereof is a Lane, called St. Peter's Hill: but two houses up that Lane, on the East side, is of this Ward, and the rest is of Castle Baynard Ward.  
On the South side of Thames street, beginning again in the East, among the Cooks; the first in this Ward is the sign of David the King.  
Then is Townes-end lane, turning down to the Thames. 
Townes-end Lane.   
Then is Queen Hith, a large Receptacle for Ships, 
Eldreds' Heath or Queen Hith.  Lighters, Barges, and such other Vessels. Touching the Antiquity and use of this Gate and Heath, first I find, that the same belonged to one named Edred, & was then called Edreds' Heath: which since falling to the hands of King Stephen, 
Lib. Trinit●t●e.  it was by his Charter confirmed to William de Ypre: the Farm thereof in Fee and in Heritage. William de Ypre gave it unto the Prior and Covent of the Holy Trinity within Ealdgate, as appeareth by this Charter.  
To Theobald, by the grace of God, Archbishop of Canturbury, Primate of England, and Legate Apostolic to the Bishop of London, and to all faithful people, Clerks and Laymen, William de Ypre sendeth greeting: Know ye me to have given and granted to God, and to the Church of the Holy Trinity of London, to the Prior and Canons there, serving God, in perpetual Alms, Edreds' Heath, with the appurtenances, with such devotion, that they shall send every year twenty pounds, unto the maintenance of the Hospital of Saint Katherine's, which Hospital they have in their hands, and an hundred shillings to the Monks of Bermondsey, and threescore shillings to the Brethren of the Hospital of Saint Giles, and that which remaineth, the said Prior and Canons shall enjoy to themselves. Witnesses, Richard de Luce, Ralph Bigot, etc.  
This Edreds' Heath, 
〈◊〉.  after the aforesaid Grants, came again to the King's hands, by what means I have not read: but it pertained unto the Queen; and therefore was called Ripa Reginae, the Queen's Bank, or Queen's Heath, and great profit thereof was made to her use, as may appear by this which followeth.  
King Henry the third, in the ninth of his reign, commanded the Constables of the Tower of London, 
Ships of the Ports arrested, and forced to bring their Corn to Queen Hith.  to arrest the ships of the Cinque-Ports on the River of Thames, & to compel them to bring their Corn to no other place, but to the Queen's Heath only. In the eleventh of his reign, he charged the said Constable, to distrain all Fish offered to be sold in any place of this City, but at the Queen's Heath. Moreover, in the 28. of his reign, an Inquisition was made before William of York, the Provost of Beverley, Henry of Bath, and Hierome of Caxton, Justice's Itinerantes, sitting in the Tower of London, touching the Customs of Queen Hith, observed in the year last before the wars between the King and his father, and the Barons of England, and of old customs of other times, and what customs had been changed, at what time the tax and payment of all things coming thither, and between Woorepath, and Anede Heath, were found and seized, according to the old order, aswell Corn and Fish, as of other things. 
Liberty of the Queen's Heath from the Steele-yard to the Black Friars.  All which customs were as well to be observed in the part of Downegate, as in Queen Hith, for the King's use. When also it was found, that the Corn arriving between the gate of the Guild Hall of the Merchants of Colleyne, and the Soak of the Archbishop of Canturbury (for he had a house near unto the Black Friars) was not to be measured by any other quarter, 
Soak is Court.  than by that of the Queens Soak.  
After this, the Bailiffs of the said Heath complained, that since the said Recognition, fourteen foreign Ships, laden with Fish, arrived at Belins-gate, which Ships should have arrived at the said Heath: And therefore it was ordered, that if any foreign Ship laden with Fish, should in form aforesaid arrive elsewhere than at this Heath, it should be at the King's pleasure to amerce them at 40. s. Notwithstanding, the Ships of the Citizens of London were at liberty, to arrive where the owners would appoint them.  
After this, 
Queen Hith let to farm to the Mayor and Communality of London.  the said Henry the third confirmed the Grant of Richard Earl of Cornwall, for the Farm of Queen Hith, unto john Guysors, than Mayor, and to the Communality of London, and their successors for ever, as by this his Charter appeareth.  
Henry by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Guien, and Earl of Anjou, to all Archbishops, etc. Be it known, that We have seen the Covenant between our Brother Richard, Earl of Cornwall, of the one party, and the Mayor and Communality of London on the other party, which was in this sort. In the thirtieth year of Henry, 
Lib. Trinit. Lon.  the son of King john, upon the Feast of the Translation of S. Edward at Westminster, this Covenant was made between the Honourable Lord Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and john Guysors, than Mayor of London; and the Commons thereof, concerning certain exactions and demands pertaining to the Queen Hith of London. The said Earl granted for himself and his heirs, that the said Mayor, and all Mayor's ensuing, and all the Commons of the City, should have and hold the Queen Hith, with all the Liberties, Customs, and other appurtenances, repaying yearly to the said Earl, his heirs and assigns, fifty pounds, at Clarkenwell, at two several terms; to wit, the Sunday after Easter 25. pounds, and at Michaelmas 25. pounds. And for more surety hereof, the said Earl hath set thereunto his Seal, and left it with the Mayor, and the Mayor and Communality have set to their Seal, and left it with the Earl. Wherefore We confirm and establish the said Covenant, for Us and for our heirs. Witnesses, Ralph Fitz-Nichol, Richard Grace, john and William. Brithem, Paulin Painter, Ralph Wancia, john Cumband, and other: At Windsor, the 26. of February, the 31. of our reign.  
The charge of this Queen Hith was then committed to the Sheriffs, and so hath continued ever since; the profits whereof are sore diminished; so that (as writeth Robert Fabian) it was worth (in his time) little above 20. Marks, 
Rob. Fabian Lib. Constit.  or 15. pounds one year with another.  
Now, for Customs of this Queen Heath: 
Custom of Queen Hith.  In the year 1302. the thirtieth of Edward the first, 〈◊〉 was found by the oath of diverse men, that Bakers, Brewers, and others, buying their Corn at Queen Hith, should pay for Measuring, Portage, and Carriage, for every Quarter of Corn whatsoever, from thence to West Cheap, to S. Anthony's Church, to Horse-shoe Bridge, and to Woolsey street, in the Parish of All-hallows the less, and such like distances, one ob. q. to Fleetstreet, to Newgate, Creplegate, to Birchovers' lane, to Eastcheap, and Billingsgate, 
A Corne-Meater, 8 Master Porters, and 24. Porters under them, at Queen Hith.  one penny. Also, that the Measurer (or the Meater) ought to have eight chief Master Porters, every Master to have three Porters under him, and every one of them to find one Horse, and seven Sacks, and he that so did not, to lose his Office. This Heath was then so frequented with Vessels, bringing thither Corn (besides Fish, Salt, Fuel, and other Merchandizes) that all these men, to wit, the Meater, and Porters, thirty seven in number, for all their charge of Horses and Sacks, and small stipend, lived well of their labours: but now the Bakers of London, and other Citizens, travel into the Countries, and buy their Corn of the Farmers, after the Farmer's price.  
King Edward the second, 
Lib. 〈◊〉.  in the first of his reign, gave to Margaret, wife to Peter de Gavestone, forty three pounds, twelve shillings, nine pence half penny farthing, out of the Rent of London, to be received of the Queen's Heath. Certain impositions were set upon Ships and other Vessels coming thither, as upon Corn, Salt, and other things, toward the charge of cleansing Roomeland there, 
Roomeland at Queen Hith.  the 41. of Edward the third.  
The third of Edward the fourth, the Market at Queen Heath being hindered by the slackness of drawing up London Bridge, it was ordained, that all manner of Vessels, Ships, or Boats, great or small, resorting to the City with victual, should be sold by retail, and that if there came but one Vessel at a time, were it Salt, Wheat, Rye, or other Corn from beyond the Seas, or other Grains, Garlic, Onions, Herrings, Sprats, Eels, Whiteing, Plaice, Cod, Mackerell, etc. then that one Vessel should come to Queen Hith, and there to make sale. But if two Vessels came, the one should come to Queen Hith, the other to Billingsgate: 
Queen Heath to be more frequented of Ships & Boats than Billingsgate.  if three, two of them should come to Queen Hith, the third to Billingsgate, etc. always the more to Queen Hith. If the Vessel being great, coming with Salt from the Bay, and could not come to these Keys, than the same to be conveied by Lighters, as before is meant.  
One large house, 
Garner for Corn at Queen Hith.  for stowage of Corn, craned out of Lighters and Barges, is there lately builded. Sir john Lion, Grocer, Mayor 1554. by his Testament gave 100 l'. towards it: But since it hath been increased and made larger, at the charges of the City, in the year 1565.  
Against this Queen's Heath, on the River of Thames, of late years was placed a Cornemill, 
A Corn Mill upon Barges or Lighters on the Thames.  upon, or betwixt two Barges or Lighters, and there ground Corn, as Water-Mills in other places, to the wonder of many, that had not seen the like. But this lasted not long without decay: such as caused the same Barges and Mill to be removed and taken asunder, are soon forgotten. I read of the like to have been in former time, as thus:  
In the year 1525. the 16. of Henry the 8. Sir William Bayly being Mayor, john Cook of Gloucester, Mercer, gave to the Mayor and Communality of London, and theirs for ever, one great Barge, in the which two great Corne-mills were made and placed; 
Two corn Mils in one Barge given to this City, 1525.  which Barge and Mills were set in and upon the stream of the River of Thames, within the jurisdiction and liberty of the said City of London. And also he gave to the City all such Timber, Boards, Stones, Iron, etc. provided for making, mending, and repairing of the said Barge and Mils: in reward whereof, the Mayor gave him 50. l'. presently, and 50. l'. yearly, during his life: and if the said Cook deceased before joan his wife, than she to have forty Marks the year during her life.  
Next adjoining to this Queen Hith, on the West side thereof, 
Salt Wharfe  is Salt Wharfe, named of Salt taken up, measured, and sold there.  
The next is Strew lane, 
Stew lane.  of a Stew, or Hothouse there kept.  
After that is Timber Hith, 
Timber Hith.  or Timber street, so called, of Timber, or Boards, there taken up and wharfed: It is in the Parish of S. Marry Sonners-Hith, as I read in the 56. of Henry the third, and in the ninth of Edward the second.  
Then is Brookes Wharfe, 
Brooks Wharfe.  and Broken Wharfe, 
Broken Wharfe.  a Water-gate or Key so called, of being broken, and fall'n down into the Thames.  
By this Broken Wharfe remaineth one large old building of stone, 
Bygots' house by Broken Wharfe.  with arched Gates; which Message, as I find, in the reign of Henry the third, the 43. year, pertained unto Hugh de Bygot; and in the 11. of Edward the third, to Thomas Brothertun, the King's Brother, Earl of Norfolk, Martial of England. In the 11. of Henry the 6. to john Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, etc.  
Within the Gate of this House (now belonging to the City of London) is lately, 
An Engine for enforcing of Thames water.  to wit, in the year 1594. and 1595. builded one large house, of great height, called an Engine, made by Bevis Bulmar, Gentleman, for the conveying and forcing of Thames water, to serve in the middle and West parts of the City. The ancient great Hall of this Message is yet standing, and pertaining to a great Brewhouse for Beer.  
West from this is Trig lane, 
Trig lane.  going down to the Thames. Next is called Bosse lane, 
Bosse lane.  of a Boss of water, like unto that of Belins-gate, there placed by the Executors of Richard Whitington.  
Then is one great Message, sometime belonging to the Abbots of Chartsey in Surrey, and was their Inn, wherein they were lodged when they repaired to the City: it is now called Sandie house, by what reason I have not heard: I think the Lord Sands hath been lodged there.  
And this is an end of this Queen Hith Ward; which hath an Alderman, and his Deputy; Common-counsel, six; Constables, nine; Scavengers, eight; Ward-mote Inquest, thirteen, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteen in London, twenty pounds, and in the Exchequer, at nineteen pounds, sixteen shillings, two pence.    

CASTLE BAYNARD Ward.  
THen next is Castle Baynard Ward, 
Castle Baynard Ward  so named of an old Castle there. This Ward beginneth in the East, on the Thames side, at an House called Huntingdon House, and runneth West by Paul's Wharfe, by Baynard's Castle, Puddle Wharfe, and by the South side of Black Friars. Then turning by the East wall of the said Friars, to the South-west end of Creed lane. Then on the North side of Thames street, over against Huntingdon House, by Saint Peter's Church and lane, called Peter Hill, along till over against Puddle Wharfe; and then North up by the great Wardrobe, to the West end of Carter lane. Then up Creed lane, Ave Mary lane, and a piece of Pater noster Row, to the sign of the Golden Lion, and back again up Warwick lane, all the East side thereof, to the sign of the Crown by Newgate Market: and this is the farthest North part of this Ward.  
Then out of Thames street be Lanes ascending North to Knightriders street: The first is Peter Hill Lane, all of that Ward, (two houses excepted, adjoining to S. Peter's Church.) The next is Paul's Wharfe Hill, which thwarting Knightriders street and Carter lane, goeth up to the South Chain of Paul's Churchyard.  
Then is Adle street, 
Adle street.  over against the West part of Baynard's Castle, going up by the West end of Knightriders street, and to Carter lane.  
Thus much for Lanes out of Thames street. The one half of the West side of Lambard Hill lane being of this ward, at the Northwest end thereof, on the South side, and at the West end of S. Mary magdalen's Church: on the North side, beginneth Knightriders street to be of this Ward, and runneth West, on both sides, to the Parish Church of S. Andrew by the Wardrobe.  
Then at the said East end of Saint Mary magdalen's Church, goeth up the Old Exchange, all the West side whereof, up to the Southeast gate of Paul's Churchyard, and by S. Austin's Church, is of this Ward.  
About the midst of this Old Exchange, on the West side thereof, is Carter lane, which runneth West, to the East entry of the Black Friars, and the South end of Creed lane; out of the which Carter lane descendeth a Lane, 
Do little lane.  called Do little lane, and cometh into Knightriders street, by the Bores-bead Tavern: and more West is Sermon lane, by an Inn called the Powle-head. Then out of Carter lane, on the North side thereof, the South Chain of Paul's Churchyard, and the Churchyard itself, on that South side of Paul's Church, and the Church of Saint Gregory, the Bishop's Palace, and the Deans lodging, be all of this Ward: and such be the bounds thereof.  
The Ornaments in this Ward, be, Parish Churches, four; of old time, a Castle; divers Nobleman's houses; Halls of Companies, twain; and such others, as shall be showed.  
In Thames street, at the Southeast end, is an ancient Message, of old time called Beaumont's Inn, 
Beaumont's Inn.  as belonging to that Family of Noblemen of this Realm, in the fourth of Edward the 3. Edward the fourth, in the fifth of his reign, gave it to W. Hastings, Lord Chamberlain, Master of his Mints. It is now called Huntingdon house, as belonging to the Earls of Huntingdon.  
Next is Paul's Wharfe, 
Paul's Wharfe.  a large landing-place, with a common Stayre upon the River of Thames, at the end of a Street called Paul's Wharfe Hill, which runneth down from Paul's Chain.  
Next is a great Message, called Scroope's Inn, 
Scroope's Inn.  sometimes belonging to the Scroope's, in the 31. of Henry the sixth.  
Then is one other great Message, sometime belonging to the Abbey of Fiscampe, beyond the Sea: and by reason of the Wars, it coming to the hands of King Edward the third, the same was given to Sir Simon Burley, Knight of the Garter, and therefore called Burley house in Thames street, 
Burley house.  between Baynard's Castle & Paul's Wharfe.  
Then have you Baynard's Castle, 
Baynard's Castle.  whereof this whole Ward taketh name. This Castle banketh on the River Thames, and was called Baynard's Castle, of Baynard, a Nobleman, that came in with William the Conqueror: Of the which Castle, and of Baynard himself, I have spoken in another place.  
There was also another Tower by Baynard's Castle, builded by King Edward the second, Edward the third, in the second of his reign, gave it to William Duke of Hamelake, in the County of York, and his heirs, for one Rose yearly to be paid for all service. The same Place (as seemeth to me) was since called Legates Inn, 
Legates Inn.  in the seventh of Edward the fourth, where be now diverse Wood-wharfes in place.  
Then is there a great Brewhouse, and Puddle Wharfe, 
Puddle Wharfe.  a Water-gate into the Thames, where Horses use to be watered, and therefore being filled with their trampling, and made puddlelike, as also of one Puddle dwelling there, it is called Puddle Wharfe.  
Then is there a Lane between the Black Friars and the Thames, called in the 26. of Edward the 3. Castle lane.  
In this Lane also, is one great Message, of old time belonging to the Priory of Okeborne in Wiltshire, 
Prior of Okebornes' house.  and was the Prior's lodging when he repaired to London. This Prior being of the French Order, was suppressed by Henry the 5. and with other Lands and Tenements pertaining to the said Priory, was by Henry the 6. given to his College in Cambridge, called now the King's College.  
About this Castle Lane was sometime a Mill or Mils, 
A Mill or Mils by Baynard's Castle.  belonging to the Templars of the New Temple, as appeareth of Record: for King john, in the first year of his reign, granted a place in the Fleet, near unto Baynard's Castle, to make a Mill, and the whole course of water of the Fleet, to serve the said Mill.  
I read also, that in the year 1274. the second of Edward the first, Rich. Raison and Atheline his wife, did give to Nicho. de Musely, Clerke, ten shillings of yearly free and quiet rent, out of all his tenements, with the houses thereupon built, and their appurtenances, which they had of the demise of the Master and Brethren of Knights Templars in England, next unto their Mill of Fleet, over against the houses of Laurence de Brooke, in the Parish of Saint Andrew, next to Baynard's Castle: which tenements lie between the way leading to the said Mill on the West part. Also in the Rights belonging to Robert Fitzwater, 
Soak, Court or Ward belonging to Robert Fitzwater.  and to his heirs, in the City of London, in the time of peace, it was declared in the year 1303. that the said Robert, Castillon of London, and Banner-bearer, had a Soak (or Ward) in the City, that was by the wall of S. Paul, as men go down the street before the Brewhouse of S. Paul, unto the Thames, and so to the side of the Mill, which is in the water that cometh down from Fleet bridge, and goeth by London walls, betwixt the Friar's Preachers Church and Ludgate; and so that Ward turned back by the House of the said Friars, unto the said common wall of the said Chanonrie of S. Paul: that is all of the Parish of S. Andrew; which is the gift of his Ancestors by Seniority, as more I have showed in the Castles.  
Now here is to be noted, that the Wall of London, at that time, went strait South from Ludgate, down to the River of Thames: But for building of the Black Friar's Church, the said Wall in that place was by commandment taken down, and a new Wall made, strait West from Ludgate to Fleet bridge, and then by the water of Fleet, to the River of Thames, etc.  
In the year 1307. the 35. of Edward the first, in a Parliament at Carlisle, Henry Lacie, Earl of Lincoln, complained of annoyances done to the water of the Fleet; 
Mill by Baynard's Castle destroyed.  whereupon it was granted, that the said Mill should be removed and destroyed.  
This Ward ascendeth up by the East wall of the Black Friars, to the South-west end of Creed lane, where it endeth on that side.  
Then to begin again on the North side of Thames street, over against Huntingdon house, by Saint Peter's Church and lane, called Peter Hill, and so to S. Bennet Hude (or Heath) over against Paul's Wharfe, 
Parish Church of S. Bennet by Paul's Wharfe.  is a proper Parish Church, which hath the Monuments of Sir William Cheyny, Knight, and Margaret his wife, 1442. buried there.  
Doctor Chadwell, Physician.  
Sir Gilbert Dethicke, alias Garter, King at Arms.  
Mariae Martin, 
A comely Monument in the South I'll of the Quire.  johannis Roissei filiae, lectissimae feminae, uxori optimè meritae 4. liberorum incolumium Matri, ex longa infirmitate, quam ex puerperio contraxit, defunctae ad perpetuam federis nostri conjugalis memoriam, simul ut fidei, pietatis, & in omni vita probitatis ejus aliquod Monumentum extaret: Thomas Martinus Jurisconsultus moestissimus Conjunx posui.  
Obiit Calendas Maii, 1565.  
Vixit Annos 32.  
David Smith, 
Another fair Monument in the same wall.  Embroiderer to Queen Elizabeth, etc. deceased the tenth day of August, 1587. aged 63. years, and lieth here-under buried: whose honest, virtuous, and compassionate care for the needy, both in soul and body, is expressed by his benevolence that way extended, like a good Steward, making others partakers of his well-imployed Talon. Who had to wife Katherine, (by whom he had eight sons and eight daughters) at whose proper charges (in memory of her said loving husband) is erected this Monument, the 25. of March, in An. 1596. Who living his faithful Widow till the fourth day of February, 1607. aged 78. years, lieth also hereunder buried.  
The Tomb of Master James Austen, 
A fair grave-stone in the Chancel.  a good Benefactor of this Parish, who died Anno 1602. and of Joyce his wife, and of William their only son: which joice married after with Sir Robert Clarke, Knight, one of the Barons of the King's Majesty's Court of Exchequer, who caused this Tomb to be erected.  
Here lieth the body of Ellis Hilton, Esquire, who deceased the 12. day of December, in the year of our Lord God, 1528. etc.  
Hic sepultus Griffinus LLoyd, Legum Doctor, 
A very fair plated stone by the Communion Table.  Qui obiit in Christo, Novemb. 26. An. Dom. 1586.  
Hic discas morti  
dominari, spernere fatum.  
Diram morborum  
vim superare mori.  
Nam jacet hic legum  
Doctor virtutibus olim  
Insignis, verae  
Relligionis amans.  
Qui moriens docuit  
vivos benè vivere, vivus,  
Afflictos docuit  
pro pietate mori.  
Divitias justus  
cumulavit, dives amavit  
justitiam, voluit  
sic memor esse boni.  
Divitias moriens  
Musis donavit, ut illos  
Qui Musas colerent  
emoriendo juvat.  
Sic vivus moriensque  
fuit propensus ad omne  
Legis opus, voluit  
tam memor esse Dei.  
Relligio vigilem,  
Lex lumen, Cambria patrem,  
Oxonia eximium  
perdidit alma decus.  
Cum fera mors illum  
violento perdidit ictu,  
Quem nollet virtus  
inclita posse mori.  
Postquam per denos  
professor Regius annos  
Vixerat, hoc gelido  
condidit ossa thoro.  
Here lieth buried the bodies of john Par, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Quire.  and Mary his wife, who were married together 34. years, and had issue one only daughter between them, named Anne, who after married Thomas Gough, of the Inner Temple in London, Esquire, who had fruitfully borne him six sons and one daughter: which said Mr. Par was Embroiderer to our late Queen Elizabeth, and to the King's Majesty that now is, 25. years. He was a man of good respect in the City, liberal to the Company whereof he was free, a good benefactor to the poor of this Parish, and bountiful to all men. He departed this life the 17. day of july, 1607. being aged 72. years and Mary his wife died a year and an half before him.  
This Tomb was erected and made by Thomas Gough, and Anne his wife, appointed by the last Will of john Par, who made the said Anne his full Executrix: And it was finished the 29. day of june, 1611.  
West from this Church, by the South end of Adle street, almost against Puddle Wharfe, there is one ancient building of stone and timber, builded by the Lords of Barkley, 
Barklies' Inn.  and therefore called Barkleys' Inn. This house is now all in ruin, and let out in several tenements, yet the Arms of the Lord Barkley remain in the stone-worke of an arched gate, and is between a Cheveron, Crosses ten, three, three, and four.  
Richard Beauchampe, 
Parish Church of S. Andrew in the Wardrobe.  Earl of Warwick, was lodged in this house, than called Barkleys' Inn, in the Parish of S. Andrew, in the reign of Henry the 6. Then turning up towards the North, is the Parish Church of S. Andrew in the Wardrobe, a proper Church, but few Monuments hath it. john Parnt founded a Chantry there.  
Hic jacet joannes Ley, 
A plated stone under the Communion Table.  Armig. de Comitatu Wiltz. Qui obiit 7. die junii, An. Dom. 1604. Aetat. suae 54.  
Hic jacet joannes Barnard, nuper Civis & Sciffor Lond. ac Aelinora & Alicia, 
The like stone ●●ing by the other.  uxores ejus. Qui quidem Ioannes obiit 21. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1503.  
The 29. day of October, 
A fair plated engraven plate with Arms on a pillar in the Chancel.  An. Dom. 1573. deceased Thomasine, the wife of Thomas Butler, of Bewsen, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, and lieth buried before this Pillar.  
Via omnis carnis: hodie mihi, cras tibi.  
Marmoreum decus  
hoc consortis munere grato,  
Non vita verum  
nomine, Longus habet.  
Here lieth Henry Long of Shingay, 
A 〈◊〉 Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  Esquire, son and heir of Sir Richard Long, Knight, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry the eighth, the third son of Sir Thomas Long, Knight, of Wiltshire: who married Dorothy, the daughter of Nicholas Clarke of Weston, Esquire, and Elizabeth Ramsey his wife, sole heir of Thomas Ramsey of Hicham, Esquire, her Father: By whom he had issue one son and three daughters: He died the 15. day of April, An. Dom. 1573. leaving alive at that time of his death, Elizabeth, his sole daughter and heir.  
Dorothea uxor, conjugis amore posuit.  
Nomine Longus, vita  
brevis, inclitus ortu,  
Ingenio praestans,  
& pietatis amans.  
Near to this place lieth interred the corpse of William Nicholson, sometime of Walton, in the County of Buck, Gent. and Citizen and Draper of London. He had to wife joan, the eldest daughter, and one of the heirs of William Company, Gent. By whom he had issue (among diverse other) these which survived, namely, Helen, first the wife of john Minor, of London, Draper, and afterward of Sir john Branch, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, An. Dom. 1580. And Benjamin, who deceased at Bramley, in the County of Surrey, where he hath also left issue 2. sons, Robert and George. The said William Nicholson departed this life in September, An. Do. 1531. Being a benefactor to this Church, and to other charitable uses: whose soul (we doubt not) resteth with the Lord.  
Qui genere atque opibus  
quondam florebat honestis,  
Nicholson, jacet hac  
parvus in aede civis.  
Quod mortale fuit  
fluxit: sed fama perennis  
Mensque manet; nihil  
hic funera juris habent.  
Spiritus in Coelis  
divino splendet honore,  
In terris memori  
nomen amore viget.  
Then is the King's great Wardrobe. Sir john Beauchamp, Knight of the Garter, Constable of Dover, Warden of the Cinque Ports, (son to Guido de Beauchampe, Earl of Warwick) builded this house, was lodged there, deceased in the year 1359. and was buried on the South side of the middle I'll of Paul's Church. His Executors sold the house to King Edward the third, unto whom the Parson of S. Andrews complaining, that the said Beauchampe had pulled down diverse houses, in their places to build the same house, whereby he was hindered of his accustomed Tithes paid by the Tenants of old time; granted him 40. s. by the year out of that house for ever. King Richard the third was lodged there in the second of his reign.  
In this house of late years was lodged Sir john Fortescue, Knight, Master of the Wardrobe, Chancellor and under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, and one of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council. The secret Letters and writings, touching the estate of the Realm, were wont to be enrolled in the King's Wardrobe, and not in the Chancery, as appeareth by the Records. Claus. 18. E. 4. 1. Memb. 13. Claus. 33. E. 1. Memb. 3. Et liberat. 1. E. 2. Memb. 4. etc.  
From this Wardrobe, by the West end of Carter lane, then up Creed lane, Ave Mary lane, and a piece of Pater noster row, up Warwick lane, all the East side, to the Brewhome called the Crown, as I said, is of this Ward.  
Touching Lanes ascending out of Thames street, 
Peter's Hill.  to Knightriders street, the first is Peter Hill, 
Almshouses for ●poore viddowes.  wherein I find no matter of note, more than certain Almshouses, lately founded on the West side thereof, by David Smith Embroiderer, for six poor widows, whereof each to have 20. s. by the year.  
On the East side of this lane standeth a large house, of ancient building, sometime belonging to the Abbot of S. Mary in York, and was his abiding house when he came to London, Thomas Randolph Esquire hath lately augmented and repaired it.  
At the upper end of this Lane, towards the North, the corner houses there, be called Peter Key, 
Peter Key.  but the reason thereof I have not heard.  
Then is Paul's Wharfe Hill, 
Paul's Wharfe Hill.  on the East side whereof is Woodmongers Hall.  
And next adjoining is Derby House, 
Woodmongers Hall.  sometime belonging to the Stanleys', for Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, of that name, who married the Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond, mother to Henry the seventh, in his time builded it.  
Queen Mary gave it to Gilbert Dethicke, than Garter, Principal King of Arms of Englishmen, Thomas Hauley Clarentieux, King of Arms of the South parts, William Harvy, alias Norroy, King of Arms of the North parts, and the other Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms and to their successors, all the Capital message or house, 
Derby House.  called Derby house, with the appurtenances, situate in the Parish of Saint Bennet, and Saint Peter, and then being in the tenure of Sir Richard Sackvile, 
I have the Copy of the said Patent delivered me by Hum. Dyson.  Knight, and lately parcel of the Lands of Edward Earl of Derby, etc. to the end that the said Kings of Arms, Heralds, and Pursevaunts of Arms, and their successors might (at their liking) dwell together, and at meet times to congregate, speak, confer, and agree among themselves, for the good government of their faculty, and their Records might be more safely kept, etc. Dated the eighteenth day of july 1555. Philip and Marie the first and third year.  
Then higher up, 
Paul's Brewhouse, or paul head Tavern.  near the South Chain of Paul's Churchyard, is the paul head Tavern, which house with the appurtenances, was (of old time) called Paul's Brewhouse, for that the same was so employed, but being since left off, and let out.  
On the West side of this street is one other great house builded of stone, which belongeth to Paul's Church, and was sometime let to the Blunts, Lord Mountjoy; but of later time to a College in Cambridge, and from them to the Doctors of the Civil Law and Arches, who keep a Commons there, and many of them being there lodged, it is called the Doctor's Commons. 
Doctor's Commons.  Above this, on the same side, was one other great building overagainst Paul's Brewhouse, and this was called Paul's Bakehouse, 
Paul's Bakehouse.  and was employed in baking of Bread for the Church of Paul's.  
In Addle street or Lane I find no Monuments. 
Addle street   
In Lambart hill lane, 
Lambart hill.  on the West side thereof, 
Blacke-smiths Hall.  is the Blacksmiths Hall, and adjoining to the North side thereof have ye one plot of ground, enclosed with a Brick wall for a Churchyard, 
Churchyard of S. Mary Magdalen.  or burying plot, for the dead of Saint Mary magdalen's by Old Fish-street, which was given to that use by john Iwarby, an Officer in the receipt of the Exchequer, in the six and twentieth of King Henry the sixth, as appear by Patent.  
john Iwarby, etc. gave a piece of Land lying void in the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen, nigh to Old Fish-street, between the Tenement of John Phipot on the South, and the Tenement of Bartholomew Burwash on the West, and the Tenement pertaining to the Covent of the Holy Well on the North, and the way upon Lambarts Hill, on the East, for a Churchyard to the Parson and Churchwardens, etc.  
Overagainst the Northwest end of this Lambart hill lane in Knightriders street, 
Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen.  is the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen, a small Church, having but few Monuments.  
Richard Woodroffe, Merchant-Taylor, 1519.  
Barnard Randalph, Esquire, 1583.  
joannes Sugar, 
A very ancient Tomb in the North I'll of the Quire.  Civis & Piscenarius London: Qui obiit 29. die D●cemb. An. Dom. 1455. & Margareta uxor ejus, quae obiit 13. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1485. Quorum animarum, etc.  
Here lieth buried the body of Barnard Randolph, 
A fair Monument in the east end of the Chanc●●●.  Esquire, while he lived, Commons Sergeant of this City of London. He died the seventh day of August, An. Dom. 1583. And of his liberality hath been beneficial to the City, as formerly hath been declared.  
Here lieth buried the body of Herbert Randolph, 
A comely Monument in the South I'll of the Quire.  of Wardis, in the County of Sussex, Esquire, Cousin and next heir to Barnard Randolph, Esquire, etc. He took to wife Judith, the eldest daughter of Anthony Shirley, of Freston, in the said County of Sussex, Esquire, and departed this life (without issue) on the 9 day of April, 1604.  
In Obitum lectissimae feminae Margaretae Serle, 
A Monument near to the other.  nuper uxoris Alexandri Serle, Reg. Majest. Procuratoris, etc. Quae obiit 8. die Mens. Martii, Anno Salutis humanae (qua nunc beatissima fruitur) iuxta stilum Angliae, 1605.  
Virgo decem & septem vixi  
intaminata per annos,  
Demetrius duos totidem  
tum pia nuptafui.  
Funera gnatorum vidi  
lugubria quinque,  
Deque nevem, reliqui  
his duo, nostra vident.  
Casta domi vixi, invigilans  
prolique larique,  
Sara viro, mundo  
Martha, Maria Deo.  
Memoriae Sacrum.  
Selectissimae feminae joannae, 
Another Monument beneath the former.  uxoris Gilberti Dethick, sil. 2. Domini Gulielmi Dethick, M 'tis filiae Alexandri Serle, Regiae Maiestatis Procuratoris Gen ti, & Margaretae uxoris suae. Quae quidem joanna 10. Martii, An. 1607 stilo Angliae, sub certa spe venturae in Christo Resurrectionis, Spiritum Deo, corpus terrae commendavit.  
Vt semel partu geminas eodem,  
Tristis, enixa est tacitas, sorores,  
Lang●ido tandem pi●cidè quievit.  
Quindecem virge pia vixit annos,  
Quindecem menses pia nupta facis  
Tum piè cedens, pia mens fit alti,  
Tabida Incola Coeli  
Virgo dum, spes haec & amorparentum,  
Nupta dum, lux haec & honour mariti,  
Vxor & virgo, decor haec, propinquis,  
Et decus omnes.  
George Coleman, 
A comely Monument with arms in the same South I'll.  Gent. a freeman of this City of London, was born in Richmonsh●re, and afterward inhabited at Calais, in the time of the first surprise thereof by the French, An. Dom. 1558. where he lost all his lands and substance; and at the age of 95. years he died, the 16. of September, 1600. and lieth interred on the North side of the Communion Table. By him is buried Alice his wife, the only daughter of George Gainsford, Esquire, a younger son of Sir john Gainsford of Crohurst, in the County of Surrey, Knight, and brother to the last Sir john Gainsford, of the same place, Knight. Which Alice was sole heir to her Mother Elizabeth, daughter and coheir to john Alphew, of Boar Place, in the County of Kent, Esquire.  

She died the fourth of March, Anno Domini, 1581.  
On the West side of this Church, 
Conduit of Thames water.  by the Porch thereof, is placed a Conduit or Cistern of Lead, castellated with Stone, for receipt of Thames water, conveyed at the charges of the forenamed Barnard Randolph, Esquire.  
By the East end of Saint Mary magdalen's Church, runneth up the Old Exchange lane, by the West end of Carter lane, to the Southeast gate or Chain of Paul's Church yard, as is before showed. And in this part was the Exchange kept, and Bullion was received for coinage, as is noted in Faringdon Ward within.  
In this Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, out of Knightriders street, up to Carter lane, be two small Lanes: the one of them called Do little Lane, 
Do little lane.  as a place not inhabited by Artificers, or open Shopkeepers, but serving for a near passage from Knightriders street, to Carter lane.  
The other, corruptly called Sermon Lane, 
Sheremoniers lane.  for Sheremoniers Lane. For I find it by that name recorded in the foureteenth of Edward the first: And in that Lane, a place to be called the Black Loft, 
Black Loft of Silver melting.  (or melting Silver,) with four Shops adjoining.  
It may therefore be well supposed, that lane to take name of Sheremoniers, such as cut and rounded the Places, to be coined or stamped into Estarsing pence, for the place of Coining was the Old Exchange, near unto the said Sheremoniers lane. Also I find, that in the thirteenth of Richard the second, William de la Pole had an House there.  
In Knightriders street is the College of Physicians, 
College of Physicians.  wherein was founded, in the year 1582. a public Lecture in Surgery, 
Lecture in Surgery to be read.  to be read twice every week, etc. as is showed elsewhere.  
In the South Churchyard of Paul's, is the South side and West end of the said Church: In the which West end, be three stately Gates, 
West gates of Paul's Church.  or entries, curiously wrought of stone, namely the middle Gate, in the midst whereof is placed a massy pillar of Brass, whereunto the Leaves of the said great Gate are closed, and fastened with Locks, Bolts, and Bars of Iron: All which notwithstanding, on the 24. of December, in the year 1565. by a Tempest of Wind then rising from the West, 
Gates of Paul's Church blown open.  these Gates were blown open, the Bars, Bolts, and Locks broken in sunder, or greatly bended.  
Also, on the fifth of january, in the year 1589. by a like tempest of Wind, then in the South-west, the lesser West Gate of the said Church, next to the Bishop's Palace, was broken, both Bolts, Bars, and Locks, so that the same was blown over.  
At either corner of this West end, is also of ancient building, a strong Tower of stone, made for Bell-Towers: the one of them, to wit, next to the Palace is at this present to the use of the same Palace; the other, towards the South, is called the Lollards Tower, 
For Lollards Tower read M. Fox.  and hath been used as the Bishop's Prison, for such as were detected for Opinions in Religion, contrary to the faith of the Church.  
The last prisoner which I have known committed thereto, was in the year 1573. one Peter Burcher, 
Pet. Burcher.  Gent. of the middle Temple, for having desperately wounded, and minding to have murdered a serviceable Gentleman, named john Hawkins, Esquire, in the high street, near unto the Strand, who being taken and examined, was found to hold certain Opinions erroneous, and therefore committed thither, and convicted: but in the end, by persuasion, he promised to abjure his Heresies; and was, by commandment of the Council, removed from thence to the Tower of London, etc. where he committed, as in my Annals I have expressed.  
Adjoining to this Lowlards' Tower, 
Parish Church of S. Gregory.  is the Parish Church of Saint Gregory, appointed to the Petty Canons of Paul's.  
Monuments of note, these I find there: 
Alcia Barwis, 
A plated stone by the Communion Table.  Relicta johannis Barwis, Civis ac Minutarii Londinensis, posuit defuncto.  
Debita peccati  
solvens terrestria linquo,  
Visurus patriam  
quam mihi Christe dabis.  
Da patriam, Rex Christ  
jesus, spes unica vitae,  
Da feuti veniam  
Rex bone Christ jesus.  
Virtus post Fata.  
Thomas Redman, 
The like Stone lying by the other.  Almae Curiae Cantuar. de Arcubus London Procuratorum generalium unus, qui officium Registrariatus principalis Sedis Archiepiscopalis Cantuar. per nonnullos Annos laudabiliter exercuit, hic inhumatur. In uxorem duxit Annam Miliner, quacum piè & amantissimè vixit. Ex ea unam sibi filiam nomine Elizabetham procreavit: mortem obiit 12. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1601.  
Aluredus Copeley, 
Another Stone in the Chancel.  de Botley, in Com. Ebor. Armig. quondam Socius Lincolniensis Hospitii, Obiit 5. die Feb. An. Dom. 1598. & aetatis suae, 37.    

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Sanctissimae & chariffimae Conjugi, 
A very goodly Monument in the South I'll of the Choir, uppermost.  Alisonae Heriot, jacobi Primrosii, Regiae Majestatis in sanctiori Concilio Regni Scotiae amanuensis filiae, feminae omnibus tum animi tum corporis dotibus, ac pio cultu instructissimae; Moestissimus ipsius Maritus, Georgius Heriot, Armiger, Regis, Reginae, Principum Henrici & Caroli Gemmarius, bene merenti, non sine lachrymis hoc Monumentum piè posuit.  
Obiit Mensis Aprilis, die 16. Anno Salut. M. D. C. XII. aetatis 20. in ipso flore juventae, & mihi parentibus amicis tristissimum sui desiderium reliquit.  
Hic Alisis Primrosa  
jacet crudo obruta fato▪  
Intempestivas  
ut Rosa passa manus.  
Nondum bis denos  
annorum impleverat orbs,  
Pulchra, pudica,  
Patris delicium atque viri:  
Quum gravida, heu nunquam  
Mater, discessit in inde  
Cura dolorque Patri,  
cura dolorq viro:  
Non sublata tamen,  
tantum translata recessit,  
Nunc Rosa prima Poli  
quae fuit ante Soli.  
Here lieth Martha Forth, 
A fair Monument close by the other in the same end of the Church.  sometime wife to Robert Forth, Doctor of Law, with whom she lived very comfortably in true marriage, a most faithful and loving wife, the space of 24. years and 5. months. She lived virtuously and modestly, and beloved of all that did know her, and died in sound faith, and in the fear of God, the 26. day of November, Ann. Dom. 1589. in the 45. year of her age, in constant hope of a joyful resurrection, with the elect children of Almighty God.   

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Edwardo Baker, 
Another Monument close adjoining  Armig. Regiae Majestatis ad causas Ecclesiasticas Registrario principali, viro eximia erudition, prudentia singulari, moribus probatissimis, & in publicis negotiis plurimum versato. Qui longo morbo intabescens, certa spe in Christo resurgendi, piè placideque animam Deo reddidit, die 26. Maii, Anno Domini, M. D. C. II.  
Here lieth entombed the body of Mary, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Chancel.  late wife of Thomas Sandys, Esquire, and only daughter to Sir Stephen Thornehurst, Knight, and Dame Sibyl his wife: Whose soul departed this life unto Christ, the last day of july, in the year of our Redemption, 1598. and in the one and twentieth year of her age. In remembrance of whose piety and singular virtues, the eternal love of her Husband hath caused this Monument to be erected.  
In Heaven her soul,  
In me her love,  
her body resteth here,  
Which is to God,  
Was to the World,  
to me her Husband, dear.  
Here-under resteth Arthur Medlycote, 
A fair Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, son of Richard Medlycote of Shrewsbury, Gentleman, with Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Philips. The said Arthur, in assured hope to be with Christ, ended this transitory life the seven and twentieth day of july, Anno Domini, 1605. And the said Elizabeth, the eighteenth day of October, 1605.  
Here lieth Dorothy, 
A comely Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  Daughter of John Theobald, the elder, of Shepie, in the County of Kent, Esquire. She first married John Crook, Doctor of Law; by whom, she had only Dorothy, first wife to Robert Honywood, Esquire. Secondly, to Ralph Allen, Alderman of London. Thirdly, to that most Reverend, excellent, and lea●ed judge, Sir Roger Manwood, Knight, Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer; by whom she had issue, john and Thomas, who died young. Marg●rie, the first wife of Sir John Lewson, Knight; and Anne, first wife to Sir percival Hart, Knight, and Sir Peter Manwood, Knight of the Bath.  
She died the fourteenth day of September, Anno Domini, 1575. To whose reverend Memory, the said Sir Peter Manwood hath dutifully erected this Monument, Anno Dom. 1606.  
Gulielmi Coci hoc Tumulo  
parvo ossa quiescunt, 
A comely small Monument by the other.   
Illius ast virtus  
non ita parva cubit:  
Plura nam ut omittam,  
Civili jure secundus  
Nulli, nec vera  
dexteritate fuit.  
Cui pia, ne merito  
careat post funera virtus,  
Hoc uxor Maria  
nobile struxit opus.  
Moritur 25. Augusti, Anno Domini 1558. & Mariae Reginae, 6.  
12. Septemb. An. Dom. 1587. obiit.  
joanna, 
A fair plated stone in the South I'll.  filia Nich. Wallron, relicta Thomae Yale, Legun Doctoris, Cancellarius Archiepiscopalis Sedis Catuarien. & sepelitur sub spe suturae Resurrectionis.  
The rest of that South side of Saint Paul's Church, with the Chapterhouse, (a beautiful piece of Work, builded about the reign of Edward the third) is now defaced, by means of Licences granted to Cutlers, Budget-makers, and other, first to build low Sheds, but now high houses, which do hide that beautiful side of the Church, save only the top and South gate.  
On the Northwest side of this Churchyard, is the Bishop's Palace, 
The Bishop's Palace.  a large thing for Receipt, wherein diverse Kings have been lodged, and great household hath been kept, as appeareth by the great Hall, which of late years, since the rebatement of Bishop's Livings, hath not been furnished with household Meynie and Guests, as was meant by the builders thereof, and was of old time used.  
The Deans Lodging, on the other side, directly against the Palace, is a fair old House, and also diverse large Houses are on the same side builded, which yet remain, and (of old time) were the Lodgings of Prebendaries and Residenciaries, which kept great Household's, and liberal Hospitality; but now either decayed, or otherwise converted.  
Then was there the Stationer's Hall, 
The Stationer's Hall in former days, but now it is in Amen lane, at the end of Pater noster Row.  on the same side, lately builded for them, in the place of Peter College: Where, in the year, one thousand, five hundred, forty, and nine, the fourth day of january, six men were slain by the fall of Earth upon them, digging for a Well.  
And let this be an end of Baynard's Castle Ward: which hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common Counsel, nine; Constable, ten; Scavengers, seven; Wardmote Inquest, fourteen, and a Beadle: And to the Fifteen, it is taxed at twelve pounds, in the Exchequer, eleven pounds, thirteen shillings.    

THE WARD OF FARINGDON Extra, or without.  
THE farthest West Ward of this City, 
The Ward of Faringdon without  being the 25. Ward of London, but without the walls, is called Faringdon without, and was of old time part of the other Faringdon within, until the 17. of Richard the second, that it was divided, and made twain, by the names of Faringdon infra, and Faringdon extra, as is afore showed.  
The bounds of which Ward, without Newgate and Ludgate, are these:  
First, on the East part thereof, is the whole Precinct of the late Priory of S. Bartholomew, and a part of Long lane, on the North, towards Aldersgate street, and Duck lane, with the Hospital of S. Bartholomew on the West, and all Smithfield, to the Bars in Saint john street.  
Then out of Smithfield, Chicken lane, toward Turne-Mill Brooke, and over that Brook, by a Bridge of Timber, into the Field: then back again by the Pens (or Folds) in Smithfield, by Smithfield Pond, to Cow lane, which turneth toward Oldbourne; and then Hosiar lane, out of Smithfield also toward Oldborne, till it meet with a part of Cow lane.  
Then Cock lane, out of Smithfield, over against Pie corner: then also is Gilt-spurre street, out of Smithfield to Newgate: then from Newgate West by Saint Sepulchers Church, to Turne-againe lane, to Oldbourne Conduit, on Snor Hill, to Oldbourne Bridge, up Oldbourne Hill, to the Bars, on both sides.  
On the right hand, or North side, at the bottom of Oldbourne Hill, 
Gold lane.  is Gold lane, sometime a filthy passage into the Fields, now both sides builded with small Tenements.  
Then higher is Lither lane, 
Lither lane.  turning also to the Field, lately replenished with houses builded, and so to the Bars.  
Now, on the left hand or South side from Newgate, lieth a street called the Old Bailie, or Court of the Chamberlain of this City: this stretcheth down by the Wall of the City, unto Ludgate. On the West side of which street, breaketh out one other Lane, called Saint George's Lane, till ye come unto the South end of Sea-coal Lane; and then, turning towards Flectstreet, it is called Fleet lane.  
Then next out of the high street, from Newgate, turning down South, 
Old Bayly.  is called the Little Bayly, and runneth down to the East of S. George's lane. 
Lin●e barners lane, or Sea-coal lane.   
Then is Sea-coal lane, which turneth down into Flect lane.  
near unto this Sea-coal lane, in the turning towards Oldbourne Conduit, is another lane, 
Windeagaine lane.  called in record Windeagaine lane, it turneth down to Turnmill Brooke, and from thence back again, for there is no way over.  
Then beyond Oldbourne Bridge, 
Shoo lane.  to Shoo lane, which runneth out of Oldborne unto the Conduit in Fleetstreet.  
Then also is Fewtars' lane, which likewise stretcheth South into Fleet street, 
Fewtars' lane.  by the East end of S. Dunstanes Church: And from this Lane to the Bars, be the bounds without Newgate.  
Now, without Ludgate, this Ward runneth up from the said gate to Temple bar, and hath on the right hand, or North side, the South end of the Old Bailie: then down Ludgate hill, to the Fleet lane over foots bridge, and by Shoo lane, and Fewtars lane, and so to New street (or Chancery lane) and up that Lane, to the House of the Rolls, which House is also of this Ward; and on the other side, to a Lane overagainst the Rolls, which entereth Ficquets' field.  
Then, 
Shire lane.  hard by the Bar, is one other Lane, called Shire lane, because it divideth the City from the Shire, and this turneth into Ficquets' field.  
From Ludgate again, on the left hand, or South side, to Fleet bridge, to Bridge lane, which runneth South by Bridewell; then to Water lane, which runneth down to the Thames.  
Then by the White Friars, and by the Temple, evern to the Bar aforesaid, be the bounds of this Faringdon Ward without.  
Touching Ornaments and Antiquities in this Ward, first, betwixt the said Newgate, and the Parish of Saint Sepulchers, is a way towards Smithfield, called Gilt Spur, 
Gilt Spur, or Knightriders street  or Knightriders street, of the Knights and other riding that way into Smithfield, replenished with building on both sides up to Pie corner, a place so called of such a sign, sometimes a fair Inn for receipt of Travellers; but now divided into Tenements, and overagainst the said Pie corner, lieth Cock lane, 
Cock lane.  which runneth down to Oldbourne Conduit.  
Beyond this Pie corner, 
West smithfield.  lieth West Smithfield, compassed about with buildings, as first on the South side, following the right hand, standeth the large Hospital of Saint Bartholomew, 
Hospital of S. Bartholomewes'.  founded by Rahere, the first Prior of St. Bartholomewes', thereto near adjoining, in the year 1102.  
Alfune, 
The first M. or Proctor of the Hospital of S. Bartholomew.  that had not long before builded the Parish Church of Saint Giles without Creplegate, became the first Hospitelar, or Protector for the poor of this house, and went himself daily to the Shambles and other Markets, where he begged the charity of devout people for their relief, promising to the liberal givers (and that by alleging testimonies of the holy Scripture) reward at the hands of God. Henry the third granted to Katherine, late wife to William Hardell, twenty foot of Land in length and breadth in Smithfield, next to the Chapel of Saint Bartholomew, to build her a Recluse or Ankorage, 
A recluse or Ankorage by S. Bartholomewes' Hospital.  commanding the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, to assign the said twenty foot to the said Katherine, Charta 11. of Henry the third. The foundation of this Hospital for the poor and diseased, and their special sstentation, was confirmed by Edward the third, the 26. of his reign. It was governed by a Master, and eight Brethren being Priests, for the Church; and four Sisters, to see the poor served.  
The Executors of Richard Whitington, sometime Mayor of London, of his goods repaired this Hospital, about the year 1423.  
Sir john Wakering, Priest. Master of this House, in the year 1463. amongst other Books, gave to their common Library the fairest Bible that I have seen, written in large Vellum, by a Brother of that House, named john Coke, at the age of 68 years, when he had been Priest 43. years. Since the spoil of that Library, I have seen this Book in the custody of my Worshipful friend, Master Walter Cope.  
Monuments in this Church of the dead, Benefactors thereunto, be these:  
Elizabeth, wife to Adam Hone, Gentleman.  
Bartholomew Bildington.  
jane, wife to john Cook.  
Dame Alice, wife to Sir Rich. Isham.  
Alice, wife to Nicholas Bayly.  
john woodhouse, Esquire.  
Robert Palmar, Gentleman.  
Idona, wife to john Walden, lying by her husband on the North side, late new builded, 1424.  
Sir Thomas Malifant, or Nanfant, Baron of Winnow, Lord Saint-George, in Glamorgan, and Lord Ockeneton and Pile, in the County of Pembroke, 1438.  
Dame Margaret his wife, daughter to Thomas Astley, Esquire, with Edmond and Henry his children.  
William Markeby, Gentleman, 1438.  
Richard Shepley, and Alice his wife.  
Thomas Savill, Sergeant at Arms.  
Edward Beastby, Gentleman, and Margaret his wife.  
Walter Ingham, and Eleanor his wife.  
Robert Warnar, and Alice, Lady Carne.  
Robert Caldset, johan and Agnes his wives.  
Sir Robert Danvars, and Dame Agnes his wife, daughter to Sir Richard Delabar.  
William Brookes, Esquire.  
john Shirley, Esquire, and Margaret his wife, having their Pictures of Brass, in the habit of Pilgrims, on a fair flat Stone, with an Epitaph thus:  
Behold, how ended is  
our poor Pilgrimage,  
Of john Shirley, Esquire,  
with Margaret his wife,  
That twelve children had  
together in marriage,  
Eight sons, and four  
daughters, withouten strife,  
That in honour, nurture,  
and labour, flowed in fame:  
His pen reporteth  
his lives Occupation,  
Since Pier his life time,  
john Shirley by name,  
Of his degree, that  
was in Brutus' Albion;  
That in the year of Grace  
deceased from hen,  
Fourteen hundred Winters,  
and six and fifty;  
In the year of his age,  
fourscore and ten,  
Of October month,  
the day one and twenty.  
This Gentleman, a great Traveller in diverse Countries, amongst other his Labours, painfully collected the Works of Geffrey Chawcer, john Lidgate, and other learned Writers; which Works he wrote in sundry Volumes, to remain for posterity: I have seen them, and partly do profess them.  
jane, Lady Clinton, gave ten pounds to the poor of this House, and was there buried, 1458.  
Agnes, daughter to Sir William Saint-George.  
john Rogerbrooke, Esquire.  
Richard Sturgeon.  
Thomas Burgan, Gentleman.  
Elizabeth, wife to Henry Skinard, daughter to Chincroft, Esquire.  
William Mackley, Gentleman, and Alice his wife.  
William Fitzwater, Gentleman, 1466. 
Here Robert Balthorp lies entombed, 
A comely Monument in the South wall of the Chancel.   
to Elizabeth our Queen,  
Who Sergeant of the Surgeons sworn,  
near thirty years hath been.  
He died at sixty nine of years,  
December ninth the day,  
The year of Grace eight hundred twice,  
deducting nine away.  
Let here his rotten bones repose,  
till Angel's Trumpet sound,  
To warn the world of present change,  
and raise the dead from ground.  
Vivit post funera Virtus.  
Thomas Bodleius, 
A Monument in the North wall of the Chancel.  Eques Auratus, fecit Annae Conjugi piissimae, atque omnibus exemplis bene de se meritae, cum qua dulciter vixit Annos 24.  

john vir honoratus  
jacet his Nedham tumulatus, 
A fair plated stone by the Communion table.   
Qui prudens, gratus,  
justus fuit & moderatus.  
Fratribus ille suis  
fuerat prae quatuor Annis  
Quem mors crudelis  
29. q; Decembris  
M. C. quater Domini  
septem simul X. numerandi,  
Cujus spiritui  
sint Coeli gardia regni.   

The foureteenth year  
of our Lord seventy, 
Under the Communion table   
Passed Sir William Knight  
to God Almighty,  
The 15. day of july,  
Master of this place:  
jesus for his mercy  
receive him into grace.   
Hic jacet Dominus joannes Byry, 
By the same table  quondam Magister istius Hospital. Qui obiit 28. die Septemb. An. Domini, 1417. Cujus, etc.  
Ecce sub hoc Tumulo  
Gulielmus conditur Honus, 
An ancient Tomb in the North wall, beneath the Quire.   
Vir justus, verbis  
integer, atque Deum  
Cord timens. Qui cum  
Guilda sit functus in Aula,  
Cumque palam in Templo  
bis legerat Anglica jura,  
Cunctorum sanè  
non sine laude virum,  
Mors hominem accersens  
supremum (dixit) adi●o.  
Sic moritur, corpus terrae,  
vermique relinquens,  
Scandit at excelsis  
sidera ment poli.  
Hoc posuit Conjunx  
dilecta jocosa Sepulchrum,  
Dicta locosa licet  
plena dolore tamen.  
Sub praesenti marmore requiescunt corpora Walter Ingham Generosi, 
At the entering into the Choir in the middle Isle  ac Aelianorae consortis suae. Qui quidem Walterus ingressus est viam universae carnis 7. die Mensis Martii, Anno Domini 1464. Et praedicta Aelianora, uxor sua terrenae mortis deg●stavic pecula 15. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1466. Quorum, etc.  

Hic vir pacificus  
Shipley Richardus humatur, 
A fair Stone lying close by the other.   
Verus Catholicus domus  
haec hoc testificatur.  
Esurientes ac sitientes  
namque fovebat,  
Pace fruentes, justa  
petentes corde gerebat.  
C. quater & Mille,  
X. & M. V. cadit ille  
Luce Maii deca ter  
que monas fit humus sibi matter,  
Co●lux postque sua  
finivit Alicia flamen,  
Q●os manus tua salvet  
precor O Deus. Amen.   

Hic vir Catholicus bonus  
ecce Richardus humatur  
Sturgeon pacificus, 
A fair plated stone close by the Pilgrim and his Wife.  quem  
mors rapuisse probatur.  
Armiger hic Regis fuit,  
& vir Nobilitatis,  
Mandatum legis servans,  
celsis probitatis.  
Annis trigenis fit  
Clericus ipse Coronae  
Et quivis plenè hunc  
cape Christ bone.  
Mille, quater contum  
semel L. sex tempore Christi.  
Dat fundamentum  
quindena Martius isti,  
Vxor eius quem bona  
iungitur ecce joanna,  
Vt capiant dona  
Coelorum jesus Hosanna.   

Here lieth now dead, 
At the foot of the same Stone.   
which late was quick,  
The comely Corpse  
of Anne Westwick;  
Who died in  
Childbed, of her first,  
Upon the fifth  
day of August:  
Whose soul (doubtless)  
is long ere this,  
In Heaven with Christ,  
in joy and bliss;  
But yet, for order  
of Charity,  
Upon her soul say,  
Jesus have mercy.   
Anno Domini, 1556.  
Hic jacet Dominus Richardus Lye, 
A fair plated Stone in the South I'll.  quondam Abbas Salopiae, qui sua industria, sumptibus magnis & suis laboribus (Deo suadente) recuperavit libertates suae Ecclesiae Salopiae praedict. & postea obiit die Martii, tempore Parliamenti, Anno Domini 1512. Cuius, etc.   
This Hospital was valued at the suppression, 
Hospital of S. Bartholomew suppressed.  in the year 1539. the 31. of Henry the eighth, to five and thirty pounds, six shillings, seven pence, yearly. The Church remaineth a Parish Church to the Tenants dwelling in the Precinct of the Hospital: But in the year 1546. on the thirteenth of january, the Bishop of Rochester, preaching at Paul's Cross, declared the gift of the said King to the Citizens, for relieving of the Poor, which contained the Church of the Grey Friars, the Church of Saint Bartholomew, with the Hospital, the Messages, and appurtenances in Gilt Spur, alias Knight Rider's street, Briton street, Peter Kay, in the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen, in Old Fish street, and in the Parish of St. Benet Huda, Lymehurst, or Limehost, in the Parish of Stebunbeth, etc.  
Then also were Orders devised for relief of the Poor: the inhabitants were all called to their Parish Churches; where, by Sir Richard Dobbes, than Mayor, their several Aldermen, or other grave Citizens, they were by eloquent Orations persuaded, how great and how many commodities would ensue unto them and their City, if the poor of diverse sorts, which they named, were taken from out their Streets, Lanes, and Allies, and were bestowed and provided for in Hospitals abroad, etc. Therefore was every man moved, liberally to grant (what they would impart) towards the preparing and furnishing of such Hospitals, and also, what they would contribute weekly towards their maintenance for a time, which (they said) should not be past one year, or twain, until they were better furnished of Endowment. To make short, every man granted liberally, according to his ability: Books were drawn of the Relief in every Ward of the City, towards the new Hospitals, and were delivered by the Mayor to the King's Commissioners, on the seventeenth of February; and order was taken therein, so as the six and twentieth of july, in the year 1552. the repairing of the Grey Friar's house, for poor fatherless children, was taken in hand; and also, in the later end of the same month, began the repairing of this Hospital of Saint Bartholomew, and was of new endowed, and furnished at the charges of the Citizens.  
On the East side of this Hospital lieth Duck lane, which runneth out of Smithfield South, to the North end of Little Britain street.  
On the East side of this Duck lane, 
Priory of Saint Bartholomew.  and also of Smithfield, lieth the late dissolved Priory of St. Bartholomew, founded also by Rahere, a pleasant witted Gentleman; and therefore in his time called the King's Minstrel, about the year of Christ, 1102. He founded it in a part of the oft before named Moorish ground, which was therefore a common Lay-stall o●●ll filth, that was to be voided out of the City. He placed Canons there; himself became their first Prior, & so continued till his dying day, and was there buried in a fair Monument, of late renewed by Prior Bolton.  
Amongst other memorable matters touching this Priory, one is of an Archbishop's Visitation, which Matthew Paris hath thus:  
Boniface (saith he) Archbishop of Canturbury, 
Archbishop of Canturbury visiteth S. Bartholomews' Priory with stripes.  in his Visitation came to this Priory; where, being received with Procession in the most solemn wise, he said, That he passed not upon the honour, but came to visit them; to whom the Canons answered, That they having a learned Bishop, ought not, in contempt of him, to be visited by any other: which answer so much offended the Archbishop, that he forthwith fell on the Subprior, and smote him on the face, saying; 
Words of the Archbishop to the Prior and Canons.  Indeed, indeed, doth it became you English Traitors so to answer me? Thus raging, with oaths not to be recited, he rend in pieces the rich Cope of the Subprior, 
Subpriors' Cope rend and trodden under foot, and himself almost slain.  and trod it under his feet, and thrust him against a Pillar of the Chancel with such violence, that he had almost killed him. But the Canons seeing their Subprior thus almost slain, came and plucked off the Archbishop with such force, that they overthrew him backwards; whereby they might see, 
The Archbishop armed, and overthrown.  that he was armed, and prepared to fight. The Archbishop's men seeing their Master down, being all strangers, and their Master's Countrymen borne at Province, 
The Canons beaten and trod under foot.  fell upon the Canons, beaten them, tore them, and trod them under foot. At length, the Canons getting away as well as they could, ran bloody, miry, rend and torn to the Bishop of London to complain, who bade them go to the King at Westminster, and tell him thereof: whereupon four of them went thither, 
The Canons complained but could not be heard.  the rest were not able, they were so sore hurt. But when they came to Westminster, the King would neither hear nor see them; so they returned without redress. 
The whole City is an uproar against the Archbishop.  In the mean season the City was in an uproar, and ready to have rung the common Bell, and to have hewed the Archbishop into small pieces, who was secretly crept to Lambhith, where they sought him, and not knowing him by sight, said to themselves; where is this Ruffian, that cruel smiter? He is no winner of souls, but an exactor of money, whom neither God, nor any lawful or free election did bring to this promotion: but the King did unlawfully intrude him, being unlearned, a stranger borne, and having a wife, etc. But the Archbishop conveyed himself over, and went to the King with a great complaint against the Canons, whereas himself was guilty. This Priory of Saint Bartholomew was again new builded in the year 1410.  
Bolton was the last Prior of this house, 
Bolton last Prior of Saint Bartholomew a great builder there.  a great builder there: for he repaired the Priory Church, with the Parish Church adjoining, the offices and lodgings to the said Priory belonging and near adjoining: 
Canonbury.  he builded of new the Manor of Canonbury at Islington, which belonged to the Canons of this house, and is situate in a low ground, somewhat North from the Parish Church there. But he builded no house at Harrow on the hill, 
Edward Hall.  as Edward Hall hath written, following a fable then on foot.  
The people (saith he) being feared by Prognostications, which declared that in the year of Christ, 1524. there should be such Eclipses in watery signs, and such conjunctions, that by waters and floods many people should perish: people victualled themselves, and went to high grounds for fear of drowning, and especially one Bolton, which was Prior of Saint Bartholomewes' in Smithfield, builded him an house upon Harrow on the hill, only for fear of this flood: thither he went and made provision of all things necessary within him, for the space of two months, etc.  
But this was not so indeed, as I have been credibly informed: true it is, that this Bolton was also Parson of Harrow, and therefore bestowed some small reparations on the Parsonage house, and builded nothing there more than a Dovehouse, to serve him when he had forgone his Priory.  
To this Priory King Henry the second granted the privilege of a Fair to be kept yearly at Bartholomewtide, 
Bartholomew Fair.  for three days, to wit, the Eve, the Day, 
The Fortainers were licenced for 3. days, the free men so long as they would, which was six or seven days.  and the next morrow, to the which the Clothiers of England, and Drapers of London repaired, and had their Booths and standings within the Churchyard of this Priory, closed in with Walls and Gates locked every night, and watched for safety of men's goods and wares; a Court of Piepowders was daily during the Fair holden, for debts and contracts. 
Court of Piepowders.  But notwithstanding all Proclamations of the Prince, and also the Act of Parliament, in place of Booths within this Churchyard (only let out in the Fair time, and closed up all the year after) be many large houses builded, and the North Wall towards Long lane, taken down, a number of Tenements are there erected, for such as will give great rents.  
Monuments of the dead in this Priory, these are, of Rahere, the first founder.  
Roger Walden, Bishop of London, 1406.  
john Warton, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter to William Scot, Esquire.  
john Louth, Gentleman.  
Robert Shikeld, Gentleman.  
Sir Bacon, Knight.  
john Ludlow, and Alice his wife.  
W. Thirlewall, Esquire.  
Richard Lancaster, Herald at Arms.  
Thomas Torald.  
john Royston.  
john Watford.  
john Carleton.  
Robert, son to Sir Robert Willowby.  
Gilbert Halstocke.  
Eleanor, wife to Sir Hugh Fen, mother to Margaret, Lady Aburgaveny.  
William Essex, Esquire.  
Richard Vancke, Baron of the Exchequer, and Margaret his wife, daughter to William de la River.  
john Winderhall.  
john Duram, Esquire, and Elizabeth his wife.  
john Malwine.  
Alice, wife to Balstred, daughter to Kniffe.  
William Scarlet, Esquire.  
john Golding.  
Hugh Walter, Gentleman, and the late Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer.  

Vana salus hominis.  
Memor esto, 
A comely Monument in the East end of the Chancel.  quoniam mors non tardat, & restamentum inferorum, quia demonstratum est tibi: testamentum enim hujus mundi morte morieris.  
Omnia suo proveniunt tempore atque transeunt. Ante mortem, ne laudes hominem quenquam, quoniam in filiis suis agnoscitur vir.  
Percinalus Samlpace, Armiger, obiit secundo die Februarii, Anno Dom. 1568. R. Elizabetha regnante: Cujus quidem corpus juxta hunc Tumulum humatum existit. Agnes uxor ejus, & filia joannis Tebowld, Armigeri, obiit 3. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1588. R. Elizabetha regnante.  
Liberi inter eos Michael & Thomas, adhuc viventes, qui in religiosa memoria optimorum parentum, hoc monumentum posuerunt.  
Behold yourselves by us,  
such once were we as you,  
And you in time shall be  
even dust as we are now.   

Mors nobis lucrum.  
Hic jacet Gualterus Mildmay, 
A very fair Tomb in the Chancel.  miles, & Maria uxor ejus. Ipse obiit ultimo die Maii, 1589. Ipsa 16. die Martii 1576. Reliquerunt duos filios, & tres filias. Fundavit Collegium Emanuelis Cantabridgiae, moritur Cancellarius & Sub-thesaurarius Scaccarii, & Regiae Majestati à Consiliis.  
This Pricky, at the late surrender, the 30. of Henry the eighth, was valued at 653. l. 15. s. by the year.  
This Church having in the Bell-Tower six bells in a tune, those bells were sold to the Parish of Saint Sepulchers, and then the Church being pulled down to the Choir, the Choir was by the King's order annexed, for the enlarging of the old Parish Church there to adjoining, and so was used till the reign of Queen Mary, who gave the remnant of the Priory Church to the Friar's preachers, or Black Friars, and was used as their Coventuall Church, until the first of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth: then those Friars were put out, and all the said Church, with the old parish Church, was wholly as it stood, in the last year of Edward the sixth, given by Parliament, to remain for ever a parish Church to the Inhabitants within the Close, called great Saint Bartholomewes'. Since the which time, the old parish Church is pulled down, except the Steeple of rotten Timber, ready to fall of itself. I have oft heard it reported, that a new Steeple should be builded with the Stone, Led and Timber of the old parish Church, but no such thing was performed. The parish have lately repaired the old wooden Steeple, to serve their turn. On the North side of this Priory, is the Lane truly called Long, which reacheth from Smithfield to Aldersgate street. This Lane is now lately builded on both the sides with Tenements for Brokers, Tiplers, and such like: the rest of Smithfield from Long lane end to the Bars, 
Long lane.  is enclosed with Inns, Brew-houses, and large Tenements; on the West side is Chicken lane, down to Cowbridge. 
Chicken lane. Cowbridge. Pens in Smithfield.  Then be the pens or folds, so called of sheep there parted, and penned up to be sold on the Market days.  
Then is Smithfield Pond, 
Smithfield Pond sometime a pool.  which of (old time) in Records was called Horsepoole, for that men watered Horses there, and was a great water. In the sixth of Henry the fifth, a new building was made in the West part of Smithfield, betwixt the said Pool and the River of the Wells, or Turnemill-brooke, in a place then called the Elms, 
The Elms in Smithfield a place wherein trespassers were executed.  for that there grew many Elm trees, and this had been the place of execution for Offenders: since the which time, the building there hath been so increased, that now remaineth not one tree growing.  
Amongst these new buildings is Cowbridge street, or Cow lane; which turneth toward Oldbourne, in which Lane the Prior of Semperingham had his Inn, or London lodging.  
The rest of that West side of Smithfield hath diverse fair Inns, and other comely buildings, 
Hosier lane.  up to Hosier lane, which also turneth down to Oldbourne, till it meet with Cowbridge street. From this Lane to Cock lane, 
Cock lane.  overagainst Pie-corner.  
And thus much for encroachments and enclosure of this Smithfield, whereby remaineth but a small portion for the old uses, to wit, for markets of horses, and cattle, neither for Military exercises, 
justings in Smithfield.  as justings, Turnings, and great Triumphs, which have been there performed before the Princes and Nobility, both of this Realm and sorraine Countries.  
For example to note: In the year 1357. the 31. of Edward the third, 
Fabian.  great and royal justs were then holden in Smithfield, there being present the Kings of England, France, and Scotland, with many other Nobles, and great Estates of diverse lands.  
In the year 1362. the 36. of Edward the 3. on the first five days of May, in Smithfield were justs holden, the King and Queen being present, with the most part of the Chivalry of England, and of France, and of other Nations, to the which came Spaniards, Cyprians, and Armenians, Knightly requesting aid of the King of England, against the Pagans' that invaded their confines.  
The 48. of Edw. the third, Dame Alice Perrers, 
Alice Perrers road from the Tower to Smithfield, as Lady of the Sun.  or Pierce (the king's Concubine) as Lady of the Sun, rode from the Tower of London, through Cheap, accompanied of many Lords and Ladies, every Lady leading a Lord by his horse bridle, till they came into West Smithfield, and then began a great Just, which endured seven days after.  
Also the 9 of Richard the 2. was the like great riding from the Tower to Westminster, and every Lord led a Lady's horse bridle, and on the morrow began the justs in Smithfield, which lasted two days: there bore them well, Henry of Derby, the Duke of Lancaster's son, the Lord Beaumond, Sir Simon Burley, and Sir Paris Countney.  
In the 14. of Richard the second, after Froisard, royal justs and Turnements were proclaimed to be done in Smithfield, to begin on Sunday next after the feast of Saint Michael; many strangers came forth of other countries: namely, Valariam, Earl of S. Paul, that had married king Richard's sister, the Lady Maud Courtney, and William the young Earl of Ostarvant, son to Albret of Baviere, Earl of Holland and Henault.  
At the day appointed, 
Tower Royal.  there issued forth of the Tower, about the third hour of the day 60. Coursers, apparelled for the justs, and upon every one an Esquire of honour riding a soft pace: then came forth 60. Ladies of honour mounted upon Palfrays, riding on the one side richly apparelled, and every Lady led a Knight with a chain of gold, those Knights being on the King's party, had their armour & apparel garnished with white Hearts, and crowns of gold about the Heart's necks, and so they came riding through the streets of London to Smithfield, with a great number of Trumpets, and other instruments of Music before them. The King and Queen, who were lodged in the Bishop's Palace of London, were come from thence, with many great Estates, and placed in chambers to see the justs: the Ladies that led the knights, were taken down from their Palfrays, and went up to chambers prepared for them. Then alighted the Esquires of Honour from their Coursers, and the knights in good order mounted upon them; and after their Helmets were set on their heads, and being ready in all points, Proclamation made by the Heralds, the justs began, and many commendable courses were run, to the great pleasure of the beholders: this justs continued many days with great feasting, as ye may read in Froisard.  
In the year 1393. the 17. of Richard the 2. certain Lords of Scotland came into England to get worship, by force of Arms, the Earl of Marre challenged the Earl of Nottingham, to Just with him, and so they road together certain courses, but not the full challenge, for the Earl of Marre was cast both horse and man, and two of his ribs broken with the fall, so that he was conveyed out of Smithfield, and so towards Scotland, but died by the way at York.  
Sir Wil Darell, knight, the King's Banner-bearer of Scotland, challenged Sir Percy Courtney, knight, the King's Banner-bearer of England, and when they had run certain courses, gave over without conclusion of victory. Then Cookborne, Esquire of Scotland, challenged Sir Nicholas Hawberke, knight, and road five courses, but Cookborne was borne over horse and man, etc.  
In the year 1409. the tenth of Henry the fourth, a great Play was played at Skinners Well, which lasted eight days, where were to see the same, the most part of the Nobles and Gentles in England: and forthwith began a royal just in Smithfield, between the Earl of Somerset, and the Seneschal of Henalt, Sir Io. Cornwall, Sir Richard Arundel, and the son of Sir john Cheyney, against certain French men. And the same year a battle was fought in Smithfield, between two Esquires, the one called Glaucester Appellant, and the other Arthure Defendant, they fought valiantly, but the King took up the quarrel into his hands, and pardoned them both.  
In the year 1430. the eighth of Henry the sixth, the fourteenth of january, a battle was done in Smithfield, within the Lists, before the King, between two men of Feversham in Kent, john Vpton, Notary, Appellant, and john Down, Gentleman, Defendant: john Vpton put upon john Down, that he and his Compiers should imagine the King's death upon the day of his Coronation. When these had fought long, the King took up the matter, & forgave both the parties.  
In the year 1442. the 20. of Henry the sixth, the 30. of january, a Challenge was done in Smithfield, within the Lists, before the King, there being Sir Philip la Beaufe, of Arragon, Knight, the other an Esquire of the King's house, called john Ansley, or Anstley; they came to the field all armed, the Knight with his sword drawn, and the Esquire with his Spear, which Spear he cast against the Knight, but the Knight avoided it with his sword, and cast it to the ground. than the Esquire took his Axe, and smote many blows on the Knight, and made him let fall his Axe, and broke up his Umber three times, & would have smit him on the face with his dagger, for to have slain him; but then the King cried hold, and so they were parted: the King made john Ansley Knight, and the Knight of Arragon offered his Harness at Windsor.  
In the year 1446. the 24. of Hen. the 6. john David appeached his Master William Cater of treason: 
john David a false accuser of his master: of him was raised the byword, If ye serve me so, I will call you Davy.  and a day being assigned them to fight in Smithfield, the Master being well beloved, was so cherished by his friends, and plied with wine, that being therewith overcome, was also unluckily slain by his servant. But that false servant (for he falsely accused his Master) lived not long unpunished; for he was after hanged at Teyborn for felony.  
Let all such false accusers note this for example, and look for no better end, without speedy repentance.  
The same year, Thomas Fiiz-Thomas, Prior of Kilmaine, appeached Sir james Butler, Earl of Ormond, of treasons: which had a day assigned them to fight in Smithfield, the Lists were made, and the field prepared: but when it came to the point, the King commanded they should not fight, and took the quarrel into his hands.  
In the year 1467. the seventh of Edward the fourth, the Bastard of Burgoigne challenged the Lord Scales, brother to the Queen, to fight with him, both on horseback and on foot: the King therefore caused Lists to be prepared in Smithfield, the length of 120. Tailor's yards, and ten foot, and in breadth 80. yards, and 20. foot, double barred, five foot between the bars, the timber work whereof cost 200. Marks, besides the fair and costly Galleries prepared for the Ladies and other: at the which Martial enterprise, the King and Nobility were present. The first day they ran together with Spears, and departed with equal honour.  
The next day they turneyed on horseback, the Lord Scales horse having on his Chafron a long spear pike of steel, and as the two Champions coaped together, the same horse thrust his pike into the nostrils of the Bastard's horse, so that for very pain, he mounted so high that he fell on the one side with his Master, and the Lord Scales road about him with his sword drawn, till the King commanded the Marshal to help up the Bastard, who said; I cannot hold by the clouds; for though my horse fail me, I will not fail an encounter companion: but the King would not suffer them to do any more that day.  
The next morrow they came into the Lists on foot, with two Pole-Axes, and fought valiantly, but at the last the point of the Pole-Axe of the Lord Scales entered into the side of the Bastard's Helm; and by force might have placed him on his knees: But the King cast down his warder, and the Marshal severed them. The Bastard required that he might perform his enterprise: but the King gave Judgement, as the Bastard relinguished his challenge, etc. And this may suffice for justs in Smithfield.  
But yet we may not part with Smithfield so: 
Smithfield being continually subject to extremity of weather by an honourable motion made, it was paved all over in An. 1614  for, as it hath been a place for such honourable justs and Triumphs, by reason it was a soft ground, and unpaved: so was it a Market place for cattle, Hay, Straw, and other necessary provisions, and likewise (once in the year) at Bartholomewtide a general Fair, commonly called Bartholomew Fair, hath usually been kept in that place. But in regard that it was continually subject to the iniquity of weather, and being a place of such goodly extendure, deserved to be much better respected; it pleased the King's Majesty, with the advice of his honourable Lords of the Council, to w●ite graciously to the Lord Maior and the Aldermen his Brethren, that Smithfield might be sufficiently paved, which would be the only means, whereby to have it kept in far cleaner condition. And as no motion (to any good end and intent) can be made to the City, but they as gladly embrace and willingly pursue it: even so this honourable motion found as acceptable entertainment, and it was very speedily proceeded withal. Some voluntary contribution in the several Parishes (what each man willingly would give) was bestowed on the work; but (indeed) hardly deserving any report. Notwithstanding, on the fourth day of February, in An. 1614 the City began the intended labour, and before Bartholomewtide than next ensuing, to the credit and honour of the City for ever, 
Bartholo-Faire kept in much better manner, than ever formerly it hath been.  it was fully finished, and Bartholomew Fair there kept, without breaking any of the paved ground, but the Booths discreetly ordered, to stand fast upon the pavement. The Citizens charge thereof (as I have been credibly told by Master Arthur Strangwaies) amounting well near to sixteen hundred pounds.  
Now to return through Gilt-spurre street by Newgate, where I first began, there standeth the fair parish Church, called S. Sepulchers in the Bailie, or by Chamberlain gate, in a fair Churchyard, though not so large as of old time; for the same is let out for buildings, and a Garden plot.  
This Church was newly re-edified or builded, about the reign, of Henry the sixth, or of Edward the fourth, one of the Pophames was a great builder there: 
Io. Leyland.  namely, of one fair Chapel on the South side of the Choir, as appeareth by his Arms, and other Monuments in the Glass windows thereof, and also the fair Porch of the same Church towards the South: 
Pophames builders of St. Sepulchers Church.  his Image fair graven in stone, was fixed over the said Porch, but defaced and beaten down, his titles were these, by offices: Chancellor of Normandy, Captain of Vernoyle, Perch, Susan, and Bayon, and Treasurer of the King's Household; he died rich, leaving great treasure of strange coins, and was buried in the Charter-house Church, by West Smithfield.  
The first Nobilitating of these Pophames, was by Matilda the Empress, daughter to Henry the first, and by Henry her son: one Popham, a Gentleman of very fair lands in Southampton shire, died without issue Male, about Henry the sixth, and leaving four daughters, they were married to Fostar, Barentine, Wodham, and Hamden. Popham Deane (distant three miles from Clarendon, and three miles from Mortisham) was sometime the chief Lordship or Manor house of those Pophames.  
There lie buried in this Church, William Andrew, Stephen Clamparde, Laurence Warcam, john Dagworth, William Porter, Robert Scarlet, Esquires.  
Here-under lieth buried the body of the virtuous Lady, 
A fair plated stone in the Chancel.  the Lady Elinor Sentleger, wife to Sir Anthony Sentleger, Knight, Master of the Rolls of the Chancery of the Realm of Ireland, and one of her Majesty's Privy Council of the same Realm; the daughter of Richard Markham of Seggebrooke, in the County of Lincoln, Esquire, deceased; who died the second day of February, 1598. being of the age of 52. years, and Months odd.  
Here lieth Dame Elizabeth Langton, 
A fair stone close by the other.  late wife of Sir Thomas Langton, Knight, Baron of Newton, in the County of Lancaster: one of the daughters of Sir Edward Stanley, Knight, Lord Mounteagle, which deceased the 17. day of june, An. Dom. 1533.  
Here lieth buried the body of Richard Snelling of West Greensted in the County of Sussex, 
A fair plated stone in the same Chancel.  Esquire, who died the 25. day of August, An. Dom. 1611. He married Margery May, the eldest daughter of George May, in the County aforesaid, Esquire: By whom he had issue 2. sons and 3. daughters; which said Margery was living in An. 1612. and caused this Monument to be laid, desiring to be interred here-under.  
Elionora praehonorabilis viri, johannis Fortescue, 
A very fair plated stone in the Chancel.  Equitis Aurati, Ducatus Lancastriae Cancellarii, à sanctioribus Regiae Majestatis Conciliis, filia Edvardi Hubbard Armig. defuncti, aliquando Conjux perquam dilecta, sub hoc Marmore jacet sepulta. Vixit annos 36. piè, justè, sobriè, quoad Deum, mundum, seipsam, gestos in fide, pace, spe Christi, conscientiae, gloriae. Obiit 10. die Mensis julii, An. Regni Regis Jacobi, Angliae, etc. 3. Anno Domini 1605.   

Qualis vita, finis ita.  
Here-under lies the  
wonder of her kind, 
A fair stone by the Communion Table, richly done with Arms.   
The Quintessence  
of Nature and of Grace,  
Wit, Beauty, Bounty,  
and (in Noble race  
The rarest jewel)  
a right humble mind;  
Here lies her body,  
but her soul refined  
Above th' Empyreal,  
hath imperial place,  
In bliss so boundless,  
as no words embrace,  
Nor Art can seigne,  
nor mortal heart can find.  
Her fame remains a  
Monument of honour,  
Built by her virtue  
gilded with purest gold,  
With Lilly-flowers and  
Roses strewed upon her,  
Her Epitaph  
Urania thus enrolled:  
Mild child, chaste maiden,  
and religious wife:  
The Even crownes the day,  
joan Essex death her life.  
Piè obiit die Martis Martii 15. Ann. aetat. suae 26. Salutis nostrae, 1607.  
A Dorcas mild, 
Under the Communion Table, a fair plated stone.   
a Mary full of grace,  
A Virgin chaste,  
and of rare education,  
Entombed lieth here  
underneath this place.  
Whose life and name  
deserved commendation.  
But in the blooming  
Month of pleasant May,  
Untimely Death hath  
stolen her life away.  
Yet spite of Death,  
her virtue still remaineth;  
And in the heaven  
a better life she gaineth:  
Upon whose Tomb  
I consecreate this Verse,  
In stead of flowers.  
to deck her Funeral Hearse.  
Nemo ante obitum foelix.   

In joannem Brewster Armigerum, in obitum D. Elizabethae Deane, uxoris ejus. Obiit 24. die Octob. 1609.  

MAde generous by birth  
and kept that fount, 
A very fair Monument in the Chancel.   
From time's pollution,  
striving still to rise,  
Above the earth, high  
in the world's account  
For outward and  
inbred courtesies.  
Her actions, alms, her life,  
faith, hope, and love,  
A suffering spirit,  
rendering right for wrong:  
Her heart a Sphere, where  
all good thoughts did move,  
Whose influence was  
dispersed by the tongne.  
Religion was her Compass,  
Truth her Star,  
In sundry Seas  
of world's prosperity.  
Wealth her bad angel,  
flesh and blood her war,  
Yet wisdom made  
this discord Harmony.  
Then Marble keep  
to all posterity  
Her lives dear memory,  
upon whose urn  
And to her obsequies  
(O, obsequiously)  
In loves sweet Odours  
hearts shall ever burn.  
And let each Christian  
heart join with my pen,  
T' imbalm her virtues  
in the hearts of men.   

Thou bed of rest,  
reserve for him a room,  
Who lives a man divorced  
from his dear wife:  
And as they were one heart,  
so this one Tomb  
May hold them near  
in death, as linked in life.  
she's gone before,  
and after comes her head;  
To sleep with her  
among the blessed dead.   
Here is buried the body of Henry Cotton, 
A Monument on a Pillar in the body of the Church.  Gentleman, eldest son of Thomas Cotton, of Connington, in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire, by Dorothy Tamworth, his second wife. He living honestly, died the 11. day of june, 1614 And made his Elcecutors, Sir Edward Montagu, Knight of the Bath, married to Frances his second sister, and William Mulsho, Esquire, married to Rebecca his third sister; who in requital of his kindness to them, erected this remembrance for him.  
Barckly sublatus, jacet hic  
sub marmore stratus, 
A Grave-stone at the North Ile entering into the Choir▪   
Qui pueros docuit multos  
veluti bene sciunt.  
Quem rapuit Dominus,  
sed vivit spiritus ejus,  
Inter seculas quo ' obierunt  
qui bene formas  
Annis millenis  
quingentenis simul oct●,  
Quod Domini migrat  
qui non cursum sibi pigrat.  
Mense Decembre fero  
de quo non plus majus edo  
Binas uxores habuit  
senas quoque proys.  
Quarum tres nati,  
natae tres atque fuere,  
Quos nece truncavit  
Christus quicunque creavit.  
Next to this Church is a fair and large Inn for receipt of Travellers, and hath to sign the Saracens head.  
There lieth a street from Newgate West, to the end of Turne-againe lane, and winding North to Oldbourne Conduit. 
Oldbourne Conduit by Oldbourne Cross.  This Conduit by Oldbourne Cross was first builded 1498. Thomasin, widow to john Percival, Maior, gave to the second making thereof 20. Marks, Richard Shore ten pounds, Thomas Knesworth, and others also did give towards it.  
But of late, a new Conduit was there builded in place of the old, namely, in the year 1577. by William Lamb, sometime a Gentleman of the Chapel to King Henry the eighth, and afterward a Citizen and Clothworker of London, the water thereof he caused to be conveyed in Lead, from diverse Springs to one head, and from thence to the said Conduit, and waste of one Cock at Oldbourne bridge, more than 2000 yards in length, all which was by him performed at his own charges, amounting to the sum of 1500. l.  
From the West side of this Conduit is the high way, there called Snor hill, stretching out by Oldbourne bridge over the oft named water of Turnmill Brook, and so up to Oldbourne hill, all replenished with fair building.  
Without Oldbourne bridge, on the right hand, is Gold lane, as is before showed: up higher on the hill be certain Inns, & other fair buildings, amongst the which (of old time) was a Message called Scroope's Inn; 
Scroope's Inn, sometime Sergeant's Inn, in Oldbourne.  for so I find the same recorded in the 37. of Henry the 6.  
This house was sometime let out to Sergeants at the Law, as appeareth, and was found by Inquisition taken in the Guild-hall of London, before William Purchase, Maior, and Escheator for King Henry the seventh, in the 14. of his reign, after the death of john Lord Scroop, that he died deceased in his demesne of fee, by the feoffement of Guy Fairfaix, Knight, one of the King's justices, made in the 9 of the same King, unto an Esquire, the said Io. Scroop, Knight, Lord Scroop of Bolton, and Robert Wingfield, of one house or tenement late called Sergeants Inn, situate against the Church of St. Andrew in Oldbourne in  
the City of London, with two Gardens, and two Messages to the same Tenement belonging in the said City, to hold in burgages, valued by the year in all reprises 10. s.  
Then is the Bishop of Elies' Inn, 
Ely place in Oldbourne.  so called of belonging and pertaining to the Bishops of Ely. William de Luda, Bishop of Ely, deceased 1297. and gave this house, by the name of his Manor with the appurtenances in Oldbourne, to his successors, with condition, that his next successor should pay a thousand Marks towards the finding of three Chaplains in the Chapel there.  
More, john Hotham, Bishop of Ely, did give by the name of six Messages, two Cellars, and forty Acres of land in the Suburbs of London, in the Parish of Saint Andrew in Oldbourne, to the Prior and Covent of Ely, as appear by Patent the ninth of Edward the third: this man was Bisop of Ely 20. years, and deceased 1336.  
Thomas Arundel, Bishop of Ely, beautifully builded of new his Palace at Ely, and likewise his Manors in diverse places, especially this in Oldbourne, which he did not only repair, but rather new builded, and augmented it with a large Port, Gatehouse, or Front towards the street, or highway: his Arms are yet to be discerned in the stone work thereof: he fate Bishop of Ely fourteen years, and was translated to York.  
In this house, for the large and commodious rooms thereof, diverse great and solemn feasts have been kept, especially by the Sergeants at the Law, whereof twain are to be noted for posterity.  
The first in the year 1464. the fourth of Edward the fourth, 
Sergeant's feast in Ely house.  in Michaelmas Term, the Sergeants at Law held their feast in this house, to the which amongst other Estates, Matthew Philip, Maior of London, with the Aldermen, Sheriffs, & Commons of diverse crafts being invited, did repair: but when the Mayor looked to keep the State in the Hall, as it had been used in all places within the City and Liberties (out of the King's presence) the Lord Grace of Ruthen, than Lord Treasurer of England, unwitting the Sergeants, and against their wills (as they said) was first placed: whereupon the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons departed home, and the Mayor made the Aldermen to dine with him: howbeit, he and all the Citizens were wonderfully displeased, that he was so dealt with, and the new Sergeants and others were right sorry therefore, and had rather than much good (as they said) it had not so happened.  
One other feast was likewise there kept, in the year 1531. the 23. of King Henry the eighth. The Sergeants then made were in number eleven: namely, Thomas Audeley, Walter Luke, 1. Bawldwine, 1. Hind, Christopher jenny, john Dowsell, Edward Mervine, Edmond Knightley, Roger Chomley, Edward Montague, and Robert York.  
These also held their feast in this Ely house for five days, to wit, Friday the tenth of November, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. On Monday (which was their principal day) King Henry and Queen Katherine dined there (but in two chambers) and the foreign Ambassadors in a third chamber. 
K. Henry the 8. and Queen Katherine dined at the Sergeant's feasts.   
In the Hall at the high table, sat Sir Nicholas Lambard, Maior of London, the judges, the Barons of the Exchequer, with certain Aldermen of the City: At the board on the South side sat the Master of the Rolls, the Master of the Chancery, and worshipful Citizens: On the North side of the Hall certain Aldermen began the board, and then followed Merchants of the City: In the Cloystry, Chapel and Gallery, Knights, Esquires, and Gentlemen were placed: In the Hals the Crafts of London: the Sergeants of Law and their Wives kept in their own chambers.  
It were tedious to set down the preparation of fish, fles, and other victuals spent in this feast, and would seem almost incredible, and (as to me it seemeth) wanted little of a feast at a Coronation: Nevertheless a little I will touch, for declaration of the change of prices.  
There were brought to the slaughter house four and twenty great Beefs, at 26. s. 8. d. the piece from the Shambles, one carcase of an Ox, at 24. s. an hundred fat Muttons, 2. s. 10. d. the piece, fifty one great Veals, at 4. s. 8. d. the piece, thirty four Porkes, 3. s. 8. d. the piece, ninety one Pigs, 6 d. the piece, Capons of Grece of one Poulter (for they had three) ten dozen, at twenty pence the piece: Capons of Kent, nine dozen and six, at twelve pence the piece: Capons course nineteen dozen, at six pence the piece. Cocks of gross, seven dozen and nine, at eight pence the piece: Cocks course, fourteen dozen and eight, at three pence the piece: Pullet's the best, 2. d. ob. other Pulle●s, two pence: Pigeons, thirty seven dozen, at ten pence the dozen: Swans, fourteen dozen: Larks, 340. dozen, at five pence the dozen, etc. Edward Nevil was Seneschal or Steward, Thomas Ratcliffe Controwier, Thomas Wildon Clerk of the Kitchin.  
Next, 
Lither lane. Furnivals' Inn, an Inn of Chancery▪  beyond this Manor of Ely house, is Lither lane, turning into the field. Then is Furnivals' Inn, now an Inn of Chancery, but sometime belongging to Sir William Furnival, Knight, and Thomasin his wife, who had in Oldbourne two Messages, and 13. Shops, as appeareth by Record of Richard the second in the sixth of his reign.  
Then is the Earl of Baths Inn, now called, 
The Earl of Baths Inn.  bath Place, of late (for the most part) new builded, and so to the Bars.  
Now again from Newgate, on the left hand or South side, lieth the Old Bailie, which runneth down by the wall upon the ditch of the City, called Hounds Ditch to Ludgate: 
Hound's Ditch.  I have not read how this street took that name, but it is like to have risen of some Court of old time there kept: and I find, that in the year 1356. the 34. of Edward the third, the tenement and ground upon Hound's Ditch, between Ludgate on the South, and Newgate on the North, was appointed to john Cambridge, Fishmonger, 
The Chamberlains house and Court in the Old Beyly.  Chamberlain of London, whereby it seemeth, that the Chamberlains of London have there kept their Courts, as now they do in the Guild hall, and till this day, the Mayor and Justices of this City kept their Sessions in a part thereof, now called the Session's hall, 
The Session's hall.  both for the City of London, and Shire of Middlesex. Overagainst the which house, on the right hand, turneth down Saint George's lane, 
S. George's lane, and Inn of Chancery there.  towards Ficet lane.  
In this St. George's lane, on the North side thereof, remaineth yet an old wall of stone, enclosing a piece of ground up Seacole lane, wherein (by report) sometime stood an Inn of Chancery: which house being greatly decayed, and standing remote from other houses of that profession, the Company removed to a common Hostery, called of the sign, our Lady Inn, not far from Clement's Inn, which they procured from Sir john Fineox, Lord chief justice of the King's Bench, and since have held it of the Owners, 
Original of New Inn.  by the name of the New Inn, paying therefore six pounds rend by the year, 
An Inn of Chancery.  as renants at their own will: for more (as is said) cannot be gotten of them; and much less will they be put from it.  
Beneath this Saint George's lane, the Lane called Fleet lane, winding South by the prison of the Fleet, into Fleetstreet, by Fleet Bridge.  
Lower down into the Old Bailie, 
P. standard of Spring water in the Old Beyly.  is at this present a Standard of Timber, with a Cock, or Cocks, delivering fair Spring water to the inhabitants, and is the waste of the water, serving the Prisoners in Ludgate.  
Next, out of the high street turneth down a Lane, called the Little Bayly, which runneth down to the East end of Saint George's lane.  
The next is Sea-coal lane, 
Sea-coal lane, or Limeburners lane, sometime so called.  I think, called Lime burners lane, of burning Lime there with Sea-coal. For I read in Record of such a Lane, to have been in the Parish of Saint Sepuld●re, and there yet remaineth in this Lane an Alley, called Limeburners Alley.  
near unto this Sea-coal lane, in the turning towards Oldbourne Conduit, is Turnë-againe lane, 
Windagaine lane.  or rather, as in a Record of the fifth of Edward the third, Windagaine lane, for that it goeth down West to Fleet Dike, from whence, men must turn again the same way they came; for there it is stopped.  
Then the high street turneth down Snor hill, 
Snore lane.  to Oldbourne Conduit, and from thence to Oldbourne Bridge; beyond the which Bridge, 
Shoo lane.  on the left hand, is Shoe lane, by the which men pass from Oldbourne to Fleetstreet, by the Conduit there.  
In this Shoe lane, on the left hand, is one old House, 
Oldbourne hall.  called Oldbourne Hall; it is now let out into diverse Tenements.  
On the other side, at the very corner, standeth the Parish Church of St. Andrew; 
Parish Church of S. Andrew in Oldbourne.  in the which Church, or near thereunto, was sometime kept a Grammar School, 
Grammar school in Oldbourne.  as appeareth in another place by a Patent, made (as I have showed) for the erection of Schools.  
There be Monuments in this Church of Thomas, Lord Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, buried 1550.  
Ralph Rokeby, of Lincoln's Inn, Esquire, Master of Saint Katherine's, and one of the Masters of Requests to Queen Elizabeth, who deceased the 14. of june, 1596.  
He gave by his Testament to Christ's Hospital in London, an hundred pounds.  
To the College of the Poor of Queen Elizabeth, in East Greenwich, an hundred pounds.  
To the poor Scholars in Cambridge, an hundred pounds.  
To the poor Scholars in Oxford, an hundred pounds.  
To the Prisoners in the two Compters in London, two hundred pounds.  
To the prisoners in the Fleet, an hundred pounds.  
To the prisoners in Ludgate, an hundred pounds.  
To the prisoners in Newgate, an hundred pounds.  
To the prisoners in the King's Bench, an hundred pounds.  
To the prisoners in the Marshalsey, an hundred pounds.  
To the prisoners in the White Lion, twenty pounds.  
To the poor of S. Katherine's, twenty pounds; and to every Brother and Sister there, forty shillings.  
Wil Sydnam founded a chantry there.  
There was also of old time (as I have read in the third of Henry the fifth) an Hospital for the poor, 
Hospital in Oldbourne.  which was a Cell to the house of Clunie in France, and was therefore suppressed among the Priories Aliens.  
Here resteth the body of Margery Parkinson, late wife of john Parkinson, 
A Monument in the North wall of the Chancel.  of the City of Chester, Gentleman, the daughter of William Dimmocke, of the same City, Gentleman, who died in the faith of Christ on the fourth day of February, Anno Domini 1610. She left behind unto her said husband these children at her death, Gerrard, William, john, Edward, and Katherine Parkinson; which Gerraid died at Brazen-nose College in Oxford, the 4. day of january, Anno Domini 1611.  
john Parkinson, her sorrowful husband, caused this Monument to be here erected, for a memorial of her virtue, and of their mutual love.  
Here lieth buried William Tipper, 
A fair stone before the door of the Vestre▪  Esquire of the body to our Sovereign Lord King james, who departed this world the first day of September, An. Domini 1613. being aged 71. years. Hec was the son of Henry Tipper, of London, Citizen and Grocer, and of Helen his wife, daughter of Randall Dodd of Cheshire. This William Tipper married Mary, daughter of Io. Clarke, of London, Goldsmith, and had issue Robert Tipper.   

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Michael Lewes, 
A small Monument in the wall at the east end of the Chancel.  of Collyweston, in the County of Northampton, Esquire, zealous in God's truth, and virtuous in conversation, did learnedly read in the Common Law of Gray's Inn, Anno 1584. Aetatis suae 45. whose body lieth here buried, but his soul is with Christ, at the right hand of God, expecting the glorious resurrection of the faithful.   

Vincemus mundi Praelia pace Dei.  
Reginaldus Biens, ortu clarus, 
A comely small Monument in the wall in the Chancel.  virtue Militari clarior, terris multùm jactatus & undis: huic tandem libens, ac laetus appulit portui. An. Dom. 1611. Aetatis 49.  
En fuit, en non est hic  
qui sepelitur in umbris;  
En fuit, en non est  
umbra, cadaver, homo.  
Vixit sua tempora nosque sequemur.  
Monumentum Roberti Coke de Milleham in Comitatu Norfolciae Armig. 
A fair Monument in the same wall.  Illustrissimi Hospitii Lincolniensis quondam Socii Primarii.  
Qui ex Winefrida uxore sua, Gulimi Knightly filia, hos suscepit liberos:  
Edwardum Coke, filium, Majestatis  
Regiae Attornatum Generalem.  
Winefridam, Miloni Mingay, Generos.  
Dorotheam, Gulielmo Francklyn, Generos.  
Elizabetham, Richardo Osborne, Generos.  
Vrsulam, Georgio Ledys, Generos.  
Annam, Francisco Stubbe, Generos.  
Margaretam, Roberto Barker, Armig.  
Ethelredam, Nicholae Bohun, Armig.  

Obiit in Hospitio  
praedicto 15. die  
Novemb. An. 

Domini, 1561.  
Elizab. 4.  
Aetat. suae 48.      

joannes Corbettus, à Chri. bene mot.  
Hic jacet spe novissimae tubae Jo. Corb. 
A comely Monument in the South wall of the Chancel.  Armig. fill. Milonis Corbetti, Militis, natus quintus mortuus 2. unus Clericorum Serenissimi jacobi à secretioribus Conciliis. Occubuit 9 Decembris, 1611.  
Si totus parvam  
promeretur frater in urnam  
Flerem, sed pars est  
vilior ista sui  
Quam Tumulo clausam,  
pars altera vidit Olympo  
Redditam, ut invidiam  
semodo flere velim.  
Elizabethae Ferreriae unicae filiol. joan. 
A small Monument under the other.  Ferrerius Galvidamus Carnutensis, & Francisca juberta, moesti. par. P. P. Anno CIC. IC. LXX. Octavo Kalend. Sextil.  
Here lie the bodies of Richard Aldworth, 
A gilt Plate in the South wall of the Quire.  Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, who had issue six sons and three daughters: which Elizabeth deceased the 24. day of August, 1603. And the said Richard, etc.  
My Turtle gone,  
all joy is gone from me,  
I'll mourn awhile,  
and after flee:  
For Time brings  
youthful Youths to Age,  
And Age brings  
Death, our Heritage.  
They lived married together four  
and forty years.  
Their race is run,  
and Heaven is won.  
Non illo melior quisquam,  
nec amantior aequi.  
Radulpho Rokeby, 
A comely Monument in the same wall of the Quire.  à Marthamla (Oppido Richmondiensis agri) oriundo, Lincolniensis Hospitii Socio Primario. Xenodochii divae Catharinae prope Arcem Londinensem Magitro; Augustissimaeque Anglorum Reginae Elizabethae à libellis supplicibus, non minus domi ac foris, quam pace bellóque de Principe, ac patria benè merito. Caelibi septuagenario, fatisquea demum 14. junii. Anno post natum Messiam, 1596. feliciter functo: Heredes in Testamento scripti piae grataeque memoriae gratia posuerunt.  
Here lieth the body of Henry Topham, 
Two fair Grav●-stones in South I'll of the Quire.  Esquire, one of the Readers of Gray's Inn: who died the first day of May, An. Dom. 1612.  
Hic jacet corpus Saintmontis Welles, Generos. de Gray's Inn, qui coelebs obiit 18. Februarii, 1612.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Thorney, 
A comely Monument in the South I'll of the Church in the wall.  late Citizen and Barber-Chirurgion of London, who died the 4. of june, 1614 and lived 71. years, being twice Master of his Company, and one of the Common Council of this City: who gave to the poor of this Parish of St. Andrew, 10. pounds to be distributed on the day of his funeral, and ten pounds a year afterward to ten poor Pensioners of this Parish for ever. And twenty shillings to the poor people of Acton for ever; who died without issue of his body, and made Peter Thorney, Citizen and Barber-Chirurgion of London (his brother's son) his heir and sole Executor: who kneeleth with him in this module, being finished and set up in the month of December, An. Dom. 1614 and at the only cost and charges of the said Peter Thorney, in memory of so worthy a member, who lived in good credit, name and fame all the days of his life, and did many good offices, and memorable acts in this Parish.  
George Harison Gentleman, 
A comely Monument in the North wall of the Quire.  lieth here,  
and Elizabeth his wife,  
Which in this Parish many a year  
did live a gracious life:  
And he at her departure gave  
to the poor of Parishes twain,  
Saint Giles in the Field, and this,  
Annuity to remain,  
For six and forty years to come,  
to give the poorest souls,  
One year six and twenty Gowns,  
and two good loads of Coals.  
Next year as many shirts and smocks,  
and as many Coals again,  
Till six and forty years run out,  
to women and to men.  
To Prisoners and to many more  
great gifts she gave beside,  
And in the faith of jesus Christ,  
they both assured died.   

Quid superbis terra & cinis?  
Huc oculos, Lector,  
versa, de corpore caeso  
I am cineres praeter  
quod superest, nihil est.  
Crede mihi de quo  
laetaris corpore, digent,  
jam cineres praeter  
quod superest, nihil est.  
Georgio Egeock, de Salford prioris in agro varvicensi, 
A comely Monument on a pillar in the Choir  Armigero, viro omni virtutum genere instructo: integerrimae fidei cum erga Deum tum erga homines, illaesae probitatis, illibati nominis, de Patria, Conjuge, amiciss. omnibus optimè merito. Dorothea (origine S. john) relicta moestissimi officii & desiderii, conjugalis triste argumentum, adjumentum memoriae, Monumentum posteris & nonnullum moeroris ac viduitatis lenamentum posuit.  
Obdormivit in Domino fideliter ac feliciter An. Salutis hum. 1601. Eliz. Reg. 43. Aetatis suae circa 40. nexus Conjug. 11. Mens. Martii 19 die Veneris, 1606.  
Here rest the bodies of Francis jenner, sometime of little Walsingham in the County of Norfolk, 
A Grave at the Chancel door.  Esquire, and sometime Fellow of Gray's Inn, and Margaret his wife (daughter to William Hamon of Acris in the County of Kent, Esquire) who had issue one only daughter and Heir, named Frances jenner, yet living. The said Margaret deceased in October, Anno 1603.  
From this Church to Saint Andrew up Oldbourne Hill, be diverse fair builded houses, amongst the which, on the left hand, there standeth three Inns of Chancery, 
Crookehorn Alley, Thavies Inn.  whereof the first, adjoining unto Crookehorne Alley, is called Thavies Inn, and standeth opposite to Ely House.  
Then is Feature lane, 
Fewters lane.  which stretcheth South into Fleetstreet, by the East end of Saint Dunstanes Church, and is so called of Fewters (or idle people) lying there, as in a way leading to Gardens; but the same is now oflater years on both sides builded thorough with many fair houses.  
Beyond this Fewters lane is Barnard's Inn, 
Barnard's Inn.  alias Mackworths' Inn, which is of the Chancery, belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 
Pat. Hen. 3. 32. 1.  as saith the Record of Hen. the 6. the 32. of his reign, and was founded by Inquisition in the Guild-hall of London, before I. Norman, Maior, the King's Exchetre. The jury said, that it was not hurtful for the King to licence Thomas Atkins, Citizen of London, and one of the Executors of john Mackworth, Deane of Lincoln, to give one Message in Oldbourne in London, with the appurtenances, called Mackworths' Inn (but now commonly known by the name of Barnard's Inn) to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, to find one sufficient Chaplain, to celebrate divine Service in the Chapel of S. George, in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, where the body of the said john is buried, to have and to hold the said message to the said Deane and Chapter, and to their successors for ever, in part of satisfaction of twenty pound Lands and Rents, which Edward the third licenced the said Deane and Chapter to purchase to their own use, either of their own fee, or tenure, or of any other, so the Lands were not holden of the King in Capite.  
Then is Staple Inn also, 
Staple Inn.  of Chancery but whereof so named, I am ignorant; the same of late is (for a great part thereof) fair builded, and not a little augmented: And then at the Bars endeth this Ward without Newgate.  
Without Ludgate, on the right hand or North side, from the said Gate, lieth the Old Bailie, as I said: Then the high street, called Ludgate Hill, down to Fleet lane; 
Ludgate hill.  in which lane standeth the Fleet, a Prisonhouse, so called of the Fleet or Water running by it, and sometime flowing about it, but now vaulted over.  
I read, 
The Fleet, or Gaol, in the reign of Richard the first.  that Richard the first, in the first year of his reign, confirmed to Osbere (brother to William Longshampe, Chancellor of England, and elect of Ely) and to his heirs for ever, the custody of his House, or Palace at Westminster, with the keeping of his Gaol of the Fleet at London. Also King john by his Patent dated the third of his reign, gave to the archdeacon of Welles, the custody of the said King's House at Westminster, and of his Gaol of the Fleet, together with the Wardship of the daughter and heir of Ro. Leveland, etc.  
Then is Fleet bridge, pitched over the said Water, whereof I have spoken in another place.  
Then also, 
Conduit in Fleetstreet.  against the South end of Shoo lane, standeth a fair Water-Conduit; whereof William Eastfield, sometime Mayor, was Founder: For the Mayor and Communality of London being possessed of a Conduit Head, with diverse Springs of water gathered thereinto, in the Parish of Paddington, and the water conveyed from thence by Pipes of Lead towards London unto Teyborne, where it had laid by the space of six years, and more; the Executors of Sir William Eastfield obtained licence of the Mayor and Communality, for them, in the year 1453. with the goods of Sir William, to convey the said waters, first, in Pipes of Lead, into a Pipe begun to be laid besides the great Conduit Head at Marrowbone, which stretcheth from thence unto a Separall, late before made against the Chapel of Rounsevall, by Charing Cross, and no further; and then from thence to convey the said water into the City, and there to make Receipt or Receipts for the same, unto the Commonweal of the Communality, to wit, the poor to drink, the rich to dress their meats: which water was by them brought thus into Fleetstreet, to a Standard, which they had made and finished 1471.  
The inhabitants of Fleetstreet, in the year 1478. obtained licence of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Communality, to make (at their own charges) two Cisterns, 
Conduit at Fleet bridge.  the one to be set at the said Standard, the other at Fleet bridge, for the receipt of the waste water. This Cistern at the Standard they builded, and on the same, a fair Tower of Stone, garnished with Images of Saint Christopher on the top, and Angels round about, lower down, with sweet sounding Bells before them, whereupon, by an Engine placed in the Tower, they diverse hours of the day and night, chymed such an Hymn as was appointed.  
This Conduit, or Standard, was again new builded, with a larger Cistern, at the charges of the City, in the year 1582.  
From this Conduit, 
Parish Church of S. Dunstane.  up to Fewters lane, and further, is the Parish Church of Saint Dunstane, called in the West, (for difference from St. Dunstan in the East) where lieth buried T. Duke, Skinner, in Saint Katherine's Chapel, by him builded, 1421. Nicholas Coningston, john Knape, and other, founded Chantries there. Ralph Bane, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1559. and other, lie there buried.  
O bone Protector animae, 
A fair plated stone under the Communion Table.   
miserere johannis  
Hor sepoole, qui Rector  
Auerham fuit ejus in annis.  
Cancellariae fuerat  
vivendo Magister,  
Sis sibi fons veniae  
cujus fuit ipse Magister.  
Morte die decimo nono  
Iu●ii ruit arm,  
M. C. quater nono  
seciato bis sibi de●e,  
Hic jacet Richardus Nordon, 
Another fair stone close by the other.  Civis & Scissor, ac quondam Vicecomes Londini, & joanna uxor ejus: Qui quidem Richardus obiit 23. die Martii, Anno Domini 1460. Ac etiam dicta Ioanna obiit 21. die Novembris, Anno 1459.  
Hic jacet Gulielmus Chapman, nuper Civis & Scissor, 
Another fair stone lying by it▪  ac Vicecomes Civitatis London, & Alicia uxor ejus. Qui Guliel. pro uno Capellano hic perpetuò celebraturo, ac pro uno Cereo coram venerabili Sacramento ad summum Altare hujus Ecclesiae continuè ardente, neonon prosuo Anniversario in perpetuum fiendo feliciter ordinavit. Et idem Guliel. obiit primo die Mensis julii, An. Dom. 1446.  
Hic jacet Rogerus Horton, 
A fair stone, hard by.  quondam unus Justiciariorum de Banco Domini Regis. Qui obiit ultimo die Aprilis, An. 1423. Cujus, etc.  
jesu animae famuli tui Laurentii Bartlot nuper Registrarii Episcop. 
A fair stone by the Communion Table.  Lincoln. Qui obiit die Octobris, Anno 1470. Dona requiem, etc.  
Quisquis ades vultumque vides,  
sta, perlege, plora,  
judicii memor esto mei,  
tua nam venit hora.  
Sum quod eris, fueramque  
quod es, tua posteriora  
Commemorans, miseris miserans,  
pro me precor ora.  
Here Edward Cordell, 
A comely Monument at entering into the Vestry.  Squire, lies;  
who when he life possessed,  
Had place among the learned and wife,  
and credit with the best.  
Abigail Heningham, his wife,  
this Monument prepared,  
For love to him, who in his life,  
to love her well declared.  
God hath his soul, this Earth his Earth,  
her heart his love shall keeps;  
The odds 'twixt you and him, is breath;  
which gone, all flesh thus sleeps.  
In obitum Thomae Valentis, Lincolniensis Hospitii Socii. Qui obiit 23. die Decemb. Anno 1601. Aetatis 78.  
Hoc Tumulo Thomae  
requiescunt ossa Valentis, 
A small Monument in the east end of the Chancel, North.   
Et parvum corpus  
parvula terra tegit:  
Sed mens, quae melior pars est,  
expresque Sepulchri,  
Infima despiciens  
sidera celsa colit.  
Here-under lieth the body of Thomas paul, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Chancel, at the east end.  Esquire, Clerk of the Crown, and one of the six Clerks of the High court of Chancery, Controller of the Hamper, Clerk of the Forest of Waltham, and High Steward to the late Queen Elizabeth, of all her Manors within the County of Essex. He had by his wife jane Tate (descended from the Line of honourable Ancestors) five sons and one daughter; who likewise is here with him buried. Both lived in the fear of God, and died in his favour: She, in the 57 year of her age, the 24. day of November, 1577. And he, in the 88 year of his age, the 26. day of june, Anno 1601.  
Stephen paul, Esquire, their only surviving son, and successor to his father in the Office of one of the six Clerks of the Chancery; in dutiful piety, consecrated to lasting memory this holy Monument.  
Corpus foetidum  
carcer, Mors libertas,  
Vita mare procellosum,  
Sepulchrum perortus,  
Mundus vaga peregrinatio,  
Coelum Patria.  
Disce ergo mori,  
dedisce vivere.  

In God is only  
my Trust: 

God is my Defender. 
A Brazen Plate on a Pillar in the Chancel.      
My friend, whoso this place of mine  
thou be that shalt behold,  
With petience pause, and hear a friend  
his mind to thee unfold,  
Seek not with heaps of worldly toys  
to furnish thy delight;  
Nor let him fancy high degree,  
that hopes to live aright.  
If thou have wealth supply their want  
that languish and decay,  
And linger not thy good intent,  
until the later day.  
If poverty oppress thy mind,  
let patience be thy guide;  
Let rigour fail to false thy faith,  
what hap so thee betide:  
For, as from death no way there is,  
whereby thee to defend;  
So, happy may no creature be,  
before his final end.  
Wherefore, of God his mercy crave,  
who hath of mercy sto●e,  
And unto him commend my soul:  
(my friend) I crave no more.  
Here before, 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the South I'll of the Quire.  lieth buried in the Vault, Robert Witchcotte, of Lion's Inn, Gentleman, the son of Thomas Witchcotte, Esquire, who deceased the 9 day of August, in An. Dom. 1557.  
Here lieth the body of Sir Roger Cholmeley, 
Another like Tomb close adjoining.  Knight for the body to King Henry the eighth: which Sir Roger deceased the 28. day of April, An. Dom. 1538.  
Ranulphus Cholmeley clara  
hîc cum conjuge dormit. 
Another Tomb by it, in the wall.   
Binaque Connubii  
corpora juncta fide,  
Haec brevis urna tenet  
veros disjungere amantes  
Nec potuit mortis  
vis truculenta nimis.  
Justitia in signis  
nulli pietate secundus,  
Ranulphus clara  
stirpe creatus erat.  
Non deerant Artes  
Generoso pectore dignae,  
Doctus & Anglorum  
jure peritus erat.  
Ille Recordator Londini  
huic extitit urbis,  
Et miseris semper  
mite levamen erat.  
Hujus acerba viri  
Londinum funera deflet,  
Dicens, justitiae  
vive perennis honour.  
Obiit 25. die Aprilis,  
An. 1563.   

Mors mihi lucrum.  
near to this place lieth buried the body of Elizab. North, 
A fair Monument in the east end of the North Quire.  wife to Roger North, Esquire, and one of the daughters and coheirs of Sir john Gilbert, Knight, of great Finborow, in Suffolk. She had issue, two sons and one daughter, Henry North, Dudley North, and Mary North. On the 29. of November in Anno 1612. (she being about the age of 22. years) ended this life: Leaving behind her many of the gravest, that may justly imitate her virtues and godly course of life.   

Anno Domini 1556.  
Hic jacet humatus Williel. 
An ancient Monument in the South end of the Quire.  Portman, Miles, Serviens inclitissimae Principis H. 8. ad Legem, & illo tempore unus justic. suorum ad placitum coram ipso Rege tenend. ac postea temp. illustriss. Principum, Phil. & Mariae Regis & Reginae Angliae Capitalis iusticiarius hujus Regni Angliae, eoque officio summa aequitate ita perfunctus erat, ut in Deum in primis sanctus & pius, in Patriam ac Principem fidus & morigerus, in omnes denique semper aequabil. fuit & perseveravit. Ab hac autem luce in coelestem Praetorum coetum 5. die Februarii, Anno Regni praefat. Regis & Reginae 3. & 4. emigravit.  
Here lieth Thomas Browke, 
A small ancient Monument in the east end of the South Quire.  Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of Lond. and sometime Master of his Company, and Alice his wife: which Thomas deceased the first day of November, An. Dom. 1546. And the said Alice deceased, etc.  
Gerardi Legh, Generosi, & clari viri interioris Templi Socii Tumulus. Civis & Hospes Interlocutores.  

C. Hospes fiste pedem, 
A comely Monument in the East end of the North Quire.   
Tumulum nec temne, Gerardus  
Legh jacet hac humili  
contumulatus humo.   

H. Vnde genus duxit?  
C. Generoso è sanguine natum,  
Antiquae stirpis  
en Monumenta docent.  
Nec Generosus erat vir  
sola ex parre caduca,  
Sed virtute magis,  
mens Generosa fuit.   

Religio summa splendebat  
mentis in arce,  
Et sedes Verae  
pectus amicitiae.  
Ingenio ac raro morum  
candore refulcit,  
Mens violare fidem  
credidit esse nefas.   

H. Quod studium vivo placuit?  
C. Scrutare solebat  
Vivens clarorum  
magna Trophaea virûm.  
Abdita naturae &  
rerum cognoscere vires  
Occultas, vivo  
maxima cura fuit.   

H. Talibus imbutum studiis  
reor esse beatum,  
Sed lethi causam  
tu mihi quaeso refer?   

C. Vrbe ista passim dum  
faevit lucida pestis,  
Occldit heu relo  
pestis acuta tuo.   

H. O durum fatum! sed  
sculptum cur stat in urna  
Numen Amicitiae  
Civis amice refer?   

C. Numen Amicitiae quo magni  
haec machina Mundi  
Constat, divina  
quae fabricata manu,  
Hujus acerba viri  
deplorat funera, dicens,  
Vives, O verae  
cultor Amicitiae,  
Donec summa dies  
nostros dissolverit artus,  
Corruat & summa  
mundus ab arce poli.   

H. Mercurius nitidis  
cur star caducifer alis  
Hic 〈◊〉 lug●t magnus  
sunera & ista Deus?   

C. Nuncius ille Deúm plangens  
sua pectora palma,  
Inc●●ans Parca's  
talia verba re●ert:  
Crudeles Parcae  
nostrum rapuistis Alumnum,  
Artibus ornatum,  
muneribusque meis  
In terris, cujus docti  
Monumenta laboris  
Extant, & nullo  
sunt peritura die.   

Obiit An. 1563.  
Octob. 13. 

Ardum vitis non deserit ulmum.     
The memorial of William Crowche, 
A small Table.  Citizen and Mercer of London, and one of the Common Council of this City; 
Monument on a pillow in the North I'll of the Quire.  who gave by his Will ten shillings a year for a Sermon on his Funeral day, and forty shillings yearly for a Dinner to be made on that day, for the Common Council, the Churchwardens, and twelve freemen of this Parish, at the election of his Executors. And he also gave ten pounds a year for ever to be distributed yearly among six and thirty poor people of honest life, dwelling in this Parish. He was buried near to this place the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini 1606.  
Lo, thus he died, for  
vain and frail is flesh;  
Yet lives his sold (by faith)  
in endless bliss,  
By faith in Christ; whose  
grace was so enlarged,  
That by his blood, man's  
sin he hath discharged.  
Here lieth George Harington, of Salby, Esquire, 
On the same Pillar.  who died the ninth day of October, 1556.  
Here lieth Laurence Dalton, 
On the same Pillar.  Esquire, late Norroy, King of Arms; who deceased on Saturday the thirteenth of December, 1561. And Dorothy his wife, daughter to Richard bream, late of London, Esquire.  
Henry Leigh, 
On the same Pillar.  sometime Citizen and Draper of London, a man borne of a good Family, whose life and conversation was pleasing to God and man, departed out of this life the ninth day of April, Anno Dom. 1568. And lieth buried in the Churchyard by his two wives, Isabel and Elizabeth, both very virtuous, good to their neighbours, and therefore right heartily beloved.  
Here lieth buried Colborne, 
On the same Pillar.  Esquire, late York, Herald of Arms: who deceased on Saturday, the thirteenth of September, 1567. and was buried on Monday, the 15. of the same month.   

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Hic jacet Cutbertus Fethestone, 
A comely Monument in the wall of the South I'll.  Generos. nuper Optiarius & Proclamator Dom. Regis, in Curia ipsius Regis coram ipso Rege ubicunque fuerat in Anglia.  
Functus est hoc munere, Ann. 35.  
Obiit 10. Decembris, 1615.  
Aetatis 78.   

Quem saepe transcit casus, aliquando invent.  
Next beyond this Church is Clifford's Inn, 
Clifford's Inn.  sometimes belonging to Robert Clifford, by gift of Edward the second, in these words:  
The King granteth to Robert Clifford that message, with the appurtenances next the Church of S. Dunstane in the West, in the Suburbs of London, which message was sometime Malculines de Herley, and came to the hands of Edw. the 1. by reason of certain debts, which the said Malculine was bound at the time of his death to our said Father, from the time that he was Escheator on this side Trent: which house, john, Earl of Richmond, did hold at our pleasure, and is now in our possession, Patent the third of Edward the second.  
After the death of this Robert Clifford, Isabel his wife let the same Message to Students of the Law, as by the Record following may appear:  
Isabel, quae fuit uxor Roberti Clifford, Messuagium unipartium, quod Robertus Clifford habuit in Parochia S. Dunstani, West. in Suburbio Londini, etc. tenuit, & illud dimisit post mortem dict. Roberti Apprenticiis de Banco, pro 10. l. Annuatim, etc. Anno 18. Edvardi tertii, inquisitis post mortem Roberti Clifford.  
This house hath since fallen into the King's hands, as I have heard, but returned again to the Cliffords, and is now let to the said Students for four pounds by the year.  
Somewhat beyond this Cliffords Inn is the South end of New street (or Chancelar lane) on the right hand, 
New street. or Chancelar lane.  whereof is Sergeant's Inn called, in Chancery lane.  
And then next was sometime the house of the Converted jews, 
House of Converts.  founded by K. Henry the third, in place of a jews house to him forfeited, in the year 1233. and the 17. of his reign, who builded there for them a fair Church, now used, and called the Chapel, for the custody of Rolls and Records of Chancery. It standeth not far from the old Temple, but in the midway between the Old Temple and the New: in the which house, all such jews and Infidels as were converted to the Christian Faith, were ordained and appointed (under an honest rule of life) sufficient maintenance; whereby it came to pass, that in short time there were gathered a great number of Converts, which were baptised, instructed in the Doctrine of Christ, and there lived under a learned Christian, appointed to govern them. Since the which time, to wit, in the year 1290. all the jews in England were banished out of the Realm, whereby the number of Converts in this place was decayed: and therefore in the year 1377. this House was annexed by Patent to William Burstall, Clerke, Custos Rotulorum, or Keeper of the Rolls of the Chancery, by Edward the third, in the fifty one year of his reign; and this first Master of the Rolls was sworn in Westminster Hall, at the Table of Marble stone: since the which time, that House hath been commonly called the Rolls in Chancery lane. Notwithstanding, such of the jews, 
Rolls in Chancery lane.  or other Insidels, as have in this Realm been converted to Christianity, and baptised, have been relieved there: for I find in Record, that one William Piers, a Jew, that became a Christian, was baptised in the fifth of Richard the second, and had two pence the day allowed him, during his life, by the said King.  
On the West side, 
Prior of Necton Park, his Inn or house of the six Clerks.  sometime was an house pertaining to the Prior of Necton Park, a house of Canons in Lincolnshire: this was commonly called Hereflete Inn, and was a Brewhouse, but now fair builded for the six Clerks of the Chancery, and standeth overagainst the said house, called the Rolls, and near unto the Lane which now entereth Fickets Croft, 
Fickets croft Shere lane.  or Fickets field. Then is Shere lane, opening also into Fickets field, hard by the Bars. On this North side of Fleetstreet, in the year of Christ, 1595. I observed, that when the Labourers had broken up the pavement from against Chancery lanes end, up towards Saint Dunstan's Church, and had digged four foot deep, they found one other pavement of hard stone, more sufficient than the first; and therefore harder to be broken, under the which they found in the made ground piles of Timber, driven very thick, and almost close together, the same being as black as pitch or coal, and many of them rotten as earth, which proveth that the ground there (as sundry other places of the City) have been a Marish or full of Springs.  
On the South side from Ludgate, before the wall of the City, be fair builded houses to Fleet bridge, 
Conduit at Fleet bridge.  on the which bridge, a Cistern for receipt of Spring water was made by the men of Fleetstreet, but the watercourse is decayed, and not restored.  
Next, 
Bridewell the King's house.  is Bride lane, and therein Bridewell, of old time the King's house: for the Kings of this Realem have been there lodged, and till the ninth of Henry the third, the Courts were kept in the King's house wheresoever he was lodged, as may appear by ancient Records, where of I have seen many, and for example have set forth one in the Chapter or Towers and Castles.  
King Henry the eighth builded there a stately and beautiful house of new, for receipt of the Emperor Charles the fifth, who in the year of Christ 1522. was lodged himself at the Black Friars; but his Nobles in this new builded Bridewell, a Gallery being made out of the house over the water, and thorough the wall of the City, into the Emperor's lodging at the Black Friars, King Henry himself oftentimes lodged there also, as namely, in the year 1525. a Parliament being then holden in the Black Friars, he created States of Nobility there; to wit:  
Henry Fitz Roy, 
States created at Bridewell.  a child (which he had by Elizabeth Blunt) to be Earl of Nottingham, Duke of Richmond, & of Somerset, Lieutenant General from Trent northward, Warden of the east middle, and west Marches for anent Scotland.  
Henry Courtney, Earl of Devonshire, Cousin-German to the king, to be marquis of Excester.  
Henry Brandon, a child of two years old, son to the Earl of Suffolk, to be Earl of Lincoln.  
Sir Thomas Manners, Lord Rosse, to be Earl of Rutland.  
Sir Henry Clifford to be Earl of Cumberland.  
Sir Robert Ratcliffe to be Viscount Fitzwater.  
Sir Thomas Boloine, Treasurer of the King's Household, to be Viscount Rochfort  
In the year 1528. Cardinal Campeius was brought to the King's presence, being then at Bridewell, whither he had called all his Nobility, Judges and Councillors, etc. And there the eighth of November, in his great Chamber, he made unto them an Oration touching his marriage with Queen Katherine, as ye may read in Edward Hall.  
In the year 1529. the same K. Henry and Queen Katherine were lodged there, whilst the question of their marriage was argued in the Black Friars, etc.  
But now you shall hear how this house became a house of correction.  
In the year 1553. the seventh of Edward the sixth, 
Bridewell given to the City of London to be a Workhouse for the poor.  the tenth of April, Sir George Barn, being Mayor of this City, was sent for to the Court at White Hall, and there at that time the King gave unto him, for the Communality and Citizens to be a Workhouse for the poor and idle persons of the City, his house of Bridewell, and seven hundred Marks land, late of the possessions of the house of the Savoy, and all the Bedding and other furniture of the said Hospital of the Savoy, towards the maintenance of the said Workhouse of Bridewell, and the Hospital of Saint Thomas in Southwark.  
This gift King Edward confirmed by his Charter, dated the 26. of june, next following. And in the year 1555. in the month of February, Sir William Gerard, Maior, and the Aldermen, entered Bridewell, and took possession thereof, according to the gift of the said King Edward, the same being confirmed by Queen Mary.  
The Bishop of S. David's had his Inn overagainst the North side of this Bridewell, 
The Bishop of S. David's house.  as I have said.  
Then is the Parish Church of Saint Bridges, 
Parish Church of S. Bridges, or Bride.  or Bride, of old time a small thing, which now remaineth to be the Choir, but since increased with a large Body, and side Isles, towards the West, at the charges of William Venor, Esquire, Warden of the Fleet, about the year 1480. all which he caused to be brought about in the stone, in the figure of a Vine, with Grapes and Leaves, etc. The partition betwixt the old Work and the new, sometime prepared as a Screne, to be set up in the Hall of the Duke of Somersets' house at Strand, was bought for eightscore pounds, and set up in the year 1557. One wilful body began to spoil and break the same, in the year 1596. but was (by the high Commissioners) forced to make it up again, and so it resteth.  
john Vlsthorpe, William Evesham, john Wigan, and other founded Chauntries there.  
Here lieth Edward Trussell, 
A comely small Monument in the South wall of the Quire.  Citizen and Clothworker of London, son of Avery Trussell, of Bilseley, in the County of Warwick, Esquire, with Anne his wife, daughter of james Philpot. which Anne departed this life An. Don. 1586. And he having lived 38. years in this Parish, departed in the Lord the nineteenth day of june, Anno Dom. 1613. Aetatis 67.  
He left behind three sons by the said Anne, and one daughter by Elizabeth, his second wife. jacobus, filius natu maximus pietatis ergo posuit.  
Here lieth james Kinnon, 
A fair Monument in the same Choir, in the East corner of the wall.  a Gent. of Lentilo in Monmouthshire, a Citizen, and Cannoniere, and a Soldier. He died aged 67. years, over-heating his blood in preparing of 40. Chambers, at the entertainment of the Prince in the Artillery Garden; to the which Society he gave 40. Chambers, and five Marks in money. To the poor of this Parish he gave 10. l. per annum for one and twenty years, and to the poor of Lentilo the like sum, and five pounds present. He had one wife and one son. Obiit 19 die Decemb. An. Dom. 1615.  
It ever was his wish  
to die in Field,  
Or else at Sea. Fates  
half his wish did yield.  
A Prince and Army  
stood about him round:  
Yet age (o're-wearied)  
took the mortal wound.  
Arts Mathematic  
he both loved and knew,  
In which his skill increased,  
as his years grew.  
Wales gave him breath,  
fair was his birth and name,  
And though death stole  
his life, he left him fame.  
The next is Salisbury Court, 
The Bishop of Salisbury his house.  a place so called, for that it belonged to the Bishop of Salisbury, and was their Inn or London house, at such time as they were summoned to come to the Parliament, or came for other business. It hath of late time been the dwelling, first of Sir Richard Sackvile, and after of Sir Thomas Sackvile his son, ●aron of Buckhurst, Lord Treasurer, who very greatly enlarged it with stately buildings.  
Then is Water lane, running down by the West side of a house, 
Water lane.  called the Hanging Sword, to the Thames.  
Then was the White Friar's Church, 
White Friars▪  called Fratres beatae Mariae de monte Carmeli, 
john Baconthorpe.  first founded (saith john Bale, by sir Kich. Grace, knight, Ancester to the Lord Grace of Codnor, in the year 1241. King Edward the first gave to the Prior and Brethren of that house, a plot of ground in Fleetstreet, whereupon to build their house, which was since re-edified or new builded by Hugh Courtney, Earl of Devonshire, about the year 1350. the 24 of Edward the third.  
john Lufken, Mayor of London, and the Communality of the City, granted a Lane, called Crockers lane, reaching from Fleetstreet to the Thames, 
Crockers lane.  to build in the West end of that Church. Sir Robert Knoles, Knight, was a great builder there also, in the reign of Richard the second, and of Henry the fourth: he deceased at his Manor of Scone Thorpe, in Norfolk, in the year 1407. and was brought to London, and honourably buried by the Lady  
Constance his wife, in the body of the said White Friar's Church, which he had newly builded.  
Robert Martial, Bishop of Hereford, builded the Choir, Presbytery steeple, and many other parts, and was there buried about the year 1420.  
There were buried also in the new Choir, sir john Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, 1398.  
Sir Edward Courteny.  
Sir Hugh Mongomery, and sir john his brother.  
john Wolle, son to sir john Wolle.  
Thomas Bayholt, Esquire.  
Elizabeth, Countess of Athole.  
Dame johan, wife to sir Thomas Say of Alden.  
Sir Pence Castle, Baron.  
I. Lord Grace, son to Reginald, Lord Grace of Wilton, 1418.  
Sir john Ludlow, knight.  
Sir Richard Derois, knight.  
Richard Grace, knight.  
john Ashley, knight.  
Robert Bristol, Esquire.  
Thomas Perry, Esquire.  
Robert Tempest, Esquire.  
William Call.  
William Neddow.  
In the old Choir were buried Dame Margaret, etc.  
Elinor Gristles.  
Sir john Browne, knight, and john his son and heir.  
Sir Simon de Berford, knight.  
Peter Wigus, Esquire.  
Robert Matthew. Esquire.  
Sir john Skargell, knight.  
Sir john Norice, knight.  
Sir Geffrey Roose, knight.  
Matthew Hadocke, Esquire.  
William Clarell, Esquire.  
john Aprichard, Esquire.  
William Wentworth, Esquire.  
Thomas Wicham, Esquire.  
Sir Terwit, knight.  
Sir Stephen Popham, knight.  
Bastard de Scales.  
Henry Blunt, Esquire.  
Elizabeth Blunt.  
Io. Swan, Esquire.  
Alice Foster, one of the heirs of sir Stephen Popham.  
Sir Robert Brocket, knight.  
john Drayton, Esquire.  
john, son to Robert Chanlowes, and his daughter Katherine.  
john Salvin, William Hompton, john Bampton, john Winter, Edmond Oldhall, Wil Appleyard, Thomas Dabby, Esquires.  
Sir Hugh Courtney, knight.  
john Drury, son to Robert Drury.  
Elizabeth Gemersey, Gentle woman.  
Sir Thomas Townsend, knight.  
Sir Richard Greene, knight.  
William Scot, Esquire.  
Thomas Federinghey.  
john Fulforde, Esquire.  
Edward Eldsmere, Gentleman.  
William Hart, Gentleman.  
Dame Mary Senclare, daughter to sir Thomas Talbot, knight.  
Ancher, Esquire.  
Sir William Moris, knight, and Dame Christian his wife.  
Sir Peter de Mota, knight.  
Richard Hewton, Esquire.  
Sir john Heron, knight.  
Richard Eton, Esquire.  
Hugh Stapleton, Gentleman.  
William Copley, Gentleman.  
Sir Ralph Saintowen, knight.  
Sir Hugh Bromeflete, knight.  
Lord Vessey, principal Founder of that order, the 6. of Edw. the fourth, etc.  
This house was valued at 26. pounds, seven shillings, and three pence, and was surrendered the tenth of November, the 30. of Henry the eighth.  
In place of this Friar's Church, be now many fair houses builded, lodgings for Noblemen and other.  
Then is the Sergeant's Inn, 
Sergeant's Inn in Fleetstreet.  so called, for that diverse judges and Sergeants at the Law keep a Commons, and are lodged there in Term time.  
Next, 
New Temple.  is the New Temple, so called, because the Templars before the building of this house, had their Temple in Oldbourne. This house was founded by the knight's Templars in England, in the reign of Henry the second, and the same was dedicated to God and our blessed Lady, by Heraclius, Patriarch of the Church, called the holy Resurrection in jerusalem, in the year of Christ, 1185.  
These knights Templars took their beginning about the year 1118. in manner following: 
Original of the Templars.  Certain Noblemen, horsemen, religiously bend, bound by vow themselves in the hands of the Patriarch of jerusalem, to serve Christ after the manner of Regular Canons, in chastity and obedience, and to renounce their own proper wills for ever: the first of which order were Hugh Paganus, and Geffrey de S. Andromare. And whereas at the first they had no certain habitation, Baldwin, King of jerusalem, granted unto them a dwelling place in his Palace by the Temple, and the Cannons of the same Temple, gave them the street, thereby to build therein their houses of office, and the Patriarch, the King, the Nobles, and the Prelates, gave unto them certain revenues out of their Lordships.  
Their first profession was for safeguard of the Pilgrims, 
Profession of the Templars.  coming to visit the Sepulchre, and to keep the high ways against the lying in wait of thiefs, etc. About ten years after, they had a rule appointed unto them, and a white Habit, by Honorius the second, than Pope; and whereas they had but nine in number, they began to increase greatly. Afterward in Pope Eugenius time, they bore cross of red cloth on their uppermost garments, to be known from others: and in short time, because they had their first mansion hard by the Temple of our Lord in jerusalem, they were called Knights of the Temple.  
Many Noblemen in all parts of Christendom, became Brethren of this order, and builded for themselves Temples in every City or great Town in England, but this at London was their chief house, which they builded after the form of the Temple near to the Sepulchre of our Lord at jerusalem. They had also other Temples in Cambridge, Bristol, Canturbury, Dover, Warwick. This Temple in London was often made a Storehouse of men's Treasure, I mean such as feared the spoil there of in other places.  
Matthew Paris noteth, 
Mat. Paris. Hubert Earl of Kent his Treasure in the new Temple.  that in the year 1232. Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, being Prisoner in the Tower of London, the King was informed that he had much treasure laid up in this New Temple, under the custody of the Templars: whereupon he sent for the Master of the Temple, and examined him straightly, who confessed, that money being delivered unto him and his Brethren, to be kept, he knew not how much there was of it: The King demanded to have the same delivered: but it was answered, that the money being committed unto their trust, could not be delivered, without the licence of him that committed it to Ecclesiastical protection; whereupon the King sent his Treasurer and justicier of the Exchequer unto Hubert, to require him to resign the money wholly into his hands: who answered that he would gladly submit himself and all his unto the King's pleasure, and thereupon desired the Knights of the Temple (in his behalf) to present all the Keys unto the King to do his pleasure with the goods which he had committed unto them. Then the King commanded the money to be faithfully told, and laid up in his Treasure by Inventory, wherein was found (besides ready money) vessels of Gold, and Silver unpraiseable, and many precious Stones, which would make all men wonder, if they knew the worth of them.  
This Temple was again dedicated 1240. belike also newly re-edified then.  
These Templars at this time were in so great glory, that they entertained the Nobility, foreign Ambassadors, and the Prince himself very often, 
Mat. Paris.  insomuch that Matthew Paris cryeth out on them for their pride, who being at the first so poor, as they had but one horse to serve two of them, in token whereof they gave in their Seal, two men riding on one horse; 
Seal of the Templars.  yet suddenly they waxed so insolent, that they disdained other orders, and sorted themselves with Noblemen.  
King Edward the first, 
30. Dunmow.  in the year 1283. taking with him Robert Waleran and other, came to the Temple, where calling for the keeper of the Treasure-house, as if he meant to see his Mother's jewels, that were laid up there to be safely kept, he entered into the house, breaking the Coffers of certain persons, that had likewise brought their money thither, and he took away from thence to the value of 1000 l.  
Many Parliaments and great Counsels have been there kept, 
Parliament at the new Temple.  as may appear by our Histories.  
In the year 1308. all the Templars in England, as also in other parts of Christendom, were apprehended and committed to diverse prisons.  
In 1310. a Provincial Council was holden at London against the Templars in England, upon heresy, and other Articles whereof they were accused, but denied all except one or two of them: Notwithstanding, they all did confess, that they could not purge themselves fully, as faultless, and so they were condemned to perpetual penance, in several Monasteries, where they behaved themselves modestly.  
Philip, 
The order of Templars condemned.  King of France, procured their overthrow throughout the whole world, and caused them to be condemned by a general Council to his advantage, 
Templars burned.  as he thought, for he believed to have had all their Lands in France, and therefore seizing the same in his hands, (as I have read) caused the Templars, 
Rob. Fabian.  to the number of 54. or after Fabian, threescore, to be burnt at Paris.  
Edward the second, in the year 1313. gave unto Aimer de la Valence Earl of Pembroke, 
Patent. The Temple given to Aimer de Valence.  the whole place and houses called the New Temple at London, with the ground called Fiquetes Croft, and all the Tenements and Rents, with the appurtenances that belonged to the Templars in the City of London, and Suburbs thereof.  
After Aimer de Valence (saith some) Hugh Spencer (usurping the same) held it during his life. By whose death it fell again to the hands of Edward the third, but in the mean time, to wit, 1234. by a Council holden at Vienna, all the Lands of the Templars (lest the same should be put to profane uses) were given to the Knight's Hospitalers of the order of Saint john Baptist, 
Temple given to the Hospitalers of Saint john of jerusalem.  called S. john of jerusalem, which Knights had put the Turks out of the I'll of Rhodes, and after wan upon the said Turk daily for a long time.  
The said Edward the third therefore granted the same to the said Knights, 
Patent 2▪ E. 3. Clase, 18. E. 3.  who possessed it, and in the eighteenth year of the said King's reign, were forced to repair the Bridge of the said Temple. These Knights had their head house for England by West Smithfield, and they, in the reign of the same Edward the third, granted (for a certain rent of ten pounds by the year) the said Temple, 
The Temple gran-to the Students of the Law and made an Inn of Court.  with the appurtenances thereunto adjoining, to the Students of the Common Laws of England: in whose possession the same hath ever sithence remained, and is now divided into two houses of several Students, by the name of Inns of Court, to wit, the Inner Temple, and the Middle Temple; who kept two several Halls. But they resort all to the said Temple Church: in the round Walk whereof (which is the West part, without the Choir) there remain Monuments of Noblemen buried, 
Monuments in the Temple.  to the number of eleven: eight of them are Images of Armed Knights; five lying crosslegged, 
Images of Knights buried crosslegged, the cause why.  as men vowed to the Holy Land, against the Infidels and unbelieving jews; the other three straight-legged: The rest are coaped stones, all of grey Marble. The first of the crosslegged, was W. Martial the elder, Earl of Pembroke, who died 1219. Wil Marshal, his son, Earl of Pembroke, was the second; he died 1231. And Gilbert Marshal, his brother Earl of Pembroke, slain in a Tournament at Hartford, besides Ware, in the year 1241.  
After this, Robert Rose, otherwise called Fursan, being made a Templar in the year 1245. died, and was buried there. And these are all that I can remember to have read of.  
Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls, was buried there, in the year 1557.  
In the year 1381. the Rebels of Essex and of Kent destroyed and plucked down the Houses and Lodgings of this Temple, 
Records of the Temple destroyed.  took out of the Church the Books and Records that were in Hutches of the Apprentices of the Law, carried them into the streets, and burned them: 
Gatehouse of the Temple new builded.  the house they spoilt and burnt for wrath that they bare Sir Robert Hales Lord Prior of Saint john's in Smithfield. But it was since again at diverse times repaired; namely the Gatehouse of the Middle Temple, in the reign of Henry the 8. by Sir Amias Paulet, Knight, upon occasion, 
Great Hall of the Temple new builded.  as in my Annals I have showed. The great Hall of the Middle Temple was newly builded in the year 1572. in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.  
This Temple Church had a Master, 
Order for Divine Service in the Temple.  and four stipendiary Priests, with a Clerk: These, for the ministration of divine Service there, have stipends allowed unto them, out of the possessions and Revenues of the late Hospital and House of S. john's of jerusalem in England, as it had been in the reign of Edward the sixth.  
And thus much for the said New Temple, the farthest West part of this Ward, and also of this City, for the Liberties thereof: which Ward hath an Alderman, and his Deputies three. In S. Sepulchers Parish, common Council, six; Constables, four; Scavengers, 4. Wardmote Inquest, twelve. In S. Bridgets Parish, common Councillors, 8. Constables, eight; Scavengers, eight; Wardmote Inquest, twenty. In S. Andrews, common Council, two; Constables, two; Scavengers, three, Wardmote Inquest, twelve. It is taxed to the Fifteen at 35. pounds, one shilling.    

BRIDGE WARD WITHOUT, The 26. in number, consisting of the Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey.  
HAving treated of Wards in London, 
Bridge Ward without.  on the North side the Thames (in number five and twenty) I am now to cross over the said River, into the Borough of Southwark, which is also a Ward of London without the walls, on the South side thereof, as is Portsoken on the East, and Faringdon extra on the West.  
But before I come to the particular description of this Ward, it will not be impertinent to declare, 
Ex Humour. Dys●n.  when, and by what means the Borough of South●●rk now called Bridge Ward without, was made one of the six and twenty Wards, belonging to the City of London; which was in this manner:  
After the dissolution of the Monasteries, 
How the Borough of Southwark became at the first to be one of the 26. Wards of London.  Abbeys, Priories, and other religious Houses, in this Realm of England: The Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of this City of London taking into their considerations, how commodious and convenient it would be unto the City, to have the Borough of Southwark annexed thereunto, and that the same Borough was in the King's hands wholly; they became humble suitors unto King Henry eighth, and to the Lords of his Highness' Privy Council, for the obtaining of the same. Which suit not being granted unto them; after the decease of King Henry the eighth, they renewed their suit unto his Son and next successor, King Edward the sixth, and to the Lords of his Privy Council for the obtaining of the same Borough.  
At the length, after long suit, and much labour, it pleased King Edward the sixth, by his Letters Patents, sealed with the great Seal of England, bearing date at Westminster the three and twentieth day April, in the fourth year of his reign, as well in consideration of the sum of six hundred forty seven pounds, two shillings, and a penny, of lawful money of England, paid to his Highness' use, by the Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of London, as for diverse other considerations him thereunto moving; To give and grant unto the said Mayor and Communality, and Citizens of London, diverse Messages, lands & Tenements, lying in or near the said Borough of Southwark, in the said Letters Patents particularly expressed, which were sometimes the Lands of Charles, then late Duke of Suffolk, and of whom King Henry the eighth did buy and purchase the same.  
But there was excepted out of the said Grant, 
The Mint of Coinage in Southwark.  and reserved unto the said King Edward the sixth, his Heirs and successors, all that his Capital Message, or Mansion House, called Southwark Place, late of the said Duke of Suffolk, and all Gardens and Land to the same adjoining: And all that his Park in Southwark: And all that his Message, and all Edifices and ground, called the Antilope there.  
And the said King Edward the sixth did by his said Letters Patents give and grant to the said Mayor, Communality, and Citizens, and their successors, all that his Lordship and Manor of Southwark, with all and singular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, in the said County of Surrey, then late belonging to the late Monastery of Bermondsey, in the same County: And also all that his Manor and Borough of Southwark, with all and singular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, in the said County of Surrey, then late parcel of the Possessions of the Archbishop and Archbishoprickes of Canturbury, Together with diverse yearly rents, issuing out of diverse Messages or Tenements, in the said Letters Patents particularly expressed.  
And also the said King Edward the sixth, by his said Letters Patents, as well for the abovementioned considerations, as also for the sum of five hundred Marks, paid to his use, by the said Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of the said City of London, did give and grant to the said Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of the said City, and to their successors, in and through the whole Borough and Town of Southwark, and in and through the whole Parish of▪ Saint Saviors, Saint Olaves, and Saint George in Southwark, and in and through the whole Parish, then late called Saint Thomas Hospital, and then called the King's Hospital in Southwark, 
The king's Hospital in Southwark.  and elsewhere whersoever, in the Town and Borough of Southwark, and in Kentish street and Blackman street, in the Parish of Newington, All Wayffes, Estrays, Treasure-trove, Goods and Chattels of Traitors, Felons, Fugitives, Outlaws, Condemned persons, Convict persons, and Felons defamed, and of such as be put in Exigent of Outlawry, Felons of themselves, and Deodands, and of such as refuse the Laws of the Land: And all Goods disclaimed, found, or being within the said Borough, Town, Parishes and Precincts: And all manor of Escheats and Forfeitures.  
And that the said Mayor, Communality, 
The power of the Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of London in Southwark.  and Citizens, by themselves, or their Deputy, or Officer or Officers, should have in the Town, Borough, Parishes, and Precincts aforesaid, the Taste and Assize of Bread, Wine, Ale, and Beer, and of all other Victuals, and things whatsoever, sold in the same Town. And whatsoever should or might appertain to the Office of the Clerk of the Market of his Majesty's household. And the correction and punishment of all persons there selling Bread, Wine, Beer, and Ale, and other Victuals; and of others there inhabiting, or using any Arts whatsoever. And all Forfeitures, Fines, and Amerciaments, to be forfeited to the King, or his Heirs or Successors. And that they should have the execution of the King's Writs, and of all other Writs, Commandments, Precepts, Extracts, and Warrants, with the returns thereof, by such their Minister or Deputy as they should choose.  
And that they should have, 
The Fair to be kept in Southwark.  keep, and hold there, every year, yearly, one Fair, to endure for three days, viz. the seventh, eighth, and ninth days of September. And that during the said three days, they should hold there by their Minister or Deputy, from day to day, from hour to hour, and from time to time, all Actions, Plaints, and Pleas of the Court of Pipowder, with all Summons, Attachments, Arrests, Issues, Fines, Redemptions, Commodities, and other Rights whatsoever, to the Court of Pipowder by any means belonging. And also, that they should have throughout the whole Precinct aforesaid, View of Frankepledge, with all Summons, Attachments, Arrests, Issues, Amerciaments, Fines, Redemptions, Profits, Commodities, and other things, which thereof to the King, his Heirs, or Successors, should appertain.  
And also, that the said Mayor, Communality, and Citizens, and their successors, by themselves, or by their Officers or Deputies, may take and arrest in the Borough, Town, Parish, and Precincts aforesaid, 
Felons in Southwark committed to Newgate in London.  all Thiefs, Felons, and other Malefactors, and may carry them to the Gaol of Newgate. And that the said Mayor, Communality, and Citizens, and their successors, should for ever have in the said Borough, Town parishes, and Precincts, all such Liberties, privileges, Franchises, Discharges, and Customs, which the King or his Heirs should have had, if the said Borough had remained in the King's hands.  
And also he granted to the said Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of London, and to their successors, that they should for ever hold and keep, all manner of Pleas, 
Pleas, Actions, Plaints, and personal Suits.  Actions, Plaints, and personal Suits, and all manner of causes, Matters, Contracts, and Demands whatsoever, happening in the Precincts aforesaid, before the Mayor and Aldermen of London, and before the Sheriffs of London, for the time being, or any of them, in the Guild hall and Hustings of the said City: and the like Actions, Bills, Plaints, Process, Arrests, judgements, Executions, and other things whatsoever, and the same days and times, and in such like manner, as the like Pleas happening in the said City, before the Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs, or any of them, in the said Courts, or any of them, time out of mind, have been taken, holden, prosecuted, or executed. And that the Sergeants at Mace, and other Officers of London, using to serve Process, might from thenceforth, for ever, serve and execute all manner of Process in the said Borough, Town, Parishes and Precincts, concerning such Pleas and executions of the same, as time out of mind hath been used in the City of London.  
And that the Inhabitants of the same Borough, 
Inhabitants of the Borough to implead, and be impleaded in London.  Parishes, and Precincts, for Causes and Matters there growing, may implead or be impleaded in the said City, in form aforesaid, and in the said Courts. And that if the juries impanelled, and so moved to try such Issues, shall not appear before the said Mayor and Aldermen, or Sheriffs, in the said Courts in London, they shall be amerced in like manner, and forfeit such Issues, as juries in London, making default of appearance, have used to forfeit. And that the Issues so forfeited, shall be to the use of the Mayor, Communality, and Citizens of London, and their successors for ever. And also, that the said Mayor and Communality, and Citizens, and their successors for ever, should have the Cognizance of all manner of Pleas, Plaints, and personal Actions, out of all the King's Courts, before the King, or before any of his justices, for any thing happening in the said Borough, or Precincts, 
Issues taken upon Suits tried before the Mayor and Aldermen.  before the said Mayor and Aldermen, and Sheriffs, or any of them, in the Courts of the said City. And that the Issues taken upon the said suits, shall be tried in the said Courts, before the Mayor and Aldermen and Sheriffs, by men of the said Borough, as Issues in London are tried.  
And that the said Mayor, 
Two Coroners for the Borough.  Communality, and Citizens, and their successors, should for ever choose, according to the Law, every year, or as often as they should think meet, two Coroners in the said Borough: And that the said Coroners, and either of them so chosen, should in the Precincts aforesaid, have and use like authority, as any Coroners in England ought to have and execute: and that no other of the King's Coroners should in any wise presume to execute any thing belonging to the Office of a Coroner, 
The Mayor of London Escheator in Southwark and Clark of the Market there also.  in the Precincts aforesaid.  
And that the Mayor of London, for the time being, should be Escheator in the Precincts aforesaid, and have power to direct Precepts to the Sheriff of the County of Surrey for the time being, and to do all other things, which to the Office of Escheator in any of the Counties of England appertaineth: and that no other Escheator shall enter there, or intermeddle with any thing belonging to the Office of Escheator: and that the Mayor of London, for the time being, shall be the King's Clerk of the Market within the Precincts aforesaid, and may do all things there appertaining to the Office of Clerk of the Market, and that the Clerk of the Market of the King's Household shall not there intermeddle with any thing.  
And that the said Mayor, Communality, and Citizens, and their successors for ever, should have, hold, use, and enjoy, in the Precincts aforesaid, as well all the Liberties and Franchises aforesaid, as the Toll, Tallage, Picage, and all other the said King's jurisdictions, 
Toll, Tallage, Picage, etc.  Franchises, and Privileges, which any Archbishop of Canturbury, Charles D. of Suffolk, or any the M. Brother and Sisters of the then late Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark, or any Abbot of the then late Monastery of S. Saviors of Bermondsey, near Southwark; or any Prior or Covent of the then late Priory of Saint Mary Overy, or any of them ever had, then had, or aught to have had in the premises, in any of the places aforesaid; or which the said King Edward the sixth then lately held and enjoyed, or aught to have had & enjoy, & in as ample manner as King Henry the 8. had and enjoyed, or aught to have had, and enjoy the same: So that none of the King's Sheriffs, or any other of his Officers should intermeddle in any thing in the said Borough and Precincts aforesaid.  
And the said King Edward the sixth did by his said Letters Patents further grant, 
The inhabitants to be within the governance and correction of the Mayor, etc.  that all the Inhabitants of the said Precincts should be within the ordinance, governance and correction of the Mayor and Officers of London and their Deputies, as the Citizens and Inhabitants of London ought to be; by reason of any Charter formerly granted by any of the said King's Progenitors, to the Mayor, Communality and Citizens of London. And that the said Mayor, Communality and Citizens, and their Successors for ever should have, enjoy, and use such Laws, jurisdictions, Liberties, Franchises and Privileges whatsoever in the Borough, and Precincts aforesaid, as fully and freely as they then used, or aught to have used and enjoyed the same in London, by virtue of any grant to them made by any of the said King's Progenitors.  
And that the Mayor of London for the time being, and the Recorder of London for the time being, after they have borne the Office of majoralty of London, should be justices of the King's Peace in Southwark, and the Precincts aforesaid, so long as they should stand Aldermen of the said City, 
justices of London in the like Office in Southwark.  and should in the said Borough and Precincts aforesaid do and execute all things which other justices of the Peace might do in the County of Surrey, according to the Laws and Statutes of England.  
And also, that the said Mayor, Commonalty & Citizens, & their Successors should have every week, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday in the said Borough and Town of Southwark, 
3. Market & Markets in Southwark.  one Market or Markets there to be kept, and all things to Markets appertaining: All which Manor, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises, and other the premises granted by the said Letters Patents, did extend to the clear yearly value of 35. li. 14. s. 4. d. And were granted to be holden to the said Mayor, Communality and Citizens of London, and their Successors for ever, of the said King, his Heirs and Successors, as of his Manor of East Greenwich, in the County of Kent, by Fealty only in Free Socage (and not in Capite) for all manner of services and demands whatsoever.  
But there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant, 
Exceptions and reservations to the King.  to the said King Edward the sixth, his Heirs and Successors, all his Rights, jurisdictions, Liberties & Franchises whatsoever, within the Walk, Circuit, and Precinct of his Capital Message, Gardens, and Park in Southwark, and in all Gardens, Curtilages, and Lands, to the said Mansion House, Gardens, and Park belonging.  
Also, there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant, the House, Message, or Lodging there, called the King's Bench, and the Gardens to the same belonging, so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.  
Also, there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant, the House, Message, or Lodging there, called the Marshalsey, and the Gardens to the same belonging, so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.  
Also it was provided, that the said Letters Patents should not be prejudicial to the Offices of the Great Master or Steward of the King's Household, within the Borough and Precincts aforesaid, to be executed while the same Borough and Precincts should be within the Verge: Nor to joh. Gates, Knight, one of the Gentlemen of the King's Privy Chamber, concerning any Lands, Tenements, Offices, Profits, Franchises, or Liberties to him granted during his life, by the said King Edward the sixth, or by his Father King Henry the eight.  
About the space of a month after the said Borough of Southwark was so granted by King Edward the sixth to the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London, and that they by force of the said Letters Patents stood charged with the Ordering, Survev, and Government of the same Borough, and of all the King's subjects inhabiting therein, 
The ordering survey, and government of the Borough, etc.  and repairing thither: At a Court holden before Sir Rowland Hill, Knight, than Lord Mayor of London, and the Aldermen of the same City, in the Guild-Hall of London, on Tuesday the eight and twentieth of May, in the said fourth year of the reign of King Edward the sixth, the said Town or Borough was named and called the Ward of Bridge Ward without. 
The Ward of Bridge Ward without; and Sir john Ayliffe first Alderman thereof.  And Sir john Ayliffe, Knight, Citizen and Barber-Surgeon of London, was then also named, elected, and chosen by the same Court, to be Alderman of the same Ward, albeit that before that time there neither was any such Ward nor Alderman.  
And it was then also ordered, That the said Sir john Ayliffe, by that name of Alderman of Bridge Ward without, and all other that from thenceforth should be Alderman of the same Ward, should have the Rule, Surveyed, and Government, not only of the Inhabitants of the said Town & Borough of Southwark, and other the King's people repairing to the same, but also of all the Liberties, Franchises, and Privileges within the said Town and Borough, then formerly granted by the King and his Progenitors to the said Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London. 
Sir john Ayliffe sworn & admitted in the Maioralitie of Sir Rowland Hill.  And for the due execution of which Office, the said Sir john Ayliffe was then presently sworn and admitted.  
Not long after, videlicet, at a Court of Common Council, holden in the Guild-Hall of London, on the last day of july, in the said fourth year of the reign of King Edward the sixth, and in the time of the majoralty of the said Sir Rowland Hill, it was enacted, That besides the than ancient accustomed number of five and twenty Aldermen, there should be one Alderman more elected, to have the Rule, Charge, and Governance of the said Borough and Town. And that four discreet persons, or more, being Freemen of London, and dwelling within the said City, or the Borough of Southwark, or in other the Liberties of the said City, sold from thenceforth, as often as the case should require, be from time to time nominated, appointed, and chosen by the Inhabitants of the said Borough for the time being, before the Lord Mayor of London for the time being, sitting in the said Borough for that purpose, in such sort and order, as the Aldermen of London were in those days commonly elected.  
And that the said Lord Mayor for the time being should (at the next Court of Aldermen to be holden at the Guild-Hall of the said City, next after such election) present the names and surnames of all such persons as so should be named before him, and put in the said election. 
Election of an Alderman by Scrutiaie.  And that the said Lord Maior & Aldermen for the time being, should of those four persons, or more, so presented, elect and choose one, by way of Scrutiny, to be an Alderman of the said City, and to have the peculiar Ordering, Rule and Governance of the said Borough and Town of Southwark, and of the Inhabitants thereof, and of all other the King's liege people, repairing to the same.  
And that the said Alderman so especially elect and chosen, and from time to time, as the cause sold require thenceforth, to be elect and chosen for the Survey and Government of the said Borough, and the Inhabitants and other remaining in and to the same, should always be named and called the Alderman of Bridge Ward without, 
The Alderman of Bridge Ward without.  and by none other Name, for or concerning that Office, or Room, and should have the Cure and Charge of the good Ordering and Government of the said Borough and Town of Southwark, and of the Inhabitants and People of and in the same, and of none other Place within the said City, by reason or colour of the said Room, as long as he should remain and stand Alderman of the said Ward, but as the residue of the said Aldermen of the said City be commonly charged: And therein to do and use himself, as other Aldermen within the Liberties of the said City were accustomed and used to do, in as much as the Laws and Statutes of this Realm would permit and suffer.  
Yet nevertheless it was provided, & by the said Common Council further ordained and enacted, That the said Sir john Ayliffe, Knight, should then be Alderman of the said Ward: And that as well the same Sir john Ayliffe, as also all and every person and persons, that thenceforth should fortune to be Alderman of the same Ward, should have and enjoy like prerogative, liberty, and benefit, to change and remove from the same Ward, 
The Alderman to change from that Ward, as occasion served.  and to accept and take at his and their free will and pleasure any such other Ward or Wards within the said City, as it should fortune him, or them, or any of them, to be thenceforth duly elect and chosen unto by the Inhabitants of the same other Ward, or Wards, or any of them in like manner and form, as the other Aldermen of the said City lawfully might, and commonly use to do: Any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Nevertheless, at a Court of Aldermen holden on Tuesday, the second of September, in the said fourth year of the reign of king Edward the sixth, and in the time of the Mayoralty of the said Sir Rowland Hill, it was ordered, That the Aldermen of Bridge Ward without, for the time being, 
The Alderman of Bridge Ward without to continue so for the space of 3▪ years, without removing.  should stand and remain Alderman of the same Ward three whole years next after his election, before he should be permitted to be removed to the governance of any other Ward: Notwithstanding any former Law, Usage, or Custom.  
But afterwards it seemeth, upon better advice, that another order should be taken in the election of the Alderman of the same Ward: For at a Common Council holden in the Guild-Hall in London, on the 16. day of june, in the fourth and fifth years of King Philip and Queen Mary, and in the time of the Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Curtis, Knight, the said former Act, made on the last day of july, in the fourth year of King Edward the sixth, for so much thereof as did concern the form and order of the election of the Alderman of the said Ward of Bridge Ward without, 
4. Another order for electing the Alderman of Bridge Ward without, in the time of K. Philip & Queen Mary.  was utterly repealed. And then it was enacted, That from thenceforth the Alderman of the same Ward should always, at the time of vacation, or lack of an Alderman thereof, be elected and chosen by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of London, for the time being, at a full Court of Aldermen, by them to be holden in the Inner Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the same City in this manner, viz. That the Lord Maior and Aldermen should at their said full Court, amongst themselves, nominate four discreet and meet Citizens, being Freemen of London, either resiant within the said Borough, or in London, or the Liberties thereof, to be put in election of Alderman of that Ward. And of the said four persons so nominated, the said Lord Maior and Aldermen should by Scrutiny, according to their accustomed manner, elect one to be Alderman of the same Ward: Which Alderman, so by them elected and sworn, should use and behave himself in all things, as by the residue of the former Act of Common Council, made the last day of july, in the fourth year of King Edward the sixth was ordained and appointed.  
Thus having declared, by what means and at what time the said Borough of Southwark was made and named one of the six and twenty Wards, now belonging to the City of London; I intent to proceed to the description of the several particular places of the same Ward, and likewise of such Monuments of Antiquity, as are to be found therein.  
This Borough being in the County of Surrey, consisteth of diverse streets, ways, and winding lanes, all full of buildings inhabited: and first, to begin at the West part thereof, overagainst the West Suburb of the City.  
On the bank of the River Thames, there is now a continual building of Thenements, about half a mile in length to the Bridge.  
Then South a continual street called Long Southwark, builded on both sides with diverse Lanes and Allies up to St. George's Church, and beyond it thorough Blackman street, towards Newtowne (or Newington) the liberties of which Borough extend almost to the Parish Church of Newtowne aforesaid, distant one mile from London bridge, and also South-west a continual building, almost to Lambeth, more than one mile from the said Bridge.  
Then from the Bridge along by the Thames Eastward, 
S. Olaves street.  is S. Olaves' street, having continual building on both the sides, with lanes and Alleys up to Battle bridge, to Horsedowne, and towards Rotherhith: also some good half mile in length from London bridge.  
So that I accounted the whole continual buildings on the Bank of the said River, from the West towards the East, to be more than a large mile in length.  
Then have ye from the entering towards the said Horsedowne, one other continual street, called Barmondes' eye strees, which stretcheth South, likewise furnished with buildings on both sides, almost half a mile in length, up to the late dissolved Monastery of S. Saviour, called Bermondsey.  
And from thence is one long lane (so called of the length) turning West to Saint George's Church afore-named. Out of the which lane mentioned Long lane, breaketh one other street towards the South and by East, and this is called Kentish street, for that it is the way leading into that Country: and so have you the bounds of this Borough.  
The Antiquities most notable in this Borough are these: first, for Ecclesiastical, there was Bermondsey, an Abbey of black Monks, Saint Mary Oueris, a Priory of Canons Regular, Saint Thomas a College or Hospital for the poor, and the Look, a Lazarhouse in Kent street. Parish Churches there have been six, whereof five do remain, (viz.) Saint Mary Magdalen, in the Priory of Saint Mary Overy: now the same Saint Mary Overy is the Parish Church for the said Mary Magdalen, and for Saint Margaret on the Hill, and is called St. Saviour.  
Saint Margaret on the Hill being put down, is now a Court for justice. S. Thomas in the Hospital serveth for a Parish Church, as afore, Saint George a Parish Church, as before it did: So doth Saint Olave, and Saint Mary Magdalen, by the Abbey of Bermondsey.  
There be also these five Prisons, or Gaoles.  
The Clinke, on the Bank.  
The Compter, in the late Parish▪  
Church of S. Margaret.  
The Marshalsey.  
The Kings Bench.  
And the White Lion; all in Long Southwark.  

Houses most notable, be these.  
The Bishop of Winchester's House.  
The Bishop of Rochester's House.  
The Duke of Suffolk's. House, or Southwark Place.  
The Tabard, an Hostery, or Inn.  
The Abbot of Hyde his House.  
The Prior of Lewis his House,  
The Abbot of S. Augustine his house.  
The Bridge-house.  
The Abbot of Battle his House.  
Battaile-Bridge.  
The Stews on the Bank of Thames.  
And the Bearegardens there.  
Now to return to the West Bank: 
The Bear Gardens▪  there were two Bearegardens, the Old and New, Places wherein were kept Bears, Bulls, and other Beasts, to be baited: As also Mastiffs, in several kenels, nourished to bait them. These Bears, and other Beasts are there baited in plots of ground, scaffolded about, for the beholders to stand safe.  
Next, on this Bank, 
Liber Manuscript.  was sometime the Bordello or Stews, a place so called, of certain Stew-houses privileged there, 
The Stews on the Bankside.  for the repair of incontinent men to the like women; of the which Privilege I have read thus:  
In a Parliament holden at Westminster, the eighth of Henry the second, it was ordained by the Commons, and confirmed by the King and Lords, That diverse Constitutions for ever should be kept within that Lordship, or Franchise, according to the old Customs, that had been there used time time of mind: Amongst the which, these following were some: videlicet.  
That no Stewholder, or his wife, should let or stay any single woman to go and come freely at all times, when they listed.  
No Stewholder to keep any woman to board, but she to board abroad at her pleasure.  
To take no more for the woman's chamber in the Week, than fourteen pence.  
Not to keep open his doors upon the Holidays.  
Not to keep any single woman in his house on the Holidays, but the Bailiff to see them voided out of the Lordship.  
No single woman to be kept against her will, that would leave her sin.  
No Stewholder receive any woman of Religion, or any man's wife.  
No single woman to take money to lie with any man, except she lie with him all night, till the morrow.  
No man to be drawn or enticed into any Stew-house.  
The Constables, Bailiff, and others, every week to search every Stew-house.  
No Stewholder to keep any woman, that hath the perilous infirmity of Burning; nor to sell Bread, Ale, Flesh, Fish, Wood, Coale, or any Victuals, etc.  
These and many more Orders were to be observed, upon great pain and punishment.  
I have also seen diverse Patents of confirmation, 
Li. S. Marry Eborum.  namely, one dated 1345. the ninetenth of Edward the third. 
English people disdained to be Bawds.  Also I find, that in the fourth of Richard the second, these Stew-houses belonging to William Walworth, than Mayor of London, were farmed by Froes of Flaunders, 
Froes of Flaunders were women for that purpose.  and spoilt by Walter Tylar, and other Rebels of Kent: notwithstanding, I find that ordinances for the same place, and houses, were again confirmed in the reign of Henry the sixth, and to be continued as before. 
Rob. Fabian.  Also Robert Fabian writeth, that in the year 1506. the one and twentieth of Henry the seventh, 
Stew houses put down by Henry the 7. for a time.  the said Stew-houses in Southwark were (for a season) inhabited, and the doors closed up: but it was not long (saith he) ere the houses there were set open again, so many as were permitted, for (as it was said) whereas before were eighteen houses, from thenceforth were appointed to be used but twelve only. These allowed Stew-houses had signs on their fronts, towards the Thames, not hanged out, but painted on the walls as a Boars head, 
Signs on the Stew-houses.  the Cross keys, the Gun, the Castle, the Crane, the Cardinal's Hat, the Bell, the Swan, etc. I have heard ancient men of good credit report, that these single women were forbidden the rights of the Church, 
Single women forbidden rights of the Church.  so long as they continued that sinful life, and were excluded from Christian burial, if they were not reconciled before their death. And therefore there was a plot of ground, called the Single women's Churchyard, appointed for them, far from the Parish Church.  
In the year of Christ, a thousand five hundred forty six, 
Stew-houses put down.  the seven and thirtieth of Henry the eighth, this row of Stews in Southwark was put down by the King's commandment, which was proclaimed by sound of Trumpet no more to be privileged, and used as a common Brothel; but the inhabitants of the same to keep good and honest rule, as in other places of this Realm, etc.  
Then next is the Clinke, a Gaol or Prison for the Trespassers in those parts; namely, in old time for such as should brabble, fray, or break the peace on the said Bank, or in the Brothel houses, they were by the inhabitants thereabout apprehended and committed to this Gaol, where they were straightly imprisoned.  
Next is the Bishop of Winchester's house, 
Winchester house.  or lodging when he cometh to this City: which house was first builded by William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, about the year one thousand, one hundred and seven, the seventh of Henry the first, upon a plot of ground pertaining to the Prior of Bermondsey, as appeareth by a Writ directed unto the Barons of the Exchequer, in the year 1366. the one and fortieth of Edward the third (the Bishop's Sea being void) for 8. pounds due to the Monks of Bermondsey, for the Bishop of Winchester's lodging in Southwark. This is a very fair house well repaired, and hath a large Wharfe, and a landing place called the Bishop of Winchester's stairs.  
Adjoining to this on the South side thereof, 
Rochester house.  is the Bishop of Rochester's Inn or lodging, by whom first erected I do not now remember me to have read, but well I wot, the same of long time hath not been frequented by any Bishop, and lieth ruinous for lack of reparations. The Abbot of Naverley had a house there.  
East from the Bishop of Winchester's house, directly overagainst it standeth a fair Church, called S. Mary over the Rye, 
Saint Mary Oueris a Priory, and now a Parish Church.  or Overy, that is, over the water. This Church, or some other in place thereof, was (of old time long before the Conquest) an house of Sisters, founded by a Maiden, named Mary, unto the which house and Sisters she left (as was left to her by her Parents) the oversight and profits of a Cross Ferry, or traverse Ferry over the Thames, there kept before that any Bridge was builded. This house of Sisters was after by Swithen a noble Lady, converted unto a College of Priests, who in place of the Ferry, builded a Bridge of Timber, and from time to time kept the same in good reparations; but lastly the same Bridge was builded of Stone, and then in the year 1106. was this Church again founded for Canons Regular, by William Pont de le Arch, and William Dauncy, Knights Normans.  
William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, was a good Benefactor also, 
Lib. Rufen.  for he (as some have noted) builded the body of that Church, 
Liber Bermondsey.  in the year one thousand, one hundred and six, the seventh of Henry the first.  
The Canons first entered the said Church, than Algodus was the first Prior.  
King Henry the first, by his Charter gave them the Church of Saint Margaret in Southwark.  
King Stephen confirmeth the gift of King Henry, and also gave the Stone House, which was William de Ponte le Arche, by Downgate.  
This Priory was burned about the year 1207. wherefore the Canons did found an Hospital near unto their Priory, where they celebrated until the Priory was repaired: which Hospital was after (by consent of Peter de la Roch, Bishop of Winchester) removed into the land of Anicins, Archdeacon of Surrey, in the year 1228. a place where the water was more plentiful, and the air more wholesome, 
S. Thomas Hospital.  and was dedicated to S. Thomas.  
This Peter de Rupibus, or de la Roch, founded a large Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalen, 
Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen.  in the said Church of St. Mary Overy, which chapel was afterward appointed to be the Parish Church for the inhabitants near adjoining.  
This Church was again newly builded in the reign of Richard the second and King Henry the fourth.  
john Gower, Esquire, a famous Poet, was then an especialll Benefactor to that work, 
john Gower was no Knight, neither had he any Garland of lvie and Roses, but a Chaplet of four Roses only.  and was there buried on the North side of the said Church, in the Chapel of Saint john, where he founded a Chantry, he lieth under a Tomb of Stone, with his Image also of Stone over him. The hair of his head aburne, long to his shoulders, but curling up, and a small forked beard; on his head a Chaplet, like a coronet of four Roses, an habit of Purple, damasked down to his seet, a Collar of Esses of gold about his neck, under his feet the likeness of three Books, which he compiled. The first, named Speculum Meditantis, written in French: The second, Vox Clamantis, penned in Latin: The third, Confessi● Amantis, written in English, and this last is printed. Vox Clamantis, with his Cronica Tripartita, and other both in Latin and French, never printed, I have and do poffesse, but Speculum Meditantis, I never saw, though heard thereof to be in Kent; Beside on the wall where he lieth, there was painted 3. Virgins crowned, one of the which was named Charity, holding this device:  
En toy qui es Fitz de Dieu le Pere,  
Savue soit, qui gist sours cest Pierre.  
The second writing Mercy, with this device.  
O bone jesus fait ta mercy,  
Al'ame, dont le corpse gift icy.  
The third writing Pity, with this device.  
Pour ta pite jesus regar'de,  
Et met cest a me en savue guard.  
His Arms, in a Field Argent, on a Cheveron Azure, three Leopards heads Gold, their tongues Gules, two Angels Supporters; on the Crest a Talbot. His Epitaph,  
Armigeri Scutum nihil  
a modo fert sibi tutum,  
Reddidit immolutum morti  
generale tributum,  
Spiritus exutum  
se gaudeat esse solutum,  
Est ubi virtutum  
Regnum sive labe statutum.  
The roof of the middle waste I'll sell down in the year 1469. This Priory was surrendered to Henry the eighth, the one and thirtieth of his reign, the seven and twentieth of October, the year of Christ 1539. valued at six hundred, twenty four pounds, six shillings, six pence, by the year.  
About Christmas next following, the Church of the said Priory was purchased of the King by the inhabitants of the Borough. 
Priory of S. Mary Overy made a Parish Church.  Doctor Stephen Gardener, Bishop of Winchester, putting to his helping hand, they made thereof a Parish Church for the Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen, on the South side of the said Choir, out of Saint Margaret on the hill, which were made one Parish of S. Saviour.  
There be Monuments in this Church of Robert Liliard, or Hilliard, Esquire.  
Margaret, Daughter to the Lady Audley, wife to Sir Thomas Audley.  
William Grevill, Esquire, and Margaret his wife, one of the heirs of William Spershut, Esquire.  
Dame Katherine, wife to john Stoke, Alderman.  
Robert Merfin, Esquire.  
William Vndall, Esquire.  
Lord Ospay Farar  
Sir George Brews, Knight.  
john Browne.  
Lady Brandon, Wife to Sir Thomas Brandon.  
William Lord Scales.  
William Earl Warren.  
Dame Maude, wife to Sir john Peach. Lewknor.  
Dame Margaret Elrington, one of the heirs of Sir Thomas Elrington.  
john Bowden Esquire.  
Robert Saint Magil.  
john Standhurst.  
john Gower.  
john Duncell, Merchant-Taylor, 1516.  
john Sturton, Esquire.  
Robert Rouse.  
Thomas Tong, first Norroy, and after Clarenciaulx, King of Arms.  
William Wickham, translated from the Sea of Lincoln, to the Bishopric of Winchester, in the month of March, 1595. deceased the 11. day of june next following and was buried here.  
Thomas Cure, Esquire, Saddler to King Edward the sixth, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, deceased the 24. day of May, 1598.  
Hic jacet joannes Gower, 
A very fair Tomb in the North Il● of the Church.  Armiger, Anglorum Poeta celeberrimus, ac huic sacro Aedificio benefactor insignis, vixit temporibus Ed. 3. & Rich. 3.  
Noviter constructum impensis Parochiae, An. Dom. 1615.   

Epics●ion Thomae Cure, Southwarchiensis Armigeri.  
Elizabetha tibi Princeps  
servivit Equorum  
A sellis Curus, 
A fair Tomb in the North wall of the Quire.   
quem lapis iste regit.  
Servivit Edvardo Regi,  
Mariaeque Sorori,  
Principibus magna  
est laus placuisse tribus.  
Convixit cunctis charus  
Respublica Curae  
Semper erat Curo,  
commoda plebis erant:  
Dum vixit tribui  
senibus curavit alendis,  
Nummorum in sumptus  
annua dona domos.  
Obiit 24. die Maii, An. Dom. 1588.   

An Epitaph upon John Trehearne, Gentleman Porter to King James the first.  
Had Kings a power  
to lend their Subject's breath, 
A very Monument close by the other.   
●rehearne, thou shouldst  
not be cast down by death:  
Thy Royal Master still  
would keep thee then;  
But length of days  
are beyond reach of men.  
Nor wealth, nor strength,  
nor great men's love can ease  
The wound Death's Arrows make,  
for thou hast these.  
In thy King's Court  
good place to thee is given:  
Whence thou shalt go  
to the King's Court of Heaven.  
Peter Humble, 
A very fair Tomb in the chancel.  Gentleman, dedicates this Monument to the pious memory of Richard Humble, Alderman of London, and Margaret his first wife, daughter to john Pierson of Nathing, in the County of Essex, Gentleman. By whom he had issue two sons, john, who died young, and the abovenamed Peter, now living. Also four daughter, Katherine, Weltham, Margaret, and Elizabeth, who survived the other three, and was interred the same day with her Father, being the 30. of April 1616. Richard left Isabel his second wife, widow, who was the daughter of Robert Kitchinman, of Hemsley, in the County of York, Gentleman, bequeathing to the poor of this Parish five pounds, four shillings yearly for ever, out of a Tenement adjoining to the Southside of the three Crowns gate in Southwark.  
Gulielmus Wickham, 
A very fair stone by the Communion table.  translat. à sede Lincoln. & Mense Martii, 1595. existen Episcopus Winton. Obiit 11. junii, prox. sequent. Reliquit uxorem laudatiff. quae sepelit in Awkenbery, Com. Hunt.  
Doctrina Antistes praestans  
& moribus aequis,  
Eloquio & pietate gravis,  
mensaque manuque.  
Non parcus, justi neglectus  
honore sepulchri,  
Hic jacet. O seculum  
insipiens, verum aequior illi,  
Dum moritur, Deus Aligeros  
dat cernere, missos,  
Qui migrantem animam  
Coeli ad sublimina ferrent.  
F. M. posuit 10. junii, Anno Domini 1600.  
The Monument of Bishop Andrew's is in a Chapel at the East end of the Church, and his body lieth within the Monument.  
Lector,  
Si Christianus es, siste:  
Morae pretium erit,  
Non nescire te, qui vir hîc situs sit:  
Ejusdem tecum Catholicae Ecclesiae membru, Sub eadem felicis Resurrectionis spe, Eandem D. jesu praestolans Epiphaniam,  
Sacratisses. Antistes Lancelotus Andrews, Londini oriundus, educatus Cantabrigiae, Aulae Pembroch. Alumnor. Socior. Praefector. Vnus, & nemini secundus:  
Linguarum, Artium, Scientiarum, Humanorum, Divinorum, Omnium  
Infinitus Thesaurus, Stupendum Oraculun:  
Orthodoxae Christi Ecclesiae,  
Dictis, scriptis, precibus, Exemplo  
Incomparabile propugnaculum:  
Reginae Elizabethae à sacris,  
D. Pauli London. Residentiarius,  
D. Petri Westmonast. Decanus:  
Episcopus Cicestrensis, Eliensis, Wintoniensis, Regique Iacobo tum ab Eleemosynis, Tum ab utriusque Regni Consiliis, Decanus denique Secelli Regii:  
Idem ex  
Indefessa opera in studiis,  
Summa sapientia in rebus,  
Assidua pietate in Deum,  
Profusa largitate in Egenos,  
Rara amoenitate in suos,  
Spectata probitate in omnes,  
Aeternum admirandus.  
Annorum pariter & publicae famae satur, Sed bonorum passim omnium cum luctu denatus, Coelebs hinc migravit ad aureolam coelestem,   

Anno Regis Caroli 11ᵒ. Aetatis S. LXXIo. Christi MDCXXVIᵒ.  
Tantum est (Lector) quod te moerentes posteri Nunc volebant, atque ut voto tuo valeas, dicto Sit Deo gloria.  
There is a Monument of john Bingham, Esquire, Saddler to Queen Elizabeth and King james. Who was a worthy benefactor to the Parish, and to the Free-school there: who departed this life in the year of our Lord, 1625.  
There is a Monument for William Emerson, 
This Monument standeth in the South I'll.  who departed this life the 27. of june, An. Dom. 1575. in the year of his age 92.   

Arvum hoc Sepulchrale.  
Exuviarum opt. matris jocosae dominae Clerke. Sui ipsius lectissimaeque uxoris consitioni destinatum, Gulielmus Augustinus Armiger vivus sacravit.   

Anna  
Conjux charissima primo. inseritur.  
Quae post decimun partum (An MDCXXIII. jan. XXI. Marito, ac liberis quinque superstitibus) Tricenaria valedicens:  
In restorescendi dic & spem; Hac terra tegitur.  
Sequimur caeteri: Sati corruptibiles,  
Suscitandi incorruptibiles.  
The Monument with this inscription standeth on the South side of the Quire.   

Monumentum viri justi.  
In memory of john Symons, Citizen and White-Baker of London; who departed this life the 10. of August, in the year of our Lord 1625. and was a good Benefactor unto this Parish: who gave unto the poor the sum of eight pounds Per Annum for ever, to be distributed on the Feast day of St. Thomas before Christmas. And unto Saint George's Parish in Southwark the sum of ten pounds per Annum, for ever. And unto the Parish of Saint Mary Newington in Surrey, the sum of five pounds per Annum, for ever. These sums to come unto the said Parish, after the decease of his father Samuel Symons, who yet liveth, in the year 1631.  
The Monument standeth in the South side of the Church, with this Epitaph: 
His flesh interred here  
once contained a spirit,  
Who (by God's mercy  
and his Saviour's merit)  
Departed in that constant  
hope of trust,  
To reign eternally  
amongst the just:  
To live and die well  
was his whole endeavour,  
And in (assurance) died  
to live for ever.   
In the South side of the Church by the Choir there standeth the Monument of William Austin, Esquire, very fair and beautiful; the invention thus:  
Over the head of the Angel is a Sun, and in it written Sol justitiae.  
There standeth an Angel upon a Rock, with a Sickle in the left hand, and the right hand erected towards heaven, with these words written on the Rock: Petra erat Christus; and under the Rock is a field of ripe wheat, and in it written: Si non moriatur, non reviviscit. And under that these words: Nos sevit, fovit, lavit, cogit, renovabit.  
Upon the right hand of this Angel are written these words: Vos estis Dei. And on the left this: Agricultura.  
On each side of this Angel sitteth two other Angels, leaning on their arms; the one with a Fork, and under written Messores. The other with a Rack, and under written: Congregabunt.  
Under all this is the form of a winnowing Fan, and words written in it.  
The Lady Clarke, mother to Master William Austin, gave a very fair Communion Table railed about, where 60. may kneel to receive the Sacrament, with a fair Carpet for it, and the rails hung about with the same embroidered.  
Master William Austin gave a fair Silver Chalice, and a Dish for the Bread, to the value of almost forty pounds. And his wife that now is, who was the Relict of john Bingham, Esquire, gave two very fair Silver Flagons of the like value.   

Ex Registro Curiae Praerogativae Cant. extracto. 
16. Septem. 1619.  Master Sampsons' William.  
Item, I give and bequeath these Annuities ensuing to be issuing out of certain Tenements of mine, viz. twenty shillings yearly for ever to the Master and Society of Peter house in Cambridge, towards the maintenance of the Library there: and twenty shillings yearly for ever to the Churchwardens of Saint Olaves in Southwark, for the use of the poor of the Parish. And ten shilligs yearly for ever to the Churchwardens of the Parish of St. Saviour's, for the poor in the precinct of old Parish Garden,  
Master Smith hath given unto the said Parish of S. Saviour's the sum of twenty eight pounds per Annum, for ever unto the poor of this Parish.  
Master Randall Carter, Citizen and Tallow Chandler of London, hath given seven pounds per Annum, for ever unto a poor Scholar that shall be elected out of the Free School to either of the Universities; and this seven pounds he is to enjoy for six years, and his time expired to another: and so forward.  
Master Edward Hulit, Gentleman, hath given forty pounds per Annum, to the poor of the same Parish for ever, to be received out of certain Tenements, situate in the Borough of Southwark.  
Hugh Brooker, Esquire, hath given unto the Free School the sum of five pounds per Annum, for ever. And likewise unto the poor of the same Parish five pounds per Annum, for ever: and lieth buried in Saint Saviour's Church in the North I'll by the Quire.  
Thomas Martial gave an hundred pounds for ever to the Parish, for to cloth six poor boys every Christmas, who died in the year 1625.  
Now passing through Saint Mary Oueris Close (in possession of the Lord Montacute) and Pepper Alley, 
S. Marry Oueris Close.  into Long Southwark, 
Pepper Alley.  on the right hand thereof, the Market hill, where the Leather is fold, there stood the late named Parish Church of Saint Margaret, 
S. Margaret on the hill made a Court of justice.  given to Saint Mary Oueris by Henry the first, put down and joined with the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, and united to the late dissolved Priory Church of S. Mary Overy.  
A part of this Parish Church of St. Margaret is now a Court, wherein the Assizes and Sessions be kept, 
Court of Admiralty.  and the Court of Admiralty is also there kept. One other part of the same Church is now a Prison, 
Compter in Southwark.  called the Compter in Southwark, etc.  
Farther up on that side, almost directly overagainst St. George's Church, was sometime a large and most sumptuous house, builded by Charles Brandon, late Duke of Suffolk, in the reign of Henry the eighth, which was called Suffolk house; 
Suffolk house, a Mint in Southwark.  but coming afterwards into the King's hands, the same was called Southwark Place, and a Mint of Coinage was there kept for the King.  
To this place came King Edward the sixth, in the second of his reign, from Hampton Court, and dined in it. He at that time made john York, one of the Sheriffs of London, Knight, and then road through the City to Westminster.  
Queen Mary gave this house to Nicholas Heth, Archbishop of York, and to his successors for ever, to be their Inn or lodging for their repair to London, in recompense of York house, near to Westminster, which King Henry her father had taken from Cardinal Woolsey, and from the Sea of York.  
Archbishop Heth sold the same house to a Merchant, or to Merchants, that pulled it down, sold the Lead, Stone, Iron, etc. and in place thereof builded many small Cottages of great rents, to the increasing of beggars in that Borough. The Archbishop bought Norwich House, or Suffolk Place, near unto Charingcross, because it was near unto the Court, and left it to his succssors. Now on the South side, to return back again towards the Bridge. Overagainst this Suffolk Place, is the Parish Church of Saint George, 
Parish Church of S. George.  sometime pertaining to the Priory of Bermondsey, by the gift of Thomas Arderne, and Thomas his son, in the year 1122.  
There lie buried in this Church William Kirton, Esquire, and his wives, 1464.  
Lo, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Chancel.  Master William Evans he  
whose body lieth here,  
Bequeathed hath by his last will,  
for ever by the year  
Ten pounds, eight shillings to the poor,  
which is a blessed stay,  
And must be given them in bread,  
on every Sabbath day.  
One half to Crekederus poor,  
his native soil so dear:  
The other moiety to the poor  
of this our Parish here.  
See now all ye that love the poor,  
how God did guide his ways,  
Ten score and eight are served with bread  
in two and fifty days,  
More than many would have done,  
to yielded any share.  
Praise God, ye poor, who gave to him  
so provident a care.  
He was free of the right Worshipful Company of the Merchant-Taylors, and deceased the nine and twentieth of july 1590. in the two and thirtieth year of the most prosperous reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth. Aetatis 67.  
Behold, 
A fair grave-stone under the Communion table.  james Savage graciously  
hath done a godly deed  
To the poor of this Parish,  
for to relieve their need,  
Five pounds a year for evermore,  
by will he hath bequeathed,  
Which must out of the Angel rends,  
quarterly be received,  
By the Churchwardens of this Church,  
whom he hath put in trust,  
As Fathers in the poors behalf,  
to be upright and just.  
Which men I doubt not but our God,  
who seeth all things, shall find  
True in dispersing of the same,  
according to his mind.  
Ye poor, thank Christ for Savage still,  
extoil God's name with praise,  
That he to follow his good art,  
in time may many raise.  
Anno Domini 1588.  
Then is the White Lion, 
White Lion a Goal for Surrey.  a Gaol so called, for that the same was a common Hostery for the receipt of Travellers by that sign. This house was first used as a Gaol within this threescore years' last, since the which time the Prisoners were once removed thence to an house in Newtowne, where they remained for a short time, and were returned back again to the aforesaid White Lion, there to remain, as the appointed Gaol for the County of Surrey.  
Next, is the Gaol or Prison of the King's Bench, 
Kings Bench.  but of what antiquity the same is, I know not. For I have read, that the Courts of the King's Bench and Chancery, have oft times been removed from London to other places, and so hath likewise the other Gaoles that serve those Courts, as in the year 1304. Edward the first commanded the Courts of the King's Bench and the Exchequer, which had remained seven years at York, to be removed to their old places at London. And in the year 1387. the eleventh of Richard the second, Robert Trisilian chief justice, came to the City of Coventry, 
H. Knighton▪  and there sat by the space of a month, as justice of the King's Bench, and caused to be indicted in that Court, about the number of 2000 persons of that Country, etc.  
It seemeth therefore, that for that time, the Prison or Gaol of that Court was not far off. Also, in the year 1392. the sixteenth of the same Richard, the Archbishop of York being Lord Chancellor, for good will that he bore to his City, caused the King's Bench and Chancery to be removed from London to York, but ere long they were returned to London.  
Then is the Marshalsey another Gaol or Prison, 
Marshalsey in Southwark.  so called, as pertaining to the Marshals of England. Of what continuance kept in Southwark, I have not learned: but like it is, that the same hath been removable, at the pleasure of the Marshals. For I find, that in the year 1376. the 50. of Edward the third, Henry Percy (being Marshal) kept his prisoners in the City of London, where having committed one john Prendargest, of Norwich, contrary to the liberties of the City of London, the Citizens, by persuasion of the Lord Fitzwalter, their Standard-bearer, took armour, and ran with great rage to the Marshal's Inn, broke up the gates, brought out the prisoner, and conveyed him away, minding to have burnt the stocks in the midst of their City; but they first sought for Sir Henry Percy, to have punished him, as I have noted in my Annals.  
More, about the Feast of Easter next following, john Duke of Lancaster, having caused all the whole Navy of England to be gathered together at London, it chanced a certain Esquire to kill one of the Mariners, which act the other Mariners taking in ill part, they brought their suit into the King's Court of the Marshalsey, which then as chanced (saith mine Author) was kept in Southwark: but when they perceived that Court to be so favourable to the murderer; and further, that the King's Warrant was also gotten for his pardon; they in great ●ury ran to the house, wherein the murderer was imprisoned, 
Sailors broke up the Marshalsey.  broke into it, and brought forth the prisoner with his Gives on his legs, they thrust a kni●e to his heart, and sticked him, as if he had been a Hog: after this they tied a rope to his Gives, and drew him to the Gallows, where when they had hanged him, as though they had done a great act, they caused the Trumpets to be sounded before them to their ships, and there in great triumph they spent the rest of the day.  
Also the Rebels of Kent, 
Rebels of Kent broke up the Marshalsey.  in the year 1381. brake down the houses of the Marshalsey and King's Bench in Southwark, took from thence the prisoners, broke down the house of Sir john Immorth, then Marshal of the Marshalsey, and King's Bench, etc. After this, in the year 1387. the eleventh of Richard the second, the morrow after Bartholomew day, the King kept a great Council in the Castle of Nottingham, and the Marshalsey of the King was then kept at Lughborow, by the space of six days or more. In the year 1443. Sir Walter Many, was Marshal of the Marshalsey, the two and twentieth of Henry the sixth. William Brandon, Esquire, was Marshal in the eighth of Edward the fourth. In the year 1504 the prisoners of the Marshalsey then in Southwark broke out, and many of them being taken were executed, especially such as had been committed for Felony or Treason.  
From thence towards London bridge, on the same side, be many fair Inns, for receipt of travellers, by these signs, the Spur, Christopher, Bull, Queen's head, 
The Tabard in Southwark.  Tabard, George, Hart, King's head, etc. Amongst the which, the most ancient is the Tabard, so called of the sign, which as we now term it, is of a lacket or sleeveless coat, whole before, open on both sides, with a square collar, winged at the shoulders: a stately garment, of old time commonly worn of Noblemen and others, both at home and abroad in the wars; but then (to wit, in the wars) their Arms embroidered, or otherwise depict upon them, that every man by his Coat of Arms might be known from others: But now these Tabards are only worn by the Heralds, and be called their Coats of Arms in Service. For the Inn of the Tabard, 
Geoffrey Chaucer.  Geffrey Chaucer, Esquire, the most famous Poet of England, in commendation thereof, writeth thus:  
It befell in that season, on a day,  
In Southwark, at the Tabert, as I ●ay,  
Ready to wend on my Pilgrimage  
To Canturbury, with full devout courage;  
That night was comen into the Hostery  
Well nine and twenty in a company,  
Of sundry folk, by adventure yfall,  
In fellowship and Pilgrims were they all,  
That toward Canturbury woulden ride:  
The Stables and Chambers werenwide,  
And well we were eased at the best, etc.  
Within this Inn was also the Lodging of the Abbot of Hide (by the City of Winchester) a fair house for him and his Train, 
The Abbot of Hide his Lodging.  when he came to the City to Parliament, etc.  
And then Thiefs lane, 
Hospital of Saint Thomas.  by St. Thomas Hospital. The Hospital of St. Thomas first founded by Richard, Prior of Bermendsey, in the Sellerers' ground, against the wall of the Monastery, in the year 1213. He named it the Almery, or House of Alms, for Converts and poor Children; for the which ground the Prior ordained, that the Almoner should pay ten shillings four pence yearly to the Sellerer at Michaelmas.  
But Peter de Rupibus, 
Li. S. Mary Overy. S. Thomas Hospital the second time founded.  Bishop of Winchester, in the year 1215. founded the same again more fully for Canons Regular, in place of the first Hospital: He increased the rent thereof to three hundred forty four pounds by the year. Thus was this Hospital holden of the Prior and Abbot of Bermondsey, till the year 1428. at which time a composition was made between Thomas Thetford, Abbot of Bermondsey, & Nicholas Buckland, Master of the said Hospital of Saint Thomas, for all the Lands and Tenements, which were holden of the said Abbot and Covent in Southwark, or elsewhere, for the old rent to be paid unto the said Abbot.  
There be the Monuments in this Hospital Church, of Sir Robert Chamber, Knight,  
William Fines,  
Lord Say,  
Richard Chaucer, john Gloucester, Adam Atwood, john Ward, Michael Cambridge, William West, john Golding, Esquires.  
john Benham, George Kirkes', Thomas Knighton, Thomas Baker, Gentlemen.  
Robert, Son to Sir Thomas Fleming.  
Agnes, wife to Sir Walter Dennis, Knight, Daughter and one of the heirs of Sir Robert Danver, john Evarey, Gentlemen, etc.  
This Hospital was by the Visitors, in the year 1538. valued at 266. l. 17. s. 6. d. and was surrendered to Henry the 8. in the 30. of his reign.  
In the year 1552. the Citizens of London, 
The third foundation of S. Thomas Hospital by the Citizens of London.  having purchased the void suppressed Hospital of Saint Thomas in Southwark, in the Month of july, bebegan the reparations thereof, for poor, impotent, lame, and diseased people, so that in the Month of November next following, the sick and poor people were taken in. 
Gift of E. the sixth to the Mospitall of S. Thomas in Southwark.  And in the year 1553. on the 10. of April, King Edward the sixth in the seventh of his reign, gave to the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London, to be a workehouse for the poor and idle persons of the City, his house of Bridewell, and seven hundred Marks Lands of the Savoy Rents, which Hospital he had suppressed, with all the beds, bedding, and other furniture belonging to the same, towards the maintenance of the said workehouse of Bridewell, and of this Hospital of Saint Thomas in Southwark. This gift, the King confirmed by his Charter, dated the 26. of June next following, and willed it to be called the King's Hospital in Southwark.  
The Church of this Hospital, which of old time served for the Tenements near adjoining and pertaining to the said Hospital, remaineth as a Parish Church.  
But now to come to S. Olaves' street: 
S. Thomas Parish Church.  on the bank of the river of Thames is the Parish Church of Saint Olave, 
S. Olaves street and Parish Church.  a fair and meetly large Church, but a far larger Parish, especially of Aliens or strangers, and poor people; in which Church, there lieth entombed Sir john Bur●ettur, Knight, 1466.  
Here th'earthly pare  
of William Benson lies, 
A small Monument in the North wall of the Chancel.   
Whom Robert Benson  
had by Mary Lyle,  
The Heavenly mounted is  
above the Skies  
With wings of Faith,  
dissolved but for a while:  
The Linen which he sold  
was ne'er so white,  
As is the Robe  
wherein the Soul is dight:  
Yes Thomas mourns in black,  
his only Son,  
And Richard (of whole blood)  
his eldest Brother:  
But London's reverend Bishop  
this hath done,  
Which was by Ravis  
borne of the same Mother:  
And William Lyle,  
first cousin to them all,  
Long live his Verse,  
penned this Memorial.  
He departed in the 56.  
year of his age.  
An. Dom. 1603.  
Februar. 1579.  
To you that live possessed, 
A graven Plate in the end of the Quire.   
great troubles do befall,  
Where we that sleep by death,  
do feel no harm at all:  
An honest life doth bring,  
a joyful death at last,  
And life again begins,  
when death is overpast.  
Death is the path to life,  
and way to endless wealth,  
The door whereby we pass  
to everlasting health.  
These threescore year and six  
have passed here my life,  
And thirty seven years thereof,  
thou Helen wert my wife,  
A Citizen also,  
and of the Cutlers free,  
And Warden of the same,  
so worthy thought to be.  
My loving wife farewell,  
God guide thee with his grace.  
Prepare thyself to come,  
and I will give thee place:  
Acquaintance all farewell,  
and be assured of this,  
You shall be brought to dust,  
as Thomas Malledge is.  
Hic jacet corpus joannis Thomas, 
A plated Stone by the Communion Table.  nuper Civis & Groceri Civitatis London. Qui obiit die Mercurii, vid. 23. Augusti, Anno Domini 1564. Hic tres uxores habuit, vid. Christianam, Matildam, & joannam. Ex Christiana suscepit hos liberos, Rogerum, joannem, seu willielmum, joannem inter Richardum, Lambertum, Henricum, Beatricem, & Petrum. Ex Matilda, Aliciam, Agnetem, & Susannam. Ex joanna, Thomam, Martham, Margaretam, Annam, Richardum & Saram.  
Hic jacet corpus Richardi Philip, 
Another like Stone by it.  Civis & Groceri London. Qui obiit 10. die Mensis Aprilis, Anno Domini 1412. & Isabel uxor ejus: Quae obiit, etc. Quorum, etc.  
Here resteth, 
The like Stone on the other side of the Table.  in the mercy of God, the body of john Eston, Esquire, late justice of the Peace, and of Southwark Steward, leaving behind him Margaret his wife. Which john died the eight day of May, Anno Domini 1565.  
How rich be they certain,  
That Heavenly Kingdom gain?  
No tongue can well express  
Their joys, that be endless.  
Hic jacent Robertus Faireford, 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the Chancel.  quondam Serviens excellentiss. Principis Henrici Reg. Angliae Quarti, ac nuper Coronator Curiae Marescalciae Hospitii Metuendissimorum Princip. Henrici Regis Angliae Quinti, & Henrici Sexti. Qui obiit 21. die Augusti, Anno Domini, 1456. etc. Et Agnet. ux.— Quae obiit—  
Overagainst this Parish Church, 
Prior of Lewis his Inn.  on the South side the street, was sometime one great House, builded of Stone, with arched Gates, which pertained to the Prior of Lewis in Sussex, and was his Lodging when he came to London: It is now a common Hostery for Travellers, and hath to Sign, the Walnut-tree.  
Then East from the said Parish Church of Saint Olave, is a Key. In the year 1330. by the licence of Simon Swanlond, Maior of London, it was builded by Isabella, widow to Hamond Goodcheape. And next thereunto was then a great house of stone and timber, belonging to the Abbot of S. Augustin, 
Abbot of Augustine's Inn.  without the walls of Canturbury, which was an ancient piece of work, & seemeth to be one of the first builded houses on that side the River, 
W. Thomas.  overagainst the City: It was called the Abbot's Inn of Saint Augustine in Southwark, and was sometime holden of the Earls of Warren and Surrey, as appeareth by a deed, made 1281. which I have read, and may be Englished thus:  
To all to whom this present writing shall come, john, Earl Warren, sendeth greeting. Know ye, that we have altogether remised and quite claimed for us and our heirs for ever, to Nicholas, Abbot of Saint Augustine's of Canturbury, and the Covent of the same, and their successors, suit to our Court of Southwark, which they owe unto us, for all that Message and houses thereon builded, and all their appurtenances, which they have of our fee in Southwark, situate upon the Thames, between the Bridgehouse, and Church of Saint Olave. And the said Message with the buildings thereon builded, and all their appurtenances to them and their successors, we have granted in perpetual Alms to hold of us, and our heirs for the same: saving the service due to any other persons, if any such be, then to us. And for this remit and grant, the said Abbot and Covent have given unto us five shillings of rent yearly in Southwark, and have received us and our heirs in all Benefices, which shall be in their Church for ever.  
This suit of Court one William Craspeis' was bound to do to the said Earl, for the said Message: and heretofore to acquit in all things, the Church of Saint Augustine, against the said Earl.  
This house of late time belonged to Sir Anthony Sentleger, 
Sentleger house.  then to Warham Sentleger, etc. And now is called Sentleger house, but divided into sundry Tenements.  
Next is the Bridgehouse, so called, as being a store-house, for Stone, Timber, or whatsoever pertaining to the building or repairing of London bridge.  
This house seemeth to have taken beginning, with the first founding of the Bridge; either of stone or timber: it is a large plot of ground on the bank of the river Thames, containing diverse large buildings, for stowage of things necessary, towards reparation of the said Bridge.  
There are also diverse Garners, 
Garners for Come in the Bridge-house.  for laying up of Wheat, and other Grayners for service of the City, as need requireth. Moreover, there be certain Ovens builded, 
Ovens in the Bridge-house.  in number ten: of which six be very large, the other four being but half so big. These were purposely made to bake out the bread-corne of the said Grayners, to the best advantage, for relief of the poor Citizens, when need should require. Sir I. Throstone, Knight, sometime an Embroiderer, than Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs, 1516. gave (by his Testament) towards the making of these Ovens two hundred pounds, which thing was performed by his Executors: Sir john Monday, Goldsmith, then being Mayor. 
A Brewhouse builded in the Bridge-house.  There was of late, for the enlarging of the said Bridge-house, taken in an old Brewhouse, called Goldings, which was given to the City by George Monox, sometime Mayor, and in place thereof, is now a fair brewhouse builded, for service of the City with Beer.  
Next, 
Abbot of Battle his Inn.  was the Abbot of Battle's Inn, betwixt the Bridge-house and Battle bridge, likewise on the bank of the river of Thames; the walks and gardens thereunto appertaining, on the other side of the way, before the gate of the said house, was called the Maze: there is now an Inn, called the Flower de luce, for that the sign is three Flower de luces. Much other buildings of small tenements are thereon builded replenished with strangers and other, for the most part poor people.  
Then is Battle bridge, 
Battle bridge.  so called of Battle Abbey, for that it standeth on the ground, and over a watercourse (flowing out of Thames) pertaining to that Abbey, & was therefore both builded and repaired by the Abbots of that house as being hard adjoining to the Abbot's lodging.  
Beyond this Bridge is Bermondsey street, 
Bermondsey street.  turning South, in the South end whereof was sometime a Priory or Abbey, of S. Savioyr, called Bermonds' eye in Southwark, founded by Ailewin Child, a Citizen of London, in the year 1081.  
Peter, Richard, Obstert, and Vmbalde, Monks de Charitate, came to Bermondsey, the year 1089. and Peter was made first Prior there, by appointment of the Prior of the house, called Charity in France: by which means this Priory of Bermondsey (being a Cell to that in France) was accounted a Priory of Aliens.  
In the year 1094. deceased Ailewin Child, founder of this house. Then William Rufus gave to the Monks, his Manor of Bermondsey, with the appurtenances, and builded for them there a new great Church.  
Robert Blewit, Bishop of Lincoln (King William's Chancellor) gave them the Manor of Charleton, with the appurtenances. Also Geffrey Martell, by the grant of Geffrey Magnaville, gave them the Land of Halingbury, and the tithe of Alferton, etc.  
More in the year Thomas of Arderne 1122. and Thomas his Son, gave to the Monks of Bermonds' Eye, the Church of Saint George in Southwark.  
In the year 1165. King Henry the second confirmed to them the Hide or territory of Southwark, 
Hide of Southwark to the Monks of Bermondsey.  and Laygham, Waddam, with the land of Coleman, etc.  
In the year one thousand, three hundred, seventy one, the Priories of Aliens (throughout England) being seized into the King's hands, Richard Denten an Englishman, was made Prior of Bermondsey: to whom was committed the custody of the said Priory, by the letters patents of King Edward the third, saving to the King the advowsons of Churches.  
In the year 1380. the fourth of Richard the second, this Priory was made a Denizen (or free English) for the fine of 200. Marks, paid to the King's Hanaper in the Chancery. In the year 1399. Attelborough, Prior of Bermondsey, was made the first Abbot of that house, by Pope Boniface the ninth, at the suit of King Richard the second.  
In the year 1417. Thomas Thetford, 
Abbot of Bermondsey held a Plea against the King, and prevailed.  Abbot of Bermondsey, held a Plea in Chancery against the King, for the Manors of Preston, Bermondsey, and Stone, in the County of Summerset, in the which suit the Abbot prevailed, and recovered against the King.  
In the year 1539. this Abbey was valued to dispend by the year 474. l. 14. s. 4. d. ob. and was surrendered to Henry the eighth, the 31. of his reign: the Abbey Church was then pulled down by Sir Thomas Pope, Knight, and in place thereof, a goodly house builded of stone and timber, since pertaining to the Earls of Sussex.  
There are buried in that Church Loufstone Provost, 
john's Baev●w.  Shrive or Domesman of London, 1115.  
Sir William Bowes, Knight, and Dame Elizabeth his wife.  
Sir Thomas Pikeworth, Knight.  
Dame Anne Audley.  
George, son to john, Lord Audley.  
john Winkefield; Esquire.  
Sir Nicholas Blonket, Knight.  
Dame Bridget, wife to Wil Trussell.  
Holgrave, Baron of the Exchequer, etc.  
Next unto this Abbey Church standeth a proper Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, 
Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen.  builded by the Priors of Bermondsey, serving for resort of the inhabitants (tenants to the Prior or Abbots near adjoining) there to have their divine Service: this Church remaineth and serveth as afore, and is called a Parish Church.  
Then in Kentstreet is a Lazar house for Leprous people, 
The Look a Lazarhouse in Kent street.  called the Look in Southwark: the foundation whereof I find not. Now having touched diverse principal parts of this Borough, I am to speak somewhat of government, and so to end.  
This Borough at a Subsidy to the King, yieldeth about 1000 Marks, or 800. l. which is more than any one City in England payeth, except the City of London. 
Muster of men in Southwark.  And also the Muster of men in this Borough doth like wise in number surpass all other Cities, except London. And thus much for the Borough of Southwark, one of the 26. Wards of London, which hath an Alderman, Deputies three, and a Bailiff. Common Council none. Constables 16. Scavengers 6. Wardmote Inquest 20. And is taxed to the Fifteen, at 17. pounds, 17. shillings, 8. pence.    

THE SUBURBS WITHOUT THE Walls of the said City, briefly touched. As also, without the Liberties, more at large described.  
HAving spoken of this City, the original, and increase by degrees: The walls, gates, ditch, castles, towers, bridges, schools and houses of learning: Of the orders and customs, sports and pastimes: Of the honour of Citizens and worthiness of men: And last of all, how the same City is divided into parts and Wards: And how the same are bounded. And what Monuments of Antiquity, or Ornaments of building be in every of them, as also in the Borough of Southwark: I am next to speak briefly of the Suburbs, as well without the Gates and Walls, as without the Liberties, and of the Monuments in them.  
Concerning the estate of the Suburbs of this City, in the reign of Henry the second, Fitz-Stephen hath these words: 
Fitz-Stephen.  Upwards on the West (saith he) is the King's Palace, which is an incomparable building, rising with a Vawmure and Bulwark, aloft upon the River, two miles from the Wall of the City, but yet conjoined with a continual Suburb. On all sides, without the houses of the Suburbs, are the Citizen's Gardens and Orchards, planted with Trees, both large, sightly, and adjoining together. On the North side are Pastures and plain Meadows, with Brooks running thorough them, turning Watermils, with a pleasant noise. Not far off is a great Fortest, a well woodded Chase, having good Covert for Hearts, Buches, Does, Boars, and wild Bulls. The Corn● fields are not of a hungry sandy mould; but as the fruitful fields of Asia, yielding plentiful increase, and filling the Barns with Corne. There are near London, on the North side, especial Wells in the Suburbs, sweet, wholesome, and clear. 
Liber Albo.  Amongst which, Holywell, Clarkenwell, and Saint Clements well are most famous, and most frequented by Scholars and Youths of the City in Summer evenings, when they walk forth to take the air.  
Thus far out of Fitz-Stephen, for the Suburbs of that time.  
The second of Henry the third, 
Suburb without the Postern by the Tower of London.  the Forest of Middlesex, and the Warren of Stanes were disafforested: since the which time, the Suburbs about London have been also mightily increased with buildings: for first, to begin the East, by the Tower of London, is the Hospital of S. Katherine, founded by Matilde, the Queen, wife to King Stephen, as is afore showed in Portsoken Ward.  
From this Precinct of S. Katherine, 
Wapping in the East.  to Wapping in the East, the usual place of execution for hanging of Pirates and Sea-Rovers, at the low water mark, there to remain till three tides had overflowed them, was never a house standing within these 50. years: but since (the Gallows being after removed farther off) a continual street, or filthy strait passage, with Alleys of small Tenements or Cottages is builded, inhabited by Saylors and Victuallers, along by the River of Thames, almost to Radcliffe, a good mile from the Tower.  
The new Chapel in Wapping Hambler, in the Parish of Whitechapel, was builded in the year 1617. the charge being about 1600. l. was gathered some part of it of the several Inhabitants in the same Hamlet; the rest (being the greater part) was gathered by Letters Patents for collections in several Counties: the Citizens of London, being worthy Benefactors toward it, procured by the principal care of Master Rowland Catmore, Robert Bourne, and Robert Mott, and others of the same Parish: Master Richard Sedgwicke being the first Minister in that Chapel, and so continueth to this year 1631.  

Written upon a high beam in the midst of the Chapel.  
This Chapel was dedicated to Almighty God, and consecrated to the honour and glory of his great and wonderful Name, the seventh day of july, 1617. by the right reverend father in God, john King, then Lord Bishop of London.  
A fair Gallery built on the South side of the Chapel, with part of the benevolence that was given for the use of the Chapel by the Mariners that went to the East Indies, Anno 1616. in the Royal james, under the command of Captain Martin Pringe, procured by the care of Master Rowland Catmore, than Master of the said ship, and now at the building, hereof Warden of the Chapel, 1622.  
Master Richard Gardner being at that time of building of the Chap, Rector of Whitechapel, who had to continued 47. years, being 77. years of age, as it was found in a glass window made at his own charge at the upper end of the Chancel.   

Richardus Gardenerus Whitechapel 〈◊〉 1617. An. Resident. suae 47. Aetatissaaes 77. 1617.  
A weekly Lecture maintained in the same Chapel by Master who hath given ten pounds yearly for ever toward it.  
Friday the 24. of july 1629. King Charles having hunted a Stragge or Hart from wansted in Essex, killed him in Nightingale lane, in the Hamblee of Wapping, in a garden belonging to one who had some damage among his herbs, by reason the multitude of people there assembled suddenly.  
In the Hamlet of Wapping, in the Parish of Whitechapel, was builded in Anno 1626. a large house of timber by Master William Turner, Gentleman, Master George Lowe, Gentleman, and Thomas jones, Gentleman, and others, for the making of Allome, which grew to such an inconvenience through the annoyance that was with ●oyling of Urine and other materials, by reason of the ill savour of it, and the excrement of it being found to be annoyance to the river of Thames, that upon the complaint of the Inhabitants to the King and Council, it was proceeded withal, as appeareth:  
The sixteenth of july 1627. being Monday, and the tide being near a low water, about eight of the cloak in the evening of the same day, there was a Lighter of Allome grease lying in the Hermitage Dock, which was taken out of a ship, lying there overthwart the mouth of the Dock. And upon the emptying of the water (out of the Lighter) which issued from the grease, there did arise a most noisome stinking scum of a frothy substance, and did spread all about the mouth of the Dock, and run down into the Thames: and there was a Vessel caused to be filled with it, and it did so stink, that we were not able to endure the sent of it, insomuch that endangered all the Wells and Ponds thereabouts: This was seen and done in the presence of these under written.  

Master Cornelius Godfrey, Merchant.  
M. George Freeman.  
M. joseph jaques.  
M. Leonard Leonard.  
M. Michael Leech.  
M. Fulke Wormleighton,  
M. john Byrkes.  
Thomas Pope.  
Henry Chandler. 
These will be ready to testify the truth hereof upon oath▪   
Thomas Davies.  
Thomas Knight.  
Thomas jones.  
Augustine Cope.  
Thomas powel.  
Nicholas Bugden.  
Tobias Greene.  
George Raymond.  
William Cook.  
William Curteis.  
john Cope.    

To the right worshipful his Majesty's justices of the Peace for the County of Meddlesex, and Commissioners for annoyances, and to all other his Majesty's Officiars, whom in this case it shall concern.  
We his Majesty's loving Subjects inhabiting within the Parish of Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, and St. Buttolph's without Ealdgate London, and in the Hamblets of Stepney, Wapping, East Smithfield, and Saint Katherine's near the Tower of London, finding and being continually choked and poisoned up with the daily and continual stink and most noisome infectious smell that is lately begun amongst us, by a workhouse for making of Allome (as is reported) by Master William Turner, Master George Lowe, and Master Thomas jones, and others, erected at the West end of Wapping; adjoining upon the River of Thames, & near unto the Tower of London, and to his Majesty's Storehouse on Tower hill, where the provision for his Highness' shipping is daily provided, do humbly show, that we findo, that the noisome smell that cometh of the making of the said Allome (which we suppose to be Urine and such other infectious materials) being long kept, and then boiled for the use aforesaid, do breed and make such an infectious and most noisome smell amongst us, that we are not able to live in our houses, nor to keep our families at work about us, the detestable stink thereof is so infectious and intolerable now this Winter time (much more will it be in the heat of Summer:) So that if speedy redress thereof be not had, we shall not be able to continue our habirations there, wherein we have long time lived. And it is generally thought, it will be a decay & dangerous infection to all inhabitants both on this side and the other side the water, within two miles' compass of the place it standeth; for the stink thereof (as the wind standeth) is further smelled, both by land and water: and daily complaint made thereof. And now there is begun but two or three Furnaces, but shortly there will be many more Furnaces made there, to the further great damage and annoyance of his Majesty's Subjects, which we humbly refer to your Worship's grave consideration, humbly desiring your speedy aid and reformation herein, otherwise we shall be compelled to leave our houses & dwellings to our utter undo: for the noisome smell is so dangerous, that no man will dwell thereabouts, if he might have his house rent-free: And we as bound, shall daily pray for your Worships:  

Richard Maine.  
Fulke Wormleighton.  
Thomas Clarke.  
Thomas Champion.  
William Mott.  
james Ruddam.  
james Coulyn.  
Andrew Fursland.  
john Parsons.  
Henry Munter.  
Henry Bludder.  
George Preston.  
Peter Leover.  
William Winson Hoofs.  
john Harrington.  
Romboult jacobson.  
john Wessels.  
Richard Rolfe.  
john Weeks.  
Richard Pountis.  
jenkin Ellis.  
Robert Haddock.  
Richard Studder.  
john Vandeford.  
Robert Thomas.  
Austin Reinolds.  
jeffrey Farmer.  
William Parsons.  
Reinold Thompson.  
john Greene.  
William Plasse.  
William Popular.  
Thomas Warton.  
William Peacocke.  
john Broocker.  
Matthew Fallen.  
George Flood.  
Thomas Grace.  
William Welch.  
Cornelius Godfrey.  
Thomas Cobb.  
john Dearsley.  
joseph jaques.  
William Rayniborowe.  
Peter March.  
Richard Cooper.  
Arion Williams.  
William Fox.  
john Note.  
Thomas White.  
William Speering.  
Michael Vngle.  
Richard Cray.  
Thomas Bercher.  
Osmond Colchester.  
William Webbe.  
William Bundrocke.  
William Evans.  
Michael Leech.  
john Cope.  
Tobias Greene.  
john Birke.  
john Harris.  
john Teabye.  
Robert Merret.  
William Clarke.    

To the Kings most excellent Majesty.  
The humble Petition of your Majesty's Liege-people and Subjects, being in number many thousands, inhabiting within one mile compass of your Majesty's Tower of London, within Middlesex and Surrey, and the Borough of Southwark.  
Most humbly showeth,  
THat whereas of late diverse Rooms have been newly erected in the Parish of St. Mary Matfellon, commonly called White chapel, in the County of Middlesex, by William Turner, Gentleman, George Lowe, Gentleman, and Thomas jones, Gentleman, and others, near unto many great Brewhouses, which breweth Beer for the use and service of your Majesty's Navy, and for diverse within London and Middlesex, which said Rooms have been ever since their first erection employed for boiling of Urine for making of Allome, which hath and doth daily cast so noisome a savour and evil air to all the parts thereabouts, and to all passengers that way, or by the River of Thames, that they are in no sort able to endure the same, nor their dwelling houses by reason thereof, and the same hath already cast many of them into extremity of great sicknesses and diseases, by which evil and unwholesome savour, of late many Fishes in the Thames there near unto, have been found ready to die, and dead, supposed to be poisoned by some ill substance issuing into the River of Thames: and all the Inhabitants thereabouts are much annoyed, and all the pasture ground lying near thereabouts is tainted and spoiled in such manner, that the cattle do refuse to feed on the same. And they further humbly show, that they having preferred their grievances unto your Majesty's Commissioners of annoyances, and having caused the same to be presented unto them by Indictment, by several jurors, sworn upon oath before your Majesty's justices of the Peace, in their general Sessions for Middlesex, upon due proof and the testimony of witnesses there also sworn and examined, upon which Evidences the said jurors have given up several verdicts, and presented upon their oaths the same annoyance to be exceeding great and intolerable to all inhabitants dwelling thereabouts, and to all other passengers by the same, or upon the River of Thames: Yet your Petitioners having no redress thereby, are compelled by extreme necessity to complain unto your Majesty, and with much grief, and with all humility beseech your Majesty to take to consideration the speedy redress in that behalf, the same annoyance being so great and unsavoury, that otherwise your poor Subjects, being many thousands  
in number, shall be compelled to forsake their houses, and abandon their dwellings, to the loss of their trades and lives, and the utter undoing of them and their families: Wherefore they  
Most humbly beseech your Majesty to commit the examination thereof unto the right Honourable Thomas Earl of Cleveland, Sir Allen Apsley, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Henry Spiller, Knight, Thomas Sanderson, and George Long, Esquires, or any three or two of them, or any others, being Justices and Commissioners of annoyances within the said County of Middlesex, who by your Majesty's gracious reference being thereunto required, may examine and hear the Allegations on all parts, and that upon the Certificate of their opinions therein, your Majesty will be pleased to vouchsafe your poor Subjects such relief as the case requireth.  
And the Petitioners, according to their bounden duties and legiance, shall daily pray for your Majesty's long and prosperous reign over us.   

At White-Hall the 25. of july, 1627. Present,  

Lord Keeper.  
Lord Treasurer.  
Earl of Dorset.  
Earl of Bridgewater.  
Master Secretary Cook.  
M. of the Rolls.  
M. Chancellor of the Duchy.   
WHereas upon a complaint formerly made by diverse Aldermen of the City of London, on the behalf of the Inhabitants of the Parishes of St. Buttolph's Ealdgate, and diverse other Parishes thereabouts, concerning a great annoyance unto the said Inhabitants, caused by certain Allome works, erected thereabouts by his Majesty's Farmers of the said works: It was by an order of the twentieth of this present month ordered, that the Precedent of the College of Physicians, accompanied with six other Doctors of Physic of that Society, as likewise, that some of the Aldermen should upon view of the said works, and such observations by them made as falls within their experience, return Certificate to the Board, of their opinions touching the same: Forasmuch as those whose names are here under-written, did this day accordingly make their Certificate in writing to the Board, as followeth; In haec verba: May it please your Lordships, according to an order of this Honourable Board of the twentieth of july last; We have viewed and observed the Allome works at Saint Katherine's, and considered the materials therein used and employed. And thereupon do humbly certify unto your Lordships, and are of opinion, that the works standing in that place, must necessarily breed great annoyances both to the near Inhabitants, and by the spreading vapours from thence issuing to many places more remote, and to all such passengers as either by land or by water have occasion to frequent those parts, not only by their continual noisome savours to make all their habitations grievous and unpleasant, but also by their putrid quality to endanger their healths: And so we humbly rest at your Lordship's commands, july the 24. An. 1627. Signed, john Argent, Pref. john Gifford, William Harvey, William Clement, Robert Fludd, Samuel Baskernite, Ottnell Moverell, and by Hugh Hamersley. Their Lordships upon consideration had thereof, did resolve, that the said Allome works in and about the City, were fit to be suppressed. Nevertheless, for that a Petition was now presented to the Board by the Farmers of the said Allome works, showing that it was not possible for them to erect and finish any new works in the Country before our Lady day next, and that if they should be restrained from working here in the mean time, the Kingdom would be unserved of Allome, of which there is great use, and they likewise disabled to pay his Majesty's rent. And therefore besought the Board that they might have leave to proceed in their making of Allome here until our Lady day next as aforesaid. It was thereupon thought fit & ordered that they should be at liberty to make Allome in those places where their works are already erected until our Lady day next only and no longer; and that in the mean time they presume not to erect any other works in any places in or about this city; Provided nevertheless that they suffer not the dregs and excrement proceeding from the boiling and making of the said Allom to be cast or fall into any places leading into the River of Thames, but that they cause the same from time to time to be either buried in the night time in the grounds where their works now are, or otherwise to be carried and buried in the night time in some other convenient place, where the same may breed no infection or annoyance to any his Majesty's subjects.   

At White Hall the 12. of September, Anno 1627. Present,  

Lord Precedent.  
Earl of Holland.  
Earl of Kellie.  
Master Secretary Cook.  
Master Chanch. of the Exchequer.  
Chanc. of the Duchy.   
WHereas an humble Petition was this day exhibited to the board in the name of the inhabitants of the Parishes of S. Buttolph's near Ealdgate, S. Katherine, Whitechapel, Stepney, Reddriffe, S. Olaves, and others adjacent and near his Majesty's Tower of London. Showing that whereas it had pleased the board (on the 27. of july last, after diverse hear and reports made by six Doctors of the College of Physicians of London) to order that the Farmer of his Majesty's Allome works (who had transported themselves out of the Northern parts of the Kingdom near unto his Majesty's Royal chamber and City of London) should not presume to erect any other work in or about, nor suffer the dregs or excrement of the boiling of Allom to be cast or fall into the river of Thames, but bury the same in the night time in some convenient place where it might not breed any infection or annoyance, yet nevertheless that since the making of the said order, and especially on the 16. of August last the said Farmers, their deputies or assigns, have in contempt of the order, poured or caused the said filth, dregs or excrements to fall into the Ponds or ditches leading to the Thames, whereby some of the Petitioners have found their wells of water appointed for brewing so tainted with the taste & savour of Allom excrement, as that within a very short space the Fish have been poisoned, and the water altogether unwholesome, for brewing or any other use, as by certificate under diverse of the said Petitioners hands the chief officers and inhabitants of the Tower appeared, and therefore humbly prayed redress of the growing mischief and dangerous contagion proceeding from the said Allom works, seconded with a presumptuous contempt of the said order of the Board, to the end that by a sudden reformation the Petitioners may enjoy the benefit of the air, and not be suffocated with the horrid and putrid savours occasioned by the said Allom works. The Board taking this complaint into their due and serious consideration and finding that the former order of the board was not observed, as is before mentioned and that the annoyance caused hereby, extendeth itself to the extreme parts of the City, and even so far as his Majesty's Court when the wind sitteth that way (which cannot but be of dangerous consequence by corrupting of both the air and the water, whereof beer is made for his Majesty's service & otherwise:) thought fit and ordered that the said Allom works: should be presently suppressed from working, and utterly removed by the Farmers or others whom it may concern within a convenient time, notwithstanding the former order (which on their parts have not been observed) and that some one of the Messengers of his Majesty's Chamber shallbe sent with a transcript of this their Lordship's order, to the Farmers or deputies of the said work, and see the same duly executed, and of the performance thereof to give account to their Lordships within ten or twelve days after the date hereof. And of this their Lordship's order as well the said Farmers & the Messenger, as others whom it may concern, are to take notice, and to regulate themselves accordingly, as they will answer the contrary.   

To the right Honourable Lords, and others of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council:  
The humble petition of the Inhabitants of S. Buttolph's Ealdgate, S. Katherine's, Whitechapel, Stepney, Redriffe, S. Olaves, and others adjacent and near his Majesty's Tower of London.  
WHereas it pleased this honourable Board the 27. of july last, after diverse hear and a report made by six Doctors being of the College of Physicians London, to order that the Farmers of his Majesty's Allom works (who had transplanted themselves out of the North parts near unto his Majesty's Royal Chamber and City of London) should not presume to erect any other works in or about the same, nor suffer the dregs or excrement proceeding of the boiling of Allom to be cast or fall into the River of Thames, but to bury the same in the night time where it might not breed any infection or annoyance.  
But so it is right Honourable, that diverse times since the order of this honourable Board, but especially upon the 16. of this instant August, the said Farmers, their deputy or assigns, have in Contempt of the said order, poured or caused the said filth, dregs or excrement to fall into the Ponds or ditches leading to the Thames, whereby some of your Petitioners have found their wells of water appointed for brewing so tainted and grownered with the taste and savour of Allom excrement, as that within three hours after about 40. Fishes were apparently found poisoned, as by the annexed Certificate appeareth.  
For redress of which growing mischief and dangerous Contagion, seconded with a presumptuous Contempt of your honourable order, as formerly the Petitioners fly to this honourable Board, beseeching a sudden reformation: To the end that your petitioners may enjoy the benefit of the air, and not be suffocated with the horrid and putrid savours proceeding from the said Allome works.  And the petitioners shallbe (as ever) bound to pray for your honours, 1627. 
We his Majesty's Subjects whose Names are subscribed do for a truth certify and willbe ready to depose, that since the 25. day of july last, the Allome farmers or their assigns, have erected new erections at or near Wapping, where there Allome works are: And that upon the 16. day of this instant month of August, by means of the excrement or filth falling or being cast and washed out of the said Allome works, by the flowing of the River of Thames was carried into wells belonging to Brewers thereabouts; and where diverse poor people for their means, do resort, and from thence do carry water to diverse houses, and to dress their meat and diet for their families: As by example, at that time into one well or pond of one joseph jaques, a Brewer near thereunto, where Ecles, and other fishes to the number of 40. and upwards, which within three hours after, therein were suffocated and poisoned, in the presence of these certificats.  
Witness our hands hereunto put the day of August, 1627.   

At White Hall the 12. of December, Anno 1627.  

Precedent,  
Lord Keeper.  
Lord Treasurer.  
Lord Precedent.  
Lord Admiral.  
Earl of Suff.  
Earl of Dorset.  
Earl of Salisbury.  
Earl of Exeter.  
Earl of Bridgwater.  
Earl of Carlisle.  
Earl of Holland.  
Earl of Banbury.  
Lord Vis. Grandison.  
Lord Bishop of Duresme.  
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.  
Master Treasurer.  
Master controller.  
Master of the Wards.  
Master Secretary Coke.  
Master Chanc. of the Exchequer.  
Master Chanc. of the Duchy.   
Whereas by an Order of this Board, made in july last, for reasons in the said order mentioned, the Allome works were suffered to be in those places near London, where they were then erected, until our Lady day next only and no longer. And afterwards the 12. of September last for contempts, in not pursuing the said order of the 25. of july, and for prevention of growing mischief that might come by sufferance of the said Allome works; it was ordered that the said Allome works should be presently suppressed, & removed; which being not as yet done, although the Farmers of the said works have sought out other places, whither to remove the said works. Now the Board upon the petition of the Company of Dyer's, being informed that in these times of wars, and danger, the Dyers and other Artificers using Allome cannot be furnished with that commodity, from any other persons, or places, but only from the Farmer's aforesaid, and their Magazines. And that the said artificers, for want thereof shall be forced to give over their Trades to the great damage of the Commonweal. And the said Farmers informing that by reason of some Shipwrecks, and the danger of passages from out of the North hither, they have failed, nor cannot bring their Alloms hither to London, as they were wont. In consideration of all which; and for that their Lordships do conceive that the said works will be less offensive to the Inhabitants dwelling in those parts in this winter season, the Board hath thought fit and ordered, that the said Farmers, their Deputies, and Assigns, shall be permitted, until our Lady day next according to the permission given by the former order of the 25. of july, to convert the Materials now upon their hands into Allome, at their house in S. Katherine's, erected for that purpose, and to sell the same, for the use of his Majesty's subjects: And presently upon our Lady day next to remove the said works to some other place more remote from the City of London, and the Suburbs thereof. And it is ordered, that in the mean while the said Farmers, their Deputies and Assigns, or some of them shall seek, and find out some convenient place for their said works, & signify unto the Board of what place they have made choice, to the end they may have their Lordship's allowance and approbation, for their Settlement in the same, whereof all persons whom it may concern, are to take knowledge, and accordingly to govern themselves, as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their perils. Provided always, and it is hereby willed and commanded, that all things else required and set down to be done by the said Farmers, in either of the said Orders, before mentioned, concerning the excrement of the Allome, & otherwise whatsoever, be duly observed and performed by the said Farmers of the said Allome works.  
On the East side, and by North of the Tower, lieth East-Smithfield, 
Nightingale lane.  Hog's street, 
East Smithfield.  and Tower hill, and East from them both, was the new Abbey called Grace, founded by Edward the third. From thence Radeliffe, up East Smithfield, by Nightingale lane, (which runneth South to the Hermitage, a Brewhouse so called of an Hermit sometime being there,) 
Bramley.  beyond this lane to the Manor of Bramley (called in Record of Richard the second, Villa East Smithfield, and Villa de Bramley) and to the Manor of Shadwell, belonging to the Dean of Paul's, there hath been of late, in place of Elm trees, many small Tenements raised, towards Radcliffe: And Radcliffe itself hath been also increased in building Eastward (in place where I have known a large highway, with fair Elm trees on both the sides) that the same hath now taken hold of Lime-Hurst, 
Lime Hurst.  Limehost, corruptly called Limehouse, sometime distant a mile from Radcliffe.  
Having said thus much for building, at Wapping, East Smithfield, Bramley, and Shadwell, all on the South side of the highway to Radcliffe; now one note on the North side also, concerning Pirates: I read, that in the year 1440. in the Lent season, certain persons, with six ships brought from beyond the Seas fish, to victual the City of London; which fish when they had delivered, and were returning homeward, a number of Sea-theeves in a Barge, in the night came upon them, when they were asleep in their Vessels, riding at anchor on the River Thames, and slew them, cut their throats, east them overboard, took their money, and drowned their ships, for that no man should espy or accuse them. Two of these thiefs were after taken and hanged in chains upon a gallows set upon a raised Hill, for the purpose made, in the field beyond East Smithfield, so that they might be seen far into the River Thames.  
The first building at Radcliffe in my youth (not to be forgotten) was a fair Free School, 
Free School & Almshouses at Radisse.  and Almshouses, founded by Avicen Gibson, wife to Nich. Gibson, Grocer, as before I have noted. But of late years, Shipwrights, and (for the most part) other Marine men, have builded many large and strong houses for themselves, and smaller for Smylers, from thence almost to Poplar, and so to Black well.  
Now for Tower hill, 
Tower hill without the walls.  the plain there is likewise greatly diminished by Merchants, for building of small tenements: from thence towards Ealdgate, was the Minories, whereof I have spoken.  
From Ealdgate East again lieth a large street, replenished with buildings, to wit, on the North side the Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, and so other building to Hoglane, and to the bars on both sides.  
Also, 
Suburb without Ealdgate,  without the Bars, both the sides of the Street be pestered with Cottages and Allies, even up to White Chapel Church; and almost half a mile beyond it, into the common field: all which ought to lie open and free for all men. But this common field (I say) being sometime the beauty of this City on that part, is so encroached upon, by building of filthy Cottages, and with other Purprestures, Enclosures, and Laystalls, that (notwithstanding all Proclamations and Acts of Parliament made to the contrary) in some places it scarce remaineth a sufficient highway for the meeting of Carriages and Droves of cattle, much less is there any fair, pleasant, or wholesome way, for people to walk on foot: which is no small blemish to so famous a City, to have so unsavoury and unseemly an entry or passage thereunto.  
Now of White Chapel Church somewhat 
Of white Chapel.  and then back again to Ealdgate.  
This Church is as it were a Chapel of ease to the Parish of Stebunhith, and the Parson of Stebunhith hath the Gift thereof: which being first dedicated to the name of God, and the Blessed Virgin, is now called Saint Mary Matfellon, 
St. Marry Matfellon.  About the year 1428. in the sixth of King henry the sixth, a devout widow of that Parish had long time cherished and brought up, of Alms, a certain Frenchman, or Briton borne, 
A devout widow murdered.  which most unkindly and cruelly in a night murdered the said widow sleeping in her bed, and after fled with such jewels and other stuff of hers, as he might carsie. But he was so freshly pursved; that (for fear) he took the Church of Saint George in Southwark, and challenged Privilege of Sanctuary there, and so abjured the Kings Land. Then the Constables (having charge of him) brought him into London, intending to have conveyed him Eastward: but so soon as he was come into the Parish, where before he had committed the Murder; the wives cast upon him so must filth and ordure of the street, that (notwithstanding the best resistance made by the Constables) they slew him out of hand: And for this feat it hath been said, that Parish to have purchased that name of Saint Mary Matfellon; but I find in Record, the same to be called Villa beatae Mariae de Matfellon, in the 21. of Richard the second.  
More, we read, that in the year 1336. the 10. of Edward the third, the Bishop of Alba, Cardinal and Parson of Stebunhith, Procurator general in England, presented a Clerk to be Parson in the Church of blessed Mary, called Matfellon, without Ealdgate of London, etc.  
Now again from Ealdgate Northwest to Bishopsgate, 
Suburb without Bishopsgate.  lieth Hounds-ditch, and so to Bishopsgate.  
North and by East from Bishopsgate, lieth a large street, or highway, having on the West side thereof, the Parish Church of S. Buttolph.  
Then is the Hospital of S. Mary of Bethelem, founded by a Citizen of London, and as before is showed, up to the Bars, 
Norton fall gate.  without the which, is Norton fall gate, 
Priory of S. john Baptist, at Holywell.  a liberty so called, belonging to the Dean of Paul's. Thence up to the late dissolved Priory of S. john Baptist, called Holywell, a House of Nuns, of old time founded by a Bishop of London. Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London, about the year 1318. was a Benefactor thereunto, re-edified by Sir Thomas Lovel, Knight of the Garter, who builded much there, in the reigns of Henry the seventh, and of Henry the eight. He endowed this House with fair Lands, and was there buried in a large Chapel by him builded for that purpose. This Priory was valued, at the suppression, to have of Lands two hundred ninety three pound by year, and was surrendered 1539. the one & thirtieth of Henry the eight. The Church thereof being pulled down, many houses have been built for the Lodgings of Noblemen, of Strangers borne, and other.  
From Holywell, in the high Street, is a continual building of Tenements to Sewers ditch, having one small side of a field already made a Garden Plot. Over-against the North corner of this Field, between it & the Church of S. Leonora in Shoreditch, 
A Cross at Shoresditch, now a Smith's Forge.  sometime stood a Cross, now a Smith's Forge, dividing three Ways: Forthright the highway is builded upon either side, more than a good flight shoot towards King's land, Newington, Tottenham, etc.  
On the left hand is Ealdestreet, which reacheth West to a stone Cross, overagainst the North end of Golding lane, and so to the end of Goswell street. On the right hand of this Ealdestreet not far from Shoresditch, 
Hoxton.  but on the North side thereof is Hoxton, a large street with houses on both sides, and is a Prebend belonging to Paul's Church in London, but of Shoresditch Parish.  
On the right hand beyond Shoresditch Church, toward Hackney, are some late builded houses upon the common soil, for it was Lay-stall, but those houses belong to the Parish of Stebunhith.  
On the other side of the highway, from Bishopsgate and Hounds-ditch, is the the Dolphin, a common Inn for receipt of Travellers, than a house builded by the L. john Powlet, afterward called Fishers-Folly, and so up to the West end of Berwardes Lane, is a continual building of small cottages, than the Hospital called Saint Mary spital, hard within the Bars, whereof I have spoken in Bishopsgate Ward.  
From the which Bars towards Shoresditch on that side, 
Shoresditch so called more than 400. years since, as I can prove by record.  was all along, a continual building of small and base Tenements, for the most part lately erected.  
Amongst the which (I mean of the ancientest building) was one row of proper small houses, with Gardens for poor decayed people, there placed by the Prior of the said Hospital: 
Almshouses in Shoresditch.  every one Tenant whereof paid one penny rend by the year at Christmas, and dined with the Prior on Christmas day. But after the suppression of the Hospital, these houses for want of reparations in few years were so decayed, that it was called Rotten Row, 
Rotten Row or Russell Rowe.  & the poor worn out (for there came no new in their place) the houses (for a small portion of money) were sold from Goddard to Russell a Draper, who new builded them, & let them out for rent enough, taking also large Fines of the Tenants, near as much as the houses cost him purchase and building: for he made his bargains so hardly with all men, that both Carpenter, Bricke-layer, & Plasterer, were by that Work undone. And yet in honour of his name, it is now called Russels Row.  
Now for the Parish Church of Saint Leonards in Shoresditch, 
Parish Church of S. Leonards at Shoresditch.  the archdeacon of London is always Parson thereof, and the Cure is served by a Vicar.  
In this Church have been diverse honourable persons buried, as appeareth by Monuments yet remaining. Sir john Elrington, with Margaret his wife, daughter & heir to Thomas Lord Itchingham, widow to William Blount, son & heir to Walter Blount, the first Lord Mountjoy: which Margaret died, 1481.  
Orate pro animabus Humfredi Starky, Militis, 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the Quire.  nuper Capitalis Baronius de Scaccario Domini Regis Hen. 7. & Isabel uxoris ejus, & omnium, etc.  
This Monument is erected in memory, that within this Church do lie buried the bodies of the right Honourable & Noble Ladies, 
A very fair Tomb in the upper end of the Quire.  Lady Katherine Stafford, daughter to Edward Duke of Buckinghan, & wife to Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, who died 1553. Lady Elinor, daughter to Sir William Paston, Knight, and wife to the right honourable Lord Thomas, Earl of Rutland, buried 1551. Lady Margaret Nevell, daughter to Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, & wife to Henry, Earl of Rutland, who died 1560. And the Lady Katherine Nevell, wife to Sir John Constable of Holdernes, Knight, and daughter to Henry, Earl of Westmoreland. And Lady Anne Manners, daughter to Thomas, Earl of Rutland: which Katherine died the seven and twentieth day of March, Anno Domini 1591.  
And that here do lie also the bodies of two right worthy Gentlemen, honourably descended; namely, of Sir Thomas Manners, Knight, and Oliver Manners, Esquire, Brethren, being the fourth & fifth sons of the aforesaid Thomas, Earl of Rutland. The first died about his age of 50. in june, 1591. after many valiant Services performed by him for his Prince and Country, both in Ireland and in Scotland, where he was Knighted; and witnessed by sundry great wounds he therein received. The second died in his younger years, 1563. about his age of twenty, yet not before good proof made of his valour and forwardness, in the Service of New-haven, against the French; where he took the sickness, whereof he died shortly after, in Shoresditch.  
Founded by the Lady Adeline Nevell, at the direction of the said Lady Katherine Constable, deceased, her Sister, in February, 1591.  

Theodosia  
Vavasour. 

Oleum effusum nomen tuum,  
Ideo Adolescentulae dilexerunt te. Cant. 1.  
Fallax est gratia, & vana pull.  
chritudo: mulier timens Deum, ipsa laudabitur. Pro. 11.     
Hac tuleris quicunque gradum sta, perlege, plora,  
Hic decor, 
A comely Monument in the wall, near to the Tomb.  hic pietas, Nobilitasque jacet.  
Virgo annis animisque Dei (Theodosia) donum  
Qua meritis certat fama, decore pudor.  
Sed famam meritis superavit, moribus annos,  
Ingenio sexum, Religione genus.  
Quam neque Nobilitas tumidam, nec forma procacem▪  
Fecerat, una humilis, clara, pudica, decens.  
Flos aevi, florem dixi? dixi ergo dolorem  
Vt matura brevi est, heu ita rapta brevi est.  
Rapta sed Aethereis Rosa transplantanda viretis,  
Laeta ubi perpetui tempora veris aget.  
Inter & aeternas Agni comes Agna choreas  
Ignotum casto succinet ore melos.  
Candida virginei tumulo date Lilia coetus,  
Virgins O partus, virgins esto memor. Ereptam Domino sociat lux ultima faelix. O faelix virgo quod cupit usque tenet.  
Anno Domini 1616. Martii 17. 
Here lieth buried Elizabeth, 
A fair Tomb in the Chancel.  the wife of the late Reverend Father in God, john Skory, late Bishop of Hereford. The said Reverend Father, in the reign of King Edward the sixth, was Bishop of Rochester, & translated from thence to Chichester. He departed this life at Whitborne, in the County of Hereford, the 26. day of june, Anno Domini 1585. And the said Elizabeth deceased in Holywell, in this Parish, the 8. day of March, 1592. Beati mortui qui Domino moriuntur.  
Her Corpse here lies in Chest,  
Her Soul in Heaven now lives;  
And she enjoys that Rest,  
Which God to his Saints gives:  
For in Christ did she trust,  
That he will her restore  
Again out of the dust,  
To live for evermore.   
here lieth the body of Sir Thomas Seymer, 
An ancient Marble Tomb in the Chancel.  Knight, late Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, and Dame Mary his wife. The which Sir Thomas deceased the eleventh day of December, Anno Domini 1532.  
Heereunder lie the ashes and the bones  
Of Sir Thomas Leigh, 
An engraven Place in the Northwall of the Quire.  that good and learned Knight;  
Whose hasty death (alas) the godly still bemoans,  
Though his soul always rejoice in God's sight.  
Great was his wisdom, and greater was his wit,  
His visage comely, with no sad change dismayed:  
A man in all affairs, a King to serve most fit,  
Had not death so soon his mortal life betrayed.   

He died the 25. day of November, Anno Domini, 1545.  
A table made at the costs and charge of Henry Hodge, Citizen and Brewer of London, containing the names of the Benefactors to the Church, and the poor of the Parish of S. Leonards in Shoreditch. Which table hangeth up in the Chancel near the Communion table; set up there, Anno Domini 1623.  
William Thornton of this Parish Tailor, gave the Vestry house with a room under for the Minister to dwell in, and a renement by 〈◊〉 to this parish for ever: He likewise 〈◊〉 the Gallery at the coming in 〈◊〉 the great door in the Church, and 〈◊〉 the ●●ricke wall on the West side of 〈◊〉 Churchyard at his own charge, Anno Domini 1581.  
john Fuller of Bishops-●●ll Esquire, gave a sum of money for the building of 12. Almshouses, for 12. poor widows of this parish; which poor women do receive during the life of the Lady his late wife, and after wife to Sir Thomas Mansfield the sum of 8. l. per annum. And after the Lady's decease there is to come 50. l. per annum to the said poor alms women for ever. The Lady being dead they do now receive it.  
William Peake of this Parish Esquire, gave to be dealt in bread unto the poor of this Parish weekly the sum of 2. sh'. on every Sunday for ever.  
Robert Brainforth, of this parish Gentleman gave yearly 8. l. for ever unto the poor of this Parish, viz. upon every S. Thomas day before Christmas to 60. poor persons 3. l. and upon every Good Friday unto 30. poor persons the sum of 50. sh'. and upon every Sunday for ever the sum of 12. d'. in bread to the poor of this Parish. This money is to be paid accordingly out of the Hospital of S. Thomas in Southwark for ever. He hath also given a green Carpet of broad cloth for the Communion table.  
Thomas Russell of London Draper, hath given to the poor of this Parish the sum of 12. d'. weekly to be distributed to the poor of the Parish for ever, to be paid by the company of the Drapers in London.  
George Clarke Citizen and Vintner of London, gave unto the use of the poor of this Parish the sum of 100 marks in money.  
Simon Burton of London Wax-chandler, gave to 30. poor widows of this parish the sum of 30. groats yearly for ever, to be distributed every S. Thomas day.  
George Palin of London Girdler, hath given 10. l. in money to the use of the poor of this parish for ever.  
Robert Spence of London Fishmonger, gave 50. sh'. a year to the poor of this Parish for ever, to be paid by the company of Fishmongers.  
Thomas Scriven Esquire, hath given 10. l. in money to the use of the poor of this Parish for ever.  
Robert Rogers of London Leather seller, gave the sum of 30. pound in money for a stock for the poor of this parish to buy seacoles, which is to be laid out at best time for the benefit of the said poor for ever, reserving the stock whole.  
Steven 〈◊〉 of London Vintner, gave the sum of 26. every year for ever, to be given in sagots to the poor of this Parish about Michaelmas. This is to be paid by the company of Vintners in London.  
john Eomans, alias Tice of this parish tuftafata-weaver, gave to the use of the poor of this parish the sum of 10. l. in money, to be distributed to the 12. poor Alms women in one cauldron of seacoles yearly for ever among them. Cicely, late wife of the said john Eomans, & after wife to Master john Heath, gave to the use of the poor, the sum of 20. pound in money, for a stock to buy seacoles for the poor of this parish for ever. Likewise she gave 20. pound to buy a flagon of silver for wine for the Communion. Likewise she gave 20. pound in money, for the maintenance of two sermons yearly for ever, viz. one upon the Lady day, in harvest, and the other upon the Lady day, in Lent.  
Anne Smith widow late wife of William Nisam deceased, gave weekly to be dealt in bread to the poor of this parish upon every Sunday 2. sh'. for ever, to be paid out of the company of Drapers in London. Likewise she gave a pulpit cloth and cushion to this Church.  
Nicolas Wilkinson, alias Tooly, Gentlemen deceased, late of this parish, gave the sum of 80. pound in money, to remain a stock that upon every Sunday after morning prayer, there should be distributed to 32. poor people 32. wheaten loaves for ever. And the Vicar, Churchwardens and Vestry-men out of their provident care, have made a purchase of a rent-charge yearly, issuing out of the George in Holywell street, for the true performance thereof for ever.  
Besides these benefactors in the table, since we have had these M. Zachary Elmer, Official to the Archdeacon of London, together with his brother M. Edmond Elmer, gave a flagon of silver for the wine in the communion; And William Badger gardener in Shoreditch gave another; And a parishioner unknown gave also another, every one cost 20. l. a piece. Also john Leavis Weaver, gave a chalice, in which the communion wine is delivered; and Isabella jackson widow, late wise to William jackson Grocer, living in this parish, gave a plate of silver to carry the bread in the communion. William Wood Gardiner in this parish, gave a chalice to the communion table and four pewter flagons for the wine.  
joan Smales widow of this Parish & formerly wife to john Cook of this Parish, gave allowance for 4. sermons every year on four Holy days: Namely, the feast day of S. john Baptist, S. Michael, S. Stephen, and the Purification of the Virgin Mary; and she bequeathed also 40. l. yearly to be given to the poor of our Parish.  
On the North side of the Church a gallery was made at the cost of well disposed parishioners, in the year 1617. William Badger, and john Clarke, being Churchwardens. And another on the South part by james Slade, Captain & servant to the East Indian company, was set up in the year 1630. And a long seat between, reaching from one galto the other, for the catechising of youth out of the pulpit, according to the order then given, john Squire being Vicar, Thomas Crowther, and Henry Empson, Churchwardens. Under this gallery is set, Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven, Matth. 7. 24.  
He loveth our nation and hath built us a Synagogue, Luc. 7. 5.  
Virgo annis animisque Dei (〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉) donum, Aethereis rosa transplantanda viretis.   

A Tomb on the South side of the chancel.  
jane the wife of Ralph Hansby Esquire, daughter to William Vavasour Esquire, Grandchild to Thomas Manners Knight, died the 22. day of july, in the year of our Lord 1617. and of her age the 23. To whose blessed memory her her dear husband hath dedicated this sad monument to signify that with her his joy lies here interred.  
Si genus & virtus, & moribus aucta figura  
Pulchra bonis, pietas si quid honoris habent;  
Hunc Ianae tumulum spectans venerare Viator,  
Cum qua tot bona tam bella sepulta jacent.  
Nec minor his aderat victrix patientia victae,  
Nec spolium mortis sed pudor illa fuit.  
If birth, if virtue,  
if fair feature decked  
With gifts of mind,  
if piety breeds respect;  
Her tomb then view,  
and grace kind Passenger,  
With whom so many graces  
buried were:  
Conquered, By patience  
yet she overcame,  
Nor was her youth deaths  
triumph but his shame.  
In the middle chancel this inscription in brass is placed upon a grave stone.  
Georgius Gips, Generosus, fide subjectus, spe erectus, charitate Deo unitus, vitam mortalem mutavit pro immortali, 12. julii 1611. Quatuor genuit filios, filiasque undecim. Quorum Richardus, Georgius, Thomas, Anna, Maria, & Martha, Patris clauserunt, reliquorum ipse clausit lumina.  
A little below in the same chancel is set upon a grave stone.  
May 22. 1618. Richard Leigh, Merchant and Citizen of London, placed this stone in memorial of his dear wife Anne Leigh; Who lieth here interred by the body of Richard Brattuph her first husband, and of her 3. children, Richard, Sara, and john, which she bore to the said Richard Brattuph.  
In some, sad sickness pain,  
and pain impatience,  
In thee a patient  
penitence it wrought,  
Thy sickness joy,  
thy tribulation hope,  
The body's death gave life  
unto thy soul.  
Thus for his lambs  
the Lord can honey draw,  
From th'all-devouring  
cruel lion's jaw.  
Vbi tua, O mors, victoria?  
Vbi tuus, O sepulchra, tumulus?  
And over against this tomb in the wall on the South side of the chancel in a monument of brass.  
Here lieth Katherine Liveley, wife of Edward Liveley Gentlemen, and daughter of Henry Hodge Citizen and Brewer of London, and joice his wife, who after she had run a virtuous and religious course of life 21. years, finished the same the 15. day of july, Anno Domini, 1623. Proverbs 10. 7.  
The memory of the just is blessed.  
Furthermore, (of late time) one Vicar there, for covetousness of the Brass, which he converted into coined Silver, plucked up many Plates fixed on the Graves, and left no memory of such as had been buried under them. A great injury both to the living and the dead, forbidden by public Proclamation, in the reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, but not forborn by many, that either of a preposterous zeal, or of a greedy mind, spare not to satisfy themselves by so wicked a means.  
One note of Shoresditch, and so an end of that Suburb.  
I read, 
A Fuller of Shoresditch, for falsely accusing, hanged and quartered.  that in the year 1440. the eighteenth of Henry the sixth, a Fuller of Shoresditch appeached of Treason many worthy Esquires and Gentlemen of Kent: but he being proved false, was attainted, condemned, and had judgement to be drawn, hanged, and quartered; which was done, his head set on London Bridge, and his Quarters on the Gates. This justice was done, according to the sixteenth of Deuteronomie, 
Deut. 16.  The judges shall make diligent inquisition, 
The reward of a false brother.  and if the witness be found false, and to have given false witness against his brother, then shall they do unto him, as he had thought to do unto his brother, etc.  
I read of the King's Manor, called Shoresditch Place, in the Parish of Hackney: But how it took that name, I know not; and therefore I will turn back from Shoresditch Cross to Bethelem Cross, 
Bethelem Cross.  and so pass through that Hospital into the Moore-field, which lieth without the Postern called Moore-gate.  
This Field (of old time) was called the Moor; as appeareth by the Charter of William the Conqueror to the College of Saint Martin, declaring a running Water to pass into the City from the same Moor. Also Fitz-Stephen writeth of this Moor, saying thus: When the great Fen, or Moor, which watereth the Walls on the North side, is frozen, etc.  
This Fen, or Moore-field, stretching from the Wall of the City, betwixt Bishopsgate and the Postern called Cripplegate, to Finsbery, and to Holywell, 
Finsbery fields and Morefields an unprofitable ground.  continued a waste and unprofitable ground a long time, so that the same was all let for four marks the year, in the reign of Edward the second. But in the year 1415. the third of Henry the fifth, Thomas falconer, Maior, as I have showed, caused the wall of the City to be broken toward the said Moor, and builded the Postern called Mooregate, for ease of the Citizens to walk that way upon Causies towards Iseldon and Hoxton. Moreover, he caused the Ditches of the City, and other the Ditches from Shore's ditch to Deep ditch, by Bethelem into the Moor ditch, to be newly cast and cleansed, by means whereof the said Fen or Moor was greatly dreined or dried. But shortly after, to wit, in 1477. Ralph joceline, Maior, for repairing of the Wall of the City, caused the said Moor to be searched for Clay & Brick to be burnt there, etc. by which means this field was made the worse for a long time.  
In the year 1498. all the Gardens which had continued time out of mind, 
Gardens without M●regate, destroyed and made plain ground Ditches cast to drain the the More-field.  without Mooregate, to wit, about and beyong the Lordship of Finsbury, were destroyed; And of them was made a plain field for Archers to shoot in. And in the year 1512. Roger Atchley, Maior, caused diverse dikes to be cast, and made to drain the waters of the said Moorefields, with Bridges arched over them, and the grounds about to be leveled, whereby the said field was made somewhat more commodious, 
Sluice to convey the standing water out of the Moor.  but yet it stood full of noisome waters. Whereupon, in the year 1527. Sir Thomas Seyvor, Maior, caused diverse Sluices to be made to convey the said waters over the Town Ditch, into the course of Walbrooke, and so into the Thames: and by these degrees was this Fen or Moor at length made main and hard ground, which before being overgrown with Flags, Sedges and Rushes, served to no use, Since the which time also, the farther grounds beyond Finsbury Court, 
Moorefields raised and wind-Mils set thereon.  have been so everheightned with Laystalls of dung, that now diverse Windmills are thereon set, the Ditches be filled up, and the Bridge's overwhelmed.  
And now concerning the enclosures of common grounds about this City, whereof I mind not much to argue; Edward Hall setteth down a note of his time, 
Edward Hall.  to wit, in the fifth or rather 6. of H. the 8.  
Before this time (saith he) the Inhabitants of the Towns about London, as Iseldone, Hoxton, Shoresditch and others, had so enclosed the common fields with hedges, and ditches, that neither the young men of the City might shoot, nor the ancient persons walk for their pleasures in those fields; but that either their bows and arrows were taken away or broken, or the honest persons arrested or indicted, saying: That no Londoner ought to go out of the City, but in the Highways.  
This saying so grieved the Londoners, that suddenly this year, a great number of the City assembled themselves in a morning, and a Turner in a fool's coat came crying thorough the City, shovels and spades, shovels and spades. So many of the people followed, that it was wonder to behold; and (within a short space) all the hedges about the City were cast down, 
Hedges pulled down & ditches filled up.  and the ditches filled up, and every thing made plain; such was the diligence of those workmen.  
The King's Council hearing of this assembly, came to the Grey Friars, and sent for the Mayor and Council of the City, to know the cause, who declared to them the injury & annoying done to the Citizens, & to their Liberties, which though they would not seek disorderly to redress, yet the Communality and young persons could not be stayed thus to remedy the same. When the King's Council had heard their answer, they dissimuled the matter, and commanded the Mayor to see that no other thing were attempted, but that they should forthwith call home the younger sort: who having speedily achieved their desire, returned home before the King's Council, and the Mayor departed without more harm: after which time (saith Hall) those fields were never hedged.  
But afterward we saw the thing in worse case than ever, 
Banqueting houses like Bankrupts, bearing great show and little worth.  by means of enclosure for Gardens, wherein are builded many fair Summer houses, and as in other places of the suburbs, some of them like Midsummer Pageants, with Towers, Turrets, and Chimney tops, not so much for use or profit, as for show and pleasure, and bewraying the vanity of men's minds, much unlike to the disposition of the ancient Citizens, who delighted in the building of Hospitals, and Almshouses for the poor, and therein both employed their wits, and spent their wealths in preferment of the common commodity of this our City.  
But now to come back again to Moregate, 
Suburb without Cripplegate.  and from thence West through a narrow passage, called the Postern, because it hath at either end a door to shut in the night season, betwixt the More-ditch enclosed with Brick for Tenteryardes, and the Gardens of the said Morefield, to Morelane: a part of the Suburb without Cripplegate, without this postern called Cripplegate, also lay a part of the said More, even to the River of Wells, as in an other place I have showed, and no houses were there builded, till the latter end of the reign of William the Conqueror, and his Son William Rufus, about which times, some few houses were there builded along East and West, thwart before the said Gate. One Alfune builded for the inhabitants a Parish Church which is of S. Giles, somewhat West from the said Gate, 
Parish Church of S. Giles.  and is now on the bank of the Town ditch, and so was there a street since called Forestreet, as standing before the Gate.  
This Alfune in the reign of Henry the first, became the first Hospiteler of Saint Bartholomewes' Hospital in Smithfield, as in another place I have noted. And this Parish Church of S. Giles, being at the first a small thing, stood in place where now standeth the Vicarage house, but hath been since (at diverse times) much enlarged, according as the Parish hath increased, & was at the length newly builded in place where now it standeth. But the same new Church being large, strongly builded, & richly furnished with Ornaments, was in the year 1545. by casualty of fire sore burnt and consumed: not withstanding, it was again (within short space of time) repaired as now it showeth.  
Some little distance from the East end of this Church, standeth a fair Conduit castellated in Forestreet. Then had ye a Boss of sweet water in the wall of the Churchyard, lately made a Pump, but already decayed.  
Then had ye a fair Pool of sweet water near to the Church of S. Giles, wherein Anne of Lodbery was drowned as I have before declared.  
In the East end of Forestreet is More lane: 
Grub street.  then next is Grub street, of late years inhabited (for the most part) by Bowyers, Fletchers, Bowstring makers and such like, now little occupied; Archery giving place to a number of bowling Allies, and Dicing houses, which in all places are increased, and too much frequented.  
This street stretcheth North Everades Well street, 
Everades Well street.  which thwarteth it to White Cross street: the next from Forestreet North is White Cross street, likewise extending itself up to the West end of Everades Well street, and from the end there of to Ealdestreet.  
From the West end of Forestreet lieth Red Cross street, from the which Cross, on the right hand East lieth Beech lane, 
Golding lane.  and reacheth to the White Cross street. From Red Cross North lieth Golding lane, which stretcheth up to a Cross in Ealde street, which Golding lane (on both the sides) is replenished with many Tenements of poor people.  
On the left hand, and West of the Red Cross lieth a street, of old time called Hounds-ditch, & of later time named Barbican, of such cause as I have before noted. And thus have you all the Suburb without Cripplegate, being almost altogether in the Parish of Saint Giles, which hath more than 1800. Householders, and above 4000 Communicants.  
Without Aldersgate, 
Suburb without Aldersgate.  on the left hand, is the Parish Church of S. Buttolph, on the North side of the which Church lieth a way, called Little Britain street, towards the Priory of Saint Bartholomew in Smithfield; but the highway without Aldersgate, runneth strait North from the said gate unto Hounsditch, or Barbican street on the right hand, and Long lane on the left hand, which runneth into Smithfield.  
Then from the farther end of Aldersgate street, strait North to the Bar, is called Goswell street, replenished with small Tenements, Cottages, and Allies, Gardens, Banqueting houses and bowling places.  
Beyond these Bars, leaving the Charter-house on the left hand, or the West side of the way, stretcheth up towards Iseldon, & on the right hand or East side (at a red Cross) turneth into Ealdestreet, 
Eald street.  so called, for that it was the old highway from Aldersgate street, for the North-east parts of England, before Bishopsgate was builded, which street runneth East to a Smith's Forge, sometime a Cross before Shoresditch Church, from whence the Passengers & Carriages were to turn North to Kings-land, Tottenham, Waltham, Ware, etc.  
There was sometime in this Suburb without Aldersgate, 
Hospital without Aldersgate.  an Hospital for the poor; but an Alien of Clunie, a French order, and therefore suppressed by King Henry the fifth, who gave the house with lands and goods, to the Parish of Saint Buttolph, and a Brotherhood of the Trinity was there founded, which was afterward suppressed by Henry the 8. or Edward the 6.  
There is (at the farthest North corner of this Suburb) a Windmill, which was sometime by a tempest of wind overthrown, and in place thereof a Chapel was builded by Queen Katherine 
The Mount.  (first wife to Henry the eight) who named it the Mount of Calvary because it was of Christ's Passion, and was in the end of Henry 8. pulled down, and a Windmill newly see up as afore.  
Without Newgate li●●h the West and by North Suburb, 
Suburb without Newgate.  on the right hand or North side whereof (betwixt the said gate, and the Parish of S. Sepulchre) turneth away towards West Smithfield, called, Giltspurre street, or Knight rider's street; then is Smithfield itself, compassed about with buildings, as I have before declared in Faringdon Ward without.  
And without the Bars of West Smith field, 
S. john's street. Charter house.  lieth a large street or way, called of the house of S. john there S. john's street, & stretcheth toward Is●ldō: On the right hand whereof stood the late dissolved Monastery, called the Charter-house, founded by Sir Walter Manny, Knight, a stranger borne, Lord of the Town of Manny in the Diocese of Cambrey, beyond the Seas, who for service done to King Edward the third, was made Knight of the Garter.  
This house he founded upon this occasion: 
Charter-house.  A great Pestilence entering this Island, began first in Dorsetshire, then proceeded into Devonshire, Somersetshire, Glocestershire, and Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and Churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to choose out certain fields for burials: whereupon Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London, in the year 1348. bought a piece of ground, called No man's land, 
No man's land.  which he enclosed with a wall of Brick, and dedicated for burial of the dead, builded thereupon a proper Chapel, which is now enlarged, 
Pardon Church-yard by the Charter-house.  and made a dwelling house: and this burying plot is become a fair Garden, retaining the old name of Pardon Church-yard.  
About this time, in the year 1349. the said Sir Walter Manny, in respect of danger that might befall in this time of so great a plague and infection, purchased 13. Acres and a Rod of ground, adjoining to the said Nomans land, and lying in a place called spital Croft, because it belonged to Saint Bartholomews' Hospital, since that called the New Church Haw, and caused it to be consecrated by the said Bishop of London to the use of burials.  
In this plot of ground, there was (in that year) more than 50000. persons buried, as I have read in the Charters of Edward the third.  
Also I have seen and read an Inscription fixed on a stone Cross, sometime standing in the same Churchyard and having these words:  
Anno Domini, 1349. Regnante magna pestilentia, consecratum fuit hoc Coemiterium, in quo & infra septa praesentis Monasterii, sepulta fuerunt mortuorum corpora, plusquam quinquaginta millia, praeter alia multa abhinc usque ad praesens, quorum animabus propitietur Deus, Amen.  
In consideration of the number of Christian people here buried, the said Sir Walter Manny caused first a Chapel to be builded, where (for the space of twenty three years) offerings were made: and it is to be noted, that above 100000. bodies of Christian people had in that Churchyard been buried, for the said Knight had purchased that place for the burial of poor people, 
Bull of Pope Clement.  Travellers, and other that were diseased, 
Charter-house.  to remain for ever; whereupon, an order was taken, for the avoiding of contention between the Parsons of Churches and that house, 
Churchyard prepared of the poor of poor, so to remain for ever.  to wit, that the bodies should be had unto the Church where they were Parishioners, or died, and after the funeral service done, had to the place where they should be buried.  
And the year 1371. he caused there to be founded an house of Carthusian Monks, which he willed to be called the Salutation, and that one of the Monks should be called Prior, and he gave them the said place of 13. Acres and a Rod of land, with the Chapel, and houses there builded for their habitation. He also gave them the three Acres of land, lying without the walls on the North part, betwixt the lands of the Abbot of Westminster, and the lands of the Prior of Saint john; which three Acres being purchased, enclosed, and dedicated by Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London, 
Use for the Friary Cart.  as is aforeshewed, remained till our time, by the name of Pardon Church-yard, & served for burying of such as desperately ended their lives, or were executed for Felonies, who were fetched thither usually in a close cart, bailed over and covered with black, having a plain white cross thwarting, and at the fore-end a S. john's Cross without, and within a Bell ringing by shaking of the Cart, whereby the same might be heard when it passed, & this was called the Friary Cart, which belonged to S. john's, and had the privilege of Sanctuary.  
In this Charter-house were the Monuments of the said Sir Walter Manny, and Margaret his wife, Marmaduke Lumley, Laurence Bromley, Knight, Sir Edward Hederset, Knight, Sir William Manny, Knight, Dame johan Borough, john Dore, want Water, Knight, Robert Olney, Esquire, Katherine, daughter Sir William Babington, Knight, Blanch, daughter to Hugh Warerton, Katherine, wife to john at Poot, daughter and heir to Richard Lacie, William Rawlin, Sir john Lenthaine, and Dame Margaret his wife, daughter to john Fray, john Peake Esquire, William Baron, and William Baron, Esquires, Sir Thomas Thawites Knight, Philip Morgan, Bishop of Ely, 1434.  
In the Cloystrie, Bartholomew Reed, Knight, Maior of London, buried 1505. Sir john Popham, etc.  
This Monastery, at the suppression in the 29. of Henry the 8. was valued at 642. l. 4. d. half penny yearly.  
Here now I find fit time, to commend to all succeeding posterity, 
The worthy remembrance of M. Thomas Sutton.  the duly deserved praises of that truly worthy (& never to be forgotten) Gentleman, Master Thomas Sutton, the right Phoenix of Charity in our times. This late dissolved Charter-house, by West Smithfield, belonging then to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Suffolk, after Lord Treasurer of England, is sufficiently known to be a very large and goodly Mansion, beautified with spacious Gardens, Walks, Orchards and other pleasures, 
I have truly set down all this, as it was delivered me in writing by a Gentleman of good worth and credit.  enriched with diverse dependencies of Lands and Tenements thereto belonging, and very aptly seated for wholesome air, and many other commodities. All which commodiousness of situation, and largeness of circuit, gave occasion to this wellminded Gentleman Master Sutton, to affect that house, as the only place, whereon to build the foundation of his Religious purpose. For, among other his Christian determinations, he had formerly intended to build an house at Hallingbury Bouchers in Essex, to be an Hospital for such poor men and Children as he himself (in his life time, or future Governors for the same to be deputed) should think fit to be lodged and relieved there: Also, for a Schoolmaster and Usher, 
His first purpose at Hallingburie in Essex  to teach Children to read and write, and instruct them in the Latin and Greek Grammar: with a Learned Divine likewise to preach the Word of God to them all, and a Master beside, to govern all those people belonging to that house.  
To this blessed end and purpose, 
How he intended to therm the Hospital.  he had procured (by earnest suit) power by an Act of Parliament, to build such an Hospital in the Town of Hallingbury Bouchers, and that the same should be named, The Hospital of King james, founded in Hallingbury in the County of Essex, at the humble Petition, and at the only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton, Esquire: Appointing also such Honourable, Reverend and Worthy persons, as by the said Act of Parliament were nominated and appointed, to be the first and instant Governors of the Lands, Possessions, Goods and Reveneves of the said Hospital.  
But afterward, upon more grounded deliberation, 
The Charter house more necessary for an Hospital than Hallingbury  and finding this goodly house of the Charter-house, to be much more convenient for the purpose, than that to be builded at Hallingbury could be: he became an earnest suitor to the Earl of Suffolk, to purchase that house of him, acquianting his Honour with the alteration of his mind concerning Hallingbury, and his earnest desire to make the Charter-house his Hospital. The Earl being honourably inclined to so godly a motion, the matter sustained the less debating between them: but the price being concluded on, the bargain and sale was assured. The sum disbursed for this purpose, amounted to 13000, l. which was paid down in hand, before the ensealing of the Conveyance.  
Then he became suitor again to his Majesty, to perform all that at the Charter-house, which he had formerly intended at Hallingbury: whereto the King readily yielded, being graciously affected to so charitable a Work, and granted his Letters Patents to the same effect. 
The first Governors appointed by Letters Patents, of King James his Hospital, founded in the Charter-house.  And the right Reverend Father in God, George, Archbishop of Canturburie, Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor of England; Robert Lord high Treasurer of England; john the elect Bishop of London; Lancelot Bishop of Ely; Sir Edward Coke, Knight, chief justice of the Common Pleas; Sir Thomas Foster, Knight, one of his Majesty's justices of the Common Pleas; Sir Henry Hobard, Knight and Baronet, Attorney general; john Overall, Deane of Paul's in London; George Mountain, Deane of Westminster; Henry Thursby, Esquire, one of the Masters of the Chancery; Geffrey Nightingale, Esquire; Richard Sutton, Esquire; john Law Gentleman; Thomas Browne, Gentleman; and the Master of the Hospital of King james, founded in the Charter-house, within the Country of Middlesex, at the humble petition, and the only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton, Esquire, were elected, nominated and ordained by the Kings most excellent Majesty in his Letters Patents granted, to be the first Governors of the Lands, Possessions, Revenues and goods of the foresaid Hospital, and continual maintenance thereof in form following.  
All his Manors and Lordships of Southminster, 
The lands made over by Master Sutton for the maintenance of the said Hospital for ever, in the County of Essex.  Norton, Little Hallingbury, alias Hallingbury Bouchers, and Much-Stanbridge, in the County of Essex.  
All those his Manors and Lordships of Bastingthorpe, alias, Bustingthorpe and Dunnesby in the County of Lincoln.  
All those his Manors and Lordships of Salthorp, 
In the County of Lincoln.  alias, Saltrop, alias, Haltrop, Ch●lton and Blackgrove, in the County of Wilts. 
In the County of Wilts.  And also all those his Lands & pasture-grounds, called Blackgrove, 
Lands & Pasture grounds in Wilts.  containing by estimation 200. Acres of pasture, with the appurtenances in Balckgrove and Wroughton, in the said County of Wilts. 
In the Counties of Cambridge, Essex and Middlesex▪  And also in that his Manor of Missenden, otherwise called the Manor of Missunden, in the Parishes of Wroughton, Lydierde and Tregose, in the said County.  
All that his Manor of Elcombe, and a Park, called Elcombe Park, in the said County.  
All that his Manor of Watelescote, alias Wiglescete, alias Wigleskete, in the said County of Wilts.  
All that his Manor of Westcote, alias, Westcete, with the appurtenances in the said County of Wilts. And also all those his Lands and Pastures, containing by estimation 100 Acres of Land, and 60. Acres of pasture, with the appurtenances in Wiglescote and Wroughton, in the said County of Wilts. And all that his Manor of Vffcote with the appurtenances. And also those his two Messages, and 1000 Acres of Land, 2000 Acres of Pasture, 300. Acres of meadow, and 300. Acres of Wood, with the appurtenances, in Brodehinton, in the said County of Wilts.  
All those the Manors & Lordships of Camps, alias, Camps Castle, otherwise called Castle Camps, with the appurtenances situate, lying, being, and extending in the Counties of Cambridge and Essex, or in either of them, or elsewhere within the Realm of England. His Manor of Balsham, in the County of Cambridge. And all his Messages and Lands which are in the Parishes of Hackney & Tottenham in the County of Middlesex, or in either of them. 
A brief Rehearsal of the former grants.  And all and singular the Manors, Lordships, Messages, Lands, Tenements, Reversions, Services, Meadows, Pastures, Woods, Advowsons', Patronages of Churches, and Hereditaments of the said Thomas Sutton whatsoever, situate, lying or being within the said County of Essex, Lincoln, Wilts, Cambridge and Middlesex, or in any of them, with all and every of their rights, members and appurtenances whatsoever.  
Except all his Manors or Lordships of Littlebury and Haddestocke, 
Exceptions.  with their appurtenances in the County of Essex.  
Beside all this bounty of his Hospital, 
Legacies given to charitable uses.  behold what Legacies he hath given to charitable uses.  
To the poor people in Berwick, 100 Marks.  
To the poor of Stoke-Newington. 10. li.  
To the poor Fishermen of the Town of Oastend in the Low-countrieses. 100 li.  
To the mending of the Highways between Islington and Newington, 
All these works to be done, and the moneys paid within a year after his decease.  in the County of Middlesex, 40. Marks.  
To the mending of the Highways between Ashden and Walden, called Walden lane, in the County of Essex, 100 li.  
To the mending of the Highways, between great Lynton, in the County of Cambridge, and the said Town of Wolden, 60. li. 13. s. 4. d.  
Towards the mending of Horseth lane. 60. li.  
To the mending of the Bridges and ordinary Highways, between Southminster and Malden in Essex, 100 li.  
To the Chamber of London, 
To ten poor Merchants.  1000 li. to be yearly lent to ten young Merchants, not having any great stocks of their own. And those ten men to be appointed by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City for the time being, and the Dean of Paul's: They are not to pay any use for the money, nor any to enjoy it above the space of one year.  
To the poor people of Hadstocke, 
Legades to the poor in sundry Tons.  20. li.  
To the poor of Littlebury and Balsham, 40. li.  
To the Parson and Churchwardens of Balsham, for the time being, towards the buying a Bell, to be hanged up in the Steeple, to amend the Ring there, 20. li.  
To the poor of Southminster, 20. li.  
To the poor of Little Hallenbury, 20. li.  
To the poor of Dunsby Com. Lincoln. 20. li.  
To the poor prisoners in the prisons of Ludgate, 
The poor Prisoners.  Newgate, the two Compters in London, the Kings-Bench, and the Marshalsey, 200. li. to be paid and divided among the same Prisoners by even and equal portions.  
To the Master, 
His love to Learning.  Fellows and Scholars of the Corporation of jesus College in Cambridge, 500 Marks.  
To the Master, Fellows and Scholars of the Corporation of Magdalen College in Cambridge, 500 li.  
Towards the building of his intended Hospital, 
To his Hospital.  Chapel and Schoole-house five thousand pounds, if he lived not to see it performed in his life time. Beside, he hath given into the Treasury or Storehouse of the same intended Hospital, to begin their stock with, & to defend the rights of the house 1000 l.  
To every one of his Feoffees, put in trust about his intended Hospital, 26. l. 13. s. 4. d.  
To the Poor of Beverley, a Close in Cottingham.  
To the Poor of Lincoln, a remainder of years in the Rectory of Glentham, Com. Lincoln.  
To Master Hutton, Vicar of Littlebury, 20. l.  
To the Poor of Camp's Castle, 10. l.  
To the Poor of Elcombe, 10. l.  
To M. Flood, Parson of Newington, 13. l. 6. s. 8. d.  
To the Poor of the Parish of Hackney. 10. pounds.  
His Hospital consisting of a Master, Governor, a Preacher, a Free-school, with a Master and Usher, 80. poor people, and 40. Scholars, maintained with sufficient clothing, meat, drink, lodging and wages: 
The whole number in the house, with the attendante, in 180.  beside Officers and ministers to attend on them, and the number to increase, according as the Revenues upon the expiration of the Leases is increased.  
This famous Hospital of King james, with the value of the Lands laid unto it, the purchase of the House, stock laid in, & allowance towards the building: Also, the remainder of his goods unbequeathed, his large gifts and Legacies to diverse Honourable and worthy friends, beside, great store of far more inferior account, 
The greatest and most commendable that ever was given in England by one man, and to pious uses.  surpassing my capacity to number, and the residue of 20000. pound left to the discretion of his Executors, may well and worthily be said to be the very greatest and most bountiful gift, that ever at any time was given in England, no Abbey (at the first foundation thereof) excepted, or therewith to be compared, being the gift of one man only.  
But alas, 
M. Sutton died before he could see his hopes take their effect.  what perpetuity is there to be expected in this life, where there is no other certainty than of change? While all eyes stand gazing on this hopeful intention, and every ear listening to hear when it would come to effect: that enemy to infinite good and godly purposes, Death, takes away the worthy Master-workeman, yet, not unprovided, as too many are; for he had his needful occasions, befitting provision for so long a journey, readily sealed up in the peace of a good Conscience, & that which the tyrant Death had bereft him of, he left to the performance of his faithful Executors, Master Richard Sutton, 
The Executors to M. Sutton.  and Master john Law, men of religious and upright souls, and (God be thanked) the work is accomplished. And on the Monday after Michaelmas day, being the third day of October, An. Dom. 1614 the Captains & Gentlemen entered into their famous prepared Hospital; to the glory of God, honour of the Kings most Royal Majesty, credit of the Governors, comfort of them appointed to it, and joy of all good minds to behold it.  
Thus, though no tongue or pen can either so amply express, or sufficiently set down the great deserts of this so good and worthy a man: yet death having given a period to his life, and laid him in a goodly Tomb, in the Chapel of his own Hospital; there we must now leave him, with this Inscription thereon engraven.   

Sacred to the Glory of God, in grateful memory of Thomas Sutton, Esquire.  
Here lieth buried the body of Thomas Sutton, 
A very costly and beautiful Tomb in the West side of the Quire.  late of Castle Camps, in the County of Cambridge, Esquire: at whose only costs and charges this Hospital was founded, and endued with large possessions, for the relief of poor men and children. He was a Gentleman, borne at Knayth, in the County of Lincoln, of worthy and honest parentage. He lived to the age of 79. years, and deceased the 12. day of December, An. Dom. 1611.  
Master Hutton was the first Master of this Hospital, 
Masters that have been of the Hospital.  according to the mind of M. Sutton.  
M. Pearne was the second.  
M. Hooker the third, who died there in his Mastership, and lieth buried in the Chapel.  
M. john Law, one of M. Suttons' Executors, lieth also there buried in the Chapel, and hath a Monument or remembrance of him, fixed in the East wall of the said Chapel.   

An Epitaph written by a Friend to Goodness.  

WHen bad men die, the memory  
remains  
Of their corruptions and ungodly  
ways: 
Intended to be hung in a fair Table by the Tomb.   
As merit to their misapplyed  
pains,  
Out of ill actions forming as ill  
praise.  
For Virtue wounded by their deep  
disgrace,  
Leav's Shame to their Posterity and  
Race.   

When good men die, the memory remains  
Of their true Virtue, and most  
Christian ways;  
As a due guerdon to their godly  
pains,  
Out of good actions forming as good  
praise:  
For Virtue cherished by their deeds  
of grace,  
Leaves Fame to their posterity and  
Race.   

Among those good (if goodness may  
be said  
To be among the seed of mortal  
men)  
In upright balance of true merit  
weighed,  
Needs must we reckon famous Sutton  
then.  
In whom, as in a mirror doth appear.  
That faith with works did shine in  
him most clear.   

And let us not, as is a common  
use,  
Measure him by a many other  
more;  
In death, to cover their bad life's  
abuse,  
To launch out then some bounty of  
their store.  
No, Sutton was none such, his Hospital,  
And much more else beside, speaks  
him to all.   

For as God blessed him with abundant  
wealth,  
Like to a careful Steward he employed,  
it,  
And ordered all things in his best  
of health,  
As glad to leave it, as when he enjoyed  
it.  
And being prepared every hour  
to die,  
Disposed all his gifts most Christianly.   

In Abraham's bosom sleeps he with  
the blessed,  
His works, they follow him, his  
worth survives,  
Good Angels guide him to eternal  
rest,  
Where is no date of time, for years  
or lives.  
You that are rich, do you as he hath  
done,  
And so assure the Crown that he  
hath won.    
FINIS.   


A little without the Bars of West Smithfield, 
Charter-house lane.  is Charterhouse lane, so called, for that it leadeth to the said plot of the late dissolved Monastery, in place whereof, first the Lord North, but since, Thomas Howard, late Duke of Norfolk, have made large and sumptuous buildings, both for lodging and pleasure. 
Conduit by the Charter-house.  At the gate of this Charter-house is a fair water-conduit, with two Cocks, serving the use of the neighbours to their great commodity.  
Saint john's street, from the entering this lane, is also (on both sides) replenished with buildings, up to Clarken well. On the left hand of which street, lieth a lane called Cow Cross, 
Cow-Crosse.  of a Cross sometime standing there, which lane turneth down to another lane called Turne-Mill street, which stretcheth up to the West side of Clarken well, and was called Turne-Mill street, for such cause as is afore declared.  
One other lane there is, called Saint Peter's lane, which turneth from Saint john's street to Cow-Crosse.  
On the left hand also stood the late dissolved Priory of Saint john of jerusalem in England, 
Prioty of S. john of jerusalem.  founded about the year of Christ 1100. by Iorden Briset, Baron, & Muriel his wife near unto Clerks well, besides West Smithfield, which Briset, having first founded the the Priory of Nuns at Clerks Well, bought of them ten Acres of Land, giving them in exchange ten Acres of Land in his Lordship of Welling Hall, in the County of Kent. Saint john's Church was dedicated by Heraclius, Patriarch of the holy Resurrection of Christ at jerusalem, in the year 1185. & was the chief seat in England of the Religious Knights of S. john of jerusalem. Whose profession was (besides their daily service of God) to defend Christians against Pagans', and to fight for the Church; using for their habit a black upper garment, with a white Cross on the forepart thereof, and for their good service was so highly esteemed, that when the order of Templars was dissolved, their Lands and possessions were (by Parliament) granted unto these, who after the loss of jerusalem, recovered the I'll of Rhodes, from the Turk, and there placed themselves, being called thereof (for many years) Knights of the Rhodes, but after the loss thereof 1523. removed to the I'll of Malta, manfully opposing themselves against the Turkish invasions.  
The Rebels of Essex and of Kent 1381. set fire on this house, causing it to burn by the space of 7. days together, not suffering any to quenchit: since the which time, the Princes of that house have new builded both church & houses thereunto appertaining, which Church was finished by Thomas Docwray, late Lord Prior there, about the year 1504 as appeareth by the inscription over the Gatehouse, yet remaining. This house at the suppression in the 32. of Hen. the 8. was valued to dispend in lands 3385. l. 19 s. 8. d. yearly. Sir W. Weston being then Lord Prior, died on the same 7. of May, on which the house was suppressed, so that great yearly pensions being granted to the Knights by the King, and namely to the Lord Prior, during his life 1000 l. but he never received penny: The King took into his hands all the lands that belonged to that house, & to that order wheresoever in England and Ireland, for the augmentation of his Crown.  
This Priory, Church and house of S. john was preserved from spoil or down pulling, so long as King Henry the eight reaigned, and was employed as a Storehouse for the King's Toils and Tents for Hunting, & for the wars, etc. But in the third of King Edward the sixth, the Church for the most part, to wit, the body and side Isles, with the great Bell-tower, (a most curious piece of workmanship, graven, gilt, and enameled, to the great beautifying of the City, and passing all other that I have seen) was undermined and blown up with Gunpowder, the stone thereof was employed in building of the Lord Protectors house at the Strand. That part of the Choir which remaineth, with some side Chapels, was by Cardinal Poole (in the reign of Queen Mary) closed up at the West end, and otherwise repaired, and Sir Thomas Tresham, Knight, was then made Lord Prior there, with restitution of some Lands; but the same was again suppressed in the first year of Queen Elizabeth.  
There was buried in this Church, Brethren of that house, and Knights of that order, john Botell, William Bagecore, Richard Barrow, john Vauclay; Thomas Launcelin, john Mallory, William Turney, William Hulles, Hills or Hails, john Wesion, Redington, William Longstrother, john, Longstrother, William Tong, john Wakeline. Then of other; Thomas Thornburgh, Gentleman, William West, Gent. john Fulling, & Adam Gill, Esquires, Sir john Mortimer, and Dame Eleaner his wife, Nicholas Silverston, William Plompton, Esquire, Margaret Tong, and Isabella Tong, Walter Bellingham, alias, Ireland, K. of Arms of Ireland, Thomas Bedle, Gent. Katherine daughter of William Plompton, Esquire, Richard Turpin, Gent. jone wife to Alexander Dikes, john Bottle and Richard Bottle, Esquires, Rowland Darcy, Richard Sutton, Gent. Richard Bottill, Gent. Sir W. Harpden, Knight, Robert Kingston, Esquire, and Margery his wife, john Roch, Richard Cednor, Gent. Simon Mallory, 1442. William Mallory, Robert Longstrother, Ralph Astely, William Martial, Robert Savage, Robert Gondall, Esquire, & Margery his wife, William Babthorpe, Baron of the Exchequer 1442.  
North from the house of S. john's was the Priory of ClarkenWell, 
Priory of Clarkenwell, called S. james at ClarkenWel.  so called of Clerks well adjoining, which Priory was also founded about the year 1100. by Iorden Briset, Baron, the son of Ralph, the son of Brian Briset: who gave to Robert a Priest, fourteen Acres of land, lying in the field next adjoining to the said Clerks Well, thereupon to build an house of Religious persons, which he founded to the honour of God, and the Assumption of our Lady, and placed therein black Nuns. This Iorden Briset, gave also to that house one piece of ground, thereby to build a Windmill upon, etc. He and Muriell his wife were buried in the Chapterhouse there. More buried in this Church, john Wikes, Esquire, and Isabel his wife, Dame Agnes Clifford, Ralph Thimbleby, Esquire, Dame jahan, baroness of Greystocke, Dame jahan Lady Ferrar.  
And of later time in the Parish Church, Constantius Bennet, a Greek borne, he gave two houses, the one in Saint john's street, the other in Turnemill street, the rents of them to be distributed in Coals every year against Christmas, to the poor of that Parish.  
Heereunder lieth buried Francis White, 
An engraven Plate in the South wall of the Chancel.  the 14. Son of Sir Thomas White of Southwerborne, Knight, deceased, and of Lady Anne his wife: who died at his age of sixteen, the last day of February, Anno Domini, 1566. he being their nineteenth Child.  
Hic jacet Isabel Sackuill, 
A fair plated Stone in the Chancel.  quae fuit Priorissa nuper Prioratus de Clarkenwell, tempore dissolutionis ejusdem Prioratus, quae fuit 21. Octobris, Anno Domini, Millesimo Quingentesimo Septuagesimo, & An. Reg. Elizab. Dei gratia, etc. duodecimo.  
Under this Stone lieth the body of the good, 
The like stone close by it.  charitable, and virtuous Gentlewoman, Mistress Anne Blunt, daughter unto Walter Blunt, of Blunt Hall in the Country of Stafford Esquire, and Sister unto the right Worshipful, the Lady Paulet, deceased and to the Lady Sidenham, now living. Which Anne died the 24. day of April, An. Domini, 1504  
Contegit hoc marmor Doctorem nomine Bellum, 
A fair Stone by the Communion Table.   
Qui bene tum rexit Praesulis officium.  
Moribus, ingenio, vitae pietate vigebat,  
Laudatus cunctis, cultus & eloquio.  
Anno Domini, 1556. die August. 11.  
There is an ancient Marble Tomb in the North wall of the Chancel, 
A tomb seeming of great Antiquity.  with the figure of a dead man by in his shroud: and all the plates are stolen away, only one piece remaining, containing these words:  
Hospitalitate inclytus, genere praeclarus:  
There an Arms,  
Hanc urna officii causu.  
Here lieth the body of the Lady Elizabeth Ascough, 
A fair plated Stone by the Communion Table.  sometime the wife of William Dallyson, and one of the justices of the King's Bench: And afterward wife to Sir Francis Ascough, Knight. The which Lady departed this life the 6. day of December, Anno Domini, 1570.  
And here also lieth William Dallison, Esquire, eldest son to the said William and Elizabeth, which William the Son deceased the 9 day of November, Anno Domini, 1585.  
here lieth the body of Francis Butler, 
A plated stone in the Chancel.  fourth Son of Sir john Butler, of Hatfield Woodhall in the County of Kent, Knight. Obiit 4. Martii, 1615.  
The Lady Elizabeth Barckley of the Queen's Majesty's Bedchamber, 
A fair Tomb in the North wall of the Chancel.  and second wife to Sir Maurice Barckley, Knight, deceased (Standard-bearer to her Majesty, to her Father, and to her Brother) departed this life in this Parish, the 16. day of june, An. Dom. 1585. (being 52. years old) in the faith of jesus Christ, and was buried in the floor under this Tomb. This Lady was the daughter of Anthony Sonds, Esquire. She had children, two sons and one daughter, Robert, Margaret and john.  
Rogero Wood Armigero, 
A comely Monument in the same North wall.  Servienti ad Arma, tam Serenissimo Regi, quam honoratissimo conventui Parliamenti. Rosa Conjunx hoc posuit amoris pii, momoriae perpetuae, observantiae debitae, Sacrum Monumentum.  
Qui legis, qui luges,  
Rogerum Wood  
Ne perisse putes,  
superesse scias,  
Extinctus extat,  
peremptus perennis est,  
Vivit in suorum  
desideriis, in bonorum  
Praeconiis,  
in Coelrum gaudiis.  
Obiit 18. Martii, 1609.  
Aetatis suae 46.  
john Palmer of Clarkenwell, 
A fair Monument in the South wall of the Cahncel.  Esquire, was buried here the 18. day of February, An. Dom. 1585. He married Panclin, the daughter of Anthony Sondes of Kent, Esquire: she was also buried in this Chancel: By whom he had issue Anthony Palmer, Elizabeth Cheiney, jane Thursby, and Mary Palmer. jane Thursby had also one of her daughters here buried, named Elizabeth.   

In obitum Generosissimae, charissimaeque Elizabethae Croftes, nuper uxoris Caroli Croftes, Armigeri: Christoph. Brooke devotissimus, hoc memoriae pignus posuit. Obiit 20. Decemb. 1597.  
GEntle beholder of these doleful  
lines, 
A Table hanging on the wall over her grave.   
With careful mutes and mournful  
accents sounding,  
Resolve to tears, viewing these sad  
designs  
Of dreary sorrow, and hearts deepest  
wounding.  
Consuming Time, abridging worlds  
desire,  
Insulting death, fearful, prodigious,  
strange,  
Eclipsing, waxing heat of Nature's  
fire,  
With waning forced, and necessary  
change:  
Since you have done your worst to  
date her days,  
Whilom the worlds, now heavens  
gracious guest:  
I, this sad memory of her lives  
praise  
Presume to write, in skilful Arts  
the least.  
She was descended of right gentle  
blood,  
Kind, courteous, affable and mild  
by nature,  
Modest her thoughts, her disposition  
good,  
Her mind Exchequers store to every  
creature,  
Her Conscience spotless, her Religion  
pure,  
Her life sincere, her study contemplation:  
Her hope was heaven, with life  
ay to endure,  
Her faith was constant in her soul's  
salvation.  
Her virtuous care her children to  
direct,  
Conformed to reason in her husband's  
will:  
Her bounty to her servants, friends  
respect,  
Desire to help, and wish no neighbour  
ill.  
Thrice happy then (breathless) in  
Tomb that liest:  
Earth hath but earth, thy better  
part survives:  
From worldly warfare, summoned  
to the highest,  
Whose death from life, a second life  
derives.  
Death life confirms, Heaven earth  
unites in one:  
Her life in death, and bliss when  
world is done.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Bedingfield, 
A fair plated Stone in a comely Chapel by the Pulpit.  Esquire, second son unto Sir Henry Beding field, Knight, late of the County of Norf. and one of the privy Council to Queen Mary. Also this Thomas Bedingfield, was one of the honourable band of Gentlemen Pensioners unto the late famous Queen Eli. & Master of the Tents & Pavilions unto the most mighty King JAMES, Monarch of Great Britain. He departed this life the 11. day of August, An. Dom. 1613.  
This Monument was made and placed here, at the cost and charges of john Skillicorne, Esquire, being his Executor.  
William Herne, a Master of defence, and yeoman of the Guard, 1580. gave Lands and Tenements to the Clothworkers in London, they to pay yearly for ever, 14. pound to the Church wardens of Clarken Well, and 14. l. on the Churchwardens of S. Sepulchers, towards reparation of these Churches, and relief of the poor men. More he gave after the death of one man, then living, 8. l. the year for ever, to the mending of Highways.  
Thomas Sackeford, Esquire, one of the Masters of Requests, gave to the poor of that Parish 40. s. the year for ever, out of his Almshouse at Woodbridge in Suffolk, where he is buried.  
Henry Stoke, Gardener, buried there, gave 20. s. the year for ever towards reparation of that Church.  
This Priory was valued to dispend 262. l. 9 s. by year, and was surrendered the 30. of H. the 8. Many fair houses are now builded about the Priory, namely, by the highway towards Iseldon.  
So much of the Church which remaineth: for one great I'll thereof, which fell down, serveth now as a Parish Church of S. james, not only for the Tenements and near Inhabitants, but also (as is aforesaid) for all up to Highgate, Moswell, etc.  
near unto this Church, besides Clerks Well lane, were diverse other Wells, namely, Skinners Well, Fags Well, Toad Well, Loders Well, Reed Well, etc. now damned up.  
Now to return to Giltspurre street, where I first began with this Suburb, there standeth the Parish Church of S. Sepulchre in the Bailie, as is before showed, from this street to Turneagaine lane by Hosier lane, Cow lane, and Oldboorne Conduit, down Snore hill, to Oldboorne bridge, and up Oldboorne hill, by Gold lane on the right hand, and Lither lane beyond it, to the Bars; beyond the which Bars on the same side is Port Poole, 
Port pool, or Gray's Inn lane an Inn of Court.  or Gray's Inn lane, so called of the Inn of Court, named Gray's Inn, a goodly house there situate: by whom builded or first begun I have not yet learned, but it seemeth to be since Edward the 3. time, and is a Prebend to Paul's Church in London.  
This lane is furnished with fair buildings, and many tenements on both the sides, leading to the fields towards Highgate and Hamsted.  
On the high street have ye many fair houses builded, and lodgings for Gentlemen, Inns for Travellers, and such like, up almost (for it lacketh but little) to S. Giles in the fields: amongst the which buildings, for the most part being very new, one passeth the rest in largeness of rooms, lately builded by a Widow, 
Widow Alington her building.  sometime wife to Richard Alington, Esquire, which Rich. Alington deceased in the year 1561. And thus much for that North side of Oldboorne.  
Now from Newgate on the left hand or South side, 
South side of Oldboorne.  lieth the Old Bailie, & so down by Sea-coal lane end to Oldboorne bridge, up Oldboorne hill, by Shoo lane, and Fewters lane, to the Bars.  
Beyond the Bars had ye (in old time) a Temple, 
Old Temple.  builded by the Templars, whose order first began in the year of Christ 1118. the 19 of Henry the first. This Temple was left, and fell to rune since the year 1184. when the Templars had builded them a new Temple in Fleetstreet, near to the River of Thames. A great part of this old Temple was pulled down but of late, in the year 1595.  
Adjoining to this old Temple, 
The Bishop of Lincoln's Inn.  was sometime the Bishop of Lincoln's Inn, wherein he lodged when he repaired to this City. Robert de Curars, Bishop of L. builded it about the year 1147. I. Russel, Bishop of Lincoln, Chancellor of England, in the reign of Richard the third, was lodged there. It hath of late years belonged to the Earls of Southampton, 
Southampton house.  and therefore called Southampton house. Agaster Roper hath of late builded much there, by means whereof, part of the ruins of the old Temple was seen to remain, builded of Cane stone, round in form as the New Temple by Temple Bar, and other Temples in England.  
Beyond this old Temple and the Bishop of Lincoln's house, is Newstreete, so called in the reign of Henry the third, 
New street.  when he (of a jews house) founded the house of Converts betwixt the old Temple and the new.  
The same street hath since been called Chancery lane, 
New street or Chancery lane.  by reason that King Edward the third annexed the house of Converts by Patent, to the office of Custos Rotulorum, or Master of the Rolls, in the 15. of his reign.  
In this street, the first fair building to be noted on the East side, 
Cursitors Office in Chancery lane.  is called the Cursitors Office, builded with diverse fair lodgings for Gentlemen, all of Brick and Timber, by Sir Nicolas Bacon, late Lord Keeper of the great Seal.  
near unto this Cursitors Office, be diverse fair houses and large Gardens, builded and made in a ground, sometime belonging to one great house on the other side the street, there made by Ralph Nevil, Bishop of Chichester. This ground he had by the gift of Henry the third, as appear.  
The King granted to Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, Chancellor, that place, with the Garden which john ●erlirum forfeited in that street, called Newstreet, overagainst the land of the said Bishop, in the same street, which place, with the Garden and appurtenance, was the Kings Exchete, by the liberty of the City of London, as it was acknowledged before the King, in his Court of the Tower of London, in the last Pleas of the Crown of that City, Cart. 11. H. 3.  
Then was the house of Converts, wherein now the Rolls of Chancery be kept. Then the Sergeant's Inn, etc.  
On the West side of Newstreete, 
Black Friar's Church by Oldboorne.  towards the North end thereof, was (of old time) the Church, and house of the preaching Friars: the which house I find that in the year of Christ 1221. the Friars Preachers, 13. in number, came into England, and having to their Prior one named Gilbert de Fraxineto, in company of Peter de la Roch, Bishop of Winchester, came to Canturburie, where presenting themselves before the Archbishop Steven, he commanded the said Prior to preach, whose Sermon he liked so well, that ever after he loved that Order. These Friars came to London, and had their first house without the Wall of the City by Oldboorne, near unto the old Temple.  
Hubert de Burgo, 
Earl of Kent burled in the Black Friars.  Earl of Kent, was a great benefactor unto these Friars, and deceasing at his Manor of Bansted in Surrey, or after some writers, at his Castle of Barkamsted in Hartfordshire, in the year 1242. was buried in their Church, unto the which Church he had given his place at Westminster, which the said Friars afterward sold to Walter Grace, Archbishop of York, and he left it to his successors in that Sea, for ever to be their house, when they should repair to the City of London. And therefore the same was called Yorke-place, which name so continued, until the year, 1529. that King Henry the eight took it from Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal and Archbishop of York, and then gave it to name, White-Hall.  
Margaret, Sister to the King of Scots, Widow to Geffrey, Earl Martial, deceased 1244. and was buried in this Church.  
In the year 1250. the Friars of this Order of Preachers, through Christendom, and from jerusalem, were by a Convocation assembled together, at this their house by Oldboorne, 
Convocation of Black Friars by Oldboorne.  to entreat of their estate, to the number of 400. having meat and drink found them of Alms, because they had no possessions of their own. The first day the King came to their Chapter, found them meat and drink, and dined with them. Another day the Queen found them meat and drink: afterward the Bishop of London, than the Abbot of Westminster, of S. Albon, Waltham, and others. In the year 1276. Gregory Rokesley, Maior, and the Barons of London, granted and gave to Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canturburie, two lanes or ways next the street of Baynard's Castle, and the Tower of Mountfichet, to be destroyed. On the which place the said Robert builded the late new Church, with the rest of the Stones that were left of the said Tower. And thus the Blackfriars left their Church and house by Oldboorne, and departed to their new. This old Frier-house, (juxta Holboorn saith the Patent) was by King Edward the first in the sixteenth of his reign, given to Henry Lacie, Earl of Lincoln. Next to this house of Friars, was one other great House, sometime belonging to the Bishop of Chichester, whereof Matthew Paris writeth thus:  
Ralph de nova villa, 
Bishop of Chichesters' Inn.  or Nevil, Bishop of Chichester, and Chancellor of England, sometime builded a noble house, even from the ground, not far from the New Temple and house of Converts, in the which place he deceased, in the year 1244.  
In this place after the decease of the said Bishop, and in place of the house of Blackfriars before spoken of, Henry Lacie Earl of Lincoln, Constable of Chester, and Custos of England, builded his Inn, 
Lincoln's Inn.  and for the most part was lodged there: he deceased in this house in the year, 1310. and was buried in the new work (whereunto he had been a great benefactor) of Saint Paul's Church, betwixt our Lady Chapel, and Saint Dunstanes Chapel. This Lincoln's Inn, sometime pertaining to the Bishops of Chichester, as a part of the said great house, 
Lincoln's Inn an Inn of Court.  is now an Inn of Court, retaining the name of Lincoln's Inn, as afore, but now lately increased with fair buildings, and replenished with Gentlemen, studious in the Common Laws. In the reign of Henry the eight Sir Thomas Lovel was a great builder there, especially he builded the Gatehouse and forefront towards the East, placing thereon aswell the Lacy's Arms, as his own. He caused the Lacy's Arms to be cast and wrought in Lead, on the Lover of the Hall of that house, which was in the 3. Escutcheons a Lion Rampant for Lacie, 7. Mascules voided for Quincie, and 3. Wheat sheaves for Chester. This Lover being of late repaired, the said Escutcheons were left out. The rest of that side, even to Fleetstreet, is replenishd with fair buildings.  
Now the high Oldborne street, from the North end of Newstreete stretcheth on the left hand (in building lately framed) up to S. Giles in the field, 
Hospital of S. Giles founded.  which was an Hospital, founded by Matilda the Queen, wife to Henry the first, about the year 1117. This Hospital, saith the Record of Edward the third, the nineteenth year, was founded without the Bar, Veteris Templi London & Conversorum.  
This Hospital was founded, as a Cell to Burton Lagar of jerusalem, as may appear by a deed dated the four and twentieth of Henry the seventh in these words:  
Thomas Norton, 
Burton Lagar an Hospital in Leicester shire.  Knight, Master of Burton Lagar of jerusalem in England, and the Brethren of the same place, keepers of the Hospital of Saint Giles, without the Bars of the Old Temple of London, have sold to Geffrey Kent, Citizen and Draper of London, a message or house, with two sollars above edified in the Parish of All-hallows Hony lane, in West Cheap, adjoining to the West part of a Tenement, called the Goat on the Hope, pertaining to the Drapers of London, for 31. l.  
At this Hospital, 
S. Giles bowl.  the Prisoners, conveyed from the City of London towards Teyborne, there to be executed for Treasons, Felonies, or other trespasses, were presented with a great Bowl of Ale, thereof to drink at their pleasure, as to be their last refreshing in this life.  
Now without Ludgate, 
Suburb without Ludgate.  lieth the South end of the Old Bailie, then down Ludgate hill by Fleet lane, over Fleet bridge, up Fleet street, by Shoo lane, Fewters lane, Newstreet, or Chancery lane, and to Shire lane by the Bar on the right hand. And from Ludgate, on the left hand or South side, by Bridge-lane, Water-lane, Crokers-lane Sergeants Inn, and the New Temple by the Bar, all which is of Faringdon Ward, as is aforesaid showed.    

LIBERTIES OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER.  
NExt without the Bar the New Temple, 
Liberties of the Duchy without Temple bar, the bounds thereof.  and Liberties of the City of London, in the Suburbs, is a Liberty pertaining to the Duchy of Lancaster, which beginneth in the East, on the South side or left hand by the River Thames, and stretcheth West to Ivie-bridge, where it endeth. And again, on the North side or right hand, some small distance without Temple-bar in the high street, from a pair of Stocks there standing, stretcheth one large middle row or troop of small Tenements, partly opening to the South, partly towards the North, up West to a Stone Cross, now headless, overagainst the Strand, and this is the bounds of that Liberty; which sometime belonged to Brian Lisle, since to Peter of Savoy, and then to the house of Lancaster, 
Strand street.  as shall be showed.  
Henry the third, 
Rotum cartar. Petri Sabaud.  in the 30. year of his reign, did grant to his Uncle, Peter of Savoy, all those houses upon the Thames, which sometimes pertained to Brain de Insula, or Lisle, without the Walls of his City of London, in the way or street called the Strand, to hold to him and to his heirs, yielding yearly in the Exchequer, at the feast of Saint Michael th' Archangel, three barbed Arrows for all services. Dated at Reding, etc. This Peter of Savoy, builded the Savoy.  
But first amongst other buildings, 
Monuments of Strand street.  memorable for greatness on the River of Thames, Excester house, so called, for that the same belonged to the Bishops of Excester, and was their Inn or London lodging. Who was first builder thereof, I have not read; but that Walter Stapleton, was a great builder there, in the reign of Edward the second is manifest: for the Citizens of London, when they had beheaded him in Cheap, near unto the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, they buried him in a heap of Sand or rubbiso, 
Excesser house, since Paget house, Leicester house and Essex house.  in his own house without Temple bar, where he had made great building. Edmond Lacie, Bishop of Excester, builded the great Hall in the reign of Henry the sixth, etc. The same hath since been called Paget house, because William Lord Paget enlarged and possessed it. Then Leicester house, because Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, of late new builded there and then Essex house, of the Earl of Essex lodging there.  
Then West, 
Chapel of the Holy Ghost.  was a Chapel dedicated to the Holy Ghost, called S. Spirit, upon what occasion founded I have not read.  
Next is Milford lane down to the Thames: 
Mildford lane.  but why so called, I have not read as yet.  
Then was the Bishop of Baths Inn, 
Bishop of Baths Inn, or Arundel house.  lately new builded (for a great part thereof) by the Lord Thomas Seamer, Admiral, which house came sithence to be possessed by the Earl of Arundel, and thereof called Arundel house.  
Next beyond the which, on the street side, was sometime a fair Cemitorie, or Churchyard, 
Parish Church of S. Mary at the Strand.  and in the same a Parish Church, called of the Nativity of our Lady, and the Innocents' of the Strand; and of some, by mean of a Brotherhood kept there, called of S. Ursula at the Strand.  
And near adjoining to the said Church, 
Chester's Inn, or Strand Inn, an Inn of Chancery.  betwixt it and the River of Thames, was an Inn of Chancery, commonly called Chester's Inn, (because it belonged to the Bishop of Chester,) by others named of the situation, Strand Inn.  
Then was there an house belonging to the Bishop of Landaffe: 
The Bishop of Landaffe his Inn.  for I find in Record, the 4. of Edward the second, that a vacant place, lying near the Church of our Lady at Strand, the said Bishop procured it of Thomas Earl of Lancaster, for the enlarging of this house.  
Then had ye in the high street a fair bridge, 
Strand bridge.  called Strand Bridge, and under it a lane or way, down to the landing place on the bank of Thames.  
Then was the Bishop of Chester (commonly called of Lichfield and Coventrie) his Inn, 
Bishop of● Chester his Inn.  or London lodging, this house was first builded by Walter Langton, Bishop of Chester, Treasurer of England, in the reign of Edward the first.  
And next unto it adjoining, was the Bishop of Worcester's Inn: all which, to wit, the Parish of Saint Mary at Strand, Strand Inn, Strand Bridge, with the lane under it, the Bishop of Chester's Inn, the Bishop of Worcester's Inn, with all the Tenements adjoining, were by commandment of Edward, Duke of Somerset, Uncle to Edward the sixth, and Lord Protector, pulled down, & made level ground, in the year 1549. In place whereof, 
Somerset house  he builded that large and goodly house, now called Somerset house.  
In the high street near unto the Strand, 
Stone Cross at Strand.  sometime stood a Cross of Stone, against the Bishop of Coventrie or Chester his house, whereof I read, that in the year 1294. and diverse other times, the justice's Itinerants sat without London, at the Stone Cross overagainst the Bishop of Coventries' house, and sometime they sat in the Bishop's house, which was hard by the Strand, as is aforesaid.  
Then next is the Savoy, 
Savoy house, first builded by Peter, Earl of Savoy and Richmond.  so called of Peter, Earl of Savoy and Richmond, Son to Thomas Earl of Savoy, Brother to Boniface, Archbishop of Canturbury, and Uncle unto Heleanor, wife to King Henry the third.  
He first builded this house, in the year 1245. And here is occasion offered me, for satisfying of some deniers thereof, to prove that this Peter of Savoy was also Earl of Savoy. Wherefore, out of a Book of the Genealogies of all the whole house of Savoy, compiled by Phillebert Pingonio, Baron of Guzani, remaining in the hands of William Smith, alias, Rogue dragon, Officer of Arms, I have gathered this.  
Thomas, 
Thomas Earl of Savoy, his Pedigree by occasion.  Earl of Savoy, had issue by Beatrix, daughter to Aimon, Earl of Geneva, 9 Sons, and 3. Daughters: Amadis his first Son, succeeded Earl of Savoy in the year 1253. Peter his second Son, Earl of Savoy and of Richmond, in 1298. Philip his third Son, Earl of Savoy and Burgundy, 1284. Thomas the fourth, Earl of Flaunders, and Prince of Piedmont. Boniface the eighth Archbishop of Canturbury. 
Beatrix, sister to Peter, Earl of Savoy, Mother to five Queens.  Beatrix his Daughter, married to Reymond Beringarius of Arragon, Earl of Province and Narbone, had issue, and was Mother to five Queens. The first, Margaret, wife to Lewis King of France; the second, Eleanor, wife to Henry the third, King of England; the third, Sanctia, wife to Richard, King of Romans; the fourth, Beatrix, wife to Charles, King of Naples; the fifth, johanna, wife to Philip King of Navarre.  
To return again to the house of Savoy: 
Fratrèes de Monte jovis, or Priory de Cornuto by Have ring at the Bower.  Queen Eleanor, wife to King Henry the third, purchased this place afterwards of the Fraternity or Brethren of Mountjoy, unto whom Peter of Savoy (as it seemeth) had given it, 
Henry Knighton.  for her son Edmond, Earl of Lancaster, as Master Camden hath noted out of a Register book of the Dukes of Lancaster. Henry Duke of Lancaster repaired, or rather new builded it, with the charges of 52000. Marks, which money he had gathered together at the Town of Bridgerike.  
john the French King was lodged there, in the year, 1357. and also, in the year 1363. for it was (at that time) the fairest Manor in England.  
In the year, 
Henry Knighton.  1381. the Rebels of Kent and Essex burned this house, unto the which there was none in the Realm to be compared in beauty and starelinesse, (saith mine Author.) They set fire on it round about, and made proclamation, that none, on pain to lose his head, should convert to his own use any thing that there was; but that they should break such plate and vessel of Gold & Silver, as was found in that house, (which was in great plenty) into small pieces, and threw the same into the River of Thames. Precious Stones they should bruise in mortars, 
Rebels more malicious than covetons, spoil all before them.  that the same might be to no use, and so it was done by them: One of their companions they burned in the fire, because he minded to have reserved one goodly piece of Plate.  
They found there certain barrels of Gunpowder, 
Liber Manuscript. French.  which they thought had been Gold or Silver, & throwing them into the fire, more suddenly than they thought, the Hall was blown up, the houses destroyed, and themselves very hardly escaped away.  
This house being thus defaced, and almost overthrown by these Rebels, for malice they bore to john of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 
Savoy builded for an Hospital.  of later time came to the King's hands, and was again raised and beautifully builded, for an Hospital of S. john Baptist, by King Henry the seventh, about the year 1509. For the which Hospital, retaining still the old name of Savoy, he purchased Lands, to be employed upon the relieving of an hundred poor people. This Hospital being valued to dispend 529. pound, fifteen shillings, etc. by year, was suppressed the tenth of june, the seventh of Edward the sixth: the beds, bedding, and other furniture belonging thereunto, with seven hundred Marks of the said lands by year, he gave to the Citizens of London, with his house of Bridewell, to the furnishing thereof, to be a Workhouse for the poor and idle persons, 
Hospital of Savoy, suppressed.  & towards the furnishing of the Hospital of Saint Thomas in Southwark, lately suppressed.  
This Hospital of Savoy was again new founded, 
Hospital of Savoy, a new foundation thereof.  erected, corporated and endowed with Lands by Queen Mary, the third of November: In the fourth of her reign, one jackson took possession, and was made Master thereof in the same Month of November. The Ladies of the Court, and Maidens of Honour (a thing not to be forgotten) stored the same of new with beds, bedding, and other furniture, in very ample manner, etc. and it was by Patent so confirmed at Westminster, the 9 of May, the 4. and 5. of Philip and Mary.  
The Chapel of this Hospital serveth now as a Parish Church to the Tenements thereof near adjoining, 
Parish Church of S. john in the Savoy.  and others.  
The next was sometime the Bishop of Carliles' Inn, which now belongeth to the Earl of Bedford, & is called Russell or Bedford house. It stretcheth from the Hospital of Savoy, 
Bishop of Carlisle his Inn, or Bedford house.  West to Ivy Bridge; where Sir Robert Cecil, principal Secretary to Queen Elizabeth, did then raise a large and stately house of Brick and Timber, as also leveled and paved the highway near adjoining, to the great beautifying of that street, and commodity of passengers. Richard the 2. in the 8. of his reign, granted licence to pave with stone the highway, called Strand street, from Temple Bar to the Savoy, and Tole to be taken towards the charges: and again the like was granted in the 42. of Henry the 6.  
Ivy Bridge in the high street, which had a way under it, leading down to the Thames, the like as sometime had the Strand bridge, is now taken down, but the lane remaineth as afore, or better, and parteth the Liberty of the Duchy, and the City of Westminster on that South side.  
Now to begin again at Temple Bar overagainst it. In the high street, as is afore showed, is one large Middle Row of houses and small Tenements builded, partly opening to the South, partly towards the North. Amongst the which standeth the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes, 
Parish Church of S. Clement Danes.  so called, because harold a Danish King, and other Danes were buried there.  
This Harolde, whom King Canutus had by a concubine, reigned 3. years, and was buried at Westminster, but afterward, Hardicanutus, the lawful son of Canutus, in revenge of a displeasure done to his mother, by expelling her out of the Realm, and the murder of his brother Alured, 
Liber Chartsey.  commanded the body of Harolde to be digged out of the earth, and to be thrown into the Thames, where it was by a Fisherman taken up and buried in this Churchyard. But out of a fair Leaguer Book, sometime belonging to the Abbey of Chartsey, in the County of Surrey is noted, as in Francis thin, after this sort:  
In the reign of King Ethelred, the Monastery of Chartsey was destroyed, 90. Monks of that house were slain by the Danes, whose bodies were buried in a place near to the old Monastery. 
W. Malmes-Danes slain at S. Clement Danes.  William Malmesburie saith: They burned the Church, together with the Monks and Abbot; but the Danes continuing in their fury (throughout the whole lana) desirous, at the length, to return home into Denmark, were (by the just judgement of God) all slain at London, in a place which is called the Church of the Danes.  
This said middle row of houses, stretching West to a Stone Cross now headless, 
Headless Cross by the Strand.  by or against the Strand, including the said Parish Church of Saint Clement, is also wholly of the liberty and Duchy of Lancaster.  
Thus much for the bounds and antiquities of this liberty, wherein I have noted Parish Churches twain, sometime 3. houses of name 6. to wit, the Savoy, or Lancaster house, now an Hospital, Somerset house, Essex house, Arundel house, Bedford or Russell house, and Sir Robert Cecils house; beside of Chester's Inn, or Strand Inn, sometime an Inn of Chancery, etc.  
This liberty is governed by the Chancellor of that Duchy at this present, 
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.  Sir john Deckam, Knight, and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Councillors. There is under him a Steward, that keepeth Court and Leete for the King, he giveth the charge, and taketh the oaths of every under Officer.  
Then is there 4. Burgesses, and 4. Assistants to take up controversies, a Bailiff, which hath two or three underbailiffes, that make arrests within that liberty, four Constables, four Wardens, that keep the lands and Stock for the poor, four Wardens for highways, a jury or Inquest of 14. or 16. to present defaults, four Alecunners, which look to the Affise of weights and measures, etc. four Scavengers and a Beadle, and their common Prison is Newgate.  
There is in this liberty 50. men, which are always to be at an hour's warning, with all necessary furniture, to serve the King, as occasion shall require. Their charge at a Fifteen is 13. s. 4. d. Thus much for the Suburb in the liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster.   

THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER, With the Antiquities, Bounds, and Liberties thereof.  
NOw touching the City of Westminster, I will begin at Temple Bar, on the right hand or North side, and so pass up West, through a back lane or street, wherein do stand three Inns of Chancery: 
Clement's lane of Chancery.  the first called Clement's Inn, 
Clement's Well.  because it standeth near to S. Clement's Church, but nearer to the fair fountain, called Clements Well. The second, 
New Inn of Chancery.  New Inn, so called as latelier made of a common Hostery, and the sign of our Lady, an Inn of Chancery for Students then the other; namely, about the beginning of the reign of Henry the seventh, and not so ancient as some have supposed, to wit, at the pulling down of Strand Inn, in the reign of King Edward the sixth, for I read, that Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor, was Student in this New Inn, and went from thence to Lincoln's Inn, etc.  
The third is Lion's Inn, 
Lion's Inn of Chancery. Drury lane.  and Inn of Chancery also. This street stretcheth up unto Drury lane, so called, for that there is a house belonging to the Family of the Druries. This lane turneth North toward S. Giles in the field. From the South end of this lane in the high-street, are diverse fair buildings, Hosteries, & houses for Gentlemen, and men of honour, amongst the which Cecil house is one, 
Cecil house.  which sometime belonged to the Parson of Saint Martins in the field, and by composition came to Sir Thomas Palmer, Knight, in the reign of Edward the sixth, who began to build the same of brick, and Timber, very large and spacious. But of later time, it hath been far more beautifully increased by the late Sir William Cecil, Baron of Burghley, Lord Treasurer, and great Counsellor of the Estate.  
From thence is now a continual new building of diverse fair houses, even up to the Earl of Bedford's house, 
Bedford house.  lately builded nigh to Ivy bridge, and so on the North side, to a lane that turneth to the Parish Church of Saint Martins in the field, 
Parish Church of S. Martin in the field.  in the liberty of Westminster. Then had ye one house, wherein sometime were distraught and lunatic people, of what antiquity founded, or by whom I have not read, neither of the suppression: but it was said, that sometime a King of England, 
An house belonging to Bethlem.  not liking such a kind of people to remain so near his Palace, caused them to be removed farther off, to Bethlem without Bishop's gate of London, and to that Hospital the said house by Charing Cross doth yet remain.  
Then is the Mewse, 
The Mewse by Charing Cross.  so called of the King's Falcons there kept by the King's Falconer, which of old time was an office of great account, as appeareth by a Record of Richard the 2. in the first year of his reign. Sir Simon Burley, Knight, was made Constable for the Castles of Windsor, Wigmore, and Gilford, and of the Manor of Kenington, 
The Mewse now builded for stabling of the King's horses.  and also Master of the King's Falcons at the Mewse, near unto Charing cross by Westminster: but in the year of Christ 1534. the 28. of Henry the 8. the King having fair stabling at Lomsbury (a Manor in the farthest west part of Oldboorne) the same was fired and burnt, with many great horses, and great store of Hay. After which time the forenamed house, called the Mewse by Charing cross, was new builded▪ and prepared for stabling of the King's horses, in the reign of Edward the sixth and Queen Mary, and so remaineth to that use: and this is the farthest building West on the North side of that high street.  
On the South side of the which street, 
The Bishop of Durham house.  in the liberties of Westminster (beginning at Ivy bridge) first is Durham house, builded by Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, who was made Bishop of that Sea, in the year 1545. and late Bishop there 36. years.  
Amongst matters memorable concerning this house, 
just feast at Durham house.  this is one: In the year of Christ 1340. the 32. of Henry the 8. on May day, a great and triumphant just was holden at Westminster, which had been formerly proclaimed in France, Flanders, Scotland and Spain, for all comers that would undertake the Challengers of England, which were Sir john dudley, Sir Thomas Seymer, Sir Thomas Poynings, and Sir George Carew, Knights, and Anthony Kingston, and Richard Cromwell, Esquires. All which came into the Lists that day richly apparelled, and their horses trapped all in white velvet; there came against them the said day 46. Defendants, or Undertakers, viz. the Earl of Surrey foremost, Lord William Howard, Lord Clinton, and Lord Cromwell, son and heir to Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, and Chamberlain of England, with other; and that day, after the justs were performed, the Challengers road unto this Durham house, where they kept open household, and feasted the King, and Queen, with her Ladies and all the Court.  
The 2. day Anthony Kingston, and Richard Cromwell were made Knights there.  
The third day of May, the said Challengers did Tourney on horseback with swords, & against them 49. Defendants: Sir john Dudley and the Earl of Surrey running first, which at the first course lost their Gauntlets, and that day Sir Richard Cromwell overthrew Master Palmer and his horse in the field, to the great honour of the Challengers.  
The fifth of May, the Challengers fought on foot at the Barriers, and against them came 50. Defendants, which fought valiantly: but Sir Richard Cromwell overthrew that day at the Barriers, Master Culpepper in the field; and the 6. day the Challengers broke up their household.  
In this time of their housekeeping, 
Pensioners.  they had not only feasted the King, Queen, Ladies and all the Court, as is afore showed: but also they cheered all the Knights & Burgesses of the common house in the Parliament, & entertained the Mayor of London, with the Aldermen and their wives at a dinner, etc. The King gave to every of the said Challengers, and their heirs for ever, in reward of their valiant activity 100 marks, and a house to dwell in of yearly 〈◊〉, out of the lands pertaining to the Hospital of S. john of jerusalem.  
Now to speak somewhat of later time: 
A row of old Stables belonging to Durham house.  concerning this Durham house, it was well known and observed, for how many years, I know not, that the outward ●art belonging thereto, and standing North from the houses, was but a low row of Stables, old, ruinous, ready to fall, and very unsightly, in so public a passage to the Court & to Westminster. Upon which consideration, or some more especial respect in the mind of the right honourable, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, Lord high Treasurer of England: it pleased him to take such order in the matter, that (at his own costs and charges) that deformed row of Stabling was quite altered, by the erection of a very goodly & beautiful building in stead thereof, and in the very same place. 
The shape of the new ordered work, like the Royal Exchange.  Some shape of the modelling, though not in all respects alike, was after the fashion of the Royal Exchange in London, with Sellers underneath, a walk fairly paved above it, & Rows of Shops above, as also one beneath answerable in manner to the other and intended for the like trades and mysteries.  
This work was not long in taking down, 
This goodly building erected in a small space of time.  nor in the erection again; for the first Stone was laid on the 10. day of june, 1608. and also was fully finished in the next ensuing November after. Also on Tuesday, being the 10. day of April following, diverse of the upper shops were adorned in rich and beautiful manner, with wares most curious to please the eye; so ordered against his Majesty's coming thither, to give a name to so good a building. On the day following, 
The King, Queen, etc. come to name it Britain's Burse.  it pleased his highness, with the Queen, Prince, the Duke of York, & the Lady Elizabeth, to come thither, attended on by many great Lords, and choice Ladies. Concerning their entertainment there, though I was no eyewitness thereof; yet I knew the ingenuity and mind of the Nobleman to be such, as nothing should want to welcome so great an expectation. And therefore, what variety of devices, pleasing speeches, rich gifts and presents as then flew bountifully abroad, I will rather refer to your imagination, than any way come short of, by an imperfect narration. Only this I add, that it then pleased his most excellent Majesty, because the work wanted a name before, to entitle it Britain's Burse or Buss.  
Next beyond this Durham house, 
The Bishop of Norwich his house.  is another great house, sometime belonging to the Bishop of Norwich, and was his London lodging, which now pertaineth to the Archbishop of York, by this occasion: In the year 1529. when Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop of York, was indicted in the Praemunire, whereby King Henry the 8. was entitled to his goods and possessions: he also seized into his hands the said Archbishops house, commonly called York Place, and changed the name thereof into White Hall: whereby, the Archbishops of York being dispossed, and having no house of repair about London, Queen Mary gave unto Nicolas Heth, than Archbishop of York, and to his successors, Suffolk house in Southwark, lately builded by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, as I have showed elsewhere.  
This house the said Archbishop sold, and bought the aforesaid house, of old time belonging to the Bishops of Norwich, which (of the last purchase) is now called York house; the L. Chancellors or L. Keepers of the great Seal of England, have been lately there lodged.  
Then was there an Hospital of S. Mary Rouncivall, 
Hospital of S. Mary Rouncivall.  by Charing Cross (a Cell to the Priory and Covent of Rouncivall in Navarre, in Pampelone Dioces) where a Fraternity was founded in the fifteenth of Edward the fourth, 
Hermitage with a Chapel of S. Katherine.  but now the same is suppressed, and turned into Tenements.  
near unto this Hospital was an Hermitage, 
Charing Cross.  with a chapel of S. Katherine, overagainst Charing Cross, which Cross builded of stone, was of old time a fair piece of work, there made by commandment of Edward the first, in the 21. year of his reign, in memory of Eleanor his deceased Queen, as is before declared.  
West from this Cross, 
Hospital of S. james.  stood sometime an Hospital of S. james, consisting of two hides of land, with the appurtenances, in the Parish of S. Margaret in Westminster, and founded by the Citizens of London, before the time of any man's memory, for 14. Sisters, Maidens, that were leprous, living chastely and honestly in divine Service.  
Afterwards, diverse Citizens of London gave 56. l. rend thereunto, and then were adjoined 8. Brethren to minister divine Service there.  
After this also, sundry devout men of London gave to this Hospital, four Hides of land in the field of Westminster; and in Hendon, Calcote, & Hamsted, eight Acres of land and Wood, etc. King Edward the first confirmed those gifts, and granted a Fair to be kept on the Eve of S. james, 
S. james fair for 7. days.  the day, the morrow, & four days following, in the eighteenth of his reign.  
This Hospital was surrendered to Henry the 8. the 23. of his reign: the Sisters being compounded with, were allowed Pensions for term of their lives, and the King builded there a goodly Manor, annexing thereunto a Park, closed about with a wall of brick, 
S. james Parke.  now called S. james Parke, serving indifferently to the said Manor, and to the Manor or Palace of White Hall.  
South from Charing Cross, on the right hand, are diverse fair houses, lately builded before the Park: 
Tiltyard at Westminster.  then a large Tiltyard for Noblemen and other, to exercise themselves in just, Turneying, and fight at Barriers.  
On the left hand from Charing Cross, be also diverse fair tenements lately builded, till ye come to a large plot of ground enclosed with brick, and is called Scotland, 
Scotland, a plot of ground so called.  where great buildings have been for receipt of the Kings of Scotland, and other estates of that Country. For, Margaret Q. of Scots, and Sister to King Henry the 8. had her abiding there, when she came into England, after the death of her husband, as the K. of Scotland hand in former times, when they came to the Parliament of England.  
Then is the said White Hall, 
White Hall.  sometime belonging to Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, and justicier of England, who gave it to the black Friars in Oldboorne, as I have before noted, King Henry the 8. ordained it to be called an Honour, and builded there a sumptuous Gallery, and a beautiful Gatehouse, thwart the high street, to S. james Parke. etc.  
In this Gallery, the Princes, with their Nobility, use to stand, or sit, and at Windows to behold all triumphant justings, and other Military Exercises.  
Beyond this Gallery, on the left hand is the Garden or Orchard belonging to the said White Hall.  
On the right hand be diverse fair Tennis Courts, 
Tennis courts, Bowling Alleys, and Cockpit.  Bowling Alleys, and a Cockpit, all built by King Henry the eight: and then one other arched Gate, with a way over it, thwarting the street, from the King's Gardens to the said Park.  
From this Gate, up King's street, 
Longditch.  to a Bridge over Longditch (so called, 
S. Stephen's Alley.  for that the same almost insulateth the City of Westminster) near which Bridge, is a way leading to Canon Row, so called, for that the same belonged to the Dean & Canons of S. Stephen's Chapel, who were there lodged, as now diverse Noblemen and Gentlemen be: whereof, one is belonging to Sir Edw. Hobbey, one other to joh. Thin, Esquire, once stately builded by Anne Stanhop, Duchess of Somerset, Mother to the Earl of Hart-ford, who now enjoyeth that House. Next, a stately House, then in building by William Earl of Derby; overagainst the which, is a fair House, builded by Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln.  
From this way, up to the Wooll-Staple, and to the high Tower, or Gate, which entereth the Palace Court, all is replenished with Buildings and Inhabitants.  
Touching this Wooll-Staple, 
T. Clifford.  I read, that in the reign of Edward the first, the Staple being at Westminster, the Parishioners of S. Margaret, and Merchants of the Staple, builded of new the said Church, the great Chancel excepted, which was lately before new builded by the Abbot of Westminster. 
Record.   
Moreover, 
No Silver to be transported.  that Edward the third, in the 17. of his reign, decreed, that no Silver be carried out of the Realm, on pain of death: And that whosoever transported Wool, should bring over, for every Sack, four Nobles of Silver Bullion.  
In the 25. of his reign, 
Wooll-Staple at W. slminster.  he appointed the Staple of Wool to be kept only at Canturbury, for the honour of S. Thomas. But in the 27. of the same King Edward, the Staple of Wool, before kept at Bruges in Flanders, was ordained (by Parliament) to be kept in diverse places of England, Wales, and Ireland; as at Newcastle, York, Lincoln, Canturburie, Norwich, Westminster, Chichester, Winchester, Excester, Bristol, Caermarden, etc. to the great benefit of the King, and loss unto strangers & Merchants. For there grew unto the King by this means (as it was said) the sum of a thousand, an hundred & two pounds by the year, more than any his predecessors before had received: The Staple at Westminster, at that time, began on the next morrow after the feast of S. Peter ad Vincula.  
The next year was granted to the King by Parliament, 
Robert de Amesbury.  towards the recovery of his Title in France, 50. shillings of every Sack of Wool, transported over Seas, for the space of six year next ensuing: by means whereof, the King might dispend daily, during those years, more than a thousand Marks starling: For by the common opinion, there were more than an hundred thousand Sacks of Wool yearly transported into foreign Lands; so that during six years, the said grant extended to fifteen hundred thousand pound starling.  
In the 37. of Edward the third, 
Staple at Calais let to farm.  it was granted unto him for two years, to take six and twenty shillings eight pence upon every Sack of Wool transported: and the same year, the Staple of Wool (notwithstanding the King's Oath, and other great Estates) was ordained to be kept at Calais, and six and twenty Merchants, the best & wealthiest of all England, to be Farmers there, both of the Town & Staple, for three years, every Merchant to have six men of Arms, and four Archers, at the King's cost. He ordained there also two Majors, one for the Town, and one for the Staple, and he took for Mala capta, commonly called Maltorth, 20. shillings. and of the said Merchants; Guardians of the Town, forty pence upon every Sack of Wool.  
In the 44. of Edward the third, Quinborough, Kingston upon Hull, and Boston, were made Staples of Wool: which matter so much offended some, that in the fifty of his reign, in a Parliament at London, it was complained, that the Staple of Wool was so removed from Calais, to diverse Towns in England, 
Record.  contrary to the Statute, appointing, that Citizens and Merchants should keep it there, and that the King might have the Profits and Customs, with the exchange of Gold & Silver that was there made, by all the Merchants in Christendom (esteemed to amount to eight thousand pound by year) the exchange only: And the Citizens and Merchants so ordered the matter, that the King spent nothing upon Soldiers; neither upon defence of the Town against the Enemies, whereas now he spent eight thousand pound by year.  
In the fifty one of Edward the third, 
Manuscript.  when the Staple was settled at Calais, the Mayor of the Staple did furnish the Captain of the Town, upon any Road, with an hundred Billmen, two hundred Arcers, of Merchants and their servants, without any wages. 
Frenth.   
In the year 1388. the twelfth of Richard the second, 
Wooll-Staples at Middleborough.  in a Parliament at Cambridge, it was ordained, that the Staple of Wools should be brought from Middleborough in Holland to Calais.  
In the foureteenth of his reign, there was granted forty shillings upon every Sack of Wool: and in the one and twentieth, was granted fifty shillings upon every Sack transported by Englishmen, and three pounds by Strangers, etc.  
It seemeth, 
Staple-Merchants the most ancientest of this Realm.  that the Merchants of this Staple be the most ancient Merchants of this Realm, and that all commodities of the Realm are Staple Merchandizes by Law and Charter, as Wools, Leather, Wooll-fells, Led, Tin, Cloth, etc.  
King Henry the sixth had six Wooll-houses within the Staple at Westminster: those he granted to the Dean and Canons of S. Stephen at Westminster, & confirmed it the 21. of his reign. Thus much for the Staple have I shortly noted. 
The eving lane.   
And now to pass to the famous Monastery of Westminster at the very entrance of the Close thereof, is a lane that leadeth toward the West, called Thieving lane, for that thiefs were led that way to the Gatehouse, while the Sanctuary continued in force. 
Foundation of Westminster by Sebert a Christian King not only in word, but in deed.   
This Monastery was founded and builded by Sebert, King of the East Saxons, upon the persuasion of Ethelbert King of Kent, who having embraced Christianity, and being baptised by Melitus, Bishop of London, immediately (to show himself a Christian indeed) built a Church to the honour of God and Saint Peter, on the West side of the City of London, in a place (which because it was overgrown with thorns, and environed with water) the Saxons called Thorney, and now of the Monastery and West situation thereof, is called Westminster. What further I read, concerning the first foundation of this Church, followeth in this manner:  
When the Church of God first began to grow in Great Britain, 
Ex Sulcard.  at such time (saith Sulcardus) as Antoninus Pius, 
The Temple of Apollo overthrown by an Earthquake.  was Emperor of Rome, the Temple of Apollo, which was then seated on the West side of the City of London, where now Westminster standeth, fell down by the violence of an Earthquake. Of the ruins whereof, Lucius (who was King of the Britain's, and reigned here by permission of the Romans) built a small Church to the honour of Christ, in the year of our Lord 170. which afterward was utterly defaced, when the heat of persecution (under Dioclesian) wasted Britain.  
This place afterward (for a long time) lay altogether neglected, 
King Sebert built a Monastery in the place where the Church stood.  and not regarded, but became all overgrown with thorns and bushes: in so much as the English Saxons named it Thornez or Thorney; until Sebert King of the East Saxons (or of Essex and Middlesex) who was the first that subscribed to the worship of Christ, built in that place a Monastery to Christ and Saint Peter, in the year of Christ 605. whereupon, partly from the situation to the West, and partly, from the Monastery or Minster, it began to take the name of Westminster: But afterward when this Monastery was destroyed in the furious wars of the Danes, 
The Monastery destroyed by the Danes, and repaired by S. Dunstan.  Dunstane, Archbishop of Canturbury (by the favour of King Edgar) repaired it, and granted, and gave it to a small company of Monks.  
Afterward King Edward, surnamed the Confessor, 
The Monastery rebuilded by K. Edward the Confessor.  with the tenths of all his revenues, built it anew, to be a place for his own Sepulchre, and a Monastery for the Monks of S. Bennets order, and endowed it with revenues lying (here and there) in all places of England, and it is an ancient Fabric & very stately. Since which time this Monastery hath been (and yet is) very famous, for the consecration and Coronation of the King of England, and the burial of many of them and other great Personages, and for the custody of the Regalia for the Coronation.  
But 160. years after, 
A new Church builded in most goodly and beautiful manner.  King Henry the third pulled down that ancient Fabric of King Edward, and (with 50. years' work) built a Church of a most goodly frame, with a multitude of Marble pillars, set in comely order: whereof he himself laid the first stone, and covered the roof with Lead, in An. 1220. which Church (afterward) the Abbots did much enlarge to the Westward: 
King Henry the 7. his Chapel the Miracle of the world.  And K. Henry the 7. in the year 1502. bestowed 14000. pounds on the East side, where he built a Chapel of admirable beauty (which Leland calls the Miracle of the World: for any man that sees it, may well say, that all elegancy of worship & matter, is couched in it) to be a place of Sepulture for himself, and all his posterity: wherein (at this day) is to be seen his own Tomb, most gorgeous and great, made all of solid Brass.  
Afterward, 
The alteration in the time of Henry eight.  when the Monks were expelled by K. Henry the eight, it was eftsoons converted to diverse governements. First, 
A Bishop of Westminster.  it had a Dean and Prebendaries: Anon after, a Bishop, and that only one, named Thomas Thurlbey, in Anno 1541. when the revenues of the Church were abridged, he departed, and left it to be governed by a Dean.  
Within short time after, 
A Nursery for the collegiate Church of Westminster, instituted by Queen Elizabeth.  Queen Marry brought in the Monks again, with their Abbot, who not long after, being expulsed by Act of Parliament, Queen Elizabeth (of blessed memory) converted it unto a Collegiate Church, or rather a Nursery for the Church, in the year 1560. For there she ordained (to the glory of God, and the propagation of true Religion and good Literature) a Dean, twelve Prebendaries, an upper Master, and an Usher for the School, forty Scholars, termed the Queens or King's Scholars; who (at their due times) are preferred to both the Universities: besides Ministers, Singers, and Organists, ten Choristers, and twelve poor Soldiers, etc.  
The first Dean then of that Foundation, 
The first Dean, according to the foundation.  was Master William Bill; who being taken away within two years, had for his successor, Master Gabriel Goodman, Doctor of Divinity: who, when he had governed this Collegiate Church (with great commendation) the space of forty years, died in the year of our Lord God, 160●. And then Master Lancelot Andrew's, Doctor also in Divinity, succeeded him: next, Doctor Neale; and after him, Doctor Mountain.  
Sebert was buried in this Church, with his wife Athelgoda; whose bodies, many years after, to wit, in the reign of Richard the second (saith Walsingham) were translated from the old Church to the new, 
Walsingham.  and there interred.  
Edgar, King of the West- Saxons, repaired this Monastery about the year of Christ, 958. Edward, the Confessor builded it of new; whereupon T. Clifford writeth thus: 
T. Clifford.   
Without the Walls of London (saith he) upon the River of Thames, there was in times passed a little Monastery, builded to the honour of God and S. Peter, with a few Benedictine Monks in it, under an Abbot, serving Christ: very poor they were, & little was given them for their relief. here the King intended (for that it was near to the famous City of London, and the River of Thames, that brought in all kind of Merchandizes from all parts of the world) to make his Sepulchre: He commanded therefore, that of the tenths of all his Rents, the Work should be begun, in such sort, as should become the Prince of the Apostles.  
At this his commandment, the Work was nobly begun, even from the foundation, and happily proceeded, till the same was finished: The charges bestowed, or to be bestowed are not regarded. He granted to this Church great privileges, above all the Churches in this Land, as partly appeareth by this his Charter.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 etc.  
Edward, King, greets William Bishop, and Leosstane and Aeliffe Portreeves, and all my Burgesses of London, friendly: and I tell you, that I have this given and granted to Christ and S. Peter, the holy Apostle at Westminster, full freedom over all the land that belongeth to that holy place, etc.  
He also caused the Parish Church of Saint Margaret to be newly builded, 
Parish Church of Saint Margaret.  without the Abbey Church of Westminster, for the ease and commodity of the Monks, because (before that time) the Parish Church stood within the old Abbey Church in the South I'll, somewhat to their annoyance.  
King Henry the third, in the year of Christ, 1220. and in the fifth of his reign, began the new work of our Lady's Chapel, whereof he laid the first stone in the foundation, and in the year 1245. the walls and steeple of the old Church (builded by King Edward) were taken down, & enlarging the same Church, caused them to be made more comely. For the furtherance whereof, in the year 1246. the same King (devising how to extort money from the Citizens of London towards the charges) appointed a Mart to be kept at Westminster, 
Matthew Paris.  the same to last fifteen days, 
A Mart at Westminster.  and in the mean space all trade of Merchandise to cease in the City, which thing the Citizens were fain to redeem with two thousand pound of silver.  
The work of this Church, with the houses of office, was finished to the end of the Choir, in the year 1285. the 14. of Edward the first.  
All which labour of 66. years, 
Westminster with the Palace burned.  was in the year 1299. defaced by a fire, kindled in the lesser Hall of the King's Palace, at Westminster, the same with many other houses adjoining, and with the Queen's Chamber were all consumed, the flame thereof also (being driven with the wind) fired the Monastery, which was also consumed with the Palace consumed.  
Then was the Monastery again repaired by the Abbots of that Church, King Edward the first and his successors, putting to their helping hands.  
Edward the second appropriated unto this Church, the Patronages of the Churches of Kelueden and Sabritswarth in Essex, in the Diocese of London.  
Simon Langham Abbot (having been a great builder there in the year 1362. gave four hundred pound to the building of the body of the Church: but (amongst others) Abbot Islip was (in his time) a great builder there, as may appear in the stone work, and glass-windows of the Church. Since whose decease, that work hath stayed as he left it, unperfected, the Church and Steeple being all of one height.  
King Henry the seventh, 
New Chapel at Westminster.  about the year of Christ 1502. caused the Chapel of our Lady builded by Henry the third, with a Tavern also called the White Rose near adjoining, to be taken down: in which plot of ground on the 24. of january, the first stone of the new Chapel, was laid by the hands of Abbot Islip, Sir Reginald Bray, knight of the Garter, Doctor Barnes, Master of the Rolls, Doctor Wall, Chaplain to the King, Master Hugh Aldham, Chaplain to the Countess of Derby and Richmond (the King's Mother) Sir Edward Stanhop, knight, and diverse other: upon the which stone was engraven the same day and year, etc.  
The charges in building this Chapel amounted to the sum of 14000. pound. The stone for this work (as I have been informed) was brought from Huddlestone Quarry in Yorkshire.  
The Altar and Sepulchre of the same King Henry the seventh, wherein his body resteth in this his new Chapel, was made and finished in the year 1519. by one Peter a Painter of Florence: for which he received 1000 pound sterling, for the whole stuff and workmanship, at the hands of the King's executors Richard, Bishop of Winchester, Richard, Bishop of London, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, john, Bishop of Rochester, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, Treasurer of England, Charles, Earl of Worcester, the King's Chamberlain, john Fineaux, Knight, chief justice of the King's Bench, Robert Read, Knight, chief justice of the Common pleas.  
This Monastery being valued to dispended by the year 3470. pounds, 
Westminster a Bishops Sea.  etc. was surrendered to Henry the eight in the year 1539. Benson then Abbot, was made the first Dean: and not long after, it was advanced to a Bishop's Sea, in the year 1541. Thomas Thurleby, being both the first & last Bishop there, who, when he had impoverished the Church, was translated to Norwich, in the year 1550. the fourth of Edward the sixth, and from thence to Ely, in the year 1554. the second of Queen Mary. Richard Cox, Doctor in Divinity (late Schoolmaster to King Edward the 6.) was made Deane of Westminster, whom Queen Mary put out, and made Doctor Weston Deane, until the year 1556. and then he being removed from thence on the 21. of November, john Feckenham (late Deane of Paul's) was made Abbot of Westminster, and took possession of the same, being installed, and 14. Monks more received the habit with him that day, of the order of S. Benedict: but the said john Feckenham, with his Monks, enjoyed not that place fully three years: for in the year 1559. in the Month of july, they were all put out, and Queen Elizabeth made the said Monastery a College, instituting there a Dean, twelve Prebends, a Schoolmaster, and Usher, 40. Scholars called commonly the QUEEN'S Scholars, 12. Alms men, and so it was called the Collegiate Church of Westminster, 
Westminster made a Collegiate Church.  founded by Queen Elizabeth, who placed Doctor Bill, first Dean of that new erection, after whom succeeded Doctor Gabriel Goodman, who governed that Church forty years, and after him Doctor L. Andrew's.  
Kings and Queens crowned in this Church. 
Kings and Queens crowned at Westminster.  William, surnamed Conqueror, and Matilda his wife, were the first, and since them all other Kings and Queens of this Realm, have been there crowned.  
Kings and Queens buried in this Church in order following, are these: 
Sebert of the East Saxons, and Middle Saxons, 
Buried in the Chapel appointed for Kings.  that is, Essex and Middlesex, King, the Son of fled, by Ricula, Sister to Ethelbert, King of Kent, first King of the East Saxons: by the persuasions of Ethelbert, received and embraced the Christian faith, and the Church of Westminster, which then was termed Thorney; erected to blessed Saint Peter, wherein, with his wife Athelgoda he lieth buried. He died the last day of july, in the year of our Redemption, 616. And 691. years after, to wit, 1307. The Monks of Westminster translated his body out of the old Church into the new King's Chapel, and placed it therein a Sepulchre of Stone, at the South part of the Lords Table, with this Epitaph:  
Labilitas, brevitas  
mundanae prosperitatis,  
Coelica, praemia, gloria,  
gaudia danda beatis  
Sebertum ceytum  
jure dedêre satis.  
Hic Rex Christicola  
verax fuit hac regione,  
Qui nunc coecolica  
gaudet mercede coronae:  
Rex humilis, docilis,  
scius, & pius, inclytus iste  
Sollicitè, nitidè, tacitè,  
placidè (bone Christ)  
Vult servire tibi  
perficiendo sibi.  
Ornat mores, spernit  
flores, lucis avarae  
Gliscens multum, Christi  
cultum laetificare,  
Ecclesiam nimiam nimio  
study sabricavit,  
Haec illaesa manus  
quae fundamenta locavit.  
Hic sepringentis annis  
terra cumulatus,  
Christi clementis  
instinctibus inde levatus,  
Isto sub lapide  
nunc jacet ipse, vide.  
Atque domum Christo,  
quia mundo fecit in isto,  
Nunc pro mercede coeli  
requiescit in aede.  
Respice mortalis,  
promisso sit tibi talis:  
Accipies si des,  
nil capies nisi des;  
Es Christo qualis,  
Christus erit tibi talis.  
Dapsilis esto sibi,  
largus eritque tibi.  
Effectus non affectus,  
si reddere possis,  
Debet censeri;  
si nihil reddere possis,  
Tunc bonus affectus  
pro facto debet haberi.  
Sicut de lignis per aquam  
depellitur ignis;  
Sic mala commissa  
fiunt donando remissa.  
Reddet ad usuram quod quis  
dat nomine Christi,  
Nam vitam puram  
pro parvo dat Deus isti.   
The forenamed King Sebert died the last day of july, Anno Domini, 619. Whose wife, named Aetheloda, closed up her latest day of life before the said Sebert. viz. the 13. day of September, Anno Domini, 615. And with her husband Sebert (as already we have said) lieth in this Church, which himself founded, in a Tomb of Lead honourably buried.  
Upon the wall by this Tomb, are these Verses painted: 
Hic Rex Seberte plausus,  
mihi condita per te  
Haec loca lustravi,  
demùm lustrando dicavi.  
Edward, 
He lieth also buried in the said Chapel, appointed for Kings.  King of England, for his singular piety numbered among the Confessors, was the Son of King Aetheldred. The annual pension of four thousand pound, called Dangelt, he remitted to the English Legates (as Matth. West. writeth) He sent to Rome to Pope Damasus, to be absolved of a Vow which he had promised by a journey to Rome, if he obtained his Paternal Kingdom. which Pope absolving his said Vow, wrote back unto him, That the Expenses prepared for his travail, he should bestow upon the poor; and a Monastery (in the honour of Saint Peter) he should either newly build, or repair some old one. The Legates being returned, Vlfinus, sometime a Monk, persuading, and all the Council of the Kingdom approving, he repaired Westminster again. He died Anno 1066. and there lieth honourably interred in a Marble Tomb, chequered with variety of beautiful colours, in the midst of the Chapel, with these Verses:  
Omnibus insignis virtutum  
laudibus haeres,  
Sanctus Edwardus Confessor,  
Rex venerandus,  
Quinto die jani moriens  
juper aethera scandit.  
Sursum Corda.  
Obiit, Anno Dom. 1065.  
Editha, 
She lieth buried at the North side of S. Edward's Tomb, in the same Chapel▪  Queen of England, Daughter to Goodwin Earl of Kent, and wife to S. Edward, King and Confesser, a woman of singular piety and modesty, Edward her husband (as Matthew Westm. avoucheth) did not move this Edith by marriage rites, to know the manners of men, but whether in hatred to her father, or love to Chastity he did it, it remaineth uncertain. Some do affirm, that this holy King was not willing to beget any heirs, that should succeed him out of a treacherous race.  
Matilda, 
She is buried at the South side S. Edward's Tomb in the same Chapel.  Queen of England, Daughter to Malcolm, King of Scots, and wife to King Henry the first, brought unto him children, William, Richard, and Mary, which perished by shipwreck, and Maude Empress, who was wife to Henry the fifth, Caesar Augustus, and Mother to King Henry the second. This Queen (as Wil Malmesbury avoweth) every day in the Lent time went to Westminster, barefoot and barelegd, 
He is buried in the South side of the Chapel in a goodly Tomb, brought out of France by his Son Edward.  and wearing a garment of hair. She died 1118. and lieth without any Tomb.  
Henry the third, King of England, etc. Son of King john, by Isabella, Daughter to the Earl of Angolesme, a very pious Prince, and most hightly commended for his virtues. In An. 1220. he began the new work of the Chapel of our blessed Lady at Westminster, and himself laid the first Stone. And in An. 1245. after, the conventual Church of B. Peter the greater, he pulled down, and new builded it, and on the day of the Apostles Peter and Paul, he caused it to be fully and decently built and enlarged. He gave also to the said Church very Royal gifts, of Copes, jewels and rich vessels, that it might equal in riches all the Cisalpine Churches. He died, An. 1273. 11. Kalend. Decem. when he had reigned fifty six years, and eighteen days: upon his Tomb are these verses,  
Tertius Henricus jacet  
hic, pietatis amicus,  
Ecclesiam stravit istam,  
quam post renovavit,  
Reddet ei munus qui regnat  
trinus & unus,  
Tertius Henricus  
est Templi conditor hujus.  
Dulce Bellum  
inexpertis.  
The Friend of pity  
and Almsdeed,  
Henry the third,  
whilom of England King,  
Who this Church broke,  
and after his meed,  
Again renewed  
into this fair building;  
Now resteth here  
which did so great a thing.  
He yielded his meed  
that Lord of Deity,  
That as one Godreignes  
in Persons three.  
Edward the first, 
He lieth in a Marble Tomb at his Father's head in the same Chapel.  King of England, Duke of Normandy, and Aquitaine, Lord of Ireland, Son to King Henry the third, by Eleanor daughter to the Earl of Provence. He took to wife Eleanor, daughter to Ferdinand the third, King of Castille, and Lions. He warred with the Scots, won Berwick, etc. He died in Anno 1308. and hath this Epitaph on his Tomb.  
Mors est moesta nimis,  
magnos quae jungit in imis,  
Maxima mors minimis,  
conjungens ultima primis:  
Nullus in Orb fuit homo vivens,  
nec valet esse,  
Qui non morte ruit;  
est hinc exire necesse.  
Nobilis & fortis,  
tibi tu confidere noli,  
Omnia sunt mortis,  
sibi subdit singula soli.  
De mundi medio  
magnum mors impia movit,  
Anglia prae tedio satis  
anxia plangere novit:  
Corruit Edwardus vario  
veneratus honore,  
Rex nuper ut Nardus  
fragrans virtutis odour,  
Cord Leopardus,  
invictus & absque pavore,  
Ad rixam tardus,  
discretus & eucharis ore,  
Viribus Armorum  
quasi Gigas ardua gessit,  
Colla superborum Prudens  
per praelia pressit,  
Inter Flandrenses fortuna  
sibi bene favit,  
Vt quoque Wallenses  
& Scotos suppeditavit,  
Rex bonus absque pari strenuè  
sua regna regebat:  
Quod na tura dare potuit  
bonitatis habebat,  
Actio justitiae, pax regni,  
sanctio legis,  
Et fuga nequitiae premunt  
praecordia Regis,  
Gloria tota ruit,  
Rege capit haec modo fossa,  
Rex quandoque fuit,  
nunc nil nisi pulvis & ossa:  
Filius ipse Dei quem cord  
colebat, & over,  
Gaudia fecit ei nullo  
permista dolore.  
Dum vixit Rex & valuit sua  
magna potestas,  
Fraus latuit, Pax magna fuit,  
regnavit Honestas.   

Edwardus primus Scotorum malleus hic est. Pactum serva.  
Death is too doleful,  
which doth join  
The highest estate  
full low;  
Which coupleth  
greatest things with least,  
And last  
with first also.  
No man hath been  
in world alive,  
Nor any  
may there be;  
Which can escape  
the dint of Death,  
Needs hence  
depart must we.  
O Noble  
and victorious man,  
Trust not  
unto thy strength;  
For all are subject  
unto Death,  
And all  
must hence at length.  
Most cruel Fate  
from worldly Stage  
Hath wrist  
a worthy wight;  
For whom all England  
mourned loud.  
To see  
his doleful plight.  
Edward is dead,  
which was adorned  
With diverse  
graces here:  
A King, or fragrant  
Nardus hight  
A gracious  
Princely Peer.  
In heart the which  
was Leopard like,  
Right puissant,  
void of fear.  
Most slow to strife,  
discreet and wise,  
And gracious  
every where.  
In Arms, a Giant  
fierce and fell,  
Attempting  
famous facts:  
Most prudent,  
did subdue the proud  
By feat  
of Martial acts:  
In Flanders,  
Fortune gave to him,  
By lot, right  
good success:  
In Wales he won;  
the Scottish rout  
With Arms  
he did suppress.  
This King  
without his like alive  
Did firmly guide  
his Land:  
And what good  
nature could conceive,  
He had it plight  
at hand.  
He was in Justice,  
and in Peace  
Excelling:  
Laws took place,  
Desire to chase  
all wicked works,  
Did hold this Kings  
good Grace.  
He now doth lie  
entombed here,  
Which furthered  
each good thing:  
Now, naught he is  
but dust and bones,  
Which was  
a worthy King.  
The very SON of GOD,  
whom erst  
This King did love  
right dear:  
Hath given to him  
immortal bliss,  
For his good  
living here.   

Otherwise:  
Whilst lived this King,  
by him all things  
Were in most  
goodly plight:  
Fraud lay hid,  
great Peace was kept,  
And Honesty  
had might. 
Her image lieth on the Tomb in Brass richly gilded in the same Chapel.   
Eleanor, Queen of England, first wife of Edward the first, the only daughter to Ferdinand the third, K. of Castille and Lions, by joan his second wife, Heir to Guydo, Earl of Ponthieu. This Earldom of Ponthieu, by right, became devolved to the Kings of England, by the mother to Edward the second, She departed this life Anno Domini, 1298. and lieth at the feet of Henry the third, in a Marble Tomb, having these Verse:  
Nobilis Hispani jacet  
hic soror inclyta Regis,  
Eximii consors  
Eleanora thori,  
Edwardi primi Wallorum  
Principis uxor,  
Cui Pater Henricus tertius  
Anglus erat.  
Hanc ille uxorem gnato petit:  
omnie Princeps  
Legati munus  
suscepit ipse bono.  
Alfonso fratri placuit  
felix Hymenaeus,  
Germanam Edwardo  
nec sine dote dedit,  
Does praeclara fuit,  
nec tali indigna marito,  
Pontino Princeps  
munere dives erat.  
Femina consilio prudens,  
pia, prole beata,  
Auxit amicitiis,  
auxit honore virum.   

Disce mori.  
Queen Eleanor  
is here interred,  
A worthy  
Noble Dame:  
Sister unto  
the Spanish King,  
Of Royal blood  
and fame.  
King Edward's wife,  
first of that name,  
And Prince of Wales  
by right;  
Whose father Henry,  
just the third,  
Was sure  
an English Wight;  
Who craved her wife  
unto his Son:  
The Prince himself  
did go  
On that embassage  
luckily,  
As chief  
with many more.  
This knot  
of linked marriage,  
Her brother  
Alphonse liked,  
And so'tweene Sister  
and this Prince,  
The marriage  
up was striked:  
The Dowry rich  
and Royal was,  
For such a Prince  
most meet;  
For Pontine was  
the marriage gift,  
A Dowry rich  
and great.  
A Woman both  
in Counsel wise,  
Religious, fruitful,  
meek:  
Who did increase  
her husband's friends,  
And larged  
his honour eke.   

Learn to Die.  
Edward the third, 
He lieth buried in the South part of the Kingly Chapel, with his figure in Brass richly gilded.  King of England, etc. Son to Edward the second, by Isabella, daughter to Philip the fair, King of France, a most Martial man. When the brother by her Mother died, no Heirs Males being left, and the French pretended their Salic Law, which admitted much less the Female Issue to succeed: He denounced war against them, which very sharply he pursued. Calais he conquered, recovering Aquitaine and Normandy by his forces. john King of France, and David King of Scots he took in war, and kept them prisoners. The Arms the Title of France he added to his own: and when (like a Triumphant Monarch) he had reigned fifty years, he yielded to the stroke of Death in Ann. 1377. And these verses are annexed by the Tomb.  
Hic decus Anglorum,  
flos praeteritorum,  
Forma futurorum,  
Rex clemens, pax populorum,  
Tertius Edwardus:  
regni complens jubilaeum,  
Invictus Pardus,  
pollens bellis Machabeus;  
Prosperè dum vixit  
regnum pietate revixit,  
Armipotens rexit:  
jam Coelo Coelice Rex sit.  
Tertius Edwardus  
fama super aethera notus.  
Pugna pro Patria.  
In every part of this Tomb, 
The Sons and daughters of K. Edward the third.  are all the Sons and Daughters of this Kings expressed in solid Brass. On the right side, Edward Prince of Wales; joan of the Tower, given in marriage to the King of Spain; Lionel, Duke of Clarence; Edmund, Duke of York; Marry, Duchess of Britain; and William of Hatfield. On the left side, Isabella, Lady of Coucy; William of Windsor; john Duke of Lancaster; Blanch, of the Tower of London; Margaret Countess of Pembroke; and Thomas Duke of Glecester.  
Of English Kings  
here lies the beautiful flower,  
Of all before passed,  
and a mirror to them shall show;  
A merciful King,  
of peace conservatour;  
The third Edward,  
the death of whom may rue  
All English men;  
for he by Knighthood due  
Was Libard invict,  
and by feat Marshal:  
To worthy Macabe  
in virtue perregall.  
The Sword, which this most Potent and warlike King Edward the third used in war, is to be seen by his Tomb, weighing eighteen pound, and seven foot in length.  
Philip, 
She hath a beautiful Tomb and her Figure in Alabaster upon it.  Queen of England, wife to Edward the third, daughter to William of Bavaria, Earl of Henault, a woman of singular Piety, and a Mother of most Noble Children, died Anno Domini, 1369. And lieth at the feet of Edward her husband, and these Verses annexed:  
Gulielmi Hannonis  
soboles posterma Philippe,  
Hic Roseo quondam  
pulchra decore jacet.  
Tertius Edwardus  
Rex ista conjuge laetus  
Materno suasu  
Nobiliumque fuit:  
Frater johannes  
Comes Mavortius Heros,  
Huic illam voluit  
consociare viro.  
Haec junxit Flandors  
conjunctio sanguinis Anglis:  
In Francos venit hinc  
Gallica dira leus.  
Dotibus haec raris viguit  
Regina Philippe,  
Forma praestanti,  
Religione, Fide.  
Foecunda nata  
est proles numerosa parenti,  
Insignes peperit  
magnanimosque Deuces,  
Oxonii posuit  
studiosis optima Nutrix  
Regineas aedes,  
Palladiamque Scholam.  
Conjux Edwardi  
jacet Regina Philippe.   

Disce Vivere.  
Fair Philip,  
William Henaults child,  
And youngest  
daughter dear;  
Of Roseate hue,  
and beauty bright,  
In Tomb lies  
hilled here.  
Edward the third,  
through Mother's will,  
And Nobles  
good consent,  
took her to wife,  
and joyfully  
With her his time  
he spent.  
His Brother john,  
a Martial man,  
And eke a  
valiant Knight,  
Did link this woman  
to this King  
In bonds of  
Marriage rite.  
This Match and Marriage  
thus in blood,  
Did bind  
the Flemings sure  
To Englishmen,  
by which they did  
The Frenchmens'  
wrack procure.  
This Philip flowered  
in gifts full rare,  
And treasures  
of the mind;  
In Beauty bright,  
Religion, Faith,  
To all and each  
most kind.  
A fruitful Mother,  
Philip was  
Full many a Son  
she bred:  
And brought forth many  
a worthy knight,  
Hardy, and full  
of dread:  
A careful Nurse  
to Students all;  
At Oxford  
she did found  
Queen's College; she,  
Dame Pallas School,  
That did her  
fame resound.   

Learn to live.  
About this Tomb are round placed the Images of these Princes, 
Royal ornaments there placed, to illustrate the beauty of the Tomb.  and their Arms to express them, as in an old Manuscript Book they were found.  
At the feet, the King of Navarre, the King of Bohemia, the King of Scotland, the King of Sicily, and the King of Spain.  
At the head, Willia Earl of Henault, father to the said Queen; john, King of France; Edward the third, King of England, and her Husband, Lodowick, the Emperor; and Edward, Prince of Wales, her first begotten Son.  
On the left side of the Tomb, jone, Queen of Scotland, john of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall; jone, Princess of Wales; Lionel, Duke of Clarence; Isabel, Countess of Bedford; john, Duke of Lancaster; jone, Duchasse of Clarence; Edmurd, Earl of Cambridge; jone, Duchess of Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of Buckingham.  
On the right side, the Empress, mother to the said Queen; her Brother also, Marcus Duke of Gelderland, Eleanora, Duchess of Gelderland; john, Earl of Henault; Marry Duchess of Britain, Lodowick, Duke of Bavaria; the Countess of Prembrooke; Churls, Son to the King of France, Duke of Brabant.  
Henry the fifth, 
He lieth in the uppermost part of that Kingly Chapel, with a Statue of gilt Plates.  King of England, Son of Henry the fourth, vanquished the French in many battles, and at length was created Regent of France. He took to wife Katherine, daughter to Charles the sixth. He died, Anno Dom. 1422. And these verses are fixed there in memory of him.  
Gallorum mastix jacet  
hic Henricus in urna.  
Domat omnia Virtus  
Pulchrum virumque suum  
sociat tandem Katherine.  
O merciful God,  
what a Prince was this,  
Which his short time  
in martial Acts spent  
In honour of conquest,  
that wonder to me it is,  
How he might compass  
such deeds excellent.  
And yet for that  
his mind nothing deten●t,  
All ghostly counsel  
for his Soul to provide,  
Out of this world,  
ere he fatally should slide.  
So though I had Tully  
his eloquence,  
Or of Seneca  
the grave morality,  
Or of Salmon  
the perfect Sapience,  
Or the sweet Ditties  
of Dame Calliope;  
Yet might I not  
in Prose or other ditty,  
Accordingly advance  
this Prince his fame,  
Or with due honour  
to enhance the same.  
Considering his acts,  
whereof parcel appear  
In this rude work,  
with many more left out:  
The time also was  
less than ten year,  
That he so shortly  
brought all things about,  
By Divine grace  
furthered no doubt:  
That mighty Lord he holp  
his ghostly Knight;  
With grace and honour  
to pass this world's fight.  
And to have reward  
double and condign,  
And first for Martial acts  
by him done.  
To be advanced amongst  
the worthies nine,  
And for his virtue used  
by him eftsoon,  
With many good deeds  
which he on earth had done.  
Above the Hierarchies,  
he is (I trust) now stalled,  
That was in earth  
the King of Kings called.  
katherine Valois, 
Her body now lieth in a small place by her husband unburied.  Daughter to Charles the sixth, King of France, and wife to Henry the fifth, who (he being dead) took in marriage Owen Teudor, borne in Wales, his race descending from King Cadwallader. Of her he begot Edmund Earl of Richmund, jasper, Duke of Bedford, and another that took on him a Monastical habit at Westminster. She died in An. 1437. and was buried by K. Henry 5.  
Hic Katherine  
jacet, Francorum filia Regis  
Haeres & Regni  
(Carole Sexte) tui,  
Henrici Quinti thalamo  
bis laeta jugali,  
Nam sic vir duplici  
clarus honore fuit:  
jure suo Anglorum,  
Katharinae jure triumphans  
Francorum obtinuit jus,  
decus imperii.  
Grata venit laetis  
felix Regina Britannis,  
Perque dies celebrant  
quatuor ore Deum.  
Edidit Henricum gemibunda  
puerpera Regem,  
Cujus in imperio  
Francus & Anglus erat,  
Non sibi nec Regno  
felici sidere natum,  
Sed patri & matri  
Religione parem.  
Post ex Owneo Tiddero  
tertia proles,  
Nobilis Edmundus te  
Katherine beaten:  
Septimus Henricus  
quo non praestantior alter,  
Filius Edmundi,  
Gemma Britanna fuit:  
Felix uxor ergo, matter,  
ter filia felix,  
Ast Avia haec felix  
terque quaeterque fuit.  
Otium fuge.  
Here lies Queen Katherine  
closed in grave,  
The French Kings  
Daughter fair,  
And of thy Kingdom  
(Charles the sixth,  
The true  
undoubted Heir.  
Twice joyful wife  
in marriage matched  
To Henry fifth  
by name:  
Because, through her,  
he nobled was,  
And shined  
in double Fame.  
The King of England  
by descent,  
And by Queen  
Katharins' right:  
The Realm of France  
he did enjoy,  
Triumphant King  
of might.  
A happy Queen  
to Englishmen,  
She came right  
grateful here:  
And four days space  
they honoured God,  
With mouth  
and reverend fear.  
Henry the sixth  
this Queen brought forth  
In painful  
labour plight:  
In whose Empire  
a Frenchman was,  
And eke an  
English wight.  
Under no lucky  
Planet borne  
Unto himself  
nor Throne:  
But equal  
with his Parents both,  
In pure  
Religion.  
Of Owen Tedder  
after this,  
The next Son  
Edmund was,  
O Katherine,  
a renowned Prince,  
That did  
in glory pass.  
Henry the seventh,  
a Britain Pearl,  
A Gem of  
England's joy:  
A peerless Prince  
was Edmund's Son  
A good and  
gracious Roy:  
Therefore a happy wife  
this was,  
A happy  
mother pure:  
Thrice happy Child,  
but Grandam she,  
More than thrice  
happy sure. 
His own and his wives figures are in gilt Brass curiously done upon the Tomb.   RICHARD the second, of England and France King, Lord of Ireland, Son to Edward Prince of Wales, by joan Daughter to the Earl of Kent. He made new the hall at Westminster, and when he had reigned 22. years, Anno dom. 1399. he was bereft of his kingdom, by Henry of Lancaster (and not long after) murdered, and buried at Langley among the Dominicans. Afterward, An. 1414. (as Thomas Walsingham saith) his body was brought to Westminster, and laid in a Royal Tomb, builded of gilded brass, at the great charges of King Henry the fifth, with theseverses added: 
Prudens & mundus  
Richardus, jure Secundus,  
Per Fatum victus,  
jacet his sub marmore pictus,  
Verax sermone  
fuit & plenus ratione:  
Corpore procerus,  
animo prudens ut Homerus:  
Ecclesiae favit,  
elatos suppeditavit,  
Quemvis prostravit  
regalia qui violavit.  
Obruit haereticos,  
& eorum stravit amicos:  
o clemens Christ,  
tibi devotus fuit iste,  
Votis Baptistae  
salves quem protulit iste.  
His jacet immiti consumptus  
morte Richardus.  
Fuisse Felicem  
miserrimum.  
Perfect and prrudent Richard,  
by right the second,  
Vanquished by Fortune,  
jyes here now graven in stone:  
True of his word,  
and thereto well resound,  
Seemly in person,  
and like to Homer, as one,  
In worldly prudence,  
and ever the Church in one  
Upheld and favoured,  
and casting the proud to ground,  
And all that would  
his royal estate confound.  Anne, 
She lieth in the same Tomb with the King her Husband.  Queen of England, first wife to Richard the Second, Daughter to Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia, and Emperor of the Germans, died in Anno 1394. and at Westminster is buricd, having this Epitaph. 
Sub petralata nunc Anna  
jacet tumulata,  
Dum vixit mundo  
Richardo nupta secundo,  
Christo devota  
fuit haec, facilis bene nota,  
Pauperibus prona  
semper sua reddere dona.  
jurgia sedavit,  
& praegnantes relevavit.  
Corpore formosa,  
vultu miti speciosa,  
Praebens solamen,  
viduis, aegris medicamen.  
Anno milleno,  
ter centum quarto nonageno,  
julii septeno  
mensis migravit amoeno.  
Hoc jacet Anna  
loco Britonum redimita corona,  
Cui vir Richardus  
jure secundus erat:  
Cui pater illustris,  
gnata, generó que superbus,  
Romaeter felix,  
induperator erat.  
Winceslaus illam magna  
comitante caterva,  
Londinum misit laetus  
evamnsque pater:  
Cujus in adventu ludi,  
spectacula fiunt,  
Regali pompa  
regia virgo venit.  
Sed bona sunt hominum  
tenni pendentia filo  
Reges, Reginas mors capit,  
omne rapit.  
Haec Regina fuit  
magna de stripe Quiritum,  
Omnibus illa fuit femina  
chara viris.  
Larga, coloratis virtutum  
splendida gemmis:  
Nunquam laeta parens,  
nam sine prole jacet.  
Forma fragilis.  
Queen Anne,  
Richard the Seconds wife,  
Lieth buried  
in this place:  
Adorned with  
the Britain's Crown,  
With whom she  
found much grace.  
Whose Noble Sire,  
of Daughter proud,  
Of Son in Law,  
full glad:  
Of Rome, thrice happy  
Emperor was  
And that large  
Empire had.  
Winceslaus so called  
by name,  
Who thus  
in joyful plight,  
Sent her to London,  
guarded well,  
With valiant men  
of might.  
Against whose coming  
Plays were made,  
And sights and shows  
were seen:  
With Princely pomp  
to gratify  
This Noble  
Virgin Queen.  
But all men's treasures  
last not long,  
They hang  
but on a twine  
Or slender thread:  
Death, Kings and Queens  
Doth all catch  
up in fine.  
This Queen  
was of the Royal race  
Of Romans  
by descent:  
Of all beloved,  
most dear to most,  
In honour  
relucent.  
Full liberal  
and bountiful,  
Adorned with  
virtues rare:  
No child she had,  
but issueless,  
She lies  
without such care.  
Margaret, 
She lieth also in the Royal Chapel of Kings.  daughter and fifth child to Edward the fourth, King of England, and France, and Lord of Ireland, and Lady Elizabeth his royal Queen and wife, was borne the 19 day of April, Anno Dom. 1472. and died the 11. day of December.  
Nobibitas & forma,  
decorque, tenella juventus  
In simul hîc ista  
mortis sunt condita cistâ,  
Vt genus & nomen, sexum,  
tempus quoque mortis  
Noscas, cuncta tibi  
manefestat margo sepulchri.  
Thomas of Woodstock, 
He lieth under Marble, adorned with Brass in the pavement by his Father  Duke of Gloucester, sixth Son to King Edward the third, a man of great Nobility and authority; whom King Richard the second, his Nephew, suddenly and forcibly taken and sent to Calais, where endighted upon a capital cause, he was beheaded, Anno Dom. 1397.  
Ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio.  
Henry, 
His heart is buried in the Coffin with S. Edward.  son to Richard, King of the Romans, and Earl of Cornwall, returning from the Holy Land, while he was hearing Mass at Viterbium in Italy, by Simon and Guydo, sons to Simon Mountfort, Earl of Leicester: He was slain in Anno 1269. His body lies buried in the Monastery of Hailes: Math. Westmonast.  
Elizabeth, 
She lieth at the feet of King Henry the third.  daughter to King Henry the seventh, is buried in a Tomb of black Marble, having also this Inscription.  
Elizabetha, illustrissimi Regis Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Henrici Septimi, & Dominae Elizabethae Reginae serenissimae confortis suae filia & secunda proles, quae nata fuit secundo die mensis julii, Anno Dom. 1492. & obiit decimo quarto die mensis Novembris, An. Dom. 1495. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.  
Hîc post fata jacet  
proles Regalis in isto  
Sarcophago, juvenis,  
Nobilis Elizabeth,  
Princeps illustris,  
Henr. Sept. filia Regis,  
Qui bini Regni florida  
Sceptra tenet.  
Atropos hanc rapuit  
saevissima nunci a mortis,  
Sit super in Coelo  
vita perennis ei.   

The Chair of the Kings of Scotland.  
King Edward the first, having subdued the Scots in An. 1297. triumphantly returned, with the Sceptre and Crown of the Kings of Scots, as also the Chair, wherein those Kings used to be crowned, 
In a Table hanging by are these verses set down.  bringing it into the Church of Westminster: which Chair as yet remaineth in the Royal Chapel, with Jacob's Stone, as they callit, placed in it.  
Siquid habent veri  
vel Chronica cana fidusve,  
Clauditur hac cathedra  
nobilis ecce lapis.  
Ad caput eximius jacob  
cuondam Patriarcha,  
Quem posuit cernens  
numina mira poli;  
Quem tulit ex Scotis spolium  
quasi victor honoris,  
Edwardus primus,  
Mars velut armipotens,  
Scotorum domitor,  
noster validissimus Hector,  
Anglorum decus,  
& gloria Militiae.   

In the great and Kingly Chapel of King HENRY the seventh.  
Henry the seventh, 
He lieth in a small Chapel made all of richly gilded Brass.  King of England, France, and Lord of Ireland, the first begotten Son of Edmund, Earl of Richmund, by Margaret, daughter and heir to john, Duke of Somerset: When he had justly deprived (both of Crown and life) Richard the third at Bosworth: He was installed in the Kingdom in An. 1485. and before he was 23. years aged, he qualified the loud and grievous garboils, between the Families of Lancaster and York, resting in the Lord, Anno 1509. And in this magnificent Chapel, which he himself builded, with Elizabeth his Queen and wife: He lieth in a most glorious Tomb of solid Brass, compossed about with these verses:  
Septimus Henricus  
Tumulo requiescit in isto,  
Qui Regum splendour,  
lumen & orbis erat.  
Rex vigil, & sapiens, comis,  
virtutis amator,  
Egregius formae,  
strenous atque potens.  
Qui peperit pacem regno,  
qui bella peregit  
Plurima, qui victor  
semper ab hoste redit.  
Qui naras binis conjunxit  
Regibus ambas,  
Regibus & cunctis  
foedere junctus erat.  
Qui sacrum hoc struxit Templum,  
statuitque sepulchrum,  
Pro se, próque sua  
conjuge, prole, domo.  
Lustra decem, atque annos tres  
plus compleverat annis,  
Nam tribus octenis  
Regia Sceptra tulit.  
Quindecies Domini  
centenus fluxerat annus,  
Currebat nonus,  
cum venit atra dies.  
Septim●●termensis  
lux t● cot●. fulgebat Aprilis,  
Cum claunlit summum  
tanta corona diem.  
Nulla dedêre prius  
tantum tibi saecula Regem  
Anglia, vix similem  
posteriora dabunt.   

On the other side, under the Queen's Image.  
Hic jacet Regina Elizabetha, 
This Queen died in the Tower of London.  Edwardi Quarti quondam Regis filia; Edwardi Quinti Regis quondam nominati Soror; Henrici Septimi olim Regis Conjux; atque Henrici octavi Regis matter inclyta. Obiit autem suum diem in Turre Londoniarum die 11. Feb. Anno Domini, 1502. 37. Annorum aetate functa.  
Edward the sixth, 
He lieth at the head of his Grandfather, K. Henry the seventh.  King of England, France, and Ireland, etc. Son to King Henry the eight by jane Seymour, was crowned King the 28. day of january, 1546. He died (oversoone) in his younger years the 6. day of july, 1553. and lieth under the Brass richly gilded Altar, most curiously wrought with good workmanship.  
Marry, Queen of England, France and Ireland, 
She Hath buried in the North part of the great Royal Chapel.  Daughter to King Henry the eighth, by Katherine, Daughter to Ferdinand, King of Spain, succeeded her Brother Edward, An. 1553. The Romish Religion, which her Father and Brother had expelled, she again restored, marrying with Philip, King of Spain: And died when she had reigned 5. years, 1558.  
Elizabeth, 
Upon her gloriou. & goodly Tomb made by King james is this ensuing inscription.  Queen of England, France and Ireland, Daughter to King Henry the eight, by his second wife Anne Bullen, and Sister to Mary; succeeded her in Anno 1558. She was a most potent Princess, and (for all virtues) to be compared with the greatest Kings or Queens whatsoever. Having reigned 44. years, four Months, and eight days in highest glory (to foreign admiration, and love of her own people, England, acknowledging her rather a Mother than a commander) she yielded her Soul to Christ both piously and contentedly, the 24. day of March, Anno Domini. 1602.   

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Religione ad primaevam sinceritatem restaurata, 
In the great and Royal Chapel of King Henry the seventh.  Pace fundata, Moneta ad justum volorem reducta, Rebellione domestica vindicata, Gallia malis intestinis praecipiti sublevata, Belgio sustentato, Hispanica classe profligata, Hibernia pulsis Hispanis, & Rebellibus ad deditionem coactis pacata, Redditibus utriusque Academiae lege annonaria plurimum adauctib. Tota denique Anglia Ditata, Prudentissimèque annos XLV. administrata; Elizabetha Regina victrix, triumphatrix, pietatis studiosissima, felicissima, placida morte septuagenaria soluta, mortales reliquias dum Christo jubente resurgant immortales, in hac Ecclesia celeberrima ab ipsa conservata, & denuò fundata, deposuio.   

Obiit 24. Martii, Anno salutis, MDCII. Regni XLV. Aetatis LXX.  
Upon the remove of her body from Richmond (where she died) to White Hall, by water, these lines were written.  
The Queen was brought  
by water to White Hall,  
At every stroke  
the Oars tears let fall.  
More clung about the Barge,  
Bish under water  
Wept out their eyes of Pearl,  
and swom blind after:  
I think the Bargemen  
might with easier thighs,  
Have rowed her thither  
in her people's eyes,  
For howsoever, thus much  
my thoughts have scanned,  
she'd come by water,  
had she come by land.  
Sophia, 
This young Infant lived not above 3. or 4. days.  daughter to JAMES, King of great Britain, borne at Greenwich, the 22. day of june, 1606. the 3. day after ended her life, and is buried in the same Chapel, where the Queens, Mary and Elizabeth do rest in the Lord.  
Margaret, 
She is buried in the South part of the Chapel in a goodly Monument.  Countess of Richmond and Derby, daughter, and only Heir to john, Duke of Somerset, by Margaret, daughter to the Lord Bellocampe, or Beauchampe of Powicke: first married to Edmund the Son of Owen Tedder, who begat Henry the 7. King of England; and afterward, to Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby: Two Colleges (namely, of Christ, and Saint john Baptist) she erected for Students in Cambridge. She instituted also two divinity Lectures, one at Cambridge, and the other at Oxford, etc. This Epitaph was made for her.  
Aspirate meis Elegis  
pia turma sororum,  
Et Margaretam  
collacrimate piam.  
Haec sub mole latet Regis  
celeberrima matter  
Henrici magni,  
quem locus iste fovet,  
Quem locus iste sacer celebri  
celebrat Polyandro,  
Illius ingenitrix  
hac tumulatur humo.  
Cui cedat Tanaquil  
(Titus hanc super astra reportet)  
Cedat Penelope  
charus Vlyssis amor;  
Haec Abigail, velut Hester  
erat pietate secunda,  
En tres jam proceres  
nobilitate pares:  
Pro Domina precor implora,  
pro Principe tanta  
Flecte Deum precibus  
qui legis hos aspices.  
Plura referre piget,  
calamus corpore rigescit,  
Dormit Moecenae,  
negligitur probitas:  
Nec juvat aut modicum  
prodest nunc ultima versu  
Fata recensere  
(mortua mors reor est)  
Quaeris quid decus est?  
decus est modo dicier hircus:  
Cedit honos hirco,  
cedit honorque capro.  
Falleris ipse Charon,  
iterum surrexit Abyron,  
Et Stygios remos  
despicit ille tuos. 〈◊〉  
Vivitur ex voto,  
mentis praecordia tangunt  
Nulla sepulchra Ducum,  
nec monumenta patrum,  
Non Regum, non ulla  
hominum labentia fato  
Tempora, nec toties  
mortua turba ruens.  
Hinc statuo certè  
periturae parcere chartae,  
Seu Iuvenalis ovat  
eximius Satyrus.  
Margaret, 
She lies buried in a goodly tomb of Alabaster in the same Chapel.  Countess, of Levenox, daughter to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, by Margaret, Queen Dowager of Scotland, daughter to Henry the seventh, King of England; wife also to Matthew Stuart, Earl of Levenox, to whom she brought Henry, Lord of Darnly, father to james the sixth, King of Scotland, Charles, Earl of Levenox, and other children that died in their younger years. She departed this life the 10. day of March, Anno Domini, 1577. and hath this Epitaph:  
here lieth the Noble Lady Margaret, Countess of Levenox, daughter and sole heir of Archibald, Earl of Angus, by Margaret Queen of Scots his wife, that was eldest daughter to K. Henry the 7. who bore unto Matthew, Earl of Levenox her husband, four sons, and four daughters. This Lady had to her great Grandfather, King Edward the fourth; to her Grandfather, King Henry the seventh; to her Uncle, King Henry the eight; to her Cousin German, King Edward the sixth, to her Brother King james, of Scotland the fifth, to her Son, King Henry the first; and to her Grandchild, King james the sixth.  
Having to her great Grandmother, and Grandmother, two Queens, both named Elizabeth; to her Mother, Margaret Queen of Scots; to her Aunt, Mary, the French Queen; to her Cousins Germans, Mary and Elizabeth, Queens of England; to her Niece and Daughter in law, Marry, Queen of Scots.  
Henry, second son to this Lady, was King of Scots, and father to james the sixth, now King. This Henry was murdered at the age of 21. years: Charles her youngest Son, was Earl of Levenox, father to the Lady Arbella, he died at the age of 21. years, and is here entombed.  
Charles his Son, 
He lieth buried in the vault with his mother.  and Earl of Levenox, who took in marriage the daughter of William Cavendish, Knight, and had Arbella to his only daughter, died in Anno 1576.  
Henry, 
A child of two months old.  first Son to King Henry the 8. by Queen Katherine of Spain, lieth buried at the door of the Royal Chapel.  
Queen Anne, 
She lieth in the South part of the vestry.  wife to King Richard the third, daughter to Richard Nevil, Earl of Warwick, died in Anno Domini, 1484. not without suspicion of poisoning.  
Anne of Cleve, 
She lieth in a Tomb as yet not finished.  Sister to William, Duke of Cleve, and Gulich, whom King Henry the eighth repudiated, when he took to wife Katherine Howard, died in Anno 1557. and lieth buried at the head of King Sebert.  
Anne of Somerset, wife to the most Noble Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset, and the daughter to Sir Edward Stanhop, Knight, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter to Fulke Bourchier, Lord Fitzwaren, died the 16. of the Calendss of May, Anno 1580. etc. with this inscription on her Tomb:  
here lieth entombed the Noble Duchess of Somerset, 
She lieth in a goodly Tomb in S. Nicholas chapel, the Tomb being 24. foot in height.  Anne, Spouse unto that renowned Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, and Baron Seymour, Companion of the most famous Knightly Order of the Garter, uncle to King Edward the sixth, Governor of his Royal Person, and most worthy Protector of all his Realms, Dominions, and Subjects; Lieutenant General of all his Armies, Treasurer and Earl Martial of England, Governor and Captain of the Isles of Garnesey & jersey. Under whose prosperous Conduct, glorious Victory hath been so often and so fortunately obtained at Edinburgh, Leith, and Muscleborough field.  
A Princess descended of Noble Lineage, being daughter to the worthy Knight, Sir Edward Stanhop, by Elizabeth his wife, that was daughter to Sir Foulke Bourchier, Lord Fitzwaren, from whom our Modern Earls of bath are sprung. Son he was to William, Lord Fitzwaren, that was Brother to Henry Earl of Essex, and john Lord Berners, whom William their Sire (sometime Earl of Ewe in Normandy) begat on Anne, the sole heir of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, younger Son to the mighty Prince, King Edward the third, and of his Wife Eleanora, coheir unto the tenth Humphrey de Bohun, that was Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, High Constable of England.  
Many children bore this Lady unto her Lord of either sort, to wit, Edward Earl of Hertford, Henry, and younger Edward; Anne, Countess of Warwick, Margaret, jane, Mary, Katherine, and Elizabeth: And with firm faith in Christ, and in a most mild manner, rendered she this life at 90. years of age, on Easter day, the 16. of April, Anno, 1587.  
The Earl of Hertford, Edward, her eldest son, in this doleful duty careful and diligent, doth consecrate this Monument to his dear Parent: not for her Honour, wherewith (living) she did abound, and now departed, flourisheth; but, for the dutiful love he beareth her, and for his last testification thereof.  
Lady Wenefrid, 
She lieth in a fair Tomb of of Alabaster in S. Nicholas chapel.  marchioness of Winchester, sprung of the worthy Family of Bruges, who first married with Richard Sacvile, Knight, and Chancellor of the Exchequer: by her he had Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, and the Lady Dacres of the South, beside other children. Afterward, she married with john Powlet, marquis of Winchester, and at length, well in years, and a Widow, died, Anno Domini, 1586.  
Hic jacet in tumulo  
clarissima femina, primùm  
Fortunata bonis  
clarisque Parentibus: illi  
Sollicitè aetatem  
tenerae flexêre puellae  
Ad studium verae virtutis,  
& optima facta,  
Externo addentes  
internum lumen honori,  
Pòst adolescentis  
feliciter extitit aetas:  
Cum matura, viro  
veteri de stemmate nupsit,  
Qui genus à proavis  
longè ante Trophaea Guilielmi  
Normanasque acies,  
patria de gente trahebat:  
Quocum jucundè  
transegit tempora vitae,  
Donec mors illum rapuit:  
post fata mariti  
Moesta diu vitam  
tenebris luctuque trahebat.  
Sed melior tandem  
viduam fortuna revisit,  
Nobilitate potens ubi  
Marchio amabilis illam  
Connubio accepit firmo  
propriaroque dicavit:  
At nunc ter felix  
transcendit spiritus astra,  
Cumque suo regnat, coluit  
quem ante omnia, Christo.  
Anne, 
They lie buried in S. Nicholas chapel, in a goodly Tomb.  Countess of Oxenford, Daughter to William Cecil, Baron of Bourghley, with Mildred her Mother, in one Sepulchre, with Magnificent Collumnes of Porphyry and let Stone, 24. foot in height, lie buried together, which the said Baron of Bourghley caused to be there erected.  
Elizabeth Cecil, 
She lieth at the door of the same Chapel.  Daughter of William Brooke, Baron Cobham, the wife dear affected of Robert Cecil, Knight, one of the Privy Council to the illustrious Queen Elizabeth, upon her Tomb hath these Dialogue Verses: 1591.  

Vxor.  
Regina a Cameris,  
Baronis filia, chari  
Fida Equitis conjux  
Elizabetha fui:  
Vnus amor nobis,  
una indivulsa voluntas,  
Cor unum, una fides  
inviolata fuit:  
Ille mei si quando potest  
deponere curam,  
Ille potest animae  
non memor esse suae.   

Maritus.  
Si lachrimis constaret amor  
(charissima conjux)  
Prosequere lachrimis  
funera saepe tua.  
Nam mihi quam fueris redamata,  
tuum pia sponsa  
Testatur meritum,  
conscius ipse mihi:  
Sed nec amor patitur  
socia regnante dolere,  
Et Christi mayor  
te sibi strinxit amor.  
Ergo tuo dilecta  
bono cum pace fruare:  
Spero mihi tecum  
portio pacis erit.  
A Brook by name,  
the Baron Cobham's child,  
A Newton was she  
by her Mother's side:  
Cecil her husband  
this for her did build,  
To prove his love  
did after death abide:  
Which tells unto the world  
that after come,  
The world's conceit  
whilst here she held a room:  
How nature made her wise  
and well beseeming,  
Wit and condition,  
silent, true and chaste:  
Her virtues rare  
won her much esteeming,  
In Court with Sovereign  
still with favour graced.  
Earth could not yield  
more pleasing earthly bliss,  
Blessed with two Babes,  
the third brought her to this.  
William of Windsor, 
They lie buried in Saint Edmund Chapel.  Son of King Edward the third, so called, because he was borne at Windsor with his Sister, named Blanch of the Tower, because in the Tower of London her Mother was delivered of her, lie both together under a Marble Tomb.  
john of Eltham, 
Buried also in the same Chapel.  Earl of Cornwall, second Son to King Edward the second, by Isabel, daughter to Philip le Bel, King of France: his Tomb of Alabaster is on the left hand the door, without any inscription.  
Frances, 
She lieth buried also in the same Chapel.  Duchess of Suffolk, daughter to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Mary, Queen of France, daughter to King Henry the seventh. She was first married to Henry Grace, marquis Dorset, who was created Duke of Suffolk by King Edward the sixth: And after to Adrian Stokes, Esquire, who raised this Alabaster Monument to her living remembrance.   

Anno. 1563.  
Nil decus aut splendour,  
nil regia nomina prosunt,  
Splendida divitiis  
nil juvat ampla domus.  
Omnia fluxerunt,  
virtutis sola remansit  
Gloria, Tartareis  
non abolenda rogis:  
Nupta Duci prius est,  
uxor pòst Armigeri Stokes,  
Funere nunc valeas  
consociata Deo.  
The noble Lady jane Seimour, 
She was honourably buried in the floor of the Chapel.  daughter to the renowned Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron Seymour; And to the right noble Lady Anne, Duchess of Somerset his wife, departed this life in her Virginity, at the age of 19 years, the 19 of March, Anno. 1560. in the second year of the most happy reign of Queen Elizabeth-Edward, Earl of Hertford, and Baron Beauchampe, her dear brother, caused this Monument to be made in her memory:  
Ingenio praestans,  
& vultu Iana decore,  
Nobilis arte fuit  
vocis, & arte manus.  
Hinc Venus & Pallas  
certant utra debet habere:  
Vult Venus esse suam,  
Pallas & esse suam:  
Mors vero in virgineo  
figens in pectore telum:  
Neutrius (inquit) erït,  
sed mihi praeda jacet.  
Corpore Iana jacet,  
tellurem terra subibit,  
Sed pius in Coeli  
spiritus arce sedet.  
The Right Honourable Lady Katherine Knowles, 
She lieth also buried in the floor of the same Chapel.  chief Lady of the Queen's Majesty's Bedchamber, and wife to Sir Francis Knowles, Knight, Treasurer of her Highness' household, departed this life the 15. day of january, 1568. at Hampton Court, and was honourably buried in the floor of this Chapel. This Lady Knowles, and the Lord Hunsdon her brother, were the children of William Carey, Esquire, & of the Lady Mary his wife, one of the Daughters and heirs of Thomas Bullen, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond: which Lady Mary was Sister to Anne, Queen of England, wife to King, Henry the eight, Father and Mother to Elizabeth, Queen of England.  
Quae Francisce fuit tibi  
conjux en Katherine,  
Mortua sub gelido  
marmore Knolle jacet.  
Excidet ex animo tibi mortua,  
sat scio nunquam,  
Viva tibi vivo  
semper amata fuit.  
Illa tibi proles sex  
& bis quinque Marito  
Protulit, aequalis  
foemina masque fuit,  
Haec tecum multos  
utinam vixisset in annos,  
Et tua nunc conjux  
facta fuisset anus:  
Noluit at Deus, hoc voluit  
sed sponsa maritum  
In Coelis maneas,  
o Katherine, tuum.  
here lieth entombed the noble Frances, 
A goodly Monument is made where she is buried in the Chapel of S. Benedict.  Countess of Hertford, dear spouse unto the noble Edward, Earl of Hertford, and Baron Beauchampe, Son of the renowned Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchampe, and Baron Seymour. A Lady descended of right noble lineage, being daughter of the noble Lord William, Baron Howard of Effingham, companion of the most famous order of the Garter, High Admiral to Queen Mary, and Lord Chamberlain of the household, and Lord Privy Seal to Queen Elizabeth. Son was he to the right noble Prince Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and Earl of Surrey, Earl Martial of England, etc.  
This Lady, highly Renowned for her many virtuous gifts and graces both of mind and body, greatly favoured by her gracious Sovereign, and dear beloved of her Lord, after long sickness, in firm faith in Christ, and constant patience, departed this life at 44. years of age, the 24. day of May, An. 1598. in the 40. year of the most happy reign of our most gracious Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth.  
To whose memory, the said Earl her loving Lord and husband, much lamenting her death, in testification of his great love towards her, and of his careful diligence in this doleful duty, doth consecrate this Monument.  

Foy Pour  
Devoir. 

Desir N'a  
Repos.     
here lieth the most honourable Lady Frances, 
She lieth in a goodly Tomb of Alabaster, and various Marbles polished, in the Chapel of S. Paul.  sometimes Countess of Sussex, daughter to Sir William Sidney of Pensehurst, Knight, wife and Widow to that most noble, most wise, and most Martial Gent. Thomas Ratcliff, Earl of Sussex. A woman while she lived, adorned with many and most rare gifts, both of mind and body; towards God truly and zealously religious, to her friends and kinsfolks most liberal; to the poor prisoners, to the Ministers of the Word of God always most charitable. By her last will and Testament, she instituted a Divinity Lecture, to be read in this Collegiate Church. And by the same her testament, gave also 5000. pound, towards the building of a new College in the University of Cambridge, with sufficient yearly revenue, for the continual maintenance of one Master, ten Fellows, and 20. Scholars, either in the same College, or else in another house in the said University already builded, commonly called Clare Hall. She lived 58. years, and died the ninth of March, and was buried the 15. day of April, 1589.   

Misericordia & Charitate.  
Beati mortui qui Domino moriuntur.  
Omnia plena malis,  
fert Deus unus opem,  
Veni Domine jesu, veni cite.  
Pietate & Prudentia.   

Fide conjugali.  
Henry Carey, 
He lieth buried in the midst of S. john Baptists Chapel, with a goodly Monument.  Baron of Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain of the household to Q. Elizabeth, and allied to her in blood, Lord Governor, or Commander of the Town of Berwick, Knight of the noble Order of the Garter, and one of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, died in Anno, 1596.   

Sepulturae familiae de Hunsdon Consecratum.  
In Domine hîc obdormit Henricus Carey, Baro de Hunsdon, villae Berwici limitisque tam orientalis quam medii versus Scotiam olim Praefectus: Pentionarorum Generosorum Capitaneus; Forestarum cis Trentam justiciarius summus; Garteriani ordinis Eques Auratus; Dominae Reginae Camerarius; a sacris Consiliis, eidemque consobrinus. Vnà cum illo conditur uxor charissima, filia Thomae Morgan Equitis aurati, quae plures illi liberos peperit, è quibus sunt superstites, Georgius, johannes, Edmundus, Robertus, equites aurati: Catharina, Comitissa Nottinghamiaes, Philadelphe, Baronissa Scroop, & Margareta, Domina Hoby. Obiit 23. julii, 1596. Aetatis LXXI. Patri optimo Georgius Carey filius, Baro de Hunsdon, ordinis Garterii Socius, Vectae Insulae Praefectus, Reginae Elizabethae Camerarius, & à sacris consiliis: Maritoque charissimo Anna uxor, honoris & memoriae ergô sibique & suis mortalitatis memores posuerunt.    

In Australi plaga Ecclesiae.  
Galfridus Chaucer, 
He lieth buried in the South part of the Church.  Poëta celeberrimus, qui primus Anglicam Poësin ita illustravit, ut Anglicus Homerus habeatur. Obiit 1400. Anno vero 1555. Nicholaus Brigham, Musarum nomine hujus ossa transtulit, & illi novum tumulum ex marmore, his versibus inscriptis posuit:  
Qui fuit Anglorum Vates  
ter maximus olim,  
Galfridus Chaucer,  
conditur hoc tumulo.  
Annum si quaeras Domini,  
si tempora mortis;  
Ecce notae subsunt,  
quae tibi cuncta notant.  
25. Octobris, 1400.   

Aerumnarum requies, Mors.  
N. Brigham hos fecit  
Musarum nomine sumptus.  
Si rogitas quis fueram,  
forsan te fama docebit:  
Quod si fama neget,  
mundi quia gloria transit,  
Haec Monumenta lege.  
The works of this famous Poet Geffrey Chaucer, were partly published in Print by William Caxton, Mercer, that first brought the incomparable Art of Printing into England; which was in the reign of King, Henry the sixth: Afterward, increased by Master William Thin, Esquire, in the reign of King Henry the eight. Since then, corrected and twice increased through mine own painful labours, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to wit, in the year, 1561. And again, beautified with diverse ample notes, by me collected out of sundry Records and Monuments, which I delivered to my loving and learned friend, Master Thomas Speight. And he (having drawn them into a good form and method, as also, explained most of the old and obscure words) published the same work again, in Anno, 1597.  
Edmundus Spencer, 
He lieth also buried in the same South part of the Church.  Londinensis, Anglicorum Poetarum nostri saeculi facilè Princeps, quod ejus Poemata, faventibus Musis, & victuro genio conscripta comprobant. Obiit immatura morte, Anno salutis, 1598. & prope Galfridum Chaucerum conditur, qui felicissimè poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. In quem haec scripta sunt Epitaphia.  
Hic prope Chaucerum  
situs est Spenserius, illi  
Proximus ingenio,  
proximus ut tumulo.  
Hic prope Chaucerum  
Spensere Poeta poetam  
Conderis, & versu,  
quam tumulo proprior,  
Anglica te vivo vixit,  
plausitque Poesis;  
Nunc moritura timet,  
te moriente, mori.  
Marry, 
A Magnificent Monument made by our most Royal Sovereign K. james, for his Mother.  Queen of Scots, and Dowager of France, her body was translated from Peterborough to Westminster, and on her Tomb are these inscriptions:   

D. O. M.  
Mariae Stuartae, Scotorum Reginae, Franciae Dotariae, jacobi V. Scotorum Regis Filiae, & haeredis unicae Henrici VII. Ang. Regis ex Margareta majori natu filia (jacobo FOUR Regi Scotorum matrimonio copulata) proneptis, Edwardi FOUR Angliae Regis ex Elizabetha filiarum natu maxima abneptis, Francisci II.  
Gallorum Regis conjugis, Cornae Angliae, dum vixit, certae & indubitatae haeredis, & jacobi Magnae Britanniae Monarchae potentissimi Matris.  
Stripe verè regia & antiquissima prognata erat, maximis totius Europe Principibus agnatione & cognatione conjuncta, & exquisitissimis animi & corporis dotibus & ornamentis cumulatissima. Verùm ut sunt variae rerum humanarum vices, postquam annos plus minus viginti in custodia detenta, fortiter & strenuè (sed frustrà cum malevolorum obtrectationibus, timidorum suspicionibus▪ & inimicorum capitalium insidiis conflictata esset, tandem inaudito & infesto Regibus exemplo securi percutitur.  
Et contempto mundo, devicta morte, lassato carnifice, Christo Servatori animae salutem, jacobo filio spem regni & posteritatis, & universis caedis infaustae spectatoribus exemplum patientiae commendans, piè, & intrepidè cervicem Regiam securi maledictae subjecit, & vitae caducae sortem cum coelestis regni perennitate commutavit.   

Vlt. Idus Februaril. Anno Christi, MDLXXXVII. Aetatis, XXXXVI.  
Obruta frugifero sensim  
sic cespice surgunt  
Semnia, per multos  
quae latuere dies.  
Sanguine sancivit foedus  
cum plebe jehova,  
Sanguine placabant  
numina sancta patres:  
Sanguine conspersi  
quos praeterit ira Penates;  
Sanguine signata est  
quae modò credit humus.  
Parce Deus, satis est,  
infandos siste dolores,  
Inter funestos  
pervolet illa dies.  
Sit Reges mactare nefas,  
ut sanguine posthac  
Purpureo nunquam  
terra Britanna fluat.  
Exemplum pereat  
caesae cum vulnere Christae;  
Inque malum praeceps  
author & actor eat.  
Si meliore sui  
post mortem parte triumphet,  
Carnifices sileant,  
tormina, claustra, cruces.  
Quem dederant cursum  
superi Regina peregit:  
Tempora laeta Deus,  
tempora dura dedit.  
Edidit eximium  
fato properante jacobum;  
Quem Pallas, Musae,  
Delia fata colunt.  
Magna viro, mayor natu,  
sed maxima partu,  
Conditur hic regum  
filia, sponsa, parens.  
Det Deus ut nati  
& qui nascentur ab illa  
Aeternos videant  
hinc sine nube dies.  
Although that famous and worthy HENRY, 
A Monument all of pure gold were too little for a Prince of such high hope and merit.  eldest Son to our dear Sovereign Lord King JAMES, hath (as yet) no Tomb or Monument made for him there in Westminster, but liveth still in the love and memory of all true English hearts: yet this excellent Epitaph was purposely made for him.  
Reader, wonder  
think it none,  
To hear me sp●ake,  
that am a Stone.  
here is shrined  
Celestial dust,  
And I keep it  
but in trust;  
Should I not  
my Treasure tell,  
Wonder than thou  
mightst as well,  
How this stone  
could choose but break,  
If it had not  
learned to speak.  
Hence amazed,  
and ask not me,  
Whose these  
Sacred Ashes be.  
Purposely  
it is concealed,  
For, if that  
should be revealed,  
All that read,  
would by and by  
Melt themselves  
to tears and die.   

Another.  
Within this Marble Casket lies,  
A matchless jewel of rich price,  
Which Nature (in the world's disdain)  
But showed, and then shut up again.  
This Church hath had great privilege of Sanctuary within the precinct thereof; 
Sanctuary at Westminster.  to wit, the Church, Church-yard and Close, etc. from whence it hath not been lawful for any Prince or other, to take any person that fled thither for any cause. Which privilege was first granted by Sebert, King of the East Saxons; since increased by Edgar, King of the West Saxons; renewed and confirmed by King Edward the Confessor, as appeareth by this his Charter following:  
Edward, by the grace of God, King of Englishmen: I make it to be known to all generations of the world after me, that by especial commandment of our holy Father Pope Leo, I have renewed, and honoured the holy Church of the blessed Apostle, Saint Peter of Westminster, and I order and establish for ever, that what person, of what condition or estate soever he be, from whencesoever he come, or for what offence or cause it be, either for his refuge into the said holy place, he be assured of his life, liberty and limbs. And over this, I forbid (under the pain of everlasting damnation) that no Minister of mine, or of my Successors, intermeddle them with any the goods, lands or possessions of the said persons, taking the said Sanctuary: for I have taken their goods and livelode into my special protection; and therefore I grant to every each of them (in as much as my terrestrial power may suffice) all manner freedom of joyous liberty, & whosoever presumes or doth contrary to this my grant; I will he lose his name, worship, dignity and power, & that with the great traitor judas, that betrayed our Saviour, he be in the everlasting fire of hell. And I will and ordain, that this my grant endure as long, as there remaineth in England either love or dread of Christian name.  
More of this Sanctuary ye may read in our Histories, and also in the Statute of Henry the eighth the 32. year.  
The Parish Church of Saint Margaret, 
Parish Church of S. Margaret.  sometime within the Abbey, was by Edward the Confessor removed, and builded without, for ease of the Monks.  
This Church continued till the days of Edward the first, at what time the Merchants of the Staple, and Parishioners of Westminster builded it all of new, the great Chancel excepted, which was builded by the Abbots of Westminster, and this remaineth now a fair Parish Church, 
In the reign of Edward the sixth.  though sometime in danger of down pulling.  
In the South I'll of this Church, is a fair Marble Monument of Dame Mary Billing, the heir of Robert Nesenham of Conington, in Huntingdon shire, first married to William Coton, to whose Issue her inheritance alone descended, remaining with Robert Cot●o at this day, heir of her & her first husband's family. Her second husband was Sir Thomas Billing, Chief justice of England; and her last, whom likewise she buried, was Thomas Lacie, erecting this Monument to the memory of her three husbands, with whose Arms she hath garnished it, and for her own burial, wherein she was interred in the year 1499.  
Next to this famous Monastery, is the King's principal Palace, of what Antiquity it is uncertain: but Edward the Confessor held his Court there, as may appear by the testimony of sundry; and namely, of Ingulphus, as I have before told you. The said King had his Palace, and for the most remained there: where he also ended his life, and was buried in the Monastery which he had builded. It is not to be doubted, but that K. William the first, as he was crowned there, so he builded much at this Palace, for he found it far inferior to the building of Princely Palaces in France.  
And it is manifest by the testimony of many Authors, 
Great Hall at Westminster.  that William Rufus, builded the great Hall there, about the year of Christ, 
Matthew Paris.  1097. Amongst others, Roger of Windover and Matthew Paris, do write, that K. William (being returned out of Normandy into England) kept his feast of Whitsuntide very royally at Westminster in the new hall which he had lately builded, the length whereof (say some) was 270. foot, and seventy four foot in breadth. And when he heard men say, that this Hall was too great, he answered and said: 
Liber Woodbridge.  This Hall is not big enough by the one half, and is but a Bedchamber, in comparison of that I mean to make.  
A diligent searcher (saith Matthew Paris) might find out the foundation of the Hall, which he had supposed to have builded, stretching from the river of Thames, to the common high way.  
This Palace was repaired about the year, 
Palace repaired.  1163. by Thomas Becket, 
IV. Fitzslepho●.  Chancellor of England, with exceeding great celerity and speed, which before was ready to have fallen down. This hath been the pricipal seat and Palace of all the Kings of England, since the Conquest: for here have they in the great Hall kept their Feasts, of Coronation especially, and other solemn Feasts as at Christmas and such like most commonly. For proof whereof, I find recorded, 
Record Tow.  that in the year, 1236. and the twentieth of Henry the third, on the 29. of December, William de Haverhull, the King's Treasurer, was commanded, that upon the day of the Circumcision of our Lord, he should cause 6000. poor people to be fed at Westminster, for the state of the King, 
The use of the great Hall was to feed the poor.  the Queen, and their children. The weak and aged to be placed in the great Hall, and in the lesser those were more strong and in reasonable plight: In the King's Chamber the children, and in the Queeves: and when the King knew the charge, he gladly allowed it in the accounts.  
In the year 1238. the same King Henry kept his Feast of Christmas at Westminster in the great Hall, 
Matthew Paris great feasts in Westmister Hall.  so did he in the year 1241. where he placed the Legate in the most honourable place of the table; to wit, in the midst, which the Noblemen took in evil part.  
The King sat on the right hand, and the Archbishop on the left, and then all the Prelates and Nobles, according to their estates: for the King himself did set the guests.  
The year 1242. he likewise kept his Christmas in the Hall, etc.  
Also, in the year 1243. Richard, Earl of Cornwall, the King's brother, married Cincia, daughter to Beatrice, Countess of Provence, & kept his marriage Feast in the great Hall at Westminster, with great royalty and company of Noble men: in so much, that there were told (triginta millia) 30000. dishes of meats at that dinner.  
In the year 1256. King Henry sat in the Exchequer of this Hall, 
Henry the 3. sat in the Exchequer, and amerced the Sheriffs.  and there set down order for the appearance of Sheriffs, and bringing in of their accounts: there was 5. Marks set on every Sheriff's head for a fine, because they had not distrained every person, that might dispend 15. l. land by the year, to receive the order of Knighthood, according as the same Sheriffs were commanded.  
Also, the Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs of London, being accused of oppression & wrongs done by them, and submitting themselves in this place before the King, sitting then in judgement upon that matter; they were condemned to pay their fines for their offences committed, and further, every one of them discharged of assize and ward.  
In the years 1268. and 1269. the same King kept his Christmas Feasts at Westminster, as before: and also in the same year 1269. he translated (with great solemnity) the body of King Edward the Confessor, 
Translation of Edward the Confessor,  into a new Chapel, at the back of the high Altar: which Chapel he had prepared of a marvelous workmanship, bestowing a new Tomb or Shrine of gold.  
And on the day of his translation, he kept a Royal Feast in the great Hall of the Palace: Thus much for the Feasts of old time in this Hall.  
We read also, 
Marshes about Woolwitch drowned.  that in the year, 1236. the River of Thames overflowing the banks, caused the Marshes about Woolwitch to be all on a Sea, wherein Boats and other Vessels were carried with the stream, so that beside cattle, the greatest number of men, women & children, Inhabitants there, were drowned.  
In the great Palace of Westminster, 
Wherries rowed in Westminster Hall.  men did row with Wherries in the midst of the Hall, being forced to ride to their chambers.  
Moreover, in the year 1242. the Thames overflowing the banks about Lambeth, drowned houses and fields, by the space of 6. miles, so that in the great Hall at Westminster, men took their horses, because the water ran over all.  
This Palace was (in the year 1299. the 27. of Edward the first) burned by a vehement fire, 
T. Walsingh. Palace at Westminster burn.  kindled in the lesser Hall of the King's house, the same with many other houses adjoining, and with the Queen's Chamber, were consumed, but after that repaired.  
In the year, 1313. the 31. of Edward the first, 
The King's treasury at Westminster robbed.  the King's treasury at Westminster was robbed, for the which Walter, Abbot of Westminster, with 49. of his Brethren, 
The Abbot and Monks sent to the Tower.  and 32. other were thrown into the Tower of London, and indicted of the robbery of an hundred thousand pound: but they affirming themselves to be clear of the fact, and desiring the King of speedy justice, a Commission was directed for inquiry of the truth, and they were freed.  
In the year 1316. Edward the second did solemnize his Feast of Pentecost at Westminster, 
Edward the 2. keeping his feasts at Westminster hall, was presented with a complaint of not rewarding Soldiers.  in the great Hall, where sitting Royally at the table, with his Peers about him, there entered a woman adorned like a Minstrel, sitting on a great horse, trapped as Minstrels then used, who road round about the tables, showing pastime, and at length came up to the King's table, and laid before him a Letter, and forthwith turning her horse, saluted every one, and departed. The Letter being opened, had these contents.  
Our Sovereign Lord the King, hath nothing courteously respected his Knights, that in his Father's time, and also in his own have put forth their persons to diverse perils, and have utterly lost, or greatly diminished their substance, for honour of the said King, and he hath enriched abundantly such as have not borne the weight (as yet) of the business, etc.  
This great Hall was begun to be repaired in the year 1397. by Richard the second, 
Great Hall at Westminster repaired.  who caused the walls, windows and roof, to be taken down, and new made, with a stately porch, and diverse lodgings of a marvelous work, and with great costs. All which he levied of Strangers banished, or flying out of their Countries, who obtained licence to remain in this Land by the King's Charters, which they had purchased with great sums of money, john Boterell being then Clerk of the works.  
This Hall being finished in the year 1399. the same King kept a most royal Christmas there, with daily justings, 
Great feasts at Westminster Hall.  and run at Tilt, whereunto resorted such a number of people, that there was every day spent twenty eight, or twenty six Oxen, and three hundred sheep, beside fowl without number.  
He caused a Gown for himself to be made of Gold, 
Ro. juelefe.  garnished with Pearl and precious Stones, to the value of three thousand Marks. He was guarded by Cheshire-men, and had about him commonly thirteen Bishops, besides Barons, Knights, Esquires, and other more than needed: in so much, that to the household came every day to meat, ten thousand people; as appeareth by the messes told out from the Kitchen to three hundred Servitors.  
Thus was this great Hall, for the honour of the Prince, oftentimes furnished with guests, not only in this King's time (a prodigal Prince) but in the time of other also, both before and since, though not so usaully noted. For when it is said, the King held his Feast of Christmas, or such a Feast at Westminster; it may well be supposed to be kept in this great Hall, as most sufficient to such a purpose.  
I find noted by Robert Fabian (sometime an Alderman of London) that King Henry the seventh, 
Ro. Fabian.  in the ninth of his reign, 
King Henry the 7. feasted the Mayor of London, etc.  (holding his Royal Feast of Christmas at Westminster) on the twelfth day, feasted Ralph Austry, than Mayor of London, and his brethren the Aldermen, with other Commoners in great number, and after dinner, dubbed the Mayor, Knight, caused him with his brethren, to stay and behold the disguise and other disports in the night following showed in the great Hall, which was richly hanged with Atras, and staged about on both sides. Which disports being ended, in the morning, the King, the Queen, the Ambassadors, and other Estates, being set at a table of stone, 60. Knights and Esquires served 60. dishes to the King's Mess, and as many to the Queens (neigher flesh nor fish) & served the Mayor with 24. dishes to his Mess, of the same manner, with sundry wines in most plenteous wife.  
And finally, the King and Queen being conveyed with great lights into the Palace; the Mayor with his Company in Barges, returned and came to London, by break of the next day. Thus much for building of this great Hall, and feasting therein.  
It moreover appeareth, 
Parliaments kept in Westminster Hall.  that many Parliaments have been kept there: for I find noted, that in the year 1397. the great Hall at Westminster, being out of reparations; and therefore, as it were, new builded by Richard the second (as is afore showed) the same Richard in the mean time having occasion to hold a Parliament, caused (for that purpose) a large house to be builded in the midst of the Palace Court, betwixt the clocke-Tower, and the gate of the old great Hall.  
This house was very large and long, made of Timber, covered with Tyle, open on both the sides, and at both the ends, that all men might see and hear what was both said and done.  
The King's Archers (in number 4000 Cheshire men) compassed the house about with their bows bend, 
I find of Record the 50. of Ed. the 3. that the Chapterhouse of the Abbot of Westm. was then the usual house for the Commons in Parliament. Bouch of Court.  and Arrows nocked in their hands, always ready to shoot: they had Bouch of Court (to wit, meat and drink) and great wages, of six pence by the day.  
The old great Hall being new builded, Parliaments were again there kept as before: namely, one in the year 1399. for the deposing of Richard the second. A great part of this Palace at Westminster was once again burnt in the year, 1512. the fourth of Henry the eight; since the which time, it hath not been re-edified: only the great Hall, with the offices near adjoining, are kept in good reparations, and serveth as afore, for Feasts at Coronations, Arraignements of great persons charged with treasons, keeping of the Courts of justice, etc. But the Princes have been lodged in other places about the City, as at Baynards-Castell, at Bridewell, and Whitehall, sometime called York place, and sometime at S. james.  
This great Hall hath been the usual place of plead, and ministration of justice, whereof some what shortly I will note.  
In times past, 
Magna Charta.  the Courts & Benches followed the King, wheresoever he went, as well since the Conquest, as before, which thing at length being thought cumbersome, painful, and chargeable to the people; it was in the year 1224. the 9 of Henry the third agreed, that there should be a standing place appointed, where matters should be heard and judged, which was in the great Hall at Westminster. 
Common pleas in Westminster Hall. T. Smith.   
In this Hall he ordained three judgement seats, to wit, at the entry on the right hand, the Common Pleas, where civil matters are to be pleaded, specially such as touch Lands or contracts. At the upper end of the Hall, on the right hand, or South East corner, the King's Bench, where Pleas of the Crown have their hearing: 
Court of the Chancery.  And on the left hand or South-west corner, sitteth the Lord Chancellor, accompanied with the Master of the Rolls, and other men, learned for the most part in the Civil law, and called Masters of the Chancery, which have the Kings fee.  
The times of pleading in these Courts are four in the year, which are called Terms.  
The first is Hilary Term, which beginneth the three and twentieth of january, if it be not Sunday, and endeth the twelfth of February.  
The second is Easter Term, and beginneth seventeen days after Easter-day, and endeth four days after Ascension day.  
The third Term beginneth six or seven days after Trinity Sunday, and endeth the Wednesday fortnight after.  
The fourth is Michaelmas Term, which beginneth the ninth of October, if it be not Sunday, and endeth the 28. of November.  
And here is to be noted, 
Kings of this Realm have sat on the King's Bench in Westminster Hall.  that the Kings of this Realm have used sometimes to sit in person in the King's Bench: namely, King Edward the fourth, in the year, 1462. in Michaelmas Term, sat in the King's Bench three days together, in the open Court, to understand how his laws were ministered and executed.  
Within the Port, or entry into the Hall, on either side are ascendings up into large Chambers, without the Hall adjoining thereunto, wherein certain Courts be kept, 
Court of the Exchequer.  namely, on the right hand, is the Court of the Exchequer, a place of account, for the revenues of the Crown: the hearers of the account have Auditors under them; but they which are the chief for accounts of the Prince, are called Barons of the Exchequer, whereof one is called the Chief Baron. The greatest officer of all, is called the High Treasurer. In this Court be heard those that are delators, 
Informers.  or informers, in popular and penal actions, having thereby part of the profit by the law assigned unto them.  
In this Court, if any question be, it is determined after the order of the Common Law of England by twelve men, and all Subsidies, Taxes and Customs, by account: for in this office, the Sheriffs of the Shire do attend upon the execution of the commandments of the judges, which the Earl should do, if he were not attending upon the Prince in the wars, or otherwise about him. For, the Chief Office of the Earl was, to see the King's justice to have course, and to be well executed in the Shire, and the Prince's Revenues to be well answered, and brought into the Treasury.  
If any Fines or Amerciaments be extracted out of any of the said Courts upon any man, or any Arrearages of accounts of such things as is of Customs, Taxes, and Subsidies, or other such like occasions; the same the Sheriff of the Shire doth gather, and is answerable therefore in the Exchequer.  
As for other ordinary Rents of Patrimonial Lands, and most commonly of Taxes, Customs and Subsidies, there be particular Receivers and Collectors, which do answer it into the Exchequer.  
This Court of the Exchequer hath of old time, and as I think, since the Conquest, been kept at Westminster, notwithstanding, sometimes remooved thence by commandment of the King, and after restored again; as namely, in the year, one thousand two hundred and nine, King john commanded the Exchequer to be removed from West-minster to Northhampton, etc.  
On the left hand above the stair, is the Duchy Chamber, 
Duchy court.  wherein is kept the Court for the Duchy of Lancaster, by a Chancellor of that Duchy, and other their Officers under him.  
Then is there in another Chamber, 
Office of Receipt.  the Office of the receipts of the Queen's Revenues for the Crown. 
Star Chamber.   
Then is there also the Star-chamber, where, in the Term time, every week once at the least, which is commonly on Fridays and Wednesdays, and on the next day after the Term endeth, the Lord Chancellor and the Lords, and other of the Privie-Councell, and the chief justices of England, from Nine of the Clock, till it be Eleven, do sit.  
This place is called the Star-chamber, because the Roof thereof is decked with the likeness of Stars gilded: there be plaints heard, of Riots, Routs, and other misdemeanours, which if they be found by the King's Council, the party offender shall be censured by these persons, which speak one after another, and he shall be both fined and commanded to prison.  
Then at the upper end of the great Hall by the King's Bench, 
The court of Wards and Liveries.  is a going up to a great Chamber, called the White-Hall, 
Court of Requests. S. Stephen's Chapel.  wherein is now kept the Court of Wards and Liveries, and adjoining thereunto is the Court of Requests.  
Then is S. Stephen's Chapel, of old time founded by King Stephen, King john in the seventh of his reign, granted to Baldwinus de London, Clarke of his Exchequer, the Chappleship of Saint Stephens at Westminster, etc.  
This Chapel was again since (of a far more curious workmanship) new builded by King Edward the third, in the year 1347. for thirty eight persons in that Church to serve God, to wit, a Dean, twelve secular Canons, thirteen Vicars, four Clarks, six Chorists, two Servitors, to wit, a Verger, and a keeper of the Chapel. He builded it for them from the house of receipt, along nigh to the Thames, within the same Palace, there to inhabit: and since that, there were also buildings for them, betwixt the Clockhouse, and the Wool-staple, called the Weyhouse.  
He also builded to the use of this Chapel (though out of the Palace Court) some distance West, 
Little Sanctuary.  in the little Sanctuary, a strong Clochard of Stone and Timber, covered with Lead, and placed therein three great Bells, since usually rung at Coronations, Triumphs, Funerals of Princes, and their Obits. Of those Bells men fabuled, that their ringing soured all the drink in the Town. More, that about the biggest Bell was written:  
King Edward made me  
thirty thousand and three,  
Take me down and weigh me,  
and more shall ye find me.  
But these Bells being taken down indeed, were found all three not to weigh twenty thousand.  
True it is, that in the City of Roan, in Normandy, there is one great Bell, that hath such an Inscription as followeth:  
je suis George d'ambois',  
Qui trente cinq mille pois:  
Mes lui me pesera,  
Trente six mill me trovera.  
I am George of Ambois,  
Thirty five thousand in pois:  
But he that shall weigh me,  
Thirty six thousand shall find me.  
The said King Edward endowed this Chapel with lands to the yearly value of five hundred pound. Doctor john Chambers, 
Cloister of Saint Stephen's Chapel builded.  the King's Physician, the last Deane of this College, builded thereunto a Cloister, of curious workmanship, to the charges of eleven thousand Marks. This Chapel, or College, at the suppression, was valued to dispend in lands by the year one thousand eighty five pound, ten shillings five pence, 
Parliament House.  and was surrendered to Edward the sixth: since the which time, the same Chapel hath served as a Parliament House.  
By this Chapel of S. Stephen, 
Chapel of our Lady in the Piew.  was sometime one other smalller Chapel, called our Lady of the Piew; to the which Lady, great Offerings were used to be made: Amongst other things I have read, that Richard the second, after the overthrow of Wat Tilar, and other the Rebels, in the fourth of his reign, went to Westminster, and there giving thanks to God for his victory, made his Offering in this Chapel. But as diverse have noted, namely, john Pigot, in the year 1252. on the seventeenth of February, by negligence of a Scholar, appointed by his Schoolmaster to put forth the Lights of this Chapel, the Image of our Lady richly decked with jewels, precious Stones, Pearls, and Rings, more than any jeweller could judge the price, for so saith mine author; was with all this Apparel, Ornaments, and Chapel itself, burnt: but since again re-edified by Anthony, Earl Rivers, Lord Scales, and of the Isle of Wight, Uncle and Governor to the Prince of Wales, that should have been King Edward the fifth, etc.  
The said Palace, 
Clockhouse at Westminster.  before the entry thereunto, hath a large Court, and in the same a Tower of Stone, containing a Clock, which striketh every hour on a great Bell, to be heard into the Hall in sitting time of the Courts, or otherwise: for the same Clock, in a calm, will be heard into the City of London. King Henry the sixth gave the keeping of this Clock with the Tower, called the Clockhouse, and the appurtenances, unto William Walsby, Deane of Saint Stephens, with the wages of six pence the day out of his Exchequer. By this Tower standeth a fountain, 
Fountain in the Palace Court.  which at Coronations, and great Triumphs is made to run with Wine out of diverse spouts.  
On the East side of this Court, 
Westminster Bridge or common landing place▪  is an Arched Gate to the River of Thames, with a fair Bridge and landing place for all men that have occasion.  
On the North side, is the South end of Saint Stephen's Alley, or Canon-Row, and also a way into the old Wool staple: and on the West side is a very fair Gate, begun by Richard the 3. in the year 1484. and was by him builded a great height, 
High Tower at Westminster.  and many fair lodgings in it, but left unfinished, and is called the high Tower at Westminster.  
Thus much for the Monastery and Palace may suffice. And now will I speak of the Gatehouse, and of Totehill-streete, stretching from the West part of the Close.  
The Gatehouse is so called of two Gates, 
Gatehouse at Westminster.  the one out of the College Court toward the North, on the East side whereof was the Bishop of London's Prison, for Clerks convict, and the other Gate adjoining to the first; but towards the West, is a Gaol or Prison for offenders thither committed. Walter Warfield, Celerer to the Monastery, caused both these Gates (with the appurtenances) to be builded in the reign of Edward the third.  
On the South side of this Gate, 
Almshouses of Henry the seventh.  King Henry the seventh, founded an Almshouse for thirteen poor men: one of them to be a Priest, aged five and forty years, a good Grammarian, the other twelve to be aged fifty years, without wives, every Saturday the Priest to receive of the Abbot, or Prior, four pence by the day, and each other two pence half penny by the day for ever, for their sustenance, and every year to each one a Gown and a Hood ready made. And to three women that dressed their meat, and kept them in their sickness, each to have every Saturday sixteen pence, and every year a Gown ready made. More to the thirteen poor men yearly fourscore quarters of Coals, and one thousand of good Faggots to their use: In the Hall and Kitchen of their Mansion, a discreet Monk to be overseer of them, and he to have forty shillings by the year, etc. and herunto was every Abbot and Prior sworn.  
near unto this house Westward, 
Chapel of Saint Anne.  was an old Chapel of Saint Anne, over against the which, the Lady Margaret, Mother to King Henry the seventh erected an Almshouse for poor women, 
Almshouse founded by Lady Margaret.  which is now turned into lodgings, for the singing men of the College: the place wherein this Chapel and Almshouse standeth, was called the Eleemosinary or Almory, 
Almory at Westminster.  now corruptly the Ambry, for that the Alms of the Abbey were there distributed to the poor. And therein I slip, Abbot of Westminster, 
Printing of Books at Westm. the first in England.  erected the first Press of Book Printing that ever was in England, about the year of Christ, 1471. W. Caxton, Citizen of London, Mercer, brought it into England, and was the first that practised it in the said Abbey; after which time, the like was practised in the Abbeys of S. Augustin at Cant. S. Alban, 
Totehill-street.  and other Monasteries. From the West gate runneth along Totehill street, wherein is a house of the Lord Grace of Wilton, and on the other side, at the entry into Totehill field, Stourton house, which Giles, the last Lord Dacre of the South, 
Hospital founded by Lady Anne Dacre.  purchased and built new, whose Lady and wife Anne sister to T. the Lord Backhurst, left money to her Executors, to build an Hospital for twenty poor women, and so many children to be brought up under them, for whose maintenance she assigned lands, to the value of one hundred pounds by the year, which Hospital, her Executours have since begun in the field adjoining.  
From the entry into Totehill field, 
Petty France.  the street is called Petty France, in which, and upon S. Hermit's hill, on the South side thereof, Cornelius van Dun (a Brabander borne, Yeoman of the Guard to King Henry the eighth, King Edward the sixth, 
Almshouses for poor women.  Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth) built twenty Houses, for poor women to dwell rent-free: 
Chapel of Mary Magdalen.  And near hereunto was a Chapel of Mary Magdalen, now wholly ruinated.  
In the year of Christ 1256. the 40. of Henry the third, 
Matthew Paris.  john Mansell, the King's Counsellor, and a Priest, did invite to a stately Dinner, the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland, Edward the King's son, Earles, Barons and Knights, the Bishop of London, and Divers Citizens: whereby his guests did grow to such a number, that his house at Totehill could not receive them, 
Seven hundred Mess of Meat at one Dinner in Totehill.  but that he was forced to set up Tents and Pavilions, to receive his guests; whereof there was such a multitude, that seven hundred Mess of Meat did not serve for the first Dinner.  
The City of Westminster, 
Government of Westminster City.  for Civil Government, is divided into twelve several Wards, for the which, the Dean of the Collegiate Church of Westminster, or the high Steward, do elect twelve Burgesses, and as many Assistants, that is, one Burgess and one Assistant for every Ward: out of the which twelve Burgesses, two are nominated yearly, upon Thursday in Easter week; for chief Burgesses, to continue for one year next following, who have authority given them by the Act of Parliament, 27. Elizabeth, to hear, examine, determine, and punish, according to the Laws of the Realm, and lawful Customs of the City of London, matters of Incontinency, common Scolds, Inmates, and common Annoyances, and likewise to commit such persons as shall offend against the Peace, and thereof to give knowledge within four and twenty hours, to some justice of Peace, in the County of Middlesex.    

Not far from Westminster, by the River, there is erected a goodly Building, not yet finished, for Students in Divinity commonly known by the name of Chelsey College, whereof I thought fit to make mention, because I find an Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of King, james, in the behalf of the same College, as also a Declaration published by Authority in the year 1616. containing the Reasons that moved his Majesty and the State to erect the same which here followeth.  
WHereas his Majesty, of his most Royal and zealous care for the defence of true Religion now established within this Realm of England, 
The cause of the erection of the College there.  and for the refuting or Errors and Heresies repugnant unto the same, hath been graciously pleased, by his Letters Patents under the great Seal of England, to found a College at Chelsey, near London, and therein to place certain learned Divines, and to incorporate the same by the name of the Provost and Fellows of the College of King james in Chelsey, 
The name of that corporation.  near London, of the foundation of the same james King of England, and hath of his most gracious bounty and goodness, not only endowed the same with certain Lands, Privileges, and Immunities, but hath also for their further maintenance and sustentation, given unto them a capacity and ability to receive and take from his Majesty, or any of his loving Subjects, 
The ability thereof to receive 〈◊〉  any Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Gifts, Benefits, and Profits whatsoever, not exceeding in the whole the yearly value 〈◊〉 three thousand pounds, as in and by 〈…〉 Letters Patents doth more at large appear. And whereas also it is manifest and evident, that the bringing in of fresh streams of running water into the City of London, is very convenient, necessary, and profitable, as well for the private use of such as shall rend the same, as a help for cleansing the said City in the time of sickness, and preserving the same against all sudden adventures of fire: It is therefore enacted, etc. that it shall and may be lawful to the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies, and Assigns, at all and every such place and places in the open Fields or Marshes lying between the Bridge called Lockbridge, in or near the Parish or Hackney, in the County of Middlesix, and the Bridge called Bow-Bridge, at Stratfort-Bow in the Parish of Stepney, in the said County, 
The Provest, etc. may dig a trench out of the River Lee.  (As by the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies or Assigns, by and with the consent and allowance of the occupiers and owners of the soil in the said place or places, and in default of such assent and allowance, by such composition first to be made with the said occupiers and owners of the said soil, as by the Commissioners, by virtue of this Act to be in this behalf appointed, shall be thought fit and convenient) to dig or cut from and out of the main River of Lee, on that side or bank of the same River which is next unto the City of London, 
Of what quantity.  a ditch or trench not exceeding in breadth ten foot, or to scour, cleanse, or enlarge unto the breadth aforesaid, any old ditch or trench there already made: and the same ditch or trench either old or new, so to be made or to be cleansed, to convey by and thorough the said Fields and Marshes, in all places convenient, in such sort as the same may again be returned, and made to open itself into the main River, within some such convenient distance from the mouth thereof, as to the said Commissioners shall (for the intents and purposes hereafter expressed) be thought fit: Upon which ditch or trench, or places near adjoining thereunto, it shall and may be lawful to the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies, or Assigns, to erect or cause to be erected, certain Engines, 
They may erect engines, etc.  Waterworkes, or Waterwheeles, as also houses or coverings requisite for the same, where by the assent of the said Commissioners, the same shall be agreed upon, to be no let or hindrance to the ordinary passage of Barges, Boats, or other such Vessels upon the said River of Lee, and by and through the said ditch or trench, to carry and convey so much of the water of the said main River, as by the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies, or Assigns, shall be thought requisite and necessary to be used for the working or motion of the said Engines or Waterwheeles, and shall also by the said Commissioners be thought to be no prejudice or hindrance to the ordinary passage of Barges, Boats, or such other Vessels upon the same River. And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies, and Assigns (in all places apt and convenient, within a convenient distance of the said Engines or Waterworkes) to dig for the taking and further opening of Springs of fresh water there found, 
They may open Springs, etc.  or to be found on the West side of the said River next unto the City of London, and the water of the said Springs to carry and convey by and through certain little Gutters or Trenches, or Pots or Pipes under the ground, into one Pit, Pond, or head of convenient largeness, to be made by the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies, or Assigns, in some places apt for the same. And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies, and Assigns, having by Art and sleight of Engines and Waterworkes, or by any other means or device raised the water of the said Springs, and so much of the water there running in the said Ditch or Trench as shall be thought necessary, to such height, and into such place, Pond, Head, or receipt, (as to them shall seem in that behalf requisite) to convey and carry the same in close Pipes under the ground from the said Waterworkes, 
They may convey Pipes under ground.  and the said other places of receipt, unto the City of London and the Suburbs thereof, for the perpetual maintenance and sustentation of the said Provost and Fellows, and their successors by the rent to be made of the said waters conveyed as aforesaid. And that for the convenience of the said water, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies and Assigns, (in all places convenient between the said Waterworkes and the said City of London) to dig, 
They may dig and open ground to make conduit heads.  cut, and open the ground, to such depth and breadth as shall be convenient for the laying in of the said Pipes or Pots, thorough which the said water shall pass, and for making little Conduit heads for vents unto the same, for the better passage of the said waters, and the same ground so opened for the purpose aforesaid, (after the said Pipes or Pots are laid in and placed) the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies and Assigns, shall with Turf, Earth, Gravel, and other materials, again fill up and cover. And be it, etc. that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Deputies, and Assigns, from time to time, and at all times convenient, with their men, horses, carts, or other carriages, to have free entry and passage, by, over, and through any ground or land, in places, and at times meet and convenient, for the doing and performing of any thing requisite, 
They may hare free passage to make, and after to preserve the things rade.  for the making of the said several passages of waters, or for the doing of any other act or thing concerning the same, authorised by this Act, as also for the continual preservation and reparation of the said works, as often as need shall require. And be it, etc. that the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England for the time being, by Commission under the great Seal of England, at the request and charges of the said Provost and Fellows, their Successors, Substitutes and Deputies, or upon the complaint or petition of any person or persons whom it may concern, shall nominate, appoint, and authorise by Commission or Commissions, under the great Seal of England, seven discreet and sufficient persons, whereof two shall be lustices of Peace of the County of Middlesex, and two of the City of London, and three others at the choice and appointment of the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper, every of the said persons having Lands and Tenements, of the clear yearly value of xl. li. at the least, which said seven persons, or any four, or more of them, 
What recompense the owners of the ground shall have.  shall have power to order and set down what rate or rates, sum or sums of money shall be paid by the said Provost and Fellows, as well for satisfaction and recompense of damages, in making the forerecited works, or any thing belonging to the same, as also for any manner of damages to be sustained, in the mending or reparation thereof, from time to time, or any other costs or charges sustained by reason of the same, to the Lords, owners, and occupiers of the ground and soil, or to others interessed in the said River or Waters, for which, composition is to be made by the intent of this Act, if the parties cannot of themselves agree, and in what manner the same shall be paid. 
How they may recever it.  And that for the recovery of such money, as shall be so ordered and set down by the said Commissioners, or any four, or more of them, the party or parties to whom the same money shall be due and payable, by the true intent of the said Order, shall or may recover the same, together with the reasonable costs and damages for the forbearance thereof, against the said Provost and Fellows, by action of Debt, Bill, or Plaint, in any his Majesty's Courts at Westminster, wherein no Essoine or Protection shall be allowed. 
What grounds may not be digged▪  Provided always, and it is further enacted, etc. that the said water shall not be conveyed thorough the House, Garden, or Orchard of any person or persons, or thorough any part thereof, or thorough any Corne-fields, while the Corn is growing or standing in the same, without the consent first had of the owners and occupiers of the said Houses, Gardens, Orchards, and Corne-fields. Anno 7. jac. cap. 9  

A brief Declaration of the reasons that moved his MAJESTY and the STATE to erect a College of Divines, and other Learned men, at CHELSEY, together with the Copy of his Majesty's Letters in favouring the same; and an addition of some Motives forcible to excite good Christians zeal to a voluntary and liberal contribution.  
Understanding by experience, that want of information hath much hindered men's devotion in contributing toward the erection and dotation of Chelsey College, we have thought it very fit, together with his Majesty's Letters, seconded by my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, to declare the reasons that caused this work to be undertaken, and to add such Motives, as we have supposed may be most effectual to give satisfaction to his Majesty's desire, and perfection to this honourable design.  
First it was considered, that the Pope's Agents traveled Sea and Land, wrote books in favour of their faction, devised lies and slanders, to bring Religion and the Professors thereof into hatred, and not sparing any standing in their way, by falsehood and treachery oppugned Kings and Princes, that could not endure the Pope's tyrannical government. And for this end, men of ready wits, good speech, long experience, and competent learning, have been maintained in Colleges, furnished with Books, holpen with Counsel and directions, bound with Laws and Oaths, to uphold the Papal Hierarchy and Heresy, and which moveth much, encouraged with great promises and large rewards.  
Whereunto albeit private men piously affected have from time to time opposed themselves, yet because they wanted encouragement to undertake so great a labour, counsel of their Ancients to direct them, Books and Libraries to instruct them, forms of proceeding to keep them in compass, and rewards to maintain them, those excepted that are due for Ecclesiastical cures, it was further advised, that to make a sufficient defence for the truth of Religion, and honour of the State, and a strong and continual opposition against the continued lies, slanders, errors, heresies, sects, idolatries, and blasphemies of our Adversaries, it was necessary to unite our forces, and to appoint special men, that without other distraction might attend the cause of Religion and the State, being furnished with Directions, Instructions, Counsel, Books, Presses, competent maintenance, and other necessaries.  
This than was the reason why this College by his Majesty and the State was first designed, and a corporation granted with large privileges, viz. That a select number of Divines and others should be gathered together into one body, and united with one form of Laws, and there maintained, who being furnished with Books, and directed by men of experience and action, might always be ready to maintain our Christian faith, to answer the Adversaries Calumniations as well against Religion as the State, to defend the Majesty of Kings and Princes, against the usurpation of Popes, the liberty of Christians, against the yoke of Superstition, to supply the defect of teaching where Appropriations have devoured the Ministry, by teaching and conference to convince the obstinate Papists and Atheist, and by all lawful means to maintain truth, and discover falsehood.  
This is the College commended by his Majesty, and intended by the State, and easily to be perfected if it please all true Christians to further it with their help and favour, according to some proportion of their means. His Majesty's Letters directed to my Lord of Canterbury, follow in these words:   

Right trusty and wellbeloved Counsellor, we greet you well.  
WHereas the enemies of the Gospel have ever been forward to write, and publish books for confirming of erroneous doctrine, and impugning the truth, and now of late seem more careful than before to send daily into our Realms such their writings, whereby our loving Subjects, though otherwise well disposed might be seduced, unless some remedy thereof should be provided. We by the advice of our Council, have lately granted a corporation, and given our allowance for erecting a College at Chelsey, for learned Divines to be employed to write as occasion shall require for maintaining the Religion professed in our Kingdoms, and confuting the impugners thereof. Whereupon Doctor Suteliffe designed Provost of the said College, hath now humbly signified unto us, that upon diverse promises of help and assistance towards the erecting and endowing the said College, he hath at his own charge begun, and well proceeded in the building, as doth sufficiently appear by a good part thereof already set up in the place appointed for the same. We therefore being willing to favour and further so religious a work, will and require you to write your Letters to the Bishops of your Province, signifying unto them in our Name, that our pleasure is, they deal with the Clergy, and other of their Diocese, to give their charitable benevolence for the perfecting of this good work so well begun. And for the better performance of our desire, we have given order to the said Provost and his Associates to attend you and others unto whom it may appertain, and to certify us from time to time of their proceeding. Therford the 5. of May 1616.   

These Letters my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury sendeth abroad to the Bishops of his Province, and secondeth them in these terms:  
NOw because it is so pious and religious a work, conducing both to God's glory, and the saving of many a soul within this Kingdom, I cannot but wish that all devout and well affected persons should by yourself and the Preachers in your Diocese, as well publicly as otherwise, be excited to contribute in some measure to so holy an intendment now will began. And although these and the like motions have been frequent in these latter times, yet let not those whom God hath blessed with any wealth be weary of well-doing, that it may not be said that the idolatrous and superstitious Papists be more forward to advance their falsehoods, than we are to maintain God's Truth. Whatsoever is collected, I pray you Lordship may be carefully brought unto me; partly that it pass not thorough any difrauding hand, and partly that his Majesty may be acquainted what is done in this behalf.  
Your Lordship's very loving Brother G. Canterb.   

The like Letters are written to my Lord Chancellor, and my Lord Mayor of London.  
By these Letters it may appear, that this College is not an idle project of any private man, but a pious work projected by the King & State, and that all that profess Religion, and desire the continuance and advancement thereof, yea, all that honour his Majesty, and wish the prosperity of the State, and desire the increase of learning, have interest therein, and I hope shall receive contentment, and good satisfaction by the same.  
Being then a work of piety for the maintenance of true Religion, who can be accounted truly pious and religious, and yet yield no help to advance it? being a project to maintain the honour of the State, what good Subject will not contribute to set forward this project? but to touch only the point of God's honour, let us remember the words of the Wise man, Prov. 3. Honour the Lord with thy substance. Let us also consider what the Lord himself saith, 1 Sam. 2. Them that honour me, I will honour; and they that despise me, shall be despised. Now who can say, he honoureth God that suffereth him by idolatry, superstition, and blasphemy to be dishonoured, and will give nothing to suppress Baal's Priests, and is content that the Pope be worshipped like the Idol Bell? can God's honour stand with the superstition, heresy, idolatry, and blasphemy of Papists, profaneness of Atheists, fanatical doctrine of schismatics, and idle Novelists?  
It is not sufficient for true Christians to profess true Religion, but they must with zeal maintain it, and with heart abhor, and with hand suppress idolatry and superstition, Who will rise up with me against the wicked, saith the Prophet, Psal. 94. And Psal. 139. he saith, He hated those that hated the Lord with an unfeigned hatred. The Law Deut. 13. is direct against such as entice us to serve other gods, our eye may not pity them, nor may we show mercy unto them, no although they be our brothers, or our wives that lie in our bosom.  
An odious thing also it is, either to suffer truth to be suppressed, or lies to be received. Saint Augustine in Epist. ad Casulanum, saith, It is a fault to hide truth, as well as to tell lies; Vterque reus est, & qui veritatem occultat, & qui mendacium dicit. Chrysostome Homil. 25. in Math. doth charge him to be a Traitor unto Truth, that dare not boldly utter it or defend it; Non ille solum est proditor veritatis qui veritatem transgrediens pro veritate mendacium loquitur, sed etiam qui non liberè veritatem pronuntiat quam pronuntiare tenetur, aut non liberè veritatem defendit quam liberè defendere convenit.  
Some suppose that Christianity and Popery may stand together, and themselves as Newters stand between both, or as Mediators would reconcile both. But can Christ be reconciled to Anti-christ? there is no concord betwixt Christ and Belial, saith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 6. Elias told us there is no halting between two Religions: no man that honoureth any Creature can say he truly honoureth God, for God giveth not his honour to Creatures, As● 1 King. 15. was a good King, yet it is imputed to him that he took not down the high places. The Bishop of the Church of Pergamus, Apocal. 2. is reproved for suffering them that taught the doctrine of Balaam; and the Bishop of Thyatira, for permitting jesabel to teach and deceive the people; and shall the Church of England any longer suffer the Romish Balamites, and the false Priests of Baal maintained by the Romish jesabel and her Consorts to seduce God's people? The false Priests of Bel used all art and cunning practices to deceive, and now will not suffer any Religion but that of their god Bel, the Pope; and shall not true Christians use equal diligence to maintain truth, and suppress Popery, and all other idolatrous and false Religion? Ingemui fateor (saith Hierome) minus nobis inesse voluntatis ad propugnandam veritasem, quam inest illis cupiditatis ad inculcandum mendacium: I sighed (saith he) seeing less desire in us to defend truth, then in our adversaries to maintain lies.  
This College then being erected for maintenance of truth and Gods true service, and a resoiute opposition against errors and false worship of God, it cannot but please God and content godly men. The same will also be a means to increase learning, and to supply the defects of places haunted with the spirits of Antichrist, the Jesuits, and Masspriests, and therefore cannot choose but be well approved of all, that either desire a learned Ministry, or love learning. Finally, seeing the Church hath received no greater dishonour by any, then by unsufficient and unlearned Churchmen, I hope this may be a means to recover some part of their lost honour.  
Wherefore, whether we regard the service of God, or the honour we owe to our King, or the love we bear to our Country and the State, let us not show ourselves sparing or backward in yielding our aid to set forward a work so religious and profitable for the Church, so honourable for the State, so necessary in regard of the malice of our adversaries, and the defects and discouragement of our own forces. Other collections have been either for private persons or strangers, or places remote, or matters concerning some particular occasions. This concerneth a general good, and toucheth every man both in conscience and honour. Heretofore we have endeavoured to maintain Religion, and favour others abroad, let us not therefore neglect ourselves, and our own honour, profit, and necessary service at home. Neither let any man think it strange, that a work of such greatness should be advanced by this weak means, or that a project so necessary should proceed so slowly. Almighty God, albeit all-sufficient, yet would have his own Tabernable built by the voluntary offerings of his people. Speak, saith God to Moses, Exod. 25. to the children of Israel, that they receive an offering for me of every man whose heart giveth it freely. And Exod. 36. it followeth, and they brought still unto Moses' free gifts every morning, and they ceased not until they were stayed from offering. King Solomon likewise was greatly holpen in the building of the Temple by the contribution of his Subjects, as appeareth by the words of Scriptures, 1 King. 9 19 further, by voluntary offerings and contributions, the Temple was repaired by joash, 2 King. 12. and by josiah, 2 Chron. 34. and this hath been the use and practice of ancient times in building, and endowing most famous Churches, Colleges, Schools, and other Monuments of Religion and Learning, both in our own and other Countries. Our Adversaries by this course have had means to build many Monasteries and Colleges, and Schools for Jesuits and Friars, as it were propugnacles of Superstition, Heresy, Idolatry, and Antichrists' tyranny, to uphold and make good their own corruptions in Religion, and usurpations upon the Magistrate's government, and every Christian man's liberty. And this have they done not only in Europe, but also in the Indies, and not one in every Kingdom, but in the same State diverse, and almost in every great City one. And shall not this flourishing Kingdom build and endow one College for the maintenance of God's true service, and the honour of the whole State? It were a dishonour to our Nation, and the whole Church and State to think contrary.  
The work we confess hath hitherto proceeded slowly: And no marvel, seeing great works are not easily achieved. noah's Ark, God's Tabernacle and Temple, and famous Schools and Colleges, albeit founded by Kings and great men, were long in building, and do we wonder that this College is not yet finished? further it pleased God to deprive us of Prince Henry our principal hope, and the chief Author of this design. Lastly, who knoweth whether God hath appointed these weak means to set forward a great work, that his power in our weakness might have the whole glory?  
Let us therefore, good Countrymen and Christians, harken willingly to his Majesty's motion, and readily follow his example. Let it appear by our bounty how zealous we are to maintain his everlasting Truth, and root out error and idolatry. Let us by effects declare how studious we are to do good works, and to advance our Country's honour. They that have much may give of their abundance: the rest according to the measure of their means. God as well accepteth the Widow's mite, and poor man's good will, as the rich man's treasure.  
If we honour God with our substance, he will honour us and increase our substance. If we build a house for the maintenance of his truth, that it may continue to our posterity, God will uphold our houses, restore to us, and double it to our posterity. Abraham by offering his 〈◊〉, was made a father of many sons, yea of Nations. And Solomon that showed his Royal magnificence in building God a Temple, in honour and riches passed all other Kings. How then can we excuse ourselves, if we deny God a small offering, that daily offereth to us many graces, and giveth us all the good things we possess. Our souls and bodies are a sacrifice due to him: and therefore no Christian may deny to him an offering out of his worldly goods, if God's service require it.  
As for those that draw back in this service, and refuse to concur in promoting Gods honour, let them mark the words of our Saviour, Matth. 12. He that is not with me is against me. And the curse of the Angel upon the people of Meros', judg. 5. Curse ye Meros', saith the Angel, for they came not up to help the Lord.  
But we hope we shall not need many words to move them, that already are so well persuaded, nor to persuade men, that in Religion and devotion are so forward. It is the duty of good Christians to advance God's honour, and repress Superstition, Heresy, Idolatry, Blasphemy. It is the office of good subjects to defend the honour of the State, against the sycophancies of English Fugitives, and the secret practices of fortaine enemies their adherents. The adversaries using all their skill, and joining their forces against Religion and the State, it behoveth us likewise to unite our forces, and to join in consultation how to resist them. This common business requireth common help, the practices of the Adversaries provoke us to use speed, the quality of the work being for defence of Religion and the State, will move any whose heart is not hardened, cheerfully to give. Whosoever shall willingly give, shall receive of God a full reward in this life, and when they die, their works shall follow them, and then whatsoever they have given to God on earth, they shall assuredly find in Heaven.  
Wherefore recommending the College of Chelsey to every religious Christians devout thoughts, we cease further to press them. Only for satisfaction of those that desire to know why this College is erected at Chelsey, and not in one of the Universities, this we thought fit to add, that this place was thought most fit to receive directions from our Superious, to consult with men of best experience, to obtain intelligence from foreign parts, to print Books, and to disperse them; And lastly, to obtain the favour of the State and City. Further hereby, as all emulation may be avoided, so the help of both Universities may as well be had by intercourse of our Agents, as if the College stood in either of the Universities. Thus all things now stand. God bless the proceeding of this work, and give honour to his own name, and a happy issue to this holy design. Amen.    

GOVERNORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. And first of Ecclesiastical Bishops; and other Ministers there.  
HAving thus run through the description of these Cities of London and West-minster, aswell in their original foundations, as in their increases of buildings and ornaments, together with such incidents of sundry sorts, as are before, both generally and particularly discoursed. It remaineth that somewhat be noted by me, touching the Policy and Government, both Ecclesiastical and Civil, of London, 
W. Malmesberie.  as I have already done for West-minster, the order whereof is appointed by the late Statute, even as that of London is maintained by the Customs thereof, most laudably used before all the time of memory.  
And first to begin with the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction. 
Antiquities of Glaste.  I read, that the Christian Faith was first preached in this Island (then called Britain) by joseph of Arimathea, and his brethren, Disciples of Christ, in the time of Arviragus, then Governor here, 
Lib. confiis.  under the Roman Emperor. 
Eleutherius died in the year 186. when he had sitten Bishop 15. years.  After which time, Lucius, King of the Britain's, sent his Ambassadors, Elvanus and Meduvanus, two men learned in the Scriptures, with Letters to Eleutherius, Bishop of Rome, desiring him to send some devout and Learned men, by whose instruction, he and his people might he taught the Faith and Religion of Christ. Eleutherius baptised those Messengers, making Elvanus a Bishop, and Meduvanus a Teacher, and sent over with them into Britain, two other famous Clerks, Faganus and Deruvianus, by whose diligence, Lucius and his people of Britain, were instructed in the Faith of Christ, and baptised, the Temples of Idols were converted into Cathedral Churches, & Bishops were placed, where Flamines before had been: at London, York and Carleon upon uske, were placed Archbishops, saith some. The said Epistle (to us sent by Eleutherius) to King Lucius, 
Liber Custom.  for the establishing of the faith, ye may read in my Annals, Summaries and Chronicles, truly translated and set down, as mine Author hath i●, for some have curtalled and corrupted it, and then fathered it, upon Reverend Bede, 
Bede.  who never wrote word thereof, or otherwise to that effect, more than this as followeth:  
In the year 156. Marcus Aurelius Verus, the 14. Emperor after Augustus, governed the Empire, with his brother Aurelius Commodus. In whose time, Eleutherius, a Holy man, being Pope of the Church of Rome, Lucius King of Britain's wrote unto him, desiring that by his commandment, he might be made a Christian: which his request was granted him; whereby the Britain's receiving then the Faith, kept it sound and undefiled in rest and peace, until Dioclesian the Emperor's time.  
Thus far Bede, which may suffice to prove the Christian Faith then to be received here. And now of the London Bishops, according as I find them registered.  
There remaineth in the Parish Church of Saint Peter upon Cornhill in London, 
This is before set down in Cornhill Ward.  a table wherein is written that Lucius founded the same Church to be an Archbishops See, and Metropolitan & chief Church of his Kingdom, and that it so endured the space of four hundred years, until the coming of Augustine the Monk, and others from Rome, in the reign of the Saxons.  
The Archbishop's names I find only to be set down by joceline of Furnes, 
joceline of Furnes.  in his book of British Bishops, and not else where. Theanus (saith he) was the first Archbishop of London in the time of Lucius, who builded the said Church of Saint Peter, in a place called Cornhill in London, by the aid of Ciran, chief Butler to King Lucius.  
2 Elvanus was the second, & he builded a Library to the same Church adjoining, and converted many of the Druids (learned men in the Pagan law) to the Christian Faith.  
3 Cadar was the third: then followed,  
4 Obinus.  
5 Conan.  
6 Paludius.  
7 Stephen.  
8 Iltute.  
9 Dedwin, or Theodwin.  
10 Theodred.  
11 Hillary.  
12 Restitutus.  
13 Guidelium, or Guiteline.  
14 Fastidius.  
15 Vodimus, slain by the Saxons.  
16 Theonw, the sixteenth, fled with the Britons into Wales, 
1. Tom. come.  about the year of Christ, 587. Thus much out of joceline of the Archbishops: the credit whereof I leave to the judgement of the learned. For, I read of a Bishop of London (here also named) in the year of Christ 326. to be present at the second Council, holden at Arles, in the time of Constantine the great, who subscribed thereunto in these words:  
Ex Provincia Britanniae Civitate Londinensi Restitutus Episcopus, as plainly appeareth in the first Tome of the Counsels. He writeth not himself Archbishop, and therefore maketh the matter of Archbishops doubtful, or rather overthroweth that opinion.  
The Saxons being Pagans', having chased the Britain's with the Christian Preachers into the Mountains of Wales and Cornwall, and having divided this Kingdom of the Britaines amongst themselves; at the length, to wit, in the year 596. Pope Gregory, moved of a godly instinction (saith Bede) in the 147. year, after the Angleses or Saxons in Britain, sent Augustine, Melitus, justus and john, with other Monks, to preach the Gospel to the said Nation of the Angleses.  
These landed in the I'll of Thanet, and were first received by Ethelbert, King of Kent, whom they converted to the faith of Christ, with diverse other of his people, in the 34. year of his reign, which Ethelbert gave unto Augustine the City of Canturbury.  
The Metropolitan See being established at Canturbury, these that follow, were successively Bishops of London, to this present time.  
This Augustine in the year of Christ 604. consecrated Melitus and justus Bishops, appointing Melitus to preach unto the East Saxons, whose chief City was London: and their King Sebert, Nephew to Ethelbert, by preaching of Melitus, received the Word of Life.  
And then Ethelbert, King of Kent, builded in the City of London Saint Paul's Church, 
S. Paul's Church in London first founded.  wherein Melitus began to be Bishop, in the year 619. and sat five years. Ethelbert by his Charter gave Lands to this Church of Saint Paul: 
1. Melitus first Bishop of London, 619.  so did other Kings after him.  
King Sebert, through the good life, and like preaching of Melitus, having received Baptism, to show himself a Christian, builded a Church to the honour of God and S. Peter, on the West side of London, which Church is called Westminster: but the successors of Sebert, being Pagans', expelled Melitus out of their Kingdoms.  
justus the second, 
2. justus, 624.  Bishop for a time, and then Melitus again: after whose decease, the seat was void for a time. At length Sigebert, Son to Sigebert, brother to Sebert, ruled in Essex: he became a Christian, and took to him a holy man, named C●dda, or Chadda, who won many by preaching and good life, to the Christian Religion.  
Ceadda, 
3. Cedda, B. of London, 658.  or Chadda, was (by Finan) consecrated Bishop of the East Saxons, and he ordered Priests and Deacons in all the parts of Essex, 
Ithancaster, and Tilberie.  but especially at Ithancaster, 
Ralph Cogshall.  and Tilberie.  
This City of Ithancaster (saith Ralph Cogshall) stood on the bank of the River Pante, that runneth by Maldun in the hundred of Danesey; but now is drowned in Pante, so that nothing remaineth, but the ruin of the City in the River. Tilberie (both the West and East) standeth on the Thames side, nigh over against Gravesend.  
Wina, 
4 Wina, 666.  expelled from the Church of Winchester by Cenewalche the King, was adopted to be the fourth Bishop of London, in the reign of Wolferus, King of Mercia, and sat nine years.  
Erkenwald, 
5. Erkenwald, 680.  borne in the Castle or Town of Stallingborough in Lindsey, first Abbot of Crotesey, 
Crotese, or Charlesey.  was by Theodore, Archbishop of Canturbury, appointed to be Bishop of the East Saxons, in the City of London. This Erkenwald in the year of Christ, 677. before he was made Bishop, had builded two Monasteries, one for himself, being a Monk in the Isle of Crote in Surrey, by the River of Thames and another for his Sister Edilburga, being a Nun, in a certain place called Berching in Essex: he deceased at Berching, in the year, 697. and was then buried in Paul's Church, and translated into the new Church of S. Paul, in the year, one thousand, one hundred forty eight.  
Waldhere, 
6 Waldhere, 697.  or Walthere, was Bishop of London: 
King Sebba became a Monk in Paul's Church.  Sebba, King of the east Saxons, at his hands received the habit of Monk: for at that time there were Monks in Paul's Church, as writeth Radulphus Dedicato, and others. To this Bishop he brought a great sum of money, to be bestowed and given to the poor, reserving nothing to himself; but rather desired to remain poor in goods, as in Spirit, for the Kingdom of Heaven. When he had reigned thirty years, he deceased at Paul's, and was there buried, and lieth now in a Coffin of Stone, on the North side of the Isle next the Quire.  
Ingwaldus, 
7. Ingwaldus, 716.  Bishop of London, was at the consecration of Tatwine, Archbishop of Canturbury; he confirmed the foundation of Crowland, in the year, seven hundred and sixteen, (saith Ingulfus) and deceased in the year 744. as saith Hoveden.  
746 Engulfe, called also Egwolfe, or Egnaldus, Bishop of London.  
754 Wighead, or Wigherus, Bishop of London.  
761 Eadbrightus, or Edbrithe, Bishop of London.  
768 Eadgar, or Eadgarus, Bishop of London.  
773 Kenewalth, Bishop of London.  
784 Eadbaldus, Bishop of London.  
795 Hedbert, or Hethobert, Bishop of London, deceased 802. saith Hoveden.  
813 Osmund, or Oswin, Bishop of London, he was witness to a Charter made to Crowland, in the year 833. saith Engulfus.  
835 Ethelmothe, Bishop of London.  
838 Ceolbert, or Celbertus, B. of London.  
841 Renulfe, or Ceorulfe, Bishop of London.  
850 Swithulfus, Bishop of London, he likewise was witness to a Charter of Crowland, 851.  
860 Edstanus, Bishop of London, witness to a Charter of Crowland, 860.  
870 Wulfius, or Wolfius, Bishop of London.  
878 Ethelwardus, Bishop of London.  
886 Elstanus, Bishop of London, died in the year 900. saith Asser, & all these, saith the Author of Flores Historiarum, were buried in the old Church of S. Paul, but there remaineth now no memory of them.  
900 Theodricus, Bishop of London: this man confirmed King Edreds' Charter, made to Winchester, in the year, 947. whereby it seemeth, that he was Bishop of London of a later time than he is here placed.  
922 Wulstanus, Bishop of London.  
941 Brithelme, Bishop of London.  
958 Dunstanus, Abbot of Glastenburie: then Bishop of Worchester, and in time Bishop of London, he was afterward translated to Canturbury, 960.  
960 Ealfstanus, Bishop of London: the 28. in number.  
981 edgar, Bishop of London, he confirmed the grants made to Winchester, and to Crowland, 966. and again to Crowland, 970. the Charter of Etheldred, concerning Vlfrunhampton, 996.  
1004 Elphinus, Bishop of London.  
1010 Alwinus, Bishop of London.  
1012 Alfhune, Bishop of London: he was sent into Normandy in the year 1013. saith Asser.  
1044. Robert, a Monk of Gemerisius in Normandy, Bishop of London. 7. years. afterward translated from London to Canturbury.  
1050 Spe●gasius elected, but rejected by the King.  
1051 William, a Norman, Chaplain to Edward the Confessor, was made Bishop of London, 1051. fare 17. years, and deceased 1070. He obtained of William the Conqueror, the Charter of Liberties for the City of London, as I have set down in my Summary, and appeareth by his Epitaph in Paul's Church.  
1070 Hugh de Orwell, or Orivall, Bishop of London: he died of a Leprosy, when he had sitten fifteen years.  
1085 Mauricius, Bishop of London, in whose time, to wit, in the year 1089. the Church of S. Paul was burnt, with the most part of this City, and therefore he laid the foundation of a new large Church, and having sitten 22. years, he deceased, 1107. saith Matthew Paris.  
1108 Richard Beam, or Beamor, called by some Richard Bearvis, Bishop of London, did wonderfully increase the work of this Church begun, purchasing the streets and lanes (adjoining) of his own money: and he founded the Monastery of S. Osyth in Essex, he sat Bishop 19 years, and deceased 1127.  
1127 Gilbertus Vniversalis, a Canon of Lions, elected by Henry the first, he deceased 1141. when he had sitten fourteen years.  
1142 Robertus de Sigillo, a Monk of Reading, whom Maud the Empress made Bishop of London, where he sat eleven years. Geffrey de Magnavile took him prisoner at Fulham, and he deceased 1152.  
1153 Richard Beams, Archdeacon of Essex, Bishop of London ten years, who deceased 1162.  
1163 Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford, from whence translated to London, sat three and twenty years, and deceased, 1186.  
1189 Richard Fitz Neale, the King's Treasurer, Archdeacon of Essex, elected of London, at Pipwell, 1189. He sat nine years and deceased, 1198. This man also took great pains about the building of Paul's Church, and raised many other goodly buildings in his Diocese.  
1199 William S. Marry Church, commonly called, William de Sancta Maria, a Norman, Bishop of London, who was one of the three Bishops, that by the Pope's commandment executed his interdiction or curse upon the whole Realm of England; but he was forced (with the other Bishops) to fly the Realm in 1208. & his Castle at Stratford in Essex was by commandment of K. john overthrown, 1210. This William, in company of the Archbishop of Canturbury, and of the Bishop of Ely, went to Rome, and there complained against the King, 1212. and returned, so as in the year 1215. King john in the Church of S. Paul, at the hands of this William, took upon him the Cross for the Holy Land. He resigned his Bishopric of his own voluntary, in the year 1221. saith Cogshall.  
1221 Eustachius de Faulconbridge, Treasurer of the Exchequer (saith Matthew Paris) Chancellor of the Exchequer (saith Textor, and Cogshall) Bishop of London, 1223. Whilst at Chelmesford he was giving holy Orders, a great tempest of wind and rain annoyed so many as came thither, whereof it was gathered, how highly God was displeased with such as came to receive Orders, to the end, they might live a more easy life, of the Stipend appointed to the Churchmen, giving themselves to banqueting, and so with unclean and filthy bodies, (but more unclean souls) presume to minister unto God, the Author of purity and cleanness. Falcatius de Brent was delivered to his custody in the year, 1224. This Eustachius deceased in the year 1228. and was buried in Paul's Church, in the South side, without or above the Quire.  
1229 Rogerus Niger, Archdeacon of Colchester, made Bishop of London. In the year 1230. (saith Matthew Paris) upon the feast day of the Conversion of S. Paul, when he was at Mass in the Cathedral Church of S. Paul, a great multitude of people being there present suddenly the weather waxed dark, so as one could scantly see another, and an horrible thunderclap lighted on the church, which so shook it, that it was like to hay●fallen. And there withal out of a 〈◊〉 crowd proceeded a flash of lightning, that all the Church seemed to be on fire; whereupon such a strench ensued, that all men though they should have died: thousands of men and women ran out of the Church, and being astonished, fell upon the ground, void of all sense and understanding.  
None of all the multitude traied in the Church, save the Bishop and one Deacon, which stood still before the high Altar, awaiting the will of God: when the Air was cleansed, the multitude returned into the Church, and the Bishop ended the Service. 
〈◊〉- Parish.   
This Roger Niger is commended to have been a man of worthy life, excellently well learned, a notable Preacher, pleasant in talk, middle of countenance, & liberal at his Table. He admonished the Usurers of his time, to leave such enormities, as they rendered the salvation of their souls, and to do penance for that they had committed: but when he saw they laughed him to scorn, and also threatened him, the Bishop generally excommunicated and accursed all such, & commanded strictly that such Usurers should depart further from the City of London, which hitherto had been ignorant of such mischief and wickedness, lest his Diocese should be infected therewithal. He fell sick, and died at his Manor of Bishop's Hall, in the Lordship and Parish of Stebunheth, in the year 1241. and was buried in Paul's Church, on the North side of the Presbytery, in a fair Tomb coped, of grey Marble.  
1241 Fulco Bosset, Deane of York, by the death of Gilbert Basset, possessed his lands, & was then made B. of London, deceased on the 21. day of May, in the year 1259. as saith john Tex●or, and was buried in Paul's Church.  
1259 〈◊〉 de Wingham, Chancellor of England, made Bishop of London, deceased in the year 1262. saith Textor, and was buried in Paul's Church, on the South side without, or above the Choir, 〈◊〉 Marble Monument, close at the head of Faulconbridge.  
1262 Richard Taloot, Bishop of London, straightways after his consecration deceased, saith Eversden.  
1262 Henry Sandwich, Bishop of London, deceased in the year 1273. as the same Author affirmeth.  
12●3 john de Chishull, Deane of Paul's, Treasurer of the Exchequer, & Keeper of the great Seal, was Bishop of London, and deceased in the year 1279. saith Eversden.  
1280 Ful●o Loved, Archdeacon of Colchoster, elected Bishop of London, but refused the place.  
1280 Richard de Grave●send, Archdeacon of Northampton, Bishop of London. It appeareth by the Charter warren granted to this Bishop, that (in his time) there were two Woods in the Parish of Stebunheth, pertaining to the said Bishop: I have (since I kept house for myself) known the one of them by Bishop's Hall, but now they are both made plain of wood, and not to be discerned from other grounds. Some have fabuled, that this Richard Gravesend, 
Fable of Richard Gravesend reproved.  Bishop of London, in the year 1392. the 16. of Richard the second, purchased the Charter of liberties to this City; which thing hath no possibility of truth, as I have proved, for he deceased in the year 2303. almost ninety years before that time.  
1307 Ralph de Baldock, Deane of Paul's, Bishop of London, consecrated at Lions by Peter, Bishop of Alba, in the year 1307. He was a great furtherer of the new work of Paul's, to wit, the East end, called our Lady Chapel, and other adjoining: this Ralph deceased in the year 1313. and was buried in the said Lady Chapel, under a flat stone.  
1313 Gilbert Segrave was consecrated Bishop of London, & sat three years.  
1317 Richard Newport, Bishop of London, sat two years, and was buried in Paul's Church.  
1318 Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London, sat twenty years.  
1338 Richard Bintworth, or Wentworth, Bishop of London, and Chancellor of England, deceased the year 1339.  
1339 Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London: he purchased the piece of ground called No man's land, beside, Smithfield, and dedicated it to the use of burial, as before hath appeared: he was borne at Stratford upon Avon, and therefore builded a Chapel to S. Thomas there: he sat 14. years, and deceased at Stebunhith.  
1354 Michael Northbroke, Bishop of London, deceased in the year 1361. saith Merimouth, sat 7. years.  
1362 Simon Sudbery, Bishop of London, sat 13. years, translated to be Archbishop of Canturbury, in the year 1375.  
1375 William Conrtney, translated from Hereford to the Bishopric of London, and after translated from thence to the archbishopric of Canturbury, in the year, 1381.  
1381 Robert Breybrooke, Canon of Lichfield, bishop of London, made Chancellor in the 6. of Richard the second sat Bishop 20. years, and deceased in the year 1404. he was buried in the said Lady Chapel at Paul's.  
1405 Roger Walden, Treasurer of the Exchequer, Archbishop of Canturbury, was deposed, and after made bishop of London: he deceased in the year 1406. and was buried in Paul's Church, by All-hallows Altar.  
1406 Nicholas Bubwith, bishop of London, Treasurer of the Exchequer, translated to Salisbury, & from thence to bath, and lieth buried at Wells.  
1407 Richard Clifford, removed from Worcester to London, deceased 1422. as saith Thomas Walsingham, and was buried in Paul's.  
1422 john Kempe, Fellow of Martin College in Oxford, was made bishop of Rochester, from whence removed to Chichester, and thence to London: he was made the King's Chancellor in the year 1425. the fourth of Henry the sixth, & was removed from London to York, in the year ●26. He sit Archbishop there 25. years, and was translated to Canturbury; he was afterwards made Cardinal in the year 1452. In the bishop of London's house at Fulham he received the Cross, and the next day the Pall, at the hands of Thomas Kempe bishop of London: he deceased in the year 1454.  
1426 William Grace, Deane of York, consecrated Bishop of London, who founded a College at Thele in Hartfordshire, for a Master and four Canons, and made it a Cell to Elsing spital in London. It had of old time been a College decayed, and therefore newly founded: he was translated to Lincoln 1431.  
1432 Robery Fitz-Hugh, Archdeacon of Northampton, consecrated Bishop of London, sat 5. years; he deceased in the year 1435. and was buried on the South side of the Choir of Paul's.  
1435 Robert Gilbert, Doctor of Divinity, Deane of York, consecrated Bishop of London, sat twelve years, deceased 1448.  
1449 Thomas Kempe, Archdeacon of Richmond, consecrated Bishop of London, at York house, (now White Hall) by the hands of his Uncle, john Kempe, Archbishop of York, the eighth of February, 1449. He founded a Chapel of the Trinity in the body of Saint Paul's Church on the North side; he sat Bishop of London 39 years, and 48. days, and then deceasing in the year 1489. was there buried.  
1489 john Martial Bishop of London, deceased in the year 1493.  
1493 Richard Hill, Bishop of London, deceased 1495. and was buried in the body of S. Paul's Church.  
1496 Thomas Savage, first Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of London 5. years, was translated to York 1510. where he sat Archbishop 7. years, and was there buried in the year, 1507.  
1502 William Warkham, Bishop of London, made Keeper of the great Seal, sat two years, was translated to Canturbury.  
1504 William Barnes, Bishop of London, sat 10. Months and 11. days, deceased in the year 1505.  
2505 Richard Fitz-Iames, Fellow of Martin College in Oxford, in the reign of Henry the 6. was made Bishop of Rochester, after Bishop of Chichester, and then Bishop of London: he deceased 1521. and lieth buried hard beneath the North west pillar of the Steeple in Paul's, under a fair Tomb of Marble, over the which was builded a fair Chapel of Timber, with stairs mounting thereunto: this Chapel was burned with fire from the Steeple 1561. and the Tomb was taken down.  
1521 Cuthbert Tunstall, Doctor of Law, Master of the Rowies, Lord Privy Seal, and Bishop of London, was thence translated to the Bishopric of Durham, in the year 1529.  
1529 john Stokesley, Bishop of London, sat 13. years, deceased in the year 1539. and was buried in the Lady Chapel in Paul's.  
1539 Edmund Bonner, Doctor of the Civil Law, Archdeacon of Leicester, than Bishop of Hereford, was elected to London, in the year 1539. whilst he was beyond the Seas, Ambassador for King Henry the eighth.  
On the first of September 1549. he preached at Paul's Cross, for the which Sermon, he was charged before the Council of King Edward the sixth by William Latimer, Parson of S. Laurence Poultney, and john Hooper, sometime a white Monk: and being convented before certain Commissioners at Lambeth, was for his disobedience to the King's order, on the 20. day of the same Month, sent to the Marshalsey, and deprived from his Bishopric.  
1550 Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of Rochester, elected Bishop of London, was installed in Paul's Church on the twelfth of April.  
This man by his deed dated the 12. day after Christmas, in the 4. year of Edward the sixth, gave to the King the Manors of Branketry and Southminster, and the Patronage of the Church of Cogshall in Essex, the Manors of Stebunheth, and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, and the Marsh of Stebunheth, with all the singular Messages, Lands and Tenements to the said Manors belonging, and also the Advowson of the Vicarage of the Parish Church of Cogshall in Essex aforesaid: which grant was confirmed by the Dean and Chapter of Paul's, Stebunheth and Hackney, as only pertained to them.  
The said King Edward by his Letters Patents, dated the sixteenth of April, in the said fourth year of his reign granted to Sir Tho. Wentworth, Lord Wentworth, Lord Chamberlain of the King's household, for and in consideration of his good and faithful service before done, a part of the late received gift, to wit, the Lordships of Stebunheth and Hackney, with all the members and appurtenances thereto belonging in Stebunheth, Hackney way, Shoreditch, Holiwell street, White Chapel, Stratford at Bow, Poplar, North-street, Limehouse, Ratcliff, Cleve street, Brock street, Mile end, Bleten Hall green, Old Ford, Westheth, Kingsland, Shakelwel, Newington street, alias Hackney street, Clopton, Church street, Well street, Humbarton, Grove street, Gunston street, alias, More street, in the County of Middlesex, together with the Marsh of Stebunheth, etc.  
The Manor of Hackney was valued at 41. l. 9 s. 4. d. by year: and the Manor of Stebunheth at 140. l. 8. s. 11. d. ob. by year, to be holden in chief, by the service of the twentieth part of a Knights fee.  
This Bishop, Nicholas Ridley, for preaching a Sermon at Paul's Cross, on the 16. of july in the year 1553. was committed to the Tower of London, where he remained prisoner till the 10. of April, in the year 1554. and was thence sent to Oxford, there to dispute with the Divines and learned men of the contrary opinion, and on the 16. of October 1555. he was burned at Oxford, for opinion against the Romish order of Sacraments, etc.  
1553 Edmund Bonner aforesaid, being released out of the Marshalsey, was restored to the Bishopric of London, by Queen Mary, on the fifth of August, in the year 1553. and again deposed by Queen Elizabeth, in the Month of july, Anno 1559. and was eftsoons, committed to the Marshalsey, where he died on the 5. of Septembr 1569. and was at midnight buried amongst other prisoners in St. George's Churchyard.  
1559 Edmund Grindull, Bishop of London, being consecrated the 21. of December 1559. was translated to York, in the year 1570. and from thence removed to Canterbury, in the year 1575. he died blind 1583. on the 6. of july, and was buried at Crodowne in Surrey.  
1570 Edwine Sandys, being translated from Worcester to the Bishopric of London, in the year, 1570. was thence translated to York, in the year 1576. and died in the year 1588.  
1576 john Elmere, Bishop of London, deceased in the year 1594. on the 3. of june at Fulham, and was buried in Paul's Church, before Saint Thomas Chapel.  
1594 Richard Fletcher, Bishop of Worcester, was on the 30. of December in Paul's Church elected Bishop of London, and deceased on the 15. of june 1596. he was buried in Paul's Church without any solemn funeral.  
1597 Richard Bancroft, Doctor of Divinity, brought up first in Christ's College, and afterward in jesus College in Cambridge, was consecrated Bishop of London, at Lambeth, on Sunday, being the 8. day of May, 1597. and translated to Canterbury in December 1604.  
1604 Richard Vaughan, Doctor of Divinity, & Bishop first of Bangor, next of Chester, was translated to London in january 1604. and died in March 1607.  
1607 Thomas Ravis, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Christ's Church in Oxford, was first Bishop of Gloucester, and then removed to London, the 19 of May, 1607. and died the 14. of December 1609.  
1609 George Abbot, Doctor of Divinity, having been little above one month Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, was called to London, towards the latter end of january 1609. and removed to Canterbury in Anno 1611.  
1611 john King, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Christ's Church in Oxford, where he was brought up, and Archdeaeon of Nottingham, was consecrated Bishop of London, the eighth day of September, 1611. and worthily remained long in the same dignity. His Grandfather was Brother unto Robert King, sometime Bishop of Oxford.  
George Mountain, Doctor of Divinity, Lecturer in Gresham's College, afterward Master of the Savoy, & Deane of Westminster, than Bishop of Lincoln, and thence removed to be Lord Bishop of London, and Almoner to his Majesty, last of all removed again, to be Lord Archbishop of York.  
William Laud, Doctor in Divinity, Precedent of St. john Baptists College in Oxford, Deane of Gloucester, next Bishop of St. David's, next Bishop of Bath and Welles, next Bishop of London, and Deane of his Majesty's Chapel Royal, and now Archbishop of Canterbury, and one of his Highness' most Honourable Privy Council.  
William juxon, Doctor in Divinity, Precedent of St. john Baptists College in Oxford, Deane of Worcester, next Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty, next Bishop elect of Hereford, next Dean of his Majesty's Chapel Royal, and Bishop of London.  
Thus much for the succession of the Bishops of London, whose Diocese containeth the City of London, the whole Shires of Middlesex and Essex, and a part of Hartfordshire.  
These Bishops have for Assistants in the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, a Dean, a chanter, a Chancellor, a Treasurer, five Archdeacon's, to wit, London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and S. Alban, and 30. Prebendaries.  
There appertaineth also to the said Church for furniture of the Choir in Divine Service, and administration of the Sacraments, a College of 12. Petty Canons, six Vicars, Chorall, and Queristers, etc.  
This Diocese is divided into Parishes, every Parish having his Parson, or Vicar at the least, learned men for the most part, and sufficient Preachers to instruct the people.  
There were in this City, and within the Suburbs thereof in the reign of Henry the second (as writeth Fitz-Stephens) thirteen great conventual Churches, besides the lesser sort, called Parish Churches, to the number of 126. all which conventual Churches, and some others since that time founded, are now suppressed and gone, except the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London, and the College of Saint Peter at Westminster.   

THE TEMPORAL GOVERNMENT OF THIS CITY, SOMEWHAT Discoursed in brief manner.  
THIS City of London being under the government of the Britain's, 
P●●ent. Aserius Menevem.  Romans, and Saxons, the most ancient and famous City of the whole Realm, 
Florencius Wigor. Marianus Scot●●●.  was at length destroyed by the Danes, and left desolate, as may appear by our Histories. But Aelfred King of the West Saxons, having brought this whole Realm (from many parts) into one Monarchy, honourably repaired this City, and made it again habitable, and then committed the custody thereof to his Son in law Adhered, Earl of Mercia. After whose decease, the City, with all other possessions pertaining to the said Earl, returned to King Edward, surnamed the Elder, etc. And so remained in the King's hands, being governed under him by Portgraves (or Portreves) which name is compounded of the two Saxon words, 
Portgraves.  Porte and Gerefe or Reve-Porte betokeneth a Town, and Gerefe signifieth a Guardian, Ruler or Keeper of the Town.  
These Governors of old time (saith Robert Fabian) with the laws and customs then used within this City, 
Lib. 〈◊〉. Alb●ni.  were registered in a Book, called the Doomsday Book, written in the Saxon Tongue: but of later days, when the laws and customs were changed, and for that also the said Book was of a small hand, sore defaced, and hard to be read or understood; it was less set by, so that it was imbezeled and lost. 
Rob. Fabian.  Thus far Fabian.  
Notwithstanding, I have found by search of diverse old Registers and other Records abroad; namely, in a Book sometime appertaining to the Monastery of Saint Alban, of the Portgraves, and other Governors of this City, as followeth.  
First, that in the reign of King Edward the last, 
Citizens of London called Burgesses.  before the conquest, Wolfegare was Portgrave, as may appear by the Charter of the same King, in these words:  
Edward, King, greeteth Alfward Bishop, and Wolfgar my Portgrave, and all the Burgesses of London. And afterward, that in another Charter, King Edward greeteth William, Bishop, and Swetman my Portgrave. And after that, in another Charter to the Abbey of Chertsey: To William, Bishop, and Leofstane and Alffy Portgraves.  
In the reign of William Conqueror, William, Bishop of London, procured of the said Conqueror his Charter of Liberties, to the same William, Bishop, & Godfrey, Portgrave, in the Saxon tongue, and turned into English, thus:  
William, 
Charter of William Conqueror.  King, greeteth William, Bishop, and Godfrey, Portgrave, and all the Burgesses within London, French, and English: And I grant that they be all their law worth, that they were in Edward days the King. And I will that each child be his Father's heir. And I will not suffer that any man do you wrong: and God you keep.  
And then in the reign of the said Conqueror, and of William Rufus, Godfrey de Magnavile was Portgrave, (or Sheriff) as may appear by their Charters, 
Provost.  and Richard de Par was Provost.  
In the reign of King Henry the first, Hugh Buche was Portgrave, and Leofstanus, Goldsmith, Provost, buried at Bermondsey.  
After them, Aubery de Vere was Portgrave and Robert Bar Querel, Provost. This Aubery de Vere was slain in the reign of King Stephen. 
I. Leyland.  It is to be noted also, that King Henry the first granted to the Citizens of London, the Shirifwicke thereof, and of Middlesex, as in another place is showed.  
In the reign of King Stephen, 
Sheriffs.  Gilbert Becket was Portgrave, and Andrew Buchevet, Provost.  
After him, Godfrey Magnavile, the Son of William, the Son of Godfrey Magnavile, by the gift of Maud the Empress, was Portgrave or Sheriff of London and Middlesex, for the yearly farm of three hundred pound, as appeareth by the Charter.  
In the time of King Henry the second, Peter Fitz Walter was Portgrave; after him john Fitz Nigel was Portgrave, after him, Ernulfus Buchel became Portgrave; and after him William Fitz Isable.  
These Portgraves are also in diverse Records called, 
Portgraves, since called Sheriffs, and judges of the King's Court, & have therefore Vnder-Sheriffes, men learned in the law, to sit in their Courts. Doomesmen, or judges of the King's Court.  Vicecomites, Vicounties, or Sheriffs, as being under an Earl; for that they then, as since, used that office as the Sheriffs of London do till this day. Some Authors do call them Doomesmen, Eldermen, or judges of the King's Court.  
William Fitz Stephen, noting the estate of this City, & Government thereof in his time, under the reign of King Stephen, and of Henry the second, hath these words:  
This City (faith he) even as Rome, is divided into Wards, it hath yearly Sheriffs in stead of Consuls, it hath the dignity of Senators and Aldermen, it hath Under-officers, and according to the quality of Laws, it hath several Courts, and general Assemblies upon appointed days.  
Thus much for the antiquity of Sheriffs, and also of Aldermen in several Wards of this City may suffice: and now for the name of Bailiffs, and after that, of Majors as followeth.  
In the first year of King Richard the first, 
Bailiffs of London.  the Citizens of London obtained to be governed by two Bailiffs, which Bailiffs are in diverse ancient dceds called Sheriffs, according to the speech of the Law, which called the Shire Balliva, for that they (like as the Portgraves) used the same office of Shrivewicke, for the which the City paid to fee-farm, 300. l. yearly as before, since the reign of Henry the first, which also is yet paid by the City into the Exchequer until this day.  
They also obtained to have a Mayor, to be their principal Governor and Lieutenant of the City, as of the King's Chamber.  
1189 The names of the first Bailiffs or Officers, entering into their office at the Feast of S. Michael the Archangel, in the year of Christ 1189. were named Henry Cornhill, and Richard Reynere, Bailiffs or Sheriffs. Their first Mayor was Henry Fitzalwin, Draper, appointed by the said King, and continued Mayor from the first of Richard the first, until the 15. of King john, which was 24. years and somewhat more.  

1190 The second of Richard the first, Sheriffs  
john Herlion,  
Roger Duke:  
Maior, Henry Fitzalwin. 
First Mayor of London.   
1191 The third Sheriffs,  
William Haverell,  
john Buckmote:  
Maior, Henry Fitzalwin.  
1192 The fourth,  
Nicholas Duke,  
Peter newly:  
Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
1193 The fifth,  
Roger Duke,  
Richard Fitzalwin.  
Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
1194 The sixth,  
William Fitz-Isabel,—  
William Fitz-Arnold:— 

Sheiffes.     

Mayor, Henry Fitz Alwin.  
An. Dom. 1195 The seventh   

Robert Besaunt,—  
joke de joshua:— 

Sheriffs.   

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1196 The eighth     

Gerard de Antiloche,—  
Robert Durant:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1197 The ninth   

Roger Blunt,—  
Nicholas Ducket:—  
Sheriffs.   

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1198 The tenth   

Constantine Fitz-Arnold,—  
Robert le Beau:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
King john began his reign the sixth of April 1199.  
An. Dom. 1199 The first of King john,   

Arnold Fitz-Arnold,—  
Richard Fitz Bartholomew:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
King john granted the Sheriffe-wicke of London, and Middlesex, to the Citizens thereof, as King Henry the first before had done, for the sum of 300. l. yearly. Also he gave them authority to choose and deprive their Sheriffs at their pleasure.  
An. Dom. 1200 The second   

Roger Dorset,—  
james Bartholemew:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1201 The third   

Walter Fitz-Alice,—  
Simon de Aldermanburic:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Alwin.  
An. Dom. 1202 The fourth   

Norman Blondel,—  
john de Ely:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1203 The fifth   

Walter Browne,—  
W. Chamberlain:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
Walter Brune, and Rosia his wife, founded the Hospital of Saint Mary without Bishopsgate, commonly called, Saint Mary spital.  
An. Dom. 1204 The sixth   

Thomas Haverel,—  
Hamond Brond:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1205 The seventh   

john Walgrave,—  
Richard de Winchester:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1206 The eighth   

john Holyland,—  
Edmund Fitz-Gerard:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1207 The ninth   

Roger Winchester,—  
Edmund Hard Le:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Firz-Alwin.  
An. Dom. 1208 The tenth   

Peter Duke,—  
Thomas Neale:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
The King by his Letters Patents granted to the Citizens of London liberty and authority, yearly to choose themselves a Mayor.  
An. Dom. 1209 The eleventh   

Peter le joshua,—  
William Blound:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1210 The twelfth   

Adam Whitley,—  
Stephen le Grass:— 

Sheriffs,     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1211. The thirteenth   

john Fitz-Peter,—  
john Garland:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
An. Dom. 1212 The foureteenth   

Randolph Eyland,—  
Constantine joshua:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Fitzalwin.  
This Henry Fitzalwin deceased, and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Mary Bothaw, near to London Stone, where he dwelled.  
An. Dom. 1213. the fifteenth   

Martin Fitz-Alice,—  
Peter Bate:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Roger Fitzalwin.  
This year the Ditch about London was begun to be made, of 204. foot broad, by the Londoners.  
1214 The sixteenth   

Solomon Basin,—  
Hugh Basin:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Serle, Mercer.  
Roger Fitzalwin, saith Grafton.  
1215 The seventeenth   

john Travers,—  
Andrew Newland:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Hardel.  
King Henry the third began his reign the 19 of October, 1216.  
1216 The first   

Benet Seinturer,—  
William Bluntivers:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, james Alderman for part,  
and Solomon Basin for part.  
1217 The second   

Thomas Boker●,—  
Ralph Holyland:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Serle, Mercer,  
Robert Serle, saith Grafton.  
1218 The third   

john Wail, or Veil,—  
john le Spicer:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Robert Serle, Mercer.  
The Forest of Middlesex, and the Warren of Stanes, were this year disafforested.  
1219 The fourth   

Richard Wimbledon,—  
john Wail, or Veil:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Robert Serle, Mercer.  
1220 The fifth   

Richard Renger,—  
john Veil:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Robert Serle, Mercer.  
1221 The sixth   

Richard Renger,—  
Thomas Lambart:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Robert Serle, Mercer.  
1222 The seventh   

Richard Renger,—  
Thomas Lambart:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Robert Serle, Mercer.  
Constantine Fitz-Arnulph raised great troubles in this City, and was hanged with his Nephew and other.  
1223 The eighth   

john Travars',—  
Andrew Bokerel:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Renger.  
1224 The ninth   

john Travars',—  
Andrew Bokerel:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Renger.  
The King granted to the Commonalty of London, to have a common Scale.  
1225 The tenth   

Roger Duke,—  
Martin Fitz-William:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Renger.  
1226 The eleventh   

Roger Duke,—  
Martin Fitz William:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Renger.  
This year the King confirmed to the Citizens of London free Warren, or liberty to hunt a certain circuit about the City, in the Warren of Stanes, etc. And also, that the Citizens of London should pass tol-free throughout all England, and that the Keddles, or Wears in the River of Thames, and Midway, should be plucked up and destroyed for ever, etc. Patent 11. Henry 3.  
1227 The twelfth   

Stephen Bokerel,—  
Henry Cecham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Roger Duke.  
The liberties and Franchises of London were ratified, and the King granted, that either Sheriff should have two Clerks, and two Sergeants: also, that the Citizens should have a common Seal.  
1228 The thirteenth   

Stephen Bokerel,—  
Henry Cocham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Roger Duke.  
1229 The foureteenth   

William Winchester,—  
Robert Fitz john:— 

Sheriff's     

Mayor, Roger Duke.  
1230 The fifteenth   

Richard Walter,—  
john de Woborne:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Roger Duke.  
1231 The sixteenth   

Michael of S. Helen,—  
Walter de Enfield:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.  
1232 The seventeenth   

Henry de Edmonton,—  
Gerard Bat:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.  
1233 The eighteenth   

Simon Fitz Mary,—  
Roger Blunt:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.  
1234 The nineteenth   

Ralph Ashwy,—  
john Norman:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.  
1235 The twentieth   

Gerard Bat,—  
Richard or Robert Hardle: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.  
1236 The one and twentieth   

Henry Cobham,—  
jordan of Coventry:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.  
1237 The two and twentieth   

john Toloson,—  
Gervais the Cordwainer: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.  
1238 The three and twentieth  
john Codra●,—  
john Wilhall:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Renger.  
1239 The four and twentieth   

Reymond Bongy,—  
Ralph Ashwy:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William joiner.  
This William joiner, builded the Choir of the Grey Friar's Church in London, and became a Lay brother of that house.  
1240 The five and twentieth   

john Guysors,—  
Michael Tony:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gerard Bat.  
This year Aldermen of London were chosen, and changed yearly, but that order lasted not long. Gerard Bat was again elected Mayor for that year to come, but the King would not admit him, being charged with taking money of the Victuallers in the precedent year.  
1241 The six and twentieth   

Thomas Duresme,—  
john Voyle:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Reymond Bongey.  
1242 The seven and twentieth   

john Fitz-Iohn,—  
Ralph Ashwy:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Reymond Bongey.  
1243 The eight and twentieth   

Hugh Blunt,—  
Adam Basin:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Ralph Ashwy.  
1244 The nine and twentieth   

Ralph Foster,—  
Nicholas Bat:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Michael Tony.  
1245 The thirtieth   

Robert of Cornhill,—  
Adam of Bewley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Guysors Pepperer.  
1246 The one and thirtieth   

Simon Fitz-Mary,—  
Laurence Frowicke:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Guysors.  
Simon Fitz-Mary, founded the Hospital of Mary, called Bethelem without Bishopsgate. Queen Hith was now let to farm to the Citizens of London.  
1247 The two and thirtieth   

john Voyle,—  
Nicholas Bat:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Peter Fitzalwin.  
1248 The three and thirtieth   

Nicholas Fitz joshua,—  
Geffrey Winchester:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Michael Tony.  
1249 The four and thirty   

Richard Hardell,—  
john Tolason:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Roger Fitz-Roger.  
1250 The five and thirtieth   

Humphrey Bat,—  
William Fitz-Richard:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Guysors, Pepperer.  
The King now granted, that the Mayor should be presented to the Barons of the Exchequer, and they should admit him.  
1251 The six and thirtieth   

Laurence Frowicke,—  
Nicholas Bat:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam Basin.  
1252 The seven and thirtieth   

William Durham,—  
Thomas Wimborne:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Tolason, Draper.  
The Liberties of this City were seized, and the Mayor charged, that he looked not to the Assize of bread.  
1253 The eighth and thirtieth   

john Northampton,—  
Richard Picard:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Hardell, Draper.  
1254 The nine and thirtieth   

Ralph Ashwy,—  
Robert of Limon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Hardell, Draper.  
1255 The fortieth   

Stephen Do,—  
Henry Walmond:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Hardell, Draper.  
The Mayor, diverse Aldermen, and the Sheriffs of London were deprived, and other placed in their rooms.  
1256 The one and fortieth   

Michael Bockerell,—  
john the Minor:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Hardell, Draper.  
1257 The two and fortieth   

Richard Otwel,—  
William Ashwy:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Hardell; Draper.  
The King caused the walls of this City to be repaired, and made with Bulwarks.  
1258 The three and fortieth   

Robert Cornhill,—  
john Adrian:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Hardell, Draper.  
1259 The four and fortieth   

john Adrian,—  
Robert Cornhill:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Guysors, Pepperer.  
1260 The five and fortieth   

Adam Browning,—  
Henry Coventrie:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Fitz-Richard.  
1261 The six and fortieth   

john Northhampton,—  
Richard Picard:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Fitz-Richard.  
1262 The seven and fortieth   

john Tailer—  
Richard Walbrooke: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Fitz-Richard.  
1263 The eight and fortieth   

Robert de Mountpiter,—  
Osbert de Suffolk:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Fitz-Richard.  
The Citizens of London fortified the City with iron Chains, drawn rhwart over their streets.  
1264 The nine and fortieth   

Gregory Rockesley,—  
Thomas de De●ford:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Richard.  
1265 The fiftieth   

Edward Blund,—  
Peter Anger:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Richard.  
The Chains and Posts in London were plucked up, the Mayor and principal Citizens committed to Ward, and Otho Constable of the Tower, was made Custos of the City, etc.  
1266 The one and fiftieth   

john Hind,—  
john Walraven:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Richards.  
The Earl of Gloucester entered the City with an Army, and therein builded Bulwarks, cast Trenches, etc.  
1267 The two and fiftieth   

john Adrian,—  
Lucas de Batencourt:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, allen de la Souch.  
This allen de la Souch, being a Baron of this Realm, and also chief justice, was in the year 1270. slain in Westminster Hall, by john warren Earl of Surrey.  
Thomas Fitz-Th●obald, and Agnes his wife, this year founded the Hospital of Saint Thomas of Acon in Westcheape.  
1268 The three and fiftieth▪   

Walter Harvy,—  
William Dur●sme:— 

Sheriffs.     

T. Wimborn; Custos, Sir Stephen Edward.  
A variance fell in London between the Goldsmiths and the Tailors, wherethrough many men were slain.  
1269 The four and fiftieth   

Thomas Basin,—  
Robert Cornhill:— 

Sheriffs.     

Hugh Fitz-Ottonis, Custos of London, and Constable of the Tower.  
1270 The five and fiftieth   

Walter Potter,—  
Philip Tailor:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Adrian Vintner.  
1271 The six and fiftieth   

Gregory Rokesly,—  
Henry waleys:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Adrian Vintner.  
The steeple of Bow Church in Cheap fell down, and slew many people.  
1272 The seven and fiftieth   

Richard Paris,—  
john de Wodeley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Walter Harvy, Custos, H. Frowike, Pepperer, for part that year.  
King Edward the first began his reign the sixteenth of November, 1272.  
1273 The first   

john Horn,—  
Walter Potter:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Walter Harvy, Knight.  
1274 The second   

Nicholas Winchester,—  
Henry Coventry:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Walleis.  
1275 The third   

Lucas Ba●encourte,—  
Henry Frowicke:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rokesley; chief Say-master of all the King's Mints throughout all England, and keeper of the King's Exchange at London.  
1276 The fourth   

john Horn,—  
Ralph Blunt:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rokesley.  
1277 The fifth   

Robert de Arar,—  
Ralph L. Fewre:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rokesley.  
1278 The sixth   

john Adrian,—  
Walter Langley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rokesley.  
1279 The seventh   

Robert Basin,—  
William le Meyre:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rokesley.  
1280 The eighth   

Thomas Fox, or Box,—  
Ralph Delamere, or Moor: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rokesley.  
1281 The ninth   

William Farendon,—  
Nicholas Winchester:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rakesley.  
This William Farendon, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffs was Father to Nicholas Farendon: Of these two Faringden Ward took that name.  
1282 The tenth   

W. le Meyre,—  
Richard Chigwel:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Walleis.  
This Henry Walleis builded the Tun upon Cornhill, to be a Prison, and the Stocks to be a Market-house.  
1283 The eleventh   

Ralph Blunt,—  
Ankerin de Betavil, or Hawkin Betuell:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Walleis.  
1284. The twelfth   

jordan Goodcheape,—  
Martin Box:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Walleis.  
Lawrence Ducat, Goldsmith, murdered in Bow-Church, and the murderers hanged.  
1285 The thirteenth   

Stephen Cornhill,—  
Roberts Rokesley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Gregory Rokesley;  
Custos, Ralph Sandwich, and john Briton.  
It was ordained, that Millers should have but one halfpenny for a quarter of Wheat grinding: and the great water Conduit in Cheap was now begun to be made.  
1286 The foureteenth   

Walter Blunt,—  
john Wade:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Ralph Sandwich.  
Wheat was now sold at London for sixteen pence, and for twelve pence the quarter.  
1287 The fifteenth   

Thomas Cross,—  
Walter Hawteyne:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Ralph Sandwich.  
1288 The sixteenth   

W. Hereford,—  
Thomas Stanes:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Ralph Sandwich.  
1289 The seventeenth   

W. Betaine,—  
john of Canturbury:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Ralph Sandwich, Ralph Barnavars', and Sir john Briton.  
This year a Subsidy was granted, for the reparations of London-bridge.  
1290 The eighteenth   

Fulke of S. Edmond,—  
Solomon Langford, or Le Setel:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Briton, Knight.  
1291 The nineteenth   

Thomas Romain,—  
W. de Leyre:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Briton, Knight, Ralph Sandwich.  
1292 The twentieth   

Ralph blunt,—  
Hamond Box:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Ralph Sandwich.  
1293 The one and twentieth   

Henry Bell, or Bole,—  
Elias Russell:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Ralph Sandwich.  
Three men had their right hands cut off at the Standard in Cheap, for rescuing of a prisoner, arrested by a Sergeant of London.  
1294 The two and twentieth   

Robert Rokesley the younger,  
Martin Aubery, or Amersbery:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Ralph Sandwich.  
1295 The three and twentieth   

Henry Box,—  
Richard Gloucester:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir Ralph Sandwich.  
1296 The four and twentieth   

john 〈◊〉,—  
〈…〉:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Briton.  
This year all the Liberties of the City were restored, the Mairalty excepted.  
1297 The five and twentieth   

Thomas of Suffolk,—  
●●dam of Falham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Briton.  
1298 The six and twentieth   

Richard Re●●a●●,—  
Thomas ●ely:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Walleis.  
Certain Citizens of London broke up the Tun upon Cornhill, and took out prisoners, for the which they were grievously punished.  
1299 The seven and twentieth   

john Armenter,—  
Henry ●ingene, or Fingrith: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Elias Russell.  
1300 The eighth and twentieth   

Lucas de Havering,—  
Richard Champnes:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Elias Russell.  
1301 The nine and twentieth   

Robert Callor, or Callet,—  
Peter de Besenho:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Blunt, Knight.  
1302 The thirtieth   

Hugh Pourte,—  
Simon Paris:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Blunt.  
1303 The one and thirtieth   

W. Combmartin,—  
john de Burford:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Blunt.  
1304 The two and thirtieth   

Roger Paris,—  
john de Lincoln:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Blunt.  
Geffrey Hertel●pole, Alderman, was elected to be Recorder of London, and took his oath, and was appointed to wear his apparel as an Alderman.  
1305 The three and thirtieth   

William Cawson,—  
Reginald Thunderley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Blunt.  
1306 The four and thirtieth   

Geffrey at the Conduit,—  
Simon Billet:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Blunt.  
Sea-coal was forbidden to be burned in London, Southwark, etc.  
Edward the second began his reign the seventh of july, the year of Christ, Anno, 1307.  
1307 The first   

Nicholas Pigot,—  
Nigellus Drury:— 

Sheriffs.     

Custos, Sir john Blunt.  
1308 The second▪   

W. Basin,—  
james Butt●ler:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Faringdon, Goldsmith.  
1309 The third   

Roger le Palmer,—  
james of S. Edmond:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Roman.  
1310 The fourth   

Simon Cooper,—  
Peter Blackney:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Reffam, Mercer.  
The King commanded the Mayor and commonalty to make the Wall of London, from Ludgate to Fleetbridge, and from thence to the Thames.  
1311 The fifth   

Simon Metwod,—  
Richard Wilford:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Guysors, Pepperer.  
Order was taken that Merchant-strangers should sell their wares within forty days after their arrival, or else the same to be forfeited.  
1312 The sixth   

john Lambin,—  
Adam Lutkin:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Guysors, Pepperer.  
1313 The seventh   

Robert Gurden, or Burdeint,  
Hugh Garton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Faringdon, Goldsmith.  
Prices set on victuals: a fat stalled Ox, 24. shillings, a fat Mutton, 20. pence, a fat Goose, two pence half penny, a fat Capon, two pence; a fat Hen, one penny; two Chickens, one penny; three Pigeons, one penny; 24. eggs one penny, etc.  
1314 The eighth   

Stephen Abingdon,—  
Hamond Chickwell, or Chigwell:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Guysors, Pepperer.  
Famine and mortality of people, so that the quick might unneath bury the dead, horse flesh, and dogs flesh was good meat.  
1315 The ninth   

Hamond Goodchape,—  
William Bodeleigh:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Stephen de Abingdon.  
1316 The tenth   

William Caston,—  
Ralph Balancer:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Wingrave.  
An early Harvest: a Bushel of Wheat that had been sold for ten shillings, was now sold for ten pence, etc.  
1317 The eleventh   

john Prior,—  
W. Furneux, or Furneiss:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Wingrave.  
Such a murrain of Kin●, that Dogs and Ravens that said on them were poisoned.  
1318 The twelfth   

john Pointell,—  
john Dalling:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Wingrave.  
1319 The thirteenth   

Simon de Abingdon,—  
I Preston:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.  
john Guysors, late Mayor of London, and many other Citizens fled the City, for things laid to their charge.  
1320 The foureteenth   

Renauld at the Conduit,—  
W. Prodham, or Produn:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Farengdon, Goldsmith.  
1321 The fifteenth   

Richard Constantine,—  
Richard de Hackney:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.  
1222 The sixteenth   

john Grantham,—  
Richard de Ely:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.  
Fish and Flesh market established at the Stocks, in the midst of the City.  
1323 The seventeenth   

Adam of Salisbury,—  
john of Oxford:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Farengdon, Goldsmith.  
Of this Nicholas Farengdon, and of William Farengdon his father, read more in Farengdon Ward.  
1324 The eighteenth   

Benet of Fulham,—  
john Cawson:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.  
1325 The nineteenth   

Gilbert Mordon,—  
john Causton, or Cotton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.  
The Citizens of London took the Bishop of Excester, and cut off his head at the Standard in Cheap.  
1326 The twentieth   

Richard Rothing,—  
Roger Chaunteclere:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Britain, Goldsmith.  
This Richard Rothing is said to new build the Parish Church of S. james at Garlicke-Hith.  
Edward the third began his reign the 25. of january, the year of Christ, Anno, 1326.  
This King Edward granted, that the Mayor should be justice for the Gaol delivery at Newgate, that the Citizens of London should not be constrained to go out of the City of London to any War. More he granted, that the Liberties & Franchises of the City should not, after this time (for any cause) be taken into the King's hands, etc. More he granted by his Letters Patents, dated the sixth of March, that no Escheter should be in the City, but the Mayor for his time only.  
1327 The first   

Henry Darcy,—  
john Hawton, or Haughton: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.   

This year the Walls of London were ●●payred.  
1328 The second   

Simon Frances,—  
Henry Combmartin:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Grantham, Grocer.  
1329 The third   

Richard Lazar,  
William Guysors: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Swandland.  
This year the King kept a great jousting in Cheap, betwixt Sopars-lane and the great Cross.  
1330 The fourth   

Robert of Elie,—  
Thomas Whorwode: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Pountney, or Pultney, Draper.  
1331 The fifth   

john Mocking,—  
Andrew Aubery:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Pultney, Draper.  
1332 The sixth  
Nicholas Pike,—  
john Husband:— 

Sheriffs.     

john Preston, Draper,  
This year was founded Elsing spital, by W. Elsing, Mercer, that became first Prior of that Hospital.  
1333 The seventh   

john Hamond,—  
William Hansard:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Puleney, Drapes.  
1334 The eighth  
john Kingston, or Kington,  
Walter Turk:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Reginald at the Conduit, Vintner.  
1335 The ninth   

Walter Mordon,—  
Richard Vpton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Wotton, Reignold at the Conduit, saith Grafton.  
1330 The tenth   

john Clarke,—  
W. Curtez: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Pultney, Draper.  
This Sir john Pultney founded a College in the Parish Church of S. Laurence Pountney, by Candlewicke street.  
1337 The eleventh   

Walter Neale,—  
Nicholas Crane:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Darcy.  
Walter Neale, Bladesmith, gave lands to the repairing of the highways about London.  
1338 The twelfth   

William de Pomfret,—  
Hugh Marbeler, or Marberoll:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Darcy.  
The King granted, that the Sergeants of the Mayor and Sheriffs of London, should bear Maces of Silver and gilt, with the King's Arms engraven on them.  
1339 The thirteenth   

William Thorney,—  
Roger Frosham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Andrew Aubery, Grocer,  
1340 The foureteenth   

Adam Lucas,—  
Bartholomew Moris:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Aubery, Grocer.  
1341 The fifteenth   

Richard de Barking,—  
john de Rokesley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john of Oxenford, Vintner.  
1342 The sixteenth   

john Loufkin,—  
Richard Killingbery:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Simon Francis, Mercer.  
The price of Gascoyn Wines at London, fourepences, and Rhenish Wine six pence the Galon.  
1343 The seventeenth   

john Steward,—  
john Aylesham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john H●mond.  
1344 The eighteenth   

Geffrey Witchingham,—  
Thomas Leg:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Hamond.  
1345 The ninteenth   

Edmund Hemenhall,—  
john of Gloucester: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Leget, Richard Lazar faith Grofton.  
1346 The twentieth   

john Croyden,—  
William Clopton: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Geffrey Witchingham.  
1347 The one and twentieth   

Adam Brapson,—  
Richard Fas, or Bas:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Leggy, Skinner.  
King Edward now won Calais from the French.  
1348 The two and twentieth   

Henry Picard,—  
Simon Dolseby:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Loufkin Fishmonger.  
A great Pest. Sir Walter Manny, knight, now founded the Charter-house by Smithfield, to be a burial for the dead.  
1349 The three and twentieth   

Adam of Bury,—  
Ralph of Lynne:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Walter Turk, Fishmonger.  
1350 The four and twentieth   

john Notte,—  
William of Worcester:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Killingbury.  
1351 The five and twentieth   

john Wroth,—  
Gilbert of Stenineshorp:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Andrew Aubery.  
1352 The six and twentieth   

john peach,—  
john Stotley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam Francis, Mercer.  
This Mayor procured an Act of Parliament, that no known whore should wear any hood, or attire on her head, except reyed, or striped cloth of diverse colours, etc.  
1353 The seven and twentieth   

William Would, or Wild,—  
john Little:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam Francis, Mercer.  
This Adam Francis was one of the Founders of the College in Guild-Hal Chapel, etc. H. Prowicke was the other.  
1354 The eight and twentieth   

William Nottingham,—  
Richard Smelled:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Leggy, or Legget Skinner.  
Aldermen of London were used to be changed yearly, but now it was ordained, that they should not be removed, without some special cause.  
1355 The nine and twentieth   

Walter, or Thomas 〈◊〉,  
Thomas Brandon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Simon Francis, Mercer.  
1356 The thirtieth   

Richard Nottingham,—  
Thomas Dolssel:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Henry Picard, Vintner.  
This Henry Picard feasted the Kings of England, of France, Cypress, and Scots, with other great Estates, all in one day.  
1357 The one and thirtieth   

Stephen Candish,—  
Bartholomew Prostling:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Stody, Vintner.  
This john Stody gave tenements to the Vintners in London, for relief of the poor of that Company.  
1358 The two and thirtieth   

john Barnes,—  
john B●●is:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Loufkin, Stockfishmonger.  
1359 The three and thirtieth  
Simon of Benington,—  
john of Chichester:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Simou Dolseby, Grocer.  
1360 The four and thirtieth   

john Dennis,—  
Walter Berny:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Wroth, Fishmonger.  
1361 The five and thirtieth   

William Holbech,—  
james Tame: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Peche, Fishmonger.  
1362 The six and thirtieth   

john of S. Alban's,—  
james Andrew:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Stephen Candish, Draper.  
1363 The seven and thirtieth   

Richard of Croyen,—  
john Hiltoft:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Not, Grocer.  
1364 The three and fortieth   

john de Metford,—  
Simon de Mordon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam of Bury, Skinner.  
1365 The nine and thirtieth   

john Bukylsworth,—  
john or Thomas Ireland:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Loufkin, Fishmonger, and Adam of Bury, Skinner.  
1366 The fortieth   

john Ward,—  
Thomas of Lee, or at the Lee.— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Loufkin, Fishmonger.  
This john Loufkin builded the Parish Church of S. Michael in Crooked-lane.  
1367 The one and fortieth   

john Turngold, or Torgold,—  
William Dickeman:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, james Andrew, Draper.  
1368 The two and fortieth   

Robert Girdeler,—  
Adam Wimondham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior Simon Mordon, Stockfishmonger.  
This year Wheat was sold for two shillings six pence the bushel.  
1369 The three and fortieth   

john Piel,—  
Hugh Holdich:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Chichester, Goldsmith.  
1370 The four and fortieth   

William Walworth,—  
Robert Gayton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Barnes, Mercer.  
1371 The five and fortieth   

Adam Staple,—  
Robert Hatfield:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Barnes, Mercer.  
This john Barnes gave a chest with three locks, and one thousand Marks, to be lent to poor men.  
1372 The six and fortieth   

john Philpot,—  
Nicholas Brembar:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Piel, Mercer.  
1373 The seven and fortieth   

john Aubery,—  
john Fished: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam of Bury, Skinner.  
1374 The eight and fortieth   

Richard Lions,—  
William Woodhouse:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Walworth, Fishmonger.  
1375 The nine and fortieth   

john Hadley,—  
William Newport: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Ward, Grocer.  
1376 The fiftieth   

john Northampton,—  
Robert Land:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam Staple, Mercer.  
The Londoners meant to have slain john, Duke of Lancaster: Adam Staple, Maior, put down, and Nicholas Brembar elected. Also the Aldermen were deposed and other set in their places.  
Richard the second began his reign the one and twentieth of june, in the year 1377.  
1377 The first   

Nicholas Twiford,—  
Andrew Pikeman:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer.  
john Philpot, a Citizen of London, sent Ships to the Sea and scoured it of Pirates, taking many of them prisoners.  
1378 The second   

john Boseham,—  
Thomas Cornwalis:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Philpot, Grocer.  
This john Philpot gave to the City lands, for the finding of thirteen poor people for ever.  
1379 The third   

john Helisdon,—  
William Barrat:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Hadley, Grocer.  
1380 The fourth   

Walter Doget, or Docket,—  
William knighthood:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Walworth, Fishmonger.  
This William walworth arrested Wat Tiler, the Rebel, and this year was Knighted. He increased the Parish Church of Saint Michael in Crooked-lane, and founded there a College. Other Aldermen were also then Knighted with him, for their service in the field.  
1381 The fifth   

john Rota,—  
john Hind:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Northampton, Draper.  
1382 The sixth   

Adam Bamme,—  
john Selimus:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Northampton, Draper, or rather Skinner, as I find in some Record.  
1383 The seventh   

Simon Winchcomb,—  
john More:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer.  
john Northampton, late Mayor of London, was committed to perpetual prison and his goods confiscated.  
1384 The eighth   

Nicholas Exton,—  
john French:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer, Knighted with William Walworth.  
1385 The ninth   

john Organ,—  
john Churchman:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer.  
The foresaid john Churchman now builded the Customhouse, near to the Tower of London, and did many other works for the commodity of this City.  
1386 The tenth   

W. Stondon,—  
W. More:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Exton, Fishmonger.  
This year the Citizens of London, fearing the French, pulled down houses near about their City, repaired their Walls, and cleansed their ditches, etc.  
1387 The eleventh   

William Venor, or Vinor,—  
Hugh Falstalfe:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Exton, Fishmonger.  
Sir Nicholas Brembar, late Mayor of London was this year beheaded.  
1388 The twelfth   

Thomas Austen,—  
Adam Carlehul:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Twiford, Goldsmith, Knighted with William Walworth.  
1389 The thirteenth   

john Walcot,—  
john Love:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Vinor, or Venour, Grocer.  
1390 The fourteenth   

john Francis,—  
Thomas Vivent:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam Bamme, Goldsmith.  
This Adam Bamme provided from beyond the Seas, Corn in great abundance, so that the City was well able to serve the Country.  
1391 The fifteenth   

john Shadworth, or Chadworth,—  
Henry Vamere:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Hind, Draper.  
This Mayor was, for displeasure taken, sent to Windsor Castle, and the King made a Custos or Warden of the City.  
1392 The sixteenth   

Gilbert Mafield,—  
Thomas Newington:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Stondon, Grocer.  
1393 The seventeenth   

Drew Barentin,—  
Richard Whitington:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Hardley, Grocer.  
Faringdon Ward was now by Parliament appointed to be divided into two Wards, to wit, infra, & extra.  
1394 The eighteenth   

William Bramston,—  
Thomas Knoles:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Froyshe, Mercer.  
1395 The nineteenth   

Roger Ellis,—  
William Sevenoke:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William More, Vintner.  
1396 The twentieth   

Thomas Wilford,—  
William Parker:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Adam Browne, Goldsmith.  
1397 The one and twentieth   

john Woodcock,—  
William Ascham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Whitington, Mercer.  
1398 The two and twentieth   

john Wade,—  
john Warnar:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Drew Barentin, Goldsmith.  
King Henry the fourth began his reign the twenty ninth of September, in the year, 1399.  
1399 The first   

William Waldern,—  
William Hende or Hide:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Knoles, Grocer.  
1400 The second   

john Wakel,—  
William Ebot:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Francis, Goldsmith.  
1401 The third   

William Venor,—  
john Framingham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Shadworth, or Chadworth, Mercer.  
The Conduit upon Cornhill was this year made, being before an old prison house, called the Tun.  
1403 The fourth   

Richard Marlowe,—  
Robert Chicheley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Walcote, Draper.  
1403 The fifth   

Thomas Falconer,—  
Thomas Poole:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Ascham, Fish-monger,  
1404 The sixth   

William Louth,—  
Stephen Spilman:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Hind, Draper.  
This john Hind was a new builder of the Parish of Saint Swithen, by London-Stone.   

1405 The seventh   

Henry Barton,—  
William Cromer:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Woodcock, Mercer.  
This Mayor caused all the Wears in the River of Thames, from Stanes to the River of Medwey, to be destroyed, and the Trinkes to be burned, etc.  
1406 The eighth   

Nicholas Wotton,—  
Geffrey Brooke:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Whitington, Mercer.  
This year a great Pestilence in London took away more than 30000. people.  
1407 The ninth  
Henry Pontfract,—  
Henry Halton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Stondon, Grocer.  
1408 The tenth   

Thomas Duck,—  
William Norton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Drew Barentine, Goldsmith.  
This Drew Barentine builded a part of Goldsmith's Hall, and gave them lands.  
1409 The eleveth   

john Law,—  
William Chichley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Marlowe, Ironmonger.  
A great play at Skinners well, which lasted eight days, and was of matter from the creation of the World: the most part of all the great Estates of England were there to behold it.  
1410 The twelfth   

john Penne,—  
Thomas Pike:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Knowles, Grocer.  
This Thomas Knowles began a new to build the Guild-Hall in London, etc.  
1411 The thirteeth   

john Rainwell,—  
William Cotton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Robert Chichley, Grocer.  
1412 The foureteenth   

Ralph Lovenham,—  
William Sevenoke:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Waldren, Mercer.  
Henry the fifth began his reign the twentieth of March, the year 1412.  
1413 The first   

john Sutton,—  
john Michael:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Cromar, Draper.  
Sir john Oldcastle assembled a great power in Fickets field in London, which power was overcome and taken by the King and his power.  
1414 The second   

john Michael,—  
Thomas allen:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Falconer, Mercer.  
This Mayor caused the Postern called Moregate to be builded, and he lent to the King 10000 marks upon jewels, etc.  
1415 The third   

William Cambridge,—  
Allen Everard,— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Nicholas Wotton, Draper.  
1416 The fourth   

Robert Whitigton, or Widington,—  
john Coventrie:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Henry Barton, Skinner.  
This Henry Barton ordained Lanterns with Lights, to be hanged out on the Winter evenings, betwixt Hallontide and Candlemas.  
1417 The fifth   

Henry Read,—  
john Gedney:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Marlowe, Ironmonger.  
1418 The sixth   

john Brian,—  
Ralph Barton,—  
john Paruesse: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Sevenoke.  
This Willam Sevenoke, son to William Rumsched of Sevenoke in Kent, was by his Father bound an apprentice with Hugh de Bois a Citizen and Ferrer of London, for a term of years, which being expired in the year 1394. the eighteenth of Richard the second, john Hadley being Mayor of London, and Stephen Spilman, Chamberlain of the Guild-Hall: he alleged, that his master had used the trade or mystery of a Grocer, and not of a Ferrer, and therefore required to be made free of the Grocer's Company, which was granted. This William Sevenoke, founded in the town of Sevenoke in Kent, a free. School, and Almshouses for the poor.  
1419 The seventh   

Robert Whitington,—  
john Butler:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Whitington, Mercer.  
This Mayor founded Whitington College.  
1420 The eighth   

john Butler,—  
john Welles:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Cambridge, Grocer.  
1421 The ninth   

Richard Gosseline,—  
William Weston:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Robert Chichley, Grocer.  
This Mayor gave one plot of ground thereunto, to build the Parish Church of Saint Stephen upon Walbrooke.  
Henry the sixth began his reign the one and thirtieth day of August, in the year, 1422.  
1422 The first   

William Eastfield, 
Newgate this year builded by the Executours of Richard Whitington. —  
Robert Tatarsal:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Walderne, Mercer, son of Geffrey Walderne, of the Parish of Walderne in Sussex.  
1423 The second  
Nicholas james,—  
Thomas Watford, or Windford:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Cromar, Draper, son of john Cromar of Aldernham in Hertford-shire.  
1424 The third   

Simon Seman,—  
john Bywater:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Michael, Stockfishmon●●●●ne of john Michael of Ekelingham in Suffolk.  
1425 The fourth   

William Milred, or Milreth,  
john Brokle:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Coventrie, Mercer; son of William Coventrie, of the City of Coventrie in Warwickshire.  
1426 The fifth   

john Arnold,—  
john Higham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Three Wards in London discharged from Fifteen by this Mayor.  Sir john Rainewell, Fishmonger, son of Robert Rainewell, Citizen, and Haberdasher of London.  
1427 The sixth   

Henry Frowick,—  
Robert Otely.— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Gedney, Draper, son of William Gedney, of Saint Edes, in Cambridge-shire.  
1428 The seventh   

Thomas Duffhouse, or Defe-house,—  
john Abbot:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Henry Barton, Skinner, son of Henry Barton, of Myldenhall in Suffolk.  
1429 The eighth   

William Russee,—  
Ralph Holland:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William East-field, Mercer, son of William East field, of Tickel in Yorkshire. Ralph Holland the Sheriff gave to impotent poor on hundred and twenty pounds, to prisoners fourscore pounds, to hospitals forty pounds, etc.  
1430 The ninth   

Walter Chertsey, 
A Charitable Sheriff. —  
Robert Large:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Wotton, Draper, son of Thomas Wotton of London, Gentleman. Walter Chertsey, Draper, gave to the poor, one hundred pounds, beside twenty pounds, to the Hospitals, etc.  
1431 The tenth   

john Aderley,—  
Stephen Browne:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
He builded the Standard in Cheape●●●●.  Sir john de Welles, Grocer, son of john de Welles, of the City of Norwich. This john de Welles was a great benefactor towards the new building of the Chapel 〈◊〉 the Guild-hall: beside he builded the South I'll of the Choir at Saint Antlin Church, as by his picture, (strangely there found) his Motto and Arms doth yet plainly appear.  
1432 The eleventh   

john Olney,—  
john Paddesley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Parveis, Fishmonger, son to john Parveis of Ersgeston in Barkesh●●e.  
1433 The twelfth   

Thomas Chalton,—  
john King:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Brokle, Draper. son to William Brokle, of Newport Panel in Buckinghamshire.  
1434 The thirteenth   

Thomas Barnewell,—  
Simon Eyre:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
A great Frost of 14. weeks long.  Sir Roger Oteley, Grocer, son to William Oteley of Vfford in Suffolk.  
1435 The fourteenth   

Thomas Catworth,—  
Robert Clopton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Henry Frowicke, Mercer, son to Henry Frowicke of Middlesex.  
1436 The fifteenth   

Thomas Morsted,—  
William Gregory:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior again, Sir john Michael, Stockfishmonger.  
1437 The sixteenth   

William Hales,—  
William Chapman:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior again, 
This Mayor a great 〈…〉 to the 〈◊〉 Conduits.  Sir William Easfield, and then made a Knight of the Ba●h.  
1438 The seventeenth   

Hugh Dyker,—  
Nicholas ●owe:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
A great dearth Bread made of Fitches, Pease, Beanes, & Fear●e 〈◊〉.  Sir Stephen Brown, Grocer, son to john Browne of Newcastle upon Time. Wheat was then sold for three shillings the Bushel; but this Mayor sent into Prusia, and caused to be brought from thence, certain Ships laden with Rye, which caused great relief in so extreme a necessity.  
1439 The eighteenth   

Philip Malpas,—  
Robert Martial:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Robert Large, Mercer, son of Thomas Large, Borne in London. Philip Malpas, at his decease, gave one hundred and twenty pounds to poor Prisoners: and every year, for five year, four hundred and three shirts and smocks, 
Bountiful Charity.  forty pair of sheets, and one hundred and fifty gowns of good freeze, to poor people. To poor maids marriages, one hundred marks. To repairing high ways, one hundred marks: And to five hundred poor people in London, every one six shillings eight pence, etc.  
1440 The nineteenth   

john Sutton,—  
William Welinhale:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
He was master of the money in the Tower of London.  Sir john Paddesley, Goldsmith, son to Simon Paddesley, of Bury Saint Edmond in Suffolk.  
1441 The twentieth   

William Combis, or Combs,  
Richard Rich:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Robert Clopton, Draper, son of Thomas Clopton, of Clopton in Cambridge shire.  
1442 The one and twentieth   

Thomas Beaumond,—  
Richard Nordon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Alderley, Ironmonger, son of john Aderley or Hatherley, of the City of Bristol.  
1443 The two and twentieth   

Nicholas Wyfold,—  
john Norman:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Catworth, Grocer, son of john Catworth of Rushton in Northumberland.  
1444 The three and twentieth   

Stephen Foster,—  
Hugh Witch:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Paul's Steeple was fired with lightning and hardly quenched.  again Sir Henry Frowicke, son to Henry Frowicke of Tottenham in Middlesex Gounty.  
1445 The four and twentieth   

john Derby,—  
Godfrey Fielding:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Simon Eyre, Draper, son to john Eyre, of Brandon in Suffol●e. This Simon Eyre builded 〈◊〉 Hall in London, to be a Common Carner for the City.  
1446 The five and twentieth   

Robert Horn,—  
Godfrey Bullen:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Olney, Mercer, son of of john Olney of the City of Coventrie.  
1447 The six and twentieth   

William Abraham,—  
Thomas Scot:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior again, Sir john Gedney, Draper.  
1448 The seven and twentieth   

William Cotlow, or Catlow,—  
William Marrow:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior again, Sir Stephen Browne, Grocer.  
1449 The eight and twentieth   

William Hulin,—  
Thomas Canning:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
〈…〉.  Sir 〈…〉 son to Thomas 〈…〉 in Redfordshire.  
1450 The nine and twentieth.   

john 〈◊〉—  
William Dear:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Nicholas Wilford, but more truly Wyfold, Grocer, son to Thomas Wyfold of Hertley in Berkshire.  
1451 The thirtieth   

Matthew Philip,—  
Christopher Wharton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Gregory, Skinner, son of Roger Gregory of Milden-hall in Suffolk.  
1452 The one and thirtieth   

Richard Zee,—  
Richard Alley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
A great Fray was this year at the westling.  Sir Geffrey Fielding, Mercer, son to William Fielding of Litterworth in Leicestershire. This Lord Maior was made of the Council to King Henry the sixth and King Edward the fourth.  
1453 The two and thirtieth   

john Walden, or Waldron,—  
Thomas Cook:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The Aldermen (before) road by land on hourseback to West 〈◊〉.  Sir john Norman, Draper, son to Io. Norman of Banbury in Oxfordshire. This I. Norman was the first Mayor that was rowed by water to Westminster, to take his Oath: he caused a Barge to be made at his own charge, and every Company had several Barges, well decked & trimmed, to pass along with him. For joy whereof, the Watermen made a Song in his praise beginning.  
Row thy Boat, Norman, etc.  
1454 The three and thirtieth   

john Field,—  
William Taylor:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Stephen Foster, Fishmonger, son of Robert Foster of London, Stockfishmonger. This man enlarged Ludgate, for ease of the prisoners there.  
1455 The four and thirtieth   

john Young,—  
Thomas Oldgrave:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Marrow, Mercer, son to Stephen Marrow, of Stebunheath, in Middlesex.  
1456 The five and thirtieth   

john Styward.—  
Ralph Verney:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Canning, Grocer, son to john Canning, of the City of Bristol.  
1457 The six and thirtieth   

William Edwards,—  
Thomas Reyner:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This Mayor gave 1000 〈◊〉 poor householders in London.  Sir, Godfrey Bullen, son to Geffrey Bullen of Salle in Norfolk.  
1458 The seven and thirtieth   

Ralph joceline,—  
Richard Medham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Scot, Draper, son to Robert Scot of Dorney in Buckinghamshire.  
1459 The eight and thirtieth   

john Plummer,—  
john Stocker:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Now were the woeful battles of Blorebeath, Northhampton, Wakefield, Faint Albans, & Mortiners Cross each ofter other.  Sir William Hulin, Fishmonger, son to Nicholas Hulin of Fulham in Middlesex.  
1460 The nine and thirtieth   

Richard Fleming,—  
john Lambert:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Leo, Grocer, son to Simon Lee, of the City of Worcester.  
King Edward the fourth began his reign the fourth of March, in the year 1460. after the account of the Church of England.  
1461 The first   

George Ireland,—  
john Lock:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Hugh Witch, Mercer, son of Richard Witch, of Wise Malbano in Cheshire.  
1462 The second   

William Hampton,—  
Bartholomew james:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Cook, Draper, son of Robert Cook of Lavenham in Suffolk. This Mayor was made Knight of the Bath, 
This Mayor was knight of the Bath and after Knighted in the field by the King.  and had great troubles after.  
1463 The third   

Robert Basset,—  
Thomas Muschamp:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Matthew Philip, Goldsmith, son to Arnold Philip of the City of Norwich.  
1464 The fourth   

john Tate,—  
john Stone:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Sir Ralph joceline, Knight of the Bath in the field.  Sir Ralph joceline, Draper, son to Geffrey joceline, of Sabridgeworth in Hertfordshire.  
1465 The fifth   

Henry Weaver, 
Henry Weaver, knight of the Bath being Sheriff, Surmistedly charged with Treason. —  
William Constantine:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Ralph Varney, Mercer, son to Ralph Varney, borne in the City of London.  
1466 The sixth   

john Browne,—  
Henry Brice,—  
john Derby:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Young, Grocer, son of Thomas Young of the City of Bristol. This Mayor was made Knight in the field: and this year began the troubles of Sir Thomas Cook, and of other Aldermen, as you may read more at large in my Summarie.  
1467 The seventh   

Thomas Stalbrooke,—  
Humphrey Hoyford:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Oldgrave, Skinner; son of William Oldgrave, of Knottysford in Cheshire.  
1468 The eighth   

Simon Smith,—  
William Harriot:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Taylor, Grocer, son to john Tailor of Ecclestone in Staffordshire.  
1469 The nint   

Richard Gardner,—  
Robert Drop:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
King Henry the sixth delivered out of the Tower.  Sir Richard a Lee, son to john a Lee, of the City of Worcester. This year, the Tower of London being delivered the Lord Maior, and his brethren the Aldermen, they delivered, King Henry the sixth, who was kept there Prisoner.  
1470 The tenth   

john Crosby,—  
john Ward:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Stockton, Mercer, son to Richard Stockton, of Bratoft in Lincolnshire. Thomas Nevil, the Bastard Falconbridge, with a riotous company, 
The insurrection of the Bastard Faulconbridge and his complices.  did this year set upon this City, at Aldgate, Bishopsgate, the Bridge, etc. And twelve Aldermen, with the Recorder were Knighted in the field, by Edw. the fourth, to wit, john Stockton, Maior; Ralph Veruey, late Mayor; john Young, late Mayor; William Taylor, late Mayor; Richard a Lee, late Mayor; Matthew filips, 
The most of these Knights were afterward made Majors.  late Mayor, George Ireland; William Stocker; William Hampton; Thomas Stalbrooke; john Crosby; Bartholomew james; and Thomas Vrswike, Recorder.   

1471 The eleventh   

john allen,—  
john Shelley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Edward's, Grocer, son to William Edward's of the Parish of Hoton in Essex. The water-Conduit in Aldermanburic, and the Standard in Fleetstreet were this year finished.  
1472 The twelfth   

john Browne,—  
Thomas Bledlow:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Mychenhampton.  Sir William Hampton, Fishmonger, son to john Hampton of Minchen-hampton in Glocestershire. 
Punishment inflicted on strumpets and Vagabonds.  This Mayor punished Strumpets, and caused stocks to be set up in every Ward, to punish Vagabonds.  
1473 The thirteenth   

Sir William Stocker,—  
Robert Belisdon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Tate, Mercer, son of john Tate, 
Sergeants and their yeomen appointed to the Sheriffs.  borne in the City of London. This year the Sheriffs of London were appointed (each of them) to have sixteen Sergeants, & every Sergeant to have his Yeoman. Also six Clerks, a Secondary, a Clerk of the Papers, and four other Clerks, besides the Vndersheriffes' Clerks.  
1474 The fourteenth   

Edmond Shaa, or Shawe,—  
Thomas Hill:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Robert Drop, Draper, son to john Drop of Saint Edes in Huntingdonshire. 
This Mayor increased the Water-Conduit in Cornhill.   
1475 The fifteenth   

Hugh Brice,—  
Robert Colwich:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Robert Basset, Salter, son to Robert Basset of Billerykey in Essex.  
1476 The sixteenth   

Richard Rawson,—  
William Horn:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior again, 
He corrected the Bakers & Victuallers of this City.  Sir Ralph joceline, Draper, Knight of the Bath, by whose diligence the walls of the City were repaired.  
1477 The seventeenth   

Henry Collet,—  
john Stocker:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Humphrey Heyford, Goldsmith, son to Roger Heyford of Stratford Bow near London.  
1478 The eighteenth   

Robert Harding, 
Robert Bifield gave 50. li. towards the water Conduits. —  
Robert Bifield:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Richard Gardener, Mercer, son of john Gardener of Exning in Suffolk.  
1479 The nineteenth   

Thomas Ilam, 
Tomas Ilam newly builded the great Conduit in Cheap side. —  
john Ward:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Bartholomew james, Draper, son to Edward james of London, Upholder.  
1480 The twentieth   

Thomas, or William Daniel,  
William Bacon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Browne, otherwise called john de Werks, Mercer, son of john Browne of Okeham in Rutland-shire.  
1481 The one and twentieth   

Robert Ta●e,—  
Richard Chawrey,—  
William Wiking:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
New building of Creplegate.  Sir William Heriot, or Harriot, Draper, son to john Heriot late of Segrave in the County of Leicester.  
1482 The two and twentieth   

William White,—  
john Matthew:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Edmond Shaa, or Shaw, Goldsmith, son to john Shaa, late of Donkenfield, in the County of Chester. This Sir Edmond Shaa, caused the Postern called Creplegate to be newly builded.  
King Edward the fifth began his reign the ninth of April, in the year 1483.  
Richard the third began his reign the two and twentieth of june in the year 1483.  
1483 The first   

Thomas Newland,—  
William Martia:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Robert Billesdon, Haberdasher, son to Alexander Billesdon, of Queeningborough in the County of Leicester.  
1484 The second   

Richard Chester,—  
Thomas Britain,—  
Ralph Astrie:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
3 Lord Majors, & three Sheriffs in one year, by reason of a sweeting sickness.  Sir Thomas Hill, Grocer: Sir William Stocker, Draper, and john Ward, Grocer. Thomas Hill was son to William Hill of Hilston in the County of Kent. William Stoker was son to Thomas Stocker of Eton in the County of Bedford: and john Ward was son to Richard Ward of Howdon in the County of York. Thomas Hill appointed by his Testament, the water Conduit in Grasse-street to be builded this year.  
Henry the seventh began his reign the two and twentieth of August in the year 1485.  
1485 The first   

john Tate,—  
john Swan, or Swans:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Hugh Brice, Goldsmith, son to Richard Brice of Dublin in Ireland. This Hugh Brice was keeper of the King's Mints at London.  
1486 The second   

john Percivol,—  
Hugh Clopton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This was father to him that builded Paul's School.  Sir Henry Collet, Mercer, son to Robert Collet of Wendover in the County of Buckingham. This year the Cross in West Cheap was new builded in beautiful manner.  
1487 The third   

john Fenkel,—  
William Remington:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Florne, Saiter, son to Thomas Horn of Snaysewell in the County of Cambridge. This William was made Knight, in the field, by King Henry the seventh, and gave to the repairing of high ways betwixt London and Cambridge, five hundred Marks, and bountifully to the Preachers at Paul's Cross.  
1488 The fourth   

William Isaac,—  
Ralph Tinley or Tilney:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Robert Tate, Mercer, son to Thomas Tate of the City of Coventr●y.  
1489 The fifth   

William Capell,—  
john Brooke:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William White, Draper, son to Williamwhite of Tickhill in the County of York.  
1490 The sixth   

Henry Coat, or Coote,—  
Robert Revel,—  
Hugh Pemberton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This man lived and died a Bachelor and never was Bachelor Maior before.  john Matthew, Mercer, being first a Linen Draper, and translated to the Mercers. He was son to Thomas Matthew of Sherington in the County of Buckingham,  
1491 The seventh   

Thomas Wood,—  
William Browne:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Hugh Clopton, Mercer, son to john Clopton of Stratford upon Avon in the County of Warwick, where the said Hugh builded the goodly stone Bridge.  
1492 The eighth   

William Purchase,—  
William Welbeck:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Martin, Skinner, son to Walter Martin of the County of Hertford. This year there was a riot made upon the Easterlings, by the Mercer's servants and others. d others.  
1493 The ninth   

Robert Fabian,—  
john Winger:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This Mayor was made Knight by King Henry the seventh.  Sir Ralph Ostrich, or Astrie, Fishmonger, son to Geffrey Ostrich, or Astrie, of Hitchin in the County of Hertford. Robert Fabian, Alderman, made Fabians Chronicle, a very painful labour, to the great honour of the City, and the whole Realm.  
1494 The tenth   

Nicholas Alwin,—  
john Warner:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Chawrie, Salter, son to William Chawrie, of Westram in Kent.  
1495 The eleventh   

Thomas Kneesworth,—  
Henry Summer:— 

Sheriffs.     

Maior again, 
One man twice Lord Maior.  Sir Henry Collet Mercer. This year was much trouble, about the intercourse between England and Flanders.  
1496 The twelfth   

john Shaa,—  
Richard Haddon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, john Tate the younger, son to Thomas Tate of Coventrie, and brother to Robert Tate, Maior before named. The King made this Mayor, Robert Shifield, Recorder, and both the Sheriff's Knights, for their service against the Rebels at Black-heath Field.  
1497 The thirteenth   

Barthelomew Reed,—  
Thomas Windew or Windout: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The levelling of Morefields.  William Purchase, Mercer, son to john Purchase of Gamelinghey in the County of Cambridge. This year all the Gardens in Morefields were destroyed, and made plain ground.  
1498 The fourteenth   

Thomas Bradbury,—  
Stephen 〈◊〉— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Made Knight in the field by the King.  Sir john percival, Merchant-Taylor, son to Roger percival of London.  
1499 The fifteenth   

james Wilford,—  
Thomas, or Richard Brond:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
A good Mayor for the poor●.  Sir Nicholas Aldwine, Mercer, son to Richard Aldwine of Spalding in Lincolnshire. He gave twelve pence a piece to three thousand poor people in London, and the like to as many more in and about Spalding.  
1500 The sixteenth   

john Hawes,—  
William Steed:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Rennington, Fishmonger, son to Robert Rennington of Bostone in Lincolnshire.  
1501 The seventeenth   

Laurence Aylmer,—  
Henry Heed:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The Lord Mayor first riding from the Guild hell to take Barge for Westminster.  Sir john Shaa, Goldsmith, son to I. Shaa of Rochfort in Essex. This Mayor was made Knight in the field by the King, and he caused his Brethren the Aldermen to ride from the Guild-hall to the waters side, when he took Barge to Westminster, where he was sworn by the King's Council. He first kept Court in his own house, and called and redressed all matters coming before him.  
1502 The eighteenth   

Henry Kebble,—  
Nicholas Nives:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Bartholomew Reed, Goldsmith, son to Robert Reed of Crowmer in Norfolk. Thomas Granger.  
1503 The nineteenth   

Christopher Hawes,—  
Robert Wats:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Capell, Draper, son of john Capell of Stoke-Neyland, 
He was Knighted by Henry the seventh.  in the County of Suffolk. This Mayor first caused Cages to be set up in every Ward, for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds.  
1504 The twentieth   

Roger Acheley,—  
William Browne:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Winger, Grocer, son to William Winger of Leicester.  
1505 The one and twentieth   

Richard Shore,—  
Roger Grove:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Kneisworth, Fishmonger, son to john Kneisworth, of Kneisworth in Cambridgeshire. This Thomas Kneisworth appointed the water-Conduit at Bishopsgate to be builded.  
1506 The two and twentieth   

William Copinger, 
This Fitz-William, Merchant-Taylor, was after of council to King Henry the eighth, He builded also the greater part of the Parish Church of Saint Andrew Vnder●●aft In London. —  
Thomas johnson,—  
William Fitz-Williams:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Haddon, Mercer, son of William Haddon, Citizen and Mercer of London.  
1507 The three and twentieth   

William Butler,—  
john Kerkby:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, William Browne, Mercer, son of john Browne, Citizen and Mercer of London, for part of the year; and Laurence Aylmer, Draper son of Thomas Aylmer, of Ellesnam in Essex for the other part.  
1508 The four and twentieth   

Thomas Exmewe,—  
Richard Smith:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Stephen jennings, Merchant-Taylor, son to William jennings of Woolnerhampton, in Staffordshire, where he builded a Free-School, which is still worthily maintained by the Company of Merchant-Taylors of London.  
King Henry the eighth began his reign the two and twentieth of April, in the year 1509.  
1509 The first   

George Monox,—  
john Doget:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Thomas Bradbury, Mercer, son to William Bradbury of Branghin in Hertfordshire, for part of the year, and Sir William Capell for the rest.  
1510 The second   

john Milborne,—  
john Rest:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
He gave also 1000 li. to finish up his Parish church of Aldermary, with a steeple, not yet performed▪  Sir Henry Kebble, Grocer, son to George Kebble, Citizen and Grocer of London. He new builded the Parish Church of Aldermary by Watling-streete.  
1511 The third   

Nicholas Shelton,—  
Thomas Mirsine:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Roger Acheley, Draper, son to Thomas Acheley, of Stanwardine in Shropshire. 
A careful Magistrate for Corne.  This Roger Acheley provided Corn for service of this City in great plenty, and caused the same to be stowed up in Leaden Hall, being called the Common Garner.  
1512 The fourth   

Robert Holdernes, or Aldernes;—  
Robert Fenrother:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This Copinger gave half of his goods to his wife and the other hal● to the poor that had most need▪  Sir William Copinger, Fishmonger, son to Walter Copinger, of Buckfeill in Suffolk for part of the year, and Sir Richard Haddon for the rest.  
1513 The fifth   

john Dawes,—  
john Bruges,—  
Roger Basford:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Browne, Mercer, son to john Browne, Citizen and Mercer of London. john Tate Mercer, this year builded the Church of Saint Anthony's Hospital in London.  
1514 The sixth   

james Yarford,—  
john Mundy:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir George Monox, Draper, borne in London, but his father's name not remembered.  
1515 The seventh   

Henry Warley,—  
Richard Grey,—  
William Baily:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Butler, Grocer, son to Richard Butler, of Bindenham in Bedfordshire.  
1516 The eighth   

Thomas Seymer,—  
john, or Richard Thurstone: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Rest, Grocer, son to William Rest of Peterborough in Northhamptonshire.  
1517 The ninth   

Thomas Baldrie,—  
Ralph, or Richard Simons:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
He made the water Conduit at London wall by Moregate.  Sir Thomas Exmewe, Goldsmith, son to Richard Exmewe, of Ruthin in Flintshire.  
1518 The tenth   

john Allen,—  
james Spencer:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Mirfine, Skinner, son to George Mirfine of Ely in Cambridgeshire.  
1519 The eleventh   

john Wilkinson,—  
Nicholas Partridge:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Majors Knighted by courtesy of the Kings.  Sir james Yardford, Mercer, son to William Yardford of Kidwelley in Wales. From this time onward, the Majors of London (for the most part) were Knighted by courtesy of the Kings, and not otherwise.  
1520 The twelfth   

john Skevington,—  
john Kyme, alias Keble:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Brug, or Bruges, Draper, son to Thomas Brug, or Bruges, of Dymmocke in Glocestershire.  
1521 The thirteenth   

john Breton, or Britain,—  
Thomas Pargitor:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
He builded the Almshouses by Tower hill▪  Sir john Milborne, Draper, son to john Milborne of Long Melford in Suffolk.  
1522 The fourteenth   

john Rudstone,—  
john Champneis:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Not thirteen thousand Parishes in England. then approved.  Sir john Mundy, Goldsmith, son to William Mundy of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.  
1523 The fifteenth   

Michael English,—  
Nicholas jennings:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Baldrie, Mercer, son to Richard Baldrie of S●ow market in Suffol●●.  
1524 The sixteenth   

Ralph Dodmere,—  
William Roche:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Ba●ly, Draper, son to john Baily of Thacksted in Essex.  
1525 The seventeenth   

john Caunton, or Calton,—  
Christopher Askew:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Allen, Mercer, son to Richard Allen of Thacksted in Essex.  
1526 The eighteenth   

Stephen Peacocke,—  
Nicholas Lambert:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Seymer, Mercer, son to john Seymer of London, Fishmonger, who was son to Robert Seymer of Walden in Essex.  
1527 The nineteenth   

john Hardy,—  
William Holleis:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This year was the great sweeting sickness.  Sir james Spencer, Vintner, son to Robert Spencer of Congleton in Cheshire.  
1528 The twentieth   

Ralph Warren,—  
john Long:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Testament in English translated by 〈…〉.  Sir john Rudstone, Draper, son to Robert Rudstone of 〈◊〉 Yorkshire.  
1529 The one and twentieth   

Michael Dermer—  
Walter Champion:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This Mayor was translated from the Brewers to the Mercers.  Sir Ralph Dodmer, Mercer, son to Henry Dodmer, of Pickering-Leigh in Yorkshire. This year it was decreed that no man should be Mayor of London more than one year.  
1530 The two and twentieth   

William Dauntesey, or Dancy,—  
Richard Champion: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The King first called Supreme head.  Sir Thomas Pargitor, Salter, son to john Pargitor, of Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire.  
1531 The three and twentieth   

Richard Gresham,—  
Edward Altham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Nicholas Lambert, Grocer, son to Edward Lambert of Wilton in Wiltshire.  
1532 The four and twentieth   

Richard Reynolds,—  
john Martin,—  
Nicholas Pinchon,—  
john Priest:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This year was queen Elizabet's borne at Greenwich.  Sir Stephen Peacock, Haberdasher, son to Stephen Peacock of the City of Dublin in Ireland.  
1533 The five and twentieth   

William Forman,—  
Thomas Kitson:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Oath taken to the succession.  Sir Christopher Askew, Draper, son to john Askew of Edmonton in Middlesex.  
1534 The six and twentieth   

Nicholas Leveson,—  
William Denham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The Pope's power expelled out of England.  Sir john Champneis, Skinner, son to Robert Champneis, of Chew in Sommersetshire.  
1535 The seven and twentieth  
Humphrey Monmouth,—  
john Cotes:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Sergeants and their Yeomen put away by the Sheriffs.  Sir john Allen, Mercer, and made a Privy Counsellor to the King, for his great wisdom. The forenamed Sheriffs, Monmouth and Cotes, did put away twelve Sergeants & twelve Yeomen; but by a Court of Common Council, they were enforced to take them again.  
1536 The eight and twentieth   

Robert, or Richard Paget,—  
William Bowyer:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The River of Thames over-frozen.  Sir Ralph Warren, Mercer, son to Thomas Warren Fuller, who was son to William Warren, of fearing in Essex.  
1537 The nine and twentieth   

john Gresham,—  
Thomas Lewin: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The great Bible printed in English printed.  Sir Richard Gresham, Mercer, son to john Gresham of Holt, in Norfolk.  
1538 The thirtieth   

William Wilkinson,—  
Nicholas Gibson:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Suppression of Abbeys and religious houses.  Sir William Forman, Haberdasher, son to William Forman, of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire.  
1539 The one and thirtieth  
Thomas Ferrer,—  
Thomas Huntlow:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Holleis, son to William Holleis, Citizen and Baker of London.  
1540 The two and thirtieth  
William Laxstone,—  
Martin Bowes:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
〈…〉 in every 〈◊〉 Church.  Sir William R●che, Draper, son to john Roche of Wixley in Yorkshire.  
1541 The three and thirtieth   

Rowland Hill,—  
Henry Suckley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Michael Dormer, Mercer, son to Geffrey Dormer of Tame in Oxfordshire.  
1542 The four and thirtieth   

Henry Hobberthorne,—  
Henry Amcoates:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The great Plague at London.  john Cotes, Salter, son to Thomas Cotes of Bearton in Buckinghamshire.  
1543 The five and thirtieth   

john Tholouse,—  
Richard Dobbes:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Bu●●en besieged and yielded.  Sir William Bowyer, son to William Bowyer of Harston in Cambridgeshire for one part, and Sir Ralph Warren Mercer, for the rest.  
1544 The six and thirtieth   

john Wilford,—  
Andrew Iud:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Laxton, Grocer, son to john Laxton of Yongdell in Northamptonshire.  
1545 The seven and thirtieth   

George Barn,—  
Ralph Allen, or Alley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith, son to Thomas Bowes, an Inhabitant of the City of York for many years.  
1546 The eight and thirtieth   

Richard jarveis,—  
Thomas Curteis:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The death of King Henry the Eight.  Sir Henry Hobberthorne, Merchant-Taylor, son to Christopher Hobberthorne of Waddingworth in Lincolnshire.  
King EDWARD the sixth began his reign the eight and twentieth day of january, in the year, 1546.  
1547 The first   

Thomas White,—  
Robert Chertsey:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
2 Sons of one man Majors of London each after other.  Sir john Gresham, Mercer, son to john Gresham of Holt in Norfolk, and Brother to Sir Richard Gresham, formerly Lord Maior.  
1548 The second   

William Lock,—  
Sir john Ayleph:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
A great death in London.  Henry Amcoates, Fishmonger, son to William Amcoats, of Astrap in Lincolnshire.  
1549 The third   

john York,—  
Richard Turk:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Book of Common Prayer in English.  Sir Rowland Hill, Mercer, son to Thomas Hill of Hodnet in Shropshire.  
1550 The fourth   

Augustine Hind,—  
john Lion:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The second great Sweeting Sickness.  Sir andrew jud, Skinner, son to john jud of Tonebridge in Kent.  
1551 The fifth   

john Lambert,—  
john Cowper:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Richard Dobbes, Skinner, son to Robert Dobbes of Baitby in Yorkshire.  
1552 The sixth   

William Garret, or Gerrard,  
john Mainard:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The death of King Edward the sixth.  Sir George Barn, Haberdasher, son to George Barn, Citizen and Haberdasher of London.  
Queen Marie began her reign the sixth day of july in the year 1553.  
1553 The first   

Thomas Offley,—  
William Hewet:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The bounty of Sir Thomas White.  Sir Thomas White, Merchant-Taylor, son to Thomas White of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. 
〈◊〉, his rising and suppressing.  This Sir Thomas White founded Saint john Baptists College in Oxford, and gave two thousand pound to the City of Bristol to purchase one hundred and twenty pound land yearly.  
1554 The second   

David Woodroffe,—  
William Chester:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Lady jane beheaded▪  Sir john Lion, Grocer, son to Thomas Lion of Peryfare in Middlesex.  
1555 The third   

Thomas Lee, or Leigh,—  
john Machel:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Seven Aldermen in London died in less than 10 Months▪  Sir William Garret or Garrard, Haberdasher, son to john Garret, Citizen and Grocer of London, who was son to William Garret of Seddingbourne in Kent.  
1556 The fourth   

William Harper,—  
john White:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
First ordaining of the night Belman.  Sir Thomas Offley, Merchant-Taylor, son to William Offley of the City of Chester.  
1557 The fifth   

Richard Mallory,—  
james Altham:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Calais lost to the French.  Sir Thomas Curteis, Fishmonger, son to john Curteis of Enfield in Middlese●. He was free of the Pewterers, and translated to the Fishmongers.  
1558 The sixth   

john Halsey,—  
Richard Champion:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Death of Queen Mary.  Sir Thomas Lee, or Leigh, Mercer, son to Roger Lee of Willington in Shropshire.  
Queen ELIZABETH began her reign, the seventeenth of November, in the year, 1558.  
1559 The first   

Thomas Lodge,—  
Roger Martin: 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Common Prayer in English, & Images pulled down.  Sir William H●wet, Clothworker, worker, son to Edmund Hewet of Wales in Yorkshire.  
1560 The second   

Christopher Draper,—  
Thomas Rowe:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Chester, Draper, son to John Chester, Citizen and Draper of London. This year the Merchant-Taylors founded their notable Free-school for poor men's children, etc.  
1561 The third   

Alexander Avenon,—  
Humphrey Baskervile:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Paul's steeple burned june 4. 1561.  Sir William Harper, Merchant-Taylor, son to William Harper of the Town of Bedford.  
1562 The fourth   

William Allen,—  
Richard Chamberlain,— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
New-Haven yielded to the French.  Sir Thomas Lodge, Grocer, son to William Lodge of Cresset in Shropshire.  
1563 The fifth   

Edward Banks,—  
Rowland Heyward:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The great Plague: No Mayor's Feast by reason of the Plague The great frost and Thames over-frozen▪  Sir john White, Grocer, son to Robert White of Farneham in Surrey.  
1564 The sixth   

Edward jackman,—  
Lionel Ducket:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The Burse builded by Sir Thomas 〈◊〉  Sir Richard Mallory, Mercer, son to Anthony Mallory of Papworthamus in Cambridgeshire.  
1565 The seventh   

john Rivers,—  
james Hawes:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The birth of our Royal Sovereign King 〈◊〉 june 9 1566.  Sir Richard Champion, Draper, son to Richard Champion of Godilming in Surrey.   

1566 The eighth   

Richard Lambert,—  
Ambrose Nicholas,—  
john Langley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Christopher Draper, Ironmonger, son to john Draper of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.  
1567. The ninth   

Thomas Ramsey,—  
john Bond:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Downegate Conduit builded.  Sir Roger Martin, Mercer, son to Laurence Martin of Melford in Suffolk.  
1568 The tenth   

john Oleph,—  
Robert Harding,—  
james Bacon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The great Lottery at Paul's and the New Churchyard builded near Bethlehem.  Sir Thomas Rowe, Merchant-Taylor, son to Robert Rowe Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, who was son to Reynald Rowe of Lee in Kent.  
This year Sir Thomas Row enclosed a piece of ground by Moorfields, with a Brick wall, to be a place for burial of the dead, to such Parishes in London as wanted Churchyards.  
1569 The eleventh   

Henry Beecher,—  
William Dane:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Rebellion of the Earls in the North.  Sir Alexander Avenon, Ironmonger, son to Robert Avenon, or Avenand of Kings-Norton in Worcestershire.  
1570 The twelfth   

Francis Barneham,—  
William Box:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Queen Elizabeth her coming to the Royal Exchange.  Sir Rowland Heyward Clothworker, son to George Heyward of Bridge north in Shropshire.  
1571 The thirteenth   

Henry Milles,—  
john Branch:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Allen, Mercer, son to William Allen, Citizen and Pasteller of London, who was son to Richard Allen of Stondon in Hertfordshire.  
1572 The fourteenth   

Richard Pipe,—  
Nicholas Woodroffe:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Duke of Norfolk beheaded, june 2. 1572.  Sir Lionel Ducket, Mercer.  
1573 The fifteenth   

james Harvey,—  
Tho. Pulloccell or Pullison:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
M. Saunders murdered: his wife, Browne, Mistress Drewry, & trusty Roger executed.  Sir john Rivers, Grocer, son to Richard Rivers of pensehurst in Kent.  
1574 The sixteenth   

Thomas Blank,—  
Anthony Gamage:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir james Hawes, Clothworker, son to Thomas Hawes, Citizen and Merchant of London, who was son to john Hawes of Stoke-Newington in Middlesex.  
1575. The seventeenth   

Edward Osborne,—  
Wolstane Dixie:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Salter, son to john Nicholas of Nedingworth in Huntingdonshire.  
1576 The eighteenth   

William Kempton,—  
George Barn:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Oldbourne. Conduit builded by by Master Lamb.  Sir john Langley, Goldsmith, son to Robert Langley of Althrope in Lincolnshire.  
1577 The nineteenth   

Nicholas Backhouse,—  
Francis Bowyer:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Strange sickness at Oxenford death of the judges.  Sir Thomas Ramsey, Grocer, son to john Ramsey of Flenbridge in Kent.   

1578 The fourteenth   

George Bond,—  
Thomas Star●le:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The blazing Star. The great deep Snow.  Sir Richard Pipe, Draper, son to Richard Pipe of Woolverhampton, in Staffordshire.  
He was free of the Leathersellers, and from them translated to the Drapers.  
1579 The one and twentieth   

Martin Calthrope,—  
john Hart:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The great and general Earthquake, on Wednsday in Easter week the fir● of April, 1580.  Sir Nicholas Woodroffe, Haberdasher, son to David Woodroffe, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who was son to john Woodroffe, or Woodrove, of the Parish of Vscombe, in Devonshire.  
1580 The two twentieth   

Ralph Woodcock,—  
John Allot:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The bla●ing star 〈…〉 two ●one the ●ightly.  Sir john Branch, Draper, son to john Branch, Citizen and Draper of London, who was son to john Branch of Laynham in Suffolk.  
1581. The three and twentieth   

Richard Martin,—  
William Webbe:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Movesiers coming into England, and his return.  Sir james Harvey, Irohmonger, son to William Harvey, of Cotwalton in Staffordshire.  
1582 The four and twentieth   

William Rowe,—  
john Haydon, deceased,—  
Cuthbert Buckle succeeded:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Standard at Leaden-Hall for Thames-water.  Sir Thomas Blank, Haberdasher, son to Thomas Blank, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who was son to Thomas Blank of Gilford in Surrey.  
1583 The five and twentieth   

William Masham,— 
Desmonds' head set on London-bridge.   
john Spencer:— 

Sheriffs. 
Arden and Somerviles' Treason.      

Mayor, Sir Edward Osborne, Clothworker   

worker, son to Richard Osborne, of Ashford in Kent.  
1584. The six and twentieth   

Stephen Slany,—  
Henry Billingsley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
W. Parries treason. E. of Northumberl. murdered himself in the Tower.  Sir Thomas Pulloccill, or Pullyson, Draper, son to William Pulloccill, of Footescray in Kent.  
1585. The seven and twentieth   

Anthony Ratcliff,—  
Henry Pranell:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Wolstane Dixie, Skinner, son to Thomas Dixie, of Catworth in Huntingdonshire.  
1586 The eight and twentieth   

Robert House, 
Sir Philip Sidney his honourable Funeral, Febr. 16. 1586. —  
William Elkin: 
Ludgate new builded by the City's charge. — 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir George Barn, Haberdasher, son to Sir George Barn, Knight, Citizen, Haberdasher, and Lord Mayor of London; who was son also to George Barn, Citizen and Haberdasher of London.  
1587. The nine and twentieth   

Thomas Skinner,—  
john Catcher:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir George Bond, Haberdasher, son to Robert Bond, of Trull in Sommersetshire.  
1588. The thirtieth   

Hugh Offley, 
The 〈…〉. —  
Richard Saltonstall:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Queen Elizabeth her coming to Paul's Sermon.  Sir Martin Calthrop, Draper, son to Martin Calthrop, Citizen and Draper of London: He served one part of the year, and Sir Richard Martin, Goldsmith, the other.  
1589 The one and thirtieth   

Richard Gurney,—  
Stephen Some:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Death of 〈…〉.  Sir john Hart, Grocer, son to Ralph Hart, of Sproston-Court in Yorkshire.  
1590. The two and thirtieth   

Nicholas Mosley,—  
Robert Brooke:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Allot, Fishmonger, son to Richard Allot of Limbergh in Lincolnshire: He served one part of the year, and Sir Rowland Heyward the other.  
1591. The three and thirtieth   

William Rider,—  
Benet, or Benedict Barnham— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The Thomas almost empty of water for two day's space.  Sir William Webbe, Salter, son to john Webbe, of Reading in Berkshire.  
1592. The four and thirtieth—  
Robert Taylor:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
No Bartholomew Fair at London.  Sir William Rowe, Ironmonger, son to Thomas Rowe of Penschurst in Kent.  
1593. The five and thirtieth   

Paul Banning,—  
Peter Haughton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Doctor Lopez executed at Teyborne.  Sir Cuthbert Buckle, Vintner, son to Christopher Buckle, of Bourgh, in Westmoreland: He served one part of the year, and Sir Richard Martin, Goldsmith, the other; which Sir Richard Martin was son to Thomas Martin, of Saffron Walden in Essex.  
1594 The six and thirtieth   

Robert Lee,—  
Thomas Bennet:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Vnrely youth executed on Tower-hill.  Sir john Spencer, Clothworker, son to Richard Spencer of Waldingfield in Suffolk.  
1595 The seven and thirtieth   

Thomas Lowe, 
A Provost Marshal for London. —  
Leonard Hallyday:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Stephen Slany, Skinner, son to john Slany, of Mitton, in Staffordshire.  
1596 The eight and thirtieth   

john Wats,—  
Richard Goddard:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir, Thomas Skinner, Clothworker, son to john Skinner, of Walden in Essex. He served the one part of the year, and Sir Henry Billingsley, Haberdasher the other.  
This Sir Henry Billingsley was son to Roger Billingsley, of the City of Canterbury, in Kent.  
1597 The nine and thirtieth   

Henry Row,—  
john More:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Lectures reading in Gresham's College.  Sir Richard Saltonstall, Skinner, son to Gilbert Saltonstall, of Hallyfax in Yorkshire.  
1598. The fortieth   

Edward Holmedon,—  
Robert Hampson:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Earl of Essex his going towards Ireland.  Sir Stephen Some, Grocer, son to Thomas Some, of Bradley in Suffolk.  
He was free of the Girdlers, and from them translated to the Grocers.  
1599 The one and fortieth   

Humphrey Welde,—  
Roger Clerk:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Earl of Essex returned, & L. 〈◊〉 sent into Ireland.  Sir Nicholas Mosley, 
Earl of Essex his rising, troubles, and death.  Clothworker, son to Edward Mosley, of Hough in Lancashire.  
1600 The two and fortieth   

Thomas Smith,—  
Thomas Cambell,—  
William Craven:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Rider, Haberdasher, son to Thomas Rider of Mucklestone in Staffordshire.  
1601 The three and fortieth   

Henry Anderson,—  
William Glover:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Spaniards and Irish overcome in Ireland.  Sir john Garret, or Garrard, Haberdasher, son to Sir, William Garret, or Garrard, Knight, Lord Maior and Haberdasher of London, son to john Garret or Garrard, Citizen and Grocer of London, who was son to William Garret, or Garrard, of Seddingborne, in Kent.  
1602 The four and fortieth   

james Pemberton,—  
john Swinnerton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Robert Lee, Merchant-Ta●ler, son to Humphrey Lee of Bridge-North in Shropshire.  
King JAMES began his reign the four and twentieth of March in the year, 1602.  
1603 The first   

Sir William Rumney,—  
Sir Thomas Middleton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This year died good Queen Elizabeth.  Sir Thomas Bennet, Mercer, son to Thomas Bennet, of Willingford in Berkshire.  
1604 The second   

Sir Thomas Hayes, Knight,  
Sir Roger jones Knight:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Term 〈…〉, and 〈◊〉 plague at London.  Sir Thomas Low, Haberdasher, son to Simon Low, Citizen and Merchant-Tayler of London, who was son to Ralph Low, of London.  
1605 The third   

Clement Scudamor, Knight,  
Sir john Folles, Knight:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The most happy discovery and prevention of the Gunpowder Treasons.  Sir Leonard holiday, Marchant-Tayler, son to William holiday of Redborough in Glocestershire.  
1606 The fourth   

William Walthall,—  
john Lemon:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir john Wats, Clothworker, son to Thomas Wats of Buntingford in Hertfordshire.  
1607 The fifth   

Geffrey Elwes,—  
Nicholas Style:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Henry Rowe, Mercer, son to Sir Thomas Rowe, Knight, Lord Maior, Citizen and Merchant-Tayler of London.  
1608 The sixth   

George Bolles,—  
Richard Farrington:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This year Aldgate was fully finished.  Sir Humphrey Weld, Grocer, son to john Weld of Eton in Cheshire.  
1609 The seventh   

Sebastian Harvey,—  
William Cockaine:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The Lord Mayor ●hews long left off, were now revived again by order from the King.  Sir Thomas Cambell, Jronmonger, son to Robert Cambell, of Fulsam in Norfolk.  
1610 The eighth   

Richard Pyat,—  
Francis jones:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir William Cravon, Merchant-Tayler, son to William Craven of Appletreewick in Yorkshire.  
1611 The ninth   

Edward Barkham,—  
George Smiths:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This year died the Royal Prince Henry.  Sir james Pemberton, Goldsmith, son to james Premberton, of Ecclestone in Lancashire.  
1612 The tenth   

Edward Rotherham,—  
Alexander Prescot:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Marriage of the 〈…〉 to the Lady Elizabeth.  Sir john Swinnerton, Merchant-Tayler, son to Thomas Swinnerton, Citizen and Merchant-Tayler of London, who was son to Richard Swinnerton, of Oswestrey in Shropshire.  
1613 The eleventh   

Thomas Bennet,—  
Henry jaye:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The new River brought to London from Amwell.  Sir Thomas Middleton, Grocer, son to Richard Middleton, of Denbigh, in the County of Denbigh.  
1614 The twelfth   

Peter Proby,—  
Martin Lumley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Thomas Hayes, Draper, son to Thomas Hayes of the City of Westminster.  
1615 The thirteenth   

William Goare,—  
john Goare:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This year two brethrens Sheriffs and the younger first chosen.  Sir john jolles Draper, son to Thomas jelles of Stratford-Bow in Middlesex. 
The King's great journey to Scotland, and happy return.   
1616 The fourteenth   

Allen Cotten,—  
Cuthbert Hacket:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
This Mayor was the second Bachelor.  Sir john Leman, Fishmonger, son to john Leman of Gillingham in Norfolk.  
1617. The fifteenth   

William holiday,—  
Robert johnson:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, the right Honourable, George Bolles, Grocer, son of Thomas Bolles, of Newbold in the County of Leicester.  
1618. The sixteenth   

Richard Hearne,—  
Hugh Hamersley:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Sebastian Harvey, Iro● monger, he was son to Sir james H●●vey, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, which was son to William Harvey, of Cot●ton in Staffordshire.  
1619 The seventeenth   

Richard Deane,—  
james Cambell:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Doctor Abbot Lord Bishop of London, translated and installed Archbishop of Canterbury April 9  Sir William Cockaine, Skinner, he was son to William Cockaine, son of Roger Cockaine of Baddesley in Warwickshire.  
1620 The eighteenth   

Edward Allen,—  
Robert Ducie:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The new River brought from Amwell, was finished the twentininth of September.  Sir Francis jones, Haberdasher, he was the son of john jones of Claverley in the County of Saloppe.  
1621. The ninteenth   

George Whitmore,—  
Nicholas Rainton:— 

Sheriffs.     

Sir Edward Barkham, Draper, 〈…〉 son of Edward Barkham, 〈…〉 in the County of 〈…〉  
1622 The twentieth   

john Hodges,—  
Humphrey Hanford Knight:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Prince Charles having been in Spain arrived in England the sixth of October.  Sir Peter Proby, Grocer, commonly in the Country called Peter ap-Robin, his father's name is not recorded, but is said to be borne near Whitchurch in Shropshire.  
1623. The one and twentieth   

Ralph Freeman,—  
Thomas Moulson:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Our gracious queen Mary landed at Dover the 12. of june.  Sir Martin Lumley, Draper, he was the son of james Lumley, of London.  
1624. The two and twentieth   

Rowland Heilin,—  
Robert Parkhurst:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
King james died at Theobalds' the 27. day of March.  Sir john Goare, Merchant-Taylor, he was the son of Gerrard Goare, who was the son of john Goare of London.  
King Charles began his reign the seven and twentieth of March, in the year, 1625.  
1625 The first   

Thomas Westwray,—  
Ellis Crispe,—  
john Poole,—  
Christopher Cletherowe:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, Sir Allen Cotton, Draper, he was son to Ralph Cotton, of Whitchurch in the County of Salop.  
1626. The second   

Edward Bromfield,—  
Richard Fen:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The Duke of Buckingham made his voyage to the Isle of Ree near R●●hell.  Sir Cuthbert Aket, alias Hacket, Draper, he was son of Thomas Aket, or Hacket, who was the son of Thomas Aket, or Hacket, of Dertford in Kent.  
1627. The third   

Maurice Abbot,—  
Henry Garway:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The death of Lamb called by diverse Doctor Lamb.  Sir Hugh Hammersley, Haberdasher, 
The drawbridge also newly repaired.  he was the son of Hugh Hammersley, who was the son of Richard Hammersley, of the Town and County of Stafford.  
1628. The fourth   

Rowland Backhouse,—  
William Acton, Knight and Baronet:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
john Felton for killing the Duke of Buckingham, executed and hanged in chains.  Sir Richard Deane, Skinner, he was son of George Deane, of Muchdunmowe in Essex.  
1629 The fifth   

Humphrey Smith,—  
Edmund Wright:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The birth of Royal Prince Charles, May the 29 at S. James' near Charing Cross.  Sir james Cambell, Ironmonger, he was the son of Thomas Cambell, who was son of Robert Cambel, of Fulsam in the County of Norfolk.  
1630 The sixth   

Arthur Abdy,—  
Robert Cambell:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
Mervin Lord Audley, and ●arle of ●●●●●haven beheaded on Tower-hill, May 14.  Sir Robert Ducy, Merchant-Taylor, he was the son of Henry Ducy of London.  
1631 The seventh   

Samuel Cranmer,—  
Henry Prat:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The houses joining to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul began to be pulled down.  Sir George Whitmore, Haberdasher, he was the son of William Whitmore, who was son to Richard Whitmore, of the Parish of Charely in the County of Salop.  
1632 The eighth   

Hugh Perry,—  
Henry Andrew's:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, 
The third part of London-Bridge burned.  Sir Nicholas Raynton, Haberdasher, he was the son of Robert Raynton of Highinton in the County of Lincoln.  
1633 The ninth   

Gilbert Harrison,—  
Richard Gurney:— 

Sheriffs.     

Mayor, the right Honourable, Ralph Freeman, Clothworker, son of William Freeman of the Town and County of Northampton.   
Thus much for the chief and principal Governors of this famous City; of whose public Government, with the assistance of other inferior Officers, their charges for preserving the Peace, service of the Prince, and Honour of this City, much might have been said, and shall be hereafter discoursed more at large, when I have more spacious ground to walk in, and other helps (thereto belonging) can more conveniently be had.   

OF THE TWELVE HONOURABLE COMPANIES OF THIS ANCIENT AND Famous City; out of which the Lord Maior is to be chosen yearly, because those of inferior rank, are not capable of such dignity. MERCERS.  
THe Mercers were enabled to be a Company, and to purchase Lands, to the value of twenty pounds by the year, the seventeenth year of King Richard the second, Anno Dom. 1393.  

GROCERS.  

GOD GRANT GRACE.   
The Company of Grocers, in elder times called Pepperers: were first incorporated by the name of Grocers, in the twentieth year of King Edward the third, Anno Dom. 1345. The Arms ancient, and supporters granted by Thomas Benote, Clarencieux, in the time of King Henry the eight, Helm and Crest, by William Harvey, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1562.   

DRAPERS.  

UNTO GOD ONLY BE HONOR & GLORY.   
THe Company of Drapers were incorporated in the seventeenth year of King Henry the sixth, Anno Dom. 1430. The Arms first granted by Garter King of Arms: Crest and Supporters by William Harvy, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1561.   

FISHMONGERS  

ALL WORSHIP BE TO GOD ONLY   
THe Fishmongers were (at the first) two Companies, namely, Stockfishmongers, and Saltfishmongers; which Saltfishmongers, in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the eighth, Anno Dom. 1509. did bear their Arms as here is set down. But lastly, in the 28. year of the same King, Anno Dom. 1536. the said Companies were united in one, and then their Arms more fully granted.   

GOLDSMITHS.  

TO GOD ONLY. BE ALL GLORY   
THe Goldsmiths, were incorporated and confirmed in the sixteenth year of King Richard the second, the Crest and Supporters were granted by Robert Cook, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1571.   

SKINNERS.  

TO GOD ONLY. BE ALL GLORY.   
THe Company of Skinners were incorporated in the first year of King Edward the third, Anno Dom. 1327. And made a Brotherhood in the eighteenth year of King Richard the second. The Crest and Supporters were granted by William Haruy, who was free of the same Company, Anno Dom. 1561.   

MERCHANT-TAILORS.  

CONCORDIA PARVA RES CRESCUNT.   
THe first Patent of these Arms, were granted by Sir Thomas Holne Knight, Clarencieux, King of Arms to the Company of Tailors and Linen Armourers, in the one and twentieth year of King Edward the fourth, Anno Dom. 1480. And since then incorporated by King Henry the seventh, by the name of Merchant-Tailors, in the seventeenth year of his reign, Anno Dom. 1501. The Crest and Supporters being granted by Robert Cook, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1585.   

HABERDASHERS.  

SERVE AND OBEY   
The Haberdashers, or Hurrers, (of old time so called) were incorporated a Brotherhood of Saint Katherine, in the six and twentieth year of King Henry the sixth Anno Dom▪ 1447. And they were confirmed in the seventeenth year of King Henry the seventh, and named Merchant-Haberdashers. The Crest and Supportters were granted by Robert Cook, Clarencioux, King of Arms. Anno Dom. 1571.   

SALTER'S.  

SAL SAPIT OMNIA   
THe Company of the Salters had their Arms first granted to them in the two and twentieth year of King Henry the eight, Anno Dom. 1530. by Thomas Benolt, Clarencieux. The Crest and Supporters by Robert Cook, Clarencieux In the nine and twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth, Anno Dom. 1587.   

IRONMONGERS.  
 
THe Ironmongers were incorporated, in the third year of King Edward the fourth, Anno Dom. 1462. And their Arms first granted by Lancaster, King of Arms, Martial to Clarencieux, King of Arms, Anno Dom. 1455. And the four and thirtieth year of the reign of King Henry the sixth.   

VINTONNERS.  
 
THe Vintonners were incorporated in the Reign of King Edward the third, by the name of Wine-Tonners, and confirmed in the fifteenth year of King Henry the sixth, Anno Dom. 1436. The Arms first granted by Clarencieux, in the sixth year of King Henry the sixth, Anno Dom. 1427.   

CLOTHWORKERS  

MY TRUST IS IN GOD ALONE   
THe Clothworkers had their Arms first granted by Thomas Benolt, Clarencieux, in the two and twentieth year of King Henry the eighth, Anno Dom. 1530. The Crest and Supporters granted by Robert Cook, Clarencieux, King of Arms, Anno Dom. 1587.    

NOW FOLLOW THE COMPANIES OF Merchants, and their several Arms, so many as I could attain unto.  

MERCHANTS Of the Staple.  

GOD BE OUR FRIEND   
THe Company of Merchants, called of the Staple, incorporated by King Edward the third: in whose time they had their Staple of Wools at Calais.   

Merchants Adventures.  

GOD BE OUR FRIEND   
THe Company of Merchants, called Merchants Adventures, were incorporated by King Edward the fourth: And had their Privileges confirmed and enlarged by Queen Elizabeth.   

Merchants of Russia.  

GOD BE OUR GOOD GUIDE   
THe Company of Merchants of Russia, who were incorporated by King Edward the sixth: and again confirmed and augmented by Queen Elizabeth.   

Merchants of Elbing.  
 
THe Company of Merchants of Elbing, they became incorporated by Queen Elizabeth.   

Merchants of Levant, or Turkey Merchants.  
 
THe Company of Merchants of Levant, or (more commonly) termed Turkey Merchants, being first incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, were afterward confirmed and enlarged by our Sovereign Lord King james.   

Merchants of Spain.  
 
THe Company of Merchants of Spain, or more usually called Spanish Merchants, were incorporated by Queen Elizabeth.   

Merchants of East-India.  

DEUS-INDICAT  
DEO DUCENTE, NIL NOCET.   
THe Company of Merchants, called Merchants of East-India, were incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, Anno Dom. 1600.   

New French Merchants Adventurers.  

REDDITE CVIQVE SWM.   
A New Company of Merchant Adventures, but of their incorporating I am able to say nothing: but the Coat and Crest of their Arms were given and granted by Sir William Seger, Garter, and Master William Camden, Clarencieux, Kings of Arms, the thirteenth day of November, in the 14. year of King james, 1616.   

The Company of French Merchants.  
 
THe Company now called of French Merchants: of their creating, incorporating, and Patents granting, no intelligence hath been given me, and therefore I am the less able to speak of them: only I hear them to be a Company of worthy Gentlemen; and let that honest title at this time suffice them.   

Merchants of Virginia.  

EN DAY VIRGINIA QVINTAM.   
THe Company of Merchants, called Merchants of Virginia, Bermudas, or Summer-I●ands, for (as I hear) all these additions are given them. I know not the time of their incorporating, neither by whom their Arms, Supporters, and Crest were granted, and therefore am compelled to leave them abruptly.    

THE OTHER COMPANIES following the Twelve.  

DYERS.  
 
KIng Henry the sixth, late King of England, of famous memory, by his Highness' Letters-Patents, or Charter of Incorporation, bearing date the sixteenth day of February, in the nine and fortieth year from the beginning of his Reign; and in the first year of the redemption of his Royal power, did incorporate the Company of the Dyers in London, and so they have ever since continued.   

BREWERS.  
 
THe Charter of the Brewers was granted by King Henry the sixth, and his Letters-Patents dated at Windsor, the two and twentieth of February, in the sixth year of his Reign. Moreover, it was reconfirmed at Greenwich, july the 13. and second year of Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory.   

LEATHER SELLERS.  
 
THe Lethersellers being formerly a Society, or Brotherhood of long time, became incorporated in the sixth year of King Richard the second, and when Whittington was Lord Mayor of London.   

PEWTERERS.  
 
THe Pewterers were a Company, or Meeting of friendly and neighbourly men, in the time of King Edward the fourth; and in the thirteenth year of this King became incorporated, january the 20. And from this King they have been still confirmed by all Princes since: lastly, by King james.   

Barbers-Chirurgions.  
 
THe Barbers-Chirurgions, being a Company of no mean credit and estate, became a Brotherhood and Fellowship, incorporated by the Charter of King Edward the fourth; afterward by the Henry's, the seventh and eighth, Philip and Mary, and Queen Elizabeth: last of all they were again confirmed by King james, with other additions also: and all those former Charters have been reconfirmed (with larger additions) by our most gracious King Charles.   

ARMOURERS  
 
THe Society or Company of the Armourers, have been a Brotherhood of ancient continuance, and became incorporated in the beginning of the reign of King Henry the sixth: the King being pleased to style himself a Brother of their Society.   

WHITE-BAKER'S.  
 
THe Company of White-Bakers are of great Antiquity, as appeareth by their Records, and diverse other things of Antiquity, extant in their common Hall. They were a Company of this City in the first year of Edward the second, and had a new Charter granted unto them in the first year of Henry the seventh; the which Charter was confirmed unto them by Henry the eighth, Edward the sixth, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and King james.   

Waxchandlers'.  
 
THe Company of Waxchandlers', having been a Brotherhood of very ancient standing, and much used in the times of superstition, became yet to be incorporated in Anno, 1484. they being the second year of King Richard the third.   

Tallow-chandlers'.  
 
THe company of the Tallow-Chandlers, were a Society of great antiquity, living in good formality among men, and loving agreement with themselves: they became to be incorporated in the second year of King Edward the fourth, and from him successively to King james.   

CUTLERS.  
 
COncerning this Company of Cutlers, I find them to be of great antiquity, and that they were incorporated in the beginning of the Reign of King Henry the fifth, and afterward confirmed by King Henry the sixth, King Henry the eighth, King Philip and Queen Mary, famous Queen Elizabeth; and King james in his fifth year, the eighth day of February, fully confirmed all.   

GIRDLERS.  
 
I Find the Company of the Girdlers not to be much behindhand (with others) for eminency and antiquity, because they have held good correspondency with the world and with themselves: they became to be incorporated the sixth day of August, in the seven and twentieth year of the Reign of King Henry the sixth.   

BUTCHERS.  
 
THe Butchers were incorporated by King james, under his Letters-Patents, bearing date the sixteenth day of September, in the third year of his Reign of England, and of Scotland the nine and twentieth: they were incorporated by the name of Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of the Art or mystery of Butchers of the City of London, the Fraternity being very ancient.   

SADLERS.  
 
THe Company of Saddler's questionless declare themselves to be of great antiquity, as showing their beginning in the times of these Kings following: Edward the first, Rich. the second, Henry the fourth, Edw. the second, Edw. the third, Henry the fifth, Henry the sixth, Edw. the fourth, rich. the third, Henry the seventh, Henry the eighth, Edw. the sixth, and since the first King above named, the Craft of the Sadlers hath given Livery, and so have continued in their Livery by the space of 300 years and more. What all the precedent Princes gave and granted, King james confirmed.   

CARPENTERS.  
 
THe Company of the Carpenters, being a Society of ancient standing, were incorporated by Letters-Patents, bearing date the seventh day of july, in the seventeenth year of the Reign of King Edward the fourth; by the name of Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of the mystery of Freemen of the Carpentry of the City of London.   

CORDWAINERS.  
 
THe Company of Shoemakers or Cordwainers, as they style themselves, have been of long continuance, and were first incorporated in the seventeenth year of King Henry the sixth; being afterward confirmed by Philip and Queen Mary, in the fourth and fifth years of their Reign: then again reconfirmed by Queen Elizabeth, in the fourth year of her Reign: and lastly, by King james.   

PAINTERS.  
 
THe Company of the Painters, having the addition of Painters-Stainers, for their skill and cunning in diverse mysterious works, have been a Society of great antiquity from time to time, and were incorporated in Anno Dom. 1580. it being the three and twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth, etc.   

CURRIERS.  
 
THe Company of Curryers', a Company of long continuance, and of good community amongst themselves, became incorporated in the third year of King james, the twelfth day of june.   

MASONS.  
 
THe Company of Masons, being otherwise termed Free-Masons, of ancient standing and good reckoning, by means of affable and kind meetings diverse times, and as a loving Brotherhood should use to do, did frequent this mutual assembly in the time of King Henry the fourth, in the twelfth year of his most gracious Reign.   

PLUMBERS.  
 
THe Company of Plumbers, of large and very memorable antiquity, remaining a Fellowship or Brotherhood by the name of Plumbers. At length they attained to be incorporated by Letters-Patents, the eleventh or twelfth day of April, in the ninth year of King JAMES of England, and of Scotland the four and fortieth, etc.   

INHOLDERS.  
 
THe Company of the Inholders, having been a Community or Society of honest friendly men, by their often meeting and conversing together, as in those days it was a matter much observed: became to be incorporated in the sixth year of King Henry the eighth, and so renewed from time to time.   

FOUNDERS.  
 
THe Company of Founders, no doubt of antiquity and long continuance in Brotherhood and Fellowship together, were incorporated the eighteenth day of September, in the twelfth year of the Reign of King JAMES.   

EMBROIDERERS.  
 
THe Company of the Embroiderers can make appear by their worthy and famous pieces of Art, that they have been of ancient use and eminence, as is to be seen in diverse places at this day: but for the matter of their incorporating, it hath relation to the fourth year of Queen Elizabeth, etc.   

POULTERS.  
 
THe Company of the Poulters were incorporated in the nineteenth year of King Henry the seventh, the three and twentieth day of january, and renewed again in the thirtieth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, February the two and twentieth.   

COOKS.  
 
THe Company of the Cooks, having been a Fellowship or Brotherhood of antiquity, became to be incorporated in the twelfth year of the Reign of King Edward the fourth, the eleventh day of july: reconfirmed again by Queen Elizabeth: and afterward by King james, in the thirteenth year of his Reign, May the nineteenth day.   

COOPER'S.  
 
THe Company of the Cooper's, became to be incorporated in the sixteenth year of the Reign of King Henry the seventh, by the name of Master, Wardens, or Keepers of the Commonalty of the Freemen of the mystery of Cooper's in London, and the Suburbs of the same City.   

Brick-layers and Tilers.  
 
THe Company of Tilers and Brick-layers, or Brick-layers and Tilers, notwithstanding their antiquity, were first incorporated in the tenth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and confirmed again in the second year of the Reign of King james.   

BOWYERS.  
 
THe Company of Bowyers, in regard that the use of the long Bow hath added no mean honour to this Realm of England, making it famous in far remote nations: they may well stand on a great privilege of antiquity, yet their incorporating speaks but of the one and twentieth year of the Reign of King james.   

FLETCHER'S.  
 
ALthough there is small reason of sundering Bows from Arrows, or Arrows from Bows, yet because they have divided themselves into two several Companies, let the fault be on their own heads: for as I find them, so I leave them.   

BLACKSMITHES.  
 
THe Company of Smiths, or Blacksmithes, by which title you please to term them, being a very ancient Brotherhood or Fraternity of the City of London, were first incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, in the twentieth year of her Reign, their Charter bearing ●ate the fifteenth of April, etc. Afterward it was reconfirmed by King james, in the second year of his Reign, the one and twentieth day of March.   

JOINERS.  
 
THe Company of the joiners, called also joiners and Seelers, of ancient standing, and reputed to be a loving Society, were incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, in the thirteenth year of her Reign.   

PLASTERERS.  
 
THe Company of the Plasterers, of larger antiquity than leisure will admit to be delivered, of good and mutual agreement among themselves, like affable and loving Brethren, were incorporated in the time of King Henry the sevent, etc.   

WEAVERS.  
 
THe Company of Weavers (not meaning them which are now called Silke-Weavers) were of very ancient note indeed; as having three several Societies of themselves, the Woollen-Cloth-Weavers, the Arras-Weavers, and the Linnen-Weavers: all which I refer to a further relation.   

FRVITERERS.  
 
THe Company of the Fruiterers, being a very ancient Brotherhood, and of long continuance, became to be first incorporated in the third year of the Reign of King james, etc.   

SCRIVENERS.  
 
THe Company of the Scriveners, an ancient and long continued Society, were incorporated the eight and twentieth day of january, in the fourteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King james.   

Bottle-makers and Horners.  
 
AS for Bottle-makers and Horne-makers, the precedent times have remembered them to be of Antiquity, and two distinct Companies combined in one: But I find no Record that they were at any time incorporated.   

STATIONERS.  
 
THe Company of the Stationers, of great antiquity, before the famous Art of Printing was invented or brought hither, as (for the most part) their then dwelling in Paternoster Row, and the adjoining parts can testify. Their Charter of incorporation was granted the fourth day of May, in the third and fourth years of King Philip and Queen Mary.   

MARBLERS.  
 
THe Company called by the name of Marblers, for their excellent knowledge and skill in the Art of Insulpting personages for Tombs, Gravestones, and Monuments in Churches, and elsewhere in Religious places: their antiquity and what respect they have carried, is unknown to me; nor can I find them to be incorporated, but hold some friendship with the Masons, and are thought to be esteemed among them in Fellowship.   

WOOLL-PACKERS.  
 
THe Company of Wooll-packers I know not what to say of them, because it seems that there were such men in the Haunse days, when the Wooll-Staple flourished, and that our Wooll-Merchants had their eminency. Further, I cannot speak of them, but leave them and their Arms to your consideration.   

FARRIERS.  
 
THe Company of the Farriers. My relation concerning them, must needs be answerable to their own allegation. Henry de Ferraris, or Ferrer, a Norman borne, came over with William the Conqueror, who gave unto the said Henry de Ferraris (as being his Farrier, or Master of his horse) the Honour of Tutbury, in the County of Stafford, which was the first Honour given to the Ferrars in England.   

PAVIOURS.  
 
THe Company of the Paviours, no doubt have been a Company of antiquity, and maintained a Community or Brotherhood among themselves; but for incorporation, no Record doth testify it to me, and therefore I have the less to say of them.   

LORINORS.  
 
THe Company of the Lorinors, or Lorimers, which they please to accept, I have received a note from themselves, that the second day of October, and fourth year of King Henry the seventh, the Wardens of the Art of Lorimers came into the Court of our Lord the King, in the Chamber of Guildhall, in the City of London, before Sir William Horn Knight, than Lord Maior, and Aldermen of the said City, preferring then and there a Bill or Supplication to the Mayor and Aldermen. And this is all that I can find remembered of them.   

BROWN-BAKERS.  
 
THe Company of the Brown-Bakers, a Society of long standing and continuance, prevailed to have their incorporating granted the ninth day of june, in the nineteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King james.   

WOODMONGERS.  
 
THe Company of the Woodmongers, being a very ancient Fellowship, and of good and amiable agreement together for long time, became to be incorporated the nine and twentieth day of August, in the third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King james.   

UPHOLSTERS.  
 
THe Company of the Upholsters, or Upholders, were in elder times of good reckoning and esteem, and had a Brotherhood or Fellowship among themselves, but concerning their incorporating I find it not recorded.   

TURNERS.  
 
THe Company of the Turner's had long continued a loving Fellowship or Brotherhood among themselves, to the good precedent and example of others: they became incorporated in the second year of King james.   

GLASIERS.  
 
THe Company called of the Glasiers, have been a Society of ancient memory, and maintained a league of Brotherly affection together; but because I am able to say nothing of their incorporating, I am the more willing to pass them over.   

CLERKS.  
 
THe Company of the Clerks, commonly termed Parish-Clearkes, I find to be very ancient in continuance, and stand registered in the Books of Guildhall; they became first to be incorporated in the seventeenth year of King Henry the third, and followed on still in all the Prince's Reigns, to the ninth year of our Sovereign Lord King james.   

WATERMEN.  
 
THe Company of the Watermen, that have their maintenance by rowing in Boats on the River of Thames, being a Brotherhood under the power and command of the Lord Mayor of London, I leave them for this time.   

APOTHECARIES.  
 
THe Company of the Apothecaries, that have divided themselves from the Ancient Society of Grocers, grew so highly favoured by our Sovereign Lord, King james, that (as I have heard) he called them his Company; and granted them order for incorporation the sixth day of December, in the fifteenth year of his Highness' Reign.   

SILKE-THROWERS.  
 
THis Company of Silke-throwers, having gained their Trade of Silke-throwing from the Strangers, since Anno quinto of Queen Elizabeth, and being for the most part Free men of this City, were made a Fellowship of this City 4. die junii, Anno 19 of King james, Sir Francis jones, Knight, being then Lord Maior. And 23. die Aprilis Anne quinte Caroli Regis, they were incorporated by the name of the Master, Wardens, Assistants and Commonalty of the Trade, Art, or Mystery of Silke-throwers of the City of London.   

LONDON.  

DOMINE DIRIGE NOS   
THus our most Noble, Ancient, and famous Mother, LONDON, (the Queen or Empress of all Cities in this West part of the World) having, like an Amazonian Virago, led forth her warlike City-Sonnes into their Fields of Honour, without her Walls, to take an ample view of her Arms, Furniture, and other warlike Embellishments, such as beseemed their worth, and her dignity; like a valiant Captain, that takes it to be his honour, of abiding last in the field, and marshalling them home before her into her walled City, follows after them herself, in her own Arms and brave Accoutrements.    

The names of the Wards, and their Aldermen, as they now are.  
THere are in this City (according to the number of the Wards) six and twenty Aldermen: whereof, yearly on the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, one of those Aldermen is elected to be Mayor for the year following: He is to begin and take place on the eight and twentieth day of October than next following. The other Aldermen his Brethren are to him Assistants in Counsels and Courts, etc.  
As the Wards are formerly set down, according to the order of their beginning Eastward: so I thought it fet to set down those Alderman's names that have the instant government and direction of them: wherein let no exception be taken, although Aldermen (not knighted) are named as their Wards successively follow, because this observation is done but only for order's sake.  

Wards on the East side of Walbrooke.  
WARDS. ALDERMEN. 1 Portsoken. Alderman Parkhurst. 2 Aldgate. Alderman Rainton. 3 Tower-street. Sir Hugh Hammersley. 4 Limestreet. Sir james Cambell. 5 Bishopsgate. Alderman Bacchus. 6 Broadstreet. Alderman Moulson. 7 Cornhill. Alderman Freeman. 8 Langborne. Sir George Whitmore. 9 Billingsgate. Alderman Cletherow. 10 Bridge within. Alderman Poole. 11 Candlewickstreet. Sir Richard Deane. 12 Walbrooke. Sir john Goare. 13 Downegate. Alderman Bromfield. 14 Vintry. Alderman Garaway. 15 Cordwainerstreet. Alderman Wright. 16 Cheap. Sir Edward Barkham. 17 Colemanstreet. Sir Maurice Abbot. 18 Basing-Hall. Sir Robert Ducie. 19 Creplegate. Alderman Cranmer. 20 Aldersgate. Sir William Acton. 21 Faringdon within. Alderman Smith. 22 Breadstreet. Sir Martin Lumley. 23 Queen Hithe. Alderman Perry. 24 Castle Baynard. Alderman Venne, 25 Faringdon without. Alderman Cambell. 26 Bridge without. Alderman Abdy.  
Thus these Wards have (from time to time) held, and still do their several Aldermen, till either death, or occasion of remove, do make an alteration of them in their Aldermen. As for an example, since the last Impression of this Book, which is within the compass of fifteen years, of all the Aldermen that then were living, there remain no more than three at this instant.  
MOre, there is a Recorder of London, a grave and learned Lawyer, skilful in the Customs of this City, also assistant to the Lord Maior: he taketh place in Counsels and in Courts before any man that hath not been Mayor, and learnedly delivereth the Sentence of the whole Court.  
THe Sheriffs of London (of old time) chosen out of the Commonalty, Commoners, and oftentimes never came to be Aldermen; as many Aldermen were never Sheriffs, and yet advanced to be Majors. But of later time, (by occasion) the Sheriffs have been made Aldermen, before, or presently after their Election.  
Nicholas Faringdon was never Sheriff, yet four times Mayor of this City, and so of other; which reproveth a byword, Such a one will be Mayor, before he be Sheriff, etc.   

These Gentlemen bear Offices of especial respect in the City.  
MAster Chamberlain of London,  
Master Common Sergeant.  
Master Townclarke, or Common Clerk.  
The Coroner of London.   

Officers belonging to the Lord Mayor's house, according as they were first published by Master STOWE.  

Swordbearer.  
Common Hunt.  
Common Crier.  
Water-Bayliffe. 

Esquires 4.    
Coroner of London.  
Sergeant Carvers. 3.  
Sergeants of the Chamber. 3.  
Sergeant of the Channel.  
Yeoman of the Channel.  
Yeomen of the water side. 4.  
Vnder-Water-Bayliffe.  
Yeomen of the Chamber. 2.  
Meale-weighers. 3.  
Yeomen of the Wood-wharfes. 2.  
The Sword-bearers man.  
Common Hunt's men. 2.  
Common Criers man.  
Water-Bayliffes men. 2.  
The Carvers man. 

gentlemen's  
men,  
seven.     
Whereof nine of these have Liveries of the L. Maior, viz. The Sword-bearer and his man, the three Carvers, and the four Yeomen of the Waterside. All the rest have their Liveries from the Chamber of London.  
Thus far after my notes delivered by an Officer of the Lord Mayor's house, but unperfect: for I remember a Crowner, an Vnderchamberlaine, and four Clerks of the Mayor's Court, and others.   

According to a TABLE hanging in the ancient Council Chamber, and their days of waiting.  
MAster Sword-bearer, to wait daily.  
Master Common Hunt, to wait Mundays, Wednesdays, fridays and saturdays.  
Master Common Crier, to wait Tuesday's, Thursdays, fridays, and saturdays.  
Master Water-Bayliffe, to wait mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  
The three Sergeant Carvers, to wait weekly, all excuses set apart.  
The three Sergeants of the Chamber likewise, to wait weekly, without any excuse.  
The Sergeant of the Channel, to wait daily.  
The two Yeomen of the Chamber, one of them to wait daily at dinner, to Usher the Hall.  
The four Yeomen of the Water's side, two of them to wait weekly, and not to be absent.  
The Yeomen of the Channel, to wait daily.  
The Vnder-Water-Bayliffe, to wait on Holidays and Court days, if he go not up the River.  
The six young men, to wait daily.  
The three Meale-Weighers, to wait on Holidays, and Court days.  
The two Yeomen of the Wood-Wharfe, to wait on general days.  
The Forraigne-Taker, to wait likewise on general days.   

The Sheriffs of London, their Officers.  
THe Sheriffs of London, in the year 1471. were appointed each of them to have sixteen Sergeants, every Sergeant to have his Yeoman. And six Clerks, to wit, a Secondary, a Clerk of the Papers, and four other Clerks, besides the Vnder-Sheriffes Clerks, their Stewards, Butlers, Porters, and other in household many.    

Of the Majors and Sheriffs Liveries somewhat.  
TO follow precedent of former time, the Clarks of Companies were to inquire for them of their Companies, that would have the Mayor's Livery, their money (as a benevolence given) which must be twenty shillings at the least put in a purse, with their names that gave it, and the Wardens to deliver it to the Mayor by the first of December. For the which, every man had then sent him four yards of broad Cloth, rowed or striped thwart with a different colour, to make him a Gown, and these were called Rey Gowns, which was then the Livery of the Mayor, and also of the Sheriffs; but each differing from others in the colours.  
Of older times I read, that the Officers of this City aware Gowns of party colours, as the right side of one colour, and the left side of another: as for example; I read in Books of accounts in the Guild-Hall, that in the nineteenth year of Henry the sixth, there was bought for an Officers Gown two yards of Cloth, coloured Mustard-villars (a colour now out of use) and two yards of Cloth coloured blue, price two shillings the yard, in all eight shillings. More, paid to john Pope, Draper, for two Gown clothes, eight yards of two colours eux ambo deux de Rogue (or red) Medley Brune and Porre (or Purple) colour, price, the yard two shillings. These Gowns were for Piers Rider, and john Buckles, Clerks of the Chamber.  
More, I read, that in the year 1516. in the 7. of Henry the 8. it was agreed by a Common Council in the Guild-Hall, that the Sheriffs of London should (as they had been accustomed) give yearly Reyed Gowns to the Recorder, Chamberlain, Common Sergeant, and Common Clerk, the Sword-bearer, Common Hunt, Water-Bayly, Common Cryer, like as to their own Officers, etc.  
1525. More, in the sixteenth of Henry the eighth, Sir William Bayly then being Mayor, made a request, for that clothes of Ray (as he alleged) were evil wrought, his Officers might be permitted (contrary to custom) for that year to wear Gowns of one colour, to the which (in a common Council) one answered and said, Yea, it might be permitted: and no man said nay, and so it passed. Thus much for particoloured, and Ray Gowns have I read. But for benevolence to the Mayor, I find that of later time, each man giving forty shillings towards his charges, received four yards of broad Cloth to make him a Gown: for Sir Thomas White performed it in the first year of Queen Mary, but Sir Thomas Lodge gave (in stead of four yards of broad Cloth) three yards of Satin to make them Doublets, and since that, the three yards of Satin is now turned into a silver Spoon, and so it hath held.   

The order observed by the Lord Maior, the Aldermen, and Sheriffs for their meetings, and wearing of their Apparel throughout the whole year.  

Upon Midsummer day, for the election of the Sheriffs of LONDON, etc.  
THe Lord Mayor and the Aldermen (with the Sheriffs) meet at the Guild-Hall, 
Their morning meeting at the Guild-Hall.  at eight of the clock in the morning, apparelled in their violet coloured Gowns lined, and their Cloaks of Scarlet lined, but without their horses.  
And when they have been together in the Council Chamber a certain time, concerning the nomination of certain persons to be elected: the Lord Maior and the Aldermen come forth, and put on their Cloaks in the Orphans Court, and then go down in order to the Hustings Court, 
What is done in the Hustings Court after the Speech of Master Recorder.  where being set, Master Recorder ariseth, and standing forth before the Bench and Companies, for the same cause there assembled; having done his obeisance first to the Court, and then to them all: he declareth unto them, the reason why they are thus there assembled together: Showing unto them, that it is for the election of one of the Sheriffs of London, and the Sheriff of Middlesex for the year next ensuing: As also the confirmation of the other Sheriff, nominated by the Lord Maior according to his prerogative. Then afterward, is the choice and election of Master Chamberlain of London, and of other Officers.  
But first, the Lord Maior and Aldermen go up into the Lord Mayor's Court, 
The naming and choosing of the Sheriff by voice and hands.  and there remain, until the Sheriff be named and chosen, the door being fast shut to them all the while.  
Then the Sheriffs, Master Chamberlain, Master Common Sergeant, Master Town-clerk, and the Councillors of the City, and other Officers, continue still in the Hustings Court, to take and receive the name of him, that shall seem (by their judgements) freely, and without consent to be nominated and elected, and justly tried out, not only by voice, but also by hands, to be Sheriff for the year following.  
Then the Commons go to the election of Master Chamberlain; 
The election of Master Chamberlain. and other Officers.  the two Bridgemasters; the Auditors of the City and Bridge-house accounts; and the Surveyors for Beer and Ale, according to the accustomed manner.  
That done, the Sheriffs, Master Chamberlain, Master Common Sergeant, Master Town-clerk, the Councillors of the City, 
The certifying of the Sheriff's choice.  the two Secondaries of the Compters, and the Wardens of the head or chief Companies (Master Common Cryer going before them, bearing his Mace) thus they carry up the report to the Lord Maior and Aldermen, concerning what they have done in their election.  
Which report being received, the Lord Maior and Aldermen came down again to the Hustings Court. 
Their coming down again to confirm the Election.  And there being in order set and placed, Master Recorder standeth up again, as he did before, and maketh rehearsal of the names of those persons, whom they have nominated and chosen. Then he demandeth of them, whether it be their free election, yea or no? Which they confirming to be their free choice, Master Recorder giveth them thanks: And so they arise, and all departed thence home.   

On BARTHOLOMEW Eve, for the Fair in Smithfield.  
THE Aldermen meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at the Guildhall Chapel, 
Meeting at the Guild-Hall Chapel.  at two of the clock after dinner, having on their violet Gowns lined, and their horses, but without their cloaks, and there they hear Evening Prayer. Which being done, they mount on their horses, and riding to Newgate, pass forth of the Gate. 
A Proclamation in the Cloth-Fayre.  Then entering into the Cloth-Fayre, there they make a Proclamation, which Proclamation being ended, they ride thorough the Cloth-Fayre, and so return back again thorough the Churchyard of great Saint Bartholomewes' to Aldersgate: And then ride home again to the Lord Mayor's House.   

On BARTHOLOMEW day, for the Wrestling.  
SO many Aldermen as do dine with the Lord Maior, 
The meeting at the Lord Mayor's house on Bartholomew day.  and the Sheriffs, are apparelled in their Scarlet Gowns lined; and after dinner, their horses are brought to them where they dined. And those Aldermen which dine with the Sheriffs, ride with them to the Lord Mayor's house for accompanying him to the Wrestling. When as the Wrestling is done, they mount their horses, and ride back again thorough the Fair, and so in at Aldersgate, and then home again to the Lord Mayor's house.  
The next day (if it be not Sunday) is appointed for the Shooting, 
The Shooting day.  and the service performed as upon Bartholomew day: but if it be Sunday, the Sabbath day, it is referred to the Monday then following.   

For the day of our LADY Fair in Southwark.  
THE Lord Maior and the Sheriffs ride to S. Magnus' Church in their Scarlet Gowns lined, 
The Lord Maior weareth his Collar of Esses, without Hood, and the Sword cannoneer weareth the embroidered Cap, and carrieth the Pearl Sword.  without their cloaks, after dinner at two of the clock; and there the Aldermen meet the L. Maior: when evening Prayer is ended, they ride thorough the Fair, till they come unto St. Grorges' Church, and then ride further to Newington Bridge, or to St. Thomas of Water to the Stones that point out the Liberties of the City (if it be so their pleasures) and they then return back again unto the Bridge-house, where they refresh themselves with a Banquet. Then returning over the Bridge, the Aldermen take their leave of the Lord Maior, and depart the next way every one unto his own house. After all this is done, & the Lord Maior brought home: his Officers have a supper provided for them by the Bridgemasters.   

For swearing the Sheriffs upon Michaelmas Eve.  
WHat day soever it falleth on, 
Their meeting at the Sheriff's houses.  so many of the Aldermen as are bidden to dinner at either of the Sheriff's houses, come thither first to breakfast, or else to drink, at eight of the clock in the morning, in their violet coloured Gowns furred, and their violet cloaks, which are brought with them, without their horses. But if the Sheriff be an Alderman; then they must put on their Cloaks, and the Sheriff likewise his Cloak: 
If the Sheriff be an Alderman, or not.  and so he goes on to the Guild-Hall, between two Aldermen wearing their grey Cloaks. But if the Sheriff be no Alderman: then he is to come thither between two of the Aldermen without Cloaks, and the Sheriff wearing his Livery Gown and Hood. After he is sworn, than he is to put on his violet Gown and Cloak and his Chain thereon. All which being done, the Aldermen are to bring him home to his dwelling place to dinner, wearing their cloaks: and after dinner, they may take their pleasure.   

Upon Michaelmas day, for the election of the Lord Maior.  
ALL the Aldermen meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs, 
Their meeting at Guild-Hall in the morning by eight of the clock.  at eight of the clock in the morning at the Guild-Hall, wearing their Scarlet Gowns and Cloaks furred, riding on their horses. And after they have been a certain time together in the Council Chamber; they come forth into the Orphan's Court, where putting on their Cloaks, they go in order to the Chapel, there to hear Service and a Sermon: where also the Lord Maior (with certain Aldermen) receive the Communion.  
After that the Communion is ended, and they have delivered their Offerings, 
The manner of proceeding to the election of the L. Maior.  they return back into the Council Chamber, and pausing there a while, they come to the place where the court of Hustings is kept. Being there set in 〈…〉 Recorder ariseth up, and making his obeisance first to the Lord 〈…〉 after to the Commons, he 〈◊〉 unto them, that the manner 〈…〉 custom is well known 〈…〉 as also the reason of their 〈…〉 and thus meeting together of 〈…〉 Companies in London, which is, for the election of the Lord Mayor for the year ensuing: 
From the time of King Richard the first, to this instant year.  declaring unto them diverse grants from the King's ●rogenitors, for this their election from time to time. That done, the Lord Maior and the Aldermen go up again into the Lord Mayor's Court: and there remain (the doors fast shut unto them) until the election shall be brought unto them.  
Then standeth up Master Common Sergeant, having the Sheriffs standing on either side of him; and by the Sheriffs, Master Chamberlain, Master Town-clerk, the two Secondaries of the Compters, and the Councillors of the City, in the said Hustings Court before the Commons. At that time, the said Common Sergeant maketh a brief rehearsal of those former precedents which Master Recorder had before delivered to them, saying; There remained no more now for him to say, but only to put them in remembrance in what order and sort they should carry themselves in their election. 
Advice given them what they are to do in their election.  As namely, how they are to nominate and choose two: of the which two, the Lord Maior and the Aldermen must confirm one. Those two being nominated, elected and chosen; Master Common Sergeant, the Sheriffs (with the rest beforenamed) and certain of the prime Wardens of the chief Companies, go up to the Lord Maior and Aldermen, and there present the names of those two men, which the Commons have nominated in their election.  
Then the Lord Maior and the Aldermen proceed by Scrutiny, 
One of the two nominated persons is elected by Scrutiny.  to elect one of those two persons, which the said Commons had before nominated. Then cometh down the Lord Maior again to the Hustings Court, and he (whom they have chosen) goeth on his left hand; and so the Lord Maior and Aldermen sit down again in order. But he who is chosen, sitteth next unto the Lord Mayor on his left hand. Then standeth up Master Recorder, and readeth unto them the names of such persons whom they have nominated and chosen. Of which, the Lord Maior and the Aldermen have admitted one, whose name is N. demanding of them, whether it be their free election, 
The freedom of the party's election.  or no. Then the Commons affirming it to be their free choice: the Sword-bearer steppeth to him, and taketh off his Tippet, which he hath for his labour, and putteth on his Chain. And the Mayor so lately elected, standing upon the Hustings Court, 
The breaking up of the Court.  given them thanks, etc. which being done, the old Mayor doth likewise give them thanks, etc. Then they arise up, putting off their cloaks, and the Lord Maior hath the Lord Elect riding with him, to the eldest Sheriffs to dinner.   

For presenting the Lord Maior Elect to the Lord Chancellor, or Keeper.  
THen after dinner, 
How the Lord Elect goeth attended to his presenting.  the Lord Elect goeth to the Lord Chancellor, if he be at home at his place or near unto it, attended with five or six of the Aldermen, and Master Recorder also with him, they wearing their violet Gowns, passing either by land or by water, according as fitteth with conveniency of the Lord Chancellors dwelling place. The Common Hunt, with the extraordinary Officers, and those that be at liberty, do also attend on him.   

The morrow after Michaelmas day, for the new Sheriffs going to Westminster to be sworn there.  
ALL the Aldermen are to meet at the two new Sheriffs houses in the morning at eight of the clock, 
Meeting at the two new Sheriffs houses in the morning.  wearing their violet Gowns furred, without their cloaks, yet having their horses there ready. But the Lord Maior, Master Recorder, and the two Sheriffs, must wear their Scarlet Gowns furred, and their cloaks carried with them to Westminster. First, they ride to them Guild-Hall, and from thence to the Vinetree, and there taking Barge, land at Westminster-Bridge, and in the Hall they put on their cloaks; 
The swearing of the new Sheriffs, and the old ones delivering their account.  then go they up into the Exchequer, where the two new Sheriffs be presented, and the old sworn to their account.  
Then they put off their cloaks, and take Barge, landing again at the Vine-tree, where they mount their horses. And the Lord Maior rideth to the eldest Sheriffs to dinner; Master Recorder & the Sheriffs riding next to the Lord Maior. The two Sheriffs carrying two white rods in their hands, and their Henchmen going after them.   

The ancient Order for the day of Simon and jude.  
THe old Lord Maior is to have so many of the Aldermen, 
The fetching of the old Lord Mayor from his own house.  as are appointed to dine with him that day, come to his house by eight of the clock in the morning, wearing their violet Gowns furred, with their violet cloaks furred, and their horses attending. Then the Sheriffs come to fetch him and them to the Guild-Hall, and there abide in the Council Chamber, until the coming of the new Lord Maior, and the rest of the Aldermen, with the Companies of either the Lords old and new going before them. After they have continued in the Council Chamber a certain space of time, they come forth into the Orphans Court, where they put on their furred cloaks, and then go down to the Hustings Court, where being set in order, the common Crier maketh Proclamation, commanding every man to keep silence.  
Then Master Town-clerk giveth the new elected Lord his Oath, 
The new Lord Maior taketh his Oath in the Hustings Court, and the ceremonies there done.  which when he hath taken, the old Lord Maior ariseth, and giveth the new Lord his place, the old Lord sitting down where the new Lord was placed. Then Master Chamberlain first delivereth to him the Sceptre, next the Keys of the common Seal; and lastly, the Seal of the office of the Mayoralty. Afterward, Master Sword-bearer giveth him the Sword. And then they arise, put off their Cloaks, and the old Lord rideth home with the new Lord to his place, and there leaveth him, and so many of the Aldermen as dine with him. The old Lord (with the rest of the Aldermen) ride home to his house, the Sword being carried before him. And so after dinner, the Aldermen departed home at their pleasure.   

On the morrow after the day of Simon and jude, for the new Lord Maior his going to take his Oath at Westminster.  
ALL the Aldermen and the Sheriffs meet at the new Lords house, 
Meeting at the new Lord Mayor's house.  by eight a clock in the morning, 
The new Lord weareth a velvet Hood and the rich Choler: the Sword bearer the Cap of Maintenance.  wearing their Scarlet Gowns furred, and their Cloaks, and their Horses there attending on them; from thence they ride to the Guild-Hall, with the Bachelors and Livery, as also the Gentlemen Ushers of the new Lords Company, going in decent order before him.  
But before this, 
The old Lord rideth alone to the Guild-Hall, but weareth his velvet Hood.  the old Lord rideth alone from his own place to the Guild-Hall, having no Officers to wait upon him, except the Common Hunt, as a Gentleman Usher going before him, and those Officers that are at liberty, as also the Common Hunt's man (with his own men following him) and so he tarrieth at the Hall.  
And after they be all come together, they mount on their horses, riding on to the Vine-tree, where they take Barge to Westminster Bridge, where when they are landed, 
The orders and ceremonies performed at Westminster.  the Lord Maior and Aldermen put on their Cloaks within the Palace, and then go round about the Hall, where they perform many courtefies, going up afterward into the the Exchequer Chamber to be sworn. When the Oath is taken in the Exchequer, they return down again, and go first to the King's Bench, then to the Common-Pleas, and so putting off their Cloaks, walk about the King's Tombs in Westminster Abbey, and then return to take Barge again.  
Being landed at London, 
The service done to him at London, after his landing.  all the several Companies of the City, who had honoured him in their Barges to Westminster and back again, do likewise perform their attending service, as he (with the Aldermen) ride on to the Guild-Hall to dinner. Full well may this be called a Feast, and ranked next in Honour to Saint George's Feast: For the Honourable Lords of his Highness' Privy Council, other Lords, Barons, judges, Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gentlewomen, with foreign Ambassadors and Strangers, dine there as invited Guests. And therefore it is desertfully termed, 
The Lord Mayor's Feast.  The Lord Mayor's Feast.  
At their coming into the Hall, the new Lord Maior, with two of the ancientest Aldermen, 
What order is observed at the Guild-Hall in welcomming the Guests.  Master Recorder, and the Sheriffs, go up to the Lords Table to bid them welcome, as they do the like to all the other guests, Lords, Ladies, and other. From thence they go to the Lady Majoress her Table, the Gentlewoman's, and the judges; and then the said new Lord Maior (and they with him) go into the Chamberlains Office, where he dineth. Concerning the old Lord Mayor, so soon as they come into the Hall, he goeth up to the high Table in the Hustings, and there keepeth the State for that Feast. When the Hall is served with the seconds, than the new Lord Maior goeth with Master Recorder, and those Aldermen that dined with him, to bid the old Lord, and all the Companies or Guests in the Hall welcome.  
Then after dinner he rideth with the Aldermen to Paul's, 
Orders observed after dinner, and for going to Paul's.  the Companies waiting, and standing in their due places for his coming.   

For going to PAUL'S on All-Saints day, Christmas day, Twelve day, and Candlemas day.  
ALL the Aldermen and the Sheriffs come to the Lord Mayor's house, 
The new and old Lords wear both of them their black velvet Hoods, and the Sword-bearer the Hat of Maintenance.  in their Scarlet Gowns furred, and their Cloaks, as also their Horses brought thither with them. From thence they ride to the Guild-Hall, the Company belonging to the Lord Maior, and the band of Bachelors, with their Gentlemen Ushers walking orderly before him; and there they hear Evening Prayer. When Prayer is ended, than they ride thence to Paul's Church, where both the new Lord Maior and the old put on their Cloaks, 
An ancient custom observed in Paul's Church.  and go up into the Choir, where they sit to hear the Sermon. Which being done, the● 〈◊〉 about the Church, and 〈…〉 Cloaks where they did put them on. Then they mount on their Horses again, and the Aldermen, with the Companies and Bachelors bring the Lord Maior home to his house: where they have Spice-bread and Hypocrasse, and so take leave of the Lord Maior. Here is further to be understood, that All-Saints day is the last day of the old Lords riding with the new in this manner.   

On Saint Thomas day.  
THe Lord Mayor, 
If it be not Sunday.  and every Alderman likewise, is to sit in the Ward belonging to him, about such business as is then necessarily required to be done. Each of them is to wear his Violet Gown and Cloak furred.   

For the CHRISTMAS Holidays.  
FOr the Christmas holidays, 
No Cloak to be worn with their Scarlet.  until Twelve day, if the Lord Maior and Aldermen go abroad to any public meeting, they are to wear Scarlet. But on the working days, within compass of the Twelve days, if the Lord Maior go to the Guild-Hall, Markets, or Streets, than he and they wear black.   

On INNOCENTS' day.  
Upon Innocents' day, 
No State is observed.  the Aldermen dine at the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs, wearing Scarlet: but the Ladies wear black.   

For Monday after Twelve day.  
THe Lord Mayor and the Aldermen meet at the Guild-Hall by eight of the clock in the morning, 
Indentures of the Wardmote Inquests.  wearing their furred Scarlet Gowns, and their furred Cloaks, but using no Horses. Then and there they receive of their several Wards, their sealed Indentures of the Wardmote Inquests: And take the Oaths of the Constables and Scavengers.   

For GOOD-FRYDAY.  
THe Lord Mayor and the Aldermen meet at Paul's Cross at one of the clock in the afternoon, 
Pauls-Crosse Sermon on Good-Fryday: The Black Sword.  to hear the Sermon for that day appointed: they then wearing their Pewke Gowns, and without their Chains and Tippets.   

For Monday and Tuesday in Easter week.  
ALL the Aldermen and Sheriffs come unto the Lord Mayor dwelling house, 
A Hood for the L. Maior.  before eight of the clock in the morning, to breakfast, wearing their Scarlet Gowns furred, and their cloaks, as also their horses attending. When breakfast is ended, 
The Cap or Hat of Maintenance.  they mount on their horses, and ride to the spital, the Sword and Mace borne before the Lord Maior. Being come thither, there they put on their Cloaks, and then sit down in order to hear the Sermon. Which being done, they ride thence homeward in due order, till they come to the Pump within Bishopsgate; and there, so many of the Aldermen as do dine with the Sheriffs, take their leave of the Lord Maior, and the rest go home with him.   

For Wednesday in Easter week.  
LIke as before on the other two days: 
The last Sermon at the spital▪  only reserved, that the Lord Maior and the Aldermen must then wear their violet Gowns, and suitable Cloaks: But the Ladies (on the two former days) wearing their Scarlet, on this day are attired in black.   

For Low Sunday.  
ALL the Aldermen meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at Paul's School, 
The Rehearsal Sermon.  wearing their Scarlet Gowns furred (yet without their Cloaks or horses) and there stay to hear the Sermon.   

For Whitsunday.  
Upon Whitsunday, 
Sermon at the New Churchyard.  all the Aldermen use to meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at the new Churchyard by Moorfields: wearing their Scarlet Gowns lined, without Cloaks, to hear the Sermon there appointed for that day, which being ended, they departed thence again.   

For Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun week.  
ALL the Aldermen are to meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at Paul's; 
If his pleasure be to go.  wearing their Scarlet Gowns, without Cloaks, to hear the Sermon at the Cross.   

For the day of the Lord Mayor's Knighthood.  
ALL the Aldermen do meet the Lord Maior, 
Preparation for either place of the Kings then being.  either at the three Cranes (if the King then be at Westminster) or at Saint Mary Hill (if the King be then at Greenwich) by seven of the clock in the morning; wearing their Scarlet Gowns; and their Cloaks carried with them. After morning Prayer is ended, they take Barge to the King his place, and there they give attendance, until that the Ceremony be finished: and then return home with the Lord Mayor to dinner.    

For going to Paul's the first Sunday of every Term.  
ALL the Aldermen do meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at Paul's, 
The Mayor and Sheriffs only ride.  wearing their Scarlet Gowns, either furred or lined, according as the time of the year requireth: but without Cloaks or Horses, when the Term beginneth.   

For Election of Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament.  
ALL the Aldermen do meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at Guild-Hall, 
Knights and Burgesses for sitting in Parliament.  by nine of the clock in the morning, wearing their Violet Gowns and their Cloaks, either furred or lined, according as the time of the year requireth when they are to be chosen, and they sit in the Hustings Court, until the Commons do make choice of them. The order hath been observed, that they choose Master Recorder for one of their Knights, and one Grey Cloak for the other, and two Commoners for the Burgesses: which being done, they departed thence.   

For the LORDS of the Council, when they come about the Subsidies.  
WHen the Lords and Commissioners come down for assessment of the Subsidies, 
Commissioners for assessing the Subsidies.  the Lord Maior and the Aldermen do wear their black Gowns, as they use at other times. And the Commissioners are to be warned by the Officers, which do belong to both the Sheriffs.   

For Election of Master Chamberlain, and the Bridgemasters, if any of them depart within the year.  
THe Lord Mayor and the Aldermen, 
Upon death, or removing.  wearing their violet Gowns without their Cloaks, being seated in the Hustings Court, do there continue their sitting, and not remove thence, until such time as the Election be made.   

At such time as a King is to be Crowned.  
ALL the Aldermen do meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at the three Cranes in the Vinetree, 
How the L. Maior and Aldermen are apparelled for such a solemnity.  according to the hour of their summons appointed. The Lord Maior (for that time of service & attendance) weareth a Crimosin Velvet Gown, a Choler of Esses and Sceptre, but no Cloak. The Aldermen wear their Scarlet Gowns, and their Cloaks carried with them, either furred or lined, according as the season of the year requireth. There taking Barge, they land at Westminster, and there they give attendance in the Exchequer Chamber (being served with Cakes and Wine) until they be called by the Heralds: and then they put on their Cloaks.   

At what times the Lord Maior weareth his Cloak.  
FRom Michaelmas to Whitsuntide, 
Beginning upon Michaelmas Even.  Violet furred: and from Whitsuntide to Michaelmas, Scarlet lined.  
The Lord Maior, and those Knights that have borne the office of the Mayoralty, aught to have their Cloaks furred with Grace Amis. And those Aldermen that have not been Majors, are to have their Cloaks furred with Calabre.  
And likewise, 
A very necessary observation.  such as have been Majors, are to have their Cloaks lined with changeable Taffeta: and the rest are to have their Cloaks lined with green Taffeta.   

For the first day of every Quarter Sessions.  
THe first day of every Quarter Sessions (in the forenoon only) the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs wear their violet Gowns and Cloaks furred. But at Midsummer Quarter Sessions, the first day, they wear Violet Gowns and Scarlet Cloaks: and on the other days Black.   

For the burial of Aldermen.  
THe Aldermen are to wear their Violet Gowns, 
The last love, duty, and ceremony one to another.  except such as have (of their friend's allowance) black Gowns, or mourning. When an Alderman dieth, Master Sword-bearer is to have a black Gown, or three and thirty shillings and four pence in money. And if the Alderman deceased do give the Lord Maior mourning, than Master Sword-bearer is to have mourning also, or forty shillings in money, as the value thereof, and so to carry the Sword in black before the Lord Maior.  
Master Chamberlain is not to wear his Tipper, but when the Lord Maior or Aldermen do wear their Scarlet or Violet.   

At the Nomination of an Alderman.  
FOr the Nomination of an Alderman, 
Nominating an Alderman▪  the Lord Maior weareth his black Gown, and violet Cloak, and both the Sheriffs their black Gowns.   

For the Orphans Court.  
THe Lord Mayor and the Aldermen do meet at the Guild-Hall, 
On the day, and at the hour appointed.  wearing their Violet Gowns without Cloaks: but the Lord Maior ought to wear his Cloak. The Common Cryer is the Warner of this Court.  

Orders taken and enacted for Orphans and their Portions. Anno 1580.  
AD Commune Concilium, tentum in Guildhaldia Civitatis Londini, xiii. die Octob. Anno Regni Edvardi sexti, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regis, fidei defensoris, & in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae, & Hibernicae supremi capitis, quinto: coram Andrea judde Milite, tunc Maiore, & Aldermannis Civitatis illius, ordinata sunt inter alia, inactitata, concessa & stabilita, omnia & singula subsequentia.  
FOr as much as the City of London is of late years sore decayed, and daily is like to decay more and more: A great cause and occasion whereof, among other, hath been, for that freemens' children (Orphans of the said City) sometimes in the lives of their Parents, and sometimes after their deceases, being left wealth and rich, do bestow themselves in ungodly Marriages, for the most part in their young age, at their own wills and pleasures, without the consent, and against the minds of their friends, saying and affirming, that the Law and Custom of the said City giveth unto them their portions, whether they marry by the assent of their friends or not, and so do daily cast away and undo themselves, in trust to have their said Portions, whether their parents or friends will or will not.  
And thereby do they bestow themselves upon simple and light persons, having neither cunning, knowledge, substance, nor good or honest conditions. By reason whereof, such Orphans, inordinately, and insolently, do spend and consume their patrimony and portions in short time, not only to the undoing of themselves, and to the great ignomy and shame of their friends, but also to the great slander of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this City (who been reputed and taken as Fathers and Protectors of the same Orphans) and to the great loss and hindrance of the said City.  
And for as much as the said Lord Maior and Citizens, have by their laws, and customs, power and authority to make laws and ordinances, by their Common Council, for redress of the same:  
It is therefore now (to the intent to reduce the same to a more godly, more profitable and decent order and conformity) by the said Lord Maior, & Commonalty, and Citizens, in this present Common Council assembled, and by authority of the said Common Council, enacted, ordained, authorised, and established for a law perpetually to be observed and kept within the said City: That if any Orphan, or child of any free man or free woman of the said City, do offend in any the things hereafter expressed, and be thereof lawfully convicted, afore the Lord Maior and the Aldermen or else where, that then they and every of them, shall to all intents, purposes, constructions and meanings, be unabled and barred to demand and claim their portion or portions, and also shall lose and forgo and be barred for ever, of all and every his, her or their part or parts, and portions to him or them belonging, by and after the death of his or their said father or mother, of the goods and cattles, of every such father and mother, by reason of any law, custom, ordinance, usage, franches, privilege, act of Common Council, or other thing, heretofore had or used, within the said City: The same Law, Custom, Ordinance, or other thing whatsoever, heretofore had, made, ordained, allowed, and put in ure, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. That is to wit: First, if any manchild, or womanchild, shall maliciously go about or attempt to do, or cause to be done, any bodily harm, death, or destruction to his or their Father or Mother: Or if any manchild do hereafter marry or contract marriage in the life of his father or mother (by whom he will claim any portion) under the age of one and twenty years, without the consent of his said Father, or Mother, by whom he will claim any portion: Or if any womanchild do hereafter marry or contract marriage, in the life of her father, or other parent, by whom she shall claim any portion, before the age of eighteen years, without the consent of her father, or such other parent by whom she shall or may claim any portion: Or if any manchild be a Thief, or a Felon, or a common whore-hanter; a common Diser, or a common player at unlawful games notoriously known: Or if any womanchild shall hereafter commit any whoredom, or be a common Picker, that then every of the persons so offending, shall be barred and excluded to have, or demand any portion.  
Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the father, or mother of any such child, or children, to give and bequeath in Legacy, to such child or children, as much as the portion of such child so offending shall amount unto, by the custom of the said City, & then such child thereby to be enabled to have and demand the same, as portion, this Act notwithstanding, so that the same Legacy be contained in his or their restament in writing, and not otherwise.  
And that then, and from thenceforth his said child or children, to be admitted and restored to claim such legacy, or legacies, in such sort, manner and form, as if there had been never any such offence done, or committed by any such child.  
Item, it is further ordained, enacted, authorised and established, by the authority aforesaid, that if any womanchild, being an Orphan, and under the age of one and twenty years, at any time hereafter, after the death of her Father, do ensure or contract herself in marriage, or else according to the Ecclesiastical laws of this Realm, do perfectly solemnize or consummate Marriage, with any free man of this City, the consent and agreement of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this said City of London for the time being, not obtained and had, that then for every such default and offence committed or done by any Orphan, or Orphans, of the said City, the same being confessed, or sufficiently proved by two witnesses; or otherwise before the said Lord Maior and Aldermen of this said City of London, for the time being, at and in a Court of Aldermen, she or they that so happen to behave her or themselves, as is aforesaid, shall forfeit, forgo and lose two pence of and for every pound, so due or to be due unto her, or them, by reason of any such Orphanage, the sum of twelve pence of every pound, to go, or to be to the use of the Chamber of the said City, according to the ancient custom before this time, in such case used.  
And if the said contract or marriage of the said Orphan or Orphans, be made with any foreign, not being free of this City, at the time of any such contract or marriage made, that then the said Orphan or Orphans, and every of them shall forfeit and lose three shillings of every pound, or to be due unto her or them, by virtue of any Orphanage or custom had and used within the said City.  
The one shilling of the said three shillings of every pound, to go, or to be, to the use of the Chamber of the said City, in such manner and form as is aforesaid.  
And the other two shillings so forfeited of every pound, to go to the use of such other Orphan, or Orphans, as then shall remain unmarried. Or else for default of such Orphans, or Orphan, to remain to the next of the kindred of the Orphan so offending.  
Also, be it further ordained, enacted, and established by authority aforesaid, for, & in eschewing of diverse variances, contentions, and suits, that daily heretofore have, and hereafter may ensue: that if any free man's child, man or woman fortune to be married hereafter, in the life time of his, or their father, by his consent, and not fully advanced of, and to his, or her full part, or portion of his or her said Fathers goods, as he shall be worth at the time of his decease, according to the ancient laws and customs of this said City: that then every such free man's child, so being married in the life time of his, or her Father, shall be to all intents and purposes, disabled to demand any further part or portion of his or her father's goods, after the decease of his, or her father, but shall be adjudged, reputed, and taken to be fully advanced, according as the law and custom of this City hath been long time out of mind, except his or her said father do mention certainly in his last Will or Testament, or by other writing signed with his own proper name, or mark the certainty of the sum or sums of money, goods and cattles, and the value of them that the Father gave, paid or departed withal, or otherwise assured, or hereafter shall give, pay, departed withal, or otherwise make assurance of unto him, or her, before, at or after the marriage of him or her, or otherwise in his life time, for and towards their advancements, in the name of his, or her part, or portion.  
And then every such Orphan, or child, which after the decease of his or her said father, can bring forth the said Testament, or other writing signed or marked with the father's hand or mark, wherein the certainty of such money, goods, or cattles, as they have or shall have received of their said Father, or by the same Father, assured by especialty, or otherwise, shall have as much of the ready money, goods, cattles, and debts of the said Father, as (with that which he or they shall have received towards their advancements, in the life of their said Father) shall make up a full child's part, of his goods and cattles, as he shall be worth at the time of his decease. The same to be demanded, asked, and claimed, or sued for against the executor, or executors, administrator, or administrators, of the goods, and cattles of the said Father, by bill Original, to be commenced to our Sovereign Lord the King's Court, holden in the utter Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the said City, before the said L. Maior and Aldermen of the same City for the time being, any Law or Custom heretofore made or used to the contrary notwithstanding. In which action, no wager of Law, or Essoine, shall be admitted or allowed.  
Provided always, and it is further enacted, that if any free man's son, being of full age (which shall hereafter be married with the consent of his Father, or any other person, being of full age, which shall hereafter marry any free man's daughter) do at the time of the Espousals, or any time after, confess themselves by writing fully satisfied, of his or their portion, or do otherwise acquit and discharge the Father of such free man's sons or daughters, of all their part and portion due, or to be due, by the Law and Custom of the City; that then every such person, so confessing, acquitting, or otherwise discharging, shall be reputed and taken as fully advanced of his or their whole part or portion, and shall not be enabled to demand any further or greater part of the substance, goods, and cattles of his or her Father: this Law, or any other Law or Custom heretofore had, made, or used to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And further, for as much as it is thought very prejudicial and hurtful to the fatherless children & Orphans, when the mother, or mother in Law, being Executrix of the last Will and Testament of her late husband, by whom, and after whose death, the Orphans are entitled to an Orphanage, (according to the said laudable Customs of this City) do diverse times marry, or contract Matrimony, some with Foreigners, and persons unknown, and some with Free men, or ever a just Inventory of the Goods, Cattles, Plate, jewels, ready Money of the Testators, be by them brought in: By reason whereof, many times they (either for fear or affection of their husbands, or for some other sinister cause) do bring in very suspicious Inventories, omitting therein either ready Money, Plate, jewels, or Debts, or some other thing or things, whereby some benefit should redound to the fatherless children, to the great loss and hindrance of the Orphans, and sometimes slander to the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City, notwithstanding their great care and travail that they take for the good ordering, and true answering of the said Orphans:  
It is therefore, by like authority, ordained, established, and enacted, that if after the first day of November next ensuing, any Widow, which is, or shall be made Executrix of the Testament & last Will of her late Husband (being a free man) or shall take upon her the administration of the Goods and Cattles of her late Husband (being a free man) do not upon her Oath bring in and exhibit, or cause to be brought in and exhibited before the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this said City for the time being, at and in a Court of Aldermen, a just and perfect Inventory (to their knowledge) of all the Goods, Cattles, Plate, and Jewels, ready Money, and Debts, as were her said Husbands at the time of his death, appraysed according to the Law of the said City, before she do ensure herself in marriage, or contract marriage, or else according to the Laws of the Realm, do perfectly solemnize or consummate marriage with any person before such time as aforesaid, that then every person so offending, shall forfeit and lose eight shillings of every pound, of her Portion, of the goods of her late Husband, due to her by the laudable Custom of the said City, the same to go to the use of such Orphan, or Orphans, as then shall be entitled to have or demand any Orphanage or Portion, after the death of his or her late Father▪ the same to be demanded, asked, claimed, or sued for, against such Executrix, or Administratrix, by Bill original of debt, to be commenced in our Sovereign Lord the King's Court, holden in the utter Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the said City, before the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the same City for the time being, any Law, etc. In which action no wager, etc.   

For the election of Governors at Christ's Hospital, etc.  
FOr the election of Governors belonging to the several Hospitals: 
At time and place appointed.  the Lord Maior and the Aldermen do wear their black Gowns.   

A Note of Observation.  
THe four Pleaders, 
Festival times and general days.  the Chamberlain, Town-clerk, Common Sergeant, two Judges of the Sheriff's Court, the Secondaries, the Vnderchamberlaine, and Bridgemasters, are to attend the Lord Mayor at his house, before his going abroad on all Festival times, and general days.   

Courts of Aldermen.  
Court's of Aldermen in ordinary, 
Court days, and of exception.  are kept at the Guild-Hall, every Tuesday and Thursday thorough the whole year; except Holidays, the month of August, until Bartholomew day be past, the week before Christmas, Shrove-Tuesday, and the week before Easter.   

The Laws of the Market.  
FIrst, in all the Markets of this City, no Victual shall be sold, but by the price set by the Mayor of this City.  
2 No man shall forestall any Victual coming to the Market, as for to buy in any Inn or other privy place, or yet coming to the Market, whether it be found in the hands of the buyer or of the seller, under pain of forfeiture of the same: and no Inneholder shall suffer nothing to be sold in his house, upon pain of forfeiture of forty shillings.  
3 No man shall regrate any Victual which is in the Market, or buy any Victual to ingrate in the Market, so that the Commons can or may have any part of such Victual, as in especial, such as be known for Hucksters, or other people, occupying their living by such Victual as they would so engross, under pain of forfeiture of such Victual so regretted: Provided always, that any Steward for any noble Feast, may buy or ingrate such Victual as is convenient for the same Feast.  
4 No Butter shall be sold, but according to the weight, for the time of the year allowed.  
5 No Poulters shall deceiveably occupy the Market, to sell any stale Victual, or such as be Poulters of this City, for to stand in strange clothing so to do, under pain of forty shillings, and the forfeiture of such Victual, forty shillings.  
6 No Hucksters shall stand or sit in the Market, but in the lower place, and the ends of the Market, to the intent they may be perfectly known, and the Stranger-market-people have the preeminence of the Market, under pain of three shillings four pence, if the Hucksters disobey the same.  
7 No unwholesome or stale Victual shall be sold under pain of xi. s. and forfeiture of the same Victual.    

THE STATUTES OF THE STREETS OF THIS CITY, against Annoyances.  
FIrst, no man shall sweep the filth of the Street into the Chancel of the City, in the time of any rain, or at any other time, under pain of six shillings eight pence.  
2 No man shall cast, or lay in the Streets, Dogs, Cats, or other Carrion, or any noisome thing contagious of Air. Nor no Inholder shall lay out dung out of his house, but if the Cart be ready to carry the same away incontinently, under pain of forty shillings.  
3 No Brewer shall cast wilfully dregss or dross of Ale or Beer into the Channel, under pain of two shillings.  
4 No man shall encumber the streets with Timber, Stones, Carts, or such like, under pain of forfeiture of the same thing that so encumbreth the streets, which is twenty shillings fine, if he remove it not at the warning of the Sergeant of the Market.  
5 Every builder of houses ought to come to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Chamberlain, for a special licence for hoard of, by him to be made in the high Street, and no builder to encumber the Streets with any manner of thing, taking down for the preparing of his new building, under pain of forty shillings, except he make a hoard of forty shillings.  
6 No man shall set any Carts in the Streets by night time, under the pain of twelve pence, and recompense to such persons as shall be hurt thereby, if any such be, twelve pence.  
7 No Budge-man shall lead but two horse●, and he shall not let them go unled, under pain of two shillings.  
8 No man shall ride, or drive his Car or Cart atrot in the Street, but patiently, under pain of two shillings.  
9 No man shall gallop his horse in the Street, under pain of two shillings.  
10 No man shall shoot in the Street, for Wager or otherwise, under like pain of two shillings.  
11 No man shall bowl, or cash any stone in the Street, for wager, or gain, or such like, under pain of two shillings.  
12 No man shall dig any hole in the Street for any matter, except he stop it up again, under pain of two shillings, and recompense to any person hurt thereby, two shillings.  
13 No man shall bury any dung, or goung, within the Liberties of this City, under pain of forty shillings.  
14 No Goungfermour shall carry any Ordure till after nine of the Clock in the night, under pain of thirteen shillings four pence.  
15 No Goungfermour shall spill any Ordure in the Street, under pain of thirteen shillings four pence.  
16 No man shall bait Bull, Bear, or Horse in the open street, under pain of twenty shillings.  
17 No man shall have any Kine, Goats, Hogs, Pigs, Hens, Cocks, Capons, or Ducks in the open Street, under pain of forfeiture of the same.  
18 No man shall maintain any biting Curs, or mad Dogs, in the streets, under pain of two shillings, and recompense unto every party hurt therewith, two shillings.  
19 No Carts that shall be shod with Spig-naile, that shall come upon the streets of this City, under pain of three shillings four pence.  
20 No Cart's using daily carriage within this City, nor Car shall have Wheels shod with any Iron, but bare, under pain of six shillings.  
21 No man shall burn any Straw, Rushes, or other thing, Linen or woollen in the streets, by night or by day, under pain of three shillings four pence.  
22 No man shall blow any Horn in the night within this City, or Whistle after the hour of nine of the clock in the night, under pain of imprisonment.  
23 No man shall use to go with Vizards, or disguised by night, under like pain of imprisonment.  
24 That Nightwalkers, and Eavesdroppers endure like punishment.  
25 No Hammer-man, as a Smith, a Pewterer, a Founder, and all Artificers, making great sound, shall not work after the hour of nine in the night, nor afore the hour of four in the morning, under pain of three shil. four pence.  
26 No man shall cast into the Ditches of this City, or the Sewers of this City, without the walls, or into the walls, Grates, or Gullets of this City, any manner of Carrion, stinking Flesh, rotten Fish, or any Rubbish, Dung, Sand, Gravel, Weeds, Stones, or any other thing to stop the course of the same, under pain of cleansing them at his own cost and charge, under pain of imprisonment.  
27 No man shall make any Widrawtes in any of the Towne-Ditches, or the Towne-Gullets, under pain of twenty shillings.  
28 No man shall build nigh the Walls of this City, without licence of the Lord Maior, Aldermen, & Chamberlain, under pain of throwing down the same, and no licence may be granted, except that the Chamberlain freely at all times have convenient and needful ingress, and entry, going out, and clear recourse.  
29 No man shall go in the streets by night or by day with Bow bend, or Arrows under his Girdle, nor with Sword unscabberd, under pain of imprisonment; or with Hand-Gun, having therewith Powder and Match, except it be in an usual May-game or Sight.  
30 No man shall after the hour of nine at the Night, keep any rule whereby any such sudden outcry be made in the still of the night, as making any Affray, or beating his Wife, or Servant, or Singing, or Reve●ing in his house, to the disturbance of his neighbours, under pain of 3. shil. 4. pence.  
31 No man shall make any Affray, upon any Officer, which with good demeanour doth his message by commandment of my Lord Mayor, or any Alderman, or M. Sheriffs, or M. Chamberlain, or misbehave himself in any railing upon any Judge of this City, or their Officers, which by commandment are sent to bring any breaker of this Law and Custom to Ward, or to distress, or such like, upon pain of Imprisonment of forty days, and forfeiture of the double penalty: for the offences asseasing, railing upon any Alderman, or Mayor in his office, is judgement of the Pillory: railing upon Master Chamberlain in his office, forty days imprisonment: beating, threatening, and railing of an Officer, is imprisonment, after as the trespass is.  
32 Memorandum, That every offence found in this City, it is accustomed that the Officer, a Free man, finding it, which is called primus Inventor, hath half the penalty by the grace of the Court.  
33 Also, every Free man may find any offence, but he hath no power to bring the party before any Judge of this City without an Officer, except the party will come to his answer by free william.  
34 No man hath power to Arrest, Attach, or make distress of any goods forfeitable, or offences, except the Constable or Sergeant of the Mace.  
35 No Butcher, or his servant shall not use to drive any Ox or Oxen, atrot in the streets, but peaceably: and ifan Ox happen to be let go when he is prepared to slaughter, the Butcher shall forfeit two shil. beside recompense, if any person be hurt thereby.  
36 No Butcher shall scald Hogs, but in the common scalding house, upon pain of six shillings eight pence.  
37 No Butcher shall sell any Measell Hog, or unwholesome flesh, under pain of ten pounds.  
38 No Butcher shall sell any old stale Victual: that is to say, above the slaughter of three days in the Winter, and two in the Summer, under pain of ten pounds.  
39 None unreasonable Victual for all manner of Victuals.  
40 No Victualer of this City shall give any rude or unsetting language, or make any clamour upon any man or woman in the open Market, for cheapening of Victual, under pain of three shillings four pence.  
41 No Butcher shall cast the inwards of Beasts into the streets, cleaves of Beasts feet, Bones, Horns of Sheep, or other such like, under pain of two shillings.  
42 The Pudding-cart of the Shambles shall not go afore the hour of nine in the night, or after the hour of five in the morning, under pain of six shillings eight pence.  
43 No man shall cast any Vrineboles, or Ordure-boles into the streets by day or night, afore the hour of nine in the night: And also he shall not cast it out, but bring it down, and lay it in the Channel, under the pain of three shillings four pence. And if he do cast it upon any person's head, the party to have a lawful recompense, if he have hurt thereby.  
44 No man shall hurt, cut, or destroy any Pipes, Sesperals, or Windvents pertaining to the Conduit, under pain of imprisonment, and making satisfaction, though he doth it out of the City, if he may be taken within the City.  
45 No man within this City may make any Quill, and break any Pipe of the Conduit, coming thorough his house, or nigh his ground, under pain of the Pillory, or take any water privily unto his house.  
46 Casting any corrupt thing, appoysoning the water, is Lourgulary and Felony.  
47 Whosoever destroy or perish any Cocks of the Conduit, must have imprisonment, and make satisfaction.  

Old Laws and Customs of this City.  
48 NO man shall set up shop, or occupy as a Freeman, afore he be sworn in the Chamber of London, and admitted by the Chamberlain, under pain of▪  
49 No man shall set over his Apprentice to any other person, but by licence of Master Chamberlain, and there to be set over, under pain of▪  
50 No man which is a Foreign, shall not buy nor sell within the liberties of this City with another Foreign, under pain of forfeiture of the goods so foreign bought and sold.  
51 No Freeman shall be disobedient for to come at Master Chamberlains commandment, to any summons to him given by any officer of the Chamber, under pain of imprisonment.  
52 Master Chamberlain hath power to send a free man to Ward, so that he incontinently after send to the Lord Maior, the cause why that he is punished, so that the Lord Maior release him not, but by the Chamberlains assent: and if he be a great Commoner, and disobeying to the Chamberlain, Master Chamberlain may refer it to a Court of Aldermen.  
Master Chamberlain hath authority for to send or command any Apoprentice to the Counter for their offences: and if their offences be great, as in defiling their Master's houses by vicious living, or offending his Master by theft, or disslander, or such like, then to command him to Newgate.  
Apprentice Enrolled, his Master payeth two shillings six pence.  
Apprentice set over, he that receiveth, two shillings.  
Apprentice made Free, he payeth four shillings.  
Apprentice never Enrolled, and made free, his Master payeth thirteen shillings two pence.  
A man made Free by his Father's Copy, payeth eighteen pence.  
A Proclamation made in the time of the Mayoralty of Sir Michael Dormer, Knight.  
An Act of Common Council, made in the Even of Saint Michael, Anno Regis Henrici Octavi xxxj. That no person should lay any Wares in the Street, or beyond the edge of their Stall, upon pain of forfeiture the first time six shillings eight pence: the second time thirteen shillings four pence: and the third time, the Ware so laid.    

AN ACT FOR THE REFORMATION OF DIVERS ABUSES USED IN the Wardmote Inquest: Together with the Articles of the charge of the said Inquest.  
By the Mayor. To the Alderman of the Ward.  

Wardmote Inquest for a year.  
WE charge and command you, that upon Saint Thomas day the Apostle next coming, you do hold your Wardmote, and that you have afore us at our general Court of Aldermen to be holden in the Guild-Hall, the Monday next after the Feast of the Epiphany next coming, all the defaults that shall be presented afore you by Inquest in the said Wardmote, and the said Inquest shall have full power and authority by one whole year, to inquire and present all such defaults as shall be found within your said Ward, as oftentimes as shall be thought to you expedient and needful, which we will, shall be once every month at the least.   

Inquest dying.  
AND if it happen any of your said Inquest to die, or depart out of your said Ward within the said year, that then in place of him or them so dying, or departing out of your said Ward, you cause to be chosen one able person to inquire and present with the other in manner and form aforesaid.   

Non appearance.  
AND that at the said general Court, you give afore us the names and sur-names of all them of your said Ward, that come not to your said Wardmote, if they be duly warned, so that due redress and punishment of them may be had, as the case shall require, according to the Law.   

Watch, Light, Vizard.  
AND that ye do provide, that at all times convenient, covenable Watch be kept: and that Lanterns with light by Nightertaile in old manner accustomed, be hanged forth, and that no man go by nightertaile without light, nor with Vizard, on the peril that belongeth thereto.   

Common Council.  
AND also that you do cause to be chosen men of the most sufficient, honest, and discreet men of your said Ward, to be for your said Ward of the Common Council of this City for the year ensuing, according to the custom in that behalf yearly used. And also that you do cause the said men so to be chosen to be of the Common Council, to be sworn before you and in your presence, according to the oath for them used, and of old time accustomed, the Tenor of which oath hereafter ensueth.    

The Oath.  
YE shall swear, that ye shall be true to our Sovereign Lord the King that now is, and to his heirs and successors Kings of England, and readily ye shall come when ye be summonned to the Common Council of this City, but if ye be reasonably excused, and good and true counsel ye shall give in all things, touching the Commonwealth of this City, after your wit and cunning: and that for favour of any person ye shall maintain no singular profit against the common profit of this City, and after that you be come to the Common Council, you shall not from thence depart, until the Common Council be ended, without reasonable cause, or else by the Lord Mayor's Licence. And also any secret things that be spoken on said in the Common Council, which ought to be kept secret, in no wise you shall disclose, as God you help.  

Constables, Scavengers, Beadle, Raker.  
AND that also in the said Wardmote you cause to be chosen certain other honest persons to be Constables, and Scavengers, and a common Beadle, and a Raker to make clean the streets and lanes of all your said Ward, according to the custom yearly used in that behalf, which Constables have, and shall have full power and authority to distrain for the ●a●●ary and quarterage of the said Beadle and Raker, as oftentimes as it shall be behind unpaid.   

Roll of names.  
ALso, that you keep a Roll of the names, sur-names, dwelling places, professions and trades of all persons dwelling within your Ward and within what Constables precinct they dwell, wherein the place is to be specially noted by the street, lane, alley, or sign.   

Constable. Roll.  
ALso that you cause every Constable from time to time, to certify unto you, the name, surname, dwelling place, profession, and trade of every person, who shall newly come to dwell within his Precinct, whereby you may make and keep your Roll perfect: and that you cause every Constable for his Precinct to that purpose to make and keep a perfect Roll in like manner.   

Inholder, Lodger, Sojourner.  
ALso that you give special charge that every Inholder, and other person within your Ward, who shall receive any person to lodge or sojourn in his house above two days, shall before the third day after his coming thither, give knowledge to the Constable of the Precinct where he shall be so received, of the name, surname, dwelling place, profession, and trade of life, or place of service of such person, and for what cause he shall come to reside there: and that the said Constable give present notice thereof to you: and that the said Inholder lodge no suspected person, or men or women of evil name.   

Search. New comers.  
ALso that you cause every Constable within his Precinct, once every month at the farthest, and oftener, if need require, to make diligent search and inquiry, what persons be newly come into his Precinct to dwell, sojourn, or lodge: and that you give special charge, that no Inholder or other person shall resist or deny any Constable, in making such search or inquiry, but shall do his best endeavour to aid and assist him therein.   

Frank pledge.  
ANd for that of late there is more resort to the City of persons evil affected in Religion, and otherwise than in former times have been: You shall diligently inquire if any man be received to dwell or abide within your Ward, that is not put under frank pledge, as he ought to be by the custom of the City, and whether any person hath continued in the said Ward by the space of one year, being above the age of twelve years, and not sworn to be faithful and loyal to the King's Majesty, in such sort as by the Law and custom of the City he ought to be.   

Beadle.  
TO all these purposes the Beadle of every Ward shall employ his diligence, and give his best furtherance.   

Fire.  
ALso that you have special regard that from time to time, there be convenient provision for Hooks, Ladders, and Buckets, in meet places within the several Parishes of your Ward, for avoiding the peril of fire.   

Streets.  
ALso that the Streets and lanes of this City, be from time to time kept clean before every Church, house, shop, warehouse, door, dead wall, and in all other common passages and streets of the said Ward.   

Hucksters of Ale and Beer.  
AND where by diverse acts of Common Council, afore time made and established for the Commonweal of this City, amongst other things it is ordained and enacted, as hereafter ensueth:  
Also it is ordained and enacted, That from henceforth no Huckster of Ale or Beer, be within any Ward of the City of London, but honest persons, and of good name and fame, and so taken and admitted by the Alderman of the Ward for the time being, and that the same Hucksters do find sufficient surety afore the Mayor and Aldermen for the time being, to be of good guiding and rule: and that the same Hucksters shall keep no bawdry, nor suffer no lechery, dice-playing, carding, or any other unlawful games, to be done, exercised, or used within their houses: and to shut in their doors at nine of the clock in the night from Michaelmas to Easter, and from Easter to Michaelmas, at ten of the clock in the night, and after that hour sell none Ale or Beer. And if any Huckster of Beer or Ale, after this act published and proclaimed, sell any Ale or Beer within any Ward of the City of London, and be not admitted by the Alderman of the same Ward so to do, or find not sufficient surety as it is above rehearsed, the same Huckster to have imprisonment, and make fine and ransom for his contempt, after the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen: and also that the said Hucksters suffer no manner of common eating and drinking within their Cellars or Vaults contrary to the ordinance thereof ordained and provided, as in the said act more plainly appeareth at large: we charge you that you do put the same in due execution accordingly.  

Measures sealed.  
AND also that ye see all Tiplers and other sellers of Ale or Beer as well of privy Osteries, as Brewers and Inholders within your Ward, not selling by lawful measures sealed and marked with the letter C. crowned, according as in that behalf it is ordained and purveighed, be presented, and their names in your said Indentures be expressed, with their defaults, so that the Chamberlain may be lawfully answered of their amersements.   

Stranger borne.  
ANd also that you suffer no stranger borne out of the Realm, to be of the Common Council, nor to exercise or use any other Office within this City, nor receive or accept any person into your Watch, privy or open, but Englishmen borne: and if any stranger borne out of this Realm, made Denizen by the King's Letters Patents, or any other after his course and lot be appointed to any watch, that then ye command and compel him or them to find in his stead and place one Englishman to supply the same.   

Billets and firewood.  
AND also that you cause an abstract of the Assize appointed by act of Parliament, for Billers' and other firewood, to be fair written in Parchment, and to be fixed or hanged up in a Table in some fit and convenient place in every Parish within your Ward, where the common people may best see the same.   

Streets. Pain 40. s.  
AND furthermore we charge and command you, that you cause such provision to be had in your said Ward, that all the streets and lanes within the same Ward be from time to time cleansed and clearly voided of ordure, dung, mire, rubbish, and other filthy things whatsoever they be, to the annoyance of the King's Majesty's subjects.   

Vagarants.  
AND also that at all times, as you shall think necessary, you do cause search to be made within your said Ward, for all vagrant Beggars, suspicious and idle people, and such as cannot show how to live, and such as shall be found within your said Ward, that you cause to be punished and dealt with according to the law and the statute in such case ordained and provided.   

jurymen.  
AND also we will and charge you the said Alderman, that yourself certify and present before us, at the same general Court to be holden the foresaid monday next after the Feast of Epiphany, all the names and sur-names truly written of such persons within your said Ward, as be able to pass in a grand jury by themselves: and also all the names and sur-names truly written of such persons, being and dwelling within your said Ward, as be able to pass in a petty jury, and not able to pass in a grand jury by themselves, that is to say, every grand jury man to be worth in goods an hundred Marks, and every petty Jury man forty Marks, according to an Act in that case made and provided: and the same you shall indorce on the backside of your Indenture.   

Harlots.  
ITem, for diverse reasonable and urgent considerations, us especially moving, we straightly charge and command you on the King our Sovereign Lords behalf, that you diligently provide and foresee, that no manner of person or persons within your said Ward, of what condition or degree soever he or they be of, keeping any Tavern or Alehouse, Aleseller or victualling house, or place of common resort to eat and drink in, within the same Ward, permit or suffer at any time hereafter, any common women of their bodies, or Harlors to resort and come into their said house, or other the places aforesaid to eat or drink, or otherwise to be conversant or abide, or thither to haunt or frequent, upon pain of imprisonment, as well of the occupier and keeper of every such house or houses, and all other the places afore remembered, as of the said common women or Harlots.   

Articles.  
ALso that you do give in charge to the Wardmote Inquest of your Ward, all the Articles delivered to you herewith.    

An Act for the Reformation of diverse abuses, used in the Wardmote Inquest.  
Commons, Dinners, Banquet.  
ITEM, Where the Wardmote Inquests within the several Wards of this City, for the maintenance of Honesty, Virtue, & good Living; and for the abolishment, exiling, and suppressing of all kind of Vice, evil Rule, and Iniquity, according to the ancient laudable Laws and Customs of the said City, are yearly severally charged and sworn, upon the day of S. Thomas the Apostle, before the Aldermen of the said Wards, chiefly and principally to the end and intent, that they with all diligence should truly and duly inquire and present all such Enormities, Nuisances, Misorder, and Offences, as are, or at any time within the space of one whole year than next ensuing, shallbe severally used, committed, or done within the said Wards, and have day yearly to make their said Presentments, until the Monday next after the Feast of the Epiphany: The said Inquests heretofore little or nothing at all regarding (as it is very manifest and not unknown, the more is the pity) their said Oaths, or yet the great commodities, Utility, Quietness, Honour, and Worship, that might or should grow and ensue to the said City, and inhabitants of the same, through their good, industrious, and indifferent proceedings, for the advancement of Virtue, and repressing of Vices, have drawn it in a manner into a very ordinary course and common Custom, to consume and spend a great part of their said time, that they have yearly given unto them, when they receive their said charge; partly in setting up among themselves a certain Commons, and making and keeping many costly and sumptuous Dinners, Suppers, and Banquets, inviting and calling to the same at sundry times, in a manner, all the Inhabitants of the said several Wards, to the no little charges of the same Inhabitants, and partly in passing and occupying much part of the same time in playing at Dice, Tables, Cards, and such other unlawful Games both to the great costs, charges, and expenses of the said Inquests (whereof the greater part most commonly are but poor men) and also to the very lewd, pernicious, and evil example of all such as have any access or recourse unto the same Inquests. And where also the said Inquests have of late usurped to dispense with such persons, as they by their search, and otherwise, have founden to offend and transgress the Laws, in using and occupying of unlawful Weights and Measures, taking of the said Offenders certain Fines (as it is said) the said Inquests have commonly used to employ toward the maintenance of their said Feasting and Banqueting, directly against the due order of our Sovereign Lord the King's Laws, and the public wealth of all his Highness' Subjects within the said City, and much to the reproach and dishonour of the same City.  
For remedy and Reformation thereof, be it Ordained Enacted, & Established by the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and Commons, in this present Common Council assembled, and by authority of the same, That all and every the Wardmote Inquests of the said City, from henceforth to be yearly charged & sworn within the several Wards at the time afore rehearsed, shall at all times and places meet and convenient for the due execution of their said charge, meet and assemble themselves together, and that they and every of them after their said meetings, inquisition, and treating of their said necessary matters, shall go home to their own several houses to Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper, during all the said accustomed time of their charge and Session abovesaid: And that none of the said Inquests shall from henceforward set up any manner of Commons, or keep or maintain any manner of Dinners, Suppers, or Banquets among themselves, or use at their said Assemblies and Sessions, any of the Games above mentioned, or any other whatsoever unlawful Games or Plays at any time, before the giving up of the said Presentments at the time above remembered. Or shall take or receive any manner of Fine or Fines, for the concealment and discharging of any of the Offences afore recited: but truly present the same Offences, and every of them, according to their Oaths, upon pain of imprisonment by the discretion of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the said City for the time being.  

Fire and Candle, etc. Recreation.  
PRovided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for all the every of the said Inquests, to take and receive towards the charges of their Fire and Candles, and other necessaries during the time of their said Session, all and every such sums of money, as any honest person or persons of their free will and benevolent mind, will give or offer unto them: and when they have made their said Presentments, to go and assemble themselves together for their Recreation and solace, where they shall think it good: and there not only to bestow and spend the twenty shillings, which every Alderman within his Ward, according to a certain order lately taken, shall yearly give unto them at the time of the delivery of the said Presentments, towards their said charges in this behalf, but also the residue of the said money received and gathered, as it is aforesaid, of the benevolence of their said loving friends, if any such residue shall fortune to remain. Any Clause or Article in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Not failing hereof, as ye tender the Common weal of this City, and advancement of good justice, and as ye will answer for the contrary at your uttermost peril.    

The Articles of the charge of the Wardmote Inquest.  

Peace.  
YE shall swear, that ye shall truly inquire if the Peace of the King our Sovereign Lord be not kept as it ought to be, and in whose default, and by whom it is broken or disturbed.   

Frank pledge.  
ALso if any man be received within this Ward, but if he be under Free pledge, that is to say, be sworn after the Alderman at his Court, or else afore the said Alderman, between this & the Monday next after the Feast of the Epiphany next coming.   

Outlaws, Traitors, Felons, etc.  
ALso if there dwell any man within the Ward, that is outlawed or indicted of Treason or Felony, or be any receiver of Traitors or Felons.   

Thames.  
ALso ye shall inquire, and truly present all the offences and defaults done by any person or persons within the River of Thames, according to the intent and purport of an Act made by our late Lord King Edward the sixth, in his high Court of Parliament, and also of diverse other things ordained by Act of Common Council of this City, for the redress and amendment of the said River, which as now is in great decay and ruin, and will be in short time past all remedy, if high and substantial provision and great help be not had with all speed and diligence possible: as more plainly appeareth in the said Act of Parliament, and the said Act of Common Council of this City.   

Congregations.  
ALso if any manner of person make Congregation, or be receiver or gatherer of evil companies.   

Riotor, Barrator.  
ALso if any man be a common Riotor, or a Barrator, walking by nightertaile without light, against the rule & custom of this City.   

Peace, hue and cry.  
ALso if there be any man within this Ward, that will not help, aid, nor succour the Constables, Beadle, and other ministers of this City in keeping of the peace, and arrest the evil doers with rearing of hue and cry.   

Hucksters, receivers of Apprentices Artificers, etc.  
ALso if there be any Huckster of Ale and Beer, that commonly useth to receive any Apprentices, servants, Artificers or Labourers, that commonly use to play at the Dice, Cards, or Tables, contrary to the form of the statute in that case ordained and provided.   

Inholder, Taverner, Victualer.  
ALso if there be any Inholder, Taverner, Brewer, Huckster, or other Victualer, that hold open their houses after the hour limited by the Mayor.   

Curfue.  
ALso if any Parish Clerk do ring the Bell, called the Curfue Bell, after Curfue rungen at the Churches of Bow, Barking Church, and Saint Giles without Creplegate.   

Bawds, maintainers of quarrels.  
ALso ye shall inquire if any Putour, that is to say, man-Bawd, or woman-Bawd, common hazerdours, contectour, maintainer of quarrels, champartours, or embracers of Inquests, or other common misdoers be dwelling within this Ward, and present their names.   

Strumpet, Adulterer, Witch, Scold.  
ALso if any Bawd, common strumpet, common Adulterer, Witch or common Scold be dwelling within this Ward.   

Hot-house.  
ALso if there be any house, wherein is kept and holden any hothouse, or sweating-house, for ease and health of men, to the which be resorting or conversant any strumpets, or women of evil name or fame, or if there be any hothouse or sweeting ordained for women, to the which is any common recourse of young men, or of other persons of evil fame and suspect conditions.  
Also, if there be any such persons that keep or hold any such hothouses, either for men or women, and have found no surety to the Chamberlain for their good and honest behaviour, according to the Laws of this City, and lodge any manner of person by night, contrary to the ordinance thereof made, by the which he or they shall forfeit twenty pounds to the Chamber, if they do the contrary.   

Thames, ditches, streets, etc.  
ALso if any manner of person cast or lay dung, ordure, rubbish, seacole dust, rushes, or any other thing noyant, in the River of Thames, Walbrooke, Fleet, or other ditches of this City, or in the open streets, ways, or lanes within this City.   

Channel.  
ALso if any person after a great rain falleth, or at any other time sweep any dung, ordure, rubbish, rushes, Seacole dust, or any other thing noyant, down into the channel of any street or lane, whereby the common course there is let, and the same things noyant driven down into the said water of Thames.   

Hogs, Kine, Oxen, Ducks.  
ALso if any manner of person nourish Hogs, Oxen, Kine, Ducks, or any beasts within this Ward, to the grievance and disease of their Neighbours.   

Usury.  
ALSO if any Usurers or false chevesancers be dwelling within this Ward.   

Persons indicted in one Ward, flying into another.  
ALso where afore this time it is ordained and enacted as hereafter followeth. Item, for to eschew the evils of misgoverned persons that daily when they be indicted in one Ward, fly into another: It is ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen, that as soon as a man or woman suspect, first do come to dwell within any house, in any Ward within the City, the Constables, Beadle's, or other Officers of the same, shall be charged by their Oaths, at the general Court, to inquire and espy from whence they come. And if they find by their own confession, or by the record of any of the Books of any Alderman of the City, that they be indicted or cast of evil and noyous life, and will not find surety for their good abearing and honest governance to the Alderman for the time being, that then they shall not dwell there from thenceforth, but shall be warned to avoid within three or four days, or more or less, after, as it shall be seen to the Alderman of the Ward for the time being, and that the Landlord that letteth the house, or his attorney, shall be also warned to make them to avoid out of his house aforesaid, within the said time limited by the Alderman: and if they be found there after the time, that then not only the said dishonest persons shall have imprisonment of their bodies after the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen, but also the said Landlords, letters of the said houses, shall forfeit to the Guild-hall, as much as they should have had for letting of the said house, or should be paid by the year, if the said persons or others had dwelled in the said house.   

Colouring foreign goods.  
ALso if any Freeman against his Oath made, conceal, cover, or colour the goods of Forrains', by the which the King may in any wise loose, or the franchises of this City be imblemished.   

Foreign buying and selling.  
ALso if any Foreign buy and sell with any other Foreign within this City or the Suburbs thereof any goods or Merchandises, the same goods or Merchandises be forthwith forfeit, to the use of the Commonalty of this City.   

Freemen not resident.  
ALso if every Freeman, which receiveth or taketh the benefit, and enjoyeth the franchises of this City, be continually dwelling out of the City, and hath not, nor will not (after his oath made) be at scot and lot, nor partner to the charges of this City, for the worship of the same City, when he is duly required.   

Orphans, Wards, Marriages.  
ALSO if any man conceal the goods of Orphans of this City, of whom the Ward and marriage of right belongeth to the Mayor and Aldermen of this City.   

Officers.  
AND if any Officer by colour of his Office, do extortion unto any man, or be maintainer of quarrels against right, or take carriage, or arrest victual unduly.   

Boatman, Ferriour.  
ALso if any Boatman or Ferriour be dwelling in the Ward, that taketh more for Boatmanage or ferriage, than is ordained.   

Purprestures.  
ALso if any man make Purprestures, that is to say, encroach, or take of the common ground of this City, by land or by water, as in walls, pales, stoops, grieces, or doors, or cellars, or in any other like within the Ward; or if any porch, penthouse, or jetty be too low, in letting of men that ride beside, or carts that go thereforth.   

Penthouses, jetties, Stalls, etc.  
ALso that Pentises and jetties be at the least the height of nine foot, and that the stalls be not but of two foot and a half in breadth, and to be flexible or movable, that is to say, to hang by jemewes' or garners, so that they may be taken up and let down.   

Way, Watercourse.  
ALso if any common way or common course of water be foreclosed or letted, that it may not have his course as it was wont, to the noyance of the Ward, and by whom it is done.   

Pavements.  
ALso if any pavement be defective, or too high in one place, and too low in another, to the disturbance of riders and goers thereby, and carts that go thereupon.   

Regrators, Forestallers.  
ALso if any Regrator or Forestaller of victual, or of any other Merchandizes which should come to this City to be sold, be dwelling in this Ward: a Regrator is as much to lay, as he that buyeth up all the victual, or Merchandizes, or the most part thereof, when it is come to the City or the Suburbs of the same at a low price, and then afterwards selleth it at his own pleasure, at a high and excessive price: a Forestaller is he that goeth out of the City, and meeteth with the victual or Merchandise by the way, coming unto the City to be sold, and there buyeth it, both these be called in the Law, Inimici publici patriae, which is to say, open enemies to a Country.   

Price of victual.  
ALso if any Butcher, Fishmonger, Poulter, Vintner, Hostler, Cook, or seller of Victual, do sell Victual at unreasonable prices.   

Hay.  
ALso if any Ostler sell Hay, Oats or Provender at excessive prices, taking greater gain thereby then is reasonable and lawful.   

Victual unwholesome. Price.  
ALso if any Victualer sell any Victuals not covenable, or unwholesome for man's body, or else dearer than is proclaimed by the Mayor.   

Measures unsealed.  
YE shall diligently make search and inquiry, whether there be any Vintner, Inholder, Alehouse-keeper, or any other person or persons whatsoever within your Ward, that do use or keep in his or their house or houses, any Cans, Stone pots, or other measures which be unsealed, & by Law not allowed to sell Beer or Ale thereby, and whether they do sell any of their best Beer and Ale above a penny the quart, or any small Ale or Beer above a half penny the quart, & whether any of them do sell by any measure not sealed. If there be any such, you shall seize them, and send them to the Guild-Hall to the Chamberlains Office, & present their names and faults by Indenture, so oft as there shall be any occasion so to do.   

Weights and Measures.  
YE shall also make search in the Shops and Houses of all the Chandler's, and of all others which sell by Weight or Measure, dwelling within your Ward, and see that their Scales be not one heavier than another, and that their Measures, as well Bushels as lesser Measures, as well those that sell Sea-coals by (which ought to be heaped) that they be in breadth according to the new Standard, sealed as all others; and that all Yards and Ells be their just lengths & sealed, that the poor and other his Majesty's subjects be not deceived. And further, if any do buy by one Weight or Measure, and sell by others: and if in your search you find any false Weights, Measures, or Scales, ye shall seize them and send them unto the Guild-Hall to the Chamberlain: and you shall also do the like, if you shall find any that do sell any thing by Venice Weights, contrary to the Law, and his Majesty's Proclamations, present their names and faults.   

Inholder, Browne-Baker.  
ALso if any Inholder bake any Bread to sell within his house: and if any Baker of sour Bread bake white Bread to sell, or mark not his Bread, or else take more for the baking then three pence for a Bushel.   

House, Tyle.  
ALso ye shall inquire, if any house be covered otherwise, then with Tile, Stone, Led, for peril of fire.   

Leper, Beggar.  
ALso if any Leper, Faitour, or mighty Beggar be dwelling within this Ward.   

Bakers, Brewers.  
ALso if any Baker or Brewer bake or brew with Straw, of any other thing which is perilous for fire.    

Painted Visage.  
ALso if any man go with painted Visage.  

Candle-light.  
ALso if there be any man that hangeth not out a Lantern with a Candle therein burning after the Usage, according to the commandment thereupon given.   

Tall-wood, Billets, Faggots.  
ALso if any person bring or cause to be brought to this City or the Liberties thereof, to be sold, or sell, offer or put to sale, any Tall-wood, Billets, Faggots, or other firewood, not being of the full assize which the same aught to hold.   

Wood, Country.  
ALso if any Free man of this City, use to resort into the Countries near to this City, and there to engross and buy up much Billet, Tallwood, Faggot, Tofard, or other Firewood, and convey the same by water unto this City, and there lay it upon their Wharfes and other places, and so keep it till they may sell it at high and excessive prices at their own wills.  
Also if any Woodmonger, or any other, sell any Billets or other Firewood above the price set by the Lord Maior.   

Cheese, Butter.  
ALso if any Citizen of this City, by himself, or any other person for him or to his use, use to resort into the Country, and there buy and engross great quantity of Cheese and Butter, as well barrelled as otherwise, and after convey it by water or otherwise to this City to be sold at dear and excessive prices.   

Freemen to show their Copies.  
ALso forasmuch as it is thought that diverse and many persons dwelling within the Liberties of this City, daily occupy as Freemen, whereas indeed they be none, nor never were admitted into the Liberties of this City, ye shall therefore require every such person dwelling within this Ward, whom ye shall suspect of the same, to show you the Copy of his Freedom, under the Seal of the Office of the Chamberlain of the said City; and such as ye shall find without their Copies, or deny to show their Copies, ye shall write and present their names in your Indentures.   

Melting Tallow.  
ALso you shall inquire and truly present all such persons as use melting of Tallow, contrary to an Act of Common Council in that case made and provided.   

Fire-Presses.  
ALso you shall truly present all persons which have or use any Fire-Presses within the said City or Liberties of the same, for pressing or dressing of Netherstockes, Wollen-clothes, or other things.  
Also you shall inquire of all Armourers 〈◊〉 other Artificers, 〈◊〉 to work 〈◊〉 which have or 〈◊〉 Reardorse, or any other places dangerous or perignous for fire.   

Appraysers.  
ALso if any have appraised any goods of any Freeman deceased, leaving behind him any Orphan or Orphans, and the Appraisers not sworn before the Lord Maior or the Alderman of the Ward.   

Beams.  
ALso if any Freeman buy any Wares or Merchandizes unweighed, which ought to be weighed at the King's Beam, of any stranger or foreign free of the Liberties of this City, contrary to the Act of Common Council in that case made and provided.   

Clothes.  
ALso if any buy or sell any Cloth or Clothes in the house, shop, warehouse, or other place of any Clothworker, or other person against any Ordinance or Custom of this City, or if any Clothworker or other do receive or harbour any Clothes, before the same be brought to Blackwellhall, contrary to the ordinance made in that behalf.   

Carmen.  
ALso if any Carman take any money for carriage of any Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, above the rates ordained.   

Buildings, divided Houses, Inmates.  
ALso if any make or cause to be made any new Building or Buildings, or divide or cause to be divided any House or Houses, or receive any Inmate or Inmates contrary to the King's Majesty's Proclamation, or contrary to Law, or any Statute of this Realm.   

Hawkers.  
ALso if any be dwelling within this Ward, which do offer or put to sale any Wares or Merchandizes in the open Streets or Lane of this City, or go from house to house to sell the same, commonly called Hawkers, contrary to an Act made in that behalf.   

Freedom.  
ALso if any have covenously, fraudently, or unduly obtained the freedom of this City.   

Collectors.  
ALso if any Collector of Fifteen or other duties for the public service of the King or of this City, do retain in his hands any part of the money collected to his own use.   

Women receivers of Servants.  
YE shall also inquire if there be dwelling within your Ward any Woman-broker, such as refort unto men's houses, demanding of their Maidservants if they do like of their services: if not, than they will tell them they will help them to a better service, and so allure them to come from their Masters to their houses, where they abide as Borders until they be provided for. In which time it falleth out, that by lewd young men that resort to those houses, they be oftentimes made Harlots to their undoing, and the great hurt of the Commonwealth: wherefore if any such be, you shall present them, that order may be taken for reformation.   

Privies.  
ALso if any have or use any common Privy, having issue into any common Sewer of the City.    

Vagabonds.  
ALso if any Constable, Beadle, or other Officer, be negligent or remiss in discharging his duty touching the execution of the Statute made for punishment of Rogues, Vagabonds, and sturdy Beggars, or otherwise, and wherein the default is.   

Poor.  
ALso if any to whom the execution of the Statute made for relief of the poor doth appertain, be remiss in discharging his duty touching the execution of the same Statute, and wherein the default is.   

Legacies.  
ALso if any Executor or other person retain in his hands any Legacy, sum of money, or other thing given to any charitable use.   

Drunkard, Whoremonger, Sabbath-breaker, jesuit, Seminary Priest, Secular Priest, popish Recusant, Coozeners, etc.  
YE shall inquire whether there be within your Ward any common Drunkard, Whoremonger, Blasphemer of God's holy Name, Profaner of the Sabbath, jesuit, Seminary or Secular Priest, or any Receiver, Releever, or Maintainer of any of them, or any Popish Recusant, Coozener, or swaggering idle Companion, such as cannot give account how they live; if there be any such, you shall present them and the names of those that lodge them or aid them.   

Mass.  
YE shall also inquire, whether any person or persons do or shall say or sing Mass within your Ward, or be persent at any Mass.   

Roman Catholic Religion.  
ALso if any person or persons within your Ward being evil affected, do or shall extol the Roman Catholic Religion above the Religion professed and established by the King's Majesty's authority in England, or do or shall deprave the Religion now professed in this Realm by authority as above, which may breed discord in the City, and dissension in the Commonwealth, ye shall carefully present the same persons and their offences.   

Stable-Dung.  
ALso if any person or persons that keepeth Horses in their houses, do lay his or their Stable dung, or such kind of stinking filth in any Streets or Lanes of this City, to the great annoyance of the people passing that way, and do not lead his Dung-Cart to his Stable door as he ought to do.   

Assembly monthly.  
YOu shall assemble yourselves once every month, or oftener if need require, so long as you shall continue of this Inquest, and present the defaults which you shall find to be committed concerning any of the Articles of your charge, to the end due remedy may be speedily supplied, and the offenders punished as occasion shall require.   
Here end the Articles.   

AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF the River of Thames, made in the 27. year of the reign of our most dread Sovereign Lord, King HENRY the eighth.  
WHere before this time the River of Thames, among all other Rivers within this Realm, hath been accepted and taken, and as it is indeed most commodious and profitable unto all the King's liege people: and chiefly of all other frequented and used, and as well by the King's Highness, his Estates, and Nobles, Merchants, and other repairing to the City of London, and other places, Shires and Counties adjoining to the same: which River of Thames is, and hath been most meet and convenient of all other, for the safeguard and ordering of the King's Navy, conveyance of Merchandizes, and other necessaries, to, and for the Kings most Honourable household, and otherwise, to the great relief and comfort of all persons within this Realm, till now of late diverse evil-disposed persons, partly by misordering of the said River, by casting in of dung and other filth, laid nigh to the banks of the said River, digging & undermining of the said banks and walls next adjoining to the same River, carrying and conveying away of way-shides, shore-piles, boards, timberwork, ballast for ships, and other things from the said banks and walls in sundry places: by reason whereof, great shelves and risings have of late been made and grown in the farway of the said River, and such grounds as lie within the level of the said water mark, by occasion thereof have been surrounded and overflown by rage of the said water, and many great breaches have ensued and followed thereupon, and daily are like to do, and the said River of Thames to be utterly destroyed for ever, if convenient and speedy remedy be not sooner provided in that behalf.  
For reformation whereof, be it enacted, established, and ordained by the King, our Sovereign Lord, and by the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any person or persons hereafter, do or procure any thing to be done in the annoying of the stream of the said River of Thames, making of shelves by any manner of means, by mining, digging, casting of dung, or rubbish; or other thing in the same River, or take, pluck, or convey away any boards, stakes, piles, Timberworke, or other thing from the said banks or walls, except it be to amend, and the same to repair again, or dig or undermine any banks or walls on the water side of Thames aforesaid, to the hurt, impairing or damage of any the said walls and banks, than the same person or persons, and every of them, shall forfeit and pay for every time so offending, one hundred shillings: the one moiety thereof to be to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other moiety thereof to the Mayor and Commonalty of London for the time being, the same to be recovered and obtained by the Mayor and Commonalty of London, by Bill or plaint, writ of debt or information severally against every offender in any of the King's Courts, in which actions and suits, or any of them, the party defendant shall not be essoined or wage his law, or any protection to be allowed in the same.  
And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if complaint shall happen to be made to the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Treasurer, Lord Precedent of the King's Council, Lord Privy Seal, or to any of them by any person or persons or body politic, that Sir Thomas Spert Knight, now having the Office and ordering, of, and for ballasting of Ships, or any other that hereafter shall have the Office and order of ballasting of Ships, do take any ballast for Ships near the said River of Thames, and do not take for parcel of the said ballasting, the gravel and sand of the shelves between Greenhyth and Richmond within the said River of Thames, or in any place or places, that is or shall be unto the damage or annoyance of the said River of Thames, or in any part thereof, that then upon every such complaint, the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Lord Precedent of the Kings most honourable Council, Lord Privy seal, and every of them, calling both the chief justices of either bench, or one of them, shall have power and authority from time to time, to hear and finally determine every such complaint by their discretion, and to put such order therein, for the taking of ballast for ships upon every such complaint, as by their discretions shall seem most convenient for the preservation of the said River of Thames, and the parties offending such order, shall suffer imprisonment, and make no less fine than 5. pound to the King's use for every time offending or breaking the same.  
Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall be lawful to every person and persons, to dig, carry, and take away sand, gravel or other rubbish, earth, or thing lying or being in, or upon any shelf or shelves within the said River of Thames, without let or interruption of any person or persons, or paying any thing for the same, any thing contained in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding.   

AN ACT OF COMMON COUNCIL, CONCERNING the Conservation and Cleansing of the River of THAMES, made the 28. of September, in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry the 8.  
WHere by the Statute made in the 27. year of the Reign of our Sovereign LORD, King HENRY the eighth, among other, for reformation of the mis-ordering of the River of Thames, by casting in dung and other filth, many great shelves and other risings have been of late grown and made within the same River: By reason whereof many great Breaches have ensued by occasion thereof, which of like shall be the occasion of the utter destruction of the said River, unless that the same Law be put in due execution according to the true intent and meaning thereof.  
Wherefore for a further reformation of the same, and to the intent that the said good and wholesome Statute may be put in more execution, and better knowledge of the people: It is enacted by the authority of this Common Council, that Proclamation may be made within this said City, and the same to be put in writing, and Tables thereof made and set up in diverse places of this City, that it shall be lawful to every person or persons, to dig, carry away, and take away Sand, Gravel, or any Rubbish, Earth, or any thing lying or being in any Shelf or Shelves within the said River of Thames, without let or interruption of any person or persons, and without any thing paying for the same, and after that to sell the same away, or otherwise occupy or dispose the said Gravel, Sand, or other thing at their free liberty and pleasure. And that all Paviours, Brick-layers, Tilers, Masons, and all other that shall occupy Sand or Gravel, shall endeavour themselves with all their diligence, to occupy the said Sand or Gravel, and none other, paying for the same reasonably, as they should & ought to pay for other Sand or Gravel digged out of other men's grounds about the said City, which after is filled again with much filthy things, to the great infection of the inhabitants of the said City, and all other repairing unto the same. And that further, humble suit may be made to the King's Highness, that all persons having lands or tenements along the said River side, upon certain pain by his Highness, and the Lords of his Honourable Council to be limited, shall well and sufficiently repair and maintain all the Walls and Banks adjoining unto their said Lands, that so the Water may not, nor shall break in upon the same: and the same to be continued till the time that the said noble River be brought again to his old course and former estate. And that strong grates of iron along the said water side, and also by the street side, where any Watercourse is had into the said Thames be made by the inhabitants of every Ward so along the said Water, as of old time hath been accustomed. And that every grate be in height four and twenty inches at the least, or more, as the place shall need, and in breadth one from another one inch; and the same to be done with all expedition and speed. And if the occupiers of the said Lands and Tenements make default contrary to the Ordinance aforesaid: or else if any person or persons in great Rains and other times, sweep their Soylage, or filth of their houses into the Channel, and the same after is conveyed into the Thames, every person so offending, shall forfeit for every such default twenty pence, and that upon complaint to be made to any Constable, next adjoining to the said place where any such default shall be found, it shall be lawful for the said Constable, or his sufficient Deputy for the time being, from time to time to distrain for the same offence: and to retain the same irreplegiable, and like Law to be observed and kept. And like penalty to be paid for every person that burns Rushes and Straw in their houses, or wash in the common streets or lanes, and to be recovered as aforesaid, and the one moiety thereof to be to the Mayor and Commonalty, and the other moiety to be divided between the said Constable that taketh pain, and the party finder of the said default. And if the Constable or his Deputy, refuse to do his duty according to the true meaning of this Act, that then the Constable or his Deputy, which shall so refuse to do his duty as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every time so offending, three shillings four pence. And the same penalty of the said Constable to be recovered and obtained by distress irreplegiable, to be taken by any of the Officers of the Chamber of London, to the use of the Mayor and Commonalty of London.  
And further, that no person or persons having any Wharfe or House by the said Water side, make not their Lay-stalls nigh to the River aforesaid, except only the common Lay-stalls, where the common Rakers of this City use to repose, and lay all their soylage, to be carried a way by them with their Dung-boats. And that the said Rakers shall lay their said Dung, carried in their Dung-boats, to such convenient place or places as shall be appointed by the Lord Mayor of LONDON, for the time being, with the advice of his brethren, the Aldermen of the same, and to no other place or places, upon pain to forfeit for every such default five pounds, to be recovered in any of the King's Courts within the City of LONDON, by Bill, Plaint, moiety of Debt, or information by any person that will or shall pursue for the same: the one moiety thereof to be unto the Mayor and Commonalty of London, and the other moiety to him or them that will or shall pursue for the same; in which actions or suits, no wager of Law nor essoigne shall be allowed.  

The Oath of the Constables within the City of LONDON.  
YE shall swear, that ye keep the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, well and lawfully after your power. And ye shall arrest all them that make, contect, Riot, Debate, or afray, in breaking of the said Peace, and lead them to the house or Compter of one of the Sheriffs. And if ye be withstood by strength of misdoers, ye shall rear on them an Outcry, and pursue them from street to street, and from Ward to Ward, till they be arrested: and ye shall search at all times, when ye be required by the Scavengers or Beadles, the common noysance of your Ward. And the Beadle and Raker ye shall help to rear, and gather their Salary and Quarter age, if ye be thereunto by them required. And if any thing be done within your Ward against the Ordinance of this City, such defaults as ye shall find there done, ye shall them present to the Mayor and Ministers of this City: and if ye be letted by any person or persons, that ye may not duly do your office, ye shall certify the Mayor and Council of the City, of the name or names of him or them that so let 〈◊〉.  
Ye shall also swear, that during the time that ye shall stand in the Office, and occupy the room of a Constable, ye shall, once at the least every month, certify and show to one of the Clerks of the Mayor's Court, and in the same Court, as well the names as surnames of all Freemen, which ye shall know to be deceased within the month, in the Parish wherein ye be inhabited, as also the names and surnames of all the Children of the said Freemen so deceased, being Orphans of this City. And thus ye shall not leave to do, as God you help, etc.  
God save the King.   

The Oath of the Scavengers.  
YE shall swear, that ye shall diligently oversee that the Pavements within your Ward, be well and sufficiently repaired, and not made too high in noysance of your Neighbours: and that the Ways, Streets, and Lanes be cleansed of Dung and all manner of fil●b for the honesty of this City. And that all the Chimneys, Furnaces, and Reredoes be of stone sufficiently and defensively made against peril of fire. And if ye find any the contrary, ye shall show it to the Alderman of the Ward, so that the Alderman may ordain for the amendment thereof. And thus ye shall do, as God you help.  
God save the King.   

Instructions for the Apprentices in the City of LONDON.  
YOU shall constantly and devoutly, on your knees every day, serve God Morning and Evening, and make conscience in the due hearing of the Word preached, and endeavour the right practice thereof in your life and conversation: You shall do diligent and faithful service to your Master for the time of your Apprenticeship, & deal truly in what you shall be trusted: You shall often read over the Coveants of your Indenture, and see and endeavour yourself to perform the same to the uttermost of your power: You shall avoid all evil Company, and all occasions which may tend, or draw you to the same, and make speedy return when you shall be sent of your Masters or Mistress errands: You shall avoid idleness, and be ever employed either for God's service, or in your Master's business: You shall be of fair, gentle, and lowly speech and behaviour to all men, and especially to all your Governors. And according to your carriage, expect your reward, for good or ill, from God and your friends.  
God save the King.   

The Oath of every Freeman of this City of LONDON.  
YE shall swear, that ye shall be good and true to our Sovereign Lord, King CHARLES', and to the Heirs of our said Sovereign Lord the King. Obeisant and obedient ye shall be to the Mayor and Ministers of this City, the Franchises and Customs thereof ye shall maintain, and this City keep harmless in that which in you is. Ye shall be contributory to all manner of charges within this City, as Summons, Watches, Contributions, Taxes, Tallages, Lot and Scot, and to all other charges, bearing your part as a freeman ought to do. Ye shall colour no Forraines goods, under, or in your name, whereby the King or this City might or may lose their Customs or Advantages. Ye shall know no Foreign to buy or sell any Merchandise with any other Foreign within this City or Franchise thereof, but ye shall warn the Chamberlain thereof, or some Minister of the Chamber. Ye shall implead or sue no Freeman out of this City, whiles ye may have right and Law within the same City. Ye shall take none Apprentice, but if he be free borne (that is to say) no bondman's Son, nor the Son of any Alien, and for no less term than for seven years, without fraud or deceit: and within the first year ye shall cause him to be enroled, or else pay such Fine as shall be reasonably imposed upon you for omitting the same: and after his terms end, within convenient time (being required) ye shall make him free of this City, if he have well and truly served you. Ye shall also keep the King's Peace in your own person. Ye shall know no Gatherings, Conventicles, or Conspiracies made against the King's Peace, but ye shall warn the Mayor thereof, or let it to your power. All these points and Articles ye shall well and truly keep, according to the Laws and Customs of this City to your power. So God you help.  
God save the King.   

Commune Concilium tentum die Veneris primo die junii, An. Regni Regis Henrici octavi, etc. decimo octavo, in praesentia johannis Allen Maioris, Gulielmi Butler Militis, johannis Milbourne Militis, johannis Mundi Militis, Thomae Baldri Militis, Gulielmi Bayly Militis, Thomae Semer Militis, jacobi Spencer Militis, johannis Rudstone, Radulphi Dodmer, johannis Browne, Nicholai Lambert, Stephani Peacocke, johannis Harding, Nicho. jennings, Hen. Dacres, johan. Canulen, & Christopheri Askew, viz.  
AT this Common Council, it is agreed, granted, ordained, & enacted, That if hereafter any Free man or Free woman of this City, take any Apprentice, and within the term of seven years suffer the same Apprentice to go at his large liberty and pleasure: and within, or after the said term, agree with his said Apprentice for a certain sum of money, or otherwise for his said service, and within or after the end of the said term, the said Free man present the said Apprentice to the Chamberlain of the City, and by good deliberation, and upon his Oath made to the same City, the same Free man or Free woman assureth and affirmeth to the said Chamberlain, that the said Apprentice hath fully served his said term as Apprentice: Or if any Free man or Free woman of this City, take any apprentice, which at the time of the said taking hath any Wife: Or if any Free man or Free woman of this City, give any wages to his or her Apprentice, or suffer the said Apprentices to take any part of their own getting or gains: Or if any Free man or Free woman of this City hereafter colour any Forraines goods, or from henceforth buy or sell for any person or persons, or with or to any person or persons, being Foreign, or Foreigners, Clothes, Silks, Wine, Oils, or any other goods or merchandise whatsoever they be; whether he take any thing or things for his or their wages or labour, or not: Or if any person or persons being free of this City, by any colour or deceitful means from henceforth, do buy, sell, or receive of any Apprentice within this City, any Money, Goods, Merchandise, or Wares, without the assent or licence of his Master or Mistress: & upon examination duly proved before the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being: And the same reported by the mouth of the said Chamberlain at a Court to be holden by the Mayor and the Aldermen of the same City in their Council Chamber: That as well the said Master as the said Apprentice, shall for evermore be dis-franchised.  
God save the King.    

A DISCOURSE OF THE NAMES AND FIRST CAUSES OF THE INSTITUTION of Cities and peopled Towns: And of the commodities that do grow by the same: and namely, of the City of LONDON. Written by way of an Apology (or defence) against the opinion of some men, which think that the greatness of that City standeth not with the profit and security of this Realm.  
City's and well peopled places be called Oppida in Latin, either ab ope danda, or ab opibus, or ab opponendo se hostibus. They be named also Civitates a coëundo, and (urbes) either of the word urbare, because the first enclosure of them was described with the draught of a Blow, or else ab orbe, for the round compass that they at the first had.  
In the Greek a City is termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, either of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, multus, or of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, id est, habitare, alere, gubernare.  
In the Saxon (or old English) sometimes Tun, which we now call Town, derived of the word Tynan, to enclose or tyne, as some yet speak. But for as much as that word was proper to every Village, and enclosed dwelling, therefore our Ancestors called their walled Towns, Bu●h or Bi●i●, and we now Bury and Borrow, of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, (as I think) which signifieth a Tower or a high building.  
The walls of these Towns had their name of vallum, because at the first they were but of that earth which was cast out of the trench, or ditch wherewith they were environed.  
But afterward, being made of matter more fit for defence, they were named A muniendo maenia. By the Etymology of these names it may appear, that Common Weals, Cities and Towns were at first invented, to the end that men might lead a civil life amongst themselves, and be saved harmless against their enemies: Whereupon Plato saith, Civitates ab initio utilitatis causa constitutae sunt. Aristotle, 1. Politicorum 2. saith, Civitas à natura profecta est: homo enim animal aptum est ad coetus, & proinde civitatis origo ad vivendum, institutio ad bene vivendum refertur. And Cicero, lib. primo de inventione, in the beginning saith, Fuit quoddam tempus cum in agris homines passim bestiarum more vagabantur, etc. quo quidem tempore, quidam (magnus viz. vir & sapiens) dispersos homines in agris, & tectis silvestribus abditos, ratione quadam compulit in unum locum, atque eos in unamquamque rem induxit utilem & honestam. Vrbibus vero constitutis fidem colere, & justitiam retinere discebant, & aliis parere sua voluntate consuescebant, etc. The same man discourseth notably to the same effect, in his Oration Pro Sestio, a little after the midst thereof, showing that in the life of men dispersed, vis, beareth all the sway: but in the civil life and society, arse, is better maintained, etc. This thing well saw King William the Conqueror, who in his laws, folio 125. saith, Burgi & Civitates fundata, & edificata sunt, ad tuitionem gentium & populorum Regni, & idcirco observari debent cum omni libertate, integritate & ratione. And his Predecessors, King Ethelstane, and King Canutus in their Laws, fol. 62. and 106. had commanded thus: Oppida instaurantur, etc.  
Seeing therefore that as Cicero, 2. officior. saith, Proxime & secundum Deos, homines hominibus maxime utiles esse possunt. And that men are congregated into Cities and Commonwealths, for honesty and utilities sake, these shortly be the commodities that do come by Cities, Commonalties, and Corporations. First, men by this nearness of conversation, are withdrawn from barbarous freity and force, to a certain mildness of manners and to humanity and justice: whereby they are contented to give and take right, to and from their equals and inferiors, and to hear and obey their heads and superiors. Also the Doctrine of God is more fitly delivered, and the discipline thereof more aptly to be executed, in peopled Towns than abroad, by reason of the facility of common and often assembling. And consequently, such inhabitants be better managed in order, and better instructed in wisdom: whereof it came to pass that at the first, they that excelled others this way, were called Astuti, of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which signifieth a City, although the term be now declined to the worst part, and do betoken evil, even as Tyrannus Sophista, and some such other originally good words are fallen: And hereof also good behaviour is yet called Vrbanitas, because it is rather found in Cities, than elsewhere. In some, by often hearing, men be better persuaded in Religion, and for that they live in the eye of others, they be by example the more easily trained to justice, and by shamefastness restrained from injury.  
And whereas Commonwealths and Kingdoms cannot have, next after God, any surer foundation, than the love and good will of one man towards another, that also is closely bred and maintained in Cities, where men by mutual society and companying together, do grow to alliances, Commonalties and Corporations.  
The liberal sciences and learn of all sorts, which be jumina reipublicae, do flourish only in peopled Towns, without the which a Realm is in no better case than a man that lacketh both his eyes.  
Manual Arts or handy crafts, as they have for the most part been invented in Towns and Cities, so they cannot any where else be either maintained or amended. The like is to be said of Merchandise, under which name I comprehend all manner of buying, selling, bartering, exchanging, communicating of things that men need to and fro. Wealth and riches, which are truly called, Subsidia belli, & ornamenta pacis, are increased chiefly in Towns and Cities, both to the Prince and people.  
The necessity of the poor and needy is in such places both sooner to be espied, and hath means to be more charitably relieved.  
The places themselves be surer refuges, in all extremities of foreign invasion, and the inhabitants be a ready hand and strength of men with munition to oppress intestine sedition.  
Moreover, for as much as the force of the wars of our time consisteth chiefly in shot, all other Soldiers being either horsemen or footmen, armed on land, or Mariners at the Sea: It seemeth to me, that Citizens and Townsmen be as fit to be employed in any of these services, that on horse back only excepted, as the inhabitants that be drawn out of the Country.  
Furthermore, even as these societies and assemblies of men in Cities and great Towns, are a continual bridle against tyranny, which was the cause that Tarquin, Nero, Di●nisius, and such others have always sought to weaken them. So, being well tempered, they are a strong fort and Bulwark not only in the Aristocritie, but also in the Lawful Kingdom or just royalty.  
At once propagation of the Religion, the execution of good policy, the exercise of charity, and the defence of the country, is best performed by Towns and Cities: and this civil life approacheth nearest to the shape of that mystical body whereof Christ is the head, and men be the members: whereupon both at the first, that man of God Moses, in the common wealth of the Israelites, and the Governors of all Countries in all ages sithence, have continually maintained the same. And to change it, were nothing else but to Metamorphose the world, and to make wild beasts of reasonable men. To stand longer upon this, it were in re non dubia, uti oratione non necessaria; and therefore I will come to London.  

The Singularities of the City of LONDON.  
WHatsoever is said of Cities generally, maketh also for LONDON specially: Howbei t these things are particularly for our purpose to be considered in it. The situation; the former estimation that it hath had; the service that it hath done; the present estate and government of it, and such benefits as do grow to the Realm by the maintenance thereof.  
This Realm hath only three principal Rivers, whereon a Royal City may well be situated: Trent in the North, Severne in the South-West, and Thames in the Southeast: of the which, Thames, both for the straight course in length, reacheth furthest into the belly of the land; and for the breadth and stillness of the water, is most navigable up and down the stream: by reason whereof, London standing almost in the middle of that course, is more commodiously served with provision of necessaries, than any Town standing upon the other two Rivers can be, and doth also more easily communicate to the rest of the Realm, the commodities of her own intercourse and traffic.  
This River openeth indifferently upon France and Flanders, our mightiest neighbours, to whose doings we ought to have a bend eye and special regard: and this City standeth thereon in such convenient distance from the Sea, as it is not only near enough for intelligence of the affairs of those Princes, and for the resistance of their attempts: but also sufficiently removed from the fear of any sudden dangers that may be offered by them: whereas for the Prince of this Realm to dwell upon Trent, were to turn his back, or blind side, to his most dangerous borderers: and for him to rest and dwell upon Severne, were to be shut up in a cumbersome corner, which openeth but upon Ireland only, a place of much less importance.  
Neither could London be pitched so commodiously upon any other part of the same River of Thames, as where it now standeth. For if it were removed more to the West, it should lose the benefit of the ebbing and flowing: and if it were seated more towards the East, it should be nearer to danger of the enemy, and further both from the good Air, and from doing good to the inner parts of the Realm: neither may I omit, that none other place is so plentifully watered with springs, as London is.  
And whereas amongst other things, Corn and Cattell, Hay and Fuel be of great necessity: of the which, cattle may be driven from afar, and Corn may easily be transported. But Hay and Fuel, being of greater bulk and burden, must be had at hand: only London, by the benefit of this situation and River, may be sufficiently served therewith. In which respect and Alderman of London reasonably (as me thought) affirmed, that although London received great nourishment by the residence of the Prince, the repair of the Parliament, and Courts of justice, yet it stood principally by the advantage of the situation upon the River: for when as on a time it was told him by a Courtier, that Queen Mary, in her displeasure against London, had appointed to remove with the Parliament and Term to Oxford; this plain man demanded, Whether she meant also to divert the River of Thames from London, or no? And when the Gentleman had answered, No; Then quoth the Alderman, by God's grace we shall do well enough at London, whatsoever become of the Term and Parliament. I myself being then a young Scholar at Oxford, did see great preparation made towards that Term and Parliament, and do well remember that the common opinion and voice was, that they were not holden there, because provision of Hay could not be made in all the Country to serve for ten whole days together, and yet is that quarter plentifully stored with Hay for the proportion of the shire itself.  
For proof of the ancient estimation of London, I will not use the authority of the British History, nor of such as follow it (although some hold it credible enough that London was first Trinobantum civitas, or Troia nova, that famous City in our Histories, and then Luds Town, and by corruption London, as they report) because they be not of sufficient force to draw the gainsayers. Neither will I stand much upon that honourable Testimony which Gervas. Tilberiens. giveth to London in his book De otiis Imperialibus, saying thus, concerning the blessing of God towards it.  
In Vrbe London, exceptione habet divulgatum id per omnes aequè gentes Lucani Proverbium.  
Invida fatorum series summisque negatum Stare diu:  
Name ea annis 354. ante Romam condita, nunquam amisit principatum, nec bello consumpta est.  
But I will rather use the credit of one or two ancient foreign Writers, & then descend to latter Histories. Cornel. Tacitus, lib. 4. Annal. saith, Londinum copia negociatorum, & comeatu maximè celebris; and Herodian in the life of Severus the Emperor, saith, Londinum urbs magna & opulenta; Beda lib. Ecclesiastic. 10. chap. 29. showeth that Pope Gregory appointed two Archbishops Sees in England, the one at London, the other at York. King Ethelstane in his Laws appointing how many Mint-Masters should be in each City, allotteth eight to London, and not so many to any other City. The Penner of those Laws that are said to be made by Edward the Confessor, and confirmed by William the Conqueror, saith, London est caput Regni, & Legum. King Henry the first, in the third Chapter of his Laws, commandeth that no Citizen of London should be amerced above an hundred shillings for any pecuniary pain. The great Chapter of England, that Helena, for which there was so long and so great war and contention, in the ninth Chapter saith, Civitas London habeat omnes suas Libertates antiquas, etc. About the time of King john, London was reputed, Regni firmata Columna, as Alex. Necham writeth: And in the beginning of the Reign of King Richard the second, it was called Camera Regis, as Thomas Walsingham reporteth. I pass over the recital of the Saxon Charter of King William the Conqueror; or the Latin Charters of Henry the first and second; of Richard the first; of john; and of Edward the first; all which gave unto the Citizens of London great Privileges, and of Edward the third, who reciting all the grants of his Predecessors, not only confirmed, but also increased the same: and of the latter Kings, who have likewise added many things thereunto. Only I wish to be noted by them, that during all this time, all those wife and politic Princes have thought it fit, not only to maintain London in such plight as they found it, but also to adorn, increase, and amplify it with singular tokens of their liberal favour and good liking. And whether there be not now the same or greater causes to draw the like or better estimation and cherishing, let any man be judge, that will take the pains to compare the present estate of London, yet still growing to better, with the former condition of the same.  
It were too much to recite particularly the Martial services that this City hath done from time to time: neither do I think that they be all committed to writing; only for a taste, as it were, I will note these few following.  
Almost threescore years before the Conquest, a huge Army of the Danes, (where of King Sweyne was the Leader) besieged King Etheldred in London (than the which, as the story saith, than he had none other refuge) but they were manfully repulsed, and a great number of them slain.  
After the death of this Sweyne, his son Canutus (afterward King of England) besieged London, both by land and by water: but after much labour, finding it impregnable, he departed: and in the same year repairing his forces, he girded it with a new siege, in the which the Citizens so defended themselves, and offended him, that in the end he went away with shame.  
In the dissnsion that arose between King Edward the Confessor, and his Father in law Earl Goodwin (which was the mightiest subject within this Land that ever I have read of) The Earl with a great Army came to London, and was, for all that, by the countenance of the Citizens resisted, till such time as the Nobility made reconciliation between them. About seventy years after the Conquest, Maude the Empress made war upon King Stephen for the right of the Crown, and had taken his person prisoner, but by the strength and assistance of the Londoners and Kentishmen, Maude was put to flight at Winchester, and her Brother Robert then Earl of Gloucester, was taken in exchange, for whom King Stephen was delivered; I dispute not whose right was better, but I avouch the service, seeing Stephen was in possession.  
The History of William Walworth the Mayor of London, is well known, by whose manhood and policy, the person of Richard the second was rescued, the City saved, Wat Tyler killed, and all his stragglers discomfited, in reward of which service, the Mayor and other Aldermen were Knighted.  
jack Cade also having discomfited the King's Army, that was sent against him, came to London and was there manfully and with long fight resisted, until that by the good policy of the Citizens, his Company was dispersed.  
Finally, in the tenth year of the reign of King Edward the fourth, and not many days before the death of Henry the sixth, Tho. Nevil, commonly called the Bastard of Fauconbridge, armed a great Company against the King, and being denied passage thorough London, he assaulted it on diverse parts: but he was repulsed by the Citizens, and chased as far as Stratford, with the loss of a great many.  
Thus much of certain their principal, and personal services, in war only: for it were infinite to repeat the particular aids of men and money which London hath ministered: and I had rather to leave it to be conjectured at, by comparison to be made between it, and other Cities, whereof I will give you this one note for an example. In the twelfth year of the reign of King Edward the second, it was ordered by Parliament, that every City of the Realm should make out Soldiers against the Scots: at which time London was appointed to send two hundred men, and Canterbury, being then one of our best Cities, forty, and no more. And this proportion of five to one, is now in our age increased, at the least five to one, both in Soldiers and subsidy. As for the other services that London hath done in times of peace, they are to be measured by consideration of the commodities, whereof I will speak anon. In the mean season let the estate and government of this City be considered, to the end that it may appear that it standeth well with the policy of the Realm.  
Caesar in his Commentaries is witness, that in his time the Cities of Britain had large Territories annexed unto them, and were several estates of themselves, governed by particular Kings or Potentates, as in Italy and Germany yet be: and that Mandubratius was King of the Trinobants, whose chief City London is taken to have been. And I find not that this government was altered, either by Caesar, or his successors, notwithstanding that the Country became to be tributary unto them: but that it continued, until at length the Britain's themselves reduced all their peoples into one Monarchy, howbeit that lasted not any long season: for upon Vortiger their King, came the Saxons our Ancestors, and they drove the Britain's into Wales, Cornwall, and Britain in France, and in process of war divided the Country amongst themselves into an Eptarchy, or seven Kingdoms, of the which one was called the Kingdom of the East Saxons, which having in manner the same limits that the Bishopric of London now enjoyeth, contained Essex, Middlesex, and a part of Hertfordshire, and so included London. Again it appeareth, that in course of time, and about 1800. years after Christ, Egbert (than King of the West Saxons) Vt pisces saepe minutos magnus comest, overcame the rest of the Kings, and once more erected a Monarchy, the which till the coming in of the normans, and from thence even hitherto hath continued.  
Now I doubt not (whatsoever London was in the time of Caesar) but that under the Eptarchy and Monarchy it hath been a subject, and no free City, though happily endowed with some large privileges: for King William the Conqueror found a Portreeve there, whose name was Godfrey (by which name he greeteth him in his Saxon Chre) and his office was none other than the charge of a Bailiff, or Reeve, as by the selfsame name continuing yet in Gravesend, and certain other places may well appear. But the Frenchmen using their own language, called him sometime a Provost, and sometime a Bailiff; whatsoever his name and Office were, he was Perpetuus Magistratus, given by the Prince, and not chosen by the Citizens, as it seemeth, for what time King Richard the first needed money towards his expedition in the Holy Land, they first purchased of him the liberty to choose yearly from amongst themselves two Bailiffs: and King john his successor, at their like suit changed their Bailiffs into a Mayor, and two Sheriffs. To these Henry the third added Aldermen; at the first eligible yearly, but afterward by King Edward the third made perpetual Magistrates, and Justices of the peace within their Wards, in which plight of government it presently standeth. This shortly as I could, is the Historical and outward estate of London: now come I to the inward pith and substance.  
The estate of this City is to be examined by the quantity, and by the quality.  
The quantity therefore consisteth in the number of the Citizens, which is very great, and far exceedeth proportion of Hippodamus, which appointed 10000 and of others which have set down other numbers, as meet stints in their opinions to be well governed; but yet seeing both reason and experience have f●eed us from the law of any definite number, so that other things be observed, let that be admitted: neither is London, I fear me, so great as populous: for well saith one, Non idem est magna Civitas & frequens, magna est enim quae multos habet qui arma ferre possunt: Whatsoever the number be, it breedeth no fear of sedition: for as much as the same consisteth not in the extremes, but in a very mediocrity of wealth and riches, as it shall better appear anon. And if the causes of English Rebellions be searched out, they shall be found in effect to be these twain, Ambition and Covetousness, of which the first reigneth in the minds of high and noble personages, or of such others, as seek tobee gracious and popular, and have robbed the hearts of the multitude, whereas in London if any where in the world, Honos verè onus est, and every man rather shuneth than seeketh the Maiorality, which is the best mark amongst them, neither hath there been any strong faction, nor any man more popular than the rest, for as much as the government is by a Pattern, as it were, and always the same, how often soever they change their Magistrate. Covetousness, that other Sire of sedition, possesseth the miserable and needy sort, and such as be naughtypackes, unthrifts, which although it cannot be chosen, but that in a frequent City as London is, there shall be found many, yet bear they not any great sway seeing the multitude and most part there is of a competent wealth, and earnestly bend to honest labour. I confess that London is a mighty arm and instrument to bring any great desire to effect, if it may be won to a man's devotion: whereof also there want not examples in the English History. But for as much as the same is by the like reason serviceable and meet to impeach any disloyal attempt, let it rather be well governed then evil liked therefore; for it shall appear anon, that as London hath adhered to some rebellions, so hath it resisted many, and was never the Author of any one. The quality of this City consisteth either in the Law and government thereof: or in the degrees and condition of the Citizens, or in their strength and riches.  
It is beside the purpose to dispute, whether the estate of the government here be a Democraty, or aristocraty, for whatsoever it be, being considered in itself, certain it is, that in respect of the whole Realm, London is but a Citizen, and no City; a subject, and no free estate; an obedienciary, and no place endowed with any distinct or absolute power: for it is governed by the same Law that the rest of the Realm is, both in causes Criminal and Civil, a few customs only excepted, which also are to be adjudged, or forjudged by the common Law. And in the assembly of the estates of our Realm (which we call Parliament) they are but a member of the Commonalty, and send two Burgesses for their City, as every poor Borough doth, and two Knights for their County, as every other Shire doth, and are as straightly bound by such Laws, as any part of the Realm is: for if contribution in subsidy of money to the Prince be decreed, the Londoners have none exemption, no not so much as to assess themselves: for the Prince doth appoint the Commissioners.  
If Soldiers must be mustered, Londoners have no Law to keep themselves at home; if provision for the Prince's household be to be made, their goods are not privileged. In sum therefore, the government of London differeth not in substance, but in ceremony from the rest of the Realm, as namely, in the names and choice of their Officers, and in their Guilds and Fraternities, established for the maintenance of Handicrafts and Labourers, and for equity and good order, to be kept in buying and selling. And yet in these also are they to be controlled by the general Law: for by the Statutes of 28. Edward the third, chap. 10. and of the first of Henry the fourth, chap. 15. the points of their misgovernment are inquirable by the inhabitants of the foreign Shires adjoining, and punishable by such justiciars as the Prince shall thereunto depute: to conclude therefore, the estate of London for government, is so agreeable a Symphony with the rest, that there is no fear of dangerous discord to ensue thereby.  
The multitude (or whole body) of this populous City is two ways to be considered, generally, & specially: generally, they be natural Subjects, a part of the Commons of this Realm, and are by birth for the most part a mixture of all Countries of the same, by blood Gentlemen, Yeomen, and of the basest sort without distinction; and by profession busy Bees, and travellers for their living in the hive of this Commonwealth; but specially considered, they consist of these three parts, Merchants, Handicraftsmen, and Labourers. Merchandise is also divided into these three sorts; Navigation, by the which, Merchandizes are brought, and carried in and out over the Seas: Invection, by the which, commodities are gathered into the City, and dispersed from thence into the Country by land: and Negotiation, which I may call the keeping of a retayling or standing Shop. In common speech, they of the first sort be called Merchants, and both the other retailers. Handicraftsmen be those which do exercise such Arts as require both labour and cunning, as Goldsmiths, Tailors, and Haberdashers, Skinners, etc. Labourers and Hirelings, I call those Quorum operae non artes emuntur, as Tully saith, of which sort be Porters, Carmen, Watermen, etc. Again, these three sorts may be considered, either in respect of their wealth, or number: in wealth, Merchants, and some of the chief retailers have the first place: the most part of retailers, and all Artificers, the second or mean place: and Hirelings, the lowest room: But in number, they of the middle place be first, and do far exceed both the rest: Hirelings be next, and Merchants be the last. Now out of this, that the estate of London, in the persons of the Citizens, is so friendly interlaced, and knit in league with the rest of the Realm, not only at their beginning by birth and blood (as I have showed) but also very commonly at their ending by life and conversation (for that Merchants & rich men being satisfied with gain, do for the most part) marry their children into the Country, and convey themselves after Cicero's counsel, Veluti-ex pontu in agros & possessiones: I do refer, that there is not only no danger towards the common quiet thereby, but also great occasion and cause of good love and amity. Out of this, that they be generally bend to travel, and do fly poverty, Per mare, per saxa, per ignes, as the Poet saith▪ I draw hope, that they shall escape the note of many vices, which idle people do fall into. And out of this, that they be a great multitude, and that yet the greatest part of them be neither too rich nor too poor, but do live in the mediocrity: I conclude with Aristotle, that the Prince needeth not to fear sedition by them, for thus saith he, Magnae urbes, magis sunt à seditione liberae, quod in eyes dominetur mediocritas, nam in parvis nihil medium est, sunt enim omnes vel pauperes vel opulenti. I am now to come to the strength and power of this City, which consisteth partly in the number of the Citizens themselves, whereof I have spoken before, partly in their riches, and in their warlike furniture: for as touching the strength of the piece itself, that is apparent to the eye, and therefore is not to be treated of.  
The wealth and warlike furniture of London, is either public or private, and no doubt the common treasure cannot be much there, seeing that the revenue which they have, hardly sufficeth to maintain their Bridge, and Conduits, and to pay their officers and servants. Their Toll doth not any more than pay their Fee-farm that they pay to the Prince. Their Issues for default of appearances be never levied, and the profits of their Courts of justice do go to particular men's hands. Arguments hereof be these two, one, that they can do nothing of extraordinary charge, without a general contribution: another, that they have suffered such as have borne the chief office amongst them, and were become Bankrupt, to depart the City without relief, which I think they neither would nor could have done, it the common Treasure had sufficed to cover their shame; hereof therefore we need not be afraid. The public Armour and munition of this City remaineth in the Halls of the Companies, as it doth thorough out the whole Realm, for a great part, in the Parish Churches; neither is that kept together, but only for obedience to the Law, which commandeth it; and therefore if that threaten danger to the State, it may by another law be taken from them, and committed to a more safe Armoury.  
The private riches of London, resteth chiefly in the hands of the Merchants & retailers; for Artificers have not much to spare; and Labourers had need that it were given unto them. Now, how necessary and serviceable the estate of Merchandise is to this Realm, it may partly appear by the practice of that peaceable, politic, and rich Prince, King Henry the seventh, of whom Polidore (writing his life) saith thus, Mercatores Ille saepenumero pecunia multa data gratuite ●uvabat, ut mercatura ars una omnium cunctis aequè mortalibus tum commoda, tum necessariae, in suo Regno copiosior esset. But chiefly by the inestimable commodities that grow thereby: for who knoweth not that we have extreme need of many things, whereof foreign Countries have great store, and that we may spare many things whereof they have need? or who is ignorant of this, that we have no Mines of Silver or Gold within our Realm, so that the increase of our Coin and Bullion cometh from elsewhere, & yet nevertheless, we be both fed, clad, and otherwise served with foreign commodities & delights, as plentiful as with our domestical? which thing cometh to pass by the means of Merchandise only, which importeth necessaries from other countries, and exporteth the superfluities of our own. For seeing we have no way to increase our Treasure, by Mines of Gold or Silver at home, and can have nothing without Money or Ware from other Countries abroad, it followeth necessarily, that if we follow the Counsel of that good old Husband Marcus Cato, saying, Oportet patremfamilias vendacem esse, non emacem, and do carry more commodities in value over the Seas, than we bring hither from thence: that then the Realm shall receive that overplus in money: but if we bring from beyond the Seas Merchandise of more value, than that which we do send over may countervail, than the Realm payeth for that overplus in ready money, and consequently is a loser by that ill husbandry: and therefore in this part great and heedful regard must be had, that Symmetria and due proportion be kept, lest otherwise either the Realm be defrauded of her treasure, or the Subjects corrupted in vanity, by excessive importation of superfluous and needless Merchandise, or else that we feel penury, even in our greatest plenty and store, by immoderate exportation of our own needful commodities. Other the benefits that Merchandise bringeth, shall hereafter appear in the general recital of the commodities that come by London, and therefore it resteth that I speak a word of Retaylors, and finally show that much good groweth by them both. The chief part of retailing, is but a handmaid to Merchandise, dispersing by piecemeal that which the Merchant bringeth in gross: of which trade be Mercers, Grocers, Vintner's, Haberdashers, Ironmongers, Millayners, and all such as ●ell wares growing or made beyond the Seas, and therefore so long as Merchandise itself shall be profitable, and such proportion kept, as neither we loose our treasure thereby, nor be cloyed with unnecessary foreign wares, this kind of Retayiing is to be retained also.  
Now, that Merchants and Retaylors of London be very rich and great, it is so far from any harm, that it is a thing both praiseworthy and profitable: for Mercatura (saith Cicero) si tenuis est, sordida putanda est, sin magna est & copiosa, non est vituperanda. And truly Merchants and retailers do not altogether intus Canere, and profit themselves only: for the Prince and Realm both are enriched by their riches: the Realm winneth treasure, if their Trade be so moderated by authority, that it break not proportion, and they beside bear a good fleece, which the Prince may shear when he seeth good.  
But here before I conclude this part, I have shortly to answer the accusation of those men, which charge London with the loss and decay of many (or most) of the ancient Cities, corporate Towns and Markets within this Realm, by drawing from them to herself alone, say they, both all trade of traffic by Sea, and the Retayling of Wares, and exercise of Manuali Arts also. Touching Navigation, which I must confess, is apparently decayed in many port Townes, and flourisheth only or chiefly at London, I impute that partly to the fall of the Staple, the which being long since a great Trade, and bestowed sometimes at one Town, and sometimes at another within the Realm, did much enrich the place where it was, and being now not only diminished in force, but also translated over the Seas, cannot but bring some decay with it, partly, to the impairing of Havens, which in many places have impoverished those Towns, whose estate doth ebb and flow with them, and partly, to the dissolution of Religious houses, by whose wealth and haunt, many of those places were chiefly fed and nourished. I mean not to rehearse particular examples of every sort: for the thing itself speaketh, and I haste to an end. As for Retaylors thereof, and Handicraftsmen, it is no marvel if they abandon Country Towns, and resort to London: for not only the Court, which is now adays much greater, and more gallant than in former times, and which was wont to be contented to remain with a small company, sometimes at an Abbey or Priory, sometimes at a Bishop's house, and sometimes at some mean Manor of the Kings own, is now for the most part either abiding at London, or else so near unto it, that the provision of things most fit for it, may easily be fetched from thence: but also by occasion thereof, the Gentlemen of all shires do fly, and flock to this City, the younger sort of them to see and show vanity, and the elder to save the cost and charge of hospitality, and housekeeping. For hereby it cometh to pass, that the Gentlemen being either for a good portion of the year out of the Country, or playing the Farmers, Graziers, Brewers, or such like, more than Gentlemen were wont to do within the Country, retailers and Artificers, at the least of such things as pertain to the back or belly, do leave the Country Towns, where there is no vent, and do fly to London, where they be sure to find ready and quick Market. And yet I wish that even as many Towns in the Low-countrieses of King Philips do stand some by one handy Art, and some by another: so also that it might be provided here, that the making of some things, might (by discreet dispensation) be allotted to some special Towns, to the end, that although the daintiness of men cannot be restrained, which will needs seek those things at London, yet other places also might be relieved at the least by the Workmanship of them.  
Thus much then of the estate of London, in the government thereof, in the condition of the Citizens, and in their power and riches. Now follow the enumeration of such benefits, as redound to the Prince and this Realm by this City: In which doing, I profess not to rehearse all, but only to recite and run over the chief and principal of them.  
Besides the commodities of the furtherance of Religion, and Justice: The propagation of Learning: The maintenance of Arts: The increase of riches, and the defence of Countries (all which are before showed to grow generally by Cities, and be common to London with them) London bringeth singularly these good things following.  
By advantage of the situation, it disperseth foreign Wares, (as the stomach doth meat) to all the members most commodiously.  
By the benefit of the River of Thames and great Trade of Merchandise, it is the chief maker of Mariners, and Nurse of our Navy and Ships, which (as men know) be the wooden walls for defence of our Realm.  
It maintaineth in flourishing estate, the Countries of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, and Sussex, which as they lie in the face of our most puissant neighbour, so ought they above others, to be conserved in the greatest strength and riches: and these, as it is well known, stand not so much by the benefit of their own soil, as by the neighbourhood and nearness which they have to London.  
It relieveth plentifully, and with good policy, not only her own poor people, a thing which scarcely any other Town or Shire doth, but also the poor that from each quarter of the Realm do flock unto it, and it imparteth liberally to the necessity of the Universities beside. It is an ornament to the Realm by the beauty thereof, and a terror to other Countries by reason of the great wealth and frequency. It spreadeth the honour of our Country far abroad by her long Navigations, and maketh our power feared, even of barbarous Princes. It only is stored with rich Merchants, which sort only is tolerable: for beggarly Merchants do bite too near, and will do more harm than good to the Realm.  
It only of any place in this Realm, is able to furnish the sudden necessity with a strong Army. It availeth the Prince in Tronage, Poundage and other his customs, much more than all the rest of the Realm.  
It yieldeth a greater Subsidy than any one part of the Realm, I mean not for the proportion of the value of the goods only, but also for the faithful service there used, in making the assess; for no where else be men taxed so near to their just value as in London: yea many are found there, that for their countenance and credit sake, refuse not to be rated above their ability, which thing never happeneth abroad in the country. I omit that in ancient time, the Inhabitants of London and other Cities, were accustomably taxed after the tenth of their goods, when the Country was assessed at the fifteenth, and rated at the eighth, when the Country was set at the twelfth: for that were to awake a sleeping dog, and I should be thought dicenda, tacenda, locutus, as the Poet said.  
It only doth, and is able to make the Prince a ready pressed or loan of money.  
It only is found fit and able to entertain strangers honourably, and to receive the Prince of the Realm worthily.  
Almighty God (qui nisi custodiat Civitatem, frustrà vigilat custos) grant, that his Majesty evermore rightly esteem and rule this City, and He give grace, that the Citizens may answer duty, aswell towards God and his Majesty, as towards this whole Realm and Country, Amen.   

An Appendix containing the examination of such causes, as have heretofore moved the Princes, either to fine and ransom the Citizens of LONDON, or to seize the Liberties of the City itself.  
THese all may be reduced to these few heads: for either the Citizens have adhered in aid or arms, to such as have warred upon the Prince, or they have made tumult, and broken the common peace at home: or they have misbehaved themselves in point of government and justice: or finally, and to speak the plain truth, the Princes have taken hold of small matters, and coined good sums of money out of them.  
To the first head I will refer whatsoever they have done, either in those wars that happened between King Stephen and Maud the Empress, being competitors of the Crown: or between King john and his Nobles assisting Lewes the French Kings son when he invaded the Realm: for it is apparent by all Histories, that the Londoners were not the movers of these wars, but were only used as instruments to maintain them. The like is to be said of all the offences that King Henry the third, whose whole reign was a continual warfare, conceived against this City, concerning the bearing of Armour against him: for the first part of his reign was spent in the continuation of those wars that his Father had begun with Lewes. And the rest of his life he bestowed in that contention, which was commonly called The Baron's wars. In which Tragedy London, as it could not be otherwise, had now and then a part, and had many a snub at the King's hand for it. But in the end, when he had triumphed over Simon Mountford at Evesham, London felt it most tragical: for than he both seized their Liberties, and sucked themselves dry: and yet Edictum Kenelworth, made shortly after, hath an honourable testimony for London, saying, Te London laudamus, etc. As for the other offences that he took against the Londoners, they pertain to the other parts of my division.  
Next after this, against whom the Londoners did put on arms, followeth King Edward the second, who in the end was deprived of his Kingdom, not by their means, but by a general defection, both of his own wife and son, and almost of the whole Nobility and Realm beside. In which trouble, that furious assault & slaughter, committed by them upon the Bishop of Excester, than Treasurer of the Realm, is to be imputed, partly to the sway of the time wherewith they were carried, and partly to a private displeasure which they had to the Bishop.  
Finally, cometh to hand King Richard the second: for these three only in all the Catalogue of our Kings, have been heavy Lords to London, who also had much contention with his Nobility, and was in the end deposed. But whatsoever countenance and aid the City of London brought to the wars and uproars of that time, it is notoriously true, that London never led the Dance, but ever followed the Pipe of the Nobility. To close up this first part therefore I affirm, that in all the troublesome actions during the reign of these three Kings, as also in all that heaving in, and hurling out, that afterward happened between King Henry the sixth, and King Edward the fourth, the City of London was many times a friend and fautor, but never the first motive or author of any intestine war or sedition.  
In the second room I place a couple of tumultuous affrays, that chanced in the days of King Richard the first: The one upon the day of his Coronation against the Jews, which, contrary to the Kings own Proclamation, would needs enter the Church to see him sacred, and were therefore ctuelly handled by the common people. The other was caused by William with the long beard, who after that he had inflamed the poor people against the richer sort, and was called to answer for his fault, took Bow Church for Sanctuary, and kept it Castlelike, till he was fired out.  
Here is a place also for the stoning to death of a Gentleman, servant to the half Brother of King Henry the third, which had before provoked the Citizens to fury, by wounding diverse of them without any cause 1257. for the riotous fray between the servants of the Goldsmiths and the Tailors, 1268. for the hurly burly and bloodshed between the Londoners and the men of Westminster, moved by the young men upon an occasion of a wrestling on Saint james day, 1221. and made worse by one Constantine an ancient Citizen: for the brawl and business that arose about a Baker's loaf at Salisbury place 1391. for the which and some other misdemeanours, King Richard the second was so incensed by evil counsel against the Londoners, that he determined to destroy them, and raze their City, and for the fight that was between the Citizens and Sanctuary men of Saint Martin's 1454. under King Henry the sixth. And finally, for the misrule on evil May day 1519. and for such other like if there have been any.  
To the third head may be referred the seizer of their liberties, for a false judgement given against a poor widow, called Margaret Viel, 1246. The two several seizers in one year 1258. for false packing in collections of money and other enormities: And finally, the seizer made by King Edward the first, for taking of bribes of the Baker's 1285. But all this security in seizing and resuming of the liberties, which was in old time the only ordinary punishment was at length mitigated by King Edward the third, and King Henry the fourth, in their statutes before remembered.  
In the last-place it and those offences, which I repute rather taken than given, and do fall within the measure of the Adage, Vt canem caedas, citò invenias baculum: for King john in the tenth of his reign deposed the Bailiffs of London, because they had bought up the wheat in the Market, so that there was not to serve his Purveyors. King Henry the third his son compelled the Londoners to pay him 5000. pound, because they had lent to Lewes the French the like sum, of a good mind to dispatch him out of their City and the Realm, at such time as the Protector and the whole Nobility fell to composition with him for his departure. And the same King fined them at three thousand marks, for the escape of a prisoner out of Newgate, of whom they took no charge: for he was a Clerk, prisoner to the Bishop of London, under the custody of his own servants; and as for the place, it was only borrowed of the Londoners to serve that turn. Hitherto of these things to this end, that whatsoever misdemeanour shall be objected out of History against London, the same may herein appear, both in his true place, and proper colour.    

The Author to the Reader.  
BEcause amongst other mine Authors I have oftentimes alleged Fitz-Stephens, as one more choice than other, namely, for the ancient estate of this City, more than four hundred years since: and also the said Author being rare, I have in this place thought good by impression to impart the same to my loving friends, the learned Antiquaries, as the Author wrote it in the Latin tongue. And first to note in effect, what Master Bale in commendation of the said Author writeth.  
William Stephanides, or Fitz-Stephen, a Monk of Canterbury, borne of worshipful Parents in the City of London, well brought up at the first under good Masters, did more and more increase in honest conditions and learning: for ever in his young years there appeared in him a certain light of a Gentlemanlike disposition, which promised many good things, afterward by him performed. Such time as others spent in brawls and idle talk, he employed in wholesome exercises for the honour of his Country, following therein the example of Plato: and was very studious both in humanity and divinity.  
The City of London, his birth place, the most Noble of all other Cities of this Land, and the Prince's Seat, situated in the South part of this Island, he loved above all the other, so that at length he wrote most elegantly in Latin of the site, and rites of the same. Leland in diverse of his Books commendeth him for an excellent Writer. He lived in the Reign of King Stephen, wrote in the Reign of Henry the second, and deceased in the year of Christ, 1191. in the Reign of Richard the first.   

DESCRIPTIO NOBILILISSIMAE Civitatis LONDONIAE.  

De Situ ejusdem.  
INter nobiles Vrbes orbis, quas fama celebrat, civitas Londonia, Regni Anglorum sedes una est, quae famam sui latiùs diffundit, opes & merces longiùs transmittit, caput altiùs extollit. Foelix est aëris salubritate, Christiana Religione, firmitate munitionum, natura situs, honore civium, pudicitia matronali, ludis etiam, quam iucunda, & Nobilium faecunda virorum: quae singula semotim libet inspicere.   

De Clementia aëris.  
IBi siquidem emollit animos hominum clementia Coeli, non ut sint in venerem putres, ut ne feri sint & bestiales, potius benigni & liberales.   

De Religione.  
ESt ibi in Ecclesia beati Pauli Episcopalis sedes, quondam fuit Metropolitana, & adhuc futura creditur, si remeaverint cives in Insulam: nisi forte Beati Thomae Martyris titulus Archiepiscopalis, & praesentia corporalis, dignitatem illam Cantuariae (ubi nunc est) conservet perpetuam. Sed cum utramque urbium harum Sanctus Thomas illustraverit, Londoniam ortu, Cantuariam occasu: ipsius sancti intuitu, cum iustitiae accessu, habet altera adversus alteram, quod amplius alleget. Sunt etiam (quod ad Christianae fidei cultum pertinet) tum in Londonia, tum in suburbano, 13. maiores Ecclesiae conventuum, praeter minores parochianas, 126.   

De Firmitate Vrbis.  
HAbet ab Oriente arcem Palatinam, maximam & fortissimam, cuius & area, & muri à fundamento profundissimo exurgunt: cemento cum sanguine animalium temperato. Ab occidente duo castella munitissima: muro urbis alto & magno, duplatis Heptapylae portis intercontinuante, turrito ab Aquilone per intercapedines, Similiterque ab Austro Londonia murata & turrita fuit: sed fluvius maximus piscosus Thamensis, mari influo refluoque qui illac allabitur, maenia illa tractu temporis alluit, labefactavit, deieci●. Item sursùm ab occidente Palatium Regium eminet super fluvium eundem, aedificium incomparabile, cum autemurali, & propugnaculis, duobus millibus ab urbe; suburbano frequenti continuante.   

De Hortis.  
VNdique extra domos suburbanorum Horti civium arboribus consiti, spatiosi, & speciosi, contigui habentur.   

De Pascuis & Sationalibus.  
ITem à Borea suno agri paseui, & pratorum grata planities, aquis fluvialibus interfluis: ad quas molinorum versatiles rotae citantur cum murmure iocoso. Proximè patet foresta ingens, salcus nemorosi ferarum, latebrae cervorum, damarum, aprorum, & taurorum sylvestrium: Agri urbis sationales non sunt teiunae glareae, sed pingues Asiae campi qui faciunt laetas segetes, & suorum cultorum repleant horrea cerealis ingere culmi.   

De Fontibus.  
SVnt & circa Londoniam ab Aquilone suburbani fontes praecipui aqua dulci, salubri, perspicua, & per claros rivo trepidante lapilles. Inter quos Fons Sacer, Fons Clericorum, Fons Sancti Clementis nominatiores habentur, & adeuntur celebriori accessu, & maiori frequentia scholarum & urbanae iuventutis in scrotinis aestivis ad auram exeuniis. Vrbs sanè bona, cum bonum habeat Dominum.   

De honore Civium.  
VRbs ista viris est honoratae, armis decorata, multo habitatore populosae, ut tempore bellicae cladis sub rege Stephano bello apti, ex ea exeuntes ostentatui, haberentur 20000. armatorum equitum, 60. mille peditum aestimarentur. Cives Londoniae ubicunque locorum prae omnibus aliis civibus ornatu morum, vestium & mensae, locutione, spectabiles & noti habentur.   

De Matronis.  
Vrbis Matronae ipsae Sabinae sunt.   

De Scholis.  
IN Londonia tres principales ecclesiae Scholas celebres habent de privilegio & antiquae dignitate. Plerunque tamen favore personae al●●●us, vel aliquorum doctorum, qui secundum Philosophiam noti & praeclari habentur, & aliae ibi sunt Scholae de gratia & permissione. Diebus festis ad ecclesias festivas magistri coventus celebrantur. Disputant scholares, quidam demonstratiuè, Dialecticè alii: alii recitant enthymematae: hi meliùs perfectis utuntur Syllogismis. Quidam ad estemationem exercentur disputatione, quae est inter colluctantes. Alii ad veritatem, ea quae est perfectionis gratia: sophisiae simulatores agmine & inundatione verborum beati iudicantur. Alii paralogizantur: Oratores aliqui quandoque orationibus Rhetoricis aliquid dicunt apposiiè ad persuadendum, curantes artis praecepta servare, & ex contingentibus nihil omittere. Fueri diversarum scholarum versibus inter se conrixantur: & de principiis artis Grammaticae, regulis praeteritorum vel futurorum contendunt: Sunt alii qui epigriimatibus, rithmis & metris utuntur, vetere illa triviali dicacitate, licentia Fescennina socios suppressis nominibus liberiùs lacerant, Laedorias inculantur & scommata, salibus Socraticis sociorum, vel fortè maiorum vitia tangunt, vel mordacius dente rodunt Theonino. Auditores muliùm, ridere parali ingemidant tremulos naso crispante cachinnos.   

De dispositione Vrbis.  
SIngulorum officiorum exercitores, singularum rerum venditores, singularism operarum suarum locatores, quotidiano mane per s. sunt locis distincti omnes, ut officiis. Praetereà est in Londonia supra ripam fluminis inter vina in navibus, & cellis vinariis venalia, publica coquina: ibi quotidiè pro tempore est invenire cibaria fercula, assa, frixa, elixa, pisces, pisciculos, carnes grossiores pauperibus, delicatiores divitibus, venationum, avium, avicularum. Si subitò veniant ad aliquem civium amici fatigati ex itinere, nec libeat ieiunis expectare, ut novi cibi emantur, cequantur, dant famuli manibus limphas panesque, interim adripam curritur, ibi presso sunt omnia desiderabilia. Quantal bet militum vel perigrinorum infinitas intrat urbem, qualibet dici vel noctis hora, vel ab urbe extitura, ne vel hi nimium ieiunent, vel alii impransi exeant, illuc si placeat divertunt, & se promodo suo singuli reficiunt: qui se curare volunt molliter, accipenserem vel aliam avem vel attagen Ionicum non quaerant, appositis quae ibi inveniuntur deliciis: Haec equidem publica, coquina est & civitati plurimum expediens, & ad Civitatem pertinens: Hinc est quod legitur in Georgia Platonis, juxtae medicinam esse coquorum officium, simulantium & adulationem quartae particulae civilitatis. Est ibi extra unam portarum statim in suburbio quidam planus campus re & nomine. Omni sexta feria, nisi sit major festivitas prae ceptae solemnitatis, est ihi celebre spectaculorum nobilium equorum venalium. Spectaturi vel empturi veniunt, qui in urbe adsunt, comites, harones, milites, cives plurimi. juvat videre gradarios succussatura nitente suaviter ambulantes: pedibus later aliter simul erectis, quasi à subalternis, & demissis: Hinc equos, qui armigeris magis conveniunt, durius incedentes, sed expeditè tamen, qui quasi à contra dictoribus pedes simul elevant & deponunt: Hinc nobiles pullos juniores, qui nondum fraeno bene assueti, altius incedunt, & mollia crura reponunt: Hinc summarios membris validis & vegetis. Hinc dextrarios precioses, elegantis formae, staturae honestae, micantes auribus, cervicibus arduis, clunibus obesis.  
In horum incessu spectant emptores, primo passum suaviorem, postea motum citatiorem, qui est quasi à contrariis pedibus anterioribus simul solo amotis & admotis, & posterioribus similiter. Cum talium soni pedum cursus imminet, & aliorum fortè qui similiter sunt in genere suo ad vecturam validi, ad cursuram vegeti: clamor attollitur, vulgares equos in partem ire praecipitur: Sessores alipidum pueri tres simul, aliquando bini ex condicto & bini certamini sepraeparant docti equis imperitare, indomitorum lupatis temperant fraen●s ora: hoc maximè praecavent, ne alteralteri concursum praeripiat. Et qui similiter pro modo suo ad certamen cursus illius attollunt; tremunt artus, morae impatientes, stare loco nesciunt, facto signo membra extendunt, cursum rapiunt, agilitate pervicaci feruntur: certant c●ssores laudis amore, spe victoriae, equis admissis subdere calcaria, & nec minus urgere eos virgis & ciere clamoribus. Putares omnia in motu esse, secundum Heraclitum, & falsam omnino Zenonis sententiam, dicentis, quoniam, non continget moveri, neque stadium pertransire. Parte alia stant serosim rusticorum peculia, agrorum instrumenta, sues longis lateribus, vaccae distentis uberibus, corpora magna boum, lanigerumque pecus: stant ibi aptae aratris, trahis & bigis equae: quarundam ventres foetibus tument: alias editi foetus obeunt pulli lasciviores, sequela inseparabilis.  
Ad hanc urbem ex omni natione quae sub coelo est, navalia gaudent institores habere commercia. Aurum mittit Arabs, species & thura Sabaeus, Arma Scythes, oleum palmarum divite silva. Pingue solum Babylon, Nilus lapides preciosoes. Seres purpureas vestes. Norwegi, Russi, varium, grisium, sabelinas: Galli sua vina. Vrbe Roma secundum Chronicorum fidem satis antiquior est. Ab eisdem quippe patribus Trojanis haec prius à Bruto condita est, quam a Remo & Romulo. Vnde & adhuc antiquis eisdem utuntur legibus communibus institutis. Haec similiter illi regionibus est distincta: habet annuos pro consulibus vicecomites: habet senatoriam dignitatem & magistratus minores: Eluviones & aquaeductus in vicis: Ad genera causarum deliberativaes, demonstrativaes, judicialis loca sua, fora singula: habet sua diebus statutis comitia. Non puto urbem esse, in qua sint probabiliores consuetudines, in ecclesiis visitandis, ordinatis Dei honorandis, festis feriandis, eleemosynis dandis, in hospitibus suscipiendis, in desponsationibus firmandis, matrimoniis contrahendis, nuptiis celebrandis, conviviis ornandis, conivis hilarandis, etiam in exequiis curandis & cadaveribus humandis. Solae pestes Londini sunt, immoderata stultorum potatio, & frequens incendium. Ad haec omnes ferè Episcopi, Abbates, & Magnates Angliae, quasicives & municipes sunt urbis Londoniae: sui ibi habentes aedifi●ia praeclara, ubi se recipiunt, ubi divites impensas faciunt, ad consilia, ad conventus celebres in urbem evocati, a Domino rege, vel Metropolitano suo, seu propiis tracti negotiis.   

De Ludio.  
AMplius & ad ludos urbis veniamus, quoniam non expedit utilem tantum & seriam urbem esse, nisi dulcis etiam sit, & iucunda. Vnde & in sigillis summorum Pontificum, usque ad tempor a Leonis Papae, ex altera parte Bullae, sculpto per impressionem piscatore Petro, & supra eum clave quasimanu Dei de coelis ei porrecta & circa eum versu,  
Tu pro me navem liquisti, suscipe clavem.  
Ex altera parte impressa erat urbs, & Scriptura ista, Aurea Roma. Item ad laudem Caesaris Augusti, & Romae dictum est:  
Nocte pluit tota, redueunt spectacula mane,  
Divisum imperium cum jove Caesar habes.  
Londonia pro spectaculis theatralibus, pro ludis scenicis, ludos habet sanctiores, repraesentationes miraculorum, quae sancti Confessores operati sunt, sea repraesentationes passionum, quibus claruit constantia Martyrum. Praeterea quotannis die, quae dicitur Carnivale, ut à puerorum ludis incipiamus (omnes enim pueri fuimus) scholarum singuli pueri suos apportans magistro suo gallos gallinaceos pugnatores, & totum illud antemeridianum datur ludo puerorum vacantium, spectare in scholis suorum pugnas gallorum. Post Prandium exit in campos omnis iuventus urbis ad lusum pilae celebrem. Singulorum stud●orum scholares suam habent pilam: singulorum officiorum urbis exercitores suam singuli pilam in manibus. Majores natu patres & divites urbis, in equis spectatum veniunt certamina juniorum, & modo suo inveniuntur cum juvenibus, & excitari videtur in eis motus caloris naturalis, contemplatione tanti motus & participatione gaudiorum adolescentiae liberioris. Singulis diebus dominicis in Quadragesima post prandia, exit in campos juvenum recens examen in equis bellicosis: in equis certamine primis: quorum quisque aptus & in gyros currere doctus equus. Erumpunt à portis catervatim filii civium laici, instructi lanceis & scutis militaribus, juniores hastalibus ferro dempto praefurcatis, simulachra belli cient & agonisticam exercent militarem. Adveniunt & plurimi Aulici, Rege in vicino posito, & de familiis Consulum & Baronum ephebi: nondum cingulo donati militiae gratia concertandi. Accendit singulos spes victoriae: equi feri adhinniunt, tremunt artus, fraenos mandunt, impatientes morae stare loco nesciunt. Cum tandem, Sonipedum rapit ungula cursum, sessores adolescentes divisis agminibus, hi praecedentibus instant, nec assequuntur hi socios dejiciunt & praetervolant. In feriis Paschalibus ludunt quasi praelia navalia: in arbore ●iquidem mediamna scuto fortior innexo, navicula remo & raptu fluminis cita, in prora stantem habet juvenem, scutum illud lancea percussurum: qui si scuto illi Linceamillidens frangat eam, & immotus persistat, habet propositum, voti compos est: si vero lancea integra fortiter percusserit, in profluentem amnem dijicitur: Navis motu suo acta praeterit. Sunt tamen hinc inde secus scutum duae naves stationariae, & in eis juvenes plurimi, ut eripiant percussorem flumine abscorptum cum primo emersus comparet, vel summa rursus cum bullit in unda. Supra pontem & in solariis suprae fluvium, sunt qui talia spectent, multum rideri parati. In festis tota aestate juvenes ludentes exercentur, in saliendo in arcu, in lucta, jactu lapidum, amentatis missilibus ultra metam expediendis, parmis duellionum. Puellarum Cytherae● ducit choros, & pede libero pulsatur tellus, usque imminente Luna. In hyeme singulis fere festis ante prandium, vel apri Spumantes pugnant pro capitibus, & verres falmineis accincti dentibus addendi Succidiae, vel pingues tauri Cornupetae, seu ursi immanes cum objectis depugnant canibus. cum est congelata palus illa magna quae maenia urbis aquilonalia alluit, exeunt lusum super glaciem densae juvenum turmae: Hi ex cursu motu captato citatiore, distantia pedum posita, magnum spatium latere altero praetenso perlabuntur. Alii qu●si magnos lapides molares de glacie sedes sibi taciunt: sessorem unum trabunt plurimi p●aecurrentes, manibus se tenentes: in tanta citatione motus aliquando pedibus lapsi cadunt omnes proni. Sunt alii super glaciem ludere doctiores, singuli pedibus suis aptantes, & sub talaribus suis alligantes ossa, tibias scilicet animalium, & palos ferro acuto superposito tenentes in manibus, quos aliquando glaciei allidunt: tanta rapacitate feruntur, quanta avis volans, vel pilum balistae. Interdum autem permagna procul distantia ex condicto, duo aliqui ita ab oppositis veniunt, concurritur: palos erigunt, se invicem percutiunt: vel alter, vel ambo cadunt, non sine laesione corporali, cum post casum etiam vi motus feruntur ab invicem procul: & qua parte glacies caput tangit, totum radit, totum decorticat. Plerumque tibia cadentis, vel brachium, si super illud ceciderit, confringitur. Sed aetas avida gloriae, juventus cupida victoriae, ut in veris praeliis fortius se habeant, ita in simulatis exercentur. Plurimi civium delectantur, ludentes in avibus coeli, Nisis, accipitribus, & hujusmodi, & in canibus milit antibus in silvis. Habentque cives suum jus venandi, in Middlesexia, Hertfordscira, & to a Chiltra, & in Cantia usque ad aquam Graiae. Lundonienses tunc Trinovantes dicti, Caium Iulium Caesarem, qui nullas nisi sanguine fuso vias habere gaudebat, repulerunt. Vnde Lucanus,  
Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis.  
Civitas Londonia reperit aliquos, qui regna plurima, & Romanum sibi subdiderunt imperium: & plurimos alios, quos mundi Dominos virtus evixit ad Deos, ut fuerat in Apollinis oraculo Bruto promissum:  
Brute sub occasu solis, trans Gallica Regna,  
Insula in Oceano est undique clausa mari:  
Hanc pete: namque tibi sedes erit illa pe●ernis,  
Haec fiet natis altera Troja tuis.  
Hic de stripe tua reges nascentur, & ipsis  
Totius terrae subditus orbis erit.  
In temporibus Christianis nobil●m illum edidit imperatorem Constantinum, qui urbem Romam, & imperialia insignia omnia Deo donavit, & beato Petro & Silvestro Papae, cui & stratoris exhibuit officium, & se non amplius Imperatorem, sed Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae defensorem gavisus est vocari: & ne pax Domini Papae occasione praesentiae ejus secularis strepitus tumultu concuteretur, ipse ab urbe Domino Papae collata discessit, & sibi civitatem Bizantium edificavit. Lundonia & modernis temporibus, reges illustres magnificosque peperit. Imperatricem Matildem, Henricum regem tertium, & beatum Thomam Archiepiscopum Christi Martyrem gloriosum, quali non candidiorem tulit, nec quo fuerit devinctior alter omnibus bonis totius orbis Latini.    

A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST HONOURABLE CITY OF LONDON.  

The Situation thereof.  
AMong the Noble Cities of the World, honoured by fame, the City of LONDON is one, the chief Seat of the Kingdom of England, whose renown is spread abroad far and near, but transporteth her wares and commodities much further, and so advanceth her greatness. It is happy by reason of the Airs wholesomeness, by Christian Religion, her munition also and strength, the nature of the situation, the honour of the Citizens, the chastity of grave Matrons. Very pleasant also with sports and pastimes, and replenished with Honourable Personages. All which I think meet severally to consider.   

The temperateness of the Air.  
IN this place, the calmness of the Air doth mollify men's minds, not corrupting them with venereal lusts, but preserving them from savage and rude behaviour, and seasons their inclinations with a more ingenious temper.   

Of Religion.  
THere is in the Church of Saint Paula Bishops See: It was formerly Metropolitan, and as it is thought, shall recover the said dignity again, if the Citizens shall return back into the Island, except perhaps the Archepiscopall title of Saint Thomas the Martyr, and his bodily presence, do perpetuate this honour to Canterbury, where now his Relics are. But seeing Saint Thomas hath graced both these Cities, namely, London with his birth, and Canterbury with his death; one place may allege much against the other for the beholding of that Saint, and further additions to their holiness. Now, concerning the worship of God in the Christian faith: There are in London and in the Suburbs 13. Churches belonging to Covents, besides 126. lesser Parish Churches.   

Of the strength of the City.  
IT hath on the East part a Tower Palatine large and strong, whose Court and Walls are secured with a very deep foundation, the mortar is tempered with the blood of beasts. On the West side are two Castles well fenced. The Wall of the City is high and spacious, with seven gates, which are made double every way, and on the North side distinguished with Turrets. Likewise on the South side, London hath been enclosed with Walls and Towers, but the large River of Thames being well stored with Fish, and in which the Tide ebbs and flows, by continuance of time hath washed and worn away those walls. Further, above in the West part, the King's Palace is eminently seated upon the same River, an incomparable building, having a Wall before it, and some Bulwarks; it is two miles from the City, and a continual Suburbs doth lie between.   

Of the Gardens.  
near to the houses of the Suburbs, the Citizens have Gardens and Orchards planted with trees, large, beautiful, and one joining to another.   

Of Pasture and Tillage.  
ON the North side are Fields for Pasture, and open Meadows, very pleasant, into which the River-waters do flow, and Mills are turned about with a delightful noise. Next, lieth a great Forest, in which are woody places, and Beasts for game. In the Coverts whereof do lurk the Stag, the Buck, the wild Boar, and the Bull. The arable Lands are no hungry pieces of gravel ground, but like the rich fields of Asia, which bring plentiful Corn, and fill the Barns of the owners with a dainty crop of the fruits of Ceres.   

Of their Wells.  
THere are on the North part of London principal Fountains of water, sweet, wholesome, and clear, streaming forth among the glistering pebble stones: In this number Holy-well, Clerken-well, and Saint Clements well, are of most note and frequented above the rest, when Scholars and the youth of the City take the Air abroad in the Summer evenings. Certainly the City is good, seeing it hath a good Lord.   

Of the Citizen's honour.  
THe Honour of this City consists in proper Men, brave Armour, and multitude of Inhabitants. In the fatal wars under King Steven, there went out to a Master, men fit for war, esteemed to the number of 20000. horsemen armed, and 60000. footmen. The Citizens of London are known in all places, and respected above all others, by their civil Demeanour, their good Apparel, their Table, and their Discourse.   

Of their Matrons.  
THe Matrons here may be paralleled with the Sabine women.   

Of their Schools.  
IN London three famous Schools are kept at three principal Churches, which they retain by privilege and ancient dignity. Notwithstanding by favour of some persons, or Teachers, who are known and well reputed for their Philosophy; there are other Schools upon good will and sufferance. Upon the Holidays, assemblies flock together about the Church, where the Master hath his abode. There the Scholar's dispute; some use demonstrations, others topical and probable arguments: Some practice Enthimems, others are better at perfect Syllogisms: Some for a show dispute, and for exercising themselves, & strive like adversaries: Others for truth, which is the grace of perfection. The dissembling Sophisters turn Verbalists, and are magnified when they overflow in speech; some also are entrapped with deceitful arguments. Sometime certain Orators, with Rhotoricall Orations, speak handsomely to persuade, being careful to observe the precepts of Art, who omit no matter contingent. The Boys of diverse Schools wrangle together in versifying, and canvas the principles of Grammar, as the rules of the Preterperfect and Future Tenses. Someafter an old custom of prating, use Rhymes & Epigram: these can freely quip their fellows, suppressing their names with a festinine and railing liberty: these cast out most abusive jests, and with Socratical witnesses either they give a touch at the vices of Superiors, or fall upon them with a Satirical bitterness. The hearers prepare for laughter, and make themselves merry in the mean time.   

How the Affairs of the City are disposed.  
Several Craftmen, and sellers of Wares, and Workmen for hire, all are distinguished every morning by themselves, both in their places and employments. Besides, there is in London upon the River's bank, a public place of Cookery, between the Ships laden with Wine, and the Wines laid up in Cellars to be sold: there ye may call for any dish of meat, roast, fried, or sodden, Fish both small and great, ordinary flesh for the poorer sort, and more dainty for the rich, as Venison and Fowl. If friends come upon a sudden, wearied with travel, to a Citizen's house, and they be loath to wait for curious preparations, and dress of fresh meat, the servants give them Water to wash, and Bread to stay their stomach, and in the mean time go to the water side, where all things are at hand answerable to their desire. Whatsoever multitude, either of Soldiers or other strangers, enter into the City at any hour, day or night, or else are about to depart, they may turn in, bait there, and refresh themselves to their content, and so avoid long fasting, and not go away without their dinner. If any desire to fit their dainty tooth, they need not to long for the Accipenser, or any other Bird; no not the rare Godwit of I●nia. This public victualling place is very convenient, and belongs to the City. Hereupon we read in Plato's Gorgias, that the office of Cooks is near to Physic, and the ●latrery of dissemblers is the fourth part of civility. Without one of the gates is a certain field, plain both in name and situation. Every Friday, except some Festival come in the way there is a great market of horses: some come out of the City to buy or look on, Earls, Barons, Knights, and many Citizens resort thither. It is a pleasant sight there to behold the Nags to jog on with an ambling pace, and their feet on either side up and down together by turns, or else cro●●ing horses which are more convenient for men that bear arms; these although they set a little harder, go away readily, and light up and set down together the contrary feet on either side. Here are also young Colts of a good breed, that have not been well accustomed to the bridle; these fling about, and by mounting bravely, show their mettle. Here are principal horses, strong and well-limmed. Here also are breast horses, fit to be joined by couples, very fair and handsome, and sleek about the ears, carrying their necks aloft, being well fleshed, and round about the buttocks.  
The buyers at first look at their soft and slow pace, and after cause them to put on with more speed, and behold them in their gallop. When these Coursers are ready to run their race, and perhaps some others, which in their kind are both good for carriage and strong for travail: The people give a shout, and the common Hackneys are commanded to go aside The boys that ride, make matches among themselves, two and two together, being expert in governing their horses, which they rule and curb with a sharp bridle, labouring by all means that one get not before the other. And the very beasts, after their fashion, do not cease to strive, while their joints tremble, and impatient of delay, endure not standing still in a place. When the token is given, they stretch out their bodies and run speedily away, the Rider's spurring them on for the love of praise, or hope of victory. You would think every thing were in motion with Heraclitus, and Zenoes' opinion to be false, saying that nothing moves from place to place. In another part stand the country people with cattle, and commodities of the field, large Swine, and Kine with their Udders strutting out, fair bodied Oxen and Sheep. There are also Cart-horses fit for the Dray, or the Plough, and some Mares big with Foal, together with others that have their wanton Colts following them close at their side.  
To this City Merchants bring in Wares from every Nation under heaven: The Arabian sends his Gold; the Sabean his Frankincense & other Drugs; the Scythian his provision from the plentiful wood of Date trees; Babylon bestows the fruits of a fertile soil; and Nilus his precious stones; the Seres send Purple garments; they of Norway and Russia, Trout, Furs, and Sables. According to the report of Chronicles, it is more ancient than the City of Rome: for both being descended from the same Trojan stock, Brute builded this, before Remus and Romulus the other. Whereupon it comes to pass, that their ancient Laws do so agree: For this our City is distinguished by Wards and several limits; it hath Sheriffs every year, answerable to their Consuls; it hath Aldermen, enjoying the dignity of Senators, besides inferior Magistrates; it hath also Conduits and conveyances for water in the streets. Concerning causes in question; there are several places and Courts for matters Deliberative, Demonstrative, and Judicial: upon set days also they have their Common Council and great Assemblies. I think there is no City that hath more approved Customs, for frequenting the Churches, for honouring Gods Ordinances observing of Holidays, giving Alms, entertaining Strangers, confirmation of Contracts, making up and celebrating of Marriages, setting out of Feasts, welcomming the Guests; and moreover, in funeral rites, and burying of the dead. The only plagues of London are immoderate drinking of idle fellows, and often fires. Moreover, almost all Bishops, Abbots, and Noble men of England, are as it were, Citizens and Freemen of London; there they have fair dwellings, and thither they do often resort, and are called into the City to Consultations and solemn meetings, either by the King, or their Metropolitan, or drawn by the people's affairs.   

Of Exercise and Pastimes.  
LEt us also come at last to their Sports and Exercises; for it is expedient that a City be not only commodious for gain, and serious, but also pleasant and delightful. Therefore to the time of Pope Leo, the Popes gave in their Seals, on one side of their Bull, Saint Peter like a Fisherman, and over him a Key reached forth to him as it were from Heaven by the hand of God, and this verse about it: 
For me thy Ship  
thou didst forsake,  
Therefore the Key  
of Heaven take.   
On the other part was stamped a City with this Inscription, Golden Rome. Also this was written to the praise of Caesar  
Augustus, and Rome:  
All night the Sky distils  
down watery showers,  
The morning clears again  
to show the play.  
Great jove and Caesar  
have their several hours,  
And in this Universe  
by turns bear sway.  
London, in stead of common Interludes belonging to the Theatre, hath plays of a more holy subject, representations of those miracles which the holy Confessors wrought, or of the sufferings wherein the glorious constancy of Martyrs did appear. Besides that, we may begin with the Schools of youth, seeing once we were all children; Yearly at Shrovetide the Boys of every School bring fight Cocks to their Masters, and all the forenoon is spent at School, to see these Cocks fight together. After dinner, all the youth of the City goeth to play at the Ball in the fields, the Scholars of every School have their Balls. The teachers also that train up others in seats and exercises, have every one their Ball in their hands. The ancient and wealth Citizens come on horseback to see these youngsters contending at their sport, with whom in a manner they participate by motion, stirring their own natural heat in the view of youth, with whose mirth and liberty they seem to communicate. Every Sunday in Lent, after dinner, a company of young men ride out into the fields on horses which are fit for war, and principal runners: every horse among them is taught to run his rounds. The Citizen's sons issue out thorough the gates by troops, furnished with Lances and warlike Shields: the younger sort have their Pikes not headed with iron, where they make a representation of battle: There resort to this exercise many Courtiers, when the King lies near-hand, and young striplings out of the families of Barons and great persons, which have not yet attained to the warlike Girdle, do train and skirmish. Hope of victory inflames every one: the neighing and fierce horses bestir their joints, and chew their bridles, and cannot endure to stand still; at last they begin their race, and then the young men divide their troops; some labour to outstrip their leaders, and cannot reach them; others fling down their fellows, and get beyond them. In Easter Holidays they sergeant a Sea-sight: a Pole is set up in the middle of the River, with a Target well fastened thereon, and a young man stands in a Boat which is rowed with Oars, and driven on with the tide, who with his Spear hits the Target in his passage; with which blow, if he break the Spear, and stand upright, so that he hold footing, he hath his desire: but if his Spear continue unbroken by the blow, he is tumbled into the water, and his Boat passeth clear away: but on either side this Target, two Ships stand in Ward, with many young men ready to taken him up after he is sunk: as soon as he appeareth again on the top of the water; the spectators stand upon the Bridge, and other convenient places about the River to behold these things, being prepared for laughter. Upon the Holidays, the youth is exercised all Summer, in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, casting of Stones, and throwing of Javelins fitted with loops for the purpose, which they strive to fling beyond the mark; they also use Bucklers, like fight men. As for the Maidens, they have their exercise of Dancing. In Winter, almost every Holiday before dinner, the foaming Boars fight for their heads, and prepare with deadly Tusks to be made Bacon; or else some lusty Bulls, or huge Bears, are baited with Dogs. When that great Moorish Lake at the North part of the City wall is frozen over, great companies of young men go to sport upon th' ye, then fetching a run, and setting their feet at a distance, and placing their bodies sidewise, they slide a great way. Others take heaps of ye, as if it were great Millstones, and make seats: many going before, draw him that sits thereon, holding one another by the hand; in going so fast, sometime they all fall down together: some are better practised to the ye, and bind to their shoes, Bones, as the legs of some beasts, and hold Stakes in their hands, headed with sharp iron, which sometimes they strike against the ye; and these men go on with such speed, as doth a Bird in the Air, or Darts shot from some warlike Engine: sometime two men set themselves at a distance, and run one against another, as it were at tilt, with these Stakes, wherewith one or both parties are thrown down, not without some hurt to their bodies; and after their fall, by reason of the violent motion, are carried a good distance one from another: and wheresoever the ye doth touch their head, it rubs off the skin and bruiseth it: and if one fall upon his leg or his arm, it is usually broken: But young men being greedy of honour, and desirous of victory, do thus exercise themselves in sergeant battles, that they may bear the brunt more strongly, when they come to it in good earnest. Many Citizens take delight in Birds, as Sparhawks, Gosse-hawkes, and such like, and in Dogs to hunt in the woody ground. The Citizens have authority to hunt in Middlesex, Hertfordshire, all the Chilterns, and in Kent, as far as Gray-water. The Londoners, once called Trinovants, repulsed C. julius Caesar, who commonly paved his way with blood: whereupon Lucan;  
He was afraid,  
and foiled by Britons hand,  
That first presumed  
to invade their land.  
The City of London can bring out some who subdued many Kingdoms, and the Empire of Rome, and many others who (being great Lords heirs) were deified in another world: as Apollo's Oracle did promise Brute:  
Brute, thou shalt find  
an Island in the West,  
Beyond the Gauls,  
environed with the main;  
Direct thy journey  
thither for thy rest,  
And there a second Troy  
shall rise again.  
Kings from thy Hieres,  
and Conquerors shall spring.  
Who will the world  
into subjection bring.  
In the times of Christianity, it brought forth the Noble Emperor Constantine, who gave the City of Rome, and all the Imperial Arms to God, and to Saint Peter, and Silvester the Pope, whose Stirrup he refused not to hold, and pleased rather to be called, Defendor of the holy Roman Church, than Emperor any more. And lest the peace of our Lord the Pope should suffer any disturbance, by the noise of secular affairs, he left the City, and bestowed it on the Pope, and founded the City of Constantinople for his own habitation. London also in these latter times hath brought forth famous and magnificent Governors; Maud the Empress, Henry the third, King, and Thomas the Archbishop, a glorious Martyr of Christ, than whom no man was more innocent, or more devoted to the general good of the Latin world.    

AN ABSTRACT OR BRIEF RELATION OF THE TWO MANORS OR Lordships of Stebunheath, alias, Stepney; and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex; with the free customs, benefits, and privileges to them belonging; and how they are holden by the Copyhold Tenants, of the right Honourable, Thomas Lord Wentworth: with some other especial and remarkable notes, both of reverend Antiquity, and modern memory.  

Concerning the Indenture of Covenants, etc.  
WHereas (of late) differences have arisen between the right Honourable Thomas L. Wentworth, 
The cause of the now compounding.  Lord of the Manors of Stepney and Hackney, and his Lordship's Copyhold Tenants of the said Manors, for and concerning some of the customs, benefits, and privileges of the said Tenants: It hath now pleased the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, in consideration of three thousand pounds, 
Thè consideration given for it.  of lawful money of England, in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, by the Copy-holders' of the said Manors, unto the right Honourable Henry Lord Wentworth (his Lordship's Father) then satisfied and paid: As also of other three thousand and 5. hundred pounds more, to him the said Thomas Lord Wentworth now paid, by Indenture bearing date the 20. day of june, in the 15. year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King james of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the 50. made between him the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, 
The Deed of Covenants.  Lord of the said Manors on the one part, and Sir john jolles Knight, and Alderman of London, and diverse other of the Copyhold Tenants of the said Manors (whose names are particularly in the said Indenture recited) on the other part: for the appeasing and final end of the said differences, and for prevention of the like, and all other which (in time to come) might happen, arise or grow, betwixt the said Lord his heirs or assigns, Lords of the said Manors, and the said Copyhold Tenants, their heirs or assigns, to covenant, grant, conclude, and fully agree to the effect following, that is to say:  
Imprimis, that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth is, 
The Lord Thomas is seized in Fee.  and until a perfect Act of Parliament shall be had and made, whereby all the liberties, privileges, benefits, customs, immunities, discharges, additions, alterations, enlargements, matters and things, in the Schedules to the said Indenture annexed, mentioned; shall be for ever confirmed, shall be and continue seized of a good, absolute and indefeazeable estate of Inheritance in fee-simple to him and his heirs for ever in possession, of, & in the said Manors, and either of them, and of the Copyhold Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Copyhold Tenants before mentioned, parties to the said Indenture. And that he now hath, 
And hath power to confirm the following Articles.  and then shall have full power and lawful authority, to ratify, confirm, establish and make good, all and singular the covenants, articles, alterations, enlargements, free-customs, immunities, discharges and agreements contained in the said Indenture and Schedules, or either of them, to the said Copyhold Tenants respectively, and to their several and respective heirs and assigns, of and in the several and respective Messages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof they are seized of any estate by Copy of Court-Roule.  
And that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, 
That these Articles for ever be observed.  his heirs, assigns, and all other Lords of the said Manors, shall for ever hereafter observe, perform, fulfil, allow, ratify, make good and keep all the said Articles, certainty of fines, usages, customs, privileges, benefits, immunities, discharges, compositions and agreements in the said Indenture and Schedules contained: And shall not at any time hereafter levy, take, require, or demand any other fines, suits, customs, works or services, or in any other manner, than in the said Schedules are specified: And the rents which for the said Copyhold Tenements, by the space of two years now last passed, have been yielded and paid by the Copyhold Tenants thereof. And also that the said Tenants, their heirs and assigns, shall for ever hereafter peaceably and quietly have, hold, maintain, and enjoy their several and respective Copy-holds, with their appurtenances, according to the several grants thereof to them made; and under the several rents for the same respectively, now due and payable according to the true meaning of the said Indenture and Schedules, without let, suit, or hindrance, interruption, alteration, question, or contradiction whatsoever of him the said Lord Wentworth, his heirs or assigns, or under any other claiming any estate, right, title, use, interest, office, profit, charge, or demand, under his Lordship, his heirs or assigns, or under the said Henry Lord Wentworth deceased.  
And that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, 
That hereafter none of these Lands shall be severed from the Manor.  his heirs or assigns hath not, nor hereafter shall grant or convey, severed from the Manor thereof, the same is now holden; any of the Messages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of the said Copy-holders', for any other estate or term, other than by Copy of Court-Roule, according to the custom of the said Manors, except the freehold to be severed, at the desire of such person, as then shall be Copyholder thereof respectively: And that the certainty of sins, free customs, immunities, liberties, privileges, articles, discharges, and agreements in the said Schedules contained, for and concerning the several Messages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof the said parties to the said Indenture are Copy-holders'; shall (for ever) be, and be had, used, accounted, adjudged, taken and enjoyed, as the true customs, usuages, privileges, immunities, discharges, and liberties, of and within the said Manors, and either of them not to be violated, altered, changed, or denied by the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or either of them now or hereafter, at any time or times in any wise being. 
That a decree shall be had in the Chancery, to confirm the now agreements▪   
Item, that for the better ratifying, establishing, confirming, strengthening; perfecting, and making good of all and singular the said Articles, covenants, agreements, certainty of fines, usuages, customs, enlargements, and alterations of usuages and customs, compositions, liberties, privileges, freedoms, immunities, discharges, matters and things in the said Indenture and Schedules contained, and for the setting forth of what estate the said Thomas Lord Wentworth is now, and then shall be seized of the said Manors and premises, upon a Bill of complaint against his Lordship, in his Majesty's Court of Chancery to be exhibited: his Lordship will appear, and make such answer, and further such proceedings, that thereupon a perfect decree (with the free consent and agreement of his Lordship) may be had, and there enrouled against his Lordship, his heirs and assigns. By which the said Articles, covenants, agreements, certainty of fines, usuages and customs, and all the compositions, liberties, privileges, freedoms, immunities, discharges, matters and things in the said Indenture and Schedules, or any of them contained; shall be decreed, ratified, established and made good, and put in ure, used and enjoyed for ever.  
That he the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, 
That an Act of Parliament shall be procured, to confirm the same for ever.  his heirs and assigns, at his and their own proper costs and charges, will procure at the first Session of the next Parliament of our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, his heirs or successors, one Statute or Act of Parliament, by force whereof the said Articles, covenants, agreements, certainty of fines, usuages, customs, compositions, enlargements, and alterations of usuages, customs, compositions, liberties, privileges, benefits, freedoms, immunities, discharges, matters and things in the said Indenture and Schedules, or either of them expressed; shall be established, ratified, enacted and confirmed to be, and to continue for ever of force, and to be put in ure and used for ever hereafter, in such state, manner and form, quality, condition and degree, as the same are in the said Indenture or Schedules, or any of them expressed, for and concerning the Lands, Tenements, 
The Tenants must pay twenty pounds towards the charges of it.  and Hereditaments, whereof they now are Copy-holders', or reputed Copy-holders'. Towards the charges of procuring of which the said Act of Parliament, the said Tenants are to pay unto the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his heirs or executors, within one month next after the obtaining and passing thereof, the sum of twenty pounds.  
That he the said Thomas L. Wentworth, 
For better assurance within five years.  his heirs and assigns, at any time within five years' next ensuing the date of the said Indenture, before such Act of Parliament, as aforesaid, had and obtained, at the costs in the law of the said Copyhold Tenants, or some of them, upon request made unto him the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his heirs or assigns, by the said Sir john jolles, Knight and Alderman of London, William Gough, Edmund Barber, john Eglesfield, 
The names contained in the Indenture.  Isaac Cotton, Thomas Best, Richard Hoskins, George Saris, Henry Dethicke, john Howland, Thomas Yardly, john Lowden, Richard Cheyney, Gresham Hoogan, William Palmer, Nicholas Dickens, Nicholas Diggins, Peter Summer, john Bennet, Richard Edwards, Michael Bonner, & Nicholas Hollam, or any ten of them, or any ten of the Heirs or Assigues of them, shall and will make, do, acknowledge, execute and suffer all and every such further acts, deeds and assurances, for better settling, assuring and confirming of the usuages, customs, benefits, liberties, privileges, immunities, discharges, certainty of fines, compositions, agreements, matters and things in the said Indenture and Schedules contained, as by them, or any ten of them shall be reasonably devised, advised and required. That every one of the said Copyhold Tenants, 
That leases may be let for thirty one years and four months without licence.  their heirs and assigns, shall and may freely hereafter from time to time, grant, lease or demise by deed or otherwise (without licence or Copy of Court Roll) such or so much of their said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, to such person and persons, and for such term and estate, not exceeding one and thirty years and four months, in possession from the time of the making of any such grant or demise; as to them, and every, or any of them respectively, shall be thought fit or necessary, without any forfeit of estate, seizure, claim, disturbance, denial or impeachment of his Lordship, his heirs or assigns, or any of his or their Officers. So always, that such grant, lease and leases so to be made, be at the first or second general Court, (for the Manor whereof, the Lands or Tenements so happening to be granted, leased or demised are parcel) to be holden next after the making thereof, be published in open Court of that Manor, before the homage there, and a remembrance thereof to be required to be made in the Rolls of the said Court, for the date, term and quantity of Lands, Cottages, or Tenements so granted, leased or demised. Which remembrance, the said Thomas Lord Wentworth convenanteth and granteth for him, his heirs and assigns; to and with the said Sir john jolles, and the rest of the said Copyhold Tenants, upon the tender of a certainty thereof in writing, to the Steward, or Deputy Steward that Manor for the time then being, together with six pence in money, for the entering thereof, shall be in the Court Rolls of that Manor duly, and in convenient time, and without delay enroled, and a note thereof delivered by the Steward, or his Deputy, to the party so leasing, or any for him, without any other consideration, see or reward, to be given or paid for the same.  
That whereas the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, 
Recital of the Letters Patents from the King to my L. concerning the freehold.  by his Highness' Letters Patents under the great Seal of England, dated the nineteenth day of july, in the thirteenth year of his Majesty's reign of England, and forty eighth of Scotland, Hath obtained licence to grant to such of his Majesty's liege people as he shall think fit, Messages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, parcel, or reputed parcel of the said Manors: To hold to them, their heirs and assigns (in free and common Socage) respectively, of his said Manors of Stepney and Hackney, by such and the same rents and services, and other profits, as in the conveyances thereof shall be expressed, and not to hold of the King in Capite, nor of any of his Majesty's Honours, or Manors in Knight's service, as by the said Letters Patents more at large may appear. 
If the Act of Parliament be not procured, them the Tenants (upon request) shall be made Free holder's.  Now if the said Thomas Lord Wentworth shall not at the first Session of the next Parliament procure such an Act of Parliament, to be good and effectual in law for the purposes aforesaid: Then his Lordship will at all times, after the end of the said first Session of the said next Parliament, upon reasonable requests, and at the costs of the Tenants (whom it shall concern) their heirs or assigns, make, do and execute such reasonable acts, devices, and assurances in Law; whereby the said Copy-holders', their heirs or assigns respectively, shall hold and enjoy their, and every of their said Copy-holds, Messages, Houses, Lands, Cottages and Hereditaments, with the like ways, easements, commons and commodities, as are thereto now belonging, or now therewith used or enjoyed. And the freehold and inheritance thereof respectively to them and to their respective heirs and assigns for ever, to be holden of such of the same Manors, whereof the same is now holden in free and common Socage, for and under the several & respective yearly rents for all services and demands, as they or any of them do now severally and respectively pay for the same, as by them, or their Council learned, shall be reasonably devised and required.  
That the said Copyhold Tenants, 
For enjoying the Common.  their heirs and assigns respectively, shall and may for ever hereafter, without any let, impediment, interruption, denial or contradiction of his Lordship, his heirs or assigns, or any claiming under the said Lord Henry Wentworth deceased, not only during the time they shall be Copy-holders', but also afterwards, when they have obtained the freehold and inheritance of their several and respective Copy-holds; peaceably hold and enjoy such and the like Commons of pasture, and in such manner, in all the Commons, wastes and common able places of the said Manors, as they or any of them heretofore have had, used, held, taken, or enjoyed, or might lawfully have taken or enjoyed. Nevertheless, it is agreed, that neither the said Indenture and Schedules, nor any covenant therein contained, 
The Tenants not compounding, are excepted from all benefit hereby.  shall in any wise extend or enure, to the benefit or advantage of any other Copyhold Tenants of the said Manors, other than the Copyhold Tenants, named parties to the said Indentures, their heirs and assigns, and that for such and the same Lands, Tenements, Cottages, and Hereditaments, with the appurtenances only, as they or any of them now hold, or claim to hold, by Copy of Court-Roule of the said Manors, or one of them, as by the said Indenture (whereunto relation be had) more plainly and at large appeareth.  
Memorandum, that the said Indenture of the twentieth of june, together with a duplicity thereof, were acknowledged by the said Thomas Lord Wentworth the 21. day of july 1617. before Sir Matthew Carew Knight, 
The enrolling of the Deed, and where it is left.  to be enroled, and is enroled in the Chancery accordingly. The one part of which Indentures, is left in the custody of the Company of Goldsmiths in the City of London, and the other in the custody of the Brethren of the Trinity house at Radcliffe: In trust, and to the use of the said Copyhold Tenants, named parties to the said Indentures.  
The ninth day of july 1617. in the said fifteenth year of his Majesty's Reign, 
A Statute of 12000. pounds for performance of Covenants.  the said Thomas Lord Wentworth acknowledged a statute of the sum of twelve thousand pounds of lawful money of England, unto Alexander Prescot and john Gore, Aldermen of London, Thomas jones common Sergeant of London, Francis Fulner and George Whitmore Esquires, and Robert Mildmay Grocer; In trust for, and to the use of the Copy-holders' named in the Indentures, and thereof is a defeasance by Indenture, dated the same day to this effect (viz.) That if the said Thomas Lord Wentworth do perform the covenants and agreements, 
The defeasance.  contained in the aforesaid Indenture of the twentieth of june: Then the same Statute to be void, and that the said Conusees shall deliver up the same Statute to the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, so soon as the said Act of Parliament shall be procured, according to the intent and true meaning of the said recited Indenture.  
To this end, the said Statute and defeasance are left in the Chamber of the City of London, 
Where the Statute and Defeasance are kept.  to be kept in such sort, as that the said Conusees may have the same to be delivered according to their Covenant. And the Chamberlain of the said City hath charged himself with the receipt thereof, by order of the Court of the Lord Maior and Aldermen 1617. Sir john Leman being then Mayor, and Master Cornelius Fish Chamberlain.  
In Trinity Term, in the said fifteenth year of his Majesty's Reign, 
The proceedings in the Chancery.  to a Bill of complaint was by the Copy-holders', named parties to the said Indenture of the twentieth of june, exhibited against the said Thomas Lord Wentworth in his Majesty's high Court of Chancery; whereto the said Thomas Lord Wentworth did appear, and by his answer confessed the contents of the said Bill to be true. Whereupon, a perfect Decree (with the free consent and agreement of the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, 
The Decree.  bearing date the two and twentieth day of July, in the said fifteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King james) was obtained. And by the same, the said free customs, orders, immunities, etc. and all and whatsoever contained in the said Indenture of the twntieth of June, and the Schedules unto the same Indenture annexed, are for ever established and confirmed. The said Decree is likewise there enroled. The true Copy of the said Schedules followeth.    

The Schedules, containing the free Customs, Orders, Immunities, Discharges, Benefits, and Privileges of the Manors of Stepney, alias, Stebunheath and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex: Agreed unto, approved, allowed, and ratified, as well by the Right Honourable, Thomas, Lord Wentworth, Lord of the said Manors; as also by his Lordship's Copyhold, or Customary Tenants, or reputed Copyhold, or Customary Tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them, named parties to the said Indenture, where unto those Schedules are annexed. By which, all and every the same Copy-holders' or Customary Tenants, their, and every of their Heirs and Assigns, are to hold, use, and enjoy, inherit, alien, demise, or dispose all and every, or any the said Lands, Messages, Tenements, Cottages, and Hereditaments, which they, every, or any of them respectively do hold, claim, or enjoy, byforce, or pretext of any grant heretofore made by the Copy of Court Roll of the said Manors, or either of them, the day of the date of the said Indentures: That is to say, the twentieth day of june, in the years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES, by the grace of God of England, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. the fifteenth, and of Scotland the fiftieth.  

These Copy-holds are of inheritance, held of the Lord by the Rod, according to the custom.  
IMprimis, by the Customs of the said Manors, and either of them, all the Copyhold Lands, Tenements, & Hereditaments, which the particular persons (named parties to the Indentures, whereunto these Schedules are annexed) do hold or enjoy, and (time whereof the contrary hath not been within the memory of man) have been Copyhold and customary Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of inheritance, demised and demiseable by Copy of Court Roll of the Manors aforesaid, or one of them respectively, according to the Customs of the Manor whereof the same are holden. And all Copies of Court Rolls of the same Manors, and either of them, by all the time aforesaid, for the same Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, have been made, and aught to be made, to hold of the Lord by the Rod, according to the Custom of the Manor whereof the same is holden, by the Rents and services therefore due and accustomed. And all the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments have been passed, and are to pass and go from such persons, as (according to the contents of these Schedules) have power, 
How Surrenders are to be made.  and are enabled to make Surrenders to any other person or persons by way of Surrender, to be made to the hands of the Lord, 
See further in the 19 Article.  by the acceptance of the Steward of the Manor, or his Deputy for the time being, in Court or out of Court; or by the acceptance of the Reeve of the Manor, whereof the same are holden, or by his Deputy within the same Manor, or elsewhere, in presence of six Customary Tenants; or by any Headborough of some Township or Hamlet within that Manor, in presence of six customary Tenants, in or out of the same Manors. Which Surrender or Surrenders have been, and shall, and may be to the use of any person or persons, and their Heirs for ever in Fee-tail, or for life or lives, with Remainders or without Remainders, as Lands may be assured by the course of the common Laws of this Realm, or else to the use of the last Will and Testament of the Surrenderers, or of any other persons, according to the intent and limitation of such last Will and Testament.   

Quitrents are to be paid yearly at Michaelmas.  
ITem, the Rents of all the Tenants, both Freeholders' and Copy-holders', which hold any Messages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of the said Manors, or of either of them, are yearly payable only at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel, to the Lord and his Heirs: the same to be collected by the Reeves of the said Manors (severally and respectively to be yearly chosen, as hereafter is expressed) or their Deputies. And all and every the said customary Copyhold Tenants, to pay the several yearly Rents, now yearly due & payable for their several Copy-holds. And if any of the said Copy-holds, 
An entire Quitrent come into several hands, shall be apportioned.  for which any entire Quitrent is now paid, shall hereafter come into several hands, the Rent thereof shall then be apportioned by the Homage, at the Court of the Manor whereof the same are holden; and so much only as by the Homage shall be appointed to be paid (pro rata) shall be paid to the Lord for the time being.   

At what Courts Tenants are bound to appear.  
ITem, all and every Copyhold Tenant of the said Manors, or either of them, which now be, or hereafter for the time being shall be, aught to appear yearly at two several general Courts holden for the Manor, whereof his Lands or Tenements are holden, upon warning, as hereafter followeth. And also so many of them, at all other set or appointed Courts, set, appointed, and kept for the said Manor whereof their Lands are holden, under the number of eighteen, as shall be (for that purpose) especially warned thereunto by the Reeve, or his sufficient Deputy for the time being. And the said Tenants shall do their suits and services according to their tenors; except they be essoined, licenced, or have some other lawful excuse, upon the pain hereafter following. 
The two general Courts ye rely held.  Which two general Courts have been commonly kept (and are to be kept yearly) the one of them on Tuesday, the ninth day after Easter day; and the other, about the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, upon reasonable warning: That is to say, in the Churches and Chapels within the said Manors, openly upon the Sunday seven-night, or Sunday fortnight, before the day of such Courts to be holden.   

Tenants failing to appear, and not essoined, or reasonable excuse, shall be amended.  
ITem, if any of the Copyhold, or Customary Tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them, do or shall make default of their appearance at any of the said two general Ceuris, to which their suits shall be due; Or if such Copyhold Tenants, as shall be especially and lawfully warned to appear at any of the said Courts (in form aforesaid) yearly to be holden, do make default (to which the said suit is or shall be due) and warning openly given (as aforesaid) of the day and place of the holding of the same general Courts, and upon special and lawful warning to be given for the said set or purchased Courts: That then they that shall so make default (except they be essoined, or have some other lawful or reasonable excuse) shall be amerced by the Homage of the said Court, 
The manner of amercing.  to be taxed and afferred by two Afferrors of the said Court: that is to say, by two Tenants of the Homage, or of either of them for the time being, hath always used to choose, and shall choose one for the Lord, and the residue of the Homage have chosen, and hereafter shall choose the other.   

What the Tenants are to be allowed at set Courts.  
ITem, if any Tenant be summoned to appear at any set Court, or Courts to be holden within the said Manors, or in any of them, and doth appear upon the said summons, he ought, and is to have for his pains four pence, and his dinner, or eight pence and no dinner; which ought and is to be paid (by the said custom) by such person or persons, who shall be the cause that any such Tenants do appear for his or their matter: So it be not any matter or cause that concerneth an enquiry or presentment to be made, only for the Lord for the time being, his Heiros and Assigns.   

The like allowance for view, partitions, and other summons.  
ITem, the Copyhold Tenants of the said Manors, and of either of them, aught to have every of them like allowance, upon every view by them to be made, and upon every partition by them to be made, or upon other summon to appear betwixt Tenant and Tenant, when they be appointed thereunto by precept from the Steward of the said Manors, or of either of them for the time being, or by his sufficient Deputy.   

How Tenants way be righted against Encroachments, Annoyances, etc.  
THe Homage of the Court of the said Manors, or of any of them, may appoint six or seven Tenants, upon any complaint to them made, by any person or persons, being Tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them in open Court: that he or they be wronged by any Encroachment, or any other Annoyance to their Copyhold Tenements, which Tenants shall (after the said Court) view the same Encroachment, Annoyance, and Impediment, or place whereof any such complaint shall be made. And thereupon, to present or notify the same by a day to the Steward, or to the Homage at the next general Court; that there may be set a pain or amerciament, or both, for the same, by the Homage at the said next Court, according to the quality of the offence.   

The Homage at every general Court, is to present deceased Tenants.  
ITem, the Homage of either of the said Manors, are to make presentment at every general Court to be holden for the said Manors, or of either of them, of all the Customary or Copyhold Tenants, that they shall know shall be deceased after the Court than last passed, or at any time before the said Court, whose deaths were not then found and presented, and that held any Copyhold, or Customary, or reputed Copyhold or Customary Lands or Tenements of the said Manors, or of either of them. And also (as near as they can) present what Lands every of them died seized of, and of what estate, and when he died, and who is the next Heir or Heirs to the same person or persons so dying seized, and of what age or ages the said Heir or Heirs shall then be of, as near as they can.   

Also they must present the deaths of Freeholders', etc.  
ITem, the Homage likewise ought to present the deaths of the Freeholders', and when they died, and who be their next heir or heirs, and the ages of their heirs, which held any Lands or Tenements of the said Manors, or of either of them, and the nature of their tenors, so near as they can: To the intent the Lord may have his relief, which is but the value of one years quitrent, of the Tenements holden of the said Manors, or of either of them by Socage tenure.   

What shall be done, if the next heir be not known.  
IF the Homage at any of the said Courts of either of the said Manors, shall not know who is next heir or heirs to any of the said customary Tenants so dying seized, when they shall make their presentments; that then they shall make their presentment so accordingly, and then upon the said presentment at the next general Court then after, the Steward of the said Manors of either of them, or his Deputy for the time being, within the said presentment shall so be made, shall cause a Proclamation to be made in open Court, to the intent every such heir or heirs may have knowledge to come, and take up the Lands and Tenements of his or their Ancestors, and so the Steward or his Deputy shall cause a Proclamation to be made, 
Three Proclamations shall be made in two years' space, for the heir to take knowledge, etc.  from general Court to general Court, until three open and public Proclamations be made in full Court, at three general Courts: which general Courts (by the said custom) are used to be holden commonly one half year after another, or thereabout: So that from the presentment made by the said homage, of the dying seized of the said last Tenant, unto the last Proclamation, shall be fully two years.  
And if there shall come no heir of the said Lands or Tenements, nor any for him or them, before the end of the Court next after the Court, whereat the last of the said three Proclamations shall be made, to male his or their claim, and prove himself, or themselves to the Homage of the Court, in such sort as they or the greater part of them shall allow of, to be the next heir or heirs of the whole blood to the said Tenant deceased, or to have title to the Lands and Tenements, nor to show and prove, as aforesaid, who is or aught to be next heir or heirs of the whole blood to the said Tenant deceased, 
If no heir or heirs appear, the Lord may then seize the Land.  or next heir or heirs expectant, upon any estate determined: Then the Lord of the Manor, whereof the same Land is holden for the time being; shall and may after the next Court, next after the said three Proclamations so to be made, seize the Lands and Tenements, which were the said persons so dying seized, whose next heir or heirs, or such as shall have title thereunto cannot be found, or shall not come and make his or their claim and proof as aforesaid. And the same L. then to take the issues and profits thereof to his own use, 
The Lord may keep it, until a an heir do come.  until such person or persons come, that shall prove him or them next heir or heirs to the said person or persons so dying seized. 
If no heir come with in three years after the 3. Proclamation, than the Land shall escheat to the Lord.  And if none shall come in within three years' next after the third and last Proclamation made as aforesaid, that shall and can convey and prove him or them to be next heir or heirs of the whole blood, or show or prove, who is or aught to be next heir or heirs, or to have title as next in Remainder or or Reversion as aforesaid; that the said Lands and Tenements be forfeited, or shall escheat unto the Lord of the said Manor or Manors for the time being.  
Except, 
1. Except women covert baron.  that if the said Land and Tenements shall or ought immediately to descend, remain, revert, come to any woman Covert, 
2. Infants within age▪  or Infant within the age of one and twenty years, or to any person or persons being in prison, 
3. Prisoners.  or any person or persons not of Sanae memoriae, 
4. Persons Non sanae memoriae.  or that shall not be within the Realm at the time of the death of the said last Tenant dying so seized, 
5. Persons out of the Realm.  or at the time of the first, second or third Proclamation to be made as aforesaid, that there, in every such case, the Lord (for the time being) shall have but the profits of the said Lands and Tenements, until such persons, or his, her or their heir or heirs shall come and make their claim: So that the said claim be made by the said woman, or her heirs, 
Five year's limitation to make the claim in.  within five years' next after the death of her said husband, or by her husband and herself during the time of her Coverture: And by such person being within age, or his heirs, before he shall or should accomplish his full age of one and twenty years: And by the person of Non sanae memoriae, within five years, next after he shall recover, and be of Sanae memoriae; and by the heir of such person of Non sanae memoriae, within five years' next after the death of his said Ancestor, or before: And by the said person that shall so be out of the Realm, or his heirs, within five years after he shall return; or if he shall not return, within five years after his death: And by the said person or persons in prison, within one whole year next after his or their enlargement from such imprisonment.   

No dower for women, nor courtesy of England for men.  
ITem, in the said Manors, or either of them, women ought not to have dowers of any customary Lands or Tenements within the Manors aforesaid, nor any of them: Nor men to have any estate as Tenants, by the courtesy of England.   

Estates of inheritance shall descend according to Gavelkind.  
ITem, if any shall be seized of any customary Lands or Tenements, holden of the said Manors, or of either of them, of an estate of Inheritance and shall have two sons, or three sons, or more: Or having no sons, shall have diverse daughters: Or having neither sons nor daughters, shall have diverse Collateral heirs in one nearness of blood; or that are to make their resort, from those that were of the same nearness of blood to the Tenant dying: They shall be all coheirs to their said Father, Mother, or other Ancestor, touching the said customary Lands and Tenements, according to the custom of Gavelkind.   

Touching descents where the Tenant left issue.  
ITem, if any man or woman die seized (as aforesaid) of any customary lands or Tenements of any state of Inheritance, holden of the said Manors, or of any of them, and shall have issue two or three sons, or more, whereof one or two or more of them shall be married, and have issue in the life of their Father or mother, and shall die before his or their Father or Mother: Or having no sons, shall have diverse daughters, whereof one or more shall be married and have issue, and die in the life of the Father or Mother: that then the said issue shall inherit, and be coheir with the said son or sons, daughter or daughters that shall survive his, her, or their said Father or Mother, that so shall die seized as is aforesaid; whether the said issue be male or female, according to the custom of Gavelkind.   

How Lands shall descend to those of the whole blood, where the Tenant left no issue.  
ITem, if any person or persons die seized as aforesaid, and shall leave behind him neither son nor daughter; then the next of his or their kin (being of the whole blood) shall be heir or heirs to the said person or persons so dying seized: That is to say, his, her, or their brother or brothers, brother or brother's children, or children's children, according to the custom of Gavelkind: & so forth, as long as any of that issue shall be alive, being of the whole blood. And in default of such issue, the sisters and sisters children, according to the custom of Gavelkind: and so forth so long as any issue shall be alive, and of the whole blood. And for lack of such issue; the Uncles and their issues, being of the whole blood, so long as any issue shall be living. And in default of such issue; the Aunts and their children, so long as any shall be living of the whole blood. And for lack of such issue, the next of kin of the whole blood, according to the custom of Gavelkind.   

Males and Females of one womb, cannot join to be coheirs.  
ITem, if any person so dying seized as aforesaid, without issue of his body, and having diverse Brothers of the whole blood, whereof the one or some of them shall have been married, and shall have issue, and after issue had, shall die, before the said Brother dying seized, as aforesaid; that then the issues of the said Brother or Brothers, so dying before him that died seized, as aforesaid, shall join and be coheir with his Brother or Brothers, that surviveth the Brother that so died seized, as aforesaid, whether the said issue be males or females. But males and females of one belly or womb, cannot join to be coheirs together: So that the course of descents is to be observed by the said custom, according to the custom and nature of Lands in gavelkind.   

Touching Descents.  
ITem, likewise shall the issue of the daughter, that shall die in the life of the Father or Mother, be coheir with the Aunt that liveth, being of the whole blood.   

Descents.  
ITem, likewise shall the Uncles, and the Uncle's Brother's children (being of the whole blood) be coheirs together as aforesaid.   

Descents. 
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ITem, likewise shall the Aunts, & the Aunt's Sister's children join and be coheirs as aforesaid, and so forth of all other further degrees, of all Collateral heirs, being of the whole blood, which may convey themselves to be any Cousins, and heirs of the whole blood to any person or persons, dying seized of any of the aforesaid customary Lands or Tenements, according to the custom of Gavelkind.   

How Copy-holders' of inheritance may surrender.  
ITem, by the custom of the said several Manors, every Copyholder of inheritance in fee-simple, may surrender his said Copyhold Lands and Tenements, or any part or parcel thereof unto the Lord, to the use of any person or persons, and to his and their heirs for ever, or to his or their heirs of his or their bodies, or any otherwise in tail, or for life or lives, or years, or to any person or persons, and his or their heirs: To the intent the said Copyhold Tenant may declare his last Will and Testament upon the same Lands and Tenements, 
See more in the first Article, and in the 20. and 21. Articles, etc.  or to any other use or uses, unless it be to any corporation or corporations, or bodies politic or corporate. And every Copyholder in tail, or for life, lives or years, of either of the said Manors, may in like manner (by the customs of the said Manors and of either of them) surrender their Copyhold Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or any part thereof, according to the nature of their estates: so the same Surrender be made according to the custom concerning Surrenders, as afore in these presents is specified, or hereafter ensueth. And all the same persons, to whose use every Surrender shall be made, are to have their Copies made to hold of the Lord by the Rod, according to the custom of the Manor, whereof they have been holden by the Rents and services therefore due and accustomed. Upon every of which Surrender, 
The Fines must be entered into the Copies: See Article 29.  the Fine and Fines for the same hereafter expressed, is by the said custom to be paid, and to be entered into the several Copies, or the Margins of them.   

Surrenders taken by the Headborough or Reeve, inpresence of six Tenants.  
ITem, by the custom of the said Manors, and of either of them; every Surrender taken out of the Court by the Headborough or Reeve, or his Deputy, and in the presence of six Customary Tenants of the Manor, of which the said Lands or Tenements surrendered shall be parcel, witnessing the same Surrender of any person or persons, of his or their customary Lands or Tenements, holden of the said Manors, or of either of them. And being of the full age of one and twenty years, or upwards (except women Covert-baron, and such as are not of perfect mind) to the use of any person or persons; are, and aught to be as good, as if it were taken in open Court by the said Steward of the Manors, or of either of them; so that such Surrender be by the Homage presented, as hereafter followeth.   

Surrender of women Covert-Baron, in extremity of sickness.  
ITem, the Surrender by a woman Covert-baron, being of the age of one and twenty years, made together with her husband, of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, whereof she is seized or estated; is, and shall be a good Surrender of her Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof she is seized and estated: and shall be a good Surrender of her Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, holden of the said Manors, or of either of the same: the same Surrender being made in her extremity of sickness, or likelihood of death, by the acceptance of the Reeve of the Manor, whereof the Lands and Tenements so surrendered, are parcel, and his Deputy, or either of them, in the presence of six customary Tenants, or by the acceptance of the Headborough, in the presence of six customary Tenants. 
Concerning the woman's recovery of her health.  But if any such woman Covert-baron, so surrendering, do after that recover her health, and do not at the next general Court then following ratify and confirm the same, before the Steward or his Deputy, in the presence of the Homage, than the same Surrender is and shall be void. 
All other Surrenders by women Covert-baron.  And all other Surrenders made by any woman Covert-baron, except before the Steward of the Manor, or his Deputy, where she shallbe solely examined, or in extremity of sickness, as is aforesaid, are and shall be void.   

All Surrenders taken by the Reeve or Headborough, must be presented at the first or second next general Court.  
ITem, all Surrenders taken of women, as aforesaid, or of men by the Reeve, or his Deputy, or by a Headborow for the time being, and in the presence of six Customary Tenants, as aforesaid; shall be, and aught to be, by the Homage presented, at the first or second next general Court, holden for the Manor whereof the same is holden, after the taking thereof; or within one year and a day next after the taking of the same Surrender, if any such general Court be holden within a year and a day next after the same Surrender so taken. Or else if no such general Court be holden within a year and a day; then to be by the Homage presented at the next general Court to be holden for the same Manor, next after the same year and day; is and shall be a good Surrender, as if the same had been taken by the Steward or his Deputy of that Manor; or woman examined, as foresaid, in open Court, or otherwise. All Surrenders taken by the Reeve or his Deputy, or by a Headborough, and in the presence of six Tenants, and not presented by the said Homage in manner and form aforesaid, 
Or else they shall be void.  are and shall be void. But when any Surrender shall be made by any person, 
When Surrenders, to the use of the last will, must be presented, or else void.  to the use of his or her last Will and Testament, to the intent that he or she may thereby, or thereupon, make and declare his or her last Will and Testament: that Surrender is to be presented at the first or second Court general of that Manor, happening next after the decease of the party so surrendering perfectly known, and not before. But if the same be not at the first or second Court (next after the death of the same party) presented; or if the same party hath before (in his life time) made any other Surrender of the same Lands or Tenements, and the same to be presented: Then the said Surrender, to the use of such last Will and Testament, is, and shall be void.   

The Homage must write Billa Vera upon their Presentments and good Surrenders.  
ITem, the Homage must write Billa Vera, upon every Surrender by them presented, when they find the same Surrenders agreeable to the custom. And also upon every other of their Presentments, shall make Billa Vera, when they be agreeable to the said custom. Or else, if the said Homage receive any Surrender, or other Bills to them exhibited, which be doubtful or repugnant to the custom of the Manor whereof the Land is holden, upon every such Surrender or Bill, Ignoramus shall be made, or the like Superscription, to the intent it may be known to be doubtful or naught: or else return the same naughty Surrenders or Bills back again, to the parties that exhibited the same.   

What Women Covert-baron may do.  
ITem, every Woman being Covert-baron, of the age of one and twenty years or upwards, having any customary Lands or Tenements to her or her Heirs, for life, lives, or years, and holden of the said Manors, or of either of them; may together with her Husband (by the hands of the said Steward, or his sufficient Deputy) surrender all her said Lands and Tenements, Interest, and term of years, to the use of her said Husband, or to any other person or persons at their will and pleasure; 
Solely examined before the Steward or his Deputy.  so as she be solely and secretly examined before the Steward, or his sufficient Deputy.   

Surrenders taken out of Court by the Steward or his Deputy.  
ITem, all Surrenders taken out of the Court by the Steward of the said Manors, or of any of them, or his sufficient Deputy, of any person or persons, being of the full age of one and twenty years or more, and of Sanae memoriae, of any of their customary Lands and Tenements holden of the said Manors, or of either of them, be good by the customs of the said Manors, and of either of them; 
Must be presented, at the next general Court.  and the same aught to be published and notified to the Homage at the next general Court, or else those Surrenders are also void.   

The Fines are certain, and not arbitrary.  
ITem, all the Fines upon admittances for any the now Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of all and every the persons, named parties to the said Indenture, holden by Copy of Court Roll, are and aught to be certain, and not arbitrary, or at the will of the Lord. And the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or of either of them, aught to have and take Fines upon admittances, as hereafter followeth, and not other, or greater: That is to say, upon the admission of the Heir or Heirs after a descent, for every Acre of land (of what nature and kind soever) sixteen pence, and so after that rate, for greater or lesser quantities of land. 
What Fines are due.  And upon admission of one person only, after any Surrender, the like sum of sixteen pence for every Acre; and so after that rate, for every greater or lesser quantity of land. But if more than one person be admitted after or upon any Surrender: 
If more than one Person be admitted, then etc.  then every of the same persons are to pay half so much as one person ought to pay, and not more. Likewise upon admission of the Heirs of Heir, after a descent for every message Customary, with the Courts, Yards, Easements, Orchards, and Gardens thereunto belonging, for a Fine, the sum of thirteen shillings four pence, and not more. And for a dwelling house, called a Tenement, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, Easements, and Gardens thereunto belonging, the sum of ten shillings, and not more. And for a Cottage, used for a dwelling, with Easements and Gardens thereunto belonging, or without Garden, and not demised for more than three pounds by the year, the sum of twenty pence. 
What Fine for a building, not used for a dwelling house.  But for a building, not used for a dwelling house, so much only as according to the quantity of the land, after the rate of sixteen pence the Acre. And for greater Cottages used for dwelling, & which shallbe let for above three pounds by the year, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, and Easements thereunto belonging, the sum of ten shillings. And the like is of Messages, Tenements, and Cottages hereafter to be built. And upon or after any Surrender, at the admission, the like Fines are to be paid for one person. 
Admission of man and wife, a whole Fine.  But if any Surrender be made by any person or persons, to a man and his wife, than a whole Fine is to be paid for the Husband, and half a Fine is to be paid for the wife. And if more persons be admitted upon one Surrender; then every of the same persons are to pay for Fine, half so much as one person ought to pay, and not more.  
All Acres are to be accounted, according to the Statute or Ordinance, De terris mensurandis, and Orchards and Gardens not belonging to such Messages, Tenements, or Cottages are to pay as Lands according to the quantity thereof, according to the rate aforesaid. And parts of Messages, parts of Tenements, and parts of Cottages, are to pay for Fines respectively (in regard of the whole) according to the rate of the whole. 
The Fines must be entered in the margin of the Copies: See Article 19  And all Fines paid, are to be set down and expressed in the Copy of the Court Roll thereof, or in the margin of the same Copy. And if any question or doubt shall hereafter arise, about the discerning and true estimation what, or which be, or aught to be accounted a Message; and what, or which, a dwelling house, called a Tenement; and what, or which, a Cottage: the same is to be referred to the Homage of the Manor at the next general Court, and by the same to be tried, ordered, determined, and presented, and according to such presentments, Fines are to be paid.   

If the Lord refuse to admit, then, etc.  
ITem, if the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or either of them, or his or their Steward (for the time being) shall refuse to admit any person or persons, to whom or to whose use such Surrender (as in the precedent Article is expressed) shall be made, or shall refuse to admit such person or persons, to whom any of the said Copyhold, or Customary, or reputed Copyhold, or Customary Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall descend, according to the custom of the said Manors, and true meaning of these Schedules: then the person so not admitted, paying or tendering to the Lord or his Reeve, Fine or Fines for the same (according to the true meaning of these Schedules) shall and may into such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, so surrendered or descended, respectively enter; and the same quietly have, hold, and enjoy as freely, and in such sort, as if he or they had been thereunto lawfully admitted, and not otherwise.   

Surrender to make the Wife a jointure.  
ITem, if any man make a Surrender, only to the intent to make his wife a Jointure, or to assure it to his wife for term of her life, or during her widowhood, not alterning the estate of the inheritance; then for the fine of the same, or any admittance thereupon; there shall be paid but half a fine for the same things so surrendered: That is to say, half so much as one person should pay upon admittance, according to the true meaning of these Schedules. And the like is to be used, where the Husband, and Wife make a Surrender of the Lands of the Wife; to the end only, to make an estate thereof to the Husband jointly with his Wife, or to the Husband for term of his life in possession or remainder. And likewise (by the said custom) for every Tenant that shall not be admitted in Reversion or Remainder expectant, 
Concerning Tenants not admitted, etc.  upon the estate of any particular Tenant for life, in tail or for years, granted by the Copy; the same is but half so much as it is upon other admittances, upon alienations, surrenders, or dying seized as aforesaid.   

Duties to the Homage and Tenants for Bills and Surrenders.  
ITem, every person that exhibiteth or delivereth any Surrender, or Bill to the Homage, aught to give and pay to the same Homage, for every such surrender or Bill, four pence, and every of the said six Tenants, and also the Headborought or Reeve (which shall be at the taking of any Surrenders as aforesaid) ought to have four pence apiece of the parties that make the Surrender, if the same Surrender be taken within the said Manors, 
Taking Surrenders out of the Manors.  or in either of them. But if they go out of the said Manors, or either of them, for the taking of the same, then to have eight pence apiece, and their charges, if they shall go further off. And the party that procureth the said Surrender, aught to give to the said Tenants four pence, beside the said sees; which four pence is to be delivered with the said Surrender; or else he that bringeth in the said Surrender, without the said four pence shall pay it of his own 〈◊〉 to the Homage.   

Though an heir be admitted, yet upon a new claim, the Homage shall inquire, etc. for a Coheir.  
ITem, if it chance at any time, upon the death of any Copyholder, or customary Tenant, that there is an heir or heirs found, and presented by the Homage, and after, is or are admitted to the Lands or Tenements of the said Copyholder, and at that time no other heirs shall be known. And after it shall chance that one or other cometh, and claimeth to be Coheir with the said Heir that is admitted; then the Homage ought thereof to inquire; and if they find his claim true, they ought to present the same. And then he or they so claiming, shall be likewise admitted, and pay his fine, and have his part of the premises, notwithstanding the former admission.   

Where Tenants are admitted, and after that another claimeth the whole: the Homage is not bound to inquire, but he is driven to his suit.  
ITem, if any man be admitted to any possession, or to any Reversion or Remainder of any Lands or Tenements, whether they be to him descended as shall be supposed, or to him surrendered by any other person, and after that cometh another person or persons, who pretendeth a title to the whole premises, or any part thereof, and desireth that the Homage may inquire thereof: In this case the said Homage is not bound thereof to inquire: but he or they are driven to his or their suit or plaint, whether his or their title be right or wrong: Except in such case, where any person or persons shall claim as in the next precedent Article. And yet if any shall require the homage, to find whether he or they were the son or daughter, or sons or daughters of such a one or no, and the homage knowing, or well informed of the truth, that he or they shall be the son, or sons or daughters of him or her, that died seized of the Lands then in question The Homage ought therein to present the truth: 
How far the Homage are to present, and what not.  But not to present, whether he or they ought to have the premises, or any part thereof, to the which another person is already presented. But in such case, he or they shall be driven to his or their suit or plaint, as aforesaid; for recovery of their said right, if any right they have. Except in such case, where any person or persons shall claim, as in the next precedent Article.   

How Lands descended are to be taken up.  
ITem, after the death of every person, being a Ccustomary Tenant of the said Manors, or of either of them; the next heir or heirs ought to come and take up the Lands and Tenements, whereof his or their Ancestors so shall die seized, of what age soever he be. And if he or they be of the age of fourteen years or upwards; 
At fourteen years he is to be presented and admitted in his own person.  he is to be admitted in his own person, within a convenient time after he or they shall be presented. Or else if he or they be under the age of fourteen years; then to come and take it up by his Guardian, 
Under 14. years by a Guardian.  until he be of the age of fourteen years, as aforesaid, and to pay for his fine, according to the rates expressed in these Schedules; and the Guardian to pay but three shillings and four pence at the most for his fine for the Gardianship, 
Guardian three shillings four pence.  or less, as the Steward or his Deputy shall think fit. And for Lands descended from the part of the Father; the next Cousien of the part on the Mother, not able to inherit those Lands, aught to be Guardian. And if the Lands came from the part of the Mother; 
Who shall be Guardian.  then the like Cousien of the part of the Father ought to be Guardian, if that person will accept thereof. 
See Article 37.  And upon their refusal, or not praying to be admitted Guardian, at the first or second Court after that Infant ought to be admitted; then may the Steward admit any other of the kindred of the Infant (to whom his Lands cannot descend) to be Guardian. 
The kindred refusing to be Guardian.  And if none of the kindred will accept of the Gardianship; then may another be admitted. And every Guardian shall accounted to the heir of the profits, and repair the Copyhold Tenements of him whose Guardian he is: And upon admittance shall be bound to the Lord for the time being, 
And shall be bound to the L. for performance.  with condition for performance thereof, in such sum as the Homage of the said Court, or the greater part thereof shall like of. And of the Lands of every Infant under fourteen years of age, that shall be a purchaser; a Guardian shall be admitted, and shall so demean himself in such manner, as for the Guardian of an Infant (having Lands by descent) is limited and appointed.   

They to whose use Lands are surrendered, aught within three years after the presentment take them up.  
ITem, every person, to whose use any of the said Lands ot Tenements shall be surrendered, aught to come within three years after the same be presented, and take up the same by himself, if he be of age, and to be admitted as aforesaid, and to pay his fine, or else by his Guardian, as is aforesaid.   

The Lord may distrain for the Fines; or by default of distress, seize the Lands.  
ITem, if any of the said Heirs, Alienees or Guardians, do not pay their fines within one month after the same fines be extracted, and the extracts delivered to the Reeve or his Deputy for the gathering thereof, and by them or either of them demanded; then it shall be lawful for the Lord or Lords of the said Manor or Manors for the time being, or his or their Officers to distrain, and avow as for rents: And for want of distress, to seize the Lands and Tenements, for the which the said Fine or Fines are to be paid, and to enjoy the same to his or their own use, until he or they shall be fully satisfied, and paid the said Fine or Fines, to be paid by him or them that so ought to pay the same.   

The like he may do for non payment of the Quitrent.  
ITem, if any Customary or Copyhold Tenant of the said Manors, or of either of them, shall not pay his Rents for his Copyhold, for which the same is due, and demanded by the said Reeve or his Deputy, than it shall be lawful for the Lord or Lords of the said Manor or Manors for the time being, or his or their Officers to distrain and avow. And for want of sufficient distress, to seize the Lands and Tenements out of the which the same aught to be paid, and to take and enjoy the Rents, Issues, and profits of the same to his or their own use, until he or they shall be fully satisfied and paid the same Rents by him or them that so ought to pay the same.   

Who shall be the Guardian.  
ITem, that when any Tenant dieth seized leaving his Heir under the age of fourteen years, the next of the kin (to whom the said Lands and Tenements cannot descend) shall have, if he shall require it, the custody of the Heir, and of his Lands and Tenements, committed unto him for the use of the Heir, until he come to the age of fourteen years, 
See Article 33.  as is aforesaid, and then he to choose his own Guardian, And the former Guardian at any time after (upon reasonable request) to yield account to the Heir, of the profits of his Lands received.   

Tenant's may let Leases for 31. years and four months, without any Licence or Fine.  
ITem, if any person or persons be disposed to let his or their customary Lands or Tenements to any other person or persons, and to their Executors and Assigns, for the term of one and thirty years, or less; the same person or persons have and shall have full power and authority, to set or let to farm his or their Copyhold Lands, or Tenements to any person or persons, their Heirs, Executors, and Assigns, for the term of one and thirty years and four months, 
See the Abstract of the Indenture.  or less, in possession from the time of the making thereof in writing, without any Licence to him or them to be granted, and without paying Fine to the Lord, or incurring any forfeiture or seizure of or for the same: So as the same Lease do not exceed one and thirty years and four months, from the time of the making thereof. 
If such Leases be not presented to the Homage within one year after the making, they shall be void.  But such Lease is and aught to be presented to the Homage of the Manor, whereof the Lands or Tenements so leased are held, within one year after the making thereof: or else the same Lease so made, and not presented as aforesaid, shall be void and of none effect.   

Either Manor is upon every change of Lord, to pay five pounds for Recognition money.  
ITem, the custom of the Manor is, to give to the Lord of every of the said Manors, upon the change of every Lord, at the next Court after the first entry, bona fide, ten pounds of lawful money of England; that is to say, out of each Manor five pounds, for the recognition and acknowledging the services, which is to be levied and collected by the Reeve for the time being; amongst all the said Copy-holders' of the said Manors, respectively, according to the rates they shall be taxed at, by the Homage at the next Court to be holden, after the coming of the new Lord.   

How the Reeve of either Manor is to be chosen.  
ITem, the homage of every of the said Manors ought yearly (at the general Court to be holden next after Michaelmas) to elect & choose several Reeves for every of the said Manors; that is to say, to elect and choose two Customary Tenants, either of the said persons named parties to the said presents, their Heirs or Assigns, or of others not named, to bear the Office of the Reeve for each of the said Manors: namely, he that was before in election (if he be alive) and one other: or if he be dead, two other, to the intent the Lord of the said Manors, or of either of them, or his Steward, may appoint the one of them so elected for one whole year; 
He shall serve one whole year.  that is, one to serve for each of the said Manors; so he be appointed within that Manor of which he is a Tenant, and for which he shallbe so chosen. Which Reeve being so appointed, aught to take upon him the said Office for one whole year than next ensuing, to execute the same by himself or his Deputy, for whom he shall answer, and to be subject to accounted and answer for the same, as in the said presents is set down.  
And if a Copyholder shall be duly chosen, and appointed by the Homage, to be the Lords Reeve, as aforesaid, and (according to his turn) presented by the Homage, and shall refuse to serve the said Office by himself or his Deputy: 
For refusing the Office, and what Fine to be paid in Hackney.  then every such person so refusing, within the said Manor of Hackney, shall pay for a Fine, six pounds thirteen shillings and fourepences. And every such person so refusing, 
The Fine for Stepney.  within the said Manor of Stebunheath or Stepney, shall pay for a Fine, ten pounds to the Lord of the Manor, 
The Homage shall choose another, until one do accept and serve.  whereof his Lands are holden. And the Homage of the same Manor shall be charged from time to time to choose another Reeve in the place of him that shall so refuse, until such time as (for the same Manor) one be chosen that shall and will serve the said Office. And every Copyholder that shall be chosen and appointed to the said Office as aforesaid, and shall refuse to serve the same Office, shall pay the Fine aforesaid to the Lord of that Manor for his refusal. 
The half of Fines paid by refusers, shall be allowed him who next shall serve.  The one half of all which Fines or Fine, of Tenant or Tenants so refusing to accept and execute the said Office of Reeveship, according to the true meaning of these Schedules, the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or either of them, of whom such Tenant or Tenants so refusing shall hold, ought, and shall from time to time allow unto such person or persons, as being chosen and appointed to be Reeve as aforesaid; And shall and will, next after the refusal of any one or more of the said Tenants so chosen, accept and serve the said Office; the moiety of the said Fine or Fines, respectively to be by him defaulked and retained in his account. 
And be by him retained at his accounting.  And by the Lord of that Manor, upon the same Reeves account (whensoever he shall accounted for the same) to be duly and justly allowed.   

In what cases the Lord may seize the Reeves Lands.  
ITem, if any Copyholder, that shall accept, and execute the said Office of Reeve, shall refuse to satisfy and pay unto the Lord, the yearly quitrents and fines for admittances upon Alienations or Descents, wherewith such Reeve shall or may be lawfully charged, by and according to the true meaning of these presents; or shall refuse to accounted with the Lord, within two months next yearly after Michaelmas, having had the rental and Estracts of Fines upon admittances, as aforesaid, for that year, by the space of two months: Every such Reeves Lands & Tenements, that shall so refuse to accounted, and pay the said Rents and Fines which he shall or may have collected, as aforesaid, shall be seized into the Lords hands, and the Lord shall and may take to his own use the issues and profits of his said Lands and Tenements, until he shall pay unto the Lord the Rents and Fines aforesaid: And until he hath also satisfied and paid for his said offence (viz.) being Reeve of Hackney, 
What he is to pay for his offence in both the Manors.  six pounds thirteen shillings four pence: And being Reeve of Stepney, ten pounds. Nevertheless, the Reeve ought not, nor shall be charged or chargeable to answer any Quitrents, contained in any rental or Estracts, 
He is not to answer any Quitrent, unless he know the Tenant, or where the Land lieth.  unless it appear unto him by the rental of the former Reeve, or otherwise be made known unto him by some of the Lords Officers, who is the Tenant, or where the Land lieth; for and in respect of which, the same Quitrents ought to be paid.   

No Reeves within this composition, shall be charged with the Leet, or Court Baron, otherwise then in Article 45. Nor provide for any dinners, except, etc.  
ITem, no Copyholder of the said Manors, or of either of them, being named parties to the said Indenture, nor their Heirs or Assigns, aught or shall (at any time) be charged to collect or gather any of the Amerciaments, Fines, or other Issues or Profits of the Courts-Leets, or Courts-Baron, holden within the said Manors, or of either of them, otherwise then in the last precedent Article is mentioned: nor to provide or allow for any Dinners, either on the day or days the Court-Leet shall be holden upon, or on the day or days of the two general Courts: but are and shall be thereof for ever freed and discharged; except that such Tenant, or his Heirs, shall hereafter purchase or have other customary Lands than those that the said persons, named parties to the said Indenture, or some one of them the said persons do now hold, which shall be worth to be sold (at the least) two hundred pounds of lawful money of England, or shall be of the clear yearly value of twenty pounds of like money.   

What Tenants may be chosen Reeves.  
ITem, every one of the said Customary Tenants, named parties to the said Indenture, whose Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, holden by Copy of Court-Roll of either of the said Manors, are worth sixteen pounds of like money, as aforesaid, by the year to be let, or two hundred pounds to be sold, by the estimation and presentment of the Homage of the same Manor, shall bear the Office of Reeve, of and for such of the said Manors whereof he shall be a Tenant by Copy of Court-Roll, and for which he shall be chosen and appointed Reeve, as aforesaid, when his or their time and course doth come.   

What allowances the Reeve is to have of the Lord.  
ITem, every of the said Reeves, is to be allowed of the said Lords or Lord, for the executing of the said Office for one year, as followeth, viz. The Reeve of Stebunheath, three pounds six shillings and eight pence: and six shillings eight pence more, for and in respect of an allowance of a Coat-cloth to the said Reeve: And the Reeve of Hackney, fifty three shillings and four pence: and six shillings eight pence more, for and in respect of an allowance of a Coat-cloth to the same Reeve: And all other commodities due and incident to the said Office, for either of them, or used heretofore to be paid to the said Reeve, by any of the Tenants of the said Manors respectively.   

The Reeve to deliver the rental to his Successor.  
ITem, the Reeves of the said Manors, and of either of them, shall at the next general Court, after his year of service expired, deliver the rental by which he made his account, to the Reeve that shall next succeed him, 
To be amerced.  upon pain to be amerced, or fined by the Homage, if he shall not so do.   

What the Copy-holders' may freely do without forfeiture.  
ITem, all the Customary Tenants of the said Manors, & of either of them, may break and dig their Copyhold grounds, holden of the said Manors, and of either of them, at his or their will & pleasure; and fell, and cut down their timber and woods growing, or that shall grow upon the same, and convert it to their best use and profit: and may also suffer their Copyhold Tenements and houses to decay, without incurring any seizure or forfeiture of their estates therefore, or other pain: and may take and pull down their said Tenements, and erect or set them up again, either where they stood before, or upon any other Lands, holden by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Manors, or of either of them. 
No houses may be pulled down, to set them upon freehold land.  But they may not, or shall not take or pull them down, to set them (or any part of them) upon their own Free-holds, or upon the Free-holds of any other.   

Copy-holders' may lordship Trees growing upon the waste before their houses.  
ITem, every of the said Copy-holders', or reputed Copy-holders', named parties to the said Indenture, may lordship and shred all such Trees as grow before their houses or Tenements, upon the waste ground, and convert the same to their own use, without any offence, so the said Trees stand for the defence of their Houses, Yards, or Gardens: 
They may dig Gravel, etc. upon the waste.  And also they may dig Gravel, Sand, Day, and Loam upon the said waste grounds, to build or repair any of their Copyhold Tenements within the said Manors, or in either of them without any licence; so always, as every of the said Copy-holders' do fill up so much as shall be digged by him or them.   

Letting of Lands for more than 31. years and four months, is a forfeiture.  
ITem, if any person or persons, being Tenant Customary, shall (without Licence by Indenture, or other writing, or otherwise) let his said Customary Lands or Tenements for more than one and thirty years and four months, it shall be a forfeiture of his estate, by the custom of the said Manors, and of either of them, being found and presented by the Homage, or else otherwise lawfully and sufficiently proved.   

For what offences these Copy-holders' may forfeit their estates.  
ITem, for Treason or Felony whatsoever, that shall be committed by any Copyholder of the said Manors, or of any of them, for which he shall be lawfully attainted, he shall forfeit his Copyhold Lands and Tenements to the Lord of the said Manor. And for all other offence or offences, act or acts whatsoever, for which a Freeholder ought (by the common Laws of the Land) to forfeit his freehold Lands and Tenements: There a Copyholder of the said Manors, or of either of them, shall forfeit as a Freeholder ought to forfeit in like case his freehold. 
Outlawry except for Treason or Felony, shall be no forfeiture.  But if a Copyholder be outlawed for any cause, saving Felony or Treason, the Lord shall not have the issues or profits of his Lands. And if a Copyholder make a Feoffement of his Copyhold, Gift in tail, or Lease for life or lives, by deed, or without deed, by livery and seizin thereupon: or shall suffer a recovery at the Common Law, levy a Fine, or wilfully refuse or deny to pay, do or perform his Rents, Fines, Suits, Customs and Services, at any time due to the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or of either of them for the said Copy-holds: 
How a man may make a further forfeiture of his estate several ways.  The same wilful refusal being presented to the Homage, by the oaths of three Customary Tenants, with the Reeve or his Deputy (the said Tenants or Reeve, nor his Deputy, being none of the Lords servants) and being found and presented by the Homage, the same shall be holden and reputed a forfeiture of his estate, whatsoever he shall have by Copy of Court-Roll, at the time of any such act committed or done; in so much of his or their Copyhold Lands and Tenements, as he shall have committed any such act: and only for so much of his Lands and Tenements, 
Denying to pay Rents, Fines, etc.  out of the which the said Quitrent, and other duties is demanded, and shall be due, and wilfully denied by the said Tenant or Tenants, as aforesaid. Or if any Copyholder shall in the Lord's Court, 
Disclaiming to hold of the Lord, and claiming their Copy-holds to be free-holds.  or elsewhere in any court of Record, disclaim to hold his said Copyhold Lands and Tenements of the Lord of the Manor, whereof his Lands and Tenements are holden; or shall (by pleading in the Lord's Court, or other Court of Record) wilfully claim their Copy-holds to be Free-holds; 
Pleading wittingly in a real action at Common Law, in chief as a freehold.  or willingly and wittingly pled in any Real action at the Common law in chief as a freehold Tenant; or shall willingly and wittingly do any other act, or things, in or concerning his now Lands and Tenements, which shall be a disseisin or dis-inheritance of the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or of either of them, their heirs or assigns (other than such acts, as in these Articles are especially mentioned, (or dispensed withal) that then he shall forfeit his and their estate, of and in the same Lands and Tenements so disclaimed, to be holden or claimed to be freehold; or for which he shall pled in chief, or do any such other act or thing as is aforesaid. 
What other forfeitures the Lord shall have.  Finally, the Lord of the said Manors, or of either of them, shall have all such other Forfeitures, Issues, Profits, and Advantages of the said Copy-holds, as shall grow due to him by any Statute Laws of this Realm, being not against and contrary to these Articles and Customs here expressly set down.   

The Act or Neglect of Tenant for lives or years, shall not prejudice those in remainder.  
ITem, if any person or persons, having any estate of any Copyhold Lands or Tenements, holden of the said Manors, or of either of them, for term of life or lives, or for term of years, or (in the right of their wives) of any estate, although he, she, or they, shall do or suffer, or neglect to do any act or acts during the time aforesaid, in or upon the said Copyhold Lands and Tenements, which may or shall be contrary to the custom of the said manors, or of either of them. The same act or acts so being done, shall not prejudice or be hurtful unto the next person or persons to whom the said Customary Lands or Tenements should or ought to remain, revert, or come, 
Concerning the Wife and her heirs.  nor to the said Wife or her Heirs, not being party in Court, or consenting in Court to the said act or forfeiture. Nor that the Lord of the said Manors, or of either of them, shall take any longer Advantage, Issues, or Profits of the same Copyhold Lands or Tenements, then during the time of such estates as aforesaid, of the party committing, doing, or assenting to such act or acts. So that after his or their decease, or estates determined, the said Lands and Tenements shall remain, revert, or come to the next person or persons, or to such person or persons to whom the same should have come or remained, or go or revert immediately after such estate or estates ended or determined; as though there had been no such act or acts done, contrary to the tenor or true meaning of these presents, by any such person or persons.   

Private Acts of Tenants, hurt not the customs of the rest.  
ITem, the particular or private act or acts of any customary Tenant or Tenants of any of the said Manors, which shall happen to be done by, or between them, or any of them, and the Lord or Lords of the said Manors, or either of them, and his or their Reeve, or of either of them, contrary to the Articles and true meaning of these presents, neither doth nor shall extend to be construed to be a breach of the ancient customs of the said Manors, or of either of them, to the hurt or prejudice of the rest of the Customary Tenants, but of themselves only, doing the said particular act.   

Tenant for life or years, making waste, shall be fined by the Homage.  
ITem, that if any Tenant for term of life, or lives only, or for term of years of Customary Lands, shall make any waste, than he shall be fined by the Homage; the third part of which Fine shall be to the Lord, and the other two parts shall come to him in the reversion or remainder of the said Copyhold.   

The Lord may distrain, but not seize.  
ITem, the Lord, for non payment of Amerciaments, may distrain his said Tenants, parties to these presents, and avow for the same as for Rents: But he cannot seize any of his or their Customary Lands or Tenements, parties to these Presents, for non payment thereof, until he be paid.   

How partition is to be made between Coheirs, joint-tenants, or Tenants in common.  
ITem, upon the admission of any Coheires, joint-tenants, or Tenants in common, if they cannot agree to occupy their Lands and Tenements, or to make partition among themselves: then he or they that be grieved, may (by the custom of either of the said Manors) have a Precept from the Steward, directed to seven Customary Tenants, or more, of the said Manors within which the said Lands and Tenements do lie, and they shall make partition thereof, and the same return to the Steward of the said Manors again, to be enroled in the Court Rolls of the said Manor, whereof the said Lands and Tenements be holden. Whereupon the said Heirs shall go to the said Steward of the said Manor, within which the said Lands or Tenements shall lie: and then elect and choose their parts in form following:  
That is to say, 
The m●nner of electing and choosing their parts, either in sons or daughters.  The youngest Son to choose first, and then he that is next to the youngest to choose next, and so after that rate unto the eldest (how many soever) which eldest shall choose last. And likewise the same order is to be observed amongst daughters, if there be no sons, and amongst all other degrees of Heirs, touching the Customary Lands and Tenements holden of the said Manors, or either of them. And upon every such partition, 
Fine upon every such partition.  they shall pay for a Fine to the Lord, two shillings and six pence, or less, at the discretion of the Steward, according to the quantity of the Lands or Tenements so parted between Tenants in common and joint-tenants; for the like Fine the said division to be by the said Tenants, without election of the parties themselves, but by casting of Lots, if they cannot otherwise agree.   

Copy-holders' shall pay but a penny for poundage.  
ITem, if any Customary or Free Tenants cattle, or the cattle of their Farmers, be brought to the Lords Pound, the said Tenant, or his Farmer shall pay for all his cattle (if they be a hundred heads, or upward or under) for the poundage thereof, but one penny. And he that is no Tenant, shall pay for every distress of cattle so pounded, four pence.   

cattle impounded to be delivered by two Copy-holders'.  
ITem, if any cattle be impounded within the Lords Pound, by any person or persons, being a Customary Tenant or Tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them, for any trespass committed or done within the said Manors, or in either of them, upon their Copy-holds: that all such cattle being so impounded, may by two of the said Customary Tenants, of such of the said Manors, or of either of them, wherein the said trespass shall be committed, which will answer for such damages and costs as shall be recovered in the said Court, against the owners of the same cattle for the said trespass, be delivered out of the said Pound, unto the owner of the said cattle, by the custom of the same Manors, and of either of them.   

No Suits for title of Copy-holds out of the Lords Court, without licence.  
ITem, no Customary Tenant shall sue, vex, or trouble any other Customary Tenant, for any title of Lands or Tenements, lying and being within the said Manors, or in either of them, being Copyhold Lands or Tenements of the said Manors, or of either of them, out of the Lords Court, without the special Licence first had and obtained of the L. of the said Manors, or of either of them, or of his Steward for the time being; if any person do the contrary, he shall have his Lands or Tenements seized into the Lords hands, until he pay a Fine to the L. for the same offence, viz. such Fine as shall be ceased by the Homage at the next general Court of the said Manor.   

cattle offending, shall be driven to the Lords Pound.  
ITem, that no Customary Tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them, for any offence to be done by any man's cattle, within the said Manors, or in either of them, shall drive the same cattle to any foreign Pounds, but to the Lords Pounds, being within the said Manors, or in either of them: if any man do the contrary, to be amerced at the next general Court by the Homage. So always as there be a sufficient Pound of the Lords there.   

How Stakes, Marks, and Meres, between Tenant and Tenant ought to be set.  
ITem, that no Tenant, or any other person shall set any Stake, Mark, or Meare, between Tenant and Tenant, or between Tenant and any other person that lieth next to him, without the parties do thereunto agree, unless an order be appointed by the Homage, or the greatest part of them, that it may be first viewed by twelve Tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them, where the Stake or Meare is to be set, and there to set the Stake or Meare (indifferently) between both the said parties, & so to continue it, upon pain of amercement by the Homage.   

Drivers of Commons, when to be chosen.  
ITem, the Homage do, and shall yearly use at the next general Court, holden upon the Tuesday, the ninth day next after Easter day, to elect and choose out of the Hamlets within every of the said Manors, certain customary Tenants, to be Drivers and Viewers of the Wastes and Commons of the said Manors, and of either of them, for one whole year. Which Tenants so elected, have authority (by the said custom) to drive the Commons at any time when they find it surcharged, and to impound the cattle by them so taken: and no other to drive the said Common, than the persons that were so chosen as aforesaid.   

How surcharging the Commons is to be remedied.  
ITem, If by their driving, the surcharging cannot be remedied, than they ought to inform the Homage thereof at the next Court, that they may amerce the offenders, whether the offenders be Tenants or no Tenants. And also to put a 〈◊〉 amerciament upon their heads, that they shall not likewise offend.   

The Drivers shall accounted to the Homage.  
ITem, if the said Drivers receive by the said poundages, any more money than they spend in travail, the rest shallbe employed to the scouring of the common Sewers, which be upon the said waste ground and Commons, and laying of Bridges over the said common Sewers; and shall make their account (in that behalf) to the Homage at the general Court, when the year (for which they were chosen) shall expire.   

The Homage may make by-Lawes, which shall bind the Tenants.  
ITem, the Copyhold and customary Tenants, may make by-lawes at their general Courts, when need shall require, which custom shall be so continued. And the said by-lawes so by them made, shall bind all the Copyhold Tenants of the said Manors, or of either of them: so the same be not contrary to the true meaning of these Articles.   

Recoveries may be suffered to bar Entails.  
ITem, by the custom of the said Manors, and of either of them, Tenants in tail of customary Lands and Tenements, may suffer common recoveries within the said several Manors, with single or double vouchers; or (by agreement) forfeit the said Lands and Tenements into the Lords hands, for the cutting off the estate tail: which custom (by these Articles) shall have still continuance, and such recoveries and forfeitures, are and shall be good to bar the said Entail.   

Tenants not appearing a● set Courts, shall not be amerced above 4. pence.  
ITem, whensoever there shall be any Court, or Courts Baron (or other than the said two general Courts) kept within the said Manors, or either of them; no Copyholder ought or shall be amerced above the sum of four pence, for any default of his appearance at any the same Court or Courts, except the said two general Courts: Neither shall incur any forfeiture, or seizure of his Copyhold Lands or Tenements, or any other damage for any such default. And the said amerciament to be taxed by the Assurers Tenants of that Court.   

The Stewards Fees.  
ITem, the Steward or his Deputy is to have such Fees and allowances, as hereafter is expressed, viz. for every Surrender taken out of the Court five shillings, and nothing for any Surrender taken in Court. For every woman covert-Baron, that shall be examined, six shillings eight pence; for every admittance of every person, two shillings; for entering every Surrender, and making the Copy of Court Roll thereupon, six shillings eight pence; for every Precept for a view of partition, and entering the same, and the return thereof upon the Court Roll, and the Copy thereof, two shillings six pence; and if it exceed two sheets of paper, then for every sheet over and above two sheets, twelve pence more. For searching the Court Rolls for every year, four pence. For every purchased Court, thirteen shillings four pence. For entering a note of a Leaf, granted of any Lands or Tenements, containing the date, quantity of Lands or Tenements, and certainty of term, and to whom the same shallbe granted, & for a note thereof to the party, six pence. For these things before expressed, the Steward shall have only such Fees as before is declared; and for all other things, he shall have as formerly hath anciently been used, and no more.   

Buildings to be erected, shall pay Fines, as those already built.  
ITem, all Messages, Tenements, and Cottages, that shall hereafter be built upon any the copyhold Lands, whereof the customs are hereby meant to be declared; shall be held and enjoyed by the Copyhold Tenants thereof, under the same Customs and Articles herein declared, as the Lands whereon they shall be built are holden and enjoyed; but shall pay such Fines therefore, as is before expressed or declared for Messages, Tenements, and Cottages, that shall be new built.   

The Lord shall not sever from the Manor any of these Copy-holders', to any persons in Fee-simple, or other estate of freehold.  
ITem, the Lord of the said Manors, or of either of them, their Heirs or Assigns, shall not at any time hereafter grant, or convey (severed from the Manor whereof the same is now holden, or aught to be holden, any of the Messages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, whereof any of the said persons, named parties to the said Indenture hereunto annexed, is now copyholder or customary Tenant, to any person or persons in Fee-simple, Fee-tail, or for term of life, or other estate of freehold, or for any estate or term, otherby Copy of Court Roll, according to the customs of the said Manors, and true meaning of these presents, and the Indenture whereunto the same are annexed; except the freehold to be granted or severed, at the petition and desire of such person or persons as then shall be Copyholder thereof, according to the true meaning of these presents.  
And if the Lord hath granted away the freehold of any the Copyhold Lands or Tenements, 
What the Lord is disabled of doing.  whereof the Custom is hereby meant to be declared: he shall get and take the same back again; and the same shall (notwithstanding such grant or alienation) be annexed to the Manor whereof it was, or is held, and shall be held and enjoyed by the Tenant, his Heirs and Assigns thereof, by Copy of Court Roll of the same Manor, under the Rents, Services, and Customs in these Articles expressed, & not otherwise: and also, that the Lord shall admit by his Steward or his Deputy, all such Tenant & Tenants that ought of right to be admitted upon the presentment of the Homage.    

HERE FOLLOWETH THE COPY OF THE CHARTER OF London, of the first grant, and of the confirmation of diverse Kings after.  
HEnricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie, Dux Normandy & Aquitanie come. anegëarchîepiscopis Episcopis, etc. Salutem. Sciatis nos concescisse & hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Baronibut nostric de Civitate nostra London quod eligant sibi Mayer dese ipsis singulic annis qui nobis sit fidelis discretus & idoneus ad Regimen Civitatis. Ita quod electus fuerit nobis vel justiciis nostris si presenter non faimus presentetur & nobis juret fidelitatem. & liceat omnes ipsum in fine anni ammovere & aliqui subtinere si voluerint vel eundem retinere. Ita tn̄ quod nobis ostendatur idem vel Iustice nostris si presenter non fuerimus.  
Concessimus & eisdem baronibus nostris & hac carta nostra confirmavimus quod habeant bene & in pace libere & quiet & integre omnes libertatès suas quibus hactenus ubi sunt tam in Civitate London quam extra & tam in aequis quam in terris & omnibus aliis locis salva nobis camberlengeria nostra. Quare volimus & firmiter recipimus quod praedicti Barones' nostre Civitatis London eligant sibi singulis annis de seipsis predeon mon. Et quod habeant omnes predictas libertates bn & in pace integre & plenary cum omnibus ad hujus libertatis pertin'. Secundum cartam domini patris nostri Iohannis illustris Rex Anglorum quam Inspeximus raecionabiliter testamur. Testis dominus Episcopus London Episcop. etc. Apud Westm. 18. die mensis Februarii. Anno Regni nostri 11.  

A Statute for the Hustings in the time of Saint Edward to be holden in London.  
SIcut continetur in lege Sancti Edwardi Capitulo 46. quod debet in London quae caput Regni est & legum & semper curia domini Regis singulis Septim. die Lune Hastings sedere et tenere fundata enim erat olim & edi ficata ad instar magne troie & ad modum & in memoria in se continet in quae fuit super fuit ardua compota & ambigua p●cta corone & cor. domini regis tocius regni pred. quia usus & consuetudines suas una semper inviolabilitate conservat ubique ubicunque ipse Rex fuerit sive in expeditione sive alibi propter fatigaciones gencium & populorii regni juxta veteres consuetudines bonorum prim. & predecessorum & omnium principium & procerum & sapientum seniorum tocius regni predict. etc.   

The Charter of London grant by William Conqueror and of his Son.  
Willm. king greit William bishop and Godfregis porterens and eal the borough waren bynden London franchisce & engliste & ichkyd eth that Ick yill the great been ealbra yeara laga ye die ye great yet an en Edwardis dage king end ick yill yet sulk child be his father yrfnun achter his father dage & ick nel geyolyan that ening man i'the doing yrang bede god ye be held.  
Hoc est transcriptum carte regis Willē conquestorem frem civibus loudon que ad modum pnscriptum in vera lingua Saxonica in anglian mirabiliter conuertan ad modernam scripturam que totaliter nunc scribitur videl. An. dom. M. iii C. xiiii. & nota quod ista littera. y. in antiqua li tera ●onitur pro. w. & ista littera. y. pr●●d liquid computatur i y.  
WIlliam king great William bishop and godfrey porters and all the burgeiss within London French and English. and I grant you that I will that ye be all your law worth that ye were in Edwardis days the king ¶ And I will that ich child be his faders' eyer and I nil suffur. that any man you any wrongys' bead. and god you keep.   

Hoc est transcriptum in latinum.  
WIllm. rex salutat Willm. episcopum & godfridun portegrinum & omnem bovighwr. infra london francisces & anglices amicabiliter. Ego vobis facio quod ●go volo quod vos sitis omni lege illa digni qua fuistis diebus Edwardi regis. Et volo quod omnis puaer sit patris sui heres post diem svi patris. Et ego nolo pati quod aliquit homo aliquam injuriam vobis inferat. Deus vos salvet.   

The Ordinance for the Assize and Weight of Bread in the City of London.  

The price of a quarter Wheat. three s.  
THe farthing simnel poise. xv. vuncis & di. qter qter.  
The q whit loof coket poise. xvii. vuncis di. & ob.  
The ob. whet loof poise. xxxv. vuncis & a penny.  
The ob. whet loof poise lii. vuncis di. & penny ob.  
The penny whet loof poise. Cv vuncis & di. q & ob.  
The ob. whet loof of all grains poise lxx vuncis & two d.   

The quarter Wheat at iii s. vi. d.  
The farthing simnel poise. nineteen. vuncis di. qter qter. & quat.  
The q whit loof coket poise. xuj. vuncis & half penny.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xxxii. vuncis id. ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xlviii vuncis two. d. q.  
The penny whet loof poise. xcvi. vuncis & di. a q & two d. weight.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lxiiii. vunics & iii d.   

The quarter wheat at iiii. s.  
The q simnel poise. xii vuncis q iii d.  
The q whit loof coket poise. xiiii. vuncis iii q. i d.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xxix. vunces di. two. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xliiii. vuncis qter qter. di. & ob.  
The i. d wheat loof poise. lxxxviiii. vuncis iii q. i d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lix. vuncis & a q i d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at iiij. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. xj. vuncis qter qter & ij. d.  
The q whit loof coket poise. xiii. vuncis di. and iij. qter qter.  
The ob. white loof poise. xxvij. vuncis and half.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xii. vuncis and a qter qter.  
The penny wheat loof poise. lxxxij. vuncis and half.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lv. vuncis.   

The quarter Wheat at v. s.  
The q simnel poise. x. vuncis. qter qter. di. i. d. ob.  
The q whit loof coket poise. xii. vuncis. iij. qter qter. & ij. d.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xxv. vuncis. di. & half q i. d. ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxxviij. vuncis. di. & i. d.  
The penny wheat loof poise. lxxvij. vuncis ij. d. di. & ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lj. vuncis. qter qter. di. & ob.   

The quarter Wheat at v. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. ix. vuncis. di. di. qter qter. i. d. 〈◊〉 vunc.  
The q whit loof coket poise. xii. vuncis. i. d. ob.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xxiv. vuncis. di. q. & ij. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxxuj. vuncis. di. qter qter. & ob.  
The penny wheat loof poise. lxxij. vuncis. q. di. i. d. ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xlviij. vuncis. qter qter. & i. d.   

The quarter Wheat at vi. s.  
The q simnel poise. ix. vuncis.  
The q whit loof coket poise. xj. vuncis. qter qter. & di. ob.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xxij. vuncis. iij. qter qter. i. d.  
The halfpenny wheat loof poise. xxxiiij. vuncis. di. qter qter. & ob.  
The penny wheat loof poise. lxviij. vuncis. qter qter. di. & ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lxv. vuncis. di. ij. d. weight.   

The quarter Wheat at vi. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. viii. vuncis. qter qter. & di. & ob.  
The q white loof coket poise. x. vuncis. iij. qter qter. & 〈◊〉. i. d.  
The ob. white loof poise. xxj. vuncis. di. & ij. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxxij. vuncis. qter qter. di. & ob.  
The penny wheat loof poise. lxiiij. vuncis. iij. qter qter. & i. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xliij. vuncis. di. qter qter. i. d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at seven. s.  
The q simnel poise. seven. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ij. d. q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. x. vuncis. qter qter. and q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xxj. vuncis. di. ob. weight.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxx. vuncis. iij. q & ob. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. lxj. vuncis. & half. i. d. ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xlj. vuncis. i. d.   

The quarter Wheat at seven. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. seven. vuncis qter qter di. & q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. ix. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ob. q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. nineteen. vuncis. & di. & i. d. ob.  
The ob. where loof poise. xxix vuncis. qter qter. ij d. q.  
The penny where loof poise. lviij. vuncis. & di. & di. qter qter. ij. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxxix. vuncis. di. qter qter. & ob.   

The quarter Wheat at viii. s.  
The q simnel poise. vi. vuncis. iij. qter qter. di. i. d. ob. q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. ix. vuncis qter qter. ij. d. q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xviij. vuncis. di. qter qter. ij. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxviij. vuncis. i d. ob. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. luj. vuncis. di. & qter qter. i d.  
The ob. loof poise. of all graynis xxxvij. vuncis. qter qter. di. i. d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at viii. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. vi. vuncis. di. & i. d. ob.  
The q whit loof coket poise. viii. vuncis. iij. qter qter. di. ij. d.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xvij. vuncis. iij. qter qter. di. i. d. ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxuj. vuncis, iij. qter qter. di. i. d.  
The penny wheat loof poise. liij. vuncis. iij. q ●. ij. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxxv. vuncis. iij. qter qter. di. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at ix. s.  
The q simnel poise. vi. vuncis. & di. qter qter. i. d. q.  
The q whit loof cocket poise. viii. vuncis. & di. ij. d. q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xvij. vuncis. di. qter qter. ij. d.  
The half penny wheat loof poise. xxv. vuncis. iij. qter qter. i. d. ob. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. lj. vuncis. di. & half quar. i. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxxiiij. vuncis. qter qter. & i. d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at ix. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. v. vuncis. three qter qter. ʒ. q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. viii. vuncis qter qter. q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xuj. vuncis, ʒ. & i. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxiiii. vuncis. three qter qter. two. d. q.  
The penny where loof poise. xlix. vuncis. ʒ. & di. qter qter. two. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxxiii. vuncis. di. qter qter. & ob.   

The quarter Wheat at x. s.  
The q simnel poise. v. vuncis. ʒ. & two. d. in weight.  
The q whit loof coket poise. viii. vuncis.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xuj. vuncis.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxiiii. vuncis.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xlviii. vuncis.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxxii. vuncis.  
The q simnel poise. v. vuncis. q. & i. d. ob. weight.  
The q whit loof coket poise. seven. vuncis. di. & qter qter. ij. d.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xv. vuncis qter qter. ʒ. i. d. ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. twenty-three. vuncis. half qter qter. j d.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xluj. vuncis & t. ij. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxx. vuncis iii qter qter. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at xj. s.  
The q simnel poise. vi. vuncis. i. d. ob. weight.  
The q whit loof coket poise. seven. vuncis. qter qter. & ʒ ij. d.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xiv. vuncis. three qter qter. x i. d. ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxij vuncis. qʒ qʒ i d.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxij. vuncis. qter qter. 11. d.  
The ob loof of all graynis poise. xxix. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ij. d.   

The quarter what at xj. s. vi. d.  
The q sinmnell poise. iiij. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ʒ & ob.  
The q whit loof coket poise. seven. vuncis. qter qter.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xiii. vuncis. ʒ.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxj. vuncis. iiij. qter qter.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xliij. vuncis. ʒ.  
The ob. loof of all grynis poise. xxix. vuncis.   

The quarter Wheat at xii. s.  
The q simnel poise. iiij. vuncis. ʒ & half qter qter.  
The q whit loof coket poise. seven. vuncis. & ob.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xiiii. vuncis. & i d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xxj. vuncis. i. d. ob.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xlii. vuncis ʒ & half q. i. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxviii. vuncis. two. d. weyghr.   

The quarter Wheat at xii. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. iiij. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & i. d.  
The q whit loof coket poise. vi. vuncis. iij. qter qter. i d. ob.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xiii. vuncis. ʒ & di. qter qter. ob.  
The half penny wheat loof poise. xx. vuncis. q. ʒ & ij. d.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xl. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ʒ. i. d. ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxvij. vuncis. qter qter. i. d.   

The quarter Wheat at xiii. s.  
The q simnel poise. iiii. vuncis. & di qter qter. ij. d. q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. vi. vuncis ʒ & d. q. qter qter.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xiii. vuncis, qter qter. & ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. nineteen. vuncis. three qter qter. ʒ. ob.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxix. vuncis. three qter qter. i d. ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxvi. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & i d.   

The quarter Wheat at xiii. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. iiii. vuncis. & i d. qter qter.  
The q whit loof coket poise. vi. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ i. d. ob. q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xii. vuncis. three qter qter. ʒ i. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. nineteen. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxuj. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ij. i d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxv. vuncis. three qter qter. two. i d.   

The quarter Wheat at xiv. s.  
The q simnel poise. iij. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ʒ & ob.  
The q whit loof coket poise. vi. vuncis. qter qter. & i. d.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xiii. vuncis. three ʒ & ij. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xviij. vuncis. three qʒ qʒ & ob.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxvij. vuncis. iii qter qter. & i d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxv. vuncis. & di. q. i. d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at xiv. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. iij. vuncis. iij. qter qter.  
The q whit loof coket poise. vi. vuncis. & di. qter qter. & ob.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xii. vuncis. qter qter. & i d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xviij. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ i d. ob.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxvi. vuncis. three q. ʒ & ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxiiii. vuncis. ʒ & two. d.   

The quarter Wheat at xv. s.  
The q simnel poise. iij. vuncis. ʒ & two. d.  
The q whit loof coket poise. vi. vuncis. in weight.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xii. vuncis.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xviij. vuncis.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxvi. vuncis.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxiv. vuncis.   

The quarter Wheat at xv. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. iij. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & i. d. ob. qter qter.  
The q whit loof coket poise. v. vuncis. iij. qter qter. two. d.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xj. vuncis. ʒ & di. qter qter. & ij. d.  
The half penny wheat loof poise. xvij. vuncis. ʒ & i. d. ob. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxv. vuncis. & di. q. & i. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxiii. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & i. d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at xuj. s.  
The q simnel poise. three vuncis. qter qter. & i. d. qter qter.  
The q whit loof coket poise. v. vun. & half & di. q. ob. three d. q  
The ob. whit loof poise. xi. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & two. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xvii. vuncis. & di. qter qter. i d. ob. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxiiii. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & i d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxii. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & i d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at xuj. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. iij. vuncis. & half qter qter. i d. q. ob.  
The q whit loof poise. coket v. vuncis. & ʒ & ij. d. qua.  
The ob. white loof poise. xj. vuncis. & half q. ij. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xuj. vuncis. iij. qter qter. i. d. ob. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxiij. vuncis. ʒ & half qter qter. i. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxij. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ i d. ob.   

The quarter Wheat at xvij. s.  
The q simnel poise. iij. vuncis. ij. d. wight.  
The q whit loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & half.  
The ob. whit loof poise. xj. vuncis.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xuj. vuncis. & half.  
The penny wheat loof poise. twenty-three. vuncis.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxij. vuncis.   

The quarter Wheat at xvij. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. two. vuncis. ii●. qter qter. ʒ ij. d. q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. v. vuncis. qter qter. ʒ & q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. x. vuncis. iij. qter qter. & ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xuj. vuncis. & di. qter qter. ob. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxij. vuncis. qter qter. & i. d. ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxj. vuncis. & half. i. d.   

The quarter Wheat at xviij. s.  
The q simnel poise. ij. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ʒ & q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & qter qter. ob. q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. x. vuncis. ʒ & i. d.  
The half penny wheat loof poise. xv. vuncis. iij. qter qter. ij. d. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxj. vuncis. ʒ & di. qter qter. ij. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxj. vuncis. & di. i. d.   

The quarter Wheat at xviij. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. ij. vuncis. iij. quar. ob. q.  
The q white loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & di. quar. i. d. q.  
The ob. white loof poise. x. vuncis. quar. & di.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xv. vuncis. di. & i. d. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxxj. vuncis. & di. q.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xx. vuncis. iij. quarter.   

The quarter Wheat at nineteen. s.  
The q simnel poise. ij. vuncis. ʒ & di. quar. & i. d. q.  
The q whit loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & i. d. ob. q.  
The ob. whit loof poise. x. vuncis. & di. qter qter. & i. d.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xv. vuncis. qter qter. & q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxx. vuncis. ʒ & ob.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xx. vuncis. quar. & ij. d.   

The price of a quarter Wheat at nineteen. s. vi. d.  
The q simnel poise. ij. vuncis ʒ & ij. d. weightly  
The q whit loof coket poise. v. vuncis.  
The ob. whit loof poise. x. vuncis.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xv. vuncis.  
The penny whet loof poise. xxx. vuncis.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xx. vuncis.   

The quarter Wheat at xx. s.  
The q simnel poise. ij vuncis. ʒ & a qter qter.  
The q whit loof coket poise. iiij. vuncis. three qter qter. ʒ ob. qter qter.  
The ob. whit loof poise. ix. vunces. iij. qter qter. i. d. ob.  
The ob. wheat loof poise. xiv. vuncis. & di. qter qter. ij. d. q.  
The penny wheat loof poise. xxix. vuncis. quart. ʒ ij. d.  
The ob. loof of all graynis poise. nineteen. vuncis. ʒ & di q. ob.   
¶ Item, the half penny loof whit of Stratford must weigh ij. vuncis more than the half penny whit loof of London.  
¶ Item, the half penny wheat loof of Stratford must weigh iij. vuncis more than the half penny wheat loof of London.  
¶ Item, the penny wheat loof of Stratford must weigh vi. vuncis more than the penny wheat loof of London.  
¶ Item, iij. half penny whit loofes of Stratford must weigh as much as the penny wheat loof.  
¶ Item, the loof of all grains, that is to say, the wheat loof must weigh as much as the penny wheat loof and the half penny whit loof.    

The Copy of the Bull for the Offerings to the Curates of the Parishes of the City of LONDON in Latin and English, and of the composition of the same. Chap. LXXXVI.  
NIcholaus Episcopus servus servorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam, etc.  

The Copy of the Bull of Pope Nicholas for the same matter.  
Our holy father pope Nicolas, for perpetual memori willeth to sequester & avoyed all doughtis, by the which strives discords and great loffies that is feared to happen to Curatis and their Perysshens, lest that if it be not remedyid, great hurt might happen both to the curatis and perysshens, as well in things temporal as spiritual. So it is that now of late, after that the right honourable Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, had showed that he had found as he Road in his visitation, that one Roger, byishop of London, had made a constitution upon offryngiss on holy days and solemp and double festis, and namely of the appl'es whoos vygyls been fasted by the inhabitants of houses, hostries, and shops howsoever they be occupied within the cite of london: that is to say, that all inhabitants and every of them, occupying the said houses, hostries, or shoppis, and pay for the yearly rend of them ten s. shall offer a q And if his rent be twenty s. ob. and so upward as it hath been used to be paid by the said peryshes time out of mind of man. And that the same constitution was good and lawful, it appeareth by that, that diverse of the predecessors of archbishops of Canterbury; by their Letters patents, hath it confirmed and approved, and when some evil disposed of the perysshens would labour and study to construe this constitution to other senses than it was made for: They made explanations of the same, and ordained that the Mayor and Aldyrmen of the said Cite, and all the inhabytants that would be rebel thereto, should stoned a cursed by the same deed, and many other things than expressed, ordained our holy father and predecessor Innocentius seven. ratefyenge and conferming the letters of the said Thomas archbishop, adding and amending defaulties if any were, as more plainly appeareth by the litters of the foresaid Innocent, wherein be contained the litters of the foresaid Thomas. And after as it hath been showed us of diverse credible people that thought the Mayor, Sherefs, Aldyrmen, the Citizens, and the inhabitants aforesaid, of the more part of them, after the old and laudable custom in their offryngys' on Sundays and other folempne and double feasts of the Apostles, namely whose evyns be fasted yet within four years or there about, divers having little regard to the well of their souls, and unkind to their mother the holy church, coveting be little and little to minish and take away the foresaid offryngys': (The which if they were devout, they should increase and freely give) refuse to offyre but only on Sundays and on the solemn feasts of the Apostles, whoos evens been fasted.  
And as for other solemn days, which be many; they said that it was not expressed in the litters of Roger bishop, nor in they said constitution, that they ought to offyre on them: nother in the litters of Innocent, nor Thomas bishop, there was no parsight sense; wherefore they thought the were but void.  
And also where we understand that three sentensies have been given against one Robert Write, that is to say, one in this parties, & in the court of Rome; for as much as refused to offer according to the rate as aforesaid; as on Sundays, festis of the Apostles, whose vygyls been fasted: but as for thes three Nativities, of Saint Stephen, Saint johan, and in the Innocentis, he urterly refused, and as many days in Ester, and in many days in Witsontide, and the Circumcision, epiphany, and Ascension of our Lord, and Corpus Christy, and four vigils of our Lady, Philip and jacob, and the translation of Saint Edmonde.  
And for as much as it were painful to all Curaties, if they should sue for every particular cause, if their parisshens would be forward. And for as much as we understand that our well-beloved Herry King of England, would that all stryfs and duty touching the said offryngys' should be avoided. We will, and by our power Appostolick conform the litters of the foresaid Innocent predecessor, and Thomas Archbishop, containing the constiucyon of the said Robert to be observed and kept for ever.  
And over that by this presenties, We will and ordain that all inhabitanties houses, hostries, shoppies; four years passed, and that after this shall inhabit, pay their offryngys' according to the rate aforesaid in the three Nativites of Saint Stephen, Saint johan, and the Innocentis, and as many days in Ester and Witsontide, Circumcision, epiphany, and Ascension of our Lord, Corpus Christi, four of our Lady, and Philip and jacob, and every dedication day, and every Sunday, and the feasts of the Apostles whoos vygyls been fasyd, and other double and solemn feasts.  
And more plainly appeareth in the litters of Innocent and Thomas archbishops aforesaid, and in all days they have used to offer four years pass to the parish Chyrche. Within the bonds whereof the foresaid houses, hostries or shops been set upon the pain of excommunication, contained in the litters of the said archbishop, and of the which the shall not be assoiled, out if he satyfie the said offerings, or else friendly agree with his Curate, but if it be in the point of death. So that if it happened him to live, or his eyers make due satisfaction. And also we give power to the Ordinarijs of the said Chyrches where such offryngys' be not paid, that the may without citation summarily inquire of the said offryngys'; and if the find that be unpaide, to accurse the offenders, and them to punish according to this ordinance; any manner bull granted writing general or special; now known or hereafter to be known; not with standing.   

The Letters of Innocent Bishop.  
Therefore for the part, the Curaties of the cite of London, a petition was made to us, that a constituction the which was made by one Roger Bishop of London, for the well both of the parisshens and the Curaties, the which was used the time out of mind, yet some used to constrew the said constitution otherwise than it ought to be after their forward mind, and the which constitution the said Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, and in any his predcessours hath approved and confirmed, that the same constitution by us should be confirmed. I inclined by their petition, confirm all the said constitution by the authority appostolik; and fulfil all defautis, if any by the tenor of the said letters followeth.   

Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of England, to the Mayer, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, greetings.  
ALmighty God to whom belongeth thereto and all that is therein, commaundithe that tenthiss should be given him, and would be honoured spiritually with offerings; and therefore the revernde father, Roger Nyger, late Bishop of London, made a constitution, as we find in our vistation, upon offering on Sundays and solemn and doubly festis, and nambly of the Appostils, whoes vigils been fastid, by the inhabitantis of houses, hostries, and Shoppis within the Cite of London: that is to say, that all and every inhabitants houses, hostries or Shops; for an house, hostrie, or shops, whoos pension is x. s. by year, a farthing: and so forth, if it ascended to xl. s. a penny. Some yet having little regard to their souls, construed that if the said pension never so much excedid xl. s. that he shall pay but one penny. We therefore willing that all alteration as touching that should be removed, will by the authority of this letters, that if the said pension exceed xl. s. by x. s. that he shall pay one penny farthing, and for every x. s. a stending qnter. and for as much as we will not hereafter only forward exposition of this confirmation to be had, we will that all the that hereafter will not obey and follow this our exposition, stoned acursed by the great sentence by the same deed, and for as much as no man shall excuse himself by cause of ingnorunce, we will and ordain that all Curatis within the said Cite iiij. times in the year in the Mass time, publisshe and expone: and moreover, we ordain and give power to all People and Vicars of the said Cite, to cite all the offenders of the said constitution to apere before us or our official, that there to obbey the law as reason will, to the which official by this presentis we give our power, in witness whereof, etc. Let no man therefore offend this ordinance, for if he do it, he shall run in the indignation of God and his holy Appostolis, Peter and paul. Given at Rome at Saint Peter, the xuj. kalends of May. Master William Freston official to the Dean of Paul's, after that he had by great deliberation examined a cause of withholding of thentis. By me Robert Wright, of the parish of Saint Edmond in Lumberstret in the solemn and double festis, and the festis of Saint Stheven, john, and Innocents', after Christmes, Circumcision, Epiphanie of our Lord, iij. holy days in Estirweke, iij. holy days in Witsoweke, Corpus Christi, ascension of our Lord, Phelip and jacob, and v. sestis of our Lady, and every dedication day by his sentence condemned the said Robert Wright, the which appealed to Rome, where the same sentence in all thing was affirmed by one William of Fundera, Bishop of Olern, and Commissary to the Pope; save that he should have said in three festis of our Lady and not in five, and therein the sentence was reversed, and for that cause the said Robert was not condemned in the expensis. And after the same Robert appellyde to the Pope himself, the which affirmed in every thing the sentence of the said William de Fundera, and condemned the defendant in expencis in the last apppelle.   

The composition of all Offerings within the City of London, and Suburbs of the same.  
FIrst, that every person dweller and inhabitant in any houses in London, or suburbis of the same, hired and occupied as for the full rent and pension of x. s. yearly, shall offer to God and to the church, in whoos parish such place standeth, one q every day in the festis that following, that is to say, in every Sunday in the year, Christmas day, Circumcision, Ephiphanie, Purification of our Lady, Mathei Appostle, Annunciation of our Lady, the Ascension of our Lord, Corpus Christi, Saint Mathewe Appostle, Simon and jude, Alhalowen, Andrew Appostle, Conception of our Lady, Thomas Appostle, john Baptist, Peter and paul, james Appostle, Bartilmew Appostle, Assumption and Nativity of our Lady, Dedication day, which from the day forward shall be through all London, and for the paris churchs in London that be halowid the iij. day of Octobre, also one day of the principal festis of the Patron of every Chirch through London, the suburbis of the same, yearly without contradiction, and if such inhabited houses be let for xx. s. ob. and if for xxx. s. ob. q. and if for xl. s. i d. and if for l. s. i d. q. and so every ascending and dissending by x. s. into what sum that ever it be, shall alway offer farthing after the rate of x. s. in the festis abovesaid; and if such dwellings, occupied and inhabited houses be not let, but peraventer that owner that dwell therein, or freely let, or otherwise occupied as for a dwellingis, that than the offringis shallbe as it was let before, or else after a common value; and doubt thereof, that rend to be extemyd by the Chirch wardens for the time being; and if a man dwell and inhabit diverse places & houses within the said Cite, in one or diverse parishes, he than shall after the rate & days aforesaid, offer every house to the Chirch in whoos paris the stoned, provided always that when two. of the festis aforesaid fall upon one day, than the offering shallbe for one day.  
Item, where any dwelled in the said Cite, inhabited or occupied a dwelling place an house, under the price, rent, or pension of vi. s. viii. d. that than he shallbe bound to offer iiij. days in the year, in the iiij. principal festis of the Chirch there as he is parishen, of and if such pension or rent extend to the full sum of vi. s. viii. d. or above, and not fully to the sum of x. s. that than them inhabitant for every s. shall pay to the Chirch i. d. ob. onis in the year. Provided always that if the said dweller come before his Curate, and say upon his faith and truth, that he may not pay his said money according to the ordinance aforesaid beneath x. s. that then the said Curate shall holden him content with such as he will give him, aught or naught, and the dweller thereupon shall be quite. Also and the pension of rent of such inhabitant houses, extend above the sum of x. s. and not fully to the sum of xxx. s. and so to any sum being between x. and x. than the Inhabitant shall pay ones a year to the Curate for every s. of the said sum being between x. and x. i. d. ob. yearly.  
Item, where as a dwelling house is hired of great, and after let out by parties to sundry folks, that than the hirer in great, if that he dwell in the principal part of the same house, shall offer to God and to the Chirch in the days v, for the rent of all the holy rent, if the said house be inhabited and occupied, as dwelling places, and else after the rule that followeth: and if the said hirer in great dwell not in any part thereof, but let it out again, that then he that dwelleth in the principal part shall offer all, and the remenunt iiij. d. by year.  
Item, all though in the said Cite or suburbis, or that occupied houses not inhabited, as Shoppis, Celars, Shaddis, Ware houses, Stables, Wharfes, Kranes, Timbre haws, Teinter places for Fuller's, or other places, Gardens, shall ones in the year for every pound that they be let fore, if they be hired, or after a common value, if they be not hired, give unto the Curate of the Chirch there as such houses been, vi. d. without any other offerings for the said houses, affendingis and diffendingis after the rate of vi. d. of the pound, and for x. s. iij. d. and so after the rate affendingis and deffendingis, without more charge of offering for it.  
Item, that all apprentices, servants, and hired men within the said Cite, not shargede with such rent and housings, which shall be houselder at Ester or about Ester, shall iiij. times in the year, at iiij. principal festis offer to God and to the Chirch. Also as for personal tithes, the parisshens by this ordinance shall neither be charged nor dissharged, saving that hereafter shall no Curate vex, trouble, sue, ordain Sacraments or Service for no payment of the same, but leave them to good devotion, and conscience of the parisshens.  
Item, all offerings undone before this day, or any other attempted contrary beside, or against this present Writing, by any person or persons, shall stoned quite, and not be remembered as unto any suit or strife, but all such things before this day done, shall clean be remet, and forgiven on both perties.  
BE it in mind, that this bond and arbitrement is made the xvii. day of Decembre, the year of the incarnation of our Lord, M. iiij. C. L. seven. by Master Laurence Both, Master William Radclyf, Master Lucas Lancok, Master john Aleyn, Master john Lyleford, Geffrey Felding, William Taylor, Master Robert Kent, arbitrator, chosen upon the Premisse, as in the tenor of the compremisse thereupon made openly made it may appear.   

In this Chapter is showed the Patroness of all the Benefices in London.  
Arm on the Towrehill, and Abbey of white Monks.  
Anne within Aldrichgate, diocis London, Patron Deane of Saint Martin the grand. The desine.  
Augustin in Bradstretward, the Prior of friar's August.  
Antonius' in Bradstretward, a College, the King Patron.  
Augustin by London wall, Prior of Crichirche in London Patron.  
Augustin in Watlingstrete by Paul's gate, Patron.  
Antelyne in bogerowe, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapitur of Paul's. The decins xx. s.  
Albon in Woodstret, diocis London, Provost of Eton Patron, Decins xx. s.  
Alphey within Cripplegate, diocis London, Patron Deane of Saint Martin the grant. The sine.  
Alborought without Bishopsgate.  
Alhalwyn in Bredstrete, diocis Canterbury, Patron Bishop of Canterbury.  
Alhalwin Lumberstret, diocis Canterbury, Patron Prior of Crichirch in Canterbury. The desine.  
Alhalwin by London wall, diocis London, Patron Prior of Crichirche in London. The desine.  
Alhalwin the more, diocis London, the King Patron. The decis xiii. s. iiii. d.  
Alhalwin the less, diocis London, Patron the Master of Laurence Pulteney. The sine.  
Alhalwin breaking Chirche, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Breaking. The desine x. s. viii. d.  
Alhalwin Staynings, diocis London Patron the Abbot of Tourhill. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Alhalwin in Honilane London, Patron the Wardens of Grocers. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Andrew in Cornhill, diocis London, Parone Bishop of London. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Andrew Hubert in Eastchepe, diocis London, earl of Shrewisbury Patron. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Andrew at Baynard Castle, diocis London, Patron Bishop of London. The desine xx. s.  
Andrew in Holborn, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Bermonsey. The decis xiii. s. iiii. d.  
BOtulfe by Billings gate, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapitur of Paul's. The decis x. s. iiii. d.  
Botulfe without Algate, diocis London, Patron the Prior of Crichirche in London. The dicis.  
Botulfe without Bishoppisgate, diocis London, Patron the Bishop of London. The decis xvii. iiii. d.  
Botulfe without Aldrichgate, diocis London, Patron Deane of Saint Martin's grant. The decis.  
Benet at Greshirche, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapter of Paul's. The decis xxiiii. s.  
Benet at Paul's wharf, diocis London, Deane and Chapter of Paul's Patron. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Benet Sherehog, called Saint Scythes, diocis London, Patron Prior of Saint Mary onirthere. Decis xx. s.  
Benet Fynke, diocis London, Patron the Master of Saint Anthony. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Bride in Fleetstreet, diocis London, Patrons the King and the Abbot of Westminster. Decis xx. s.  
Barthilmew the little, diocis London, Patron the Abbot on the Towrehill. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Barthilmew in Smithfield Prioury, Temperalties lxxxx. li. xiiii. s. iiii. d. Desine viii. li. xvii. s. q.  
Barthilmew in Smithfield spytell, a Master and a college.  
CLement beside Estchep, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Westminster. Decis xx. s.  
Clement without Temple bar, diocis London, Patron the Bishop of Excester. Decis.  
Clare Sisters, Minores without Algate, in the suburbs of London.  
Christofer by the Stokkies, diocis London, Patron the Bishop of London. The decis xxix. s. viii. d.  
Dominick Friar Pryechers of London at Ludgate  
Dunstan in the Est, diocis Canterbury, Patron Prior of Crichirche in Canterbury. The Decis.  
Dunstan the West, diocis London, Patron the Abbot of Alnewik. The decis xx. s.  
Deonise in Fanchirche street, diocis Canterbury, Patron the Bishop of Canterbury, and the Prior of Crichirche of Canterbury. Decis.  
EEdmond without Newgate, called Saint Sepulchre, diocis London, Patron Prior of Saint Barthilmewes'. Decis x. s.  
Edmond in Lombardys street, diocis London, Patron Prior of Chrichirche in London. Decis xx. s.  
Ethelborugh within Bisshopsgate, diocis London, Patron Priouresse of Saint Helyne. The decis.  
FAith within Paul's, diocis London, Patrons Deane and Chapter of London. The decis xx. s. Foster in Fosterlane, diocis Cant. Patron Bishop of Canterbury. The decis.  
France's within Newgate Freers'.  
GRegory by Paul's, diocis London, apropred to the petty Canons of Paul's. The decins xx. s. Giles without Crepilgate. diocis London, Patrons Deane and Chapter of Paul's. The decins xx. s.  
George in Pudding lane, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Bermonsey. The decins.  
George in Southwerke, diocis Winchester, Patron Abbot of Bermonsey. The desine.  
Gilis, an Hospital beyond Holborn.  
HEleyne, Prioury of Nuns within Bishopsgate. The decin xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Heleyne paryschyrche within Bisshopsgate, diocis London, the Prioures of Saint Helen Parson.  
Heleyne beside Martlane, a Prioury of crossed Freers'.  
Johns, an Hospital beside west Smithfield of London.  
john Zachary, diocis London, Patrons Deane and Chapter of Paul's. The decin xx. s.  
john Evangelist in Friday street, diocis Canterbury, Patron Prior of Crichirche of Canterbury. The decis.  
john's in Walbroke, diocis London, Patron Prioures of Saint Helen. The decis x. s. viii. d.  
james at Garlykhith, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Westminster. The decins ix. s. iiii. d.  
james an Hermitage within Crepilgate.  
james an Hospitale beside Charing-cross.  
james parish Chirche within the Prioury of Halywell.  
john's of Halywell without Bishopsgate, a Pryoures of Nonnes.  
KAterine on the Towrehill, Master and college, the King Patron.  
Katerine Chapel beside Charing-cross, an Hermitage.  
Katerine Chirch within Algate, diocis London, Patron Prior of Crichirch in London. The decis.  
Katerine Colman within Algate.  
LEonard in Estchep, diocis Canterbury, Patron the Prior of Crichirche in Canterbury. The decis.  
Leonard in Fosterlane, diocis London, Patron Deane of Saint Martin's grant. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Leonard in Shoreditch, diocis London, belonging to the Archdeken of London. The decis.  
Laurence Pultendy, diocis London, Patron Duke of Suffolk. The decis xx. s.  
Laurence in the jury, diocis London, Patron Bayly college of Oxford. The decis.  
Marry at Bow, diocis Canterbury, Patron Bishop of Canterbury. Decis.  
Marry Aldirmary Chirch in Watlingstrete, diocis Canterbury, Patron Bishop of Canterbury. The decins.  
Marry Bothhawe by the Erber, diocis Canterbury, Patron Prior of Crichirch of Canterbury. The decins.  
Marry Colchirche, diocis London, Patron Master of Saint Thomas of Acres. The decins.  
Marry Staininglane, diocis London, Patron Prioures of Clerkenwell.  
Marry in Aldermanburic, diocis London, Patron Prior of Elsinge spitell. Decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Marry Wolnothe in Lumbardstrete, diocis London, Patron Priours of S. Helen. The decis xxiiii. s.  
Marry Abchirche, diocis London, Patron Master of Saint Laurence Pulteney. The decins v. s. iiii. d.  
Marry Wulchirche, diocis London, the Abbot of Saint john's Colchester Patron. The decins xxiiii. s.  
Marry Foundchirche, diocis London, Prior of Crichirche Patron in London. The decins xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Marry Somerset, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapter of Paul's. The decis.  
Marry on the Hill, diocis London, Patron Page of Dortford in Kent, Gentleman. The decins xxiiii. s.  
Marry at Axe, diocis London, Patron Prioures of Saint Helyns. Dec.  
Marry Mounthawe, diocis London, Patron the Bishop of Herford. The dec.  
Marry Matfelow, diocis London, Patron Bishop of London. The decis.  
Marry at the Strand cross, diocis London, Patron Bishop of Wurceter. The deocis.  
Marry in Fletstrete, a priory of white Freers'.  
Marry Chapel by Berking church.  
Marry de grace, an Abbey of Monks by the Tower of London.  
Marry Priory of Elsingspitell within Crepelgate.  
Marry the new Hospital without Bisshopsgate.  
Marry salutation Chartyrhous, by West Smitfelde in London.  
Marry Hospital of Bedleem without Bisshopsgate.  
Marry over the ree in Southwerke, a Priory of Canons.  
Marry, called S. Marry Spitell, without Bisshopsgate.  
Marry Magdalenen in Milkstreete, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapter of Paul's. The decis xx. s.  
Marry Magdalenen in old Fishstrete, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapter of Paul's. Dec. xiii. s. iiii. d.  
Marry Magdalenen by Bermonsey, diocis Winchester, Patron Abbot of Bermonsey.  
Marry Magdalenen by Saint Mary over the Ree, diocis Winchester, Patron the Prior of Saint Mary over the Ree. The decis.  
Marry Magdalenen at Tuthill, called Lawless.  
Martin Otyrwich, diocis London, Patrons Wardens of Tailors. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Martin Pomers in Irmonger lane, diocis London, Patron Prior of Saint Bartilmews. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Martin in the Vintre, diocis London, Patron the Abbot of Glouceter. The decis xxvi. s. viii. d.  
Martin by Ludgat, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Westminster. Decis xxvi. s. viii. d.  
Martin Orgar in Candilwykstrete, diocis london, Patron Deane and Chapter of Paul's. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Martin in the field beside Charing-cross.  
Magnes by london bridge, diocis london, patron the Abbot of Westminster and Bermonsey. The decis xxv. s. viii. d.  
Matthew in Frydaystrete, diocis london, patron the Abbot of Westminster. The decis xx. s.  
Margaret in Lothbury, diocis london, patroness Abbeys of Berkinge in Essex. The dec.  
Margaret in Brydgstrete, diocis london, patron Abbot of Winchester. The dec.  
Margaret Moses in Friday street, diocis london, the King patron. The decis xxvi. s. viii. d.  
Margaret patens, diocis london, patron Maior and Aldermen of london. The dec.  
Margaret in Southwerk, diocis Winchester, patron the prior of Saint Mary over the ree. The desine.  
Margaret at Westminster.  
Mildredys in bredstrete, diocis london, patron the prior of Saint Mary over the ree. The decins xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Mildrede in the poultry, diocis london, patron prior of Saint Mary over the Ree. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Mihell in cornhill, diocis london, patron Abbot of Eyvesham. The decins liii. s. iiii. d.  
Michael in Bassingys' hawe, diocis london, patron Deane and Chapytur of poles. The decins xiii. s. iiii. d.  
Mighell by Quenehyth, diocis london, patron Deane and Chapitur of poles. The decis xx. s.  
Michael Querene by pole's gate, diocis london, partone Deane and Chapitur of poles. The decis.  
Michael in Woodstrete, diocis london.  
Michael in Crokedlane, diocis Canter. patron bishop of Canter. Decins.  
Michael pater noster Whittyngton College, diocis Canter. patroness Wardens of Mercers. The decins.  
NIcholas Cold Abbey, diocis london.  
Nicholas Oluf in bredstrete, diocis london, patron Deane and Chapitur of poles. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Nicholas Acon by Lumbardstrete, diocis london, patron Abbot of Malmesbury. The decis xx. s.  
Nicholas in Fleshhamels, diocis london, patrons the King and the Abbot of Westminster. The decis xl. s.  
OLuf in Silverstrete, diocis london.  
Oluf in the Old jury, diocis london, patron prior of bottle in suffolk. The decis. x. s.  
Oluf by the crossed Friars, diocis london, patron Cely in Martlane. The decis xx. s.  
Oluf in Southwark, diocis Winchester, patron prior of Lews in Southsex. The decis.  
Owyn within Newgate, diocis london, patron lord of Saint jones jerl. The decis.  
Paul's the Cathedral Chyrche of london, Deane and Residences.  
Peter in Cornhill, diocis london, Patron's Mayor and Aldermen of london. The decis xxvi. s. viii. d.  
Peter in West Cheap, diocis london Patron Abbot of Saint Albon. The decis xx. s.  
Peter the Poor, diocis london.  
Peter the little at Paul's wharf diocis london, Patrons Deane and Chapitur of Powlis. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.  
Pancrasse in Nedeler lane, diocis Canter. Patron bishop of Canter. decis Pancrasse in the field.  
Peter within the tower of london.  
Peter of Westminster, Abbey of black Monkies.  
STephan in Walbrok, diocis london, Master Lee of the same Parish Patron. The decis xiii. s. iiii. d.  
Stephan in Colmanstret, diocis london, Patron Prior of bottle in Sulfelde. The decis x. s.  
Stephan a College and the King's Chapel at Westmonster.  
Stephan in Candilwikstrete, diocis London, Patron Prior of Cottington. The decis xx. s.  
Saluator of Bermonsey, an Abbey of black Monks.  
trinity called Crichirch, within Algate of London, a Priory.  
trinity in Knight rider's street, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapitur of Paul's. The decis xx. s.  
Thomas of Acres, a College in west cheap.  
Thomas Appostell, parish Chirch in the Ryall.  
Thomas, a Spitall in Southwerke.  
Thomas Martyr, a Chapel on London bridge.  
Corpus Cristi chapel, in the poultry of London.  
Corpus Cristi chapel, in the College of Saint Laurence Pulteney.  
trinity Chapel upon the Charnehill, in the Chirch hawe of Saint Michael in Crokedlane.  
The Chapel upon the Charnehill in the Chirch hawe of Saint Paul's in London.  
The Chapel of Saint Thomas in pardon Chirch haw, London.  
The Chapel upon the Charnel in the Chirche hawe of Saint Dunstan in the Este.  
The Chapel of the Guild hall in London, called Saint Nichans.  
The Chapel upon the Charnel, at Mary Spitall without Bisshopsgate.  
The little Chapel of Bedlam without Bisshopsgate.  
The little Chapel upon the Charnel, in the Chirch hawe of Saint Thomas in Southwerke.  
The Chapel in the Chirche hawe at Chartirhous.  
The frary Chapel beside Saint john's jerusalem, called Ursula.  
The Chapel without Temple bare, called Saint Spirit.  
The Chap. of our Lady at Rouncevale.  
The Chapel within Barthelmew Spitell.    

THE REMAINS OR REMNANTS OF DIVERS WORTHY THINGS, which should have had their due place and honour in this Work, if promising friends had kept their words.  
But they failing, and part of them coming to my hands by other good means, they are here inserted, to accompany my Perambulation four miles about London.  
LONDON, Printed by Elizabeth Purslow, and are to be sold by Nicholas Bourne, at his Shop, at the South Entrance of the ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1633.   

The College of Gods-Gift, at Dulwich, in the County of Surry: founded, raised, and builded, at the cost and charges of Master EDWARD ALLEYNE, Esquire, in Anno Dom. 1614  
THe thirteenth day of September, 
How the College was confirmed & established by the Founder himself.  being Monday, Anno 1619. the College of Gods-gift in Dulwich, consisting of one Master, one Warden, and four Fellows; three of which are persons Ecclesiastical, and the fourth a skilful Organist. Moreover, twelve aged poor people, and twelve poor children; Master Edward Aileyne, publicly and audibly, in the Chapel of the said College, did read and publish one Writing Quadrupartite in Parchment, bearing date the day and year forementioned. Whereby he did make, create, erect, found, and establish the said College, according to the power and liberty given him by his Majesty's Letters Patents, under his great Seal, bearing date at Westminster the 21. of june, in the year abovesaid. When he had read and published the said Writing, he subscribed it with his name, and then fixed his Scale to every part of the Quadrupartite writing, in the presence and hearing of these witnesses:  
Frances Lord Verulam, Lord Chancellor of England, and one of his Majesty's Privy Council.  
Thomas Earl of Arundel, Knight of the Garter, Earl Martial of England, and one of his Majesty's Privy Council.  
Sir Edward Cecil, Knight, alias General Cecil, second Son to Thomas Excester.  
Sir john Howland, Knight, and high Sheriff of the Counties of Sussex and Surry.  
Sir Edmund Bowyer of Cammerwell, Knight.  
Sir Tho. Grymes of Peckham, Knight.  
Sir john Bodily of Stretham, Knight.  
Sir john Tonstal of Cashaulten, Knight.  
And diverse other persons of great and worthy respect. 
The disposing of the four Writings.  The four Quadrupartite Writings forenamed, were ordered to four several Parishes.  

viz. 

Saint Betolphs without Bishopsgate.  
Saint Giles without Cripplegate.  
Saint Saviour's in Southwark.  
And the Parish of Cammerwell.     

A brief recital of the particulars.  
Recital of King james his Letters Patents.  
Recital of the Founder's deed Quadrupartite.  
Ordination of the Master, Warden, etc.  
Ordination of the assistant members, etc.  
The Master and Warden to be unmarried, etc.  
The Master and Warden to be one and twenty years of age at the least.  
Of what degrees the Fellows ought to be.  
Of what condition the poor Brothers and Sisters ought to be.  
Of what condition the poor Scholars ought to be.  
Of what Parishes ought the Assistants to be.  
Of what Parishes the poor are to be taken, and members of the College.  
The form of their election.  
The Warden to supply, when the Master's place is void.  
The election of the Warden.  
The Warden to be bound by Recognizance.  
The Warden to provide a dinner at his election of his own charges.  
The manner of investing the Fellows.  
The manner of electing the Scholars.  
Election of the poor of Cammerwell.  
The Master and Wardens Oath.  
The Fellow's Oath.  
The poor Brothers & Sister's Oath.  
The Assistants Oath.  
The pronunciation of admission.  
The Masters Office.  
The Wardens Office.  
The Fellows Office.  
The poor Brothers & Sister's Office  
The Matron of the poor Scholars.  
The Porters Office.  
The Office of the thirty members.  
Of Residency.  
Orders for the poor, and their goods  
Of obedience.  
Orders for the Chapel and burial.  
Orders for the School and Scholars, and placing of poor Scholars forth.  
Order of Diet.  
The Scholar's Surplices and Coats.  
Time for viewing Expenses.  
Public Audit, and private sitting days.  
Audit and Treasure Chamber.  
Of Lodgings.  
Orders for the Lands and Woods.  
The Master and Warden allowed diet for one man apiece; and what Servants for the College, and their wages.  
Disposition and division of the Revenues.  
Disposition of the Rent of the blue house.  
The poor to be taken out of any other Parish or County, in case none be found capable in the Parishes prescribed.  
The disposition of forfeitures.  
The Statutes to be read over four several times in the year.  
The disposition of certain Tenements in Saint Saviour's Parish, and Southwark.    

A brief Remembrance of such Noble and Charitable deeds, as have been done by the late Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hicks, Viscount Campden, as well in his life as at his death: Recorded to the glory of God, his own honour, and good example of others.  

Good deeds done to the Town of Campden, in the County of Gloucester.  
HE built an Almshouse or Hospital for six poor men, and six poor women, which cost 1000 li.  
Since the year of the foundation of the said Almshouse, to wit, 1612. he hath allowed the said twelve poor people weekly maintenance, to the value of 1300. li.  
And at his death, he hath settled 140. li. per annum, (for ever) upon the said Almshouse, allowing to each of the said poor Pensioners three shillings four pence weekly; and yearly, a Gown, a Hat, and a Tun of Coals.  
He built a commodious Market-house in the said Town, which cost 90. li.  
By his last Will, he gave to the said Town, for the setting of the poor to work, a Stock of 500 li.  

To the Church of Campden.  
He gave a Bell which cost threescore and six pounds.  
He caused a Pulpit to be made, and gave a Cloth and Cushion thereto, which cost two and twenty pounds.  
He built a Gallery there, which cost eight pounds.  
He made a Window, which cost thirteen pounds.  
He gave a brass Falcon, which cost six and twenty pounds.  
He gave two Communion Cups, which cost one and twenty pounds.  
He built the Roof of the Chancel, and new leaded it, which cost 200. li.  
He repaired the Chapel by the said Chancel, supplied and new cast the Leads, which cost 20. li.  
He round walled the Churchyard, which cost 150. li.   

Within the County of Middlesex.  
He built a Session's house for the justices of Middlesex, to keep their Sessions in, which cost 600. li.  
He repaired and adorned the Chapel of Hampsted, which cost threescore and sixteen pounds.  
He caused a Window to be set up in the Chancel of Kensington, and beautified it, which cost 30. li.  
He hath given by his last Will to the said Town of Kensington, to be employed for the benefit of the poor, the sum of 200. li.   

In the City of London.  
He hath given by his last Will to Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, 100 li.  
To Christ's Church Hospital, 50. li.  
To Newgate, Ludgate, and the two other prisons of the Counters, 40. li.  
He erected a Window in Saint Laurence Church in the Old jewry, and gave a Pulpit Cloth, and a Cushion also, which cost 30. li.    

Impropriations purchased, and bestowed upon the Church.  
One in Pembrokeshire, to be given to the Town of Tewksbury in Gloucestershire; whereof one moiety goeth to the Preacher, and the other moiety to the poor, which cost 460. li.  
Another in Northumberland; whereof one moiety is to be given towards the maintenance of an able Preacher in Hampsted, the other moiety to Saint Paul's School in London, towards the maintenance of certain Scholars in Trinity College in Cambridge, which cost 760. li.  
One in the Bishopric of Durham, to be bestowed on such Churches as shall have most need thereof; according to the disposition of the Supervisers, which cost 366. li.  
Another in Dorsetshire, to be bestowed in the like manner, which cost 760. li.  
Certain Chantry Lands also in Lincolneshiere, which cost 240. li.  
He hath also given to two Ministers, to be chosen out of jesus College in Oxenford, to serve in their several places, 40. li. each man per annum, which cost 80. li.  
He hath bequeathed Legacies to several Ministers, the sum of 140. li.  
He hath given to Master A. E. during his life, yearly the sum of 100 li.  
He hath given among his household servants the sum of 300. li.   

An Epitaph made in his Memorial.  
Reader, know,  
whoe'er thou be,  
Here lies Faith, Hope,  
and Charity,  
Faith true, Hope firm,  
Charity free,  
Baptist, Lord Campden,  
was these three.  
Faith in God,  
Charity to Brother,  
Hope for himself,  
what ought he other?  
Faith is no more,  
Charity is crowned,  
'tis only Hope  
is under ground.    

Upon a Tomb in the Temple Church in London.  
Here lieth the body of Anne Littleton, Wife of Edward Littleton, of the Inner Temple, Esquire, son and heir of Sir Edward Littleton of Henly, in the County of Salop, Knight; daughter of john Littleton of Franckley, in the County of Worcester, Esquire, by Meriel, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bomley, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England. She died the vi. day of February 1623. on whom was made this Epitaph:  
Here she lies, whose spotless fame  
invites a stone to learn her name.  
The rigid Spartan, that denied  
an Epitaph to all that died,  
Unless for War or Chastity;  
would here vouchsafe an Elegy.  
She did a Wife, but yet her mind  
(beyond Virginity refined)  
From lawless fire remained as free,  
as now from heat her as●es be.  
Her husband (yet without a sin)  
was not a stranger, but her kin,  
That her chaste Love might seem no other,  
unto a husband then a brother.  
Keep well this pawn, thou marble chest,  
till it be called for, let it rest:  
For while this jewel here is set,  
The grave is but a Cabinet.   

Upon a Tomb in the Chancel in Saint Botolphs Aldersgate.  
She died a Virgin on Whitsunday, Anno Domini 1622. about eighteen years of age, and having at her death a spiritual combat with Satan about her Salvation, wherein she prevailing most cheerfully, departed from Earth to Heaven, to be married to Christ Jesus the Lord of both.  

At the bottom.  
The Monument of Mistress judeth Plate, the only Daughter of Sir Hugh Plate, Knight, with the matches of her Ancestors, and near Allies on her Father and Mother's side; as also her lineal Descent from the ancient Earls of Surry, Huntingdon, Arundel and Chester, and her spiritual conquest at her death against Satan.    

This Tomb is in Saint Bride's Church.  
Here resteth the body of Sir George Curzon, of Croxall, in the County of Derby, descended from ancient Gentry, and of long continuance in that place; who, like the Race from whence he came, was a man of upright life, religious and hospitable; He took to Wife Mary, the daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, of Lelleshull, in the County of Salop, Knight, by whom he had Walter, who died young, and Mary, than his only Daughter and Heir, who was married to Edward Sackvill, Earl of Dorset, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter; which Lady caused this Monument to be here infixed, to the sacred memory of her dear Father. He departed this life the 17. of November, 1622.   

This Tomb stands in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church.  

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Here lieth the body of Matthew Palmer, Esquire, who died the 18. of May, 1605. together with Anne his Wife, who died the last day of june, 1630. by whom he had four Sons and one Daughter, viz. Thomas Palmer, his eldest Son, deceased the fifth of May, 1631. and here also buried: Elizabeth, Edward, Andrew, and Ralph, who when as it so pleaseth God, desire this place for the custody of their bodies likewise, till their assured and glorious Resurrection.    

This Monument stands in St. Andrew's Church in Holborn.  
Antiquo Stemate Nobilis, avitis suis virtutibus clarius; hic jacet johannes Ashburnham, nuper de Ashburnham miles, qui obijt in festo Sancti Petri, 1620. Aetatis 49. Relictis conjuges charissimis johanne, Gulielmo; Elizabeth, Francisca, Anna, & Catherina.  
Domina Eliz. Ashburnham.  
Vidua F. Thomae Beaumont de Staughton in Com. Leicestr. Milit. Hoc amori & officio consulens, meritissimo viri lugubris posuit, 1621.   

This Tomb was made 1629. and stands in the Temple Church.  

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Here resteth the body of Clement Coke, of Langford, in the County of Derby, Esquire, youngest Son of Sir Edward Coke, Knight, late chief Justice of England; and of Bridget his Wife, Daughter and Coheir of john Paston of Paston, in the County of Norfolk, Esquire: this Clement married Sara, Daughter and Coheir of Alexander Rediche of Rediche, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, and of Katherine his Wife, sole daughter & Heir of Humphrey Dethick of Newal, in the County of Derby, Esquire, and had issue by the said Sara, living at his death, Edward Robert, Bridget, and Avise: he in the Inner Temple being a Fellow of the same, Christianly and comfortably in his flourishing age, yielded up his soul to the Almighty, the three and twentieth of May, Anno Dom. 1629.    

This Monument stands in Christ's Church, and was made 1627.  
near unto this place lieth buried the body of Nicholas Beaumont, of Cole-Overton, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, and Anne his Wife, the Daughter of William Saunders, of Welfard, in the County of Northampton, Esquire, by whom he had issue four Sons and two Daughters, viz. Henry, Francis, Thomas, and Hunting, Dorothy, and Katherine; the said Nicholas died the fourth of November, 1598. His Wife died the tenth of February, 1591. In remembrance of whom, this Monument was erected at the care and cost of Elizabeth Lady Ashburnham, Widow, late Wife of Sir john Ashburnham, Knight, Daughter to Sir Thomas Beaumont of Staughton, in the County aforesaid; their third son, at the appointment of her Uncle, Master Francis Beaumont, Esquire, their second Son, to whom the Erector hereof was Executrix.  

This Tomb was made 1631. and stands near the South door in Westminster.  
Michael Draiton, Esquire, a memorable Poet of this age, exchanged his Laurel for a Crown of glory, Anno Dom. 1631.  
Do pious Marble, let thy Readers know,  
What they, and what their children owe  
To Draitons name, whose sacred dust  
We recommend unto thy trust:  
Protect his Memory, and preserve his Story,  
Remain a lasting Monument of his glory:  
And when thy Ruins shall disclaim,  
To be the Treasurer of his Name:  
His Name that cannot fade, shall be  
An everlasting Monument to thee.    

The Foundation of the Armoury of that remarkable Nursery of Military Discipline, called the Artillery Garden London, was begun to be erected the first day of May, An. Dom. 1622. and was finished the last day of November than next following, Colonel Hugh Hammersley being then Precedent, Edward Pierce Treasurer, Henry Petowe Martial, and john Bingham Esquire, Captain, and one of the Council of war for this Kingdom.  
Upon which Monument these Lines following were composed.  

London's Honour, and her Citizens approved Love, exercising Arms in the Artillery Garden London.  

The Fabric. 

THis Architecture, Phoenix of our age,  
(All Europe cannot show her Equipage)  
Is Mars his Mistress, which retains the store  
Of Mars his Arms, being Mars his Paramour,  
This Fabric was by Mars his Soldiers framed,  
And Mars his Armory's this Building named.     

The Soldier's Honuor. 

It holds five hundred Arms to furnish those,  
That love their Sovereign, and will daunt His foes,  
They spend their time, and do not spare for cost,  
To learn the use of Arms, there's nothing lost;  
Both time and coin to do their Country good,  
They'll spend it freely, and will lose their blood.     

The Alderman's Love. 

Our City London is a Royal thing,  
For it is called the Chamber of our King;  
Whose worthy Senate we must not forget,  
Their Grant and our Request together met,  
They cherish us, and we do honour them;  
Where Soldiers find true love, they'll love again.     

The Ground. 

The Ground whereon this building now doth stand,  
The teasel ground hath heretofore been named.     

The Donor of the ground. 

And William, Pryor of the Hospital,  
Then of our blessed Lady, which we call  
Saint Mary spital without Bishopsgate,  
Did pass it by Indeuture, bearing date,  
januaries third day, in Henry's time,  
The eighth of that name, the Covent did conjoin.     

The Use. 

Unto the Guile of all Artillery,  
Crossbows, Handguns, and of Archery,     

The term of years. 

For full three hundred years excepting three,  
The time remaining we shall never see.     

The Counsels confirmation. 

Now have the Noble Council of our King,  
Confirmed the same, and under Charles his wing,  
We now do exercise, and of that little  
teasel ground, we enlarged Saint Mary spital,  
Trees we cut down, and Gardens added to it,  
Thanks to the Lords that gave us leave to do it.     

A loyal Subjects desire. 

Long may this work endure, and ne'er decay,  
But be supported till the latest day.  
All loyal Subjects to the King and State,  
Will say Amen, maugre Spleen or Hate.     
Mariscallus Petowe composuit.    

On a Tomb in the South wall of Saint Botolphs Church without Aldersgate, London.  
near to this place lieth buried the body of Pierce Edgcombe, in the County of Devon, Gentleman, who deceased the 8. day of july, 1628. in assured hope of a joyful Resurrection.  
Behold the end of Dust and Clay,  
O thou which livest with living eye,  
Yet doth his soul for ever reign  
With Christ, which he by faith did gain:  
In Learning he his time did spend,  
And Virtue was the only end;  
So long before his glass was run,  
With World and Vanity he had done.  
A. E. Frater ejus.   

In Saint Botolphs Church, on a Tomb there.  
Here lieth the body of Christopher Tamworth, of Grays-inn, in Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, third Son of Christopher Tamworth of Halsted, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, who died the 19 of September, 1624. being of the age of threescore and ten years.  
HE having dealt kindly and liberally with his Wife, and many of his kindred & friends, and to the poor of diverse Parishes, hath also by his Will given xx. li. of currant money of England, to the Dean and Prebends of the College of Saint Peter of the City of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, to be employed by them about the reparations of the said College Church of Saint Peter.  
And 400. marks, to the intent that with that money, there should be twenty marks worth of Lands of inheritance of yearly rent to be purchased, whereby there may be one in holy Orders maintained, to say Divine Service, such as the Church of England shall allow of, every work day in the year, twice perpetually, viz. at or about nine of the clock in the morning, and at or about three of the clock in the afternoon, in the Parish Church of Saint Botolphs without Aldersgate, London.  
And 400. li. to the end and intent that there should be 20. li. of lands of annual Revenue, of inheritance by the year bought with it, to allow perpetually to six poor men, and four poor Widows past labour, dwelling and inhabiting within the Parish of Saint Botolph aforesaid, 40. shillings a year apiece, to be paid quarterly, with this limitation, that the said poor people shall be bound to repair every work day in the year twice a day, to hear Divine Service in the Parish Church aforesaid, at the hours and terms aforesaid.  
And 200. marks more to purchase Lands of inheritance of the annual value by the year of 6. li. 3. s. 4. d. for the maintenance of one within holy Orders, to say divine Service as aforesaid, every work day in the week twice, thorough the whole year perpetually, in the Parish Church of Saint Martins in Leicester, in the County of Leicester aforesaid, at the hourses and times afore mentioned.  
All which said sums of money he willed should be actually and really delivered into the hands and possession of the Dean and Prebends of Westminster aforesaid, within xx. day's next immediately after his death, for the performance and use afore mentioned, within the space and time of two years at the uttermost, after his death.  
And having made Audrey, one of the Daughters of Charles Allayne of the Mote, in the County of Kent, Esquire, Son and Heir of Sir Christopher Allayne, Knight, his dear and loving Wife, his full Executrix, she faithfully performed the same, according to the trust reposed on her by her Husbands Will: and in remembrance of him, hath at her own cost and charges erected this Monument.   

The Gift of Sir Paul Pinder to Saint Paul's Church in London.  
SIR Paul Pinder Knight, in the time of King james, his Majesty's Ambassador many years, resident at Constantinople with the great Turk, hath of sat, to the glory of God, to the delight and content of all good Protestants, and for the better expression of his love and zeal to true Religion, beautifully and bountifully with great costs and charges, repaired the old decayed stone work of the Westfront of the Chancel in Saint Paul's Church in London, adorning the outside thereof with many fair polished pillars of black Marble, and with curious carved Statues of Kings and Bishops, the first Founders and Benefactors of the whole Fabric, and also graced the inside thereof with diverse Angels and other ornaments; he hath likewise amended and repaired all the decays and defects of the Wainscot work of the Quire, and hath further beautified the same with a fair rail of Wainscot, and a great number of Cherubins artificially carved: all which work he hath caused to be sumptuously gilded and painted with rich colours in Oil; he hath also magnificently clothed the whole Quire, and the upper part of the Presbytery, with fair and chargeable Tapestry-hanging: Whose godly and pious example, will (I hope) excite and stir up other Religious and well-minde Gentlemen, and Citizens, to perform some acts of piety and bounty towards the reparation of the same Church.  

Of the ancient Court of the Hustings.  
I Find it diversely written in Latin, Hustingum, Hustingus, Hustingia, and sometimes (but falsely) Hustangus. It is the ancientest and the highest Court of Justice, of the famous City of London. The name it takes from the place of keeping that Court (as Prytaneum did at Athens) for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (hus) among the old Saxons, signified an house, and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dhing or thing, a Cause or Plea; so that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Husthing, signified the house of Causes or Plead: whereupon in the Saxon tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Thingere, Thingarius, signified an Advocate or Lawyer: which others would perchance derive rather from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thung, or gedhung, which signified Honourable, for that the most honourable Magistrates of the City, held their Court there; like as the Lord Maior and Sheriffs, and in absence of the Sheriffs, six of the Aldermen at this day do.  
The Antiquity of this famous Court of Hustings, is much magnified by the Compiler of King Edward's Laws, cap. 35. in these words: There ought always in the City of London, which is the head City of the Kingdom and of the Laws, to be held upon every 
a This is altered unto Tuesday, because of the Sheriffs intending of the Markets: which being kept upon Monday, would hinder their sitting in the Hustings.  Monday weekly, a Court of our Sovereign Lord the King, at the Huststing. This Court was founded and built of old, after the fashion and manner, yea and in the memory of the ancient City of Troy: and even unto this day contains it within itself the Laws, and rights, and dignities, liberties, and customs Royal of that ancient and great Troy. There be handled the intricatest 
b Compta perchance the word signifies Measures rather than Accounts: for Compotus ager, is a field surveighed, whose quantities were set down in the Land mark or Terrier: and here perchance was kept a general survey of all the Lands of the Kingdom, as now in the Doomsday Book in the Exchequer. The form whereof, the Conqueror perchance took from the Hustings.  accounts and the doubtful Pleas of the Crown, and of the Court of our Lord the King, of the whole Kingdom aforesaid: and this Court hath even to this day preserved her own ancient Customs most inviolably. Thus far my Author, who (by his leave) smells too rankly of that Fabler, Geoffrey of Munmouth.  
And yet something there is in the Hustings, which might give countenance to this comparison of old Troy, namely, that the well-known weight used for Gold and Silver, called Troy-weight, was in time of the Saxons called, The Hustings weight of London, and kept there in the Hustings. So an ancient Record in the book of Ramsey, Sect. 32 and 127. I Aethelgina Countess, etc. bequeath two silver Cups of twelve marks of the Hustings weight of London.  
The former Law of the said King Edward the Confessor, commands the Hustings Court to be held every Monday, though at this day it be held upon the Tuesday: which that it may not be perceived by the Monuments and Rolls of the Court, to have differed too much from the first Institution, is yet said and written, to be holden upon the Monday. It is as it were distinguished into two Courts: for one week the judges sit upon Pleas merely real, and the next week upon Actions mixed, or of any other nature whatsoever.  
Out of the same Book of Ramsey Abbey, Sect. 268. will I here set down the ancient form of purchasing and giving of possession used in the Hustings: which is far different from the fashion used at this day. Be it known unto all the sons of holy Church, that Wlfnoth of Walebroc, London, have sold unto Reynold, Abbot of Ramsey, a certain piece of land which he had 
* Super Walbroc.  in Walebroc, whence he was called Wlfnoth of Walbroc. As also a certain house of stone, and a Shop which he had built upon that land, with doors of iron, and windows above and beneath, etc. Which said Wlfnoth hath sold that Land unto the Abbot of Ramsey, and hath given him seisin of it, by delivery of a certain staff, and hath 
* Et clamavit solam & quietam, & absque omni calumpnia.  quite claimed unto it to all encumbrance: quiet, and void of all encumbrance: both he, and Mahald his Wife and his first wife's Daughter: and Mahald his second Wife, and Henry his son by his second wife, and Christine her daughter, before the whole Husting of London, in the house of Alfwine, son of Leofstan: to be held from this day forth for ever by the Church of Ramsey, in consideration of ten pounds of pence, which he gave unto him in presence of the whole Court of Hustings; of which ten pounds, he the said Wolfnoth gave forty shillings unto Maud his daughter for her 
* Propter concessum suum. For giving up her right in it, perchance.  good will, because he had the Land by her Mother. And the Abbot for his part gave her half a mark of silver; and unto Wlfnoths' Wife, and other two children, for their good wills, he gave five shillings. Of this bargain and sale, be on the part of the Hustings these witnesses, William of Einesford, Sheriff of London, and john his Under-sheriff, and Gervase his Clerk; Andrew Bucuint, and Ralph his son, and Ralph his cousin; Gilbert Proudfoot, William Bukerell, and many others.  
This deed hath no date mentioned, but I find this Reinold to have been made Abbot of Ramsey, by King Henry the first as his Charter shows, Sect. 214. The Successor to this Reinold was one Walter but what year he was made Abbot in, I find not; but I find that he flourished Anno, 1149. that is, the fourteenth year of King Stephen. By this may you judge of the antiquity of the deed, though the precise day be not dated.  
By this passage it clearly appeareth, that London was honoured with her Sheriff's Office, even in the age of King Henry the 
* Which was above 500 years since.  first, although our Chroniclers affirm the Sheriffs to be made first by King Richard 
* Which was almost 100 years after.  the first, at his coming to the Crown: from whose time our said Chroniclers begin to reckon the first Mayor and Sheriffs, that is, from the year of our Lord 1189. But that the Sheriffs were granted unto the City, together with the County of Middlesex, plainly appears by the said King's Charter concerning the liberties of London, given in the beginning of his Reign: nor do the Mayor and Sheriffs much differ from those former Magistrates of the City, the Portreve, and Provost, as might be proved.  
Moreover, the Cities, of York, Winchester, Lincoln, the I'll of Shepey, with other Burroughs and Cities, are also said to have had their Hustings. See Fleta. Lib. 2. cap. 55.   

A brief Collection how the Court of Request, commonly called the Court of Conscience, in London, hath been established and continued for many years past, for the relief of poor Debtors in London, and the Liberties thereof, viz.  
FIrst, 
Anno 9 H. 8.  I find that primo February, Anno 9 H. 8. an Act of Common Council was made, 
The first beginning of the said Court.  that the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the same City for the time being, should monthly assign and appoint two Aldermen, and four discreet Commoners to be Commissioners to sit in the same Court twice a week, viz. Wednesday, and Saturday, there to hear and determine all matters brought before them between party and party, (being Citizens and Freemen of London) in all cases where the due debt or damage did not exceed forty shillings.  
This Act was to continue but for two years then next ensuing: But being found charitable and profitable for the relief of such poor Debtors as were not able to make present payment of their debts; 
The reasons why the said Court hath had continuation.  and to restrain malicious persons, from proceeding in their wilful Suits: and also to be a great ease and help to such poor persons as had small debts owing to them, and were not able to prosecute Suits in Law for the same elsewhere: 
Other Acts made since to the same purpose.  The same Act hath sithence been continued by diverse other Acts of Common Council: and hereby (besides the said two Aldermen monthly assigned) the number of Commissioners were increased, from four to twelve. And so by that Authority, the same Court continued till the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, etc.  
And then diverse people, being Citizens and Freemen of London (contrary to their Oaths formerly taken) repining at the authority of the same court, and not regarding the expense of any charges how great soever, so they might have their desires upon their poor Debtors, 
The malicious proceeding of cruel Creditors against poor men that claimed the benefit of the Court.  and being often animated thereunto by diverse Attorneys and Solicitors (for their own particular gain) did daily commence Suits, for such petty debts and causes against poor men (Citizens and Freemen of London) in the high Courts at Westminster, or elsewhere out of the said Court of Requests, to avoid the jurisdiction of the same Court, and to bar the said Commissioners from staying such Suits, and examining the said causes, and thereby caused the said poor men many times to pay six times as much charges as their principal debts or damage did amount unto, to the undoing of such poor men, their wives and children, and also to the filling of the Prisons with the poor so sued: where otherwise they might have got their Debts in the said Court of Requests, for very small charge and little trouble.  
For remedy whereof, & for the strengthening & establishing the said Court, an Act of Parliament was then made in Anno primo jacobi Regis, 
An. 1. jan. An Act of Parliament for confirming the power of the Court.  that every Citizen and Freeman of London, that had, or should have any Debts owing to him, not amounting to forty shillings, by any Debtors (Citizens and Free men of London) inhabiting in London or the liberties thereof, should or might cause such Debtors to be warned to appear before the Commissioners of the said Court; and that the said Commissioner, or the greater number of them, should from time to time set down such orders between such parties, plaintiff and Defendant, Creditor and Debtor, touching such debts not exceeding forty shillings, as they should find to stand with equity and good conscience.  
But sithence the making of that Act, diverse persons (intending to subvert the good and charitable intent of the same) have taken hold of some doubtful and ambiguous words therein, and have wrested the same for their own lucre and gain, to the avoiding the jurisdiction of the same Court, contrary to the godly meaning of the said Act.  
For remedy whereof, and to the intent that some more full and ample provision might be made for the further establishing and strengthening of the said Court, and for the better relief of such poor Debtors; another Act of Parliament was made, 
An. 3. l●●.  Anno 3. jas. whereby the authority of the said Commissioners were much enlarged, viz. that every Citizen and Freeman of London, 
An other Act of Parliament concerning all debts under the sum of forty shillings.  [and every other person and persons inhabiting, or that shall inhabit within the City of London, or the liberties thereof, being a Tradesman, Victualer, or Labouring man,] which have or shall have any debts owing to him or them, not amounting to forty shillings, by any Citizen or Freeman [or by any other person or persons (being a Victualer, Trades-man, or Labouring man) inhabiting within the said City, or the Liberties thereof] should or might cause such Debtors to be warned to appear before the said Commissioners of the said Court of Requests. And the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them, shall have power to set down such Orders between Plaintiff and Defendant, Creditor and Debtor, touching such debts not amounting to forty shillings, as they shall find to stand with equity and good conscience. 
Power of administering an Oath.  Also the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them, have power (by the said Act) to minister an Oath to the Creditor or Debtor, and to such Witnesses as shall be produced on each part: And also to commit to prison in one of the Counters, such Creditor or Debtor, as shall not appear upon lawful Summons, or not perform such order as the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them shall set down. And by this last Act, the said Court of Requests is established & continued to this day; and God grant it may so long continue to the relief of the poor, etc.  
Collected by Thomas Griffins, sometimes a Clerk of the same Court, etc.    

This Tomb stands in St. Giles Cripplegate Church.  

P. M. S.  
Virtute, Prudentia, Generis Nobilitate Inclytus, Clarus, Illustris, Hic jacet.  
HENRICUS STAPLETONUS E. Dioecesi Eboracensi,  
Acri Wighilnencis Olim Dominus, Aetatis Suae An. 56. ab Incarnato Verbo. 1630.  
Decimo Sexto die menfis Feb. V●tam morte mortem Immortali gloria Commutavit, atque Stipante Amicorum Syrmate collacrymantis, Patriae Cerentium vices, in hac aede elatus D. Andreae Terrae mandatus est.   

MARIA,  
johannis Fosteri Equitis Aurati, mediorum Angliae finium borialium Custodis, Filia,  
Moestissima hoc Junere vidua, tanti conjugij memor, Artemisianae pietatis aemula non magnificentia, hoc perpetuum tam meritorum ejus, quam Superstitis amoris sui, Monumentum Erigit, Consecrat, Dicat.  
By his Honourer and Kinsman, Robert Stapleton.  
There are thirteen Scutcheons of Arms.    

Upon a Tomb in Grace Church, being at the corner as you go into Fen-Church street, with this Inscription.  
To the memory of james Bun●e, Esquire, sometime Burgess of the Parliament for this City, married Mary, daughter of George Holmeden of Kent, Gentleman, by whom he had seven children, whereof living at the time of his decease, james his eldest son, who married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Gipps, Esquire, Matthew, and Mary, wife of Master john Langham, of this City Merchant; he departed this life the 26. of january, Anno 1631. aged 68  
When death cuts off a branch  
from earth's worn stem,  
Faith, hope, transports the soul  
to heaven's Diadem.  

On a Grave-stone there.  
Here lieth james Bun●e, Esquire, that departed this life the 26. of january, Anno 1631. and Mary his wife, that died the second of October, 1612.    

Upon a Grave-stone in St. Foster's Church in Faringdon Ward within, with this Inscription on it.  
here lieth the bodies of Laurence Hawes, Citizen and Fishmonger of London, about 63. years of age, and of Vrs●la his Wife, the daughter of john Hericke, of Leicester Esquire, 82. years of age; they had issue together five Sons and two Daughters, Edward, George, Humphrey, john, Dorothy, and Thomasin; he deceased the ●inth of April, 1588. and she died the 24. of November, 1614   

This Monument stands in Saint Margaret's Church in Westminster, and hath this Inscription.  
Annae, uxori suae a mantissimae & optimae, Filiae Willielmi Barlowi, Episcopi Cicestrensis, & Agathae Welsborne, generosae conjugis ejus, diem suum quinto idus Decembris, Anno Domini 1597. obeunti Westmonasterij, quo virum ad Parliamentum comitabatur; Harbartus Westfalingus, Episcopus Herefordiensis, susceptis ex ipsa quinque liberis; Harbarto, qui duxit Franciscam Rudhall generosam; Anna quae Gulielmo jeffereys Ar. Margareta, quae Richardo Eedes wigorniae Decano; Elizabetha, quae Roberto Walweyne generso; & Francisca, quae Francisco jenkes generoso nupta est.  
In memoriam virtutis, & amoris ipsius posuit.   

In the same Church is a new Monument lately erected, in the North I'll, and this Inscription on it.  
In expectation of a joyful Resurrection, near this place resteth the body of Robert Golding, Gentleman, borne in this City of Westminster, and sometime chief Burgess thereof: His Honesty, and Charitable life, gained good esteem; his Age, due and deserved respect of all. And in the house where he took beginning in his infancy, he most peaceably and piously ended his days on the 22. of November, 1629. Being always careful of his ways, charitable to the poor, and very judicious and ready in discharging of all Offices incident to the civil Government of this City, wherein he fully proceeded long before his death. He lived to see the change of four Kings and Queens, and yet in assured hope of never changing bliss, by the meritorious passion of his only Mediator, Christ Jesus: He never altered or changed from the now truly professed Religion, wherein he most constantly died in the 78. of his age▪ leaving behind him two sons and three daughters.  
To whose pious memory William Golding, his eldest son, and sole Executor, hath at his own charge erected this Monument, june 1631.   

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey, and hath this Inscription.  
Here ●es expecting the second coming of our Lord jesus Christ, the body of Edmond Spencer, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine Spirit needs no other witness, than the works which he left behind him: He was borne in London, in the year and died in the year 1596.   

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey with this Inscription. Deo Optim. Maxim.  
Hic in Domino requiescit Richardus Cox de Porters, eques Aurat: Filius  
Tertius Thomae Cox, de Beymonds Comit. Harford. Armigeri,  
In hospitio Regio per multos annos Oeconomicus, Fidelitate, Diligentia,  
Et Prudentia probatus,  
Reginae Eliz. à Dietis, Item & R●gi jacobo, cui tandem factus est  
Magister Hospitij Digniss.  
Vir Religionis Cultu, Morum Comitate, Corporis Castitate Affectuum temperantia,  
Imprimiss spectatus  
Erga Bene-meritos Amore, suos Beneficentia, Pauperes Caritate, omnes Aequitate, Clarus.  
Anno Aetatis 69. Coelebs, postquam se vitae Meliori, multâ vigilantiâ, & Devotione  
praepar âsset, Deo placidè Animam r●ddidit, 13. Decemb. 1623.  
joannes Cox de Beymonds Armiger, Frater secundus Fratri è Testamento  
Haeres, Amoris hoc Monumentum posuit.  
Deus non est Mortuorum sed viventium.   

This Monument of Master Camden is in Westminster Abbey, where he holds a Book with Britannia on it. There follows this Inscription.  
Qui fide Antiqua, & opera assidita,  
Britanicam Antiquitatem  
Indagavit,  
Simplicitatem Innatam Honest●s  
Studijs excoluit,  
Animi Solertiam Cando●e illustravit,  
Guliemus Camdenus, ab Elizabetha  
R●ad Regis Armorum  
(CLrentij Titulo) Dignitatem evucatus,  
Hic spe certa Resurgendi in Christo. S. E. Q.  
Obijt Anno Domini 1623. 9 Novembris.  
Aetatis suae, 74.   

JOHN KING Bishop of London, descended from the Ancient KINGS of Devonshire by his Father, and from the CONQVESTS of Haughton Conqnest, in Bedfordshire, by his Mother, lies buried in the South I'll of Saint Paul's, behind the Bishop's Seat, having only a plain Marble over him, and RESURGAM written on it for his Epitaph; as himself directed in his William.  
These Verses hang by in a Table.  

JOANNIS KING Episcopi Londinensis, quicquid mortale est in hoc pulvere componitur.  
HICIACET, nisi quis calumnietur,  
Mendax Transliberinus Ambulator,  
Transferri Cineres, Fidemque Romam.  
Et migrâsse semel, simulque utrumque;  
Praesul Catholicus, sed Orthodoxus.  
Non partis studiosus, evagari  
per divortia multa opinionum,  
Aut Sectas didicit novas creare:  
Quod si qui fuerint notae prioris,  
Quos vulgus facit & colit Magistros,  
His tantâ levitate non adhaesit,  
Vt persona fide magis placeret:  
Magna nomina, sed minora semper  
Isthaec omnia, Veritate duxit.  
Tantum-non fuit Ille de Locustis,  
Aut rasis Monachis, pijs que nequam,  
Vrbem qui gravidâre Septicollem:  
Qui circum Capitolium strepentes  
Romanum, velut Anseres sonori,  
Cygnaeas temerare cantilenas  
Audent, per modulamen inficetum:  
Et pro vocibus ultimis Oloris,  
Commendare suas, & Anserinas.  
Sed, quod nec Calami, nec Ora centum:  
Nec Perjuria mille de Duaco;  
Nec Satan Decumanus ille mendax;  
Nec tandem Legio Diabolorum,  
Extorquere suis strophis valebunt:  
Vnus si Deus est, Fides & una▪  
Huic uni immoriens, & Anglicanae.  
Quod si quis Logodaedalus profanus,  
Aut Famae Plagiarius Scelestus,  
Quicquam Sacrilego reponat ore:  
Si Vafer Fidei 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉,  
Qui vult de similâ Deum creare,  
Et Christum jubet innatare vino:  
Et sic Hereticos & Orthodoxos  
Confundit, facit utque symbolizent  
Plus quam Pythagorae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉,  
Seductum crepat hunc Apostatâsse:  
Tam ventosa Fides videtur illis;  
Tam ventosus & Ille Christianus;  
Vt post tot, docilis Senex, aristas,  
Accessisse putetur imparatus,  
Infansque, ad Documenta Lessian●.  
Non plures libet, Arbitros citare,  
Quam Conscire suum: quod apprecares  
Testem, Carnificamque, judicemque,  
Illi, quisquis erat Sacer Poeta;  
An plus crediderit suae Legendae,  
Quam vulgi pius ille fascinator,  
Autor plumbeus Aureae Legendae.  
Quin si jurat idem sat impudenter,  
Lingua peierat; at quid inde? Mentem  
Injuratus habet; Scioque habebit.  
Tis si credideris secus VIATOR,  
Nugis, Impliciti necessitate  
Assensus, bibulam fidem recludens,  
Si quis Ser aphicus propinet Autor;  
Veternum excutias: & absque tandem  
Susceptore, tuum pares Adultus  
Examen, tibi teque cognitorem  
Ponas, & sapias monente Amico.  
Sin sis Credulitatis obstinatae,  
Conclamatus es: ILICET. Deinceps  
Te Stultum jubeo libenter esse.  

In Diem Obitus.  
Quem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Domini fecerat Sacrium Diem,  
Et Mors coronis integri Certaminis:  
Hunc aeque Amicum Numen indulsit diem.  
Desider ando, quod prope hic, Capiti, lacet,  
Quo solveretur Vita vitalis parum.  
Dolorum utrumque dixeris recte Virum;  
Hic Saxeam, Ille Ligneam sensit Crucem,  
Hic intus, Ille bajulans Extra suam:  
Dolorum, utrique Lux posuit una & modii.  
Quin ipsa Lux haec masculum robur dedi●,  
Vt nil tremendum Mortis, incuteret metus;  
Sed Pascha verum, Transitus potius foret,  
Aeternitati Prodromus. Marmor loquax  
Spirat RESURGAM, Mysticis cand●es Notis:  
Nec ipse Sadducaeus apparet Lapis.  
Conditque tantum, non Premit Corpus: grave  
Spes ista superat pondus, & Summum petit;  
Nec detine bit mole Depositum suâ;  
Sed sponte ruptus Exitum tandem dabit.  
Cum Triduanum dormierit. Ipsus tulit  
Hanc, Christus Olim, Tertiae Lucis moram.  
(Nec mille Saecla Triduum excedunt Dei.)  
Sic tota demum, juncta Primitijs, Seges  
Egerminabit. Haec Via ad Patriam, Mori.  
Cal●ata Mors est; Surget ad Patriam vigil.  
Hanc spem fovebat Ille: quod sculptii hic legis,  
Sed Corde fixum fuerat, & Coeloratum.   

Anagram: Nominis, & Chronogr: Aetatis 62. currentis.  
JOANNES KINGUS PRAELATUS.  
EN APERTUS IONAS ANGLIKUS.   

Chronogramma Anni Domini 1621.  
●CCE CV●IO DISSOLVI, AC  
CHRISTO ADGLVTINA●L  
Philip. 1. 23. Pauli hoc dissolvi, repeti non desiit, ante Quam, quae protulerat, Lingua soluta fuit.   

EPITAPHIUM.  
Non hic Pyramides; non sculpta Panegyris ambit  
Hos Cineres; lapidum nec pretiosa strues.  
Quod fr●gale magis, Tibi Te committimus unum:  
Si jaceas aliter, vilior Vmbra fores.  
Nam Tibi qui similis vivit, moriturque, Sepulcrun  
Ille sibi vivax, & sibi Marmor erit.  
SE QVENTUR QVI NNONDUM PRAECESSERE.     

Valentine Cary, sometimes Deane of Saint Paul's Church, and after Bishop of Excester, lies buried on the South side of the Choir, under a plain Stone, with this Inscription about it.  
Hic jacet Valentinus Carey, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, olim Decaenus hujus Ecclesiae, qui obijt Episcopus Exon: Cujus Monumentum, ibidem, erectum patet. 1626.   

In the South side of the Choir of Saint Paul's Church stands a white Marble Statue on an Urn, with this Inscription over it.  
joannes Donne  
Sac. Theol. profess.  
Post varia studia, Quibus  
ab Annis Tenerrimis Fideliter,  
nec infaeliciter incubuit,  
Instinctu, & Impulsu Spir. Sancti,  
Monitu, & Hortatu Regis jacobi.  
Anno sui jesu, 1614 & suae Aetat. 42.  
Decanatu hujus Eccles. indutus  
27. Novemb. 1621.  
Exutus morte ultimo die  
Martii. An. 1631.  
Hic licet in Occiduo Cinere,  
Aspicit eum  
Cujus Nomen, est Oriens.   

Upon a faire Monument standing in the South I'll of Saint Paul's Church this is written.  

W. S.  
Gulielmus Cokaynus, Eques Auratus, Civis & Senator Londinenfis: Septemque abhine Annis, urbis praefectus, Antiqua Cokaynorum Derbiensium Familia oriundus, Quia Bono publico vixit, & damno publico decessit, & Gaudio publico, Regem jacobum, ad decorum hujus domus Dei, senescentis jam, & Corrugatae Restitudinem, solemnitèr, huc venientem, Consulatu suo, Magnificê excepit, id circo, in Templo publico, ad Aeternam Rei Memoriam,  

Hîc situs est.  
At verò, & Famae Celebritas, Quae viget in ore Hominum, & Gloria Beatitudinis, Quam Migrando adeptus est, & splendor Sobolis, quam Numerosam Genuit, atque Nobilem Reliquit, Iunctim Efficiunt omnia, ne dicatur,   

Hîc situs est.  
Vnà cum illo, tot Homines mortui, quot in illo defunctae sunt virtutes; simul que & acies Ingenij, & popularis eloquij suada, & Morum gravitas, & probitas vitae, & Candor Mentis, & Animi Constantia, & prudentia singularis, & veri senatoris Insignia,   

Hîc sepulta sunt.  
jam tuum est, Lector, Felicitatis ad Culmen Anhelare, per ista vestigia laudis, & venerandi imitatione Exempli, curare, ne unquam virtutis sic semina intereant, ut dicatur,   

Hîc sepulta sunt.  
Obijt 20. Octob Anno Dom. 1626. Et Aetatis suae 66.     

Upon another fair Monument standing by it is this Inscription. Memoriae S.  
Gulielmo Hewyr Armigero,  
Roberti Hewyt  
A. Killamarch in Agro Derbiensi,  
Filio secundo Genito,  
Qui, mortuo Fratre Natu Maiore,  
Paternam crevit Haereditatem,  
Posterisque Transmisit.  
Nobilem Mercaturam exercuit.  
Vita integerrima fuit, & Moribus  
suavissimis.  
Bonarum literarum studia promovit,  
Egenorum proventus Largiter Auxit,  
Liberalitate,  
Charitate,  
Insignis,  
Nec minor pietate.  
Religionem, cum Ministris sacris, &  
Coluit, & Fovit,  
Ita, per omnia, se ubique gessit, ut  
Probitatis,  
Comitatis,  
Candoris,  
Vivum Exemplar,  
Christum Redemptorem Cogitans  
Vitam ante Mortem Consummaverit.  
Filios Genuit Quatuor,  
joannem, Salomonem,  
Thomam, Gulielmum,  
Et Filias duas,  
Mariam, Elizabetham.  
Annum, Lxxvij. Agens,  
xii. junij. M.D.XCIX. ad patriam Coelestem evocatus,  
Magnum sui desiderium Reliquit  
Posteris,  
Qui Hoc pie ac Maeren.  
P. P.   

The Monument upon which this Inscription is set, stands in our Lady's Chapel, in S. Paul's Church: at the four corners of this fair Monument stand four jet Pillars, upon each the figure of an Angel, on the one side of it is the representation of Sir john Wolley and his Lady; on the other, of their son Sir Francis, at the head and foot of it, all in black (as Mourners) the curious and artful shadows of his two Executors, Sir Arthur Mannering, and Master john Minterne.  

The Inscription.  

WOllei clarum nomen,  
natusque paterque,  
Ambo Equites, Natus  
Franciscus patre joanne,  
Clarus ut Haeredem virtutis,  
amoris, Honoris  
Praestaret, Monumenta sibi haec,  
& utrique Parenti  
Constituit, Generis  
qui nominis unicus Haeres,  
Tam cito, tam Claros,  
est defecisse dolendum.   

Ille Pator, Lumen,  
literarum Nobile sydus,  
Oxoniae ex Meritis,  
Reginae accitus Elizae,  
Vt qui a secret is cum  
scriberet illa Latine,   

Atque a consiliis cum  
consultaret in Aula,  
Atque Periscelidis,  
qui Cancellarius esset,  
Tantum ille ingenio valuit,  
tantum instar in illo.   

Non minus omnimoda  
virtute illa inclyta Mater,  
Nobilibus Patre & Fratre  
illustrissima moris,  
Clara domi per se:  
sed Elisam ascivit Elisa,  
Clarior ut fieret,  
Wollei ornata Marite.  
Quo viduata, vire  
quo non praeclarior alter  
Nubat Egertono, Repetat  
sed mortua primum.   

Franciscus tandem, at  
nimium cîto utrumque secutus,  
Hic jacet ante pedes  
eques illustrissimus, illis  
Haecponi jussit, seque  
& tria nomina Poni:  
Sic voluit, placuit,  
superis pia grata voluntas.  
Discite mortales,  
Memores sic esse Parentum,  
Dicite qui legitis,  
sic sic petit Aethera virtus.     

The Stone bearing this Inscription, is in the middle I'll of this Church, not far from the steps to the Chancel.  
Spe Resurgendi  
Hic jacet  
Thomas Raymond  
Sacrae Theologiae  
Professor,  
Sancti Albani  
Archidiaconus,  
Hujusque Ecclesiae  
Canonicus.  
Obijt 4. die Novembris.  

Anno 

Aetatis 47.  
Salutis 1631.      

Not far from this, a Stone with these words about it.  
Hic jacet Gulielmus Bonham, nuper Civis, & Vinitarius London, Filius Thomae Bonham de Stanway in Comitatu Essex Arm. Qui obijt duodecimo Februarij. Anno Dom. 1628.   

Not far from the other.  
Over against the little North door, in the same I'll, under a fair marble stone, without any Inscription upon it, lieth buried the body of Doctor houson, late Bishop of Durham.   

This Monument is in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church, on the South side the Chancel, and hath this Inscription.  

Piae Memoriae Charissimorum Parentum.  
johannis Speed, Civis Londinensis, Mercatorum Scissorum Fratris, servi fidelissimi Regiarum Majestatum Eliz. jacobi, & Caroli nunc superstitis.  
Terrarum nostrarum Geographi acurati, & fidi antiquitatis Britannicae Historiographi, Genealogiae sacrae Elegantissimi delineatoris. Qui postquam Annos 77. superaverat, non tam morbo confectus, quam mortalitatis taedio lassatus, Corpore se levavit, julij 28. 1629. & jucundissimo Redemptoris sui desiderio sursum elatus, carnem hîc in custodian posuit, denuò cum Christus venerit, Recepturus.  

On the other side of him.  
Susannae suae suavissimae, quae postquam duodecim illi Filios, & sex Filias peperat, quinquaginta septem junctis utriusque solatijs cum illo vixerat, LIberos, gravi & frequenti Hortamine, ad Dei cultum sollicitaverat, pietatis, & Charitatis opere quotidiano praeluxerat, emori demum erudiit suo exemplo. Quae septuagenaria placidè in Christo obdormivit, & Fidei suae mercedem habuit, Martij vigessimo octavo, Anno domini Millessimo sexcentessimo vigessimo octavo.     

Another Monument on the North side the Choir, with this Inscription.  

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Hic jacet Robertus Cage Armiger, omnium literarum Homo, Vita integer, morte Christianus, nec dum mortuus, nam in memoria aeterna erit justus.  
Solus Christus,  
Mihi sola salus.  
Anno Domini 1625.    

Another Monument near to this last, with this Inscription on it.  
Here lies the body of Matthew Palmer, Esquire, who died the 18. of May 1605. together with Anne his wife, who died the last day of june, 1630. by whom he had four sons and one daughter, viz. Thomas Palmer, his eldest son, deceased the 5. of May, 1631. and is also buried. Elizabeth, Edward, Andrew, and Ralphe, who when it so pleaseth God, desire this place for the custody of theìr bodies likewise, till their assured and glorious Resutrection.   

Another Monument on the South side of the Choir, with this Inscription.  

To the Memory  
Of Constance Whitney, eldest daughter to Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney, the proper possession of him and his Ancestors, in Herefordshire, for above 500 years past. Her Mother was the fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy. of Charlecoite in Warwickshire, by Constance Kingsmell, daughter and Heir of Richard Kingsmell, Surveyor of the Court of Wards. This Lady Lucy, her Grandmother, so bred her since she was eight years old,   

Thus far written upon the figure or resemblance of a Coffin.  
As she excelled in all noble qualities, becoming a Virgin of so sweet propertion of beauty and harmony of parts, she had all sweetness of manners answerable:  
A delightful sharpness of wit;  
An offenceless modesty of conversation;  
A singular respect and piety to her Parents; but Religious even to example.  
She departed this life most Christianly, at seventeen; dying, the grief of all; but to her Grandmother an unrecoverable loss, save in her expectation, she shall not stay long after her, and the comfort of knowing whose she is, and where in the Resurrection to meet her.   

This Table is on the South side of the Choir in Saint Sepulchers, with this Inscription.  
To the living Memory of his deceased Friend, Captain JOHN SMITH, who departed this mortal life on the 21. day of june, 1631. with his Arms, and this Motto,   

Accordamus, vincere est vivere.  
HEre lies one conquered  
that hath conquered Kings,  
Subdued large Territories,  
and done things  
Which to the World  
impossible would see me,  
But that the truth  
is held in more esteem.  
Shall I report  
his former service done  
In honour of his God  
and Christendom:  
How that he did  
divide from Pagans' three,  
Their Heads and Lives,  
Types of his Chivalry:  
For which great service  
in that Climate done,  
Brave Sigismundus  
(King of Hungarion)  
Did give him as a Coat  
of Arms to wear,  
Those conquered heads  
got by his Sword and Spear?  
Or shall I tell  
of his adventures since,  
Done in Virginia,  
that large Continence:  
How that he subdued  
Kings unto his yoke,  
And made those Heathen fly,  
as wind doth smoke;  
And made their Land,  
being of so large a Station,  
A habitation  
for our Christian Nation:  
Where God is glorified,  
their wants supplied,  
Which else for necessaries  
might have died?  
But what avails his Conquest,  
now he lies  
Interred in earth,  
a prey for Worms and Flies?  
O may his soul  
in sweet Elysium sleep,  
Until the Keeper  
that all souls doth keep,  
Return to judgement,  
and that after thence,  
With Angels he may have  
his recompense.  
Captain john Smith, sometime Governor of Virginia, and Admiral of New England.   

Coya Shawsware.  
THis Monument, or that of which this is a shadow, with their Characters engraven about it, stands in Petty France, at the West end of the lower Churchyard of Saint Botolphes Bishopsgate (not within, but without the walls, the bounds of our consecrated ground) and was erected to the memory of one Coya Shawsware, a Persian Merchant, and a principal servant and Secretary to the Persian Ambassador, with whom he and his son came over. He was aged 44. and buried the tenth of August, 1626. The Ambassador himself, young Shawsware his son, and many other Persians, (with many expressions of their infinite love and sorrow) following him to the ground between eight and nine of the clock in the morning. The rites and ceremonies that (with them) are due to the dead, were chiefly performed by his son, who sitting crosslegged at the North end of the grave, (for his Tomb stands North and South) did one while Reade, another while Sing; his Reading and Singing intermixed with sighing and weeping. And this, with other things that were done in the Grave in private (to prevent with the sight the relation) continued about half an hour.  
But this was but this day's business: for, as this had not been enough to perform to their friend departed, to this place and to this end (that is, Prayer, and other funeral devotions) some of them came every morning and evening at six and six, for the space of a month together. And had come (as it was then imagined) the whole time of their abode here in England, had not the rudeness of our people disturbed and prevented their purpose.   

Camera Dianae.  
Upon Paul's wharf Hill, within a great gate, and belonging to that gate next to the Doctor's Commons, are many fair Tenements, which in their Lea●es made from the Dean and Chapter, go by the name or title of Camera Dianae; so denominated from aspacious and specious building, that in the time of Henry the second, stood where they now are standing.  
In this Camera, or arched and vaulted Structure (full of intricate ways and windings) this H. the second (as sometime he did at Woodstock) did keep, or was supposed to have kept, that jewel of his heart, fair Rosamond; she whom there he called Rosa Mundi; and here, by the name of Diana; and from hence had this house that title.  
To this day are remains, and some evident testifications of tedious turnings and windings; as also of a passage under ground, from this house to Caste-Baynard, which was no doubt the King's way from thence to his Camera Dianae, or the Chamber of his brightest Diana.   

Of the three Brethrens appointed to preach at Saint Maires spital at Easter 1632.  
HAving renewed the memory of this, from a time so long before us, let us remember and endeavour to maintain to posterity, among many memorable things of our own time, that of those three worthy Brethren, Doctor Samuel Wincope, Master Thomas Wincope, and Master john Wincope, learned and reverend Divines, that upon Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, in Easter week, 1632. preached at Saint Mary's spital. Three Brothers, such a thing (as but in these) is not known to any man living, nor recorded to any man's reading. Yet to this let me add this more, being called to this place to preach, from places divided by many miles one from another other, they met not so happily here to preach, as in the matter upon which they did preach: for though their Texts were several, their subject was one and the same, this is worthy our observation; yet to make it worth admiration, and a perpetual memory, we are to take notice, how upon that one and the same subject, they did precede and succeed one the other like the links in a golden chain, the second beginning where the first ended, and the third where the second ended; the last absolutely concluding what the two former had so absolutely induced to, with their admirable ends and uses.   

A brief relation of the six children drowned at the Ducking pond, january 19 1633.  
Upon Saturday the 19 of january, 1633. six pretty young Lads, going to sport themselves upon the frozen Duckingpond, near to Clearken well, the Ice too weak to support them, fell into the water, concluding their pastime with the lamentable loss of their lives: to the great grief of many that saw them dying, many more that afterward saw them dead, with the in-expressible grief of their Parents.   

A brief Relation of that lamentable Fire, that happened on London Bridge, the 13. of February 1633.  
FRom this let us turn, our eyes upon that lamentable Fire upon London bridge, that upon Monday the 13. of February, 1633. between eleven and twelve towards midnight gave us ashes in stead of Beauty: the ashes, into which the third part of the Bridge was consumed, for the beautiful Frames so consumed.  
The number of the houses then burnt on both sides the Bridge, from the Church called Saint Magnus, to the first open place, were two and forty; all which (with a great part of their wares, the goods, and rich furniture in them) were devoured to the ground (though many hands, much labour, with a great deal of fear and danger, were carefully employed to prevent it) before eight of the clock the next morning. Thus suddenly they were burnt to the ground, all above ground quenched and extinguished, but beneath in their Vaults and Cellars, the fire remained glowing and burning for the space of a whole week after.  
The house in which it began was the house of one Master Brigs (at the hither end of the Bridge) a Needle-maker: but now it began, because divesly spoken by many, I would not set down from any.  
The loss was great and sudden, presenting (as a glass) the length of a lease or of life, when such a sad chance shall betide us. Though getting a long lease of our lands, we presume of a lease of our lives, of a long and secure possession; like those in the 4. of james, that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a City, and continue there for a year, and buy, and sell, and get money. They will go, they will stay, they will get, such losses as these never thought on; though the same Prophet (in the same place) tell them, They know not what the morrow may bring with it.    

A PERAMBULATION OR, CIRCVIT-WALKE four miles about LONDON: And what Memorable matters and Monuments we have found and met withal in our journey.  
In the Church at Fulham are these ensuing Monuments.  

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancel, and hath this Inscription.  
HIc situs est Gulielmus Biliesby, 
Fulham.  Eques Auratus, Fisci Regij ostiarius, cum Anna uxore, è Familia Brogravia, quae illi peperit duas Filias, Franciscam, & Margaretam, totidemque Eilîos, qui infants objerunt.  
Obijt ille 25. Martij 1607.  
Illa 27. Maij 1608.  
Francisca Filia primogenita, primum n●●pta joanni Madocks Armigero, postea Thomae Walker Armigero, Fisci Regij ostiario. Obijt die 6. Novembris 1607. & hic parentibus tumulatur. Margar. altera Flia enupta Hugoni Parlour, de Plumsted Armigero. Obijt & in Ecclesia Sanct. Margaretae Westmonasterij Requiescit.   

Another Monument on the South side the Choir, with this Inscription.  

D. O. M.  
Thomae Smitho Equiti Aurato, Regij Majestati, à supplicum libellis, & ab Epistolis Latinis, viro doctrina, prudentiaque singulari, Francisca Guil. Baronis Chandos filia, optimo Marito Conjux Moestiss. plorans posuit. Obijt 28. die Novemb. 1609.    

Another Monument on the South side the Choir, with this Inscription.  
Epitaphium D. Gulielmi Brutij Equitis Aurati, & Medici Regis Henrici octavi, qui obiis An. Dom. 1545. Novem. 17.  
Quid Medicina valet?  
quid Honos? quid Gratia Regum?  
Quid popularis Amor,  
Mors ubi saeva venit?  
Sola valet pietas,  
quae structa est, Auspice Christo  
Sola in morte valet,  
caetera cuncta fluunt.  
Ergo mihi in vita  
fuerit quando omnia Christus,  
Mors mihi nunc lucrum,  
vitaque Christus erit.  
Epitaphium hoc primitus inscriptum pariete, & situ jam penè exesum, sic demum restituit Leonardus Butts Armiger Norfolciensis. Oct. 30. 1627. Amoris ergo.   

Another Monument near to this last, with this Inscription on it.  
At Earth in Cornwall  
was my first beginning,  
From Bonds and Corringtons,  
as it may appear:  
Now to Earth in Fulham,  
God disposed my ending,  
In March the thousand  
and six hundred year  
Of Christ, in whom  
my body here doth rest,  
Till both in body and soul  
I shall be fully blessed.  
Thomas Bond. Obijt Anno Aetatis suae 68   

In the Church at Putney are these ensuing Monuments.  

This Monument is in the Chancel on the North side, and hath this Inscription.  

Memoriae Sacrum.  
HEre lieth the body of Richard Lusher of Putney, 
Putney.  in the County of Surrey Esquire: who married Mary, the second Daughter of George Scot of Staplefoord Taune, in the County of Essex, Esquire. He departed this life the 27. of September, Anno 1615. Aetatis sua 30.  

What tongue can speak  
the virtues of this creature,  
Whose Body fair,  
whose Soul of rarer feature?  
He lived a Saint,  
he died a holy Wight,  
In Heaven, on earth,  
a joyful heavy sight.  
Body Soul united,  
agreed in one,  
Like strings well tuned  
in an Vnisone.  
No discord harsh  
this Navel could untie,  
'Twas Heaven, the Earth,  
this Music did envy.  
Wherefore may well be said.  
He lived well;  
And being dead,  
the world his virtues tell.   

Though Richard Lusher  
sleepeth in the dust,  
He sleeps in hope,  
and hopes to live again:  
His soul in Heaven  
is waking with the just,  
And wakes in joy,  
being freed from sense of pain,  
Bones take your rest,  
your soul in Heaven attends,  
The blessed reunion  
of two loving friends.   
Marito dilectissimo, Maria Lusher conjux Moestissima, in perpetuum Amoris Testimonium, hoc Monumentum plorans posuit.  
Marry, by her first match, Lusher, daughter of George Scot, Esquire, descended from john Scot, Lord chief Justice of England, in the reign of King Edward the third, and after wife to Thomas Knivet, descended from john Knivet Knight, Lord chief Justice in the same King's reign, and Lord Chancellor of England.   

To Thomas Knivet.  
That you have laid  
my body here,  
By that first side  
I loved so dear,  
I thank you Husband:  
That the poor  
Are still your care,  
I thank you more.  
These last I charged  
you with alive,  
Being done, I rest,  
while you survive.  
But yet I have  
another Boon,  
When Fate shall come  
(as come full soon  
It will, and will  
not be denied)  
That you would close  
my other side.  
Y'ave thought it worthy  
to be read  
You once were second  
to my bed;  
Why may you not  
like title have,  
To this my second bed,  
the Grave?  
This Stone will cover  
us all three,  
And under it  
we shall be free  
From Love, or Hate,  
or least distrust  
Of Jealousy  
to vex our dust:  
For here our bodies  
do but wait  
The summons for  
their glorious state.    

On the same Monument is this Inscription. Quam Diu Domine. Siste Siste Hospes:  
Quod Reliqui est Lectissimae Foeminae  
Te Rogitat,  
Etiam ego, superstes Maritus,  
superstes ipse Funeri meo.  
Nam in Conjuge, Conjunx vixi,  
et cum illa Elatus sum.  
Maria, mea Maria,  
Dulcissima Maria  
Hic sita est.  
Cor Gratiarum, flos venustatis Merus,  
Sedes amorum, Castitatis exemplar  
Tanti erga me affectus  
Talisque.  
Morum ac vitae perpetuae Sanctimoniae,  
ut vivens, Moriensque,  
Singulari Praeluxerit Face  
omoibus  
Vel ordinis sui, vel sexus.  
Heu qualem amisi  
Ex puerperio Raptam?  
Et cum ea, spem Posteritatis.  
Sic me relinquis? Sic Terras deseris?  
O Christianae perfectionis Imago,  
Injuriarum contemptrix Facilis,  
Doloribus Ferendis Fortis:  
Omnes in te certabant virtutes  
sed vicit Pie●as.  
Fulges etiam in ipsa mortis umbra,  
Divini amoris d●m vixisti Flamma  
Et Postquam vixisti Astrum.  
Vale, Vale Maria:  
Nullum de te dolorem  
Nisi ex Acerbissima tua morte  
Accepi.  
At (Cara Conjunx) non ego te desinam  
Lugere, donec vi doloris obrutus  
Meis & ipse liquero luctum parem.  
M. S.  
Mariae  
Pientissimae Mariae  
Cui lucis ortum Staplefordia dedit,  
Genusque Scottorum Familia vetus,  
Georgiae Filiae & Cohaeredi:  
Primis Nuptijs Richardo Lushero junctae,  
Nicholai Equitis Aurati Filio;  
Proximis mihi Thomae Knivetto,  
Maritorum Moestissimo.  
Obijt xxvij. Aug. CIO. JOC. twenty-three.  
Aetatis 35.    

In the Church at Chelsey, are these ensuing Monuments.  

In the South side of the North Ile is this inscription.  
In obitum illustrissimi viri, 
Chelsey.  Domini Arthuri Gorges, Equitis Aurati, Epicedium.  

Transtulit Lucanum 

Te deflent Nati, Natae, Celeberima Conjux;  
Te dolet argutae, magna  
Caterva scholae;  
At Lucanus ait, se vivo, non Moriturum  
Arthurum Gorges, Transtulit ipse decus,  
Aethereas Cupiens Arthurus adire per Auras,  
Et nonus ex ejus Nomine Natus adest. 

Domin? Arth. Gorg. Equ. Aurat. Filius eius Natu Maximus.         

In the same I'll on the South side is this inscription.  
Here ●ieth the right Noble and Excellent Princess, Lady jane Guildford, late Duchess of Northumber land; Daughter and sole Heir unto the right Honourable, Sir Edward Guildford, Knight, Lord Warden of the five Ports. The which Sir Edward, was son to the right Honourable, Sir Richard Guildford, sometimes Knight, and Companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter. And the said Duchess was wife to the right High and Mighty Prince, john Dudley, late Duke of Northumberland; by whom she had issue 13. children, that is to wit, eight sons and five daughters: and after she had lived 46. years, she departed this transitory world at her Manor of Chelsey, the 22. day of January, in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady, Q. Marry the first, An. 1555. on whose soul Jesus have mercy.   

Another on the South side, thus inscribed.  
In obitum Nobilissimorum Conjugum Gregorij D. Dacres, & Annae uxoris.  
Quos ardens copulavit Amor,  
juvenilibus annis,  
Abstulit atra dies,  
mors inopina rapit;  
Ille prior Fatis, Dacrorum  
Nobile Germen  
Occidit, In Morbum,  
at incidit illa prius.  
Quae languescendo, Miserae  
praetedia vitae  
Sensit, tam dulci conjuga  
Cassa su●.  
Vt teneri cordis concordia  
junxerat ambos,  
Sic idem Amborum contegit  
ossa locus.  
Quos jungit tumulus,  
conjungunt coelica Tecta,  
Vt teneant Coelum,  
qui tenuere fidem.  
Nobilis iste Vir obijt, Septem. 25. 1594.  
Nobilis ista Mulilier obijt, Maij 14. 1595.  
Nobilis Anna jaces,  
prudens Sackvillia proles  
Viva tui defles  
funera Moesta viri.  
Nil mortale placet,  
Coelum tua pectora spirant,  
Postquam Parca viri,  
conscidit Atra, diem  
Foeminei lux Clara chori,  
pia, casta, pudica,  
Aegris subsidium,  
Pauperibusque decus.  
Fida deo, perchara tuis,  
constansque diserta,  
Vt patiens M●rbi,  
sic pietatis amans.  
O quoties manibus passis,  
ad culmina Coeli,  
Hanc Animam dixti,  
suscipe quaeso Deus  
Menspia, Coelestis patriae  
pervenit ad Arcem,  
Hic tumulus corpus,  
mentis inane tenet.   

Another Monument on the North side the Chancel, and hath this inscribed.  
O Lord, in thee have I trusted,  
Let me never be confounded.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Hungerford of Chilsey in the County of Middlesex Esquire; the second son of Robert Hungerford the elder, of Cadname in the County of Wilth Esquire; who hath served King Henry the 8. in the roomth of a Gentleman Pensioner, and was with his Majesty at the winning of Boloine; and King Edward the sixth at Mussleborough field; besides Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, in their affairs, being of the age of 70. years, who had to Wife Ursula Matdenhead, the Daughter of the Lady Sands. Anno Domini 1581.   

Another on the North side with this inscription.  
The years wherein I lived  
were fifty four,  
October twenty eight  
did end my life:  
Children five of eleven  
God left in store,  
Sole comfort to their mother,  
and my wife.  
The world can say  
what I have been before,  
What I am now,  
examples still are rife:  
Thus Thomas Laurence  
speaks to times ensuing,  
That Death is sure,  
and Time is passed renewing.  
Obijt. 1593.   

On the South side  

a Monument of Sir Thomas Moor, dated Anno Domini. 1532.  
   

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.  
Sacrum Memoriae Gulielmi Plumbe Armigeri & Elizabethae Vxoris ejusdem.  
Guilielmus Plumbe, Filius & Haeres joannis Plumbe, de Eltham Armigeri. Duas Vxores duxit; priorem Magaretam, Filiam, & unicam Haeredem Thomae Nevill Equitis, quam Robertus Southwell Eques viduam Reliquerat, Ex qua nullam prolem Genuit. Alteram Elizabetham, ex qua unicus filius n●tus est, Franciscus Plumbe. Elizabetha, unica Filia & Haeres Edvardi Dormer de Fulham Armigeri, Filij natu minimi Galfridi Dormer de Thame Armigeri. Priorem conjugem habuit johannem Gresham, de Mayfield, in Comitatu Sussexiae Armigerum, & secundum filium johannis Gresham Equitis (quondam Majoris London) cui tres peperit filios, Thomam, Guilielmum, & Edvardum Gresham, eo defuncto Guilielmum Plumbe praedictum conjugem accepit. Guilielmus Plumbe, obijt 9 die Febr. Anno 1593. Aetatis suae 60.    

In the Church at Stepney are these ensuing Monuments.  

On a Monument in the Chancel is this Inscription.  
ONe ancient Monument of Sir Henry Collet, 
Stepney.  Knight, twice Lord Mayor of London, and free of the Mercers, and Father to Doctor john Collet sometimes Deane of Saint Paul's, refreshed by the Company of Mercers in the year 1605. on the North side.    

In the upper end of the Chancel.  
In the upper end is a fair Monument of Elizabeth Startute, erected by Captain Michael Miriall, and Clare his Wife, sometime Daughter to the said Elizabeth Startute.   

On the North side of the Chancel, as followeth.  
Here resteth the body of Robert Clarke Esquire, son of Roger Clarke Esquire, late Alderman of the City of London, a man humble in prosperity, & a liberal distributer to the poor, courteous and affable to all, an upright and a just dealer in this world, and a most religious seeker of the world to come. He had to wife Margarita, daughter to john Langton Esquire, sometimes Governor of the English Company in Sprucia, under the King of Polonia, who lived together in great love and integrity almost six years, he had by her one only Daughter, named Frances, who lived one year three quarters, and here lies interred with her most dear and loving Father.  
In whose memory the said Margarita, to express her true love and affection, hath caused this Monument to be erected; he died the xxx. day of May, Anno Dom. 1610. having lived xxxuj. years.   

A little Monument on the South side in the Chancel, and hath this Inscription.  
Genero suo Guilielmo Dawtrey, quondam Lincolniensis Hospitij socio, Willielmi Dawtrey Sussexiae Armigeri, Filio & Haeredi, viro ingenij acumine, mentis acie, & non vulgari Municipalium Angliae legum scientia praecellenti, Richardus Stonley Armiger, hoc Amoris, & pietatis simbolum posuit. Obijt 16. Octobris 1589.   

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancel, and hath this Inscription.  

Sacrae Memoriae.  
janae Nevillae Dominae Dethicke Matronae Religiosissimae, Modestissimae, omnibus qua corporis, qua Animi (dum vixit) dotibus ornatissimae: jesu Christi servae devotissimae; conjugi suae fidelissimae, amantissimae. Quae cum viginti fere duos Annos felicissime transegerat. Alexander Nevillus Armiger, hoc nunquam intermorituri amoris sui Monumentum fieri Testamento curavit. Postquam Annos ferè sexaginta novem vixerat vicessimo nono Novembris 1606. placidissimè in Domino obdormivit.  
Tobiah Worthington, Alexandro Nevillo, ex Testamento solus Executor, ipsius mandato, hoc Monumentum posuit.    

On a little brass Monument in the South side of the Chancel is thus written.  
Here under lieth buried Nicholas Gibson, Citizen and Grocer of London, and Avis his wife, who were Founders of the Free-school at Ratcliff; and after she married with Sir Anthony Knevit, Knight, which lieth here buried also. Which Nicholas died the twenty-three. of September, Anno 1510. And the said Lady Avis died the third day of October, 1554. whose souls Jesus pardon.   

In that Chancel likewise this is written.  

D. O. M.  
Here under was laid up the body of Sir Thomas Spert, Knight, sometime Controller of the Navy to King Henry the eighth, and both the first Founder and Master of the worthy Society or Corporation of the Trinity-house. He lived ennobled by his own worth, and died the eighth of September, in the year 1541. To whose pious memory the said Corporation hath gratefully erected this Memorial.  
Not that he needed  
Monument of stone,  
For his well got fame  
to rest upon,  
But this was reared,  
to testify that he  
Lives in their loves,  
that yet surviving be.  
For unto virtue,  
who first raised his name,  
He left the preservation  
of the same:  
And to postery  
remain it shall,  
When Brass and Marble  
Monuments do fall.  
Learn for to die  
while thou hast breath,  
So shalt thou live  
after thy death.  
Anno Domini 1622. by the Company of the Trinity-house, this Monument was erected 81. years after the decease of their Founder.    

Another Monument in the same Chancel.  
Here lieth also in the same Chancel, under the Communion Table, the body of Henry Steward, Lord Darley, of the age of three quarters of a year, Son and Heir of Matthew Steward Earl of Lenox, and Lady Margaret his Wife, which Henry, deceased the 28. day of November, in the year 1545. whose soul jesus pardon.   

In Stratford-Bow, and Bromley, are these ensuing Monuments.  

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Abrahamus jacob Armiger, Maria Conjux Superst, maestis. Obijt 6. Maij. A. D. 1629. Aetatis suae 56.  

Hic tumulus  
PArentes optimi cum prole numerosâ, 
Stratford-Bow and Bromley.  non vestrae virtutis, sed Doloris mei Monumentum esto. Quam uterque erga Deum Pius, quam Regi suo obsequens, & commodus; quam amicis Fidus, quam Patriae utilis, quam pauperibus benignus, aliorum esto effari, meum imitari, pij Lectoris supplere, quod Filialis modestia Retinuit.   

Valete Posteri.  
Sic in Christo & vivite, & morimini. joh. jacob. F. Parentibus maerens merentibus P.  
As Nurses strive  
their Babes in bed to high,  
When they too liberally  
the wantoness play:  
So to prevent  
his future grievous crimes,  
Nature his Nurse  
got him to bed betimes.     

On another Monument in the same Church is thus written.  
Here lies the body of William Ferrars, the only Son and Heir of William Ferrars Esquire, late Citizen and Mercer of London, who took to wife jane, one of the Daughters of Sir Peter Van-lore of London, Knight, by whom he had one Child, his Wife and Child died both before him, and he departed this life a month before his Father. He was a Gentleman of a religious soul towards God, and a sweet behaviour towards men, and his death was by his Kindred, and generally by all much lamented. He died the 25. of August, 1625. and left his Uncle Thomas Ferrars his Executor, who to the memory of him hath erected this small Monument.  

In this most pure and blessed shade,  
(Such by the sacred ashes made,  
That here inhabit must) does lie  
The man, whose virtues cannot die.  
His Alms, his Prayers, his Piety,  
Have sent his soul above the sky.   

Nature full well had taught his Wife,  
To sum her hourses in ploughs' life;  
To God, to Friend, to poor, to all,  
She was as good as we dare call  
Frail flesh; good passenger give praise  
To them who lived such happy days.  
Anno Domini 1625.   

In the same Church this is written.  
This Bread is given to the poor for the honour of God, and to the memory of William Ferrars the younger, by Thomas Ferrars his Executor.    

In the Church at Lambeth are these ensuing Monuments.  

On the North side on a Marble Tomb as followeth.  
HEre under this Tomb lieth buried the body of Thomas Clere Esquire, 
Lambeth.  son of Robert Clerc in the County of Norfolk, Knight, which Thomas deceased the 14. day of April, Anno Domini 1545. on whose soul, and all Christian souls, Jesus have mercy.    

In the Chancel on the North side is an old Tomb of Marble, thus written on.  
Sub pedibus ubi statis, jacet corpus Magistri Hugonis Peyntwin, Legum Doctoris, nuper Archi. Cant. Reveredissimorum Patrum Don. joannis Morton Cardinalis, Henrici Dene, & William Warham Cant. Archiepiscop. Audien. Causar. Auditoris. Qui obijt vi. die Augusti, Anno Dom. M. D. iiij. cujus Animae Propicietur Deus. Amen.   

On a flat Stone there is thus written.  
Volente Deo.  
Hic jacet Richardus Bancroft, S. Theologiae Professor, Episcopus Londinensis Primo, deinde Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus, & Regi Iacobo à Secretioribus Consiliis. Obiit secundo Novembris, Anno Dom. 1610. aetatis suae 67.  
Volente Deo.   

On another flat Stone thus is written.  
Here Lieth the Lady Elizabeth Howard, sometimes Countess of Wiltshire.   

On the South side  
Lieth the body of Sir Nowell Caroone, Ledger Ambassador for the States of Holland, with his Arms and Hatchments, as namely his Crest, Helmet, Arms, Sword, Gauntlet, and Spurs.   

In the South chapel is a fair Monument of Marble, engraven as followeth.  
Here lieth Sir john Legh Knight of the Bath, son of Ralph Legh Esquire, Lord of the Manors of Stockwell and Levehurst, and Dame Isabel his wife, Daughter of Otwell Worsley, which Sir john deceased the 17. day of August, Anno Dom. M. D. twenty-three. and the same dame Isabel deceased the 18. day of April.   

On the upper end on the wall, a Monument as followeth.  
Here lieth the body of john Arundel of Gwarnicke, in the County of Cornwall, Esquire, Son and Heir of Roger Arundel, of the said County, Esquire, of an Ancient, Honourable, and fair descended Family, who died the 25. of May, 1613. without issue, and in the 56. year of his age.  
Sape & praevale.   

On the North side of the Choir is this Inscription.  
near to this place, lieth interred, the body of Robert Scot Esquire, descended of the ancient Barons of Bawery in Scotland. He bent himself to travel, and study much, etc. And amongst many other things, he einvented the Leather Ordinance, and carried to the King of Sweden 200. men; who after two years' service, for his worth and valour, was preferred to the office of Quarter Master general of his Majesty's Army; which he possessed three years. Fron thence, with his favour, he went into Denmark (where he was advanced to be General of that King's Artillery.) There being advised to render his service to his own Prince, which he doing, his Majesty willingly accepted and preferred him to be one of the Gentlemen of his most Honourable Privy Chamber, and rewarded him with a Pension of 600. li. per annum.  
This deserving Spirit, adorned with all Endowments befiting a Gentleman; in the prime of his flourishing age, surrendered his soul to his Redeemer, 1631.  
Of his great worth to knew  
who seeketh more,  
Must mount to Heaven,  
where he is gone before.  
In France he took to wife Anne Scot, for whose remembrance she lovingly erected this Memorial.   

This Monument is near unto the other, and hath this Inscription.  
Epitaphium Thomae Clarear, qui fato functus est, 1545. Auctore Henrico Howard, Comite Surrey, in cujus foelicis ingenij specimen, & singularis Facundiae argumentum, appensa fuit haec Tabula per W. Howard Filium Tho. nuper Ducis Norff. Filij ejusdem Henrici Comitis.  
Norfolk sprung thee,  
Lambeth holds thee dead:  
Clere, of the Count  
of Clerimont thou hight:  
Within the womb  
of Ormonds' race thou bred,  
And sawest thy Cousin  
crowned in thy sight.  
Shelton for love,  
Surrey for Lord thou chase;  
Ay me, while life did last,  
that league was tender,  
Tracing whose steps,  
thou sawest Kelsall blaze,  
Laundersey burned,  
and battered Bulleyn's render,  
At Muttrell gates,  
hopeless of all recure,  
Thine Earl half dead,  
gave in thy hand his will,  
Which cause did thee  
this pining death procure,  
E'er Summers four times seven  
thou couldst fulfil.  
Ay Clere, if love had booted,  
care or cost,  
Heaven had not won.  
nor Earth so timely lost.   

Over against the other in the same I'll, lieth the body of Elizabeth Bayly, late wife of john Bayly. Obijt 24. of june, Aetatis suae 25.  
Reader tread soft,  
under thy foot doth lie,  
A mother buried  
with her progeny:  
Two Females and a Male,  
the last a son,  
Who with his life,  
his Mother's thread hath spun;  
His breath her death procured  
(unhappy sin,  
That thus our joy  
with sorrow ushers in.)  
Yet he being loath to leave  
so kind a Mother,  
Changes this life  
to meet her in another.  
The daughter's first  
were robbed of vital breath,  
The Mother next  
in strength of years met death,  
The Father's only joy,  
a hopeful Son,  
Did lose his life  
when life was scarce begun.  
If harmless Innocence,  
if loyal truth,  
Found in a constant wife  
combined with youth,  
If a kind Husband's prayers,  
or Father's tears  
Could have prevailed,  
they had lived many years.  
But these all failing,  
here raked up in dust,  
They wait the resurrection  
of the just.  
A Husband's love,  
a Father's piety,  
Dedicates this  
unto their memory:  
And when he hath his debt  
to Nature paid,  
In the same Grave  
himself will ●hen be laid,  
That altogether,  
when the Trump shall sound,  
Husband, Wife, Children,  
may in Christ be found.   

Another Monument on the South side the Choir, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth four foot distant from this wall, the body of William Suthes, Gent. a man adorned with the gifts of Grace, Art, and Nature: by Grace he was Religious and Charitable; by Art he was in Masonry exquisite; and by Nature he was humane and affable. He, by God's appointment, changed his mortal life of misery for glorious immortality on the fifth of October 1625. His sorrowful and grateful Wife, Mistress Anne Suthes, as a loyal Testimony of her love to her deceased Husband, caused this Monument to be erected for an exemplary of his worthiness, and her affection. He was Master Mason of Windsor Castle; he was a Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and an Assistant of the said Worshipful Company. He left three sons towardly and hopeful, to be each of them the imitators of their Father's virtues, john, james, and Matthew. And herein the Reader may see expressed the goodness of the deceased Husband, and the thankfulness of a surviving Wife.  
He now sings praise  
amongst the heavenly Host,  
To God the Father,  
Son, and holy Ghost.   

In the Church at Newington, on the North side, is this Monument.  

Deo viventium. Pietati sacrum.  
SIr Hugh Brawn, 
Newington.  Knight, the Founder and Adorner of this I'll, and for the space of 22. years, the whole ornament of this Parish; Religious towards God, and respectful of the poor, determining to provide for the day of his death, desires here to repose his body, in a happy hope of a glorious Resurrection.  
Reader it pleased  
th'Almighty to infuse,  
Sense of his goodness  
in my blessed heart,  
Faith quickened Love,  
and did this Churchworke choose,  
Both jointly here  
do show themselves in part:  
His be the glory, Peace,  
(soul saving) mine,  
Prayer, Thanksgiving use,  
example thine.  
1614 Vivens posui. Anno Aetatis 77.    

In Saint George's Church in Southwark, on the North side are these Monuments thus written on.  
Lo, 
S. George's.  Master William Evans,  
he whose body lieth here,  
Bequeathed hath by his last will,  
for ever by the year  
Ten pound eight shillings to the poor,  
which is a blessed stay,  
And must be given them in bread,  
on every Sabbath day:  
One half to Creekens poor,  
his native soil so dear,  
The other moiety to the poor  
of this our Parish here.  
See now all ye that love the poor,  
how God did guide his ways;  
Tenscore & eight are served with bread,  
in two and fifty days,  
More than money would have done,  
to yielded any share:  
Praise God, ye poor, who gave to him  
so provident a care.  
He was of the Right Worshipful Company of the Merchant-Taylors, and deceased the 29. of july, Anno 1590. in the 32. year of the most prosperous reign of our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth. Aetatis suae 67.   

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription.  
Behold, james Savage, graciously  
Hath done a godly deed;  
To the poor of this Parish,  
For to relieve their need,  
Five pounds a year for evermore,  
By will he hath bequeathed,  
Which must out of the Angel rends  
Quarterly be received,  
By the Churchwardens of this Church  
Whom he hath put in trust,  
As Fathers in the poors behalf,  
To be upright and just.  
Which men, I doubt not, but our God  
Who seeth all things shall find,  
True in dispensing of the same  
According to his mind.  
Ye poor, thank Christ for Savage still,  
Extol God's Name with praise,  
That he, to follow his good Act,  
In time may many raise.  
Anno 1588.   

In the Church at Wansworth, are these ensuing Monuments.  

In the North side of the Chancel is thus written.  
Under a Stone, 
Wansworth.  within this place,  
doth lie john Powel, who for the space  
Of thirty years before Her death,  
did serve the Queen Elizabeth:  
And to King james of worthy fame,  
for nine years more he did the same:  
And when the years of seventy four,  
were now come to an end,  
Into the hands of God above,  
his soul he did commend.  
Obijt 26. die junij.  
Anno Dom. 1611.    

At the upper end of that Chancel, is thus written.  
Here lieth the body of Henry Smith, Esquire, sometime Citizen and Alderman of London, who departed this life the 30. day of january, An. Dom. 1627. being then near the age of 79. years, who while he lived, gave unto these several Towns in Surry following, one thousand pounds a piece, to buy Lands for perpetuity for the relief and setting the poor people on work in the said Towns, viz. To the town of Croyden, one thousand pounds; To the town of Kingston, one thousand pounds; To the town of Guildford, one thousand pounds; To the town of Darkin, one thousand pounds; To the town of Farneham, one thousand pounds. And by his last Will and Testament did further give and device, to buy lands for perpetuity for the relief and setting their poor on work, unto the town of Rigate one thousand pounds. And unto this town of Wandsworth, wherein he was borne, the sum of 500 pounds, for the same uses as before. And did further will and bequeath one thousand pounds to buy land for perpetuity, to redeem poor Captives and Prisoners from the Turkish tyranny. And not here stinting his charity and bounty, did also give and bequeath the most part of his estate, being to a great value, for the purchasing lands of inheritance for ever for the relief of the poor, and setting them on work.  
A pattern worthy the imitation of those whom God hath blessed with the abundance of the goods of this life to follow him herein.   

Another Monument on the South side the Choir, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Edward Snow of Chicksands, in the County of Bedford, Esquire: in memory of whom, Em his Wife, daughter to William been, in the County of Sussex, Esquire, erected this Monument; he had issue Elizabeth, Alice, and Sarah. He deceased at the Manor of Alfarthing, Anno Dom. 1587.   

At the upper end of this Chancel is this Inscription.  
Susanna powel, late of Wandsworth Widow, Daughter of Thomas Hayward of Wandsworth, Yeoman of the Guard unto King Henry the 8. King Edward the 6. to Queen Mary, and to Queen Elizabeth (of ever precious memory) and wife unto john powel of Wandsworth, Gentleman, who was servant to Queen Elizabeth. This Susanna powel was a gracious Benefactor unto this Town of Wandsworth. She lived a Window the space (almost) of twenty years, deceased the 19 day of February, 1630. & at her death bequeathed by her Will unto 24. poor Widows of this Town of Wandsworth for ever, four pence in bread and four pence in money, to be distributed every Lord's day, 12. on one Sabbath, and 12. another for ever, at the North door of the Church at Wandsworth.  
She also bequeathed 40. shillings every year for ever, to put forth a poor man child an Apprentice, with diverse other loving Remembrances unto her good friends and neighbours. These foresaid Donations are to issue out of the benefits and profits of the Rectory of Wandsworth.  
This was desired to be recorded, that God might be glorified, the memorial of the Justice might be blessed, and the living stirred up to such like good works of Piety and Compassion.  
More,  
To this Church, for the Communion Table, two Flagon pots of Silver, price xx. li. and upwards.  
To release poor Prisoners out of prison, on the day of her burial, xx. li.  
To the poor of the parish of Putney, long before she deceased, 50. li.  
To the poor Householders of Wandsworth, for many years before her death, toward payment of their Rent, per annum, 5. li.   

In the Church at Battersey, are these ensuing Monuments.  

On the North side of the Choir is this Inscription.  

Deo Trino & Vni Sacrum. 
Ba●●ersey.   
OLivero, Nicolai Sanct. john de Lydeard, Filio secundo, Equiti Aurato, Antiquissimis, & illustribus de Belle Campo, de Blestoe Grandisonis, & Tregoziae Familiis oriundo. Terra Marique, Domi Forisque, Belli pacisque, Artibus egregio, Diu Elizabethae è Nobilissima Pensionariorum cohort, suis inde meritis, & singulari Divi lacobi gratia, in Hibernia instrumentis Bellicis praefecto, Conaciae propraeside questori summo, & Regis Vicario, procomiti de Grandisonis, & Trigoziae de Hyworth in Anglia Baroni, Eidem divo jacobo, & Filio ejus pijssimo à secretioribus & Sanctioribus Consiliis, Postquam is Annos Honoribus Aequaverat, & Tranquillissimè senuerat somnienti similiter extincto, johannes de Sanct. john, Eques & Baronettus, ex Fratre Nepos & Haeres Auunculo Moerentissime. Moestissimus P. in Ecclesia de Battersey. Vixit Annos 70. Mor. 29. Decembris 1630.     

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  

Memoriae Sacrum.  
Elizabethae, Filiae Christophori Toldervey Armigeri, quae vivens moriensque fuit conjux dilecta Danielis Caldwall, Filij Laurentij Caldwall Armigeri, per quatuor annos, Filiorum par Enixa ac unicam Filiolam, ipsa Mater, virgo prius Casta, Vxor dein fida, Morum suavitate vitae integritate, Religionis Conscientia insignis, fideliter obijt, & in domino foeliciter obdormivit die junij 20. Aetatis suae Anno 23. 1620.  
Moerens ejus Maritus, hoc Qualecunque Monumentum, Epitaphium, Amoris verè conjugalis ergo, posuit, composuit.   

D. G.  
This stone doth tell, the Children  
and the Mother,  
That lived and died  
all in one year together:  
The children first  
Death did deprive of life,  
Yet stayed not there,  
but took away the Wife.  
Insatiate Death,  
not with the Fruit content▪  
But thy last malice  
on the Tree hast spent.  
Her virtuous life  
it needless were to praise,  
That's still the gloss  
to cover vicious ways:  
I'll say but this,  
that all who knew her well,  
For life, for death,  
will say she did excel.    

Another Monument in the same Chancel with this Inscription.  
To Henry Hussy Esquire, his loving Wife judeth Paget hath erected this Monument: He was borne at Slinkfold in Sussex, he was Clerk of the Spicery to Queen Elizabeth and King james, and lived in the Court 35. years. He delivered his soul to God the 23. of May 1611. in the 64. year of his age, his body lieth buried here, waiting for a joyful esurrection.   

In the Church at Hackney are these ensuing Monuments.  

A Monument made for Sir Henry Row, with this Inscription.  

HEre under sime  
of Adam's first defection, 
Hackney.   
Rests in the hope  
of happy Resurrection,  
Sir Henry Row  
(Son of Sir Thomas Row)  
And of Dame Mary  
his dear yoke-fellow)  
Knight, and right worthy  
(as his Father late)  
Lord Mayor of London  
with his virtuous Mate.   

Dame Susan his  
(twice fifteen years & seven)  
Their issue five  
(surviving of eleven)  
Four named here  
in these four names forepast,  
The fifth is found,  
if Echo sound the last:  
Sad Orphans all, but most  
their Heir (most debtor)  
Who built them this,  
but in 〈…〉 a better.   
Quam pie obijt, 〈◊〉 ●lutis 1612. die Novemb. 〈◊〉 ●atis 68    

This Monument is near unto the other, and hath this Inscription.  

Memoriae Sacrum.  

What needs an Epitaph  
to found our praise,  
Our wealth, our greatness forth,  
or length of days;  
When briefly on this Marble  
we may read,  
The glory of the living  
and the dead.   

A modest, chaste,  
religious loving Wife  
Lies here at rest,  
patient in death and life;  
Even all the graces  
which 'mongst many were  
Divided, sweetly flowed  
and met in her.   

And though death did his worst,  
thinking in rage,  
To leave no pattern  
for succeeding age,  
Yet lives her virtues,  
and this memory  
Tells what she was,  
and what her Sex should be.   
Erected by john Bennet, in memory of Elizabeth his beloved wife, who departed this life the 18. of November, 1625.    

An ancient plain Monument in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Christopher Vrswyke, Rector.  
Misericordiam.   

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.  
Here under lieth the body of Henry Thoresby, of Thoresby, in the County of York, Esquire, late Councillor in the Law, Bencher and Reader of Lincoln's Inn, justice of Peace, and of the Quorum, one of the Masters of the most Honourable Court of Chancery, and one of the sixteen Governors of King james Hospital, elected at the first foundation thereof by john Sutton Esquire the only Founder: which Henry Thoresby passed his pilgrimage in this life, in all godliness and Christian piety, and so constantly did continue unto his last breath, which he yielded up to the Almighty in this Town of Hackney, on the eleventh day of May, 1615.  
here under lieth the body of jane, late wife to the said Henry Thoresby Esquire, Daughter to john Palmer of Clarkenwell, in the County of Midalesex, Esquire, and Paulina his wife, daughter to Anthony Sands of Throughly in the County of Kent, Esquire, which jane lived with the said Henry in wedlock 30. years and more, and had issue by him two Daughters, viz. jane, who died in her infancy about six years of age, and Elinor Lady Hardresse, the now wife of Sir Thomas Hardresse, of great Hardresse, in the County of Kent, Knight, by whom she had issue four Sons and one Daughter. Which said jane overlived her said husband, Henry Thoresby, and died in all Christian piety on the 18. day of August, 1616.   

An Epitaph upon the death of the virtuous & worthy Gentleman, Edward Saunders Esquire, Obijt ultimo die Novembris Anno 1599  

His name, his place,  
the gentry of his birth,  
And credit held  
unto his dying days,  
Were things that gave him  
favour here on earth,  
But gave him not  
the greatest of his praise.   

His greatest glory  
was his godly life,  
The bounty of his house  
and open door,  
His Country's love,  
his kindness to his wife,  
Faith to his friend,  
and pity to the poor.  
His virtue, valour,  
and all good desires,  
His zeal and life  
agreeing to the same,  
And last the death  
that such a life requires,  
These be the true records  
of lasting fame.   

These wright him blessed  
in the Heavens above,  
And leave him in the world  
good will and love.    

On the North side of the Chancel, as followeth.  

A memory of the right Honourable, the Lady Lucy Latimer.  

Such as she is,  
such surely shall ye be,  
Such as she was,  
such if ye be, be glad;  
Fair in her youth,  
though fat in age she grew,  
Virtuous in both,  
whose gloss did never fade,  
Though long alone  
she lead a widow's life,  
Yet never Lady  
lived a truer wife.   

From Wales she sprang,  
a branch of Worsers race,  
Grafted in a stock of Brownes  
her mother side;  
In Court she held  
a maid of Honour's place,  
Whilst youth in her,  
and she in Court did bide:  
To john Lord Latimer  
then became she wife,  
Four Daughters had they  
breathing yet in life.   

Earl of Northumberland  
took the first to wife,  
The next the heir  
of Baron Burleigh chose,  
Cornwallis hap  
the third for term of life;  
And Sir john Davers  
plucked the youngest Rose.  
Their Father's heirs,  
mothers all she saw,  
Pray or praise her,  
make your list the Law.   
Made by Sir Will. Cornewallis, Knight, this Lady's son in law.    

A Monument of Sir Thomas Rowe, who lieth buried in this Church, and hath this Inscription.  
Anno Domini 1570. September 2. day.  

Sir Thomas Rowe lies buried here,  
Of London Knight and Alderman  
Who late was Mayor, & rule did bear,  
To right the cause of every man:  
A Merchant venturer was he,  
Of Merchant-taylor's Company:  
A Citizen by birth also,  
And eke his Wife dame Mary Rowe.   

In wedlock one and thirty year,  
They did continue man and wife,  
Eleven children she did bear,  
But five of them have left this life,  
And six alive do yet remain,  
Four of them sons, & daughters twain,  
His soul with God we hope is blessed,  
And doth remain in Abraham's breast.    

In the Church at Islington, are these ensuing Monuments.  

In the South side of the Chancel is this inscription. Under the hope of the Resurrection.  
HEre lieth the body of Alice Owen Widow, 
Islington.  the Daughter of Thomas Wilkes, she was first married to Henry Robinson, by whom she had six sons, john, William, Henry, john, Thomas, and Henry, which said Henry the younger, was married unto Mary, the daughter of Sir William Glover, Knight, Alderman of London; and five Daughters, Margaret married to Sir john Bret of Edmonton, in the County of Middlesex Knight, Susan, Anne, and Anne the younger married Sir Robert Rich, of Horndon on the Hill, in the County of Essex Esquire; and Alice married to john Washborne of Withingfoord in the County of Worcester, Esquire. The second Husband was William Elkin Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, by whom she had issue, only Ursula Elkin, married to Sir Roger Owen of Condover, in the County of Salop, Knight. The third Husband was Thomas Owen, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas to Queen Elizabeth.    

On a fair Stone in the Chancel is this Inscription.  
Hinc Sperat Resurrectionem (Filius Harbottelli Grimeston, Militis & Baronetti Natu Tertius.)  

Henricus Grimeston. Anagramma. En Christi Regno sum.  
Qui moritur, vivit, Christo, huic,  
Mors semita, Ductor  
Angelus, ad vitam janua  
Christus erit.  
Hac itur ad superos, calcane  
vestigia Lethi,  
Intrabam Christi Regia,  
Templa Dei.  
12. die Mensis julij. An. Dom. 1627.    

In the North side of the Chancel is thus written.  
Here lieth buried the body of Sir Nicholas Kempe, Knight, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and an Honourable Member of the high Commission Court, etc. who had to his first wife Cicely, with whom he lived in blessed amity near forty years, together with Sarah his second wife six years: and having passed, with much Prosperity, Love, and Credit, the reverend years of 72. he changed this terrestrial condition for that everlasting state of blessedness, the third of September 1624.  
Wife, Loving Liberal,  
Religious, lust;  
Those graces filled the soul  
of him, whose dust  
Lies here in Tomb;  
all that praise can bring forth,  
There are not words enough  
to express his worth:  
For his good works,  
this stone cannot comprise  
Half the particulars  
of his Piety's:  
What goodness ever was,  
is, and to come,  
In mortal man,  
that makes up his just sum.   

Another Monument on the North side the Chancel, and hath this inscribed.  

Vivit post funera virtus.  
Here lieth the body of William Riethorne, late of Canonbury Esquire, which William married with Anne, the Daughter of john Quarles of London, Merchant, and died without issue, the 18. day of November. In the year of our Lord God 1582. and in the 54. year of his age.    

A Monument in the South I'll, with this inscription.  
To the sacred Memory of  
Anne late wife of Henry Chitting, Esquire, Chester Herald at Arms, eldest Daughter of William Bennet, Gentleman, by joice, widow of Richard joselin, of Newhall joselins in Essex, Esquire, and Daughter of Robert Atkinson of Stowell, in the County of Gloucester, Esquire, she had four children, whereof three are living, Thomas, joice, and Henry, of which last she died in Childbed, the 8. of May 1632. in the 27. of her age, and 4. year of her marriage.  

Mors mihi vita.  
Life is Death's road,  
and Death Heaven's gate must be,  
Heaven is Christ's Throne,  
and Christ is life to me.  
The Angels of the Lord protect  
All those that are his own Elect.  
Vivit post funera virtus.    

In the Church at Kensington, is this ensuing Monumeat.  

An Epitaph in memory of Sir William Blake, Knight, who deceased the 30. day of Oct. An. Dom. 1630.  
STay Reader, 
Kensington.  gaze, admire,  
and pass not slightly over,  
The Casket of his corpses  
imbalmed in this flore:  
Let his industrious hand,  
pattern of patterns be,  
And blazon forth his worth  
to all posterity.  
Let his oft footsteps  
unto this sacred place,  
Be pious. Clues to guide  
thee to like holy trace.  
Let him in peace  
rest here in peace,  
Till God of Peace  
return,  
And give him peace  
that loved peace,  
And call him from  
his Urn.  
Unto the worldly wise,  
Death doth Apologise.  
Suspend thy by-thoughts,  
his thoughts did ever aim at good,  
Had I forborn, they had  
at full been better understood.  
The figure of Death lying under these lines.    

In Saint Giles Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.  

On the North side of the Choir is this Inscription.  

M. S.  
CHarissimae Matris Alliciae, 
Saint Giles▪  uxoris venerabilis olim viri Alexandri Sheppard, Legum Doctoris, Nec non suavissimae nuper conjugis Annae, ex Antiquâ Daunteseyorum Familia in Agro Wilton oriundae,  
Pietatis, & Amoris ergô posuit, Thomas Sheppard hic loci, juxta quem (si Deo videbitur) mortales suas exuvias Humandas designavit, providus. Anno Dom. 1631.     

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription.  
Here before lieth buried the body of William Styddulfe, third Son of john Styddulfe, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey, Esquire; he had issue by his wife Elizabeth, Daughter of john Fox, of Saint john's in London, Gentleman, William, jane, Mary, Thomas, and Elizabeth. He departed this life at the age of 55. being the last of December, Anno Domini 1600. Here also before resteth the body of the above named Elizabeth, who departed this life at the age of 60. years. 10. of February 1623.   

In Saint Martin's Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.  

On the South side is a fair Monument, with this Inscription.  

Arthur Gregory married Christian.  
HEre lies buried William Downes, 
S. Martins.  whom God hath taken to his mercy, who believed that he should rise at the last day, and see the glorious Majesty of God, and receive life everlasting. Who while he lived here had two Wives, Margaret Ward & Elizabeth Rolfe; who had by his first wife one Son and one Daughter, and by his second wife two Sons and four Daughters, who died the 26. of September 1589.  
Otho Maudit married Elizabeth.  
john Thorpe married Margaret.  
William Bret married Mary.     

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Fouler, Esquire, borne in Wicam, in the County of Lancaster, who was Controller and Paymaster of the works to Queen Mary, and to our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, by the space of ten years. He was very charitable to the poor in his life time, and at his death he gave by Will out of his dwelling house, a perpetual annuity of 40. s. by the year, to be given to 20. poor householders' of this Parish at Christmas for ever. He had in marriage three wives, Ellen, Margaret, and Elizabeth, which also lieth here entombed. He surviving them, having no child at his death, made three of his old servants, namely Henry Bludder, Matthew Swisser, and William Humphrey, his Executors, who in remembrance of him, have caused this Monument to be made.   

Another on the South side, thus inscribed.  

Expectans Gloriam.  
juxta hoc requiescit john Bembow, Arm. deputatus clerici Coronae in curia Cancellaria D. Regis. In quo officio, per spacium 40. An. Industriam praestitit,— expiravit die Veneris 7. Octob. An. 1625. Termino sexaginta Anno. Aetatis suae finito. Tres habuit uxores, Dorotheam Prowde, & Katherinam Sparkes, eodem tumulo sepultas, Per quas genuit liberos etiam perfunctos, Et Elizabetham Hodges modo extantem, quae sibi duos peperit filios, Gulielmum Bembowe, Aetatis 4. & 6. mens: & johannem Bembowe posthumum, Tres tantum Hebdomadas viventem, cum patre humatum.    

This Monument is near unto the other, and hath this Inscription.  
Here lieth the Corpses of john Worsley, Gentleman, who was Messenger to Queen Elizabeth, by 20. years' space. He died the 25. of March, 1595. in the 37. year of her reign, being aged 40. years. He gave to be paid yearly upon each Christmas day, during the space of 21. years, as well 15. shillings to the poor of Saint Martin's Parish in the Fields, where he was a Parishoner, as also 10. shillings to the poor of the Parish of Whichurch, in Salop.   

In the same I'll on the South side is this inscription.  
To the memory of Sir Carew Keynell, Knight, late Gentleman Pensioner to Queen Elizabeth, and Gentleman Usher of the Privy-Chamber to King james. He died the 7. of December 1624. in the 61. year of his age.   

Another Monument on the same side, with this Inscription.  
Hic jacet Thomas Heron Armiger, Filius Thomae Heronis de Edgecombe, in proviciae Surrey Armigeri scaccarij Mareschallus. Vxorem cepit olivam, Thomae Britton generosi de Felmingham Norfolciae filiam. Cum qua viginti novem annos vixit; atque ex ea unico dotatus Filio Edoardo. Diem obijt martij 1590. Marito plurimum dilecto, praedicta conjux Amantissima, Moerore, & lachrimis perfusa, Monumentum hoc Amoris & Fidei Conjugalis ergo, Posuit & sacravit.   

On the same side is another Monument, with this Inscription.  
Hic jacet Maria, uxor Thomae Clopton Armig. filia Domini Willi. Waldgrave Militis, utrisque tam Mariti, quam patris illustrata Familiis. Obijt 19 Decemb. 1599 de qua sunt superstites 4. Liberi, Willielmus, Gualterus, Elizabetha & Maria.  
Cloptoni jacet hic Conjux, Waldgravia proles,  
Vxor digna viro, Filia digna Patre:  
Alter in alterius splendet virtutibus, ut lux  
Sitque viro, & Patri, virque paterque sibi.   

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Hic sita est Eliza. Dutton filia primogenita Thomae Egerton, equitis aurati filij primogeniti Tho. Egerton, Equit. Aurat. Dom. magnis sigilli Angliae custodis, qui nunc honorem summi Angliae Cancellarij & Baronis de Elesmere gerit. Nupta fuit johan. Dutton ex antiquissima familia Duttonorum in Comitatu Cestriae, sed uxorem viduam & Virginem ab avo pie educatam, venustate pietate & modestia prestantissimā praematura mors ad loca excelsa & beatissima (quo omnes tendimus) non 〈◊〉 meltorum lacrimis praemisit. Obijt die secundo Octobris 1611 vixit annos 16. M. iiij D. XXI.  
Idem nobilissimus baro de Elesmere, Angliae Concellarius avus indulgentissimus moestissimusque nepoti charissimae amoris ergo posuit.   

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.  
To the worthy, learned, and godly Gentleman, William Cook, Esquire, her dear Husband, Son to the Right Worshipful, Sir Anth. Cook, Knight, Frances his most loving wife, Daughter to that most noble Gentleman, the Lord john Grace, brother to the sometime high and mighty Prince, Henry Grace, the last Duke of Suffolk, hath dedicated this Monument in memory of his virtue and her love, died the 14. day of May, and in the year of his age 56.  
This Tomb for her dear Spouse,  
hath noble Frances placed,  
Lamenting much, with greater gifts  
this Tomb should not be graced,  
And grives as much companion-like,  
this Tomb should not contain  
Their wills in earth, since both on earth  
one will they did retain.   

On the North side of the Chancel is this Inscription.  
Honoratissimo patri Dauncio Pouleto equiti aurato, insulae Ierseae praefecto, apud Christianissimum regem quondam legato, nobilissimi ordinis Garterij Cancelario & serenissimae principis Elizabethae Consiliario, Antonius Pouletus filius, hoc pietatis Monumentum Moerens posuit.  

Gardez la foy.  
Quod verbo servare fidem  
(Poulete) solebas,  
Quam bene conveniunt  
haec tria verba tibi:  
Quod gladio servare fidem  
Poulete solebas,  
Quam bene conveniunt  
haec tria signa tibi.  
Patria te sensit,  
sensit Regina fidelem,  
Sic fidus Civis,  
sicque senator eras.  
Te fidum Christus,  
te fidum Ecclesia sensit,  
Sic servat inter  
multa pericla fidem,  
Ergo quod servo princeps,  
Ecclesia nato,  
Patria quod fide  
cive sit orba dolet,  
Interea Christus defuncti  
facta coronat,  
A quo servatam  
viderat esse fidem.  
Margareta Poulet hoc Epitaphium moetoris simul & amoris sui perpetuum testem amicio conjugi suo charissimo clarissimoque dicavit.  
Conjugis est (testante Deo)  
pars altera conjunx,  
Vir caput est, unum  
corpus uterque refert,  
una caro, mens una,  
thoro sociata jugali,  
Solamen vitae  
praesidiumque suae:  
Ergo meo luctus quis  
par queat esse dolori  
Cui vitae pars est altera  
dempta meae.  
Sed quid flere juvat,  
non sic revocabere conjux,  
Namque tibi pietas  
stravit ad astra viam:  
Haec spes sola juvat:  
qui nos conjunxit in unum,  
Hunc sibi postremo  
jungere velle die.    

Another Monument in the same Church, with this Inscription.  
Hic jacet Maria Da. Cheake, filia R. Hill Armig. foemina pia & prudens, & quae fuit usque ad obitum una dominarum in privata Camera Reginae Elizabethae (quae fuit tunc dignitas in praecipuo honore) nupta fuit primo johanni Cheake, Magist. principali Secretario Regis Edwardi 6. viro-optimo & eruditissimo, cui peperit Henricum haeredem paternae virtutis, & Regiae Majestatis à Secretis in Consilio Eboracensi, johan. Cheake virum egregium & magnanimum, Edwardum Cheake.  

Vixit circa 84. Anno obijt Novemb. 30. 1616.  
Secundo nupta Henrico Mackwillims Arm. viro ex Nobilis. Familia Hibernorum cui peperit Henricum qui sine prole obijt, & Margaretam seniorem filiam nuptam viro honour. johanni Domino Stanhop, Baroni de Harrington, Vicecamerario Reginae Eliza. & R. jacobi thesaurario camerae & Magistro cursarum Rigion. Susannam nuptam Edwardo Sandeys Arm. deinde Gothardo Pemberton Mil. & ultimo Thomae Ireland Mil. Ambrosiam nuptam Willielmo Kingswell Mil. Cassandra Georgio Cotton Mil. & Ceciliam nuptam Thomae Dom. Ridgway, Dom. thesaurario Regio in Hibernia.    

On a flat Stone in the Chancel, is this written.  

Hem viator, Infans te paucis vult  
Carolus Blown●, Honoratis. Dom. Mountjoy, Comitis de Newport, & lectiss.  
Dom. Annae è nobili Bottelorum in agro Herfordiensi familia oriundae.  
Filius natu secundus bimulus hic praematurae posuit mortalitatis exuvias: tantum est.  
Vivus nil poteram fari,  
quin mortuus infans,  
Ecce loquar mortis  
sis memor atque vale.    

In the Church at Greenwich, are these ensuing Monuments.  

In the Chancel, on the South side, this is written.  
Dilectissimae Conjugi sacrae Hettonae Franciscus Hettonus viduus Moestus, non sine Lachrimis, posuit  
OMea sacra oculis multo  
mihi Charior ipsis, 
Greenwich▪   
Deseris (Heu) viduum  
cur ita sacra virum?  
Tu secura manes,  
portu requiescis Amoeno  
Non tibifraus, Moribus  
nec mala obesse valent.  
Tu pace Aeterna frueris,  
tu vivis ovasque,  
Quippe tibi est Terris,  
gratior Aula Dei,  
Conjux ipse tuus mance  
vivoque superfles,  
Moestificis plenus  
solicitudinibus,  
Spero tamen tempusque brevi,  
(mea sacra) futurum est  
Cum te visurus sim,  
vel in Arce poli.  
Cuncta tibi scio salva manent,  
vereque Beata es,  
Cui mors vita fuit,  
vitaque morte viret.  
Eheu quam nostrae est  
evanida gloria vitae,  
Certa dies nobis nulla,  
nec hora datur:  
Stare decet vigiles ergo,  
semper que paratos,  
Ne mors incautos  
nos inopina premat.  
Ecce rei testis, sacra  
hic Blomera, jugali  
Francisco Hettono  
Consociate Thoro.  
Annos octodecim, placuitque  
Marita Marito,  
Nulla magis potuit,  
nec placuisse magis.  
Filiolos illi peperit,  
ter quinque utriusque  
Pignora: & ex illis,  
octo fuere Mares.  
Quadraginta Hyemes,  
binos si dempseris annos  
Vixit, & octodecim,  
suasilis uxor erat.  
Obijt 13. jul. Anno Dom. 1600.     

Another Monument on the South side the Choir, with this Inscription.  
D. O. M. Et salvatori. I. C. S. In Memoriam.  
Gulielmi Hattecliffe, ex Antiqua Hatteclifforum, de Hattecliffe, in Agro Lincolniensi Familia oriundi. Qui cum summa in Deum Pietate, In pauperes Benignitate, in amicos humanitate, in omnes bonitate, Annos plus minus quinquaginta septem Coelebs in terris vitam egisset tranquillam, Tandem 17. nempe die Maij, Anno 1620. Deo Animam Reddidit Grenovici, & hic situs in pace quiescit.   

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancel is this Inscription.  
In piam Memoriam Dilectissimae suae conjugis.  
Dorothea Lok Filiae jacobi Brampton, de Brampto, in Comitatu Norfolciae Generosi, & Mariae uxoris ejus, Filiae Claclarissimi viri Edwardi Bulein militis, & Annae Tempestiae uxoris ejus, etc. Quae post Annos triginta sex, in hac peregrinatione terrena peractos (Annosque pene Trinos', in fideli, Castissimoque Matrimonio perimpletoes) in vera Fidei Christianae confession, & Ardentissima Dei omnipotentis invocatione, pie ex hac vita decessit 24. die Februarij 1596.  
Cujus corpus juxta inhumatur, in medio hujus Chori, Adjacente à sinistra corpore Henrici Lok filii sui. Zacharias Lok Amoris & officii ergo Monumentum hoc poni fecit 24. die Octobris 1597.   

In an I'll on the North side is this Inscription.  
Egregio viro, Roberto Adams, operum Regiarum Supervisori, Architecturae peritissimo; Religione, & moribus Integerrimo. Qui piè obiit Anno suae Aetatis 1595.  
Simon Basil operationum Regiarum Controtultor hoc posuit Monumentum 1601.   

Next to the other is this Inscription.  
Spiritus in Caelis,  
fax hic Clementis Adami,  
Cui ex tredecim,  
septem pignora viva Manent,  
Regius ille diu vixit,  
Moriturque scholarca,  
Tumque ubi bis septem  
lustra peregit, obit  
Anno Dom. 1586. jan. 9  
Et lateri conjuncta jacet  
suavissima conjux,  
Quindenis Annis  
qua fuit ille minor.  
Anno Dom. 1588. Maîj 11.   

Next to the other is this Inscription.  
near to this place lieth interred, the body of Mistress Mary Ward, late wife of Richard Ward, Esquire, Sergeant at Arms unto King james, and King Charles, Father and Mother of Captain Caesar Ward, who died in the service of his King and Country in October 1627. She died in February following, in the foresaid year.  
Which three months time with sighs  
Her grieved life did spend,  
Her Sons untimely death  
Hastened her end.   

In the Church at Detford, or West Greenwich, are these ensuing Monuments.  

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancel, and hath this Inscription.  
M. S.  
H. S. E. Rogerus boil, 
De●ford.  Richardi Comitis Corcagiensis Filius Primogentius, qui in Hibernia natus, in Cantio solo Patris Natali denatus, Dum hic ingenij cultum capessit. Puer eximiae indolis, praecocitatem ingenij funere luit immaturo. Sic luculenti, sed terreni Patrimonij factus exhaeres, coelestem crevit Haereditatem. Decessit A. D. 1615. iv. eid. viii. Bris.   

Death.  
Richardus, praenobilis Comes Corcagiensis Vxoris suae Patruo. B. M. P.  
Memoriae perenni Edwardi Fenton, Reginae Elizabethae, olim pro corpore Armigeri, jano O-Neal, ac post eum, Comite Desmoniae, in Hibernia Turbantibus, Fortissimi Taxiarchi, qui post lustratum improbo ausu, septentrionalis Plagae Apochryphum Mare, & excussas variis Peregrinationibus inertis Naturae la●●bras, Anno 1588. in celebri contrae Hispanos Naumachia, meruit Navis Praetoriae Navarchus.  
Obijt Anno Domini 1603.  
Cognatos Cineres, &  
Amicam Manibus umbram,  
O Fentone, tuis,  
excipias Tumulo.  
Vsuram Tumuli victure  
Marmore Pensat,  
Et reddit gratus,  
pro Tumulo Titulum.    

At the upper end of that Chancel, on the North side, is thus written.  
Sacrae perpetuaeque Memoriae Gulielmi Haukyns, de Plymouth Armigeri.  
Qui verae Religionis verus cultor, Pauperibus praecipuè Navicularijs Munificus, Rerum Nauticarum studiossissimus, longinquas instituit saepè Navigationes; Arbiter in causis difficilimis Aequissimus, Fide, Probitate & Prudentia singulari. Duas duxit Vxores, è quarum una 4. ex altera 7. suscepit liberos.  
johannes Haukyns Eques Auratus, Classis Regiae Quaestor, Frater Moestissimus posuit.  
Obijt specerta Resurgendi 7. die mensis Octobris, An. Dom. 1589.   

In the upper end of the Chancel.  
There lieth buried near this place the body of jane Edisbury, Widow, Mother of Kenrick Edisbury, Gentleman, Paymaster of the King's Majesty's Navy, under Sir William Russell, Knight, Treasurer. She died on the 16. day of March, 1618.  
On the North side of this Choir, a worthy Memorial of Sir Sackevile Crow, for Ceiling and beautifying of that North I'll.   

In the Church at Roderith, are these ensuing Monuments.  

In the South I'll, on the wall, is this written.  

Post tenebras, spero Lucem.  
NExt without this Wall, 
Roderith.  are buried Brian, Richard, and Mark, Alize, and Elizabeth, the three Sons and two Daughters of Nicholas Reynolds, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and of Elizabeth his wife. The forenamed Elizabeth, their younger Daughter, was married to Robert Wheatley, Salter, the 20. day of August, 1593. and died the 18. of September, in the same year.  
These Blossoms young and tender, lo,  
Blown down by deadly wind,  
May urge the riper sort to know,  
Like blast shall them out find.  
For Flesh, as grass, away doth wither,  
No age can it eschew,  
The young and old decay together,  
When death shall them pursue.  
No Parents, Friends, or Advocate,  
Can him entreat to spare,  
The Fair, the Fine, or Delicate,  
For threats he doth not care.  
Let that most certain Statute made,  
By God our heavenly King,  
All men assure, and eke persuade,  
Death shall them equal bring.  
Post Mortem, Vitam Aeternam.     

In the middle I'll of this Church is thus written.  

Trinitas in unitate.  
Here lies buried the body of Richard Hills, Mariner, one of the eldest Brothers and Assistants of the Company of the Trinity, and his two wives; who while he lived in this place, gave liberally to the poor, and spent bountifully in his house: and after many great troubles, being of the age of 80. years and upward, departed this life without issue, upon the 16. of February, 1614   

This was made at the charge of Robert Bell.  
Though Hills be dead,  
Hills Will and Act survives,  
His Free-school, and  
his Pension for the poor;  
Thought on by him,  
performed by his Heir,  
For eight poor Seaman's  
children, and no more.    

1627.  
On the outside of the North Wall is a Monument, bearing the figure of a Ship at Sea; under it the portraiture of him for whom it was erected, with his Wife, six Sons, and four Daughters; the living and the dead distinguished by Deaths-heads, which the buried seem to bear in their hands, and under them this Inscription.  
Here beneath lieth interred, the body of Captain Anthony Wood, who departed this life the 24. of August, 1625. being the 40. year of his age, and had issue by his wife Martha Wood, six Sons and four Daughters.   

In Saint Margaret's Church at Westminster, are these ensuing Monuments.  

On a very ancient Monument in Brass, at the upper end of the North I'll, is thus written.  

Sacrum doloris.  
SHall tears, 
S. Margaret's at Westminster.  the silent  
Messengers of death,  
Dissolve their streams  
into a Sea of moan?  
No, no, in vain  
you sacrifice relief,  
Over his Tomb, with eyes,  
with voice, with groan,  
For Cole assigned by God,  
the poor to pity,  
The widow's comfort,  
and eke the Orphan's Sire,  
Who tuned each string of hate  
to loves sweet ditty,  
Is dead: ay me, will death  
the best desire?  
Remorseless death,  
thy wrath in him is ended,  
Maugre thy darts,  
his praises cannot die,  
Thou hast his body,  
but his soul ascended  
Into the place  
of joys eternity,  
And though his corpse interred  
lie dead in grave,  
Yet still his virtue's  
life and being have.  
An. Dom. 1597.  
In Parliament, a Burgess,  
Cole was placed,  
In Westminster  
the like for many years,  
But now with Saints above  
his soul is graced,  
And lives a Burgess  
with Heavens royal Peers.  
Oblessed change, from earth,  
where Death is King,  
To be united there  
where Angels sing.   

Ejusdem in eundem.  
Terra tegit Corpus, mens scandit  
ad Aethera Coeli,  
Fama virens floret,  
Caetera mors rapuit.   

Thus in English.  
The Grave my body,  
Heaven my soul doth keep,  
The World my fame,  
the rest in death doth sleep.   

Margarita Cole posuit. In another column of the same Table.  
This Monument unites  
two constant Lovers,  
He that is dead,  
and her that lives in death:  
His Body she, his Spouse,  
in honour covers,  
Wishing her days  
were shortened with his death.  
But she must live,  
yet living shall be mated,  
With him in death,  
while death her life hath dated.  
Full twenty years and odd  
their league was firm,  
Witness the world,  
their children, and their love,  
Nothing but death, by death  
should give the term  
Of farewell to their faith,  
by false remove.  
Of breach of concord  
no tongue can accuse them,  
Unless base envy  
by her Saints abuse them.  
O envy not the dead,  
but die to sin,  
Expect the harvest  
of this dead man's bliss,  
Desire the Crown  
which envy cannot win,  
Amend in you, not others,  
what's amiss.  
Sad death shall be  
your Herald to procure  
Rest to your souls  
with Christ for to endure.  
Margot in woe, distil  
those tears to comfort,  
And in thy children's love  
address thy anguish:  
Three live with thee,  
then love their living consort,  
No longer in thy Husband's  
sorrow languish.  
But imitate thy Coal  
in Virtue's laws,  
That thou mayst live where  
Virtue pleads his cause.     

This Monument is in the North I'll, and hath this Inscription.  
Here lieth the Lady Dorothy Stafford, Wife and Widow to Sir William Stafford, Knight, Daughter to Henry Lord Stafford, the only Son of Edward, the last Duke of Buckingham: her Mother was Ursula, Daughter to the Countess of Salisbury, the only Daughter to George Duke of Clarence, Brother to King Edward the fourth. She continued a true Widow, from the age of 27. till her death. She served Queen Elizabeth 40. years, lying in the Bedchamber, esteemed of her, loved of all, doing good all she could to every body, never hurted any; a continual remembrancer of the suits of the poor. As she lived a religious life, in great reputation of honour and virtue in the world, so she ended in continual fervent meditation and hearty prayer to God. At which instant (as all her life) so after her death she gave liberally to the poor, and died aged 78. the 22. of September 1604. In whose remembrance, Sir Edward Stafford her Son hath caused this memorial of her to be, in the same form and place as she herself long since required him.   

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancel is this Inscription.  
To the memory of Rob. Peter, Esquire, Auditor of the Receipt, her first Husband, who gave to the use of the poor of this Parish one hundred pound: and of Edward English, her second Husband, a Gentleman, kind, courteous, and of great Hospitality, who gave twelve pounds in Annuity for ever to the same use.  
Margaret their loving wife, Daughter of Sir john Tyrill of Gipping, Knight, who likewike hath bequeathed one hundred pounds for the purchasing of one yearly Annuity of twenty nobles for ever to the foresaid poor, Lamenting their death, and for testification of her dutiful love hath erected this Monument.   

Another Monument in the same I'll, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Arneway, buried the 8. of September, Anno Dom. 1603. And Margaret Arneway his Wife, who was buried the 9 of August, Anno Dom. 1596.   

near unto the other, in a fair Plate, is this following Epitaph.  
A memorial on the death of john Varnam Gardiner, who deceased the xj. of December, 1586. Aetatis suae 46.  

O mortal man that lives on earth,  
consider well thy end,  
Remember that thou must depart,  
when God for thee doth send.  
This life is but a pilgrimage,  
so soon it doth decay,  
And all the riches of this world  
shall fade and pass away:  
As by example daily showed,  
before our eyes we see,  
That rich & poor to earth are brought  
for their iniquity.  
Let us that live on earth behind,  
to God for mercy call,  
With woeful heart & wring hands,  
and he will bless us all.  
And now to speak of this good man,  
john Varnam called by name,  
Who in his life he lived well,  
by labour, travail, and pain,  
In helping of the fatherless,  
and widows very poor,  
And setting ever them on work  
which went from door to door.   

A Gardener by Art he was,  
great skill he had therein,  
And prospered well in all his life,  
with every living thing  
That he at all times took in hand:  
To God be given all praise,  
That did increase this honest man  
with riches many ways.   

The poor they had great work of him,  
by weeding of his ground,  
And he to them was well content,  
to leave assurance ●ound,  
Of land and living to relieve  
the fatherless in need,  
So he confirmed this his mind,  
by will it was decreed.   

Agnes Varnam left behind,  
his loving wife most sure,  
By her he had four sons, likewise  
four daughters, Virgins pure:  
Who all being dead, and none alive,  
but Elizabeth by name,  
And in remembrance of his life,  
they have set up this same.   

He willingly did yield himself,  
in God was all his trust,  
And in the last hour of his death,  
he showed his faith most just,  
To leave this world most cheerfully,  
desirous to depart,  
Ask forgiveness of the world,  
and forgiving with his heart   

To those which he at any time  
in deed or word offended:  
Most joyfully his soul was then  
unto the Lord commended.  
And thus he left his life,  
in brief to tell you plain,  
Hoping in Heaven to be received,  
for ever to remain.    

In the same I'll, in the body of the Church, is this Inscription.  
Cornelius Vandun lieth here, borne at Breda in R●abant, Soldier with King Henry at Turney, Yeoman of the Guard, and Usher to King Henry, King Edward, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth: of honest and virtuous life, a careful man for poor folk, who in the end of this town did build for poor widows twenty houses of his own cost.  
Round about his figure wrought as in his Guards Coa●, these words.  
Obijt Anno Dom. 1577. buried the 4. of September. Aetatis suae 94.   

At the upper end of the South I'll in the Chancel, as followeth.  
Frances Haughton, in token of her love to her Husband, caused this Monument to be erected.  
Here resteth in assured hope to rise in Christ, the body of Hugh Haughton, the fourth son of Thomas Haughton of Haughton, in the County of Chester, Gentleman, who married Frances, Daughter of William Coothe of Sherbourne, in the County of Dorset, Gentleman, and by her had issue two Daughters, Elizabeth and Frances: He departed this life the 17. day of October, 1616. aged 50. years, and Elizabeth departed this life the 28. of August, 1615. aged seven years, and lieth here also interred.   

On an ancient brass Monument close by the other, is thus written.  
Give thanks to God for Edward Courtney Esquire, Son and Heir to Sir Peter Courtney of Devonshire, Knight, who living a life agreeable to his estate and stock, ended the same like a fithfull Christian, the 27. day of November 1566. and is buried before this stone.   

On another near to that is thus written.  
Here lieth the body of Alexander Tomkins, the fifth son to Richard Tomkins of Momington upon Wye, in the County of Hereford, Esquire, who was buried in August, in the year of our Lord God 1615.   

On another near to that is thus written.  
Underneath lieth the body of james Tomkins, second son to james Tomkins, of Momington upon Wye, in the County of Hereford, Esquire, buried in December, in the year of our Lord God 1613.   

Close to this a very fair Monument in the South wall of the Chancel, thus written on.  
Here under is entombed Blanch Parry, Daughter to Henry Parry of Newcourt, within the County of Hereford, Esquire, chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable privy Chamber, and Keeper of her Majesty's Jewels, whom she faithfully served from her Highness' birth; beneficial to her Kinsfolk and Countrymen, charitable to the poor, insomuch that she gave to the poor of Bacton and Newton in Herefordshire, sevenscore bushels of Wheat and Rye yearly for ever, with diverse sums of money to Westminster and other places for good uses. She died a Maid in the 82. year of her age, the 12. of February 1589.   

Another fair Monument in the fame I'll, in the Chancel, thus written on.  
Here under resteth in expectation of a glorious Resurrection, the body of Thomas Bond Gentleman, sometimes a Burgess of this City of Westminster; and also the bodies of Ellen his wife, of Thomas Bond their Son, and of Ellen their Daughter.  
To the memory of whose Christian virtues, their dutiful Son, and loving Brother john Bond, hath erected this Monument.  
A Father, Mother, Son,  
and Daughter dear,  
Covered with earth,  
their corpse be buried here;  
Two aged died, and two  
in prime of strength;  
To teach that death will  
conquer all at length:  
A virtuous life they lived,  
made Christian ends,  
And now a Crown of glory  
them attends.  

At the four corners of this Monument are these inscriptions.  
Thomas Bond the Father died the 7. of April 1616.  
Ellen Bond the Mother died the 31. of May 1628.  
Thomas Bond the Son died the 26. of May 1627.  
Ellen Butts the Daughter died the 12. of August 1625.   

On a fair Stone in the middle of the Chancel is this written.  
Here resteth in God the body of Anna Ebbiss, borne in Denmark, who served our gracious Queen Anna, in her Bedchamber, was married to Master Thomas Seringe, her Majesty's Chaplain, the 28. of April, in the year of our Lord God, 1598. and died at Westminster the 26. of February 1608. unto whom God Almighty give a joyful Resurrection.  
Moerentis musa Mariti.  
Astra tuam foveant Animam,  
bona fama sepultae  
Restet in his terris,  
capiat tandem omnia Coelum.  
johannes Seringius,  
Thuringius.    

A fair Monument at the lower end of the North I'll in the wall, thus written on.  
Here lieth interred the body of Edward Reynolds, Esquire, late Clerk of his Majesty's privy Seal, and Register of the Court of Requests, who departed this life the 18. day of December Anno Dom. 1623. by him also lieth the body of his Brother, Master Owen Reynolds, who deceased the 16. of April 1610. To whose memories Edward and Launcelet Reynolds, Gentlemen, have here placed these ensuing Verses, made by the said Edward Reynolds in his life time.  
Gloria, Vita, Decor, Thesaurus, Fanta, Voluptas Vana, brevis, fragilis, fluxus, temeraria, mollis, Fumus, Bulla, Iris, Fax Viatus, Dulce venenum, Vanescit, perit, arescit, ●quefit, fugit, angit.  
Orb nihil toto stabile est,  
citò corruet orbis,  
Et vasti in nihilum  
vanescet fabrica Mundi.  
Sola fides firmam parit,  
aesern amque Coronam,  
So●● fides Christi meritis,  
sunt ●etera Nugae.  
Haec vixi, hac morior side, mihi Christus in vitae, & morte lucrum.   

In the middle of the same I'll, in the wall, is a fair Monument, thus written on.  

M. S.  
Hîc sepultus jacet johannes Corbettus de Sprowslon, in Com. Norf. Baroncttus, qui uxorem duxit piissimam Annam, filiam Arthuri Capel de Ha●ham, in Com. Hareford Militis, ex qua suscepit Filios ties, totiden que Filiae, Vitam vixit integerrimam, Rei assertor publicae, Christianae columen, Maecenas literariae, hinc migrans, Anno Dom. Millesimo, sexcentesimo vigesimo septimo (Aetatis trigesimo septimo) die decimo nono januarij. Abunde illud supplevit, in quo Marmor deficit, famam & memoriam indeptus terris diutius, at Caele in aeternum victuram.  
johannes Corbettus miles.  
Sanctusue is homo & liber?  
Et sanctus isle homo liber.  
Sir john Corbett Baronet.    

Another in the same wall, thus inscribed.  

D. M. M. S.  
joannes Makeulio  
de Merton D N.  
Scoto-Britannus,  
Magni Hetruriae ducis  
Archiater quondam,  
Nec non  
In sapientia illustris, Pisis  
Cathedrae Doctor,  
Dein  
Magnae Britanniae Regis  
Medicus, Medicorum sui seculi  
Aesculapius, Therapeutices;  
promus-condus, conditumque prodigium,  
Mortales, huic Cippo, in spem  
Resurrectionis, vitaeque melioris  
Reliquit exuvias  
Reparatae salutis 1622.  
Aetatis suae 46. Mense.  
Nascentes morimur, finisque  
ab origine pendet.    

On the same Wall, in a Table, is this Epitaph.  
In memory of the late deceased Virgin, Mistress Elizabeth Hereicke.  
Sweet Virgin,  
that I do not set  
Thy Grave-verse up  
in mournfinll Jet  
Or dappled Marble,  
let thy shade  
Not wrathful seem,  
or fright the maid,  
Who hither at her  
weeping hours,  
Shall come to strew  
thy earth with flowers:  
No, know blessed soul,  
when there's not one  
Remainder left  
of brass or stone,  
Thy living Epitaph  
shall be  
Though lost in them  
yet found in me:  
Dear, in thy bed  
of Roses then,  
Till this world shall  
dissolve (as men)  
Sleep, while we hide thee  
from the light,  
Drawing thy Curtains round—  
Good night.   

On a Table hanging at the upper end of the South Ile is this written.  
In memory of the right virtuous and beautiful Gentlewoman, Mistress Margaret Radcliffe, Daughter to Sir john Radcliffe Knight, one of the Maids of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, who deceased at Richmond the 10. of November, and was here buried with solemnity the 22. of the same, Anno Dom. 1599 An. Reg. Eliz. 41.  
Tell thou my wailing verse,  
and mourning show,  
What beauteous frame  
lies here interred below.  
Here underneath entombed  
a Daisy lies,  
The pride of nature,  
with perfection filled;  
O woe, whom Zephyrs blasts  
can ne'er make rise,  
Being by Death's black storms  
untimely killed.  
Ratcliffe's thy name,  
the glory of the Court,  
Virtue and Beauty strove  
t'adorn thee most,  
Though here enclosed,  
yet fame shall still report  
Thy Virtue's praise,  
thy grace's time shall boast,  
Thou didst a Virgin pure,  
and spotless liver,  
Grief caused thy death,  
death makes thee live for ever.  
If any ask, who sighed  
this sad complaint,  
Say one that lived, that loved,  
that joyed, now faint.   

Another fair Monument at the upper end of the Chancel, thus inscribed.  
Epitaphium Religiosissimi, spectatissimique viri, Francisci Egioke, de Egioke in Comitatu Vigorniae Equitis Aurati, vitae Famaeque integerrimae, Musarum, Militum, Pauperumque Fautoris Meritissimi, Qui à Londino, Vigorniam versia proficiscens, in Vxbrigia vita defunctus est 21. die Novemb. 1622. Hic vero repositus habet Cineres.  
Dilectissima, Moessissimaque uxor ejus Elinor, Filia Fra. Ding●ey Armigeri, in eodem Vigor●iae Co●itatus, Lugubre Hoc, Pij Amoris & obsequii, Monumentum posuit.  
Ad Tumulum niflere libet,  
discedito Lector,  
Qui legis haec, Fletu,  
prodigus esto pio.  
Cum Musis omnes flerent,  
in●pumque Catervis,  
Illis Patronus,  
His Benefactor erat.  
Arma virumque canit,  
Mors imperiosa, triumphans,  
Quod miles strenuus  
sic spoliatus obit.  
Vana quid insultas?  
te jam tua praedafefellit;  
Artes, arma, preces,  
hunc periisse vetant.  
Hunc (Mors) insequeris frustra,  
cui militat aether,  
Nec tibi, sed superis,  
praeda beata jacet.  
Quid quoditer carpens Cecidit?  
Moriturque viator?  
Quae supra terram est noverat;  
hîc Patriam.  
Quo tendens, proprios Lares,  
Terrasque relinquit,  
Et Coelum media  
possidet ille via.   

This Monument is near unto the other, having this Inscription.  
Here lieth entombed Mary Lady Dudley, Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham, in his time Lord high Admiral of ENGLAND, Lord Chamberlain, and Lord Privy Seal. She was Grandchild to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, the second of that Surname, and Sister to Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral of England, by whose prosperous direction, through the goodness of God, in defending his Handmaid, Queen Elizabeth, the whole Fleet of Spain was defeated and discomfited.  
She was first married to Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley, and after to Richard Mountpesson Esquire, who in the Memory of her Virtues, and l●st Testimony of his love, erected this Monument. She slept in Christ jesus, in the year of our Lord 1600. the 21. of August, attending the joyful day of her Resurrection.   

A fair Monument at the upper end of the North I'll, with this inscription.  
Here in peace resteth the body of Thomas Seymour, second son to the Right Honourable, Edward Earl of Hartford, and Isabel his Wife, eldest Daughter to Edward Meley of Katesby, in the County of Northampton, Esquire, which said Thomas departed this life the 3. day of August, 1600. And the said Isabel the 20. day of August 1619. in the true faith of jesus Christ, and in the blessed hope of a joyful Resurrection.   

On a fair Marble in the Chancel is thus written.  

Depositum  
Mariae Filiae unicae Thomae Egerton Militis Ba●onis de ●llesinere Ca●cella●ij A●glis. Francisci Leigh Militis fidelissimae, optime meritae, ac unice ●llectae conjugis, quae tertio die Aprilis, An. Dom. M. DCXII Aetatis suae 36. post partum Filliorum 4. Filiarum 5. inpuerperio Filiae 6. Spiritum Deo, Corpus sepulchro liquit, in Christo obdormiens, Cui fide, spe & Charitate, Constantissimè vixit. Pudicitiae, Pietatis, & Venustatis Rarissimum decus.  
Non obijt sed abijt.   

In Westminster Abbey are these ensuing Monuments.  

In Obitum Serenissimae  
Principis & omnium virtutum genere Cumulatissimae Annae Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae, Franciae & Hiberniae Reginae, Dominaeque suae longè gratiosissimae, carmen funebre.  
Ad Potentissimum Serenissimae Annae Maritum jacobum, Dei gratia, Magnae Britanniae Regem fidei defensorem etc.  
Annus & Anna in se redit, 
Westminster Abbey.  hic novus, illa perennis:  
Cujus vir pa●er & frater Rex, Regia proles,  
In Coelo Aeternos Regina est Anna per Annos.  
Floreat illa suis in prole aeterna Britannis,  
Inque suo vigeat feliciter Anna jacobo.  
Inclite Rex Britonum, veniam da vera loquenti.  
jacobus caret Anna, & non caret Anna jacobo:  
Maxime Rex Regum, Regem solare jacobum.  
Ad Invictissimum Christianum Quartum Dei Gratia Daniae, Norwegiae, Gothorum, Vandolorumque Regem, etc.  
Pondere pressa, suo sub pondere, Palma Resurgit:  
Marmore pressa soror tua, Fertur ad Aethera victrix.  
Sanguinolenta olim, inter Danos atque Britannos,  
Pugna, nihil potuit, nostro conjuncta jacobo,  
Absque cruore, omnes vicit Danae Anna Britannos,  
Aeterneque suis conjunxit Foedere Danis.  
Orbis, Danorum Pacis, Britonumque sit idem  
Terminus, & Reges Rex protegat orbis utrosque.  
Ad Foelicissimam jacobi & Annae prolem Carolum Walliae Principem, Elizabetham, Frederici Electoris Comitis Palatini Vxorem, Regalemque eorum Progeniem quae nunc est, vel Dei gratia erit in Posterum.  

Indiae Phoenix, volucris per annos  
una sexcentos deciesque senos,  
Dicitur foelix superesse, dirae  
Nescia Mortis.   

Quod tibi Parcae dederant sorores  
Fila correptae breviora vitae,  
Anna, dicaris Mulier, sed esto  
Caetera Phoenix.   

Igne solari, moriens Crematur  
Mortuo-Vivos Cineres in albos,  
Sic, ut ex illis rediviva surgat  
Altera Phoenix.   

Anna, eui nunquam similem videbit  
Phoebus, expiras? moriare sic, ut  
In tua semper vigennt Beati  
Prole Britanni.   
Hinc, illinc, ubicunque, cadem est, & ubique Beata.  
Obijt in Domino Anno Domini 1618. quarto Nonarum Martij, Annos nata 44. Menses 4. & dies 18.  
Ad serevissimae Reginae familiam Moerore obrutam.  
Vos canite, O socij, funebria Carmina mecum;  
Nos relevet Dominus, perdidimus Dominam.   

Responsio Familiae.  
Non sunt canendo, talibus pressi malis,  
Sed nec loquendo, quos habet talis dolor:  
Nostris adhaerent fiucibus linguae graves.  
Loquantur alij, dum luctus nostri stupent.  
Edidit Serenissimae Reginae Moestissimus Capellanus, Guliclmus Swadonus, Collegij Wickamici Alumnus, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, & Archidiaconus Wigorniae.    

Upon a very rich and stately Monument in the same Church is thus written.  
Depositum Illustrissimi & Excellentissimi Principis Ludovici Stuarti Esmei Leviniae Ducis Filij Ioannis Propatrui Seren: Regis, acobi Nepotis, Richmondiae & Leviniae Dacis, Novi Castelli ad Tinam & Darnliae Comitis, etc. Magni Scotiae Camerarij & Thalassiarchae Hereditariè. Sacri Palatij jacobi Regis Seneschalli, Cubiculariorumque principalium primi, Regi à Sanctitribus Consilijs. San-Georgiani ordinis Eq. Scoticorumque per Gallias Cataphractorum praefecti.  
Viri excelsi ad omnia Magna & bona nati, ad meliora defuncti, vixit Annos 49. Menses 4. Dies 17.  

2 Sam. 3. 38. Chronog:  
AN IGNORATIS, QVIA PRINCEPS ET VIR MAGNVS OBIIT HODIE.  
16. Febr. primo generalium Regni Comitiorum designato.   

On the other side of the same Monument is thus written.  
Illustrissima & Excellentissima Princeps, Francisca Richmondiae & Leviniae Ducissa, Domini Thomae Howardi Dindoniae Filia, Thomae Howardi Norfolciae Ducis, ex Elizabethâ Edovardi Ducis Buckinghamiae Filiâ Neptis, Lodovici Stuarti Richmondiae & Leviniae Ducis Vxor,  
Chariss●●vi conjugij nunquam non memor, conjugi optimè merito sibique posuit hoc Monumentum.  
Obijt Die mensis An. Dom.    

On a Table in the same Choir, is this following Inscription.  

P. M. S.  
Vanae multitudinis Improperium hic jacet cuius tamen  

Hispania Prudentiam.  
Gallia Fortitudinem.  
Belgia Industriam.   
Toto Europa Mirata est Magnanimitatem.   

Quem  

Daniae & Reges Integerrimum.  
Sweciae  
Germaniae  
Transilvaniae & Princip. Ingenuum.  
Nassauviae  
Veneta Respublica Philobasilia.  
Subaudiae &  
Lotharingiae Duces Politicum.  
Palatinus Comes Fidelem.  
Imperator Pacificum.  
Turca Christianum.  
Papa Protestantem.  
Experti sunt.    

Quem  

Anglia Archithalassum  
Cantabrigia Cancellarium  
Buckinghamia Ducem 

habuit.     
Verum siste viator, & quid ipsa Invidia sugillare nequit audi.  
Hic est Ille  
Calamitosae virtutis  
Buckinghamius.  
Maritus redamatus, Pater amans,  
Filius obsequens.  
Frater amicissimus, Affinis Beneficus,  
Amicus perpetuus,  
Dominus Beniguus &  
Optimus omnium servus.   

Quem  
Reges adamarunt, optimates honorarunt,  
Ecclesia deflevit,  
Vulgus oderunt.   

Quem  
jacobus & Carolus  
Regum perspicacissimi, intimum habuerunt.  
A quibus  
Honoribus auctus, & Negotijs onustus,  
Fato succubuit  
Antequam par animo periculum Invenit.  
Quid jam Peregrine?  
Aenigma mundi moritur;  
Omnia fuit, nec quidquam habuit,  
Patriae Parens & Hostis audiit.  
Deliciae idem & querela Parlamenti.  
Qui dum Papistis Bellum infert, insimulatur Papista,  
Dum Protestantium partibus consulit,  
occiditur à Protestante.  
Tesseram specta Rerum Humanarum,  
At non est quod serio triumphet malitia,  
Interimere potuit, laedere non potuit.  
Scilicet has Preces fundens expiravit.  
Tuo ego sanguine Potiar (mi jesus) dum  
mali pascuntur meo.    

This Monument is in a Chapel on the North side of the high Altar.  

Georgio holes  
Eq. Anglo-Brit. Clariss. Penatib. oriundo, rerum Militar. sic à pueritia dedito ut Castror. Alumnus nasci videretur, Qui postquam cuncta quae decerent Nobilem, stipendia in Belg●a Fecerat ordin. Ductor suae gentis, supremus vulgo Sergiant Major Generalis,   

Declaratus est.  
Augustaeq. Trinobantum Pacifice excessurus hic propter Franc. Verum Imper. suum & Consanguin. Cui tamen Periculis quam sanguine Conjunctior, Ambitu Honestiss. Componi voluit.  
joannes FN. Comes de Clare FR. Merentissimo Moerentissimus P. vixit A. L. M. iij. D. iiij. ob xiiii. Kal. jun. Anno Dom. M. DC. XXVI.    

This Monument is in a Chapel on the South side of the high Altar.  

What so thou hast  
of Nature or of Arts,  
Youth, Beauty, Strength,  
or what excelling parts  
Of Mind and Body,  
Letters, Arms, and worth,  
His eighteen years, beyond  
his years, brought forth,  
Then stand and read  
thyself within this glass,  
How soon these perish,  
and thyself may pass.   

Man's life is measured  
by the work, not days,  
No aged sloth, but  
active youth hath praise.   
Francisco holes juveni fortissimo qui ab exercitu è Belgia aeger regress 〈◊〉 obiit Prid. Id. 〈◊〉 Anno Dominicae Aetatis M. DC. XXII. suae XVIII. johannes Comes de Clare, Filio natis 3. & merentissimo moerentissimus pater posuit.   

This Monument is in another Chapel on the South side the high Altar.  

Bonae Memoriae  
Georgio Villerio Equiti Aurato Marito B. M. juxta se P. Clarissima conjux Maria Cometissa Buckingamiae.  
S. P. I. T.   

D. O. M. OSSA  
Mariae de Bello Monte Cometissae 〈◊〉 kingamiaes E quinque Potentissimor●● totius Europiae Regnorum regibus, 〈◊〉 que per totidem Immediatos   

Descensus oriunde  
Vix Ann. Lxij. M. xj. D. nineteen. Ho● Mon. V. I C.    

On a Pillar on the North side of the high Altar is this Inscription.  

juliana Crem  
Virgo Pientissima Charissima & unica filia Ranulphi de Creme, Equitis Aurati, Regii Tribunalis capitalis justiciarij, ex juliana de Cleppesby conjuge, vetustae familiae de Cleppesby in agro Norfolciensi Cohaerede suscepta,  
Redemptoris adventum hic expectat, vernante Aetate, in patriam abijt xxij. April. M. DC. XXI.    

In the Abbey, in the North I'll, about the middle of the I'll, is thus written.  
Mors mihi Solus Christus  
Lucrum mihi sola salus.  

Spe Resurgendi▪  
Hic jacet jana Stotevill, Filia Thomae Stotevill de Brinckley, in Comitatu Cantabrig. Armigeri, uxor primo Edvardi Ellis de Chesterton, in Comitatu Cantabrig. Armigeri, Cui peperit 6. Filios, & 3. Filias, uxor deinde Othewelli Hill Doctoris in jare Civil, & Cancellarij Dioces. Lincoln. Cujus Relicta obijt 27. die Aprilis Anno Dom. 1631. Aetatis suae 78.  
Vivit post funera virtus.    

In another Chapel on the South side the high Altar, is this Inscription.  
Hic jacet Anna Garrard Filia (& Cohaeres cum Fransisca) Georgio Garrard, & Margaretae Dacris, Parentibus, Nobilium, & antiquorum stemmatum, Vxor Dudleio Baroni Carleton de Imbercourt. Cui cum Filium unicum pepererit in infantia expirantem, eique legationibus ad Remp. Venetam, Subaudiam, & unitas Belgiae Provincias per Sedecem annorum spatium indivisa comes adhaeserit, dum iter illuc demo meditatur, rapta est morbo Apoplectico è molestis hujus Aevi laboribus in requiem aeternam 18. Aprilis, Anno Dom. 1627. Aetatis suae 42. à conjugio 20.  
Memoriam Posteritati faciens probae, & Religiosae Foeminae, Vxoris conjunctissimae, oculatae Matrisfam: cui hoc Monumentum sacravit Gemibundus conjux, Testimonium Amoris integri, ob eamque amissam intimi cruciatus, dum visum fuerit Deo Op. Ma. & illum etiam deducere in hoc idem Dormitorium, cui ipse vivens se mortuum designavit.    

A RETURNE TO LONDON:  
In which most of the Parish Churches have of late years been Rebuilded, Repaired, or at least Beautified.  
A Catalogue whereof here followeth, wherein not only the year in which, but the means likewise by which, each Work was perfected are set down, as also all the Monuments of Queen Elizabeth, as they are in every Church.  

S. Albans Woodstreet.  
I Am sorry, that, but now beginning to speak of Building, repairing, and Beautifying of all the Parish Churches in this famous City of London, I must in the very Front of the Alphabet (for that is the rule I go by) speak of the pulling down, Demolishment, and Ruins of a Church, and one of the most ancient among them; Saint Albans in Woodstreet.  
This Church, being wonderfully decayed and perished, was by these Gentlemen, Sir Henry Spiller, Enigo jones, Esquire, Captain Leake, and Captain Williams surveyed, to see what repair might help it. But by these Gentlemen, and Workmen appointed with them, it was found to be too far gone for Repair; neither would any Workman put himself into hazard upon it: affirming it to be in every part of it, so spent, decayed, and enfeebled, that they must suddenly pluck it down, or it would suddenly prevent that labour, and fall to the ground of itself: which the Fall every day increasing (and more and more growing and appearing) did most evidently seem to threaten.  
For this cause, many of the Parishioners refused to go to it, many that went, went unwillingly, but all with much fear, where they sat with more; their danger all the time much troubling and disturbing their Devotion.  
This great necessity enforcing, it was the last year 1632. betwixt Easter and Midsummer pulled down, and yet july, 1633. (a sad object) so lies in its pitiful ruins.  
Many of the ablest sort of this Parish, to show they would do what they could towards the recovery of this great loss, have joined certain moneys (their free and voluntary gifts) together, which they have again disbursed in Stone, and some other Materials.  
But this many, being but few, to the number of those that in this kind, can do little or nothing, and their good wills falling extremely short of that great sum that must begin and finish so great a Work as this, they were constrained to petition his Highness for his Letters Patents, for the help of a collection for it.  
Their Petition graciously received, his Majesty was pleased (as a cause of all other his Piety especially favours) to send his Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, for the forwarding and effecting their desires.  
Yet notwithstanding this fair degree to their wish, they are for a time put off, by reason (as I am informed) of the great Collection for the repair of the famous Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, but they hope it will not be long.  
In which hope they have many Partners, as also in their Prayers, for all the good means that may be, to the speedy rebuilding of it; till which time, the Church appointed unto them for the Sabbath. Exercises, Marriage, Burying, Churching, and the Sacraments, is the Parish Church of Saint Alphage near Cripplegate. And thus much of this Church, Faint Albans.   

All-hallows Barking.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified in the year of our Lord God, 1613. and within some few years before and after (in their several times) other wants were supplied and furnished, viz.  
A very fair new Pulpit set up, many fair Pewes, a fair Communion table, with other graceful Ornaments to it. This Table was the gift of one Master john Burnell, all the rest the charge of the Parish: Also in the South I'll, over the entry into the Church, in the year of our Lord 1627. there was a very handsome Gallery erected, at the cost and charge of the Parish.  

Thomas Covell  
john Shaw 

Churchwardens.     

In the South wall is a Monument with this Inscription.  
In the I'll against this place, lieth the body of Francis Covell, Citizen and Skinner of London, he lived in this Parish 52. years, was married to his wife Margery 42. years, had Issue by her Thomas his only son. He had borne Office in his Company, and this Ward, with good reputation, was in his life Religious, Peaceable, and Charitable, and at his death gave Clothing to the poor of this Parish yearly for ever. He lived 69. years, and rendered his soul in peace to God, September 7. 1625.    

All-hallows Bredstreet.  
THis Church, in the many decayed places of it, was repaired, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charges of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1625.  

Samuel Tucker  
William Hunt 

Churchwardens.     
On the South side of the Chancel, in a little part of this Church, called The Saltars' Chapel, is a very fair Window, with the Portraiture or Figure of him that gave it, very curiously wrought upon it, with this Inscription:  
Thomas Beaumont Salter, the Founder of this Chapel, and a worthy Benefactor to the Company of the Salters. 1629. This Window being then erected.  
In the midst of this little Chapel, in a fair Marble Tomb, this man with his two wives lies interred. The words round about this Tomb, with the Verses, you may read in page 391.  

To the sacred Memory▪  
Of that worthy and faithful Minister of Christ, Master Richard Stock, who after 32. years spent in the Ministry, wherein by his learned Labours, joined with Wisdom, and a most holy life, God's glory was much advanced, his Church edified, Piety increased, and the true honour of a Pastor's place maintained, deceased April, 20. 1626. Some of his loving Parishioners have consecrated this Monument of their neverdying love, jan. 28. 1628.  

His situs exanimis Stocki  
sub pulvere Truncus,  
Quem quondam agnovit  
Pastorem Ecclesia Fidum:  
Istae suum nunc Sancta tenent  
Habitacula Sanctum,  
Quo Magn Us Pan DV Cit oVes  
oVi Vmque magIstros.   

Thy liveless Trunk  
(O Reverend Stock)  
Like Aaron's Rod  
sprouts out again,  
And after two  
full Winters past,  
Yields Blossoms  
and ripe fruit amain.   

For why, this work of Piety,  
Performed by some of thy Flock,  
To thy dead Corpse and sacred Urn,  
Is but the fruit of this old Stock.    

A fair new Monument in the South I'll, on the wall, almost at the upper end.  
This Monument was erected at the cost of this Parish, in memorial of Master john Dunster, Citizen and Cothworker of London, who lieth buried near this place, and gave amongst other charitable gifts, 200. pounds towards the late building of this Church, and 200. pounds, which hath purchased 12. pounds a year for ever, towards the reparation of the same. He departed this life the 14. of October, 1625. being of the age of 58. years.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, and henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, etc.    

All-hallows the great.  
THis Church, with much cost bestowed on the Steeple, was in many parts of it Repaired, and throughout richly and worthily beautified, at the proper cost & charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1627. and 1629.  

james Ashby  
Henry Clinket  
and  
Christopher Robotham  
William Pagen 

Churchwardens.     
There was at this time a fair Gallery built at the West end of the Church, and in the North I'll a new door made, almost at the upper end.  
The last year 1632. all the Isles, to the Chancel, were raised a foot and a half, and the pews a foot above that; A work much gracing the Church, but especially done for a ready and more easy hearing. The charge of these times rising to 600. pounds and upwards.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For Temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.  
Many Daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.   

In the figure of a Book over Her, these words.  
They that trust in the Lord, shall be as Mount Zion, which shall not be removed for ever. Psal. 125.   

On the one side.  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World wonder, Nature's chief.   

On the other side.  
Britain's blessing, England's splendour.  
Religion's Nurse, the Faith's defender.   

Under her.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

All-hallows Honylane.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1625.  

Francis Waterhouse  
Edward powel 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of this repair amounting unto 55. pounds and upwards.   

All-hallows the less.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified within and without, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1616.  
In the year 1613. two fair Dormers were made on the South side of this Church to enlighten it, before being very dark: the one at the cost of Sir Thomas Glover, Knight, the other at the cost of Master Thomas jones Gentleman.  
In the year 1633. a fair large Gallery built on the North side of the Church, and within nine or ten years past, two other Galleries, which both in their cost and ends, but especially the last, much commend their religious Founders.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
I have fought a good fight, etc. 2. Tim. 7, 8.    

All-hallows Lumberstreet.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost of the Parishioners, in the years of our Lord God 1622. and 1623.  
The charge of this repair amounting to the sum of 171. pounds, and nine shillings.  

William Skelton  
Henry Collinson 

Churchwardens.      

All-hallows Staining.  
THis Church was repaired in many parts of it, and very nearly and decently beautified, at the cost of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1630.  

Simon Parrot  
Robert Stileman 

Churchwardens.     

In the South wall of this Church is a Monument with this Inscription on it.  
Before this place lieth the body of Em Charleton, wife to Robert Charleton Citizen and Fishmonger of London, by whom she had Issue three Sons and four Daughters, and died in Childbed the 23. or june, 1623. having been married ten years, ten months, and thirteen days, and lived 31. years, 4. months, and odd days. She was the youngest child of Thomas Harby of Adston, in the County of Northampton Esquire, by his last Wife Katherine Throgmorton, Daughter of Clement Throgmorton of Hasdley in the County of Warwick Esquire, and of Katherine Nevil, sister to the then Lord Aburgavenie.  
Et genus, & nomen nôsti,  
Nomenque Mariti,  
Progeniem atque dies,  
sic obitum & tumulum,  
Te latet ipsa tamen,  
licet haec externa tueris,  
Nobilia interius,  
Nobiliora latent.  
Nobilitas vera est  
sanctis virtutibus orta,  
Hanc teneris annis,  
huic dedit omnisator.  
Nam cum lacte simul  
Materno Religionem  
Imbibit, assidue  
Matre docente pia.  
Posteaque ut vires Crescebam  
crevit in illa  
Vera Dei veri cognitio,  
atque fides.  
Nec sine fruge fides,  
fuit Alma, Pudica, Benigna,  
Compatiens, humilis,  
mitis, amica, Bona.  
Sic veram verâ cum justitia  
piecatem, &  
Facta bonis verbis  
junxerat illa bona.  
Vt Mater, Natam,  
Matris sic nata Nepotes  
Imbuit imprimis  
cognition Dei.  
Non specie tantum,  
sed verè Religiosa,  
Et virgo, & conjux,  
& domina & Genitrix.  
Principio finis similis:  
sic ultima primae  
Linea conformis:  
mortua viva simul.    

All-hallows at the Wall.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1613.  

john Stream  
Robert Priest 

Churchwardens.     
It was again repaired, richly and very worthily beautified at the cost of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1627.  

Robert Haunch  
Harman Brockard 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of the last repair, accounting to the sum of 200. and 20. pounds.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Read but her Reign,  
this Princess might have been  
For wisdom called  
Nicaulis, Sheba's Queen,  
Against Spain's Holofernes,  
judeth she.  
Dauntless gained many  
a glorious victory:  
Not Deborah did her  
in fame excel,  
She was a Mother  
in our Israel.   

An Hester, who  
her person did engage,  
To save her people  
from the public strage;  
Chaste Patroness  
of true Religion,  
In Court a Saint,  
in Field an Amazon,  
Glorious in life,  
deplored in her death,  
Such was unparallelled  
ELIZABETH.   
Borne Anno 1534.  
Crowned Anno 1558. jan. 15.  
Reigned years 44. mon. 4. days 17.  
Died Anno 1602. March 24.    

S. Alphage.  
THis Church (the decays in diverse parts of it, calling upon the Parishioners for it) began to be repaired in the year of our Lord God 1624. the repair continuing 25. and 26. in which time, the Masons work amounted to 400. pounds. The farther repair, in 27. and 28. in the last of which it was beautifully finished, arising to 100 pounds more; The sole cost and charge of the Parish.  

William Syddon  
john Laurence 

Churchwardens.     

In the South I'll, upon a fair Marble stone is this Inscription.  
Hic jacet Willielmus Phillip●, Ar. 〈◊〉 River. Patris Dom. Epi. London. suae Cur.  
Commisariatus London, & qui 80. Annorum pie transactis in Dom. placide obdormivit 4. die Mens. Septembris, An. Dom. 1625. Relinquens post se 6. ex 18. liberis.   

On another fair stone in the same I'll.  
In Christ alone I only trust,  
To rise in number of the just.  
Here under lieth buried the body of Katherine Edward's, sometime beloved wife of john Edwards, of this Parish of Saint Alphage; she departed this transitory life on the sixth day of january, 1628. and in the 45. year of her age, having had issue by her said Husband five Sons and seven Daughters.  
My body here in dust doth rest,  
Sin caused that earth claims it as due,  
My soul's in Heaven for ever blessed,  
Yet both in one Christ will renew.    

Andrew Hubbard.  
THis Church was repaired and richly beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1630.  

Enoch Lynd  
William Clobery 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it amounting to six hundred pounds and above.   

Andrew Vndershaft.  
THis Church was repaired and laudably trimmed and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1627.  

William Bargins  
Simon Farewell 

Churchwardens.     
Then (I say) trimmed and beautified, although for some few years before and since, to this present year 1633. The care and cost of the Parishioners have been still employed in the supplying and furnishing of it with such things, as either for necessity or beauty, their love to God's house, should find wanting. Among other things these, viz.  
They have new raised their Chancel, adding to that cost a Communion Table, with a very fair frame about it, they have made many new Pewes, a fair Alabaster Font, and a Clock: a necessary thing, that in the memory of man this Parish hath not had, nor the eldest Parishioner ever heard of.  
They have also in this Church (much commending the Founders & Continuers of it) at the lower end of the North I'll, a fair Wainscot Press full of good Books, the works of many learned and reverend Divines, offering (at seasonable and convenient times) the benefit of reading, to any that shall be as ready to embrace it, as they and their Maintainers to impart it.  

A fair Monument in the middle of the wall of the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Death hath added to the ornament of this place the blessed memorial of Edward Warner Esquire, a worthy Citizen and Merchant of London, who departed this mortal life the 28. of October 1628. He was the second son of Francis Warner of Parham, in the County of Suffolk, Esquire, by Mary his second Wife, ● Daughter & Coheir of Sir Edmond Rouse of the said County, Knight, which Francis Warner was truly and lineally descended from the ancient and generous Family of the Warners, who possessed a place of their own name, at Warners hall in great Waltham, in the County of Essex. He died without Issue, and made Francis Warner of Parham aforesaid, Esquire, his Nephew, and next Heir in blood, the Executor of his last Will, and principal Heir to his estate; who out of his duty and affection to the memory of his dear Uncle, hath dedicated this Monument.  
He had to his first Wife, Mary, the Daughter of Master Ailmer, of Risden in Hartfordshire; and to his second, Margaret, Daughter of Master john Cheyney.   

On a fair Grave-stone lying in the same I'll, is thus written.  

I. H. S. Mors Christi, mihi vita.  
The memorial of Mistress Elizabeth Turnor, whose body resteth here in expectation of her Saviour. She lived the sorrowful Widow of three Husbands, Andrew White, Cuthbert Burby, and Humphrey Turnor, Gentleman, and the most dear Mother of seven children, being the Issue only of her second: three of them buried her, Edward Burby, Cuthbert, and joan, which inherit her sorrow to bewail their loss.  
Her dissolution happened in her great Clymactericall, being on the tenth Calendss of August, in the year after her Saviour, 1630.  
Resurgam.     

Andrew Wardrobe.  
THis Church was repaired, and worthily beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1627.  

A very fair Window on the South side of this Church, with this Inscription.  
This Window was glazed at the charge of Peter Leonarts the elder, of East-Sm●●-field Brewer, Anno Domini 1627.   

In the South I'll, at the lower end of the Church, is this Epitaph.  
When God was pleased,  
(the world unwilling yet)  
Helias james, to Nature  
paid his debt,  
And here reposes:  
As he lived, he died,  
The saying strongly  
in him verified,  
Such life, such death:  
then a known truth to tell,  
He lived a godly life,  
and died as well.    

Anne Aldersgate.  
THis Church was repaired richly, and very worthily beautified in the year of our Lord God 1624.  
In the years 1629. and 1630. the Steeple decayed and perished, with great care and much cost was repaired, a new Turret made for the Saints-Bell.  
Also the walls of the two Churchyards (the greater and the less) were raised, two fair Arched doors made in the middle of them, with a very fair Arched Entrance to the Church on the South side of it; and the Alley, or passage from Saint Anne's lane into Noble Street, raised, leveled, and (with free Stone) very neatly and handsomely paved.  

Gabriel Butcher  
Robert Dimpleton 

Churchwardens.     

An Epitaph in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Francis Spencer, eldest son of Richard Spencer, Esquire, who departed this life the 20. of june 1629.  
Mortis memor sis, me Ridebat Horula Natum, Renatum, Mortuum.    

Anne Blackfriars.  
THe ancient Church belonging to the Blackfriars, London, was (before the dissolution of Religious Houses by Henry the 8.) one of the most spacious and fair Churches in London: but the Friars being put out, the Church (together with other fair buildings) was utterly demolished. Therefore the Inhabitants of the said Blackfriars, London, fitted an upper Room, of 50. foot in length, and 30. foot in breadth, for a public place of Divine worship. The charges of purchasing and fitting the said Room for a Church, appeareth not in any Record that we can find.  
In Anno 1597. when the Church was empty, and no body in it, a great part of the Roof thereof fell down, whereupon the then Inhabitants being about to repair their said Church, obtained of Sir George Moor Knight, so much ground as enlarged their Church with an I'll on the West, 50. foot in length and 15. foot in breadth: for which ground they built at their own cost a fair Warehouse under the said I'll for the use of Sir Jerome Bows, Knight, who then had the said ground in lease, and also gave him 133. li. The new building of their said Church and Ile (beside the foresaid 133. li. given to Sir jerom Bows) cost 300. li. 18. shillings.  
In june 1607. the Inhabitants of the said Blackfriars paid 120. li. to Sir George Moor, for the purchase of their Preachers house, their Churchyard, their Church, and the Porch appertaining thereunto, together with the right of Patronage of, in, and to the said Church.  
In Anno 1613. the Inhabitants of the said Blackfriars, purchased on the South of their Church, so much housing as enlarged their Church aforesaid 36. foot in length and 54. foot in breadth, the purchase whereof, together with the Vault for burying, and other Rooms under that part of the Church, and the new building of all, and making new Pewes, and Pulpit, cost 1546. li. 6. shillings.  
In Anno 1632. the Inhabitants of the said Blackfriars, purchased the Rooms directly under the above mentioned upper Room converted to a Church, which said under Rooms they purchased to repair the Foundation & Walls whereon the Church stood, which Walls were very much decayed. The Purchase whereof, and repair of Decays, cost 500 li.  
The sum of all bestowed upon Blackfriars Church, since the reformation of Religion in England, amounteth to 2600. pounds 4. shillings.  

A fair Monument at the South end of this Church, with this Inscription.  

P. M.  
johannis Bill Mercatoris Librarij, qui Nationibus ab exteris supellectilem litterariam in hoc Regnum per plusculos Annos Importavit.  
Vt  
Librorum Thesaurus,  
Bibliothecarum Parens,  
Academiarum Mercurius  
Merito dici possit.  
Typographi etiam Regij jacobo & Carolo R. R. Serenissimis, per Annos XIII. fidele in hoc opere ministerium praestantis. De Republica Librariâ bene, desuis optime Merentis. Non sine luctu & Moerore Amicorum, Anno Aetatis suae LVI. publicae vero salutis M. DC. XXX. Defuncti. Qui interim duas Vxores pudicas duxerat, Annam Filiam Tho. Montfort Theologiae Doctoris, Quae sine liberis obijt, & janan Henrici Francklin Filiam, quae liberis quinque▪  
Familiam auxit.  
Hoc Monumentum  
Fidei & Amoris ergo  
jana Vxor Moestissima P.    

Qweene Elizabeth's Monument.  
Sacred unto Memory:  
Religion to its primitive sincerity restored, Peace thoroughly settled, Coin to the true value refined, Rebellion at home extinguished, France near ruin by intestine mischiefs relieved, Netherlands supported, Spain's Armado vanquished, Ireland with Spaniards expulsion, and Traitor's correction quieted, both Universities Revenues, by a Law of Provision, exceedingly augmented, Finally, all England enriched, and 45. years most prudently governed, Elizabeth, a Queen, a Conqueress, Triumpher, the most devoted to Piety, the most happy, after 70. years of her life, quietly by death departed.   

On the other side of the Monument.  
For an eternal Memorial▪  
Unto Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Daughter of King Henry the eighth, Grandchild to King Henry the seventh, great Grandchild to King Edward the fourth, the Mother of this her Country, the Nurse of Religion and Learning: For perfect skill in very many Languages, for glorious Endowments, as well of mind as body, and for Regal Virtues beyond her Sex.  

She 

began  
ended 

her reign 

17 No. 1558.  
24 Mar. 1602         
Under her Monument.  
I have fought a good fight, etc.    

S. Antholines.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified in the year of our Lord 1616. towards which the Gentlemen here under named, were free and very bounteous Benefactors, Sir William Craven, Alderman, Master Henry jay, Alderman, Master Adrian Moor, Master Thomas Boothby, Master Francis Dorrington, Master William Parker, Master Cleophas Smith, Citizen and Draper of London.  

Richard Dight  
Thomas Brown 

Churchwardens.     
To this was added a very rich and beautiful Gallery, every Pane or division of it (the number of them 52.) filled with the Arms of Kings, Queens, and Princes of this Kingdom, beginning with Edward the Confessor, and ending with the Badge or Simboll of Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavere and Prince Elector, etc.  
Begun in the year 1623.  

Francis Bickely  
William Stacy 

Churchwardens.     
And fully built and finished in the year 1624.  

William Stacy  
Edward Banbury 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of the foresaid Reparation, 1616. as I was informed by some Officers in the Church, amounting to the sum of nine hundred pounds and upwards.   

S. Austin.  
THis Church was in part Rebuilded, Leaded, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the years of our Lord God, 1630. and 1631.  

Ralph Tonstell  
Daniel Hallingworth  
Samuel Langham 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of this great and costly Repair, amounting to the sum of 1200. pounds.   

Bartholomew Exchange.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1620.  

William Drew  
La●ncelot johnson 

Churchwardens.     

At the West door is a very fair Screen, with this Inscription.  
Ex dono Richardi Croshawe, Civis & Aurifabri Londinensis 1631.   

Monument in the South side of the Chancel thus written on.  
Here lieth Richard Croshawe, sometimes Master of the Company of Goldsmiths, and Deputy of this Ward. He was very liberal to the poor, and in the time of the great Plague 1625. neglecting of his own safety, he abode constantly in this City to provide for their relief, he did many charitable acts in his time, and by his Will he left above 4000 li. to the maintaining of Lectures, relief of the poor, and other pious uses.  
He dwelled in this Parish 31. years, and being 70. years old, he died the the 2. of june, 1621.   

In the same Church, and the same I'll, upon a fair stone, is this Inscription.  
here lieth interred the body of William Drew, Citizen and Grocer of London, who departed this life the 29. day of August, 1631. being of the age of 56. years, expecting a blessed and joyful Resurrection at the coming of Christ.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Eliza Beata,  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Earth's joy, England's gem,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.  
I have fought a good fight, etc.  
Regni 45. Aetatis 70. obijt 24. Martij, Anno salutis 1602.  
Close by the word Eliza, is the figure of three Crowns, and these words by them.  
Manet ultima Coele.    

Bennet Fynck.  
THis Church is now repairing, they began in March last 1633. and by Michaelmas at the farthest, do make account (God willing) it will be finished: and so completely and absolutely, with all things befitting furnished, that we may for that time say of this as of the rest. This Church was repaired and (at the cost and charge of the Parishioners) richly and very worthily beautified, in the year of our Lord God 1633.  
The charge of this repair and beautifying, by what they have done, and what they have to do, very probably imagined, amounting to four hundred pounds and upwards.  

Edward Barcocke  
Robert Claxon 

Churchwardens.      

Bennet Grace-Church.  
THere hath been bestowed on this Parish-Church within the passage of 20. years, several charges, amounting to the sum of 700. pounds. But the greatest part of this in the last repair, which was in the year of our Lord 1630. in which as it was very carefully repaired, so richly and very worthily beautified.  
Some useful, necessary, and most needful things in (and since added to) this worthy repair, were these; A new Clock, a new Dial, new Chimes, and now 1633. a very fair Turret for the Steeple. The Churchwardens in the time of this repair 1630.  
john Cudney, and john Offeley.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Daughter of King Henry the eighth, by Queen Anne Bullen his Wife.  
She died at Richmond the 24. of March, 1602. being 69. years, six months, and seventeen days old, when she had reigned 44. years, 4. months, and 7. days.   

As in the figure of a Book.  
They that put their trust in the Lord, are even as the Mount of Zion, which may not be removed, but standeth firm for ever.   

On the one side.  
Britain's blessing, England's splendour,  
Religion's Nurse, the Faith's defender.   

On the other side.  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

Under her.  
If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.    

Bennet Pauls-Wharfe.  
THis Church hath had no repair or beauty bestowed upon it for many years; but now standing in great need of both, it is shortly (as I am informed) to be (as the rest) repaired, richly and very worthily beautified.  

A fair Monument at the upper end of the South I'll, standing under and adjoined to the Monument of his Father, Master David Smith, Imbroytherer to Queen Elizabeth, with this inscription.  
William Smith his seventh son, a willing Imitator of his Parents virtues, who deceased the third of October, Anno 1632. aged 68  
He was the only survyving son and Heir to his Father, Alderman's Deputy of the Ward for the space of fifteen years. He married Sarah the Daughter of William Feake of London, Goldsmith, by whom he had Issue Katherine his only Daughter and Heir, who was married unto Samuel Owfield of Gatton, in the County of Surrey, Esquire.    

Bennet Sherehog.  
THis Church being very much decayed and perished, was amply repaired and beautified at the cost of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1628.  
Divers fair Marble stones, that formerly lay hid under the pews, then removed and placed in the body of the Church, to add (as most fit) to its further grace and beauty.  

john Reyner  
William Parker 

Churchwardens.      

Botolph Billingsgate.  
THis Church was repaired, and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1624.  

Robert Dowley  
Robert Leman 

Churchwardens.     

A very fair Monument in the wall of the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Anna Saris, nuper Vxor johannis Saris Armigeri, Filia Gulielmi Meggs Armigeri, quam suscepit ex conjuge secunda Dorothea, filia venerabilis Dominae Annae Cambel adhuc superstitis, Ex hac vita Migravit, Febru. 21. Anno Dom. 1622.  

Aetatis 29.  
Conjugij 8.   
Haec pietate Deo,  
casta virtute Marito,  
Decessu sanctis, Matri  
conjuncta sepulcro est.  
Moestissimus conjux, Meritissimae conjugi, hoc Monumentum, Amoris & Reminiscentiae ergo posuit.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument. Eliza Beata,  
Spain's Rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

Under the figure of three Crowns. Vltimum manet in Coelo.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.  
This Table was the gift of William Wigmore, being Churchwarden 1625.    

Christ's Church.  
THis Church, within some few years past hath had many repairs and charges; but we especially here remember the fair and spacious Gallery, that (at the cost of the Parishioners) was erected in the North I'll, in the year of our Lord God 1628. The charge of it amounting to 149. pounds 10. shillings.  
A work very worthily supplying a necessity, and adding to this Church a great deal of grace and beauty.  

Matthew Nelson  
Samuel Savin 

Churchwardens.     

A Table of Arms for the Lady Digby, of all her quartered Coats, which by the right of Heirs general are involved into the Noble Family of her Fathers.  
Insig. praeclariss. Dominae D. Venetiae Digby, è Familia Stanleyorum Com. Darbiae exparte Patris, & Perciorum Com. Northumbriae Materno jure, aliisque quamplurimis Christian. orbis principibus oriundae.   

Hard by the other this, and thus written on.  
Memoriae Sacrum.  
near to this place lieth buried the body of Nicholas Beaumont of Cole-Overton in the County of Leicester Esquire, and Anne his Wife, the Daughter of William Saunders of Welford in the County of Northampton, Esquire, by whom he left Issue four Sons and two Daughters, viz. Henry, Francis, Thomas, and Huntingdon, Dorothy and Katherine. The said Nicholas died the 24. of November, Anno Dom. 1585. His wife died the tenth of February, 1581. In remembrance of whom this Monument was erected, by the care and cost of Elizabeth Lady Ashburnham Widow, late Wife of Sir john Ashburnham Knight, daughter to Sir Thomas Beaumont of Stawton, in the County aforesaid, Knight, their third son, at the appointof her Uncle, Master Francis Beaumont, Esquire, their second son, to whom the Erector hereof was Executrix.   

Upon a fair Stone in the North I'll, is this Inscription.  
Spe Resurgendi hîc jacet Corpus, joannae Vxoris Edmundi Philipps Londini Armigeri, quae cum solo & Amantissimo Marito, in dilecto matrimonio vixit per annos 48.  
Hec doloris Amphitheatrum Reliquit, mensis Aprilis, die 12. Anno salutis 1632. Aetatis suae 72.   

Upon a fair stone at the entrance into the upper Church, with this Inscription.  
Lodovicus Williams, venedocus  
Hic jacet.  
Nuper Civis & Haberd. Lond.  
una cum Elizabetha, uxore ejus,  
Qui objerunt  
Anno Dom. M. DC. IX.  
Octob. ij.  
Hîc optat Cineres suos jacere  
Mauritius W nis. in M na. Dr. defunctorum  
F. unicus superstes.  
A very fair Arms over it.   

Upon a fair stone in the middle I'll, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body of Elizabeth Draper, the Wife of Robert Draper of this Parish, borne the third day of December, 1581. and died the third of December, 1613.  
All those that knew her,  
loved her; for her life,  
Chaste, Pure, and Pions,  
was of all approved;  
(A rich possession's  
such a virtuous Wife)  
All ill she hated,  
and all good she loved:  
Be this his comfort then  
bewails her most,  
In Heaven she's found,  
that here on Earth is lost.   

In a Table in the Choir, hanging upon the Organs, is this written.  
Memoriae Sacrum.  
near this lieth the body of joaxe, Daughter and sole Heir of Edmond Bigs, Gentleman, and late Wife to Clement Goldsmith of Gray Inn, Esquire, who was in this Church Baptised the third of March, 1564. and interred the 17. of February, 1631.  
Close by this small  
Remembrance, you may find  
That which apparelled est  
an honest mind,  
A body there Inurned,  
where once did rest  
A charitable soul  
that was its guest.  
But see what sickness,  
age, and death hath done,  
These have they parted,  
yet the day shall come,  
When they shall meet,  
and reunite again,  
And be assumed above  
the Heavens to reign:  
Until which time  
may this poor Monument,  
To Reader, show  
a sad sons true intent.  
But if this perish,  
yet her virtue shall  
(She dead) preserve  
her blessed Memorial.   

These two Stones lie close together, and close to the Communion Table. In which place also lieth buried the body of that learned and worthy Divine, Doctor Samson Price.  
Fui Claphamus, pater Istius Iohannis nuper defuncti, Et hìc sepulti, Qui obiit septimo die Feb. Anno Dom. 1621.   

Fui Claphamus, pater Istius Iohannis subter hunc ●●pidem sepulti.  
Here lieth buried the body of john Clapham, Esquire, one of the six Clerks of the Chancery, who died the sixth day of December, Anno 1618. his Father Luke Clapham then living.    

S. Christopher's.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost of the Parish, in the year of our Lord 1621.  
But is now very shortly to be repaired and beautified again, with a great deal of cost intended.  

In the same Church is this following Epitaph.  
Siste viator, leviter preme,  
jacet hîc juxta, Quod mortale fuit,   

C. V.  
Thomae Harrioti.  
Hic fuit Doctissimus ille Harriotus  
de Syon ad Flumen Thamesin,  
Patria & educatione  
Oxoniensis,  
Qui omnes scientias Calluit,  
Qui in omnibus excelluit,  
Mathematicis, Philosophicis, Theologicis.  
Veritatis indagator studiosissimus,  
Dei Trini-unius cultor piissimus,  
Sexagenarius, aut eo circiter,  
Mortalitati valedixit, Non vitae,  
Anno Christi M. DC. XXI. julii 2.    

Clement's Eastcheap.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost & charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1632.  

john Stoner  
Thomas Priestman 

Churchwardens.     

Queen Elizabeth's Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae. In the figure of a Book. Psal. 125.  
They that trust in the Lord, shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but remaineth for ever.   

On the one side.  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

On the other side.  
Britain's Blessing,  
England's Splendour,  
Religion's Nurse,  
The Faith's defender.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Dionis Backchurch.  
THe middle I'll of this Church was new laid in the year of our Lord 1629.  
The Steeple was repaired, a new Turret built, new Frames were made for the Bells, and this Church very decently beautified, in the year of our Lord, 1632.  

A Monument in the North I'll, with this Inscription.  

Cur quod partu obeas lachrimis  
Rigat ora Maritus,  
Et quasitu pereas  
se macerat per eas?  
Dum cedis domino,  
discedis ab orbe scelesto,  
Parendo & praeis,  
non pariendo peris.   

Hic jaceo Triplici Monumento  
à Morte beata,  
Marmoris hoc, Moesto  
vir mihi corde dedit;  
Virtus, Nobilitas, Pietas,  
Patientia nostra,  
Dant alium, hoc vero  
vincit honore prius:  
At Ternum Aeternum est  
coeloque locatus, & illud  
Nec vir, nec virtus,  
sed dedit ipse Deus.   
In obitum Foeminae Generosissimae Dom. Mariae Stanley, Vxoris Tho. Stanley Armigeri, Filiae Rogeri Apleton, Militis & Baronetti, Quae cum viro suo Tres Filios peperisset (quorum duo hîc jacent sepulti) ultimi partus, qui nunc superest, laboribus extincta fuit. 4. die junii 1609. Anno Aetatis suae 23.    

S. Dunstan's in the East.  
THis Church began to be repaired in the year of our Lord God 1631. And was fully repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, in the year of our Lord 1633.  

Christopher Vincent  
john Dines 

Churchwardens.     
I might here dilate and enlarge myself, by spreading this general into its particulars, but for that this shall suffice: The decays of it were many and great, and consequently the repairs. The many and great parts of it, almost making up the whole, which may easily be believed by the sum of this sumptuous repair; the charge of it amounting to two thousand four hundred pounds and upwards.  
To the making up of which, many of the worthy Parishioners have lent to the Lord, in giving to this poor decayed Church very large sums: And of such Givers, thus the Lord saith, He that giveth to the poor, dareth to the Lord, etc.  

A fair Monument in the North I'll of the Chancel, with this inscription.  
here lieth the body of Richard Wyche, Merchant and Citizen of London, free of the Company of Skinners, amongst whom having borne all Offices, his life and carriage was exemplary.  
He married Elizabeth, the Daughter of Sir William Salting stall, Knight, sometimes Alderman and Mayor of this Honourable City of London, by whom he had issue, 12. Sons and 6. Daughters, viz. Richard, Thomas, Susan, Daniel, George, Saemuel, Peter, Elizabeth, james, Mary, Anne, Edward, julius, William, Henry, Abigail, Nathaniel, Rebecca.  

Sons 

4  
8 

deceased.  
living.       

Daughters 

2  
4 

deceased.  
living.       
He yielded his soul in peace to his Maker the 20. of November, after 67. years' pilgrimage here amongst men, whose latter years were bestowed in expectation of his end, expressed in settling of his estate here on earth, and in preparation of his soul for Heaven, where it now remains in peace and happiness.    

Edmond Lumbardstreet.  
THis Church was repaired, and very worthily beautified at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1631. and 1632.  

In the first year  

Humphrey Gravenor  
Anthony Bradshaw 

Churchwardens.      

In the last  

Robert Smith  
Edward Hooke 

Churchwardens.     
The cost of it arising to two hundred eight and forty pounds.    

S. Ethelborough.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1612. In the year 1620. the Steeple greatly decayed was repaired. And in the year 1630. a Gallery built in the South I'll, at the proper cost of Owen Santpeere of this Parish.  

William Mefflin  
Peter Jail 

Churchwardens.      

S. Faith.  
WE cannot in this place keep our ordinary course, in speaking of decays and repairing, for (as it is anciently said of this Church)  
This Church needs no Repair at all,  
Saint Faith's defended by Saint Paul.  
And for beauty it hath sufficient, being still supplied and furnished with whatsoever the virtuous and religious Guardians of it know fit, either for use or ornament. Which while we speak of, we cannot forget that especial addition of beauty, Light; that Light, that by pulling down those houses that stood before it, is plenteously descended into it: Nor (with that) the cost of the Parishioners, (having gained such a long wanted benefit) in trimming and new glazing their Windows.  
At that time also 1632. they purchased at the lower end of the South Ile (going up thorough the Entry into Paul's) a convenient place for a Vestry, upon which (having none before) they have bestowed a great deal of cost and beauty.  

William Aspeley  
joh Gill 

Churchwardens.     

A very fair Marble stone in the Chancel under the Communion Table, with these words.  

About it.  
Under this Stone lie buried the bodies of john and Francis Astley, the Sons of Sir john Astley of Allington Castle in the County of Kent, Master of the Revels, and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary to Charles the first.   

Upon it.  
In obitum immaturum joh. & Fr. Astley, Filiorum Domini joh. Astley, Equitis Aurati, quorum hic undecem, Alter Duo de viginti Annos Natus, ad superos Migravit. Vtrique vero sub eodem Marmore Tumulantur.  
Sic Rebar, solum spes tanta  
invida Fata  
Ostendisse viris, &  
Rapuisse simul.  
Aut pater omnipotens,  
& qui dedit, abstulit, aptes  
Vidit quippe Astris,  
asseruitque sibi.  
Illi autem Humanis exempti  
Rebus, Olympum  
Nunc habitant, ubi pax,  
& sine fine quies.  
Vno hoc Felices; quod cum  
unus venter utrosque  
Foverat, una etiam  
nunc capit urna duos.    

A fair Monument on the North side of the Chancel, with this Inscripion.  

M. S.  
Hic juxta situs est Richardus Ironside, vir summa prudentia, industria, ustaeque integritate, una cum 2. Lectiss. vxorib quarum posteriorem, morum suavitate, Elegantia, & Amore Conjunctam, Fato sibi Raptam, non ita multo post secutus est. Quibus hoc Monumentum in opprobrium mortis, Quae has tampias Animas eripuit à 13. liberis, qui se ipsos poene quaerunt in illarum desiderio, Consecravit  
E. I. Filius & Haeres. 1627.    

A fair Monument at the upper end of the Chancel, with this inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body Katherine, (third Daughter of Edward Lord Nevil, Baron of Abergaveny) Wife of Sir Stephen Lessieur, of Chiswicke, in the County of Middlesex, Knight, She was brought from her said house to this Parish, in hope to recover her bodily health, by the help of God and Physicians. But the same God knowing, and having ordained that which was best for her pious soul, hath been pleased to take her from the miseries of this vain world, and to receive her soul with his Saints in Heaven. As she did profess in all the time that she lived in the state of a Maid, and of a Wife, to be a true and obedient child of God; even so she did behave herself in her sickness, bearing her affliction with a true Christian Patience, much delighting to Read, or to hear the Word of God read unto her, hoping and trusting to be saved by the only Merits and Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ: And recommending her Spirit into the hands of Almighty God, she exchanged her mortal life for the Immortal, the 4. of August 1630.  
Revel. 14. 13.  
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, yea saith the Spirit, that they rest from their labours, and their works follow them.  
Quid aliud est Mors vitae hujus mortalis, quam finis mortis hujus vitalis, & janua vitae immortalis?  
Ergo  
Vive diu, sed vive Deo, nam vivere Mundo  
Mortis opus: viva est vivere vita Deo.     

A very fair Table hanging about the middle of the South I'll of Saint Faith's Church. Anno Dom. 1630.  

Benefactors, and their Gifts to the Poor of this Parish.  
Years. Names. Gifts.  
1586 David Smith Embroiderer, gave 20. shillings a year for ever.  
1592. The Lady Allington gave 5. pounds to be distributed.  
1598. john pain, Esquire, gave 12. pence a week in Bread for ever.  
1600 justinian Kidd, Gentleman, gave 10. pounds to be employed for ever.  
1605 Francis Lamplow, Clothworker, gave 10. pounds to be employed for ever.  
1610 George Bishop, Stationer, Alderman, gave 10. pounds to be distributed.  
1611 William Evans, Tallow-Chandler, gave 40. pound to be employed for ever.  
1612 john Norton, Stationer, Alderman, gave 150. pounds for 12. poor people to receive three pence a piece every Wednesday weekly for ever.  
1613 Marry Bishop, the Wife of George Bishop, gave 10. pounds to be distributed.  
1614 john Law, Proctor of the Arches, gave 10. pounds to be employed.  
1620 Thomas Adams, Stationer, gave 10. pounds to be distributed.  
1623. jasper Underwood, Vintner, gave 10. pounds to be distributed.  
1624. john Sanderson, Draper, gave 150. pounds for 12. poor men to receive three pence a week, every Sunday weekly, for ever.  
1625 Elizabeth Underwood, Widow, gave 10. pounds to be distributed, and 60. pounds towards a Lecture for ever.  
1626. john Beliall Silkman, gave 10. pounds to be distributed.  
1628. Ally Mercer, gave 5. pounds to be distributed.  
1629 john Speed, Merchantaylor, gave 5. pounds to be distributed.   
Ex dono jacobi Trussell.  

S. Fosters.  
THis Church was repaired, the Gravestones new squared and laid, the pews new made, a Window in the North I'll enlarged, the rest new glazed, and the whole throughout trimmed and beautified, in the year of our Lord 1614  

john Drake  
john Hall 

Churchwardens.     
To this Church at the Chancel end, the breadth being 20. yards and above, was added 20. foot of ground, which ground so to eng●●en the Church, was given unto the Parish on't of a fair Court then belonging to the Saddlers Hall.   

Gabriel Fen-Church.  
THis Church was enlarged in length nine foot, richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parish, in the years of our Lord God 163● and 1632.  

Thomas Colt  
George Godscall 

Churchwardens.     
The cost of it aruing to 537. pounds 7. shillings and 10. pence.  
A very fair figure of the King's Arms in Glass in the Chancel Window, was the free gift of Thomas Clarke of this Parish, G●asier.  

Over the head, Touch not mine anointed. Under them,  
Qui leo de juda est,  
& flos de Iesse Lyristae,  
Carmina qui sacro  
psallere sacra dedit,  
Dulsisonam ô faciat  
Citharam, fortesque Leones,  
Foecundet Florem  
Carole magne tuum.    

George Botolphlane.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the year of our Lord God, 1627.  

Walter Carter  
john Delabar 

Churchwardens.     

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Regni 45. Aetatis 70. obijt 24. Martij, Anno salutis 1602.  
I have fought a good fight, etc.    

Gregory's by Paul's.  
THis Church was repaired, and within, without, and in every part of it, richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the years of our Lord God, 1631. and 1632.  
In the first, William Weston, Citizen and Merchanraylor of London, and john Hart, Gentleman, and Proctor of the Arches, Churchwardens.  
In the ●ast, the said john Hart and Thomas Brandwood, Churchwardens.  
I have not here named any great particulars, as Roof, Wall, Arch, Porch, or the like; but the greatness of them, of their cost, and the love of the worthy Bestowers, may be read in the sum of this sumptuous repair, which is two thousand pounds and upwards.   

S. Helen's.  
THis Church was begun to be repaired in the year of our Lord 1631. and was fully repaired, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1633.  

William Hurt  
Thomas Aldridge 

Churchwardens.     
If this brief shall be thought too little for so great a repair and beauty, I desire the Reader to enlarge the commendations from that, among the rest, that most shall make to that purpose.  
The charge of this great repair, the sum of one thousand three hundred pounds, and upward.  

In the South I'll of this Church, is a very fair Window with this inscription.  
This Window was glazed at the charges of joice Featly, Daughter to William Kerwyn, Esquire, and Wife to Daniel Featly, D. D. Anno Domini 1632.  
This Window is beautified with three rich Coats, her Fathers, her first, and her second Husbands.  
Over against this Window, towards the middle I'll, is a Monument erected to the memory of her worthy Father, the aforenamed William Kerwyn, Esquire, dated 1594. the time of his death and burial.  
Also of Mistress Magdalen Kerwyn her Mother, buried in the year of our Lord 1592.  
Of Benjamine Kerwyn her Brother, buried the 27. of july, Anno 1621. who had Issue seven sons and five daughters, five of those children deceased, and here (with them all that are before named) interred.  
This Monument in this passage of 39 years, somewhat defaced and withered, was raised, repaired, beautified, and encompassed with iron Bars, in a fair and graceful manner, at the charge of this loving Daughter, the aforenamed, Mistress joice Featley, 1632.   

About this Tomb these words.  
Here lieth the body of William Kerwyn, of this City of London Free Mason, who departed this life the 26. of December 1594.  
And here also lieth the body of Magdaline Kerwyn his Wife, by whom he had Issue three Sons and two daughters; she deceased the 23. of August, 1592.   

On the one side these Verses.  
Aedibus Attalicis  
Londinum qui decoravi,  
Exiguam tribuunt  
hanc mihi fata domum●  
Me duce surgebant  
aliis regalia tecta,  
Me duce conficitur  
ossibus urna meis.   

On the other side these Verses.  
Magdalena jacet, virtus  
post fata superstes,  
Conjugiique fides,  
Relligioque manent.  
Corpus humo tectum  
Christo veniente resurget,  
Vt Mentis consors  
astra suprema colat.  
Christus mihi vita,  
Mors mihi lucrum.  
Nos quos certus amor  
primis conjunxit ab annis,  
junxit idem Tumulus,  
junxit idemque polus.   

About the bottom these words.  
Benjamin Kerwyn, the son of William Kerwyn, deceased the 27. of july, 1621. who had Issue seven sons and five daughters; five of these children being buried in this Vault.    

james Dukes-place.  
OF this Church, from the beginning to the finishing, and of every particular in it, you may read in page 146, 147.   

James Garlickhithe.  
THe North I'll of this Church was new built, and the whole Church repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1624.  

William Gunnell  
Robert Boydell 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it amounting to seven hundred pounds and upwards.   

John Baptist.  
REaedificatum & ornatum fuit hoc. Templum, Anno Millesimo sexcentesimo vicesimo primo Roberto Peterson Rectore.  
Rogere Price, & johanne Smith, tunc Gardianis ejusdem Ecclesiae.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.   

Virtue liveth after death,  
So doth Queen Elizabeth.   
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

john Evangelist.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the sole and only cost of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1626.  

james Barnard  
Richard Malbone 

Churchwardens.     
In the same year a Gallery new built and beautified, at the only cost of Thomas Goodyeare, Citizen and Draper of London, and here a Parishioner.   

S. John Zachary.  
THis Church within the time of 12. years past hath had these many Repairs and charges.  
The last, in the year 1631. the charge 27. li. 10. s. 8. d.  

William Young  
john Devoreaux 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1629. the charge 76. pounds 10. shillings.  

Clement Carter  
Henry Tyler 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1625. the charge 30. pounds.  

Richard Morrell  
john Reynolds 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1619. the charge 32. pounds 3. shillings 8. pence.  

William Young  
Patrick Chambers 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1616. the charge 44. pounds 6. shillings 8. pence.  

William Rain  
Oliver Burnwood 

Churchwardens.     
The whole cost of these Repairs, 120. pounds 11. shillings.  

A fair Monument in the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Here under lieth interred the body of Philip Strelley, late of London Goldsmith, who gave to the poor of this Parish 40. s. a year for ever, out of the Revenues of the Manor of Vlkerthorpe, lying in the Parish of South-winfield, in the County of Derby, to be paid to them by the hands of the Warden and Rentors of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, whom he left in trust, to see it and other gifts disposed, as may appear by his Will, dated September the 6. Anno Dom. 1603. though this Monument was erected but 1630.    

Katherine Coleman.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified in the year of our Lord 1620. In the year 1624. their Vestry was built, and a Gallery new made for the poor of the Parish to sit in.   

Katherine Cree-Church.  
THe foundation of this now famously finished House of God, was begun to be laid upon the 23. day of june, in the year of our Lord God 1628.  
The first Brick, as also the first Stone in this Foundation, was laid by Master Martin Bond, of this Parish Alderman's Deputy of the Ward, and one of our City Captains. The Brick was laid (as is aforesaid) the 23. of june, and the Stone (a principal corner Stone) the 28. of july following.  
Many of the Parishioners (following this worthy Leader) laid every man his Stone, with which they laid something else, which the Workmen took up very thankfully.  
On the backside of the North wall of the old Church was a Cloister, the breadth of it seven foot and above, which Cloister, by the taking down of that wall, being taken into the Church, gave it all its breadth to enlarge it.  
In digging under this wall, there was found the figure of half the face of a man, cast in Lead, the Mould setting likewise upon it this word, Comes.  
Digging under the South Row of Pillars, they found the scull of a man, the thickness of which was three quarters of an inch and better, measured by many, and admired by all that have seen it.  
At the West end of this Church adjoining to the Steeple, stands a Pillar of the old Church, as it stood and was there erected: This Pillar (from the Basis or foot, to the Chapter or head, upon which the old Arch was raised) being eighteen foot high, and but three to be seen above ground, shows the measure or height to which the flore of this new Church hath been raised above that of the old, which is, the hidden part of the Pillar, or the 15. foot of it buried.  
This Structure, not of Brick, but built from the ground with the choicest Freestone might be got, without, within, and in every part of it supplied, furnished, and enriched, with whatsoever might add to its greatest grace and lustre, was finished in the year of our Lord God, 1630.  
In this year (accounting from March to March) upon the 16. day of january, it was consecrated by the right Reverend Father in God, Wil Lord Bishop of London, and upon the same day (as on such it is usual with us) were the Sacraments of the Lords Supper, and the Sacrament of Baptism administered.  
In this Church the Pulpit and Communion Table are pure Cedar and (both) the gift of Master john Dyke, a Merchant, living in this Parish.  
A very fair Gate built at the East end of the South wall, was the gift of William Avenen, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, who died in December 1631.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Spain's Rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

Britain's blessing, England's splendour,  
Religion's Nurse, the Faith's defender.   
Many Daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  
I have fought a good fight, etc.  
If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For Temperance prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.  
This Table of Queen Elizabeth, one of the fairest that I have seen in this City, was the gift of one that is a stranger to this Parish, at least to any to be the bestower of it, he is yet concealed, and still is desirous to be so.  
That of that great number of great and magnificent Benefactors, that joined to the making up of this great, and (in our time) unparallelled piece of work, I have only touched upon these, may (no doubt) seem strange; there being none in this number, whose liberal hand and heart deserves not a golden Character. I confess it. To all that may be said, my answer is (briefly) this: Being doubtful of getting all, or all of those I might get, and loath of great things to speak to little purpose, I only took these (that offered themselves) by the way, leaving the rest to the Register of the Giver of their means to give: with whom all good deeds are recorded, and (undoubtedly) shall be rewarded.    

Lawrence Jury.  
This Church was repaired, richly and worthily beautified at the charge of the Inhabitants of this Parish, in the year of our Lord 1618.  

Thomas Dalby  
Edmond White 

Churchwardens.     
To this, in the year 1631. they added the cost of a new and very curious Pulpit; then also setting off their Font, and the place in which it stands, with a great deal of cost and beauty.  
In this year 1618. the time of this Repair, all the Windows in this Church were glazed by so many good Benefactors, the Arms of the Company of every one of them in them.  

Under the middle window in the Chancel, a very rich and costly one, is thus written.  
Sir William Eastfield Knight, and Alderman of this Honourable City, and free of the Worshipful Company of the Mercers, glazed this Window at his own proper cost and charges, in the year of our Lord 1442. And it was afterward repaired, and the story supplied at the charge of the said Company, in the year of our Lord, 1618.   

A fair Window on the North side of it.  
Glazed at the cost and charges of Sir Baptist Hickes, Knight, in the year of our Lord 1619.   

A fair Window on the South side of it.  
Glazed at the charges of Richard Pyot, Grocer, and Alderman of this City of London, Anno Dom. 1618.   

A fair Window next to this, at the upper end of the South I'll.  
Glazed at the charges of Thomas Morley, Merchant, and free of the Worshipful Company of the Lethersellers, a Parishioner here, Anno Dom. 1618.   

A fair Window downward next to this.  
Glazed at the charges of Edmond White, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Parishioner, Anno Dom. 1618.   

A fair Window next to this downward.  
Glazed at the charges of Thomas Dalby, Mercer, Anno Dom. 1618.   

A fair Window next to this downward.  
Glazed at the charges of Rowland Wilson, Citizen and Vintner of London, Anno Dom. 1618.   

A fair Window, the lowest on this side.  
Glazed at the charges of Robert Ducy, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, Anno Dom. 1618.   

At the Westend of this I'll, a fair Window.  
Glazed at the charges of William Pyot, Citizen and Grocer of London, Anno Dom. 1618.   

On the North side, the lowest Window.  
Glazedat the charges of Henry Hopkins, Citizen and Vintner of London, Anno Dom. 1618.   

A fair Window next to this upward, the resemblance of a blazing Star on it.  
Glazed at the charges of Hugh Ley, Citizen and Skinner of London, and a Parishioner here, Anno Dom. 1618.   

At the bottom of this Window thus.  
Forget you not the Blazing Star,  
This year to us is shown;  
Make use thereof both near and far,  
The like hath not been known.  
Anno. Dom. 1618.   

The next Window upward.  
Glazed at the charges of Barbara Burnell, Widow, late wife of john Burnell, Merchant, and free of the Clothworkers, Anno Dom. 1618.   

The next Window upward.  
Glazed at the charges of the Lady Elizabeth Ihones, Wife to Sir Francis Ihones, Knight, and Alderman of this City, and Daughter to Master Henry Rolffe, of this Parish, deceased july 1618.   

The next Window upward.  
This Window was Glazed at the charge of Cicilia Cleyton, late Widow to Master Richard Cleyton, Citizen and Salter, but free of the Worshipful Company of Dyers of London, and deceased the 23. of October 1602. Glazed in October 1618.   

The uppermost Window on the North side.  
This Window was Glazed at the charge of Edmond Wright, Grocer, 1618.    

A fair Monument in the Chancel, on the North side, with this Inscription.  

Deo O. M.  
Memoriae & posteris sacrum.  
Hic in Choro intra Cancellos, sub medio sacrae Mensae, Franciscae Filiae Tho. walker, de Beconfield Armig. Dilectissimae Conjugis Gulielmi Bosweli, hujus Ecclesiae Vicarij, sub spe gloriosae Resurrectionis, Cineres & exuviae Reponuntur.  
Lectissima Foemina, vultu, Moribus. Gestu, incessu, vestitu, venusta, Modestissima; Lingua pauciloqua, Ma●edica nunquam; sacrae lectioni, lachrymis & precibus assidua; Deo devotissima, Marito fidelissima, Amicis gratissima; In re familiari, & libera & provida; Pauperibus (quoad Facultatulas) indulgentissima; Bonis chara, Malis invisa, omnibus Aequa; post piè & sine strepitu pacificè transactam vitam, circa medium Aetatis, Anno salutis 1630. ult. Oct. Dominico Requievit in Domino.  
Benè dixit, & benè tacuit,  
Benè vixit, & benè latuit.  
Moestissimus Maritus (cujus per latera transfixa jacet) L. M. Q. serò tandem, sed & seriò posuit.  
Quicunque hanc Tabulam temeraris malae Conscientiae Reus esto.  
Ipse post illam vixit, sed vitam vix vitalem, Annum nec integrum, demumque moriens, Octob. 3. Anno 1631. Hîc juxta cum illa sepultus jacet.  
Natus fuit Bristolae, ubi primis litteris institutus, posteâ Oxonii in Artibus Magistratum, & in Theologia Bacchalaureatum Adeptus est, Baliolensis Collegii Socius, unde cum Domine Iohanne Digbeio, Comite Bristol. in Hispaniam, legato Regio, profectus, Per An. 5. plus minus illi à sacris ibidem inservivit, tandemque Reversus à Collegio Baliol. hujus Ecclesiae Vicaria, & à Domino Digbeio, Rectoria Ecclesiae de Horton juxta Colbrooke, in Com. Buck. donatus, postquam diû cum infirmo Corpore, mens vegeta colluctata fuisset, postremum  
hî in Domo Vicariatus hujus,  
placide & piè in Christo obdormivit.  
Anno Aetat. 50. sobole Relicta nulla.  
Ingenium floridum, Mores ingenui, Manus larga, pectus Apertum.   

Gulielmus Bosvelus, hujus Ecclesiae Vicarius per An. 15.  
Qui obiit Octob. 3. Anno 1631.  
Et Vxor ejus, Octob. ult. 1630.  
This is written upon his Graveston in the Chancel, under the Communion Table.   

A very fair Monument over against it, on the South side of the Chancel.  
Christi quibus obierunt Anni Isthinc Numerantur.  
1619. apocalypse. cap. 14. vers. 13. BeatI qVi In DoMIno qVIesCVnt.  
1624. Prima ad Corinth. cap. 15. vers. 57 Deo sIt gratIa qVI trIbV●t NobIs (fatI) VICtorIaM.   

At the lower end of this rich Tomb this.  
Memoriae Sacrum▪  
Richardi Pyot, nuper Civis, & Celeberrimae hujus Civitatis Adermani venerabilis, Nec non Margeriae Pyot Vxoris suae ut Fidelissimae, ita & Religiosissimae, qui quum in prospero rerum afflatu tranquille vitam Transegissent, tandem Annorum pleni, Pythagorico liberorum numero beati denario, omnium denique Bonorum suffragiis, laudibusque honorati, vitam auspicat● initam, Feliciter Actam, fine quoque beato (carnis soluti ergastule) clauserunt. Hic quidem 19 die mensis januarii, Anno Dom. 1619. Illa vero mensis Februarii, vicesimo octavo; Anno Dom. 1624. Et hic Beatam manent Resurrectionem.  
Quos connexît Amor verus,  
Castum que cubile,  
Queis longi dantur  
Nestoriique dies;  
una quibus Regio natalis,  
Dives, opima,  
Vnum quique Dei  
Templum adiêre duo,  
Per totam tenuit  
nos una Paraecia vitam,  
Sors rerum nobis  
una eademque fuit:  
Denique (lector amans)  
quoniam convenimus ambo,  
Nos mens una Duos,  
nos rogus unus habet.   

On the North side of the Chancel, a very fair Monument, with this Inscription. M. S.  
Prudens senator Mercimonii Indici,  
Vigil Magister integrae famae & Rei,  
Domi Beatus conjug● atque liberis,  
Poterat videri seculo felix suo,  
Nisi lapidasset tot bona infestus silex,  
Silex latentes cuspide lanians sinus,  
Sed Christianus id mali vertit bene  
Virtute adaucta: Fluxanam fastidiens,  
Mercator A●dax Avidus ●niri Deo,  
Hac unione Reliqua mutavit libens.  
Sub hoc Marmore expectat Resurrectionem Gulielmus Haliday ex Antiqua Halidaiorum Familia in Comitatu Glocestr. Civis & Senator Londinensis, singulare, Integritatis, Prudentiae & Pietatis, exemplar: Is postquam VII. Annos inter purpuratos Patres urbis Rebus cum magna Aequitatis & Sapientiae laude vacasset, Indicae societati prope Biennium, quantum per Aegritudinem licebat, summa cura praefuisset.  
Longis ex calculo doloribus fractus,  
Mente semper intacta, inter suorum  
Amplexus & lacrymas, bonis desideratus,  
Placide Animam suo Creatori Reposuit.  
Anno Aetatis 58. Febr. 14. Anno Dom. 1623.  
Marito dilectissimo Susanna Henrici Roe Equitis, quondam praetoris urbani Filia, Amisso compare suavissimo. M. P.  
Parenti dulcissimo Anna Vxor Henrici Mildmaei aequitis, ex Nobilis. Mildmaeor umprosapia, in comitatu Essexiae.  
Margareta nupta Edwardo Hungerford, militi ex illustri Hungerfordiorum domo in comitatu Wiltoniae. M. M. P. P.   

A very fair Stone in the South I'll, with this inscription about it.  
Here lieth the body of Anne Barker, the Wife of john Barker, of London, Merchant, the Daughter of Thomas Westrow, Alderman of London; She deceased the 2. of August 1629.  
In the middle of the Stone, with their Arms at the four corners of it, these words.  
Though we are dead, yet our lives are hid in Christ with God.  
Christ is to me both in life and death advantage.  
Though my flesh faileth, and my heart also, yet God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France,  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of State,  
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne'er was seen,  
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.   

Sith Virtues Her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirit inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.   
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.  
Obiit 24. die Martii 1602.  
Anno Regni 45.  
Aetatis suae 70.    

Laurence Pountney.  
THe Steeple of this Church was new Leaded, five new Bells were hung, and the Frames they hang in new made, all the Isles were new raised and leveled, and the whole Church within and without worthily repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the years of our Lord God 1631. and 1632.  

George Downes  
Robert Meade 

Churchwardens.     

A Monument at upper end of the North I'll, with this Inscription.  
Hoc est nescire, sine Christo,  
plurima scire,  
Si Christum bene scis,  
satis est, si caetera nescis.  
This Monument▪  
Was erected Anno Dom. 1620. by the Lady Anne Bromley, late Wife unto Sir Henry Bromley, of Holt, in the County of Worcester, Knight, Daughter of William Beswicke of London, Alderman, in remembrance of her first Husband, William Offley, of London, Merchant, who being free of the Merchant-Taylors, fined both for Sheriff and Alderman.  
He had issue by the said Anne 15. children, whereof five are living, viz. William, Elizabeth, Margaret, Robert, and Mary, the rest died Infants.    

Leonard Eastcheap.  
IN the year of our Lord 1618. this Church by a casualty of fire, happening by whiting of Baskets, in the house of one Jerome Baynton a Turner, (situate in Little Eastcheap, on the North side of the said Church, whose house was burned down, and in the place thereof another built with Brick) was fired in the Steeple thereof, being a Spire covered with Lead; it was quenched, but not without great pains and much danger to some persons (who were not unrewarded by the Parish) before any great hurt was done to it by the fire, more than the defacing of it, and other parts of the Church; but for the said Steeple was very old, much ruined and decayed in the stone work thereof, to prevent further danger, it was pulled down, and all the West end of the Church thereto adjoining, a new Foundation laid, enlarged three foot toward the East, and new built, not without great charge to the Inhabitants of the Parish, who were all willing and ready to contribute towards the Rebuilding, Repairing, and Beautifying of the house of God; and the better to set forward the work, the Inhabitants of the Parish did tax themselves toward the charge at 198. li. 6. s. 4. d. but for that the Parish is but small, and the greater part of the Inhabitants poor, they were enforced by their Petition to seek help from his Majesty, who was graciously pleased to grant them his Letters Patents (for their relief) to collect and gather in several Counties within this Kingdom towards the charge of the Rebuilding the Steeple, and the Repairing of the Church.  
The Steeple being finished as it now standeth, the South wall toward the Churchyard being much decayed, was also taken down and new built, and the Church in other parts repaired, the charge thereof amounting to above 850. pounds, of which the Parish received by way of collection (toward their charge) in London, and other places, the sum of 170. li. 1. s. 9 d. and of other Benefactors, 10. li. 15. s. they having one Patent for six Shires also, the party that was employed to lay the Briefs, and gather the Collections, went away with all, and brought to the Parish neither Brief nor Penny. The Steeple of this Church, and the wall on the South side (toward the Churchyard) was builded, and the Church in other parts repaired and beautified, in the years 1618., 1619, 1620, 1621.  

Abraham Colfe Rector.  

Edwin Fisher  
Richard Foster  
Richard Bourne  
Henry Gulstone 

Churchwardens.       

Leonards Fosterlane.  
INcurvate Domino, in decore Sanctitatis, Chron. 6. cap. 9 Psal. 29. v. 2. Domine dilexi decorem Domus tuae.  
Psalm. 26. 8.  
Haec Dei Domus, Auctior est facta, & Augustior, Opere, & Impensis Parochianorum Sancti Leonardi Faust-lane, London. Guardianis Ecclesiae tunc temporis existentibus, Francisco Ash, Cive & Aurifabro, una cum Richardo Stephano Martiniensi, 1631.  
Vnus huic operi suppetias fecit Majeres johannes Trot, Civis & Mercator, Pro singulari suo in Ecclesiam amore, hanc imprimis, quia Patria.  
A very fair Window at the upper end of the Chancel, 1633.  
The charge of this amounting to the sum of five hundred pounds and upwards.   

S. Magnus.  
THis Church, in the years of our Lord God 1623., 1624., and 1625. in many parts of it, had many Repairs and Charges, the sums of them amounting to the sum of 500 pounds and upward.  
Also in the year of our Lord 1629. it was richly and very worthily beautified.  

john Langley  
john Broome 

Churchwardens.     
This, as the former, being the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.  

A very fair Monument in the South I'll of the Chancel, with this inscription.  
Here lieth interred the bodies of Sir john Garrard, Knight, and Dame jane his Wife, who was Daughter to Richard Partridge, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, by whom he had 13. Children, five whereof died young: they lived comfortably together 43. years.  
He was Lord Mayor of London in the year of our Lord God 1601.  
She departed this life the 24. of january 1616. And he left this world the 7. of May, 1625. being 79. years old, leaving only two sons and six daughters behind him.  
This Monument was erected at the charges of Benedict Garrard, Gentleman, his youngest Son, Anno 1629.    

Margaret Lothbury.  
THis Church was repaired and throughout very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishiones, in the year of our Lord God, 1621.  

Francis Haddon  
john Walker 

Churchwardens.     

A fair Monument in the South I'll, at the upper end, with this Inscription.  
Quid Diurnare Magnos invides Parea?  
Heis  
Robertus  
jerminorum à Rushbrooke Nobile Germen,  
Hîc situs est,  
Plos juvenum, sub Aevi flore Raptus,  
Qui virtutum utriusque Aetatis  
Apicibus Potitus,  
Ingenio & Indole juventutis,  
Nec non senili pietate ac prudentia  
Infra se turbam Coaetaneam Reliquit,  
Impubes senex:  
Et quod negavit saeculo, Coelo dedit.  
Sic sapere ante annos nocuit,  
nam maxima virtus,  
Persuasit morti,  
ut Crederet esse senem.    

Margaret Moses.  
THis Church was very worthily repaired and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1627.  

Simon Price  
john Whitcombe 

Churchwardens.     

A very fair Monument on the South side, with this inscription.  
Here lieth the bodies of john Harper, Citizen and Fishmonger, Treasurer of Christ's Hospital, and Alderman's Deputy of Breadstreet Ward, London: and Francis his Wife, Daughter to james Smith, of Great Limber, in the County of Lincoln, Gentleman, by whom he had issue five Children, but at the time of their death left only a son john, and a daughter Anne, married to john Whitcombe of London. He died the 27. of November 1632. in the 79. year of his age. And she departed this life the 30. day of October 1630. being 72. years old.  
Credimus quod Redemptor noster vivit, & Novissimo die videbimus deum salvatorem nostrum.    

Margaret New-fishstreet.  
THis Church, not having any cost, or but little in a long time bestowed upon it, is now very suddenly to be repaired, and (as we speak of the rest) very worthily trimmed and beautified.   

Margaret Pattons'.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1614  

Master Godwin  
Master Peate 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it then amounting to the sum of 71. li. 15. s. 6. d.  
But since that time, as necessity hath called upon these honest and careful Parishioners, for a supply either of strength or beauty, it hath had many repairs & charges, the whole sum of them all, from 1614 arising to the year of our Lord 1632. to 275. li. 5. s. 6. d.  

Master Shalcrosse  
Master Milksoppe 

Churchwardens.     

A pretty fine Monument on a Pillar in the Chancel, on the North, with this inscription.  
In the middle part of this Chancel, lieth interred the body of Mistress Elizabeth Freeman, Wife to Master Thomas Freeman, of this Parish, Merchant, to whom she was espoused sixteen years, two months, and eight days, by whom she had issue six Sons and three Daughters living, and died in Childbed of the last Son. She descended of worshipful Parents, and as she was virtuously bred, so lived and died, full of Faith, Hope, and Charity, as known to many that had made use thereof, to their great comfort in time of necessity; for her only study was, to serve God, and do good to others; she was of the age of 35. years, and departed this life to a better the 21. of February 1631.   

On a fair Marble in the Chancel is this inscription.  
Here lieth buried Mistress Anne Elkington, the beloved Wife of Master Thomas Elkington, Merchant, she was the Daughter of Master john Goodwin, Merchant, likewise of this City. She lived and died in the fear of God, and in the faith of our Lord jesus. She exchanged this life for a better the 27. day of September 1632. in the 23. year of her age, and in the third year of her marriage, leaving behind her Anne her only daughter, her only son is not.  
She shall rise again.    

Marry Abchurch.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1611.  

William Stanley  
john Cornish 

Churchwardens.     

A fair Monument in the Chancel, at the upper end, with this inscription.  
An Epitaph Upon the departure of the Illustrious Precedent of bounty and pious industry, Master Roger Montague, Esquire.  
In life and death,  
thy works did well pursue  
The honourable name  
of Montague,  
Nobility of birth  
ran in thy blood,  
Nobility of Action  
made that good.  
Thy Charity,  
the top of all thy fame,  
The figure that thy Monument  
may claim  
With Justice, 'tis thine own,  
fit to enrol  
Thy memory (here)  
as Heaven adorns thy soul.  
Summe up all Virtues,  
in man ever known,  
And set them to thy actions,  
theyare thine own:  
That's the nearest way  
to make for thy worth room,  
Particular praises  
would o'erspread the Tomb:  
Here's all, in brief,  
who shall henceforth indite  
A good man's Epitaph,  
let him but write  
The Copy of thy life,  
it stands for all,  
That ever made man's praise,  
or ever shall.    

Marry Aldermanburic.  
THis Church, for the space of 4. years past, hath in one decayed part or another been repairing; as the Steeple, Bells, Battlements, many decayed places of the Walls, two fair Galleries built, many of the pews new made, the rest being all in hand, it can be no great offence to accounted them already done; which granted, and the Church in this year finished, we may conclude as we began with the rest of these Churches, thus: This Church was repaired, richly and very worthily beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1633.  

Bartholomew Edward's  
Abraham Nuns. 

Churchwardens     

A very beautiful Tomb at the upper end on the South side of the Chancel, with this inscription.  
Marry Brigs, the Daughter of Thomas Crofts, deceased the 8. day of August, Anno Dom. 1610. being of the age of 31. years.  
William, out of a dutiful respect to his dear Parents, consecrated this Monument.   

joining with this in the same Monument.  
David Brigs, Citizen and Skinner of London, who had two Wives, Mary the Daughter of Thomas Crofts, Draper, by whom he had two sons and four Daughters; and Rebekah, the Daughter of Humphrey Street, Merchant-Taylor, by whom he had no Issue; who deceased the 17. day of june, Anno Dom. 1626. being of the age of 57 years, lieth here entombed in hope of a glorious Resurrection.   

A very fair Monument in the Chancel, over against the other, with this inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Master Robert Offley, Gentleman, son of Hugh Offley, Alderman of this City, who took to Wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Humphrey Street, by whom he had issue seven Sons and six Daughters; he died at the age of 64. years, on the 4. day of November 1631.   

A very fair Monument on the North side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Deo Trino & Vai-sacrum.  
Thomas Hayes, Eques Auratus, secundum Christi Adventum, sub hoc Tumulo expectat. Qui cum ab Adolescentio, per magnam Europae partem Mercaturam exercuisset, ita industria, & judicio claruit, nt unanimi omnium consensu, Major hujus Civitatis cooptatus fuerit, & cum hoc summum summi Magistratus officium, non solum singulari integritate, sed & excellenti verae Religionis promulgandae cura, & pietate executus fulsset, tandem septuagesimo Aetatis Anno, Deo bonisque Charus, piè & placidè in Domino obdormivit 27. Septem. Anno salutis 1617.  
Martha Vxor Moestissima viro suo optimo, Officiosae pietatis, & memoriae ergo, hoc Monumentum posuit.    

Marry Aldermary.  
THis Church was repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the year of our Lord 1632.  

john Edward's  
Thomas Archer 

Churchwardens.     
But while we speak the love and liberality of the living, we must not forget the dead, whose bounties (though they be dust) are as fresh in this good work, as theirs that have seen it finished.  
And first, of Master William Rodoway, one borne and buried in this Parish, though from his youth to his end he lived and died in another, Michael Bassishaw, who at the time of his death (which was in the year of our Lord 1626.) gave towards the Re-building of the Steeple of this Church, then greatly decayed and perished, the sum of 300. li.  
In this Parish, in the same year also, there died one Master Richard Pierson, who towards the better and more beautiful building of this Steeple, gave the sum of 200. Marks, with this condition, with those with whom he entrusted this money, that this Steeple (thus to be built) should follow its ancient pattern, and go forward and be finished, according to the foundation of it, laid 120. years since, by the Founder of this Church, a Knight, one Sir Henry Kibbell, which within three years after was so finished, the cost of it amounting to a thousand pounds: of which all, above the cost of these two very worthy Benefactors (beside the charge before named) being the cost and charge of the Parish.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae Angliae Reginae. In the figure of a Book.  
Psal. 112. The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.   

On the one side.  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

On the other side.  
Britain's Blessing,  
England's Splendour,  
Religion's Nurse,  
The Faith's defender.   

Under her Monument.  
Many Daughters have done well, but thou excellest them all.    

Mary le Bow.  
THis Chancel was raised, the Church new Pewed, and throughout repaired and beautified, in the year of our Lord God, 1620.  

William Parnell  
William Wallis 

Churchwardens.     

In a little Chapel on the South side of the Church, is a Monument thus written on.  
Per fidem introitus.  
Robertus Blankworth Scriptor peritus, justus, ac sapiens, qui desideratus vixit, obiitque una cum Bina conjuge, Sarah fideli ac pia, Elizabetha prudente ac sobria, & duabus filiis, Deborah patiente ac Religiosa, Martha Innocente Puellula. Non Carni sed Carnem hîc seminantes, gloriesam expectant Resurrectionem.  
Robertus Blankworth, filius Roberti ac Sarae unigenitus, unicè dilectus, qui memoriale istud, in honorem patris ac paternae sortis extrui fecit, in hac valle Lachrymarum pacificam expetit dissolutionem.  
Istos Cista capit, Lachrymarum hunc orbe, utrosque pacifici gloria parta manet.  
Hac spe vivo.  
Dignitas ejus in ipso incipit, tua & is.   

A fair Monument in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth interred the body of Edmond Criche, Esquire, late Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, and Master of the said Worshipful Company, Annis 1624. and 1625. who married Thomasin, the Daughter of Simon Henden of Beneden, in the County of Kent, Gentleman, and lived with her in conjugal love 40. years, and had issue 12. children, and left at his decease 5. sons, viz. john, Edward, Nathan, Samuel, Peter, and 3. Daughters, Elizabeth, Thomasine, and Margaret; and among them eleven grandchildren.  
Obiit 23. Decemb. Anno 1627.  
Aetatis suae 73.  
johannes Criche filius suus primogenitus, ex officio, & amore suo, Moestissimus hoc posuit.  
Edward Criche, eldest son to the said john Criche, lieth here interred by his Grandfather. Obiit 25. Febru. 1628. Aetatis suae 50.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument. In the Table only this.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.  
From henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give me at that day; and not me only, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.   

Upon the Wall, on either side of this Table, these lines.  
A representation of the Monument erected by King james (sacred unto Memory, and for an eternal Memorial) for Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, etc. Daughter of King Henry the eighth, by Queen Anne Bullen, Grandchild to King Henry the seventh, great Grandchild to King Edward the fourth, and Sister to King Edward the sixth and Queen Mary; who restored Religion to its primitive sincerity; settled Peace thoroughly; reduced Coin to the old Standards; extinguished Rebellion at home; relieved France, near ruin by intestine mischiefs; supported the Netherlands; vanquished Spain's Armado; quieted Ireland, with Spaniard's expulsion, and Traitor's coercion; augmented exceedingly both Universities Revenues, by a Law of Provision, and enriched all England:   

Was  
The Mother of this her Country; the Nurse of Religion and Learning; and for perfect skill of very many Languages; for glorious Endowments, as well of Mind as Body; and for Regal Virtues beyond her Sex;   

A Prince Incomparable.  
And in the 45. years most prudent and happy Government, she died; in the 70. year of her age, and of our Redemption 1602. Whose Corpse is interred in the famous Collegiate Church of Westminster, under the aforesaid Magnificent Monument.   

On the other side.  

Fame blow aloud,  
and to the world proclaim,  
There never ruled  
such a Royal Dame.   

The Word of God  
was ever her delight,  
In it she meditated  
day and night.   

Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Earth's joy, England's ●em,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

She was, and is,  
what can there more be said?  
On Earth the Chief,  
in Heaven the second Maid.   
In a book held over her by an Angel these words.  
Verbum Dei.    

Marry Bothaw.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1621.  

john Bennet  
Thomas Dight 

Churchwardens.     

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, etc. Daughter to King Henry the eighth, and Grandchild to King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, ●ldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coin to the just value, assisted France and the Low-countrieses, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England, and administered most prudently the Imperial State thereof 45. years in true piety, In the 70. year of her age, in most happy and peaceable manner she departed this life, leaving her mortal parts interred in the famous Church at Westminster.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Marry Colechurch.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, February 1623.  

William Shamrocke  
Thomas Pulcher 

Churchwardens.      

Marry Hill.  
THis Church, in the many decayed parts and places of it, was repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1616.  
To the continuing of which, the careful overseers of it, every third or fourth year ever since, have bestowed a new trimming upon it: No sooner (as I am informed) finding any defect, failing, or declining of it, than applying their care to revive, refresh, and restore it, which appears in its present beauty.   

Marry Mounthaw.  
THis Church was in part new built, and very much enlarged and beautified, in the year of our Lord 1609.  

Robert Ploncker  
Mark Bateman 

Churchwardens.     
Benefactors towards this building: Robert Bennet, Bishop of Hereford, Sir William Craven, Sir Thomas Middleton, and Doctor Edwold.  
In the year 1610. this Church was wholly Glazed at the cost and charges of Thomas Tyler, Haberdasher, and Richard Tichburne, Skinner.  
In the South I'll of this Church hangs a very fair Picture of King JAMES, with the figures of Peace and Plenty on either side of him; Peace with her Olive Branch, and Plenty with her Sheafe of Wheat in her hands. The gift of the aforenamed Robert Ploncker, than Churchwarden.   

Marry Summerset.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, in the year of our Lord, 1624.  

Robert Violet  
Thomas Cumbers 

Churchwardens.     
In a Table hanging close by the Pulpit are these words.  
Dictum Thomae Burtoni, Rectoris Ecclesiae, tempore Reparationis, & exornationis hujus Aedificii.  
Dominus Petra mea, & Arx mea, & Liberator meus, Deus meus, Adjutor meus, Sperabe in cum. Psal. 18. 2.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Psal. 112.  
The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.  
Prov. 6.  
The memorial of the just shall be blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.  
2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Marry Staynings.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost of the Parish, in the year of our Lord, 1630. August 23.  

Charles Meadows  
Thomas Francis 

Churchwardens.     

The armorial Achievements of Sir Arthur Savage, Knight.  
In the Vault underneath, lieth the body of the honourable Sir Arthur Savage, Knighted at Cadez in Spain, 1596. General of her Majesty's forces in the Kingdom of France, at the siege of Amyaunce, the 39 of Queen Elizabeth: Colonel, Vice-Treasurer, Receiver general, and Councillor of estate in Ireland: He had Issue by his second Wife, Sarah Daughter of Anthony Woolhouse, of Clapwell, in the County of Derby (Widow of George Smiths, Sheriff and Alderman of London 1611) one only Daughter named june. He died the 13. of March, 1632.    

Marry Woollchurch.  
THis Church was richly repaired and beautified, at the charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1629.  

Francis Browne  
Robert New 

Churchwardens.     
A very fair Screen at the middle West door of this Church, was the gift of Capitaine Edward Dichfeyld, at the time of his going out of the Office of Churchwarden, in the year 1620.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, etc. second Daughter to Henry the eighth, begotten of the Lady Anne Bullen his second Wife, and Grandchild to K. Henry the seventh, and Elizabeth, eldest Daughter to Edward the fourth, borne at Greenwich the 17. of September, 1534. She succeeded her Sister Queen Mary, as Queen of England, restoring true Religion, reduced Coin to the just Value, assisted France, and the Low Countries, overcame the Spanish invincible Armies, and was for Prudence, Justice, and Piety, not only the Patron of her Sex, but a Pattern for all Princes of Christendom.  
She died at Richmond the 24. of March, 1602. being 69. years, six months, and seventeen days old, when she had reigned 44. years, 4. months, and 7. days.  
If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For Temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.  
As in a Book.  
They that trust in the Lord, shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but remaineth for ever.  
Spain's Rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Naturos chief.  
Under her.  
Th'admired Princess  
through the world applauded,  
For supreme Virtues  
rarest imitation;  
Whose Sceptres rule, Fame's  
loud voiced Trump hath lauded,  
Unto the ears  
of every foreign Nation,  
Canopied under  
powerful Angels wings,  
To her immortal praise  
sweet Science sings.    

Marry Woollnoth.  
IT is so long since this Church was repaired and beautified, that we now rather look upon what it is, than what it was; and forward to a repair to come, then backward to that that is gone. We see it seems to call upon the Parishioners for it, and hear it is shortly to have it: for (as I am informed) it is promised and preparing; the preparation likewise promising a great deal of cost and beauty.   

Martin's Ironmonger lane.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1629.  
A very fair Screen at the entrance into this Church, with this Inscription:  
Me fieri fecerunt Hamletus Clarke, Generosus, & Radulphus Latham, Armiger, 20. Martii 1629.  
In the year 1627. a great part of the North wall of this Church, being very much decayed and perished, was at the cost of the Parish rebuilded: but in it a very fair Window, with these words:  
This Window was new built and finished, at the sole cost of john and Humphrey Slany, 1627.  
The Arms of these Gentlemen over it, with this Motto:  
Deo Deuce, Comite Industria.  

A fair Monument at the upper end of the Chancel, on the North side, with this Inscription.  
Here under lieth buried Eleanor, Wife of Hamlet Clarke, free of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers London, and one of the four Clerks of the Lord Mayor's Court, London, aforesaid. She died on Sunday the 14. of january, 1626. and was buried on Friday the 19 of the same, after they had been married 33. years and about two months. And they had issue only Mary, married to Ralph Latham of Vpminster, in the County of Essex, Esquire, Common Sergeant at Law of this Honourable City.  
And the said Eleanor, had also Elizabeth, another Daughter, by Charles Barnard, a former Husband, married to Thomas Latham of Stilford in Essex, Gentleman.   

A very fair Stone in the North I'll, with this inscription about it.  
Here lieth interred the body of Randoll Pickering, late Citizen and Haberdasher of London, borne at Turvine in the County of Chester, who put off this mortality, March 10. 1629. And Alice his Wife, daughter of William Madox, and borne in this Parish, who departed this life the 20. of june, 1618. By her he had Issue three Sons and three Daughters, William, Randoll, Anne, and Elizabeth surviving, john and Mary deceased.    

Martin's Ludgate.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost & charge of the Parish, in the year of our Lord God 1623.  

Henry johnson  
William Liod 

Churchwardens.     

A very handsome Monument in the Wall, at the upper end of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  

M. S.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Allen, of London, Gentleman, who died the 22. day of October 1630. diverse of whose Ancestors have been interred in this Church.  
No Epitaph need make  
the just man famed,  
The good are praised,  
when they are only named.     

Martin's Orgars.  
IN the year 1630. the Steeple of this Church was repaired, the East Window in the Chancel, and three great South Windows, were new Glazed, which with the Plumbers work and Tiling, amounted to the sum of 122. li. 6. s. 6. d.  

Richard Tomes  
james Pickering 

Churchwardens.     

A rich and very beautiful Monument in the Chancel, with this Inscription. M. S.  
Sir Allen Cotton, Knight, and Alderman of London, sometime Lord Mayor of this Honourable City, son of Ralph Cotton of Alkington, in the Parish of Whitchurch, in the County of Salop, Gentleman, was espoused unto Ellinor, the Daughter of Edmond Moor, Citizen and Draper of London, by whom he had Issue seven Sons and seven Daughters, and lived unto the age of 70. years, generally beloved, and died the 24. of December, 1628. being the Eve of the celebration of our blessed Saviour's Nativity, which sell out by God's providence, to be the day of his second birth, and convoy to eternal bliss. He left behind him three Sons, Edmond, john, and William, and two Daughters; which sons, in a filial expression of their duties, have caused this Monument to be erected, in memory of their dear deceased Father.  

When he left Earth, rich Bounty d●'d,  
Mild Courtesy gave place to 〈◊〉  
Soft Mercy to bright justice said,  
O, Sister, we are both betrayed;  
White Innocence lay on the ground  
By Truth, and wept at either's wound.   

The sons of Levi did lament,  
Their Lamps wentout, their Oil was spent;  
Heaven hath his soul, and only we  
Spin out our lives in misery.  
So Death, thou missest of thy ends,  
And kill'st not him, but kill'st his friends.    

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France. (State,  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of  
Of A●mes, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne'er was seen,  
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.   

Sith Virtue Her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirit inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.   
Prov. 31. 29.  
Many Daughters have done virtuously, but thou surmountest them all.  
She is is not dead, But sleepeth.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Martin Outwitch.  
IT is since this Church was repaired and beautified 39 years, in the passage of which time, that repair and beauty being lost, it is (as I am informed, by some that belong to the Church) to be repaired again very shortly, with a great deal of cost and beauty.   

Martin's Vintrey.  
THis Church was in part Re-edified, and in many parts Repaipaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King james, King of great Britain, France, and Ireland.  

john Woodbridge  
William Barnaby 

Churchwardens.     
The charge then amounting to the sum of four hundred sixty and odd pounds.  
It was again repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, in the year of our Lord 1632. as before, at the cost of the Parish.  

john Norton  
Richard Travers 

Churchwardens.     
In this Church, at the upper end of the South I'll, lieth buried the body of Sir Cutberd Hacket, sometime Lord Mayor of this City; his Coat, Streamers, and other Adornments, hanging over his Grave, but no other Monument.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
To the eternal memory of Elizabeth, Queen of England, France, and Ireland: Daughter to King Henry the eighth, Niece to King Henry the seventh, by the Daughter of King Edward the fourth; a Mother to her Country, a Nurse to Religion, and all good Arts, being of incomparable Knowledge in very many Languages, and endued with rare Ornaments of Body and Mind, in all Princely Virtues above the Sex of Women.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Matthew Frydaystreet.  
THis Church was repaired and very worthily beautified, at the cost of the Parishioners, in the years of our Lord, 1632. and 1633.  

Richard Clay  
joseph Stacy 

Churchwardens.     
The charge 140. pounds.   

Maudlin Milkestreet.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parish, in the year of our Lord God 1619.  

Gilbert Ward  
Thomas Smith 

Churchwardens.     
All the Chancel Window was built at the proper cost of Master Benjamin Henshaw, Merchant-Taylor, and one of our City Captains, the charge of it arising to 60. pounds and upwards.  
In the year 1633. there was added to this, a fair Communion Table, with a fair Frame about it, which with some other things then done to the further beautifying of the Church, amounted to the sum of 30. pounds.  

john Rundell  
john Clutterbucke 

Churchwardens.     

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Obiit 24. die Martii 1602.  
Anno Regni 45.  
Aetatis suae 70.  
In the figure of a Book over Her, these words.  
Verbum Dei, manet in Aeternum.  
Under her.  
I have fought a good fight, etc.  
On the one side.  
Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, etc. Daughter to King Henry the eighth, and Grandchild of King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coin to the just value, assisted France and the Low-countrieses, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England, and administered most prudently the Imperial State thereof 45. years in true piety, In the 70. year of her age, in most happy and peaceable manner departed this life, leaving her mortal parts interred in the famous Church of Westminster, till the second coming of Christ.   

On the other side.  
Monumentum Elizabethae Reginae.  
If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.    

Maudlin's Oldfishstreet.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the charge of the Parish, in the year of our Lord, 1630.  

Richard Hubbard  
john Blew 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it amounting to the sum of 140. pounds.  

A very Monument in the same Church with this Inscription.  
Epitaphium. 1622.  
Clarissimi viri Gulielmi Druraei, ex Antiqua & Illustri Druraeorum Familiâ oriundi, juris Caesarii Doctoris, & Amplissimae Curiae praerogativae in Angliâ Dignissimi judicis, jam olim defuncti, Recenter verò Mariae Vxoris ejus Foeminae laudatissimae, ex spendidissimo Southwellorum genere prognatae.  
Hâc Gulielmus humo  
Terdenis dormiit Annis,  
Nunc subiit tumulum  
juncta Maria viro.  
justitiae fuit hic cultor,  
jurisque Magister,  
Haec quoque Magnanimâ  
Nobilitata fide.  
Senâ prole ferax, virtutum  
exempla futuris,  
Aeternanda Aevis  
liquit uterque Parens,  
Felices nimium utrâque,  
& Funere sponsos,  
Dant quibus haec unum  
Cor, Humus, Astra, Locum.  
Charissimis suis Patri &  
Matrihoc Carmine  
Parentavit  
Gulielmus Druraeus.  
Hoc Monumentum in memoriam de functorum Amicorum poni curavit Tho. Cotton, A. R.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France.  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of State,  
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne re was seen,  
So great a Prince 〈◊〉 good a Queen.  
Sith Virtue Her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirit inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.  
Many Daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Michael Bassishaw.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of this Parish, in the year of our Lord God, 1630.  

Thomas Barnie  
Christopher Price 

Churchwardens.      

Michael Cornhill.  
HEre a Repair follows a Repair so close, that while I speak of the one I must not forget the other, the former being in the years of our Lord God, 1618., 1619, and 1620. at the finishing.  

William Stannard  
George Hill  
Francis Moss 

Churchwardens.     
Of the beauty conceive by the cost, the charge of it amounting to 644. li.  
The other in this present year of our Lord, 1633. in which the Roof over the Chancel was new trimmed, the Chancel likewise enriched with a fair and very curious Table of the Commandments, the Windows about it were new Glazed, the Stones thorough the whole body of the Church taken up, new laid and leveled, and in a word, every part of it at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, was well and very worthily beautified.  

john Collison  
Richard Norton  
Francis Middleton 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of this arising to 300. li. and upward.  

A very fair Monument on the Wall, in the North I'll, with this Inscription.  
Memoriae Sacrum Laurentio, & Mariae Caldwall Conjugibus, sacro Foedare junctis, & Duodenae prolis Parentibus; Quorum Vxor, & Mater Maria obiit Octobris xx. Anno Dom. 1621. Maritus, & Pater Laurentius, Novemb. xxj. 1625. Septuagenariis utrisque; Liberalibus & suis, & de suis; Hoc sepulcrum posuere, parentalis Haeredes bonitatis, Filii eorum observantissimi, quos defunctos, & Deus habet, & pauperes Carendo lugent.  
As it were in a Scroll, held by an Angel.  
Omnia ossa justi custodit Dominus.  
Under this upon the figure of a Tomb.  
here is lodged a loving pair,  
Sleeping rest they free from care;  
Though their journey, from their birth,  
Hath been tedious long on earth,  
He that freed them from their sin,  
Sent them to this holy Inn,  
joyful Requiems for to sing,  
Hallelujahs to their King,  
Till the summons, till the day,  
Till the Trump sound, Rise, Away.    

Michael Crookedlane.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, in the year of our Lord God 1610.  
In the year 1621. the whole Roof of it found to be greatly decayed and perished was taken down, with strong and sufficient Timber rebuilded, and with the Led new cast Re-covered.  
The charge of it amounting to 500 pounds.  
Not long after this, two Windows at the East end of the Church, very much defaced and decayed, were repaired; the charge of it 40. li.  

A rich and very beautiful Monument on the South side the Chancel, this I'll called The Fishmongers Chapel.  

S. S.  
Nec non piae Memoriae  
joanni Lemanni.  
ViriClariss. civis, ac Senatoris integerrimi,  
Equitis Aurat. olim hui Vrbis Praetoris.  
Qui se, in suo munere, laudatissime Gessit,  
Pietatis Cultor, justitiae vindex.  
Suis in Coelibatu perpetuo vixit parens.  
Et suis plus quam pater munifice mortuus.  
Hî R. Exp.  
Sallinghamiaes  
ex  
Agro Norfolciensi  
oriundus  
Probitate,  
Simplicitate,  
Nixus.  
Anno salut. Hu. CIC. ICC. XXxij.  
Et suo octagesimo octavo,  
die Mart. 26.  
Reg. Coeleste,  
Certa Fide  
Praestolatur.    

Upon a Marble stone in the Chancel is this Inscription.  
Sub hoc Marmore Requiescit, in spe resurrectionis ad Gloriam, Maria, fidelis Vxor johannis More Mercatoris, Filia Edwardi whorwood, Grocer.  
Obijt 10. Decemb. Anno Christi 1632. Aetatis 35.  
The figure of a Death's head.  
Memento Mori.  
Hîc  
Mitis, Amans, Humilis, Pia,  
pulchra, pudica, Modesta,  
Grata Deo, sponso Chara,  
Maria jaces. I. M.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
The Righteous shall be had in remembrance.  
Queen Elizabeth both was, and is alive,  
what then more can be said  
In Heaven a Saint, in Earth a blessed Maid.  
She ruled England years 44. and more,  
and then returned to God,  
At the age of 70. years, and somewhat odd.  
Christ is to me life, Death is to me advantage.  
Phil. 1. 21.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished  
my course, etc.    

Michael Queenehithe.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, great cost bestowed on the Roof, the East and West Windows new built and glazed, with other Repairs about it, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the year of our Lord 1615.  

Miles Gunthorpe  
Stephen Scot 

Churchwardens.     

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Many Daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  
She is not dead, But sleepeth.  
On the one side.  
Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France,  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of State,  
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne'er was seen,  
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.  
On the other side.  
Sith Virtue her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirits inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Michael Querne.  
THis Church was repaired, and with all things, either for use or beauty richly supplied and furnished, at the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord 1617.  

A fair Monument in the North I'll, with this Inscription.  
john Banks, Mercer, and Esquire, whose body lieth here interred, the Son of Thomas Banks, free of the Barber-surgeans'; this john was aged 59 and expired the ninth of September, Anno 1630.  
His first Wife was Martha, a Widow, by whom he had one only Son deceased: his second Wife was Anne Hasell, who left unto him one Daughter and Heir, called Anna, since married unto Edmond Wallers, of Berkensfield in Buckinghamshiere, Esquire. He gave by his last Will and Testament (written with his own hand) to unbenificed Ministers; to decayed Housekeepers; to the poor of many Parishes; to all (or the most) of the Prisons, Bridewells, and Hospitals, in and about London; to young Beginners to set up their Trades; to the Artillery Garden, and towards the maintenance thereof, for ever, very bountifully; to his own Company, both in Lands and Money; to his Friends, in tokens of remembrance; to diverse of his Kindred; and to other charitable and pious uses, the sum of 6000. li. notwithstanding Noble and sufficient Dower to his Daughter reserved. And all these several Legacies, by his careful Executor Robert Tichbourne, and his overseers, punctually observed, and fully discharged.  
Inbalmed in pious Arts,  
wrapped in a shroud  
Of white in nocuous Charity,  
who vowed,  
Having enough,  
the world should understand  
No deed of mercy  
might escape his hand,  
Banks here is laid to sleep,  
this place did breed him,  
A precedent to all  
that shall succeed him.  
Note both his life  
and imitable end,  
Know he th'unrighteous  
Mammon made his Friend,  
Expressing by his Talents  
rich Increase,  
Service that gained him praise  
and lasting Peace.  
Much was to him committed,  
much he gave,  
Entering his treasure there,  
whence all shall have  
Return with use:  
what to the poor is given,  
Claims a just promise  
of Reward in Heaven:  
Even such a Bank,  
Banks left behind at last,  
Riches stored up, which  
Age nor Time can waste.   

A fair Monument in the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Piae Memoriae Sacrum,  
Gilberto Erington, de Wolsington Armigero, ex antiqua Eringtonorum Familia, de Denton in Comitatu Northumbriae orto. Qui ex Dorothea Vxore Chrarissima una filiarum Iohannis de Lavale, de Seaton de Lavale, in dicto Com. Militis, tres filios Marcum, Robertum & Cuthbertum, & sex Filias Annam, Margaretam, Katherinam, Elizab. Dorotheam, & Graciam, suscepit. Ex agro Nativo huc in hanc Civitatem profectus, morboque correptus, obiit xviij. die junii, Anno Domini 1578 Aetatis suae 63. Patri optimo & Charissimo, efficiosae pietatis, & Memoriae perpetuum restem, novissimum hoc parentale Munusculum persolvit, posuit, praestitit Marcus Erington filius Maerens xx. die Feb. 1618.  
In te Domine speravi, non confundar in Aeternum, Psal. 31.  
Vita bonos sed poena malos,  
aeterna capescit,  
Vita bonis, sed poena malis,  
per secula crescit.  
His mors, his vita, perpetuatur ita.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France,  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of State,  
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne'er was seen,  
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.   

Sith Virtue Her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirit inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.   
Monumentum Reginae Elizabethae.  
Many Daughters have done well, but thou surmountest them all.  
She is not dead, But sleepeth.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.    

Michael Royal.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost of the Parish, in the year of our Lord, 1630.  

Richard Mills  
William Hawes 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it amounting to 120. li. 9 s.   

Michael Woodstreet.  
THis Church was repaired, and thus beautified in the year of our Lord God, 1620. at the charge of the Parishioners.  

Thomas Wilson  
Humphrey Michael 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1627. the Parishioners made a new door to this Church, through the head of the North Ile (being the Chancel end) into Woodstreet; where till then it had only one door in the middle of the South I'll, standing in Huggin lane.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France,  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of State,  
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne'er was seen,  
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.   
Sith Virtue her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirits inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.    

Mildred Breadstreet.  
THis Church was repaired and very worthily beautified, in the year of our Lord 1628.  
The greatest part of the North wall was new built, the Arches in the middle of the Church, four fair Windows over them, and a very fair Gallery, at the cost and charge of the Parish.  

M. Nicholas Crispe  
M. Ralph King 

Churchwardens.     
This for a general charge, somewhat of particular bounties.  
At the upper end of this Church, on the South side, is a fair Window with this Inscription.  
This Window was glazed at the charge of Hester Crispe, late Wife of Ellis Crispe, Citizen and Alderman of London, who lieth fixed in a Vault at the bottom of this Window 1629.  
At the upper end of the Church, on the North side, another with this Inscription.  
This Window was glazed at the charge of Samuel Crispe, Citizen and Salter of London, 1630.  
Between these two, at the upper end of the Chancel, is a fair Window full of cost and beauty, which being divided into five parts, carries in the first of them a very artful and curious representation of the Spaniards great Armado, and the battle in 1588. In the second, of the Monument of Queen Elizabeth. In the third, of the Gunpowder plot. In the fourth, of the lamentable time of infection 1625. And in the fifth and last, the view and lively Portraitures of that worthy Gentleman, Captain Nicholas Crispe, at whose sole cost (among other) this beautiful piece of work was erected, as also the figures of his virtuous Wife and Children, with the Arms belonging unto them: The Verses to every Story are these:  
The Story of Eighty eight.  
Stargazing Wizards  
sat upon this year,  
Matter of wonder,  
and did threaten fear  
Towards us, in so much  
that Rome and Spain,  
This Land accounted  
their assured gain.  
But mark how God did  
quite their hopes confound,  
Both Ships and men  
we did see flee and drowned.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Marvel not why  
we do erect this Shrine,  
Since dedicated 'tis  
to Worth divine;  
Religion, Arts,  
with Policy and Arms,  
Did all concur  
in her most happy Reign,  
To keep God's Church and us  
from plotted harms,  
Contrived by Romish wits,  
and force of Spain.   

The Powder Plot. 1605.  
When force could not prevail,  
nor plots abroad  
Could have success,  
fin now invents new fraud:  
Guy Vaux is sent  
Ambassador to Styx,  
And thence returning,  
furnisheth with tricks  
His damned Crew,  
who forth withal conclude,  
To blow up King, the State,  
and Multitude.   

The great Plague 1625.  
The Stories past,  
God's blessings to the State  
Do clearly show;  
But sure we were ingrate,  
For now, behold,  
in stead of sweet protection,  
Thousands are swept away  
by foul Infection.  
But mark God's mercy,  
in midst of greatest cries,  
He sheathed his sword,  
and wiped tears from our eyes.   

The Founder's figure, with his Wife, Children, and their Arms.  
These Ensigns which you see,  
and Monument,  
Are not so much  
to represent  
The Founder's Person,  
as his zealous care  
T'express God's love,  
and mercies rare  
To this his Vineyard;  
for to that sole end  
Did he these Stories  
thus commend  
To after ages, that  
in their distress,  
They might God's goodness  
still express.  
With this, this Gentleman gave towards the repair of this Church, among the Parishioners, above his share as a Parishioner 75. li.  
Also for the Communion Table, two great Flag on Pots, to the value of 57 li.  
Also very fair Font, in which a Child of his own was first Christened.  
His Brother, Master Samuel Crispe, beside his Window, above his ordinary share as a Parishioner, gave to this fair Reparation 25. li.  
The Mother of these worthy Gentlemen the aforenamed Hester Crispe, the late Wife of Ellis Crispe, Citizen and Alderman of London, now (by a second, and thrice happy Nuptials) the Lady Pie, beside her Window, gave to this fair Reparation 20. li. though at that time out of the Parish, and removed from thence to Christ-Church.   

A fair Stone in the South side of the Chancel.  
This Stone openeth upon the Stairs of a Vault, made by Captain Nicholas Crispe, Anno 1628. wherein lieth buried his Grandfather, Master john Ireland, late Deputy of this Ward, he was buried the 29. day of june, 1614 And Mistress Elizabeth Ireland his Wife, buried the 13. day of April, 1613. And his Father Ellis Crispe, late Alderman, and died Sheriff, he was buried the 10. day of November 1625. And his Son Nicholas. Crispe, who was buried the 23. day of january 1626.  

Nicholas  
Elizabeth  
john 

Children of Captain Nicholas Crispe, buried Anno Dom. 1632.      

A fair Monument belonging to this Stone standing over it, with this Inscription.  
E'er his worth was fully known,  
London lost him, once her own;  
Let that year lie buried here,  
In which London two did gain,  
Sheriff's good, and lost again.  
City, Church, Wife, Children, weep,  
Reason good, though he but sleep.  
Ill can London not lament,  
Spoiled of one chief Ornament,  
Pity Death had him o'ergrown,  
E'er his worth was fully known.    

Mildred Poultry.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the proper cost of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God 1626.  

George Bess  
Thomas Brownell 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it amounting to the sum of 183. li. and upwards.  

A Monument on the wall in the North I'll, with this inscription.  
In this I'll lieth buried the body of Susan Lewin, Daughter of Thomas Lewin, of Broxborne, in the County of Hartford, who had first to Husband, john Palmer, having Issue only one son, which Husband deceased Anno 1589. And after some years, the said Susan married with john Kirby, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor, of this Parish, by whom she had four Sons and eight Daughters, who departed this life after 30. years living, the 30. of September 1624.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, etc. Daughter to King Henry the eighth, and Grandchild of King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coin to the just value, assisted France and the Low-countrieses, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England, and administered most prudently the Imperial State thereof 45. years in true piety, In the 70. year of her age, in most happy and peaceable manner departed this life, leaving her mortal parts interred in the famous Church of Westminster, till the second coming of Christ.  
If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.   

On the other side of the top of the Monument.  
If prayers or tears  
of subjects had prevailed,  
To save a Princess  
through the world esteemed,  
Then Atropos  
in cutting here had failed,  
And had not cut her thread,  
but been redeemed,  
But pale faced Death,  
and cruel churlish Fate,  
To Prince and people  
brings the latest date.  
Yet spite of Death and Fate,  
Fame will display  
Her gracious Virtues  
through the world for ay.  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

On the other side.  
Britain's blessing, England's splendour,  
Religious Nurse, the Faith's defender.   

In the figure of a Book over Her, these words.  
They that trust in the Lord, shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but remaineth for ever. Psal. 125.   

Under her.  
Th' admired Empress  
through the world applauded,  
For supreme Virtues,  
rarest Imitation,  
Whose Sceptres Rule, Fame's  
loud voiced Tumpet lauded,  
Unto the ears  
of every foreign Nation.  
Canopied under  
powerful Angels wings,  
To her immortal praise  
sweet Science sings.    

Nicholas Acons.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified in the year of our Lord God 1615. at the cost and charge of the Parishioners.  

Robert Old  
Nathaniel Buckcock 

Churchwardens.     

A handsome Monument on the South side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
This Picture is for others,  
not for me,  
For in my breast  
I wear thy memory.  
It is here placed,  
that passengers may know,  
Within thy ground no weeds,  
but Corn, did grow.  
That there did flow  
within thy vital blood,  
All that could make one  
honest, just, and good.  
here is no Elbow room  
to write of more,  
An Epitaph yields taste,  
but seldom store.  
Thy troop of Virtues  
graced thee amongst men,  
And now attend thee  
at the Court in Heaven.  
Thy worth, sweet Charles,  
deserves the rarest wit,  
Thy jane, for such a task,  
is most unfit.  
Corpus Caroli Haukins, Civis & Aromatarii Londinensis, in hoc Tumulo depositum est. Erat Deo devotus, Charitatis plenus & virtutis; adeo studiosus, ut vitam laudabilem, fixemque optimum peregerit. jana Vxor ejus, filia johannis Reeve Armigeri natu minima, postea nupta fuit johanni Suckling Equiti Aurato, Regiae Majestati à supplicum libellis, praedicti Caroli & janae insignes Dotes tanti Aestimavit, ut Monumentum hoc, sumptibus propriis, in honorem defuncti pie posuerit, Anno Dom. 1621.   

Over these lines, as in a Book in the hands of this Gentleman, these words:  
Beatus vir, cui Dominus non imputavit peccatum, & in cujus Spiritu, non est Dolus.   

A Monument on the North side the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
In God is all my hope.  
All men are borne to die.  
In Christi is my Redemption.  
john Hall, Draper, of the age of 90. years, a Housholder in this Parish 58. years, and in that time, by the providence of God, the Father of 27. Children, all borne here. These great mercies, I do confess in my heart, not to be of my deserts, but of God his good grace only, showed unto me more abundantly, than unto many thousands in my time, wherefore with heart and tongue, I yield all honour and praise unto thee, O God.  
Here under lieth interred the body of john Hall, once Master of the Worshipful Company of the Drapers, and 25. years one of the Bridgemasters of the City of London, who deceased the 19 day of November, 1618. aged 93. years. And also the body of Anne Browne, Daughter of Master john Browne, Gentleman, being his third Wife, by whom he had 23. Children: she died the 17. of December 1619. being aged 73. years.    

Nicholaes' Coleabby.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost of the Parish, in the year of our Lord 1630.  

Robert Bromly  
Henry Hewes 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1626. new Frames were made for their Bells. And in the year 1628. new Battlements added to the Steeple.   

Nicholas Olaves.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified in the year of our Lord God 1623.  

Edward Whitwell  
Alexander Colsen 

Churchwardens.     
The cost of it 24. pounds.  
Since that, in the year 1628. the South I'll, that like a Cottage before, was only Tiled (and in that unseemly and unbefitting manner so left) was Seiled, and in that decently and very gracefully beautified, which with some cost bestowed on the Steeple, did arise to the sum of 22. li.  
This, as the former, being the sole cost and charge of the Parish.  
An ancient Monument on the North wall, revived and beautified with the Church, with this Inscription hanging by it.  
This Monument of Thomas Lewya, and Agnis his Wife, was newly revived and beautified at the charge of the Right Worshipful Company of the Ironmongers, whereof he was free, the 29. of May, Anno Dom. 1623.   

Olaves Hartstreet.  
THis Church in the many decayed places of it (which indeed were many and great) was repaired richly, and very worthy supplied with whatsoever it wanted, and furnished with whatsoever might further deck and adorn it (at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners) in the years of our Lord God, 1632. and 1633.  
In the first Thomas Redding and Roger Dreyton, Churchwardens; in the next, Roger Dreyton and Christopher Wigley.  
The charge of this repair amounting to the sum of 437. pounds and upwards.  
Some especial particulars (leaving the Steeple, Walls, and Battlements) within the Church, were these: The Roof in the middle Isle decayed, to the danger of falling, was with new Timber rebuilt, new Leaded, and the inside very worthily garnished. The Stonework of all the Windows greatly defaced and perished; were new wrought, and all the Windows new Glazed. And within some few years before this, two very fair Galleries at the lower end of the Church, one on the North side, the other on the South were erected.  

A very fair Monument on the North side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Paul Bayning, Esquire, sometimes Sheriff and Alderman of London, lived to the age of 77. years, and died the 30. of September, Anno Dom. 1616.   

Consecrated to the Memory of Paul and Andrew Bayning, Esquires.  
If all great Cities  
prosperously confess,  
That he by whom  
their Traffic doth increase  
Deserves well of them,  
than th' Adventure's worth  
Of these two, who  
were Brothers both by birth,  
And Office, prove,  
that they have thankful been,  
For the Honours which  
this City placed them in.  
And dying old,  
they by a blessed consent  
This Legacy bequeathed,  
Their Monument.  
The happy sum and end  
of their Affairs,  
Provided well both  
for their Souls and Heirs.   

This Monument of his Brother adjoining to this.  
Andrew Bayning, sometimes Alderman of London, lived to the age of 67. years, and died the 21. of December, Anno Dom. 1610.  
Over the Tomb of Paul Bayning, Esquire, hang the Ensigns of Honour, as his Coat, Streamers, and the like of the Lord Bayning, Viscount Sudbury, his Son, there buried in the Monument of his Father.   

Next to that of Paul Bayning, Esquire, is this, having this Inscription.  
Eave sis Gradum  
pergas Viator,  
piusquam haec  
perlegeris.  
In certam beatae Resurrectionis spem, Terrae sequestratum,  
Hic est exanime Corpus, praeclarae quondam Mentis Hospitium, viri juvenis Domini Ludolphi de Werder, Anhaltini, praenobili ac Antiquâ werderorum Familiâ Orti: Cujus summam in Deum pictatem, inclyti Generis seriem, Amplas eruditi pectoris Dotes, cum tam angusto Marmoris non Comprehendantur, sacro silentio meritò obsignamus. Generosus hîc vir Mxām partem, primum Germaniam lustravit, in quâ Famigerabilium aliquot Academiarum, puta Lipsien. jenev. Gissen. non Degenerem Incolam, diu egit, magnis literarum numinibus mirum quantum carus. Deinde in Belgiam concessit, ubi veram Nobilitatem, decentibus studiis Quadrien. Leidae Combussit. Tandem in Angliam perveniens hîc Londini sesquiannum phthisi solito vehementius laboravit; cujus malignâ obstinatione, etiam Factum est, ut die 26. Decemb. Anno 1628. Natus Annos 29. Rebus humanis valere, suis verô plangere, dixerit, Animâ suâ, Creatori suo, unde tam nobile depositum acceperat, Magnâ in Christum Fide Redonatâ. Monumentum hoece Agnati, quibus accerbum sui desiderium Reliquit, pio ducti Affectu erigi Curarunt.   

Lectori.  
Quisquis adhuc vitam vivis,  
sic vivito vitam,  
Linquere eam quovis  
tempore rite queas.   

near unto the other this, having this Inscription. D. O. M. S. Viator Commorare, Rimare, Mirare.  
Christophorus jacobus Elssenhaimer, ab Elssehaim in preprum Iunior, Welsinsis Austrius Generis splendore, verâ in Deum Religione, pietate in parentes, observantia in superiores, Charitate & Comitate in quosvis, verè Nobilissimus juvenis, Nobile Familiae Columen, juventutis exemplar, Artium & Linguarum Cognitionem infignem, pro divinis ingenii sui dotibus, in Ratisponensium Gymnasio Poetico Altorfiana Argentinensi, Basiliensi, Leidensi Academiis acquisitam peregrinationibus adaucturus, hîc in Anglia, ad Angelorum Sanctorum Coelum avocatus, Animam svam Christo Redemptori reddidit, corpus verò huic solo commisit, Desiderium sui tristissimum omnibus bonis relinquens, Imprimis parentibus Christophoro jacobo Elssenbaimero ab Elssenham in Preprunn Seniori, & Dorothea ex Nobili Haendeliorum Familia prosatae, Qui Filio unicè unisoli senectutis portui extremum hoc quod sibi ab illo desideravere animitus Amoris Monumentum inter Candissimas Lacrymas statuerunt.  
Obiit Anno Aetatis 21. Men. ix. die. 28. Anno Christi M. D. C. XVIII. die vi. August.  
Nemo nostrum sibi vivit, & nemo sibi moritur, sive enim vivimus, Domino vivimus, sive morimur Domino morimur; sive ergo vivimus, sive morimur, Domini sumus. Paul ad Rom. cap. 14. vers. 17.   

Fili ad Parent.  
Vivo fruor tandem veris, ne flete parentes, Deliciis, Coelo posteritate Deo.   

On a fair Stone in the middle I'll, with these words about it.  
Here lieth the body of Alice Hull, the Wife of Walter Hull of London, Gentleman, who was buried the 16. day of November, Anno Dom. 1627.   

In the middle of the Stone, with their Arms over it, these words.  
Though we are dead, yet our lives are hid in Christ with God.  
Christ is to me both in life and death advantage.  
Though my flesh faileth, and my heart also, yet God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.    

Olaves Jewrie.  
THis Church was repaired in the year 1608. and again repaired and beautified in the year of our Lord God, 1628.  

A fair Monument in the same Church with this Inscription.  
Memoriae Sacrum, Roberti Bowyer, Mercatoris London, ex Antiqua Familia Bovyes: De Knipperslay, in Com. Staffordiae oriundi, secundi filii Francisci Bowyer. Ar. Quondam Aldermani hujus Civitatis, Honorabilis Societatis Grocerum London, olint pro tempore praefecti. Margaretam unum Filiarum Thomae Cordall, quondam etiam Mercator London, ac Honorabilis Societatis Mercerum, ejusdem Societatis prefecti, in Vxor: ducentis amplissimam suscipientis prolem quinque Filios, viz. Thomam, Robertum, Williclmum, & Henricum, modo Coelebes, superstites existentes, & johannem defunctum, & secundum Christi adventum hîc expectantem.  
Margareta Vxor, Thomas, & Robertus filii ejus, a ultimi Testamenti Executores, pietatis, & observantiae ergo, Moerentes posuerunt.  

Under this Tomb,  
the sacred Ashes hold,  
The drossy part  
of more Celestial gold;  
The body of a Man,  
a Man of men,  
Whose worth to write at large,  
would lose my Pen.   

Then do thy worst, Death,  
glut thyself with Dust,  
The precious Soul  
is mounted to the Just.  
Yet Reader, when thou readest,  
both read and weep,  
That men so good, so grave,  
so wise, do sleep.  
N. S. Moerens Posuit.     

Olaves Silverstreet.  
THis Church, being greatly decayed and perished, was in the year of our Lord God 1609. new built, and enlarged in the breadth seven foot and above.  
In the year of our Lord, 1619. it was again repaired and beautified. And in the year of our Lord, 1632. inrched with a very fair Gallery, with this Inscription in the several panes or parts thus:  
Deo Patri Filio Spiritu Sancto  
Trino & uni Gloria in aeternum.  
Richardus Turner, & johannes Morrell, Hanc porticum suis sumptibus erexerunt.   

Pancras Soperlane.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, in the year of our Lord 1621. towards which Reparation, Sir Thomas Bennet, Alderman, Dame Anne Soame, and Master Thomas Chapman, were free and bountiful Benefactors.  
The last of these, Master Thomas Chapman, having in the year 1617. given a fair and very costly Table, bearing the figure of the Monument of that ever famous after death, as in her life, Queen Elizabeth.  
In the year 1624. the Son of this worthy Gentleman, Master Thomas Chapman the younger, to the further beautifying of this Church, in the more graceful entrance into it, built a very fair Porch, at his own proper cost and charges.  
Also a fair Communion Table, with some other repairs in the South Wall, was the cost of Master William Doric, Citizen and Grocer of London.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Mors mihi lucrum Spiritus Astra petat.  
To the most happy, blessed, and precious Memory, of the late famous, renowned, and never to be forgotten Monarch, Q. Elizabeth.  
The Restorer of true Religion, A tender nursing Mother of the Church of God, A powerful Protector (under Almighty God) of her own Dominions, A ready helper of her neighbouring Princes, A hearty and unfeigned Lover, and beloved of her Subjects; who lived gloriously full of days, and whom the eternal jehovah blessed with the longest life of any Prince of England since the Conquest.  
By way of due thankfulness to the most holy, sacred, and individual Trinity, and her ever honoured Royal Virtues, this Memorial of hers was here erected, set up, and Consecrated, the 17. of November, 1617.  
Terram Terra Tegat.    

Peter's Cheap.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the years of our Lord, 1616. and 1617.  

james Ridgeard  
Walter Eldred 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it amounting to 314. pounds.   

Peter's Cornhill.  
THis Church is yet in repair; the Steeple began to be repaired in the year of our Lord, 1628. and was finished 1629.  
The Church itself was begun to be repaired in March, 1632. and is (as they make accounted) about All Saint's day, in this present year 1633. to be finished, and (at the sole cost & charge of the Parishioners) without, within, in all and every part of it, richly and very worthily beautified.  
The certain charge cannot yet be known, but as I have heard (probably imagined by what is done and to do) it is about 1400. pounds.  
The Churchwardens this year of finishing, Thomas Birket and Theophilus Boulton.  
In a Vault in the Chancel, upon the 18. day of December, in the year of our Lord 1625. was buried the body of Thomas Westrow, Alderman and Sheriff of London, the son of Timothy Westrow, sometime Citizen and Grocer, in this Parish.  
His Hatchments, and such Ensigns as were to his name and degree, hanging over him.  

near to this in the Chancel, about a fair Marble stone is this inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body of judith Fowler, with her new born son, deceased the 22. of November, Anno Dom. 1613. Stilo Angliae.   

Upon it thus:  
She was borne in Antwerp, the daughter of john Schine, Merchant (stranger) of Middlebroche, and Wife of jaspar Fowler, Citizen and Mercer of London; she died in Childbed in the faith and love of God. She left behind her living, one only son, and one daughter, Richard and Cornelia.    

Peter Paul's Wharfe.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the year of our our Lord 1625. and in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES.  

Thomas Finch  
William Stanfoy 

Churchwardens.     
There is a very fair Table of the Commandments at the upper end of the Chancel, dated 1619. for then it was set up, standing so long as to the aforenamed date to shrink, and was then finished.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.  
From henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give me at that day; and not me only, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.    

Peter's Poor.  
THere hath been in this Church since the beginning of the year 1615. to the year 1630. many costly repairs and charges.  
In the year 1615. this Church was on the West side enlarged in the breadth eight foot and better, by the taking down of the North wall, and over a slip of ground that formerly lay behind it so far outward, erecting another.  
Upon the foundation of the old wall were erected new Pillars and Arches, and from them to the new, a fair Roof.  
This empty useless and rude piece of ground, being turned to this use and beauty (with the very fair Windows in it) at the sole cost and charge of Sir William Garway, Knight, who at the East end of this wall, in a Vault (made likewise at his own cost) lies under his fair Monument interred. The charge of this I'll was 400. pounds.  
In the year 1616. this new I'll, and the whole Church was new pewed, and the great Window in the Chancel enlarged.  
In the year 1617. the Roof, and the inside of the Church throughout, was richly and very worthily beautified.  
In the years 1629. and 1630. the Steeple, and a very costly Gallery at the West end of the Church, were new built and beautified, and the Bells new cast and hung.  
The charge of all this amounting to the sum of 1587. pounds and upwards, all which, deducting the 400. pounds cost of the I'll, was the cost and charge of the Parish.  

A very fair Monument at the upper end of the North I'll in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Hic vivit Gulielmus Garway, Eques Auratus, Civis Londinensis, qui Annos egit. 54. cum Elizabetha Vxore integerrima, Filia Thomae Anderson, Civis etiam Londinensis, beatitudine Lecti fructifera, Pater erat 17. liberorum, illustre probitatis, & pietatis exemplar, Industria singulari, universalem expectavit Mercaturam. Feliciter magis quam avare, bis ad Senatoriam dignitatem vocatus, qui Purpuram recusavit, nunc triumphat in Albis. Tandem postquam Alam hujus Templi sinistram construxisset, placide corpus suo operi, Animam suo opifici reposuit.  
Anno Aetatis suae 88 Domini 1625. Septemb. 26.  
Templa Dei in terris duo sunt,  
Ecclesia, Corpus,  
una Domus carnis, cultus  
domus altera, & Ambo  
Conveniunt tumulo,  
parvo coeuntque socello.  
Non quaeras igitur Cineres  
sub cespite Lector,  
Est templum in templo clausum,  
non essa sepulchre.  
Marmore sublato,  
subsellia, porta, columnae,  
Ala haec, & paries, spatium  
totum, atque Fenestrae,  
Omnia structorem monstrant,  
resonantque patronum,  
Sic tenet immortalem,  
& mortalem locus idem.  
Conditur in Templo quod condidit,  
& Monumentum  
Hoc unum vitae, & mortis  
commune Relinquit.   

In the North I'll, upon a fair Marble Stone is this Inscription.  
As in a Sheafe of Arrows.  
Vis unita Fortior.  
The band of love,  
The unitor of brethren.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Harvy, of London, Merchant,  
Who departed this life the 2. of Feb. Anno Dom. 1622.  
With his first Wife Elizabeth, (the Daughter of Nic. Exton, of London, Merchant) she died the first of january Anno 1618.  
He was a faithful man, and feared God above many, jer. 7. 2.   

A fair Monument at the upper end of the Chancel, with this Inscription. Anno 1624. Aetatis 54. A Memorial Of the Worshipful Master Robert Wadson, late Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London. Epitaphium.  
So frail and brittle  
is the life of man,  
That who lives longest  
liveth but a span;  
In your and age all die,  
God hath so doomed,  
That Earth returns to Earth  
to be entombed.  
Wadson, who of that substance  
was composed,  
Lies in his Mother's Centre  
here enclosed,  
A sheet doth hide his face,  
but not his fame,  
The Grave contains his corpse,  
not his good name:  
For his good name outlives  
(O blessed man)  
When others good names die  
before they can.  
The sixth of january  
(that fatal day)  
Sixteen hundred twenty four,  
he did pay  
The debt to Nature,  
which all men do know,  
He was no sooner borne  
but he did owe.  
If Virtues could have stayed  
the hand of Death,  
Then Wadson still  
had drawn his vital breath.  
His soul above,  
his worths do here remain,  
Till Christ shall come  
to raise him up again:  
Thus he enjoys  
heavens immortality,  
And here on Earth,  
Earth's happy memory.  
Post varios vitae casus,  
dabit urna quietem.    

Stevens Colemanstreet.  
THis Church was (in many parts of it) carefully repaired, and throughout fairly and commendably beautified at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1622.  

Francis Wheeler  
Thomas Newton 

Churchwardens.     
And further enriched and beautified with a very fair Gallery in the South I'll, in the year 1629.  

Robert Kay  
Robert Daukes 

Churchwardens.     
In the Chancel lieth buried the body of Master Samuel Aldersey, Merchant, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, july 25. 1633.  
His Hatchments and Ensigns proper to his Name and estate hanging over him.  

To the memory Of that ancient Servant to the City, with his Pen, in diverse employments, especially the Survey of London, Master Anthony Monday, Citizen and Draper of London.  
He that hath many an  
ancient Tombstone read,  
(i'th' labour seeming, more  
among the dead  
To live, than with the living)  
that survaid  
Obstruse Antiquities,  
and o'er them laid  
Such vive and beauteous colours  
with his Pen,  
That (spite of time)  
those old are new again,  
Under this Marble lies interred:  
His Tomb,  
Claiming (as worthily it may)  
this room,  
Among those many  
Monuments his Quill  
Has so revived,  
helping now to fill  
A place (with those)  
in his Survey: in which  
He has a Monument,  
more fair, more rich,  
Than polished Stones  
could make him, where he lies  
Though dead, still living,  
and in That, ne'er dies.  
Obiit Anno Aetatis suae 80. Domini 1633. Augusti 10.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Elizabeth Queen of England, France, and Ireland, etc. Daughter to King Henry the eighth, and Grandchild of King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coin to the just value, assisted France and the Low-countrieses, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England; and administered most prudently the Imperial State thereof 45. years in true piety, In the 70. year of her age, in most happy and peaceable manner departed this life, leaving her mortal parts interred in the famous Church of Westminster, till the second coming of Christ.  

If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives still admired, adored, ELIZABETH.   

I have fought a good fight, etc. 2 Tim. 7, 8.     

Stevens Walbrooke.  
THis Church within the time of 12. years past, hath had these many and costly repairs.  
As first, in the year 1622. all the Chancel, and the two side Isles, as far as the Chancel, repaired; the Pulpit, Pewes, and Communion Table new.  
The charge of all this amounting to the sum of 126. li. 15. s. 6. d.  

Tobias Massy  
Affable Fairecloughe 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1623. in the North side of this Church two Windows new made, and certain other Windows repaired, the charge of this amounting to the sum of 16. li. and upwards.  

Tobias massy  
Griffith Morgan 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1626. the whole body of the Church was new Pewed, the charge of it amounting to 333. li. and upwards.  

john Warner  
Ellis Southerton 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1632. the repair of the Steeple, the North side of the Church, the Tower on the South side, with other repairs and mending, amounted to the sum of 35. li.  

john Booker  
Richard Winston 

Churchwardens.     
The whole cost of these Repairs 510. li. 15. s. 6. d.   

S. Swithins.  
THis Church hath had no repair since the years of our Lord 1607. and 1608. In the first of which it was begun to be repaired, Richard Glover and Thomas Wood Churchwardens: and in the last fully beautified and finished at the cost and charge of the Parishioners.  

Thomas Wood  
Richard Hewit 

Churchwardens.     

A very fair Monument on the South side of the Chancel, with this inscription. This Monument  
Was erected at the sole cost and charges of jone, Lady Bolles, in memory of her late dear and worthy Husband, the Right Worshipful, Sir George Bolles, Knight, sometimes Lord Mayor of the City of London, a Gentleman worthily descended, of an ancient and unblamed Family, seated in Lincolnshire, which Lady jone was the eldest Daughter of that worthy & famous deceased Knight, Sir john Hart, sometimes likewise Lord Mayor of the said City of London, and both Brothers of the Right Worshipful Fraternity of the Grocers. Two branches of that virtuous Stem now flourishing: his Son john Bolles, Esquire, now living at Skampton in Lincolnshire, and his eldest Daughter Anne, the Wife of Captain Humphrey Smith, of London, Grocer, who deceased the first of September 1621. being aged 83. years.   

Epitaph.  

Honour, Integrity,  
Compassion,  
Those three filled up  
the life time of this man:  
Of Honour, the grave  
Praetorship he bore,  
Which he discharged with  
Conscience, Truth, and Care,  
He possessed Earth,  
as he might Heaven possess,  
Wise to do right,  
but never to oppress.   

His Charity was better  
felt than known,  
For when he gave,  
there was no Trumpet blown.  
What more can be comprised  
in one man's fame,  
To crown a soul,  
and leave a living name?  
All his just praise  
in her life may be read,  
The true Wife of his worth  
as of his bed.    

Over against the other, in the same I'll, is a faire Monument, with this Inscription. Epitaphium  
Generosi, & summae spei juvenis, Georgii Bolles Armigeri, Domini johannis Bolles, Baronetti, de Skampton in Comitatu Lincolniensi, & Dominae Katharinae Vxoris Filii primogeniti, qui cum ageret Annum Aetatis vicessimum, exiit ex hac vita, Anno Dom. 1632.  
Nil opus hos cineres,  
florum decorare corollis:  
Flos, hîc compositus  
qui jacet ipse fuit.  
Moribus, Ingenio,  
Naturâ suavis, aperto  
Pectore, cui niveus  
nilnisi Candor, erat.  
Quem Sidneiani spatiis,  
umbraque lycei,  
Artibus excoluit  
Granta diserta suis.  
Bis denos vitae, nondum  
numer averat Annos,  
Cum brevis extremum  
clauderet hora diem.  
O quantos gemit usque suis  
luctusque reliquit,  
Tam properè Angelices  
dum sitit ire domos.  
Euge Beate, tuo cum Christo  
sorte fruaris,  
Sentiat & similem,  
qui legit ista sitim.  
Ri. Dugard, Moerens composuit.    

Thomas Apostle.  
THis Church was repaired, and very worthily beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1630.  

Henry Whaley  
Robert Perkins 

Churchwardes.     
The charge of it amounting to near 300. pounds.  

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
If Royal Virtues ever crowned a Crown,  
If ever Mildness shined in Majesty,  
If ever Honour honoured true Renown,  
If ever Courage dwelled with Clemency,  
If ever Princess put all Princes down,  
For Temperance, prowess, prudence, equity,  
This, this was she, that in despite of death,  
Lives stilladmired, adored, ELIZABETH.  
If prayers or tears  
of subjects had prevailed,  
To save a Princess  
through the world esteemed,  
Then Atropos  
in cutting here had failed,  
And had not cut her thread,  
but been redeemed,  
But pale faced Death,  
and cruel churlish Fate,  
To Prince and people  
brings the latest date.  
Yet spite of Death and Fate,  
Fame will display  
Her gracious Virtues  
through the world for ay.   

Monumentum Elizabethae Angliae Reginae. As in a Book. Psal. 112.  
The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.   

On the one side.  
Spain's rod, Rome's ruin,  
Netherlands relief,  
Heaven's gem, Earth's joy,  
World's wonder, Nature's chief.   

On the other side.  
Britain's Blessing,  
England's Splendour,  
Religion's Nurse,  
The Faith's Desendor.   

Under her Monument.  
Many Daughters have done well, but thou excellest them all.    

Trinity Parish.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost & charge of the Parish, in the year of our Lord 1626.  

Nicholas Salbye  
Thomas Allam 

Churchwardens.     
This Church, in the year 1606. was so lamentably decayed and perished, that (in that great necessity of it) they were constrained to pull it down to the ground, and from thence, with what speed they could, with much care and cost to rebuild it, which in the years of 1607. and 1608. was finished.  
In the South I'll in the wall, hang two large Tables, the one showing the Contributions of all her own Parishioners; the other the Contributions of all the Parishes within and without London, towards the rebuilding of it; the particular sums of every man in the first, and of every Parish in the last, there fairly set down before them.  

Richard Owfall  
George Haeffeld 

then Churchwardens.     
To this pious work also, the worshipful Companies of the Merchant-Taylors and Vintner's were very free and bounteous Benefactors.  
As also these Aldermen:  

Sir Thomas Cambell.  
Sir john Swinnerton.  
Sir john Gore.  
Sir William Craven.  
Sir Thomas Middleton.   
Their Names and Arms standing in a fair Window at the upper end of the Chancel.   

A Review also of the sixteen Parishes without the Walls of this City.  

Andrew Holborn.  
THis Church hath had no repair or cost bestowed upon it (worthy any record or memory) for the space of many years; indeed so many, that the many decayed parts & places of it, call rather for a Rebuilding, than a Repairing. Which is (as I am told) now providing for; the Parishioners purposing very shortly to pull it all down, and rebuild, enlarge, and enrich it, with that beauty that becomes so great a work, and the House of the great God Almighty.  
What I have heard, I relate, and believe, both for the truth and speed: which when it begins, in the progression and finishing, the blessing of God go with it.   

A very comely Monument upon a Pillar in the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Aspice, Respice, Prespice.  
near to this place lieth buried the body of Elizabeth Ade, late the wife of john Ade, of Doddington, in the County of Kent, Gentleman: and eldest daughter of Thomas Waller, of Beckonfield, in the County of Buckingham, Esquire, who in her time was the Mirror of her Sex, replete with all the gifts that Grace or Nature could afford: Religious towards God, and charitable towards men; loving and faithful to her Husband, beloved of all, hated of none.  
This world not worthy of her, she was translated to a better, the third of May, 1619. and about the 32. year of her age, leaving by her death a most infortunate Husband, three Sons, john, Edward, and Nicholas, and four Daughters, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Mary and Francis.  
Whosoever thou art, that passest by,  
Learn here to live, and here to die.   

On the South side of the Choir, upon a fair Marble stone, is this Inscription.  
Here lies buried the body of Christopher Sherland, Esquire, Reader of Greyes' Inn, who died the 27. day of january, Anno Dom. 1631.   

On a stone near unto the other, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth the Body of Henry Topham, Esquire, one of the Readers of Greyes' Inn, who died the first day of May, Anno 1612.   

Upon a Brass plate, near the North door, is this Inscription.  

Here lies a Maid,  
for Heaven by her pure life  
So fit, she could not stay  
to be a Wife;  
And with her, half a man  
lies buried,  
That is but half himself,  
now she is dead:  
His other half lives  
but in hope to be  
Enclosed in this Urn,  
as well as she.   

In losing her, the Lovets  
lost a gem,  
A Margarite, too rich  
(indeed) for Them,  
But not for Him, to whom  
she went from hence,  
Ushered by Faith, Hope, Love,  
and Innocence.  
Then you that are her friends,  
your Grief forget,  
In Heaven your Margarite  
is richly set.   
Obiit 4. die Februarii, Anno Domini, 1631.    

Bartholomew the Great.  
OF this Church we are certainly informed, that from the year of our Lord, 1622. to this present 1633. there hath not been a year in the passage of which, there hath not been (in one part or another of it) a great deal of money expended.  
What was done in every particular year, I do not certainly know, but what I could learn take thus:  
In the year of our Lord 1620. the Porch at the West end of the Church was new built, which in the year 1632. was again repaired and beautified.  
In the year 1622. the inside of the Church was new painted, richly and very worthily beautified.  
In the year 1624. the Gallery at the lower end of the Church, was rebuilded, very much enlarged, and beautified.  
In the years of our Lord 1625. and 1626. great cost was bestowed in Lead, and in the Plumbers labour.  
In the year 1628. the Steeple of this Church, being formerly part of Stone, and part of Timber, the upper part especially Timber, being all ruined and decayed, was pulled down to the very foundation, and a new rebuilded of Brick and Freestone, very richly and fairly finished.  
Also the East I'll, and some other parts of this Church (very defective) were repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners.  
The charge of this year amounting to 698. pounds and upward.  

Richard Glover  
Richard Toppin 

Churchwardens.     

A Monument in the North I'll in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Sacred to the memory of that worthy and learned, Francis Anthony, Doctor in Physic.  
There needs no Verse  
to beautify thy praise,  
Or keep in memory  
thy spotless Name,  
Religion, Virtue,  
and thy skill did raise   

A threefold pillar  
to thy lasting fame:  
Though poisonous envy  
ever sought to blame,  
Or hide the fruits  
of thy intention;  
Yet shall all they  
commend that high design,  
Of purest Gold  
to make a Medicine,  
That feel thy help  
by that thy rare invention.  
He died the 26. of May 1623. his age 74.  
His loving Son, john Anthony, Doctor in Physic, left this remembrance of his sorrow.   

Another Monument near the Pulpit, with this Inscription.  
Roberto R. F. Chamberlanio, jacobi Magno-Britanici, Francici, Hibernici, Pii Foelicis semper Augusti Inauguratione Nobiliss. De Balneo ordinis Militi, Castelli de Sherburne in Agro Oxoniensi Domino, ab Antiquiss. Tankevillae in Normandia Comitib. longa Majerum serie demisso. Quantecunque fortunae capaci Animo Magna nato, nec vir●utibus Minorib. Quas dum sibi, suisque fovet, exteras Nationes complurimas lustravit, Morum Calidus Linguarumque. Terram postremo sanctam, & sepulcrum domini venerandus adiit, sumque (Heufata) quale, aut ubi incomperto Reperiit, littore siquidem solvens, Anno Virginei partus, 161●. Tripolim inter Cyprumque (quantum Conjici fas est) fatorum an hominum inclementia,   

Coelebs à suis procul periit.  
Tam dulcis olim contubernii memor, tantoque dolori & desiderio impar, Amico Amicus merenti Moerens. P.  
Vixit Annos circiter 30.  
Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.   

A fair Monument in the South I'll, close by the Vestry door.  
Here lieth interred the body of Elizabeth Freshwater, late Wife of Thomas Freshwater of Heubridge, in the County of Essex, Esquire, eldest Daughter of john Orme, of this Parish, Gentleman, and Mary his wife. She died the 16. day of May, Anno Domini, 1617. being of the age of 26. years.  
Mors properans, quali  
tinxisti tela veneno,  
Vt sic trina uno  
vulnere praeda cadat:  
Vnam saeva feris, sed & uno  
hoc occidit Ictu,  
Vxor dulcis, Amans filia,  
Chara soror.  
Here also lieth the body of the said john Orme, who died the 12. of january, Anno Dom. 1617. And the body of the said Mary Orme, who died the 16. of April, 1618.   

Upon a fair Marble Stone close by the last Monument, is this Inscription.  
Hîc jacet Nicholas Orme, de Hospitio Lincolniensi Armiger, qui postquam Annos 28. explevisset 4. die Februarii, Anno salutis 1628. expiravit; & jam placidè requiescit unà cum utroque parent, duobus fratribus, unâ sorore, & duobus sobrinis, ex Thoma Gundroy Generose oriundis, qui quod motale in illis fuit, hoc in pulvere prius deposuerunt.   

Upon a fair Stone close to the other is this Inscription.  
In the figure of a Rose.  
Oritur & Moritur.  
Here lieth the body of Abigall Colt, the Daughter of Maximilian Colt, who departed this life the 19 day of March, 1629. in the 16. year of her Virginity.    

Bartholomew the Less.  
OF this Church I can say but little; receiving in my enquiry of it, touching its repair and beauty, so little and so slight an answer; for all that I could get, of those that might best have informed me, was, that either for Monument or cost, there was nothing they thought, worth the Recording.  
My careful inquiry and entreaties, for the knowledge of that that was, prevailing no farther with them: If any man seem offended, that I speak neither more or better, he sees where to place his displeasure.  
Notwithstanding all this, though I cannot point upon the year, yet I must tell you, that within these few years, it hath had some repair and beauty, though in respect of many other Churches, the cost was but sleight and easy: yet such as is worth remembrance, and such as in that, it yet remains decent and comely.   

S. Brides.  
THis Church was repaired, and every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the years of our Lord God, 1630. 1631. and 1632. In the last 

Thomas Lee  
Thomas Turner 

Churchwardens.      
Some memorable particulars (though included in the general commends) are these: The Battlements were new built, the middle Roof, and a very fair Gallery on the North side of this Church, answerable to that on the South, which was erected in the year of our Lord, 1607.  

A very fair Monument standing in the South I'll, in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
In this Chancel lieth buried Frances Trevor, Wife of Sir Thomas Trevor, Knight, Solicitor General to the Prince, at the time of her death, and now one of the Barons of the Exchequer; she was Daughter and Heir of Daniel Bleverhasset of Norfolk, Esquire. She died the 6. of january, 1624. In whose memory her said Husband, Haec piè posuit.  
They had a Daughter buried near unto her.  
In this Chancel also was buried, the sixth of january 1614 Prudence Trevor, Daughter of Henry Butler, and former Wife to the said Sir Thomas, who bate him a Son, named Thomas, now living, Also john Trevor of Trevallyn, in Comitatu Denbighe, Esquire, Father to the said Sir Thomas, died the 15. of july, 1589. and lieth buried here.  
Randulph Trevor, Brother to the said Sir Thomas, died the 21. of july, 1590. and is buried here.  
Margarite, Niece to the said Sir Thomas, and Daughter of Sir Richard Trevor, of Trevallyn, Knight, was married to john Griffith, of Lyn, in Comitatu Carnarvan, Esquire, and left many children, and was buried here the 19 of March, 1624.   

In the same I'll, at the upper end of this Church, on a fair Monument, in this Inscription.  
Here resteth the body of Sir George Curzon, of Croxall, in the Country of Derby, Knight, descended from ancient Gentry, and of long continuance in that place, who, like the Race from whence he came, was a Man ofuprightlife, religious, and Hospitable. He took to Wife Mary, the Daughter of Sir Richard Levison, of Lolleshull, in the Country of Salop, Knight, by whom he had Walter, who died young, and Mary then his only Daughter and Heir, who was married to Edward Sackvile, Earl of Dorset, Knight Sackvile, Earl of Dorset, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter. Which Lady caused this Monument to be here infixed, to the sacred memory of her dear Father. He departed this life the 17. of NoVember, 1622.    

Bridewell Precinct.  
THis Chapel was enlarged and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Governors and Inhabitants of this Precinct, in the year of our Lord God, 1620. Sir Thomas Middleton being then Precedent, and Master Thomas johnson Treasurer of this Hospital.  
This enlargement was by the taking in of a large Room, that (before the date above named) joined upon the head of the Chapel. This ground adding to the length of it (all the full breadth going with it) 24. foot and better.  
This Room thus taken in, trimmed, beautified, and consecrated, is now a beautiful Chapel, it being before a Room empty, vast, rude, and unsightly: though then, in the use, deserving a fair commendation.  
For then, that ground that is now a Chancel to the Prisoners of the house, was a Chapel, into which every Sabbath (through a buy or backward passage) they were brought from their several Lodgings, to hear divine Service and Sermons.  
So that then, and now, in that worthy use, and this worthy alteration and beauty, we may see the Pious and Religious care of these worthy and right Worshipful Governors, continually employed, and applied to things of this excellent nature.  

Close by the Pulpit hangs the Picture of King EDWARD the sixth, with these lines under it.  
This Edward of  
fair memory, the sixth.  
In whom with greatness  
goodness was commixed,  
Gave this Bridewell,  
a Palace in old times,  
For a chastising house  
of vagrant crimes.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France,  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of State,  
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne'er was seen,  
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.   

Sith Virtue her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirits inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.   
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, etc.  
Obiit 24. die Martii 1602.  
Anno Regni 45.  
Aetatis suae 70.    

Botolph Aldersgate.  
THough I cannot here speak of a general repair and beauty, yet I may say for this Church, that the eye of the yearly Guardians of it is so continually watchful over it, that whensoever any part of it stands in need of either or both, they carefully and suddenly bestow it. An instance of this thus follows:  
The Steeple of this Church, being very much decayed and perished, was (so far as they found it needful) pulled down, and rebuilded with Portland stone, beautified with new Battlements, and a Turret; some part of the Church repaired, and many of the pews were new made; as also a new Clock and Dial (at the cost and charge of the Parishioners) in the year of our Lord God 1627.  

john Wooton  
Anthony jerman 

Churchwardens.     

The charge of all this 415. li.  
And but three years before (in the year 1624.) was a very fair new Pulpit set up, the cost of that (that likewise being the charge of the Parish) 35. li.  

William Wells  
George Graves 

Churchwardens.     
The whole cost of these times 450. li.   

A very fair Monument on the South wall of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Vicessimum tertium aetatis Annum Ingressui obiit, vicessimo quarto die Novembris, 1616.  
Under this in an Oval, these words.  
Percivallo Smalpage, Michaelis filio Percivalli Pronepoti, ex Antiquis Baronum Familiis Hooe Wells & Engane oriundo, optimae spei Adolescenti, Immaturae Morte surrepto, fratri suo Charissimo, Moestissima soror Anna Monumentum hoc Amoris & gratitudinis ergo posuit.   

Upon a Stone in the Chancel, is this Inscription.  
Hic jacet jana, Filia Arthuri Duck, L. L. L. Doctoris, obiit 1. Aprilis 1633. High sequuntur Agnum quocunqueierit.   

On a Stone near to the other, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Thomas Gillet, Gentleman, who deceased the 18. of October, 1624.   

A very handsome Monument on a Pillar on the South side of the Chancel, thus inscribed. Pars Terrestris  
joannis Coston Registarii sedis Archiepiscopalis Cantuarien. Principalis. Almaeque Curiae Cant. de Arcubus Lond. Procuratorum generalium unius. Sexaginta octo annos, cum multa pietate & probitate sub polo praetergressus, 3. julii 1614 Animam efflavit, Relictis simone, & Anna, filio & filia unicis, in sacros Cineres Redact. sub pedibus diem Novum expectat.   

A very fair Table full of rich Coats of Arms, hanging on a Pillar in the middle I'll, over against the Pulpit, with these several Inscriptions in it.  
1. Francis Beaumond, 2. daughter, married to Sir Woolston Dyccy, of the County of Leicester, Knight.  
2. Farnham Beaumond, 2. son, married Luce Dawes, of Dawson, in the County of Leicester.  
3. Sir Henry Beaumond, Knight, eldest son, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Turpin of Knaptoft, in the County of Leicester, Knight.  
4. Thomas Bcaumont, 3. son, lives unmarried.  
5. Anne Beaumond, third daughter, married to Sir john Dillon, of Northamptonshire.  
6. jane Beaumond, 6. daughter, married to William Temple, of London, Merchant.  
7. Elinor Beaumond, 4. daughter, lives unmarried.  
8. Elizabeth Beaument, eldest daughter, married to Sir john Ashbornham, of Ashbornham, in Sussex, Knight.  
9 Isabel Beaumond, 5. daughter, married to Hugh Snasell, of the County of York.  
10. Marry Beaumond, 7. daughter, married to Richard paramour, Esquire.  
In memory of the religious and virtuous Lady, Katherine Beaumond, late Widow of Sir Thomas Beaumond, of Stoughton, in the County of Leicester, Knight, Daughter and sole Heir of Thomas Farnham of Stoughton aforesaid, Esquire, who deceased on Ascention day, Anno 1621. leaving Issue then alive, as above written, three sons and seven daughters.  
This Table was set up out of the love and true affection of Elizabeth, Lady Ashbornham, Widow, her eldest Daughter, Anno 1622.  
And Marry, one of the Daughters of the aforesaid Lady Ashboruham, was likewise buried in this Church, November 25. 1619.    

Botolph Algate.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified in the year of our Lord God, 1621.  
In the year of our Lord, 1633. all the ground through the Church, was new laid and leveled. In the doing of which, where before from the lower end of the Church to the upper end, it was all but one even floor, without any ascent or rising, they have made a fair ascent at the beginning of the Chancel; and in that again, at the place where they give the Communion: further gracing and enriching it with a fair new Table, and the whole Chancel with new pews, very decently wrought and disposed.  

A fair Monument upon a Pillar on the South side of the Chancel, over against the Pulpit the figure of the Gentleman for whom it was erected leaning upon a Death's head.  
A Memorial erected by the Right Worshipful, the Company of Merchantaylors, for Robert Dove, Esquire, Citizen and Merchantaylor of London, Master of the same Company, and one of the Customers in the Port of London.  
Who gave in his life time 3528. li. 10. s. 8. d. to perform diverse charitable deeds for ever, to diverse poor Brethren of the same Company, and other uses for the said Company, viz.  
To Christ's Hospital. To Saint Sepulchers Parish. To the two Compters. To Ludgate, and Newgate. To the poor of this Parish. To Saint john Baptists College in Oxford, and to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital at Bristol, 2958. li. 10. s. 8. d.   

To the Company.  
320. li. To Christ-Church Hospital.  
50. li. To Saint Sepulchers.  
100 li. To Saint john's College in Oxford.  
100 li. To the City of Bristol.  
He lived virtuously all his life time, and died in the true faith of our Lord jesus, the second day of May, An. Dom. 1612. being full of days, at the age of 90. years.  
His arms under him, Three Doves.   

Upon a Marble Stone (in the middle of this Church) under the figure of a Deaths-head is this Inscription.  
Under this Marble stone, resteth in hope of a joyful Resurrection, the bodies of two Sisters; Elizabeth Roe, Wife to john Roe, Mariner, who died the 16. day of july 1625.  
And Sarah Stevens, Wife unto john Stevens, Citizen and Cook of London, who died the third of August, in the same year of our Lord, 1625.    

Botolph Bishopsgate.  
THe North wall of this Church, with the Roof thereof, and the middle Roof likewise were new built, and the Church begun to be repaired in the year of our Lord, 1617. Master Stephen Gosson, being then Parson.  

William Whitwell  
Dominicke Lomlie 

Churchwardens.     
The repair of it, in pewing the Church throughout, in painting, altering, adding, and ordering, to its greater conveniency and beauty, continued to the year 1620. in which it was fully finished.  

Samuel Fond  
john Day 

Churchwardens.     
The charge of it amounting to 600. li. and upward.  

A Monument on the South side of the middle I'll, with this Inscription.  
Hugo Wicksteed, Filius Hugonis Wicksteed, nuper Civis & Mercatoris Scissoris London, & Aliciae Vxoris ejus, hoc Monumentum, & lapidem inferius positum, Parentibus suis, & sibi ipsi dicatum, ultimo Testamento suo curavit fieri: Fuit juvenis egregiae indolis, Mira suavitate morum preditus, erga deum & parentes summè pius, Flore juventutis suae Arreptus, magnum dolorem amicis Reliquit.  
Quis non, qui novit juvenem,  
sua funera deflet?  
Terra tegit corpus,  
Spiritus astra tenet.  
Obiit vicesimo septimo die Augusti, Anno Dem. 1625. & aetatis suae, vicesimo primo.  
Gualterus Stonus hanc Inscriptionem amici sui dilectissimi Memoriae consecravit.    

Dunstan's West.  
IT is since this Church was repaired 20. years, yet though so long, it hath more of that beauty still, and still remains fresher and fairer than many other Churches, that half so much time hath not wrought upon. And yet, as I am informed (which is more to the business in hand) It is shortly again to be repaired, richly and very worthily beautified.  

A fair Table in Glass, upon a Pillow in the middle I'll, thus written on.  
The comfortable farewell of a young Infant, sighed out in his dying sickness, to his mournful Parents.  
Let not my Father grieve,  
or Mother moan,  
That I this wretched world  
have soon forgone,  
Better I die  
before I do amiss,  
Than live to sin,  
and be bereavest of bliss;  
All I can now be charged with  
at the Tribunal Throne,  
Is sin original,  
for actual I have none:  
And that I know  
my Saviour with his blood  
Hath washed away,  
and made my badness good.  
And cause I know (though  
knowledge I have small)  
That jesus Christ did die  
to save us all,  
I pass with joy, in Heaven  
to meet my King,  
With Angels and Archangels  
there to sing.  
Then Father mourn,  
and Mother weep no more,  
I now die rich, that might  
have lived but poor;  
For had I progressed  
unto man's estate,  
It is not certain  
what would be my sit:  
Whether a Cross, or  
Blessing I should prove,  
Or merit Parents  
direful hate, or love.  
For oft you see, how youths  
rebellious pranks  
Make sons ingrate, to those  
they owe most thanks:  
And might not I have been  
amongst the number,  
Of those that do their  
Parents states encumber?  
Yes, yes, I might perhaps  
have been a slave,  
And killed your hearts with care,  
and digged your grave.  
But now my silly Dovelike  
soul doth part,  
In peace of God,  
and love of Parent's heart;  
Sweet Innocence, my shield,  
I bear in hand,  
To guard me towards  
that most holy Land,  
Where Parents both,  
and Sister I shall see,  
In God's appointed time  
triumphantly.  
Till when  
Adieu, sweet Parents,  
Jehovah calls away,  
My name is 
* Simon signifies obedience.  Simon,  
and I must obey.  
Epitaphium.  
Young Simon up to Zion  
is ascended,  
His best life is begun,  
his worst being ended.   

A fair Albaster Monument at the upper end of the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Hîc requiescunt ossa Roberti Houghton, Militis, unius justiciariorum Dom. jacobi nuper Regis ad placita coram Dom. Rege tenenda Asig. Qui natus est apud Gunthorpe, in Comitatu Norfolciae tertio die Augusti, Anno Dom. 1548. & ex hac vita Migravit infra hanc parochiam sexto die Februarii, Anno Dom. 1623. ex Maria Vxore Filia Roberti Rychers de Woortham, in Comitatu Cantiae Armigeri, tres suscepit Filios, totidemque Filias, ex quibus (Roberto & Susanna in vita ejus extinctis) Franciscus, johannes, Elizabetha, & Maria, tempore mortis suae, dei favore fucre superstites.   

A very fair Monument on the North side of the South I'll, at the upper end, with this Inscription. M. S. Nicholai Hare▪  
Viri morum suavitate & elegantia, animi candore & magnitudine, ingenii denique Acumine & judicii gravitate Incomparabilis: Disciplinarum & Linguarum, tam quae ad Artes, quam quae ad Aulas spectant cognitione ornatissimi, cujus Egregias & Raras Animi dotes, Anglia, Belgia, Gallia, ipsaque Italia jamdudum suspexêre & stupuêre: Qui desiderio sui apud amicos, omnesque bonos relicto obiit, Eheu nondum quadragenarius, Anno M. DC. XXI.  
johannes Harvy, Amico dulciss●. & B. M. in perpetuam grati animi memoriam P. Magnificentius positurus si ei suam ipsius pietatem magis quam amici voluntatem exequi licuisset.  
Vale anima candidissima, vale tuorum quos dolore & luctu conficis Aeternum desiderium, vale Patriae & seculi summum ornamentum.   

A fair Monument in the South I'll, on the wall, under the Monument of one Cuthbert Fetherstone.  
Before this Pew door, next to the body of the above named Cuthbert Fetherstone, lieth his beloved Wife, Katherine Fetherstone, who as they piously lived in Wedlock forty odd years together, so at their deaths they desired to be interred together, not doubting at the general Resurrection, through Christ's merits, to rise together, and for ever in Heaven to live together.  
Obiit Novemb. 1622. Aetatis 85.  
And this in part  
they do attain,  
Who by their deaths  
new lives do gain.  
Corpus moritur per poenam, resurgit per gloriam,  
Anima moritur per culpam, resurgit per gratiam.   

A Table with a fair Coat Arms, encompassed with a Wreath of Laurel, upon a Pillar in the Chancel, over against the Vestrey, thus inscribed.  
In this fair fragrant  
maiden month of May,  
When earth her Flower.  
embroidery doth display,  
jane Watson, one of  
Virtue's flowers most fair,  
For Beauty, Wit, and Worth,  
a Primrose rare,  
Adorned this Earth, changing  
earth's marriage bed,  
To join her Virgin soul  
to Christ her head.   

A fair Monument over the Vestrey door in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
In memory of the Honourable, and Virtuous, Margaret Talbot, Widow, who deceased the 31. of March, 1620.  
By this small Statue (Reader)  
is but shown,  
That she was buried here,  
but hadst thou known  
The Piety, and Virtues  
of her mind,  
Thou wouldst have said,  
Why was she not enshri'nd?  
Both Veres and Windsor's  
best blood filled her veins,  
She matched with Talbot,  
yet their noble strains  
Were far below her Virtue,  
in whose breast,  
God had infused his graces  
'bove the rest,  
Of all her Sex, whose sacred  
course of life,  
Both in the State of Widow,  
Maid, and Wife  
For each she had been,  
though her latter days  
Chaste widowhood crowned,  
to her immortal praise,  
Was so immaculate,  
she deserves to be  
The Crystal mirror  
to posterity.  
More honour hast thou  
by her burial here,  
Dunston, than to thee  
chanced this many a year;  
Earth from her Coffin  
heave thy ponderous stones,  
And for thy sacredst relic  
keep her bones:  
Since, spite of envy,  
it cannot be denied,  
Saintlike she lived,  
and like a Saint she died.   

A Table hanging upon a Pillar, in the middle row of Pewes, with this Inscription.  
On the death of the Discreet and Virtuous, Mistress Mary Davies, daughter of Thomas Croft, of Okley-Parke, in the County of Salop, Esquire, and Wife of john Davies of Hereford, she died on Newyears day, 1612.  
Here lies her dust,  
who in a span of life,  
Compassed the virtue  
of the worthiest Wife:  
If odds therebe  
(well measured) 'twill be found,  
She more acquired;  
so her bright stock renowned:  
And to those Wives  
that glory most do gain,  
She was a mirror  
that no breath could stain.  
Though she a Female were,  
her judgement was,  
To truest Masculines  
a truer Glass:  
For she by Nature, Grace,  
and Wisdom too,  
Showed by a Woman,  
what best men should do  
In their best actions:  
for she acted naught  
That came not from a grave  
and gracious thought.  
But Nature (though familiar,  
yet most strange,  
Showing how much  
she doth delight in change,  
In thousand fashions  
doth herself array)  
Permits naught here  
to stand at constant stay.  
And Time and Death  
with her therein conspire,  
Else had these Ashes still  
held vital fire.  
But these just lines,  
in Time and Death's despite,  
Shall lead all times  
to do her virtue right.  
A good name is better than a good Ointment, and the day of death, than the day that one is borne, Eccles. 7. 3.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  

Here lies her Type, who was of late,  
The prop of Belgia, stay of France.  
Spain's foil, Faith's shield, and Queen of  
Of Arms, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:  
In brief, of Women ne re was seen,  
So great a Prince, so good a Queen.   

Sith Virtue Her immortal made,  
Death (envying all that cannot die)  
Her earthy parts did so invade,  
As in it wracked self Majesty.  
But so her Spirit inspired her Parts,  
That she still lives in loyal hearts.   
Many Daughters have done well, but thou excellest them all.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.  
From henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give me at that day; and not me only, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.    

George Southwark.  
A Very fair Window in the North I'll, with the Arms and sums of all such Companies as were bountiful Benefactors towards the great repair of this fair Parish Church of Saint George.  

Mercers 20. li.  
Grocers 15. li.  
Drapers 10. li.  
Fishmongers 26. li. 13. s. 4. d.  
Goldsmiths 3. li.  
Skinners 6. li. 13. s. 4. d.  
Merchantaylors 15. li.  
Haberdashers 10. li.  
Salter's 5. li.  
Ironmongers 6. li. 13. s. 4. d.  
Vintners 5. li.  
Clothworkers 13. li.   

Dyers 2. li.  
Brewers 5. li.  
Leathersellers 5. li.  
Pewterers 3. li.  
Waxchandlers' 4. li.  
Tallow-Chandlers 2. li.  
Girdlers 2. li. 10. s.  
Sadlers 2. li.  
Cordwainers 5. li.   
The sum is 166. li. 10. s.  

Under these this Inscription.  
This Church, Steeple, and Gallery, was repaired, new Pewed, and beautified, and the South I'll enlarged by the Parishioners, with the assistance of these, and other good Benefactors, in the year of our Lord God, 1629.  

Twigden Masters  
Thomas Cook  
Lancelot Hobson 

Churchwardens.     
The enlargement of the South Ile (above named) is above half the length of the I'll.  
The ground of it, from that small part of an I'll to which it was then adjoined (downward) taken out of the Churchyard, making a complete I'll, and adding to the Church, as a great deal of room, so a great deal of grace and beauty.  
In a Window next to this downward, is the Arms of one Master Thomas Stone, at whose charge it was glazed.   

The upper Window of the South I'll, is thus inscribed:  
The Arms of john Wyndell, Citizen and Fishmonger of London, a good Benefactor to this Parish.  
There adjoins to this Window, the Arms of the Worshipful Company of the Fishmongers, very artfully carved in Wood, and under them a very fair large Pew, with two long Seats, one for the Men, the other for the Women-Almes-folke of Saint Peter's Hospital, the Fishmonger's Hospital, or Almshouse at Newington, situate and being in this Parish.  
Next to this downward, is a Window with a very fair Coat, but no name, the Motto,   

Sed Sanguine.  
Next to this another, with the Arms of one Master Robert Shaw, to this Church a good Benefactor.  
Next to this another, with the Arms of one Master Lionel Bennet, to this Church a good Benefactor.   

A very fair Table, with a rich Coat Arms, hanging on the South side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Elizabeth, the Daughter of Walter Spendelew, Gentleman, and jone Trussell his Wife; she departed this life in the faith of Christ the 7. of November, Anno 1625.   

Upon a Marble Stone in the Chancel, near the Communion Table, is this Inscription.  
Here under lieth the body of Etheldred Reynell, Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Edward Peacock, of Finchley, Knight, Wife to Sir George Reynell, Martial of the King's Bench, by whom he had Issue three sons and three daughters: She departed the 11. day of September 1618. in the 34. year of her age.  
Modest, Humble, Godly, Wife,  
Pity ever in her eyes,  
Patience ever in her breast,  
Great in Good, in Evil least,  
Loving Wife, and Mother dear,  
Such she was that now lies hear.   

Upon another Stone close to the former, is this Inscription.  
Sub hoc lapide, inhumatur corpus johannis jones, qui migravit è vita quinto die Februarii, Anno 1600.  
Hîc genitor situs es,  
consumpto corpore letho,  
At Coelis puro ment  
manente Deo.    

Giles Cripplegate.  
HOw this Church, any thing in or about it (either for necessity or beauty) hath from time to time been kept, supplied, and maintained, all men that know it know; to the perpetual credit and commends of those worthy Gentlemen, to whom, in their several times and succession, the charge of it hath been committed.  
But to leave this general commends, and come to some particulars, with their times, but a little time passed, we begin with the year 1623. In which all the Roof over the Chancel, was on the outside repaired, and in the inside very curiously clouded.  
To the further grace and ornament of this Chancel, there was added in the same year, the cost of a very fair Table of the Commandments, and with these the Church (then) was throughout very worthily beautified.  
In the years of our Lord God, 1624. and 1626. the two side Galleries were built, both very fair and spacious.  
In the year of our Lord, 1629. the Steeple very much decayed, was repaired, all the four Spires (standing in four Towers at the corners of it) taken down, with new and very substantial Timberwork rebuilt, and with the Led new cast new covered; every one of these Spires enlarged somewhat in the compass, a great deal in height, but most in their stately, eminent, and graceful appearance.  
In the midst of these, where there was none before (gracing and being graced by them) was a very fair Turret erected; the head of it (which much overpeeres those Spires) covered with Lead, as also the props that support it: This, and the Spires, having every one a Cross, with very fair Vanes upon them.  
The charge of all this I could not certainly get, and would not uncertainly speak it: But the greanesse of the things speak the cost to be great, all being the sole charge of the Parishioners.  

A very fair Table, with a rich Coat Arms hanging upon a Pillar in the middle I'll, about it this Inscription.  
The sacred corpse of Sarah, Wife of Henry Goodericke, daughter of William  
Bodenham, Knight, was interred at the South end of this seat, towards the Pulpit.  
Within it thus:  
Buried the 6. of june, Anno 1616.  
The Bearers sorrow,  
sable Lions show,  
Like to that Lion  
which did overthrew  
The man of God:  
And charged alike, do stand,  
Grand Guardants here,  
to check the upheaved hand,  
Unwitting wights,  
or ignorant, shall lay  
Upon her hallowed corpse,  
that here did pray.  
A sacred Temple 'twas,  
wherein did shine  
Her Maker's glory,  
Human and Divine:  
Sweet commerce sanctified  
with zeal, moved there  
In Beauty's Fabric,  
it's own proper sphere,  
For which it towers  
above the sight of eye,  
Gods Temples must lie low  
that tower so high.  
Under two hands joined, one out of a Cloud, the other out of a Globe, these words:  
Till then, Farewell.   

Upon a very fair Marble Stone, in the South I'll, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body of Ellen Monyns, who died the 29. of April, in the year of our Lord 1632.  
Here also lieth buried the body of her Sister, Mistress Frances Monyns, who died the 17. of june in the same year.  
They were the Daughters of Sir William Monyns, of Waldershaw, in the County of Kent, Baronet, and of the Lady jane his Wife, the Daughter of Roger Twisden, of Roydon Hall, in the same County, Esquire.  
They lived Religious and Virtuous lives, and in their youths departed this life in the true faith of jesus Christ.    

Olaves Southwark.  
THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1617.  

Edward Candish  
Benjamin Fry  
William Hundman  
Richard Clerk 

Churchwardens.     

Queen Elizabeth's Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae.  
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.  
From henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give me at that day; and not me only, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.  
All the Monuments here being very ancient, are to be turned to before, in the Church as it stands in its Ward, which you may find at folio 457.    

Saviour's Southwark.  
Upon this spacious and specious Church (for well it deserves those Epithets) we look backward twenty years or thereupon, at which time it was in many parts of it repaired, and within throughout richly and very worthily beautified.  
About two or three years after, that Gallery that is over that part of the Church that is called Saint PETER'S Chapel, and that that is over against it, as also that Gallery that crosses the middle I'll, over the entrance into the Chancel (much gracing the Church, and supplying a great necessity) were worthily contrived and erected.  
In the years of our Lord God, 1621. and 1622. it was again in many parts of it repaired; all the North side of it (at once) strengthened and beautified, with a substantial and very artificial Rough-cast, the other side Plastered and Whited.  
Among many rich and beautiful things that have been added to this Church at diverse times, and to several parts and places, some of a general cost, and some of particular bounties (for some reserved causes omitted) we here only remember that extraordinary fair and curious Table of the Commandments, and the Screen at the West door, set up in the year of our Lord God, 1618.  
But passing all these, somewhat now of that part of this Church above the Chancel, that in former times was called, Our Lady's Chapel.  
It is now called, The new Chapel; and indeed, though very old, it now may be called a new one, because newly redeemed from such use and employment, as in respect of that it was built to, Divine and Religious duties, may very well be branded, with the style of wretched, base, and unworthy, for that that before this abuse, was (and is now) a fair & beautiful Chapel, by those that were then the Corporation (which is a body consisting of 30. Vestry men, six of those thirty, Churchwardens) was leased and let out, and this House of God made a Bakehouse.  
Two very fair doors, that from the two side Isles of the Chancel of this Church, and two that thorough the head of the Chancel (as at this day they do again) went into it, were lathed, daubed, and damn d up: the fair Pillars were ordinary posts, against which they piled Billets and Bavens; in this place they had their Ovens, in that a Bolting-place, in that their Kneading-trough, in another (I have heard) a Hogs-trough; for the words that were given me were these, This place have I known a Hogsty, in another a Storehouse, to store up their hoarded Meal: and in all of it, something of this sordid kind & condition.  
It was first let by the Corporation afore named, to one 〈…〉 Wyatt, after him to one 〈…〉 Peacock, after him to one 〈…〉 Cleybrooke, and last to one 〈…〉 Wilson; all Bakers, and this Chapel still employed in the way of their Trade, a Bakehouse, though some part of this Bakehouse was sometime turned into a Starch-house.  
The time of the continuance of it in this kind, from the first letting of it to Wyatt, to the restoring of it again to the Church, was threescore and some odd years, in the year of our Lord God 1624. for in this year the ruins and blasted estate that the old Corporation sold it to, were by the Corporation of this time, repaired, renewed, well, and very worthily beautified: the charge of it for that year, with many things done to it since, arising to two hundred pounds.  
This, as all the former Repairs, being the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.  
One I'll in this Chapel, was paved at the only cost of one Master john Hayman, Taylor, and Merchantaylor, in the year 1625.  

A fair Monument on the North wall of the new Chapel, with this Inscription.  
Donec redeat Dominus Iesus Christus Subest quod Reliquum johannis Morton, in Artibus Magistri, qui cum singulare cum pietatis, tum eruditionis exhibuerat specimen, Literatam juventutis Ambitionem Gemens, unicique salvatoris jesu Christi adventum anhelans, expiravit die 17. Septem. Anno salutis 1631. Annum aetatis agens 25. V. M. Graecis Musis lugentibus.   

In the same Chapel and I'll, upon à Grave-stone is thus written.  
Not twice ten years of age,  
a weary breath,  
Have I exchanged  
for a happy death;  
My course so short,  
the longer is my rest,  
God takes them soon  
whom he loveth best:  
For he that's borne to day,  
and dies to morrow,  
Loseth some days of rest,  
but more of sorrow.  
Here lies buried the body of john Buckland, Glover, 1625. Who deceased the 16. of August.   

Upon a fair stone close to this, under the Grocer's Arms, is this Inscription.  
Garret, some called him,  
but that was too hie,  
His name is Garrard,  
who now here doth lie;  
He in his youth was tossed  
with many a wave,  
But now at Port arrived,  
rests in his grave.  
The Church he did frequent  
while he had breath,  
And wished to lie therein  
after his death.  
Weep not for him,  
since he is gone before  
To Heaven, where Grocers  
there are many more.   

In the same I'll, upon a fair Marble stone, with the Merchantaylors' Arms at the head of it, is this Inscription.  
This Stone was laid, and this I'll was paved, by john Hayman, Taylor, and Merchantaylor, the 28. of October, 1625.   

Next to this, upon a brass plate, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth the body of Alice Dudson, the Wife of Thomas Dudson, who departed this life the 14. of October, 1626. who sometime did dwell in this Parish, but died in Saint George's Parish.  
All these, with that rich and cosly Monument of the right Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Bishop of Winchester, are in this Chapel.   

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.  
Elizabetha Regina.  
Saint Peter's Church at Westminster,  
Her sacred body doth inter;  
Her glorious soul with Angels sings,  
Her deeds live patterns here for Kings:  
Her love in every heart hath room,  
This only shadows forth her Tomb.    

Sepulchers Parish.  

Anno 1624.  
THere was expended this year extraordinary, about the new Vestry Window, in Mason's work, Glasiers work, Iron work, and other charge extraordinary, besides the usual charges of repairs, 30. li.   

Anno 1625.  
In this year the ten North Church-Windowes were new built, and repaired, the charge whereof amounted to 86. li. 14. s. 7. d.   

Anno 1626.  
In this year the six Windows on the East end, and South side of the Church, with the Water-tables, Battlements, and Buttresses, were new made and repaired, the Windows new glazed, and the Walls pointed down, which with some Plumbers work and Pew work, cost 105. li. 3. s. 10. d.   

Anno 1627.  
The charge of repair of the Church Windows at the West end, & South side of the Church and Porch, with the Battlements, Water-table, and Buttresses, and pointing down the Walls, and other repairs this year within the Church, appear by the accounts to have been 169. li. 2. s. 8. d.   

Anno 1628.  
In making new pews in the Church, and Plumbers work upon the Church, and in Glazing work this year, expended extraordinary, besides other ordinary repairs, 40. li.   

Anno 1629.  
The new pews this year made in the Church and Chancel, the clearing of the Churchyard, and other reparations there, 55. li. 16. s.   

Anno 1630.  
The charge of taking down, and new building of one of the great Pinnacles of the Steeple this year, appeareth by the accounts and Bills examined, to be 139. li. 19 s. 4. d.  
Other Repairs done about the Church this year, in Plumbers work upon the Steeple, and new Leading the Vestry, and making of new pews in the Church, 75. li.   

Anno 1631.  
The new casting of the fifth Bell, with the charge of Iron and Timberwork, to the Bell-Founder, Bell-hanger, and Smith, paid 40. li.  
The Plumbers work, and Carpenters work, in strengthening and new Leading the Roof over Saint Stephen's Chapel, and other Repairs of the Church this year, appeareth by the accounts to be above 100 li.   

Annis 1632. & 1633.  
The three great Pinnacles of the Steeple of the Church, with the Battlements, and Water-tables round about the same, repaired, built, and made up with vent and crest, in manner, form, height, thickness, and all other respects answerable to that Pinnacle which was there lately new made, with the taking and cutting out of the decayed stones, putting in new stone, working and pointing them down, putting in new top stones, and three Vanes, answerable to the former Vane on the other Pinnacle: the Mason's work by composition, 140. li. the Vanes, Iron, and Lead-worke, 13. li. 6. s. 8. d.  
The new Leading and strengthening the Roof in the North side of the Church throughout with Lead and Timber work, 115. li.  

Summa totalis expensarum Annis praedict. 

1110. li. 3. s. 1. d.       

Thomas Southwark.  
THE Steeple of this Church greatly decayed, was repaired, new Leaded; from the ground to the top coated with a beautiful Rough-cast; and enriched with a very fair Turret, in the year of our Lord God, 1663.  
At the same time the Parishioners bestowed upon the entrance into the Church, a new brick Wall, with a door in the middle of it, fit for so worthy passage.  
About four or five years since, some cost was bestowed upon the East Window; and in the year of our Lord 1618. (at the lower end of the Church) a very handsome Gallery builded.  

A Table with this Inscription. 1632.  
The yearly gift of four pounds, given by Master Henry Smith, Esquire, to this Parish of Saint Thomas, hath been dispended on the poor this year passed in manner and form following. In witness whereof, we the Minister, Churchwardens, and Overseers, have subscribed our names.  
Widow stringfeyld, aged 95. years, a Coat, with letters, cost xviij. s. 1. d.  
Dorochy Burket, aged 82. years, a Coat, with letters, cost xviij. s. iiij. d.  
Thomas Wingfield, aged 61. years, a Coat, with letters, cost xvij. s. x. d.  
Nicholas Leek, aged 70. years, a Coat, with letters, cost seven. s. x. d.  
Ellen Grace, Innocent, aged 34. years, a Coat, with letters, cost xviij. s.  
The sum 4. li.  
Benjamin Spencer, Minister.  

William Phife  
Nicholas Eliot 

Churchwardens.     

john Berry  
Gamaliel Voice 

Sidemen.       

Trinity Minories.  
THis Church greatly decayed in the Roof, (the Timber repaired and mended) was new Tiled in the year of our Lord God, 1618.  
In the year 1620. the Steeple, that before (as the Church) was covered with Tiles, was untyled, and (the Timber repaired and strengthened) was covered again with Lead.  
In the year 1628. all the inside of the Church was well and very commendably beautified.  
Also in the year 1623. the Churchyard, that before was only paled in with Boards, was (to the better defence and grace of it) encompassed about with Brick, with a very handsome entrance into it.  
This, as all the Repairs before named, being the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.  

A handsome Monument on the North wall of the Chancel, with these following lines.  
Death first did strike Sir john,  
here tombed in Clay,  
And then enforced his son  
to follow fast;  
Of Pelhams' line, this Knight  
was chief and stay:  
By this behold,  
all flesh must die at last.  
But Bletsow Lord,  
thy Sister most may moon,  
Both Mate and Son  
hath left her here alone.  
Sir john Pelham died the 13. of October, 1580.  
Oliver Pelham his son, died the 19 of january, 1584.   

About a fair Marble stone in the Chancel, close by the Communion Table, are these words.  
Constantia Lucy, D. Thomae Lucy junioris, Militis Aurati, & D. Constantiae Vxoris Foeminae Filia, Natu maxima, Annum agens plus minus undecimum, pridie Idus Februarii in Domino, quam Foelicissimè, hîc posita, fato fungitur, Anno Dom. 1596.   

Upon it these:  
Nascimur & Morimur,  
non exorabile fatum,  
Vita fugax, fragilis,  
lubrica, vana, brevis.  
Ocyus in Campis, flos  
Formosissimus aret:  
Optima praetereunt,  
deteriora manent.  
Rapta immaturo fato,  
Constantia Lucy,  
Nunc jacet: & quondam  
Lucida, luce caret.  
Ante annos Constans,  
humilis, mansueta, modesta,  
Dixeris, & Paphia  
membra polita manu.  
In vere aetatis, persensit  
frigora Brumae:  
Sic sic praepro●erè  
praeoquapoma cadunt.   

On another Stone, neerè unto the last, is this Inscription.  
Hîc jacet corpus Irausis Mar●un. Generosi, qui obiit 14. die Septemh. Anno Dom. 1606.  
Haec verba soepissime in ore illius viventis: O Domine secundum merit a mea, Noli me judicare. Deprecor Majestatem tuam ut misericorditer deleas iniquitates meas.  
Credo videre hona Domini, in Terra viventium.   

In the body of the Church, is a Monument with this Inscription.  
Vivere Cornices multos  
dicuntur in Annos:  
Cur nos Angusta  
conditione sumus.   

The figure of a Child.  
Henricus Nowelus, Filius D. johannis Noweli Doctoris Medici, optimae indolis puerulus, unicum patris solatium, Natus 23. julii, 1598. & mortuus ex Atrophia 4. Augusti, 1599 Hîc sepultusjacet.  
Melioribus utere fatis.     

A Review also of the nine out Parishes in Middlesex and Surrey.  

Clement Danes.  
THe care of those that by an Annual succession, have the charge and oversight of this Church, hath continually been such, as upon the least defect or failing, either in strength or beauty, it hath instantly been employed, both in Repairs and Adornment.  
And first we begin with that great costly repair in the year of our Lord God, 1608. at which time, upon six and twenty foot of the Churchyard in length, and twenty foot in breadth (taken in at the East end of the Church) they built up a very fair Chancel. The charge of this building and repairing, amounting to the sum of 1000 pounds, and upward.  
In the year of our Lord, 1616. there was laid out upon the Steeple, in repairing and enlarging of it, with some other needful things in the Church, the sum of 496. li.  
In the year of our Lord God, 1631. some parts of this Church were again repaired, and the whole body covered with a fair and beautiful Rough-cast, the charge of it 40. li.  
In the year 1632. and this present year 1633. this Church was within, throughout richly and very worthily beautified. The charge of it 50. li.  
The sum of all these Repairs, all being the sole cost of the Parishioners, 1586. li.  

A fair Monument in the Chancel, on the North side, at the upper end, with this Incription.  

Georgii  
Roberti  
Wilelmi  
Christopheri 

Annae  
More de  
Lothesley  
Equit:  
Aurat: 

Filiae.  
Soror:  
Nept:  
Pronep:       
Foeminae Lectissimae, Dilectissimaeque,  
Conjugi Charissimae Castissimaeque,  
Matri Piissimae Indulgentissimaeque,  
XV. Annis in Conjugio Transactis,  
VII. post XII. partum (quorum VII. superstant) dies  
Immani Febre Correptae  
(Quod hoc saxum Fari jussit, ●pse prae dolore infans)  
Maritus (miserrimum dictu) olim  
Charae Charus  
Cineribus Cineres spondet suos,  
Novo Matrimonio (Annuat deus) Hoc loco sociandos,  
joannes Donne,  
Sacr. Theolog. Profess.  
Secessit,  
Anno XXIII. Aetat. suae & sui jesu  
CIO. DC. XVII.  
Aug. XV.   

A fair Monument over against this, on the South side, with this Inscription.  
Viro praeclaris: Animi Corporisque dotibus ornate.  
Qui in Angelicani juris studio Foeliciss. versatus, juriscons. munere, quod jure optimo obtinuit, intermisso, Officiis in Curia Cancellariae, cum examinatoris, per integros 17. annos, tum sex Clericorum unius, per menses quosdam fatales integerrimè perfunctus est: vitâ Londini in hoc vico (ubi & natus) Majori expartetransactâ, die Apr. 26. Anno Dem. 1610. Aetatis 51. defuncto, scil. Animâ Christo, Corpore hîc humo traditis, relictoque sui desiderio, non sine multis multorum lachrymis.  
Maria ipsi superstes vidua  
Thomae Oneli Filia, de Charleton, in Northantonensi quondam Agro Armigeri, Fidissima conjux Charissimo Marito, Quî cum ad Annos ferè 25. Conjunctissime vizerat, Amoris inviolati perpetuum posteris Testimonium, nec sibi minus lugubre, hoc posuit Monumentum.   

A very fair Monument near unto the other, with this Inscription.  
Memoriae Sacrum.  
Here lieth the body of Hypocrates de Otthen, Nobly descended from the Noble Family of the Otthens, out of Holsatia, Doctor of Physic in the University of Monutpelliers, in France, and most worthily incorporated in the University of Oxford. After his first coming into England with his Father (who was the Emperor's Physician, and sent for over by Queen Elizabeth) he was desired by the Earl of Leicester himself, to pertain unto him, in whose service (for many years, both at home, and abroad in the Low-countrieses, with his Lord) he performed such worthy parts, as well in his own faculty, as being employed in other laudable services, that her Majesty and the State took especial note of his worth. After the decease of the Earl, he was in the same esteem and regard with the Earl of Essex, and by her Majesty commanded to attend upon him in the wars of France, and afterwards in his prosperous Voyage to Cadiz. Returning home (hoping to retire himself to his own Practice, and a more private life) he was again commanded to go (as Physician in service into Ireland) with the Lord Montjoy (afterwards Earl of Devonshire) her Majesty's Lieutenant in that Kingdom. But returning again into England with his Lord, in the beginning of his Majesty's Reign, he continued not long, but went as Physician with the Earl of Hartford, his Majesty's Ambassador unto the Archduke of Austria and Burgundi, in that Honourable employment: And so returning again into England, he spent the residue of his years with his dear and most virtuous Wife, Mistress Dorothy Drew, daughter to Master Roger Drew, of Densworth, in Sussex, Esquire, in great bliss and happiness: And being a most zealous and penitent Christian, full of years, and (unto his last gasp) of perfect Memory, he ended his pilgrimage here on earth, and with alacrity of spirit surrendered his soul into the hands of his Creator, the 13. of November 1611. For whose love and memory, his late Wife (the now Lady and Wife unto Sir Stephen Thorneburst of Kent, the most worthy and valorous Knight) hath caused this Monument to be erected, Amoris ergo P. P.   

Next to this another handsome small Monument, with this Inscription.  
Anne, the Daughter of Francis Cary, Wife of Hugh Prust of Devon, 17. years, aged 40. havig by him 9 Children, was buried here the 13. of February 1627.  
In Life and Death,  
most strict in right accord,  
She lived, she died  
true Servant of the Lord.   

A fair Monument on the South side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
By the Churchwardens and Feofees of this Parish, this Monument was set up, the 20. of january, 1603.  
Here lieth buried the bodies of Richard Bedoe, Gentleman, and Anne his first Wife, one of the ancientest of this Parish, and a Feosee of the poor, who ended his life with a charitable disposition, the first day of September 1603. Annoque Regni Regis jacobi, etc. primo. Being when he died of the age of 56. years, and was borne in the Parish of Ricken, in Salop, who of their Charity, have given so many of their Tenements within the Duke's place in Cree-Church, alias Christs-Church, near Algate, London, as do now go for 20. li. per Annum, to the maintenance and use of the poor of this Parish for ever. And also 110. li. to be lent gratis to 50. poor Householders, and young beginners of the same Parish, for two years a piece, putting in good security for the same: With condition, that this Stone, by the Churchwardens and Feofees of the same Parish for the time being, shall from time to time for ever be maintained; and four Sermons yearly for ever to be made, on the feast-days of All-Saints, the Purification of our Lady, the Ascension of our Lord God, and Saint john Baptist, to remember and give God thanks for the Givers thereof. God increase Charity unfeigned.  
Margaret Bedoe, last Wife of Richard Bedoe, gave by her last Will, in the year 1633. the sum of twenty pounds to be added to her Husband's gift of a hundred pounds, and so to be employed and disposed of, as her Husbands now is, the Preacher four times a year, mentioning her gift with his, according to her Will, or else her gift to be void.   

A very fair Monument on the North side of the Chancel, with this Inscription. M. S.  
Nobilissimo juveni Wolfgango Balthâsari à Crailsheim, ex Antiqua & clara Familia in Franconia, cum in Sereniss. Frederici V. Electoris Palatini Comitatu huc in Angliam profectus & morbo Correptus, piè diem obiisset 29. jan. Anni 1612. Hoc Monumentum positum fuit.   

A fair Monument at the upper end of the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Unto the Memory of Richard jacob, late Vintner, deceased, who after 66. years of his life, whereof he spent more than half in this Parish, wherein he had with good credit passed through all Offices, both in the Parish, as also in his Company, and for his Fidelity was elected one of the Governors of Bridewell, and likewise done many charitable Acts, both to the Parish, to his Hall, to the Hospital of Bridewell, Christs-Church, Saint Bartholomewes', and Saint Thomas in Southwark, to diverse persons in London, and Southwark, and many other places, comfortably gave up his soul to his Redeemer, the 13. of October 1612.  
Sibil his mournful Wife, hath caused this Monument to be erected.   

On the same wall downward, another fair Monument, with this Inscription.  
This Monument was made at the only charges of Katherine Metcalfe of Bedale, in the County of York, Widow, Mother to the hereunder named Thomas and Nicholas, and Executrix to the said Nicholas, the 28. of May, Anno Dom. 1583.   

Memento Mori.  
Here against this place lieth buried the body of Thomas Metcalfe, late of Bellerby, in the County of York, Gentleman, who died the 18. day of May, 1575.  
And also the body of Nicholas Metcalfe, Esquire, late one of the six Clerks of the Chancery, and Brother to the said Thomas, who died the 8. day of September, Anno Dom. 1581.  
To whom God granta joyful Resurrection, Amen.   

A fair Table in Glass, hanging close by the Pulpit, with this Inscription. S. Memoriae Virg.  
Helenae Moseley ex equestri Moseleyorum Familia oriundae, cujus Annos nubiles summa virtus at modestia merito Coronarunt, Correptae praematurâ morte, heu dies 17. Feb. Anno Christi, 1607. Supremus diluxit.  
Amoris ergo Moest. P. Q. A.   

A fair Monument on the North side, with this Inscription.  
jussus johannes Painus  
concedere Fate,  
Paruit, & Moriens  
constitit ipse sibi:  
Nam cum animas Caelo  
deberi, corpora Terrae  
Sciret, utrique suum  
reddidit ipse lubens.  
Hinc animam ipsius  
sedes Aeterna beavit,  
Foelici jussam  
conditione frui.  
Corporis haec Domus est,  
Terreni Terrea moles;  
Illa Dei, haec Fidi  
cura Nepotis erat.  
Anno Domini 1573. Aprilis 25.   

A very fair Monument in the same wall, near unto the other, with this Inscription.  
Secundum Christi Redemptoris Adventum, hoc in tumulo, expectat Rogerus Houghton, antiqua Houghtonorum Familia, in Agro Lancastriensi oriundus, Qui quum illustrissimi viri Dom. Roberti Cecil Salisburiae Comitis & Angliae Magni Thesaurii per annos 42. Summa cum Fide & Industria Familia praefuissit, in Patriam Coelestem evocatus, placide pieque emigravit, Anno Dom. 1617. Aetatis 64.  
Charissimo viro Anna Conjux, filia johannis Little, Moestissima, hoc Monumentum in memoriam ejus & Filiolae, ac Mortuae, posuit.   

Upon a fair Marble Stone in the middle I'll, is this Inscription.  

Quam facit incertos  
humani temporis annos  
Addidit exemplo  
mors inimica novo.  
En Gulielmus erat teneris  
cui nomen ab annis  
Hac Saint albonus  
membra sepultus humo.  
Cujus non minimum  
mores meruere favorem,  
Regia in hoc plenus  
curia testis erit.  
Virtutis causa, comes  
Arundellius illum  
Qui summo study  
persequeretur erat.  
Mitto quod assiduus  
fuerat virtutis amator,  
Quodque erat ex ortu  
stirps generosa suo.  
Membra sepulerali conduntur  
frigida lecto,  
Spiritus aethereis aestra  
petivit equis.   

William Saintalbone sleeps in rest,  
Within this Marble Stone,  
Whose corpse in Clay, and soul well  
Deserves dispraise of none.  
He had such feats, so full of fruits,  
So prompt with word and pen,  
So skilful in his courtly suits,  
So dear a friend to men.   

So ripe to rule the works of fame,  
So tempering hot and cold,  
His deeds deserve that his good name  
Were siphered here in gold.    

Upon a Stone in the middle I'll, is this Inscription. Memoriae sacrum, & Deo opt. max. Sacrum.  
Secundum Christi Redemptoris adventum hoc in Tumulo expectat Rogerus Houghton, Antiqua Houghtonorum Familia in Agro Lancastrensi oriundus. Qui quum illustrissimi viri Domini Roberti Cecilii Sarisburiae Comitis, & Angliae Magni Thesaurarii, per annos 42. summa cum Fide & Industria familia praefuisset, in Patriam Coelestem evocatus, placide pieque emigravit. Anno Dom. 1617.  
Charissimo viro conjux Moestissimae Monumentum hoc, Amoris & observantiae causa posuit.   

On another Stone near to the former is this Inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body of Elizabeth, late Wife of George Dalton, Esquire, who died the 2. day of january, 1605. and hath left Issue of her body to her Husband, Maximilian, and Thomas.  
Yea, though I should walk thorough the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, the Rod and thy Staff they comfort me.  
jesus Christ is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear? God is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraid?   

A fair Stone in the middle I'll, near the Chancel, having this Inscription.  
Bartinus Hes●rigg Armiger, Capitaneus Militiae Leicestrensis, hic sepultus est, qui obiit 4. Maii, Anno Dom. 1630. Aetatis suae 24.   

Another in the same I'll, with this Inscription.  
Hic jacet Edmundus Arnold,  
postremus Aprilis  
Vlcere quem rapuit  
tristis atroxque dies,  
Istius Ecclesiae Rector  
Meritissimus olim,  
Et summus medica  
Doctor in Art fuit,  
Non Ipocrate minor erat  
hic, non Peone, Doctor,  
Non opifex mirum  
vincis Apollo virum.  
M. D. dame ter X. semel V.  
Christi cadit Anno,  
Cui vitam Medicus  
det sine fine Deus.   

A handsome Monument on the Wall, in the South I'll, with this Inscription.  
Here by lieth buried the body of Edward Price, Gentleman, and of Edward his only Son, who for the space of 24. years, lived in this Parish, wherein God so blessed him, that of his good and charitable devotion, he hath given three pounds a year for ever out of his free Land, called the Blue Lion in the said Parish, to be bestowed in Sea-coals, and to be distributed freely to the poor by the Churchwardens. And also twenty pounds for ever to be lent to two poor young Householders gratis, from two years to two years, ten pounds apiece.  
He departed this life the 8. of March, 1605.   

On the same Tomb, under that above, is this written.  
This Tomb was erected at the charge of Elizabeth, the Wife of Henry Baten, Esquire, one of his Majesty's Sergeants at Arms, and late Wife of Edward Price, deceased, who of her godly disposition, hath given 20. s. a year for ever to the Preacher of this Parish, to be paid out of her house called the three Cups, next adjoining on the West side of the same Blue Lion, only that he shall make recital hereof at two several Sermons yearly; one on the Sunday before Christmas day, and the other on the Sunday before Midsummer day. And the said Elizabeth also, of her godly love and zeal to the Church, hath given a Flagon-Pot, silver and guilt, weighing 38. ounces and an half, for the service of the Communion Table, to remain for ever; and three pounds to the poor, to be distributed at her Funeral, and five pounds to the poor of Kniton in Derbyshore, where she was borne. She departed the 10. of November, Anno 1616.  
A very fair Glass Table, hanging on a Pillar in the South I'll, in which there is the figure of a Gentlewoman all in black, with a guilt book in her hand, laid as upon her Tomb: Over her head an Angel, over her at the feet, Death with a Dart and Hourglass.  
Over her, adjoining to a very fair Coat, encompassed with a Laurel wreath, these words:   

Filius Ararhnes Cyllenii, Factor paterque Tanaquillae. Under her. Memoriae Sacrum  
Katherinae Brydges (filiae & Haeredis Roberti Essington generosi, unius olim Guardianorum pontis London) triplici jugo junctae: Primò Thomae Gwyn de London generoso, filio secundo Gulielmi Vaughan de Berain in Com. Denbighe, Armigeri, & Margaretae Gwin, Vxoris ejus, defunctorum, Cui unicum Foetum edidit (Nimirum Edwardum Guyn, adhuc vitales Carpentem auras) Secundo Gulielmo Forset Armigero: Postremo Guilielmo Bridges, interioris Templi London Armigero: Vitae sua virtute Clara, omnibusque naturae dotibus eximiè praedita. Cui (post laudabilis vitae stadium, nitentemque in aulam migrationem) E. G. defunctae proles, officiosa pietate (ut decet) Novissimum hoc Parentale Munusculums exolvit.  
Obiit 16. Maii, Anno a partu Virginis salutifero 1598. Annoque Aetatis suae 45.    

Giles in the Fields.  
BEfore I speak of this new Church, I must briefly say of the old, that indeed it was very old: and in the antiquity of it, stood now still in danger of falling: that some part of it did fall, foretelling the rest to follow, if not speedily prevented, by pulling it down to Rebuild it, which after a diligent search, the necessity found, was done.  
For this new Church, it began to be raised in the year of our Lord God, 1623. was finished 1625. and encompassed with a fair brick Wall in the year 1631.  
Which take more amply, in that absolute delivery of it, that I find engraven over the door on the North side of this Church, the words are these:  
Quod felix bonumque sit  
Posteris,  
Hoc Templum loco veteris ex Annosâ  
vetustate  
Collapsi, Mole & Splendore Auctum  
Multo paraecorum Charitas  
Instauravit,  
In quibus pientissimae Heroinae  
D. Aliciae Duddeley  
Munisicentia gratum marmoris hujus  
meretur eloquium.  
Huc etiam accessit aliorum quorundam  
pictas,  
Quibus provisae in Coelo sunt grates.  

Opus 

Surgere Coepit  
Ad umbilicos deductum  
Muro undiquaque vallatum 

Anno 

1623.  
1625  
1631         
Heus Viator, an effaetum est bonis operibus hoc seculum?  
To the raising, finishing, and (in every part of it) richly, and very excellently beautifying of this great work, there were many good and great Benefactors: The names of all, with their particular gifts, my time gave not leave to compass: neither for many of them, could any enquiry get them, they desiring to be concealed, and by virtue of what they have done, obliging those that know them, not to divulge or reveal them.  
For the rich and costly Glazing of this Church, the Work and Workemasters thus follow.  
A very rich and beautiful Window in the head of the Chancel, of four several Panes or Parts: In the first, the figure of Abraham sacrificing his Son: in the second, Moses with the Table of the Commandments: in the third, the figure of the holy Prophet David: in the fourth and last, Solomon.  
The inscription to the first is this:  
Credidit Abraham Deo, & reputatum est illi ad justitiam. Anno Dom. 1628.  

Of the second is this:  
Erat vir Moyses Mitissimus super omnes homines qui morabantur in terra. 1628.   

Of the third this:  
Solum medium tutum. 1627.   

Of the fourth this:  
Dum Spiro Spero. 1628.  
The first of these, was the charge of Abraham Speckart, Esquire.  
The second, of Hamo Claxton, Esquire.  
The third, of Sir john Fenner, Knight.  
The fourth, of Francis Lord Mount-Norris.  
A very fair Window on the South side of the Chancel.  
At the top of it, jehovah.  
Under the figures in it,  
Shelbery 1617. Shelbery and Wroth.  
Domine misere nostri.  
A very fair Window on the North side of the Chancel: two fair Figures in it; the one of the Virgin Mary, with Christ in her arms; the other of Mary Magdalen.  
Under this Window lieth buried, the body of Mary Pill, of this Parish; which Window was set up at the charges of Mary Maudit, her daughter and Heir, 1629.   

Under the first thief Verses:  
From Mary's tears to Mary's joy,  
This Mary is translated:  
And after threescore years' annoy,  
In Heaven she is instated.  
With this, she chose the better part,  
Never to be repent;  
And held her Saviour in herart,  
Thus are her joys augmented.   

Under the other these:  
This, sought her Saviour at his Tomb,  
His feet with Tears bedewed,  
That, bore our Saviour in her womb,  
Whereby our joys renewed.  
Then happy soul, thrice happy this,  
Happily interessed;  
In Mary's Tears, and Mary's bliss,  
Rest thou for ever blessed.   

A very fair Window, with the King's Arms in it, over the entrance into the Chancel,  
Glazed at the charge of Sir William Segar, Knight, alias Garter principal King of Arms, Anno Dom. 1626.   

A very fair Window at the upper end of the South I'll,  
Glazed at the charges of Marmaduke Rawdon, Citizen and Clothworker of London, Anno Dom. 1625.  
Another next to this downward,  
Glazed at the charge of Robert Rawdon, Citizen and Fishmonger of London, Anno Dom. 1625.   

Another next to this downward, bearing the figure of a Lion in the Wilderness,  
Glazed at the charge of M. john johnson, Innkeeper, in High-Holborne, 1625.   

Another next to this downward, having the Figures of Saint john, Saint Philip, and Saint Matthew,  
Glazed at the cost and charges of Philip Parker.   

Next to this downward, a very fair Window,  
Glazed at the charges of Katherine Best, Widow, late Wife of john Best, deceased, who gave order in his life time for the glazing of this Window and was buried there under, the 7. day of April, 1625. And there lie also his Son james, and his Daughter Dorothy.   

Next to this downward, a very fair Window,  
Glazed at the charges of Alice Hodges, Widow, late Wife to Thomas Hodges, Baker, deceased, who was buried under this Window, the 6. day of October, 1625. And here lie also his three children.  
A fair Window next to this, the lowest in the South wall,  
Glazed at the cost of William Perkins, of London Merchantaylor, 1626.  
At the lower end of this I'll, over the South-west door, a very fair Window, bearing in it (very curiously done) the Figure of our Saviour.  
Over his head, as in a garland supported by two Angels, these letters:    

I·H ✚ ·S·  
Round about him Clouds full of Cherubins.  

On one side of him this,  
I am the door, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, joh. 10. 9   

On the other side,  
Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, Matth. 11. 28.  
Beckinghamus Boteler Armiger fieri fecis.  
Anno Domini 1627.   

Over the great West door, is a fair Window, with the Carpenters Arms, and a fair Coat Arms close by it.  
This Window hath no name, or other Inscription; It was (as I was told) the gift of a Stranger.  
One, that upon a day that they made a Collection for it, being there, was (among the rest) desired to bestow his good will, he answered, He had no Money, but if the glazing of a Window, if they had any yet undisposed of, wouldbe accepted of, he would be at the charge to do it. The Collectors giving him thanks, and showing this Window, he suddenly set a Glazier on work, and what he had promised he performed.  
A very fair Window at the head of the North I'll, bearing the figure of Christ crucified as also (one on the one side, the other on the other) of the two Maries.  
On the right side of him this,   

Woman, Behold thy Son.  
On the left,   

Behold thy Mother.  
Glazed at the cost of Thomas Esto, Cook, of this Parish, Anno Dom. 1625.   

Another next to this downward,  
Glazed at the charges of john Beacon, of the City of Westminster, Yeoman, 1625.   

Another next to this downward,  
Glazed at the charges of Robert johnson, free of the Company of the joiners, 1625.   

A fair Window over the door in the middle of the North I'll, bearing a worthy Coat Arms, with these words: Whitaker & Egerton.  
This Window is divided into three parts, under the first this,  
Ego sum ostium, per me si quis introierit, servabitur, & ingredietur, & egredietur, & pascua inveniet. joh. 10. 9   

Under the second thus:  
In tuo lumine (Domine jesu) lumen Ae●ernum videre sperantes, vitreum hoc luminare fabricari fecerunt Laurentius & Margareta Whitaker, Anno salutis humanae 1625.   

Under the third thus:  
Eligo frequentare limen in domo Dei mei magis quam habitare in Tentoriis Improbitatis. Psal. 84. 11.   

A fair Window next to this downward, bearing a very fair Coat Arms, with these words: Cope & Aston.  
Glazed at the charges of the Lady Katherine Cope, Widow, late Wife to Sir Ed. Cope, of this Parish, 1625.   

A very rich Window next downward, divided into three parts, bearing the curious Figures of the three Theological Virtues, under them, Fides, Spes, Chaeritas. Under Faith this:  
Faith Root, Hope Stock,  
the branch is Charity;  
Faith sees, Hope looks,  
for Charity is free;  
Faith knits to God, to  
Heaven hope, Love to men;  
Faith gets, Hope keeps,  
and Love pours out again. 1626.  
Mandatum novum do vobis, ut diligatis unus alium, joh. 13. 34.   

Under Hope this:  
Tres Elohim: pater est  
primus qui procreat, inde  
Filius est, ex his  
Spiritus almus adest.  
Sunt Tria dona Dei:  
sit prima Fides pia Mater,  
Filia Spes, ex his  
●ertius ortus Amor. 1626.  
Nam Speservati sumus, Spes autem si cernatur non est Spes: quod enim quis cernit, cur speret? Rom. 8. 24.   

Under Charity this:  
Now remain these three, Faith, Hope, Charity, but the greatest of these is Charity, 1 Cor. 13. 13.  
Scriptum est, justus ex Fide vivet, Rom. 1. 17.  
Next unto this downward, the last of this North I'll, is a plain Window, without either colour or Inscription.   

Upon a fair Grave-stone in the middle I'll, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body of Elizabeth, late Wife of Richard Maunsell, Esquire, one of the Daughters and Heirs of Roger Wingfield, of great Dunham, in the County of Norfolk, Esquire. She departed this life upon the sixth of October, in the year of our Lord God, 1620.   

Upon a fair Stone near to the other, it this Inscription.  
Interred, the Corpse of  
Baron Birch lies here,  
Of Greyes' Inn sometime,  
by degree, Esquire;  
In Chequer 18. years  
a judge he was,  
Till soul from aged body  
his did pass.  
Alive his Wife Eliza  
doth remain,  
Of Stydfolke stock, one Son  
and Daughters twain,  
She bore by him:  
the eldest in his life,  
He gave to Thomas Boyer  
for his Wife.  
His body sleeps till  
Angel's Trump shall sound,  
God grant we all may  
ready then be found.  
johannes Birch, Obiit Anno Dom. 1581. Maii 30. Aetatis suae 66.   

On another Stone near to the former, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body of Elizabeth Byrche, Widow, late Wife of john Byrche, Esquire, and one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court of the Exchequer, Daughter of john Stydfolke, Esquire, who deceased the third day of December, 1588.   

Close by the former  
lieth buried the body of john Densill, sometime Sergeant at Law, and Mary his Wife.  
In the same I'll is a very fair Stone, which hath been beautified with many fair Figures in Brass: but much of it being gone, all we can see now of it is this:  
Here lieth George Carew, the fourth son of Sir Edmund Carew, etc. 1583.   

In the South Ile  
Eyes buried the body of Alexander Barnes, Vinter, sometime Churchwarden of this Parish, etc. He deceased the 4. of November, 1614 being of the age of 57 years.   

Alexander Barnes  
here doth lie,  
Glory be  
to God on high,  
For he on earth  
hath finished his days,  
And now liveth in Heaven  
to give God praise.  
And now having done with the Church, we begin in the Churchyard with this Inscription, standing in the middle of the South wall.   

Laus Deo.  
In cujus, & Christianae Sepulturae, honorem, nimis arcti olim Coemeterii fines, novi hujus, 128. pedes longi, & 17. lati, Donatione, Abrahamus Speckart, Arm. & Dorothea Vxor ejus Ampliarunt, Anno Dom. 1630.   

A very fair Tombstone in the Churchyard, about it these Verses.  
Thornton of Thornton,  
in Yorkshire bred,  
Where lives the fame  
of Thorntons' being dead:  
Full South this stone  
four foot doth lie,  
His Father john,  
and Grandsire Henry.   

Upon it.  
johannes Thornton, in Memoria Charissimae Vxoris Margaretae, Filiae Georgii Collins, hujus parochiae sancti Aegidii in Campis, hoc Monumentum posuit.  
Under this sad  
Marble sleeps,  
She, for whom  
even Marble weeps:  
Her praise lives still,  
though here she lies  
Seeming dead  
that never dies:  
Religion, Love,  
in suffering Breast,  
Her Charity, Mildness,  
and the rest,  
Hath crown's her soul;  
all mourn with fame,  
Her Husband's loss,  
and Midwives blame.  
She died in Childbed,  
seventy times blessed and seven,  
Her child and she delivered,  
both in Heaven.  
Obiit octavo die januarii, Anno Dom. 1611. Aetatis suae 16.   

On a fair Stone in the Churchyard, is this Inscription. I·H ✚ ·S·S  
Here under lieth buried the body of joan Barker, late Wife of Richard Barker, 17. years of this Parish, who deceased the last day of july, Anno Dom. 1626. whom the Lord send a joyful Resurrection.   

Expecta donec veniat.  
Upon it thus:   

Honesta mors initium vitae.  
Turn again then unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath rewarded thee; and why? thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my fear from falling.  
I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living. Psal. 116.  
This Stone was laid by her Husband Richard Barker, one of the Yeomen of the Guard to Queen Elizabeth and King james 30. years, and now to King Charles. And was married to his late deceased Wife 20. years and one month, and had seven children, whereof five live, Horatio, Anne, Elizabeth, Katherine, and Mary.  
Close by this lies buried the body of William whither, April 3. 1626.  
Also the body of Elizabeth Mason, Wife of Amos Mason, Curate of the Temple, july 18. 1632.  
Of john Cartwrite, Gentleman, August 13. 1620.  
Of Richard Bestibitch, son of Daniel Bestbitch.    

James at Clarkenwell. 1623.  
THere hath been within these few years a great sum of money expended upon this Church, by the sad and lamentable accidents of twice the fall of the Steeple. Speaking of which, I should say, the first in such a year, such a month, such a day; and as of that for the second: but my Information (though given me by a very good friend) could by no means make me so punctual. Howsoever, it was about the time afore dated; and the second, within a little time after.  
The first falling of this Steeple (or part of it) was through the antiquity, or length of time it had stood, without any repair or mending; for (as I have been certified) it hath had no cost, in that kind, bestowed upon it, within the memory of any Parishioner living: neither among their Records can they find any such thing mentioned.  
The second fall (as some have suspected) was either by the ignorance or dishonesty of the principal Workman, that for a certain sum of money (from the ruins of the first) had undertaken to raise and rebuild it. Ignorance in not looking into the strength of that, upon which he was to rear such a burden; Or dishonesty, in slightly passing over (for the speedier dispatch of his Task) a weakness upon which he knew (or might suspect) such an eminent danger to follow.  
How just the suspicion, I know not, but in the Re-building of this Steeple, before it was fully finished (although almost upon the end of that labour) it fell, with the Bells, their Carriages and Frames, beating a great part of the Roof down before them: the weight of all these together, bearing to the ground two large Pillars of the South I'll, a fair Gallery over against the Pulpit, the Pulpit, all the pews, and whatsoever was under or near it.  
But now (as of all the rest) let us speak of building, repairing, and beautifying, which briefly for this Church we do thus:  
All those decays and losses (excepting the want of the Steeple which (at the lower end of the South Ile) is begun, and from the ground raised as high as the roof of the Church) are recovered and made whole again: all the Walls of it firm and fair; in the South wall a fair new door: The Church, in the place of the old, furnished with all things new, and is without and within (notwithstanding there is much still to do) well and very worthily beautified.  
The cost of all this amounting to (or much upon) 1400. pounds.  
It was thus finished in the year of our Lord, 1627.  

Upon my very worthy Friend, Master john Weaver, a learned Antiquary.  
Weaver, who laboured  
in a learned strain,  
To make men long since dead  
to live again,  
And with expense of Oil,  
and Ink, did watch,  
From the Worm's mouth  
the sleeping Course to snatch,  
Hath by his industry  
begot a way,  
Death (who insidiates  
all things) to betray,  
Redeeming freely  
by his care and cost,  
Many a sad Hearse, which time  
long since gave lost;  
And to forgotten dust  
such spirit did give,  
To make it in our  
memories to live.  
Where Death destroyed  
when he had power to save,  
In that he did not seek  
to rob the Grave,  
For where so ere  
a ruined Tomb he found,  
His Pen hath built it  
new out of the ground.  
Betwixt Earth and Him  
this interchange we find,  
She hath to him,  
he been to her like kind,  
She was his Mother,  
he (agratefull Child)  
Made her his Theme,  
in a large work compiled  
Of Funeral Relics,  
and brave Structures reared,  
On such as seemed unto her  
most endeared.  
Alternately a Grave  
to him she lent,  
O'er which his Book  
remains a Monument.  
Master Weaver upon himself.  
Lancashire gave me breath,  
And Cambridge education,  
Middlesex gave me death,  
And this Church my humation,  
And Christ to me hath given  
A place with him in Heaven.  
Obiit Anno Aetat. suae 56.  
For the ancient Monuments of this Church, turn to folio 484, 485.    

Katherine's Tower.  
THis Church was repaired, and within throughout trimmed, and very commendably beautified, in the year of our Lord God, 1618.  
A very fair Gallery at the lower end of the Church, built in the year 1613. was (with a great addition in the breadth of it) enlarged in the year 1621.  
The Walls & outside of this Church was again in many decayed places of it repaired, and all over clothed in a fair and very beautiful Rough-cast, at the sole cost and charge of Sir julius Caesar, Knight, in the year of our Lord God, 1629. His charge being (taken to be done by the great) 250. li.  
About the same time, there was a very fair Clockhouse built at the West end of the Church, and some other things done. All before named, except that of Sir julius Caesar, being the proper cost and charge of the Inhabitants.  

Upon the South wall in the Chancel, is this inscribed.  
The gift of Master Steven Scudamore, late Citizen and Vintner of London, deceased, 20 s. per Annum, to be bestowed in Fuel amongst the poor of this Precinct, at the discretion of the Collectors for the time being, Began the 20. day of December, Anno Dom. 1606. to be continued unto them for ever.   

near unto the former is another Inscription, as followeth.  
The gift of Master john Bourne, late Citizen and White-baker of London, being 5. li. per Annum, to be bestowed in Bread amongst the poor of this Precinct, Began the 10. day of May, Anno Dom. 1609. to be continued unto them for 40. years following.   

On the same South Wall, this Monument done at the charges of William Beereblocke, Goldsmith, one of his Executors.  
Here dead in part,  
whose best part never dieth,  
A Benefactor,  
William Cutting lieth:  
Not dead, if good deeds  
could keep men alive,  
Nor all dead, since good deeds  
do men revive.  
Gunvile and Keys,  
his good deeds may record,  
And will, no doubt,  
him praise therefore afford:  
Saint Katherine's eke,  
near London, can it tell,  
Goldsmiths, & Merchantaylors,  
know it well:  
Two Country Towns  
his civil bounty blessed,  
East Derham, and  
Norton-Fitzwarren West.  
More did he than  
this Table can unfold,  
The world his fame,  
this earth his earth doth hold.    

Leonards Shoreditch.  
FOr the Repairs of this Church, Monuments, and Gifts, with the names of the bountiful Givers, and the like, turn to page 471, 472, and 473.   

Martin's in the Fields.  
THe enlargement of this Church was begun in the year of our Lord God, 1607. being the fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King james, of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the 41. and it was finished in the year 1608. To the which enlargement, our said Sovereign Lord King james, and our most Noble Prince Henry, were most gracious Benefactors; the rest of the charges were borne by the Inhabitants of this Parish.  
Randall Hopkins, and Andrew Hacket, being the first year Churchwardens.  
And in the second year, Andrew Hacket, and Richard Style.  
This enlargement was only that ground, that at the East end of this Church (taken out of the Churchyard) was then made a beautiful Chancel.  
A very fair Table fastened to a Pillar near the Pulpit; in which is curiously drawn the figure of an Angel, holding the Coat of the Gentry, of the living Husband, and dead Wife, for whom it was there set up; Also of a Deaths-head, with an Hourglass upon it: The border of the Table filled (excellent in proportion and colours) with Deaths-heads, branches of Palm, and other fresh and beautiful Flowers.  

Nascendo Morimur.  
Quid Cranii sibi forma novi  
vult ista? Quid Hora?  
Quidque super Cranio,  
lumen nova nata, segesque?  
Nempe dies mortis,  
vitae fit origo perennis;  
Quae moritur mundo,  
Nascitur illa Deo.  
What doth this Scull? what  
doth this Hourglass show?  
The Corn and Palm, that  
on the Scull doth grow?  
It meaneth this, that Death  
the end of strife,  
Is the beginning  
to eternal life:  
Death is the door  
to immortality,  
she's borne to God,  
that to the world doth die.  
The burning Taper  
to his end doth waste,  
Whilst life and death  
to meet each other haste;  
Then happy she,  
that did her life apply,  
Here and above  
to live eternally.  
To the permanent honour and remembrance of the Pious and All-vertuous Gentlewoman, Mistress Susan Price, Daughter to the Honourable Baronet, Sir Paul Tracy, of Stanway, in Gloucester; and the late dear beloved Wife of the Religious, Learned, and truly Virtuous Gentleman, William Price, of Winchester, Esquire, one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Chamber. She died the 13. of March, 1632.  
Ye holy Angels,  
and ye Powers of light,  
The glad injoyers  
of Gods glorious sight;  
You that in faithful  
Abraham's bosom rest,  
You have received  
your sanctified Guest.  
Fair Susan Price  
hath blessed Heaven obtained,  
And for her well run Race,  
God's glory gained,  
Shining in Robes  
of Immortality,  
Contemns the earth  
and worldly vanity.  
True Christian faith  
endued her constant mind,  
And unto her  
the promise was assigned.  
Most honoured be  
her memory, outwasting  
All Genealogies,  
and everlasting.  
Whilst therebe Elements,  
Stars, Orbs, or Spheres,  
Day's Sun, or Night's  
Moon, to direct the years,  
The Heavens possess her soul,  
the World her Fame,  
And fair example, her Virtues,  
Worth, and Name:  
What Nature, Goodness,  
Institution, Fact,  
Could heap to a perfection,  
was her Act.  
The Angels sing her glory,  
who did call  
Her sweet soul home  
to its original,  
And now she's gone hence  
for to pass the time  
She ought her Husband,  
in a better Clime.  
There shall her Harvest  
and her Summer be,  
Where she shall never  
any Winter see.  
Then Price grieve you no more,  
she lives in joy,  
Wipe you your tears,  
her tears are wiped away.   

The Epitaph.  
Stay ere you pass,  
lament, and fix your eyes  
Upon a worthy  
Consorts obsequies.  
Susan here lies, for beauty,  
worth, and life,  
Admired, the worthy  
William Prices Wife.  
Never was after death  
one more desired,  
Nor ever living  
was one more admired.  
A file of lasting praises  
crownes her name,  
Perpetual glories  
do attend her fame:  
Rich in all joys, she  
now hath changed her bed,  
joined in marriage  
unto Christ her head.  
Come, whosoever would  
enjoy like state,  
Endeavour all her worth  
to imitate.   

Over the figure of Death: Ibimus omnes.  
Ladies, when you  
your purest beauties see,  
Think them but Tenants  
to mortality:  
there's no content on earth,  
joys soon are fled,  
Healthful to day we live,  
to morrow dead:  
I was as you are now,  
young, fair, and clear,  
And you shall once be  
as you see me here.  
Mors mihi lucrum.  
Moriendo Nascimur.   

Upon her Tombstone, at the foot of this Monument.  
Mistress Susanna Price, the wife of William Price, Esquire, one of the Grooms of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Chamber, Daughter of Sir Paul Tracy, Baronet, departed this life the 13. of March, 1632. before she had been married full 14. weeks.  
She was so full of Virtue and of Goodness, few might compare with her, none could excel her.  
Her body is here interred, here is her body, her soul is in Heaven with her Saviour.   

A fair Tombstone in the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Here lieth buried the body of Mistress Dorothy Hervy, that Honourable matchless Virgin, the Daughter of the Right Honourable, William Lord Hervy, Baron of Kidbrooke, and of the Religious Lady his Wife, the Lady Cordelia Hervy, Daughter and Heir to Master Brian Ansley, Esquire, of Lee, in Kent, who departed this transitory life the 19 of February, Anno 1632.  
Glorious Dorothy  
here entombed lies,  
Lord Hervies' Daughter,  
and fair Virtue's prize.  
Model of Honour,  
Grace's Paragon,  
In whose great loss  
her Parents joys are gone.  
Her life was such  
as well may be denied,  
That she did ever ill,  
but when she died▪  
Pity so soon  
so rare a Virgin must  
Stoop to Corruption,  
and be clothed in dust.  
Heaven and the world being  
Suitors, who should have her,  
To end the strife, she went  
to him that gave her.  
Nascendo Morimur.   

A very fair Table, with a rich Coat Arms, hanging on the North side of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Hae sunt Antiqua Moraviorum Insigniae, in memoriam Patricii Moravii, Domino Carolo Regi à poculis, nuper defuncti hîc posita.    

Marry Whitechapel.  
THis Church, in the many (and greatly) decayed parts of it, was repaired; and within, without, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the year of our Lord God, 1633.  

For Whitechapel side.  
Thomas Farrar  
john Wood  
john Mannering 

Churchwardens.     

For Wapping side.  
Captain Hatch  
Master Allen 

Churchwardens.     
The cost of this Repair, 300. li. and upwards.  
To show the neverdying love of these Parishioners, to their deceased Pastor, Master William Crashaw, take this Inscription from a very fair Gallery in the South I'll.  
To the honour of God, the advancement of Religion, and in thankfulness to God for the safe return of our hopeful and gracious Prince Charles from the dangers of his Spanish journey, this Gallery was erected at the charge of this Parish, Anno 1623. and the seventh year of Master Crashawes Residence.  
His Name, as in this, in many other places remembered.  
The ground of this South Ile was added to the Church, and the I'll new built in the year of our Lord, 1591. And in the four and thirtieth of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Master Richard Gardner Parson.  

A fair Monument on the North wall of the Chancel, with this Inscription.  
Christo optimo maxim,  
pietati & posteritati,  
Sacrum,  
Elizabethae Conjugis dulcissimae,  
Foeminae Lectissimae è Claris. Skinneriana,  
& Emersoniana Familiis oriundae,  
In qua (Rara Felicitate)  
Pietas cum Pulchritudine,  
Ingenium cum Virtute,  
Forma cum pudicitia,  
Mirifice conveniebant,  
Quae in primo puerperio, in ipso enixu,  
Animam Deo, Memoriam Mundo,  
Vitam Naturae, Carnem terrae,  
Patri puerulum, Amicis luctum,  
Conjugi Moerorem ineffabilem,  
Omnibus ingens sui ipsius desiderium  
moriendo Reliquit,  
W. Crashaius, hujus Ecclesiae  
Rector, Conjux longe Moestissimus  
multis cum Lachrymis  
Lugens Lubens  
Invitus Posuit.  
I know that my Redeemer liveth, job 19 25.  
To the honour of Christ Jesus, to the praise of Piety, to the example of Posterity, and for the preservation of the godly memory of Elizabeth, his most worthily beloved Wife, in whom (by a rare Conjunction) Godliness with Comeliness, Wisdom with Virtue, Beauty with Chastity, Youth with Discretion, and Discretion with Devotion, were most sweetly combined; who in the prime of her years, upon her first Child, yielded up, by untimely death, as herself often had foretold, her soul to God, her life to Nature, her body to the Earth, her memory to the World, and left to the pensive Earth a dear bought Son, to her friend's heaviness, hard to be removed, to her Husband sorrow, not to be expected, and to all that knew her, a longing desire after her,  
William Crashaw, her most sad and sorrowful Husband, Pastor of this Church, most unwilling to part with her, but most willing to honour her with many sighs and tears, dedicated this Monument in assurance of her glorious Resurrection.  
She died October 8. in the 24. year of her age.   

A handsome Tomb, encompassed with Iron grates in the Churchyard, hath this Inscription.  
To the Memory of Alice Shelton, daughter of Sir Ralph Shelton, of Shelton-Hall, in Norfolk, Knight, who had Issue by her first Husband, Thomas Waller, Esquire, 9 Sons, and 9 Daughters; and by her second Husband, William Wrove, of London, Merchantaylor, had Issue two Sons and one Daughter; but had no Issue by her third and last Husband, Tobias Wilkinson. 1630.   

Another close by the former, with this Inscription.  
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vanity, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.  
Here lieth buried that virtuous Thamozin, that gracious young Woman, the faithful Wife of Master William Eeles, of Limehouse, Marriner; this mirror of young Women, departed this life on the 10. of july, 1620. She being of the age of 25. years, and was Mother of a Son and a Daughter; but Thamozin the Daughter, departed this life on the 18. of December, 1621. being of the age of 6. years, and lieth here buried.  
Every wise Woman buildeth her house, but the foolish pluketh it down with her hands.  
The memory of the Justice is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.  

Remember,   

As you are now, so was she;  
As she is now, so you must be. 

William Eeles.       

magdalen's Bermondsey.  
THis Church was enlarged by the addition of all that ground that is now the South I'll, taken out of their spacious Churchyard; this I'll was begun to be built in the year of our Lord God, 1608.  

Christopher Robinson  
Thomas Freeman 

Churchwardens.     
The Work going on, and continuing to the year 1610. in which it was very worthily and completely finished. The charge of it amounting to 860. li.  
In the year 1619. on the top of the Steeple, was a very fair Turret erected. The charge of it, 33. li. 16. s. In the same year a new Clock made, 7. li.  
The Steeple was again repaired, and the inside of the Church trimmed and very commedably beautified, in the year 1621.  
The cost of this last (though I could not set down the sum) as of all the former several Repairs and Building, the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.  
A very fair Brass Branch in this Church, was the gift of Ralph Alder, of this Parish, 1613.   

Savoy Parish.  
WE have not in the collection of all these Churches, looked so far back upon any Repair as this: but as we find it we present it.  
The repairing and trimming of this Church (which was at that time performed with great cost and beauty) was in the year of our Lord God 1600. at the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.  

james Houson  
Thomas Martin 

Churchwardens.     
In the year 1618. there was a fair Gallery built at the lower end of this Church.  

Rowland Hodges  
Daniel Hall 

Churchwardens.     

A very fair Monument at the upper end of the Church, having this Inscription.  
Ecce pudicitia, & pietas,  
Coeli utraque proles  
Accingunt, Dextra haec,  
haec tibi levae latus,  
jure, salo coluere, Polo  
Rapuere, nec usquam  
Te neque jam tumulum  
destituere tuum.  
Da. Humius Theag. Non Delendae Amicitiae sempiternum Monumentum.  
M. N. M. S. Siste paululum quisquis es, & paucis quid Marmor hocce te volet scies.  
Hîc sacrum Beatissimae Animae depositum, & felicissimae quiescunt exûviae Nicolaae Moraviae, ex clarissima Moraviorum, cum Tilibardinorum, tum Abircarniorum Gente, per utrumque parentem ortae, & Roberti Duglassii, equitis Aurati, conjugis Lectissimae, Quae incredibili ingenio, rarissimo judicio, Summa pietate, singulari prudentiae, omnique virtutis genere, imprimis modestia, pudicitia, & suavissimis moribus ornatissima, cum omnem propè Aetatem, contempt is mundi hujus Foecib. in Rerum divinarum speculatione, & assidua meditatione consumpsisset, in Theologicis porrò ad miraculum usque docta doctissimos quosque Theologos in admirationem sui & stuporem Rapuisset, Nihilque unquam, per universam vitam quam Christum sperasset, ad eundemque tota jam adspirarat, primo partu longissimis, & Acerrimis doloribus divexata, ubi Moestissimum conjugem, & circumfusos amicos ad vitae hujus fluxae ac caducae contemptum, & ad certissimam immortalitis spem erexisset prolixissimâ etiam & suavissimâ oratione, ipsam se suosque omnes, maximè vero conjugem Deo commendasset, gratissimam Christo Animam reddidit, & extincto Foetu, in summo omnium Moerore expiravit.  
Abi jam quisquis es, & non dissimilem vitae exitum ipsi tibi opta & vale. Obiit die Novemb. Anno 1612. Aetatis suae   

A fair Monument on the West side, close to the former, with this Inscription. Morieris. Resurges. janua vitae sepulchrum.  
Here lieth Nazareth Coppin, Wife to George Coppin of London, Gentleman, Daughter to Thomas Thwaits of Hardington, in the County of Norfolk, Esquire, who being of the age of 24. years, in the prime of her youth and beauty, as she lived most virtuously, so she died most godly, the 22. of june 1592. in the 34. year of the most happy reign of Queen Elizabeth.  
Mors certa, inevitabilis, incertae.  
On either side of her these lines.  

Morti praedajaces,  
potuit nec plurima formae  
Gratia, nec mentis  
vincere fata pudor:  
Et tamen in terris ultra  
spes figitur? alto  
Quaerenda est merces  
non peritura pole.   

Peregrinatio est vita.   

Vivis & aeternum victa  
de morte triumphas,  
Exuvias tantum  
possidet illa tui:  
Omnia sic patrias sedes  
unde orta revisunt,  
Redditur & Coelo  
mens pia, corpus humo,   

Mors meta laborum.    

Next to the other is a very Ancient Monument, with this Inscription.  
Pray for the souls of Sir Richard Rokeby, Knight, and Dame jane his wife, whose bones rest here under this Tomb, which Sir Richard deceased the 27. of April, 1523. and the said Dame jane deceased the 15. On whose souls jesus have mercy.   

Over the Vestry door in the Chancel, is a very fair Tomb with these words.  
Hîc jacet Alicia, Filia Simonis Steward, de la Kingheth, Suff. Obiit 18. junii, Humanae salutis, 1573.  
Virtutis praemium virtus.   

Upon a fair Marble Stone in the Chancel, is this Inscription.  
Here lies interred the bodies of Peter Lily, Doctor of Divinity, one of the Brothers of the Savoy, Prebend of Paul's, and Archdeacon of Tanton, who died at the Savoy, Anno Dom. 1614 And of Dorothy Lilly, his virtuous Wife, who also died at the Savoy, the 1. of june, Anno Dom. 1627. and of Mary Lily, their only Daughter, who departed this life at Fulham, the 10. of October, 1625.   

Close to the other this:  
Here under lieth the body of Frances Bulbecke, late of Clevedon, in the County of Somerset, Esquire, the 8. son of john Bulbecke, of the same place and County, Esquire, deceased, which said Frances died, being never married, the 9 of November, in the year of our Lord God, 1585.   

Close to the other this:  
Here lieth buried Peter Richardson, Goldsmith and jeweller, borne in Holland, in the parts beyond the Seas, servant to the most famous King, Henry the 8. and King Edward the the 6. to Queen Mary, and to our most dread Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth: which Peter having married Anne, the Daughter of Robert Wilson, lived to the age of 84. years, and died a faithful Christian, the 24. of March, in the year of our Lord God, 1586.  
There is also in this Chancel buried, the body of one David Bedo, Bachelor of the Law, and Steward to the Lord of Carlisle, etc. 1541.   

Close by the former  
Lieth buried the body of Humphrey Lovel, Esquire, with his two Wives and five Children. He died the 16. of November 1585.   

Close to the other is this.  
Hîc jacet Dominus Richardus Ellis, quondam Hospitularius hujus Hospitalis. Qui obiit 3. die Augusti 1550. quadragessimo 5. Cujus animae propitietur Deus. Amen.   

At the upper end of the Chancel, in the East corner, is a very ancient Monument, with this Inscription.  
Wilielmus Chaworth, secundus filius johannis Chaworth, de Wynerton, in Comitatu Nottingham, Militis, hic in suo Coelibatu repulverescit, cujus spiritus in Coelis, carnis reassumptionem expectat.  
Obiit 24. die Martii, Anno salutis à Christo 1582. & suae Nativitatis 28.  
Necessitudinis Symbolum.   

A very fair Table with a rich Coat Arms, on the East wall, toward the lower end of the Church. Over it these words:  
So good a Father and Mother are never to be forgotten.   

Under it these:  
Here lieth the body of Rebecca Burton, Wife to Captain Nicholas Burton, and Daughter to Henry Somaster of Painesford in Devonshire, Esquire; who departed this life the 28. of February, Anno Dom. 1632.   

In the wall on the West side of the Church, is this ancient Memorial.  
The first sepulted in this place  
after they it sacrated,  
Was Humphrey Summerset,  
Deacon, which here doth lie,  
Bachelor in the Arts,  
whom cruel Death oppressed,  
The sixteen hundred & fifteenth year  
of God Almighty,  
The fifteenth day of April,  
which Humphrey doth call and cry,  
With lamentable escrikes,  
and good devotion,  
All devout Christian men  
and women, that pass hereby,  
Pray for my dolorous soul  
for Christ's bitter passion.   

On an ancient Plate close to the forms, is this Inscription.  
Here by this wall side buried is William Vevian, Son and Heir unto Michael Vevian, of Cornwall, Esquire, which William was servant unto the Right Noble; Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester, the King's Chamberlain, and by misfortune drowned in the Thames, on Passion Sunday at afternoon, in the year of our Lord God, 1520. For whose soul pray of your Charity, as you would be prayed for.   

In the body of the Church, upon a brass plate on the ground, is this Inscription.  
Here lieth Humphrey Gosling, of London Vintner, of the White Hart of this Parish, a Neighbour of virtuous behaviour, a very good Archer, and of honest mirth, a good Company-keeper,  
So well inclined  
to poor and rich,  
God send more Goslings  
to be sich.  
He was servant to the Right Honourable, the Lord Hunsden, Lord Chamberlain, and deceased the 22. of july, 1586.  
Close by the other lies buried the body of George Skoowith, 1525.  
Also the body of john Danson, 1577.   

A very fair Stone, with a fair Picture of the party buried wrought in Brass, having these several Inscriptions.  
Over his head two brass Circles.  
In the one thus:  
Credo quod Redemptor meus vivit, & in novissimo die, de terra surrecturus sum.  
In the other thus:  
Et in Carne mea videbo Deum salvatorem meum.  
In a Circle upon his breast thus:  
Repesita est haec spes mea, in sinu meo.  
Under him thus:  
Situs hic est pietatis, ac Religionis cultor joannes Floid, Artis Muscae Bacchalaureus, qui dum vixit, Regis Henrici octavi in sacello cecinit, & Christi Sepulcrum invisit jerosolimis. Obiit Anno Dom. 1523. Mens. Aprilis die tertio.   

near unto the other is this Inscription.  
Here resteth the body of the Lady Eleanor Kempe, Widow, late Wife of Sir William Kempe, Knight, and Daughter and Heir unto Robert Browne, Esquire, which Lady Eleanor, deceased the 26. of September, in the year of our Lord God, 1559.   

near unto the former is this Inscription.  
Orate pro anima Domini johannis Sampull, quondam unius Vicariorum Collegii Regii Sancti Steph. Westmonasterii, & in sua aetate in Cantaria Delinwood, Celebrans in Bassa Capella Sanctae Mariae D. Collegii. Qui obiit Anno Dom. 1510.   

near unto the other is this Inscription.  
Hic jacet Anna Pynta, Ispaniae, quae obiit 8. die Martii, Anno Dom. 1523. cujus animae propitietur Deus, Amen.   

On a fair Stone close to the other, is this Inscription.  
Orate pro anima johannis Brime, Sacerdotis, qui obiit 13. die mensis Martii 1525. cujus animae, etc.   

near to the other.  
Lieth buried the body of john Borwet, Esquire, sometime Sergeant Plumber to King Henry the 7. and to King Henry the 8. deceased the 7. of December 1525.   

Next unto the other is this Inscription.  Of your Charity, pray for the soul of Humphrey Cook, Citizen and Carpenter of London, and Master Carpenter of all the works to our Sovereign Lord, King Henry the 8. and Master Carpenter at the building of this Hospital, called The Savoy: the which Humphrey deceased the 13. day of March, in the year of our Lord God 1530. and lieth under this Stone.  

On the next unto the other, is this Inscription.  
Pray for the soul of newel Loveday, Gentleman, late Groom for the month in the office of the Cellar, to the most excellent Prince, King Henry the 8. who died the 18. day of May, Anno Dom. 1523.    

A Table, or Memorial of all such Benefactors as have given any sums of Money or Legacies, to the value of five pounds and upwards, to this Parish of Saint Mary Strand, alias Savoy, for the use of the poor, or to other pious uses within this Parish; beginning from the year of our Lord God 1597. And as touching all other Legacies and sums of Money under five pounds, given by Benefactors in this kind, since the time aforesaid, they are registered in a Book kept for that purpose.  

Anno Dom. 1622.  

Richard Denham  
james Bradford 

Churchwardens.     
Ralph Abnet of this Parish, died in the year of our Lord God 1597. and gave unto the use of the poor of this Parish the sum of twenty pounds, and five pounds more for the advancement of 5. poor Maidservants of this Parish in marriage.  
Richard jacob, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, Vintner, died in the year of our Lord God 1612. and gave unto the poor of this Parish, forty shillings per annum, for 32. years, to be paid out of the Rent of the Cheaquer Tavern, in the Parish aforesaid.  
Meredith Thomas, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, Taylor, died in the year of our Lord God 1620. and gave the sum of six pounds to this Parish for ever, to be lent unto two poor men of this Parish, either of them three pounds a piece for three years, without interest; they giving good security to the Churchwardens for the time being, to repay the said six pounds at the three years' end.  
Francis Smith, of this Parish, Grocer, died in the year of our Lord God, 1621. and gave the sum of twenty pounds, whereof ten pounds to the poor of this Parish, and the other ten pounds for the maintenance of a Sermon to be yearly preached upon Midsummer day in this Church for ever.  
Dame Margaree Walter, Wife of Sir john Walter, Knight, of this Parish, died in the year of our Lord God 1622. and gave unto the poor of this Parish, the sum of five pounds.  
john Bennet, Baker, of this Parish, died in the year of our Lord God 1625. and gave unto the poor of this Parish, the sum of ten pounds for ever.  
jane Lane, Widow, Daughter of james Howson, of this Parish, died in the year of our Lord God 1625. and gave unto the poor of this Parish the sum of five pounds.  
There is given unto this Parish, the six and twentieth day of March, 1628. by the sum of five pounds, for the maintenance of two Sermons to be preached yearly, on Easter Monday, and Whitsun Monday, by some sufficient and able Minister.   

A second Memorial.  
of this Parish, Widow, in the year 1629. gave unto this Parish the sum of six pounds to buy a second Pulpit Cloth, to remain to the Church for ever▪  
Sir john Walter, Knight, Lord chief Baron, died in the year 1630. and gave to the use of the poor of this Parish for ever, the sum of twenty pounds.  
james Howson the elder, of this Parish, died in the year 1631. and gave unto the poor of this Parish the sum of five pounds.   

To the Reader.  
WE are here to give you notice (gentle Reader) that the Monuments, Epitaphs, and Inscriptions, that in this collection of Churches (Builded, Repaired, and Beautified) are here (with their Churches) inserted, are only such as as have been raised, composed, and added, since the last imprinting of this Book, called The Survey of London, that Impression being in the year 1617. those of greater times and antiquity, are to be turned to as they stand before in their several Wards and Parishes.     

A Schedule indented, Containing a Survey taken the xxx. day of December, Anno Dom. 1567. and the tenth of Queen Elizabeth, of the Manor of Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex, belonging to the Prebend of Hallywell and Finsbury, in the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, London. Wherein are particularly specified, as well the capital Message and Scite of the said Manor, and all other Messages, Houses, Gardens, Orchards, Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Pastures, Leisures, and other Grounds, being of the Demaynes of the said Manor; with the Butts and Bounds thereof. As also the Rents and Services belonging to the said Manor: and the names of the Tenements by whom the same are to be paid. With mention also, for what Lands the same Rents and Services are due: with the Butts and Bounds thereof.  

The Demayne Lands.  
THe Manor house, commonly called Finsbury Farm; a great Barn, a Gatehouse, and Stables: A Court and Orchard belonging to the said Manor house.  
Six Gardens, whereof one in the tenure of William chival, Draper; the other five severally held by Master Lionel Ducket, Alderman; john Bull, Grocer; William Fulwood, Grocer; john Hewet, Clothworker; and William Leonard, Mercer. All which lie together adjoining to the said Manor upon the North; and the Moor Field and Lane there, leading between the said Gardens, and other Teintors' and Gardens, belonging to the Prebend of the Moor: and now in the Tenure of the Merchant-Taylors, upon the South. And a Garden now divided into more parcels, also belonging to the said Lordship, in the Tenure of john God Merchant-Taylor, on the West, and the Ditch and way there, leading from London towards Finsbury Field, and Hallywell, on the party East.  
A Lodge, and certain Gardens and Teinter ground, in the Tenure of john God Merchant-Taylor, enclosed on the North towards Chiswell street, with a brick wall; and upon a Tenement and Garden belonging to Richard Marten, Goldsmith; and others upon the West. And upon a Way lying between the same, and certain Gardens and Tenters belonging to the Prebend, called the Moor, in the Tenure of the Merchant-Taylors of London, on the South. And the great Garden and Orchard belonging to the said Manor, now in the Tenure of john Gresham, Mercer, and other Gardens belonging to the said Lordship, on the party East.  
A Tenement, a Lodge, a Loft over a Gate, and five Gardens, now in the Tenure of William Erdiswick, Merchant Taylor, whereof four abutting upon Finsbury Field on the East, and Chiswell street on the South; and the Lands of late belonging to john Coningsbye, now the Lands of William East, Gentleman, in the right of his Wife, one of the Daughters of William Wakefield: and late in the Tenure of john Hillyard, Goldsmith, on the North party. And upon a Gate-way, leading from Chiswell street, as well toward the said Gardens, as towards a little Barn there, in the Tenure of Alban Chisselton, Bowyer, on the West. And the fifth Garden East, upon the said great way; and South, upon the said Barn, in part; and West in part, upon a Tenement and Garden in the Tenure of Thomas Lee, Fletcher, being parcel of the said Demaine Lands, and the said Tenement, Lodge, and Loft, over the said gate, abutting on Chiswell street towards the South.  
Another Tenement, a Garden, and the said old Barn, in the Tenure of Alban Chisselton, Bowyer, butting upon the South side of Chiswell street, and next adjoining to the said Tenement, now in the Tenure of the said Thomas Lee, on the party East.  
A Tenement and a Garden in the Tenure of Hugh Greene, Fletcher, next adjoining to the said Alban Chisselton on the East, and upon Chiswell street on the South.  
A Cottage and certain Gardens, in the Tenure of john Mansbridge, Merchant Taylor, lying in Chiswell street on the South, containing in length from South to North, stretching alongst a Brick wall, belonging to the Lands sometimes john Wishes, Founder, on the West party, thirteen Rods and eight foot of Assize; and in breadth at the North end, butting upon the ground or Garden plots, sometimes john Conisbies', Gentleman, and now in the Tenure of William East, Gentleman, from the East to the West fifteen Rods and three foot of Assize; and in length from the North to the South, towards the East, running towards certain Gardens belonging to the said Manor, now in the Tenure of the said Erdiswick, fifteen Rods and six foot of Assize; and in breadth, at the end towards the South, from the East to the West, butting upon Chiswell street aforesaid, fourteen Rods and five foot of Assize.  
A piece of ground converted into certain Gardens, now in the Tenure of john Medcalfe, Skinner, lying near Whitecrosse street, between the Pasture ground belonging to the said Manor of Finsbury, called Bonhill Field, or Finsbury Fields, on the East, and the ground of john Conisbye, Gentleman, now in the Tenure of john Hillyard, Goldsmith, on the West & South, and the grounds of late belonging to the Priors of Hallywell, now belonging to the said john Medcalfe, on the party North.  
A Garden plot, in the occupation of William Gill, stretching from Whitecrosse street on the East, Westward 165. foot of Assize; on the South side of the said ground, and on the North side from the said street, stretching Westward, 180. foot of Assize; and at the West end of the same, stretching North and South 62. foot of Assize; in breadth, right Line and Plummet, from limit to limit, and butting South upon the Lands late belonging to the Parish Clerks of London, and the Lands of the said William Gill, (late Ralph Symonds) on the party North and West, and the said Whitecrosse street on the party East.  
And eleven Tenements lying on the West side of Grubstreet, with eleven Gardens to the same belonging, in the several Tenors of David a powel, john Gilham, Nicholas Hunt, john Wildbore, john Hayes, john Tompson, john Andrew's, john Ap Rice, Henry Everton, john Reeve, and George Fuller, lying in the said Lordship, and County of Middlesex, and adjoining to a corner Tenement, being in the Liberties of the City of London, in the Tenure of William Franklin, Fletcher, belonging to Henry Southcot, Mercer, and the Lands of the said Henry Southcot, in the Tenor. of William Bullen, and a Garden ground in the Tenure of Philip Garland, Clothworker, on the South, and extendeth in length upon the said South side, from Grubstreet, aforesaid, unto certain Gardens upon the West, belonging to john Whitehorne, and others there, 199. foot of Assize; and in breadth, at the West end of the said Gardens, from the said South side, stretching unto Chiswell street on the North, 183. foot of Assize, and extendeth in length at the North side upon Chiswell street, 205. foot and a half of Assize.  
The Field called Bonhill Field, belonging to the said Manor of Finsbury, butting South upon the high way there, called Chiswell street, and extending North upon the high way that leadeth from Wenlocks Barn, to the Well called Dame Agnes the clear. The high way leading from the Manor of Finsbury aforesaid, towards Hollywell, on the East party, and the Gardens and grounds late belonging to the Priors of Hollywell, now in the Tenure of john Medcalfe, Skinner, William Gill, Gardiner, and other the Lands belonging to john Hillyard, Goldsmith, and certain Gardens belonging to the said Manor of Finsbury, now in the Tenure of the said Medcalfe; the Lands of late of john Coningsby, Gentleman, now in the Tenure of William East, Gentleman: And also four Gardens, now in the Tenure of William Erdiswick, also belonging to the said Manor of Finsbury, on the party West: and the same Field, with half the Ditches measured with the same, East, West, North, and South, containeth 23. Acres, one Rod, and six Pole.  
Whereof, four Acres and a half, being at the South end of the said Field, butting upon Chiswell street, beginning at the Ditch on the party West, extendeth towards the ground and Pond there (belonging to the said Manor) on the party East, in breadth sixttene Pole: and extendeth from Chiswell street on the South, unto Bonhill on the North: in length 45. Pole, and from the East side, at the North end against the Bonhill, to the midst of the said Ditch on the West party, 16. Pole; and from the North end upon the West side, stretching to Finsbury Bridge, to Chiswell street there South, in length 45. Pole, every Pole containing sixteen foot and a half. And also there is one other Acre claimed for the lands late john Coningsbies, Gentleman, supposed to lie in the said Field, beyond the said Bonhill (as it is said) but it hath been occupied as parcel of the Domains of the said Manor, by the space of 40. years last passed.  
The Field called the Mallow Field, butting upon the Rails next to the Moor Field South, the high way leading from the Brick Bridge there towards the Windmills, belonging to the said Manor of Finsbury on the party West, the high way leading from the said Windmills towards Norton-Folgate, on the North, and the Lands belonging to john Worsop, Merchant-taylor, and john Nichols, Girdler, on the party East, containing with the half Ditch, in measure on the sides, East, West, and North, 12. Acres and a half, and 12. Pole.  
The Field called the High Field, or Meadow ground, where the three Windmills stand, commonly called Finsbury Field, 
Pair of this Field is the meadow where they usually shoot at twelve score, and where the Wrestling is usually.  butting upon the high way that leadeth unto Norton-Folgate, on the party South; the high way that leadeth to Hollywell, and the lands belonging to the Earl of Rutland on the party East; the lands belonging to the Heirs of Mascall Brewer, and the high way leading from the Manor of Wenlocks Barn, to the Well called Dame Agnes the clear, upon the Bonhill Field on the party West: all which Field contains in measure 45. Acres, with the half Ditches that enclose the said Field on the party South, East, and North, in the said measure.  
Where of john Worsop hath on the East side of the said Field, butting upon the high way leading to Norton-Folgate on the party South, the Windmills and ground of the said Manor on the party West, and the Meadow and Pasture ground belonging to the said Manor on the party North and East, six Acres and a half.  
More adjoining to the said high way on the party South, and next the said Worsops Land there on the party East, one Acre and three Rods of Meadow or Pasture ground, belonging to john Nichols, Girdler.  
The sum of the Acres of the said three Fields, are 80. Arcres, 3. Rods, and 18. Poles, by the measure aforesaid.  
Whereof belongeth to the said john Worsop, in the High Field aforesaid, six Acres and a half.  
To the said john Nichols, in the same Field, one Acre and three Rods.  
To the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens aforesaid, in Bonhill field aforesaid, four Acres and a half.  
Sum 12. Acres and 3. Rods.  
So remaineth 68 Acres, and 18. Poles.   

Golding lane.  

The Free Tenants  
Of Henry Edon, Esquire, out of certain Tenements and Gardens at the North end of Golding lane, 
Saint Giles Parish.  sometimes Master Ponds, and of late Richard Callerds, and since Elizabeth Hayes, daughter and Heir of the said Richard Callerd, butting on the West side of the said Lane; 
Sure of Court.  and on the South side upon the Lands late of Henry Cletheroe, now in the Tenure of john Hillyard, 13. s. 4. d.  
Of the said Henry Edon, out of a Tenement called the Swan, and other Tenements thereunto adjoining; in the Tenure of john Collins, 
Suit of Court.  Gardiner, abutting on the East side of the Lane, late the said Callerds, and since as aforesaid, 3. d. ob.  
Of William Hall, out of certain Tenements there adjoining to the sign of the Swan in the said Lane, 
Suit of Court.  now in the Tenure of Richard Drake, Gardiner, 3. d. ob.  
Of the Master and Governors of Saint Bartholomewes' Hospital in West Smithfield, the hands of Thomas Hallway their farmer, out of certain Tenements and Gardens late Robert Melli; hes, Merchantaylor, of the West side of Golding lane, 
Suit of Court.  at the sign of the Leg, butting upon the Lands of the aforesaid Henry Edon, and upon the South of the Lands of William Wakefield, late in the Tenure of Dionise Wilson, 3. s.  
Of Richard Roper, Baker, out of certain Tenements and Gardens at the sign of the George, on the East side of Golding lane, 
Suit of Court.  and the Lands now of William Gill, Gardiner, Thomas Langham, Fishmonger, on the North, and th'eirs of Gregory Nicholas on the South, 2. s. 2. d.  
Of th'eirs of john Willoughby, since Peter Dove, in the right of joan his Wife, out of certain Lands and Tenements on the East side of Golding lane, 
Suit of Court.  now in the Tenure of joice Austen, Widow, butting upon the Lands belonging to Gregory Nicholas, now Thomas Walton, Esquire, North and South, 2. s. 4. d.  
Of the Duchess of Suffolk, out of a Message and nine Tenements on the West side of Golding lane, butting upon the Lands of William Wakefield on the North: 
Suit of Court.  and the Tenements late belonging to the Parish of Aldermary in London, now in the Tenure of Walter Cooper, Tyler, on the South, 1, li.  
Of Richard Atkinson, in the right of his Wife, out of a Cottage and Garden in the said Lane, butting upon the Lands of Richard Buckland, Haberdasher, late Sir Michael Fishers, Knight, North and West, and on the South, butting upon the Lands of Henry Keene, upon Golding lane on the East, 1. s. 4. d.  
Of Henry Kneene aforesaid, Tenant by the courtessie, in the right of Agnes his Wife, Daughter and Heir of Henry Warner, deceased, out of the Tenement Chequer, and other Cottages and Gardens on the West party of Golding lane, butting South upon the lands belonging to the Hospital of Saint Bartholomewes' aforesaid, 
Suit of Court.  late the said Robert Mellishes, now in the Tenure of Thomas Hallyway; and North, as well upon the land of Richard Atkinson, as also upon the Lands, now the said Richard Bucklands, late the aforesaid Sir Michael Fishers, Knight, on the party West, 1. s. 1. d.  
Of Thomas Wilkinson, out of certain Tenements at the sign of the Cock, at the North end of Golding lane, 
Suit of Court.  belonging to Armiger Wade, Esquire, 1. s.  
Of Thomas Walton, Esquire, out of certain Tenements and Gardens lying on the East side of Golding lane, 
Suit of Court.  late called Armitage Aley, late Gregory Nichola's, & before that Richard Young's, butting upon the Lands late Peter Doves, who married joan the Daughter and Heir of john Willoughby, on the North side, and the Lands of the said Gregory Nicholas on the South, 2. s.  
Of the said Thomas Walton, out of certain Tenements and Gardens at the sign of the Windmill, late the aforesaid Gregory Nicholass, at the East side of Golding lane, sometimes john Mores, 
Suit of Court.  and before that William Wigmorepoles, abutting upon the Lands late the said Peter Doves, as is aforesaid, on the South: and the Lands belonging to Saint Bartholomewes' Hospital, late Robert Mellishes aforesaid, and now in the Tenure of the said Richard Roper on the North, 2. s. 2. d.  
Of john Hillyard, Goldsmith, out of the Tenement Flower-de-luce, and a Garden on the West side of Golding lane, now in the Tenure of john Banks, Brewer, butting upon the Tenement of john Leese, 
Suit of Court.  Carpenter, on the South, and the Tenements belonging to the said Hospital of Saint Bartholomewes', late the said Robert Mellishes, and in the Tenure of Walter Cooper, Tyler, on the North, 7. d. ob.    

Beech lane.  
Of the Vicar of Saint Giles Cripplegate, out of the corner Tenement at the West end of Beech lane, 
Suit of Court.  on the South side of the said lane, in the Tenure of Martin Capons, Barber-Surgeon, and openeth upon Red-crosse street on the West side, 8. d.   

White-crosse street.  
Of William Blighton, Butcher, out of two Tenements on the West side of White-crosse street, 
Suit of Court.  late Edmond Godwins', butting upon the Lands late belonging to the Parish Clerks of London, on the North, and a corner Tenement belonging to the said Blighton, on the South, 9 d.  
Of Thomas Perkins, Butcher, Tenant of certain Lands and Tenements of late belonging to the said Parish Clerks, 
Suit of Court.  now belonging to 〈…〉 How, Gentleman, on the West side of White-crosse street, butting upon the Lands of William Blighton aforesaid, on the South party; and the Lands of Richard Lister, late john Cores; in the Tenure of Thomas Very, Brewer, on the North, 1. li. 4. s. 4. d.  
Of Richard Lister, Clothworker, out of certain Tenements and Gardens on the West side of Whitecrosse street, 
Suit of Court.  late belonging to john Core, Grocer, and since that Nicholas Carew's, and since that Adam Hutchinsons, butting upon the said Lands and Tenements of late belonging to the said Parish Clerks, North and South, 4. s. 1. d.  
Of the said William Gill, out of a Cottage and Gardens at the West side of Whitecrosse street, 
Suit of Court.  of late Ralph Simonds', and after Thomas Langhams', Fishmonger; and abutting upon a Garden belonging to the said Manor of Finsbury, on the South side, and on the North part, of the Lands belonging unto john Worsop, 1. s. 10. d.  
Of john Travies, in the right of his Wife, out of a Cottage and Garden on the West side of Whitecrosse street, 
Suit of Court.  late belonging to john Worsop, Scrivener, and before that to Lettuce Ireland, and late Thomas Popplewell, adjoining to the said Gill on the South, 9 d.  
Of the said Travies, out of a little parcel of ground there, 
Suit of Court.  on the North side of the said Gill, whereupon sometimes stood a Mill, late the said Worshops, and late the said Popplewels, 3. d.  
Of john Barnes, Mercer, out of two Tenements and a Garden, on the North side of Chiswell street, now in the Tenure of Thomas Mountain, abutting to the Gardens belonging to the Manor of Finsbury aforesaid, on the East side, and the Tenements of Robert Traps, Goldsmith, late Thomas Barnes', and before that, john Wishes', Founder, on the West side, 1. s. 4. d.   

Finsbury Field.  
Of john Worsop, Merchantaylor, for six Acres and a half of Meadow and Pasture, lying in Finsbury Field. 
Suit of Court.  in the Parish of Saint Leonards in Shoreditch, towards the Windmills; abutting upon the Windmill next Norton Folgate, in the Tenure of Thomas Pullson on the party West, the high way leading towards Norton-Folgate aforesaid, on the party South; and Meadow and Pasture grounds, parcel of the Domains, belonging to the said Lordship on the party North and East, now or late in the Tenure of john Popebolle, 4. s. 10. d.  
The said john Worsop, 
In the Parish of S. Leonards Sho●●dit●h.  for ten Acres and three Rods of Land, lying in the said Field called the Moor, butting upon the Lands aforesaid of the said Nichols, now being Gardens, on the party South; and the said Mallow Field West: the high way leading from the said Farm of Finsbury, towards Norton-Folgate, on the party North, and the Lands and Gardens, late Sir Martin Bowes, East, 7. s. ob.  
One Annual Rent of 20. s. issuing and going out of certain Tenements without Ludgate, 
S. Martin's within Ludgate.  adjoining to the said gate, in the Parish of Saint Martin within Ludgate, of London, sometimes in the Tenure of john Benson, Haberdasher, and now in the Tenure of Christopher Harbottell, Citizen and Haberdashet of London, 1. li.  
Memorandum, that this Survey was copied out of the Surveyed annexed to the last Lease granted to the Lord Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London, of the said Prebend, Mar. 15. 1582. Reg. Elizabetha 25.    

Additions out of several Charters of Kings, etc. concerning the ancient Liberties, bounds and privileges, of Saint Martins le grand in Aldersgate Ward; to be inserted Page 330. in the second Column, betwixt the words Gospel and lower down.  
An Abstract out of King William the Conqueror's Charter, mentioned Page 327. of this Book.  
Willimus Conquester per chartam suam corroborat et conconfirmat, Deo & Ecclèsiae Beati Martini infra muros London Sitae; qùod sit qui eta ab omni exactione & inquietudine Episcoporum, Arohidiaconorum, etc. Et possessiones suas ab omni regali jurisdictione liberas, & ab exercitus expeditione, pontis restauratione, munitione & castelli auxilio, quietas, habeat; Secuam Sacam, & Toll, & Team, & Infangthefe, Blodwite, Mundbrice, Burghbrice, Meskenning, Seawing, Alcesting, Frithsorne, Fleamina, Firnithe, Wergeldtheofe, Vthleap, Forfeng, Fyhfeng, Firdwyte, Firthwit, Weardwite, Hengwite, Hamsokne, Forsteal, & si quas alias libertates, & Consuetudines, aliqua Ecclesiarum regni mei Angliae meliores habeat. Si quis verò hoc in aliud quam concessimus, transfer praesumpserit, cum Iuda proditore Dei luat poenas. Dat. Anno Domini 1068. Annoque Regni mei secundo, die natalis Domini. Et postmodum, in die Pentecostes confirmat: quando Matilda conjunx mea in Basilica Sancti Petri Westmonasterii, in Reginam divino nutu est consecrata.  
Subscript. per ipsum Regem, Reginam,  

* Forte Robertum.  Richardum filium Regis, ambos  
Archiepiscopos, & diversos alios.  

Notes out of King Henry the third his Charter, Anno Regni 50.  
HE grants to Saint Martins, Secuam, Sak, Thol, & Theam, & Infangentheof: cum omnibm libertatibus, consuetudinibus & quietanciis suis, in bosco & in plano, in viis & in semitis, in pratis, pascuis & pasturis; in aquis molendinis & vinariis, in stagnis & piscariis, in moris & maressis, in grangiis & virgultis, infra burgum, & extra, infra civitatem & extra, infra villam & extra: & in omnibus aliis locis & rebus, ad ipsum Decanum & memoratam ecclesiam Sancti Martini pertinentibus. Et quod omnes terrae, tenementa, & omnes homines praedicti Ecclesiae Sancti Martini, sint quieti de Shiris, hundredis, & de sect. Shirarum & hundredarum & Wapentakarum: & de pecunia danda pro forisfactum; & de murdro & latrocinio, & geldis & danegeldis, hidagiis, assisis, & de operationibus Castellorum & murorum, fossarum, parkarum, pontium, calcearum; & de gualtis, regardis, & de essariis & placitis forestae: & de ferdwyta & hengwyta; & de flemenssir the & hainsoka, & de blodwyta & frithwyta, & de leirwyta, & de hundred spenny & de wardpenny & de haverpenny, & de vigiliis faciendis, & de pont agio, passagio, lastagio, tallagio, stallagio, thelonio, scutagio, & omni secua, examinatione, servitio, & servili opere; & omnibus placitis & querelis & occasionibus & consuetudinibus Sem:  
All this was confirmed in the second year of the reign of King Edward the second, with this addition. Et prohibemus, ne de aliquo ponantur in placitum extra curiam suam; nisi coram nobis vel capitulari justiciario nostro: quia concessimus eisdem curiam suam, de omnibus hominibus tenentiis suis. Me teste.  
King Henry the 3. directs his Writ Vicecomitibus London, ne ingrediantur seu levent amerciamenta infra libertates Sancti Martini, pro transgressionibus & aliis contractibus, Regi debitis.  
The like was sent by King Edward the first, july 10. in the eighth year of his reign.  
Out of a Charter of King Henry the sixth, Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium 13. Martii Anno Regni 20. Per ipsum Regem, ac de dat. praedict. authoritate Parliamenti: pro decem marcis solutis in Hanaperio.  
Concedimus & confirmamus, 
Ligier fol. 69.  quod praedicti nunc Decanus & Capitulum & successores sui, virtute & praetextu dictarum chartarum praedictorum Progenitorum nostrorum, & verborum in iisdem contentorum, ac vice & nomine eorum quae in dictis verbis generalibus & obscuris continentur; in perpetuum habeant curias suas & usum franciplegii retornas omnium brevium, praeceptorum et mandatorum et billarum nostrorum, ac praeceptorum Iusticiariorum nostrorum et haeredum nostrorum itinerantium, tam ad placita forestae, quam ad communia placita, & placita coronae, & aliorum Iusticiariorum quorumcunque: necnon attachimenta tam placitorum coronae, quam aliorum placitorum quorumcunque; de & in omnibus terris, tenementis, et feodis dictorum nunc Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum; qui per se & per Ballivos et ministros suos, habeant in iisdem tenementis, terris, & feodis, executiones eorundem brevium, praeceptorum, & mandatorum, & billarum. Ita quod nullus Vicecomes, Ballivus, vel minister noster aut haeredum nostrorum, tenementa, terras, & feoda praedicta, pro aliqua executione Brevium, praeceptorum, mandatorum & billarum praedictorum: seu aliquas alias res hujusmodi executionem tangentes facienda, ingrediatur: nisi in defectu ipsorum Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum, seu ministrorum suorum.  
Item, quod habeant bona & catalla forisfacta, ex causa quacunque; tam utlegata pro proditione, etc. felonia de se, & bona forisfacta coram quibuscunque justiciariis & ministris Regis.  
Item exitus, 
Fol. 70.  amerciamenta & forisfacta quaecunque, ratione cujuscunque statuti.  
Item quod dicti Decanus & Capitulum & Canonici, 
Ibid.  & sucessores sui, & tenentes, & alii residentes, in perpetuum sint quieti de thelonio, pontagio, passagio, & stallagio, & carriagio, & picagio, & terragio, in omnibus locis per totum regnum nostrum, tam per terram quam per aquam.  
Fines & forisfacta quaecunque; 
Fol. 71.  quascunque forisfacturas, annum diem & estreppamentum; & quicquid ad nos vel haeredes nostros partinere poterit, de anno, die, vasto, & estreppamento.  
Nec Seneschallus, 
Fol. 71.  marischallus neque Coronator Curiae Marischalciae hospitii nostri vel haeredum nostrorum; nec eorum aliquis minister, serviens, vel officiarius in praesentia nostra vel haeredum nostrorum, in feoda & terras dictorum Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum, ad aliqua eorum officia facienda, ingrediantur: sine speciali licentia dictorum Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum.  
Quod nullus emptor nec provisor noster vel haeredum nostrorum, 
Ibid.  de ipsis nunc Decano & Capitulo aut successoribus suis, aut de aliquibus tenentibus eorundem; contra voluntatem suam quicquid capiat in futurum.  
By the said Ligier-Booke it likewise appeareth, that the said Deanery of Saint Martins had also privilege of Sanctuary, in the time of the said King Henry the sixth; see folio 78. and 79. There be divers Presentations also and Probates of Wills; from Page 81. to the end of the of the said Ligier-Booke.  
For the exposition of the words of privilege, occurring in the Charters aforesaid; I have added these following observations.  
Sok, est Secta de hominibus in curia vestra (Sancti Martini) secundum consuetudinem regni.  
Sak, est placitum et Emenda de transgressionibus hominum in curia vestra. Sok, idem pre quele acheson: et Sak dicitur pur forfet.  
Tol, est quod vos & homines vestri, de toto homagio vestro sit is quieti, in omnibus mercatis, de toto tolneto, de rebus emptis & venditis.  
Tem, est quod habeatis totam generationem villanorum vestrorum, cum eorum sectis & catallis, ubi cunque in Anglia fuerint inventi. Excepto, quodsi aliquis nativus, quietus per unum annum et unum diem, in aliqua villa privilegiata manserit; ita quod in eorum communitatem et guildam, tanquam unus eorum receptus fuerit: eo ipso a villenagio liberatus est.  
Infangtheof, est quod latrones capti in Dominico vel feodo vestro, & de suo latrocinio convicti; in curia vestra judicentur.  
Hangewyte, est quietus de latrone suspenso; sine judicio, vel extra custodiam vestram evaso.  
Vtfangtheof, est quod latrones de terra veslra, vel de feodo vestro, extra terram vestram vel feodum vestrum capti cum latrocinio; ad curiaem vestram revertantur, & ibi judicentur.  
Hamsoken, est quietum esse de amerciamento promagistro hospitiorum, violenter et sine licentia, & contrae pacem: & quod teneatis placita de hujusmodi transgressionibus factis, in curia vestra, & in terra vestra.  
Grithbrech, et pax Domini Regis fracta.  
Blodwite, est quietum esse de amerciamento pro medlets: et quod teneatis placita in curia vestra: et quod habeatis amer ciamenta inde provenientiae.  
Flistwite, est quietum esse de contentione et conviciis: & quod habeatis inde placitum in curia vestra: & quod habeatis inde amerciamenta.  
Fledwite, & quietum effe de amerciamento, cum quis utlegatus fugitivus venerit ad pacem domini Regis, sponte vel licentiatus.  
Flemenefith, quod habeatis catalla sive amerciamentae hominis vestri fugitivi.  
Letherwyte, est quod capiatis emendationem ab ipso qui corrupit nativam vestram, sine licentia vestra.  
Childwyte, est quod capiatis ger●●mam de nativa vestra corrupta & pregnata sine licentia vestra.  
Forstatt, & quietum esse de amerciamento de cattallis arrestatis, infra terram vestram: & habeatis amerciamenta inde provenientia.  
Scot, est esse quietum de quadam consuetudine; sicut de tallagio facto ad opus Vice comitis, vel Ballivorum ejus.  
Geld, est quietum esse de consuetudinibus servilibus, quae quondam dari consueverunt, & adhuc dantur. Sicut Hornegeld, & de aliis similibus.  
Hidage, & quietum esse si Dominus Rex talliaverit totam terram per Hidam.  
Caruage, si Dominus Rex talliaverit terram per Carucas.  
Danegeld, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine, sive solutione; quam quidem Dani levaverunt primum in Anglia.  
Hornegeld, est quietum esse per totam terram de quadam consuetudine exactam per talliam: sicut de quasunque bestia cornuta.  
Lesteage, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine exactam in nundinis & mercatis, pro rebus cariandis, ut homo vult.  
Stallage, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine exactam proploceis captis vel assignatis in nundinis vel mercatis.  

* Seawing.  Chewyng, est quietum esse de aettachiamento in aliqua curia, & coram quibuscunque; de querelis ostensis, & non advocat.  
Miskennyng, est quietum esse de amerciamento pro querela, coram quibuscunque; in transumptione prolata.  
Burgbruch, est quietum esse de transgressione facta in Civitate vel Burgo, contra pacem.  
Wardwyte, est quietum esse de denario dando pro Ward facienda.  
Hundred, est quietum esse de denario, vel consuetudine facienda Praepossto & Hundredae.  
Bordhalepeney, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine exactionis, pro tabula levatae.  
Brigbote, est quietum esse de auxilio dando ad reficiendos pontes.  
Burgbote, est quietum esse de auxilio dando ad reficiendum burgum, castrum, civitatem, vel muros prostratos.  
Haverpeney, est quietum esse de denariis dandis Averagio Domini Regis; cum similibus.  
For a larger and more accurate exposition of these old words, I refer the Reader to that most elaborate and diligent Glossary of Sir Henry Spelman, Knight, the learnedest Antiquary of our Nation; yea (and in this kind) of all Europe.  
This Deanery, together with the Sanctuary and Privileges, was after put to the Abbey of Saint Peter in Westminster: as appeareth by what next followeth.   

A Declaration of William Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter of Westminster, concerning his title to the Privilege and Sanctuary of St. Martins le grand in London: with the precincts, Circuit, and Bounds of the same.  
FIrst the said Abbot saith, That the free Chapel of St. Martins le grand in London, and the Precincts of Saint Martin's aforesaid, is a place privileged: and was founded and endowed long time before the Conquest, aswell of possessions, as of immunities, franchises, and liberties: and corroborated and enlarged by King William the Conqueror, like as it appeareth as well by the Charter of the said King William the Conqueror; as by diverse other Charters, Writings, and Records.  
Item, the said King William the Conqueror granted by his Charter to the same place of Saint Martins, diverse liberties and franchises, by special and general words, aswell in the Latin tongue as Saxon. And over that granted to the said place of Saint Martins, all other liberties, immunities, and customs, which any Church of this Realm, best had. Which grant importeth and includeth in himself as great privileges, franchises, and immunities, as Westminster, Beverlay, or any other place privileged, hath within the Realm. And also the said words in Saxon, importeth such sentence. That the said place should be a Sanctuary franchised, privileged, and have tuition and immunities of all those persons, which for treason, felonies, trespasses, or any other cause, should flee to the same or abide therein. Which franchises, privilege, tuition, and immunities, the said place hath always peaceably had and enjoyed, from the said Conquerors days unto this present time.  
Item, the said franchises, immunities, and privileges, of Saint Martins, have been corroborated, confirmed, allowed and enlarged, by King Henry the first, King Stephen, Henry the second, King john, King Henry the third, King Edward the second, King Edward the third, Richard the second, Henry the fifth, Henry the sixth, and in all other King's times since the Conquest: as by diverse Charters and Allowances before Justices of Oyer and Determiner, Writings and Records, more plainly at large is showed, and may appear.  
Item, it appeareth by diverse Returns made by the Sheriffs of London, aswell in the King's Bench, the Common Pleas, and all other the King's Courts, that the said place of Saint Martins, is a place privileged, and Sanctuary: as by the same Returns remaining of Record, more plainly may appear.  
Item, the said Abbot saith, That the Precinct, Circuit, and Bounds of the privilege and Sanctuary aforesaid, be and extend, as hereafter followeth.  
Imprimis, beginning at a wall lying directly against a Post that standeth in the midst of one Roger Writes a Grocer's house, which standeth of the East side of the south gate of St. Martin's: and from the wall in the said Grocer's house, with the halfe-deale of the street unto the chancel of the same side that house standeth upon, Sanctuary. And so forth from the East Westward unto the midst of Saint Martin's lane next to the Chapel of Saint Martins, against the Tenement of the Bull's head, which Tenement lieth at the south end of the said lane on the West part.  
Item, half part of the street of St. Martin's lane, Sanctuary, from the south unto the North, as far forth as the houses appertaining to the Bullhead do extend Northwards.  
Item, from the said place of the Bull's head, than the whole lane of St. Martin's, Sanctuary on both sides, unto a Post or Stoop that standeth of the North side or end of the two Tenements, standing by the great gate next going into the Deans Court.  
Item, from the said Saint Martin's Lane, at the aforesaid Bull's head, turning by a wall that divideth the said Tenement of the Bull's head, and Saint Martin's ground: Which wall turneth and extendeth from the East Westwards, unto a back wall that closeth in Saint Martin's ground of the West side: all within the said Wall, Sanctuary.  
Item, along by the same back wall, that closeth in the West part of Saint Martin's ground, from the South end of the said wall into the North, unto a wall that divideth my Lord of Northumberlands ground, and Saint Martin's ground from the South end; all within the aforesaid Walls, Sanctuary: and so forth from the South side into the North my Lord of Northumberlands ground, Sanctuary; along by a back wall of the Grey Friars: which back wall closeth in my Lord of Northumberlands ground of the West part, unto the North part of Angel Alley, abutting Northwards upon the South side of Robert Bowmans' house, into the Streetwards. And so Sanctuary still, from the said back wall of Grey Friars, along by the Angel Alley, and by the South part of the said Robert Bowmans' house, from the West unto the East, until you come to a Post or Stoop standing on the North part of the two Tenements next lying on the North side of a great gate entering into the Deans Court.  
Item, from the same Post or Stoop before rehearsed, standing North from the great gate of the said Deans Court directly Eastwards, by the North part of a Tenement, with the same Tenement enclosed (as by the wall there it showeth) Sanctuary: which Tenement is now in the hands of one Hugh pain.  
Item, from the aforesaid wall, along from the North, Southward unto Hugh Pains dwelling house; and from thence by the North side of the said Hugh Pains Garden, Sanctuary still; from the West unto the East part thereof.  
Item, again from the North side of the above rehearsed Hugh Pains Garden Southward, unto the Deans Garden, Sanctuary.  
Item, along by the wall on the North side of the Deans Garden, from the West into the East thereof, Sanctuary.  
Item, from the North unto the South, of the East part of the aforesaid Deans Garden, with Saint Leonards Church, Sanctuary, as by a wall it there showeth.  
Item, from the East end of Saint Leonards Church, Westwards of the South of Saint Martins, unto the Bell-Alley, Sanctuary, as appeareth also thereby another wall.  
Item, from the Bell-Alley Southwards, unto the wall spoken of at the beginning, which is within the Grocer's house, against the Post that standeth within the midst of the same house. And so forth directly again unto the Channel of the high street, that lieth afore the South gate of Saint Martin's: all within the bounds rehearsed, Sanctuary.  
Item, by a Statute made in the year of King Edward the third, it is affirmed, The said place of Saint Martins to be a place franchised and privileged, having tuition and immunity, in manner and form as is above rehearsed. And in special, and for them that come in thither for Debt, Treason, and Felony. In proof whereof, the judge that sitteth there for the King, as in a place not of the City, but by privilege separate, (the Mayor not called thereto, as he is to the deliverance of Newgate, and other such Acts in the City) to have knowledge there in a case of Treason or Felony, hath ever, from time that no mind is, sitten in the gate of the said Sanctuary. And the person appeached or indicted of Treason or Felony, hath been kept by the Officers on the further side of the street afore him, to the intent that he come not of the other side of the Channel towards the Sanctuary there, to claim the liberty and Franchises of the same.  
Item, whereas diverse Kings of this land, for causes such as moved them, have seized into their hands the Franchises and Liberties that the City of London had, by reason whereof they were not suffered to use or enjoy the said Franchises, for as long as it hath liked unto the said Kings: yet the said Chapel of Saint Martins le grand, in the said City of London, with the Precinct of the same, at the said times of such seizing of the aforesaid Franchises; was afore and since always a place privileged, without any disturbance, diminishing, or taking away by the said Kings, or by their Ministers: and peaceably used and enjoyed their Franchises, Liberties, and immunities, within the Sanctuary and Precinct of Saint Martins, as in a place excepted and privileged, and no ways pertaining unto the said City, ne parcel thereof, though it be set within the same.  
And moreover, the said Abbot saith, that the said Church or Chapel of Saint Martins, within the said Sanctuary and Precinct of the same; were of late by the late King of famous memory, King Henry the seventh, lawfully annexed and given to the said Monastery of Saint Peter of Westminster; at which time, and times without mind of man before that, the said Chapel, and Precinct, circuit and bounds of the said Sanctuary, comprised within the Limits above rehearsed, were used, allowed, and taken, and yet be, as Sanctuary.  
Thus far the Abbot of Westminster's declaration, at which time (as it appeareth) there fell out so much contestation, concerning the Precincts of this Sanctuary, that the matter was fain to be tried by ancient sworn men deposed in Court as Witnesses. Some of their Depositions are come to my hands, which I here give you: the rest (and the beginning) have miscarried.  
Item, the said Henry Williamson deposeth for the claimed bounds, and also for the privilege of Sanctuary men, in the half Street and Lane next to Saint Martin's; and for the setting up of the Gallows on Evil May day; and for the removing thereof, as others therein before have deposed.  
Item, Ralph Twin deposeth, all wholly the claimed bounds to be Sanctuary; and also the setting up of the Gallows, and removing of the same, and the Pavement, to be done by the Abbot: and that he knew one Bland privileged both for Treason and Murder, ever used to walk in the street claimed as Sanctuary, without any disturbance.  
Item, William Bayley deposeth, all the claimed bounds, and also the sitting of the justices in the South gate: and that he heard the justices say, that half the street against the said gate was Sanctuary: and that there was persons then arraigned, and others therein deposed: and that he knew the said Bland privileged for Treason and Felony, to dwell in Angel Alley: and that the Abbot ought to make the Pavement, as others have deposed there.  
Item, john Smith, Clerke, deposeth for all the claimed bounds: and further saith, that he knew Doctor Morton, and also the Cardinal Morton to lie there, one in Roger Wrights house, and the other in Angel Alley, they both being privileged for Treason. And also he supposeth both Angel Alley and Bland Alley, to be holden of Saint Martins by certain Rent, as parcel of the Earl of Northumberlands Tenements. And also for the Pavement, as others before have deposed.  
At this time (I suppose) was there a Survey or Plate of the Precinct, exhibited into the Court of Chancery, where it appeareth these Witnesses to have been deposed. The figure of which Plate we here exhibit unto you.  
The Grey W. Friars.  
All this is Shoemaker's houses, which pay Rents to the Abbots of Westminster.  
Aldersgate  
The Channel. Sanctuary ever used. The Channel. No Sanctuary.  
S. Martin's lane, and Sanctuary on both sides.  
A New Window broken out by Francis Godlike.  
The West Church door.  
The Deans gate.  
The Post.  
Hugh Paines Garden.  
The Deans Garden.  
S. Leonards Church.  
All the Bounds and Limits about this Plate mentioned, been contained in the Abbot's claim: and is well proved to be good Sanctuary, by diverse Witnesses sworn in the Chancery, as well Freemen of the City, as other credible persons.  
A stone Wall.  
Good Sanctuary ever used.  
The South Gate.  
Good Sanctuary ever used.  
The Channel on the South side.  
Foster E. lane.  
The Post in Roger Wrights house.  
It seems that there hath been some latter differences about a new door into the Liberties of the Freedom; 
Saint Martins le grand▪  whereupon a Court being called, December 20. 1625. this Order was given out, to be enquired upon and certified.  
It is ordered by the Court, that the Foreman of the Enquest, with others of the same Enquest, shall view the South gate and Entry leading from Bladder street into this Liberty: and also a door made by Thomas Rhodes in the East side of the same Entrey; and make their reports under their bands in writing, on Monday next after the Epiphany.  
ACcording to the direction of the Order abovesaid, we whose names are under written, being all of the Enquest sworn for this year, having viewed the Gate and Entry, do find, and accordingly certify, that Thomas Rhodes, a Linen-draper, dwelling in a house next adjoining to the said Entry, on the East side thereof, (in part of which house Roger Wright did sometimes dwell) hath of late, without the privity or knowledge of most of the Inhabitants of this Liberty, taken down, or caused to be taken down and carried away, a pair of strong, sufficient, and serviceable gates, in the night time; which were, and time out of mind have been, the common South gate of this Liberty. And in stead thereof, hath set up a new gate of Deal, opening all one way, viz. towards the West side; whereas the former pair of Gates or Leaves did fall open, the one towards the East side, and the other towards the West side of the said Entry. Also the said Thomas Rhodes hath broken down the partition wall on the East side of the said Entry; against which, one Leaf of the said old Gate did fall open, as aforesaid: and hath there made a new door (where never any was before, in the memory of man) of almost an Ell in breadth, out of the said Shop, into the said Entry or common passage into this Liberty. Whereby a free and open passage is made out of the City of London, thorough the shop of the said Rhodes into this Liberty; to the great prejudice of the Lords of the same Liberty, and to the great hindrance and damage of the Tenants and Inhabitants within the same. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names, dated the 9 day of january, Anno Dom. 1625.  

Matthew jumpar  
William Hewes  
William Hewes  
Richard Mattock  
Anthony johnson  
Timothy Smart 

Edward Napper  
Thomas Spear  
Henry Kuevet  
William Hunt  
Philip Richard  
William Purse.      

A very ancient Deed, to prove Lambs-Chappell to have anciently been in the Parish of Saint Olaves Silverstreet.  
KNow all men, present and to come, that I Laurence de Frowik have granted and dimissed, and by this present Charter of mine have confirmed, unto Richard of Clerkenwell, Chaplain, all that Land of mine, with the houses, buildings, and appurtenances which I have in London, in Muckwell street, in the Parish of S. Olaves; lying between that Land which William Throtegos held of me, towards the South, and the Land of the Friars of the new hostel, towards the North; and which extendeth itself in length, from the King's highway, even unto the wall of the City towards the West, etc. he paying me twenty shillings a year, etc. and giving unto the Church of Saint Olaves aforesaid, one Wax Candle of a pound weight, at the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle yearly: and unto the Chapel (de inclusorio) in the Close or Cloister, within Cripplegate, at the upper end of Muckwell street towards the North, one other Wax Taper of three quarters weight, upon the Feast of Saint james yearly, etc. Witnesses, Nicholas Bat, than Mayor of London, john of Northampton, and Richard Pycard then Sheriffs, etc.  

Notes upon this Deed.  
These were Maior and Sheriffs, Anno 1253. which was the thirty eighth year of Henry the third. Out of this so ancient a Deed, may we observe, first, That by the bounding of this Land, betwixt the street and the City wall, towards the West; that this was that ground which is now Lamb's Chapel yard. Secondly, by the assigning the latter Candle to be paid to the Chapel, upon Saint james his day; that it was meant to this Lamb's Chapel: which was anciently called, The Chapel of Saint james in the wall. Upon whose Festival, this Chapel seems to have been dedicated: and to honour the solemnity of which Wake, the Gentleman directed this Candle to be yearly paid.  
The Original of this Deed in Latin, is in the hands of that most Learned Antiquary of our day's Sir Henry Spelman Knight.    

The Circuit of the Hospital or Free Chapel of Saint Katherine near the Tower of London.  
FRom the East gate of the said Tower by the Thames, unto the Bank beyond Saint Katherine's Dock, Eastward: and from thence through all the Lane which leadeth from the said Dock, and in and by every part of the said Lane, unto the King's high way, Northward: which way, lieth between the Abbey of Grace and the said Hospital or Free Chapel; and leadeth from the City of London, unto Radcliffe. And also from the said way, against the same Lane, unto the Tower Ditch, Westward; and from thence to the River of Thames, Southward.   

An Ancient Record concerning East Smithfield to be inserted Page 268.  
IN the times of KingKnowt (or Kanutus) the Dane, 
Out of Book Danthorne in Guildhall folio 78.  were there thirteen Knights very well beloved both of King and Kingdom. These begged of the King's Grace, a certain piece of Land in the East part of London; which the Inhabitants had lately forsaken, by reason of the hardship 
* Pro nimiâ servitute.  and service they there stood charged withal. The Knight's suit for to have this Land granted unto them for ever, with the liberty of a Guild upon it, the King upon this condition granted: Namely, that every one of them should perform three combats upon the land, and in the water; and come off with victory: and also, that upon a day appointed, they should run at Tilt against all comers, in the field which is now called East Smithfield. This they having performed gloriously, the King gave them the field, and the same day named it K●ytte-guilden; 
These were English Knights; and therefore in some writings it is called Anglish K●ytte-guilden.  appointing these Boundaries unto it. First, that it should reach from Ealdgate to the place where the Bars now are, Eastward on both sides the Town. He extended it another way toward Bishopsgate, as far as the house of William the Priest. To the Southward, the liberties of this Guild reached so far into the water of the Thames, as a horseman riding into the River at a dead low water, could dart his horsemans' staff from him. So that all East Smithfield, with part of the right hand way, which stretcheth, by Doddings' pond into the Thames; and also the Hospital of Saint Katherine's, with the Mills, (which Hospital was founded in the reign of King Stephen) together with the outer stone wall, and the new Ditch of the Tower, stand and are within the Fee aforesaid. For the said Wall and Ditch, 
The Tower Ditch first made.  were not as yet made; but were afterwards, in the very time that King Richard the first was at jerusalem. Which was done by the Bishop of Ely, the King's Justice over all the Kingdom. The occasion was, a difference betwixt Earl john the King's Brother, and the chief justice. By the digging of this Ditch in the ground of East Smithfield, did the Church of the Holy Trinity in London loose half a Mark a year revenue; and the Mill which belonged unto the poor Brotherhood of the Hispitall of Saint Katherine's, and unto the Churches of Saint Katherine's, and of the Holy Trinity altogether, was fain to be removed, to their no little hindrance. A Garden also which the King had hired of the Brotherhood aforesaid, at the rent of six Marks a year, was for the most part destroyed also by the said Ditch. Recompense was often sued for, but not made very speedily, though promised faithfully. Afterwards, King Edward gave five Marks and an half unto the poor Brotherhood, for that part of their Garden which the Ditch had destroyed, and that part which it had not, he restored unto them again, which they hold unto this day. As for their Rent of five Marks and a half, he gave them his Charter, by which they receive it very duly either out of the Exchequer or the Hanaper, even until this present.  
This Guild was by diverse Kings afterwards confirmed. And first by Edward the Confessor, then by King William Rufus; 
Out of the Book C. fol. 134.  of whose Charter, I here give you this Abstract.  
William King of England, etc. to Bishop M. G de Magu, and R de Boar, and to his faithful 
* Fidelibus. By which perchance both in this and other King's Charters of those times, are meant, such as were the King's Tenants or held lands of him, & had sworn fealty for them, to him.  Liege-people of London, sendeth greeting. Know ye that I have confirmed unto the men of Cnittengilda, their Guild and Lands pertaining unto it, with all their customs, entire; even as they enjoyed them in the time of King Edward, and of my Father: Witness Henry de B at Rething.  

Of King Henry the first his Charter this is the Abstract.  
Henry King of England, etc. to Bishop M. to the 
* Vice●omiti London.  Sheriff of London, and to all his Barons and faithful people of London, aswell French as English, sendeth greeting. Know ye that I have granted unto all the men of the Cnyttengilda, their Guild, and lands pertaining unto it; together with all their customs after the best manner, even as they enjoyed the same in the times of King Edward and my Father, and as the King my Brother by his Charter and Seale confirmed them. And I free it from any forfeiture that might accrue unto myself, forbidding all men, that upon pretence hereof, they presume not to offer them any molestation. Witnesses, R. de Momford, R. de Bigot, and H. de Booth, at Westminster.   

More concerning the Liberties and extent of the said Guild.  
Know ye, 
Out of Book H. in fol. 48.  that the Soken of Knyttengilda, reaches from Aldgate with the lands on both sides the street, even unto the outer Bar. On the South side it reaches towards the Thames; joining with the Soken within the Bar, 66. foot of Saint Paul. On the North it goes within the Bar 16. foot of St. Paul. The Soken also extendeth towards Bishopsgate, even unto the house belonging sometimes unto William the Priest, and after unto Geffrey Tannar, together with all Smithfield, and so far into the Thames as a horseman at low water riding upon his 
* Super dextrarium his Horse of service, or great Horse.  Destrier into the River could dart his Lance from him; together with the right hand part of the street, which goes by Doddings' pond to the Thames. But as for that on the left hand, it is not of that Soken; but yet in the Parish of Saint Botolphs.   

More, concerning the Tower Ditch before mentioned; and of the enclosing the whole City of London with a Ditch.  
Whilst King Richard in his return from jerusalem, 
Out of Book Dunthorn fol. 82.  was kept prisoner by the Emperor of Almaigne, there sell out a dissension betwixt Earl john the King's Brother, and the Bishop of Ely, Lord Chief justice of England: whereupon, the Bishop thought good to fortify the King's 
* The Tower.  Castle, which the Earl at that time provided to beleaguer. It seemed good to the Bishop therefore, to encompass in the whole Bulwark, with a wall of a most wonderful thickness, and to make a broad and deep Ditch about that, which the Thames flowing into, the whole Tower might both be encompassed and fortified by it. Upon occasion therefore of this Ditch, which was then made in Smithfield; and by reason of that other Ditch, which the Citizens for the same cause then began to make round about their City: did the Church of the Holy Trinity lose half a Mark of yearly revenue; and the Mill also belonging unto the poor of the Hospital of Aldgate was taken away. Whereupon there accrued no small damage both unto 
* This is a Character of the antiquity of this writing, and also that it was done either by the Parson, or some of the Parishioners of Trinity Parish.  us, and to those poor people: for which, though recompense hath been often promised, yet have we hitherto received no satisfaction.   

More concerning this matter, out of a french Record in Book H. folio 199. and in Book Dunthorne, folio 88 Which is a desire of the Master of Saint Katherine's Hospital, to have leave of the City to enclose a certain piece of ground near the Tower of London.  
It was told unto the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty, how that john Hermesthorpe, Master of Saint Katherine's Hospital, by the Tower of London, had a certain piece of Land, which had somewhile been a portion of the Garden of his Hospital; which portion King Edward, son to King Henry, had purchased of those of the said Hospital, for the enlargement of the Tower Ditch; for which he paid unto the Master, Brothers, and Sisters of the said Hospital, 3. li. 13. s. 4. d. yearly for ever: and that the said Hospital had received the said Rent ever since the time of the Purchase. This place indeed, had heretofore lain void and waste, and had been of no profit to any; serving only for a resort or meeting place of Rogues and Women of ill conversation. For the restraining of which naughtiness and pilferies, the said john had again purchased it of King Edward the third, of whom he had received licence to enclose the said void piece for the benefit of his Hospital: he paying to the King and his Heirs, into their Exchequer, vi. s. viii. d. for ever. By virtue of which Licence, the said Master had already begun to enclose the said void Plate of ground. This the Mayor, etc. hearing of, sent to forbid the enclosure of; affirming, that the said Plate belonged unto the Commonalty of the City of London: whereupon the Master forbore to proceed further for six or eight years together.  
At the end of this term, the said Master made sure unto the Mayor and Commonalty, that they would please to give him leave to enclose the said place, were it but only to prevent and take away the Villainies which he affirmed to be there committed: for which courtesy he then promised, that himself, and all the Brothers and Sisters of the said Hospital, would particularly, and in especial manner, pray for the good estate of the City; and be willing moreover to pay some small yearly Rent unto the Chamber of Guihald, London, for ever. To this suit the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty consented: and further made choice of some certain Aldermen and Commoners, who should take a view of this, and other void places belonging to the City, and make report to them, etc.   

To prove that the Hospital of Saint Katherine's, with the Mills, and all that belong to it, together with the Tower Ditch, all East-Smithfield without the Postern, before the Abbey of Grace, with the right hand part of the street leading along by Duddings' Pond, are, and time out of mind have been within the Liberty of the City of London, and parcel of Portsoken Ward without Algate, in the Suburbs. 
I find two several Copies of this: one in Book Dunthorne, fol. 80. & another in Book K. fol. 56.   
The Mayor and Commonalty of the City of London affirm, that in the time of the Conqueror, and long before, the said Ward of Portsoken, was called the Ward of Anglish Knightgilden. And that afterwards, about the eighth of King Henry the first, Ralph the son of Algode, Wolfard le Deverish, Otgar le Prude, with diverse other substantial Citizens of London, descended of the ancient race of the English Knights, being Lords of the Liberty of the said Guild, in the Soken aforesaid, and were seized of all the Lands in the said Soken (as by the Charter of the said King Henry it appeareth) did bequeath the said Soken and Lands, unto the Church and Canons of the Holy Tinity, within Algate, London. Which gift the said K. Henry, by his Charter (which the Mayor and Commonalty have here to show) also confirmed. Upon pretext of which Gift and Confirmation, Norman, at that time Prior, and the Covent of the Church aforesaid, as also their Successors, stood a long time possessed. Afterwards, among other things, Ralph the Prior, with the Canons of the said Church, did grant unto Maud Queen of England, Wife to King Stephen, a certain parcel of Land in the said Soken (the very same, namely, upon which the said Hospital of Saint Katherine's is now founded) together with all the Mill there in the 
* In Escambio.  Shambles, in lieu of six yard land in the Manor of Bracching, in the County of Hertford: even as by two Patents of the said King and Queen made upon that occasion, it manifestly is declared. Moreover they affirm, That whereas the Lord Edward the first, sometimes King of England, had not any piece of ground of his own proper Lands near enough unto his Tower of London, whereupon to build up his Wall, and to make his Ditch about the Tower, which he purposed to do a new; he purchased of the Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the Hospital of Saint Katherine's by the Tower aforesaid, a certain Plate of ground with the appurtenances in East Smithfield, adjoining unto the Tower, both for the laying of the Sand, Gravel, and Marle, which should be digged out of the Ditch, and that which should serve for the repairing of the Wall aforesaid. And that he paid unto the Master, Brothers, and Sisters aforesaid, five Marks, six shillings and nine pence, both for the purchase of the said Plate, and the recompense of their loss long since sustained, by the enlargement of the Ditch, and reparation of the Wall aforesaid: which he caused for himself and his Successors to be yearly payable out of the Exchequer. Which five Marks six shillings nine pence, the Masters, Brothers, and Sisters (for the time being) of the said Hospital, have ever since the said Grant received, and do actually at this present receive it by virtue of the said Patent, which they now have by them, etc. the Copy whereof was entered upon Record in the Chamber of 
* This is several times written Gin●ald.  Guildhall; and acknowledged by them before Nicholas Brembre, than Mayor, and the Aldermen. They affirm also, that in the fourteenth year of King Edward the second, at such time as he held Assizes in the said Tower; it was proved, that the said Ward of Portsoken, (heretofore called English Knightgeld) was in and of the Liberties of London; and that, so often as any Tax was to be raised for the King, or to be assessed for the Commonalty of London, upon the Commoners of the said City, or that any other Assessment was to be made by the said Commonalty, either for the raising of some Wall, making of any enclosure, or for the defence of the City: that all the people inhabiting the said Ward, were accustomed to pay the said Taxes, like other Freemen of the City; and the said Assessments were wont to be levied upon them, as upon other Freemen of the City, like as by the Transcript of the Rolls of the said 
* In 〈◊〉.  Assizes of the Kings, now remaining in the Treasury of the Guildhall of the same City, most clearly it appeareth.  
They further affirm, that the Lord Edward the third, late King of England, Progenitor of our Lord the King that now is, in the seventeenth year of his Reign, directed by his 
* Per 〈◊〉 suum.  Letter unto john Hamond, at that time Maior of his City of London, and his Majesty's Escheator in the same: in which Letters he made rehearsal of all the former business concerning the Wall and Ditch of the Tower, made in his Grandfather's time. He rehearsed also, how Ralph of Sandwich, and john de Weston, late Constables of the Tower, did let out the same place by parcels unto diverse men, without leave or licence had therefore, either from the Kings his Grandfather, Fathers, or Himself; and that the said place was then builded upon, 
East Smithfield builded upon.  and rent out for 40. s. a year, and that himself had given out Commissions to inquire upon the reasons, manner, right, and value of every thing, etc. And that the said john Hamond making enquiry hereupon, made return of all into the Chancery, etc.  
They affirm moreover, that all the Lands and Tenants, upon the foresaid right hand of the way by Duddings Pond, and about the said places of East Smithfield, Tower-hill, and Romeland, circularly situated, were and have been in the time of the holding the Assizes of the said King, impleaded and sued within the said City, and not elsewhere; as by the evidences of the said Lands and Tenants, upon Record enroled in the Guildhall, etc. appeareth.  
They further say, That in the times of all the former Kings and Assizes (time out of mind) so often as any mishap or casualty, such as Murder, Drowning, or other indirect death of any person, in any of the places forementioned, hath fallen out, upon which there was any enquiry to be taken, or any Summons, Attachment, or Execution to be made in any of the said places: yea, and which more is, even within the Tower itself, and at such time as the King (now and then) hath been present, have the Sheriffs, Coroners, and other Officers of the said City of London for the time being, and no other, used to make such Quests of Enquiry, Summons, Attachments, and Executions, and had right so to do: as it is most manifestly to be proved by diverse Rolls of the Crown, and other Records of the times aforesaid, now being in the said Treasury.  
They say moreover, that amongst other Liberties granted by the King's Predecessors unto the Citizens of London, and ratified in diverse Parliaments, this expressly is one, That no Arrest, Attachment, or Execution, be made by any Officers of the Kings within the said Liberty, either by Writ or without Writ, but only by the Officers of the City. By all which Charters, Letters, Patents, Bills, Acts of Assize, Writs, Inquests, Returns, Rolls of the Escheators, and Crown Office, Assizes, Plead, enrolments, Freedoms, and most plentiful other kinds of Records and Proofs, it may easily and undoubtedly be concluded, That the said Hospital of Saint Katherine's, with the Mills and other its appurtenances, as also the whole Tower Ditch, with all the Lands of East Smithfield without the Postern, before the Abbey of Grace, together with the right side of the street going by Duddings Pond, as also the whole Ditch and Plain without the Tower, within the Postern, called Romeland, with all the Houses and Gardens round about them, have all the time aforesaid, been within the compass of the Liberty of the City.  
The self same Copy of what is last above, is something differently recorded also in Book Dunthorne, fol. 84. the different points whereof, not mentioned in this former, I have transcribed.  
That the Hospital, Ditch, and the Tower hill, are of the Parish of Saint Botolphs Algate, and parcel of Portsoken Ward. That another part, by Romeland and the Thames, towards the Postern, by Saint Katherine's Hospital, were of the Parish of All-hallows Berking, and of the Ward of the Tower of London. That Queen Maud was the Foundress of Trinity Church within Algate; that the Ditch begun by the Citizens in Richard the firsts time, was for the defence of the City. That there is another Soken within the Walls of the City, called the Inner Soken, 
Inner Soken▪  which reacheth from Algate, even unto that gate of the Tower called 
* Cuninggate, perchance, or the King's gate.  Cinigate; which Soken is within the Liberties of the City, as by some Records kept by the Prior doth appear. That the Inhabitants of Portsoken and the Tower, are to be impleaded only in the Courts of the City, for all Matters, Causes, and Contracts howsoever arising. That the Tower hath no proper Court of its own, but only the Court of the Baron, which is no Court of Record; as by Records exemplified in the King's Bench it appeareth. That when any murder or drowning hath been within the said Hospital or Tower, the City Officers have attached the Malefactors within the Tower, notwithstanding that the King himself sometimes happened to be present within the said Tower, and have carried the said men so arrested into some of the King's Prisons within the City. That when the justices Itinerant have used to come to keep Assizes in the Tower, the Officer's of the City have had the keeping both of the inner and outer Gates of the said Tower; and that nothing was executed within the Tower, which pertained to the office of a 
* Sergeant perchance  servant, but by the servants of the City. That the Sheriff of London hath had the charge of all the Prisons in the Tower, so often as the said justices itinerant have comen thither: as appears in many Rolls of Pleas of the Crown, and of the said Itinerant justices.  
By another short Record in the said Dunthorne, 
Refer all this concerning the privilege or the City within the Tower, unto page 125.  fol. 85. it is specified, That if any were murdered within the Tower, or drowned in the Tower Ditch, or in the Gate, called The Water Gate, that notwithstanding the King himself were there present, yet have the City Sheriff and Coroner sitten upon the dead body, and empanelled their juries.  
The Letter or Commission of King Edward, unto john Hamond Mayor of London, before mentioned, is to be seen in Dunthorne, fol. 87. 'tis dated at Westminst. Octo. 21. in the 17. year of his Reign over England, and over France the 4. The L. Mayor's return of the Inquisition is also there recorded.     

Of the founding of Trinity Church within Aldgate, and of the beginning of the Canons Regular, and Augustine Friars in ENGLAND.  
Insert this in page 145.  
IN the year of Christ 1108. and in the eighth year of King Henry, 
Out of Book C. in Guildhall folio 135. and Dunthorne, fol. 79.  was the Church of the holy Trinity, within Aldgate, London, founded by the Venerable Lady, Maud, Wife unto the said King, by the persuasion of Archbishop Anselm. It was given unto Norman, who became the first Prior not only there, and first Canon Regular of the whole Kingdom. For by him was all England (saith my Record) adorned with the Rule of Saint Augustine, and the Canonical habit of that Order. Which Order, by the gathering together of many Friars into that Church, was the number of those that praised God day and night so much increased, that the whole City was much delighted with the sight of it. Insomuch, that in the year of our Lord, 1125. certain Burgesses of the City, descended of the ancient race of the English Knights; by name, Ralph the son of Algode, Wolsard le Deverish, Orgar le Prude, Edward Vp●●●●hill, Blacstan, and his Cousin Alwin, Alwis and Robert his brother, sons of Leostan, Leostan the Goldsmith, and Wyz● his son, Hugh the son of Wolgare, Algar Secusenne, Orgar the son of Dereman, Osbert Drinchepyn, and Adelardus Hornpite, meeting together in the Chapter of the Church of Christ, which is situated within the Walls of the City near Aldgate, freely gave unto the said Church, and unto the Canons serving God, all that Land and Soken, which was called Anglish Cnithgilda, which lies by the wall of the City without Aldgate, and reaches into the Thames. They gave it, I say, themselves becoming Friars, and partaking of the benefits of that place, by the hand of Norman the Prior, who received them into the Society, as he had done others before them; by an oath taken upon the Text of the Gospel.  
And to the intent that this gift of theirs might stand firm and unchangeable; they surrendered up (among other Writings which they had for it) the Charter of St. Edward. After which, they gave the Prior seisin and possession of the said Land, by 
* That is, by giving him entrance & possession into the Church of St. Botolphs; which was the head, or (as it were) the Capita● Message of the Manor.  the Church of Saint Botolph which had been builded upon the same, and was the head of it. All this was done before these Witnesses, Bernard, Prior of Dunstaple, john Prior of Landa, and diverse others French and English people. The said Donors hereupon, sent one of their own Company (Ordgar le Prude by name) unto King Henry, with their petition, that he would be pleased to give his consent and confirmation to their said gift; Whereupon, the King very willingly allowed the said Land and Soken unto the Church; and to be free and acquitted from all service to himself, as frank Alms ought to be: which he thus confirmed by his Charter.  
Henry King of England, to R. Bishop of London, and to the Sheriff 
* Et Vice. comiti & Praeposito.  and Provost, and to all the Barons, and to his Liege people both French and English, both of London and Middlesex greeting.  
Know ye that I have granted and confirmed unto the Church and Canons of the Holy Trinity, London, the Soken of the English Cnittengilda, with the Lands which belong unto it, and the Church of Saint Botolphs, even as the 
* Homines.  Lords of the same Guild have given and granted it. And I will, and firmly do command, that they may well and honourably 
* Honorisice  and freely hold it; together with Sak and Sok, and Toll, and Thea, and Infangtheof, and all other their old customs; like as the men of it in the best manner did, in the times of King Edward, and like as King William my Father, and my Brother, by their Charters granted it unto them. Witness A. the Queen, and Geffrey the Chancellor, and Geffrey de Clinton, and William de Clinton, at Wdestocke. The King also sent his Sheriffs; namely, Albric de Veer, and Roger Nephew of 
* Or Hubert.  Herbert; which, for his part, should invest the Church in the said possession.  
More, concerning the same matter; and of the restoring to the Church of a little piece of Land, encroached upon by the Constables of the Tower.  
Stephen King of England, to the Bishop of London, and to the justices, Sheriffs, Barons, Officers, & all his 
* Fidelibus.  Liege people of London, French and English, greeting. Know ye, that I have restored and new granted unto God and the Church of the Holy Trinity, London, and to the Canons Regulars serving God there, for the soul of King Henry, and for the salvation of myself and Queen Maud my wife, and Eustace my Son, and of other my Children, and for ever do restore and grant, that Land of theirs in 
* East Smithfield.  Smithfield, which Earl Geffrey had in his occupation for the making of his Vineyard. Wherefore I will, and hereby firmly do command; that they shall well and peaceably, freely, quietly and honourably, have and hold the Land aforesaid: even as after the best manner they did freely and quietly enjoy other their Lands: and even as King Henry had before granted, and by his Charter confirmed it unto them. Witness Maud the Queen, Thomas my Chaplain, William de Ipra, and Richard de Lucye, at London.  
At the same time did Earl Geffrey resign up his possession, as by this his Deed appeareth.  
Geffrey Earl of Essex, principal Constable of the Tower, etc. to the Bishop of London, 
* Fidelibus Ecclesiae.  and all that hold of holy Church, greeting. Know ye that I have restored unto the Church of Christ in London, and to the Friars there, their Mills near unto the Tower, and all their land without the Tower; belonging sometimes unto the English Cnittengilda; with Smithfield, and the 
* Hominibus.  tenants, and all other things belonging thereunto. I also restore unto them half a hide of land 
* Hidam de terrae de Brebelegia.  of Brebelegia, with the Land and meadows and pastures, and all other things, liberties and customs; as William Widois sometimes gave it unto them, when as he took the habit of a Canon Regular upon him. And I will and command, that they hold the said Lands from me and from mine heirs, free, cleared, and acquitted, from all claim and secular service. That is to say, in such manner as it shall never be lawful either for me or for mine heirs to do them any injury or contumely in consideration of the Lands aforesaid. Witness, R. 
* In the Transcript taken out of the Original, which I used: I find her written Rosha, with a dash, ignorantly; so that I know not what to make of 〈◊〉.  the Countess my wife, Gregory Draper, pain of the Temple, etc.  
And I also give unto them one Mark of silver, out of the service of Edward de Sekegeford. Witness those abovenamed, and William Archdeacon of London.  
King Stephen also restored something unto the said Church; as by this following Charter appeareth; which the Constables of the Tower had encreached. This was done after the lands were proved by oath to belong to the Church, before the King's Chief justice.  
Stephen King of England, to the Bishop of London, the justices, Sheriffs, Barons, Officers, and all his Liege people, both French and English, of the County of Hertford, greeting. Know ye that I have given & granted unto the Church of the Holy Trinity, and to the Canons serving God there, T. S. of Land in the Manor of Bracking in perpetual alms; for the rest of the souls, that is to say, of Baldwin my son, and Maud my Daughter, which lie buried there. I have further also given and granted unto the said Church and Canons six yards of Land in the same Manor of Bracking; for the 
* Pro escaembio.  exchange of their Mil and that plat of their ground, which they heretofore granted unto Queen Maud my wife, near unto the Tower of London; upon which she hath now founded an Hospital 
* St. Katherine's.  for the poor. Those six yards of Land, I mean, which I still kept in mine own 
* Dominico meo.  domains, after I had made partition of the other parcels of the said Manor: that is to say, that part upon which the Church is founded, and unto which, the Market belongeth. Wherefore I will, and firmly hereby command, that the said Church and Canons shall well, peaceably, freely, and honourably for ever possess the said Lands, acquitted from all secular exaction, as it becometh free Alms. That is to say, my domains with Sak, and Sok, and Toll, and Thea, and Infangtheof, with all such other customs, as they now hold other their possessions. Witness Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert B. of London, Robert B. of Hereford, and Robert B. of Excester, and I●ard B. of Chichester, and William B. of Norwich, and Maud my Queen, and Earl Eustace my son, and William 〈…〉, and Robert de Veer, and William Mart, Henry de Essex, and Richard de Lucye.  
Then next follows Queen Mands confirmation of the King's gift; dated at London, under the same Witnesses, where the same things are repeated.  

Other things given by Queen Maud, to the same Church.  
Maud by the grace of God Queen of English, 
Out of Book, C. fol. 136.  to Robert Bishop of London, and to all that hold on holy Church, greeting. Know ye that 〈…〉 the counsel of the Archbishop Anse●me, and by the grant and confirmation of my Lord King Henry, I have given and confirmed the Church of Christ within the Walls of London, to be free and acquitted from all subjection, as well of the Church of 
* To understand this, see pag. 145.  Waltham, as of all other Churches, excepting the Church of S. Paul, and of the Bishop of London; together with all the appurtenances, unto the honour of God and to the Canons Regular there serving God with Norman the Prior, for ever; and that for the redemption of our souls, and the souls of our Parents. In like manner have I given unto them, the gate called Aldgate, with the Soken thereunto belonging, which was mine own domains; and two parts of the revenues of the City of Excester. And I will and command that the said Canons shall well, peaceably, freely, and honourably possess those Lands and all belonging unto their Church; together with those customs and liberties, which my Lord King Henry hath by his Charter confirmed unto them; so that no injury or reproach be therefore done unto them. Witness William Bishop of Winchester, Roger Bishop of Sarum, Robert Bishop of Lincoln, etc. Dated at Westminster.   

Notes upon the foresaid Charters.  
First, observe the time of the building of Saint Botolphs Church without Aldgate, which was about the age of the Conqueror. So much we know by this; that it was builded betwixt the time of Canutus, and Henry the sirs; t. Add this to page 118.  
Secondly, whereas the Kings write to the Barons of London; know what Matthew Paris in his Henry the third says, that the Citizens of London, both for their antiquity and the honour of the City, were called Barons. But they were only the principal Citizens that had this title. The chief men of the City, whom we now call Barons, were heretofore styled Captains. They were the King's Free Tenants, privileged all over England. Sometimes the King's Writs were directed to the Sheriff and Barons of London. The Church also had its Barons or Free Tenants; and diverse other Cities of England. See for this word, in Sir Henry Spelmans' Glossary.  
Thirdly, observe London and Middlesex to be in those days joined together, as in King Henry's Charter.   

Of the setting up of the Stone Conduit by the Stocks. To be inserted pag. 244. after the fifth line. 
Not●s of Surveyed taken out of Acts of Common Council, holden in the City.   
AT a Common Council held on Tuesday, November 27. in the first year of King Henry the 8. was this patition preferred, and granted. To the Right Honourable Lord the Mayor, and his Brethren the Aldermen, and to the discreet persons of the Common Council of this City of London.  
Beseeching your good Lordship and Mastership's, the Inhabitants dwelling about the Stocks, that by the space of five or six years past, a vent of water hath run by a Pipe of Lead beside the Stocks; which pipe of Lead by reason that it is not closed, is daily hurt with Horses and Carts. It may therefore please your good Lordship and Mastership's, and all our Masters of the Common Council, to grant and give licence unto the said Inhabitants, upon their own proper costs and charges to make or cause to be made, a little Postern of Stone with a Cistern of lead therein: so that the said water shall be therein preserved and conveyed: and so to be drawn out by Cocks, to the Common weal of all the said Inhabitants thereabout dwelling. Thus at the reverence of God, and in the way of charity.  
This is the Postern now presently there standing over against the Southeast.   

A Note concerning Bretaske lane in Downegate Ward. To be inserted page 253. Col. second, after, Edward the fourth.  
AT a Common Council holden December 11. Anno 3. of Henry the 8. A Bill was exhibited at this Court by the Wardens of the Dyers Company; whereby they claimed a lane in the Ward of Downegate, called Bretaske lane, to be their several ground. For this, a search was made in the Books and Records of the City; by which it appeared, that the said lane was the common Lane of the City, and not several to them. And so they were answered by the Court.   

Concerning Blackwell Hall; An Act of Common Council held August the first, in the 8. of Henry 8. To be inserted Page 129. Col. 1. after these words: This house (of late years)  
WHereas by an Act of Common Council, in the 22. year of the reign of King Richard the second, it was ordained and established, that no manner of person should bring or convey any Woollen Clothes to the said City to be sold, except they were first brought, harboured, and discharged at the Common Market of Blackwell hall, therefore ordained and provided, and of old time accustomed, upon pain of forfeiture of all the said Clothes so harboured and laid, contrary to the said Ordinance; which Act and Ordinance, was by another Act of Common Council holden at the Guild hall aforesaid, the day and year abovesaid, ratified, approved, and confirmed. And over that, it is now at this present ordained, established, and enacted, that no manner of person being Freeman of this City, after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady next coming, suffer any manner of person whatsoever, be he free or foreign, to buy or sell any manner of Woollen Clothes harboured or lodged contrary to the said Ordinance: As broad Clothes, Carsies, Cottons, Bridgewater Frizes, Dosseins, or any other manner of Cloth made of Wool, within his Shop, Chamber, or other place within his house, unless the said Clothes were first brought to Blackwell hall aforesaid, and there bought and sold. Or else the said Freeman, the said Clothes lawfully bought in the Country out of the said City, upon pain to forfeit and to pay to the use of the Commonalty of this City; for his first offence, for every Broadcloth so sold, harboured, or lodged, contrary to the said Ordinance, vi. s. viii. d. for every Carsie iij. s. iiij. d. for every Dosseine, Bridgewaters', and other pieces of Cloth made of Wool, xx. d. And for the second offence, the said pains to be doubled: and for the third offence, the party so offending to be disfranchised and deprived clearly from the Liberties of this City for ever.   

Of the enlargement of the Crossed Friars Church.  
AT the Common Council, the day and year above mentioned, was there an Act passed for the grant unto the Prior and Covent of the Crossed Friars, besides the Tower of London (to the intent that they should pray for the good estate of the City) of the common ground of the said City, for the enlargement of their Church, viz. in breadth from the East end of their Church, from the main Wall thereof on the North part, into the high street there, five foot of Assize; and at the West end of their Church, in breadth four foot and a half, stretching in length from the East part to the West part, seven score and eight foot and an half.  
Afterwards, at a Common Council holden on Tuesday, September 25. Anno 12. of Henry 8. the said Prior and Covent petitioned for succour towards the edifying and maintenance of their new Church, and to take upon them and the whole City to be their second Founders. Whereupon it was agreed, that several exhortations should be made in Writing to every Fellowship in London, to see what they would do of their devotions towards the same; and such sums to be certified to the Mayor and Aldermen, to the intent it may be known to what it will amount.   

Of the Conduit of Saint Giles Creplegate. To be inserted pag. 319.  
AT a Common Council held April, the same year, it was agreed, that the Chamberlain should, at the costs of the Chamber, cause the common Well and Spring at Saint Giles, to be covered with a house of Brick.    

Something to be added to page 281. concerning Saint Thomas of Acons in Westcheape.  
TVesday, April 27. Anno 10. of Henry the 8. it was granted unto the Master and his Brethren of the Hospital of Saint Thomas of Acon, in Westcheape, where 
* Thomas Becket.  Saint Thomas the Martyr was borne, because they wanted room in the said Hospital, that for their more ease they might make a Gallery in convenient height and breadth, from their said house overthwart the street in the Old jury, into a certain Garden and Buildings, which the Master and Brethren had then lately purchased. So as the said Gallery should be of such height, as should not annoy Man, Horse, nor Cart. And to make a Window on either side of the said Gallery, and therein yearly in the Winter to have a sufficient Light for the comfort of them that pass that way.  

Of Leaden Hall. To be inserted page 206. Column 2. after Chamber of London.  
AT a Common Council, holden September 28. Anno 10. Henry 8. was there a Petition exhibited, to the Right Honourable the Mayor, and his Worshipful Brethren the Aldermen, and to the discreet Commoners in this Common Council assembled.  
Meekly beseeching and showing unto your Lordship and Mastership's, diverse and many Citizens of this City, which with your favours under correction think, that the great place called Leaden Hall, should nor ought not to be let to farm to any person or person; and in especial, to any Fellowship or Company incorporate, to have and to hold the same Hall for term of years; for such inconveniences as may thereby ensue and come, to the hurt of the Common weal of the same City in time to come. As somewhat more largely may appear in the Articles hereafter following.  
1 If any Assembly or hasty gathering of the Commons of the said City, 
The uses of Leaden-Hall.  for oppressing or subduing of mis-ruled people within the said City, hereafter shall happen to be called or commanded by the Mayor, etc. there is none so convenient, meet, and necessary place to assemble them in within the said City, as the said Leaden Hall; both for largeness of room, and for their City defence in time of their counselling together about the Premises. Also in that place hath been used the Artillery, Guns, and other common Armours of the said City, safely to be kept in a readiness for the safeguard, wealth, and defence of the City, to be had and occupied at times when need required. And also, the Store of Timber for the necessary reparations of the Tenements belonging to the Chamber of the said City, there commonly hath been kept.  
2 Item, if any Triumph or Noblesse were to be done or showed by the Commonalty of this City for the honour of our Sovereign Lord the King, or Realm, and for the Worship of the said City, the same Leaden Hall is a most meet place to prepare and order the same Triumph therein, and from thence to issue forth to the places thereto appointed.  
3 Item, at every Largesse or Dole of Money made unto the poor people of this City, by or after the death of any Worshipful person within the said City, it hath been used to be done and given in the said Leaden hall, for that the said place is most meet therefore.  
4 Item, the honourable Father that was maker of the said Hall, had a special intent, will, and mind (as it is commonly said) that the Market men and women that came to the City with Victual and other things, should have their free standing within the said Leaden hall in wet weather, to keep themselves and their Wares dry, and thereby to encourage them and all other to have the better will and desire, the more plenteously to resort to the said City to Victuale the same. And if the said Hall should be let to farm, the Will of the said Honourable Father should never be fulfilled nor take effect.  
5 Item, if the said place (which is the chief Fortress, and most necessary place within all this City, for the tuition and safeguard of the same) should be let to farm out of the hands of the chief heads of the same City, and especially to another body politic, it might at length (by likelihood) be the occasion of discord and debate, between the said bodies politic, which God defend, etc.  
For these and many other great and reasonable causes, which hereafter shall be showed to this honourable Court, your said beseechers think much necessary, that the said Hall be still in the hands of the City, and to be surely kept by discreet & sad Officers: in such wise that it may always be ready to be used and occupied for the common Weal of the said City, when need shall require, and in no case to be let out to any body Politic.  
This Petition was granted.   

Of the new Seal of the Bridge-house.  
AT a Common Council, july 14. Anno 33. Henry 8. It was ordered that the Seal of the Bridge-house should be changed, because the Image of Thomas Becket, sometimes Archbishop of Canterbury was graven therein. And a new Seal to be made, to be devised by Master Hall, to whom the old Seal was delivered.  
Note, This was occasioned by a Proclamation, which commanded the names of the Pope and Thomas of Becket to be put out of all Books and Monuments; which is the reason that you shall see them so blotted out, in all old Chronicles, Legends, Primers, and Service books printed before those times.   

Of the privilege of Saint Bartholomewes' Hospital. To be inserted, Pag. 345.  
AT a Common Council, Tuesday july 19 33. Henry 8. The most gracious Letters Patents of King Edward the second, made and granted to S. Bartholomewes' Hospital in Smithfield, were allowed; for and concerning such Privileges as they do claim thereby at this present time. Which is, that none of the Officers or Ministers of the City, should do or execute any Arrest within the Precinct of the said Hospital, and that the Arrest made by Vnderhill (one of my Lord Mayor's Servants) upon Alice Browne, shall be discharged, etc.  
Also at a Common Council, August 1. the sixth of Edward the sixth, it was enacted, that the Lord Maior and Aldermen should have leave to break down a piece of the City Wall behind Christ Church, for the making of a door or passage thorough the said Wall, for the Governors of the house of the poor, of the Foundation of King Henry the 8. in West Smithfield, and other Citizens, to go to and from the same house, unto and from the house ordained by the City for the relief of the poor, called The house of Work, and Law, etc. notwithstanding.   

Against abuses offered to Paul's. To be inserted Page 371. Col. 2. after To his William.  
AT an Act of Common Council, August 1. Anno 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary. Forasmuch as the Material Temples of God were first ordained for the lawful and devout assembly of people, there to lift up their hearts, and to laud and praise Almighty God, and to hear his Divine Service, and most holy Word and Gospel, sincerely said, sung, and taught, and not to be used as Markets, or other profane places or thorowfares, with carriage of things. And for that (now of late years) many of the Inhabitants of the City of London, and other people repairing thither, have (and yet do) commonly use and accustom themselves very unseemly and unreverently (the more the pity) to make their common carriage of great Vessels full of Ale and Beer, great Baskets full of Bread, Fish, Flesh, and Fruit, and such other things, Fardels of stuff, and other gross Wares and things, thorough the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul's: and some in leading Moils, Horses, and other Beasts thorough the same unreverently, to the great dishonour and displeasure of Almighty God, and the great grief also and offence of all good people. Be it therefore for remedy and reformation thereof, ordained, enacted, and established, etc. that no person, either free or foreign, of what estate or condition soever, do at any time from henceforth carry or convey, or cause to be carried or conveyed thorough the said Cathedral, any manner of great Vessel or Basket with Bread, Ale, Beer, Fish, Flesh, etc. or any other like thing or things, upon pain of forfeiture or losing for every such his or their first offence, 3. s. 4. d. for the second 6. s. 8. d. for the third x. s. and for every other offence after such third time, to forfeit x. s. and to suffer two days and two night's imprisonment, without Bail or Mainprize. The one moiety of all which pains and penalties shall be to Christ's Hospital within Newgate, and the other half to him that will sue for the same in any Court of Record within the City, by Bill, original plaint, or Information, to be commenced or sued in the name of the Chamberlain of the said City for the time being; wherein none Essoine or wager of Law for the Defendant, shall be admitted or allowed.   

The Abstract of an Act of Common Council, held September 19 in the third and fourth years of Philip and Mary, for the removing of the Compter Prison out of Breadstreet into great Woodstreet. To be inserted pag. 312. or pag. 395. Col. 1. after Pitiful Prisoners.  
BY reason of diverse hindrances, injuries, extremities and displeasures done unto the poor Prisoners in Breadstreet Compter, by the Keepers of the same, who hiring the house of the Goldsmith's Company, would not (many times) suffer the Sheriffs of London (who stand charged with the Prisoners) to use them so well as they had purposed: whereby the City hath been slandered, Law and good orders broken, and poor Prisoners too much abused. Therefore was the Prison removed to a house belonging to the City, situate in great Woodstreet, where the Sheriff and his Officers were to keep their Courts, etc. as they had before used in Breadstreet. At which time it was also enacted; that the said Compter in Woodstreet should never hereafter for any cause whatsoever, be let out to any other use or person, etc.   

The Abstract of an Act of Common Council, the last of February, the second and third of Philip and Mary, concerning Bridewell. To be inserted Page 436. Col. 2. after By Queen Mary.  
FOr as much as King Edward the sixth had given his house of Bridewell unto the City, partly for the setting of idle & lewd people to work, and partly for the lodging and harbouring of the poor, sick, weak, and sore people of the City, and of poor wayfaring people repairing to the same; and had for this last purpose, given the bedding and furniture of the Savoy to that purpose. Therefore in consideration that very great charges would be required to the fitting of the said house, and the buying of Tools and bedding, the money was ordered to be gotten up among the rich people of the Companies of London, etc.   

Leystow by Baynard's Castle removed. To be inserted page 405.  
AT a Common Council, August 7. the third and fourth of Philip and Mary, it was agreed at the request of the Earl of Pembroke, that the Cities Leystow adjoining to his Lordship's house, and being noisome to the same, should be removed. Upon condition, that he should give the City, towards the making of a new Leystow in another place, 2000 foot of hard stone, to make the Vault and Wharfe thereof, or else forty Marks in ready Money, to buy the same stone withal.   

Something about Ludgate.  
LVdgate Prison, to pay Tithes, Clerks wages, and Church duties, to Saint Martin's Church within Ludgate. Agreed upon by Common Council, March 21. in the second year of Queen ELIZABETH. Add this to page 372. before these words, The Monuments here.   

Something about Broken wharf. To be inserted page 403.  
AT a Common Council, july 23. the second of Queen Elizabeth, order was taken, that out of a certain void space of ground at Broken Wharfe, there should be 33. foot enclosed and laid to the City's Brewhouse; which was to have a substantial pale about it, to keep the City's Fuel, and other goods, etc.   

Of the opening of a Lane in Downegate Ward.  
Whereas certain private persons had wrongfully set up a door at the end of 〈…〉 Lane, in Downegate Ward, and had converted it to their private use, it was order May 28. Anno fourth of Elizabeth, that the City Chamberlain should take down the door, and leave the Lane common, like other streets in the City.   

Something to be inserted page 217. Col. 2. after Royal Exchange.  
BEfore the building of the Exchange, it was by diverse Common Counsels, about the 26. year of Henry the 8. consulted upon, whether there should be a Bursle or convenient place of meeting, for Merchants to treat of their feat of Merchandise. The same year, the King sent his Letters to the City, for the making of a new Burse at Leaden Hall. Whereupon it being put to hands, whether the new Burse should be removed out of Lumbardstreet: it was agreed, that it should not. So that the Merchant's meeting continued there, till the Royal Exchange was builded.   

Something of Queenhith. To be inserted page 402. Col. 2. after Edward the third.  
THese were the impositions, and the occasions of them. This Romeland, being annoyed with Dung, Filth, etc. so as the Sellers of Corn and Victual there, could not stand to sell their commodities as formerly they had done: it was ordered by a Common Council, Anno 41. of King Edward 3. That the place should forthwith be made clean and paved. And that from thenceforth towards the perpetual cleansing and reparation thereof, there should be taken for every quarter of Corn of what kind soever, there sold or coming, a Farthing; for every quarter of Salt, a Farthing; for every Vessel called a Battle, bringing Rushes, four pence; for every Vessel called a Shout, bringing Corn or Malt, two pence; for every Ship bringing other Victual, two pence; and of every person daying Soil there, two shillings; and the Seller of Rushes to pay for every boat of Rushes, four pence.    

Something concerning the jurisdiction of the River of Thames. To be inserted page 26. Col. 2. after these words, And the like Sessions kept there for the same purpose. To my Honourable Friend Sir HENRY MARTEN, Knight, judge of the High Court of the Admiralty.  
SIR, his Majesty understanding that there is a second Edition of Stows Surveyed of the City of London, new put to sale, wherein there are some passages prejudicial to his Majesty's right in his Admiralty and Derogatory to the just power belonging thereunto. He doth therefore require you his judge in that High Court to examine the said Book, and to cause the said passages inserted in prejudice of the Admiral jurisdiction, and in support of any other pretence against the same to be left out, or else to prohibit the publishing and sale of the said Book. And for so doing this signification of his Majesty's pleasure may be your sufficient Warrant. So I rest  
Garlic Heath 21. December, 1633. Your assured Friend to serve you john Coke.  
Further execution of the Letter abovementioned could not be made, for that it came after the impression was finished and published.  
Henry Marten.   

To the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers.  
YOu may understand by the contents of the Letter abovementioned, directed unto me what is required at my hands to perform. I am therefore to require you upon your receipt hereof, forthwith to cause the Book to be brought unto you, and to take order that all the words together with the copy of the Letter, and my answer thereunto, as above made for this impression to be imprinted page 939. Col. prima, verbatim in all the said Books, aswell sold as hereafter to be sold, before any further sale of the said Books be made; and this shall be your Warrant in this behalf.  
Doct Commons `24. December, 1633. Henry Marten.   
FINIS.  

The first Table Containing all the Ancient and Memorable places, Charitable and Noble Acts of Citizens, and most Honourable and Worthy Monuments recorded in this Book; Alphabetically digested: Wherein the Figures refer to the Page, the Letters to the Column, and the 
 Asteriskcs * to the top of both Page and Column. † to the middle of both Page and Column. ¶ to the bottom of both Page and Column.  

A  
For false Accusation, a Fuller of Shoresditch hanged & quarted. 474 b ¶  
Adelstreet took name of King Adelstanes house, standing there. 308 a ¶  
Admiralty Court. 454 a ¶  
Adultery and Fornication, how punished. 207 b *  
S. Alban, the first Martyr in England. 308 a *  
Abbot of Saint Alban Inn. 187 b *  
Aldermanburic street, whence so named. 302 b †  
Aldermanry purchased. 335 a ¶  
Aldermen Knighted. 237 a *  
Seven Aldermen died in less than ten months. 585 a *  
Aldersgate. 34 b 320 b †  
Aldersgate street. 321 a *  
Aldgate. 31 b ¶ 121 a ¶  
Vide Ealdgate.  
All-hallows Church in breadstreet suspended. 92 a ¶  
The charitable Alms of the Lord Cromwell, etc. 74 a *  
Of Thomas Sutton. 481 b  
Of Baptist, Lord Hicks, Viscount Combden. 960  
Of Christopher Tamworth. 766 a ¶  
Of Sir Paul Pinder. 767 a †  
Of Henry Smith. 794 a † 887 b ¶  
Of Susanna powel. 794 b †  
Henry the second fed 10000 poor people, and Henry the third 6000. every day for a certain time, 74 b ¶ Vide Actions of worthy Citizens. 86. etc.  
An Almory at Westminster. 525 a ¶  
The Widow Allingtons buildings. 480 b *  
The Allome house at Wapping, with the proceeding against it. 462. b †  
Amen lane 371 b ¶  
Anchor lane, anciently called Palmers. 256. a ¶  
An Anchorage by little Saint Bartholomewes'. 415 b †  
Anne Queen of England, Wife to Richard the second, her Monument. 508 b ¶  
Anne wife to Richard the third, her Monument. 513 a ¶  
Arm of Cleve, her Monument. 513 a ¶  
Arm Wife to King james, her Monument. 814  
Anne Wife to Edward Duke of Somerset, her Monument. 513 b †  
Anne Countess of Oxford, her Monument. 514 b †  
Anthony's Pigs. 65 a 190 b *  
The Apology of the City of London. 691  
Instructions for the Apprentices of the City of London. 688  
An Archbishops See at London. 528 a †  
The Court of Arches kept in Bow Church. 268 b †  
Three Arch-flamens in England 

at 

London  
York  
Cacrleon 

211 a †        
Coat- Armours, Ar●●es of England supported with Angles. 216 a †  
Arms of the City of London what they be, with the Sword of Saint Paul in the first quarter. 237 a b 646  
Seal and Arms of the Baron of London. 339 b †  
The Arms of the twelve preceding Companies of London 598  
The Arms of the ten Companies of Merchants, 611. and of the other Companies following the twelve. 621  
Artillery yard. 175 b *  
The Artillery Garden founded, Anno 1622. 764  
The Kings Artirce in Limestreet. 161 a ¶  
Arundel house. 489 b ¶  
Ave-Mary lane. 371 b ¶  
Church of S. Augustine in the wall, now quite lost. 166 b *  
Of Augustine Friars. 185 b *  
Their beginning. 930  
Church of Saint Mary Axe, whence so called. 166   

B  
Bailiffs of London. 536 a ¶  
Bakewell, or Blackwell hall sometimes the mansion house of the Bassing. 298 a † b ¶  
A Market place for woollen Cloth, 299 a † See more concerning this 934  
Rich. Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, his Monument. 790 b *  
The Banner of S. Paul. 57 b ¶  
The Banner-bearer of the City of London. 57 b  
Banqueting houses, like Bankrupts, bearing great show and little worth. 476 a †  
Banquet. 673 a ¶  
Barbican or Burghkenning. 318 b ¶  
Barkley house. 407 a *  
Barnard's Inn. 430 b ¶  
Baron's of London. 359 b † 933  
The Barons slain at Barnet, buried. 486 a ¶  
Barrators. 676 a *  
Bartholomew lane. 183 a ¶  
Saint Bartholomewes' Hospital, 415 a b. Suppressed, 417 b ¶ The privileges thereof, 936 b ¶ Priory, 418. Suppressed, 420 a ¶ The Archbishop visits the Priory of S. Bartholomewes' with stripes, 418. Bolton the last Prior there, 419 a † Bartholomew Fair, 419 a ¶ 423 a † How the Lord Maior goes to it, 651 b * The order of Wrestling on S. Bartholomewes' day. 651 b ¶  
Bassingborne in Cambridge shire 298 b ¶  
Basin lane, or Turnebase lane, 264. or the Backhouse. 393 b †  
Bassingshall street. 293  
bath place. 427 a *  
Battle Bridge in Southwark. 459 a ¶  
Bay Hall. 293 a *  
Baynard's Castle, 56. Rob. Fitzwater, Lord thereof, banished by King john, and recalled; by place Banner-bearer to the City of London, 57 Burnt, 59 a ¶ King Edw. 4. and Rich. 3. crowned there, 60. Henry 7. lodged there, ibid. A Soak or Court belonging thereto, 405 b † The Leystow near to it removed. 938 a †  
The Normans ware no Beards. 45 a †  
Bearehinder lane. 244 b *  
Bear lane. 137 b ¶  
Beauchamps Inn. 238 b ¶  
Beauments Inn. 405. A Monument of the Beauments. 877 b †  
Thomas Becket first a Sheriff's Clerk, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, & Chancellor of England. 86 a ¶  
Bedford house, anciently the Bishop of Carliles' Inn. 491  
Bedlam, 173 a ¶ When founded. 542 a †  
Beech lane, and the Abbot of Ramseys' Inn there. 318 b †  
Belin's Urn of Brass set over Belins-gate. 39 b *  
Belins-gate, with the Customs thereof, 225. The Boss of Belins-gate. 226 b ¶  
The great Bells at Westminster, 524 a † Bow- Bell, 269 a ¶ The best ring of six Bells in England. 213 a *  
Bellman when first ordained. 585 a ¶  
Belzetters lane. 144 a ¶  
Benbridges Inn. 161 b †  
Bermondsey street, with the Priory of S. Saviour's, called Bermonds' Eye, in Southwark. 459 a †  
Berwards lane. 175 b *  
Bevis marks: See Buries.  
Sir William Billesby his Monument. 783 a ¶  
Billitar lane: See Belzetter.  
Birchin, or rather Birchovers lane. 215 b ¶  
Bishopsgate. 33  
A Catalogue of the Bishops of London, 367 a * A lineal succession of them, 528 b * The Bishop of London his Palace. 412 b †  
Black Friars, the original of them, 375 b * A Parliament holden in the Blackfriars, 374 a † The liberties and privileges of the Blackfriars, 375. A Riot committed therein, ibid. The fatal Vesper, or fall at Blackfriars, 381. b ¶ The names of those that were slain thereby, 386 b ¶ Blackfriar's church in Holborn, 487 a ¶ Their convocation and removal. ibid. b ¶  
Bladder street. 337 b † 388 b *  
Blanch Apleton. 160 a †  
Blodwyte, what. 919 a ¶  
Bornes': Oldborne, Langborne, Shareborne. 10 b  
Bordhalepeney, what. 919 b ¶  
Bosom's Inn, or Blossoms Inn 282 a *  
Boss alley. 226 b ¶  
Bosse lane. 403 b ¶  
Bow Bell not suffered to be rung late. 269 a ¶  
Bow lane: See Cordwainer street.  
Bowyer-row, from Paul's to Ludgate. 372 a *  
Breadstreet. 390 a ¶  
The Mayor charged for not looking to the assize of Bread, 542 b ¶ The Ordinance for the Assize & weight of Bread, 740. Bread-carts of Stratford at the Bow. 164 b *  
Bretaske lane in Downgate. 933  
Brickles lane. 255 a †  
Bridewell, King Henry the 8. his house, 62 a † How from a King's Palace, it came to be an house of correction. 436. 937 b ¶  
Bridewell Precinct, 312. The Chapel there. 876 a †  
Bridges, 27. London Bridge first of Timber, ibid. Men went dryshod under it, 28 a † Founded of stone, 28 b † A Subsidy granted for the repair of it, 546 b † Burnt, 28 a ¶ 29 a ¶ 782 ¶ Famous actions done on it, 29 The description of it, 30 a * The Bridgehouse, 459 a † The Seal thereof made new, 936 b † Westminster Bridge 524 b ¶ Fleet Bridge, Oldborne Bridge, Cow Bridge, Horse-shoe Bridge. 30  
Brigbote, what. 919 b ¶  
Britaines, the first Inhabitants in London, 1. b. What their ancient Cities were of old, 2 b * Given to gluttony and drunkenness, 5 a † Invaded by the Scots and Picts, 4 a * by the Saxons. 5 a *  
Britaines Burse. 464 b ¶  
Briton street. 321 a * 330 b *  
Broad lane. 255 a ¶  
Broad street. 183  
Broken wharf. 403 b † 938 b *  
Broker's in Hounds-ditch, called Aetatis at ramentum, and Baptizati judaei. 122 b ¶  
Brooks wharf. 403 b †  
Sir William Bruce, Henry the 8. his Physician, his Monument. 784 a †  
Bucks head: See Procession at Paul's.  
The Duke of Buckingham's Monument. 116 b † 817 b ¶  
Bucklesbury. 246 a ¶ 276 a *  
Budge row. 264 a *  
The cause of Stone Building in London. 209 b ¶  
Burgbote, what. 919 b ¶  
Burgebruch, what. 919 b ¶  
The Citizens of London first called Burgesses, 535 b † Ancient Burgesses of this City became Friars. 930  
Burhkening, or Watchtowers. 62 b †  
Burley house. 405 a *  
A Persian buried without Christian Burial. 173 a † 780 ¶  
Whittingtons' body thrice Buried. 256 a ¶  
Buries marks. 144 b ¶ 156 b †  
A motion that Butchers should kill no meat within London, 340 a ¶ Butchers-hall lane, or Stinking lane, or Chick-lane. 340 a ¶  
Buttolph lane, 228 b * The Church of Saint Buttolph without Aldgate when built 933 a †   

C  
IAcke Cade entered the City by London bridge. 29 b ¶  
When Calais was won from the French, 552 a ¶ When lost. 585 b †  
Master Cambden Clarenciaux, his Monument. 774 ¶  
Camera Dianae, near Doctor's Commons. 781 *  
Candlewicke street, whence so called. 235 a †  
Henry Carey, Baron of Hunsdon, his Monument. 416 b ¶  
Val. Carey, Bishop of Exeter, his Monument. 776 a ¶  
A Monument of the Lord Carletons'. 818  
Sir Nowell Caroone, Ambassador for the States of Holland, his Monument. 790 b ¶  
Caruage, what. 619 b †  
Castle, a Shoemaker, called the Cock in Westminster. 344 b ¶  
The Castle Tavern in Cornhill. 209 b *  
Catteten street. 282 a ¶  
Cecil house, 493 a ¶ Elizabeth Cecil, her Monument, 514 b †  
The Chair of the Kings of Scotland, brought in by Edward the first, kept in Westminster. 510 b †  
Chancelar, or Chancery lane. 435 a ¶ 487 a †  
Change of the King in Bucklesbury. 44 b ¶  
The Old-Change, 46 a. See Exchange.  
Charing Cross. 495 b †  
In whose majoralty K. Charles began his reign. 597 a †  
Charles Earl of Lenox his Monument. 513 a *  
Ancient Charters concerning the Priory of the holy Trinity. 931 a *  
The Charter of London confirmed by diverse Kings. 739  
Charterhouse, the first foundation, 477 b The Monuments there, 478 b † Afterwards bought by M. Sutton, and made an Hospital. 479, etc.  
Gessery Chaucer, his Monument. 517 a *  
The Cheapness of Flesmeat in former times. 206 a ¶ 548 a ¶  
Cheapside a Market place. 278 b ¶ The Standard in Cheapside, 278. Executions done there, 279 a * The Cross in Cheapside indicted, & the Images broken, 279 b. justs and Tournaments in Cheapside, 280 b * A fair paved way found fifteen foot deep in Cheapside, 390 b ¶ Goldsmith's Row there, 391 a *  
Chelsey College, the true reason of the first foundation, with many worthy motives to stir up the charity of good Christians towards it. 527  
Chequer Alley, anciently Bash-lane. 249 a ¶  
Chewying, what. 919 b *  
Chick lane. 130 b ¶  
Chicken lane. 420 b 〈◊〉  
Childwyte what. 919 a ¶  
Christ's Church, anciently the Grey Friars, with the annexion of S. Bartholomewes' Hospital, and the revenues of the Officers: The Mayor of London Parson thereof. 341 b ¶  
Christ's Hospital, the erection   

thereof, and charity of King Edward the sixth thereto. 342 a ¶  
Church lane. 138 a ¶ 251 a †  
City's whence so called, 691 a * why built, ib. b * The commodities that come by them 692 a *  
Honourable and worthy actions of Citizens of London, 86. etc. The honour of Citizens, 710 b † Their riches, 6. 8 b * Three kinds of Citizens: 1 Merchants, 2 Handicraftmen, 3 Labourers. 697 b *  
Clarkenwell, a Priory. 484 a †  
Where the Clerks Hall was anciently. 178 a ¶  
Clement's Inn and Well. 493 a †  
S. Clement's lane. 222 a * 235 a *  
The Church without Temple-bar, why called Clement Danes. 491 a ¶  
Clergy men forbidden by the King to be punished of the Laity. 207 a ¶  
Clifford's Inn. 435 a *  
The Clinke. 449 b *  
Clock house at Westminster. 524 b *  
Northern Russet Cloth, sold for 4. d. the yard. 71 b *  
Poor Clothiers relieved by the bounty of Sir Thomas White. 91. Many others, 93 a ¶ M. Kenrick. 199 a ¶  
Coat-Armorus: See Armorus.  
Cobham's Inn. 143 a †  
Sir William Cockaine his Monument. 776 b ¶  
Cock lane. 415 a *  
Cold Harbour. 251 b ¶  
Coleman street. 293  
john Collet Founder of Paul's School, his Monument made by W. Lily. 363 b ¶  
Court of Common Pleas. 522 b †  
Common Council men, and their Oath. 670 a  
Doctors Comment. 409 a †  
Conduits, 11 b * The water Conduit at Aldgate, 121 a † By Leaden Hall 206 b ¶ In Cornhill, 208 a ¶ By the Stocks, 244. 933 a ¶ By Saint Stephens, 296 b ¶ In Grass street 230 a ¶ Upon Downegate, 248 a * In Lothbery 293 a † In West Cheap, 278 b ¶ At London wall, 296 b ¶ In Aldermanburic, 303 a ¶ Without Creplegate, and a Boss, 317 b ¶ 935 a † By Paul's gate, 388 a † By Saint Nicholas Coleabby, 398 b ¶ By Magdalen's Old-fishstreet, 410 a * In Oldborne 425 b † In Fleetstreet, 431 a ¶ In Forestreet, 476 b † Pissing- Conduit. 190 a †  
Court of Conscience in London: See Request.  
Constable's Oath. 687  
Conyhope lane. 275 b †  
The incorporation of the Company of Cooks. 330 b *  
A public place of Cookery, where all manner of provision might be bought at any time. 711 a * 234 a *  
A Monument of the Corbets. 811 b *  
Cordwainer street. 264 b †  
Corn not to be brought from beyond Sea, 250 a ¶ The custom thereof: See Queenhith and Leaden Hall.  
No street called Cornhill before the Conquest, 211 a † Upholders, sellers of old stuff in Cornhill. 215 b ¶ 234 a ¶  
Cornets Tower in Bucklesbury. 276 a ¶  
Cousin lane. 249 b †  
The Counter in the Poultry, 275 a ¶ In Woodstreet, 308 a † Formerly in Breadstreet, 394 b * Why and when removed, 937 b † In Southwark. 454 a ¶  
The cause of decay in the Country. 699 b †  
A remedy to people Country Towns again. 700 a †  
Ancient Coins and manner of payment used in England, 44 b * The penny Easterling, 45. Numi and Denarii whence so called, 45 b * Of Halfpences and Farthings, 45 b ¶ Groat & half Groat 46 a ¶ Rose Nobles, 46 b ¶ Coins of Gold enhanced, allayed, ibidem. Halfe-faced Groats, 47 a. Crowns and half Crowns of silver Coined, ibid. Leather Money used in France. 47 b *  
Cowbridge Pens and Street, so called. 420 b  
Cow-crosse. 483 b ¶  
Sir Richard Cox his Monument 774 *  
Cradocks lane. 222 b ¶  
Three Cranes, or painted Taverns lane. 255 a *  
The malice of cruel Creditors. 469 b †  
Creed lane. 371 b ¶  
Creplegate, a prison for Trespassers. 34 a ¶  
A Monument of the Crew's. 818  
Crooked lane. 233 a † 236 a ¶  
Crookehorne Alley. 430 b *  
Crosby place. 181 b †  
Old Cross in Cheap, 280 b † The Cross in Cheapside commanded to be repaired, as being an Ensign of Christianity. 280 a ¶  
Crossed, or Crouched Friars, 144 b ¶ 156 b ¶ The Church there enlarged. 934 b *  
Crownesilde, a shed or standing in Bow Church for the King, 270 b † 280 b ¶ 281 b ¶  
Culver Alley. 144 b ¶  
Curfew Bell. 83 a * 676 b †  
Curriers Row. 184 a *  
Cursitors Office in Chancery lane. 487 a †  
Customhouse. 142 a †  
Customs and Orders. 67 ¶  
Ancient Laws and Customs of London. 668 a †  
bladders, Ha●●makers, Sheathmakers, drawn all three into one Fraternity of Cutlers. 158 b †   

D  
A Monument of the Dacres. 786 b †  
The addition of a Dagger in the Arms of the City of London. 54 a † 237 b *  
Dance of death, called the dance of Paul's. 88 a ¶  
Dainegeld, what. 919 b *  
Bishop of Saint David's house. 436 b ¶  
If ye call me so, I will call you Davy, A Proverb whence. 422 a ¶  
The Dean of Paul's his lodging. 412 b ¶  
Relief of poor Debtors. 769  
Desborne lane. 397 a ¶  
Distaff lane, 395. See Maiden lane.  
The Town- Ditch about the Wall of the City. 26 *  
Divine Service to be read continually at 9 and 3 of the clock. 766 b *  
Doctor's Commons. 409 a †  
Doe-little lane. 410 a ¶  
john Donne Deane of Paul's his Monument. 776 b †  
Anne Donne his wife her Monument. 889 b *  
Downegate. 248  
A Lad of 18 years old drowned in the channel at Downegate. 248 a ¶  
Drink-water Wharfe. 232 b ¶  
Drury lane. 493 a ¶  
Laurence Ducket hanged in Bow-steeple. 269 a †  
Duck lane. 418 a ¶  
Six Children drowned in the Duckingpond. 782 †  
A Monument of the Dudley's. 813 b ¶  
Duke Humphrey's servants. 368 b ¶  
The Duke's place. 146 b *  
Dulwich College in the County of Surrey, founded by Edward Alleyne E●quire. 759  
A newborn Child buried in a Dunghill of Sea-coal ashes. ●80 b ¶  
S. Dunstanes curse against King Ethelred. 358 a ¶  
Durham House, a great Feast there, 494 a † A row of Stables there made a Royal Exchange. 494 b *  
The Dutch Church, anciently Sir W. Powlets house. 184 a ¶  
The Duchy Court. 523 a ¶   

E  
EAldgate, 144. See Aldgate.  
East-cheap a Cook's Row; The King's Sons beaten there 234 a *  
East-Smithfield a Vineyard 41 a † See Smithfield.  
Ebgate lane. 231 b *  
Editha Queen of England, her Monument. 501 b *  
Edward the Confessors Monument in Westminster. 501 a ¶  
Edward 1. reigned 34 years; Majors in his time, 545 a * His Monument. 502 a ¶  
Edward 2. reigned 20. years; Majors in his time. 547 b ¶  
Edward 3. reigned 50. years; Majors in his time, 549 b ¶ His Monument. 504 b ¶  
Edward the Black Prince his house, now the Black Bell. 233 b †  
Edward 4. elected in St. john's field, took on him the Crown in Baynard's Castle, 59 b * He reigned 22 years; Majors in his time. 568 a ¶  
Edward 5. when he began his reign. 572 a ¶  
Edward 6 his virtuous and godly Speech to Bishop Ridley, concerning relief of the poor, 342 344 b * He was chief Founder of the Hospitals in London, 344 a ¶ He reigned 6 years; Majors in his time, 583 b † His picture in the Chapel at Bridewell, 876 a ¶ His Monument. 511 a ¶  
Elbow lane. 246 a †  
Eleanor, Queen of England her Monument. 503 b ¶  
Elizabeth Daughter to Henry 4 and wife to Henry 7 her Monument 511 a ¶  
Elizabeth Daughter to Henry 7 her Monument. 510 a *  
Queen Elizabeth reigned 44 years; Majors in her time, 385. Her Monument in 34 Churches, Westminster, 511 b † All-hallows Breadstreet, 821 b † All-hallows the great 821 b ¶ All-hallows the less, 822 a ¶ All-hallows on the Wall, 823 b † Anne Blackfriars, 826 b ¶ Bartholomew Exchange, 828 a * Bennet Grace-Church, 828 b ¶ Botolph Belins-gate, 930 a † Clement's Eastcheap, 832 a * George Botolph Lane, 836 b † john Baptist, 838 a * Katherine Cree-church, 839 b ¶ Laurence jewry, 843 a * Marry Aldermary, 848 a ¶ Marry le Bow, 849 a * Marry Bothaw, 849 b ¶ Marry Summerset, 850 b ¶ Marry woolchurch, 851 a ¶ Martin's Orgars, 853 b * Martin's Vintry, 854 a * Maudlin's Milkestreet, 854 b * Maudlin's Old Fish-street, 855 b * Michael Querne, 858 b ¶ Michael Woodstreet, 859 a ¶ Mildred Breadstreet, 859 b * Mildred Poultry, 861 b † Peter's Paul's wharf 867 a ¶ Stephen's Coleman-street, 869 b ¶ Thomas Apostle, 871 b † Bridewell Precinct, 876 b † Dunstan's west 881 b ¶ Olaves Southwark 884 b * Saviour's Southwark. 886 b †  
The Erbar. 247 b † 249 a *  
Erkenwald Bishop of London, buried in S. Paul's, An. Dom. 700. 358 a * 367 a †  
Essex house, anciently called Exeter house. 489 a ¶  
Ethelred King of West Saxons his Monument in Paul's, whereon is engraven Saint Dunstanes curse against him. 358 a ¶  
Everards' well street. 476 b ¶  
Saint Ewins Church now decayed. 389 a †  
The Duke of Exeters' daughter what. 60 a *  
The Royal Exchange, so called by Queen Elizabeth, when and where founded, 209 a. b A place of Merchant's meeting. 938 b ¶  
Cornets Tower in Bucklesbury, anciently the King's Exchange. 276 a ¶  
The Old Exchange. 351 a †  
The Office of King's Exchanger. 46 a †  
Court of Exchequer. 522 b ¶   

F  
FAbian, an Alderman, wrote the Chronicle, called Fabians Chronicle. 574 b †  
This Island received the Christian Faith in the time of K. Lucius. 527 a ¶  
Faringdon Ward, whence so called. 335  
The Lord Fawconbridge, with his Rebels, set upon Ealdgate, 32 b † When that Insurrection was. 570 a †  
Great Feasts in Westminster Hall. 520, 521  
Sir john Shakstone kept the first Mayor's Feast in Guildhall, 283 b † The order at the Mayor's Feast, 656 b No Majors Feast, by reason of a great plague, 586 b * The Sergeant's Feast at Ely house, whereto invited, came Henry the 8. and Queen Katherine, 426 a ¶ Seven hundred mess of meat at one dinner at Totehill. 527 b ¶  
Fenchurch street. 144 b ¶ 217 a ¶  
Fewtars, or Fetter lane. 430 b *  
Fickets croft, now part of Lincolns-inn Fields. 435 b ¶  
Fifteen: See the end of every Ward. Certain Wards discharged of all Fifteen. 226 a *  
Finimore, or Fivefoot lane. 397 a ¶  
Finkes lane. 183 a ¶ 189 b *  
A Surveyed of the Manor of Finsbury (belonging to a Prebend of Paul's.) 911  
Finsbury Fields. 472 a *  
Fire in Rood-lane, 228 a * At London Stone, 243 a * On London Bridge. 782  
Fishwharfe. 233 a †  
Fisher's Folly, now the Earl of Devonshire's house. 175 a ¶  
Antiquity of the Company of Fishmongers, 231 b ¶ Six Hallmotes belonging to them, 400 a ¶ A controversy between the Lord Maior and them. 232 a †  
Old Fish-street. 391 a ¶  
Fitzosbert, a seditious Traitor hanged in Smithfield, renounced his Saviour, 268 b *  
Fitz-Stephen, his birth and parentage, 703. His description of London. 704  
Fledwite, what. 919 a ¶  
The Fleet, a Gaol in Richard the seconds time. 431 a *  
Flemenefith, what. 919 a ¶  
Flistwite, what. 919 a ¶  
The Flower-de-luce, an Inn in Southwark, anciently the Abbot of Battle's Inn. 459 a ¶  
Forrenners, 677. A tumult in London about Forrenners & Strangers. 80 a ¶  
Forstat, what. 919 b †  
Foster lane. 338 a *  
Fowl lane. 138 a ¶  
Petty France. 172 b † 525 b *  
Frances Duchess of Suffolk, her Monument. 515 a ¶  
Frances Countess of Hertford, her Monument. 516 a †  
Frances Countess of Sussex, her Monument. 516 b †  
French King Prisoner in the Tower. 47 b *  
The French Church, where S. Anthony's Hospital was. 191 a †  
Freemen nonresident, 678 a † Every Freeman his Oath, 689 An Act concerning them. 690  
Friars, Austin, 185. 930 a ¶ Crossed or Crouched, 144. Grace, 340. Black, 373. White, 437 b ¶ A Fraternity of begging Friars, 287 b * Ancient Burgesses of this City turned Friars, 930 b ¶ The Friary Cart at Saint john's. 478 a ¶  
Furnivals' Inn. 427 a *   

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GAlley-Key. 142 a †  
Galley-Row. 138 a ¶  
Ancient Games: See Sports. A Game at Westminster on Lammas day, cause of a great tumult. 77 a. b  
The Garland in little Eastcheap, 229 b  
A Garner for Corn, at Leaden Hall, 164 b † And Queenehithe. 403 a *  
Garter place. 319 a †  
Gates in the Wall of this City, 31 † 709 b ¶ At first but 4. afterwards 7. and more, 31 a * The Posterns and Gates as they now are, be these: 1 Postern by the Tower. 31 a ¶  
2 Ealdgate. 31 b ¶  
3 Bishopsgate. 33 a  
4 Postern of Mooregate, 33 b  
5 Postern of Creplegate. 34 a  
6 Aldersgate. 34 b  
7 Postern out of Christ's Hospital. 35 a  
8 Newgate. 35 *  
9 Ludgate. 36 b  
Many Watergates now turned to wharfes. 38 *  
Bridge-gate now destroyed. 39 *  
Buttolph's gate. 39 a ¶  
Belins-gate. 39 b  
The Gatehouse at Westminster. 524 b ¶  
Gayspur lane. 304 a *  
Geld, what. 919 b †  
Saint George's lane, an Inn of Chancery there. 427 b †  
The George Inn in Lombard street. 220 b *  
Gerard's Hall, and the Giant Gerard's Staff, forty inches long, and fifteen inches about, 393 b ¶ All the Story of the Giant and his Hall overthrown. 394 a ¶  
Saint Giles in the field, anciently an Hospital, 488 b † St. Giles his bowl. 488 b *  
Giltspur street. 415 a *  
Guysors Hall, corruptly called Gerard's. 261 a ¶ 394 a *  
A Glass-house in Crossed Friars Hall. 157 a *  
Mount Goddard street. 337 b † 388 b *  
Gold lane. 414. 425 b ¶  
Golding lane. 318 b *  
Goldsmith's Row in Cheap, 391 a † The first Mayor and principal men of this City Goldsmiths. 324 a †  
Sir Arthur Gorges, his Monument. 786 a †  
Earl Goodwin, the mightiest Subject that ever was in England. 695 a *  
Goose lane. 265 a †  
Goslins' Monument. 908 a †  
Goswell street. 321  
London Governed by Barons, 339 b † 933. By a Custos, 544 a † By Majors, 546 b † By Portgraves, 535 a * 696 a b By Provosts. 535 b ¶  
Government of this City. 695 b Ecclesiastical. 527 Temporal. 535  
What kind of Government therein, 697 a † It differs but in ceremony, not substance, from the Laws of this Realm. 697 a ¶  
john Gower, his Monument, in Saint Mary Oueris Priory. 450 b †  
Granthams' lane. 249 a ¶  
Customs of Grass street Market. 231  
Gray's Inn, a Prebend to Paul's. 486 b †  
Grace Friars, how it became a Friary, by the charity of well disposed people; their Library, etc. 340, 341  
Greengate. 162 a *  
Greenwich lane, or Friar lane, 249 a ¶  
Greenyard of Leaden hall. 161 a ¶  
Gristes' house. 137 b *  
Grithbrech, what. 919 a ¶  
The Pole- Groat (or the GropeGroat) granted to Richard the second, cause of the Kentish tumult under Wat Tylar, 48 a *  
Grub-street. 467 b *  
The Guild Hall, antiquity thereof, and number of Courts kept therein, 282 b. The Council Chamber there new builded, 282 b. Verses on the Images over the gate, 283 a ¶ Kitchins by it for the Mayor's Feasts, ibid. The Chapel there new built, 283 b ¶ Monuments therein, 284 a ¶ The Library at Guild Hall. 284 b *  
The Lady jane Guildford, her Monument. 786 a ¶  
Houses in Crooked lane blown up with Gunpowder. 238 b *  
Guthuruns lane. 338 a †   

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Haberdasher's Almshouses. 321 a ¶  
The body of Alice Hackney found incorrupted more than 150. years after she was buried. 227 a †  
The Customs of the Manor of Hackney. 715  
Halliwell: See Finsbury.  
Hamsoken, what. 919 a *  
Hangewyte, what. 919 a *  
Where the Hanse-Merchants landed their Corne. 38 b *  
Harp lane. 138 a †  
Hart-horne Alley. 144 a *  
Hart lane. 138 a †  
Hart street. 145 a †  
Sir Christopher Hattons' Monument. 365 a *  
Haverpeney, what. 919 b ¶  
Little Saint Helen's. 178 b ¶  
Henry the first, made the first Park in England. 42 a ¶  
Henry the third reigned seven and fifty years; Majors in his time, 538 b ¶ His Orchard by the Tower, 42 a * His Monument. 501 b ¶  
Henry the fourth reigned fourteen years; Majors in his time. 559 a †  
Henry the fifth reigned nine years; Majors in his time, 561 a † His Monument. 506 b *  
Henry the sixth reigned nine and thirty years; Majors in his time. 562 b *  
Henry the seventh reigned four and twenty years; Majors in his time, 572 b ¶ He and the Knights of the Garter road from the Tower to Paul's Church, 60 b ¶ His Monument. 510 b ¶  
Henry the eight reigned eight and thirty years; Majors in his time. 577 a *  
Henry son of Richard King of Romans, his Monument. 510 a *  
Henry son to Henry the eighth, his Monument. 513 a ¶  
Prince Henry, son to King james, his Epitaph. 518 b *  
Haywharfe lane. 251 b *  
The Heart of Queen Eleanor and others, buried in Blackfriars. 374 b †  
Herald's. 408 b *  
Bishop of Hereford's Inn. 399 b ¶  
An Hermitage of Saint james in the wall; 339 b ¶ Another in Nightingale lane, 468 b ¶ Another with a Chapel of Saint Katherine's. 495 a ¶  
William Hewit, his Monument. 777 a *  
The charitable Alms of Baptist Lord Hicks, Viscount Cambden, as well in his life as at his death, 760 a ¶ His Epitaph. 761 b ¶  
Hidage, what. 919 b †  
The Highest ground of the City of London. 207 a †  
Holborn: See Oldborne.  
holes his Monument. 817 a ¶  
Hog lane. 120 b ¶  
Holy-well, anciently the Priory of Saint john Baptist, 470 a * See Finsbury.  
Honey lane. 282 a *  
Hornegeld, what. 919 b *  
Horners Key. 141 b ¶  
Horse-market, what it was ancienty. 711 b †  
Horse-mill in Grasse street. 163  
Horse-shoo-bridge street. 246 b † 254 b †  
Hosier lane, in Cordwainer street, 264 b † In Smithfield. 420 b ¶  
The Hospital of S. Katherine's, 117 a † For Lunatikes, 142 b ¶ Called the Papey, 156 a * Of Bethelem, 173 a ¶ Of Saint Mary spital, 175 b * Of Saint Anthony's, 190 a * Of Saint Thomas of Acons, 281 a * 935 a * Called Elsing spital, 304 a * Of the French order, 318 a * Called Christ's Hospital, 342 a * Of Saint Bartholomewes', 415 a. Of Bridewell, 456 a. In Oldborne, 428 a ¶ Of Saint Thomas in Southwark, 456 b * Of King james, called Charterhouse, 479 Of Saint Mary Rouncivall, 495 a ¶ Of Saint james, 495 b † The beginning and true end of the several Hospitals now being in the City of London. 343 b ¶  
Hucksters of Ale and Beer, 671 b *  
Huggen lane. 311 a †  
Duke Humphrey not buried in Paul's. 368 b *  
Hundred, what. 919 b ¶  
Liberty of Hunting confirmed to the City of London, 539 b ¶  
The ancient Court of Hustings in London. 767   

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THe confession of jack Straw, to the Lord Mayor of London. 54 b  
james the fourth, King of Scots, slain at Flodden field, his head buried in Saint Michael's Church in Woodstreet. 311 b ¶  
King james reigned two and twenty years; Majors in his time, 593 a * In whose Mayoralty he was borne, 586 b ¶ His Picture in Mary Mounthaw Church. 850 b †  
Saint James' Fair, S. James' his Park. 495 b *  
Lady jane Seymor, her Monument. 515 b †  
jesus Commons. 249 a †  
Jews of Norwitch hanged for Circumcising a Christian Child, 35 b ¶ 289 a. jews houses spoiled, 37 a † The jews' Synagogue, now the Windmill Tavern, 287 b † 296 b ¶ Where they inhabited, and what Kings favoured, what punished and banished them, 288, 289. Their burying place, 318 a. The house of converted jews, now the Rolls. 435 b †  
The old jewrie. 287 b ¶ 288 a ¶ The King's Palace there, 291 b ¶ The poor jewrie. 258 a *  
The Enclosure of common grounds. 475 b †  
Infangtheof, what. 919 a *  
The Incorporation of the company of Inneholders'. 249 a * 670 b ¶  
Innes of Court and Chancery, their names and situation. 66 *  
Chester's Inn, or Strand Inn, where Summerset house new stands. 66 a ¶  
john of Gaunts' Tomb in Paul's. 360 a *  
john of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, and son to Edward the second, his Monument. 515 a *  
Priory of Saint john of jerusalem, with the Monuments. 483 a †  
King john reigned seventeen years; Majors in his time. 537 a *  
A Monument of the Saint-iohns' 795 a *  
Ipres Inn. 260 a ¶  
Ironmonger lane. 282 a †  
Ivy lane. 388 a ¶  
Ivy bridge. 491 b *  
The coming of julius Caesar into England, and his conquest over the Britons. 1 b ¶  
jury men. 672 b ¶  
False jurors, their course and punishment. 208  
Courts of justice kept in Westminster Hall. 522 a †  
justings or Tournaments; In Cheapside, 280 b * In Smithfield, with the manner how. 420 b ¶  
justing-feast at Durham house. 494 a †   

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SAint Katherine's Hospital, 117 a † The circuit thereof, 925 a ¶ Monuments therein. 117 a ¶ 901 a †  
Katherine Knowles, her Monument. 415 b *  
Katherine Valois, Queen of England, that married Owen Tudor, her Monument. 507 a ¶  
Master john Kendricks William. 193 b *  
Kerion lane. 255 a † 261 a *  
Kery lane 338 a *  
When the King of England was first called Supreme head. 580 b ¶  
Kings of this Realm have sat on the King's Bench in Westminster Hall. 522 b ¶  
King's Alley. 293 a ¶  
Prior of Okebornes' house, now King's College. 405 a ¶  
Bishop Kings Monument. 775  
Order of making a Knight for service in the field. 237 a †  
Knighten-Guild, 115 a * 925 b * Given to the Priory of the holy Trinity within Aldgate. 930 *  
Knightriders street. 254, 258 b *  
Knights Templars: See Temple.   

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LAd or Ladle lane. 308 a * Alice Perrers road from the Tower to Smithfield, as Lady of the Sun. 421 Chapel of our Lady in the Piew, at Westminster. 524 a ¶  
Lamb's Chapel proved to have anciently been of the Parish of Saint Olaves in Silverstreet. 924 b ¶  
Lamborne hill. 397 b †  
Liberty's of the Duchy of Lancaster, 489. Government thereof. 492 b †  
When Lanterns with lights began to be hung out in Winter, and by whom. 561 b *  
Saint Laurence lane. 252 a † 282 a *  
A monstrous Shanke-bone of a man reserved for a monument in the Church of Saint Laurence jewrie. 285 a †  
Leaden Porch, 162 a ¶ In Crooked lane. 236 a ¶  
Leaden Hall, at first a Manor, 162 b † A Chapel therein, 163 a * Burnt, 164 a † First used as a Garner, 164 b † Meant to have been made a Burse for Merchants, 166 a † A Fleshmarket there, 206 a ¶ The necessary uses thereof. 935 b ¶  
Love to Learning. 86, etc.  
Lectures in London; Of Chirurgery, Of Mathematics, Of the seven Liberal Sciences, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham, Anno Dom. 1596. 65 b *  
Legates Inn. 405 a ¶  
The Duke of Lennox, his Monument. 816  
The Earl of Lennox, his Monument. 513 a *  
The Archdeacon of London, Parson of S. Leonard Shoreditch. 471 a †  
A Bishop of London died of a Leprosy. 530 a †  
Lesteage, what. 919 b *  
Letherwyte, what. 919 a ¶  
Library at Zion College 304 b ¶ At Guild Hall, 284 b * At Paul's. 354 a  
William Lily, his Monument. 370 a ¶  
Limehouse. 469 a †  
Limestreet. 161  
Linacer, his Monument. 369 b *  
Lincoln's Inn. 488 a *  
Lion Key. 225 b ¶  
Lions, where kept at first. 42 a ¶  
Lion's Inn of Chancery. 493 a ¶  
Lither lane. 427 a *  
The Liveries of the Majors and Sheriffs. 652 a †  
Lodgers. 670 b ¶  
The Lok a Lazarhouse in Southwark. 460 b †  
Lollards Tower, the last Prisoner there. 410 b ¶  
Lollesworth field. 177 a ¶  
Lombard street. 217 b *  
LONDON, the Original, etc. 1 a. Thought founded by Brute, 1. a b. a * Repaired and increased by King Lud, 2 b. Called Trinobantum, 3 a † How by ancient Writers, the old Britain's, Strangers, and Inhabitants, 5 b † Famous for Merchants, 3 a ¶ Walled, 3 b ¶ Situation, 6 a † 693 b * 709 a * Antiquity, 6 a ¶ 694 a * Marshal Services done by it, 695. How watered, 8 a ¶ How divided, 113. Happy in temperateness of Air, Religion, Strength, 709. Happy in Gardens, Pasture and Tillage, Wells, Honour of Citizens, Matrons, Schools, 710. Affairs well disposed, 711. Exercise and Pastimes, 712. The Charter of London confirmed by diverse Kings, 739. The description of London (both in Latin and English) written by Fitz-Stephen, in the Reign of Henry the second, 704. The cause of increase of Inhabitants in it, 699 b ¶ Freed from imputation of decaying other Cities and Markets in this Realm, 699 b † Of London the quantity or populousness, 696 b † Quality or profession, 697. Power, consisting in her Riches, and warlike furniture, 698. Benefits and honour that comes to the Realm by it, 700 a ¶ It was never the Author of any Rebellion, 697 a † 701. Liberty's confirmed by Edward the third, 549 b ¶ Why at any time seized by the Prince, 701. Officers, 648, 649. Manner of electing Knights and Burgesses, 659 a * An Archbishop of London, 528. Two Plagues of London, Quassing and casualty by Fire, 69 b * Baron's of London, 359 b † A song called, London-licke-peny, made by Lidgate the Monk, 234 b * London. Stone. 243 a †  
Long lane. 420 b †  
Long ditch at Westminster. 496  
Lothbury. 187 b † 287 a ¶  
Love lane. 293 a ¶ 308 a * See Lucas.  
Lovels Inn. 388 b †  
Lucas lane, or Rope lane. 228 b *  
Ludgate, 36 b. A free Prison, or for Freemen, 37 a ¶ To pay Tithes, etc. to S. Martin's. 938 b ¶  
Lord Lumleyes house. 157 b ¶  
An Hospital for Lunatic persons. 142 b ¶  
The Monument of the Lushers at Putney. 784 b †   

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THE principal Magistrates of London, were Noble persons Inhabitants, 298 a ¶ Called Barons of London. 339 b † 933 a *  
Maiden lane or Distar lane. 312 a ¶ 395 b *  
Mother Mampudding. 142 b *  
Saint Margaret's Church on the H●ll in Southwark, made a Court of Justice. 454 a ¶  
Margaret, Daughter to Edward the fourth, her Monument. 509  
Margaret Countess of Richmond, her Monument. 512 a *  
Margaret, Countess of Lennox her Monument. 512 b ¶  
The Laws of the Market. 664  
Marriage-Money for poor Maids. 94 a ¶ 95 b ¶  
A Mart at Westminster. 499 a ¶  
Mart lane. 137 a *  
Martin's lane. 233 a †  
S. Martin Orgars' lane. 238 b ¶  
College of S. Martins le grand, 327 a † Privilege of Sanctuary there, 330. Several Charters of Kings, etc. concerning the ancient Liberties, Bounds, and Privileges thereof, 917 Surrendered 330 a ¶  
The first Martyr, See Alban.  
S. Marry lane. 226 b ¶  
S. Mary street. 144 b ¶  
Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Ursula, and 11000. Virgins, commonly called S. Marry Axe. 166 b †  
The Antiquity of St. Marry le Bow Church, together with the fall of the Steeple, and overturning the roof of the Church, 268. The Church interdicted and encroached upon. 269 a *  
The Bishop of Hereford Patron of Saint Mary Mounthaw. 400 a *  
S. Marry Church in the Strand, either lost, 489 b ¶ Or changed to the Savoy. 909  
Queen Mary reigned 6. years; Majors in her time, 584. Her Monument. 511 a ¶  
Marry Queen of Scots, her Monument. 517 b ¶  
Bennet a Monk brought Masons first into this Land. 5 a ¶  
Matilda Queen of England, her Monument. 501 b ¶  
Evil May-day. 81 a †  
May-games. 79 b *  
The first Lord Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwine; when obtained, continued from the first of Richard the 1. to the 15. of King john, 536 b † Where buried, 247 a † 538 a ¶ Liberty granted by King john to choose a Mayor, 538 a ¶ A Mayor denied to be admitted by the King, 541 a * The Barons of the Exchequer to admit him, 542 b † The first Lord Maior that went by water, 567 a * The first Bachelor Maior, 573 b. When the Majors began to be Knighted by the courtesy of the King, 579 a † A Maior made of the Privy Council to two Kings, 567 a † 581 b * Three Majors in a year 572 b ¶ Two sons of one man Majors, each after other, 583 b ¶ An order for the Lord Maior and Aldermen their meeting, 652 b ¶ The Lord Mayor's Election, 652 b * The Officers of the Lord Maior, 649. An Order of all things on (Simon and jude, or) the Lord Mayor's day, 656. The manner of Lord Mayor going to Paul's on solemn Festivals, 657. The Lord Mayor's attendance and attire at the King's Coronation, 659 b * A Mayor feasted four Kings in one day, 255, 553 b † The Mayoralty shunned always because Onus, 696 b * The City governed by a Custes in Henry 3. his time. 544 a †  
Measures sealing. 672 a * 679 a *  
Mercer's Chapel sometimes an Hospital of S. Thomas of Acon, 281 a † Monuments therein, 281 a ¶ That Company incorporated. 281 b *  
Noblemen of this Realm (of old as well as of later years) have dealt in Merchandise, 222 a † The commodity of Merchandise to this Realm, 698 b * Three sorts of Merchandise, Navigation, Invection, Negotiation. 697 b *  
Merchant's of all Nations traded in this City, 68 a. 69 a 712 a * Of Italy, 142 b † Of the Han●e-Townes, 38 b * Of Almain, 249 b * Their privileges, 250 a * Of Bordeaux. 254 a †  
Staple Merchants the most ancientest in this Realm. 497 a ¶  
The Arms and Names of the ten Companies of the Merchants. 611, etc.  
Beggarly Merchants hurt a Kingdom. 700 b *  
Merchant-taylor's Company, 188 b ¶ Their School. 252 b ¶  
The Mews by Charing-cross. 493 b ¶  
A Pulpit-crosse in the Churchyard of S. Michael's in Cornhill. 215 b †  
james the fourth King of Scots, his head buried in S. Michaels Woodstreet. 311 b ¶  
A passage thorough St. Michael's at the Quern. 388 a  
Midsummer day meeting of the Lord Maior and Aldermen. 650 b ¶  
The Antiquity of St. Mildred the Virgin's Church, with the Church yard and Parsonage house. 273  
Milford lane. 489 b ¶  
Molkestreet. 306 a †  
A Mill by Baynard's Castle. 405 b †  
Corn Mills on the Thames, set betwixt a Lighter and a Barge. 403 a *  
When Millers had but an half penny for grinding a quarter of Wheat. 546 a *  
Mincheon lane. 137 a ¶  
The Minories, anciently the Abbey of S. Clare Nuns. 118 a *  
Mint in the Tower, 44 b In Southwark, 454 b † Other Mints in England. 46 a  
The body of King Edmund the Martyr, brought thorough Creplegate, wrought Miracles. 34 a †  
Miskenning what. 919 b ¶  
Monkeswell-street. 312 a ¶ 340 a †  
A Monument of Sir Thomas Moor. 787 b †  
Moorfields a mere marish ground. 33 b ¶ 301 a ¶ 475  
Mooregate. 33 b  
A great famine and Mortality of people. 548 b *  
Mount Calvary, now a Windmill. 477 a ¶  
Mountfiquit Tower. 61 a ¶  
A widow Murdered. 469 b ¶   

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Needlers' lane. 264 b ¶  
Ill News quickly spreads 48 b  
Newgate first builded, and the cause why. 35 a b  
Newgate Market. 388 b ¶  
New Inn the Original of it. 727 b † 493 a †  
The New River brought from Chadwell and Amwell to the City of London, by Sir Hugh Middleton. 12 b †  
Nicholas Cold-Abbey, why so called. 398 a †  
A Prison for Nightwalkers. 207 a †  
Nightingale lane in Wapping, 468 b ¶ A Stag hunted thither by King Charles. 462 a ¶  
No-man's Land. 477 b ¶  
William Norman Bishop of London his Monument in Paul's. 358 b ¶ Why the Mayor and Aldermen walk about his Tomb on solemn days 359 a ¶  
Northumber land-house. 158 a † 330 b †   

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THE Offerings of Parishes to the Curates in London. 747  
Old-Bayly, 427 a ¶ The Chamberlain of London kept Court there. 427 a ¶  
Oldborne, 10 b The Conduit by Oldborne-crosse, 425 b † Oldborne Hall. 428 a †  
Sir john Oldcastles rebellion & overthrow. 361 a *  
Ormond place in S. Thomas Apostles. 261 a †  
The Orphan's Court, with an Act Common Council concerning them. 660 b * 678 a *  
A Monument of Hypocrates de Ott●en, a famous Physician. 890 a *  
S. Mary Oueris a Priory. 450 a †  
The scalps of Oxen digged up by Paul's. 367 b *  
Oxford Place near London-stone. 242 b ¶   

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Robert Parkenton slain with a Gun going to Mass. 277 b ¶  
Pannier Alley. 388 a ¶  
The Papey, 156 a * Church of S. Augustine Papey in Limestreet. 166 b *  
Pardon Churchyard. 477 b ¶  
The first Park in England made by Henry the first. 42 a ¶  
Parliaments kept in Westminster Hall, 522 a † The black Parliament, 374 a † Parliament House. 524 a ¶  
Passekes Wharfe. 141 b ¶  
Paternoster lane, 256 a ¶ Pater noster Row, so called of Pater noster makers. 371 b *  
Cathedral Church of S. Paul founded by Aethelbert Mauricius, 352. The Church burnt, 113 b † 352 b * Fired by lightning, 353 a ¶ The steeple built repaired with a Weathercock, 353. The steeple burnt and repaired, 357 b * The height and length of both Church and steeple 353 b ¶ Governor's of the Church, 353. The great Cloystry, Dance, and Library, 354. Chapels, in Pardon Church yard, at the North door of the Holy Ghost of jesus, 354. The Charnel house and School 356 b The Bellhouse and Pulpit-crosse, 357 a The Gates of the Church, 410 b * The Monuments, 358 a * 725. Contribution to the repair of Paul's Church, 198 b † Master Parker's gift to the glazing of the windows 371 b † The Choir beautified and adorned by Sir Paul Pinder, 767 a † An Act against abuses offered to the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul, against carriage thorough, etc. 937 a † Paul's thought to have been the Temple of jupiter, 367 b * A Bucks head borne before the Procession at Paul's, 368 a † Paul's Pigeons, 65 a * Paul's Wharfe. 405 a †  
The Earl of Pembroke's Monument. 361 a *  
Peneritch street. 276 b †  
The Penny Easterling. 44, 45  
Pentecost lane. 340 a *  
Penthouses. 678 a †  
Pepper alley in Southwark, 454 a *  
Pepperers in Sopers' lane. 278 b *  
Coia Shawsware, a Persian, his Monument. 780 *  
King Lucius founded St. Peter's Church in Cornhill. 210  
Peter's hill lane, and Peter's Key. 408  
Petty Wales. 142 a †  
Philip Queen of England, her Monument. 505 b †  
Philosophy Schools in London. 63 a. 710 b ¶  
Philpot lane. 222 a *  
A counterfeit Physician had his head set on the Tower of London. 55 a ¶  
Pickering house. 156 a *  
Piepowders Court. 419 a ¶  
Master Suttons gift to the Charter house, the greatest gift was ever given to Pious uses. 481 a ¶  
The Company of Pinner's now decayed. 510 b ¶  
The Plantagents Monument in Paul's. 360 a ¶  
Perilous Pond. 11 a ¶  
Nine kinds or degrees of Poor people, 343 b * Relief of the Poor, 86, 87, etc. See the Benefactors to every Parish in London.  
Pope lane. 325 b ¶  
The name of Pope blotted out in all old Books, why. 936 b *  
Popes-head Tavern in Cornhill, sometime a King's house. 216 a *  
The populousness of this City. 696. etc.  
Porter's lane, or Porter's Key. 142 a †  
The Governors of the City of London, called Portgraves, 535 a * Or Portreeves. 696 a *  
Portpoole lane. 486 b †  
Portsoken, whence. 115  
Pot, a Brewer. 251 b *  
Poultney lane. 253 a †  
The Powlehead Tavern, anciently Paul's Brewhouse. 408 b ¶  
A remarkable punishment of Pride in high buildings. 161 b ¶  
Printing of Books at Westminster, the first in England. 525 a ¶  
The Priory of the Trinity without Aldgate, 116. 145. Of S. john's of jerusalem, 483 a † Of S. Bartholomewes', 418. Of Clarkenwell, 484 a † Of S. Mary Oueris. 450 a †  
Relief of poor Prisoners, 94 a ¶ &c. See the Benefactors to every Parish Church, and Master Kendricks Will, 197 a † 428 a † The Prisoners going to be executed at Teyborne, were presented with a great Bowl of Ale, thereof to drink as their last refreshing in this life. 488 b ¶  
Pophams', builders of Saint Sepulchers Church. 423  
Prisons; the Tun on Cornhill, now changed, 207 a † At Ludgate, 37 a ¶ At Newgate, 35. The Counters in the Poultry, 275 a ¶ In Woodstreet, 308 a † In Southwark, 454 a ¶ Lollards Tower, 410 b ¶ The Fleet, 431 a * The Clink, 449 b * The white Lion, 455 a ¶ The King's Bench, 455 a ¶ The Marshalsea, 455 b * The Gatehouse at Westminster. 524 b ¶  
The Keepers of Prisons indicted for using their Prisoners hardly. 395 a †  
Procession of Paul's. 367 b ¶  
Provosts Governors of London. 535 b ¶  
Pudding lane. 229 a †  
Puddle wharse. 405 a ¶  
Pulpit-Crosse at Paul's, 357 a At Michael Cornhill, 215 b † At spital. 176  
Punishments of Sabbath-breaking, 394 a † Of Adultery, 207 b * Of Slander, 232 a ¶ The Pillory for Bakers, Millers, etc. 208 a ¶  
Sir Stephen, an hare-brained Puritan. 151 a ¶  
Pyel lane. 400 b *   

Q  
BEatrix, Sister to Peter of Savoy, Mother to five Queens. 490 b †  
Queen hithe, or Edreds' hithe, the antiquity, liberties, and customs thereof, 401. etc. When let to Farm to the City of London, 542 a † An Act of Common Council concerning it. 939 a †   

R  
THe Rack in the Tower called the Duke of Exeter's Daughter. 60 a *  
Radcliffe. 469 a †  
Thomas Raymond, Archdeacon of Saint Alban, his Monument. 778 a ¶  
Ambition and Covetousness, the two causes of English Rebellions. 696 b *  
London never the Author of any Rebellion. 701  
The Rebellion of the Commons under Wat Tylar, 48 a * Of Sir john Oldcastle, 561 a * Of Lord Fawconbridge, 32 b †  
An Alderman made Recorder of London. 547 b *  
Red●rosse street. 318 a * 476 b ¶  
Reding, why so called. 15 a ¶  
Redriffe: See Roderith.  
Redrose, or Rother lane. 229 a †  
Ree, or the, what it signifies. 15 a ¶  
Regrators. 678 b ¶  
Repair of Churches: See the Churches.  
Court of Request, or Conscience, in London, for relief of poor Debtors. 769  
When three men had their hands cut off for Rescuing a Prisoner arrested by a Sergeant. 546 b ¶  
Retayling, an handmaid to Merchandise. 699 a ¶  
Richard the first reigned ten years; Majors in his time. 336 b †  
Richard the second reigned 22. years; Majors in his time, 556 a † He in danger by the Rebels of Kent, 49 b ¶ He lodged in Tower-Royall, 258 a * His Monument, 508 a ¶  
Richard the third reigned three years; Majors in his time, 572 a ¶ He took on him the Crown at Baynard's Castle: See Baynard's Castle.  
Ringed Hall in Saint Thomas Apostles. 261 a †  
Three principal Rivers in this Kingdom to build a Royal City on, 693 a ¶ Navigable Rivers are as Via Regia, 25 b ¶ The new River, 12 b † The River of Thames. 14 * 693 a ¶  
Robin Hood and his men shot before the King. 79 b ¶  
Rochester house. 449 b ¶  
The Rolls in Chancery lane. 435 b †  
Rood lane. 228 a †  
Ralph Rookeby, his charitable bounty. 428 a †  
Fair Rosamond, where kept by Henry the second. 781  
Rotten Row, or Russell Row. 470 b ¶   

S  
THe names of Saints given to Churches, not for superstition, but for distinction sake. 273 a ¶  
Salisbury Court, anciently the Bishop of Salisburies' house. 437 b *  
Sak, what. 919 a †  
Salt wharf. 403 a ¶  
A Sanctuary for offenders at S. Martin's, with the privileges and articles thereto belonging, 327. etc. 917. A Sanctuary at Westminster. 519 a †  
Sandy house. 403 b ¶  
The Savoy lands given unto Christ's Hospital, 344 b † The Savoy built by Peter Earl of Savoy and Richmond, 490 a ¶ Burnt by the Rebels and built again for an Hospital. 491 a *  
Scalding Alley. 183 a † 204 b ¶ 272 b ¶  
Scavenger's, 670 b † Their Oath 688.  
Schools of Philosophy in London, 63 a. 710 b ¶ Every Cathedral Church had a School, 63 b. A free School at Saint Paul's, 63 b * 356 b ¶ Westminster, 63 b ¶ Saint Anthony's, 190 a * S. Peter's on Cornhill, 211 a * In Bow Church yard, 269 b ¶ In the Hospital of S. Thomas of Acons, now Mercer's Chapel, 281 a ¶ Christ's Church, 64 b † S. Saviour's, 64 a † Merchant-taylor's, 64 b * 252 b ¶ Meetings of Schoolmasters, and disputations of Scholars. 64 b *  
Scoggans Ballad sent to King Henry the fourth his sons. 256 a †  
Robert Scot, Quarter Master General to the King of Swedens' Army, his Monument. 791 a ¶  
Scot, what. 919 b †  
Scotland yard. 495 b ¶  
Scroope's Inn, sometimes Sergeants Inn in Oldborne. 425 b ¶  
S●acole lane, 427 b ¶ When Seacoles' were forbidden in London. 547 b *  
Sebba King of the Eastsaxons, his Monument in Paul's. 358 a ¶ He became a Monk of Paul's. 529 a *  
Sebert King of Eastsaxons, his Monument. 500 b †  
Sentlegers house in Southwark. 458 b †  
Sergeants Inn, 435 a ¶ 438 b ¶ The Sergeant's Feast, and manner of it, with the provision. 426 a  
Sermon lane, or rather Sheremoniers. 410 a ¶  
Session's Hall. 427 a ¶  
A Shankebone of a man 25. inches long, 285 a † Another 28. inches and an half long. 302 b ¶  
Shareborne, or South-borne lane. 217 a *  
Shere lane. 435 b ¶  
The Sheriffe-wicke granted to the City, 537 a ¶ The first Sheriffs, or Bailiffs thereof, when obtained, 536 a † The Sheriff's election, 650 b ¶ Their Officers, 649 b ¶ Their swearing on Michaelmas day, 652, 655. Sheriffs in London in Henry the first his time, almost 100 years before our Chronicles set down, 768 b ¶ The Sheriffs of London Prisoners in the Tower. 36 a †  
Shoo-lane. 428 a †  
Long piked Shoes tied to the knees, in use amongst English men. 395 b ¶  
A penalty on Shoemakers, for Shooing men on the Sunday. 394 a †  
The Shops under Saint Peter in Cheap. 338 a †  
Tom Shorthose, his Monument. 310 a *  
Margaret Countess of Shrewsbury, her Monument. 369 a †  
Side-Saddles first in use. 70 a ¶  
Sir Philip Sidney, his Monument. 363 a †  
Silver street. 312 a ¶  
Saint Scythes lane, 264 b ¶ Saint Scythes Church: See Bennet Sherehog.  
Simpsons' lane, or Emperor's head lane. 255 a †  
Single women that played the Whores in the Stews were forbidden the rights of the Church, and therefore had a Churchyard proper to them for burial. 449 b †  
The Six-Clerkes office, anciently a Brewhouse. 435 b ¶  
The Incorporation of the Company of Skinners, 248 b † Six King's brethren of that Company. 248 b †  
Slander punished in a Fine of 1000 Marks. 232 a ¶  
William Foxley Slept in the Tower of London 14. days and more, without waking. 55 b ¶  
Smarts Key. 225 a *  
Sir Thomas Smith, Master of Requests, his Monument. 783 b ¶   

Captain john Smith, his Monument. 779 b ¶  
East- Smithfield, 41 a † First builded upon, 931 a † Sometimes a Monastery called New Abbey, 117 a ¶ An ancient record concerning it. 925 b †  
West Smithfield; the Pond there and Elms, a place of Execution, 420 b ¶ Horse-market there, 420 b ¶ 711 b † justings there, 421 a † Paved. 423 a †  
Snore hill. 425 b *  
Sojourners. 670 b ¶  
Sok, what. 918 b ¶  
Inner Soken. 931  
Summer's Key. 225 b ¶  
Somerset house. 490 a †  
Grace Soap made in London, dearer than bought from Bristol. 265 a †  
Sopers' lane. 264 b ¶  
Sophia daughter to King james, her Monument. 512 a †  
Southampton house, sometimes the Bishop of Lincoln's Inn. 486 b ¶  
The Borough of Southwark, how it became one of the 26. Wards in London, 442 a * Sir john Ayliffe, the first Alderman there, 446 a * The Lord Mayor coming thither to our Lady fair. 652 a *  
john Speed his Monument. 778 b ¶  
Edmond Speneer, his Monument. 517 b * 774 b ¶  
Chapel of S. Spirit, now lost. 489 b ¶  
The spital, 175 b ¶ When founded, 537 b ¶ The Pulpit-Crosse there, and anci-custome of Sermons at Easter, 176. Three Brethren preached there, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter week, 1632. 781 ¶  
Sports and Pastimes used in this City, 75. Stageplays, Tennis-play, running at Quinten. 76. etc. 712 b *  
Sprinkle Alley. 144 a †  
A Monument of the Staffords. 808 a *  
Stallage, what. 919 b *  
Staple Inn. 431 a †  
Starling money whence so called 45 b ¶  
The Starr-chamber Court. 523 b †  
Stationer's Hall, sometimes the Duke of Britain's house. 372 a †  
Staining lane. 321 a ¶  
Customs, Privileges, etc. of the Manor of Stebunheath, or Stepney, and Hackney, etc. 715  
The Steel-yard a place for Merchants of Almain. 249 b *  
S. Stephen's Alley in Westminster. 496 a *  
S. Stephen's Chapel in Westminster. 523 b ¶  
Stew lane. 403 a ¶  
The Stews on the Bank side kept only by the Froes of Flanders, 449 a * Put down 449 b † Constitutions to be observed by the keepers of them. 448 b ¶  
Master Stock his Monument. 821 a †  
Stockefishmonger row. 231 b *  
Stocks Market, the midst of the City, 113 a ¶ The antiquity and beginning thereof. 243 b †  
Stodies lane. 255 a ¶  
A Monument of the Stotevils. 818 b *  
Strand Inn an Inn of Chancery, 490. Strand Bridge and Stone-crosse there. 490  
The number of Strangers misliked in London, 80 a ¶ 226 b * Strangers borne. 872 a ¶  
The Statutes of the Streets of London against annoyances 665, etc. 672 b †  
Studenes in the Common Law, their preferment. 66, 67  
The Suburbs without the City of London and liberties thereof. 461  
Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canturbury, slain by Wat Tylar and the Kentish Rebels. 50 a *  
Suffolk house in Southwark. 454 b †  
Suffolk lane. 252 b ¶  
Summer Hithe, now Queen Hithe. 400 b ¶  
Thomas Suttons Will, together with the erection of the Charter house, 479 b * His Monument. 482 b ¶  
Old Swan 231 b * See Ebgate lane. 256 a ¶  
Sweeting sicknesses; the first 572 b ¶ the second, 584 a ¶ the third. 588 b ¶  
Sydon lane. 134 b ¶  
Fyon College for the Clergy of London built by Doctor White together with the Library, and Benefactors thereto. 304, 305   

T  
THe Tabard, an Inn in Southwark, 456 a ¶ Atwods Wife played so long at Tables, that she bore a man, the Priest, who was justly punished for his lechery. 207 b ¶  
The pious and memorable charity of Christopher Tamworth of Gray's Inn, Esquire. 766 a ¶  
A Pope's head Tavern in Cornhill; a pint of wine was sold for a penny, 216 a † Cardinal's Hat Tavern in Lombard street. 216 b †  
A grievous Tax and Tallage granted to King Richard the second, cause of a great rebellion. 47 b ¶  
Tazell Close. 175 *  
Tem what. 919 a †  
Tempests of lightning and thunder, 79 b † A Tempest drove all the people from Divine Service at Paul's, but Roger surnamed Niger, Bishop of London, 359 b ¶ 530 b ¶ The Spire of All-hallows Steeple Thunder-stricken 392 a ¶ S. Michaels Steeple fired in a Tempest. 213 a *  
The new Temple; the original of the Knight's Templars, their Profession, Seal, and dissolution, 438. etc. Their house granted to the Students of the Common Law, 440 b † Monuments in their Church 762 a † 763 a ¶ Why the Images of Knights buried in the Temple, are laid crosslegged, 440 b * The old Temple in Holborn. 486 b ¶  
Four Terms or times of pleading: 

Hilary.  
Easter.  
Trinity.  
Michaelmas. 

522 b.      
Thames street. 231 b *  
Thames River, 14 * 675 b ¶ The head of it, 14 b ¶ The course, 15 a. Commodities, Length, Plenty of Fish, 16. Constant Tides, 17 a † number of Boats and Watermen, 18 a. jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor over it, 18 * 20, 21. etc. Acts for the conservation thereof, 683. 685. An Engine to enforce  
Thames water. 403 b *  
Thavies Inn. 430 b †  
Thieving lane in Southwark, 456 b * In Westminster. 497 b ¶  
Saint Thomas of Acons' Hospital. 281 a * 935  
Thomas of Woodstock, his Monument. 510 a †  
Three-needle street. 183 a ¶  
Throckmorton street. 183 a * 187 a †  
Tiltyard at Westminster. 495 b ¶  
Timber hithe. 403 a ¶  
Tinckermen in the River of Thames. 18 b  
The Pope's Bull, for the offerings of the Parishes to the Curates in London by way of Tithes, 747. The ancient composition for them. 749 b ¶  
Toll, what. 919 a †  
Tom Shorthose, his Epitaph. 310 a *  
Totehill street and Fields. 525 b †  
The Tower of London, first built by William the Conqueror, 40. Constable's thereof, 41 a † Compassed with a Wall & Ditch, 41 a ¶ 926. Lions kept in it, 42 a ¶ Scaffold first set on Tower hill, 42 b Gates of the Tower, 42. See Gates. Famous actions done there, 43 a † Mint there, 44 b * Use of the Tower to defend the City, 56 a. Liberties thereof, 125 b ¶ The controversy betwixt the Lord Maior and the Lieutenant of the Tower about privileges. 126. 932  
Two Towers on London-bridge. 56  
Tower hill. 117 b ¶ 125 a *  
Tower street. 130 b ¶  
Tower-Royall, 62 b ¶ The antiquity and honour thereof, 257 b * King Richard the second lodged there, 258 a * King Stephen lodged there. 260 a ¶  
Townesend lane. 401  
Men of Trades in distant places, 67 a ¶ Change of place and Tradesmen, 68 b. Tradesmen lived of their own Trades, without meddling with others. 254 a ¶  
Trig lane. 403 b ¶  
Trinity Priory in the Duke's place, 145 a ¶ The first founding thereof, 930 * Ancient Charters of diverse Kings concerning it, 931. Monuments therein. 145 b ¶  
Trinity lane. 397 a *  
Triumphs and shows, as Mummeries, Maskings, Lord of Misrule, May-games. 78 a *  
Tun in Cornhill, a Prison. 207 a †  
Turne-againe lane. 414 b ¶ 427 b ¶  
Turne-mill street, now called Turne-bold street. 483 b ¶   

V  
VAgrants. 672 b *  
Vanners lane. 255 a *  
The fatal Vesper, at the Blackfriars. 381 b ¶  
All manner of Victuals to be bought anciently at all times in a certain place called the Cookery. 711 a *  
The Incorporation of the Company of Vintners. 255 a ¶  
The Vintrie, 225 a * King Henry the fourth his sons supped there. 256 a †  
Virginity (by Matilda the fair) defended with the loss of life. 57  
Usurers. 677 a ¶  
Usury forbidden by King Edward the first. 289 b *  
Vtfangtheof, what. 919 a *   

W  
WAll about the City of London, 4 a. When and why the Wall of the City was broken thorough Saint Bartholomewes' Hospital. 936 b ¶  
The Brook called Walbrooke, 10 a * 113 b * Walbrooke street, 243 b † Vaulted over & paved with stone, 30 b ¶ Barges towed up Walbrooke into Bucklesbury. 276 a *  
Lodgings for the Prince of Wales. 142 a ¶  
The Walnut-tree, an Inn in Southwark. 458 a ¶  
Sir Frances Walsinghams' Monument. 362 a ¶  
Walworth, Lord Maior, did not slay jack Straw, 232 b ¶ 236 b * His Monument defaced in St. Michael Crooked lane, and since falsified. 237 a *  
Wapping, 461 b ¶ The new Chapel there. 462 a †  
The names of their Aldermen, as they are this year, 1633. 647  
Court of Wards. 523 b *  
An Act for reformation of abuses in the Wardmote Inquest. 669, 673 a ¶  
The King's Wardrobe. 408 a †  
Warwick, or Eldnese lane. 388 b *  
Wardwyte, what. 919 b ¶  
Wat Tylars outrageous rebellion, 48, etc. His demand of the King, 51. Slain by William Walworth. 53 a. 236 b *  
Watch's, the original and manner, 83. etc. King Henry the eighth came to the Kings-head in Cheap, to behold the Watch. 270 b ¶  
Water-gate. 141 b ¶  
Water lane. 437 b *  
Watheling street. 391 a *  
The Incorporation of the Company of Weavers. 297 a ¶  
Wells River, decay thereof, 9 a * Holy-Well, Clement's Well, 10 b ¶ 710 a ¶ Clerks Well 11 a † 710 a ¶ Skinners Well, Fags Well 11 a * A Well called Dame Annis the Clear, 11. A Well of great depth at Aldersgate, 34 b A Well under the East end of St. Olaves' Church in the jewry. 290 a †  
Weights; the King's beam upon Cornhill, 209 a † Tronage of Wools at Customhouse, 141 b ¶ Tronage of Wool at St. Marry wool-church. 244 a †  
Wenefrid, marchioness of Winchester, her Monument. 514 a †  
The City of Westminster, 493. Foundation of the Abbey, 497 b † The burning thereof 499 a ¶ King Henry the seventh his Chapel the miracle of the World, 498 a * A Bishop of Westminster, 498 a ¶ 500 a † The first Dean there, 498 b † Monuments 500 b † 763, 774, 814. The Palace, 519 b * The great Hall, 519 b ¶ The use thereof, to feed poor people; a Feast there, and Wherries rowing, 560. Parliaments kept there, and Courts of justice, 522. Government of the City of Westminster. 525  
When Wheat was sold for 16. and 12. pence a quarter. 546  
A Widow in Whitechapel murdered by a French man whom she brought up, 469 b ¶ The Parson of Stepney Patron of Whitechapel, 469 b *  
White-crosse street. 318 a † 476 b ¶  
White Friars the antiquity thereof with the Monuments. 437 b ¶  
White-Hall heretofore called York-Place. 487 b † 496 a †  
The White Lion in Southwark a Gaol for the County of Surrey. 455 a ¶  
Whittington College. 256 b †  
Whores, 673 a † 676 b. See Stews. All known Whores were to wear striped coloured cloth on their heads by an Act of Parliament. 553 a †  
Wild-goose, or Windgoose lane. 250 b *  
William of Windsor, son of Edward the third, his Monument. 515 a *  
Winchester house, 449 b † Bishop's of Winchester, Wickam, and Andrew's, their Monuments. 452  
Samuel, Thomas, and john Wincope, three Brethren. 781 ¶  
A Pint of Wine sold for a penny, and Bread given into the bargain, 216 a * 551 b * Malmsey Wine sold for three half pence a pint, 255 b ¶ Rumney Sack sold for Medicines only. ibid.  
Rein Wolf, Stationer, collected Holensheads Chronicle. 303  
Sir john Wolley, his Monument. 777 b †  
Famous and honourable Women. 107 b †  
Woodroffe lane. 156 b *  
Woodstreet. 307 b ¶  
Wooll-wharfe, 141 b ¶ Wooll-staple at Westminster, 496 a ¶ See Weights.  
Wolseyes' lane. 251 b ¶  
Worster house. 256 a ¶  
Wrestle, and other exercises used on Bartholomew day, now left, and worse taken up. 85 b ¶  
Wringwrens lane. 258 b *   

Y  
Young beginners, provision for them. 91 b 94 b ¶ 95 a ¶ See Kendricks William.  
York place, now Whitehall. 487 b †  
York house. 495 a *   

Z  
ALlen dela Zouch, Custos of the City of London, slain in Westminster Hall, by john Warren Earl of Surrey. 544 a ¶   
The end of the first Table.   

The second Table Containing the Surnames of all those, whom Honourable Dignities, Memorable Benefactions, Remarkable Actions, and Venerable Monuments, have made worthy to be recorded in this Work; Alphabetically digested: Wherein the Figures refer to the Page, the Letters to the Column, and the 
 Asteriskes * to the top of both Page and Column. † to the middle of both Page and Column. ¶ to the bottom of both Page and Column.  

A  
ABbot. 134 b * 285 a ¶ 534 a ¶ B. 563 a ¶ 597 a ¶  
Abdy. 391 b * 598 a †  
Abingdon. 548 b † M.  
Abraham. 566 a ¶  
Acheley. 193 a † 245 a ¶ 576 a ¶ 577 b * M.  
Acton. 265 b † 346 b * 598 b *  
Adam's. 804 b *  
Ade. 872 b ¶  
Aderley. 563 b ¶ 565 b † M.  
Adrian. 543 a ¶ M.  
Adys. 322 a †  
Agmondesham. 285 a *  
Ailofe. 199 a ¶ 583 b ¶  
Albany. 391 b ¶  
Albert. 285 a *  
Alderban. 191 a ¶  
Aldersey. 96 b ¶ 869 a *  
Aldworth. 429 a ¶  
Alison. 284 b †  
Allen or Alley. 90 b † 170 b † 281 b † 285 a * 311 a ¶ 350 a ¶ 561 a * M. 578 b ¶ 580 a † M. 581 b * M. 583 a ¶ 586 a ¶ 852 b ¶ 566 b ¶ 587 b ¶. M.  
Allot. 106 b * 395 b * 589 a ¶ 59● a † M.  
Altham. 580 b ¶ 585 a ¶  
Alwine, or Alewine. 270 a † 574 b † 575 a ¶ M.  
Amades. 223 b *  
Amcotes. 283 b * 58● b ¶ 583 b ¶ M.  
Anderson. 105 a ¶ 291 a ¶ 592 b ¶  
Andrew, or Andrew's. 554 a * M. 132 b † 452 a ¶  
Anger. 544 a †  
Anthony. 873 b ¶  
Antiloche. 537 a *  
Antrobus. 373 b †  
Apleyard. 351 b †  
Appleton. 346 a †  
Archer. 244 a ¶  
Arderne. 335 a ¶  
Armenter. 547 a *  
Armourer. 131 b † 134 a †  
Arneway. 808 b *  
Arnold. 293 b † 563 a * 893 b ¶  
Arundel. 186 a * 346 a † 791 b *  
Ascham. 558 b * M.  
Ascough. 484 b *  
Ascue. 145 b ¶ 395 a * 579 b ¶ 581 a ¶ M.  
Ashburnham. 763 a *  
Ashcombe. 308 b ¶  
Ashehill. 274 a ¶  
Ashfield. 145 b ¶  
Ashwy. 540 b † M.  
Askham. 211 b †  
Asseldey. 157 a †  
Astly. 834 a †  
Astry. 261 b * 572 b *  
Atcourt. 186 a *  
Atkins. 337 b *  
Atkinson. 96 a ¶ 285 a ¶  
Atwell. 312 b ¶  
Atwood. 207 b ¶  
Aubry. 345 b † 546 b ¶ 551 a ¶ M.  
Audley. 146 a ¶ 460 a *  
Avenon. 286 a * 337 b ¶ 586 a * 587 b * M.  
Avesey. 146 a †  
Avinger. 395 a *  
Austen. 406 b † 452 b ¶ 453 a ¶ 557 b †  
Aunsham. 189 b ¶  
Ayer. 296 a ¶  
Aylesbrough. 241 a ¶  
Aylesham. 551 a ¶  
Aylmer. 153 b * 573 b ¶   

B  
BAbalius. 135 b †  
Babham. 355 b †  
Baby. 338 a ¶  
Backehouse. 588 b ¶ 597 b †  
Bacon. 133 a * 364 b ¶ 571 b ¶ 226 b † 138 b * 139 b ¶ 587 a ¶  
Bainham. 108 a *  
Baker. 285 a * 411 b ¶  
Bakhurst. 299 b *  
Balamer. 548 b ¶  
Baldock. 365 b † 531 b ¶ B.  
Baldry. 269 b * 281 b † 578 b * 570 b * M.  
Baldwin. 346 a ¶  
Balgay. 120 a ¶  
Balthorp. 416 a †  
Bambrough. 311 a ¶  
Banne. 87 b ¶ 228 b * 556 b ¶ 557 b ¶ M.  
Bancroft. 534 a * B. 790 b *  
Band. 186 b *  
Bane. 431 b ¶  
Banester. 324 b †  
Banks. 270 a † 388 a * 586 b † 857 b ¶  
Banning, or Bayning. 101 a * 105 a * 305 a † 591 b † 863 a ¶  
Bardolph. 145 b ¶  
Barentine. 186 b † 322 b † 558 a ¶ M.  
Barker. 843 a † 898 b ¶  
Barkham. 594 b † 596 a ¶ M.  
Barkley. 425 a ¶ 484 b ¶  
Barnard. 398 a ¶ 407 a ¶  
Barn, or Barnes. 87 a ¶ 191 a ¶ 220 b ¶ 242 a † 258 b ¶ 299 b † 583 a * 395 a ¶ 532 b ¶ B. 553 b ¶ M. 584 b † 588 b * 590 a ¶ M. 898 a ¶  
Barneham. 105 a * 235 a ¶ 587 b * 591 a *  
Barners. 158 b ¶  
Barnocke. 257 a *  
Barnwell. 392 b * 564 a ¶  
Barons. 145 b ¶  
Barradaile. 189 b ¶  
Bar. 238 a *  
Barret. 325 b * 556 b †  
Barry. 138 b †  
Bartholomew. 340 b ¶ 537 b †  
Bartlet. 285 a * 432 a *  
Barton 285 a * 312 b * 356 b * 372 a ¶ 561 b * M. 560 a †  
Bartram. 345 b ¶  
Barwis. 411 a †  
Bas. 552 a *  
Basford. 578 a †  
Baskervile. 281 b † 366 b * 586 a *  
Basset. 391 b * 531 a ¶ B. 568 b ¶ 571 a † M.  
Bassing. 178 b ¶ 298 a ¶ 538 b † 542 b † M.  
Bat. 540 a ¶ M.  
Bate. 538 a ¶  
Bateman. 150 a ¶  
Batencourt. 545 a ¶  
Bath. 330 b ¶  
Bathurst. 246 b ¶  
Battle. 351 a *  
Batte. 193 a *  
Bawd. 368 a *  
Bailie. 257 a ¶ 415 b ¶ 578 a ¶ 579 b ¶ M. 792 a †  
Beale. 183 b *  
Beam. 530 a * B.  
Beard. 151 a †  
Beastby. 415 b ¶  
Bean. 537 a *  
Beauchampe. 368 b †  
Beaumond, or Beaumont, 292 a ¶ 349 a ¶ 391 b ¶ 763 b † 565 b † 820 b ¶ 830 a ¶ 877 b †  
Becket. 86 a ¶ 292 a *  
Beckingham. 136 a ¶  
Bedingfield. 485 b ¶  
Bedoe or Bedow. 150 a ¶ 891 a † 907 a *  
Beecher. 193 a ¶ 587 a †  
Bell. 186 b ¶ 484 b † 546 b *  
Belengham. 273 b *  
Belgrave. 230 b *  
Belknape. 406 a *  
Bellesdon. 351 b † 570 b *  
Bellow. 316 b ¶  
Belwase. 372 a ¶  
Belwin. 290 a †  
Bembow. 801 a *  
Ben. 363 a *  
Benalias. 133 a ¶  
Benam. 222 b ¶  
Benneson. 215 a †  
Bennet. 148 b ¶ 561 b † 593 a ¶ M. 796 a ¶  
Bennington. 285 b *  
Benolt. 179 a †  
Benson. 457 b †  
Berching. 308 a ¶  
Beringham. 146 a †  
Berry. 554 a †  
Berryman. 100 b *  
Besaunt. 597 a †  
Bestbitch. 899 a ¶  
Beswike. 239 b †  
Betaine. 546 a ¶  
Betwell. 545 b ¶  
Bieus. 428 b ¶  
Bifield. 571 a ¶  
Bildington. 415 b ¶  
Bill. 826 b †  
Billesby. 783 a ¶  
Billet. 547 b *  
Billesdon. 572 b † M.  
Billing. 519 b †  
Billingsley. 139 b † 158 a ¶ 159 b ¶ 590 a † M.  
Bilsington. 330 b ¶  
Bingham. 452 a ¶  
Bintworth. 531 b ¶ B.  
Birch. 897 b ¶  
Bishop. 96 b †  
Blackney. 548 a †  
Blake. 799 b ¶  
Blakynbury. 326 b ¶  
Blanch. 230 b *  
Blank. 227 a ¶ 588 a ¶ 589 b ¶ M.  
Blankwell. 186 a *  
Blankworth. 848 b *  
Bledlow. 138 b * 579 a ¶  
Blighton. 316 a ¶  
Blitheman. 399 b †  
blondel, or blundel. 95 b * 186 a ¶ 285 a * 537 b †  
Blonket. 460 a *  
Blound, or Bland. 230 a ¶ 538 a *  
Blount, or Blunt. 267 a * 311 a ¶ 346 a * 484 a ¶ 537 a * 540 b † 547 a ¶ M. 803 a ¶  
Bloxley. 369 b †  
Bluntivers. 538 b ¶  
Boaley, or Bodeleigh. 416 b * 548 b *  
Bohun. 186 a †  
Bois. 274 b *  
Bokerell. 539 a † M.  
Bold. 239 a †  
Bolen, or Boleyne. 313 a ¶ 285 b *  
Bolles. 595 b * M. 870 b †  
Bond. 121 a ¶ 218 a * 179 b ¶ 132 b * 281 b † 341 a † 587 a * 589 a † 590 b † M. 784 a ¶ 810 b *  
Bongey. 540 a ¶  
Bonham 778 b †  
Bonnet. 533 a † B.  
Bonpfant. 285 a ¶  
Boron. 313 b †  
Borresby. 193 a *  
Borwet. 908 b ¶  
Boseham. 556 a ¶  
Bostock. 222 b †  
Boswell. 841 b †  
Bovel. 262 b ¶  
Bourne. 901 a †  
Bourser. 186 a *  
Bowden. 451 a ¶  
Bowler. 191 b *  
Bows. 157 a † 223 b * 460 a * 582 a ¶ 583 a ¶  
Bowyer. 105 b ¶ 211 b * 223 a † 581 b * 583 a † M. 588 b ¶ 865 b †  
Box. 546 a † 587 b *  
Boxhull. 369 b †  
Boil. 805 a *  
Bradbery. 293 b † 346 a * 575 a * 577 a ¶ M.  
Bradburge. 398 b †  
Brade. 398 b †  
Bradmote. 330 b ¶  
Brainforth. 472 b †  
Brame. 250 b *  
Brampton. 211 b † 230 b † 238 a *  
Bramre. 346 b ¶  
Bramston. 558 a ¶  
Branch. 235 b ¶ 334 a † 587 b ¶ 589 a ¶ M.  
Brandon. 451 a * 553 a ¶  
Brapson. 552 a *  
Brawn. 792 b ¶  
Bray. 395 a ¶  
Breakspeare. 290 a * 321 b ¶  
Brembar. 345 b * 555 b † M.  
Bremisgrave. 132 a †  
Bret 330 b ¶ 351 b *  
Brewer. 367 b †  
Brews. 451 a ¶  
Brewster. 424 b *  
Breybrook. 367 b † 532 a * B.  
Brian. 397 b ¶ 561 b ¶  
Briar. 189 b ¶  
Brice. 223 a ¶ 569 a * 573 a † M.  
Bricket. 170 a ¶  
Brickles. 251 a ¶ b †  
Bridges. 223 a † 894 a ¶  
Brigs'. 847 a ¶  
Brim. 908 b ¶  
Bristol. 123 b *  
Britain, or Breton. 146 a † 218 a * 267 a * 341 a † 546 a * M. 549 b * M. 572 b * 579 a ¶  
Broke. 193 a * 259 a *  
Broke-it-well. 327 b †  
Brokle. 563 a † M.  
Brome. 138 b †  
Bromer. 262 b ¶  
Bromfield. 597 a *  
Bromflit. 299 b †  
Bromley. 843 b *  
Broud. 527 b ¶ 575 a.  
Brook. 505 a † 416 a † 573 b * 560 a * 591 a †  
Brooker. 454 a *  
Brosked. 157 a †  
Browke. 433 b ¶  
Browne. 88 b * 103 a † 131 a ¶ 239 b † 281 b † 303 a ¶ 306 a * 338 a * 451 a * 537 b * 563 b ¶ M. 569 a * 571 b ¶ M. 576 b ¶ M. 578 a † M. 558 b † M.  
Browning. 543 a ¶  
Brudge. 238 b *  
Bruges. 578 a † 579 a * M.  
Brune. 86 b † 175 b ¶ 537 a *  
Bubwith. 532 a *  
Buck. 303 a ¶  
Buckland. 886 a †  
Buckle. 227 a ¶ 589 b * 591 b * M.  
Buckmote. 536 b ¶  
Budd. 316 b ¶  
Budge. 392 b *  
Bug. 218 a †  
Book. 270 a *  
Bukysworth. 554 b †  
Bulbeck. 907 a †  
Bullen, or Bullein. 89 a † 313 b ¶ 566 a † 567 b ¶ M.  
Bunce. 773 a †  
Burder. 345 b ¶  
Burel. 237 b ¶  
Burgan, or Burgaine. 285 a ¶ 416 b ¶  
Buris. 553 b ¶  
Burley. 161 b † 277 b ¶ 360 b †  
Burnell. 133 a † 135 a † 345 b ¶  
Bursted. 351 b †  
Burton. 152 b ¶ 154 a † 299 a ¶ 472 b ¶ 850 b * 907 b †  
Burwash. 346 a *  
Bury. 376 b †  
Busbie. 313 a ¶ 315 b † 316 a ¶  
Butler. 100 b ¶ 179 a ¶ 241 a ¶ 281 a ¶ b † 337 b * 346 a † 407 b † 484 b ¶ 547 b ¶ 562 a † 576 b ¶ 578 a ¶ M.  
Bing. 153 a †  
Byrch. 135 b †  
Byry. 416 b ¶  
Bywater. 562 b ¶   

C  
CAge. 350 b † 779 a †  
Caldset. 416 a †  
Caldwell. 97 a * 215 b † 326 a † 372 b * 795 a ¶ 856 a ¶  
Calf. 398 a ¶  
Callet. 547 a ¶  
Calthrop. 184 b ¶ 344 b * 589 a * 590 b * M.  
Calton. 579 b ¶  
Calverley. 87 a ¶  
Cambell. 107 a † 291 a † 592 b * 394 a ¶ 597 b ¶ M.  
Cambery. 346 a †  
Cambridge. 227 a * 561 a ¶ M.  
Camden. 774 a ¶  
Campe. 102 a †  
Candish, or Cavendish. 281 a ¶ 553 b † M.  
Canning. 566 a ¶ M.  
Cantilow. 306 a ¶  
Capell. 191 a ¶ 573 b * 576 a * M.  
Caponig. 136 b †  
Cappe. 101 a * 296 a ¶  
Carew, or Carey. 149 b * 776 a ¶ 898 a *  
Carleshull. 557 b †  
Caroon. 790 b ¶  
Carpenter. 88 a ¶  
Car. 98 b ¶  
Carter. 154 b ¶ 454 a †  
Cartwright. 153 b * 899 a ¶  
Castle. 344 b ¶  
Castleton. 261 a ¶  
Caston. 548 b *  
Castor. 346 a †  
Catcher. 185 a † 590 b †  
Catworth. 308 a ¶ 564 b † M.  
Causton. 258 b ¶  
Cawood. 244 b † 331 a †  
Cawson. 547 b *  
Caxton. 241 a ¶  
Cayfi. 132 a †  
Cely. 134 b ¶  
Chadwell. 406 a *  
Chadworth. 393 a † 557 b ¶ 559 b † M.  
Chalons. 345 b †  
Chalton. 564 a * 566 b † M.  
Chamber. 397 b ¶  
Chamberlain. 101 a † 290 a ¶ 537 b * 586 a ¶ 874 a *  
Champion. 106 a † 139 a * 191 a † 346 b ¶ 580 b ¶ 585 b * 586 b ¶ M.  
Champnies. 137 b * 547 a ¶ 579 b † 581 a † M.  
Chape. 346 a ¶  
Chapman. 98 b ¶ 221 b * 263 a ¶ 432 a † 564 b *  
Chapone. 135 a †  
Chartam. 146 a †  
Charles. 186 b *  
Charleton. 822 b ¶  
Chartney. 235 a ¶  
Chartsey. 285 a * 563 a * 583 b *  
Chatesteshunt. 360 b ¶  
Chaunticlere. 549 b *  
Chaury. 391 b * 571 b ¶ 574 b * M.  
Chawcer. 267 a †  
Chaworth. 907 a ¶  
Chayhee. 285 a ¶  
Cheek. 309 a * 803 a *  
Cherry. 133 a ¶  
Cheshull, or Chishull. 360 b ¶ 531 b † B.  
Chester. 118 b ¶ 178 b * 220 b ¶ 281 b † 344 b * 572 b * 584 b ¶ 586 a * M.  
Cheyney. 153 b * 179 b † 346 a * 406 a *  
Chibary. 186 b *  
Chichester. 555 a * M.  
Chickley. 88 b † 244 b * 263 a † 562 b † M. 559 b *  
Chickwell, or Chigwell. 360 b ¶ 545 b ¶ 548 b † M.  
Chirwide. 145 b ¶  
Chitcroft. 149 b †  
Chitting. 799 a ¶  
Cholmley. 372 a ¶ 433 a *  
Choppin. 313 a ¶  
Chornet. 186 b *  
Christopherson. 274 a *  
Church. 101 a † 138 a † 192 a †  
Churchman. 87 b ¶ 187 b ¶ 557 a †  
Churchyard. 346 b ¶  
Clapham. 831 b †  
Clare. 341 a *  
Clarell. 312 b ¶  
Clarke. 120 a ¶ 123 b ¶ 230 b † 398 b † 472 b ¶ 551 a † 592 b † 788 a * 852 a ¶  
Clavering. 193 a †  
Clay. 134 b †  
Clere. 790 a ¶ 791 b ¶  
Clifford. 186 b ¶ 532 a ¶ B.  
Clifton. 346 a ¶  
Clixston. 284 b †  
Clitherow. 187 b ¶ 597 a †  
Clivelod. 393 a ¶  
Clopton. 89 a ¶ 292 a * 552 a † 564 a † 573 a † 574 a † M. 801 b ¶  
Clun. 100 a ¶  
Cobham. 346 b * 540 b *  
Cocham. 540 a †  
Cockain, or Cocken. 148 b ¶ 179 a ¶ 185 a * 364 b † 595 a † M. 776 b ¶  
Cocks. 120 a †  
Codras. 540 b ¶  
Cogger. 226 a †  
Coggeshall. 231 a † 398 a ¶  
Coke. or Cook. 186 b ¶ 299 a † 372 b ¶ 412 b † 415 b ¶ 429 a † 560 b * M. 567 a † 763 a * 802 a ¶ 909 a †  
Colborne. 435 a †  
Coldock. 153 a †  
Cole. 239 a ¶ 807 a †  
Coleman. 292 a * 410 a †  
Collet. 89 b ¶ 265 b ¶ 306 a ¶ 308 a ¶ 571 a * 573 a ¶ 787 b ¶  
Collingborne. 186 b ¶  
Collins. 218 b * 392 b ¶  
Colsell. 293 b †  
Columbars. 261 a ¶  
Colwich. 571 a †  
Combarton. 246 b * 303 a *  
Combs. 228 b ¶ 238 b * 565 a ¶  
Combmartin. 547 b †  
Comerton. 213 b *  
Coming, alias Chilcot. 96 a †  
Coningston. 431 b ¶  
Constable. 108 b †  
Constantine. 549 a * 569 a †  
Coolby. 189 b ¶  
Cooper, or Cowper. 149 a † 215 a ¶ 230 b * 548 a † 584 a ¶  
Cootes, or Cotes. 245 a * 338 a * 573 b ¶ 581 a † 582 b ¶  
Cope. 397 b ¶  
Copinger. 393 a * 576 b * 577 b ¶ M.  
Copland. 269 b ¶  
Coppin. 906 a ¶  
Corbet. 429 a * 811 b *  
Cordell. 432 a ¶  
Cornhill. 536 b † 543 a ¶  
Cornewallis. 261 a ¶ 556 a ¶  
Cornish. 322 a †  
Costin, or Coston. 222 a ¶ 331 b ¶ 877 a ¶  
Cousin. 239 a † 249 b †  
Cotlow. 566 a ¶  
Cotton. 148 b ¶ 425 a * 560 b ¶ 597 a * 853 a *  
Covel. 134 b † 346 a † 820 b †  
Coventry. 270 a * 543 a ¶ 561 b † M.  
Coverdale. 191 b †  
Coult. 874 b ¶  
Courtney. 186 a ¶ 532 a † B. 810 a †  
Couch. 99 a †  
Cowdorow. 157 a †  
Cox. 352 a * 774 b *  
Cradock. 186 a *  
Crane. 551 a †  
Cranmer. 598 a *  
Crashaw. 904 a *  
Cravon. 592 a ¶ 594 b † M.  
Crayhag. 293 b †  
Creke. 371 a †  
Cresacre. 281 b †  
Creswell. 334 b †  
Crew. 818 a †  
Criche. 848 b ¶  
Crisp. 219 b * 597 a † 856 b ¶  
Criswick. 149 b †  
Crofts. 370 b ¶ 485 a ¶  
Croke. 149 b ¶ 305 a †  
Croles. 119 b ¶ 123 b * 131 b †  
Cromar, Cromer, or Crowmer. 238 b ¶ 560 a † 561 a * M.  
Cromwell. 187 a *  
Crosby. 179 a ¶ 181 b † 469 b ¶  
Croshaw. 827 b ¶  
Cross. 546 a ¶  
Crow. 805 b ¶  
Crouch. 434 b †  
Crowley. 313 a ¶  
Crowner. 238 b ¶  
Croyden. 552 a †  
Crud. 332 a ¶  
Culverwell. 96 b *  
Cure. 96 a ¶ 451 b †  
Curteis. 218 a * 551 a † 583 a ¶  
Curzon. 762 b *  
Cushion. 231 a ¶  
Cuthing. 186 b *  
Cutting. 901 a *   

D  
DAcres. 786 b †  
Dalling. 549 a †  
Dallison. 484 b *  
Dalton. 434 b ¶ 893 a ¶  
Dalusse. 261 b †  
Dancer. 191 b †  
Dane. 150 a ¶ 395 a ¶ 587 b †  
Daniel. 294 a * 395 b * 571 b ¶  
Danne. 108 a †  
Danson. 908 a *  
Danvers. 416 a †  
Derby. 218 a † 565 b ¶ 569 a ¶  
Darcy. 117 b ¶ 118 b ¶ 119 a † 324 a ¶ 549 b ¶ M.  
Darling. 132 a †  
Darlington. 398 a ¶  
Darr. 295 b *  
Davies. 881 a ¶  
Dauntesey. 295 b ¶ 580 b ¶  
Davy. 304 a †  
Dawbeney. 176 b † 186 b *  
Daws. 578 a †  
Dawtrey. 186 b ¶ 788 a ¶  
Day. 315 a † 316 b †  
Deane. 105 b ¶ 136 a * 146 a † 597 b * M.  
Dear, or Dear. 351 b † 566 b †  
Deddam. 145 b ¶  
Delakere. 229 a †  
Delamere. 545 b *  
Denham. 131 a ¶ 581 a ¶  
Dennie. 152 a ¶  
Dennis. 131 a ¶ 133 b † 554 a †  
Dennison. 151 a †  
Densill. 898 a †  
Dent. 191 b †  
Deoly. 244 a ¶  
Depham. 241 a ¶  
Deskie. 186 b ¶  
Dethick. 371 a ¶ 406 a * 409 b ¶ 788 b †  
Devereux. 131 a ¶ 345 b †  
Dews. 290 a ¶  
Deyncourt. 346 b *  
Dickman. 290 a † 554 b ¶  
Dickson. 214 a *  
Digby. 830 a ¶  
Digges. 303 a ¶  
Dimock. 292 b *  
Dinham. 346 a *  
Dixie. 106 a * 139 b † 299 b * 588 b † 590 a * M.  
Dobber. 395 a ¶ 582 b ¶ 584 a ¶ M.  
Dockwray. 355 a ¶  
Dodmere. 579 b * 580 b * M.  
Dogget. 231 a * 395 a * 556 b † 577 a ¶  
Dolseby. 552 a ¶ M.  
Dolssell. 553 a ¶  
Donne, or Dunn●. 137 b * 269 a ¶ 776 b †  
Dormer. 285 a ¶ 580 b † 582 b * M. 787 b *  
Dorset. 537 b †  
Dove. 102 a † 119 b * 878 a ¶  
Downer. 309 b †  
Downs, or Downis. 331 a * 800 b †  
Downham. 103 b ¶  
Draper. 106 a † 139 a ¶ 152 a ¶ 311 a ¶ 586 a † 587 a † M. 831 a †  
Drayton. 274 b * 763 b ¶  
Drew. 193 a * 349 b † 828 a *  
Drifield. 187 a ¶  
Drop. 213 b * 569 b * 570 b ¶ M.  
Drury. 547 b ¶  
Dryland. 228 b ¶  
Ducy. 149 a † 598 a † M.  
Duck. 560 a ¶ 877 a *  
Ducat. 106 a † 537 a * 586 b * 588 a †  
Dudley. 242 a ¶ 813 a ¶  
Dudson. 886 a ¶  
Duffehouse. 563 a ¶  
Duffield. 123 b *  
Duke. 431 b ¶ 536 b * 540 a † M.  
Dummer. 100 a ¶  
Duncell. 451 a ¶  
Dunstable. 245 a † b † 547 a †  
Dunster. 821 a ¶  
Dunthorne. 308 b †  
Durant. 537 a *  
Duresme. 541 a ¶  
Durham. 542 b *  
Durrem. 183 b *  
Dutcon. 802 a †  
Dyker. 564 b *   

E  
EAstfield. 88 b * 303 a * 387 b ¶ 562 b * M.  
Ebot. 559 a ¶  
Edgecombe. 766 a †  
Edisbury. 805 b ¶  
Edlyn. 773 b *  
Edmond. 347 a †  
Edward's. 157 a † 186 b ¶ 220 a * 567 a ¶ 570 a * M. 824 a †  
Eels. 905 a †  
Egeock, or Egioke. 430 a ¶ 812 b ¶  
Eliot. 321 b ¶  
Elkenton. 346 b †  
Elkin. 104 b ¶ 388 a †  
Ellis. 558 b † 907 a ¶  
Elmer. 98 a * 366 b † 473 a ¶ 534 a † B.  
Elrington. 211 b * 451 a ¶ 471 a †  
Elsing. 86 b ¶  
Elwes. 105 b * 107 a ¶ 594 a †  
Emerson. 452 b ¶  
Emfield. 347 a †  
Empson. 242 a ¶  
English. 579 b † 808 b †  
Eomans'. 473 a †  
Erington. 858 a †  
Esgastone. 398 a ¶  
Essex. 293 b † 419 b * 424 a *  
Eston. 458 a *  
Evans. 454 b ¶ 793 a ¶  
Evenger. 131 b †  
Everard. 561 a ¶  
Every. 215 a †  
Evington. 100 b ¶  
Eure. 360 a †  
Ewin. 238 b * 340 b *  
Exmew 306 a * 577 a † 518 b * M.  
Exton. 227 a * 557 a † M.  
Eyland. 538 a ¶  
Eyre. 89 a † 163 a * 223 b † 564 a ¶ 566 a † M.   

F  
FAbian. 89 a ¶ 214 a † 574 a ¶  
Fairford. 238 a * 458 a ¶  
Falckins. 188 a †  
Falconer. 88 a † 561 a ¶ M. 559 b *  
Falleron. 187 b ¶  
Falstaff. 557 a ¶  
Faringdon. 105 b † 335 a * 337 b * 545 b * M  
Farnford. 398 b †  
Farrer. 277 a †  
Farrington. 594 a *  
Fastolph. 179 b †  
Fauconbridge. 179 b † 366 b ¶ 530 b * M.  
Fauset. 145 b ¶  
Featly. 837 a †  
Felcham. 340 b ¶  
Felding. 285 b ¶  
Fen. 419 b * 597 a *  
Fenkell, or Finkill. 238 b * 573 a ¶  
Fenrother. 577 b ¶  
Fenton. 245 a ¶ 805 a ¶  
Ferrer. 429 a ¶ 582 a ¶ 789 b ¶  
Fetherstone. 435 a † 880 b *  
Fetiplace. 292 a *  
Ffoy. 260 a *  
Field. 567 a ¶  
Fielding. 565 b ¶ 567 a † M.  
Fikeldon. 311 a *  
Filpot. 87 a ¶  
Fines. 345 b *  
Finke. 186 b *  
Fingrith. 547 a *  
Fished. 555 b *  
Fisher. 96 b ¶ 97 a †  
Fitz-Alwine. 146 a * 245 a † 536 b * M.  
Fitz-Arnold. 537 a †  
Fitz-Hugh. 532 b † B.  
Fitz-Iames. 370 a ¶ 532 b ¶ B.  
Fitz-Isabel. 537 a †  
Fitz-Mary. 86 b * 544 a †  
Fitz-Richard. 543 b † M.  
Fitz-Roger. 542 a ¶ M.  
Fitz-Water. 416 b †  
Fitz-William. 89 b ¶ 184 b ¶ 308 b †. etc.  
Fleming. 149 a ¶ 285 a * 568 a *  
Fletcher. 366 b † 534 a † B.  
Floid. 908 b †  
Foliot. 530 a ¶ B.  
Ford. 393 a ¶  
Forman. 108 a * 228 b ¶ 581 a ¶ 582 a * M.  
Forrest. 290 a †  
Forster, or Foster. 226 b † 107 b * 311 a * 541 b * 567 a ¶ M.  
Fortescue. 285 a * 424 a †  
Forth. 411 b *  
Fowler. 397 b ¶ 800 b ¶ 867 a †  
Fox. 101 a ¶ 288 b † 313 a ¶ b * 545 b *  
Foxton. 211 b †  
Frances. 146 a † 179 a * 322 b † 550 a † M. 557 b ¶ 559 a ¶ M.  
Franckland. 325 b ¶  
Franke. 123 b * 239 a *  
Fray. 191 a ¶  
Freemen. 596 b * 846 a *  
Framingham. 559 b ¶  
French. 230 b † 557 a †  
Frere. 398 a *  
Freshwater. 874 a ¶  
Friole. 290 a †  
Frosham. 551 a ¶  
Frostling. 553 b †  
Frowike. 346 b ¶ 542 a † 562 a ¶ M.  
Froyshe. 558 b †  
Fuller. 97 b ¶ 269 b ¶ 472 a ¶  
Furneiss. 548 b ¶   

G  
GAbeter. 262 b *  
Gainsford. 239 a †  
Galder. 338 a ¶  
Gale. 99 b ¶  
Gamage. 350 a ¶ 588 a ¶  
Ganon. 281 a ¶  
Garaway. 185 a ¶ 597 a ¶ 868 a †  
Gardener. 211 b * 462 a ¶ 569 b * 571 b † M.  
Garinsers. 186 a *  
Garland. 152 a * 274 b * 538 a ¶  
Garman. 214 a *  
Garme. 293 b †  
Garrard, or Gerrard. 148 b ¶ 152 a ¶ 230 b ¶ 330 b ¶ 584 b † 585 a * 591 a ¶ 593 a † M. 818 b † 844 b ¶ 886 a *  
Garth. 281 b †  
Garton. 548 a ¶  
Jail. 228 b ¶  
Gedney. 561 b ¶ M.  
Gelson. 228 a ¶  
Gennings. 89 b †  
Gest 372 a ¶  
Gibs. 296 a *  
Gibson. 107 b ¶ 309 b * 582 a † 788 b ¶  
Gifford. 186 b † 313 b *  
Gilbert. 107 ¶ 131 a ¶  
Gilborne. 150 a *  
Gillet. 877 a *  
Gips. 474 a *  
Girdler. 554 b ¶  
Guysors. 255 a * 261 a ¶ 345 b ¶ 541 a † M.  
Gloucester. 406 a † 546 b ¶  
Glover. 105 a ¶ 228 a ¶ 293 b * 314 b †  
Goad. 249 b †  
Goare, or Gore. 148 b ¶ 246 a * 306 b † 595 a ¶ 596 b ¶  
Goddard. 105 a * 592 a †  
Godfrey. 303 a ¶  
Godney. 193 a †  
Golding. 294 b * 419 b ¶ 773 b ¶  
Goldsmith. 831 a ¶  
Gonnel. 305  
Goodcheape. 546 a †  
Goodman. 293 b †  
Goodrick. 883 b ¶  
Goodwin. 146 a † 333 b †  
George's. 786 a †  
Goslin, or Gosling, or Gosseline. 227 a * 562 a ¶ 908 a †  
Govere. 313 a *  
Gower. 179 a ¶ 237 b ¶  
Grace. 213 b †  
Gramstone. 238 b *  
Granado. 138 b *  
Grantham. 265 b ¶ 346 b ¶ 549 a ¶ M.  
Grass. 538 a *  
Gravesend. 531 b * B.  
Grace. 261 a ¶ 400 b † 552 a ¶ B. 578 a ¶  
Greek. 333 b ¶  
Green. 331 b ¶  
Greenough. 305 a †  
Greenway. 138 b *  
Greenwood. 322 a ¶  
Gregory. 326 b ¶ 564 b † 566 b ¶ M.  
Gresham. 90 b * 92 b * 179 b † 182 a † 184 b * 285 b ¶ 299 b † 303 a ¶ 580 b ¶ 581 b ¶ 582 a † M. 583 b * M. 787 b ¶  
Greswold. 152 a *  
Gretsim. 239 a †  
Grevill. 451 a *  
Grey. 313 a †  
Griffith. 157 a * 230 b *  
Grimeston. 798 b *  
Grindall. 533 b ¶ B.  
Grove. 576 b *  
Guildford. 360 b ¶ 786 b ¶  
Gunter. 214 a ¶  
Gurden. 548 a ¶  
Gurney. 104 b ¶ 238 b ¶ 590 b ¶   

H  
HAcket. 148 b ¶ 179 a † 595 a † 597 a ¶ 854 a *  
Hackney. 227 a †  
Haddon. 135 a † 326 a * 349 a † 574 b † 576 b * M.  
Hadley. 337 b * 555 b ¶ M.  
Haines. 134 a *  
Hales. 148 b ¶ 564 b *  
Hall. 92 a ¶ 100 b ¶ 276 b ¶ 346 b ¶ 392 b ¶ 862 b ¶  
Halsey. 585 b †  
Halstock. 419 b †  
Hallyday. 299 b * 591 b ¶ 842 b *  
Halton. 180 b † 308 b † 560 a ¶  
Halye. 398 b *  
Hamber. 313 a * ¶  
Hamersley. 595 b ¶ 597 b † M.  
Hammond. 550 b * M.  
Hamney. 293 b †  
Hampson, or Hampton. 105 a ¶ 193 a * 227 b ¶ 568 b † 570 b † 592 a ¶  
Hanbury. 152 b † 154 b * 316 a ¶  
Hanford. 148 b ¶ 244 a ¶ 596 b †  
Hansard. 550 b *  
Hansby. 473 b ¶  
Harbeck. 293 b †  
Harby. 215 a ¶  
Hardell. 154 b † 538 b ¶ M.  
Harding. 230 b ¶ 231 a ¶ 239 b † 571 a ¶ 587 a ¶  
Hardy. 580 a *  
Hardley. 558 a ¶ M.  
Hare. 371 a ¶ 880 a ¶  
Harington. 370 b * 434 b ¶  
Hariot. 138 b * 569 b † 572 a † 831 b ¶  
Harlingridge. 274 b *  
Harper. 92 b * 585 a ¶ 586 a * M. 845 b †  
Harp●field. 179 a ¶  
Harrison. 430 a †  
Hart. 106 b † 117 b ¶ 241 b ¶ 346 b ¶ 589 a * 590 b ¶  
Hartford. 252 a *  
Hartshorne. 331 a †  
Harvey. 218 a * 311 a * 545 a † M. 588 a * 589 b † M. 595 b ¶ M. 868 a ¶ 903 a ¶  
Harvist. 103 a † 315 a ¶ 316 b *  
Harry. 338 a ¶  
Hasken. 223 b ¶  
Hastings. 345 b ¶  
Hatcliffe. 804 a *  
Hatfield. 244 a ¶ 555 a ¶  
Havelock. 290 a †  
Haverell. 536 b * 537 b ¶  
Havering. 245 b †  
Haughton, or Hawton. 549 b ¶ 591 b † 809 b ¶  
Having. 257 a *  
Hawes. 150 a † 235 b ¶ 269 b * 308 a ¶ 310 b ¶ 575 b † 586 b ¶ 588 a ¶ M. 773 a ¶  
Hawkins. 139 b ¶ 805 b * 862 a ¶  
Hawlen. 392 b ¶  
Hawteine. 546 a ¶  
Hay, or Hayes. 187 b ¶ 593 b † M. 595 a * M. 847 b *  
Haydon. 95 a † 257 a ¶ 584 b *  
Hayman. 886 a ¶  
Heardson. 139 a †  
Hearn. 149 a † 595 b ¶  
Hede. 575 b †  
Heila. 183 b ¶  
Heilin. 596 b ¶  
Heliland, or Holiland. 537 b ¶ 341 a †  
Helisdon. 556 b †  
Hemenhall. 552 a †  
Hend. 241 a ¶  
Henneage. 179 b ¶ 366 a *  
Henningham. 145 b ¶  
Henshaw. 306 b *  
Herbert. 349 b ¶  
Hereford. 546 a ¶  
Hereick. 812  
Herenden. 326 b †  
Heriot. 411 a ¶  
Heretagh. 310 a *  
Herlion. 536 b *  
Heron. 801 b *  
Hertelepole. 547 b *  
Heselrigg. 893 a ¶  
Hetton. 803 b *  
Hewet, or Hewyt. 219 a † 322 a * 364 a † 777 a *  
Heyban. 238 a *  
Heyford. 220 b ¶ 569 a † 571 a ¶  
Heyward. 226 b ¶ 305 b † 586 b † M. 587 b ¶ M. 591 a † M.  
Heywood. 170 a †  
Hicks. 760 a ¶  
Hide. 155 a ¶ 559 a *  
Higham. 563 a *  
High-lord. 136 b ¶  
Hildie. 274 b *  
Hill or Hils. 89 a ¶ 90 b ¶ 92 b † 155 b * 192 a * 245 a * 281 b † 309 a † 532 b * B. 570 b ¶ 572 b * M. 582 b † 584 a * M. 806 a ¶  
Hilliard. 451 a *  
Hiltoft. 554 ¶  
Hilton. 101 a ¶ 223 b * 406 a †  
Hinchlade. 309 a ¶  
Hind. 88 a † 265 a ¶ 267 a * 337 b ¶ 544 a † 556 b ¶ M. a *  
Hobby. 171 a *  
Hobson. 274 a *  
Hodge, or Hodges. 148 b ¶ 472 a ¶ 596 a † 558 a † M.  
Hodgson, or Hodson. 261 a ¶ 306 a †  
Holbech. 554 a †  
holderness. 577 b *  
Holdich. 555 a †  
Holgrave, or Holigrave. 123 b ¶ 460 a ¶  
Holland. 265 a ¶ 267 a * 563 b †  
Holliday. 149 a † 593 b * M.  
Hollis. 179 b † 580 a ¶ 582 a ¶ M.  
Holmedon. 592 a ¶  
Holmes. 96 a ¶  
Holstocke. 227 a ¶  
Holt. 222 b * 351 b ¶  
Hondon. 235 b ¶  
Hone. 416 b ¶  
Hopton. 346 a †  
Horn. 245 a † 571 a * 573 a ¶ M.  
Hosepoole. 219 b * 431 b ¶  
Horton. 432 a †  
Hothersall. 150 a ¶  
Houghton, or Howton. 214 a † b † 346 a † 880 a * 892 b †  
House. 391 b ¶ 590 a.  
Howard. 131 a ¶ 790 b ¶  
whither. 899 a *  
Howpill. 153 a †  
Huberthorne. 211 b † 212 a † 582 b ¶ 583 b † M.  
Huddy. 346 b †  
Huit. 238 b ¶  
Hulin. 566 a ¶ 568 468 a * M.  
Hulit. 454 a †  
Hull. 865 a ¶  
Hulson, or Hulton. 387 b ¶ 392 a *  
Humble. 452 a †  
Huns. 905 b ¶  
Hungate. 281 a ¶  
Hungerford. 346 b ¶ 787 a †  
Hunt. 107 a ¶ 108 a ¶  
Huntingdon. 179 a ¶  
Huntlow. 582 a ¶  
Hurstwaight. 392 b ¶  
Husband. 550 b †  
Huse, Husse, or Hussie. 146 a † 349 b ¶ 372 a ¶ 795 b ¶  
Huysh. 278 a †  
Huytley. 246 b ¶   

I  
IAckman. 245 a * 586 b *  
jacob. 99 b † 789 b * 891 b *  
jaie. 221 b † 595 a †  
james. 132 b * 138 b ¶ 226 a † 562 b * 568 b † 571 b * M. 825 a ¶  
jarveis. 583 a ¶  
jawdrell. 235 b ¶  
jenkin's. 101 a †  
jenner. 430 b †  
jennings. 95 b * 152 a * 303 a ¶ 346 b † 575 a * 577 a † M. 579 b †  
jermin. 845 a ¶  
Iken. 274 a ¶  
Ilam. 89 a * 281 b † 571 a *  
Illingworth. 308 a ¶  
Ingham. 417 a †  
joceline. 241 a ¶ 567 b ¶ 569 a † M.  
johnson. 149 a † 191 a † 350 a ¶ 576 b * 595 b *  
jolles. 593 b * 595 a ¶ M.  
jones. 103 a ¶ 105 b † 593 b † 596 a * 883 a ¶  
Iorden. 118 b ¶ 123 b ¶  
joshua. 537 a † 538 a *  
joiner. 340 b ¶ 541 a † M.  
Ireland. 100 b ¶ 393 a ¶ 554 b * 568 a ¶  
Ironside. 834 a ¶  
Isaac. 138 b † 573 b †  
Isham. 415 b ¶  
Islip. 138 a ¶  
jud. 90 b ¶ 179 b † 182 b † 583 a * 584 a * M.  
Iveve. 311 a *   

K  
KAyor. 186 b ¶  
Keble. 89 b * 276 a ¶ 575 b ¶ 577 b † M.  
Kelsey. 306 a *  
Kempe. 145 b ¶ 370 a † 532 a ¶ B. 798 b ¶ 908 b †  
Kempton. 588 b *  
Kendal. 274 b *  
Kendricke. 193 b *  
Kenly. 186 b *  
Kennington. 138 a ¶  
Kenuda. 186 b †  
Kerkby, or Kirby. 152 a * 245 b ¶ 290 a * 576 b ¶  
Kerveyn, or Kervin. 180 b † 837 a *  
Keston. 274 a ¶  
Kettle. 235 b ¶  
Keynell. 801 b †  
Keyton. 322 a †  
Kiligreie. 259 b †  
Killingbery. 557 b † M.  
King. 293 b † 534 a ¶ B. 564 a * 775  
Kingston. 211 a ¶ 550 b *  
Kinnon. 437 a ¶  
Kirketon. 346 b *  
Kirkman. 262 a *  
Kirton. 454 b ¶  
Kiryoll, or Kyriell. 138 a ¶ 156 b ¶  
Kitriell. 138 a †  
Kitson. 581 a ¶  
Knape. 431 b ¶  
Knesworth. 182 a * 284 a ¶ 574 b * 576 b † M  
Knight. 416 b ¶  
knighthood. 556 b †  
Knowles. 87 b * 86 a † 265 a ¶ 266 b † 558 a ¶ M.  
Kyme. 257 a * 579 a *  
Kyrton. 152 a ¶   

L  
LAcy. 186 a ¶ 367 b * 398 a ¶  
Laken. 281 b †  
Lambard, or Lambert. 92 b † 223 a † 311 a ¶ 270 a * 537 a ¶ 568 a * 580 a † 581 a †  
Lamb. 93 a * 355 b ¶  
Lambin. 548 a ¶  
Lancaster. 419 b *  
Land. 136 b † 186 a *  
Lane. 275 a *  
Langford. 546 b †  
Langham. 392 b ¶  
Langly. 188 a ¶ 284 b † 315 a ¶ 545 b * 587 a † 588 b * M.  
Langthrop. 179 a ¶  
Langton. 179 a * 423 b.  
Large. 88 b ¶ 290 b † 563 b * 565 a † M.  
Latimer. 797 b *  
Laud. 534 b † B.  
Land. 555 b ¶  
Laurence. 787 a ¶  
Law. 211 a ¶ 560 a ¶  
Laxton. 90 b * 267 a ¶ 268 a * 582 a ¶ 583 a *  
Lazar. 550 a *  
Lee, Legh, or Leigh. 106 b ¶ 150 a ¶ 245 a * 274 b * 281 b † 292 b † 433 b ¶ 407 a ¶ 434 b ¶ 566 b ¶ 568 a * M. 569 b ¶ 585 a † b * M. 591 a * 593 a * M. 472 a * 474 a ¶ 790 a ¶ 813 b ¶  
Leg. 551 b ¶  
Legget, or Leggy. 217 a ¶ 551 a † M. 552 a ¶ M.  
Lekhimpton. 326 a †  
Leman. 148 b ¶ 593 b ¶ 595 b † M. 856 b ¶  
Lepington. 191 a ¶  
Lessieur. 834 b *  
Levison. 152 a * 581 a ¶  
Lewen. 399 b ¶ 581 b ¶ 861 a ¶  
Lewes. 428 b ¶  
Lewknor. 451 a ¶  
Leyland. 387 b ¶  
Liade. 179 b †  
Lichfield. 321 b * 251 a *  
Lichterveld. 331 a ¶  
Lily. 370 a ¶ 906 b ¶  
Linacer. 369 b *  
Lindericle. 186 a †  
Lion's. 105 b ¶ 250 b * 262 b * 555 b * 584 a * 585 a †  
Lisle. 341 a * 345 a ¶  
Little. 553 a †  
Littlesbury. 258 b ¶  
Littleton. 235 b ¶ 762 a †  
Liveley. 474 b †  
Lloyd. 406 b *  
Lock. 270 a † 281 b † 568 a ¶ 583 b ¶ 581 b †  
Lodge. 268 a ¶ 585 b ¶ 586 a ¶ M.  
Lofken, or Loveken. 87 a * 236 b † 551 b * M.  
Lok. 804 a ¶  
Long. 235 b ¶ 407 b † 580 a ¶  
Lonyson. 338 a ¶  
Love. 557 a *  
Loveday. 909 a *  
Lovel. 157 a † 274 a ¶ 359 b * 531 b † B. 907 a ¶  
Lovenham. 560 b ¶  
Lover. 308 b ¶ 873 a.  
Louth. 419 b * 559 b ¶  
Low. 148 b ¶ 185 a ¶ 230 b ¶ 591 b ¶ 593 b † M.  
Lowen. 221 b †  
Lucas. 185 a † 551 a ¶  
Lucy. 345 b † 346 b * 888 b *  
Ludlow. 419 b *  
Lumley. 148 b ¶ 134 a ¶ 595 a * M.  
Lupton. 257 b †  
Lusher. 784 b †  
Lutkin. 584 a ¶  
Lye. 417 b *   

M  
MAbbe. 350 a ¶  
Machel. 306 a * 585 a *  
Mackley. 416 b †  
Mackman. 257 a *  
Mafield. 558 a †  
Mainard. 584 b †  
Malifant. 415 b ¶  
Malin. 212 b ¶  
Malledge. 457 b ¶  
Malmaynas. 346 b *  
Malory. 281 b † 336 a ¶ 585 a ¶ 586 b * M  
Malpas. 88 b ¶ 152 a ¶ 162 a * 564 b ¶ 565 a †  
Malton. 331 a †  
Malwen. 146 a †  
Man. 152 b * 295 b ¶  
Mancer. 311 a ¶  
Mandevile. 146 a *  
Manhall. 211 a ¶  
Manners. 186 a. 471 a.  
Manning. 101 a * 242 a †  
Manningham. 186 b †  
Manny. 186 b ¶  
Manthrop. 145 b ¶  
Marbeler. 551 a *  
March. 237 b ¶  
Markby. 415 b ¶  
Marlowe. 400 b † 561 b ¶ M. 559 b † M.  
Marpor. 228 b *  
Marrow. 331, 566 a ¶ 567 b † M.  
Marsh. 311 a ¶ 338 b.  
Martial. 149 b † 179 a * 286 a † 454 a * 532 b * B. 564 b ¶  
Martin. 105 b * 193 a † 259 a * 265 b ¶ 299 b † 406 a * 572 a ¶ 574 a * M. 581 a † 585 b ¶ 587 a * M. 589 b †  
Mascall. 99 a ¶  
Masham. 104 b * 589 b ¶  
Mason. 211 a † 314 b ¶ 316 b † 331 a † 361 b † 899 a *  
Master. 218 a *  
Matthew. 238 b ¶ 572 a † 573 b ¶ M.  
Maunsell. 897 b *  
S. Maure. 285 a ¶  
May. 98 b * 185 b * 391 b ¶  
Medham. 567 b ¶  
Medly. 311 a ¶  
Medlycote. 412 a *  
Melchborne. 187 b ¶  
Melford 361 a †  
Mellington. 156 b ¶  
Mellishe. 392 a *  
Melrith. 285 a *  
Merick. 186 a †  
Messe. 212 a †  
Metcalfe. 891 b ¶  
Meteren. 219 b †  
Metwood. 548 a ¶  
Mews. 186 a ¶  
Michael. 223 b † 330 b ¶ 372 a ¶ 561 a †  
Michael. 230 b * 290 a ¶ 562 b ¶ M.  
Micell. 261 b *  
Middleton. 148 b ¶ 303 a ¶ 566 b * 593 a * M.  
Milborne. 90 a ¶ 157 a * 220 b ¶ 339 a * 577 a ¶ 579 a ¶ M.  
Mildmay. 420 a *  
Milford. 306 a *  
Mill. 332 a ¶  
Milred. 563 a †  
Mils. 146 a * 587 b ¶  
Milsam. 331 a *  
Minors. 235 b ¶  
Mirfin. 356 b * 397 b ¶ 451 a * 577 b * 578 b ¶ M.  
Mirley. 308 b ¶  
Moager. 223 b †  
Mocking. 550 a ¶  
Mollington. 157 a †  
Moncaster. 351 b †  
Mond, or Mund. 337 b ¶ 355 a ¶  
Monden. 360 b ¶  
Monmouth. 131 a ¶ 581 b †  
Monox. 90 a ¶ 577 a ¶ 578 a ¶ M.  
Montague. 846 b †  
Monyns. 884 a ¶  
Mordant. 227 a *  
Mordaske. 186. b. ¶  
Mordon. 237 b ¶ 549 b † M.  
Morens. 186 b *  
Moré, or Moor. 155 a † 263 a † 346 b * 556 b ¶ 557 a * 558 b * M. 592 a * 787 b † 857 a *  
Morgan. 230 b *  
Morley. 135 a † 186 a ¶ 333 a ¶  
Morris. 206 b ¶ 211 b † 551 a ¶  
Mortain. 346 b †  
Mortimer. 145 b ¶ 345 a ¶  
Morsted. 273 b * 290 a * 308 a ¶ 339 b * 564 b †  
Morton. 825 b ¶  
Mosley. 591 a † M. 892 a *  
Motte. 238 a *  
Mountfort. 228 b ¶ 307 a ¶ 510 a *  
Mountgomery. 346 b ¶  
Moyle. 346 b †  
Monday, or Mundy. 578 a * 579 b † M. 869 a ¶  
Mullert. 150 a †  
Mulshew. 257 a *  
Multon. 149 b †  
Mun. 222 b ¶  
Murray. 905 b ¶  
Muschamp. 306 a * 568 b ¶  
Mustell. 261 a ¶  
Mutas. 162 a ¶   

N  
Ale. 152 b *  
Nash. 311 a ¶  
Naylor. 187 b ¶  
Neale, or Nele. 258 b * 333 b ¶ 530 a ¶ B. 551 a †  
Nedham. 416 b *  
Nelson. 98 a *  
Neve. 241 a ¶  
Nevel. 186 a * 336 b * 345 b * 369 b * 788 b *  
Newberry. 98 a ¶  
Newenton, or Newington. 186 a ¶ 558 a †  
Newland. 538 b † 572 a ¶  
Newley. 536 b ¶  
Newman. 98 b †  
Newport. 360 b ¶ 399 a ¶ 531 b ¶ B. 555 b ¶  
Newton. 123 b † 387 b ¶  
Nicholas. 93 a † 312 b † 392 b ¶ 398 b † 587 a † 588 b † M.  
Nicols. 355 b *  
Nicolson. 236 a † 407 b ¶  
Niger. 530 b ¶ B.  
Nives. 573 b ¶  
Norbery, or Norborow. 157 a † 346 b * 367 b †  
Nordon. 432 a † 565 b †  
Norford. 192 b ¶  
Norlong. 285 a *  
Norland. 281 b †  
Norman. 282 a ¶ 548 b † 565 b * 567 a † M.  
Norris. 186 a * 303 b ¶  
North. 285 b † 433 b †  
Northampton. 542 b ¶ M. 556 b ¶  
Northbroke. 532 a † B.  
Norton. 96 b * 281 a ¶  
Norwich. 138 b †  
Notte. 552 b * M.  
Nottingham. 553 a ¶  
Nouncy. 398 a ¶  
Nowell. 361 b * 889 a †   

O  
OFfley. 94 b † 96 b ¶ 105 a † 152 b † 153 a * 154 a ¶ 584 b * 585 a ¶ M. 590 b * 843 b * 847 b †  
Oldgrave. 567 b † 569 a † M.  
Oldhall. 257 a *  
Oleph. 587 a ¶  
Olney. 237 b ¶ 306 a * 564 a † 566 a * M.  
Olyffe. 239 b †  
Organ. 136 a * 290 a † 557 a †  
Orme. 874 b *  
Orrell. 179 a ¶ 180 b ¶  
Orwell. 530 a † B.  
Osborne. 218 a * b ¶ 588 b † 589 b ¶ M.  
Ostrich. 308 b † 574 a ¶ M.  
Otely. 563 a ¶ M.  
Otwell. 543 a ¶  
Overton. 155 b ¶  
Overye. 235 a ¶  
Owen. 245 a * 798 a ¶  
Owfield. 100 b †   

P  
PAckenton. 277 b ¶ 332 a †  
Paddesley. 564 a † 565 a *  
Paget. 218 a * 333 b *  
Pain. 892 a ¶  
Palin. 101 b † 124 a † 472 b ¶  
Palmer. 337 b * 392 b * 485 a * 548 a † 762 b ¶ 779 a ¶  
Par. 407 a †  
Pargitar. 391 b * 579 a ¶ 580 b ¶ M.  
Paris. 545 a †  
Parker. 100 a ¶ 101 a ¶ 320 b ¶ 371 b † 558 b *  
Parkhurst. 305 a † 596 b ¶  
Parkinson. 428 a ¶  
Parnell. 392 b ¶  
Parrie. 135 b * 810 a ¶  
Parsall. 346 b *  
Partridge. 228 b ¶ 579  
Parveffe. 561 b ¶ M  
Paskim. 295 a ¶  
Pats. 346 b ¶  
Patten. 92 b *  
Pattesly. 238 a *  
Paulet. 346 b ¶  
Payton. 185 b †  
Peach. 223 a ¶ 552 b ¶ M  
Peacock. 372 a ¶ 580 a † 581 a * M.  
Peake, or Peke. 311 a ¶ 472 b †  
Pelham. 888 a ¶  
Pemberton. 107 a † 187 b ¶ 322 b * 326 b ¶ 573 b ¶ 593 a * M.  
Penne. 560 b *  
Pepper. 138 b †  
Percers'. 186 b *  
percival. 89 a ¶ 193 a * 223 b † 573 a † 575 a * M.  
Perry. 87 a ¶  
Pert. 350 b ¶  
Peter. 88 a ¶  
Peterson. 218 a *  
Peyntwin. 790 b †  
Philip, or Philip's. 227 a * 458 a * 566 b ¶ 568 b ¶ M. 823 b ¶ 130 b *  
Philpot. 345 b † 555 b † M  
Picard. 87 a † 255 a * 542 b ¶ 552 a ¶ M.  
Pickering. 179 b * 285 a ¶ 852 b *  
Picking. 169 b †  
Piel. 555 a † M.  
Pierson. 270 a †  
Pigot. 547 b ¶  
Pike. 131 b † 191 a * 550 b † 560 b *  
Pikehurst. 308 b ¶  
Pikeman. 226 556 a *  
Pikeworth 460 a *  
Pinchenon. 581 a †  
Pinder. 171 a ¶ 767 a †  
Pipe. 588 a † 589 a. M  
Piriton. 369 b †  
Plat. 263 a ¶ 762 b †  
Plesseis. 369 b ¶  
Plumbe. 787 b *  
Plummer. 242 a ¶ 568 a †  
Pointell. 549 a †  
Pole. 350 a ¶  
Pontfract. 560 a ¶  
Pool. 559 b * 597 a †  
Pope. 245 a * b ¶  
Porter. 103 a † 134 b † 340 b ¶ 346 b ¶  
Portman. 433 b †  
Poster. 275 a ¶  
Potter. 544 b †  
Poulsted. 132 b ¶  
Poultney. 86 b ¶ 239 a ¶ 252 a * 360 b ¶ 550 a ¶ M  
Pourt. 547 b †  
Powel, or paul. 186 b * 432 b † 793 a ¶ 794 b ¶ Powlet. 184 a * 82 b †  
poins. 346 b †  
Prannell. 104 ¶ 387 b ¶ 590 a †  
Prat. 598 a †  
Prescot. 339 a † 594 b ¶  
Preston. 549 a † M.  
Price. 170 b * 831 b † 893 b ¶ 901 a ¶  
Pricot. 211 a ¶  
Priest. 581 a †  
Prince. 313 a †  
Prior. 548 b ¶  
Proby. 148 b ¶ 595 a * 596 b † M.  
Prodham. 549 a *  
Provost. 460 a †  
Prust. 890 b ¶  
Pullison. 588 a * 590 a * M.  
Purchase. 574 a * 575 a † M.  
Purchat. 285 a ¶  
Purde. 331 b *  
Purfet. 325 b †  
Purpoint. 237 b ¶  
Puty. 274 a ¶  
Pye. 348 b ¶  
Pyel. 594 a ¶ 842 a ¶   

Q  
QVarles. 100 a * 185 a † b †   

R  
RAdcliffe. 135 a † 239 a ¶ 812 b †  
Radwell. 237 b ¶  
Rainsford. 148 q †  
Rainton. 596 a ¶ 528 b † M.  
Rainwell. 88 b † 226 a † 563 a * M. 560 b.  
Ramsey. 106 a * 155 a * 223 b * 224 a ¶ 348 a ¶ 587 a † 588 b ¶ M.  
Randall. 101 a ¶ 103 a * 400 b *  
Randulph. 94 b * 322 a ¶ 409 a ¶  
Ratcliff. 590 a *  
Rave. 290 a *  
Raven. 351 b †  
Ravis. 370 b † 534 a ¶ B.  
Rawson. 89 a * 306 a * 133 b ¶ 391 b *  
Raymond. 778 a ¶  
Read, or Reed. 186 b ¶ 321 b ¶ 351 a ¶ 561 a ¶ 575 a † 576 a † M.  
Redman. 167 b † 411 a *  
Rosham. 547 a ¶ M.  
Reinere. 536 b †  
Reive. 171 b †  
Remington. 227 a ¶ 573 a ¶  
Renger. 539 a ¶ M.  
Rennington. 575 b † M.  
Rest. 577 a ¶ 578 b † M.  
revel. 227 a ¶ 573 b ¶  
Reynell. 883 a *  
Reyner. 567 b ¶  
Reynolds. 581 a † 806 a † 811 a ¶  
Rich. 89 b † 281 b † 285 a * 565 a ¶  
Richard's. 544 a *  
Richardson. 907 a †  
Ricroft. 138 b † 175 a ¶  
Ricthorne. 799 a *  
Rider. 591 a * M.  
Ridge. 94 b ¶  
Ridley. 533 a * B.  
Ripton. 123 b *  
Rishby. 397 b ¶  
River. 346 b * 586 b ¶ 588 a ¶ M.  
Roberts. 133 b * 150 b † 293 b ¶  
Robinson. 131 b † 133 b ¶ 180 a *  
Robsart. 346 a ¶  
Roch. 184 b ¶ 223 b † 579 b ¶ 582 b † M.  
Rochester. 179 a ¶  
Rochfort. 313 a *  
Rodlegete. 186 a *  
Roc. 299 b † 878 b *  
Rogerbrooke. 416 a ¶  
Rogers. 97 a ¶ 124 a † 242 b * 347 b † 412 b ¶ 312 b *  
Rois. 221 b *  
Roiston. 419 b *  
Rokeby. 331 a * 428 a † 429 b † 966 b *  
Rokesby. 306 a † 340 b ¶ 345 b † 543 b ¶ M.  
Rallingcourt. 186 b ¶  
Roman, Roman, or Romany. 118 b ¶ 258 b ¶ 267 a * 546 b * 548 a † M.  
Roose. 146 a †  
Roper. 315 b ¶  
Roston. 346 b ¶  
Roswell. 257 a *  
Rotham. 269 a *  
Rocheley. 346 b †  
Rotherham. 594 b ¶  
Rothing. 549 a *  
Row. 92 b ¶ 98 a ¶ 106 b ¶ 107 a ¶ 188 b † 285 b † 586 a † 587 b ¶ M. 589 b * 591 a ¶ M. 594 a † 796 a † 798 a *  
Rowse. 153 b † 337 b * 451 a ¶  
Rudston. 215 a † 579 b † 580 b † M.  
Rumney. 105 b † 107 a ¶ 305 a † 593 a ¶  
Rus. 213 b * 563 b †  
Russell. 99 b * 133 b ¶ 221 b ¶ 387 b ¶ 472 b ¶ M. 546 b ¶ 806 a ¶   

S  
SAckford. 486 a *  
Sackvile. 346 b * 484 a ¶  
Saint Alban. 892 b ¶  
Saint john. 228 b *  
Salter. 134 a ¶  
Saltonstall. 215 a ¶ 590 b * 592 a * M.  
Samson. 453 b ¶  
Sampull. 908 b *  
Sandhill. 398 b ¶  
Sanderford. 179 b †  
Sandwich. 347 a † 531 b † B. 546 a * M.  
Sandys. 412 a † 534 a † B.  
Sarich. 300 b †  
Saris. 829 b ¶  
Savage. 455 a † 532 b ¶ B. 273 b † 851 a.  
Savill. 415 b ¶  
Saunders. 297 a ¶  
Saxton. 274 b †  
Scarlet. 419 b ¶  
Schrader. 135 a ¶  
Scot 99 a ¶ 244 b † 566 a ¶ M. 791 a ¶  
Scriven. 472 b ¶  
Scroop. 186 b *  
Scudamore. 124 a † 170 b † 296 a † 473 a † 593 b * 900 b ¶  
Seamer. 179 a *  
Segrave. 531 b ¶ B.  
Seinturer. 538 b ¶  
Seliock. 274 b *  
Sely. 547 a † 556 b ¶ 562 b ¶  
Seman. 321 b ¶  
Sentleger. 423 b ¶  
Seringe. 811 a †  
Serle. 409 b † 538 b * M.  
Sevenock. 88 a * 372 a ¶ 561 b ¶ M. 558 b †  
Seyle. 594 a †  
Seymer. 472 a † 578 b † 580 a † M. 813 b *  
Shakstone, or Shaw. 89 a ¶ 281 b † 283 b † 337 b * 570 b ¶ 572 a * M. 575 b ¶  
Shandoys. 355 a *  
Sharborough. 308 b ¶  
Sheldon, or Shelton. 259 a ¶ 577 b * 904 b ¶  
Shelley. 138 b † 310 a ¶ 570 a *  
Shepley. 417 a *  
Sheppard. 800 a *  
Shere. 192 b ¶  
Sherington. 192 b ¶ 218 a *  
Seerland. 873 a †  
Shirley. 416 a †  
Shore. 244 a ¶ 274 a ¶ 576 b.  
Shorthose. 310 a *  
Shrew. 238 a †  
Shute. 221 b †  
Simonds. 392 b ¶ 453 a † 578 b *  
Skales. 138 b †  
Skevington. 157 a * 297 b † 579 a *  
Skidmore. 99 a ¶  
Skinner. 106 b ¶ 306 a ¶ 590 b † 592 a † M.  
Skip. 400 a *  
Skoowith. 908 a *  
Slany. 106 b * 241 a ¶ 590 a † M.  
Smales. 473 b †  
Smalpace. 419 b ¶ 877 a †  
Smiths. 105 b ¶ 321 b † 594 b †  
Smith. 99 a * 134 a * 150 a † 213 b * 214 a * 291 b † 296 b † 316 b * 349 b ¶ 398 b † 406 a ¶ 453 b ¶ 473 a * 569 b * 597 b ¶ 779 b ¶ 783 b ¶ 794 a † 829 a ¶  
Snelling. 424 a †  
Snow. 794 a ¶  
Sokeling. 293 b †  
Some. 590 b ¶ 592 a ¶ M.  
Summer. 179 a ¶ 574 b *  
Sotherton. 332 a †  
Southlee. 346 b *  
Southwell. 245 a †  
Southworth. 179 a ¶  
Spear. 308 b ¶  
Spence. 472 b ¶  
Spencer. 180 a † 186 a * 228 b ¶ 341 a * 578 b ¶ 580 a ¶ 589 b ¶ 591 b * M. 774 b † 825 b ¶  
Spendelew. 883 a †  
Spert. 789 a †  
Spicer. 186 b † 539 a *  
Spilman. 400 a ¶ 559 b ¶  
Stafford. 345 b ¶ 471 a * 808 a *  
Staham. 262 b *  
Stalbrook. 569 b †  
Standelfe. 338 a ¶  
Standhurst. 451 a ¶  
Stanes. 395 a ¶ 546 a.  
Stanhope. 369 b ¶  
Stanley. 262 b ¶ 832 b †  
Staper. 188 b †  
Staple. 555 a ¶ M.  
Stapleton. 770 b †  
Starkey. 152 b †  
Startute. 788 a †  
Steed. 230 b * 575 b †  
Steward. 211 a ¶ 551 b ¶ 789 a ¶ 906 b ¶  
Stile. 98 a ¶ 105 b † 131 a ¶ 246 a † 292 b ¶  
Stiward. 222 b † 567 b *  
Stock. 821 a †  
Stocker. 228 b ¶ 568 a † 570 b †  
Stoddard. 100 a ¶ 135 a †  
Stoder. 99 a ¶  
Stody. 87 a † 553 b. M  
Stokes. 152 a ¶ 486 a *  
Stokesby. 261 b † 367 b † 533 a † B.  
Stonard. 262 b ¶  
Stondon. 557 a * M.  
Stone. 107 a ¶ 222 b † 246 b * 306 a ¶ 568 b ¶  
Storyt 471 b ¶  
Stotevil. 818 a *  
Stotley. 552 b ¶  
Stow. 152 b ¶ 214 a *  
Strange. 314 a ¶  
Stratford 157 a * 531 b ¶ B.  
Street. 265 b †  
Strelley. 322 a * 838 b ¶  
Studinham. 131 a ¶  
Sturgeon. 231 a ¶ 417 a ¶  
Sturges. 399 a ¶  
Suckley. 392 a † 582 b  
Sudbery. 532 a † B.  
Sugar. 409 a ¶  
Summerset. 907 b ¶  
Suthes. 792 b ¶  
Sutton. 153 a ¶ 193 a * 322 b † 479 a † 561 a †  
Swan. 171 a † 572 b ¶  
Swandland. 550 a * M.  
Swetenham. 308 b †  
Swift. 331 b ¶  
Swinflat. 179 a *  
Swinnerton. 107 a * 793 a * 594 b ¶ M.  
Sydnam. 428 a ¶   

T  
TAbinham. 239 a †  
Tibalt. 313 a * 531 b † B. 881 a †  
Talmage. 186 a ¶  
Tame. 554 a †  
Tamworth. 333 a * 766  
Tatam. 212 a ¶  
Tatarsali. 562 b *  
Tate. 90 a * 138 b ¶ 190 b ¶ 222 b † 568 b ¶ 570 b * M. 574 b ¶  
Taverner. 311 a ¶ 372 a ¶  
Tailor. 105 a * 119 a ¶ 190 b ¶ 214 b ¶ 267 a * 294 b ¶ 543 b † 567 a ¶ 569 b * M. 591 a ¶  
Tempest. 220 b ¶  
Terry. 296 a ¶  
Test. 222 b †  
Thame. 391 a †  
Thin. 131 a ¶ 132 a ¶  
Thirlewall. 419 b *  
Tholouse. 582 b ¶  
Thomas. 308 a ¶ 458 a  
Thompson. 212 a *  
Thoresby. 796 b ¶  
Thorn. 90 a ¶ 193 a †  
Thorney. 100 b ¶ 429 b ¶ 551 a ¶  
Thornhill. 285 b † 295 a ¶  
Thernix. 132 b ¶  
Thornton. 472 a ¶ 898 b †  
Throckmorton. 149 a ¶ b *  
Throwstone, or Thurston 338 a * 578 b †  
Thunderley. 547 b *  
Tiligham. 262 b ¶  
Tilne, or Tilney. 281 b † 573 b †  
Tipper. 428 b *  
Tirrell. 124 a * 145 b ¶ 186 b ¶  
Tirres. 156 b ¶  
Tolason. 540 b * M.  
Tolderney. 219 a ¶  
Tolus. 214 a *  
Tomes. 303 a ¶  
Tomkins. 810 a *  
Tony. 541 a † M.  
Topham. 429 b * 873  
Torald. 419 b *  
Torkington. 221 b *  
Towerson. 292 b ¶  
Townley. 351 b †  
Traps. 325 b †  
Travers. 218 a * 278 a ¶ 538 b ¶  
Tredway. 349 b ¶  
Trehearne. 451 b ¶  
Treszawall. 347 a †  
Trever. 875 a ¶  
Trindle. 214 a *  
Trisilian. 345 b *  
Trist. 338 a *  
Trotter. 309 a ¶  
Trusbut. 281 b †  
Trussell 437 a *  
Tryon. 193 b †  
Tudnam. 186 a *  
Tuke. 292 a ¶  
Tunstall. 533 a † B.  
Turk. 145 b ¶ 230 b † 398 a ¶ 550 b * M. 584 a †  
Turner. 135 b ¶ 153 a ¶ 274 b * 311 a ¶ 392 b ¶ 825 a †  
Turngold. 554 b ¶  
Tusser. 274 b ¶  
Twiford. 322 a † 350 b † 556 a * 557 b † M  
Twiselton. 350 a ¶  
Tylar. 48 a *  
Tilling. 132 a *   

V  
VAle. 132 a *  
Valens. 432 a ¶  
Vamere. 557 b.  
Vancke. 419 b ¶  
Vandun. 809 b †  
Varnam. 808 b ¶  
Varney. 569 a * M  
Vavasor. 471 b †  
Vaughan. 135 a † 370 a ¶ 534 a * B.  
Vennar, or Venor. 179 a * 261 a ¶ 263 a † ●57 a ¶ M.  
Vere. 186 a *  
Verney. 567 b *  
Vernon. 102 b ¶ 214 b.  
Vev●●n. 907 b ¶  
Vine. 330 b ¶  
Vivent. 557 b ¶  
Vnd●ll. 451 a *  
Voyle. 541 a ¶  
Vpton. 550 b ¶  
Vrswyke. 796 b ¶  
Vyrby. 131 b ¶   

W  
WAddington. 349 b ¶  
Waddis. 150 b †  
Wade. 546 a ¶ 559 a †  
Wadson. 868 b *  
Wai●●. 539 a *  
Wakefield. 149 b †  
Wakering. 415 b *  
Wake●. 559 a ¶  
Walbrooke. 543 b †  
Walcot. 102 b ¶ 270 a ¶ 557 b * 559 b. M.  
Walden. 419 b † 532 a * B. 567 a †  
Walderne. 562 b * M. 559 a * M.  
Walgrave. 537 b ¶  
Walker. 220 b †  
Waller. 310 b *  
Walls, or Wallis. 86 b ¶ 146 a † 340 b ¶ 544 b ¶ M.  
Walmond. 543 a †  
Walpole. 391 b †  
Walraven. 544 a †  
Walsingham. 134 a ¶  
Walter. 95 b † 419 b ¶ 540 a *  
Walthall. 105 a * 212 a ¶ 503 b ¶  
Waltham. 211 a ¶ 285 a ¶  
Watton. 228 b *  
Walworth. 87 b † 232 b ¶ 236 b * 555 b * M.  
Ward. 554 b * M. 569 b ¶ 804 b ¶  
Warden. 212 b *  
Workham. 532 b ¶ B.  
Warley. 337 b ¶ 578 a.  
Warner. 352 a † 416 a † 574 b †  
Warren. 277 a ¶ 311 b † 580 a ¶ 581 b. M.  
Warton, or Wharton. 419 b † 566 b ¶  
Wase. 338 b †  
Waters. 138 b †  
Watford. 419 b * 562 b.  
Wats. 106 b ¶ 139 b † 576 a † 592 a † M.  
Watson. 221 b ¶ 880 b.  
Weaver. 569 a † 900 a †  
Webbe. 106 b * 158 a ¶ 589 b † 591 a * M.  
Welbeck. 574 a †  
Weld. 106 b ¶ 153 a * 290 b † 592 b † 594 a * M.  
Welinhale. 567 a *  
Wels. 88 b † 146 a * 193 a * 284 a ¶ 399 b † 429 b ¶ 562 a ¶ M.  
Wengham. 367 a †  
Wentworth. 290 a ¶  
West. 186 a † 228 a * 246 b ¶ 306 a *  
〈…〉 314 a *  
Westfaling. 773 a †  
Weston. 562 a ¶  
Westwick. 417 b †  
Westwray, or Westrow. 597 a † 867 a †  
Wheatly. 303 a ¶  
Whitby. 211 a ¶  
White. 91 a † 160 a † 241 a ¶ 274 b * 295 b ¶ 394 b * 309 a ¶ 484 a ¶ 572 a † 573 b ¶ M. 583 b * 584 b * M. 586 a * M.  
Whirgift. 355 b ¶  
Whithall. 103 a ¶  
Whitley. 538 a *  
Whitmore. 96 b * 596 a ¶ M.  
Whitney. 779 a ¶  
Whittington. 88 a * 244 b ¶ 256 b † 915 b † 561 b * M. 558 a * M.  
Whorwood. 259 a ¶ 550 a *  
Wiat. 351 b ¶  
Which, or Which. 218 a † 292 a * 565 b ¶ 568 b † 833 a *  
Wic●am. 452 a †  
Wicksteed. 879 a †  
Widnell. 399 b *  
Wiking. 571 b ¶  
Wilford, or Wyfold. 191 a ¶ 228 b ¶ 548 a ¶ 565 b * 566 b * M. 583 a † 558 b *  
Wilhall. 540 b ¶  
wild. 553 a *  
Wilkinson. 233 b ¶ 134 a ¶ 473 a ¶ 579 a † 582 a †  
William's. 179 a ¶ 830 b ¶  
Williamson. 123 b ¶  
Wilson. 277 b ¶ 309 a.  
Wimbledon. 539 a * 542 a ¶  
Wimborne. 542 b * M.  
Wimondham. 554 b ¶  
Winchcomb. 235 b * 303 a * 556 b ¶  
Windany. 186 b ¶  
Windent. 265 b ¶  
Winderhall. 419 b ¶  
Windsor. 324 a ¶  
Winford. 257 a *  
Wingar. 244 a ¶ 574 a ¶ 576 a ¶  
Wingfield. 186 a * 460 a *  
Wingham. 531 a ¶ B.  
Wingrave. 548 b ¶ M.  
Witchcote. 433 a †  
Witchingham. 551 b M.  
Withypoll. 239 b *  
Wokendon. 360 b †  
Wolley, or Woolley. 102 b * 363 a ¶ 777 b *  
Wood 123 b ¶ 169 b * 230 b ¶ 238 a ¶ 307 a ¶ 337 b * 485 a † 574 a † 806 b ¶  
Woodcock. 303 b ¶ 308 a ¶ 387 b ¶ 558 b ¶ 560 a † M. 589 a ¶  
Woodhouse. 333 b † 415 b 555 b *  
Woodroffe. 152 a ¶ b † 153 b ¶ 187 b ¶ 409 a ¶ 584 b ¶ 588 a † 589 a * M.  
Woodstock. 87 a ¶  
Woodward. 218 b ¶  
Woolaston. 102 b ¶  
Worsley. 801 a ¶  
Wotton. 550 b ¶ M. 560 a *  
Wright. 160 a † 597 b ¶  
Writhesley. 313 a † 428 a †  
Wrath. 262 b ¶ 552 b ¶ M.  
Wrotsley. 346 a ¶   

Y  
YAle. 412 a *  
Yaxley. 215 b *  
Yeardley. 373  
Yerford. 299 b * 578 a * 579 a * M.  
Yeucle. 230 a ¶  
Yong. 257 a * 346 a ¶ 451 a ¶ 567 b † 569 a ¶ M.  
York. 245 a * 584 a †  
you. 191 a * ●64 b *   

Z  
ZAmbon. 131 ● *  
Zouch. 135 a † 544 a ¶ M.   
FINIS.