HISTORY OF CROYDON G. STEINMAN STEINMAN, ESQ., F.S. A., F.L. S. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN. M. DCCCXXXIV. t $9g LONDON: W. M'DOWALL, PRINTER, PEMBERTON ROW, GOUGH SQUARE. o^f to THE MOST REVEREND WILLIAM LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE AND METROPOLITAN, &c. &c. &c. THIS VOLUME IS, WITH PERMISSION, MOST HUMBLY INSCRIBED BY HIS GRACE'S OBLIGED AND VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOB. 3X^ PREFACE, It is now many years since a History of Croy- don has been given to the public — for I pass over, as unworthy of notice, a modern publica- tion, very inaccurately compiled from the works of Ducarel, and Manning and Bray. In 1783, a thin quarto appeared, from the pen of the cele- brated antiquary, Andrew Coltie Ducarel, LL.D. F.R.S. and F.S.A., intitled " An Account of the Town, Church, and Archiepiscopal Palace of Croydon," forming the twelfth Number of the " Bibliotheca TopographicaBritannica;" on which foundation — the earliest — every succeeding His^- tory will be raised. VI PREFACE. Great as is the merit due to this indefatigable Antiquary, for the deep research he has display- ed; still he has left much untold, his work pre- senting little more than the materials for a His- tory of Croydon. The next account of this parish will be found jn Lyson's " Environs of London/' (5 vols. 4to, 1792 — 1811); which, with that in Manning and Bray's " History and Antiquities of Surrey," (3 vols, folio, 1804 — 1814), comprises all that has yet been written concerning it. The two last-mentioned Histories — if so they may be termed — are necessarily brief; they con- tain, however, information not to be found in Ducarel. Of the merits, if any, of the present volume, it would ill become the Author to speak. He con- tents himself with stating, that he has sought diligently among the MSS. in the libraries of the British Museum, of Lambeth Palace, and of the PREFACE. Vll College of Arms; with what success he leaves the reader to determine. The kind assistance of his friend, Sir William Woods, Clarenceux, F.S.A., &c, the Author ac- knowledges with thanks. G. S. S. Camberwell, July 18, 1833. INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. Page St. James' Chapel ....... 1 White-horse ....... 32 Whitgift's College 56 North View of Palace 98 Plan of the Palace and Grounds ... to face 99 Porter's Lodge to Palace 100 Interior of Great Hall in ditto « . . . .104 South View of Palace 119 The Church . .... 120 Font in ditto Vignette The Illustrations are engraved by Messrs. Branston & Wright, from Sketches chiefly made by W. Sims and the Author. CONTENTS. Chapter I. — Early History and Present State Page 1 Chapter II. — Chronology . 16 Chapter III.- — Manors and Park . 30 Woddon . ib. White-horse . . 32 Croham 35 Norbury . 36 Haling 38 Palmers . 46 Ham ib. Selhurst . 47 Croydon Park . ib. Chapter IV. — Addiscombe 49 Chapter V. — Charitable Institutions Ellis Davy's Alms-house Whitgift's Hospital . Chaplains to ditto Tenison's School 54 ib. 56 70 72 CONTENTS. Chapter VI. Page -The Palace . . . 74 Archbishops resident at Croydon . 75 Account of the Palace by E, R. Mores . . . 80 Description of the Palace . . 98 Chapter VII. — The Church .... 120 Rectors . . . . . 133 Vicars ..... 136 Incumbents of St. Mary's Chauntry 148 Incumbents of St. Nicholas' Chauntry 149 Register . . . . .151 Epitaphs 156 Chapter VIII. — Benefactions to Croydon . . 212 APPENDIX. No. I. — Instrumentum factum super Appropriatione Ecclie de Croydon et Assignatione Manerii de Woddon . 217 No. II. — Excerpta ex Computis Ministrorum . . 234 No. III. — Extract from the Minister's or Bailiff's Ac- counts of the Colleges, Chauntries, Free Chapels, &c, in the County of Surrey, 3 Edw. VI. . . . 247 No. IV. — Parcell of the Possessions of the late dissolved Archbishopricke of Canterbury . . . . 25 1 No. V. — Extracts from Books deposited in the Lambeth Library 262 No. VI. — Commissio ad Vendicand' Clericos Convictos in Villa de Croydon 266 No. VII. — Statutes of Ellis Davy's Alms-house . 267 CONTENTS. XI Page No. VIII. — Letters Patent for building the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, at Croydon, with Licence of Mort- main, and incorporating the same .... 288 No. IX. — Archbishop Whitgift's Deed of Foundation . 298 No. X. — Statutes, Constitutions, and Ordinaunces of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity 307 No. XI. — -A Case resolved touching the Hospital of the Holy Trinity 333 No, XII. — Negotium Dedicationis et Assignationis Novae Capellae sive Oratorii Hospitalis vocati Hospitale Sanctae Trinitatis 335 No. XIII. — Form of giving the Alms-men their Rooms . 338 No. XIV. — Eight Letters from the Rev. Samuel Finch, Vicar of Croydon, relative to Whitgift's Hospital . 339 No. XV. — Visitation of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity , 353 No. XVI. — Heads of Orders for the Charity Schoole for ten poor Boys and ten poor Girls, founded by Thomas Tenison, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury . . 356 No. XVII. — Acts of Parliament relating to Croydon . 360 No. XVIII. — The Case of the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Croydon, in the County of Surrey, con- cerning the great Oppressions they ly under, by reason of the unparalleled Extortions, and violent, illegal, and unwarrantable Prosecutions of Doctor William Cleiver, Vicar of the said Parish . . . . .360 INDEX TO EPITAPHS. Anderson, N. D. ,A. , Andrews Apthorp, E. , C. B. . Arnold Bainbridge Baynham Belgrave . Berne, M. A. C. , A. M. . Boddington, W. — , M. , W. , F. Bourdieu, P. , J. . , A. . Bowles Bowling . Bradbury . Brewster . Brigstock, R. ,T. . ,C. . , R. P. , A. R. ,T. . , T. . ,T. . Burnett Burton Burr, C. . ,P. . . , S, A. Butler, E. Page . 160 . 209 . 201 . 171 . ib. . 202 192 191 187 185 ib. 202 ib. ib. ib. 183 ib. ib. 203 166 205 193 181 ib. ib. 182 ib. ib. ib. 191 211 185 191 ib. Butler, F. Byrne Caldcleugh Callant, A. ■ ,J. ,M. , R. Champion, P. ■, C Chapman Chatfield, R. , A. -, M. , A. ,J. -,A. Clifton Cooke, A. ,M. Copley, S. j J- Crowe ib. 168 D D'Arley . Davenant . Davis Davy Delaund, B. , M. , R. Drake, R. ,R. ,B. Duglass, Maj. Gen. Durand 168 178 163 170 ib. ib. ib. 179 ib. 207 194 ib. 195 ib. 197 ib. 189 186 ib. 188 ib. 189 210 206 192 167 170 ib.. ib. 195 ib. 193 196 181 INDEX TO EPITAPHS. Xlll Elcock, E. ,G. Elderton Eyres F. Fenwick . Fletcher, F. , M. . Ffynche . G. Gabriel Galhie Gardner, Rev. J. Gibson, S. ,W. Godfrey . Gresham, Lady Grindall, Archbishop H. Harbin, M. ,H. -,E. Harrison Hatcher, Capt. Heathfield, S. , J. ,E. , M. , J. ,W. , Rev ,J. , M. , E. J. Heron, Sir N. . , T. ,W. Herring, Archbishop , W. . : , M. D. Hetherington Hoar, Dr. Hutchinson, F. , C. . , E. , W. Page , 169 . ib. . 191 , 169 193 201 ib. 186 161 186 208 190 ib. 195 206 156 172 ib. ib. 190 162 196 ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. 197 ib. ib. 167 199 200 179 204 ib. 186 209 171 ib. 172 ib. A. ;r. Johnson, T. , J. , J. Lee, M. ,M. Legatt Lodge M Mackett . Marsh, S. , Capt. Martin Mattock, J. ,R. Michell Mill Mills, Alderman , M. ,' H. F. Morton, M. , Sir R. Moulton, E. ,J. Mulgrave, Lord , Lady Murgatroid Otes, Rev. S. Packington Parker, M.A. , C. ,H. -,J. , B. .J. K Parkinson Peers, A. S. , Alderman Page 203 ib. ib. 169 ib. ib. 165 ib. 200 201 161 166 ib. 182 181 ib. 208 201 159 180 ib. ib. 199 ib. 163 ib. 210 ib. 173 . 167 184 187 190 ib. ib. ib. 198 ib. 184 193 ib. XIV INDEX TO EPITAPHS. Peers, T. . Pennyman, Lady Pettit Plasket Poore Potter, Archbishop Price, E. \ S*. '. , T. . . Protheroe, Captain Pynsent R. Raven Reavely Redvnge . Richard, M. D. ,D. Richards Ridley, R. S. Scaife, Rev. J. Scudamore, Lady Seymor Sheldon, Archbishop , Sir J. ,D. , J. , R. ~, Lady C -,R. Smith, H. Smith, P. ,A. -,H. _,R. — -,M. Steinman Swinbourn 178 Page 193 179 165 163 165 ,204 171 ib. ib. ib. 208 160 187 186 209 162 163 197 197 ib. 158 201 165 177 180 ib. 181 ib. 210 ib. ib. 162 162 185 ib. 188 195 178 210 | Tirrell, Alderman U Usborn, J. , G. Vade, Rev. J. ,M. , E. W. Wake, Archbishop Wallinger Walshe . Welbank Westgarth Wharam Whitaker, E. Whitehill Whitgift, Archbishop Wilkinson, Capt. Wilks Williams Wilson Wood, T. , J. , A. -,T. , A. ,J. Woode Wright Wyvell, M. , J. Yeoman Yeomans Page 192 206 ib. 195 ib. ib. 204 179 205 193 170 202 191 ib. 194 174 ib. ib. 162 194 164 ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. 207 180 188 189 207 ib.. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. Page 32, add, as a note, — On the south gable of Bencham manor-house is the date 1604, formed in the brick work; by which it appears that its time of erection was early in the reign of James I., and not in that of Henry VIII., as I sup- posed, 49, add, as a note, — Sir John Tunstall must have come to Addis- combe after 1619, as, on the 13th September in that year, he subscribed his name to Alleyne's Quadripartite deed of Dulwich College, being then of Carshalton ; probably Captain Poynings Heron resided here previously to Sir John. 61, 1 4, for " 2,007/. 19s. 4d.," read " 2,017/. \9s.4dr 62, I. 9, add " setatis suae 38." 109, 1.20, for " a bend of the second and third," read " a bend of the second. Second and third cheque," &c. 124, I. 15, for " lands," read " lambs." 137, I. 5, after vicar's name, add " LL.D., who occurs vicar in 1376."* 137, I. 6, after " presented," add " 1 September, 1387." 144, LIS, for " 1684," read " 1648." 157, I. 28, for « Grindali," read " Grindalli." 158, last line, for " bordar," read " bordure." 175, 1.14, for " miro," read " miror." 183, 1.6, for " Comb," read " Coombe." 189, 1. 14, for " Resurrecto," read " Resurrectio." /. 15, for " Rego," read " Regno " 1. 17, for " Januarii," read " Mar^." 203, 1. 14, for " who departed," read " and departed." 288, /. 11, for " 30 Eliz." read " 38 EUz." ADDITIONS TO REGISTER. " 1551, June 28. — Willia. Mapleton sepult. qui dedit paupibs. hujdi. pahij. p. spaim. quiqe. anno, duos denarios solvend. ad qua- tuo. terminos anni cora. gardianis ecclie." * Reg. Sudbury, fol. 26 b. XVI ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. " 1625, July 21. — Richard Vaughan, sonne to the Lord Vaughan, and Mrs. Bridget Lloyd, were marryed." Richard, only son of John, first Baron Vaughan and Earl of Car- berry, of the kingdom of Ireland, was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. He served with success on the side of royalty, during the civil wars, and held the appointment of Lieu- tenant-General of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan. In this capacity he greatly distinguished himself for zeal and gallantry, and on the 25th October, 1643, was rewarded with a seat in the British Parliament, by the title of Baron Vaughan of Emlyn, in the county of Carmarthen, and after the Restoration was appointed Lord Pre- sident of the Principality of Wales. He married, first, Bridget, daughter and heir of Thomas Lloyde, Esq., of Llanlees, Cardigan, as above; second, Frances, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Altham, Knight, of Oxby, Hertfordshire ; third, Lady Alice Edgerton, daughter of John Earl of Bridgewater, and died in 1687, having issue by his second wife only. " 1627, June 25.— Sir Henry Lee, Knight, father of Mrs. Smith, of Coombe, was buryed." " 1639, June 18. — Basset Cole, gentleman, and the Lady Aymie Mordant, the widow of S r . Robert Mordant, Knight and Baronet, were maryed." Lady Mordaunt was the daughter of Sir Austin Southerton, Knight, of Norfolk, and mother to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart. — a cavalier who paid the penalty of his loyalty by the forfeiture of his estates. " 1671, November. — Mrs. Elizabeth Cleiver, wife of William Clei- ver, Doctr. in Divinity, was hurried in the Lady Scudamore's grave, in y e middle chancell, ye xxvth." Whether this lady was Mistris Bernard, or that " most excellent gentlewoman, Mrs. Ream's daughter-in-law," mentioned in the case of the Inhabitants of Croydon, cannot now be determined. ADDENDA. Page 5, 1. 13, after " about 1550." add, Richard Crowley, in his satirical epigrams, published, according to Ritson, in the same year, has the following : — The Collier of Croydon. It is said that in Croydon there did sometyme dwell A Collyer that did al other colyers excel, For his riches thys collyer might have been a knight, But in the order of knighthood he had no delight. Would God al our knights did mind coling no more Than thys collyer did knighting, as is sayd before ; For when none but pore collyers did with coles mell, At a reasonable price they did their coles sell ; But synce our knight collyers have had the first sale, We have pay'd much money, and had few sacks to tale. A lode, that late years for a royal was sold, Wyl cost now xvi shillings of sylver or gold. God graunt these men grace their polling to refrayne, Or else bryng them back to theyr old state agayne ; And especially the Colliar that at Croydon doth dwell, For men think he is cosin to the collyar of hell." Ibid, after I. 21, add— In "Damon and Pythias," a comedy written by Richard Edwards, and first acted in 1566, Grimme, the Collier of Croydon, is a character; and Ulpean Fulwel, in his co- medy of " Like wil to like quod thee Devil to the Colier," pub- lished in 1568, causes three of his dramatis personas, to wit, Tom Collier, Nichol Newfangle, and the Devil, to dance together to the tune of "Tom Collier of Croidon hath solde his cole." There is also a play called " The Historie of the Collyer," acted before Queen Elizabeth, in 1576-7, which relates to this same worthy. b XVI ADDENDA. Page 16, add as a note to line 9 — "Croinden Archiepiscopi Can- tuariensis, r. c. de j marca, pro defalta: In th. b. et quieta est." Madox's History of the Exchequer, p. 384. In the Lansdowne MSS. (No. 324), I find the following entry:— "31. H. 2 Croui- nedna Archipi. Cantuar. deb. 1. m. per def." — Records of Surrey and Sussex, by Le Neve. (Qu. whether this is the same fine as that mentioned by Madox.) Page 26, after I. 16, insert " 1645.— On the 15th of April the order undergiven was issued by the Parliament for the withdrawel of a detachment of 200 horse and 1 00 dragoons, which had till then been quarter'd in this town — there awaiting the concentration of the county forces. — Vide " A Diary, or an Exact Journal," No. 48. " Sir, — We have now received some intelligence that the rebells of Kent are in some measure dispersed. And therefore there being no further use of yo r Horse & Dragones that we wrot unto you to send towards Croydon, We desire you, they may bee recalled and disposed As you please. Signed in the name and by the warrant of the Committee of Both Kingdomes by Your very affectionate friends and hum- ble servants, " Darbie House, Manchester, Loudonn *." 15 April, 1645. S r Thomas Fairfax." Page 35, I. 15, after " messuage and farm," add "and comprises about 400 acres of arable and wood land." Ibid. I. 19, after Holy Trinity, add "On an extent made in 1287, it was found that JefFry de Haspale held certain lands for life, to be * MSS. Brit. Mus. Ayscough's Cat. No. 1519, p. 44. The insurrection here alluded to was caused by a party of impressed men who had de- stroyed their convoy, whilst marching to join General Fairfax. They attacked and took possession of Sir Percival Hart's house at Rootham, and were immediately joined by the discontented of the county, to the number of 500 foot and horse; but Colonel Blunt being expressly sent against them, they were defeated and dispersed on the day of this order. ADDENDA. XV11 inherited by William and Philip de Padyndenne. Of those held in fee was the manor of Croweham." — Esch. 2 Ed. I, n.25. Further particulars of John Gage. — (Vide pp. 43, 44). John Gage, as I learn from Bayley's " History and Antiquities of the Tower of London," was committed to that prison, by warrant bearing date 10th of January, 1590, and Beesley, or as he is there called Besseley — the cause of his misfortunes — on the 18th of De- cember, the same year. He appears to have occupied the " Broad Arrow Tower," in which room, between the first and second re- cesses, on the left-hand side, is yet extant the following inscription (eopied from Bayley) — apparently his work: — QVOD RATIO REDDENDA ERIT DEO CUM VENERIT DIES ILLA IVDICII MAGNA DE CVNCTIS COGITATIONIBVS VERBIS ET OPE- RIBVS. DNS ILLVMINABIT ASCONDITA TE- NEBRARVM ET MANIFESTABIT CONSILIA CORDIVM CVM VENERIT . . ORS. OMNE DE VERBIS VERBUM OTIOSVM QVOD LOCVTI FVERINT HOMINES REDDENT RATIONEM DE EO IN DIE JVDICII. MAT. 12. CVNCTA QV^S FIVNT ADDVCET DEVS IN IVDI- CIVM ERO OMNI ERRATO SIVE BONVM SIVE MALVM SIT. ECCLESIASTES, 12. QVOTIES DIEM ILLAM CONSIDERABO TOTO CORPORE CONTREMISCO SIVE ENIM COMEDO . SIVE BIBO . SIVE ALIQVID ALIVD FACIO . SEMPER IN AVRIBVS MEIS SON ARE VIDETVR TREMENDA ILLA VOX IVR- GITE MORIVI VENITE AD JVDICIVM. QVOD SIBI QVIS . . ERIT PR^SENTIS TEMPORE VITiE HOC SIBI MESSIS ERIT CVM DICITVR ITE VENITE. "The above pious memorial," says the antiquary, " is without name or date, but the characters in which it is written so closely correspond with the remains of an adjoining inscription as to leave little or no doubt of its having been made by the same person. This latter, though much defaced, appears to have been cut with surprising ingenuity, and is subscribed 'January 1591, I. Gage,'" — &2 XV111 ADDENDA. a prisoner, he conjectures, of the Roman Catholic persuasion ; but, of whom, he adds, " no account has hitherto been discovered." Gage appears, from the memoir of his son, to have remained in durance upwards of thirty years, and to have outlived the "re- mainder of his subsistence," and the several annuities " his noble allies and kindred had bestowed upon him." He left issue by his two wives (Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Coply, Knt., of Gat- ton, Surrey, and " Mrs. Barnes") ; five sons — Sir Henry ; Thomas, author of "Travels in Spain, &c.;" George, prothonotary in Eng- land for the See of Rome; Francis, president of the English Coll. at Douay, and John, author of " The Christian Sodality, or Ca- tholic Hive of Bees;" and a daughter Mary: but as they were all born after his imprisonment, consequently they could not be natives of this parish. There appears to be some confusion in the accounts given of this gentleman, from which our statements in the text are made. His attainder, and the consequent forfeiture of the manor of Haling are there mentioned; yet it is also stated, that his son relinquished the entail in favor of his father, whose life is said to have been spared by the "King's reprieve." It is to be remembered that he had been imprisoned eleven years previous to James' succession — an extension of time that precluded an idea that he was at that era under sentence of death. Besides his unfortunate brother Robert, I find, from the church-register, he had two others — Edward, chris- tened 26 Aug. 1567, and William, christened 3 Oct. 1568— and a sister Mary, christened 3 Oct. 1563; which names have not yet been incorporated in any pedigree of this ancient family. Page 62, I. 9, add " setatis suae 38." Page 78, add as a note to line 16— "On Monday, August 11, 1635, the following entry was made by the prelate in his diary: — 1 One Robert Seale, of St. Alban's, came to me at Croydon and told me somewhat wildly about a vission he had at Shrovetide last, about not Preaching the word sincerely to the people ; and a hand ap- peared unto him, and death, and a voice bid him go tell it the Metropolitan of Lambeth, and made him swear he would do so ; and I believe the poor man was overgrown with fancy; so troubled my- self no further with him or it.' " — {History of the Troubles and Tryalof Abp.Laud, 1695, p. 50). ADDENDA. XIX Page 109, I. 8, in note, add — ["Cheque or and az. a chief of the first."] Page 113, /. 15, after " other of his papers," add — " And again this same witness, who appears to have been employed by the pri- mate on the windows both of Croydon and Lambeth palaces, affirm- ed, that ' he found a picture of God the Father in a window at Croydon and Archbishop Cranmer's arms under it, and that he pulled it down ;' evidence which called from Laud the remark that it had been placed there during the primacy of so zealous a prelate, as Cranmer was well known to be — and that it had been removed in the days of him against whom it was now advanced, in support of his alleged inclination to popery." — (Hist, of the Troubles of Abp. Laud, p. 517). Page 137, I. 5, after Vicar's name, add — " L.L.D., who occurs vicar in 1376."— (Reg. Sudbunj, fol. 265). Ibid. I. 6, after "presented," add— u \ September, 1387." Page 168, 11. 4 and 14, after " bendlets," add — " in sinister chf. a cross croslet." ADDITIONS TO REGISTER. 1550, Aug.—" Mr. [Henry] Tonstall buryed the 21." Eldest son of Sir John, by his wife Penelope, daughter of Sir Walter Leveson, Knt., of Lilleshall, Salop. 1551, June 28. — " Willia. Mapleton sepult. qui dedit paupibs. hujdi. pahij. p. spaim. quique. anno, duos denarios solvend. ad qua- tuo. terminos anni cora. gardianis ecclie." 1544. — " Thorns Heyrne [Heron] obijt 2 die Octobris." 1558. — " Sepulta fuit Mag re . Elizabeth Heron, vidua [of Thomas Heron, Esq.] l a die Augusti." 1578. — " Richard Gornarde, the son of Bryan Gornarde, was chrystened the viij day of Marche." Sir Richard Gornarde, or Gurney, as he is pleased to call himself, born 17th of April, 1577, was the son of Bryan Gornarde, of Croy- XX ADDENDA. don, a descendant of the Gurneys, of Kendall, in Westmorland, — (Le Neve's MS. Pedigrees of Extinct Barts. Herald's Coll.) — by his wife Magdalin, daughter of Hewett. He had, I find from the parish register, two brothers — John, baptized 9 Dec. 1576, and Robert, baptized 28 May, 1681 ; and the name of Gornarde is frequently mentioned in this authority. In apprenticing his son to a Mr. Coleby, a silk-mercer in Cheapside, his father was singularly fortunate, as that worthy citizen at his death, bequeathed to his ap- prentice his shop and effects, estimated at the value of 6,O00Z. — Lloyd. His fortune now rapidly increased, and with it he acquired the reputation of great integrity and moderation, insomuch that he became a leading character in the city, and subsequently filled its highest offices. On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1641, being then Lord Mayor, he enter- tained the king and the royal family, on his majesty's return from Scotland, at a cost of about 4,000/., when the king was pleased to confer upon him the honour of knighthood; and, on the 14th of the next month, the higher distinction of a baronetage. In this year, he caused the royal proclamation against the militia to be publicly read within the city, and was, for so doing, deprived of his mayoralty and his liberty, as we have stated in p. 25. He mar- ried, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Sandford, Esq., of Berch- ington, in the Isle of Thanet, by whom he had, Richard, who died vita patris, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Lord Richardson, and Anne, who married Sir John Pettus, Knt., of Suffolk. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of one Richard Gosson, a London goldsmith. He was buried at St. Olive's Jury. 1582. — " Samuell Ffynche [primus] vycar of Croydon & Eliza- beth Kinge the daughter of John Kinge & Clemence, were married the viij th day of Marche, anno dni. 1582, by Richarde Worde, Par- son of Bedington, under the lycence of Edmunde Archbishop of Canterburie's grace." 1585. — " Memorandu. that the xxv th day of Julye word was broght to the towne of Croydon, that there lay one dead in a close nye Pollarde hill, who was putrified & stank in most horrible man- ner; wherefor none cold be gotten by the officers to bringe him ; whereupon he lay there [till] the Tuesday at nyghte after, beinge the xxvii th day, at which time the Vicar [Samuel Fynche, primus~\ ADDENDA. XXI hired one Robert Woodwarde, & they two went unto him & found hym lyeng on his backe w th his legs pulled up to hym & his knees lying wide, his right hand lying on his right legge & his left cross his stomacke, the skin of his face & the hear [of] his hed beaten of w th the weather, no pportyon in the lineaments of his body to be proaved, they ware so putryned, a rnt. rotten canvas dublet & his hose ragged, a blacke felt hat w th a cypres bande & two laces tyed at the ende of the band. Woodward digged the grave hard by hym where he lay & they two pulled hym in, w th each of them a large forke." 1585. — " Wm. Edsone beinge sicke (as he confessed to his wife, Willm. Andrews & one Hedd of Streatham, yet constrained hymself to goe forth to mowinge at Streetham the xxix th day of July, & comming home from thence betweene Streatham bridge & the further Norberie gate, fell downe dead, & was buried the xxv th day of Julye." ■ " Roger Pryce leaninge on a calyver charged w th hayle shotte on his left side, his matche m the same hande, the peece discharged soddenlye & kylled hyme presently, savinge as much tyme as wherein he prayed the standers by to pray to God for hym, & soe fallinge downe desiered God hartely to forgive hym all hys synnes, & soe dyed the xxvi th day of Juely. And was buried the xxvij th ." 1598. — " Samuell Ffynche \_primus] Vicar of Croydon & Elsa- bethe Swan ware married at Sandersteed the xij th day of June." 1607, April. — " Rycharde Esteinge, a young man, beinge killed suddenly e w th a stroke of thunder & lightninge on the [neck] & under the right eare: but nothinge but blacknesse seene & the of swealed, was buried the xix th day: And smelt of Brimstone exceedingle." 1612. — " Elizabeth Bradberie, neece to the most Reverende ffather of famous memorie Dr John Whitegifte sometime Archb. of Cant, dieinge in London was brought to Croydon and buried in the Chappell where he lyes the xxix th day of June, anno dni. 1612, according to her request." Vide Epitaph, p. 205. "M re - Marie Abbot, Wydowe: Syster in Lawe to the XX11 ADDENDA. Archbishop of Canterbure was buried the xv th day of September. Anno Dni. 1624." Daughter of John Millet, Esq., of Guilford, and widow of An- thony Abbot, Esq., of the same place, next brother to the arch- bishop of that name. 1625, July 21. — " Richard Vaughan, sonne to the Lord Vaughan, and Mrs. Bridget Lloyd, were marryed." Richard, only son of John, first Baron Vaughan and Earl of Car- berry, of the kingdom of Ireland, to which titles he succeeded, was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. He served with success on the side of royalty, during the civil wars, and held the appointment of Lieutenant-General of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan. In this capacity he greatly distinguished himself for zeal and gallantry, and on the 25th October, 1648, was rewarded with a seat in the British Parliament, by the title of Baron Vaughan of Emlyn, in the county of Carmarthen, and after the Restoration was appointed Lord President of the Principality of Wales. He married, first, Bridget, daughter and heir of Thomas Lloyde, Esq., of Lanlees, Cardigan, as above; second, Frances, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Altham, Knight, of Oxby, Hertfordshire ; third, Lady Alice Edgerton, daughter of John Earl of Bridgewater, and died in 1687, having issue by his second wife only. 1627, June 25. — " Sir Henry Lee, Knight, father of Mrs. Smith, of Coombe, was buryed." 1628, Dec. 6. — Sepult. " Margaret Hatton, daughter of S* Robert Hatton [and niece to Sir Christopher Hatton, K.B., and Sir Thomas Hatton, Bart.] 1630, Sep. — Sepult. " The Lady Margaret Abbot." Daughter of Bartholomew Barnes, Esq., and second wife of Alder- man Sir Maurice Abbot, Knt., Lord Mayor in 1638, and fifth brother of the Archbishop. . Oct. 28. — Sepult. " Richard Tomerton, Keeper of the Archbishop's house." 1631, June 25th. — " William Arnold, a young man, et magna spei, was buryed." 1633, Jan. 30.— Sepult. " Ralph Smith, yeoman of the guard." ADDENDA. XX111 1636, Sep. 9.— Bap. " Thomas Harvy, the sonne of Mr. Eliab Harvy." Thomas Harvey was nephew to Dr. William Harvey, the cele- brated discoverer of the circulation of the blood. Eliab was an opulent Turkey merchant, the Doctor's fifth brother, and eventually the inheritor of the greater part of his effects. There are, I believe, several of this family buried at Croydon, among whom was Daniel Harvey, a merchant of London, and fourth brother of the Doctor. 1637, May. — " Christopher Heydon, the sonne of S r . John Hey- don, Knt." Sir John Heydon, of Barkinstrop, Norfolk, was Lieutenant of the Ordnance to Charles I., from the first muster of the royal army in 1642, to his death; 16th Oct. 1653. This Christopher is said to have been afterwards a Knight, — {BlomefieWs Hist, of Norfolk, by Parkin, vol. vi, p. 510), but I do not find his name among the MS. lists in the Coll. of Arms. 1639, June 18. — " Basset Cole, gentleman, and the Lady Aymie Mordant, the widow of S r - Robert Mordant, Knight and Baronet, were marryed." Lady Mordaunt was the daughter of Sir Austin Southerton, Knight, of Norfolk, and mother to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart. — a cavalier who paid the penalty of his loyalty by the forfeiture of his estates. 1641, Nov. — "John Tonstall, the sonne of Henry Tonstall, Esquire, sonn and heire of S r - John Tonstall of Adscombe, Knight, was baptized." Dec. 15. — "Michael Miller, Esquire, and Barbara Astry, the daughter of S r . Henry Astry, Knight," [of Harlington, Beds.] 1650, Aug. 3. — " S r - Edward Parteridge's sonn buryed." Sir Edward Parteridge, knighted 31 July, 1641, was of Langley, Kent. 1666, May 22.— Sepult. " Mr. William Austry, Curate of Croy- don," [under the Rev. Dr. Clewer!] 1669, June 9. — Bap. " Mrs. Margaret Sheldon, daughter of Sir Joseph." Sir Joseph Sheldon, Knt., was nephew to Archbp. Sheldon, and Lord Mayor in 1676. 1671, November. — " Mrs. Elizabeth Clewer, wife of William XXIV . ADDENDA. Clewer, Doct r - in Divinity, was hurried in the Lady Scudamore's grave, in y e middle chancell, y e xxvth." Whether this lady was Mistris Bernard, or that " most excellent gentlewoman, Mrs. Reame's daughter-in-law," mentioned in the case of the Inhabitants of Croydon, cannot now be determined. 1674, Sept. 5. — Sepult. " Mr. John Morris, Curate." 1675, Ap. 11. — " Mr. Wm. Crow, Schoolmaster, was buried." This is the suicide chaplain of Whitgift's Hospital, for an account of whom vide p. 70, where the time of his death is incorrectly given. Wood informs us, that the Rev. John Osborne, M.A., commenced "a Catalogue of our English writers on the Old Testament," and had printed about eight sheets when Crowe's catalogue appeared, which caused him to relinquish his design. The same author also tells us, that Crowe " took many things" from the " Felix Consortium" of Ed- ward Leigh, when he composed his " Elenchus Scriptorum in Sacram Scripturam, &c." London, 1672; which is, questionless, "the cata- logue" under a different cognomen. RARE PLANTS FOUND AT CROYDON. Eriophorum vaginatum — Single-headed Cotton-grass, or Hares tail Rush. Agrostis spica-venti — Silky Bent-grass. Centunculus minimus — Bastard Pimpernel. A sperula cynanchica — Squimancy-wort. Galeum anglicum — Wall Bed- straw. Anagallis arvensis, y — Blue Pimpernel. Verbascum lychnitis — White Mullein. Vinca minor — Small Periwinkle. Chlora perfoliata — Yellow-wort. Butomus umbellatus — Flowering Rush. Dianthus armeria — Deptford Pink. Cerostium semi-decandrum, (3 — Mouse-ear Chickweed. ~— arvense — Field Chickweed. ADDENDA. XXV Cistus surrejanus — Dotted-leaved Cistus. Mentha piperita — Peppermint. Origanum vulgare — Common Marjoram. Limosella aquatica — Water Mud-wort. Trifolium scabrum — Rough Trefoil. Hypericum montanum — Mountain St. John's Wort. Prenanthes muralis — Ivy-leaved Lettuce. Carduus pratensis — Meadow Thistle. Phascum curvicollum — Crooked-stalked Earth-moss. curvisetum — Short bent-stalked Earth-moss. Trichostomum flexifolium — Wave-leaved Fringe-moss. Tortula aristata — Short-pointed Screw-moss. Campanula rapunculus — Rampions. Splachnum ampullaceum — Purple Gland-moss. Dianthus deltoides — Maiden Pink. Genista Anglica — Needle Furze, or Petty Whin. Hypericum elodes — Marsh St. Peter's Wort. Rosa spinosissima — Burnet Rose. Scabiosa columbaria — Lesser Field Scabious. Spiraea Filipendula— Drop-wort. Trifolium ochroleucum — Yellow-flowered Trefoil. Triticum caninum — Bearded Wheat-grass. Ophrys apifera — Bee Orchis. muscifera — Fly Orchis. CORRIGENDA. 11, I. 8, for " St. Peter," read " All Saints." 70, /. 13, for "of," read " on. " 99, I. 4, for " Tentys," read " Fyennes." 109, I. 20, for " a bend of the second and third," rearf " a bend of the second. Second and third, &c." 127, I. 14. for " 1567," read " 1568." 131, J. 23, for " 25th," rearf " 27th." 144, /. 18, for " 1684," read " 1648." 145, note %, for " vide Appendix," read " Ibid." 155, Z. 28, /or "Grindah," read " Grindalli." 158, Jastf line, for " bordar," read " bordure." 175, I. 14, for " miro," read " miror." 183, ;. 6, /or " Comb," read " Coombe." 189, I. 14, for " Resurrecto," read " Resurrectio." ™ — I. 15, /or " Rego," read " Regno." — J. 1 7, for " Januari," read " Marij " 200. The error alluded to has since been corrected. 203, I. 14, for " who departed," read " and departed." 209. I find, on examining the inscription commemorative of John Redynge, Esq., given in this page, that it contains more than one error. It is well known that Henry VIII. had no other son than Edward his successor; therefore I would read Henry VII. for Henry VIII., and as Redynge is termed "late treasurer to prince Henry," it is clear that he did not live to see his master on the throne ; consequently, the date of his death is also incorrect. Perhaps we should read 1508 for 1680, an error not unlikely to occur in transcription, and which is rendered more probable by the absence of the name of Redynge from the church register of the latter year. 288, I 11, for " 30 Eliz." read " 38 Eliz." The New Church at Croydon. CHAPTER I. laarlg P^tgtorg anti present j&tate* Croydon, formerly called Croindene, Croiden, Crondon, and by the learned Camden, Cradi- den, (Saxon Ejio;$baene), a large and handsome market town, lying nine miles and a half south of London, is situated on the edge of Bansted Downs, and contiguous to the spring-head of the river Wandle. The parish is about thirty-six miles in circumference, and covers a space of nearly ten thousand acres. It is bounded, on the * HISTORY OF CROYDON. east, by Beckenham and Wickham ; on the west, by Mitcham and Beddington; on the north, by Streatham and Lambeth; and on the south, by Couldson, Addington, and Sandersted; and in- cludes the hamlets of Addiscombe, Croham, Coombe, Haling, Shirley, Woodside, Waddon, Thornton Heath, Broad Green, and Barrack Town ; the manors of Waddon, Whitehorse, Nor- bury, Haling, and Croham; and part of Nor- wood. Nothing can be affirmed with certainty, in re- gard to the derivation of the name of this place : Ducarel was inclined to think that it might have its origin from the old Norman or French word Craye or Craire, chalk, and the Saxon word Dun, a hill; which supposition may be strengthened by the fact, that a large quantity of chalk has, till lately, been dug out here : whilst another writer derives its name from Crone, sheep, and Dene, a valley. The locality of the ancient city of Noviomagus, mentioned in Antinonus' " Itinerary *," was sup- posed by Talbot* and Dr. Stukelyf to have been at or near Croydon J ; whilst Somner, Burton, the * Burton's Commentary on Antinonus' "Itinerary," p. 373. f Dr. Stukely, in his " Itinerarium Curiosum,'' placed it at Cray- ford, but afterwards retracted his opinion. Vide Ducarel's Hist, of Croydon, p. 2. I Several Roman pieces of money have "been found here — two gold EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 3 Bishops Stillingfleet and Gibson have placed it at Crayford in Kent; and Camden, Gale, and Horsley, at Woodcote. As the time when this city was known to exist is so far removed, its situation so unsatisfactorily described, and the opinions of these celebrated antiquaries so various, it is more than probable that its site may ever remain involved in its pre- sent obscurity. The manor of Croydon was in the possession of the see of Canterbury, so early as the reign of Wil- liam the Conqueror. For, in Domesday Book we read " In the hundred of Waleton*, Archbishop Lanfranc holds Croindene in demesne. In King Edward the Confessor's time, it was rated at 80 hides, and now at 16 hides and 1 virgate. The arable is 20 carucates. In demesne, are 4 caru- cates and 48 villans, and 25 bordars with 34 ca- rucates. Here is a church and one mill, in value 5s.; 8 acres of meadow and wood for 200 hogs. Of the land of this manor, Restoldus holds seven hides of the archbishop, and Radulphus one hide, coins of Valentinian and a brass coin of Trajan, were dug up in the town in 1791, (see also " Whitehorse, " Chap. III.) ; and Bray, in the " Archaeologia, Vol. IX. p. 104, affirms, that the Roman road running from Arundel to London, and passing through this city, might be traced on Broad Green. * Croydon is in the hundred of Wallington ( Waleton), now a small hamlet in the parish of Beddington. B2 4 HISTORY OF CROYDON. they have from thence 71., and 8s. of gabel (or tax). The whole, in the time of King Edward the Confessor, was worth 121.; now 27/. to the archbishop, to his men, 10/. 10s." In 1291, it was taxed at 20/.*; in 1322, at the samef ; in Archbishop Bourchier's time, it was valued at 551. Ss. lid. per annum\\ and in the Survey in 1646, at 274/. 19s. §\d., exclusive of the timber. The parish is assessed at the sum of 1,444/. 9s. , to the land-tax, and is within the jurisdiction of the county magistrates, of whom those acting for the division hold a petty session weekly. The town extends about a mile in length. The present High Street was originally only a bridle-way running through the fields. The old or lower town, called Old Croydon, formerly cover- ing the same space, was situated farther from London than New Croydon §, and reached a great way towards Beddington, the ruins of which were standing in 1783 1|. The houses are for the most part well built, the streets generally paved, the inns large and well conducted. The town, having lately been lighted with gas, presents altogether a very dif- * Vide " Bodleian Valor," Bodleian Library. f Reg. Reynolds, fol. 79. b. % Cart. Misc. Lamb. MS. Library, Vol. XIII. No. 14. § Talbot, Leland's Itinerary, Vol. III. p. 176. II Ducarel. EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 5 ferent appearance to that ancient Croydon, de- scribed in an account written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, which says : " The streets were deep hollow ways and very dirty, the houses ge- nerally with wooden steps into them — and the in- habitants in general were smiths and colliers." It appears by the termination of this sentence, that the inhabitants were, in former times, almost exclusively employed as colliers or charcoal burn- ers, a trade for which they have been celebrated by several of our elder poets; among others, by Alexander Barklay, in his Egloges, published about 1550*. Thomas Peend in his fable of " Hermaphroditus and Salmacis " published in 1565, says, that Vulcan "A Croydon Sangwine right did seme." And Greene, in his " Quip for an Upstart Courtier," published in 1 592, has the following — " Marry, quoth hee that lookt like Lucifer, though I am black, I am not the divell, but indeed a collyer of Croydon." In the tragedy of "Locrine" published in 1595, and by some erroneously attributed to Shake- speare, we find the following distich : — " The colliers of Croydon, The rustics of Roydon." * Vide page 23 , 6 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Besides which we have the following, in no way favourable, description of Croydon and its colliers, in a volume of poems, called " The Nightingale, Sheretine, and Mariana, &c." by one Patrick Hannay, published in 1622. " In midst of these stands Croydon, cloth'd in blacke, In a low bottome sinke of all these hills ; And is receipt of all the durtie wracke, Which from their tops still in abundance trills, The unpav'd lanes with muddie mire it fills If one shower falls ; or, if that blessing stay, You may well smell, but never see your way. " For never doth the flowre-perfumed aire, Which steals choice sweets from other blessed fields, With panting breast take any resting there, Nor of that prey a portion to it yields; For those harsh hills his comming either shields, Or else his breath, infected with their kisses, Cannot inrich it with his fragrant blisses. " And those who there inhabit, suting well With such a place, doe either Nigros seeme, Or harbingers for Pluto, prince of hell; Or his fire-beaters one might rightly deeme ; There sight would make a soule of hell to dreeme, Besmear'd with sut, and breathing pitchie smoake, Which (save themselves) a living wight would choke. " These, with the demi-gods, still disagreeing (As vice with virtue ever is at jarre) With all who in the pleasant woods have being, Doe undertake an everlasting warre, Cut down their groves, and after doe them skarre And in a close-pent fire their arbours burne, Whileas the muses can doe nought but mourne. — EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 7 " The other sylvans, with their sight affrighted, Doe flee the place whereas these elves resort, Shunning the pleasures which them erst delighted, When they behold these grooms of Pluto's court ; "While they doe take their spoiles, and count it sport To spoil these dainties that them so delighted, And see them with their ugly shapes affrighted. " To all proud dames, I wish no greater hell Who doe disdaine of chastly profered love, Then to that place confm'd there ever dwell; That place their pride's deare price might justly prove, For if (which God forbid) my dear should move Me not come nie her, — for to passe my troth, — Place her but there, and I shall keepe mine oath." And again — there is a comedy intitled "Grim, the Collier of Croydon, or the Devil and his Dame, with the Devil and St. Dunstan, by J. T.," pub- lished in 1662, When the inhabitants discontinued their sooty avocations, I have not been able to learn; but Ducarel, writing in 1783, says, Croydon "is sur- rounded with hills well covered with wood, whereof great store of charcoal is made," Within this parish and manor are seven bo- roughs : Coombe, Selsdon, Bencham, Addiscombe, Woodside, Shirley, and Croham; from each of which a constable is annually appointed at the general court leet held for the manor of Croy- don in Easter week, when a head constable, two petty constables, and two head-boroughs are no- minated for the last-mentioned place. 8 HISTORY OP CROYDON. There are also eight beadlewick lands, the owners of which, in their turn, serve the office of beadle ; they collect the fines and amerciaments, but, with the reeves, receive no emolument. The customs of the manor are as follows : — 1. One heriot, being the best beast of every copyholder dying seised of any messuage or tene- ment, not lying within the four crosses*, shall be paid for every such messuage or tenement ; and if he have no quick cattle, then three shillings and sixpence for a dead heriot. 2. On the death of every copyholder for life, three shillings and sixpence for a dead heriot, and no more. 3. If any person to whom a right of copyhold shall descend shall die before admittance, one quick heriot is due for every messuage or tene- ment, and no more; and for want of a quick he- riot, three shillings and sixpence for a dead he- riot. 4. If a surrender be made of a copyhold to any person being no copyholder before, then, he is to * These crosses were thus described in the reign of Elizabeth: the first is at BurchalPs House, in an elm tree — the second is at the pound — the third is at Little Alms House Corner — the fourth at Dodd's corner, in an elm tree, against the Catharine Wheel Corner. Their exact situation cannot now be discovered ; but the copyhold estates lying within the square originally formed by these four crosses, are exempt from the payment of heriots. EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 9 fine at the will of the lord, and to pay three shil- lings and sixpence for a dead heriot, and no re- lief. 5. If a surrender be made of a copyhold to any copyholder, there is due to the lord three shil- lings and sixpence for a dead heriot, and a relief, which is the extent of the rent (i. e. the quit-rent) by the year due to the lord, and no more. 6. Copyholds descend to the youngest son; and, no son, then to the youngest daughter; and so to the youngest in every degree. 7. All copyholders who have any estate of in- heritance, may strip and waste, but the tenant for life may do neither. 8. No copyholder may let a lease of his copy- hold, without licence of the lord, for more than three years, and is to give to the lord for every year that he is to have licence to let his copyhold, sixpence, and no more. The quit-rents are collected by the reeves an- nually chosen by the homage jury, at the general court baron; there are eight reeveswick lands; the reeves are generally chosen in rotation. There were anciently some grammar-schools in this town, for, in the register of Archbishop Courtney*, it is recorded, that on the 31st of May, 1393, John Makheyt, master of the gram- mar-schools at Croydon, was ordained a deacon * Fol. 182 b. 10 HISTORY OF CROYDON. at Maidstone — but of these, no traces are now to be discovered. Besides the school founded and endowed by Archbishop Tenison*, there is one upon the Lan- castrian system, established in 1812, for the edu- cation of indigent children of every religious per- suasion; for which institution, a school-house was erected at North End in 1829. Another, the national or parish charity school, conducted on the principle of the late Dr. Bell, and instituted in 1812, is now held in the school-house adjoining and belonging to Archbishop Whitgift's Hospital. In addition to these, there is a school of industry for female children conducted in the palace cha- pel, and an infants' school under the patronage of the ladies — all which are supported by voluntary contributions. The Society of Friends have also a large esta- blishment, situated in Park-lane; which was re- moved here in 1825, from Islington, where it had existed for more than a century. It is supported by subscription, and provides for the education and maintenance of 150 boys and girls. On the common has lately been erected, partly from a grant of 3,500/., and partly from a loan to be paid off by instalments from the parlia- mentary commission, a chapel of ease, dedicated to St. James, after a design of R. Wallace, Esq. * Vide post, Chap. IV. EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 11 The first stone was laid by the Rev. J. C. Lock- wood, 16th May, 1827, and the consecration per- formed by his present Grace, 31st Jan. 1829. It is a brick building, of the pointed style of archi- tecture, and has a small campanile tower at the west end, with pinnacles at each angle. It con- tains 1,200 sittings, of which 400 are free. A chapel of the same order, dedicated to St. Peter, was erected about the same time on Beu- lah-hill, after a design of J. Savage, Esq., from funds provided in a similar manner. The first stone was laid 12th Nov. 1827. This elegant edifice contains 1,500 sittings. It has a small tower at each extremity, and several richly crock- eted pinnacles at the west front. These two cha- pels are perpetual curacies, in the patronage of the vicar of Croydon. Several denominations of dissenters have meet- ing-houses here : the Quakers, in Park-lane, which is numerously attended ; the Independents have a neat Gothic chapel in George-street; the Wes- leyan Methodists, a chapel at North End, erect- ed in 1829; and the Anabaptists, at Pump Pail. There are some others of minor importance. The barracks, erected in 1794, are at the en- trance of the town by Mitcham, and were origin- ally intended as a temporary station for cavalry, during the preparation of troops for foreign ser- vice. They contain accommodation for three 12 HISTORY OF CROYDON. troops of cavalry, with a hospital for 34 patients, an infirmary, stabling for 192 horses, a store- room for 1,000 sets of harness with field equip- ments, riding- house, and the accustomed offices. The present court-house and corn-market, built after a design of the late Samuel Pepys Cockerell, Esq., at an expense of about 8,000/., defrayed by the proceeds accruing from the sale of waste land belonging to the parish, disposed of by act of Parliament in 1806, was first opened in the sum- mer of 1809. It is a neat stone edifice surmount- ed by a cupola containing a clock, and comprises, in the upper story, a cotirt for the trial of civil causes at the county assizes (which are held here alternately with Guilford), with rooms for the judges, sheriffs, and grand jury ; where is also held, every alternate week, the Court of Requests for the recovery of debts under 51. The ground-floor is reserved for a corn-market, and during the as- sizes is appropriated to the Criminal Court. The old market house, built at the cost of Francis Tirrell, citizen, in the year 1566, was pulled down in 1807, when the following inscrip- tion was discovered — " This Markett House was buylt att the coste and charges of Francis Tirrell, citizen and grocer of London, who was born in this towne and departed this worlde in Sept. 1609." The butter market, situate in High Street, EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 13 was erected in 1808, at a cost of 1,219/, the mo- ney arising from the same fund. The markets are held on Saturday. The prison, situated behind the corn market, and occupying the site of the Old Town Hall, is a substantial brick building, erected in 1803 by a subscription among the inhabitants, the lower part only of which is used for the confinement of prisoners, the upper being let as a warehouse. The little alms houses, described, in 1722, as ** nine small low inconvenient houses, wherein are usually placed the parish poor," are situated near the church, and must have been built previous to 1528, as in that year a rent-charge of 11. was given to this charity by Joan Price. In 1629, Arnold Gold well gave 40/. towards their re-erec- tion; and, in 1775, they were enlarged by the addition of two new buildings for twelve poor re- sidents, with funds received from the then Earl of Bristol, and a voluntary subscription among the principal inhabitants. The workhouse, situated on Duppas Hill, to the westward of the town, was erected about 1727, on a piece of ground given (inter alia) by deed in 1629, by Sir William Walter, to the inhabitants of Croydon, for the purpose of digging gravel for mending the parish roads and other uses, and is capable of accommodating above 160 persons. There is an iron rail-road passing from Wands- 14 HISTORY OF CROYDON. worth through this town, to the chalk-pits at Merstham; also a canal, opened 22nd October, 1809, which, after running from the north end of the town through Norwood, Penge Common, Sy- denham, Forest Wood, and New Cross, falls into the Thames at Rotherhithe. The population of Croydon, as shewn by the census of 1831, amounts to 12,447* inhabitants, and 2,431 houses. In 1783, there were between 700 and 800 houses in the town, and the inhabit- ants were computed at rather more than 5 to each f house. In 1801, the census returned 5,743 in- habitants, and 1,074 houses; in 1811, 7,801 in- habitants, and 1,474 houses; and in 1821, 9,254 inhabitants, and 1,639 houses. By the recent Reform Act, 2 Will. IV. c.45, Croydon is appointed one of the polling places for the eastern division of the county of Surrey J. We have been told§, but I know not on what authority, that King James I., the first institutor of regulations relating to horse- racing, held Croy- * An extra-parochial spot, between Croydon and Addington, con- tains about 100 inhabitants. f Ducarel's Hist, of Croydon, Appendix, p. 156. | The Members returned were — John Ivatt Briscoe, Esq., and Aubrey William Beauclerk, Esq. ; the numbers at the conclusion of the poll being, for Briscoe, 1667; Beauclerk, 1163; Allen, 849; and Lainson, 250. The votes of the parish of Croydon were as fol- lows — for Briscoe, 174; Beauclerk, 117; Allen, 67; Lainson, 15. § Vide " The Horse," published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. EARLY HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE. 15 don and Enfield chase in the greatest estimation as resorts for this his favourite pastime. The amusements of Croydon are now confined to oc- casional assemblies held at the Greyhound; the theatre, erected in 1800, which has of late years been but seldom open; and the fairs, one, the principal, falling on the 2nd October, and conti- nuing for three days, and the other on the 5th of July and two following days. 16 HISTORY OF CROYDON. CHAPTER II. ©fwottologg. Having given a brief sketch of the town and some of its public buildings, I shall reserve for a future chapter a detailed description of the church, palace, and charitable institutions; and proceed to lay before the reader a chronological account of the remarkable events relating to this populous town. 1185 — The town amerced one mark for a default*. 1200 — Two women, having stolen some clothes at Croindone, were pursued to South- fleet, where they were seized, imprisoned, and afterwards tried by the Lord Henry de Cobham and other gentlemen of the county, who adjudged them to undergo the fire-ordeal (ad 'portandum calidum ferrum). By this cruel and supersti- tious test of innocence, one was acquitted, the * Vide Madox's History of the Exchequer, p. 384. CHRONOLOGY. 17 other condemned and afterwards drowned in a pond called Bikepool*. 1264— On the 14th of May, the Londoners, flying from the battle of Lewes, where they had taken part with the barons against Henry III., were intercepted at Croydon by a detachment of the king's forces then lying at Tonbridge castle, who put them to the sword with great slaughter f. 1270 — In this year, John, the celebrated and seventh Earl Warren, dated an instrument from Creyndone%, stating his intention to stand to the judgment of the court, after his outrage on Alan Lord Zouch of Ashby and his son Roger, on pain of excommunication and forfeiture of his es- tates §.; 1273; — Archbishop Kilwardby obtained a grant of a market to be held every Wednesday ||. 1276 — This same archbishop obtained a grant * Vide Blount's " Ancient Tenures and Customs of Manors." f Vide Holingshed's Chronicles, ed. 1585, Vol. III. fol. 269. % Claus. 54 Hen. III. m. 5. § This outrage, committed in Westminster-hall, was occasion- ed by an estate being adjudged to Lord Zouch, which was un- justly claimed by the fiery earl, who, when the verdict was pronounc- ed, giving loose to the natural vehemence of his temper, drew Upon that nobleman and his son, and almost killed the father, and severe- ly wounded the son. He was fined 10,000 marks, which the King afterwards remitted to 8,400. || Cart. 5 E.I. m. 24. C 18 HISTORY OF CROYDON. of a fair to be held for nine days, beginning on the 16th of May*. 1286— On the 15th of December, William, only son of John Plantagenet, seventh Earl of Warren and Surrey, was unfortunately killed in a tournament at Croydon. Stowe has thus record- ed his death : — " An. reg. 15 Ed. I. William War- ren, sonne and hey re of John Warren, Earl of Surrey, in a tornement at Croyden, was by the challenger intercepted and cruelly slaine-|\" 1314 — Archbishop Reynolds obtained a grant of a market to be held here on Thursday, and a fair on the vigil and morrow of St. Matthew's Day J. 1343 — Archbishop Stratford obtained a like grant of a market to be held on Saturday, and a fair on the feast of St. John the Baptist §. 1352 — On the 18th of February, Archbishop I slip granted to Robert Farnham and William Chober, for the term of their natural lives, a messuage and nine acres of land in Croydon, which had escheated to him upon the death of John Latyn, Silvestria his wife, and their son * Cart. 5 E. I. m. 24. f Stowe*s Annals, p. 311 ; Watson's Lives of the Earls of Warren and Surrey. X Cart. 8 E. II. m. 15. § Ryley, p. 586. CHRONOLOGY. 19 William, to whom a like grant of the premises had been formerly made by Archbishop Strat- ford *. 1362 — On the 22nd of February, Archbishop Islip granted to Thomas de Kendale a mes- suage and nine acres of land, with their appur- tenances, in Croydon, which escheated to him on the death of the before-mentioned John Latyn, Silvestria his wife, and William their son, for a hundred years, paying ten shillings rent per an- num^. 1382— On the 20th of March, Sir William Walworth, the patriotic Lord Mayor of London, was appointed Keeper of Croydon Park %. 1412 — On the 30th of November, the unfortu- nate James I. of Scotland, signed at this place a deed of general confirmation to Sir William Doug- las of Drumlanrig ; by which it is evident that he was then at Croydon palace in the custody of Archbishop Arundel. This grant, preserved in facsimile in Anderson's " Diplomatum et Nu- mismatum Scotitz Thesaurus" is as follows: — " J amis, throu the grace of God Kynge of Scottis, Till all that this lettre heris or seis sendis gretynge. Wit ze that we have grauntit, and be this presentis lettres grauntis a speciall confirm atin in the maiste forme till oure traiste and wele belofit cosyng Sir William of Douglas of Drumlanrig of all the landis that he is possessit and * Reg. Tslip. fol. 44 a. f Cart. Miscell. Vol. X. No. 20. % Reg. Courtney, fol. 37 a. C2 20 HISTORY OF CROYDON. chartrit of within the kyngdome of Scotlande, that is for to say, the landisof Drumlanrig, of Hawyke, and of Selkirke; the whilkis chartris and possessiouns be this lettre we conferme, and wil for the mare sekernes this oure confimatioune be formabilli efter the fourme of oure Chaunsellure, and the tenor of his chartris, selit with our grete sele in tyme to come. In witnes of the whilkis this presentis lettres we wrate with our propre hande under the signet usit in selyng of our lettres as now at Croidoune the last daie of November, the zer ofourLorde, i mo -cccc°xij°." 1531 — John Hewes, a draper of London, was made to abjure, for saying that he heard the vicar of Croydon [Thillips] preach openly, " that there is as much baudry kept by going in pilgrimage to Wilsedon or Mouswel, as in the stews beside, &c.*" About this time, at the palace, John Frith, (who afterwards suffered martyrdom at Smith- field, July 4, 1533), was heard in defence of his opinions, before the commissioners, Archbishop Cranmer, Lord Cromwell, Stokeleye bishop of London, Dr. Heath, and others, appointed by the king for that purpose. When travelling here from the Tower in custody of two of the archbishop's household, they, fearing for his life, advised him to make his escape; but he refus- ed, telling them "that if they went away and left him alone, he would come to Craydon him- self, and appear before the bishop f." — On the * Fox, Vol. II. p. 592. t "Epitomy of Ecclesiastical History." By J. Shurley. 1683. Part 2, p. 39. CHRONOLOGY. 21 night of his arrival at Croydon, as we are told by Fox, who gives a very minute account of this pro- ceeding, " he was well entertained in the porter's lodge*." 1542 — On Trinity Sunday, Archbishop Cran- mer had before him, at his consistory at Croy^ don, all the prebendaries and preachers of Can- terbury cathedral, when he argued with them concerning the diversity of their doctrines f. Their names were — Richard Thornden, Arthur Sentleger, Richard Parkhurst, Nicholas Ridley, John Meines, Hugh Glazier, William Hunt, Wil- liam Gardiner, John Milles, John Daniel, Robert Goldson, John Baptist — prebends ; Robert Series, Michael Drune, Lancelot Ridley, John Scory, Ed- mund Shether, and Thomas Brooke — preachers. 1545 — On the 16th of October, a commission of array was issued for raising 400 able men, when this town was required to furnish four arch^ ers and six billmen. 1551 — On the 25th of May, Croydon and its neighbouring villages experienced a shock from an earthquake J. 1552 — On the 10th of June, Alexander Bar- clay, or De Barklay, D.D., author of " The Gret • Fox. Vol. III. p. 1927. f Strype's Life of Cranmer, p. 108. % Bishop of Hereford's Annals. 22 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Shyppe of Fooles of this Worlde," "Myrrour of Good Maners*," &c, was buried heref. This elegant writer is supposed to have been a native of Scotland. In 1495, he entered himself of Oriel College, Oxford, and having distinguished him- self by the quickness of his parts, he quitted Eng- land for the continent. Upon his return home, he was appointed chaplain to the bishop of Wells, who made him one of the priests of St. Mary at Ottery in Devonshire. He was afterwards a monk of the order of St. Benedict — a Francis- can, and finally a monk of Ely, upon the disso- lution of which monastery, in 1539, he was col- lated to the vicarage of St. Matthew, at Wokey, Somerset. In February, 1546, being then D.D., he was presented to the vicarage of Much-Badew or Baddow-Magna, Essex; and, on the 30th April, 1552, to the rectory of All-hallows, Lombard- street, which he did not enjoy above the space of * The other works of this writer are — The famous Cronycle of the Warre which the Romans had agaynst Jugurth, usurper of the kyngdom of Numidy : which cronycle is compyled in Latyn, by the renowned Romayn Sallust — Orationes Variae — De Fide Orthodoxa — The Castell of Laboure, wherein is rychesse, virtue, and honour : — The Figure of our Mother Holy Church oppressed by the French King —-Answer to John Skelton, the Poet — The Lives of S. Catherine, S. Margaret, and St. Etheldred — The Life of S. George. — De Pronun- tiatione Gallica. — The Miseries, or Miserable Lives of Courtiers. f Vide Parish Register. Wood (Athen. Oxon. Vol. I., p. 207) says he was buried in the church. CHRONOLOGY. 23 six weeks,, dying in this town in the month of June the same year. In his Egloges, we find the following separate lines relative to this place ; in one of which, he informs us of his having resided here in early life — " And as in Croidon I heard the collier preache." " While I in youth in Croidon towne did dwell/' " He hath no felowe betwene this and Croidon Save the proude plowman Gnatho of Chorlington." 1567 — Queen Elizabeth visited Archbishop Parker at Croydon, where, on the 30th of April, she held a council*. 1573 — On the 4th of July, Queen Elizabeth, with all her retinue, came to Croydon palace on a visit to the same archbishop; with whom she remained seven days previous to her going a progress into Kentf. From the following MS. presented by the Reverend Dr. Birch to Arch- bishop Herring, and now in the library of Lam- beth palace, it appears that her majesty intended to favour the people of Croydon with her pre- sence the year ensuing — if she did not actually do so. * Council-book in the Duke of Buckingham's library at Stowe. f Parker's Antiquit. Brit. ed. Drake, pp. 553, 554. 24 HISTORY OF CROYDON. " Lodgins at Croyden, the Busshope of Canterburye's house, be- stowed as folio weth, the 19th of Maye, 1574 — The Lord Chamberlayne* his old lodginge The L Tresurei"f wher he was The La Marques J at y e nether end of the great chamber The La of Warwick wher she was The Erie of Lecester § wher he was The Lord Admyrall || at y e nether end of ye great chamber The La Howard wher she was The Lo of Honsdane wher he was Mr. Secretarye Walsingham wher Mr. Smyth If was The La Stafforde wher she was Mr. Henedge** wher he was Mrs. Drewreye wher y e La Sydney was Ladis and gentyl women of y e Privy e Chamber ther olde Mrs. Abbington her olde, and one other small rome added for ye table The maydes of honnor wher they wer Sir George Howard wher he was The Capten of y e gardff wher my L of Oxford was The gromes of y e Privy e Chamber ther olde The esquyeres for the bodye ther olde The gentylmen husshers ther olde The phesycyas ij chambers * Thomas Radclyffe, Earl of Sussex. f William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. J Elizabeth Paulet, Marchioness of Winchester. § Robert Dudley. || Edward Fynes, Earl of Lincoln. *R Afterwards Sir Thomas, and Secretary of State. ** Afterwards Sir Thomas, Vice Chamberlain. ft Christopher Hatton, Esq., afterwards Sir Christopher. CHRONOLOGY. 25 The Quen's robes wher they were The grome porter wher he was The clark of the Kytchen wher he was The wardrobe of bedes. For the Quen's Wayghters, I cannot as yet fynde anye convenyent romes to place them in, but I will doo the best y* I can to place them elsewher, but yf y« please you S r y* I doo remove them. The Gromes of the Privye Chamber nor Mr. Drewrye have no other waye to ther chambers but to pas thorowe that waye agayne that my Lady of Oxford should come. I cannot then tell wher to place Mr. Hatton ; and for my La Carewe here is no place with a chyme- ney for her, but that she must ley abrode by Mrs. Aparry and the rest of ye Pryvy Chambers. For Mrs. Shelton here is no romes with chymeneys ; I shall staye one chamber without for her. Here is as mutche as I have any wayes able to doo in this house. From Croyden this present Wensday mornyinge, your Honnors al wayes most bowden S. Bowyer." 1577— On the 17th of April, Sir Richard Gurney, the celebrated Lord Mayor of Lon- don, was born in this town*. This patriotic ci- tizen was, for his obstinate devotion to royalty, deprived of his mayoralty, rendered incapable of holding any public office in the kingdom, fined 5,000£., and imprisoned during the pleasure of both houses of Parliament in the Tower, where he remained till within a month of his death, a term of seven years. Sir Richard, who was creat- ed a baronet by Charles I., died October 6th, 1647, having suffered in his estate to the extent * Lloyd's Memoirs, pp. 625, 626. 26 HISTORY OF CROYDON. of 30,000/. He was one of the trustees nomi- nated by Henry Smith, Esq., for the management of his large property left to this and other towns in the county. 1584— On the 17th of July, Archbishop Whit- gift issued a commission to Samuel Finch, vicar of Croydon, to claim, receive, and examine all clerks sued, indicted, or convicted before any jus- tice, or upon any felonies, within Croydon ; and to require such clerks to be received and admit- ted to the benefits and privileges of the clergy*. A like commission was issued by the same arch- bishop to Finch and Hammond, 20th June, 1588 f. 1600— On the 14th of August, Queen Eliza- beth visited Archbishop Whitgift at Croydon J. 1651 — Dr. Fuller, speaking of the black as- sizes at Oxford in 1577, adds: — "The like chan- ced some four years since at Croydon in Surrey, where a great depopulation happened at the as- sizes of persons of quality, and the two judges, Ba- ron Yates and Baron Rigby, getting their banes there, died a few days after §." The reason of my recording this under 1651 is, that in that year the * Vide Appendix. f Reg. Whitgift. X Sydney State Papers, Vol. II. p. 210. Letter from Rowland Whyte, Esq., to Sir R. Sydney. § Fuller's Church History of Britain, 1656, Book 9. CHRONOLOGY. 27 battle of Worcester was fought, when the Earl of Derby, Sir T. Featherstone, and Colonel Benboe, there taken prisoners, were tried, condemned, and executed. In the same year, Colonels Andrews and Slingsby; and Love, Gibbons, and many others, were also executed for plotting against the republic. 1670 — On the 1st of June, Nathaniel Hardy, D.D., dean of Rochester, died in this town*. This divine, whose writings consist exclusively of sermons, was born in London, 14th September, 1618. In 1632, he became a commoner of Magdalen Hall, from whence he entered him- self of Hart Hall, where he graduated as M.A., in 1638, and in the year following was admitted into holy orders. Repairing to London, he be- came " insnared" (to use the words of Wood) "with the fair pretences of the Presbyterian party ;" but at the treaty of Uxbridge, where he was present, Dr. Hammond so convinced him of his error, that on his return to town he delivered a recantation sermon. In 1660, he went with the commissioners to the Hague to invite his Majesty to return and take possession of the go- vernment; on whose restoration he was collated * Bliss' Wood's Athen. Oxon. Vol. III. p. 899. 28 HISTORY OF CROYDON. to the vicarage of St. Martin in the Fields, be- ing at that time D.D.; he was afterwards ordain- ed archdeacon of Lewes ; and on the 10th Decem- ber, 1660, dean of Rochester. He was also rec^ tor of Henley, Oxon. During the common- wealth, he officiated as minister of St. Dionyse, Back-church, London. " At length," says the author above quoted, "this active and forward man, who had little or no character among the true loyalists, especially that part of the clergy who had suffered in the times of usurpation, giv- ing way to fate in his house at Croydon in Sur- rey, on the first day of June, in sixteen hundred and seventy, was buried on the 9th day of the same month in the chancel of St. Martin's church in the Fields." 1687— On the 29th of April, Sir Christopher Hatton was appointed Lord Chancellor " at Croy- don in the Archbishop of Canterburie's house, where he received the great seale in the gallery there*." 1728 — On the 12th of May, so violent a storm of hail and rain, with thunder and lightning, fell at Croydon, as to strike the hail-stones, which were from eight to ten inches round, some inches * Stowe's Annals, p. 742. CHRONOLOGY. 29 into the earth. The cattle were forced into ditches and drowned, the glass windows facing the storm were shattered, and other great da- mage done. 1744 — Much damage was done by lightning in and near Croydon. 30 HISTORY OF CROYDON. CHAPTER III. Jftanorg anD ^atfc. On the inclosure in 1797, claims were made and allowed for the following manors: — 1 Croydon*, by the Archbishop of Canter buryf. 2 The Rectory J. by Robert Harris, Esq. 3 Waddon, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 4 Whitehorse, by John Cator, Esq. 5 Norbury, by Richard Carew, Esq. 6 Haling, by William Parker Hammond, Esq. 7 Croham, by the Warden and Poor of Whit- gift's Hospital. Waddon, Anciently styled Woddens, is a considerable manor lying about half a mile from the town on the road to Beddington, and contains seve- ral gentlemen's seats, a large water-mill men- * For an account of this manor and its customs, vide ante, p. 8, f Dr. John Moore. J An account of this manor will be found in Chapter VII. MANORS AND PARK. 31 tioned in Domesday book and belonging to the archbishop, and many respectable houses. In 1127, this manor was given by Henry I. to the monks of Bermondsey*. "Whether" says Salmon " this was the whole manor is a ques- tion, because there appears a confirming charter of Henry II., of half the manor of Wedone, the gift of Roger de Thebovill to the Abbey of Beccf." The convent of St. Saviour's trans- ferred it, in 1390, to Archbishop Courtney, in exchange for the appropriation of the church of Croydon, the said manor to be exempted from all tithes arising and becoming due to the said rec- tory in future ; from which time it has been an- nexed to the see of Canterbury. In 1092, one Winebald de Baalum gave three and a half vir- gates in Widon to the Abbey of Bermondsey 'J ; and Alfred, a duke in the reign of King Alfred, gave his son Athelwold ten hides in Whatedune, In the time of Henry IV. this manor was taxed at 10Ll6s. 5d. In Archbishop Bourchier's time, it was valued at Si. 1 2* § ; and in that of Arch-; bishop Parker, at 22/. 6s. 8d\\. A court baron is annually held here in Easter week. * Mon. Ang. Vol. I. p. 639, 642. f Antiquities of Surrey, p. 42. % Mon. Ang. Vol. I. p. 639. § Cart. Miscell. Lamb. MS. Lib. b. 13, No. 14. 11 Lamb. MS. Lib! No. 1142. 32 HISTORY OF CROYDON, Whitehorse. This manor, also called Bunchesham, and Bencham, is situated about a mile and a half north from the town, on the road to Norwood. The mansion appears to have been built in the reign of Henry VIII*. Thomas de Bunchesham was reeve of Croydon sometime before 1313 f. Peter Chaceport had a grant of free warren on this es- tate in the reign of Henry III. J, as had Richard de Gravesend, Bishop of London, in the reign of * There is an oral tradition that James I. frequently lodged at Whitehorse when attending the races at Croydon, f Rot. Lacerat. temp. Ed. H. J Cart. 37 Hen; III. m. 15. MANORS AND PARK. 33 Edward I.*, Stephen de Gravesend, bishop of London, died in the reign of Edward III., hold- ing this manor of the manor of Croydon, for the service of twenty-one shillings per annum, with suit of court to the Archbishop at Croydon, from three weeks to three weeks. There was then a capital messuage of no value beyond reprises ; 200 acres of arable land worth 58s. 4d.per annum, of which 100 was valued at 4?d., the other 3d. an acre; the pasture of 8 acres of wood 12d.; the pannage when it happens, communibus annis, l%d.\ the underwood, 4s. ; 8 acres of meadow land, 8^ ; 20 acres of pasture, 3s. 4d. ; rents of assize as well from free tenants as from natives, 70*. ; at Christmas, 24 hens and 1 cock, 4*. ; at the same time, 6 ploughshares, 4s. ; pleas and per- quisites of Courts, 3s 4f/. It was then found that the reversion belonged to Hugh de Nevill by fine levied in the King's court f. It was next in the possession of the CherburysJ, afterwards of the Chiritons §, one of whom alienated it to Walter Whitehorse, the king's shield-bearer, who also ob- tained a grant of free warren ||. Arnold Holker possessed the manor in the reign of Henry IV., and had a confirmation in fee of free warren ^j; * Cart. 27 Ed. I. n. 6. f E sch. 12 Ed. III. n. 34. % Cart. 29 Ed. III. m. 9. § CI. 41 Ed. III. m. 6. || Pat 43 Ed. III. H Pat. 7 Hen. IV. pt. 2, m. 36. D 34 HISTORY OF CROYDON. and in the reign of Henry VI., it was the pro- perty of Edmund Brudenell, who had a further confirmation of free warren *. In the 6 Henry VIII., Sir Robert Morton, Knt., nephew of Rich- ard Morton, Bishop of Worcester, and grand ne- phew of Cardinal Morton, died seised of this ma- nor*; and in the 9th year of the same reign, it was in the possession of John Morton, Esq,, his half brother; from whom it descended to his ne- phew William; from him to his son William, who held it in 1566 J, and whose grandson Thomas, dying in 1678, left five daughters, amongst whom this estate was divided. Four of the five partitions were purchased by John Barrett, Esq., in 1712; the fifth, by his grandson in 1787, who sold the whole to John Cator, Esq., M.P. ; whose nephew, John Cator, Esq., sold it to John Davidson Smith, Esq., the present possessor. In 1719, a gold coin of the Emperor Domi- tian was found in this marlor, and lately coins of Laelius Caesar, and Titus Vespasian, with several others, all in good preservation. No courts are held for this manor. On this estate, a saline spring, long resorted to by the poor of its immediate neighbourhood on ac- count of its medicinal properties, has lately been * Pat. 10 Hen. VI. pt. 2, m. 6. f Cole's Esch. Harl. MS. No. 576. \ Herald's Visitation of Surrey, 1623, Harl. MS. No. 1397. MANORS AND PARK. 35 brought into public notice as the " Beulah Spa." To its spirited proprietor, the inhabitants of the metropolis and its southern environs are greatly indebted. The grounds, which extend over twenty-five acres, and are entered by an elegant lodge, have been tastefully laid out under the di- rection of that accomplished architect, Decimus Burton. The picturesque character of the place, its rustic edifices, its rides, and its promenades, render it a most pleasing resort, not only for the invalid, but also for those who seek recreation and amusement. Croham. This manor, called also Cronham and Cran- ham, consists of a messuage and farm; it ex- tends over Cromehurst, and is situate about a mile south east of the town; it receives quit- rents from several houses and lands in the town of Croydon, and forms part of the endowment of the hospital of the Holy Trinity. In 1368, one Chiriton alienated the manor to Walter Whitehorse*, the king's shield-bearer. It ap- pears, however, to have reverted to its former possessor,' as Edward III. in the 46th year of his reign, seized the manor, with other lands * Ch. 41 Ed. III. m. 6. D2 38 HISTORY OF CROYDON. then belonging to Walter Chiriton, for a debt of 3,000/. due to the crown, and granted it to John de Wesenham; but Richard II. restored it to William, son of the above Walter Chiriton. In the reign of Henry IV. it was again in the pos- session of the crown, when William Oliver was appointed keeper of the same*. By the court rolls of the manor, in the time of Henry VII., it appears to have been then the property of Lady Peche; and in the reign of Henry VIII., it was held by Sir John Danett, Knt., in right of his wife Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Elmerugge, otherwise Elynbrugge, Esq., gentleman porter to Cardinal Morton. It afterwards became the pro- perty of Sir Olliphe Leigh, Knt., of Addington ; who sold it to Archbishop Whitgift. Courts are sometimes held for this manor, which is partly in the parish of Sandersted. Norbury. The manor of Norbury, called also Northbo- rough, lies on the west side of the London road, and extends over that side of Thornton Heath. Several houses and lands in Croydon pay quit- rents to it. In the 48 Edward III., Nicholas Carewf of Beddington, keeper of the privy * Fin. 1 Hen. IV. m. 8. f Cart. 48 Ed. III. n. 10. MANORS AND PARK. 37 seal, obtained a grant of free-warren on all his lands at Croydon. He died 17th August, 1391, seised of this manor, then consisting of a capital messuage, 100 acres of arable land, 300 acres of pasture, 10 acres of mea- dow, and 20 acres of great wood, lying in common, rents of assize 30s. He left Nicholas, his son and heir *, who died seised of the manor 33 Henry VI. f; whose son Nicholas also died seised of it, 6 Edward IVJ. On the execution and attainder of Sir Nicholas Carew, K.G., Hen- ry VIII. seized it for his own use, and annex- ed it to his newly created honor of Hampton Court; and Edward VI., in the first year of his reign, granted it, with the meadow called Pyrle- mead in Croydon, to the Archbishop of Canterbu- ry, in performance of an agreement of his late fa- ther. In this same year, Sir Francis Carew, Knt. obtained a reversal of his father's attainder ; but it does not appear that he was in possession of this manor till the reign of Mary; for, in the 6 Edward VI., 18th July, that king granted it, with the forfeited estate of Sir Nicholas, to Tho- mas, Lord Darcie, of Chiche, in exchange for other lands §. Queen Mary, in the second year of her reign, 14th July, (having, on the 20th No- * Esch. 14 R. II. n. 10. f Esch. 6 Ed. VI. n. 22. X Esch. 6 Ed. VI. n, 40. § Pat. 6 Ed. VI. p. 9. 38 HISTORY OF CROYDON. vember, the preceding year, obtained a reconvey- ance from Lord Darcie of the forfeited lands of Sir Nicholas), re-granted to Sir Francis Carew his father's estates; when Lord Darcie alienated this manor to him, 2nd January, 1 556. From Sir Francis it has descended, with the Beddington estate, to its present possessor — Admiral Sir Ben- jamin Hallowell Carew, G.C.B., &c. Haling*. The manor of Haling is situate at the extre- mity of the town, and comprises a park and man- sion. Towards the close of the fifteenth century, it was in the possession of Thomas Warham, Esq., who was one of the twelve principal inha- bitants presenting to the chauntry of St. Mary in 1458 f, and again in 1476 J. In his will, dated 3rd * "Inge in nominibus locorum designat pratum, a Sax. inj, (Vide Regulae Generates, de Nominibus Locorum, ad finem Chron. Sax.) Sanctus in Saxon is halig, and from thence is derived the Old English word All Hallows, for All Saints, and therefore it is not unlikely that halig may mean the Holy Meadow, especially as it is not very far from a place called Woddens, in the map of Surrey (lately published by Bowen), which might induce a conjecture that here formerly was some idol of Woden (whence our Wednesday) adored in that place by the Old Pagan Saxons." Ducarel, p. 73. f Reg. Bourchier, fol. 74 a. X Ibid. 113 b. MANORS AND PARK. 39 September, 1478, and preserved in the chapter- house at Westminster, he directs his body to be buried in the parish church of St. John the Bap- tist of Croydon, in the chapel of St. Nicholas, before the image of our Lady of Pite. He gives legacies for masses, &c, with a distribution of torches used at his month's mind, amongst differ- ent churches. He also gives in lead, for cover- ing the north aisle of the church of Croydon, four marks. By other papers, also in the chapter- house, we find that he held the manor of the archbishop by the rent of 21s. O^cl. ; that the free rents and quit-rents paid to the said manor amounted to 12s. Sd. ; that the clear yearly value amounts to 35/. 16s. 10^d.; — the house not ac- counted for — and that he had woods there, which, within ten years, would be worth 400 marks per annum. "It is likely" says Bray*, "that he was father of William Warham, of whose lands of the manors of Halyng and Selerste, and of his lands in the towns of Croydon, Whaddon, and Mycham, there is an account amongst the above papers :" speak- ing of whom, he further says, " This William is probably the same as was appointed archdeacon of Canterbury in 1504, and held other valuable * Manning & Bray's Surrey, Vol. II. p. 542. 40 HISTORY OF CROYDON. church-preferments ; all which he resigned on the death of Archbishop Warham." The pedigree of the Warham family runs thus: — Robert Warham, of Hampshire— Elizabeth William Robert Nicholas — Hugo John Archbishop of Canterbury. William Jane Joanna Sir George Anna Elizabeth Archdeacon of Canterbury. In these papers, it is said, that the manor-place of Halyng, with two orchards, two gardens, a culver-house with the bank of conies, were let to Sir Nicholas Carew, for 4<0s.per annum; the land of the said manor and game of conies (a high ridge of gravel soil, consisting of about twelve acres) at 12/.; and the farm of Selhurst, 12/. How Archdeacon Warham should become pos- sessed of this manor, I am unable to tell, as the same was given by his uncle, the archbishop, to Henry VIII. in exchange for other lands*; per- haps we should read Archbishop for Archdeacon William Warham, and Thomas Warham as un- cle of that prelate. Queen Mary granted the manor of Haling to * Grants and Exchanges of Lands, Aug. Office. MANORS AND PARK. 41 Sir John Gage, K.G.*, of whom his son, Robert Gage, Esq., of Haling, has left the following MS. account : — "Sir John Gage of Furle, his Preferment at Court. " Sir John Gage, Knight, my good father, whose soul God pardon, was, after my grandfather's death, warde to the duke of Bucking- ham; who, after my father was married to my mother, daughter to Sir Richard Guilfourd, Knight, was preferred by him to King Henry the Eighth his service ; and after, he being at the wininge of Turwin and Turrein, was first made captain of the Castle of Callis ; after he was made deputy of the Castle of Owns under my lorde Vawse. Shortly after he was sent for home, and presently made knight, of the privy counsell, vize chambelaine, and captain of the guard ; within few yeares after, for service he did in the borders of Scotland, at his returne home was made controwler and chancellour of the Dow- chye in one day; within few dayes after he was made counstable of the Tower of London ; and the next St. George's feast after, knight of the most noble order of the garter. On goinge to wininge of Bul- len he was joyned in the commission with Charles duke of SufFolke, lorde leauetenant of the king's majesty's campe, for sundry services there ; with Sir Anthony Browne, knight, master of the horse and generall captayne of the bands of horsemen. After the death of our Soveraign lord king Edward the Sixth, at the cominge in of queen Mary, he was made her lord chamberlaine. Thus haveing served in all these roomes and offices truely and paynefully from the first yeare of the reigne of our soveraign lord King Henry the Eighth of famous memory, unto the fifth yeare of the reign of our soveraign lady queen Mary, untouched with any reproch or unfaithfull service in this time, being 77 yeares old, he ended his life, in favour of his prince, in his owne house at Furle in Sussex, committing his soul there to God's mercifull tuition." * Pat. 1 & 2 P. & M. Part 9, Feb. 21. A2r HISTORY OF CROYDON. To this memoir is appended the following me- morandum : — "This note was written by Robert Gage, of Halinge, in the county of Surry, esq., third son of the aforesaid Sir John Gage Knight, and Phillippa Guillfourd his wife; as John Gage of Halinge, eldest sonne of the said Robert Gage, my good father, hath divers times told me. In witness whereof, I under-written, son of John Gage aforesaid of Haleinge, and grand-child of the said Robert Gage, have subscribed my name, this 29th of January, 1630. Henry Gage." He left issue, four sons — Sir Edward, James, Robert, of Haling, M.P. for Lewes in 1533, and William. Robert died seised of this manor in 1587. He was father of John and Robert Gage, who were probably born here, the former of whom succeeded to the estate, and was father of colonel Sir Henry Gage, Knt., sometime governor of Ox- ford during the civil war, who was killed at Cul- lum bridge, near Abingdon, January 7th, 1644. The latter, during his travels abroad, having suf- fered imprisonment at Brussels for attempting the life of one Thomas Morgan, in the church of St. Guldula*, returned to England, and entering into Babington's conspiracy, was executed at St. Giles's in the Fields, 20th September, 1586. It does not appear, however, that he actually en- * State of the English fugitives under the King of Spain, 1596. MANORS AND PARK. 43 tered into the conspiracy, but rather that he suf- fered as an accessory after the fact, in concealing the conspirators when their treasonable design had been discovered. In a MS. account* of their several trials and confessions, we read " that when all the matter was discovered, he lent Savage (who suffered for the same cause) a horse to flye to Croiden, and directed him to one off Savage's father's men, who should help him away." Among the charges urged against him at the trial, was, that he attended Ballard as his man when he went into the north to provoke the people to rebellion. He was discovered hid in a barn in Carnock's ap- parel, having lent his own to Babington. When asked on his trial wherefore he fled into the woods, he " stoutly and fiercely answered — For company f." By the attainder of the above John Gage, Esq., the manor again reverted to the crown, and was leased to Charles, Earl of Nottingham J, the celebrated lord admiral, who died here 14th December, 1624, as did his brother, Sir Wil- liam Howard, in 1600, and whose second son, Charles, afterwards third Earl of Nottingham, was born here in 1610. * Harl. MSS. No. 29, p. 161. f Cobbett's State Trials, Vol. I. p. 1154. % Pat. 34 Eliz., pt. 9, & Pat. 9 Jac, pt. 23, No. 5. 44 HISTORY OF CROYDON. I have not been able to discover the year of John Gage's attainder, concerning whom, the anonymous epitomizer of his son has the follow- ing : — " His father, through his great misfortune, was brought into the hard condition of confiscat- ing his whole estate, and long imprisonment, having only his life left him, and that onely upon curtesie, by the king's reprieve after condem- nation." Still his son is styled, in the inscription on his tomb at Christchurch, Oxford — " Filius ac Hceres Johannis Gage de Haling, in Agro Suriensi, Armigeri." The same writer informs us that Sir Henry vo- luntarily demised to his father " the reversion of a faire estate at Croyden, called Haling-house, waiving all respect of wrong to himselfe, or pre- gudice to his wife and children*." John Gage, Esq., F.S.A., of Lincoln's Inn, a descendant of the above John Gage, informs us that " he suffered great hardships for the catholic faith, and was long in confinement for harbour- ing George Beesley, a missionary priestf ." The manor appears again to have become the property of the Gage family, one of whom alienat- * Alter Britannia Heros, or the life of the Most Honorable Knight, Sir Henry Gage, late Governor of Oxford, epitomized. Ox- ford, 1645, page 15. f Gage's Hist, and Antiq. of Hengrave, 1822, p. 231. MANORS AND PARK. 45 ed it to Christopher Gardner, Esq., in 2 Charles I., in whose family it remained till 1707; when they conveyed it to Edward Stringer, Esq. ; whose widow marrying Parker, Esq., her grand- son, William Parker Hammond, Esq., inherited it; whose son, W.Parker Hammond, Esq., is the present possessor. The fine grove in this park contains a great number of exotics and evergreens, which have been celebrated by the laureate Whitehead, in his " Epistle from a Grove in Derbyshire to a Grove in Surry," and " Answer." Of the " Bourn," which runs by this estate, Camden has written the following : — " For the torrent that the vulgar affirm to rise here some- times, and to presage dearth and pestilence, it seems hardly worth so much as the mentioning, tho' perhaps it may have something of truth in it*." No Courts are held for this or the last-men- tioned manor. * Gibson's Camden's " Britannia," 1695 p. 159. 46 HISTORY OF CROYDON. The three following manors are now included in that of Croydon. Palmers (or Tylehurst). By an inquisition in 1595, it appears that Richard Forth, LL.D., died seised of this es- tate*, which is situated on the south skirts of the Norwood hills, and comprises about seventy acres ; it was afterwards the property of the Newlands ; the co-heiresses of which family sold it to Mr. Bulkley in 1769f, who disposed of it to Mr. Cotes. At the time of the inclosure, Mrs. Cotes claim- ed and had an allotment for the estate as a farm. Ham. This estate, a farm, situate at the extremity of this parish towards Beckenham, was, in the 2 Philip & Mary, granted by the crown to An- tony, Viscount Montague, by the name of " The manor of Estham, alias Escheam, juxta Croy- don," being then part of the honor of Hampton Court. * Harl. MSS. No. 756, p. 237. f Home, p. 310. manors and park. 47 Selhurst. This estate, situate about two miles from the town, on the road to Sydenham, was granted by Henry VIII., in 1541, to Archbishop Cranmer*. Croydon Park (now Park Hill) Was held by the see of Canterbury, till the reign of Henry VIII., when Archbishop Cranmer exchanged it with that monarch for other lands f; but it reverted to the archbishop by another grant in the reign of Edward VI. J. In 1326, the keep- ing of this park was given by Archbishop Rey- nolds to one — — Le Barber § for life. In 1382, Sir William Walworth was appointed keeper by Archbishop Courtney ||. In 1405, Richard Hem- bridge received the same office from Archbishop Arundell^f; and in 1441, Archbishop Chichele granted it to Adam and Richard Pykman**. In the reign of Edward IV., we find its keeping in * Terrier of Lands in Surrey, Brit. Mus. 4705 ; Ayscough's Cat. f Grants of Land and Exchanges, May 4; 31 Hen. VIII., Aug. Office. X Grants of Land and Exchanges, June 12; 1 Ed. VI., Aug. Of- fice. § Reg. Reynolds, fol. 264 b. || Reg. Courtney, fol. 37 a. IT Reg. Arundel, fol. 401 a. ** Reg. Chichele, fol. 239 a. 48 HISTORY OF CROYDON. the hands of John Lyttyll*, and in the reign of Charles I., Francis Lee, gentleman, held the same by patent, granted by Archbishop Laud, 25th November, 1637f . A Francis Lee, son of Fran- cis Lee, gentleman, of Streatham, had a like grant from Archbishop Juxon, 20th May, 1663 J. In the time of Archbishop Grindall, Sir Fran- cis Carew, Knt., and one George Withers, had several interests in this park, for redemption of which, the said archbishop paid them the sum of 83l.6s.8d.§. On the sale of the palace, it was in contempla- tion to erect here a new residence for the arch- bishop, but Addington being preferred, an act of Parliament was obtained in 1807, for purchasing the mansion and estate of Alderman Tricothick ; on the site of which arose the present archi epis- copal seat. * Excerpta ex computis Ministrorum. Vide Appendix, f Cart. Miscel., Vol. XIII. No. 16. X Harl. MSS. No.3797, p.27. § Strype's Life of Grindall, p. 286. ADDISCOMBE. 49 CHAPTER IV. StoHfatomfa. Addiscombe, formerly called Adgecome and Ads- comb, but more anciently by its present name, is situate about a mile and a half from the town on the road to Wickham, and was formerly the residence of a family of the name of Heron. Thomas Heron, Esq.*, died here in September, 1518, leaving, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of William Bond, Esq., clerk of the green cloth, two sons ; William, justice of the peace for the county, who died here January 4th, 1562, and was, with his father, buried in Croydon church ; and Sir Nicholas, who also died here, Sept. 1568, and was buried in the same church. It was afterwards the residence of Sir John Tunstall, Knt.f , of the ancient family of Tunstall, of Thur- land castle, gentleman-usher and esquire to Queen Anne, consort of James I., and justice of the * Visitation of Surrey, Harl. MSS., No. 1561. f Ibid. No. 1016. E 50 HISTORY OF CROYDON. peace for the county; whose eldest son Henry, then residing at Croydon, was one of the com- missioners appointed in 1647, for inquiring into the conduct of the clergy of Surrey. We next find it the property and residence of Sir Purbeck Temple, Knt., of the privy council of Charles II. who died here 29th August, 1695, and whose widow Sarah, daughter of Robert Draper, Esq., of Remmingham, Berks, dying here in Feb. 1700, left the estate to her nephew, William Draper, Esq., who married Susanna, daughter of the celebrated John Evelyn. This gentleman rebuilt the man- sion, commencing in June, 1702, and finishing to- wards the close of the following year, as we learn from the following extracts from the amusing Diary of his father-in-law. "27 June, 1702 — I went to Wotton with my family for the rest of the summer, and my son-in- law, Draper, with his family came to stay with us, his house at Adscomb being new building*." "11 July, 1703 — I went to Adscomb, 16 miles from Wotton, to see my son-in-law's new house, the outside to the covering being such excellent brick-work, cased with Portland stone, with the pilasters, windows, and within, that I pronounc'd it, in all points of good and solid architecture, to be one of the very best gentlemen's houses in * Evelyn's Memoirs, ed. Bray, 1819, Vol. II. p. 77. ADDISCOMBE. 51 Surrey, when finished. I returned to Wotton tho' weary." * (He was then 83). The estate became afterwards the property and residence of Charles Clarke, Esq., of Ockley, Surrey, through an heiress of the Draper family; whose only son Charles died in his father's life- time, leaving issue, Charles John, unfortunately killed at Paris by the fall of a scaffold at a public show, on the celebration of the peace of Amiens ; and Anne Millicent Clarke, who marrying Emi- lius Henry Delmd, Esq., afterwards Radcliffe, master of the stud to George IV. and his present Majesty, the estate became the property of * Evelyn's Memoirs, Vol. II. p. 80. The following three extracts, in which Addiscombe is referred to, are also taken from Evelyn's Memoirs — "19 July, 1695 — I dined at Sir Purbeck Temple's, neare Croy- don ; his lady is aunt to my son-in-law Draper ; the house is exactly furnished." (Vol. II. p. 48). " 29 August, 1695. — Very cold weather. — Sir Purbeck Temple, uncle to my son Draper, died suddenly. A greate funeral at Ads- combe. His lady being owne aunt to my son Draper, he hopes for a good fortune, there being no heir." (Ibid. p. 49.) "13 February, 1700 — I was at the funerall of my Lady Temple, who was buried at Islington, brought from Adscomb, neare Croydon: she left my son-in-law, Draper (her nephew), the mansion-house of Adscomb, very nobly and completely furnish 'd, with the estate about it, with plate and jewels to the value in all of about 20,000/.; she was a very prudent lady, gave many greate legacies, with 500/. to the poore of Islington, where her husband, Sir Purbeck Temple, was buried, both dying without issue." (Ibid. p. 68.) E2 52 HISTORY OF CROYDON. that gentleman. Lord Grantham, and the first Lord Liverpool, made Addiscombe their place of residence, the latter of whom had a lease of the estate for life; and Lord Chancellor Talbot is said to have resided here. In I 809, this estate was purchased of Mr. Delme RadclifFe by the Hon. East India Company, for the purpose of establishing here their military college, previously formed at Woolwich Common, for the education of cadets for the engineers and artille- ry; which, in 1825, was extended to the reception of the whole infantry service. The cadets, whose number extends from 120 to 150, are under the in- spection of an officer of rank in the Company's ser- vice, assisted by an officer of His Majesty's corps of engineers or artillery, who examine them pre- viously to their obtaining commissions. There are fourteen professors and masters : teachers of for- tification, artillery, engineering, and military tac* tics in general, mathematics, military and other drawing, lithography, surveying, the classics, the French and oriental languages, chemistry, and geology. Two public examinations are held annually, at which the chairman and deputy chairman of the East India Company preside, assisted by some of the principal officers- of state, there are two terms in the year, one commencing the 1st February ADDISCOMBE. 53 and extending to the 16th June, and the other from 1st August to 21st December. The age of the candidates for admission must not be under 14 or exceeding 3 8 years. The terms are 651. the first year, and 501. for each of the two suc- ceeding years. Addiscombe house is supposed to have been built after a design of Sir John Vanburgh, and the walls and ceilings of the staircase and saloon to have been painted by Sir William Thornhill. It has since been greatly enlarged by the addition of several unconnected buildings. On the front is the following inscription in Roman capitals. NON FACIAM VITIO CULPAVE MINOREM. 54 HISTORY OF CROYDON. CHAPTER V. Charitable Jngtitutton*. Ellis Davy's Alms House. This religious foundation is a small unassuming structure situate near the church, and was rebuilt about sixty years since. It was founded on the 27th April, 1447, by one Ellis Davy, citizen and mercer of London, for the support of seven poor people, male and female, including a tutor. He endowed the same with 181. per annum, with the addition of four cottages situate near it, the rents of which were to be applied to its repairs. Having obtained letters patent from Henry VI., dated 25th December, 1445, together with letters patent from Archbishop Stafford, dated 17th February, 1442, and letters from the Abbot and convent of St. Saviour, Bermondsey, dated from their Chapter-house, 20th December, 1445, the said Ellis Davy founded this alms-house the 27th of April, 1447 — He appointed the vicar, churchwardens, and four of the most worthy ELLIS DAVY'S ALMS HOUSE. 55 householders and parishioners of the town, and their successors, governors of the Alms-house, and constituted the master and wardens of the Mer- cers' Company, for the time being, overseers of the same. The said Ellis Davy ordained the tutor and poor of his Alms-house to attend service daily in the church of Croydon, and there to pray upon their knees, for the King, in three Pater- nosters, three Aves, and a Credo, " with special and hartily recommendation" of the said founder to God and the Virgin Mary. They were also required to say for " the estate of all the sowles abovesaid" daily at their convenience, one Ave, fifteen Paternosters, and three Credos ; and after his death, provided he should be buried at Croy- don, they and their successors w T ere required to appear daily before his tomb, and there to say the psalm " De Profundis," or three Paternosters, three Aves, and a Credo. He required that their clothes should be " darke and browne of colour, and not staring, neither blazing, and of easy price cloth, according to their degree." These statutes (which are inserted in full in the Appendix) becoming antiquated, were revised by Archbishop Parker, August 6th, 1566. The revenue of this charity is, at the present time, 179/. 4s. 2d. per annum. 56 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Whitgift's Hospital. This " memorable and charitable structure/' incorporated in the name of the warden and poor of the hospital of the Holy Trinity, was founded in the reign of Elizabeth, by Archbishop Whit- gift, for the maintenance of a warden, schoolmas- ter, and twenty-eight men and women, or as many more under forty as the revenues would admit. The archbishop, having obtained letters patent, with licence of mortmain, from the queen, dated 22 November, 1596, commenced this build- ing on the 14th February, the same year, and finished it 29th September, 1599, expending on whitgift's hospital. 57 the whole, 2716/. lis. Id., as appears from the ac- counts of the Rev. S. Fynche, vicar of Croydon, ap- pointed by the founder to superintend the works*. He appointed to the warden a salary of 11/. per ann.; and to the schoolmaster, who is also chap- lain, a salary of 201. per ann.; and to each poor brother and sister, whose respective ages must not be under sixty, the sum of 51. per ann. ; be- sides wood, corn, and other provisions. The members he required to be selected— -first, from the household of the archbishop — secondly, from the parishes of Croydon and Lambeth — and lastly, from such parishes in Kent whose be- nefices are annexed to the see. The number of the women not to exceed the half of the men, ex- clusive of the warden and schoolmaster. The schoolmaster, he required to read public prayers, morning and evening, in the chapel of the Hospital, on all working days except Wednesday and Friday in the forenoon, and Saturday in the afternoon — and to be proficient in Greek and La- tin, as also a good versifier of these languages. He ordained the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being governor and visitor of the hospi- tal. This trust was delegated by Archbishop Laud, 11th August, 1634, to Sir Edmund Scott, * Vide " The particular account of the Building of Trinity Hos- py tall in Croydon, "Lamb. MS. Lib. No. 275. 58 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Knt., and Rev. S. Bernard, vicar of Croydon. For the articles ministered, vide Appendix, No. 1 5. He reserved to himself during life the two chambers over the inner gatehouse, and the cham- ber over the hall, now occupied by the warden ; and here he often entertained his noble friends the Ear]s of Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Cum- berland, Lord Zouche, the bishop of London, "and others of near place about her Majesty." Whilst digging the foundations, several skele- tons were discovered by the workmen, of which Mr. Fynche gives an account in two letters to the archbishop. These were in all probability the remains of the unfortunate Londoners who fell in this town on the 14th May, 1624*. On the 10th July, 1599, between the hours of eight and twelve, the chapel of the Hospital was consecrated by Richard (Bancroft), bishop of London, by the name of " The chapel of the Holy Trinity ;" in the presence of Antony, bishop of Chichester, Thomas Montford, D.D., preacher on the occasion, and many others. Scarcely, however, had he completed this erec- tion, when his enemies, desirous of obtaining a cur- tailment of the archiepiscopal income, that they * Vide ante, p. 17. In 1814, Mr. Turner, veterinary surgeon, when digging a gravel-pit in his paddock opposite the Hospital, discovered a number of skeletons, lying about four feet deep from the surface. whitgift's hospital. 59 might feast upon the spoliation, talked much at Court of the great wealth accumulated by the pre- late under his preferment, and of the overgrown re- venue of the see. Upon the receipt of this slander, the archbishop immediately drew up a paper, giv- ing the true yearly value of the archbishopric, with an account of all his purchases since his transla- tion. From which paper given by Strype in his life of this prelate, we have extracted the follow- ing items. " These following are for my hospital : — " The Checker in Croydon cost 200/. "A tenement joining it, cost 30/. "Another tenement in Croydon, called Stay- Cross, with one acre and a half, cost 80/. "Upon these I have builded my hospital, school- house, and school-master's house, and therefore are not rented. "One piece of ground, called Clotmead, in Croy- don, cost 14/., rent 20s. "The Swan in Croydon, cum pcrtinentiis, 80/., rent of this with certain parcels belonging to the Checker, is 13/. 6s. 8d. One piece of wood land, and some pasture, con- taining in the whole 77 acres, in Croydon, cost 375/., rent 20/. " One other piece of wood land and pasture in Croydon, cost 410/., rent 23/. 60 HISTORY OF CROYDON. " Three other several farms in Croydon cost 1400/., rent 48/." Of the wonderful condescension of this excellent prelate to the inmates of his hospital, we are told by Izaak Walton, in his life of Hooker, that he visited them so often "that he knew their names and dis- positions, and was so truly humble, that he called them brothers and sisters ; and whenever the queen descended to that lowliness to dine with him at his palace at Lambeth, which was very often, he would usually the next day shew the like lowli- ness to his poor brothers and sisters of Croydon, and dine with them at his hospital, at which time you may believe there was joy at the table*." The same author has also recorded a saying of Boyse Sisi, ambassador from France at the time of the archbishop's death — " The bishop" said the Frenchman, "had published many learned books; but a free-school to train up youth, and an hospital to lodge and maintain aged and poor people, were the best evidence of christian learn- ing that a bishop could leave to posterity f ." Sir George Paul also mentions the many visits of the pious founder to the poor of his hospital. The revenue, originally only 185/. 4s. 2d. per annum, has been greatly increased by fines upon the renewal of leases, chiefly through the care * Walton's lives, Major's ed. p. 208. f Ibid. whitgift's hospital. 61 and attention of the archbishops, Seeker and Moore ; which, with sundry benefactions, amount- ed together, in 1817, to 481/. 9*. 4|^.; and has increased at the present time to 2,007/. 19s. 4J. per annum. There are now thirty-four brothers and sisters supported by this charity. The hospital is a handsome brick edifice, of the Elizabethan style of architecture, in the form of a quadrangle, and situate at the entrance of the town, having, over the entrance, the arms of the see of Canterbury, surmounting the following in- scription : — QVI DAT PAVPERI NON INDIGEBIT. In the chapel, a small unassuming structure, forming the south-east angle, are preserved the following, among other items: — * For the following note, I am indebted to the Rev. J. C. Bisset, Chaplain of the Hospital. By far the chief partjof the revenue of the Hospital is derived from the original endowment made by its pious Founder, Archbishop Whitgift, in land and tenements in Croydon, and its neighbourhood. Some estates were afterwards bestowed by other benefactors, who completed the annual income the archbishop designed for the poor in his hospital, and thus contributed to advance its permanent inter- ests. For a long series of years, it was usual for the Hospital to re- ceive a reserved rent for the lands and tenements, on leases renewa- ble every seventh year, upon payment of a fine : that custom has been departed from, and a fixed rent substituted in lieu of all fines. The result of which measure is, that the present rental of the Hospi- tal may be stated as amounting to the sum of 2,007Z. 19s. id. a-year. 62 HISTORY OF CROYDON. A fine portrait of the founder painted on board, and inscribed above : — Feci quod potui ; potui quod, Christe, dedisti : Improba, fac melius, si potes, Invidia. beneath : — Has Triadi Sanctse primo qui struxerat aedes, Illius in veram Praesulis effigiem. A portrait of a lady in a ruff, inscribed, A.D. 1616. A frame containing the following : — TO THE HAPPIE MEMORIE OF Y E MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, DOCTOR JOHN WHITGUIFT, LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURIE, ETC., HIS GRACE'S SOMETIME FAITHFULL LOVING SERVANT & UNWORTHIE GENT. USHER, J.W., CONSECRATS YS TESTIMONIE OF HIS ANCIENT DUTY. OBIIT 29 FEB., 1603. Pure Saints by heav'n refyn'd from earthlie drosse, You duelie can esteeme your new increase : But our soules' eyes are dymme, to see the losse, Great Prelate, wee sustayne by thy decease. Wee never could esteeme thee as we ought, Although the best men did thee best esteeme ; For hardlie can you fynde a mortall thought, That of so great worth worthilie can deeme. whitgift's hospital. 63 This straight sound Cedar, new cut from y e Stemme, As yet is scarselie myst in Libanus ; This, richer than the wise King's richest gemme, New lost, as yet is scarselie myst of us. But tymes to come, and our deserved want, I feare, will teache us more and more to prize This match! esse Pearle, this fairest knotlesse Plant, On whose top Vertue sitting touch't the Skyes, Presuming Horace, Ovid confident, Proudlie foretold their Bookes' Eternities : But if my Muse were like my Argument, Theis lynes would outlive both their memories. For their best Maister-Peeees doe contayne But Pictures of false Gods, and man's true faults ; Whereas, in my Verse ever should remayne A true Saint's praise whose worth fills Heaven's great Vaults. Shyne bright in y e triumphant Churche, faire Soule, That in the Militant has shyn'd so longe : Let rarest witts thy great deserts enrolle, I can but sing thee in a mournefull Songe. And wish, that with a Sea of teares, my Verse Could make an Island of thy honor'd Herse. L'Envoy. Candish in prose sett Cardinal Wolsey forth, Who serv'd him in that place I serv'd this lord : He had his faults to write of and his worth, Nothing in this man was to be abhorr'd. Therefore his theme was larger much than mine ; But, Candish, my theme better is than thine. Persius. * Helicondasq., pallidamq. Pirenen Illis remitto, quorum imagines lambunt Hederae sequaces. Ipse semipaganus Ad sacra Vatum carmen affero nostrum. [Prolog. 5.] 64 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Another frame containing the following : — ELEGIA Continens brevissimam descriptionem miserarium et calamitatum Generis humani quodq. sit subjectu. morti, etquae tandem ei consolatio. Vita quid est hominis, nisi plena malorum Principio, medio, fine do] en da suo. Cura, labor, morbus, cui, mentem, membra, dolorem, Multa, frequens, , alit. Et nihil est aliud, Caesar, nisi pulvis et umbra, Umbra brevis, velox amnis, et aura levis. Prseterit aura levis, velox cito labitur amnis, Umbra brevis fugitat, pulvis inanis abit. Sic hominis properans aevum fugientibus horis Labitur, et pluma ceu volitante volat: Sic homines miseri, quasvis mutamur in horas, Et centum vicibus subdita turba sumus. Ante potes frondes silvarum, germina ruris, Et nitidi Stellas dinumerare Poli : Omnia quam numeris valeas includere justis Ipse quidem, fragilis massa, laboret homo. Omnibus incumbit quoddam grave pondus, et omnis Vita malis plena est, plena dolore simul. Et quicquid spirat, vel in aere, in sequore, terra, Nil adeo fragile est sicut inermis homo. Die mihi de cunctis hominem mortalibus unum, Cui non sit sortis certa querela suae : Sit licet ille status felicis, et ordinis ampli, Sive sit exiguse conditionis homo ; Sive puer timidus, pueros incommoda mille, Mille premunt noxae, crimina mille premunt; Seu fueris juvenis, juvenum quoque tempora dura, Hie gravis est sudor, perpetuusque labor ; Sive senex tremulus, non ipsa beata senectus, Fceta sed est morbis, tristitiaque gravis. whitgift's hospital. 65 Fac jam sis dives f fortuna est lubrica certe, Te nunc, nunc alium, nunc aliumq. petit; Fac sis pauper homo, nescis, O dives amice, Pauperies secum quod grave portet onus : Junge tibi uxorem, quae non miseranda vorabis, Fert tibi libertas vendita triste jugum ; At maneas caelebs, miser est homo solus et orbus, Auxilio dulci, subsidioq. caret; Suscipe discipuli partes parviq. scholaris, Suscipies natibus multa ferenda tuis; Vel doceas doctor mitis pia dogmata Christi, O gravis haec quantum functio mentis erit; Sume Senatoris porro tibi munus agendum, Turn pariter curse sunt tibi mille datae; Fungeris officio regis, non taedia desunt, Discruciatq. animum plurima cura tuum. Quicquid agas tandem, nihil est, nihil undiq. tutum Sis quodcunq. velis, sunt tua damna tibi. Ut referam verbo, vita est sentina malorum, Cumq. dolore labor, cumq. labore dolor. Insuper inconstans hominum est et lubrica vita Ut cito, quae speres posse man ere, ruant. Qui modo sanus erat, nunc lecto aegrotus adhaeret, Pauper et est subito, qui modo dives erat. Cumq. homo proponit, disponunt invida fata, Cumq. homo vult illic ire, redire jubent. Cumq. videtur homo pulchram sibi ducere vitam, Mors venit et celeres injicit ipsa manus. Quiq. hodie vivit curae securus inertis, Verbaq. cum sociis ludet arnica suis, Cras moritur, pharetra tristem portatur ad urnam, Ut sua det gelido membra tegenda solo : Tales nosq. sumus, talis nos exitus omnes, Quotquot in hoc vasto vivimus orbe, manet. Non multos vixisse dies et saecla juvabit, Certa venit tandem funeris hora tibi. 66 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Ipse licet videas longgevi Nestoris annos, Sive tuos Deli, sive Sybilla tuos. Nil juvat immotus cunctis stat terminus aevi, Et tandem mortis nigra terenda via est, Communemq, viam nos ibimus, ibitis, ibunt. Hie, is, ille, puer, foemina, virgo, senex, Mors etenim pede certa ferox venit omnibus sequa, Quiq. relinquetur non erit unus homo. Sis ubicunq. velis non evitabile fatum, Te sequitur terra, te sequiturq. mari. Hie nil juris habet pauper, cum divite juris Sive bonus fueris, nil tibi, sive malus. Occidet infelix, magno cum Caesare, pastor, Et nihil hie quemquam caula vel aula juvat. Occidet afflictus, saturo cum divite, pauper, Hie nil pauperies divitiaeq. juvant. Omnia sic minuit fatum, sic omnia tollit, Et simili cunctos sub juga lege trahit. Atq. humiles altis, imbelles fortibus sequat, Obscuris celebres, supplicibusq. feros. Non genus, aut dotes animi, nee respicit annos, Nee precibus flecti, nee pietate potest. Ilia tamen nobis spes indubitata relicta est, Quam decet immota nos retinere fide, Quod licet ilia caro, cutis, et qua membra teguntur, In cava, defuncto corpore, busta cadant. Non tamen, in tumulis seterna nocte latebunt Ut caro brutorum, non reditura, jacent. Sed Deus, ex tumulis, homines educet in auras, Et rursus veteri vestiet ossa cute. Id spondent nobis sanctorum carmina vatum, Et verbum verum, maxime Christe, tuum ; Id rata verba sonant, his nos quoq. credere fas est, Sydera si cupimus scandere celsa Poli. SOLI DEO GLORIA. whitgift's hospital. 67 On the outside, above the window of the chapel, in which is the founder's arms, is the following in- scription on a Portland stone: — EBORACENCIS* HANC FENESTRAM FIERI FECIT, 1597. In the hall, which is situate at the north side of the inner porch, and where the poor brethren dine, is a folio bible, in black letter, with wooden covers mounted with brass, having this inscrip- tion : — Pauperibus Hospitalis in villa de Croydon Sacrosanctam Trinitatem colentibus Hoc Verbum Vitse donavit ABRAHAMUS HARTWELL* Reverendissimi Fundatoris Humilimus Servulus, 1599. * Probably Michael Murgatroid, the founder's secretary, who is designated " Eboracencis" in his epitaph, vide post, p. 173. f Abraham Hartwell, M.A., was rector of Stanwich, Northampton- shire ; he was secretary to Archbishop Whitgift, and author of" Regina Literata, &c. 1565." " A Report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa; and of the countries that border round about the same," translated from the Italian of Philippo Pigafetta, 1597; " A true dis- course upon the matter of Martha Brossier, of Romorantin, pretend- ed to be possessed by a devill," translated from the French, 1599; and " The Ottoman Description of the Empire and Power of Maho- met," translated from the Italian of Lazaro Soranzo, 1603. 68 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Under the inscription is this memorandum: — Repaired at the expense of Thomas Lett, esq. of Lambeth, in the year mdcccxiii. There were also formerly three antique wooden goblets, one of which, holding about three pints, had the following quaint inscription: — What, Sirrah ! hold thy pease, Thirste satisfied, cease. Above the outer gate, in an upper room, called the treasury, are preserved the several papers re- lating to the Hospital, as purchase-deeds, leases, licences, &c. ; of which the Queen's original grant to the founder and the archbishop's deed of en- dowment are singularly beautiful. Over the inner gate is this inscription: — RESTORED 181 7 J FRANCIS WALTERS, WARDEN. Adjoining the hospital are the school house and the master's residence. Although the founder has expressly said, that " the howse which I have builded for the sayde schoole howse, and also the howse which I have buylded for the schoole- master, shal be for ever imployde to that use onlye, and to no other;" yet the former is now whitgift's hospital. 69 appropriated to the children of the national school. The latter is still devoted to its original purpose, being the residence of the chaplain. " This memorable and charitable structure of brick and stone/' says Strype*, "one of the most notable monuments founded in these times, for a harbour and subsistence for the poor, together with a fair school house for the increase of litera- ture, and a large dwelling for the schoolmaster, the archbishop had the happiness, through God's favourable assistance, to build and perfect in his own life-time. And the reason why he chose to do it himself while he was alive, was, as Mr. Stowe the historian had heard from his own mouth, be- cause he would not be to his executors a cause of their damnation, remembering the good advice that an ancient father (S. Gregory) had left writ- ten to all posterity, ( Tutior est via, ut bonum, quod quisquis post mortem sperat agi per alios, agat, dum vivat ipse, per se;' i. e. The good that any one hopeth will be done by others after he is dead, that he do it himself while he is alive, is much the safer way." * Life of Whitgift, 1718, p. 533. 70 HISTORY OF CROYDON. CHAPLAINS OF ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT's HOSPITAL, FROM THE FOUNDATION. 1600 Ambrose Br ydges. 1601 John Ireland. 1606 Robert Davies, or Daires, who was de- prived. 1616 William Nicolson. 1629 John Webbe. 1651 Thomas Gray. 1668 William Crowe, of Caius Coll., where he matriculated December 14th, 1632; he was born in Suffolk, and was author of a catalogue of the English writers of the Old and New Testament, 1659, which has been frequently printed. He hanged himself about the end of 1674*. 1675 John Shepherd f. * Wood's Athen. Oxon. Vol. II. p. 344. •f* Under this gentleman, John Oldham the poet was three years an usher. John Oldham was born August 9th, 1653, at Shipton near Tedbury, Gloucestershire, and admitted of Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1670, when he graduated B.A. 1674, and about 1675, became usher to the free-school at Croydon. Here he wrote his satire on the Je- suits, which getting abroad, he was honoured with a visit by the Earls of Rochester and Dorset, Sir Charles Sedly, and other persons of wit and distinction. In 1678, Oldham quitted Croydon, and en- tered the family of Sir William Thurland, as tutor to his two grand- sons; and, in 1681, became tutor to the son of Sir William Hickes. He next applied himself to physic, which he soon relinquished for poetry ; and repairing to London, became the associate of his contem- whitgift's hospital. 71 1681 John Caesar, M.A., afterwards vicar of Croydon. 1711 Henry Mills, M.A., author of " An Essay on Generosity and Greatness of Spirit/' was of Trinity Coll. Oxford, where he graduated M.A., 25th June, 1698. He was rector of Dinder, and prebendary of Wells, and served the cure of Pil- ton with the chapelry of North Wooton, master of the school of Wells, and vicar of Mestham. Mr. Mills was one of the opponents of Bishop Hoadly, in the Bangorian controversy ; for which cause he published a pamphlet, intituled " A full Answer to Mr. Pillonniere's * reply to Dr. Snape, and to the Bishop of Bangor's Preface, so far as it relates to Mr. Mills ; in which the Evidences given to Dr. Snape are justified, the Bishop of Bangor's Objections answered, Mr. Pillonniere's pretended Facts disproved, and base Forgery detected ; as likewise the true Reasons of such malicious Pro- ceedings against Mr. Mills. The whole supported porary wits, and a votary of Bacchus. He died of the small-pox, December 9th, 1683, at the seat of his patron the Earl of Kingston, at Holme-pierepoint. Dryden, with whom he was acquinted, and who terms him the " Marcellus of our tongue" has consecrated a beautiful Elegy to his memory. * Francis de la Pillonniere, a converted Jesuit in holy orders, had been usher to Archbishop Whitgift's school, and was now tutor to the family of the bishop. 72 HISTORY OF CROYDON. by ample Testimonies of Gentlemen, Clergy, and many others. In a letter to the Lord Bishop of Bangor, by H. Mills, A.M." He died April 12th, 1742. 1742 Samuel Stavely. 1751 John Taylor Lamb. 1774 James Hodgson, rector of Keston, Kent, who resigned. 1801 John Rose, D.D. # some time under-mas- ter of the Merchant Taylors' School, in the com- mission of the peace, and rector of St. Martin Outwich, Bishopsgate. 1812 John Collinson Bisset, M.A., vicar of Addington, on the resignation of Dr. Rose. Archbishop Tenison's School. This school, situate at North End, was found- ed in the year 1714, by Archbishop Tenison, for * In 1812, complaint having been made to Archbishop Sutton, of the great mismanagement of Dr. Rose, his grace was pleased to institute an inquiry ; when it appeared that he had made the hospital his debtor to the amount of 2021. 9s. I0d., when at the same time he had appropriated the revenues to his own use. An action by the warden and poor was the consequence; and, in November, 1813, the sheriff's jury gave a verdict for the plaintiffs, 762/. 15s. Id. Dr. Rose resigned his situation in the April following. The proceedings have been printed. tenison's school. 73 the education of ten poor boys and the same num- ber of girls ; now, on account of sundry benefac- tions, increased to fourteen boys and fourteen girls, with maintenance for a master and mistress. For the endowment of this institution, he purchased a farm and lands at Limpsfield, in Surry, of the then yearly value of 42/., and bequeathed to it by will the sum of 400/., to be laid out in land for the enlargement of the said charity. The revenues of this institution having greatly increased, being now about 130/. per annum, arising from land and money in the Funds, and the old school house becoming unfit for the pur- pose, the present substantial brick building was erected in 1792, on a space adjoining the old house, which was then let by the trustees. The master and mistress have now a joint salary of 50/. per annum. Over the door, on a board, is the follow- ing inscription : — " CHARITY SCHOOL founded for 14 poor boys and 14 poor girls, by Thomas Tenison, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, March 25th, 1714. This pre- sent school-house was built in 1791 and 1792, with a legacy of 500/., bequeathed by Mr. James Jenner, and also 300/. by Mr. William Heathfield, of London, and donations by the Rev. John Heathfield of Northam, in the county of Hertford, and other charitable persons." 74 HISTORY OF CROYDON. CHAPTER VI. %$t palace. Of the early history of this once sumptuous and kingly palace, now prostituted to servile uses, nothing has descended to us, and but little of its after-time. Camden says " Those that live there tell you that a royal palace stood formerly on the west part of the town, near Haling, where the rub- bish [[of buildings]] is now and then digg'd up by the husbandmen ; and that the archbishops, after it was bestow'd upon them by the king, transferr'd it to their own palace nigher to the river*." But this is only idle tradition, and as such we leave it. As no additional light has been thrown on the obscurity which involves this venerable structure, we have thought it as well, after noting the re- spective prelates who are known to have resided heref, to annex the interesting " Account of the * Gibson's Camden's 'Britannia,' p. 159. See also Gale on the Itin. of Antinonus, p. 73. f Vide Registers of the See, Lamb. MSS. Lib. The registers of the Archbishops Mepeham, Stratford, UfTord, and Bradwardine are lost. THE PALACE. 75 Palace of Croydon/' written by that learned anti- quary, Edward Rowe Mores, and published by Dr. Ducarel in his history of this town. Archbishops resident at Croydon. 1273 Archbishop Kilwardby — who issued a mandate from this place, dated 4th September, 1273*. 1278 Archbishop Peckham. 1294 Archbishop Winchelsey. 1313 Archbishop Reynolds. 1366 Archbishop Langham. 1367 Archbishop Witlesey. 1375 Archbishop Sudbury. 1381 Archbishop Courtnay — who received his pall with great solemnity in the great hall (" in camera principali maner. sui de Croydon"} on the 14th May, 1382 f. 1396 Archbishop Arundell. 1414 Archbishop Chichele. 1443 Cardinal Stafford. 1452 Archbishop Kemp. 1454 Cardinal Bourchier. * Archiepiscopi Cant, mandatum pro convocatione apud novum Templum, London, ex reg. Giffard Wigorn. fol. 41. See Wilkins's Concilia, Vol. II. p. 26. f Reg. Courtnay, fol. 9 a. 76 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 1486 Cardinal Morton. 1504 Archbishop Warham. 1533 Archbishop Cranmer. Hume, speaking of the disgrace and subsequent decapitation of the Duke of Norfolk, says, " Cranmer, though en- gaged for many years in an opposite party to Norfolk, and though he had received many and great injuries from him, would have no hand in so unjust a prosecution; and he retired to his seat in Croydon" ^January, 1547]]. 1555 Cardinal Pole. 1559 Archbishop Parker. 1575 Archbishop Grindall — who, on being urged to resign the archbishopric, petitioned that he might retain this palace, with the several lands appertaining to it. " Croydon house, he said, was no wholesome house, and that, both his predecessor and he found by experience ; notwith- standing, because of the nearness to London, whi- ther he must often repair, or send to have some help of physic, he knew no house so convenient for him, or that might better be spared of his successor, for the short time of his life*." The sum of his petition was to retain the pa- lace,, the meadow adjoining, called "Stubbs," Croydon park, and eighteen acres of meadow, ly- * Strype's Life of Grindall, p. 284. THE PALACE. 77 ing at Norbury*. He died in this palace, 6th July, 1583. 1583 Archbishop Whitgift. Sir George Paul, in his life of this prelate, writes " And albeit the archbishop had ever a great affection to lie at his mansion-house, at Croydon, for the sweetness of the place, especially in summer-time, whereby also he might sometimes retire himself from the multi- plicity of business, and suitors in the vacation ; yet after he had builded his hospital and his school, he was farther in love with the place than before. The chief comfort of repose, or solace, that he took was in often dining at the hospital, among his poor brethren, as he called themf." 1610 Archbishop Abbot — resided much at this palace, where he died, August 5th, 1633. In 1617, "This archbishop being at Croydon the day the Book of Sports was ordered to be read in the churches, he flatly forbid it to be read there ; which King James was pleased to wink at, not- withstanding the daily endeavours that were used to irritate the King against him J." Archbishop Abbot cut down the timber, which, till his time, completely surrounded the palace. Among the Harleian MSS. we find the opinion of the Lord * Strype's Life of Grindall, p. 286. f Ibid. p. 112. \ Complete Hist, of England, Vol. 2, p. 709; see also Strype's Life of Grindall. 78 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Chancellor Bacon on this alteration. " The arch- bish. of Canterbury (Abbot) had a house, by Croydon, pleasantly sited, but that it was too much wood-bound, so he cutt downe all upon the front to the highway. Not long after, the L. Chancellor Bacon riding by that way, asked his man whose faire house that was ; he told him, my L. of Canterburie's. It is not possible, sayes he, for his building is inviron'd with wodde. 'Tis true S r , sayes he, it was so, but he has lately cut most of it downe. By my troth (answered Bacon), he has done very judiciously, for before me- thoughts it was a very obscure and darke place, but now he has expounded and cleared it wonder- fully well*." 1633 Archbishop Laud — Upon whose execution the palace and lands were sequestrated, and, after having been leased to Charles, Earl of Not- tingham, were offered for sale, when a survey was made for that prupose 17th March, 1646, by Ed- ward Boyer, Esq., and others. This sale, however, did not take place, and the commissioners grant- ed the estate to Sir William Brereton, Bart, f who resided here during the protectorate. * No. 6395, p. 90. f This distinguished parliamentary general was the eldest son of William Brereton, Esq., of Honford, in Cheshire, where he was born, THE PALACE. 79 1660 Archbishop Juxon. 1663 Archbishop Sheldon — retired here after the great plague of London, where he died 9th November, 1677. 1715 Archbishop Wake. Dr. Rawlinson, in his additions to Aubry's Topographical Account of Surry, published in 1718, says, "This seat at present is in a very bad condition, insomuch, that the present possessor of the see of Canterbury has demanded 1400/. for dilapidations belonging to this house, which is 1280/. more than Pole's executors paid, and 'tis probable, that 'tis 1350/. more than was paid by Grindall's executors ; and this demand is thought the more severe, inasmuch 1605. On reaching his majority he received a patent of baronetcy, and, in 1628, represented his native county in parliament, and again in 1640. On the 18th August, 1642, on the breaking out of the great rebellion, he narrowly escaped falling a victim to the populace, for ordering a drum to be beat in Chester for the parliament. In the same year he received a commission from that power, to arm the county, and to seize the goods and weapons of the disaffected; and in June, 1644, was appointed Major-General of the Cheshire forces. On the appointment of the twelve Major-Generals, in 1655, Sir William had the government of Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire, con- ferred upon him. As a reward for his gallant services, he received, besides the seques- tration of the archiepiscopal lands of Croydon, the sequestration of Cashioberry, and other lands of Lord Capel, amounting to 2000Z. per annum, the chief forestership of Macclesfield, and the seneschalship of that hundred. He died April 7th, 1661. For his military achieve- ments, vide Rycraft's England's Champions, Vicar's England's Wor- thies, Clarendon, &c. 80 HISTORY OF CROYDON. as His Grace is said to have discovered his inten- tion of suing to His Majesty for a royal licence,, that, in a legal way, he may be empowered to pull down some of the buildings at Lambhithe, and the buildings at Croydon, these last being situated, as his Grace apprehends, in an ill air *." 1736 Archbishop Potter. 1747 Archbishop Herring, who died here 13th March, 1757. 1757 Archbishop Hutton. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PALACE OF CROYDON, BELONG- ING TO THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY BY EDWARD ROWE MORES, M.A., F.S.A.f The capital residence of the archbishops of this see was anciently the palace at Canterbury, si- tuated near their cathedral, and given by King Ethelbert, after his conversion to Christianity, to Augustine and his successors for ever J. * Vol. II. page 33. — Vide " The true Copies of some Letters, oc- casioned by the Demand for Dilapidations in the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury. Part II. p. 7 : London, 1716." f Author of " Nomina et Insigna gentilitia Nobilium Equitum- que sub Edwardo primo rege Militantium;" "History and Antiqui- ties of Tunstall in Kent ;" and several pamphlets relating to the Equi- table Society. He was also Editor in conjunction with the Rev. Wil- liam Romaine, of Calasio's Hebrew Concordance; and published a new edition of Dionysius Halicarnassensis' " De Claris Rhetoribus. " \ Monast. Ang. Vol. 1, p. 18. PLAN u jw£t lEgifcitts S^mor, qui ofcitt xxij tJte fcccembr. a. tint nucclxxxx tuV a«. pptcut. fcs. To the south of the last, on a rough ledger — In memory of Richard Poore, Esquire, late of the Island of Jamaica in the West Indies, who died the 21st of August, 1788, aged 52 years. Tho' I my God have oft offended, May I by Christ be recommended To thy great mercy and thy love, To live with thee in heaven above. At the foot of the last, on a black marble ledger, with arms, a chev. between three eagles' heads erased, in an escutcheon of pretence, three tufts of grass, empaling the same — Here lieth the body of Mr. James Pettit, late of Combe, in this parish, Gent., who departed this life the 7th of March, 1724, aged 64. In the north corner of the chancel, on a black marble ledger In memory of Margaret Lee, who died 18th July, 1787, aged 2 years and 7 months. Also, Mary Lee died August 18th, 1793, aged 8 years and 10 months. St. Mary's Chancel. On the east wall is a beautiful monument of white marble, sculptured by the late John Flax- man, R.A., representing an angel bearing up a female. Above the figures are these words: — Thus shall the good be received into life everlasting. 166 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Under — Sacred to the Memory of Ann, The heloved wife of James Bowling, of the Borough of Southwark, (and Daughter of the late Mr. James Harris, of this place), who, after five days illness only, exchanged this life for a better on the 26 April, 1 808, in the 25 year of her age. Bright excellence, with every virtue fraught, Such may we be by thy example taught; Pure in the eye of heaven like thee appear, Should we this hour death's awful summons hear; Like thee, all other confidence disown, And, looking to the cross of Christ alone, In meekness tread the paths thy steps have trod, And find, with thee, acceptance from our God. Her husband, under the strongest bonds of affection, has caused this monument to be erected in testimony of his everlasting regard and gratitude to a most affectionate wife, and kind friend. On a white marble tablet, to the north of the last, is this inscription: — In the family vault, near this place, are deposited the remains of Samuel Marsh, Esq., of Bellemont House, near Uxbridge in the county of Middlesex, who died March 18, 1795, aged 78 years. His affectionate widow has caused this monument to be erected to his memory. On a like tablet, by the side of the last — To the memory of Captain John Marsh, of the 66th regiment, who died Feb. 27, 1798, aged 21 years. Also to the memory of Frances Elizabeth Marsh, widow of the late Samuel Marsh, Esq., of Bellemont House, who died October 27, 1811, aged 64 years. In the north-east corner, on a raised tomb, THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 167 formerly railed in, are the indents of a figure and two shields. On a brass plate under the figure is the following inscription: — @rat£ pro anuria lEIpe Babu, nuper Cibis Sc Jtecert I'ontiort, qui obiit tit] "Oic mens' JBccEtnfcris, ^Inno JBni JBiirimo caclb. cujus animc propuutur iBcus. Qmzn. Above this tomb, on the north wall, is the fol- lowing inscription on a brass plate: — Heare lyes y e body of y* precious servant of God, Mr. Samuel Otes, Master of Arts & Minister of the worde in Croydon, whose Piety, Zeale, & Selfdenyal, are the best Mo- -nument of his Worth : whose blessed memery lives & need not words to preserve it. he was placed there A . 1643, & deceased A°. 1645, aged 30 yeares, Having lived long, though he dyed young. R (admire & learne) B. To the west of the last is a large white tomb, ascended by three steps, bearing the figures of a man in armour, in alto relievo, kneeling before a desk, attended by his five sons, and a woman in the same manner, attended by eight daughters. Over the heads of the women are these initials: — K. A. M. S. E. A. M. E. M. Between the figures — Anno Domini 1568. Over the heads of the men — H. w. T. I. p. N. At the bottom of the tomb is this inscription: — Tumulus Nicholai Herone, Equitis, sepulti primo die Septem, 168 HISTORY OF CROYDON. The arms on this tomb are — centre shield, quarterly — 1, a chev. charged with three cinque- foils between three herons (for Heron); 2, two bendlets; 3, a fesse between three boars' heads, couped; 4, a chev. engrailed between three bugle horns stringed. Empaling 1 and 4, semme of fleur de lis, a lion ramp., charged on the breast with an annulet; 2, a chev. between three stags' heads cabossed; 3, three martlets. Dexter shield — quarterly: 1 and 4, semme of fleur de lis, a lion ramp., as above ; 2, a chev. between three stags' heads cabossed; 3, three martlets. Sinister shield — quarterly: 1 and 4, Heron; 2, two bendlets; 3, a fesse between three boars' heads couped. On the Ground. Near the entrance of this chancel, from the middle chancel, is a rough ledger, with this in- scription : — Elizabeth Butler, the wife of Francis Butler, Esquire, was buryed Novemb. 26, 1626. The said Francis Butler, Esquire, was buryed the 4th of June, 1648. Adjoining the last, on the north, is a black marble ledger, with these arms — sa. on a fesse or, THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 169 between three bugle horns stringed arg., a de- mi-lion naisant gu. between two pheons a%., em- paling gu. a chev. or, between three lions ramp. arg. — and the following inscription : — Here lye the body of Thomas Johnson, senr. (late of this parish, and vintner of London), obiit 16 Feb. 1726, set. 56. Also John Johnson, his brother, ob* 14 April, 1721, set. 52. And of John, son of the said Thomas Johnson, obiit 24 July, 1723, set. 16. By the side of the last, on a black marble ledger- M g Subtus In spe Beatse Resurrectionis Requiescunt Exuviae Ann-e Eyres Viduse, Relictse Thomas Eyres, M.D. Quae Obijt, 2° die Martij, A° D* 1717°, iEtatis suae 78. Matrona Bona, Justa et Pia. In cujus perpetuam ac gratam memoriam Hoc Marmor Johannes Eyres Filius natu maximus Moerens Posuit. Adjoining the last are the indents of the figures of a man and woman. At the foot of Johnson, on a black marble ledger — Elizabeth, the wife of George Elcock, Citizen and Draper of London, departed this life the first of July, 1648. Likewise the body of George Elcock, husband to the said Eliza- beth, who departed this life the 8th of August, 1657. 170 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Adjoining the last, to the north, within the rails inclosing the Font, on a Portland stone ledger — Here lyeth the body of Mr. Charles Westgarth, of Unthank, in the county of Durham, who departed this life the first of July, 1733, aged 35 years. By the side of the last, within the rails, is a white ledger, with arms a%., a cross of lozenges or, on a chief gu. a leopard passant gardant of the second spotted sa., holding in his dex- ter paw a fleur de lis of the second, empaling a fesse coticed between three cats. The inscrip- tion, which is concealed by the font, commemo- rates — Benjamin Delaund, who died June 19, 1753, aged 79; Marga- ret Delaund, who died January 2, 1714, aged 78; and Richard Delaund, who died By the side of the last, and also within the rails, on a black marble ledger — Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Ann Callant, widow, eldest daugh- ter of Thomas Morton, Esq. (of Whitehouse), who departed this life the 11th of February, 1735, in the 72nd year of her age. Here lyeth the body of Jane Callant, the wife of Robert Cal- lant; ob* the 29th of October, 1736, aged 52 years. Also Martha, second wife of the s d Robert Callant; ob* Sept. ye 28th, 1741, setatis 45. Also the body of Robert Callant, who died y e 7th February, 1764, aged 72 years. Adjoining the last, by the wall, on a white marble ledger, with arms or a lion ramp, regard- THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 171 ant sa., empaling quarterly gu. and erm. in dexter chief and sinister base, a goat's head erased arg. attired or. Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Price, Wife of Herbert Price, of y e County of Hereford, Gent., and Daughter to Thomas Morton, of White-Horse, in this Parish, Esqr., who departed this life the 15th day of February, in y 35 yeare of her age, 1 70|. Also near this place lyeth three of their Children (viz.) Jane, Susanna, and Thomas Price. Charo viro et natis vixit; Charissimo Christo Vivat, et seterne huic pax sit et alta quies. At the head of the last is the indent of a figure, with labels issuing from its mouth. Adjoining the last, to the west, on a Portland stone — Also of Mrs. Frances Hutchinson, died 19th July, 1825, aged 84 years. Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like stone — C. B. Apthorp, aged in months xin days, died ix October, MDCCLXVI. Miss Catherine Hutchinson, died January 22, mdcclxxvii, in the xxivth year of her age. Mrs. Elizabeth Apthorp, born March 2, mdccxli, died January 28, mdcclxxxii. 172 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson, eldest daughter of Lieut. Gen. Will. Shirley, died March 22, mdccxc, aged lx. William Hutchinson, Esq., born at Boston, in America, died 8th February, 1797, aged 54 years. He was a man of strict probity and true honour, and a zealous, faithful friend, an aifable and kind relation, and a worthy member of the Established Church. He en- tertained the highest and most uniform principles of loyalty, to which he sacrificed his private interest. As agent to the Island of Antigua, and in other public stations, his conduct received the full- est approbation. He merited and enjoyed universal esteem. Before the tomb of Sir Nicholas Heron, on a black marble ledger, is this inscription: — Here lyes y e body of Morren Harbin, Citizen & Dyer of London, who departed this Life y« 22th of October, ano. Dom. 1680, aged 55 yeares : Fourteen days before whose death, Hellen his wife departed this life, aged 44 years, and lieth both here interred. Adjoining the last, on a like stone — Here lyeth the body of Edmond the Sone of Morren Harbin, and Hellen his wife, who departed this life the 8th day of July, Anno Domini, 1682, in the 19th year of his age. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 173 St. Nicholas' Chauntry. On the east wall is a monument, bearing, un- der a recessed arch, the effigies of a man in a black gown, kneeling before a desk; and these arms — arg. three crosses patee, ends fleury gu. each charged with five bezants; in a canton of the second, a conger's head couped in pale or. — Crest, a lion's jamb erect and erased or, hold- ing a like cross and bezant fitchey. Motto, " Meliora manent." Over his head is this in- scription — Ossa Michaelis sunt hie sita Murgatroidi. Da, pia posteritas, vere quiete cubent. Beneath his feet, on a black marble tablet, is this inscription — Michael Murgatroid Eboracensis, Richardi Gascoigni armigeri alumnus, olim Collegii Jesu apud Cantabrigienses socius, postea Jo- hanni Whitgift Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi ab epistolis, inde ejus fa- miliae Censor sive Contrarotulator, denique Dispensator sive Senes- callus, et ad Facilitates in alma Curia Cantuariensi Commissiarius : vixit annis 56, mensibus 4, diebus 12; obiit tertio die Aprilis, anno salutis humanse 1608. On a monument in the south-east corner, greatly resembling that of Archbishop Grindall's, is the recumbent effigies of a churchman in sable robes, with his hands in the act of prayer. The arms on this tomb are — Centre shield, the 174 HISTORY OF CROYDON. .. arms of the see of Canterbury, empaling arg. on a cross fleury gu. five bezants: dexter shield, the arms of the see of Worcester ; sinister shield, the arms of the deanery of Lincoln, both em- paling the same. On the sarcophagus are the arms of the see of Lincoln, the colleges of Tri- nity, Pembroke, and Peter-house. At the top of the monument is the following inscription*: — Post tenebras spero lucem. Above the figure — Whitgifta Eborum Grimsbeia ad littora nomen Whitgifta emisit. Fcelix hoc nomine Grimsbei. Hinc natus, non natus ad hanc mox mittitur hospes Londinum. inde novam te, Cantabrigia, matrem Insequitur, supraq. fidem suavi ubere crescit. Petro fit socius, Pembro,- Triadiq. magister, Fitq. Pater matri, Cathedraeq. Professor utriq. E Cathedra Lincolna suum petit esse Decanum, Mox Wigorn petit esse suum, fit Episcopus illic : Proprseses Patriae, quo nunquam acceptior alter. Post annos plus sex summum petit Anglia patrem ; Plusquam bis denos fuit Archiepiscopus annos. Charior Elizae dubium est, an Regi Jacobo : Consul utriq. fuit. Sis tu Croidonia testis Pauperibus quam charus erat, queis nobile struxit Hospitium, puerisq. scholam, dotemq. reliquit. Ccelibis haec vitas soboles quas nata per annos Septuaginta duos nullo enumerabitur aevo. * The inscriptions on this tomb were written by Dr. Benjamin Charior, one of his Grace's chaplains. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 175 Invidia haec cernens moritur, Patientia vincens Ad summum evecto aeternum dat lumen lionori. A little lower, the two following verses, in juxta- position — Magna Senatoris sunt nomina, pondera & aequa Nominibus, quern non utraq. juncta premunt? Prsesulis accedat si summi nomen ad ista Pondera quis ferat, aut perferat ilia diu? Pax vivo grata est, mens recti conscia pacem Fert animo, haec mortem non metuisse dedit. Mors requiem membris, animae ccelestia donant Gaudia ; sic potuit vincere qui patitur. Beneath the figure — Gratia non miro, si fit divina Johannis Qui jacet hie solus credito gratus erat. Nee magis immerito Whitgiftus dicitur idem; Candor in eloquio, pectore candor erat. Candida pauperibus posuit loca Candida Musis : E terris moriens Candida dona tulit. Adjoining the last, on the south wall, is a tomb, which is presumed to commemorate Thomas Warham, Esq., who died at Haling, 1478, and who ordered his body to be buried in the chapel of St. Nicholas, before the image of our Lady of Pite. The tomb, which is inserted in the wall, is divided at its base into three quatrefoil panels, each containing a shield of arms — viz. centre shield, quarterly, 1 and 4, gu. a fesse or, in chief a goat's head couped arg., attired of the second; in base three escollops of the third, with a mul- let sa. for difference, all within a bordure of the 176 HISTORY OF CROYDON. third, for Warham; 2 and 3, two bars: dexter shield, Warham: sinister shield, two bars em- paling the same. Over the tomb is an abstrusely pointed arch, surmounted by a richly sculptured cornice; above which, on the wall, is a shield with mantling and helmet, bearing the arms of Warham, and two bars quarterly; but the crest (an armed arm holding a sword) has disappeared. Crowning the angular pillars flanking the arch, are two shields of arms, viz. 1, Warham ; 2, two bars, as before. The soffit of the arch is divided into trefoil headed panels, and in its recess are the indents of the figures of a man and woman kneeling, with labels issuing from their mouths ; which, with every other inscription, have been sa- crilegiously torn away, probably during the Re- bellion. On this tomb are two helmets. Adjoining the last is the well-known monu- ment of Archbishop Sheldon, representing the recumbent effigies of the prelate in his archi epis- copal robes and mitre. His left hand sustains his head, and in his right is a crosier. The figure is of statuary marble, and is beautifully sculptured. In the panels of the black marble altar tomb on which the archbishop reposes, is some finely carved osteology. Above the figure is the following inscription, surmounted by two cherubs supporting a shield of arms — viz. arg. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. I 77 on a chev. gu., three sheldrakes of the first on a canton of the second, a rose of the last, em- paled by the arms of the see of Canterbury. Motto, " Fortiter et Suaviter*". Hie jacet Gilbertus Sheldon antique Sheldoniorum familia In agro Staffordiensi natus, Oxonii bonis literis enutritus, S. S^ Theologiae Doctor insignis; Coll. Omnium Animarum Custos prudens et fidelis, Academise Cancellarius Munificentissimus, Regii Oratorii Clericus, Car. I mo B mo Martyri Charissimus; sub Serenissimo R. Carolo II do , mdclx, magno illo Instaurationis anno, Sacelli Palatini Decanus, Londinensis Episcopus; mdclxii, in Secretions Concilii ordinem cooptatus ; mdclxiii, ad dignitatis Archiepiscopalis apicem evectus. Vir Omnibus Negotiis Par, omnibus Titulis Superior, In Rebus adversis Magnus, in prosperis Bonus, Utriusque Fortune Dominus; Pauperum Parens, Literatorum Patronus, EcCLESIiE STATOR. * This splendid monument, so universally admired, which Evelyn terms " of a stately ordnance," and estimates its cost at from 700/. to 800/., was the work of Joseph Latham, the city mason, and was entirely finished by English workmen, circa 1683. — Vide the Pre- sent State of England, 1683, p. 152. N 178 HISTORY OF CROYDON. De tanto Viro Pauca dicere non expedit, Multa non opus est; Norunt Prjesentes, Posteri vix credent: Octogenarius Animam Piam et Ccelo Maturam Deo reddidit v Id. ix B ris MDCLXVII. On a neat white marble tablet, affixed to the wall, nearly opposite the last — Beneath are deposited the remains of the most reverend John Potter, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury^ who died October x, mdccxlii, in the lxxiv year of his age. Directly above the last, on a white marble tablet, with arms — Per pale, erm. and or, a man in armour unhelmeted proper, his dexter hand resting on a rock. In a canton vert, a ship of the second — Extra hsec mcenia sepultum Quod mortale fuit Georgii Leonardi Steinman, Armigeri, Filii unigeniti Leonardi Steinman, De S tJ Gallen oppido, Helveticis civitatibus; Natus in oppido supra memorato, i Martii, mdcclviii. Mortuus in hac parochia, iv Januarii, mdcccxxx. Ibidemque sepulta Louisa Bastin, filia natu minima Georgii Leonardi & Susannae Steinman, Conjux Philippi Henrici Byrne, Armigeri. Decessit xm Julii, mdcccxxviii. setat. xxxiii. THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 179 On the Ground. Between the pews adjoining the east wall, on a black marble ledger — Here lyeth the body of The most reverend Dr. Thomas Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died March 13, 1757, aged 64. Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like ledger, is the following inscription, now partly hid by the pews — Underneath lyeth interred (near the remains of her parents) the body of Mrs. Dorothy Pennyman, relict of Sir James Pennyman, of Thornton, in the county of York, Baronet, and one of the daughters and co-heirs of Dr. William Wake, late Lord Archbishop of Canter- bury. She died the 2nd day of December, 1754, aged 55 years. At the head of the last, on a like ledger — Peter Champion, Esq., died May 27, 1758, aged 75. Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like ledger, with arms — erm., three trefoils sa., em- paling a%. on a fesse between three martlets arg. three cross croslets of the first — In memory of Catherine Champion, wife of Peter Champion, who died after a tedious illness, suffered with resignation, November the 14th, 1750, in the 63rd year of her age; having always deserved well of her husband and children. Adjoining the last, on a like ledger, with arms, gu. a fesse vaire between three ravens or — In memory of Anthony Wallinger, of London; he died June the 4th, 1 728, in the 90th year of his age. N2 180 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Adjoining the last, on a like ledger, with arms a%, on a fesse between three martlets arg. three cross croslets of the first — Here lieth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Wright^ who died March 15th, 1784, aet.59 years. Before the tomb of Archbishop Whitgift, on a Portland stone — Here lye y e bodies of 2 sons & 1 daughter of Henry & Hannah Mills, who died in their infancy: Mary, buried June 26, 1716. John, Nov. 17, 1717. Hannah freeman, June 6, 1724. Before the tomb of Warham, on a marble ledger — Here lieth the body of Sir Joseph Sheldon, K fc , some time IA Mayor of London, the eldest son of Ralph Sheldon, Esq r , who was the elder brother of Gilbert Sheldon, L d Archbishop of Canterbury. He left issue two daughters, Elizabeth & Ann, and died Aug st ye 16°, 1681, in the 51st year of his age. Adjoining the last, on a like ledger — Here lieth the body of Daniel Sheldon, Esq., son of Ralph Shel- don, Esq., elder brot r of Gilbert Sheldon, Ld. Archbishop of Can- terbury. He died 14 Feb. 1698, aged 65, leaving issue one son, Gil- bert, and two daugh trs , Judith and Mary. Adjoining the last, on a veined marble ledger — THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 181 Here lyes interr'd the Body of Judith Sheldon, who died Deer. 6th, Anno Dom ni 1725, Aged 47 years. She was daugh r of Daniel Sheldon, Esq., who also lyes interr'd near this place. At the head of Daniel Sheldon, on a marble ledger — Here lieth the body of Roger Sheldon, Esq., son of Ralph Shel- don, Esq., who was the elder brother of Gilbert Sheldon, L d Arch- bishop of Canterbury; he died unmarried, 30th May, 1710, aged 71. At the head of Judith Sheldon, on a like ledger — John Durand, Esq., died at Woodcot Lodge, near Carshalton, Surry, xix July, mdcclxxxviii, in the lxx year of his age. At the foot of Durand, on a Portland stone ledger — Here lyeth the body of John Mattock, citizen and haberdasher of London: obiit June 9, 1720. Also Mr. Richard Mattock, apothecary, who died February the 25th, 1720-21, aged 26. A little to the west of Durand, on a large black marble ledger — Sub hoc marmore deposita sunt corpora Rachelis uxoris Thom^e Brigstock, Armig. quae obiit xvn Kal. Aug. A.D. 1756 ; aetatis ejus xlvi. Thomae Brigstock supra nominati, Caroli filii Thomae Brigstock junioris et Annae Papwell conjugis ejus, nepotis Thomae et Rachelis. Quorum Thomas obiit x Kal. Mart. 1771, aetatis lxiv. Carolus quatuor hebdomadum infans x Kal. ejusdem Mensis et anni. Avus et Nepos eodem die sepulti sunt. 182 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Hie etiam jacet Ricardus Papwell Brigstock, Caroli frater infans, Qui xii hebdomadas natus decessit vn Idus Decembris A. 1785. Necnon Anna Rachel Brigstock, filia Thomas Brigstock et Annse Papwell uxoris, quas obiit vm Nonas Maii 1787, aetatis A. xiii. Et Thomas Brigstock armiger, qui obiit Pridie Idus Octobris, A.D. 1787, aetatis xlix. Esto Fidelis usque ad mortem, Et Dato tibi coronam Vitas. Thomas Brigstock, filius Thomas Brigstock et Annas Papwell, uxoris, qui obiit xxvn Octob. 1792, aetatis xvi. At the foot of the pillar, at the entrance of the south aisle, on a black marble ledger, with arms — sa. three horse buckles arg., with an annulet for difference. The inscription, which is partly hid, is as follows:— Here lieth interred the body of Henry Martin, late Citizen and Grocer of London, son of Thomas Martin, of Bowsham in Oxford- shire, gentleman, and Lucie his wife, who departed this life Febru- ary the 27th, 1603, aged forty-two years and two months. Nave. On an elegant marble column, supporting an urn, on the south wall of the east end of the nave, designed by Glover, the author of " Leo- nidas," is the following inscription— arms arg. on a chev. sa., three mullets or, between three THE CHURCH— MONUMENTS, &C. 183 pellets gu. for Bourdieu, empaling per pale a%. and gu., a cross engr. of the first — Near the remains of his beloved wife Philippa Bourdieu, this monument was erected by James Bourdieu of Comb, in the county of Surrey, Esq., whom, with ten children, the objects of her long and unwearied care, she left behind her, under the most unfeigned affliction at their common irreparable loss ; she died at the age of 50, on the 24th of June, 1780. On a marble tablet, under the above — Near this place are deposited the remains of James Bourdieu, Esq., of Coombe, in the county of Surrey, who died on the 3rd of November, 1802, in the 90th year of his age. In the same situation as Philippa Bourdieu's monument, on the opposite side, is a column of white marble, supporting a funereal urn, with the following inscription — arms Bourdieu, em- paling gu. a fesse vaire ; in chief an unicorn pas- sant, between two mullets or; all within a bor- dure of the last, pellettee — Sacred To the Memory of Mrs. Anne Bourdieu, Wife of John Bourdieu, Esq., of Golden Square, London. She departed this life the xxiii of March MDCCXCVIII aged xxxi years. 184 HISTORY OF CROYDON. A virtuous daughter and a sister kind, A tender mother, and a wife refin'd, Who all the various dues of life sustain 'd, Inspir'd by wisdom and in honour train'd, Lies here entomb'd, here virtue, beauty, grace, Ready for heav'n, have run their earthly race; Yet, to the shorten'd course of youth confin'd, She shew'd but glimpses of her glorious mind; Where multitudes of virtues pass'd along, Each moving onward in the lovely throng, To kindle admiration, and make room For greater multitudes that were to come ; But her vast mind, rich with such gifts divine, In heaven's eternal year alone could shine. On the Ground. On a brass plate inlaid in a Portland stone ledger, is the following inscription : — Here under are conteined the bodyes of Thomas Parkinson, late farmer of y e Parsonage of Croydon, and Elizabeth his wife, which Thomas deceased y e 7th day of September, 1603, And Elizabeth the 30th of January, 1594. On a large black marble ledger, to the west of the last, is the effigies, in brass, of a man, and the indents of the figures of a woman and child. The inscription plate is gone, but the follow- ing are the words it contained : — Here lieth interred the body of John Packington, late of the Parsonage of this Towne of Croydon, who decea- sed the xxii day of June An. Dom. 1607, leving issue one Onely childe Henry Packington by Anne his wife, who, yet surviving, at her decease appoynteth heare her place of buriall*. * Vide Aubrey's Antiquities of Surrey, Vol. 2. THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 185 On the same stone, a little lower — Curteous Reader, knowe that here doth ly A rare example of true pietie, Whose glorie 'twas to prove herselfe in life A vertuous wooman, and a loyall wife. Her name to you obscurely He impart In this her Anagrame no arme but Hart ; And least you joyne amis & soe loose y e name Looke underneathe & you shall find y e same. Martha Burton y e wife of Barnard Burton Esqr. deceased y e 20h day of November, & was buryed y e 26h day, An°. Dni. 1668. To the west of the last, on a Portland stone ledger — Here lieth Interred the Body of M. Ann Catherine Berne, who departed this life April the 10, 1758, aged 5 years. Adjoining the above, to the south, on a like stone — In memory of Mrs. Anna Maria Berne, who died April in her 60th year. Adjoining the last, to the west, is a like stone, covering the remains of James Bourdieu, Esq., before mentioned. Adjoining the above, to the south, is a like stone, covering the remains of Phillippa, his wife, also before mentioned. Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like stone — Here lyeth the bodies of Andrew Smith, who departed this life 23rd of June, 1755, aged 48 years. Also Hannah his wife, who departed this life the 12th of Decem- ber, 1735, aged 73 years. 186 HISTORY OF CROYDON. To the west of the last, on a black marble ledger, is the brass effigies of a woman ; and, on a brass plate beneath, these words — 3EIt?afatf) ttaugfyter of 3of>n Itpnge anU ©Iemence ins togfe fyz tonte of Samuel jFfnncf)*, unto tof)om sty fcare tfjree sonnes $c ttoo "flaugfjtcrs, ant( ttmassimge tf)£ xitj Ua^e of Ttfooemocr, tyxz Ipti) interreD ; anno 3Bnt 1589, eetatts suae 21. To the west of the last, in the middle of the aisle, on a Portland stone ledger — Here lyeth interred the body of Miss Abigail Cooke, daughter of Mr. Philip Cooke and Mary his wife, who departed this life the 16th day of December, 1776, aged 30 years. Also Mrs. Mary Cooke, mother of the above-named Abigail Cooke, who departed this life the 10th of January, 1769, aged 60 years. Adjoining the last, to the west, on a like stone — " That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." — Romans x. ch. ver. 6. Underneath this stone are deposited the remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Hetherington, wife of Mr. Theophilus Hetherington, who died the 28th day of April, 1768, aged 75 years. Adjoining the last, to the west, on a black marble ledger — Stephen Galhie, Gent, died September 16, 1772, in the 70th year of his age. Adjoining the last, to the west, on a Portland stone ledger — In memory of George Reavely, Esq., who departed this life Ja- nuary 17, 1780, aged 65 years. THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 187 Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like stone — In memory of Mrs. Rose Belgrave, departed this life the 2nd of September, 1780, aged 86 years. North Aisle. On a neat white marble tablet, on the wall near the pulpit, is the following inscription: — Sacred To the memory of Henry Richard Raven, Esq re , of this parish, who died September 27th, 1831, aged 49 years. His remains are deposited in the church of St. Vedast. This tablet is erected by his widow as a tribute of affectionate respect to the memory of a husband whose loss she can never cease to lament. On a copper plate, affixed to the north wall, with arms — or, a buck trippant gu. in a canton of the last, a ship arg. On an escutcheon of pretence, quarterly arg. and sa. on a bend gu., three lions passant guardant or, empaling the same. Mrs. Mary Ann Parker died September y e xvm th , mdccxxxii. Aged lxx years. 188 HISTORY OF CROYDON. On the Ground. At the entrance of the aisle, from the west, on a black marble ledger — Memoriae sacrum : To the pious Memorye of his religious Father, Ralph Smith, who deceased the\^6 of Sept. 1639, aged 83, Thomas Smith did lay this marble, as a grateful testi- monye of his Filial Duty. So well thou lov'st God's House, tho', beinge blinde, Thou came oft thither, lighted by thy mind; Where thou didst offer such a sacrifice As few do now present that have their eyes; A bleeding harte of sinne in sorowe Dround, Sustain'd by Hope and with Devotion cround; Therefore thou dost deserve an abler Pen, Whose spritely Lines mighte stir up zeale in men ; To write thine Epitaph, I am sure of this, What thou dost want in Words thou hast in Blisse. To the south of the last, on a Portland stone ledger — Susanna Copley died October 25th, 1785, aged 9 years. Jonathan Copley died Nov. 9, 1785, aged 3 years and 8 months. Adjoining Smith, on the west, on a black mar- ° Here lieth the body of Marmaduke Wy vel, Esq r ; and one of y e King's Majie ts Pentioners, second Sonne to S r Marmaduke Wyvell, of Cunstable-Burton, in York- shiere, Knight and Barronet, who dyed y e xxth of August 1623, aged 58. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 189 On the same stone, lower, in small Roman let- ters, is this inscription : — Juxta hie jacet In spem certain resurgendy* Depositum Corpus Marmaduci Wyvell, Armigeri, Filii secundo-geniti Dni Marmaduci Wyvell, de Cunstable-Burton, in Agro Eboracensi, Equitis & Baronetti. Ibidemque reconduntur Corpora Mar- maduci et Judithse filiae ejusdem Marmaduci Wyvell, supra nominati : Beati sunt pulveres, Quibus promittitur a Christo Resurrecto ad gloriam in Rego suo : Adveniat cito ora tu etiam Lector, Obiit 2 die Januarii 1678, aetat. suae 69. Adjoining the last, on the west, on a black marble ledger — TT , , , . , ^ Here lyeth buried Elizabeth the daughter of Mr. Roberte Crowe & Catherine his wife, which Elizabeth deceased in the year of our Lord 1638. Adjoining the last, on the south, on a white marble lozenge, inserted in a Portland stone ledger — M. s. in Spem certam Resurrectionis, Hie jacet Cornelius Clifton, Juvenis eximiae spei. Obiit 15 Maii, /^Domini mdcix, Anno < iEtatis suae V. xx m ° * Sic. orig. 190 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Adjoining the last, on the west, on a like stone — In memory of Peter Harrison, Esq., of this parish, who depart- ed this life November 22, 1755, aged 70 years. Adjoining the last, on the west, on a like stone — Mrs. Sarah Gibson, who died June the 1st, 1761, aged 72 years. Also William Gibson, husband of the above Sarah, died the 19th of April, 1773, aged 87 years. At the head of Crowe are the brass figures of a man and woman, but the inscription plate is gone ; some distance from which is another stone, with the indents of the figures of a man and wo- man, and the indents of two shields of arms. That over the woman contained formerly a lion rampant. Westward of the last, on a veined marble ledger, with arms, (now concealed by a fire- place), quarterly, 1 and 4 or, a buck trippantgw., on a canton of the second a ship arg.; 2 and 3 arg., a mullet sa. — ■ Here lyeth the body of Christopher, son of John and Bathsheba Parker, who died the 7th of October, 1711, aged 3 weeks. Also Henry the son of the aforesaid, who died February the 2nd, 1717, aged 11 months and 2 days. Likewise the body of the aforesaid John Parker, who died the 16th of June, 1740, aged 52. Also the body of Bathsheba Parker, wife of the above John Parker; she died May 6, 1763, in the 84th year of her age. South of the last, on a Portland stone ledger — Here lieth interred two daughters and a son of Frederick Burr, THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 191 Esq., by Catherine his wife, viz. Catherine, who died January 1, 1734-5, aged 8 weeks: Also Petronella, who died April 18, 1739, aged one year, seven months, and seven days : Also Samuel Alex- ander, who died May 1, 1732, aged seven months and sixteen days. Westward of the last, on a black marble ledger — Here lieth the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker, late wife of Ed- ward Whitaker, Esq., who died September 1, 1727, aged 25 years. And also Elizabeth their daughter, who died April 18, 1728, aged 11 months. Adjoining the last, on the west, on a like stone — In memory of John Elderton, late of Lincoln's Inn, and of this parish, gentleman, who died the 5th of August, 1782, in the 53rd year of his age, beloved and regretted by all his friends. Adjoining the last, on the west, on a Portland stone ledger — Here lyeth the body of Mr. John Baynham, who departed this life the 20th day of January, 1779. South Aisle. On an oval white marble tablet affixed to the wall, opposite Archbishop Sheldon's monument, is the following inscription : — Beneath this place were deposited the remains of Thomas Brig- stock, Esq.; he died of a decline, 27th October, 1792, in the 17th year of his age. If a suavity of manners and goodness of mind could have preserved his life, he had not now been numbered among the dead. Near the last, on the same wall, is a handsome white marble tablet, bearing the representation 192 HISTORY OF CROYDON. of a rose and pruning knife, with the words — " Flos nifnium brevis" and the following in- scription: — m , To the revered memory of Frances, fifth daughter of the late Samuel Davis, of Birdhurst Lodge, in this parish, Esq , Born 7th June, 1810, deceased 10th May, 1828, This tablet, in the absence of her own surviving brothers, is erected by the husband of her eldest sister, who, having known her from childhood, offers this last tribute of brotherly love. On a brass plate, on the south wall — Here under lieth Buried the bodie of Franc. Tirrell, somtimes Citizen and Grocer of London. He was a good Benefactor to the poore of divers Hospitalls, Prisons, and Pishes of London, and to the continuall releif of the poore Freemen of the Grocers. He gave to this Pishe 200Z. to build a newe Market-house, and 40Z. t° beutifie this church, and to make a new Saintes Bell*. He died in September 1600. On a handsome white marble tablet, on the same wall — In memory of Thomas Bainbridge, of Croydon Lodge, Esquire, who departed this life, January 8th, 1830, in the 81st year of his age. * One John de Aldermaston, who was buried in this church in 1403, left, by will, twenty sheep, for the purchase of a new saints' bell. Vide Reg. Arundel, fol.212b. / THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 193 On the Ground. On a black marble ledger, with arms — vert, a bend arg. cotised or, with a crescent for differ- ence, empaling Under the pew lieth interred the body of Mrs. Ann Sophia Peers, late wife of Mr. Richard Peers, who departed this life, April the 10th, 1766, aged 42 years. Also the above Richard Peers, Esq., Alderman of London, who departed this life June the 25th, 1772, aged 72 years. Also Thomas Peers, Esq., brother of the above, who departed this life November 15, 1765, aged 55 years. To the south-east of the last are the indents of the figures of a man and woman. To the west of the last, on a Portland stone ledger — Underneath this stone are deposited y e Remains of Mrs. Christ. Fenwick, wife of Edward Fenwick of South Carolina, Esq., and last surviving Daughter of the late Colonel John Steurt, died No- vember y e 6, 1785, aged 33 years. At the end of the aisle, on a like ledger — H. W. Died xxn nd Jan'T mdcclxxxii. William Welbank, Esq., Died xvi th Octob. mdccxl, in the Li st year of his age. Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like ledger — To the memory of Jane, wife of Thomas Brewster, of this parish, who departed this life November 1, 1783, aged 38 years. To the east of the last, on a black marble ledger — The Honourable James Duglass, Esq., Major General of his Ma- O 194 HISTORY OF CROYDON. jesty's Forces, lyes buried here; he died April the 10th, 1748, aged 75 years. On a black marble ledger — To the memory of Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Wilson, widow, departed this life the 28th of May, 1777, aged 77 years. Cross Aisle. On a brass plate on the wall, above the north door, is this inscription: — Near this place are deposited the remains of Joseph Wilks, Esq., of Measham, in the county of Derby, who' died May 24th, 1805, aged 73. On a handsome white marble tablet, on the west wall — Sacred to the memory of Robert Chatfield, Esq., who departed this life the xxi of May mdcccxi, aged lxiii years. Also of Ann, relict of the above, who departed this life the xxvm day of Septem- ber, mdcccxxx, aged lxxv years. On the Ground. At the entrance of the aisle, on the south, on a black marble ledger — Here lyeth interred the body of Mrs. Mary Whitehill, late wife of Mr. Thomas Whitehill, of this parish, who departed this life the 22nd of May, 1781, aged 52 years. Adjoining the last, on a Portland stone ledger— James Wilkinson, Esq., Captain of Dragoons, died April 7th, 1769, aged 49. Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like ledger — Mary Smith, daughter of the late Edward King, Esq., of Brom- THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 195 ley, Kent, and wife of the Revd. John Smith, A.M., Rector of Wey- bridge, Surry, died xn day of September, mdcclxxxviii, in the lviii year of her age. Adjoining the last, to the west, on a like ledger — Here lieth the body of the Rev. John Vade, vicar of this parish, who died the 9th of June, 1765, aged 42 years. Also, the remains of Miss Mary Vade, his daughter, who died 28th March, 1790. Likewise, Mrs. Elizabeth Vade, relict of the aforesaid Rev. John Vade, late vicar of this parish, and of St. Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, who died 23rd July, 1800, aged 80. To the north of the last, on a like ledger — In memory of William Godfrey, who died August the 3rd, 1770, aged 9 years. On a Portland stone ledger, at the north end of this aisle — In memory of Mary Chatfield, wife of Allen Chatfield, who departed this life September the 18th, 1761, aged 39 years and 9 months. Also, the above named Allen Chatfield, who departed this life the 30th of April, 1772, aged 60 years. To the north of the last, on a black marble ledger — ■ Here lyeth interred the body of Roger Drake, Esq., who depart- ed this life June the 20th, 1762, aged 64 years. Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like ledger — Here lieth interred the body of Roger Drake, who departed this life January 23, 1770, aged 22 years. 02 196 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Adjoining the preceding, to the north, on a like ledger — Here lieth interred the body of Beeston Drake, who departed this life June 14, 1764, aged 21 years. Belfry. On a Portland stone ledger — Mrs. Sarah Heathfield died the 17th of February, 1772, aged 61 years. On a like ledger, adjoining the last, on the north — Here lyeth the body of John Heathfield, Esq., who departed this life the 8th day of April, 1743, aged 73 years. Also of Elizabeth, his widow, who died the 7th of October, 1748, aged 77 years. Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like ledger — Here lieth the body of Mary, the late wife of John Heathfield the younger, Gent., who departed this life the 11th day of June, 1741, aged 44 years. Also, the above named John Heathfield, Esq., died the 14th of November, 1776, aged 78 years. Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like ledger — Here lieth the Body of William Heathfield, Esq. of London, Grocer, who died Dec. 12, 1791, aged 56 years. On the same stone — Hie .... . Johannis Heathfield, M. A. nuper Vicarii Eccle . . . Northaw in Comitatu Hert. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 197 Qui per annos quinquaginta officio Doctrina orthodoxi Vitae inculpabilis Morti resignat . . . Ob. vu Feb. Ann. Dom. mdcccv. iEtat. l xxvii. Adjoining the last, to the north, on a like ledger — Here lie the bodies of three daughters of John and Mary Heath- field, viz. — Jane, died December 19th, 1727, aged three months, Margaret, died March 8, 1729, aged one month. Elizabeth, died March 27, 1731, aged two months. Above this row, to the south, on a like ledger— In memory of Robert Ridley, son of Thomas and Mary Ann Ridley, departed this life December 11, 1799, in his fourth year. Also, of John Ridley, son of Thomas and Mary Ann Ridley, de- parted this life December , 1804, aged 16 years and months. Adjoining the last, to the south, on a like grave-stone — Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Kimbra Richards, died January the 21th, 1782, aged 52 years. Not lost-^but gone before. To the south of the last, on a like ledger — John Chatfield, Esq., of this Parish, departed this life May .... aged 56 years. Sacred to the memory of Ann Chatfield, wife of the above John Chatfield, Esq., who departed this life April 4th, 1819, in her 59th year, a sincere Christian and an affectionate wife. 198 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Gallery. On a large handsome veined marble monu- ment in the north gallery, with arms or, a buck trippant gu. on a canton of the last, a ship arg. y in an escutcheon of pretence arg., a mullet sa. empaling the last — Sacred to the memory of John Parker, Esq., formerly of Lon- don, who died the 6th of March, 1706, aged 46 years, and is here interred. Also of Elizabeth, his relict, who died the 10th of August, 1730, aged 70 years. This pair, whilst they lived together, were A pattern for conjugal behaviour ; He a careful indulgent husband, She a tender engaging wife; He active in business, Punctual to his word, Kind to his family, Generous to his friend, But charitable to all; Possest of every social virtue. During her widowhood, She carefully and virtuously Educated five children, Who survived her : She was an excellent ceconomist, Modest without affectation ; Religious without superstition; And in every action behaved With uncommon candour and steadiness. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 199 Epitaphs formerly in the Church, But now either lost, or concealed by the erection of Pews. The following memorandum of inscriptions is extracted from a MS. collection of epitaphs, dat- ed 1610, formerly in the possession of Nicholas Charles, Esq., Lancaster Herald*: — In y e Queere, Margrett Morton, daughter of [William] Woodford, cosyn and heire to Raffe Woodford, of the countie of Leicester, died 1507f. S r . Robert Morton, Knight, .... and servant to King Henry 8, ob. 1514. His wyfej was [daughter] and heire lo [John] Twinyhoe. Arms, quarterly, gu. and or, in the dexter chief and sinister base a goat's head erased arg., attired of the second ; on a chief erm. three be- zants, each charged with an escallop of the first ; over all, a label of three points. Thomas Heron, Esquire, died 1544$; his wyfe was Elizabeth, d & co-heire to Wm. Bond, clarke of the grene cloth. * Lansdowne MSS. No. 874, p. 64. f Second wife of Thomas Morton, Esq., of Lichlade, Gloucester- shire, and mother of John Morton, Esq , of Whitehorse. \ By the pedigree of this family, it appears that the wife of Sir Robert Morton was Jane, eldest daughter of Nicholas Warham, brother of the archbishop of that name, and that his mother was Dorothea, daughter and heir of John Twyniho, Esq., of Cirencester, first wife of Thomas Morton, Esq., of Lichlade. § His widow, who died in January, 1575, was also buried in this church. Vide Register. 200 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Arms, per pale gu. and a%., on a chev. arg. three cinquefoils betw. three herons sa,* Middle Chancel and Nave. At the entrance of the altar rails, on a brass plate, under the figures of a man in armour, and a woman kneeling — Here lyeth Willyam Heron, Esquyer and Justys of the Peace, and Alse his wyfe; which Willyam deceased the iiij daye of January, in the yere of our Lord mccccclxii; whose soule God take to hys mercy. Amen. Arms — a chev. charged with three cinquefoils betw. three herons. On a black marble ledger, within the altar rails — Here lyeth interred the Body of Mrs. Susannah Legatt, the Wife of Mr. George Legatt, Citizen and Dry-Fishmonger of London, the onely Daughter of Mr. Richard Shallecross, of the Parish of Croy- don, Yeoman, aged 24 years, leving one Son. She departed this Life the 9th day of September, in the yeare of our Lord God, 1679. Arms — a chev. murally betw. three foxes' heads erased. * This ledger commemorates Thomas Heron, Esq., of Adgcomb. It is now concealed by the floor of the altar. It contains the figures of a man armed, his wife, four sons, and seven daughters. The arms of Heron are inscribed in several places. In p. 49, ante, we THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 201 On a like stone, with arms, a cross saltire — Sara, the wife of Jona- than Andrews, of Lon- don, Merchant, died the 1 of October, 1664. On a rough marble, with arms, in a lozenge arg. a cross saltire gu. betw. four eagles dis- played a%. Here lieth interred the body of the truly pious and singularly accomplish'd Lady Dame Ruth Scudamore, daughter to Griffith Hamden of Hamden, in the county of Bucks, Esq. ; first married to Edw. Oglethorpe, Esq., sonn & heir to Owen Oglethorpe, in the county of Oxford, Knight, and by him had 2 daughters; after to Sr. Phillip Scudamore of Burnham, in the county of Bucks, Kt., and lastly to Henry Leigh, Esq r ., sonn and heir to Sr. Edw. Leigh, of Rushall, in the county of Stafford, Kt. ; by him had one son, named Samuel, now living. She dyed at Croydon, March 28, 1649, being the 73rd year of her age. Under the figure of a man in a gown, on a brass plate — Sub hoc marmore sepultus est Gulielmus Mill, generosus, dua- rum uxorum maritus ; quarum prior erat Avisia, filia Edmundi Har- well de Besford in Wigorniensi agro, armigeri ; e qua sustulit filios quatuor, Nicolaum, Gulielmum, Joannem, Thomam; filias quinque, stated, from the Herald's Visitations, that Thomas Heron died in 1518; but the above date of 1544 is most probably correct. 202 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Annam, Elizabetham, Franciscam, Milieentam, Margaretam. Pos- terior Margareta filia Nicolai Clerke de Ecleston in Eboracensi agro, generosi; e qua sustulit unicam filiam Margaretam. Septuagesimo aetatis anno mortuus est, Januarii duodecimo, anno Domini millesi- mo quingentesimo sexagesimo octavo. On a brass plate, on a grave-stone — Here under lieth the body of Edward Arnold, a brewer of this towne, about the age of 64 yeares, who deceased on the 10 day of August, anno Dni. 1628. St. Mary's Chaantry and North Aisle. On a black marble ledger — Here lyeth interred the body of Ann, the wife of Mr. William Wharam, citizen and shipwright of London, who departed this life the 4th of October, 1716, aged 52 years. On a like ledger, with arms — in a chief, a demi-lion and cross croslet, empaling erm. in a chief three lions ramp.; crest, a demi-lion ramp. — Here lyeth the bodies of Mr. William and Mary, son and daughter of Mr. William Boddington, of London, and Frances his wife. Mary departed this life the 13th of July, 1695, aged 14 yeares; William (Cursiter) departed the 25th of November, 1 703, aged 26 years. William the father departed the 10th of February, 1718, aged 73. Frances the mother departed the 11th of November, 1727, aged 84. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 203 On a brass plate — Here lyeth the bodyes of Robert Jackson, yeoman, the sonne of Nicholas Jackson, and Anne his wife, daughter of Richard Wood, yeoman, who had issue by her 9 children, whereof 3 were living at his decease, the 21 daye of September, 1622; and Anne his wife died the 30 of August, 1612. On a brass plate, beneath the figures of a man and woman — Here lyeth buried the body of Robert Jackson the younger, yeoman. He married Elizabeth Wackrell, daughter of Richard Wackrell, yeoman, who departed this life xith of October, anno Dom. 1629. For whose pious memorie his loving wife caused this memoriall. They had issue 17 children, 12 sonnes and 5 daughters. On a black marble ledger — Here lyeth the body of Francis Fletcher, late citizen of Lon- don, and a friend to mankind, who departed this life the 4th of July, 1757, aged 58. Also the remains of Mary Fletcher, relict of Francis aforesaid; she departed this life April 11, 1771, aged 65 years. On a Portland stone ledger — Ann Lodge, daughter of James and Mary Lodge, departed this life June 29, 1772, aged two years. On a black marble ledger — Here lyeth the body of Benjamin Bowles, Esq., who died Octo- ber 6, 1776, in the 60th year of his age. 204 HISTORY OF CROYDON. St. Nicholas' Chauntry, and South Aisle. On a black marble ledger — Depositum Gulielmi Wake, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Qui obiit xxiv Januarii, anno Dom. mdccxxxvi. iEtatis suae lxxix. Et EtheldredjE, uxoris ejus, Quae obiit xi Aprilis, mdccxxxv, iEtatis suae lxii. On a Portland stone slack, with marble ledger — Here lieth the body of the Most Reverend John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury; who died October x, mdccxlvii, in the Lxxivth year of his age*. On a black marble ledger — Here lieth the body of William Herring, Esq 1 ., who died xxvin Sep. mdccci, in the lxxxii year of his age. On a like ledger- Here lieth the body of Montague Dorothy, wife of William Herring, Esq., who died xxvn July, mdcclxxxix, in the lxv year of her age. * This ledger being concealed by the erection of pews in this part of the church, the marble tablet before mentioned was placed on the \ \ THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 205 On a marble tomb, at the foot of Murga- troid's — Here lieth Elizabeth Bradbury, Wyfe unto Wymond Bradbury, of Newport-pond, in Essex, Gent., daughter to William Whitgifte, of Claveringe, in the county aforesaide, Gent., and second brother to Doctor John Whitgifte, Arch- bishoppe of Canterbury ; and who had issue by her abovenamed husband, Jane, William, Anne, and Thomas; and deceased the 26 day of June, an. Dni., 1612, being of the age of 38 yeares and three months. On a brass plate, beneath the figures of a man in armour, and a woman kneeling — Here lyeth the bodies of Thomas Walshe, of Croydon, gentle- man, 3rd Sonn of Fraunces Walshe, of Sheldisley Walshe, inn the County of Worcester, Esquier, and Katherin, his Wife, Daughter of William Butler, of Tyes in Sussex, Gent., whoe had by her too sonnes and one daughter, viz. Fraunces, John, & Avice; which John died younge, and the aforesaide Thomas Walshe departed the xxx of August, 1600. Arms — quarterly 1 and 4 arg., a fesse betw. six martlets sa., 2 and 3 arg,, a chev. betw. three roses gu., with an annulet for difference, empaling *. On a black marble ledger, by Archbishop Whitgift's tomb — * These arms are restored from the MS. cited in p. 199. 206 HISTORY OF CROYDON. M. S. To the Memorie of y* Worthy Lady Elizabeth Gresham, Late wife of Sir William Gresham, Knight, who, after she had lived 72 yeares, Unspotted in her Conversation, Charitable to the poore, Sincere in Religion, Re- signed up her soule into the hands of her Creator, upon y e 9 day of December, 1632, & Lieth here interred in hope of a glorious Resurrection. For a Memoriall of which Singular virtues her deare & only Daughter, E. G., hath consecrated this marble as a Duty she could Performe. On a Portland stone ledger — Here lieth the body of John Usborn, citizen and stationer of London, who died the 3rd of November, 1738, aged 70 years. He was remarkable for his piety to God, and his benevolence to his fellow creatures. Also, Grace, the wife of the said John Usborn, who died July the 17th, in the 76th year of her age. On a brass plate, under the indents of some figures — %m uriter Iittti) tf)e foottp of So^n Babenant, €Dttt?en antf Jte= cf)ant GTaglor of IConUon, foi)o Ijatt to ixnoiz J&argaret Clarke, antf fyatf THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 207 issue t»e f)er x sonnes antt ttij ttaugfjters. 3|e, being about tfje age of Ix antJ one peres, "OeceaseU tf)e xxiiftl) of ©etober, ^Inno Domini, 1596. Arms — quarterly 1 and 4 gu., semee of cross croslets fitchey or, three escallops erm.; 2 and 3 vaire gu. and sa., a canton of the first, empaling or; a fesse between three lions couchant regard- ant gu.* On a brass plate, on a rough black stone — Richard Yeoman, farmer, of Waddon Courte, the husband of 3 wives, by whom he had 9 children ; 5 by the first, 2 by the nexte, and 2 by the laste : and deceasing the xxvith daye of December, here lyeth buried, Anno Dni. 1590, setatis suae, 90. On a brass plate, on a white stone — Here lieth the body of Thomas Yeomans, who had issue, by Anne his wife, George and Susan ; which Thomas deceased the first of April], An. Dni. 1602. On a Portland stone ledger — William Chapman of Doctors' Commons, Gent., died December 23, 1730, aged 52 years. Cross Aisle. Between the middle and south aisle, on a brass plate, on a greyish stone — ©ntfer tf;is stone Ipetf) interred tfje botfp of 3of)n a&ootfe, late of Crontton, En=f)oftler, tofjo Jjatf 2 fopfes, %wnz antf ^mp. ; bp. i)is first toife f)e f)atf allone nssueie 7 sonnes ; antt bg tf;e last, 3 sonnes antf 4 * Restored from the before-mentioned paper. 208 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Sautters. 3|e tieteasett tfye 23 Ba» of HJune, oeinge Satertfag, an. JBni, 1525, aetatis sue 52. On the same stone, on another brass plate — <&lim et talis ego qualis nunc tu esse bitJeris, ©lira et tu talis nunc ego qualis eris. ©erra tegit cineres, f)umus est aptata sepulcijro, 4§utti nisi pulbis Ijumo terra sepulta tints. On a small free-stone — Here lyeth the body of William Michell, who departed this life the 17 of July, 1658, aged 60 years. On a Portland stone ledger — Captain George Protheroe departed this life the 25th of Feb- ruary, 1745, aged 70. On a like stone — The Rev. Mr. James Gardner, rector of Slingsby, in the county of York, died December 11, 1772, in his 88th year*. Epitaphs in the Church Yard. Of the many inscriptions in the church-yard, the following only are worthy of record. The following inscription, preserved by Au- brey, was recovered from a MS. once belonging to Augustine Vincent, Esq., Windsor Herald — * There are several inscriptions in this aisle, and particularly in the belfry, which I could not decypher, as also one or two in other parts. The illegibility of those in the belfry are caused, in a great measure, by the feet of the bell-ringers. THE CHURCH MONUMENTS, &C. 209 lifere IgEti) itofjn Ifotnmge, 1Esq., late treasurer to prince ^enrp, somu to 3Ktng l^nrp biti. and J^tarpe fits fiotfc, JWistress to tfje prince of ©assd ; tofjtcf) 3fofm tfeceasEO" rfjs xix tfape of Sanuarp, anno B 'ni nucctclxxx*. On a free-stone tomb, supported with brick, near the north entrance — Mortis Trophaeum de corpore Henrici Hoar, Medico-Chirurgi, qui prisci candoris et humanitatis se exemplum praebuit, et plane bonus fuit licet optimis comparetur. xi Februarii obiit, anno salutis mdccix, agtatis lxxit. Annis ille senex fuit et candore ; sed ilium dixerunt omnes non satis esse senem. On a stone — Here lies the body of Anna, the loving and beloved wife of Ro- ger Anderson, of London, youngest of the seven sons of William and Bridget Anderson, of this parish. She was daughter of the Rev. Dr. Casson, rector of Sutton, in Herefordshire, and one of the pre- bends of Hereford Minster; a great sufferer during the time of Cromwell's usurpation, for his firm adherence to the Church of Eng- land, and his loyalty to the royal martyr. She died 19 Jan. 1723, in the 74th year of her age. Finis coronat opus. On a large vault, bricked high above ground, and covered, near the north entrance to the church yard — This is the burial place of the Gardiner's family, of Haling. * I have not been able to find any other mention of this gentle- man, whose tomb was so singularly inscribed; but in the register, among the burials, is entered the name of one " Wyllm Readyng," who died January 7, 1562. P 210 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Outside of the wall of St. Nicholas' Chauntry, on a white marble tomb, inclosed with iron pali- sades, is this inscription : — Beneath this Tomb repose the remains of The Right Hon. Lady Catharine Sheldon, late Phipps, who died in January, 1738; John Sheldon, Esq., of Mitcham, who died in March, 1752; The Right Hon. Constantine Phipps, Baron Mulgrave, who died in September, 1775; The Right Hon. Lady Lepel Phipps, Baroness Mulgrave, who died in March, 1780; Richard Sheldon, Esq., of Lincoln 's-inn-fields, who died the 15th February, 1795, aged 72 years. On a grave-stone — Here lyeth the body of John D'Arley, son of Major D'Arley, who departed this life on the 23rd day of November, 1828, aged 17 years. The following inscriptions are now lost :— In memory of Ursula Swineourn, who, after fulfilling her duty in that station of life her Creator had allotted her, and by her faithful and affectionate conduct, in a series of thirty-five years, rendered herself respected and beloved whilst living, and her loss sincerely regretted by the family she lived with, departed this life the 5th of January, 1781, aged 55. Reader, Let not a fancied inferiority, from her station in life, THE CHURCH — MONUMENTS, &C. 211 prevent thy regarding her example; but remember, according to the number of talents given, shall the increase be expected. Mr. William Burnett, born January 29, 1685; died October the 29th, 1760. "What is man? — To-day he 's drest in gold and silver bright, Wrapt in a shroud before to-morrow night ; To-day he 's feasting on delicious food, To-morrow, nothing eats can do him good ; To-day he 's nice, and scorns to feed on crumbs, In a few days, himself a dish for worms; To-day he 's honour'd, and in great esteem, To-morrow, not a beggar values him; To-day he rises from a velvet bed, To-morrow lies in one that's made of lead; To-day, his house, though large, he thinks too small, To-morrow, can command no house at all; To-day, has twenty servants at his gate, To-morrow, scarcely one will deign to wait ; To-day, perfum'd, and sweet as is the rose, To-morrow, stinks in every body's nose; To-day he 's grand, majestic, all delight, Ghastly and pale before to-morrow night. Now, when you've wrote and said whate'er you can, This is the best that vou can sav of man ! p2 212 HISTORY OF CROYDON. CHAPTER VIII. Ifonefacttong to ©rogtjon. The following list, shewing the different benefac- tions to this town, is copied from a table in the church :— Estates and Charities belonging to the Parish of Croydon. 1528. A rent-charge, given to the poor of the Little Alms House, by Joan Price, of £l per annum. 1566. A piece of ground whereon the great market-house is built, and towards the building whereof Francis Tyrrell, citizen and grocer of London, gave 200/. 1614. Seven acres of land, near Hermitage-lane, the gift of Ed- ward Croft. 1619. A tenement or stable, called the Old Shop, near the Butcher Row. Two tenements by the Mint Walk, one called Parkhurst. 1622. A faim house and 100 acres of land, called Stockbenden, at Limpsfield, in Surry, chiefly the gift of Henry Smith, Esq. 1624. Twenty-six acres of land at New Cross, near Deptford, whereon have been lately erected a number of dwelling houses, the gift of the said Henry Smith. 1627. The ground whereon the workhouse stands, the gift of Sir W m - Walter. BENEFACTIONS. 213 1629. The little Alms-house, for the maintenance of eight poor people of this parish ; towards the rebuilding whereof Ar- nold Goldwell gave 40/. 16 The Fishmongers' Company in London pay the said Alms- house 21. 13s. 4d. per annum*. 1708. The Butter Market, rebuilt by Archbishop Tennison. A rent-charge, given by Mr. Rowland Kilner to the Little Alms-house, of 51. per annum. 1760. 155?., the gift of Mr. Joseph Williams and others, the in- terest whereof to be annually disposed of in bread for the poor. Incorporated, with Governors and Trustees. 1443. The great Alms-house, for a tutor and six poor people, the gift of Ellis Davy, citizen and mercer; with land and tene- ments for their maintenance, the gift of Ellis Davy, citizen and mercer of London. 1599. The Hospital of the Holy Trinity, for a schoolmaster, warden, and twenty-eight poor men and women of Croydon and Lambeth, with lands and tenements for their maintenance, the gift of Archbishop Whitgift. 1619. Two messuages or tenements in Northampton, given to the said hospital by the Rev. Dr. Prethergh. A rent-charge, payable out of a tenement in St. Paul's Church- yard, London, given to the said hospital by Mr. Edward Barker, amounting to 61. 13s. 4d. 3-5ths of a farm at Mitcham in Surry, given to the said hos- pital by Ralph Snow, Esq. A tenement and piece of ground in the Butcher Row, given to the said hospital by Mr. Richard Stockdale. A dinner, yearly, to the said hospital, for which the Fish- mongers' Company in London pay 13s. 4d., and put into the box 10s. t * Left by Lady Ann Allot, of Sunderstead, circa 1600. f Left by William Barlow, D.D., Bishop of Lincoln, who died in 1690. He also bequeathed 13s. 4c?. per annum to a licensed preacher, 214 HISTORY OF CROYDON. A farm at Horn, in Surry, for binding poor boys apprentice, the gift of Archbishop Laud*. 1714. A school-house at Croydon, and two farms at Limpsfield, for educating 10 boys and 10 girls; the gift of Archbishop Tenison. 1760. 195/., the gift of the Earl of Bristol and several inhabitants of Croydon, for enlarging the little Alms-house. 17. 10*., the annual gift of Wigsell, Esq., Sanderstead, to be given in bread to the poor widows, on St. Thomas' day. 1790. 163/. 13s. 6d. Sperc ts .; the interest of which to be applied annually to poor families of this parish ; the gift of the Rev. East Apthorp, D.D., late vicar of this parish. On another Table, in the Church. 1831. 100/., the gift of Mrs. Mary Allen, of Camberwell; the inter- est whereof is to be annually disposed of in bread for the poor of this parish, at Christmas-day, for ever. Other Benefactions to the Town of Croydon. Archbishop Parker bequeathed to the poor of Croydon and Lambeth, 30/. — Archbishop Grin- to preach a sermon in Croydon Church, on the 22nd March, yearly, being the day on which the hospital of Archbishop Whitgift was founded; and to the vicar of Croydon 3s, 4d. for giving notice of the sermon on the preceding Sunday. The money to be paid by the Fishmongers' Company. * In 1635 Archbishop Laud purchased, for 300/., a messuage and lands at Albury, Warwickshire, in the name of Sir John Tonstall and others, the rent of which estate to be applied to the apprentic- ing poor children of this parish. The estate was afterwards sold, pursuant to a decree of the Court of Chancery, in 1656, for 225/.; BENEFACTIONS. 215 dall bequeathed, to purchase lands for the be- nefit of the poor of the Little Alms-house, 50/. ; with which sum the vicar and churchwardens for the time being purchased a copyhold house in Waddon, 11th November, 1583. Also, to the poor of Croydon and Lambeth, 20/. — Archbishop Whitgift left, by will, to the poor of Croydon, 20/.— Archbishop Bancroft, ditto, 20/. — Arch- bishop Abbot, ditto, 20/. — Archbishop Laud, ditto, 10/. — Archbishop Juxon, ditto, 100/. — Archbishop Sheldon, ditto, 40/. — Archbishop Tenison, ditto, 40/.; also, to Whitgift's Hos- pital, 100/. — Archbishop Wake, for binding out apprentices, 40/. — Archbishop Seeker, for the poor of Croydon, 500/. 3 per cent. Consols. Jasper Yardley, Gent., who died 31st May, 1639, and lies buried in Guildford Church, gave, as appears from the inscription on his tomb, to the parishes of Croydon, St. George's, South- wark, and Lambeth, 40/. each, " to be put fourth yearly, gratis, by their churchwardens, in 5/. parcels, to the severel poor of each parish, for stock to set them to work, or for tradinge. He also gave legacies to all the poore of the Hos- pitallis of Guildford and Croydon." which sura, augmented by the addition of 35L, raised by the trustees among themselves, purchased the above-named farm. APPENDIX. No. 1. Instrumentum factum super Appropriatione Ecclie de Croydon § Assignatione Manerii de Woddon, daf 16 Jan 1390. Reg. Courtnay , fol. 179. b. In nomine Dni, Amen. Anno ab incarnacbe ejusdem secundum cursum & computacoem ecctie Anglican' millmo ccc mo nonage simo, indicbe xim a , pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo pris & dni nri dni Bonifacii divi- na providen' pape Noni anno secundo, mensis Januarii die sexto decimo, in ecctia pochiali de Croydon, Win- tonien' jurisdicois immediate reverendissimi pris dni ar- chiepi Cantuarien' innror' notarior' & testium subscrip- tor' presencia coram venli in Xpo pre ac dno dno Ro- berto Dei gfa Londonien' epo in causa sive negocio unionis annexionis sive incorporacois dee ecctie pochi- alis de Croydon ad collacoem reverendissimi pris dni archiepi Cant' notorie ptinentis prioratui de Bermond- 218 HISTORY OF CROYDON. sey ordinis Cluniacen' ac concessions grangie ejusdem prioratus manerium de Woddon nuncupate mense ar- shiepali Cantuar' judice uno delegato juxta formam sub- scriptam a pdco dno nro pape sufficient' & legitime de- putato in pdca ecctia ad infrascripta faciend' judicialit' sedente, reverendissimus in Christo pater & dnus dnus Wilfrnus Courtenay Dei gra archiepus Cantuarien' to- cius Anglie primas & aplice sedis legatus, & religiosus vir frat' Johannes prior pdci poratus de Bermondesey personalit' g seipsis & nominib' ppriis, ac discreti viri mag' Walterus Gybbes licentiatus in legibus & frat' Thomas Fakenham monachus pfati poratus pcuratores ejusdem prioris & conventus de Bermondesey nomibus eordem dnor' suor' judicialit' comparentes, quasdam fras aplcas predci dni nri pape sanas & integras, omni pror- sus vicio & sinistra suspicoe carentes, more Roman' cur' cum filis sericis & sigillo plumbeo bullatas } con- cernentes unionem, annexionem, sive incorporacoem ecctie, ac concessionem & assignacoem grangie sive manerii pdcor' eidem Dno Londoniens' Epo judicii de- legato, una cum pcurator' dcor' ^curator' sigillo eor' con' judicialit' psentarunt, quas quidem Iras aplicas & quod quidem ^curatoriu idem reverendus pat' dnus epus delegatus reverent' recepit, & illas ac illud cora eo pub- lice legi fecit, quor' tenores in haec verba secuntur. Tenor Bullae. " Bonifacius Epus servus servor' Dei ve- nerabili epo Londonien' salt' & aplican ben'. Sincere devocois affectus quern venerabilis frater noster Wilt- mus archiepus Cantuarien' & dilecti filii prior & con- ventus de Bermondesey Cluniacen' ordinis Wintonien' dioc' ad nos & Roman' gerunt ecctiam promeretur ut APPENDIX. 219 votis eor' illis presertim p que mense archiepalis Can- tuarien' & dci prioratus utilitas procuratur favorabilit' annuamus. Exhibita siquidem nobis nup p pte ar- chiepi ac prioris & conventus pdcor' peticio continebat quod iidem prior & conventus habent quoddam mane- rium sive quandam grangiam ad manerium de Woddon nuncupatu cuidam alteri manerio prefate dioc' ad dctam mensa ptinent' contiguum, ac pochialis ecclia de Croy- don ejusdem dioc' & collacoem archiepi Cantuarien' pro tempore existentis pertinet, quodo^ si ecctia prioratui uniretur & manerium de Woddon, predicte mense pre- fatis concederetur & assignaretur, in utilitatem & com- modum prioratus & mense cederet eordem. Quare p pte dictor' archiepi ac prioris & conventus nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut alicui prelato in partibus illis committere & mandare dignaremur quod de pmissis di- ligenter se informet, & si p informacoem hujusmodi re- periret quod unio & connexio hujusmodi si fierent in utilitatem & commodum prioratus & mense pdcor' ce- derent, auctoritate rire ecciiam prioratui uniret, annec- teret, & incorporaret, ac manium de Woddon pdce mense pfatis de consensu & voluntate dcor' prioris & conventus, eciam absq^ licentia vel consensu abbatis Clu- niacen' & prioris de Caritate p priorem soliti guberna- ri dicti ordinis Matisconenem & Antisiodern' dioc' pro tempore existentiu & conventu monasterior' a quo qui- dem monasterio de caritate pfat' prioratus dependet, concederet & assignaret. Nos igitur hujusmodi sup- plicationibus inclinati fraternitati tue de qua in hiis & aliis spialem in dno fiduciam obtinemus p aplica scripta committimus & mandamus quatenus sup pmissis aucto- ritate iira te diligenter informes, & si p inform acoem 220 HISTORY OF CROYDON. hujusmodi ita esse reperis prenominatam ecctiam cujus centum cum omnibus juribus & ptinenciis suis eidem poratui cujus octingentar' marcar' sterlingor' fructus redditus & proventus secundu communem estimacoem valorem annuum ut ipsi prior & conventus dci poratus asserueruntnonexedunt, auctoritate pdca ppetuo unias, incorpores, & annectas. Ita quod cedente vel decedente rectore dee ecctie qui nunc est, vel ecctiam ipsam alias quomodott dimittente, liceat ipsis pori & conventui po- ratus possessionem dee ecctie apprehendere & ex tunc ppetuo retinere, alicujus licentia sup hoc minime requi- sita. Reservata tamen de fructib 9 , redditib 9 , & cures. Inducens p te vel alium seu alios pdcum ar- chiepum vel pcuratorem suum ejus nomine in corpora- lem possessionem maiiii de Woddon ac ipsiusjurium & ptinenciar' pdict' & defendas inductum sibique faciens de ipsius manerii de Woddon fructibus, redditibus, pventibus, juribus, & obvenconibus universis integre responderi; contradictores p censuram ecciasticam ap- pellacone postposita compescendo. Non obstantibus si aliqui sup provisionibus sibi faciendis de pochialibus ecciiis vel aliis beneficiis ecctiasticis in illis ptibus spe- ciales vel generales aplice sedis vel legator' ejus Iras impetrarint etiam si p eas ad inhibicoem, reservacoem, & decretum vel alias quomodott sit processum, quos quide tras & pcessus ear' vigore habitos vel habendos ad pfata ecctiam volumus non extendi sed nullum p hoc eis quoad assecucoem pochialium ecctiar' & bene- ficior' alior* prejudicium generari seu si aliquibus con- conjunctim vel divisim a dicta sit sede indultum quod interdici, suspendi, vel excommunicari non possint p li- tems aplicas non facientes plenam & expressam & de verbo ad verbum de indulto hujus mencoem & quibusli- bet aliis privileges & indulgenciis ac iris aplicis gene- ralibus vel specialibus quorcunq^ tenor' existant p que presentibus non expressa vel totaliter non incerta ef- fectus eor' impediri valeat quomodolib' vel differri & de quibus quorq^ totis tenoribus de verbo ad verbum habenda sit riris literis mentio spialis. Nos enim ex nunc irritum discernimus & inane si secus super his a quoquam quavis auctoritate scienter vel ignoranter con- tigit attemptari. Dat' Rome apud sanctum Petrum 222 HISTORY OF CROYDON. quinto cal' Octobr', Pontificatus nri anno primo. Pa- teat universis (procuratoriu prioris & conventus de Bermondesey, qui nominant Mag' Walterum Gybbes in legibus licentiatum, & dnum Wilftnum Baunton reef ecclie de Harewe, & fratrem Thomam Fakenham mo- nachum confratrem suum, conjunctim & divisim, le- gitimes ^pcuratores suos ad comparendum coram Ro- berto epo Lond' & supra dcas Iras aplicas de unione ecctie de Croydon conventui supradco facienda, & ma- nerio de Woddon mense archiepali assignando dcto dno psentendas & ad omnia alia pficienda quae dcum negocium spectant', dat' in capitulari 16 Jan. 1890), & in hujusmodi procuratorio tenor dee bulle totalit' inseri- tur ante dat' ejusdem |>curatorii. Post quor' quidem trar' apticar' & prio ac pscripti magr Walterus et frater Tho- mas pcuratores nomine quo supra coram eodem dno epo judice delegato quam plures testes fide dignos ad probandum suggesta et deducta in dcis Iris aplicis fu- isse et esse vera judicialit' pduxerunt et pducunt. Quos quidem testes sepe dictus dnus epus judex delegatus ad ipsor' dni archiepi et ^curator' pdcor' peticoem ad- misit et admittit quibus quidem testibus ad sancta Dei Evangelia p eos corporalit' coram ipso dno delegato et de ipsius mandato tacta juratis idem dnus judex dele- gatus eosdem testes sup ctis articulis a tenore pdcar' aplicar' extractis diligent' et singillatim examinavit, ac eor' dca et deposiciones in scriptas p eos notarios sub- scripts in causa sive negocio hujusmodi coram eo ac- torum scribas redigi fecit, et deinde memoratus dnus archiepus et pfati magr Walterus ac frat' Thomas et aplice sedis legatus cunctis Christi fideli- J bus salt' in dno consequi sempiternam; ex nostro mero pastorali officio nup subditos nros dnum Joftem de Tonneford rectorem poch' ecclie de Croydon et dnum Jofiem de Horstede ppetuum vicariu ejusdem nre jurisdictions immediate ac pemptor' exhibend' ordi- nacoem porcoem diet' vicarie si quam haberent certis die et loco competentibus citari fecimus coram nobis, qui juxta vocationem hujusmodi cora nro in ea pte commis- sario in judicio comparentes asseruerunt se nullam ip- sius vicarie ordinacoem habere, petieruntque a nobis instanter ut dcam vicariam faceremus in certis et indu- bitatis dee ecclie porcoibus ordinari, unde nos tarn sup vero valore annuo fructuum reddituum et pventuum dee eccie quos idem rector pcipit et pcipere consuevit quam super vero valore annuo alior' pventuum, obla- conum et obvenconum ejusdem ecclie p ipsius vicarium hactenus pceptor 1 ac eciam de et sup omnibus et sin- glis oneribus pfate ecctie incumbentibus p pochianos dee eccte plenam in ea pte noticiam obtinentes primitus inquiri fecimus, et deinde de consensu rectoris et vicarii pdcor' porcoem vicarie dee ecclie consideratis ipsius fa- cultatibus et oneribus ipsi ecclie incumbentibus ac ce- teris in ea pte undique ponderandis, modo infra scripto ordinandam duximus et taxandam ac eciam declaranda quid et quantum pfatus vicarius et successores sui pci- perent de fructibus, redditib' et ventus dee ecetie poch' de Croydon cen- tum ac prioratus pdct' octingentar' marcar' sterP valo- rem annuum secundum communem estimacoe non ex- cedunt, porconemq' vicarie dee ecetie de Croydon ab antiquo dotate, de qua idem vicar' poterit sustentari epalia jura solvere, et alia onera sibi incumbencia sup- portare congruam et sufficientem, ceteraq' omnia et singula in iris aplicis nobis in bac pte directis suggesta ad quas referimus vera fuisse et esse. Eapropter nos Robertus epus judex unicus delegatus pdcus Deum p oculis habentes, Xpi nomine primitus invocato, de con- silio jurisperitor' nobis assidenciu, de et sup pmissis plenius informati, prehabitis et observatis in hac pte de jure vel consuetudine requisitis, pfatam ecctiam de Croydon dee dioc' jam vacantem cum suis juribus et ptinenciis universis eidem poratui auctoritate aplica no- bis in hac pte commissa ppetuo unimus, annectimus, et incorporamus, ita quod liceat priori et conventui pfati poratus corporalem possionem dee ecctie apprehendere et ppetue retinere, ac ins up pfatum maneriu de Wod- don cum omnibus juribus et ptinenciis suis pdce mense archiepali Cant' de consensu et voluntate dcor' poris et conventus expressis eadem auctoritate aplica concedi- mus et assignamus, dcumq' reverendissimu in Xpo pa- trem dnum Wiltmum archiepum vel ^curatorem suum ejus noie in corporalem possessionem manii de Wod- don pdei ac ipsius juriii et ptinenciar' pdcor' inducen- 230 HISTORY OF CROYDON. dum fore decernimus, porconemq' dee vicarie de qua idem vicarius possit congrue sustentari, epalia jura sol- vere et alia incumbencia sibi onera supportare ab anti- quo dotatam congrua sufficientem fuisse et esse |>nun- ciamus et declaramus in hiis scriptis. Demum vero plecta pdcum dnum epum judicem delegatum sententia supdea pdcus reverendissimus pater dnus archiepus ac pfati mag' Walterus et frater Thomas ^curatores noie dctor' dnor' suor' coram eodem dno epo judice delega- to judicialit' comparentes unioni, annexioni, sive incor- poracioni ecclie, ac concessioni, et assignacioni manerii pdcor' aliisq' omnibus et singlis pdcum dnum delega- tum et coram eo ut pmittitur actis habitis atq' gestis consencierunt et consenciunt ac consenciit et consentit quilt eordem, idemq' dnus archiepus p discretum virum dnum Johannem Parker capellanum familiarem ejus- dem dni archiepi rectorem ecctie Sti Pancratii London ^curatorem suum ad subsequens pstand' juramentum coram pdeo dno delegato in iiror' notarior' actor' scri- bar' et testiu subscriptor' psencia apud acta hujusmodi constitutum ibm psentem et mag' Walterus et frat' Thomas Joli Pieres attornatf Adce Bochers ppoi de Croydon, afo Midi 23 Ric. II. ad id' 1 Hen 9 IK In xiini 1 de rofnayl empt' £ novo stablo & nova cania ibm p m l xiii d. . xiii s. Et in cc de sixpenny nayl . . . xii d. Et in xxvii carect' zaftli empt' ad id' p cujult carect' iiid. . . . vis. ixd. Et in iiinn" lyflatch empt' ad id p ml vi s. xviii s. Et in al' mmm lyflatch empt' p ml' vi s. viiid xx s. Et in m rechelath empt' . . .vs. Et in xlviii carect' trae rub' p pariet' dauband' p qualibet carect' . . viii s. Et in i carect' serais empt' p parietib' daubandis . . . . xiiiid. Et in xliml' tegul' empt' p cooptur' eord' p ml' iiiis. vid. . . . ixt. iiiis. vid. Et solut* RoBto Kene carpentar', in 236 HISTORY OF CROYDON. partem c>venc' suae f ctur' dctor' no- vor' staftlar' & cam' . . . xis. Et in xxi qr' calc' c,bust' empt' ad id' p qrt' xvid. . . . . xxviiis. Et in cariag' eord' p qr' ii d. . . iii s. vi d. Et in un' nov' mur' juxt' nov' granar' erga caamiter' emendand' . . vi d. Itm in iiii xx waynscot bord' empt' p host' & fenestr' nov' stabl' . . . xxiiis. Et p cariag' eord'de Lond' usque Croy- don . . . . . .iis. iiiid. Et in vi regulbord empt' ad idem p pec' viid. . . . . . iii s. vid. Et in md planchisnail empt' ad id p c. vid viis. vid. Et in m whitnail empt' ad id . . vs. Et in c gross cl' empt' p manger' stabl' xx d. Et in 1 clavis ejusd' sort' empt' ad id' . x d. Et in i hole 9duct' p i die p foraminib3 in terr' faciend' p postib' manger' im- ponend' iiiid. Et solut' Rofcto Kene carpentar', p ea qua? supius comp' in part' c;venc' suae p magno stablo . . . .Is. Et in v c whitnail empt' ad id' . . ii s. vi d. Et in cc gross whitnail empt' p magno ostio magni stabli et p magna port' manii p c. xviii d. . . . iii s. Et in rastris cariand' a Bristowe usq Croydon viis. vid. Et in i carp' Cjduct' p ii dies ad pen- APPENDIX. 237 dend' mag' porta manii et pendend' vta rastr' in veter' stabl', & etiam emendand' ctos defect' palicii circa stagnu in gar din', p diem vi d. . xii d. Et in ccc saplath empt'

ven' f ca in gross . . . xx s. Et solut' eid' £ diet' hale faciend' ex c/ven' fca in gross xxxs. unde ,p se- nescall' hospitii xvs. . . . xxxs. Et solut' Wilfrno Mason

viii. xv s. xd. Nup' cant'ia^ Nee r' xxxvii s. ii d. nup rec' de reddit* S'ciNich'iin V * Croydon, j &fi s ' pcellar' terr' & tent' subseq', vidett de firma domus mancionis Cant' pd' cu ptin' modo vel nup in tenura incumbents lbm ad vi s. viii d. p ann' firm' di' acr' pastur' in Benshamfeld ad vis. p ann'. Et de firma unius messuagii cu ptin' in tenura Thome More ad xxx s. p ann' scitt p tempus hujus compi non r\ Eo qd omnia et singla pmiss' cu eor' ptin' int' al' conceduntur Anthonio Aucher militi et Henrico Pol- 250 HISTORY OI« CROYDON. sted ac hered' eor' imppm, a festo Sti Micfiis arcfii an- no regni dni regis nunc Edwardi VI d secundo, et non ulterius, put p pz Iras ejusdem dni regis patent' dat' x° die Marcii anno regni mats s' iii°, tenend' de pfato dno rege, hered' et successor' s', in lifto socagio absq^ x" 14 , ut in eisdem iris paten' plenius patet'. Sed r' de iiiit. de firma unius hospicii voc' Le Crowne cu iiii acr' terr' ac' ix swathes pdci & unius gardini ifcm p ann'. Et de xxxiiis. iiiid. de firm' unius mess' cu ptin' in Chelmerden de iiiit. iis. nup annuatim rec' de redd' et firm' divs' mess' terr' et tent' subscript', vidett unius mess' cu ptin' in tenura Joliis Pratt ad xx s. viii d. p ann', altius tenti cu vii acr' terr' in tenura RoBti Ing- ram ad xl s. p ann', unius tenti cu ptin' in tenura Jofiis Fisher ad xiiii s. p ann' ult' ii s.

7, 8 "fol. 689. Croyden, May 31, 1654. In pursuance of two several orders of the com- mittee for reformation of the universities, of the 15 Jan. 1650 and 28 Jan. 1651, it is ordered that Mr. Lawr. Steele, treasurer, doe from time to time pay un- to Sir William Brereton, for the use of Mr. Jonathan Westwood, minister of Croydon, in the county of Sur- rey, approved according to the ordinance for approba- tion of publique preachers, the yerely sum of 501., for and during such time as the said Mr. Westwood shall continue to discharge the duty of the minister of the said place, till further orders of the said trustees, to^ gether with all arrears of the said 501. per ann., due by order of the 26 Sept. 1652. John Thorowgood,William Stele, John Browne, Richard Yong, John Powick. In a Book marked " Au. I. 13. 7," fol. 171. I find 251. paid to Jonathan Westwood, minister of Croyden, charged upon the revenues of South Ber- steed, in Sussex, by an order dated April 2i, 1655. Signed by John Thorowgood, Edward Cresset, Richard Sydenham, Edward Hopkins, Ra. Hall, Richard Yong. Ibid. fol. 226, Aug. 13, 1655. An order to Mr. Lawrence Steele, treasurer, to pay unto Mr. Jonathan Westwood, minister of Croydon, 264 HISTORY OF CROYDON. SOL, towards satisfaction of the arrears of the aug- mentation to him due from these trustees; and Mr. John Silverwood, receiver, is forthwith to pay to Mr. Lawrence Steele, treasurer, 30/. for that purpose. John Thorowgood, Edward Cresset, John Po- cocke, John Humfrey, Richard Yong. Ibid. Oct. 11, 1655. A further order, dated Oct. 11, 1655, to Mr. Allen, receiver, to pay to Jonathan Westwood 41. 8s. , charged upon Bartholomews without Chichester, in full satis- faction of all such augmentations, allowances, and pay- ments, as he standeth charged to pay unto them since 25 March last. The payments to be made unto them to be accounted from their last receipt only. John Thorowgood, Ralph Hall, R. Sydenham, John Humfrey, John Pococke. From a Book marked " Au. K." p. 202, 29 Feb. 1655. Jonathan Westwood, minister of Croydon, petition- ing for arrears, upon the humble petition of Jonathan Westwood, minister of Croydon, in the county of Sur- rey, thereby charging himself with the sum of 131. in arrears, for tenths, since the Sth of June, 1649; it is ordered, that, upon the said Mr. Westwood his pro- ducing a certificate from Mr. Lawrence Steele, trea- surer, that he hath received of him the said sum to- wards the payment of the arrears of the augmentation, the said Mr. Steele by former orders standeth charged APPENDIX. 265 to pay him ; that thereupon Mr. Allen Nye, receiver, give unto the said Mr. Westwood an acquittance for so much of the tenths of the said vicarage as is in ar- rear ; and that the treasurer do likewise give unto the said Mr. Nye his receipt for so much money hy him re- ceived of the said Mr. Nye for tenths. John Thorowgood, Richard Sydenham, John Pocock, Ralph Hall, John Humfrey. In a Book marked " A. P. N° 9. 29,"/^- 212. Croyden, June 9, 1657. Whereas these trustees have, by order of the 1 1 Oct. 1655, granted unto Mr. Jonathan Westwood, mi- nister of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, among other things, the yearly sum of U. 8s. out of the tythes of Bartholomews without Chichester, to he accompted from the 25 March, 1655, and the rest of the said tythes is hitherto in arrear, so that there is due unto the said Mr. Westwood the sum of 81. 16s. for two years ending 25 March last, it is ordered that Mr. Lawrence Steele, treasurer, pay the said sum of 8/. 16s. in full satisfaction of the said arrear. John Thorowgood, John Humfrey, Ralph Hall, Richard Yonge, John Pococke. Ibid.fol. 213. June 9, 1657. An order of the same trustees, that the sum of 41. 8s. per ann. be transferred and charged upon (and from time to time paid to the said Mr. Westwood) out 266 HISTORY OF CROYDON. of the rents and profits of the tithes of the sub-deanry of Chichester, to hold for such time as he shall dis- charge the duty of minister of the said place, untill fur- ther orders of these trustees ; and that Mr. Allen Nye, receiver, do pay the same to him accordingly. Dated June 9th, 1657. No. VI. Commissio ad Vendicand' Clericos Convictos in Villa de Croydon, {From Strypes " Life of Whitgift," Appendix, p. 89.) Johannes, divina Providentia, &c, dilecto nobis in Christo, Samueli Finch, clerico, vicario Vicarie per- petue Ecclesie Parochiali de Croydon in comitat' Sur- rey, Ecclesie nostre Cathedralis et Metropolis Christi Cantuar. jurisdictionis immediate &c. salutem et gra- tiam. Ad vendicand. exigend. recipiend. et examinand. quoscunq. clericos coram quibuscunq. Justiciariis Do- mine nostre Regine, de super Feloniis quibuscunq. in- fra Croydon in Com. Surrey Ecclesie nostre Cathedral, et Metropolit. Christi Cantuar. praedict. impetitos, indic- tatos, sive convictos: Atq. hujusmodi Clericos ad Be- neficium et Privilegium clericale in casibus a jure et con- suetudine, ac hujus regni Anglie Statutis admissis et pprobatis, recipi et admitti, petend. et requirendum: Caeteraq. omnia et singula alia faciend. exercend. et ex- pediend. que impremissis, et circa ea, necessaria fuerint, APPENDIX. 267 seii quomodo libet opportuna, vobis, de quorum fidelitate et circumspectione, et industria in hac parte concedi- mus conjunctim etdivisim committimus vices nostras, et plenam in Domino, tenore presentium, concedimus po- testatem. Vosq. commissarios nostros ad omnia et singula premissa exequend. conjunctim et divisim or- dinamus, deputamus, et constituimus per presentes. In cujus Testimonium Sigillum nostrum apponi feci- mus. Dat. 17 die mensis Julii, 158i, et nostre Trans- lations primo. No. VII. Statutes of Ellis Davy's Almshouse. Fundatio Hospitalis Pauperum in Villa de Croydon. {Ex " Registro Morton," fol. 199 a.) Dated at Croydon, 27 April, 1447. To all trewe Christen people, these present letters in- dented seying or hering, Ellis Davy, citizen and mer- cer of the city of London, sendith greting in our Lord God everlasting. Knowe ye that I the foresaid Ellis Davy, by vertue and auctorite of certain ires pa- tentes of our Sovereign Lord the King that nowe is, bearing date at Westminster, the 25th of December, the year of his reign 2od, by me purchased, have reised up, made, founded, and stablished, in the honor of God, and of the Blessed Virgin Marie, and of St. John Bap- 268 HISTORY OF CROYDON. tist, whose help I have first besought and called to my begynnyne, a perpetual Almes-house of vn pouer peo- ple, whereof be called by name a tuter, to dwell per- petually at Croydon in the shire of Surrey ; that is to say, in my messuage with the appurtenaunces by me there belded and ordeynid for the same entent, which is called myn almes-hous, and it is settuate bytwene the tenement of William Olyver late vicar of Croydon, which Joh. Ffauxwell there nowe dwellith in, on the south partie, and the ryver there on the north partie. Also I have put, settee, and ordeigned in the same almes-house vn poure people; that is to say, Pers Stanlock for tuter, Henry Corde, John Christmasse, John Cooke, John Tapcliff, John Shirburne, and Elyn Umfrey, for poure people, with the same tuter, to be- gyne, take, and have the succession and beneflte of the same almes-house and capacite thereof, after the fourme and effect as is conteyned in the said lettres patentes. Also, by virtue as well of the same lettres patentes as of the lettres patentes of the full Reverent Fader in God John by the grace of God archiebishop of Can- terbury, bering date the 17th day of the moneth of Februer, the yere of the incarnacion of our Lorde Jesus Christe 1443, and of our said Sovraigne Lord the King that nowe is 23, and also by the lettres of John by the suffraunce of God abbot of the monastry of Saint Savyor, Barmundsey, in the shire of Surrey, and the Covent of the said monastry, beryng date in there Chapter-house the 20th day of the month of December, the yere of the said incarnacion 1445, and of our said Souvraigne Lord the Kynge that now is 24, as for any APPENDIX. 269 intresse that they or any of theym hath in the said mes- suage by me severally purchased. I the said Ellys have graunted and assigned by these present lettres to the foresaid tuter and poure people, and to his succes- sors for his inhabitation and dwellyng for evermore, of the chief lords of the fee by service thereof due and of right accustomed. Also I will and ordeyne, that the same house of poure people be called Elys Davie's almes-house of Allimen, from the tyme foreward, and that I for verry founder thereof be holden and taken for evermore. And that the tuter and poure people, and his successors thereof, by the name and under the name of tuter and maister and of poure people of the almes house of Ellis Davy att Croydon, in the shire of Surrey, mowe complete and be completed ; and also al manner of actions, causes, and querellys, real, personall, and mixtis, of what kynde or nature they ben, byfore all manner juges, seculer or spirituell persone, and in the same answer and be answered, and in the same defend, and that they have a comyn seale to serve for the nedis and doyngs of the same almes-hous for evermore. Also I the said Ellys woll ordeyne that the fore- said poure people and his successors shul be men only, or els men and women togedre, after the good and sadde advise and discrecion of the governours and overseers of the same almes-hous undre-wretyn. Also I will and ordeigne that A., now vicar of the church of Croydon aforesaid, and also the two chirch- wardeines of the same chirch, and iv of the moost worthi men, householders and parishioners, dwellyng and resident within the towne of Croydon, and their 270 HISTORY OF CROYDON. successors; that is to say, the vicar and churchwar- deyns of the said parish, and iv other of the moost worthy men, householders and parisheners, alwaies re- sident and abiding within the town of Croydon, be gouvernours of the foresaid almes-hous, and gouver- nours of the foresaid almes-hous be called; and that Richard Ritche, John Cotford, John Reynkyn, and John Baron, now masters and wardeyns of the craft or occupation of the mercers of London, and their suc- cessours, maisters, or wardeyns of the said crafte or occupation, which for the tyme shall be overseers of the said almes-hous, and overseers of the same almes- hous be called for evermore. Furthermore, as touching all manner of putting in and owte of such tuter and pour people, and alle other maner, rule, and gouvernaunce of theim, and of the said almes-hous, I reserve it unto mysilf all my lief during; and for the executing and mayntenaunce there- of after my decease, I stabelish and ordeyne, by these present letters, that, as ofte as any avoydaunce, by deth or otherwise, fallith in the said almes-hous, of a tuter, so ofte alwaies, within xx daies next ensuyng after such voydaunce, oon of the said almes-hous con- venient and able, if any such be within, and els with- oute the said almes-hous of the foresaid town of Croy- don; and yf none such convenyent persone to have such a rule and governaunce of tuter can be had, nei- ther in the said almes hous neither towne of Croydon, thenne of some other towne, village, or hamelet nyght abowte the foresaid town of Croydon, so that no one of the same townes, villages, or hamelets, excede the space of iv myle at the moost from the foresaid church APPENDIX. 271 of Croydon, by the said governers, that is to say, the said vicar and church-wardeyns, and such iv other moost efficient men of the said towne of Croydon, be preferred and chosin, and ordeyned tuter of the said almes-hous. And yf the foresaid governers be necli- gent, and not preferre, chose, and ordeyne such a tuter in the fourme aforesaid, within such xx daies sett and lymitted to theym, as byfore is rehersid, then I wol and ordeyne, that after any suche xx daies so necli- gently overpassid, the preferring, chosing, and ordi- naunce, yfe the said tuter to the overseers aforesaid of the said almes-hous shall only belong and perteyne, for to choose and ordeyne of such towns, villages, and hameletts aforesaid, and of noon other. Provided evermore, that by this ordynaunce no man- ner prejudice shall growe or be engendered in any wise to the foresaid governors, in other times whenne they be diligent within every such xx daies next suy- ing every voydance of such tuter. Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that as oft as any voidaunce of any of the remnant of the poure people being in the foresaid almes house, byside the said tuter and poure people, within xv daies next suying every such voidaunce, chose another unto them of the townes, villages, or hameletts aforesaid, and specially of the said town and parish of Croydon, if any be there. And if it be so that the said tuter and poure people be necligent in there election, so that the said xv daies at any time spevyn there election, not made of such men or wommen so by him chosin, be not in the said almes- house by such xv daies, and that every such time the churchwardeyns of Croydon then for the time being 272 HISTORY OF CROYDON. only, and noone other, chose, ordeyne, and sett in the same voidaunce, such as poor man or woman of the towns, villages, or hameletts aforesaid, and of noon other. Provided alwaies, that this ordinaunce be no manner prejudice to the foresaid tuter and poure peo- ple in other tymes, as oft as whenne they were dili- gent and spedefull in there election, within any such xv daies next ensuying eny such voydaunce that hap- pith so for to be beside the foresaid tuter and the elec- tion of the same poure people shall be in this manner of fourme, that first they shall name and condescend upon another persone, and which of the said two per- sons that hath most voyces, that persone having moste voyces shall be admitted and takyn into the said almes- hous; and if so be that the voices of the said poure people be eqall of every of the said three tymes, that partie that the voice of the tuter is uppon be take and hadde for the more partie ; for the voice of the said tu- ter in all such cases shall stand for two voices. Also, I will and ordeyne, that if any other persone than only of the said towne of Croydon, or than of such other towne, village, or hamelett of Croydon, or than of such other town, village, or hamelett nygh abowte, not passing the space of iv myle from the said church of Croydon, be takyn and admitted into the foresaid almes-house, than all such manner of proysion and admission be utterly void, ofnoo strenght. But thenne I wool and ordeyne, that every such persone that happith so to be admitted into the foresaid almes- hous, that was of any other place then only of such town, village, or hammelett above specified, be expell- ed and put out of the said alms-house by the said APPENDIX. 273 overseers, and another person of one of such towne, village, or hamlette aforesaid, in his place by the fore- said overseers be sette in and admitted ; for myne en- tent and wil is, that poure fette people of the said towns, villages, and hamlettes, and specially of the said towne of Croydon, that hath be housholderers or trewe laborers, and dwellid and contynued in some of the said places by seven hoole yeris togeder or more, next byfore such admission made into the said alms- house, and have not whereof to susteyne them with, and may no longer labour for to gett sufficiently livelode, be provided and admitted into the foresaid almshous. Also, I will and ordeyne, that persone that so shall be provided, and ordeyned, and admitted into the fore- said almeshouse, be a person meek of spirite and chaste of body, and named of good conversacion, and also destitute of temporal goodes by the which he might competently live yf he were noon of the nombre of the said poure people. Wherefore, I beseech and pray, louly and devoutly, and also, as moche as I may with reverence, I charge all thoo to whom parteynith any provision or election of tuter or poor mann or woman by this ordynaunce, that, as they will answer afore the high Judge at the dredeful day of dome, all manner inordinat and singular affection, and corrupcion of fa- vor, praier, or receiving of gefts, be utterly excluded and put away from the harts and handes; and that they only provide and ordeygne able and devout per- sones of such tuters and poure people as oft as such voidance of theim fallith. Also, I woll and ordeyne, that the said tuter and every poure persone have a place by himsilf within the T 274 HISTORY OF CROYDON. said almshous, in the whiche he may ligge and reste, and by himsilf alone, withoute lette of any of his fe- lawes entende to the contemplacion of he will. But I forbede and charge that noo persone of them so being in his owen place, make any noise or disturbaunce, in letting or troubeling any of his felawes, or any of his felawes lette him or distrouble him or them so being in there place or places. But that every of them pesebly and quietly behave himsilf agenst other in such wise, and in all other of wise. Also, I charge theym and their successors, and everiche of them, peasebly and quietly behave himsilf agenst other in such wise, and in all other manner of wise as good is; and to occupy themsilf in praying and in beding, in hering honest talking, or in labours with there bodies and hands in some other occupations, to the laws and worship of Al- mighti God, and profit to theim and to there said alms- hous. Also, I will and ordeyne, that the tuter of the fore- said almshouse that now is, and his successors, tuters of the same almshouse, be bounde by the tenure and auctorite of this ordynaunce for to admitt and receive all manner of poure people by the foresaid church- wardeyns and overseers, and every of theim, in the forme aforesaid to be provided and ordeyned. Also, I will and ordeyne, that the said tuters and poure people, and there successors, have and take, for his sustenance and lyving, xvi. xii s. yerely of the sum of xviiii. which I will ordeyne, or to be ordeyned to theim yearly for their sustynaunce, and to observe and kepe other chargs hereafter specified ; that is to say, the foresaid tuter shall have and take every weke, for APPENDIX. 275 his sustenaunce, xiid., and every of the rernenaunt of the said pour people shall have and take for his sus- tenaunce every weke x d. ; with the which partis, pen- cions, and porcions wekely, I will they hold them fully content; and that they beg not, on the payne that hereafter is written and ordeyned agenst such of them as be found corruptible. Furthermore, I establish and ordeyne, that the said tuter and poure people be bound by the tenure of this present writing, every day in the church of Croydon aforesaid, here all manner divine service there to be songe and saide, and pray specially for the estats of our sovrayne lord the Kinge upon his kneys, iii pa- ter-nosters, iii aves, and a crede, with special and har- tily recommendacion of me there said founder, to God and to our blessid lady, maydon Marye, and also everiche of them, tuter and poor people, other tymes of the day, when he may best and commodiously have leisure thereto, or when he or she seith most conve- nyent tyme, say, for the estate of all the sowlis above- said, iii sawters of our lady at the least; that is to say, thrice i ave-maries, with xv pater-nosters, and iii credis ; but yf he or she be letted by feblenesse, or other law- full reasonable cause. Also, I will and ordeyne, that the said tuter and poure people and there successors, once in the day at the least, in case it may be in the said church of Croi- don, where I propose me fully, yf God will, for to be buried, that is to say, after the high masse and whenne compelyn is doon, come togedre about my buriall, and they that caunt shall say for my soule and the soules aforesaid, this psalme de profundis, &c, with the ver- T2 276 HISTORY OF CROYDON. sides and other orisonnes that longith thereto; and they that cannot shall say iii pater-nosters, iii aves, and a crede ; and after this doon, the tuter and one of the eldest men of them all shall say, opinly in English, " God have mercy on our founder's soule and on all Christiensl" and they that standith abowte shall an- swer and say " Amen." Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that the foresaid tu- ter and poure people that now be, and their succes- sors to come, be bounde by the tenure of this ordy- naunce to dwelle and abide contynuelly within the foresaid almshous and bounds thereof, as such other poure people in like ahnshousis and hospitales com- menly dwelle, and be bounde to abide and dwelle, and that every day, both at mete and at souper, the ete and be fedde within the said almshouse, onlesse than they be letted by a resonable cause; and whiles they be at mete and souper, I will that they absteyne them from vayne and evill woords in as moche as they may. And yf they will any thinge talke, that it be honest and profitable. Also, I will and ordeyne, that the over clothing of the said tuter and poure people of the foresaid almes- hows be darke and browne of colour, and not staring, neither biasing, and of easy price cloth, according to ther degree. Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that neither the said tuter that nowe is, nor any of his successors, tuters of the said almeshows, for to com, absent him in anywise from the said almeshows, by the time of vi daies in all the yere, continuelly and discontinuelly, withoute li- cence of me while I lief, or of the governers and over- APPENDIX. 277 seers of the said almeshows after my decease; and that it be than for necessary causis in honest placis, that any of the other poure people of the same almes- hows, in every manner of kinde absent theim from the said almshows by on hoole day, or go withoute the bounds of the said almshouse, out of sight from the same almeshows, withowte licence of the said tuter or his successours, yf he be present, or, in his absence, withoute leve of his attorney or depute, lesse then the gretter need compelle and ask it, or that there be some other cause resonable, which is to be examined and approvid by the same tuter or his debite. Also, I will and ordeyne, that the foresaid tuter and his successours, as ofte as whenne he shall goo owte into the towne or into any other place, that he and his successours ordeyne oon of his fellawes moost sadde and wise to occupy his occupacion for him till he come ageyne. Also, I will and ordeyne, that they of the said almes- hous be mighte and hoole of body, specially wommen, yf there be any within help, and minister unto ther fellawes of the foresaid almeshous that be sick and felle in there necessaries, as ofte as they have verry neede of help and ber con'. Also, I will and ordeyne, that the said tuter and poure people have a commyn chiste, in the which chiste they shall putte their commyn seale, and also their charteris, dedis, letters of licence, and privilegs, and this my ordynaunce, and other there myniments and escripts and tresure of there said almeshous, and other things, and which shuld be seem to the foresaid 278 HISTORY OF CROYDON. tuter and poure people expedient for the commyn pro- fit of the same almshous; the which chiste I will be putt in a secrete and a seller place within the bounds of the said almeshous, and that to the same chist there be iii divers lokks, and to every lok a key; whereof oon key I woll be in the kepinge of the foresaid tuter, and another key thereof I will be in the kepinge of the eldest felawe of the foresaid almshouse, and the thyrde key I will be in the kepinge of oone of the other fe- lawes of the foresaid almeshouse, every year to be cho- sen by me while I life, and after my decesse by the said tuter and poure people of the foresaid almeshous ; and that no man presume upon him for to hold or keep all the said iii keyes in his owen governaunce at ones, neither with the said commyn seale any thing be en- sealed without the licence, consent, and advice of me while I life, and after my deceasse of the foresaid gouvernours and overseers for the tyme being. Also, I stablish and ordeyne, that all the moneys and tresour of ther commyn goods and rents every yere, after the rekenyng by the tuter made, the which ex- cedith over the expence of the foresaid almeshous, and also the notable Jewells of the said almeshows, that be not behovefull every day, shall be kept in the same chiste. Also, I stablish and ordeyne, that noone of the said tuter and pour people that now be, and shal be in time commyng, presume in any manner or wyse to waste or consume, or give or ley to wedde inordinately, the goodis or any parcel of the goodes belonging to the said hous. But that every of them stody and labour to keepe forth and encrease the said goodes with all APPENDIX. 279 his myght; and when any of them shall passe out of this world, that he give or leve all his proper goods to the same almeshous. Also, I will and ordeyne, that no leper ne madman, nor any other person contynuelly vexed with intoler- able seekness, be admitted into the foresaid almshouse; and if it happe that any person that is, or in tyme comyng shall be admitted into the foresaid almshouse, become madd, or woode, or to be enfected with leper or such other intolerable seekness, then I woll and or- deyne that every such persone be putt oute of the said almeshous, leste that infect his felawes, and goo to som other place in the which he may be resceived, where I will that he have evry weke lOd. for his lyve- lode and other necessaries, as he shuld have in the said almshous, and that he be accomptid for one of the said almeshous and of the noumbre of the foresaid vii poure people during his lief. Also, I stablishe and ordeyne, that in case any of the said poure people, after they be admitted into the fore- said almshous, happen to be promoted or avaunced to any inheritaunce, or otherwise unto the summe of iiii marcs or above by the year, thenne he so promoted or avaunced be putt owte of the same almeshous, and of the nombre of the foresaid vii poure people, and another in his stead and place be resceived and ad- mitted; and if any of the said almeshous, after his ad- mission, be semblable and like inheritaunce, or other casuell advaunced, atteyne or come to any such yearly livelode, that is to say, within the said liii s. ivd. by yere, then I will and ordeyne, that oone halfe of the same somme evenly, evry yere, without fraude or mall "280 HISTORY OF CROYDON. engin, be put and kepte into the foresaid chiste, to the commyn profitt of the same almeshous, and that other halfe of the same somme shall go to the foresaid per- sone so promoted or avaunced, with his own portion of the said almeshous before assigned, with the which I woll that he holds him content; and in case that he will not obeye, but contrarie this ordynaunce, than I will that he be put owte of the foresaid almeshouse ut- terly, and another person be provided and put in his place. Also, I stablish and ordeyne, that the tuter take hede and see that the goodes of the foresaid almes- house, which shall come in any wise to his hands, be well and trewly ministrid; and yf any of them have to be desceveryd, to gadre them togedre, and all suche goodes so by his labour gaderid togedre to kepe trew- ly to the awaile and use of the said almeshous, and to do all the husbandry of the same almshous in as moche as he may do goodly; and also enforce himsilf to edifie and norrish charite and pease amongs his felawes, and shewe with all his besiness, both in worde and in dede, ensamples of clenness and of vertue; unto which tuter 1 charge and ordeyne, that all the remmenaunt of poure people of the said almeshous that now be, and their successours, in all things that towchith the good gou- vernaunce, and honeste, and profitt of the same almes- hous, give due obedience and attendaunce, as right askith. Also, I will and ordeyne, that evry tuter of the said almeshous, within a month after he is admitted, take to him two of his felawes moost discrete by the deno- minacion of the foresaid governers or overseers, and APPENDIX. 281 make a just inventarye of all the commyn moveable goodes of the said almeshouse, and the inventarye so made, withoute tarrying or delay, shew or putt up un- to the foresaid gouvernours or overseers; and in the ende of evry yere, or whenne any tuter cessith his of- fice and charge, the new tuter shall do in the same wyse, and byfore the said gouvernours or overseers yeld and make a just accompt of alle the tyme of his administracion, that alle men may opinly knowe in what a state evry tuter hath resceived, kept, and left the foresaid almeshouse for his tyme. Also, I will and ordeyne that noone of the said poure people which is lower in degree then the foresaid tuter, lye not owte of the foresaid almeshous by nyght, in the foresaid towne of Croydon or elsewhere, withoute a re- sonable cause, to be discussid and examinyd by the jugement of the said tuter, and also of the foresaid poure people, be custumably dronkley glotons or ri- gours amongs his felawes, or haunting taverns, or be unchast of his body, or walking or gazing in the opyn stretis of the said towne of Croydon, by day or by night, oute of sight from the said almshouse, but if it be only to the church and churchy arde of the same, with a reasonable cause, to be pondered and discussid by the discrecion and jugement of the said tuter, or of the foresaid gouvernours or overseers ; and what persone of the said poure people of any of the said defaultis, or of any such other defaultis, or vice like to these, be openly defamed and notably marked, I wool that he be under no and correctid by the said tu- ter, by twise withdrawing his portion, more or lesse, after the discrecion of the foresaid tuter; which portion 282 HISTORY OF CROYDON. so withdrawen shall been applied and put into the commyn chiste of the foresaide house. And if any of the saide poure people be warned, rebuked, and pu- nished, for such defaults and vices as afore is rehersid, or other like to them, be founde the iiid tyme defected thereof, after my deceasse, afore the said tuter, or afore the said gouvernours or overseers, thanne I woll and or- deyne, that eny such misgovernd persone so iii tymes founde defected to be held and taken for their incor- rectible and intolerable persone, and utterly be put away by the said tuters, and gouvernours and overseers, from the said almeshous, and from all manner of be- nefitte, profitt, and advantage, that he should have had therein yf he hadde be well governed; and that another convenient persone be provided and sette in his place, in the manner and fourme afore expressed. Also, I will and ordeyne, that, yf any of the said poure people afore the saide tuter, gouvernours, or overseers, after my deceasse, be opinly dislaunderer and noisy, and after their discrecion and consideration be resonable convicte for a commyn distroyer or an in- ordinat waster of the goodes of the foresaid almeshous, or for an opyn lechour or avowter, or for a doer of more grete synnes thenne thise above expressid, thanne I woll and ordeyne, that eny such persone, at the first tyme that thus he is convicte, be utterly put away from the said almeshous ; and in caas that any such persone, so put oute after my decesse, will complayne or appele, that it be only to the overseers of the foresaid almes- hous, and to noon other. Also, I will and ordeyne, that the defautis and tres- pasis of the foresaid tuter for the tyme being, aftre my APPENDIX. 283 deceasse, be refourmed, correctid, and punishid, by the gouvernours and overseers of the foresaid almes- hous, under this fourme, that is to say, as well be the withdrawing of his portion and part more or lesse, af- ter the quantite of his trespace, afore the considera- cion and disposicion of the gouverners and overseers to be mesured and taxed, as by put oute and remov- ing of the said tuter from his office, pencion, and place, which he hath in the foresaid almeshous, yf his offence and gilt askith it. Also, I wool and ordeyne, that the gouverners and overseers of the foresaid almeshous, and ther succes- sours, have poure for to make, after my deceasse, all manner statutes and ordinaunces y* may be seem to theim to the encreace of the said almeshous, and well- fare of the foresaid tuter and poure people, and of ther successours ; and that all such statutis and ordinaunces, so by the same gouverners or overseers or her succes- sours made, be observed and kept of the said tuter and poure people, and ther successours, and everiche of them, so alwaies that suche statuts and ordinaunces be according to resone, and not contrary to thise my statuts and ordinaunces, or to any other by me here- aftre to be made : And in caas any doubte, ambiguyte, or worse, befalle in mysundrestanding of thise said sta- tuts and ordinaunces, or of any other hereafter to be made by me, thenne I wool that all such statuts and ordinaunces so mysundrestanding be declared, cor- rectid, reformed, and amended, only by the foresaide overseers for the tyme being, or ther successours. Furthermore, I stablish and ordeyne, that the fore- said tuter and poure people, and ther successours, 284 HISTORY OF CROYDON. hold and make evry yere, aftre my decesse, in the church of Croydon aforesaid, my yeris mynde solempn- ly, with full service by note usid and accustumid in exequyes of mortuary s, begynning twelvemonth after the day of my deceasse, and so aftre that yerely on such alwaies as God wil that I deceasse, for evermore, yf I decesse in suche tyme of the yere that the same day may be kept, or els as sone aftre as hooly church will suffre it to be doon. Iwch yeris mynde I will that the foresaid tuter and poure people pay yerely of the foresaid xviiil. to theim by me to be ordeyned, unto the vicar of the church, yf he be present at the said yeris mynde, xxd. ; and to either of the said ii church war- deyns, yf they be present, xx d. ; and to every priest and parish-clerk of the same church, iiiid.; and that the said tuter offer id., and every of the said other people ofFre ob\ at the masse of requiem of the same yeris mynd. Also, I woll and ordeyne, that the foresaid tuter and poure people be bound by this present ordinaunce to pay evry yere unto the iiii maisters or wardeyns afore- said, and to her successours, overseers, and visitours for the same almeshous, so that ii at the least of the same iiii maisters or wardeins which for the time shall be com evry yere to the foresaid almeshous, and see and visite that the same house and also the tuter and poure people thereof be well gouvernyd, and such de- faults as by fore theim be founde, correcte, punissh, and amende, as moch as in theim is, for to doom xxvis. viiid., that is, for evry of them vis. viiid., and also xiiis. iiiid. for the costs of the same ii maisters or war- deyns, spended in their commyng thither aforesaid APPENDIX. 285 evermore; that the said iiii wardeyns, evry such yere as ii at the lest of theym com not and visit the foresaid almeshouse and poure people, in the fourme aforesaid, shall no thynge have of the foresaide xxvis. viiid., nei- ther of the said xiii s. iiiid. for their costs: But thenne evry such yere the foresaid xxvis. viiid. for their la- bours, and the foresaid xiii s. iiiid. for their costs, re- mayne stille with the same tuter and poure people, and her successours, in there said commyn chiste, to the encrease and availe of the same hous, among their com- myn tresoure. Furthermore, I ordeyne and faithfully stablish, that if man or woman, in my foresaid Elis Davys almes- hous, hegge or aske any silver, or else any other good, within the said almeshouse, or else withoute, in any other place, that thenne I wool fully that all suche be expellid and put oute at the first warnyng, and never be of the fellowship, neither never more to come into the said almeshous. Also furthermore, I the said Elys have given and graunted unto the foresaid tuter and poure people, and to there successours for evermore, iii cotagis, with the gardines sett in Croydon aforesaid, betwene the said ryver on the south par tie and the king's highway on the east and north parties, and the gardynes sum- tyme blaunchards on the west partie; saving alwaies I woll and ordeyne that the same iii cotagis, and also another cotage, parcel of the said messuage above givin and graunted, situate by the south side of the mansion of the said almeshous, be sette oute yerely to ferme for the moost availe that may be, and that all the 286 HISTORY OF CROYDON. issues and profitts comyng of the ferme of the said iii cotages be occupied and turned to noon other use than only to the reparacion of the same almeshous and co- tagis ; and whatsoever of the same issues and profitts that leveth over, I will that it be put into the foresaid chiste, there saufly to be kept to thencrease of a com- myn tresour for the said tuter and poure people ; so, if the said almeshous and iiii cotagis, or any of them, shuld nede to be new bilded, therewith to bild it, or other comyn nedis of ther foresaid almeshous to sus- teyne and do. Moreover, I will and ordeyne, that this my present fundacion and ordinaunce, and all and everiche chaptre of the fundacion and ordinaunce, be redde opinly and clerely expowned evry quarter of the yere, once at the lest, before the said tuter and poure people, and her successours ; and the same tuter and poure people have within theimsilfe, in the said almeshous, a copy of the said statuts, so that whenne they wool they may rede the chapters of this ordinaunce, and the better have theim in mynde : Saving alwaies, I reserve unto my- silfe full poure, by thise my present letters, of alle manner of things that parteyneth to the said almes- hous, tuter, and poure people, as long as I life, to chaunge these foresaid ordynaunces yf nede be, or to correct or dispence and make new statuts, and to re- voke thoo that nowe be made, in case I see it expe- dient, this my present ordinaunce notwithstandinge. Nevertheless, as for nowe this tyme I pray and hertely beseche the said tuter and poure people that nowe be, and shal be in tyme comyng, that they love togedre and APPENDIX. 287 kepe charite amonge theim, and serve God, and pray hertily for the soules beforerehersed, at this my pre- sent ordinaunce will, and they be conversaunt and love togedres, in such wise in this foresaid almshows, and that after thende of this life, they may comme to the hous of the kyngdome of hevin, the which to poure people is promised by the mouth of our Lord God. Amen. In witnes of all the whiche things above expressid, to that oon part of this present writing indented, with the foresaid tuter and poure people and her succes- sors for evermore remayning, I the said Elys have sette my seal, and we the foresaid tuter and poure people of the said almeshous, being right glad and joy- full of the good grace of our sovraigne lord the kyng, and of the foresaid reverent fader in God the arche- bushop of Caunterbury, and the abbot and convent of the monastery of Berdmonsey, and of the foresaid Ellis Davy our founder, and of the good, diligent, and ef- fectual labours of the same our founder, and yeving thankis and loving and praising thereof to Almyghti God, and to the blessid virgin Marye, his moder, Saint John Baptist, and to all the company of hevin; and taking upon us the corporacion and succession yevin and graunted by the foresaid letters patent of our saide souveraigne lord the king, and also the benefite and charge of this present fundacion articuled, for to ful- fill and do it in all and evry article in manner and fourme as above is declared, to that other part of this present writing indentid with the foresaid Elys our foundere while he lyvith, and after his decesse with the foresaid thenne our gouverners and overseers of our 288 HISTORY OF CROYDON. said almeshous and ther successours evermore remayn- yng, have sette our commyn seale. Yevin at Croydon aforesaid, the xxviith day of the moneth of Aprill, the yere of the incar- nacion of our Lord Jliu Christ, mccccxlvii, and of our sovraigne lord the kynge Henry the vith, after the conquest of Engeland the xxvth. No. VIII. Letters Patent for building the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Croydon, with Licence of Mortmain and incorporating the same, 22nd Nov. 30 Elis. Elizabeth, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, et Hi- berniae Regina, Fidei Defensor, &c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem. Cum re- verendissimus in Christo Pater praedilectus consiliarius noster Johannes Whitegifte Cantuar' Archiepiscopus, totius Angliae primas et metropolitanus, perpendens mortales omnes in hoc mundo positos ut Dei omnipo- tentis gloriam illustrent, ac humano generi quam max- ime prosint, illamque maximam beneficentiam merito censendam esse, non quae fluxae istius ac labilis huma- nae vitas angustis terminis continetur, sed quae in mi- seros et egenos Christianos, ipsius Jesu Christi Salva- toris nostri mystica membra, ad diuturnitatem per om- nes succedentium saeculorum aetates (modo Deo ita APPENDIX. 289 videatur) propagari utiliter poterit; Ptochodochium quoddam sive Hospitale pauperum intra villain de Croydon in comitatu nostro Surr', de mundanis suis fa- cultatibus quas Deus ei tanquam dispensatori concedi- dit, fundare, exigere, dotare, et in perpetuum stabilire statuerit, nostro prius regio assensu ad id exhibito, quern humiliter ac dimisse a nobis petierit: Sciatis igitur quod nos, tarn laudabili pioque ipsius instituto faventes, idemque summopere promovere cupientes, de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero mo- tu nostris, volumus, concedimus, et ordinamus, pro no- bis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, quod de caetero in perpetuum sit et erit unum Ptochodochium sive hospitale pauperum in Croydon praedicto, pro susten- tatione sive relevamine pauperum et indigentium quo- rundam Christianorum, perpetuis temporibus duratur'; quod quidem hospitale vocabitur Hospitale Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Joharmis White- gifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi ; et hospitale illud, per nomen Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archie- piscopi, erigimus, cedamus, fundamus, et stabilimus firmiter per praesentes; et quod hospitale illud de cae- tero sit et erit aut possit esse de uno custode et pau- peribus per eundem Johannem Whitegifte Archiepis- copum et successores suos secundum ordinationem in his literis nostris patentibus speciflcat' eligend'. Et ut intentio ac propositum hoc pium meliorem flrmior- emque sortiatur efFectum; atque ut bona, terrae, tene- menta, redditus, reventiones, et alia haereditamenta, ad sustentationem hospitalis praedicti ac custodis pauper- umque et aliorum in eodem degentium, posthac conce- u 290 HISTORY OF CROYDON. dend', assignand', et destinand', melius gubernentur, tractentur, regantur, et insumantur, pro perpetua con- tinuatione ejusdem; Volumus, concedimus, et ordina- mus, pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, per praesentes, quod de caetero sit et erit in perpetuum unus custos dicti hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croy- don praedicto, ac terrarum, tenementorum, reddituum, reventionum, possessionum, aliorumque haereditamen- torum ejusdem hospitalis, necnon bonorum et catallo- rum ejusdem; qui erit et vocabitur Custos Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi ; quodque de caetero perpetuis futuris temporibus sint et erunt sex, septem, octo, novem, decern, aut aliquis alius numerus sub numero quadraginta pauperum in eodem hospitali sustentand', manutenend 5 , et relevand', ac per praedic- tum Johannem Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepisco- cum et successores suos, secundum intentionem harum literarum nostrarum patentium, de tempore in tempus eligend', nominand', et assignand', qui similiter erunt et vocabuntur Pauperes Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantu- ariensis Archiepiscopi. Et ad munus et officium cus- todis hospitalis praedicti bene et fideliter exequend' et exercend', nos, ad humilem petitionem dicti Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, pro prima vice elegimus, nominavimus, assignavimus, et constituimus, ac per praesentes eligimus, nominamus, assignamus, et constituimus dilectum nobis Philippum Jenkins fore et esse primum et modernum custodem dicti hospitalis, ac terrarum, tenementorum, reddit', reventionum, posses- sionum, aliorumque haereditamentorum ejusdem hospi- APPENDIX. 291 talis, necnon bonorum et catallorum ejusdem; ac, ad consimilem petitionem dicti Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi elegimus, nominavimus, assignavimus, et constituimus, ac per praesentes eli- gimus, nominamus, assignamus, et constituimus, Jo- hannem Holland, Christoferum Fenner, Reginald um Scroobie, Thomam Whitehead, Richardum Dibble, et Robertum Curtis, fore et esse primos et moder- nos pauperes hospitalis praedicti, continuandos in eo- dem hospitali durant' vitis suis naturalibus, nisi pro aliqua causa rationabili per Archiepiscopum Cantu- ariensem pro tempore existent' aut successores suos amovebuntur, aut eorum aliquis amovebitur. Et ulte- rius, de ampliori gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa sci- entia et mero motu nostris, volumus, ac per praesentes pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, concedi- mus et ordinamus, quod iidem custos et pauperes hos- pitalis praedicti et successores ipsorum de caetero in perpetuum sint et erunt unus corpus corporatum et politicum de se, in re, facto, et nomine, per nomen Custodis et Pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantua- riensis Archiepiscopi; ac ipsos custodem et pauperes et successores suos per nomen Custodis et Pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi in- corporamus, ac unum corpus corporatum et politicum per idem nomen in perpetuum duratur' realiter et ad plenum, pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, erigimus, creamus, ordinamus, facimus, constituimus, et stabilimus firmiter per praesentes; quodque per idem nomen Custodis et Pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae V2 292 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis White- gifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, perpetuis futuris temporibus, vocabuntur, appellabuntur, et nominabun- tur, habeantque successionem perpetuam; et quod per idem nomen sint et erunt personam habiles, aptae, et in lege capaces, ad perquirendum, recipiendum, haben- dum, et possidendum tarn bona et catalla, quam mane- ria, terras, tenementa, prata, pascua, pastur', redditus, reventiones, et alia haereditamenta quaecunque, sibi et successoribus suis, in perpetuum seu aliter, tarn de no- bis, haeredibus vel successoribus nostris, quam de prae- fato Johanne Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopo, haeredibus vel assignatis suis, vel ab aliqua alia perso- na, seu de aliquibus aliis personis, ad sustentationem, manutentionem, et relevamen hospitalis prasdicti, ac custodis atque pauperum ibidem de tempore in tem- pus degentium et sustentand'. Volumus etiam, et pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, per praesen- tes concedimus, praefato custodi et pauperibus dicti hospitalis et successoribus suis, quod ipsi de caetero in perpetuum habeant commune sigillum ad negotia sua et quamlibet seu aliquam inde parcellam tangent' seu concernent' deservitur'; et quod praedictus custos et pauperes hospitalis praedicti et successores sui, per no- men Custodis et Pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae Trinita- tis in Croydon ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, placitare et implacitari, prosequi, defendere et defendi, respondere et respon- ded possint et valeant, in omnibus et singulis causis, querelis, sectis, et actionibus quibuscunque, cujus- cunque generis sive naturae fuerint, in quibuscunque locis et curiis nostris, haeredum vel successorum nos- APPENDIX. 293 trorum, ac in placeis, locis, et curiis aliorum quorum- cunque, ac coram quibuscunque judicibus autjustici- ariis intra hoc regnum Angliae aut, alibi ; et ad ea, ac ad omnia et singula alia faciend', agend', et exigend 5 , eo- dem modo prout caeteri ligei nostri personae habiles et in lege capaces intra idem regnum nostrum Angliae fa- ciunt, aut facere valeant seu posse, in curiis, locis, et placeis praedictis, et coram justiciariis et judicibus su- pradictis. Volumus etiam, ac ex uberiori gratia nos- tra speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris, pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, conce- dimus, quod quandocunque contigerit praedictum cus- todem hospitalis praedicti ab hac vita discedere, vel a loco et officio suo custodis hospitalis praedicti amoveri, quod tunc et totiens bene liceat et licebit Archiepisco- po Cantuariensi pro tempore existent', et successoribus suis, unam sufficientem et idoneam personam in locum sive officium hujusmodi custodis sic morientis vel amoti eligere et praeficere ; quae quidem persona, sic ut prae- fertur ad officium et locum custodis hospitalis praedicti electa et praefecta, erit ct continnabit custos hospitalis praedicti durante vita sua naturali, nisi interim pro ali- qua causa rationabili ab officio et loco praedictis amo- vebitur. Volumus etiam, et per praesentes pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, concedimus, quod quandocunque contigerit aliquem vel aliquos praedic- torum modernorum pauperum hospitalis praedicti qui nunc sunt, aut qui in posterum juxta formam et effec- tum praesentium per praedictum Johannem Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopum aut successores suos electi, nominati seu assignati erunt, ab hac vita disce- dere, vel ab hospitali praedicto pro aliqua causa ration 294 HISTORY OF CROYDON. nabili amoveri, quod tunc et totiens bene liceat et li- cebit Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi pro tempore existent' et successoribus suis, aliquam personam vel alias per- sonas pauperes et indigentes in hospitali praedicto manutenend' et sustinand' eligere et praeficere, et sic totiens quotiens casus sic accident. Volumus etiam, ac per praesentes pro nobis, ha^redibus et successoribus nostris, concedimus, quod tarn idem Johannes White- gifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus de tempore in tern- pus durante vita sua naturali, quam etiam alius vel alii per istum in ultima sua voluntate in scripto, aut per factum suum manu sua subscripta et sigillo suo signa- tum, nominandum atque assignandum, faciat et faciant, et facere valeat et valeant et possint, idonea et salubria statuta et ordinationes in scripto concernen' tarn veram religionem ac divina servitia infra hospitale predict' de tempore in tempus in honorem Omnipotentis Dei cele- branda, quam gubernationem, electionem, expulsionem, punitionem, et directionem custodis et pauperum hos- pitalis praedicti pro tempore existent', necnon stipendia et salaria eorundem custodis et pauperum, et alia quae- cunque idem hospitale seu custodem et pauperes pre- dictos, ac ordinationes, preservations, et dispositiones possessionum, reddituum, reversionum, aliorumque has- reditamentorum, necnon bonorum et catallorum ejus- dem hospitalis, ad sustentationem ejusdem hospitalis concedend', assignand', vel destinand', quovismodo tan- gent' et concernend': Quae quidem statuta et ordina- tiones sic, ut praefertur, faciend', volumus et concedi- mus, ac per praesentes, pro nobis, haeredibus et suc- cessoribus nostris, praecipimus inviolabiliter observari de tempore in tempus in perpetuum : Ita tamen quod APPENDIX. 295 statuta et ordinationes praedict', sic ut praefertur fiend', nee eorum aliqua, non sint contraria nee repugnand' legibus et statutis regni nostri Angliae. Et ulterius, de uberiori gratia nostra, ac ex certa scientia et mere- mo- tu nostris, per praesentes damus et concedimus praefato custodi et pauperibus Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon ex fundatione praedicti Johannis Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, et successoribus eorum, licentiam specialem, liberamque et licitam facultatem, potestatem, et autoritatem, perquirendi, recipiendi, ob- tinendi, gaudiendi, possidendi, et habendi, eis et eorum successoribus in perpetuum, ad perpetuam sustenta- tionem et manutentionem hospitalis praedicti, tarn de nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, quam de praefato Johanne Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepis- copo, haeredibus, executoribus, vel assignatis suis, vel de aliis quibuscunque personis, maneria, messuagia, terras, tenementa, rectorias, decimas, et alia haeredita- menta quaecumque intra regnum nostrum Angliae, quae in toto non excedunt clarum annuum valorem ducenta- rum librarum, et quae non tenementa de nobis, haere- dibus vel successoribus nostris immediate in capite,nec aliter de nobis, haeredibus vel successoribus nostris, seu de aliquo alio, per servitium militare. Damus etiam, et pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, per praesentes concedimus, omnibus et singulis perso- nis quibuscunque, et eorum cuilibet, licentiam specia- lem, et plenam, liberam et licitam facultatem et autho- ritatem, quod ipsi et eorum quilibet maneria, messua- gia, terras, tenementa, rectorias, decimas, et alia haerew ditamenta quaecumque intra regnum Angliae, non ex- cedend' in toto clarum annuum valorem ducentarum 296 HISTORY OF CROYDON. librarum, et quae non teneantur de nobis, haeredibus vel successoribus nostris immediate in capite, nee aliter de nobis, haeredibus vel successoribus nostris, seu de aliquo alio, per servitium militare, praefatis custodi et pauperibus hospitalis praedicti et successoribus suis in perpetuum dare, legare, concedere, vendere, et aliena- re possit vel pos int, sine aliquo brevi de Ad quod damnum, aut aliqua inquisitione in hac parte habenda seu facienda, statuto de terris et tenementis ad manum mortuam non ponendis, aut aliquo alio statuto, actu, ordinatione, sive provisione, aut aliqua alia re, causa, vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante. Ac ulterius volumus, ac per praesentes praecipimus et or- dinamus, quod omnia proficua, exitus, et reventiones omnium hujusmodi terrarum, tenementorum, haeredita- mentorum, et possessionum, in posterum ad perpetuam sustentationem et manutentionem praedicti hospitalis dandorum et assignandorum, convertantur, disponan- tur, et expendantur ad sustentationem custodis et pau- perum hospitalis praedicti pro tempore existen', ac ali- orum officiariorum et ministrorum ejusdem pro tempore existent*, juxta ordinationes et statuta per praedictum Johannem Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopum, seu per aliquem alium aut aliquos alios per ipsum no- minand' aut assignand', prout praefertur, faciend'; nec- non ad sustentationes, manutentiones, et reparationes domorum, terrarum, et possessionum hujusmodi, se- cundum eadem statuta et ordinationes sic ut praefer- tur faciend 5 , et non aliter, nee ad aliquos alios usus aut intentiones. Volumus etiam, ac per praesentes, pro nobis, haeredibus et successoribus nostris, conce- dimus praefato Johanni Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archi- APPENDIX. 297 episcopo, quod habeat et habebifc has literas nostras patentes sub nostro sigillo nostro Angliae debito modo factas et sigillatas absque fine, seu feodo magno vel parvo, nobis hanapeiio nostro seu alibi ad usum nos- trum proinde quoquo modo reddendo, solvendo, vel fa- ciendo; eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore an- nuo vel de rectitudine praemissorum, sive eorum alicu- jus, aut de aliis donis .-ive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Johanni Whitegifte Cantuariensis Archiepiscopo ante heec tera- pora factis in prassentibus minime factis existit; aut aliquo statuto, actu, ordinatione, provisione, sive re- strictione in contrarium inde antehac habit', fact', edit', ordinat', sive provis', aut aliqua alia re, causa, vel ma- teria quacunque in aliquo non obstante. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipsa, apud "Westmonasterium, vicesimo se- cundo die Xovembris, anno regni nostri tricesimo oc- tavo. Per Breve de Privato Sigillo. Kempe. Indorsed — A Graunte to the Archbishop of Canterbury, for erecting of an Almeshouse, at Croydon in the Countie of Surr'. Kempe. Character' per Will'um Brent. 298 HISTORY OF CROYDON. No. IX. Archbishop Whitgifi*s Deed of Foundation. To all true Christian people to whome theis presents shall come, John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canter- bury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, send- eth greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Whereas, in the session of Parliament houlden at Westminster in the nyne and thirtith yeare of the reigne of our So- vereigne Ladie Elizabeth the Queenes Majesty that nowe is, one acte was made, entituled " An acte for erecting of hospitalls or abidinge and working houses for the poorer" Now this present deede witnesseth, that the said John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canter- burie, now being seised of an estate in fee simple in his owne right, and to his owne use, of and in one building of brick, or brickhouse, newly and lately by him built and erected in Croydon, in the countie of Surrey, and of and in certen other houses, gardyns, orchardes, courtes, yerds, and grounds thereunto ad- joyning, scituat and being in Croydon aforesaide, doth by the power, vertue, strength, licence, and authoritie of the said acte, by this his present deede to be en- rolled in the high courte of Chauncerie, erect, founde, and establish the saide building of brick, or brick- house, and the saide houses, gardens, orchardes, courtes, yerdes, and groundes thereunto adjoyning, to be an hospitall and abiding-place for the finding, sus- tentation, and relief of certen maymed, poore, needie, APPENDIX. 299 or impotent people, to have continuance for ever; which hospitall, and the persons therein to be placed, the said John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, hath assigned, limited, and appoynted, and hereby doth assigne, limit, and appointe, to be incorporated, named, and called, by the name of The Hospitall of the Holye Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury; and the same Hospitall, by the name of The Hospitall of the Holye Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, doth, by force and vertue of the said acte of Parliament, and by this his deede, erect, founde, and establish firmely to have contynuance for ever; and doth also ordeyne, limite, and appointe, that the same hospitall shall consist of one wardeine, which shalbe the headd of the said hos- pitall; and of maymed, poore, or impotent persons, not exceeding in all the nomber of forty, which shalbe the bodye and members of the said hospitall, and they from tyme to tyme to be chosen, nominated, placed, appoynted, and assigned, according to the true intent and meaning hereafter in theis presents expressed or mentioned. And to the end that the said intent and purpose of the said Archbishop of Canterbury may take the better and more sure effect, and that the landes, tenements, rents, revenewes, and other heredi- taments, and also all and singuler goodes and chattells, now or hereafter to be geven, graunted, assigned, or appoynted, to or for the sustenaunce or mayntenaunce of the said hospitall, and of the wardeyne and maymed poore or impotent persons therein for the tyme being abiding, may the better be mayntened, governed, dis- 300 HISTORY OF CKOYDON. posed, ruled, and bestowed for ever hereafter; the said Archbishop of Canterbury appoynteth, assigneth, ly- miteth, and ordeyneth, by theis presents, that from henceforth for ever there be and shalbe one wardeine of the said hospitall of the Holie Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, and of the landes, tenements, rents, reve- newes, possessions, and other hereditaments of the same hospitall, and also of the goodes and chattels of the same, which shalbe called the Wardeine of the hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foun- dation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, and that for ever there bee and shalbe maymed, poore, or impotent persons, not exceeding the number of for- tie, which shalbe susteyned, maynteyned, and relieved in the same hospitall, and from tyme to tyme be cho- sen, nominated, placed, appoynted, and assigned, ac- cording to the true intent and meaning hereafter in theis presents expressed or mentioned, which likewise shalbe called The Poore of the Hospitall of the Holie Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John White- gift, Archbishop of Canterbury: And for the office and function of the wardeine of the same hospitall well and truely to be executed and exercised, the said Archbishop of Canterbury, for the first tyme, hath chosen, assigned, and appointed, and by theis presents doth choose, assigne, and appoint Philip Jenkins to be the first and present wardeine of the same hospi- tall, and of the landes, tenements, rents, revenewes, possessions, and other hereditaments of the same hos- pitall, and also of the goodes and chattells of the same: And allso the said Archbishop of Canterbury APPENDIX. 301 hathe chosen, assigned, and appointed, and by theis presents doth choose, assigne, and appoint John Hol- land, Christopher Fenner, Reynold Scroobie, Richard Deeble, Robert Curtis, Edward Holloway, Edward Pringle, Augustine Willis, Robert King, Henry Jef- ferey, Henry Leaver, and Thomas Elton, to be twelve of the first of the saide maymed poore or impotent persons, not exceeding the number of fortie, of the same hospitall, to contynue in the same hospitall, with the residue of the said maymed poore or impotent persons, not exceeding the number of fortie, hereafter frome tyme to tyme to be chosen, nominated, placed, appointed, and assigned, by the said archbishop, his heires, executors, or assignes, according to the true intent and meaning hereafter in theis presents express- ed or mentioned. And further, the said Archbishop of Canterbury doth by theis presents (by force and vertue of the said acte) graunt, ordeyne, lymitt, assigne, and appointe, that the warden and maymed poore or impotent of the same hospitall as is aforesaid, and their successors for ever, be and shalbe one bodie cor- porate and politique of it selfe in deed and name, by the name of The Wardein and Poore of the Hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury; and the same wardein and poore, and their successors, by the said name of The Wardein and Poore of the Hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, doth by theis presents, according to the said power and autho- rity before mentioned, incorporate, creat, and make one bodie corporate and politique, by the same name 302 HISTORY OF CROYDON. for ever, to the pleasure of Almightie God to endure; and also really and fully, for him and his heires, doth erect, creat, ordeyne, make, constitute, and establish firmely by theis presents; and that by the same name of The Wardeyn and Poore of the Hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, at all tymes hereafter, they shalbe called and nominated, and by that name have a perpetuall contynuaunce and succes- sion for ever; and that by the same name they be and shalbe persons hable, apt, and capable in the lawe, to purchase, receave, have, and possesse, aswell goodes and chattells, as mannors, landes, tenements, rents, and hereditaments whatsoever (not exceeding the va- lue of two hundreth pounds by the yeare) to them and their successors for ever, aswell of our Soveraigne Ladie the Queenes Majestie, her heires and succes- sors, as of the said Archbishop of Canterbury, his heires and assignes, or of any other person or persons, for the sustentation, mayntenaunce, and relief of the said hospitall, and of the said wardein and poore ther- in from tyme to tyme abiding, and to be relieved, ac- cording to the forme, effect, and true meaning of the said acte of Parliament, to all intents and purposes: And also, the said Archbishop graunteth, assigneth, and appointeth, by theis presents, to the said wardein and poore of the hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, and to their successors, that they for ever hereafter shall and maye have and en- joy e a common-seale, to serve for their affayres con- cerning the said hospitall, and everie of them, en- APPENDIX. 303 graved with the historie of Dives and Lazarus, and a scutcheon of the armes of the said John Whitegift, and circumscribed with theis wordes, " Sigillum Hos- pitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Villa de Croydon;" and that the said wardein and poore of the said hospitall, and their successors, by the name of The Wardein and Poore of the Hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, may and shalbe able to plead and be impleaded, sue and to be sued, defend and to be defended, aunswer and to be aunswered unto, in all and singuler causes, quarrells, suites, and actions whatsoever, of whatsoever kinde or nature they be, in whatsoever places or courts of our said Soveraigne Lady the Queene, her heires or successors, or in the courtes and places of any other person or persons whatsoever, and before any judges or justices whatso- ever, within this realme of England, or elsewhere ; and to doe and execute, performe and accomplish, all and singuler other things whatsoever, and that as fully and freely, and in as large and ample manner and forme, as persons incorporate, or any other the liege people of our said Soveraigne Lady the Queene, being per- sons able and capable in the lawe, may lawfully doe and execute in any parte or place within the realme of England ; and that the same hospitall, and the warden and maymed poore or impotent persons of the same for the tyme being, and everie of them, shalbe from tyme to tyme ordered, directed, and visited, placed, or upon just cause displaced and amoved, by suche per- son or persons, bodies politique or corporate, their heires, successors, or assignes, as shalbe nominated or 304 HISTORY OF CROYDON. assigned by the said John Whitegift, his heires or as- signes, according to such rules, statutes, and ordi- naunces, as shalbe set forth, made, devised, or esta- blished, by the said John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, or his heires or assignes, in writinge un- der his or their or some of their hands and seales, not being repugnant or contrarie to the lawes and statutes of this realme: And furthermore, the said John White- gift, Archbishop of Canterburie, doth, by theis pre- sents, appoint, assigne, and lymitt, that all the profitts, commodities, and revenewes of all the landes, tene- ments, rents, hereditaments, and possessions, by theis presents mentioned to be geven, or hereafter to be geven, and likewise all the goodes and chattells here- after to be geven to the relief of the same hospitall, shalbe converted, disposed, and employed, to and for the mayntenaunce and sustentation of the said hos- pitall, and of the said bodie and members thereof, ac- cording to the rules, statutes, and ordinaunces, hereaf- ter to be lymited, assigned, or appointed, as is afore- said: And further, the said John Whitegift, Arch- bishop of Canterburie, to and for the present endow- ment of the said hospitall, doth by theis presents (ac- cording to the purport and true meaning of the said acte of parliament) give, graunte, appoint, and con- firme unto the said wardein and poore of the said hos- pitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the founda- tion of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, and to their successors for ever, one annuetie, or year- ly rent of tenne pounds by the yeare, of lawfull money of England, to be had and taken oute of all those landes and tenements of the said John Whitegift, APPENDIX. 305 Archbishop of Canterburie, called or knowen by the severall names of Christian-field and Rye-crofte, con- teyninge, by estimation, threescore and seventeen acres, scituate, lying, and being in the parish of Croydon, in the said countie of Surrey, to have and to receave the said annuetye or yearlie rent of tenne pounds, unto the said wardein and poore of the said hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, and to their successors for ever, at the feast of St. Michael the Archangell and the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, by even portions, yearlie to be paid : And if it happen the said yearlie rent of tenne poundes, or any parte therof, to be behind unpaid, in parte or in all, by the space of tenne dayes after any of the said feasts in which (as aforesaid) it ought to be paid; that then, and so often, it shalbe lawfull for the said wardein and poore of the said hospitall of the Holy Trinitie, in Croydon, of the foundation of John Whitegift, Arch- bishop of Canterburie, to their successors and assignes, to enter into the premisses, or any parte thereof, there to distrayne, and the distresse so taken to withhold, un- till they be of the said rent and of the arrearages (if any be) fully satisfied, contented, and paid; which said landes and tenementes, called or knowen by the several names of Christian-field and Rye-crofte, are holden in soccage, and the said John Whitegift, Arch- bishop of Canterburie, is and standeth thereof seized of a good, sure, and lawfull estate in fee simple, abso- lutelie, to hym and his heires. In witnes wherof, the said John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterburie, to this present deede hath putto his hand and seale. X 306 HISTORY OF CROYDON, Dated the five and twentith day of June, in the yeare of the reigne of our Soveraigne Ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c, the one and for- tithe. Jo. Cantuar. Sealed and delivered in presence of us, Ric. London. John Parker. Jo. Bath. &Wellen. Ed. Barker. J. W. Fawkes. George Paule. Jon. Boys. Abraham Hartwell. E. Aylworth. Richard Massinger. W. Barlow. Ffowlke Bowghton. Ffrancisco Butler. Willm. Beeston. Chr.Wormeall. Willm. Segar, Norroy John Gilpin. King of Armes, Aymas Nevile. Irr. in dors, claus. cancellar. infrascr. dne regine vicesimo sexto die Junii anno infrascript. Per Johem Snelling. APPENDIX. 307 No.X. Statutes K Constitutions, and Ordinaunces, devised by me, John Whitegift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Founder of the Hospytall of the Holye Trinity, in Croydon, in the County of Surrye, and given unto them of the sayde Hospytall, for the Order, Go- vernemente, and Direction, touchinge the Lands and Tenements of the said Hospitall and all the Mem- bers thereof {From a MS. in the Library at Lam- beth, No. 275). Cap. I. — Of the Number of those that are to be mayn- teyned in or by the Hospitall. First, I do ordeyne, that the number of the bre- theren and sisteres of the sayde Hospitall shalbe ever thirtie at the least, and so many more, under xl in all, as the revenues of the sayde Hospitall, accordinge to the proportion in theis ordinaunces lymitted, may beare, untill all the severall roomes therein appointed for lodginge be replenished; of the which number of bretheren, one shall teache a common schoole in Croy- don, in the schoole-house there by me buylded, and performe suche other duties as is appointed unto him in these ordinaunces and statuts: Provided always, that the yerely sume of tenn pounds owte of the reve- newes be yerely reservid for reparations, sutes in lawe, and other necessary charges, &c, over and above the proportions hereafter lymmited. Item, yf any of the X2 308 HISTORY OF CROYDON. places of the poore brethren or sisters aforesayde, up- on any occasion, shall happen to be voyde by the space of one hale monethe or more, or the place of the schoole-master by the space of three moneths or more, or yf y t shall please God so to blesse the hos- pitall, as that any other overpluss of revenewe shall re- mayne, when all the roomes as aforesayde shalbe re- plenished ; the allowance that shalbe due unto suche voyde places, and suche overpluss, shalbe layde up and reserved safe in the common chest of the sayde hospitall, as a stocke to be imployed for repayringe, reedyfyinge, defence in lawe, or for other common charges. Cap. II. — That Women may be placed in the Hospitall. I ordeine, that the sayde hospitall may have women placed in yt, aswell as men ; they the sayde women be- ing poore, and qualifiede in lyke manner, forme, and degree, as is hereafter expressed in the statutes touch- inge the seconde and third degree of those who are to be placed: Provided nevertheless, that at no tyme above one half parte of the whole number (not account- inge in this behalf the wardein nor the schoolemaister) shall consiste of women only: Provided also, that the poore wydowes of longeste contynewance in Croydon and Lambethe, beinge quallyfiede accordinge to the ordinaunce, shalbe prefFerred before all others. Cap. III. — Who shall not be lodged or enterteyned in the Hospitall. No man nor woman shall lodge in the sayde hospi- tall, eyther wyfe, children, or others, not beinge mem- APPENDIX. 309 bers of the sayde hospitall; neither shall enterteyne any manner of person in the towne of Croydon, not being borne in the sayde towne, or there remayninge three yeres next before, whereby the towne may pre- sently or afterwards be burdened, uppon payne of loss of their place in the sayde hospitall forever ipso facto. Cap. IV. — Of the Ellection and Placing e of the Mem- bers of the Hospitall. I doe ordeine, that, within one monethe (yf conve- niently yt may bee) after yt shalbe notifiede by the warden, or otherwyse, that the place of the schoole- master, or of any other of the poore brethren or sys- ters of the sayde hospitall, is any waye become voyde, the Archbishop of Canterbury (for the tyme beinge) or, the see beinge voyde, the parson of Lambethe, and vicar or curate of Croydon, shall nomynate and place some one qualified accordinge to these ordinaunces, under his or theyr hande and seale ; who, uppon suche nomination or placinge, shall wythoute delaye be sworne and admitted as is hereafter expressed: But if the parson of Lambethe and the vicar or curate of Croydon for the tyme beinge, when the see of Canter- burye is voyde, shall not agree of some one quallyfyed accordinge to these ordinaunces, within one monethe after yt come to theyr knowledge that a place is voyde, then I will that the archdecon of Canterbury e for the tyme beinge shall supplye theyr defecte therin, so that he name suche an one as is quallifiede accordinge to theis statutes. Item, I ordeine and appointe, that the poore bro- ther appointed to be the schoolmaster shall be a par- 310 HISTORY OF CROYDON. son well qualyfyede for that function, that is to saye, an honest man, learnede in the Greeke and Lattin tongues, a good versifiere in bothe the foresayde lan- guages, and able to wryte well (yf possible yt may bee); which poore brother appointed to that offyce, and quallified and placed as afore, shall have for his lodg- inge and dwellinge place, during the tyme that he con- tineweth schoolmaster, that howse which I have buyld- ed for that purpose, adioyninge to the sayde hospitall, and nere unto the sayde schoolehouse, together with suche backsides and grounds as I have appointed to be annexed to the sayd howse, and which the present schoolemaster nowe enioyethe, and shall also have the some of twentye pounds yearely for his stipande, to bee payde quarterlye, together with other further co- modyties of corne or wood, as hereafter shal happen to be allotted to other of the poore brethren of the sayde hospitall: I doe lykewyse ordeyne and appointe, that the howse which I have builded for the sayde schoolehowse, and also the howse which I have buyld- ed for the schoolemaster, shalbe for ever imployede to that use onlye, and to no other. The wardein frome tyme to tyme, so often as the place shalbe voyde, shalbe one of the poore brethren of the sayde hospitall, and shalbe appointed by me the founder, during my lyfe ; and after my deathe, and the deathe of suche wardeine as is allreadye appointed by myself, suche one of the poore brethrene shalbe cho- sen after moreninge prayere, in the chappell of the sayde hospitall, within seaven days after every suche vacation, as the greater parte of all, that is to saye, of the schoolemaster (yf that place be then full) and of APPENDIX. 311 the other poore brethrene recconed together, and then present, shall chose to be wardein: But yf the voyces happen to be even, then suche poore brother shalbe wardein, with whome the schoolemaster, as is afore- sayde, did give his voyce : But yff the greater parte of the hole companye cannot, within the tyme aforesayde, agree upone one, then suche brother shalbe wardeine as yt shall please the Archbyshopp of Canterburye, or (the see beinge voyde) the vycar or curate of Croydon, to nominate, uppon advertysemente by lettres thereof, to be gyven by the senior poore brother, or schoole- master, yf any suche bee. The office of the wardeine shalbe, to keepe one of the keyes of the comon chests and dore of the evi- dence-howse ; to procure that the gates be locked and opened at due tymes apointed ; and that the keyes, on nyghtes, be broughte unto him; to be present at all admissions and payinge of wages; to see that all en- teryes be duly made in the lidger booke, and the evi- dence well and safelye layde up and kepte; to keepe the keyes of the voyde lodgings, and to deliver them to the next brother or syster newlye appointed; to looke in tyme to reparations, and to all other good husbandry of the hospitall; to foresee that fyre or can- dells be not daungerouslye kepte; to require and ex- acte of eache one of the poore brethren and systers the observation of the ordinaunces and statuts; and suche as be necligente and faultye gentlye to admonishe them, or, yf the qualitie of the faulte so require, to complayne of the delinquents unto the Archbyshopp of Canterburye, or, the see archiepiscopall beinge voyde, unto the Custos Spiritualitatis of the see o* Canterbury for the tyme beinge, to whome I give aur 312 HISTORY OF CROYDON. thoritie to redress the same, accordinge to his dyscre- tion. Cap. V. — Who shalbe chosen into the Hospitall, and the severall Degrees of them. In the firste degree of the poore brethren that are to be placed in the sayde hospitall, I ordeine, that suche men, beinge honest, well reported, aged lx yeres at the leaste, poore, and not otherwyse able to get their livinge, who have served in howsholde the Arch- byshopp of Canterbury, shalbe preferred before all others, so that there be not above three of them of the sayde hospitall at one tyme; and before all others, those that have served myself, or be aim unto me, be- ing impotente, and not able otherwyse to gett theyr livinge, thoe they be under the age before mentioned, or above the foresayde number. I ordeine in the seconde degree, that, before others, suche men and women of the parishes of Croydon and Lambethe shalbe preferred, beinge honest persons and of goode reporte, of the age of lx yeares at the leaste, and of the pooreste sorte, being impotente, and not otherwyse able to get theyr livinges. I doe ordeine, that the thirde degree, in defecte of all the former, before all others, shalbe preferred thi- ther such poore honest persons of good reporte, be- inge of the age of lx yers at the leaste, as be of suche parishes within the countye of Kent, whereof the par- sonage is appropriate unto the archiepiscopall see of Canterbury; and before others, those cheyfly of suche parishes whereof the sayde see dothe receave most re- venewe: Provided, that this ordinaunce be not ex- tended to any suche poore as are otherwyse provided APPENDIX. 313 for in any of the sayd parishes, or in any other places. Neither shall this ordinaunce, or any thinge conteyned in this chapter, be extended to that poore brother who is to be appointed for the scholemaster. Cap. VI. — Off the Admittance of the Members of the sayde Hospitall, The sayde schoolemaster, warden, and every other poore brother and syster of the sayde hospitall, not being dumb or deaffe, shall, in the hall of the hospi- tall, before theyr placinge, in the presence of the school- master, wardeine, and senior brother, or any two of them, whereof the warden to be one, yf that place be then full, not onlye take a corporall oathe of obedience and allegiance to the Queens Majestie, her lawful heyers and successors, so as by lawe is prescribed; but also this oathe hereinfollowinge, viz. — " I, A. B., from hensforthe, as longe as I shall remayne a member of this hospytall, shall and will, by God's assistance, do my beste endevor to obey, performe, and fullfill the ordinaunces and constitutions of the same, insomuche thereof as dothe concerne me: I shall not any tyme here- after wyllingly procure or give assente unto any endaungeringe, hurte, or endammaginge of the sayde hospitall, eyther in the state or any the he- reditaments, or in any the moveable goods there- of; but, to my best powre and skyll, shall defende and sett forward the good estate, commodity, and wellfare thereof, whilest I live: So help me God in Christe Jesus." 314 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Cap. VII. — Off the Office of the poore Brother that is appointed to be Schoolemaster. The schoolemaster shall freelye teache suche of the chilldren of the parishe of Croydon, withoute exactinge any thinge for they re teachinge, as are of the poorer sorte, suche as shalbe so accounted by the vycar or cu- rate of Croydon, and two of the better sorte of the in- habytants in Croydon : But yet y t it shalbe lawfull to and for the sayde schoolemaster to receave that which is voluntaryly bestowde uppon him by any of the sayde poorer sorte of parishioners, and for the children of suche as be of the better sorte of the parishioners of Croydon: Yf the sayde schoolemaster shall exacte tomuche for theyr teachinge, or refuse to teache them, the same shall be ordered or moderated by the Arch- byshopp of Canterburye for the tyme beinge. Bothe the saide schoolemaster and scollers shall frome tyme to tyme be ordered, governed, and directed, by suche prescriptions and ordinaunces, in all points, as by me the founder of the sayde hospitall shalbe in my lyfe-tyme devised, and after by my successors Arch- byshopps of Canterbury, soe that all ways the saide or- dinaunces of my successors be not contrarye to my or- dinaunces. Cap. VIII. — Of the Yearelye Proportion of Allowance of the Members of the Hospitall. Firste, The custos or wardeine shall have yerely six pounds extraordinary allowance; the schoolmaster, be- inge a member of the sayde hospitall, shall have yerely twenty poundes ; and every other poore brother and APPENDIX. 315 systere of the sayde hospitall shall have yerely five pounds apece allowance, over and besyde such wood, corne, and other provisions to eache of the brethren and systers, as nowe or hereafter shall, by God's pro- vidence, and by the devotion of charitable-minded men, be allotted unto the sayde hospitall; the expence in monye to be payde unto them every quarter, and the yere to begin at the feaste of St. Mychaell tharch- angell. Cap. IX. — Off the Bookes and Register of the Hospi- tall, and of Receipte of Rentes, $c. Allso, there shall be a fayre lidger booke made and kepte in a chest, with locke and keye, standinge in suche a chamber in one of the gatehowses as I shall appointe, wherein by the schoolemaster shalbe entered and regestered the names, ages, qualietye, and tymes of every admittaunce of warden, poore brother and syster, and the tymes of theyr deathes or removeinges; also, there shalbe another fayre lidger booke in the sayde chest, wherein shalbe fayre entered the coppyes of all leases and other graunts that be alreadie in lease, or hereafter shalbe made by the sayde hospitall; and a third lydger booke in the sayde cheste, wherein shalbe fayre enterid the names and severall gyfts of all their benefactors, the inventorye of all theyr moveables; and generally, all other things of momente, from tyme to tyme, shalbe regestred, that do any way concerne the sayde hospytall, as in theis ordinaunces hereafter is expressed. The sayde custos or wardeine, and the schoole- 316 HISTORY OF CROYDON. master, and the claviger or chest-keeper, or two of them, shall receave the rents of the sayde hospitall, and dystribute the same to eache, accordinge as is afore lymmyted. Cap. X. — Off daylie Prayer to be used in the Hospi- tall, and other Exercises of Piety, The schoolemaster, besides teachinge of his schol- lers, and makinge enteryes into the lidger bookes, and doinge othere duties appointed unto him in theis ordi- naunces, shall saye publyke prayers, moreninge and eavenninge, in the chappell of the hospitall, to the bro- thers and systers, on all dayes (beinge workinge days) excepte Wednesdays and Frydays in the forenoone, and Satterdays in the afternoone. All the bretheren and systers of the hospitall, beinge at home, not sicke, nor otherwyse lame, and unable to go so far, and excepte the porter, and some one in course to tarry att home to keepe the howse in ab- cence of the reste, shall, on the Saboth days, Feasti- vall days, Wednesdays and Frydays at morninge and eaveninge prayers, and upon Satterdays at eaveninge prayre, resorte orderlye by two and two together to the parishe churche of Croydon, there to pray de- voutlye with the reste of the congregation, and namelie for the preservation of the Queenes Maiestie and her realmes ; to give God thanks for theyr founder, bene- factors, and for all other God's benefytts, and to here the Worde of God; and there to be partakers of the Holy Sacramente of the Lord's Supper, at the leaste thrise everye yere : Provided, that this ordinaunce be APPENDIX. 317 not extended to the scoolemaster, for Wednesdays and Frydays, nor for the manner of goinge to the churche. Allso, I doe ordeine, that, on the reste of all the workinge days, moreninge and eaveninge prayer shalbe accordinge to the Book of Common Prayre, to be sayde by the schoolemaster in the chappell of the hos* pitall, unto whyche all the bretheren and systers shall duly resorte, unless they be sicke, or otherwyse so lame as that thereby they shalbe unable to come thy- ther ; and that some one of the companye be weekelye appointed by the wardein to note suche as are absente frome prayers, and to gyve theyre names daylye to the sayde warden; the sayde moreninge and eaveninge prayers to be sayde att suche hours as the sayde schoolemaster shall thinke fytteste. Yff any, other- wyse than as afore, shall absente themselves from prayers, eyther att the parrishe churche or at the chappell in the hospitall, wythoute a sufficiente cause, to be allowed by the wardeine; for the firste tyme, suche shall forfeite one oB ; for the seconde, i d. ; and soe for everye tyme after, in eache monethe as is afore- sayde, to be abated and defaulted frome theyr allow- aunce at the paye daye happeninge next after suche theire defaulte, one thirde parte of suche forfeytures to be imployede unto the porter for that monethe, and the other two thirds to the common cheste: But in case any one, withoute such cause as is aforesayde, shalbe founde to have forfeited, in eache of any fowre monthes happeninge in one yere, the sayde yeare to beginne to be accounted at the feaste of Saincte My- chaell, so muche as shall amounte above a thirde parte 318 HISTORY OF CROYDON. of his monethlye allowaunce; then, for every suche default happened in any one yeare, the necligente per- son shall have one solemne admonition given him by the wardeine and schoolmaster, which shalbe entred in the lidger booke; but yf, after thre admonitions, the same partye shalbe founde agayne to have offend- ed in the same kinde, he or she shall then, for a necli- gente and an incorrigible parson, be expelled frome the hospitall, never to be receavide theare agayne. Cap. XL — Of the Porter, and Ms Office. I doe ordeine, that the wardeine shall, uppon the firste daye of every monethe, nominate one of the bre- thren, whome he shall think fittest, to be porter for the reste of that instant moneth. The office off the porter shalbe to ringe a lytle bell twice eache moreninge and eaveninge (unto prayers), the one ringinge to be a quarter of an houre afore the other; allso, to receave the keyes of the gates of the hospitall frome the wardeine eache moreninge, be- twixte the feaste of Thannunciation and Sainct My- chaell, aboute seaven of the clocke, and then to open the foregate, and to shott yt at eighte of the clok in the eaveninge during that tyme, and to carry the keyes to the wardeine eache nighte ; and from the feaste of St. Mychaell unto the feaste of Thannunciation, toe open the gates aboute eighte in the moreninge, and to shutt them at seaven of the clocke at nighte, and then to carry the keys to the wardeine. APPENDIX. 319 Cap. XII. — In whate Wordlye Busines they of the Hospytall may exercise themselves. It shalbe lawfull for any of the brothers and systers, havinge skill in any manuall trade, to worke on the same, within the hospitall or withoute, thereby to get some parte of theire lyvinge ; or for any of the brothers and systers, beinge able in bodye, to exercise them- selves in any honest handy labor of the bodye abrode; yet so as that, without especiall leave of the wardeine, they do not in suche respecte lodge owte of the hospi- tall above one nighte in any one weeke. Provided al- ways, that none of them kepe any alehowses or vital- inge howses, or suche lyke, eyther within the sayde hospytall or without, uppon payne of losinge theyr places ipso facto. It shall not be lawfull for any member of my sayde hospitall, eyther by themselves or by any other, to begg or crave of any parson or parsons, eyther wythin the towne or ells where. Suche as shalbe fownde so to doe, after two admonitions given by the wardeine, who by vertue of his oathe (after notice had thereof) shall charge him to performe, to bee foorthwith expel- led the sayde hospitall. Nevertheles, yt shalbe law- full for them to receave the almes and benevolence of any parson or parsons voluntarelye offeringe the same, wythoute such kinde of begginge or craving; the same to be distributed in common to the poore of the saide hospitall, when yt shall come to such a quantitie as the reste may be partakers thereof. In the meane tyme, the same to be put in a box prepared for that purpose ; of which box there must be two severall locks and 320 HISTORY OF CROYDON. keyes, the one keye to be kepte by the wardeine, the other by the schoolmaster for the tyme beinge; and once in every quarter the box to be opened in the presence of most parte of the brethren and sisters, and the mony to be devyded amonge the hole companye : Provided allways, that the schoolemaster shall have noe parte of this almes and benevolence: Provided likewyse, that yf any thinge be bestowede uppon any perticuler parson, in respecte of kindred, sickness, or other impotencie, that wholye shall goe to the partie on whome yt is perticulerlye bestowed. Cap. XIII. — What Crimes and other Inconveniences are to be avoyded, and uppon whate Pennalties. If anie brother or syster shalbe convinted of any kinde of incontinencie, forgerie, periurye, obstinate in heresye, sorcerye, or of any kinde of charmmynge or witchcrafte, or of any cryme by the lawes punisheable by loss of lyefe or lyme, or of eare, or shalbe publique- ly sett on the pillorie, or whipped, for any offence by them committed; or shall obstinately refuse to fre- quente devine service by lawe established; immea- diatelye thereuppon, and uppon confession, or con- vinction, suche brother or syster by the Archbyshopp of Canterbury, or by some to be deputed by him, or, that see beinge voyde, by the parson of Lambethe, and vicar or curate of Croydon, shalbe displeaced, and shall never be receavid in thether againe : Yff anie brother or syster shalbe a blasphemer of God's Holy Name, a swere, a gamester at any unlawfull game, a drunkard, or an hauter of taverns or alehowses, a brawler, fighter, contentious parson, scolde, or sower APPENDIX. 321 of discorde, and thereof shalbe convicted, by confes- sion or honeste proofe, before the vycar or curate of Croydon, the wardeineof the sayd hospitall, the schoole- master, or any two of them; suche offender shall, for the fyrste tyme, have a solemne admonition given, to be entred in the lidger booke ; for the seconde tyme, shall forfeyte one moneth's allowaunce to the common cheste of the hospitall, and shall have another solemne admonition given as before ; and yf he or shee offende in the lyke the third tyme, or in any other, the offences here named, to be expelled the hospitall forever. Every brother or syster, withoute sufficient cawse, to be allowede by the wardein, shall nightly lodge within the hospitall, uppon payne to forfeyte owte of the next monethes allowaunce, for the first tyme anie one yere, two pence ; for the seconde offence in the same yere, fowre pence; for the thirde suche offence, eighte pence; for the fowrthe suche, two shillings; for the fifte suche, the hole next monethes allowaunce; all which forfeitures shalbe appliede to the common cheste ; for the sixt suche, to have a solemne admonition given, to be entered into the lydger booke; for the seaventhe suche offence in any one yere, which shalbe accounted to begynn at the feaste of Saincte Mychaell, another admonition lykewyse to be given and entered; and for the next suche faulte happeninge within the space of the same yere, to loose his or her place in the hospi- tall: Savinge that yt shalbe lawfull for any brother or syster, havinge a good cawse, and with lycens of the wardeine, the sayde licens and the day of theyr goinge forthe beinge first entered in the lidger booke, to be away for the space of two moneths in any one yere, be- Y 322 HISTORY OF CROYDON. ginninge att Mychalmas, eyther alltogether or at seve- rall tymes; and savinge, that the schoolemaster shall not be any waye comprysed in this ordinaunce. Cap. XIV. — Off Care to bee had of suche as be SicJce or Irnpotente. For tendinge and comfortinge the sicke, in tyme of theyr sickness, and those that be irnpotente through age, or otherwyse be unable to help themselves, I do ordeine and appointe, that not onely all the systers shall, from tyme to tyme, do their carefull endevours towards them, even as themselves wolde wyshe to be respected by others in their owne extremities; but also I do ordeyne, that two of the systers, whome the war- deine shall thinke most fitt for that purpose, and shall nominate yerely the next day after the feaste of St. Mychaell, shall not refuse to looke more perticulerlye and especially to that Christian dutie as to theire owne more peculier charge and office, who shalbe called the Relievers of the Irnpotente, and, havinge well and carefully performed that charge, shall have, at the ende of eache yeere, six shillings and eighte pence a yere, in augmentation of their allowaunce, owte of the common cheste ; and yf any so appointed by the war- deine shall refuse to take that charge uppon them, then the paretie so refusinge to be debarred frome re- ceavinge any waygers or allowances for that yeare, the same to be put in the common cheste, to the use of the hospitall. APPENDIX. 323 Cap. XV. — Off the Howse of the Evidences, Chest es, and Comon Seale* Whereas I have allotted owte a speciall roome in the gatehowse next unto the streete, for keepinge of the evidences of the lands and revenewes of my sayde hospitall, and for other thinges of some momente, be- inge not of dayly use ; I doe ordeine, that in the sayde roome shalbe one cheste wythe three lockes and keyes of severall wardes and fashions ; one keye whereof to be kepte by the wardeine, another by the sayde schoolemaster, and the third by the auncienteste bro- ther, soe he be able to goe and walke abroade, or ells the next in auncientye that is able ; in whiche cheste shalbe kepte the comon seale, one coppy of theis or- dinaunces, and suche stocke of mony as, yearlye re- mayninge after all allowaunces, shalbe reservyd for reparations and for other necessarye disbursmentes. I doe ordeine also, that in the same roome there shalbe one other cheste, wherein shalbe kepte the foundation and donation of the hospitall, and all other evidens whatsoever, well sorted, accordinge to the se- verall percells of landes, into severall greate boxes, superscribed wythe papers of direction; and also in the same cheste shalbe put all rentalls, surveys, ter- rars, with buttalls and roundes, courte deedes, year- leye accounts of the hospitall, and counterpartes of leases. This cheste shall have three lockes, and three keyes of several wardes and fashions ; one keye to be kepte by the wardeine, another keye by the scoole- master for the tyme beinge, and the thirde keye by one Y 2 324 HISTORY OF CROYDON. of the bretheren, to be yearlye chosen by the more parte of the bretherene of the sayde hospitall. I ordeine, that noe parcell of evidence shall at any tyme be taken forthe thence, but upon especiall occa- sion; and then also not to be longer kepte frome thence then necessary occasion for the use thereof shall require. There shall also remayne in the sayde cheste a pa- per booke, wherein shalbe entered the parcell of all evidences from tyme to tyme taken fourethe, the day and yere when, and to whose hands yt is to be deli- vered, and for howe longe tyme as is presupposed ; and the day also and yeare shalbe entred, when and by whome suche parcell of evidence is redelivered in againe. Cap. XVI. — Howe there Lande, $c., shalbe demised, and with whate Governaunce, $c; howe iheire Woodes are to be kepte, and bothe Landes and Woodes surveyede. No lease nor other graunte shalbe made of any landes, tenements, or hereditaments belonginge to the sayde hospitall, unless bothe the wardeine, the schoole- master, and also the greater parte besydes them of the reste of the poore brethren, shall yelde their con- sents thereunto; nor unless the accustomed yerely rente thereof (or more) be thereuppon reservid, and payable quarterlye, or at the leaste halfe-yerely, att or within the sayde hospitall ; nor yf suche lease or graunte be above one and twentye yeres frome the makinge of the same, andwyth reservation of all timber-trees; nor APPENDIX. 325 unless in the sayde lease be conteyned trewe and per- fecte percells and quantitye of landes, by common esti- mation, with the buttalles and boundalls thereof (yf convenientlye yt may be) ; also, in every suche lease or graunte shall a provisoe be conteyned, that the farmer shall paye the rente at the hospitall, wythin twentye days next ensuinge any one rente-day lymeted for pay- inge thereof, wythoute any demande to be made: Fur- thermore, in eache lease or graunte to be made, shall covenaunts to the effecte followinge be conte}ned; that is to saye, firste, that the leassee, at his owne proper costs and charges, not only repayr, and, yf neede be, redifie all edifices thereuppon; and so well redifiede and repayred shall leave them at the ende of the terme; but also shall, frome tyme to tyme, hedge, fence, dyche, and scowre, accordinge to the usuall course of husbandry of the countrye where the sayde lands shall lye: Secondlye, that the leassee shall beare, pay, and discharge, or save harmles, the sayde hospi- tall, of and frome all charges, ordinarye and extraor- dinary, goinge oute or to be payde by reason of the landes demysed, or any parte thereof: Lastlie, that the leassee, betwixte every eighte and nynethe yeares of the sayde terme, shall make or cause to be made, and wrytten fayre in parchmente and deliver upp to the wardeine at the hospitall a trewe and perfecte ter- rar, conteyninge the name and quantitie, by estima- tion, of every percell of ground demysed, the names of the scituation and lyinge of the same towards other lands, and the names of the presente owners and terre tenaunts of the lands which are of any side abuttinge uppon the grounds demysed. Also, I doe ordeyne 326 HISTORY OF CROYDON. and appointe, that the sayde hospitall, uppon any re- servation or otherwise, shall not encrease the rents or revenues of those lands I leave, or shall give them any higher or greater proportion then as the rents thereof now are, and accordinge to that rate they are nowe lett for. Allso, I doe ordeine, that, in renewinge and lettinge of leaseas, the presente farmers be allways preferred, doinge reasonably for the benefite of the hospitall, as other men will doe ; and amonge the reste, I wyll have those especially favoured who have theire leases from myself. And allso, I do ordeine and appointe, that such mony as they shall rayse or make in fines uppon leases, or uppon sale of woods or trees, or by overpluss of theyr yearelye reavenues or otherwise (all necessary charges being deducted) shalbe layde upp in theyr comon treasorie, and kepte together untill yt wyle or shall amounte to the sume of a hundrethe pounds ; and then the overpluss of that sume of a hundred pounds shalbe equalye devided by the wardeine and schoole- master for the tyme beinge (calling to them two of the senior brethren) amongste all the poore brethren and systers of the sayde hospitall, and then to have theyre equall portions wyth the reste; which sayde some of one hundrethe pounds or under shalbe preserved and kepte in the place aforesayde, for any extraordinary occasions, as, for sutes in lawe, reparations of the sayde hospitall and schoolehowse, and suche lyke; and as the same shalbe by such charges demyneshed, so to be allways replenished wyth lyke receiptes, as they shall come, in or be receavide. APPENDIX. 327 Provided alwaies, and my meaninge is, that for all woodes belonginge to the sayde hospitall as shalbe lefte unleassed, that the yerely value thereof shalbe taken as parte of theyre yerelye revenue, and not to be raysed in stocke, as in the laste article, but onely such trees and woods as are not annuall in profit^ but maye be comodiouse in tyme. Cap. XVII. — The Revennues off the Hospitall, by whome to be received and disbursed, and of a yearely Account. All the rentes and revennues shalbe payde in the hospitall, to the handes of the wardeine and schoole- master, and the other claviger, who all shall write an acquitance for eache receipte. But, yf eyther of theis places be voyde, or eyther of them be so sicke, or otherwyse absente, that they cannot be presente at suche paymente, then shall yt be done in the presence of the next two poore brethren in auntyentry that are able to stirr abroade, they callinge unto them (yf nei- ther of them cann wryte) some of the brethren that cann write; and in defecte hereof, some other honeste person who is able to wryte; and ymediatlye upon suche receipte, an entrye thereof shalbe made into the lidger booke ; and then shall the mony be presentlye layde up in the common chest, there to remayne tell ther be occasion of disbursmente thereof againe: In the afternone of the firste day of every quarter, the thre clavigers, or cheste keepers, taking forethe of the comon cheste so muche mony onlye as then is to bee disbursed, shall presently, in the hall of the sayde hospitall, paye unto every one of the brethren and 328 HISTORY OF CROYDON. systers, or, in case any be sicke or owte of towne, to theyr attorney, beinge one of the brethren, theire se- verall due allowances, makinge presently a note of the recept thereof in the lidger booke. When any other occasion besydes the quarterly wages dothe happen for disbursmente of monye, as, for reparations, sutes in lawe, or suche lyke, the same shall also, wythe the day, occasion, and in whose pre- sence and to whose hande yt was delivered, together wythe the hande or marke that receivid yt, be entred in the lydger booke. Everie yeare, on the fourethe day of December, the schoolemaster, in the presence of the other two clavi- gers, and of all the other brethren and systers that cann and wilbe presente, havinge caste up afore and sumed all accounts, aswell of receptes as of disburs- ments, for the yere endinge at the feaste of St. My- chaell next afore, shall declare unto them and goe over the perticulers of all the accounts for the sayde hole yere, that the estate of the hospitall howe that yt standethe may yerely so appere unto every one of them ; and yf any arrerages be then fownde to be in any the accomptants hands, the same shall, eyther pre- sentely, or within thre days at the furtheste, be deli- vered in unto the clavigers, and shalbe layde upp in the common cheste, uppon payne of loss of the next monethes allowance unto the comon cheste of him that shalbe so behinde and in arrerages; but, yf within twentye eighte days next after the sayde three days expired, the whole arreragis shal not be payde, then suche one shall loose his place ipso facto, and be suede in lawe for the arrerages remayninge in his hands. APPENDIX. 329 Cap. XVIII. — Off the Reparations of the Hospitall, and by whome and when to be performed. Iff anie glasse windowe be broken, or other decaye, by wyllfullness or necligence, be made in any private roome of the hospitall, the same, uppon wareninge given by the wardeine, shalbe amendid within one monethe, by him or her, and at his or her charges whome the roome is, uppon payne to loose foure pence for every weeke after tell yt be mendid ; yff the glass of any publique roome be broken, and not beinge knowne by whose default yt was done, yt shalbe re- payred againe by the overseer of the work, at the pub- lik charges of the hospitall; the howse allotted for the schoolemaster to dwell in shalbe repayred at the costs and charges of the schoolemaster, uppon suche penal- ties as the Archbyshopp of Canterbury for the tyme beinge shall thinke conveniente. Everie yeare, the nexte day after the feaste of St. Mychaell, the wardeine and the schoolemaster shall appointe one of the brethren (thoughte to be moste fitt thereunto) to be overseer of the workes and repar- ations of the hospitall and schoole-howse, for the yere ensuinge; whose offyce shalbe, dyligente to provyde that noe decays be left unrepaired, but amended, be- twixt the feaste of the annunciation of the Blessed Virgin and of St. Mychaell tharchangell; but, yf any tyle be fallen off, or suche decaye happen as cann abyde noe delaye, the same to be wythe all convenient speede repayrede, thoughe yt be in the winter tyme. 330 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Cap. XIX Howe the Wardeine and Schoolemaster shalbe censured, yf he or they shalbe fownde to be necligente in performynge suche Duties as by theis Ordinaunces are imposed uppon him or them. I doe ordeine, that yf the wardeine of my sayde hos- pitall or schoolemaster shalbe founde to be necligente in performyng the charge by these ordinaunces im- posed uppon him or them ; then, uppon notyce thereof given to the Archbyshop of Canterburye for the tyme beinge, suche ponishmente shall be inflicted upon him or them, as the sayde Archbishop, in his dyscretion, shall thinke conveniente. Cap. XX. — Touchinge the Chambers which the Fownd- er reservethe to himself. Item, I doe ordeine, and my will is, that the cham- ber over the hall, and the two chambers over the inner gatehowse, shalbe reservid to myselfe, and to myowne use, during my liefe; and after my deathe, my will and meaninge is, that my executors shall have and en- ioy the sayde chambers for one hole yere next after my deathe; and that, after the experation of the same yeare, my brother George Whitegifte shall have and enioye the same chambers duringe his lyfe: Provided allwayes, that he do not assigne the same over to any other, nor place any therein, unless yt be some of the members of that my hospitall ; and after his deathe or relinquishmente, the same chambers to remayne to the wardeine of the sayde hospitall, and his successors for ever. APPENDIX. 331 Cap. XXL — Off the Founder, Visitor, and Cheiffe Governor of the Hospitall. It shalbe lawfull for me, the nowe Archbishop of Canterbury, founder of the sayde hospitall, to abro- gate, add unto, chaunge, or alter, theis ordinaunces, and to place or displace anie member thereof, wythe cause, or wythoute cause to be rendred thereof unto any other, to dispose of the lodgeings in and wythoute the sayde hospitall, to lett leases, and helpe to governe the same, according as shall please me, duringe my natural lyffe, withoute any other persons intermedlinge therein. After the death of me the sayde fownder, then the Archbishop of Canterbury for the tyme be- inge, bye himself or other whome he shall appointe, shall have full powre and authoritie, from tyme to tyme, not onely to interprett any doughte arisinge out of the ordinaunces which bye me the founder shalbe lefte unto the hospitall, but allso shall have full powre, libertye, and authoritie, to ponishe, confine, and re- move anie member thereof convicted accordinge to theise ordinaunces. I doe ordeine, that my successors, Archbishops of Canterbury, shalbe the continewall patrons, governors, and visitors of the sayde hospitall; earnestlye request- inge them (in the bowelles of Christe) to have, frome tyme to tyme, a fatherly and compassionate care of theire good estate, and of the poore members thereof; and that they wolde be pleased from tyme to tyme (as occasion shalbe offered) to compose theyr controver- sies, to protecte, advise, order, governe, and direct them, and, when neede shall require, by themselves, or 332 HISTORY OF CROYDON. bye such discreite persons as they shall thinke fitt, in personn freelye to visite the sayde hospitall, and to en- quire bothe of the publique state of itt, and also of the private demeanure of every per ticuler member thereof, by suche a course as the lawes dothe allowe; which visitation I wolde hartilye wishe might at the leaste every third yeare be performed, whether there seeme anie necessarie occasion thereof or noe. Also, I doe ordeine, that once in the yeare at the leaste, within tenn days after the feaste of St. Mychaell, theis ordinaunces and statutes shalbe openlye reade in the chappell of the sayde hospitall, and all the bre- theren and systers admonished to be theare presente* And, for the better governemente of this my hospitall, becawse I understande of some discordes breedinge amongeste the poore that are therein allreaddy by me placed, for wante of some discretion and understand- inge to directe them in observinge the orders and sta- tutes of this my hospitall; therefore, I doe ordeine and appointe, that the vicar of Croydon allwayes, for the tyme beinge, shall have the oversighte of the war- deine and poore there, aswell to directe them in the observinge, as to ponishe them accordinge to the sayde lawes and statutes of my hospitall (yf they) in theyr se- verall places and offices do not theyr duties according- lye; and to this purpose, I will allwayes have one cop- pie of theis my sayde ordinaunces and statutes to re^ mayne wythe the sayde vicar for the tyme beinge, harteley prayinge him, and in the name of God charg- inge him, duly to performe the truste by me reposed in him : Provided airways, that this statute and ordi- naunce doe not derogate any authoritie from the Arch- APPENDIX. 333 bishop of Canterburye for the tyme beinge, given unto him by my former statutes and ordinaunces, or due unto him as vysytor of my sayde hospitall. Jo. Cantuar*. And whereas Samuell Fynche, the nowe minister of Croydon, hathe taken verye greate care and paynes about the buyldinge and erectinge of this my hospitall; and in hope that he will continewe the lyke care of the same after my deceass, and endevor the best he maye to see my statutes and ordinaunces kepte and perform- ed, accordinge as by my late letters I have authorised him; I doe therefore nowe ordeine and appointe, that he shoulde have, during his life, yearely payde unto him, after my deceass, the some of six pounds thirtene shil- lings and foure pence, quarterly, at suche tymes as the other pensions beforementioned to the poore are to be payde att. And after his deceass, the sayde pention to ceasse, and not to be payde to any other; but to remayne to the use of my said hospitall only. Jo. Cantuarien. No. XL A Case resolved touching my HospitalL {From a MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 275). The Archebishopp of Canterburie houldeth his mannour of Croydon of the Queene in frankallmo} ne. 334 HISTORY OF CROYDON. One that houldeth of the same Archbishopp as of his said mannour in soccage geeveth his tenancy to the Bishopp and to his heires. Quere, howe this tenancy nowe in the hands of the Bishopp is holden, in regarde of his severall capa- cities? Whether alltogether suspended, or of the Queene in capite? and howe, upon the bargaine and sale, or other like conveyance, the tenor will then bee ? And quere, which is the surest meanes for the Bishopp to give his tenancy to his Hospital, because the statute alloweth no capite lands to be given? It is holden verie clere, and without any doubte, that by the purchase of the tenancy there is no altera- tion of the service, but that the tenancy is holden in soccage, ut prius, of the seignory suspended; for that it is in the Lord Archebishopp in divers respects, and his estate in the tenancy is free, and in the seignory but for life in a manner, and that in this case there is no tenure of the Queen's Majestie during the suspen- sion. By the opinion of The Lord Anderson, Chief Justice of the Com- mon Pleas. Justice Gawdie, Secondarie Justice of the King's Benche. Justice Wamesley, Secondarie Justice of the Com- mon Pleas. Justice Glanvile, Puisne Justice of the Common Pleas. Per me W. Combe. APPENDIX. 335 No. XII. Negotium Dedicationis § Assignations novce Capellce sive Or at or ii Ho spit alls vocati Hospitals Sanctce Trinitatis, in Croydon, ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuarien. ad Usum Pauperum ejusdem Hospitalis noviter erecti § fun- dati. (From a MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 275). Die Lunae, nono viz. die mensis Julii, anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo nonagesimo nono, dictus Re- verendissimus in Xpo pater, fundator ejusdem Hospi- talis & Capellae sive Oratorii, ac Ordinarius illius loci, in palatio suo de Croydon, in praesentia mei Thomas Redman Notarii publici specialiter assumpti, &c. com- misit vices reverendis in Xpo patribus ac dominis dnis Richardo London' et Anthonio Cicestren' respective epis, commissionis et deputations ad dictam novam Capellam sive Oratorium hospitalis vocati Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis, in Croydon, ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, divino cultui, et divinorum celebrationis ac verbi Dei praedicationi, quantum de jure possit, et per leges et statuta hujus inclyti Regni Angliae licebit, dedicandum et assignan- dum, ac ad nominandum eandem Capellam sive Ora- torium per nomen Capellae sive Oratorii Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis, in Croydon, ex fundatione Johan- nis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuarien'; necnon ad procedendum, decernendum, et faciendum in dicto ne- gotio, juxta statuta, leges, canones, ordinationes, ritus, 336 HISTORY OF CROYDON. et consuetudines Ecclesiae Anglicanae in ea parte sta- bility et nunc usitat' et observat'. Et deinde dictus reverendissimus pater decrevit ut tempore dedicationis ejusdem Capellae sive Oratorii divinae preces celebren- tur, ac sacra concio publice ibidem habeatur, et assig- navit pro ea vice in concionatorem magistrum Thomam Monforde, sacrae theologiae doctorem, ad concionandum et praedicandum verbum Dei in dicta Capella sive Ora- torio praedicto, et constituit diem in quo praemissa pe- ragentur, viz. diem decimum praesentis mensis, Anno Domini 1599 praedicto; praesentibus tunc ibidem, ac praemissa omnia videntibus et audientibus, atque ad eadem testificandum specialiter requisitis et rogatis, venerabilibus viris WilPmo Barlow*, sacrae theologiae professore; Johanne Parker, armigero; Edwardo Ayl- worth, armigero; Will'mo Thornhill, artium magistro; Michaele Murgatrode, Francisco Butler, Will'mo Bees- ton, et Richardo Massinger, geherosis, &c. Thom. Redman, Notarius Publicus. Quo quidem decimo die mensis praesentis Julii anno Domini 1599 praedicto adveniente, inter horas octavam et duodecimam ante meridiem ejusdem diei, praefatus reverendus pater dris Richardus London' episcopus in dicta Capella sive Oratorio personaliter praesens et se- dens, ob honorem et reverentiam dicto reverendissimo patri debitam, onus executionis dictae commissionis sive deputationis in se acceptando, ac virtute ejusdem commissionis sive deputationis procedendo, dictam Ca- pellam sive Oratorium divino cultui, divinorum cele- * Afterwards Bishop of Lincoln. APPENDIX. 337 brationi, ac verbi Dei concionandi et proponendi usui, quantum de jure potuit, et per statuta et leges hujus inclyti Regni Angliae licet, dedicavit, per nomen Ca- pellae sive Oratorii Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis, in Croydon, ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte, Archie- piscopi Cantuariensis, et sic dedicatum et assignatum esse, et in futurum perpetuis temporibus remanere de- bere, palam et publice denunciavit; eamque Capellam sive Oratorium per nomen Capellae sive Oratorii Hos- pitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon, ex fundatione Johannis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, per- petuis temporibus futuris nominandum et appellandum fore decrevit, et sic nominavit et appellavit. Quibus sic gestis, tunc et ibidem preces Deo Optimo Maximo juxta formam descriptam in libro publicarum precum authoritate parliamenti hujus inclyti Regni Angliae stabilito celebratae fuerunt, atque immediate verbi Dei concio per dictum magistrum Thomam Monforde sa- crae theologiae doctorem (ut praefatus) designatum pub- lice facta fuit ; praesentibus tunc et ibidem, ac praemis- sa omnia videntibus et audientibus, et ad eadem testi- ficanda specialiter requisitis, reverendo patre dno An- thonio Cicestrien' episcopo, venerabilibus viris Ed- wardo Stanhope, Daniele Dun, et Richardo Swale, le- gum doctoribus, Will'mo Barlow, presbytero, sacrae theologiae professore, capellano dicti reverendissimi patris, Johanne Parker et Edwardo Aylworth, armi- geris, Michaele Murgatrode, Georgio Whitegifte, et Georgio Paule, generosis, Will'mo Thornhill, presbi- tero, in artibus magistro, capellano dicti reverendissi- mi patris, Johanne Scott, Abrahamo Hartwell, Chris- 338 HISTORY OF CROYDON. tofero Wormeall, et Richardo Massinger, generosis, et multis aliis in numero copioso congregatis. Super quibus, &c. Thom. Redman, Notarius Publicus, antedictus. No. XIII. A Forme of givinge my Almes-men their Roomes, (From a MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 275). Johannes, Providentia divina Cantuariensis Archie- piscopus, totius Angliae Primas et Metropolitanus : Dilecto nobis in Christo A. B. salutem in Domino sempiternam. Debilitatem tui corporis, paupertatem, et senium attendentes, locum & allocationem unius pauperum Hospitalis Sanctae Trinitatis in Croydon, ex fundatione nostri Johannis Whitegifte, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, tibi ad terminum vitae sua3, & ad susten- tationem tuae paupertatis, concedimus per praesentes; statuta & ordinationes ejusdem hospitalis volentes & te firmiter injungentes custodire, & in omnibus obser- vare. In cujus rei testimonium, &c. APPENDIX. 339 No. XIV. Eight Letters from the Rev. Samuel Finch, Vicar of Croydon, relative to Whitgift's Hospital. {From the Originals, in the Lambeth MS. Library, No. 275). I. — To the moste reverende Father in God my verie good Lorde the Archbushop of Canterburie, his Grace at Lambith, with speed. My humble duetie remembred unto your Grace. Yesterday, being Thursday, Wolnier the bricklayer was here to vewe your worke. And he sayeth that he cannot be here himselfe: but he wyll appointe one from Westminster to be here, who will not come under xviiid. the day, and his laborer xiid. Hyllarie sayth, he canne bringe one presently whome he knoweth, and will warrant to take the charge, and discharge it with credit, for xvid. a day; and laborers we canne have inowe: thers vli. a yeare saved in iid. a day wages. And beside the master workeman muste be here still to conferre with the carpenter. Thus muche Hillarie tolde me ; but he knoweth not of this intelligence unto your Grace. The yarde ys all defenced in, strong and saffe. This day we make an ende in pullinge downe as yet. Nowe we take morter-makinge in hande, clens- inge and leavellinge of the grounde ; and by Monday come sevenighte, Hillarie saith, we shall be readie for the foundacon and bricklayer. Weeks the bricklar Z2 340 HISTORY OF CROYDON. hath bene at your brick -clamps, and commendes them for verie good. We have our sande from Dubbers Hill: for the Parke fayleth. Thus muche I thought good to signirle to your Grace; and I pray God pros- per the worke, and blesse your Grace with health to see it in prosperitie to Gods glorie. Amen. From Croydon, this Fryday the viiith of Februarii, A 1596, R. R. E. 39. Your Graces in all duetie bounde, Samuell Finche, Vycar. II. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Friend, Mr. Woormall, at Lambeth. With my verie heartie commendacons to yourselfe, Mrs. Wormall, and my wyfe, and the like from her daughter to you all, with as hartie thanks to Almightie God for Mr. Comptroller's dissolucon from the bon- dage of his corrupte bodie, into the glorious lybertie, noe doubte, of God's children. Sir, assure yourselfe, I forget not that it is meete that his Grace beginne the foundacon. But yt will not be readie for his Grace tyll Monday come sevenighte. By Hyllaries choyce, one Henry Blease and John Greene, bricklayers, and my parishioners, have joyntlye taken the charge of the bricklayinge worke, and have xvd. apeece the day. Blease hath begunne the ground worke nexte the high- way leadinge to London; and findinge that grounde made and false, digged the trenche alonge the door unto some iiii foote deepe and iii foote wide, and ware little or nothinge combred with water; and findinge firme grounde, they have filled up that trenche with great flinte and small stone, and brickbatts, and rub- bushe, not confusedly, but orderlye layed in, and ram- APPENDIX. 341 med stronglye, course upon course, stronge and sure. This trenclie revomed those small stones that lay in the court yarde, which his Grace made the boyes gather out of the church yarde, and some halfe dosen loads of small stone fetched out of Smithdoune bottome, which were there redie gathered the last yeare for the high- waies; and from thence we fetche still and lay by; the same receaved also the moste parte of those stones his Grace did see in the yarde there. We have also pro- vided cartes to fetche us great flinte and chalke for the buildinge, and small for flllinge: because the lower grounde is not soe good and firme as the upper, and the waite of the worke may not be trusted only uppon brycke; and four loads of flinte, which come to xs. will well save one thousand of bricke at xvi s. I need not tell you that I shall lacke monie for this weeke, because the bearer herof ys Wm. Tagburne, who had v H. of me this morninge to bye two horse tomorrowe in Smithfeilde. I knowe he will tell you of it, and therefore you need say nothinge therof. The laborers have digged up iiii skulls and the bones of deade per- sones in the trenche that they are nowe in digginge, nexte the highway leadinge to the Parke. Thus we woulde be glad all might be well to his Grace's good lykinge. And soe fare you well. From Croydon, this Thursday morninge, the xviiith of February, 1596. Yours as his owne, Samuell Finche. 342 HISTORY OF CROYDON. III. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Freinde, Mr. Wormeall, at Lambith. With my verie heartie commendacons, I received this morninge of Wm. Tagburne xxli. from his Grace, as appeareth in my note. And, God willinge, his Grace shall not be defrauded in stufFe, worke, or wages, as long as I have the lookinge thereto. For the skulls, there were iiii digged up indeed e; and I presentlye upon the findinge of the flrste did conferre with Outre d, and asked him yf his conscience were cleare; and he sayd, that yt was cleare. I reasoned also with Morris, an old Welchman that had dwelt there a longe tyme, and he knewe nothinge. More- over, for a better satisfaccon in this matter, I caused Hillarie to caste the measure of the grounde this day. And we finde that the bodies coulde not lye within the compasse of the howse; for (to the ende that the plotte might be caste square) there was v foote taken in of the way againste the George, and iiii foote lefte out of the grounde (whereon the howse stood) againste the Crowne (as Mr. Doctor Bancrofte knoweth well). Soe that the skulls being in the trenche nexte to the George, Hillarie dare depose they ware without the compasse of the howse. Besides, there be manie that canne re- member, when they digged in the middest of that streate to sette a maypoale there, they found the skull and bones of a deade person. Soe that it is ge- nerallie supposed that yt hath bene some waste place wherin (in the tyme of some mor tali tie) they did burie in. And more I cannot learne. I thanke God, our groundeworke is greatlye com- APPENDIX. 343 mended of all that vewe the same. And I hope well that will like his Grace at his comminge ; for yt is not slubbered uppe, but strongley donne. I pray you give your wyfe hartie thanks for my wives curteous enter- tainemente, lodginge, &c. And I doe thanke you bothe for the same. My wife commends her to you. She is not verie currante yet. Thus I cease. From Croydon, this xixth of February, 1596. Yours as his owne, Sa. Finche. I sende you here the copie of the condicon of the Free-masons bonde. Nicolas Richardson and Christopher Richardson, citizens 'Bnd free-masons of London, and Gabriell Ans- combe of Charlton, yeoman, are bounde to Samuell Finche, John Kinge, and William Tagburne, in c pounds. The bonde beareth date the xix of Febru- ary, A.D. 1596. R. R. 39. And here followeth the condicon. The condicon of this obligacon is such, that if the above bounde Nicholas Richardson, Christopher Rich- ardson, and Gabriell Anscombe, they or anie of them, do bringe, or cause to be broughte, to that place of the foresaid Croydon where his Graces hospitall is in build- inge, soe muche good and seasoned free-stone as shall be sufficiente for those dores and windoes belonginge to the said intended hospitall as shall be made of free stone; and shall worke the same, and sette them up, in suche necessarie and redie manner as that the worke or buildinge be not stayed or hindered through there defaulte; the dores being wrought fayre and comelie as 344 HISTORY OF CROYDON. suche dores ought to be, and the windoes with bowge worke; bothe dores and windoes of a lawfull, substan- tiall, and sufficient syze, in suche forme and sorte as no workman shall justice reprehende or finde faulte with either stuffe, workmanship, or size ; receivinge or tak- ynge for the said stuffe, provision, bringinge, workinge, settinge up, and full finishinge of the same, onelie ixd. the foot for the windoes, and x d. the foote for the dore cases: Than this present obligacon to be void and of none effecte, or else to stand and abide in full force and vertue. Hereunto (as the manner is) they have sett there hands and seales, the day above written, and delivered the same in the presence of Antonie Bickerstaffe, George Miles, and others. Every one to have v li. in hande, viz. on Satmonday next, and vli. more when they have brought in xli. worthe of stuffe; and after that to be paid as they shall furnishe and finishe. Moreover, for the preservacon of the groundworke, we have agreed with them to make the water table on the foresides for viid. oft. the foote, and the crests as hiegh, for the safegarde of the windoes, for viiid. the foote. Dated the xxii of February. Yours, Sa. Fin che. IV. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Freind, Mr. Woormall. With my verie hartie commendacons from myselfe and my wyfe to yourselfe and your wyfe : with the like thanks for all the courteous enterteinemente you bothe shewed unto my wyfe. Syr, soe it ys, that this good- APPENDIX. 345 lye seasonable weather, as it hath staied our worke somewhat this day, soe it do the cause that we shall not be readie for his Grace this nexte weeke, viz. un- till Monday come sevenighte, for this weather wyll not serve for layinge of morter. Neverthelesse, we doe goe on with the groundworke. First, we have finished the two trenches next the Crowne and the George, and made them even with the ground. Also the ynner trenche, which doth countermaunde those other, we have filled and finished on that side next the Crowne. We have digged the other that an- swers that againste the George, and we have almost filled it this afternoone (for feare, if the weather breake, it mighte fall in againe). And whereas bothe these ynner trenches doe meete with there angle in the sellar, we have made up that angle from the bottom of the sellar, wall-wyse, with stone and morter, almost even with the grounde, and are now fillinge the voyde rometh therin with earth and rubbishe. This beinge done, we meane to goe in hande with other ground- worke, untill the wether serve to worke above grounde ; and order our businesse soe to the tyme, that this kinde of weather shall not hurte us, and lyttle hinder us. Thus I commit you to God. Croydon, this xxvith of Februarii, A° 1596. Yours as his owne, Samuell Finche. 346 HISTORY OF CROYDON. V. — To his verie loving e Freinde, Mr. Wormall, at Lambith. Sir — With my verie hartie commendacons to your- selfe and to Mrs. Wormall, I did understande by Mr. Mylles, that (upon on Blease his complainte) he had moved my L. Gr., as though it ware needfull that our workmen-bricklayers shoulde be loked unto (not as a caveat for us, but as a reproche to us that be over- seers) as though there ware some unskilfull admitted alreadie. This Blease is one of those whome Hillarie chose with Greene to be those that shoulde take the charge of the bricklainge; and in that respecte he is allowed, as Greene ys, a penie in a day more than an ordinarie workman. Nowe, yf this Blease had had a farther insight into mens works than his partener, it had bene his parte to have made it knowen to us that are overseers, and not to have moved the matter to Mr. Mills. But shall I tell you? When these two ware chose by Hillarie, Blease begins to take a pride in himselfe, as one that woulde challenge or thought himselfe worthie of the cheifetie of all, and begins to complaine to me againste Hillarie, because he taks up- on him both to sette out the bricklayers worke and give his advise for the workmen. " For," saith Blease, " I knowe better what belongs to our worke than he; and yf I be appointed one to take charge, 'tis reason I appointe the worke and workmen." I, perceivinge this, persuaded Blease to be contente to suffer Hil- larie to have an insight into all mens doings. " For," said I, " the charge principallie ys his for all; and as he hath put you in, soe, yf you contente not yourselfe, APPENDIX. 347 he may put you out: because, whosoever commeth in here as bricklayer or bricklayers must be one with him. But, goodman Blease," said I, " I doe under- stande that you shoote at another matter, which nei- ther you, nor Hillarie himselfe, nor never a man here shall atteine, if I can knowe yt ; and that is, you woulde have the appointement of the workmen under you, to make a gaine of ther wages : as, for exemple, here is Kilnar, a bricklaier, one commended to us by Rowland Kilnar, his Gr. servant, a good workeman; he hath xiiiid. a day of us, and you have made him promise you iid. a day out of it, pretendinge that he is under you, and commeth in by you, when you give him nei- ther meate, drinke, nor lodginge; and thus you woulde doe with others: but you shall not have your will; and if he be meete to serve you for xiid. a day, he shall serve my L. soe: yf not, tis noe reason you shoulde gaine by his worke to my L. losse; for I have learned the tricke of you all; when you gaine by them, you suffer them to worke at pleasure ; but if you knowe the contrarie, than you haste them on." After this, Blease seemed to be verie quiet (as it seemeth, not content- ed); for Hillarie and myselfe told him, if he woulde not be quiet, that id., which he hath in the day more than another, shoulde taken from him. Indeed, hither came from Lewsham one Johnson, upon Monday was a sevenight, and did thinke to have bene imployed as a workman; but we, learninge what his skyll was, did not suffer him ; yet Blease, by his leave, as carefull as he pretends to be, did suffer him for an hower, till Hillarie spied it, and woulde have suffered him as un- der him, but we woulde not; and then the fellowe 348 HISTORY OF CROYDON. wrought iii days as a laborer, and had ii s. vid., a la- borer's wages, as apeareth in the week's accompt which you had last. Two other came also on Friday last from Lewsham, and pretended they ware work- men, and set on to the wall that was made out of the sellar; but one of them proved none, and was paid as a laborer, for a day and an halfe, xvd., as apeareth in the accompt, and soe departed. Why? what are these matters to troble my L. with ? We shall have ynough hereof yer the worke be ended, as I told Mr. Mills. Tis noe caveat to mee : for I knowe in a multitude there will fall out suche matters. " We," said I, meaninge myselfe, my father Hillarie, and William Tagburne, " will and doe joyne together as one, for the furtheraunce of his Gr. worke ; and if we cannot appease, we will thruste out unrulie persons." And I pray you hartelie, Mr. Wormall, acquaint his Gr. with these my letters, as in your discretion you shall finde best opportunitie. Soe fare you well. Nowe this harde weather we get in carriages of stone and bricke, and make redie our chalke-pitts, and meddle not with other worke. We cannot as yet bargaine with a brick- maker, neither will we unadvisedlie. We will see the worke goe on, and howe our owne may serve. Iterum vale. Yours, Samuell Finche. Croydon, Marche 3. VI. — To my verie lovinge Freinde, Mr. Wormall, at Lambith. With my verie hartie commendacons, &c. Rednap came hither this day; and assone as ever he came into APPENDIX. 349 the yarde, and sawe the bricks, his harte was deade. He went to them, and chose here one, and there, and knockt on it, and said, " he hoped there war better to be founde in the Parke." To the Parke we came, and there wente from clampe to clampe; and here he found and there some one or moe good, but not to the purpose of his owne expectation. Fain he woulde have excused himselfe, but his handieworke spake against him; and we ware soe rounde with him, that he burste out into teares, sayinge, " he was never the lyke served in anie worke (he was ashamde of it); he coulde not excuse it ; yt was the wickedness and de- ceitfulnesse of the yearth. And albeit he coulde not thoroughlie make amends, yet he coulde be contente to doe what lay in him ; but not of that yearth." Well, than, to the lome-pitts beyond Dubbers-hill we came, neere Halinge-gate (where bricks had bene made in tyme past). There he founde suche moulde as con- tented him, and with much parlinge was contente to give my L. the makinge of fiftie thousande, and of x thousande for waste, (nothinge in comparison, but yet as much as we coulde get him to yealde unto), and to make 1 thousande more at the price he made for in the Parke, having all necessaries founde him as he had in the Parke. And there, wood must be had of from the farme-grounde, and water fetched in a carte from the other Halinge-gate. And these bricks shall be readie for us before Whitsontide. Only he requested his Gr. letters to Sir John Box (in whose worke he is) that he will be contente to spare him till he served our turne, which he knoweth he both may and will. And 350 HISTORY OF CROYDON. howe all this may be accepted of, he lokes for present answere. Besides this, you shall receave of this bearer a pa- terne of the hospitall-gate, from the Free-masons; and by this paterae, vewe may be taken where his Gr. armes shall be placed, and where the dedication S. Trinitati. There is space one eache side for Vincit qui. — — Patitur, &c. And for a enteringe stone of eache side, one with the armes of Woster, and the other what else is thought good. I pray you, let the armes be drawen out in suche full proportion as his Gr. will have them, and the place sett down where, and the inscripcons what, that all things may be to his Gr. best likinge. And this must be returned with the paterae by Saturday nexte*. And soe I commit you to God. Croydon, this vii of Marche, 1596. Yours as his owne, I understand by your letters Samuell Finche. you remember to sende monie. * The following directions were sent, by way of answer, from Mr. Wormeall : — For the Foregate of the Hospital at Croydon. The armes over the doore must be without helmet and mantel- ling, and must be the armes of the See of Canterburie, viz. the Pall in pale, with the nowe Archebyshopp's armes, and the yeare of the Lord under them, viz. 1597. Over the said armes a free-stone square, with theis words in great letters, viz. Sanct^e Trinitati Sacr. On the bare places over the gate, called (as I thinke) the Ashler, this sentence following to be written in great capital letters, viz. — Prov. 28. Qui dat Pauperi, non indigebit. APPENDIX. 351 VII. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Friend, Mr. Wormeall, at Lambith* Mr. Wormeall, with my hartie commendacbns to yourselfe, with praises to God for Mrs. WormealPs good recoverie, &c. I received this morninge your letter, which doth satisfie me well, both for Birk's matter and inquirie about his lease, &c. Sir, I re- turne you heare his bill of suche charge as his Gr., of his owne gracious motion, wylled shoulde be imployed upon the chauncell called the Bushop's Chauncell; which war soe donne. And I sawe the leade weighed to and fro. In his Gr. note I doe not give his chaun- cell that name, onelie because this his doinge shall be noe president of claime hereafter ; and soe I pray you shewe his Gr. For as the parishes reparacons are re- gistred in there churche booke, soe will this. And therfore I will loke to it, that it breed no prejudice hereafter. And thus fare you well. Croydon, this xxviiith of October, 1600. His Gr. charge of his chauncell cometh to xxxviis. ixd. Your lovinge freind, Samuell Fynche. VIII. — To his assuered and verie lovinge Freind, Mr. Wormeall, at Lambith. Mr. Wormeall, with my verie hartye commendacbns, I send you here inclosed an accompte of the voluntarie charge his Gr. hath bene at this yeare, in repayringe the chappell of Croydon churche, which is nexte to his mannor there. I sende you also a note of the 352 HISTORY OF CROYDON. whole charge his Gr. hath bene at about the same, both last yeare and this. For the accompte, I thought good not to make it with the accompt of the hospitall, because the worke ys dyvers; albeit I have more mo- nie of his Gr. in my hands than this cometh to. For the note, I sende yt because his Gr. may knowe what the whole charge ys that he hath bene at that way. And I may tell you, for that Mr. Weller tolde me, that Robert Jones movinge my L. Admirall about his con- tribucon to the repaire of our churche, he should aske What my L. of Canterburie gave ; soe I acquainted Mr. Wellar with my L. his charge, to see if his Gr. ex- ample will drawe on anie other. Moreover, I pray you shewe his Gr. that mother Dyble, one of his Gr. pore in his hospitall, ys dead this laste nighte ; her al- lowance of iis. a weeke ceaseth. Albeit, Margaret her daughter is in good hope to supplie her mother's romthe, at least for her abydinge there, whiche (as I tell her) I cannot promise her, untill I knowe his Gr. pleasure. Thus I cease to troble you anie farther. From Croydon, this xviiith day of November, 1600. Yours as his owne, Samuell Fynche. APPENDIX. 353 No. XV. Visitatio Hospitalis SHe Trinitatis in Croydon, au- thoritate reverendissimi X'topatris Gulielmi archiep' Can?, in capella sive oratorio ejusd\ 11 Aug 9 1634, coram d 9 no Edmondo Scott, milite, et Samuele Ber- nard, S. T. B., commissariis d'ni reverendissimi pa- tris, inter horas nonam et undecimam ante meridiem ejusdem diei, in prcesentia mei Sacvili Wade, N. P. (Ex Reg. Laud,fol. 206 a). Articles minis tred by the most reverend Father in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitan, to the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, in Croydon, Aug. 11, 1634. 1. Imprimis, Whether the said lord archbishop is, and hath been, by your founder, and by letters patents under the great seal of England, appointed and au- thorized visitor of your hospital, and hath power to punish such offences as are contrary to the statutes and ordinances of the said hospital and the founder's intention? and hath also power to injoyne unto you orders for the good of your hospital, as often as his Grace shall see cause? 2. Item, What are the yearly revenues of the said A A 354 HISTORY OF CROYDON. hospital, with the woodsales, and all other extraordi- nary receipts? 3. Item, What are the ordinary charges that go out thereof singulis annis, and what extraordinary? 4. Item, How many loads of wood are yearly, one year with another, felled on grounds and lands belong- ing to the said hospital; and to what uses was and is the same yearly converted? 5. Item, How many beds are there for the poor of the said hospital, and what other goods, household stuff, and utensils of household, are there in the said hospital, and thereto belonging? 6. Item, Whether there be belonging to the said hospital a common chest, to keep all the donations, charters, and evidences of the said hospital in? 7. Item, Whether there be a perfect terrier of all such lands and possessions, and an inventory of all such goods as belong to the same hospital? 8. Item, What leases there be made of the same possessions, and to whom they be made, and by whom they were made, and when? and for how many years, or what other terms? 9. Item, What fines have been taken for the said leases respectively, and by whom; and whether the same have been wholly employed to the use of the said hospital; or whether any part thereof have been em- ployed to the private use of some other, and of whom? 10. Item, Whether any goods, moveable or immove- able, appertaining to the said hospital, are sold away? and when, and by whom, and for how much, were the same sold, and to whom? 11. Item, Whether have the poor of the said hospi- APPENDIX. 355 tal their due allowance, according to the ordinances and statutes of the said hospital, and as they ought to have — as meat, drink, lodging, and apparel; and if not, hy whose default is it? 12. Item, Have you, or any of you, taken any mo- ney for admittance of any the poor men, women, or children, into the same hospital, or for procuring them so to be admitted? 13. Item, Whether the master, warden, schoolmas- ter, usher, or any of the almsmen or officers of the said hospital, have offended against the statutes and ordi- nances of the said hospital; and when, and wherein? 14. Item, Whether the schoolmaster and the usher perform their duties, in instructing the youth commit- ted to their charge? and whether is the schoolhouse and schoolmaster's house kept in such repair as is fit- ting? and whether do the schoolmaster and the usher carry themselves sober and free from scandal, as the statutes require? and whether doth the schoolmaster duly read divine prayers in the hospital chapel, as is required ? 15. Item, Do any of you know any thing concerning the said hospital, or any part or member thereof, that is fit to be amended? declare it, and free your con- sciences. A A 356 HISTORY OF CROYDON. No. XVI. Heads of Orders for the Charity Schoolefor ten poor Boys and ten poor Girls, founded by Thomas Te- nison, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, at Croydon, March 25th, 1714. (From a MS. in the Lambeth Library, No. 806. 5, intituled " Croydon School Orders"). 1. This schoole is to consist, at present, of a school- master and mistress, Mr. Henry Zealy and Mary his wife, who shall teach no other children hut what be- longs to this school, namely, ten poor boys and ten poor girls. 2. The master and mistris shall always be profest members of the church of England, of sober life and conversation ; either to be twenty-five years of age at the least; they must frequent the holy communion, and understand well the principles of the Christian reli- gion. 3. The master shall be able to write a good round hand, and understand the grounds of arithmetick, and teach the children the true spelling of words, with the points and stops to true reading. 4. The master shall, twice a week at the least, in- struct all the children in the church catechisme, and by some exposition approved of by 5. No boy or girl to be under eight years old when admitted, nor to stay till after fourteen, unless it be to even the quarter then going on. APPENDIX. 357 6. Each boy and girl to be sent in cloathed whole and clean. 7. A Common Prayer Book and Bible to be provid- ed for each boy and girl. 8. The boys are to be taught to read, write, and arithmetick ; the girls the same, also to spin, knit, sew, and work. 9. They are to come to school in the summer at se- ven in the morning, and stay till eleven; to come again in the afternoon at one, and stay till five. Summer to be reckoned from Lady-day to Michaelmas. 10. In winter to come at eight in the morning, and stay till eleven ; to come again in the afternoon at one, and stay till four. 11. Every Lord's day and every holiday, and every Wednesday and Friday, they are to go to church two by two, to set orderly in their proper seat, and make the answers at the prayers, and sing the psalms. 12. They are to break up at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide, and have the usual liberties as at other schools. 13. On Thursday they are to leave school at 3 of the clock in the afternoon. 14. On Saturday in the afternoon, the girls, five at a time, in such order as may be most easy,, are to help to clean the house. 15. Absence from school, or great crimes, as lying, swearing, stealing, prophanation of the Lord's day, shall be noted in weekly bills, to be laid before the trustees at their meeting, in order to their correction or expulsion. 358 HISTORY OF CROYDON. 16. The mistress shall weekly chuse one girl to be her particular assistant for the week. 17. If the parent, brother, or sister of any one in the school shall steal any thing from Norwood, the child related to them shall immediately be expelled, and for- feit the school cloaths and books. 18. If any one of the children of the school shall leave or be taken from the school before they have learnt what the statutes shall direct, the cloaths and books belonging to such shall be left for another. 19. If the parents or friends send not the children clean, decent, washed, and combed, or not at the school hours, or any ways hinder them from observing the orders of the school, such children to be dis- missed. 20. No child whose parents frequent the meeting- houses shall be admitted, or continue if admitted. 21. The trustees are to meet on the Tuesday after every quarter day, to look into the state and condition of the school; and then these orders are to be read publickly before them, the master and mistress, and all the children. 22. The trustees shall pay unto the master and mis- tress each pounds quarterly, out of estate pur- chased by the founder, Thomas, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, for the perpetual support of this very charity schoole. 23. It shall be lawfull for me, Thomas, the now Arch- bishop of Canterbury, founder of the said school, to abrogate, add unto, change, or alter these orders, to place or displace any part thereof, and wholly to go- APPENDIX. 359 vern the same, according as shall to me seem reason- able, during my natural life, without any other person intermeddling therein. 24. The school master and mistress to sit rent-free in the new school house purchased and fitted up by his Grace, Thomas, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, situate in the parish of Croydon. 25. No child to be admitted whose parents are not legally settled as inhabitants of the parish of Croydon. 26. At their coming in the morning, the master, or one of the scholars appointed by him, is to begin with the prayer, " Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings," &c. ; then the collect for the day; and then the col- lect for the fifth Sunday after Trinity, " Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered," &c. 27. At night, at their going away, they shall say the collect for the day, and then the collect for the fourth Sunday after Trinity, " O God, the protector of all that trust in thee," &c. ; and also, " Lighten our dark- ness," &c. They must be charged when they go to bed to say (as in Psalm 4th, unto verse 9th), " I will lay me down in peace and take my rest, for it is thou, Lord, that makest me dwell in safety." 360 HISTORY OF CROYDON. No. XVII. Acts of Parliament. For repairing Croydon Church— I Geo. 3, c. 38. For selling the Palace— 20 Geo. 3, c. 57. For inclosing the parish — 37 Geo. 3, c. 144. For a canal from Croydon to the Grand Surry Ca- nal— 41 Geo. 3, c. 15, and 51 Geo. 3, c. 11. For inclosing the waste lands — 43 Geo. 3, c. 53. For re-building the Court House, &c. — 46 Geo. 3, c. 130. For making a road from Foxley-hatch, in Croydon, to Riegate— 47 Geo. 3, c. 25. No. XVIII. The Case of the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Croydon, in the County of Surrey, concerning the great Oppressions they ly under, by reason of the unparalleled Extortions, and violent, illegal, and unwarrantable Prosecutions of Doctor William Clei- ver, Vicar of the said Parish: Humbly presented to the Consideration of Parliament. [First printed in 1673]. The said Doctor William Cleiver, in the times of the late Rebellion, obtained a sequestered living, call- ed Ashton, in Northamptonshire, in which he behaved APPENDIX. 361 himself much unlike a clergie-man, as will appear by the articles annexed, the which were in those days ex- hibited against him. However, there he continued to persecute the poor people till some time after his Ma- jesty's most happy restoration to his crown and dig- nity; when Doctor Whitford, the person sequestred out of the said living, being about seventy years of age, and living, was restored to his benefice. When Cleiver got this living, he entertained one Mr. Preston to be his reader, who accepted thereof, served and of- ficiated there in that capacity; but Cleiver would ne- ver pay him his wages ; so that he might have starved, if some of the parishioners (to whom by stealth he did sometimes read common prayers and divine service,) had not given him relief; for which Cleiver caused him to be sent for up to London, by a messenger; and, being so old that he could not ride on horse-back, he was brought up in a cart stuiFt with straw, and kept at London till utterly ruined ; and then they released him. The articles exhibited against the said Cleiver by the said parishioners were as follows: — Articles exhibited against William Cleiver, Minister of Ashton, in the County of Northampton. First, That the said Cleiver is a very covetous man, and doth endeavour unjustly to exact and extort sums of money and other things from the said parishioners, and others that he hath to deal for. The said Cleiver did unjustly demand a cow for a herriot, of Sarah Honor, a poor widow, whose hus- 362 HISTORY OF CROYDON. band was lately dead, and died so poor that the parish was forced to bury him at their charge, he leaving his said wife with five small children, and nothing to main- tain them but that one cow ; and it was never known that any herriot was there paid. And, the better to procure his end therein, the said Cleiver promised her, that if she would let him have the cow, he would pro- cure her a warrant from the justice of the peace, that the parish should pay her weekly one shilling, for the maintenance of herself and children. The said Cleiver hath several times unjustly detained and withheld the wages of labourers from them, who had painfully and faithfully done their duties. He caused a poor widow (whose husband was then lately dead, and she herself being then very sick and weak, and almost blind, and left in debt fifty pounds at least, having four small children, unable to maintain themselves,) to pay him the tenth penny for a calf, which she sold towards the payment of her husband's debts, and enforced her to pay two-pence for the head and pluck, which she had reserved for herself. The said Cleiver hath pulled down a great part of the parsonage-house, and converted the materials there- of to his own use. The said Cleiver, notwithstanding his parsonge at Ashton is worth one hundred and twenty pounds by the year, at least; yet, for the lucre of money, did un- dertake to serve another cure of twenty pounds by the year; by means whereof he served neither of them as he ought to do. The said Cleiver is a very contentious man, and doth APPENDIX. 363 much vex, and trouble, and disquiet his neighbours, parishioners, and others, by unjust suits and malicious troubles. The said Cleiver did, in a clandestine way, procure a bond which was made to a sergeant at arms for secu- rity, and sued one Bud worth, who was surety herein, upon the same, and recovered fifty pounds of him, and caused him to spend fifty pounds more, at least, not- withstanding the sergeant of arms was never damnified one penny thereby. The said Cleiver hath, at the last assizes in the county of Northampton, indicted a gentlewoman of his parish, of good parentage, and of worth and quality, for felony, for stealing of his horse; and himself and his wife and maid gave evidence thereupon, and would have brought the gentlewoman's life in question, if he possibly could have done it; and, when the grand jury had returned the bill Ignoramus, he gave out in speeches, that he had sufficiently disparaged the gentlewoman by what he had done. That he hath commenced suits against divers of his parishioners who were willing to pay him his just dues, because they would not pay what he would unjustly have exacted and extorted from them. He hath refused to pay just debts owing by him, and hath declared, he would rather spend one hundred pounds in law, than pay five pounds when he is sued for it, though it were due. The said Cleiver is very weak, unable, and insufficient for the ministrial function, and idle, and will not take pains therein as he ought to do, nor perform what of duty he ought : For, 364 HISTORY OF CROYDON. He doth ordinarily preach other men's works, ver- batim, that are in print, which the parishioners have in their houses, and can read at home. He hath several times in his sermons uttered and spoke nonsense. He hath neglected his cure upon several Lord's days, to prosecute contentious suits and quarrels, and for his own ease, and procured none to supply the same. Refused to baptize the child of a visible believer, being tendered, and the father present. Refused to baptize the child of a soldier that was in service, because the father was not present ; and the child died within few days. The said Cleiver is scandalouse in his life and con- versation. For, First, He is a liar, and a common speaker of un- truths. Secondly, He did privately keep in his house one Mistris Bernard, widow, six or seven weeks together, and denied that she was there; and afterwards kept her publicly, having no relation to her, and now keep- eth her as his wife ; but whether they were ever mar- ried according to the laws is not known. That he the said Cleiver hath been drunk, and abused himself with excess. The King's Majesty being restored, the sequestred incumbent, Doctor Whitford, entered upon the said liv- ing; and Doctor Cleiver, being thereupon to seek for a benefice, came to London, and then pretended himself to be a zealous son of the church (though for ten years before he had possest the sequestred living, and vio- lently prosecuted his reader, for reading common APFENDIX. 365 prayer, as aforesaid); and, not being well known about London, hearing that the vicarage of Croydon was void, made friends to the Earl of Clarendon, then Lord Chancellor of England, to obtain the same; which he effected by the help of a gentleman (to whom he pro- mised a good reward for his pains, to be paid so soon as the presentation should be sealed); which gentle- man, having obtained the presentation, the Doctor got it from him, but never paid him to this day, as the gentleman reports. That, having got this presentation of Croydon, he hastened thither. The vicarage consists only of small tythes, which at the utmost value is not worth above eighty pounds. This, for some time, was paid the Doc- tor per annum; who, when he had been a little in the parish, and had got all the parishioners' names into his book, fell to his old practices of oppression and extor- tion, bringing frequently vexatious suits against all or most of the parishioners, because they would not com- ply with his unconscionable and extravagant demands. Under these horrid oppressions the parishioners hav- ing many years suffered, and some hundreds of the in- habitants ruined thereby, they joined together, and caused the said Doctor to be indicted for a common barrater ; which was to have come to a trial in Hillary Term, 1 673, at the King's Bench bar ; accordingly, the jury was summoned, and the informers ready to have made good the indictment by above three hundred wit- nesses ; but, about two daies before the said trial should have been, a Noli Prosequi was entered, by means whereof the trial was stopt. 366 HISTORY OF CROYDON. This Noli Prosequi was obtained by fraud also ; for Cleiver, finding that the parish were resolved for to prosecute, came to one Mr. Bickerton, who was then one of Mr. Baron Turner's clerks, tells him thereof, adding, that he was like to be undone thereby, for that the rogues (as he called them) would swear him to be a common barrater; then asked him, whether he be- lieved there could be such rogues in England? To which the said Bickerton replied, that he always sus- pected that a mischief would come upon him for his continued vexations continued to his poor parishion- ers, and wondered they had not done it sooner; add- ing, that he believed they had just cause to proceed against him, by what he understood of his ways in pro- ceeding against them in the Exchequer. Whereupon, Cleiver asked if there were no way to stop the trial for that time; begged his assistance, if possible, to do the same, promising to give him ten pounds for his pains, if he succeeded therein. Upon which, Mr. Bickerton advised him to get a Noli Prosequi; for which purpose, a petition was drawn, setting forth, that the parishioners were litigious, factious people; would pay him no tythes; but forced him, by means thereof, to sue for his dues ; and now had indicted him for a common barrater, merely for bringing such his law- ful suits against them ; therefore prayed proceedings might be stopt. This done, the said Doctor gave Bickerton a note under his hand, to pay him ten pounds if the suit were stopt that term ; and away he went with the petition, to a person that presented it to his Majesty, who (being misinformed, and thinking APPENDIX. 367 that the said Doctor might have just occasion to sue, as by petition he pretended), did order Mr. Attorney- General to enter a Noli Prosequi; and accordingly, a Noli Prosequi, reciting his Majesty's command, was granted, and the suit stopped; which done, the said Doctor went back to Bickerton, and, crying, told him his Majesty denied the petition, and that the trial was not stopt; desired, therefore, his note again, that he had given him for his ten pounds; which Mr. Bicker- ton delivered, as thinking Cleiver had spoken truth; and so cheated him of his ten pounds promised him upon accompt as aforesaid. The poor parishioners of Croydon, they were greatly troubled, not knowing what to do, being stopt from proceedings at law, thereupon went to counsel, and were advised to have petitioned the Parliament, then sitting, as lying under a grievance, and being denied the benefit of the law for their redress ; but, upon ap- plication made to the Lord Keeper and Mr. Attorney- General that now are, and acquainting them with the truth of the case, they did assure the parishioners, that his Majesty was surprised with the granting of his Noli Prosequi, and undoubtedly would take the same off, if addressed unto the Council. Whereupon, the 21st cf March, 1672, a petition was exhibited to his Majesty, praying that the Noli Prosequi might be taken off, and the parishioners left to the law ; or, that he would be graciously pleased to hear the cause, and relieve them according to justice. To which petition was annexed the articles follow- 368 HISTORY OF CROYDON. Articles of high Misdemeanour, humbly exhibited to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and the Right Honourable the Lords of his most honourable Privy Council, by the Inhabitants of the Town of Croydon, in the County of Surrey, against Dr. fV. Cleiver, Vicar of that Town. 1. That the said Doctor, by unjust, vexatious, and numerous suits, by him frequently brought against his parishioners, extorts more from them than what either his predecessors claimed or had, or is his due. 2. He frequently, after he hath been punctually paid his full dues, arrests his poor parishioners, and forces them to pay the same over again; together with great sums for charges, which he pretends he hath been at; declaring he will have of them what he pleases, for he cannot live on his dues. 3. He hath served several of the poor people with pretended processes, and compels them to pay him money when there is nothing due to him from them ; and extorts money for the process, when as there was never any process pursued other than what was made by himself; which is to the great abuse of his Ma- jesty's Courts at Westminster. 4. That he doth very often sue out many writs out of the Exchequer against several of the parishioners that owe him not a farthing, puts them to vexation, trouble, and charge, and then never exhibits any bill against them. 5. That, because one of his parish would not swear for him what he would have had him, he vowed he APPENDIX. 369 would sue him as long as he lived; and so hath conti- nued to do ever since, to his almost utter ruin. 6. That he frequently arrests poor people for tithes, puts them to great charges, when as they owe him no- thing; and, such as are able to make opposition he never declares against, but forces the rest to compound, and give him what he pleases. 7. That he hath attached the goods of several per- sons, for tithes pretended to be due to him, when as none was due from them; hereby put the people to charge, done damage to their goods ; and when reple- vins have been brought, then he hath never appeared or declared. 8. That he hath imprisoned several persons, and detained their goods in his house till he hath forced them to give him what money they have, and seal bonds to him for other sums of money by him demand- ed, when there hath not been one penny due to him. 9. That, having come to an agreement with several persons for their tithes, to take such a sum for them yearly, he hath received the sum of money agreed up- on, for several years together, and afterwards denied the same, and sued the persons for their tithes in kind, and the arrears thereof; and, some of the people with whom he agreed, being illiterate, trusted him to write the agreement; he set down double the sum that was agreed upon, got their mark to his book, and sued the persons, and forced them to pay the same, together with such unreasonable charge as he demanded of them. 10. He hath cited several of his parishioners into the spiritual courts for pretended crimes, because he B B 370 HISTORY OF CROYDON. could not have his unjust demands of them; and when he hath so cited them, hath taken sums of money of them, to excuse them being prosecuted in the said court. 11. That, having let a lease of his tithes to one Mr. Wood, for a certain rent, Wood, by virtue of that lease, received tithes of the parishioners, and paid him his rent; after which, he sued the parishioners over again for the same tithes, and forced them, for quiet- ness, to pay him, declaring, the only way to be quiet was to pay both Wood and him. 12. Several poor people having, in the time of the late dreadful sickness, buried relations in the woods, the said Doctor, in the time of their necessity, was so far from extending his charity towards their relief, that he forced them to pay unreasonable fees for their burials, as if they had been buried by him in the church-yard. Those that would not comply with him, he sued and extorted great sums of money from them, for his charges as well as duties, before he would clear his persecution. 13. He denied to receive his tithes in kind of seve- ral of his parishioners, though duly tendered him, and he desired to accept of them ; demands of them what money he pleases in lieu thereof; and if they do not pay what he demands, he sues that at law; and if they agree and pay for one, two, three, four, five, or six years, at the rate compounded for, then, at the six years' end, he demands of them the arrears of tithes, pretending the tithes to be of greater yearly value than what he compounded for; and if the people will not pay what he demands above his composition-mo- APPENDIX. 371 ney paid for three years past, then he sues them, till they, by fright, and being put to unreasonable trouble and charge, were enforced to give him what he de- manded, rather than be undone by contending with him ; that being the lesser evil of the two, by him put to their choice. 14. He, by this violent persecution of diverse poor men, hath forced them to leave their wives and chil- dren, and seek shelter in remote places, to the utter ruine of their families. 15. He demands of the poor inhabitants the tenth penny got by their day-labour, and threatens to com- pel them to bring their milk into the church porch to sell, and there deliver him his tenth. From some he hath extorted great sums of money, on pretence that he hath been at law with them seven years, whereas they were never served with any process. Others he hath served with process after they had newly paid him his demands, to put them to further vexation and charge. One process which he hath taken out against a man, he altered it, and made another man pay the charges, as if it had been originally made out against him. 16. He frequently extorts great sums of money from his parishioners, for marrying out of the parish; and those that refuse to pay him what he demands for that offence, he refuses to receive their tithes, and then sues them for tithes and that together. 17. Such persons as refuse to pay the said Doctor his unjust demands, he will not suffer the clerk to re- ceive his just dues, threatening to sue both for his BB2 372 HISTORY OF CROYDON. money and clerk's dues, when as both hath been ten- dered, and might have been received without any suit. 18. He hath arrested several on pretended great ac- tions, and thereby kept them in prison, and yet, on the trial, could prove nothing against them, to the ut- ter ruin of these poor people imprisoned; and hath forced several persons to pay him five pounds, when his due is but twelve pence. By these and the like extortions he makes his living above 2501. per annum, which never was worth, to any of his predecessors, above 60/., and enricheth himself by the ruin of his parishioners, especially the poorer sort, that live on the common, whom he endeavours to enslave, because they are not able to contend with him at law. That the petition and articles were read. The King's most excellent Majesty, his Royal High- ness the Duke of York, and eighteen more of his Ma- jesty's most honourable Privy Council, were present ; and the order following was made: — At the Court of Whitehall, the2lst of March, 1672.— Present, the King's most excellent Majesty; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; Lord Chancellor; Lord Treasurer; Duke of Lauderdale; Duke of Ormond; Earl of Bridgewater; Earl of Northampton; Earl of Anglesey; Earl of Carlisle; Earl of Arlington; Earl of Bath; Earl of Craven; Lord Viscount Falconbridge ; Lord Newport; Lord Berkley; Mr. Secretary Coven- try; Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy; Master of the Ordnance; Sir Thomas Osborne. APPENDIX. 373 The inhabitants of the town of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, by their petition this day at the board, humbly complaining of the many oppressions, extortions, violent and unwarrantable proceedings of Dr. William Cleiver, vicar of the said parish of Croy- don, against the petitioners, under pretence of reco- vering his tithes, insomuch that, in a short time (if re- lief be not given) most of the petitioners will be forced to leave their dwellings, or be inevitably ruined, as some of them, with their families, have already been : It was thereupon ordered by his Majesty in council, That the petitioners do forthwith deliver in to the clerk of the council attending, the particulars where- with they intend to charge the said Dr. Cleiver, to the end he may have a copy thereof timely enough to come prepared to make his defence thereunto, on Friday the 4th of April next; which time his Majesty hath ap- pointed to hear the said complaints; and doth com- mand that all parties concerned do then give their at- tendance. John Nicholas. According to this order, a short paper was deliver- ed in to the clerk of the council, whereby the parish* ioners declared they would insist upon — Oppression, extortion, common barratry, suborna- tion of perjury, forgery, felony, and some more such like petty crimes of his doctorship. But, before the cause came to be tried, the act of grace came out; and barratry, a thing never pardoned before by any for- mer act of grace, was pardoned thereby. The 4th of April, 1673, his Majesty was gracious- 374 HISTORY OF CROYDON. ]y pleased to come early to the council ; and, toge- ther with his Royal Highness, and twenty more of the Lords of the Privy Council, sat with unspeakable patience,, heard the charge against the said Doc- tor made good; which was done by the oaths of seve- ral persons, in every particular mentioned in the said articles ; and many others (if possible more violent and heinous than the former) was proved against him. 1. As. first, he, being one of the trustees of the alms-houses in Croydon, would not suffer almes-men to be admitted, till he had forced them to promise to al- low him one half of the profits of the said alms-houses, and took bond for the same; which done, he admitted them; and would have turned one Edward Humfry out of his alms-house, when he could no longer afford to pay him four shillings a month, according to the said bond; which Humfry is now turned out by the said Doctor. 2. That, when as the sacrament money hath been collected for the poor, he took a third part of it to his own use, saying, None was poorer than the vicar, and kept it; which hath since prevented men's charity. 3. That he sent for a man from London, pretending he would pay him some money which he owed his fa- ther, who was dead. The poor man came to Croydon to his house, and was made welcome, and had good meat and drink; after which he was carried by the Doctor into the garden, made eat fruit; which done, he sent him away without a penny of money. But that was not all; for, soon after, he arrested the poor man in an action of trespass, for two and three hun- dred pounds damage, for coming into his ground, APPENDIX. 375 kept him a prisoner till he was forced to seal him a ge- neral release, and so cheated him of his debt, which was about thirty pounds, and grew due to his father, Mr. Preston, as aforesaid, for officiating as curate for him at Ashton in Northamptonshire. 4. They proved that the Doctor had two special bayliffs, that do all his business; one of them had been burnt in the hand, the other a vile rogue as is in the country. These arrest his parishioners; then, bring- ing them to his house, there they are kept prisoners till he force them to what he pleaseth ; which done, he draws them into judgments instead of pretended notes; and these are they whom he useth, together with a most excellent gentlewoman, Mrs. Ream's daughter- in-law, who went there by the name of Mrs. Cleiver; who, by the report of the whole country, and people at Westminster, had a child before her marriage, lay in at Westminster, and the Doctor was much with her, and she went for his wife, though her mother was then alive; now lives at the Doctor's house, wholly governs him, to say no worse ; makes him oppress the people as she pleaseth, and is his constant witness to all his agreements. 5. They proved, that when the Doctor hath gone into the pulpit to preach, he hath dropt bundles of writs out of his pockets, taken out against his parish- ioners, and, being taken up and perused, have been found to be rased in the dates and in the names, and new dates and new names put into them ; which was a frequent thing with him, he making twenty warrants out against twenty persons upon one single writ, and making each person pay seven shillings and sixpence 376 HISTORY OF CROYDON. for charges, when the writ cost him not above three shillings ; so that he got above seven pound by a writ, and made a property of his Majesty's Court of Exche- quer, to the enriching himself and impoverishing his parishioners. And often, when he should have been preaching on Sundays, did use to ride to London, to follow suits against his parishioners, leaving them with- out any one to preach or read prayers to them. 6. That he sent for the parishioners to come to his house to pay their tithes, and when they had so done, frequently arrested some of them in actions of trespass, for coming upon his ground, thereby putting to great charge, and ruined some of them. 7. That he hired a carrier to bring his goods to Lon- don, which was done ; and in London an old desk was stole out of the carrier's warehouse, by his letting his goods lie there three weeks after brought up; but the man that stole it was catched, the desk brought back to the inn, was opened, not knowing whose it was, and there was only in it a pair of slippers and one old law book. The Doctor arrests the carrier, declares against him for 190/., pretended to be in the said desk; the carrier, telling his landlord thereof, he produced the said desk, with the things aforesaid in it; so the suit ceased. 8. He hath caused the gentry to leave the towne, to the ruin thereof; spoiled the school, so that no gentle- men came to it. He hath caused lands and houses to fall in their rents; brought down the price of them, in their sale, above three years' purchase ; makes tenants that they will take no lease, unless landlords will cove- nant to secure them against him; which they dare not APPENDIX. 377 do; and so the houses and lands stand empty, and lie waste. And he hath forced the parishioners to leave their parish church, and to keep from receiving the sacrament; insomuch that there are not above ten or twelve in all (beside alms-people, who are obliged), that will come to the church or sacrament ; but if a stranger at any time do preach, there come at least six, seven, or eight hundred. Lastly. That the said Doctor endeavoured to part husbands from their wives, raising false stories of them, offered himself to sue out divorces. And many more crimes of this nature. These matters, and also the aforesaid articles, being clearly proved, the said Doctor only for defence offer- ed, that the petitioners would pay him no tithes, there- upon was forced to sue them for his dues ; and prayed time to make defence. Whereupon, the order following was made: — At Whitehall, the 4>th of April, 1673.— Present, the King's most excellent Majesty; his Royal Highness the Duke of York; his Highness Prince Rupert; Lord Chancellor; Lord Treasurer; Duke of Lauder- dale; Duke of Ormond; Marquis of Worcester; Earl of Ogle; Earl of Ossory; Lord Great Chamberlain; Earl of Bridgewater; Earl of Northampton; Earl of Anglesey; Earl of Carlisle; Earl of Craven; Earl of Arlington; Earl of Carbury; Viscount Hallifax; Mr. Secretary Coventry; Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy; Master of the Ordnance. His Majesty, having this day heard at large the 378 HISTORY OF CROYDON. complaints of the inhabitants of the parish of Croydon, in Surry, against Dr. Cleiver, vicar of that place, con- taining several exorbitant courses by him practised for recovery of his tithes, was pleased to refer the whole matter to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canter- bury, and to the Earl of Shaftsbury, Lord High Chan- cellor of England ; who, requiring the said Doctor and some of the principal persons of the said parish to at- tend them, are to endeavour to settle the business for the future quiet of the parishioners, and that there may be a constant maintenance for the vicar there ; which, if their Lordships shall not be able to effect, they are to return their opinion and advice to his Ma- jesty, what they conceive fit to be done therein. John Nicholas. With this order his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of England being attended, they were pleased to appoint a day in May last past, when both parties, with their witnesses, should attend their Lord- ships, at Lambeth House, where the matters aforesaid were made manifest; as also — That the said Doctor Cleiver was a notorious and common thief, that used to come into booksellers' shops and steal books, and carry them away. Several masters of shops gave testimony thereof. To which, the Doctor being to give answer, declared, that true it was that he was sitting in a shop, reading a book, and saw a gentleman come by that he had occasion to speak with, and in haste ran after him, and forgot to lay down the book, and carried it with him ; but the APPENDIX. 379 man presently followed him, and took it of him. But, alas! good gentleman! he had often had this chance of following his friends with other men's books under his cloak. If he had done so but once, it might have passed as forgetfulness; but it fell out very unluckily, that, at Mr. Sawbridge's shop, at the Bible, on Lud- gate Hill, he came in and took away a book of good value, carried it beyond Fleet Bridge, and there was overtaken and brought back, and begged pardon, de- claring who he was. Mr. Sawbridge thereupon, loth to bring any scandal upon a man of his coat, went with him to Fetter Lane, to a gentleman's house, to inquire of him; and, finding that he was Dr. Cleiver, and vicar of Croydon, resolved to make no more noise of it, if he would ingenuously confess what books he had formerly stolen from him; for that he had often been at his shop, and he had often lost books, but never knew whom to charge with them. Thereupon, he promised he would go home and look over all his books, and bring him the names of them, as also mo- ney for them; that he never came there again, or sent the catalogue of the books he had stolen : but he did send his wife to the shop, with about thirty-nine shil- lings, and she paid the same for the books he had stolen; so that it was not always forgetfulness, or run- ning after friends, that made him carry books out of the shops. The said Doctor being then asked, why, after so many arrests, and so many suits against his parishion- ers, he never brought any one of them to trial, where- by the modus decimandi might have been settled; it was proved against him, that, being demanded the 380 HISTORY OF CROYDON. same question in the Exchequer, he declared, most falsely and scandalously, of his Grace of Canterbury, that his Grace had directed him not to do it, because the then Lord Chief Baron (now Lord Chief Justice Hale) was an enemy to the Church of England. Upon the whole matter, his Grace and the Lord Chancellor proposed to the parish to settle a certain maintenance upon the vicar for the future, that so no more suits might arise. To which the parishioners most willingly assented, provided the Doctor might be removed, and have no benefit thereof; and proposed, as poor as he had made them, yet, to be rid of him, and to have a good, learned, orthodox, and peaceable man settled amongst them, they would make a certain allowance of 1201. per annum, to be paid to the suc- ceeding vicar, by quarterly payments, without charge and trouble. No sooner was this proposal made, but Dr. Cleiver, who, the world knows, is a most notorious liar (and the old proverb is, a liar had need to have a good me- mory), starts up; and, although just before he had told their Lordships he was forced to bring his ac- tions, and to have multiplicity of suits, because his pa- rishioners would pay him nothing; that, although he had offered them his vicarage at 601., 50/., nay, SOI per annum, they refused to take the same; he told them that 120/. was nothing, for that the parish had offered him 180/. themselves. Note. — The Doctor let the tithes for three years, to one Wood, at 60/. per annum, and the said Wood re- ceived the tithes of the tenants, paid him his rents, and afterwards the Doctor sued his parishioners, and APPENDIX. 381 made many of them, to their utter ruin, pay him the said tithes over again, though they had Wood's dis- charge for the same. Nevertheless, to be rid of the Doctor, the parish then proposed to allow 1601. per annum to the surviving vicar. The conclusion of this meeting was, that the parish- ioners should draw up their proposals in writing, put them under their hands, and present them to the Lord High Chancellor of England. Accordingly, they were drawn up and signed by above three hundred persons, and presented to his Lordship, and a copy to his Grace of Canterbury ; and one only copy, annexed to a petition, was presented to his Majesty in council. The purport was as follows: — 1. That, provided Dr. Cleiver were presently re- moved, the parish would allow the succeeding vicar, successively, if a sober, learned, orthodox, and peace- able man, 160/. per annum, 2. That Dr. Cleiver should have no advantage of the said offer. 3. That they would consent to an act of Parliament or decree in Chancery or Exchequer, to settle and confirm the same. 4. That, till such act or decree could be passed, to the intent the said Doctor might not be continued, twenty of the most able parishioners would become bound to the surviving vicar, to pay him 160/., in lieu of all his tithes or other dues, until the said 160/. should be confirmed by act of Parliament or decree aforesaid. 5. That whereas the said Doctor pretended great 382 HISTORY OF CROYDON. arrears of tithes and dues owing to him, and many ac- tions were brought by him against the parishioners for the same, every person concerning therein would be determined by the judgment of any two indifferent persons as the said Lord's Grace of Canterbury and the late Lord Chancellor should appoint to hear and determine the same, without further charges and trou- ble in law. This seemed very reasonable and satisfactory to his Grace and the Lord Chancellor; and thereupon, Doc- tor Cleiver, being sent for by the late Lord Chancel- lor, was told thereof, and advised to surrender to his Grace of Canterbury ; which if he would do, was of- fered another living of 1201. per annum, in Northamp- tonshire, then in the Lord Chancellor's gift, and his Grace of Canterbury should present one other able, orthodox man to Croydon, to be named by the then Lord Chancellor, (his Grace of Canterbury being so convinced of the badness of Dr. Cleiver, as he resolved never to present him to any other) ; this being the me- dium most graciously proposed by his Majesty in coun- cil, for the ease of his poor subjects. This offer the Doctor promised to accept, and to go to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and resign accordingly; but, as he ever hath been false, so in this he manifest- ed it, by breaking word both with his Grace and the Lord Chancellor; so that they could do nothing. And truly, till it was considered what the reason might be, it was wondered that he that might have had a living of 1201. per annum certain, to part with about 60/. or 80/., gotten with contention, should not APPENDIX. 383 accept the same ; but afterwards, it appeared plainly that he was so well known in Northamptonshire, that the people would have stoned him out of the country, if he had come thither. Hereupon, the parishioners of Croydon once more most humbly petitioned his Majesty in council, and annexed their proposals aforesaid, shewing how in- evitably they must be ruined if he were continued, and prayed his removal. Whereupon, the 28th of May, 1 673, it was ordered as folio weth : — At the Court at Whitehall, the 28th of May, 1673.— Present, the King's most excellent Majesty; his Royal Highness the Duke of York ; Lord Archbishop of Can- terbury; Lord Chancellor; Lord Treasurer; Lord Privy Seal; Duke of Lauderdale ; Earl of Ogle; Earl of Bridge- water; Earl of Bath; Earl of Carlisle ; Earl of Arling- ton; Earl of Craven; Earl of Carbury; Viscount of Hal- lifax; LordMaynard; Lord Newport; Lord Holies; Mr. Vice Chamberlain ; Mr. Secretary Coventry; Mr. Chan- cellor of the Exchequer; Mr. Chancellor of the Duchy; Master of the Ordnance; Sir Thomas Osborne; Mr. Speaker. . Whereas, upon hearing the complaints of the inha- bitants of the parish of Croydon, in the county of Sur- rey, against Dr. Cleiver, vicar of the place, concerning several exorbitant courses by him practised for reco- very of his tithes, it was, the 4th of April last, referred to his Grace of Canterbury and the Lord High Chan- cellor of England, to endeavour to settle the busi- ness, for the future quiet of the parishioners, and that 384 HISTORY OF CROYDON. there may be a constant maintenance for the vicar there. And the said inhabitants, by their humble pe- tition this day read at the board, praying his Majesty to receive a report from the Lords' referees, of their proceedings therein, and to suspend the said Doctor, and give the petitioners leave to proceed at law against him, or otherwise to relieve them: It was thereupon ordered by his Majesty in council, that it be again re- ferred to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canter- bury, and the Right Honourable the Lord High Chan- cellor of England ; who, calling all parties before them, are to endeavour to compose and settle the said busi- ness, according to the proposals made by the said in- habitants of Croydon; but, if they cannot effect the same, then it is ordered that the said matter in differ- ence be heard at this board on Wednesday the 11th of June next; at which time all parties concerned are to give their attendance. Edward Walker. Before the time for this hearing came, unluckily it fell out, that Dr. Cleiver, having taken a little too much of the creature, in London, being upon his jour- ney home, just as God would please to have it (to shew what he deserved), against the gallows, near Newing- ton Butts, his horse threw him, or he fell off from his horse, broke his leg in three pieces, and put his shoul- der out. There he lay, and none would help him, the people thereabouts knowing him so well, that one cried, " There lies the vicar of Croydon, with his leg broke; I would to God he had broken his neck; the church would then be no more scandalized by such a APPENDIX. 385 rogue, nor the poor people tormented. Others wish- ed more severe things, which savoured not of Chris- tianity; therefore, we will not mention them: but, cer- tain it is, no one would help to remove him till they were paid beforehand, because he is counted so great a knave that none would trust him; nor would a coach- man take hiift up to carry him to Dr. Welden's house (the parson of Newington), before he had ten shillings in hand, which is not half a mile. And when he was at Dr. Welden's house, he sent for one Dr. Thorland, the bone-setter, from London, who found him in a very ill condition, but very glad he saw him at all; for it happened about twenty years since, an accident of the same nature befel him in Northamptonshire, of which the said Dr. Thorland cured him, but to this day was never paid for it. Nevertheless, the good man, as became a Christian, pitied the Doctor, and, seeing his misery, applied himself to his cure, and ef- fected the same in about three months, when he de- manded for his pains in this and the former case fifty pounds; but the Doctor would not pay him, upon which he arrested him. Thereupon, he pleaded him- self his Majesty's chaplain, shewed a certificate of his being sworn in that capacity, and so got off without paying for his cure. And as unworthily he served Dr. Welden, in whose house he so long lay sick, to the great trouble and disorder of his family, prejudice and spoiling of his goods. By this means the cause could not come to a hear- ing, as by the order of the 28th of May, 1673, was directed. But, during this the Doctor's sickness, he was several times sent unto by his Grace of Canter- C c 386 HISTORY OF CROYDON. bury and the Lord Chancellor, to know if he would resign. He declared that he would, so soon as there were indifferent persons nominated to arbitrate the differences between him and the parishioners, concern- ing arrears of tithes. Thereupon, his parishioners presented the petition annexed, and had the order of reference under- writ- ten made thereupon: — To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancel- lor of England, the humble Petition of the Inhabit- ants of Croydon, Humbly Sheweth, That your petitioners most thankfully acknowledge your Lordships' great favour in giving them hopes of the removal of Dr. Cleiver, their vicar, and placing amongst them Mr. Hescott, who hath been two Sundays with them, and preached, and the whole parish in ge- neral satisfied with him, and are ready to make good their former proposals, under hands, for making a set- tled maintenance of 160/. per annum, to be secured and paid in such manner as therein was proposed. Sunday, the 22nd of June instant, the church doors were shut up, there being no person to preach or read prayers ; which was a great discouragement to the pa- rish. That Dr. Cleiver, who (as your petitioners are informed) had resigned his vicarage (or promised on Friday last was seven-night so to have done), doth now refuse to make such surrender, until by your Lordships two gentlemen be nominated and appointed to arbitrate the matter in difference between him and APPENDIX. 387 some of the parishioners, concerning his tithes in ar- rears; to which your petitioners readily consent. That, by the order of his Majesty in council, upon the last petition presented by your petitioners, it was referred to your Lordships to end this business, if you could, or otherwise the cause upon the said petition to have been heard at that board the 11th of June last past. That your petitioners have none to preach to them, or christen, marry, or bury, Mr. Hescott be- ing gone into the country. The premises considered, they most humbly implore your Lordships' favour to nominate and appoint, un- der your hands, two persons to arbitrate the difference aforesaid, and desire them to meet and end the same, and that Dr. Cleiver may give his final determination whether he will surrender or not; and the cause there- upon to be set down to be heard in council; and in the meantime, that you will be pleased to appoint some good man to preach amongst them. And, as in duty bound, they shall pray. July 24, 1673. We do nominate and appoint Sir Adam Brown, Baronet, and Sir William Haward, to be the persons to arbitrate the matter in difference about tithes in ar- rears between Dr. Cleiver and the inhabitants of Croy- don, and do desire that they will undertake the trouble of ending these differences between them. Gilb. Cant. Shaftsbury, C. Whereupon, Sir Adam Brown and Sir William Ha- CC2 388 HISTORY OF CROYDON. ward appointed to meet at Croydon, the 5th of Au- gust, 1673; where they that day, and on the 6th, 7th, and 2Sth of August, and on the 2nd and 9th of Sep- tember, met to hear and compose the matters in dif- ference between the said vicar and his parishioners. And they heard and determined about two hundred and fifty differences , and made their report in express words as followeth : — To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancel- lor of England. May it please your Lordships, In pursuance of your Lordships' reference unto us made, upon the petition of the inhabitants of the town of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, dated the 24th of June last, we have been several days upon the place (to wit), on the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 25th of August last, and the 2nd and 9th of September instant, to endea- vour to compose the matters in difference betwixt Dr. William Cleiver and those of his parish with whom he had any controversy. On the 5th of August, the Doctor, after some delay, came to us to the George Inn, where many of the parishioners being present, we examined as many of their cases as we could be- fore ten of the clock at night, when the Doctor would stay no longer, though one hundred of people were waiting; so we adjourned to eight o'clock the next morning, when the Doctor refused to come to us, al- leging indisposition of body. Whereupon, resolving to proceed as far as we could, we went to his house, and continued sitting from eight in the morning till APPENDIX. 389 half an hour past twelve at night, without any inter- mission to eat; in which time we were sometimes told by the Doctor, that we needed not to trouble ourselves any farther, for, that he and those that were in ar- rears to him (and which we had not before determin- ed) should agree. But, upon the importunity of the poor, we stayed and heard all persons that the Doctor then complained against, and determined every case then before us; so that we thought to have made our report. But afterwards, accidentally riding through the town, and hearing fresh complaints, upon the de- sire of many of the inhabitants, we appointed to meet again on the 25th. of August last; when accordingly we came to the town, and sent for the Doctor, who refus- ed to come to us. Whereupon, we again went down to his house, but were so delayed by him, that we could not in the forenoon dispatch above eight or nine persons, he refusing to let those be called that were present, and ready to pay money, and calling upon others that were not there, and who only owed him for christenings and offerings. And, having sat till one of the clock, we went to the George to dinner, desiring the Doctor's company with us, offered him the conve- nience of a coach, because of his lameness, and left the same to bring him ; went ourselves on foot, the which we rather did, because his own house was inconve- nient, and we were much incommoded there by the smallness of the room and the heat occasioned by the crowd of people; but the Doctor would not come to us. So that, after sending for him several times, and he refusing to come, we writ to him, and appointed him to come to us on the 2nd of September instant ; 390 HISTORY OF CROYDON. expressly desiring him to prepare us a list of the per- sons' names that owed him any money, and how much each owed him, and for what; that so we might lose no more time in searching his books and papers for all the men that came before us, which much injured our proceedings; which done, we dismissed those that at- tended, who lost that daye's work, and appointed them to attend on the 2nd of September. But, on the 1 st of September, the said Doctor prevailed (upon pre- tence that he was ill by preaching the Sunday before), to defer the meeting till the 9th of September, when he promised to come to the George to us; and that, in the mean time, the parishioners should have notice thereof. Nevertheless, we, loth to disappoint them, came to Croydon the 2nd of September, and found many of the inhabitants waiting, having had no timely notice; and therefore sent to the Doctor, desiring him to come to us and dispatch them, (being informed he was well, and went abroad that day); but, though we sent often down, he refused to come; and so we were forced to dismiss them, with the loss of that day also, which much troubled us, appointing them to appear again the 9th of September; when we again attended, and sent for the Doctor, who at first refused to come, pretending that he had not promised so to do ; where- by he spent great part of our time, insomuch that we could do nothing till after dinner, when we sat, and the inhabitants being present, we demanded the list aforesaid, but could not prevail for the same; so that most part of our time (as formerly) was spent in his turning over his books. Nevertheless, we sat till ten at night, and dispatched all that were present, unless APPENDIX. 391 some few which the Doctor would not stay to end, though he continued longer in the room than we be- lieve would have dispatched them ; nor would he agree, though we desired it, to appear the next morning to end the same ; so that they lost their labour. And we do humbly certify, that, having examined about two hundred and fifty several cases, we did find, that the occasion of the difference between the Doctor and them was the unreasonable demands for tithes, and other undue impositions he had endeavoured to impose upon most of them, being the poorest sort of inhabitants ; who, being illiterate, were, by undue means, drawn into exorbitant agreements, penal bills, or judgments, by arresting and keeping them in durance, till they complied with him therein; whereby many families were put to very great expense, and thereby much im- poverished some of them, totally ruined others, forced them to run from their houses, and leave their wives and children to the parish; by which means we conceive that he himself, in some measure, hath been the occa- sion of the non-payment of what was his just dues, which otherwise might probably have been had, with the affections of the people. And for ground of this our belief, we take leave further to inform your Lord- ships, that every person that appeared before us, and with whom the Doctor had any contest, most willingly submitted to whatever we should determine between them; whereupon we proceeded to examine his de- mands, and, upon deliberate consideration of what was alleged on each side, found them very extravagant, and so fitting to be submitted unto; therefore moder- ated the same, giving him, in some cases, but the 392 HISTORY OF CROYDON. twentieth, in others the twelfth, tenth, sixth, or fourth part of what he demanded; which, in many cases, was more than they ought to have paid. Nevertheless, they most readily submitted thereunto, and all of them paid the same, in hopes of the Doctor's being removed, so that they may not further be troubled with him; the which he seemed to insinuate his readiness unto, and was the great motive that in many cases invited us to do what we did, excepting some poor alms-men, from whom he had gotten judgments for several sums of money, who being to pay a part thereof, where- upon, finding little or no ground for the said judg- ments, we reduced the sums demanded to a third part, and the parish undertook to satisfy the same, with which the Doctor rested satisfied; and also two or three small sums, not exceeding five pounds in the whole, for payment whereof we have given some short time. And we did determine all the cases that came before us, except one of Christopher Joyner, deceas- ed, of whose executors he demanded 10/. per annum, for ten years' arrears of tithes, when as he had not above 201, per annum in the parish; and Sir Purbeck Temple and Thomas Bower's cases, the difference be- tween whom had been before submitted to reference, and awards made, therein. Nevertheless, they sub- mitted to our determination ; and Sir Purbeck Temple tendered the money according to his award, which would not be accepted; and excepting also the case of Edward Harvy, the which had also been submitted unto reference, and one award made therein (though he be not able to pay any part of the money) ; which cases we were forced to leave, as we found the Doctor APPENDIX. 393 refusing to refer himself to us therein. And, having thus proceeded (being weary with these delays), we left the said parishioners, who most humbly and una- nimously implore your good Lordships' favour to re- move from amongst them the said Doctor, and that a good man may be placed amongst them. In which suit we also humbly join to your honours, as a thing which, for the reasons aforesaid, we do judge very conve- nient; all which, nevertheless, we humbly submit to your Lordships' judgments, and remain, My Lords, Your Lordships' most humble servants, Adam Brown. William Haward. Croydon, September 10, 1673. This report is not the tenth part so bad as the mat- ter appeared against the Doctor; the particular cases decided are too long to insert; but if they were, it would not be possible for any man to believe there could be so many horrid oppressions and frauds put upon poor people by any clergyman living. Of this report there were two copies signed; the one of them the referees presented to my Lord's Grace of Canter- bury, the other to the late Lord Chancellor; who thereupon promised to do what in them lay to remove the said Doctor. Accordingly he was sent for, pro- mised his Grace that he would resign, and came to the Lord Chancellor, and told him the same also ; and that, whenever his Lordship should desire the same, he would do it; adding, that his Grace commanded 394 HISTORY OF CROYDON. him to tell his Lordship that he would present to Croy- don such a person as his Lordship would appoint. And upon this consideration, the Lord Chancellor pro- mised the said Cleiver to provide for him some other living, bidding him rely upon his honour for it, assur- ing him he should have the first convenient living that fell in his gift, or to that effect ; whereupon the said Doctor promised to conform to his Lordship's desire?, but neglected to do the same, shuffling and endeavour- ing to put tricks upon their Lordships. This necessi- tated the parishioners to petition his Majesty and council once more ; therein setting forth what the re- ferees had done, annexing their report to the said pe- tition, shewing the necessity of the Doctor's being re- moved, or the town's being ruined; therefore humbly implored his removal, or that they might have his Ma- jesty's royal leave for to insert a clause into the act of Parliament then drawing, to settle the 160/. per annum on the vicar; to make the said Doctor incapable of any preferment in church or state. This petition being read, the King's most excellent Majesty present, the parishioners were called in, and told by the Lord Chancellor that their petition had been read, and that his Majesty's royal pleasure was, that in case the said Doctor did not surrender before the bills designed to be brought into Parliament for settling the maintenance aforesaid should be presented to the Parliament, that then they should put in such a clause into the said bill, wishing the parish to hasten the said bill. This the Lord Chancellor declared to them in his Majesty's presence. Besides this, the or- der following was made : — APPENDIX. 395 At the Court at Whitehall, October 15, 1673.— Pre- sent, the King's most excellent Majesty in council. Upon reading the petition of the inhabitants of Croydon, complaining against Dr. William Cleiver, their vicar, and praying that he may be removed, for several reasons set forth in the petition; his Majesty in council hath this day declared, that when the inha- bitants of the said parish of Croydon shall provide to settle 1601. sl year as a maintenance for the vicar of the said parish, according to their proposal in the said pe- tition, in order to the passing of an act to confirm the same for ever on the vicarage of the said parish, then his Majesty will give effectual order for removing the present incumbent, Dr. Cleiver. Robert Southwell. Upon this, the parishioners immediately went home, and published in the market, and at the church, his Majesty's gracious answer; desiring all the inhabitants to meet at the vestry to sign a declaration testifying their consents to the passing of the bill aforesaid; and accordingly most of them did meet, signed and sealed such certificates of their consents, and their humble pe- tition to both houses of Parliament to pass the said bill, and empowering a solicitor to prosecute the pass- ing thereof. This done, a bill was drawn, and such a clause as aforesaid was contained therein; when drawn, the same was copied, and one copy carried and left with his Grace of Canterbury; the other with the then Lord Chancellor: They having perused the same, my Lord of Canterbury referred the amendment there- of to Mr. Phillips of the Inner Temple, his Grace's 396 HISTORY OF CROYDON. counsel, and the Lord Chancellor to Mr. Attorney Montague; both were attended, and they made their several amendments: with which the same was fairly copied, and put into Sir Adam Brown's hand, to pre- sent in October last; but the prorogation of Parliament prevented the same. All this time the said Doctor had notice of it ; knew of the clause ; promised to surrender, so it might be left out; went to both his Grace of Canterbury, and from him to the Lord Chancellor, frequently declaring the same. And my Lord Chancellor offered him ano- ther living, which he kept void for him ; and so in truth it was, till the very day his Majesty was pleased to send for the seal from his Lordship. But the Doctor, resolving to persist in his villainies to ruin the parish of Croydon, (as he frequently declares he will do be- fore he leaves it), refuses to surrender, but continues to go on in horrid oppressions and vexations, com- mencing suits against his parishioners, without colour of cause, to their unspeakable damage. Under these sad oppressions, the poor parish having lain these thirteen years languishing, they now become humble supplicants to the Parliament of England, to enable them by an act to give such maintenance to a succeeding minister as may he an encouragement to a sober, learned, orthodox, and peaceable man to come and settle amongst them; to do the church that right as to remove so wicked and scandalous a person out of it ; and, for the honour and vindication of the religion of the Church of England, to make him for ever inca- pable of serving in the church again; than which no greater advantage can be done to the Church of Eng- land at this time. APPENDIX. 397 For the said Doctor is a frequenter of houses of de- bauchery v particularly a blind, beggarly, disorderly ale-house, in a by-place within the parish of Ne wing- ton, notoriously infamous for entertainment of lewd persons, where the officers (having notice given them) about midnight found him (upon search) hid in a gar- ret, and were carrying him to the counter or pri- son in the Borough, till he discovered himself to be a clergyman, and besought their civility, entreating that they would not disgrace him publicly; whereupon they released him. But the house soon after was in danger to be pulled down for a baudy-house. It is humbly submitted, whether this man be fit to be continued in the Church, or to be made a public ex- ample, to deter other clergymen from such wicked practices for the future. FINIS. LONDON : W. M'DOWALL, PRrNTJEIt, PEMBERTON ROW, G0U6H SQUARE. G 21 19 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 021 396 242 5 ism 9 HI