The Present State of London, Treatise · Chapter 3 · Section 2

The Present State of London · Treatise · Chapter 3 · Section 2

p. 19Sect. 2.

Of its Churches and Monuments.

THE Number of Pariſh-Churches, beſides Chapels, within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, is 132, (twice more than any City in Chriſtendom can ſhew;) The Cathedral of which, is dedicated to the Apoſtle St. PAƲL, and the onelyonly Cathedral of that Name in Europe. It was founded by Aethelbert King of Kent, Anno 610. (under whom Segbert a Saxon Reigned in this Tract of Ground) in a place where ſtood a Temple of Diana, and afterwards did endow it with Lands and Privileges; ſo did afterwards Athelſtan, Edgar and Eward the Confeſſor. It was much enlarged by Erkenwald, the Fourth Saxon Biſhop thereof: And being almoſt deſtroyed by Fire Anno 1078. Mauritius, another of its Biſhops, began the Foundation of this magnificent Pile, and went on about 20 years, but the Quire and Tower were not finiſhed till Anno 1221. As to other Caſualties, we refer you to the Chapter that treats of Fires.

As to its Dimenſions, the length of it, according to Stow, was 240 Taylors Yards, or 720 Foot; the Breadth, 130 Foot; the Heighth of the Steeple, 520 Foot; whereof the Stone Work was 260, and the Spire 260 Foot.

The Length of it, according to others, was 690 Foot, that is, 20 Foot more than St. Peters at Rome. It ſtood upon ſo much Ground, as contained above three Acres and an half. Upon the Spire of Timber was a Bowl of Copper Gilt 9 Foot and 1 Inch in compaſs, whereon ſtood the Croſs 15 Foot and an half high, and very near 6 Foot acroſs, made of Oak, covered with Lead, and another Cover of Copper over the Lead. Above all, ſtood the Eagle, or Cock p. 20of Copper Gilt 4 Foot long, and the Breadth of the Wings 3 Foot and an half.

It was built in Form of a Croſs, and in the midſt of the Croſs, upon mighty high Arches, was the Tower built. It was a very magnificent Structure for Beauty, Dimenſions and Proportion, as William of Malmsbury ſays, adding, That it ought to be numbred among the Number of the moſt excellent Edifices, the large Arched Vault, and the Church above it, being of ſuch a capacity, that (ſaith he) it may ſeem ſufficient enough to receive any Number of People.

The Caemitery, or Church-yard, was of a very great Dimenſion, for it reached North, as far as St. Nicholas Market-place; Weſt, almoſt as far as Lud-gate; South, near to Baynards Caſtle. I my ſelf this laſt year, viz. January 1680. ſaw in the place where the New Conduit is a building, where they digged to lay the Foundation, ſeveral Coffins and Bones, ſo that it extended farther by far on that ſide, and probably on all ſides, than it does now. As to its Benefactors, and its being conſumed by the dreadful Conflagration in 1666. more ſhall be ſpoken under their proper Heads.

As to its Situation, it was built on the higheſt part of the City, and ſo more conſpicuous, perhaps, than any Cathedral in the World. His preſent Majeſty in the year 1673. having with great coſt pulled down the Burnt Walls, removed the Rubbiſh, and cleared the Foundation, has laid another Foundation, which is conſiderably advanced; and for Magnificence, Splendor, Solidity, Figure, and Curious Architecture, will, probably, excel any to be ſeen elſewhere.

Beſides this ſtately Cathedral, there were deſtroyed in the dreadful Fire of 1666, Eighty ſeven Pariſh Churches, and ſix Conſecrated Chapels, a great many of which are ſince Re-built (far more ſtately and, p. 21magnificent than ever they were before) of ſolid Stone, with very curious Workmanſhip, beautified with excellent various Towers▪ and Fronts of true Roman Architecture.

Of the Churches in City and Suburbs we will give a brief Account, beginning with Weſtminſter Abby, and ſo on with the reſt Alphabetically.

Weſtminſter Abby was founded by Sebert King of the East Saxons, out of the Ruines of a Temple of Apollo which ſtood there, and fell by an Earthquake in the time of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, about the year of our Lord 605, and had its Name from its Situation, as being Weſt from London, and its Minſter. It was dedicated to St. Peter, and deſtroyed in the furious Wars of the Danes, but Reedified by Biſhop Dunſtan, by the favor of King Edgar, who gave it ſome few Monks.

Afterwards King Edward (called the Confeſſor) built it anew, and richly endowed it; but about 160 years after, King Henry III. Rebuilt it from the Ground, with that rare Architecture now ſeen. It was the work of 50 years complete. The King himſelf laid the firſt Stone, and covered the Roof with Lead in the year 1220. The Abbots much inlarged it afterwards to the Weſtward. And King Henry VII. Anno 1502. beſtowed 14000 Pounds in Building that admirable Chapel (which Leland calls the Wonder of the World;) for if we reſpect the admirable and artificial Work without and within, Beauty, and Elegancy, it can ſcarce be parallel'd in the World: And it is the judgment of the moſt Exquiſite Architects, that it comprehends whatſoever is rare and delicate in that Noble Art. Here is to be ſeen his own Tomb and Monument made of ſolid and maſſie Braſs.

The Form of the old Building, as an old Manuſcript ſhews, was, That the principal Plot or Ground-work of the Building, is ſupported with moſt lofty p. 22Arches, caſt round with a Four-ſquare Work and ſemblable Joints. But the Compaſs of the whole, with a double Arch of Stone on both ſides, is encloſed with Joined Work firmly knit and united together every way. The Croſs of the Church, which was to compaſs the Mid-quire of thoſe that chaunted unto the Lord, and with a twofold ſupportance that it had on either ſide to uphold and bear the lofty top of the Tower in the midſt, ſimply ariſeth at firſt with a low and ſtrong Arch; then mounteth it higher, with many winding ſtairs, artificially aſcending with a number of ſteps; but afterwards, with a ſingle wall, it reacheth up to the Roof of Timber, well and ſurely covered with Lead.

But the new Work of King Henry III. far excels that for rare Workmanſhip, being ſupported with ſeveral Rows of Marble Pillars in very curious Order, and the Roof covered with ſheets of Lead.

When the Monks were driven from this Church, it had (1) A Dean and Prebendaries. (2) Afterwards one Biſhop (viz. T. Thurlby) who having waſted the Church Patrimony, was removed. (3) Queen Mary ſet the Monks and their Abbot in poſſeſſion: But (4) They were by Queen Elizabeth and the Parliament caſt out, and it was converted to a Collegiate Church, and a Dean placed therein with 12 Prebendaries, and as many old Soldiers paſt Service. Petty Canons, and others of the Quire, to the number of 30. And ten Officers belonging to the Collegiate Dyet, a Schoolmaſter, and an Uſher. Forty Scholars, who are in their due time preferred to the Univerſities, they are called the Queens (or Kings) Scholars. Twelve Almſmen, with plentiful Maintenance for all. Twelve poor Scholars, beſides Stewards, Receivers, Regiſters, Collectors, and other Officers; the Principal whereof is the High Steward of Weſtminſter, who is uſually one of the Prime Nobility. The Dean is intruſted with the Cuſtody of p. 23the Regalia at the Coronation, honoured with a place of neceſſary ſervice at all Coronations, and a Commiſſion of Peace within the City and Liberties of Weſtminſter. The Dean and Chapter inveſted with all manner of Juriſdiction Eccleſiaſtical and Civil, not only in the City and Liberties of Weſtminſter, but within the Precincts of St. Martins le grand, within the Walls of London, and in ſome Towns of Eſſex, exempted in the one from the Juriſdiction of the Biſhop of London, and in the other from that of the Archbiſhop of Canterbury. There is a fair publick Library free for all Strangers to ſtudy both morning and afternoon always in Term-time. William the Conqueror, and all our Kings and Queens ſince, have been Crowned in this Church.

The Monument of King Henry VII. in the New Chapel, was made and finiſhed in the year 1519. by one Peter a Florentine, for which he received of the Kings Executors 1000 l. The King, with Elizabeth his Queen, lie Interr'd in it, being (as was ſaid) a Tomb of ſolid Braſs, compaſſed about with theſe Verſes, which, for their Elegancy, and becauſe they deſcribe him to be ſo Renowned, we ſhall here inſert.

Septimus Henricus Tumulo requieſcit in iſto

Qui Regum ſplendor, lumen & orbis erat.

Rex vigil, & ſapiens, comis, virtutis amator

Egregius formae, ſtrenuus atque potens.

Qui p…perit pacem Regno, qui bella peregit

plurima, qui victor ſemper ab hoſte redit.

Qui natus binis conjunxit Regibus ambas,

R…gibus & Cuncti foedere Junctus erat.

Qui ſacrum hoc ſtruxit Templum, statuitque ſepulchrum,

Pro ſe, proque ſua conjuge, prole, Domo.

Luſtra Decem, atque annos tres plus compleverat annis.

Nam tribus octensis Regia Sceptra tulit.

p. 24Quindecies Domini centenus fluxerat annus,

Currebat nonus cum venit atra Dies.

Septima termenſis lux tunc fulgebat Aprilis,

Cum Clauſit ſummam tanta Corona Diem.

Nulla Dedere prius tantum tibi ſaecula Regem

Anglia, vix ſimilem posteriora Dabunt.

This Church is famous for the Monuments and Tombs of our Kings, Queens, Nobility, and other eminent Men, as Sebert the firſt Chriſtian King of the East… Saxons. Harold the Baſtard, Son of Canutus the Dane, King of England. King Edward the Confeſſor and his Queen Edith. Maud Wife to King Henry the Firſt, the Daughter of Malcolm King of Scots. Henry the 3. and his Son. King Edward the 1. with Eleanor his Wife, daughter to Ferdinando the firſt King of Castile and Leon. King Edward the 3. and Philippa of Henault his Wife. King Henry the 5. with Katherine his Wife, Daughter to King Charles the 6. of France. Anne Wife to King Richard 3. Daughter to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick. King Henry the 7. with his Wife Elizabeth, Daughter to King Edward the 4. and his Mother Margaret Counteſs of Richmond. King Edward the ſixth (that moſt Religious and truly Vertuous Prince,) who lyeth under the Braſs richly Gilded Altar, moſt curiouſly wrought with Excellent Workmanſhip. Anne of Cleave, the 4th. Wife of King Henry the Eight. Queen Mary, and the Renowned Queen Elizabeth; upon the Remove of whoſe Body from Richmond (where She Dyed,) to White-Hall by Water, theſe Lines were Written, which may for their Elegancy, and in Remembrance of that moſt Illuſtrious Proteſtant Queen be inſerted.

The Queen was brought by Water to White-Hall,

At every ſtroake the Oars their tears let fall.

p. 25More clung about the Barge; Fiſh under water

Wept out their Eyes of Pearl, ſwam blindly after:

I think the Barge-men might with eaſier Thighs,

Have row'd her thither in her Peoples Eyes,

For howſoe'er, thus much my thoughts have ſcann'd,

Sh'ad come by Water, had ſhe come by Land.

Prince Henry, eldeſt Son of King James, the Firſt Monarch of Great Britain. King James Himſelf and Queen Ann his Wife; and the firſt Male born of King Charles the Firſt, dying an Infant. Of Dukes, and Earls, and Lords Degree. Edmund Earl of Lancaster, ſecond Son of King Henry the Third, and his Lady Aveline de fortibus, Counteſs of Albemarle. William and Andomar of Valente, of the Family of Luſignian, Earls of Pembrooke▪ Alphonſus, John, and other Children of King Edward the firſt. John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, Son to King Edward the Second. Thomas of Woodſtock, Duke of Gloceſter, the youngeſt Son of Edward the Third, with other of his Children. Eleanor, Daughter and Heir of Humphry B…hun Earl of Hereford, and of Eſſex, Wife to Thomas of Woodſtock. The young Daughter of Edward the Fourth. And King Henry the Seventh. Henry, a Child of two months old, Son of King Henry the Eighth. S… phia, the Daughter of King James, who died as it were, in the firſt Day-dawning of her Age. Philippa Mohun▪ Dutcheſs of York. Robert of Henault, in right of his Wife, Lord Bourchier, Ann the young Daughter and Heir of John Mowbra…, Duke of Norfolk, promiſed in Marriage unto Richard Duke of York, younger Son to King Edward the Fourth. Sir Giles Dawbny, Lord Chamberlain to King Henry the Seventh, and his Wife, of the Houſe of the Arundels in Cornwall. John Viſcount Wells. Frances Brandon, Dutcheſs of Suffolk; Mary her Daughter. Margaret Douglas, Counteſs of Lenex, Grandmother p. 26to James, King of Great Britain, with Charles her Son. Winefrid Bruges, Marchioneſs of Winchester. Ann Stanhope, Dutcheſs of Somerſet, and Jane her Daughter. Ann Cecil, Counteſs of Oxford, Daughter to the Lord Burleigh, Lord High-Treaſurer of England, with Mildred Burghley her Mother. Elizabeth Berkly, Counteſs of Ormond. Frances Sidney, Counteſs of Suſſex. James Butler, Viſcount Thurles, Son and Heir to the Earl of Ormond.

Beſides theſe, Humphry Lord Bourchier of Cornwall. Sir Humphry Bourchier, Son and Heir to the Lord Bourchier of Berners, both ſlain at Barnet field. Sir Nicholas Carew, Baron Powis. Thomas Lord Wentworth. Thomas Lord Wharton. John Lord Ruſſel. Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England. Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heir General of Henry Viſcount Howard of Bindon, Wife to Sir Arthur Gorges. Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Edward Earl of Rutland, Wife to William Cecil. Sir John Puckering, Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal of England. Frances Howard, Counteſs of Hartford. Henry and George Cary, the Father and Son, Barons of Hunſdon, both Lords Chamberlains to Queen Elizabeth. The Heart of Ann Sophia, the Daughter of Chriſtopher Harley, Count Beaumont, Ambaſſador for the King of France in England, beſtowed within a ſmall Gilt Urn over a Pyramid. Sir Charles Blunt, Earl of Devonſhire, Lord-Lieutenant-General of Ireland. Geoffrey Chaucer, the Prince of Engliſh Poets in his time. Edmund Spencer, an eminent Poet. William Cambden, Clarencieux King of Arms. Cauſabon the Famous French Writer. Michael Drayton, &c.

Then there is George Villiers Duke, Marquiſs and Earl of Buckingham, Favourite to King James, and King Charles the Firſt. Alſo the Earl of Eſſex, and ſeveral others Interr'd there, during His preſent Majeſties p. 27Abſence from His Government. There is alſo Interr'd George Duke of Albemarle, (Father to his Grace the preſent Duke,) whoſe Funerals were Solemnly performed the Thirtieth of April 1670. The Dutcheſs of Albemarle, was alſo Interr'd in King Henry the Sevenths Chappel, the twenty eighth of February 1669. in Weſtminſter Church. There is likewiſe Interr'd, that Celebrated Poet Mr. Abraham Cowley, under a Monument of Exquiſite Curioſity, at the Charges of his Grace the Noble Duke of Buckingham.

Having done with Westminſter-Abby, we ſhall give a Brief account of the other Churches Alphabetically, as they were before the Fire: And of ſuch as are Re-built, (which are now far more Durable and Stately than before) the Reader may expect an Account hereafter.

I. St. Albans Church in Woodſtreet, is of great Antiquity, being Dedicated to St. Albans the firſt Martyr of England. Another mark of Antiquity was to be ſeen in the manner of the turning the Arches in the Windows, and heads of the Pillars. There were alſo Roman Bricks found inlay'd here and there among the Stones of the Building; it was, Anno 1632. (being wonderfully decay'd,) pull'd down in order to be Re-built. In it were diverſe Monuments, which for brevity ſake are omitted.

II. On the North ſide of the Eaſt end of Tower-ſtreet, is the Pariſh-Church called All-hallows Barkin, a very fair Church, ſtanding in a large Church-Yard; on the North ſide whereof, was built a fair Chappel by King Richard the firſt, whoſe heart ('tis ſaid) was buryed there, under the high Altar. This Chappel was Augmented by King Edward the firſt. And a fraternity ſetled there by King Edward the fourth. King Richard the third new Built it, and founded therein a Colledge of Prieſts; which was ſuppreſſed in the Year 1548. p. 28in the Second of Edward the ſixth, and the Ground made a Garden-Plat, till the time of Queen Elizabeth; and then Built upon, and made a Store-Houſe for Merchants Goods. The Church was Beautified and Repaired in the Year 1613.

III. On the Eaſt-ſide of Bread-ſtreet, at the corner of Watling-ſtreet, is the Church of All-hallows Bread-ſtreet, wherein were divers Monuments. This Church had a fair Spired-Steeple of Stone, which in the Year 1559. September the Fifth, about Noon, by a great Tempeſt of Lightning, and a great Clap of Thunder, was ſtruck about Nine or Ten Foot beneath the Top, out of which fell a ſtone that overthrew a Man, and ſlew a Dog; but the Spire was taken down to ſave the Charge of Repair. This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh Charge Anno 1625.

IV. Great All-hallows in Thames-ſtreet, was a fair Church, with a large Cloyſter on the South ſide, in which were Sundry Monuments, but now Ruinated. It was Repaired and richly Beautified at the Pariſh Charge, Anno 1627. and 1629. In the year 1632. all the Iles to the Chancel were raiſed a Foot and a half, and the Pews a Foot above that, for conveniency of Hearing, which coſt ſix hundred Pound. There was a Monument of Queen Elizabeths, with theſe Verſes:

If Royal Vertues ever crown'd a Crown,

If ever Mildneſs ſhin'd in Majeſty,

If ever Honour, honour'd true Renown,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princeſs put all Princes down

For Temp'rance, Proweſs, Prudence, Equity,

This, this was, She, that in Deſpight of Death,

Lives ſtill Admir'd, Ador'd, ELIZABETH.

Many Daughters have done Vertuouſly, but thes… excelleſt them all.

p. 29In the Figure of a Book over her, were theſe words:

They that truſt in the Lord ſhall be as Mount Sion, which ſhall not be removed.

On the one ſide.

Spains Rod, Romes Ruine, Netherlands Relief,

Heavens Jem, Earths Joy, Worlds Wonder, Natures Chief.

On the the other ſide.

Britains Bleſſing, Englands Splendor,

Religions Nurſe, the Faiths Defender.

Under her.

I have fought a good Fight, I have finiſhed my Courſe, &c.

V. In Hony-lane near the Standard in Cheap-ſide is the ſmall Pariſh-Church called All-hallows Hony-lane, Repaired at the Pariſh Charge, anno 1625. At the coſt of above Fifty Five Pound.

VI. In Thames-ſtreet is the Pariſh-Church of All-hallows the leſs, which ſtood on Vaults, and ſaid, to be Built by Sir John Poultney, ſometimes Mayor of London; the Steeple and Quire ſtood on an Arched-gate, which was (being fallen) Re-built by the Pariſh, anno 1594. The whole Church was Repaired and Beautified at the coſt of the Pariſhoners, anno 1616. Here was alſo a Monument of Queen Elizabeths.

VII. In Lumbard-ſtreet, ſtood the Pariſh-Church called, All-hallows Lumbard-street,—begun to be New Built anno 1494. and finiſhed 1516. To which the Pewterers were good Benefactors; the Steeple p. 30was finiſhed 1544. about the 36 of H. 8. Here were alſo divers Monuments. It was Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh-charge, Anno 1622, and 1623, and coſt 177 l. 9 s.

VIII. The Pariſh-Church of Alhallows-Stayning, or, as commonly call'd Stane-Church, lies on the South-ſide of Langborn-Ward, ſomewhat within Mart-lane, in which were divers fair Monuments, as of John Coſtin a Cirdler, who dyed 1244. and gave the Poor of the Pariſh an Hundred Quarters of Charcoals yearly for ever. John Mann, Citizen and Mercer, who gave an Hundred Pounds towards the Repair of the Church, and dyed in the year 1615. It was Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh-charge, Anno 1630.

IX. The Pariſh-Church of Alhallows the Wall, ſo called, becauſe it ſtands cloſe to the Wall of the City in Bread-ſtreet-Ward. It was Repaired and Beautified at the Charge of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1613. Again moſt curiouſly Repaired and Beautified, Anno 1627. at 220 l. Coſt.

Queen ELIZABETHS Monument.

Read but her Reign, the Princeſs might have been

For Wiſdom call'd Nicaulis, Sheba's Queen

Against Spain's Holofernes, Judith ſhe

Dauntleſs gain'd many a glorious Victory:

Not Deborah did her in Fame excel,

She was a Mother to our Iſrael.

An Heſter, who her Perſon did ingage

To ſave her People from the Publick. Rage;

Chaſte Patroneſs of True Religion,

In Court a Saint, in Field an Amazon;

Glorious in Life, Deplored in her Death,

Such was Ʋnparallel'd ELIZABETH.

p. 31Born, Anno 1534.

Crowned, An. 1558. Jan. 15.

Reigned years 44. mon. 4. days 17.

Dyed An. 1602. Mar. 24.

X. The Pariſh-Church of St. Alphage. The principal Iſle of this Church, towards the North, was pulled down, and a Frame of Four Houſes ſet up in the place. The other part, from the Steeple upward, was converted into a Pariſh-Church of St. Alphage: And the Pariſh-Church which ſtood near unto the Wall of the City by Cripplegate, was pulled down; the Plat thereof made a Carpenters Yard with Saw-Pits. This being decay'd, the Pariſhioners Repaired it, Anno 1624. and being Beautifully finiſhed, Anno 1628. it coſt the Pariſh 500 l.

XI. St. Andrew Hubbard, or St. Andrew in East-Cheap, is ſituate in Love-Lane in Billingſgate-Ward, which was Repaired and Beautifully adorned at the Coſt of the Pariſh, Anno 1630. amounting to above 600 l.

XII. St. Andrew Ʋnderſhaft, ſtands at the North-Weſt-Corner of Aldgate-Ward, a Fair and Beautiful Pariſh-Church; ſo called, becauſe every May-Day in the morning, they were wont (in old times) to ſet up a high Shaft or May-pole in the Street before the South-door, which, when fixt, was higher than the Steeple. But this practice was diſcontinued ſince Evil May-Day, when there was an Inſurrection of Apprentices, and other Young Perſons, againſt Foreigners, Anno 1517. The ſaid Shaft being laid along under the Pent-houſes of a Row of Houſes upon Iron Hooks, till the 3d of Edw. 6. the People Saw'd it in pieces, after it had lay'n 32 years, every man taking the length of his Houſe: Which was occaſioned by the Preaching of one Stevin, who at Pauls Croſs ſaid, It was an Idol, as giving Name to the Church. It was New Built by the Pariſh, p. 32Anno 1520. to which Stephen Jennings, Merchant-Taylor, ſometimes Lord Mayor, was a great Benefactor; as alſo John Kerby, Merchant-Taylor, ſometimes one of the Sheriffs; John Garland, Merchant-Taylor, and his Executor, Nicholas Leviſon, and ſeveral others, and fully finiſhed, Ann 1532. It was afterwards Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh-charge, Anno 1627. They had at the lower end of the North Iſle, a fair Wainſcot-Preſs full of good Books, the Works of many Learned Divines, where at convenient times any that would, may read.

XIII. The Church of St. Andrew Wardrobe, was a proper Church in Baynard-Caſtle-Ward, but few Monuments in it. John Parut founded a Chauntry there, it was Repaired at the Charge of the Pariſh, Anno 1627.

XIV. On the North of Pope-Lane, ſo called of one Pope that owned it, is the Pariſh-Church of St. Ann in the Willows, (or St. Ann Alderſgate) ſo called (as ſome think) of Willows growing formerly thereabouts. It was Burnt in part 1548. but ſince Repaired. It was afterwards much decay'd, but beautifully repaired, Anno 1624.

XV. St. Ann Black-friers, it ſeems, was built in the Reign of Edw. III. It was new built in the year 1430. 8 H. 6. Sir William Eaſtfield Mayor, William Ruſſe and Ralph Holland Eſqs. Sheriffs; and the Commonalty granted of the Common Ground of the City, Three Foot and an half in Breadth on the North part, and Four Foot in Breadth toward the Eaſt, for the enlarging thereof. This Ancient Church belonging to the Black-friers, before the diſſolution of ſuch places by H. 8. was one of the moſt ſpacious and fair Churches in London, but afterwards demoliſhed Anno 1613. The Inhabitants of Black-friers purchaſed ſo much Houſes on the South-ſide of their Church, as was 36 Foot in p. 33Length, and 54 in Breadth; the Purchaſe whereof, together with the Vault for Burying, and other Rooms under that part of the Church, &c. coſt 1546 l. 6 s. Anno 1632. The Inhabitants of the ſaid Black-friers, purchaſed the Rooms directly under an upper Room, formerly converted to a Church, to repair the Walls and Foundations whereon the Church ſtood at the coſt (together with the Repairs) of 500 l. The Sum of all beſtowed upon Black-friers Church, ſince the Reformation, amounted to 2600 l. 4 s. till the year 1633. It was burnt down, Anno 1666. in the great Fire, and not yet Re-built.

XVI. St. Anthonie… Church (vulgarly called St. Antlins, or St. Antholins) in Budge-Row in Cord-wainer-ſtreet Ward, was a fair Pariſh-Church; Sir Thomas Knowles, late Lord Mayor of London, lieth Buried there, who Repaired, and was a great Benefactor to it. It was Repaired and Beautified, Anno 1616. towards which, Sir William Craven, Mr. Henry Jay Aldermen, Mr. Adrian Moore, Mr. Thomas Boothby, Mr. Francis Dorrington, Mr. William Parker, Mr. Cleophas Smith, Citizen and Draper of London, were free and bountiful Benefactors; the coſt amounted to near 1000 l.

XVII. The Pariſh-Church of Auguſtine (vulgarly Auſtin) in Watling-ſtreet in Faringdon-Ward-within, was a fair Church, and well Repaired. And was in the years 1630, and 1631, in part Re-built, and Beautifully adorned at the charge of the Pariſhioners, which coſt 1200 l.

XVIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Bartholomew Exchange, at the end of Bartholomew-lane, was new Built by Thomas Pike Alderman, with the aſſiſtance of Nicholas Yoo, one of the Sheriffs of London, about the year 1438. Sir John Lepington's Lady founded a Chauntry there, in the 21 of Edw. 4. Sir William Capel Mayor, added a proper Chapel, Anno 1509. p. 34on the South-ſide. James Wilford Taylor, one of the Sheriffs, 1499. appointed by his Teſtament, a Doctor of Divinity, every Good-Friday to preach a Sermon there of Chriſt's Paſſion, for ever, from ſix a clock, till 8 before Noon. This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1620.

XIX. The Pariſh-Church of St. Bennet, which, of Robert Fink ſenior who new Built it, is called St. Bennet Finck, ſtands in Thread-needle-ſtreet in Broad-ſtreet-Ward, which was a proper Church. It was Repaired and Beautifully adorn'd at the Pariſh-charge, Anno 1633. at the coſt of above 400 l.

XX. In the Street formerly called Graſs-ſtreet, (but vulgarly Graces, or Gracious-ſtreet) is the Pariſh-Church called St. Bennet Graſs-Church, of the Herb-Market kept near it, but vulgarly Grace-Church in Bridge-Ward-within. This Church was Repaired and Beautified, Anno 1630. with a new Clock-Dyal, and Chimes added, Anno 1633.

XXI. St. Bennet Paulſ-Wharf in Thames-ſtreet in Caſtle-Baynard-Ward, was a proper Pariſh-Church, with ſeveral Monuments in it.

XXII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Syth, hath an addition of Bennet-Shorne, (or Shrog, or Shorehog) and is vulgarly called, St. Bennet Sherehog. The ancienteſt name of theſe is Shorne, of one Benedict Shorne, ſometime a Citizen and Stock-fiſhmonger of London, who New Built, Repaired it, or was a Benefactor thereof in the time of Edward II. ſo that Shorne is corruptly called Shrog, and more corruptly Shorebog. Being very much decayed, it was at the Pariſh-charge very amply Repaired and Beautified, Anno 1628. It is near Needles-lane in Cheap-Ward.

XXIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Botolph in Thames-ſtreet in Billingſgate-Ward, was a handſom Church, and had many fair Monuments in it, but now p. 35defaced. This Church was Repaired and Beautifully adorn'd at the Pariſh-charge, Anno 1624.

XXIV. Chriſt-Church was founded by King Henry VIII. who gave the old Pariſh-Church of St. Nicholas, to the Mayor and Commonalty of London, towards the maintenance of this New Church to be erected in the late diſſolved Church of the Grey-fryers called St. Ewin, which Pariſh-Church, with the aforeſaid Pariſh-Church of St. Nicholas, and ſo much of St. Sepulchres Pariſh as is within Newgate, were then made one Pariſh-Church by the name of Chriſt-Church. Of the Hoſpital there, we ſhall ſpeak under its proper head. There was a fair and ſpacious Gallery erected in the North Iſle of this Church, Anno 1628. which coſt the Pariſhioners 149 l. 10 s. which was not only neceſſary, but graceful and beautiful. It is in Faringdon-Ward-within.

XXV. In Broad-ſtreet-Ward near the Stocks-Market, is the Pariſh-Church of St. Chriſtopher: To which Richard Sherington, Anno 1392. gave Lands; ſo did the Lady Margaret Norford, Anno 1406. John Clavering, 1421, &c. But, above all, the charity of Robert Thorne Merchant-Taylor, and a Batchelor, is to be perpetuated, who lay Interred there in a fair Tomb of Touch, and gave, by his Will, 4445 l. to pious Uſes. This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the coſt of the Pariſh, Anno 1621.

XXVI. St. Clements East-Cheap in Candlewick-ſtreet-Ward, is a ſmall Pariſh-Church. William Chartney and William Overie founded a Chauntry there. It was Repaired and Beautified at the coſt of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1632.

XXVII. At the South-weſt corner of Lime-ſtreet in Langborn-Ward, ſtood the fair Pariſh-Church p. 36of St. Dionis, called Back-Church, new Built in the Reign of Henry VI. to which John Bugge Eſq was a great Benefactor. John Darby Alderman, added thereto a fair Iſle or Chapel on the South-ſide, and was there Buried, Anno 1466. He gave (beſides ſundry Ornaments) his Dwelling-houſe, beſides other Houſes, unto the ſaid Church. The middle Iſle of this Church was new laid in the year of our Lord, 1629. The Steeple was repaired, a new Turret built, new Frames were made for the Bells, and the Church very decently beautified, Anno 1632.

XXVIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Dunſtans East, is ſo called, for difference from another Church in the Weſt of that Name. It was a fair and large Church, of an ancient Building, and within a large Church-yard: There be many rich Merchants, and other rich Tradeſmen in that Pariſh, chiefly Salters and Ironmongers. In this are divers Monuments of worthy perſons. There are alſo Seven ſhillings three pence given to the Poor every Sunday throughout the year in ready money, beſides Bread, and other Gifts, according to the Wills and Diſpoſitions of Sir Richard Champion, and Alderman Heardſon, with Coals given beſides at certain times. One man hath given yearly on Ox, to be diſtributed by a quarter thereof quarterly, and a Peck of Oat-meal therewithall, to the Poor: But ſo ordered, that they that have the quarter of Beef and Peck of Oatmeal at one quarter, muſt ſtay till other Poor be ſo ſerved, and that it comes to their turn again. There are other Charities which came in Gifts of ready money, and are accordingly truly diſtributed. This Church being decayed, began to be Repaired in the year of our Lord 1631. and was fully Repaired, and curiouſly adorn'd, Anno 1633. the charge of it amounting to above 2400 l. to make up which, many worthy Pariſhioners did very bountifully contribute.

p. 37XXIX. The Pariſh-Church of St. Edmond King and Martyr, commonly called St. Edmond Lombard-ſtreet by the South-corner of Birchover-lane, is alſo called St. Edmond Graſs-Church, becauſe the Graſs (or Herb) Market came down ſo low. In this Church were divers Monuments, and ſeveral pious Benefactors contributed to the Relief of the Poor; of which more in its proper place, under the Head of Benefactors. This Church was Repaired and Beautified very richly, at the charge of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1631, and 1632. It coſt 248 l.

XXX. The Pariſh-Church of St. Ethelburgh ſtands near Little St. Helens in Biſhopſgate-Ward. It was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1612. And Anno 1620, the Steeple was Repaired. Anno 1630, a Gallery was built in the South Iſle, at the charge of Owen Santpeere, an Inhabitant of that Pariſh.

XXXI. At the Weſt-end of Jeſus Chapel under the Quire of Pauls, was the Pariſh-Church of St. Faith, commonly called St. Faith under Pauls, which ſerved for the Stationers, and others dwelling in Pauls Church-yard, Pater-Noſter-Row, and places ad…oining. The Chapel of Jeſus being ſuppreſſed in the Reign of Edward VI. The Pariſhioners of St. Faith's Church were removed into the ſame, as being more large and lightſom, Anno 1551. As to the Repairs of this, we will only ſay (what was anciently ſaid of it) that

This Church needs no Repair at all,

Saint Faith's defended by Saint Paul.

XXXII. In the midſt of Fenchurch-ſtreet ſtands the Pariſh-Church, called St. Gabriel Fen-church, to which Helming Legget Eſq by Licence p. 38of Edward III. in the 49 year of his Reign, gave one Tenement with a Curtelage thereunto belonging, and a Garden with an Entry thereto leading, to the Parſon and his Succeſſors, as a Parſonage-houſe, and the Garden to be a Burying-place for the Pariſh. This Church was inlarged Nine Foot, and very richly Beautified, at the charge of the Pariſh, Anno 1631, and 1632. which coſt them 537 l. 7 s. 10 d.

XXXIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. George Botolph-lane in Billinſgate-Ward is ſmall, but had divers Monuments. It was Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh-charge, Anno 1627.

XXXIV. Adjoining to the place where Lollards Tower ſtood, called the Biſhops Priſon, where they committed ſuch as gain-ſaid the Opinions of their Church, is the Pariſh-Church of St. Gregory, appointed to the Petty Canons of Pauls. This Church was repaired and richly adorned, at the coſt of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1631, and 1632. which amounted to above 2000 l.

XXXV. The Pariſh-Church of St. Hellens in Biſhopſgate-Ward, was ſometimes a Priory of Black Nuns, founded in the Reign of Henry III. which was demoliſhed the 30 of Henry VIII. The whole Church, and the Partition betwixt the Nuns Church and Pariſh-Church being taken down, remaineth to the Pariſh, and is a fair Pariſh-Church. This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Pariſhioners, 1631, 1632, 1633. which amounted to above 1300 l.

XXXVI. The Pariſh-Church of St James Dukes-Place in Aldgate-Ward, was built in King James's time, and conſecrated Anno 1622. Sir Peter Proby being Lord Mayor, John Hodges Eſq and Sir Humphry Hanford Kt. Sheriffs and Aldermen. It p. 39was built where the Priory (as they called it) of the Holy Trinity formerly ſtood, the Pariſhioners obtaining Licenſe of King James to build themſelves a Pariſh Church, having long been deſtitute; to the building of which, many worthy Perſons were Benefactors. It is a very beautiful and handſome Church, and at the time of re-edifying it was called, Trinity Chriſt Church.

XXXVII. The Pariſh-Church of James Garlick-hithe, or Garlick-hive, becauſe on the River Thames, near this Church, Garlick was uſually Sold in former Days. This was a handſom Church. It is Recorded that Richard Rothing, one of the Sheriffs of London, new built it in anno 1326, and lyes Buryed there, &c. The North Ile was New Built, and the whole Church Repaired at the charge of the Pariſhioners, anno 1624. which amounted to above ſeven hundred Pound. This is in Vintry-Ward.

XXXVIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. John Baptiſt, (called St. John upon Wallbrook, becauſe the Weſt end thereof is on the very Bank of Wallbrook, by Horſe-ſhooe-bridge in Horſe-ſhooe-bridge-ſtreet) was ſome Years before the Fire new built. For in the Year 1412, Licenſe was granted by the Lord Mayor and Commonalty, to the Parſon and Pariſh, to enlarge it with a piece of Ground on the North part of the Quire, one and twenty Foot in length, and ſeventeen Foot in breadth, and three Inches; and and on the South ſide of the Quire, one Foot of the common Soyl. The moſt Memorable Monument there, was that of Sir Henry Fitz-Alwin, Draper, the firſt Lord Mayor of London, (in the Tenth of King John, anno 1208.) who continued by many Elections in the Mayoralty ſeveral Years. His dwelling Houſe in that Pariſh was divided into two or three Houſes, and given to the Drapers, for which they pay a quit-rent in his Name yearly for ever. So that Mr. Stow's avouching that he was Buried in the p. 40Priory of the Holy Trinity within Ald-gate, (now called Dukes-place) is a miſtake. The Curious in this matter may be ſatisfied in the Drapers-Hall. This Church was Re-edified and Adorned, anno 1621. It is in Wallbrook-Ward.

XXXIX. On the Eaſt ſide of Friday-ſtreet, (ſo called of Fiſhmongers dwelling there that ſerved Fridays Market,) is the Pariſh-Church commonly called St. John Evangeliſt, in Bread-ſtreet-Ward. It was Repaired and Beautified at the coſt of the Pariſhioners, anno 1626. And a new Gallery was Built and Beautified at the proper charge of Thomas Good-year, a Citizen and Draper of London, that dwelt in the Pariſh.

XL. At the North-Weſt Corner of Maiden-lane, in Alder…gate-Ward, is the fair Pariſh-Church of St. John Zachary. Thomas Lichfield founded a Chauntry there in the Fourteenth year of Edward the Second. Sir Nicholas T…yford, Goldſmith, and Lord Mayor, with Dame Margery his Wife, lye Interr'd there. Of whoſe Goods the Church was made, and new Built with a Tomb for them and their poſterity, Anno 1390. Amongſt many other Pious and Worthy Perſons and Benefactors to the publick, we cannot omit a Monument erected there in Memory of Sir James Pemberton Knight, who being Sheriff of this City, at the coming in of King James, entertained near Forty Earls and Barons when the King was proclaimed. Anno 1612. he was Elected Mayor of this Honourable City of London. He Erected a Free-School in the Pariſh of Ecleſton in Lancaſhire, ſixteen years before his Death, and gave Fifty Pound by the Year for the maintaining thereof for ever. He gave alſo five hundred pound to Christs-Hoſpital, and two hundred pound to the Company of Goldſmiths, beſides many liberal Gifts to the Poor of his Kindred, and many other moſt Charitable uſes. He Died the Eighth of September, 1613, Aged Sixty Eight Years.

p. 41This is the ſubſtance of the Inſcription, with theſe Verſes:

Marble, nor Touch, nor Alabaſter can

R…veal the Worth of the long buryed Man:

For oft we ſee Mens Goods, when they are gone,

Do Pious deeds, when they themſelves did none.

M…ne (while I liv'd) no goodneſs did expreſs,

'Tis not Inſcriptions make them more or leſs:

In Chriſt I hope to riſe amongſt the Juſt,

Man is but Graſs, all must to Worms and duſt.

There are many other Verſes, but our intended brevity will not admit of Tranſcribing them. The Repairs of this Church from the Year 1616, to 1631, coſt 120 l. 11 s.

XLI. Next Northumberland-Houſe in Aldgate-Ward, is the Pariſh-Church of St. Katherine Coleman, which addition of Coleman, was taken of a great Haw-Yard or Garden, of old time called Coleman-Haw, in Trinity Pariſh now Chriſt-Church, and in the Pariſh of St. Katherine and All-Saints called Coleman-Church. Sir James Dean hath given two Shillings weekly in Bread to the Poor for ever, which is duly performed every Friday; and the Pariſhionners give as much every Sabbath day. This Church was Repaired and Beautified, Anno 1620. And 1624. their Veſtry was built, and a Gallery new made for the Poor of the Pariſh to ſit in.

XLII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Katharine Christs-Church in Aldgate-Ward, commonly called Cree-Church, ſtands in the Caemitery of the Diſſolved Priory of the Holy-Trinity, and is a very fair Church. Mr. William Gilborn a Draper, gave Four Marks Yearly for ever, to be beſtowed in one Dozen of Bread, and to be diſtributed on every Sabbath p. 42day to the Poor of the ſaid Pariſh, which is duly paid: he gave twenty pound towards building a Gallery in the ſaid Church. Mr. John Smith Mercer, gave three pound yearly for ever, to be diſtributed amongſt the Poor every Chriſtmas yearly. Mr. George Lee Sadler, gave twenty Shillings yearly for ever to the Poor. Mrs. Dane a Widdow, gave Eight Shillings yearly for ever. Mrs. Alice Bateman, gave forty two pound ſix ſhillings to the Pariſh, the profit to be diſtributed to the Poor for ever. Mr. John Bedow Gent. gave ten pound to be diſtributed in Bread yearly to the Poor. Mr. George Hotherſal Merchant-Taylor, gave four and twenty ſhillings yearly for ever, out of his Land, to the Poor of this Pariſh. Mr. John Waddis, Cook, born in this Pariſh, gave to the Poor thereof three pound to be diſtributed among them in Bread yearly for ever. Stephen Roberts, Cook, gave alſo four and forty ſhillings yearly for ever, to be diſtributed in Bread. Theſe good Perſons are remembred as ſuch whoſe Memories are worthy to be perpetuated, and to be upon Record as an Example for others to imitate. But more under the head of Benefactors.

The Foundation of this Church was lay'd the twenty third of June 1628. It is ſaid in Stow's Survey, pag. 839. Edit. 1633. That digging under the South Row of Pillars, they found the Scull of a Man, the thickneſs of which, was three quarters of an Inch and better, meaſured by many, and admired by all (as well they might) that ſaw it. The Structure was built of the beſt Free-ſtone that could be got, and finiſhed anno 1630. There were many bountiful Benefactors and Contributers to it; And a curious Table (one of the faireſt in the City,) ſet up as a Monument of our Renowned Queen ELIZABETH, but the giver would be concealed.

XLIII. Southweſt from Guild-Hall, in Cheap-Ward, ſtands the fair and large Church of S. Lawrence-Jewry, p. 43which addition, (viz. Jewry) was, becauſe of old time Many Jews Inhabited thereabouts. It had diverſe Monuments. Mr. Stow tells us, That Seventy years before his firſt Edition of his Survey, which was 1598, that is now 163 years ago, he ſaw the Shank-bone of a Man (as it was taken,) twenty five inches long by the Rule, and remained before the Fire, faſtned to a poſt of timber noted more for the thickneſs, hardneſs, and ſtrength thereof, then the length, for when it was hanged on the Stone Pillar, it fretted (with moving) the ſaid Pillar, and was not it ſelf fretted, nor did it grow lighter by remaining dry; but how found or diſcovered we cannot learn. Alſo a Tooth of a very great bigneſs (he ſays of a mans Fiſt) hanged up for a ſhow in a Chain of Iron upon a Stone Pillar; but conveyed from thence long ſince: the credit of this reſts upon him. This Church was repaired and richly beautified at the Charge of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1618. Amongſt other Monuments, we muſt not omit that of our celebrated and moſt Illuſtrious Queen Elizabeth, in this Church, with theſe Verſes,

Here lyes her Type, who was of late

The prop of Belgia, ſtay of France.

Spains foil, Faiths Shield, the Queen of State,

Of Arms, of Learning, Fate and Chance:

In Brief, of Women ne'er was ſeen

So great a Prince, ſo good a Queen.

Such Vertues her Immortal made

Death (envying all that cannot Dye,)

Her Earthly parts did ſo invade,

As in it Wrackt ſelf Majeſty.

But ſo her Spirit inſpir'd her Parts,

That ſhe ſtill lives in Loyal hearts, &c.

XLIV. The Pariſh Church of St. Laurence in Candlewick Street and Ward, was increaſed with a p. 44Chappel of Jeſus by Thomas Cole for a Maſter and Chaplain: which Church and Chappel was made a Colledge of Jeſus and of Corpus Chriſti for a Maſter and ſeven Chaplains by Sr. John Poultney Lord Mayor, (of whom this Church was called St. Laurence Poultney) or Pountney, Confirm'd by Edward the Third in the Twentieth year of his Reign. This College was ſurrendred in the Reign of Edward the Sixth, the Steeple of the Church was new Leaded, Five new Bells were hung, and the Frames new made, all the …les new raiſed and levelled, and the whole Church within and without moſt beautifully repaired at the coſt of the Pariſh, Anno 1631. and 1632.

XLV. On Fiſhſtreet-hill in Bridge Ward within, is the Pariſh Church of St. Leonard Milk-Church, ſo termed of one William Melker an eſpecial Builder thereof, but commonly called St. Leonard-Eaſt-Cheap, becauſe it ſtandeth at Eaſt-cheap corner: The Church and Steeple were repaired and beautified in the Year, 1618, 1619, 1620, and 1621. at the coſt of Eight hundred and fifty pounds.

XLVI. On the Weſt-ſide of Foſter-lane in Alderſ-gate Ward is the Pariſh Church of St. Leonards, called St. Leonards Foſter-lane; for them of St. Martins le Grand: A great number of Houſes being built in place of the Great Collegiate Church of St. Martin, the Pariſh is very much increaſed: It was inlarged, repaired, and adorn'd at the Pariſh charge, Anno 1631. To which, John Trot Citizen and Merchant was a bountiful Benefactor; the coſt amounted to above Five hundred pounds.

XLVII. On the Eaſt-ſide of Bridge-Ward ſtands the fair Pariſh Church of St. Magnus, in which were buried many Eminent men: it had many repairs and charges in the Years 1623, 1624, and 1625. which coſt above Five hundred pound; in the Year, 1629. it was very richly and beautifully adorned, all at the proper coſt and charge of the Pariſh.

p. 45XLVIII. The fair Pariſh Church of St. Margarets Lothbury in Coleman-Street Ward ſtands upon the Water-Courſe of Walbrooke, which was Reedified, Anno 1440. Robert Large gave to the Quire of that Church One hundred Shillings, and Twenty pounds for Ornaments: and to the Vaulting over the Water-courſe of Walbrook by the ſaid Church, for the inlarging thereof Two hundred marks: This Church was repaired and richly beautified at the charge of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1621.

XLIX. In Friday ſtreet in Breadſtreet-Ward, is the Pariſh Church of St. Margaret Moſes, ſo called of one Moſes that was Founder, or Newbuilder thereof. It was Repaired and Beautified at the coſt of the Pariſhioners, Anno 1627,

L. In the ſame Wardon Fiſhſtreet-hill ſtands the Pariſh Church of St. Margarets New Fiſh-ſtreet, which was a Proper Church, but without any Monuments of Note.

LI. St. Margaret Pattens in Rood-lane, Billings-gate Ward, being much decayed, was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Pariſhioners, Anno. 1614. who from that year, to 1632, expended 275 l. five s. 6 d. upon it.

LII. St. Mary Abchurch ſtandeth near unto the South-end of Abchurch-lane, in Candleweek-ſtreet-Ward, upon a riſing ground, and was a Fair Church with ſundry Monuments in it: It was Beautified and Repaired at the proper coſt and charge of the Pariſhioners, in the year of our Lord, 1611.

LIII. In Alderman-bury-ſtreet is the Fair Pariſh Church of St. Mary Alderman-bury, with a Church-Yard and Cloyſter adjoyning, in which Cloyſter (as Mr. Stow ſays) was hanged and faſtned a ſhank-bone of a man, in length Twenty eight inches and a half, of a ſize larger by three inches and a half than that in St. Laurence Jewry, but not ſo hard: this is Monſtrous, for it is more then p. 46after the proportion of Five ſhank bones of any Man now living amongſt us. The Church was repaired and beautified An. 1633. at the coſt of the Pariſh.

LIV. Alder-Mary Church on the South-ſide of Budg-Row, by the Weſt corner thereof, in Cordwainer-ſtreet-Ward, is ſo called becauſe older than any Church of St. Mary in the City. Sir Henry Keble Grocer and Lord Mayor, who deceaſed 1518, gave a 1000 l. by his Teſtament, towards the Rebuilding it. It was repaired and beautified by the Pariſh Anno 1632.

LV. At the upper end of Hoſier-lane toward Weſt Cheap, is the fair Pariſh-Church of St. Maryle-Bow, (vulgarly Bow-Church.) This Church in the Reign of William the Conqueror, being the firſt in this City builded on Arches of Stone, was therefore called New Mary Church, or St. Mary de Arcubus, or le Bow, in Weſt Cheaping. The Court of the Arches is kept in this Church, and taketh Name of the place, not the place of the Court. 'Tis in Cordwainer-ſtreet-Ward.

We read that anno 1090. the Third of William Rufus, by tempeſt of Wind the Roof of this Church was overturned, wherewith ſome perſons were ſlain, and Four of the Rafters of twenty ſix Foot in length, were pitcht with ſuch violence in the Ground of the high ſtreet, that ſcarce four Foot of them remained above Ground, which were fain to be cut even with the Ground, becauſe they could not be plucked out, for the City of London was not then paved, but a Mooriſh ground.

Anno 1271, a great part of the Church fell down; and ſlew many people, Men and Women. John Rotham or Rodham, by his Will Anno 1465, gave the Pariſh (wanting room in their Church-Yard) a certain Garden in Hoſier-lane, for burial of their Dead, which ſo continued near a hundred Years, but now is built up and converted to a private dwelling. The p. 47old Steeple was Re-edified Anno 1469, ſo that it was ordained by a Common Councel, that the Bow-Bell ſhould be nightly Rung at Nine a Clock, to maintain which, (viz. the Ringing of Bow-Bell,) John Denne Mercer, by his Teſtament dated 1472, according to the truſt of Reginald Langdon, gave to the Parſon and Wardens two Tenements with the Appurtenances, ſince made into one, in Hoſier-lane.

This Church has been Re-built very gorgeouſly ſince the great fire, and the Steeple finiſhed with that Elegancy of rare Architecture, height, and curioſity, that it excels any in Chriſtendom; of which more hereafter.

LVI. On the South-ſide of Walbrook-Ward, from Candlewick-ſtreet in the mid way betwixt London-ſtone and Wallbrook-corner is the proper Pariſh-Church called St. Mary Bothaw or Boathaw, becauſe adjoyning to an Haw or Yard, wherein of old times Boats were made and Landed from Dowgate to be mended. It was repaired and beautified at the Charge of the Pariſh, in the Year of our Lord 1621.

LVII. The Pariſh-Church called St. Mary-Cole-Church in Cheap-Ward, is ſo named of one Cole that Builded it, upon a Vault above Ground, ſo that Men were forced to aſcend thereunto by certain ſteps. It was repaired and beautified at the Pariſh charge, Anno Feb. 1623.

LVIII. In St. Mary-Hill-lane is the fair Pariſh-Church of St. Mary on the Hill, becauſe of the aſcent from Billingſgate. In the Year 1322, Rich…rd Hackney, one of the Sheriffs of …ondon was buryed there,Stow. p. 227. and Alice his Wife, as Robert Fabian writeth, ſaying thus: In the Year 1379, in the Month of April, as Labourers digged for the Foundation of a Vault, within the Church of St. Mary-Hill, near p. 48unto Billingſgate, they found a Coffin of Rotten Timber, and therein the Corps of a Woman, whole of skin, and of bones undiſſevered, and the joints of her Arms pliable, without breaking of the skin, upon whoſe Sepulchre this was ingraven: Here lies the Bodies of Richard Hackney Fiſhmonger, and Alice his Wife; the which Richard was Sheriff in the 15th of Edward II. (viz. anno 1322.) So that her Body was, 175 years after ſhe had been buried, found uncorrupted: It was kept above ground three or four days without Noyance, but then it waxed unſavoury, and was again buried. This Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Pariſh, Anno 1616.

LIX. In Milk-Street in Cripple-Gate-Ward, ſtands the Pariſh-Church of St. Mary Magdalen, in which were ſeveral Monuments, amongſt which, one for Queen Elizabeth. It was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Pariſh in the year 1619.

LX. Over againſt the North-weſt end of Lambert-hill-lane in Knight-Riders-ſtreet, is the Pariſh-Church of St. Mary Magdalen, commonly called ſo, with the addition of Old Fiſh-ſtreet. It was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Pariſh, Anno 1630. which came to 140 l. in this was a Monument of Queen Elizabeth; it is in Caſtle-Baynard-Ward.

LXI. The Pariſh-Church of St. Mary de Monte alſo, commonly called St. Mary Mounthaw, is ſituate on the Weſt-ſide of Old Fiſh-ſtreet in Queen-hith-Ward. It was built to be a Chapel of the Houſe of the Mounthaunts, and the Biſhop of Hereford is Patron thereof. It was in part new built, and very much inlarged and beautified, Anno 1609. In the South Iſle there hung a very fair Picture of King James, with the Figures of Peace and Plenty on either ſide of him; Peace with her Olive Branch, and Plenty with her Sheaf of Wheat in her hands p. 49being the Gift of Robert Plonker, then Church-Warden.

LXII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Mary Sommerſet at the South-end of St. Mary Mounthaw-lane over againſt Broken-Wharf, is alſo in Queen-Hith-Ward, and a proper Church; it was repaired and beautified, Anno 1624.

LXIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Mary called Stayning, becauſe it ſtandeth at the North-end of Stayning-lane in Alderſgate-Ward, was repaired and beautified at the coſt of the Pariſh, Anno 1630.

LXIV. Near Stocks-Market in Walbrook-Ward is the Pariſh-Church called St. Mary Wooll-Church, ſo called, of a Beam placed in the Church-yard, which was thereof called Wooll-Church Haw, of the weighing of Wooll there uſed; for amongſt the Cuſtoms of London written in French in the Reign of Edward II. there is to be found a Chapter, intituled, Les Cuſtomes de Wooll-Church Haw. Wherein is ſet down what was there to be paid for every parcel of Wooll weighed. This weighing of Wooll was there continued till the 6th of Richard II. till John Churchman built the Cuſtome-Houſe upon Wooll-Key to ſerve for the ſaid purpoſe. This was (and is now) a fair and large Church.

LXV. The Pariſh-Church of St. Mary Wolnoth in Langborn-Ward, was a proper handſom Church, with ſome few Monuments in it.

LXVI. In Ironmonger-lane in Cheap-Ward, is the Pariſh-Church of St. Martin, formerly called Pomary, poſſibly of Apples growing where now Houſes are built. It was repaired and beautified at the Pariſh-charge, Anno 1629.

LXVII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Martin by Ludgate in Farringdon-Ward-within, was a proper Church, to which, Anno 1437. (viz. 15th of H. 6.) Sir John Michael Lord Mayor, and the Commonalty, granted a parcel of Ground, containing 28 Foot p. 50in length, and 24 in breadth, to build their Steeple upon.

LXVIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Martin Orgar in Candlewick-ſtreet-ward, is a ſmall Church; Sir William Crowmer Lord Mayor built a handſom Chapel on the South-ſide thereof, and was buried there in an ancient Tomb, Anno 1533. it was repaired 1630. at the coſt of 122 l. 6 s. 6 d. There was a rich and very beautiful Monument in the Chancel of Sir Allen Cotton Knight, and Alderman of London, and ſometimes Lord Mayor, who dyed the 24th of December, Anno 1628. with a large Inſcription, concluding with theſe Verſes.

When he left Earth, Rich Bounty Dy'd,

Mild Courteſie gave place to Pride;

Soft Mercy to bright Juſtice ſaid,

Oh Siſter! we are both Betray'd;

While Innocence lay on the Ground

By Truth, and wept at eithers Wound,

The Sons of Levi did lament,

Their Lamps went out, their Oyl was ſpent;

Heaven hath his Soul, and only we

Spin out our Lives in miſery:

So Death, thou miſſest of thy End,

And kill'st him not, but kill'st his Friend.

There was alſo a delicate Monument of our famous Queen Elizabeth.

LXIX. The Pariſh-Church of St. Martin Outwich, is on the South-part of Threadneedle-ſtreet in Broad-ſtreet-ward; it is ſo called of Martin de Oteſwitch, Nicholas de Oteſwich, William Oteſwich, and John Oteſwich, Founders thereof, and all buried there, as appeared by their ancient Monument. There was Interred Richard Staper, Elected Alderman of London, Anno 1594. the greateſt Merchant in his time, and the chiefeſt Actor in the diſcovery of the p. 51Trades of Turkey, and the East-India. He was proſperous, wealthy, bountiful, and a good man; he died, Anno 1608. Sir Henry Row gave 5 l. yearly for Ever to the Poor of this Pariſh, to be beſtowed in Bread and Coals. And Mrs. Sotherton yearly for Ever in Bread, 50 s.

LXX. The Fair Pariſh-Church called St. Martin Vintrey in Vintrey-Ward, was ſometimes called St. Martin de Beremand Church. It was new built, Anno 1399. by the Executors of Matthew Columbars, a Stranger born, and a French Merchant.

LXXI. The Pariſh-Church of St. Matthew Friday-ſtreet, Farringdon-ward-within, had divers Monuments in it. It was repaired and beautified at the coſt of the Pariſh, Anno 1633.

AS TO

LXXII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Michael, called St. Michael at Baſing-hall in Baſing-hall-ward.

LXXIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Michael Cornhil in Cornhil-ward.

LXXIV. St Michaels Crooked-lane in Candleweek-ſtreet-ward.

LXXV. St. Mich. Queenhith in Queenhith-ward.

The are handſom Churches, affording no Remarkables, but what will fall under other Heads.

LXXVI. St. Michael ad Bladum, or at the Corne, (corruptly called St. Michael Querne) is in Farringdon-ward-within, and was a fair Church, with divers Monuments in it, amongſt the reſt one for John Leland, the famous Antiquary, and others, as John Banks Eſq Mercer, who by his laſt Will written with his own hand, gave to pious and charitable Uſes 6000 l. which his Executor Robert Tichburn carefully diſcharged.

LXXVII. St. Michael Royal in Vintrey-ward is a fair Pariſh-Church. It was new built, and made a Colledge by Sir Richard Whittington Mercer, and four times Lord Mayor; for a Maſter, four Fellows, p. 52Maſters of Art, Clerks, Conducts, Choriſts, &c. There was alſo an Almſ-houſe for thirteen poor men. The College was ſuppreſſed in the time of Edward the Sixth, the Almſ-houſes, with the poor men, do remain, and are paid by the Mercers. This Church was beautified at the proper coſt of the Pariſh, Anno 1630. at the charge of 130 l. 9 s.

LXXVIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Michael in Wood-ſtreet in Cripplegate-ward, was a proper Church, in which were divers Monuments. Here was Interred the Head of James the Fourth, King of Scots of that name, ſlain at Flodden-field. Here was alſo a Monument of Queen Elizabeth.

LXXIX. The Pariſh-Church called St. Mildred Bread-ſtreet in Bread-ſtreet-ward, had divers Monuments, amongſt the reſt, one for Sir John Chadworth, or Shadworth Kt. ſome time Mercer and Lord Mayor of London, who gave a Veſtry to this Church, an Houſe for the Paſtor to dwell in, and a Church-yard to the Pariſhioners, wherein to bury their dead. He deceaſed the 7th of May, An. 1401. In Memorial of whom, there was a fair Inſcription on the Wall, in theſe words:

Here lies a Man, that Faith and Works did even

(Like Fiery Chariots) mount him up to Heaven:

He did adorn this Church. When words were weak

And men forget, the living ſtones will ſpeak,

He left us Land: This little Earth him keeps,

Theſe black words Mourners, and the Marble weeps.

At the upper end of the Chancel was a fair Window full of coſt and beauty, which being divided into five parts, carried in the firſt of them a very artful and curious Repreſentation of the Spaniards great Armado, and the Battel in 1588. In the 2d, the Monument of Queen Elizabeth. In the 3d, of the Gun-powder Plot. In the 4th, of the lamentable p. 53time of Infection, 1625. In the 5th, the view and lively portraicture of that worthy Gentleman Captain Nicholas Criſp, at whoſe ſole coſt (among other) this beautiful piece of Work was erected, as alſo the Figures of his virtuous Wife and Children, with the Arms belonging unto them. Upon the ſtory of 1588, were theſe Verſes:

Star-gazing Wizards ſate upon this year,

Matter of wonder, and did threaten fear

Towards us, inſomuch that Rome and Spain

This Land accounted their aſſured gain.

But mark how God did quite their hepes confound,

Both ſhips and men we did ſee flee and drown'd.

Queen Elizabeth's Monument.

Marvel not why we do erect this Shrine,

Since Dedicated in to Worth Divine;

Religion, Arts, with Policy and Arms,

Did all concur in Her most Happy Reign:

To keep God's Church and us from Plotted Harms,

Contriv'd by Romiſh Wits, and force of Spain.

The Powder-Plot, 1605.

When Force could not prevail, nor Plots abroad

Could have Succeſs, Sin now invents new Fraud;

Guy Faux is ſent Ambaſſador to Styx.

And thence returning, furniſheth with Tricks

His damned Crew, who forthwith all conclude

To blow up King, the State, and Multitude.

The Great Plague, 1625.

The Story's past, God's bleſſings to the State

Do clearly ſhew; but ſure we were Ingrate,

p. 54For now, behold, inſtead of ſweet protection,

Thouſands are ſwept away by foul Infection;

But mark God's mercy in midst of greateſt crys,

He ſheath'd his Sword, and wip't tears from our eys.

The Founder's Figure, with their Wife, Children and Arms.

Theſe Enſigns which you ſee and Monument,

Are not ſo much to repreſent

The Founder's Perſon, as his zealous care

T' expreſs God's Love and Mercies rare

To this his Vineyard, for to that ſole end

Did he theſe Stories thus commend

To After-Ages, that in their Diſtreſs,

They might God's Goodneſs ſtill expreſs.

LXXX. In the main Body of Cheap-Ward, ſtands the Pariſh-Church called St. Mildred Poultrey. The Founder is not to be read in any credible Record, but it appears by certain ancient Evidences of the ſaid Church, that from the beginning it had not ſo much ſpare ground about it, as to make a Church-yard of, until Anno 1420. And the 8 of H. 5. Thomas Morſtead Eſq and Chyrurgeon to the Kings H. 4. H. 5. & H. 6. (and afterwards, Anno 1436. was Sheriff and Alderman of London) gave unto the Church a parcel of Ground lying between his dwelling Houſe, and the ſaid Church adjoining to it towards the North, to make a Burying place of, containing from the courſe of Walbrook towards the Weſt, 45 Foot; and in Breadth from the Church towards the North, 35 Foot. Beſides other Monuments, here was one for Queen Elizabeth, with ſeveral Copies of Verſes, ſome of which are before recited, (for there were Monuments for Her in ſeveral Churches, and She well deſerved it, as being a moſt Heroick Princeſs, that check'd the Plots and Incroachments of the p. 55Pope and his Adherents, and is therefore to be perpetuated to Poſterity,) and therefore what we have not elſewhere met with, ſhall be inſerted.

On the top of the Monument were theſe Lines:

If Prayers or Tears of Subjects had prevail'd,

To ſave a Princeſs, through the World eſteem'd,

Then Atropos in Cutting here had fail'd,

And had not cut her thr…ad, but been redeem'd.

But pale fac'd Death, and cruel Churliſh Fate;

To Prince and People brings the lateſt Date.

Yet ſpight of Death and Fate, fame will diſplay

Her Gracious Vertues through the World for aye.

Under Her were theſe Verſes:

Th' Admired Empreſs through the World applauded,

For Supream Vertues Rareſt imitation,

Whoſe Scepters Rule, Fames loud voto'd Trumpet lauded,

Ʋnto the Ears of every Foreign Nation.

Canopied under powerful Angels Wings,

To her Immortal Praiſe ſweet Science ſings.

LXXXI. The Pariſh-Church of St. Nicholas-Acons in Lumbard-ſtreet, in Langborn-Ward, was Repaired and Imbattled by Sir John Bridges Draper and Lord Mayor, Anno 1520, who was buried there. It was afterwards Repaired and Beautified at the Charge of the Pariſh Anno 1615. There was the Monument of John Hall, Maſter of the Worſhipful Company of Drapers, who dyed the Nineteenth of November 1618. Aged Ninety three Years; and Fifty eight Years a Houſe keeper in that Pariſh, and had Twenty ſeven Children all born there.

LXXXII. Towards the Weſt-end of Knight-Riders-ſtreet, p. 56in Queen-Hith-Ward, is the Pariſh-Church called St. Nicholas Cole-Abbey (formerly Cold-Abbey,) which was an Antient and proper Church. In the Twenty ſixth of Edward the III. Thomas Frere, Fiſhmonger, gave a piece of Ground to the ſaid Pariſh-Church of St. Nicholas, containing Eighty Six Foot in Length Forty three Foot at one end, and Thirty four at another in Breadth, for a Burying place or Church-Yard. It was Repaired and Beautified at the coſt of the Pariſh, Anno 1630.

LXXXIII. On the Weſt-end of Bread-ſtreet-Hill, alſo in Queen-Hith-Ward, is the Pariſh-Church called St. Nicholas Olave, wherein were divers Monuments. Thomas Lewen Ironmonger, Alderman, and one of the Sheriffs 1537, gave his Meſſuage with Fourteen Tenements in the ſaid Pariſh, to the Ironmongers, and they to give Stipends to Alms-Men in Five Houſes, built in the Church-Yard of that Pariſh. His Monument, with Agnes his Wife, was Revived and Beautified at the Charge of the Right Worſhipful Company of Ironmongers, Anno 1623.

LXXXIV. At the North-weſt corner of Sydon-Lane in Tower-ſtreet-Ward, is the handſom Pariſh-Church called St. Olave Hartſtreet, in which were many Monuments. It was Repaired and Richly Beautified at the Pariſh Charges, in the Years 1632, and 1633, at the coſt of above Four hundred thirty ſeven pound.

LXXXV. In the Street called the Old Jewry in Coleman-ſtreet-Ward, is the Pariſh-Church called St. Olave Jewry, in old Records called St. Olave Ʋpwell, in which were ſeveral Monnments.

LXXXVI. At the North-end of Noble-ſtreet in Alderſ-gate-Ward, is the Pariſh-Church called St. Olave Silver-ſtreet. It was New built in the p. 57Year 1609, (and inlarged in Breadth above ſeven Foot, (and Anno 1619, Repaired and Beautified, and inriched with a Fair Gallery, Anno 1632.

LXXXVII. In Needlers-lane in Cheap-Ward is the Pariſh-Church, called St. Pancras Soper-lane. Here was a fair Monument of James Hu…ſh (Citizen and Grocer of London) who by two Wives had twenty nine Children, he dyed the twentieth of Auguſt 1590. he was a good Man, and Charitable; upon his Tomb was an Elegant Latin Epitaph. Mr. Thomas Chapman in the Year 1617, gave a very fair and coſtly Table, bearing the Figure of the Monument of the Renowned QƲEEN ELIZABETH.

LXXXVIII. At the South-Weſt corner of Wood-ſtreet in Farringdon-Ward within, is the handſom Pariſh-Church called St. Peter-Cheap. In which are but few Monuments, Sir John Shaw Goldſmith and Lord Mayor, (deceaſed 1503,) appointed by his Teſtament, the ſaid Church and Steeple to be New built at his coſt, with a flat Roof. Yet Thomas Wood Goldſmith, of the Sheriffs 1491, i… accounted a Principal Benefactor, becauſe the Roo… of the middle Ile was ſupported by Images of Wood-Men. It was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Pariſh in the Years 1616 and 1617, which came to 314 l.

LXXXIX. The Pariſh-Church of St. Peters in Cornhil is an antient building; there is in that Church a Table faſt chained, wherein it is ſaid, th… Anno 179, King Lucius founded this Church, an… made it an Archbiſhops See, and the Metropolitan or chief Church of this Kingdom: and ſo endure… Four hundred Years, then the Archbiſhops See an… Pall were removed to Canterbury. But whethe… the Church that King King Lucius built, be thi… or St. Peters Weſtminſter, is controverted by Hiſtorians, p. 58and therefore we ſhall not wrangle about it. To the Poor of this Pariſh were ſundry Benefactors, as Lancelot Tompſon of London Draper, who amongſt other Charities gave one hundred pound to the Drapers Company, and they to allow Five pound yearly for ever▪ for Bread and Coals for the Poor of the ſaid Pariſh; whom ſeveral other well minded People imitated. It was moſt richly Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh Charge, amounting to about one thouſand four hundred pound, in the Year 1633.

XC. The Pariſh-Church called St. Peter-Pauls-Wharf, was in Queen-Hith-Ward, wont to be called Parva or Little, becauſe it was a ſmall Church; it was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1625. Therein was a Monument for Queen ELIZABETH.

XCI. In Broad-ſtreet-Ward is the Pariſh-Church vulgarly called St. Peter-Poor, peradventure ſo called, becauſe the Pariſh was Poor formerly, (but now they are otherwiſe,) or to difference it from others of that Name; here are ſundry Monuments, and ſeveral Benefactors to the Poor of the Pariſh. The Lady Payton, gave 40 s. Yearly for ever in Bread; the Lady Ramſey gave four pound Yearly for ever. Mr. John Quarles Citizen and Draper of London, gave the Sum of five pound Yearly for ever, &c. It coſt in ſundry Repairs from the year 1615, to 1630. the Sum of one thouſand five hundred eighty ſeven pound; all which, except four hundred which Sir William Garway Knight gave, was the proper charge of the Pariſhioners.

XCII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Stephen in Coleman-ſtreet and Ward, had divers Monuments, and Benefactors, but I cannot omit the Verſes on the Monument of Barne Roberts Eſq who Dyed Anno 1610. they are ſo Elegantly expreſſive of his Wifes affection, (ſhe was eldeſt Daughter to Sir William Glover Kinght, and Alderman of London,) who p. 59Erected the Monument Anno 1611. at her own Charge.

If human worth could have preſerv'd him ſtill,

He had been much too ſtrong for Death to kill.

Yet being Conquer'd, he got by the ſtrife,

A better being, in a better life:

So, that great Victor over Nature, left him

More happineſs ten fold than he bereft him.

This Church was ſometime a Synagogue of the Jews, then a Pariſh-Church, then a Chappel to St. Olaves in the Jewry, and 7 E. 4. it was Incorporated a Pariſh-Church: It was Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh Charge Anno 1622, and a very fair Gallery added in the South Ile Anno 2629. Here was alſo a Monument for Queen ELIZABETH.

XCIII. In Wallbrook-ſtreet, and Ward, is the fair Pariſh-Church called St. Stephen-Wallbrook. Sir Robert Chichely ſomtimes Lord Mayor, in the Year 1428▪ 6 H. 6. gave to this Pariſh one Plat of Ground containing two hundred and eight Foot and a half in Length, and ſixty ſix Foot in Breadth, to Build a New Church, and for a Church Yard on the Eaſtſide of the Old Church, (the place of the Old Church being converted to a Parſonage-Houſe,) This Ground he bought of the Grocers for two hundred Marks, which was Lett before for twenty ſix Marks Yearly. He gave over and above one hundred pound, to the ſaid Work, bore the Charges of all the Timber-Work on the Proceſſion-way, and laid the Lead upon it at his own Poſt. He gave alſo all the Timber for the Roofing of the two Iles, and paid for the Carriage therefore. It was finiſhed 1439. The Breadth being ſixty ſeven Foot, the Length 125. The Church-Yard Ninety Foot in Length, and thirty ſeven in Breadth and more. It p. 60had many Repairs to the Year 1632, amounting to five hundred and ten pound fifteen ſhillings and ſix pence.

XCIV. The Pariſh-Church of St. Swithins is alſo in Wallbrook-Ward, on the South-Weſt corner of Swithins-lane, wherein were divers Monuments.

XCV. In Knight-Riders-ſtreet in Vintry-Ward is the proper Pariſh-Church of St. Thomas Apoſtle. In which was a neat Monument, on which was an Elegant Epitaph in Latin Verſe, compoſed by Mrs. Katherine Killegrew for her ſelf in her life time. And another in neat Greek Verſe by her Siſter Elizabeth, for the ſaid Katherin… when ſhe dyed; beſides two more, expreſſing the great Learning and Accuteneſs of thoſe Noble Siſters. But our intended brevity permits the Recital but of two, and that for a …aſte, and to ſhew what Women may arrive to, if Studious.

What ſhe Writ her Self was:

Dormio nunc Domino, Domini virtute reſurgam,

Et foreign meum carne videbo mea,

Mortua ne Dicar, fruitur pars altera Chriſto

Et ſurgar Capiti, tempore, tota, meo.

Here was another Epitaph by Andrew Melvin.

Palladis & Phabi comes una, & Pieris una,

Pieridumque ſoror, Pieridumque Parens

Gratia, ſuada, lepas, Gravitas, Conſtantia, Candor,

Religio, Pietas, & pudor, & probitas,

Atque Paleſtinae, & Latiae, Graiae que Camenae

Clauſit olim uno omnes pectore, nunc Tumulo.

It was Repaired and Beautified at the Pariſh p. 61charge, amounting to three hundred pound, Anno 1630. There was alſo a Monument of Queen ELIZABETH, but the Verſes being the ſame we had in other places, we omit them, to avoid prolixity.

XCVI. In Knight-Riders-street is the ſmall Pariſh-Church of the Holy-Trinity. To which John Bryan Alderman in the Reign of Henry the V. was a great Benefactor, &c. It was Re-built at the Pariſh charge (being lamentably decayed) Anno 1607, and 1608. To which the Worſhipful Companies of Merchant Taylors and Vintners, were very Bountiful Benefactors. As alſo theſe Aldermen, Sir Thomas Cambel, Sir John Swinnerton, Sir John Gore, Sir William Craven, Sir Thomas Middleton.

XCVII. The Pariſh-Church called St. Vedaſt, alias Foſter, in Farringdon-Ward-within, was a Fair Church, had had many Benefactors, and in it were ſeveral Monuments. To this Church at the Chancel end, the Breadth being twenty Yards and above, was added twenty Foot of Ground, which Ground was given to the Pariſh, to Lengthen the Church, out of a Fair Court then belonging to the Sadlers-Hall.

Having given a brief Account of the Churches within the Walls as they were formerly, (reſerving their preſent State to another Head, there being Eighty ſeven Deſtroyed by the Fire, of which many are bravely Re-built, &c.) We ſhall proceed Alphabotically to thoſe ſixteen without the Wall. And,

I. The Pariſh-Church of St. Andrew-Holborn, ſtands at the very corner of Shooe-lane in Holborn. In which are ſeveral Monuments, but we cannot omit that of R…lph Okey of Lincolns-Inn Eſq becauſe p. 62of his Piety and Bounty in Legacies. He was Maſter of St. Katharines, and one of the Maſters of Requeſts to Queen ELIZABETH, he Dyed the Fourth of June 1596. He gave by his Teſtament to Chriſts-Hoſpital, one hundred pound. To the Colledge of the Poor of Queen ELIZABETH in Eaſt Greenwich, one hundred pound. To Poor Scholars in Cambridge, one hundred pound. To Poor Scholars in Oxford, one hundred pound. To Priſoners in the two Compters, of London, two hundred pound. To Priſoners in the Fleet, one hundred pound. To Priſoners in Ludgate, one hundred pound. To Priſoners in Newgate, one hundred pound. To Priſoners in the King's-Bench, one hundred pound. To Priſoners in the Marſhalſea, one hundred pound. Which is Eleven hundred pound. Beſides twenty pound to the Priſoners in the White-Lyon. And to the Poor of St. Katharines, twenty pound. And to every Brother and Siſter there, forty ſhillings. He hath a Curious Monument in the Wall of the Quire, expreſſing in Latin his Deſcent, Employs, De…erts, and Piety, &c.

II. In treating of the Pariſh-Church of St. Bartholome…-Great, in Farringdon-Ward-without, it is neceſſary to ſay ſomthing briefly of its Original. On the Eaſt-ſide of Duck-lane near Smithfield, one Rahere, a pleaſant wittied Gentleman, Founded the Priory of St. Bartholomew, about the Year 1102. He placed Canons there, and became himſelf their firſt Prior, and ſo continued while he lived, and was Buried there in a Fair Monument, Renewed by Prior Bolton, who was the laſt Prior in that Houſe; this Priory was New built Anno 1410. King Henry II. Granted it the priviledge of a Fair to be kept Yearly at Bartholomew-tide. When it was ſurrended in the Thirtieth of H. VIII. it was valued at ſix hundred fifty three pound fifteen ſhillings per annum. Six Bells in a Tune belonging p. 63to it, were Sold to the Pariſh of St. Sepulchres. And then the Church being pulled down to the Quire, the Quire was by the Kings order, annexed, for the inlarging of the old Pariſh-Church adjoyning, and ſo was uſed till the Reign of Queen Mary, who gave the Remnant of the Priory-Church to the Friers Preachers, or Black-Friers, and was uſed as their Conventual-Church, until the firſt of Queen Elizabeth. Then thoſe Fryers were put out, and all the ſaid Church, with the old Pariſh-Church, was wholly as it ſtood in the laſt Year of Edward the VI. given by Parliament to remain for ever a Pariſh-Church, to the Inhabitants within the Cloſe, called Great St. Bartholomews. Since which time much coſt hath been ſpent in Repairs upon it.

III. The Hoſpital of St. Bartholomew (now the Pariſh-Church called St. Bartholomew the leſs,) was Founded by the above mentioned Rahere. This was confirmed by Edward III. in his Twenty ſixth Year; this Hoſpital was valued at the Suppreſſion Anno 1539. in the Thirty firſt of Henry VIII. at thirty five pound ſix ſhillings and ſeven pence Yearly. It Remaineth now the Pariſh-Church to the Inhabitants in the Precinct of the Hoſpital. In the later end of July Anno 1552. This Hoſpital was Repaired, New Endowed and Furniſhed at the charge of the Citizens.

IV. The Pariſh-Church of St. Bridget or Bride, in Farringdon-Ward-without, of old time was a ſmall Thing, but increaſed ſince with a large Body and ſide-Iles towards the Weſt, at the charge of William Vennor Eſq Warden of the Fleet, about the Year 1480. All which he cauſed to be brought about in the Stone, in the Figure of a Vine, with Grapes and Leaves, &c. The partition betwixt the old work and the New, ſome time prepared as a Screen, to be ſet up in the Hall of the Duke of Somerſet's-Houſe in the Strand, was bought for eight ſcore pound, p. 64and ſet up in the Year 1557. This Church was Repaired and Richly and Curiouſly Beautified at the Charge of the Pariſhioners 1630, 1631, 1632. The Battlements were New built, the middle Roof, and a very Fair Gallery on the North ſide of this Church anſwerable to that on the South, erected Anno 1607.

V. As to Bridewel Precinct we refer you to the Section of Hoſpitals, with reſpect to that Foundation. It was Enlarged and Beautified at the proper coſt and Charge of the Governors and Inhabitants of the Precinct, Anno 1620. Sir Thomas Middleton being Preſident, and Mr. Thomas Johnſon Treaſurer. There was above twenty four Foot in Length added to it. It is a Beautiful Chappel; that commends the care of its Governors. We muſt not omit to inſert, that cloſe by the Pulpit, hangs the Picture of King Edward the VI. that truly Religious and moſt Vertuous Proteſtant Prince, with the following Lines:

This Edward of fair Memory, the ſixth

In whom with Greatneſs Goodneſs was commixt,

Gave this Bridewell, a Palace in old times,

For a Chaſtiſing-Houſe of Vagrant Crimes.

There is likewiſe a Monument of Queen Elizabeths, but the Verſes being before Recited, we ſhall for brevity here omit them.

VI. In Alders-gate-Ward, and in Britain-ſtreet, ſo called of the Dukes of Britain that lodged there, is the Pariſh-Church of St. Botolph, called Aldersgate. There was a Popiſh Brotherhood Founded there Anno 1377, indowed with Lands above thirty l. per annum, (a great Sum then;) but ſuppreſſed by King Edward the VI. In this were divers Monuments, amongſt the reſt was a Fair Pyramid erected p. 65againſt a Pillar, with this Pathetick Inſcription, not unworthy to be Tranſcribed.

Katharina Mountague obiit 7. die Decembris anno Domini. 1612.

What Epitaph ſhall we afford this Shrine?

Words cannot Grace this Pyramid of thine:

Thy ſweet Perfections, all ſumm'd up, were ſuch,

As Heavens (I think) for Earth did think too much

Religious Zeal did thy pure heart command,

Pity thine Eye, and Charity thy Hand:

Theſe Graces, joyned with more of like degree,

Make each Mans word an Epitaph for thee.

Calm was thy Death, well order'd was thy life,

A Careful Mother, and a l…ving Wife.

Ask any, how theſe Vertues in thee grew?

Thou wast a Spencer and a Mountague.

VII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Botolph-Aldgate, is a very Fair Church, not far from Ald-gate in Portſoken-Ward. It is a Populous Pariſh, and there are ſeveral Monuments in the Church. Amongſt which (for his Charity, which deſerves to be Remembred,) we ſhall Remark that of George Clark) Citizen and Vintner of London, who gave theſe following Legacies. For a publick School in the Univerſity of Oxford, the Sum of two hundred pound. To the uſe of the Poor of the four Precincts of the Ward of Portſoken, being in this Pariſh, two hundred ninety three pound ſix ſhillings and eight pence. To the Pariſh of White-Chappel, for the Relief of the Poor there, one hundred and ſix pound fifteen ſhillings and four pence. To the Company of Vintners ten pound. To the Poor of Chriſt's-Hoſpital five pound. That is, eight hundred forty five pound two ſhillings and two pence. He Deceaſed the fourteenth of April Anno 1606. Aged p. 6663 Years. This Church was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1621. There is a Memorial Erected by the Right Worſhipful the Company of Merchant-Taylors, for Robert Dove Eſq Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, Maſter of the ſame Company, and one of the Cuſtomers in the Port of London, who gave, in his Life-time, Three thouſand five hundred twenty eight pound ten ſhillings and eight pence, for Charitable Uſes for ever, to divers Poor Brethren of the ſame Company, and other Uſes for the ſaid Company, viz. To Chriſt's-Hoſpital. To St. Sepulchres-Pariſh. To the Two Compters. To Ludgate and Newgate. To the Poor of this Pariſh. To St. John-Baptiſt's-Colledge in Oxford. To Queen Elizabeths-Hoſpital at Briſtol, &c. He Dyed the Second day of May 1612. at the Age of Ninety Years. His Arms under him, Three Doves. He lived Vertuouſly all his Life, and Dyed a ſincere Profeſſor of the True Chriſtian Proteſtant Religion, in the Eleventh of King JAMES; who is remembred as being a Worthy Example to the living, and deſerves a Memorial in All Ages.

VIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Buttolph-Biſhops-gate in Biſhops-Gate-Ward, ſtands in a Fair Church-Yard, (adjoyning to the Town-Ditch, upon the very Bank thereof,) incloſed with a comely Wall of Brick, Repaired by Sir William Allen, Lord Mayor Anno 1571. Becauſe he was born in that Pariſh, where alſo he was buryed. Mrs. Wood the Wife of Robert Wood, gave large Gifts and Legacies to this Pariſh, ſhe Dyed November the twenty fifth 1600, and lyes buried there. John Heyward, Citizen, and Alderman of London, by his laſt Will and Teſtament, Inrolled in the Court of Hustings in the Guild-Hall of London, Anno 13th. of Edward the IV. gave 25 Quarters of Charcoals Yearly, to be delivered by the Company of Tallow-Chandlers, betwixt the firſt of November, and the p. 67twenty fifth of December, with a Penalty of Forfeiture of twenty ſhillings for the firſt quarter, if they be not Delivered as afore…aith, forty ſhillings for the ſecond quarter, four pound for the third quarter, and eight pound for the whole Year, if they be not delivered: and ſo double ſtill from quarter to quarter, if defect of Payment herein be made. John Bricket Citizen and Tooth-Drawer, (by Will dated the Eleventh of Feb. 1554.) gave for ever, Twelve Sacks of Charcoals to the Poor of this Pariſh to be paid at Eaſter. Mrs. Mary Wilkinſon, gave them Sixty Quarters of Coals to be paid in November and December for ever, provided that out of each Load (being Four in all, Thirty Quarters being two Loads) the Overſeers of the Precinct of Norton-Folgate, ſhall have Ten Sacks to be by them given to the Poor of that Pre…inct. Sir William Allen, gave thirty ſhillings for ever to be diſtributed by the Ironmongers to the Poor in Bread every Year. Sir Stephen Scudamore Twenty ſhillings paid likewiſe by the Company of Vintners▪ Mary Webſter gave ten ſhillings for ever, ſo be paid to the Poor on St. Thomas Day. Mr. William Hobby gave the Tenor Bell. Mr. Ralph Pinder Citizen and Draper of London, gave to the Poor in Money Sixty pound, for which is given to Thirteen Poor People every Sunday in the Year, two pence a piece, in good Wheaten Bread. Anno 1626. Nicholas Rieve, gave the Sum of Forty ſix pound five ſhillings to the Pariſh, with which they purchaſed Lands at Stratford and Bow, worth twenty five pound per annum. In the Year 1628, on the twentieth of June, the Earl of Devonſhire then deceaſing at Devonſhire-Houſe without Biſhops-gate, gave one hundred pound for ever to the Poor, for which the Church-Wardens give every Sonday in the Year to Fifteen Poor People of this Pariſh…, two pence a piece in good Wheaten Bread. T. C. Citizen and Armourer p. 68of London, gave a 100 l. to the Chamber of London, for which 5 l. yearly is to be paid, to buy five Waſtecoats, and five Kirtles of good Kerſey or Cloth, each Waſtecoat and Kirtle to be worth at leaſt 15 s. five pair of Stockings, each worth at leaſt 18 d. five pair of Shoes, each worth at leaſt 2 s. for five poor aged Widows, to be received on St. Thomas the Apoſtles day for ever. Theſe Charities are briefly remembred, as Examples for others.

There is a Remarkable Monument in Petty-France, at the Weſt-end of the Lower Church-yard of this Church without the Church-yard wall, erected to the memory of one Coga Shawſware, a Perſian Merchant, principal Servant and Secretary to the Perſian Ambaſſador, with whom he and his Son came over. He was aged 44 years, and buried the 10th of August, 1626. (now almoſt 55 years ago) the Ambaſſador himſelf, young Shawſware his Son, and many other Perſians, mournfully following him to the Ground about Nine in the Morning. Their Ceremony was, the Son ſate croſs-legged at the North-end of the Grave, did ſometimes read, and ſometimes ſing, both intermixt with ſighing and weeping for about half an hour. Some of them, morning and evening, came preciſely at ſix for a month together, and might have come longer, but that the Rudeneſs of our People diſturbed them. The Son, at his own charge, erected this Tomb of Stone for him, with an Epitaph in Perſian Characters.

IX. The Pariſh-Church of St. Dunſtan, called West, to diſtinguiſh it from that in the East, is a fair Church with divers fair Monuments. William Crowch Citizen and Mercer of London, one of the Common-Council, beſides other Legacies, gave 10 l. a year for ever, to be diſtributed among 36 poor People of honeſt life of this Pariſh. He dyed April 16, Anno 1606. this is his pious Epitaph:

p. 69Lo, thus he Dy'd; For vain and frail is Fleſh:

Yet lives his Soul (by Faith) in endleſs Bliſs,

By Faith in Christ; whoſe Grace was ſo inlarg'd,

That by his Blood mans ſin he hath diſcharg'd.

X. Over againſt Suffolk-place in the Borough of Southwark and Bridge-Ward-without, is the Pariſh-Church of St. George, ſometimes pertaining to the Priory of Bermondſey. Mr. William Evans of the Right Worſhipful Company of Merchant-Taylors, deceaſed July 1590. gave 10 l. 8 s. to the Poor yearly for ever, to be diſtributed in Bread, by which 208 poor People are ſerved every Sunday, as appears by his Epitaph. James Savage gave 5 l. yearly, for ever, for the ſame uſe. This Church, Steeple and Gallery, was Repair'd, New Pew'd and Beautified, and the South Ile inlarged by the Pariſhioners, with the aſſiſtance of ſeveral Benefactors, amongſt which ſeveral of the Companies of London contributed 166 l. 10 s. Anno 1629.

XI. The fair and large Pariſh-Church of St. Giles Cripplegate, is without the Poſtern in Cripplegate-ward, which was burnt 1545. 37. H. 8. In it were divers Monuments, amongſt which we muſt not forget John Fox the learned, godly and famous Author of the Book of Martyrs, an indefatigable Searcher into Antiquity, and a moſt faithful Aſſertor and Defender of Goſpel-Truth, who revived the Marian Martyrs, as it were Phoenixes, from their aſhes. He lies Interred in this Church, and dyed the 18 of April, Anno 1587. (that is, in this preſent year 1681, 94 years ago) in the 70th year of his Age, in whoſe Memorial his eldeſt Son, Samuel Fox, upon a very fair Marble Stone on the end of the South-wall of the Chancel, placed his Epitaph, which we ſhall inſert, though we are ſure his Name will ever live in that Never-dying Monument (his ſtupendious p. 70and moſt elaborate Work, viz. his great Martyrology… to all ſucceeding Generations. The ſubſtance of his Epitaph you have before in Engliſh, but take it in Latin too.

CHRISTO S. S.

JOhanni Foxo, Eccleſiae Anglicanae Martyrolog… Fideliſſimo, Antiquitatis Hiſtoricae Indagato… Sagaciſſimo, Evangelicae Veritatis propugnator… acerrimo, Thaumaturgo admirabili; Qui Martyres Marianos, tanquam Phoenices, ex cineribus redivivos praeſtitit. Patri ſuo omni pietatis officio imprimis colendo, Samuel Foxus illius primogenitus, hoc Monumentum poſuit, non ſine lachrymis.

Obiit die 18 Menſ. April. An. Dom. 1587. ja… Septuagenarius

Vita vitae mortalis est, Spes vitae immortalis.

There is a fair Plate Engraven on a fair Stone in the Chancel under the above Monument, where he lies buried with theſe Verſes:

Sacra ſub hoc ſaxo tria Corpora miſta quieſcant,

Gulielmi Bullen Medici, Fratriſque Richardi,

Ac Johannis Foxi: qui tres, mihi, crede, fuerunt

Doctrina clari, rari & pictatis alumni.

Gulielmus Bullen Medicamina ſemper habebat,

Aeque pauperibus danda, ac locupletibus aeque.

Sicque Richardus erat, benefacere, &, ipſe paratus,

Omnibus ex aequo quibus ipſe prodeſſe valebat.

At Foxus noſter per multas hos Paraſangas,

Vita praecurrit, ſtudiiſque accedimus omnes.

Extant quae ſcripſit tormenta cruenta piorum,

Extans perdocte permulta volumina ſcripta,

Quae ſcripſit Foxus: Nulli fuit ipſe ſecundus.

Obiit An. Dom. 1587. Apr. 18.

p. 71Though the Learned need no interpretation of theſe Verſes, yet for the ſatisfaction of the Engliſh Reader, I will adventure to paraphraſe them, having a great Veneration for the Memory of this good man, to whom all Proteſtants in Europe are ſo much beholden. This is what Engliſh my Extemporary Muſe can give them:

Three Sacred Corps beneath this Stone do rest;

Of William Bullen, who with skill profest

Phyſick; with Richard his dear Brother, and

John Fox: No three more famous in the Land.

Of pious Doctrine they Promoters were;

In Life and Holineſs Examples rare.

Bullen had Med'cines for the free Relief

Of Poor and Rich to eaſe them of their Grief.

Richard was ſtill a ready Benefactor,

For common good, where he would be an Actor.

But our Great FOX, did largely theſe out-do

In courſe of Life, and lib'ral Studies too.

His Works are extant, where he did deſcribe,

Saints cruel Torments, by a helliſh Tribe.

The Learning in his pious Volumes ſhown,

Do ſtill proclaim him, Second unto None.

On the ſame Stone are theſe words,

Here lieth buried William Bullen, who dyed the 17th of January, 1576. Ʋnder this Stone ſleepeth the Body of Richard Bullen, a Faithful Servant and Preacher of Jeſus Christ, and was buried the 16th of October, Anno Dom. 1563.

Roger Maſon of this Pariſh, Citizen and Vintner, gave to the Poor of this Pariſh 200 l. wherewith a yearly Rent of about 16 l. per Annum, is purchaſed for ever, to be beſtowed on ten Gowns of Black p. 72Cloth lined, to be Yearly given to ten Poor Men of Freedom of this Pariſh, upon All-Saints-day; he dyed the Third of September 1603, Aged thirty ſeven Years. William Day Citizen and Vintner of London, gave to the Poor of this Pariſh Eighty pound, with which the Yearly Rent of ſix pound is purchaſed for ever, to be beſtowed upon twelve Coats of Green Cloth, for twelve Poor Orphans upon All-Saints-day.

Other Benefactors were Thomas Buſby Cooper, who gave fourty Dozen of Wheaten Bread, and four Loads of Charcoal to the Poor for ever Yearly.

Mr. Blighton Butcher, gave forty Dozen of Wheaten Bread, and two Loads of Charcoals to be Yearly diſtributed. Mr. Charles Langley Brewer, gave twenty Gowns for Men and Women, and twenty Shirts for twenty other Men, and twenty Smocks for twenty Women Yearly for ever on All-Saints-day, and a remainder of money to be given amongſt the Poor people that day, and forty ſhillings alſo that day allowed for a Sermon. Mrs. Ann Harviſt, gave forty Tenements of twenty pound Yearly Rent, to be diſtributed quarterly to twenty Poor Widows by five ſhillings a quarter each.

Mr. Robert Smith, gave four Bibles in Octavo, well buffed and boſſed, to four Poor Mens Children, ſuch as can beſt deſerve them by Reading, to be given every Eaſter for ever. (A very good Act.) As alſo, fifty two Dozen of Wheaten Bread, every Week one Dozen for ever. Mr. Richard Hanbury and Mr. Richard Bud, gave ſix Common Prayer Books, and fifty Dozen of Wheaten Bread, in the ſame manner to be diſtributed.

Mr. Roger Bellow, Brewer, gave twenty pound per annum, of which ten pound Yearly to the Poor, and ten pound to be reſerved to purchaſe Land for the Relief of the Poor.

Here is alſo the Monument of John Speed, the p. 73famous Geographer and Hiſtorian, who dyed July 28. 1629, in his ſeventy eighth Year. As alſo his Wife Suſanna, who was his Wife 57 Years, and had by her twelve Sons and ſix Daughters; who dyed in her ſeventieth Year, the twenty eighth of March 1628. Here are divers other Monuments, but for brevity we omit them.

XII. The Pariſh-Church called St. Olave Southwark, ſtands on the bank of the River Thames in Bridge-Ward-without, the Pariſh, is large. And in the Church there are ſome Monuments; amongſt the reſt, one for Queen Elizabeth.

XIII. The Fair Church called St. Mary Overy, (or over the Rie, that is, over the River) vulgarly called S…viours Southwark, was formerly a Priory. For from a Houſe of Nuns, it was converted into a Colledge of Prieſts. And Anno 1106 Founded again for Canons Regular. William Gifford Biſhop of Wincheſter, Builded the body of the Church Anno 1106. 7 H. 1. It was ſurrendred to Henry VIII. in the thirty firſt of his Reign. Oct. 27. Anno 1539, valued at 624 l. 6. s. 6. d. per annum. The Inhab…tants of the Burrough in December following, purchaſed the Church of the Priory, of the King; whereof they made a Pariſh-Church, for the Pariſh-Church of St. Mary Magdalen, on the Southſide of the Quire out of St. Margarets on the Hill, which were made one Pariſh of St. Saviour. In it there be divers Monuments; as of John Gower a Famous Poet, and a great Benefactor to this Church, who lived in the times of Edward the III. and R. II. The Monument of that Famous and Learned Biſhop Andrews, who dyed in the Eleventh of Charles the I. Anno 1626, Aged Seventy one Years. Here is likewiſe a very Fair Monument of Dr. Loclyer, that Famous Phyſitiar. There are alſo divers p. 74bountiful Benefactors to the Poor of this Pariſh; and other Pious Uſes. This is a Stately and Spacious Church, and has been from time to time kept in good Repair, and with much coſt has received many Graceful and Uſeful Additions. Here is a Monument of Queen Elizabeth, with theſe Verſes:

ELIZABETHA REGINA.

St. Peters Church at Weſtminſter,

Her Sacred Body doth inter.

Her Glorious Soul with Angels ſings.

Her Deed… live Patterns here for Kings,

Her Love in every heart hath Room,

This only ſhadows forth her Tomb.

XIV. The Fair Pariſh-Church of St. Sepulchres ſtands without Newgate, in a Fair Church-Yard; but of late much Inc…oached upon, as being part of it Lett out for Buildings, and a Garden-Plat. This Church was Re-built about the Reign of Henry the V. or Edward the IV. one of the Pophams was a great Builder there, namely of one Fair Chappel on the South-ſide of the Quire, as appeareth by his Arms there, &c. Here are divers Monuments. There has been much money ſpent in Repairs upon this Church. In it there is an Excellent Organ, and a very good Ring of Bells. It is in Farringdon-Ward-without.

XV. Anno 1552. The Citizens of London having purchaſed the void ſuppreſſed Hoſpital of St. Thomas in Southwark, in the Month of July, began the Reparations thereof for Poor, Impotent, Lame and Diſeaſed People, ſo that in November next following, the Sick and Poor People were taken in. The Church of this Hoſpital, remaineth as a Pariſh-Church for the Inhabitants thereabout, by the Name p. 75of St. Thomas Southwark. The Steeple was Repaired, New Leaded, and from the Ground to the Top, Coated with a Beautiful Rough-Caſt, and Inriched with a very Fair Turret in the Year 1633. It is in Bridge-Ward-without.

XVI. In Portſoken-Ward is the ſmall Pariſh-Church called Trinity Minories, there was firſt a Monaſtery of Nuns of the Order of Sancta-Clara, called the Minories, Founded by Edmond Earl of Lancaſter, Leicester, and Derby, Brother to Edward the I. Anno 1293. Which was Demoliſhed in King Henry the Eighths Thirtieth Year, Anno 1539. There were built Store-Houſes for Armour and other Martial Habiliments, with divers Work-Houſes for that purpoſe, and near it, this Church for the Inhabitants; who at ſeveral times Repaired and Beautified it. In the Body of this Church is a Monument with this Inſcription:

Vivere Cornices multos dicuntur in annos,

Cur vos Anguſta conditione ſumus.

We ſhall now proceed to the out Pariſhes in Middleſex and Surrey.

I. As to Chriſt's-Church, we refer the Reader to another place, where he ſhall have a fuller account than we can give here.

II. The Pariſh-Church of St. John at Hackney, is an antient and handſom Church, and kept in good Repair; there are divers Monuments in it, but our Diſcourſe being Principally of the City of Londo… it cannot be expected, that we ſhould enlarge much more than the bare mention of generals, having things much more Material, that require our diſpatch. But the Fair Pariſh-Church of

p. 76III. St. Giles in the Fields, is a very Neat and well built Pariſh-Church, in a handſom Church-Yard. It was formerly an Hoſpital, Founded by Queen Matilda, Wife to King Henry the I. about the Year 1117. at which Priſoners, convey'd from London to Tyburn to be Executed, were preſented with a great Bowl of Ale, thereof to Drink at pleaſure, as to be their laſt Refreſhing in this Life. In this Church are ſeveral Monuments. It began to be Raiſed a New, Anno 1623, and was Finiſhed in two Years, and incompaſs'd with a Fair Brick-Wall in the Year 1631. To which there were many good and great Benefactors, many of whom would be concealed. This is a very large Pariſh, and (next to St. Giles Cripple-gate and Stepney) is reputed to be the moſt Populous in England, (if not in Europe;) it being thought by ſuch as have made an Eſtimate, that it contains above 100000 Souls, beſides Strangers, who are very Numerous.

IV. The Pariſh-Church called St. James Clerkenwell, in the North-Weſt Suburbs, was formerly a Priory, ſo called of Clark's-Well adjoyning. It is a handſom large Church with divers Antient and ſome Modern Monuments. And it had ſundry Benefactors. William Hern a Maſter of Defence, and Yeoman of the Guard 1580, gave Lands and Tenements to the Cloathworkers in London, they to pay Yearly for ever fourteen pound to the Church-Wardens of Clerkenwel, and fourteen pound to the Church-wardens of St. Sepulchres, towards Reparation of thoſe Churches, and Relief of Poor Men. More he gave after the Death of one Man, eight pound a Year for ever, to the mending of High-Ways.

Thomas Sackford Eſq one of the Maſters of Requeſts, gave to the Poor of that Pariſh forty ſhillings p. 77a Year for ever, out of his Alms-Houſe at Woodbridge in Suffolk, where he is buried. Henry Stoke, Gardiner, buried there, gave twenty ſhillings a Year for ever, towards Reparation of that Church. The Priory was valued to diſpend 262 l. 9. s. per annum, and was ſurrendred 30 H. VIII. and is now a Pariſh-Church. It was Repaired after the fall of its Steeple, which ſpoil'd a great part of the Church, and finiſhed, Anno 1627. at the coſt of 1400 l.

V. The Pariſh-Church called St. Katharine-Tower, becauſe near the Tower of London. On the Eaſt-ſide was an Hoſpital of St. Katharine, Founded by Queen Matilda Wife to King Stephen. There lye buryed (beſides many others) in this Church, the Counteſs of Huntington, Counteſs of the March in her time, 1429. John Holland, Duke of Exeter, and Earl of Huntington 1447, and his two Wives, in a Fair Tomb, Thomas Walſingham Eſq and Thomas Ballard Eſq by him 1465. This Church was Repaired, and throughout Trimmed and Beautified, Anno 1618. Inlarged with a Fair Gallery 1621. The Walls and out-ſide cloathed with a Beautiful Rough-Caſt, at the Charge of Sr. Julius Caeſar, Anno 1626. Mr. Stephen Scudamore, Citizen and Vintner of London, gave 20 s. per annum, to be beſtowed in Fuel amongſt the Poor for ever. Mr. John Boum, Baker, gave 5 l. per annum, to be beſtowed in Bread among the Poor for fourty Years.

VI. In the Church at Lambeth, are very many Monuments, which for brevity we pretermit.

VII. The Arch-Deacon of London is always Parſon of St. Leonard Shore-Ditch, and the Cure is ſerved by a Vicar. There were divers Honorable Perſons buried there; and there were many Bountiful p. 78Benefactors to the Church and Poor. John Fuller of Biſhops-Hall Eſq gave a Sum of Money for the Building of twelve Alms-Houſes, for twelve Poor Widdows of this Pariſh; who receive fifty pound per annum of his Gift. William Peak Eſq gave two ſhillings a Week to be diſtributed in Bread for ever on Sundays. Robert Brainforth, Gentleman, gave eight pound Yearly for ever to the Poor. Thomas Ruſſel, Draper, gave twelve pence Weekly for ever, to be paid by the Drapers. George Clark, gave to the Poor one hundred Marks in Money, &c.

VIII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Magdalen Bermondſey, was built by the Priors of Bermondſey, near the Abby of Bermondſey, which was ſurrendred to King Henry the VIII, it was much enlarged, Anno 1608, at the Charge of 860 l. ſo that it became (and is) a Fair Church.

IX. The Church of St. Mary Iſtington. And,

X. The Pariſh-Church of St. Mary Newington, are Fair Pariſhes, with ſome Monuments, but being ſo Remote, we pretermit them.

XI. St. Mary White-Chappel is as it were a Chappel of Eaſe to Stepney-Pariſh, and the Parſon of Stepney hath the Gift of it, 'tis a handſom Church and in good Repair. There are ſome few handſom Monuments in it.

XII. The Pariſh-Church of St. Pauls in upper Shadwel, was alſo lately made a Pariſh-Church; the Pariſh being too Numerous for the Church of Stepney. It is a handſom Church with a large Church-Yard, and the Pariſh very Populous.

XIII. In the Pariſh-Church of Rotherhith (vulgarly p. 79Redriff) are ſome Monuments alſo. It is a pretty handſom convenient Church.

XIV. The Pariſh-Church of Stepney is indifferent capacious, yet too too narrow for the Inhabitants, it being the moſt populous Pariſh in England, as appears by our Bills of Mortality, and of a great Extent. There are divers Monuments in it; and ſome of great Antiquity. Now we ſhall ſpeak of the Churches in the City and Liberties of Weſtminſter.

I. The Pariſh-Church of St. Clements Danes near Temple-Bar, is ſo called, becauſe one Harold, a Daniſh King, and other Danes, were buried there. It was in the Liberties of the Dutchy of Lancaſter. This was a fair Church, and likely; ere long, to exceed its former beauty. Here were ſeveral curious Monuments. And 'tis a populous Pariſh, full of handſom Buildings.

II. St. Pauls Covent-Garden is a very handſom and a delicate Church, of no great Antiquity, yet a populous Pariſh.

III. St. Martins in the Fields is a ſpacious Church, and the Pariſh wonderful populous. In it are divers fair Monuments, and of ſeveral Perſons of Honor, which are too tedious to be recited, only for the pithineſs, I ſhall inſert one Diſtich upon Charles Blount, an Infant, 2d Son to the Earl of Newport.

Vivus nil poteram fari, quin mortuus Infans,

Ecce loquor, Mortis ſis memor, atque vale.

Which I ſhall Engliſh, without minding the Slavery of Rhiming:

Living I could not ſpeak, an Infant dead,

Behold I ſpeak, Mind Death, and ſo farewel.

IV. After the Savoy-Houſe was burnt by the Kentiſh and Eſſex Rebels, for Malice to John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaſter, which for beauty and ſtatelineſs none in the Kingdom could then compare with, as from Antiquity we learn; it came to the p. 80Kings hands, and was Re-built, and made an Hoſpital of St. John Baptist, by King Henry VII. about the year 1509. for which he purchaſed Lands, to relieve an 100 poor People; it being valued to ſpend 529 l. 15 s. per Annum, was ſuppreſſed in Edward the Sixth's Time; the Beds, Bedding, and Furniture thereof, and 700 Marks of the ſaid Land yearly given to the Citizens of London, with his Houſe of Bridewel for a Work-houſe for poor and idle Perſons, and towards furniſhing the Hoſpital of St. Thomas Southwark. The Chapel of this Hoſpital ſerveth now for a Pariſh-Church to the places adjoining, called St. Mary Savoy; in it are divers Monuments. The Benefactors to it, are Regiſtred in a Book kept there, which are too many to be inſerted in our ſmall Volume.

V. The Pariſh-Church of St. Margarets Weſtminſter is a ſumptuous and ſtately Church, Rebuilt by King Edward the Confeſſor, for the Eaſe and Commodity of the Monks of Weſtminſter, becauſe before that time the Pariſh-Church ſtood within the old Abby Church in the South Ile, ſomewhat to their annoyance. It was new built again by the Merchants of the Staple, and Pariſhion… of Weſtminſter, and is now, as was ſaid, a very fair Pariſh-Church, with very ſtrong and beautiful Galleries, where, in Parliament-time, the Honourable Houſe of Commons ſit, &c. in it are divers fair Monuments of Perſons of Quality.

Having given a brief Account of the Churches within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, reſerving ſome Additions, eſpecially relating to their Modern Eſtate, and the Re-building of thoſe demoliſhed by the great Fire, to another place; and omitting particular Chapels, of which there are many, and the contiguous Churches round about London, (becauſe not ſo immediately relating to the Deſign in hand) we ſhall proceed to treat of Hoſpitals, eſpecially the moſt Eminent.

NEW BEDLAM.

BRIDE WELL.