The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.

FARINGDON VVARD Infra, or within.

ON the South side of Al∣dersgate Ward, lyeth Fa∣ringdon Ward, called in∣fra, or within, for a diffe∣rence from another ward of that name, which lyeth without the wals of the Citie, and is therefore cal∣led Faringdon extra. These two Wards (of old time) were but one, and had al∣so but one Alderman, till the 17. of Ri∣chard the second, at which time, the said Ward (for the greatnesse thereof) was divided into twaine, and by Parlia∣ment ordered to have two Aldermen, and so it continueth till this day. The whole great Ward of Faringdon, both infra and extra, took name of W. Faren∣don, Goldsmith, Alderman of that Ward, and one of the Sheriffes of Lon∣don, in the yeere 1281. the 9. of Edward the first: He purchased the Alderman∣rie of this Ward, as by the abstract of Deeds which I have read thereof, may appeare.

Thomas de Arderne, sonne and heire to Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, granted to Ralph le Feure, Citizen of London, one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1277. all the Aldermanrie, with the appurtenances, with∣in the Citie of London, and the Suburbs of the same, betweene Ludgate and New-gate, and also without the same Gates: which Aldermanrie, Ankerinus de Aver∣ne held during his life, by the Grant of the said Thomas de Arderne, to have and to hold to the said Ralph, and to his heires, freely without all challenge, yeelding there∣fore yeerely to the said Thomas and his heires, one Clove or Slip of Gilli flowers, at the Feast of Easter, for all secular service and customes, with warrantie unto the said Ralphle Feure, and his heires, against all people, Christians and Iewes, in considera∣tion of twenty Markes, which the said Ralph de Feure did give before-hand, in name of a Gersum, or Fine, to the said Tho∣mas, &c. Dated the fifth of Edward the first. Witnesse, G. de Rokesley, Maior, R. Arrar, one of the Shriffes. H. Wales, P. le Taylor, T. de Basing, I. Horne, N. Blackthorn, Aldermen of London.

After this, Iohn le Feure, sonne and heyre to the said Ralph le Feure, granted to William Farendon, Citizen and Gold∣smith of London, and to his heyres, the said Aldermanry, with the appurtenan∣ces, for the service thereunto belong∣ing, in the seventh of Edward the first, in the yeere of Christ, 1279. This Al∣dermanry descended to Nicholas Faren∣don, sonne to the said William, and to his heyres: which Nicholas Farendon, also a Goldsmith, was foure times Maior, and lived many yeeres after; for I have read divers Deeds, whereunto he was a wit∣nesse, dated the yeere 1360. He made his Testament, 1361. which was fifty three yeeres after his first being Maior, and was buried in Saint Peters Church in Cheape. So this Ward continued un∣der the governement of William Faren∣don the father, and Nicholas his sonne, by the space of fourescore and two yeeres, and retaineth their name untill this present day.

VVhereas Master Stowe saith, That Thomas de Arderne, sonne and heire to Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, granted to Ralph le Feure, Citizen of London, and one of the Sheriffes of the same Citie, in the yeere 1277. all the Aldermanrie, with the appurtenances within the Ci∣tie of London, and Suburbs of the same, betweene Ludgate and Newgate, and

also without the same gates. Which Aldermanrie, Ankerinus de Averne held, during his life, by the Grant of Thomas de Arderne, to have and to hold to the said Ralph, and to his heires, free∣ly without all challenge, yeelding ther∣fore yeerely to the said Thomas and his heires, one Clove or Slip of Gilliflow∣ers, at the Feast of Easter, for all secular service and customes, with warrantie to the said Ralph le Feure, and his heires a∣gainst all people, Christians and Iewes, in consideration of 20. marks, which the said Ralph de Feure did give beforehand in name of a Gersum or Fine, to the said Thomas, &c. Dated the fifth of Edward the first. VVitnesse, G. de Roke∣sley, Maior, R. Arrar, one of the She∣riffes, H. Wales, P. le Taylor, T. de Ba∣sing, I. Horne, and N. Blackthorn, Al∣dermen.

I finde (to the contrary) by an espe∣ciall Deed (yet to be seene) delivered me by that worthy favourer of Antiqui∣ties, Master Iohn Williams, Goldsmith, all the former Deed, verbatim, to bee granted by William de Farndon, Citizen and Alderman of London, (of whom the VVard, both within and without the Gates fore-named, being then but one, and governed by one Alderman onely, tooke name) to Nicholas, the sonne of Ralph de Feure, Citizen of London, in the very same manner and forme as hath beene recited, for a Clove or Slip of Gilliflowers, twenty pounds, and not Markes, given for a Gersum, or Fine, and the very same warrantie or defence against all people for ever.

To which Deed, sealed with his own Seale, as he calleth it, being the very same of the Goldsmiths Armes, yet en∣graved about in this manner: Sigilli Willi. de Farndon; he nameth as witnes∣ses, Domino Ioh. le Bretonn, Milite, tune Custode London, Elia Russel, and Henry le Bole, tunc Vicecom. London; Steph. Asse∣wy, Ioh. de Bachkewelle, Roberts de Basing, Will. de Bettune, Rad. le Blund, Walt. de Finchingfeld, Ioh. de Blund, Thoma de Esta∣nes, Richardo Assewy, & multis aliis.

Anno Reg. Ed. fil. R. Hen. xxj.

This VVard of Faringdon within the wals, is bounded thus: Beginning in the East, at the great Crosse in VVest Cheape, from whence it runneth VVest, On the North side, from the Parish Church of Saint Peter, which is at the South-west corner of Woodstreet, unto Guthurons lane, and downe that Lane, to Hugon lane on the East side, and to Kery lane on the West.

Then againe into Cheape and to Foster lane, and downe that Lane on the East side, to the North side of Saint Fosters Church, and on the west, till over a∣gainst the South-west corner of the said Church, from whence, downe Foster lane, and Noble street, is all of Aldersgate street Ward, till ye come to the stone wall in the west side of Noble street, as is afore shewed. Which said wall, down to Nevils Inne, or Windsore House, and downe Monkes-well street, on that west side, then by London wall, to Creplegate, and the west side of that same Gate, is all of Faringdon VVard.

Then backe againe into Cheape, and from Foster lane end to Saint Martins lane end, and from thence through S. Nicholas Shambles, by Pentecost lane, and Butchers Alley, and by Stinking lane, through Newgate Market to Newgate: All which is in the North side of Faring∣don VVard.

On the South, from against the said great Crosse in Cheape, west to Fridaies street, and downe that streete on the East side, till over against the North∣east corner of Saint Matthews Church, and on the west side, till the South cor∣ner of the said Church.

Then againe along Cheape to the Old Exchange, and downe that Lane, (on the East side) to the Parish Church of S. Augustine, which Church and one house next adjoyning in Watheling street, be of this Ward; and on the west side of this Lane, to the East Arch or Gate by S. Augustines Church, which entreth the South Church-yard of Saint Pauls, which Arch or Gate was builded by Nicholas Farendon, about the yeer 1361. and within that Gate on the said north side, to the Gate that entreth the north Church-yard, and all the north Church-yard is of this Faringdon ward.

Then againe into Cheape, and from the North end of the Old Exchange, west by the north gate of Pauls Church-yard

up Pater noster Row, by the two lanes out of Pauls Church, and to the signe of the Golden Lyon, which is some twelve houses short of Ave Mary lane, the West side of which lane is of this Ward.

Then at the South end of Ave Mary Lane, is Creed lane, the West side wher∣of is also of this Ward.

Now betwixt the South end of Ave Mary lane, and the North end of Creed lane, is the cōming out of Pauls Church-yard, on the East, and the high street, called Bowyer Row, to Ludgate, on the West, which way to Ludgate is of this Ward. On the north side whereof is S. Martins Church: and on the South side a turning into the Blacke Friers.

Now to turne up againe to the north end of Ave Marie lane, there is a short lane, which runneth West some small distance, and is there closed up with a gate into a great house: and this is cal∣led Amen lane.

Then on the North side of Pater no∣ster Row, beginning at the Conduit over against the Old Exchange lane end, and going west by Saint Michaels Church: at the West end of which Church, is a small passage thorow toward the north. And beyond this Church some small distance, is another passage, which is called Panier Alley, and commeth out against S. Martins lane end.

Then further West in Pater noster Row, is Ivie lane, which runneth North to the West end of S. Nicholas Sham∣bles: and then West Pater noster Row, till over against the Golden Lion, where the Ward endeth for that street.

Then about some dozen houses, which is of Baynards Castle VVard, to Warwicke lane end: which Warwicke lane stretch∣eth North to the high street of Newgate Market. And the West side of Warwick lane is of this Foringdon VVard: For the East side of Warwicke lane, of Ave Mary lane, and of Creed lane, with the west end of Pater noster Row, are all of Baynards Castle VVard.

Yet to begin againe at the said Con∣duit by the old Exchange, on the North side thereof is a large street, that run∣neth up to Newgate, as is aforesaid. The first part, or South-west side thereof, from the Conduit to the Shambles, is called Bladder street. Then on the backe side of the Shambles bee divers slaugh∣ter-houses, and such like, pertaining to the Shambles: and this is called Mount Godard street. Then is the Shambles it selfe, and then Newgate Market. And so the whole street on both sides up to Newgate, is of this VVard: and thus it is wholy bounded.

Monuments in this VVard be these: First, the great Crosse in West Cheape street, but in the VVard of Faringdon, the which Crosse was first erected in that place by Edward the first, as before is shewed in West Cheape street.

At the South-west corner of Wood∣street, is the Parish Church of S. Peter the Apostle, by the said Crosse, a pro∣per Church, lately new builded. Iohn Sha, Goldsmith, Maior, deceased 1503. appointed by his Testament, the said Church and Steeple to be new builded of his goods, with a flat roofe. Notwith∣standing, Tho. Wood, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, 1491. is accounted a prin∣cipall benefactor, because the roofe of the middle Ile is supported by Images of VVoodmen.

I finde to have beene buried in this Church, Nicholas Farendon, Maior, Ri∣chard Hadley, Grocer, 1592.

Iohn Palmer, Fishmonger, 1500.

Wil. Rous, Goldsmith, Sheriffe, 1429.

Thomas Atkins, Esquire, 1400.

Iohn Butler, Sheriffe, 1420.

Henry Warley, Alderman, 1524.

Sir Iohn Mund, Goldsmith, Maior, deceased, 1537.

Augustine Hinde, Clothworker, one of the Sheriffes, in the yeere 1550. whose Monument doth yet remaine, with this inscription here-under, &c. the other being gone.

Sir Alexander Avenon, Maior, 1579.

Here-under this Stone lieth buried the body of Augustine Hinde, Clothworker, Al∣derman, and late Sheriffe of London: who deceased the tenth day of August, Anno Domini, 1554. Here also lieth Dame Elizabeth his wife, by whom hee had issue foure sons and two daughters: which Dame Elizabeth deceased the 12. day of Iuly, An. Dom. 1569.

God grant us all such race to run: To end in Christ as they have done.

The long Shop or Shed, incroching on the high street before this Church wall, was licensed to bee made in the yeere 1401. yeelding to the Chamber of London, 30. s. 4. d. yeerely for the time. Also the same Shop was letten by the Parish, for three pounds at the most, many yeeres since.

Then is Guthuruns lane, so called of Guthurun, sometime owner thereoof: the inhabitāts of this lane (of old time) were Goldbeaters. as doth appeare by Re∣cords in the Exchequer. For the Easter∣ling money was appointed to be made of fine silver, such as men made into foyle, and was commonly called silver of Guthuruns lane, &c. The Imbroide∣rers Hall is in this Lane. Iohn Trowstone Imbroiderer, then Goldsmith, Sheriffe, deceased 1519. gave 40. l. towards the purchase of this Hall. Hugon lane, on the East side, and Kery lane (called of one Kery) on the West.

Then in the high street on the same North side, is the Sadlers Hall: and then Foster lane, so called, of Saint Fosters, a faire Church, lately new builded. Henry Coote, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, deceased, 1509. builded S. Dunstanes Chappell there. Iohn Throwstone, one of the Sheriffes, gave to the building thereof 100. pounds by his Testament. Iohn Browne, Sergeant-Painter, Alder∣man, deceased 1532. was a great Be∣nefactor, and was there buried. William Trist, Selerar to the King, 1425. Iohn Standelfe, Goldsmiths, lye buried there. Richard Galder, 1544. Agnes, wife to William Milborne, Chamberlaine of Lon∣don, 1500.

Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Baby, quondam Capellanus Aurifabrorum London. Qui obiit 3. die Mens. Novemb. An. Dom. 1452. Cujus, &c.

Here lieth buried the body of John Lony∣son, Esquire, Master of the Mint of England, Citizen and Goldsmith of London: who most joyfully changed this miserable and wearisome life, with the felicity and happinesse of Gods King∣dome, in good Religion and godly chari∣tie, in true feare and stedfast faith, with a full perswasion of remission in the blood of Iesus Christ, the one and twentieth day of May, An. Dom. 1583. being about the 59. yeere of his age.

Here lyeth interred the body of Christo∣pher Wase, late Citizen and Godsmith of London, aged 66. yeeres, and dyed the 22. of September, 1605. who had to wife Anne the daughter of William Prettyman, and had by her three sonnes and three daughters.

Reader, stay, and thou shalt know What he was that here doth sleepe: Lodg'd amidst the stones below, Stones that oft are seene to weepe. Gentile was his birth and breed, His carriage gentle, much contenting: His word accorded with his deed, Sweet his nature, soone relenting. From above he seem'd protected, Father dead before his birth, An Orphane, onely but neglected, Yet his branches spread on earth, Earth, that must his bones containe, Sleeping till Christs Trumpe shall wake them, Ioyning them to soule againe, And to blisse eternall take them. It is not this rude and little heape of stones, Can hold the fame, although't containes the bones. Light be the earth, and hallowed for thy sake, Resting in peace, peace that so oft didst make.

Vnder the Stone right against this Monu∣ment, lye buried the bodies of Robert Marsh, Citizen and Grocer of London, and Florence his first wife, by whom he

had issue seven Sonnes. By Elizabeth, his second wife, (left living) he had issue three sonnes and a daughter. He depar∣ted this life the 7. day of October, Anno Dom. 1602. after he had lived 65. yeeres and three dayes.

Here-under lyeth buried the body of Mi∣stris Martha Prescot, the wife of Alex∣ander Prescot, Citizen and Alderman of London: whose soule the Lord tooke to his mercy the 26. day of Novemb. 1616. when she had lived a married wife just 23. yeeres that day, and 40. yeeres, 2. moneths, 3. weekes, and odde dayes, from the time of her birth. She had issue by her said Husband, 6. Sonnes, and 5. daughters, and her yongest of all, being a daughter, named Elizabeth, lyeth here∣under interred, in the same Grave, on the same day of buriall with her said mother.

Lord, of thine infinite grave and pitie, Have mercy on me Agnes, sometime the wife Of William Milborne, Chamberlaine of this Citie, Which tooke my passage fro this wretched life, The yeere of Grace, one thousand, one hundred and five, The twelfth day of Iuly, no longer was my space, It pleased then my Lord to call me to his grace. Now ye that are living, and see this picture, Pray for me here while ye have time and space, That God of his goodnesse would me assure, In his everlasting mansion to have a place.

Then downe Foster Lane, and Noble street, both of Aldersgate street Ward, till ye come to the stone wall, which in∣closeth a Garden-plot before the wall of the Citie, on the West side of Noble street, and is of this Faringdon Ward. This Garden-plot, containing 95. Elles in length, 9. Elles and an half in bredth, was by Adam de Burie, Maior, the Al∣dermen, and Citizens of London, letten to Iohn de Nevell, Lord of Raby, Radulph and Thomas, his sonnes, for threescore yeeres, paying 6. s. 8. d. the yeere. Da∣ted the 48. of Edw. 3. having in a seale pendant on the one side, the figure of a walled Citie, and of S. Paul, a Sword in his right hand, and in the left a Banner; 3. Leopards, about that Seale, on the same side written, Sigillum Baronium Londoniarum. On the other side, the like figure of a Citie, a Bishop sitting on an Arch, the inscription, Me: quae: ••e: pe∣peri: ne: Cesses: Thoma: tueri.

Thus much for the Barons of London, their common seale at that time.

At the North end of this Garden∣plot, is one great house builded of stone and timber, now called the Lord Win∣sors house, of old time belonging to the Nevels, as in the 19. of Rich. 2. it was found by inquisition of a Iurie, that Eli∣zabeth Nevell dyed, seized of a great Messuage in the Parish of S. Olave in Monkes-well street in London, holden of the King in free Burgage, which shee held of the gift of Iohn Nevell of Raby, her husband, and that Iohn Latimer was next sonne and heire to the said Eliza∣beth.

In this West side is the Barber Chi∣rurgeons Hall. This Company was in∣corporated by meanes of Thomas More∣stede, Esquire, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1436. Chirurgeon to the Kings of England, Henry the fourth, fifth, and sixth. He deceased 1450. Then Iaques Fries, Physician to Edw. the fourth, and William Hobbs, Physician and Chirur∣geon for the same Kings body, continu∣ing the suit the ful time of twenty yeers, Edward the fourth, in the second of his reigne, and Richard Duke of Glocester, became Founders of the same Cor∣poration, in the Parish of Saint Cosme and Damiane. The first assembling of that Mysterie was by Roger Strippe, William Hobbs, Thomas Goddard, and Richard Kent, since the which time they builded their Hall in that street, &c.

At the North corner of this street, on the same side, was sometime an Her∣mitage or Chappell of Saint Iames, cal∣led in the wall, neere Creplegate: it be∣longed to the Abbey and Covent of Ga∣radon, as appeareth by a Record, the se∣ven and twentieth of Edward the first: And also the 16. of Edward the third,

William de Lions was Hermit there, and the Abbot & Covent of Garadon found two Chaplaines, Cestercian Monkes of their house: in this Hermitage one of them, for Aymor de Valence, Earle of Pembrooke, and Mary de Saint Paul, his Countesse.

Of these Monkes, and of a Well per∣taining to them, the street tooke that name, and is called Monkes-well street. This Hermitage with the appurtenan∣ces, was in the reigne of Edw. the 6. pur∣chased from the said King, by W. Lambe, one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Chappell, Citizen and Cloth-worker of London: Hee deceased in the yeere 1577. and then gave it to the Cloth-workers of London, with other Tene∣ments, to the value of fifty pounds the yeere, to the intent they shall hire a Mi∣nister to say divine Service there.

Againe, to the high street of Cheape, from Foster Lane end to S. Martins, and by that Lane to the Shambles or Flesh-market, on the North side whereof is Pentecost lane, containing divers slaugh∣ter-houses for the Butchers.

Then was there of old time a proper Parish Church of S. Nicholas, whereof the said Flesh-market tooke the name, and was called S. Nicholas Shambles.

This Church, with the Tenements and Ornaments, was by Henry the eight given to the Maior and Communalty of the Citie, towards the maintenance of the new Parish Church, then to be ere∣cted in the late dissolved Church of the Gray Friers: so was this Church dissol∣ved and pulled downe: in place where∣of, and of the Church-yard, many faire houses are now builded, in a Court with a Well, in the middest whereof the Church stood.

Then is Stinking lane, formerly so cal∣led, or Chick lane, at the East end of the Gray Friers Church: it is now kept clean and free from annoyance, and called by the name of Butchers-Hall Lane; and there is the Butchers Hall.

In the third of Richard the second, mo∣tion was made, that no Butcher should kill any flesh within London, but at Knightsbridge, or such like distant place from the wals of the Citie.

Then the late dissolved Church of Gray Friers, the originall whereof was thus:

In the yeere 1224. being the 8. yeere of the reigne of King Henry the third, there came out of Italy nine Friers of the Order of the Franciscans, or Frier Minors, five whereof were Priests, and the other foure Lay-men. The Priests placed themselves at Canturbury in Kent: but the other foure came to Lon∣don, and were lodged (for some short while) among the preaching Friers, who lived then in Oldborne. Afterward, they obtained to be placed in Cornehill, Lon∣don, in an house belonging to one Iohn Travars, who was then one of the She∣riffes of London, in the same yeere 1224. In which house they made themselves Celles, and inhabited there for a cer∣taine time; till their number so increa∣sed, and the Citizens devotion grew to be so great, that (within few yeeres after) they were thence removed, by the meanes of one Iohn Ewin, Mercer, who purchased a void plot of ground, neere to Saint Nicholas Shambles, where to erect an House for the said Friers.

Divers Citizens seemed herein to joyne with the said Iohn Ewin, and ere∣cted there very beautifull buildings, upon the same ground so formerly pur∣chased by Iohn Ewin, and a great part builded at his owne charge, which hee appropriated to the Communalty of London, and then entred into the same Order of Friers, as a Lay Brother.

William Ioyner, Lord Maior of Lon∣don, in the yeere 1239. builded them a Chappell, which cost him two hundred pounds Sterling, which Chappell made part of the Chancell, as it now standeth.

Henry Walleis, who was likewise Lord Maior of London, builded them a body of a Church, which afterward was pul∣led downe, and made as now it is.

Mr. Walter Porter, Alderman of Lon∣don, builded a Chapter-house for them, and gave divers vessels of Brasse for the Kitchin service; building places also for sicke persons, and other Offices beside.

Thomas Felcham builded the Vestry house.

Gregory Rokesley, Lord Maior of Lon∣don, builded their Dorters and Cham∣bers, and gave Beds to them.

M. Bartholomew of the Castel, buil∣ded a faire house or Refectory for them.

Mr. Peter de Helyland builded the In∣firmitory, and divers places for disea∣sed persons.

Mr. Bevis Bond, Herald, and King at Armes, builded the studies.

Margaret, Queene, second wife to Edward the first, began the Quire of their new Church, in the yeere 1306. to the building whereof, in her life time she gave 2000. marks, and 100. markes by her Testament.

Iohn Britaine, Earle of Richmond, buil∣ded the body of the Church, to the charges of 300. pounds, and gave ma∣ny rich Iewels and ornaments to be u∣sed in the same.

Mary, Countesse of Pembrooke 70. l.

Gilbart de Clare, Earle of Glocester, and bestowed 20. great beames out of his Forrest of Tunbridge, 20. l. starlings.

Lady Helianor le Spencer, Lady Eliza∣beth de Burgh, Sister to Gilbert de Clare, gave summes of money, and so did di∣vers Citizens, as Arnold de Tolinea, one hundred pounds.

Robert Picae Lisle, who became a Fri∣er there, 300. pounds.

Bartholomew de Almaine, 50. pounds.

Also Philippe, Queene, wife to Ed∣ward the third, gave 62. pounds.

Isabel, Queene, Mother to Edward the third, gave threescore and tenne pounds. And so the worke was done within the space of 21. yeeres, 1537.

This Church, thus furnished with windowes, made at the charges of di∣vers persons; the Lady Margaret Se∣grave, Countesse of Norfolke, bare the charges of making the Stalles in the Quire, to the value of 350. markes, a∣bout the yeere 1380. Richard Whiting∣ton, in the yeere 1429. founded the Li∣brary, which was in length, one hun∣dred twenty and nine foot, and in breadth, thirty one; all seeled with Wainscot, having 28. Desks, and eight double Settles of Wainscot. Which (in the next yeere following) was alto∣gether finished in building, and within three yeeres after, furnished with Bookes, to the charges of five hundred fifty six pounds, tenne shillings, where∣of Richard Whitington bare 400. pounds, the rest was borne by Doctor Thomas Winchelsey, a Frier there: and for the writing out of D. Nicholas de Lira his Workes, in two Volumes to be chained there, 100. Markes, &c.

The ••eeling of the Quire at divers mens charges, 200. markes, and the painting at 50. markes: their Conduit head and water-course was given them by William Tayler, Taylor to Hen. 3.

This whole Church contained in length 300. foot, of the feet of S. Paul, in breadth eighty nine foot, and in heighth from the ground to the roofe, 64. foot, and 2. inches, &c. It was con∣secrated, 1325. and at the generall sup∣pression, was valued at 32. pound, 19. shillings, surrendred the 12. of Novem∣ber, 1533. the 30. of Hen. 8. the orna∣ments and goods being taken to the Kings use: the Church was shut up for a time, and used as a Store-house of goods taken prizes from the French: But in the yeere 1546. on the third of Ianuary, it was againe set open. On the which day preached at Pauls Crosse the Bishop of Rochester, where he declared the Kings gift thereof to the Citie, for the relieving of the poore, which gift was by Patents.

S. Bartholomews Spittle in Smithfield, lately valued at 305. pounds, 6. shil∣lings, 7. Pence, and surrendred to the King; of the said Church of the Gray Friers, and of two Parish Churches, the one of Saint Nicholas in the Shambles, and the other of Saint Ewins in Newgate Market, they were to be made one Pa∣rish Church in the said Friers Church. In Lands he gave for maintenance of the said Church, with divine service, re∣parations, &c. 500. markes by yeere for ever.

The 13. of Ianuary, the 38. of Henry the 8. an agreement was made betwixt the King and the Maior, and Commu∣nalty of London, dated the 27. of De∣cember: by which the said gift of the Gray Friers Church, with all the Edi∣fices and ground, the Fratrie, the Li∣brary, the Dortar, and Chapter-house, the great Cloistrie and the lesser; Te∣nements, Gardens and vacant grounds, Lead, Stone, Iron, &c. The Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew in West Smith∣field, the Church of the same, the Lead, Bels, and Ornaments of the same Hospitall, with all the Messuages, Te∣nements and appurtenances.

The Parishes of S. Nicholas and of S. Ewin, and so much of S. Pulchers Parish as is within Newgate, were made one Parish Church in the Gray Friers Church, •• and called Christs Church, founded by King H. the 8.

The Vicar of Christs Church was to have 26. l. 13. s. 4. pence the yeere. The Vicar of S. Bartholomew 13. l. 6. s. 8. pence. The Visiter of Newgate (be∣ing a Priest) ten pounds. And other 5. Priests in Christs Church, all to be hel∣ping in divine Service, ministring the Sacraments and Sacramentals, the five Priests to have 8. pounds the piece. Two Clerks, 6. pounds to each. A Sexton, 4. pounds. Moreover, he gave them the Hospitall of Bethlem, with the Laver of Brasse in the Cloister, by estimation eighteene foot in length, and two foot and an halfe in depth, and the water∣course of Lead to the said Frier-house belonging, containing by estimation in length, 18. Acres.

In the yeere 1552. began the repai∣ring of the Gray Friers House, for the poore fatherlesse children. And in the moneth of November the children were taken into the same, to the number of almost 400. On Christmas day in the af∣ternoone, while the Lord Maior and Aldermen rode to Pauls, the children of Christs Hospitall stood, from Saint Laurence lane end in Cheape, towards Pauls, all in one Livery of Russet Cot∣ton, three hundred and forty in num∣ber; and at Easter next they were in Blue at the Spittle, and so have conti∣nued ever since.

What further I have read and under∣stood, concerning the first begining and erection of this famous Hospitall, fol∣loweth, according to the originall Co∣pie, set downe by M. Richard Grafton.

Mr. Doctor Ridley, then Bishop of London, came and preached before the Kings Majestie at Westminster. In which Sermon, he made a fruitfull and godly Exhortation to the rich, to be mercifull unto the poore: and also to move such as were in authority, to travaile by some charitable way and meanes, to comfort and relieve them. Wherupon, the Kings Majestie (being a Prince of such toward∣nesse and vertue for his yeeres, as Eng∣land before never brought forth, and being also so well retained and brought vp in all godly knowledge, as well by his deare Vncle the late Protector, as also by his vertuous and learned School∣masters) was so carefull of the good go∣vernement of the Realme, and chiefely to doe and prefer such things as most e∣specially touched the honour of Al∣mighty God. And understanding, that a great number of poore people did swarme in this Realme, and chiefly in the Citie of London, and that no good order was taken for them, did suddenly (and of himselfe) send to the said Bi∣shop, as soone as his Sermon was ended, willing him not to depart, untill that he had spoken with him. And this that I now write, was the very report of the said Bishop Ridley, who (according to the Kings command) gave his atten∣dance. And so soone as the Kings Maje∣stie was at leasure he called for him, and caused him to come unto him in a great Gallery at Westminster, where (to his knowledge, and the King likewise told him so) there was present no more per∣sons than they two; and therefore made him sit downe in one Chayre, and hee himselfe in another, which (as it see∣med) were before the comming of the Bishop there purposely set, and caused the Bishop, maugre his teeth) to be co∣vered, and then entred communication with him in this manner:

First, giving him hearty thankes for his Sermon and good Exhortation: hee therein rehearsed such speciall things as he had noted, and that so many, that the Bishop said:

Truely, truely (for that commonly was his Oath) I could never have thought that excellency to have beene in his Grace, but that I beheld, and heard it in him.

At the last the Kings Majesty much commended him for his Exhortation, for the reliefe of the poore.

But my Lord (quoth he) you willed such as are in authority to bee carefull thereof, and to devise some good order for their re∣liefe: Wherein, I thinke you meane mee, for I am in highest place; and therefore am the first that must make answer unto God for my negligence, if I should not bee carefull therein, knowing it to bee the expresse Commandement of Almighty God, to have compassion of his poore and needy

members, for whom wee must make an ac∣count unto him. And truly, my Lord, I am (before all things else) most willing to travaile that way, and I doubting nothing of your long and approved wisedome and learning, who having such good zeale, as wisheth helpe unto them; but also that you have had some conference with others, what waies are best to be taken therein, the which I am desirous to understand: and therefore I pray you to say your minde.

The Bishop thinking least of that matter, and being amazed, to heare the wisedome & earnest zeale of the King, was (as hee said himselfe) so astonied, that hee could not well tell what to say. But, after some pause, said, That hee thought (at this present) for some en∣trance to bee had, it were good to pra∣ctise with the City of London, because the number of the poore there are very great, and the Citizens also are many and wise; and hee doubted not but that they were also both pitifull and merci∣full; as the Maior and his Brethren, and other the Worshipfull of the said City. And that if it would please the Kings Majesty to direct his gracious Letters unto the Maior of London, willing him to call unto him such assistants as hee should thinke meete, to consult of this matter, for some order to bee taken therein; hee doubted not but good would follow thereon. And hee him∣selfe promised the King to be one him∣selfe that should earnestly travaile therein.

The King (forth-with) not onely granted his Letter, but made the Bi∣shop tarry untill the same was written, and his hand and Signet set thereto: And commanded the Bishop not onely to deliver the said Letter himselfe; but also to signifie unto the Maior, that it was the Kings especiall request and ex∣presse commandement, that the Maior should therein travell; and so soone as he might conveniently, give him know∣ledge how far he had proceeded there∣in. The Bishop was so joyous of the having of this Letter, and that now hee had an occasion to travell in so good a matter, wherein hee was marvellous zealous, that nothing could have more pleased and delighted him: wherefore the same night hee came to the Lord Maior of London, who was the Sir Ri∣chard Dobbs, Knight, and delivered the Kings Letter, and shewed his message with effect.

The Lord Maior not only joyously re∣ceived this Letter: but with all speede agreed to set forward the matter; for he also favoured it very much. And the next day, being Munday, hee desired the Bishop of London to dine with him, and against that time the Maior promi∣sed to send for such men, as he thought meetest to talke of this matter, and so he did. He sent first for 2. Aldermen and 6. Commoners, and afterward more were appointed, to the number of 24. In the end, after sundry meetings (for by the meanes and good diligence of the Bishop, it was well followed) they agreed upon a Booke that they had de∣vised, wherein first they considered on nine speciall kindes and sorts of poore people, and those they brought into these three Degrees:

Three degrees of Poore.

• 1. The poore by impotency.
• 2. Poore by casualty.
• 3. Thriftlesse poore.

1. The Poore by Impotency are also divided into three kindes; that is to say:

• 1. The fatherlesse poore mans childe.
• 2. The aged, blinde, and lame.
• 3. The diseased person by Leprosie, Dropsie, &c.

2. The Poore by Casualty are likewise of three kindes; that is to say:

• 1. The wounded Souldier.
• 2. The decayed Hous-holder.
• 3. The visited with any grievous disease.

3. The Thristlesse Poore are 3. kindes in like manner; that is to say:

• 1. The Riotour, that consumeth all.
• 2. The Vagabond, that will abide in no place.
• 3. The Idle person, as Strumpets and others.

For these sorts of Poore, three seve∣rall houses were provided: First, for the Innocent and Fatherlesse, which is the

Beggars childe, and is (indeed) the seed and breeder of beggary, they pro∣vided the house that was the late Gray Friers in London, and called it by the name of Christs Hospitall, where poore children are trained up in the know∣ledge of God, and some vertuous exer∣cises, to the overthrow of beggary.

For the second degree was provided the Hospitals of Saint Thomas in South∣warke, and Saint Bartholomew in VVest Smithfield, where are continually (at least) 200. diseased persons, which are not only there lodged and cured, but also sed and nourished.

For the third degree they provided Bridewell, where the vagabond and idle Strumpet is chastifed, and compelled to labour, to the overthrow of the vici∣ous life of idlenesse.

They provided also for the honest de∣cayed House-holder, that he should be relieved at home at his house, and in the Parish where hee dwelled, by a weekly reliefe and pension. And in like manner they provided for the Lazer, to keepe him out of the City, from clapping of dishes and ringing of Bels, to the great trouble of the Citi∣zens, and also to the dangerous infecti∣on of maney; that they should be relie∣ved at home at their houses, by severall pensions.

Now after this good order taken, and the Citizens (by such meanes as were devised) willing to further the same: the report thereof was made to the Kings Majesty, and his Grace (for the advancement thereof) was not on∣ly willing to grant such as should be O∣verseers and Governours of the said houses, a Corporation and authority for the government of them: but also required, that hee might bee accounted as the chiefe Founder and Patron there∣of.

And for the furtherance of the said worke, and continuall maintenance of the same; hee of his me•••• mercy and goodnesse granted, that whereas (be∣fore) certaine land•• were given, to the maintaining of the ho•••• of the Savoy, founded by King 〈…〉〈…〉 ••••eventh, for the loding of 〈…〉〈…〉 and Strangers, and that the same 〈◊〉〈◊〉 now made but a loding for Loy••••re••, Vagabonds, and Strumpets, that lay all day in the fields, and at night were harboured there, the which was rather the maintenance of beggary, than any reliefe to the poore: gave the same lands, being first surren∣dred by the Master and Fellowes there (which lands were of the yeerly value of 600. pounds) unto the City of Lon∣don, for the maintenance of the founda∣tion aforesaid.

And for a further reliefe, a Petition being made to the Kings Majesty, for a licence to take in Mortmaine, or other∣wise without licence, lands to a certaine yeerly value, and a space left in the Pa∣tent, for his Grace to put in what summe it would please him: Hee loo∣king on the voide place, called for pen and inke, and with his own hand wrote this summe, in these words, 4000. Markes by the yeere, and then said in the hearing of his Councell, Lord, I yeeld thee most hearty thankes, that thouhast gi∣ven me life thus long, to finish this worke to the glory of thy Name. After which foun∣dation established, he lived not above two dayes: whose life would have been wished equall to the Patriarkes, if it had pleased GOD so to have prolon∣ged it.

By example of the charitable act of this vertuous young King, Sir W. Chester, Knight, and Alderman of London, and Io. Calthrop, Citizen and Draper of the same City, at their owne proper costs and charges, made the bricke wals and way on the backe side, which leadeth from the said new Hospitall, unto the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew, and al∣so covered and vaulted the Town-ditch, from Aldersgate to Newgate, which (be∣fore) was very noysome, and contagious to the said Hospitall.

This Hospitall being thus erected, and put into good order, there was one Richard Castell, alias Casteller, Shooma∣ker, dwelling in Westminster, a man of great travaile and labour in his faculty with his owne hands, and such a one as was named, The Cocke of Westminster, be∣cause both Winter and Summer hee was at his worke before foure of the clocke in the morning. This man thus truely and painfully labouring for his living, God blessed and increased his labours so abundantly, that he purcha∣sed

lands and tenements in Westminster, to the yeerly value of forty and foure pounds. And having no childe, with the consent of his wife (who survived him, and was a vertuous good woman) gave the same lands wholly to Christs Hospitall aforesaid, to the reliefe of the Innocent and Fatherlesse Children, and for the succour of the miserable, sore and sicke, harboured in the other Hospitals about London.

Saint Bartholomews Hospitall is incor∣porated by the name of the Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of the Ci∣tie of London, Governours of the Hospi∣tall for the poore, called Little Saint Bar∣tholomews, neere to West Smithfield, of the Foundation of King Henry the 8.

Christs Hospitall, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle in Southwarke, are incorporated by the names of the Mai∣or, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of London, Governours of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospitals of Edward King of England, the sixth, of Christ, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle, &c.

The defaced Monuments in this Church were these: First, in the Quire, of the Lady Margaret, daughter to Phi∣lip, King of France, and wife to Edward the first, Foundress of this new Church, 1317.

Of Isabel, Queene, wife to Edward the second, daughter to Philip, King of France, 1358.

Ioane of the Tower, Queene of Scots, wife to David Bruise, daughter to Ed∣ward the second, dyed in Hartford Ca∣stle, and was buried by Isabel her mo∣ther, 1362.

William Fitzwaren, Baron, and Isabel his wife, sometime Queene of the Isle of Man.

Isabel, daughter to Edward the third, wedded to Lord Couse, of France, after created Earle of Bedford.

Eleanor, wife to Iohn, Duke of Bri∣taine.

Beatrix, Duchesse of Britaine, daugh∣ter to Henry the third.

Sir Robert Lisle, Baron, the Lady Lisle, & Margaret de Rivers, Countesse of Devon, all under one Stone.

Roger Mortimer, Earle of March, be∣headed, 1329.

Patar, Bishop of Carbon in Hungary, 1331.

Gregory Rocksley, Maior, 1282.

Sir Iohn Devereux, Knight, 1385.

Iohn Hastings, Earle of Pembroke, 1389.

Margaret, daughter to Thomas Bro∣tharton, Earle Marshall, shee was Du∣chesse of Northfolke, and Countesse Marshall, and Lady Segrave, 1389.

Richard Havering, Knight, 1388.

Robert Trisilian, Knight, Chiefe Ju∣stice, 1308.

Geffrey Lucy, son to Geffrey Lucy.

Iohn Aubry, son to Iohn Maior of Nor∣wich, 1361.

Iohn Philpot, Knight, Maior of Lon∣don, and the Lady Lane Stamford his wife, 1384.

Iohn, Duke of Burbon, and Angue, Earle of Claremond, Mountpencier, and Baron Beangen, who was taken prisoner at Agencourt, kept prisoner eighteene yeeres, and deceased 1433.

Robert Chalons, Knight, 1439.

Iohn Chalons.

Margaret, daughter to Sir Iohn Phil∣pot, first married to T. Santlor, Esquire, and after, to Iohn Neyband, Esquire.

Sir Nicholas Brembar, Maior of Lon∣don, buried 1386.

Elizabeth Nevil, wife to Iohn, son and heyre to Ralph, Earle of Westmerland, & mother to Ralph Earle of Westmerland, and daughter to Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent, 1423.

Edward Burnel, son to the Lord Bur∣nel.

In Alhallowes Chappell; Iames Fines, Lord Say, 1450. and Helenor his wife, 1452.

Iohn Smith, Bishop of Landaffe, 1478.

Iohn, Baron Hilton.

Iohn, Baron Clinton.

Richard Hastings, Knight, Lord of Willoughby and Wells.

Thomas Burder, Esquire, beheaded, 1477.

Robert Lisle, sonne and heyre to the Lord Lisle.

In our Lady Chappell: Iohn Gisors of London, Knight, and Lord Maior.

Humfrey Stafford, Esquire, of Worce∣stershire, 1486.

Robert Bartram, Baron of Bothell.

Ralph Barons, Knight.

William Apleton, Knight.

Reynold de Cambrey, Knight.

Thomas Beaumond, sonne and heyre to Henry Lord Beaumond.

Iohn Butler, Knight.

Adam de Howton, Knight, 1417.

Bartholomew Caster, Knight of Lon∣don.

Reinfredo Arundel, Knight, 1460.

Thomas Covil, Esquire, 1422.

In the Apostles Chappell; Walter Blunt, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Mountjoy, Treasure of England, sonne and heyre to T. Blunt, knight, Treasu∣rer of Normandy, 1474.

E. Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, 1475.

Alice Blunt, Mountjoy, sometime wife to Wil. Browne, Maior of London, and daughter to H. Kebel, Maior, 1521.

Anne Blunt, daughter to I. Blunt, knight, Lord Mountjoy, 1480.

Sir Allen Cheiny, knight, and Sir T. Greene, knight.

William Blunt, Esquire, son and heire to Walter Blunt, Captaine of Gwynes, 1492.

Elizabeth Blunt, wife to Robert Cur∣son, Knight, 1494.

Bartholomew Burwash, and Iohn Bur∣wash, his son,

Iohn Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, Captaine of Gwynes and Hames, 1485.

Iohn Dinham, Baron, sometime Trea∣surer of England, knight of the Garter, 1501.

Eleanor, Duchesse of Buckingham, 1530.

Iohn Blunt, knight, 1531.

Rowl. Blunt, Esquire, 1509.

Robert Bradbury, 1489.

Nicholas Clifton, knight.

Francis Chape.

Two sonnes of Allayne, Lord Cheiny, and Iohn, sonne and heyre to the same Lord Allayne Cheiny; knight.

Iohn Robsart, knight of the Garter, 1450.

Allayne Cheiny, knight.

Thomas Malory, knight, 1470.

Thomas Yong, a Justice of the Bench, 1476.

Iohn Baldwin, Fellow of Grayes Inne, and Common Serjeant of London, 1469.

Walter Wrotsley, knight, of Warwick∣shire, 1473.

Sir Stephen Iennings, Maior, 1523.

Thomas a Par, and Iohn Wiltwater, slaine at Barnet field, 1471.

Nicholas Poynes, Esquire, 1512.

Robert Elkenton, knight, 1460.

Iohn Water, alias Yorke, Herald, 1520.

Iohn More, alias Nory, King of Arms, 1491.

George Hopton, knight, 1489.

Betweene the Quire and the Altar, Ralph Spiganel, knight.

Iohn Moyle, Gentleman of Grayes Inne, 1495.

William Huddy, knight, 1501.

Iohn Cobham, a Baron of Kent.

Iohn Mortaine, knight.

Iohn Deyncort, knight.

Iohn Norbery, Esquire, high Treasu∣rer of England.

Henry Norbery his son, Esquire.

Iohn Southlee, knight.

Tho. Sakvile.

Tho. Lucy, knight, 1525.

Robert de la Rivar, son to Mauricius de la Rivar, Lord of Tormerton, 1457.

Io. Malmaynas, Esquire, and Tho. Mal∣maynas, knight.

Hugh Acton, Taylor, 1530.

Nicholas Malmaynas.

Hugh Parsal knight, 1490.

Alexander Kirketon, knight, &c.

In the body of the Church; William Paulet, Esquire, of Somersetshire, 1482.

Iohn Moyle, Gentleman, 1530.

Peter Champion, Esquire, 1511.

Io. Hart, Gentleman, 1449.

Alice Lat. Hungerford, hanged at Ty∣borne for murdering her husband, 1523.

Edward Hall, Gentleman of Grayes Iune, 1470.

Ri. Churchyard, Gentleman, Fellow of Grayes Inne, 1498.

Iohn Bramre, Gentleman of Grayes Inne, 1498.

Iohn Mortimer, knight, beheaded, 1423.

Henry Frowike, Alderman.

Reynold Frowike.

Philip Pats, 1518.

William Porter, Serjeant at Armes, 1515.

Tho. Grantham, Gentleman, 1511.

Edmond Rotheley, Gentleman, 1470.

Henry Roston, Gentleman of Grayes Inne, 1485.

Nicholas Mountgomery, Gentleman,

sonne to Io. Mountgomery of Northamp∣tonshire, 1485.

Sir Bartholomew Emfield, knight.

Sir Barnard S. Peter, knight.

Sir Ralph Sandwich, knight, Custos of London.

Sir Andrew Sakevile, knight.

Iohn Treszawall, Gentleman, and Taylor of London, 1520.

All these, and five times so many more have beene buried there, whose Monuments are wholly defaced: for there were nine Tombes of Alabaster and Marble, invironed with strikes of Iron, in the Quire, and one Tombe in the body of the Church, also coped with Iron, all pulled downe, besides sevenscore Grave-stones of Marble, all sold for fifty pounds, or thereabouts by Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith and Alderman of London, of late time bu∣ried there.

These two, Sir Christopher Edmonds, and, Dame Dorothy his wife, lived to∣gether 44. yeeres, in perfect love and so∣ciety: both servants to one Prince; and in great credit both in the Court and Country where they lived, both for their Religion, fidelity to their Soveraigne, and liberality to the Poore.

This is the Monument of Sir Christopher Edmonds, Knight, who was a domesti∣call servant to the most sacred Queene ELIZABETH, both before her Coro∣nation, and after, so long as he lived. He was of great credit and estimation in his Country, for his integrity of life, upright∣nesse in justice, and hospitality, and gave to this Hospitall of Christs Church three hundred pounds, towards the main∣tenance of the poore children. Hee lived seventy and two yeeres, and died Anno Domini, 1596.

This is the interrement of Dame Dorothy Edmonds, wife to the said Sir Chri∣stopher, and daughter to Christopher Litcot, Esquire; who also served the most gracious Mayden-Queene, ELI∣ZABETH, being (ever since her Coro∣nation, and before) of her most Honoura∣ble Privy Chamber: who joyned with the said Sir Christopher, her husband, in the said gift of three hundred pounds to this Hospitall, being a Legacie (onely spoken of by him) and performed by her.

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

Death.

STand fairely encountred both, Grave, Soveraigne Time; Borne of Eternity, Ages Father: Prince of all Power; all Powers on earth are thine, That doest my Ruines truest Records gather; Lend thy consent, thy helping hand to mine; And Death will make Times Soveraignty as great As the three Sisters, Ladies of sterne Fate.

Time.

Impartiall Death, Honours respectlesse foe, Grim, meager Caytife, wherefore doest thou come? Must Vertues children to the slaughter goe, In thy bloud-yawning Cell to fill a roome? Can none but they, quench thy bloudy thirst? Death. No; Rogers I come for: Time, thou canst not save him, This Dart must strike him, and grim Death will have him.

Rogers.

Death, welcome; all by thee (I know) must end; Nor doe I care for for longer life than this; I thanke thee, thou hast stai'd so long; (kinde friend.) Sweere Time, be patient, pardon mine amisse, If I have time mis-spent; alas, we all offend. If, said I? yes, 'tis certaine, sure I have; For which offence (deare

Time) I pardon crave.

Time.

Death, grant me this (sweet) doe not kill him Till I returne but from the Destinies. Dea. I cannot stay a moment. Reg. Oh will him (Grave Time) to strike me then: I Death despise. Dea. There lye thou dead. Time. Thou canst not spill him: Time shall erect a Trophee of such fame, That while Time lives, dye shall not Rogers name.

TIMES Epitaph.

Give me an Adamantine Pen, and Leafe of Brasse, To character his name, whose like nere was. A single life he led, loving to all, The poore mans succour, the reliefe of thrall: Vertues example, guide to eternall life; In carriage courteous, all devoid of strife. Here lyeth he interred, Rogers his name, Times onely Sonne, eternized by Fame. Ougly Detraction, flye, and blacke Oblivion, hence; Whil'st Rogers dust lyes here, Time will his fame commence.

Behold the Workes of God, done by his Servant, Dame MARY RAMSEY.

SHe hath given a yeerly mainte∣nance for two Fellowes, and foure Schoolers in Cambridge.

More, two Livings of good value, when they shall become fit to supply them.

More, towards certaine Sermons to be preached in this Church yeerly.

More, in Christs Hospitall a free Wri∣ting-Schoole for poore mens children.

More, in the Country a free Gram∣mar-Schoole for the poorer sort.

All which severall gifts before re∣membred, are to continue yeerly for ever.

Forma, Decus, Mores, Sapientia, Res & Honores, Morte ruunt subita; vivit post funera Fama.

The rest of the godly Workes done by this good Lady.

SHe hath given a worthy mainte∣nance to the poore of Christs Hos∣pitall.

More, a bountifull gift for the hea∣ling of poore wounded Souldiers.

More, a liberall maintenance for ten poore maimed Souldiers.

More, a liberall maintenance for ten poore aged Widowes.

More, a bountifull gift to release poore men out of prison.

More, a bountifull gift to relieve poore men in prison.

More, a yeerly Stipend to poore Maides Marriages.

More, to the reliefe of the Poore of foure severall Parishes.

All which severall gifts are for ever.

Her faith hath wrought, her Tree was not barren. And yet an unprofitable Servant. 1596.

Gamaliel Pye, under this Stone doth lye in peace and rest, Whose service to his Prince and Realm, well knowne not to be least: At Bullen, Muttrel, & each place else, where then the King had warres, Not any one that serv'd in Campe, lesse feared wounds and scarres. In age he liv'd in peace and love, abhorring worlds inconstancy, And chosen was eleven times the Warden of his Company. The poore, sicke, lame, abroad, at home, his bounty ever felt, But chiefly his owne Parishioners, where threescore yeers he dwelt. He held disdaine to brawle, or seeke

what others had to doe; And with his wife he liv'd full forty yeeres and two, He liv'd devout, and dy'd devout, the chiefest way to Heaven; The complete date of this his life, was fourescore yeers and seven.

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

S. Memoriae.

Gualtero Haddono, Equestri loco nato Iu∣risconsulto, Oratori, Poetae celeberri∣mo, Graecae, Latinaeque eloquentiae sui temporis facilè principi, sapien∣tia & sanctitate vitae, in id evecto, ut Reginae Elizabethae à supplicum libel∣lis Magister esset: Destinareturque majoribus nisi fato immaturius cessis∣set: Interim in omni gradu viro longè eminentissimo, Coniugi suo optimo me∣ritissimoque Anna Suttona, uxor eius 2. flens, moerens desiderii sui signum posuit. Obiit Anno Salut. hum. 1572. Aetatis 56.

Within this Grave enclosed here, Anne Beaumont now doth rest, A loving and a faithfull wife, with many children blest. She served God with zeale of truth, and learn'd to flye from sinne; And as she learn'd his holy will, so liv'd and dy'd therein. A friend to such as vertue sought, a foe unto no wight; A helpe to those that feared God, with all her power and might. The poore shall oft bewaile her want, by whom they found reliefe; VVhose minde with earnest care was bent, to ease them of their griefe. Thus happy she, that now is gone from hence, reward to finde; Vnhappy yet for such her friends, as she hath left behinde: But thrice unhappy for his losse, that doth her praise rehearse; A wofull praise unto her Sonne, who wrote this dolefull Verse.

Anne, wife unto Nicholas Beaumont, of Coleoverton, in Leicesteshire, E∣squire, and daughter unto VVilliam Saunders, of Welforde, in North∣hamptonshire, Esquire, and halfe sister unto Walter Haddon, Master of the Requests, departed this life the 7. day of September, An. Dom. 1581. leaving be∣hinde her sixe children.

Hic jacent corpora Wil. Drewe, Ar∣mig. fil. Joh. Drewe, de Ken, in Com. Devon. Armig. & Eliz. ux. ejus. fil. & haered. Wil. Cecil. ac consang. & hae∣red. Tho. Cecil. Armig. Quae quidem Elizab. obiit 10. die Novemb. Anno Dom. 1586. Et praedict.Wil. Drewe obiit, &c.

We dye to live, that liv'd to dye, Through Jesus Christ, and so did I: Which Christ, as I have loved best, Among his Saints I trust to rest.

Vnder this Stone lyeth buried the body of Robert Smith, Gentleman: who had to his first wife, Elizabeth Reycroft, by whom hee had issue three daugh∣ters, viz. Margaret, Iulian, and Ioane. And he had to his second wife, Margaret Larkin, by whom hee had no issue. The which Robert dyed the eighth day of December, Anno Domini 1581. whose soule resteth with God.

Here lyeth buried Margaret, the wife of Lawrence Hussie, Doctor of Law, and daughter of sir Iohn White, Knight, for her vertuous life, worthy of memory: who dyed the third day of August, 1569.

D. Opt. Max. Laus.

Gulielmo Herberto, naturali F. Georgii Herberti de Swansey, Militis, Ioan∣nes eiusdem Georgii ex filio Nepos, ac Sereniss. Elizabethae Angliae Re∣ginae à supp. libellis. H. S. moesto ani∣mo P. K. Ianuar. 1590.

Here lyeth the body of Iohn Tredwey, of Easton, in the County of Northamp∣ton, Gentleman; who dyed the 10. day of May, An. Dom. 1610.

Rodolpho Waddingtono, huius scholae per annos 48. Moderatori digniss.

Qui postquam una cum uxore sine prole, anno 47. suavissimè degisset, An. aetatis 84. An. Dom. 1614. Aug. 24. in Domino placidè obdormivit.

Ioanna uxor ejus moestiss. posuit.

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

Vita.

Angligenae hunc peperit Londinum gloria gentis, Aetona huic Artis semina prima dedit. Granta tulit segetem fructum{que} tumescere fecit, Londini Messes Orphana turba tulit.

From this Church, West to Newgate, is of this Ward.

Now for the South side of this Ward, beginning again at the Crosse in Cheap, from thence to Friday street, and downe that street, on the VVest side, till over∣against the North-west corner of Saint Matthewes Church. And on the VVest side, to the South corner of the said Church, which is wholly in the VVard of Faringdon. This Church hath these few Monuments:

Thomas Pole, Goldsmith, 1395.

Rob Iohnson, Goldsmith, Alderman,

Iohn Twiselton, Goldsmith, Alder∣man, 1525.

Ralph Allen, Grocer, one of the She∣riffes, deceased 1546.

Anthony Gamage, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes, deceased 1579.

Iohn Mabbe, Chamberlaine of Lon∣don, &c.

Allen at Condit, and Thomas Warling∣worth founded a Chauntry there.

Sir Nicholas Twiford, Goldsmith, Maior, gave to that Church an House, with the appurtenances, called the Grif∣fon on the Hope, in the same street.

Anthony Cage entombed here, doth rest, Whose wisedome still prevail'd the Common-weale: A man with Gods good gifts so amply blest, That few, or none, his doings may impleale. A man unto the widow and the poore, A comfort and a succour evermore. Three wives he had, of credit and of fame: The first of them, Elizabeth, that hight; VVho buried here, brought to this Cage by name, Seventeene young Plants, to give his Table light. The second wife (for her part) brought him none; The third and last, no more but only one.

He deceased the 24. day of Iune, An∣no Domini, 1583.

In the midst of this Quire lyeth the body of Gaius Newman, Citizen and Gold∣smith of London, of the age of 66. yeers. Hee had issue by his wife Anne, the daughter of Nicholas Cullum, of Lon∣don, Merchant-Taylor, 7. sonnes and 5. daughters, Gabriel, Gaius, Robert, Nicholas, Francis, Thomas, and Hugh; Elizabeth, Mary, Anne, Sa∣rah, and Iudith. He deceased the third day of March, 1613.

Here lyeth buried the body of Iohn Perte, Citizen and Fishmonger of London; who tooke to wife Elizabeth Eyre, the daughter of Henry Eyre, Citizen and Skinner of Lond. by whom he had issue one only daughter, named Mary. The said Iohn deceased the tenth day of Octo∣ber, Anno Domini 1604. being aged 51. yeeres.

As Man liveth, so he dyeth; As Tree falleth, so it lyeth:

Anne Middleton, thy life well past, Doth argue restfull blisse at last.

Obiit Anno à partu Virginis Mariae, 1596. Mens. Ianuar. die 11.

Anno Reg. Reginae Elizabethae, 39. Aetatis suae, 54.

From this Friday streete; West to the Old Exchange, a streete so called, of the Kings Exchange there kept, which was for the receit of Bullion, to bee coyned. For Henry the third, in the sixth yeere of his reigne, wrote to the Scabines and men of Ipre, that hee and his Councell had given prohibition, that none, Eng∣lishmen, or other, should make change of Plate, or other Masse of Silver, but only in his Exchange at London, or at Canturbury. Andrew Bukerell then had to farme the Exchange of England, and was Maior of London in the reigne of Henry the third. Iohn Somercote had the keeping of the Kings Exchange over all England. In the eighth of Edward the first, Gregory Rocksly was keeper of the said Exchange for the King. In the fifth of Edward the second, William Hausted was keeper thereof. And in the 18. Ro∣ger de Frowicke, &c.

These received the old Stamps, or Coyning-Irons, from time to time, as the same were worne, & delivered new to all the Mints in England, as more at large in another place I have noted.

This streete beginneth by West Cheape in the North, and runneth downe South to Knight-Rider streete; that part there∣of which is called Old Fish-streete: But the very Housing and Office of the Ex∣change & coynage, was about the midst thereof, South from the East gate that entreth Pauls Church-yard, and on the VVest side, in Baynards Castle Ward.

On the East side of this Lane, be∣twixt West Cheape and the Church of St. Augustine, Henry Walleis, Maior, (by li∣cence of Edward the first) builded one row of houses, the profits rising of them, to be imploied on London Bridge.

The Parish Church of St. Augustine, and one house next adjoyning, in Wathe∣ling streete, is of this Ward called Fa∣ringdon. This is a faire Church, and lately well repaired, wherein be Monu∣ments remaining, of H. Reade, Armou∣rer, one of the Sheriffes, 1450.

Robert Bellesdon, Haberdasher, Maior, 1491.

Sir Townley.

Wil. Dere, one of the Sheriffes, 1450.

Robert Raven, Haberdasher, 1500.

Thomas Apleyard, Gentleman, 1515.

William Moncaster, Merchant-Tailor, 1524.

Wil. Holt, Merchant-Taylor, 1544.

Hic jacet Magister Robertus Bursted, Bac∣calaurius Iuris civilis, & hujus Ecclesiae quondam Rector. Qui obiit 16. die mens. Augusti, An. Dom. 1417. Cujus, &c.

Hic jacet Magister Iohannes Battaill, quon∣dam Rector huius Ecclesiae. Qui obiit Anno Domini, 1426. sexto die Mensis Augusti, Cuius, &c.

Ecce ut defuncti cineres mirere beates, Ecce in tantillo temporis quantus honor. Dudum vita mihi fuerat, quae patria mundus, Sed mihi jam Coelum Patria, vita Deus. Dudum mortis eram peccato victima, sed jam Iustiae Christo victima; quantus honor?

Hic requiescit in pace corpus Roberti Brett, Civis & Mercatoris-Scissoris London, filii & haeredis Roberti Brett, de Whit∣stanton, in Com. Somerset, Armig. Qui uxorem duxit Elizabeth, filiam Regi∣naldi Highgati, Armig. Ex ea genuit 11. filios, & 3. filias, è quibus 4. filii & 1. silia superstites sunt. Idem Robertus & Elizabetha in sancto conjugii statu 31. An. vixerunt. Et obiit 9. Aprilis, An. Domini, 1586. Aetatis 63.

Hunc Tumulum propriis sumptibus fi∣eri fecit Elizabeth uxor ejus, 10. die Septemb. Anno Domini, 1596. Cum jam post obitum marti praedicti, de∣cem annos viduam vixisset, atque hic etiam sepeliri decrevit, quando. cunque Deo placuerit ex hac natu∣rali vita tollere.

Here resteth the body of Edward VViat, late of Tillingham, in the County of Essex, Esquire, who deceased the 24. of August 1571. He had one onely wife, Mary, the daughter of Sir VVilliam Waldegrave, of Smalbridge, in the

County of Suffolke, Knight, by whom hee had issue three sonnes and foure daughters; but all his said children dy∣ed young, except one sonne, named Ed∣ward, whom hee left behinde him alive, about the age of eleven yeeres. His said wife, his Executrix, caused this Monu∣ment to be made.

Hic jacet Richardus Warner, dum vix∣it, Cives Civitatis London, ac quon∣dam Magister Fraternitatis Sancti Joannis Baptistae, Scissor, in Civit. praedict. & Margareta uxor ejus. Qui quidem Richardus obiit 18. die Mens. Januarii, Anno Domini, 1476.

Here lieth Richard Coxe, sometime Citi∣zen and Skinner of London, which de∣ceased the eight day of March, Anno Domini, 1467. And Agnes his wife; the which deceased the 13. day of April, Anno Dom. 1472.

Then in the North Church-yard of Pauls, in the which standeth the Ca∣thedrall Church, first founded by Ethel∣bert King of Kent, about the yeere of Christ, 610. He gave thereto lands, as appeareth: Aethelbertus, Rex, Deo inspi∣rante, pro animae suae remedio, dedit Epi∣scopo Melito terram quae appell••tur Til∣lingeham, ad Monasterii sui solatium, sci∣licet, S. Pauli: & ego Rex Aethelbertus ita firmiter concedo tibi praesuli Melito potestatem ejus habendi & possidendi, ut in perpetuum in Monasterii utilitate per∣maneat; &c. Athelstan, Edgar, Edward the Confessor, and others also, gave lands thereunto. William the Conque∣rour gave to the Church of Saint Paul, and to Mauricius, then Bishop, and his successors, the Castle of Stortford, with the appurtenances, &c. He also confir∣med the gifts of his Predecessors, in these words: Omne 1. Rex Angl. Clamo quietas in perpetuum, 24. Hidas quas Rex Aethelbert dedit S. Paulo juxta murum London, &c. The Charter of King William the Conquerour, exemplified in the Tower, Englished thus:

William, by the grace of God, King of Englishmen, to all his wel beloved French and English people, greeting. Know yee, that I doe give unto God and the Church of Saint Paul of London, and to the Rectors and Servitors of the same, in all their Lands which the Church hath, or shall have, within Borough, and without, Sack and Sock, Thole and The, Infangtheefe, and Grithbriche, and all free, Ships by Sea, and by Land, on Tide, and off Tide, and all the Rights that into them Christen∣dome by rad and more speake, and on Bu∣right hamed, and on Buright worke, afore all the Bishoprickes in mine Land, and on each other mans Land. For I will, that the Church in all things be as free, as I would my Soule to bee in the day of Iudgement. Witnesses, Osmond our Chancellour, Lan∣frank the Archbishop of Canturbury, and T. Archbishop of Yorke, Roger, Earle of Shrewsbury, Alane the County, Geffrey de Magna villa, and Ralph Peverel.

In the yeere 1087. this Church of S. Paul was burnt with fire, and therewith the most part of the Citie: which fire began at the entrie of the West gate, and consumed the East gate. Mauricius, then Bishop, began therefore the foun∣dation of a new Church of S. Paul; a worke, that men (of that time) judged would never have beene finished, it was to them so wonderfull, for length and breadth; and also the same was builded upon Arches (or Vaults) of stone, for de∣fence of fire; which was a manner of worke (before that time) unknowne to the people of this Nation, and then brought in by the French: and the stone was fetcht from Cane in Normandy. This Mauricius deceased in the yeere, 1107.

Richard Beaumor succeeded him in the Bishopricke, who did wonderfully in∣crease the said Church, purchasing (of his own cost) the large Streets & Lanes about it, wherein were wont to dwell many Law-people; which ground hee began to compasse about with a strong wall of stone, and gates. King Henry the first gave to the said Richard so much of the Mote (or Wall) of the Ca∣stle, on the Thames side, to the South, as should bee needfull to make the said Wall of the Church, and so much as should suffice to make a Wall without the way on the North side, &c.

It should seeme, that this Richard in∣closed but two sides of the said Church or Cemitory of Saint Paul, to wit, the South and North side: for King Edw. the second, in the 10. of his reigne, granted,

that the said Church-yard should bee inclosed with a wall, where it wanted, for the Murthers and Robberies that were there committed. But the Citi∣zens then claimed the East part of the Church-yard, to be the place of assem∣bly to their Folke-motes; and that the great Steeple, there situate, was to that use, their common Bell, which being there rung, all the Inhabitants of the City might heare and come together. They also claimed the West side, that they might there assemble themselves together, with the Lord of Baynards Castle, for view of their Armour, in defence of the City. This matter was in the Tower of London referred to Harvi∣us de Stanton, and his fellow Iustices Ite∣nerantes: but I finde not the decision or judgement of that controversie.

True it is, that Edward the third, in the 17. of his reigne, gave commande∣ment for the finishing of that VVall: which was then performed, and to this day it continueth; although now on both the sides (to wit, within and with∣out) it be hidden with dwelling houses.

Richard Beaumor deceased in the yeere 1127. and his successors (in processe of time) performed the worke begun.

The Steeple of this Church was buil∣ded and finished in the yeere 1222. The Crosse on the said Steeple fell downe, and a new was set up in the yeere 1314.

The new worke of Pauls (so called) at the East end above the Quire, was be∣gun in the yeer 1251. Henry Lacy, Earle of Lincolne, Constable of Chester, and Custos of England, in his time was a great Benefactor to this worke, and was there buried, in the yeere 1310. Also Ralph Baldocke, Bishop of London, in his life time gave 200. Markes to the buil∣ding of the said new worke, and left much by his Testament towards the fi∣nishing thereof: hee deceased in the yeere 1313. and was buried in the La∣dy Chappell. Also the new worke of Pauls, to wit, the crosse Iles, were begun to be new builded in the yeere 1256.

The first of February, in the yeere 1444. about two of the clocke in the af∣ternoone, the Steeple of Pauls was fired by Lightning, in the midst of the Shaft or Spire, both on the West side, and on the South: but by labour of many well disposed people, the same (to appea∣rance) quenched with Vineger; so that all men withdrew themselves to their houses, praysing God. But between 8. and 9. of the clocke in the same night, the fire burst out againe more fervently than before, and did much hurt to the Lead and Timber, till by the great la∣bour of the Maior and people that came thither, it was throughly quenched.

This Steeple was repaired in the yeer 1462. and the Weather-cocke againe erected: Robert Godwin winding it up, the rope brake, and hee was destroyed on the Pinacles, and the Cocke was sore brused. But Burchwood (the Kings Plum∣mer) set it up againe. Since the which time, needing reparation, it was both taken down, and set up in the yeer 1553. At which time it was found to bee of Copper, gilt over, and the length, from the bill to the taile, being 4. foote, and the breadth over the wings 3. foot and a halfe, it weighed 40. l. the Crosse, from the Bole, to the Eagle (or Cock) was 15. foote and 6. inches of assise; the length thereof, overthwart, was 5. foot and 10. inches, and the compasse of the Bole was 9. foot and 1. inch. The inner body of this Crosse was Oake, the next cover was Lead, and the outermost was of Copper, red varnished. The Bole and Eagle, or Cocke, were of Copper, and gilt also. The height of the Steeple was 520. foot, whereof the stone-worke was 260. foot, and the Spire was likewise 260. foote. The length of the whole Church, is 240. Taylors yards, which make 720. foot. The breadth thereof is 130. foot: And the height of the body of that Churc, is 150. foot.

This Church hath a Bishop, a Deane, a Presentor, Chancellour, Treasurer, and five Archdeacons, to wit, of Lon∣don, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and Saint Albans: It hath Prebendaries thirty, Canons twelve, Vicars Corall sixe, &c.

The Colledge of Petty Canons there, was founded by King Richard the se∣cond, in honour of Queene Anne his wife, and of her Progenitors, in the se∣venteenth of his reigne. Their Hall and Lands was then given unto them, as ap∣peareth by the Patent, Master Robert Dokesworth then being Master thereof.

In the yeere 1408. the Petty Canons then building their Colledge, the Maior and Communalty granted them their Wa∣ter-courses, and other easements.

There was also one great Cloyster, on the North side of this Church, invi∣roning a plot of ground, of old time cal∣led Pardon Church-yard; whereof Tho∣mas More, Deane of Pauls, was eyther the first Builder, or a most especiall Be∣nefactor, and was buried there.

About this Cloyster, was artificially and richly painted the Dance of Macha∣bray, or Dance of Death, commonly called the Dance of Pauls; the like whereof was painted about S. Innocents Cloyster at Paris in France: the Meeters or Poesie of this Dance were translated out of French into English by Iohn Lid∣gate, Monke of Bury, the Picture of Death leading all estates; at the dis∣pence of Ienken Carpenter, in the reigne of Henry the sixth. In this Cloyster were buried many persons, some of Worship, and others of Honour: The Monuments of whom, in number and curious workmanship, passed all other that were in that Church.

Over the East Quadrant of this Cloy∣ster, was a faire Library, builded at the costs and charges of Walter Sherington, Chancellour of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the reigne of Henry the sixth: which hath beene well furnished with faire written bookes in Vellam; but few of them now doe remaine there.

In the midst of this Pardon Church-yard, was also a faire Chappell, first founded by Gilbert Becket, Portgrave, and principall Magistrate of this City, in the reigne of King Stephen, who was there buried. Thomas More, Deane of Pauls, before named, re-edified or new builded this Chappell, and founded three Chaplaines there, in the reigne of Henry the fifth.

In the yeere 1549. on the tenth of April, the said Chappell, by comman∣dement of the Duke of Somerset, was begun to bee pulled downe, with the whole Cloystrie, the Dance of Death, the Tombes and Monuments: so that nothing thereof was left, but the bare Plot of ground, which is since conver∣ted into a Garden for the Petty Ca∣nons.

There was also a Chappell at the North doore of Pauls, founded by the same Walter Sherington, by licence of Henry the sixth, for two, three, or foure Chaplaines, indowed with 40. l. by the yeere. This Chappell also was pulled down in the reigne of Edw. the sixth, & in place thereof a faire house builded.

There was furthermore a faire Chap∣pell of the holy Ghost in Pauls Church, on the North side, founded in the yeere 1400. by Roger Holmes, Chancelor and Prebendary of Pauls, for Adam Bery, Al∣derman and Maior of London, 1364. Iohn Wingham and others, for seven Chaplaines, and called Holmes his Col∣ledge. Their common Hall was in Pauls Church-yard on the South side, neere unto a Carpenters yard. This Colledge was with others suppressed in the reigne of Edward the sixth. Then under the Quire of Pauls is a large Chappell, first dedicated to the name of IESV, foun∣ded, or rather confirmed the 37. of Hen. the 6. as appeareth by his Patent therof, dated at Crowdowne to this effect:

Many Liege-men and Christian people, having begun a Fraternity and Guila to the honour of the most glorious name of Iesu Christ our Saviour, in a place called the Crowds of the Cathedrall Church of Pauls in London, which hath continued long time peaceably, till now of late: whereupon they have made request, and we have taken upon us the name and charge of the founda∣tion, to the laud of Almighty God, the Fa∣ther, the Son, and the holy Ghost, and especi∣ally to the honour of Iesu, in whose honour the Fraternity was begun, &c.

The King ordained William Say, then Deane of Pauls, to bee the Rector, and Richard Ford (a Remembrancer in the Exchequer) and Henry Bennis (Clarke of his Privie Seale) the Gardians of these Brothers & Sisters; they and their suc∣cessors to have a common seale, licence to purchase lands or tenements, to the value of 40. l. by the yeere, &c.

This foundation was confirmed by Henry the seventh, the 22. of his reigne, to Doctor Collet, then Deane of Pauls, Rector there, &c. And by Henry the 8. the 27. of his reigne, to Richard Pace, then Deane of Pauls, &c.

At the West end of this Iesus Chap∣pell, under the Quire of Pauls, also was

and is a Parish Church of S. Faith, com∣monly called Saint Faith under Pauls, which served (as still it doth) for the Stationers, and others dwelling in Pauls Church-yard, Pater noster Row, and the places neere adjoyning.

The said Chappell of Iesus, being sup∣pressed in the reigne of Edward the 6. the Parishioners of S. Faiths Church were removed into the same, as to a place more sufficient for largenesse and lightsomnesse, in the yeere 1551. and so it remaineth.

The Monuments there are these:

Here buried is Elizabeth, of honour worthy Dame, Her Husband erst Lord Shandoys was, her Sonne hath now like name: Her Father was of Wilton Lord, a Gray of puissant fame, Her Brother left with us behinde, now Lord is of the same. Her vertuous life yet still doth live, her honour shall remaine, Her corps, though it be growne to dust, her Soule the heavens containe,

Quae obiit 29. die Decembris, Ann. Dom. 1559.

Lo, Thomas Mond, Esquire by birth, doth under buried lye, To shew, that men (by Natures Law) are borne to live and dye: In Shropshire at the Mindtowne borne, the time we here prefixe, And dyed the seventh of February, in Anno, seventy sixe. Threescore and seven yeeres he saw, though body lye in Tombe: His soule (immortall) lives in heaven, by Gods eternall doome.

Natus octavo Mensis Julii, 1510. Obiit septimo Februarii, 1576.

Here under this stone resteth, in the mercy of God, the body of M. Thomas Dock∣wray, Notary, late one of the Proctors of the Arches, Citizen and Stationer of London, and Anne his wife. The which Thomas deceased the 23. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1559. &c.

Cur Sacerdos eram, jam factus vile cadaver? Et cito pulvis erit: Quaeso memento mei. Siste gradum qui me teris hic, & funde precatus Me Deus ut levet hinc, ducat ad usque Polum.

William Babham, and Alice Butcon his wife, An. Dom. 1577.

Lo here the certaine end of every mortall one, Behold, alive to day, to morrow dead and gone. Live well, so endlesse life (by death) you shall obtaine, Nought lose the good by death, since life thereby they gaine.

Dum mihi persuasi me quaesivi{que} salutem, En morior dixit, nam Deus esse diem: Non equidem invideo, peccati debita merces, Cum sit mors nostri, cum reus omnis homo, Cum{que} operum requires, & sit mihi vita perennis, In Christo morior, mors mihi gratus adest, Quem mors sic raputi; Cujus sunt ista sepulchra Si quaeras, subsunt quae tibi cuncta notant.

Lodovicus Nicols, Civis London, fili∣lius tertius Thomae Nicols, North∣hamptoniensis hic sepelitur. Obiit 22. Aprilis, 1592. Anno Aetatis suae, 28.

Ad vocem Tubae resurgent mortui.

Here lyeth the body of George Whitgift, Esquire, one of the naturall brothers of Iohn Whitgift, late Lord Archbishop of Canturbury: which George deceased the 19. day of April, An. Dom. 1611.

William Lambe, so sometime was my name, Whiles I alive did run my mortall race, Serving a Prince of most immortall fame, Henry the eighth, who of his Princely grace,

In his Chappell allowed me a place. By whose favour, from Gentleman t'Esquire, I was prefer'd, with worship for my hire.

With wives three I joyned wedlocke band, Which (all alive) true lovers were to me: Ioane, Alice and Ioane, for so they came to hand, VVhat needeth praise, regarding their degrees? In wively truth none stedfast more could be. VVho though in earth death's force did once dissever, Heaven yet (I trust) shall joyne us all together.

O Lambe of God, which sinne didst take away, And (as a Lambe) wast offered up for sinne; VVhere I (poore Lambe) went from thy flocke astray, Yet thou (good Lord) vouchfafe thy Lambe to winne Home to thy Fold, and hold thy Lambe therein? That at the Day, when Lambes and Goats shall sever, Of thy choice Lambes, Lambe may be one for ever.

Vnder which remembrance there are two Verses more added, containing both a pe∣tition, and an injunction of duety to the poore, who weekely receive their allow∣ance, at the hands or appointment of the Worshipfull Company of Sationers: To whom he bearing great affection, and ha∣ving also no small affiance in them, made them his disposers and Stewards in that behalfe. The Verses are these:

I pray you all that receive bread and pence, To say the Lords Prayer before you goe hence.

As for the Verses engraven upon the upper stone of the Tombe, they are these:

As I was, so are ye, As I am, you shall be. That I had, that I gave, That I gave, that I have. Thus I end all my cost, That I left, that I lost.

Then was there on the North side of this Church-yard, a large Charnell-house for the bones of the dead, and o∣ver it a Chappell of an old foundation, such as followeth:

In the yeere 1282. the 10. of Edward the first, it was agreed, that Henry Wal∣leis, Maior, and the Citizens, for the cause of shops by them builded, without the wall of the Church-yard, should as∣signe to God, and to the Church of S. Paul, tenne Markes of rent by the yeere for ever, towards the new building of a Chappell of the blessed Virgin Mary, and also to assigne five Markes of yeere∣ly rent to a Chaplaine to celebrate there.

Moreover, in the yeere 1430. the 8. of Henry the sixth, licence was granted to Ienken Carpenter (Executor to Richard Whitington) to establish upon the said Charnell, a Chaplaine, to have eight Markes by the yeere. Then was also in this Chappell two Brotherhoods. Ro∣bert Barton, Henry Barton, Maior, and Thomas Mirfin, Maior, all Skinners, were intombed, with their Images of Alabaster over them, grated or cooped about with iron, before the said Chappell; all which was pulled down in the yeere 1549. The bones of the dead, couched up in a Charnell, under the Chappell, were conveyed from thence into Finsbury field, (by report of him who paid for the carriage) amoun∣ting to more than one thousand Cart loads, and there laid on a moorish ground, in short space after raised by soylage of the Citie upon them, to beare three Milles. The Chappell and Charnell were converted into dwelling houses, ware-houses, and Sheds before them, for Stationers in place of the Tombes.

In the East part of this Church-yard standeth Pauls Schoole, lately new builded, and endowed in the yeere 1512. by Iohn Collet, Doctor of Divini∣ty, and Deane of Pauls, for 153. poore

mens children to be taught free in the same Schoole, for which he appointed a Master, a Surmaster or Vsher, and a Chaplaine, with large stipends for e∣ver, committing the oversight thereof to the Masters, Wardens and Assistants of the Mercers in London, because hee was sonne to Henry Collet, Mercer, some∣time Maior. He left to these Mercers Lands, to the yeerely value of 120. l. or better.

Neere unto this Schoole, on the North side thereof, was (of old time) a great and high Clochier, or Bell-house, foure square, builded of stone, and in the same a most strong frame of timber, with foure Bels, the greatest that I have heard; these were called Iesus Bels, and belonged to Iesus Chappell, but I know not by whose gift. The same had a great spire of timber, covered with Lead, with the Image of Saint Paul on the top, but was pulled downe by Sir Miles Partridge, Knight, in the reigne of Hen∣ry the eighth. The common speech then was, that hee did set one hundred pounds, upon a cast at Dice against it, and so wonne the said Clochier & Bels of the King: and then causing the Bels to be broken as they hung, the rest was pulled downe. This man was afterward executed on the Tower hill, for matters concerning the Duke of Summerset, the fifth of Edward the sixth.

In place of this Clochier, of old time, the common Bell of the Citie was used to be rung, for the assembly of the Ci∣tizens to their Folke-motes, as I have before shewed.

About the middest of this Church-yard, is a Pulpit-crosse of timber, moun∣ted upon steps of stone, and covered with Lead, in which are Sermons prea∣ched by learned Divines, every Sunday in the fore-noone. The very antiquity of which Crosse is to me unknowne.

I read, that in the yeere 1259. King Henry the third commanded a generall Assembly to be made at this Crosse, where he in proper person commanded the Maior, that on the next day follow∣ing, he should cause to be sworne before the Aldermen, every Stripling, of 12. yeeres of age, or upward, to be true to the King and his heires, Kings of Eng∣land.

Also, in the yeere 1262. the same King caused to be read at Pauls Crosse, a Bull, obtained from Pope Vrban the fourth, as an absolution for him, and for all that were sworne to maintaine the Articles made in Parliament at Oxford.

Also, in the yeere 1299. the Deane of Pauls accursed, at Pauls Crosse, all those which had searched in the Church of S. Martin in the field, for an hoord of gold, &c.

This Pulpit-crosse was by tempest of lightning and thunder, defaced. Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London, new builded it, in forme as it now standeth.

In the yeere 1561. the fourth of Iune, betwixt the houres of three and foure of the clocke in the afternoon, the great spire of the steeple of S. Pauls Church, was fired by lightning, which brake forth (as it seemed) two or three yards beneath the foot of the Crosse, and from thence it burnt downeward the spire to the battlements, stone-worke, and Bels, so furiously, that within the space of 4▪ houres, the same steeple, with all the roofes of the Church, were consumed, to the great sorrow and perpetuall re∣membrance of the beholders. After this mischance, the Queenes Majestie dire∣cted her Letters to the Maior, willing him to take order for speedy repairing of the same: And she, of her gracious disposition, for the furtherance thereof, did presently give and deliver in gold, one thousand Markes; with a warrant for a thousand Loads of Timber, to be taken out of her Woods, or else-where.

The Citizens also gave first a great benevolence, and after that three Fif∣teenes to be speedily paid.

The Clergie of England, within the Province of Canturbury, granted the fortieth part of the value of their Bene∣fices, charged with first fruits; the thir∣tieth part of such as were not so char∣ged; but the Clergie of London Dio∣ces, granted the thirtieth part of all that payed first fruits, and the twentieth part of such as had paid their fruits.

Six Citizens of London, and two Pe∣tie Canons of Pauls Church, had charge to further and oversee the worke, wher∣in such expedition was used, that with∣in one Moneth next following the bur∣ning thereof, the Church was covered

with boords and lead, in manner of a false roofe against the weather, and be∣fore the end of the said yeere, all the said Iles of the Church were framed out of new timber, covered with lead, and fully finised.

The same yeere also, the great roofes of the West and East ends were framed out of great timber in Yorkshire, brought thence to London by Sea, and set up, and covered with lead, the North and South ends were framed of timber, and covered with lead, before April, 1566.

Concerning the Steeple, divers mo∣dels were devised and made, but little else was done, through whose default God knoweth: it was said, that the mo∣ney appointed for the new building of the Steeple, was collected.

Monuments in this Church, be these:

First, as I read of Erkenwalde, Bishop of London, buried in the old Church, a∣bout the yeere of Christ, 700. whose body was translated into the new work, in the yeere 1140. being richly shri∣ned, above the Quire, behinde the high Altar.

Sebba, or Seba, King of the East Sa∣xons, was first buried in the old Church, afterward removed into the new, and laid in a coffin of stone, or gray Marble, having this Inscription hanging by it:

Hic jacet Sebba, Rex orientalium Saxonū, qui conversus fuit ad fidem per Erken∣waldum, Londonens. Episcopum, Anno Christi, 677. Vir multum Deo devo∣tus, actibus religiosis, crebris precibus, & piis Eleemosynarum fructibus plurimum intentus, vitam privatam & Monasti∣cam cunctis Regni divitiis & honoribus praeferens. Qui cum regnasset Ann. 30. habitum Religiosum accepit, per benedi∣ctionem Waltheri Londinensis Antistitis, qui praefato Erkenwaldo successit. De quo Venerabilis Beda, in Historia Gentis An∣glorum, &c.

Ethelred, King of the West Saxons, was like wise buried in the old Church, and after removed, lying next unto King Sebba, and this Inscription fastned by him:

Hic jacet Ethelredus, Anglorum Rex, filius Edgari Regis, cui in die consecrati∣onis hic post impositam Coronam, fertur S. Dunstanus Cantuar. Archiepiscopus dira praedixisse his verbis: Quoniam a∣spirasti ad Regnum per mortem fratris tui, in cujus sanguine conspiraverunt An∣gli, cum ignominiosa Matre tui: Non deficiet Gladius de domo tua, saeviens in te omnibus vitae tuae, interficiens de semine tuo, quousque Regnum tuum transferatur in Regnum alienum, cujus ritum & linguam, gens cui praesides non novit; nec expiabitur, nisi longa vindi∣cta peccatum tuum, & peccatum Ma∣tris tuae, & peccata virorum, qui inter∣fuêre consilio illius nequam. Quae sicut à viro sancto praedicta erant, evenerunt: Nam Ethelredus variis praeliis per Suanū Danorum Regem, filium{que} suum Canutū fatigatus & fugatus, ac tandem Londini arcta obsidione conclusus, miserè diem o∣biit, Anno Dominicae Incarnationis, 1017. postquam Annis 36. in magna tribulatione regnasset.

William Norman, Bishop of London, in the reignes of the Kings, Edward the Confessor, and William the Conqueror, de∣ceased Anno 1070. and was after newly buried in the body of the Church, with this Epitaph or Memory:

Gulielmo, viro sapientia & vitae sanctitate claro, qui primùm Edwardo Regi & Con∣fessori familiaris, nuper in Episcopum Londinensem erectus; nec multò pòst a∣pud invictissimum Principem Guilielmū Angliae Regem ejus nominis primum: Ob prudentiam, fidem{que} singularem, in Con∣cilium adhibitus; Amplissima tunc urbi celeberrimae privilegia ab eodem impetra∣vit: Senatus populus{que} Londinensis bene merenti posuit. Sedit Episcopus Annos 20. Decessit Anno à Christo nato, 1070.

Haec tibi (clare Pater) posuerunt Marmora Cives, Praemia non meritis aequiparanda tuis. Nam{que} sibi populus te Londoniensis amicum Sensit, & huic urbi non leve praesidium. Reddita libertas duce te, donata{que} multis:

Te duce, res fuerat publica muneribus. Divitias, genus, & formam brevis opprimat hora, Haec tua sed pietas & benefacta manent.

To Wiliam, a man famous in wisedome and holinesse of life, who first with S. Ed∣ward the King and Confessor being fa∣miliar, of late preferred to be Bishop of London, and not long after (for his pru∣dencie and sincere fidelity) admitted to be of Councell with the most victorious Prince, William, King of England, of that name the first, who obtained of the same, great and large priviledges to this famous Citie. The Senate and Citizens of London, to him, having well deserved, have made this. Hee continued Bishop twenty yeeres, and dyed in the yeere af∣ter Christs Nativity, 1070.

These Marble Monuments to thee thy Citizens assigne, Rewards (O Father) far unfit to those deserts of thine. Thee unto them a faithfull friend thy London people found, And to this Towne, of no small weight, a stay both sure and sound. Their Liberties restor'd to them, by meanes of thee have beene, Their Publike weale by meanes of thee, large gifts have felt and found. The Riches, Stocke, and beauty brave, one houre hath them supprest: Yet these thy vertues and good deeds, with us (for ever) rest.

The Lord Maior of London, and the Aldermen his brethren, upon those so∣lemne dayes of their resort to Pauls, have long time used to walke to the Grave-stone, where this Bishop lyeth buried, in remembrance of their former priviledges by him obtained.

And now of late yeeres, there is an Inscription fastned to that Pillar which is next his Grave; termed, The revivali of a most worthy Prela••es remembrance: There erected at the sole cost and char∣ges of the Right Honourable and wor∣thily affected, Sir Edward Barkham, Knight, Lord Maior of the Citie of Lon∣don, Anno 1622. speaking thus to the walkers in Pauls:

Walkers, whosoere ye be, If it prove you chance to see Vpon a solemne Scarlet day, The Citie-Senate passe this way, Their gratefull Memory for to show Which they the reverend ashes owe Of Bishop Norman, here inhum'd, By whom this Citie hath assum'd Large proviledges: Those obtain'd By him, when Conquerour William raign'd: This being by thankfull Barkham's minde renu'd, Call it The Monument of Gratitude.

Hic jacet Magister Fulco Lovell, quondam Archidiaconus Colcestriae. Floruit sub Henrico 3. Rege.

Hic requiescit in Domino Rogerus cogno∣nomento Niger, quondam Canonicus hu∣jus Ecclesiae S. Pauli: Ac deinde in Lon∣dinens. Episcopum consecratus Anno Salutis, 1228. vir in literatura profun∣dus, moribus honestus ac per omnia lau∣dabilis, Christianae Religionis amator, ac defensor strenuus. Qui cum pastorale Officium vigilanter & studiosè rexisset Annis 14. diem suum clausit extremum, apud Manerium suum de Stebunheath, 3. Calend. Octob. An. Christi, 1241. Regnante Rege Henrico 3.

Contigit his diebus, dum Episcopus iste Ro∣gerus in hac Ecclesia ante majus Altare staret infulatus ad celebrandum divina, quod tanta in aëre facta est nubium densitas, ut vix alterum discernere pos∣sit, quam confestim secuta est tonitrui horribilis concussio, cum tanta fulminis coruscatione, ac faetore intolerabili, ut omnes qui aderunt rapidè fugientes, ni∣hil verius quàm mortem expectarent. So∣lus Episcopus cum uno Diacono remansit intrepidus. Aëre tandem purgato, E∣piscopus residuum rei divinae explevit.

Epitaphium ejus super Tumulo.

Ecclesiae quondam Praesul praesentis, in Anno M. bis C. quater X. jacet hic Rogerus humatus. Hujus erat manibus Domino locus iste dicatus: Christe suis precibus veniam des, tolle reatus.

Hic infra jacet corpus Magistri Thomae de Evre, Legum Doctoris, istius Ecclesiae S. Pauli quondam Decani, qui die nono Mensis Octobris, Anno Domino Mille∣simo, quadringentesimo, & sui Decanatus Anno 12. diem suum clausit extremum. Cuius animae propitietur Deus, Amen.

Hic in Domino obdormivit Iohannes Gan∣davensis, vulgò de Gaunt, à Gandavo Plandriae urbe loco natali, ita denomina∣tus, Edwardi 3. Regis Angliae filius, à patre Comitis Richmondiae titulo orna∣tus. Tres sibi uxores in Matrimonio da∣xit: Primam, Blancham, filiam & hae∣redem Henrici, Ducis Lancastriae, per quem amplissimam adiit haereditatem: Nec solum Dux Lancastriae, sed etiam Leicestriae, Lincolniae, & Derbiae Comes effectus: E••cuius sobole Imperatores, Re∣ges, Principes, & Proceres propagati sunt plurini. Alteram habuit uxorem Con∣stantiam (quae hic contumelatur) filiam & haeredem Petri, Regis Castiliae & Le∣gionis, cuius iure optimo titulo Regis Ca∣stiliae & Legionis usus est. Haec unicam illi peperit filiam Katharinam, ex qua ab Henrico Reges Hispaniae sunt propagati. Tertiam vero uxorem duxit Katharinā, ex Equestri Familia, & eximia pulchri∣tudine foeminam, ex qua numerosam sus∣cepit prolem: unde genus ex Matre du∣xit Henricus 7. Rex Angliae prudentis∣simus, cuius foe licissimo coniugio cum Ed∣wardi 4. filia, è stirpe Eboracensi, Regiae illae Lancastriensium & Eboracensium Familiae, ad exoptatissimam Angliae pa∣cem coaluerunt.

Illustrissimus hic Princeps, cogno∣mento Plantagenet, Rex Casti∣liae & Legionis, Dux Lancastriae, Comes Richmondiae, Leice∣striae, Lincolniae & Derbiae, Locumtenens Aquitaniae, Mag∣nus Senescallus Angliae, Obiit Anno 22. Regni Regis Richardi 2. Anno{que} Domini, 1399.

Hic requiescit Simon Burley, Banerettus, Quinque Portuum Praefectus, Ordinis Garterii Miles, & Richardo 2. Consili∣arius longè charissimus. Connubio sibi coniunctas habuit ex amplissimis Famili∣is duas uxores: alteram Staffordiae, al∣teram Baronis de Roos filiam. Ver•• diffi∣cilimo illo tempore, cum inter Angliae pro∣ceres omnia sub iuvene Principe simulta∣tibus agitarentur, in tantū nōnullorū odi∣um incurrit, ut Parliamentaria authori∣tate capite plect••••etur, Anno Domini, 1388. Posteri autem eadem postea au∣thoritate sub Rege Henrico quarto sunt restituti. Obiit Anno Salutis, 1398.

Per versus patet hos, Anglorum qui jacet hic flos, Legum qui tuta dictavit vera statuta: Ex Hengham dictus, Radulphus vir benedictus.

Anno 1308.

In the North Walke, against the Quire, lye all these buried:

Sir Iohn Poultney, Citizen, Draper, and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1348. lyeth buried in a faire Chappell, builded by himselfe, on the North side of Pauls Quire, wherein he founded 3. Chaplaines.

Hamond Chickwell, six times L. Maior of London, 1328.

Henry Guildford, Clarke, at the Altar of the Apostles, 1313.

Richard Newport, Bishop of London, 1318.

William Chatesleshunt, Canon in the New Worke, who had a Chauntrie there.

Sir Nicholas Wokendon, Knight, at the Altar of S. Thomas, in the new Worke, 1323.

Iohn Cheshul, Bishop of London, 1279.

Robert Monden, and Iohn Monden, his brother, both Canons, in the New Worke, 1332.

Richard de Plesseys lyeth in the North Walke, just before S. Georges Chappel, Anno 1361.

William Melford, and Richard de Pla∣cito, both Archdeacons of Colchester, 1345. lye buried before Saint Thomas Chappell.

Adam de Burie, Lord Maior of Lon∣don in the yeere 1364. lyes buried in a Chappell of S. Mary Magdalen, or the Holy Ghost, called Holmes Colledge, be∣cause Roger Holmes, Chancellour and Prebend of Pauls, was there buried, in the yeere 1400.

The Dutchesse of Bedford, Sister to Philip, Duke of Burgundy, Anno Dom. 1433.

Robert Fitz-Hugh, Bishop of London, Anno, 1435.

Perpetuae pietati Sacrum.

Guil. Herberto, Pembrochiae Comiti, Equi∣ti Aurato, praenobilis ordinis Anglici. Hen. 8. à Cubiculis: Edwardi 6. R. Equitum Magistro: Walliae Praesidi: Tumultu Occidentali cum Russello & Grayo Baronibus paribus auspiciis sum∣mae rerum praeposito: Maria Reginae con∣tra perduelles ac expeditione ad Augu∣stam Veromanduorum bis totius exerci∣tus duci: bis summo in agro Caletum limitum Praefecto: Elizabethae Reginae Officiorum seu magno Regiae Magistro. Pariter & Dominae Annae ex vetustae Parorum gente oriundae, Sorori Katha∣rinae Reginae, Hen. 8. R. sexto matri∣monio conjunctae, ac Marchionis North∣hamptionii, prudentissimae Feminae, pie∣tatis, religionis, probitatis, omnisque A∣vitae virtutis retinentissimae fidis Co∣mitis conjugi. Secunda conjuge supersti∣te, Georgio Salopiae Comite genita, in∣signi praeter antiquum Nobilitatis De∣cus, uirtute femina.

Liberis relictis ex prima

• Henrico Pembr
• Comiti.
• Edwardo Equiti Aurato.
• Domina Anna, Bar.
• Talbot nupta.

Henr. F. ac Comes P. P. Chatis. sibi ac suis P.

Obiit

• Aetatis,
• Salutis,
  • Anno
    • 63.
    • 1569.

Si quis erat prude••s unquam fidus{que} Senator, Si quis erat Patriae charus amans{que} suae, Si quis ad externas Legatus idoneus oras, Si cui justitiae cura bonique suit, Is Masonus erat, sit tota Britannia testis, Testis amor Procerum, sit populique favor, Tempore quinque suo, reguantes ordine vidit, Ho•••••• à Consiliis quacuor ille fuit. Tres & sex decies vixit non amplius annos; Hic tegitur corpus, spiritus astra tenet. Hunc Tumulum Conjux posuit dilecta marito, Quem{que} viro posuit, destinat ipsa sibi. Triste Nepos Carmen, quem fecit adoptio natum, Tum Patris inscripsit, tum Patrui Tumulo.

Obiit Anno, 1566.

Alexandro Nowello, Lancastriensi, prisca Nowellorum gente oriundo, Theologiae Doctori, Aedis S. Pauli Decano, ad ex∣emplum hospitali, Rob. Nowelli, cujus hic cum suis miscentur cineres, Fratri, & opum quae sibi jure testamentario ces∣serunt, diribitori pientissimo. Marianis temporibus propter Christum exulanti: Reducum••. verae Religionis, contra An∣gliae Papistas duobus Libris assertori primae & ultimae quadragesimalis Con∣cionis per an. 30. p. m. continuos ad S. E∣lizabetham, summa libertate Praeconi; Scholae Middletonianae Patrono; Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxonii, ubi ab anno aeta∣tis 13. Annos 13. studuit, 13. studio∣sis & 200. Libris annuis opera, & im∣pensis suis ampliati: Praesidi Scholae Paulinae plurimorum bonorum auctori: Pietatis frequentissimis Concionibus & triplici Catechismo propagatori: qui pub∣licum se in utrius{que} Academiae, & Ec∣clesiarum exterarum testimonium, at{que} aeternorum Principum Edwardi 6. & Elizabethae judicum procerumque provocavit: Pauperum (Literatorum

praecipuè) nutritori: afflictorum morbis corporis vel animi consolatori.

Hoc Sepulchrum ob munificentiam & merita erga Remp. & optimum statum Ecclesiae suae ab eo pervigili administrat. redditum, Exec. O. D. S. M. Posuit.

Quam speciosa Vestigia Evangelizantium pacem!

Exul quae amisit primaevo flore Nowellus, Foenore centena repperit aucta redux Dat Christus, reddit danti longaevus honores, Reddenti aeternos gratia dantis habet, Praeco, Auctor, Condus, Christo, Colit, Ampliat, ornat, Voce, Libris, Opibus, Sabbatha, Templa, Schola; Dans, meditans, orans, Christi expiravit in ulnis, Sic oritur, floret, demoritur{que} Deo.

Sedit B. R. P. & Ecclesiae P. M. 42. Nonagenarius, cum nec animi nec corporis occuli caligarent. O∣biit, Anno Domini, 1601. Feb. 13.

Virtuti & Honori Sacrum.

Franciscus Walsinghamus, ortus Familia multis seculis illustri, claritatem gene∣ris Nobilitate, ingenii praestantibus{que} a∣nimi dotibus superavit. Puer, ingenuè domi educatus, generosis moribus arti∣bus{que} optimis animum excoluit. Adoles∣cens, peregrinatus in exteras Regiones, earum Instituta, Linguas, Policiam, ad civilem scientiam rei{que} publicae usum didicit. Iuvenis, exilium Maria reg∣nante subiit voluntarium Religionis er∣go. Serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, ma∣tura jam aetate, Orator fuit apud Gal∣lum, turbulentissimo tempore, annis cō∣pluribus: rursum bis in Galliā, semel in Scotiam, semel in Belgiam, super gravis∣simis Principis negotiis Legatione fun∣ctus est: ei{que} annis sedecim ab intimis Conciliis & secretis fuit, ac triennium Cantellarius Ducatus Lancastriae. Qui∣bus in muneribus tanta cum prudentia, abstinentia, munificentia, moderatio∣ne, pietate, industria & sollicitudine versatus est; ut à multis periculis Patri∣am liberarit, servarit Rempublicam, conformarit pacem, juvare cunctos stu∣duerit, imprimis quos doctrina aut bel∣lica virtus commendarit, seipsum deni∣que neglexerit, quo prodisset aliis, eos∣que valetudinis & facultatum suarum dispendio sublevaret.

In Matrimonio habuit lectissimā feminam Vrsulam, è stirpe S. Barborum, antiquae Nobilivatis: E quq unicam filiam sus∣cepit, Franciscam, Philippo Sydneio primùm nuptam: deinde honoratissimo Comiti Essexiae

Obiit Apr. 6. 1590.

Shall Honour, Fame, and Titles of renowne In clods of clay be thus inclosed still? Rather will I, though wiser wits may frowne, For to inlarge his fame, extend my skill. Right gentle Reader, be it knowne to thee, A famous Knight doth here interred lye, Noble by birth, renown'd for policie, Confounding foes, which wrought our jeopardy. In forraine Countries their intents he knew, Such was his zeale to doe his Countrie good, When dangers would by enemies ensue, As well as they themselves he understood. Lanch forth ye Muses into streames of praise, Sing and sound forth praise-worthy harmony; In England Death cut off his dismall dayes, Not wrong'd by death, but by false trechery. Grudge not at this unperfect Epitaph, Herein I have exprest my simple skill, As the first fruits proceeding from a graffe,

Make then a better whosoever will. Disce quid es, quid eris, Memor esto quod morieris E. W.

England, Netherland, the Heavens and the Arts, The Souldiers and the World have made sixe parts Of the Noble Sidney, for none will suppose, That a small heape of stones can Sidney inclose. His body hath England, for she it bred. Netherland his bloud, in her defence shed. The Heavens have his Soule, the Arts have his Fame; All Souldiers the griefe: the VVorld his good Name.

Hic jacet Robertus Benn, de Newport Cranley, in Comitatu Surrey, Gene∣rosus. Qui obiit decimo die mensis Fe∣bruarii, Anno Verbi Incarnati, 1606. Cum ante annos triginta, in vigore sci∣licet aetatis suae, mortis non immemor, Sepulturae sibi locum in hac Ecclesia à Decano & Capitulo impetraverat. hanc novissimam & ultimam suam volunta∣tem, Elizabetha Benn, dilecta Conjux ejus executa est.

Veniet iterum qui me in lucem reponet dies.

Ioannes Wolleius, Eques Auratus, Reginae Elizabethae à Secretioribus Conciliis, Secretarius Linguae Latinae, Cancella∣rius Ordinis Periscelidis: Doctrina, Pie∣tate, Fide, Gravitate clarissimus.

Obiit Anno 1595.

Wolleii, clarum nomen, Natusqüe Paterque, Ambo Equites, Natus Franciscus Patre Ioanne: Clarus, ut haeredem virtutis, amoris, honoris Praestaret, Monumenta sibi haec, & utrique Parenti Constituit, generis, qui nominis, unicus haeres: Tam citò claros est defecisse dolendum.

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

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

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

Inclyta Ioannes Londini gloria gentis, Is tibi qui Quondam Paule Decanus erat, Qui toties magno resonabat pectore Christum, Doctor & interpres fidus Evangelii: Qui mores hominum multum sermone diserta Formârat, vitae sed probitate magis. Quique Scholam struxit celebrem cognomine Iesu, Hac dormit tectus membra Coletus humo.

Floruit sub Henrico 7. & Hen∣rico 8. Reg. Obiit Anno Do∣mini, 1519.

Disce mori mundo, Vivere disce Deo.

This Epitaph was made by William Lily, the first Schoolemaster of Pauls Schoole: which was founded by Iohn Colet, Do∣ctor in Divinity, and Deane of Pauls: sonne to Sir Henry Colet, Mercer, twice Lord Maior of London.

Memoriae S.

Gulielmo Hewit, Armigero Roberti Hewit A. Killamarch, in Agro. Derbiensi Filio, secundo genito. Qui mortuo Fratre, Natu majore, Paternam crevit haereditatem, Posterisque transmittit: Nobilem Mercaturam exercuit.

Vita integerrima fuit, & moribus suavissi∣mis. Bonarum literarum studia promo∣vit. Egenorum proventus largiter auxit.

Liberalitate, Charitate, Insignis, Nec minor Pietate. Religionem, cum Ministris sacris, & coluit & fovit. Ita per omnia se ubique gessit, ut Probitatis, Comitatis, Candoris Vivum exemplar. Christum Redemptorem cogitans, Vitam ante mortem consummaverit. Filios genuit quatuor, Ioannem, Salomonem, Thomam, Gulielmum: Et Filias duas. Mariam, Elizabetham. Annum LXXVII. agens, XII. Iun. CIO. D. XCIX. ad patriam coelestem evocatus, Magnum sui desiderium reliquit Posteris, Qui hoc piè ac moeven.

M. S.

Gulielmus Cokainus Eques Auratus, Civis & Senator Bondinensis, sep∣temque ab hinc annis Vrbis Praefe∣ctus: Antiquâ Cokainorum Derbi∣ensium Familiâ oriundus. Qui bo∣no publico vixit, & damno publico decessit, & gaudio publico, Regem Iacobum, ad decorem hujus domus Dei senescentis jam & corrugatae re∣stituendum, solenniter huc venien∣tem consulatu suo, magnificè exce∣pit: Idcirco in Templo publico, ad aeternam rei memoriam

Hîc situs est.

At verò & Famae celebritas, quae viget in ore Hominum, & gloria Beatitu∣dinis, quam migrando adeptus est, & splendor Sobolis, quam numero∣sam genuit, atque nobilèm reliquit, junctim efficiunt omnia, ne dicatur

Hîc situs est.

Vnà cum illo, tot homines mortui, quot in illo defunctae sunt virtutes; simul∣que & acies ingenii, & popularis elo∣quii suada, & morum gravitas, & probitas vitae, & candor mentis, & animi constantia, & prudentia singu∣laris, & veri Senatoris insignia

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Jam tuum est Lector, felicitatis ad cul∣men anhelare per ista vestigia laudis, & venerandi imitatione exempli cu∣rare, ne unquam virtutis sic semina, intereant, ut dicatur

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Obiit 20. Octob. An. Dom. 1626. Et Aetatis suae 66.

Hic Nicolaum me Baconem conditum Existima illum, tam diu Britannici Regni secundum Columen, exitium Malis, Bonis Asylum, coeca quem non extulit Ad hunc honorem sors, sed equitas, fides, Doctrina, Pietas, unica & Prudentia,

Neu morte reptum crede: qui unica brevi Vita perennes emeruit duas, agit Vitam secundam coelites inter animos, Fama implet orbem, vita quae illi tertia est. Hac positum in Ara est corpus, olim animi domus, Ara dicata sempiternae memoriae.

Sacrum Memoriae.

D. Chr. Hattoni, Guil. Fil. Io. Nepo. An∣tiquiss. Hattonorum Gente oriundi. Regiae Majestatis D. Elizabethae ex No∣bilibus Stipatoribus: L. Vici: Sacratio∣ris Camerae Generosorū unius, Praetori∣anorum Militum Ducis: Regii Pro-Camerarii: Sanctioris Concilii Senato∣ris, Summi Angliae ac Oxon. Acad. Cancellarii: Ordinis Nobiliss. San-Georgiani de Periscellide Equitis.

Maximo Principis omnium que bono∣rum moerore (cum 51. Annos coe∣lebs vixisset) 20. Novemb. Anno 1591. in Aedibus suis Holburnae piè fato functi.

Guil. Hattonus, Eques Auratus, ejus ex Sorore, Nepos, adoptione Fili∣us, ac haeres moestissimus, Pietatis ergô posuit.

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

Stay, and behold the mirror of a dead mans house, Whose lively person would have made thee stay and wonder; Looke, and withall learne to know how to live and dye renowned; For never can cleane life and famous Herses sunder.

Hatton lyes here, whose name Hugh Lupus gave, Lupus the Silices, sonne of William Conqueror, For Nigel, his cleere servants sake, Worship and Laud: Lo, there the Spring; looke here the Honor of his Ancestrie.

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

Nature commends her workmanship to Fortunes charge; Fortune presents him to the Court, and to the Queene: Queene Eliz. (O Gods deare Handmaid) his most Miracle, Now hearken, Reader, rarity not heard nor seene.

This blessed Queene, Mirror of all that Albion rul'd, Gave favour to his faith, and precepts to his hopefull time; First, train'd him in the stately band of Pentioners: Behold, how humble hearts make easie steps to climbe.

High carriage, honest life, heart ever loyall, Diligence, delight in duty, God doth reward: So did this worthy Queene, in her just thoughts of him, And (for her safety) made him Captaine of her Guard.

Now doth she prune this Vine, and from her sacred brest Lessons his life, makes wise his heart for her great Councels, And so Vice-Chamberlaine; where forreine Princes eyes Might well admire her choice, wherein she most excels.

So sweetly tempred was his soule with vertuous Balme; Religious, just to God and Caesar in each thing; That he aspired to the highest Subjects Seat, Lord Chancelor (measure and conscience of an holy King.)

Robe, Coller, Garter, dead Figures of great Honor, Almes-deeds, with faith, honest in word, franke in dispence, The poore's friend, not popular, the Churches Pillar; This Tombe shewes the one, the Heavens shrine all the other.

Franciscus Florus ad memoriam Heri sui defuncti luctus{que} sui solatium posuit. Anno Domini, 1593.

Thomas Heneage, Eques Auratus, ex an∣tiqua Heneagiorum Familia, in Comi∣tatu Lincolniensi oriundus; Ingenii splendore, morum, elegantia, orationis facultate, & optimis studiis ornatissi∣mus, Camerae Regiae Thesaurarius, Pro-Camerarius, Ducatus Lancastriae Cancellarius, & ab intimis Conciliis Elizabethae Reginae, cui privatae & principi, fide & fama integra maximis negotiis spectatus, summa cum gratia, Annis 38. inservivit: Hic secundum Christi

Adventum in pace expectat.

Vna cum Anna, uxore charissima, filia Nicolai Points, Equitis Aurati, ex Joanna, filia Thomae Baronis Berkley, femina lectissima, sanctis∣simis moribus, & à teneris ad mor∣tem usque Elizabethae Reginae prae∣dilecta Famula. Que illi unicum fi∣liolum infantia praereptum, & unica enixa filiam, Haeredem Elizabe∣tham, Moylo Finch, Equiti Aurato, enuptam.

Obiit ille 17. Octob. An. Dom. 1594.

Praeivit illa Novemb. An. Dom. 1592.

Optimis & charissimis parentibus, Elizabe∣thae Finch moestissima hoc posuit.

Iohn Elmar, Bishop of London, buried in Anno, 1594.

Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, buried in Anno, 1596.

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

A pure regard to thy Immortall part, A spotlesse Minde, a Body prone to paine, A giving Hand, and an un-vanquisht Heart, And all these Vertues void of all disdaine. And all these Vertues yet not so unknowne, But Netherlands, Seas, Indiaes, Spaine, and France, Can witnesse that these Honors were thine owne; Which they reserve, thy merit to advance: That Valour should not perish void of Fame, Nor Noble Deeds, but leave a Noble Name.

Eustacius de Fauconbridge, Regis Iustici∣arius, una atque altera Legatione per∣functus in Gallia, sub Ioanne & Henri∣co 3. Regibus: Quibus ab intimis Con∣ciliis, & supremus Angliae Thesaurari∣us fuit: Post Concessionem Guil. de San∣cta Maria huius Ecclesiae Antistitis, Electus est in Episcopum Londinen∣sem, Anno Verbi Incarnati, 1221. Consecratus à Benedicto, Roffensi Epis∣copo, cum jam obesset Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis. Quum{que} sedisset Annos 7. Menses 6. obiit diem pridiè Cal. No∣vemb. Anno Salutis, 1228.

Henricus de Wengham, Regi Henrico 3. à sacris, & Cancellarius, Decanus de To∣tenhale, & S. Martini London, Came∣rarius Gasconiae; Vir (ut inquit Flori∣logus) curialis, discretus, & circumspe∣ctus. Electus Anno Christi 1259. Win∣toniensis Episcopus, consentire noluit. Tandem, post mortem Fulconis Basset, hujus Ecclesiae Pontificis, eodem anno in Episc. Londin. consecratus fuit, sed vix tribus annis sedit.

Obiit Anno Salutis 126••.

Hoc in loco requiescit in Domino Er∣kenwaldus 3. post Anglo-Saxonum in Britannia ingressum Episcopus Londinensis. Cujus in Episcopatu & ante Episcopatum vita & conversa∣tio fuit sanctissima; ex Nobili Proso∣pia oriundus. Offae, Orientalium Saxonum Regis erat filius, ad fidem Christianam à Mellito primo Lon∣don. Episcopo, Anno Domini 642. conversus.

Is priusquam Episcopus factus esset, dua praeclara construxit Monasteria sumptibus suis, de bonis quae jure haereditario sibi obvenerunt: unum sibi in finibus Australium Saxonum loco, qui Certesey vocatur: Alterum Edelburgae Sorori suae feminae lau∣datiffimae, ad Berching in ditione Orientalium Saxonum.

In Episcopatum vero Anno Salutis, 675. à Theodoro, Dorobernensium sive Cantuariae Archiepiscualia sa∣cratus est. Sebbam, Orientalium Saxonum Regem ad Christi fidem convertit, & salutari Baptismatis un∣da suis manibus perfudit, qui statim mundo renuncians, se totum Deo ad∣dixit, & in hac ipsa Ecclesia Archa Marmorea (quae ad nostra usque tem∣pora permanet) sepultus est. Idem Erkenwaldus celeberrimum hoc S. Pauli Templum novis aedificiis auxit, proventubus locupletavit, & eidem immunitates nonnullas à Regibus impetravit. Tandem, circiter Annum Domini 683. spiritum Deo reddidit, postquam Annis 11. in Pontificatu se∣disset, & magnifico Sepulchro hic conditus est. quod nostra memoria circiter Annum Domini 1533. hoc loco visebatur.

Michael Norborow, Bishop of Lon∣don, 1361.

Robert Brewer, Deane of Pauls, 1366.

Adam de Bury, Lord Maior of Lon∣don, 1390.

Ralph Baldocke, Bishop of London, 1313.

Robert Breybrooke, Canon of Lichfield, Bishop of London, & made Lord Chan∣cellour in the sixth yeere of King Ri∣chard the second. Hee sate Bishop 20. yeeres, and deceased in Anno 1404.

Iohn Stokesley, Bishop of London, An∣no 1539.

Henry Lacy, Earle of Lincolne, had a faire Monument erected for him with his picture in Armour, lying on it crosse-legged (like a Knight Templer) as one that professed his uttermost in∣deavour, for defence of the holy Land against the Infidels. He was buried in Anno 1310. and his Monument is great∣ly defaced.

Some have noted that in digging the foundation of this new worke, namely, of a Chappel on the South side of Pauls Church, there were found more than an hundred scalpes of Oxen or Kine, in the yeere one thousand three hundred and sixteene, which thing (say they) confirmed greatly the opinion of those, which have reported, that (of old time) there had been a Temple of Iupiter, and that there was daily sacrifice of beasts.

Othersome both wise and learned, have thought the Buckes head borne before the Procession of Pauls, on Saint Pauls day, to signifie the like. But true it is, I have read an ancient Deed to this effect:

Sir William Baud, Knight, the third of Edward the first, in the yeere 1274. on Candlemas day, granted to Harvy de Borham, Deane of Pauls, and to the Chapter there, that in consideration of twenty two Acres of ground or land, by them granted within their Mannor of Westley in Essex, to bee inclosed into his Parke of Curingham; hee would (for ever) upon the Feast day of the Conver∣sion of Paul in VVinter give unto them a good Doe, seasonable and sweete, and upon the Feast of the Commemoration

of Saint Paul in Summer, a good Buck, and offer the same at the high Altar, the same to bee spent amongst the Ca∣nons residents: the Doe to bee brought by one man at the houre of Procession, and thorow the Procession to the high Altar; and the bringer to have nothing: the Bucke to be brought by all his mey∣ney in like manner, and they to have payd unto them by the Chamberlaine of the Church twelve pence onely, and no more to be required.

This Grant hee made, and for per∣formance, bound the Lands of him and his heyres to bee distrained on: and if the Lands should bee evicted, that yet he and his heires should accomplish the gift. Witnesses, Richard Tilbery, Wil∣liam de Wockendon, Richard de Harlowe, Knights, Peter of Stanford, Thomas of Waldon, and some others.

Sir Walter Baude, sonne to William, confirmed this gift, in the thirtieth of the said King; and the witnesses there∣unto, were Nicholas de Wockendon, Rich. de Rokeley, Thomas de Mandevile, Iohn de Rochford, Knights, Richard de Broni∣ford, William de Markes, William de Ful∣ham, and other. Thus much for the Grant.

Now, what I have heard by report, and have partly seene, it followeth:

On the Feast day of the Commemo∣ration of Saint Paul, the Bucke being brought up to the steps of the high Al∣tar in Pauls Church, at the houre of Procession, the Deane and Chapter be∣ing apparelled in Coapes and Vest∣ments, with Garlands of Roses on their heads, they sent the body of the Bucke to baking, and had the head fixed on a Pole, borne before the Crosse in their Procession, untill they issued out of the VVest doore; where the Keeper that brought it, blowed the death of the Bucke, and then the Horners that were about the City, presently answe∣red him in like manner: For the which paines, they had each man of the Dean and Chapter, foure pence in mony, and their Dinner, and the Keeper that brought it, was allowed, during his a∣bode there (fore that service) Meate, Drinke, and Lodging, at the Deane and Chapters, charges, and five shillings in money at his going away, together with a Loafe of bread, having the picture of Saint Paul upon it, &c.

There was belonging to the Church of Saint Paul, for both the dayes, two speciall sutes of Vestments, the one em∣broidered with Buckes, the other with Does, both given by the said Bauds (as I have heard.) Thus much for that matter.

Now to the residue of the Monu∣ments which are beneath the staires, in the sides and body of the Church.

Sir Iohn Beauchamp, Constable of Do∣ver, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Knight of the Garter, the sonne of Sir Guy Beauchamp, Earle of Warwicke, and brother to Thomas Earle of Warwicke, lyeth buried in the body of the Church, on the South side, 1358. within a pro∣per Chappell purposely made for him.

This deceased Nobleman (by igno∣rant people) hath been erroneously mis∣termed, and said to bee Duke Humfrey, the good Duke of Glocester: who lyeth honourably buried at Saint Albans, in Hartfordshire, twenty miles from Lon∣don. In idle and frivolous opinion of whom, some men (of late times) have made a solemne meeting at his Tombe, upon Saint Andrewes day in the mor∣ning (before Christmasse) and conclu∣ded on a breakfast or dinner, as assuring themselves to be servants, and to hold diversity of offices under the good Duke Humfrey.

Likewise on May-day, Tankard-bea∣rers, Watermen, and some other of like quality beside, would use to come to the same Tombe early in the morning, and (according as the other) have deli∣vered serviceable presentation at the same Monument, by strewing herbes, and sprinkling faire water on it, as in the duty of servants, and according to their degrees and charges in Office. But as Master Stowe hath discreetly advised such as are so merrily disposed, or sim∣ply professe themselves to serve Duke Humfrey in Pauls: if punishment of lo∣sing their dinners daily there, bee not sufficient for them; they should be sent to St. Albans, to answer there for their disobedience, and long absence from their so highly well-deserving Lord

and Master, because in their merry dis∣position they please so to call him.

Margaret, Countesse of Shrewsbury, in the Crowdes, or Iesus Chappell, as ap∣peareth by an Inscription on a Pillar there.

Here before the Image of IESVS, lyeth the Worshipfull and right Noble Lady Mar∣garet, Countesse of Shrewsbury, late wife of the true and victorious Knight, and redoubtable Warriour, 1. Talbot, Earle of Shrewsbury; which Worship∣full man dyed in Guien, for the right of this Land. Shee was the first daugh∣ter, and one of the heyres of the right fa∣mous and renowned Knight, Richard Beauchamp, late Earle of Warwicke (which dyed in Roane) and of Dame E∣lizabeth his wife; the which Elizabeth was daughter and heyre to Thomas, late Lord Berkly, on his side, and on her mothers side, Lady Lisle, and Tyes. Which Countesse passed from this world the fourteenth day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1468. On whose soule IE∣SVS have mercy, Amen.

Wenlocke, by his last Will, dated 1477. appointed, that there should be dispended upon a Monument, over the Lady of Shrewsbury, where shee is buri∣ed, afore Iesus, one hundred pounds. He left Sir Humfrey Talbot his Super∣visor. This Sir Humfrey Talbot, Knight, Lord Marshall of the Towne of Callis, made his Will the yeere 1492. Hee was the younger sonne of Iohn Earle of Shrewsbury, and Margaret his wife. He appointed a Stone to be put in a Pillar, before the grave of his Lady Mother in Pauls, of his Portraiture and Armes, according to the Will of Iohn VVenlock: But for want of roome and lightsome∣nesse in that place, it was concluded, that the Image of Jesus should be curi∣ously painted on the wall in Pauls Church, over the doore that entreth into the said Chappell of Iesus, and the Portraiture also of the said Lady Mar∣garet, Countesse of Shrewsbury, knee∣ling in her mantle of Armes, with other of her Progeny; all which was so per∣formed, and remaineth till this day.

In the Chappell of Jesus, Thomas Dowroy, William Lambe, 1578. and ma∣ny other have beene interred.

Iohn of London under the North Roode, 1266.

Iohn Lovell, Clarke.

Iohn Romane.

Iohn of Saint Olave.

Walter Bloxley.

Sir Allen Boxhul, Knight of the Gar∣ter, Constable of the Tower, Custos of the Forrest and Parke of Clarendon, the Forrest of Brokholt, Grovell, and Mel∣chet, buried beside S. Erkenwalds Shrine.

Hic jacet Dominus Richardus de Piri∣ton, quondam Archidiaconus Col∣cestriae, Canonicus & Stagiar, hujus Ecclesiae. Qui obiit 26. die Augusti, Anno Domini, 1387. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.

Iohn Nevil, Lord Latymer, in Anno 1542. whose widow was the last wife unto King Henry the eighth, lyeth there interred; but his Tombe is very much wronged and defaced.

Thomas Lynacrus, Regis Henrici 8. Medicus, Vir & Graecè & Latinè at∣que in re Medica longè eruditissi∣mus. Multos aetate sua languentes, & qui jam animam desponderant, vitae restituit: Multa Galeni opera Latina lingua mira & singulari facundia ver∣tit. Egregium opus de emendata structura Latini sermonis, amicorum rogatu, paulò ante mortem edidit. Medicinae studiosis Oxoniae publicas lectiones duas, Cantabrigiae unam in perpetuum stabilivit. In hac Vrbe Collegium Medicorum fieri sua in∣dustria curavit, cujus & Praesidens proximus electus est: Fraudes dolos∣que mirè perosus, fidus amicis, omni∣bus ordinibus juxta charus: Aliquot annis antequam obierit Presbyter fa∣ctus. Plenus annis, ex hac vita mi∣gravit multùm desideratus, Ann. Do∣mini 1524. die 7. Octob.

Vivat post Funera Virtus.

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

Memoriae Sacrum.

Edwardo Stanhopo, Michaelis Stanho∣piex

ordine Equestri filio, Equiti Aurato, Legum Doctori, Episcopi L••ndinensis Cancellario, Archiepi∣scopi Cantuariensis Vicario Gene∣rali, in publicis Ecclesiae & Reipub∣licae negotiis versatissimo. Qui certa spe in Christo resurgendi, piè placi∣deque animam Deo reddidit, die 16. Martii, 1608.

Ioannes, Baro Stanhopus de Haring∣ton, & Michael Stanhopus, E∣ques Auratus, fratres moestissi∣mi, Officiosae Pietatis ergo P. P.

Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London, in a proper Chappell, termed of the Tri∣nity, lyeth there buried in Anno 1489. As appeareth not onely by his name and Armes thereon in divers places; but likewise by this ensuing inscription, engraven on a Plate, and fixed in the same Chappell.

Infra Capellam istam requiescit corpus D. Thomae Kemp, quondam Episcopi Lon∣don, fundatoris eiusdem, & unius Can∣tariae perpetuae in eadem. Qui multa bona tempore vitae suae Ecclesiae Sancti Pauli dedit, & stetit 39. Annis, 84. diebus Episcopus London. Ac obiit 28. die mensis Martii, An. Domini 1489. Cujus animae propitietur Deus. Amen.

Richard Vaughan, likewise Bishop of London, lyeth buried in the said Chap∣pell, 1607.

Richard Fitz-Iames, Bishop of London, lyeth buried under a faire Tombe, and in Saint Pauls Chappell, builded of Timber, with stayres mounting up thereto, over his Tombe of gray Mar∣ble, in Anno 1521. But this Chappell was burned by fire falling from the steeple, and his Tombe taken thence.

Gulielmo Lilio, Pauliae Scholae olim Prae∣ceptori Primario, & Agnetae Conjugi, in sacratissimo hujus Templi Coemiterio hinc à tergo nunc destructo consepultis: Georgius Lilius, hujus Ecclesiae Canoni∣cus, parentum memoriae piè consulens, Tabellam hanc ab amicis conservatam, hic reponendam curavit.

Obiit ille G. L. An. Dom. 1522. Calend. Mart. Vixit An. 54.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Thomas Ravis, claris natalibus Maul∣denae in Suthreia natus, Regius A∣lumnus in Schola VVestmonasteri∣ensi educatus, in Academiam Oxo∣niensem adscitus, omnes Academi∣cos honores consequutus, & Margi∣stratibus perfunctus, Decanus Eccle∣siae Christi ibidem constitutus, & bis Academiae Pro-Cancellarius. Vnde ob doctrinam, gravitatem, & spectatam prudentiam, à Rege Iaco∣bo, primùm ad Episcopatum Glo∣cestrensem provectus, deinde ad Londinensem translatus, & demum à Christo, dum Ecclesiae, Patriae, & Principi vigilaret, in Coelestem Pa∣triam evocatus, placidè pieque emi∣gravit, & quod mortale fuit, certa spe resurgendi hic deposuit, die 14. Decembris, An. Salutis 1609.

Gulielmus Harington, Iurisconsultus, Pro∣tonotarius Apostolicus, D. Pauli Cano∣nicus, ex illis quos Residentiarios dicunt: Patria Eboracensis natus, in pago qui E∣stryngton vocitatur, Patre Gulielmo Ha∣ringtono, viro claro, genere orto in pago Commerlandiae non ignobili, qui Neu∣byging nuncupatur; & Matre Ioanna, Filia Gulielmi Haskae, aliter Balivi dicti, viri Generosi in eodem pago E∣stryngton nata: memor exitus vitae, qui omnibus horis impendet, hoc sibi Sepul∣chrum posuit. Anno Salutis humanae, 1523.

Sixe Lines this Image shall delineate, Hight Croft, high-borne, in spirit and vertue high; Approv'd, belov'd, a Knight, stout Mars his mate, Loves fire, Warres flame, in Heart, Head, Hand, and Eie: Which flame, Warres Comet, Grace now so resignes, That fixt in Heaven, in Heaven and Earth it shines.

Prosopopeia.

The Wombe and Tombe in Name be not so neere, As Life to Death,

and Birth is to the Beere. Oh! then how soone to Beere are Captaines brought, That now doe live, and dye now with a thought? Then, Captaines, stay and reade, still thinke on me, For, with a thought, what I am, you may be.

As Mars neere Mors doth sound, So Mors neere Mars is found. 1. Da. of H.

Hoc Saxo tegitur corpus Thomae Creke, L. Doctoris, & Almae Curiae Cantuar. de Arcubus Londini Ad∣vocatorum unius, viri utriusque Iuris tam Canonici quàm Civilis scientia non modo peritissimi, sed & eorun∣dem usu & praxi longo tempore ex∣ercitatissimi. Cujus in Clientem causas defendendo, industria quanta fuit, quanta integritas, quanta fides, quanta denique si quid contra vo∣tum, & (ut sibi videbatur) aequita∣tem, accidebat solicitudo, & ii qui e∣jus usi sunt patrocinio optimè praedi∣care possunt, & celebris illius famae memoria nunquam moritura verissi∣mè praedicavit.

Honestè vixit, Neminem laesit, Suum cuique tribuit.

Hic requiescit in Domino Gulielmus Dethick, Eques Auratus, filius & haeres Gilberti Dethick, Equitis Au∣rati. Qui ambo fuerunt Garterii Principales Reges Armorum An∣gliae. Cor. hic An. 1584. Aetatis suae 48. Ille Anno 1612. Aetatis suae 70. in Domino obdormierunt, expe∣ctantes resurrectionem per Jesum Christum Salvatorem nostrum.

Domina Thomasina sup. 40. Annos uxor praedict. Williel. & filii Georgius, Gilbertus & Henricus pietatis ergo posuerunt.

Hic jacet Robertus Hare, quondam Cler. Thesaur. & Scriptor Rotulorum de Re∣cept. & exitu Thesaur. Scaccarii. Qui obiit senex die 2. Novemb. An. 1611.

Now, to close up all these Memories, concerning this Cathedrall Church of Saint Pauls, London, we may not be un∣mindfull of a very bountifull Benevo∣lence given thereto, by Master William Parker, whose worthy gifts deserve Vo∣lumes of Remembrance. By his last Will and Testament he hath given the summe of five hundred pounds, to bee imployed in the repairing of the VVin∣dowes of Pauls Church, from the upper end of the Staires, from the first entring of the Quire, unto the upper end of the Church: By the order and direction of the Right Honourable the Lord Maior of the City of London, and the Right VVorshipfull the Aldermen, his Bre∣thren, for the time being. So are the expresse words, set downe in the Co∣decill annexed to his Will.

Without the North gate of Pauls Church, from the end of the Old Ex∣change, VVest up Pater noster Rowe, by the two Lanes out of Pauls Church, the first out of the Crosse Isle of Pauls, the other out of the body of the Church, a∣bout the midst thereof, and so VVest to the golden Lyon, bee all of this Ward, as is aforesaid. The houses in this Streete, from the first North Gate of Pauls Church-yard, unto the next Gate, were first builded without the Wall of the Church-yard, by Henry Walleis, Maior, in the yeere 1282. The Rents of those houses goe to the main∣tenance of London Bridge.

This Streete is now called Pater no∣ster Rowe, because of Stationers or Text-writers, that dwelled there, who wrote and sold all sorts of Bookes then in use, namely, A. B. C. with the Pater noster, Ave, Creed, Graces, &c.

There dwelled also Turners of Beads, and they were called Pater noster ma∣kers, as I read in a Record of one Robert Nikke, Pater noster maker, and Citizen, in the reigne of Henry the fourth, and so of other.

At the end of this Pater noster Rowe, is Ave Mary lane, so called upon the like occasion, of Text-writers and Bead-makers then dwelling there.

And at the end of that Lane is like∣wise Creed lane, late so called, but some∣time Spurrier Rowe, of Spurriers dwel∣ling there. And Amen lane is added thereunto, betwixt the South end of

Warwicke lane, and the North end of Ave Mary lane.

At the North end of Ave Mary lane, is one great House, builded of stone and timber, of old time pertaining to Iohn Duke of Britaine, Earle of Richmond, as appeareth by the Records of Edward the second. Since that, it was called Pembrookes Inne, neere unto Ludgate, as belonging to the Earles of Pembrooke in the times of Richard the second, the 18. yeere, and of Henry the sixth, in the 14. yeere. It was after called Aburgaveny house, and belonged to Henry late Lord of Aburgaveny. But the VVorshipfull Company of Stationers have (since then) purchased it, and made it the Hall for the meeting of their Society, con∣verting the stone-work into a new faire Frame of timber, and applying it to such serviceable use, as themselves have thought convenient.

Betwixt the South end of Ave Mary lane, and the North end of Creede lane, is the comming out of Pauls Church-yard, on the East, and the high streete on the West, towards Ludgate, and this was called Bowyer Rowe, of Bowyers dwelling there in old time, now worne out by Mercers, and others.

In this Streete, on the North side, is the Parish Church of Saint Martin, a proper Church, and lately new builded: for in the yeere 1437. Iohn Michael, Maior, and the Communalty, granted to William Downe, Parson of S. Martins at Ludgate, a parcell of ground, contai∣ning in length 28. foote, and in breadth 24. foote, to set and build their stee∣ple upon, &c.

The Monuments here have been of William Seven-oake, Maior, 1418.

Henry Belwase, and Iohn Gest, 1458.

William Taverner, Gentleman, 1466.

Iohn Barton, Esquire, 1439.

Stephen Peacocke, Maior, 1533.

Sir Roger Cholmley.

Gulielmo Huseo Coelebi, Almae Curiae Can∣tuariensis Registro, literarum scientia, vitae probitate, morumque urbanitate claro, notis E. amicis omnibus dilecto. Antonius & Katharina conjuges, Chari parentes orbati filio Monumentum hoc dolentes posuerunt. Obiit quinto Ka∣lendas Novembris, Anno Dom. 1559. vixit annos 28. menses 3. dies 7.

Obdormiat in Domino.

Hic situs est Antonius Huse, Armiger, Londini natus, Archiepiscopi Can∣tuariensis, atque Capitulis de Pauli Londinen. Registrarius primarius. Qui aliquot annos Judicis causarum Maritimarum officio integrè fun∣ctus, ac etiam in Magistratorum Cu∣riae Cancellariae concessum coopta∣tus, vergente demum aetate ad Prae∣fectum Collegiorum Mercatorum Angliae, tam apud Belgas, quàm a∣pud Moscovitas, & Rhutenos com∣mercia exercentium accitus, lingua facundus, memoria tenax, ingenio, prudentia, doctrinaque pollens, mo∣rum comitate & probitate gratiosus, Laurentio, Gulielmo, Gilberto, & Vrsula liberis, ex Katharina conjuge procreatis non infelix, sexagesimo tertio aetatis Anno è vita excessit, Ka∣lendis Junii, An. Dom. 1560.

Here lye the bodies of Florens Caldwell, Esquire, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Aldermans Deputy of the Ward of Faringdon without: And Ma∣ry Wilde, his first wife; by whom hee had issue one daughter, named Mary, married to Thomas Gourney, Esquire. And Sibill Greene, his second wife. which Florens deceased the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Mary his wife the 19. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1590. &c.

• Earth goes to
• Earth treads on
• Earth as to
• Earth shall to
  • Earth
    • As Mold to Mold,
    • Glittering in Gold,
    • Return nère should,
    • Goe ere he would.

• Earth upon
• Earth goes to
• Earth though on
• Earth shall from
  • Earth
    • Consider may,
    • Naked away,
    • Be stout and gay,
    • Passe poore away.

Be mercifull and charitable, Relieve the poore as thou art able, A Shrowd to thy grave, Is all thou shalt have.

Thomas Cooke, Citizen and Haberda∣sher of London, of little Wolton, in the County of Lancaster, had to wife Ioyce Hanbury, with whom hee lived

thirty yeeres, and had issue one sonne, and three daughters; whereof two (viz. Elizabeth, wife to Iohn Bourman, Mercer, and Mary, wife to Thomas Bayly, Skinner) be yet living. Hee de∣parted this life the 17. day of April, 1608. in the 55. yeere of his age. Shee (his said wife, sole Executrix of his last Will and Testament) yet surviving (to the memo∣rie of her deare husband) erected this Monument, 1612.

To God, his Country, and the Poore, he had A zealous soule, true heart, and liberall minde: His wife, his children, and his kindred sad, Lacke of his love, his care and kindnesse finde: Yet is their sorrow swaged, with the thought, He hath attain'd the Happinesse he sought.

Dies mortis, aeternae vitae natalis est.

To the Memory of William Yeardley, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, sometime of this Parish. He died the 28. day of October, 1523. She died the 20. day of Iuly, 1593.

William Yeardley, and Elizabeth his wife, Who lived on earth free from strife, Not farre from this, in earth doth lye, To shew, that all that live, must dye: Where they doe quietly expect, To rise againe, as Gods elect, They left foure daughters, and a sonne, Who left them this, when they were gone.

Iaspero Cholmley, Armig. Wigorniensi, Cle∣rico Recognitionum capiendi, sive recog∣nosc. Virtute cujusdam statuti fact. & ordinati 23. Hen. 8. pro debit. recuperan. Iusticiario Pa. & Quor. Dom. Reginae in Com. Middl. Patri suo chariss. & aman∣tiss. Ioannes Cholmley, hoc Monu. dolens posuit, decem liberos ex Margareta sua unica conjuge procreatos, viz. Ioannem, Thomam, Gulielmum, Hugonem, Fran∣ciscum, Mariam, Iulianam, Margare∣tam, Annam & Ianam tempore mortis superstites reliquit. Obiit ultimo die Octob. Anno a••tatis suae 48. & Salutis nostrae 1586.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Antrobus, Esquire, who deceased the first day of May, 1611. Having issue by Elizabeth his late wife (the daughter of Ralph Woodcocke, Citizen and Alderman of London) three sonnes and two daugh∣ters, viz. Thomas, John, Richard, E∣lizabeth, and Margaret.

Here-under lyeth buried Amy Edlyn, and her sonne with her, the daughter of Ri∣chard Edlyn, of Woodhau••e, in Mid∣dlesex, and the wife of Robert Gomer∣sall, Citizen & Ironmonger of London, who departed this life the 2. day of Sep∣tember, 1586. and left behinde her one sonne and one daughter.

On the South side of this Streete, is the turning into the Black Friers: which Order (sometime) had their houses in Old-borne, where they remained for the space of five and fifty yeeres; and then, in the yeere 1276. Gregory Rocksley, Maior, and the Barons of this City, granted and gave to Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canturbury, two Lanes or Wayes next the Streete of Baynards Castle, and also the Tower of Mount∣fitchit to bee destroyed; in place of which, the said Robert builded the late new Church of the Blacke Friers, and placed them therein. King Edward the first and Eleanor his wife were great be∣nefactors thereunto. This was a large Church, and richly furnished with Or∣naments: wherein divers Parliaments, and other great meetings have beene holden: Namely, in the yeere 1450. the 28. of Henry the sixth, a Parliament was begun at Westminster, and adjour∣ned to the Blacke Friers in London, and from thence to Leycester. In the yeere 1522. the Emperour Charles the fifth was lodged there.

In the yeere 1524. the fifteenth of April, a Parliament was begun at the

Blacke Friers, wherein was demanded a Subsidy of 800000. pounds, to bee rai∣sed of goods and lands, 4. s. in every pound, and in the end was granted 2. s. of the pound, of their goods and lands, that were worth 20. pounds, or might dispend 20. l. by the yeere, and so up∣ward, to be payed in two yeeres.

This Parliament was adjourned to Westminster, amongst the blacke Monks, and ended in the Kings Palace there the 14. of August, at nine of the clocke in the night, and was therefore called the Blacke Parliament.

In the yeer 1529. Cardinall Campeius the Legate, with Cardinall Woolsey, sate at the said Blacke Friers, where before them, as Legates and Iudges, was brought in question the Kings marriage with Queene Katharine, as to be unlaw∣full, before whom the King and Queen were cited and summoned to appeare, &c. whereof reade more at large in my Annals, as I have touched it.

The same yeere, in the moneth of October, began a Parliament in the Blacke Friers, in the which Cardinall Woolsey was condemned in the Premu∣nire: this house valued at 104. l. 15. s. 5. d. was surrendred the 12. of Novem∣ber, the 30. of Henry the eighth.

There were buried in the ancient Church, Margaret, Queene of Scots.

Hubert de Brugh, Earle of Kent, tran∣slated from their old Church, by Old Bourne.

Robert de Attabeto, Earle of Bellimon.

Dame Isabel, wife to Sir Roger Bygot, Earle Marshall.

William and Iame Huse, children to Dame Illis, Countesse of Arundell, and by them lieth Dame Illis, daughter to the Earle Warren, and after Countesse of Arundell.

Dame Ide, wife to Sir Walter daughter to the Lord Ferrers of Chart∣ley.

Richard de Brewes.

Richard Strange, son to Robert Strange.

Elizabeth, daughter to Sir Bartholo∣mew Badlesmere, wife to Sir William Be∣han, Earle of Northampton.

Marsh, The Earles of March and He∣reford, and Elizabeth, Countesse of A∣rundell.

Dame Ioan, daughter to S. Io. Carne, first wife to Sir Gwide Brian.

Hugh Clare, Knight, 1295.

The heart of Queene Heleanor the Foundresse.

The heart of Alfence her son.

The hearts of Iohn and Margaret, chil∣dren to William Valence.

Sir William Thorpe, Iustice.

The Lord Lioth, of Ireland.

Maude, wife to Geffrey Say, daughter to the Earle of Warwicke.

Dame Sible, daughter to Wil. Patte∣hulle, wife to Roger Beauchampe, and by her Sir Richard or Roger Beauchampe.

The Lord S. Amand, and Dame Eli∣zabeth his wife, daughter to the Duke of Lancaster.

Sir Stephen Collington, Knight.

Sir William Peter, Knight.

The Countesse of Huntington.

Duchesse of Exceter, 1425.

Sir Iohn Cornwall.

Lord Fanhope died at Ampthill in Bed∣fordshire, and was buried here, 1443.

Sir Iohn Triptofte.

Earle of Worcester, beheaded, 1470. and by him in his Chappell, Iames Turchet.

Lord Audley, beheaded, 1497.

William Paston, and Anne, daughter to Edmond Lancaster.

The Lord Beaumond.

Sir Edmond Cornewall, Baron of Bur∣ford.

The Lady Nevil, wedded to the Lord Dowglas, daughter to the duke of Exceter

Richard Scrope, Esquire.

Dame Katharine Vaux, alias Cobham.

Sir Thomas Browne, and Dame Eliza∣beth his wife.

Iane Powell.

Thomas Swinforth.

Iohn Mawsley, Esquire, 1432.

Iohn de la Bere, Nicholas Eare, Geffrey Spring, William Clifford, Esquires.

Sir Thomas Brandon, Knight of the Garter, 1509.

William Stalworth, Merchant-Taylor, 1518.

William Courtney, Earle of Devonshire, nominate, but not created, the third of Henry the eighth, &c.

There is a Parish of St. Anne, within the Precinct of the Blacke Friers, which was pulled downe with the Friers Church, by sir Thomas Corden: but in the

reigne of Queene Mary, hee being for∣ced to finde a Church to the Inhabi∣tants, allowed them a lodging Cham∣ber above a staire, which since that time, to wit, in the yeere 1597. fell downe, and was againe (by collection therefore made) new builded and en∣larged in the same yeere, and was dedi∣cated on the eleventh of December.

Here I thought good to insert the Copy of an ancient Record, concerning the Priviledges and Liberties (in elder times) granted to the said Blacke Friers, which happened to my hands by friend∣ly information, and the originall there∣of brought mee, as here Verbatim it fol∣loweth:

Notes and Articles for maintenance of the ancient Liberties and Privi∣ledges of the late dissolved Black Friers, neere Ludgate in Lon∣don.

1. FIrst, it appeareth, that on the 25. day of November, 1484. Iohn Alforde, Shoomaker, dwel∣ling within the Blacke Friers in London, was apprehended and put to death at Tyborne for Felony, Thomas Newland, a∣lias Norland, and William Martin then being Sheriffes of London, who sought to have had the goods of the said Felon; but the Prior of the said Blacke Friers withstood them, and possessed the same goods to the use of the Lord of S. Iohns, of whom the same Friers was then hol∣den.

2. Item, The Lord of St. Iohns hath usually made the Bridge at the Thames, adjoyning to the said Friers, and not the City of London, &c.

3. Item, The Prior and Covent were incorporated by Act of Parliament, in the time of K. Hen. the 6. whereby they might prescribe, and did alwaies use & keep the Liberty inviolately, and cleer∣ly exempted from the Citizens.

4. Item, The Precinct hath alwaies bin of such liberties, as that no man hath bin arrested within the same, by any of the Sheriffes Officers. And if at any time any Officers of the City hath taken upon him to execute within the foure Gates, hee was rescued by the Fri∣ers and Inhabitants of Antiquitie.

5. Item, At all times there hath dwelt within the Precinct divers and many persons not free, and yet they have used their occupations there, with∣out controulement of the City and Ci∣tizens.

6. Item, Alwaies at sundry times (of long continuance) divers and many Carpenters, Masons, and such like, have bin sent out of the Countrey, and have wrought within the Precinct aforesaid; which is not sufferable within the Li∣berties of the City, by their owne cu∣stomes and ordinances.

7. Item, Vpon the view of any per∣son slaine, the Coroner of the Verge did alwaies make enquiry thereof. And the Deodand is due to the Lord of Saint Iohns, and not to the City; but now to the Queenes Highnesse due by law, e∣quity, and good conscience, whose right and lawfull title the owners and inhabi∣tants of the said exempted place and Precinct, doe seeke with their bodies & goods to defend and maintaine against all pretended title and claime of the Ci∣tizens. Notwithstanding divers of the said Precinct & Liberty have bin great∣ly vexed and troubled with often impri∣sonments within the Compters of the City.

8. Item, The inhabitants within the said Precinct were never charged to watch or ward, or to be within the com∣passe of any imposition; such as the Citizens are used and accustomed unto by their lawes.

9. Item, In the time of K. Edw. the 6. sir Andrew Iude then being Maior, there was a Riot committed in the Blacke Fri∣ers, in the house of one Master Lucas, by one Crouchman of the City, and o∣ther persons with him. The force whereof was soone overswayed by Sir Thomas Saunders, and Sir Henry Iernin∣gham, Knights, Master William Moore, Esquire, with other Gentlemen inhabi∣ting in the said Friers. And the parties by pursuit were twice endighted in the Marshalsea court holden in Southwark: Sir Nicholas Hare then being Steward, and sitting at the doing thereof. After which time, the said Crouchman (with other Confederates with him) sought to endight the said Gentleman by an especiall Sessions in the said City. For

stay whereof the Lords of the Kings Privie Councell, understanding the lewd practices of the said Crouchman and other, and that the Lord Maior had nothing to doe within the said Pre∣cinct; wrote their letters unto the said Sir Andrew Iude, then Maior, willing him not to disturbe the said Gentle∣men for the said fact, to the infringing of the Liberties of the said Friers: The said Sir Thomas Saunders, and Master William Moore being bearers of the said Letters to the said Lord Maior; who upon deliberation, made answer to the said bearers by word of mouth, That forasmuch as there was a complaint made to him of a Riot committed with∣in the City; hee must needes (within one moneth after) enquire by Sessions of the same, which he said could not be prejudiciall unto them, being out of the Jurisdiction of the City: for that the same should be Non coram Iudice, and yet they discharged of the perill of the Statute. And so they proceeded with the said Letters notwithstanding: Whereupon, the said Sir Thomas, and Master William Moore, making report of their successe with the Maior to the Lords of the Councell; they wrote e••t∣soones other Letters to the said Maior, but of such force touching the premis∣ses, which were also carried and delive∣red by the said Sir Thomas and Master Moore: Whereupon, the said Maior stayed from any further proceeding therein, or any other, &c.

10. Item, In Queen Mary her time, the Councell of the City put a Bill into the Parliament house, seeking by the same to have the Liberties of the said Friers, which Bill, with all their surmi∣ses, were so utterly rejected, that their Bill never came to the question, but was so suppressed, by argument openly in the same house.

11. Item, The Liberties granted to Master Cawarden, by Letters Patents of King Edward the sixth, the goods of Fe∣lons therein not granted, and so due to the Queenes Majesty, whose right and title the City hath not had, nor can bee suffered to enjoy, according to their seeking; by the onely resistance of the said owners and inhabitants within the said Liberty and Precinct, clearly ex∣empted from the City, by metes and bounds on every side.

12. Item, The said Precinct hath al∣wayes been shut up and kept by Wals and Gates, so as there was no egresse that way, but by licence of the Porters, who were maintained and placed by the owners of the said Friers, and Liberties of the same, by especiall and generall words, granted by Letters Patents un∣der the great Seale of England, to di∣vers owners and Free-holders there of the Queenes Majesty. And in especiall above all other, to Sir Thomas Cawarden, Knight, deceased, in his Letters Patents dated the 12. day of May, in the fourth yeere of King Edward the sixth; in as large, ample and full manner, and with as many pithy and effectuall words, as ever was read or seene in any Patent, made for grant of Liberties of any place exempted, as by the same Patent more largely appeareth: The true copy whereof is annexed to these Articles, by the delivery of Master Moore, true ow∣ner of the most part of the said liberties.

13. Item, That Iames Norrice, Curate of S. Peters in Cornehill, being sometime one of the Friers, and Brethren of the Black Friers aforesaid, neere Ludgate in London, saith and affirmeth, That one Robert Struddell, late Prior of the said Friers, was by order of Law constrained to pave the high street adjoyning round about the channell wals, from the Flow∣er-de-Lize towards the hill at Creed lane end. And a Cage at that time standing on that side the street, adjoyning to the foresaid wall, within the Parish of Saint Andrew, which Cage was plucked down by the said Prior, and not since set up a∣gain; the Prior aforesaid saying; Seeing they of the City cause mee to pave all this side of the street next my wall, they shall have no Cage of others standing on my ground, against mine owne wall: And so the City never builded Cage on that side after.

14. Item, Moreover, the said Master Norrioe saith, That the Liberties of the Blacke Friers in the said Priors dayes were such, that the Lord Maior of the City of London, nor the Sheriffes did arrest any man within the said Liberty for any thing, as free, as hee well re∣membreth in all his time.

15. Item, Hee remembreth, that foure Gates were shut in during the Friers time, by the commandement of the Prior. And one Father Seagar, be∣ing then Porter, appointed by the said late Prior, Robert Struddell, with others after him, at the appointment of other Priors then succeeding: And not by the Maior of London, nor any other.

The saying of Thomas Vlverston, alias Wolverston, of Garlicke Hithe, Officer to the Vintners of London, and sometime a Frier of the Blacke Friers: Taken before mee Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, the 30. day of May, An∣no Domini, 1562.

16. ITem, He saith, he hath heard say many times among the Friers and others, that Master Peacocke of London, and his Predecessours, had never doore into the Blacke Friers out of his house; but by fine and agreement, made for the same with the Prior of Blacke Fri∣ers, long before his time of remem∣brance.

17. Item, He saith, that the Porters of the Friers alwayes kept their foure Gates (time out of minde) by the ap∣pointment of the Prior and Covent, cleere exempted from the City. And when the Porters perceived any suspe∣cted persons or malefactors within the limits of the Friers; they declared it to the Prior, who forthwith comman∣ded them, to take the ayde of the ho∣nest Inhabitants within the Friers, to make search and watch for the appre∣hension of such lewd persons: which so found, were alwayes examined by Sir William Kingston, Knight, and other good men there inhabiting within the Friers, at the Porters desire, and not o∣therwise.

18. Item, Hee never heard, nor did know in all his time, any search or watch to bee made within the Precinct of the Friers, by any Watchman or Consta∣ble of the City, who could never come within any of the Friers Gates, but by the Porters licence of the same Fri∣ers.

19. Item, He saith, that the Prior and Covent did once pave the Streetes (by his time) from the Friers Turne∣gate, unto the Flower-de-Lize, along by the VVall, to the Channell of the same Streete. But as for pulling downe of any Cage, he doth not well remem∣ber.

20. Item, He saith, if any Vagabond, or any Drunkard, or misordered per∣son, were taken culpable within the Precinct of the Friers, they were al∣wayes punished in the Friers Stockes against the Church doore, by the Pri∣ors commandement; and not by the Lord Maiors, or Sheriffes of London.

21. Item, Sir Iohn Portenary, Knight, inhabiting within the late Blacke Fri∣ers, neere Ludgate in London, about 30. yeeres past, doth well remember, That after the suppression of the said Blacke Friers, the Lord Maior of London would have entred into the said Blacke Friers, and claimed the Liberties of the said Blacke Friers. For the which, the Lord Cobham, the Lord Zanche, Sir Thomas Cheyney, Sir William Kingston, Sir Francis Brian, Knights, with many other VVorshipfull Gentlemen, then being Inhabitants within the Liberties and Precinct of the said late Blacke Friers, denied the Lord Maior and Ci∣tizens entrance, and would not permit nor suffer them, or any of them, to en∣ter within the same. And shortly af∣ter, Sir Francis Brian, and Sir Thomas Cheyney, moved the Kings Majesty, then being King Henry the eighth; how the said Maior and Citizens would have entred into the said Friers. And then the Kings Majesty said unto them these words following: Are not Wee as able to keepe our Priviledges and Liberties, as the Friers did keepe their Priviled∣ges alwayes before time, free from the City. Whereupon, they all (by one consent and agreement) sent the said Lord Maior word of the Kings Majesty his answer and pleasure therein. Whereupon the Lord Maior and Al∣dermen were satisfied, and would no further proceed upon the Kings right and title of Liberties; as then they promised and affirmed by the mouth of the Recorder, being sent by the Mai∣or to the Worshipfull of the said Friers.

And the said Sir Iohn Portenary further saith, That after the said Friers were supprest, the Lord Cromwell, Vicar Generall, caused to bee delivered unto the said Sir Iohn Portenary, the keyes of all the said Friers, safely to keepe from the said City, and to provide, that all within the said Liberty should bee in safety and safegard. The which keyes were afterward delivered by the said Sir Iohn Portenary, to the hands of Do∣ctor Layton, and Doctor Wendie, they being Visitors there. For the which, the said Sir Iohn Portenary had a cer∣taine reward payed unto him by the Lord North, then being Chancellour of the Augmentation Court. All which matter the said Sir Iohn Portenary will depose to bee most certaine and true, as hee will answer at the dread∣full day of Iudgement upon his soule.

22. Bee it in remembrance perpe∣tuall for infallible truth, that one A∣lexander Avenon, being Sheriffe of London, and one other, being Alder∣man of the VVard of Faringdon infra, came and entred very stoutly into the Liberty of the Blacke Friers neere Lud∣gate, the fifteenth day of May, 1562. to carry away all the Hosiers and Tay∣lors, to come to the Guild-Hall in London, according to the Queenes new Proclamation. Which Hosiers and Taylors denied to goe with the said Sheriffe, affirming and saying, That they had put in Bonds (before their comming) to the Lord Cobham, and to Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, two of the Queenes Iustices of the Peace within the said Liberty (being within the Verge, and exempted from the City of London) according to the Queenes Proclamation. And thereupon, one Iohn Bradford, being Constable of the same exempted place, and within the Liberty of the said Queenes Verge; caused the foure Porters of the said Friers, to shut all the Gates; which being perceived by the said Sheriffe and Alderman; the said Sheriffe commanded the Gates to bee opened; whereunto the said Consta∣ble of the Friers said, That they should not be opened, before the Iustices plea∣sures of the Friers were knowne. And then the Sheriffe of London said, That hee was of greater authority than the Iustices were. The Constable affirming him so to bee within the City of Lon∣don, but not within the Precinct of the Liberty of the Black Friers. For the Con∣stable said, that he had greater power & authority there than the Sheriffe had. Which being heard, and scant well di∣gested by them; fearing further incon∣venience to arise thereupon (as by sud∣den changing of the grieved counte∣nance was plainly declared) the said Sheriffe and Alderman (with gentle language) desired the Constable to o∣pen the Gates quietly, and suffer them to passe thence. VVhich hee did at their gentle request and entreaty: And so they departed out of the Liberty of the Blacke Friers, by the Porters commandement, and gave to the Por∣ters for opening the Gates money.

People of Saint Martins, as well Strangers as other (in the open high Streete) marvelling and wondering at the said Sheriffes and Aldermans inclo∣sure within the said Friers Gates: On the morrow after, being the sixteenth day of May, 1562. one Hardford being Constable of Saint Martins Parish within Ludgate, in the high Streete there, tooke one Tretheru, a Hosier and Taylor, dwelling in the said Fri∣ers, and carried him to the Lord Maior of London. Who by and by (without delay, or any further speech) comman∣ded the said Gilbert to the Counter in London. Whereupon, the said Sir Tho∣mas Saunders, as one of the Iustices of the said Liberty, went to the Earle of Arundell, Lord Steward to the Queenes most honourable Houshold, declaring the whole circumstance of the said Sheriffe and Aldermans enter∣prise. And obtained a token to the Lord Maior, no further to enter the said Liberty within the Verge; untill by Law, or the Privie Councels judge∣ment, the question moved were deter∣mined, concerning the infringing of the said ancient Liberty. All this was spoken in the presence of Peter Baugh, Lewes Rawbone, and divers other Stran∣gers. In witnesse and probatior where∣of, the said Sir Thomas hath subscribed his name, with divers other here-under written, which were present.

23. Be it had in perpetuall memory, for a continuall perfect declaration of the truth, whereunto all matters of va∣riance and controversie should be refer∣red and advanced; and not the sparkes of troth to be hidden (as a Candle, bea∣ring perfect light, under a Bushell) and so washed away in the flowing waters of unmindfull oblivion, which (amongst all good Christian men) is at all times, and in all ages to be rejected, and not to be imbraced; but rather to be buried in the bottome of the earth, never to rise againe.

In consideration whereof, by these presents, it is for an infallible truth, to be holden with all men, which shall heare or see this present writing: That Robert Flower, Taylor and Hosier, dwel∣ling within the Precinct and liberties of the late Blacke Friers, neere Ludgate in London; was by order and commande∣ment of the whole Bench or Aldermen, committed into one of the Compters of London, the 20. day of May, 1502. For that the same Robert Flower refused to be bound (acording to order taken) from the making of monstrous great Hosen, according to the Queens gracious Pro∣clamation in that behalfe: Because the said Robert Flower had (amongst other persons) put in Bonds before the Hono∣rable Warden of the Five Ports, and Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, Justices within the Liberty of the Queenes Verge. After which reveiled and knowne to the Honourable Earle of A∣rundell, Lord Steward of the Queenes most Honourable Houshold, who cau∣sed the Knight Marshall to goe to the said Lord Maior, requiring the delive∣rance of the said prisoner. The Lord Maior (being sickly) made answer, that he knew nothing thereof; but desired him to speake with Master Recorder: who made answer, that the said impri∣sonment was done by the whole Bench of Aldermen, and he (as one particular person) could not deliver the prisoner, untill the next Court day, which could not be till two dayes after, to the great charges and hinderance of the said pri∣soner.

Whereupon the Lord Steward sent for Master Cholmeley, he being then Re∣corder of London, and commanded him to deliver the prisoner; or else he would imprison the Maior of London, and the said Recorder, and the fattest Alder∣man in the Citie, which hee could get within the Verge: And declared, that the Queenes Liberties and Franchises should not bee overcome by the Lord Maior and Bench of Aldermen, so long as he was Officer: with many other words against the Citizens, which were too long to write. Adding further, that the Maior did not meddle with Saint Martins, being within the Citie, and a parcel of Westminster Deanry; much lesse should he meddle with the said liberty of the Friers, bounded out by walls and gates from the City, being in the Coun∣ty of Middlesex, and not within the Ci∣tie. And so commanded the Recorder to send home the prisoner into the liber∣ty presently: which was so done accor∣dingly: Promising, that if the L. Maior could declare or shew any good Title, whereby to breake the Liberty, the Queenes learned Councell should an∣swer him and them therein. And then the Recorder said, he never heard be∣fore that time, that the Lord Steward did claime the precinct of the said Black Friers, to be within the liberty of the Queenes Verge: Out of which Ju∣risdiction the Citie of London is exem∣pted by the Statute of 32. Hen. 8. Cap. 2. Vnder colour of which Statute, the Maior would bring the said Friers to be in London; which in all the Friers time was freely exempted.

All the which matter was debated in the presence of Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight; Master Robert Hopton, one of the Knight Marshals, and Mr. Bromeley, under Steward of the Marshalsea, the day and yeere above-written.

24. Item, That in Queene Maries time, or King Edwards time, her Bro∣ther, there was a man slaine within the said precinct of the Blacke Friers: and the goods of him that was supposed to doe the deed, were stayed within the said Friers, and an Inventory taken by the next Justice of Peace within the Verge, Roger Cholmeley, Knight, by the commandement of Sir Thomas Che∣ney, Knight; and afterward one Master Garrard and the Recorder of London, came unto the said Sir Thomas Cheney's

house within the same precinct, and would have made an Inventory of the goods of the partie offender aforesaid, now deceased. But the said Sir Thomas Cheyney would not permit nor suffer them so to doe; for that hee had made stay of the same goods for the Queene before, if it were lawfully found that the said partie had slaine the man dead. Which afterward was otherwise found by a Quest of twelve men, sitting super visum corporis of the dead, by the Coro∣ner of the Verge within the said Liber∣ty: where the Maior of London and Bench of Aldermen have not to doe, nor intermit with the Inhabitants there∣in: Because the whole Friers liberties, and franchises of the same, were freely given unto King Henry the eighth, by Act of Parliament: whereby the Lord Maior of London, and Bench of Alder∣men are cleerely barred and secluded from the Friers Liberties, and the inha∣bitants thereof franchised, and cleane exempted from all the Citizens, and their impositions or other taxations.

The true Copie of the Vicar of Brom∣leys Letter in Kent, sent to Ma∣ster Thomas Walsingham of Scadborough in the said County, Esquire: who sent the same Letter to Sir Tho. Saunders, Knight, he being also one of the Queenes Iu∣stices of the Peace in the said Coun∣tie; to examine the severall parti∣culars therein, concerning the liber∣tie of the said Friers, &c.

RIght Worshipfull; you shal un∣derstand that I have received your kinde Letter; according whereunto, these are to satisfie your minde; That I was dwelling in the Blacke Friers foure or five yeeres, and came thither from Oxford, where I had beene a Student of Divinity. I was al∣so Curate of the Parish within the Blacke Friers, called Saint Agnes. Wee had within us a Porter, who did shut all the Gates every night; at nine of the clocke in the Winter, and at ten of the clocke in the Summer. No Sheriffe, Bailiffe or Constable, nor yet the Maior of London, tooke interest there at any time, nor forreine porters had to doe within our Priviledge: And the Friers did pave both within the Turn-gate and without, unto Saint Andrews Church, downe by the great Garden wall: And without the Turne-gate there was a Cage, pulled downe by my time, which was set up by the Lord Maior of London. The inhabitants within the Friers never watched, neither the Constable of Saint Martins Parish warned any watch there, neither came within the Gates, after the houre appointed at any time. The Sheriffes of London had no Felons goods there, neither did arrest any per∣son within the Precinct of the house. As for Bakers and Brewers that belon∣ged to the house, they be dead.

There is one Iames Norrice, Curate, alive, who was brought up in the house, and dwelling at Saint Michaels in Cornehill, he can give you further in∣structions: whether there be any more living, I know not.

The fatall VESPER, or dis∣mall EVENSONG, happening at the Blacke Friers on Sunday in the afternoone, it being the 26. day of October. 1623.

THere were upon that day, being dedicated to the service of God, assembled together in the Black Friers neere the French Embassadours house in ordinary, above three hundred persons of sundry Nations, as English, Scottish, Welch, and Irish, to heare a Sermon, & after that to celebrate Even∣song, according to the Rites and Cere∣monies of the Romish Church. Of which number it is certainly knowne and confidently reported, that about the number of threescore of them, had that morning both confessed them∣selves, and received the Sacrament, ac∣cording to the order of the Romish Church. Hee that was to supply that exercise for the present, was Father Drury, a Iesuite by profession, and by birth a Gentleman, being extracted

out of the house of the Norfolcian Dru∣ries, and sonne unto Doctor Drury, late professor of the Civill Law, and practi∣ser thereof in the Court of the Arches here in London. Hee was by those of the Romish religion reputed to bee a man of great learning, as having studied many yeeres beyond the Sea, with much approbation and allowance of his Superiours. And although he were opposite in point of faith and beliefe unto the Religion now professed in Eng∣land, yet was he held by the generality of our Nation, both Protestants and Papists, who knew him, and could make a true estimate of his vertues and vices by the outward circumstance and appearance of his actions, to bee a man of a good moralllife, and of a plau∣sible and laudable conversation. So that in respect of these indowments, there could nothing have been desired more by us of the Reformed Church, than that hee had not beene a Papist, but a member of our Church, Religion, and Profession. All the day before, which was the last that ever his eyes beheld, he was observed to be wondrous sad and pensive, contrary unto his wonted hu∣mour and disposition, hee being a man of a free, merry and affable conversati∣on, as though that some spirit of predi∣ction had foretold him of that fatall disaster, which was at hand. Thus wee reade of Caesar, that hee was possessed with a strange and unwonted sadnesse that morning when hee entred into the Senate house, where he was stabbed to death by the Senators. And so was that Assassine Cass•••• much perplexed and troubled in minde before that mortall and bloudy battell of Pharsalia. By meanes of which affection, Father Dru∣rie finding an indisposition in himselfe, hee would (if with his reputation hee could) have made a retraction of his promise, and a demurre of the intended exercise. But being prest on by divers of his friends, who told him that the Audience was great, and their expecta∣tion farre greater, hee did then againe resolve to goe forward with the enter∣prise.

The place wherein this Congregati∣on was assembled, was not the French Ambassadours Chappell, according as the first report went currant; for that was reserved for the use of himselfe and his family, to celebrate their Even-song after their owne manner and custome, but it was a Chamber neere unto the gate, some three stories high, being some threescore foot long, and twenty foot broad, or thereabouts. The wals were not made of Lome, composed of Laths and Rafters, and covered over with Clay and Lime, as some at first reported: but were of Brick and Stone, which are held by all Architects to bee the strongest and the surest building. But howsoever, a Gentlewoman of a noble house, and of a quicke and judici∣ous spirit, who was then present, and had taken a curious view of the pressing multitude of the people, which was at length their owne oppression, and of the unfitnesse and uncapacity of the place besides, told him, That shee thought it would prove an action full of danger, if he should offer to preach in that place respectively in respect of the premises. But he being led on by a divine and fatall necessity, which blinds the judgement of the wise men of this world, he told her that he did meane as then to preach, and to goe forward with the greatest expedition he could, with his intended Sermon. For the ac∣complishment of which designe, the Father predicant being clad in those robes and ornaments which are used by those of his Order, being a Iesuit, ha∣ving a Surplice girt about his middle with a linnen girdle, a red Cap with a white one underneath, turned up about the brimmes of his Cap, and his other accoutrements belonging, which the Ignatian Orders have imposed upon them: and being placed in a Chaire a∣bout the middest of the roome, which Chaire was raised up something higher than the ordinary levell of the floore: hee crossing himselfe with the signe of the Crosse, and having ended some pri∣vate prayers, accommodated himselfe to his Text, between three and foure of the clocke in the afternoone of the fore∣said Sunday. The words of the Text were part of the Gospel appointed for the present day, according to the order and instruction of the Church of Rome, being their fifth of November, which

account is thought to bee the truest by the Romane Catholikes, and begins ten dayes before that of England. The Gospel was written in the eighteenth Chapter of St. Matthewes Gospel, and delivered unto us by the holy Spirit, in these words: Therefore is the Kingdome of Heaven likened unto a certaine man that was a King, which would take account of his servants. And when hee had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him which ought him ten thousand Talents. But for∣asmuch as hee was not able to pay, his Lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant fell downe and be∣sought him, saying: Sir, have patience with mee and I will pay thee all. Then had the Lord pity of that servant, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. So the same ser∣vant went out, and found one of his fel∣lowes which ought him an hundred pence: And he laid hands on him, and tooke him by the throat, saying: Pay that thou owest. And his fellow fell downe and besought him, saying: Have patience with mee and I will pay thee all. And he would not, but he went out and cast him into prison, till hee should pay the debt. So when his fellowes went and saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told their Master all that happened. Then his Lord called him and sayd unto him: O thou ungracious ser∣vant, I forgave thee all that debt thou desi∣redst mee, shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee, &c?

The words which he insisted especi∣ally upon, were these: O thou ungraci∣ous servant, I forgave thee all the debt thou oughtest mee, shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee? Vpon which subject dis∣coursing with much vehemency, and implying out of it the infinite mercy and goodnesse of God, whereby he doth not onely give us all that wee have, but forgives us all our trespasses and offen∣ces, bee they never so deeply stayned with the scarlet dye and tincture of our guiltinesse: which mercifull act of God is paraboliz'd unto us by a certain man that was a King, who tooke account of his servants, and after much intreaty and submission, forgave one ten thou∣sand Talents, which he ought him. And also dilating by way of blame and re∣prehension of the ungratefull and un∣relenting heart of man, who doth not forgive trespasses as God doth forgive him; but out of his swelling and ma∣lignant humour, writes benefits in the sand, and injuries in marble, which un∣charitablenesse of theirs is intimated in the Parable by the ungracious servant, who would not forgive his fellow a small debt, although his Master had forgiven him one of a farre greater va∣lue. Moreover, upon the application of these words, hee did inveigh with much bitternesse, as some give out (but I know not how truly) against the manners and doctrine of the Prote∣stants.

But having proceeded thus farre, loe what a sudden and unexpected accident fell out. The Sermon inclining to∣wards the middest, and the day decli∣ning towards an end, it being almost foure of the clocke in the afternoone, the multitude and crowde of the assem∣bly breaking downe with their over∣bearing weight the beames and side∣timbers wherewith this roome was sup∣ported, they fell downe into the next Chamber, the floore whereof being broken downe also with the descending weight of them and the ruines, they fell at last upon the lowest Chamber of the edifice, where some of them perished, some were hurted and maymed, other∣some were free from all hurt and dan∣ger except of that which the present fright and terror did impose upon them, and those were they especially who fell not at all, but remained in one angle or corner of the Chamber, which was free from falling. Which persons beeing thought to be betweene twenty and thirty in number, as I heard by one, who was one of them, perplexed and frighted thus as they were, by conside∣ration of that most fearefull danger, whereinto they had seene their fellowes and brethren to fall, who did lift up their hands for helpe, and beat their breasts for life, whereof they then were spectators; and being doubtfull that they should be Actors with them pre∣sently in that Scene of their calamity; the place being weake, tottering and un∣assured, for this cause feare and necessity

giving motion and strength unto their armes, they opened with their Knives a Lome wall, which parted that roome and a Chamber belonging to the Am∣bassadours Lodging. By which meanes, after much difficulty and labour, they got their passage, and live as yet to glo∣rifie God for their deliverance.

Presently upon the report of the fall and cry, divers persons of all sorts re∣sorted unto the place, some out of cha∣rity, to helpe those that were thus di∣stressed; for which cause they brought Spades, Pickaxes, and other instru∣ments fit for that purpose; others out of meere curiosity came thither, to see this wonderfull event, and this object so full of admiration. Where, after the guards were set upon all the Advenues and pas∣sages leading into the Blacke Friers, and from thence into the Ambassadours house, by the direction and command of Sergeant Finch, Recorder of the Citie, who was exceeding carefull that my Lord Ambassadour and his servants should not suffer any detriment in their goods or persons, being jealous in this point of the Kings, his owne, and the Ci∣ties honour: and matters being thus dis∣posed for the safety and assurance of the strangers, after they had broken downe a wall, and opened some doores, they fell to worke upon the ruines it selfe, with all possible diligence and dexte∣rity: where at the opening of every boord, planke, and peece of Timber, there were objects which presented themselves full of horrour and confu∣sion.

Here you might have seene a man shaking of his legges, and striving for life: There you might have seene ano∣ther, putting forth his bloudy hands, and crying for helpe: Here you might have seene one like some spectre, thrusting out his head out of the grave: There you might have seene his fellow halfe dead and halfe living, intomb'd in that grave which he was not long to keepe. Here you might have seene the living thus pressed, as they were mourning for the dead; and there the dead senselesse, as they were imbracing of the living. So that since the Sicilian Vespers, there was never an Evensong more dolorous vnto the French, nor more lamentable unto the Scots and English. The Count of Til∣lier, who was Ambassadour here in or∣dinary for the most Christian King, which place hee hath executed with great dignity and authority for many yeeres together, to the generall liking and applause of both Nations, although he was fortunate in this, that not one of his retinue perished, was much agree∣ved with this unluckie accident, with whom the Spanish Delegates did con∣dole, as by mutuall reference feeling that griefe, which fellow-feeling had made their owne.

Moreover, it was reported by one who had good intelligence in Elie house, that Don Carlos Colom's Steward should say, that his Master would not for a million of gold, this accident should have falne out in his or Exeter house. A report like enough to be beleeved of those, who know how strangely zealous this Nati∣on is in their Religion, and how jealous they are besides of their owne, their Kings, and of their Countries honour.

Neither were the sorrows meaner a∣mongst the naturals of this Kingdome, and the inhabitants of the Citie of Lon∣don. So that here some men lost their wives, women their husbands, parents their children, children their parents, masters their servants, and one friend la∣mented the losse of another. So that Rachel was weeping for her children because they were not. Iob was lamen∣ting for his sonnes and daughters, be∣cause they were slaine together by the downefall of an house, whilest they were eating of their last banquet. Insomuch that the streets did eccho with their do∣lorous moanes, the wals and houses did resound with their cries and lamentati∣ons. The subsequent night was so full of horrour unto many, that it may bee truely said of it, as was said of another dismall night in the like kind:

Quis cladem illius noct is, quis funera fando Explicit? aut potis est lachrymis aequare dolorem?

When the bodies were drawn forth of those heapes of earth and timber, which taske of charity they were accom∣plishing

all that night, and part of the next day following, they were found to be 95. persons, or therabout, of divers cō∣ditions, besides those who were bruised, maim'd or wounded. Amongst whom were divers persons of worth and quali∣tie: as Father Drurie, who was the Preacher; Father Redyate, in whose lod∣ging this calamity befell; the Lady Web, descended of the Family of the Treshams, and sister unto my La. Morley, & my La. Sturton, and many moe besides of that weaker sexe, who then and there were assembled at their accustomed devoti∣ons. Yet were there many who were in that unfortunate downefall, which esca∣ped the danger strangely and wonder∣fully. Amongst whom was Mistris Lu∣cie Penruddocke, extracted from a wor∣thy and Noble Family, who fell be∣tweene the Lady Webbe and her owne maid-servant, both of which perished, yet she was preserved alive, by meanes of a Chaire which fell hollow upon her, and sheltered her from further danger. So was yong Mistris Webbe, daughter to my Lady Webbe, who fell neere unto her mother, and Elenor Sanders, who was covered, with many others, whose lives were saved within the heapes of these blood-guilty ruines.

There was also a Minister, whose name I cannot learne, and therefore al∣though he survives this misfortune, it must be buried as yet in silence, who be∣ing present at the Sermon, as being in∣vited by some Romish Catholike to that exercise; who also gave him the con∣duct unto the place; hee fell with the rest of the multitude assembled there to∣gether; and being covered with the rubbish, boords, and other timbers, which fell upon him from the higher roomes, and prest with the weight of divers persons besides, whereof some were dead, and some were living: be∣ing in this agonie, which his present paine, and the feare of death, in his own judgement even hanging over his head, did impose (and that not without just cause) upon him; being (I say) thus di∣stressed, and striving under those heaps & ruines for life, the hope whereof, in re∣spect of the premised impediments, had almost forsaken him; one of the French Ambassadours Gentlemen, hearing the noise and report of this great and dismal fall, suddenly (as hee could) opened a doore, which gave entrance into that chamber, upon the floore whereof, the heapes and ruines, together with the oppressed multitude, as then lay. Who perceiving light by the doore then o∣pened, the place before being covered over with darknesse, he strove with all the strength and agilicy he could, which in him was not meane, he being a man of a very strong and able body, and at last, after the losse of his cloke and ren∣ting of his clothes, hee recovered him∣selfe, without any further hurt. Which the Gentleman perceiving, came and demanded of him, whether or no hee were hurt, or that he stood in need of a∣ny thing that might doe him service, or procure him comfort. But he being al∣most exanimated and astonisht, could not at first apprehend those courteous proffers which were tendred unto him by this stranger, who presently went and brought him into a Chamber; where after he had sate a while, and re∣freshed himselfe with wine, which was brought unto him; and having thus re∣covered his strength and spirits, hee re∣turned to the foresaid place againe, and used his best endevours for the releeving of others from that calamity, whereof but even now he was a fellow-sufferer. His man who attended on him, was re∣covered amongst the rest, hee being something bruised and hurt in the arme.

Moreover, there was a yong girle, about the age of ten yeeres, as is suppo∣sed, (when this Minister, out of his cha∣ritable and commiserating disposition, was labouring for the safety and preser∣vation of them, whose necessities did then require it) came crying unto him, and said, O my Mother, O my Sister, which are downe under the timber and rubbish. But he wisht her to be patient for a time, and by Gods grace they should get forth quickly. Vpon which speech the child replyed presently, that howsoever this accident would prove a great scandall to their Religion. A speech which is worth admiration in all men, as this Relator did truely admire it, that a childe of so tender yeeres, wherein amongst the most towardliest,

there is scarce ability to discerne be∣tweene good and evill, should next un∣to that griefe, which the danger of her mother and sister did inflict upon her, lament for nothing more than for the scandall which their cause was like to suffer by the disaster.

It was reported also that many more were drawne out alive the next mor∣ning: but I will not stand too much upon the justification of this report, lest I should seeme to bee too credulous of those things, which are contrary to the rules of reason and nature.

The day following, which was Mun∣day, and the Eve of Simon and Iude, there was great care had for viewing the place, and for buriall of the dead. For this cause the Recorder and She∣riffes, about one of the clocke in the af∣ternoone, met at the French Ambassa∣dors house, having first shut up Ludgate, to prevent the throng and resort of the people, which was exceeding great and turbulent in those places: and then ha∣ving doubled their guards upon every Port and passage, and given expresse charge unto the warders, upon paine of their displeasure and punishment, that no man should enter in without theirs, or the Coroners Warrant, they fell at length to consult about the businesse, and after mature consideration, conclu∣ded, that this dolefull accident fell out, not by any indirect practise or conspi∣racie (as was by some maliciously repor∣ted) but that those fourescore and odde persons fell by meanes of their owne weight, and the weaknesse of those tim∣bers which did support the Chamber.

The Iurie having thus brought in their verdict, they disposed presently for the buriall of the dead, some of whom were carried by their friends unto Churches, farre remote, there to receive their due obsequies; others were buried in the same place, & those were of the meanest ranke, whereof some twenty, or therea∣bout, were laid in one Sepulcher, having a common grave, as they had a common death and downefall. The conjectures concerning this event were divers: For some gave out, that it was the just pu∣nishment and vengeance of God infli∣cted upon thē for their Idolatry. More∣over, there were divers doubting spirits amongst the Romane Catholikes, who thought that this was some conspiracie of the Protestants. But if the building had beene demolished and overthrown by their indirect & treacherous means, it must have been done either by blow∣ing it up with Gunpowder, by sapping away the earth from the foundation, by undermining it, or by cutting off, or taking away those supporters and pil∣lars, upon whom the frame and ma∣chine of the building was grounded. All which were found to bee false, upon most diligent search and inquirie made in that behalfe. But that which carried apparent appearance of truth, and that which the Protestants and Papists did allow, who were of the more milder, temperate, and sounder judgement, was thus: That this disaster hapned not by means of any divine miracle, or humane malice; but by the defect and weaknes of the place, into which such a multi∣tude were crowded and assembled to∣gether, the judgement of God concur∣ring therewithall.

The Society of the Jesuites did suffer much, in losing the persons of Father Drurie and Father Redyate. And divers persons of both Religions, but especial∣ly the Priests, who are men of as great care and vigilancie, but of a farre grea∣ter moderation, did taxe and blame them, for that they brought their flocke into a place of no greater safety or assu∣rance; and besides, because their conven∣ticle and meeting was so publike, there being divers Protestants assembled at it, some of whom were reported to have a share in this calamity, and the times as yet not serving for such assemblies, the Kings pardon being not yet publish∣ed, which was granted, as they say to all the Romane Catholikes of these King∣domes. But whatsoever thou be, Prote∣stant or Papist, that doth see this mourn∣full object, judge not, lest thou bee jud∣ged. Neither thinke thou, that those 18. men, upon whom the Tower of Silom fell, or those persons whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifice, were more grievous sinners than all the rest of the children of Israel; or that these who pe∣rished thus together, were more noto∣rious offenders than all the rest of their brethren and Religion: for assure thy

selfe, that except thou repent, thou al∣so shalt perish. And this repentance of thine must not be propter scandalum mun∣di, for the scandall and offence of the world, for so did Saul repent, when out of a foolish and State-spoiling pitie, he had spared Agag the cursed Tirant of Amalecke; and but of a faire yet foule pretence, had spared the fairest of the Cattell for sacrifice: for being rebuked by the Prophet Samuel, he doth repent, and desires him to honour him in the sight of the Elders, and to turne unto him, and he would turne unto the Lord his God. Neither must it be propter poe∣nam peccati, for their punishment, that is due unto sinne; for so did Ahab repent, when hee was reprooved by Elias for killing of Naboth, and detaining of his Vineyard, he rent his clothes, and gir∣ded himselfe in sack-cloath, as the Text hath it: But after that the fright and terrour of Gods must terrible sentence was worne out of his minde, and the custome of sinne began to prevaile a∣gaine, he sold himselfe to commit such abominations, the like whereof were never committed in Israel. But our re∣pentance must be propter reatum peccati, for the guilt of sinne, as sinne is a breach of the Law, and a transgression of Gods Commandement. Quae sic dolet com∣missa, ut non doleat committenda: Which repentance doth grieve for sinnes com∣mitted, as though it meant to commit no more; and mourne for offences past, as though it did meane to passe over no more.

We must take Repentance as Iob did, in dust and ashes. Being dust, we must take it in dust; and being ashes, we must take it in ashes. Our transgressions in this Kingdome and in this Citie have beene most grievous, therefore our con∣trition should bee eminent and exem∣plar. Our pride hath made us, with Lu∣cifer, to superbire & superire, to looke o∣ver our selves, not into our selves, and to esteeme our selves like unto God, when we are scarce men.

Neither is this pride simplex peccatum, a single and simple sinne, but it drawes after it excesse and riot, as it were, with a cart-rope: unto which luxurie of ours, neither Persian nor Romane were equall. After which follow fornications and adulteries, which are so frequent in this place, that in vaine may we speake of the Bordellas of Rome, or the Stewes of Venice, since the Suburbs of this sin∣full Citie, are as bad as the Suburraes of Rome or Venice.

Moreover, our drunkennesse is such, that although our eyes looke red, and our hearts are as fat as brawn with drin∣king of Wine, yet, we rise up early to drinke strong drinke: which when it hath inflamed our blood and spirits, we are ready, with Lot, to fall into all pol∣lution and uncleannesse.

And last of all, wee are so uncharita∣ble, so stony-hearted and close-fisted, that wee may bee fitly compared unto lumps of clay, tempered with blood, although we are statues of flint, with∣out the blood or life of charity.

For this cause, repent, ô England, re∣pent, ô London; repent Protestants, re∣pent Papists, for your transgressions and offences: repent, repent; for by these wonderfull signes and tokens, it doth appeare most cleerely, that the King∣dome of Heaven is at hand.

A Note of such persons as were slaine, by the fall of the Roome wherein they were, in the Blacke Friers, at Father Druries Sermon, Octob. the 26. 1623.

MAster Drurie the Priest.

Mr. Redyate the Priest.

Lady Webbe.

Lady Blackstones Daughter.

Thomas Webbe, her man.

William Robinson, Taylor.

Robert Smith, Master Hicks man the Apothecarie.

Mr. Davisons Daughter.

Anthony Hall his man.

• Anne Hobdin,
• Mary Hobdin,
  • lodging in Mr. Da∣visons house.

Iohn Galloway, Vintner.

• Mr. Peirson,
• his wife,
• two sonnes
  • In Robin-hood Court in Shoo-lane.

Mistris Vudall.

Abigal her maid.

Two more in her house.

Iohn Netlan, a Taylor.

Nathaniel Coales.

Iohn Halifaxe.

Mistris Rugbie in Holborne.

Iohn Worrals sonne in Holborne.

Master Becket, a Cornish man.

Thomas Mersit, his wife and his sonne and maid, in Mountague Close.

Mistris Summel, and Mary her Maid, in Blacke Friers.

Andrew whites daughter in Holborn.

Mr. Staker, Taylor in Salisbury court.

Elizab. Sommers, in Grayes Inne lane.

Mr. Westwood.

Iudeth Bellowes.

A man of Sir Lues Pembertons.

Elizabeth Moore, widdow.

Iohn Iames.

Morris Beucresse, Apothecarie.

Davie Vaughan.

Anne Field.

Mr. Ployden.

Robert Heifime.

One Medalfe.

Mr. Maufield.

Mr. Simons.

Dorothy Simons.

Thomas Simons, a Boy.

Robert Pauerkes.

Anne Davison.

Anthony Hall.

Mistris Morton and her Maid.

Francis Downes.

Edmond Shey.

I••sua Perry.

Iohn Tullye.

Robert Drury.

Thomas Draper.

Iohn Staiggs.

Thomas Elis.

Michael Butler in Woodstreet.

Edmund Rivals.

Edmund Welsh.

Bartholomew Bauin.

Davie, an Irishman.

Richard Price.

Thomas Wood.

Christopher Hobbs.

Elizabeth Astime.

Iohn Butler.

Clarentia, a Maid.

Iane Turner.

Mistris Milbourne.

Frithwith Anne.

Mistris Elton.

Mistris Walsteed.

Margaret Barrom.

Henry Becket.

Sarah Watsonne.

Iohn Bethoms.

Master Harris.

Mistris Tompson.

Richard Fitguift.

George Ceaustour.

Master Grimes.

• One Barbaret,
• One Hucble,
• VValter Ward,
• Rigaret.
  • enquired for.

Iohn Brabant, a Painter in Little Brit∣taine.

A man-servant of Master Buckets, a Painter in Aldersgate street.

Now to turne againe to the Blacke Friers, through Bowyer Row, Ave Mary lane, and Pater noster Row, to the Church of Saint Michael ad Bladum, or at the Corne, (corruptly, at the Querne) so cal∣led, because in place thereof, was some∣time a Corne-Market, stretching up West to the Shambles. It seemeth that this Church was new builded, about the reigne of Edward the third. Thomas Newton, first Parson there, was buried in the Quire, in the yeere 1461. At the East end of this Church stood a Crosse, called the Old Crosse in VVest Cheape, which was taken downe in the yeere 1390. since the which time, the said Parish Church was also taken downe; but new builded and enlarged, in the yeere 1430. the eighth of Henry the 6. VVilliam Eastfield, Maior, and the Com∣munalty, granted of the common ground of the Citie, three foot and an halfe in breadth on the North part, and foure foot in breadth toward the East, for the inlarging thereof. This is now a proper Church, and hath the Monu∣ments of Thomas Newton, first Parson.

Roger VVoodcocke, Harter, 1475.

Thomas Russell, Brewer, 1473.

Iohn Hulton, Stationer, 1475.

Iohn Oxney. Roger North, Merchant, Haberdasher, 1509.

Iohn Leyland, the famous Antiquary.

Henry Prannell, Vintner, one of the Sheriffes, 1558.

Wil. Elkin, one of the Sheriffs, 1586.

Thomas Bankes, Barber-Chir••rgeon, 1598.

Here lyeth buried the body of Henry Pran∣nell, late Citizen and Alderman of Lon∣don, and free of the Vintners, who decea∣sed the 22. day of October, Ann. Dom. 1589. Anno aetatis suae, 58. He had to wife Anne, the daughter of Edmond Baxtar, and had issue by her, three sonnes and one daughter.

Here lyeth the body of William Elkin, Mercer, late Citizen and Alderman of London, who deceased the last day of October, 1593. Anno aetatis suae, 70. who tooke to wife Alice Robinson, the Daughter of Thomas Wilkes, by whom he had issue one daughter, named Vrsula.

Thomas Bankes, Barber Chirurgeon, De∣putie of this Ward, who had to wife Joan Laurence, by whom he had issue seven sonnes and ten daughters.

Iohn Mundham had a Chauntry there in the fourth of Edward the second.

At the East end of this Church, in place of the old Crosse, is now a water-Conduit placed; William Eastfield, Mai∣or, the ninth of Henry the sixth, at the request of divers Common-Councels, granted it to be: whereupon, in the 19. of the same Henry, 1000. Markes was granted by a Common Councell, to∣wards the workes of this Conduit, and the reparations of other: this is called the Little Conduit in West Cheap, by Pauls gate.

At the West end of this Parish Church, is a small passage for people on foot thorow the same Church, and West from the said Church, some di∣stance, is another passage out of Pater noster row, and is called (of such a signe) Panyer Alley, which commeth out into the North, over against Saint Martins Lane.

Next is Ivie Lane, so called of Ivie growing on the walls of the Prebends houses, but now the Lane is repleni∣shed on both the sides with faire houses, and divers Offices have beene there kept, by Registers, namely, for the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canturbury, the Probate of Wils, which is now removed into Warwicke lane, and also for the Lord Treasurers Remem∣brance of the Exchequer, &c.

This Lane runneth North, to the West end of Saint Nicholas Shambles. Of old time there was one great house, sometimes belonging to the Earles of Britaine, since that, to the Lovels, and was called Lovels Inne: for Matild, wife to Iohn Lovell, held it in the first of Hen∣ry the sixth.

Then is Eldenese Lane, which stretch∣eth North to the high street of Newgate Market, the same is now called Warwick lane, of an ancient house there builded by an Earle of Warwicke, and was since called Warwicke Inne. It is in Record called a Messuage in Eldenese Lane, in the Parish of S. Sepulchre, the 28. of Henry the sixth. Cicilie, Duchesse of Warwicke, possessed it.

Now againe, from the Conduit by Pauls gate, on the North side is a large street, running West to Newgate, the first part whereof, from the Conduit to the Shambles, (of selling Bladders there) called Bladder street. Then behind the Butchers shops bee now divers slaughter-houses inward, and Tipling-houses outward. This is called Mount∣goddard street, of the Tippling-houses there, and the Goddards mounting from the Tappe to the Table, from the Table to the mouth, and sometimes o∣ver the head.

This street goeth up to the North end of Ivie lane. Before this Mount-goddard street, Stall-Boords were of old time set up by the Butchers, to shew and to sell their Flesh meat upon; over the which Stall-Boords, they first builded sheds, to keepe off the weather: but since that (incroching by little and little) they have made their Stall-boords and Sheds, faire houses, meet for the princi∣pall Shambles.

Next is Newgate market, first of Corne and Meale, and then of other Victuals, which stretcheth almost to Eldenese lane. A faire new and strong Frame of Tim∣ber, covered with Lead, was therefore set up at the charges of the Citie, neere to the West corner of S. Nicholas Sham∣bles, for the Meale to bee weighed,

in the first of Edward the sixth; Sir Iohn Gresham being then Maior.

On this side the north corner of Eldenese lane, stood sometime a proper Parish Church of S. Ewine, as is before said, given by Henry the eighth towards the erecting of Christs Church: It was taken downe, and in place thereof, a faire strong frame of Timber erected, where∣in dwell men of divers Trades. And from this frame, to Newgate, is all of this Ward: and so an end thereof.

It hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsell, twelve; Consta∣bles, seventeene; Scavengers, eighteen; Wardmote Inquest, eighteene, and a Beadle: and is taxed to the Fifteene, fifty pounds.

Notes

• Faringdon Ward within.
• Faringdon extra. and Faringdon infra, all one Ward, and then divided into 2 by Parliamēt.
• Faringdon Ward tooke that name of W. Farendon.
• Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, Alderman of that ward, now called Fa∣ringdon, in the reigne of Hen. 3.
• Iohn le Feure, Al∣derman.
• W. Farendon Alderman and one of the She∣riffes of London.
• Nicholas Farendon Alderman and Maior.
• Nicholas Farendon lived 53. yeers after he had bin once Mai∣or.
• Either Mr. Stowe was much wronged in infor∣mation, or else it was no true Deed which he saw at that time.
• M. Iohn Speed can testifie this to be true •• for I brought the sealed Deed to him, and to divers other be∣side, who can beare me wit∣nesse, that herein I doe no way de∣prave Mr. Stowe, but set downe the truth, as I recei∣ved it.
• Amen lane.
• Panier lane.
• Ivie Lane.
• Bladder street.
• Mount Go∣dard street.
• Parish Church of S. Peter in Cheape.
• Long shop in Cheape.
• Guthuruns Lane.
• Imbroide∣rers Hall.
• Hugon lane.
• Kery lane.
• Sadlers Hall.
• Foster lane.
• Parish Church of S. Fo∣sters.
• A faire Stone in the Chan∣cell.
• A faire stone by the Com∣munion Table.
• A Monu∣ment in the wall, South of the Quire.
• A small Monumēt in the wall with a gilt plate.
• A faire plated stone un∣der the Commu∣nion Ta∣ble.
• A faire plated Grave∣stone in the middle Ile.
• Barons of London their seale.
• Barber Chirurge∣ons their Hall.
• Hermi∣tage of S. Iames in the wall.
• Pentecost Lane.
• Parish Church of S. Nicholas.
• Stinking Lane, or Chicke lane.
• Gray Friers Church.
• How the Gray Friers house be∣came first to a Frie∣ry, colle∣cted out of an anciēt Manu∣script de∣livered to me by a friend.
• The buil∣ding of a Chappell for them.
• The body of a Church.
• Their Chapter-house builded.
• The Ve∣stry house.
• The Dor∣ters and Cham∣bers.
• The Hall or Refe∣ctory.
• Library of the Gray Friers.
• Length & breadth of Gray Friers Church.
• Gray Friers Church made a Parish Church.
• The Mai∣or and Commu∣nalty of London Parsons of Christs Church, the Vicar to be at their ap∣pointmēt.
• Christs Ho∣spitall.
• Ex R. Graf∣ton.
• Doct Rid∣ley prea∣ched be∣fore King Edw. 6. Mercy & Charity.
• Edw. S••i∣mer Duke of Somerset
• A most vertuous and noble saying of King Edw. to Bishop Ridley.
• The Citi∣zens of London moved to be assi∣stants in this chari∣table acti∣on.
• The kings letter sent by the Bi∣shop to the Lord, Maior of London.
• The rea∣dinesse of the Lord Maior to preferre this good deede.
• 9. Sorts of poore people distingui∣shed into 3. degrees.
• The first beginning of Hospi∣tals.
• The first begin∣ning of S. Thom. and S. Bartholm. Hospitals.
• The first begin∣ning of Bridewell,
• Reliefe for decay∣ed house-holders & Lazers.
• The king acquain∣ted with the Cities furthe∣rance.
• K. Edward. the sixth Founder of the Hospitals in London.
• The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 land for rendred to the King, and given to the City of London.
• The words of a blessed King.
• Sir William Chester, and Io. Calthrop, Draper.
• Rich. Castel, Shooma∣ker, The Cocke of Westminster
• The in∣corporati∣on of St. Bartholo∣mews Hos∣pitall in West Smithfield.
• The in∣corporati∣on of the Hospitals of King Edward the sixth.
• Monu∣ments in Christs Church.
• 4. Queens buried In this Church.
• A faire Monumēt in the South wal of the Quire.
• A faire Monumēt close by, in the same wall.
• Vpon a Monumēt on a Pillar by the Tombe. First, on the one Table.
• Secondly, on the o∣ther Ta∣ble.
• A faire plated stone in the Quire▪
• A faire Monumēt in the wal, at the upper end of the Chancell.
• A faire plated stone by the Com∣munion Table.
• Another plated stone on the other side of the Table.
• A faire plated stone in the South fide of the Quire.
• A faire plated stone in the South Ile.
• A plated stone at entring into the Quire.
• A Grave∣stone in the North Chappell of the Quire.
• A small Monumēt erected in the Schoole wal, in the Cloyster, where (ac∣cording to his de∣sire) he lyeth bu∣ried.
• Parish Church of S. Matthew in Friday street.
• A comely Monumēt in the wall, on the Chan∣cels South side.
• A faire Monumēt in the North wal of the Chancell.
• Another Monumēt in the same wall.
• A Plate in the South wal of the Chancell.
• Old Change.
• Parish Church of S. Augustine▪
• A plated stone un∣der the Commu∣nion Ta∣ble.
• The like stone by the other.
• A small Monumēt in the East end of the Quires South Ile.
• A faire plated stone at the en∣trance into the Quire.
• One faire stone for both these, in the body of the Church.
• Cathedral Church of S. Paul.
• Doctoris Gentium.
• S. Pauls Church burnt.
• Foundati∣on of the new Church of S. Paul builded.
• Stone brought from Cane in Nor∣mandy.
• Wall a∣bout Pauls Church-yard.
• The com∣mon Bell in Pauls Church-yard, rung for the calling together of the Ci∣tizens to their Folke-motes.
• Pauls stee∣ple.
• The new worke of Paul in the East.
• Pauls stee∣ple fired by Light∣ning.
• Pauls stee∣ple repai∣red.
• Weather-cocke of Pauls stee∣ple.
• Height of the stee∣ple.
• Length of Pauls Church.
• Gover∣nors of this Church.
• Petty Ca∣nons of Pauls.
• Great Cloystry of Pauls.
• Dance of Pauls.
• Library of Pauls.
• Chappell in Pardon Church-yard
• Chappell at the North doore of Pauls.
• Holmes Colledge.
• Iesus chap∣pell.
• Parish Church of S. Faith.
• A fair pla∣ted stone over a Vault in the East end of the Church.
• A faire plated stone neere to the former
• Another stone close adjoyning
• This stone is covered with a Pew, that nothing can bee seene but these ver∣ses.
• In the middle Ile a faire pla∣ted stone.
• A faire plated stone in the Chan∣cell.
• Another stone in the Chan∣cell.
• Vpon a brasse plate fixed on a Pill•• by the Tombe in the open Church beneath
• The bene∣volence is given eve∣ry Friday ordinarily through-out the yeere.
• Charnell-house with a Chappel▪
• Reyne Wolfe.
• Pauls Schoole.
• Clochier in Pauls Church-yard.
• Common Bell of the City.
• Pulpit-crosse in Pauls Church-yard.
• Pauls stee∣ple and Church newly burne.
• Speedy repairing of Pauls Church.
• The Queenes gift.
• Benevo∣lence.
• Monu∣ments in Pauls
• Church. At the en∣trance of the north side or Ile of the Quire.
• In ano∣ther cof∣fin of gray Marble by the other.
• Etbelred, sirnamed the unrea∣dy.
• Being first buri∣ed in the Quire, & afterward removed into the body of the Church, at the Citi∣zens ear∣nest suit, and upon good oc••∣casion.
• This man is termed by some Richard de Gravesend.
• Right a∣gainst the little South doorein the lower Church.
• Set up at the Lord Maiors cost and charges.
• An inscri∣ption in the wall.
• In the midst of Quire, neere to the place where they stand to heare Sermons.
• At the en∣tring the middle doore of the Quire, a faire pla∣ted stone.
• A very goodly Tombe, curiously framed of white stone, ha∣ving his Lance & Target hanging by it.
• Vnder a faire Mo∣nument in the North Walke a∣gainst the Quire.
• Within the North wall buri∣ed.
• Holmes Colledge.
• In the Quire.
• A very beautifull Tombe, wherein he lyeth buried with his wife.
• Right o∣ver a∣gainst the F••••le of Pembrokes Tombe, in the same Ile.
• A faire Monumēt in the wall above Iohn of Caunts Tombe.
• There is neither Tomb, or any other Monu∣ment, but only this Inscripti∣on.
• These Verses, called Acrosticks are also there han∣ged up.
• A Table hung up∣on the same Pil∣lar by the other of Sir Francis Walson∣gham, without any other Monumēt for each of them.
• A very goodly Tombe, erected betweene the Chap∣pels of St. George, and our Lady, enclosing the bodies of Sir Iohn Wolley, his wife, and Sir Francis Wolley, his son, buri∣ed in Anno 1611.
• A comely Tombe, at entring into the South Ile of the Quire.
• Next a∣bove this Tombe in the same South Ile.
• Adjoy∣ning to the other in that Ile▪
• A faire Tombe in the midst of the Chancell, in the same Ile.
• A very faire and goodly Tombe out of the Chancell, above it.
• These ses are in∣scribed on the other side of the Tombe.
• Vpon a Monumēt fixed on a Pillar by the Tomb▪
• First, she made him one of her Moble Pentio∣ners.
• Next, Captaine of her guard.
• Next, Vice Chamber∣laine, and of the Councell.
• Lastly, L. Chancel∣lor of Eng∣land.
• A very goodly Tombe Eastward behind the high Altar.
• Both these lye before S. Georges Chappell without Monu∣ments.
• Buried in the South Ile above the Quire within the wall.
• He lies al∣so buried in the same South Ile above the Quire.
• Hee also lyeth bu∣ried there
• At the East end behinde the high Altar.
• Episcopi.
• 1. Mellitus. 2. Wina. 3. Erken∣waldus. 4. Walche∣rus. 5. Ingualdus 6. Egulplnes. 7. Wigherus. 8. Edbri∣thus. 9. Edgarus. 10. K••e∣walchus. 11. Edbal∣dus. 12. Edber∣tus. 13. Osmon∣dus. 14. Ethehto∣thus. 15. Celber∣tus. 16. Rebul∣pbus. 17. Swi∣thulphus. 18. Eadsi∣nus. 19. Wilsiue. 20. Ethel∣wardus. 21. Eadsta∣nus.
• Isli Episcopi in Margine notati, post Erkenwal∣dum, seria∣tim in Ca∣thedra Lon∣dinens. us{que} in tempora Edwardi senioris An∣glorum Re∣gis successe∣runt. Quo∣rum omni∣um adeo obsolevit memoria, ut nec eorum acta, nec mausolea s••••an••ur.
• In the new workes of S. Dun∣stanes Chappell.
• In our La∣dy Chap∣pell, at the East end of the Quire.
• R. Baldocke was Foun∣der of that Chappell.
• In the new work of Pauls betweene our Lady Chappell and Saint Dunslanes.
• Wil. Paston. Chappell on the South Ile of Pauls builded▪ Scalps of Oxen found in digging the foun∣dation.
• A Bucks head ••orn before the Processiō at Pauls.
• In a comely Chappell in the bo∣dy of the Church, on the South side.
• Divers fond peo∣ples opi∣nion con∣cerning Duke Humfrey, buried in Pauls Church.
• A due and fit Penāce for fond Duke Humfreyes idle ser∣vants.
• Margaret Countesse of Shrews∣bury, her Monumēt painted over the entry of Iesus chap∣pell.
• An In∣scription in brasse, by sir Iohn Beauchamps Tombe.
• In Saint Thomas Chappell, neere the North doore.
• A brasse Plate a∣bove in the wall, neere the North doore.
• A Monu∣ment ere∣cted in the wall, neere to the staires going up into the North Quire.
• A comely Chappell founded by himself on the north side the body of the Church.
• In the same Chappell.
• Beneath the north-west Pil∣lar, that supports Pauls stee∣ple, in a Chappell builded by himselfe.
• A Brasse plate fixed in the wall, by the great North doore.
• A faire Tombe in the wall, at the up∣per end of the North Ile, below.
• In S. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Chappell, neere to the great South doore.
• A Table hanging on a Pil∣lar, in the South Ile.
• Somwhat neere to the Con∣vocation staires, a faire pla∣ted stone upon the ground.
• In the bo∣dy of the Church, on the South side, a faire stone, thus inscribed.
• A faire plated stone in the West end of the middle Ile.
• Five hun∣dred pounds given by M. William Parker, to∣wards the glasing of Pauls win∣dowes.
• Pater noster Rowe.
• Pater noster makers.
• Ave Mary lane.
• Creed lane.
• Amen lane.
• Duke of Britaines house, since Pem∣brookes Inne, then Aburgaveny house, and now Sta∣tioners Hall.
• Bowyer Rowe.
• Parish Church of S. Martin by Lud∣gate.
• •• comely Monu∣ments, each by other, in the East end of the Quire.
• Another sightly Monumēt in the same wall.
• A very faire new Monumēt in the same wall.
• A Table hanging on a pillar in the Chancell.
• A comely Monumēt in the same wall, but on the quires South side.
• A new faire Mo∣nument in the same wall.
• A small Monumēt in the same wall.
• The Black Friers.
• Maior & Barons of this City.
• Parliamēt at the Blacke Fri∣ers, called the Blacke Parliament.
• Parish Church of S. Anne new buil∣ded in the Blacke Fri∣ers.
• Iob. Alforde executed at Tyborne.
• The Bridge at the Blacke Friers.
• Incorpo∣rating of the Prior & Covent▪
• No arrest within the Friers Pre∣cinct.
• Forrai∣ners tra∣ded in the Precinct freely.
• Crafts∣men come out of the countries.
• The in∣quiry af∣ter the death of any one slaine, by the Coro∣ner of the Verge.
• Freedome from watching, warding, &c.
• A Riot commit∣ted in the Blacke Fri∣ers.
• Letters from the Councell to the Lo. Maior.
• A Bill put into the Parliamēt house.
• Cawardens Letters Patents.
• Wals and gates be∣longing to the Precinct.
• The Cu∣rate of S. Peters in Cornehill his affirmati∣on.
• The Li∣berties of the Pre∣cinct in the Priors dayes.
• Foure Gates be∣longing to the Friers and Porters.
• Of other mens doores in∣to the Blacke Fri∣ers.
• How the Porters of the Friers kept their foure Gates.
• No search or watch within the Pre∣cinct, &c.
• Paving the street by the Prior and Covent.
• For puni∣shing dis∣ordered persons.
• Against claiming the Liber∣ties of Blacke Fri∣ers.
• Two Al∣dermens•• entring into the Liberties of the Blacke Fri∣ers.
• What en∣sued upon this busi∣nesse in the Blacke Friers.
• A further testimony concer∣ning one Robert Flower, Tailor and Hosier in the same precinct of Blacke Friers.
• A man slaine in the liberty of the Blacke Friers.
• The Vicar of Bromley dwelt for∣merly in the Blacke Friers.
• The same man spo∣ken of be∣fore.
• Note that this Text was divided into three partes; whereof the first part trea∣ted of Gods mer∣cie, the se∣cond of mans in∣gratitude, the third of the Re∣medies which man might use for the procuring of Gods mercie, and cure himselfe from this contagi∣cus dis∣ease of his ingrati∣tude. Which first part onely in part he handled.
• Corne-market by Pater noster Row.
• Parish Church of S. Michael ad bladum.
• Old crosse in West-Cheape.
• Roger North▪
• A comely Monumēt in the South side of the Chancell.
• Another like Mo∣nument in the same wall.
• A smaller Monumēt in the same wall.
• Water-Conduit by Pauls gate.
• Passage thorow S. Michaels Church.
• Panyer Alley.
• Ivie lane.
• Lovels Inne.
• Eldenese or Warwicke Lane.
• Warwicke Inne.
• Bladder street.
• Mountgod∣dard street.
• Newgate Market.
• Parish Church of S. Ewine.