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.

BRIDGE WARD WITHOVT, The 26. in number, consisting of the Borough of Southwarke, in the County of Surrey.

HAving treated of Wards in London, on the North side the Thames (in num∣ber five and twenty) I am now to crosse over the said River, into the Borough of Southwarke, which is also a Ward of London without the walls, on the South side thereof, as is Portsoken on the East, and Faringdon extra on the West.

But before I come to the particular description of this Ward, it will not be impertinent to declare, when, and by what meanes the Borough of South••••rk now called Bridge Ward without, was made one of the six and twenty Wards, belonging to the City of London; which was in this manner:

After the dissolution of the Monaste∣ries, Abbeys, Priories, and other religi∣ous Houses, in this Realme of England: The Maior, Communalty, and Citi∣zens of this City of London taking into their considerations, how commodious and convenient it would be unto the Ci∣ty, to have the Borough of Southwarke annexed thereunto, and that the same Borough was in the Kings hands whol∣ly; they became humble suiters unto King Henry eighth, and to the Lords of his Highnesse Privie Councell, for the obtaining of the same. Which suit not being granted unto them; after the de∣cease of King Henry the eighth, they re∣newed their suit unto his Sonne and next successor, King Edward the sixth, and to the Lords of his Privie Councell for the obtaining of the same Borough.

At the length, after long suit, and much labour, it pleased King Edward the sixth, by his Letters Patents, sealed with the great Seale of England, bearing date at Westminster the three and twen∣tieth day April, in the fourth yeere of his reigne, as well in consideration of the summe of sixe hundred forty seven pounds, two shillings, and a penny, of lawfull money of England, paid to his Highnesse use, by the Maior, Commu∣nalty, and Citizens of London, as for di∣vers other considerations him thereun∣to moving; To give and grant unto the said Maior and Communalty, and Ci∣tizens of London, divers Messuages, lands & Tenements, lying in or neere the said Borough of Southwark, in the said Letters Patents particularly expressed, which were sometimes the Lands of Charles, then late Duke of Suffolke, and of whom King Henry the eighth did buy and pur∣chase the same.

But there was excepted out of the said Grant, and reserved unto the said King Edward the sixth, his Heires and successors, all that his Capitall Messu∣age, or Mansion House, called South∣warke Place, late of the said Duke of Suf∣folke, and all Gardens and Land to the same adjoyning: And all that his Parke in Southwarke: And all that his Messu∣age, and all Edifices and ground, cal∣led the Antilope there.

And the said King Edward the sixth did by his said Letters Patents give and grant to the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors, all that his Lordship and Mannor of South∣warke, with all and singular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, in the said County of Surrey, then late belonging to the late Monastery of Ber∣mondsey,

in the same County: And al∣so all that his Mannor and Borough of Southwarke, with all and singular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, in the said County of Surrey, then late parcell of the Possessions of the Archbishop and Archbishoprickes of Canturbury, Together with divers yeer∣ly rents, issuing out of divers Messuages or Tenements, in the said Letters Pa∣tents particularly expressed.

And also the said King Edward the sixth, by his said Letters Patents, as well for the above-mentioned conside∣rations, as also for the summe of five hundred Markes, paid to his use, by the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of the said City of London, did give and grant to the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of the said City, and to their successors, in and through the whole Borough and Towne of South∣warke, and in and through the whole Parish of▪ Saint Saviors, Saint Olaves, and Saint George in Southwarke, and in and through the whole Parish, then late called Saint Thomas Hospitall, and then called the Kings Hospitall in Southwark, and elsewhere whersoever, in the Town and Borough of Southwarke, and in Ken∣tish street and Blackman street, in the Pa∣rish of Newington, All Wayffes, Estrays, Treasure-trove, Goods and Chattels of Traytors, Felo••s, Fugitives, Out-lawes, Condemned persons, Convict persons, and Felons defamed, and of such as bee put in Exigent of Outlawry, Felons of themselves, and Deodands, and of such as refuse the Lawes of the Land: And all Goods disclaimed, found, or being within the said Borough, Towne, Pari∣shes and Precincts: And all mannor of Escheats and Forfeitures.

And that the said Maior, Commu∣nalty, and Citizens, by themselves, or their Deputy, or Officer or Officers, should have in the Towne, Borough, Parishes, and Precincts aforesaid, the Taste and Assize of Bread, Wine, Ale, and Beere, and of all other Victuals, and things whatsoever, sold in the same Towne. And whatsoever should or might appertaine to the Office of the Clarke of the Market of his Majesties House-hold. And the correction and punishment of all persons there selling Bread, Wine, Beere, and Ale, and o∣ther Victuals; and of others there inha∣biting, or using any Arts whatsoever. And all Forfeitures, Fines, and Amerci∣aments, to be forfeited to the King, or his Heires or Successors. And that they should have the execution of the Kings Writs, and of all other Writs, Com∣mandements, Precepts, Extracts, and Warrants, with the returnes thereof, by such their Minister or Deputy as they should chuse.

And that they should have, keepe, and hold there, every yeere, yeerely, one Faire, to endure for three dayes, viz. the seventh, eighth, and ninth daies of September. And that during the said three dayes, they should hold there by their Minister or Deputy, from day to day, from houre to houre, and from time to time, all Actions, Plaints, and Pleas of the Court of Pipowder, with al Summons, Attachments, Arrests, Issues, Fines, Redemptions, Commodities, and other Rights whatsoever, to the Court of Pipowder by any meanes be∣longing. And also, that they should have throughout the whole Precinct a∣foresaid, View of Franke-pledge, with all Sommons, Attachments, Arrests, Issues, Amerciaments, Fines, Redemp∣tions, Profits, Commodities, and other things, which thereof to the King, his Heires, or Successors, should apper∣taine.

And also, that the said Maior, Com∣munalty, and Citizens, and their suc∣cessors, by themselves, or by their Offi∣cers or Deputies, may take and arrest in the Borough, Towne, Parish, and Pre∣cincts aforesaid, all Theeves, Felons, and other Malefactors, and may carry them to the Gaole of Newgate. And that the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors, should for ever have in the said Borough, Town parishes, and Precincts, all such Liber∣ties, priviledges, Franchises, Dischar∣ges, and Customes, which the King or his Heires should have had, if the said Borough had remained in the Kings hands.

And also he granted to the said Ma∣ior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, and to their successors, that they should for ever hold and keepe, all

manner of Pleas, Actions, Plaints, and personall Suites, and all manner of cau∣ses, Matters, Contracts, and Demands whatsoever, happening in the Precincts aforesaid, before the Maior and Alder∣men of London, and before the Sheriffes of London, for the time being, or any of them, in the Guild hall and Hustings of the said City: and the like Actions, Bills, Plaints, Proces, Arrests, Iudge∣ments, Executions, and other things whatsoever, and the same dayes and times, and in such like maner, as the like Pleas happening in the said City, before the Maior, Aldermen and Sheriffes, or any of them, in the said Courts, or any of them, time out of minde, have been taken, holden, prosecuted, or executed. And that the Serjeants at Mace, and o∣ther Officers of London, using to serve Proces, might from thenceforth, for e∣ver, serve and execute all manner of Pro∣ces in the said Borough, Towne, Pari∣shes and Precincts, concerning such Pleas and executions of the same, as time out of mind hath been used in the City of London.

And that the Inhabitants of the same Borough, Parishes, and Precincts, for Causes and Matters there growing, may implead or bee impleaded in the said City, in forme aforesaid, and in the said Courts. And that if the Iuries impa∣nelled, and so moved to try such Issues, shall not appeare before the said Maior and Aldermen, or Sheriffes, in the said Courts in London, they shall bee amer∣ced in like manner, and forfeit such Is∣sues, as Iuries in London, making default of appearance, have used to forfeit. And that the Issues so forfeited, shall bee to the use of the Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, and their successors for ever. And also, that the said Maior and Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors for ever, should have the Cognizance of all manner of Pleas, Plaints, and personall Actions, out of all the Kings Courts, before the King, or before any of his Iustices, for any thing happening in the said Borough, or Precincts, before the said Maior and Aldermen, and Sheriffs, or any of them, in the Courts of the said City. And that the Issues taken upon the said suits, shall be tryed in the said Courts, before the Maior and Aldermen and Sheriffes, by men of the said Borough, as Issues in London are tryed.

And that the said Maior, Commu∣nalty, and Citizens, and their successors, should for ever chuse, according to the Law, every yeere, or as often as they should thinke meet, two Coroners in the said Borough: And that the said Coroners, and either of them so chosen, should in the Precincts aforesaid, have and use like authority, as any Coroners in England ought to have and execute: and that no other of the Kings Coroners should in any wise presume to execute any thing belonging to the Office of a Coroner, in the Precincts aforesaid.

And that the Maior of London, for the time being, should be Escheator in the Precincts aforesaid, and have power to direct Precepts to the Sheriffe of the County of Surrey for the time being, and to do all other things, which to the Office of Escheator in any of the Coun∣ties of England appertaineth: and that no other Escheator shall enter there, or intermeddle with any thing belonging to the Office of Escheator: and that the Maior of London, for the time being, shall be the Kings Clarke of the Market within the Precincts aforesaid, and may doe all things there appertaining to the Office of Clarke of the Market, and that the Clarke of the Market of the Kings Household shall not there intermeddle with any thing.

And that the said Maior, Commu∣nalty, and Citizens, and their succes∣sors for ever, should have, hold, use, and enjoy, in the Precincts aforesaid, as well all the Liberties and Franchises afore∣said, as the Toll, Tallage, Picage, and all other the said Kings Iurisdictions, Franchises, and Priviledges, which any Archbishop of Canturbury, Charles D. of Suffolke, or any the M. Brother and Sisters of the then late Hospitall of St. Thomas in Southwarke, or any Abbot of the then late Monastery of S. Saviors of Bermondsey, neere Southwarke; or any Prior or Covent of the then late Priory of Saint Mary Overy, or any of them e∣ver had, then had, or ought to have had in the premises, in any of the places a∣foresaid; or which the said King Ed∣ward the sixth then lately held and en∣joyed,

or ought to have had & enjoy, & in as ample manner as King Henry the 8. had and enjoyed, or ought to have had, and enjoy the same: So that none of the Kings Sheriffes, or any other of his Of∣ficers should intermeddle in any thing in the said Borough and Precincts a∣foresaid.

And the said King Edward the sixt did by his said Letters Patents further grant, that all the Inhabitants of the said Precincts should be within the or∣dinance, governance and correction of the Maior and Officers of London and their Deputies, as the Citizens and In∣habitants of London ought to be; by rea∣son of any Charter formerly granted by any of the said Kings Progenitors, to the Maior, Communalty and Citizens of London. And that the said Maior, Com∣munalty and Citizens, and their Succes∣sors for ever should haue, enjoy, and use such Lawes, Iurisdictions, Liberties, Franchises and Priviledges whatsoever in the Borough, and Precincts aforesaid, as fully and freely as they then used, or ought to have used and enjoyed the same in London, by vertue of any grant to them made by any of the said Kings Progenitors.

And that the Maior of London for the time being, and the Recorder of London for the time being, after they have borne the Office of Maioraltie of London, should be Iustices of the Kings Peace in Southwarke, and the Precincts aforesaid, so long as they should stand Aldermen of the said Citty, and should in the said Borough and Precincts aforesaid doe and execute all things which other Iu∣stices of the Peace might doe in the County of Surrey, according to the Lawes and Statutes of England.

And also, that the said Maior, Com∣munaltie & Citizens, & their Successors should have every weeke, on Munday, Wednesday, Friday and Satterday in the said Borough and Towne of South∣warke, one Market or Markets there to bee kept, and all things to Markets ap∣pertaining: All which Mannor, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Liberties, Priviled∣ges, Franchises, and other the premises granted by the said Letters Patents, did extend to the cleere yeerely value of 35. li. 14. s. 4. d. And were granted to bee holden to the said Maior, Commu∣nalty and Citizens of London, and their Successors for ever, of the said King, his Heires and Successors, as of his Mannor of East Greenwitch, in the County of Kent, by Fealty onely in Free Socage (and not in Capite) for all manner of services and demands whatsoever.

But there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant, to the said King Edward the sixt, his Heires and Succes∣sors, all his Rights, Iurisdictions, Li∣berties & Franchises whatsoever, with∣in the Walke, Circuit, and Precinct of his Capitall Messuage, Gardens, and Parke in Southwarke, and in all Gar∣dens, Curtilages, and Lands, to the said Mansion House, Gardens, and Parke belonging.

Also, there was excepted and reser∣ved out of the said Graunt, the House, Messuage, or Lodging there, called the Kings Bench, and the Gardens to the same belonging, so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.

Also, there was excepted and reser∣ved out of the said Graunt, the House, Messuage, or Lodging there, called the Marshalsey, and the Gardens to the same belonging, so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.

Also it was provided, that the said Letters Patents should not be prejudi∣ciall to the Offices of the Great Master or Steward of the Kings Household, within the Borough and Precincts a∣foresaid, to be executed while the same Borough and Precincts should be with∣in the Verge: Nor to Ioh. Gates, Knight, one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Pri∣vie Chamber, concerning any Lands, Tenements, Offices, Profits, Franchises, or Liberties to him granted during his life, by the said King Edward the sixth, or by his Father King Henry the eight.

About the space of a moneth after the said Borough of Southwarke was so granted by King Edward the sixt to the Maior, Communaltie, and Citizens of London, and that they by force of the said Letters Patents stood charged with the Ordering, Survev, and Government

of the same Borough, and of al the Kings subjects inhabiting therein, and repay∣ring thither: At a Court holden before Sir Rowland Hill, Knight, then Lord Maior of London, and the Aldermen of the same Citie, in the Guild-Hall of London, on Tuesday the eight and twen∣tieth of May, in the said fourth yeere of the raigne of King Edward the sixth, the said Towne or Borough was named and called the Ward of Bridge Ward with∣out. And Sir Iohn Ayliffe, Knight, Ci∣tizen and Barber-Surgeon of London, was then also named, elected, and cho∣sen by the same Court, to be Alder∣man of the same Ward, albeit that be∣fore that time there neyther was any such Ward nor Alderman.

And it was then also ordered, That the said Sir Iohn Ayliffe, by that name of Alderman of Bridge Ward without, and all other that from thenceforth should be Alderman of the same Ward, should have the Rule, Survey, and Go∣vernment, not onely of the Inhabitants of the said Towne & Borough of South∣warke, and other the Kings people re∣payring to the same, but also of all the Liberties, Franchises, and Priviledges within the said Towne and Borough, then formerly granted by the King and his Progenitors to the said Maior, Communaltie, and Citizens of Lon∣don. And for the due execution of which Office, the said Sir Iohn Ayliffe was then presently sworne and admit∣ted.

Not long after, videlicet, at a Court of Common Councell, holden in the Guild-Hall of London, on the last day of Iuly, in the said fourth yeere of the raigne of King Edward the sixth, and in the time of the Maioraltie of the said Sir Rowland Hill, it was enacted, That besides the then ancient accustomed number of five and twentie Aldermen, there should be one Alderman more elected, to have the Rule, Charge, and Governance of the said Borough and Towne. And that foure discreet persons, or more, being Freemen of London, and dwelling within the said Cittie, or the Borough of Southwarke, or in other the Liberties of the said Citie, sould from thenceforth, as often as the case should require, be from time to time nomi∣nated, appointed, and chosen by the In∣habitants of the said Borough for the time being, before the Lord Maior of London for the time being, sitting in the said Borough for that purpose, in such sort and order, as the Aldermen of Lon∣don were in those dayes commonly ele∣cted.

And that the said Lord Maior for the time being should (at the next Court of Aldermen to be holden at the Guild-Hall of the said Citie, next after such election) present the names and sur∣names of all such persons as so should be named before him, and put in the said election. And that the said Lord Maior & Aldermen for the time being, should of those foure persons, or mo, so presented, elect and chuse one, by way of Scrutinie, to be an Alderman of the said Citie, and to have the peculiar Or∣dering, Rule and Governance of the said Borough and Towne of Southwarke, and of the Inhabitants thereof, and of all o∣ther the Kings liege people, repayring to the same.

And that the said Alderman so espe∣cially elect and chosen, and from time to time, as the cause sould require thenceforth, to be elect and chosen for the Survey and Government of the said Borough, and the Inhabitants and other remayning in and to the same, should alwayes be named and called the Alder∣man of Bridge Ward without, and by none other Name, for or concerning that Office, or Roome, and should have the Cure and Charge of the good Ordering and Government of the said Borough and Towne of Southwarke, and of the Inhabitants and People of and in the same, and of none other Place within the said Citie, by reason or colour of the said Roome, as long as he should re∣maine and stand Alderman of the said Ward, but as the residue of the said Al∣dermen of the said Citie be commonly charged: And therein to doe and use himselfe, as other Aldermen within the Liberties of the said Citie were accu∣stomed and used to doe, in as much as the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme would permit and suffer.

Yet neverthelesse it was prouided, & by the said Cōmon Councell further or∣dained and enacted, That the said Sir

Iohn Ayliffe, Knight, should then be Al∣derman of the said Ward: And that as well the same Sir Iohn Ayliffe, as also all and every person and persons, that thenceforth should fortune to be Alder∣man of the same Ward, should have and enjoy like prerogative, liberty, and benefit, to change and remove from the same Ward, and to accept and take at his and their free will and pleasure any such other Ward or Wards within the said City, as it should fortune him, or them, or any of them, to be thenceforth duely elect and chosen unto by the In∣habitants of the same other VVard, or VVards, or any of them in like manner and forme, as the other Aldermen of the said City lawfully might, and com∣monly use to doe: Any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Neverthelesse, at a Court of Alder∣men holden on Tuesday, the second of September, in the said fourth yeere of the reigne of king Edward the sixth, and in the time of the Maioralty of the said Sir Rowland Hill, it was ordered, That the Aldermen of Bridge Ward without, for the time being, should stand and re∣maine Alderman of the same VVard three whole yeeres next after his electi∣on, before hee should bee permitted to bee removed to the governance of any other VVard: Notwithstanding any former Law, Vsage, or Custome.

But afterwards it seemeth, upon bet∣ter advice, that another order should be taken in the election of the Alderman of the same Ward: For at a Common Councell holden in the Guild-Hall in London, on the 16. day of Iune, in the fourth and fifth yeeres of King Philip and Queene Mary, and in the time of the Maioralty of Sir Thomas Curtis, Knight, the said former Act, made on the last day of Iuly, in the fourth yeere of King Edward the sixth, for so much thereof as did concerne the forme and order of the election of the Alderman of the said VVard of Bridge Ward with∣out, was utterly repealed. And then it was enacted, That from thenceforth the Alderman of the same Ward should alwaies, at the time of vacation, or lack of an Alderman thereof, be elected and chosen by the Lord Maior and Alder∣men of London, for the time being, at a full Court of Aldermen, by them to be holden in the Inner Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the same City in this manner, viz. That the Lord Maior and Aldermen should at their said full Court, amongst themselves, nominate foure discreet and meet Citizens, being Freemen of London, either resiant with∣in the said Borough, or in London, or the Liberties thereof, to be put in election of Alderman of that Ward. And of the said foure persons so nominated, the said Lord Maior and Aldermen should by Scrutiny, according to their accusto∣med manner, elect one to bee Alder∣man of the same VVard: VVhich Al∣derman, so by them elected and sworne, should use and behave himselfe in all things, as by the residue of the former Act of Common Councell, made the last day of Iuly, in the fourth yeere of King Edward the sixth was ordained and appointed.

Thus having declared, by what means and at what time the said Borough of Southwarke was made and named one of the sixe and twenty VVards, now belonging to the City of London; I in∣tend to proceed to the description of the severall particular places of the same VVard, and likewise of such Mo∣numents of Antiquity, as are to bee found therein.

This Borough being in the County of Surrey, consisteth of divers streetes, waies, and winding lanes, all full of buildings inhabited: and first, to begin at the West part thereof, over-against the West Suburbe of the City.

On the banke of the River Thames, there is now a continuall building of Thenements, about halfe a mile in length to the Bridge.

Then South a continuall street called Long Southwarke, builded on both sides with divers Lanes and Allies up to St. Georges Church, and beyond it thorow Blackman street, towards Newtowne (or Newington) the liberties of which Bo∣rough extend almost to the Parish Church of Newtowne aforesaid, distant one mile from London bridge, and also Southwest a continuall building, almost to Lambith, more than one mile from the said Bridge.

Then from the Bridge along by the Thames Eastward, is S. Olaves street, ha∣ving continuall building on both the sides, with lanes and Alleyes up to Bat∣tle bridge, to Horse-downe, and towards Rother-hith: also some good halfe mile in length from London bridge.

So that I account the whole continu∣all buildings on the Banke of the said River, from the West towards the East, to be more than a large mile in length.

Then have yee from the entring to∣wards the said Horsedowne, one other continuall street, called Barmondes eye strees, which stretcheth South, likewise furnished with buildings on both sides, almost halfe a mile in length, up to the late dissolved Monastery of S. Saviour, called Bermondsey.

And from thence is one long lane (so called of the length) turning West to Saint Georges Church afore-named. Out of the which lane mentioned Long lane, breaketh one other street towards the South and by East, and this is called Kentish street, for that it is the way lea∣ding into that Country: and so have you the bounds of this Borough.

The Antiquities most notable in this Borough are these: first, for Ecclesiasti∣call, there was Bermondsey, an Abbey of blacke Monkes, Saint Mary Overies, a Priory of Canons Regular, Saint Thomas a Colledge or Hospitall for the poore, and the Loke, a Lazar-house in Kent street. Parish Churches there have been sixe, whereof five doe remaine, (viz.) Saint Mary Magdalen, in the Priory of Saint Mary Overy: now the same Saint Mary Overy is the Parish Church for the said Mary Magdalen, and for Saint Margaret on the Hill, and is called St. Saviour.

Saint Margaret on the Hill being put downe, is now a Court for Iustice. S. Thomas in the Hospitall serveth for a Parish Church, as afore, Saint George a Parish Church, as before it did: So doth Saint Olave, and Saint Ma∣ry Magdalen, by the Abby of Bermond∣sey.

There be also these five Prisons, or Gaoles.

The Clinke, on the Banke.

The Compter, in the late Parish▪

Church of S. Margaret.

The Marshalsey.

The Kings Bench.

And the White Lion; all in Long South∣warke.

Houses most notable, be these.

The Bishop of Winchesters House.

The Bishop of Rochesters House.

The Duke of Suffolkes. House, or Southwarke Place.

The Tabard, an Hostery, or Inne.

The Abbot of Hyde his House.

The Prior of Lewis his House,

The Abbot of S. Augustine his house.

The Bridge-house.

The Abbot of Battaile his House.

Battaile-Bridge.

The Stewes on the Banke of Thames.

And the Beare-Gardens there.

Now to returne to the West Banke: there were two Beare-Gardens, the Old and New, Places wherein were kept Beares, Buls, and other Beasts, to be bay∣ted: As also Mastives, in severall kenels, nourished to baite them. These Beares, and other Beasts are there baited in plots of ground, scaffolded about, for the beholders to stand safe.

Next, on this Banke, was sometime the Bordello or Stewes, a place so called, of certaine Stew-houses priviledged there, for the repaire of incontinent men to the like women; of the which Priviledge I have read thus:

In a Parliament holden at Westmin∣ster, the eighth of Henry the second, it was ordained by the Commons, and confir∣med by the King and Lords, That di∣vers Constitutions for ever should be kept within that Lordship, or Franchise, accor∣ding to the old Customes, that had beene there used time time of minde: Amongst the which, these following were some: vi∣delicet.

That no Stew-holder, or his wife, should let or stay any single woman to goe and come freely at all times, when they li∣sted.

No Stew-holder to keepe any woman to boord, but she to boord abroad at her plea∣sure.

To take no more for the womans chamber in the Weeke, than foureteene pence.

Not to keepe open his doores upon the Ho∣ly-dayes.

Not to keepe any single woman in his house on the Holy-dayes, but the Bay∣liffe to see them voyded out of the Lord∣ship.

No single woman to bee kept against her will, that would leave her sinne.

No Stew-holder receive any woman of Religion, or any mans wife.

No single woman to take mony to lye with any man, except she lye with him all night, till the morrow.

No man to be drawne or enticed into any Stew-house.

The Constables, Bayliffe, and others, e∣very weeke to search every Stew-house.

No Stew-holder to keepe any woman, that hath the perillous infirmity of Burning; nor to sell Bread, Ale, Flesh, Fish, Wood, Coale, or any Victuals, &c.

These and many more Orders were to bee observed, upon great paine and punishment.

I have also seene divers Patents of confirmation, namely, one dated 1345. the ninetenth of Edward the third. Also I finde, that in the fourth of Richard the second, these Stew-houses belonging to William Walworth, then Maior of London, were farmed by Froes of Flaunders, and spoyled by Walter Tylar, and other Re∣bels of Kent: notwithstanding, I finde that ordinances for the same place, and houses, were againe confirmed in the reigne of Henry the sixth, and to be con∣tinued as before. Also Robert Fabian writeth, that in the yeere 1506. the one and twentieth of Henry the seventh, the said Stew-houses in Southwarke were (for a season) inhabited, and the doores closed up: but it was not long (saith he) ere the houses there were set open a∣gaine, so many as were permitted, for (as it was said) whereas before were eighteen houses, from thenceforth were appointed to be used but twelve onely. These allowed Stew-houses had signes on their fronts, towards the Thames, not hanged out, but painted on the wals as a Boares head, the Crosse keyes, the Gunne, the Castle, the Crane, the Car∣dinals Hat, the Bell, the Swanne, &c. I have heard ancient men of good cre∣dit report, that these single women were forbidden the rights of the Church, so long as they continued that sinnefull life, and were excluded from Christian buriall, if they were not re∣conciled before their death. And ther∣fore there was a plot of ground, called the Single womens Churchyard, appointed for them, far from the Parish Church.

In the yeere of Christ, a thousand five hundred forty sixe, the seven and thir∣tieth of Henry the eighth, this row of Stewes in Southwarke was put downe by the Kings commandement, which was proclaimed by sound of Trumpet no more to be priviledged, and used as a common Brothel; but the inhabitants of the same to keepe good and honest rule, as in other places of this Realm, &c.

Then next is the Clinke, a Gaole or Prison for the Trespassers in those parts; namely, in old time for such as should brabble, fray, or breake the peace on the said Banke, or in the Brothell hou∣ses, they were by the inhabitants there∣about apprehended and committed to this Gaole, where they were straightly imprisoned.

Next is the Bishop of Winchesters house, or lodging when he commeth to this City: which house was first buil∣ded by William Gifford, Bishop of Win∣chester, about the yeere one thousand, one hundred and seven, the seventh of Henry the first, upon a plot of ground pertaining to the Prior of Bermondsey, as appeareth by a Writ directed unto the Barons of the Exchequer, in the yeere 1366. the one and fortieth of Ed∣ward the third (the Bishops Sea being void) for 8. pounds due to the Monkes of Bermondsey, for the Bishop of Winche∣sters lodging in Southwarke. This is a very faire house wel repayred, and hath a large Wharfe, and a landing place cal∣led the Bishop of Winchesters staires.

Adjoyning to this on the South side thereof, is the Bishop of Rochesters Inne or lodging, by whom first erected I doe not now remember me to have read, but well I wot, the same of long time hath not beene frequented by any Bi∣shop, and lyeth ruinous for lacke of re∣parations. The Abbot of Naverley had a house there.

East from the Bishop of Winchesters house, directly over-against it standeth

a faire Church, called S. Mary over the Rie, or Overy, that is, over the water. This Church, or some other in place thereof, was (of old time long before the Conquest) an house of Sisters, founded by a Maiden, named Mary, unto the which house and Sisters she left (as was left to her by her Parents) the over-sight and profits of a Crosse Ferrie, or traverse Ferry over the Thames, there kept be∣fore that any Bridge was builded. This house of Sisters was after by Swithen a noble Lady, converted unto a Colledge of Priests, who in place of the Ferrie, builded a Bridge of Timber, and from time to time kept the same in good re∣parations; but lastly the same Bridge was builded of Stone, and then in the yeere 1106. was this Church againe founded for Canons Regular, by William Pont de le Arch, and William Dauncy, Knights Normans.

William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, was a good Benefactor also, for hee (as some have noted) builded the body of that Church, in the yeere one thou∣sand, one hundred and sixe, the seventh of Henry the first.

The Canons first entred the said Church, then Algodus was the first Prior.

King Henry the first, by his Charter gave them the Church of Saint Marga∣ret in Southwarke.

King Stephen confirmeth the gift of King Henry, and also gave the Stone House, which was William de Ponte le Arche, by Downgate.

This Priory was burned about the yeere 1207. wherefore the Canons did found an Hospitall neere unto their Pri∣ory, where they celebrated untill the Priory was repayred: which Hospi∣tall was after (by consent of Peter de la Roch, Bishop of Winchester) removed into the land of Anicins, Archdeacon of Sur∣rey, in the yeere 1228. a place where the water was more plentifull, and the ayre more wholsome, and was dedica∣ted to S. Thomas.

This Peter de Rupibus, or de la Roch, founded a large Chappell of Saint Ma∣ry Magdalen, in the said Church of St. Mary Overy, which chappell was after∣ward appointed to be the Parish Church for the inhabitants neere adjoyning.

This Church was again newly builded in the reigne of Richard the second and King Henry the fourth.

Iohn Gower, Esquire, a famous Poet, was then an especialll Benefactor to that worke, and was there buried on the North side of the said Church, in the Chappell of Saint Iohn, where he foun∣ded a Chantry, hee lyeth under a Tombe of Stone, with his Image also of Stone over him. The haire of his head aburne, long to his shoulders, but curling up, and a small forked beard; on his head a Chaplet, like a coronet of foure Roses, an habite of Purple, da∣masked downe to his seet, a Collar of Esses of gold about his necke, under his feet the likenesse of three Bookes, which hee compiled. The first, named Speculum Meditantis, written in French: The second, Vox Clamantis, penned in Latine: The third, Confessi•• Amantis, written in English, and this last is prin∣ted. Vox Clamantis, with his Cronica Tripartita, and other both in Latine and French, never printed, I have and doe poffesse, but Speculum Meditantis, I ne∣ver saw, though heard thereof to bee in Kent; Beside on the wall where he ly∣eth, there was painted 3. Virgins crow∣ned, one of the which was named Cha∣rity, holding this divice:

En toy qui es Fitz de Dieu le Pere, Savue soit, qui gist sours cest Pierre.

The second writing Mercy, with this device.

O bone lesu fait ta mercy, Al'ame, dont le corps gift icy.

The third writing Pitty, with this de∣vice.

Pour ta pite Iesu regar'de, Et met cest a me en savue garde.

His Armes, in a Field Argent, on a Cheveron Azure, three Leopards heads Gold, their tongues Gules, two Angels Supporters; on the Crest a Talbot. His Epitaph,

Armigeri Scutum nihil a modo fert sibi tutum, Reddidit immolutum morti generale tributum, Spiritus exutum se gaudeat esse solutum,

Est ubi virtutum Regnum siue labe statutum.

The roofe of the middle waste Ile sell downe in the yeere 1469. This Priory was surrendered to Henry the eighth, the one and thirtieth of his reigne, the seven and twentieth of October, the yeere of Christ 1539. valued at sixe hundred, twenty foure pounds, six shil∣lings, sixe pence, by the yeere.

About Christmas next following, the Church of the said Priory was pur∣chased of the King by the inhabitants of the Borough. Doctor Stephen Gar∣dener, Bishop of Winchester, putting to his helping hand, they made thereof a Parish Church for the Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen, on the South side of the said Quire, out of Saint Marga∣ret on the hill, which were made one Parish of S. Saviour.

There be Monuments in this Church of Robert Liliard, or Hilliard, Esquire.

Margaret, Daughter to the Lady Audley, wife to Sir Thomas Audley.

William Grevill, Esquire, and Marga∣ret his wife, one of the heires of William Spershut, Esquire.

Dame Katharine, wife to Iohn Stoke, Alderman.

Robert Merfin, Esquire.

William Vndall, Esquire.

Lord Ospay Ferar.

Sir George Brewes, Knight.

Iohn Browne.

Lady Brandon, Wife to Sir Thomas Brandon.

William Lord Scales.

William Earle Warren.

Dame Maude, wife to Sir Iohn Peach. Lewknor.

Dame Margaret Elrington, one of the heires of Sir Thomas Elrington.

Iohn Bowden Esquire.

Robert Saint Magil.

Iohn Standhurst.

Iohn Gower.

Iohn Duncell, Merchant-Taylor, 1516.

Iohn Sturton, Esquire.

Robert Rouse.

Thomas Tong, first Norroy, and after Clarenciaulx, King of Armes.

William Wickham, translated from the Sea of Lincolne, to the Bishopricke of Winchester, in the moneth of March, 1595. deceased the 11. day of Iune next following and was buried here.

Thomas Cure, Esquire, Sadler to King Edward the sixth, Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth, deceased the 24. day of May, 1598.

Hic jacet Ioannes Gower, Armiger, An∣glorum Poeta celeberrimus, ac huic sa∣cro Aedificio benefactor insignis, vixit temporibus Ed. 3. & Rich. 3.

Noviter constructum impensis Parochiae, An. Dom. 1615.

Epics••ion Thomae Cure, Southwarchien∣sis Armigeri.

Elizabetha tibi Princeps servivit Equorum A sellis Curus, quem lapis iste regit. Servivit Edvardo Regi, Mariaeque Sorori, Principibus magna est laus placuisse tribus. Convixit cunctis charus Respublica Curae Semper erat Curo, commoda plebis erant: Dum vixit tribui senibus curavit alendis, Nummorum in sumptus annua dona domos.

Obiit 24. die Maii, An. Dom. 1588.

An Epitaph upon John Trehearne, Gen∣tleman Porter to King James the first.

Had Kings a power to lend their Subjects breath, ••rehearne, thou shouldst not be cast downe by death: Thy Royall Master still would keepe thee then; But length of dayes are beyond reach of men. Nor wealth, nor strength, nor great mens love can ease The wound Deaths Arrowes make, for thou hast these. In thy Kings Court good place to thee is given: Whence thou shalt goe to the Kings Court of Heaven.

Peter Humble, Gentleman, dedicates this Monument to the pious memory of Ri∣chard Humble, Alderman of London, and Margaret his first wife, daughter to Iohn Pierson of Nathing, in the County of Essex, Gentleman. By whom he had issue two sonnes, Iohn, who died young, and the above-named Peter, now living. Also foure daughter, Katha∣rine, Weltham, Margaret, and Eliza∣beth, who survived the other three, and was interred the same day with her Fa∣ther, being the 30. of April 1616. Ri∣chard left Isabel his second wife, wi∣dow, who was the daughter of Robert Kitchinman, of Hemsley, in the Coun∣ty of Yorke, Gentleman, bequeathing to the poore of this Parish five pounds, foure shillings yeerly for ever, out of a Tene∣ment adjoyning to the Southside of the three Crownes gate in Southwarke.

Gulielmus Wickham, translat. à sede Lincoln. & Mense Martii, 1595. ex∣isten Episcopus Winton. Obiit 11. Iunii, prox. sequent. Reliquit uxorem laudatiff. quae sepelit in Awkenbery, Com. Hunt.

Doctrina Antistes praestans & moribus aequis, Eloquio & pietate gravis, mensaque manuque. Non parcus, justi neglectus honore sepulchri, Hic jacet. O seculum insipiens, verum aequior illi, Dum moritur, Deus Aligeros dat cernere, missos, Qui migrantem animam Coeli ad sublimina ferrent.

F. M. posuit 10. Iunii, Anno Domini 1600.

The Monument of Bishop Andrewes is in a Chappell at the East end of the Church, and his body lyeth within the Monument.

Lector, Si Christianus es, siste: Morae pretium erit,

Non nescire te, qui vir hîc situs sit:

Ejusdem tecum Catholicae Ecclesiae membru, Sub eadem felicis Resurrectionis spe, Eandem D. Iesu praestolans Epiphaniam,

Sacratiss. Antistes Lancelotus Andrews, Londini oriundus, educatus Cantabrigiae, Aulae Pembroch. Alumnor. Socior. Praefector. Vnus, & nemini secundus:

Linguarum, Artium, Scientiarum, Humanorum, Divinorum, Omnium

Infinitus Thesaurus, Stupendum Oraculū:

Orthodoxae Christi Ecclesiae, Dictis, scriptis, precibus, Exemplo Incomparabile propugnaculum: Reginae Elizabethae à sacris, D. Pauli London. Residentiarius, D. Petri Westmonast. Decanus:

Episcopus Cicestrensis, Eliensis, Wintoniensis, Regique Iacobo tum ab Eleemosynis, Tum ab utriusque Regni Consiliis, Decanus denique Secelli Regii:

Idem ex Indefessa opera in studiis, Summa sapientia in rebus, Assidua pietate in Deum, Profusa largitate in Egenos, Rara amoenitate in suos, Spectata probitate in omnes, Aeternum admirandus.

Annorum pariter & publicae famae satur, Sed bonorū passim omnium cum luctu denatus, Coelebs hinc migravit ad aureolam coelestem,

Anno Regis Caroli 11^o. Aetatis S. LXXI^o. Christi MDCXXVI^o.

Tantum est (Lector) quod te moerentes posteri Nunc volebant, atque vt voto tuo valeas, dicto Sit Deo gloria.

There is a Monument of Iohn Bin∣gham, Esquire, Sadler to Queene Eliza∣beth and King Iames. Who was a wor∣thy benefactor to the Parish, and to the Free-Schoole there: who departed this life in the yeere of our Lord, 1625.

There is a Monument for VVilliam Emerson, who departed this life the 27. of Iune, An. Dom. 1575. in the yeere of his age 92.

Arvum hoc Sepulchrale.

Exuviarum opt. matris Iocosae dominae Clerke. Sui ipsius lectissimaeque uxoris consitioni destinatum, Gulielmus Augu∣stinus Armiger vivus sacravit.

Anna

Conjux charissima primo. inseritur.

Quae post decimū partum (An MDCXXIII. Ian. XXI. Marito, ac liberis quinque su∣perstitibus) Tricenaria valedicens:

In restorescendi dic & spem; Hac terra tegitur.

Sequimur caeteri: Sati corruptibiles,

Suscitandi incorruptibiles.

The Monument with this inscripti∣on standeth on the South side of the Quire.

Monumentum viri justi.

In memory of Iohn Symons, Citizen and White-Baker of London; who departed this life the 10. of August, in the yeere of our Lord 1625. and was a good Bene∣factor unto this Parish: who gave unto the poore the summe of eight pounds Per Annum for ever, to be distributed on the Feast day of St. Thomas before Christ∣mas. And unto Saint Georges Parish in Southwarke the summe of ten pounds per Annum, for ever. And unto the Parish of Saint Mary Newington in Surrey, the summe of five pounds per Annum, for ever. These summes to come unto the said Parish, after the de∣cease of his father Samuel Symons, who yet liveth, in the yeere 1631.

The Monument standeth in the South side of the Church, with this Epitaph:

His flesh interr'd here once contain'd a spirit, Who (by Gods mercy and his Saviours merit) Departed in that constant hope of trust, To reigne eternally amongst the just: To live and dye well was his whole endeavor, And in (assurance) dyed to live for ever.

In the South side of the Church by the Quire there standeth the Monu∣ment of William Austin, Esquire, very faire and beautifull; the invention thus:

Over the head of the Angell is a Sunne, and in it written Sol Iustitiae.

There standeth an Angell upon a Rocke, with a Sickle in the left hand, and the right hand erected towards heaven, with these words written on the Rocke: Petra erat Christus; and un∣der the Rocke is a field of ripe wheate, and in it written: Si non moriatur, non reviviscit. And under that these words: Nos sevit, fovit, lavit, cogit, renovabit.

Vpon the right hand of this Angell are written these words: Vos estis Dei. And on the left this: Agricultura.

On each side of this Angell sitteth two other Angels, leaning on their armes; the one with a Forke, and un∣der written Messores. The other with a Rack, and under written: Congregabunt.

Vnder all this is the forme of a win∣nowing Fanne, and words written in it.

The Lady Clarke, mother to Master William Austin, gave a very faire Com∣munion Table railed about, where 60. may kneele to receive the Sacrament, with a faire Carpet for it, and the railes hung about with the same embroide∣red.

Master William Austin gave a faire Silver Chalice, and a Dish for the Bread, to the value of almost forty pounds. And his wife that now is, who was the Relict of Iohn Bingham, Esquire, gave two very faire Silver Flagons of the like value.

Ex Registro Curiae Praerogativae Cant. extracto. Master Sampsons Will.

Item, I give and bequeath these An∣nuities ensuing to be issuing out of cer∣taine Tenements of mine, viz. twenty shillings yeerly for ever to the Master and Society of Peter house in Cam∣bridge, towards the maintenance of the Library there: and twenty shillings yeerly for ever to the Church-wardens of Saint Olaves in Southwarke, for the use of the poore of the Parish. And ten shilligs yeerly for ever to the Church-wardens of the Parish of St. Saviours, for the poore in the precinct of old Pa∣rish Garden,

Master Smith hath given unto the said Parish of S. Saviours the summe

of twenty eight pounds per Annum, for ever unto the poore of this Parish.

Master Randall Carter, Citizen and Tallow Chandler of London, hath given seven pounds per Annum, for ever unto a poore Scholar that shall bee elected out of the Free Schoole to either of the Vniversities; and this seven pounds he is to enjoy for sixe yeeres, and his time expired to another: and so forward.

Master Edward Hulit, Gentleman, hath given forty pounds per Annum, to the poore of the same Parish for ever, to bee received out of certaine Tene∣ments, situate in the Borough of South∣warke.

Hugh Brooker, Esquire, hath given unto the Free Schoole the summe of five pounds per Annum, for ever. And likewise unto the poore of the same Pa∣rish five pounds per Annum, for ever: and lyeth buried in Saint Saviours Church in the North Ile by the Quire.

Thomas Marshall gave an hundred pounds for ever to the Parish, for to clothe sixe poore boyes every Christ∣masse, who dyed in the yeere 1625.

Now passing through Saint Mary Overies Close (in possession of the Lord Mountacute) and Pepper Alley, into Long Southwarke, on the right hand thereof, the Market hill, where the Leather is fold, there stood the late na∣med Parish Church of Saint Margaret, given to Saint Mary Overies by Henry the first, put downe and joyned with the Parish Church of Saint Mary Mag∣dalen, and united to the late dissolved Priory Church of S. Mary Overy.

A part of this Parish Church of St. Margaret is now a Court, wherein the Assises and Sessions bee kept, and the Court of Admiralty is also there kept. One other part of the same Church is now a Prison, called the Compter in Southwarke, &c.

Farther up on that side, almost di∣rectly over-against St. Georges Church, was sometime a large and most sump∣tuous house, builded by Charles Bran∣don, late Duke of Suffolke, in the reigne of Henry the eighth, which was called Suffolke house; but comming afterwards into the Kings hands, the same was called Southwarke Place, and a Mint of Coynage was there kept for the King.

To this place came King Edward the sixth, in the second of his reigne, from Hampton Court, and dined in it. He at that time made Iohn Yorke, one of the Sheriffes of London, Knight, and then rode through the City to Westminster.

Queene Mary gave this house to Ni∣cholas Heth, Archbishop of Yorke, and to his successors for ever, to bee their Inne or lodging for their repaire to Lon∣don, in recompence of York house, neere to Westminster, which King Henry her father had taken from Cardinall Wool∣sey, and from the Sea of Yorke.

Archbishop Heth sold the same house to a Merchant, or to Merchants, that pulled it downe, sold the Lead, Stone, Iron, &c. and in place thereof builded many small Cottages of great rents, to the increasing of beggars in that Bo∣rough. The Archbishop bought Nor∣wich House, or Suffolke Place, neere unto Charing-Crosse, because it was neere un∣to the Court, and left it to his succs∣sors. Now on the South side, to returne backe again towards the Bridge. Over-against this Suffolke Place, is the Parish Church of Saint George, sometime per∣taining to the Priory of Bermondsey, by the gift of Thomas Arderne, and Thomas his son, in the yeere 1122.

There lye buried in this Church Wil∣liam Kirton, Esquire, and his wives, 1464.

Loe, Master William Evans he whose body lieth here, Bequeathed hath by his last will, for ever by the yeere Ten pounds, eight shillings to the poore, which is a blessed stay, And must be given them in bread, on every Sabbath day. One halfe to Crekederus poore, his native soile so deare: The other moity to the poore of this our Parish here. See now all ye that love the poore, how God did guide his wayes, Ten score and eight are serv'd with bread in two and fifty daies,

More than many would have done, to yeelded any share. Praise God, ye poore, who gave to him so provident a care.

He was free of the right Worship∣full Company of the Merchant-Taylors, and deceased the nine and twentieth of Iuly 1590. in the two and thirtieth yeer of the most prosperous reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Queene Eliza∣beth. Aetatis 67.

Behold, Iames Savage graciously hath done a godly deed To the poore of this Parish, for to relieve their need, Five pounds a yeere for evermore, by will he hath bequeath'd, Which must out of the Angell rents, quarterly be receiv'd, By the Church-wardens of this Church, whom he hath put in trust, As Fathers in the poores behalfe, to be upright and just. Which men I doubt not but our God, who seeth all things, shall finde True in dispersing of the same, according to his minde. Ye poore, thanke Christ for Savage still, extoil Gods name with praise, That he to follow his good art, in time may many raise.

Anno Domini 1588.

Then is the White Lion, a Gaole so called, for that the same was a common Hostery for the receit of Travellers by that signe. This house was first used as a Gaole within this threescore yeeres last, since the which time the Prisoners were once removed thence to an house in Newtowne, where they remained for a short time, and were returned backe a∣gaine to the aforesaid White Lion, there to remaine, as the appointed Gaole for the County of Surrey.

Next, is the Gaole or Prison of the Kings Bench, but of what antiquity the same is, I know not. For I have read, that the Courts of the Kings Bench and Chancery, have oft times been removed from London to other places, and so hath likewise the other Gaoles that serve those Courts, as in the yeere 1304. Ed∣ward the first commanded the Courts of the Kings Bench and the Exchequer, which had remained seven yeeres at Yorke, to be removed to their old places at London. And in the yeere 1387. the eleventh of Richard the second, Robert Trisilian chiefe Iustice, came to the Ci∣tie of Coventry, and there sate by the space of a moneth, as Iustice of the Kings Benche, and caused to be indited in that Court, about the number of 2000. per∣sons of that Country, &c.

It seemeth therefore, that for that time, the Prison or Gaole of that Court was not far off. Also, in the yeere 1392. the sixteenth of the same Richard, the Archbishop of Yorke being Lord Chan∣cellor, for good will that he bare to his City, caused the Kings Bench and Chan∣cery to bee removed from London to Yorke, but ere long they were returned to London.

Then is the Marshalsey another Gaole or Prison, so called, as pertaining to the Marshals of England. Of what continu∣ance kept in Southwarke, I have not lear∣ned: but like it is, that the same hath been removeable, at the pleasure of the Marshals. For I finde, that in the yeere 1376. the 50. of Edward the third, Hen∣ry Percy (being Marshall) kept his pri∣soners in the City of London, where ha∣ving committed one Iohn Prendargest, of Norwich, contrary to the liberties of the City of London, the Citizens, by per∣swasion of the Lord Fitzwalter, their Standard-bearer, tooke armour, and ranne with great rage to the Marshals Inne, brake up the gates, brought out the prisoner, and conveighed him a∣way, minding to have burnt the stockes in the middest of their City; but they first sought for Sir Henry Percy, to have punished him, as I have noted in my Annals.

More, about the Feast of Easter next following, Iohn Duke of Lancaster, ha∣ving caused all the whole Navie of Eng∣land to be gathered together at London, it chanced a certaine Esquire to kill one of the Mariners, which act the other Mariners taking in ill part, they brought their suit into the Kings Court of the Marshalsey, which then as chanced (saith mine Author) was kept in Southwarke: but when they perceived that Court to

be so favourable to the murderer; and further, that the Kings Warrant was also gotten for his pardon; they in great ••ury ranne to the house, wherein the murderer was imprisoned, brake into it, and brought forth the prisoner with his Gives on his legges, they thrust a kni••e to his heart, and sticked him, as if hee had beene a Hogge: after this they tyed a rope to his Gives, and drew him to the Gallowes, where when they had hanged him, as though they had done a great act, they caused the Trumpets to bee sounded before them to their ships, and there in great triumph they spent the rest of the day.

Also the Rebels of Kent, in the yeere 1381. brake downe the houses of the Marshalsey and Kings Bench in South∣warke, tooke from thence the prisoners, brake downe the house of Sir Iohn Im∣morth, then Marshall of the Marshalsey, and Kings Bench, &c. After this, in the yeere 1387. the eleventh of Richard the second, the morrow after Bartholomew day, the King kept a great Councell in the Castle of Nottingham, and the Mar∣shalsey of the King was then kept at Lughborow, by the space of sixe daies or more. In the yeere 1443. Sir Walter Many, was Marshall of the Marshalsey, the two and twentieth of Henry the sixth. William Brandon, Esquire, was Marshall in the eighth of Edward the fourth. In the yeere 1504. the priso∣ners of the Marshalsey then in Southwark brake out, and many of them being ta∣ken were executed, especially such as had beene committed for Felony or Treason.

From thence towards London bridge, on the same side, bee many faire Innes, for receit of travellers, by these signes, the Spurre, Christopher, Bull, Queens head, Tabard, George, Hart, Kings head, &c. Amongst the which, the most ancient is the Tabard, so called of the signe, which as wee now terme it, is of a lacket or sleevelesse coate, whole before, open on both sides, with a square collar, winged at the shoulders: a state∣ly garment, of old time commonly worne of Noblemen and others, both at home and abroad in the wars; but then (to wit, in the warres) their Armes em∣broidered, or otherwise depict upon them, that every man by his Coate of Armes might bee knowne from others: But now these Tabards are onely worne by the Heralds, and bee called their Coates of Armes in Service. For the Inne of the Tabard, Geffrey Chaucer, Esquire, the most famous Poet of Eng∣land, in commendation thereof, writeth thus:

It befell in that season, on a day, In Southwarke, at the Tabert, as I ••ay, Ready to wend on my Pilgrimage To Canturbury, with full devout courage; That night was comen into the Hostery Well nine and twenty in a company, Of sundry folke, by adventure yfall, In fellowship and Pilgrims were they all, That toward Canturbury woulden ride: The Stables and Chambers werenwide, And well we were eased at the best, &c.

Within this Inne was also the Lodg∣ing of the Abbot of Hide (by the City of Winchester) a faire house for him and his Traine, when hee came to the City to Parliament, &c.

And then Theeves lane, by St. Thomas Hospitall. The Hospitall of St. Thomas first founded by Richard, Prior of Ber∣mendsey, in the Sellerers ground, against the wall of the Monastery, in the yeere 1213. Hee named it the Almery, or House of Almes, for Converts and poore Children; for the which ground the Prior ordained, that the A••moner should pay ten shillings foure pence yeerly to the Sellerer at Michaelmas.

But Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Win∣chester, in the yeere 1215. founded the same againe more fully for Canons Re∣gular, in place of the first Hospitall: He increased the rent thereof to three hun∣dred forty foure pounds by the yeere. Thus was this Hospitall holden of the Prior and Abbot of Bermondsey, till the yeere 1428. at which time a compositi∣on was made between Thomas Thetford, Abbot of Bermondsey, & Nicholas Buck∣land, Master of the said Hospitall of Saint Thomas, for all the Lands and Te∣nements, which were holden of the said Abbot and Covent in Southwarke, or elsewhere, for the old rent to bee paid unto the said Abbot.

There bee the Monuments in this

Hospitall Church, of Sir Robert Cham∣ber, Knight,

William Fines,

Lord Say,

Richard Chaucer, Iohn Gloucester, A∣dam Atwood, Iohn Ward, Michael Cam∣bridge, William West, Iohn Golding, Es∣quires.

Iohn Benham, George Kirkes, Thomas Knighton, Thomas Baker, Gentlemen.

Robert, Sonne to Sir Thomas Fleming.

Agnes, wife to Sir Walter Dennis, Knight, Daughter and one of the heires of Sir Robert Danver, Iohn Evarey, Gen∣tlemen, &c.

This Hospitall was by the Visitors, in the yeere 1538. valued at 266. l. 17. s. 6. d. and was surrendred to Henry the 8. in the 30. of his raigne.

In the yeere 1552. the Citizens of London, having purchased the voyd suppressed Hospitall of Saint Thomas in Southwarke, in the Month of Iuly, be∣began the reparations therof, for poore, impotent, lame, and diseased people, so that in the Moneth of November next following, the sicke and poore people were taken in. And in the yeere 1553. on the 10. of April, King Ed∣ward the sixt in the seventh of his raigne, gave to the Maior, Com∣munaltie, and Citizens of Lon∣don, to bee a workehouse for the poore and idle persons of the Citie, his house of Bridewell, and seven hundred Marks Lands of the Savoy Rents, which Hospitall he had suppressed, with all the beds, bedding, and other furniture belonging to the same, towards the maintenance of the said workehouse of Bridewell, and of this Hospitall of Saint Thomas in Southwarke. This gift, the King confirmed by his Charter, dated the 26. of June next following, and wil∣led it to be called the Kings Hospitall in Southwarke.

The Church of this Hospitall, which of old time served for the Tenements neere adjoyning and pertaining to the said Hospitall, remaineth as a Parish Church.

But now to come to S. Olaves street: on the banke of the river of Thames is the Parish Church of Saint Olave, a faire and meetely large Church, but a far larger Parish, especially of Aliens or strangers, and poore people; in which Church, there lyeth intombed Sir Iohn Bur••ettur, Knight, 1466.

Here th'earthly pare of William Benson lyes, Whom Robert Benson had by Mary Lyle, The Heavenly mounted is above the Skies With wings of Faith, dissolv'd but for a while: The Linnen which he sold was nere so white, As is the Robe wherein the Soule is dight: Yes Thomas mourns in blacke, his onely Sonne, And Richard (of whole blood) his eldest Brother: But Londons reverend Bishop this hath done, Which was by Ravis borne of the same Mother: And William Lyle, first cousin to them all, Long live his Verse, penn'd this Memoriall. He departed in the 56. yeere of his age. An. Dom. 1603. Februar. 1579. To you that live possest, great troubles do befall, Where we that sleep by death, do feele no harme at all: An honest life doth bring, a joyfull death at last, And life againe begins, when death is over-past. Death is the path to life, and way to endlesse wealth, The doore whereby we passe to everlasting health. These threescore yeere and six have passed here my life, And thirty seven yeeres thereof, thou Helen wert my wife, A Citizen also, and of the Cutlers free, And Warden of the same, so worthy thought to be. My loving wife farewell, God guide thee with his grace. Prepare thy selfe to come, and I will give thee place:

Acquaintance all farewell, and be assur'd of this, You shall be brought to dust, as Thomas Malledge is.

Hic jacet corpus Ioannis Thomas, nuper Ci∣vis & Groceri Civitatis London. Qui obiit die Mercurii, vid. 23. Augusti, Anno Domini 1564. Hic tres uxores habuit, vid. Christianam, Matildam, & Ioannam. Ex Christiana suscepit hos liberos, Rogerum, Ioannem, seu williel∣mum, Ioannem inter Richardum, Lam∣bertum, Henricum, Beatricem, & Pe∣trum. Ex Matilda, Aliciam, Agne∣tem, & Susannam. Ex Ioanna, Thomam, Martham, Margaretam, Annam, Ri∣chardum & Saram.

Hic jacet corpus Richardi Philip, Civis & Groceri London. Qui obiit 10. die Mensis Aprilis, Anno Domini 1412. & Isabella uxor ejus: Quae obiit, &c. Quorum, &c.

Here resteth, in the mercie of God, the body of Iohn Eston, Esquire, late Iu∣stice of the Peace, and of Southwarke Steward, leaving behind him Mar∣garet his wife. Which Iohn died the eight day of May, Anno Domini 1565.

How rich be they certaine, That Heavenly Kingdome gaine? No tongue can well expresse Their joyes, that be endlesse.

Hic jacent Robertus Faireford, quon∣dam Serviens excellentiss. Principis Henrici Reg. Angliae Quarti, ac nu∣per Coronator Curiae Marescalciae Hospitii Metuendissimorum Prin∣cip. Henrici Regis Angliae Quinti, & Henrici Sexti. Qui obiit 21. die Augusti, Anno Domini, 1456. &c. Et Agnet. ux.—Quae obiit—

Over-against this Parish Church, on the South side the street, was sometime one great House, builded of Stone, with arched Gates, which pertained to the Prior of Lewis in Sussex, and was his Lodging when hee came to London: It is now a common Hostery for Travel∣lers, and hath to Signe, the Walnut∣tree.

Then East from the said Parish Church of Saint Olave, is a Key. In the yeere 1330. by the licence of Simon Swanlond, Maior of London, it was buil∣ded by Isabell, widow to Hamond Good∣cheape. And next thereunto was then a great house of stone and timber, belon∣ging to the Abbot of S. Augustin, with∣out the wals of Canturbury, which was an ancient piece of work, & seemeth to be one of the first builded houses on that side the River, over-against the City: It was called the Abbots Inne of Saint Augustine in Southwarke, and was some∣time holden of the Earles of Warren and Surrey, as appeareth by a deede, made 1281. which I have read, and may bee Englished thus:

To all to whom this present writing shall come, Iohn, Earle Warren, sendeth gree∣ting. Know ye, that we have altogether re∣mised and quite claimed for us and our heires for ever, to Nicholas, Abbot of Saint Augustines of Canturbury, and the Covent of the same, and their successors, suit to our Court of Southwarke, which they owe unto us, for all that Messuage and houses thereon builded, and all their appur∣tenances, which they have of our fee in Southwarke, situate upon the Thames, betweene the Bridgehouse, and Church of Saint Olave. And the said Messuage with the buildings thereon builded, and all their appurtenances to them and their successors, we have granted in perpetuall Almes to hold of us, and our heires for the same: sa∣ving the service due to any other persons, if any such be, then to us. And for this remit and grant, the said Abbot and Covent have given unto us five shillings of rent yeerely in Southwarke, and have received us and our heires in all Benefices, which shall be in their Church for ever.

This sute of Court one William Cras∣peis was bound to doe to the said Earle, for the said Messuage: and heretofore to acquit in all things, the Church of Saint Augustine, against the said Earle.

This house of late time belonged to Sir Anthony Sentleger, then to Warham Sentleger, &c. And now is called Sent∣leger house, but divided into sundry Tenements.

Next is the Bridgehouse, so called, as being a store-house, for Stone, Timber,

or whatsouer pertaining to the buil∣ding or repairing of London bridge.

This house seemeth to have taken beginning, with the first founding of the Bridge; either of stone or timber: it is a large plot of ground on the banke of the river Thames, containing divers large buildings, for stowage of things necessary, towards reparation of the said Bridge.

There are also divers Garners, for laying up of Wheate, and other Gray∣ners for service of the City, as need re∣quireth. Moreover, there bee certaine Ovens builded, in number ten: of which sixe bee very large, the other foure be∣ing but halfe so bigge. These were purposely made to bake out the bread∣corne of the said Grayners, to the best advantage, for reliefe of the poore Citi∣zens, when neede should require. Sir I. Throstone, Knight, sometime an Im∣broderer, then Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, 1516. gave (by his Testa∣ment) towards the making of these Ovens two hundred pounds, which thing was performed by his Executors: Sir Iohn Munday, Goldsmith, then be∣ing Maior. There was of late, for the enlarging of the said Bridge-house, taken in an old Brew-house, called Goldings, which was given to the Citie by George Monox, sometime Maior, and in place thereof, is now a faire brew-house builded, for service of the Citie with Beere.

Next, was the Abbot of Battailes Inne, betwixt the Bridge-house and Bat∣taile bridge, likewise on the banke of the river of Thames; the walkes and gar∣dens thereunto appertaining, on the o∣ther side of the way, before the gate of the said house, was called the Maze: there is now an Inne, called the Flower de luce, for that the signe is three Flower de luces. Much other buildings of smal tenements are thereon builded reple∣nished with strangers and other, for the most part poore people.

Then is Battaile bridge, so called of Battaile Abbey, for that it standeth on the ground, and over a water-course (flowing out of Thames) pertaining to that Abbey, & was therfore both buil∣ded and repaired by the Abbots of that house as being hard adjoyning to the Abbots lodging.

Beyond this Bridge is Bermondsey streete, turning South, in the South end whereof was sometime a Priory or Ab∣bey, of S. Sauioyr, called Bermonds eye in Southwarke, founded by Ailewin Childe, a Citizen of London, in the yeere 1081.

Peter, Richard, Obstert, and Vmbalde, Monkes de Charitate, came to Bermond∣sey, the yeere 1089. and Peter was made first Prior there, by appointment of the Prior of the house, called Charitie in France: by which meanes this Priory of Bermondsey (being a Cell to that in France) was accounted a Priory of A∣liens.

In the yeere 1094. deceased Ailewin Childe, founder of this house. Then Wil∣liam Rufus gave to the Monks, his Man∣nor of Bermondsey, with the appurtenan∣ces, and builded for them there a new great Church.

Robert Blewit, Bishop of Lincolne (King Williams Chancelor) gave them the Mannor of Charleton, with the ap∣purtenances. Also Geffrey Martell, by the grant of Geffrey Magnaville, gave them the Land of Halingbury, and the tithe of Alferton, &c.

More in the yeere Thomas of Arderne 1122. and Thomas his Son, gave to the Monkes of Bermonds Eye, the Church of Saint George in Southwarke.

In the yeere 1165. King Henry the second confirmed to them the Hide or territorie of Southwarke, and Laygham, Waddam, with the land of Coleman, &c.

In the yeere one thousand, three hun∣dred, seventy one, the Priories of A∣liens (throughout England) being seized into the Kings hands, Richard Denten an Englishman, was made Prior of Bermondsey: to whom was committed the custody of the said Priory, by the letters patents of King Edward the third, saving to the King the advow∣sons of Churches.

In the yeare 1380. the fourth of Ri∣chard the second, this Priory was made a Denizen (or free English) for the fine of 200. Markes, payd to the Kings Ha∣naper in the Chancery. In the yeare 1399. Attelborough, Prior of Bermond∣sey, was made the first Abbot of that house, by Pope Boniface the ninth, at the suit of King Richard the second.

In the yeere 1417. Thomas Thetford, Abbot of Bermondsey, held a Plea in Chauncery against the King, for the Mannors of Preston, Bermondsey, and Stone, in the County of Summerset, in the which sute the Abbot prevailed, and recovered against the King.

In the yeere 1539. this Abbey was valued to dispend by the yeere 474. l. 14. s. 4. d. ob. and was surrendred to Henry the eighth, the 31. of his reigne: the Abbey Church was then pulled downe by Sir Thomas Pope, Knight, and in place thereof, a goodly house builded of stone and timber, since pertaining to the Earles of Sussex.

There are buried in that Church Loufstone Provost, Shrive or Domes∣man of London, 1115.

Sir William Bowes, Knight, and Dame Elizabeth his wife.

Sir Thomas Pikeworth, Knight.

Dame Anne Audley.

George, sonne to Iohn, Lord Audley.

Iohn Winkefield; Esquire.

Sir Nicholas Blonket, Knight.

Dame Bridget, wife to Wil. Trussell.

Holgrave, Baron of the Exchequer, &c.

Next unto this Abbey Church stan∣deth a proper Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, builded by the Priors of Ber∣mondsey, serving for resort of the inha∣bitants (tenants to the Prior or Abbots neere adjoyning) there to have their di∣vine Service: this Church remaineth and serveth as afore, and is called a Pa∣rish Church.

Then in Kentstreet is a Lazar house for Leprous people, called the Loke in Southwarke: the foundation whereof I finde not. Now having touched divers principall parts of this Borough, I am to speak somewhat of government, and so to end.

This Borough at a Subsidy to the King, yeeldeth about 1000. Markes, or 800. l. which is more than any one Ci∣ty in England payeth, except the City of London. And also the Muster of men in this Borough doth like wise in number surpasse all other Cities, except London. And thus much for the Borough of Southwarke, one of the 26. Wards of London, which hath an Alderman, De∣puties three, and a Bayliffe. Common Councell none. Constables 16. Scaven∣gers 6. Wardmote Inquest 20. And is taxed to the Fifteene, at 17. pounds, 17. shillings, 8. pence.

Notes

• Bridge Ward without.
• Ex Hum••r. Dys••n.
• How the Borough of South∣warke be∣came at the first to be one of the 26. Wards of London.
• The Mint of Coy∣nage in Southwarke.
• The kings Hospitall in South∣warke.
• The pow∣er of the Maior, Commu∣nalty, and Citizens of London in South∣warke.
• The Faire to be kept in South∣warke.
• Felons in Southwarke commit∣ted to Newgate in London.
• Pleas, Actions, Plaints, and perso∣nall Suits.
• Inhabi∣tants of the Bo∣rough to implead, and be im∣pleaded in London.
• Issues ta∣ken upon Suits try∣ed before the Maior and Alder∣men.
• Two Co∣roners for the Bo∣rough.
• The Ma∣ior of Lon∣don Es∣cheat••r in Southwarke and Clark of the Market there also.
• Toll, Tal∣lage, Pi∣cage, &c.
• The inha∣bitants to be within the gover∣nance and correcti∣on of the Maior, &c.
• Iustices of London in the like Office in Southwark.
• 3. Market & Markets in South∣warke.
• Excepti∣ons and reservati∣ons to the King.
• The orde∣ring sur∣uey, and gouern∣ment of the Bo∣rough, &c.
• The Ward of Bridge Ward without; and Sir Iohn Ayliffe first Alder∣man thereof.
• Sir Iohn Ayliffe sworne & admitted in the Ma∣ioralitie of Sir Row∣land Hill.
• Election of an Al¦derman by Scrutiaie.
• The Alder∣man of Bridge Ward without.
• The Al∣derman to change from that Ward, as occasion served.
• The Al∣derman of Bridge Ward with∣out to con∣tinue so for the space of 3▪ yeeres, without removing.
• 4. Another order for electing the Alder∣man of Bridge Ward with∣out, in the time of K. Philip & Queen Mary.
• S. Olaves street.
• The Beare Gardens▪
• Liber Ma∣nuscript.
• The Stewes on the Bank-side.
• Li. S. Mary Eborum.
• English people disdayned to bee Bawds.
• Froes of Flaunders were wo∣men for that pur∣pose.
• Rob. Fabian.
• Stew hou∣ses put downe by Henry the 7. for a time.
• Signes on the Stew-houses.
• Single women forbidden rights of the Church.
• Stew-hou∣ses put downe.
• Winchester house.
• Rochester house.
• Saint Ma∣ry Overies a Priory, and now a Parish Church.
• Lib. Rufen.
• Liber Ber∣mondsey.
• S. Thomas Hospitall.
• Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen.
• Iohn Gower was no Knight, neither had he a∣ny Gar∣land of lvie and Roses, but a Chaplet of foure Roses on∣ly.
• Priory of S. Mary Overy made a Parish Church.
• A very faire Tombe in the North Il•• of the Church.
• A faire Tombe in the North wall of the Quire.
• A very Monumēt close by the other.
• A very faire Tombe in the chan∣cell.
• A very faire stone by the Commu∣nion ta∣ble.
• This Mo∣nument standeth in the South Ile.
• 16. Septem. 1619.
• S. Mary Overies Close.
• Pepper Al∣ley.
• S. Margaret on the hill made a Court of Iustice.
• Court of Admiral∣tie.
• Compter in South∣warke.
• Suffolke house, a Mint in Southwark.
• Parish Church of S. George.
• A faire Monumēt in the South wal of the Chancell.
• A faire grave∣stone un∣der the Commu∣nion ta∣ble.
• White Lion a Goale for Surrey.
• Kings Bench.
• H. Knighton▪
• Marshalsey in South∣warke.
• Saylers brake up the Mar∣shalsey.
• Rebels of Kent brake up the Marshalsey.
• The Ta∣bard in Southwark.
• Geffery Chaucer.
• The Ab∣bot of Hide his Lodging.
• Hospitall of Saint Thomas.
• Li. S. Mary Overy. S. Thomas Hospitall the second time founded.
• The third foundati∣on of S. Thomas Hospitall by the Ci∣tizens of London.
• Gift of E. the sixt to the Mospi∣tall of S. Thomas in Southwarke.
• S. Thomas Parish Church.
• S. Olaves street and Parish Church.
• A small Monumēt in the North wall of the Chancell.
• A graven Plate in the end of the Quire.
• A plated Stone by the Com∣munion Table.
• Another like Stone by it.
• The like Stone on the other side of the Table.
• An anci∣ent Mar∣ble Tombe in the Chancell.
• Prior of Lewis his Inne.
• Abbot of Augustines Inne.
• W. Thomas.
• Sentleger house.
• Garners for Come in the Bridge-house.
• Ovens in the Bridge-house.
• A Brew-house buil¦ded in the Bridge-house.
• Abbot of Battaile his Inne.
• Battaile bridge.
• Bermond∣sey streete.
• Hide of Southwark to the Monkes of Ber∣mondsey.
• Abbot of Bermond∣sey held a Plea a∣gainst the King, and prevailed.
• Iohns Bae∣v••w.
• Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen.
• The Loke a Lazar-house in Kent street.
• Muster of men in Southwark.