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The Suburbes without the Walles of the Citie, briefly touched. As also with
out the Liberties, more at large described.
HAuing spoken of this citie, the originall, and in
crease, by degrées. The Walls, Gates, Dich, Castles, Towers, Bridges, the Schooles and Houses of learning. Of the Orders and Cu
stomes, Sports and Pastimes. Of the honour of Citizens, and worthinesse of the men. And last of all, how the same Citie. is diuided into parts and Wards. And how the same be boun
ded. And what Monuments of antiquitie, or Ornaments of buil
ding be in euery of thē, as also in the Borough of Southwarke. I am next to speak briefly of the Suburbs, as well without the gates and walles, as without the Liberties. And of the Monuments in them.
Concerning the estate of the Suburbs of this Citie, in the raigne of H. the 2. Eitz Stephens1
Fitz Stephens.
hath these words. Upwards on the West (saith he) is the Kings Pallace, which is an incomparable building, rising with a Uawmure & Bulwark. Aloft vpon the riuer, two myles from the wall of the citie, but yet conioyned with a continuall Su
burbe. On all sides, without the houses of the Suburbes, are the ci
tizens Gardens and Orchards, planted with trées, both large, sight
ly, and adioyning togither. On the North side, are pastures, & plaine medows, with brookes running through them, turning water mils, with a pleasant noyse. Not far off, is a great Forrest, A well wodded Chase, hauing good couert for Harts, Buckes, Does, Boores, and wilde bulles. The corne fields are not of a hungry sandie mould, but as the fruitfull fields of Asia: yéelding plentifull encrease, and filling the barnes with corne. There are neare London on the North side, especiall welles in the Subburbes, swéete, holesome, and cleare. A
mongst which, Holywell, Clarkenwell, and S. Clemons well, are
most
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most famous, and most frequented, by schollers & youthes of ye citie in Summer euenings, when they walke forth to take the ayre. Thus farre out of Fitz Stephen, for the Subburbes at that time.
Libar albo.
The 2. yeare of H. the 3. the Forrest of Midlesex, and the Warren of Stanes were disaforested: since the which time, the Subburbs about London hath bin also mightily increased with buildings: for first, to begin in the East, by the Tower of London,
Subburbe with
out the Po
sterne by the Tower of Lon. Wapping in the Wose.
is the Hospitall of S. Kathren, founded by Matilde the Quéene, wife to King Stephen, as is afore shewed in Porsoken Warde, from this Precinct of Saint Kathren, to Wapping in the Wose, and Wapping it selfe, (the vsuall place of Execution for the hanging of Pyrates and sea Rouers, at the lowe water marke, and there to remaine, till thrée Tydes had ouerflowed them) and neuer a house standing within these fortie yeares, but is now made a continuall stréete, or ra
ther a filthy straight passage, with Lanes and Allyes, of small Tenements inhabited by Saylors, and Uictuallers, along by the Riuer of Thames, almost to Radliffe, a good myle from the Tower.
Now on the East side, and by North of the Tower, lyeth East-Smithfield, Hogs stréete, and Tower hill: and East from them both, was the New Abbey called Grace, founded by Edward the third. From thence towards Radliffe, vp East Smithfielde, by Nightingale Lane
Nightingale Lane.
(which runneth South by the Hermitage,
The hermitage by S. Kathrēs. Villa Estsmith field and Villa de Brambly.
to Wapping) to the maner of Brambley, called in the records of Ri
chard the second, Vila East Smithfield, and Villa de Bramb
ley.
Not farre from thence, of very late, (where of olde time, stoode the mannor of Shadwell,
Mannor of Shadwell.
be
longing to the Deane of Powles, there haue béene raised many small Tenements towards Radliffe:
Radliffe.
and Radliffe it selfe, hath bin so increased in building Eastward (in place where, I haue knowne faire hedges, long rowes of Elme, and other trées) that the same haue now taken hold of Lime hurst,
Limehurst.
(or Lime hoste it selfe) commonly called Lime house, sometime distant a mile from Radliffe, &c.
Now for Tower hill:
Tower Hall without the Walles.
the plaine there, is likewise greatly dimi
nished, by incrochments for building of small tenements, and ta
king in of garden plots, timbaryars, or what they list.
From
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From this Tower Hill towards Aldegate, (being a long continu
all streete) amongst other buildings, was that Abbey of Nunnes, called the Minorities, or Minories, whereof I haue spoken. And on the other side of that stréete, lyeth the Ditche, without the wall of the Citie, from the Tower vnto Aldegate.
From Aldegate East,
Suburbe with
out Aldegate.
againe lyeth a large stréete, replenished with buildings: to wit, on the North side, the parish church of Saint Buttolphe, and so other buildings to Hog Lane, and to the Barres on both the sides. Also without the Barres, both the sides of the stréet be pestered with Cotages & Allies, euen vp to white Chapple church: and almost halfe a myle beyond it, into the common field: all which ought to lye open & frée for all men. But this common field, I say, be
ing sometimes the beautie of this Citie on that part, is so incroched vpon by building of filthy Cotages, and with other prepesterous like inclosures and Laystalles, (that notwithstanding all Proclamations and Acts of Parliament made to the contrary) that in some places it scarce remaineth a sufficient high way for the méeting of Carriages and droues of Cattel, much lesse is there any faire, pleasant, or whol
some way for people to walk on foote: which is no small blemish to so famous a citie, to haue so vnsauery and vnséemly an entry or passage therunto. Now of white Chaple Church
Of white Chapple.
somwhat, & thē back again to Aldegate. This church is as it were a chapple of ease, to the parish of Stebinhithe, and the Parson of Stebinhithe hath the gift therof: which being first dedicated to the name of God, and the blessed Uir
gin, is now called S. Mary Matfellon,
S. Mary Mat
fellon.
vpon this occasiō following. About the yeare 1428. the 6. of King H. the 6. A deuout Widow
A deuout wi
dow murdered
of that parish had long time cherished, and brought vp of Almes, a cer
taine Frenchman or Briton borne, which most vnkindly & cruelly, in a night murthered the said widow sléeping in her bed, and after fled with such Iewels & other stuffe of hers as he might carry: but he was so freshly pursued, that for feare he tooke the church of S. George in Southwarke, and challenged priuiledge of Sanctuary there, and so abiured ye Kings land. Then the Constables (hauing charge of him) brought him into London, intending to haue conueyed him East
ward) but so soone as he was come into the Parish, where before he had committed the murther, the wiues cast vpon him so much filth and ordure of the stréete, that (notwithstanding the best resistance
made
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made by the Constables,) they slew him out of hand: And for this fact, that Parish purchased the name of Mary Mat-fellon. Now againe from Algegate, Northwest to Bishops gate,
Suburbe with- Bishops gate.
lyeth Howndes Ditche, and so to Bishops gate. North and by East from Bishops gate, lyeth a large stréete or high way, hauing on the West side ther
of, the Parish church of S. Buttolphe. Then is the Hospitall of S. Mary of Bethelem, founded by a citizen of London, as before is shewed. Thence vp to the Barres, and to Norton fall gate
Nortonfall gate.
(a liber
tie so called, belonging to the Deane of Powles. Thence also vp to the late dissolued Priory of S. Iohn Baptist, called Holywell,
Priory of Saint Iohn Baptist at Holywell.
a house of Nuns, of olde time founded by a Bishop of London: reedi
fied by Sir Thomas Louell, brought vp in Lincolnes Inne, who builded much there. And in this place, in the raignes of H. the 7. and H. the 8. he endowed this house with faire landes, and was there buried in a large chapple by him builded for that purpose. This Prio
ry was valued at the suppression, to haue of landes 293.li. by yeare, and was surrendred 1539. in the 31. of H. the 8. The church ther
of being pulled downe, many houses haue bene their builded for the lodgings of Noble men, of straungers borne, and other. And neare thereunto, are builded two publique houses for the acting and shewe of Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories, for recreation. Whereof the one is called the Courtein,
The Courtin.
the other the Theatre:
The Theatre.
both standing on the Southwest side towards the field.
From Hollywell in the high stréete, is a continuall building of Tenements to Sors Ditche, or Sewers Ditche, sauing one small side of a fielde, alreadie made a Gardein plotte. Ouer against the North corner of this field, betwéene it and the church of S. Leonarde in Soersditch, sometime stood a Crosse, now a Smithes Forge,
A Crosse at Soersditch, now a Smithes Forge.
diuiding thrée wayes: foorth right the high way, is builded vpon either side, more then a good flight shot, towards Kings Land, Newington, Totenham, &c.
On the left hand is Ealdestréete, which reacheth West to a stone Crosse, ouer against the North ende of Grubstréete, and so to the end of Goswell stréet. On the right hand of this Ealdestréete, not farre from Soers Ditch, but on the North side thereof is Hox
ton,
Hoxton.
a long stréete, with houses on both sides, and is a Prebend be
longing to Powles church in London, but of Soers ditch parish.
On
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On the right hand beyond Soersditch Church toward Hack
ney, are some late builded houses vpon the common soyle (for it was a Laystall) belonging to the Parish of Stebinhithe. On the other side of the high way, from Bishopsgate and Hownsditch, the first building is a large Inne for receipt of Trauellers: then a faire house lately builded by the Lorde Iohn Powlet. Next to that, a large house, with Gardens of pleasure, builded by Iasper Eisher. From this vp to the West ende of Hog Lane, is a continuall building of small cottages.
Then was the Hospitall called Saint Mary Spittle, harde within the Barres, whereof I haue spoken, in Bishopsgate Ward. From the which Barres towards Soersditch, is all along a conti
nued building of small and base Tenements, for the most part lately erected. Amongst the which (I meane of the auncientest buil
dings) was one rowe of proper small houses
Almes houses in Soersditch.
with Gardens for poore decaied people, there placed by the Pryor of the saide Hospitall: euery one Tennant whereof, paide one penny Rent by the yeare at Christmas: and dyned with the Pryor on Christmas day: but after the suppression of the Hospitall, these houses (for want of re
parations) in fewe yeares were so decaied, that it was called Rot
ten Rowe:
Rotten Rowe, or Russel Row.
and the poore worne out (for there came no new in their place) the houses were solde from Goddard, to Russell a Draper, who new builded them, and let them out for Rent inough, taking also large Fines of the Tenants, (which some thinke to be neare as much as the houses cost him in the purchase, and building: for he made his bargaines so hardly with all men, that both Carpen
ter, Bricklayer, and Playsterer, were by that worke vtterly vn
done. And yet in honour of his name, it is now called Russels Rowe.
Now for the Parish of S. Leonards at Soersditch,
Parish Church of S. Leonard, at Soersditch.
the Arch
deacon of London, is alwaies Parson thereof, and the Cure is ser
ued by a Uicure. In this Church haue bene diuers honourable per
sons buried, as appeareth by their Monuments
Monuments defaced.
yet remaining. Not
withstanding that of late, one Uicure there for couetousnesse of the brasse which he cōuerted into coyned siluer, plucked vp many plates fixed on the graues, and left no memorie of such as had bene buried vnder them: A great iniurie both to the liuing and the dead, forbid
den
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den by publicque proclamation, in the raigne of our soueraigne Ladie the Quéene that now is: but not forborne by many, that ey
ther of a preposterous zeale, or of a greedie minde, spare not to sa
tisfie themselues, by so wicked meanes.
Now wil I passe through the Hospitall of S. Mary Bethelem, into Moore fielde, which lyeth without the Posterne called Moore
gate.
Suburbe with
out the Po
stern of More
gate.
This field of olde time was called the Moore. As appeareth by the Charter of William Conqueror, to the Colledge of S. Martin: declaring a runnning water to passe into the Citie from the same Moore. Also Fitz Stephen writeth of this Moore, saying thus. When the great Fenne or Moore, which watereth the walles on the North side is frozen, &c.
Fensberry fields, & More fields, an vn
profitable ground.
This Fen or Moore field, stretching from the wall of the citie, betwixt Bishopsgate and the Posterne called Criples gate, to Fensberry, and so to Holywell, continued a waste and vnprofi
table grounde, a long time, so that the same was all letten for foure Markes the yeare, in the raigne of Edward the 2. But in the yeare 1415. the 3. of Henry the 5. Thomas Fawconer Mayor, as I haue shewed, caused the wall of the Citie to be broken toward the saide Moore, and builded the Posterne called Mooregate, for the ease of the Citizens, to walke that way vpon Causwayes into the fieldes towards Iseldon and Hoxton. Moreouer, he caused the Ditche of the Citie, and other Ditches thereabout, to be new cast and clensed, by meane whereof, the said Fen or Moore was greatly dreyned and dried. And shortly after, to wit, 1477. Raphe Ioceline Mayor, for repairing of the wall of this Cittie, caused the saide Moore to bee searched for Clay and Bricke to be brent there, &c. by which means this field was made the worse for a long time.
In the yeare 1498. all the Gardens which had continued time out of minde, without Mooregate,
Gardens with out Moore
gate, destroy
ed and made plaingrounde.
to wit, about, and beyond the Lordship of Fensberry, were destroyed. And of them was made a plaine field for Archers so shoote in. And in the yeare 1512. Roger Archley Mayor, caused diuers Dikes to be cast, and made to drene the waters of the saide Moore fields,
Ditches cast to dreine the Moore Field.
with Bridges Arched ouer them, and the grounds about to be leuelled, whereby the saide fielde was made somewhat more commodious, but yet it stood full of noysome waters: Wherepon in the yeare 1527.
Sir
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Sir Thomas Semor Mayor, caused diuers Slewces
Slewces to conuey the standing water out of the Moore.
to be made, to conuey the sayde waters, ouer the Towne Ditch, into the course of Walbrooke, and so into the Thames: and by these degrees, was this Fenne or Moore, at length made maine and hard ground, which before béeing ouergrowne with Flagges, Sedges, & Rushes, serued to no vse, since the which time, also the further groundes beyond Fensbury Court, haue béene so ouerheigthned with Laystalles of Doong, that now thrée windmilles are thereon:
Moorefielde raised, & wind
milles set thereon.
the ditches be fil
led vp, and the bridges ouerwhelmed.
And now concerning the inclosures of common grounds about this citie: Edward Hall setteth downe a note of his time, to wit, in the 5. or rather the sixt of Henry the eight. Before this time saith he, the inhabitants of the Townes about London, as Iseldone, Hox
ton, Shorsdich and others, had so inclosed the common fieldes with hedges, and diches, that neither the young men of the citie might shoote, nor the auncient persons walke for their pleasures in those fieldes,
Edward Hall.
but that eyther their Bowes and Arrowes were taken a
way or broken, or the honest persons arested or indighted: Saying, that no Londoner ought to goe out of the Cittie, but in the high wayes. This saying so greeued the Londoners, that suddainly this yeare, a great number of the Citie, assembled themselues in a mor
ning, and a Turner in a fooles coate, came crying through the cittie, shouelles and spades, shouelles and spades: so many of the people followed, that it was a woonder to behold: and within a short space al the hedges
Hedges pulled downe and diches filled vp.
about the Citie were cast downe, and the diches filled vp, and euery thing made plaine, such was the diligence of these worke
men. The kings counsaile hearing of this assembly, came to the gray Fryers, and sent for the Mayor, and councell of the citie, to know the cause, which declared to them, the iniurie and annoying done to the citizens, and to their liberties, which though they would not séeke disorderly to redresse, yet the communaltie and young persons could not be stayed, thus to remedy the same: whē the kings counsaile had heard their answer, they dissimuled the matter, and commanded the Mayor to sée that no other thing were attempted, but that they should forthwith call home the yoonger sort: who hauing spée
dily atchieued their desire, returned home before the Kings Councell, and the Mayor departed without more harme,
after
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after which time (saieth Hall,) these fieldes were neuer hedged, but now wee see the thing in worse case then euer, before it was by the meanes of inclosure for gardens,
Banqueting houses like Banqueroutes bearing great shew and little worth.
wherein are builded many fayre Sommer houses, and as in other places of the Suburbes, some of them like Midsommer Pageants, with Towers, Turrets and Chimney tops, not so much for vse, or profites, as for shew and pleasure, bewraying the vanitie of many mens mindes, much vnlike to ye dispositiō of the ancient Citizens, who delighted in the building of Hospitalles, and Almes houses for the poore and therein both imployed their wits, and spent their wealthes in pre
ferment of the common commoditie of this our Citie.
But to come backe againe to Moregate and from thence west through a narrow lane called the Posterne, because it hath at eyther ende a dore to bee shut in the night season, betwixt the More ditch inclosed with bricke for Teyntar yards, and the Gar
dens of the said More fielde, to More lane: a parte of the Sub
urbe, without Criples gate,
Suburbe with
out Cripple gate.
and without this Posterne called Criples gate, also lay a part of the saide More euen to the riuer of the Wels (as in another place I haue shewed) and no houses were there builded, till the later ende of the raigne of William the Conqueror and the raigne of his sonne William Rufus, aboute which times some few houses being there builded along east and west thwart before the saide gate. One Alfune builded for the Inhabitants a parish Church which is of S. Giles
Parish church of S. Giles.
somewhat west from the saide gate, on the banke of the Towne ditch, and so was there a streete since called Forstreete, as standing before the gate.
This Alfune in the raigne of Henry the first became the first Hospitaler of S. Bartilmewes Hospital in Smithfielde, as in a
nother place I haue noted. And this Parish church of S. Giles being at the first a smal thing stoode in place where now standeth the Uicarage house: but hath beene since at diuers times much enlarged according as the parish hath encreased, and was at the length newly builded in place where now it, standeth. But the same new church being large, stronglie builded and richly furnish
ed with ornamentes, was in the yeare 1545. sore brent and con
sumed, notwithstanding it was againe within a short space of
time
Aa
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time restored as now it sheweth.
Some little distance from the east end of this Church, standeth a fayre Conduite castellated in Forstreete. Then had yee a Bosse of sweete water in the wall of the Church yarde now lately made a Pumpe, but already decayed.
Then had yee a fayre Poole of sweete water neare to the Church of S. Giles wherein Anne of Lodbery was drowned as I haue before declared.
In the east end of Forestreete is More lane, then next is Grubstreete, of late yeares inhabited (for the most part by Bow
yers, Fletchers, Bowstring makers, and such like, occupations, now little occupied, Archerie giuing place to a number of Bow
ling Allies and dycing houses in all places are increased, and too much frequented.
This streete stretcheth north to Euerades well streete
Euerades well streete.
which thwarteth it to White Crosse streete, the next from Forestreete North is White Crosse streete, likewise extending it selfe vp to the west end of Euerades well streete, and from the ende thereof to Ealdstreete.
From the west ende of Forstreete lyeth Red crosse street from the which Crosse on the right hand east lyeth Bech lane, and reacheth to the White crosse street. From that Crosse north ly
eth Golding lane
Golding lane.
which stretcheth vp to a Crosse in Ealdestreete which Golding lane on both the sides is replenished with many Tenementes of poore people.
On the left hand and west of the Red Crosse lyeth a streete of old time, called Houndes ditch, and of later time named Barbi
can, of such cause as I haue before noted. And thus haue you all the suburbe without Criplegate being almost altogether in the parish of S. Giles which hath more then 1800. Householders, and aboue 4000. Communicantes.
Without Aldersgate on the left hand is the parish Church of S. Buttolph on the north side of the which church lyeth a way called Little Britaine streete, towardes the Priorie of Saint Bartlemew in Smithfielde, but the high way without Alders
gate
Suburbe with
out Aldersgate
runneth straight north from the saide gate vnto Houndes ditch or Barbican streete on the right hand, and Long lane of the left hand which runneth into Smithfielde.
Then
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Then from the farther ende of Aldersgate streete, straight north to the Barre is called Goswell street replenished with smal Tenementes, Cottages and Allies, Gardens banqueting houses, and Bowling places.
Beyond these Bars, leauing the Charterhouse on the left hand or the west side the way stretcheth vp towardes Iseldon, and on the right hand, or east side at a red Crosse turneth into Ealdstreet
Ealdstreete.
(so called, for that it was the old high way from Aldersgate streete for the northeast partes of England before Bishopsgate was buil
ded) which streete runneth East to a Smithes Forge, sometime a Crosse before Shoreditch Church from whence the Passengers and Carriages were to turne North to Kinges land, Totenham, Waltham, Ware, &c.
There was sometime in this suburbe without Aldersgate an Hospitall
Hospitall without Al
dersgate.
for the poore, but an Alien of Cluny, a French order and therefore suppressed by king Henry the fift, who gaue ye house with landes and goods, to the parish of S. Buttolph and a Bro
therhoode of the Trinitie was there founded which was afterward suppressed by Henry the eight or Edwarde the sixt.
There is at the farthest north corner of this Suburbe a wind
mill which was sometime by a Tempest of winde ouerthrowne and in place thereof a Chappell was builded by Queene Kathe
rine (first wife to Henry the eight,) who named it the mount of Caluerie,
The Mount.
because it was of Christes passion, and was in the end of Henry the eight pulled downe, and a Windmill newly set vp as afore.
Without Newgate lyeth the west, and by North Suburbe,
Suburbe with
out Newgate.
on the ri2ght hand or Northside whereof betwixt the saide gate and the Parish of S. Sepulchre turneth a way towards west Smith
fielde, called as I haue shewed Giltspurre streete, or Knightridars, street, then is Smithfielde it selfe compassed about with buildinges as I haue before declared in Faringdon warde without.
And without the Barre of west Smithfield lyeth a large stréet or way called of the house of S. Iohn ther3e S. Iohns streete
S. Iohns street Charterhouse
and stretcheth towarde Iseldon, on the right hand whereof stoode the late dissolued Monasterie, called the Charter house founded by Sir VValter Many knight, a stranger borne Lord of the towne of
Many
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Many in the Dioces of Cambrey, beyond the seas, who for seruice done to king Edwarde the third was made knight of the Garter. This house
Charterhouse
he founded vpon this occasion, a great Pestilence en
tring this Iland, began first in Dorset shire, then proceeded into Deuonshire, Somerset shire, Glocester shire, and Oxforde shire, and at length came to London, and ouerspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarse the tenth person of all sortes was left aliue, and Churchyards were not sufficient to receiue the dead but men were forced to chuse out certain fieldes for burials, where
upon Ralph Stratforde Bishop of London, in the yeare 1348. bought a peece of ground called no mans land,
No mans land
which he inclosed with a wall of Bricke and dedicated for buriall of the deade, buil
ded thereupon a proper Chappell, which is now enlarged and made a dwelling house, as this burying plot is, became a fayre Garden, retayning the olde name of Pardon Church yarde.
pardon church yarde by the Charterhouse.
After this in the yeare 1349. the saide Sir Walter Many in re
spect of danger that might befall in this time of so great a plague and infection, purchased thirteene acres and a rode of ground ad
ioyning to the said no mans land, and lying in a place called Spit
tle Crost, because it belonged to S. Bartilmewes Hospitall, since that called the New Church Haw, and caused it to be consecrated by the saide Bishop of London, to the vse of Burialles.
In this plot of ground there was in that yeare more then 50000. persons buried, as I haue reade in the Charters of Ed
warde the thirde: Also I haue seene and read an inscription fixed on a stone crosse, sometime standing in the same Church yard and hauing these wordes: Anno Domini 1349. regnante magna pestilentia consecratum fuit hoc coemiterium, in quo & infra septa presentis monasterii sepulta fuerunt mor
tuorum corpora plusquam quinquaginta millia, præter alia multa abhinc, vsque ad presens, quorum animabus propiti
etur Deus, Amen. In consideration of the number of Christian people here buried, the saide Sir VValter Many caused first a Chappell to be builded, where for the space of 23. yeares offe
ringes were made, and in the yeare 1371. hee caused there to bee founded an house of Carthusian Monkes, which hee willed to be called the Salutation, and that one of the Monkes should be called
Prior
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Prior, and he gaue them the saide place of thirteene Acres and a Rode of land with the Chappell, and houses there builded for their habitation: But the three Acres of land lying without the walles on the north part betwixt the landes of the Abbote of Westmin
ster, the landes of the Prior of S. Iohn, (which three Acres were purchased, inclosed and dedicated by Ralph Stratforde Bishop of London, as is afore shewed,) remained till our time, by the name of Pardon Church yard, & serued for burying of such as desperately ended their liues, or were executed for Felonies, who were fetched thether vsually in a close cart, vayled ouer and couered with blacke, hauing a plaine white Crosse thwarting, and at the fore ende a S. Iohns Crosse without, and within a Bell ringing whereby the Cart might be heard when it passed, and this was called the Frery Cart, which belonged to S. Iohns, and had the priueledge as Sanctuarie. In this Charter house be the monumentes of the saide Sir VValter Many and Margaret his wife, Marmeduke Lumley, Lawrence Brumley, knight, Sir Edwarde Heder
set knight, Sir William Many knight, Dame Iahan Borough, Iohn Dore, Want water knight, Robert Olney Esquier, Ka
theren daughter to Sir VVilliam Babington knight, Blanch daughter to Hugh Waterton, Katherine wife to Iohn at Poote daughter and heire to Richarde Lacie, VVilliam Rawlin, Sir Iohn Lenthaine and Dame Margaret his wife, daughter to Iohn Fray, Iohn Peake Esquier, William Baron, and William Baron Esquier, Sir Thomas Thawites knight.
In the Cloystrie monuments of Bartilmew Rede knight, Mai
or of London, buried 1505. Sir Iohn Popham &c.
This Monastery at the suppression in the 29. of Henry the 8. was valued at 642 ￡. foure pence halfepenny yearely.
A little without the Bars of west Smithfielde is Charter house lane
Charter house lane.
so called, for that it leadeth to the said plot of the late dissolued monasterie in place whereof, first the Lord North, but since Thomas Howarde late Duke of Norfolke, haue made large and sumptuous buildinges both for lodging and pleasure. At the gate of this Charterhouse
Conduite by the Charter
house.
is a fayre water Conduite with two Cockes seruing the vse of the neighbors to their greate com
moditie.
Saint
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Saint Iohns streete from the entring this lane is also on both the sides replenished with buildinges vp to Clarken well. On the left hand of which streete lyeth a lane called Cow crosse,
Cow Crosse.
of a crosse sometime standing there, which lane turneth downe to another lane called Turnemill streete which stretcheth vp to the west side of Clarken well, and was called Turnemill streete, for such cause as is afore declared.
One other lane there is called S. Peters lane, which turneth from S. Iohns streete to Cow Crosse.
On the left hand also stoode the late dissolued Priorie of S. Iohn of Ierusalem
Priorie of S. Iohn of Ieru
salem.
in England, founded aboute the yeare of Christ, 1100. by Iorden Brises Baron and Muriell his wife, neare vnto Clarkes well besides west Smithfielde, which Brian hauing first founded the Priory of Nuns at Clarkes well bought of them ten acres of land, giuing them in exchange ten acres of land in his Lordshippe of Welling hal in the County of Kent, S. Iohns church was dedicated by Eraclius Patriarke of the whole resur
rection of Christ at Ierusalem, in the yeare 1185. and was the chiefe seate in England of the religious knightes of S. Iohn of Ierusalem, whose profession was besides their dayly seruice of God to defend Christians against Pagans, and to fight for the Church, vsing for their habite a blacke vpper garment, with a white crosse on the fore parte thereof, and for their good seruice was so highly esteemed, that when the order of Templars was dissolued, their landes & possessions were by Parliament granted vnto these, who after the losse of Ierusalem recouered the Isle of Rodes from the Turke, and there placed themselues, being cal
led thereof for many yeares knightes of the Rhodes, but after the losse thereof 1523. they remoued to the Isle of Malta, manful
ly opposing themselues against the Turkish inuasions.
The Rebels of Essex and of Kent 1381, set fire on this house, causing it to burne by the space of seauen dayes together, not suffering any to quench it, since the which time the Priors of that house haue new builded both the Church and houses there
unto appertayning, which church was finished by Thomas Doc
wrey late Lord Prior there, about the yeare 1504. as appeareth by the inscription ouer the Gate house, yet remaining, this house
at
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at the suppression in the 32. of Henry the eight, was valued to dispend in landes 3385.￡.19.s̃. 8 ď yearely, Sir VVilliam Weston being then Lord Prior, dyed on the same seuenth of May, on which the house was suppressed, so that great yearely pensions being granted to the knights by the king, and namely to the Lord Prior during his life 1000.l. he neuer receiued pennie.
The king tooke into his handes all the landes that belonged to that house and that order wheresoeuer in England, and Ireland, for the augmentation of his Crowne.
This Priorie Church and house, of S. Iohn was preserued from spoile, or down pulling, so long as king Henry the eight, raigned, and was imployed as a store house for the kinges toyles and tentes, for hunting, and for the wars &c. but in the thirde of king Edwarde the sixt, the Church for the most part, to wit the body and side Isles with the great Bell Tower (a most curi
ous peece of workemanshippe, grauen, guilt, and inameled to the greate beutifiyng of the Citie, and passing all other that I haue seene) was vndermined and blowne vp, with Gunpowder, the stone thereof was imployed in building of the Lorde Protectors house at the Strand: that part of the Quire which remained with some side Chappels, was by Cardinall Poole in the raigne of Queene Mary, closed vp at the west end, and otherwise repayred, and Sir Thomas Tresham knight was then made Lorde Prior there, restitution of some lands, but the same was againe suppres
sed in the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth.
There was buried in this Church Brethren of that house, & knightes of that order, William Begecote Richarde Barrow Iohn Vanclay, Thomas Launcelen, Iohn Mallore, William Turney, VVilliam Hulles, Hils, or Hayles, Iohn Weston, Re
dington VVilliam Longstrother, Iohn Langstrother, Willi
am Tong, Iohn Wakeline. Then of other Thomas Thornburgh Gentleman, VVilliam VVest Gentleman, Iohn Fulling, and Adam Gill Esquiers, Sir Iohn Mortimor and Dame Elianor his wife, Nicholas Siluerston, William Plompton Esquier, Margaret Tong, and Isabel Tong, Walter Bellingham, alias Ireland, king of Armes of Ireland, Thomas Bedle Gentleman, Katheren daughter of William Plompton Esquier, Richarde
Tur-
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Turpin Gentleman, Iohan Wife to Alexander Dikes, Iohn Bottle, and Richarde Bottle Esquiers, Rowland Darcie, Richarde Sutton Gentleman, Richarde Bottill Gentleman, Sir William Harpden knight, Robert Kingston Esquier, and Margery his wife, Iohn Roch, Richarde Cednor Gentleman, Symon Mallory Esquier, 1442. William Mallorie Esquier, Robert Longstrother Esquier, Ralph Asteley Esquier, VVil
liam Marshall, Esquier, Robert Sauage Esquier, Robert Gon
dall Esquier, and Margery his wife, William Babthorpe Ba
ron of the Exchequer 1442.
Beyond this house of S. Iohns north from the house was the Priorie of Clarken well so called of Clarkes well adioyning, which Priorie was also founded aboute the yere 1100. by Iorden Briset Baron the sonne of Ralph, the sonne of Brian Bryset: who gaue to Robert a Priest, foureteene Acres of land lying in the fielde next adioyning to the saide Clarkes well,
Priorie of Clarken well.
thereupon to builde an house of religious persons, which hee builded to the ho
nor of God, and the Assumption of our Lady, and placed therein Black Nuns, this Iorden Briset gaue also to that house one peece of ground, thereby to builde a Windmill vppon &c. hee and Muri
all his wife were buried in the Chapter house there, and there lye buried in this Church Iohn Wikes Esquier, and Isabell his wife, Dame Agnes Clifforde, Ralph Timbleby Esquier, Dame Iahan Baronnesse of Greystocke, Dame Iahan Lady Ferrars &c. This house was valued to dispend 262.￡. 19. s̃by yeare, and was surrendred in the 31. of Henry the eight. Many fayre houses for Gentlemen and others, are now builded aboute this Priorie, especially by the high way towardes Iseldon.
So much of the Church which remaineth, (for one great Ile thereof fell downe) serueth as a Parish church of S. Iohn, for not onely the Tenementes and neare inhabitantes, but also (as is afore saide for all vp to Highgate, Moswell &c. Neare vnto this Church besides Clarkes well, lye diuers other wels, as I tolde you, namely Skinners well, Fags well, Todewell, Loders wel, Redewell &c. Now to returne againe to Giltspurre street where I first began with this suburbe, there standeth the parish church of Saint Sepulchre in the Bayly, as is before shewed, from this street to Turnagaine lane by Hosiar lane, Cow lane & Holborne
Conduit
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conduit down Snore hill to Oldborne bridge, and vp to Oldborne hill, by Gold lane on the right hand, and Lither lane beyond it, vp to the Barres, beyond the which barres on the same side is Porte Poole lane or Greyes Inne lane,
Port Poole or Greyes Inne lane.
so called of the Inne of Court,
Greyes Inne an Inne of Court.
named Greyes Inne, a goodly house there situate, by whom buil
ded or first begun I haue not yet learned, but seemeth to be since Edward the thirdes time, and is a prebend to Paules Churchin London. This lane is furnished with faire buildings, and many tenements on both the sides, leading to the fieldes, towards High
gate and Hamsted.
On the high street haue ye many faire houses builded, and lodg
ings for Gentlemen, Innes for trauellers, and such like vp almost (for it lacketh but little) to S. Giles in the fieldes: amongst the which buildinges for the most part being very new, one passeth the rest in largenesse of roomes lately builded, by a widdow
Widow A
lington her building.
some
time wife to Richard Allington Esquire, which Richard Al
lington deceased in the yeare 1561. And thus much for that North side of Oldborne.
Now from Newgate on the left hande or south side lyeth the Old baylie, and so downe by Seacole lane end to Oldborne bridge, vp Oldborne
South side of Oldborne.
hill, by Shooe lane and Fewters lane to the barres.
Beyond the Barres had ye in olde time a Temple builded by the Templers, whose order first began in the yeare of Christ 1118. in the 19. of Henry the first. This temple was left and fel to ruine since the yeare 1184. when the Templers had builded them a new Temple in Fléetstréet, neere to the riuer of Thames. A great part of this olde Temple was pulled downe but of late in the yeare 1595. The same was after the Bishoppe of Lincolnes Inne, where he lodged when he repaired to the Cittie, and Iohn Russell Bishop in Lincolne,
The Bishop of Lincolnes Inne in Old
borne.
Lord Chauncelor in the raigne of Richard the 3. was lodged there. It hath of late yeares belonged to the Earles of Southampton, and is therefore calledua Southam
ton
Southhamptō house.
house. One Mayster Roper hath of late builded there, by meanes whereof, part of the ruines of the old Temple were séene to remaine builded of Cane stone, round informe as the new tem
ple by Temple barre. Beyond this Southampton house is New stréete, so called in the raigne of Henry the 3. when hee founded
the
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the house of Conuertes, betwixt the Old Temple and the new.
The same stréet hath sithence béene called Chauncery lane,
Newstreet or Chancery lane
by reason that king Edward the third annexed the house of Conuerts by Pattent to the office of Custos Rotulorum, or maister of the Rolles, in the 15. of his raigne.
In this stréete the first faire building to bee noted on the East side, is called the Coursitors office,
Coursitors of
fice in Chaun
cery lane.
builded with diuers faire lodg
ings for Gentlemen, all of Bricke and timber, by Sir Nicholas Bacon late Lord Keeper of the great seale, deceased in the yeare 1578.
Neere vnto this Coursitors Office be diuers faire houses and large gardens builded and made in a ground, sometime belonging to one great house on the other side the stréete there made by Raph Neuell Bishop of Chichester. Then was the house of Conuerts wherein now the Rolles of Chauncerie be kept. Then the Ser
ieants Inne.
On the West side towardes the North end thereof was of old time the church and house of the preaching Friers:
Blacke Fryers Church in Oldborne.
the which house I finde that in the yeare of Christ 1221. the Friers preachers 13. in number came into England, and hauing to their Prior one named Gilbert de Fraxineto, in company of Peter de la Roche Bishop of Winchester, came to Canterbury, where presenting themselues before the Archbishop Stephen, he commanded the said Prior to preach, whose sermon he liked so well, that euer after he loued that Order. These Fryers came to London, and had their first house without the wall of the Citie by Oldborne, neere vnto the old Temple.
Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent was a great benefactor vn
to these Fryers, and deceasing at his Mannor of Bansted in Sur
rey, or (after some writers) at his Castle of Barkamsted in Hart
fordshire, in the yeare 1242. was buried in their Church, vnto the which Church he had giuen his place at Westminster, which the said Fryers
Earle of Kent buried in the Blacke Fryers.
afterward solde to Walter Grey Archbishoppe of Yorke, & he left it to his successors in that Sea, for euer to be their house when they shoulde repaire to the Citie of London. And therefore the same was called Yorke Place, which name so continued vntill the yeare 1529. that King Henry the eight tooke
it
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it from Thomas Wolsey Cardinall, and Archbishoppe of Yorke, and then gaue it to name White hall.
Margaret sister to the king of Scottes, widowe to Geffrey Earle Marshall deceased 1244. and was buried in this church.
In the yere 1250. the Fryers of this order of preachers through Christendome and from Ierusalem, were by a Conuocation
Conuocation of black Fry
ers in Old
borne.
as
sembled together, at this their house by Oldborne to entreat of their estate, to the number of 400. hauing meat and drinke found them of almes, because they had no possessions of their owne. The first day the king came to their Chapter, founde them meate and drinke and dined with them. An other day the Quéene founde them meat and drinke: afterward the Bishop of London, then the Abbot of Westminster, of S. Albones, Waltham, and others. In the yeare 1276. Gregory Rokesley Mayor, and the Barons of London graunted and gaue to Robert Kilwerbie Archbishop of Canterbury, two lanes, or wayes next the stréet of Baynards Castle, and the Tower of Mountfichet, to bee destroyed. On the which place the said Robert builded the late new church, with the rest of the stones that were left of the said Tower. And thus the blacke Fryers left their Church and house by Oldborne, and departed to their new. This old Fryer house (iuxta Holborne saith the Pattent) was by King Edward the first, in the 16. of his raigne giuen to Henry Lacy Earle of Lincolne.
Next to this house of Fryers, was one other great house, sometime belonging to the Bishop of Chichester, whereof Ma
thew Paris writeth thus: Raph de Noua villa or Neuill, Bi
shop of Chichester,
Bishop of Chichesters Inne.
and Chauncellor of England sometime buil
ded a noble house, euen from the ground not farre from the newe Temple, and house of Conuertes, in the which place hee deceased in the yeare 1244. In this place after the decease of the said Bishoppe, and in place of the house of Blacke Fryers, before spoken of, Henry Lacie Earle of Lincolne,
Lycons Inne.
Constable of Chester, and Custos of Englande, builded his Inne, and for the most parte was lodged there: hee deceased in this house in the yeare 1310. and was buried in the new worke, (whereunto he had been a great benefactor) of S. Pauls church betwixt our La
die Chappell, and S. Dunstones Chappell. This Lincolnes
Inne
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Inne sometime pertaining to the Bishoppes of Chichester as a part of the said great house, is now an Inne of Court, retayning the name of Lincolnes Inne as afore, but now lately increased with faire buildings, and replenished with Gentlemen studious in the common lawes: this house was greatly increased with new buildinges.
In the raigne of Henry the eight Sir Thomas Louell was a great builder there, especially hee builded the gate house and forefront towardes the east, placing thereon aswell the Lacies armes, as his owne: he caused the Lacies armes to bee cast and wrought in leade, on the louer of the hall of that house, which was in the 3. Escutcheons, a Lyon rampant for Lacie, 7. Masculles voyded for Quincie, and 3.
Lincolns Inne an Inne of Court.
Wheat sheaues for Chester. This Louer being of late repayred the saide Escutcheons were left out. The rest of that side euen to Fléetstreet is replenished with faire buildings.
Now the high Oldborne street, from the North end of New
street, stretcheth on the left hand in building lately framed, vp to S. Giles in the fielde, which was an Hospitall founded by Matil
de the Quéene, wife to Henry the first, about the yeare 1117. This Hospital (saith the record of Edward the third the 19. yeare) was founded without the barre veteris Templi London con
uersorum. Moreouer (saith the same Recorde) in the 20. of Edward the third, the saide King sent commandement vnder his great seale, to the Mayor and Sheriffes of London,
Hospitall of S. Giles founded for Leprose persons of the cittie of Lon
don and shire of Middlesex.Pattent.
willing them to make proclamation in euery Ward of the Citie and suburbes, that all leprous persons, within the saide Citie & suburbes should auoid within fiftéen daies, and that no man suffer any such leprose person to abide within his house, vppon paine to forfeite his saide house, and to incurre the Kinges farther displeasure. And that they shoulde cause the saide Lepers to bee remoued into some out places of the fieldes,
All leprose heople to be voided the citie & su
burbs.
from the haunt or company of all sound peo
ple: wherevpon it followed that the citizens required of the Gar
dian of Saynt Giles Hospitall, to take from them and to keepe continually the number of fouretéene persons, according to the foundation of Matilde the Quéen which was for Leprose persons of the Citie of London and the shire of Middlesex.
W. Dunthorne.
At this Hos
pitail
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pitall the prisoners conueyed towards Tyborne, there to be execu
ted, were saluted with a Bowle of Ale, thereof to drinke as their last refreshing in this life.
Now without Ludgate lyeth the south end of ye old Baylie, then downe Ludgate hill by Fléet lane ouer Fléet bridge, vp Fléetstréet by Shooe lane, Fewters lane, Newstréet, or Chauncery lane & to Shire lane by the barre on the right hand. And from Ludgate
Suburbe with
out Ludgate.
on the left hand or south side by Bride lane, Water lane, Crokers lane, Sergeantes Inne, and the new Temple by the Barre, all which is of Faringdon Ward, as is afore shewed.
Liberties of the Dutchie.
NExt without the barre and libertie of the citie of Lon
don and the liberties of the Dutchy of Lancaster,
Without the barre of the Citie, called Temple barre, and first of the Dutchy of Lancaster.
on the said south side or left hande neere vnto the Riuer of Thames, amongst other buildings memorable for greatnesse, the first was Excester house, so called for that the same belonged to the Bishop of Excester, and was their Inne or London lodging: the same hath béene sithence called Pa
get house, because the Lord William Paget enlarged and posses
sed it. Then is Leycester house so named because Robert Dud
ley late Earle of Leycester, of late new builded there. And now Essex house,
Excester house since Leycester house, now Essex house.
of the late Earle of Essex there inhabiting.
Then west was a Chappell dedicate to the Holy Ghost, called S. Spirit,
Chapell of S. Spirit.
vpon what occasion founded I haue not read.
Then is Milford lane
Milford lane.
downe to the Thames, why so called I haue not heard nor can coniecture.
Then was the Bishop of Bathes Inne,
Bishop of Bathes Inne, or Arundell house.
lately new builded, for a great parte thereof by the Lorde Thomas Seamer Admirall, which came sithence to be possessed by the Earle of Arondell, and thereof called Arundell house.
Next beyond the which on the stréet side, was sometime a faire Cemitorie (or Churchyard) and in the same a parish Church,
Parish church of S. Mary at the strand.
cal
led of the natiuitie of our Ladie, and the innocents at the Strand, and of some, by meane of a brotherhood kept there, called of S. Vr
sula at the Strand.
And
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And neere adioyning to the said church, betwixt it and the riuer of Thames, was an Inne of Chauncery, commonly called Cho
sters Inne
Chesters Inne or Strand Inne an Inne of Chauncery.
(because it belonged to the Bishoppe of Chester) by others named of the situation Strand Inne.
Then had yee in the high stréete a faire bridge called Strande bridge,
Strand bridge.
and vnder it a lane or way downe to the landing place on the banke of the Thames.
Then was the Bishoppe of Chesters Inne,
The Bishop of Chesters Inne.
or his London lodging. And next adioyning to it the Bishoppe of Worcesters Inne:
The Bishop of Worcesters Inne.
all which to wit, the parrish of Saint Mary at Strande, Strand Inne, Strand bridge, with the lane vnder it, the Bishop of Chesters Inne, the Bishoppe of Worcesters Inne, with all the tenementes adioyning were by commandement of Edwarde Duke of Sommerset vncle to Edward the sixt, and Lord Protec
tor, pulled downe, and made leuell ground, in the yeare 1549. In this place whereof he builded that large and goodly house, now cal
led Somerset house.
Sommerset house.
In the high stréete néere vnto the Strande sometime stoode a crosse of stone against the Bishoppe of Couentrie or Chester his house, whereof I reade, that in the yeare 1294. and diuers o
ther times, the Iustices Itinerantes, sate without London, at the stone crosse ouer against the Bishop of Couentries house, and sometime they sate in the Bishops house, which was hard by the Strand.
Stone crosse at Strand.
Then next is the Sauoy so called of Peter Earle of Sauoy, and Richmond,
Sauoy house first builded by Peter Earle of Sauoy & Richmond.
sonne to Thomas Earle of Sauoy, brother to Boni
face Archbishop of Canterbury, and vncle vnto Helenor wife to king Henry the third.
He first builded this house in the yeare 1245. and here is some occasion offered to proue that this Peter of Sauoy was also Earle of Sauoy. Wherefore out of a booke of the Genealogies of all the whole house of Sauoy, compiled by Phillebert Pingonio, Baron of Guzani, remaining in the hands of W. Smith, alias Ronge
dragon officer of armes, I haue gathered this. Thomas Earle of Sauoy
Thomas Earle of Sauoy his pedegrie by occasion.
had issue by Beatrix daughter to Aimon Earle of Geneua 9. sons, & 3. daughters: Amades his first son succeeded Earle of Sa
uoy in the yere 1253. Peter his second son, Earle of Sauoy, and of
Richmond
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Richmond, in 1268. Philip his third sonne Earle of Sauoy and Burgundie, 1284. Thomas the 4. Earle of Flaunders and prince of Piemon, Boniface the eight, Archbishop of Canterbury, Bea
trix
Beatrix sister to Peter Earle of Sauoy, mo
ther to fiue Queenes.
his daughter maried to Reymond Beringarius of Aragon, Earle of Prouince and Narbone, had issue, & was mother to fiue Quéenes: The first Margaret wife to Lewes king of Fraunce, 2. Elianor wife to Henry the 3. King of England: 3. Sanctia, wife to Richard king of Romaines. 4. Beatrix, wife to Charles king of Naples. 5. Iohanna, wife to Philip king of Nauarre.4 To returne againe to the house of Sauoy, Quéene Eleanor wife to king Heury the third, purchased this place afterwardes of the fraternitie
Fratres de mōte Iouis or Priory de Cor
nuto by haue
ring at the boowre.
or brethren of Montioy (vnto whome Peter as it sée
meth gaue it) for her sonne Edmond Earle of Lancaster (as M. Camden hath noted out of a register booke, of the Dukes of Lan
caster,
H. Knighton
Henry Duke of Lancaster repaired or rather new buil
ded it with the charges of 52000. Markes, which money hee had gathered together at the towne of Bridgerike.
Iohn the French King was lodged there, in the yeare 1357. and also in the yeare 1363. for it was at that time the fayrest Mannor in England.
In the yeare 1381.
H. Knighton.
the rebelles of Kent and Essex burnt this house, vnto the which there was none in the realme to be compa
red in beauty, and statelinesse (saith mine Author.) They set fire ou5 it round about, and made Proclamation that none (on payne to lose his head) should conuert to his own vse any thing that there was,
Sauoy brent blowne vp with Gun
6 powder.
but that they should breake such plate and vessell of Gold and siluer, as was found in that house, (which was in great plentie) into small peeces and throwe the same into the riuer of Thames:
Rebels more malicious thē couetous, spoile all before them.
Precious stones they shoulde bruse in morters that the same might bee to no vse: and so it was done by them: One of their companiens they burned in the fire, because he minded to haue re
serued one goodly péece of plate.
They found there certaine barrels of Gunpowder, which they thought had béene Gold or siluer,
Liber mane script, french.
and throwing them into the fire, more suddenly then they thought, the Hall was blowne vppe, the houses destroyed, and themselues verie hardly escaped away.
This
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This house being thus defaced and almost ouerthrown by these rebelles for malice they bare to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lanca
ster of later time came to the Kings hands, and was againe raised and beautifully builded, for an Hospitall of S. Iohn Baptist, by king Henry the seuenth, about the yeare 1509, for the which Ho
spitall (retayning still the old name of Sauoy
Sauoy builded for an Hospi
tall.
) he purchased landes to be imploied vpon the relleuing of an hundred poore people: This Hospitall being valued to dispend 529. pound, fifteene shillings &c. by yeare, was suppressed the tenth of Iune, the seuenth of Ed
ward the sixt: the beddes, bedding and other furniture belonging thereunto, with seuen hundred marks of the said landes by yeare, he gaue, to the Citizens of Londō, with his house of Bridewell, to the furnishing thereof, to be a workehouse for the poore and idle per
sons, and towardes the furnishing of the Hospitall of S. Thomas in Southwarke lately suppressed.
Hospitall of Sauoy sup
pressed.
This Hospitall of Sauoy
Hospitall of Sauoy a new foundation thereof.
was againe new founded, erected, cor
porated and endowed with landes by Queene Mary, the thirde of Nouember: in the fourth of her raigne one Iackson tooke posses
sion, and was made maister thereof in the same Moneth of No
uember. The Ladies of the Court, and Maidens of honour (a thing not to be forgotten) stored the same of new with beddes, bed
ding and other furniture, in very ample manner &c. and it was by pattent so confirmed at Westminster the ninth of May the fourth and fift of Phillip and Mary.
The Chappell of this Hospital serueth now as a Parish church to the tenements thereof neere adioyning and others.
The next was sometime the Bishoppe of Carliles his Inne, which now belongeth to the Earle of Bedford, & is called Russell or Bedford house.
Parish church of S. Iohn in the Sauoy. B. of Carlile his Inne or Bedford house
It stretcheth from the Hospitall of Sauoy, West to Iuie bridge. And thus farre on this South side the high stréete is of the libertie of the Dutchy of Lancaster.
Iuie bridge
Iuie bridge.
in the high streete hath a way or low going downe vnder it, stretching to the Thames: the like as sometime had the Strand bridge before spoken of.
This whole streete
The street be
twixt Temple Barre and the Sauoy first pa
ued the 24. of Henry the 6.
from Temple Bar to the Sauoy was commanded to be paued, and Tole to bee taken towards the char
ges thereof in the 24. yeare of Henry the sixt.
Now
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Suburbes in libertie of the Dutchie.
Now to beginne againe at Temple Barre ouer against it. In the high streete standeth a payre of Stockes, and then one large middle Row of houses and small Tenements builded partly ope
ning to the south, partly towardes the North. Amongst the which standeth the Parish church of S, Clement Danes
Parish church of S. Clement Danes.
so called because Harolde a Danish king and other Danes were buried there, and in that Churchyarde, This Harolde whome king Canutus had by a Concubine, raigned three yeares and was buried at West
minster, but afterwarde Hardicanutus the lawfull sonne of Ca
nutus, in reuenge of a displeasure done to his mother by expelling her out of the Realme, and the murder of his Brother Allured, commanded the body of Harold to be digged out of the earth and to be throwne into the Thames, where it was by a Fisherman taken vp, and buried in this Churchyarde. This saide Middle Row of houses stretching west to a stone Crosse now headlesse,
Hedlesse crosse by the Strand
by or against the Strand including the saide parish Church of S. Clement, is wholy of the libertie of Dutchie of Lancaster, which libertie is gouerned by the Chancelor of that saide Dutchie,
Chancelor of the Dutchie of Lancaster.
now at this present, Sir Robert Cecill knight principall Secretarie to her Maiestie, and one of her Maiesties most Honorable priuie Councellors, there is vnder him a Stewarde that keepeth court and Leete for the Queene, giueth the charge and taketh the othes of euery vnder Officer, then is there foure Burgesses, and 4. Assistantes to take vp Controuersies, a Bayliffe which hath two or three vnder Bayliffes that make Arests within that libertie, 4. Constables, foure Wardens that keepe the Lands and Stocke for the poore, foure Wardens, for high wayes, a Iury or Inquest of foureteene or sixteene to present defaultes, foure Alecunners which loke to assisse of weightes and measures, &c. foure Sca
uengers and a Beadle, and their common Prison is Newgate.
Thus much for the Suburbe in the Libertie of the Dutchie of Lancaster.
Bb

Notes

  1. I.e. Fitz Stephens (SM)↑
  2. Letter missing; context obvious. (SM)↑
  3. Gap in the inking. (SM)↑
  4. Stow is mistaken in his belief that Joan II of Navarre is the daughter of Beatrice of Savoy. (KL)↑
  5. I.e. on (SM)↑
  6. Overinking. (SM)↑

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Stow, John, and William fitz Stephen. Survey of London: Suburbs. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 20 Jun. 2018, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/stow_1598_suburbs.htm.

Chicago citation

Stow, John, and William fitz Stephen. Survey of London: Suburbs. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 20, 2018. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/stow_1598_suburbs.htm.

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Stow, J., & fitz Stephen, W. 2018. Survey of London: Suburbs. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/stow_1598_suburbs.htm.

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