Survey of London (1633): Coleman Street Ward

Coleman ſtreet Ward. COLEMAN STREET VVard.

NExt to Cheape Ward, on the North side thereof, is Coleman street Ward, and beginneth also in the East, on the course of Walbrooke, in Lothbury, and runneth West, (on the South side) to the end of Ironmongers lane, and on the North side, to the West corner of Basings Hall street. On the South side of Lothbury, is the street called the Old Iewrie, the one halfe, and better, on both sides towards Cheape, is of this Ward.

On the North side lyeth Coleman street, whereof the Ward taketh name, wholly on both sides North to London wall, and from that North end along by the Wall, and Mooregate, East, to the course of Walbrooke. And againe, from Coleman street, West, to the Iron grates: and these be the bounds of this Ward.

Antiquities therein to be noted, are these:Lothbery. First, the street of Lothbery, Lathbery, or Loadbery, (for by all these names have I read it) tooke the name (as it seemeth) of a Bery, or Court of old time there kept, but by whom, it is growne out of memorie. This street is possessed (for the most part) by Founders, that cast Candlestickes, Chafingdishes, Spice Morters, and such like Copper or Laten works, and doe afterward turne them with the foot, and not with the wheele, to make them smooth and bright, with turning and scratting, (as some doe terme it) making a lothsome noise to the by-passers, that have not beene used to the like; and therefore by them disdainedly called Lothburie. On the South side of this street, amongst the Founders, be some faire houses and large, for Merchants; namely, one that of old time was the Iewes SynagogueMoEML is still seeking information regarding this entry. If you have information to contribute, please email the MoEML team., The Iewes Synagogue. which was defaced by the Citizens of London, after that they had slaine 700. Iewes, and spoiled the residue of their goods, in the yeere 1262. the 47. of H. the 3. And not long after, in the yeere 1291. King Edward the first banished the remnant of the Iewes out of England, as is afore shewed.

The said Synagogue being so suppressed, certaine Friers got possession thereof: For in the yeere 1257. (saith Mathew Paris) there were seene in London a new order of Friers,Fratres de Saccae, or de poenitentia. called De Poenitentia Iesu, or Fratres de Sacca, because they were apparelled in Sackcloth, who had their house in London, neere unto Aldersgate, without the gate, and had licence of Henry the third, in the 54. of his reigne, to remove from thence to any other place: and in the 56. hee gave unto them this Iewes SynagogueMoEML is still seeking information regarding this entry. If you have information to contribute, please email the MoEML team.. After which time, Eleanor the Queene, wife to Edward the first, tooke into her protection, and warranted unto the Prior and brethren De poenitentia Iesu Christi of London, the said land and building in Cole-church street, Cole-church street, or Old Iewrie. in the parish of Saint Olave in the Iury, & S. Margaret in Lothburie, by her granted, with consent of Stephen de Fulborn, Vnder-warden of the Bridge-house, and other brethren of that house: for threescore Markes of Silver, which they had received of the said Prior and brethren of repentance, toward the building of the said Bridge. This order of Friers gathered many good scholars, and multiplyed in number exceedingly, untill the Councell at Lyons, by the which it was decreed, that (from that time forth) there should no more Orders of begging Friers be permitted, but onely the foure Orders; to wit, the Domi Coleman ſtreet Ward. Dominicke or Preachers, the Minorites or gray Friers, the Carmelites or white Friers, and the Augustines: and so from that time the begging Friers decreased and fell to nothing.

Now it followed, that in the yeere 1305. Robert Fitzwalter requested and obtained of the said King Edward the first, Ro. Fitzwalter his house. that the same Friers of the Sacke, might assigne to the said Robert their Chappell or Church, of old time called the Synagogne of the IewesMoEML is still seeking information regarding this entry. If you have information to contribute, please email the MoEML team., neere adjoyning to the then mansion place of the same Robert, which was in place where now standeth the Grocers Hall: and the said Synagogue was at the North corner of the Old Iewry. Robert Large, Mercer, Maior, in the yeere 1439. kept his Maioraltie in this house, and dwelled there untill his dying day.

This house standeth and is of two Parishes, as opening into Lothbury, of Saint Margarets Parish, and opening into the Old Iewry, of Saint Olaves Parish. The said Robert Large gave liberally to both these Parishes, but was buried at S. Olaves.

Hugh Clopton, The Wind mill Taverne in the old Iurie. Mercer, Maior, 1492. dwelled in this house, and kept his Maioralty there. It is now a Taverne, and hath to signe a Wind-mill.

And thus much for this house, sometime the Iewes SynagogueMoEML is still seeking information regarding this entry. If you have information to contribute, please email the MoEML team., since, an house of Friers, then a Noble-mans house, after that, a Merchants house, wherein Maioralties have beene kept, and now a Wine-Taverne.

Then is the Old Iury, The Old Iurie. a street so called of Iewes sometime dwelling there, and neere adjoyning, in the Parishes of S. Olave, The Iewes brought from Rone by William Duke of Normandy. S. Michael Bassings Hall. S. Martin Ironmonger lane, S. Laurence, called the Iewrie, and so West to Woodstreete. William, D. of Normandy, first brought them from Rone to inhabit here.

William Rufus favoured them so farre, W. Rufus favoured them. that he sware by Lukes face, his common Oath, if they could overcome the Christians, hee would bee one of their Sect.

Henry the second grievously punished them for corrupting his coyne. Hen. the 1. punished them.

Richard the first forbade Iewes and women to be present at his Coronation, Rich. the 3. forbade them to come to his coronation. for feare of inchantments: for breaking of which commandement, many Iewes were slaine, who being assembled, to present the King with some gift, one of them was stricken by a Christian, which some unruly people perceiving, fell upon them, beat them to their houses, and brent them therein, or slew them at their comming out.

Also the Iewes at Norwich, S. Edmondsbury, Lincolne, Stanford, and Lyn, were robbed and spoiled; and at Yorke, to the number of 500. besides Women and children, entred a Tower of the Castle, proffered money to be in surety of their lives, but the Christians would not take it: whereupon they cut the throats of their owne wives and children, and cast them over the walles on the Christians heads, and then entring the Kings lodging, they burned both the house and themselves.

King Iohn, in the eleventh of his reign, commanded all the Iewes,King Iohn tormented the Iewes. both men and women, to be imprisoned and grievously punished, because hee would have all their money: some of them gave all they had, and promised more, to escape so many kinds of torments; for every one of them had one of their eyes at the least plucked out. Amongst whom there was one, which being tormented many wayes, would not ransome himselfe, till the King had caused (every day) one of his great teeth to be plucked out, by the space of seven daies, and then he gave the King tenne thousand Markes of silver, to the end they should pull out no more: the said King at that time spoiled the Iewes of sixty six thousand markes.

The 17. of this King,The Barons rifled the Iewes. the Barons brake into the Iewes houses, rifled their coffers, and with the stone of their houses, repaired the gates and wals of London.

King Henry the third, in the eleventh of his reigne, Charta II. of Hen. 3. Hen 3. excheted the lands and goods of the Iewes. granted to Semaine or Ballaster, the house of Benomye Mittun the Jew, in the Parish of S. Michael Bassinghanghe, in which the said Benomye dwelt, with the fourth part of all his Land in that Parish, which William Elie held of the fee of Hugh Nevell, and all the land in Coleman street, belonging to the said Benomye, and the fourth part of the land in the Parish of S. Laurence, which was the fee of Thomas Buckerell, and were excheted Coleman ſtreet Ward. excheted to the King for the murther which the said Benomye committed in the Citie of London, to hold to the said Semaine, and his heires, of the King, praying at Easter a paire of gilt Spurres, and to doe the service thereof due unto the Lords Court.

In like manner, and for like services, the King granted to Guso for his homage, the other part of the Lands of the said Benomye in S. Michaels Parish, which Law the Painter held, and was the Kings Exchete; and the Lands of the said Benomye, in the said Parish, which Walter Turner held, and 15. foot of Land which Hugh Harman held, with 15. iron Ells of Land, and an halfe, in the front of Ironmonger lane, in the Parish of S. Martin, which were the said Benomyes, of the see of the Hospitall of S. Giles, and which Adam the Smith held, with 2. stone houses, which were Moses the Jew of Canturbury, in the Parish of S. Olave, and which are of the fee of Arnold le Reus, and are the Kings Exchetes, as aforesaid.

The 16. of the said Henry, The Iews builded them a Synagogue in London. the Iewes in London builded a Synagogue, but the King commanded it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady, and after gave it to the Brethren of S. Anthonie of Vienna, and so was it called S. Anthonies Hospitall.

This King Henry founded a Church and house for converted Iewes, Hen. the 3. founded an house for converted Iewes. in a new street by the Temple, whereby it came to passe, that (in short time) there was gathered a great number of Converts.

The 20. of this King Henry, seven Iewes were brought from Norwich, Iews stale a child and circūcised him, and minded to have crucified him. which had stolne a Christned child, had circumcised, and minded to have crucified him at Easter, wherefore their bodies and goods were at the Kings pleasure. The 26. the Iewes were constrained to pay to the King 20000. Markes, at two termes in the yeere, or else to be kept in perpetuall prison.

The 35. he taketh inestimable sums of money of all rich men; Hen. 3. exacteth money of the Iewes. namely, of Aaron, a Iew borne at Yorke, 14000. marks for himselfe, and tenne thousand marks for the Queene, and before, he had taken of the same Iew as much, as in all amounted to 30000. markes of silver, and two hundred markes of gold to the Queene.

In the 40. yeere were brought up to Westminster 202. Iewes from Lincolne, Iewes hanged for crucifying of a child. for crucifying a child, named Hugh, 18. of them were hanged.

The 43. a Iew at Tewkesburie fell into a Privie on the Saturday, and would not that day be taken out, for reverence of his Sabbath; wherfore Richard Clare, Earle of Glocester, kept him there till Munday, that he was dead.

The 47. the Barons slew of the Iewes at London, 700. Iewes slaine at London. 700. the rest were spoiled, and their Synagogue defaced, because one Iew would have forced a Christian to have paid more than 2. s. for the lone of 20. s. a weeke.

The third of Edward the first,Vsury forbidden. in a Parliament at London, vsurie was forbidden to the Iewes: and that all Vsurers might be knowne, the King commanded that every Vsurer should weare a Table on his brest, the breath of a paveline, or else to avoid the Realm.

The sixth of the said King Edward, a reformation was made for clipping of the Kings Coyne; for which offence, 267. Iewes were drawne and hanged;English Iewes hanged. three were English Christians, and other were English Iewes.

The same yeere the Iewes crucified a childe at Northampton, Iews hanged at London, for crucifying a child at Northampton. for the which fact, many Iewes at London were drawn at horse tayles and hanged.

The eleventh of Edward the first, Iohn Perkham, Archbishop of Canturburie, commanded the Bishop of London to destroy all the Iewes Synagogues in his Dioces.

The 16. of the said Edward, All the Iewes in England apprehēded & redeemed for money. all the Iewes in England, were (in one day) apprehended by precept from the King, but they redeemed themselves for 12. thousand pounds of silver; notwithstanding in the 19. of his reigne he banished them all out of England, giving them onely to beare their charge till they were out of his Realme: the number of Iewes then expulsed, were 15060. persons. All the Iewes banished this Realme. The King made a mighty masse of money of their houses, which he sold, and yet the Commons of England had granted, and gave him a fifteenth of all their goods, to banish them. And thus much for the Iewes.

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Coleman ſtreet Ward. In this street called the Old Iewrie, Parish Church of S. Olave Vpwell in the Iewrie. is a proper Parish Church of S. Olave Vpwell, so called in Record, 1320. Iohn Brian, Parson of Saint Olave Vpwell, in the Iewry, founded there a Chauntry, and gave two messuages to that Parish,A Well was under the East end of this Church, late turned to a Pump, but decayed. the 16. of Edward the second, and was by the said King confirmed. In this Church, to the commendation of the Parsons and Parishioners, the Monuments of the dead remaine lesse defaced than in many other. First, of William Dikman, Fereno, or Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1367. Robert Havelocke, Ironmonger, 1390. Iohn Organ, Mercer, one of the Sheriffes, 1385. Iohn Forrest, Vicar of Saint Olaves, and of Saint Stephen, which at that time was as a Chappell annexed to S. Olave, 1399. Henry Friole, Taylor, 1400. Thomas Morsted, Esquire, Chirurgian to Henry the fourth, fifth, and sixth, one of the Sheriffes, 1436.

He builded a faire new Ile, to the inlargement of this Church, on the north side therof, wherein hee lyeth buried, 1450. Adam Breakspeare, Chaplaine, 1411. William Kirkbie, Mercer, 1465. Robert Large, Mercer, Maior, 1440. He gave to that Church 200. l’. Iohn Belwin, Founder, 1467. Gabriel Rave, Fuller, 1511. Wentworth, Esquire, 1510. Thomas Michell, Ironmonger, 1527. Giles Dewes, servant to Henry the seventh, and to Henry the eighth, Clerke of their Libraries, and Schoolemaster for the French tongue to Prince Arthur, and to the Lady Mary, 1535. Edmond Burlacy, 1583. Iohn Brian.

Here lyeth under this Tombe,An anciēt Marble Tombe in the East end of the Quite. the body of Richard Chamberlaine, Ironmonger, Alderman and late Sheriffe of London, Merchant Adventurer, and free of Russia, who had two wives, Anne, the first of whom he had issue, 8. sonnes and 5. daughters. Of Margaret his last wife no issue, which Richard dyed the 19. day of November, An. Dom. 1566.

To the poore he was liberall, and gave for Gods sake, But now his fame is plentifull, and he an heavenly Make, He was like one of us, according to our mould, But now he is unlike us, in heaven where he would. His time was short, in sicknes rare, as to all is knowne: But now his time shall long endure, and never be cast downe.

Hic requiescit in Gratia & misericordia Dei,A placed stone on the groūd in the South Ile. Robertus Large, quondam Mercerui & Maior istius Civitatis. Qui obiit 24. die Aprilis, 1441. Et Elizabeth uxor ejus, ac pueri eorundem. Cujus, &c.

Humfrido Weld militi, & nuper Maiori Civitatis London, vire integerrimo, sanctissimo, summa in Deū pietate, in homines fide ac comitate praedito: Joanne Weld unicus filius & haeres, hoc Monumentum pietatis ergo moerens posuit.

Habuit ex Anna uxore, primâ filiâ Nicholai wheler Armigeri, filios duos, Humfridum, olim defunctum, & Ioannem Maritum Franciscae filiae Gulielmi Whitmore Armig. & quinque filias, Ioannam, nuptam Roberte Brooke, de Cockfield, in Com. Suff. militi. Annam, nuptam Ricardo Corbet, de Stoke super Terne, in Com. Salop. Armigero, Mariam, Saram & Elizabetham, olim defunctas. Post cujus obitum, duxit uxorem secundam Mariam, filiam Stephani Slani Militis, adhuc superstitem.

Obiit 29. die Novembris, An. Dom. 1610. Aetatis suae, 64. Quem tegit hoc marmor,A goodly Tombe is the South Ile. Quem cassum lumine flemus, Abstulit una dies, Quantum si forte requiris, Weldus erat nomen, Maior celeberrimus urbis; Justitiae splendor, verae pietatis Imago, Religionis amans, aevi prudentia nostri, Mens humilis, purus{que} animus, patiensque laborum, Frons hilaris, faciles aures, pectus{que} fidele, Os verax, mites oculi, gravitate refulgens Vultus; Cor placidum studiosis, dextra benigna, Quos non instimulent nobis reticentibus ipsi, Incipient Coleman ſtreet Ward. Incipient scopuli vivis sermonibus uti; Iustè Welde minor si spes, si fama fuisset, De te Welde minor nostra querela foret.

Thomas Cambell Eques,A very faire and costly Tombe in the East end of the Chancell. secundo Regis Iacobi, Civis London ejusdem Vrbis patricius & Praetor aequissimus & prudentissimus: domicilium sibi hoc in perpetuam memoriam dicatum habet: feliciter bis nuptus erat, & ex 1. conjugio filii nati sunt 6. filiae, 7. ex inde vero nepotes 39. quem cives privatim & publicè, honorificè omnes colebant. Annos autem 78. cum adimplesset, suorum & omnium honestorum cum luctu, fato concessit, 13. die Februarii, An. Dom. 1613.

Transiit ad vivos è vivis Pacis alumnus, Iustitiae columen; Qui decus inde suum Extulit egregiè: Pietatem caetera praeter Dilexit: cultus, Religione, side. Non patrem tantum proles, sine murmure luctus Percipit; at vetuit mors superare modum: Vulnus opem{que} ferens, aequè. Quid plangitis ultra? Angelus en factus! nec minor ante fuit. Quae potuit cuiquam, optari Mors, vita{que} honore Fulta: & amicitiis inclita; prole, fide. Obtigit haec, Cambelle, tibi, utra{que} scilicet annis Maturis, meriti & plenus amoris obis. Digna viro tibi vita fuit, qui viveret ultra, Digna{que} mors vitâ sed meliora frui. Terminus incertae mors vitae, & certa salutis Spes promissa rapit, non colit ima fides.A very faire Monument in the nether part of the Church.

Memoriae.

Henrici Anderson, Equitis Aurati, Alderdermanni Civitatis London, & Elizabethae uxoris ejus, filiae Fran. Bowyer, Alderm. Lond. Qui 8. liberos habuêre, viz. 2. filios, Georg. defunct. & Rich. qui uxorem duxit Mariam, fil. primogenit. Rob. Spencer, Dom. Wormeleiton. Kath. nuptam Tho. Derham, de West Derham, in Com. Norff. Armig. Elizab. nupt. Tho. Cowley, Mercat. Lond. Francise. nupt. Rob. Nedeham, de Shaurigton, in Com. Salop. Armig. Saram & Mariam innupt. Qui obiêre: Haec Iul. 9. 1599. Ille 13. April. 1605.

Pietatis ergo moerens posuit Rich. Anderson filius haeres.

Edwinus Smith,An engraven plate, in the South wall of the Quire. filius Roberti Smith, Civis & Aromatarii Londinensis, apud Cantabrigiensis in Artibus Magister, ibidemque Collegii Iesus Socius praedilectus, propter summam ingenii ubertatem, memoriam, noticiam, pietatem, modestamque festivitatem, omnibus gratus: singulare sui generis ornamentum, & par decus Collegii (non dicam Academiae) futurus, diem obiit, horum omnium cum incredibili luctu, nono Calend, Septembris, qui festus D. Bartholomaeo fuit. Anno salutis, 1598. Aetatis suae, 23.

Ecclesiast. 44. ver. 8. Reliquit nomen, narrantur laudes.

From this Parish Church of S. Olave, to the North end of the Old Iewrie, and from thence West to the North end of Ironmonger lane, & from the said corner into Ironmonger lane, almost to the Parish Church of S. Martin, was (of old time) one large building of stone, very ancient, made in place of Jewes houses, but of what antiquity, or by whom the same was builded, or for what use, I have not learned, more than that King H. the 6. in the 16. of his reigne, gave the office of being Porter or keeper thereof,Kings Palace in the Old Iewrie. unto Iohn Stent, for terme of his life, by the name of his Principall Palace in the Old Iewry. This was (in my youth) called the Old Wardrobe: but of later time, the outward stone wall hath been by little and little taken downe, and divers faire houses builded thereupon, even round about.

Now for the North side of this Lothburie, beginning againe at the East end thereof: Vpon the Water-course of Cc2Walbrooke, Coleman ſtreet Ward. Walbrooke, have yee a proper Parish Church, called S. Margaret, which seemeth to be newly re-edified and builded, about the yeere 1440. For Robert Large gave to the Quire of that Church one hundred shillings, and 20. pounds for Ornaments, more, to the vaulting over the water-course of Walbrooke by the said Church, for the enlarging therof, two hundred Markes.

There be Monuments in this Church, of Reginald Coleman, Sonne to Robert Coleman, buried there, 1483. This said Robert Coleman may bee supposed the first builder or owner of Coleman street, and that Saint Stephens Church, then builded in Coleman street, was but a Chappell belonging to the Parish Church of S. Olave in the Iewry: for we read (as afore) that Iohn Forrest, Vicar of Saint Olaves, and of the Chappell annexed of S. Stephen, deceased in the yeere 1399. Hugh Clopton, Mercer, Maior, deceased, 1496. Anselme Becket, Iohn Iulian, William Ilford, Chanteries there, Sir Brian Tuke, Knight, Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eighth, and Dame Grisilde his wife, that deceased after him, were there buried 1536. Iohn Fetiplace, Draper, Esquire, 1464. and Ioan his wife, Sir Hugh Witch, Mercer, Maior, sonne to Richard Witch, intombed there, 1466. He gave to his third wife three thousand pound, and to Maids marriages five hundred markes.

Here lyeth buried Dame Grisilde Tuke, late wife of Sir Brian Tuke, A faire ancient Tombe in the North Ile of the Quire. Knight, Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eighth. She dyed the 28. day of December, 1538.

Vnder this stone lyeth George Beamon, A plated stone by the Communion Table. Clerke, and Doctor in Divinity, who departed this life the 29. day of April, An. Dom. 1571. A man mercifull and good to the poore, and borne in Kinnegall in Cumberland: whose body and Soule God grant a joyfull resurrection.

Se piu Si puote. No wealth, no praise,A goodly ancient Tombe in the Chancell. no bright renowne, no skill, No force, no fame, no Princes love, no toyle, Though forraine Lands by travels search you will, No faithfull service of thy Country foyle, Can life prolong one minute of an houre: But death at length will execute his power. For Sir Iohn Leigh, to sundry Countries knowne, A worthy Knight, well of his Prince esteem’d: By seeing much, to great experience growne: Though safe on seas, though sure on land he seem’d, Yet here he lyes, too soone by death opprest, His fame yet lives, his soule in heaven hath rest.

Here lyeth Ioh. Dimock, A faire plated stone before the ascending to the Cōmunion Table. sonne to Iohn Dimock, Esquire, sometimes Citizen & Draper of London: he married Anne his first wife, by whom he had one son: which Anne dyed the yeere of Christ, 1558. After whom he married his second wife Mary, by whom he had a daughter. He served the Princes of famous memory, King Henry the eighth, and King Edward the sixth. For his faithfull and good service he was well esteemed; for his upright dealing he was well beloved of his equals; for his benevolence to the poore, hee was both praised and prayed for. Hee lived 100. yeeres lacking 7. very commendably, and the 14. of Iuly, 1585. he dyed Christianly.

Here lyeth the body of Christian Towerson, A faire Pyramide erected against the South wall of the Quire. wife of William Towerson of London, Merchant, who lived together 21. yeeres and 6. moneths, and had issue 10. children. Leaving behind her Iohn, William, Robert, Elizab. and Mary. She left this life the 19. day of February, 1611.

Here resteth in hope of a ioyfull resurrection,A small Monumēt newly erected in the East end of the Quire. the body of Nicholas Style, late Alderman of London, who was borne at Langley, in the Parish of Beckingham, in the County of Kent: the son of Humfrey Stile, Knight, and of Dame Bridget his wife. He married Gertrude, the daughter of Thomas Bright of London, Ironmon Coleman ſtreet Ward. Ironmonger, with whom hee lived most lovingly and faithfully the space of forty yeeres, and by her had three sonnes and foure daughters; of whom remained living at his decease, one sonne, Humfrey, and one daughter, Mary. He dyed the sixteenth day of November, An. Dom. 1615.

By the West end of this Parish Church,Conduit in Lothbery. have ye a faire Water-conduit, builded at the charges of the Citie, in the yeere 1546. Sir Martin Bowes being Maior, two Fifteenes were levied of the Citizens, toward the charges thereof: This water is conveyed (in great abundance) from divers springs, lying betwixt Hoxton and Iseldon.

Next is the Founders Hall,The Foūders Hall. a proper house: and so to the South-west corner of Bassings Hall street, have ye faire and large houses for Merchants; namely, the corner house, at the end of Bassings Hall street, an old piece of worke, builded of stone, sometime belonging to a certaine Iew, named Mansere, the sonne of Aron, the sonne of Coke the Iew, the seventh of Edward the first: since, to Rahere de Sopars lane; then, to Simon Francis. Thomas Bradbery, Mercer, kept his Maioralty there,Bay Hall, deceased, 1509. Part of this house hath beene lately imployed as a Market-house, for the sale of woollen Bayes, Watmoles, Flanels, and such like. Alderman Bennet now possesseth it.

On this North side, against the Old Iurie, Coleman street. is Coleman street, so called of Coleman, the first builder and owner thereof, as also of Cole-church, or Coleman-church, against the great Conduit in Cheape. This is a faire and large street, on both sides builded with divers faire houses, besides Alleys, with small tenements, in great number. On the East side of this street, almost at the North end thereof,Armourers Hall. is the Armourers Hall, which Company of Armourers were made a Fraternity or Guild of S. George, with a Chantry in the Chappell of S. Thomas, in Pauls Church, in the first of Henry the 6. Also on the same side is Kings Alley, Kings Alley.Love lane. and Love Lane, both containing many tenements. And on the west side, towards the South end, is the Parish Church of S. Stephen, wherein the Monuments are defaced: Notwithstanding, I finde, that William Crayhag founded a Chauntry there, in the reign of Edward the second, and was buried there. Also Iohn Essex, the 35. of Edward the third. Adam Goodman, the 37. of Edward the third. William King, Draper, sometime owne of Kings Alley, the 18. of Richard the second. Iohn Sokeling, the tenth of Henry the sixth. Iohn Arnold, Leather-seller, the seventeenth of Henry the sixth. Thomas Brudbery, Mercer, Maior, the first of Henry the eighth. His Tombe remaineth on the North side of the Quire. Richard Hamney, 1418. Kirnigham, 1468.

Sir Iohn Garme, Richard Colsel, Edmond Harbeke, Currier: all these were Benefactors, and buried there.

Here lyeth in peace the body of the Right Worshipfull,A faire Monument in the Chancell. Sir William Glover, Knight, late Citizen and Alderman of London, who for the many good gifts, both in sincere Religion, wisedome, and gravity, wherewith he was very plentifully graced, was elected Sheriffe of London, and served the same, Anno Domini, 1601. He had lived in good name and fame fifty eight yeeres, and very blessedly departed this transitory life, the seventeenth day of Decemb. 1603. Leaving two sonnes, (viz.) Thomas and William; and five daughters, viz. Anne, married to Barne Roberts, of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire; Susan, Elizabeth, Mary, and Alice, behinde him, to condole the want of so kinde and loving a Father.

To whose dearest Memorie, the Lady Anne Glover, the most sorrowfull Widdow of the said Sir William, lamenting his death, and her owne unrecoverable losse; at her owne charge erected this Monument, in testification both of her love and duty.

Here lyeth the body of Barne Roberts, eldest son of Francis Roberts of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire; who tooke to wife Anne, eldest daughter of Sir William Glover, Knight, and Alderman of Lond. by whom he had issue, Cc3three Coleman ſtreet Ward. three sonnes, and five daughters. The said Barne Roberts dyed the 30. day of Ianuary, 1610. being of the age of 34. yeeres, and five moneths. In remembrance of whom, his said wife, (of her very kind and loving affection) at her owne proper cost and charges, hath caused this Monument to be made and erected, An. Dom. 1611.

If humane worth could have preserv’d him still,Another close by the greater. He had beene much too strong for death to kill. Yet being conquer’d, he got by the strife, A better being, in a better life: So that great Victor over Nature, left him More happinesse ten fold than he bereft him.

Gulielmo Danieli, Equiti Aurato, alteri è Iudicibus cōmunium Placitorum,A faire Tombe in the East end of the South Ile. qui Maii 19. Annos natus septuaginta tria, An. Do. 1610. diem ult. explevit, devotū Carmen.

Qui Patriae Leges aequo moderamine flexit, Et Iudex populo gratus amans{que} fuit, Hoc decorat genio marmor placido{que} pioque, Stabit in aeternum quod bona fama tegit. Gentem si quaeras? erat ille Checestriensis, Overtabelio nobilis ortus agro. Vxores binas duxit, nec pignora desunt, Connubii duplicis pulchra, pudica, pia. Filius egregii nominis speciemque parentis, Qui celebrat primi munus amoris erat. Elizabetha illi soror est, ab utroque parente Onsyloi vivit quae sociata toro. Conjugii sed Martha decus non sola secundi, Coco Equiti nupta est, nec satiatur Hymen, Nam binas expectat adhuc sub matre sorores, Foelices thalamos utraque digna manet. Margareta & illis paulo est maturior annis, Nomine Iudithae sit tibi nota minor. Sic numero florens natorum, munere Iudex, Ordine Eques obiit, plenus honore senex.

Anna defuncti Iudicis piissima vidua, in perpetuum amoris memoriaeque testimonium, lugubre hoc Monumentum extrui fecit.

In this Ile lye the bodies of George Golding, A hanſom small Monument is the wall by the other. Esquire, buried the 27. day of November, 1584. and of Anne Bartelet, widdow, buried 12. day of Iune, 1596. and of Mary Golding, widdow, late wife of the said George, and daughter of the said Anne, buried the 29. of April, 1612. by her said husband and mother, according to her owne desire. She lived a widdow 28. yeeres, religiously to God, hospitably to her friends, and charitably to all, especially to poore widdowes: and deceased the 25. day of April, 1612. being then 79. yeeres of age.

An honest heart,A faire Monumēt in the South wall of the Quire. religiously affected, A zealous soule, a charitable mind, True dealing conscience, all untruth rejected; All these in one are hard and far to find: Yet in the course, both time and truth have tryed, In youth and age, Iohn Taylor liv’d and dyed. His honest heart, his honest friends have found; His zeale to God, God and the godly know; His charity, His true reliefe may sound, That on the poore his bounty did bestow: His heavenly rest, upon this point resolved, To be with Christ, I wish to be dissolved. Here Coleman ſtreete Ward. Here lyeth buried the body of Iohn Taylor, Esquire, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who married Berseba, daughter of Edward Hall, late Citizen and Haberdasher of London, deceased, and had by her only one daughter, named Elizabeth; first married to Francis Smith, Citizen and Mercer of London, deceased, by whom she had one son, named Francis Smith; and since married to Thomas Freake, of Serne, in the County of Dorset, Esquire, by whom she hath five sons and daughters, now living. Hee hath given by his Will 200. pound in money, to be delivered and lent to young men of the Company of Haberdashers; to distribute every Sunday (weekly, for ever) two shillings in bread and the advantage, to poore householders of this Parish. And also twenty pound more for a stocke, to be yeerly imployed for ever, in buying and providing of Fuell for the same poore. The blessed token of the Daughters love, Vnto the Fathers kinde and loving care, May to the world this Monument approve, How blessed Parents in their Children are: And blessed God, that so his love expresseth, Who thus both Parents and the Children blesseth.

Sepelitur hic cor. Philippi Paskin,A grave stone in the same Ile. Qui obiit 12. Calend. Iunii, Anno Dom. 1580. Anno Aetat. 52. duos post se reliquit fil. Tho. & Ric. & unig. filiam Ioannam ex chariss. sibi Con. Anna.

Here lyeth Dame Iane, A comely Monumēt on a Pillar in the Quire. daughter and sole heire of Iohn White, of this Parish, Esquire: First married to Samuel Thornehill, of Bromley, in the County of Kent, Esquire, by whom she had issue two sonnes, Timothy and Iohn, and one daughter, named Elizabeth. Shee secondly married Sir Richard Smith, Knight, son of Thomas Smith, of Oestenhanger, in the County of Kent, Esquire, and had issue by him but one daughter, named Mary. The said Dame Iane died the 13. of October, 1607. being about the age of 33. yeeres. In whose remembrance, her said husband caused this Monument to be made, 1608.

Lady Bradvery gave 30. s. per annum in Charcoales to the poore of this Parish for ever from the worshipfull Company of Mercers.

On the Southside of the Chancell is a faire grave-stone, with this Epitaph in brasse:

Georgius heu quondam jacet hic Skeffingtonus humatus, Mercator Stapulae clarus in urbe fuit. Quae spes divitiis bona quam fallacia mundi, Quam subito pereunt quae valuere vide? Ast qui terram olim vano fragilem pede pressit, Aeterna hic petiit firmior astra fide. Obiit An. Dom. 1581. die 1. Iulii. A. vero aetatis suae 43.

On the lower end of the Chancell is a faire grave-stone with this Epitaph in brasse:

Our life is all but death, time that insueth Is but the death of time that went before. Youth is the death of childhood, age of youth, Die once to God, and then thou diest no more. Agnes the wife of Leonard Darr, whose sight By sicknesse much impair’d, in heavenly light Looke, liv’d, and died, as dimnesse her were given, That her soules eies might better looke to heaven.

Leonardus Darr nuper Maior ville de Totnes, posuit in mortem Agnetae charissimae conjugis suae. Obiit 29. Ianuarii 1596.

Iohn White, Citizen and Haberdasher, 1585. gave 12. d. weekly in bread to the poore of this Parish for ever.

William Man, Citizen and Merchant-taylor, 1585, gave the remainder of a leaſe Coleman ſtreete Ward. lease of yeeres to come in a lease of Tenements in Swanne alley, to the poore of this Parish, and the Towne of Buckingham, 2. l. 10. s.

Stephen Scudamore, Citizen and Vintner, 1585. gave weekly 12. d. in bread to the poore of this Parish for ever.

Iohn Taylor, Citizen and Haberdasher, gave in stocke 20. l. for Billets, Fagots, or Coales, for provision for the poore of this Parish for ever; and 2. s. weekly in bread for ever to the poore householders, 1600.

Dame Anne Glover gave a stocke of ten pounds for provision for the poor of this Parish, for wood or coale for ever, 1612.

Mistresse Dane, widow, gave to the poore 10. s. per annum for ever, from the Company of Ironmongers, 1614.

Henry Gibs, sometimes servant to Sir Maurice Abbot, Knight and Alderman of London, gave to the poore of this Parish 50. l.

Dame Daniel, sometimes wife to Sir William Daniel, gave a stocke for the poore of this Parish 30. l. 1616.

Hugh Cap, Citizen and Plasterer of London, gave 100. l. to purchase lands for the poore of this Parish for ever, 1616.

Iohn Terry, stranger, gave in stocke to the poore of this Parish 10. l. for ever, 1617.

Christopher Ayer, Merchant, Citizen, and Lether-seller of London, gave 240. pounds for the building of sixe Almeshouses, and 400. pounds to purchase lands towards the maintenance of sixe poore couple of this parish for ever, 1624.

Sir Richard Smith, Knight, gave in stock for provision of Sea-coales for the poore of this Parish, one hundred pounds every yeere to bee returned for the use of the poore for ever, 1627. And another hundred pounds afterward for reliefe of the poore also.

I obtained these instructions, by the helpe and assistance of my loving friend and brother, Thomas Price, Parish Clarke there.

This Church was sometime a Synagogue of the Iewes,Parish Church of S. Stephen, sometime a Synagogue of the Iewes. then a Parish Church, then a Chappell to St. Olaves in the Iewry, untill the seventh of Edward the fourth, and was then incorporated a Parish Church.

By the East end of this Church is placed a Cocke of sweet water,Cocke of water by St. Stephens Church. taken out of the maine Pipe that goeth into Lothbery. Also, in London Wall, Conduit at London Wall. directly against the North end of Coleman streete, is a Conduit of water, made at the charges of Thomas Exmew, Goldsmith, Maior, 1517.

And let here be the end of this Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy, common Counsellors foure, Constables foure, Scavengers foure, of the Wardmote Inquest thirteene, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene, fifteene pound, sixteene shillings, nine pence.

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