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 THE VESTRY MINUTES FROM 1579 TO 1662 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 This book appeals to the indulgence of its readers as the 
 fruit only of the leisure hours in two busy lives. In it the 
 text has been printed as far as possible in every way to 
 represent the MS. The notes have been drawn for the most 
 part from easily accessible sources. The chief MS. authorities 
 are the Parish Registers, which date from 1579, and are 
 perfect, and the Manor Court Rolls, at the Manor Office, 
 28, Austin Friars, which date only from 1654, but are fully 
 calendared and indexed. More attention has been paid in 
 them to little known people than to those who are compara- 
 tively well known, and where a reference could be given to 
 such a work as the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' the 
 editors have been content with giving only a very slight 
 biographical sketch besides the reference. 
 
 They have many pleasing debts of gratitude, not to dis- 
 charge, but, at least, to record here : notably to F. W. 
 Maddocks, Esq., for his gift of an original copy of 
 Gascoyne's Map, from which the reproduction has been 
 made ; to J. Challenor Smith, Esq., and W. Hellyar, Esq., 
 for much assistance in research ; to the Rev. G. Hennessy 
 for very valuable assistance in the list of incumbents ; and to 
 many others who, in one way or another, have contributed 
 to the notes. 
 
 Last, but not least, to all the subscribers, without whose 
 support the book could not have seen the light. 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 STEPNEV CHURCH, FROM maitland's 'HISTORY OF LONDON' Frontispiece. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM RYDER, PUBLISHED BY G. RICHARDSON, 1 797 /. 17 
 
 GASCOYNE's parish map, 3 SHEETS (wiTH INDEX I "-8*) in Pocket. 
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 P. 25. — Add note on Nicholas Siraonson, that he was a timber merchant, 
 much in the employ of the E.I.C. — E.I.C. Court Minutes, 1599-1603, ed. 
 
 Stevens. 
 
 P. 31. — -Add that Thomas Best lived in Whitehorse Street, that his wife, 
 Mary, was buried July 17, 1624, and he August 23, 1639. 
 
 P. 46. — For Robert Goldinge and Lewes Tight, see E.I.C. Court Minutes 
 (Stevens). 
 
 P. 47. — David English in 1590 was licentiat of Holy Trinity, Minories, 
 and two years later cura'e of St. Anne's, Blackfriars. He exchanged with 
 Dr. Gouldman for the cure of Patchinge. — Newcourt, Addenda, Informa- 
 tion from the Bishop's Register, communicated by the Rev. G. Hennessy. 
 
 P. 47. — John Hayward, ? of Pembroke College, Cambridge, M.A. 1584. 
 
 P. 61. — Note on Gilbert Dethicke. Noble's statement that he died in 1639 
 is incorrect, for he was buried November 9, 1649, and so the difficulty vanishes. 
 — Stepney Registers. 
 
 P. 62. — Nicholas Veere, yeoman, of Stepney His dauf^hter married 
 Thomas Peirce, by licence from the Bishop dated December 12, 1625. 
 
 P. 252. — Add that John Chedworth was Bishop of Lincoln (1452). 
 
 CORRIGENDA. 
 
 P. viii, 3 lines from bottom, for 'sold ' read 'alienated.' The manor was 
 not sold to the Colebrooke family, but passed to them by a family arrangement. 
 
 P. ix, line ^, for 860 read 1360. 
 
 P. xviii, line $,for i6u, read 17 11. 
 
 P. 31, 8 lines from ho\.tom, for 1853 read 1583. 
 
 P. 93, note on William Cock. The date of death is wrong, for he signs th. 
 book in 1632 (p. 137). 
 
INTRODUCTION TO THE MEMORIALS OF 
 STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 § I . Early History of the Parish. 
 
 For the first beginninq^ of Stepney history we have to go 
 back to the other side of the Norman Conquest and to the time 
 of the Saxons. The name appears in many older and longer 
 forms, of which, probably, Stebonheath is the most common ; 
 this gives a wrong idea as to the origin of the name, for it is 
 connected, not with the word ' heath,' but with the old word 
 ' hythe ' (meaning a small port or harbour), which we find also 
 in the names Rotherhithe and Lambeth, etc. The meaning 
 of the first part of the word can hardly be stated with any 
 certainty. 
 
 While the name thus carries back the history of Stepney 
 to Saxon times, traditions come in and confirm this testimony, 
 though in themselves the traditions are somewhat hazy. 
 
 We are told that there was an old Saxon church dedicated 
 originally to All Saints, that it was rebuilt by St. Dunstan at 
 the end of the tenth century, and that, in gratitude for this 
 action, when St. Dunstan was canonized, the church was put 
 under his special patronage. Space will not allow us here to 
 analyze this tradition ; the evidence for it is small, though it 
 is not in itself improbable. Dunstan was Bishop of London 
 for a short time, and was probably, therefore. Lord of the 
 Manor of Stepney, and quite possibly lived in the parish. 
 
 b 
 
iv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 At any rate, when we reach Norman times we are on 
 surer ground. Doomsday Book gives us the distinct in- 
 formation that at the end of the eleventh century the manor 
 belonged to the Bishops of London ; up to the beginning of 
 the fifteenth century a succession of bishops Hved in the 
 manor-house, and one at least of these — Bishop Eustace — 
 in 1228, was a benefactor to the church. 
 
 At about the same date we get the earliest mention of a 
 Rector of Stepney, viz., William, who quarrelled in 1233 with 
 the convent of the Holy Trinity at Aldgate about the tithes 
 of a mill. 
 
 Up to the end of the thirteenth century, information about 
 Stepney is very scanty, but from 1300 the history may be 
 said fairly to begin. 
 
 The name Stepney then comprised one large parish, as yet 
 entirely undivided, stretching from the City to the river Lea, 
 and from the river Thames to Hackney. This was the 
 ecclesiastical district, and, as far as land tenure went, the state of 
 things was mainly the same, as the great Manor of Stepney, held 
 by the bishop, included the greater part of that area, though 
 there were also several smaller manors owned at the time of 
 the Doomsday Survey by the bishop or the king, which, 
 however, later came into other hands. 
 
 The first definite mention of the church, bearing date 1302, 
 calls it bv the name of St. Dunstan ; but perhaps other 
 earlier documents may be forthcoming some day to support 
 the contention that its original dedication was to All Saints. 
 
 It was an age of church extension. In the west of the 
 parish, the White Chapel of St. Mary Matfellon was already 
 lightening the burden of the mother church, and in 131 i the 
 chapel of Stratford Bow was built close to the Bow Brido-e, 
 on a piece of the highroad, for the benefit of the easternmost 
 parishioners of Stepney. A still greater change followed in 
 1338, when the Whitechapel district was cut off from Stepney 
 — the first of a long series of subdivisions — and St. Mary's 
 
INTRODUCTION. v 
 
 Chapel became the Parish Church of Whitechapel under a 
 rector appointed by the Rector of Stepney. 
 
 The mother parish was being served by two clergy, (i) the 
 rector or parson, appointed by the bishop ; (2) the vicar — a 
 deputy whom the rector appointed ; and from this time for- 
 ward we have a full list of the beneficed clergy in Stepney. 
 The two offices of rector and vicar were united in 1710, and 
 since then there have been no more Vicars of Stepney. This 
 full list is printed below. 
 
 Stepney at this time was essentially rustic. The bishop 
 had a large area of wooded ground which he had tried to 
 convert into a game preserve in 1 292 ; but though he had gained 
 the king's leave, the Mayoralty Court of London opposed the 
 scheme and put an end to it. Deprived thus of their sport, 
 the bishops amused themselves with tournaments, which were 
 often held near the bishop's palace between the years 1305 
 and 1331. 
 
 The life of the village was as a whole uneventful enough, 
 but from time to time the proximity of Stepney to London 
 brought it face to face with the more stirring events of the 
 time. Such an event, for example, was the rebellion of Wat 
 Tyler in 1381, the scene of which was largely laid in Stepney 
 Parish, at Mile End. 
 
 The rectory was valued in 1372 at 60 marks, and the 
 vicarage at 12 marks — considerable sums in those days — and 
 evidently the church was well supported and kept up, as it 
 possessed in 1308 a cope of silk and gold worth ^3, which 
 the Mayor and Aldermen of London considered a fitting 
 present for them to send as their gift to a bishop at his con- 
 secration. These few extracts must suffice to give just a 
 glimpse into the state of the parish in the fourteenth 
 century. 
 
 After the death of Bishop Braybrooke in 1404, the bishops 
 seem to have deserted Stepney, but it continued to be a 
 favourite country residence, especially for London merchants, 
 
 d 2 
 
vi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and an increasing number of good houses began to rise in the 
 midst of the woods and fields ; growth and progress were slow, 
 as the great wars of this century drained the energy and 
 resources of the nation. Still, Stepney had been lucky in 
 being away from the greater part of the struggles, and, as a 
 result of this immunity, new churches replaced the old build- 
 ings at Stepney and Bow. This rebuilding was part of a 
 regular movement which passed over this district about the 
 middle of the fifteenth century, and has left us a number of 
 churches of the same date and style ; but at Stepney several 
 features of the older church were retained, notably the sedilia 
 and the old font, though the latter has now almost entirely 
 disappeared. Several of the rectors and vicars of this time 
 were distinguished men, and two of them. Bishop Lumley and 
 Dr. Burton, were sent to represent England at the Council of 
 Basle in 1433. 
 
 When Henry VII. came to power, a new era began for 
 England, in which Stepney, too, had its share. 
 
 Two great movements now began which profoundly in- 
 fiuenced Stepney — namely, the religious reforms and the 
 development of the navy. Stepney was all through in the van 
 of the Reformation. Bishop Fox, whom Henry VI I. confirmed 
 in the vicarage in face of considerable opposition, was one of 
 the chief patrons of the New Learning ; while Dean Colet, the 
 son of Sir Henry Colet, of The Great Place (opposite the west 
 end of the church), and himself for a short time vicar, was the 
 great leader of the same movement on which the subsequent 
 Reformation was built up. Other lesser lights were also 
 active in the same cause. Rector Layton was busy slander- 
 ing, coercing and suppressing the monasteries, while his vicar. 
 Dr. Heynes, was away in France, charged with a mission to 
 confer with Melanchthon, the German Reformer, and, if possi- 
 ble, bring him to England. Heynes' successor, William Jerome, 
 paid the penalty of being in advance of his times in his religious 
 views, and was burnt at Smithfield in 1540; while four years 
 
INTRODUCTION. vii 
 
 later the parish was put into the hands of two of the much- 
 abused monks, who had earned this reward by beinji^ compHant 
 with Henry and his rapacious Commissioners. Even under 
 Queen Mary, while heretics were being burnt publicly at 
 Bow, John Thomas (see p. 5), ejected from Prittlewell, found 
 a home here, and Queen Mary's nominee to the rectory did 
 not survive as rector long when Elizabeth came to the throne. 
 Another strange actor on the scene was Edward Underbill, 
 gentleman, of Limehouse, known as 'The Hot Gospeller.' 
 always ready to put anyone right as to his religious beliefs and 
 practices, and very busy on the side of the extreme Reformers. 
 By 1579, when the minutes open, Puritanism — using the word 
 in its Elizabethan sense — was firmly established in Stepney, 
 though there still lay before it a gradual development into the 
 more distinct Puritanism of the Commonwealth. 
 
 Simultaneously, the development of naval enterprise was 
 revolutionizing the parish. The growth of shipbuilding in the 
 Thames began with the reign of Henry VH., and mainly at 
 three centres, Ratcliffe, Blackwall, and Deptford ; it was here 
 that the royal navy began to become England's great power, 
 and though the honour of the earlier English private ventures 
 and explorations belongs to Bristol, London was not far behind 
 in point of time, and soon began to attract to itself the chief men 
 of enterprise from other parts of England. The foundation 
 of the Trinity House by Sir Thomas Spert, in Henry's reign, 
 and of the Company of Merchant Adventurers by Sebastian 
 Cabot in 1552, the three voyages of Frobisher, equipped by 
 the Muscovy Company, 1576-80, and the incorporation of the 
 East India Companv, mark different stages in this mighty 
 development. The direct consequence of it was a parallel 
 development in the parish of Stepney. Surely and steadily 
 the line of houses and shipyards began to creep eastward 
 along the banks of the Thames, and to absorb into itself the 
 little blocks of buildings that had before been isolated, first at 
 Ratcliffe, then at Limehouse, and finally at Blackwall. The 
 
viii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 main body of this book — the vestry minutes and the notes 
 appended to them — brings out so clearly this fact, that it is not 
 necessary to do more here than merely chronicle it. Away 
 from the riverside the growth of the parish was still quite slow 
 and gradual, and nothing shows so clearly as the valuations 
 authorized by the vestry from time to time where the chief 
 wealth and population of the parish lay. The chief men of 
 the riverside hamlets were nearly all connected with ships ; 
 but in Mile End and Bethnal Green they were independent 
 gentlemen, or men of mark who had a country house on Mile 
 End Green (the modern Stepney Green), or elsewhere. Of 
 this latter class, only one or two appear in the vestry minutes 
 and receive any notice in this book, as the larger number of 
 them, naturally, did not concern themselves with parochial 
 affairs, and even Lord Morley, whose name does appear upon 
 the lists of the vestry, does not seem to have taken any active 
 part in its proceedings. 
 
 While the parish was thus growing and becoming divided 
 into these two sections, a change took place in the manor. 
 In 1 55 1 Bishop Ridley, on the day of his enthronement 
 (April 12), resigned the manor into the hands of King 
 Edward VI., and the connexion of the Bishops of London 
 with the manors of Stepney and Hackney, which had lasted 
 at least 500 years, came abruptly to an end. Three years 
 before, Bishop Bonner, the deposed bishop whom Ridley 
 superseded, had granted to Sir Ralph Warren a ninety-nine 
 years' lease of a messuage and chapel, evidently the house and 
 chapel at Bethnal Green known by the name of Bishop Bonner's 
 Hall or Bishopshail, which was probably the old manor-house 
 inhabited by the bishops in past days. This old house only 
 disappeared in 1844, to make way for Victoria Park. The 
 manor was almost at once granted to Sir Thomas Wentworth, 
 in whose family it remained under very varying fortunes till 
 1720, when it was sold to John Wicker. Wicker's son sold it 
 again in 1754 to the Colebrooke family, the present lords of 
 the manor. 
 
INTRODUCTION. ix 
 
 In 1547 we get another return of the condition of the parish, 
 in which the rectory is valued at ^50, and the vicarage at 
 ;£^^ 6s. 8d., equal in our money to ^500 and ^335 re- 
 spectively ; the number of communicants is returned at 860 — 
 a large proportion of the then population, which speaks well 
 for the efficiency of the clergy of that day. At the same time 
 interest was stirring in education, and the Free School at 
 Ratcliffe, founded by Nicholas Gibson, who died in 1540, was 
 beginning to bear fruit. 
 
 Such is a brief outline of the history of the parish up to the 
 year 1580, gathered from scattered notices and many sources ; 
 from this point forward we have the vestry minutes as a text 
 on which to base the continuation of this outline ; but first a 
 word must be said about the constitution and work of the 
 vestry. 
 
 [Authorities : Lysons' ' Environs of London ;' Strype's edition of Stow's 
 ^ Survey of London ;' A'eivcourfs ' Lieperiorium ;' Maiiland's ' History of London / 
 Riley's ' Memorials of the City of London ;' MSS. in the possession of the 
 Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, calendared by the Hist. MSS. Commission, 
 Report IX., First Appendix ; State Papers, Domestic Series and Colonial Series ; 
 ' ffakluyt's Voyages;' etc., etc.] 
 
 § 2. TAe Constiht,tion and Work of the Vestry. 
 
 In the earlier days of which we have minutes, the vestry of 
 Stepney Parish was a General Vestry — that is to say, all the 
 chief men of the parish were summoned to the meeting to 
 transact the parochial business. The first few entries in the 
 minute - book are probably copies of the older documents ; 
 mention is made of the subscription of the names of the parish- 
 ioners who were present {e.g. pp. 3, 5), but no such subscrip- 
 tion seems to have taken place at any rate in this book ; it 
 seems likely, therefore, that these first two or three are not 
 the original entries, but a transcript with the signatures left 
 "out. However, from p. 6 onward the subscription of names 
 regularly occurs. When the business was not interesting, 
 
X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 only one or two men signed, but when anything decisive 
 was done, tliere were probably more present, and certainly 
 more signed the book (see for example p. 1 2). 
 
 In 1589 the parish grew dissatisfied with the General 
 Vestry ; it was too large and cumbrous, and consequently 
 inefficient, and it was therefore resolved to have a Select 
 Vestry instead, consisting of thirty-two members, eight from 
 each of the four hamlets — Ratcliffe, Limehouse, Poplar, and 
 Mile End with Bethnal Green. 
 
 These vestrymen were apparently elected for five years. 
 In 1594 another election took place, and in 1598-9 the main 
 body of the parishioners again took up the question of the 
 vestry, and, to amend the disorders, elected ten members from 
 each hamlet to form the new Select Vestry ; this body they 
 constituted by an order largely signed by the chief men of the 
 parish, and the order was finally confirmed by the Bishop of 
 London's commissary, as the law required (see pp. 30-35). 
 
 This arrangement lasted till about 1645 when the vestry 
 began to be sadly disorganized ; no auditors or sidesmen were 
 then elected, and such meetings as were held were meetings 
 of miscellaneous people, not of duly elected vestrymen. After 
 1648 the meeting gave up even calling itself a vestry. But 
 early in 1654 a general meeting of the parishioners was held 
 to reform these abuses, and once more a Select Vestry was 
 constituted. This constitution was never confirmed, and was, 
 therefore, called in question at The Restoration ; so the 
 Bishop of London, on petition, appointed a new Select Vestry 
 of forty-four persons, with power to fill up vacancies in their 
 number, and this body from that time carried on the business 
 of the parish (1662). 
 
 To return to the state of affairs at the first Select Vestry, 
 1589 ; churchwardens were already existing, one represeniinu 
 each of the four hamlets, and at first this was enough ; but as 
 the parish grew it was found advisable to increase the number 
 either by appointing a deputy to serve conjointly, or by sub- 
 
INTRODUCTION. xi 
 
 dividing the hamlets. As a rule, each churchwarden held 
 office for two years, but in some cases he provided a substitute 
 for the whole or part of his term. 
 
 Auditors, too, had already been appointed by resolutions 
 passed in 1583 and 1584. The first list given here (of 1586) 
 sliows four names for each hamlet, but the number fell later 
 to three, and, finally, two. In the middle of the seventeenth 
 century, in the general decay of the vestry, auditors disap- 
 peared till they were restored in 1663, after the general 
 reorganization above mentioned. 
 
 A similar fate befell the office of sidesman, which does not 
 appear before 1590. 
 
 The original number of the hamlets of the parish was four, 
 but it gradually increased. A movement which began in the 
 appointment of a second churchwarden in Ratcliffe in 1641 
 (p. 171) ended in the establishment of a separate hamlet of 
 Shadwell, which continued under the name of Lower Wapping, 
 when Shadwell was taken out of it to be an independent 
 parish in 1669. Similarly Spitalfields obtained an inde- 
 pendent churchwarden in 1662, and Mile End New Town 
 in 1691 ; and the parish till 1729 included eight hamlets, 
 though the list of vestrymen was not increased beyond the 
 number of forty-four, as appointed by the bishop's instrument 
 of 1662. Thenceforward one hamlet after another was 
 separated (see p. xviii.), till at present only three remain in the 
 parish, viz., Ratcliffe and the two Mile End hamlets, and after 
 1735 increase was gradually made in the number of vestry- 
 men representing the hamlets that remained. 
 
 The usual day of meeting in the earlier years of which we 
 have record was Sunday. Of the first twenty-two meetings 
 recorded between 1579 and 1594 only four were held on a 
 week-day ; then for a few years a change was made, and 
 Thursday was the most usual day, and twice (1602 and 1603) 
 the vestry met on Ascension Day. When the Canons of 1603 
 came into force, they affected the vestry (amongst other ways) 
 
xii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 by fixing the date of its elec.tion-meetingj^to some day in 
 Easter-week (see No. xc), and this custom was kept up 
 apparently, more or less, even under the Commonwealth. As 
 regards frequency of meeting there was no constant rule. In 
 many years only the Easter meeting is recorded ; in a few, 
 none at all ; while, on the other hand, minutes are given of 
 eight meetings in the plague-year of 1625, and of twelve 
 meetings in 1679. In 161 9 an attempt was made to establish 
 a monthly meeting (p. 85), after evening prayer, on the first 
 Sunday of every month ; but, though ordered and decreed, it 
 never seems to have come to much. 
 
 The business done was, as the minutes show, most miscel- 
 laneous ; the vestry was i/ie form of local government, and 
 united the functions of many modern bodies. It had two 
 means of raising money — (i) for ordinary emergencies by 
 the annual pew-rents or 'puage'; (2) on special occasions 
 either by demanding additional pew-rents, or by levying a 
 ' landscot,' or rate levied upon land (see, e.g:, p. 136). 
 
 Its home was either the vestry of the church or else the 
 vestry house or church house — a quite distinct building from 
 the vestry of the church ; this was situate in the churchyard 
 (one such still exists at Hackney), and served as offices for the 
 vestry as well as providing a home for curates, officers, and 
 often some necessitous old women besides. The vicar or, on 
 great occasions, the rector presided, and in their absence the 
 curate, lecturer, or one of the chief of the parishioners. The 
 proceedings, as a rule, seem to have been conducted with 
 great decorum — at any rate, compared with the standard of 
 many modern vestries. Was the actual business worse done 
 then than by all the modern paraphernalia of these days ? 
 
 § .'3 . History of the Parish, 1 5 80- 1745. 
 We now take up again the thread of our story, and continue 
 the outline of parochial history. Besides the steady growth 
 of the parish — of which the vestry minutes give constant 
 
INTRODUCTION. xiii 
 
 evidence — the two chief things of interest in Stepney in the 
 early part of the seventeenth century were (i) the develop- 
 ment of the navy and shipping companies, and (2) the growth 
 of Puritanism. 
 
 With regard to the former, we have already seen the earlier 
 stages of this development (p. vii.). At the end of Elizabeth's 
 reign the outburst of patriotism evoked by the dread and 
 actual coming of the Armada gave it a still further impetus ; 
 and, while the trained bands and archers were practising on 
 Mile End Green, the shipwrights were busy on the river 
 building ships for the parishioners of Stepney to man and sail 
 all over the world in search of trade and in defence of English 
 interests. Such men as Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Wm. Borough 
 (p. 6), and Sir H. Palmer (p. 22), were attracted to the parish 
 as the centre of naval enterprise, and were among the earliest 
 of a long list of Stepney naval heroes whose names often recur 
 in the vestry minutes. Similarly in shipbuilding William Bur- 
 rell (p. 25) was the precursor of the great Pett family of 
 shipbuilders, and these and their followers and clientele form 
 another large element in the parish vestry. 
 
 Among the shipping companies the East India Company 
 held the first position. From the first year of its incorpora- 
 tion its progress was unbroken, and its maritime service was 
 not only the training ground of many of our best sailors, but 
 it laid the foundation of the Empire of India ; and, when its 
 history comes to be written, the names of many Stepney 
 people — Thomas Best (died 1639) (p. 31), John Davies (p. 60), 
 Christopher Browne (p. 141), and others — will be far better 
 known than they are at present. 
 
 Turning now to (2) the growth of Puritanism, we see how 
 the early promise given by Vicar Jerome (p. vi.) and Edward 
 Underbill (p. vii.) did not fall to the ground. The first sign 
 of it in the minutes is given in the establishment of the after- 
 noon lecture, and the election of so stout a convert to the 
 Puritan cause as Stephen Gosson (p. 9) to be the lecturer. 
 
 c 2 
 
xiv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Was it the same tendency again, or was it Gosson's preaching 
 that made the vestry sell the organ, which, barely sixty years 
 before, the parish and the bounty of John Forster had pro- 
 vided ? Vicar Thomas (p. 5) had in Anderson (p. 15) a 
 successor of a kindred spirit; but the authorities were begin- 
 ning to find the extreme party of Puritan dissenters as great 
 a nuisance as the recusant Romanists, and repressive measures, 
 such as the injunction concerning preachers (p. 20), had to be 
 adopted equally against them. 
 
 It would be interesting to know whether it was theological 
 differences that caused the split between Vicar David English 
 (p. 47) and the vestry. The cause of it is still obscure, and 
 we only know that it called for the rector's interference, and 
 that two men, Henry Marrot and Walter Portriff, were 
 ' charged to conspire the stoninge to death of one Englishe, 
 their Curate ;' naturally he was glad to retire elsewhere. 
 But the troubles were not yet over ; after comparative 
 peace under Gouldman and Douglas, the storm broke out 
 again when Stamp (p. 175) became vicar. Puritanism was now 
 full-grown, and aimed at nothing less than the destruction of 
 the Church in England, and the abolition of Episcopacy and 
 the Prayer-book. Stamp and his curate Edgeworthe vainly 
 endeavoured to weather this storm. Stamp was imprisoned, 
 and finally fled abroad, and the unenviable task of calming the 
 disturbed atmosphere devolved upon Dr. Hoyle (p. 181). He 
 was a diligent and able preacher, and was brought over by 
 the Parliament from Dublin to Oxford as ' a noted Puritan,' 
 and so would be thought acceptable at Stepney ; but he was 
 not advanced enough for his congregation or for the two 
 lecturers, Greenhill and Burroughes, who ' never took notice 
 of Dr. Josh. Hoyle.' So little did the former notice him that, 
 in 1644, while still lecturer in the parish church, he joined the 
 Independents, and was himself probably instrumental in 
 starting the sect in Stepney. This action was so favourably 
 regarded by the authorities that he was appointed vicar to 
 succeed Hoyle; and his Independent congregation were pro- 
 
INTRODUCTION. xv 
 
 bably in possession of the parish church till the Restoration 
 came, when the Church and Prayer-book were restored, and 
 Greenhill and his congregation driven out to seek a new home. 
 They found one, for a man of the ability and sincere piety of 
 Greenhill was able to hold a congregation together in spite of 
 all that Acts of Parliament could do to prevent him, and after 
 some unsettled years they found a final resting-place in the 
 old Stepney Meeting-house (built 1674), where, under 
 Matthew Mead, Greenhill's successor, and a long line of dis- 
 tinguished pastors, the congregation continued to flourish 
 until the new meeting-house was built in 1863.^ Greenhill's 
 successor in the vicarage (Emmanuel Utye)was a Churchman 
 of the old type, and thenceforward comparative peace reigned 
 in ecclesiastical affairs. 
 
 A few words must be said on the history of the church, 
 churchyard, etc. 
 
 The vestry minutes give constant evidence of work of one 
 kind or another going on there : either more accommodation 
 is needed or ' the ruins of the church are great,' and repairs on 
 a large scale must be undertaken. But one reason why the 
 subject was so constantly before the vestry was that work, 
 though decided on, was often not done till the order had been 
 repeated again and again; e.^:, the gallery ordered in 1580 is 
 only part begun in 1601. Mention in 1619 and 162 1 (pp. 86 
 and 96) of ' the partition of the Chancell ' seems to show that 
 the rood-screen was not yet wholly gone, and from a minute 
 on the former page, as to the erection of gates, one might 
 perhaps argue that the disastrous custom of shutting up the 
 church from Sunday to Sunday had not yet come in. As 
 regards the furniture of the church, the bells were constantly 
 in trouble, the organ was ejected in 1585 (p. 12), and no suc- 
 cessor took its place till 1678 and 1679, when, under encour- 
 agement from the bishop, subscriptions were collected, and a 
 new organ bought from the celebrated builder, Renatus 
 
 ^ See a very interesting account of the early years in Mr. A. T. Jones's ' Notes on the Early 
 Days of Stepney Meeting,' printed by T. Wilson Booth, 43, White Horse Lane, E. 1887. 
 
xvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Harris. In 1622 a new pulpit was erected — probably of the 
 ' three-decker ' type — and forty years later the church was 
 further beautified by the setting up of the king's arms, Creed, 
 Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments, ' after a handsome 
 and beautiful maner.' It was probably needed, as the inven- 
 tory of church property given in 1659 shows how bare and 
 desolate all must have been. Subsequently (in 1678) ' the 
 beautifieing and furnishing of our Church after y" manner of 
 y® Church of All Hallows, Barkin,' was recommended to the 
 vestry — this probably implied a liberal use of whitewash. 
 
 The fire caused an influx of people to the church ; so great, 
 that widow Adams could not cope with them, and a number 
 of prudent sober men had to be appointed ' to keep the 
 pewes.' At the same time we learn that the men and women 
 were still accustomed to sit on opposite sides of the church, 
 according to the old custom. The need of more accommoda- 
 tion was not merely temporary, for in 1684 it was necessary 
 to build yet a new gallery, so that there were at least five — 
 two on each side, and one at the west end. 
 
 The churchyard grew by degrees. The great outbreaks of 
 plague in 1625 and 1665 each necessitated additions to the 
 existing accommodation ; the former, though less severe, has 
 left much more mark on the vestry minutes, perhaps because, 
 in the latter case, a burial-ground was enclosed on Bethnal 
 Green Common, north of Dog Row, which relieved the strain 
 upon the churchyard, so that the new ground was not needed 
 till 1678. Another evidence of the severity of the earlier 
 outbreak is given in the licence granted by the bishop on 
 January 24, 162^, at the request of the vicar, to empower 
 Robinson, the parish clerk, to bury parishioners, and to church 
 their wives (using the Prayer-book forms), because there was 
 more than the curate could possibly do single-handed. Of 
 the later visitation a great deal has been written by Defoe and 
 others, much of it more graphic than true; but the sober evidence 
 of tiie registers shows the great extent of the mortality. 
 
 The church-house, to which allusion has already been made 
 
INTRODUCTION. xvii 
 
 (p. xi.), was rebuilt in 1619 (p. 85), and again in 1655 and 
 1656, and this last change was made an opportunity for 
 getting rid of those who lodged in the upper storey ; but yet 
 once again, in 1684, a new restoration was needed. It is 
 doubtful whether this latter was ever accomplished, for in 
 1696 the old church-house was pulled down, and the parish 
 leased the old parsonage to take its place (see the frontispiece). 
 They sublet the greater part of it to the curate (1706), and 
 seem to have gone on leasing it after the arrangement came 
 into force (p. xviii.) by which it was assigned as the house of the 
 'portionist' of Spitalfields, and in fact up to 1737. Meanwhile 
 they must have built a new vestry-house, and, after the por- 
 tionist arrangement ceased, the rectory was no longer needed, 
 so it was pulled down under a faculty from the bishop, dated 
 June 28, 1763. 
 
 The last subject to be noticed is the subdivision of the 
 parish. In 1650 a committee sat to inquire into the state of 
 ecclesiastical benefices, and it was proposed to divide the 
 parish into four ; this was never done, but two chapels were 
 built to relieve the parish church: (i) that at Poplar, which 
 was already begun when the subdivision was proposed, was 
 completed in 1654, by the gifts of the East India Company, 
 Gilbert Dethick (p. 61), Maurice Thomson (p. 189), and others; 
 (2) that at Shadwell was erected by Thomas Neale two years 
 later. Attempts were at once made to separate both districts, 
 but they were opposed, and for the time prevented ; eventually 
 in 1669 the parish of St. Paul's, Shadwell, was cut out of 
 Stepney, and the chapel became the church of the new parish. 
 In 1673 Poplar made another attempt at independence, which 
 was equally unsuccessful. 
 
 At the beginning of the eighteenth century more changes 
 came. In the first place, Brasenose College, Oxford, bought 
 the advowson of both rectory and vicarage, and when Rector 
 White died the benefices were united (i 710), and John Wright, 
 the then vicar, became sole rector. After his death in 1718, 
 two co-rectors were appointed, and continued for some time 
 
xviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 side by side under the titles of ' the portionist of Ratcliffe ' 
 and ' the portionist of Spitalfields.' The same year that saw 
 this arrangement confirmed by Act of Parliament (1710) saw 
 also an Act passed for building fifty new churches in the 
 suburbs of London. On October 9, 161 1, the vestry recom- 
 mended to the Commissioners the separation of five new 
 parishes, and their suggestion was mainly carried out. 
 St. Anne's, Limehouse, was built 171 2-1 724, the church 
 consecrated, and the parish cut off in 1730. Christ Church, 
 Spitalfields, was built 1723-1729, and then consecrated and 
 made the church of a new parish. St. George's was built 
 171 5-1 729, and then consecrated and made the church of a 
 new parish, consisting of the old hamlet of Wapping, in 
 Stepney parish. Poplar, in spite of its previous efforts, and 
 though recommended by the vestry as having ' a very good 
 Chappel y* may make a convenient Parish Church,' was not 
 separated, and remained a hamlet of Stepney till 1820. But 
 on the other hand Bow, without the vestry's recommendation, 
 at last, after a very rebellious career, gained its full indepen- 
 dence in 1730: it had been practically autonomous since 
 1497 (see note on p. 1). Finally, in 1740, the hamlet of 
 Bethnal Green was made a separate parish, and the Act of 
 Parliament provided also for the erecting of a parish church. 
 It also brought to an end the dual control of the rectory of 
 Stepney, as the ' portionist of Ratcliffe' was made first rector 
 of St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green, and the other ' portionist ' 
 became the sole rector of Stepney. 
 
 Here the sketch of Stepney history ceases, for by this time 
 the parish has become a very different thing to what it was, 
 and its history has become much narrower and of less wide 
 interest. 
 
 [Aui/ioriiies : Strype's ' Stow ;' Maitland^s ' History of London ; Lysons 
 ' Environs ;' Middlesex County Record Society's publications ; Jones's ' Notes on 
 the Early Days of Stepney Meeting i' Vicar-generaPs Book , Bishop's Registry ; 
 Stepney Vestry Minutes ; etc., etc.] 
 
STEPNEY ALS STEBUNHUTH. 
 
 The vi* daie of march Anno 1579 Annoq^ regni dne nfe 
 Elizabethe Reglne &c xxij° 
 
 At a vesterie being holden the daie and yeare aboue written 
 whearein assembled the most of the parrishoners, there was 
 shewed before them a booke made by the Churchwardens, 
 whearein was expressed the pewes in the whole Church : And 
 the same distinguished in everie He, by the nombers placed 
 against every of them. Also there was noted against everie 
 pewe the price that was thought reasonable it shoulde yeeld 
 by the yeare, as in the same booke, before written doth 
 appeare, The w'''' rates by this vestrie is allowed and con- 
 firmed to be imploied to the use of the parrlsh Church. 
 
 The order before speciefied was read at a vesterie the x**" 
 daie of Aprill 1580, and by the same allowed and confirmed 
 
 The X* of Aprill 1580 
 
 At a vesterie holden as before, uppon request made by 
 diuers of the parrishoners of Stratford Bowe^ for the relief of 
 Thomas Parris^ late there minister, w'^'^ now is fallen blinde, 
 being also aged and poore. It is agreed, that from hence 
 
 1 The Chapel at Stratford Bowe was built under the licence of the Bishop of London in 
 1311 as a chapel of ease to Stepney, but at the end of the 15th century an attempt was made 
 to sever the connexion with the Mother Church : the Stepney authorities resisted the attempt, 
 and an appeal was made to the Bishop, who in 1497 decided that the parishioners of Stratford 
 Bow were to remain parishioners of Stepney and pay an annual contribution of 24^-. The 
 Church was finally made parochial in 1730. — See Lysons' Environs of London; Newcourt 
 Repert., s.v. 
 
 ' A Thomas Parris was appointed by the Bishop of London to the Rectory of Chipprng 
 Ongar October 19, 1557, and his successor there was appointed in 1570 : it seems likely that 
 this is the same man, and that he came from Chipping Ongar to Stratford Bow.— Newcourt 
 Repert., s.v. Chipping Ongar. 
 
 1 
 
2 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 forwardes for the space of 3 yeares, (if the saide Parris doe 
 so long lyve) there shalbe geuen and paide, unto the saide 
 Parris, by the Churchwarden of this pish for the time being 
 at ev'y half yeares ende, the some of o — x^/ And the first 
 paiment to begin at Mighelmas next 
 
 The copie of a tre written by th'inhabitants of Stratford Bow 
 for the beneuolen^** aboue menconed 
 Maie it please yo"^ wo'', to grannt unto us th'inhabitants of 
 Stratford Bowe, the xxiiij^ we paie unto you by composi- 
 cion, towardes the relief and keepeing of one Thomas Parris 
 minister, dureing the naturall lief of the saide Thomas Parris, 
 who now being blinde and no longe'^ hable to serve o"^ Chappell, 
 is like to perrish in his olde age, yf by charitable means he be 
 not releeved. And because this o"" request maie appeare to 
 come of a good minde, we the inhabitantes of Stratford Bowe 
 haue hereunto set o"^ handes the x*^ daie of Aprill 1580 And 
 in the xxij*'' yeare of the raigne of o^' sov'aigne Lady Eliza- 
 beth the Queenes Ma*^® that now is 
 
 W""" GowGE Christopher Eglesfelde 
 
 W" Thorowgood William White 
 
 Robert Lambart Nicholas Gowge 
 
 Roge"" Athay Thomas F reman 
 
 Thomas Scorie" Henry Batty 
 
 The x*'' daie July 1580 
 M^ it is agreed by the consentes of the pishoners assembled 
 in this vesterie the day and yeare aboue written that a gallery 
 shalbe made one the south side of the midle He in the Church 
 and also to bring forth the belferey thwart the Church vnto {a 
 blank) and further it is concluded, and appointed that theis 
 foure substanciall pishoners, (namelie,) M'' Marche M'' 
 Pickering ; M'' Bradley^ and Richard Estwoode,^ shall ioine 
 
 ' Henry Bradley, a 'Ballaster' of Poplar. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Richard Eastwoode married Frances Webster April 8, 1588, and was buried June 25 
 1591. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 3 
 
 w* the Churchwardens for the letting and setting of the saide 
 building, (nowe to be made) to a sufficient and habell work- 
 man, and to compounde for a reasonabell some of mony (not 
 exceeding the some of xxxv^\ at the most, for all carpenters 
 worke wheareof x'^ to be paide at thensealeing of the writtings 
 concerning the saide worke, other x^' at the finishing of his 
 carpenters worke, and residue of mony at thre monethes ende 
 after, or foure monethes at the furthiest, if he can forbeare it 
 so long ; And so to proceade in other workes appertaning 
 unto the saide building ; w* th'advise of the abovenamed 
 pishoners, wheareunto we haue hereunder subscribed o'' names 
 And ratified the same w* a gennerall consent 
 
 Whereas by reason of many houses lately builded in the 
 parrish of Stebbunhuth, The Church theare hath not bin 
 sufficient to receave and place all the inhabitanntes of the 
 same pish wheareby the Churchwardens and assistanntes of 
 the saide pish hath caused a large gallery and a returne to be 
 builded in the saide Church, w^^^ is furnished w* formes and 
 seates, decent for such as shalbee theire appointed, w'^^ saide 
 Gallery, and other needfuU repacons, hath will cost the some 
 of threescore poundes, w'^'' cannot be repayed w* out chargeing 
 of the whole pishoners in the saide pish And Therefore at a 
 vestery holden the xij**^ day of March wheare in the most pt of 
 the Auncient inhabitanntes assembled It was theare agreed, 
 as by there handes hereunder written doth appeare, that 6% 
 parson that is placed or shortly shalbe placed in any pewe 
 w*^in the Church or newe gallery shall nowe at Ester or w^^^in 
 one moneth next ensuing the same, pay unto the Church- 
 warden of that hamlet whearein he or she shall dwell, accord- 
 ing to theyre seuerall collection, one whole yeares rent of 
 theyre pewes freely, as they of olde tyme or before the late 
 taxacon or newe rating of pewes vsually did pay Quarterly 
 for theare saide pewes, and pay theire quarterly duties at o'' 
 Lady day, and effy quarter followeing 
 
4 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Also they have appointed and named certaine Auncient 
 psons in efty hamlet, to be assistannt to the Churchwardens 
 as well for the collection of the saide paym* of one whole 
 yeares rent for the pewes, as also for thcyre quartered^ mony 
 and arrerages due by difls psons for the same And that the 
 saide wardens and assistanntes, shalby all gentle and quiet 
 meanes perswade effy pson w*^^in theyre collection, quietly to 
 pay all and efly such theyre duties accordingly, And that all 
 and eCy such pson as shall refuse any the saide somes or 
 duties, they shall collect theyre names in wrighting and the 
 somes so by them detayned & present the same before the 
 parrishoners at the next vestery where order shalbee taken to 
 force effy such stubborne & unwilling pson to pay the saide 
 duties by order of lawe 
 
 Also in the saide vestery they have set downe by consent 
 and agreement, that euy Churchwarden shall set downe in 
 writing the names of efly pson w°^ lack pewes w*'^in theyre 
 seuerall collections or that requier to be there placed, to 
 thende that good advise may be taken for the placeing of all 
 such as be most auncient and willing to pay theire duties for 
 the same 
 
 And it is further accorded and concluded by comon consent, 
 that the Churchwardens, and assistanntes shall as well remoue 
 certayne psons placed in the saide Church, and to set others 
 in the saide pewes, and also to place and set such persons in 
 the pewes in the newe gallery, and to rate efty pewe according 
 to theire discrecion, trusting that euy pson w'^^in the saide 
 parrish wilbe confirmabell and agreabell to the same. And 
 upon good cause to be shewed by any pson theare, he shall 
 have remeady 
 
 Trynytie Sunday being the accompt day, and the xxj*** of 
 
 May 1 58 1 
 
 At a vesterie holden the day and yeare aboue written ; 
 Theare was in question a certaine duety usually paide, by the 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 5 
 
 commvnicant parrishoners, At the feast of Ester, comonly 
 called by the name of paschall mony, ■w'=^ is a penny of efi'y 
 communicant allowed toward the charge of breade and wine, 
 over and besides theyre offering mony due unto the vicar, 
 And hath bin leauied by him the space of five and twenty 
 yeares, grnnted by the consent of the parrishoners in a 
 vestery at that tyme holden, for the some of fourty shillinges 
 yearely at the feast of Ester to bee paide, It is nowe thought 
 a thing so profitable and beneficiall, through the nomber of 
 parrishoners, hearein assembled ; That although the saide 
 prishoners, might haue, and enioy, much more proffit and 
 rent, for the same ; then at any tyme before hath byn paide 
 and annsweared, or is offered by M'' vicar, yet the good 
 meaneing of the parrishoners towardes M"^ vicar is that be- 
 cause he hath had the collecting thereof And therew*all 
 tendering his anncient yeares, and longe continewannce 
 therein. Are contented, that he and his assignes, shall haue, 
 and holde the same paschall mony belonging, to all Esters, 
 dureing his naturall lief, painge yearely for the same, w'^in 
 one moneth after the feast of Ester, vnto the Churchwardens 
 of the saide parrish for the tyme being the some of fower 
 poundes of good and lawfuU mony of England, The first 
 yearely rent to begin w*''in one moneth after Ester next w"'* 
 shalbee in the yeare of o' Lord god 1582/ In witnes wheareof 
 we the parrishoners hereunde*^ named have ratifyed this order 
 w* o'^ common consentes, and subscribed o^ names the day 
 and yeare first aboue written 
 
 p me JoH™ Thomas^ 
 
 Vicarium de Stebenheth 
 
 ' John Thomas had been appointed vicar of Prittlewell in Essex in 1539, but in 1554 he 
 was turned out, probably as being a friend of the Reformation : he was almost at once 
 appointed to Stepney (May 9, I5SS.) by the executors of Sir Richard Cromwell, but there 
 seems to have been something irregular in the appointment, as he was again presented to the 
 living by Queen Elizabeth in 1577. In the meanwhile he was restored to his old living of 
 Prittlewell, and held it till 1569, when he resigned (Newcourt wrongly enters him as dead). 
 He seems latterly to have had a curate to help him, for on December 18, 1576, there is an 
 entry in the Registers of the death of 'Richd. Theola, mynistor and curat of Stepney.' He 
 died early in 1586. — Newcourt Repert. 
 
6 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 xxj* of May 1581 
 
 It is acorded at this accompt day that W™ Pratt shall haue 
 for the making and writing of the Churche accompts passed in 
 this pareash the some of xvj^ viij'^ 
 
 W. BoROWGH^ H. Bradley 
 
 Thomas Pykeryng Will" Carter 
 
 John Burrell^ Hugh Richardson 
 
 At a vestre the 2* of Septemb' 1582. Sondaye 
 
 Wheras a chyld was left in the Church porch on Sonday 
 the 26*^ of August last w*** a not left wretten in the breast of 
 it, that it was a Christian sole named Jane . . . 
 wee call her Jane 
 
 It is agreed that for the same child ther shalbe a nurse 
 providid (for as small a charg as maybe) and the mony for it 
 
 ' William Borough, one of a famous family of Elizabethan navigators, hailing from 
 Northam, Devon. At first his voyages were private ventures for the purposes of trade, but 
 later in life he entered Her Majesty's service. He made careful hydrographical investiga- 
 tions, especially in the North Sea and the Baltic, and on his return published some most 
 important charts ; at the same time he was busy with scientific inquiry, and published ' A 
 Discourse of the Variation of the Compass,' and other works. He was living in Limehouse 
 in 1579, signs the minutes 1581-85, was one of the auditors for Limehouse 1589-91, 
 and a vestryman 1594. Meanwhile he served the Queen as 'Controller of Her Navy at 
 Sea,' 1583 ; as second in command to Drake in the expedition to Cadiz, 1587. The follow- 
 ing year he fought against the Armada, in command of the Bonavoglia, and in 1589 we find 
 him busy at Chatham despatching Frobisher's ships to sea, and ' getting a good wife ' in the 
 person of Lady Wentworth, widow of the second lord, the last governor of Calais and lord 
 of the manor of Stepney : she was probably living in the Manor House on the north side of 
 the churchyard, and they were married in the church on September 9. After 1594 he 
 seems to have retired even from parish business, and in 1599 he died at the age of 63. 
 See Nat. Diet. Biog. ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ John Burrell of Ratcliffe, mariner and shipbuilder, was twice Master of the Trinity 
 House. The Spaniards offered him 6,000 crowns a year for 7 years if he would act as their 
 spy and send information as to English movements : he refused, and the refusal caused him 
 much misfortune in Spain. On his return he reported this to the Government, and expressed 
 his willingness to obtain information for Government about Spanish movements (1598). 
 Later he or a namesake furnished ships for the East India Co. (1615-19). He was twice 
 married : first to Mary Ryddani, widow, February 25, 1582-83 — she was buried June 23, 
 1586; and on March 20 of the same year following he married Barbara Bennett, widow, who 
 was buried October 16, 1595. For his son see p. 25.— State Papers, Domestic, 1598; 
 Colonial, 1615-19. Visitation of London, 1633-35, Harl. Soc, p. 125 ; Chester's Marriage 
 Licenses ; Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 7 
 
 as also for necessary clothes shalbe disbursed by the Church 
 warden who shall kepe accompt of the same charge 
 
 w. borowgh 
 Affabell Partrydge 
 Thomas Pikeryng 
 
 Sunday the Second of June 1583 
 
 At the receaueing of the last accompt the day and yeare 
 aboue written : It was agreed in the Church howse by the 
 assentes of the parrishoners there pnte That the Church 
 wardens for the tyme being shall at all tymes heareafter 
 before thengrossing of theyre accompt requier & appoint 
 twoo or three inhabitanntes in efly of theyre seuerall ham- 
 lettes, such as haue byn Churchwardens or borne the offyce 
 of Constable, to Audit, heare examyne & puse edy of theyre 
 seuerall accomptes And thereof to allowe and determyne as 
 shalbe convenient and seame good to theyre discreacons. 
 And of theyre proceadinges therein to certify the pishoners at 
 the delyuery of the same accompt 
 
 It is further agreed the same day, that the Churchwardens 
 contynueing after thaccompt delyuered, shall vewe & se all 
 such ornamentes apptaining to the Church, remaineing in the 
 charge and Custody of the churchwardens goeing out, and 
 the same to set downe and receaue by inventory that the 
 increase and decrease thereof may the better appeare 
 
 The 24 day of the monthe of Jvne an° dni 1583 
 
 at assemble in the vestery by a suffecente nombar of the 
 anchente inabytants thear^^ yt was then & thear agreyed & 
 concluded that {a blank) profifett of rattelyffe, cobbelar, shall 
 have and be the offecar of the paryshe called the sexton of 
 the churchc/ in man as ffolloweth that is to say he shall serve 
 the offes vnd' rycharde ancell nowe sexton dewreng the 
 naterall lyffe of the said ancell/ & shall have for his said serves 
 dewreng the said terme for his wage the some of xx^ anell of 
 
8 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 the said ancell/ & all the ordenary proffette belongen to the 
 sexton shall remane to the said ancell dewreng his lyffey & 
 afr the deathe of the said ancell/ that then the said offes shall 
 remane holly to the said pffett w^^'all the wage & other proffete 
 therevnto henongenm & also the said pffett shall have the 
 maken of all the graves & shall have the pffett for the same 
 in wytenes herof thes psons hervnd'' hathe sette thear hands 
 the day & yeare affor wryton 
 
 Affabei.l partrydge Edward Robenson 
 
 RoBARTE GARTON hir Magests Churchewarden 
 
 servande M"' W" Stubes^ 
 
 Thomas gardyner Thomas Pikeryng 
 
 Edward Eliot John burell 
 
 Henry Bradley Thomas weste 
 
 Ryc Estwood churche warden p me W" Walche 
 Thomas Hardyng W" Chercheman 
 
 W" Androo Churchwardie 
 
 At a vestrye holden the fyrste of Decemb' an° 1583 of the 
 awnchente Inhabytanntes of this pishe yt was ther agreed by 
 ther hole consents that John ffundall alias Lawncelott showld 
 supplye the place of Wyttm Churcheman churchewarden and 
 yt ys ffarther agreed that John Gonnys of Blackewall shalbe 
 the deputye of the said John ffundall churchewarden tyll easter 
 come tweifemonethe 
 
 Allso yt ys agreed at the same vestrye the same Daye that 
 the churchewardens shall w*all spede possyble take upon 
 them to Compounde as well & resonabely as they can fo'' the 
 Erectynge of a Clocke upon the toppe of the steple and this 
 shalbe ther warrannte and dyschardge for the same 
 
 Henrye ffreman Edward Eliot 
 
 Thomas Pykeryng Thomas Hardyng 
 H. Bradley 
 
 ' William Stubbes is mentioned as living ' by the Sugar house in Ratcliff.' — Burial register, 
 April 25, 1584. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 9 
 
 The xxviij*'^ of June 1584 
 
 At the receaueing of the last accompt : It was agreed 
 in the Church howse by the Substannciall pishoners there 
 pnte That the Churchwardens now being and that here- 
 after shalbee : Shall yerely the Sunday before Assencion 
 day cause warning to be geven vnto the parrishoners, for 
 a vestery to be houlden on the saide Assencion day, to 
 elect, nomynate and appoinct twoo or so many suffycient 
 psons in every hamlet, as by the same parrishoners in the 
 same vestery shalbe thought meete. To awdite examyne & 
 peruse the churchwardens acccompt for the tyme being, before 
 the same be engrossed : Or for want of a suffycient assembly 
 on thassencon day, Then the vestery to be houlden to the 
 vse aforesaide on the Sunday next followeing, And after the 
 same accompt is by the saide Awditers examyned & pused : 
 Then the same accompt to bee delyuered fayre engrossed 
 before the parrishoners on Trinyty Sunday next ensuing the 
 same Assencion day 
 
 It was further agreed the same day & tyme, That on 
 Katheryne Stevenson widowe, now dwelling in a roome made 
 oute of the Church howse, shall pay yerely for her rent vnto 
 the Churchwardens for the tyme being iii'^ iiij'^ quarterly 
 after the rate. And the rest of the Tennauntes of the same 
 rentes to pay such rent as heretofore hath byn paide for the 
 same, Except widow Selby, whose rent is remytted by 
 reason of a tre written by the right ho : th'ould lo : Wentworth 
 vnto the parrishoners on her behalf vppon certayne causes 
 therein menconed 
 
 The xxviij daye of ffebr 1584 
 
 In Stepney Church 
 
 At a vestrye holden the day and yeare above said by the 
 Cheef of this parishe, M'^ Stephen Gosson^ p^'cher, being 
 
 Stephen Gosson, poet, actor, dramatist, satirist, and preacher, b. 1555 in Kent. Scholar 
 
 2 
 
10 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 talked w*^all for serving in this parishe as p^cher, doth 
 Covefinte and promyse that on y" WenseJay in y** forenone 
 efiye weeke he wyll read a lecture in y'^ Churche and effye 
 sondaye in the forenoone he wyll p^'che and in the afternones 
 effye Sonday he wyll Cathachise in the sayd Churche ; for the 
 w<=^ his trayvayle and paynes to be taken therin he ys con- 
 tentyd to accepte the soiTie of xxx^ by yeare quarterly to be 
 payd That ys to saye, at the hands of M'^' Cole^ pson of this 
 j.aryshe the soiiie of x^' yearely w* the sayd Cole hath Co vefintyd 
 to paye yearlye as by a byll vnder his hand appearyth, And 
 xx^' the resydew thereof to be paid him at the hands of the 
 Churchewards ; w'''^ the pishe hath grauntyd to Allowe^ So 
 longe as he the sayd Gosson shall Contynevv o'^ p^'cher, this 
 paym* to contynew from o'' lady day next forward A" 1585 
 
 Stephen Gosson 
 
 ffor pformance of the allowfince vnto the p''cher as before ys 
 specify ed It ys agreed by the said vestrye that efiye pishio" 
 shall allowe and paye to the hands of the Churchwardens 
 quarterly suche and the lyke Rate and somes of mony as eflye 
 
 of Christchiirch, Oxford, 1572 ; stayed there 4 years : never finished his degree, but went to 
 London and became noted for his ' admirable penning of Pastorals,' and as one of the chief 
 ornaments of the rising drama. After about three years of great literary activity, Gosson's 
 views changed ; he left the dramatic world and bei;an to write against plays. In August, 
 1579, he puLilished his ' Schoole of Abuse,' an 'invective against poets, pipers, plaiers, jesters, 
 and such hl<e caterpillers of a Commonwealth,' dedicating it to (Sir) Phdip Sidney. This 
 work aroused much controversy, and Gosson, now tutor in a gentlemnn's family in the 
 country, followed it up with ' The Ephemerides of Phialo and A short apologie of The 
 School of Abuse ' (November, 1579), and later ' Playus confuted in five actions' (1582). Pro- 
 bably about this time he left his tutorship, came to London again, and was ordained, and the 
 above is the first record we have of his preferment. He was also lecturer at St. Martin's, 
 Ludgate, and became subsequently Vicar of Sandridge, Herts, October, 1586, but he came 
 back to Stepney to marry Elizabeth Arton on April 25, 1587. In 1591 he was appointed by 
 the Queen Rector of Great Wigborough, Essex, and in 1600 exchanged to the cure of St. 
 Botolph's, Bishopsgalc, where lie died, Febuary 17, 1623. By his will he left 25^-. to the 
 poor of Stepney, ' where I was lecturer before I was beneficed.' See Arber's reprint of 
 'The School of Abuse,' 1868 ; Slepney Registers : Nat. Diet. Biog. 
 
 ' Humphrey Cole, Rector of Stepney 1579-93- Also Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow on 
 presentation of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1584-88. — Newcourt Repert. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. n 
 
 of theym doth allowe and pay for tlieir pues or otherwise to 
 
 the Church 
 
 W. Borough H. Bradley 
 
 RoBTE Garton John burell 
 
 Henry Poyntell Arthur webstar^ 
 
 John Brewster^ Edward Eltot 
 W. Stubbes 
 
 For'smuch as dyuers good causes and consyderacons are 
 made knowen, shewed and declared, concerning a sale to be 
 made of the organs^ now standing in the Church; wee the 
 pishoners hereunder named, are verry well contented, and doe 
 fully agree, conclude, and dertermyne, that the same organes 
 now w*^out vse, shalbee soulde by the Churchwardens now 
 being to the vse of the parrish for as much mony as any 
 
 '■ John Brewster was Secondary of the Fines Office, and appears in these Minutes as Auditor 
 for Poplar 1589-91, and Churchwarden in 1589-90. He sat on the Vestries of 1589 and 
 1594, but then is entered as 'gone.' He married, first, Thomasine, d. of John Piers; and 
 second, Elizabeth, d. of Richard Tliornhill, and widow of .'^ir James Deane, both of whom 
 had already been twice married : his pedigree and an account of the funeral of his second 
 wife are to be seen in Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14417, f. 5. There still is in Stepney Church a 
 tablet of brass and marble erected to the memory of his first wife, and the fact is noted in the 
 entry of her burial (September 19, 1596,) : it bears the following quaint inscription and coat 
 of arms : 
 
 Here lyeth the wife of John Brewster, Esquire, 
 Whos heavenlie death declars her happy lyfe. 
 Fame, say thy worst of her I the desire, 
 
 And thou must blase her for a godly wyfe. 
 Of rich and poor thou knowest beloved was she, 
 Speak thou therfore the rest of her for me. 
 I saye noe moore ; her name was Thomasine, 
 To whom no doubpt the Lord forgave her siiie. 
 Now blessed is Almyghtie God therefore 
 And praised be His name for evermore. 
 Obijt Anno etatis sue 46. 
 Annoq' Dfii 1596. 
 
 The Arms — Sable a chevron erm. between three ^toiles Argent, impaled with, Sable a 
 chevron Ermine, betw. 3 lions' heads erased Argent : a chief. Or. 
 
 Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 14417, f. 5. Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Arthur Webster married Alice Meritt, December 9, 1583, and was buried December 6, 
 1 591. See Registers. 
 
 * The same movement was going on throughout the country : e.g., at Whitechapel there is 
 a very similar entry of a resolution to get rid of the organ at any price in 1573. 
 
 2 2 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 man will geve for them, And whatsoeuer some of mony 
 shalbe receaved, the Churchwardens to certify the same upon 
 the next accompt for theyre discharge. And hereunto we 
 haue set oure handes the xxij'^*' day of May 1585 
 
 J HO" Thomas Vicare Richard Addams 
 
 W. Borough 
 
 By me Jho" Marche 
 
 Richard Marche 
 
 Henrye ffreman 
 
 Fr. Vomeius 
 
 by me William Jones 
 
 Hone Rychardson 
 
 H. Bradley 
 
 Will"^ Docklay 
 
 cunstabill 
 Dennes West 
 W. Stubbes 
 Mr. Gartene 
 Richard Estwoode 
 Wylleam Walter 
 Wylliam Roffe 
 Richard Randolph 
 
 Mr fewillims 
 Mr myciieyson 
 Edward Eliot 
 Ralphe Wilkyne 
 Will" Maule 
 
 his mke 
 p me J oh''" Meade 
 p me Edward Cobbs 
 
 ArTHURE WEBSTER 
 
 his marke 
 
 Thomas suttone 
 
 his marke 
 Henrye poyntri<:ll 
 John Cowper 
 
 his marke 
 By me James fford 
 
 The 5* of June 1586 
 
 At an assembly holden in the church howse of the parls- 
 sioners the day above wretten — uppon request made in the 
 behalf of the widowe of the late vicar John Thomas, It is 
 agreed that the sayd widowe paying the som of iiij^' corrant 
 Englishe mony w* shuld have ben dewe to the parish for 
 pascall mony by her sayd husbande the Sonday month next 
 afpeasl last past, w'^^ was the first day of May last, if he had 
 livid till aft the sayd east, but diing before he had not, nor any 
 for him, as to his use, any right to the paskall mony for this 
 yerepast endid at the sayd first day of may; notw^'^standino- 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 13 
 
 the assembly foresayd in the behalf of the pish, are contented 
 & have geven concent that the sayd widow shall injoye the 
 whole paskall mony for ihe year past for the sayd some of 
 iiij^' as her husband shuld hav payd if he had lived. So as 
 she aunswere back to the vse of the parrish so much mony as 
 hath byn resevid of the comunycants for paskall mony since 
 the sayd first day of May, and hence forward the church 
 wards shall receve it of the comnycants as it shall grow dew 
 
 According to the act set downe the 28*'' June 1584 for 
 ctayne of venery hamblet to awdid the accomptes of the 
 church wardens it is agreed 
 r yr ( Mr Stubbes Mr Holland^ ) or any 2 
 
 tor ratclit | ^^ Garton Mr Elliot j off them 
 
 ,. , (Mr Bigat Mr Pet ") or any 2 
 
 limehouse | ^^ Ewstes (?) Mr Poyntell j off them 
 
 bednall greene C Mr lawe Arter Webster ) or any 2 
 
 & Myle end ( Mr Pointell w™ carter j of them 
 
 Shew Richardson ^ 
 Mr Bradly > or any 2 of them 
 
 dines West ) 
 
 and to make the accompt redy to be pused by the prish 
 on sondaye next 
 
 the 12* of June 1586. 
 At an assembly holden in the Church howse by the pris- 
 sioners yt is consented and agreed that Robart Birte who is 
 by the pish elected chosen and apointed dark of the church 
 that he the sayd clarke shall assist the church wardens for 
 receving the paskall pence dew from the first day of may last 
 till this day, of & from the wydow of the lat vicar w'^^ being 
 receved the churchwarden is to charge it in accompt as 
 receved for the sayd duty till this day. 
 
 1 William Holland, 'One of the four Masters of her Majesty's n.ivy,' died April 12, 1587. 
 See Registers. 
 
14 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 It is also agreed that the sayd dark shall take the names 
 of all the comunycants of the prish and make a book of them, 
 as the vicar in tyme past vsed to doo. 
 
 Lykewise he shall from hence forth recev all dewtes for 
 pascall pence of such comvnicants as shall recev, from tyme to 
 tyme, and therof to give a just accompt & deliv" the mony 
 every month beginynge on sondaye the month air this daye, 
 and so from month to month alwayes heareaf? vnto the 
 church warden apointed for keeping the church stock, like- 
 wyse he shall wryt for the church wardens & kepe the bookes 
 of the accoiits & helpe them for all other wrytings they shall 
 hav need of his helpe in for the Church vse ; And in con- 
 sideracion of his paynes to be taken therin the prish hav 
 agreed to allow him xl^ by year to be pd him by x** q'terly 
 
 7° July 1588 
 We whose names are vnder wrytten do in respecte of this 
 Clarks good service yeld to Confyrm this grannt 
 
 By me Thomas Hudson 
 W. Stubbes Richard Weild Thomas Hardynge 
 
 James Armarer John Ryder p me Hen : Lann 
 
 Edv/ard Eliot Alaxandar Davison 5 July 1588 
 
 John Mortlock Richard Estewod 
 George Hall^ 
 
 A TRUE COPIE OF THE last will and testament of John Mathew 
 sometyme Citizen and Marchannttailor of London, 
 decessed, in anno domini 1560 Ex Regestro curiae 
 praerogativae cant extract as followeth^ 
 
 The money of the poore people,^ which hath byn geiuen 
 by the will of John Mathew aforesayd, According as his 
 
 ^ George Hall, a ropemaker of Limehoiise. See burial register October 5, 1590. 
 
 ^ The will follows here in extenso, but is not printed here. See the Appendix. 
 
 ' Stepney has not received much benefit under this will, as all traces of the bequests have 
 been utterly lost from this date forward : the same is the case also at Hackney Parish, which 
 also ought to benefit by Mathew's bequests. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 15 
 
 Executors or heires haue made and from tyme to tyme make 
 payment thereof to the Churchwardens of Stepnie Parish, by 
 them to be distributed among the poorest folke of the same 
 Parish accordingly is here regestred as followeth vi'z 
 
 PFIRST Receaued by the Churchwardens^ and 
 payd to them by Ipolito Lynnet being one 
 of the Executors of the sayd Will, the 
 xxix**^ daie of June Anno 1586. xl** for the 
 poore and iij^ iiij"^ for the distributing 
 therof. dico ... ... ... ... ij^ iij^ iiij'^ 
 
 Secondly Receaued more by the sayd Church- 
 wardens, and payd to them by William 
 Crowder of Kingsland in Hackney Parish 
 being heire of the sayd John Mathew 
 the xxiij"* daie of December Anno 1586, 
 as by Acquitaunce gev" may appeare, 
 xl^ for the poore & iij^ iiij"^ for y^ dis- 
 tributing thereof dico ... ... ... if^ iij^ iiij'* 
 
 Nono die Aprilis Anno Regine Elizabeth xxix° 
 
 m*^ that the daye and yere aboue wrytten w*Mn the vesterye 
 of the pishe of Stebunhuthe yt was concluded and agreed by 
 the Consente of the Churche wardens of the same pishe and 
 the more pte of the pishioners then there p>sent that M"" 
 Antonye Andersone^ nowe Vicar of the sayd pishe shall have 
 and enioye unto his owne vse for this yere nexte ensuynge. 
 And so from yere to yere at the will & pleasure of the 
 
 ^ Anthony Anderson was appointed to succeed John Thomas as vicar by Sir Nicholas 
 Woodroffe and others — apparently some trustees who had bought from Rector Cole the next 
 presentation to the Vicarage — (February 21, 1586). Only a few weeks before he had been 
 given the Rectory of Denge in Essex, but he preferred Stepney, and resigned Denge to come 
 there. He had already been 14 years Rector of Medbourne, Leicestershire, and he held this 
 conjointly with Stepney till his death, October 10, 1593. He was also distinguished as gos- 
 peller, and later subdean of the Chapel Royal, and was a writer of some books, the chief 
 of which are two small commentaries on the Benedicius and Nunc Dimittis : the Registers 
 contain several entries of members of his family, and the record of his burial at Stepney 
 October II, IS93. — Nat. Diet. Biog. ; Newcourt Repert., etc. 
 
1 6 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Inhabitants for the tyme beinge the moneye heretofore called 
 the pascal! pennes hereafter due & payable by the Comuni- 
 cants of the same pishe yeldynge & paynge into the handes 
 of the Churche Wardens there for the tyme beynge to the vse 
 of the sayd pishe the suine of fowere poundes of lawfull 
 moneye of Englande alwayes w*in one monethe next af t^ the 
 feaste of Easter, this grannte not to be taken avvaye nor 
 altered wythout a Consent of the lyke nuber at the lyke 
 vesterye. In wytnes herof wee the sayd pshioner herevnto 
 have put o'' handes the daye & yerc above wrytten/ 
 
 W Stubbes Edward Eliot 
 
 Thomas Hardyng Wylyem Leake (?) 
 
 Arthure Webster H Bradley 
 
 Rychard Gybbes Henry Poyntell 
 
 Richard Estwood Balam Donffell 
 
 Tho Campion Alexandar Dauison 
 
 Thomas Sottone Tho. Foster's marke 
 
 John Burell James ffoord 
 
 James Armarer by me Wylliam Mathew 
 
 1589 
 At a vestrie howlden in the Church howse the first day of 
 June Anno 1589 by a convenient number of the cheefe 
 Inhabitants, Assistants and others of the Parish of Stebunhuth 
 in the Countie of Midd ; were chosen for Auditors of the 
 Churche Accompts there, viz as well for the awditinge and 
 perusing the Accofipts of the yeares 1586 & 1587 as also of 
 the Acconnpt of the yeare 1588 these psones whose names 
 are herevnder written viz 
 
 (Mr Freeman 
 Mr Eliott & 
 Mr VassalP 
 
 1 John Vassall, citizen and probably Alderman of London, was of French descent, but lived 
 on Ratcliffe Wall — a man of great enterprise and considerable wealth, and connected by 
 friendship and by marriage with the Borough family (p. 6). He was one of the founders of 
 

 T^ 
 
 VI 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 17 
 
 fMr Borough 
 ffor Limehowshamlet ..J Mr Bigate & 
 
 [Mr Armorer 
 
 {Mr Brewster 
 Mr Jones & 
 Mr Bradley 
 fMr Rideri 
 
 ffor Milendhamlet JMr Poyntell & 
 
 [Mr Slyforde 
 
 That the Acconnpts before specyfied maybe Awdited and 
 made pfect to be p'sented to the pish to puse, and confirme by 
 the last day of the aforesayde moneth of June. 
 
 2 Churchwardens chosen also the sayde first of June, by the 
 sayde vestrie vi'z 
 
 For Popler Mr John Brewster \ for y^ yeare 1589 
 For Milend James fforde j and 1590 
 
 the colony of Virginia, and several of his large family were men distinguished in the colonies 
 and at home. He fitted out at his own expense two ships, TAe Sanmell and The Little Toby, 
 to fight the Armada, and one of them he commanded himself He was married three times, not 
 twice, as is stated in the Visitation of London of 1633. He appears in the Minutes as 
 Auditor for Ratcliffe in 1589, and vestryman from 1589-1602, when he seems to have left the 
 parish and moved away, probably to Cockseyhurst, Eastwood, Essex, where he had property. 
 He returned, however, to Stepney, died of the plague, and was buried there September 13, 
 1625. — Information from Rev. Wilham Vassall. Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Sir William Ryder, citizen and Haberdasher, subscribed .^100 to the Defence Fund 
 against the Armada : in 1591-92 he was Sheriff, and in 1601 Lord Mayor of London. His 
 year of office was marked by the insurrection of Lord Cobham and the Earl of Essex, and 
 Ryder was busily employed in the defence of the City from their attack, and in the crushing 
 of the conspiracy : at the close of it he was knighted, and we subsequently find him very 
 busy as Collector-General of Customs, Commissioner for the sale of Church property, and 
 engaged in many other financial transactions. Meanwhile he served upon the Vestry at 
 Slepney, and at St. Bartholomew's Exchange. He died in 161 1, leaving two daughters. 
 Lady Lake and Dame Cassar, as his coheiresses. His wife was Elizabeth, widow of Richard 
 Stone, Esq., and on the north wall of the chancel of Leyton Church, which Ryder rebuilt in 
 1610, and where Edward Ryder was lord of the manor, there were dimly to be seen in 
 Lysons' time two coats of arms, and on one of them could be deciphered the impalement of 
 the Stone arms : Gules a chevron ermine between three pelicans. Or. A portrait of him w.as 
 published in 1797 by W. Richardson : and pedigrees of other parts of the family are to be 
 found in Brit. Mus. Add. 5520, f 203 ; Harl. 1394, f 3S9.~State Papers, Domestic ; Brit. 
 Mus. Add. MSS. 5752, 3, 5, and 584.3 ; Noble's Armada Lists ; Freshfield's Vestry Minutes 
 of St. Bartholomew's Exchange ; Lysons' Environs. 
 
i8 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 1589 
 
 An order entred here wherunto are the handes of 32 
 Parishoners as followeth viz 
 
 VVheras by divers complayntes, as well of the Church- 
 wardens and others of this pishe of Stebunhuth, We the 
 Parishoners there doe vnderstand, that many things touching 
 the Church and Churchduties &c be out of order, and that 
 certayne of the Worstedisposed of this pishes Inhabitats be 
 very vnwilling and slacke, in payment of their severall 
 taxacios and duties heretofore vsed, and accustomed to be 
 payde towardes the Reparacions, and maintenaunce of the 
 pish Churche, and the furniture of the same, As well for the 
 avoyding of charges by sutes of Lawe in recovering of the 
 same against them (beinge but smaule seuerall summes, yet 
 the whole beinge of some rownde accoumpte) As for reformacion 
 of disorders, and for ordayninge and mainteynaunce of good 
 orders therein to be taken within the sayde Parishe and the 
 severall Hamletts of the same, wee the Cheefe Parishoners 
 beinge nowe assembled together for that purpose in Vestrie as 
 many as conveniently yt may houlde, have by mutuall assent 
 and consent, ordayned and agreed, that there shalbe chosen in 
 every of the fowre Hamletts vi'z Ratcliff Lymehowse, Popler 
 and Milend, Eight specyall psons w* in the whole maketh 
 the nombre of xxxij''® to be appoynted Vestrie men : To 
 thende and purpose that they or any xij of them (whereof two 
 being of every of the sayde Hamletts at the leaste) may at all 
 tymes as often as neede shall require (callinge vnto them the 
 Parson or Vicare for the tyme beinge and the Churchwardens 
 or some of them) assemble together in the Vestrie and there 
 to consult, and agree, howe to reforme, and order any matter, 
 or thing that they shall finde to be amysse and out of order 
 in the sayde Parishe touching the Church or any Churchduties, 
 for the better government and mainteynance, aswell of the 
 sayd pishe Churche, and provision of the poore, and needy 
 people, As also for the avoydinge of evell disposed, malefactors 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 19 
 
 and disordred people, out of the sayde Parishe : And to take 
 such good and lawdable orders therein, as to their discrecyon 
 shalbe thought best from tyme to tyme, As the cause or 
 causes shall require. And all such good and holsome orders 
 as they or any xij of them (being of every Hamlet two at the 
 leaste, with the Churchwardens or any two of them as afore- 
 sayde) shall agree vpon, and the same enter or cause to be 
 entred in this Churchbooke for a Testimony of their agrement. 
 We the Parishoners psently assembled both for ourselves, 
 and in the name of all the rest of the Parishoners doe bynde 
 our selves, and them by mutuall assents, To howlde, observe 
 and mayntayne. In witnes wherof we hereunto have put our 
 handes the xvij"" of August Anno 1589 
 
 The names of the Vestriemen chosen by the Parishoners 
 of Stebunhuthe the foresayde 17 daie of August anno 1589. 
 Vi'z 
 
 p-or Ratcliff 
 William Stubbes gentl5 
 James Grent gentlema 
 Robert Garton 
 William ffreeman 
 Edward Eliot 
 
 Thomas Hardyng^ 
 
 John Burrell 
 John Vassall 
 Richard Eastwood 
 
 For Popler 
 
 John Brewster gent 
 Mr Gotts gent 
 William Jones 
 Henry Bradly 
 John Gonnys 
 
 For Lymehouse 
 
 Willim Burough Esquire 
 James Armerer gent. 
 William Bigate 
 Richard Gibbs 
 Maoris Wade 
 
 Henry Poyntell 
 Humphrey Cheshire 
 John Mortlock 
 
 For Milend 
 
 Mr Henry Smith 
 Edward Hemmyng^ 
 Mr William Ryder 
 George Poynter 
 Willim Sleeforde 
 
 Inserted at a later date, and in another handwriting. 
 
 Mr. Edward Hemtning died June lo, 1590. See Registers. 
 
 3—2 
 
20 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Hugh Richardson Thomas Lucas gent^ 
 
 Dionis West Edward Robinson 
 
 William Railton William Carter 
 
 An Injunction copied concerninge Preachers Anno 1589 
 A copie 
 
 Where sundrie preachers have latelie come into sundrie 
 places of the diocesse of London, some of them not being 
 Ministers ; Others, such as have no siii^icient warrant for their 
 calling : Others, such as have byn detected in other countries, 
 and have not notwithstanding taken vpon theym publiquelie 
 to preache, to the infamy of theire calling ; Others haue in 
 theire preachinge rather stirred vp the people to Innouation, 
 than sought the peace of the Church. These are therfore in 
 hir Maiesties name, by vertue of her high Commission for 
 causes Ecclesiasticall, to us and others directed, straightly to 
 Inioyne, comaund, and charge, all Parsons, Vicars, Curates, 
 & Churchwardens, of all Churches situate within the diocesse 
 of London, as well in places exempt from the Bishop of London 
 his iurisdiction, as not exempt : that they nor any of them 
 doe suffer any to preache in their Churches or Parishes, or to 
 reade any Lectures, (not being in their own Cures) but only 
 such whose Licences, they shall first have seene, and read, 
 and whome they shall finde to be licensed therto, either by 
 the Queenes Maiestie, or by one of the Vniuersities of 
 Cambridge, or Oxford, or by the Lo Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, or the Lo Bishop of London for the tyme being, vnder 
 seale, And that no private assemblies or conventicles about 
 Ecclesiasticall exercyses by any psons whatsoever, be suffered 
 to be held, eyther in howses or elsewhere, by knowledg 
 of the Minister or Churchwardens: But that the pties so 
 assembling, bee detected by them, to the Ordinarie, with the 
 
 ^ Thomas Lucas, of Belhnal Green, gent., gave £2^ to the Defence Kund against the 
 Armada. — Noble's Armada Lists. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 21 
 
 manner of their saide assemblies, with as convenyent speede 
 as may bee. 
 
 And that this Iniunction may be published & take the 
 better effect : We will that a true cople therof shalbe deliuered 
 to euery Curate, or to the Churchwarden of euery of the 
 Churches aforesaide : And that vppon the Sundaie next after 
 the receipt hereof, presently after the reading of the second 
 lesson at morning prayer, it shall be read openly by the 
 Minister to the Congregation : And afterwards it shall be 
 written in the Church booke of accoumpts, so as it may be 
 knowne vnto such Ministers and Churchwardens, as shall 
 succeede them : And then it to be fastened vp in some con- 
 venient place of the Church : proved the xxvj**" dale of March 
 in the yeare of our Lord God 1589. 
 
 lo : Cantuak. Will Fletewood 
 
 Valen : Dale. Tho. Winton. 
 
 Edw : Stanhope. Bar : Clark. 
 
 Will Aubrey John Mullins. 
 
 I HON : London. Richard Cosin. 
 
 OWYN HOPTON.^ HaRB'. HEREFORD 
 
 W. Lewyn. 
 
 1590 
 
 At a Vestrie houlden in the- Church howse the xiiij* dale 
 of June anno 1590 by a convenyent numbre of the chiefe 
 Inhabitants, Assistants, and others of the Parishoners of 
 Stebunhuth in the Countie of Midlesex, were chosen for 
 Awditors by their generall concent, these persons whose 
 names are here vnder written to awdite and examine the 
 Churchwardens Accoumptes for the yere last past, which they 
 
 ^ Sir Owen Hopton, as a Stepney man, deserves a brief notice here. He was born 1533, 
 knighted in 1561, was Sheriff of Norfolk 1565, and Lieutenant of the Tower 1570-91. He 
 died in 1591, and was buried at Stepney September 26. One of his daughters married 
 Henry, third Lord Wentworth, lord of the manor of Stepney. — State Papers ; Overall's 
 Kemembrancia. 
 
22 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 are to make perfect to be recorded, so as the same may be 
 psented to the pish in the Churchhowse aforesayde to peruse, 
 and confirme by the last day of this moneth of June A" Eliza- 
 beth' Regine xxxij" 
 
 {Mr Stubbs Esquire 
 Mr Grent 
 Mr Eliot 
 
 rSi'' Henry Palmer Knight^ 
 For Lymehowshamlet | Mr W™ Borough Esquier 
 
 [Mr Marshe 
 
 fMr John Brewster Esquire 
 Mr Bradly 
 Dionis West 
 
 TMr William Rider 
 For Milendhamlet ..J Mr Beniamin Lany 
 
 [Mr Sliforde 
 
 2 Churchwardens chosen also the foresaide 14''' of June 
 1590 at the sayd Vestrie. Vi'z 
 
 For Ratclif Mr Robt Garton : Thomas Campion for him 
 
 /le refused 
 
 For Lymehouse Maorice Wade 
 
 1590 
 
 At the foresaid Vestrie the foresaide xiiij**" of June anno 
 1590 & xxxij"" of hir Ma""" reigne these men followinge were 
 chosen Sidemen to assotiate the Churchwardens, and con- 
 
 ' Sir Henry Palmer served with an expedition under Lord Leicester in the Low Countries, 
 where he was knighted in 1586. He fought in command of The Antelope against the Armada, 
 and in December of the same year he succeeded Borough {p. 6) as Controller of the Navy. 
 In 1597 it was reported in Spain that his head was cut off; he, however, continued in active 
 service until 1606, and died in 161 1. — He resided in Stepney, and there are several entries 
 relating to his family in the Parish Registers. His son Henry succeeded him as Comptroller 
 of the Navy, and was knighted in i5i8. — Metcalfe's Book of Knights. State Papers, 
 Domestic Series ; List of Ships in Western Antiquary, Armada number. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 23 
 
 firmed by Anthony Andreson Vicar and the Churchwardens 
 there of Stepny. viz 
 
 Ratclifhamlet Peter Pinder 
 
 Lymehoushamlet Thomas White 
 
 Poplerhamlet Peter Tayler 
 
 Milendhamlet Stephan Houghton 
 
 1590 
 
 Memorand' that the iiij**" Sunday in Lent, being the xiiij*'' 
 of Marche 1590 the xxxiij* of hir Ma*'^^ reige, At a vestrie 
 then holden by a convenyent numbre of the cheefe Inhabi- 
 tants, and assistants with M"" Vicar and Churchwarden of 
 Stepney by their general) consent (the rather at the request 
 of Mr Robert Carton of Ratcliff) was grannted to Hellen 
 Gray widowe that Chaumber or lower rowme in the Church- 
 yerd of Stepney : out of which Katheren Stephanson late 
 was Buryed : To haue and to howlde to the same Hellen 
 during hir naturall life at the will and pleasure of the 
 Grannters/ 
 
 Also it was then and there grannted by their like generall 
 consent that Jane Mason widow shall from hence foorthe 
 remayne and dwell with Mother Wells in that Chaumber which 
 she nowe howldeth of the pishe, in the Churchyearde afore- 
 saide. Also at the will and pleasure of the saide Grannters. 
 
 1591 
 At a Vestrie holden in the Churchhowse the xxx"* daie of 
 May anno 1591 by a convenient Numbbre of the cheefe 
 Inhabiters, Assistants and others of the pishoners of Stebun- 
 huthe in the Countie of MidtJ, were chosen for Awditors by 
 their generall concent these psons whose names are here 
 vnder writte to Awdite and examine the Churchwardens 
 accoumpts for the year last past, which they are to make pfect 
 to be recorded so as the same may be psented to the Parishe 
 
24 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 For Lymehouse ... 
 
 For Poplerhamlet 
 
 in the Churchhowse aforesaide to pvse and confirme by the 
 3 daie of June next cominge A° Elizabethe Reginae xxxiij" 
 
 fMr Elliot 
 For Ratclif hamlet . . . j Mr Tapsfild 
 
 [Mr Eastwoode 
 TMr Marche 
 ...X Mr Boroughe 
 [Mr Bigat 
 TMr Bruster 
 ..-^Mr Abdye 
 [Mr Richardson 
 [Mr Sliforde 
 For Milendhamlet ...-^ henry Smythe 
 
 I Mr lucas 
 
 2 Churchwardens chosen also the foresayd xxx*'' of May 
 1 59 1 at the sayd Vestrie. Vi'z 
 
 For Milendhamlet John fuller esquire.'' 
 For Poplerhamlet William Raylton. 
 
 159' 
 At the foresaide Vestrie the foresaide xxx"' day of May 
 anno 1591 and xxxiij"' of hir Ma""" reign these men followinge 
 were chosen Sidemen to assotiat the churchwardens by Mr 
 Anthony Andreson Vicar, and the Churchwardens there of 
 Stepny alias Stebunhuthe. 
 
 Ratcliff hamlet ) r^, c-j ■ .u ■ 
 
 r 111. I they remayne bidemen m theire 
 
 Lymehoushamlet -' n u 1 .. <-i, 
 
 p-^ , . , M seuerall hamlets as they were 
 
 ,,.P , 1 ^ I chosen the last yeare 1590. 
 
 Milenhamlet j ^ j j^ 
 
 ( Gap from 1 5 9 1 - 1 5 94 — no entries. ) 
 
 1 John Fuller, of Bishopshall, in 1588 gave £<fi towards the Armada Defence Fund. 
 He was a judge, and left benefactions to Stepne)- (see his will below) in the shape of alms- 
 houses erected in Eagle Place, on the north side of Mile End Road. He formerly lived in 
 the City at Paul's Wharf, but latterly at Bishopshall, the site of the old manorial house of 
 the Bishops of London, in Bethnal Green, where now Victoria Park stands. He died in 
 1592, and was buried at Stepney on May 2. The almshouses were repaired in 1720, and 
 over the door were the Fuller arms : Argent three bars Azure. Lysons' Environs ; State Papers, 
 Domestic ; Stepney Registers ; Noble's Armada Lists. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 25 
 
 1594 
 The names^ of the vestre men chosen by the Parishoners 
 of Stebunhuthe the 5 of Maye anno 1594. Viz : 
 
 For Ratcliff For Lymehous 
 
 g^a»e W" Stubbs gent W" Boroughe Esquire men 
 
 Thomas Jones gent Ric"^ Marche gent 
 
 dead Edward Eliote W" Bigatt ^one 
 
 gone Mr Bookett 
 
 dead Thomas Hardinge W" Jones* 
 
 gone John Vassall James Armorer gone 
 
 gone John Gardiner genfi 
 
 dead John Burrall Thomas White dead 
 
 Thomas Milton Nicolas Diggens' 
 
 Will"' Burrell^ Thomas A-iidrezvcs mil'^ 
 
 J 
 
 hT-) Tohn Woormall oent dead 
 
 n FeerSOn Josephe Pen dead 
 
 The Churchwarden The Churchwarden 
 
 xfofer Neiaeport^ 
 
 Nicholas Symyson &= Robt Kychman* 
 ^ The names and words printed in italics were inserted later. 
 
 ^ John Gardiner is styled 'of the Sugar house ' in the Burial Register, December 22, 1599. 
 He and Gardiner and Co., sugar refiners of Ratcliff, are mentioned in the State Papers. 
 — Registers ; State Papers, Domestic Series, 1597. 
 
 * William Burrell, son of John Burrell (see p. 6), was the greatest shipbuilder of his day. 
 He took a prominent part in all the early doings of the East India Company, and the North- 
 west Passage Company ; was employed by the former as their chief shipbuilder, and they 
 provided him with a house on the dockyard at Deptford. But in 1626 he ' took more on 
 him than belonged to his place,* and was dismissed from their service and from his house. 
 His relations with the company were further complicated by a lawsuit in Chancery against 
 them, which dragged on for some time, and finally in 1629 was handed over to arbitration. 
 Meanwhile, since 1615, he had been a Commissioner of the Royal Navy, and very busy 
 building ships for the Navy with the title of Master Shipwright, and the pay of is. 8d. a day. 
 Almost simultaneously with his quarrel with the E.I.C. his work for Government was called 
 in question, and a commission sat on the alleged defects in his ships ; the result was appar- 
 ently favourable to him, as he continued in active employ till his death at the end of 1630. 
 — State Papers, Domestic and Colonial, 1600-30; Visitation of London, 1633-35. 
 
 * Robert Rickman, of Limehouse, master of a vessel of 700 tons, complains that on arriv- 
 ing at Venice, he, with ninety-three mariners, was seized and made lo take a tedious journey 
 to Stade, the ship being sold to two Venetian factors for 1,200 ducats. He was a shipbuilder 
 in Limehouse, in partnership with Thomas Andrews and William Jones. — State Papers, 
 Domestic Series, 1594-96. 
 
 ' Nicholas Dickens, or Diggins, shipbuilder, of Limehouse, much in the employ of the 
 East India Company. He married Gillian Smith, August 13, 1580, and had numerous issue. 
 — State Papers, Colonial (East Indies). 
 
 ' Christopher Newport, naval commander and Admiral of Virginia, earned renown in 
 1603 by capturing, with two ships, five Spanish treasure frigates from Carthagena, containing 
 
 4 
 
26 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 For Popler 
 gone John Brewst" gent 
 
 Mr lVilli'"sott 
 
 Henri Bradley 
 mart Hughe Richardson 
 
 Richard Wild 
 
 Willi'" Coniyns 
 
 Denis West 
 
 Will"' Browne 
 
 Richard Lawrenc 
 
 John Abdy 
 
 Ezechell Crips 
 
 Tohn Elvyn 
 
 Edmund Purser 
 
 Mr Will"'son 
 
 The Churchwarden 
 
 For Milend & Bediialgrene 
 W™ Seybright Esquier 
 
 Thomas Bhtdder gent^ 
 
 Tho: Lucas gent g""^ 
 
 Beniamin Lany gent 
 
 Pawle Sniythe 
 
 Sirache Rose gent 
 
 John Lyon 
 
 Stephan Howghton 
 
 xfofer Pate 
 
 John Wilson 
 
 Thomas hogge 
 
 W" Slefford gone 
 
 Edward Robinson 
 
 George Pointer gone 
 
 The Churchwarden^ 
 
 The xvj* of May 1597 
 At the Churchhowse wherein the chiefest inhabitants & 
 pishoners of this pish haue assembled themselues : It is 
 
 two millions of money. Then he entered the service of the Virginia Company, and in 1607 
 made with three ships a most important exploration of the James River in Virginia. He 
 returned the following January, bringing with him an Indian called Narmontach. The next 
 few years saw him busy with the affairs of Virginia, but in 1614 he is in the service of the 
 East India Company. He led an expedition to Persia, and on his return was much com- 
 mended for his ability and skill. A second expedition was then proposed, but Newport 
 refused to go under ;!{^240 a year, so the Company ' let him rest awhile to advise and bethink 
 himself,' with the result that he consented to go for ;(;^io a month. After this he was 
 constantly busy to and fro between England and India till his death, which occurred at 
 Bantam in 1621. He was three times married (and had issue) : to Katharine Procter, 
 October 19, 1584 ; to Ellen Ade, January 29, 1590 ; to Elizabeth Glanfield, October i, 1595. 
 . — State Papers, Domestic and Colonial ; Winsor, Hist, of America, iii., chap. v. 
 
 ^ Sir Thomas Bludder was Joint Surveyor-General of Victuals to the Navy, and was 
 knighted at Chatham July 4, 1604. He later, with Ryder (p. 17), farmed the coal tax, and 
 was afterwards a contractor for the pre-emption of tin. He married Maria, daughter of 
 Christopher Plerris, of Shenvile, Essex, and after twenty-seven years of wedded life they 
 died within a week of one another in 1618, and were buried in Reigate Church, where there 
 is a marble monument with a Latin epitaph to their memory. His arms were confirmed by 
 Camden, Clarenceux, who described him as residing on ' Mile End Green.' Arms, Gu a 
 dexter arm couped vambraced Or, hand ppr. Crest, a lion's head erased Ar., pierced through 
 the neck with the blade of a sword of the last, the wound gu. The crest is the same as that 
 of the Lincoln'^hire family. Sir Thomas Bludder's eldest son was knighted at Whitehall 
 April 22, 161S. — State Papers, Domestic Series ; Manning and Bray's Surrey; Townsend's 
 Knights. 
 
 2 Here follows in the MS. the will of John Fuller, which is not printed here. See Appendix. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 27 
 
 ordered & agreed by them that foure, or twoo of every hamlet 
 shalbe sufficient to awdit & pvse thaccompt of the Church- 
 wardens for the yere ending on thascencon day 1597 
 
 Ratchff Popler 
 
 Mr Jones Mr Willmsonn 
 
 Mr Ehott Hugh Richardson 
 
 Mr Harding Henry Bradley 
 
 Mr Bigate Dennys West 
 
 Lymehowse Mile end and Bednall greene 
 
 Mr March Mr Lany 
 
 Mr Jones Mr Rose 
 
 Mr Tho: White George Pointell 
 
 John Motlock Stephen Houghton 
 
 It is further ordered & decreed the day and yere aboue 
 written, that Richard Cotesford, Clark, shall haue lent him 
 xl^ by the Churchwardens out of the Church mony to be 
 repaide by the said Clark out his wages quarterly, the first 
 paym* to deducted at michalmas next 
 
 Richard Cottesford^ 
 Clarke : 
 
 1597 
 Repayd the 29 of Septembr of the forsayd forty 
 
 shillings ... ... ... ... x^ 
 
 Repayd the 24 of Desember folowing ... x^ 
 
 Repayd the 24 of March folowing ... ... x^ 
 
 An order made by the gen'all assent and consent of the 
 Parrishoners of this Parrish of Stepney, the nynth day of 
 Janffie 1598 in the one and fortith yere of the raigne of 
 o" soflaigne La^y Elizabeth : the Queenes ma*'° that now is : 
 for the chooseing and electing of vestry men there : And also 
 
 ' Richard Cottesford was parish clerk, and was buried July i6, 1603. — Registers. 
 
 4—2 
 
2 8 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 for thallowing and confirming of all such matters as they the 
 said vestrymen shall here, order, and determyne, according to 
 th'order herevnder written — 
 
 Whereas wee the saide paurishoners vnderstanding by 
 dyuers complaintes as well of the churchwardens as others of 
 this Parrish : That many thinges touching the church and 
 church duties are out of order and that certayne of the wourst 
 disposed pishoners of this pish be slack and verie unwilling to 
 pay theire seuerall taxacons & duties heretofore vsed & accus- 
 tomed to be paide towards the repaeons and maintermce of 
 the church and the furniture of the same, and other thinges 
 needful! and necessarie to be reformed, Therefore for the 
 auoyding as well of chardges by sutes of law in recoSing of 
 the same against them being but small seffall somes yet in 
 the whole amounting to a greatte value : As also for 
 reformacon of disorders and for thordayning and mayntayning 
 of good orders w*''in this pish and the seuerall hamlettes of 
 the same : Wee the saide pishoners being now assembled 
 in the vestery for that purpose haue by mutuall assent and 
 consent ordayned and agreed that there shalbe chosen : And 
 by theis pfites wee doe elect and choose in e^y of the foure 
 hamletts, namely Ratcliff, Lymehowse, Popler and Mile end 
 w*'' Bednall greene, tenn speciall psons hereafter named w*"'' in 
 the whole maketh forty to be appointed vesterymen : To 
 th'ende & purpose that they or any twelve of them (whereof 
 two at the least shalbe of everie of the saide hamlettes) shall 
 or may at all tymes hereafter as often as neede shall requier 
 calling vnto them the churchwardens for the tyme being or 
 any twoo of them to assemble togeather in the vesterie, and 
 there to examyne, heere, order and determyne any matter or 
 cause that they shall finde to be amysse and out of order in 
 this pish touching the church, church duties and other things 
 needfull and necessarie to be reformed for the better goQnm' 
 & maintenhce as well of the saide Parrish Church, and 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 29 
 
 proiiysion of the poore & needy people : as also for the 
 reforming of evell disposed contencious and disordered people 
 in the saide Parrishe ; And to take such further order for 
 the reforming and execucon thereof as in theire discreaeons 
 shalbe thought meet & convenient from tyme to tyme as the 
 cause or causes shall requier : And all such orders as they or 
 any twelve of them, being of effy hamlett Twoo at the least 
 as aforesayde w"' the churchwardens or any twoo of them as 
 aforesaid shall agree vpon and the same so entred in this 
 church booke for the better sight and remembraunce of the 
 same : Wee the saide pishoners for o'' selues and the residue 
 of the saide pish : doe by theis psentes, binde o' selues to 
 Ratify and confyrme from tyme to tyme : In witness whereof 
 wee the saide pishoners heere assembled haue by mutual! 
 assentes and consentes as aforesaid herevnto put oure handes 
 the day and yere first before written 
 
 The names^ of the Vesterie men elected and chosen by 
 the pishoners of Stepney according to thorder aforemeneoned 
 That is to say 
 
 For Ratcliff ffor Limehouse 
 
 fV'" Higges 
 
 Thomas Jones gent Richard March gent 
 
 Mr Edward Eliott Mr Willim Jones 
 
 Mr W" Bigate Mr Thos White 
 
 Edward DauUon 
 
 Mr Thomas harding Mr Nicholas Diggens 
 
 Mr John Vassall Thomas Androes gent 
 
 Niclio : Simonson 
 
 John Gardiner gent. John Woormall gent 
 
 William 
 
 Mr John Burrell Mr Joseph Pett mort 
 
 Mr Thomas Milton n Mr xpofer Newport 
 
 leames Woodcot"^ 
 
 1 Those names and words printed in italics were inserted at a later date, and many of the 
 names were then crossed out. 
 
 '^ Jeames Woodcot, a servant of the East India Company. He married Winifred Hall, 
 October 28, 1570. State Papers, Colonial (East Indies), i. 393. 
 
3° 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Mr Thomas West 
 Mr Walter Shewers 
 The Churchwarden 
 
 For Popler 
 
 Mr WilHmsonn 
 Mr Henry Bradley 
 Mr W^"' Corny ns 
 Dennys West 
 W™ Browne 
 Richard Laurence 
 John Ade 
 Ezechiell Cripps 
 John Elvin 
 Edmund Purser 
 The Churchwarden 
 
 Nicholas Symonson 
 Mr Robert Rickman 
 The Churchwarden 
 
 for Mile end and Bednall greene 
 
 S'- fV"' Rider, knight 
 
 S'' Thomas Bladder Esq knight 
 Beniamyn Lany gent mart 
 Paull Smith gent gon 
 
 Sirach Rose gent gon 
 
 Mr John Lyonn gent gmi 
 Mr Stephen Houghton gone 
 ■Christopher Pate 
 Johnn Wilsonn mon 
 
 Thomas Hogg 
 Edward Robinson 
 The Churchwarden 
 
 The confirmaeon of th'order afore mencioned by the pishoners 
 of Stepney hereunder named 
 
 Thomas Brulard 
 
 W^™ Chesters nJk 
 Tho ffreman constable 
 Thomas Williams 
 John Gregorye 
 The i9k of MoRGiNE 
 
 HEWES 
 
 Thomas Barkar 
 
 HUMFREY LaPFIELLD 
 
 JoHNN Gallows 
 Anthonny ffox 
 
 Alexander Davison 
 p Peter Pinder 
 Henry Pickis 
 Thomas Gardener 
 Robert Guessone 
 Joseph Page 
 Reignold Ckoftes ink 
 John crane 
 Richard Hall^ 
 Roger ffrithes i8k 
 John Thomas mk 
 
 ^ Richard Hall, an anchorsmith of Ratcliff, employed by the East India Company, and 
 also for the Royal Navy. State Papers, Colonial E.I.C., Domestic, l6o2. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 31 
 
 By Jeames Woodcot 
 The «ik of Robert 
 
 ffeEwillim-s 
 Richard Merrett 
 William p'triche 
 Robert Blands mk 
 
 HENRY MaRRYAT 
 NICHOLAS HUDSONS mk 
 
 Thomas May 
 mathe wermell 
 JoHNN Barkers mk 
 Richard Chapmans i9k 
 Walter Coles i9k 
 Edward Crane 
 Willi™ Lavvyson 
 Will" Clarke 
 
 Edwd Robsonne 
 Edward Benet : 
 Willi™ Wheales 
 Bartholomew Cavell 
 Edmond Purser 
 Nycholas Smarthewes 
 
 mark 
 John Godfreys marke 
 Edmond Doues marke 
 Clemence (?) White 
 Edward Hershope 
 W™ Maye 
 
 Thomas hilles 
 
 W™ Swynckfeldes mark 
 
 W™ Dyues mark 
 
 W™ hills mark 
 
 Lymehouse Hamlett 
 
 The Confyrmacon of the Order afore mencyoned by the 
 pishoners of Stepnye herevnder named 
 
 J HON Mortlocks n}ke 
 Thomas Richakdsons 
 
 iSke 
 Dauid Carpenter^ 
 Thomas Jhinkin 
 Mychell Hamps iSke 
 
 Thomas Bexley 
 Tho Best^ 
 
 WlLL^" JURDEN 
 
 Thomas Walkere 
 Wyllem baytes marke 
 John Ashele 
 
 ' David Carpenter, master of the East India Company's ship Samaritan. He is reported 
 in 161 1 to be old and deaf, but is kept on in his place. State Papers, Colonial (East Indies), 
 vol. i. 
 
 " Thomas Best, a captain of the East Indian Company's Navy, first went to sea in 1853, 
 and is referred to in 1598 as 'a man of substance and repute well known in Ratcliffand 
 Limehouse.' In 1611-12 he sailed for India, where he defeated the Portugue.';e in a series of 
 brilliant engagements, and is credited with being virtually the founder of British power in that 
 country. He afterwards served in the Royal Navy, and in 1633 he was a warden of the 
 Trinity House ; his daughter Elizabeth married Henry Dethick, son of Sir William Dethick, 
 of Poplar, leaving one daughter and six sons, one of whom afterwards became Richmond 
 Herald. Nat. Diet. Biog. ; Noble's Hist. Coll. of Heralds. 
 
32 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Thomas Greves Andrew Blacksley 
 
 John Coxom The marke of Roba'^t 
 
 Thomas Brett Stroft 
 
 Jhan Chessn's R. D. 
 
 J HON Ho wells rake Thomas hatton 
 
 Robte Baynams mke p me W™ ffreman 
 
 Whereas by an order made the ix"" of Januarie 1598 in 
 thone and forrith yere of the raigne of o^' soiJaigne lady 
 Elizabeth the queenes Ma"° that now is : By the gennall 
 election, assent, and consent, of the pishons of this pish of 
 Stepney ; Wee whose names are before written next and 
 imeadiately following the said order of the saide election 
 entrcd in this book, were elected and chosen for the said foure 
 seffall hamlettes within the said pish to be vestery men : And 
 wheras also by the said order the said pishons by theere 
 geniiall assent and consent did geve vnto vs by the names of 
 vesterymen full power and authority to examyne, heere, 
 order and determyne any matter or cause that we shall fynd 
 to be amysse, and out of order in this pish of Stepney afore- 
 saide, touching the churchduties and other thinges needefull 
 and necessary to be reformed for the better gou'nment and 
 maynteiince as well of the said pishchurch as also for the 
 reforming of evell disposed contencious and disorderous people 
 in the pish aforesaid : And further wheras the said pishons 
 by their said order, gennall assent and consent aforesayd 
 haue for tbemselues and the residue of the said pishons bound 
 them selues from tyme to tyme to ratifie and confirm all and 
 efiy such order and orders as in o'' discretions vpon examyna- 
 con and hearing any of the causes aforesayd wee shall order 
 and determyne shall cause the same to be entred into this 
 book of orders, as an order by us so made and established. 
 Now know yee that we the sayd vestery men : so named, 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 33 
 
 elected and chosen by the said pisho& with like assent, con- 
 sent, and agreement, doe by theis p'ntes bynd vs and eWy of 
 vs to obey, confirme ratify and allow from tyme to tyme all 
 and every such order and orders as by vs or any twelve of vs 
 whereof two at the least to be of efly of the said foure hamlettes 
 together w'^ the churchwardens of the said pish or any two of 
 them shalbe made established and determyned to be an order 
 and entred in this booke. In witness whereof we the said 
 vesterymen haue herevnto put our handes the Tenth day of 
 february 1598 in thone and fortith yere of the raigne of our 
 soueraigne lady Elizabeth by the grace of God of England 
 ffrannce and Ireland, Queene, defender of the faith 
 
 Edward Muns, Vic :^ p Jeames woodcot 
 
 Ben : Lany H Bradley 
 
 John Vassall Nic° Diggens 
 
 Thomas Jones p Wilu"! Browne 
 
 Thomas Hardyng Dennes West 
 
 Mr Jhon burrels marke 
 
 The x*^ day of ffebruary 1 598 at an assembly of the vestery men : 
 Then and there it was agreed emongst them as followeth 
 I First that the great bell be forthw*^ new cast, and that 
 efly pishoner w*''in the same shall gyve towardes the same 
 one yeres pew rent over and besides their qrters rent now 
 due : And effy pishioner that hath no pew appointed for him 
 or her shall pay viij"* according to thauncient custome of this 
 pish over and besides his or her quarterly duties now or here- 
 after due and payable. 
 
 * Edward Muns, Vicar of Stepney, Rector of East Barnet, and sub-almoner to Queen 
 Elizabeth, was baptized at St. Andrew Hubbard's October 28, 1568, educated at St. Paul's 
 School and at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner in 1589, and proceeded 
 B.A. in 1587 and M.A. in 1591. He married (by license of Apiil 13, 1599), at St. Olave's, 
 Hart Street, Anne (b. 1578), d. of Nicholas Barrey, fishmonger, and his son Edward was 
 baptized upon the same day on which the father was buried. May 10, 1603. He was a 
 brother of Thomas Mun, a leading director of the E.I.C., and distinguished writer on economic 
 subjects. — Information from A. L. Hardy, Esq. Stepney Registers. 
 
 5 
 
34 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 2 Item, that three new bookes of parchment be forthw*^ 
 bought to register all marriages Ch'-isteninges & burialls that 
 haue bin w*''in the said pish since the first yere of hir ma*' raigne 
 that now is hitherto (if there be so long reg') and so to be 
 contynued in hke sort.^ 
 
 3 Item, that e% pishoner that sitteth in one pew together 
 shall pay like yerely rent or else thoffenders in that case to be 
 dealt w*''all vpon refusall as y'' Churchwardens in their dis- 
 crecon shall thinke fytt, and the. law therein pmitt. 
 
 4 Item, that there be made about the communion table a 
 raile w*'' a foote pace and mattes thereon to kneele vpon 
 decent and orderly as other churches haue for the more 
 reverent receyveing of the holy communion 
 
 5 Item, that the vestry men doe hereafter w'^'all con- 
 veniency that may be, view effectually the table of orders, as 
 well for ordering of the Sextons fees (w* is thought to be 
 overmuch) as for other thinges therein fitt to be reformed. 
 
 6 Item that the said sessment appointed for the new cast- 
 ing of the said great bell shalbe presently collected by the 
 Churchwardens : And in case any shall obstinately refuse to 
 contribute therevnto, then the Churchwardens to deale further 
 w'*" them as law will pmitt 
 
 The xxix of Aprill 1599 
 
 I It was ordered and agreed the day and yere aboue 
 written by Mr Bludder, Mr Tho : Jones, Mr Lany, Mr Vassall, 
 Mr Shewers, Mr Robert Ryckman, Dennys West and the 
 iiij"'" Churchwardens All present in the vestery that Laurence 
 Wright of Hownsditch in the pish of S' Buttolphes w*out 
 Algate, london, Belfounder should haue the casting of the 
 great Bell called the fyft bell and for the casting thereof to 
 haue 40^ (viz) 10^' at the taking of her downe, and carrying 
 her away, & at the hanging of her vp after new casting 
 
 ' These are the present first volumes of Registers ; the records, however, do not go back 
 to the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's reign, but only to 1568. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 35 
 
 10^ more, and the residue of the said some al thend of vj 
 inonethes after the hanging and to be bound w"" an able 
 surety in certaine Articles inden for the pforming thereof as 
 shalbe devised. 
 
 2 Also it was by thaforenamed vestry men and the said 
 Churchwardens then and there further agreed, that W"" Pratt 
 shall haue to^ to enter & wryte into the three prchment bookes 
 appointed for the Church Reg"^ of all the burrialls, marriages 
 and Christeninges for 30 yeres past and to be paid as fol- 
 loweth (viz) v'^ in hand ; 50^ at Christmas now next ensuing 
 and the other 50^ at the full ending and writing of all the reg'' 
 as afore is menconed. 
 
 And for so much as by Law we cannot set downe any order 
 for the stablishment & gouerm* of o"" Churcli w^^'out the consent 
 & allowannce of o" ordinary wee therefore doe humbly beseech 
 him That he wilbe pleased to ratify & allow the orders 
 before specified & the proceedings therevppon w'^ his sub- 
 scription to the same 
 
 I Thomas Ridley comissary to the reuerend father in 
 god Richard, by gods permission now bishop of 
 London hauing read & considered of the aforesaid 
 orders set downe by the parish ners of Stepney & 
 finding they doe tend only to the good gouerment and 
 prouision of such things as are necessary for theire 
 church & do nothing impeach the iurisdiction of the 
 ordinary herein do by this my hand writing, ratifie, & 
 confirme the same according to their request in this 
 behalf to me made. 22 Maij 1600 
 
 Thomas Ridley 
 
 1600 
 In the church howse The third day of June 1600: it was 
 ordered and there agreed by M" Vicar and the vesterymen 
 herevnder named there being; that Willim Lancaster for Mile 
 
 5—2 
 
36 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 end and Bednall greene : and Johnn Godfry in the place of 
 Edward Bennett for Popler, shall contynue & remayne Church- 
 wardens : for one yere following : the feast day of Thassencon 
 of o' sauioure Christ past before the date hereof And also 
 henry Pickes for Ratcliff : and M"" Thomas White for Lyme- 
 howse, to serue churchwardens for twoo yeres next and 
 imeadiatly ensuing the said feast dale of Thassencon of o'' 
 sauioure Christ, and efly of them to collect all such duties in 
 theire seuerall hamlettes as shall apptainc vnto the Church 
 and thereof to make an accompt as hath bin accustomed 
 
 Sidemen nomynated and elected to serve w*^*" thaforenanied 
 church wardens (viz) 
 
 for Ratcliff Henry Merritt 
 
 Lymehowse Lewes Tayte 
 
 Popler Edward Browne^ 
 
 Milend and Bednallgreene Thomas Pelsonn 
 
 Awditers named and appointed to take vew & examyne ; 
 
 the churchwardens accompt for the yere ended in Ao 1600 
 
 viz 
 
 c -r, T-rr fMr Thomas Tones 
 
 f^'-^^^'^l'ff JMr Harding 
 
 , fMr March 
 
 Lymehowse JMr Diggens 
 
 p , fMr Bradley 
 
 ^^P^^'' lOennysWest 
 
 !Mr Lany, if he cannot 
 Mr Lyons 
 Mr Houghton 
 
 The xviij**" day of July Anno 1600 
 
 At a vesterie houlden the day and yere aboue written : It 
 was then and there ordered by vs the pishoners vestery men 
 herevnder named, That the sexton shall not at anie tyme 
 
 ' Erased, and John Hancock inserted probably later. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 37 
 
 hereafter ring any peales w** the Bells of the pish church of 
 Stepney or suffer any to ring w*'*oiit the consent of the Church- 
 wardens of this Parrish or any twno of them, first had & 
 obtayned vpon payne of such displeasure doing the contrary 
 as to the vesterie men in that behalf shall thinck good Witnes 
 vnder o'' hands the day and yerc abouewritten as aforesaid 
 
 1601 
 
 In the Church howse this xxvij*^ of August 1601 It is 
 ordered and agreed by the pishoners therebeing herevnder 
 named, That M'' Thomas White for Lymehowse and Henry 
 Picks for Ratcliff shall remayne Churchwardens for one whole 
 yere following the ffeast day of Thasseneon of o"^ Lord and 
 savioure Christ last past before the date aboue written : And 
 also M'' Williamson for Popler, and Christopher Pate for Mile 
 end and Bednall greene to serue Churchwardens for two 
 yeres, to be accompted from thaforesaid ffeast day of 
 thasseneon of o*^ Sauioure Christ : And euy of them to collect 
 all such duties in theire setfall hamlettes as shall apptayne 
 vnto the Church, and thereof to make accompt as hath bin 
 vsed and accustomed 
 
 Richard Marche I B (i.e., /oAn Burreii) 
 
 p me W"" Jones Nicholas diggens 
 
 John Gardyner H Bradley 
 
 Thomas Gardyner Will' Browne 
 John Vassall p me W™ Bygatt 
 
 Thomas Androwes 
 
 For as much as the Church is indebted in seuerall somes 
 of mony vnto dius psons : By reason that many pishoners 
 haue not paid the sessment taxed for the new casting 
 of the great bell : And whereas since the casting of the 
 said great bell : The fourth bell is become broken to 
 the further chardge of the pishoners of this pish : And 
 
38 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 where also at this instaunt many parrishone'^s (of whome 
 some are Auncient & of Long contynuaunce) are vv^'out 
 place, to the great vexacon lett and interrupgon of the 
 Churchwardens in the collecting of the duties and proffittes 
 ptaining to the church ; W* they or the most pt of them doe 
 refuse to pay : Therefore, that the said debt owing by the 
 church may be the sooner and better paid; And for tlie 
 defraying of the chardge for the new casting of the said fourth 
 bell now broken as aforesaid : And also for new making of a 
 gallery intended to be made in the Parrishchurch of Stt-pney 
 ■whereof some pt is already begun, And for the defending and 
 prosecuting of matter's in Law : Wee the vesterymen here- 
 vnder named doe order and agree this xxvij* of August 1601 : 
 as followeth (viz) 
 
 ffirst, that inconsideragon of the chardg aforesaid, every 
 pishon that is placed in a pew shall geve one whole yeres pew 
 mony franckly at one payment, according to the rate of his 
 pew, Ouer and besids his quartridge now or hereaft^ to be 
 due ; And other that haue no pew to pay viij^ besides there 
 quartridge as aforesaide. To be collected by the church- 
 wardens in their seuerall hamleits, and such as shall refuse to 
 contribute, contrary to this order, to deale w*'' them as the 
 churchwardens in theire discreagon shall thinck fitt, and the 
 law will pmitt 
 
 Item that the fourth bell now broken shalbe new cast and 
 the churchwardens to deale circumspectly for the pforming 
 thereof 
 
 Item that the gallery appointed to be made by the church- 
 wardens that now are shall proceede according to the com- 
 posicon by them agreed for. 
 
 Item that the churchwardens that now are and theire 
 successo'^s shall delii? vnto Stephen Houghton, ffranncis Snow, 
 William Pratt & John Belman sometyme churchwardens of 
 this pish : such some and somes of mony as they or any of 
 them from tyme to tyme shall haue cause to vse, for the 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 39 
 
 defending & prosecuting of a sute comenced by James 
 Tailer & Margaret his wife against the said Stephenn 
 Houghton, ffrauncis Snow, W™ Pratt & John Belman for 
 matte'^s vndertaken by them when they were churchwardens 
 in the behalfe of the pish : Prouided alwaies, that the Church- 
 wardens that now are, shall doe theire iiidevoure to collect the 
 Arref for the bell & pews remayning on their accompts, and 
 those that shall refuse to pay, to deale w* them by order of Law 
 John Tomson^ Will Browne 
 
 Ri : Marche H Bradley 
 
 p me W™ Jones Anthony Williamson 
 
 Thomas Androwes Stephen houghton 
 W™ Comyns Jeames Woodcot 
 
 The xxvij*'' of August 1601 
 
 Jt is ordered by the vesterymen of this pish that ffranncis 
 Whitacres sexton shalbe put out of his place for his mis- 
 demeanor's following (viz) 
 
 ffirst that the said ffranncis Whitacres did bidd ffranncis 
 Snow shake his eares emonng dogges when the said franncis 
 Snow was churchwarden 
 
 Item the said sexton did say vnto the Clark, now let vs 
 take o'' bennefitt, and make what we can, for else wee shall 
 dye begge^'s 
 
 Item for taking in of a bell and deliffing the same bell out 
 of the steeple w*"out the consent of the churchwardens & 
 pishoners, wch was chardgeable to the pish 
 
 Item for making composicon w* diffs & sundry pishone'^s 
 for the duties of the church to the hinderannce & great 
 damage of the bennefitt of the church & pishone^'s 
 
 Item for the great chardg, that the said sexton hath put the 
 pishone'^s vnto by his negligence for not looking dutifully vnto 
 the bells 
 
 1 "John Thomson Curate & preacher of god's word here" died of the plague and was 
 buried Sept. 11, 1603. 
 
40 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Item that the churchwardens shall not from hencefoorth 
 pay vnto the said sexton any more wages or take any church 
 duties 
 
 Item that the said sexton hath not put in bond, for the 
 dischardge of the pish by the chardge of his children that is 
 like to ensue & w"'' he promised to doe at his first coming, and 
 also for his good demeanor in his place 
 
 Richard Marche Thomas Androwes 
 
 p me W™ Jones H Bradley 
 
 p me W™ BiGATT Nic° diggens 
 
 John Gardyner Will' Browne 
 
 Thomas Hardyng Thomas Whyte 
 
 John Vassall Dennes West 
 
 JoHNN BuRRELL p signu Henry Pickes 
 
 Thomas Milton p signu John Godfry p signu 
 
 The x**" of September 1601 
 
 It is ordered and agreed by the vesterymen herevnder 
 named that Edmonnd Purser is admitted sexton of the pish 
 of Stepney and shall haue such wages and duties as vsually 
 hath bin paid vnto the sexton, and also that ffranncis Whit- 
 acres late sexton shalbe utterly dismissed and shall haue no 
 duties hereafter paid him, nor meddle any further for the 
 Church or pish 
 
 It is further ordered that Mr John Thompsonn Curat shall 
 haue the middle chamber belonging to the church freely 
 (w^'^out rent) 
 
 Richard Marche Jeames Woodcot 
 
 p me W™ Jones Nic° diggens 
 
 John Vassall H Bradley 
 
 Anthony Williamson Thomas Androwes 
 
 the mark of Will™ comenes Will' Browne 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 41 
 
 The xlij of May 1602 being thassencon day of o"^ sauior 
 
 Christ 
 
 It is ordered and agreed by the vicar and pishoris in the 
 Churchhowse assembled and herevnder named that Antony 
 WilHamson for Popler and xpofer Pate for Mile end w'^ 
 Bednallgreene shall abide and Contynue churchwardens for 
 one yere following and Alexander Dauison for Ratcliff and 
 Edward Stevens for Lyme howse are also appointed Church 
 wardens for two yeres following from day and yere to be 
 accompted, And efty of them to collect and be accomptable 
 for all such duties as they and effy of them shall rec in theire 
 seuall hamlett witness vnder o'' hands 
 
 Sidemen appointed & elected to serue w*'' thaforenamed in 
 the seuerall hamletts 
 
 for Ratcliff Joseph Page 
 
 for Lymehowse John Cant 
 
 for Popler Robert Mason 
 
 for Mile end & bednall grene Thomas Pelsonn 
 It is also agreed & ordered that Richard Wilde for the 
 paim* of xx" is discharged & acquited of all such some of 
 mony that he did owe vnto the pishoSs of Stepney when he 
 was Churchwarden of Popler 
 
 Edward Muns Vicar Will"' Browne 
 Thomas Jones Dennes West 
 
 John Gardyner W"" Lancasters i9k 
 
 H Bradley 
 
 The vij*^ day of Nouember 1602 
 At a vestery houlden the day and yere abouewritten, by 
 the vicar and vestrymen of this Parrish herevnder named : 
 It is ordered, concluded and agreed by them : That efly 
 pishoner w* for his or her buriall Or for the buriall of his or 
 her child or servnt, shall haue cause to vse any forenoone or 
 afternoones knill of the Bells of this pish, and the Ringing of 
 
 6 
 
4^ 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 iij^ 
 
 V11J° 
 
 lUJ^ 
 
 xv° 
 
 vj 
 
 id 
 
 all the bells called a Peale, And also the best and wourst 
 clothes appointed for burialls shall pay to the prop vse of this 
 pish as followeth vidett 
 
 ffor the great bell ... 
 
 ffor the iiij'*' bell ... 
 
 ffor the third bell 
 
 ffor the seconnd bell 
 
 ffor the first bell 
 
 for the Ringing of all the bells called a 
 Peale. To the prop vse of the 
 Parrish w'^out any allowannce or pay- 
 ment to ringers 
 
 ffor the best cloth ... ... ... ... ij^ 
 
 for the wourst cloth ... ... ... ij^ 
 
 It is ordered and agreed that efly pson and psons, That 
 hereafter that shalbe taken offending in this Parrish, for 
 stretching of clothes contrary to the Statute in that behalfe 
 made, shall pay his & theire forfeyture in kinde as it shalbe 
 taken, according to the true intent and meaning of thaforesaid 
 Statutes in that case lymitted 
 
 Item it is agreed that Mr Diggens and Mr Androes shall 
 assist and companie Mr Stevens churchwarden for Lyme- 
 howse in the collecting of th'arrerages, charged in his collec- 
 tion booke, And also to admonish those inhabitannts that 
 shall appere in arrerage foorthw*'' to pay the same vnto the 
 said churchwarden, and such as shall refuse to pay, being so 
 admonished ; The said Churchwarden to present^ them 
 w*out delay for the better recoffy thereof 
 
 Item it is ordered and agreed. That for the better looking 
 vnto the aforesaid bells, and for the saueing of the great 
 chardge, that through want of skill in the well looking and 
 ordering of them, the pishons of this pish is put vnto : That 
 orie Edward Parberry cobler shall haue the looking vnto and 
 
 ^ That is, bring before the Ecclesiastical Authorities for sentence. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 43 
 
 ordering of the said bells : And for his wages in that behalf: 
 he the said Edward Parberry shall haue paide him by the 
 churchwardens of this pish fforty shillinges yerely, and also 
 shall haue for his dwelling or to woork in, the shop adioyning 
 vpon the church howse in the church yard of this pish w%ut 
 paying any rent for the same, So long as he shall well 
 behaue him self vnto the vicar, Churchwardens and pishcn's of 
 this pish : And shall be diligent in the executing of his said 
 place : The first quarterly payment for his wages to begin at 
 Xpmas next 
 
 Will™ Rider Edward Muns Vicar 
 
 Thomas Jones William Lancasters 
 
 p me W™ Jones marke 
 
 John Gardyner p me Anthony William- 
 
 William Bygatt son Churchewardin 
 
 p Nic° diggens Christopher Pate 
 
 Thomas Androwes Churchwardin. 
 
 John Vassall Henry Marryt 
 
 H Bradley 
 
 The xiij'^ day of Nouember 1602 
 At a vestcry houlden the day and yere aboue written by 
 the vicar and vestrymen herevnder named, It is agreed and 
 ordered, that the Churchwardens that now are and hereafter 
 shalbee, shall doe theire best, to collect the arrerages now due 
 in theire books, And such as shall remayne vnpaid, to shew 
 how they haue psented them, Otherwise the said church- 
 wardens shalbe charged to pay those Arrerages as shall 
 remayne so vnpaid, and not psented by them or any of them 
 
 Item that the Churchwardens that now are Or hereafter 
 shalbe, shall not at any tyme hereafter at their seuerall meet- 
 ings aboute psentm*' spend for their dynne'^s at any one tyme 
 aboue v'f v'n]^, The Coronacon day excepted, and then if 
 neede shalbee to spend x^ and to the Ringers the same day 
 for theire pajnes xiij° iiij''. 
 
 6—2 
 
44 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 The day and yere last on thother side written. 
 
 Item, it is ordered and agreed : That the Churchwardens 
 that now are, shall defend and annswere to the sute coinenced 
 by Arnold James against Henry Pickes for the bounds of this 
 pish vsed in the pambulacon : At the chardge out of the 
 Church mony. 
 
 Item it is ordered and agreed, That the churchwardens, 
 shall collect of the pishoners of this pish, for the belter dis- 
 chardge and payment of debts owing by the church, and 
 defraying and bearing of other chardges : One half yeres 
 pew mony freely of effy one that hath pewes, od and besydes 
 his or her quarteridg And such as haue no pewes or seats 
 to pay as heretofore hath bin accustomed : And such as 
 will not pay or refuse payment to psent them for the better 
 recofty thereof 
 
 Item, that the churchwardens that now are and hereafter 
 shalbe shall from hencefoorth, Collect in their seurall ham- 
 lettes quarterly the pew mony then due w*^out delaying of 
 any longer tyme. And such as shall not be at home at 
 theire coming, to collect the same in the church at theire 
 pewes 
 
 Item, it is further ordered and agreed, That where the 
 vestery men haue bin negligent in theire coming to meetings 
 about matte'^s concerning the pish : It is now ordered and 
 agreed. That if the vesterymen vpon warning geven vnto 
 them in the Church or at theire howses for meeting in the 
 vestery about matters and causes of the Parrish : shall here- 
 after be Remyse and slack in so meeting, being in health and 
 at home, whereby a full vestery cannot be according to the 
 order for Vesterymen before agreed vpon : Then euery one 
 so defaulting, shall for his absence pay to the vse of the 
 poore of this pish xij'^ to be collected by the Churchwardens 
 or any one of them : And if any shall refuse to pay, default- 
 ing in his absence, Then it shalbe lawfull for the church- 
 wardens for the tyme being to p>sent before the Ordynarie : 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 45 
 
 every such vestery pson and psons that shall refuse to pay 
 contrary to this order. 
 
 Will'm Rider Edward Muns Vicar 
 Wyllyam Lancasters Tho Bludder 
 
 marke Dennes West 
 
 p me W™ Jones p me W™ bygatt 
 
 Thomas Hardyng Jeames Woodcot 
 
 Nic° diggens H Bradley 
 
 Edward Eliot Will' Browne 
 
 The 2 of June beinge Thassension day of o'' savio'' Christy 
 
 A° 1603 
 It is ordered an agreed by Minister & parishoners in the 
 Churchhouse Assembled And hearevnder named, that Edward 
 Stevens for lymehouse And Henry Marrit for Ratcliff shall 
 Abide & contynew Churchwardens for one whole yeare next 
 following-, And that we doe now make choice of William 
 Browne gent for popler And Henry Leeke for myleend & 
 Bednall green are Also appoynted churchwardens for two 
 yeares ffrom day & yeare to be accompted. And every of 
 them to Collect and be acconntable for all such duet'yes as 
 they & every of them shall receyve in their severall hamletts^ 
 Witness vnder o'' hands. 
 
 Sidmen appointed & elected to serve w**" the afiforenamed 
 Churchwardens in the severall Hamletts. 
 
 fifor Ratcliffe Joseph Page 
 
 ffor Lymehovse John Kantt 
 
 ffor popler Robt Mason 
 
 ffor Mileend & Bednall grene Thomas Turpin 
 John Tomson Minister H Bradley 
 Ben : Lany Jeames Woodcot 
 
 p me W™ Jons Thomas Hog 
 
 Edward Eliot 
 
46 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 The names^ of the 
 For Ratclif 
 Mr Thomas Jones gent r 
 Mr Thomas Milton 5 
 Mr WilHm Burrell^ 6 
 Mr William Bigate 4 
 Mr Willi ni Higges 3 
 Mr Nicholas Symonson 7 
 Mr Robert Keale gent 2 
 Mr Thomas Beste 
 Mr Edward Dalton 
 Roger Gunston 
 Robert Goldinge 
 
 For Mileinde 
 S'' Thomas Bludder, knigh 
 Mr John Lyon gent 3 
 Mr Christofer Pate 4 
 Mr Thomas Hogge 6 
 Mr Seibrighte esq 2 
 Mr John Newett 5 
 Mr George Blincoe 7 
 Mr Tho Walker 8 
 Mr Wm Lancaster^ 9 
 S"^ Stephen Powell* 9 
 Michaell Gisby^ 
 Henry Barnett 
 
 Vestry men now in place 
 
 for Lymehous 
 Mr Richard March gent 
 Mr Willim Joanes^ 2 
 Mr Nicholas Diggens 4 
 Mr Thomas Androes^ 3 '" 
 Mr Robert Rickman 5 
 Mr Michaell Geere^ 6 
 Mr Lewes Tighte 7 
 Mr Willim Wye 8 
 John Graves 
 John Clarke 10 
 
 For Popler 
 t I Mr Dionis West^ 4 
 
 Mr William Browne^ 5 
 
 Richard Lawrence^ 8 
 
 Ezechiell Grippes 6 
 
 John Elvins^ 
 
 Mr Willimson 3 
 
 Mr Ed Abdy i 
 
 Mr Crompton 2 
 
 5=^ Willim Dethicke2 5 
 
 Thomas Crowder 
 
 Mr Smyth 
 
 M"^ Grynte2 
 
 Mr Allexander Davison 
 
 I 
 
 viort 
 
 mort 
 
 ' The italics show later insertions. - The name was later crossed off. 
 
 ' Sir Michael Geere was knighted at Plymouth September 23, 1625. His pedigree is 
 given in the Visitation of, London 1633-35, and he is mentioned as 'Sir Michael Geere, 
 Knight, of Stepney, in the countye of Middlesex, Master of the Trinity House, and one of 
 the Surveyors of the Navy.' He married (August 21, 1587) Alice, daughter of David 
 Bachus, of Stepney (who appears in the Register as Barlthouse), and resided in the fine old 
 mansion on Stepney Green now used as a Jewish Home, where his monogram is still to be 
 seen in the iron-work over the gate. His wife was buried in Stepney, May 17, 1630. 
 — Townsend's Knights ; Visitation of London, 1633-35 (Harl. Soc.) ; Parish Registers. 
 
 ■* Sir Stephen Powle, of Essex, was knighted at Theobald's in 1604. — Metcalfe's Book of 
 Knights. 
 
 ^ Sir William Dethick, Garter King of Arms, second son of Sir Gilbert Dethick, of Poplar. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 47 
 
 1604 
 
 At a meetinge holden in the vestry house the xvij*'' day of 
 ffebruary 1604 yt was agreed by the psons whose names are 
 herevnder subscribed, that the Churchwardens for the tyme 
 beinge shall tal<e into their hands and collect and gather by 
 themselues or their sufificyent deputy or deputyes all the pence 
 heretofore collected for bread and wyne, and comonly called 
 Comunion pence wch pence Mr English^ had for one yeare 
 last past at the hands of the Churchwardens and Vestry men 
 for the some of ffbwie pounds, wch fowre pounds are not yet 
 paid according to his pmise, and therefore all the said vestry- 
 men whose hands are herevnder subscribed as aforesaid, do 
 agree that the said Churchwardens shall take into their hands 
 the said Coinunion pence, And shall likewise receaue and 
 take by lawe or other reasonable Course of Mr English the 
 said some of fowre pounds due for the last yeare as aforesaid. 
 In vi^itnes whereof we haue herevnto subscribed o' names & 
 hand marks, the day & yeare abouesaid. 
 
 John Haiward parson^ Thomas best 
 W. Temple Dennes West 
 
 The Dethicks were said to have been of Dutch extraction, and were granted by Henry VHI. 
 the old manor-house with an acre of land in Poplar, where they resided for nearly two 
 centuries. Sir William Delhick was born in 1543. After holding the offices of Rouge 
 Croix Pursuivant and York Herald, he was appointed Garter, and on May 13, 1603, was 
 knighted by James I. In pursuit of his dignified office he took part in several missions 
 to foreign princes, and in numerous imposing ceremonial;;. He was a learned antiquary, 
 and the author of several heraldic worl<s ; but was, however, a man of fuch ungovernable 
 temper that he was most cordially detested by everyone, and was twice suspended from his 
 duties by the Crown. He resigned his office about 1604-5, ^"^ retired on an annuity of;^20o 
 per annum. He died in 1612, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His wife Thomasine 
 (only daughter of Robert Young, citizen and fishmonger) survived him about twenty years ; 
 her funeral took place in Stepney July 18, 1633, ^"^ her remains were ' carried to London 
 to be buried.' — Noble's Hist. Coll. of Heralds ; Nat. Diet. Biog. ; Parish Registers. 
 
 • David English, Vicar of .Stepney, admitted August 22, 1603. A David English, most 
 probably the same, matriculated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, August 24, 1582, aged 15 ; he 
 is described as ' filius generosus, of Sussex.' Newcourt speaks of a David English ' Licentiat 
 to St. Katherine Cree,' April 12, 1597. His quarrel with the Vestry seems to have been a 
 serious one, as it called for the intervention of the rector. — Clark's Register of Oxford Uni- 
 versity ; Newcourt Repert. 
 
 '' John Haiward, Rector of Stepney and of St. Mary, Woolchurch, preached at Paul's 
 Cross on the death of Queen Elizabeth. He died early in 1618.— Newcourt Repert. ; 
 Strype's Whitgift, ii., p. 468. 
 
48 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Anthony Williamson 
 Jeames Woodcot 
 
 NlC° DIGGENS 
 
 William Burrell 
 George Grentt 
 WiLLiM Comyns 
 
 ffrancs Snowe 
 Richard Browne 
 Nic Cox 
 Will' Browne 
 Will' Lancaster 
 John Thomas 
 
 At a meetinge holden the 3 daie C'f March 1604. The 
 want of vestrymen beinge founde by the pishioiiers in the 
 vestry house assembled, for the fulfilhnge of the number of the 
 forty beinge ellected vestrymen for to sett downe and reforme 
 such matters as are amiss w*'^in this pish of Stepney, accordinge 
 to a former order set downe in this booke : We therefore 
 haue by a generall assent and consent elected and chosen 
 theis psons whose names are herevnder written for vestrymen, 
 to fullfill the said Number of fforty psons as aforesaid. In 
 witnes whereof we haue herevnto subscribed our names the 
 day and yeare first aboue written^ 
 
 For Ratclif 
 Mr W-" Higges 
 Mr Robert Keale 
 Mr William Temple 
 Nichs Symonson 
 Edw: daulton 
 
 for Popler 
 Mr Edward Elliott^ 
 Thomas Hardcastle^ 
 Richard Browne^ 
 Mr Edmond Abdy 
 Mr Thomas Crompton 
 
 For Lymehouse 
 Mychaell Geere 
 Mr William Wye 
 Lewes Tayte 
 Mychaell Hamp^ 
 ffrancs Snowe^ 
 
 for Myleind and Bednalgrene 
 
 mart 
 mart 
 
 Mr Seibright 
 Mr John Newett 
 Thomas Walker 
 George Blinckoe 
 William Lancaster^ 
 John Gregory^ 
 
 Whereas so many in euery hamlett did want some by death 
 and some by depture, as are heare elected and sett downe, we 
 
 ' The italics show later insertions. ^ The name was later erased. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 49 
 
 haue for our ptes ellected theis foresaid psons to fullfill the 
 number. 
 
 Thomas Jones 
 William bvgatt 
 
 RiCHARDE MaRCHE 
 
 Anthony Williamson 
 William Comyns 
 Joseph pett 
 
 Thomas Mylton, Church- 
 warden 
 Stephen howghton 
 John Elvins 
 WiLL^ Browne [ Church- 
 Wm Lancaster! wardens 
 
 1604 
 
 At a vestry called by Mr David English the 3 day of 
 March and holden in the vestry house the said day, wee the 
 parsons whose names are herevnder subscribed beinge vestry- 
 men togither w"' the Churchwardens, haue (for the main- 
 tennance of bread and wyne for the Communions in the whole 
 yeare, and for therelief of the poore wch do daily encrease in 
 number,) agreed and appointed the Churchwardens or some 
 other pson or psons by tliem thought fitt and to be appointed, 
 for to collect and gather the pence comonly called Comunion 
 pence heretofore allowed and gathered for the foresaid vses, 
 for this yeare next ensueinge : And In witnes wee haue here- 
 vnto sett our hands the day and yeare abouesaid 
 
 W. Temple 
 Richarde Marche 
 Joseph pett 
 Michelle Gee re 
 Stephen Howghton 
 Myhell hamp 
 NicHO : Symonson 
 
 NlC° DIGGENS 
 
 W™ Jones 
 Thomas Jones 
 
 Ro. Kayll 
 
 William bygatt 
 
 Anthony Williamson 
 
 Will' Comenes 
 
 William Burrell 
 
 Thom's Milton 
 
 Will' Browne \n\. u 
 
 Will' Lancaster h , 
 T -n wardens 
 
 John Thomas J 
 
 Ieames Woodcot 
 
so MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 i6io^ 
 The 7*'' daie of July A° dni miftimo sexcentmo declmo 
 
 Whereas Margaret Browne of Lymehous widowe deceassed 
 gaue the some of Twenty pounds to the vse of the poore of 
 the pish of Stepneigh, to witt x^' of yt to Lymehous, and ten 
 pounds to the other three hamletts : So yt is that Thomas 
 Read & Thomas Richardson executo'^ to the said Margret 
 Browne haue paied and dischardged the same xx^^ into the 
 hands of the Churchwardens and overseers of the poore of 
 the same pish, as by the acquittances of the said Church- 
 wardens and overseers of the seuerall hamlettes is to be 
 shewed, and did appeare. And therefore haue requested that 
 the same might be recorded in some of the Church books for 
 the better remembrance thereof. Wherefore theis are to 
 certify all men that the said pmisses are true and that the said 
 mony was duly and truly paied by the said Executors to the 
 vse of the poore as aforesaid. In Testimony wee haue 
 subscribed our names this daye and yeare aboue written^ 
 
 Willi™ Lancaster John Crane John Elvins Churchwardens. 
 
 The 13 day of ffebruary 1605 
 At a vestry holden the daie and yeare abouesaid by 
 the Vicar Churchwardens and vestrymen of this pish in 
 Vestry house assembled, It is ordered, concluded & agreed 
 by them : That all and euery pishoner shall pay and allowe 
 vnto the Churchwardens for the tyme beinge who are ap- 
 pointed for the receavinge thereof one yeares pue mony or 
 duty, (besides their ordinary allowance) before Lady day next 
 comeinge for and towards the payment and satisfaccon of 
 certeine debts due by the pish to be paied, amountinge to 
 the value of fiftye pounds and vpwards for the belles to the 
 Bell founder. And that all and euery pson who shall eyther 
 wilfully deny or carelessly neglect the payment thereof to the 
 Churchwardens abouesaid by the tyme before limited and 
 
 ' This entry was evidently made here because there was a blank page available ; it is out 
 of its proper place. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 51 
 
 appointed, beinge lawfully demaunded of them, must not 
 finde them selues agreved, or be discontented wth the ofificers 
 appointed to collect the same, if the same be recouered 
 against them by Lawe, and the rather for that the said some 
 of fifty and odd pounds haue bin Longe vnpayed to the bell 
 founder, to the great discreditt of the pish. And it is further 
 concluded the day and yeare abouesaid : that all & euery the 
 said Churchwardens for the tyme beinge shall collect or at 
 least demande all and euery such dutie, and shall further at 
 the chardg of the pish appointe and entertayne one docto'' 
 and a procto'' to sue and recouer the same by lawe of any pson 
 or psons who shall neglect or refuse the payment thereof, 
 And also that euery Churchwarden shall w*^in their seuerall 
 hamlets recover by lawe and make account of euery arrearage 
 wch shalbe founde in any of their books, for any yeare or 
 tyme past. And that the said wardens shall bring in an 
 accounte of the said mony so to be collected at or before 
 Easier next at the furthest, as also a not of the names of 
 those wch shall be behinde w*'' their said paym* to thende the 
 Lawe may proceed against them for the recofiy thereof 
 Tho Bludder George Gowldman^ 
 
 Matheu Woodcott Vicca'' of Stepneye 
 
 HuMFREY LowFFiELLD p me Ant Williamson 
 Richard Browne Nic° diggens 
 
 Thomas Jones Will'm Comyns 
 
 p me W™ Jones dennes West 
 
 p me John Gardyner Willm' Browne 
 p me W'" BYGATT Thomas Walker 
 
 William Burrell 
 
 ^ George Gouldman, or Gowldman, admitted Vicar of Stepney August, 1605, succeeded 
 Samuel Harsnett as Archdeacon of Essex, November 8, 1609, and was admitted Rector of 
 Soutli Ockendon, Essex, on January 7, 161 1, all of which posts he vacated by his death in 
 January, l63f. He appears to have been succeeded in South Ockendon by a relative, 
 probably his son, Francis Gouldman the lexicographer. He was not buried in the church at 
 Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, as Wood asserts, but, as he desired, in the church of South 
 Ockendon, on January 6, 1633-34.— Wood's Ath. Oxon. ; Nat. Diet. Biog. (under Francis 
 Gouldman) ; Newcourt Repert. 
 
 7—2 
 
52 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 The 13 of ffebruary 1605 
 
 Whereas some controuersies haue heretofore arisen betwene 
 the vicar and the pish namely M'' English}- and that the same 
 controuersies haue bine thought very inconvenient, and further- 
 more forsomuch as Mr Gouldma now vicar being a quiet man, 
 the Churchwardens & vestry men bein;:; assembled in the 
 vestry house the daie and yeare abouesiiid, have giuen their 
 full assent & consent that Mr Gouldman aforesaid shall haue 
 the Pence wch heretofore haue bine called by the name of 
 Paschall Pence dureing his naturall life for the yearely rent of 
 fifowre poundes of lawfull money of England, And the said 
 Mr Gouldman in Liewe thereof is contented to pay vnto the 
 Churchwardens yearely w'hin one moneth next after Easter, 
 the some of ffowre pounds of lawfull mony of England : and 
 shall & will likewise at his owne prop chardges finde & allowe 
 so long as he shall be vicar of Stepney as aforsayd vsed all 
 the wyne and bread wch yearely or at any time shalbe due 
 and necessary for the Comunions in euery yeare. Except 
 any private psons shall request an extraordinary Comunion at 
 an extraordinary tyme, as when they go to sea or otherwise, 
 for wch at their owne prop chardges they are to fynd bread & 
 wyne. 
 
 George Gowldman Nich° diggens 
 
 Vicca'' of Stepneye William Burrell 
 Tho: Bludder Will Comyns marke. 
 
 Thomas Jones Mathew Woodcott 
 
 p me W"" Jones Humfry Lowfielld 
 
 p me W'" BYGATT Richard Browne 
 
 p me John Gardyner Will" Browne 
 p me Anthony Wil- dennes West 
 liamson Thomas Walker 
 
 The xiij*'' of ffebruary 1605 
 At a vestrie holden the daie and yeare aboue said, yt was 
 at the instant request of Mr George Goldman vicar, graunted 
 
 ^ The words in italics are crossed out. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 53 
 
 and agreed by the Churchwardens and Vestry men in the 
 vestry house then and there assembled, that Mr John Harvy 
 the curate should haue the Chamber ouer the Church house, 
 wch sometymes of their owne accorde was graunted by them 
 vnto John Tomson then Curate of the same place, To hold 
 vnto him the said Mr John Harvy curate dureinge the tyme 
 of his service here in the pish as curate, for the yearely rent of 
 x^ to be paied to y'' Churchwardens yearely to the vse of the 
 ponre of the pish. And forasmuch as John Brockbanke 
 Clarke was by vcrtue of thi'^ graunte thereof dispossesse I : yt 
 was there concluded and agreed that he should haue the 
 roome wherein Widow Heathly now is, to enlardgc his dwel- 
 linge, so soone as the saide widowe was thereof dispossessed : 
 And yt was also then and there furthe"" agreed and concluded 
 that the said John Brockbancke should haue the yearly some 
 of fforty shillings allowed and paied vnto him by the Church- 
 wardens for the keepinge of the church books and registringe 
 the Church wardens accounts yearely as M"^ Pratt had for the 
 same. This order and agreement was made the said day and 
 yeare by Mr Gouldman, vicar, the Church wardens and vestry 
 men aforesaid, whose names are hereunto subscribed^ 
 
 The 25 of Aprill 1606 
 
 In the Vestry house the 25 of Aprill 1606. It was ordered 
 and there Agreed by M'' Vicar and the vestry men there 
 beinge, that from the fifeast day of Thassension of o'^ savio^ 
 Christ next comeinge after the date hereof for the space of 
 one whole yeare next comeinge, Humfry Lowfield for Myle- 
 ind wth bednallgrene, Richard browne for Popler, Michaell 
 Hamp for Lymehouse and for Ratclif Walter Shewers, shall 
 be Churchwardens for the pish of Stepney ; and shall collect 
 and gather all such dutyes wthin their seuerall hamletts, as 
 
 ' The names, were, however, noi subscribed, though space is left for them. 
 
54 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 shall appteine vnto the Church : and thereof to make an 
 account as hath bin acustomed 
 
 fifrancs Snowe hired by Mr Hamp for Lymehouse. 
 John Crane hired by Mr Shewers for Ratchf. 
 Sydemen nominated and appointed to serve w**" the foresaid 
 Churchwardens for one whole yeare from thassention day 
 next cominge vizt. 
 
 William Cattell for Ratclif 
 Richard Phillips for Lymehous. 
 Thomas Allen for Myleind & bednalgrene 
 Henry Reignolds for Popler. 
 
 Whereas heretofore diuers obiections haue bine made 
 against the Colleccon and distribucon of monyes in the Chiirch : 
 It is therefore ordered and agreed by Mr Gouldman Vicar of 
 stepney and the Vestry men there assembled the 25 of April! 
 1606. That all such monies as are giuen or hereafter shall be 
 giuen by Legacyes to the vse of the poore, and all generall 
 coUeccons at the Church doores or at the Comunion table 
 shall be reserued in a box to be provided wth Lock and five 
 Keyes : one to remayne in the hands of the Vicar, and the 
 other 4 Keyes in the hands of the 4 Churchwardens.^ and 
 the same box to be kept in the Chest in the vestrye and the 
 monyes not to be disposed of wthout the assent and consent 
 of the vicar all the foure Churchwardens w*h one Vestry man 
 more at the Least of euery hamlet : and likewise that two 
 books be provided and kept in the same Chest, one for the 
 settinge downe of the Collecgons and thother to write in the 
 distribucons of the said monyes so to be distributed. 
 
 George Gowldman Vicca'' Thomas Androes 
 Ro Kayll Jeames Woodcott 
 
 John Gardyner Will" Wye 
 
 p me Anthon Williamson George Blynco 
 Mathew Woodcott Will' Browne 
 
 1 See the LXXXIVth Canon. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 55 
 
 Tho: Milto Mychaell Hampe 
 
 HUMFRY LOWFIELD WiLL' LANCASTER 
 
 Richard Browne Dennes West 
 
 p me W" BYGATT John Elvins 
 
 p me W" Jones Richard Lawrence 
 
 6* Aprill 1607 
 
 In the vestry house at a vestry holden there, the 6 day of 
 Aprill in Anno dni 1607 for the Electinge of Churchwardens 
 and sidemen according to the Canon in that case provided : 
 yt is ordered and agreed in manner and forme followinge, 
 That ys, that Walter Shewers of Ratclif or his sufficyent 
 deputy shall serue for Churchwarden for the hamlet of Ratclif: 
 Thomas Hogge of Bednalerene shall serue for Churchwarden 
 for the hamletts of Mileind and Bednalgrene, Richard 
 Lawrence to serue for Churchwarden for the hamlett of 
 Popler, and Michaell Hamp for the hamlett of Lymehowse, 
 at wch vestry yt was agreed that John Crayne shold remayne 
 deputy Churchwarden for Walter Shewers, and ffrancs Snowe 
 deputy Churchwarden for Michael Hamp : 
 
 It is agreed the daie and yeare abouesaid, that Henry 
 Reignolds serue for Sideman for the hamlet of Popler, 
 Richard Phillips sideman for Lymehous, Henry Barnet for 
 Bednalgrene : and William Cattell for Ratcliff : And that all 
 and euery the same foresaid Officers shall continue in their 
 seuerall offices for the space of one yeare next ensueinge the 
 date aforesaid. 
 
 It is agreed that the vestry shall meet againe about certen 
 busines vpon Thursday the 16 of Aprill 1607 
 
 The 9"^ of Aprill 1610 
 
 At a vestry holden in the Church house the 9* day of 
 Aprill beinge Monday in Easter weeke, it is decreed and 
 Concluded by the right worpfull and others, Mr Docto"" 
 
56 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Goldman Vicar, and the Vestrymen there assembled, That no 
 Churchwarden now beinge nor hereafter to be elected for the 
 place of Churchwarden for the tyme being shall Lay out vpon 
 any Church busines aboue the some of Twenty shillings, 
 wthout the consent and allowance of two Vestrymen of each 
 hamlett at the least, first had and obteined in writinge vnder 
 their hands, But yf they or any of them shall psume to lay 
 out any monyes aboue the said some of xx% That he shall 
 beare and pay yt out of their owne purse chardges and allow- 
 ance. 
 
 It is also further ordered and agreed by and amongst the 
 said Mr. Vicar and Vestrymen aforesaid the same 9*"" day of 
 Aprill A° pred, that the Churchwardens wch now are, nor the 
 Churchwardens wch hereafter shalbe elected for the tyme 
 being, shall, not at any tyme hereafter in the weeke called 
 Rogacon weeke for the three dayes wch they walk the 
 pambulacon, expende vpon their dynners in those three dayes, 
 aboue the some of fowre pounds, But if they or any of them 
 shall dispend or lay out aboue the said some of ffowre pounds, 
 yt shalbe at his own prop costes and chardges and out of his 
 or their own purse 
 
 It is also further agreed at the same vestry by the foresaid 
 M'" Vicar and Vestrymen then and there assembled, that any 
 the Churchwardens now being and hereafter to be elected, 
 shall not at the makeinge and caryinge in of any their billes 
 of psentment into Powleschaine office called quarter billes 
 which are to be made psented and caried in, twyce in the 
 yeare as by the Canon^ may appeare and is comanded and 
 appointed. Lay out expende or disburse for their dynners or 
 meetings not above the some of six shillings and eight pence 
 at a tyme, that is to witt xiij^ and iiij*^ in the yeare, But if 
 they or any of them shall lay out above the said some at the 
 same two seuerall tymes, yt shalbe their owne chardge, and 
 not the pishes chardge. 
 
 1 See Canons CIX. to CXIX., on ' Presentments.' 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 57 
 
 It is also further ordered and decreed by the said Mr 
 Vicar and vestrymen at the vestry there assembled, That 
 the Churchwardens for the tyme beinge or those Church- 
 wardens wch shalbe ellected shall not at any Visitacon to be 
 holden by the Lord Bishopp of London hereafter shall not 
 disburse expend or lay out vpo'' Drinckinge or their dynners 
 aboue the some of xx^ but if they or any of them lay out 
 any more mony for their dynners, visitacon chardges as for 
 othes, writing or any other chardges about the same visitacon, 
 they shall beare yt of themselues at their owne prop costs 
 and chardges. 
 
 George Gowedman Thomas Androwes 
 
 Vicca^' EzECHiELL Grippes (wari) 
 
 Tho : Bi,uDDER. Thomas Richard-" 
 
 Thomas Jones son {ma>-i) „, , 
 
 Ro: Kayll John Crane l^hurch- 
 
 WiLLiAM BYGATT W>" LANCASTER^ wardens 
 
 John Lyons John Elvins 
 
 26* Marche 161 1 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house the six and twentith 
 day of March Ao dni one thowsand six hundred and Aleaven 
 for the chusing of Church officers beinge Easter weeke, 
 accordinge to the Canon in that case provided, were chosen 
 officers by a generall consent theis psons whose names are 
 herevnder set downe, vizt. 
 
 Churchwardens 
 Mr Thomas Joanes for Ratclif being allowed his 
 
 deputy John Crane 
 Mr Richard March for Lymehous being allowed his 
 
 deputy, Richard Phillips 
 Ezechiell Crips for Popler, his deputy William Allen 
 Michaell Gizby for Myleind and Bednalgrene 
 
 ' William Lancaster, Churchwarden and Constable, here appears for the last time ; he 
 died during his second year of office, and was buried September 29, 1610. — Stepney Registers. 
 
58 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 At the same vestry it was ordered and agreed by generall 
 consent that what Churchwarden soeuer shall haue his deputy 
 allowed him : shall be answerable and accountable for all 
 such matters as their deputy shall deale for concerninge the 
 Church for the collectinge or receipt of any mony wch shall 
 come to their hands. And this order to be continued for ever 
 wthin this pish 
 
 Sidemen 
 
 Richard Hawkins for Ratclif 
 
 Robert Markham for Lymehous. 
 
 ( IV'" Baylie erased) 
 
 Christopher Jerrome for Popler. 
 Nichs Vere for Mileinde & Bednalgrene. 
 Geo Gowldman p me W"^ Jones 
 
 Vicca^" Thomas Androwes 
 
 Thomas Jones Ezechiell Crips {mark) 
 
 Ro : Kayll Thomas Hog 
 
 Richard Marche Hohn Elvins 
 
 John Lyons Church- J Richard Phillips (/«ari) 
 
 p me Ant. Wil- wardes [John Crane 
 
 liamson (John warren 
 
 Audito'''' for the auditing of M'' Richardsons accounte for 
 the yeares as followeth, vizt 1608 & 1609 
 
 Mr William Jones \ ('^°'' Lymehous. and for the re- 
 Mr Thomas Androes "^P^^^^}^ "'^^^^^ '.^^^'^?' '" 
 Mr Richard March J his hande and to giue hmi a 
 ^ \ discharg vnder their hands 
 
 Audito™ for Popler for the Churchwardens accounte there 
 Mr Anthony Williamson. Mr Alexander Davison. 
 
 Audito''' for Ratclif for the Churchwardens accounte there. 
 Mr Willim Bigate. Mr Dalton. 
 
 Audito^'^for Mileind and bednalgrene for the Churchwardens 
 accounte there. 
 
 Mr John Lyons Henry Barnett 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 59 
 
 At a vestry holden the eigh tenth day of July As dni 161 1 
 in the Vestry house, It was ordered by vs the vicar and 
 Churchwardens wth other Vestrymen whose names are sub- 
 scribed, That whereas an order was formerly concluded that 
 the Churchwardens, for the tyme beinge shoulde not lay out 
 aboute any Church busines, aboue the some of xx^ a man, 
 wthout the Consent of the vestrymen therevnto first had 
 and obteined : wherevpon wee the said vicar and vestrymen, 
 beinge here assembled, do giue and graunte full licence and 
 libertye so farre as in vs lieth, vnto the Church wardens 
 elected, and to their deputyes sworne, to lay out and disburse 
 towardes the erectinge and settinge vpp of pewes and seates 
 in the galleryes before the steeple at the nether ende of the 
 Church and other places in the same galleryes comely, and 
 decente, for the ease and benefitt of the Church, the some of 
 ffiftye poundes : And/ also for the mendinge, garnishinge 
 and beautifyeinge of the Church Pewes, and seattes in the 
 body of the Church, at their discrecon, with the consent of 
 some of the vestrymen whose Judgements are thought to 
 be best and fittest for the better instruccon of the Church- 
 wardens in the same worke, the former order notw^^'standinge : 
 In Testimony whereof we haue subscribed o'" names the day 
 and yeare first aboue written. 
 
 George Gowldman, vicca' Ant W™son 
 Thomas Jones Thomas Androwes^ 
 
 Richard Marche Thomas Hog 
 
 p me W"* Jones Ai.exandar Davison 
 
 At a Vestry holden in the Vestry house, the fowrtenth 
 day of Aprill Aq Dhi one thowsand six hundred and Twelve, 
 
 ^ Thomas Androwes here appears for the last time: he was buried September 25, 1611, 
 and is described in the Register as of Limehouse, gent, (see above, p. 25). He was probabiy 
 the son of a Thomas Androwes, who in 1521 belonged to St, Olave's, Silver Street, and 
 married Elizabeth Redeknapp, and he was m that case very possibly the elder brother of 
 Bishop Andrewes and Mrs. William Burrell. He was twice married : first to Jane Belson 
 (licence, February 4, 1566); and second, to Alice Wiseman, December 12, 1576. — Stepney 
 Registers ; Isaacson's ' Life of Bishop Andrewes' ; Visitation of London, 1634, under name 
 of Burrell ; Chester's 'Marriage Licences.' 
 
 8—2 
 
6o MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 there was allowed for vestrymen to supply the wants and 
 defects of such vestry men as were dead and gone, certeine 
 psons hereafter named, so that the number of Vestrymen 
 beinge full, the names are theis hereafter followinge. to witt^ 
 
 for Ratclif Lymehous 
 
 Mr George MarshalP 
 
 Mr Thomas Jones Mr Richard March 
 
 Mr Robert Keale Mr Nichs Diggins §<>"« 
 
 Mr Willim Bigate Mr Robt Rickman 
 
 Mr Thomas Milton Mr Michaell Geere 
 
 Mr William Higges^ Jead Mr Lewes Tighte 
 
 Mr Nichs Symonson Mr Willim Wye elder i;t>ne 
 
 Mr Edward Dalton Mr John Graves 
 
 Mr Thomas Beste Mr Mathew Woodcott 
 
 Mr Robert Gouldinge dead Mr John Clarke dead 
 
 Mr Roger Gunston Mr John Bedforde dead 
 
 Mr Tho : Johnson'' Mr VVitf Ivye 
 
 ■^ ■ Mr Ediuard Steuens^ 
 
 Mr W'" Jorden 
 Mr Edxvard Philipps' 
 
 1 The names and words printed in italics were inserted at a later date, when many of the 
 names were then crossed out. 
 
 " Sir George Maishall was a gentleman much employed about the Court, among other 
 things being given the charge of the King's race mares : he was knighted at Royston on 
 Octobers, 1615. — State Papers, Domestic, 1609-1631; Metcalfe's 'Knights.' 
 
 ■* Mr. William Pligges now disappears from the Vestry ; he was buried on October 19, i6[2 ; 
 his wife predeceased him and in the burial register under date March i, 1609, the following 
 unusual notice lireaks the monotony of the usual entries : 'Judith, wife of Mr. Willim Higges, 
 of Stepney, in the hamlet of Ratclif, within the brickwall nere the Church, Citizen and Mercer 
 of London, was buried the first day of March : whose good and vertuous life I cannot 
 sufficiently as she deserved here sett down : hir husbande gave both cloaks and gownes at 
 hir funerall bountifully and more I cannot here set downe.' — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Thomas Johnson, mariner, of Ratcliffe, was buried September 20, 1624. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 '■' John Davies, a sailor in the employ of the East India Company. In 1609, 'notwith- 
 standing some rnatter of misgovernment and misdemeanor against him,' he was granted £\Q 
 in return for a book presented by him to the Governor and Company, containing an account 
 of his last voyage. Six years later he has the command of \\v^ James, but again his conduct 
 is called in question, and on his return he makes his suit to the Court for his bond and a 
 gratuity of £100. After this he seems to have stayed more at hoine, and vvas regular at the 
 vestry meetings up till 1626, when he died, and was buried November 3. — State Papers, 
 Colonial, E.I.C. 
 
 ' Edw. .Stevens, of Blackwall, shipwright, ni. Katherine. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Edward Philips was a gardener, living in Painter's Rents, Ratcliffe, and he was buried 
 May 22, 1630.— Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 6i 
 
 Mileinde Popler 
 
 S'" Thomas Bludder) , . , S'' Thomas Palmer^ dead 
 
 S^ Stephen Powle [ ° Mr Willimson dead 
 
 Mr John Lyon / Mr Abdye 
 
 Mr Seybright Mr Crompton dead 
 
 Mr Newett ^ Mr Grippes 
 
 Mr xpofer Pate j Mr Smyth 
 
 Mr Tho : Hogge Mr Davison gone 
 
 Mr Geo : Blincoe Mr Crowder dead 
 
 Mr Tho Walker dead>- ^ Mr Tho : Comyns.* 
 
 Henry Barnett 5 Mr Vincent Parratt^ 
 
 Mrjhon Lee^ 6 Mrjhon West 
 
 Mr Midiaell Gisbie 7 Mr Gilbert Dethich'' 
 
 S Henrie Reynolds' 
 
 g xpofer Dhiifi 
 
 ' The names and words printed in italics were inserted at a later date, when many of the 
 names were then crossed out. 
 
 - Sir John Lee, of Whitehorse Street, was the third of three distinguished brothers, sons 
 of Sir Robert Lee, all of whom were knighted for their public services. Sir John was made 
 keeper of the Ordnance .Stores at the Tower in t6i8, and was knighted at Greenwich on 
 June 28, 1629. He was twice married: first, to Sarah Woodward, who died in 1625, and 
 was buried at Stepney December 27 ; and second, to Joan Lott, widow of Henry Lott, of 
 Stepney (license dated Novembers, 1633). He was buried November 16, 1642. — Chester's 
 Marriage Licenses ; State Papers, Domestic ; Brit. Mus. Harl. iVIS., 1174 ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Sir Thomas Palmer, born 1569, was made a D.L. for Sussex in 1604, and knighted at 
 Whitehall on December 23, 1606. — State Papers, Domestic ; Metcalfe's Knights. 
 
 * Thomas Comyns, a yeoman of Poplar. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Vincent Parratt, a mariner of the same. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Gilbert Dethick, son of Sir William Dethick (see p. 46), Garter King of Arms, a proctor 
 and registrar of the Court of Chivaliy. He married Joanna, daughter of Alexander Serle, of 
 London, who died March, 1607-8, and was buried in St. Mary Magdalen's Church, Old Fish 
 Street. By her he had two sons and a daughter, who all died young. On January 12, 1614, 
 he look a second wife in the person of Rachel, daughter of John Blount, relict of John 
 Crompton, of Poplar. In the entry of his marriage he is described as ' of the p'ish of St. 
 Gregory, in Paul's Ch : yard.' This Gilbert Dethick is credited by both Strjpe and Noble 
 with having been instrumental in the building of old Poplar Chapel, in which there was 
 formerly a Latin inscription to the same eflect, but as Gilbert Dethick died in 1639, and the 
 date of the erection of the Chapel is usually given as 1650, it is clear that there is some 
 mistake. Possibly some other member of the family was referred to, probably his nephew, 
 Gilbert Dethick, son of Henry Dethick (see p. 84). — Strype's Stowe ; Noble's History of 
 the College of Heralds ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Henry Reynolds was a shipwright of Poplar, and was buried on April 9, 1618. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 ^ Christopher Dyve, constable of Poplar and Blackwall, was granted in 1618 by the Ea.^t 
 India Company the sum of 40J. to make good losses he incurred through the escape of one 
 of his prisoners : he was by trade a chandler, and was tvvice married ; his first wife, Isabell, 
 was buried on April 4, 1610, and on .September 20 of the same year he married Grace 
 Higbye ; he himself was buried October 16, 1618. — State Papers, Colonial E.I.C.; Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
62 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Geo Goui.dman N Diggens 
 
 Edm : Abdy Edw Dalton 
 
 Thomas Jones John Lyons 
 
 Ro : Kayl Rob art Rickman 
 
 p me W™ bygatt Mighell Geere 
 Ant Williamson 
 
 Churchwardens 
 At a Vestry holden in the Vestry house the fourtenth day 
 of Aprill beinge Tuesday in Easter weeke for the Elleccon 
 of Church officers accordinge to the Canon in that Case 
 made and provided, were Chosen Church Wardens. theis 
 psons hereafter named, to serue for the yeare foUoweinge in 
 the office of Churchwardens from Lady day last beinge in A 5 
 dni one thowsand six hundred and twelve, as followeth 
 for RatcHf Mr Thomas Jones, his deputy, John 
 
 Crane, 
 for Lymehous M'^ W™ Jorden. his 
 for Myleind Mr Michaell Gizbye. 
 for Popler Mr Ezechiell Crips his deputy Wiiiim 
 
 Allen. 
 
 Ellected for Sydemen to serue for the same yeare. 
 
 for Ratclif Robert Rooke.^ 
 
 for Lymehouse Robert Markham. 
 
 for Mileinde Nichs Veere. 
 
 for Popler Thomas Smyth 
 
 Geo Gouldman Edw Dalton 
 
 Edm : Abdy Robart Rickman 
 
 ' Robert Rooke, of Ratcliffe, is described in the Registers as a crosse-tailor, or on other 
 occasions simply as a tailor or merchant-tailor, and once as a coal merchant. He was twice 
 married : first, to Sarah Hall, widow, on November 19, 1623 ; second, to Anne Burlock, of 
 Shadwell, widow, on May 16, 1625 ; the first was buried on July 28, 1624, and the second on 
 Jime 3, 1637. 
 
 Another Robert Rooke, of West Ham, married Elizabeth Lee at Stepney on July 24, 1626. 
 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 63 
 
 Ro : Kayl 
 
 N DiGGENS 
 MiGHELL GeERE 
 
 Henry Barnets marke 
 John Greaves 
 
 P me W"^ BYGATT 
 
 AnT Williamson 
 John Lyons 
 
 ROBART GOLLDING 
 
 Alaxandar Dauison 
 Roger Gunston 
 Thomas Hog 
 Thomas Walker 
 Mathew Woodcott 
 Thomas Crowther 
 
 At the Vestry holden in the vestry house the fowrtenth day 
 of Aprill 161 2, were elected Audito'''' for the Churchwardens 
 accounts. 
 
 for Ratclif for Lymehous 
 
 Mr Keale & Mr Diggens 
 
 Mr Dalton. Mr Geere. 
 
 for Popler 
 Mr Abdy & 
 Mr Crowder 
 
 Geo Gouldman. 
 
 P me W™ BYGATT 
 ROBART RiCKMAN 
 
 for Mileind 
 Mr Lyons and 
 Mr Hogge. 
 
 Alaxandar Davison 
 Thomas Walker 
 
 yt is ordered at the same Vestry that Widow Elvins and 
 hir Sonne should pay in satisfaccon of such monies as were 
 due to the Church by John Elvins hir husband deceassed, 
 the some of foure poundes, to be paide to the Churchwardens 
 in the vestry house, in manner following to witt forty shillings 
 at Midsomer next : and forty shillings at Michallmas next, 
 in consideracon of the some of eight pounds and fifteene 
 shillings due by the said John Elvins before his death, wch 
 mony if it be not paied the whole debt of eight pounds fiftene 
 shillings to be due by them to pay. 
 
 John Elvins.^ 
 
 ' 'John Elvins, thelder of Popler, Yeoman, late Churchwarden, was buried July i, i6n 
 -Stepney Registers. 
 
64 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 1613 
 
 At a Vestrie houlden in the Vestry house the fourth daye 
 of Maye beinge Tuesdaye the election of Churchwardens 
 accordinge to the Cannon in that Case maid and pvided. 
 These persons hearafter named to searue for the yeare 
 ffollowinge in the office of Churchwardenshipp from our ladye 
 day last beinge in An° clni one thovvsand six hundreth and 
 thirtene, as ffollovveth. 
 
 for Radclife Thomas Manning^ 
 
 for Limehouse William Jurden. 
 
 for Popler Christopher Dyves. 
 
 for Mylende Ellis. Elliott^ 
 
 EUected for sidemen to serue for the same yeare. 
 
 for Radclife Robert Roocke. 
 
 for Limehouse William Simonds 
 
 for Popler Thomas Kent 
 
 for Mylende Thomas Baines 
 
 Geo Gouldman Viccar The mark of Thojmas 
 Thomas Jones Miltoun 
 
 Ro : Kayll N. Diggens 
 
 Ant Williamson Edw Dalton 
 
 Edward Steuens Robart Rickman 
 
 John Greaves Roger Gunson 
 
 Thomas Hog Willi m Jrdene 
 
 The mark of Richard Tho : Comines 
 
 Phillips John West 
 
 Marke Henery Barn- Thomas Walker 
 
 NETT The marke of'EzEciELL 
 Alexander davison Crips 
 
 1 Thomas Manning, a carpenter, of Ratcliffe Highway, was buried September 15, 1630. — 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
 2 Ellis Elliot was a goldsmith of Spilalfields, who later on in life retired, and is entered in 
 his burial register as 'gent.', December 12, 1625. — Siepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 65 
 
 Att the Vestrye lioulden in the vestrye house the fourth of 
 Maye 16 13, weare elected Auditores for the Churchwardens 
 accounts 
 
 for Radclife for Hmehouse 
 
 Mr Bigatt Mr Rickman 
 
 Mr Gunstonn Mr Graves 
 
 for Popler for Milende 
 
 Mr Williamson Mr Lions^ 
 
 Mr Davison Mr Hodgge 
 
 Geo Gould man Mr Miltons marke 
 
 Vicca'^ N DiGGENS 
 
 Thomas Jones Roger Gunson 
 
 Ro : Kavll Robart Rickman 
 
 Ant Williamson^ Thomas Walker 
 
 Edw Dalton John Greaves 
 
 At a vestrye holden the 14*'' of Decemb' 1613 in the vestrye 
 in the Church It is agreed in maner folowing 
 
 It is agreed that the widow of Mr Hawes late Curate of 
 Stepney shal hold and enioy that chamb' in the Churchyard 
 out of w'='^ Mother Stokes latelye died to hold the same 
 during her life naturall if she shall well demeane herselfe. 
 
 Also yt is agreed that whereas there is much of the 
 Register vnrecorded as well for Christnings Manages and 
 Burialls where through much hurt may arise, that therefore 
 Peter wright If he like yt shall haue foure pounds for the 
 full recording of all that is yet vnrecorded vnto the time of 
 the death of Jhon Brockbancke late clerke and keper of the 
 Registrye, or if he shall make refusall thereof then the church- 
 
 ^ John Lyons, gent., of Mile End, was buried in the chancel on February i8, 1615. His 
 family appear in the Visitation of Essex of 1634 ; see Har. Soc. Edit., p. 441 ; see also Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 ^ Anthony Williamson, of Poplar, and citizen of London, here appears for the last time : 
 he was buried September 30, 1613, after being connected with the Vestry for twenty years. — 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
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66 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 wardens to prouide some other who for the aforesaid summe 
 shall faithfully transcribe all that is to be found, into the 
 seuerall parchm* bookes, & they the churchwardens to se that 
 the same be perfectlye finished by the feast of Easter next 
 ensuing. 
 
 Thomas Johnson Edw: Edgeworthe, 
 
 Roger Gunston Curat : 
 
 Thomas Hog Edw Dalton. 
 
 John West Ellis Elliott 
 
 Thomas Manning by William Jirdek 
 his marke Mighell Geere 
 
 Christopher Diul Alexander Davison 
 Thomas Jones Thomas Walker 
 
 Ro : Kayll 
 
 1614 
 
 At a vestrie holden in the vestrie house the 26* day oi 
 Aprill being Tuesdaye in Easter weeke, for the Eleccon of 
 Church officers according to the Canon in that case prouided 
 were chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named 
 to serue for the yeare folowing in the office of Church- 
 wardens from Lady day last being in Anno dni one thousand 
 sixe hundreth and fourteene as foloweth, whereof three of 
 them continew newlye elected according to y^ Custome of the 
 pish of Stepnie 
 
 for Ratcliffe Mr Thomas Manning 
 
 for Limehouse Mr Robert Rickman 
 
 for Popler Mr Christopher Diues 
 
 for Mileend Mr Ellis Elliott 
 
 Elected for Sidemen to serue for the same yeare. 
 
 for Ratcliffe Edward Lane 
 
 for Limehouse William Simonds 
 
 for Popler Thomas Kent 
 
 for Mileend Thomas Baines 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 67 
 
 Geo Gouldman. William Jurden 
 
 Geo : Marshall. Alexander Davison^ 
 
 Edm : Abdy Thomas Comines 
 
 Thomas Jones Richard Phillipes (mark) 
 
 Ro : Kayll. Thomas Manning (mark) 
 
 WlLLYAM BYGATT ElLIS ElLIOTT 
 
 MiGHELL GeERE ChRISTOPHER DiUE 
 
 John Greaves 
 
 At the vestrie holden the same day and yeare were elected 
 for Auditors for the Churchwardens Account the yeare passed. 
 
 For Ratcliffe For Limehouse 
 
 Mr Edward Dalton Mr Michael Geere 
 
 Mr Nicholas Simonson Mr Jhon Greaues 
 
 For Popler For Mileend 
 
 Mr Edmond Abdye Mr Nicholas Diggens 
 
 Mr Thomas Comines Mr Thomas Hogg 
 
 Also at the said Vestrye holden the day and yeare aboue 
 written, It was agreed that Rotit Greenewood a poore blind 
 man shall hold and enioy that chamber in the churchyard 
 out of w'=^ Mrs Hawes latelye deceased to hold the same 
 during his naturall life yf he shall well demeane himself. 
 
 At a vestrye houlden in the vestrye house the ri*^ day of 
 Aprill 16 1 5 beinge tusdaye in Easter weeke for the Elleccon 
 of Church Officers accordinge to the Canon in that case 
 prouided, were chosen Churchwardens these persons here- 
 after named to serue for the yeare followinge in the office 
 of Churchwardens from the Ladye daye last past beinge 
 in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hunderech 
 
 ' Alexander Davison, of Poplar, ropemaker, now appears for the last time, as he shortly 
 after this date left the district. He was twice married : first, to Jone Cox, July 27, 1571 ; 
 and second, to Anne Fundal, widow, of Poplar (by license), October 16, 1606. The latter 
 died in May, 1621, and he survived her only a few months, and was buried October 4, 1621. 
 — Stepney Registers. 
 
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68 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 and fiftene as followeth whereof one of them contlnew elected 
 newlie acording to the custome of the pish of Stepney. 
 
 for Radcliffe. Mr Richard Notingham^ 
 
 for Limehouse. Mr Robert Rickman 
 
 for Popler. Mr Martin Smith 
 
 for Milend. Mr Henry Barnet 
 
 Elected for Sidemen to serue the same yeare. 
 for Radcliffe. Edward Lane, 
 
 for Limehouse. William Delton. 
 
 for Popler. 
 for Mylend. 
 
 Thomas Jones 
 Thomas Hog 
 RoBART Rickman 
 Ei.Lis Elliott 
 John Greaves 
 Richard Philips (?/mr/i) 
 Thomas Manning {mark) 
 
 Zachary Gilbye.^ 
 Henry Sessions.'*' 
 
 Geo Gouldman. 
 
 Vicca'' 
 Geo : Marshall 
 Willim. Jurden 
 Thomas Johnson 
 Henry Barnet {mtiri) 
 Christopher Diue 
 
 Churchwarden 
 
 At the vestrie holden the same daye and yeare were elected 
 for Auditors for the Churchwardens Accounts these psons here 
 vnder named. 
 
 for Radcliff 
 Mr Thomas Best 
 Mr Edward Dalton 
 
 for Popler 
 Mr Thomas Comines 
 Mr Jhon West 
 
 for Limehouse 
 Mr Richard March 
 Mr Mathew Woodcot 
 
 for Mylend 
 Mr Nicholas Diggens 
 Mr Thomas Hogge 
 
 ' Richard Nottingham, of Ratcliffe, was clerk of the Trinity House, and was buried 
 October lo, 1C26. 
 
 ^ Zachary Gilby was a vintner, first at St. Gregory's, London, and later at Blackwall ; he 
 was buried March 20, 1638. 
 
 ^ Henry Sessions was a butcher of Mile End, and was buried on December 16, 16 17. 
 Perhaps his ill-health prevented his serving his office the second year. His widow Ellen 
 married Nicholas Hart, by license dated June 13, 1621.— Chester's Marriage Licenses. Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 6g 
 
 1615 
 
 Also att the same vestrie held the same day and yeare yt 
 was agreed that wheras M'" D'^ Goiildman hertofore held the 
 pence commonlie called Paschall pence paieing for them the 
 summe of iiij^^ p anm vnto the said pish and the Church- 
 wardens therof, and afterwards the snmme of xl^ of the said 
 rent of iiij^^ p annu was remitted vnto the said D^' Goiildman, 
 now the said D'" Gouldman is well contented for the two 
 yeares passed to pay the said intier summes of iiij^' p annu 
 and so yearelie to continew the said paym* of iiij'' p annu 
 to the Churchwardens according to the first agreem* made 
 between the said D'' Gouldman vicar of Stepney and the 
 vestrie men of the said pish and that to the persons, and att 
 the times in the first order made and there set downe. f/ze 
 I 3*'"^ ffebreary 1605 
 
 Geo : Marshall Geo Gouldman Vicca^' 
 
 Thomas Jones Thomas Hog 
 
 Rob ART RicKMAN William Jurdene 
 
 Ellis Elliott Thomas Johnson 
 
 John Greaves Henry Barnet {mark) 
 
 Thomas Manning Richard Phillips {iimrk) 
 
 Churchwarden {mark) Christopher Diue 
 
 Also in regard some vestrie men of the said pish and 
 hamletts were wanting ptlie by death ptlie by departure out 
 of the pish and Hamletts where they dwelled It was agreed 
 att the same vestrie that these persons folowing should 
 succeed as vestrie men in stead of such persons dieing or 
 departing, viz* for Ratcliffe Mr Jhon Dauies, for Limehouse 
 none the number full, for Mile end Mr John Lee and Mr 
 Michael Gisby And for Popler Mr Gilbert Dethick Henry 
 Reynolds and Christopher Diue, and so these folowing to be 
 accompted for vestrie men of the pish of Stepnie and none 
 other for the time being viz* ^ 
 
 '^ The words in italics, relating to death or departure, were inserted later. 
 
7° 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Ratcliffe 
 
 M'-i George Marshall 
 Mr Thomas Jones 
 Mr William Bygat 
 Mr Robt Kayll 
 Mr Thomas Milton 
 Mr Nicholas Simonson 
 Mr Edward Dalton 
 Mr Thomas Best 
 Mr Roger Gunston 
 Mr Thomas Jhonson 
 Mr John Dauies 
 
 Mile end 
 
 S'' Thomas Bludderl, . ,^ 
 ov o 1 -n 1 hknisfhts 
 S' Stephen Poi.ile J ^ 
 
 Mr John Lion^ d^a,/ 
 
 Mr Sebright 
 
 Mr Newett 
 
 Mr Diggins 
 
 Mr Christopher Pate 
 
 Mr Thomas Hogge. 
 
 Mr Henrie Barnett. 
 
 Mr John Lee 
 
 Mr Michaell Gisbye. 
 
 Limehouse 
 
 Mr Richard Marsh 
 Mr Robt Rick man 
 Mr Michaell Geare 
 Mr Lewes Tight gone 
 Mr John Greaues 
 Mr Mathew Woodcott 
 Mr William luie 
 Mr Edward Steuens 
 Mr William Jorden 
 Mr Edward Philips 
 
 Popler 
 
 Mr Edmimd Abdie'-^ 
 Mr Ezechiell Grippes 
 Mr Martin Smith^ 
 Mr Thomas Comins 
 Mr Vincent Parrot 
 Mr John West 
 Mr Gilbert Dethick. 
 Henrie Reynolds 
 Christopher Diue 
 
 At a vestrie holden on tuesday the 28 of Nouemb"" 161 5 
 (whereas Mr Martin Smith Churchwarden of Popler was 
 deceased) yt was agreed that Mr Thomas Comins of the 
 same place should serue for the rest of the yeare ensuing, 
 And in regard that Zacharic Gilbie the sideman of the same 
 place was departed out of the said pish yt is also agreed 
 that Thomas Abbot of the same place should serue and 
 
 1 A later hand has altered ' Mr.' to ' Sr ' George Marshall. 
 ^ Crossed out by a later hand. 
 
I 
 
 wardens 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 71 
 
 execute the office of Sidemfi and Assystant vnto the said 
 churchwarden aforenamed for the rest of the yeare folowing 
 
 Edw Edgeworthe John West 
 
 Curat ibm Richard Philips his marke 
 
 NIC= DIGGINS HeNRYE BuRNARdI p, , 
 
 Jo Newett his marke 
 
 Tho : CoMiNES William Simons 
 
 Ae 1616 
 
 At a vestrie holden in the vestrie house the first day of 
 Aprill being Munday in Easter weeke for the Eleccon of 
 Church officers acording to the Canon in that case prouided 
 were chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named to 
 serue for the yeare folowing in the office of Churchwarden 
 from the Annunciacon in the yeare 16 16 as foloweth whereof 
 three of them continew newlie elected acording to the custome 
 of the pish of Stepney. 
 
 Churchwardens 
 
 for RatcHffe Mr Richard Notingha 
 
 for Limehouse Mr Michael Geere 
 
 for Popler Mr Thomas Comins 
 
 for Mileend Mr Henry Barnard 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen at the same vestrie and meeting 
 
 for Ratcliffe Neltrapp.^ 
 
 for Limehouse. Edward Walbye. 
 
 for Popler. Thomas Abbot, 
 
 for Mile end. William Hay ward. 
 
 Also elected att the same vestrie for Auditors for the Church- 
 wardens account for the yeare passed. 
 
 1 Nicholas Neltrapp was a sailraaker in Ralclifte, and was buried on June 19, 1622. His 
 widow married Dan. Bextey, see p. 100.— Stepney Registers. 
 
72 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 for Ratcliffe 
 Mr Roger Gunston 
 M'^' Thomas Johnson 
 
 for Popler 
 Henry Reynolds 
 Christopher Diue 
 
 for Limehouse 
 W Mathew Woodcot 
 M"" W"^ luie 
 
 for Mile end 
 M'' Nicholas Diggens 
 Mr Thomas Hogg 
 
 Also yt was ordered att the same vestrie that inasmuch as 
 M*" Edmund Abdie hath so caried himselfe in matters of 
 Religion as vnworthie the place of a vestrie man in the said 
 pish that therefore from henceforth he be held and reputed for 
 no vestrie man among them 
 
 Also att the same vestrie were elected and chosen for 
 vestrie men instead of those who are wanting, for Popler, 
 William Hyat.^ for Limehouse Mr Jhon Moore and so these 
 psons folowing to be acounted for vestrie men for the time 
 being & none othar. vizt^ 
 
 Ratcliffe 
 Sr George Marshall 
 
 Mr Tho. Jones in his stead 
 M'' Richard Notingha 
 
 Mr W" Bigatt 
 
 M'^ Rol3t Kail 
 
 M'- Tho: Milton 
 
 M"" Nicho Simonson^ /« his 
 
 stead Af Edward Chandler* 
 
 Mr Edward Dalton 
 Mr Thomas Best 
 Mr Roger Gunston 
 Mr Thomas Johnson 
 Mr Jhon Dauies 
 
 Limehouse 
 Mr Richard March 
 M'" Robt Rickman 
 M^- Michael Geere 
 M'^ John Graues 
 Mr Mathew Woodcott 
 Mr W™ luie 
 Mr Edward Steuens 
 Mr W" Jordan dead 
 
 My Edward Phillips 
 M'- John Moore 
 
 ' William Hyatt, a yeoman living in North Street, Poplar, married Alice Cooke, widow, of 
 Ratcliffe (by license), on March 28, 1618. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 '■^ Those words and names printed in italics were inserted at a later date, and several of the 
 names were then crossed out. 
 
 ' Nicholas Simonson was a shipwright of Ratcliffe. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 " Edward Cliandlerwas also a shipwright, living on Wapping Wall. He married Elizabeth 
 Heale, July 29, 1630, and was buried August 30, 1634. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 73 
 
 Mile end Popler 
 
 S"^ Tho Bludder ^cne M"^ Ezechiell Gripes *«</ 
 
 S»- Stephen Poule M"^ Tho Comins 
 
 S'' John Lee M' Vincent Parrot 
 
 Mr Sebright M' John West 
 
 Mr Newett Mr Gilbert Dethick 
 
 M'' Diggens Henrye Reynold 
 
 Mr Pate^ dead Ghristopher Diue 
 
 Mr Hogge William Hyat 
 Mr Barnard 
 M"- Gisbye 
 
 Also it was agreed that whereas w"" Pemmerton of Lime- 
 house mariner did by his last will and testament geue vnto 
 the poore of the pish of Stepney the summe of ten pounds of 
 lawfull monie of England w'=*' summe of ten pounds is wilh- 
 olden by M^= Wild the wife of John Willd of Limehouse the 
 executor of the last will and testament of the said W"" Pem- 
 merton w'=h M''^ wilds is Executrix of the goods and Chattells 
 of the said John her late husband deceased. It ys agreed 
 that the Churchwardens shall commence suit in law against 
 the said M''^ Wild for the recouerie of the said ten pounds 
 and to do and performe all and all maner of things that may 
 be by law expedient for the recouerie of the said summe of 
 monie so detayned. And the charges of the said suit and 
 accon to be discharged by the whole bodie of the pish. 
 
 Also yt is further agreed that the Ghurchwardens shall out 
 of hand prouide one sufficient strong Chest >vith three lockes 
 acording to the Canon^ that all such monies as are collected 
 at the Communion table may be put into the same acording 
 to an ancient order formerlie decreed by the said vestrie fo: 47. 
 And the collection att the communion table to continew in that 
 
 ' Christopher Pate, gent, of Mile End Green, married (by license, dated March 5, 1613-14), 
 Elizabeth NichoUs. He appears here for the last time, and was buried February 25, 1616. 
 Chester's Marriage Licenses. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 * See the LXXXIVth Canon ; also p. 54. 
 
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74 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 maner and by such churchwardens as hath hetherto collected 
 vntill such time as the said chest shalbe prouided. 
 
 Also yt is agreed that for those monies which heretofore 
 haue bene made at the communion table that they should be 
 distributed in maner and forme folowing vizt Ratcliffe to haue 
 three parts Limehouse to haue two parts Popler to haue 
 one pte Bednalgreene and Mile end to haue two parts. And 
 those monies that shalbe hereafter collected to be put into the 
 Chest acording as yt is formerlie ordered. 
 
 Geo: Marshall Edw: Edgeworthe 
 
 Thomas Jones Curat ibm 
 
 T. Best Thomas Comines 
 
 Nic° DiGGiNS Henry Barnard {mari) 
 
 Tho: Milton (««/-/•) Edw: Dalton 
 
 MiGHELL GeERE RoGER GuNSTON 
 
 Mathew woodcot Jo Dauies 
 
 Thomas Johnson Thomas Hog 
 
 Robart Rickman Rychard Nottingham 
 John Greaves 
 
 Anno dni 1617 
 At a vestrie holden in the vestrie .house the 25*"^ of Aprill 
 •161 7 being ffriday in Easter weeke for the Eleccon of Church 
 Officers acording to the Canon in that case prouided were 
 chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named to 
 serue for the yeare folowing in the Office of Churchwarden 
 from the Annunciacon of the virgin Marie in the said yeare 
 16 1 7, As foloweth, whereof one of them continew newlie 
 elected according to the custome of the pish of Stepney. 
 
 Churchwardens 
 for Ratcliffe. Mr Roger Frithi 
 
 for Limehouse. M'' Michaell Geere. 
 for Popler. M'' John West, 
 
 for Mile end. M"^ John Fuller. 
 
 ' Roger Frith was an anchorsmith of Ratcliffe. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 75 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen.att the same vestrie and meeting 
 for Ratcliffe. Nicholas Neltrapp. 
 
 for Limehouse Edward Walbye. 
 for Popler. Thomas Wilson 
 
 for Mile end. William Hay ward 
 
 Elected also for Auditors for the Churchwardens accout for 
 the yeare passed 
 
 for Ratcliffe. for Limehouse. 
 
 M'' Roger Gunston M'' Mathew Woodcot 
 
 M'^' Thomas Johnson. M'' William luie 
 
 for Popler. for Mile end 
 
 Henry Reynolds M'^ Nicholas Diggins. 
 
 Christopher Diue M"" Thomas Hogg. 
 
 Edw Edgeworth Curat. 
 Mathew Woodcott 
 
 MiGHELL GeERE 
 
 Also yt i^ ordered and decreed att the same vestrie and 
 Meeting that (forasmuch as diuers in the pish and seuerall 
 hamlets thereof, do make refusall to pay such monies as 
 formerlie haue bene paid to the churchwardens of the said 
 pish for and toward the reparacon of the pish Church of 
 Stepnie by what name soeuer yt be collected so as therebye 
 that fitt reparacons cannot be made in the said pish Church 
 as is fitt and convenient.) It is therefore I saiy ordered that 
 the churchwardens shall and may att the common charge of 
 the said pish sue and implead such of the said pish and 
 seuerall hamletts thereof as shall any way make refusall to 
 pay any such summes quarterlie or otherwise to be collected 
 so as therebie such maner reparacons may be made of the 
 pish church as is expedient And in more pticular, John 
 Triggs of Ratcliffe for the present assessem* of vj*^ p quarter 
 for the time of Richard Nottingham last churchwarden, and 
 
 10 — 2 
 
76 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 all the arreares of such summes as haue formerlie bene de- 
 tayned by the said John Triggs from the said Richard 
 Nottingham churchwarden or any other his predecessors 
 churchwardens of the said pish. And against him and all 
 other in the said pish and seuerall hamletts to effect and do 
 whatsoeuer may be by law warrantable for and to the re- 
 couering of the said summe and summes and euerie pticular 
 thereof to the vse and reparacons afore specified. As also 
 Thomas Mootam of Wapping wall for the assessem* of 
 iij'^ p quarter, and refused to be paid vnto the said Richard 
 Notingham churchwarden aforesaid As also Henrie Good- 
 
 game of wapping for the like assessem* of vj"^ p quarter in 
 like maner refused to be paid vnto the said Richard Notingham 
 Churchwarden. Also yt is ordered and decreed that M^' 
 
 Migheil Geare and Richard Nottingha Churchwardens now 
 being shall make and build in the middle Isle of the church 
 of Stepney and in the north part of the said Isle ten or 
 eleauen double pewes of new and good stufife, and that 
 whatsoeuer shall remaine vnfinished at the expiration of the 
 time of the said Richard Nottingham to be done and perfected 
 by Roger ffrith, now chosen his successiue churchwarden in 
 the .said pish and such other churchwardens are for the yeare 
 ensuing are formerlie elected.^ 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthk John Greaves 
 
 Curat Mychill Gisbie 
 
 T. Best John West 
 
 Thomas Milton {mari) Henrie Barnard (mar/,) 
 
 Jo Newett Christopher Diue 
 
 Roger Gunston Henrie Reynold (ma?-i) 
 
 Thomas Johnson Richard Nottingham 
 Robakt Rickman Churchwarden 
 
 At a vestrie holden on Munday the 8* day of September 
 in the yeare 1617 It was ordered and decreed, that foras- 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. ti 
 
 much as the church is verie much decayed in the roofe both 
 in the lead and Timbers beside all other necessaries in the 
 bodie of the church and communion place to be repaired, 
 that therefore there shalbe a generall Landskot and assessem* 
 made of all the inhabitants of the pish and outdwellers 
 occupieing land in the pish for and toward the necessarie 
 repayre of the Church in euerie pt thereof, to be made and 
 assessed by the vicar of the said pish, the Churchwardens for 
 the time being and two or 3 other of euerie Hamlet in the 
 pish being fit and sufificient men to be named and apointed 
 by the vestrie, for the asseasing and rating of the said Land- 
 skott and assessem* 
 
 Also these persons folowing were nominated deputed and 
 apointed by the said vestrie to be assistants to the vicar and 
 Churchwardens in the Rate making aforesaid, and for the 
 gathering vp of the said Landskott assessem* so made. 
 
 for Ratcliffe. for Limehouse. 
 
 Mr Thomas Best Mr Roftt Mr Mathew Woodcot 
 
 Kayl M=^ Richard Phillips 
 
 Mr Roger Gunston. Mr Mr John Graues. 
 
 Edw Dalto 
 Mr Thomas Johnson. 
 Mr Richard Notingham. 
 
 for Popler. for Mile end. 
 
 M"" Thomas Comins M^ Nicholas Diggens 
 
 Mr Gilbert Dethick. M'^ Newett & M'' Michaell 
 
 Mr William Hyat. Gisby 
 
 M'' Thomas Hogg. 
 
 Mr Henry Barnard. 
 
 Itm. whereas there was a former decree made for a suffi- 
 cient chest with three lockes for the keping of monies and 
 other necessaries It is ordered also at the same vestrie that 
 the Churchwardens shall out of hand prouide the said chest 
 
78 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 acording to the former order and such as may be agreable to 
 the Canons and constitutions of the Church 
 
 Itm. whereas fonnerlie^ vpon the slackness and remisnes 
 of the vestrie men in theire metings in the vestrie hauing 
 warning of the day and time pubHquelie geven, yt was 
 ordered that euerie vestrie man making default and being 
 absent and hauing no lawfull excuse of his said absence 
 should forfait xij'^ for euerie default to the vse of the poore. 
 And whereas now there is the like remlseness It is thought 
 fitt that the said decree should be againe reuiued, and now 
 by the said vestrie yt is ordered and decreed that euerie 
 vestrie man making default to come to the vestrie being 
 warned thereto ether publiquelie in the Church or priuatelie 
 at their owne houses hauing no cause ether by absence, 
 sickness or other necessarie employm* shall for euerie such 
 default forfait xij'^' to the vse of the poore to be leuied by 
 the churchwardens as in the former decre made fol 41 
 may plainlie apeare and acording to the tenor of the said 
 decree../ 
 
 Itm. yt is ordered that there shalbe chosen in euerie 
 hamlet two fit aged women to search and vew the bodies of 
 euerie one deceasing for the preuention of infection to be 
 named and apointed by the Churchwardens of euerie Hamlet 
 wth the asistance of some one or two of the vestrie men o^ 
 the said pish and hamlett and the said searchers to haue ij'^ a 
 peece for euerie bodie they shall vew and search to be paid 
 by the gouernor of the house where such bodie dieth and is 
 vewed, and if they shall not be able to paie the said iiij*^ then 
 the said mony is to be satisfied and paid by the Collector for 
 the poore for the time being./ 
 
 Itm. yt is ordered and decreed that no locks shalbe set 
 vpon any of the new pewes \jinles by the ch^irchwardens 
 themselves and then without cutting or impayring the zuood 
 & that'^'\ onlie one pew w'=^ is the 2 in the middle Isle hauing 
 formerlie a lock sett on yt. 
 
 ^ See p. 44. - Crossed out. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 79 
 
 Itm, yt is ordered also and decreed that the churchwardens 
 shall out of hand build all the pewes in the middle Isle of 
 the Church and vnder the gallerie, from the end of the new 
 worke vnto the Crosse allie by the staires going vp into the 
 gallerie, As also to rayse vp the pewes in the north side of 
 the church, and to put in quite through a sufficient plate and 
 well to vnderpin them that they may be more convenient for 
 people to sit in them. 
 
 Geo GouLDMAN Vicca"^^ Edw: Edgeworthe Curat 
 Roger Gunston John West ^Ch h 
 
 Mathew Woodcott Roger ffrith (/«ar/6) V , 
 T T.T T wardens 
 
 Jo. Newett John ffuller J 
 
 Thomas Hogg Nicii" diggins 
 
 Thomas Johnson T. Best 
 
 Henry Barnard^ {mark) Mychell Gisbe 
 
 At a vestry holden on Tuesday being tuesday in Easter 
 weeke and the 7*^ day of Aprill in the yeare 161 8 and in the 
 vestry house for the Eleccon of Church officers, according to 
 the Canons in that case prouided were chosen Churchwardens 
 these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare folowing 
 viz* from the feast of the Annunciacon of the virgin Mary in 
 the yeare 161 8 in the office of churchwarden whereof three of 
 them continew newlie elected acording to the custome of the 
 pish of Stepney 
 
 for Ratcliffe. M'^ Roger ffrith 
 
 for Limehouse M"" Raph Bradshaw.^ 
 
 for Popler M' John West 
 
 for Mile end M'^ John Fuller. 
 
 * The last appearance of Mr. Henry Barnett, a yeoman of Bethnal Green, who was buried 
 on February 13, 1617.— Stepney Registers. 
 
 - Ralph Bradshaw died at the close of his second year of office, and was buiied May jo, 
 1620. — Stepney Registers. 
 
8o MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen att the same vestry and meeting 
 whereof one continueth newlie elected according to the custome 
 of the said pish of Stepney 
 
 for Ratcliffe Jeffry Wheeler^ 
 
 for Limehouse. William Simonds 
 
 for Popler Thomas Wilson 
 
 for Mile end Thomas Bayly.^ 
 
 Also elected att the same vestry and meeting for auditors 
 for the Churchwardens account for the yeares passed 
 
 for Ratcliffe for Limehouse 
 
 Mr Thomas Best Mr Mathew Woodcot 
 
 Mr Edward Dalton Mr William luie 
 
 for Popler for Mile end 
 
 Mr Gilbert Dethick Mr Nicholas Diggens 
 
 Mr Thomas Comins Mr Thomas Hogge 
 
 Also att the same vestry and meeting were elected and 
 chosen for vestrymen instead of those who are wanting In 
 Ratcliffe in the stead of Mr Thomas Joanes and Mr Nicholas 
 Simonson deceased Mr Richard Notingham and Mr Edward 
 Chandler, and for Milend the Right Hon Lord, Morly and 
 Mr Thomas Michelbourne, and so these persons folowing to 
 be accounted for vestrie men for the time being and none 
 other viz*.^ 
 
 Ratcliffe Limehouse 
 
 S'^ George Marshall, knight Mr Richard March 
 
 Mr W" Bygatt* dead Mr Rotit Rickman 
 
 Mr Robt Kayll Mr Michaell Geere 
 
 '■ Jeffrey Wheeler was a victualler of Ratcliffe. — -Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Thomas Bayly was a weaver of Mile End, and was buried January 24, 1624-5. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 ' The italics show later insertions. 
 
 * William Bigate was a mariner of Ratcliffe, and here appears for the last time : he was 
 buried September 24, 1618. He had been a vestryman, first for Limehouse and then for 
 Ratcliffe, ever since the establishment of the Select Vestry in 1589, and he appears as .luditor 
 for Limehouse as far back as 1584. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 8i 
 
 Mr Tho: Milton 
 Mr Edward Dal ton 
 Mr Tho: Best 
 Mr Roger Gunston 
 Mr Tho Johnson 
 Mr John Dauies 
 Mr Richard Notingha 
 Mr Edward Chandler. 
 
 Mile end 
 The Right honorable the 
 
 Lord Morlye^ 
 S' Stephen Poulel , . , 
 S^ John Lee p^'^^ts 
 
 Mr Sebright 
 
 Mr Newet 
 
 Mr Diggins 
 
 M' Hogg 
 
 M"- Gisby 
 
 M'' Thomas Michelbourne 
 
 Mr John Graues 
 Mr Mathew Woodcot 
 Mr W"" luie 
 Mr Edward Steuens 
 Mr Edward Phillips 
 Mr John Moore 
 
 Popler 
 Mr Tho Comins 
 
 Mr Vincent Parrot dead 
 Mr John West 
 Mr Gilbert Dethick 
 Henry Reynold dead 
 Christopher Diue dead 
 W™ Hyat 
 Mr W"" James 
 Thomas Eliot 
 
 And on fifriday the lo** of the aforesaid moneth of Aprill 
 in the yeare aforesaid att a vestry then held in the vestry 
 
 ^ Edward Parker, Lord Morley, a peer of some importance in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 
 was summoned to Parliament January 26, 1581. An interesting letter among the State Papers, 
 written with invisible ink, from Thomas Rogers to Secretary WaUingham, dated Paris, 
 Auffust 25, 1585, informs us that ' Lord Morley has been soliciled by his mother to come over, 
 either to avoid imprisonment in England for seeming a Catholic or the peril that may befal 
 him in England if foreign princes invade it and make it a conquest. . . Whether she would 
 make her son an agent, or whether she is moved by any of the princes on this side to call him 
 over I know not. . . He has promised to come when she sends for him, and has certified that 
 jf6,ooo is the most he can bring over in money and jewels.' His loyalty, however, seems to 
 have revived during the Armada panic, for when called upon by the Council (June 30, 1588) 
 to contribute towards resisting the foreign attempts against ' this realm, his natural and sweet 
 country,' he consented to furnish twenty light horse, thirty muskets, and seventy calivers. 
 He sat in judgement on Mary Queen of Scots, Philip, Earl of Arundel, and Robert, Earl of 
 Essex, and was present at the execution of the last-named unfortunate nobleman. Lord 
 Morley resided at Mile End Green, and married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William 
 Stanley, Baron Monteagle ; he died in 1618, and was buried in Stepney Church on April 2 of 
 that year ; his son, an avowed Roman Catholic, was summoned to Parliament in the lifetime 
 of his father in the right of his mother as Lord Monteagle, and was the nobleman to whom 
 the memorable anonymous letter was addressed by which the Gunpowder Plot is said to have 
 been discovered. — Harl., 1636; State Papers, Domestic; Burke's Extinct Peerage; Lyson' 
 Environs ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 I I 
 
82 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 house were the aforesaid officers chosen and the vestrymen 
 afore nominated acording to theyre former eleceon were con- 
 firmed. 
 
 Also at the said vestry and meeting were chosen for 
 vestry men for the Hamlet of Popler Mr William James of 
 Bednalgreene to supplie the presente defect of sufficient men 
 in the said hamlet, and Thomas Eliot of Popler 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca^ 
 Thomas Milton (mark) 
 T. Best. 
 
 NlC° DIGGINS 
 
 Mathew Woodcott 
 John West. Church- 
 warden 
 Gilbert Dethick 
 Jo. Newett 
 
 EdW: D ALTON 
 
 John Greaves 
 
 Thomas Hogg 
 Christopher diue 
 William Hyat {mark) 
 Roger ffrith. (mark) 
 churchwarden. 
 
 MiCHELL GiSBIE 
 
 Thomas Johnson 
 Richard Phillips (uiari) 
 John ffuller Church- 
 warden. 
 
 So that by vertue of the aforesaid decree then made these 
 persons for the present are to be held and reputed for vestry 
 
 men viz* ^ 
 
 In Ratcliff 
 S"^ Geo Marshall knight^ 
 Mr Robt Kayll 
 Mr Tho: Milton^ 
 M'^ Edw: Dalton 
 M"- Tho: Best 
 Mr Roger Gunston^ 
 Mr Tho: Johnson^ 
 Mr Jo: Dauies^ 
 Mr Rich: Notingha^ 
 Mr Edw: Chandler. 
 
 In Limehouse 
 Mr Richard March2 d^ad 
 M"" Robt Rickman 
 M"- Mich : Geere 
 M'^ Jo: Graues 
 M-- Math : Woodcot^ dead 
 Mr W™ luie^ 
 Mr Edw. Steuens 
 Mr Edw: Philip 
 MrJo:Moore2 dead 
 
 gone 
 
 The italics show later insertions. 
 
 The name was later erased. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 83 
 
 In Mile end In Popler. 
 
 The right hon''^« y« Lord Mr Tho: Comins 
 
 Morlye. dead Mr John West. 
 
 S'StephenPouIel. . , gmu Mr Gilbert Dethick 
 S-^ John Lee p"'S"'^^m«.«.rf W" Hyat 
 
 Mr Sebright dead MrW^Jamesof Bednal- 
 
 M' Newet. dead greene^ 
 
 Mr Digins ^«» Thomas Eliot. 
 Mr Hogge. 
 Mr Gisby. 
 Mr Michelbourne gvn 
 
 Mar: 30 1619 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday being 
 tuesday in Easter weeke and the thirtieth day of this present 
 moneth of March for the election of Church Officers accord- 
 ing to the Canons of the Church in that case prouided were 
 chosen churchwardens these persons hereafter named to serue 
 for the yeare folowing in the Office of Churchwardens from 
 the Annunciation of the virgin Mary, in the yeare 161 9 as 
 foloweth, wherof one of them continueth newlie elected acord- 
 ing to the Custome of the pish of Stepney. 
 
 for Ratclifife M' Roger Gunston 
 
 for Limehouse M"" Ralph Bradshaw 
 
 for Popler M' W"* Hyat. 
 
 for Mile end M"" John Newett. 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen at the same vestry and meeting, 
 whereof two continue newlie elected acording to the Custome 
 of the said pish of Stepney 
 
 for Ratclifife John Gierke. 
 
 for Limehouse William Simonds. 
 
 for Popler. Hugh Pym.^ 
 
 for Mile end. Thomas Baylye. 
 
 ' The name was later erased. 
 
 " Hugh Pym was a vintner of Poplar, and was buried July 7, 1619. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 II 2 
 
84 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Also elected at the same vestry and meeting for Auditors 
 for the Church wardens acounts for the yeare passed 
 for Ratcliffe for Limehouse 
 
 M' Thomas Best. M"- Michaell Geere 
 
 M'' Edward Dalton. M"^ Jo : Graues 
 
 for Popler for Mile end 
 
 M' Gilbert Dethick Mr Nicholas Diggens 
 
 Mr Tho: Comins. Mr Thomas Hogge. 
 
 Also at the said vestry and meeting was chosen for a vestry- 
 man, in the roome of W™ Bigatt deceased, Augustine Badicott^ 
 of Wapping/ 
 
 Also at the said vestry and meeting It was ordered and 
 decreed that the fift bell w"'' is broken should be cast with 
 what convenient speed may be and for the payment and 
 satisfaccon of the Bell founder who shall performe the said 
 worke, yt is also agreed that there shalbe an assessem* made 
 of eiiery one in the said pish as also euery out dwellers 
 acording to the third part of the rate that he or they shall 
 pay vnto the poore in theyre seuerall hamletts. the said 
 seuerall rates to be made and taken out of the seuerall 
 Collecters booke and to be gathered and collected by the 
 Churchwardens the Sidemen and Collecters for the poore 
 for the time being. And that the Churchwardens shall 
 immediatelie make and gather the said rate and assessm* to 
 be expended and laid out in the vse aforenamed. 
 
 Itm. At the vestry continued on Sunday Aprill 4 1619 for 
 the suppliing of some vestry men that are wanting in the 
 hamlett of Popler were elected and chosen for vestry men 
 Mr Henry Dethick,^ and Thomas Raylton^ 
 
 ^ Augustine Badicott was a butcher and landholder inWapping. He supplied beef to the 
 ships of the East India Company, and his name occurs often in the Registers. — State Papers, 
 Colonial, E.I.C. ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Henry Dethick, of Poplar, son of Sir William Dethick, Garter King of Arms, married at 
 Stepney, January i, 1618, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Thomas Best, of Ratcliff, and had 
 six sons and one daughter. He died while churchwarden in 1639, and was buried at Stepney 
 on September 5 of that year. His son, Henry Dethick, afterwards became Richmond Herald. 
 — Noble's History of the College of Heralds ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Thomag Railton was a husbandman of North Street, Poplar, and on February 2, 1601 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 85 
 
 Also the former decrees of eleceon of officers aforesaid were 
 the said day and yeare and all other things formerlie written 
 ratified and confirmed. 
 
 Edw. Edgeworthe Curat. John Greaves 
 
 MiGHELL. GeERE, RiCHARD PhILIPS {mark) 
 
 Roger Gunston Roger ffrith (marji) 
 
 Gilbert Dethick. Jo. Newett 
 
 T. Best John West. 
 
 Edw: Dalton Mychell Gisbe 
 
 Thomas Hogg John ffuller 
 
 June 18 1619 
 
 At a vestry holden in the new vestry house on ffi-iday June 
 the eigh tenth 16 19 assembled together for the ordering of 
 those things were necessarie for the Church, and the well 
 gouerning of the same were determined and decreed these 
 things ensuing., 
 
 Imp"", in that there wanted certayne vestrymen in the 
 Hamlet of Mile end there were chosen to supplie the roomes 
 of them that were wanting, S" George Phillipott^ of Mileend- 
 greene Knight and John ffuller of Stepney 
 
 Itm, yt is ordered and decreed att the said vestry and 
 meting, that the Churchwardens of the pish and euery of 
 them vpon the first Sunday of euery moneth after euening 
 praier of the same day with the vestrymen of the said pish 
 shall assemble together to conferre of those things that are 
 expedient and necessary for the Church and for the acount- 
 ing for those monies that monethlie shall be deriued by any 
 
 married Judith Linford, and was buried May i, 1634 ; his wife was buried March 30, 1643. 
 A namesake lived in the same street, a shipwright and probably his son, who was buried 
 March 16, 1642.— Stepney Registers. 
 
 1 Sir George Phillipot, or Philpot, a descendant of a distinguished family dating back to 
 Sir John Phillipot, who was Mayor of London in 1378. They may have been connected with 
 the family of Philpot, who held the manor of Mile End in the reign of Richard III., but at this 
 date they belonged to Compton, near Winchester. This Sir George was attached to the Court, 
 and was knighted at Hampton Court in the autumn of 1606 ; his wife, Dame Elizabeth, was 
 buried at Stepney, July 11, 1616. — State Papers, Domestic, 1620-22 ; Metcalfe's Knights ; Brit. 
 Mus. Add. MS. 5524, pp. 76, 86, 96 (for rough pedigree) ; Stepney Registers ; Lyson's Environs. 
 
86 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 assessem* or other meanes whatsoeuer vnto them, the said 
 monethlie meeting and assemblie to be held att the time 
 apointed by the persons in the Instrum* for the establishing 
 of the vestry contayned and the first meting to begin on 
 the first Sunday of the moneth of Julie next folowing in 
 this present yeare 1619 and so to continew as is formertie 
 decreed. Qt^q Gouldman Vicca'' 
 
 Itm. It is ordered and decreed att the said vestry and 
 meeting that the Pewes in the middle of the Church and 
 toward the south ranging all along by the middle Isle of the 
 Church shall be made new acording to the new pewes formertie 
 made vnder the gallerie. 
 
 Itm. that the roofe ouer the vestrie of the Church shalbe 
 altered and laid otherwise whereby the two windowes w"*^ are 
 dammed vp may be opened to geue light to the Church. 
 
 Itm. that the Pewes vpon the North side of the Church 
 fro the east end to the partition of the Chancell shalbe made 
 new acording to those of the other side of the said chancell, 
 and the rest from thence to the north dore be in some suffi- 
 cient and convenient maner repayred. 
 
 Itm. that there shalbe a diuision with a paire of gates 
 made at the lower end of the Church vnder the Belfree, that 
 being shut continuallie yt may preuent the hurt w''*' might 
 otherwise come to the Church. 
 
 Itm. that the porches one vpon the South side the other 
 vpon the North side be repaired the fifloores made euen and 
 paued and the glasse windowes amended 
 
 Itm. for the effecting and performing of these things and 
 the defrayeng of these charges It is further ordered and 
 decreed that euery man shall pay vnto the Churchwardens 
 one whole yeares taxe of Puage mony, and the said taxe to 
 be made and rated by the Churchwardens ioyntlie together, 
 and to be leuied and imposed acording to assessm' made by 
 the churchwardens vpon the Pewes.^ 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 87 
 
 Itm. yt is agreed that those Churchwardens to whom vpon 
 acounts geuen the church is in debted shalbe satisfied and paid 
 those monies are due to them. 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca'' 
 John Greaves 
 Richard Nottingham. 
 Richard Philip his marke. 
 T. Best 
 
 Wl^ IVEY 
 NlC^ DIGGINS 
 
 Edward Chandle(k) 
 John West 
 Jo. Newett 
 WiLLiA HiAT by his 
 
 marke 
 Robart Rickman 
 
 Edw. Edgev/orthe 
 
 Curat: 
 Roger Gunston 
 Jo: Dauis 
 Raphe Bradshawe 
 
 MiGHELL. GeERE 
 
 Mathew Woodcott 
 Thomas Milton his 
 
 marke 
 Thomas Johnson 
 Thomas Hogg 
 Mychell Gisbe 
 Austen Badecoke {mari) 
 
 July 4*^ 1 61 9 
 
 At a vestry holden on Sunday the day and yeare aboue 
 written forasmuch as Hugh Pym of Popler chosen formerlie 
 Sidema for the said Hamlet is so visited w* sickness as he is 
 vnfitt for the execucon of the said office therefore the Minister 
 w*'* the rest of the vestry men then assembled haue chosen 
 and elected Thomas Wilson of Popler to serue in the Office 
 of Sideman the rest of the yeare ensuing./ 
 
 24**^ daye of Appril 1620 
 At a vestarye holden the daye & yeare abouesaide those 
 churchwardens are to accompte for their accomptes for the 
 yeares herevnder sett downe 
 
 Ezechill Cripes ats william Allon his deputye 
 
 for two yeares I Jg J J 
 Christopher Dives for two yeares ac- 
 ^ri6i-5 
 
 popler 
 
 popler 
 
88 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 {Martyn Smithe a^s Thomas Comins for two 
 yeares accomptjJ^JS 
 John Weste to accompt for two yearsj ^^J^ 
 Mylend ... Mihell Gisbye for two yeares accompt j ^^^^ 
 Mylend ... Ellis Ellyot for two yeares j ^^^^ 
 Lymehouse William Jordan for two yeares accompt j ^ ^^ 
 Lymhouse Robert Rickman for two yeares accompt j ^^ ■; 
 
 Radclife ...{Roger ffrithe for two yeares accompt j ^^^ 
 
 At the said vestarye the election of Churche officers to 
 serue for the yeare followinge. 
 
 Churchwardens 
 Mr Roger Gonston for the Hamlet of Radclife 
 Mr John Newett for the Hamlet of Mylende 
 M"" John More for the Hamlet of Lymehouse 
 
 William hyott for the Hamlet of Popler 
 
 Sidemen for the said hamlets 
 John Clarke for Radclife 
 
 William Symons for Lymehouse 
 Thomas Wheatly^ for Mylende 
 Thomas Wilson for Popler 
 
 Auditors for the former yeares alridye paste 
 
 for popler 
 M"^ Gilberd dethick 
 M" henry dethick 
 M"- hyet 
 
 ' Thomas Wheatley, yeoman, of Bethnal Green ; his wife was buried May 4, 1624. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 89 
 
 Mylende Lymehouse for RadcHfe 
 
 ; M"" Thomas hogg Mr Geere Captaine Beast 
 M' Jo Newet M'" More Edward dalton 
 
 The 24*^ apprill 1620 
 Awditors appointed to Awdet the accompts for the yeare 
 
 ' "RadcHfe ...{^. ?f„'„« ^leltlAuditors for ,6,9 
 
 Lymehouse ...|M:Ma=||- 
 
 „ . (M' henrye dethick 
 
 popler -{M'ThoComyns 
 
 ^ '"[Mihell gysbye 
 
 Geo. Gouldman Vicca'^ Mathew Woodcott^ 
 
 G. Dethick Robert Rickman 
 
 Edw: Dalton Jo. Dauis 
 
 John Moore Richard Nottingham 
 
 Ro: Kayll Edward Chandler 
 
 Jo, NeWETT AsTXEN BaDECOK {mark) 
 
 T. Best Mychell Gisbe 
 
 M Geere 
 
 It is ordered that ffor the new Buildinge of the house for 
 the meetinge of the vestrie men in the churchyearde, that 
 the some of thirtye (stx^) fyve pounds (eight shillings one 
 penny) shalbe payde out of suche monnyes as are gathered 
 by the churchwardens vnto M' phillips and M' ffuller for this 
 yeare as also the some of tenn pounds tenn shillings vnto 
 Richard Nottingham for so muche dew vnto him uppon his 
 
 * Mathew Woodcot, mariner, of Limehouse, appears here for the la'^t time ; his wife, Joan, 
 was buried June 24, 1617, and he himself three years later, on October 23, 1620. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 ' The words in italics are crossed out. 
 
 12 
 
9° 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 accompt for so muche monny by him layd out which is on 
 the whole xlvj'^ xviij^ in wytnes of the same we haue put to 
 
 o'' hands. 
 
 Geo Gouldman 
 Gilbert Dethick. 
 Roger Gunston 
 Ro: Kayll. 
 
 T. Best 
 Edw Dalton 
 Mychell Gisbe 
 John Moore 
 
 Vestrie hous ... 
 
 mor a reste dew to] 
 M"" fuller for monny j- 
 dew for the church j 
 
 To M-" fuller for the] 
 
 vestri Hous J 
 
 To M^ Phillip for the] 
 
 vestrie house 
 To IVf fuller morl 
 
 vppon the church ] 
 
 accompt 
 
 29. 07. 
 07 o 
 
 36. 08. I 
 
 21. 
 
 10. 
 
 17- 
 
 7 
 
 36. 8. ] 
 
 Paid to Richard Phillips in pt of the] 
 former somme of 7. 17. 2^ J 
 
 6. 17. 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house in the Church on 
 Munday January the fifetenth 1620 for the electing and 
 chusing of one Churchwarden for the Hamlet of Limehouse 
 the said Hamlet wanting one by reason of the death of 
 John Moore late elected churchwarden for the said Hamlet, 
 was chosen to serue out the yeare present acording to the 
 
 ^ A few words follow here which have for the most part been cut away when the MS. was 
 rebound. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 91 
 
 Canons and Constitutions Ecclialt Richard Phillips^ of Lime- 
 house 
 
 Geo Gouldman. Vicar Edw: Edgeworthe Curat 
 
 Geo Marshall Thomas Hogg 
 
 nlch^ diggens john ffuller 
 
 Robert Rickman Mighell Geere 
 
 Wilt IvEY Edw. Dalton 
 
 John Greaves Mychell Gisbe 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house of Tuesday Aprill 
 the third 162 1 being Tuesday in Easter weeke for the 
 electing of Church officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case prouided, were chosen Churchwardens 
 these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare folowing 
 in the office of Churchwardens from the feast of the Annun- 
 cition of the virgin Mary in the yeare 162 1 as foloweth. 
 for RatclifTe M"" John Crane 
 for Limehouse M' Richard Phillips 
 for Popler. Thomas Eliot 
 
 for Mile end. S'' John Lee, Knight 
 
 Elected for Sidemen att the same vestry and meeting for 
 the same yeare. 
 
 for Ratcliffe W"" Joburne.2 
 
 for Limehouse. W"" Simonds. 
 
 for Popler. Tho: Lawes. 
 
 for Mileend. Tho: Wheady. 
 
 1 Richard Phillips. In the Marriage Register, 1609-1639, at the beginning, is the following 
 interesting note. ' This book was bought by M' Rich"" Philips, Churchwarden, Ano 1612. 
 Also hee and M' Gisby built new of their owne chardges the wcste Church porch of bricke 
 & stone. He boughte also a new bible & a great parchment book for Christninges besides 
 many other things. He deserveth great comendacons.' He was a yeoman of Limehouse, and 
 deputy churchwarden for Mr. Richard March. The porch above alluded to was the Tuscan 
 monstrosity which may be seen in many old illustrations of the church, but disappeared early 
 in this century. See the Frontispiece. 
 
 * Wm. Joburne was a baker of Ratcliffe : he later became a vestryman and even church- 
 warden (1633 and 1634), which is unusual promotion for a sidesman, though it is paralleled in 
 the case of Thos. Hartlie, see pp. 100, 117. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 12 2 
 
92 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Elected also for Auditors at the same vestry and meeting 
 for the churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed, together 
 w*'' the minister according to the Cannon. 
 
 for RatcHffe for Limehouse 
 
 Mr Rofet Kayle. Mr Michaell Geere 
 
 Mr Thomas Best Mr John Graues. 
 
 for Popler. for Mile end. 
 
 Mr Henry Dethick John Fuller 
 
 Mr Thomas Comins. Michaell Gisby. 
 
 Also It is ordered and decreed at the said vestry and 
 meting that all those monies w"'' hereafter shalbe collected 
 and gathered at the communion table commonlie called mony 
 for the poore shall from time to time and at all times ensuing 
 immediatelie after any such collection made be put into the 
 chest in the vestry house and that immediatelie the said chest 
 be brought into the said vestrie house in the church that the 
 said monies so collected may be thereinto put from time to 
 time and other things that by the Canons of the Church are to 
 be there reserued & kept. 
 
 Itm, it is also ordered att the said 
 vestry that whereas there is behind 
 and vnpaid to the Keper of the 
 Regester bookes the summe of 4^^ for 
 two yeares last past vizt xl" p annu, 
 w*'^ summe of xl^ p annu was formerlie 
 
 paid from time to time by the Church- Geo Gouldman Vicca'' 
 warden of Ratcliffe, that therefore the Edw: Edokworthe 
 said 4^' shalbe immediatelie paid vnto Curat: 
 the said Keper of the Regesters by the T. Best 
 said Churchwarden of Ratcliffe and Thomas Hogg 
 the said summe of xl^ yearlie to the J. Newett 
 same end and purpose to be yearlie John Greaves ■ 
 paid as before and at the time before Mychell Gis3E 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 93 
 
 vsed by the churchwarden of Ratch'fife Richard Philips {mari) 
 for the time being./ John ffuller 
 
 Itm. it is then ordered and decreed W™ Hiat [mart) 
 
 that widow Croft shall haue and enioy 
 the chamber in the church yard 
 wherein mother Loxlie deceased latlie 
 dwelled, during the time that she shall 
 well and orderlie & quietlie demeane 
 her selfe. 
 
 Itm at the said vestry were chosen 
 for vestry men for the Hamlet of Geo Gouldman Vicca'" 
 Limehouse, M' Michaell Meriall.i T Best 
 M' Walter Whiting,^ Mr W^.Cock^ Thomas Hogg 
 M"^ John Bennet.* And for the Jo. Newett^ 
 hamlet of Mile end M'' Hum fry John Greaves 
 Robinson^ of Bednalgreene./ 
 
 Geo Gouldman Edw. Edgeworthe Curat : 
 T. Best John Greaves 
 
 Jo. Newett Mychell Gisbe 
 
 Thomas Hogg W"* Hiat [mark) 
 
 • Michael Merriall is best known to fame by the monument which he erected to the 
 memory of his mother-in-law, which still is to be seen in Stepney Church. The monument 
 contains three kneeling figures ; above, Elizabeth Startute, with this inscription : ' In memory of 
 Elizabeth, widow of Richard Startute, citizen & fishmonger of London, who had issue by 
 him 3 sons & four daughters. After 16 years spent with him remaining 34 years his widow : 
 In Life and Death a constant example of true vertue, and sweetly slept in the Lord, Dec. 5, 
 1620, ^tat. suse 74.' Below are the figures of Merriall and his wife, with this inscription : 
 ' Captain Michael Merriall & Clare, his wife, eldest daughter of the abovenamed Elizabeth 
 Startute, erected this monument as a testimony of hir virtu & their lov. This life is a 
 wareart. Lord Jesus, come quickly. Rev. 20.' 
 
 ^ Walter Whiting was a Captain in the East India Company's Service, and in June, 1625, 
 received a ' gratification ' of A20. — State Papers, Colonial, E. I.C. 
 ' William Cock was buried August 23, 1625. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 * Mr. John Bennet, of Limehouse, mariner and waterman, was twice married at least, viz., 
 on March 9, 162^, to Margaret Matthews, and on November i6, 1631, to Jane Thwaites, 
 widow, of Ratcliffe. He was buried March 2, 1638. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Humphrey Robinson, a merchant of Bethnal Green, an original member and constantly 
 on the Committee of the East India Company, and very busy in all their affairs. — State. 
 Papers, Colonial, E.I.C. 
 
 " John Newett was a merchant of Mile End, who was drowned from the ship London as 
 she lay at Ratcliffe, and was buried August 4, 1632. — Stepney Registers. 
 
94 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Munday Julij 9 
 162 1 It was ordered that forasmuch as there was a want of 
 an Auditor in the Hamlet of Ratcliife by reason of some 
 extraordinarie occasions that hindred one formerlie chosen, 
 that therefore Mr Thomas Best & Mr Thomas Milton were 
 apointed to auditt the account of Mr Roger Gunston late 
 churchwarden for the said Hamlett of Ratcliffe. 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Curat: william Cocke 
 
 Nycholas dyggens John crane 
 
 Edw. Dalton John ffuller 
 Rychard Nottingham 
 
 1 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Wednesday 
 Januarij 23. 162 1 It was ordered and decreed for the auditing 
 of Mr Gunstons account that Edward Edgeworthe Curate, 
 Mr Thomas Best, M' John Dauies, M'' Richard Nottingha 
 M'' Edward Dalton should repaire vnto his house and there 
 in respect of his infirmitie to auditt and receiue his account 
 and after the account so audited and taken to bring the same 
 account into the vestry house to be perused and alowed by the 
 vestry men. 
 
 2 Itm It is likewise ordered and decreed that M'' John 
 Newett shall haue warning geven him by the Churchwarden 
 of Mile end to bring in his account into the vestryhouse on 
 Tuesday ffebruarij 5° att one of the Clock in the afternoone 
 of the same day to be perused and audited by the vicar and 
 vestrymen 
 
 3 Itm. yt is likewise ordered and decreed that M'' Richard 
 Philips shall call for the account of M"^ Raffe Bradshaw late 
 churchwarden deceased and bring them vnto the vestry house 
 to be perused and allowed by the vicar, and vestrymen. And 
 also that Mr Richard Philips shall bring in the accounts of 
 such monies as he receiued in the Hamlett of Limehouse for 
 the yeare wherein M"^ John Moore deceased was church- 
 warden, and collected by the said Richard Philips, and both 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 95 
 
 these on Tuesday ffebuarij 5° att the time aforenamed to be 
 perused audited and alowed by the vicar & vestrymen, 
 
 4 Itm yt is also then ordered and decreed that the church- 
 wardens w"* now are nor the churchwardens w"'' hereafter 
 shalbe elected for the time being shall not att any time here- 
 after in the weeke called Rogacon weeke for the three dayes 
 w"^ they walke the perambulacon expend upon their dinners 
 in those three daies aboue the summe of eight pounds. But 
 if they or any of them shall dispend or lay out aboue the 
 said summe of eight pounds yt shalbe at his or theire 
 proper costs and charges and out of his or theire owne purse. 
 And yt is also ordered that the said eight pounds shalbe 
 annuallie thus expended viz* Limehouse on Munday to haue 
 the allowance of forty shillings for expence Ratcliffe on 
 Tuesday three pounds for expence Mile end and Popler on 
 Wednesday three pounds for theire expence w"'* maketh the 
 said full summe of eight pounds so formertie alowed. 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca'' Henry Dethick 
 
 Edw. Edgeworthe Curat: Mychell Meryall 
 John ffuller 
 
 John Crane 
 Thomas ellet 
 Richard Philips 
 
 by his mark 
 T. Best 
 
 Jo West 
 ^, , To, Dauis 
 ^^"•■"h- WILLIAM Cock 
 
 wardens. 
 
 Jo Bennett 
 Richard Nottingham 
 
 At a vestrye howlden in the newe vestry howse on Tuesday 
 the 5* of ffebruary 1621 Assembled together for theordringe 
 of those things were necessary for the Church and the well 
 governinge of the same were determened and decreed these 
 things in sueinge 
 
 Itm. it is ordered & decreed at the sayede vestrie and 
 meetinge that the Pewes in the midell of the Churche and 
 Towards the South Runinge all alonge by the midell He of the 
 
96 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Church shalbe made newe accordinge to the newe pewes 
 formerlie vnder the gallery 
 
 Itm. that the Roofe over the vestry in the Church shalbe 
 altred and layed otherwayes, whearby the twoe wyndowes 
 wch ar damned vpp maye be opened to give light to the 
 Church. 
 
 Itm that the pewes vpon the north syde of the Churche 
 from the Est end to the ptisclon of the Chancell shalbe made 
 newe acording to those of the other syde of sayede Chancell. 
 And the rest from thence to the northe dore be in some suffi- 
 cient & convenyent maner repared. 
 
 Itm for theffectinge & pforeminge of thiese things and 
 the defrayinge of thiese things, one whole years taxe of 
 Puege monye. And the sayede taxe to be made & rated by 
 the Chui'ch wardens Joyndy to gether and to be levied and 
 imposed Accordinge to Assecmente made by the Churche 
 wardens vpon the pewes 
 
 And also that all the oute landlords that howlds lands that 
 the tennants shal paye a grote An acco'' towards the leadinge 
 and reppare of the Churche. 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca'' John Crane 
 
 Nic° DiGGENS Thomas Hogg 
 
 John Greaves William Cock 
 
 T Best Jo: Dauis 
 
 John ffuller Richard Nottingham 
 
 Richard Phillips (mark) John Bennett 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on ffriday Aprill 26 
 1622 being friday in Easter weeke for the electing of Church 
 officers according to the Canons of the Church in this case 
 prouided were chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter 
 named and elected againe to serue for the yeare folowing in 
 the Office of Churchwardens according to the Custome of the 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 97 
 
 pish viz*ffrom the feast of Th' Annunciacon of the virgin Mary 
 in the yeare 1622 
 
 for Ratcliffe Mr John Crane 
 
 for Limehouse M"" Richard Philips 
 
 for Popler M' Thomas EHott 
 
 for Mile end Mr John ffuUer, for S' John Lee. 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue for the said yeare att 
 
 the said vestry & meeting whereof three remaine chosen 
 againe 
 
 for Ratcliffe W" Joburne 
 
 for Limehouse W™ Simonds 
 
 for Popler Tho: Law 
 
 for Mile end W™ Hay ward. 
 
 Elected also for Auditors att the same vestry and meeting 
 for the Churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed together 
 w*** the minister according to the Canon.; 
 
 for Ratcliffe for Limehouse 
 
 Mr Dalton Mr Steuens 
 
 M"" Dauies M' Bennet 
 
 for Popler for Mile end 
 
 Mr Gilb: Dethick Mr Hogge. 
 
 Mr John West M' Gisby. 
 
 It is also ordered and decreed that toward the satisfieng 
 of the Joyner for his worke performed and to be performed, 
 and for the doing and performing of other worke about the 
 Church euery Inhabitant in the pish who is rated and 
 assessed to the poore shall paye vnto the Churchwardens one 
 third part of such assessm* and so much mony as shalbe 
 proportionable to the said third part, and all outdwellers 
 occupieng land in the said pish to pay accordinglie, to be 
 
98 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 gathered and collected by the Churchwardens and Sidemen 
 now formerlie elected 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca' Gilbert Dethick 
 
 Edw. Edgeworthe T. Best 
 
 Curat: Edw: Dalton 
 
 Jo: Dauis Edward Steuens 
 
 WILLIAM Cocke Jn° Bennett 
 
 Thomas Hogg Mychell Gisbe 
 
 John ffuller John crane 
 
 Thomas ellet Richard Philips by his marke 
 
 W™ Hiatt by his marke Humfrej Robinson 
 
 ffebruary 2 1622 
 At a vestrie holden in the vestry house on Sunday ffebruarie 
 the second 1622 whereas diuers vestry men were wanting- for 
 the hamlett of Mile end and Bednalgreene. It was ordered 
 that these persons hereafter named should be held and 
 reputed for vestry men for the said hamletts in the- supplie 
 of those were wanting, Mr Nicholas Crispe Mr Ellis Eliott 
 Mr W"' James Mr John Frend & M^ Walter Cooke.^ 
 
 Also for the Hamlett of Popler for to supplie the want of 
 vestry men were chosen these persons folowing Mr Thomas 
 Blathwayt and Mr George Cullimer^ 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Curat. John West 
 
 Edw: Dalton Jn° Bennett 
 
 Roger Gunston Richard Phillipes (mari) 
 
 Mychell Merryall John ffuller 
 
 William Cock John crane 
 
 Tho: Comines Thomas ellet 
 
 ^ Walter Coolce, a Master-assistant of the Navy, and a Master of Trinity House. — State 
 Papers, Domestic. 
 
 ' George Cullimer was a draper of Poplar. In 1614 he applied for an appointment in the 
 East India Company's service, and is commended for a very honest and sufficient man : is 
 objected to ' only for this exception,' being a married man ; but the Company promise to 
 ' entertain him if he brings some of his wife's friends to speak for him.' After all, however, 
 the Company decided not to employ him as their factor or agent, and ordered the reasons for 
 their decision to be kept secret. His wife was buried July 16, 1625. — State Papers, Colonial, 
 E.I.C. ; Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEiY PARISH. ,99 
 
 ffebruaty 9 1622 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday 
 ffebruarij 9° 1622 the motion for the erecting of a new 
 pulpitt w*^ a seat for the Reader convenient thereto acording 
 to a modell presented to the said vestry is liked and alowed 
 of by the said vestrieman so assembled and It is ordered and 
 decreed in the said vestry that the said pulpit & seat shalbe 
 decentlie sett vp & finished in substantiall maner in or nere 
 the place where the seat where the Reader of diuine seruice 
 now sitteth standeth att the charge of the whole pish and to 
 be done w*^ as much convenient speed as may be by the 
 Churchwardens. 
 
 Edw. Edgeworthe Walter Cooke 
 
 Curat: ibm W™ James 
 
 RoBT Kayll Rychard Nottingham 
 
 Edw: Dalton Tho: Comines 
 
 Jo: Dauies Richard Phillipes {mark) 
 
 Thomas Hogg John ffuller 
 
 William Cock John crane 
 
 John West Thomas ellet 
 
 Mychell Merryall 
 
 Aprill 14 1623 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Munday 
 Aprill 14 1623, being Munday in Easter weeke for the 
 electing of Church officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case prouided were chosen Churchwardens 
 these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare ensuing 
 in the Office of Churchwardens according to the custome of 
 the pish, vizt from the feast of Th' Annunciacon of the virgin 
 Mary in the yeare 1623 
 
 for Ratclifife Mr Edward Dalton 
 for Limehouse Mr John Bennett 
 for Popler Thomas Railton 
 
 for Mile end . ,Mr Walter Cooke 
 
 13—2 
 
lOO 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to seme for the said yeare, att the 
 
 said vestry & meeting 
 
 for Ratcliffe 
 for Limehouse 
 for Popler 
 for Mile end 
 
 Thomas Hartly^ 
 Daniell Bexley^ 
 John Watts 
 John Robinson 
 
 Elected also for Auditors att the said vestry and meeting 
 for the Churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed together 
 w**^ the minister according to the Canon./ 
 
 for Limehouse 
 
 for Ratcliffe 
 
 Mr Gunston 
 Mr Dauies 
 
 for Popler 
 
 Mr Gilbert Dethick 
 Mr John West 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca'' 
 Edw: Edgeworthe 
 
 Curat. 
 Richard Nottingham 
 Mychell Meryall 
 John Greaves 
 Joh: Frend 
 John Crane^ 
 Thomas ellet 
 John ffuller 
 
 Captaine Geere 
 Mr Graues 
 
 for Mile end 
 
 Mr Hogge 
 Mr Gisby 
 
 Richard Philipes by 
 
 his marke 
 Ro: Kayll 
 Edw: Dalton 
 Mighell Geere. 
 Roger Gunston/ 
 Jo: Dauis 
 Jn** Bennett 
 Thomas Hogg 
 Walter Cooke 
 
 ' Thomas Hartly, yeoman of Ratcliffe, became later churchwarden to fill the place vacated 
 by Mr. Robert Bell, and his half year of office was productive of much quarrelling (see below, 
 p. 117). His wife was buried October 20, 1630. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Daniel Bexley was a shipwright of Limehouse. On February 13, 1625, he married the 
 widow of Nicholas Neltrapp (see above, p. 71), and he was buried December 6, 1628. — 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ The last appearance of John Crane, pulley-maker of Ratcliffe Highway. He married 
 Hester Cheston May io, 1588, and was buried November 8, 1625. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. loi 
 
 Jan 21 1623 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Wednsday 
 Jan: 21 1623 It was ordered and decreed that whereas 
 certaine vestrymen are wanting in the Hamlett of Ratcliffe 
 & elsewhere in the pish, by the death of some therefore 
 were elected and chosen for vestrymen in their stead Mr John 
 Bridges of Stepney and M'' Robert Salmon^ of Whitehorse 
 street, and for Popler Mr W'" Burrell, and for Mile end 
 Mr George Conquest^ and Mr Robert BelP of Ratcliffe 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca'' Jn" Bennett 
 
 Ro: Kayl Thomas Raylton (mark) 
 
 Edw: Dalton. Jo: Dauis 
 
 M. Geere, Tho Blathwayte 
 
 T Best Tho: Comines 
 
 Henry Dethick Walter Whiting 
 
 Walter Cook John West 
 
 WILLIAM Cocke 
 
 Februarij 9° 1623. 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Munday 
 ffebruary 9* 1623 It was then & there ordered and decreed 
 that the Churchwardens shall w* all convenient speed call 
 
 ' Robert Salmon, of Ratcliffe, was a merchant, and a prominent member and director of 
 the East India Company, constantly busy in the management of their afiairs, and evidently 
 a man of much substance and repute. In 1618 he petitioned the Privy Council for redress 
 against the Dutch, claiming >f 900 damages, and four years later he seems to have got some 
 satisfaction, as the Dutch repaid him for his losses the sum of 3,000 guilders, equal to ;^2So. 
 He was connected with the Vassall family, by marrying Joan, daughter of John Vassal!, 
 February 26, l&J^ (see above, p. 16). Later he became one of the Masters of the Trinity 
 House. — State Papers, Domestic and Colonial. 
 
 2 George Conquest, a merchant of Mile End Green, and a petitioner for the Adventurers 
 Company. — State Papers, Colonial. 
 
 " Robert Bell was one of the earliest and chief members of the East India Company, and 
 very active in the direction of its affairs. He left the parish in 1626, rather in disgrace with 
 the vestry, but elsewhere his reputation continued to increase bolh at Court and in the busi- 
 ness world, and he was knighted in 1630. He had done good service in building ships for 
 the navy and in crushing piracy, while at Court he had been appointed a gentleman of the 
 Privy Chamber, and in 1619 had the privilege of lending £900 to Prince Charles.— State 
 Papers, Domestic and Colonial, E.I.C. 
 
102 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 vpon the Executors of Roger Gunston late Churchwarden 
 of Ratcliffe and the Executors of John Newett late Church- 
 warden of Milend to bring in the accounts of the said 
 Roger Gunston and John Newett to be examined by the 
 vestry, w"*^ if they the sayd Executors shall refuse to do, then 
 yt is likewise ordered that the Churchwardens shall take such 
 course by law as may be fittest to compell the said Executors 
 to produce bring forth and deliuer vp into the vestry the said 
 accounts. 
 
 It is also further then ordered and decreed that the Church- 
 wardens that now are shall satisfie and pay vnto Robert 
 Lenton Joyner all such monies as are due vnto him ether in 
 respect of the Pulpitt or of any pewes formerlie made in the 
 Church by him being the summe of xx^, and if yt shall 
 happen that the said Churchwardens shall expend more then 
 by pewage mony or other duties shall be receaued by them, 
 then yt is ordered that the succeeding churchwardens shall 
 satisfie and discharge vnto them all such monies as vpon 
 their seuerall accounts audited shall remaine due vnto them 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca'' Thomas Raylton (mark) 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Ro: Kayll 
 
 Curat: Joh: Frend 
 
 Edw: Dalton William Cock 
 
 Walter Coke Richard Philips (mark) 
 
 Jn° Bennett John ffuller 
 
 March 30 1624 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday 
 march 30, 1624 being tuesday in Easterweeke for the 
 electing of Church Officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case prouided, were chosen churchwardens 
 these persons herevnder named and elected againe to serue 
 for the yeare folowing in the office of Churchwardens according 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 103 
 
 to the Custome of the pish vizt from the feast of the Annun- 
 ciacon of the virgin Mary in the yeare 1624 
 
 for Ratcliffe Mr Edward Dalton 
 
 for Limehouse Mr John Bennett 
 
 for Popler Thomas Raylton 
 
 for Mile end Mr Walter Cooke. 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen anew according to the custome of 
 the pish these persons ensuing 
 
 for Ratcliffe Thomas Hartly 
 
 for Limehouse W™ Simonds for Daniell Bexley 
 
 for Popler John Watte 
 
 for Mile end John Robinson^ 
 
 Elected also for Auditors att the said vestry and meeting 
 for the Churchwardens account for the yeare passed together 
 w* the minister according to the Canon. 
 
 for Ratcliffe for Limehouse 
 
 Mr Thomas Best Mr W" Cocke 
 
 Mr Robt Salmon Mr Walter Whiting 
 
 for Popler for Milend 
 
 Mr Thomas Blaythwayt Mr Thomas Hogge 
 
 Mr George Cullimer Mr John ffrend 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vicca'' Ro: Salmon 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Jn° Bennett 
 
 Curat: Jo: Dauis 
 
 T. Best Walter Coke 
 
 Edw: Dalton William Cock 
 
 Aprill 29 1625 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday 
 Aprill 19 1625 being Tuesday in Easter weeke for the 
 Electing of Church officers according to the Canons of the 
 
 * John Robinson, yeoman of Mile End, was later appointed to the office of parish clerk 
 (see p. 109). He was buried on June 26, 1627.— Stepney Registers. 
 
104 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Church in that case made & prouided, were chosen Church- 
 wardens these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare 
 ensuing in the Office of Churchwardens acording to the custom 
 of the said pish vizt from the feast of Th' Annunciacon of the 
 virgin mary in the yeare 1625 
 
 for Ratchiife Mr Robert Bell, 
 
 for Limehouse Mr Richard Bromfeild^ 
 
 for Popler M" Henry Riuers^ 
 
 for Mile end M'' George Conquest. 
 
 Elected also for sidemen to serue for the said yeare att the 
 said vestry and meeting 
 
 for Ratcliffe Thomas Hartly. 
 
 for Limehouse William Beaton^ 
 
 for Popler Walter Mounford* 
 
 for Mile end John Robinson. 
 
 Elected also for Auditors att the said vestry & meeting, 
 for the Churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed together 
 w* the minister according to the Canon. 
 
 in Ratcliffe in Limehouse 
 
 M-- Tho Best M"^ W" Cock. 
 
 M' Robert Salmon M'' John Graues. 
 
 in Popler. in Mile end 
 
 M*^ Comins M' Tho Hogge. 
 
 M-^ Geo Cullimer M'' Jo ffrend. 
 
 Itm whereas there are certaine vestrymen wanting in the 
 hamlett of Limehouse, these persons folowing are elected & 
 
 ^ Richard Bromfeild, mariner of Limehouse, appears once or twice in the minutes of the 
 East India Company, partly in his capacity of churchwarden 1626 and 1627, and partly as a 
 private petitioner on behalf of his daughter, the widow of Captain Browne, who died in the 
 service of the Company. — State Papers, Colonial, E.I.C. 
 
 ^ Henry Rivers, mariner of Poplar. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 " William Beaton, mariner of Limehouse. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 " W^alter Mountfort, gent., of Poplar, married by license on September 27, 1624, Frances 
 Wund, of Poplar, widow. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 105 
 
 chosen in the said vestry to supplie the roome of vestry men. 
 vizt Mr Richard Bromfeild and Mr Anthony Touching^ 
 
 Itm. whereas great Inconvenience ariseth by reason of the 
 multiplieng of burialls in certaine places neere the church, 
 to the great annoyance of the pish and danger of future 
 infection, and for that there is space enough in other places 
 w*'' lesse inconvenience where fewer bodies have bene buried 
 It is therefore ordered & decreed by the vicar & vestrymen 
 then & there assembled, that the burialls hereafter and 
 graues hereafter to be digged by the sexton shalbe on the 
 north side of the Church begining at the Elmes and so to 
 range along westward by the pales and as neere as con- 
 venientlie may be not presuming to come or digge w^'^in 
 seauenteene yards of the church wall. Then those places 
 filled the graues are to be digged on the south side begining 
 at the east part so to range along westward by the mudwall 
 on the south pt of the Church yard kepeing tlie same distance 
 from the south wall of the church as was before prescribed 
 on the north side. And if the Sexton shall presume to digge 
 and bury any bodie or bodies w^'^in the places prohibited and 
 contrary to this former act & decree att any time or times 
 after this present vestry, that then the sexton shall be fined 
 for the said offences and breach of this decree, at the discretion 
 of the vicar and vestrymen. 
 
 Also att the said vestry and meeting, whereas Mary Oswell 
 and Elizabeth Scott of Ratcliffe are chosen to be searchers 
 of the dead bodies in the Hamlett of Ratclifie in case & 
 feare of Contagion of sicknes now suspected. And Joane 
 Hasaam and Rose Write of Liinehouse are chosen to be 
 searchers of the dead bodies in the Hamlett of Limehouse in 
 
 ^ Anthony Tutchin, 'of Limehouse, mariner,' was married at Stepney by license on 
 November 23, 1607, to Margaret Chapman, of Limehouse, widow. In 1625 he was in 
 command of a ship ' lent to the French.' In the year following he appears as a Master- 
 assistant of the Navy, and later as a Master of Trinity House. His name is found among 
 the Royal Commissioners on naval affairs in the report dated September 16, 1630. He was 
 buried at Stepney, January 27, 1643.— State Papers, Domestic ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 14 
 
io6 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Case aforesaid It is ordered and decreed att the said vestry 
 that the said Mary & Elizabeth in the hamlett of RatcHfife & 
 the said Joane & Rose in the hamlett of Limehouse shall 
 receiue the summe of foure pence a peece by the householder 
 for the said vew and serch, and if the householders be not 
 able to satisfie & pay yt, then the said summe of foure pence a 
 peece is to be paid by the Churchwardens or Collectors for the 
 poore for the time being 
 
 Itm whereas other Hamletts in o'' said pish haue not yett 
 any searchers named by the order & consent of the said 
 vestry yt is decreed that such searchers as shalbe hereafter 
 chosen in the said Hamletts so wanting shall performe such 
 maner of seruice and receiue in theire seuerall hamletts and 
 in the same maner the aforesaid reward for their paines. 
 
 Geo Gould man John Greaves 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthk John Bridges 
 
 Curat ibm John ffuller 
 
 Gilbert Dethick. Rich Philips {mark) 
 
 M. Geere. Joh: Frend 
 
 Ro: Kayll Edw: Dalton 
 
 T. Best Tho: Raylton {mari) 
 
 Jn° Bennett Rychard: Nottingham 
 Walter Coke 
 
 Julij 24 1625 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday Julij 24 
 1625 It was ordered and decreed that whereas there was 
 formerlie made a decree that the Sexton should bury none 
 w'^'in 17 yards of the church wall, now for as much as the 
 multitude of burialls increaseth yt is ordered that the Sexton 
 may hereafter bury in any place in the church yard prouided 
 that he bury none w^Hn 7 yards of the church wall ether on 
 the south or north side or at the east and west end of the 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 107 
 
 church but to containe himself w*in the places w%ut that 
 libertye & measure. 
 
 Edw Edgeworthe. Curat ibm henry Rivers 
 
 Jn° Bennett John Bridges 
 
 Thomas Hogg John Greaves 
 
 Geo: Conquest John ffuller 
 
 R Bromfild. ' Thomas ellet 
 
 August 7 1625 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday 
 August 7** 1625 It was ordered & decreed in maner and 
 forme folowing that whereas certaine dwelling about Stepney 
 take vp on them to be common bearers of such as die of the 
 pestilence and other diseases, and that w*'*out order and 
 deputation and further do exact cruelly of men for the bear- 
 ing of the dead to the ground, such summes of mony as are 
 no wayes sufferable. It is therefore ordered that the said 
 bearers may yet continue theire said bearing as formerlie 
 prouided that they content themselues w*^ such satisfaccon 
 and paymt as in this order is expressed. If they shall beare 
 any bodie from Ratclifife or any part thereof, from Limehouse 
 or any part thereof from Mile end or Bednalgreene or any 
 part therof then to haue for the bearing of the bodies of such 
 as are not able to pay for themselues foure pence a peece, 
 for such as are able to pay for themselues sixe pence a peece 
 and for any that shall make vse of the Church Cloth eight 
 pence a peece, and if yt be a bodie that two of them may 
 cary, then onlie two to haue the alowance for that bodie & 
 no more: But if they shall cary any bodie from Popler or 
 Black wall or any part thereof, from wentworth street Peti- 
 coat lane Spittlefeilds Cock lane Collier Row or any part 
 thereof then to haue for the bearing of the bodies of such as 
 are not able to pay for themselues six pence a peece, for such 
 as are able to pay for themselues eight pence a peece, and 
 for any that shall make vse of the Church cloth twelue pence 
 
 14—2 
 
io8 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 a peece, and if yt be a bodie as formerlie that two of them 
 may cary, then onlie two to haue the alowance for that bodie 
 & no more. It is further ordered that from henceforth to 
 the end thay may be knowne to be common bearers of those 
 who die of the plague, they shall go w*^out cloakes and cary 
 red wands in theire hands that euery one may take notice of 
 them. And yt is also ordered that the Sexton shall forthw*** 
 prouide red wands for them and by the apointment of the 
 vestry to deliuer them vnto them that they may carie and order 
 themselues according to this decree.^ 
 
 Edw: Edgeworth Curat: John Bridges 
 
 RoBERTT Bell John Greaves 
 
 Jo: Dauis R Bromfild. 
 
 Geo: Conquest John ffuller 
 
 October 9 1625 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday Octob'' 
 the ninth whereas the Hamlett of Limehouse is destitute of 
 a Sideman by the death of W™ Beaton formerlie chosen 
 Sideman for the said Hamlett, yt is now ordered and decreed 
 that william Simonds of Limehouse shall serue as sideman 
 & execute the said office for the residue of the yeare ensuing. 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Rychard: Nottingham 
 
 Curat: ibm Thomas Hogge 
 
 Robertt Bell John Greaves 
 
 Geo: Conquest henrij Rivers 
 John Bridges 
 
 January 23 1625 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Munday 
 January 23 1625 for the electing and Chusing of a pish 
 Gierke for the pish Church of Stepney, the said Clerkeship 
 being then void by the death of Robert Mason^ late Clearke 
 of the pish of Stepney aforesaid, was elected and Chosen by 
 
 1 Robert Mason, parish clerk, was buried October 23, 1625. — Stepney Registers'. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 109 
 
 the most pt of the vestry then assembled, in the presence 
 and by the Approbacon & consent of doctor Gouldman vicar 
 of the said pish, John Robinson of Mileend to execute and 
 performe the said office of pish Gierke from the said election 
 during his naturall life (yf he shall well and honestlie therein 
 demean himselfe) and to haue and enioy all the emolum*^ and 
 profitts thereto in anywise appertayning. And in testimony 
 therof the said vicar and vestrymen haue herevnto theire 
 hands subscribed 
 
 Geo Gout,dman Vica"^ Edw: Dalton 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Ro: Salmon 
 
 curat Jo: Dauis 
 
 T. Best Geo: Conquest Church- 
 
 Thomas Hogg warden 
 
 Walter Coke R Bromfild. 
 
 John Bridges henry Rivers Church- 
 
 wiLLiAM Cocke ward 
 
 John ffuller Rychard: Nottingham 
 
 WILLIAM HYATTE {mari) JOH: FrEND 
 
 Also att the said vestry yt was agreed and concluded that 
 William Ambrose^ of Stepney shall keepe and engrosse the 
 Register bookes for M-ariages Christnings and Burialls and to 
 receaue therefore yearlie the iust summ of fortie shillinges to 
 be paid by the Churchwardens according as formerlie they 
 haue paid yt vnto the Keeper of the said Registry to w"** we 
 are content to subscribe our hands att the request of doctor 
 Gouldman our vicar, 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica'' John ffuller 
 Ro: Kayl Joh: Frend 
 
 Edw Dalton william Cock 
 
 1 William Ambrose afterwards became parish clerk (see p. 121), and was buried February 28, 
 1637. He is described in the Burial Register as ' vir jjius et doctus '—a man of piety and 
 learning.— Stepney Registers. 
 
no MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 T. Best Thomas Hogge 
 
 RoBERTT Bell Rychard: Nottingham 
 
 Jn° Bennett John Bridges 
 
 Ro: Salmon William Hiett (mark) 
 
 Geo. Conquest R Bromfild. 
 Walter Coke 
 
 Itm Att the sayed vestry holden the said 23 of January It 
 was ordered and decreed that the foure Churchwardens for 
 the present being, together with diuers other of the Cheife 
 Inhabitants namelie Mr John Bridges, Mr Thomas Best, 
 Mr Edward Dalton, Mr John Fuller shall immediatelie with 
 all convenient speed take order for the spedy purchasing of 
 one parcell of ground for to make a churyard or place of 
 Buriall, and likewise prouide that the now Churchyard be 
 spedilie earthed ouer for the preuention of such noysome 
 sents as may arise from the graues and bodies there buried, 
 Also It is thought fitt that together w*"^ the Churchwardens 
 and the foure abouenamed Mr Henry Dethicke of Popler 
 Mr John Bennett, Mr William Cock, of Limehouse Mr Walter 
 Cooke of Mile end or any three, foure or hue of them shall 
 ioyne together for the spedie execution & fulfulling of this 
 decree 
 
 Itm. yt is agreed that whereas the Curate, Clerke & 
 Sexton do hold certaine Roomes ouer the vestry house in 
 the Churchyard the said romes vpon the death and decease 
 of them or any of them shall for euer after remaine vnto the 
 pish to the vse of the poore, prouided that during the time 
 that they shall enioy the said Roomes they and euery of 
 them shall manetaine and repaire the said Roomes att theire 
 owne proper costs and charges. But this decree shall not 
 extend to confirme the said Roomes vnto the Curate Clerke 
 & Sexton vnles they and euery of them do continue in the 
 said places and offices, and in case they shall leaue theire 
 present offices, then this graunt made vnto them to be merelie 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. m 
 
 void & the said Roomes to remaine to the pish to the vse 
 aforesaid and in maner aforesaid. 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica*^ Thomas Hogg 
 
 T Best Joh: Frend 
 
 RoBERTT Bell Jn° Bennett 
 
 Ro; Salmon henry Rivers 
 
 Geo: Conquest R Bromfild 
 
 Henry Dethick John Bridges 
 
 January 30 1625 
 
 It was ordered and decreed in the vestry house the day 
 and yeare aboue written that whereas there was an order 
 formerlie made for the spedy purchasing of a new peece of 
 ground for a Churchyard or place of Buriall & for the 
 grauelling ouer of the old Churchyard and to that end there 
 were diuers persons nominated together w*'^ the church- 
 wardens to se the performance & execution of the same. 
 Now forasmuch as the same business requireth more speedie 
 fullfilling It is thought fitt & so decreed that the Church- 
 wardens or any two or three of them together w*'' any two, 
 three, or foure of the persons in the former order named 
 shall vpon friday next being the third day of the moneth of 
 fifebruary next att two of the Clock in the afternoone meet 
 together to determine and prouide for such place of ground 
 where sand and grauell may be digged that the churchyard 
 may be speedilie earthed ouer, and shall then conclude when 
 and att what times after to meet for the forwarding and more 
 speedie execution of the said worke. And likewise shall vse 
 the same Care & diligence for the spedie purchasing of a new 
 place of Buriall 
 
 Itm. yt is further ordered and decreed that the Church- 
 wardens shall bring in such monies as they haue receaued 
 any wayes for Church duties to be expended toward the 
 effecting the businesses aforenamed, and that within the 
 
112 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Compasse of such convenient time that the business by theyre 
 neglect suffer no hindrance 
 
 itm whereas there is a want of diuers vestrymen in the 
 seuerall hamletts It is ordered & decreed that these persons 
 hereafter named shall be and supplie the place of vestry- 
 men in stead of those that are v/anting, in Limehouse, 
 Mr George Walker,^ in Popler Mr George Smith^ in Mile 
 end & Bednalgreene Mr Randolph Wetwood^ Mr Nicholas 
 Diggens* M'" W"* Palmer, Mr Edw Edgeworthe& Mr William 
 Pyatt^ 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica"" T. Best 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Edw: Dalton 
 curat: Thomas Hogg 
 
 Walter Coke Henrij Dethick 
 
 Jno Bennett John ffuller 
 
 George Walker John Bridges 
 
 Randall Wettwood R Bromfild 
 George Cullymer John Greaues 
 
 Thomas ellet Henry Rivers 
 
 William Hiat his Mychell Gisbe 
 
 marke Nicholas Dyckens 
 
 Joh: Fkend Anthony Tutchen 
 
 February 5 1625 
 
 It was ordered & decreed in the vestry house the day and 
 yeare first aboue written that (whereas there is a want of a 
 Sideman for the Hamlett of Mile end) Thomas Greene of 
 
 ^ George Walker, a mariner, and styled Captain in the Registers. 
 
 ^ George Smyth or Smith, gent., of Poplar, died in his second year of office as church- 
 warden, and was buried June 15, 1632. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 •■' Randall Wettwood was bom in 1580; is described as 'gentleman of Stepney,' and 
 married widow Anne Crofts by license, dated August II, 1640. — See Chester's Marriage 
 Licenses, where he is wrongly called Sandall Wettwood. 
 
 , * Nicholas Dyckens, probably a son of the older Nicholas Dickens or Diggins (see p. 25), 
 who disappears from the vestry in 1621, and is entered as ' gon ' by a later hand on p. 83. The 
 younger one continues as a member of the vestry up to 1643. 
 
 ^ William Pyott married Jane Weldon, of Limehouse. — See Visitation of Essex, 1634 ; 
 Harl. Soc, p. 473. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 113 
 
 Mile endgreene shall seme in the said Office of Sideman 
 
 during the residue of this yeare ensuing. 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica"" John Bridges 
 Edw: Edgeworth T Best 
 
 Thomas Hogg Edw: Dalton 
 
 Walter Coke Henry Dethick 
 
 Geo: Conquest J no Bennett 
 
 February 19 1625 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house the 19 day of 
 ffebruary in the yeare aforesaid, It was ordered and decreed 
 that all such monies as remaine in the hands of William 
 Culha sexton of the pish of Stepney arising by burialls or 
 otherwise and called by the name of Churchduties shall be 
 paid ouer into the hands of Richard Bromfeild, George Con- 
 quest and Henry Riuers Churchwardens for the time being, 
 to the end that the said Churchwardens may forthwith and 
 out of hand purchase & buy one peece of ground for to be 
 a place of Buriall or Churchyard in respect the old Church- 
 yard will afifoord no more convenient place of Buriall w^'^out 
 danger of Infection by reason of the noisomenes of the ground 
 there so opened by reason of so many bodies formerlie enterred 
 there 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica' Randall. Wettwood 
 Edw: Edgeworth henry Rivers church- 
 
 W BuRRELL warden 
 
 Ro. Salmon Thomas ellet 
 
 John West Gilbert Dethick 
 
 George Smyth Walter Coke 
 
 Geo: Conquest. George Walker 
 
 Churchwarden Joh: Frend 
 
 R Bromfield 
 
 Aprill 16 1626 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday 
 Aprill 16, 1626 being the first Sunday after Easter for the 
 
 15 
 
114 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Electing of Church Officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case made and prouided, were chosen Church- 
 wardens these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare 
 ensuing in the office of Churchwardens, elected againe accord- 
 ing to the Custome of the pish, vizt from the feast of Th' 
 Annunciaeon of the virgin mary in the yeare 1626 
 
 In Ratcliffe M"^ Robert Bell 
 
 In Limehouse M"" Richard Bromfeild 
 
 In Popler M'' Henry Riuers 
 
 In Mile end M'' Geo: Conquest 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue anew according to the 
 custome of the pish, for the yeare ensuing 
 
 In Ratcliffe Thomas Hartly 
 
 In Limehouse william Simonds • 
 
 In Popler william Hanford 
 
 In Milend Thomas Greene 
 
 Elected also for Auditors att the said vestry and meeting 
 for the Churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed together 
 w**" the minister according to the Canon 
 
 In Ratchffe In Limehouse 
 
 Mr Tho: Best Mr John Bennett 
 
 M"^ Edw: Dalton Mr John Graues 
 
 In Popler In Mile end 
 
 Mr John Fuller M' Walter Cooke 
 
 Mr Geo: Smith M' Thomas Hogge. 
 
 Itm. It is ordered and decreed that the aforesaid Auditors 
 when they haue perused and examined the forenamed church- 
 wardens acounts for the yeare passed shall before they approue 
 the same under theire hands tender and present the said 
 accounts of euery of the said Churchwardens to the vestry to 
 be there perused, examined, and approued and this to be per- 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 115 
 
 formed betweene this present day and the feast day of S* John 
 the Baptist next ensuing. 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe. curat: Walter Coke 
 
 W BuRRELL John Greaves 
 
 Thomas Hogg Anthony Tutchen 
 
 J NO Bennett Ro: Salmon 
 
 John ffuller John Bridges 
 
 Thomas ellet George Walker 
 
 T. Best George Smyth 
 
 Edw: Dalton George Cullymer 
 
 Aprill 30 1626 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday Aprill 30 
 1626 yt was decreed concluded & determined, that wheras 
 there was a former order decreeing that the Churchwardens 
 should bring in such monies as they haue receaued any 
 wayes for Church duties toward the earthing of the old 
 Churchyard and purchasing of a new w°^ is refused to be 
 performed by M"" Robert Bell who hath receaued (as Church- 
 warden of Ratcliffe) diuers and sundry summes of monyes 
 called by the name of Church duties whereby the intended 
 businesses haue a stop and hindrance, It is therefore 
 decreed that there shalbe a present sute commenced against 
 the said M"" Robert Bell in the high Commission Court accord- 
 ing to the order of the said Hono^i® Court, that thereby he 
 may be brought to do & performe that w'=^ shalbe iust & right 
 and that the intended businesses of the pish may haue the best 
 & speediest furtherance 
 
 Itm, yt is further decreed that whereas through the withold- 
 ing of the said monyes there is a common hurt and damage 
 ariseth to the whole pish, and so accounted and apprehended 
 by the vestry mett & assembled, yt is therefore decreed that 
 this common hurt shalbe taken as a common cause and the 
 Charges that shall arise by reason of the said suit shall be 
 defrayed out of a common purse 
 
 15—2 
 
ir6 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 lira, whereas we haue intreated W™ Culham the Sexton to 
 enter bond according to the Orders of the high Commission 
 Court that if the Articles propounded against the said 
 Mr Robert Bell shall not be proued then the said M'^ Bell 
 shall haue his Charges alowed from the said pish, we do 
 decree & order that the said William Culham shalbe saued 
 harmles and indemnified, and to that purpose It is also 
 ordered and decreed that all such monies as do come due 
 vnto the Church by breaking of the ground in the Church, by 
 knells w*^ the bells & for the black Clothes shalbe reserued 
 from time to time in the hands of the said Sexton towards the 
 defrayeng of the Charge of the intended suit and for the 
 sauing of himselfe indamnified.^ 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthk. John Bridges 
 
 Curat: John Greaves 
 
 Edw: Dalton John ffuller 
 
 Jn° Bennett Thomas ellet 
 
 George Walker George Cullymer 
 
 Walter Coke Randall Wettwood 
 
 June 4 1626 
 
 Whereas M"" Robert Bell was att Easter last in this present 
 yeare 1626 chosen and elected for churchwarden to serue in 
 the hamlet of Ratcliffe for his second yeare according to the 
 Custome of the pish and since hath appeared before the 
 Commissary to the Lord Bishop of London and hath made 
 faith that he was suddainlie to depart the pish of Stepney 
 and hath alreadie remoued all or the most pt of his good, 
 and household stuffe to go to Redrith where he hath taken an 
 house and that he entendeth to remoue his dwelling before 
 whitsontide next (w'^'' is alreadie done) and therevppon was 
 dismissed from the Court, and the pish apointed to Chuse 
 another Churchwarden in his stead : Att a vestry therefore 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 117 
 
 holden in the vestry house on Sunday June 4 1626, It was 
 ordered and decreed that Thomas Hartlie of Ratclifife shall 
 serue & execute the office of Churchwarden as deputie and 
 in the stead of Mr Robert Bell formerlie chosen for this 
 present yeare 1626, and that the said Thomas Hartlie as 
 Churchwarden shall presentlie gather vp such monies as are 
 any waies due in the Hamlett of Ratcliffe aforesaid by the 
 name of Clerkes wages and pewage mony for the yeare past 
 and ended, w"^ was the first yeare of Mr Bell being Church- 
 warden and remayneth vncoUected, and shall also ioyne w* 
 the other Churchwardens in the finishing and building vp of 
 the wall of the new Churchyard that yt may be spedilie pre- 
 pared for Consecration, and yt also agreed that whatsoeuer 
 shalbe expended about the said wall and fitting of the same 
 ground for consecration and for the consecration thereof by 
 the Churchwardens shalbe alowed againe out of the seuerall 
 hamletts and collections from thence and euery of them to be 
 collected and gathered. 
 
 Itm. att the same vestry and meeting William Wilkes of 
 Ratcliffe was chosen to serue in the office of Sideman for this 
 present yeare 1626 in the hamlett of Ratcliffe aforesaid 
 
 Itm yt is ordered that yt shalbe lawfull for Thomas 
 Hartlie to Receiue att the hands of any in the hamlet of 
 Ratcliffe what some or sommes of monie soeuer that any man 
 shall voluntarilie contribute or giue toward the fitting of the 
 new churchyard or any other charitable vse whatsoeuer, and 
 what shalbe so geuen to account for the same as in other 
 church duties to be receiued. 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe. Curat George Walker 
 
 T. Best John ffuller 
 
 Jo: Dauis Thomas ellet 
 
 J oh: Frend Edw: Dalton 
 
 Walter Coke John Bridges 
 
 Randall Wettwood Jn° Bennett 
 
ii8 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Sepr 29*** 1626 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on ffriday Sep- 
 tember 29*^ 1626 It was ordered by the vicar & vestry men 
 then & there assembled and decreed that whereas an order 
 was formerHe made That Thomas Harthe of Ratcliffe chosen 
 Churchwarden should demaund & receiue of euery the In- 
 habitants of Ratcliffe theire voluntary contributions toward 
 the fitting of the new Churchyard : It is now ordered & 
 decreed that the other Churchwardens of Limehouse, Mile- 
 end & Popler shall immediately demaund & collect in theire 
 seuerall Hamletts & euery the Inhabitants thereof such 
 summe and summes of mony as any the Inhabitants in the 
 said seuerall Hamletts shall voluntarilie conferre and bestow 
 toward the vse aforenamed and whatsoeuer shalbe by them so 
 receiued to account for the same as in other dutie belonging 
 to the Church & by them to be receaued. 
 
 Geo GouLDMAN Vica'' Geo: Conquest 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe. Jn" Benkett 
 
 T Best Randall Wettwood 
 
 Ro: Salmon Richard Bromfild 
 
 Walter Coke George Cullymer 
 
 John Bridges Thomas hartley 
 
 M^ that the day and yeare first aboue written there was 
 deliuered to the vestry as the free & voluntary gift of the 
 Companie of the Mercers toward the enclosing of the new 
 Churchyard and filling vp of the pond the iust summe of 
 fifeteene pound w"'' summe of fifteene pounds was deliuered 
 to Thomas Greene of Mile end greene in part of satisfaccon 
 for his worke performed about the Churchyard & filling of 
 the pond : in Testimony of w"'' receipt the said Thomas 
 Greene hath his hand subscribed the day & yeare first aboue 
 written. 
 
 Thomas "J" Greene 
 his marke 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. xxg 
 
 March 29 1627 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 March 29 1627 being Thursday in Easter weeke, for the 
 election of Churchofficers according to the Canons of the 
 church in that case made & prouided were chosen Church- 
 wardens these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare 
 ensuing in the Office of Churchwardens, elected according 
 to the Custome of the pish, vizt from the feast of Th' Annun- 
 ciation of the virgin Mary in the yeare 1627. 
 
 In Ratcliffe Mr John Clerke^ 
 
 In Limehouse M'' John Graues 
 
 In Popler M^ Richard Hall 
 
 In Mile end M'' Nicholas Diggens 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue for the yeare att the said 
 vestry and meeting 
 
 In Ratcliffe William Wilkes 
 
 In Limehouse W™ Simonds 
 
 In Popler Henry North 
 
 In Mile end Peter Harrintgon^ 
 
 Elected also for Auditors att the said vestry & meeting for 
 the Church wardens accounts for the yeare passed together 
 w*^ the minister according to the Canon./ 
 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 Mr Edw : Dalton M' George Walker 
 
 Mr Robt. Salmon Mr W" Cock. 
 
 In Popler In Mile end 
 
 Mr John Fuller M"" Walker Cooke 
 
 M"" Geo: Smith M"^ Randall Wetwood. 
 
 Also att the said vestry and meeting yt is ordered and 
 decreed, that whereas there is one peece of land dimised & 
 
 1 John Clarke, of Upper Shadwell, vintner, was buried November 12, 1634.— Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 2 Peter Harrington, a chandler of Mile End.— Stepney Registers. 
 
I20 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 lett to farme to Robert Salmon Edward Dalton Richard 
 Nottingham, Walter Cooke & John Bennett, by the Right 
 Honorable the Earle of Cleueland^ abutting vpon the church- 
 yard of Stepney for and in consideration of the yearlie rent 
 of fortie shillings to be paid att two seuerall termes in the 
 yeare by euen and equall porcons, as by the said demise 
 doth more largelie appeare. It is therefore ordered & decreed 
 that the churchwarden of Limehouse that now is shall satisfie 
 and pay the said rent of forty shillings now presently dew, 
 and the churchwarden of Limehouse now newlie chosen, and 
 hereafter from time to time to be chosen during the whole 
 terme in the said demise contayned shall yearlie discharge 
 the said yearlie rent and att the times in the said demise ex- 
 pressed to the end there may be no forfeiture of the said demise 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica'' Randall Wettwood. 
 
 Edw: Edgeworth R. Bromfild. 
 
 Jn" Bennett John ffuller 
 
 T Best Ed. Dalton 
 
 Mychell Gisbe Wai-ter Coke 
 
 henry Rivers Ro: Kayll 
 
 R. P. (le., Richard Philips) GeO: CoNQUEST 
 
 Ro Salmon Nicholas Dickens 
 
 Also at a vestry holden the same day were chosen for 
 vestrymen in Ratcliffe M'' W™ Swanly,^ M'" Robert Rookes, 
 Mr John Gierke, Mr W" Goulston,^ in Mile end M"- Slidd, in 
 Limehouse Mr W™ Ewens 
 
 ' This Earl of Cleveland was Thomas, first Earl, and great-grandson of the original 
 Sir Thomas, first Lord Wentworth, to whom Edward VI. granted the manor of Stepney. 
 He was a prominent and faithful adherent of the King, and suffered great losses and exile 
 in consequence, but returned to England at the Restoration, and recovered his property after 
 many vicissitudes. His mother was a daughter of Sir Owen Hopton (see p. 21).— Banks' 
 Extinct Peerage, ii., p. 582 ; W. L. Ration's ' Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth.' 
 
 * William Swanley, general shipmaster to the East India Company, in which office we are 
 told he enjoyed the salary of^i^iio per annum as successor of one Hockett ; his brother, 
 Richard Swanley (q.v.), had held the same post until he 'fell ill' in 1627. — State Papers, 
 Colonial. 
 
 ' William Gouldstone, of Wapping Wall, was timber merchant to the East India Company, 
 but in 1621 both he and his son were discharged. — State Papers, Colonial, E.I.C. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 121 
 
 July I. 1627 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Julie the first 
 1627 for the electing & chusing of a pish Gierke for the pish 
 church of Stepney the said Clerkeship being then void by 
 the death of John Robinson late pish clerke of the pish of 
 Stepney aforesaid was elected and chosen by the most pt of 
 the vestrymen then assembled in the presence and by the 
 approbacon and consent of doctor Gouldman vicar of the 
 said pish William Ambrose of Stepney to be clerke of the 
 said pish in the stead of the said John Robinson to execute 
 the said clerkeship and to enioy all the emolum** and profitts 
 to the same in any sort appertayning. And in testimony 
 thereof they haue herevnto put theire hands the day and yeare 
 first aboue written/ 
 
 Geo Gouldman W Burrell 
 
 Vica'' Edw: D Alton 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Ro: Salmon 
 Walter Coke Wil Cock 
 
 Joh: Frend Ch Sledd 
 
 Jn° Bennett W" Ewen 
 
 George Smyth. William Swanley 
 
 John ffuller Robert Rooke 
 
 Mychell Gisbe Thomas ellet 
 
 Richard Philips by John Clarcke 
 his marke Richard hall 
 
 William Pyot William Goldston 
 
 George Walker Nicholas dyckens 
 
 George Cullymer John Greaves 
 
 Aug 9. 1627 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 August 9*^ 1627 whereas there was a want of a vestry man 
 in the Hamlett of Ratcliffe Mr Samuell Gouldsmith^ of Stepney 
 was chosen vestry man for the said Hamlett.^ 
 
 ' Samuel Goldsmith, probably the same who appears in the Visitation of lyondon, 1634, 
 as ■ of London, mercer.' — Harl. Soc, ed., i, p. 321. 
 
 16 
 
122 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH 
 
 Itm yt ys ordered and decreed that Thomas Greene shall 
 receiue att the hands of the Churchwardens the iust summe 
 of eleuen pounds two shillinges and one peny ouer and 
 beside the thirteene pounds seauenteene shillings and eleuen 
 pence formerlie due vnto him, as a gratuitie toward his further 
 satisfaccon for the filling of the pond 
 
 Itm It is then ordered and decreed that there shalbe 
 publique warning geuen in the Church on Sunday next 
 folowing this vestry and meeting, that the pishioners and 
 Inhabitants shall hereafter forbeare to bring theire children 
 and seruants into their Piies that the Ancient Inhabitants of 
 the pish may be there placed. As also that the old church- 
 
 wardens shalbe warned in the church then to appeare at a 
 vestry to be holden on Thursday next, vigt the i6 day of 
 August, and all other Churchwardens that haue not yet 
 geuen vp theire accounts, to bring in then theire accountes to 
 be then & there audited, examined, perused, and alowed, or 
 otherwise It is ordered that if they shall neglect or refuse to 
 be present & to geue vp, then theire accounts there shalbe 
 presentlie proces taken out to call them before the Ordinary 
 that there they may geue vp theire seuerall accounts vpon 
 theire oath 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica' John Greaves church- 
 
 Ro: Salmon warden 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe R Bromfild 
 
 Walter Coke John Clarke church- 
 
 NiCHOLAS Dyckens warden 
 
 churchwarden Samuell Gowldsmyth 
 
 Randall Wettwoou Richard hall church- 
 
 Joh: Frend warden 
 
 The 30*'' daye of August 1627 
 
 At a meetinge the daye & yeare abouesaide at a vestrye 
 holden by the inhabitants of the hamlet of Radclife it is 
 ordered that henceforthe the churchwardens hereafter in the 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 123 
 
 whole parrishe or hamlets shall not exceede in the pambela- 
 tion for the dynner to be expended the some of Eight 
 poundes, and if other of the saide churchwardens do exceede 
 the saide some of Eight pounds to paye the same out of the 
 own purses, and that the saide pambelation to be pformed all 
 in one daye in wytness whereof wee haue sett to our hands 
 the daye & yere aboue wrytton/ 
 
 Geo Gouldman Walter Coke 
 
 Vica"^ R. Bromfild 
 
 Ro: Kayl Randall Wettwood 
 
 Gilbert Dethick Robert Rooke 
 Edw: Dalton Willl^^m Cock 
 
 Decemb' 6 1627 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 december 6 1627, yt was ordered and decreed in maner & 
 forme folowing vi3t whereas at certaine meetings for the 
 examinafion of the Accounts of Thomas Hartlie of Ratcliffe, 
 Richard Broomfeild of Limehouse, George Conquest of Mile 
 end & Henry Riuers of Popler late churchwardens of this 
 pish It was found that Thomas Hartlie had expended & 
 laid out the iust summe of 14^ 12^ 11'' which was more then 
 would be alowed by the vestry and therefore charged vpon 
 his owne head as by the order annexed to his account doth 
 appeare, and Richard Bromefeild of Limehouse had expended 
 & laid out the iust summe of 8^ o^ 2"^ w'=^ was more then 
 would be then alowed & therefore charged vpon his owne 
 head as by the order annexed to his account doth appeare, 
 and Henry Riuers of Popler had expended 2^ 2" o** which 
 was more then would be alowed by the vestry & therefore 
 charged vpon his owne head as by the order annexed to his 
 accounts doth appeare, and George Conquest of Mile end 
 hath expended & laid out the iust summe of 5^ 13^ o*^ which 
 was more then would be alowed by the vestry & therefore 
 charged vpon his owne head as by the order annexed to his 
 accompts doth appeare. It is therefore ordered & decreed 
 
 16 — 2 
 
T24 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 that the said auditt and disalowance shalbe alowed ratified 
 and confirmed by this present vestry & the vestrymen then 
 assembled, and that if they or any of them so charged shall 
 refuse to pay such monies as by theire said accoumpts thus 
 audited shall appeare due then the present churchwardens 
 shall take such ordinary course in law vpon the pish charge 
 as shall be most convenient for the spedie calling in of the 
 said monies to defray such debts as are fiom the Church now 
 due & payable if the said seuerall summes of Thomas Hartlie 
 & Richard Bromfcild shall not be satisfied by the last day of 
 this present moneth of december./ 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Randall Wettwood 
 
 Curat: Ant°: Tutcheng 
 
 Ro: Kayl W"* Ewen 
 
 Edw: Dalton Robert Rooke 
 
 Walter Coke Richard Philips marke 
 
 William Pyot John Clarke 1 
 
 Jn° Bennett John Greaves IChurch- 
 
 WiLL Cock Nicholas dyckens , wardens. 
 
 George. Cullymer Richard hall 
 
 Aprill 17 1628 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 Aprill 17 1628 being Thursday in Easter weeke, for the 
 eleccon of Church officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case made & prouided were chosen Church- 
 wardens these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare 
 ensuing in the office of Churchwardens, whereof three are 
 elected againe to continew according to the Custome of the 
 pish vi^t from the feast of th'Annunciacon in the year 1628 
 
 In Ratcliffe Mr John Gierke. 
 
 In Limehouse M'^ John Graues. 
 
 In Popler M' John Hunt.^ 
 
 In Mile end M'^ Nicholas Dickens 
 
 ' Mr. John Hunt, a seaman in the employ of the East India Company. He died at the 
 end of April, 1628. — State Papers, Colonial, E.I. ; Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 125 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue anew acording to the 
 Custome of the pish for the yeare ensuing 
 
 In Ratcliffe William Wilkes 
 
 In Limehouse William Simonds 
 
 In Popler Henry North 
 
 In Mile end Peter Harrington 
 
 Elected also for Auditors at the said vestry and meeting for 
 the Churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed, together 
 w*^ the minister according to the Canon 
 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 Mr Edw: Dalton Mr George Walker 
 
 M"- Robert Salmon M' W" Cock. 
 
 In Popler In Mile end 
 
 M"^ John Fuller M' Walter Cooke 
 
 M' George Smith M'' W"* Pyat. 
 
 Itm yt is ordered and decreed that the aforesaid Auditors 
 and all other that shall hereafter from time to time be chosen, 
 when they haue perused and examined the seuerall accounts 
 of the Churchwardens that from time to time are to geue 
 account shall before they approue the same accounts vnder 
 theire hands tender & present the said accounts of euery of 
 the said churchwardens from time to time to the vestry to 
 be perused, examined, & approued by them the said vestry & 
 this alwayes to be performed by the present chosen Auditors 
 and all other that hereafter shalbe chosen before the feast of 
 St John the Baptist then next ensuing any such account to be 
 made./ 
 
 Itm. It is further ordered & decreed that from time to 
 time and att all times hereafter att the expiracon of euery 
 halfe yeare such pewage inonie as shalbe by the Church- 
 wardens in the seuerall Hamletts from time to time halfe- 
 
126 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 yearlie collected (w"^ by this decree they are ordered and 
 apointed to collect euery halfe yeare) shalbe brought and putt 
 into the Common Chest in the vestry there to remaine as a 
 ioynt stock vnder the fiue lockes and keyes to be kept by the 
 vicar & the foure churchwardens : And also that such 
 summe & summes of mony as shall arise by the Bells, the 
 breaking of the churchground & the church clothes shall 
 quarterlie be brought and put in to the said chest that thereby 
 there may be mony vpon all occasions to defray such expences 
 as shall belong to the pish Church of Stepnie/ 
 
 Itm whereas Mr Thomas CambelP of Stepnie hath 
 claymed three pewes in the Church as hereditary & belong- 
 ing to his mansion house and for the confirmacon of the said 
 claime hath procured fro the Lord Bishop of London a facultie 
 & in regard yt tendeth to the impouerishing of the pish church 
 of Stepnie in abolishing theire customary pewage monie, being 
 the onlie meanes by w'^'^ the said pish church is maintayned 
 in w* respect the Churchwardens of this pish haue appealed 
 from the said Lord Bishop of London into the Court of the 
 Arches It ys ordered & decreed that the said appeale shall 
 by the churchwardens be prosecuted and that all expences & 
 charges w'''' shall arise by reason of the maintenance of the 
 pish right & defence of the said suit shalbe alowed and 
 defrayed out of the Joynt stock of the pish vntill such time as 
 the law shall haue determined the matter in question. ^ 
 
 Itm. if att any time there shalbe any occasion of dls- 
 bursem*" It is then ordered and decreed that the seuerall 
 summes necessary to be expended shall from time to time & 
 att all tymes be taken out by the churchwardens in the presence 
 of the vicar and two vestry men of every hamlefi and the said 
 summe so to be expended with the day & moneth & yeare 
 
 1 Thomas Cambell, 'gent.,' was buried November l8, 1629. He must not be confounded 
 with Thomas Cambell, Alderman of London, a contemporary who survived him. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 ^ The words in italics are crossed out. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 J27 
 
 to be set downe in a pticular booke to be kept also in the 
 Chest., 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica*^ 
 Samuel Gowldsmyth 
 Ro: Salmon 
 Walter Coke 
 Edw: Edgeworthe. 
 John Greaves 
 Nicholas dyckens 
 Jn° Bennett 
 William Pyot 
 
 Michell Gisbe 
 George Smyth 
 Ch Sledd 
 J OH : Frend 
 William Swanley 
 George Cullymer 
 Robert Rooke 
 William Goldston 
 John Clarke 
 
 May 4 1628 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday May 4 
 1628, whereas John Hunt of Popler was vpon the 17 day of 
 the moneth of Aprill elected & chosen churchwarden for the 
 said HamJett for this present yeare who is since deceased 
 At the vestry holden the 4*^ day of May was elected & 
 chosen to serue as churchwarden for this present yeare & for 
 the said Hamlett M'' John ffuller to serue in the office of 
 Churchwarden in the stead of the said John Hunt deceased./ 
 
 Geo Gouldman John Greaves 
 
 Vica" Nicholas dyckens 
 
 Gilbert Dethick John West 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe. John Clarke 
 
 Ro: Salmon 
 
 George Smyth 
 
 Ro: Kayl 
 
 Edw: Dalton 
 
 Walter Coke 
 
 Thomas ellet 
 
 R. P (i.e., Richard Philips) 
 
 William Swanley 
 Robert Rooke 
 William Goldston 
 
 I?m att the same time the vestry did chuse M"^ Robert 
 Keale of Ratcliffe, M' Anthonie Touching of Limehouse 
 M' John West of Popler & M"^ Walter Cooke of Mile end to 
 ioyne with M"" doctor Gouldman the vicar whom they haue 
 entreated with them to end the differences between Mr Thomas 
 
128 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Hartlie & M"" Richard Bromfeild & the pish, if they will submitt 
 themselues vnto yt. 
 
 8 Octobr 1628 
 According to the order abouesaid togeather w* the nowe 
 Consent of Thomas Hardy & Richard Bromefeld Concerning 
 there accompt formerly presented to the vestery wee doe order, 
 that Thomas hardy shall pay into the hands of Edward Edge- 
 worthe the some of x^ at or before the Thirtith day of this 
 Instant Octobr, and that Richard Bromfeld doe paye at the 
 daye aforesaid the some of ffyve pounds into the hands of the 
 said Edward Edgeworth to the vse of the Church. In wittnes 
 wherof we haue hereto set o"^ hands 
 
 Geo Gouldman Water Coke 
 Ro: Kayl Ant": Tutchen 
 
 Aprill 9 1629 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 Aprill 9 T629 being Thursday in Easter weeke for the 
 eleccon of Church officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case made & prouided were chosen Church- 
 wardens these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare 
 ensuing in the Office of Churchwardens, elected according to 
 the Custome of the pish, vi^t from the feast of Th'annun- 
 ciacon of the virgin Mary in the yeare 1629. 
 
 In Ratcliffe M'' William Colston 
 
 In Limehouse M'' William Pulman 
 In Popler M' William Swanly. 
 
 In Mile end M' George Cullimer 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue according to the Custome 
 of the pish for the yeare ensuing. 
 
 In Ratcliffe Gilbert Collins. 
 
 In Limehouse William Simons 
 In Popler Henry Hall.^ 
 
 In Mile end Peter Harrington 
 
 ^ Henry Hall, an anchorsmith of Poplar, and possibly the son of Richard Hall (above, 
 p. 30). Married July 6, 1626, Agnes Barker, by licence. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 129 
 
 Elected also for"Auditors att the said vestry & meeting for 
 the churchwardens accounts for the'yeare passed together with 
 the minister according to the Canon.) 
 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 M^ Edw. Dalton Mr Geo: Walker 
 
 M' Robert Salmon M-^ William Cock. 
 
 In Popler In Mile end 
 
 Mr John West M"^ Walter Cooke 
 
 M' George Smith., M' William Pyat 
 
 Itm yt was ordered and decreed att the said vestry & 
 meeting that whereas M'' Thomas Hartlie was ordered to 
 pay x^ into the hands of Edward Edgeworth to the vse of 
 the Church the thirtieth day of the moneth of October last 
 past,^ as by an order bearing date Octob"" 8 1628 doth 
 formerlie appeare If therefore the said Thomas Hartlie 
 shall not pay or cause to be paid to the vse of the Church 
 the said summe of ten pounds before the sixteenth day of 
 this present moneth of Aprill. It is then ordered and decreed 
 that the churchwardens shall take such speedy course ether in 
 the Ecctiall courts or in the Common law as may be thought 
 fittest by theire learned Counsell for the more spedie recouery 
 of the said monies./ 
 
 Itm. at the said vestry it is ordered that the fiue pounds 
 remayning in the hands of Edward Edgeworth shalbe paid 
 vnto Thomas Greene in part of paym* of the summe of eight 
 pounds due vnto him./ 
 
 Geo Gouldman Joh: Frend 
 
 Vica' Mychell Gisbe 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe. Ch Sledd 
 Walter Coke George Walker 
 
 John ffuller Robert Rooke 
 
 George Cullymer Gilbert Dethick 
 William Swan ley George Smyth 
 
 17 
 
130 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Randall Wettwood William Goldston 
 
 John Clarke John Greaves 
 
 Ro: Salmon Richard Philips {mark) 
 Jn° Bennett 
 
 Itm whereas there is iiij^ owing to M'" Ambrose the Gierke 
 for keeping the Register booke yt is ordered at the said vestry 
 Aprill 9 1629 that the said sumrfte of foure pounds shalbe paid 
 by the churchwardens vnto him out of the first monyes that 
 shall come vnto theire hands. 
 
 August 16 1629 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Sunday August 16 
 1629 : vpon a motion made by M' W'" Golston whether he 
 should deliuer the Church booke of accounts to the Jury now 
 sworne for enquiry after exacted fees. It was thought fitt 
 that the said booke should not be deliuered out of the posses- 
 sion of the Churchwardens, howbeit if the Jury or any of 
 them be desirous to se yt the said M'' Gouldston or any two 
 of the Churchwardens may shew yt them to be by them per- 
 vsed but so as the possession thereof still remaine in the 
 churchwardens. 
 
 16° August 1629° 
 
 The said day and yeare yt was decreed that hereafter 
 none shalbe buried in the church but with a flat coffin & to 
 this last decree the vestry men assembled haue theire hands 
 subscribed 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Curat: William Pulman 
 W Burrell Churchwarden 
 
 Ro Salmon Gilbert Dethick 
 
 T. B (i.e., The Best) GeORGE SmYTH 
 
 George Walker William Swanley 
 
 George Cullymer Church- Randall Wettwood 
 warden 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 131 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 Aprill the first 1630 being Thursday in Easter weeke for 
 the Eleccon of Churchwardens and other officers according 
 to the Canons of the Church in that case made & prouided 
 were chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named 
 to serue for the yeare ensuing in the office of Churchwardens 
 and elected againe to continew according to the custome of 
 the pish vi3t from The feast of Th'Annunciacon of the virgin 
 Mary in the yeare 1630 
 
 In Ratcliffe M'' William Colston 
 In Limehouse M' William Pulman 
 In Popler M'' William Swanley 
 
 In Mile end M"" George Cullimer 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue anew according to the 
 custome of the pish for this present yeare 1630 
 
 In Ratcliffe Gilbert Collins 
 
 In Limehouse William Simonds 
 
 In Popler Henry Hall 
 
 In Mile end Peter Harrington 
 
 Elected also for Auditors att the said vestry and meeting 
 for the Churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed together 
 w*** the minister according to the Canon 
 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 M"" Edward Dalton M"" John Bennett 
 
 M"^ Robert Salmon M"^ Anthony Tutchens 
 
 In Popler In Mile end 
 
 M' Gilbert Dethick M'^ Nicholas Dickens 
 
 M' John Fuller M"" Walter Cooke 
 
 whereas Richard Philips of Limehouse vpon his accounts 
 made as Churchwarden of the said Hamlett for part of 
 M'^ Raph Bradshawes time, Captayne Moores time & his 
 owne two yeares, is behind & vnpaid as by his account 
 
 17 — 2 
 
132 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 appeareth the iust summe of nine pounds eight shillings & 
 eightpence It is ordered & decreed that the said summe 
 shalbe paid vnto the said Richard Philips vpon the first 
 monyes that come in by way of surplusage vpon any church- 
 wardens account ether now or hereafter to be paid into the 
 said vestry by any churchwarden that haue bene, are, or here- 
 after shalbe. 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Curat: Walter Coke 
 T. Best Nicholas dyckens 
 
 Ro: Salmon John ffuller 
 
 Will Goldston John Clarke 
 
 William Swanley George Culltmer 
 
 Rich: R P: Phillips (mark) Churchwarden 
 Edw: Dalton William Pulman 
 
 Februarij lo 1630 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 ffebruarij the tenth A° 1630, It was agreed that whereas the 
 Churchwardens, for the time being, haue laid out diuers 
 summes of mony about the necessary repaire of the Church, 
 in the Roofe pauement, galleries & pewes & otherwise as 
 by thcire accounts will truelie appeare I say It was agreed 
 that the said disbursements should be alowed and approued 
 according to the custome of the pish, being exhibited to the 
 vicar & Auditors appointed for the purpose. 
 
 As also that the Churchwardens shall set men on worke 
 uppon the leads of the South side of the Middle He of the 
 Church for the new casting of the said lead, & the expences 
 for the same to be also alowed vpon theire accomptes to be 
 made as formerlie./ 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Edw:' Dalton 
 
 Curat: Walter Cooke 
 
 T. Best George Walker 
 
 Ro: Salmon John Greaves 
 
 Nicholas dyckens John Clarke 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 133 
 
 William Pyots John Bennett 
 
 William cock Ant": Tutchen 
 
 John ffuller W™ Ewen 
 
 Robert Rooke Richard R P Phillips [mark) 
 
 Aprill 14 1 63 1 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 Aprill 14 1631, being thursday in Easter weeke, for the 
 election of Church officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case made & prouided, were chosen Church- 
 wardens these persons hereafter named, to serue for the 
 yeare ensuing in the office of Churchwardens vi3* from the 
 feast of Th' Annunciation of the virgin Mary in the yeare 
 1 63 1 elected according to the custome of the pish. 
 In Ratcliffe. M' Robert Salmon 
 In Limehouse. M"" Anthony Touching 
 In Popler. M"" George Smith. 
 
 In Mile end. M' William Pyatt. 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serve according to the Custome 
 of the pish for the yeare ensuing 
 
 In Ratcliffe Gilbert Collins 
 
 In Limehouse William Simonds 
 
 In Popler John CateralP 
 
 In Mile end Peter Harringtons 
 
 Elected also for Auditors at the said vestry & meeting for 
 the Churchwardens accounts for the yeare passed, together 
 w*'* the minister according to the Canon./ 
 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 M' Edward Dalton M"^ John Bennet 
 
 M' Robert Rooke M' W" Ewens 
 
 ' John Caterall, of Poplar, shipwright, employed by the East India Company as timber 
 mea.surer, was dismissed in 1626, but employed again for rather more than a year. He was 
 then a second time discharged, and spent the next few years ' petitioning to be entertained 
 again as shipwright' He married, February i, 1625, by license, Jacquament Whetherdon, 
 of Wapping Wall, widow, who was buried January 13, 1650. He was sidesman 1631-1636, 
 and then disappears. — Slate Papers, Colonial, E.I. ; Stepney Registers. 
 
134 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 In Popler 
 M-- Gilbert Dethick 
 M-- John Fuller 
 
 Geo Gouldman 
 Edw: Edgeworthe 
 Walter Coke 
 Nicholas dyckens 
 George Walker 
 John Bennett 
 Joh: Frend 
 George Smyth 
 John Greaves 
 Mychell Gisbi 
 
 W" EWEN 
 
 William Swanley 
 
 In Myle end 
 M' Nicholas Dickens 
 M'' Walter Cooke. 
 
 Gilbert Dethick 
 T. Best 
 Edw: Dalton 
 Ro: Salmon 
 George Cullymer 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 Will Goldston 
 John ffuller 
 Richard Philips R P by 
 
 his marke 
 Thomas ellet 
 Robert Rooke 
 
 Aprill 3 1632 1 
 
 whereas there was due to Richard Philips of Limehouse 
 since he was Churchwarden & to Roger ffrith of Ratcliffe 
 deceased since he was Churchwarden certaine monies vi5* nine 
 pounds to Richard Philips & nine pounds of mony to Roger 
 ffrith. Be yt known to all men that we Richard Philips and 
 Ellen the wife of James woodcott & daughter of the said 
 Roger ffrith do acknowledge ourselues to haue receiued of 
 M' Tutchen by order of the vestry the said seuerall summes 
 & do acknowledge ourselues fully satisfied & in testimony 
 thereof haue herevnto set our hands the day & yeare first 
 aboue written. 
 
 witnesseth. Ro Salmon William Pyot 
 
 churchwarden Richard Philips 
 Walter Coke R P his marke 
 
 T. Best Ellen Woodcott 
 
 George Smyth E W her marke 
 
 ^ Written in the original on a blank space before the entry of April 14, 1631. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 135 
 
 Aprill 3. 1632 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday Aprill 
 the third 1632 being Tuesday in Easter weeke for the 
 ElecSon of Churchwardens and other officers, acccording to 
 the Canons of the Church in that case made & prouided, were 
 chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named, to 
 serue for the yeare ensuing in the office of Churchwardens, 
 and againe elected to continew according to the Custome of 
 the pish vi5* from the feast day of the Annunciation of the 
 Virgin Mary in the yeare 1632. 
 
 In Ratcliffe M' Robert Salmon 
 
 In Limehouse M"" Anthony Tutchen 
 
 In Popler M"" George Smith 
 
 In Mile-end M" William Pyot 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue anew according to the 
 custome of the pish for this present yeare 1632 
 
 In Ratcliffe Gilbert Collins 
 
 In Limehouse W™ Simonds 
 
 In Popler John Caterall. 
 
 In Mile end Peter Harrington 
 
 Elected for Auditors at the said vestry & meeting for the 
 Church wardens accompts for the yeare passed together with 
 the vicar according to the Canon ^ 
 
 Elected also to supplie the place of vestryman in the 
 Hamlet of Ratcliffe, there being one wanting, William Joburne 
 of Ratcliffe. 
 
 Itm the vicar & vestrymen then assembled did & do allow 
 & authorize the Churchwardens to set a rate vpon the pewes 
 in the church, w<=^ rate so made shall for theyre two yeares be 
 collected & expended to the vse of the Church only & the 
 necessary repaire of the same, as also that they do seat & 
 
 ^ The names are not given ; a blank space follows. 
 
136 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 place the seuerall Inhabitants according to theyre seuerall 
 rankes & qualities./ 
 
 Geo Gouldman Richard R P Philips {mark) 
 
 Edw Dalton T. Best 
 
 Walter Coke Edw: Edgeworthe 
 
 George Cullymer John Bennett 
 
 John ffuller W™ Ewen 
 
 William Swanley Edward Chandler 
 
 Will Goldston 
 
 Aprill 9 1632 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Munday 
 Aprill 9 1632. It was ordered and decreed by the vicar & 
 vestrymen of the pish then assembled, forasmuch as the 
 Church is much decayed in the roofe both in the Lead & 
 Timbers beside all other necessaries in & about the Church 
 that there shalbe a generall Landscot & Assessm* made of 
 all the Inhabitants of the said pish holding lands or otherwise 
 estated, & outdwellers occupieng land in the said pish for & 
 toward the repaire of the Church onlie, in euery part thereof, 
 & that the taxacon of the Land be at the rate of sixe pence 
 the acre throughout the pish. And also that all other the 
 Inhabitants in the said pish (the occupiers of Land excepted) 
 shall pay toward the said Landscott & assessm* the fourth 
 part of the rate that he or they shall yearlie pay vnto the 
 poore in their seuerall Hamlets according to the rate to be 
 taken out of the poores booke in theire seuerall Hamletts, to 
 be bestowed & im ployed by the Churchwardens to the vse 
 aforenamed & to no other end. The said Landscott & 
 Assessm* to be collected & gathered by M'' Robert Salmon 
 churchwarden & M'' W" Golston & M"' W"" Joburne in the 
 Hamlet of Ratcliffe, by M" Anthony Tutchen churchwarden 
 & M"' John Bennet and M"" W"" Ewens in the Hamlet of 
 Limehouse, by M'' George Smith churchwarden & M"" Henry 
 Dethick & M' John Fuller in the Hamlet of Popler, & by 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 137 
 
 M' W"" Pyot churchwarden M'' Nicholas Dickens, M'' Walter 
 Cooke & M"" Hylary Mempresse^ in the Hamlet of Mile end. 
 Itm. whereas there is a want of vestry men in the Hamlet 
 of Mile end to supplie the number, M"" Hilary Mempresse & 
 M' Thomas Hart^ are chosen & hereafter to be reputed and 
 accounted for vestry men. 
 
 Itm yt is further decreed that whereas the Churchwardens 
 & collectors formerlie appointed shall find the fourth part of 
 the rate in the poores booke to exceed the rate of the land 
 ^f/oh ^jjy Inhabitant shall occupie, then they shall passe by 
 the rate of the Land & receiue the fourth part of the rate in 
 the poores booke toward the vse aboue named./ 
 Geo Gouldman Vica' Ro Salmon 
 Edw: Edgeworthe. W™ Pyot Church- 
 
 Walter Coke George Smyth wardens 
 
 Henry Dethick Ant°: Tutchen 
 
 John Bennett William H. Hyat his marke 
 
 W"^ Ewen George Cullymer 
 
 Will Goldston Robert Rooke 
 
 Will Cock William Swanley 
 
 John ffuller Thomas Raylton his marke 
 
 Edward Chandler 
 
 June 21. 1632 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 June 21. 1632 whereas by the death of George Smith of 
 Popler, late churchwarden, there is a want of a churchwarden 
 in the said Hamlett, was elected and chosen for Church- 
 warden in his stead for this present yeare 1632 John 
 Souther ne,^ of Popler aforesaid, to serue in the said Office 
 
 1 Hillary Mempris, of St. Michael, Crooked Lane, married Mary Evans, of Christ Church, 
 London, widow. May 17, 1608. He died in 1652, probably without issue, as his brother 
 Thomas (see p. 165) succeeded to his property.— Stepney Registers and Court Rolls, Roll B. 
 
 2 Thomas Hart, of Mile End Green, gent.— Stepney Registers ; March 17, 1622, Bur. 
 
 ' John Southerue, shipwright, first at Woolwich, and later at Poplar. He married, 
 October 31, 1625, Barbara Brewer, widow, and was buried August 27, 1645.— Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 18 
 
138 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 of Churchwarden in the stead of Mr George Smith deceased. 
 And It is decreed that the said John Southen shall gather vp 
 all & euery the duties and arerages of duties that are behind 
 & vncollected by the said George Smith during the time of 
 his Churchwardenship and shall account for the same accord- 
 ing to the Canons Ecctialt. And also, in that there is a 
 want of vestry-men in the said Hamlet of Popler, the said 
 John Southen is chosen to be a vestryman in the stead of 
 the said George Smith, and so hereafter to be reputed and 
 taken./ 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica' Edw Dalton 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Ro: Salmon 
 Walter Coke Ant°: Tutchen 
 
 Nicholas dyckens W"' Pyot. 
 John ffuller Thos Hart 
 
 George Cullymer Thomas Raylton his 
 Robert Rooke marke 
 
 William Jobarne: 
 
 August t6 1632 
 
 Whereas by an order made in vestry bearing date Aprill 9. 
 1632 yt was ordered & decreed that for and toward the 
 reparacons of the Church, a Landscott & assessement should 
 be made of all the Inhabitants of the pish & out of the pish 
 holding land and occupieng the same in the said pish & 
 other as by the said order att large doth appeare Now It is 
 decreed & ordered that for so much as the mines of the 
 church appeare to be exceeding great and that speedy repaire 
 must be made, that therefore All the Inhabitants in the said 
 pish occupieng any land in the said pish & all other out- 
 dwellers occupieng land in the said pish shall pay toward the 
 Church & repayre of the said Church sixe pence the acree 
 for euery acre that they or any of them shall hold & occupie. 
 And that at the next vestry & meeting there shalbe an assessm* 
 made vpon all other not occupieng land in the said pish accord- 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 139 
 
 ing to theire personal! estates toward the repaire of the Church 
 aforesaid, & to be collected by the Churchwardens & Sidemen 
 in theire seuerall hamletts, And the monies so receiued & dis- 
 bursed to be accounted for by them as other monies by the 
 said churchwardens in any sort receiued./ And the said assessm* 
 to be immediately collected as before./ 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica' Ant°: TuxcHENslChurch- 
 Edw: Edgeworthe John: Suthun J wardens 
 Edw Dalton William Jobarne: 
 
 Walter Coke John Clarke 
 
 Nicholas dyckens Tho Hart 
 W™ EwEN John Bennett 
 
 Edward Chandler 
 
 September 5 1632 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Wednesday 
 September the fift 1632 whereas there was a want of a 
 vestryman in the Hamblettof Limehouse, Mr William Bushell^ 
 was chosen vestryman in the stead of M' W" Cock deceased 
 & so to be hereafter held & reputed : 
 
 Itm. whereas an assessment was to be made of all the In- 
 habitants not occupieng land by theire personal! estate toward 
 the repayre of the pish church alreadie begun (the assessm* 
 vpon the land being formerlie made) & whereas there were 
 tendred & presented to the vicar & vestrymen then assembled, 
 foure seuerall bookes wherein the seuerall Inhabitants were 
 
 ^ Captain William Bushell, in 163S, commanding the Neptune, was employed in redeeming 
 captives at Argier. On his way home he and another captain, Thomas Scot, of Ratcliffe, 
 were fined ;^S00 and ;f 100 respectively, at Dunkirk, by Admiral the Earl of Lindsey, for 
 ' presuming to wear their flags in full view of The Fleet.' This apparently was considered 
 an open insult to the assembled 200 ships, and was aggravated by the culprits attempting to 
 escape. A month later the relatives of other captives ' at Argier and Bailee ' petitioned the 
 Lords of the Admiralty to send William Bushell to redeem others after his success in bringing 
 home thirty. He was probably sent, and next year, on the recommendation of the Trinity 
 House, he and his ship, the IMeptune (400 tons, 32 guns, and 160 men), were employed for 
 the Navy. In spite of a dispute with his purser, in which he was condemned by the Officers 
 of the Navy for making money out of his stores, he seems to have continued in the service of 
 the Crown till his death, which is thus entered in the Registers : ' March 7, 1637. William 
 Bushell, of Limehouse, mariner, died at Morbein, in France — a Captain.' He seems to have 
 been unmarried, as he left most of his possessions to his father.— State Papers, Domestic; 
 Stepney Registers ; Will at Somerset House. There was another Wm. B., a rope-maker, 
 in Shadwell (see the Map), who died in 1653.— Stepney Court Rolls, Roll C. 
 
 18—2 
 
I40 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 taxed & rated vi3* one booke for the Hamlett of Ratclifife 
 amounting to the summe of forty pounds, one booke for the 
 Hamlett of Limehouse amounting to the summe of twenty- 
 pounds, one booke for the Hamlet of Mile end amounting 
 to the summe of twelue pounds & one booke for the hamlett 
 of Popler amounting to the summe of nine pounds & vp- 
 wards. The vicar & vestrymen then assembled did ratifie, 
 approue & confirme the said foure bookes and the seuerall 
 summe & summes of mony rated vpon euer person in the 
 said bookes by vertue of a Commission graunted by the 
 Right Reuerend father in God the Lord Bishop of London 
 vnto the said vicar & vestrymen And do further order & 
 apoint M'' Robert Salmon churchwarden, M'' W™ Golston, 
 M'' W" Jobarne, M' John Clarke & M"- Robert Rookes in 
 Ratcliffe, M'' Anthony Tutchen churchwarden, M' John 
 Bennett, M'' William Ewens, M'' George Walker in Lime- 
 house, M'' William Pyot churchwarden, M'' Michaell Gisby, 
 M'- Nicholas dickens & M"" Hilary Mempris in Mile end, 
 Mr John Suthun churchwarden, & M"" John ffuller in Popler 
 & M'' William Swanlie, to collect & gather the said summes 
 & rates in theyre seuerall hambletts, that the begun repayre 
 may be forthw*** continued, and the seuerall Churchwardens 
 to geue accounts of the summes of mony so collected and 
 laid out vpon the church as before, as for all other summes of 
 mony by them or any of them in any sort receiued.y 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica'" Ro Salmon Churchw'^ 
 
 Edw Edgeworth Ant": Tutchen Churchw 
 
 Joh: Frend W™ Pyot Churchw. 
 
 John Bennett John: Suthun, Church 
 
 Randall Wettwood Robert Rooke 
 
 George Cullymer Richard R P Philips his 
 
 John Clarke marke 
 
 Hillarie Mempris William Pulman 
 
 John ffuller W™ Ewen 
 
 R Bromfild Edward Chandler 
 
 Wai,ter Coke 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 141 
 
 The vestry men of the parish of Stepney in the yeare at 
 the feast of Easter 1633. 
 
 In Ratclifife 
 S' John Lee Knight 
 M' Rotet Kayll g-on 
 
 Edward Dalton 
 
 Tho: Best 
 
 Edward Chandler dead 
 
 Robert Salmon 
 
 Robert Rookes 
 
 John Clarke dead 
 
 W'" Colston 
 
 Samuell Gouldsmith 
 
 W™ Jobarne 
 
 Christopher Brmvn^ '' ) ^, 
 
 Mr^ W^Pulman \ C^osmNou: 21 
 
 M-fohn Tatton> ) "34- 
 
 In Mile end 
 
 Mr Michaell Gisby 
 M' George Cullimer 
 M'' Randolph wetwood 
 
 M'^ 
 M' 
 M^ 
 M-^ 
 M' 
 M' 
 M» 
 M^ 
 M' 
 
 dead 
 dead 
 
 gon 
 gon 
 
 In Limehouse 
 Mr John Graues 
 Mr Richard Phillipps 
 Mr John Bennet 
 Mr George Walker 
 Mr W" Ewens 
 Mr Richard Bromfeild 
 M' Anthony Tutchen 
 M"" Henry Riuers dead 
 
 W W^ Hyat 
 M' W" Bushell 
 
 In Popler 
 M' John West 
 M"" Gilbert Dethick 
 M' Henry Dethick 
 
 ' Names and words in italics were inserted later. 
 
 ^ Christopher Browne, one of the leading captains in the service of the E.I.C, first 
 appears, June 29, 1622, as a petitioner to the Company for 18 cwt. of pepper. For the next 
 two years he remained in the East Indies, and on his return home in November, 1625, he 
 and his ship were impressed at Flushing into the service of the Royal Navy. Sir John Wos- 
 tenhome (sic) and Sir William Russell ' desired the Company not to take it ill, for he should 
 return in two months ;' and apparently they were even better than their word, for on 
 December 14. he was appointed commander of the Company's Surat fleet, and cliose the 
 William, for his flagship. His salary was fixed at 20 marks a month, but he was dissatisfied 
 with it, 'having been nine years in the E.I.C. service.' Like most of the Company's cap- 
 tains, he came to grief for private trading. On one occasion he was accused of a private 
 venture of 500 ryalls, and ' M' IL^att said his daughter. Hunt, had adventured with Captahi 
 Browne some silk stockings, garters, roses, etc., to some such value.' His rule in the East 
 was not altogether popular, and in 1629 the factors at Gambroon consoled themselves for 
 what they had suffered by writing moral reflections to the East India Council at Surat to the 
 eflfect that ' Captain Browne and his abettor will in time be called to account for their base 
 proceedings; for it is a principle that he who knows not how to obey can worse govern.' 
 Unfortunately, at this point the curtain drops. — State Papers, Colonial, E.I. 
 
 ' John Totton. His son Samuel succeeded alone to his land (admitted January 16, 1662) 
 as the elder brother John was dead. — Stepney Court Rolls, iv. 97. 
 
142 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 (In Mile end) {In PopUr) 
 
 My Nicholas Dickens M"" Thomas Raylton mart 
 
 W John Friend M' W"' Swanly 
 
 M' Walter Cooke M' John Fuller 
 
 M"" Edw. Edgeworthe M"" John Southan 
 
 Mr tJ 1 TVT • M'- Edw: Steuens V , 
 
 " Hylary Mempns M'-john Ducy^ ] "34 
 
 W Thomas Hart. 
 
 Aprill 23. 1633 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday 
 Aprill 23 1633 being Tuesday in Easter weeke for the 
 eleccon of Churchwardens and other officers according to the 
 Canons of the Church in that case made & prouided, were 
 chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named to 
 serue for the yeare ensuing in the office of Churchwardens, 
 vi3t in this present yeare 1633 whereof one of them con- 
 tinueth newly elected according to the custome of the pish of 
 Stepney 
 
 In Ratclifife M'' W" Jobarne 
 
 In Limehouse M"" George Walker 
 In Popler M' John Southan 
 
 In Mile end M' Thomas Hart 
 
 ' Names and words in italics were inserted later. 
 
 ^ Robert Fotherby, in 1615, was serving on board ship, and pronounced by the East India 
 Company ' a very fit person to be employed upon a discovery for the South side of the Cape.' 
 Three years later he was established at Deptford as overseer of cordage, and in 1621 he 
 moved to Blackwall, to the shipyard there. In 1623 he was receiving ^8o as clerk of the 
 stores, yard and check, and he continued there as manager for the East India Company. In 
 1624 his orders for the government of the yard were read before the Company and approved, 
 but ' he was required to conceive some order to restrain the workmen resorting to the taphouse 
 at other than meal times.' His grand-daughter Sarah married John Swanley of Poplar (see 
 below). At his burial, which took place October 16, 1646, he is described as 'of Blackwall 
 Yard, gent.' — State Papers, Colonial, E.I. ; Dethick's Visitation of Middlesex, 1663 ; 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ John Ducy, another servant of the East India Company at Blackwall Dockyard, first as 
 measurer of timber at 12s. a week, and gradually promoted. In 1624 he succeeded to 
 Fotherby's lodgings at the Dockyard. In 1644 he was surveyor of timber to the Navy. 
 He must not be confused with his contemporary namesake, Sir John Ducy, Master of the 
 Shipwrights' Company, and Alderman of London. — State Papers : Colonial, E.I., 
 Domestic, Adv. of Money. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 M3 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue in the said pish according 
 to the custome thereof for this present year 1633 
 
 In Ratclifife Nathaneell Hawkins^ 
 
 In Limehouse William Dunne 
 
 In Popler John Catterall 
 
 In Mile end Samuell Cornewall^ 
 
 Elected also for Auditors for the Churchwardens accounts 
 for the two yeares passed together w*^ the minister according 
 to the Canons. 
 
 In Ratcliffe 
 Mr Edw: Dalton 
 M'' John Clarke 
 
 In Popler 
 M' John Fuller 
 M' W"' Swanly 
 
 In Limehouse 
 M' W"' Ewens 
 M"" John Bennet 
 
 In Mile end 
 M' Walter Cooke 
 M"" Nichas Dickens 
 
 Geo Gouldman 
 
 Ito. yt is ordered & decreed that the Auditors now 
 appointed shall call for the Churchwardens accounts in their 
 seuerall Hamletts within one fortnight or three weekes after 
 this present vestry and peruse & examine the same, that the 
 seuerall accounts may be presented to the vestry w*Mn one 
 moneth after the said vestry, according to the Canon, to be 
 perused and alowed there. 
 
 Geo Gouldman 
 Edw: Edgeworthe 
 John: Suthun 
 
 W™ EWEN 
 
 Hillarie Mempris 
 John ffuller 
 George Walker 
 
 John Bennett 
 George Collymer 
 John Clarke 
 John Greaves 
 Robert Rooke 
 William Jobarne: 
 Gilbert Dethick 
 
 1 'Nathaniel Hawkins, of Ratclif, vintner,' was buried August 13, 1641.— Stepney 
 
 ^"^'Vamuel Cornwel, of Mile End, victualler, and sideman for the said Hamlet,' was buried 
 October 23, 1634. — Stepney Registers. 
 
144 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 William Pulman Edw Dalton 
 
 Richard R P Philipps T. Best 
 
 his marke Ro: Salmon 
 
 W. Pyot Walter Coke 
 
 Ant": Tutchen Will Golston 
 Joh: Frend 
 
 September 12. 1633 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 September 12 1633 were tendered and presented the Ac- 
 counts of M'' Robert Salmon last churchwarden of Ratcliffe, 
 Mr Anthony Tutchen late Churchwarden of Limehouse & 
 M"" William Piot late churchwarden of Mile-end for the yeares 
 1 63 1 & 1632, and there perused and alowed. And by the 
 Account of M'' Robert Salmon appeareth that he standeth 
 endebted to the pish for the vse of the Church 19^. II^ 3'*, 
 and by the account of Mr Anthony Tutchen appeareth that 
 he standeth endebted to the pish for the vse aforesaid 
 S\ II^ o^ and by the account of M" William Pyot appeareth 
 that; he standeth endebted to the pish to the vse aforesaid 
 i*^. I3^ 6"^ w'''^ seuerall summes It is ordered and decreed at 
 the vestry aforesaid that they shall be paid ouer into the 
 hands of M' William Jobarne now churchwarden of Ratcliffe 
 to be expended and laid out about the necessary repayre of 
 the Church where most needs for the present shalbe, and to 
 account for the same as for any other monies that shall in any 
 sort come to his hand for the vse aforesaid. 
 
 M** that yt is ordered that M"" John Southun shall account for 
 the yeares 1631 & 1632 as the fornamed Churchwardens haue 
 done & to tender the said accounts at the next vestry. y 
 
 Geo Gouldman Vica' Gilbert Dethick 
 Nicholas dyckens Edw Dalton 
 
 George Cullymer Walter Coke 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe John ffuller 
 
 Robert Rooke William Jobarne: 
 
 John Clarke 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 145 
 
 February 12 1633 
 
 At a vestry holden in the Vestrye howse Wendesday the 
 twelth ffebruary, It was there agreed by Jonas Jeames^ of 
 Ratcliffe Marriner in the open vestrie aforesd, that for an in 
 consideracon of a Monum* set vp in the churchyard by the 
 sd Jonas Jeames, That he will at all times paie or cause to be 
 paid vnto the Churchwardens for the time being, the sofiie 
 of ffoure shillings yearely at or vppon the ffeast day of 
 S* Thomas the Apostle In witness whereof he the sd 
 Jonas Jeames hath herevnto set his hand the day and yeare 
 abouesd 
 
 George Douglas^ Viccar, witnes/. 
 William Jobarne"| 
 George Walker 
 Tho Hart 
 John: Suthun 
 
 p me Jonas James 
 
 •Churchwardens 
 
 February 12 1633 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry on Wednesday ffebruary 1 2 
 1633, It was ordered and decreed that Doctor Douglas now 
 vicar of the pish of Stepney shall haue the pence commonly 
 called the Paschall pence for two yeares payeng therefore for 
 the said yeares the iust summe of sixe pounds thirteene 
 shillings and fower pence p annum vnto the Churchwardens 
 of the pish for the time being toward the vse of the poore, 
 and also during the said yeares shall find and prouide suffi- 
 cient bread & wine att all such times as the holy communion 
 shalbe administred during the said yeares vi3* att the feast 
 of Easter next, for the yeare passed since the death of 
 doctor Gouldman the iust summe of sixe pounds thirteene 
 shillings & fower pence, and at the feast of Easter w''^ shalbe 
 
 1 Jonas James was later churchwarden in 1639 and 1640. He died in 1652, and left land 
 by will to Captain John Crowther (see below).— Stepney Court Rolls, Dec. 4, 1652, Roll B. 
 
 * George Douglas, 'a Scot, M.A. of Aberdeen— a supplicate for incorporation July 11, 
 1628.'— Wood's Fasti Oxon. 
 
 19 
 
146 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 in the yeare 1635 the Hke summe of sixe pounds thirteene 
 shilHngs & fower pence, And to this order the vicar & 
 vestrymen haue sett to their hands the day & yeare aboue 
 written./ 
 
 George Douglas Viccar 
 
 Edw: Ebgeworthe 
 
 George Walker 1 
 : ( 
 
 William Jobarne: I Church- 
 JoHN SuTHUN [wardens. 
 Tho Hart ) 
 
 William Pyot. 
 J oh: Frend 
 Ro: Kayl 
 Henry Dethick 
 Ro: Salmon 
 Walter Coke 
 
 Nicholas Dyckens 
 John Bennett 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 W"" Ewen 
 Edward Chandler 
 George Cullymer 
 R Bromfild 
 John Greaves 
 Will Goldston 
 Robert Rooke 
 John ffuller 
 
 Aprill 8 1634 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Aprill 8 1634, 
 being Tuesday in Easter weeke for the Eleccon of Church- 
 wardens & other Officers according to the Canons of the 
 Church in that case made & prouided were chosen Church- 
 wardens the persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare 
 ensuing in the Office of Churchwardens in this present yeare 
 1634 whereof all foure continew newly elected according to 
 the custome of the pish of Stepney 
 
 In Ratcliffe M'' William Jobarne 
 
 In Limehouse M"^ George Walker 
 In Popler M'' John Southan 
 
 In Mile end M=^ Thomas Hart. 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue in the said pish according 
 to the custome thereof for this present yeare 1634 
 In Ratcliffe Nathaneell Hawkins 
 
 In Limehouse William Dunne 
 In Popler John Catterall 
 
 In Mile end Samuell Cornewall. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 147 
 
 Itm whereas in Aprill 1632 there was a Landscot made 
 toward the repaire of the pish Church of Stepney at the rate 
 of vj-^ the acre, as by a decree made Aprill 16. 1632^ at fo 
 85 may appeare, and also September 5 1632 there was an 
 assessm* made according to the personall estates of men, as 
 by 4 seuerall bookes tendred by the 4 Churchwardens then 
 being w"=^ seuerall rates amounting in the whole to 84^ & 
 vpwards as by an order sett downe fo 85 may appeare, Now 
 yt is ordered & decreed forasmuch as the ruines of the pish 
 Church of Stepney are exceeding great, that all those that 
 occupie land in the said pish, whether Inhabitants or Out- 
 dwellers, shall presently pay to the Churchwardens of the 
 pish the said rate of sixe pence the acre, and euery one that 
 is an Inhabitant and occupieth no land shall pay the seuerall 
 rates formerlie imposed vpon them in the 4 bookes formerlie 
 tendred & confirmed in the vestry toward the present repaire 
 of the said Church. And the said Collection, Landscott and 
 Assessm* to be collected by the Churchwardens of the said 
 pish, and to be accounted of as for any other mony due to the 
 pish Church of Stepney aforesaid 
 
 Itm yt is ordered & decreed that the 4 churchwardens shall 
 ioyntly demaund of Mrs Gouldman the mony behind & vnpaid 
 for the Paschall pence in the life time of doctor Gouldman late 
 Vicar deceased. 
 
 George Douglas Viccar 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe 
 
 William Jobarne" 
 
 Tho Hart Church- 
 
 George Walker .'wardens 
 
 John: Suthun 
 
 Will Goldston 
 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 
 Walter Coke 
 
 J oh: Frend 
 
 T. Best 
 
 Ro Salmon 
 John ffuller 
 William Swanley 
 W"* EWEN 
 John Greaves 
 Edward Chandler 
 Hillarie Mempris 
 Richard R P Phillips 
 
 marke 
 Robert Rooke 
 
 ' There is aconfusion between April 9 and August 16. Both deal with the landscot. The 
 latter is on fol. 85 (see pp. 136-9). but the total is ;f8i not ^^84. 
 
 19 2 
 
148 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 September 23 1634 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday 
 September 23. 1634 by the vicar & vestrymen then and there 
 assembled It was ordered decreed & concluded in maner & 
 forme folowing. 
 
 Imp"^ that whereas there is certaine monies in the hands of 
 M"^ Jane Gouldman due by the name of Paschall pence in 
 the life time of doctor Gouldman late deceased and to the 
 vse of the poore of the said pish, if vpon the demaund of 
 the said monies by the Churchwardens or any of them, she 
 the said Mrs Gouldman shall refuse to pay the said mony, 
 then yt is decreed that the Churchwardens shall take such 
 course in law as ys fitt & convenient for the speedie recouery 
 of the said monies/ 
 
 Itm. whereas there is a want of much mony for the de- 
 frayeing of the charges arising for the repayre of the Church 
 It is orderered and decreed that all the land in the pish of 
 Stepney occupied as well by outdwellers as the Inhabitants 
 shall pay sixe pence an aker for so much land as they 
 occupie, for the satisfieng of the debts owing and for the 
 continuance of the repaire of the said Church. And for the 
 residue that shalbe wanting, yt is referred to a voluntary 
 contribution among the rest of the Inhabitants of the said 
 pish. And also that all such as refuse voluntarylie to con- 
 tribute vnto the said repaire that then all such as so refuse 
 shalbe assessed and rated toward the said repaire & the con- 
 tinuance thereof according to an assessm* formerlie made./ 
 George Douglas Viccar Ro: Salmon 
 Edw: Edgeworthe W. Pyot 
 
 T. Best John Bennett 
 
 Walter Coke William Jobarne 
 
 J oh: Frend Tho Hart 
 
 HiLLARIE MeMPRIS W™ EwEN 
 
 George Cullymer Will Goldston 
 
 George Walker Mychill Gisbe 
 
 Edw. Dalton Robert Rooke 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 149 
 
 Nouember 21 1634^ 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on fifriday 
 Nouember 21 1634, It was ordered & decreed by the vicar 
 & vestrymen then assembled that whereas there was a want 
 of vestrymen vi3* in the Hamlett of RatcHffe by the departure 
 of M' Robert Kayll out of the pish and the death of Mr Edward 
 Chandler & Mr John Clearke, these persons folowing should 
 be vestrymen in theire stead & so to be held & reputed, 
 M' Christopher Browne, M"" W" Pulman & M"^ John Tatton. 
 And in the Hamlet of Popler by the death of diuers of the 
 vestrymen there, these persons folowing should be vestrymen 
 in their stead & so to be reputed & held, M'^ Robert Fotherby, 
 M' Edward Steuens & M'' John Ducy. and so these persons 
 folowing to be accounted for vestrymen for the time being & 
 none other vig* 
 
 M"^ Doctor Douglas vicar 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 3 S' John Lee Knight i M'^ John Greaues 
 
 2 M"" Edw. Dalton dead 2 M'' Richard Philips 
 
 I M'Thos:Best 3 M' John Bennet 
 
 4 M' Rob: Salmon 6 M"^ George Walker 
 
 5 M"" Rob: Rookes 7 M' W™ Ewens 
 
 6 M-^ W"' Colston 4 M"^ Richard Broomefeild 
 
 7 M' Samuell Goldsmith 5 M"- Anthony Tutchen 
 
 8 M' W"" Jobarne 3 M' Henry Riuers 
 
 9 M' Christopher Browne </«*/ 9 M"^ W"" Hyat 
 
 10 M' W" Pulman gone 10 M"^ W"' Bushell. 
 
 1 1 M' John Tatton 
 
 Mr W" Mellish^ 
 
 In Mile end In Popler 
 
 I M'' Michaell Gisby i M"^ John West 
 
 4 M"" George CuUimer 2 M' Gilbert Dethick 
 
 ' Two pages are here left blank. 
 
 ' William Mellish, Alderman of London, and J.P. (see p. 184). In April, 1633, when he 
 married Martha Gouldsmitb, of Stepney, he is described as ' of Grayes Inne, in Com. Midd* 
 Esquier.' — Stepney Registers, State Papers, Dom. (1650). 
 
150 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 (In Mile end) {In Popler) 
 
 5 M"^ Randolph Wetwood 3 M"" Henry Dethick 
 
 6 Mr Nicholas Dickens 4 M^ W" Swanly 
 
 2 Mr John Friend 5 Mr John Fuller 
 
 3 M' Walter Cooke 6 Mr John Southan 
 
 7 M"" Edw: Edgeworthe 7 Mr Robert Fotherby 
 
 8 Mr W" Pyot 8 M'^ Edw: Steuens 
 
 9 M'' Hillary Mempris 9 Mr John Ducy 
 10 M^ Tho: Hart 
 
 Februarij 27 1634 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on ffriday fifebruary 27 
 1634 by the vicar & vestrymen then assembled It is ordered 
 and decreed that whereas there is a want of roome in the 
 Church for the receiuing of the Inhabitants when they 
 repaire to church, there shall therefore a gallery bee made on 
 the South side of the said Church from end to end, and the 
 breadth to be from the South wall ouer the South He and the 
 Columnes to stand within the corners of the Pewes next to the 
 north side of the South He 
 
 Itm whereas there was ffifty pounds geuen by the Com- 
 pany of the Mercers, London, to the Church of Stepney w"^ 
 summe is laid out by the Churchwardens It is ordered that 
 the Landscott and assessment formerlie made and the 
 voluntary Contribucon formerly agreed vpon being collected 
 shall repay the said ffifty pounds and the said ffifty pounds to 
 be expended and laid out toward the building of the gallery 
 aforesaid. 
 
 To these orders now concluded on, as also to the ratification 
 of the order made formerly in the vestry Nouember 21 1634 
 last past concerning the choise of vestry men, the vicar & 
 vestrymen haue theire hand subscribed 
 
 George Douglas Robert Rooke 
 
 Viccar :/ Edw: Steuens 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Joh Ducie 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 151 
 
 T. Best 
 Ro: Salmon 
 Walter Coke 
 J oh: Frend 
 Will Goldston 
 Chr Browne 
 Randall Wettwood 
 
 George Walker ' 
 
 Tho Hart [Church- 
 
 William Jobarne: "wardens 
 
 John: Suthun 
 
 Jn" Totton 
 
 William Pulman 
 
 March 31 1635 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday March 31 
 1635 being Tuesday in Easter weeke, It was ordered & 
 decreed in the maner & forme folowing vi3* whereas at a 
 vestry holden ffeb 12 1633 The pence commonly called the 
 Paschall pence were demised & lett to M' D' Douglas for 
 two yeares for the annuall summe of sixe pounds thirteene 
 shillings & fower pence Now yt is ordered and concluded 
 that the said D'" Douglas now vicar shall enioy the said 
 Paschall pence for the said yearelie rent to be paid as formerly 
 to the vse of the poore, so long as he the said D'' Douglas 
 shall continew vicar there 
 
 Itm at the said vestry were elected & chosen Church- 
 wardens these persons hereafter named to serue for the yeare 
 ensuing in the office of Churchwardens: vijt for this present 
 yeare 1635 being all newlie elected. 
 
 In Ratcliffe Mr John Dalbyi 
 
 In Limehouse Mr W" Ewens 
 In Popler Mr Robart Fotherbye 
 
 In Mile end Mr John Friend. 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue in the said pish, being 
 newly elected for this present yeare 1635. 
 
 In Ratcliffe Nathaneel Hawkins 
 
 In Limehouse William Dunne 
 
 ' John Dalby owned land in Hackney as well as some at Ratcliffe Cross, and The White 
 Horse in Mile End. His daughter Susan married Captain Wm. Thomas (see below), and 
 was buried in Sh.".dwell Church, 1662. His death was 'presented' to the Manorial Court 
 on December 3, 1663. — Lysons' Environs ; Stepney Court Rolls, i. 210 ; v. 168, etc. 
 
IS2 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 John Caterall 
 Andrew Graues 
 
 In Popler 
 
 In Mile end 
 
 & for Spittlefeilds 
 
 in that Hamlett James Dantier'^ 
 
 Elected also for Auditors for the Churchwardens accounts 
 for the two yeares passed together w*^ the minister according 
 to the Canons. 
 
 In Ratcliffe 
 Mr Tho: Best 
 M"- Edw. Dalton 
 
 In Popler 
 M' John Fuller 
 M"- Hen: Dethick 
 
 George Douglas 
 
 Viccar :/ 
 Edw: Edgeworthe 
 HiLL'^ Mempris 
 JoH DuciE 
 T. Best 
 Ro: Salmon 
 Gilbert Dethick 
 Robert Rooke 
 Ro: ffotherbye 
 Walter Coke 
 John Bennett 
 Henry Dethick 
 
 M'^ 
 M"^ 
 
 In Limehouse 
 Anthony Tutchen 
 John Bennet 
 
 In Mile end 
 M' Walter Cooke 
 M' Nicholas Dickens 
 
 William Pyot 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 John Fuller 
 Randall Wettwood 
 John Greaves 
 George Walker 
 William Jobarne Church- 
 Tho Hart [wardens 
 
 John: Suthun j 
 Nicholas dyckens 
 Will Goldston 
 George Collymer 
 Richard R P Philips (mark) 
 
 Julij 6° 1635 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Munday July 6 
 
 1635 the Churchwardens of the pish of Stepney for the 2 
 
 yeares last past theyre time of service expired did tender 
 
 euery one theire bookes of accounts of their receipts & dis- 
 
 ' James Dantier got into trouble as one of the collectors of the rate made in aid of the 
 plague-stricken (1636). See under Jenney, on p. 165. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 153 
 
 bursem*^ for theire said time being examined & alowed by 
 the seuerall Auditors in theire seuerall hamletts appointed, 
 w<=*^ accounts so tendered were accepted and approued by the 
 said vestry as by the seuerall subscriptions to the said seuerall 
 accounts appeareth. 
 
 Itm. at the said vestry It was thought fitt to allow the 
 Churchwarden of Ratcliffe another Sideman to be his 
 assistant, & therefore John Willoughby^ of Prusons Hand 
 in the Hamlet of Ratcliffe was elected & chosen to be a 
 Sideman in the Hamlet of Ratcliffe for this present yeare 
 1635- 
 
 George Douglas viccar:/ John ffuller 
 Edw : Edgeworthe William Swanley 
 
 John DALBvChur: George Collymer 
 
 W"" EwEN Churchwarden Edw: Steuens 
 Joh: Frend Church- Tho Hart 
 
 warden William Jobarne: 
 
 Walter Coke Will Goldston 
 
 Ant°: Tutchen Hillarie Mempris 
 
 July 15 1635 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Wednesday 
 July 15 1635 It was ordered & decreed that for the necessary 
 repayre of the North side of the Church in leading, timber 
 & stoneworke there should be raysed the iust summe of three- 
 hundred pounds in the seuerall hamletts of the pish in maner 
 & forme folowing vij* the hamlett of Ratcliffe to be charged 
 & to leuy three eights of the said summe of three hundred 
 pounds & the other three Hamletts Limehouse Milend & 
 Popler to be charged w* & to leuie the summe of one hundred 
 & fifty pounds w"^ said summes so imposed & laid vpon the 
 said seuerall hamletts are to be paid at two seuerall pay- 
 
 1 John Willoughby, probably the same man (a shipwright) who married by license, from 
 New Gravel Lane, Rebecca Mountfort, of White Horse Street, October 30, 1634. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
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154 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 ments v'l'^ the one halfe & moitye to be paid to the Church- 
 wardens betweene this & the feast of S* Michaell Th'arch- 
 angell next coming & the other moyty to be paid to the 
 Churchwardens betweene the feast of Easter & Midsommer 
 in the yeare 1636, and those summes so assessed are to be 
 collected by the Churchwardens of the pish at the seuerall 
 times of paym* before expressed 
 
 George Douglas John Dalby ] 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe W™ Ewen IChurch- 
 
 Wm. Pyot Joh: Frend ("wardens 
 
 Henry Dethick Ro: ffotherbyeJ 
 
 John West Ro: Salmon. 
 
 Nicholas dyckens George Walker 
 
 John Greaves Ant°: Tutchen 
 
 Mychell Gisbe John Totton 
 
 George Collymer Will Goldston 
 
 John: Suthun Richard RP Philips his 
 
 Gilbert Dethick marke 
 
 Edw D ALTON Hillarie Mempris 
 
 Aprill 20. 1636. 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Wednesday 
 Aprill 20 1636, being Wednesday in Easter weeke, for the 
 election of Churchwardens & others officers according to the 
 Canons of the Church in that case made & prouided, were 
 chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named to serue 
 for this present yeare in the Office of Churchwardens whereof 
 all fower continew newly elected according to the custome of 
 the pish of Stepney. 
 
 In Ratcliffe M'' John Dalby 
 
 In Limehouse M'' W"' Ewens 
 
 In Popler M'' Robert Fotherby. 
 
 In Mile end M'' John Frend 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 155 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue in the said pish being 
 newlie elected for this present yeare 1636. 
 
 In RatcHffe I Nathaneel Haulkins 
 
 \ John Willoughby 
 In Lime-house William Dunne 
 In Popler John Caterall 
 
 In Milend Andrew Graues 
 
 & Spittlefeilds James Dantier. 
 
 ^At the same vestry it was ordered & decreed that whereas 
 the plague is in some places of the pish and in likelihood the 
 contagion may spread further in the same pish, for the 
 releeuing and succouring of such as are or shalbe visited w* 
 the said infection whether in all the seuerall hambletts ioyntly 
 or in any one hamblet particularly, that the whole pish and 
 euery Hamblet therein shalbe liable to the releeuing of them 
 so visited in maner folowing vi3* the Hamblett of Ratcliffe 
 to pay three parts, the hamblett of Limehouse two parts the 
 hamlett of Mile end two parts & the hamblett of Popler 
 one part. During the whole continuance of the said visita- 
 tion and the care of the performance hereof to remaine in 
 the Churchwardens, and to account for theire receipts & dis- 
 bursem** as in any other monies receiued by them. 
 
 Also at the said vestry yt was ordered & decreed that the 
 old gallery standing in the middle part of the church toward 
 the North lie shalbe taken downe by the Churchwardens 
 betweene Easter & Whitsontide this present yeare vnto the 
 crosse gallery at the west end, that preparation may be made 
 for the erecting of a new gallery on the north syde vniform 
 to that new made & on the south side.; And that the Com- 
 mission graunted by the Lord Bishop of London for the new 
 building of the gallery alreadie built, for the taking downe of 
 the old galleryes & for the erecting of a new gallery on the 
 North side may presently be taken out by the Church- 
 
 ^ Repealed. See p. 165. 
 
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156 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 wardens that thereby what is already done may be confirmed, 
 and they may be authorized for the performance of what 
 remaines yet to be performed. As also that M"" Mellish shalbe 
 a vestryman in the stead of M"" Dalton^ deceased. 
 
 George Douglas Viccar:/ William Jobarne: 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Tho Hart 
 
 John Dalby Nicholas dyckens 
 
 JoH Frend William Pyot 
 
 W" Ewen Hillarie Mempris 
 
 Ro: FFOTHERBYE JoHN GrEAVES 
 
 John ffuller Robert Rooke 
 
 John Totton Randall Wettwood 
 
 Aprill 13. 1637 
 
 At a Vestry holden in y® Vestry house on Thursday in 
 Easter weeke April 13. 1637, for y^ election of Churchwardens 
 & other officers according to y" Canon were Chosen Church- 
 wardens these psons hereafter named to serue for this psent 
 yeare in y® office of Churchwardens vij : 
 
 In Ratcliffe Mr Francis Zachary^ 
 
 In Limehouse M' Daniell Darling^ 
 In Popler M' Edward Stevens 
 
 In Mileend M'' Joseph Cope. 
 
 It is alsoe ordered at y® said Vestry that Every several! 
 Churchwarden is to Nominate his Sideman and to psent his 
 name to y® Vestry, and the Vestry to like and approve of them 
 or- to Choose others. 
 
 And these persons ensuing were nominated at a vestry 
 holden on Tuesday May 9. 1637 and by the vestry then 
 assembled alowed and confirmed to serue as Sidemen for this 
 present yeare 1637 
 
 1 'Edward Dalton, of Ratcliffe, gent.,' was buried January 29, 1635-6. He had been a 
 member of the vestry nearly 40 years (see pp. 29 and 46). 
 
 " Francis Zachary, citizen and brewer, of London. — State Papers, Adv. of Money, i. 
 
 ^ Daniel Darling, of Limehouse, brewer, was buried July 22, 1642, and left money to the 
 poor. See (below) Stepney Registers. See Visitation of London, 1634, Harl. Soc, ed. I, p. 216. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 157 
 
 In Ratcliffe Thomas Williams and John 
 
 Willoughby 
 Thomas Cutlett^ 
 John Hawkins^ 
 
 Francis Taliafero and William 
 Heath.3 
 
 At y® time aforesaid were Chosen auditors to audit y" 
 Churchwardens accounts as followeth vi^. 
 
 In Limehouse 
 In Popler 
 In Milend 
 
 For Ratclifife 
 
 For Limehouse 
 For Popler 
 For Mile end 
 
 M' 
 M' 
 
 M"" Robert Salmon. 
 M' W" Goldston. 
 
 John Bennet 
 
 Anthony Tutchen. 
 
 John Suthun 
 
 John Fuller 
 M' Nicholas Dickens. 
 M"" Geo Colllmor. 
 
 It is further agreed upon & concluded, that after y" Auditors 
 have pfited the accounts of y" Churchwardens the same 
 accounts shall bee re-surveyed by those psons hereunder 
 Nominated vi^ : 
 
 Doctor Geo: Douglass M' Henry Detheck. 
 M' Tho : Best M' Walter Coke 
 
 M' John Greaves.* 
 
 At y® same vestry (whereas there was a want in y" 
 Number of vestrymen) were chosen for vestry men these 
 psons following. 
 
 ^ Thomas Cutlett, of Limehouse, citizen and tallow chandler. — Stepney Court Rolls, 
 vii. 62 ; ix. 281, etc. 
 
 * John Hawkins, of Ratcliffe, was biscuit-baker to the Royal Navy. — State Papers, 
 Domestic, and Adv. of Money, i. 
 
 ° William Heath, a ship's carpenter, and later a purser's mate, in the East India Com- 
 pany's service, was married, August 28, 1628, at Stepney, to Mary Hunter, of the same 
 parish. — State Papers, Colonial, E.I. ; Chester's Marriage Licenses. 
 
 * The last appearance of John Graves, shipwright, of Limehouse. His first wife, Sarah 
 Chester, died within a few months of their marriage, and almost at once he married Susan 
 Hoxton, June 24, 1624. Six years later he again was married — May 18, 1630— and to Mary 
 Raymond. See his Yard in the Map. — Stepney Registers. 
 
iS8 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 For Ratcliff M'^ John Dalby 
 
 M"" Jonas James. 
 
 For Limehouse M'' John Hemman^ 
 Mr Henry West^ & 
 Mr Daniel Darling. 
 
 Aprill 13. 1637. 
 At a Vestry holden in y* Vestry house at y^ time aforesaid, 
 was agreed and consented unto, that for all such psons as are 
 poore and their buriall duties not paied by reason thereof, 
 the Churchwardens of every several! hamblet shall pay the 
 duties in this maner vi3. to M'' Vicar seaven pence, to y^ Gierke 
 ffoure pence and to y^ Sexton foure pence for all such burialls 
 as aforesaid and noe more 
 
 To all the severall orders conteined in this page and the 
 last page alorewritten bearing date this 13*'' of Aprill 1637. 
 wee have agreed & consented & in testimony thereof have 
 hereto set our hands Aprill. 13. 1637. aforesaid. 
 
 George Douglas viccar:/ William Jobarne 
 Nicholas dyckens T. Best 
 
 John Bennett Will: Mellish 
 
 John Totton Walter Coke 
 
 George Collymer W™ Ewen 
 
 John ffuller Ant°: Tutchens 
 
 Ro : ffotherbye John Dalby 
 
 Will Goldston John: Suthun 
 
 Robert Rooke 
 
 ' Mr. John Henman, or Heaman, mariner, was buried September 25, 1657. A namesake 
 of his, a ropemaker of Wentworth Street, in 1624 performed the feat of marrying two wives 
 within six months. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Captain Henry West was master of the privateer Transport, of London, 180 tons, in 
 1626, and three years later he appears as a petitioner to Secretary Dorchester, praying that 
 the ' SI. Denis alias Device, of Olona, taken by the petitioner during the late war between 
 England and France, and condemned and divided under sentence of the Court of Admiralty, 
 may not be inserted in the treaty of Restitution between France & England.' Early in 1630 
 he was again a petitioner, this time for a permit to bring his prize into ' Minehead, for better 
 sale of her cargo of pitch and Rosin.' He died in 1657, and was buried in Stepney Church- 
 yard August 27. — State Papers, Domestic Lysons' Environs ; Stepney Registers and Court 
 Rolls, ii. 199-203. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 159 
 
 July 21 1637 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on fifriday July 21, 
 1637. was presented in the vestry the Accounts of M' John 
 Frend Churchwarden of Mile end wherein vpon his account 
 there resteth the iust summe of 14^ 8^ 8"^ due to the pish 
 Church of Stepney w*='' being pervsed was in the said vestry 
 approued and alowed and paid ouer the said day in the vestry 
 house., 
 
 llm there was presented in the said vestry the Accounts of 
 M' Robert fifotherbye Churchwarden for Popler, wherein vpon 
 his accounts there resteth the iust summe of g^ 13^ o"^ due to 
 the pish Church of Stepnie w'''' being pervsed in the said 
 vestry was approued & alowed & paid ouer the said day in the 
 vestry house./ 
 
 Itm there was presented in the said vestry the Accounts of 
 M'' W™ Ewens Churchwarden of Limehouse wherein vpon 
 his accounts there resteth due to the pish Church the iust 
 summe of 16^ 19^ 5"^ whereof he paid ouer the said day in the 
 vestry house 4^^ 2° 1 1"^ so there resteth payable to the pish 
 church of Stepney the iust summe of 12^ 16^ 6"* w'''' being 
 pervsed in the said vestry was approued and alowed, Alwayes 
 prouided if the Inhabitants of Limehouse shall before the feast 
 of S* Michaell next ensuing collect in theire said Hamlet the 
 aforesaid summe of 12^ 16^ 6*^. and tender & deliuer the said 
 summe vnto the vestry in the vestry house 
 
 Itm there was presented in the said vestry the accounts of 
 M"" John Dalby Churchwarden for Ratcliffe which were found 
 Imperfect, and therefore left to be made more piicular & more 
 perfect 
 
 Itm att the said vestry It was ordered that whereas the 
 Churchwardens of the pish in former times haue vsually paid 
 diuers summes of monies for maymed souldiers, hospitalls 
 and the like, out of the church monies, if hereafter the Church- 
 wardens for the time being or hereafter shalbe in this pish 
 shall expend & lay out for the vse aforesaid any of the Church 
 
i6o MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 monies, It shalbe charged vpon themselues, nether shalbe here- 
 after alowed vpon any of theire accounts. 
 
 Itm yt is ordered that when any collection is made for the 
 redeeming of any Captiue, that the party requiring such 
 collection shall first put in sufficient security for the employing 
 of the mony so collected for the end aforesaid, and if the 
 Captiue for whom the said collection is made shall die before 
 his redemption then to repay the said summe or summes so 
 collected in the pish to the vse of the poore of the pish. 
 
 It is also ordered that when any ringing shalbe extra- 
 ordinary in the pish, except such as shalbe commanded or 
 alowed by the Canons and constitutions of the church, they 
 that ring shall pay two shillings and sixepence for euery 
 peale they shall obtaine leaue to ring, to the vse and benefitt 
 of the Church, to be receiued by the Churchwardens & to 
 be accounted for as other church duties by them to be re- 
 ceiued./ 
 
 George Douglas viccar:/ ffrancis Zachary"! 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Edw: Steuens Ichurch- 
 
 T. Best Joseph Cope [wardens 
 
 Henry Dethick Daniell Darling] 
 
 Walter Coke John Bennett 
 
 John Fuller Will Goldston 
 
 Ro: Salmon Mychetx Gisbi 
 
 Ant°; Tutchen John: Suthun 
 
 October 19. 1637. 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 October 19 1637 was presented the accounts of M'' John 
 Dalby late churchwarden of Ratcliffe vj"^ hauing beene per- 
 vsed by George Douglas doctor of diuinity vicar M'' Thomas 
 Best, M-- Anthony Tutchen, M'' Henry Dethick, and M"^ Walter 
 Cooke appointed supervizers of the said accounts by whom yt 
 was found that the said John Dalby was endebted to the pish 
 church of Stepney the iust summes of Eleuen pounds, four- 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. i6i 
 
 teene shillings and seuen pence to ballance his accounts, and 
 fifty foure pounds two shillings and nine pence, the remainder 
 of three eight parts of three hundred pounds wherew*'' the 
 Hamlett of Ratcliffe was formerly charged as by a former 
 decree doth appeare, being the last part of the Collection to 
 be made It is now ordered & decreed that the said John 
 Dalby w*'' the Inhabitants of Ratcliffe shall levy and collect 
 the said summe of 54^. 2^. g^ and the same the said John Dalby 
 shall bring into the said vestry betweene this and the feast of 
 the Purification next ensuing to be there disposed to the 
 benefitt of the church by the vestry 
 
 Itm yt is also ordered that the Churchwardens shall new 
 lead the steeple and go forward in the making & erecting of 
 a new gallery on the North side of the church, and theire 
 expence and charges to be alowed by the vestry. 
 George Douglas viccar:/ T. Best 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Ro: Salmon 
 
 Walter Coke Henry Dethick 
 
 FFRANCIS ZaCHARyIp, , JOHN FFULLER 
 
 Daniell Darling l ^f*^ ' Htllarie Mempris 
 T r^ wardens 
 
 Joseph Cope } 
 
 March 29 1638 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 March xxix*'^ 1638 being Thursday in Easter weeke for the 
 electing of Churchwardens and other Ofificers according to 
 the Canons of the Church in that case made & prouided were 
 chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named to serue 
 for this present yeare in the office of Churchwardens : whereof 
 all fower continew newlie elected according to the Custome of 
 the said pish of Stepney. 
 
 In Ratcliffe M' Francis Zachary. 
 In Limehouse M"" Daniell DarUng 
 In Popler M"' Edw: Stephens 
 
 In Mile end M'' Joseph Cope, 
 
 21 
 
i62 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Elected for Sidemen to serue in the said pish being newlie 
 elected for this present yeare 1638 
 
 In Ratcliffe Thomas Williams & John Wil- 
 
 loughby 
 In Limehouse Thomas Cutlet 
 In Popler John Hawkins 
 
 In Mile end Francis Taliafero & William 
 
 Heath. 
 
 George Douglas viccarry William Jobarne: 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Will: Mellish 
 
 Joh: Frend ffrancis Zachary1-c c 
 
 John ffuller Daniell Darling I ^ -S 
 
 Robert Rooke Joseph Cope h^, g 
 
 October 9 1638 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday 
 October 9 1638, yt was ordered that whereas a petieon hath 
 bene lately preferred to his Ma*'^ by Drue Best & Thomas 
 Glouer pretending themselues to be Churchwardens, as they 
 call yt of the pish of Stratford Bow^ whereas yt is most 
 notorious that Stratford Bow is but a Chapellrie w*Mn & 
 belonging to the pish of Stepney and whereas the con- 
 sideracon of the said petieon by his Ma*^** is referred to the 
 most Reuerend ffather in God the Lo: Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury his Grace, and the Right hon*^^** the Lo: Keeper. Now 
 forasmuch as the contents of the said petieon do very much 
 trench vpon the liberties, immunities and priuiledges of the 
 pish of Stepney we the Inhabitants vestry men of the pish 
 of Stepney do appoint Joseph Cope of Mileend Church- 
 warden and M'' William Mellish of Stepney gent. or 
 any one^ of them to attend the said reference, and to sollicite 
 and follow the same busines in the name & behalfe of the 
 said pish of Stepney and to take care so farre as in them 
 
 ■ Compare p. I, note. 
 
 ' One inserted in place of two, and a space left for a third name. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 163 
 
 lieth, that no preiudice arise to the said pish of Stepney in 
 any of the Rights liberties and immunities aforesaid, and we 
 do hereby promise to defray and discharge all such charges 
 and expenses as they or ether of them shall reasonablie be at 
 in attendance & sollicitation of this busines 
 
 l£m yt is ordered the same day that whereas there re- 
 mayneth due from M' John Dalby late Churchwarden of 
 Ratcliffe, the iust summe of 54^ 2^ 9^ w<* should haue bene 
 assessed & collected in Ratcliffe and deliuered in to the 
 vestry before the feast of the Purification last past, that 
 therefore M' ffrancis Zachary, Churchwarden of Ratcliffe 
 shall immediately call together the Inhabitants of Ratcliffe 
 to make the said assessem* to levy the same & to deliuer yt 
 in to the vestry for the vse & benefitt of the pish Church of 
 Stepney, betweene this present meeting and the Annuntiacon 
 next ensuing. 
 
 George Douglas Viccar: Daniell Darling 
 T. Best Churchward 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Joseph Cope Church- 
 
 FFRANCIS ZACHARY ward 
 
 Churcb Gilbert Dethick 
 
 Walter Coke Ro. Salmon 
 
 J oh: Frend Will: Mellish 
 
 George Cullymer Tiio Hart 
 
 William Pyot John West 
 
 Henry Dethick John: Suthun 
 
 Ant": Tutchen 
 
 The names^ of the vestry men in Febr: 1638 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 S"" John Lee Knight Mr John Bennet 
 
 M' Tho: Best M' Richard Bromefeild 
 
 M' Rob: Salmon M"^ Anthony Tutchen 
 
 M' Rob: Rookes M"^ W" Hyat. 
 
 1 Inserted in the MS. on a blank space after the entry of April 13, 1637. 
 
 21 — 2 
 
164 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 (In Ratcliffe) 
 
 W W" Goldston 
 
 M'' Samuell Gouldsmith 
 
 M'' W"' Jobarne 
 
 M-- W^ Hellish 
 
 M' John Dalby 
 
 Mr Jonas James 
 
 In Mile end 
 
 M"" Michaell Gisbe^ 
 M"^ John Frend. 
 M"" Walter Cooke 
 M'' George Cullimer 
 M"^ Randolph Wetwood 
 M'' Nicholas Dickens 
 M"' Edw: Edgeworthe 
 M' W" Pyott 
 M' Hillary Mempris 
 M' Tho: Hart 
 
 (In Limehouse) 
 
 M"" John Hemman 
 M' Henry West 
 M' Daniel Darling 
 
 M^ 
 
 In Poplar 
 John West. 
 
 M'' Gilbert Dethick 
 M' Henry Dethick 
 M"- W" Swanly 
 M' John Fuller 
 M' John Southan 
 Mr Rob: Fotherby 
 M' Edw: Steuens 
 Mr John Ducy 
 
 Aprill 18 1639 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 April] 18 1639, being Thursday in Easter weeke, for the 
 Election of Churchwardens, and other officers according to 
 the Canons of the Church in that case made & provided, 
 where chosen Churchwardens these persons hereafter named 
 to serue for the yeare ensuing, in the office of Churchwardens, 
 vi3* in this present yeare 1639 being all newly elected. vi3' 
 
 In Ratcliffe M'' Jonas James 
 
 In Limehouse M'' John Hemman 
 
 In Poplar M' " 
 
 In Mile end M'' 
 
 Itm Elected for Sidemen to serue in the said pish for this 
 present year 1639 
 
 * Last appearance of Michaell Gisbe, bricktnaker, of Collier Lane. He married Joan 
 Davis, of Shoreditch, April 22, 1606, and was buried September 8, 1654. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 Henry Dethick 
 Hillary Mempris 
 
■MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 165 
 
 In Ratcliffe Nathaneel Hawkins & John 
 
 Gierke of Shadwell 
 In Limehousfi Thomas Cutlet. 
 In Popler William Sorrocold^ 
 
 In Mile end Thomas Mempris^ and John 
 
 Jenney.^ 
 
 Itm whereas Aprill 20 1636 It was ordered that for the 
 releife of the visited poore of the pish ioyntly and seuerally 
 in anypt of the pish considered as by the said order appeareth 
 that y^ said pish & euery Hamlett should pay w''^ hath beene 
 accordingly by the seuerall Hamletts in the said pish effected 
 the said order being only to continue during the said visitation 
 & no longer, now the said visitation is ceased It is ordered the 
 said order shalbe repealed & be vtterly void 
 
 Elected also for Auditors for the Churchwardens accounts 
 
 In Ratcliffe 
 Mr Roftt Salmon 
 M"^ W" Goldston 
 
 M' 
 
 M"- 
 
 In Limehouse 
 Anthony Tutchen 
 Henry West 
 
 In Popler 
 M' John Southun 
 M' John Fuller 
 
 M' 
 
 In Mile end 
 Nicholas Dickens 
 Geo: Cullimer 
 
 It is further agreed vpon and concluded that after the 
 Auditors haue perfited the accounls of the Churchwardens 
 
 ' William Serocold, Serecole, or Sorocole, of Poplar, an ironmonger, of London. He 
 married Anne Spencer, and was buried January IJ, 1651. She survived him only three 
 months, and was buried April 19, 1652. — Stepney Registers ; Visitation of London, 1634, 
 Harl. Soc. ed. 2, p. 254. 
 
 ' Mr. Thomas Mempris, of Mile End Green, gent., was brother and heir (1652) of Hillary 
 Menipris (see p. 140), a prominent man in local affairs, and keeper of the Homage Book of 
 the Manor, in succession to Walter Cooke (see p. 98). He died December, 1657, and was 
 buried on the nth ; and by will, dated April 11, 1655, left his property to his wife and two 
 sons, Michael and Hillary. — Stepney Court Rolls, ii. 85, iv. 150, 169; and Registers. 
 
 ' John Jenney, in 1636, was appointed to collect in Wentworth Street, Spitalfields, and 
 Artillery Lane, the rate made by the J.P.'s and Vestry (see p. 155) on behalf of the sufferers 
 from the plague. One, Mrs. Pearson, refused to pay her rale, and was imprisoned. In 
 revenge she summoned him, James Dantier (see p. 152), and others, for false imprisonment, 
 and he had to appeal to the Council for protection. He lived in Wentworth Street, and was 
 buried January 6, 1671. — State Papers, Domestic ; Stepney Registers. 
 
i66 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 the same accounts shalbe re-audited and reexamined by these 
 persons hereafter named vig* 
 
 Doctor Geo: Douglas 
 M' W™ Jobarne 
 M' Hugh Allabyi 
 M"" Gilbert Dethick 
 M"^ John Frend 
 
 Itm at the said vestry these persons folowing were chosen 
 vestrymen in the stead of them that are wanting 
 
 In Limehouse In Popler 
 
 M' Hugh Allaby M^^ Henry Hall.2 
 
 M"^ Edw: Kedden 
 
 George Douglas John ffuller 
 
 viccar:/ William Jobarne 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe John heaman 
 
 Edw: Steuens p me John Dalby 
 
 Daniell Darling Walter Coke 
 
 Joseph Cope Joh: Frend 
 
 George: Cullymer Tho Hart 
 
 Ant° Tutchen John: Suthun 
 
 May 16. 1639 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 May 16 1639 It was ordered and decreed in maner and 
 forme folowing vi3t It is ordered that the Churchwardens 
 
 1 Hugh Allaby, of Limehouse, gent., was buried July 30, 1658. He left an only daughter, 
 Frances, who married May 4, 1647, William Warcapp, Fishmonger, and merchant of Lime- 
 house. — Stepney Court Rolls, iii. 61 ; and Registers. 
 
 ' Henry Hall, of Poplar, captain in the navy, was assessed at ;^8o in 1643 by the com- 
 mittee for the advance of money. He brought in ;^22 worth of plate to the Guildhall in 
 October, and was dismissed for the time ; but a year later he was ordered to pay up half, 
 and the rest when the navy committee pay him what he is owed. The first he did, but ten 
 years later was had up for not having paid up the second half, and excused himself by saying 
 that his arrears from the navy were not yet paid up, ' to his utter undoing.' His will was 
 dated February 2, 1658-9, and he died before December 9, 1659, when his wife, Elizabeth, 
 and his son, Henry (see below), were admitted to his property in Poplar. — State Papers ; 
 Adv. of Money, i. ; Stepney Court Rolls, iii. 25. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 167 
 
 for the time being for the time to come shall quarterly at 
 the least, account w*'' him that shall be the Collector for the 
 church vailes^ as for bell mony, mony for breaking of the 
 grownd in the Church and for the black clothes or any other 
 duties that shall come due in this kind vnto the Church 
 otherwise the said Collector for the said monies shall tender 
 his account to the vestry att the next vestry after such quarter 
 ended, and the mony due to the Church vpon the said accounts, 
 w°^ accounts so tendered shalbe alowed in case of such default, 
 by the said vestry 
 
 Km yt is ordered that yf there shallbe at any time any 
 danger of fire in any of the Hamletts of the said pish of 
 Stepney, and therevpon the Bucketts belonging to the Church 
 shalbe vsed, if any of them so lent and vsed shalbe casually 
 or negligently broken & lost then they shalbe repaired by 
 the whole pish euery Hamlett bearing theyre proportion 
 according to order of diuisions in the said pish, but for any 
 other vse they are not to be lent or vsed. 
 
 Itm. the said day there was receiued by the viccar, Church- 
 wardens and vestry men from Cicilie Ambrose executrix of 
 the last will and Testam* of William Ambrose late of Stepney 
 deceased the iust summe of ten pounds of lawfull mony of 
 England to be employed as a stock for the setting of poore 
 on worke as by the said will & Testamen* doth and may 
 plainlie appeare, w""^ said summe to the vse & entent afore- 
 said The viccar Churchwardens and vestry men do at this 
 present vestry acknowledge themselues to haue receiued, and 
 thereof do acquitt and discharge the said Cicily Ambrose 
 by these presents./ 
 
 George Douglas viccar :/ Hillarie Mempris 
 
 FFRANCIS ZACHARY 
 
 Daniell Darling 
 Edw: Steuens 
 Joseph Cope 
 
 I w Edw: Edgeworthe 
 
 <j S John: Suthun 
 
 _§ 'H Walter Coke 
 
 U ^ William Jobarne: 
 
 > That is, 'profits.' 
 
i68 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Henry Dethick John dalby 
 
 Robert Rooke John heaman 
 
 Henry Hall Jonas James: 
 
 Joh Ducie Henry West 
 Hugh Allaby 
 
 July 31 1639 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Wednesday 
 July 31 1639 It was ordered and decreed that the Church- 
 wardens of this pish shall yearlie pay hereafter vnto the writer 
 of the Transcript for eiiery yeare to be caried into the Byshops 
 Registry the iust summe of forty shillings p annu 
 
 Itm yt is ordered and decreed that the Churchwardens 
 shall repaire to the Company of the Mercers to vnderstand 
 from them whether they will accept of the disposing, order- 
 ing and gouerning of the Almeshouses^ on Mile end grene 
 acording to the tenour of the will of M'' John Fuller Esquier 
 deceased committed vnto them or altogether relinquish the 
 same 
 
 George Douglas viccariy William Jobarne: 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Ant°: Tutchen 
 
 Henry Dethick "j John ffuller 
 
 John heaman [Church- Edw: Steuens 
 
 Jonas James. [wardens John: Suthun 
 
 Hillarie MemprisJ George Cullymer 
 
 Walter Coke Joseph Cope 
 
 William Pyot. John Dalby 
 
 September 20 1639 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on ffriday Sep- 
 tember 20 1639 for the choice of a churchwarden in the 
 Hamlet of Popler the office being void by the death of 
 M'' Henry Dethick late Churchwarden there, by the vicar 
 and vestry men was chosen to serue in the said office of 
 Churchwarden for the residue of this present yeare M"^ Henry 
 Hall of Popler. 
 
 ■" See p. 24. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 169 
 
 I£m at the said vestry were chosen for vestry men these 
 persons ensuing 
 
 In Ratclifife In Limehouse In Popler 
 
 Mr Francis Zachary M' John Diggens Mr Thomas Pye^ 
 M"- Thomas Dauis2 Mr John Lenford^ 
 
 I5m at the same vestry was presented the accounts of 
 M' ffrancis zachary & being examined were alowed and 
 approued. also the Accounts of M'^ Daniell Darling w"'' 
 were also allowed & approued, vpon whose account there 
 remayneth due to the said M' darling the iust summe of fiue 
 pounds and twelue shillings, and there remayneth due to 
 M' Zachary the iust summe of thirteene shillings and foure 
 pence to be paid by the next churchwardens after them out of 
 the first monies to be by them receiued.^ 
 
 George Dougi-as 
 
 viccar."/ 
 Edw: Edgeworthe 
 Walter Coke 
 J oh: Frend 
 Edw: Steuens 
 will goldston 
 John West 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 
 Hugh Allaby 
 George Collymek 
 John ffuller 
 Henry Hall. 
 
 Jonas James -g c 
 
 Hillarie Mempris ^ -a 
 John heaman ^ g 
 
 ' Thomas Pye lived in North Street, Poplar, and in 1656 sold a wood he owned there to 
 John Swanley (see below). He was assessed by the Parliamentary Committee for Advance 
 of Money at^flSO, but in 1643 Henry Hall (see p. 166) and eight other parishioners certified 
 that he had only £40 a year for himself, wife, and three small children, and his contribu- 
 tion was remitted. He died in 1658 or 1659. — Stepney Court Rolls, i. 136 ; ii. 225 ; State 
 Papers, Adv. of Money, i. 
 
 ^ Captain Thomas Davis, mariner, of Mile End Green, in partnership with Henry Lee, 
 and others, obtained Letters of Marque, in June, 1627, for the Marigold of London, 200 
 tons, Cap' Pulberry. Six months later he and his partners obtained Letters for the privateer 
 Paragon, 300 tons, and this time he took the command himself. He died in 1651, and was 
 buried on September 25 of that year. Plis will, which was made verbally to his friends, Captain 
 John Crowther and Thomas Hill, left all to his wife, Anne, and at her decease to his son 
 Roger Davis. — State Papers, Domestic ; Will at Somerset House ; Stepney Regi-.ters. 
 
 ' John Linford was a smith, of Poplar. He married, July 13, 1636, Alice Matthews, of 
 Ra;cliffe, and was buried June -13, 1641. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 22 
 
170 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Aprill 29 [64]. 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 Aprill 29 1641, being Thursday in Easter weeke for the 
 Election of Churchwardens and other officers, according to 
 the Custome, were chosen for Churchwardens these persons 
 hereafter named, to serue for the yeare ensuing in the office 
 of Churchwardens vig* in this present yeare 1641, being all 
 newlie elected. 
 
 In Ratcliffe 
 In Limehouse 
 In Popler 
 In Mileend 
 
 M'' John Berry^ &• Mr Robert clement^ 
 
 M' Edward Kedden 
 M' Thomas Pye 
 M"" James Dantier 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen to serue in the pish of Stepney 
 for this present yeare 1641. 
 
 In Ratcliffe Thomas Riggelswerthe^ 
 In Limehouse John Archer. 
 
 John Eedes.* 
 
 John Jenney & Henry Bartlet 
 
 In Popler 
 In Mile end 
 
 George Douglas 
 
 viccar./ 
 Edw. Edgeworthe 
 Ro: Salmon 
 Walter Coke 
 J oh: Frend 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 John: Suthun 
 William Jobarne. 
 
 George Collymer 
 Job Ducie 
 Robert Rooke 
 Henry West 
 Jonas James 
 Hillarie Mempris 
 John heaman 
 Henry Hall 
 
 Church- 
 wardens 
 
 ^ Mr. John Berry, of St. George's, Southwarke, gent., was buried October lo, 1672. — 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Robert Clements, mast-maker, shipowner, and finally master shipwright of the Royal 
 Navy, in conjunction with Peter Pett (see below). In the entry of his burial, September 25, 
 1646, he is called, 'Master R. C., of Wapping, shipwright.' — State Papers, Domestic (1637) ; 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Thomas Wriggleswood or Wriggelsworthe, a victualler of Stepney. He married Mary 
 Horton, of Slepney. by licence, on April 3, 1627, and was buried January 11, 1642. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 * John Eedes (? the same man as J. E., of Wentworth Street, looking-glass maker, who 
 married Anne Skegg, on September 4, 1628). — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. ■ 171 
 
 May 19 1641 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house the day aforesaid : 
 whereas the Hamlet of Ratclifife is of late so largely encreased 
 by the multitude of buildings & number of Inhabitants, that 
 the well ordering of the same is found a burthen to heauie 
 for one Churchwarden to execute, and whereas the Church- 
 warden and vestry men of the said Hamlet, or the greater 
 part of them, together with diuers other the Inhabitants of 
 the said Hamlet, haue desired the Addition & Election of 
 one other Churchwarden in the said Hamlet, for the better 
 & more easy regulating of the same : It is therefore at this 
 vestry ordered & decreed, so farre as in vs lieth, that in the 
 Hamlet of Ratcliffe shalbe chosen two Churchwardens, one 
 in Ratcliffe, the other vpon wapping wall or elsewhere there- 
 abouts, in maner & forme as other Churchwardens haue beene 
 formerly chosen & vpon these condieons ensuing. 
 
 1 Imp', that the said two Churchwardens for Ratcliffe 
 Hamlet shalbe reputed & taken but as one Churchwarden in 
 the performance & execution of the office of a Churchwarden 
 in the said Hamlet of Ratcliffe 
 
 2 llm that they shall content themselues w*'^ such diuision, 
 limitts & bounds^ as shalbe allotted vnto them by such diuision 
 as shalbe & is made among themselues, vi3* the Churchwarden 
 of Ratcliffe to haue for his diuision, Stepney, whitehorse 
 street, Brookestreet, Ratcliffe wall, Ratcliffe street vnto the 
 old balist wharfe,2 And the Churchwarden for Wapping side 
 to haue for his diuision, vpper Shadwell, lower Shadwell, 
 Ratcliffe highway, Foxes lane, wapping wall, Prusons Hand, 
 Kingstreet Wapping, Knockfergus, Newgravel-lane & Old 
 gravel-lane. 
 
 3 Itm that the said two Churchwardens of the Hamlet of 
 Ratcliffe, shall no way be preiuciall to the other Church- 
 wardens of Limehouse, Mileend & Popler, nor to any one of 
 
 ^ See the Map. The above still roughly describes the hamlet of Ratcliffe, but Wapping 
 has been since subdivided considerably. 
 * ? Bell wharf. 
 
 22 2 
 
172 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 theiji at any time, by intermedling in their seuerall Hamlets 
 & the goverm* thereof, but shall leaue them to the ordering 
 of theire seuerall Hamletts & euery part thereof as formerly 
 and anciently yt hath continued 
 
 4 Itm that in all collections at the Communion table or at 
 the Church dore for the poore, in all legacies geuen in 
 generall to the whole pish, in all gifts, in all diuisions of any 
 mony whatsoeuer, wherein all the Churchwardens of the other 
 Hamlets may iustly claime interest, the said two Church- 
 wardens of the Hamlet of Ratcliffe, shall content themselues 
 w*'' such part of the said collection, legacies, gifts & diuisions 
 of mony, as heretofore hath beene, & now is & as the Church- 
 warden of Ratcliffe hath formerly receiued & no other : w"'* 
 part shalbe equally diuided betweene the said two Church- 
 wardens of the Hamlet of Ratcliffe aforesaid And if yt 
 shall hereafter at any time happen that the said two Church- 
 wardens of Ratcliffe shall fall to any difference betweene 
 themselues, about such collections legacies gifts and diuisions 
 of mony, as are any way due to that Hamlet, or go about 
 to bring any Innovation into the said Hamlet of Ratcliffe, or 
 pish of Stepney, contrary to the ancient & established 
 customes of the said pish & Hamlet, and contrary to this 
 present order & decree, then the vicar & vestry men shall 
 order & determine the said controversy as they shall see iust 
 & equall. 
 
 5 Itm if yt shall happen at any time hereafter that the 
 two Churchwardens of Ratcliffe aforesaid, or any one of them, 
 shall encroach vpon the diuision or any part thereof not 
 allotted vnto them, as formerly is expressed, to collect mony 
 or duties, any way there due vnto them as Churchwardens, & 
 shall take vpon them to collect monies or duties in such part 
 of the diuision of the said Hamlet as is not assigned vnto 
 them : That then from thence forth yt shalbe lawfull for 
 the vicar & vestry men for the ending of such controversy, 
 to depute & appoint one of the said Churchwardens of the 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 173 
 
 Hamlet of Ratcliffe aforesaid, to collect & gather throughout 
 the whole Hamlet all such monies & duties, as are due to 
 them as Churchwardens, w**out any molestacon of the other, 
 and the power of the other for Collecting by vertue of that 
 deputaeon for the present to cease, vntill such time as the 
 Offendour shall againe conforme himself to this present order 
 & decree, & to euery seuerall article both in part & in whole 
 therein contayned. 
 
 Itm according to this order & decree is this present day 
 chosen for wapping side Churchwarden for this present yeere 
 1641 
 
 In wapping side M'' Robert Clements 
 
 for Sideman Edw: Clerke^, 
 
 George Douglas George Collymer 
 
 viccar:/ Edw: Edgeworthe 
 
 Will: Mellish Jonas James "jp, , 
 
 Walter Coke John heaman j- , ' 
 
 Will Goldston Hillarie MemprisI^^'^ 
 
 July 2 1641 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on ffriday July 2. 
 1641 for the choice of Auditors for the Churchwardens 
 accounts were chosen these persons folowing for Auditors 
 for the last Churchwardens accounts for the yeares 1639 and 
 1640. vi3* 
 
 In Ratcliffe In Limehouse 
 
 M' Zachary M' Tutchen 
 
 M' Goldston M^ West. 
 
 In Popler In Mile end 
 
 M' West Mr Cooke 
 
 M'' Southun M'' Frend. 
 
 1 Edward Gierke, of St. Michael, Cornhill, gent., married Anne .\llen of Shadwell, widow 
 by licence, on July 12, 1632.— Stepney Registers. 
 
174 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 And yt is further ordered and decreed that the said 
 Auditors shall audite the accounts of the late Church- 
 wardens betweene this present day and the last day of this 
 present moneth of July, that the said accounts being audited 
 may be tendered to the vestry to be perused and alowed. 
 
 Itm. It is ordered that the Churchwardens shall survay the 
 Gallery on the south side and the defects thereof and shall 
 with all convienency remedy all the said defects by all meanes 
 fitt for the strengthening of the same. 
 
 Itm yt is ordered that the Churchwardens shall prosecute 
 the sute against M'^ Elizabeth Ale for the recouery of such 
 monies as are due to the Church & poore or els to compound 
 w**" her for the most aduantage both to the Church & poore 
 
 George Douglas Edw: Steuens 
 
 viccar/ Henry West 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe John heaman 
 
 Wat,ter Coke J oh Ducie 
 
 John West John: Suthun 
 
 HiLLARlE MeMPRIS FFRANCIS ZACHARY 
 
 Jonas James: Tho Pye ^^^^^^_ 
 
 Ro:^ffotherby John Berry ^^^^^^^ 
 
 Will Goldston Edward Kedden 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 
 October 8 1641 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on ffriday 
 October 8 1641 by the vicar and vestry men were pre- 
 sented the accompts of the Churchwardens last past for 
 theire two yeares in maner & forme following M" Jonas 
 James presented his accompts the receipts whereof were 
 52^^ 15^ 6*^ and his disbursem*^ were 38^ 17^ so there was 
 due to the Church in remainder 13^ 18^ 6*^ which being 
 tendred in vestry & receiued by the present Churchwardens, 
 his accompt was alowed. and paid vnto him out of the said 
 monies 4^ 16^ 6*^ for his disbusments w'=^ he was out of 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 175 
 
 purse. M' Mempris presented his accompts, the Receipts 
 whereof were 45^ 01^ 10^ And his disbusements 43^ 18* y^ 
 so there was due to the Church in remainder 1^ 3" 3^ w"''' 
 being tendred as before and receiued, his accompt was alowed./ 
 M' Heaman presented his accompts, the Receipts whereof 
 were 35^ 05^ oo*^ and his disbursem*' 27^ 2^ 11^. so there was 
 due to the Church in remainder 8^ 2^ i'' w°^ being tendred 
 & receiued as before, his accompt was alowed. M' Hall 
 presented his accompts the Receipts whereof were 16^ 12^ y^ 
 and his disbursem*^ 16^ 2^ 9"* so there was due to the 
 Church in remainder 00^ 10^ o"^ which being tendred & 
 receiued as before his accompt was allowed and so all theire 
 accompts at this present vestry were accepted & allowed. 
 There resteth in hands of the present Churchwardens, as the 
 surplusage of this accompt 18^ 17^ 03*^. 
 
 Itm. at the said vestry M"" Hillary Mempris tendered his 
 accompts touching the Almeshouses on Mileend greene^ his 
 Receipts were 88" 00* oo*^ his disbursem*^ in maner folowing 
 To the Churchwardens of Shoreditch 44^ 00 00 to the 
 Almesmen 37^ 13^ o'^ & for the suit in law in the Exchequer 
 4^ 18^ o*^, so there resteth due vpon the said accompt 2^ 9^ 
 which was deliuered into the hands of the present Church- 
 wardens & so the accompt was alowed./ 
 
 Itm yt is ordered at the said vestry that the present 
 Churchwardens shall pay vnto Joseph Cope late Church- 
 warden of Mileend the iust summe of fiue pounds w"'' is 
 mony due to him vpon his accompt and this to be paid out of 
 the mony now in theire hands 
 
 William Stamp^ Viccar. Robert Rooke 
 
 ' See pp. 24, 168. 
 
 2 William Stamp, who came to be vicar on the death of Dr. Douglas, was an Oxford man, 
 and a warm supporter of the Church and Throne ; this got him into trouble with Puritans 
 and Parliamentarians, and during the few years that he was vicar there were great disturb- 
 ances. He had many warm supporters, but was not able to restrain his tongue or his action 
 against the opposite party, and in 1642 he was imprisoned by Parliament, and then ejected 
 from the vicarage ' for being a proved prelatical innovator of Romish ceremonies and a 
 desperate malignant.' After eight months' imprisonment he fled to the king at Oxford, where 
 he was received into high favour ; but after the ill success of the king he went abroad, and 
 
176 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Will: Mellish Joh Ducie 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe Hugh Allaby 
 
 Walter Coke Tho Pye Chiirch- 
 
 JoHN West warden 
 
 Ant°: Tutchen John Berrye Church- 
 
 FFRANCis ZACHARY warden 
 
 Joh: Frend Edward Kedden 
 
 William Jobarne: Robert Clement 
 
 John ffuller^ James Dentere 
 
 Aprill: 14 1642 
 
 Att a vestry holden in the vestry house on Thursday 
 Aprill 14 1642, being Thursday in Easter weeke, for the 
 Eleccon of Churchwardens and other officers according the 
 Custome were chosen for Churchwardens these persons, here- 
 after named to serue in this present yeare 1642 in the office 
 of Churchwardens being all newly elected according to the 
 custome of the pish. 
 
 In Ratclifife Mr John Berry & M' Robert 
 
 Clements 
 In Limehouse M' Edw: Kedden 
 In Popler M" Thomas Pye 
 
 In Mile end M"' James Dantier 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen & newly elected to serue in this 
 present yeare 1642. 
 
 In Ratclifife Thomas wrigglesworth & Edw: Clerke 
 
 In Limehouse John Archer 
 
 In Popler John Ead 
 
 In Mileend John Jenney and Henry Bartlet. 
 
 held cures at Charenton, near Paris, and later at the Hague, where he died in 1653, aged 43. 
 He published, besides other works, '"A Treatise of Spiritual Infatuation," by W. S., 
 D.D., the imprisoned plundered exiled minister of God's word at Stepney, near London,' 
 with a preface addressed to the parishioners of Stepney. He was probably a relation of 
 Timothy Stampe (see below), and possibly his younger brother, as his father's name was 
 Timothy.— Newcourt ; Wooil's Athen. Oxon. ; Lysons ; Hist. MSS. and Com., Report v. 
 
 ^ Last appearance of John FfuUer, who had been menibur of the Vestry, first for Mile End 
 then for Poplar since 1617. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 177 
 
 William Stamp viccar^ Will Goldston 
 
 William Pyot Will: Swanley 
 
 Edw: Edgeworthe^ William Jobarne: 
 
 Walter Coke Henry West 
 
 Joh: Frend Henry Hall 
 
 Ant°: Tutchen Ro: ffotherby 
 
 Hillarie Mempris Joh Ducie 
 
 FFRANCIS ZACHARY HuGH AlLABY 
 
 Jonas James Nicholas dyckens 
 
 Joh ream an 
 
 Itm at the said vestry were chosen for vestry men for those 
 that are wanting In Popler, W"* Comins, Raph Nelson,^ & 
 John Harris.^ 
 
 At a vestry holden In the vestry house on Thursday 
 6*^ Aprill being* (blanfi) in easter weeke for the Eleccon of 
 Churchwardens & other officers according to the custome, 
 were chosen for Churchwardens these persons hereafter named 
 to serue in this present yeare 1643 in the office of Church- 
 wardens being all newly elected. 
 
 ^ Mr. Edward Edgeworthe here appears for the last time. He succeeded Mr. Hawes as 
 curate in 1613 (see p. 66), and seems to have resigned or been ejected about this time, as in 
 the entry of his burial, March 13, 1645, he is described as 'of Stepney, clerke, late curate 
 there.' It is probable that he followed the fate of William Stamp, his vicar (see p. 175), 
 and fell a victim to the persecution which came to the lot of many of the priests of the 
 Church from the sectaries. Abusive language was freely used about both vicar and curate, 
 and a lady parishioner thus delicately expressed her opinion of the latter, ' That Mr. Edg- 
 worth, curate of Stepney parish, was a damned dogg, and that she would rather goe to hear 
 a cartwheel creake, and a dogg bark, then to hear him preach.' Nor were words all, for 
 Edgeworthe was molested even when reading Divine Service, and doubtless he was glad to 
 retire and end his days in peace. — Middlesex County Records ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 2 Ralph Nelson was a yeoman of Poplar, who was buried April 22, 1658, while his widow, 
 Anne, was buried exactly a week later. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Captain John Harris, of the Commonwealth navy, was master of the Phanix frigate in 
 1649, when he succeeded in rescuing certain prizes ' from the Jerseymen.' Four years later 
 he sailed for Virginia, and in 1654 he petitioned for license to ship horses to Barbadoes. He 
 married Rebecca Adams, widow, on September 12, 1644, and later to Susan, daughter of 
 William Jones. His death was 'presented' to the Manorial Court on December 12, 1670. — 
 Stepney Registers and Court Rolls, i. 177-8, etc. ; Slate Papers, Colonial, America and West 
 Indies, pp. 397, 417, 452 ; Whitelock Memorials, 412. 
 
 * Thursday. 
 
 23 
 
178 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 In Ratclife 
 
 Mr Walter Manyard^ and 
 ■ M'' Jn° Craven^ 
 In Limehouse M' Edward Johnson^ 
 In Popler M' Ralfe Nelson: 
 
 In Mile end M'' George Lawrence* 
 
 Elected also for Sidemen^ to serue in this present yeare 
 1643 
 
 In Ratcliffe 
 In Limehouse 
 
 J oh: Frend 
 Henry Hall 
 ffrancis zachary 
 Walter Coke 
 
 HiLLARIE MeMPRIS 
 
 Ant° Tutchen 
 John heaman 
 JoH DuciE 
 William Willoughby 
 
 In Popler 
 In Mile end 
 
 John Berrye Church- 
 warden 
 Edward Kedden 
 
 Churchwarden 
 James Dantere Church- 
 warden 
 Robert Clements 
 William Chapman 
 Robert Hackwell^ 
 
 ' Captain Walter Mainard, or Maynard, master of the Lucretia privateer, of London, 
 in 1627. He married Rose Heaman, widow of Richard Heaman, and was admitted at 
 the Manorial Court to a house called ' Knights place, Limehouse, belonging to her late 
 husband,' on June 2, 1655. — Stepney Court Rolls, i. 66 ; State Papers, Domestic. 
 
 ^ Mr. John Craven, of Shadwell, shipmaster, and one of the Trinity House. — State Papers, 
 Domestic ; Adv. of Money, i. 
 
 ' Captain Edward Johnson, master of the Unicorn in the royal navy, and some time 
 master of the privateer William and Francis, of London, 180 tons, of which he was part 
 owner. He appears to have been twice married : first to Hannah Browne, of Wapping, 
 widow, by licence, on May 18, 1644, at Stepney Church ; his second wife was named 
 Elizabeth, but what her surname was does not transpire — she was buried on September 25. 
 1662, and was followed by her husband on July 14, 1669. Both in the register and on his 
 monument in the church he was described as ' late of Low Leyton.' He left to the poor of 
 Ralcliff and Limehouse ^400, which in Lysons' time produced £20 per annum. There is a 
 tablet on the outside of the south wall of Stepney Church, by which it appears that he left a 
 son, ' Thomas Johnson, of Mile End, Ksq.,' whose son Thomas died in 1689. — State Papers, 
 Domestic ; Stepney Registers ; Stow's Survey (Strype) ; Lysons' ' Environs,' lii., 434, 474. 
 
 * George Laurance was probably identical with ' Mr. Laurance,' to whom the congrega- 
 tion of Stepney Meeting allowed £'^ on March 6, 1667. Wood writes of a (ieorge 
 Laurance, M.A., 'son of George Laurance, of Stepney,' who was ejected after the Restoia- 
 tion for Nonconformity. — Wood's Athen. Oxon. ; Calamy, Noncon. Mem., 1802, iii., 516; 
 A. T. Jones's ' Early Days of Stepney Meeting.' 
 
 ' Their names are not given. 
 
 ^ Robert Hackwell, a captain in the East India Company's service, and later in the 
 royal navy. In 1623 was master of the Rose, and an order was given that he was to be 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 179 
 
 John Waterton^ Con- Edward Page 
 
 stabel Thomas Allee 
 
 Jo: Best, Will Wildey^ John Ellisoun^ 
 William Cottwen 
 
 P^^iCS per month, 'the better to encourage deserving men of his coat.' Three years later, 
 however, praise was turned to blame, and we read that on December 22, 1626, he was ' sus- 
 pended until he could clear himself of the foul imputation of a barbourous and inhuman 
 cruelty committed by his order on two blacks in the Indies.' A month later (January 19) 
 he was discharged from the service ' because he so confidently denied ' the charges brought 
 against him, and at the end often days the court declared their detestation of the 'barbourous 
 inhumanity rumoured against him,' and resolved never to employ him again ' unless he clear 
 himself,' and to prosecute him 'if he appear culpable'; they, however, saw no reason to 
 detain his wages, ' he having otherwise carried himself well, and confidently denying the 
 fact, and no man directly accusing him.' After this unjust and shabby treatment by his 
 employers he entered the royal navy, and in 1649 held the important post of commander-in- 
 chief of the Irish seas, probably as successor to Richard Swanley.— State Papers, Domestic. 
 
 ^ John Waterton, constable of Ratcliffe in 1643, and Justice of the Peace. A prominent 
 man in local affairs, and entrusted with several difficult inquiries and commissions by the 
 Government. In March, 1653, he made a return to the commissioners of the navy of twenty- 
 one captains fit to be commanders at sea, which includes many of the men here described. 
 By profession he was a timber-merchant. This John Waterton, who hved on Wapping 
 Wall, and was buried January 26, 1659, must not be confused with a namesake, a captain, 
 who also appears in the State Papers of this date. — State Papers, Domestic ; Adv. of 
 Money, i. , 
 
 ' Rear-Admiral William Wildey, an energetic and painstaking officer of the Common- 
 wealth navy. Early in 1653 Captain Wildey was consulted by the Navy Commissioners con- 
 cerning the fitness of ' forty ships ' for State service, and until June he was busily engaged in 
 finding crews and victualling the fleet at Gravesend for the war with Holland. About this 
 time, however, he seems to have had a reprimand from headquarters, and on June 24 he 
 wrote from RatclifT to the Admiralty Committee : ' I must defend myself from your high 
 displeasure of misrepresentation concerning me. I have been neither negligent nor unfaith- 
 ful, and if I erred in carrying out your orders, it has been through misapprehension. I beg 
 dismissal, as there are others better qualified.' He appears to have been most anxious that 
 the crews should be properly fed and clothed, and addressed frequent and vigorous complaints 
 of the badness of the victuals, ' smallness of the pork,' etc. ; hence, perhaps, his offisnce. He 
 was married twice (first to Margaret Hawkins, April 18, 1626, and secondly to Sarah Dover, 
 February 13, 1633), and died August 29, 1679, his second wife having predeceased him and 
 been buried on April 6, 1667, leaving three sons, William, Richard and Thomas. The family 
 continued connected with Stepney until 1782, when Samuel Wildey, the last of the male line, 
 died, and was buried in the parish churchyard. — .State Papers, Domestic ; Lysons' Envi- 
 rons ; Seymour's Survey of London ; Stepney Registers and Court Rolls. 
 
 ' Captain John Ellison in 1635 went to the Canaries with Richard Beck as quartermaster, 
 and ' used him tyrannically, for a cup of drink extraordinary giving him t wenty-six blows. ' 
 He also threatened Isaac, his master trumpeter, seven times as much, with the result that 
 they went ashore at Calais, and did not return. Their wives, imable to obtain their pay 
 from Ellison, appealed for justice to the Lords of the Admiralty. Later on Ellison appears 
 in command of the Persia. A captain, John EUinson (probably the same man), of Downe, 
 in Kent, and his son Edmund, of Shadwell, got into tronble for taking part in the Kent in- 
 surrection against the Parliament. An inquiry was held into their conduct, but they were 
 discharged in 1652. — State Papers, Domestic (1635 and 1650) ; Adv. of Money, i. 
 
 23—2 
 
i8o MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Memorand M"" Jobarne, Capt: Dalby, M"^ Allaby & 
 Mr Digens were present at the Election abous'* and did 
 aproue of it, though there seuerall Ocasions w^Mrew them 
 before the booke was fitted to signe 
 
 June: 20™°: 1643. 
 At a vestry holden in the Vestry house on Tuesday June 
 the 20° 1643. for the Choice of Auditors, to Audita the 
 Churchwardens accounts for the yeares of our Lord God 
 1641: & 1642. There were Chosen these psons following 
 vi3*./ 
 
 In Ratclifife In Lymehouse 
 
 Mr Dalby M' Tutchen 
 
 M' James, M"^ Heaman. 
 
 In Popler In Mile end 
 
 M"^ Suthun M'^ Mempris 
 
 M' Hall* M' ffrend. 
 
 And at the same Vestry there were Chosen for sidemen 
 these psons following vi3* 
 
 ffor Ratcliffe: Thomas Alley & nycolas 
 
 Tempas. 
 ffor Lymehouse: Christopher Ravens, 
 ffor Popler. John Eade. 
 
 ffor Mile end. John Barnard & Edmund 
 
 Kempe of Spittlefeilds 
 
 It is likewise ordered at the said Vestry That M'' James 
 denteere of Spittlefeilds shalbe vestry man in the stead of 
 M'' William Pyott^ of Bednall greene deceased And 
 Mr Robert Clement of Waping wall in stead of Mr Robert 
 Rooke of Ratcliffe, deceased. 
 
 ' William Pyot here appears for the last time : he came to Stepney from Sireetehay, Stafford- 
 shire, and became possessed of a good deal of land in Bethnal Green, as Gascoigne's map 
 shows ig.v.). — Stepney Court Rolls, i. 69, etc. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. i8i 
 
 And whereas M'' Edward Johnson of Lymehouse, maryner, 
 was at a vestry holden on Thursday the 6"^ day of Aprill 
 An": 1643 Chosen to be Churchwarden for the said Hamlett 
 for the yeare ensueing. And the said M'' Johnson being 
 appointed to goe a voyage to sea, hath made choyce of 
 M'^ John ducy of the said Hamlett to serue Churchwarden 
 in his roome, & desireth that the said M"" John ducy may be 
 confirmed Churchwarden by the vestry w<=^ was then donne 
 accordingly 
 
 Walter Coke Josua Hoyle^ Vicar 
 
 Joh: Frend George Lawrence 
 
 HiLLARIE MeMPRIS RaREF NeLLSON 
 
 John heaman John Ducie 
 
 Edward Kedden Walter Mainard 
 James Dentier John Craven 
 
 December 26*'' 1643 
 
 yt is Agreed vppon and fully Concluded by the Vestry 
 helde this day, that Lawrence Spence^ the Clarke, — in 
 Regard of many Complayntes made Against him byseuerall 
 of the Inhabytants for diners Abuses Comytted by him, y* wee 
 haue giuen him vntil Sunday next to Resolue to Refourme 
 himselfe and to take the Couenant, also to Cary himselfe 
 Soberly and honest in his place, and also giue A Just acc° to 
 o" dockter & the parrish for all the duties dewe vnto him. 
 
 ' Joshua Hoyle went from Oxford to Trinity College, Dublin, became Divinity Professor 
 there, and was conspicuous for his diligence in lecturing, preaching and writing. In 1641 he 
 returned to England with a reputation for strong Puritanism, was made Master of University 
 College and Divinity Professor at Oxford by the Parliamentary Committee for reforming the 
 University, and also was intruded into the vicarage of Stepney. Here he was not a success, 
 as he was ' too scholastical ' to please the parishioners, and too weak to keep in check the 
 two lecturers at the church, William Greenhill and Jeremiah Burroughes — ' two notorious 
 schismaticks and Independents,' as Wood calls them, or the ' Morning and Evening Star ' of 
 Stepney, as Hugh Peters nicknamed them. He does not sign the minutes after 1651, and 
 in April, 1653, WiUiam Greenhill signs in his place, so probably he was glad to retire to the 
 quiet of Oxford, where he died December 6, 1654, six months after Greenhill had taken his 
 place as vicar. — Wood's Athen. Oxon. 
 
 - Laurence Spence, parish clerk of Stepney, was buried March 11, 164!. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
i82 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 And yf hee hereafter shall giue Just Cause of Complaynte 
 bee shalbe put out of his place of beinge Clarke 
 
 And for M"" W™ Cullham yt is Agreed that the like order 
 shalbe taken w*'^ him for his being Sexton^ 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar George Lawrence 
 Will: Mellish Churchwarden 
 
 Joh: Frend Joh Ducie Church- 
 
 FFRANCis zachary warden 
 
 Hillarie Mempris John Craven 
 John dalby the mk R of Raphe 
 
 John heaman Nellson 
 
 Henry west Walter Mainard 
 
 [No entry in 1644) 
 
 Att^ a vestry houlden att ye vestry house of diuers of ye 
 Inhabittants of ye prishe of Stepney one thursday ye 10*^ of 
 aprill 1645 for ye electinge of Churchwardens, these p^sones 
 hereafter named are Chosen to bee Church vvardenes beinge 
 nowe newly Chosen wittnes ow' handes ye daye & yeare aboue 
 writen — 
 
 for Ratclife M'' w"" elice 
 
 for shaddwell M'' John Moore^ 
 for Limehouse Mr thomas Bigges^ 
 for Miiend Mr thomas Grimlie* 
 
 for Poplare Mr w™ hunte^ 
 
 1 The old formula of recording the election is given up. 
 
 ' ' Captain Moore, in the hamlet of Ratcliffe, mariner.' — Burials, April 29, 1653. His wife 
 (Anne) petitioned the Admiralty Commissioners for help, as he was 'slain at sea in service.' 
 The burial entry is probably only commemoralive. — State Papers, Domestic (1653) ; Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 •' Thomas Biggs, of Limehouse, citizen and chirurgeon, owned land there, and in Poplar, 
 by the East India Yard, which he left to his wife Rachel by will, dated February 2, 1656 
 He was buried March 5 of the same year. — Stepney Registeis and Court Rolls, i. 262. 
 
 * Thomas Grimley, yeoman, of Mile End, was buried September 3, i66l. His wife's name 
 was Joanna, and he left property to his son Thomas. — Stepney Registers and Court Rolls, iv. 12. 
 
 ^ William Hunt, shipwright, of Poplar, was buried May 9, 1648. His tombstone formerly 
 was on the north wall of the church, and he left a legacy of ^^5 per annum for widows. — 
 Stepney Registers; Lysons' Environs, iii., pp. 429, 471, 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 183 
 
 These seuerall men hadd a free elecione ye daye & yeare 
 aboue written by vs whose names are here vnderwritten 
 And^ for Sidemen these JosuA Hoyle Vicar 
 
 psons herevnder named are 
 chosen vi3t 
 
 ffor the Hamlet of Rat- 
 cliffe Nicholas Cumberford^ 
 and William Weston. 
 
 ffor the Hamlet of Mile- 
 end Thomas Westwood & 
 Hillary Mapp. 
 
 ffor Lymehouse Hamlett 
 John Ledman. 
 
 ffor Poplar Hamlett John 
 Warden 
 
 Will: Mellish 
 ffrancis zachary 
 John dalby 
 Walter Coke 
 Hillarie Mempris 
 Edw: Johnson. Churchwarden 
 John Craven. Churchwarden 
 Walter Mainard Church- 
 warden 
 ye i8ke of R Raph Nelsone 
 
 Churchwarden 
 John heaman 
 Edward Kedden 
 George Lawrence 
 Nicholas Comberford Side- 
 man 
 John barnard Sideman 
 Humfrey Stillego^ 
 
 June the 24* Anno dfii 1645 
 
 At a vestry holden in the vestry house on Tuesday the 
 24*^ day of June aforesaid, for the choyce of Auditors for the 
 Churchwardens accomptes were chosen these persons follow- 
 
 ' Added in the margin in another hand. 
 
 ^ Nicholas Cumberford or Commerford, ' of the precincts of St. Katherine, draper,' 
 married Marie Kitchen, of Ratcliffe, June 10, 1624. — Stepney Registers ; see also Biblioth. 
 Topogr. Brit., ix., part iv., 257 (p. 25). 
 
 ' Humphrey Stillego, shipwright, of New Gravel Lane, Wapping, was recommended by 
 William Burrell (p. 25) to be master carpenter in the Vanguard, March 30, 1627. In December, 
 1642, he collected money for the king, at Shadwell, as churchwarden, £$^ 13s. 6d. in all ; 
 but he is not entered on the vestry minutes as churchwarden for that year, so he was probably 
 acting as deputy to Mr. Robert Clements. In 1648 he is entered as churchwarden, but 
 probably as deputy to Captain John Ellison, for his second year of office. He was buried 
 July 2, 1651, and his wife Agnes on July 11, 1663. In his will he describes himself as 
 ' Citizen and Clothworker of London, Gent ; by trade a Shipwright Carpenter.' — Will at 
 Somerset House ; State Papers, Domestic, 1627, and Adv. of Money, i. ; Stepney Registers. 
 
i84 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 ing for Auditors for the last Churchwardens accompts for the 
 yeares 1643 and 1644. Vi3t, And the said Churchwardens are 
 to procure their said Accompts to be audited by the said 
 Auditors by or before Saterday the 12*^ day of the moneth of 
 July next ensueing./ 
 
 Auditors in Ratcliffe Auditors In Mileend Hamlett 
 
 Mr John dalby & Mr Hillary Mempris & 
 
 Mr Robert Hackwell Mr Walter Cooke 
 
 Auditors In Shadwell Auditors In Popler 
 
 M"" Edward Arlibere^ & Mr Edward Stevens. 
 Mr Humfrey Stillgo Mr Henry Hall./ 
 
 Auditors in Lymehouse 
 
 M" John Heaman & 
 Mr ffrancis Caley^ 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar Thomas Bigges 
 
 Walter Coke John More 
 
 HiLLARXE Mempris Thomas Grimley 
 
 John heaman The mark H of william 
 William Ellis Hunt 
 
 At a meeting at the Vestry house this sixt day of May 
 1645 wee whose names are herevnder written,^ Inhabitants 
 w*'^in the Hamlett of Ratcliffe, by order of William Mellish 
 one of his Ma*''*'' Justices of Peace of the County of Midd, 
 baue consented & agreed that William Ellis of Ratcliffe 
 shalbe vpper Churchwarden of the said Hamlett for this 
 present yeare & M"" John Moore of waping wall w*in the 
 said Hamlett, vnder churchwarden for the said yeare Also 
 
 1 Edward Arlibeare, a mast-maker, of Wapping Wall, and a benefactor of St. Paul's 
 Church, Shadwell, married Mary Williams, of Shadwell, widow, by license, on April lO, 
 1626, and Mary Cope on May 21, 1646. He was buried March 23, 1667, and his widow, 
 Mary Arlibeare, on December 22, 1669.— Strype's Stow ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Francis Caley, constable of Mile End in 1655. — Stepney Court Rolls, i. 55. 
 
 ' The names are not signatures, and this minute should precede the one before it. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 185 
 
 wee doe consent & agree that there shalbe another Church- 
 warden chosen the next ensueing yeare, to serue as vnder 
 churchwarden vnder the said John Moore, which said John 
 Moore to be then vpper Churchwarden, And see successiuely 
 to choose in the said Hamlett yearely.y 
 
 John Craven Churchwarden Thomas Cadey 
 
 Walter Maynard Church- John Thornes 
 
 warden Ralph White 
 
 John Dalby William Cotten 
 
 Henry Glead^ Constable Edward Lanee 
 
 Henry Hodgkin^ John Shilton 
 
 John Harrison Thomas Powell^ 
 
 Thomas Allee Richard Cole* 
 
 Roger Wims Robert Moore^ 
 
 Humfry Stillgo John Burston^ 
 Ambrose Gooding 
 
 Also at the said meeting wee whose names are aboue 
 written doe choose for sidemen for this present yeare vi3* 
 Nicholas Comberford for Mr William Ellis & William Weston 
 for Mr John Moore, 
 
 At a Vestrie holden for the said Parish according to 
 appointment the 11*^ day of August An° dni 1645 for the 
 examining & allowing of the Accompts of Mr Walter Maynard 
 
 ' Henry Gleade, a carpenter, living on Wapping Wall, married Mary Goodall, widow, on 
 July 19, 1627. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Henry Hodgkin or Hodskins, a rope-maker, of Ratcliffe Highway, married Rebecca 
 Harrison, February 2, 1628. — State Papers, Domestic (1650); Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Thomas Powell, of Stepney, bachelor, gent., 26, got bishop's license to marry Katharine 
 Bennett, of Stepney, 33, widow, on February 5, 161^. — Chester's ' Marriage Licenses.' 
 
 * Richard Cole : is this the same as ' Mr. Cole of Shadwell,' who was buried May 7, 1657 ? 
 — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ° Robert Moore, of Stepney, mariner, probably is the man who in 1654 petitioned the 
 Admiralty Committee for the boatswain's place in the Maiy prize, stating that he had served 
 many years, was at the taking of Scilly and Barbadoes under Sir George Ayscue, as midship- 
 man in the Mary, and in the engagement with the Dutch off Portland. He was buried 
 March 9, 165I. — Stepney Registers ; State Papers, Domestic, 1654. 
 
 ^ John Burston : probably the engraver mentioned by Pepys, February 18, i66f : 'Took 
 my Lord Sandwich's draught of the harbour of Portsmouth down to Ratcliffe to one Burston, 
 to malce a plate for the King, and- another for the Duke, and another for himself, which will 
 be very neat.' —Pepys' Diary. 
 
 24 
 
1 86 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Mr John Craven Mr Edward Johnson Mr George Lawrence 
 & Mr Ralph Nelson the Churchwardens for of the said pish 
 for the yeares 1643 & 1644 w'^'^ were appointed by a foremer 
 order to be Audited. 
 
 Mr John Crauen hath presented his accompt for the west 
 pt of the Hamlett of Ratcliffe Audited by Mr Edward 
 Arlibeere & Mr Humphery Stillego, and it appeares by the 
 said accompt that there remaines in tlie hands of the said 
 M"' Craven for the use of the Church 7'' 6^ 4'^ Now paid to 
 Mr John Moore the present Churchwarden for that Hamletty 
 Likewise Mr Edward Johnson hath presented his accompt 
 for the Hamlett of Lymehouse, Audited by Mr John Heaman 
 & M'' ffrancis Cally. And it appeares by the said accompt that 
 there remaines in the hands of the said Mr Edward Johnson 
 for the use of the Church i^^ 4^ 2^^ Now paid to Mr Thomas 
 Biggs the present Churchwarden of that Hamlett/ 
 
 Likewise Mr George Lawrence hath presented his accompt 
 for the Hamlett of Mileend Audited by Mr Walter Cooke 
 & Mr Hillary Memprisse. And it appears by the said accompt 
 that there remaines in the hands of the said Mr George 
 Lawrence for the use of the Church i^* 9^ 8*^, Now paid to 
 Mr Thomas Grimley the present churchwarden of that 
 Hamlett 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar. Thomas Bigges 
 Walter Coke Thomas Grimley 
 
 John dalby Willlvm H Hunt 
 
 John More his marke 
 
 William Ellis 
 
 Likewise Mr Walter Maynard at the same vestrie before 
 the said vestrie men departed, presented his accompt for the 
 East part of the Hamlett of Ratcliffe, Audited by Mr John 
 dalby & M'' Robert Hack well And it appears by the said 
 accompt that there remaines in the hands of the said Mr May- 
 nard for the use of the Church 2'^ 9^ 2;\-'' 
 
 Witnesse hereunto Laur: Spence, Parish Clarke^ 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 187 
 
 At a Vestrie holden for this pish (according to appointment) 
 the xiij^'^ day of Aprill Anno dfii 1646. ffor the electing of 
 Churchwardens for the said pish this present yeare ensueing 
 These persons hereafter named are chosen to be Church- 
 wardens witnesse our hands the day & yeare abouesaid 
 
 ffor RatcHffe M"" William Ellis 
 
 fifor Shadwell Mr John Moore 
 
 ffor Lymehouse Mr Thomas Biggs 
 
 ffor Mile end Mr Thomas Grimley 
 
 fifor Popler M'' Wilim Hunt 
 
 These seuerall newe elected had a free election the day & 
 yeare aboue written by us whose names are here under 
 written. 
 
 And^ for Sidemen these Josua Hoyle Vicar 
 psons hereafter named are also Will: Mellish 
 chosen, vij* Walter Coke 
 
 ffor the Hamlett of RatcHffe 1?^^^ ^""^""J, 
 
 -,. , , „ , ^ , o HiLLARIE MeMPRIS 
 
 Nicholas Cumberford & j^^^^ ^^^^^^^ 
 
 Wilham Weston.; Edw: Johnson 
 
 ffor the Hamlet of Mileend Edward Kedden 
 
 Thomas Westwood & 
 Hillary Mapp 
 
 ffor Lymehouse Hamlett 
 John Ledman 
 ffor Poplar Hamlett 
 John Warden./ 
 
 Stepnie Aprill the 22**' Anno doni 1647 
 
 Att a vestrie and meeting for this Parish of Stepnie the 
 daye and yeare afforesaid for Electing Churchwardens for 
 the said Parish this present yeare ensueing These persons 
 
 ' Entered in the margin. 
 
 24 2 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Church- 
 'wardens 
 
 hereafter named are chosen to bee Churchwardens witness 
 our handes 
 
 Mr Peeter Pett^ 
 
 Cap* John Ellison 
 
 Cap* Henry West 
 
 Cap* Thomas davis 
 
 Mr William Serrecole 
 
 Aii uf''' vestry William Bisaker'^ was Elected p'ish Gierke.'^ 
 
 These seuerall men elected, had a free election the daye & 
 yeare aboue written by us whose names are hereunder 
 written.; 
 
 ffor Ratcliffe 
 ffor Shadwell 
 ffor Lymehouse 
 ffor Mile end 
 ffor Popler 
 
 And* for Sydemen these 
 persons hereafter named. 
 
 for Myle end 
 Nathaniell Tilley 
 Nicholas Waynwright^ 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar 
 Will: Mellish 
 ffrancis zachary 
 Walter Coke 
 John dalby 
 Hillarie Mempris 
 
 1 Peter Pett, grandson of Peter Pett, master shipwright of the navy to Queen Mary, and 
 brother to Phineas Pett, of Chatham, was a distinguished menaber of this justly celebrated 
 family, which for so many generations served the country as constructors to the Navy. Our 
 Peter Pett, with his brother, is constantly mentioned in the State Papers. As early as 1629 
 we find it recorded that 'Peter Pett is a skilful and well-experienced artsman in the building 
 of ships, and of honest life and good reputation.' He was master of the Shipwrights' 
 Company in 163I ; his name is, however, best remembered as being the inventor of the ships 
 of war called 'frigates.' He died in 1652, and was buried in the church of St. Nicholas, 
 Deptford, in the chancel of which is a monument with a Latin inscription to his memory. By 
 his will, which was proved August 18, 1652, he appears to have owned various properties in 
 Ratcliffe and Wapping, and to have left three sons and three daughters : Peter, afterwards 
 knighted, William and Phineas, Elizabeth, wife of Captain Robert Moulton, and Mary ; 
 mention is also made of a brother William and sister Anne. Lysons mentions a brother, 
 Joseph Pett. Le Neve's pedigree is very erroneous, and makes no mention of these or of his 
 son William. A Margaret Pett (Mary?), 'daughter of Peter Pett, of Kent,' married Francis 
 Johnson, of Aldborough, whose son was Sir Henry Johnson (p. 204), the great shipbuilder and 
 dockowner of Blackwall. — Will at Somerset House ; Le Neve's Pedigrees of Knights ; 
 State Papers, Domestic and Colonial ; Dethick's Visitation of Middlesex, 1663 ; Lysons' 
 Environs. 
 
 ^ Mr. William Bissaker, of Ratcliffe, parish clerk, was buried July 18, 1673. — Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 ' This is evidently an interpolation. 
 
 * Entered in the margin. 
 
 ^ Nicholas Waynwright, of Stepney, citizen and Haberdasher of London, was buried 
 January 3, i6|J — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 189 
 
 Ratcliffe Maurice Thomson^ 
 
 Nicholas Comberford Edw: Johnson 
 
 Rob William Ellis 
 
 Pooler John heaman 
 
 Richard Coates Edward Kedden 
 
 John Craven 
 Edw: Steuens 
 Thomas Grimlev 
 J oh Ducie 
 John More 
 
 WiLLMi H Hunt 
 
 ' Maurice Thomson, a wealthy Puritan merchant, of good family, and an ardent supporter 
 of Cromwell's Government, was the eldest of the five sons of Robert Thomson, of Watton, 
 CO. Herts. The foundation of his fortunes seems to have been laid in Virginia, for as 
 early as 1632 the governor of that colony recommended him, with two others, for a three 
 years' monopoly of all the tobacco grown there. Shortly after this he got into trouble for 
 trading with Canada, and he was ordered to pay a fine of ^400 to the Canadian adventurers, 
 which, however, he obstinately refused to do ; and six years later his enterprise got him into 
 a similar scrape, this time for poaching in the preserves of the Guinea Company, at whose 
 instance he and his colleagues in trade were for a short time put under arrest. During the 
 next few years he was busy shipping cargoes to the Company of Providence Island, and on 
 August 18, 1648, he was appomted a commissioner from Parliament to the States of the 
 United Provinces to solicit contributions for the Protestants in Ireland. The year following 
 he was called upon by the Council to bring proposals for the reducing of Virginia, and four 
 years after he was appointed a commissioner for Somers Islands, on June 25, 1653. After 
 the Restoration, his intimate connexion with Cromwell naturally caused him to be regarded 
 with suspicion, and though in 1660 the King had granted him his pardon, and he had 
 accepted it, on June 24, :666, he and his brother Robert were charged with giving 
 information to the Dutch of the English fleet. The charge states that ' Maurice Thompson 
 was always violent against kingly government, he was intimate with the Protector, sat at the 
 High Court of Justice, and sentenced some of the beheaded lords ... he was once a poor 
 fellow in Virginia, but got a great estate in the wars, mostly rent out of the bowels of the 
 King's party.' Nothing appears to have come of this charge, which was probably untrue. 
 He was one of the founders of Old Poplar Chapel in 1654, and at the ' preaching of the first 
 sermon ' he gave ' an uncommon instance of his great Humility and Piety in that he conde- 
 scended to go into the clerk's desk and there name and set the first psalm.' In 1655 he 
 purchased the manor and entire parish of Elsham, in Lincolnshire. He married Dorothy 
 (or, according to Collins, Ellen) Vaux, who died about 1678 ; by this lady he had a son, 
 John, afterwards Lord Haversham, and three daughters ; Katherine, who married Sir John 
 Wittewrong, at her father's house in Stepney, July 4, 1650 : EHzabeth, married to Sir Joseph 
 Alston, Bart., of Chelsea ; and Mary, a member of the Dissenting congregation at Stepney, 
 who married William Oldfield or Owfield, of Gatton, Surrey, on November 13, 1655. 
 Maurice Thomson resided in 1650 at the mansion on Mile End Green known as Worcester 
 House, which he sold in 1675 to the ' Church ' of Stepney Meeting ; in 1652 he was residing 
 in Bishopsgate Street ; in 1672 he purchased property in Stepney known as the ' Vinegar 
 Yard, Grand Alley,' and four years later, on May 8, 1676, his death was ' presented ' at the 
 Manorial Court. — Information from Major-General W. H. Smith ; Stepney Court Rolls ; 
 State Papers, Colonial, America, and Domestic ; Lysons' Environs ; Strype's Stow ; A. T. 
 Jones's Early Days of Stepney Meeting ; Collins's Extinct Peerage. 
 
I90 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Matth Greaues 
 RoBT. Dennis^ 
 Hugh Allaby 
 
 HUMFREY StILLEGO 
 
 W" Gotten 
 
 Maye the 31*^ 1647 
 Att a meeting of the Churchwardens and Inhabitants of 
 the Parish of Stepnie in the Gountie of Midd in the vestrie 
 for the examining of the Accompts of the late Church- 
 wardens itt did then Appeare that by the Account of 
 M'' William Ellis late Churchwarden of RatclifFe there 
 remayned in his hands foure shillings and three pence— And 
 by the Accompt of M'' Thomas Biggs there was remayneing 
 in his hands the some of ten shillings and five pence And 
 by the Accompt of M'' Thomas Grimley Churchwarden of 
 Myle end One pound foure shillinges and sixe pence And 
 in the hands of M'" Wiltm Hunt Churchwarden of Popler and 
 Blackwall the full some of foure shillinges & sixe pence, 
 All wch said seuerall soiues was by consent of us the 
 Inhabitants paid into the hands of M'' Thomas Davis, 
 Churchwarden for Myle end the daye and yeare afforesaid, 
 wch some in all is — ij^' 03^ 08^^ 
 
 Thomas Dauis Church- Hillarie Mempris 
 
 warden Edw: Steuens 
 
 Peter Pett Churchwarden Edward Kedden 
 
 William Serocold Church- Edmund Kempp 
 
 warden Thomas Westwood 
 
 John dalby Nathaniel Tilly 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 
 ' Captain Robert Dennis, of the Commonwealth navy, was, on September 25, 1651, 
 appointed to the important post of ' Commander-in-Chief of the fleet, and Commissioner for 
 rediicinfT Virginia to tlie authority of Parliament,' with instructions to ' reduce all plantations 
 within the Bay of Chesapeake,' and to publish the Acts of Parliament against ' kingship, the 
 House of Lords, the Book of Common Prayer,' etc., and with power to pardon, indemnify, 
 and make exceptions. The year following, however, his vessel, the John, was lost, and his 
 wife a petitioner to the Admiralty. — State Papers, Domestic. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 191 
 
 August the 26* 1647 
 Att a meeting of the Parishione™ of the Parish of Stepnie 
 in the vestrye house the daye & yeare aboue written Itt was 
 there agreed vpon That whereas diuers honest & sufficient 
 men of the Parishion™ did there acquainte the vestrye That 
 wiUiam Culham the now Sexton of the Parish Church had 
 demeaned himselfe in a very uncivil and disorderly manner 
 towards the Parishion''^ & hath beene a contemner & scoffer 
 of them that are godly & also hath beene very negligent in 
 the performance of his place, And Not wthstanding his 
 knowledge of the intentions of the Parish to suppress a 
 victualing house knowne by the signe of the Rose w*^^ house 
 is his by Lease and att his disposeing whereof hee had 
 tymely notice did in affront against the Parish furnish the 
 house w* Beare & place his sonne therein of whom there is 
 diuers complaints concerneing disorders there Comitted The 
 said William Culham was by ioynt consent of the Vestry 
 suspended & disabled to pforme the office of a Sexton as 
 formerlye for y'= same hee haveing had severall premonishions 
 for his better carriage before, as appeareth by this Booke, 
 Att wch tyme the said william Culham came & did earnestly 
 desire them to pass by all such his offences & w*M l^mised a 
 better carriage, wch the vestrie did then graunt & w*^all did 
 then pmise vpon their admittance of him to y" exercise of his 
 place hee woulde take downe the signe of the Rose & itt 
 should cease to be a victualing house before the five and 
 Twentieth daye of March next or otherwise to submitt to 
 their former consent & order./ 
 Thomas Dauis Walter Coke Edw: Steuens 
 
 Churchwarden Hillarie Mempris Joseph Cope 
 Henry West John heaman John dalby 
 
 Peter Pett, William Willougiiby ffrancis zachary 
 
 Churchwarden Thomas Bigges Richard Heaman^ 
 
 Maurice Thomson Tho : Grimley 
 
 ^ See note on Mainard, p. 178. 
 
192 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Aprill the 13*'' Anno 1648 
 Att a vestrye and meeting for this Parish the daye & yeare 
 afforesaid for electing Churchwardens for the yeare ensueing 
 These persons hereafter named are chosen to bee Church- 
 wardens witnes our handes. 
 
 ffor Ratcliffe Peeter Pett \ 
 
 ffor Lymehouse Capt West Church- 
 
 ffor Myle end Capt Davis Lardens 
 
 ffor Popler M'' Serrecole 
 
 ffor Shadwell Humfry Stillgoe 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar Walter Coke 
 
 Maurice Thomson Hillarie Mempris 
 
 Joseph Cope John dalby 
 
 William Willoughby John More 
 John Ellisonn John Trymnell^ 
 
 Will: Mellish Garrard Barber^ 
 
 March the 26*'^ A° 1649 
 
 Att a meeting of the Parishion'^'' in the Vestrye house the 
 daye & yeare aboue written for electing Churchwardens for 
 the seuerall Hambletts for the yeare ensueing These persons 
 hereafter named are Chosen for the said office Witnes our 
 hands 
 
 ff°'' y;"^,"lb^^"|M^ John Hoxton^ Ichurch- 
 
 of Ratcliffe J ■' fwardpn-:! 
 
 for Shadwell M"^ WiUiam Cooper* J ^^"^^^"^ 
 
 1 John Trimnell, merchant, of Shadwell ; his wife Anna (?) was buried March 6, l65i. — 
 Stepney Registers; Harl. Soc, ii. 176. 
 
 ^ Gerard Barber, of Shadwell, vintner, was buried October 11, 1658. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ John Hoxton, a J.P., and a member of the Independent congregation meeting in 
 Stepney. The pedigree in the British Museum states that he came from a Suffolk family, 
 and married Martha, daughter of Robert Borne, of Wapping, by whom he had two children, 
 John and Judith ; he married again, but the second wife's name does not appear. Arms : 
 azure, a chev. erm. between three leopards' faces pr. ; crest : an unicorn couchant, gules and 
 azure. A John Hoxton was buried in Stepney on September 13, 1670. — Brit. Mus. Add. 
 MSS., 5524, p. 46 ; Stepney Registers ; A. T. Jones's Early Days of Stepney Meeting. 
 
 ■• William Cooper : One of this name, master of \h& James, of London, 300 tons, left 
 Southampton for New England about April 6, 1635, with fifty-three men and women and 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 193 
 
 for Lymehouse Capt Richard Svvanly.^ ]^, , 
 for Myle end M"^ John Claye^ l<^hurcn- 
 
 for Popler Mr Robert Tranckmore^ ) ^^''^ens 
 
 Walter Coke Josua Hoyle Vicar 
 
 Thomas Dauis Maurice Thomson 
 
 HiLLARIE MeMPRIS HeNRY WeST 
 
 HUMFREY StILLEGO PeTER PeTT 
 
 William Serocold John Crowther 
 J OH DuciE John More 
 
 female children. William Cooper, of Stepney, Middlesex, obtained Bishop's license, 
 October 26, 1626, to marry Ellen Lambert, widow. — Chester's Marriage Licenses ; State 
 Papers, Colonial, America, p. 209. 
 
 ^ Richard Swanley, a general shipmaster to the East India Company, and later on admiral 
 of the Commonwealth navy, was described as master mate in 1622, when he was appointed 
 to the command of the Royal Exchange. For the next eighteen months he was busily em- 
 ployed both ashore and afloat in the Company's service, and on December 14, 1623, their 
 agents at Batavia sent a strong recommendation for his promotion ; a month later, however, 
 while master of the James, he was reprimanded ' for not lying abroad.' His answer ' was 
 mild and full of respect, promising to amend that fault.' Three years later, still master of the 
 J^ames, he offered to serve the Company in the East for ;^io a month, but was ' wished to 
 think himself of a less amount.' He seems to have been rather nice as to his personal 
 comforts ; in November, 1627, he requested that the greater portion of his wine might be 
 Canary, as white wine so soon grew tart ; and a few months later he ' took to himself the 
 great cabin,' contrary to orders, and refused to sail unless the privilege was conceded. The 
 Company, however, stood firm, and threatened to discharge him, upon which ' he confessed 
 that he had been transported with passion, and craved pardon,' but for his oath's sake 
 desired leave to take his passage in the great cabin, at least ' as far as the Downs.' They, 
 however, cared nothing for his swearing, and refused to make the slightest concession, ' as 
 the great cabin had always been reserved for the merchant.' In 1643 we find him 'Admiral 
 of the Irish seas,' doing great damage to the Royal cause on the west coast. In March of that 
 year he captured a Bristol ship, laden with arms and ammunition for the King ; and in May, 
 1644, he made a descent on Carnarvon, capturing 400 prisoners, arms and much pillage. 
 The same year he relieved Plymouth, driving the Royalists from some important works they 
 had erected near that town, and captured many prisoners. The thanks of Parliament were 
 voted to him on June 4, 1644, when he was called to the Bar of the House and presented 
 with a gold chain, valued at ;^20O. He was buried at Stepney on September 25, 1650, and 
 his wife Elizabeth was buried at the same place on July i, 1662. He left three children, 
 Mary, John and Richard ; the last-named is possibly the Richard Swanley who was in 
 command of the Eaglet ketch at the Restoration, and later 3 lieutenant in the Anne and 
 Triumph. — Stepney Registers ; Will at Somerset House ; Charnock's Nav. Biog. ; 
 Lysons' Environs, vii. 441 ; Whitelock's Memorials, 85, 87 ; State Papers, Domestic and 
 Colonial. 
 
 ^ John Claye, merchant of Stepney, married Mary Cummon by license of June 9, 1626.— 
 Chester's Marriage Licenses. 
 
 ^ Robert Tranckmore, of Blackwall, gent., came originally from New Shoreham, Suffolk. 
 He married Elizabeth Roche, of Ratcliffe, by license on December 14, 1635. His daughter 
 Alice married Robert Browne, of Stepney. He was buried at Stepney on November 17, 
 1652.— Stepney Registers; Dethick's Visitation of Middlesex, 1663, Pedigree of Browne. 
 
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194 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 And for Sydemen for Myle end Thomas Gadbury^ 
 Samuell Reeve for Spitlefeilds are by the Churchwarden 
 nominated 
 
 23 May A° 1649 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Parishion''^ in the Vestry house the 
 daye & yeare afforesaid They in regard of the weakenes of 
 Cap' Richard Swanley formerly chosen to serue the office 
 of Churchwarden in the Parish of Stepny for this_ present 
 yeare 1649 did accordeing to Custome of the Parish then 
 make choyce of John HasselP of lymehouse vinr to bee 
 Churchwarden for the Hamblett of lymehouse. 
 
 In Witnes they haue hereunder subscribed./ 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar. Jo. Hoxton ]church- 
 
 Walter Coke Willyam CouperI ^^^^^ 
 
 HiLLARIE MeMPRIS JoHN ClAY J 
 
 Jn° Limbery^ John Crouther* 
 
 HuMFREY Stillego Edward Arlebere 
 
 Hugh Allabey Richard Craye 
 
 John More Henry Sharpe 
 
 Ambrose Goodinge William Bristow 
 
 ' Thomas Gadbury left his land to his wife Elizabeth, for her life, with remainder to his 
 son Thomas. They were admitted December 4, 1667. — Stepney Court Rolls, vi. 26. 
 
 ^ John Hasell, ? the same as ' Mr. John Hasell, of Poplar,' who was buried on December 2, 
 1655. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ■' Captain John Limbery, of Limehouse : There were at least three men at the same time 
 in the parish who bore the name of John Limbery — the present man, his son (both called 
 Captain John Limbery), and another, also a mariner, of Limehouse ; and the name appears 
 in the map (j.v.). Both father and son were active in the work of the navy, and filled high 
 appointments, but without more information than has been hitherto forthcoming, it would be 
 hazardous to distinguish between them. The father (then living in Ratcliffe) married Sarah 
 Graves July 25, 1622, and Frances James September 15, 1634, in both cases by license. It 
 is probably he who was buried in November 28, 1659, and his son, who followed on 
 November 12, 1661 ; while the third, possibly a grandson, was married December 14, 1663, 
 to Edith Taylor. It seems most likely that the father was the victualler to the navy, and the 
 member of various councils and commissions at home ; while the son was employed on active 
 service in the Channel. — State Papers, Domestic (1649, etc.), Colonial, America, p. 445; 
 Whitelock's Memorials, p. 491 ; Stepney Registers ; Will (1661) at Somerset House. 
 
 * Captain John Crowther was master and part owner of the privateer yi^wj of I^ondon, in 
 1627, and in the troublous times of the Great Rebellion he served the Parliament in the 
 Irish seas, where for a short time he held the chief command. He was thought much of by 
 the Council, and in 1653 was recommended by the ' Commissioners for the Sick and 
 Wounded ' as a trustee for a sum granted by Parliament to the widow of a Captain Button. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 195 
 
 October the 1^* 1649 
 
 Att a meeting of the Justices of the Publlque peace of 
 the comonwealthi together w^^^ the Churchwardens & other 
 of the Panshion'^^ of the Parish of Stepnie in the vestrie the 
 daye & yeare afforesaid, concerning the needfull repare of 
 their Pansh Church & itt was then concluded & agreed vpon, 
 That whereas the Charge of the repares will amount to the 
 full some of one hundred & sixtie poundes or there abouts 
 That three eights parts thereof should bee rated and asseased 
 vpon the Hamblett of Ratcliffe, that is to sale the some of 
 Sixtie Poundes, That two eights parts thereof should bee 
 rated on the Hamblett of Lymehouse, that is to saie the 
 some of ffourtie pounds. That two other eight parts thereof 
 should bee rated on the Hamblett of Myle end, Bednall 
 greene and Spitlefeilds, that is to saie the full some of 
 ffourtie poundes And the other eigth part, being the full 
 some of Twentie pounds to bee rated on the Hamblett of 
 Popler & Blackwall./ 
 
 And att the same tyme they did then anominate & chuse 
 M"" William Cotton to bee Churchwarden for & in the Roome 
 of Mr John Hoxton.^ 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar William Couper 
 
 Maurice: Thomson John Hasell Church- 
 
 Jn° Limbery Robert Tranckmore .wardens 
 
 Jo: HoxTON John Clay 
 
 John. Waterton Hugh Allabey 
 
 Thomas Dauis Thomas Grimley 
 
 Edw: Johnson 
 
 He married twice — Alice James, of Stepney, by license, on June 26, 1626, and Elizabeth 
 Damarell, of the same place, widow, on May 9, 1627. From a precept in the Court Rolls, he 
 appears to have been living in White Horse Street, and he is described as ' of Mile End ' in 
 the register of his burial, which took place on July 13, 1659. He left a tenement for the use 
 of poor seamen and their widows, and Lysons credits him with being the donor of the Old 
 Poplar Town Hall, which was demolished in 1769. — State Papers, Domestic ; Stepney 
 Registers and Court Rolls ; Lysons' Environs ; Strype's Stow. 
 
 ^ The word ' kingdom ' is here crossed out, and ' comonwealth ' substituted. 
 
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196 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Aprill the i6* 1650 
 At a meeting of the Justices of the Peace w*in the Parish 
 of Stepnie together w* the Vicar ; Churchwardens and 
 ouerseers for the Poore w*'' other of the Inhabitants and 
 Parishion" of the same Parish for the Electing of Church- 
 wardens to serue in the Parish for the yeare ensueing These 
 persons hereafter named are chosen — 
 
 ffor RatcHffe Mr John Hawkins 
 
 for Shadwell Mr WilHam Cooper 
 
 for Lymehouse Mr John Hassell I Church- 
 
 for Myle end Mr John Claye I wardens 
 
 for Popler & | ^^ ^^^^^^ Tranckmore 
 Blackwall J 
 
 JosuA HoYLE Vicar John heaman 
 Will: Mellish Thomas Dauis 
 
 HiLLARlE MeMPRIS J OH DuCIE 
 
 Jo: HoxTON Edward Kedden. 
 
 Aprill the first Anno dni 1651 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Justices of the Peace within the 
 Parish of Stepnie together w*'' the vicar & Churchwardens 
 & ouerseers for the Poore w**^ other of the Inhabitants & 
 Parishion""^ of the same Parish, for the electing of Church- 
 wardens to serue in the Parish for the yeare ensueing These 
 psons hereafter named are elected & Chosen to serue 
 In the hamblett of 
 
 Ratcliffe Cap* Edmund Groue^l Church- 
 
 Shadwell M'' Robert Smith J wardens 
 
 ^ Edmund Grove, Captain in the navy, fell into disgrace, was court-martialed for cowardice 
 in 1665, for staying in at Lowestoft while an engagement was going on, and was ' reckoned 
 a prating coxcombe and of no courage.' On June ii, 1633, was buried Anne, wife of 
 Edmund Grove, of Ratcliffe, mariner; but it is doubtful if he can be the man meant, as on 
 April 24, 1666, after his death, his widow, Anne, widow of Roger Hacliwell, and daughter of 
 Roger Gunston (p. 46), and two sons, Edmund and George, were admitted to the land he 
 had held in Limehouse, and the boys were only aged II and 4 respectively. He was chosen 
 reeve of the manor December 2, 1654, but refused to serve, and was fined ^10. — Stepney 
 Registers and Court Rolls, v. 119, etc. ; State Papers, Domestic (1657); Pepys' Diary. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 197 
 
 Lymehouse Capt Robert Dennis ^^, , 
 Myle end Capt William Baylie l*-'^";''^^- 
 Popler M^ William Headei jw^^dens 
 
 JosuA HoYLE, Vicar Jo: Hoxton 
 
 Hillarie: Mempris John heaman 
 
 Walter Cooke Edward Kedden 
 
 John Hasell Willyam Couper 
 
 Rob*: Tranckmore John Clay 
 
 Edw: Johnson John Hawkins 
 
 Thomas Dauis Hugh Allabey 
 
 Joseph Cope John Crouther 
 Thomas Grimley 
 
 Anno Dili 1651 
 
 Memorand that wee whose names are hereunto subscribed 
 Churchwardens for y^ tyme being on behalfe of o'' Selues & 
 our Successors for y" present & future good of the poore of 
 y® Parish of Stepnie haue lett & sett for the yearely rent of 
 fourtie five shillings of lawfull money of England payable 
 at the foure vsual ffeasts in the yeare, one peece of ground 
 & house comonly called the Pest house & feild to Michaell 
 Barks of Rogues well house. In testimonie Whereof wee 
 haue hereunto sett o" hands this 24*^^ daye of December 
 1651 
 
 p me Edmond Groue Churchwarden 
 WiLLM Bayley Churchwarden 
 Rich Reade^ Churchwarden 
 William Head Churchwarden 
 Robart Smyth Churchwarden 
 
 Memorand that y^ One & thirtieth daye of October 1652 
 there was Publicque Warning & Notice giuen in the con- 
 
 ^ William Head, of Deplford, shipwright, married Jane Shepherd, of Blackwall, widow, by 
 license, on September 2, 1633. He was buried at Poplar, May 8, 1674. — Stepney Registers. 
 2 Captain Richard Reade was Constable of Bethnal Green in 1668. 
 
198 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 gregation by order of the Churchwardens that they desired 
 the Parish to giue them a Meeting on Tuesdaye the second 
 of November att w'^'^ tyme the Churchwardens did then 
 psonally meete But the Parish came not as was expected 
 & therefore could not pceede to doe any thing to dispose of 
 the loo'' in their hands for w'^'^ the Meeting was intended. ^ 
 
 Aprill y^ ii*'^ 1653 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Justices of the Peace w*Mn the 
 Parish of Stepnie together w*'' the Minister, Churchwardens 
 and other the officers and Parishioners of the Parish of 
 Stepnie for the Electeing of Churchwardens for to serue in 
 the said Parish for the yeare ensueing these persons hereafter 
 named are freely elected & chosen Churchwardens by us 
 whose names are hereunder written. 
 
 for Ratcliffe Thomas Harmon^ 
 
 for Shadwell Edward Arlabeare 
 
 for Lymehouse Cap* John Harris 
 
 for Myle end Christopher Deane^ 
 
 ^° Blackwall'^ } ^iHiam Saule 
 
 WiLLM Greenehill^ Edmond Grove 
 
 ' Captain Thomas Harman, mariner, lived at Dolphin Row, Poplar, and married Grace 
 Chick by license on January i, 1628. He died in 1670, and his will, which was proved on 
 January 3 of that year, described him as 'Thomas Harman the elder, of Poplar'; bequests 
 were left to his wile Grace, his three children, Thomas Harman, Mary Browse, and Helen 
 Greenaway, and to numerous grandchildren and cousins. Possibly this son Thomas is the 
 Captain Thomas Harman whose naval exploits in the reign of Charles H. were recorded by 
 a series of small pictures in one of the antechambers of Greenwich Hospital. Lysons 
 mentions an almshouse in Poplar, rebuilt by Captain Thomas Harman in 1676.— Lysons' 
 Environs ; Stepney Court Rolls ; Stepney Registers ; Will at Somerset House. 
 
 ^ ' Mr. Christopher Deane, of Mile End, gent.,' was buried January 6, 1657, and by his will 
 left various benefactions to the parish.— Stepney Registers and Vestry Minute of Tune i^ 
 1678. ^' 
 
 ' William Greenhill had for some time been lecturer at the Church (p. xiv), and in 1654 was 
 appointed to succeed Dr. Hoyle by the Keeper of the Liberties in England. He was one of 
 the Westminster Assembly of Divmes, was made Chaplain to the King's children, and one of 
 the commissioners to try public preachers. In 1644 he had been one of the original members 
 of the Independent congregation in Stepney, and most probably was the prime mover in it, 
 and its first pastor. This did not, however, prevent him from accepting the position and 
 
 Churchwardens 
 for y® yeare 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 199 
 
 Will: Mellish Robeart Smyth 
 
 Jo: HoxTON Willm Bayley 
 
 Walter Cooke Rich Reade 
 
 John West William Head 
 
 Henry Hall John More 
 
 John heaman Hugh Allabey 
 
 Edw: Johnson Joh Ducie 
 
 Joseph Cope Randolph Willey^ 
 
 Edward Kedden Henry Sharpe 
 
 Walter Mainard John Crouther 
 
 Edw: Steuens ffrancis Welch 
 Thomas Grimley 
 
 ID*'' September 1653^ 
 
 Memorand y* the loo^' before menconed is now come into 
 the hands & disposeing of Cap* Harman, M"^ Arlabeare, 
 M'^ Harris, M'' Deane & Mr Saule the Churchwardens for the 
 tyme being. 
 
 March the 17*'' 1653 
 
 Wee whose names are hereunder Written, Churchwardens 
 for the time being of the Parish of Stepnie in the County 
 of Midd haue by vertue of the trust reposed in us con- 
 cerning the care & provision of the Poore Receiued into 
 o'' handes & possession the full some of One hundred 
 Poundes^ Which some is Giuen to the pish of Stepnie for 
 and towards the imployeing & setting of the poore of o'' pish 
 
 pay of the vicarage of Stepney, though he had thus formally separated himself from the 
 Church, a course for which even his own followers have not failed to censure him. In other 
 respects he was a man of deep piety and learning, as his writings show. At the Restoration 
 the absurdity of his position was forcibly evident, and Greenhill had to leave ; but he kept his 
 congregation together, in spite of all repressive Acts, and at his death left it in a flourishing 
 condition to his successor, Mathew Mead. — ^Jones's Early Days of Stepney Meeting ; Nat. 
 Diet. Biog. for other details about his life and writings. 
 
 * Randolph Willey, of Wapping, vintner, was buried June 13, 1660. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ This entry is inserted in the MS. before the above minute. 
 
 ' ' And two poundes ten shillings ' erased, and ' Poundes ' inserted instead, with a note in 
 the margin ' the sum is only one hundred pounds.' 
 
200 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 att worke & that the same may be preserued & kept as a 
 stocke & which for future may continue, for a generall good 
 of o" pish And whereas wee finde that the said some of 
 loo^ oo^ is a some farr belowe that greate charge w''^ wilbe 
 required for a stocke to imploye the neumerous poore of 
 o^ pish wee haue therefore by Mutuall consent in discharge 
 of o'" dutie & for the easeing of the p'^sent burthen vpon the 
 Inhabitants of o"" said pish thought fitt each of us to 
 imploye the same to & for the putting forth of children by 
 payem* of the present Money, vntill the Collectors for the 
 poore can repaye the same to us And whereas wee stand 
 engaged ioyntly for the whole by bond that the Money 
 shall remayne to the purpose aforesaid, wee and euery of 
 us doe for o'' selues o'' executors & Administrators hereby 
 engage o'' selues to saue harmless & indemnified each other 
 for such some of Monie^ p* of the pmisses as wee shall here- 
 under by o"" owne handes acknowledge the Receipt of.y 
 
 Receiued by mee Thomas Harmanl 
 
 Churchwarden of y® Hamblett of[ xviip xv^ 
 Ratcliff J 
 
 Tho: Harman Churchwarden 
 Receiued by mee Edward Arlabearel -..1^ ^ 
 
 Churchwarden of Shadwell J ^^"^ '^^ 
 
 Edward Arlibear Churchwarden 
 Receiued by mee John Harris Church-1 j; ^ 
 
 warden of Lymehouse J 
 
 John Harris Churchwarden 
 Receiued by mee Christopher Deanel j; ^ 
 
 Churchwarden of Myle end J ^""^ °° 
 
 Christopher Deane Churchwarden 
 Receiued by mee William Saulel 
 
 Churchwarden of Popler & Black- 1 xij^^ x^ 
 wall J 
 
 William {mari) Saule Churchwarden 
 
 ' The money is divided in the proportion mentioned above, p. 195. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 201 
 
 March the 27*'* 1654 
 
 Wee whose names are hereunder Written, Churchwardens 
 of the Parish of Stepnie for the time being amongst other 
 Monies by us Receiued to bee imployed for and towards 
 the releife of the poore & setteing them att worke doe 
 acknowledge hereby to haue Receiued into o'' hands & 
 possession the full & whole some of twentie foure poundes 
 and eight shillings w'^'^ Moneies were the guift of M"" William 
 Ambrose & Seisly Ambrose his Sister, — w* Monies wee 
 doe hereby engage o'^selues to make good to o"^ Successors. 
 And wee doe pmise for o" selues & o' executo^ & Adminis- 
 trato'^^ to saue harmles each other for o' parts w* wee re- 
 ceiued w'='* is pticularly menconed w*'' o' names as folio weth./ 
 
 Receiued by mee Thomas Harman"! 
 
 Churchwarden of the Hambletth iiij'' xj^ vj"^ 
 of Ratcliffe J 
 
 Tho: Harman Churchwarden 
 
 Receiued by mee Edward Arlabearel jup; -^ -^ 
 Churchwarden of Shadwell J J J J 
 
 Edward Arlibeare Churchwarden 
 
 Receiued by mee John Harrisl ^-u --^ 
 Churchwarden of lymehouse J 
 
 Receiued by mee Christopher Deanel -^ 
 
 Churchwarden of Myle end J 
 
 Christopher Deane Churchwarden./ 
 
 Receiued by mee William Saule"| 
 
 ChurchwardenofPopler& Black- y iij" j' 
 wall J 
 
 The marke of William Saule 
 
 xxiiij^' viij^ 
 
 26 
 
Churchwardens 
 for y" yeare 
 ensueing 
 
 202 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 March the 28^^ 1654 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Parishion''^ in the vestry house the 
 daye & yeare afforesaid for the choyce of Churchwardens to 
 serue in the Parish of Stepnie for the yeare ensueing, the 
 Persons hereafter named were freely Chosen by us whose 
 names are hereunder Written 
 
 for Ratcliff Mr Thomas Harman 
 
 for Shadwell Mr Edward Arlabeare 
 
 for Lymehouse Mr John Harris 
 
 for Myle end Mr Christopher Deane 
 
 for Popler M=^ William Saule 
 
 John Waterton Henry Gleede 
 Walter Cooke Tiio Spencer^ 
 
 John More Henry Sharpe 
 
 WiLLYAM COUPER JOHN CoLE 
 
 John Crouther Will Ram 
 Edmond Groue Gillfuord Elvy 
 William Bristow 
 
 ffebruarie the 27*'^ 1654 
 
 Att a Generall Meeteing of the Parishion^^ in the Vestry 
 house the daye & yeare afforesaid, the house being then 
 full Itt was taken into consideracon the greate want of 
 Meeteings for the seding and carrieing on of the weighty 
 Matters of the Parish, the regulateing of all abuses and the 
 more speedy effecteing of such good and wholsome orders & 
 y" execution of all good lawes that tends to reformacon & 
 they haue thought fitt att this Meeteing to avoyde tumolteoues 
 appearances for future and referr the Matter & consideracon 
 vnto the severall Gentlemen whose names are hereunder to 
 be a representatiue of the pish of Stepnie & bee called a 
 
 ^ Captain Thomas Spencer, of Ratcliffe, was buried August 14, 1658. He married Anne, 
 daughter of Nicholas Anstey, and with Robert Hembricks (see p. 227), her brother-in-law, 
 and one of the Captains John Limbery (son of Joane Whiteing, widow), succeeded to 
 Anstey's property under his will. — Stepney Registers and Court Rolls (1656); Strype's 
 Stow. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 203 
 
 vestry and that they & every of them by their consents and 
 meeteings or adiournem*^ to doe and act to all intents and 
 purposes as the whole Parish, And that all Meeteings appoynted 
 by them or any twelue of them together w*'' two of the Church- 
 wardens for tyme being, shall bee held deemed, and hereafter 
 accounted a lawfull number : 
 
 In Ratclifife Lymehouse 
 
 M'- William Mellish Cap* John Limbrey 
 
 Cap* Edward Johnson M"" John Heaman 
 
 Mr Edmund Groue Cap' Walter Maniard 
 
 Cap' Thomas Harison^ Cap' John Proud^ 
 
 Cap' Thomas Spencer Cap' William Baylie 
 
 M' John Moore M"" John Ducie 
 
 M'" William Cooper Cap' Richard Reade 
 
 Mr Edward Arlabeare M'' William Graues^ 
 
 M'' John Waterton Cap' John Harris 
 
 M' John Hoxton Cap' Thomas Ewens* 
 M"" Robert Hackwell 
 Mr William Wildye 
 Henry Hodskins 
 Cap' Arthur Baylie^ 
 
 ' Captain Thomas Harrison, one of the captains certified by Waterton (1653) as fit to be 
 commanders at sea (p. 179), owned land in Ratcliffe, and was buried March 5, 1678. — State 
 Papers, Domestic (1653) ; Stepney Court Rolls (1655) and Registers. 
 
 '' Captain John I'rowd, of the navy, was assessed by the Committee for the Adv. of Money 
 at jf3S0. He married on February 4, 1627, Joan Mouse, and is then described as of Shad- 
 well. He seems to have been very much married, as later on, when there was a question 
 whether he would serve in a certain ship, it was reported that ' he was probably not to be 
 had, or it would much disquiet his wife : yet to be asked to come.' This and ill-health kept 
 him much at home, but he seems to have overcome both difficulties and to be on active 
 service in 1667. — State Papers, Domestic ; Stepney Registers ; Pepys' Diary. 
 
 ^ William Greaves or Graves, son of John Graves (p. 157), master shipbuilder : At his 
 works at Limehouse he, in company with Peter Pett (p. 157) and others, was constantly em- 
 ployed in building ships for the navy. He was buried February 22, 1667. — Strype's Stow ; 
 State Papers, Domestic ; Stepney Registers ; Seymour's Survey of London, map. 
 
 * Captain Thomas Ewens, one of those recommended by Waterton (p. 179). His will was 
 dated October 8, 1664, and on March 2, 1666, his widow, Martha (for her life), and son, 
 Thomas, were admitted at a manorial court to his property. — State Papers, Domestic ; 
 Stepney Court Rolls, iii. 59, v. 178. 
 
 ^ Captain Arthur Bailey, or Baylie, a member of the Independent congregation in Stepney,by 
 whom he was chosen ' deacon ' on April 30, 1658. He was buried at Stepney on P'ebruary 9, 
 1682.— A. T. Jones's Early Days of Stepney Meeting ; Stepney Registers. 
 
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204 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 (hi Ratcliffe) 
 
 W Edward Keeleing^ 
 Ambrose Gooden 
 Robert Purser^ 
 John Birchett^ 
 Gyles Laurence* 
 Henry Gleade 
 
 Popler & Blackwall 
 
 Mr John West 
 M"" Thomas Pye 
 Mr Henry Hall 
 Mr Edward Steevens 
 M"^ Ralph Nelson 
 Mr William Head 
 Coll: Thomas Midleton^ 
 Cap* John Swanley^ 
 Mr Anthony Tutchen'' 
 M'' Henry Johnson^ 
 
 Myle end 
 
 M"" Morris Thomson 
 M'- Walter Cooke 
 M'' Thomas Hart 
 M" John Crowther 
 Mr Thomas Grimley 
 M'' Thomas Mempris 
 M"^ James Dentere 
 M"" Joseph Cope 
 Cap* Nathaniell Tilley 
 M'^ John Claye 
 
 ' Jefferie Winchurst erased. 
 
 ^ Robert Purser, puUey-maker, of Ratcliffe, married Jane Howe on August 9, 1632, by 
 license. — Stepney Registers and Court Rolls (January 2, 1654). 
 
 ' John Birchett married Anne, daughter of William Jones. — Stepney Court Rolls, i., 
 p. 170. 
 
 * 'Mr. Giles Lawrence, of Wapping Wall, chirurgeon, was buried May 16, 1657 ; his (?) 
 widow married Captain Thomas Mann, and died 1688. — Strype's Stow ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 * Colonel Thomas Middleton, after a good many dealings with the West Indies, and the 
 settlement of several colonies there, became in 1660 governor of Barbadoes. In 1664 he was 
 made a commissioner, and three years later surveyor of the navy, and was much occupied in 
 naval affairs. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Needham, and one of the beauties of 
 Charles II. 's court, whose portraits are at Windsor Castle. — State Papers, Domestic, Colonial, 
 America ; Pepys' "Dio-xy, passim. 
 
 * Captain John Swanley, son of William Swanley, is possibly the one mentioned in the 
 Visitation of Middlesex, 1663, and who is there stated to have married Sarah, daughter of 
 John Fotherby ; the Court Rolls, however, declare his wife to have been the daughter of 
 John West and Sarah Fotherby. There were evidently several John Swanleys living at the 
 same time ; the Court Rolls mention the death of one in 1640, another was buried in 
 Stepney iu 1662 ; while Charnock mentions a third, who was commander of the York, in 
 1664. — Charnocli's Nav. Biog. ; Visitation of Middlesex, 1663 ; Stepney Registers and 
 Court Rolls. 
 
 ' Captain Anthony Tutchen, an officer of the Commonwealth navy, was master of the 
 transport Brazil, in May, 1650, and early in 1653 he was busily engaged pressing seamen for 
 the navy in the eastern counties ; on April 4 of that year he wrote to the Navy Commissioners : 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 205 
 
 Itt is alsoe the intent of this meeteing that y® assistance 
 & approbacon of the vicar of this Parish for tyme being 
 shall att all tymes bee desired att the Parish meeteings as 
 formerlie. 
 
 Mr Edward Keeleing^ was named instead of Mr Winchurst^ 
 att the same meeteing by consent of the Hamblett 
 
 March the Six*^^ 1654 
 
 Att a meeteing of the vestry men in the vestry house the 
 daye & yeare afforesaid, According to the Ancient Custome 
 of this Parish of Stepnie wee whose names are hereunder 
 written haueing taken into o'" consideracon the busines of 
 the Parish and in particular the Compl*' against the Sexton 
 of o"" pish, William Culham whome wee haue heard & haue 
 thought fitt that whereas hee came into his Office nott vpon 
 the Parishion'^ Choyce that any waies appeareth by this 
 
 ' Have pressed igo men at Wisbech, Lynn, and other places . . . some vessels are fitting for 
 Ireland, but it is perilous ; all trade should be stopped till the war is over.' From the Court 
 Rolls we learn that he 'surrendered to his will ' in 1643, at which time his wife's name was 
 Margaret, but in June, 1659, he was about to marry ' Grace Hazle, widow,' upon whom he 
 settled certain land in Poplar, known as ' Oakfield.' He died about 1667, leaving property 
 to his two grandchildren, Margaret Gyles and Sarah, wife of Abraham Read. Another Anthony 
 Tutchen is mentioned in the ' Church Book ' of Stepney Meeting, who was appointed a deacon 
 by that congregation on August 6, 1668, possibly the same who was buried in Stepney, 
 August 29, 1673. Another Anthony Tutchen and his wife Susan are mentioned in the (1679) 
 Court Rolls, X. 274. — State Papers, Domestic ; Stepney Registers and Court Rolls ; A. T. 
 Jones' Early Days of Stepney Meeting. 
 
 ^ Sir Henry Johnson, shipbuilder and owner of the dockyard at Blackwall. Pepys, in his 
 'Memoirs,' styleshim 'oneof the principal private shipbuilders in the kingdom.' He belonged 
 to the family of Johnson, of Freston Hall, co. Suffolk, and for some time represented Alde- 
 burgh in Parliament. He was knighted on March 6, 1679-80, at his own house in Poplar, 
 and was one of the contributors to the old chapel in that hamlet. He died in 1683, 
 possessed of considerable wealth, leaving a rent-charge upon his estate at Blackwall for the 
 benefit of poor ships' carpenters ; the property, however, passed into the hands of Lord 
 Strafford's family, and from one cause and another no real benefit accrued from the charity 
 until 1756. The Court Rolls style his residence the ' Gate House,' and mention a lease that 
 he took from the trustees of the E. I. C. for the ' East India Yard and Slaughter-House 
 Fields.' — Stepney Court Rolls; Pepys' Memoirs Relatmg to the Royal Navy; Visitation 
 of Middlesex, 1663 ; Townsend's Knights ; Lysons' Environs. 
 
 ^ Jefferie Winchurst erased. 
 
 2 Jeffery Winchurst, smith, of Ratcliffe, was constable 1659, and was buried May 12, 
 1674. — Stepney Registers and Court Rolls. 
 
2o6 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 booke y' this daye in respect of his Misdemean™ itt was putt 
 to the Choyce whether hee should continue his imployment 
 any longer And therefore did putt him in Nominacon w*'' two 
 other fitt persons/ and itt appeared hee had by farr the 
 Maior part whoe did then elect him vpon the termes here- 
 after menconed, That is to saie, that hee shall exercise his 
 office for one whole yeaie from the date hereof provided 
 that hee shall honestly & carefully behaue himselfe in his 
 place. And vntill that tyme wee doe declare him & choose 
 him the Parish Sexton. Witnes our hands. & wee doe further 
 order & require William Bissaker to deliuer vpp the keyes to 
 the Churchwardens to bee by them disposed of to such person 
 as is now chosen. 
 
 Will: Mellish Walter Mainard 
 
 John West Thomas Mempris 
 
 Joseph Cope Henry Hodgkin 
 
 Edmund Groue Christopher Deane 
 
 John Clay Henry Gleed 
 
 Will Wildey Edward Arlibear 
 
 John More Tho Hart 
 
 Giles Lawrence Nath: Tilley 
 
 Will Gkeaues Joh Ducie 
 
 John : Swanley Will'" Bayley 
 
 Walter Cooke John Crouther 
 
 John Heaman Tho Spencer 
 
 Edw: Johnson Robert Pursser 
 
 Aprill the Sixteenth 1655 
 
 Att a Meeteing of the vestrymen together w'^ the M 
 (a blank) According to ancient Custome, in the vestry house 
 for the Choyce of Churchwardens to serue in the severall 
 Hambletts for the yeare ensueing the Persons whose names 
 are herevnder written were Chosen for Churchwardens. In 
 
 1 Margin has Thomas Linsey, Francis Tivell (see p. 208). 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 207 
 
 testimonie whereof wee y« vestrymen haue hereunto sett o' 
 hands the said daye & yeare. 
 
 for Ratcliff 
 for Shadwell 
 for Lymehouse 
 for Myle end 
 for Popler & 1 
 Blackwall 
 
 Mr Edward Keeleing' 
 Mr Henry Gleade 
 Mr John Proude 
 Cap* John Crowther 
 
 Cap* John Swanley 
 
 for y« Church- 
 wardens for 
 the yeare en- 
 sueing 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 Walter Cooke 
 John Heaman 
 Thomas Mempris 
 Tho Hart 
 WiLLM Bayley 
 John Burchett 
 John: Wright , 
 W. Archer^ 
 Jo: Winterborne 
 Tho Spencer 
 John Wills^ 
 
 Jn° Limeery 
 Jo: HoxTON 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Joseph Cope 
 Tho: Grimley 
 Ch: Deane 
 Edmond Groue 
 Willyam Couper 
 Tho Ewen 
 Wm Greaues 
 JoH Ducie 
 Thomas Allee 
 FFRANCis Clement^ 
 
 Aprill the Sixteenth 1655 
 
 Wee whose names are hereunder Written haueing taken 
 into consideraeon the obiections against Wihiam Culham 
 Sexton, and vpon further thoughts haue this daye thought 
 fitt to declare him unfitt for any further imployement in the 
 office of Sexton in o"" said Parish. Witnes o"^ handes 
 
 And wee haue made Choyce of the gentlemen hereafter 
 
 ' Captain William Archer, of Ratclifife, Pewterer, was buried April 2, 1679. ^^ "^ else- 
 where in the Minutes called major. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Captain John Wills, of Mile End, mariner, and his wife Sarah, bought land in Lime- 
 house, 1653 : he was buried February 15, 1671. — Stepney Registers and Court Rolls. 
 
 ' Francis Clement, of Limehouse, glazier, was buried June 12, 1657.— Stepney Registers. 
 
208 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 named, to bee vestrymen & assistants to us in the manageing 
 the busines of the Parish 
 
 in Ratcliff 
 Cap* Wilb'am Archer 
 Cap* John Wills 
 
 in Myle end 
 M^" Joseph Collins^ 
 M'' John Hawes 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 John Heaman 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Thomas Grimley 
 Christopher Deane 
 Jo Hawes 
 W. Archer 
 Wm Greaues 
 John Haris 
 John Prowd 
 Edward Arlibear 
 
 in Shadwell 
 Mr John Winterborne 
 M" John Wright 
 
 in Lymehouse 
 Cap* Thomas Cutlett 
 Mr John Hasle 
 ffrancis Clements 
 
 Henry Gleed 
 
 Jn" Limbery 
 
 John Crowther 
 
 Tho Hart 
 
 Rich Reade 
 
 Tho Spencer 
 
 Tho Ewen 
 
 John Preston 
 
 Nicholas Foardham^ (mark) 
 
 Jo: Hoxton 
 
 E. Keling 
 
 Aprill the three & twentieth 1655 
 ^ Wee whose names are hereunder written being vestry 
 men of the Parish of Stepny Mett in y® vestry house for 
 
 ^ Captain Joseph Collins, mariner, left 40s. to the poor of Ratcliffe ; his will mentions his 
 wife Mary, and two children, Elizabeth Castle, and Joyce, the wife of Gustavus Somerslave, 
 also a grandson, Joseph Castle. He was buried irf "Stepney on July 23, 1663. — Stepney 
 Registers ; Will at Somerset House. 
 
 ^ Nicholas Fordham was constable of Mile End 1656. — Stepney Court Rolls. 
 
 ' A marginal note here reads as follows: 'Nominated, Thomas Linsey,* II; ffran: 
 Tivell.t 13"; Robert Gilderslyue.'J 
 
 * Thomas Linsey, shipcaulker, of Stepney, married Anne Oliver on May II, 1642, by 
 license ; by will dated March 11, 1670, he left property to his wife and sister, and they were 
 admitted on April 12. — Stepney Court Rolls, vii. 11. 
 
 f Francis Tivell, one of Barnstaple, mariner, married Avis Drewe, of Poole, June 28, 
 1641 ; and another, a tailor, of St. Botolph, Aldgate, married Anne Tittle, of Ratcliffe, 
 September 29, 1631 : the latter is more probably the sexton. — Stepney Registers, 
 
 J Robert Gildersleeves, mariner, of Ratcliffe, married Elizabeth Carpenter April 17, 1637. 
 — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 209 
 
 the Choyce of a Sexton for o"^ Parish, haue this daye thought 
 fitt to electe & Chuse for the pformance of the Office of 
 Sexton Frauncis Tivell for one whole yeare next ensueing hee 
 honestly behaveing himselfe dureing his imployem* : 
 
 Itt is y® daye & yeare aboue menconed agreed att the 
 same vestry that all such Members whoe shall rashly & 
 uncivilly vse any affronteing language against any of the 
 members of the vestry that from & after such his misdemeano"' 
 hee shall bee excluded the vestry house for future Meeteing 
 w*** them 
 
 Itt is this daye & yeare further ordered that a paper bee 
 at large drawne vpp for the better regulateing of all disorders 
 att Burialls in the Church & Churchyard of Stepny & alsoe 
 for the regulateing the Registring of the names of Children & 
 their birthe. 
 
 Jn° Limbery W. Archer 
 
 Edw Johnson Tho Ewen 
 
 Edmond Groue Jo Winterborne 
 Edward Arlibear Francis Clement 
 Henry Gleed E. Keling 
 
 Rich Reade John Crouther 
 
 Jo Hawes John Heaman 
 
 Thomas Mempris John Burchett 
 Thomas Grimley Ambrose Goodinge 
 Tho Spencer John Wright 
 
 May the third 1655 
 
 Att a Vestry holden in the vestry house the daye & yeare 
 afforesaid in relacon to a paper to bee drawne vpp for Regu- 
 lateing the Many abuses in o'' Parish, wee haue thought fitt 
 to Order 
 
 That all persons shall paye to and for the vse of the 
 Parish of Stepnie the full some of fourty shillings of lawfull 
 Money for the buriall of every Corps litle or greate in the 
 ground w'^'in the Church And this some w"' all dutyes to bee 
 
2IO MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 paid before the ground bee broken open, the same duties to 
 bee paid into the hands of the pish Clarke. 
 
 That non shall bury any corps in the Church yard neare 
 the wall of the Church, but where the Grauemaker may digg 
 the grave conveniently./ 
 
 That Notice bee giuen to the Sexton of all burialls 6 houres 
 att least before the tyme of buriall together y'= name & cause 
 of death of each party & paye y" ordinary duties for y^ same 
 & hee to gme y same to y Gierke 
 
 That all the names and tymes of birth of euery child w^'^in 
 this Parish bee sent vnto the pish Regester for tyme being 
 w^'in one moneth next after the said birth to bee entred in the 
 pish Register books or otherwise that hee fill vpp his bookes 
 and hee pforme his dutye in due tyme. 
 
 That the Ancient dutie for the vse of the pish Clothes 
 bee continued to bee paied for every Corps to bee hereafter 
 buried 
 
 And att this vestry these Gentlemen hereafter named are 
 presented by the Churchwardens & approued by the vestry 
 then present to serue for the office of Sidemen : 
 
 Cap* William Archer for Ratcliff 
 
 Mr John M intern^ for lymehouse 
 
 Mr George Carey for Shad well 
 
 M'' John Hawes for Myle end 
 
 Mr Randall Attwood for Spitlefelds 
 
 These Gentlemen following were desired by the vestry to 
 be aydeing & assisting to the Churchwardens & Sydemen in 
 the Survayes of the pish Church & other necesarie occasion, 
 for pish good 
 
 That is to sale Cap* Thomas Spencer, Cap* Richard Reade 
 Mr Thomas Grimley and M'' Edward Arlabeare 
 
 E. Keung John Crouther, Church- 
 
 JoHN HEAMAN warden. 
 
 ' John Minterne, a scrivener, of Limehouse, and probably son of Henry Minterne, of 
 London. — Stepney Registers ; Hutchins' ' History of Dorsetshire,' iv. 422. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 211 
 
 WilLm Bayley Robert Pursser 
 
 Edw: Johnson Ambrose Goodinge 
 
 Jo Winterborne John Haris 
 
 Henry Gleed Francis Clement 
 
 Joseph Cope John Hawes 
 
 Edmond Groue John Wright 
 
 Tho Spencer Tho Ewen 
 Thomas Mempris 
 
 July the second 1655 
 Att a vestry holden this daye in the vestry house itt was 
 by generall consent agreed that the accquittance subscribed 
 by the Lord Mayor & S'' Thomas Vyner^ Tresiirors for y" 
 Collection for the Poore Protestants w^^'in the dominions of 
 the duke of Savoy bee herein Recorded & is as fifolloweth 
 
 The xxvij*^ daye of June 1655 
 
 Receiued then of William Greenehill Minister Edward 
 Keeleing Henry Gleede John Crowther John Proude & 
 John Swanley Churchwardens of the pish of Stepny in the 
 County of Midd the some of Two hundred thirty & two 
 poundes twelue shillings & Eleven pence being see much by 
 them Collected for the releife of the poore fttestants w*in the 
 dominions of the duke of Savoy accordeing to a declaracon & 
 instructions from his highnes the Lord Protecto"" of the 25* of 
 May last wee say Receiued 232^: 12 xj"^ 
 
 Chr: Packe Maiorl 
 
 John Powell Receiuer 
 
 rr yr yTresuro™ 
 
 Tho: Vyner J 
 
 Itt was also agreed att the same vestry that all matters of 
 repares to be done to the body of the Church of their parish, 
 the resetting vpp of the Ten Comandem'^ bee referred to 
 
 ' Sir Thomas Vyner, a distinguished city man, only mentioned incidentally here, but he 
 was concerned with Stepney, and owned land both here and at Hackney. — Stepney Court 
 Rolls, iv. 68, go. 
 
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MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 the care of the Churchwardens, Sydemen & the foure Asistants 
 att the last vestry 
 
 That by the care of M"' Keeling & M"" Crowther a Breviate 
 of all Acts & Ordinances of Parliament that concerne the 
 due obseruation of the Lords daye bee drawne vpp published 
 & sett vpp in seuerall convenient places in & about the 
 Church to the end that all idle & disorderly persons whoe 
 walke vpp & downe on the lords daye or lyers on the ground 
 in the churchyard may bee tymely forewarned. 
 
 That the Churchwardens doe take special Care about all 
 Moneys giuen to & for the releife of the poore or for a stock 
 to sett the poore on worke & that they forthw**" repare to 
 M"^ Greenehill to conferr w"' him about the Monies giuen to 
 the Parish of Stepny out of the Impost vpon seacoale & 
 that care may bee taken by them for the best improvem*^^ 
 thereof. 
 
 That the Parish vestry house bee forth"'*'' repared & a Cage 
 & a pare of Stocks sett vpp in some convenient place neare 
 the Church w*Hn the Churchyard. 
 
 July y® second 1655 
 
 The seuerall Matters Written on the other syde of this 
 Leafe were agreed vpon by us 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 John Waterton 
 Jo Hawes 
 John Heaman 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Tho Hart 
 Edmond Groue 
 Tho Ewen 
 Tho Spencer 
 W. Archer 
 John: Wright 
 Walter Cooke 
 
 E. Keling 
 John Crouther 
 Henry Gleed 
 John Prowd 
 John: Swanley 
 JOH DuciE 
 Thomas Grimley 
 Joseph Collins 
 Edward Arlibear 
 John Burchett 
 Jo: Winterborne 
 
 Church- 
 wardens 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 213 
 
 October y^ first 1655 
 
 Att a meeting this daye of the Members of y® vestry The 
 Churchwardens did present vnto them some papers Giueing 
 an Accompt of the pticulars referred to their care by the 
 vestry held y® second of July last And first presented a 
 breviate of the Acts & Ordinances now in force for the better 
 observation of the lords daye which being read ouer & 
 debated att this vestry was approoved And the Church- 
 wardens then desired to cause severall Coppyes thereof to 
 bee printed and to bee fixed in Convenient places att their 
 discretions for publique Notice thereof to bee taken for the 
 preventeing of the frequent disorders & prophanations of that 
 daye w*in this Parish. 
 
 Secondly, that they had viewed & considered of the 
 repares wanting vpon the Vestry house, and for their better 
 informacon of the Workes needfull to bee done and the 
 charge thereof, they had caused a Survey to bee made by 
 two able psons : Workmen within the Citty of London whoe 
 had deliuered their opinions vnder their hands That to 
 build that house with brick And to finde all Materialls & 
 Workmanshipp for y" buildeing 50 foote in length & 20 foote 
 in breadth betwixt the Walls will cost 260^^ or thereabouts 
 besides all the Materialls of the old house. 
 
 The vestry haueing considered the said report of that 
 worke ; did vnanimously agree that the same should bee 
 pformed & that Monies for that vse & for other occasions of 
 the Church should bee raised in the sefall diuisions of this 
 pish. But being not clearely satisfied with the Computed 
 Charge for that house, desired the Churchwardens Sydemen 
 & their respectiue assistants within each Hamblett to cause 
 another vewe & estimate thereof to bee made by some other 
 workmen and to giue in the same att the next vestry to bee 
 Ordered accordingly 
 
 Itt was alsoe presented to the vestry that the Company of 
 
2 14 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Coopers did desire leaue to build vpp a Gallary in some 
 convenient place for y" sitting of the children of the ffree 
 Schooled belonging to that Companie The consideracon wa.s 
 referred to the psons appoynted att a former vestry for 
 repares of the vestry house 
 
 The Churchwardens did alsoe present that accordeing to 
 order the last vestry they had spoke w**^ M"' Greenehill Justice 
 Waterton & M"" Hutchinson about the Monies Giuen to the 
 Poore of this Parish out of the Imposte vpon Seacoale from 
 whome they receiued answere that the some of 400^ had beene 
 receiued and as to the disposeing thereof some part was to bee 
 disposed with the consent of M'' Cawley^ & M'' Waterton & 
 the rest w*'' consent of M'' Hutchinson & M' Waterton & that 
 this disposure was to bee for a stock to sett the poore on 
 Worke or otherwise at their discretion And that some pte of 
 y* Money was by Order Giuen to a poore widd Alreedy. 
 
 The vestry this daye takeing the busines into their con- 
 sideracon did desire that M" Maurice Thomson, Cap* John 
 Limbrey & Justice Hoxton would conferr w*^ Mr Greenehill 
 and those other Gendemen how y® said 400^^ & the proffitt of 
 itt should bee imployed either for a stock or other Aduantage 
 for the Poore accordeing to the intent of the Act of Parlia- 
 ment. Itt was also desired that they would Speake with 
 M"" Greenehill about readeing the word of god in publicque 
 before the time of sermon on y** lords daye, and alsoe con- 
 cerneing Cattechizeing 
 
 And lasdy concerneing y" 50^^ heretofore paid to him for his 
 fortnights Lecture And that if hee shall not think good to 
 accept thereof itt may bee noe preiudice to the continuance of 
 M' John Johnsons Lecture or the collections of the Monie to 
 that purpose 
 
 The vestry being informed that there is 50^' remayneing 
 in the hands of Justice Waterton as pte of the ffine of 
 
 ' Founded by Nicholas Gibson (see p. ix.). 
 
 ' Mr. Cawley (? Richard C), mariner, of Limehouse, who on June ii, 1650, married 
 Dorothea Browne. — Stepney Regsters. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 215 
 
 Alderman Reignoldsoni Giuen by the Parliament to the vse 
 of the poore of this pish they doe desire that the Church- 
 wardens would repare to Mr Waterton & informe themselues 
 what improvem' is made of itt & when M'' Waterton will pay 
 in the Money or giue security for itt, And accordingly to 
 informe the vestry att their next meeteing 
 
 And that they would speake with M"" Earle concerneing 
 y^ Legacie Giuen to the poore by Mr Daniel! Darling,^ 
 deceased, and soe alsoe with M'^^ Pett concerneing the 
 Legacie giuen by her late husband to y® pish of Stepny for 
 y® poores vse. 
 
 Aprill the first 1656 
 
 Att a vestry this daye itt was desired that the entries of 
 the busines of the vestry held the first of October last bee 
 reade & confirmed 
 
 Secondly that the respectiue answeres to soe many of those 
 entries as were referred to further Care & proseqution may 
 bee now receiued & debated 
 
 To the first concerning the Acts & Ordinances for y" 
 Saboth, they haue for some reasons omitted the printeing of 
 that paper, but shall accordeing to direction giue a speedy dis- 
 patch thereunto 
 
 To the Second concerning the repareing or newbuilding of 
 the Vestrye house the Churchwardens & others intrusted, 
 had accordeing to Order caused another vewe & estimate to 
 bee made of that Charge by foure other persons whoe are 
 workemen who doe present that the Materialls & workeman- 
 shipp for that house of the cposed demensions will cost 
 besides the old Materialls 220 . And that to put the old 
 house in good repare will cost 100^/ 
 
 To the third concerning the desire of the Companie of 
 
 ^ Abraham Reynardson, late Lord Mayor of London, was fined ;^2,ooo for his mis- 
 demeanours during his mayoralty ; and on April 2, 1649, Parliament ordered the money to be 
 paid in equal parts to the poor of (i.) Southwark, (ii.) Westminster, (iii.) the City, (iv.) the 
 Tower Hamlets. On the following June 30 Stepney's share was paid, on the recommenda- 
 tion of the J.P.'s, to John Waterton. — State Papers, Adv. of Money, i. 
 
 '' See p. 156. 
 
2i6 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Coopers for the building of a Gallery in the Church for the 
 sitting of the Children of their free Schoole the foresaid 
 referees did take vewe & consideracon of that proposall & 
 how the same might bee effected if the said Company & this 
 vestry did approve thereof & to that end gaue in their 
 opinnion as follow*^ That the place most convenient for that 
 purpose is vpon the North Side of the Church to goe from 
 East to west before & somewhat lower then the present 
 Gallery there but as to the Charge of the same the referees 
 conceive itt is fitt to bee Carried on by the Companie whoe 
 expect the sole vse and benefitt thereof 
 
 To the fourth, concerning the Monies reed by M'' Greene- 
 hill y" Vicar they haue noe accompt to giue, saue that they 
 heare that the said 400'' is disposed by M'' Greenehill & 
 two of the Justices. Concerneing the Monies of Alderman 
 Reignoldsons ffine said to bee in M'' Watertons hands, 
 the Referees haue seene accquittances and pervsed some 
 Accompts whereby itt appeares the said Monies were pd 
 in to the respectiue Churchwardens and are past vpon their 
 Accompts. 
 
 The Churchwardens doe further offer to the vestry that in 
 psuance of an Order of the Vestry the second of July last 
 by which the repares to bee done to the body of the Church 
 of this pish were refferred to the Churchwardens Sidemen & 
 4 Assistants the fores'^ severall persons haue caused severall 
 workes & reparacons to bee made for the new layeing of 
 the lies & whole body of the Church pavement & for repare 
 & strengthning of most of the said Church pewes & the 
 Wall about the Church yard & the same new built in severall 
 places, the Charge of the whole by them issued out being 
 {a blank) ffor which accordeing to former Customes in the 
 like cases they desire that a Landscott & Asseasement may 
 bee laid vpon the pishon''^ & others holdeing Lands or other- 
 wise_ estated and vpon the outdwellers whoe occupie Lands 
 within this pish — 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 217 
 
 And if this vestry shall think fitt to Order the repareing 
 or new buildeing of the vestry house according to the 
 Estimates thereof that the said Landscott & asseasm*: may 
 conteyne the some of Money w"'' the vestry shall allott to 
 that vse of the vestry house And that all other the In- 
 habitants in the said pish not occupeing any Lands, may bee 
 rated to paie towards all the said Charge accordeing to some 
 pporcon of their respectiue asseasements to the poore or 
 accordeing to their personalle states 
 
 It is further declared to this Vestry That the Church- 
 wardens & others findeing a dropping downe of Raine in 
 severall places over the Chancell by which the people were 
 disturbed and that there was feare of the decayeing & Rotting 
 the Timbers in that Roofe to y^ greate danger & damage of 
 the people they did by themselues & Workemen take a vewe 
 vpon the leads ouer the Chancell, Which they found very 
 defectiue, The charge of which (in case the Lead bee taken 
 vpp & new cast) is estimated by the said Workemen att 45^, 
 otherwise to bee only layde with a new Crowne peece & the 
 two Gutters new layde With sodering & Workemenshipp as 
 itt now lyes will cost i8^\ And the Timber Worke not valued, 
 The consideracon of this is left to the vestry 
 
 Aprill the viij*** 1656 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Parishion" this daye in the vestry 
 house for the makeing Choyce of Churchwardens for the yeare 
 ensueing, they haue thought fitt to Choose for Churchwardens 
 these Gentlemen hereafter named 
 
 In Ratcliff Mr Edward Keeleing' 
 
 in Shadwell Mr Henry Gleade 
 in Lymehouse Cap* John Proude 
 in Myle end Cap* John Crowther 
 
 & Mr Thomas Lancaster in Popler 
 
 28 
 
 for vpper 
 Churchwardens 
 
for vnd'' 
 Churchwardens 
 
 218 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 And for the better pulsion & supply of Officers for the 
 future who may be truely informed of the pish affaires, the 
 pishion'^^ haue thought fitt to name for vnder Churchwardens 
 to serue for the yeare ensueing 
 
 In Ratcliff Cap* Thomas Spencer" 
 in Shadwell M'' James Bartlett 
 in lymehouse Cap' Thomas Evvins 
 in Myle end M"^ John Wright 
 
 Jno Limbery Henry Hall 
 
 Will: Mellish John West 
 
 John heaman Tho Middleton 
 
 E: Keling Thomas Mempris 
 
 John Crouther John Prowd 
 
 Henry Gleed Thomas Grimley 
 
 Edw: Johnson Edward Arlibear 
 
 Edmond Groue Will Thomas^ 
 
 John Burchett 
 
 Aprill the 28*^^ 1656 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Parishion"^^ this daye in the vestry 
 house in order to settling & concludeing of former votes & 
 orders made att seuerall meeteings for and concerneing the 
 repares of their pish Church, walls windowes Churchyard- 
 walles or any necessaries of repares thereunto belonging or 
 for & concerneing the Parish meeteing house aunciently 
 called the vestrie house — Att this meeteing doe agree that a 
 rate or Landscott bee made forthwith throughout this pish 
 in all the severall diuisions And that the full some of One 
 hundred & threescore pounds of lawfull Money bee ceased 
 
 ' William Thomas, captain in the employ of the Commonwealth, employed at one time on 
 active service under the Earl of Warwick, and later, transporting food for the Admiralty in 
 the Adventure of London (165^). He also was busy with commercial enterprise, for on 
 March 7, 165J, he petitioned the Lord Protector and Council for protection against the 
 impress of his two vessels bound for the Greenland whale-fishery. He seems to have 
 belonged to a commercial firm, for the petition is made in the name of Captain William 
 Thomas and Co. — State Papers : Adv. of Money, i. ; Domestic, 1651-2, 1655. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 219 
 
 on the pishion" in such equal proportions as formerly haue 
 beene made in y« like case & bee Collected by y« Church- 
 wardens or whome they thinke fitt to appoynte. And that 
 the some of fourty poundes of like money bee att the same 
 time levied & asseased on the parishioners for discharge of 
 the severall somes for seuerall yeares paste layde by .pportion 
 on the pish of Stepnie for & towards the Mayntenance of 
 the Maymed Souldiers & hospitalls. And for the better 
 setling of the pticulars they haue thought fitt to pportion the 
 same According to vsual diuisions to bee asseased^ 
 
 li s 
 
 in Ratcliff fourty foure poundes ... 44: 00 
 
 in Shadwell fourty foure poundes ... 44: 00 
 
 in Lymehouse fifty eight poundes ... 58: 00 
 in Myle end ^ 
 
 Bethnell greenej-fifty eight pounds ... 58: 00 
 Spitle feilds J 
 
 204 : 00 
 
 E. Keling 
 John Prowd 
 Tho Ewen 
 Thomas Spencer 
 John Crouther 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Edmond Groue 
 
 John heaman 
 John Wills 
 Tho: Grimley 
 Roger Garland^ 
 FRANCIS Clement 
 John Raymond^ 
 Jo Hawes 
 
 ^ This is, however, not the usual proportion, see pp. 195 and 200, and there is no mention 
 here of Poplar and Blackwall : both these mistakes are rectified at the next Vestry, p. 220. 
 
 ^ Roger Garland, mariner, of Ratcliffe, evidently a man of some wealth, as in 1651 he 
 bought of Sir Henry Herbert and Sir Henry and Dame Vere Every a mansion-house, garden, 
 and orchard in Stepney, late in the occupation of Dame Hellen Sleaford and Sir Edward 
 Waterhouse. He was buried May 25, 1654. — Deed (Jienes me, W. H. F.) ; Stepney 
 Registers. 
 
 ' John Raymond was a brewer, living at Ratcliffe Cross, and a man of considerable pro- 
 perty. In 1657 he was constable of Ratcliffe, and he was buried January 7, i6fj. — Court 
 Rolls, iv. 60, 169 ; viii. 29 ; lease (penes me, W.H.F.) of four houses and wharves at Ratcliffe 
 Cross ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 28—2 
 
2 20 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Edward Arlibear John: Wright 
 
 Henry Glred Robert Pursser 
 
 Ambrose Goodinge Joh Ducie 
 
 Henry Hodgkin Gillfurd Elvey 
 
 W. Archer Thomas Allee 
 
 And further att this Meeteing Consideration was had of 
 the report made and entred the first of Aprill instant con- 
 cerneing the repare of the Leades & roofe ouer the Chancell : 
 And itt being resolued that there was a necessity of the 
 speedy doeing of that worke for the preservation of the 
 timbers & whole frame, Itt is thought fitt that M' Greenehill 
 the vicar haue Notice hereof that if hee shall thinke fitt 
 in regard hee is lyable by the lawe to the repares thereof to 
 cause a further survey to bee made thereon & the same taken 
 in a seasonable time before the next meeteing soe that Worke- 
 men may bee timely imployed for such repares. 
 
 Januarie the 15* 1656 
 Att a meeteing of the Parishion'^^ in the vestry house 
 this daye the Churchwardens presented a paper wherein 
 they gaue a pticular Accompt of Moneys by them disbursed 
 in y*' repares of the Church the whole pavements and^ y^ 
 walles about the Church yard And whereas att a fformer 
 meeteing the pishion" thought fitt for raiseing of two hundred 
 & foure pound es for y® discharg of the Worke menconed in 
 their order of the 28'^ of Aprill last vpon further considera- 
 tion att this meeteing they haue now thought fitt that the 
 some of one hundred & twenty poundes & noe more bee 
 now raised, And that the same some bee equally asseased & 
 raised in the severall diuisions of the whole pish of Stepnie.^ 
 That is to sale in Ratcliffe & Shadwell fourty five pounds 
 in Lymehouse Thirty pounds in Myle end Bednell greene & 
 Spitle feilds thirty pounds & in Popler & Blackwall fifteene 
 
 ^ ' Most of the pewes ' has been erased. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 pounds.^ W"^ is by full consent & 
 asseased forthw*^ 
 
 Jn° Limbery 
 Jo: HoxTON 
 
 Henry Gleed 
 
 Jo WiNTERBORNE 
 
 Edmond Groue 
 Tho: Grimley 
 E: Keling 
 John Crouther 
 John Prowd 
 
 that the said some be 
 
 Tho Chenies 
 John heaman 
 Edw: Johnson 
 John Haris 
 Edward Arlibear 
 W Archer 
 Jo: Best 
 Thomas Mempris 
 
 March y« 30*^ 1657. 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Members of the vestry in the pish 
 house in the Churchyard itt there appeared by the running 
 downe of Water from y'' people whoe Hue in the roomes 
 aboue the vestry that they are greate preiudice to the house 
 & the vestry then ordered that all the Inhabitants aboue 
 should be warned out & to get them houses elswhere before 
 y" 24*'' of June next 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 
 John West 
 
 E. Keling 
 
 Joseph Cope 
 
 Tho Hart 
 
 Tho Spencer 
 
 John Prowd 
 
 John: Wright 
 John Crouther 
 Henry Gleed 
 Jn° Limbery 
 John Burchett 
 Arthur Bailey 
 John Raymond 
 
 March y« xxx* 1657. 
 
 Att a Meeteing of the vestry accordeing to their Custome 
 for the Choyce of Churchwardens for the yeare ensueing they 
 haue made Choyce of the Gentlemen hereafter named 
 
 ' See note on p. 219. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 In Ratcliff 
 In Shad well . 
 In Lymehouse 
 In Myle end . 
 In Popler 
 
 (Cap* Thomas Spencer 
 jCap* William Thomas 
 'Mr James Bartlett 
 Mr John Wright 
 M"^ William Graues 
 Mr Thomas Cuttlett 
 
 iMr John Wright 
 Mr Thomas Mempris 
 Cap* Thomas Lancaster 
 M=^ Randall Rudd^ 
 
 To serue 
 office of 
 Church- 
 warden 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 John West 
 E Keling 
 Jn" Limbery 
 John Crouther 
 Henry Gleed 
 Joseph Cope 
 Tho: Grimley 
 Tho Hart 
 Tho Spencer 
 
 Aprill the 13'*' 1658. 
 
 John Prowd 
 John More 
 Edmond Groue 
 W Archer 
 Joseph Collins 
 Roger Garland 
 John Burchett 
 Arthur Bailey 
 John Hawes 
 John Raymond 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Gentlemen of y* vestry in the 
 Parish house the daye & yeare afforesaid for the Choyce of 
 Churchwardens for the pish of Stepnie for y^ yeare ensueing 
 they haue made choyce of the Gentlemen hereafter named to 
 serue y^ office of Churchwardens that is to sale 
 
 In Ratclifif 
 In Shadwell 
 
 fCap* William Thomas 
 jCap* William Wildye 
 Mr John Wright 
 Mr John Burchett 
 
 ' Randall Rudd, the tenant of three acres of marsh-land in Poplar, which Sir Henry John- 
 son (see p. 204) bought from Captain Crowther's widow, October, 1672. He was buried at 
 Poplar the following March 10.- Stepney Court Rolls, vii. 276. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 223 
 
 In lymehouse .J^' Wj"'^"" n'^T 
 I Mr Thomas Cuttlett 
 
 In Myle: end ...JSfP' ^°^?f ^^''^^"^ 
 ^ [Mr John Preston 
 
 In Pooler {^' ^^"^^^ ^^^^^ 
 
 '■"I^Cap' John Swanley 
 
 Maurice Thomson John Crouthkr 
 
 Wm Greaues Henry Gleed 
 
 Will Thomas Arthur Bailey 
 
 John: Wright Tho Spencer 
 
 Randall Rudd Edw: Johnson 
 
 Jn° Limeery Edmond Groue 
 
 Joseph Cope W Archer 
 
 James Dentier Tho Lancaster 
 John Haris 
 
 Aprill the 13*^^ 1658 
 
 Whereas in this booke amongst other things there stands 
 recorded fo: 116^ that the some of foure hundred poundes 
 was paied into the hands of Mr Greenehill for the vse of the 
 poore of the pish of Stepnie by Order of the Comittee of 
 the Custome out of Monies by Acts of Parh'ament raised 
 vpon Impost vpon Sea Coale, W"^ Monies was conceived 
 ought to bee disposed of by the Churchwardens as other 
 Monies for the poores vse is, And Whereas this daye vpon 
 the Motion of John Limbrey Esq': itt was offered that the 
 said some of 400^^ was by Order of the said Comittee to bee 
 disposed of by M' Greenehill, Richard Hutchinson John 
 Limbrey John Hoxton & John Waterton Esq" and not by 
 the Churchwardens and that the vestry shall haue a particular 
 accompt thereof & alsoe of the disposall of the said Monies 
 the vestry this daye in respect to the said Mocon haue 
 thought fitt to nominate Cap' Thomas Spencer, Cap' William 
 
 * See p. 214. 
 
224 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Thomas, Mr John Wright Mr John Burchett, M' Wittm 
 Graues Mr Thomas Cuttlett Cap' John Crowther & M'' John 
 Preston to meete together to receiue such accompt as 
 afforesd & alsoe to report bow they finde the same to the 
 next vestry. 
 
 Maurice Thomson Wm Greaues 
 Tho Spencer Joseph Cope 
 
 Will Thomas James Dentier 
 
 John: Wright Edw: Johnson 
 
 Henry Gleed Edmond Groue 
 
 Arthur Bailey John Haris 
 Randall Rudd W Archer 
 
 Jn° Limbery Tho Lancaster 
 
 September the 23* 1658 
 
 Att a meeteing this daye of the vestrymen of the pish 
 itt was ordered that the Churchwardens together w* two of 
 the most able & ancient of persons of each diuisions doe 
 meete together to conclude of some Order to bee drawne 
 vpp for prevention of all disorders about vnseasonable burialls 
 and that the(y) present their Order the next vestry, w'''^ is 
 speedily to bee called for y' purpose 
 
 And to drawe vpp some order for y" better regulateing of 
 burialls here by Strangers in the Church & in the vaults 
 
 And that those Gentlemen would alsoe call for an Accompt 
 of the late asseasement made in this pish for the repare of y* 
 pish Church & to certifie att the next vestry what hath beene 
 asseased, & Collected & now remaineing 
 
 Maurice Thomson Willm Greenehill 
 
 John: Wright Will Thomas 
 
 Edmond Groue Wm Greaues 
 
 Joseph Collins WilL Wildey 
 
 Jn° Limbery John Preston 
 
 Edw: Johnson Thomas Grimley 
 
 John Crouther Jn" Hawes 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 225 
 
 December y® 27*** 1658 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Members of the vestry this daye in 
 the vestry house the Accompt of the Money left to the 
 disposall of M"^ Greenehill was certified & the vestry receiued 
 full satisfaction that the some of foure hundred poundes soe 
 often meneoned in this booke was giuen & by him the said 
 M'' Greenehill together -w*'' John Limbrey & John Hoxton 
 Esq' & M' Richard Hutchinson really distributed vnto and 
 amongst neare eight hundred poore families & persons in 
 distress and therefore wee Whose names are hereund"" Written 
 for ourselues & our Successors Parishion"^ of Stepnie doe 
 approue of such distribution & hereby fully discharge the 
 said M'' Greenehill & his relacons & all others the Gentlemen 
 whoe ioyned w*'' M" Greenehill in the disposeing thereof. 
 Witnes our hands 
 
 Edw: Johnson Will Thomas 
 
 Joseph Cope Wm Greaues 
 
 John Crouther Will Wildey 
 Edmond Groue John Preston 
 John: Wright Roger Garland 
 
 Tho: Grimley Arthur Bailey 
 
 The fift daye of Aprill 1659 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Members of the vestry in the pish 
 house in the Church yard accordeing to their Custome for 
 the election of Churchwardens for the yeare ensueing Itt 
 was thought fitt att thatt Meeteing & they did then elect 
 & Choose the Gentlemen hereafter named to serue the s<l 
 ofifice. 
 
 In Ratcliff Cap' William Wildy 
 
 T c'L J n M"" John Burchett 
 
 In Shadwell ... ^r William Weston 
 
 In lymehouse Maio'' Thomas Cutlett 
 
 29 
 
226 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH, 
 
 T A/r 1 J Cap* Rosrer Garland 
 In Myle end ^r Nicholas ffordha 
 
 In Popler & 1 Mr John Wight 
 Blackwall J Mr William Margeet 
 
 am his Sideman 
 
 Jo: HoxTON 
 Jn° Limbery 
 Will Thomas 
 John ;Wright 
 Wm Greaues 
 Jo Winterborne 
 Thomas Grimley 
 Jo: Best 
 John Preston 
 Joseph Cope 
 
 John West 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Edmond Groue 
 Tho Ewen 
 John: Swan ley 
 Randall Rudd 
 W Archer 
 John Wills 
 Henry Gleed 
 Arthur Bailey 
 
 The fift daye of Aprill 1659 
 
 Att a Meeteing this daye in the vestry house itt was taken 
 into consideracon the necessity of new nameing & repeateing 
 of the vestrymen & therefore haue incerted all the Members 
 as follow'^ 
 
 In Ratcliff 
 
 John Hoxton Esq"^ 
 Cap* Edward Johnson 
 Mr Edmund Groiie 
 Thomas Harrison 
 William Wildye 
 Edward Keeleing 
 William Archer 
 M^ John Wills 
 Cap* William Thomas 
 M"' Josias Best 
 
 In Myle end 
 
 Morris Thomson Esq'' 
 
 Mr Thomas Hart 
 
 Cap* John Crouther dead^ 
 
 Mr Thomas Grimley sen"" 
 
 Mr James Denteire 
 
 Mr Joseph Cope 
 
 Cap' Roger Garland^ 
 
 M"" Joseph Collins 
 
 M"" John Hawes 
 
 Cap' John Proude 
 
 Mr John Wright 
 
 1 Mr. Nathaniel Tilley erased. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 227 
 
 In Shadwell In lymehouse 
 
 John Waterton Esq' John Lymbery Esq"^ 
 
 Henry Hodgkins Cap* John Harris 
 
 M' Edward Arlabeare Cap* Thomas Ewins 
 
 M' John Moore Maior Thomas Cuttlett 
 
 Cap* Arthur Bayhe Mr William Graues 
 
 M' John Wright M' Thomas Wilkinson^ 
 
 M' John Burchett Mr Robert Hembricks^ 
 
 Ambrose Gooden Mr Abraham Graues^ 
 
 M"- Henry Gleade M' Beniamin Andrews* 
 
 Mr John Winterboiirne Mr John Leddman 
 
 July ye 15th 1659 
 Att a meeteing this daye of the members of the vestry 
 whose names are hereunder Written, the Accompt of pticulers 
 following w"=^ belong to the pish of Stepnie was ordered to 
 bee kept for y^ parish vse. (vi3t) One damask table cloth for 
 y® Comunion table, two silver & guilt bowles w*'' Covers for 
 y® Comunicants vse & two greate pewter fflagons one greene 
 broade cloth Carpett one long greene velvett Cushion for 
 y® pulpitt ; one pewter bason one broade brass bason All 
 ^ch pticulers were delivered into the hands of Cap* William 
 Wildy the present Churchwarden in Ratcliff & itt is this daye 
 
 ^ Thomas Wilkinson was ordained a deacon to Stepney Meeting, on the 21st of the second 
 month, 1650, and is supposed to have been the first one chosen to that office. He had been 
 admitted a member in 1644, and was then described as 'shoemaker of Limehouse,'— Jones' 
 Early Days of Stepney Meeting. 
 
 " Robert Hembricks, chirurgeon, of Limehouse, married Rebecca, daughter of Captain 
 Thomas Spencer (p. 202), and in 1656 he and Anne Spencer (probably his mother-in-law) 
 inherited land from John Watts. On February 9, 1658, he was nominated a deacon at 
 Stepney Meeting, and on April 20, 1669, he was entered in the Court Rolls as dead. His 
 son was buried in the Quaker burial-ground on December 10, 1666. — Stepney Court Rolls, 
 i. 149, 157, 199 ; vi. 109 ; Jones' Early Days of Stepney Meeting ; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Abraham Graves, shipwright, of Limehouse. He married EliEabeth Stephens by licence 
 on July 18, 1638, and several of his sales of land are recorded in the Court Rolls. — Stepney 
 Registers ; Court Rolls, iii. 102 ; vi. 163 ; vii. 148, 166. 
 
 * Benjamin Andrews, brewer and constable of Limehouse in 1657 ; an active member of 
 the Independent congregation meeting in Siepney, by whom he was appointed a ' deacon ' in 
 October, 1656, and two years later an 'elder.' He had been admitted in 1648, and con- 
 tinued a member for more than fifty years, during the greater part of which he seems to have 
 been the chief officer next to the minister ; his name appears on all their deeds and docu- 
 ments, and most of their finance was transacted by him. — A. T. Jones's Early Days of 
 Stepney Meeting ; Stepney Court Rolls. 
 
 29 2 
 
228 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 thought fitt & agreed that the succeeding Churchwardens of 
 Ratcliff shall haue the keepeing of them in Succession & to 
 accompt for the same to the pish. 
 
 And att the same Meeteing itt was then alsoe agreed that 
 for y® better discouery of the poore whoe haue iust necessity 
 for releife by pencon in the pish of Stepny that euery such 
 pson as shall hereafter be relieved doe weare a pewter badge w* 
 inscription vsed as thought fitt. w'^ the name of what diuision 
 they belong to. 
 
 Will Wildey Churchwarden 
 
 John Burchett 
 
 Roger Garland 
 
 Thomas Cutlett 
 
 Willi Weston 
 
 John Wills 
 
 Tho: Harrison 
 
 John More 
 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Edmond. Groue 
 Thomas Grimley 
 Will Thomas 
 W Archer 
 John: Wright 
 Joseph Collins 
 
 Church- 
 wardens 
 
 By vertue of letters Pattents vnder ye greate seale 
 Collected in the severall diuisions or Hambletts of the pish 
 of Stepnie for releife of the late Poore Inhabitants of South- 
 wold otherwise Soulbay in the County of Suffolke the full & 
 whole some of ffifty sixe poundes eighteene shillings & ten 
 pence & is towards repare of their greate loss by fier. That 
 is to saye 
 
 In Ratcliff ... 
 Church doore 
 Shadwell 
 lymehouse ... 
 Myle end 
 Popler 
 
 li 
 
 s 
 
 d 
 
 II. 
 
 14. 
 
 7i 
 
 12. 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 •• 5- 
 
 7- 
 
 
 
 7- 
 
 13- 
 
 3 
 
 .. 14. 
 
 9 
 
 7-h 
 
 •• 5- 
 
 6. 
 
 
 
 50. 18. ID 
 
 Willm Greenehill Minisf 
 Will Wildey 
 Roger Garland 
 
 |-Church wardens 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 229 
 
 The some of 56^ 18^ lo"* was paid as p acquittance a Copy 
 whereof is as followeth 
 
 Receiued the 27"" of August 1659 of Mr William 
 Wildye & Mr Roger Garland Churchwardens of 
 Stepny (vijt) for Rate) iff Shad well lymehouse Popler 
 & Myle end divisions for y® whole pish of Stepny 
 the some of fifty sixe poundes eighteene shillings 
 & ten pence W"'' is for the breife of Southwold 
 alias Soulebay in Suffolk wee saye reed 56^ I8^ 10'' 
 Whereof there is found of this p Rob' Dicer 
 
 ten shillings in brass Money, the Henry Loades 
 
 acquittance is w** Cap* Garland 
 Churchwarden : 
 
 December y^ 26*^ 1659 
 
 Att a meeteing of the Members of the vestry of this pish 
 this daye whose names are hereunder Written vpon takeing 
 into consideracon the better repareing of their pish Church 
 for future and findeing itt very necessarie that accompetent 
 some should yearely bee raised vpon euery pticuler Pewe as 
 well in the Galleries as in the body of the Church & for 
 the better discouery of itt haue this daye ordered that William 
 Bissaker their pish Clarke doe bring into the next meeteing 
 in the vestry A full accompt of all pews & w*'' all what somes 
 formerly haue beene raised or sett vpon y® pishion" Sitting in 
 such pews. 
 
 And att the same meeteing itt was then alsoe agreed that 
 whereas of late there hath beene severall repares made by 
 the present Churchwardens of this pish in and about the 
 pish Church & Chancell And that att this daye there is 
 due to severall workemen as by severall bills pduced for 
 worke don thirty two poundes fourteene shillings & five 
 pence, whereof seven poundes six shillings & nyne pence is 
 for worke done about the roofe of the Chancell And 
 whereas there is due from y* present & former Church- 
 wardens the some of seven poundes & ten shillings for the 
 
230 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 pewe they sitt in w*^in the Chancell for seven yeares & halfe 
 past theyhaue this daye thought fitt to order that the Church- 
 wardens doe discharge the poore men whoe haue done the 
 whole worke before menconed & that the future charge of the 
 Chancell shall be paied by the patron or incumbent from 
 whome itt shall growe due from time to time 
 
 Maurice Thomson Jn" Limbery 
 
 Edw: Johnson 
 
 Edmond Groue 
 
 Thomas Grimley 
 
 W Archer 
 
 John Wright 
 
 Abraham Greaues 
 
 Will Wildey 
 Roger Garland 
 Willi Weston 
 E. Keling 
 Robt: Hembricke 
 
 Aprill y° 23"" 1660 
 
 Att a meeteing this daye in the vestry house by the 
 Parishioners accordeing to their ancient Custome for y* 
 Election of Churchwardens for this parish for the yeare 
 ensueing wee the said Parishion'^ haue Elected the Gentle- 
 men hereafter named to serve the office in the severall 
 divisions of o"" said pish 
 
 /Cap' John Wills 
 •\Cap' Robert Land^ 
 ''M'' William Weston 
 M'' Jesper Sketchar^ 
 M'' Abraham Graves 
 Mr Nicholas ffordham 
 
 In Ratcliff 
 
 In Shad well 
 
 In Lymehouse 
 In Myle end 
 
 In Popler 
 
 Mr William Mageck 
 Mr Henry Johnson 
 
 Af /ohn Ormes 
 M" Samuell Bartleti' 
 
 ' William Land was admitted in fee of a copyhold as son and heir of Robert Land, 
 deceased, May 22, 1662. — Stepney Court Rolls, i. 71-73 ; iv. 58. 
 
 ^ Jasper Sketcher, buried in 1679, at St. Paul's Church, Shadwell, where there was 
 formerly a monument to his memory. — Strype's Stow. 
 
 ^ Samuel Bartlett, probably the goldsmith who, on October 22, 1649, was appointed assay 
 master to the Mint. In 1652 his salary was £b(> 13s. 4d. per annum ; but in 1660 he was 
 called ' a violent fanatic, put in by the late insolent traitor, Bradshaw,' and was ejected from 
 his office. — State Papers, Domestic, 1649, 1652, 1660, etc. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 231 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 Will Wildey 
 Roger Garland 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Tho Hart 
 Will Thomas 
 Jn° Limbery 
 John Burchett 
 Tho Cutlett 
 John More 
 
 Thomas Grimley 
 Joseph Collins 
 E Keling 
 John: Wright 
 Edmond Groue 
 John Wright : 
 Tho Lancaster 
 Tho: Harrison 
 Jo: BesT/ 
 
 July y" 26*^ 1660 
 Att a meeteing of the Members of y" vestry this daye 
 they haue thought fitt to require an Accompt of the severall 
 Churchwardens of the divisions of this pish what Monies 
 haue beene of late asseased in the pish for repare of the pish 
 Church what haue beene receiued & disbursed for that vse 
 & for the more speedy dispatch doe desire y° Churchwardens 
 for time being to pcure the two next Justices of the peace to 
 meete & require the accompt w"' what convenient speed may 
 bee — and that the Churchwardens would Certifye to the vestry 
 att y® next meeteing what is done therevpon. 
 
 Henry Gleed 
 Wm Greaues 
 Joseph Collins 
 Robert Hembricks 
 John Wills "jChurch- 
 Robert LANDJwardens 
 
 Abraham Greaues "1 
 Nicholas ffordhamI 
 
 Arthur Bailey 
 Jo: Best/ 
 Tho: Gkimley 
 Edw: Thompson 
 Roger Garland 
 
 
 iQ**" of September 1660 
 Att a meeteing this daye itt was agreed by us whose 
 names are hereunder written that M"" William Northey^ 
 
 1 William Northey, Esq., of Old Ford, steward of the manor 1654-1661 ; probably ejected 
 then, as Timothy Stamp (p. 238) was steward till 1669, when Northey, who all along claimed 
 the post, entered on it again. — Stepney Court Rolls ; pedigree in Le Neve's Knights, 
 pp. 478, 519. 
 
232 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 M"" Maurice Thomson M'' John Limbrey M' John Hoxton 
 & M'' Edward Keeleing bee desired that they or any two or 
 more of them doe treate w*'' all persons now interessed in the 
 right of the Aduowson^ of the vicaridge of the pish of Stepnie 
 for the purchase of the same for ever in the name of ffeoffees 
 in trust for the pish 
 
 John Wills Church- Robert Wakelin^ 
 
 warden Arthure Bailey 
 
 Abraham Greaues Samuell Trueloue^ 
 Edw: Johnson Edmond Groue 
 
 Rich Reade Jo: Best 
 
 Edward Arlibear Ant°; Tutchen 
 Wm Greaues Tho: Cutlett 
 
 Jn° Hawes Edw: Thompson 
 
 Will Wildey James Dentier 
 
 John Harris Joh Ducie 
 
 John Preston 
 
 February y° Seventh 1660 
 
 Att a Meeteing the said daye & yeare in the vestry house 
 there being present the doctor together with the vestrymen 
 whose names are hereunder Written Itt was then Mutually 
 agreed that the Ancient Custome of this parish of Stepny 
 concerneing the Calleing & holdeing of vestry Meeteings for 
 
 ' This was a difficult request to execute : the patron of the vicarage was the rector, but 
 there was none : the appointment of rector rested with the lord of the manor, but the manor 
 was sequestrated and its affairs in hopeless confusion. 
 
 ' Robert Wakelin, rope merchant, of Ratcliffe, was buried in Stepney in 1679, and Mary, 
 his wife, in 1681. — Strype's Stow; Stepney Registers. 
 
 ' Samuel Truelove, mariner, of Wapping Wall, and later of Whitehorse Street, a man of 
 some position, owner of considerable property, and a strong supporter of Stepney Meeting. 
 lie and his wife were admitted members in 1655. He was nominated deacon October 20, 
 1657, and at his death, September, 1661, he left his property at the corner of Whitehorse 
 Lane and Salmon's Lane to his grandson nominally, but practically to his trustees, William 
 Greenhill, Isaac Grey, and Benjamin Andrews. The bequest was seized by the King and 
 granted to one of his courtiers, Phillips by name ; but he gave it back to its rightful owner, 
 .ind on April 16, 1667, Samuel Thomas (the grandson) was dead, and Greenhill and 
 Andrews, the surviving trustees, were admitted to the property, where the almshouses were 
 built, and later, the burial-ground annexed and opened. — Jones' Early Days of Stepney 
 Meeting ; Stepney Court Rolls, i. 91 ; iv. 39 ; v. 184; State Papers, Domestic, 1649-52. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 233 
 
 y' better carrieing on of a good gouerment in this pish bee 
 att all times hereafter continued & Ratified by the vestry 
 accordeing to the Ancient Orders & Rules before Written in 
 this booke. 
 
 Itt is alsoe propounded att this vestry That there might 
 bee enterteyned one fitt Orthodox and able Minister to bee 
 the publique Lecturer in this pish Church to preach in the 
 afternoone on y^ Saboth daye & vpon every thursdaye weekely 
 in the afternoone att the good likeing of the Vestry and to bee 
 provided for by the Parish in Generall. 
 
 The Doctor approveing of this proposition doth con- 
 descend that such a fitt person being chosen by y" pishion"^ 
 & offered to him hee shall freely consent to the Exercise 
 of a Lecturers paines in this place att the times aforesd & 
 shall giue noe interruption to him in that imployment. 
 
 Emm: VtyeI D.D Thomas Grimley 
 Vicar Edward Arlibear 
 
 Robert Land Wm Greaues 
 
 Will Thomas Jo: Best 
 
 Edmond Groue Maurice Thomson 
 
 JoH Ducie Abraham Greaues 
 
 ThO Hart churchwardens 
 
 John: Wright E. Keling 
 
 John Wright W Archer 
 
 Jn° Limbary Tho Ewen 
 
 Nicholas ffordham Tho. Harrison 
 
 WiCli Weston John Burchett 
 
 Jasper Skachar James Dentier 
 
 Edw: Johnson Jn° Hawes 
 Jo Winterborne 
 
 ' Emmanuel Utye, D.D., was appointed vicar of Chigwell, Essex, on January 31, 1615. 
 Being an earnest and consistent Churchman he naturally mcurred the enmity of the Puritan 
 party, who, in 1641, petitioned for his removal, and finally procured his ejectment. Among 
 other things he was charged with having erected an altar in the church, and having used 
 ■ offensive bowing and cringing ; with having kissed the altar twice in one day ; having read 
 the prayers with his face to the altar and his back to the people ; and various other allegations 
 of a like nature. At the Restoration his cure was restored to him, and the Earl of Cleveland 
 
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234 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 fifebruary y° 2I*'' 1660 
 
 Att a meeteing this daye in the vestry house in psuance 
 of their former Order of y° y^^ instant concerneing y® 
 nominacon of a lecturer to preach in this pish Church on 
 Sundayes & Thursdayes in the afternoone weekely & alsoe 
 for raiseing of a Mayntenance for such fitt pson soe to bee 
 chosen The Vestry then present did think fitt that the some 
 of One hundred poundes bee yearely raised in the severall 
 divisions of this pish for y* purpose And they did then 
 nominate two Gentlemen, Mr Parker^ & M' Richard 
 Hinchman^ bee the two Ministers desired to preach in this 
 pish Church on the two next Sundayes in the afternoone for 
 approbacon 
 
 John Wills 
 
 Willi Weston 
 Robert Land 
 Abraham Greaues 
 Jasper Skachar 
 
 NiCHO FORDHAM 
 
 Roger Garland 
 Tho: Grimley 
 Joseph Collins 
 W Archer 
 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Edmond Groue 
 E: Keling 
 Ant°: Tutchen 
 John Prowd 
 Wm Greaues 
 Tho Ewen 
 Tho. Harrison 
 Will Thomas 
 
 Aprill the a'* 1661 
 
 Att a meeteing this daye of the Members of the vestry 
 Occasioned by a letter sent from the Chancello'' of London 
 
 presented him to Stepney : six months later a rival claimant appeared (see list), but on 
 April 8, 1 66 1, he was confirmed in the vicarage. He, however, did not long survive his 
 prosperity; within a few months of his preferment he died, and was buried at Stepney on 
 September 2, 1661, leaving a wife, named Susan. — Information from J. Challenor Smith, Esq. ; 
 Newcourt ; Lysons' Environs, iv. 124 ; Stepney Registers ; State Papers, Domestic, 1660-1. 
 
 1 One Thos. Parker was Rector of St. Andrew Hubbard, May 30, 1659, — Communicated 
 from the Bishop's Registry by the Rev. G. Hennessy. 
 
 ' Mr. Richard Hinchman, probably the same as Richard Henchman, nephew of Plumphrey 
 Henchman, Bishop of London, who was Vicar of Chigwell, Essex, succeeding Emmanuel 
 Utye there (p. 233), i66i ; of Christ Church, Newgate, 1662 ; Prebendary of Neasden, of 
 St. Pancras, and treasurer of St. Paul's Cathedral till his death, March 11, 167^. — Com- 
 municated from the Bishop's Registry by the Rev. G. Hennessy. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 235 
 
 directed to the Churchwardens of this pish concerneing the 
 restoreing of William Culham^ to the office of Sexton itt is 
 agreed that a letter bee drawne vpp in answere to that re- 
 ceiued from the Chancello' And that itt bee delivered to him 
 by the Churchwardens in the name and as the answere of 
 Vestry 
 
 Vpon a motion made concemeing the choyce of a lecturo' 
 accordeing to an Order of the Seventh of ffebruary last Itt 
 was thought fitt & agreed that M"" Richard Hinchman bee 
 desired to preach in this pish Church the next lords daye in 
 the afternoone & that two of the Churchwardens would 
 acquainte the vicar hereof. 
 
 Att the same meeteing Mr Thomas Westwood of Spitle 
 feilds was presented & made Choyce of to bee one of the 
 Members of this Vestry for y^ diuision of Myle end., 
 
 John Wills Willi Westo(n) 
 
 Robert Land E Keling 
 
 JoH DuciE Edw: Johnson 
 
 W Archer Edmond Groue 
 
 Rich Reade Tho: Harrison 
 
 Roger Garland Tho: Grimley 
 
 Edw Thompson Edward Arlibear 
 
 Abraham Greaues "IChurch- James Dentier 
 Nicholas rFORDHAMjwardens John Wright 
 
 Aprill y^ is*'' 1661 
 
 Att a meeteing this daye in the vestry house by the pishion'^ 
 accordeing to their ancient Custome for y* Electing of Church- 
 wardens for this pish for y* yeare ensueing the Gentlemen 
 
 ^ The last appearance of William Culham after a chequered career as sexton. He suc- 
 ceeded to the post on Purser's resignation, and after he had been 'for divers years sexton,' he 
 was confirmed in the post by the bishop December 10, 1625. Complaints were made of his 
 conduct in 1643 and in 1647. Seven years later he was given a year's further trial, but only 
 six weeks of it passed before he was turned out and Tivell appointed to succeed him. The 
 present attempt to restore him seems to have failed, and he died in 1666, and was buried 
 November 20. His wife predeceased him, and was buried March 29, 1648. — Stepney 
 Registers and Minutes ; Vicar-General's Book, 13, p. 166. 
 
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236 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 hereinafter named were freely elected for y' said office by us' 
 whose names are hereunto Subscribed 
 
 (Cap* Robt Land 
 I Maior William Archer 
 I Mr Jesper Sketcher 
 I Mr Robert Hooker^ 
 ) M"" Abraham Graues 
 [Mr John Severne^ 
 Mr Nicholas ffordham 
 In Popler & "I /Mr Henry Johnson 
 Blackwall J \Mr Anthony Tutchin 
 
 In Ratcliff ... 
 
 In Shadwell ... 
 
 In Lymehouse 
 In Myle end 
 
 To seme y" 
 
 office of 
 
 •Churchwardens 
 
 for y° yeare 
 ensueing 
 
 Emm: Vtye. D.D. 
 
 Vicar 
 Maurice Thomson 
 John Wills 
 Will Thomas 
 Tho: Grimley 
 JoH DuciE 
 Edw: Thompson 
 Joseph Collins 
 
 Tho Ewen 
 Wm Greaues 
 Willi Weston 
 Edw: Johnson 
 Edmond Groue 
 John: Wright 
 John Burchett 
 Jn° Hawes 
 John Wright 
 
 Aprill y" 15**^ 1 66 1 
 
 Att a meeteing this daye of the Members of the vestry 
 itt was then agreed that the some of sixty pounds bee raised 
 in the several! diuisions of the pish of Stepny for & towards 
 the necessary repare of the pish Church & for setting vpp 
 the Kings Armes & the ten Comandements & alsoe for dis- 
 chargeing Sixe poundes & ten shillings to the High Con- 
 stable for the vse of the Hospitalls, Kings bench & Maymed 
 Souldiers 
 
 ^ Mr. Robert Hooker was tenant of the Mercers' land in Ratcliffe. —Court Roll of April 1 1;, 
 1656. 
 
 ^ John Seaveme, mariner, of Limehouse, owned land in Robin Hood Lane, Poplar. He 
 was buried August 23, 1669, and his son Roger succeeded to his land there. — Stepney 
 Registers and Court Rolls, vii. 9. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 237 
 
 That is to saie in Ratcliff, Eleven pounds five shillings, 
 in Shadwell, Eleven pounds five shillings, in lymehouse, 
 fifteene pounds, in Myle end, Bednell greane & Spitle feilds, 
 fifteene pounds & in Popler & Blackwall Seven pounds ten 
 shillings. 
 
 Maurice Thomson 
 
 Edw Johnson 
 John Burchett 
 Will Thomas 
 Wm Greaues 
 Thomas Grimley 
 J oh Ducie 
 Robert Land 
 Abraham Greaues 
 
 Jasper Skachar 
 John: Wright 
 Edmond Groue 
 Wlli Weston 
 John Wills 
 Joseph Collins 
 Tho Ewen 
 Thomas Dentier 
 
 May y° f^ 1661 
 
 There haveing beene two Orthodox & able Ministers to 
 witt, M' Richard Hinchman & M" {blank) Parker heretofore 
 in Nominacon for y° duty of a Lecturor in this pish Church 
 accordeing to the Order of y° vestry dated the seventh of 
 ffebruary last Wee the Inhabitants being this daye Mett in 
 the vestry house doe think fitt & vnanimously agree that 
 both the said Mr Richard Hinchman & the said M"" {blank) 
 Parker bee offered to y° Lord Bishop of London prayeing his 
 LordP : to giue confirmacon to that person for that dutie Whome 
 his LordP: shall iudge fitt for the same 
 
 Jo: Hoxton Robert Land 
 
 E. Keling Abraham Greaues 
 
 Tho. Harrison Jasper Skacher 
 
 John Wills 
 Henry Gleed 
 John: Wright 
 Edmond Groue 
 Tho Ewen 
 John Burchett 
 
 W Archer 
 Jn°: Seuene 
 Robert Hooker 
 Wm Greaues 
 Richard Hollman 
 
 Church- 
 wardens 
 
238 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 May y*" f^ i66t 
 
 Att y" Vestry held this daye y° Number of their Vestrymen 
 in the Severall diuisions hereafter menconed were ordered to 
 bee incerted & named as followeth 
 
 In Ratcliff In Lymehouse 
 
 John Hoxton Esq'' John Limbery Esq d^d 
 
 Cap* Edward Johnson Mr Marsh}- Esq 
 
 Cap* Edmund Groue Edward Keeh'ng 
 
 Cap* Thomas Harison William Graues 
 
 Cap* William Wildye Thomas Ewin 
 
 M"" John Ducie Abraham Graues 
 
 Ma'^ William Archer John Severne, 
 
 Mr William Thomas Thomas Darling* 
 
 Cap* Phillip ffoster^ ^ Thomas Woodfin^ 
 
 Josias Best Robert Wilkinson^ 
 
 Richard Hollman 
 
 Thus far was entred that daye 
 
 In Shadwell In Myle end 
 
 Mr Edward Arlabeare Maurice Thomson 
 
 M' John Moore Timothy Stamp^ Esq 
 
 1 Sir George March, of the Tower of London, J.P. According to the Middlesex County 
 Records he appears to have taken an active part in suppressing ' unlawful conventicles ' in the 
 Tower Hamlets. He was buried at Stepney on November 22, 1673. — Stepney Registers ; 
 Middlesex County Records. 
 
 ^ Captain Foster, of the Commonwealth Navy. — Two of his naval engagements are 
 recounted in Whitelock's Memorials, p. 582 (February 22, 1653). 
 
 ' Captain Robert Land erased. ■• Thos. Cutlett erased. * Robert Hembricks erased. 
 
 « Captain Robert Wilkinson, from 1653 to February, 165I, was, in command of the Wey- 
 mouth pink, busy on the East Coast — fighting the Dutch, pressing seamen, and conveying 
 provisions to Scotland. He then changed into the Satisfaction, and after some more of his 
 old work, was sent (August, 1660) to Newfoundland to convoy home the fleet. They 
 reached Plymouth in October, and a break in his history occurs, till in 1665 he is found 
 in command of the Great Charity, and September 22 was a prisoner in Holland and to be 
 exchanged. After this experience he .seems to have settled down to domestic life. He was 
 reeve of the manor in 1668, and the following year he died. By his will, dated June 20, 1667, 
 he left hand in Whitehorse Street to his wife, Margaret, for her widowhood, with reversion 
 to his sisters and' their children. She married Henry Abbott, and the property came to the 
 latter October 13, 1669. — State Papers, Domestic, 1653-65; Stepney Court Rolls, especially 
 vol. vi. 
 
 ' Timothy Stampe was steward of the manor before Northey (p. 231), and resumed the 
 post at the Restoration, and held it till 1669. He was a J.P., and unpopular with some, for 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 239 
 
 (/» ShadwelC) (/„ MyU end) 
 
 W John Burchett M' James Denteire 
 
 M"- John Wright Cap* Roger Garland' 
 
 M' John Winterbourne M"" Joseph Collins 
 
 Mr Henry Gleade Mr John Hawes" 
 
 M' William Weston Mr John Proude 
 
 M' Arthur Baylie Mr John Wright 
 
 M' Jesper Sketcher Mr Samuell Reeve 
 
 Mr Robert Hooker Mr Thomas Westwood^ 
 
 Popler & Blackwall 
 
 Mr John West 
 Mr Edward Steevens 
 Mr William Heade 
 Cap* John Swanley 
 Cap* Anthony Tutchin 
 M' Henry Johnson 
 Cap* Thomas Harman 
 Mr Randall Rudd 
 M"^ William Magieck 
 M'' Isaack Jackson^ 
 
 January y' \^ 1661 
 
 Att a meeteing this daye in the vestry house itt was then 
 Ordered that their Members in each diuision bee fairely 
 Written as foUoweth 
 
 Thomas and Francis Bearne had to answer before him for saying that 'Justice Stampe 
 deserved to stand in the pillory,' and that they hoped to see him hanged, and likewise for 
 disturbing the curate of Stepney in reading of divine service the last fast day. He also fell 
 under the displeasure of Parliament, who granted his chambers in the Temple to Mr. Hill, 
 April 20, 1646. — Stepney Court Rolls, i. 162, etc. ; Middlesex County Records, ii. ; White- 
 lock's Memorials, p. 20i. 
 
 * Grimley erased, see p. 240. 
 
 ' Isaac Jackson, of Stepney, silk thrower, widower, had licence, on June 7, 1679, to marry 
 Margaret Washington. — Chester's Marriage Licences. 
 
240 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 In Ratcliff 
 John Hoxton Esq'' 
 Cap* Edward Johnson 
 Cap' Edmund Grove 
 Cap* Thomas Harrison 
 Cap* WilHam Wildye 
 M'^ John Ducie 
 Maio'' WilHam Archer 
 Cap* WilHam Thomas 
 Cap* Phillip ffoster 
 M' Josias Best 
 
 In Shadwell 
 Mr Edward Arlabeare 
 Mr John Moore 
 Mr John Burchett 
 Mr John Wright 
 Mr John Winterbourne 
 Mr Henry Gleade 
 Mr William Weston 
 Mr Arthur Baylie 
 Mr Jesper Sketcher 
 Mr Robert Hooker 
 
 In Lymehouse 
 George Marsh Esq" 
 Mr Edward Keeleing 
 Mr William Graues 
 Cap* Thomas Ewin 
 M"^ Abraham Graues 
 Mr John Seaverne 
 M' Thomas Darling 
 Mr Thomas Woodfin 
 Cap* Robert Wilkinson 
 Cap* Richard Hollman 
 
 In Myle end &c: 
 Maurice Thomsonlp ^ 
 Timothy Stamp J ° 
 M"" James Denteire 
 Cap* Roger Garland 
 Mr Joseph Collins 
 Mr John Hawes 
 Cap* John Proude 
 M' John Wright 
 Mr Samuell Reeve 
 Mr Thomas Grimley^ 
 
 Popler & Blackwall 
 Mr John West 
 Mr Edward Steevens 
 M' William Heade 
 Cap' John Swanley 
 Cap' Anthony Tutchin 
 M'' Henry Johnson 
 Cap' Thomas Harman 
 M" Randall Rudd 
 M' William Magecke 
 Mr Isaack Jackson., 
 
 ' Westwood erased. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 241 
 
 Januarie y® 15*"^ 1661 
 
 Alsoe att y« Meeteing of the Members of y« Vestry the said 
 daie & yeare itt was Ordered as followeth 
 
 That the Churchwardens for time being doe speedily 
 repare to the next Justices of the peace for this County to 
 desire their confirmaeon of the seuerall books of rates 
 made for & towards repare of the pish Church & in case 
 y® Justices shall refuse to signe such confirmaeon That 
 then the Churchwardens should apply themselues to Dcor 
 Chaworth, Chancello'^ to the Lord Bishop of London for 
 his aduise therein 
 
 That William Bisaker pish Clerke doe prepare a peticon 
 to bee presented to the next Sessions of the peace for this 
 County for settling a watch att Stepny & for buildeing a 
 watch house in some convenient place for that purpose & 
 that the same may bee defrayed att the Charge of the pish 
 in Generall 
 
 Ordered further that all Monies Collected in this pish in 
 the severall diuisions vpon the Kings Maties letters Patients 
 for setting vpp a fishing trade in this nation bee brought into 
 the next Vestry to the end the same may bee paid in one 
 Intyre payment accordeing to the letter of the Pattent 
 
 Ordered likewise for settlement of the Almes houses att 
 Myle end green/ that the agreement of the Churchwardens 
 for time being bee recorded in this booke, and that their 
 diuision of the Roomes there by consent bee reserued to 
 the pticuler vse of the Hambletts & places herein after 
 menconed 
 
 That is to sale the Sixe Westermost roomes of the said 
 Almes house to bee & remaine to & for the vse of such 
 poore psons w*in the donors Capacity as shall from time 
 to time bee presented from Ratcliff, Shadwell & Popler ac- 
 cordeing to equall pportion as they shall become voyde 
 
 And that the other sixe Eastermost roomes in the sd Almes 
 
 ' See p. 168. 
 
 31 
 
242 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 house remaine & bee to & for the vse of such like poore 
 psons w*'^in the Capacity aforesd as shall from time to time 
 bee presented from Lymehouse Myle end, Bednall greene & 
 Spitlefeilds accordeing to ^portion as the same shall become 
 voyde 
 
 Aprill y^ first Anno dni 1662 
 
 Att a vestry holden in y° Vestry house y^ daye & yeare 
 aforesaid accordeing to an auncient Custome for the choyce 
 of Churchwardens for the yeare ensueing the psons hereafter 
 named had a free election That is to say 
 
 for Ratcliff Ma"" William Archer 
 
 for Shadwell M' Robert Hooker 
 for lymehouse M"" John Seaverne 
 for Myle: end Timothy Stampe Esq'' 
 for Spitlefeilds Mr Samuell Reeve 
 for Popler Mr Isaack Jackson 
 
 John Wills W'" Clarke^ Vicar Ibid 
 
 Roger Garland John: Swanley 
 Will Thomas James Dentier 
 
 Thomas Darling E: Keling 
 Phillip ffoster Edmond Groue 
 John West Edward Arlibear 
 
 Abraham Greaues Tho: Grimley 
 Henry Johnson Jn° Hawes 
 Ant°: Tutchen Edw Thompson 
 
 \The first vol. of MS. ends here7\ 
 
 ' William Clarke, D.D., born in humble circumstances, was admitted to Christ's Hospital, 
 May 25, 1597, by a 'bill' from the parish of All Hallows the Great, which describes him as 
 being then two years of age, ' Sonne of Thomas Clarke, deceased.' At this foundation he 
 became a 'Grecian,' and in 1613 proceeded to Peterhouse, Cambridge. Upon the death of 
 Emmanuel Utye he was appointed (August 31, 1661) to the vicarage of Stepney, and on 
 February i, 1665, was installed Dean of Winchester in succession to Alexander Hyde, who 
 had been advanced to the See of Sarum. In 1671 he desired to be excused from accepting 
 the Bishopric of Bristol because the least of his preferments, the deanery, the parsonage of 
 Stepney or another that he had, was better than that Bishopric. He died at St. Giles-in-the- 
 Fields in 1679, possessed of a considerable estate at Tillingham, in Essex, which he left for the 
 augmentation of ten small livings. — Information from E. R. Goodrich, Esq. ; Christ's 
 Hospital School Registers ; Newcourt ; Woodward's History of Hampshire ; Trollope's 
 History of Christ's Hospital ; Will at Somerset House ; Hist. MS. Com., Report VII., 489. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. ,243 
 
 A TRUE Transcript or coppie of the Instrument passed 
 betweene the Right Reverend ffather in god Gilbert Lord 
 Bishop of London and the Vicar, Churchwardens & 
 parishion" of the pish of Stepnie in the County of Middle- 
 sex, for the establisheing of a Vestrie & Vestriemen in the 
 said Parish with the Limitacon & order in the said vestrie to 
 be kept &c., as followeth (vi3*) 
 
 Gilbert by y^ Prouidence of God Bishop of London 
 To the Vicar, Churchwardens and Parishion"^ of the parish 
 of Stepnie ats Stebunheath in the County of Middlesex and 
 of our diocese and Jurisdiccon of London, sendeth Greeteing 
 in our Lord God everlasting Whereas Petieon hath beene 
 made vnto us by the Churchwardens and principall Inhabi- 
 tants of your parish by & with the consent & Concurrence of 
 Doctor William Clarke yo*^ : Vicar there : That by reason of 
 the Vast Number of Inhabitants the publique Business of 
 the said parish cannot be orderly dispatched by Generall 
 Assemblies ; And that therevpon dureing the late troubles 
 a certaine Number of the said Inhabitants in behalfe of the 
 whole have beene necessitated to vndertake the business of 
 y" said parish without such orderly Episcopal Comission, as 
 hath beene heretofore granted by us and o'^ Predecesso" in 
 the like Cases By reason Whereof many persons of Ability 
 & fidelity amongst you haue and doe forbeare to intermeddle 
 without due Authority for a setled or select Vestry derived 
 from us Which is not possible to be Chosen by a popular 
 election in soe vast a parish. And therefore haue humbly 
 prayed that wee takeing your present necesities into our 
 Consideracon would be pleased (accordeing to the practice of 
 our selves and predecessors, in that and other Churches and 
 parishes within our diocess) to appoint you a select Vestry 
 consisteing of such a sufficient Number of able, honest and 
 substantiall persons within your parish as to us should seeme 
 meete and requisite Wherevpon wee the Bishop aforesaid 
 duely Considereing this yo"^ petieon and findeing that it doth 
 
 31 — 2 
 
244 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 tend to the peace quiett & good of your Church and parish 
 To the ende that you may be both induced to and encouraged 
 in a fitt Conformitie to the order and Government estabHshed 
 both in Church & State and the rather incited to some good 
 Acts of pietie and Charity within your said parish Haue 
 by & with the consent of the Right Worshipful! Richard 
 Chaworth Doctor of Lawes our Chancellor, approved 
 Ratified allowed and Confirmed and by these presents (as 
 farr as by the Lawes Ecclesiasticall of this Realme or 
 Temporal! Lawes of the same wee can or may) Doe 
 approve, ratifie, and confirme the same, And in pursuance 
 of your said Peticon have and doe nominate and appointe y^ 
 Rt Wor^ William Clarke Doctor of Divinity Vicar of your 
 said parish Church of Stepney and his successors together 
 with the Churchwardens there for the time being, and alsoe 
 ffourty and foure more of the most able and substantial! 
 Inhabitants out of yo' several! Hambletts and diuisions, 
 and as wee conceive ffittest for that trust and Employment 
 (Vi5*) S'' W"* Rider^ Knight, Timothy Stampe, and Paul 
 
 1 Sir William Rider, J.P., Deputy Master of the Trinity House and Commissioner for 
 Tangier, was knighted on March 12, 1660-1, and on June i of the same year he purchased 
 the mansion on Bethnal Green, popularly known as the 'Blind Beggar's Palace,' upon the 
 site of which is now a lunatic asylum. Pepys, who was upon very intimate terms with the 
 knight, gives an interesting account of a visit to his residence : ' By coach to Bednall Green 
 to Sir W. Rider's to dinner. A fine merry walk with the ladies alone after dinner in the 
 garden ; the greatest quantities of strawberries I ever saw, and good. . . . This very house 
 w.ns built by the Blind Beggar of Bednall Green, so much talked of in ballads ' (Diary, 
 June 26, 1663). During the Great Fire his city friends used his house as a warehouse for 
 their goods and chattels, much to his disgust. Pepys relates that ' about four o'clock in the 
 morning, my Lady Batten sent me a cart to carry away all my money and plate and best 
 things, which I did, riding myself in my nightgown in the cart ; and, Lord ! to see how the 
 streets and highways are crowded with people running and riding, and gettmg of carts at 
 any rate to fetch away things. I find Sir W. Rider tired with being called up all night 
 and receiving things from several friends.' From the Restoration until his death in 1669 he 
 was a person of much importance in Naval affairs, and appears to have possessed an ample 
 fortune. On December 6, 1666, he obtained a licence from the Lord of the Manor to drive 
 in his coach across Mile End Common when on his way to Stepney Church. He married 
 Priscilla, daughter and co-heiress of Captain Roger Twedy, and died at Bethnal Green on 
 August 30, 1669 (according to Le Neve, was buried on September 9,. at St. Andrew Under- 
 shaft). By his will, which is dated June 9, 1668, it appears that he left two sons, Thomas 
 and William Rider, and two married daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Richard Middleton, and 
 Priscilla, wife of Richard Bayley), and three unmarried daughters (Mary, Anne, and Martha). 
 Mention is also made of his sister, Joane Crowther, and her eight children. — Stepney Court 
 Rolls, V. 165 ; iii. 178, 179 ; Pepys' Diary ; Will at Somerset House ; Le Neve's Pedigrees 
 of Knights. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 245 
 
 Traciei Esq^ M"" Robert Stainer, M"^ Samuell Reeve, M-^ Jose- ph 
 Collins, M' James Denteire, M'^ W"^ Curtis/^ M' Thomas 
 Grimley, M"" John Jenney, M' John Prowd and M' Roger 
 Garland within the divisions or Hambletts of Mile end and 
 Spittlefeildes : 
 
 Captaine Richard Longman, Cap* Phillip ffoster, Doctor 
 {a blank) Doleman, M' W"^ Thomas, M' Thomas Harrison, 
 M"^ Edmund Grove, Mr Robert Browne & M'' Richard Rookes 
 within the division or Hamblett of Ratcliff, 
 
 M'' John West, M' John Swanley, M"- Thomas Harman, 
 M' Henry Hall,^ M' Isaac Jackson, Mr George Carter,* 
 Mr Henry Johnson, & Mr Randall Rudd ffor the division or 
 Hamblett of Popler & Blackwall, 
 
 George Marsh Esq, Mr Thomas Ewen, Mr John Severne, 
 M' Thomas Gwines,^ M"" William Greaves, M" John Brewster, 
 Mr Robert Wilkinson & M" John Gosnoll^ for the division or 
 Hamblett of Limehouse, 
 
 M' Benjamin Gunnell, M'' George Bittenham, M"" John 
 
 ' Paul Tracie or Tracey, grandson of Sir Paul Tracey, of Stanway, co. Gloucester, Knight 
 and Baronet, married Katherine, daughter of Ralph Briscoe, of Barnet, co. Herts. He was 
 appointed Headborough of Mile End in 1658, but a later entry in ihe Court Rolls describes 
 him as 'of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.' — Dethick's Visitation of Middlesex, 1663; Court 
 Rolls of the Slanor. 
 
 - Captain William Curtis, of the E. I. Company's service, died in 1669, and was buried in 
 the Old Chapel at Poplar, where he was thus commemorated in doggerel : 
 
 ' Who in this life fifty years did stand, 
 And to East India did bear command ; 
 Who in this life kept not fast the door. 
 And afterwards provided for the poor 
 Sixty pounds per annum for ever. 
 
 Out of this sum Poplar was to receive £% for bread for the poor, £(> for apprenticing poor 
 children, 20s. for the chaplain to preach a sermon on the first Thursday in each July, and 
 ;^24 was to be appropriated every other year for the release of poor prisoners. — Lysons' En- 
 virons, iii. 464, 466, 471, 487. 
 
 ' Henry Hall, probably the son of Captain Henry Hall (p. 166), who succeeded to his 
 father's property in 1659. — Stepney Court Rolls, iii. 25. 
 
 * Mr. George Carter was buried at Poplar, June 13, 1673. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 * Thomas Gwynes, mariner, of Nightingale Lane, Limehouse, owner of property there. — 
 Stepney Court Rolls, ii. 4 ; iii. 27. 
 
 ' Captain John Gosnoll, mariner, of Limehouse, in the maritime service of the E.I.C. In 
 August, 1656, he, in an East Indiaman of great value bound for London, was convoyed from 
 Plymouth to Portsmouth. He was buried May 20, 1665. — State Papers, Domestic, 1656 ; 
 Stepney Registers. 
 
246 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Staine, M=^ Samuell Hill.i M' Richard Stiles,^ M"^ Thomas 
 Bowdler, M^ Nicholas Cowell, and M' William Wills, within 
 the division or Hamblett of Shadwell, All able and sub- 
 stantial! persons of peaceable Conversacon and obedient to 
 the orders and Government of the Church established and 
 of whome divers haue borne the office of Constable, Church- 
 warden & other offices within your said Parish, They only 
 and every of them, and none others to be Vestrymen there 
 for the directeing Ordereing and Manageing of all such 
 thinges as belong to your said Church & Parish, & are to be 
 done by the parishioners of the same. And they only or 
 the Majo'' part of them, Whoe shall meete vpon publique 
 notice given to such purpose on the Sunday next before the 
 said intended Vestry to intermeddle with, order, and determine 
 by and with the consent of the Vicar there for the time being 
 all such Biisines and Affaires as concerne the said Church 
 and Parish and are to be done & performed by the Vestry- 
 men of the same And that as any of them shall hapen to 
 decay remove out of y® Parish depart this life, or become 
 Scandalous by drunkeness Whoredome or other evill life 
 or gross Misdemeano"^ or otherwise vnfitt for that society or 
 business (whereof there shall first be a Presentment made 
 to us, our Chancellor or into our principall Registry) to expell 
 and amove such, And wee will and decree by theise Presents 
 That such others of the better sort of the said parishioners 
 w*^in the respective divisions aforesaid as are grave, honest, 
 and substantial! fitt for the same place, may be Chosen to 
 succeed them by the Vicar there for the time being, & Majo"" 
 part of the said vestrymen that shall meete as aforesaid in 
 his or their Roome soe dyeing, removeing, decayeing or 
 becomeing Scandalous or other wayes vnfitt, and to doe 
 execute & performe all other things belongeing to Vestrymen 
 
 ' Samuel Hill, of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, married Mary Musten, of Stepney, June 17, 
 1 647. — Stepney Registers. 
 
 ^ Richard Stiles, of Ratcliffe, carver, married Mary Partridge, of Wapping, maid, Sep- 
 tember 3, 1663. — Stepney Registers. 
 
MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 247 
 
 for the good & benefitt of the said Church, and for the better 
 ordereing and governeing of such Affaires as belong to 
 yo'' said Parish and Church w* theis Limitacons ffoUoweing 
 
 (Vi3*) 
 
 That they doe not att any time nor for any occasion 
 presume to call before them any Minister, preacher, or 
 Curate whoe shall be comerant within their said parish before 
 them to their vestry or Meeteings to be questioned with at 
 all, but shall leave them and their Causes Wholly to the 
 Calleing, Heareing, ordereing and Censureing of the Eccle- 
 siastical! or Temporall Magistrate, against Whome if they 
 have any Complainte They shall informe the said Magistrate 
 according as the Nature, and quality of the Cause shall be, 
 and shall Minister occasion ; Further that they shall not 
 any way in their Vestry or Meeteings intermeddle with the 
 Churchwardens & Sidemens office concerneing the makeing 
 of their Bills of Presentment, which they are vpon their 
 oathes to deliver vpp into the Ecclesiasticall Court, Nor 
 shall in their sd vestry question with them about any thing 
 which they are to present or shall present (Except it bee to 
 informe them of any abuse worthy & fitt to be presented) 
 But shall suffer the said Churchwardens and Swornemen 
 freely without their seekeing to be made privie to any of 
 their Presentments, to discharge their consciences and duties 
 accordeing to their oathes. Neither shall the said vestrymen 
 take vpon them to call before them to their said vestry any 
 parties Whome the Churchwardens are by their oathes to 
 present to take any Accompt of the Churchwardens or side- 
 men, or of the parties Whoe are to be presented of the 
 causes & Suspitions vpon Which they may be presented. 
 Besides they are not hereby authorized, but shall wholly 
 forbear to call before them att their Vestry any person to 
 heare or intermeddle with any Cause, Matter, and Cryme 
 Presentment or offence determinable, punishable or being of 
 Eccleicall Cognizance, either begun to be called in Question 
 
248 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 or presented, heard, ordered, Censured or decreed in any 
 Ecclesiasticall Court to be heard, ordered or Censured But 
 shall forbear at their vestry meeteings any way to inter- 
 meddle in any of the premisses, as noewaies belongeing 
 vnto them but to the Ecclesiasticall Cognizance & Court, 
 And if they shall intermeddle att any of their vestry meete- 
 ings in any matter contrary to the Limitacons aforesaid con- 
 cerneing Ecclesiasticall persons Causes or Matters, Then 
 this Allowance of their Vestry concerneing Church Matters 
 & Authority herein granted to bee meerely Voide as if itt had 
 never beene Granted Prouided that there shall noe vestry 
 be holden, or Meeteing for such business as afore appointed 
 to be holden or kept, But by order & Consent of the Vicar 
 for the time being, nor without publique warning giuen 
 thereof in the said parish Church vpon the Sunday next 
 before the said intended Vestry as aforesaid And if they 
 shall meete, agree, order & conclude any thing contrary to 
 the premisses Wee will & pronounce that such their meete- 
 ings Agreements orders & conclusions shall bee (ipso facto) 
 voyde & of none effect, as if noe Authority had been granted, 
 nor noe consent Agreement or order beene made or noe 
 meeteing at all bine. In Witnes Whereof wee haue Caused 
 the seale of our said Chancellor (which wee vse in this behalf) 
 to be sett to theis presents. Dated the five & Twentieth day 
 of the moneth of September in the yeare of our Lord God 
 one thousand six hundred sixty two, And in the second yeare 
 of our Consecration 
 
 Rich Ciia worth Ri: Butler Reg"^"-': 
 
249 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 /. ABSTRACT OF WILLS. 
 
 P. 14. — Will of John Matthew, citizen and Merchant Tailor 
 of London, made 25th November, 1560 : My loving friends, 
 Mr. Birch, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, Hugh 
 Stukly, gentleman, Ipolito Lynnet, of Hackney, co. Middle- 
 sex, and Robert Hulson, citizen and Merchant Tailor, of 
 London, appointed executors and trustees of this my last 
 will. I will and devise to the poor people dwelling as is 
 hereafter named, 40s. yearly : To the parish of S. Michael, 
 Cornhill, where I am now a parishioner, 40s. ; to S. Laurence, 
 Old Jury, where I was late a parishioner, 40s. ; and to the 
 parishes of Stebunheath and Hackney 40s. each yearly, and 
 to the churchwardens of each of foresaid parishes 3s. 4d. for 
 a drinking for their taking pains to see the said sums dis- 
 tributed. I will that at the end of twenty -one years all my 
 freehold and copyhold lands, etc., go to Henry Weale, a son 
 of Walter Weale, and Katherine Weale, my daughter, and 
 the heirs male of his body, so long as he or they do pay the 
 said sum of ;^8 13s. 4d. ; but should he or they neglect to 
 pay the said sum, or failing heirs male of his body, then I 
 will that my will to him made shall be clearly void and of 
 none effect, and I will and devise all my lands, etc., to the 
 next heir male of the said Katherine, my daughter, now wife 
 of William Crowder, citizen and Clothworker of London, 
 upon like articles and conditions, and if the said Katherine, 
 my daughter, die without leaving heirs male, or they her 
 
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250 APPENDIX. 
 
 heirs male, neglect to pay the said sum of ^8 13s. 4d., then 
 I will that all my lands, tenements, etc., etc., shall remain to 
 the parson, vicar, and churchwardens of the said parish 
 churches of S. Michael Cornhill, S. Laurence Old Jury, and 
 the parish churches of Stebunheath and Hackney, for ever 
 to be distributed among the poor in the said parishes. I 
 give and bequeath to Elizabeth Weale, Grace Weale, Mary 
 Weale, . . . Weale. children of my said daughter Katherine, 
 ;^io each. To my executors ^10 a piece, and all my goods, 
 implements, and household stuff in my house at Kingsland, 
 in the parish of Hackney Should my wife Katherine and 
 daughter fall into poverty my executors may at their dis- 
 cretion relieve them out of any surplus they may have in their 
 hands. Will proved October 29, 1569. 
 
 P. 26. — The will of John Fuller, Esquire, of Bishopshall, 
 in the parish of Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, made 
 29 March, 1592 : All my capital messuage, house, buildings, 
 lands, tenements, profits, easements fishing, and commodities 
 called Bishopshall unto Jane, my wife ; and I will that my 
 wife and her heirs and assigns do after my decease build two 
 Almshouses, the one in Stepney, Middlesex, for twelve poor 
 single men of good name, of the age of fifty years or above, 
 and the other of them in the parish of Shoreditch, Middlesex, 
 for twelve poor widow women of good name, of the age of 
 fifty years or above, and that she or they cause the same Alms- 
 houses to be duly incorporated, that they may have, receive, 
 and enjoy lands, tenements, profits, rents, and hereditaments to 
 the yearly value of ^100 ; to this end I will that my wife, at 
 or before her decease, shall devise or dispose to the said 
 Almshouse of poor men a yearly rent charge of ^50 yearly, 
 and to the Almshouse for poor women a like sum yearly, the 
 said rents to issue out of all those lands, etc., in the county of 
 Lincoln, whereof before this time I have made assurance 
 unto Sir Drew Drury, Knight, and otliers. I will that the 
 
APPENDIX. 251 
 
 Almshouses be governed by eight of the most ancient 
 persons of the Company of Mercers. I will all my 
 messuages, lands, etc., in the parishes of St. Benet and 
 St. Peter near Paul's Wharf, in the city of London, now or 
 late in the several occupations of William Jnkins, Edward 
 Drinkell, William Corden, Richard Askew, Mary Lorimer, 
 widow, Peter Derrick, John Nicolls, John Collins, Richard 
 Dawson, Elizabeth Taylor, widow, James Austen, or their 
 assigns, Thomas Wade, John Ellis, Thomas Wrothe, 
 Nicholas Collins, Frances Fuller, Jeffry Brock, William 
 Dalby, Richard Burton, Richard Browne, John Humfry, 
 Robert Glover, and Hugh Wollaston, gent., to and for the 
 releasing and discharging of poor prisoners that now are or 
 hereafter shall be in the Holes or Twopenny wards for the 
 space of ten weeks in the two Compters within the city of 
 London, so that it do not exceed the sum of ^26 8s. for any 
 one person at any one time. I will all my lands, etc., in 
 Beach Lane and Whitecross Street, in the parish of St. Giles 
 without Cripplegate, to Francis Fuller, gent. The residue 
 to Jane, my wife, whom I make my sole executrix, with 
 Frances Fuller and Jeffry Brock, overseers of this my last 
 will. My reversion of a capital messuage, etc., in the pish 
 of S. Benet Paul's Wharf, in the tenure of E'nego Jones, 
 to my wife Jane, whom I require to pay yearly the sum of £$ 
 yearly to William Fuller, son of James Fuller. Codicil : I 
 give to my cousin, Margaret Burton, ^20, to be paid out of 
 my second doubtful debt that my executrix shall receive. 
 Second Codicil, dated March 30, 1592: To my niece, 
 Margaret Burton, wife of Richard Burton, ^40, and do 
 revoke the former legacy of ^20. 
 
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252 
 
 //. A LIST OF THE RECTORS 
 RECTORS. 
 SEiUism ... ... ... ... ... In 1233 
 
 Stephen ^eagrabe ... ... ... ... About \Z\f> 
 
 (^Archbishop of Armagh, 1322.) 
 ^icharl) ie ^dliofk ... ... ... ... Before \'i,'}.f> 
 
 darMnal Jffhtt (Saucdin ... ... ... Sept., 1336 
 
 {Bishop of Albano.) 
 SKiHiam 1)£ §hrab£0lmrs •-. ... ••■ ■-. Feb. 13, 1343/4 
 
 €:ariiinal John daaalin ... ... ... Confirmed May 29, 1344 
 
 ^rhari lit §aham ... ... ... Ratified Feb. 25, 1350/1 
 
 ^ahtxi^xuW ... ... ... ... ... Nov. 18, 1368 
 
 l^irhari gittQstfltt ... ... ... ... Jan. 9, 1405/6 
 
 {on the death of predecessor.) 
 ^h£rt ^tkebttrg ... ... ... ... Jan. ,1418/9 
 
 Exchange with 
 llffbttt f tttton, §.^.f . ... ... ... ... Dec. 7, 1422 
 
 Exchange with 
 JEarmalmkt ^Cumies ... ... ... ... Nov. 12, 1427 
 
 {Bishop of Carlisle, 1430 ; of Lincoln, 1450 ; died 145 1.) 
 J0ktt lie ®ptzi0, §.^.f . ... ... ... .. AprU 18, 1430 
 
 SKilliam ganwU... ... ... May 11, 1449, and Dec. 3, 1450 
 
 {on the death of pr.) 
 j0hnCheI)lDOTth ... 
 
 UukarJ Pchfiell). f^.f . Aug. 6, 1471 
 
 {on the death of pr.) 
 
253 
 
 AND VICARS OF STEPNEY. 
 
 VICARS. 
 
 ^hsri I)« ,|Unrton ... ... ... ... April 5, 1326 
 
 J.ffhn #0hrithe ... 
 
 Exchange with 
 Jame0 ^xmirirk ... ... ... ... July 26, 1334 
 
 Exchange with 
 John at He* ... ... ... ... ... ... 1346 
 
 Jffhn 1)£ <§toam2Cg ... . ... Between \'i,'b2 and \ZZZ 
 
 Exchange with 
 Jflktt be JftiibUton ... ... ... ... Dec. 18, 1366 
 
 'Slltomas be l^engham ab Castva 
 
 Exchange with 
 ^karb |pjti0haU ... ... ... ... Jan. 28, 1368/9 
 
 Jokn^ttclee ... ... ... Aug. 13, 1372 
 
 (on the resignation of predecessor.') 
 diibert be ^ragton 
 
 Exchange with 
 Jliehalas gene ... ... ... ... ... April 16, 1380 
 
 J^hnjfrere ... ... ... ... ... Aug. 3, 1386 
 
 {on the resignation ofpr.) 
 Jlickolag Norton ... ... ... ... Feb. 11, 1427/8 
 
 {do.) 
 gjenrg JKtlea ... ... ... ... ... April ,1456 
 
 Jahn (Erecg, (7r Creasg ... ... ... ... May 13, 1461 
 
 {do.) 
 
 John gee, §.'^.^. July 28, 1471 
 
 {on the death of pr. Exchange with) 
 Ptharb Unke ... ... ... ... ... Dec. 16, 1473 
 
 ^harb Jirx, H^.f Oct. 30, 1485 
 
 {on the death of fr.) 
 
 {Bishop of Exeter, 1487 ; of Bath and Wells, 1491 ; of Durham, 1494 ; 
 of Winchester, 1500; died 1^28.) 
 
 qitalter ©tobbs Sept. 17, 1485 
 
 ebmuttb ICatham, Jt.Jl.. ... ... ... ... Nov. 5, 1498 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 J^htt JEaintoaring ... ... .. ... Oct. 13, 1499 
 
 {do.) 
 j0ltn (Hxrlei 
 
 {Dean of St. Paul's, 1504; died 1519.) 
 
 Walter ,§;t0tte, Si.i Sept. 21, 1505 
 
 {on the resignation of pr!) 
 
 Pckarbiarc May 12, 1519 
 
 {on the death of pr!) 
 
 {Dean of St. Paul's, 1519 ; of Exeter, 1522 ; of Salisbury (?); died 1536.) 
 
254 
 
 A LIST OF THE RECTORS 
 
 RECTORS. 
 §EiUiaml.emp£ ... ... ... ... ... Feb. 26, 1476/7 
 
 {on the resignation of pr.) 
 ^irkari) ^aston, %%§. ... ... ... ... Dec. 23, 1522 
 
 (do.) 
 
 {Dean of York, 1539.) 
 
 ®aiml gmme, or fltittne ... ... ... ... Oct. 25, 1544 
 
 {on the death of pr.) 
 
 {Late Abbot of Buckfastleigh.) 
 
 'eCmtram §toaMi ... ... ... ... Dec. 10, 1558 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 J^irholaa ^ae^nnalJl ... .. ... ... May 30, 1562 
 
 {on the deprivation of pr.) 
 John f kilpxrtt ... ... ... ... ... Aug. 10, 1564 
 
 {do.) 
 ||ttmpkr£2 ffl^lc, ^•,^. ... ... ... ... Oct. 16, 1579 
 
 {u7i the death of pr.) 
 §,t,xm&i <Sssiitetaxii ... ... ... ... May 8, 1593 
 
 {on the res. of pr) 
 Jckn^astoari ... ... ... ... ... May 21, 1604 
 
 SEaisingkam §k£tl£2 ••■ ■•• ••• ... Feb. 18, 1618/9 
 
 {on the death of pr. ) 
 Jxjktt Jirhn0on, §.i:.f . ... ... ... At the Restoration 
 
 ^aXpk iabenaitt, ja.^. ... ... ... ... Jan. 28, 1668/9 
 
 {on the deprivation of pr.) 
 Ihxrmas White, JE.,^. .•■ ... ... July 1, 1681 
 
 {on the death of pr.) 
 
AND VICARS OF STEPNEY. 
 
 VICARS. 
 
 ^hari §at»q)0xrn, Sg.g. ... ... ... June 18, 1527 
 
 (p7i the res. of pr.) 
 
 {Bean of Windsor, 1523 ; of Lichfield, 1532 ; Bishop of Chichester and 
 
 Dean of St. PauPs, 1536 ; Bishop of Lichfield, 1543 ; died 1554.) 
 
 Jlil£0 gKfilkn ... ... ... ... ... March 31, 1534 
 
 (on the res. of pr.) 
 §tmxni ^fgnesi. §.1:.^. ... ... ... ... Jan. 29, 1534/5 
 
 (on the depr. of pr.) 
 
 (Dean of Exeter, 1537 ; died 1552.) 
 
 SKtUiam jKCome.. ... ... ... ... May 29, 1537 
 
 (on the res. of pr. Burnt for heresy, 1541.) 
 MilHam Worses, <S.^.^. ... ... ... ... Aug. 10, 1540 
 
 (on the attainder of pr.) 
 ^£ittg JEarrce ... ... ... ... ... March 6, 1544/5 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 
 {Late Abbot of St. Mary de Graces^ 
 
 i;iurma0 Pej) ... ... ... ... ... Nov. 22. 1554 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 John 'SThomas ... ... ... ... ... May 29, 1555 
 
 Confirmed Sept. 21, 1577 
 ^nthxma Juti^rsoit ... ... ... ... Feb. 21, 1586/7 
 
 (oti the death of pr.) 
 ^airatel dtotkaforli ... Oct. 13, 1593, confirmed Ms.y 28, 1595 
 
 (do.) 
 
 Thomas Mountforde ... ... ... ... Feb. 2, 1593/4 
 
 (to succeed Anderson, but Cotlesford's self-appointment was upheld.) 
 ffiiiuarli Jtttttt0, Jtt.Jl. ... ... ... ...March 16, 1597/8 
 
 (on the res. of pr.) 
 ^abiii ©nglish ... ... ... ... ... Aug. 22, 1603 
 
 (on the death of pr. Exchange with) 
 ®£org£ ®xraliimatt, .S.l.f . ... •• Aug. 12, 1605 
 
 (ieoxgi l0ttgla0, .S.'Sr.i. ... ... ... ... Jan. 22, 1633/4 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 «iUiam stamps, #1;.^. ... Aug. 13, 1641 
 
 (on the res. of pr.) 
 
 Jxr0htta ij^k, §.%.3. \ ^^^ .anonicallv instituted [- ^"^- ^' ^^*^ 
 
 Francis Horton ... ... ... ... ... Feb. 21, 1660 
 
 Grant revoked at once, and vicarage given to 
 
 ffimmaiml ®t2£, §.^.^ AprQ 8, 1661 
 
 ailliammarkf, g.'iE.JI. ... March 18, 1661/2 
 
 Dean of Winchester (on the death of pr. ) 
 
 John Wright, JI.JI Oct. 4, 1679 
 
 (do.) 
 
2s6 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 AFTER THE UNION OF RECTORY AND VICARAGE. 
 
 John Wright, Jtt.^. ... ... ... ... 1710 
 
 Late Vicar. 
 
 (a) ^kflmas iolili, Jft.^.) , ,,,,,., ^ /... Nov. 4, 1718 
 
 /,, ~ „v. . Xi ^ \ (on the death of pr.) { ' 
 
 (^) Jam£0 Jftnfh, Jtt.^. / ^ '"' "J !> ) \_ Nov. 17, 1718 
 
 (a) ^hflm30 Pffib, ja.^. ... ... Co«/fr»?«^ Jan. 10, 1718/9 
 
 (i^) benjamin frtckari ... ... ... Feb. 7, 1718/9 
 
 (on the death of Finch ^ 
 (^) ||£ttrs gahe, Jl.^. ... ... ... June 22, 1727 
 
 {on the death of Prichard.) 
 (a) ^erbn-t ^ritkarb . . . ... ... ... June 1, 1728 
 
 (on the death of Dodd.) 
 (Become first Rector of Christ Church, Spitalfields.) 
 (a) ^ah&xi^z^bcmxnz ... ... July 21, 1730 
 
 (on the res. of Prichard.) 
 (-5) Jokttfrjffkbanlt ... ... ... ... Dec. 4, 1742 
 
 (on the death of Leche.) 
 
 (Become first Rector of St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green.) 
 
 I^bert S«Bbcm-tt£ ... ... ... ... 1745 
 
 Sole Rector. 
 $alpk etatoks, Jt-Ji. ... ... ... ... Oct. 20, 1759 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 ®k0 Jairdouek ^abiiJtt, p.p. ... ... ... April 19, 1771 
 
 (on the res. of pr.) 
 iUrbert ^anbbark, Jtt.^. ... ... ... June 18, 1785 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 ^hcmag ^raitktnaitf, JE.^. ... ... ... Jan. 10, 1789 
 
 (do.) 
 ®eorg£ garper, p.p. ... ... ... ... May 27, 1801 
 
 (do.) 
 '(i;k0ma0 ^amebs, Ip.p. .. -.■ .•• ... Sept. 30, 1815 
 
 (do.) 
 lani£l latoirej}, Jtt.^. ... ... ... ... July 11, 1842 
 
 (do.) 
 
 ^wkarl) S«. #t-^ June 11, 1847 
 
 (on the res. of pr.) 
 J«0£}jk Iparisks, Jtt.^. ... ... ... ... Oct. 17, 1869 
 
 (on the death of pr.) 
 Jokn Jetttokk littxr, Jt.^. ... ... ... Jan. 2, 1880 
 
 (on the res. of pr.) 
 (gbiDsn ^00kpn0, Jtt.^. ... ... ... ... June 20, 1886 
 
 (do.) 
 
 (a) Portionist of Spitalfields"! 
 
 (', „ „ Ratcliffe |s<=eP-^v... 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Figures in thick type show that a biographical note is found on that page. 
 
 Abbot, Thomas, 70, 71. 
 
 Henry, 238, n. 
 Abdye, John, 24, 26. 
 
 Edmund, 46, 48, 61, 62, 63, 67, 70, 72. 
 Aberdeen, 145, n. 
 Adams, Rebecca, 177, n. 
 
 Richard, 12. 
 
 Widow, xvi. 
 Ade, Ellen, 26, n. 
 
 John, 30. 
 Albano, 252. 
 Aldborough, 188, n. 
 Aldeburgh, 205. 
 Ale, Elizabeth, 174. 
 AUaby, Frances, 166, n. 
 
 Hugh, 166, 168, 169, 176, 177, 180, 
 190, 194, 195, 197, 199- 
 AUee, Thomas, 179, 180, 185, 207, 219. 
 Allen, Anne, 173, n. 
 
 Thomas, 5^ 
 
 William, 57, 62, 87. 
 All Hallows, Barking, xvi. 
 
 the Great, 242, n. 
 Alston, Sir Joseph, and 
 
 Elizabeth, 189, n. 
 Ambrose, Cicely, 167, 201. 
 
 William, 109, 121, 130, 167, 201. 
 Ancell, Richard, 7, 8. 
 Anderson, Anthony, xiv., 15, 23, 24, 255. 
 Andrewes, or Andrews, Benjamm, 287, 
 
 Bishop, 59, n. [232, n. 
 
 Thomas, 25, 29, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 46, 
 54, 57. 58, 59. 
 
 Thomtis, 59, n. 
 Androo, William, 8. 
 Anne, The, 193, n. 
 Anstey, Nicholas, 202, n. 
 
 Archer, John, 170, 176. 
 
 William, 207-10, 212, 219, 221-4, 226, 
 228, 230, 233-8, 240, 242. 
 Argier, 139, n. 
 Arlibeare, Edward, 184, 186, 194, 198-203, 
 
 206, 208, 209, 210, 212, 218, 219, 
 221, 227, 232, 233, 23s, 238, 240, 242. 
 
 Mary, 184, n. 
 Armagh, Archbishop of, 252. 
 Armarer, James, 14, 16, 17, 19, 25. 
 Artillery Lane, 165, n. 
 Arton, Elizabeth, 10, u. 
 Arundel, Earl of, 81, 11. 
 Ashele, John, 31. 
 Askew, Richard, 251. 
 Athay, Roger, 2. 
 Attwood, Randall, 210. 
 Austin, James, 251. 
 Awbrey, William, 21, 
 Ayscue, Sir George, 185, n. 
 
 Bacchus, or Barkhouse, David, 46. 
 Badicott, or Badecock, Augustine, 84, 87, 89. 
 Bailey, Captain Arthur, 203, 221-7, 231, 
 232, 239, 240. 
 
 Thomas, 80, 83. 
 
 William, 58. 
 
 Captain William, 197, 199, 203, 206, 
 
 207, 211. 
 Baines, Thomas, 64, 66. 
 Baldock, Richard de, 252. 
 Bali.-t, or Bell, Wharf, 171, and n. 
 Bantam, 26, n. 
 
 Barbadoes, 104, n., 177, n., 185, n. 
 Harber, Gerard, 192. 
 Bardsley, Joseph, 256. 
 Barker, Agnes, 128, n. 
 
 33 
 
2s8 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Barlcer, John, 31. 
 
 Thomas, 30. 
 Barkhouse. See Bacchus. 
 Barks, Michael, 197. 
 Barnard, John, 180, 183. 
 Barneby, Thomas, 256. 
 Barnet, 245, h. 
 
 East, 33, n. 
 Barnett, or Burnard, Henry, 46, 55, 58, 61 , 
 
 63, 64, 68-71, 73, 74, 76, 77. V9. 
 Barrey, Anne, 33, n. 
 
 Nicholas, 33, n. 
 Bartlet, Henry, 170, 176. 
 Bartlett, James, 218, 222. 
 
 Samuel, 230. 
 Basle, vi. 
 
 Bates, Williain, 31. 
 Bath and Wells, Bishop of, 253. 
 Batten, Lady, 244, u. 
 Batty, Henry, 2. 
 Bayley. See Bailey. 
 
 Priscilla, 244, n. 
 
 Richard, 244, n. 
 Baynam, Robert, 32. 
 Beach Lane, 251. 
 Beame, Francis, 239, u. 
 
 Thomas, 239, n. 
 Beaton, 'William, 104, 108. 
 Beck, Richard, 179, n. 
 Bedford, John, 60. 
 
 Bell, Robert, 100, n., 101, 104, 108, no, 
 HI, 114-7. 
 
 Wharf, 171, and n. 
 Belman, John, 38, 39. 
 Belson, Jane, 59, n. 
 Bennett, Barbara, 6, n. 
 
 Edward, 31, 36. 
 
 John, 93, 95-103, 106, 107, 110-118, 
 120, 121, 124, 127, 130, 131, 133, 
 134, 136, 137, 139, 140, 141, 146, 
 148, 149, 152, 158, 160, 163. 
 
 Katherine, 185, n. 
 Berry, John, 170, 174, 176, 178. 
 Best, Drue, 162. 
 
 Elizabeth, 31, jj., 84, n. 
 
 Josiah, 179, 221, 226, 231-3, 238, 240. 
 
 Mary, ii. 
 
 Thomas, ii., xiii., 31. 46, 47,60, 68, 70, 
 72, 74, 76, 77, 79, 8o-2, 84, 85, 87, 89, 
 90,52-6,98, loi, 103, 104, 106, 110-15, 
 118, 120, 130, 132, 134, 136, 141, 144, 
 147-9, '5'. 152, 158, 160-2. 
 Betishall, Richard, 253. 
 Bexley, Thomas, 31. 
 
 Bexley, Daniel, 71, n, 100, 103. 
 Bigate. See Bygatt. 
 Biggs, Rachel, 182, n. 
 
 Thomas, 182, 184, 186, 187, 190, 191. 
 Birch, Baron, 249. 
 Birchett. See Burchett. 
 Birte, Robert, 13. 
 Bisaker. See Bissaker. 
 I Bishopsgate Street, 189, u. 
 Bishops Hall, viii., 24, n. 
 Bissaker, William, 188, 206, 229, 241. 
 Bittenham, George, 245. 
 Blacksley, Andrew, 32. 
 Blands, Robert, 31. 
 Blathwayt, Thomas, 98, loi, 103. 
 Blincoe, George, 46, 48, 54, 61. 
 Blount, John, 61, n. 
 
 Rachel, 61, n. 
 Bludder, Sir Thomas, 26, 30, 34, 45, 46, 51, 
 
 52. 57. 61, 70, 73- 
 Bonavoglia, The, 6, n. 
 Bonner, Bishop, viii. 
 Bookett, Mr., 25. 
 Borne, Martha, 192, n. 
 
 Robert, 192, n. 
 Borough, William, xiii., 6, 7, II, 12, 16, n., 
 
 17, 19, 22, and n., 24, 25. 
 Bow, iv., vi., vii., xviii., 1, 2. 
 Bow Bridge, iv. 
 Bowdler, Thomas, 246. 
 
 Bradley, Henry, 2, 6, 8, 11-13, 16, 17, 19, 
 22, 26, 27, 30, 33, 36, 37, 39-41, 43, 
 
 45- 
 Bradshaw, John, 230, n. 
 
 Ralph, 79, 83, 87, 94, 131. 
 Braithwaite, Thomas, 256. 
 Brasenose College, xvii. 
 Braybrooke, Bishop, v. 
 Brazil, The, 204, n. 
 Brewer, Barbara, 137, n. 
 Brewster, John, 11, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26. 
 
 John, 245. 
 Bridges, John, lOI, 106-113, 115-8. 
 Briscoe, Katherine, 244, n. 
 
 Ralph, 244, n. 
 Bristol, vii. 
 
 Bristow, William, 194, 202. 
 Brock, Jeffry, 251. 
 Brockbank, John, 53, 65. 
 Bromfild, Richard, 104, 105, 107-114, 118, 
 120, 122-4, 128, 140, 141, 146, 149, 
 163. 
 Brookbank, John, 256. 
 Brooke St., 171. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 259 
 
 Browne, or Brown, Captain, 104, n. 
 Christopher, xiii., 141, 149, 151. 
 Edward, 36. 
 Hannah, 178, n. 
 Margaret, 50. 
 Richard, 251. 
 Richard, 48, 51-3, 55. 
 Robert, 193, n. 
 Robert, 245. 
 William, 26, 30, 33, 37, 39-41, 45, 46, 
 
 48, 49. S'. 52. 54- 
 Browse, Mary, 198, n. 
 Brulard, Thomas, 30. 
 Buckfastleigh, Abbot of, 254. 
 Burchett, or Birchetl, John, 204, 207, 209, 
 212, 218, 221, 222, 224, 225, 227, 228, 
 231, 233, 236, 237, 239, 240. 
 Burlee, John, 253. 
 Burlock, Anne, 62, n. 
 
 Burrell, John, 6, 8, 11, 16, 19, 25, 27, 33, 
 37. 40. 
 William, xiii., 25, 27, 46,48, 49, 51, 52, 
 
 loi, 103, IIS, 121, 130, 183, n. 
 Mrs. William, 59, n. 
 Burroughes, Jeremiah, xiv., 181, n. 
 Burston, John, 185. 
 Burton, Dr. Robert, vi., 252. 
 Margaret, 251. 
 Richard, 251. 
 ^ushell. Captain William, 189, 141, 149. 
 Butler, Richard, 248. 
 Button, Captain, 194. 
 Bygatt, William, 13, 17, 19, 24, 25, 27, 29, 
 
 37. 40, 43. 45. 46. 49. 51. 52, 55. 57, 
 58, 60, 62, 63, 65, 67, 70, 72, 80, 84. 
 
 Cabot, Sebastian, vii. 
 Cadiz, 6, n. 
 Cassar, Dame, 17, u. 
 Calais, 6, u., 179, n. 
 Caley, Francis, 184, 186. 
 Cambell, Thomas, 126. 
 Cambridge. 33, n., 242, n. 
 Campion, Thomas, 16, 22. 
 Canada, 189, n. 
 Canaries, The, 179, n. 
 Cant, John, 41, 45. 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 21. 
 Carey, George, 210. 
 Carlisle, Bishop of, 252. 
 Carnarvon, 193, n. 
 Carpenter, David, 31. 
 Elizabeth, 208, n. 
 Carter, George, 245. 
 
 Carter, William, 6, 13, 20. 
 Carthagena, 25, n. 
 Castle, Elizabeth, 208, n. 
 
 Joseph, 208, n. 
 Caterall, [ohn, 133, 135, 143, 146, 152, 154- 
 Catley, Thomas, 185. 
 Cattle, William, 54, 55. 
 Cavell, Barth., 31. 
 Cawley, Mr. 214. 
 
 Ralph, 256. 
 Chandler, Edward, 72, 80-2, 87, 89, 136, 
 
 137. 139. 140, 146, 147. 149- 
 Chapman, Margaret, 105, n. 
 
 Richard, 3:. 
 
 William, 178. 
 Charenton, 176, n. 
 Chatham, 6, n., 188, n. 
 Chaworth, Dr., 241, 244, 248. 
 Ched worth, John, 252. 
 Chelsea, 189, n. 
 Chenies, Thomas, 221. 
 Chercheman, William, 8. 
 Chesapea1<e Bay, 190, n. 
 Cheshire, Humphrey, 19. 
 Cheshunt, 51, n. 
 Chesson, John, 32. 
 Chester, Sarah, 157, n. 
 
 William, 30. 
 Cheston, Hester, loo, n. 
 Chichester, Bishop of, 255. 
 Chick, Grace, 198, n. 
 Chigwell, 233, n., 234, 1.. 
 Chipping Ongar, i, n. 
 Christ Church, Newgate, 234. 
 
 SpitalBelds, xviii. 
 Clark, or Clarke, Bar., 2i. 
 
 John (Limehouse), 46, 60. 
 
 John (RatclifTe), 83, 88, 120-2, 124,127, 
 130, 132, 139-141. 143. 144, 149- 
 
 John (Shadwell), ? = above, 165. 
 
 Thomas, 242, n. 
 
 William, 31. 
 
 William (vicar), 242-4, 255. 
 Claye, John, 193-7, 204, 206. 
 Clements, or Clement, Francis, 207-9, 211, 
 219. 
 
 Robert, 170, 173, 176, 180, 183, u. 
 Gierke. See also Clark. 
 
 Edward, 173, 176. 
 
 John, 119. 
 Cleveland, Earl of, 120, 233, .1. 
 Coates, Richard, 189. 
 Cobbs, Edward, 12. 
 Cobham, Lord, 17, n. 
 
 33—2 
 
26o 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Cock, William, ii., 93-6, 98, 99, 101-4, 109, 
 no, 119, 121, 123-5, '29, 133, 137, 
 
 139. 
 Cock Lane, 107. 
 Cockseyhurst, 17, n. 
 Cole, Humphrey, 10, 15, n., 253. 
 John, 202. 
 RicharH, 185. 
 Colebronk family, li., viii. 
 Coles, Walter, 31. 
 Colet, Dean, vi., 253. 
 
 Sir Henry, vi. 
 Collier Lane, 164, n. 
 
 Row, 107. 
 Collins, Elizabeth, 208, n. 
 
 Gilbert, 128, 130, 133, 135. 
 
 John, 251. 
 
 Joseph, 208, 212, 222, 224, 226, 228, 
 
 231, 234, 237, 245. 
 Joyce, 208, n. 
 Nicholas, 251. 
 Comberford, Nicholas, 183, 185, 1S7, 189. 
 Compton, 85, n. 
 
 Comyns, Thomas, 61, 64, 67, 70, 71, 73, 74, 
 77, 80, 81, 83, 84, 88, 89, 92, 98, 99, 
 loi, 104. 
 William, 26, 30, 39, 40, 48, 49, 51, 52. 
 William, 177. 
 Conquest, George, 101, 104, 107, 108, no, 
 
 in, 113, 114, 118, 120, 123. 
 Cooke, Walter, 98, 99, 101-3, 106, 109, no, 
 n2-i25, 127-9, 131. 132. 134. 136- 
 140, 142-4, 146-8, 150-3, 157, 158, 
 160, i6i, 163-170, 173, 174, 176-8, 
 181, 183, 184, 186-8, 191-4, 197, 199, 
 202, 204, 206, 207, 212. 
 Cooper, William, 192, 193, n., 194-7, 202, 
 
 203, 207. 
 Coopers, Company of, 214, 216. 
 Cope, Mary, 184, n. 
 
 Joseph, 156, 160-3, 166-8, 175, 191, 192, 
 197, 199, 204, 206, 207, 211, 221-6. 
 Corden, William, 251. 
 Ciirnewall, Samuel, 143, 146. 
 Cusin, Richard, 21. 
 Cotesford, Richard, 27. 
 Cottesford, Samuel, 254, 255. 
 Cotton, Gotten, or Cottwen, William, 179, 
 
 185, 190, 195. 
 Cowell, Nicholas, 246. 
 Cowper, John, I2. 
 Cox, Joan, 67, n. 
 Nicholas, 48. 
 Coxon, John, 32. 
 
 Crane, Edward, 31. 
 
 John, 30, 50, 54, 55, 57, 58, 62, 91, 94- 
 100. 
 Craven, John, 178, 181-3, 185, 186, 189. 
 Craye, Richard, 194. 
 Crecy, or Cressy, John, 253. 
 Crips, Ezechiel, 26, 30, 46, 57, 58, 61, 64, 70, 
 
 73. 87. 
 Crispe, Nicholas, 98. 
 Croft, Reynold, 30. 
 
 Widow, 93. 
 Crompton, John, 61, n. 
 Rachel, 61, n. 
 Thomas, 46, 48, 61. 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 189, n. 
 
 Sir Richard, 5, n. 
 Crowder, or Crowther, Joane, 244, n. 
 
 Captain John, 145, n., 169, n., 193, 194, 
 197. 199> 202, 204, 206, 207, 209-212, 
 217-9, 221-6. 
 Katherine, 249. 
 Thomas, 46, 61, 63. 
 William, 15. 
 William, 249. 
 Crull, Robert de, 252. 
 Culham, William, n3, 116, 182, 191, 204, 
 
 207, 235. 
 Cullimer, George, 98, 103, 104, 112, 115, 
 116, 118, 121, 124, 127-132, 134, 136- 
 8, 140, 141, 143, 144, 146, 148, 149, 
 152-4, 157, 158, 163-6, 168-170, 173. 
 Cummon, Mary, 193, n. 
 Curtis, Captam W., 245. 
 Cutlett, Captain Thomas, 157, 162, 165, 208, 
 222-5, 227, 228, 231, 232. 
 
 Dalby, John, 151, 153, 154, 156, 158-161, 
 163, 164, 166, 168, 180, 182-8, igo-2. 
 William, 251. 
 
 Dale, Valentine, 21. 
 
 Dalton, Edward, 29, 46, 48, 58, 60, 62-6, 68, 
 70, 72, 74, 77, 80-2, 84, 85, 89-91, 94, 
 97-103, 106, 109, no, 1 12-7, 119-121, 
 123-5, 127, 129, 131-4, 136, 138, 139, 
 141, 143, 144, 148, 149, 152, 154. 
 156. 
 
 Damarell, Elizabeth, 195, n. 
 
 Daniell, William, 252. 
 
 Dantier. See Dentier. 
 
 Darling, Daniel, 156, 158, 160-4, '66, 167, 
 169, 215. 
 Thomas, 238, 240, 242. 
 
 Davenant, Ralph, 254. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 261 
 
 Davies, John, xiii., 60, 69, 70, 72, 74, 81, 
 82, 87, 89, 94-xoi, 103, 108, 109, 117. 
 Davis, Anne, 169, n. 
 Joan, 164, n. 
 Roger, 169, n. 
 
 Captain Thomas, 169, 188, 190-3, 195-7. 
 Davison, Alexander, 14, i6, 30, 41, 46, 58, 
 
 S9. 61. 63-67. 
 Dawson, Richard, 251. 
 Deane, Christopher, 198-202, 206-8. 
 
 Sir James, 11, n. 
 Defoe, Daniel, xvi. 
 Delton, William, 68. 
 Dene, Nicholas, 253. 
 Denge, 15, n. 
 
 Dennis, Captain Robert, 190, 197. 
 Dentier, James, 153, 155, 165, n., 170, 176, 
 178, 180, 181, 204, 223, 224, 226, 232, 
 233> 237. 239. 240, 242, 245. 
 Deptford, vii., 25, n., 142, n., 188, n., 197, n. 
 Derrick, Peter, 251. 
 Dethick, Sir Gilbert, 46, n. 
 
 Gilbert, ii., xvii., 61, 69, 70, 73, 77, 80- 
 S, 88-90, 97, 98, 100, 105, 113, 123, 
 127, 129-131, 134, 141, 143, 144, 149, 
 150, 152, 154, 163, 164, 166. 
 Gilbert, 61, n. 
 
 Henry, 31, n., 61, n., 84, 88, 89, 92, 
 95, loi, 110-3, 136, 137, 141, 146, 152, 
 160, 161, 163, 164, 168. 
 Henry, 84, n. 
 
 Sir William, 31, n., 46, 47, 61, n., 84 n. 
 Dey, Thomas, 255. 
 Dicer, Robert, 229. 
 Dickens or Diggens, John, 169. 
 
 Nicholas, sen., 25, 29, 33, 36, 37, 40, 
 42. 43. 45. 46. 48, 49. 51. 52. 60, 62-s, 
 68, 70-5. 77. 79-84. 87, 91. 94, 96. 
 Nicholas, jun., 112, 1 19-122, 124, 127, 
 131, 132, 134, 137-140. 142-4. 146, 
 150, 152, 154, 156-8, 164, 165, 177, 
 Dives. See Dyves. [180. 
 
 Docklay, William, 12. 
 Dodd, Thomas, 256. 
 Dog Row, xvi. 
 Doleman, Dr. John, 245. 
 Donfell, Balaam, 16. 
 Donne or Dunne, Gabriel, 254. 
 Douglas, Dr. George, xiv., 145-154, 156-8, 
 16C-3, 166-170, 173, 174, 175, n.,255. 
 Dover, Sarah, 179, n. 
 Doves, Edmund, 31. 
 Downe, 179, n. 
 Drake, Sir Francis, 6, n. 
 
 Drayton, Gilbert de, 253. 
 Drewe, Avis, 208, u. 
 Diinkell, Edward, 251. 
 Dtury, Sir Drew, 250. 
 Dubhn, xiv., 81, n. 
 
 Ducie, John, 142, 149, 150, 152, 164, 168, 
 170, 174, 176-8, iSi, 182, 189. 193, 
 196, 199, 203, 206,207, 212, 220, 232, 
 233. 235-8, 240. 
 Dunkirk, 139, n. 
 
 Dunne, William, 143, 146, 151, 155. 
 Dunstan, St., iii., iv. 
 Durham, Bishop of, 253. 
 Dyve, or Dyves, Christopher, 61, 64, 66-70, 
 72. 73. 75. 76. 8i, 82, 87. 
 Isabel, 61, n. 
 William, 31. 
 
 Eagle Place, 24, n. 
 
 Ea^/tt, The, 193, n. 
 
 Earle, Mr., 215. 
 
 Eastwood, 17, n. 
 
 Edgeworthe, Edward, xiv., 66, 71-4, 76, 79, 
 85. 87. 91.92, 94. 95. 98-100, 102, 103, 
 106-9, "2, 113, 115-8, 120-2, 124, 
 127-130, 132, 134, 136-140, 142-4, 146- 
 8, 150, 152-4, 156, 160-4, 166-170, 
 173. 174. 176, 177. 
 
 Edward VI., viii. 
 
 Eedes, John, 170, 176, 180. 
 
 Eglesfelde, Christopher, 2. 
 
 E. I. C, ii., vii., xiii., 6, n., 25, n., 26, n., 
 30, II., 31, 11., 60, n., 61, n., 84, n., 
 93, n., lOl, 11., 104, n., 124, n., 133, n., 
 141, 1.., 142, n., 157, II., 178, n., 193, n., 
 245, n. 
 
 E. I. Yard, 182, n. 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen, vii., xiii. 
 
 Elliot, Eliot, or EUet, Edward, 8, 11-14, '6, 
 19, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29, 45, 48. 
 Ellis, 64, 66, 68, 69, 88, 98. 
 Thomas, 81, 83, 91, 95, 97-100, 107, 
 112, 113, 1 15-7, 121, 127, 134. 
 
 Ellis, or Elice, John, 251. 
 
 William, 182, 184-7, 189. 
 
 Ellison, Captain John, 208, 208. 209, 211, 
 212, 218, 219, 226, 227, 233, 234,236- 
 8, 240, 245. 
 Martha, 203, n. 
 Thomas, 203, n. 
 
 Elsham, 189, n. 
 
 Elvin, John, 26, 30, 49, 50, 55, 57, 58, 63. 
 Widow, 63. 
 
 Elvy, Guildford, 212, 220. 
 
263 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 English, David, ii., xiv., 47, 49, 52. 
 
 Essex, Earl of, 17, n., 81, n. 
 
 Estwoode, Richard, 2, 8, 12, 14, 16, 19, 24. 
 
 Eustace, Bishop of London, iv. 
 
 Evans, Marian, 137, n. 
 
 Every, Sir Henry, 219, n. 
 
 Dame Vere, 219, n. 
 Ewens, or Ewen, Martha, 203, n. 
 
 Captain Thomas, 203, 208, 209, 211, 
 212, 218, 219, 226, 227, 233, 234, 
 236-8, 240, 245. 
 
 Thomas, 203, n. 
 
 William, 120, 121, 124, 133, 134, 136, 
 
 137. 139-141, 143. 1469, 151, 153. 
 
 154, 156, 158, 159. 
 Ewstes, Mr., 13. 
 Exeter, Bishop of, 253. 
 Dean of, 253. 
 
 Fewilliams, Robert, 12, 31. 
 
 Finch, James, 256. 
 
 Fleetwood, William, 21. 
 
 Flushing, 141, n. 
 
 Ford, James, 12, 16, 17. 
 
 Fordham, Nicholas, 208, 226, 230, 231, 
 
 233-6. 
 Forster, John, xiv. 
 Foster, Captain Philip, 238, 240, 242, 245. 
 
 Thomas, 16. 
 Fotherby, Robert, 142, 149-152, 154, 156, 
 
 158, 159, 164, 174, 177. 
 Sarah, 142, n,, 2C4, n 
 
 Fox, Anthony, 30. 
 
 Bishop, vi., 253. 
 Foxe's Lane, 171. 
 Freman, or Freeman, Mr., 16. 
 
 Henry, 8, 12 
 
 Thomas, 2, 30. 
 
 William, 19, 32. 
 Frend, John, 98, 100, 102-4, '06, 109, 11 1-3, 
 117, 121, 122, 127, 129, 134, 140, 142, 
 144, 146-8, 150, 151, 153, 154, 156, 
 
 159, 162-4, 166, 169, 170, 173, 176 8, 
 180-2. 
 
 Frere, John, 253. 
 
 Freston Hall, 205, n. 
 
 Frith, Roger, 30, 74, 76, 79, 82, 85, 88, 
 
 134- 
 Frobisher, Sir Martin, vii., 6, n. 
 Fuller, Francis, 250. 
 
 James, 250. 
 
 Jane, 250. 
 
 John, 24, 26, u., 168, 250. 
 
 Fuller, John, 74, 79, 82, 85, 89-100, 102, 106- 
 iio, 112, 114-7, 119-121, 125, 127, 
 129, 131-4, 136-8, 140, 142-4, 146, 
 147, 150, 152, 153, 156-8, 160-2, 164- 
 6, 168, 169, 176. 
 William, 250. 
 
 Fundall, John, 8. 
 
 Gadbury, Elizabeth, 194, n. 
 
 Thomas, 194. 
 
 Thomas, 194, n. 
 Gallows, John, 30. 
 Gambroon, 141, n. 
 Gardiner, John, 25, 29, 37, 40, 41, 43, 51, 
 
 52. 54- 
 Gardyner, Thomas, 8, 30, 37. 
 Garland, Roger, 219, 222, 223, 225, 226, 
 228-231, 234, 235,239,240, 242, 245. 
 Garton, Robert, 8, 11, 12, 13, 19, 22, 23. 
 Gascoyne, Joel, ii., and see Introduction to 
 
 the Map. 
 Gatton, 189, n. 
 
 Gaucelin, Cardinal John, 252 {iun'ce). 
 Geere, Sir Michael, 46, 48, 49, 60, 62, 63, 
 65, 66, 702, 746, 80, 82, 84, 85, 87, 
 89, 91, 92, 100, loi, 106. 
 Gibbs, Richard, 16, 19. 
 Gibson, Nicholas, ix. 
 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, xiii. 
 Gilby, Zachary, 68, 70. 
 Gildersleeves, 208, n. 
 Gisby, Michael, 46, 57, 61, 62, 69, 70, 73, 
 76, 77. 79, 81-3. 85, 87-93. 97. 98. 100, 
 112, 120, 121, 127, 129, 134, 140, 141, 
 148, 149, 154, 160. 
 GlanHeld, Elizabeth, 26, n. 
 Glead, Henry, 185, 202, 204, 2069, 211, 
 212, 217, 218, 220-4, 226, 227, 231, 
 237, 239, 240. 
 Glover, Robert, 251. 
 
 Thomas, 162. 
 Godfreys, John, 31, 36, 40. 
 Goldinge, Robert, ii., 46, 60. 
 Goldsmith, Samuel, 121, 122, 127, 141, 149, 
 
 164. 
 Gonnys, John, 8, 19. 
 Goodall, Mary, 185, n. 
 Goodgaine, Henry, 76. 
 Gooding, Ambrose, 185, 194, 204, 209, gti, 
 
 220, 227. 
 Gosnoll. Captain John, 245. 
 Gosson, Stephen, xiii., xiv., 9, 10. 
 Gotts, M', 19. 
 Gouldman, Francis, 51, 11. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 263 
 
 Gouldman, Dr. George, ii., xiv., 51-4, 56-9, 
 62-S. 67-9. 79. 82, 86, 87, 89-93, 95. 
 96,98, 100-3, 106. 109. "2, 113, 118, 
 120-3, 127-9. «34. 136-8. HO, 143-S. 
 147. M8- 
 Mrs., 147, 148. 
 Gouldstone, William, 120, 121, 127, 128, 
 130-2, 134, 136, 137, 140, 141, 144, 
 146-9, 151.3, 158, 160, 164, 165, 173, 
 174, 177. 
 Gowge, Nicholas, 2. 
 
 William, 2. 
 Gravel Lane, New, 171, 183, n. 
 
 Old, 171. 
 Graves, or Greaves, Abraham, 227, 230-8, 
 240, 242. 
 Andrew, 152, 155. 
 
 John, 46, 60, 63-6, 68-70, 72, 74, 76, 77, 
 81, 82, 84, 85, 87, 89, 91-3, 96, 100, 
 104, 106-8, 112, 1 14-6, 119, 121, 122, 
 124, 130, 132, 134. 
 Matthew, 190. 
 Sarah, 194, n. 
 Thomas, 32. 
 
 William, 203, 206-8, 222-7, 231-4, 236- 
 8, 240, 245. 
 Gravesend, 170, n. 
 Gray, Helen, 23. 
 Great Charity, The, 238, u. 
 _ Greaves. See Graves. 
 Greenaway, Helen, 198, n. 
 Greene, Thomas, 112, 114, 118, 122. 
 Greenhill, William, xiv., xv., 181, n., 198, 
 211, 212, 214, 216, 220, 223-5, 228, 
 232. 255. 
 Greenwood, Robert, 67. 
 Gregory, John, 30, 48. 
 Grent, or Grynt, James, 19, 22, 46, 48. 
 Grey, Isaac, 232, n. 
 Grimley, Joanna, 182, n. 
 
 Thomas, 182, 184, 186, 187, 189-191, 
 195, 197, 199, 204, 207, 209, 210, 212, 
 218, 219, 221, 222, 224-6, 228, 230, 
 231. 233-7. 239, n., 240, 242, 
 245. 
 Thomas, 182, n. 
 Grove, Anne, 196, ii. 
 
 Captain Edmund, 196-8, 202, 203, 207, 
 209, 211, 212, 218, 219, 221-6, 228, 
 230-7, 242, 245. 
 Edmund, 196, n. 
 George, 196, n. 
 Guinea Company, 189, n 
 Gunnell, £enjamm, 245. 
 
 Gunston, Roger, 46, 60, 63-6, 70, 72, 74-7, 
 79. 81-3, 85, 87, 88, 90, 94, 98, 100, 
 102, 196, a. 
 
 Gwines, Thomas, 245. 
 
 Hackney, iv., xii., 14, n., 15, 151, n., 249, 
 
 250. 
 Hackwell, Robert, 178, 184, i86, 203. 
 
 Roger, 196, n. 
 Haddon, Giles F., 256. 
 Hague, The, 176, n. 
 Hall, Elizabeth, 166, n. 
 George, 14. 
 Henry, 128, 131. 
 Henry, 166, 168-70, 175, 177, 178, 180, 
 
 184, 199, 204, 218, 245, a. 
 Henry, 166, n., 245. 
 Richard, 30. 
 
 Richard, 119, 121, 122, 124. 
 Winifred, 29, n. 
 Hamps, Michael, 31, 48, 49, 53-5. 
 Hancock, John, 36. 
 Hanford, William, 1 14. 
 Hardcastle, Thomas, 48. 
 Hardy, A. L., 33, n. 
 Hardyng, Thomas, 8, 14, i6, 19, 25, 27, 29, 
 
 33. 36, 40, 45- 
 Harman, Captain Thomas, 198-202, 239, 
 
 240, 245. 
 Harper, George, 256. 
 Harrington, Peter, 119, 125, 128, 131, 133, 
 
 I3S- 
 Harris, John, 177, 198-203, 208, 211, 221, 
 223, 224, 227, 232. 
 Rebecca, 177, n. 
 Renatus, xv., xvi. 
 Susan, 177, n. 
 Harrison, John, 185. 
 Rebecca, 185, n. 
 
 Thomas, 203, 226, 228, 231, 233-5, 237. 
 238, 240, 245. 
 Harsnett, Samuel, 51, n. 
 Hart, Ellen, 68, n. 
 Nicholas, 68, n. 
 
 Thomas, 137-9, 142, 145-8, 150-3, 156, 
 163, 164, 166, 204, 206-8, 212, 221, 
 222, 226, 231, 233. 
 Hartley, Thomas, 91, n., 100, 103, 104, 
 
 114, 117, 118, 123, 124, 127, 129. 
 Harvy, John, 53. 
 Hasell, or Hassell, 194-7, 208. 
 Haspinall, Nicholas, 254. 
 Hassam, Joan, 105. 
 Hatton, Thomas, 32. 
 
264 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Haversham, Lord, 189, n. 
 
 Hawes, Mr. John (curate), 65, 177, n. 
 
 John, 208-212, 219, 222, 224, 226, 232, 
 
 233, 236, 242. 
 Widow, 65, 67. 
 
 Hawkins, John, 157, 162, 196, 197. 
 
 Margaret, 179, n. 
 
 Nathaniel, 143, 146, 151, 155, 165. 
 
 Richard, 58. 
 Hayward, John, ii., 47, 254. 
 
 William, 71, 75, 97. 
 Hazle, Grace, 205, n. 
 Head, William, 197, 199, 204, 239, 240. 
 Heale, Elizabeth, 72, n. 
 Heaman, orHemman, John, 158, 164, 166, 
 168-70, 173-5, 177. 178, 180-4, 186, 
 187, 189, 191, 196, 197, 199, 203,206- 
 10, 212, 218, 219, 221. 
 
 Richard, 178, n., 191. 
 
 Rose, 178, n. 
 Heath, William. 157, 162. 
 Heathly, Widow, 53. 
 
 Hembricks, Robert, 202, n., 227, 230, 231. 
 Hemman. See Heaman. 
 Hemming, Edward, 19. 
 Henchman, or Hinchman, Bishop Humphrey, 
 
 234, n. 
 
 Richard, 234, 235, 237. 
 Henry VH., vi., vii. 
 
 Vni., vii. 
 Herbert, Sir Henry, 219, u. 
 Hereford, Bishop of, 21. 
 Herris, Christopher, 26, n. 
 
 Maria, 26, n. 
 Hershope, Edward, 31. 
 Hewes, Morgan, 30. 
 Heynes, Dr. Simon, vi., 255. 
 Highy, Grace, 61, n. 
 Higg-i, Judith, 60, n. 
 
 William, 29, 46, 48, 60. 
 Hill, Mr., 239, n. 
 
 Samuel, 246. 
 
 Thomas, 169, n. 
 Hills, William, 31. 
 Hinchman. See Henchman. 
 Hingham ad Castra, Thomas de, 253. 
 Hodgkin, Henry, 185, 203, 206, 220, 227. 
 Hogg, Thomas, 26, 30,45, 46> 55> S8, 59. 6'. 
 6.5-9. 72-S. 77, 79-85, 87, 89,91-3,96- 
 100, 103, 104, 107-H5. 
 Holland, 179, n. 
 William, 13. 
 Hollman, Richard, 237, 238, 240. 
 Holy Trinity, Aldgate, iv. 
 
 Holy Trinity, Minories, ii. 
 Hooker, Robert, 236, 237, 239, 240, 242. 
 Hopton, Sir Owen, 21, 120, n. 
 Horton, Francis, 255. 
 
 Mary, 170, n. 
 Hoskyns, Edwyn, 256. 
 Houghton, Stephen, 23, 26, 27, 30, 36, 38, 
 
 39, 49- 
 Howe, Jane, 204. 
 Howells, John, 32. 
 
 Hoxton, John, 192, 194-7, 199, 203, 207, 
 208, 214, 221, 223, 225, 226, 232, 237, 
 238, 240. 
 John, 192, n. 
 Judith, 192, n. 
 Susan, 157, n. 
 Hoyle, Dr. Joshua, xiv., I8I-4, l85-8, 192-7, 
 
 198, n., 255. 
 Hudson, Thomas, 14. 
 Hulson, Robert, 249. 
 Humphry, John, 251. 
 Hunt, John, 124, 127. 
 Mrs., 141, n. 
 
 William, 182, 184, 186, 187, 189, 190. 
 Hunter, Mary, 157, n. 
 Hutchinson, Richard, 214, 223, 225. 
 Hyat, William, 72, 73, 77, 81-3, 87, 88,93, 
 98, 109, no, 112, 137, 141, 149, 163. 
 Hyde, Bishop Alexander, 242, n. 
 
 India, 26, n., 31, n. 
 
 Ireland, 189, n. 
 
 Isaac, Trumpeter, 179, n. 
 
 Ivye, William, 60, 70, 72, 75, 80-2, 87, 91. 
 
 Jackson, Isaac, 239, 240, 242, 245. 
 James, Arnold, 44. 
 Frances, 194, n. 
 
 Jonas, 146, 158, 164, 168-70, 173, 174, 
 177, 180. 
 James (River), 26, n. 
 James, The, 60, n., 193, n. 
 Jenney, John, 165, 170, 176. 
 
 John, 245. 
 Jerome, William, vi., xiii., 255. 
 Jerrome, Christopher, 58. 
 Jhmkin, Thomas, 3r. 
 Jnkins, William, 251. 
 
 Jobarne, or Joburne, William, 91, 97, 135, 
 136, 138-40, 142,143, 145.9, "51-3.156, 
 158, 162, 164, 166-8, 170, 176, 177, 
 180. 
 John, The, 190, n. 
 Johnson, Edmund, 178, n. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES 
 
 165 
 
 Johnson, Captain Edward, 178, 181, 183, 
 
 186, 187, 189, 19s, 197, 199, 203, 
 
 206, 207-9, 211, 212, 218,219,221, 
 
 224-6, 228, 230-8, 240. 
 Elizabeth, 178, n. 
 Francis, 188, n. 
 Sir Henry, 188, n., 204, 230, 236, 239, 
 
 240, 242, 245. 
 John (lecturer), 214. 
 John (rector), 254. 
 Thomas, 60, 66, 68-70, 72, 74-7, 79, 
 
 81, 82, 87. 
 Jntast The, 194, n. 
 Jones, Anne, 204, n. 
 Enego, 251. 
 Susan, 177, n. 
 Thomas, of Ratcliffe, 25, 27, 29, 33, 34, 
 
 36, 41, 43, 46, 49, SI. 52. 57-60, 62, 
 
 64-70, 72. 74. 80. 
 William, of Limehouse, 12, 17, 19, 25, 
 
 27. 29. 37. 39. 40. 43. 45. 46. 49. 5". 
 
 52, 55. 58, 59. 177. n- 
 William, 204, n. 
 Jorden, or Jurden, William, 31, 60, 62, 64, 
 
 66-70, 72, 88. 
 
 Kayl, or Keale, Robert, 46, 48, 49, 54, 57, 
 58, 60, 62-7, 70, 72. 77. 80, 82, 89, 90, 
 92, 99, 100-2, 105, 109, 120, 123, 124, 
 127, 128, 141, 146, 149. 
 
 Kedden, Edward, 166, 170, 174, 176, 178, 
 181, 183, 187, 189, 190, 196, 197, 199. 
 
 Keling, Edward, 204, 205, 207-12, 217-19, 
 221, 222, 226, 230-5, 238, 240, 242. 
 
 Kempe, Edmund, 180, 190. 
 William, 254, 
 
 Kent, Thomas, 64, 66. 
 
 King Street, 171. 
 
 Kingsland, 15, 250. 
 
 Kingston, Itichard, 252. 
 
 Kitchen, Marie. 183, n. 
 
 Kitto, J. F., 256. 
 
 Knight's Place, 178, n. 
 
 Knockfergus, 171. 
 
 Lake, Lady, 17, n. 
 Lambart, Robert, 2. 
 Lambert, Ellen, 193, n. 
 Lambeth, 3. 
 
 Lancaster, Captain Thomas, 217, 222-4, 231. 
 William, 35, 41, 43. 45. 46. 48-50. 55. 
 57. 
 Lance, Edward, 185. 
 Land, Captain Robert, 230, 231, 233-7. 
 
 Land, William, 230, n. 
 
 Lane, Edward, 66,' 68. 
 
 Lann, Henry, 14. 
 
 Lany, Benjamm, 22, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 36, 
 
 45- 
 Lapfield. See Lowfield. 
 Latham, Edmund, 253. 
 Lavyson, William, 31. 
 La we, Mr., 13. 
 Lawes, Thomas, 91, 97. 
 Lawncelott, John, 8. 
 Lawrence, Giles. 204, 206. 
 George, 178, 181-3, J86. 
 Richard, 26, 46, 55. 
 Layton, Richard, vi., 254. 
 Lea, The, iv. 
 Leake, Henry, 45. 
 
 William, 16. 
 Leatt, Mr., 141, n. 
 Leche, Henry, 256. 
 Ledman, John, 183, 187, 227. 
 Lee, Elizalieih, 62, n. 
 Henry, 169, n. 
 John at, 253. 
 Dr. John, 253. 
 Sir John, 61, 69, 70, 73, 81, 83, 91, 97, 
 
 141, 149, 163. 
 Richard, 256. 
 Sir Robert, 61, n. 
 Leicester, Lord, 22. 
 Lenford, John, 160. 
 Lenton, Robert, 102. 
 Lewyn, William, 21. 
 Leybourne, Robert, 256. 
 Ley ton, 17, n., 178, n. 
 Lichfield, Richard, 252. 
 Bishop of, 255. 
 Dean of, 255. 
 Limbery, John, 194, 195, 202, n., 203, 207- 
 
 9, 214, 218, 221-7, 230-3, 238. 
 Lincoln, Bishop of, 252. 
 Linford, Judith, 85, n. 
 Linsey, Earl of, 139, n. 
 
 Thomas, 206, n., 208, n. 
 Loades, Henry, 229. 
 London, Bishop of, 21. 
 London, The, 93, n. 
 Longman, Captain Richard, 245. 
 Lorimer, Mary, 251. 
 Lott, Henry, 61, n. 
 
 Joan, 61, n. 
 Lowestoft, 196, n. 
 Lowfield, or Lapfield, Humphrey, 30, 51-3, 
 
 55- 
 
 34 
 
266 
 
 MEMORFALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Loxlie, Mother, 93. 
 
 Lucas, Thomas, 20, 24, 26. 
 Lucretia, The, 178, n. 
 Luke, Richard, 253. 
 Lutnley, Bishop, vi., 252. 
 Lynnet, Ipolito, 15, 249. 
 Lyons, John, 26, 30, 36, 46, 57, 58, 61-3, 
 65, 70. 
 
 Mageck, William, 226, 230, 239, 240. 
 
 Mainard and Maniard. See Maynard. 
 
 Mainwaring, John, 253. 
 
 Mann, Captain Thomas, 204, n. 
 
 Manning, Thomas, 64, 66-9. 
 
 Map, Hillary, 183, 187. 
 
 March, or Marche, Mr., 2, 22, 24, 27, 36. 
 
 Sir George, 238, 240, 245. 
 
 John, 12. 
 
 Richard, 12, 25, 29, 37, 39, 40, 46, 49, 
 57-60, 68, 70, 72, 80, 82, 91, n. 
 Marigold, The, 169, n. 
 Markham, Robert, 58, 62. 
 Marrot, Henry, xiv. 
 Marryt. See Merrett. 
 Marshall, Sir George, 60, 67-70, 72, 74, 80, 
 
 82, 91. 
 Mary, Queen, vii. 
 
 Queen of Scots, 81, n. 
 Mary, The, 185, n. 
 Mason, Jane, 23. 
 
 Robert, 41, 45. 
 
 Robert, 108. 
 Mathew, John, 14, 15. 
 
 John, 249. 
 
 Katherine, 250. 
 
 William, 16. 
 Matthews, Alice, 169, n. 
 
 Margaret, 93, n. 
 Maule, William, 12. 
 May, Thomas, 31. 
 
 William, 31. 
 Maynard, Walter, 178, 181-3, 185, 186, 199, 
 
 203, 206. 
 Mead, Matthew, xv., 199, n. 
 Meade, John, 12. 
 Medbourne, 15, n. 
 Melanchthon, vi. 
 
 Mellish, William, 149, 156, 158, 162-4, 173, 
 176, 182, 183, 187, 188, 192, 196, 199, 
 203, 206, 218. 
 Mempris, Hillary, 137, 140, 142, 143, 147, 
 148, 150, 152-4, 156, 161, 164, 165, n., 
 167-170, 173-5, 177. 178, 180-4, 186- 
 8, 191-4. 196, 197. 
 
 Mempris, Hillary, 165, ril .- • " ■ ' ■• 
 Michael, 165, n. 
 
 Thomas, 137, n., 165, 204, 206, 207, 
 , 209,211, 218, 221, 222. 
 Mercers Company, 118, 150, 168, 236, n., 
 
 251, i\ 
 Merchant Adventurers Company, vii. 
 j Meritt, Alice, 11, n. 
 
 I Merrett, or Marryt, Henry, 31, 36, 43, 45. 
 Richard, 31. 
 Merriall, Clare, 93, n. 
 I Michael, 93, 95, 98-100. 
 
 Michelbourne, Mr., 80, 81, 83. 
 Middleton, John de, 253. 
 
 Thomas, 218. 
 Mile End Common, 244, n. 
 
 Green, viii., xiii., 26, n., 81, n., ioi,n., 
 165, u., 168, 169, II., 175, 189, n., 
 241. 
 Road, 24. 
 Miles, Henry, 253. 
 
 Milton, Thomas, 25, 27, 40, 46, 49, 55, 60, 
 64. 65, 70. 72, 74> 76, 81, 82, 87, 94. 
 Minehead, 158, n. 
 Minterne, John, 210. 
 Mitcheson, Mr., 12. 
 Monteagle, Lord, 81, 11. 
 Moore, or More, Henry, 255. 
 
 John (Limehouse), 72, 81, 82, 88-90, 94, 
 
 I3«- 
 
 John (Wapping), 182, 184-7, 189, 192-4, 
 199, 202, 203, 222, 227, 228, 231, 
 238, 240. 
 
 Robert, 185. 
 Mootam, Thomas, 76. 
 Morbein, 159, ii. 
 More. See Moore. 
 Morley, Lord, viii., 80, 81, 83. 
 Mortlock, John, 14, 19, 27, 31. 
 Mountford, Thomas, 255. 
 
 Walter, 104. 
 Mouse, Joan, 203, n. 
 MuUins, John, 21. 
 Muns, or Mun, Edward, 33, 41, 45, 255. 
 
 Thomas, 33, n. 
 Muscovy Company, vii. " 
 Musten, Mary, 246, n. 
 
 Narmontach, 26, n. 
 Neale, Thomas, xvii. 
 Nelson, Anne, 177, n. 
 
 Ralph, 177, 178, i8t-3, 186, 204. 
 Neltrapp, Nicholas, 71, 75, 100, n. 
 Neptune, The, 139, n. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 267 
 
 Newett, John, 46, 48, 61, 70, 71, 73, 76, 77, 
 
 79. 8l-3. 85. 87-9. 92. 93, 94, 102. 
 Newport, Christopher, 25, 29. 
 NichoUs, Elizabeth, 73, n. 
 
 John, 251. 
 Nightingale Lane, 245, n. 
 Nobrithe, John, 253. 
 North, Henry, 119, 125. 
 
 Street, Poplar, 72, n., 84, n., 169, n. 
 Northam, 6, n. 
 
 Northey, William, 231, 238, n. 
 North-west Passage Company, 25, n. 
 Norton, Nicholas, 253. 
 
 Richard de, 253. 
 Nottingham, Richard, 68, 71, 72, 74-7, 80-2, 
 87. 89, 94-6, 99, 100, 106, 108-10, 
 120. 
 Nurse, Captain Henry, 2*, 
 
 Oakfield, Poplar, 205, n. 
 Ockendon, South, 51, n. 
 Oldfield, or Owfield, Mary, 189, n. 
 
 William, 189, n. 
 Oliver, Anne, 208, n. 
 Olona, 158, n. 
 Ongar, Chipping, i, n. 
 Ormes, John, 230. 
 Oswell, Mary, 105. 
 Owdby, Walter, 253. 
 Owfield. See Oldfield. 
 Oxford, xiv., xvii., 10, n., 47, n., 175, n., 
 181, n. 
 
 Pace, Richard, 253. 
 Packe, Sir Christopher, 211. 
 Page, Edward, 179. 
 
 Joseph, 30, 41, 43. 
 Painter's Rents, 60, n. 
 Palmer, Sir Henry, xiii., 22. 
 
 Henry, 22, n. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 61. 
 
 William, 112. 
 Paragon, The, 169, n. 
 Parberry, Edward, 42, 43. 
 Paris, 81, n., 176, n. 
 Parker, Mr. (lecturer), 234, 237. 
 Parratt, Vincent, 61, 70, 73, 81. 
 Parris, Thomas, 1, 2. 
 Partridge, Affabell, 7, 8. 
 
 Mary, 246, n. 
 
 William, 31. 
 Pate, Christopher, 26, 30, 37, 41, 43, 46, 61, 
 
 70, 73. 
 Paul's Cbaine, 56. 
 
 Paul's Cross, 47, n. 
 Wharf, 24, n. 
 Pearson, Mrs., 165, u. 
 Peerson, John, 25. 
 Peirce, Thomas, ii. 
 Pelson, Thomas, 36, 41. 
 Pemmerton, William, 73. 
 Pepys, Samuel, 185, n., 244, n. 
 Persia, 26, n. 
 Persia, The, 179, n. 
 Pet, or Pett, Mr., 13. 
 Mrs., 215. 
 Joseph, 2S, 29, 49. 
 
 Peter, 170, n., 188, 190-3, 203, n., 215. 
 Phineas, 188, n. 
 family, xiii., 188, n. 
 Peters, Hugh, 181, n. 
 Petticoat Lane, 107. 
 Phillips, Mr., 232, n. 
 
 Edward, 60, 70, 72, 81, 82. 
 Richard, 54, 57, 58, 64, 67-9, 71, 77, 82, 
 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 93- 100, 102, 106, 
 120, 121, 124, 127, 130-4, 136, 140, 
 141, 144, 147, 149, 152, 154. 
 Philpct, or Phillipot, Sir George, 85. 
 Sir John, 85, u. 
 John, 254. 
 Phanix, The, 177, n. 
 Pickering, Thomas, 2, 6, 7, 8. 
 Pickes, Henry, 30, 36, 37, 40, 44. 
 Piers, John, 11, n. 
 
 Thomasine, II, n. 
 Finder, Peter, 23, 30. 
 Piot. See Pyott. 
 Plymouth, 46, 193, n., 245, n. 
 Pointell. See Poyntell. 
 Pondrick, James, 253. 
 Poplar Chapel, 189, n , 245, 11. 
 Portland, 185, n. 
 Portrifif, Walter, xiv. 
 Portsmouth, 185, n., 245, n. 
 Portuguese, 31, n. 
 Powell, or Powle, John, 21 r. 
 
 Sir Stephen, 46, 61, 70, 73, 8i, 83. 
 Thomas, 185. 
 Poyntell, Mr., 13, 17. 
 
 George, 13, 17, 19, 26, 27. 
 Henry, 11-13, 16, 19. 
 Pratt, William, 35, 38, 39, 53. 
 Preston, John, 208, 223-6, 232. 
 Prichard, Benjamin, 256. 
 
 Herbert, 256. 
 Pritllewell, vii., S, u. 
 Procter, Katherine, 26, n. 
 
 34—2 
 
268 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Proffett, Mr., 7, 8. 
 
 Providence Island, 189, n. 
 
 Prowd, or Proud, Captain John, 203, 207, 
 208, 211, 212, 217-9, 221, 226, 234, 
 239, 240, 245. 
 
 Prusons Island, 171. 
 
 Pulberry, Captain, 169, n. 
 
 Pulman, William, 128, 130-2, 140, 141, 144, 
 149, 151. 
 
 Purser, Edmund, 26, 30, 31, 40. 
 
 Robert, 204, 206, 211, 220, 235, n. 
 
 Pye, Thomas, 169, 170, 174, 176, 204. 
 
 Pym, Hugh, 83, 87. 
 
 Pyott, Piot, or Pyatt, William, 112, 121, 124, 
 125, 127, 129, 133, 135, 137, 138, 
 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 
 IS4, 156. 163, 164, 168, 177, 180. 
 
 Railton, Thomas, 84, 99, 101-3, 106, 137, 
 138, 142. 
 
 William, 20, 24. 
 Ram, William, 202. 
 Randolph, Richard, 12. 
 Ratcliffe Cross, 151, n., 219, n. 
 
 Highway, 171. 
 
 Street, 171. 
 
 Wall, 16, n., 171. 
 Ravens, Christopher, 180. 
 Raymond, John, 219, 221, 222. 
 
 Mary, 157, u. 
 Reade, Abraham, 204. 
 
 Richard, 197, 199, 203, 208-10, 232, 
 
 235- 
 Sarah, 204. 
 Thomas, 50. 
 Redeknapp, Elizabeth, 59, n. 
 Redrith, 1 16. 
 
 Reeve, Samuel, 194, 239, 240, 242, 245. 
 Reigate, 26, n. 
 
 Reynardson, Alderman, 215, 2 16. 
 Reynolds, Henry, 54, 55, 61, 69, 70, 72, 73, 
 
 75. 76, 81. 
 Richardson, Hugh, 6, 12, 13, 20, 24, 26, 27. 
 
 Thomas, 31, 50, 57. 
 Rickman, Robert, 25, 30, 34, 60, 62, 64-6, 
 
 68, 70, 72, 74, 76, 80, 82, 87-9, 91. 
 Rider. See Ryder. 
 Ridley, Bishop, viii. 
 
 Thomas, 35. 
 Riggelswerlhe. See Wrigglesworth. 
 Rivers, Henry, 104, 107-9, "1-4, 120, 123, 
 
 148, 149. 
 Robinson, Edward, 8, 20, 26, 30. 
 Humphrey, 93, 98. 
 
 Robinson, John, xvi., 100, 103, 104, 109, 
 
 Robin Hood Lane, 236, n. [121. 
 
 Robson, Edward, 31. 
 
 RofiFe, William, child. 
 
 Rogers, Thomas, 81, n. 
 
 Rogues Well House, 197. 
 
 Rooke, or Rookes, Richard, 245. 
 
 Robert, 62, 64, 120-4, 127, 129, 133, 
 
 134, 137. 138, 140, 141, i43-So> 152, 
 154, 158, 162, 163, 168, 170, 173, 
 180. 
 Rose, Sirach, 26, 27, 30. 
 Mose, The, 178, n. 
 Rothebury, Robert, 253. 
 Rotherhithe, 3. 
 Hoyal Exchange, The, 193, n. 
 Royston, 60, n. 
 
 Rudd, Randall, 222-4, 226, 239, 240, 245. 
 Russell, Sir William, 141, n. 
 Ryddam, Mary, 6, n. 
 Ryder, or Rider, family, 244, n. 
 
 Edward, 17, n. 
 
 Jotin, 14. 
 
 Sir William, 17, 19, 22, 26, n., 30, 43, 
 
 45- 
 Sir William, 244. 
 
 Saham, Richard de, 255. 
 SL Andrew Hubbards, 33, n., 234, n. 
 Undershaft, 244, n. 
 Anne, Blackfriars, ii. 
 
 Limehouse, xviii. 
 Bartholomew, Exchange, 17, n. 
 Benet, Paul's Wharf, 251. 
 Botolph, Aldgate, 34. 
 
 Bishopsgate, 10. 
 St. Denis, The, 158, n. 
 St. George, Middlesex, xviii. 
 
 Southward, 170, u. 
 Giles, Cripplegate, 246, n. 
 
 in the Fields, 242, n. 
 Gregory by St. Paul's, 61, n. 
 Katherine Cree, 47, n. 
 
 183, n. 
 Lawrence, Old Jewry, 249, 250. 
 Martin in the Fields, 245, n. 
 
 Ludgate, 10, u. 
 Mary de Graces 255. 
 le Bow, 10, n. 
 
 Magdalene, Old Fish Street, 61, n. 
 Matfellon, iv. 
 Woolchurch, 47, n. 
 Matthew, Bethnal Green, xviii. 
 Michael, Cornhill, 173, n., 249, 250. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 269 
 
 St. Michael, Crooked Lane, 137, n. 
 Olave, Hart Street, 33, n. 
 Paul's Cathedral, 234, n. 
 
 Dean of, 253 (Us), 255. 
 School, 33, n. 
 
 Shadwell, xvii., 151, n., 230, n. 
 Peter, Paul's Wharf, 251. 
 Salisbury, Dean of, 253. 
 Sallee, 139, n. 
 Salmon, Robert, 101, 103, 104, 109-11, 113, 
 
 115, 118, 120-2, 125, 127, 129-141, 
 
 144, 146-9, 151, 152, IS4, 157, 160, 
 
 161, 163, 165, 170. 
 Salmon's Lane, 232, n. 
 Samaritan, The, 31, n. 
 Sampson, Richard, 255. 
 Samuel, The, 17, n. 
 Sandbach, Robert, 256. 
 Sandridge, lo, n. 
 Sandwich, Lord, 185, n. 
 Salts/action, The, 238, n. 
 Saule, William, 198-202. 
 Savoy, Duke of, 211. 
 
 Protestants of, 211. 
 Scilly, 1 85, n. 
 Scorier, Thomas, 2. 
 Scot, Thomas, 139, n. 
 Scott, Elizabeth, 105. 
 Seabright. See Seybright 
 Seagrave, Stephen, 252. 
 Seaverne, John, 836-8, 240, 242, 245. 
 Selby, Widow, 9. 
 Serle, Alexander, 61, n. 
 
 Joanna, 61, n. 
 Serocole, or Serocold, or Sorocold, William, 
 
 165, 188, 192, 193. 
 Sessions, Henry, 68. 
 Severne. See Seaverne. 
 Seybright, William, 26, 46, 48, 61, 70, 73, 
 
 81, 83. 
 Sharpe, Henry, 194, 199, 202. 
 Shenvile, 26, n. 
 Sherley, Walsingham, 254. 
 Shewers, Walter, 30, 34, 53-5. 
 Shilton, John, 185. 
 Shoreditch, 175, 250. 
 Shoreham, New, 193, n. 
 Shrovesbury, William de, 252. 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, 10, n. 
 Simmonds, William, 64, 66, 71, 80, 83, 88, 
 
 91. 97< 'OS. io8> "4. "9. 125. 128, 
 
 131, 133, 135. 
 Simonson, Nicholas, ii., 25, 29, 30, 46, 48, 
 
 49, 60, 67, 70, 72, 80. 
 
 Skachar. See Sketcher. 
 
 Skegg, Anne, 170, n. 
 
 Sketcher, Jasper, 230, 233, 234, 236, 237, 
 
 239, 240. 
 Sleaford, Dame Helen, 219, 11. 
 Sledd, or Slidd, Christopher, 120, 121, 127, 
 
 129, 
 Sleeforde, or Slyforde, William, 17, 19, 22 
 
 24, 26. 
 Smarthewes, Nicholas, 31. 
 Smith, or Smythe, George, 112-S, 121, 125, 
 127, 129, 130, 133, 134-8. 
 
 Gillian, 25, n. 
 
 Henry, 19, 24. 
 
 Martin, 68, 70, 88. 
 
 Mr., 46. 
 
 Paul, 26, 30. 
 
 Robert, 196, 199. 
 
 Thomas, 62. 
 Snow, Francis, 38, 39, 48, 54, 55. 
 Somers Island. 
 Somerslave, Gustavus, 208, n. 
 
 Joyce, 208, n. 
 Sorocold. See Serocole. 
 Soulebay, or Southwold, 228, 229. 
 Southampton, 192, n. 
 
 Southerne, John, 137, 140, 142-7, 150-2, 
 iS4i IS7. IS8, 160, 163-8, 170, 173, 
 174, 180. 
 Southwold, or Soulebay, 228, 229. 
 Spence, Lawrence, 181, 186. 
 Spencer, Anne, 165, n., 202, n., 227, n. 
 
 Rebecca, 227, n. 
 
 Thomas, 202, 203, 206-12, 218, 219, 
 222-4, 227, n. 
 Spert, Sir Thomas, vii. 
 Staine, John, 246. 
 Stainer, Robert, 245. 
 Stampe, Timothy, 176, n., 238, 242, 244. 
 
 William, xiv., 175, 177, and n., 255. 
 Stanhope, Edward, 21. 
 Stanley, Elizabeth, 81, n. 
 
 William, 81, n. 
 Startute, Elizabeth, 93, n. 
 
 Richard, 93, n. 
 Steevens. See Stevens. 
 Stephens, Elizabeth, 227, n. 
 Stevens, Edward, 41, 42, 45, 60, 64, 70, 72, 
 81, 97, 98. 
 
 Edward, 142, 149, 150, 153, 157, 160, 
 l6i, 164, 166-9, '74. iS4> 189-91, 
 199, 204, 239, 240. 
 
 Katherine, 60, n. 
 Stevenson, Katherine, 9, 23, 
 
270 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Stiles, Richard, 246. 
 Stillego, Agnes, 183, a. 
 
 Humphrey, 183-6, 190, 192-4. 
 Stokes, Mother, 65. 
 Stone, Elizabeth, 17, n. 
 
 Richard, 17, n. 
 
 Walter, 253. 
 Stratford Bow. See Bow. 
 Streetehay, 180, n. 
 Stroft, Robert, 32. 
 
 Stubbs, William, 8, 11-14, 16, 22, 25. 
 Stukly, Hugh, 249. 
 Sugar House, 8, n., 25, n. 
 Surat, 141, n. 
 Sutton, Thomas, 12, 16. 
 Swadell, Tristram, 254. 
 bwanesey, John de, 253. 
 Swanly, Elizabeth, 193, n. 
 
 John, 193, n. 
 
 John, 142, II., 169, n., S04, 206, 207, 
 211, 212, 223, 226, 239, 240, 242, 245. 
 
 Mary, 193, n. 
 
 Richard, 120, u., 179, ii., 193, 194. 
 
 Richard, 193, n. 
 
 William, 130, I2i, 127-9, 132. I34, 
 136, 137. 140, 142, 143. 147, 150, 
 153. 164, 177, 204, n. 
 Swynckfeld, Wm., 31. 
 
 Taliafero, Francis, 157, 162. 
 Tapsfild, Mr., 24. 
 Taylor, Edith, 194, n. 
 
 Elizabeth, 251. 
 
 James, 39. 
 
 Margaret, 39. 
 
 Peter, 23. 
 Tayte. See Tighte. 
 Tempas, Nicholas, 180, 
 Temple, William, 47-9. 
 Theola, Richard, 5, n. 
 
 Thomas, John (vicar), vii., xiv., 5, 12, 15, n., 
 255. 
 
 John, 30, 48, 49. 
 
 Samuel, 232, n. 
 
 Captain William, 151, n. , 218, 222-6, 
 228, 231, 233, 234, 236-8, 240, 242, 
 245. 
 Thompson, Edward, 231, 232, 235, 236, 242. 
 
 John, 39, 40, 45, 53. 
 Thomson, John, 189, n. 
 
 Maurice, xiii., 189-95, 204, 207, 214, 
 221-6, 230-3, 236-8, 240. 
 
 Robert, 189, n. 
 Thornes, John, 185. 
 
 Thomhill, Elizabeth, 1 1, n. 
 
 Richard, 11, n. 
 Thorowgood, Wm., 2. 
 Thwaite>, Jane, 93, n. 
 Tighte, Lewes, ii., 36, 46, 48, 60, 70. 
 Tilley, Captain Nathaniel, 188, 190, 204,206, 
 
 226, n. 
 TiUingham, 242, n. 
 Tittle, Anne, 208, n. 
 
 Tivell, Francis, 206, n., 208, n., 209, 235, n. 
 Toiy, The LtWe, 17, n. 
 Totton, John, 141, 149, 151, 154, 156, 158. 
 
 Samuel, 141, n. 
 Tracy, Paul, 245. 
 
 Sir Paul, 245, ji. 
 Tranckmore, Alice, 193, n. 
 
 Robert, 193, 195-7. 
 Transport, The, 158, n. 
 Triggs, John, 75, 76. 
 Trinity House, 31, n., 98, n., loi, n., 105, n., 
 
 139, n., 178, n. 
 Triumph, The, 193, n. 
 Truelove, Samuel, 232. 
 Trymnell, Anna, 192, n. 
 
 John, 192. 
 Turges, William, 255. 
 Turpin, Thomas, 45. 
 
 Tutchen, or Tutchin, Anthony, 105, 115, 
 124, 127, 128, 131, 133-141, 144. 146, 
 147, 149, 152-4, 157, 158, 160, 163, 
 165, 166, 168, 169, 173, 174, 176-8, 
 180. 
 
 Anthony, 204, 232, 234, 236, 239, 240, 
 242. 
 
 Margaret, 205, n. 
 
 Susan, 205, n. 
 Twedy, Priscilla, 244, u. 
 
 Captain Roger, 244, n. 
 Tyler, Wat, v. 
 
 Underbill, Edward, vi , xiii. 
 Unicom, The, 178, n. 
 
 Utye, Emmanuel, xv., 233, 236, 242, n., 255. 
 Susan, 234, n. 
 
 Vanpiard, The, 183, u. 
 Vassal!, Joan, loi, n. 
 
 John, 16, 19, 25, 29, 33, 34, 37, 40, 43. 
 
 Rev. William, 17, n. 
 Vaux, Dorothy or Ellen, 189, n. 
 Vawdrey, Daniel, 256. 
 Venice, 25, n. 
 Vere, Nicholas, ii., 58, 62. 
 Victoria Park, viii., 24, n. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 271 
 
 Vinegar Yard, 189, n. 
 
 Virginia, 17, n., 25, n., 26, 11., 177, n., 189, n., 
 Company, 26, n. [190, n. 
 
 Vomeius, Fr., 12. 
 Vyner, Sir Thomas, 211. 
 
 Wade, Maurice, 19, 22. 
 
 Thomas, 251. 
 Wakelin, Mary, 232, n. 
 
 Robert, 232. 
 Walbye, Edward, 71, 7$. 
 Walche, William, 8. 
 
 Walker, Geo., 112, 113, 115-7, 119, 121, 125, 
 129, 130, 132, 134, 140-3, 145-9, 15'- 
 
 Thomas, 30, 31, 46, 48, 51, 52,61, 63-6. 
 Walsingham, Ix)rd, 81, n. 
 Walter, William, 12. 
 
 Wapping Wall, 72, n., 76, 120, n., 133, n., 
 171, 179, n., 185, n., 204, n., 232, n. 
 Warcapp, Frances, 166, n. 
 
 William, 166, n. 
 Warden, John, 183, 187. 
 Warren, John, 58. 
 
 Sir Ralph, viii. 
 Washington, Margaret, 239, n. 
 Waterhouse, Sir Edward, 219, n. 
 Waterton, John, 179, 195, 202, 203, 212, 
 
 214, 215, 215, n., 216, 223, 227. 
 Watton, 189, n. 
 Watts, John, 100, 103, 227, n. 
 Waynwright, Nicholas, 188. 
 Weale, Elizabeth, 250. 
 
 Grace, 250. 
 
 Henry, 249. 
 
 Katherine, 249. 
 
 Mary, 250. 
 
 Walter, 249. 
 Webster, Arthur, 11, 12, 13, 16. 
 Welch, Francis, 199. 
 Weldon, Jane, 112, n. 
 Wells, Mother,' 23. 
 Wentworth, Lord, viii., 9, 21, 120, n. 
 
 Lady, 6, n. 
 
 Street, 158, o., 165, n. 
 West Ham, 62, n. 
 
 West, Dennis, 12, 13, 22, 26, 27, 30, 33, 34, 
 36, 40, 41, 45-7, SI, 52, 54. 
 
 Captain Henry, 158, 164, 165, 168, 
 170, 173, 174, 177, 182, 188, 191-3. 
 
 John, 61, 64, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 76, 
 79. 81-3, 85. 87, 93. 97-101. 113, 127, 
 129, 141, 149, 154, 163, 164, 169, 173, 
 174, 176, 199, 204, 206, 218, 221, 226, 
 239, 240, 242, 245. 
 
 West, Thomas, 8, 20, 29. 
 
 Weston, William, 183, 185, 187, 225, 228, 
 
 230. 233-7, 239, 240. 
 Westwood, Thomas, 183, 187, 190, 235, 239, 
 
 240, n. 
 Wettwood, Rand., 112, 113, 1 16-20, 122-4, 
 
 130, 140, 141, 150-2, 154, 164. 
 Weymouth, The, 238, n, 
 Wheales, William, 31. 
 Wheatly, Thomas, 88, 91. 
 Wheeler, Jeffrey, 80. 
 Whetherdon, Jacquament, 133, n. 
 Whitacres, Francis, 39, 40. 
 White, Clemence, 31. 
 
 Ralph, 185. 
 
 Thomas, xvii., 254. 
 
 Thomas, 23, 25, 27, 30, 36, 37, 40. 
 
 William, 2. 
 Whitechapel, iv., v., 11, n. 
 Whitecross Street, 251. 
 Whitehall, 61, n. 
 Whitehorse Street, ii., 6i, n., 171, 195, n., 
 
 232, n., 238, n. 
 Whiting, Joan, 202, n. 
 
 Walter, 93, loi, 103. 
 Wicker, John, viii. 
 Wigborough, Great, 10, n. 
 Wight, John, 226. 
 Wild, John, 73. 
 
 Mrs., 73. 
 
 Richard, 14, 26. 
 Wildey, Richard, Samuel, Thomas, and 
 William, 179, n. 
 
 William, 179, 203, 206, 222, 224-32, 
 238, 240. 
 Wilkes, William, 117, 119, 125. 
 Wilkinson, Margaret, 238, n. 
 
 Robert, 238, 240, 245. 
 
 Colonel Thomas, 227. 
 Wilkyn, Ralph, 12. 
 Willey, Randolph, 199. 
 William, The, 141, n. 
 William and Francis, The, 178, n. 
 William, Rector of Stepney, iv., 252. 
 Williams, Mary, 184, n. 
 
 Thomas, 30. 
 
 Thomas, 157, 162. 
 Williamson, Anthony, 26, 27, 30, 37, 39, 40, 
 41, 43, 46, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 58, 59, 
 61-65. 
 Willoughby, John, 153, 155, 156, 162. 
 
 William, 178, 191, 192. 
 Wills, C-iptain John, 207, 208, 219, 226, 
 228, 230-2, 234-7, 242, 246. 
 
272 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Wills, Sarah, 207, n. 
 Wilson, John, 26, 30. 
 
 Thomas, 75, 80, 87, 88. 
 Wims, Roger, 185. 
 Winchester, Bishop of, 253. 
 
 Dean of, 255. 
 Winchurst, Jeffrey, 204, n., 205. 
 Windsor, Dean of, 255. 
 Winterborne, John, 207-9, 2II, 212, 221, 226, 
 
 227, 233, 239, 240. 
 Wisbech, 205, n. 
 Wiseman, Alice, 59, n. 
 Wittewrong, Katherine, 189, n. 
 
 Sir John, 189, n. 
 WoUaston, Hugh, 251. 
 Wolstenholme, Sir John, 141, n. 
 Woodcot, Ellen, 134. 
 
 James, 29, 31, 33, 39, 40, 45, 48, 49, 
 
 54, 134- 
 Joan, 89, n. 
 
 Matthew, $1, 52, 54, 60, 63, 68, 70, 72, 
 74. 75. 77. 79. 80-2, 87, 89. 
 Woodfin, Thomas, 238. 
 Woodroffe, Sir Nicholas, 15, n. 
 Woodward, Sarah, 61, n. 
 
 Woolwich, 137, n. 
 Woormall, John, 25, 29. 
 
 Matthew, 30. 
 Worcester House, 189, n. 
 Wrigglesworth, Thomas, 170, 176. 
 Wright, John (Shad well), 207-12, 2208, 231, 
 233, 236, 237, 239 240. 
 
 John (Mile End), 218, 222, 226, 230-3, 
 235. 236, 239, 240. 
 
 John (rector), xvii., 255, 256. 
 
 Laurence, 34. 
 
 Rose, 105. 
 Wrothe, Thomas, 251. 
 Wund, Frances, 104, n. 
 j Wye, William, 46, 48, 54, 60. 
 Wyllen, Miles, 255. 
 
 York, Dean of, 254. 
 Young, Robert, 47, n. 
 Thomasine, 47, n. 
 
 Zachary, Francis, 156, 160-3, '^7, 169, 173, 
 174, 176-8, 182, 183, 188, 191. 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 Actions at Law, 38, 44, 47, 73, 75, 76, 
 102, 115, 116, 126, 129, 148, 174 
 
 Advowson, xvii ; proposal to purchase the, 
 232 
 
 Almshouses, Fuller's, 168, 241, 242, 250, 
 251 ; Harman's, 198 
 
 Almsmen, 175 
 
 Assessment. See Rates 
 
 Auditors, number of, xi ; Brst appointment 
 of, 7 ; elections of, 13, 16, 21, 23, 27, 36, 
 58, 65, 67, 68, 71. 75. 80, 84, 88, 89, 92, 
 94. 97. 100, 103, 105, 114, 119, 12s, 129, 
 131. 133. >34. 143. 152. 157. 165, 173, 
 175, 180, 183, 184 ; ordered to pass no 
 accounts until they have been approved by 
 the Vestry, 114, 125 
 
 Bearers of the dead, their charges fixed, 107, 
 108 
 
 Belfry, 2, 86 
 
 Bells, XV, 33, 34, 37.39, 50, 84, 116, 126; 
 charges for tolling and pealing Ihc, 41, 42, 
 160 ; appointment of caretaker for the, 
 
 43 
 
 Bible presented to the church, 91 
 
 ' Blind Beggar's Palace ' at Bethnal Green, 
 244 
 
 Bounds, parisL See also Perambulations, 
 171 
 
 Box, strong, for church monies, 54, 73, 77, 
 78, 92, 126, 127 
 
 Brass money, 229 
 
 Burials, 40, 105, 113, I16, 158, 209, 210; 
 cloths for, 42, 116, 126, 210 ; great increase 
 in the number of, 106 ; none to be buried 
 in the church save with flat coffins, 130 ; 
 disorders at, 209, 224; name and cause 
 of death to be specified before, 210 ; un- 
 seasonable, 224 
 
 Cage and stocks to be set up in the church- 
 yard, 212 
 
 Captives, collections for the redemption of, 
 160 
 
 Catechising, 10, 214 
 
 Chancel, partition of the, xv, 86, 96 ; rain 
 dropping into the, 217 ; repairs of the, 
 220, 229 ; churchwardens pews in the, 230 
 
 Chapels at Shadwell and Poplar, xvii, xviii 
 
 Chest, church. See Box, strong. 
 
 Children and servants not to be brought to 
 church, 122 
 
 Church at Bow made parochial, xviii, i 
 
 Church-house, xii, xvi, xvii, 9, 43, 86, 96 ; 
 tenants of, xii, xvii, 9, 23, 40, 53, 65, 67, 
 93, no, 221 ; new built, 89, 90; accounts 
 for, 90 ; to be repaired, 212, 217 ; estimate 
 for the repair of, 213, 215 
 
 Church, Stepney, dedication of, iv ; used by 
 a congregation of Independents, xv ; the 
 sexes separated in, xvi ; none to be buried 
 therein save in flat coffins, 130 
 
 Churchwarden, widow of, to pay her hus- 
 band's debt to the parish, 63 ; of Ratcliff 
 to have the charge of the sacred vessels, 
 228 
 
 Churchwardens, deputy, x, 8, 54, 55, 57 ; 
 their duties, 4, 7, 9, 10, 56, 171, 172 ; term 
 of office, xi ; ordered to provide for a 
 foundling, 6, 7 ; elections of, 8, 17, 22, 24, 
 36, 37, 41. 45. 53. 55. 57. 62, 64, 66, 68, 
 70, 71, 74, 76, 79, 83, 88, go, 91, 97, gg, 
 102-104, 114, 117, 119, 124, 127, 128, 131, 
 
 133. 13s. 137. 142, 146, 151. 154. 156, 
 161, 164, 165, 168, 170, 176-178, 181, 182, 
 184, 187, 188, 192, 193-198, 202, 206, 207, 
 217, 221-223, 225, 226, 230, 236, 242 ; 
 assistants to, 4, 77 ; to have keys of the 
 strong box, 54 ; dinners, 43, 56, 57, 95, 
 
 35 
 
274 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 123 ; drinking, 57, 249 ; to render their 
 accounts, 87, 88, 94, 122, 144; refuse to 
 part with the church-books, 130; the 
 parish in debt to the, 131, 132 ; to nominate 
 their own sidesmen, 156 ; not to lay out 
 church monies without permission, 160 ; 
 to survey south gallery, 174; election of 
 under-, 218; in arrear with their pew- 
 rents, 229, 230 
 
 Churchyard, growth of, xvi ; to be enlarged 
 and the graves earthed over, no. III, 113, 
 IIS; consecration of, 117; gift from the 
 Mercers' Company towards the enclosing 
 of the, 1 18, 150 ; land adjoining to be 
 leased from the lord of the manor, 120 ; 
 disorderly persons in, 212 ; stock and cage 
 to be set up in, ibid. 
 
 Clerk, parish, authoiised to use the services 
 for burials and the churching of women 
 during the Plague, xvi ; appointment of 
 the, 13, 108, 109, 121, 188; duties of the, 
 14) 53 ; wages of the, 14, 53, 117 ; a loan 
 to the, 27; complaint against the, 181 ; 
 ordered to bring an account of pews and 
 pew-rents, 229 ; to prepare a petition for 
 a watch and watch-house, 241 ; register, 
 6v35. 53, 65, 92, tog, 130, 210 
 
 Clock ordered to be erected, 8 
 
 Cloth, statute against stretching, 42 
 
 Cloths, burial. See Burials 
 
 Coal dues, money for the poor from the, 214, 
 223 
 
 Coffins, fiat, to be used for burials in the 
 church, 130 
 
 Collections, 159, 160; at the church doors 
 and the Communion-table, 54, 73, 74 ; 
 for setting up a fishing trade, 241. See 
 also Poor, HospitaK, Soldiers, Protestants, 
 King's Bench, Lecturer 
 
 Committee to arrange certain differences, 
 127 ; award of the, 128 ; to supervise ac- 
 counts, 157, 160, 166; for the defence of 
 parish rights antl privileges, 162, 163 ; to 
 aid in the survey of the church, etc, 210 ; 
 for the prevention of disorders at burials, 
 224 ; to receive accounts, ibid. 
 
 Communicants, number of, ii, ix ; a list to 
 be made of, 14 ; kneehng mats for, 34 ; 
 alluded to, 5, 13, 16 
 
 Communion-rail, 34 
 
 Communions, special, 52 
 Communion-table, 34 ; collections at, 54, 73, 
 
 74, 92, 172 
 Consecration of the churchyard, 117 
 
 j Constable of Ratclifife, 179, 219; of Mile 
 
 End, 208 ; of Limehouse, 227 
 ; Curate, xvi, S, 39, 40, 53, 65, 94 ; conspiracy 
 to stone the, xiv ; molested and abused, 
 I [177 
 
 j Doomsday, references to Stepney in, iv 
 I 
 
 ' Easter offering, 5 
 Estimates for work, 213, 215, 217 
 
 I Faculty procured by a claimant to three 
 pews, 126 ; for a new gallery, 155 
 
 Fees, 34, 35, 106-108, 116, 158, 160, 167, 
 168, 210 
 
 Fire, the Great, causes an influx of people to 
 Stepney, xvi, 244 
 
 Fires, buckets for the extinguishing of, 167 
 
 Font, vi 
 
 Foundling, resolution concerning a, 6 
 
 Gallery, church, xv, xvi, 2, 3, 38, 59, 79, 
 132, 150, 155, 161, 174; for the children 
 of the Coopers' School, 214-216 
 
 Gates, church, xv, 86 
 
 Grant to Thomas Parris, 2 
 
 Grave-digger, 8, 105, 210 
 
 Graves, noisome smell from, no, 113 ; none 
 to be near the wall of the church, 210 
 
 Hamlets, number of, in Stepney, xi 
 Headborough of Mile End, 245 
 Hospitals, money for, 159, 219, 236 
 Houses, increased number of, 3 
 
 Independents, congregation of, xiv, xv, 189, 
 192, 193, 198, 203, 205, 227, 232 
 
 Infection, means taken for the prevention of, 
 78, 105, 108, no 
 
 Injunction concerning preachers, xiv, 20 
 
 Instrument from the bishop for the recon- 
 struction of the vestry, 243 248 
 
 King's Bench, money for the lelief of pri- 
 soners in, 236 
 
 Landscot. See Rates 
 
 Lecture, 10, 214, 233 
 
 Lecturer, appointment of, xiii, 10 ; stipend 
 of, 10, 234 ; collection for, 214 ; candi- 
 dates for the office of the, to preach trial 
 sermons, 234, 235 ; choice of, referred to 
 the bishop, 237 ; alluded to, xiv, 198, 233 
 
 Lord's Day, observation of the, 212, 213, 
 215 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 275 
 
 Manor, of Stepney, ii, iii, iv, viii, 120; 
 homage-book of the, 165 ; house, viii, 24 ; 
 Lord of the, 21, 120, 232, 244 ; reeve of 
 the, 196, 238 ; steward of the, 231, 238 ; of 
 Hackney, viii 
 
 Meeting-house, Stepney, xv. See Indepen- 
 dents, congregation of 
 
 Monuments, 11, 93, 145, 178, 182 
 
 Naval enterprise, development of, vii 
 
 Order of the vestry confirmed by the bishop, 
 
 35 
 
 Organ, by whom presented, xiv ; ordered to 
 be sold, XV, 11, 12 ; new, when built, xv 
 
 Ornaments, church, xvi, 7, 21,1, 236 ; in- 
 ventory of, 7, 227 ; to be. in the keeping 
 of the churchwarden of Ratcliff, 228 
 
 Overseers for the poor, 196 
 
 Parish, development and extent of, iv, vii, 
 viii, 3, 171, 243 ; antiquity of, iii ; divisions 
 of, iv, xi, xvii, xviii ; Stratford Bow only a 
 chapelry of the, 162 ; the many abuses in, 
 209 ; bounds of the, see Perambulation 
 
 Parishioners unwilling to pay their taxes, 18, 
 28, 75 ; forbidden to bring their children 
 and servants to church, 122 
 
 Parson. See Rector 
 
 Parsonage, xvii 
 
 Paschal pence, 5, 13, 16, 47, 49, 50, 52, 69, 
 14s, 147, 151 [trade, 241 
 
 Patent, royal, for a collection for the fishing- 
 Patron of the living, 230, 232 
 
 Perambulation of the parish, 44, 56, 95, 1 23 
 
 Pest-house let for a yearly rent, 197 
 
 Petition from the inhabitants of Stratford 
 Bow, 2 ; to the king referred to the arch- 
 bishop and the lord keeper, 162 ; for a 
 watch and watch-house, 241 ; for the recon- 
 struction of the vestry, 243 
 
 Pew-rents, xii, 3, 33, 38, 44, 86, 96, 117, 
 125, 13s, 229; ordered to be collected 
 half-yearly, 126 
 
 Pews, xvi, I, 4, 33, 34, 38, 39, 59, 79, 86, 
 95, 96, 102, 132, 150, 216, 229 ; double, 
 76 ; no locks to be put upon new, 78 ; 
 parishioners forbidden to bring their chil- 
 dren and servants to their, 122 ; three, 
 claimed as hereditary, 126 
 
 Plague, bearers of those who die of the, to 
 carry red wands, 108 ; means taken for 
 the relief of those suffering from, 155, 165; 
 alluded to, xvi, 155 
 
 Pond, filling of a, n8, 122 
 
 Poor, bequests to the, 10, 14, 15, Jo, 54, 73, 
 167, 178, 182, 19s, 201, 205, 208, 215, 
 245, 249-251 ; increase of the, 49 ; collec- 
 tions for, 54, 92, 160, 172, 211, 228 ; fines 
 to the use of the, 78, 214, 215 ; rooms in 
 the vestry-house for the use of the, HO; 
 rent of the paschal pence to go to the, 151 ; 
 burials of the, to be at the cost of the 
 parish, 158 ; reHef of the, 165, 174, 199, 
 200, 201, 212, 225; overseers for the, 196; 
 rent of the pest-house for the use of the, 
 197; work for the, 200, 201, 212, 214; 
 grant from the coal dues for the, 214, 223 ; 
 pensioners to wear pewter badges, 228 
 
 Porch, church, child found in the, 6 ; north 
 and south to be repaired, 86 ; west, by 
 whom built, 91 
 
 Portionists, xvii, xviii, 256 
 
 Preachers, 10, 20 
 
 Presentment, bills of, 56, 247 
 
 Prisoners, bequest for the releasing and dis- 
 charging of poor, 25 1 
 
 Protestants, collections for poor, 189, 211 
 
 Pulpit, new, xvi, 99, 102 
 
 Puritanism, growth of, in Stepney, xiii, xiv 
 
 Rate-books, 139, 140, 147 
 
 Rates, xii, 33, 38, 44, 75, 77, 84-86, 96, 97, 
 136, 138, 139, 147, 153, 154, 19s, 216- 
 220, 236, 237 ; collection of, 42-44, 51, 77, 
 153 ; voluntary, 117, 118, 148; to be con- 
 firmed by the Justices, 241 
 
 Receipts for money, I5i 167, 211, 229 
 
 Rector of Stepney, by whom presented, v ; 
 his contribution towards the lectureship, 
 10 ; notes concerning the, 10, 47, 252 
 
 Rectory, value of, v, ix ; united to the 
 vicarage, v, xvii. See also Parsonage 
 
 Reeve of the Manor, 196 
 
 Register, parchment, ordered to be made, 34 ; 
 presented to the church, 91 ; a transcript 
 of, 65 ; disbursements to be entered in a, 
 127 ; transcript of, for the Bishop's registry, 
 166 ; of names and births of children, 209, 
 210 ; alluded to, 35, 91 
 
 Repairs, xv, 18, 28, 75, 86, 96, 97, 132, 135, 
 136, 138-140, 144, 147, 148, 153, 161, 
 174, '95. 211-213, 215-218, 229, 231 
 
 Ringers, their fees, 43 
 
 Rood-screen. See Chancel, partition of 
 
 School, free, at Ratcliff, ix ; Coopers', 214- 
 
 2l6 
 
 35—2 
 
276 
 
 MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. 
 
 Searchers of the dead, 78, 105, 106 
 
 Sedilia, vi 
 
 Servants and children not to be brought to 
 church, 122 
 
 Sexton, appointment of, 7, 40, 208, 209 ; 
 wages of, 7 ; fees of, iiid. ; not to ring 
 peals without the consent of the church- 
 wardens, 37 ; expelled for misdemeanours, 
 39, 40, 207 ; bond of the, 40 ; directions 
 to, concerning the digging of graves, 105- 
 107 ; ordered to provide wands for the 
 bearers of the dead, io8 ; to be indemnified 
 in an action at law, 116; ordered to reform 
 his character, 182 ; misbehaviour of the, 
 191 ; re-election of, 206 ; six hours' notice 
 of burials to be given to, 210; letter from 
 the chancellor concerning the, 235 
 
 Ship-building, growth of, in Stepney, vii, 
 xiii 
 
 Sidesmen, election of, 22, 24, 36, 41,45, 54, 
 55, 58, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 71, 75. 80, 83, 
 86, 88, 91, 97, 100, 103, 104, 108, 113, 
 114, 117, 119, 125, 128, 131, 133, 135, 
 142, 146, 151-153, 155-157. 162, 170, 176, 
 178, 180, 183, 185, 187, 188, 210; ad- 
 ditional, allowed to the churchwarden of 
 Ratcliife, 153; to be nominated by the 
 churchwardens, 156 
 
 Soldiers, maimed, money for, 159, 219, 
 236 
 
 ' Stebonheath,' etymology of, iii 
 
 Steeple, 39, 161 
 
 Steward of the manor, 231, 238 
 
 Stocks and cage ordered to be set up, 212 
 
 Strangers, burials of, 224 
 
 Suit-at-law. See Actions 
 
 Survey, committees of, 210, 216 
 
 Table of orders and sexton's fees, 34 
 Tournaments in Stepney, v 
 
 Vails, church, 167 
 Vaults, burials in, 224 
 
 Vessels, sacred, inventory of, 227 ; to be in 
 the keeping of the churchwarden of Rat- 
 clifF, 228 
 
 Vestments, v 
 
 Vestry, the, its constijution and functions, ix, 
 X, xii, 246, 247 ; number of members of, 
 X, 1 8, 29, 244 ; minutes of, ix ; days of 
 meeting, xi, xii, 85 ; election of, 18, 25, 29, 
 
 48, 69, 72, 80, 82, 84, 85, 93, 98, lOI, 
 los, 112, 120, 121, 135, 137-139. '49. 156- 
 158, 166, 169, 177, 180, 208, 235; lists of, 
 19, 29, 40, 60, 70, 72, 80-83, 141, 142, 
 149, 150, 163, 164, 203, 204, 226, 227, 
 238-240, 244-246 ; a member of, expelled, 
 72 ; reorganization of, 202, 203, 243 ; re- 
 solve to return to their ancient customs, 
 232 ; not to interfere with the clergy, 
 
 247 
 Vestry-house. See Church-house 
 Vestrymen negligent in their attendance, 44, 
 78, 197, 198 ; using offensive language to 
 be excluded, 209 ; scandalous, how to be 
 treated, 246 
 Vicar of Stepney, the, by whom appointed, 
 V ; burnt at Smithfield, vi ; imprisoned, 
 xiv ; his quarrel with the vestry, xiv, 47, 
 
 49, 52 ; conspiracy to stone, xiv ; notes 
 concerning, ii, 5, 15, 33, 47, 51, 145, 
 175, 181, 198, 233, 242 ; paschal pence 
 farmed to, 5, 15, 69 ; death of, 12 ; 
 widow of, ibid. ; widow of, to deliver up 
 the rent for the paschal pence, 147, 148 ; 
 desired to read the Word of God before 
 the sermon, 214; responsible for the repair 
 of the chancel, 220; vestry not to meet 
 without consent of, 248 
 
 Vicarage, the, its value, v, ix ; united with 
 
 the Rectory, v, xvii 
 Victualling house, suppression of a, 191 
 Visitation, the Bishop's, 57 
 
 Watch and watch-house, petition for, 241 
 Will of John Matthew, 14, 249, 250 ; John 
 Fuller, 26, 250, 251 ; Wm. Ambrose, 167 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 Gascoynes Map of the Parish of Stepney (1703). 
 
 Up till Gascoyne's time information as to the streets and courts and fields of Stepney is 
 somewhat scanty. 
 
 Anthony van den Wyngrerde's drawing of London in 1543 only gives a bird's-eye 
 view, of which Stepney is the outskirts. Ralph Aggas, in Elizabeth's time, gives none 
 of Stepney, so the earliest map of much value is a MS. one of the first few years of 
 the seventeenth century, in the possession of the Worshipful Company of Mercers; 
 but it only deals with their estates there, that is to say, with a comparatively small circle 
 round the church as centre. 
 
 Fifty years later, besides Moor's interesting Map of Middlesex (1640-50), we have 
 Faithorne's engraving (1658) of Newcourt's survey of London (1643-7), reproduced 
 by George Jarman for A. E. Evans, 1857, and republished again by Stanford, 1878. 
 This gives an excellent bird's-eye view, but not references, and it goes no further north 
 than the church, and no further east than Limehouse. 
 
 Of the great number of maps of London that sprung up at the time of the Great 
 Fire, few are sufficiently detailed, or sufficiently extended, to be of much local interest. 
 
 Most of them, if they include the eastern suburbs at all, draw either upon their 
 imagination or upon Newcourt : Ogilby and Morgan's map, published in 1677, goes no 
 further east than the Tower, and so is only va'uable for a part of Spitalfields hamlet; 
 but a subsequent map on a smaller scale, published by Morgan (before 1685), gives 
 a great deal of most valuable information about the topography of the parish. 
 
 Like most of the maps of London it goes no further east than the Rogues Well, 
 and northwards it takes in little more than the northern boundary of Spitalfields hamlet : 
 but what is shown is very thorough. Many references are given, of which the greater 
 part correspond with Gascoyne's, but the following are additional ones not shown in 
 Gascoyne : 
 
 15. Stephen's Alley. 
 
 16. Lamb Court. 
 
 17. Canterbury Court. 
 
 18. Bailie's Court. 
 20. Hare's Alley. 
 
 WAPPING. 
 
 107. Pear's Rents. 
 
 108. Butler's Alley. 
 
 109. Pump Yard, 
 125. Rope Alley 
 
 SPITALFIELDS. 
 
 1. Queen's Head Alley. 
 
 2. Sun Court. 
 
 3. Adam's Court. 
 
 4. P>e Corner. 
 
 8. Prince of Orange Alley. 
 
 11. BtU Alley. 
 
 12. Compass Alley. 
 
 13. Hanging-sword Alley. 
 
 14. Vine Yard. 
 
 128. Bell Alley. 
 175. Back Alley. 
 179. Crown Street. 
 181. Three Colt Alley. 
 
 RATCLIFFE. 
 
 148. Star Yard. 
 
 149. Stone Yard. 
 
 151. Cooper's Yard. 
 
 152. Crown Court. 
 156. The Orchard. 
 
2* Introduciion to Gascoynes Map of Stepney. 
 
 It also is valuable as giving the parishes of St. Paul's, Shadwell, and St. John's, 
 Wapping, which are not in Gascoyne. 
 
 The map of Morden, Lea, and Browne, of 1700, is also of much interest, especially 
 as it is the first that includes all the northern part of the parish, and even the south of 
 Hackney : several other maps embody this informalioii subsequently, as, e.g., Covers 
 and Mortier's map published at Amsterdam. 
 
 These are the chief of the predecessors of our map ; those who wish to study the 
 subject later still will find ample material in Rocque's surveys, i745> etc. 
 
 Turning now to the map itself, the following extracts from the vestry minutes are 
 interesting in connexion with its production : 
 
 May 4. 1702. 
 It was then ordered that M' Vicar cSc the Churchwardens do inquire for some 
 skillfull Geographer or Plattmaker to make a Draught of this pish & therein to 
 describe both the Generall Bounds & also the Bounds of each Hamblett in perticular. 
 
 May 18. 1703. 
 
 It is ordered y' an Agreem' be made w"" a Graver for the making a Copper Plate, 
 for the Printing y« Map of -f Parish of Stepney, according to y= Survey made or to be 
 made, by yi' Gascoyn. And y' the Churchwardens for y« time being do (cause) a 
 Thousand Maps (more or less) to be Printed for y' use & benefit of y= sd 
 Parish. _ 
 
 And whereas Cap' Henry Nurse is so kind as to lend y= sum of One Hundred 
 Pounds for y' defraying y= Charge of y= said Plate and Survey, It is ordered y« Day & 
 Year above written y' ye Church Revenues by Palls &c shalbe security for ye paym' of 
 ye S(i 100": w'"" Interest for ye same. 
 
 Jan. 23. 1734. 
 Ord"* that every Churchwarden if he pleases doe have a Parish Mapp when he has 
 served Two year & that they shall not exceed the price of one Guinea each Mapp. 
 
 This survey formed the basis of the later parish maps, such as those published 
 in various editions cf Strype's Stow. 
 
 The scale is slightly altered in this reprint : in the original it is roughly 1 1 inches 
 to the mile, but is here 12 inches to the mile. 
 
 The form of the map is also altered : the original consists of nine sheets, six of 
 which show the larger part of the map r.nd the main table of reference ; a seventh sheet 
 contains a picture of St. Dunstan, and records the parish authorities of that date, 
 besides the names of the surveyor, Joel Gascoyne, and the engraver, John Harris. Two 
 small slips complete the whole, containing (i) the table of reference for Bow, (2) the 
 outlying northern boundary which just came outside the main sheet. 
 
 The whole map is now contained on three sheets ; the seventh sheet described 
 above is not reproduced, nor are the old tables of reference, for their place is taken by 
 the new and more complete index, which here follows. 
 
Index to Gascoynes Map of Stepney. 3^ 
 
 INDEX TO GASCOYNE'S MAP OF STEPNEY. 
 
 Three kinds of type are used in this index to indicate different kinds of references. 
 
 r. Places entered in Roman type are those which are marked on the map only 
 by a number. These were indexed by Gascoyne, under their hamlet and street, in 
 numerical order. 
 
 In this (alphabetical) index the hamlet and street are still given (in a bracket), as 
 well as the number, which must be looked for on the map in the square indicated. 
 
 L. = Limehouse. 
 
 P. = Poplar. 
 
 B. G. = Bethnal Green. 
 
 N.B. R. = Ratcliffe. 
 S. = Spitalfields. 
 M. E. = Mile End. 
 
 W. = Wapping. 
 
 2. Places entered in Clarendon type are those which are marked on the map by 
 their full name. These have not hitherto been indexed. 
 
 All the above must be looked for on sheet i, which contains by far the greater 
 part of the entries. 
 
 3. Places entered in small capitals are those which are marked in the map 
 either by name or by number, but are to be found on sheet 2 or 3. 
 
 Entries marked with an asterisk are those which appear in Gascoyne's original 
 index, but not in the reprint of it in Strype's Stow, edit. 1755. 
 
 The places n'umbered as Spitalfields, 34, 35, 36, 41, 56, 60, 70, 77, are not 
 explained in either index. 
 
 Abbott St 
 
 Agnes Rents CFleet Sf., B. G. is)* ... 
 Anchor and Hope Alley (Broad St., R. 36) ... 
 
 ,, ,, (Greenbank, W. 41) 
 
 Anchor Ct. (Anchor St., B. G. s) ... 
 Anchor St. 
 Angell Alley (R. Highw. , W. 9) ... 
 
 Artichoke Lane ... ... A. & 
 
 Atherton's Land 
 
 Austin's Garden 
 
 Austin's Land ... C 4 & s (3), 
 
 Austin St. 
 
 Back Lane 
 
 Back of the Chapel (Greenbank, W. 35)* 
 Backyard (Blackwall, P. 4) ... 
 Ballast Wharfe (Cock Hill. R. 56) ... 
 Ball's Alley (Wheeler St. , S. 4) 
 ,, Yd. (Whitehorse St., R. 10) ... D. & E. 6 
 
 B. 4 
 C.3 
 B. 3 
 D. 6 
 B.7 
 
 A. 3 
 
 B. 6 
 B.7 
 F. 6 
 
 B. 3 
 D.S 
 A. a 
 
 C. 6 
 B.7 
 I. 8 
 
 D. 6 
 A. 3 
 
 Barnett's Alley (Quaker St., S. 14)* ... A. 3 
 
 Barnwell's L. ... ... ... e. 3 
 
 Barrats Rents (Step. Causeway, R. 69) ... U. 6 
 
 BarflefsRUi. (BrookSt, R. 65) ... ... D. 6 
 
 Bayley's L. ... ... C. 2 (2), D. 5 (4). E. 3 
 
 Beasley's Garden ... ... ... C. i 
 
 Bt-aumont's Rents (George St., B. G. 12) ... B. 3 
 
 BEEKBtNDER LANE (2) ... ... ... G. 3 
 
 Bell Alley (Ropem. F., L. 26) ... ... E. 7 
 
 „ Lane ... ... ... A. 4 
 
 „ Wharf D. 6 & 7 
 
 Bell's Allev (London St., R. 70) ... ... E. 6 
 
 „ Alley (Wapping St., W. 33)* ... B.7 
 
 ,, Rents (Broad St., W. 52) ... ... B.7 
 
 Bellamy's L. ... ... ... ... C. 4 
 
 Below the Cross ... ... E. 6&7 
 
 Belton's Rents (Broad St., W. 53) ... ... B. 7 
 
 Bennit's L E. s, F. s 
 
 Benson's House ... .. ... L 4 
 
 Bethnal House ... ... ... D. 3 
 
Index to Gascoyttes Map of Step7iey. 
 
 BettsSt B. 6 
 
 B sgs' Rent (Wentw. St., S. 59)* ... ... A. 4 
 
 Bishop'3 Hall D. & E. 2 
 
 Bl ickbird Alley (Fleet St , B. G. i6)« ... B. 3 
 
 Black Lion Ct. (Brick Lane, S. 61 )• ... A. 4 
 
 „ Fagle St. A. 3 
 
 Blackwall ... ... ... ... L 8 
 
 ,, Stairs ... ... I. 8 
 
 ,, Yard ... ... ... 1. 7 
 
 Blake's L F. 4 
 
 Blewgrate Field . C. 6 
 
 Bllssett'sL C. 2, C. 3 
 
 Blue Anchor Alley (Brook St., R. 6i) ... D. 6 
 
 ,, ,, (Limehouse St., L. 14) ... E. 7 
 
 Brand's Yard (Whiteho. St., R. 4) E. 6 
 
 Booth St A. & B. 4 
 
 Boothe Yd. (Wapping St., W. 28) ... ... A. 7 
 
 Borders ... ... ... A. & B. 2 
 
 Bow a. The Church ... ... ... I. 3 
 
 b. Frer School and Parish House I. 3 
 
 c. Mrs. Coburn's Free School ... I. 3 
 
 d. Rector's House ... ... 1. 3 
 
 Bow Bridge ... ... ... ... I. 3 
 
 ., Lane (a) ... ... ... H. & I. 7 
 
 ,, Marshes ... ... ... I. i & 2 
 
 Bowe's L C. & D. 3, E. 2 
 
 Bowling Green ... ... e. 5(3) 
 
 Breach, The ... ... ... F. & G. 8 
 
 Brewhouse (Butcher R., R. i3) ... ... E. 6 
 
 Brick Ct. (Brick Lane, S. 51)* ... ... A. 3 
 
 Brick Lane ... ... ... ... A. 4 
 
 Britten's Rents (Raid. H., W. 11)... ... B. 6 
 
 Broad St. ("Wapping) B. 7 
 
 „ (Ratcliffe) D. 6 
 
 Bromley Hall... ... ... ... I. 5 
 
 ,, Marsh ... ... ... I. 6 
 
 ,, Mill ... ... ... ... I. 5 
 
 ,, Parish ... ... H. 4, 5 & 6 
 
 Brook St n. 6 
 
 Brown's L. ... ... ... A. 2, A. 4 
 
 Brumley's Rents (Brook St., R. 62) ... D. 6 
 
 Bryon's Alley (Quaker St., S. 16) ... ... A. 3 
 
 Buckeridge's L. ... ... ... E. 3 
 
 Bullock's L C. I 
 
 Bull'^ Ct. (Nighting. L., L. 22)* ... ... E. 7 
 
 Bushell's Rents (Wappine St., W. 24)* . . A. 7 
 
 Bushell's Rope Walk ... A. & B. 7 
 
 Butcher Row ... ... ... D. 6 
 
 Buttermilk Alley (Phenix St., S. 1) ... ... A. 3 
 
 Cable Alley (Cable St.. 'W. 13) B. 6 
 
 Cable St. ... ... ... ... a. 6 
 
 Cadge Alley (Cock Hill, R. S3) D. 6 
 
 Cambridge Heath ... ... C. & D. i 
 
 Carptnter'sCl. (Belts St., W. i6) ... ... B. 6 
 
 Carter's Alley (Quaker St., S. i8) ... ... A. 3 
 
 „ Land ... ... ... ... b. 3 
 
 „ Rents ... ... ... A. & B. 3 
 
 Rents (Brick I.ane, B. G. 8)* ... A. 3 
 
 Carton St. ,.. ... ... ... b. 6 
 
 Cash's, Col., L. .. E. i 
 
 Castle Alley (Quaker St., S. 13,* ... ... A. 3 
 
 Casway ... ... ... ... F. 7 
 
 Causeway ... ... ■-. ... D- 6 
 
 Chambers' L. ... D. i, F. 6&7(2) 
 
 Chambers' L. . . ... ... ... G. 6 
 
 Chivers' Ct. (LimeiiouseSt., L. 24)* ... E. 7 
 
 Church Lane ... ... ... ... B. s 
 
 Church St B. 4 
 
 F. 6&7 
 
 Clark's L B. 3 
 
 Clayniaker's Ct. (Brick Lane, S. 54) A. & B. 4 
 
 Club Row A. 3 
 
 Coal's Rents (Peticoat L., S. 67)* ... ... A. 4 
 
 Cobb's Yard (Peticoat L., S. 66) ... ... A. 4 
 
 Cock Alley (Fleet St., B. G. lo) ... ... B. 3 
 
 „ Hill ' D. 6 
 
 „ Lane ... ... ... ... A. 3 
 
 Codwell Stairs ... ... ... E. 7 
 
 Codwell's Rent"; (White Horse St., R. 3) ... E. 6 
 Coffee House Alley (Broad St., R. 34) ... D6 
 
 Cold Harbour (2) ... ... H. & I. 8 & 9 
 
 Coleman's Land ... ... ... C. 3 
 
 Collet's Rents (George St., B. G. 13) ... B. 3 
 
 Coltman's Rents (Church St., L. 33) ... F. 7 
 
 Common Sewer ... B. 7, C. 4 
 
 Conister's Alley (Cock Hill, R. 50) ... D. 6 
 
 Conway Field ... ... ... F. 7 
 
 Cook's Alley (Limehouse St., L. 9) ... E. 7 
 
 „ Dock ... ... ... ... E. 7 
 
 „ Land D. & E. 4(2) 
 
 Cooper's School and Alms House (School 
 
 House Lane, R. 57)* ... ... ... D. 6 
 
 Cope's Field ... ... ... ... E. 6 
 
 „ Land ... ... ... F. 6 (2) 
 
 Copperas Ground .. ... .. J. 7 
 
 Corbet's Ct. (BUick Eagle St., S. 26) ... A. 4 
 
 Cow Yards (Artichoke Lane, W. 18) . A. 7 
 
 Cow Yards ... ... ... C. 4, E. s 
 
 CrabCt. (Ratcl. Highw., W. 10) ... ... B. 6 
 
 Crabtree Lane ... ... .. A. 2 
 
 Cradford's Land ... ... E. 3 (3) 
 
 Gripplegate Poor's Land ... ... E. 4 
 
 Crispin St. ... ... ... ... A. 4 
 
 Cross ... ... ... ... ... D. 6 
 
 Cross Field ... ... ... ... B. 3 
 
 Crowe's L. ... ... ... C. 3 & 4 
 
 Crowder's Rents (Below the Cross, R. 22) ... E. 6 
 
 Yard ( ,, „ R. 25) ... E. 7 
 
 Crown Ct. (Wheeler St., S. 9) ... ... A. 3 
 
 ,, (Cock Lane, B. G. 4) ... ... A. 3 
 
 (Kin? St., W. 58) ... ... C. 7 
 
 Cuthbert's L. ... C. 2 
 
 Cutler's L. ... ... ... ... F. 5 
 
 Dagger Alley (Quaker St., S. 20)* 
 „ Ct. (Broad .St., R. 40) 
 
 Danes Church 
 
 Dart's L 
 
 De.icon Ct. (Quaker St., .S. 22) 
 
 A. 3 
 D. 6 
 A. 6 
 F. .S 
 A. 3 
 
Index to Gascoynes Map of Stepney. 
 
 Dwdman's Rents (BlewrateF., W. 2) ... C. 6 
 
 Dean and Flower St. ... ... A. 4 
 
 D3nmark St. ... ... ... .. B. 6 
 
 Diok Shoar ... ... ... ... E. 7 
 
 „ „ Alley (Limjhouse St. , L. 16) ... E. 7 
 
 Dingle Lane ... ... ... ... g. 7 
 
 Dock 'Field E. i 
 
 Dod's Yard (Three Colt St, L. 35) ... F. 7 
 
 Dolphin Alley (Smock All.-y, S 74) ... A. 4 
 
 „ Alley (Wappin?St,, W. 32)* ... B. 7 
 
 ,, Yard (Butcher Row, R. 12) ... K 6 
 
 Dorset St. ... ... ... ... A. 4 
 
 Draper's Rents (Crispin St., S. 79) ... A. & B. 4 
 
 ,, Land .. ... ... ... F. 3 
 
 Drift "Way ... C. 2, c. 3 
 
 Duke St. ... ... B. 4 
 
 Dulvin's Ct. (Black Eagle St, S. 24) ... A 4 
 
 Dunghill ... B. & c. 4 
 
 East Maush ... ... ... I. & J. 7 
 
 E. I.e. Almshouses, P. 2* ... ... H. 7 
 
 Elderton's L. ... ... ... F. 5 
 
 Elderton's L. ... ... ... F. & G. s 
 
 Elliot's Rents (St Causeway, R. 68) ... D. 6 
 
 ,, Ysrd (Artichoke Lane, W. 22)* ... A 7 
 
 Elm Ct (B'own's Lane, S. 29)* ... ... A. 4 
 
 Elm Tree (2) ... ... ... G. & H. 5 
 
 Essex St B. 6 
 
 Farthing St. ... ... ... ... A. 3 
 
 Fashion St. ... ... ... A. 4 
 
 FenwioVs L. ... D. 3 (3), D. 4, E. 3. F. 4 
 
 Ferry, The ... ... ... ... H. 12 
 
 Figtree Yd. (School Ho. St, R. 49) ... D. 6 
 
 Fine Ct. (G^orcre St., B. G. 9)* ... ... A. 3 
 
 Fitch's, Lady, L. ... A. & B. 2, A. 3 
 
 Five foo' Alley (Old Gravel L., 'W. 47)* ... B. 7 
 
 Fleet St ... B. 3 
 
 Flenr-de-luce Alley (Wheeler St., S. 8) ... A. 3 
 
 Foster's, Sir Orig., L. ... E. 3 & 4 
 
 Four S*an Ct. (Back Lane, M. E. 3) ... C. 4 
 
 Fowler's Yard .. ... ... F. 7 & 8 
 
 Foxe's Rents (Peticoate Lane, S. 70)* ... A. 4 
 
 Frampton's L. ... ... E. 3 & 4, F. 3 
 
 Fraziers ... ... ... ... D. 5 
 
 French Alley (Quaker St, S. 17) ... ... A. 3 
 
 ,, Almshouses (Black Eagle St., S. 27) .. A. 4 
 
 Frogmorton ... ... ... B. s 
 
 Fryer's Ct (Red Maid L.. ^W. 21)* A. & B. 7 
 
 Frying Pan Allev (Peiicoate L., S. 72) ... A. 4 
 
 „ Stairs ... .. ... C. 7 
 
 Fuller's Hospital (Back Lane, M. E. 7) ... D. 4 
 
 Garden ... .. ... F. 7 (2) 
 
 Garland Ct. (Back Lane, M. E. i) ... ... E. 5 
 
 GarterYd. (Ratcl. Highw.i'W. 4) ... ... C. 6 
 
 Geare's L. ... ... ... ... F. 4 
 
 George Alley (Rate!. Highw., W. 14")* ... B. 6 
 
 Ct. (George St, B. G. 11) ... A. & B. 3 
 
 „ St A. 4 
 
 U-eorge St B. 3 
 
 Yard (Butcher Row, R. 17) ... E. 6 
 
 Gerye's Ballsoroft ... ... ... F. 6 
 
 GihbV Alley (Quaker St., S. 23)* ... ... A. 3 
 
 GlassHouse Yd. (RertmaidL., W. 2o)» ... B7 
 
 Globe Alley (School Ho. L., R. 58) ... D. 6 
 
 ,, (Limeho. St., L. 12) ... ... E 7 
 
 (WappingSt,'W. 30)* ... B. 7 
 
 Globe Stairs ... ... ... ... I. 8 
 
 Glover's Ct. (Whithorse St., R. 8) ... ... E. 6 
 
 GoFF's L. ... ... ... ... G. s 
 
 Goodluck Hook ... ... J. & K. 6 
 
 Goodwel .'s Garden ... ... A. & B. 2 
 
 Gouch's, Dr., L F. 3 (3) 
 
 GoucH's, Dr., L. ... ... G. 2&3 
 
 Graves' Lowar Dock ... E. & F. 7 
 
 „ Upper Dock ... ... E. 7 
 
 „ Yard F. 7 
 
 Grem'bank ... ... ... ... B. 7 
 
 Green Dragon Alley (Limeho. St., L. 3> ... E 7 
 
 Greenway's alias Qrumwin's L. C 3, E. 2 (2) 
 
 Greenwood Alley (Wentworth St, S. 58) ... A. 4 
 
 Grice's L. ... ... ... F. s. F. 6 
 
 Grove St. ... ... ... ... E. 1 
 
 Gun Lane ... ... ... ... F. 7 
 
 ,, Yard (Peticoat L. , S. 73) ... ... A. 4 
 
 Hailes Alley (Ropemakers F., L. 31) 
 
 Hambleton's Garden 
 
 Hammer and Crown Ct. (Broad St., R. 35) 
 Hancock Ct. (Brown's L., S. 31) ... 
 Hand Alley 'Quaker St, S. 21)* ... 
 
 Hardy's Garden 
 
 Hare St. ... 
 
 Harris Ct. (Brooke St., R. 63) 
 
 (RatcliflfeHighw..'W. 8) 
 Harrow Alley (Old Gravel L. , 'W. 50) 
 „ Yard (Ropemakers F., L. 28) 
 Hatchet Alms House (Black Eagle St 
 Hawes' Alms house, P. a.* 
 Hawlyn's L. ... 
 Hayes Land ... 
 Hearn's, Lady, L. 
 Hedd and Hambleton's L. ... 
 
 Herbert's Rents (Fleet St., B. G. \j)* ... R 3 
 
 Hermitage Stairs ... ... ... A. 7 
 
 High Fountain ... ... ... C. 3 
 
 „ St B. 4 
 
 Hipinstall's Allev (Nightingale L., L. 23)* ... E. 7 
 Holland's Rent (Cock Lane, B. G. 2) ... A. 3 
 
 Hopkins' Land ... ... C. & D. 4 
 
 Horse."!hoe Alley (Fashion St, S. 50)* ... A. 4 
 
 Hospital Land ... C. i, C. 2, C. 3 
 
 Hunt St. ... B. 3&4 
 
 F. 7 
 
 B. 3 
 D. 6 
 ... A. 4 
 ... A. 3 
 ... E. 4 
 ... B. 3 
 ... D. 6 
 ... B. 6 
 B. & C. 6 
 ... F. 7 
 A)» A. 3 
 ... H. 7 
 
 F. 3 (2) 
 B. & C. 5 
 
 F. 2&3 
 A. & B. 2 
 
 lies' Rent (Pearl St., S. 32) 
 Isle of Dogs ... 
 
 ,, ,, Chapel ... 
 
 A. 3 
 
 G. & H. 10 & 12 
 G. Tt 
 
6* 
 
 Index to Gascoynes Map of Stepney. 
 
 Jarvls' L. ... ... ... ... C. 3 
 
 Jenkins' Court (Ropemakers F.. L. 27) ... F. 7 
 
 Jewrev's Rents (Brooke St., R 60) ... ... D. 6 
 
 Jews' Cemeteiy (Bick Lane, M. E. 9) ... E. 4 
 
 Johnson's, Mr., House (Going down to Cross, 
 
 R. 19) ... ... ... ... E. 6 
 
 Johnson's Land ... ... B. 7, E. 4 
 
 R.-nts (Broad St., R. 42) ... D 6 
 
 ,, Sir Henry's, Upper Dock... I. 8 
 
 Jorye's, Col., L. ... D. 3 (2), D. 4, F. i 
 
 Kemp's O-arden ... ... ... A. 2 
 
 Kidney Stairs ... ... ... E. 7 
 
 King David's Fort C. 6 
 
 King J'lhn's Cc. (Back Lane, M. E. 2) ... E. 5 
 
 King St A. 3 
 
 B. 4 
 
 C. 7 
 
 Kings Head AUey (Broad St., R. 38) ... D. 6 
 
 ,, Court (Peticoate L., S. 71) ... A. 4 
 
 „ (Crispin St., S. 7S) ... A. 4 
 
 ,, (Cock Lane, B. G. 3) ... A. 3 
 
 King's L. ... ... ... C. 4 
 
 Kingston's Yd. (Wapping St., W. 31) ... B. 7 
 
 Knight's L. ... ... ... ... C. 2 
 
 Lamb St. 
 
 Lea River ... ... ... t. 3, 
 
 Leadnian's Alley (Limeho. St., L. 17) 
 
 Ledger's L. ... 
 Lee's, L. 
 
 ,, Mr. (B. G. A) 
 
 Leg Alley (Fashion St., S. 45)* 
 Leopard Allev (Fashion St., S. 42)* 
 Lewis Court (Phoenix St., S. 2) 
 Limhery's L. ... 
 
 Limehouse Bridge (Limehouse St., L. 8) 
 
 Limehouse Dock 
 
 Limekiln Hill 
 
 Lock, The 
 Lodmck's L. ... 
 
 Loftus Rents (Brook St., R. 64) 
 
 London Field 
 
 St 
 
 Long St. 
 Lorton's L. ... 
 
 Love Lnne (Old Gravel L. , W. 43) 
 Lowder's Rents (Fleet St., B. G. 14)* 
 Lower Gun Alley (Greenbank, W. 37) 
 
 ... A. 4 
 & J. K. 6 
 E. & F. 7 
 C. 3 & 4 
 ... C. 2 
 ... B. 3 
 ... A. 4 
 ... A. 4 
 ... A. 3 
 F. 6(3) 
 ... E, 7 
 ... F. 7 
 ... F. 7 
 
 c."2. c! 3 
 
 ... D. 6 
 
 ... E. 6 
 
 ... K. 6 
 
 ... B. 4 
 
 A. & B. 3 
 
 ... B. 7 
 
 ... B. 3 
 
 ... B. 7 
 
 Maidenhead Alley (Cock Hill, R. 52) ... D. 6 
 
 Mkh and Gun Alley (Limehouse St., L. 18)* F 7 
 
 Margett's Rope Walk ... ... f' 7 
 
 Maria St. ... ... ... ... b 6 
 
 Marine Sq^uare ... ... . B 6 
 
 Market ... ... ... d 6 
 
 Marsh Yd. (Wapping St., W. 27)* ... ..] a! 7 
 
 Martin's Land ... ... ..." f' 5 
 
 Martin's Land (2) ... . G 6 
 
 Rents (King St., W. 55) '" c' 7 
 
 Medlace's Rents (Cable St., W. 15) ... B. 6 
 
 Meeting House Alley (W 42)* ... ... B. 7 
 
 (S. 15)* A. 3 
 
 Mercers' Almshouse (Whitehorse St., R. 2) ... E. 5 
 
 „ Land D. 5(2) 
 
 Mermaid Alley (Wheeler St., S. 7) ... ... A. 3 
 
 Yard (Butcher Row, R. 14) ... D. 6 
 
 Middleton's L. ... ... ... F. 4 
 
 Sir Hugh, L. ... ... G. 4 
 
 Mile End Common C. & D. 4 
 
 Grl'6311 
 Milk Vard (Wapping St., W. 34) 
 Mill Bridge 
 Millislip's Garden ... 
 
 Mills Ward's, Chinn's 
 
 Smith's (3), Brown's ... 
 Monmouth St. 
 
 Montagu Court (Peticoat L., S. 65) 
 
 „ St C 
 
 St. (little) (Wentworth St., S. 63) . 
 Moor's Yard (Fashion St., S. 46) ... 
 Morish Alley (Black Eagle St., S. 25)* 
 Morris' Yd. (Whitehor?e St. , R. 7) .. 
 Mud's alias Rose and Crown Ct. (Schoolhouse 
 
 St., R. 47)* ... ... ... ... D. 6 
 
 Mulberry Yd (Three Colt St., L 38) ... F. 7 
 
 Mumford's, Mr. , Ho. (Back Lane, M. E. 12) D. 4 
 
 Nag's Head Ct. (Wentworth St., S. 57) ... A. 4 
 
 St B 2 
 
 Naylor's L. ... ... ... C. 3 & 4 
 
 Nelthorpe's L. (2) ... ... G. s & 6 
 
 New Court (Below the Cross, R. 21) ... E. 6 
 
 (Wentworth Sl, S. 64) ... ... A. 4 
 
 Nicholson's, Dr., L. ... ... C. & D. 4 (2) 
 
 Nicol'sSt. ... ... ... ... A. 3 
 
 Nightingale Lane ... ... ... E. 7 
 
 Noah's Ark Alley (Below the Cross, R. 26) ... E. 6 
 
 (Fleet St., B. G. 20) ... B. 3 
 
 North St. (Poplar) ... ... ... G 6 
 
 North St. .. ... ... ... B. 4 
 
 D. & E. s 
 
 B. 7 
 
 L&J. 4 
 
 ... F. s 
 
 Baker's, 
 
 F. & G. 10 & II 
 
 A. 3 
 
 &D. 4 
 . A. 4 
 
 A. 4 
 A. 3 
 E. 6 
 
 Old Breach, The 
 Old Ford 
 
 ,, Lane (2) 
 
 „ Lane 
 Old Gravel Lane 
 
 Old Starch Yd. (Old Gravel L., W. 51)* 
 Orange Ct (Wapping St., W. 26)* 
 Orchard, The (Greenbank, W. 36)* 
 Orchard 
 Owen's, Capt., L. 
 
 Yard (Below the Cross, R. 27) 
 OziERS (4) 
 
 Painter's Rent (Broad St., R. 31) ... 
 
 Parson's St. ... 
 Paternoster ... 
 Patience St. ... 
 Pearl St 
 
 H. L & 
 B. 
 
 J. & 
 
 F. 8 
 H 2 
 
 G. 2 
 E. 2 
 
 6&7 
 B. 6 
 
 A. 7 
 
 B. 7 
 K. 7 
 E. 4 
 E. 6 
 
 3&6 
 
 D. 6 
 B. 6 
 A. 4 
 A. 3 
 A. 3 
 
Index to Gascoynes Map of Stepney. 
 
 Pelham St. ... 
 Pennington St. 
 Penn's Garden 
 
 Pennykields 
 
 PepperiU's Alley (Schoolhouse St 
 
 Perkins' L. ... 
 Pesthouse Common 
 
 I) Lane 
 Petiooat Lane 
 
 Pliillip^' Ct. ( Wentworth St., S. 62) 
 
 Phillips' L 
 
 Phoenix St. ... 
 
 Plot's L D. 
 
 Plow Alley (Wapping St., W. 29)* ... 
 
 PondPield 
 
 Poor's Land 
 
 A. & B. 4 
 
 B. 6 
 
 C. 3 
 
 F. & G. 7 
 R. 46) ... D. 6 
 
 D-4 
 
 ... F. & G. 4 & s 
 
 F.4 
 
 A. 4 
 A. 4 
 E. 4 
 
 ^•3 
 E.3 
 
 D. I 
 D. 2, D. 3 
 
 , E. 2, 
 
 Pope's Head Yd. (Schoolhouse St., R. 45) ... D. 4 
 
 Poplar Chapel ... ... ... H. 7 
 
 Pound ... ... ... ... C. 4 
 
 Pratt's Ballscroft F. 6 
 
 „ L F. 6&7 
 
 Pnisen's Island (King St., W. 37) ... ... C. 7 
 
 Puckeridge's Rents (Biick Lane, B. G. 10)*... B. 3 
 
 Puinp Alley (Greenbank, W. 40) ... ... B. 7 
 
 ,, Yard, Gt. (Going down to Cro's, R. 20) E. 6 
 
 „ Yard, Little (Butcher Row, R. 16) ... E. 6 
 
 Quaker St. ... ... ... ... A. 3 
 
 Queen St. (King St., W. 54) ... ... C. 7 
 
 „ St E. 6 
 
 Quilter's Ct. (Whitehorse St., R. 9) ... E. 6 
 
 Ram Alley (Fleet St, B. G. 18) B. 3 
 
 Ratoliffe Cross ... ... ... D. 6 
 
 „ High-way B. 6 
 
 Street (Ratcl. Highw., W. 6) ... C. 6 
 
 Red Lion St. .. ... ... ... A. 4 
 
 Court (Tenters, S. 39) ... ... A. 4 
 
 Court (Brick Lane, S. 55) ... A. 4 
 
 RedhiU's Rent (Tenters, S. 37) ... ... A. 4 
 
 Redmaid Lane ... ... A. & B. 7 
 
 Richardson's Garden ... ... A- 3 
 
 Rents (Anchor St., B. G. 7) 
 RIgtnan's Rents (Liinehouse St., L. 7) 
 Risbie's L. 
 Roads or Rogues Well 
 
 „ „ Common E. 
 
 „ Lane 
 
 Robin Hoods Lane 
 Rope Grounds 
 
 ,, Walks ... A. 6, A. & B. 7, C. 
 
 Rope Walk 
 Ropemaker's Fields 
 
 Rose AUry (Wheeler St., S. 6) 
 
 Rose and Crown Alley (Fashion St., S. Al)*— A. 4 
 Cr. (Brick L.nne, S. 53)* A. & B. 4 
 Rose and Crown alias Mud"s Ct. (Schoolhouse 
 
 St., R.47)* ?-S 
 
 Rose Lane ... •■. ••• ••• a. 4 
 
 Rose Lane 
 
 Rose's L. 
 
 Rose Yard, Gt. (Whitehorse St., R. 5) 
 
 Little (Whitehorse St., R. 6) 
 RouLTS Yard ... 
 Roulston's L. ... ... !>■ 
 
 Royal Odk Alley (Cock Hill, R. 55) 
 
 Rushy Lane ... 
 
 Russell Ct. (Ratcliffe Highway, W. 7) 
 
 A. 3 
 
 E. 6 
 
 ... E. 6 
 
 ... F. c 
 
 E. & F. i 
 
 ... F. s 
 
 ... L 7 
 
 D. S&6 
 
 6 (2), D. 6, 
 
 li. 6, F. 7 
 
 L 7& 8 
 
 ... F. 7 
 
 A. 3 
 
 ... E. 6 
 
 ... F. 6 
 
 ... E. 6 
 
 ... E. 6 
 H. & 1. 9 
 
 5. F. 5 (2) 
 
 ... a 6 
 
 ... n. 2 
 
 ... B. 6 
 
 E. S, 
 
 Salisbury's, Lady, L, 
 Salmon Lane 
 
 Salter's Alley (Greenbank, W. 38) ... 
 
 Sames' Rope Walk ... 
 Sandpit Field 
 Satohwell's Garden ... 
 Rents ... 
 School House Lane ... 
 Soot's Land ... 
 StBMAN's Dye House ... 
 Sersnet's Alley (Liniehoiise St., L. 4) 
 Seven Star Alley (RatcL Highw., W. 5) 
 
 Sharp's, Col, L. 
 Ship Alley (Scliooltiouse St., R. 43)* 
 ,, il.iniehuuse St. , L. 21) ... 
 ,, (Phoenix St., S. 3) 
 ,, (Fashion St., S. 44) 
 
 Ship Dock (Limehouse St., L. 10) ... 
 
 ,, Tavern (Going down to the Cross, R. A) 
 Ship Yard A. (Broad St., R. 32) ... 
 (Broad St., R. 39) ... 
 (Cock Hill, R. 54) ... 
 (Below the Cro-s, R. 28) 
 (KingSt., W. 60) ... 
 Shipwrights Hall (Butcher Row, R. 13) D. 
 
 Shoreditch Church ... 
 Shoulder of M. Alley (Limehouse St., L. 11) 
 (Whitehorse St., R. 15) 
 
 Silver St 
 
 Sliver M. (King St., W. 56) 
 
 Simkm's Garden 
 
 Skinner's Ct. (Teniers, S. 38) 
 
 Hospital (Back L, M. E. 4) 
 Reins (Brook St., R. 66) ... 
 
 Slaughter's L. 
 
 Sniallcodl Alley (Fashion St., S. 48)* 
 
 Yd. (Wheeler St., S. ii)« 
 Smith's Alley (Ropemaker's I'"., L. 29)* 
 Smith's L F, 
 
 A. & 
 
 Southerby's L. 
 
 Soiiilmick's Rents (Belts St., W. 17) 
 Sparrow Lake ... 
 Spicer St. 
 
 Spittle St 
 
 Spring Garden 
 
 .Spiuseiis Isl.nd (KingSt., W. 57) 
 
 St. George's Chapel ... 
 
 St. John St 
 
 St. Paul's, Shad-well 
 
 5(2). 
 D. & 
 
 A. i 
 B. 
 
 C. &D. 
 
 F. S 
 
 E. 6 
 B. 7 
 
 A. 6 
 
 F. 6 
 
 B. 2 
 
 B. 3 
 
 D. 6 
 
 E. 6 
 H. 2 
 
 E. 7 
 
 C. 6 
 A. 2 
 D.6 
 
 F. 7 
 A. 3 
 A. 4 
 
 E. 7 
 U. 6 
 
 D. 6 
 D. 6 
 
 D. 6 
 
 E. 7 
 
 C. 7 
 E. 6 
 
 A. 2 
 
 E. 7 
 
 D. 6 
 
 B. 3 
 
 C. 7 
 C. 4 
 
 A. 4 
 
 C. 4 
 
 D. 6 
 
 B. 3 
 A. 4 
 
 A. 3 
 
 F. 7 
 
 F. 6 
 
 E. 2 
 
 B. 6 
 
 G. 6 
 fcB 3 
 
 3&4 
 D. 4 
 
 C. 7 
 
 D. 2 
 
 B. 3 
 
 B. 6 
 
 6&7 
 
Index to Gascoynes Map of Stepney. 
 
 St. Paul's School's L. ... E. s & 6, E. 6 
 
 StaniesL. ... ... .. ... c. 2 
 
 Stanion's, Mr., House... ... ... H. 3 
 
 Staples Alley (Limehouse St., I.. 6) ... E. 7 
 
 Stak, The ... ... ... ... F. 8 
 
 Starch House ... ... ... G. & H. 12 
 
 „ Stairs ... ... ... E. 7 
 
 Stepney Causeway ... ... ... D. 6 
 
 „ Churcli ... ... ... E. 5 
 
 Steven's Yd., P. i.* ... ... ... H. 7 
 
 Still Alley (Wapping St., W. 25)* A. 7 
 
 Sto.nebr'idge Pond ... ... ... G. 7 
 
 Stone's Rents (Nightingale L., L. 25) ... F. 7 
 
 Stony Stairs Gt. (Schoolhouse St., R. 48)* ... D. 6 
 
 Little (Broad St., R. .1.1) ... D. 6 
 
 Storehouse Yard (Cock Hill, R. 51) ... D. 6 
 
 Stort's Rents (Blewgale F., W. 3) ... ... C. 6 
 
 Stowcock's Rents (Crispin St., S. 78) ... A. 4 
 
 Strip's Yd. (Peiicoafe L., S. 68) ... ... A. 4 
 
 Start's Rents (Old Grave! L., W. 48) ... B. 7 
 Sngarhouse Yd. (Butcher Row, R. 11) D. & E. 6 
 
 Sun and Gun Alley (Limehouse St., L. 13) ... E. 7 
 
 Swallow Alley (Brown's Lane, S. 30) ... A. 4 
 
 Swan Field ... ... ... ... A. 3 
 
 „ St C. 6 
 
 Yaid (Broad SL, R. 30) ... ... D. 6 
 
 Tabernacle A'ley (Wheeler St., S. 12) . . A. 3 
 
 Yard (Peticoate L., S. 69)* ... A. 4 
 
 Tapp's Occ (upation ?) ... ... D. 2 
 
 Tenters ... ... ... ... A. 4 
 
 Thicknes' L C. 3 (a) 
 
 Tiieving: Lane ... ... ... D. 3 
 
 Thomas' Rents (Limehouse St. , L. 20) ... F. 7 
 
 Thomas St ... B. 4 
 
 Thrall St A. 4 
 
 Three Colt St. F. 7 
 
 Yard (Three Colt St., L. 37) ... F. 7 
 
 Yard (Back Lane, M. E. 8) ... E. 4 
 
 Three Compasses Ct. (Anchor St., B. G. 6) ... A. 3 
 
 ,, Crown Ct. (Wheeler St., S. 10) ... A. 3 
 
 ,, Foot Alley (Old Gravel L., W. 45)* ... B. 7 
 
 „ Foxes Yd. (Below the Cross, R. 24) ... E. 6 
 
 ,, Horseshoe Alley (Old Gravel L., W. 49) C. 6 
 
 ,, Link Alley (Fashion St., S. 49;* .. A. 4 
 
 Tite's Alley (Limehouse St. , L. 2) ... ... E. 7 
 
 Titmus' Rents (Pearl St., S. 33) ... ... A. 3 
 
 Tobacco Pipe Alley (Old Gravel L., W. 44) ... B. 7 
 Town House and Workhouse (Limehouse St. 
 
 Town House (Poplar), P. 3.* ... 
 Tree Yd. (Quaker St., S. 19)* 
 Trinity Hosp. (Back Lane, M. E. 5) 
 ,, Yd (Schoolhouse St., R. 44) 
 Tryon Ct. CTenlers, S. 40) 
 Two Brothers Alley (Fashion St., S. 43)* 
 
 Tyler's L 
 
 E. 7 
 H. 7 
 A. 3 
 
 C. 4 
 
 D. 6 
 A. 4 
 A. 3 
 D. 3 
 
 Unicorn Alley (Wheeler St., S. 5) .. ... A. 3 
 
 Upshot .. ... ... ... D. 2 
 
 Vicarage Land ... ... ... E. s 
 
 ,, (Back Lane, M. E. 11) ... E. s 
 
 Vine St A. 4 
 
 „ Yard (Brooke St., R. 67) D. 6 
 
 Vintners Hosp. (Back Lane, M. E. 6) ... D. 4 
 
 Virginia Row ... ... ... B. 2 
 
 St B. 6&7 
 
 Virgin's Ct. (Artichoke L., W. 19) ... ... B. 7 
 
 Walker's L C. 4 
 
 Walker's, Mr. (Broad St., R. 33) ... ... D. 6 
 
 Wapping Church ... ... ... B. 7 
 
 ,j St A. & B. 7 
 
 Ward's L B. 2 
 
 Watch House B. 3, D. 4 
 
 House. 
 Watchhouse, The (Ratcl. Highw., W. 12 
 
 Water's Garden 
 
 Weaver's Almsh. (Black Eagle St., S. 28)* 
 Webster's Rents (Below the Cross, R. 23) 
 Well Alley (Ropemaker's F., L. 30) 
 
 ,, Yard (WhitehorseSt., R. I) ... 
 
 ,. Yard (Hermitage, W. 23)* 
 
 Wellburne St. 
 
 Wells St 
 
 Wentworth St 
 
 West 
 
 „ St 
 
 West's L 
 
 Wheeler St 
 
 White St 
 
 Whitechapel Church 
 „ Road ... 
 
 Whitehorse Lane 
 St. 
 
 Yard (Back Lane, M. E. 10) 
 
 Whitelion Yard 
 
 While Ruse Ct. (Brick L., S. 52) ... 
 Whitethorn Ct. (King St., W. 59) ... 
 White's Alley (Limehouse St., L. 5) 
 Rent ( .t L. 19) 
 
 Williams Kenis (Old Giavel L., W. 46) 
 
 Wilht'sL c. 3(2), B. 
 
 Windmill 
 
 Winkheki's, Gard. & Rents (Church St., L. 34) 
 NMscnian's Alley (Biook St., R. 59) 
 Woodcock's Rents (Limehouse St., L. 15)* ... 
 Wood's Yd. ( Three Colt St., L. 36) 
 Workhouse and Town Ho. (Limehouse St., 
 L- I) 
 
 E. 6 
 
 D. 4 
 A. 3 
 
 E. 7 
 
 F. 7 
 E. 6 
 
 A. 7 
 
 A, 
 
 ... B. 
 ... A. 
 ... B. 
 ... B. 
 F. 6, F. 
 A. 3 & 4 
 ... B. 4 
 A. 5 & 6 
 ... B. 4 
 B. & C. s. D. 6 
 E. 6 
 E. 4 
 A. 4 
 
 A. 4 
 
 C. 7 
 
 E. 7 
 
 F. 7 
 
 B. 7 
 312) 
 
 B. S 
 F. 7 
 
 D. 6 
 
 E. 7 
 
 F. 7 
 
 Wright's L. 
 
 York St. 
 Young's Land 
 
 E. 7 
 E. & F. 4 & 5 (4) 
 
 A. 3 
 
 H. 7