s*.y-izr-Yr.T:T'.- ■■^-■v DA President White Library. Cornell University. Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028066755 /I ^1- NTEKIOR OF ST. HELEN'S, AS RESTORED, A.D. 1865-8. THE ANNALS OF ST. HELEN'S, BISHOPSaATE, LONDON. EDITED BY THE REV. JOHN EDMUND COX, D.D. (of all souls' college, oxpokd), VIOAR IN CHARGE. LONDON : TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. lAU riphts 0/ Trnnstation and Jlfproi!uciion are reservr'f,] / I'co'' The ^'^ President White ^ Library ^]©£bualifln. TO THE MOST WOKSHIPPUL THE MASTEE, WAEDENS, AND COURT OF ASSISTANTS OP THE GUILD OP MERCHANT TAYLORS', THIS VOLUME, BHTITIED "THE ANNALS OF ST. HELEN'S, BISHOPSGATE," PREPARED BY THEIR DESIRE, AND ASSISTED, AS TO PUBLICATION, BY THEIR LIBERALITY, IS Post ^ratffttllji giMrate^, BY THEIR TRULY OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, JOHN EDMUND COX, D.D. Vicar in Charge of the United Parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, and St, Martin Outwich. PREFACE. During the twenty-seven years of my connection witli the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, first as the incumbent of that parish, and now as "Vicar in charge," since its union by her Majesty's Order in Council, May 5th, 1873, with the adjacent parish of St. Martin Outwich, it has been a desire on my part to give to the world an account of the considerable historical interest with which its ancient Church and surroundings must ever be associated. The difficulties of fulfilling that desire had, however, been found to be insuperable until the Merchant Taylors' Company — now the patrons of the United Parish, as they have been from time immemorial of St. Martin Outwich — encouraged me to undertake the task, which I was well aware would be one of difficulty, but of the full amount of which I had formed but a very inadequate idea previously to my attempt to overcome it ; and but that the researches of the late Mr. William Meade Williams, a former parishioner well known for his antiquarian and archaeological attainments, were most liberally and considerately placed at my disposal by his son, I have no hesitation in saying that I must have withdrawn from the task on its imme- diate commencement, in despair of ever being able to accomplish it. Mr. William Meade Williams's researches — the result of a long and well-spent life — are incorporated in two thick quarto volumes, each of which has been elaborately illustrated by an im- mense collection of engravings, obtained after much trouble and at considerable outlay. Inasmuch, however, as the literary matter in those volumes was not intended, or prepared, with a view to publication, although brimful of information, its numerous details required careful examination, patient research, and almost entire vi Preface. reconstruction. Very nearly two years have been spent m the effort to bring this invaluable " rude matter into due form f and it is now presented both to the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and the public, in the hope that, " with all its imperfec- tions on its head," it may be received with some amount of favour, and with the admission that the subject itself is not unworthy of the pains that have been taken to make it generally acceptable. Of the pre- Reformation History of the Parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, nothing more remains than is incorporated in the first chapter of this work. Had there been more information extant to throw light upon the nearly three centuries' existence of the Convent and Parish Church of St. Helen's prior to that period, it is impossible that it could have escaped the im- wearied investigation and patient research of the Rev. Thomas Hugo, M.A., F.S.A. — one of the most accomplished antiquaries and archaeologists of his time. That gentleman had also the advantage of being assisted by the late Dr. Black in his inves- tigations — an authority of the very highest repute ; but nothing more could be discovered by either of those painstaking examiners than will be found embodied in a paper, read by the former gentleman eleven years ago before the Archseological Society, of which I have availed myself, with his full consent. And here I would tender to Mr. Hugo my very best thanks for the abundant means he has afforded for lightening my labours, and assisting my researches ; for without his exhaustive paper — which hitherto has had but a limited circulation — I should scarcely have known where to turn for much of the information he had so abundantly and adequately supplied. To many other friends I must also offer my warmest acknowledgments both for advice and assistance, but to no one of them more so than to Charles Mathew Clode, Esq., one of the members, and a late Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company, and the accomplished author of " Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors in the City of London, &c. ;" to J. B. Monckton, Esq., Town Clerk of the Cor- poration of the City of London, by whose permission and aid I Preface. vii have been permitted to furnish a copy of the will of Adam Praunces, preserved in the archives of the Town Clerk's office, and never before printed; to Mr. H. C. Overall, of the same office, by whom that will has been deciphered and copied; to Mr. Tedder, the Librarian of the Athenzeum Club ; to Mr. Williams, to whose liberality and co-operation I have already referred; to Col. Joseph L. Chester, who had previously collated the Parish Registers; and to Messrs. Wadmore and Baker, of Great St. Helen's, the architects of the Restoration of St. Helen's, 1865-8, by whom the architectural details of the Church have been supplied, and from whom the frontispiece of the interior has been obtained. I should also be greatly wanting in gratitude were I not to acknowledge the invaluable information concerning the Caesar family, which, unsolicited on my part, was most kindly affi)rded me by Miss Cottrell-Dormer, of Danes-Dyke, Flam- borough. That lady, being herself descended from the Csesar family, and having accidentally heard of the work I had in hand, at once communicated the valuable information for my use, which will be found under the narrative of Sir Julius Csesar Adelmare, and his descendants. John Edmund Cox, D.D. St. Heien's, BisHopsGAiE, Odober 9th, 1876. TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Birth and character of St. Helena — ^Finding of the true Cross — Krst Roman Colony in Britain — ^Edmund the Martyr — Priory of St. Helen's — Foundation of Priory — ^William Basing's Will — Kent- wode's Constitutions — Directions to Prioress and Convent — Dancing and Revelling forbidden — Names of Three Prioresses — Will of EKzabeth RoUesley — Court of Augmentations — ^Thomas Cromwell— Common Seal of St. Helen's — Demise of Reginald Goodman — Leases of Tenements — " Valor" of Ecclesiastical Property — Thomas Benolt, Clarenceux Herald — Sundry Grants of Property — Anthony Bon- vixi, Merchant — John RoUesley's Annuity — Grants of Sundry Annuities — ^Annuities and Leases — Last Act of the Prioress and Convent — Edward Alleyne — Adam Fraunces — Cardinal Pole's Pension Book — Survey of the King's Officers — Site of the Priory- Plan of Buildings — Curious Hagioscope — Grant of the Site — ^Lease of Crosby Place — Surrender of Priory — ^LeatherseUers' Company — Ancient Crypts pp. 1 — 37 CHAPTER n. St Helen's Church — The Parish and Convent Churches — Architectural Details— Merchant Taylors' Company — The Nuns' Grate — Sir John Lawrence — Church Windows — Coats of Arms ... pp. 38 — 45 CHAPTER in. Tithes and Impropriators of St. Helen's — Pope Nicholas IV. — ^Advowson of Vicarsige — Grant by Queen Elizabeth — Michael and Edward Stan- bope Sir John Langham — Appeal to the House of Lords — The Macdougall Family — Ministers, Curates, and Lecturers of St. Helen's, from A.D. 1571 to A.D. 1876 pp. 46—56 Table of Contents. CHAPTER rV. Monuments and their Uses— Kobinson and Kerwin Monuments— Dame Abigail Lawrence— Francis Bancroft— Smith and KuhfE— Captain Martin Bond— William and Esther Finch— Bond, " Flos mercatorum," and Drax — Sir Thomas Gresham— Sir Andrew Judd — Sir William Pickering — Sir John and Lady Crosby — Sir Julius Caesar Adelmare — Sir John and Lady Spencer — Alderman Bernard and Gerrash Reresby — Alderman Chambrelan — Monumental Brasses — Benolte, Windsor Herald pp. 57—74 CHAPTER V. Benefactors — Robinson and Fenner Gifts — Prior's Bequest — Cicely CyoU's Will — ^Abraham Chambrelan — Sir Martin Lumley — The Lumley Lectureship — ^Robinson and Fenner Gifts — Joyce Featly — Daniel Williams — Bond, Langham, and Tryon — Sundry Bequests — Mary Clapham's Will — Baker, Roe, and Dingley Bequests — Christ's Hospital— The latest Bequest pp. 75—89 CHAPTER VI. Marriage, Baptism, and Burial Registers pp. 90 — 99 CHAPTER Vn. Vestry Records from a.d. 1558 to a.d. 1812 — ^Extracts from Church Wardens' Accounts, &c pp. 100 — 226 CHAPTER Vm. " Worthies" connected with St. Helen's — Sir John Crosby— John Leven- thorpe — Sir William HoUes — Richard Williams — Thomas Benolte — Antonio Bonvixi — Nicholas Harpsfield — Sir Andrew Judde — Sir William Pickering — Sir John Spencer — Daniel Featley — Sir Thomas Gresham — Ceesar Adelmare — The Csesar Family — ^Matthew and Alberigo Gentilis — Edward Brerewood — Peter Maunaell— rBichasd Ball — Arthur Barham — Thomas Horton — Jonathan Goddard — Robert Hooke — Sir Martin Lumley — Sir John Langham — Sir John Lawrence — Sir Philip Boteler — Sir John Eyles, Sen. — Sir Francis Eyles — Sir John Eyles, Jun pp. 227 328 Table of Contents, \ xi CHAPTER IX. Crosby Place — Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Lord Protector, and afterwards King — Sir Bartholomew Read — Antonio Bonvixi — German Cioll — Alderman Bond — Divers Ambassadors Resident — Crosby House a prison for the Royalists in the Civil "Wars — Sir John Langham — ^Appropriated to Nonconformists in the Reign of Charles II. — Bernard Edward Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk — Crosby Hall a Warehouse of the East India Company — Messrs. Holmes and Hall — Restoration of the Hall — ^Alderman Copeland — ^Miss Hackett pp. 329—337 CHAPTER X. Nonconformist Divines, Occupants of Crosby Hall, from a.d, 1662 to A.D. 176- pp. 338—358 APPENDIX. Basing's Will — Benedictine Rules — Kentwode's Constitutions — Adam Fraunces' Will — ^Restoration, 1865—8 — London Tithes Acts — Special Commission — Queen Anne's Bounty— The Advowson of St. Helen's — WiUiam Bond— Thomas Benolte^Mayor of the Staple — Merchant Adventurers — Sir Thomas Gresham's Will — Gresham College Act- Francis Bancroft's WUl — St. Martin Outwich and St. Antholin pp. 359-436 ANNALS OF ST. HELEN'S, BISHOPSGATE WITHIN THE CITY OF LONDON. CHAPTER I. Tkadition reports that St. Helena, the patron saint of this Church, was born at Colchester a.d. £43, and was the daughter of Coel II., Prince of Britain and king of that district. Having revolted against the Romans, Constantius Chlorus, the Roman general then in Spain, who was afterwards Emperor, was sent to reduce Coel to obedience, and for that end besieged Colchester. After some time the siege was raised, and on Constantius betrothing Helen, from that marriage was bom, in the year 265, Constantine, the first Roman Emperor who made public profession of the Christian religion and protected and encouraged it by wholesome laws. His father had secretly favoured the Christians and retarded the persecution against them, but Constantine declared himself their protector, and jointly with Licinius published an edict in their favour at Milan, a.d. 313. Helena was considered the most beautiful woman of her time, was extremely well skilled in music, and adorned with many other accomplishments. Her father having no other child had caused her to be educated in such a manner as might best fit her to govern. Withal she was a woman of great charity and piety, and although it has been stated that she gave her son a Christian education, we are assured by Baronius,* upon, as he reports, the authority of Euse- bius, that she herself was indebted to Constantine for her conversion to Christianity. At the advanced age of eighty, being desirous of visiting the place where our Saviour had suffered, she is reported * Annal. Eccl., Tom. iii. p. 594. Ed. Lncre, 1738, 5 2 Finding of the Ti'ue Cross. to have made a voyage to the Holy Land, and, during her journey, to have dispensed very considerable benefactions to many persons, towns, and societies. Finding that the heathens (offended at the superstitious veneration paid to the place of our Saviour's burial) had covered the tomb with earth, and erected over it a temple dedi- cated to Venus, she ordered that building to be demolished and the earth to be removed in order to build there a magnificent church, and by the eager desire and fervent piety of those who laboured in the work of preparing the place for the foundation, on May 3, 319, three crosses are said to have been discovered deeply buried in the ground, being those on which the Redeemer and the two thieves were crucified, as also the tablet whereon Pilate had written that Christ was crucified King of the Jews ! The true cross is reported to have been selected by the miraculous power it displayed of restoring the dead to life. The corpse of a female some time deceased was placed alternately upon the three crosses. The two first that were tried produced no effect, but the third instantly raised the body to a state of reanimation ! The true cross being thus discovered was divided and subdivided into innumerable fragments, so that the pieces thus distributed amounted to treble the quantity of wood contained in the original ; yet, through some holy miracle it was said to have remained entire and unimpaired ! Some of the frag- ments were encased in gold, and some in gems, and conveyed to Europe, the principal portion being left in the charge of the Bishop of Jerusalem, who exhibited it annually at Easter until Chosroes, King of Persia, plundered that city and took away the holy relic. The cross was subsequently recovered and solemnly deposited in the great church of the Twelve Apostles, at Constantinople !* St. Helena having built a gorgeous church over the sepulchre, and called it New Jerusalem, then erected a second at Bethlehem, where Christ was born, as also a third church upon the Mount of Olives, whence Christ ascended to the Father. Many things she gave to churches and to poor people, and, after a godly and religious life, died at Rome in the arms of her son, Aug. 18, a.d. 327, where her festival is kept yearly on that day. Richard, the Monk of Westminster, in writing of Britain says, " Our arrangement brings us to that province which was called by Clavis Oalendaria, i. 340 ; ii. 156. First Roman Colony in Britain. 3 the Romans ' Plavia/ but whence it received that name, whether from Mavia Julia Helena^ the mother of Constantine the Great, who was born at this place, or froin the Roman family of the Flavii, length of time prevents us from determining, which also prevents our firm conviction in the truth of certain things which monuments of antiquity would indicate. — Near the Cassii where the Thames flows into the ocean was the country of the Trinobantes, a people, who not only placed themselves of their own accord under the friendship of the Romans, but also proposed to them to colonize their metropolis London and Maldon, which were situate near the sea. They say that in this city (London) was born Flavia Julia Helena, the most pious wife of Constantius Chlorus and the mother of Constantine the Great, being descended from the Kings of Britain. This also was the first of the Roman colonies in Britain, and was renowned for the temple of Claudius, the image of Victory, &c. London was first called Trinovantum, afterwards Augusta, and then London again. According to old chronicles it is of greater antiquity than Rome. It was fortified by the most pious Empress Helena, the most holy discoverer of the cross.'' Stow also states, on the authority of Simon of Durham, that " she builded the walls about the cities of London and Colchester.''* * " St. Peter's Borne. The third chapel has over the altar the statue of St. Helena, the work of Boggi, an excellent sculptor." In the church of St. John de Lateran, is " a magnificent monument of St. Helen of porphyrie." " We came to St. Crosse of Jerusalem, built by .Constantine over the demolition of the temple of Venus and Cupid, which he threw down ; and 'twas here they report he deposited the wood of the true Crosse found by his mother Helena, in honour whereof this church was buUt. Here is a chapel dedicated to St. Helena, the floore whereof is of earth brought from Jerusalem. They suffer no women to enter, save once a year." — Evelyn's Mem., vol i. pp. Ill, 116, 160. " Also besyde the queer of the Chirche at the ryght syde as men comen downward 16 greces (steps) is the place where our Lord was born : that is fulle well dyghte of marhle, and fulle richely peynted with gold, sylver, azure, and other coloures. And 3 paas (paces) besyde, is the crybbe of the ox, and the asse. And besyde that is the place where the sterre felle that ledde the three kynges." — The Voyage and Travaile of Sir John Maundeville Knight in the 14th Century. Sandys adds " that at the upper end of the subterranean chapel of the Nativity, in an arched concave, stands the Altar of the Nativity : under this is a semi-circle ; the sole (flooring) set with stones of several colours in the form of a star, and in the midst a serpentine, there set to preserve the memory of that place where our Saviour was Isorn." — A Kelation of a Journey begun 1610, by Geo. Sandys. 1670. 4 Edmund the Martyr. The original church of St. Helen in London was dedicated to the Empress Helena, and is said to have been erected to her memory by her son Constantine.* In the year 1010 Alwyne, Bishop of Helmeham, removed the remains of King Edmund the Martyr from St. Edmundsbury to London, and deposited them in this church for three years, until the depredations committed by the Danes in East Anglia ceased. f "In a court on the east side of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward," Newcourt reports, "stands the fair church of St. Helen, some- time a priory of Black Nuns, and in the same, the Parish Church of St. Helen." J That there was a church here before the founding of the said priory, which was granted to the canons of St. Paul's by Ranulph and Robert his son, appears by the following document : — " This agreement between the Dean of St. Pauls, and Ranulph and Robert his son, Witnesseth, that the said Ranulph and Robert do grant to the Canons of St. Pauls, the church of St. Helen, yet so that they shall hold the same during the term of their natural lives, upon the payment of twelve pence yearly. . . . But on their decease a third person of their body (or from their friends) whom they shall have chosen, shall hold the aforesaid church, on the payment of two shillings per annum, to the said canons ; but upon his decease the said church shall remain in the full, free, and un- disturbed possession of the said canons. . . . Ranulph also obtained from his brethren that every year they should celebrate the anniversary of Turstin, Archbishop of York."§ To this agreement the following were witnesses : — William the Archdeacon. Richard & Richard his brothers. Robert de Cadomo, Robert de Aco, Nicholas Gaufrid the younger, William the master, Henry Walter, Gaufrid the constable, William de Cain, Theodore, Richard de Amond, Baldwin, Robert the younger, Walfrid, Hubert Hugo the master, Radulf, Richard * Europ. Mag., vol. xlviii. p. 173. t Bntick's Lond., vol. iii. p. 398. Huglison, vol. ii. p. 420. % Newcourt's Eepertorium, vol. i. p. 263 (Reg. Deo. & Cap. Ub. A f. 32) § " H83C est conventio inter Capitulum S.Pauli et Eanulfum, et Eobertum fihum ejus, soU. Quod KanuHus et Robertus concedunt Canonicis S PauH Eoolesiam S. Helena, ita tamen quod eandem tenebunt toto tempore vifae BuiB, reddendo singulis annis xiid. Quibus autem defuncti^ tertius Priory of St. Helen's. 5 de Wintoiij Albinus the Priest, Richard Malatri, Fulk the Younger, BruDj Osbert, Becha. After this, in 1181 (the first year of Ralph de Diceto, he being Dean) , in the state of the manors and churches belonging to the said Dean and Chapter, it is thus recorded : — " Ecclesia S. Helena est Canonicorum, et reddit eis xx. sol per manum Magist. Cipriani, solvit Synodalia xij*. Achidiacono xij*. Habet coemiterium."* After the church fell into the hands of the dean and chapter by the death of the several parties, they granted the right of patronage to one William, the son of William the Goldsmith, who afterwards applying to Alard the dean, and the chapter of St. Paul's, had leave of them to found a priory of nuns there, as appears by the follow- ing instrument :t — " Pkioey of St. Helens next the way of Bishopsgate Street, in the City of London. J " Of the constituting of Nuns in the same. " Know all present and to come, that I, Alardus, dean of the church of St. Paul, London, and the chapter of the same church, do grant to William the Son of William the Goldsmith, § patron of the church of St. Helen, London, that he may constitute Nuns in the same church for the perpetual service of God therein, and may bestow on the society of the same, the right of patronage to the said church, as the same was granted to him by our predecessors ; provided that the prioress or other governing such house (after election made by the same), do make presentation thereof to the dean and chapter of London and swear fidelity to the same Dean and Chapter, as well for such Church as for a pension or annuity of half a mark, payable within eight days of Easter . . . and they do suornm quern, elegerint, tenebit supradictam Ecclesiam reddendo duos sol. per Ann. eisdem fratribus : Hlo autem defuncto remanebit eadem Ecclesia Canonicis soluta et quieta et libera. Etiam Ranulfus obtinuit a fratribus suis, quod singulis annis anniversarium Turstini Eborac, Archiep. celebra- bunt. Ad banc conventionem fuerunt isti Archidiaconi, &c. &c." * Newcourt (Eeg. Dec. and Cap. lib. A. f. 37, vol. i. p. 363). t Stow (Survey of London, p. 430. Ed. Lond. 1754) says " founded by William de Basing, Dean of St. Paul's." J Eor the original Latin Document, see Appendix A. § LineaUy descended from William the Founder was Sir William Fitz- William, merchant tailor, and servant to Cardinal Wolsey, Aldermau of Bread Street Ward, 1506, from whom is descended the present Earl Pitzwiiliam. 6 Foundation of Priori/. further swear not to alienate sucli before mentioned patronage or to subject their convent to any other control. And we do more- over grant as far as in us lies, that the said society or convent, so to be erected may appropriate and convert to their own use all revenues belonging to the said Church, excepting the afore- said pension, they discharging all episcopal dues appertaining to the said church ; and if it shall happen that the Nuns of such convent shall conduct themselves improperly. We grant the same to men of religion, to hold without molestation, in the same manner as is mentioned with respect to such Nuns ; And the Dean and Chapter bind themselves similarly towards them ; and that this our grant and concession and aU other engagements may be held in perpetual remembrance and firmly observed, we have caused the same to be done in the form of a handwriting : the one part •whereof to be kept by us, and the other by the said William and the said Nuns, and have mutually sealed the same &c.* " Witness, Alardus, Dean of London and others." This foundation of the priory was probably about the year 1212, in the latter part of the reign of King John, for Alardus de Burnham, Dean of St. Paul's, died on the 14th August, 1216.t The nuns were of the Benedictine order, and wore a black habit with a cloak, cowl, and veil. J William Basing, one of the sherifi's of London in 1308, 2 Edward II., was a great benefactor to this priory, which he augmented both in building and revenue, for which probably he was also holden to be a founder. § Not long after the time of the above William Basing, one Henry Gloucester was interred here, descended from him, by the mother's side, whose will and testament are here inserted : — " In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen. " I Henry de Gloucester, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, do make my Will and Testament as follows. I leave my body to be buried at St. Helens, London, in such place as the Prioress * Dugdale, Mouascon Angl., vol. iv. p. 553. Ed. Loud. 1817-30. t Newcourt's Eepertorium, vol. i. p. 364. J For the Eules of the Benedictine Order, see Appendix B. § Weever's Fun. Monts., p. 1.21. William Basing' s Will. 7 and Nuns of that Convent shall direct. I also leave to my daughter Elizabeth a Nun in the said convent of St. Helens, six shillings. I also leave to the prioress and convent of St. Helens, Eleven Marks of Silver annually, for the purpose of providing two monks to perform divine service in the said church of St. Helen for my soul, for the soul of Margaret formerly my Wife and for the souls of William my father and of Wilhelmina my mother, daughter of Thomas de Basings brother of William de Basings the founder &c. The remainder I leave for the maintenance of my son John ; and if my said son John shall die without any offspring, the whole shall remain to my daughter Johanna, and the heirs of her body lawfully begotten. I also leave to my niece Johanna Adynet five shillings : Given and executed at London on Thursday next after the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle. Anno Dom. 1332 in the sixth year of the reign of King Edward III."* A Cottonian manuscript, a large sheet of parchment, contains the following regulations, drawn up a.d. 1439, to be observed by the nuns of the convent, to which is appended a very small piece, containing a petition from the convent. The seal is much broken, A perfect impression of the seal appendant to a deed, dated 1531, 26 Hen. VIII., is among the records of the Leathersellers^ Company.t * Probateof this will was made January 15, 1332, 6 Edward III. — MSS. in Bib. Cotton. Weever, Fun. Monts., p. 421. The original is in Latin as follows : — " In nomine patris, et filii et spiritus sancti, Amen. Ego, Henricus de Gloncestre, civis et aurifaber London, condo testamentum meum in hunc modum, Lego corpus meum ad sepeliendum apud Sanctam Elenam, London ; ubi priorissa et conventus eiusdem domus ibidem eligere voluerint. Item lego Elizabeth filie mce, Moniali eiusdem domus, sancte Elene, sex solid. Item lego Priorisse et Conventui Sancte Elene undecim marcas argenti annuatim ad inuenend. duos CapeUanos Divina celebrare in eadem Ecolesia Sancte Elene, pro anima mia, et anima Margarete quondam uxoris mee, ac pro animabtis Willelmi patris mei, et WiUelme, matris mee, fil Thome de Basings, fratris Willelmi de Basings, Eundatoris, &c. Eesiduum vero lego ad sustentationem Johannis filii mei. Etsi idem Johannes filius mens sine prole obierit, integre remaneat Johanne filie mee et heredibus de corpore suo legitime procreatis. Item lego Elizabeth filie mee, duas schopas abenas. Item lego Johanne Adynet nepte mee, quinque soUdos. Dat et act, London die Jovis prox . post festum. Sancti Aiidree . Apostoli . Ann . Dom . 1332. Eeg Eegia Ed, 3. 6." f Malcolm's Lond. Eediviv., vol. iii. p. 548. 8 Kentwodes Constitutions. " Constitutiones per Decanum et Capitulum Ecclesise Cathe- dralis S. Pauli, Lond. factse, Moniales Ccenobii S. Helense prope Bishopsgate infra civitatem London, tangentes :*— "Reynold Kentwode, Dean and Chapeter of the Church of Ponies, to the religious women. Prioress and Covent of the priory of Seynt Eleyns, of owre patronage and jurisdictyon immediat, and every nunne of the said priory, gretyng in God with desyre of religyous observances and devocyon. For as moche as in oure visitacyon ordinarye in your priorye boothe in the hedde, and in the membris late actually exersyd, we have founden many de- fautes and excesses, the whiche nedythe notory correccyon and reformacyon, we, wyllyng vertu to be cherished, and holy relygion for to be kepte as in the rules of your ordyerre, we ordeyne and make certeyne Ordenauns and Injuaccyons, weche we sende you wrete and seelyd undir owre commone seele, for to be kepte in forme as thei ben articled and wretyn unto you. " Firste. We ordeyne and enjoyne you, that deveyne servyce be don by you duly nyghte and day, and silence duly kepte in due time and place, after the observance of youre religione. "Also we ordayne and enjoyne you Prioresse and Covente, and eche of you syngerly, that ye make due and hole confession to the confessor assigned be us. "Also we enjoyne you Prioresse and Covent, that ye ordeyne conveuyent place of firmarye, in the wiche your seeke sustres may be honestly kepte and releyed withe the costes and expences of youre house, accustomed in the relygion durynge the tyme of heere sikenesse. " Also we enjoyne you Prioresse that ye kepe youre dortour, and by thereinne by nythe, aftyr observaunce of your relygion, without that the case be suche that the lawe and the observaunce of youre religione suffreth you to do the contraye. " Also we ordeyne and injoyne you Prioresse and Covent, that noo seculere be lokkyd withinne the boundes of the cloy- stere ; ne no seculere persones come withinne aftyr the bell of complyne, except wymment servantes and mayde childeryne lerners, also admitte no one sojournauntes wymment withoute lycence of us. "Also we ordeyn e and enjoyne you Prioresse and Covent, that * Dugdale, Monastioon Angl., vol. iv. p. 553. Ed. Lond. 1817-30 [Hodie Hot. antiq. Cotton. Mus.] Ex ipso autogr. in Bibl. Hatton, Directions to Prioress and Convent. 9 yCj ne noone of youre sustres use nor haunte any place withinne the Priory, thoroghe the wiche evel suspeccyione or sclaundere mythe aryse ; wyche places for certeyne causes that move us, we wryte not here inne our present injunccyone, but wole notyfie to your Prioress : nor have no lokyng nor spectacles owtewarde, thorght the which ye mythe falle in worldlye delectacyone. "Also we ordeyne and enjoyne you Prioresse and Covent, that some sadde woman and discrete of the seyde religione, honest, well named, be assigned to the shittyng of the cloyster dorys, and kepyng of the keyes, that none persone have entre ne issu into the place aftyr complyne belle ; nethir in noo other tyme be the wiche the place may be disclaundered in tyme comying. " Also we ordeyne and enjoyne you Prioresse and Covent, that noo seculere wymmen slepe be nythe withinne the dortour, with owte specialle graunte hadde in the chapeter House, among you alle. " Also we ordeyne and enjoyne you, that noone of you speke ne comone with no seculere personne ne sende ne receyve let- teresj myssyres or geftes of any seculere personne, withowte lycenee of the Prioresse : and that there be an other of youre sustres present, assigned be the Prioresse to here and record the honeste of bothe partyes, in such communycation ; and such let- teres or geftes, sent or reeeyved may turn into honeste and wur- chepe, and none into vilanye, ne disclaundered of youre honeste and religyone. "Also we ordeyne and enjoyne you Prioresse and Covent, that none of youre sustres be admitted to noone office but that they be of gode name and fame. "Also we ordeyne and enjoyne you, that ye ordeyne and chese on youre sustres, honeste, abille, and cunnyng of discreyone, the weche can, may, and schall have the charge of teching and informacyone of youre sustres that ben uncunnyng, for to teche hem here service and the rule of here religione. " Also for as moche that diverce fees, perpetuelle corrodies, and lyvers have be graunted before this tyme to diverce officers of youre house, and other persones, weche have hurt the house, and be cause of delapidacyone of the godys of youre seyde house, we ordeyne and enjoyne you, that ye reserve noone officere to no perpetuelle fee of office, ne graunte, ne annuete, corody, ne lyvery, withoute speciaUe assent of us. 10 Dandnff and Bevelling Forbidden. " Also we enjoyne you, that alle daunsyng and revelyng be utterly forborne among you, except Christmasse and other honest tymys of recreacyone, among youre selfe usyd, in absence of seculers in alle wyse. " Also we enjoyne you Prioresse that there may be a doore at the noone's quere, that noone straungeres may looke on them, nor they on the straungeres, wanne thei bene at divyne service. Also we ordeyne and enjoyne you Prioresse, that there be made a hache of conabyll* heythe, crestyd withe pykys of heme, to fore the entre of youre kechyne, that noo straunge pepille may entre wethe certeyne cleketts avysed be you and be youre steward to suche peraouys as you and hem thynk onest and conabell. " Also we enjoyne you Prioresse, that non nonnes have no Keyes of the posterne doore that gothe oute of the cloystere into the churcheyerd but the Prioresse for there is moche comyng in and oute unlefiille tymes. " Also we ordeyne and enjoyne, that no nonnes have, ne receyve noo schuldrin wyth them into the house forseyde, but yf that the profite of the comonys tume to the vayle of the same house. " These Ordenauns and Injunccyons, and iche of them, as thei be rehersid above, we send unto you Prioresse and Covent, char- gyng and commaunding you and iche of you alle to kepe hem truly and holy in vertu of obedience, and upon peyne of contempte ; and that ye doo them be redde and declared foure tymes of the yeere in youre chapele before you, and that thei may be hadde in mynde, and kepte under peyne of excommunicacyone, and other lawfulle peynes, to be yove into the persone of you Prioresse, and into singuler persones of the Covent, wheche we purpose to use agens you, in case that ye desobeye us : reservyng to us and oure successors poure these forsayde ordinaunces and injunctiouns to chaunge, adde, and diminue, and with hem despence, as ofte as the case requirethe and it is needfulle. In to which witnesse we sette oure common seele, govyn in oure Chapitter House, the XXI day of the monyth of June the yere of oure Lord MCCCCXXXIX. et anno regni Eegis Henrici Sex ti, post Conqusestum decimo septimo." " The Nuns endeavoured, during the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I., to stop up the lane or passage through the court of * " Eeasonable," or rather, convenient, suitable. Names of Three Prioresses. 1 1 their House, from Bishopsgate Street to S. Mary-Axe. In the thirty-third year of the former King they obtained a licence to include a lane lying across their ground, inasmuch as it had been found by inquest that no damage would accrue thereby to the citizens of London. The licence was dated at "Westminster, the 24th March, 33 Henry III. 1248-9.* Some resistance, as it appears, was made to this inclusion, for in several subsequent inquests the jurors describe the lane as a common thoroughfare, from the Gate of the Nuus of S. Elen to the Church of S. Mary at Ax, called ' Seint Eleyne Lane,' through which there was always in ancient times a common passage for carts and horsemen, as well as for foot passengers. t Their obstruction was at least partially successful, and, as such, has descended to our own time. There is still no thoroughfare for carriages. "Reynold Kentwode, Dean of S. Paul's (1422—1441), together with his Chapter, made a number of Constitutions for the Nuns, dated the 21st of June, I439.f Many of these are extremely curiouSj and furnish us with most descriptive illustrations of con- ventual life. These have been accurately transcribed from the original document, now among the Cottonian Rolls, and are placed in the Appendix at the end of this volume. " The names of the three Prioresses which are given by the last editors of Dugdale, are Eleanor de Wyncestre or Winton, in the 7th and 12th of Henry III. ; Alice Asshfeld, who granted a lease to Sir John Crosby, the builder of Crosby Hall, in 1466 ;§ and Mary RoUesleyj the last Prioress. To these four others may be added, D , Alice Wodehous, Alice Tracthall, and Isabel Stampe.|| The first-mentioned lady is believed to have been the first Prioress. She addressed a petition, which is given in the Appendix, to Alard de Burnham, dean of S. Paul's, and Walter Pitzwalter, archdeacon of London, in or some short time previously * Pat. 33 Hen. III. m. 7. t Rot. Hnndred, i. 409, 410, 420, 425, 426, 431. + Eot. Cott. v. 6. § " See the particulars in the Eev. T. Hugo's History of Crosby Hall, Transactions of tlie Lond. and Midd. Archeeol. Soc, vol. i. p. 40." II " By wiU dated 26th April, a.d. 1469— Philip Malpas, merchant, citizen, &c., bequeaths to the Prioress of St. Helen's, 20s. ; and to Dame Alice Wood- hows, nun there, 20s., and also to every other nun professed in the same house 6s. 8d. to pray for his soul.— Extract from a Paper by B. B. Orridge, Esq., Transactions Lond. and Midd., vol. iii. p. 9, pp. 290," 13 Witt of Misabeth UoUestey. to the year 1316. The second was the immediate predecessor of Alice Asshfeld, and granted to Sir John Croshy a lease of the house in which he resided when he obtained from the latter that of the same and adjoining premises, on which he subsequently built his magnificent mansion. It is presumed that she resigned her office of Prioress, as a lady of the same name and probably herself stands first of the eleven present and consenting Sisters in the document of 1466. The third, Alice Tracthall, leased some pre- mises in Birchin Lane, about which more details will be given, to Thomas Knyght, by indenture dated the 20th March, 13 Henry VII., 1497-8. The fourth, Isabel Stampe, was the last Prioress but one. "When she succeeded to her office cannot be determined, nor the time of her decease or resignation; but she granted leases of some of her conventual property on the 3rd of December, 1512, and on the 1st of November, 1526.* " The will of Elizabeth Rollesley, who would appear to have been the mother of the last Prioress, is given by Maddox in his Formulare. It was dated the 23rd August, 1513, 5 Henry VIII. ; and, among other bequests, directs : — ' Item ; I bequeth to the Prioress and Covent of S. Elyns in London, v li. Item ; I bequeth to Dame Mary, my dowter, being a Nonne of the same place, v li.' Another daughter, Alice, was a Nun of Dartford, and to her was left a similar legacy.f "On the 26th January, 19th Hen. VIII. 1527-8, the Prioress, Mary Rollesley, and Convent leased to Richard Berde a tenement in the parish of S. Ethelburga, for a term of forty years, at an annual rent of xx s. J " On the 21st December, 20th Hen. VIII, 1528, they leased to Robert Nesham, citizen and baker, and Agnes his wife, one bake- * See p. 11. For the following details, as for much other reliable informa- tion, I am very largely indebted to the Rev. Thomas Hugo's, M.A., Lecture read at Ironmongers' Hall, March 10th, 1864; he having coUected the details from the Conventual Leases, the Ministers' Accounts, the Valor, the Sur- renders, the Particulars for Grants, the Orders and Decrees, Pension Lists, Surveys, and other Records of the Court of Augmentations, the Patent and Originalia Rolls, and several coUections of Rolls and Charters, or docu- ments usually called by that name, &o. &c. t Madox's Formulare Anglicanum, p. 440. X Ministers' Accounts, 31-32 Hen. VIII. No. 112. Court of Augmentations . 13 house, with appurtenances, in the parish of S. Andrew Under- shafte, for a term of forty years from the following Christmas, at a yearly rent of Ixxiij s. iiij d. The repairs were to be done by the farmer* " On the 20th May, 21st Hen. VIII. 1529, they leased to Richard Staverton a tenement in the parish of S. Mary Magdalene in the Old Fishmarket for a term of sixty years, at a yearly rent of xxxiij s. iiij d.f « On the 20th September, 23rd Hen. VIII. 1531, the Prioress and Convent leased two tenements, with two gardens adjoining to the same, within their close, to William Shelton, from the Michael- mas following, for twelve years, and, after the expiration of those years, for a term of fourscore and nineteen years, at a rent of Is. a year, payable at the four usual terms. The repairs were to be done by the farmer aforesaid.J " On the 26th January, 23rd Hen, VIII. 1531-2, they leased to Richard Berde aforesaid, and Alice his wife a tenement in the parish of S. Ethelburga for a term of sixty years, at a yearly rent xlv s. Repairs by the farmers.§ " On the 10th of June, 25th Hen. VIII. 1533, Mary Rollesley, Prioress and Convent entered into an agreement with Richard Berde aforesaid, citizen and girdler of London, by which, inasmuch as the late Prioress of S. Helen's, Dame Isabell Stampe, had, by a deed bearing date 1st November, in the 18th Hen. VIII. 1526, granted and let to Thomas Larke, citizen and Merchant Tailor, their great tenement or inn called the Black Bull, with cellars, &c., in the parish of S. Alburghe, in the Ward of Bishopsgate, and two adjoining tenements, for one and twenty years, from Mid- summer following, at a yearly rent of %l. 14«. sterling, they transferred the same to the said Richard at the same rent. If unpaid six weeks after due, the Prioress might enter and distrain. The agreement was allowed by the Court of Augmentations, on the 5th Jan., 32nd Hen. VIII. 1540-1. || "On the 10th of July, 25th Hen. VIII. 1533, they leased to the aforesaid William Shelton a tenement with appurtenances in * Londoa Conventual Leases, No. 24. Ministers' Accounts. •f- Ministers' Accounts. % Ibid. § Ibid. II Conventual Leases, No, 17. Orders and Decrees, vii. f. 35 b. 14 Thomas Crumwell. their close, for a term of four score and eighteen years from the next following feast of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist, at a yearly rent of x s. payable at the four terms. Repairs by the farmer * " Among Dean Kentwode's orders, previously referred to,t is the following regulation : " ' Also for as moche that diuce fees ppetuett corrodies and lyuers have be grauntyd be for this tyme to diuerce officers of 30wre house and other' psones whech have hurt the house and be cause of delapidacyoii of the godys of 30wre seyde house we ordeyne and jnioyne 30 w that 36 reseyve noon officer' to noo ppetuett ffee of office ne graunte noo annuete corody ne lyuery without speciatt assent of vs.' " On the 10th September, 26th Hen. VIII. 1534, the Prioress and Convent gave to Thomas Crumwell, the then secretary of the king, afterwards Earl of Essex, an annuity of four marcs, issuing from their lands and tenements in London, for the term of his Hfe, payable yearly at Michaelmas. If in arrear for three weeks, the said annuitant might enter and distrain. Four pence were paid imme- diately, as earnest and parcel of the annuity. This was allowed by the Court of Augmentations, with arrears from the dissolution of the House, on the 8th of February, 30th Hen. VIII. 1538-9.J "On the 10th September, 1534, they also leased to Richard Berde aforesaid a tenement in the parish of S. Alborough, in the ward of Bishopsgate, for a term of three score years, from Michaelmas next ensuing, at a yearly rent of xvj s. sterling, payable at two terms of the year. If in arrear for six weeks, the Prioress and Convent might enter and distrain.§ " On the 1st of October, 26th Hen. VIII. 1534, Dame Mary Rollesley, Prioress, and Convent granted and leased to fee farm to John Rollesley, gent, all their manor of Burston or Bruston, in the county of Middlesex, with all the lands, tenements, woods, underwoods, court-leets, profits of courts, fines, amerciaments and other profits and commodities whatsoever appertaining to the same manor, from the Michaelmas last past to the end of fourscore years next ensuing, at a yearly rent of 9/. payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas, in equal portions. Repairs were to be made by * Miaisters' Accounts. f See p. 8. % Orders and Decrees, x. f . 131. § Conventual Leases, No. 2.^ Common Seal of St. Helen's. 1 5 the aforesaid farmer. If the aforesaid rent or any parcel thereof were in arrear for forty days, the Prioress and Convent were to enter and distrain. This was allowed by the Court of Augmenta- tions, on the 8th of November, 34 Hen. VIII. 1542.* The original of this lease still exists among the documents of the Augmenta- tion Office, and has appended to it the common seal of the House, representing S. Helen, in agreement with the most important fact of her history, standing under the Cross which she embraces with her left arm, and holding in her left hand the three nails of the Passion. On the right, opposite to the empress, is a mul- titude of women with extended arms and upraised countenances. Beneath is a trefoiled niche, and under it a woman's (?) head and left arm in the same attitude as that of the figures above. The legend is sigill. monialivm. sancte. hblenb. londoniakvm. a representation of this seal has been given by Malcolm, and has been reproduced for this volume.f " On the 2nd December, 26th Hen. VIlI. 1534, the Prioress and Convent leased to Alan Hawte, his executors and assigns, a messuage with a garden within their close for a term of fourscore and nineteen years, at a yearly rent of Is. payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas in equal portions. Repairs by the farmer.J " On the 24th December, 26th Hen. VIII. 1534, the Prioress and Convent appointed Sir James BoUeyne, knt., to be steward of their lands and tenements in London and elsewhere, the duties to be performed either by himself or a sufficient deputy, during the life of the said James, at a stipend of forty shillings a year, payable at Christmas. If in arrear for six weeks, the said James might enter and distrain. Allowed, with arrears from the Dis- solution, by the Court of Augmentations, on the 10th of February, 30th Hen. VIII. 1538-9.§ " On the 1st January, 26th Hen. VIII. 1534-5, Mary Rollesley, Prioress, and Convent made Richard Berde aforesaid, their senes- chal, receiver and collector of all their manors, &c. by charter under the conventual seal, dated as aforesaid, for the term of his life from the date of the instrument, with a fee or stipend of 1 %l. * Ministers' Accounts. Orders and Decrees, xiii. f. 14 b. t Malcolm's Lond. Eediv. iii. 548. J Ministers' Accounts. § Orders and Decrees, x. f. 141 b. 16 Demise of Beginald Goodman. sterling, and 20«. for his livery : also with eatables and drinkables, two cartloads of fuel and ten quarters of charcoal a year allowed and delivered to him, and the use and occupation of one chamber, and of a certain parlour appertaining to the same, within the precinct of the Priory, with free ingress to and egress from the same at all convenient and lawful times during his life. * " On the 20th of January, 1534-5, 26th Hen. VIII., the Prioress and Convent granted, demised, and let to Regnald or Rouland Goodman, citizen and fishmonger, their lands or great gardens, with a ' Shedd' and other appurtenances, with free entry and issue, incoming and outgoing at all times convenient, requisite, and necessary, into and from the same, by and through the next way now used, had, and occupied, lying and being in the parish of S. Botolph without Bysshoppesgate, in the tenure of John Newton, ' pulter,' from Michaelmas, 1540, for fourscore years, at a yearly rent of four marcs sterling, payable at Ladyday and Michaelmas, in equal portions. The said Rowland to keep and maintain competently all the fences of the said lands or gardens. If in arrear for a quarter of a year, the Prioress or Convent to have again and repossess their premises, as in their former estate. Allowed by the Court of Augmentations, on the 26th of Novem- ber, 31st Hen. VIII. 1539.t " On the 10th of December, 27th Hen. VIII. 1535, thev leased * Conventual Leases, No. 20 ; Ministers' Accounts, f Ministers' Accounts. Orders and Decrees, vi. f. 27. Mr. Hugo remarks, "Among the documents in the possession of the LeatherseUers' Company is one of the same year as the seven last described, 1534, and probably the counter- part of one of them. I regret that I cannot give positive information on this point inasmuch as to my application to the Court of the Company for permis- sion to inspect it for a few minutes, in order to include its details in the present memoir, that body thought fit to issue a refusal ! It is difficult to understand the reason of such a repulse, further than that it appears to be a sort of tradition with the Company to resist all such solicitations. So long ago as the year J803 Malcolm complained that he ' received no en- couragement in his enquiries.' ' As it is,' he adds, ' what can be viewed by the passenger I shall describe ; but further this deponent cannot say.' (iii. 562.) This jealous custody and concealment of documents, which are now possessed simply of historical and archseologioal interest, I had almost hoped were among the follies which have passed away— or, at any rate, that it would not have found an apparently perpetual lodgment in a worshipful Company of the City of London." leases of Tenements. 17 to John Rollesleye their messuage or mansion place, with the gardens, cellars, solars, &c. appertaining to the same, lately in the tenure of Nicholas late Bishop of LandafF, situated between the tenements of Sir John Russell, knt. and Alen Hawte, within the close of S. Helen's, from the Christmas following, for four score years, at a yearly rent of xlvj s. viij d. sterling, payable at the four terms in even portions. If in arrear for thirteen weeks, the Prioress and Convent might enter and distrain. Repairs to be done by the farmer. As in the other instances given in the notes, the original lease still exists.* " On the 20th December, 27th Hen. VIII. 1535, they leased to Thomas Pett, citizen and grocer, a messuage in the parish of S. Ethelberga for a term of twenty years at a yearly rent of xlv s.f " On the 7th of April, in the 27th year of Hen. VIII. 1536, the Prioress and Convent granted, demised, and let to John Rolesley ten tenements, with gardens thereunto adjoining, and three chambers, with their appurtenances, situated within the close and tenements aforesaid ; the tenements in the holding respectively of Richard Parker, Guy Crayford, Edward Waghan, Edward Bryseley, Margaret Dalton, widow, John Bernard, Richard Harman, John Harrocke, and Andrew Byscombe; and the chambers, one on the ground, in the tenure of Emma Lowe, widow, and the other two up the stairs, over the chambers of the said Emma, in the tenure of William Damerhawle ; together with the alley, tenements, cellars, and solars, to the said alley apper- taining, situated in the same close, (except a tenement or chamber in the said alley, wherein Johane Heyward then dwelt,) and another tenement outside the close, wherein Thomas Rancoke then dwelt, from Michaelmas last past for threescore years ensuing, at a yearly rent of £15, payable at the four usual terms of the year. The said John to keep the said premises in good and sufficient repair. If the rent were in arrear for six months after any of the said feasts, and no sufficient distress for the arrears could be found, the Prioress and Convent might re-enter and repossess. This was allowed by the Court of Augmentations, on the 17th April, 31st Hen. VIII. 15404 * Conventual Leases, No. 14. f Ministers' Accounts. X Conventual Leases, No. 15. Ministers' Accounts. Orders and De- crees, V. f. 1. C 18 "Valor" of Ecclesiastical Property. " On the same day the Prioress and Convent granted and let to the same John their tenements with appurtenances in the parish of S. Alphe in ' MuggeweU Strete/ and S. Olave in ' Silver Strata by Crepulgate,' from Michaelmas next coming for a term of four- score years, at a yearly rent of £7 sterling, payable at the usual terms. The said John to keep the premises in competent and sufficient repair. If the rent were in arrear for six weeks, the Prioress and Convent were to have power to enter and distrain. If for a quarter of a year, or if the repairs were not accom- plished in avoiding rain and other extreme weather, they might re-enter and repossess themselves wholly of the property. This was allowed by the Court of Augmentations on the 20th April, 31st Hen. VIII. 1540.* " On the same day, the Prioress and Convent leased to John RoUesleye, his executors and assigns, two tenements in the parish of S. Elen's outside the close, one in the tenure of Wilham Shurbume, citizen and barber-surgeon, and a marsh called the ' Hare Marsshe ' in the parish of Stebunheth in the county of Middlesex, for a term of sixty years, at a rent of viij li. xv s. iiij d. payable at the four usual terms.f " In the 27th of Hen. VIII. the ' Valor ' was taken of all ecclesiastical property, to determine the tenth which was hence- forth ordered to be paid to the King for the support of his dignity of Supreme Head of the Church of England. The yearly value of all the possessions of the House was £376 6«., in rents from tenements in the city of London, the rectory of S. Helen's, tene- ments in Bordeston and Edelmeton in Middlesex, Eyworth in Bedfordshire, Barmeling in Kent, Balamesmede and Marck in Essex, Ware in Hertford, and Dachet in Buckingham. Out of this sum various rents for lands in several parishes of the city were to be deducted, together with the stipends of Sir James Bulleyn, knight, chief steward, Richard Berde, receiver, and John Dodington, auditor ; and pensions to David Netley, chaplain of the perpetual chantry of the B. V. M. in the Church of S. Helen's; Thomas Criche, chaplain of the chantry of the Holy Ghost, in the same church j the churchwardens of S. Mary Botowe ; the * Ministers' Accounts. Orders and Decrees, v f 2 t Conventual Leases, No. 9. Ministers' Accounts. Thomas Benolt, Clarenceaux Herald. 19 wardens of a fraternity in Bow Church ; Thomas More, chaplain of a chantry in S. Michael's, Cornhill; poor people at the anniversaries of Adam Fraunces, Robert Knolls, and Hugh Wynarde, in the Church of S. Helen's ; the vicar of Eyworth ; the Bishop of Lincoln, for sinodals and procurations ; and the Abbess and Convent of Barking. These amounted to £55 lO*. 3J TUON KOBINSON, A.D. 1600. Jri^ Eobinson and Kirwin Monuments. 59 and consideration. They ■will be taken into consideration, not according to their respective dates of erection, but according to their position, beginning from the north wall of the Nuns' Quire. The first that claims attention is that of Thon Robinson, merchant of the staple of London, and merchant-taylor ; an elaborate specimen of its period — husband, wife, and children being placed, according to sex, on each side of an altar-table, with the following inscription : — WitUn this Monument lye the earthly parts of THON EOBINSON, Marchant of y° Staple of England, free of y° Copany of Marchant Talors, and sometymes Alderman of Londo, and Christian his Wife, Eldest daughter of Tho Anderson, Grocer. They spent together 36 Yeares in holy Wedlock, and were happy besides other worldly blessings in nyne sonnes and seaven daughters. She changde her mortall habitation for a heavenly on the 24th of April, 1592, Her husband following her on the 19th of February, 1599. Both much beloved in theire lives, and more lamented at theire deaths especially by the Poore to whome theire good deedes (being alive) begott many prayers and now (being dead) many teares. The glasse of his life held three score and ten yeares, and then ran out. To live long and happy is an honor, but to die happy a greater glory. Boeth these aspired to booth. Heaven (no doubt) hath theire soules, and this howse of stone theire bodyes, where they sleepe in peace till the somons of a glorious resurrection wakens them. Upon entering the Church by the west door, an altar- tomb, of somewhat small proportions, immediately attracts, attention, for its simplicity in structure, no less than for the quaintness of its inscription, which is as follows : — Here lyeth the bodie of WILLIAM KEEWIN of this Cittie of London, Free Mason, whoe departed this lyfe the 26th daye of December, Aii° Do 1594, ^dibus Attaliois, Londiuum qui deooravi ; Me duce surgebant aliis regalia teota Exiguam tribuunt banc mibi fata Uomo. Me duoe conficitur, ossibus vine meis.* And here alsoe lyeth the bodie of MAGDALEN KIEWIN his Wife by whom he had issue 3 sonnes and 2 daughters shoe deceased the XXIIIth August, 1592. * The fates have aHorded this narrow house to me, who have adorned London with noble buildings. By me, royal palaces were built for others. By me, this tomb is erected for my bones. 60 i)ame Abigail Lavxrence. Magdalena jacet, virtns post fata supstes, Corpus humo tectum, Ohristo veniente resurget Conjugiique fides, Eeligioque maneut. Ut mentis censors astra suprema colat. Nos quos certus amor primis oonjunxit abbanis Junxit idem Tumulus, juuxit idemque Polus.* BENJAMIN KIRWIN y" sonne of William Kiewin, deceased y« 12th of July An. Dom. — 1621, whoe had issue 7 sonnes and 5 daughters whereof 5 of them are buried in this Vault, Christus mihi vita Mors mihi lucrum.f On the right-hand side, or the south wall of the Church, is the following monument : — In JWemotD Of Dame ABIGAIL LAWEENCE Late Wife of S' John Lawrence, Kn' & Alderman heere inten*" was this tomb Erected Shee was the tender Mother of ten Children the nine first being all daughters she suckled at her owne breasts they all lived to be of age, her last a sou died an Infant Shee lived a married wife thirty nine years three and twenty whereof Shee was an exemplary matron of this Cittio dying in the 59* year of her age being the 6 June 1682. Returning to the Nuns^ Quire, at a very small intervening space from the Robinson monument, f the spectator is startled by the appearance of a huge, incongruous, and ugly piece of masonry — a tomb in the very worst taste, and so unsightly as to mar the entire ecclesiastical proportions of this part of the building. It is to the memory of Francis Bancroft, and bears the following inscription : — * Magdalen lies here ! Thou virtue survivest the tomb. Her body now covered with earth shall rise again at the coming of Christ : To her Husband, Faith and Religion still remain that when deprived of life, he may dwell in the loftiest heaven. The same Tomb has joined and the same Heaven has united ua, whom an unvaried love connected from our earliest years. t To me to live is Christ, to die is gain. X Seep. 59. Francis Bancroft. 61 The ground whereon this Tomb stands was Purchased of this Parish in MDCCXXIII by FEANCIS BANCEOFT Esq' for the interrment of himself and friends only (and was Conflrm'd to him by a Faou^lty from the Dean and Chapter of S' Paul's London the same year) and in his Lifetime he erected this tomb, Anno, 1726 and settled part of his Estate in London and Middlesex for the Beautifying and Keeping the same in Eepair for ever. Francis Bancroft left behind him a very singular will, in which the most curious directions were specified for the interment of his remains.* The reputation this individual bore during his lifetime was not of the best. He was a descendant of Archbishop Bancroft, and in early life is reported to have been in poor cir- cumstances. He obtained the appointment of Lord Mayor's officer, of which there were at the time four, two seniors and two juniors. It appears that the juniors had the enviable (!) privilege of laying informations, and of obtaining half the fines that were levied upon those who had infringed the law. They were, in fact, informers. In the natural order of things, the junior officers became seniors. Thrice, it is said, this promotion fell to Francis Ban- croft's lot, and thrice did he buy back the junior office, in order to carry on the process by which he realized his money. So unpopular was he in the City of London, it is recorded, that when he was buried the populace mobbed his remains, attempted to upset the coffin, and rung the bells, which were then located above the entrance to Great St. Helen's.f With the property left to the disposition and management of the Drapers' Company, the Bancroft Hospital was founded in Mile-End Road, for the benefit of twenty-four almsmen, and the education, clothing, and maintenance of one hundred poor boys. The funds, most carefully and con- sistently husbanded, have very largely increased ; the value of the charity, in every particular, is reckoned only second to Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street. An application has been recently made to the Drapers' Company who, as will be seen by the monumental inscription upon the tomb, have the custody and charge of its maintenance and repair, by the testator's will, for ever to * For Francis Bancroft's Will, see Appendix, f See Stow's Survey, p. 278. Ed. Lond. 1754. G3 Smith and Kuhff. remove this hideous specimen of bad taste and ridiculous vanity to another spot, under the great west window of the Nuns' Quire, unhappily without effect, it being supposed that a consent to comply with the request may invalidate the terms of Francis Ban- croft's will. In compliance with the directions of that document, a sermon is preached in commemoration of his " Act and deed," for which, and for reading the prayers, the sum of \l. \\s. M., liberally increased of late years to hi. 5*., has to be paid to the ofBciating minister, Is. M. to the parish clerk, and 5*, to the sexton. Passing from the consideration of Francis Bancroft and his tomb, the eye is caught by a plain tablet — In JSltmotB of JOHN SMITH, Esq" of this Parish who died June 29* 1783 Aged 80 By Strict Probity Sincerity and Benevolence he endeared himself to ALL ■who knew him. But more especially to the Poor and Needy ' by kind Condesension & boundless CHAEITY. Reader Go and do thou likewise." Adjoining the above is another equally plain and simple tablet, bearing the following inscription : — Near this Spot are deposited the remains of HENRY PETER KUHFF, Esquire* who departed this life October the lO* 1796 in the 70"' year of his age of PETER KUHFF, his Son who died January the lO* 1786 in his 7* year of FREDERICK CHARLES KUHFF, Esquire who died March 11* 1792 Aged 50 Years * 1796, Oct. 10, at Highgate in his 70th year, Henry Peter KuhfC, Esq. An eminent merchant, and many years a Director of the Koyal Assurance Co. — Oentleman'a Mag., p. 883. ^^jjij^^.^^^ MAHTIN BOND, A,D. 1643, Captain Martin Bond. 63 We next approach one of the most remarkable amongst the many remarkable monuments for which this Church has obtained the appellation of " The "Westminster Abbey of the City" — that of Martin Bondj Captain of the City Train-bands in 1588j when that body of citizen soldiers were reviewed by Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury, in preparation against the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada. It is placed on the north wall of the Nuns' choir, and represents an encampment. In the foreground is a large open tent, within which he is represented sitting in a thoughtful posture at a table. At the side of the tent a page holds his horse, and in the front are two sentinels with partisans, in large boots and slouched hats. The whole is enclosed in a frontispiece, consisting of two composite columns, sustaining an enta- blature and pediment, the cornice broken to admit the arms ; below the sculpture is the inscription, from which we learn that all this military display is for a captain of the Trained Bands.* The monument is, however, invaluable as displaying to perfection the costume of the times. This was covered with numerous coats of black paint, which have recently been removed by the care of the Haberdashers' Company, to show that the materials of which the monument is composed consists of black marble and alabaster. The inscription is as peculiar as the monument itself is remarkable: — JWtmotiK Sacrum. Neere this place resteth y° body of y° worthy Cittizeu and Soldier MARTIN BOND Esq'. Son of Will™ Bond, Sherief and Alderman of London He was Captaine in y° yeare 1588 at y^ Camp at Tilbury and after remained Cheief Captaine of y" trained bandes of this Cittiy until his death. He was a marchant adventurer and free of y" Company of Haberdashers he lived to the age of 85 yeares and dyed in May 1643, His pyety, prudence, courage and honesty have left behinde him, a never dyeing monument. * Trained Band for Aldersgate, Afterwards in the Artillery. 64 William and Esther Finch. Quam prudens hie MUes erat, quam Nobile Pectus Noveruut Princeps, Patria, Castra, Duces, Civi quanta fuit Pietas, quam larga Manusq ; Pauperis agnoscunt Viscera, Templa Togs, Miles hie et Civis qualem Vix millibus Unum Seecla referre queant, nee meminisse Parem. Patruo bene merito Gulielmus Bond, Anniger Posvit.* To the right of this monument, but at a lower levels is a monu- ment to the father of Captain Martin Bond, who was designated, as appears by the inscription, the Flos mercatorum of his times. On the floor of the north aisle is a slab, on which the effigy of the deceased — name unknown — and several shields, &a are cut on the stone in the manner of a brass. Such memorials are rather uncommon. Immediately adjacent to the monument of Captain Bond is a somewhat ugly structure, to which reference is made simply on account of the singularity of its inscription, which runs to the following effect : — &\&it ^IraHum Peripatetiee, & paulisper contemplare, Omatissimi microcoami heu ! breves reliqnias Nunc in pulverem redacti olim G TJLTELMI FINCH, Armigeri antiqua & in Agro Cantij Familia oriundi Naturae & Gratis dotibus egregie nobilitate Ad Oris Corporisq. venustatem aecessit major Animse pulchritude optimis virtutibus insignitae Quas in Christianse Religionis testimonium et decus luculenter usque exernit. Eximia in Deum. 0. M. Pietate erga Saeros Pastores summa Keverentia Fidehtate in Principem, Jnstitia in Proximum Conjugali Paternaq Indulgentia Singulari in Familiares afifectu integgerrimo propensa in Omnes Benevolentia ; LinguS. castus et candidus, manu supra fidem Liberalis ; Nemini turpiter obloqui, aut, obtrectare solitus omnibus benifacere, inprimis Egenis absq*, pr^cinente buccina, Eleemosynis pariter ac Thesauris plenus, quo probe accumulatas in Terra plurimos prudens Mercator in Ccelo recondidit, Vitam tandem commntandis aliquandiu mercibua prospere transactam 42 Sltatis annum emensus Jun 27. 1672. Meliori qnasstu cum Morte comutavit. Reliotis & bonoo Spei Parvulis cum dUectissima et amantisaima Uxore quae in perpetuam tam chari Capitis Memoriam Monumentum hoc constantissimi Amoris Pignus, extruondum ouravit, Ipsa interim mserore cum Illo consepulta Abiiam nttonitus Viator & mirare tam probum in tam pravo seculo Virum, aut vivere potuisse, aut debuisse MORI. * How prudent was this soldier, and how noble his mind, his prince, his country, and his superior officers knew. How great liis piety, how extensive his liberality the poor can testify, as also religion and the pensioners on his bounty This soldier and citizen ages cannot produce one out of a thousand to equal, nor is his like remembered. William Bond, Esq. has erected tWa as a memorial of his uncle's worth. r " - Mm WILLIAM B3ND, A.D. 1576." Finch and Drax. G5 ESTHER FINCH, Foemina castissima, Viro morigera et curee dcmesticie dulce levamen liberorum (qucg septem reliquit) Mater provida, Sincera pietate, alacri erga tenuiores benignitate, liberalitate in omncs, morum denique sanctitate conspicua. Viri (dum iu vivia esaet) deous simul et Eolamen, defuncti Vidua supra quamdici potest moestissima. Yixit annos 41. Menses 5. demptis diebiis 11. Obiit Maii die 4 Anno Salutis 1673.* "Within very small intervening space another singular epitaph is worth consideration. It runs thus : — 1EpttB{)^ On the lamented death of his honored Friend WILLIAM DRAX Esq. who exchanged this life for immortality Decern 17 1669 in the 63 yeare of his Age. To thy dear memory blest soule i paie This humble tribuit though in such a way As reather doth proclaime my want of skill Than any want of love of heart and will True to thy trust none in our memory Can charge the more or less with treuchery Bring forth the p'son, Rich, poore, old or younge That can justly say he ever did them wrong In others weal or woe thy heart Would sympathies and take its part Oh what's more like the Deity Than blessed hoary piety A soul fitted for heaven when glorious Grace Triumphs with him in his sure restinge-plaoe But is he dead Can I beleeve That he should die and we should lire Methioks we may the knot untie Better to live fitter to dye Now death I see doth wisely chuse The gold but doth the dross refuse Weepe not as without hope cry not alas Hees better where he is than where he was Hearke, is not that his voice doth not he say Heaven's meanest mansion, is worth this globe of clay Who so doth live and doe and die like thee His fame shall last to all eternity. * Stop ! passenger, and for awhile contemplate philosophically the remains of that Microcosm, formerly most adorned, alas, now reduced to dust. William PIncli, Esq., sprang from an ancient and illustrious family of Kent. To the beauty, of his countenance and shape of body (gifts of Nature), as well as to nobility of birth, he added the beauty of a soul adorned with the best virtues, which he constantly used in testimony, and for the honour of the Christian Religion. Of great piety towards Grod (our greatest good), reverence for his pastors, 66 Sir Thomas Gresham. Northward of this is the tomb of the great City mei ihant. Sir Thomas Gresham, concerning whom the following information may for the present suffice, as an account of his remarkable career appears under the head of "Worthies" connected with St. Helen's. It consists of a large altar-tomb of rich Sienna marble, covered with a ledger of black marble, the dado of which is richly ornamented with various mouldings appertaining to Italian archi- tecture, and Sir Thomas's arms, in a more chaste style than the usual works of the period. It has recently been thoroughly cleaned and restored at the expense of the Gresham Committee and Mercers' Company. Above this tomb a helmet is placed upon a bracket, in the angle of the window — restored and filled with stained glass during the restoration of 1865-8, at the charge of the Gresham Committee of the Corporation of the City of London — which helmet, tradition intimates, was borne before the corpse on the night of Sir Thomas Gresham's funeral. In like manner, with reference to Sir Andrew Judd, whose monument is fixed upon the opposite side of the same window, the inscription of his monument is only given ; the further particulars fidelity towards his prince, justice to his neighbours, indulgence to his wife and children, affection for his friends, and benevolence to all, chaste and sincere in language, and of incredible liberality of sentiment, lie never reproached or disparaged anyone, but was accustomed to do good to all, particularly to the needy, without sounding a trumpet before him ; abound- ing in alms, as well as in wealth, which honestly accumulated on earth, as a prudent merchant he laid up in heaven. At length, June 27, 1672, having completed the forty-second year of his age, he bartered with death, a prosperous life for a better possession. He was much lamented by those he had left behind him. His children of good promise, and his most beloved and most loving wife, who, for a perpetual memorial of his dear self, and as a pledge of her unvaried love, has caused this monument to be erected ; she having in the meantime died through grief, is buried together with him. Go now, astonished traveller, and wonder that a man so good, could have lived iu so depraved an age, or ought to have died. Esther Finch, a most chaste woman, obedient to her husband, and a sweet soother of his domestic cares, a careful mother of her childi-en (of whom she has seven), of sincere piety, great benignity towards her inferiors, and of liberality to all. In short, conspicuous for the sanctity of her manners, and at the same time the glory and comfort of her husband when alive, but now dead. A widow more sorrowful than can be expressed, lived 41 years, 5 nionths, wanting 11 days, and died May 4, 1673. |||liililBl!!'li(lilF tIK AKDllEW JUDDE, A.D. 1588. SIB WILUA3I PICKEEINO, A.D, 1574. Judd and Pickering. 67 of his career, &c., being insetted in the chapter devoted to the "Worthies" of St. Helen's. To Russia and Musooua To Spayne Gynny withoute fable Traveld he by land and sea Bothe inayre of London and Staple The Conunenvelthe he norished So worthelie in all his days That eoh state fullwell him loved To his perpetuall prayea. Three wives he had : one was Mary Fower suues one mayde had he by her Annys had none by him truly By Dame Mary he had one dowghtier , Thus in the month of September A thowsaade fyve hundred fiffcey And eight died this worthie Stapler Worshipynge his posterytye. > ANDREW- JUDD Knt. The magnificent Tomb of Sir William Pickering, who died at Pickering House, St. Mary Axe, in 1574, aged 58, is situated under the north-east arch of the choir. Tor splendour of decoration, no monument in London, out of Westminster Abbey, can compare with it. It consists of an altar-tomb, panelled into compartments, sustaining on the ledger six Corinthian columns and two arches at the head and foot of the tomb, which jointly support a canopy formed of two arches resting on the entablature above the columns by way of impost, the soffits of the arches being filled with sunk panels, containing roses and fleur de lis alternately. The canopy is surrounded by an ornamental circle, sustained by two chimerse, and enclosing the arms of the knight — viz., SA. a chevron, between three fleur de lis, oe. Within this canopy, upon the altar-tomb, lies extended the effigy of the knight, the size of life, bareheaded, in complete armour with trunk breeches, his head resting on a rolled mat, and a ruff surrounding his neck. The countenance is open and full of animation, the nose Roman, and the whole bespeaks a very handsome man, worthy to be the favourite of the discriminating Elizabeth ; at the feet of the figure is a fleur de lis. Attached to a pillar near the monument is a tablet with an inscription : '' To the memory of Sir William, and his father, Pickering." The monument bears the following inscrip- tion : — 68 Sir John and Lady Crosby. Quiescit Wo Gctlielmtjs Pikbringus, Pater, Equestris Ordinig vir, Miles Marisoallus. Qui obiit 19 Mali, Anno Salutis a Christo. MDXLII. Jacet hie etiam, Gulielmus Pikerinous, Filius, Miles, Corporis Animiq ; bonis insigniter omatus ; Literis excnl tus, et Keligione sincerus : Lingnas exacte percaUuit, Quatuor Principibus sununa cum laude inservivit : Hen, rioo scilicet octavo, Militari virtute : Eduardo sexto, Legatione Gallica : Reginse Marise, negotiatione Ger manica : EUzabethae, Frincipi omnium iUnstrissunse. summis officiis devotissimus, Obiit Londini, in ledibus Pikeringiis, ^tate Lvin Anno Gratiae, MDLXxnii Januarii Quarto. Cujus Memorise, Thomas Henneagius, Miles, Camerse Regiae Thesaurarius ; Johannes Astley, Armiger, jocaUum Magister : Drugo Drureius, et Thomas Wottonus Armig., Testamenti sui Executores, Monn- mentum hoc posuere.* In the Chapel of the Holy Ghost, on the south side of the choir, is a monument of Purbeck marble (a.d. 1475), with the figures of Sir John Crosby and his first wife, Anneys. He is represented in plated armour, with a mantle gathered up on his right shoulder, and falling over on his left, under his back, with a standing cape, and over it a Yorkist collar of rondeaux. On the little finger of the right hand is a ring, and others on the little and third fingers of the left hand : his hair is cropt and parted. Under his head is a helmet, the crest gone. He has a dagger at his right side, fastened by a singular belt, but no sword. His knee-pieces are riveted on the inside, and there is a fold or parting on his greaves. At his feet is a lion looking up to him. His lady is in a mantle, and very close-bodied gown, in which her feet are folded up, with long tight * Here lies William Pickering the elder, Knight, Field Marshal, who died the 19th of May, in the year of our salvation by Christ 1542. Here also lieth William Pickering the younger ; a true soldier, remarkably endowed with good things, versed in literature, and a sincere Christian : he was singularly skilled in languages ; and served four sovereigns in the most honourable manner ; Henry the Vlllth in his military capacity. Edward the Vlth in an embassy to France. Queen Mary in a negotiation with Grermany ; and the most illustrious Princess Elizabeth, by the greatest devotedness to duties of the highest moment. He died in London at Pickering House, January 4. In the year of grace 1574, aged 58. To his memoiy Thomas Henneagius, soldier and Treasurer of the Eoyal Household ; John Astley, Bsq.,Master of the Jewels ; Drugo Drury, soldier j and Thomas Wotton, Esq., have placed this monument. |21 ix.t&igllt riirt. Sir Julitis Ccesar Adelmare. 69 sleeves down to her wrists. Over the back of her hand passes a singular band : she has a ring on her fore and little fingers, and round her neck a collar of roses ; a small cordon hangs on her right hip^from a belt sloping from the left side ; her cap is fitted close to^er ears, and the hair tucked up under it, a veil falling off the cushion under her head, which is supported by two angels. At her feet lie two little dogs. The inscription, directed by his Will to be put on the ledge of this monument, has been long since removed, but in quatrefoils, surrounded by niches in two stories — one of which, until recently, was below the level of the floor and pavement — at the sides of the altar-tombs, are shields with the arms of Crosbie. Sable, a chevron ermine, between three rams trippant. Argent, armed and hoofed. Or. The following is the inscription, on brass, that was originally placed upon the edge of the table whereon the efi&gies are re- cumbent : — Orate pro animabus Johanitis Crosby, Militis, Aid. atque tempore vite Majoris Staple ville Caleis ; et Agnetis Uxoris sue, ac Thomb, Richaedi Johannis, JoHANNis, Margaketb, et JoHANNE liberorum ejusdem JoHANifis Ceosbt, Militis. lUe obiit 1475 et Ilia 1466. Quoram animabus propitietur Deus.* Near this monument, in the south transept, is the singular altar- tomb of Sir Julius Caesar Adelmare, who, feeling the ruling passion strong in death, moulded his epitaph in the form of a deed, to which he affixed his broad seal, which is " railed," and also its enrolment in a court — however, superior to that in which he used to preside. The following is the inscription : — To all faithful Christian People to whom this writing may come. Know ye, that •I JuLltJS Abelmaee alias CiESAB, Knight, Doctor of Laws, Judge of the Supreme Court of Admiralty of Queen Elizabeth, One of the Masters of Requests to King James, and of ;,his Privy Council, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Master of the KoUs, by this my act and deed, confirm, with my full consent that by the Divine aid, I will willingly pay the debt of Nature as soon as it may please God. In witness whereof I have fixed my hand seal. Feb'' 27. 1634 Jto. C^sae. * Pray for the souls of John Crosby, Soldier, Alderman and during a portion of his life Mayor of the Staple of the town of Calais, and of Agnes his wife, of Thomas, Eichard John, John, Margaret and Johanna, Children of the same John Crosby, Soldier. He died in 1475 and she in 1466. On whose souls may God have mercy. — ^Weever's Fun, Moaum., p. 421, ed. London, 1631. 70 Sir John Spencer. He paid tHis debt, being at the time of his death, of the Privy Council of King Charles, also Master of the Bolls : truly pious, particularly learned, a refuge to the poor, abounding in love, most dear to his country, his children, and his friends. He died April 18, 1636, in the 79* year of his age. It is enrolled in Heaven. His Widow, Lady Ann Cseear, has erected this monument to his memory and here rests with him. Against the south wall of the parochial nave, the splendid monument of Sir John Spencer is now placed. At the restoration of 1865-8, it was removed from the south transept to this spot hy the Marquis of Northampton, by whose care, and at whose expence it was cleansed from numerous coats of white paint, and found to consist of a magnificent specimen of the purest alabaster. Upon this tomb are placed the recumbent figures of Sir John and his wife in the habits of the times in which they lived, the size of life, and at their feet is the figure of their daughter, in the attitude of prayer. The monument is covered with a sumptuous arched canopy, ornamented with pyramids. The following is the inscription : HIC SITOS EST JOANNES SPENCEE EQtJES AUEAT0S CIVIS & SENATOR LONDINENSIS, EJUSDEMQ CIVITATIS PRiETOR ANNO DM. MDXCIIII QUI EX ALICIA BKOMEBLDIA UXOEE nXICAMKELIQiriT EILIAM ELIZABETH OUILIELMO BAEONI COMPTON ENIJPTAM GBIIT 3° HABTH DIE ANNO SALT7TIS MDCIX* SOCEKO BENE MEEITO GULIELMXTS BARD COMPTON GBNEK POSVIT A full account of this great City merchant and trader is incor- porated amongst the " Worthies of St. Helen's." On the floor of the north aisle is a slab, on which the eflSgy of the deceased (unknown), and the ornamentation are cut on the stone in the manner of a brass. Such memorials are rather un- common. Removed from the old vestry wall to a spot immediately adja- * Here lies John Spencer, Kjiight, Citizen and Member of Parliament for London. Lord Mayor of the same City a.d. 1594. By Alicia Bromfeld his wife he left an only daughter, who was married to William Bai-on Compton. He died March 3 in the year of our salvation 1609. To his moat excellent father-in-law, this was erected by William Bai-on Compton. -7 -A. SIR JOHN AND LADY SPENCEK, A.D. 1C09, Alderman Bernard and Bereshy. 7 1 cent to the tomb of Sir Julius Caesar, is a monument of Italian marble, which attracts attention. The following inscription records whose memory it is intended to preserve : — In a Vaiilt near this place are deposited the remains of WALTER BERNAED, Esq. Alderman* & late Sheriif of this City in both which stations He acted to the General satisfaction of his Fellow Citizens His private as well as publick character was truely amiable He was a sincere Christian A Faithfull Husband, a kind master and a true Friend And as the whole Conduct of his life was agreeable to the principles of true Religion and virtue so his death was universally Lamented. He dyed May the 4. 1746 Aged 51, A singularly beautiful tablet in the adjacent wall cannot be left unnoticed, the woriananship being in every particular worthy of consideration. It bears the annexed epitaph : — lie facet QxTOD MoETALB BEAT GERVASH RERESBY. Antiquissima ejusdem nominis familia Eborancensi oriundi Qui cum triginta plus annos in Hispania fide indelibat4 sum moque honore vixisset In AngUam tandem rediit atque anima mente inconcussi Salvatori reddidit An» Dom MDCCIV. Hoc Patri optimo Filius posuit unicus.f Mercy Jesu. Another elaborate specimen deserves consideration : — * Alderman of Broad Street Ward.— Gamrtemara's Mag., vol. xvi. p. 272. t Here lies the mortal remains of Gervasli Eeresby, of a most ancient family of tie same name, originally from Yorkshire, who, after he had lived for more than thirty years in Spain in the greatest estimation, and with the highest honour, returned to England, and, with an unshaken faith, delivered up his soul to his Saviour, Anno Dom. 1704. His only son erected this (monumeJit) 'to his most excellent parent. 72 Chambrelan. M. S. Charles Chambrelan, Esq., Alderman of this City, in testimony of his true aflection and sorrow for their deaths, hath consecrated tliis Monument to the memory of his dearly beloved wife RACHEL (the daughter of S' John Lawrence, K' Lord Mayor of London, 1665), who died August the 21st, 1687, soon after her delivery of her 10th child. And of his fourth daughter, Hester, who dyed the 9th of June, 1687, at the age of 6 years, 8 months, Both whose Bodies are here deposited in a Vault near this place (belonging to his Ancestors), In expectation of a joyful resurrection at the last day. M. S. In the same Vault with his dear Wife and daughter (And with like hopes of a joyful resurrection together), yeth the body of Charles Chambrelain, Esq., Alderman of this City, who departed this life Jan. 29th, 1704, aged 65 Years, having nowhere left behind him either a Merchant better accomplished or a Gentleman more compleatly adorned with all sorts of useful knowledge. In memory of her most affectionate and entirely beloved Father, Abigail, his sorrowful Daughter and sole executrix (the wife of Lemying Rebow, Esq.), caused this Monument to be enlarged. This monument conceals an Early English window, similar to one adjacent, which, although opened at the recent restoration, as to the interior, could not be utilized on account of a set of offices having been built upon the Church. BRASSES. St. Helen's is by no means rich in monumental brasses, but those which exist are generally believed to be excellent specimens of the several periods whose dates they bear. For the sake of safety, as well as of preservation, they have all been recently trans- ferred to the two restored chapels of the Holy Ghost- and Virgin Mary. They date back to a.d. 1393, but in the more remarkable instances of a later period, a.d, 1400, the representation of a priest Monumental Brasses. 73 in full canonicalsj and a female figurSj there is no record to indi- cate to whom they refer.* Not so with regard to one adjacent — containing the effigies of a London merchant and his wife, in the costume of the period, to the memory of Thomas and Margaret WilliamSj with the following inscription ; — Hie jacet Thomas Williams, generos, et Makoa'reta Uxor eju3 qui Thomas obiit XVI. die mensi Januarij a dm 1495, Et Margareta obiit die mensi Quoram animabus propitietnr Deus. Amen.t The most elaborate and perfect of all the specimens is that of some distinguished gentlewoman of the style of the latter part of the reign of Henry VII., whose costume tfe that which was worn by those aged ladies of that day who not unfrequently ended life in a nunnery as lady abbesses, or even as mere sisters, to the no small emolument of the Church. J The next, belonging to the sixteenth century, in tolerable preser- vation, is to the memory of John Leventhorpe, Esq., a figure clothed in complete armour, bearing underneath the following record : — Hie jaeet Johannes Leenthorp Armig nup unus quatuor hostiarior camere dom reg Henri septum, qui obiit VI die August! a° dm m' V?X euie die ppicietur deus ame.§ A similar brass, five years later. Humbly prayetb you of your charitie to pray for the soula of Mr. Rob'. EoCHESTBE, Esq., late Srgeant of the Pantry of our Sovrain Lord King Henry the Vin,, whieh dep-d this p-aent lyS the first day of May, the yere of oure Lord God a thousand five hundredth and fourteen. On whose soul ihu of his i-fynite grace have mercy. Amen. A plain strip of brass — the oldest memorial in the Church — records that it has reference to — KoBEET CoTESBEOK gist ycy morust le xj jd de Maris, I'an de g'oe Mil eoc Ixxxxiij ce, || * See Fairholt's " Costumes," p. 183, ed. Lend. 1846. t Here lies Thomas "Williams, gentleman, and Margaret his wife. The said Thomas died Jan. 16, 1495, and the said Margaret May God have mercy on their souls. Amen. X See Fairholt's " Costumes," p. 238. § Here lies John Leventhorp, Esq., one of the four Keepers of the Chamber to King Henry VII., who died August 6th, 1510. To whose soul God be gracious. Amen. II Kobert Cotesbrok lies here died the 11th day of March, the year of grace, 1393. 74 Benolte, Windsor Herald. Two brassesj of which the drawings are still extant, although they themselves have altogether disappeared from their respective matrices, were to the memory of — JoANE daughter of Henry Seamer, and wife to Kichard, Son and Heir of Robert Lord Poynings.* Thomas Benolte (a.d. 1534), Windsor Herald, and his two wives, the execution of which must have been exceedingly beautiful. The inscription, as follows, has been preserved : — Here under lietli the Bodi of Thomas Benolte, Sqnyer, sometyme servant and offycer of Armes, by the name of Windsor Heranlt, unto the right high, and most mighty Prince of ... . most drade Souverayne Lord Kyng Henry the VHI: which Thomas Benolte, otherw/es namyd Clarenceux Kyng of Armes, decesid the Viii day of May, in the year of our Lord God mvcxxxiiij, in xivi yere of our said Soverayne Lord. * " The account of this monument, given in Stow's Survey of London, from the first to the last edition, adds ' she died a virgin, 1420.' This figure is now lost, but an impression of it . . . taken by the late Mr. E. E. Mores, when it was preserved in the church chest, represents her habited in a mantle, surcot, and kirtle with mitten sleeves, and on her breast, ijn mctcg ; her head-dreas is of the veil kind, with the bosses of reticulated hair above her ears Mr. Mores has written under it, ' Obiit virgo, 1420.' — Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. part 2, p. 55, ed. Loud. 1786-96. See also Stow's Sui-vey of Loud., voL i. p. 431. " In this Church their was a figure of the Trinity, and a high altar of S Helen ; to w*" much devotion was paid. In the year 1488, Eafe Mackin, Esq., of this parish, made his wiU, to be buried before the Trinity, in S' Helen's Parish, in Bishopsgate-Street, &c. Hem, I bequeath to the Church a blake velvet gown, and a blake velvet cloke. Item, I bequeath to the high aultare of S' Ellen's a fyne Diaper Tabull Cloaih."— Stow's Survey of London : vol. i. p. 431, ed. Lond , 1754-55. 75 CHAPTER V. BENirACTORS. The Benefactors belonging to this parish are numerouSj as the following list^-obtained from authentic parochial documents — fully proves, and cannot fail to be acceptable as a record of the pious benevolence of our forefathers by the antiquarian and archaeologist. 1579, May 16. — Margaret Dane bequeathed to the Master, Wardens and Company of Ironmongers the sum of 2000^., on condition that they should lend to twenty young men of the Com- pany 100^. each at 51. per cent, for the space of three years, on sufficient security, and on repayment that it should be lent out again from time to time for ever, and that in consideration of the benefit thereof the Company should put in sufficient security to pay yearly 100^. as follows : to Christ's Hospital, St. Bartholomew's, and St, Thomas's Hospital, 10^. each ; to twenty poor maids at their marriage 101.; to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge 51. each, for the relief and bringing up in learning two poor scholars ; 10^. to be distributed in bread and beef amongst poor prisoners in Newgate, &c. ; 51. towards the maintenance of a school at Bishop's Stortford; 10^. for a dinner in their hall on the anniversary of her death, and to provide twelve thousand faggots every year, to be equally distributed to each ward The sum of %5l. is paid yearly, in lieu of faggots, to the aldermen of twenty-four of the wards of London, \l. 0». 10(?. to each for distribution among the poorof their respective wards The amount annually received by this parish is two shillings. 1599, July 12. — John Robinson, Senr., Merchant of the Staple, by his wiU gave to his son Arthur a tenement in the parish of St. Olave, near the Tower of London ; and his will is, " that for ever shall be paid out of the said Capital house, to the Parson and Churchwardens, by quarterly payments, 51. 4s., which 76 Robinson and Fenner Gifts. they shall distribute weekly by two shillings, every Sunday morning in bread to the poor people inhabiting in this parish, with a clause for distress if unpaid after the space of forty days." .... The premises charged with this payment, consisting of a house in Crutched Friars, afterwards became the property of the Car- penters' Company. They are now held by the East India Com- pany, who have taken down the house and erected on the site thereof a part of their warehouses in that street, on which is placed the arms of the Carpenters' Company, by whom the annuity is paid.* 1603, Sep. 29. — Edward Fbnner, of this parish, citizeu and carpenter, by his Will did order and dispose of his messuage or tenement, wherein he dwelt, being No. 40 Bishopsgate Street, in this parish, to several persons for their respective lives, and after their decease, the reversion thereof to the minister and church- wardens of this parish for the time being ; and to the master and wardens of the Company of Carpenters and their successors for ever, to the end that they, within four years after that they shall be possessed thereof, pay his next heir then living 20^., he requir- ing or demanding the same, and to be paid at the said messuage by quarterly payments, and then after that aU such rents after made be divided in two equal parts, whereof one equal half part to be distributed yearly for ever to the poor of this parish, and the other equal half part among the poor of the said Company of Carpenters This house was let on lease, Sept. 12, 1671, for thirty-four years, at the rent of ten pounds per annum. It was afterwards let to William Poole, sadler, at thirty pounds per annum, for twenty- one years from Lady-day, 1705, the first year at a peppercorn rent, on account of the repairs. This lease was renewed to Mr. Poole for the like period from Lady-day, 1726, at the same rent, with an allowance of 40/. for repairs. Oct. 2, 1777. — A lease was granted to Mr. H. Ward for twenty-one years from Lady-day, 1779, at 34/. per annum, the first year's rent being allowed on his undertaking to keep the house in good repair, and to expend 80/. thereon within two years. This lease Was delivered up at Lady-day, 1793, and a new lease * Oommiasionertj' Report on Public Charities, p. 322. Priors Bequest. 77 was granted to H. W. Ward for the term of forty years, at 34-^. per annum, on his agreement to spend 350^. in repairs, the parish allowing him the first year's rent in part thereof, at the expiration of which period, March 25, 1833, a new lease was granted to Mr. Stone, at hll. 10«. per annum, Mr. Stone putting the house into complete repair, and paying all taxes and insurances. 1607, March 11. — William Piiiok, citizen and pewterer, of London, hy his Testament willed, after the decease of his wife, the yearly rent of his house. No. 27, Bishopsgate Street, to be paid to the churchwardens for the time being, and to be by them laid out yearly for ever, viz., 8^. of the said rent to be bestowed on sea-coals, and given to the poor of this parish, and also for two sermons to be preached yearly for ever, viz., on the first Thursday in clean Lent, one sermon, and the other on the day of his burial (which was March 27, 1608), for which sermons he gave thirteen shillings and fourpence out of the said rent ; and to the minister, churchwardens, and parishioners for the time being 2^. yearly for " a drinking," to be spent on the day the said first sermon shall be preached ; and the rest of the said yearly rent to be to the use of the poor of the said parish ; and if the said trust is not executed in the manner aforesaid, the messuage to go to St. Ethelburga parish, with remainder to the Pewterers' Company The house was let on lease, June 4, 1697, for twenty-one years from Lady-day, 1699, to Mr. Math. Chewter, at 30^. per annum, and a present fineof 50^., with agreement not to let it to a tallow chandler, a cook, a victualler, a blacksmith, or a baker ; and Mr. Chewter paid Mr. Churchwarden Woods five shillings in part of the fifty pounds fine, which he acknowledged the receipt of. ... . June 2, 1720. — A lease was granted to Mrs. Ireson for twenty- one years, at 40^. per annum, with a fine of sixty pounds (" Mr. W. Palmer, » parishioner, had offered to take a lease for fifty years, at 45^. per annum, and fifty pounds fine, but retracted therefrom and eluded the vestry, whereby this vestry has deemed him injurious, troublesome, and impertinent"). At the expiration of the above period. Midsummer, 1 741, a lease was granted to Mr. Nathl. Ware, for the like term of twenty-one years, at the same rent, the parish allowing one year's rent for repairs, and Mr. Ware paid one shilling to the churchwarden to bind him to his agreement, 78 Cicely Cyoll's Will. Lady- day, 1784. — The same house was let on lease to Mr. Thomas Delafield for twenty-one years, at 42^. per annum, on his expending 115^. in repairs, towards which the parish allowed the first year's rent. A new lease was granted, October 27, 1803, to Mr. Whittenbury, for twenty-one years, at \%l. per annum. The premises were then taken by Mr. Edward Arman, on a building lease, for sixty years, from Lady-day, 1819, at the rent of 40^. per annum, and a further charge of 3^. 16«. per annum for land-tax, which was redeemed by the parish in the year 1800, at an expense of 126^. 16*. Mr. Arman also purchased from the parish the tithes of his house during the duration of his lease for 12^. 12«. 1608, Aug. 25. — Cicely Cyoll, Widow of German Cyoll, Mer- chant, " considering the fickle and uncertain state and , condition of this present lyfe, and having observed what contentions and controversies doe many times arise amongst deere friends for the goods and possessions of such as leave their estates undisposed, being either prevented by suddaine death or by protracting tyme until such feebleness and debility of body and memory overtake them, that they cannot set any certaine course or order therein, I leave my body to be buried in my late father's vault in St. Michael Bassishaw, and at my buriall I wish a sermon to be preached by my loving friend Mr. Ball, preacher at St. Hellens, unto whom I leave as a legacy 6^. 13«. 4J. . . I will that there be given to fourscore poor women, fourscore gowns of the value of 1^. 6«. 8^. apiece, twenty of the poor women to be of the parish of St. Hellens, and other twenty of St. Michael Bassishaw, and the others as my executors shall appoint. And to every of the said poor women twelve pence apiece. And for a dynner for the entertainment of my kindred and friends such as shall resort to my buriall, and I do limit the sume fifty pounds to be bestowed and the dinner to be kept in my dwelling house in Bishopsgate Street " I will and ordain and do give and dispose the sum of One Hundred and Twenty pounds to be bestowed within convenient time after my decease by my executors upon some convenient purchase of lands, tenements or hereditaments within the City of London of the yearly value of Six pounds at the least and likely to hold the same value for ever, and the same purchase so found to be assured to certain fieoflfees of the said Abraham Chambrelan and Sir Martin Lmiley. 79 several parishes of St. Michael Bassishaw and St. Hellens. And to be continued in assurance to the said parishes for ever to the end that the Church Wardens of the said several Parishes from time to time for ever, shall by and with the revenues of the lands so purchased, distribute weekly for ever to as many poor widows or sole women of their parishes to be equally chosen by a like number in either parish, such as the said parishioners shall think meet to receive the same benevolence every Sabbath day in the morning as the rent or revenues of the said purchase shall extend, to give to every of them two pence a piece in white bread.'' 1612. Fountain gave 10^. to the poor of this parish. 1614. — Edwakd Bkyekwood, Reader of the Astronomy Lec- ture at Gresham College, bequeathed the sum of 10^. to the poor of this parish. 1614. Olivau gave 11. to the poor of this parish. 1630, June 10. — ^Abraham Chambeelan, merchant, in con- sideration of the sum of 60?. paid him by Sir Henry Rowe, executor of Mrs. CyoU, with the consent of the parishioners of St. Helen's, granted unto the said parishioners an annuity or rent- charge of %l. per annum for ever on two messuages, situate in Great St. Helen's, to be distributed according to the will of Mrs. CyoU : and by the wUl of Mr. Chambrelan, dated Decem- ber 15, ] 640, he bequeathed 100?., to remain as a stock, for the use of the poor of St. Helen's for ever, on condition that the parish will allow a vault to be made in the Church for a burial place for himself, wife, and posterity : and within six months after his decease receive and take in the above sum of 60?. The said sum now forms part of the parish stock. 1631, Sep. 1. — Sir Maetin Lumley, knight, and alderman of London, by his will, gave to the churchwardens and their suc- cessors for ever one annuity or rent-charge of 20?. issuing out of his messuage or tenement in the parish of St. John the Evan- gelist, London, called the Black Boy, at two payments — Christmas and Lady-day (?) — ^by even and equal portions, upon trust, for the establishing a lecture or sermon for ever, to be preached in this Parish Church on Tuesday evenings weekly, from Michaelmas to Lady-day, to the honour and glory of God and comfort of the auditors : the churchwardens to pay the same to a godly divine for his pains in preaching ; the said sermon or lecture to begin about 80 The Lumley Lectureship. five o'clock in the evening : and to the said churchwardens like- wise one other amount or rent-charge of M. per annum, issuing out of the said messuage, for the use of the poor householders of this parish at Christmas and Lady-day by even and equal portions. The heirs and successors of Sir Martin Lumley were to have full power and authority for ever in appointing or displacing the said minister. No claim to the appointment having been made by the heirs for many years past, the parishioners in vestry have usually appointed the vicar. Attendance was always given on the proper days at three o'clock, instead of the evening, and it is said that if a congregation of three persons attended, the lecture would be preached. It must be stated, however, to the credit of the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, the vicar from 1835 to 1 847, that he altered it again to evening service, as ordered by the donor, commencing at half-past six o'clock, and continued yearly to a comparatively numerous congregation, during the whole time he held the living. The annuity of 4/., together with those of W. Pennoyre and Thomas Hanson,is given awayabout Christmas to poor housekeepers not receiving parish relief, at the discretion of the churchwardens. At a court for determination of diflPerences touching houses destroyed by the fire of London, held in Clifford's Inn Hall, June 28, 1667 — on the petition of Rebecca Garrett, respecting the tenement left by Sir Martin Lumley, known by the sign of the Black Boy (afterwards called the Bear and Ragged Staff) in Watling Street, charged with the payment of %U. per annum to the Parish of St. Helen's : and that the rebuilding of the said tenement will cost 1500^., the parish utterly refusing to contribute thereto, and that the ground as it lies will not pay the said annuities, the churchwardens being summoned to appear in court, after great debate touching the contribution — it was decreed : That the petitioner should rebuild the said tenement with all con- venient speed, and that the payment of the 4/. shall cease until Christmas, 1668, and that the payment of the annuity of 20/. per annum be forborne and cease for thirteen years from Michaelmas, 1668 J and all arrears from the time of the fire are hereby acquitted ; and after the expiration of the said thirteen years, the payment of the said annuity of 20/. to revive and continue to be paid, and the payment of the said annuity of 4/. to continue without ceasing when the messuage shall be rebuilt. Eobinson and Fenner Gifts. 81 ]633. Meynon left 10^. to the poor. Mastees left 10^. to the poor. Item. — There is a payment of 3^. per annum unto the vicar of this parish, issuing out of a messuage some time in the occupa- tion of Charles Perkins. This is said to have been anciently the Vicarage House, and of late was claimed by the Skinners' Company. 1633, Oct. 14. — William Robinson, late of this parish, citizen and mercer, by his deed enrolled in Chancery, charged a messuage or tenement, and two yard lands, and a quarter of a yard land in Staverton-upon-the-Hill, in Northamptonshire, and all his lands there, with one annuity of 11. 12«. after his decease, for ever to be paid to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of this parish at Lady-day, to be distributed among the poor pensioners of this parish, by \%d. per week, in good sweet wheaten bread every Sabbath-day after morning sermon or dinner service in the said Church. The property, thus charged, now belongs to the Manor of Staverton ; the annuity is regularly paid at the Banking-house of Messrs. Glyn and Company, and forms part of the fund for the distribution of bread on Sundays. 1635, Feb. 8. — Thomas Fenner, citizen of London, by his will, gave all his messuage and tenement in this parish, after the decease of his wife and brother, unto the parson and churchwardens of this parish, upon trust that they shall, "out of the rent and profit thereof, yearly distribute, among seven poor women of this parish in most want, 11., and shall cause one sermon yearly- to be preached in this church on the day of his burial (March 2, 1635,) by some godly preacher, and shall give to him for his pains for every sermon ten shillings, and that the churchwardens may take other ten shillings yearly for their travell and paines taken in and about the premises ; and aU the rest of the rents and profits shall be to the use of the poor of the said parish." The house devised by the above will was let on a building lease, June 1, 1687, to Thomas Kirkes, for 25 years at 8^. per annum, and on May 7, 1 689, a further term of 25 years was added to the lease. At the expiration of that period, March 25, 1739, a new lease was granted to Mrs. Elizabeth Kirk for 21 years, to pay 10 guineas fine, 12Z. per annum rent, clear of all taxes, and to lay out 60^. in repairs. G 82 Joyce Featly. In 1760 a surveyor being engaged to value certain premises in order to an exchange between the parish and Mr. Eyre, reported that Mr. Eyre should have all the premises over and against the gate- way leading into Great St. Helen's, the parish taking the premises on the north-side, No. 88, Bishopsgate Street, and paying him the sum of 20^. 10« Advertisements having been inserted in the daily papers to let the premises exchanged with Mr. Eyre, on a building lease, several proposals were received, and on August 27, 1761, a lease was granted to James Stone for 61 years at a yearly rent of twelve guineas, Mr. Stone also agreeing to give five guineas for the use of the poor In 1805 an additional term of seven years was added to this lease, then in the possession of Mr. Greenaway, at the same rent, in consideration of his long residence and services as churchwarden and continual overseer. The additional term was afterwards surrendered to the vestry, and they resolved to grant him a new lease for 21 years from the expiration of the original term, at the rent of 60^. per annum, the tenant paying the land-tax and insuring the premises The new lease bore date June 24, 1822. 1636, April 20. — Joyce Featly,* by her will, did " appoint that, after the death of her husband, Dr. Daniel Featly and herself, yearly to be paid out of the rents and profits of a messuage in the parish of Lambeth in Surrey (being copyhold of the Manor of * " Oommission Issued 21 Feb' 23(i Chas. 1st. " Executed 5th Dec. follg. "found that Dan' Featley and Joyce his wife both Dec'' were thentofore. seized in Fee in right of s* Joyce accord* to the Custom of the Manor of Kenniugton in Co. of Surrey of one Messu. and Garden with the appurts. sit. in Lambeth, of the Yearly Yalue of £20. "That s"* Dan' and Joyce in or ab' Apl. iu the 12th year of his s' Majesty's Eeign according to the Custom of the Manor Surrender the Premes. as herein ment*. " That 8'' Joyce with consent of her Husband, by a writing Dated the 20 day of Ap' in the 12th year of his s'' Majesty's Eeign, did limit and appoint that after the Death of herself and Husband the use of the s' surrender of the Premises sho"" be to the use of W" Kerwin her nephew and his Heirs upon Trust as therein men''. That the s^ Joyce shortly after make s'' writ« Died and was Buried in St. Helen's Church on the 3'' Oct., 1637. That the s'' Dan' her husband her survived, and enjoyed the Premis. That s'' Dan' Died on or ab' 21 Ap' 1645, and that Andrew Kerwan Pretended Title to the Premises." Daniel Williams. 83 Kennington), for ever 4tl. per annum to be paid to the vicar and churchwardens of this parish by quarterly payments upon trust to distribute l%d. thereof weekly every Sunday in bread, and 20*. thereof yearly to the minister to preach on the day of her burial (which was October 3, 1637), and in default of such sermon the said 20s. to go to the poor of the parish, and 6*. per annum to be bestowed in repairing her father's tomb (Kerwin's) and the other 2«. yearly to the sexton for keeping the same tomb clean. Upon the death of Dr. "Peatly, April 21, 1645, the heirs of the said Joyce refusing to pay the said annuity, the vicar and church- wardens sued out an inquisition upon the statute for charitable uses, and in December, 1648, obtained a decree for the payment, but the Manor of Kennington being vested in the Crown, and in consequence of the change of Government and confusion in those times, the said decree was never put in execution or revived until the year 1702, when the vicar and churchwardens sued out a writ of Scire Pacias to revive the said decree ; to which one Nicholas Lampon and others in possession of the premises put in exceptions, and the cause being heard before the Lord Keeper, November 1 3, 1703, his lordship ordered payment of the said annuity from Michaelmas 1703, with a remittance of all arrears by consent and each party paying their own costs ; which order was made a final decree of the Court of Chancery and enrolled in the Petty Bag Office, March, 1703-4. The money spent in this suit for the recovery of this annuity was 70^. 2«. %d. The premises thus charged, consist of three houses in Kennington Lane, and belong respectively to — Mr. Slade, of Doctors' Commons, who pays ..£207 Mr. Cook, of Water Lane, Tower Street ... 132 And Mr. Hunter, of St. Martin's Lane ... 0163 as their respective portions of this annuity." 1636. — Sir Julius C^sar left the sum of hi. for the use of the poor. 1636, Dec. 16. — Daniel Williams, merchant, bequeathed 50^. to be distributed amongst such poor housekeepers, whose wants make them labour hard to get a poor living, inhabitants of the parish of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, where he was born ; St. Peter the Poor, where he was apprenticed ; St. Andrew Under- shaft and St. Helen, as his executors, in their discretion shall, by G 2 84 Bond, Langham, and Tryon. advice and information of the churcliwardens of the said parishes, think fit to distribute the same. And a further sum of 200^. to be laid out in lands, one half thereof for the benefit of the poor of the parish of St, Stephen, Coleman Street, and the other half to the use of the poor of St. Helen's and St. Andrew Undershaft to be equally divided between them. 1643. — Captain Maetin Bond bequeathed the sum of 25^. to the poor. 1646, April 21. — Thomas Hutchins, Merchant Taylor, by his will directs " that the sum of 50^. shall be paid by my executors to the churchwardens of the parish of St. Helen's where I now dwell, to the intent, and upon trust and confidence that they with the other parishioners shall make such provision and assurance that fifteen penny loaves of wheaten bread shall be weekly for ever given and distributed amongst the poor of the said parish, whereof the almsfolk there to be first pre- ferred." 1647. — Thomas Audley left 30^. to the poor. 1649. — John Eyles left 20^. to buy coals for the poor. 1649. — Alderman Langham gave 5^. to be given in bread to the poor. 1652, Sep. 14. — Moses Tryon bequeathed to this parish the sum of 100^. to remain as a stock for the said parish for ever ; the benefit and increase thereof arising, to be disposed of for the benefit of the poor of the said parish for ever, or otherwise as the church- wardens and vestry should think fit, in confidence that they and their successors would for ever thereafter observe and perform the grants and agreements contained in an order of vestry, October 25, 1643, touching a burial place in the said Church, thereby granted to him, his heirs and posterity for ever j and if at any time hereafter the said vestry should infringe the said order, then the same legacy to be given to the parish of St. Nicholas Aeons in London for the benefit of the poor of that parish. 1654. — Mrs. Chamberlain gave 10^. to the poor. 1656. — Mr. Giles left 20/. to buy coals for the poor. 1656, March 23. — Adam Lawrence bequeathed " to the relief of the poor of the parish of St. Hellens the sum of 10/., to be distri- buted amongst the said poor by and at the discretion of my executor, with the advice of the minister and churchwardens. I Sundry Bequests. 85 give to Mr. Barham, minister of St. Hellens, the sum of 10^. I give to my executor the sum of 100^., to be layd out by him to and for such charitable use as he shall like and approve, either for the encouragment of the ministerj or relief of the poor of that parish, or both, having consulted with the vestry of the parishioners on that behalf." His nephew. Sir John Lawrence, sole executor, by an indenture dated May 16, 1684, obliged himself, his heirs, &c., to pay the said legacy of 100 J., and the sum of 150^. due for interest thereof, and also to pay 100^. more for leave to make a vault in the parish church for the use of himself and his family. The said Sir John Lawrence did by the same indenture, therefore grant to several persons and their heirs forever, in trust for the Parish, one annuity or rent charge of 20^. per annum, to be issuing out of a messuage or tenement in this parish, late in the occupation of John Seagre, with a clause for distress, redeemable upon the pay- ment of 350^. This annuity was redeemed by Mrs. Dorothy Lawrence, April 29, 1736, for the said sum of 350^. Of this sum 150^ was bor- rowed by the Parish, June 7, 1744, for the finishing of the work- house, and the remainder was invested, and now forms part of the parish stock. 1658. — H. Htll gave 20^. to the poor. J, — Wilds gave 11. to the poor. „ — Byaed left hi. to the poor. 1670, May 25. — ^William Pennoyee bequeathed the sum of 100^. to be paid into the hands of the overseers of the poor for the parish of Great St. Helen's, to be by them put out and invested in good security for the relief of three poor housekeepers there forever^ 1670, November 1. — John Langham. — "I give and bequeath for the use of the poore of St. Hellenes, London, the sum of 100^., to be kept in my executors' hands, to be by them, the ministers and churchwardens of the same parish for the time being, distributed to twenty of the poorest ffamilyes or widdowes of the same parish, of the best name and ffame, by 20*. a-piece, every St. Thomas's day, for the next five years after my decease.'^ 1672,' June 4. — William Finch bequeathed 50^. towards build- ing a new steeple. 1673, July 25. — Heney Whittingham, by his will: "I give 86 Mary Clapham's Will. and bequeath unto the poor of the parish of St. Hellens, where I do dwell, and have long lived, the sum of 2hl." 1682, May 23. — Diana Asteey, of this parish, widow, did by her will give 10«. yearly, to the world's end, to the minister of this parish, for better encouragement to preach ; and to the clerk Is. &d. yearly to the world's end, to be paid yearly in the month of Novem- ber, to be an example for others to do the like. 1683. — Sir Thomas Vinek left 10^. to the poor. 1687.— Mrs. Tkyon left 10/, to the poor. 1692. — Mrs. Paige left 20^. to the use of this parish. 1702. — Abraham Chitty left bl. to the poor. 1702. Spuestow left hi. to the poor. 1704, April 13. — Alderman Woolfe gave a carpet and cushions for the use of the communion table. 1705, May 13. — Geevash Keeesbt left 10^. to the poor. 1707. — Mrs. Peideaux gave vallens of crimson velvet, with a large gold fringe thereto, as an addition to the cushion provided for the pulpit. 1711. PooTE left 20^. to the poor. 1718. — John Weight gave hi. to the poor. 1719. — Geoege Boddington left 10^. to the poor. 1720, June 18. — Isaac Beeklet, late of Calcutta, did by his wiU give to this parish the sum of 4000 rupees, the produce thereof, amounting to 500^., was remitted to this coimtry by the East India Company, and received by the parish July 25, 1723. It was then ordered to be laid out in South Sea Stock. A BUI in Chancery was filed by the minister against the churchwardens, relating to the disposal thereof, to which an answer being made, and a decree by the Master of the Rolls, it was resolved, June 10, 1725, that the said stock shall be laid out in the erection of an organ in the Church. 1735, December 18. — Maet Clapham by her will gave to the ministers and churchwardens of the parish of St. Helen's the sum of 100/., to be by them laid out in the purchase of freehold lands, or in some of the public stocks or securities, and directed that out of the clear annual rents and profits arising thereby, her late father's (Joseph Sem) monument should be repaired as occasion should require, and that the residue of such rents and profits should, yearly upon Christmas Eve, be distributed amongst the Baker, Boe, and Bingley Bequests. 87 poor of the said parish, in such proportions as the minister and churchwardens shall think fit. By order of Vestry, April 29, 1736, the above sum was invested in the Three per cent, annuities, and on April 20, 1737, it was ordered to be sold out to pay ofi' the sum of 100^., which had been borrowed for the use of the parish at 4^ per cent, the Vestry agreeing to indemnify the minister and churchwardens, for the time being, touching the several uses for which the said legacy was left to the parish. 1736. — John Bakee left 10^. to the poor. 1742. Dec. 15. Roe, by his will produced at a vestry> " Gave to the parish of St. Helen towards purchasing a Parsonage house in the said parish for the Minister to reside in constantly and not for him to make any advantage of by letting it out to another, but for his own proper habitation and place of abode, that he may be ready at hand on occasion, and provided a Parson- age house be purchased in the said parish and inhabited by the Minister within the space of three years after my decease : on this condition I give to the said parish of St. Helen 100/. to be paid to the Churchwardens then being : and in case a parsonage house should be purchased in the said parish and constantly inhabited by the Minister before my decease — then this 100/. shall be towards keeping the said house in repair, but if a Parsonage house be not so purchased and so occupied before my decease, nor within the space of three years after .as aforesaid. Then I will; that this 100/. shall go to the Incorporated Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts." 1748. Mar. 28. — Robeet Dingley having previously informed the parish that his mother had died intestate, and knowing that it was her intention that something should be given for the benefit of the poor, presented Thirty Pounds, on condition that the follow- ing entry should be made on the Table of Donations : " Mrs. Susannah Dingley gave 30/. to this parish, that two shillings be distributed in Bread every first Sunday in the month for ever to twelve poor parishioners who are most constant at the sacrament over and above their usual allowance." 1749. Geigman left 20/. to the poor. 1768. April 30. — Thomas Hanson bequeathed to the Minister and Churchwardens of this parish for the time being and their 88 Chrisfs Hospital. successors the sum of BOO^,, upon trust to invest the same in the public stock or funds of this kingdom, and pay and apply the interest thereof, unto and among such indigent and industrious inhabitants and parishioners (if any such there be) of the said parish who shall not receive alms therefrom. 1776. — John Smith, of Great St. Helen's, by deed, dated Sept. 25, 1776, transferred to the governors of Christ's Hospital the sum of 2500^. Three per Cent. South Sea Annuities on con- dition that they should pay to his nephew, William Webber, of Fursley, in the county of Devon, aged 43 years, an annuity of 100^. during his life, and after his decease that they should from time to time for ever, maintain and educate in the said hospital two children of persons who shall be inhabitants of this parish, to be chosen by a majority of the vestry of the said parish, and on the death or discharge or other removal of every such child or children, within three months to receive and admit other or others, in his, her, or their room. Provided that the parent or parents of such child or children so to be maintained and educated, shall have been an inhabitant or inhabitants of the said parish one whole year next immediately before such choice shall be made, and every child so to be chosen shall be upwards of seven years of age, born in lawful wedlock, of honest and reputable parents. And the Minister and Churchwardens shall comply with and he subject to the forms generally in use for the admission of children into the said hospital. The following records of Mr. John Smith's benevolence also appear in the parish books : — Sept. 27, 1770. — The thanks of the vestry were given to John Smith, Esq. for the service he has done this parish in getting several children into Christ's Hospital. May 29, 1777. — The thanks of this vestry were given to John Smith, Esq. for having had painted at his own expense the doors and doorcases of the church, and also the iron rails round the chiirch yard. April 23, 1778. — The thanks of the vestry were given to John Smith, Esq, for having promised to get Charles Oxtoby, a poor boy belonging to this parish, into Christ's Hospital, and for having given the churchwardens five guineas to divide among the poor pen- sioners. The latest Bequest. 89 August 27, 1778. — The thanks of the vestry were given to John Smith, Esq. for having presented the parish with a large folio hible and also a silver cup and cover. June 15, 1780. — The thanks of the vestry were given to John Smith, Esq., for having presented the parish with three new heUs and the hanging thereof in the steeple of this parish church. Eeb. 12, 1784. — John Smith, Esq., having by his will left the sum of 20^. to be distributed amongst the most necessitous poor inhabitants of this parish at the discretion of a vestry to be called for that purpose, it was this day distributed accordingly. 1823. March 6. — ^Thomas Trundle, of Crosby Square, late vestry clerk, bequeathed to this parish the sum of 25^. Three per Cent. Consols in trust to pay the annual interest thereof to the poor women belonging to the parish that usually attend Divine service on a Sunday in the said church, and to receive bread and other gifts in manner following : — One moiety thereof on Sunday next after Christmas Day, and the other moiety on the first Sunday after Whit Sunday in every year. 90 CHAPTER VI. EEGISTEES, The parisli registers of St. Helen's unfortunately do not commence at the earliest date of those records. The volume, or volumes, containing the entries for 1538, when they were first ordered, down to 1575, is, or are, hopelessly lost. Those in existence, however, have a respectable antiquity, as they embrace the per- sonal annals of the parish during the last three hundred years. The volumes now remaining are in good condition, and, in some instances, the original rough drafts have been preserved, which sometimes furnish more particulars than are given in the official copy. They should both be consulted when any inquiry is made within their period. As St. Helen's appears to have been the most aristocratic parish of Old London — St. Olave, Hart Street, probably ranking next — it follows that the registers are full of entries respecting the early history of families that have since become connected with the nobility and gentry of the country, and, in many instances, been ennobled themselves. The names of many historical person- ages will be found among them, and altogether, according to the testimony of a gentleman,* who has had great experience among parish registers, they are perhaps as interesting a series as wiU be found in any parish in the kingdom. The church appears always to have been a popular one for marriages, before the existence of Lord Hardwicke's Act, and down to 1754, numerous entries will be found of parties from places most remote, whose names do not, perhaps, again appear in the registers. The baptisms are also • Ool. Joseph L. Chester, an American antiquary and arcliseologist, who has collected and arranged the immense stores of Registers, MSS., &c. of Westminster Abbey, the value of which work may be inferred by its being printed by the Harleian Society. Marriages. 91 extremely interesting, and the records of burials within the church, for a long period before the registers commence, and a consider- able time afterwards, afford abundant data for the genealogist, biographer, and historian. It is somewhat difficult, therefore, to make such a selection of entries from the registers as will furnish an adequate idea of their character, which could only be accomplished by printing them in full ; but the following, taken almost at random, may be regarded as fair examples : — 'Marriages. 1575, April 17. — Jolm Pitway and Anne Bindle. [The first marriage in the earliest volume.] 1596-7, Jan. 10. — Michael Stanhope and Ann Reade. [He was of the family of the Earls of Chesterfield. She is usually called Elizabeth in the peerages.] 1600, April 7. — Sir Anthony Cope, Kt., and the Lady Anne L'E strange. 1604, Nov. 20.— Sir Robert Bosville, Kt., and Elizabeth Pehshall, mayd. 1606, July 12.— Sir George Snellinge, Kt., and Cicily Sherly. 1608, May 3.— John Howland, of Gray's Inn, Esq., son of Sir Giles How- land, of Streatham, in Surrey, Kt., and Oislye Suzan, of this parish. 1608-9, Peb. last. — Charles Somerset, Esq., son of the Right Hon. Edward, Earl of Worcester, and Elizabeth Powell, maiden, daughter of Sir "William PoweU, of Monmouth, in Wales, Knight, were married at Worcester House, in the Strand, by virtue of a special dispensa- tion under the hand of my Lord of Canterbury, and by a licence from the Faculties, dated February 25th. [This entry occurs among the burials in the original register, or rough draft, only, and has hnes drawn across it, but is probably the only record existing of the marriage.] 1610, April 10.— Thomas Coventry, of the Inner Temple, Esq., and Elizabeth Pitchford, of this parish, widow, late wife of William Pitchf ord, apothecary, deceased. [This was the second marriage of the cele- brated Lord-Keeper Coventry, created Lord Coventry in 1628.] 1617, July 21.— Thomas Ascough, of Gray's Inn, Esq., and Anne Sterne, of Maulton, oo. Cambridge, widow, late wife of Robert Sterne Gent., deceased. 1619, April 22.— Pelix Tindal, of Queen's College, Cambridge, Clerk, and Suzan Bradshawe, of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, late wife of Obadiah Bradshawe, Clerk, deceased. 1624, June 17.— Richard Leigh, of Acton Burnell, in Shropshire, Gent., and Elizabeth AUen, daughter of Mr. Edward Allen, Alderman of London. 1629, Nov. 23.— Richard Prowze, of the City of Exeter, Gent., and Frances Carewe, of Huntingdon, co. Essex, widow. 1635, Sep. 3.— Phillipp De Goltes, Gent,, and Hellen Bootes, "virgo Hagensis," by a certificate from the Dutch congregation. 92 Marriages continued. 1644, Dec. 26. — John Oudden, of Westminster, widower, and Dame Lady OatLerine Essex, 1647, Oct. 6. — Sir Artliur Ingram, Kt., and Dame Catherine Boynton, widow. 1648-9, March 13.— Philip Boteler, Esq., son and heir of John Boteler, of Woodhall, Herts, Kt. of the Bath, and Elizabeth Langham, daughter to John Langham, Esq., Alderman of London : there being present the said Sir John Boteler and Alderman Langham, together with about forty more of their friends as witnesses. 1552-3, Jan. 20. — George Smithson, of Kipling, co. York, Esq., and Elhnor Fairfax, daughter of Charles Fairfax, of Menston, in the same county, Esq. 1660-1, Feb. 21. — Sir Thomas Hussey, Kt. and Bart., of Honington, co. Lin- coln, and Dame Sarah Langham, of this parish : married by Dr. Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln. 1670, July 7. — Henry Booth, eldest son to the Lord Dalamore, of Cheshire, and Mrs. Mary Langham, of this parish, spinster. 1675, Dec. 4. — William Morgan of Tredegar, co. Monmouth, Esq., and Elizabeth the Lady DarreU. 1683, Sep. 18. — Joseph HaskinsteUs, of Amsterdam, merchant, and Sarah Byles, of this parish. 1693, June 8. — ^Thomas Warr and Dorothy Iregonwell, both of St. Margaret's, Westminster. 1703, Aug. 20.— Francis GastreU, Dr. of Divinity, of Lincoln's Inn, and Elizabeth Mapletoff, of Greenwich, Kent. ] 706, Aug. 15. — Thomas Turner, of Lincoln's Inn, Grent., and Dame Mary Stoughton, alias Payler, of St. GUes' in the Fields. 1714, Oct. 18.— Martin Folkes, of Nafferton, Yorkshire, Gent., and Lucretia Bradshawe, of St. Andrew's, Holbom. 1727, Aug. 13. — The Honourable Charles Compton, Esq., and Mrs. Mary Lucy. 1738, April 27. — Thomas Foxley, M.A., Eector of Great KoUright, co. Oxon, bachelor, and Elizabeth Eawdon, of Stratford Bow, co. Middlesex, spinster. 1749, Aug. 3.— Thomas Croft, Esq., bachelor, and Lucy Thompson, spinster, both of this parish. 1755, Jan. 16.— Peter Gaussen, of this .parish, bachelor, and Anna-Maria Bosanquet, of St. Gregory's, spinster, a minor. 1759, April 29. — ^WiUoughby Anmdel, of Hackney, Middlesex, bachelor, and Mary Wright, of this paiish, spinster. 1762, June 24.— Richard Hoare, of Boreham, in Essex, bachelor, and Susannah-CecUia Dingley, of this parish, spinster. 1766, April 6. — Richard Pepys, of this parish, widower, and Mary Sander- son, of the same, spinster. 1771, Nov. 7. — John Peter Du Roveray and Jane Scott, both single, and of this parish. 1774, Nov. 3. — Henry Boulton, Esq., of this parish, bachelor, and Jnhana Raymond, of Barking, Essex, spinster. 1780, Dec. 14. — Thomas Cope, of this parish, bachelor, and Mary Mountain, of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, spinster. Baptisms. 93 1783, Oct. 23. — John-Peter Du Eoveray, Esq., widower, and E^n^-Margue- rite Bonard, spinster, both of tliis parish. 1789, April 4. — John-Henry Kougemont, of this parish, bachelor, and Frances-Mary-Eachael Eivaz, of St. Botolph Bishopsgate, spinster. 1791, June 14. — Charles Mayo, Esq., of this parish, bachelor, and Elizabeth Knowlys, of St. Dunstan in the East, spinster. 1794, Jan. 14. — ^The Eev. John Davis, of Waltham Holy Cross, co. Essex, widower, and Sarah Davis, of this parish, widow. 1795, Deo. 16. — Francis-David de la Ohaumette, of St. Mary's, Newington, Midx., Esquire, bachelor, and Olympia-Charlotte Page, of this parish, spinster, a minor, with consent of her father, John Page. 1797, Feb. 23.— The Eev. Thomas Sikes, Clerk, of Gilsborough, co. North- ampton, bachelor, and Susannah Powell, of this parish, spinster. 1800, Jan. 11. — Bunce Curling, M.D., of St. Pancras, Midx., bachelor, and Harriet Hutchinson, of this parish, spinster. 1806, May 22.— David Colby, Esq., of St. Martin in the Fields, bachelor, and Ann Costin, of this parish, widow. Ba'ptisms. 1575, July 30. — George, son of Anthony Howse. [The first entry of baptisms in the existing registers.] 1576-7, Jan. 2. — Ann, daughter of Edward Stanhope. 1577, Dec. 31. — "William, son of WUliam Eeade, Gent. 1579-8, March 10.— John, son of John JeckeU [? Jekyll], Gent. 1681, Nov. 22. — ^MichaeU, son of Edward Stanhope, Gent. 1587, June 23. — John, son of John. Bowcher, Gent. 1589, Aug. 27. — Anne, daughter of Edward Dudley. 1591, Aug. 15. — Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Delavale, merchant. 1595, July 31. — Perdinando, son of Eichard Tayler, Dr. in Physic. 1597, July 25. — Bridget, daughter of Peter Turner, Dr. in Physic. 1600, July 28. — Anne, daughter of Thomas Morley, Gent., and Suzan. 1600-1, Peb.l5. — Hester, daughter of Albericus Gentyle, a civilian, and Hester. 1602, July 5. — Pembrook, daughter of Sir Henry Leonard, Knt., and Chri- sogon : out of Dr. Txirnor's. 1603, Dec. 11. — Mathewe, son of Albericus Gentyle, Doctor of the Civil Law, and Hester. 1604-5, Jan. 8. — Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope, Kt., and Dame Anne. 1607-8, Jeb. 4.— George, son of Thomas Greene, Gent., of Canterbury, and Alice. 1608-9, Jan. 2. — ^William, son of Sir Eotherham Willoughby, Kt., and the Lady Anne, his wife. 1611, May 26. — David, son of Abraham Chamberlen, merchant, and Hester. 1611, July 1. — Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Baker, Kt., and Dame Katharine. 1611, Sep. 1. — " Joh rdki out of the Asshes, being borne the last of August, in the lane going to Sir John Spencer's back gate, and there laide in a heape of Seacole Asshes, was baptised the ffirst daye of September following, and dyed the next day after," 94 Baptisms continued. 1613, July 28.— Jaell, daughter of Eoger Manwaring, Preacher. 1614, Sep. 18. — Humfry, son of Philip GifEord, Geut., and Suzan. 1616-7, Jan. 6. — Eebecca, daughter of Eichard Ball, Parson of St. Helen's, and Elizabeth. 1619, March 26. — John Fawkner, reputed son of George Pawkner, Gent., servant to the Duke of Lennox, and Mary Peirce, servant to Edmund Peirsen, scrivener. 1621, June 27. — James, son of Sir Henry Fynes, Kt., and Dame Hellen; in Dr. Crooke's house. 1621-2, Jan. 6. — Hilkiah, son of HUkiah Crooke, Dr. in Physic, and Anne. 1623, Sep. 12. — Lettes, daughter of Sir Pouke Grevell, Kt., and Dame Anne. 1626, Oct. 18. — Benjamin, son of Joseph Browne, Clerk, and Minister of this parish, and Suzan. 1631, June 29. — Margaret, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wiseman, Gent., and Elizabeth. 1634, July 2. — Samuel, son of Herriott "Washbourne, Sugar Baker, and Agnes. 1635, June 18. — Patrick, son of Willoby Skipwith, Esq., and Honnor his wife. 1637-8, Feb. 19. — Anne, daughter of the Eight. Hon. Spencer, Earl of Northampton, and the Eight Hon. Countess, his wife. 1638, May 26. — Eobert, son of Sir Gilbert Jarrett, Kt. and Bart., and Dame Lady Mary. 1643, May 15. — Edward, son of Myles Corbett, Esq., and Mary. 1647, Nov. 16. — Edward, son of Edward Cooke, Dr. in Physic, and Maiy. 1649, Aug. 9. — Joane, daughter of Eichard Wylde, Esq., and Eebecca: bom Aug. 3rd. 1650, April 26. — Elizabeth, daughter of Eobert "Warberton, Esq., and Elizabeth : born 13th. 1651, June 18. — Samuel, son of Boulstrod Whitlock, Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal of England, and Dame Ladie Mary his wife. 1653, June 16. — John, son of Arthur Barham, our Minister, and Mary. 1654-5, Feb. 3. — Bigley, son of Samuel Carleton and Martha : born Feb. 2, baptized by Mr. Barham, in the Tower of London. 1656, Nov. 6. — Eowland, son of Eowland Hill, merchant, and Grace. 1658, July 8. — Eebecca, daughter of Alderman John Lawrence, and Abigail ; born July 6th. 1659, Aug. 12.— Stephen, son of Stephen Langham, merchant, and Maiy. 1661 Dec. 31. — John, son of Sir John Lawrence, Kt. and Alderman, and Abigail his Lady : bom Dec. 11th. 1666, Aug. 17. — Anthony, son of Thomas Henchman, D.D., and Mary. 1669, March 28. — Eichard, son of Thomas Garraway, Coffee-man, and Elizabeth. 1670, Oct. 9. — Charles, son of Sir Francis Clarke, Kt., and Lady Elizabeth. 1674, Dec. 5. — Elizabeth, daughter of Gilbert AspinwaU, Esq., and Mary. 1676, June 3. — Joseph, son of Brewen Eives, merchant. 1677-8, Jan. 8.— George, son of George Shuckburgh, Esq., and Anne. 1678, Oct. 1. — Stephen, son of Sir Stephen Anderson. 1680 Oct. 1. — Charlotte, daughter of Michael Biddulph, Esq., and Mary. 1682, April 11. — Angell, daughter of Sir Nicholas Butler, Kt., and Jane. Baptisms continued. 95 1685-6, Marci 16. — Dudley, son of Dudley Crue [Crewe], and Dorotliy. 1687, Nov. 3. — Winifred, daughter of Alexander Pitfield, Esq., and Blizabeth. 1691, June 12. — Norbury, son of Richard Tennison, Lord Bishop of Clougher, ajid Atiti : born June 10th. 1695, Aug. 26. — Joseph, son of Thomas Willis, clerk, and EHzabeth. 1697-8, Feb. 28. — Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Sayer, Esq., and Sarah, 1698, Dec. 20. — ^Martha, daughter of Charles Gresham, Esq., and Mary. 1700, April 22. — George, son of Mr. Charles Burdett, and Mary. 1700, May 26. — ^Edward, son of Eobert Eyer, Esq., and Elizabeth, in St. Andrew Undershaft. 1700, Aug. 4. — ^Ann, daughter of Mr. William Atwell, banker, and Mary. 1702, Sep. 21. — ^Edward, son of Mr. Clement Boeheme, merchant, and Ann. 1703-4, Jan^ 18. — Mary, daughter of Captain Peyton Nelson, and Mary. 1704, Sep. 7. — ^William, son of Dr. John Hawes and Margaret. 1706, July 15. — Henry, son of Eobert Newton, clerk, and Margaret. 1708, Ang. 5. — " Anne, the natural daughter of Granado Chester, by Anne [blank] wife of [blank], shee cohabiting with the said Chester in continent, at being sold by her said Imsband to Chester, according to common fame." 1711, Deo. 8. — ^Epiphanus, son of Epiphanus Holland, clerk, and Susanna. 1713, May 29. — AttweU, son of Sir Bybie Lake, and Mary. 1715, Nov. 25. — " Granodo, son of Granodo Chester, and Mary his wife." 1716, May 21. — John, son of John Parsons, a Quaker, of Pinner, Middlesex, and Mary. 1717, Oct. 31. — ^William, son of Christopher Eeake, merchant, from Jamaica, and Catherine. 1719, June 24. — Martha, daughter of Sir John Lock and Dame Martha. 1722, Oct. 21. — Cornelius, son of Abraham Yan Mildert, and Anne. 1725-6, Feb. 24. — Richard, son of Captain Erancis Goshn, and Sarah. 1730, June 14. — Charles, son of Charles Duncomb, and Hannah. 1735-6, Feb. 5. — ^Richard, son of John Gascoyne, and Anne. 1742-3, Jan. 26. — John, son of Rev. Thomas Winfeild, and Frances. 1748-9, Jan. 11. — James-David, son of EHsha Auriol, and Margaret : bom 22nd December, 1748. 1755, Nov. 21. — Esther, daughter of Charles Rebotier, and Magdalen. 1760, May 31. — John- Nicholas, son of John-Baptist Durand, and Ann : bom 6th May. 1769, Got. 13. — Martha, daughter of John- Spencer Colepeper, and Martha : bom 17th September. 1772, April 15. — James- John-Charles, son of Lewis Agassiz, and Mary : bom 8th March. 1778, Oct. 1. — John, son of John Dawson and Sarah, of the province of New Tork, America. 1784, Jan. 12. — (Bom) Thomas, son of George Bertie, and Mary. 1787, Sep. 16. — Maria Ann, daughter of John Fenwick, and Maria : bom 16th August. 1792, June 7. — Martha, daughter of Bryan Troughton, and Martha : bom 24th April. 1796, April 10.— Henry- William, son of Henry Chichester, and Eleanor : bom 12th March. 96 Burials. 1798, May 29. — "William, son of William Brent, and Amelia : bom 5th April. 1800, May 12. — Susan-Lydia, daughter of Henry -William "Ward, and Snsan : born 22nd February. 1805, April 14. — Bichard Beresford, son of John Jarvis, and Anne : bom 25th Febmary. 1810, March 22. — Frederick, son of Thomas Danvere, and Lucy : bom 22nd February. Bwdals. 1575, April 7.— John Byngle [the first entry of burials in the existing registers], 1575, Deo. 4.— Sir John Pollard, Kt. 1575, Dec. 9. — Paulina Adylmar (doubtless one of the family afterwards taking the name of CcBsa/r). 1576, June 14.— Mr. William Bond, alderman. 1578, Dec. 3. — Mr. John Gresham, gent. 1579, Dec. 15.— Sir Thomas Gresham, Kt. 1585, April 3.— The Lady Pollard, wife of Sir John Pollard, Kt. 1686, Dec. 5. — Charles, son of Doctor Csesar. 1592, Sep. 23. — Nicholas FyHo, Secretary to the French Embassador — ^buried by the Pardon door. 1593, Oct. 23. — Peter, son of Baldwyn EightehiClmg (several others of this name buried). 1595, July 14. — Sir Thomas Beade, Kt. : iu Sir Thomas Gresham's vault. 1596, Deo. 14. — The Ladye Anne Gresham, wydowe. 1602, June 4. — Mathew Gentyle, physician. 1603, Sep. 9. — Abraham, son of William Framebreaking, a nurse child. 1605, Dec. 3. — Gertrude Eeade, the Lady, wife of Sir William Beade, Kt.: died Oct. 24th ; buried in Sir Thomas Gresham's vault. 1608, April 2. — Dorcas, wife of Thomas Sanderson, Esq., and daughter to Sir Julius Csesar, Kt. 1608, June 21. — Alberiok Gentyle, Doctor of the Civil Lawes, King's Pro- fessor of the Civil Law at Oxford. 1609, May 4.— Dame Helen, wife of Sir William Willoughby, Kt. ; buried at St. Peter le Poor. 1609-10, March 22. — Sir John Spencer, Kt. ; in a new vault by the vestry door ; died March 3rd. 1610, April 7. — Dame Alice Spencer, widow : in her husband's vault ; died March 27. 1610, July 18. — Sir Thomas Ceesar, Kt., one of the Barons of the King's Maties Exchequer : died the same day in his house in Chancery Lane. 1612, Sept. 2. — "Job Bakt out of the Ashes, as is menconed in the Begisterof Ohristnings." 1612, Deo. 4. — Walter Hastings, Esq., Master of the Horse to the Eight Honourable Earl of Worcester. 1614, May 24. — Dame Alice Caesar, wife of Sir Julius Csesar, Kt., Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, and one of the Privy Council. 1615, Oct. 18. — Peter Mounsell, Reader of the Phisick Lecture in Gresham College. Burials continued. 97 1619-20, Jan. 20.— Mrs. Margery, wife of Mr. Martyne Lumley, Alderman. 1620-1, Jan. 30.— Samuel Calvert, Gent., and secretary to the Tnrkye Com- pany of Merchants. 1623, Dec. 2:— Lettis, daughter of Sir Fouke GreueU (Sir Fulke Greville). Kt., and Dame Anne. 1625, Not. 21.— Bridget, daughter of Mr. Edmond Allin, Alderman, and HeUen : buried in Bow Church. 1629-30, Jan. 19.— Ann Peck, an aged widow, and sister to the Right Hon. Sir Julius Caesar, Kt. ; under the Communion Table. 1631, July 16. — ^Abraham Aurehus, a French Minister. 1632-3, Feb. 13. — Richard Broughton, Gent., from Sir Julius Caesar's. 1634, Aug. 7. — Sir Martin Lumley, Kt., and late Alderman ; buried in the Church, wrapped in lead, within a coffin, under his ancestors' stone close to the reading pew, about a yard deep. 1636, April 18. — Sir Julius Ceaser, knighte, M' of the Roules, and one of the King's Maties most honourable Privie Counsell, was buried under Mr. William's stone by the Communion Table, on Easter Monday night, being the xviii.th day of Aprill. 1637, Aug. 30. — ^Dame Lady Anne Ceasar was buryed in the vault by her late husband, Sir Julius Ceasar, Knighte. 1637, Oct. 3. — Joice, wife of Daniel Featly, Doctor in Divinitie, in the vault of her late father, William Kirwin. 1637, Nov. 9. — Robert Ceaser, Esquier : under Mr. WUham's stone, by the Communion Table. 1639-40, March 2.— Patrick Murry, son of the Right Hon. Patrick, Earl of Tully Barden : in Sir JuHus Ceasar's vault. 1643, May 11. — Martin Bond, Esq., from Oreechurch parish : in the Church. 1646, Oct. 22.— Elizabeth Wiseman, in the Church. 1649, Dec. 26. — Peter Tryon, in the vault of Mr. Moses Tryon, his grand- father. 1652-3, March 1. — William Berkley, sometymea Alderman, free of the Haberdashers, in the Church. 1655, July 19. — Thomas Gresham, Gent. : died in the parish of St. Andrew TJndershaft : buried near Sir Thomas Gresham's monument. 1656-7, Feb. 5. — Julian, daughter of Alderman Backhouse : in their vault. 1660, June 6, — Richard, son of Sir Foucke GreviU : in the Church. 1660, Sep. 11. — Dame Mary, wife of Sir James Langham, Kt. : in the Chancel 1662, June 18. — John, son of Sir John Lawrence : in the Church. 1662, Sept. 13. — Sir Foucke Grevill : in the Church, on his son. 1668-4, Feb. 17. — ^Doctor Langham's wife : in the Chancel. 1666, June 28. — ^Mrs. Susanna, wife of Alderman Spurstow : in the North Aisle. 1668, June 4. — Captain Isaac Jurine. 1669, May 11. — Captain Edward Bartlett : in the North Quire. 1669, Dec. 31. — Sir Edward Alstone : in the Chancel, near his daughter the Lady Langham. 1670, Aug. 3. — The Lady Alstone : in the Church, in her husband's grave. 1671, March 30. — Mrs. Jane Eaton : in the north quire ; and her Ettle son, who was ript out of her body. H 98 Burials continued. 1672, Jvdy 4.— Mr. 'WilHam Finoli : in tie north qnire. 1673, Sep. 18.— The Lady Foster : in the north ile, under the stone of Mr. Briggs, her former husband. 1675, March 27. — Dr. Jonathan Goddard : in the chancel. 1677, Ang. 20. — Mr. Edward Drayton : in the north quire. 1681, June 16. — The Lady Abigail Lawrence : in the Church, in Mrs. Tryon's vault. 1683, May 3. — Sir Thomas Viner : in the south quire. 1686-7, Jan. 6. — John Standish, Dr. of Divinity : on the south side of the altar. 1689, Sep. 19.— Mr. Peter Culling : in Madam Tryon's vault. 1690, April 13. — Sir Francis Clarke : in the Church. 1691-2, Jan. 29. — Sir John Lawrence : in the family vault. 1691-2, March 10. — Mr. Arthur Barham, clerk : in the south isle. 1695-6, Jan. 17. — Capt. George Goddard : in the Church. 1698, Deo. 30. — Henry Spurstow, Esq. : in the north aisle. 1700, Sep. 29. — Francis Clarke, Esq. : in the Church. 1701, May 4. — Mr. Thomas WiUis, minister of this parish : in the chancel, on the north side of the communion table. 1702, Aug. 24. — Ann, daughter of Mr. Edmund Frideauz, merchant : in Julius Caesar's vault, in the south quire. 1703, April 11. — Sir John Woolfe : in the vault by the vestry door. 1703, July 6. — Sir John Eyles, Kt. ; in his vault in the Church. 1706, Sep. 14. — Dame Sarah Eyles, widow, relict of Sir John Eyles, Kt., deceased : in the vault belonging to that family in the Church. 1707, Aug. 8. — Madam Anne Carter, widow : in the north quire. 1708-9, Jan. 31. — Jacob De LiUers, merchant : in the south isle. 1710, Nov. 23. — Elizabeth Spencer, widow : in the Church. 1711, Sep. 19. — Sir Joseph Woolfe : in a vault in the choir. 1713, Aug. 27. — Mary Bowyer, widow •- in the chancel, in Mr. Eobert Foot's vault. 1714, June 2. — Joseph Woolfe, Esq. : in Sir John Woolfe's vault. 1715, Ang. 31. — James Penrice, Esq. : in the north quire. 1716, June 5. — Sir Francis Eyles : in their vault. 1718, Oct. 11. — Francis, son of Joseph Eyles, Esq. : in their vault. 1718, Nov. 27. — Dame Mary Robinson, late wife of Dr. John Bobinson : in Mr. Bobinson's vault. 1719, May 16. — George Boddington, Esq. : in a vault in the north aisle. 1720, Sep. 13. — Madam Ann Foot : in their vault in the chanceL 1721-2, Feb. 26. — Madam Sarah Styles : in Mr. Eyles' vault in the Church. 1723, April 22. — Lady Catharine Lawrence : in their vaxilt. 1724, Sep. 3. — Sir Samuel Stanyer : in the north aisle. 1728, March 29. — Francis Bancroft, Esq. ; in his tomb. 1728, Sep. 10.— The Hon. Lady Ann Coventry : in the chancel. 1731, July 1. — Mrs. Dorothy Crispe : in the south quire. 1732-3, Jan. 15. — General George Kellum : in the Church. 1735, April 22.— Dame Elizabeth, Lady Eyles : in the family vault. 1736, Nov. 23.— Dame Mary Eyles, late wife of Sir John Eyles, Bart. -. in the family vault. 1735-6, March 18.— Eichard Good-Inch : in the churchyard. Burials continued. 99 1738, Oct. 27. — John-Brette Sterbrooke, Esq. ; in the south quire, in the Church., near the vestry. 1738-9, Feb. 22. — James Buck, Esq. ; in the Impropriator's vault. 1739-40, Feb. 15.— Sir Joseph Eyles :. ia the family vault. 1742, May 25. — The Eev. Matthias Symson : in the churchyard. 1743, Oct. 23. — The Eev. Mr. James Ansty : in the churchyard. 1743-4, Feb. 17.— The Eev. Mr. Haywood : in the Church. 1744-5, March 17. — Sir John Eyles : in the family vault in the Church. 1746, May 12. — Walter Barnard, Esq., Alderman of Broad Street Ward : in Mr. Jones's vault in the chancel. 1746, Sep. 17. — John Lewis Auriol : in the churchyard. 1748, May 18. — ^Edward Brown, Esq. : in the Church. 1752, Nov. 4. — Catherine Lawrence : in Lady Lawrence's vault. 1753, Oct. 17. — ^The Eev. Mr. Peter Sympson : in the churchyard. 1754, April 25. — Elizabeth, wife of Charles Dingley, Esq. ; iu the family vault. 1759, Sep. 24. — Peter Guussen, Esq. : in the chancel. 1761, AprU 27. — Dame Sarah Eyles : in their vault. 1767, Jan. 20. — Henry Hall, Esq. : in the quire. 1768, Nov. 5. — Sir John Haskyns Eyles Stiles : in the family vault. 1772, June 25. — Eichard Sherbrook : in the south quire. 1772, Dec. 7.— Eev. Charles Burdett, D.D. . ia the Church. 1776, Dec. 12. — Susanna Townsend : in the Dingley family vault. 1781, June 16. — ^Arthur Stert, Esq. : ia the choir. 1785, July 6.— John William Smith, Esq.: iu Mr. Woolf's vault in the chancel. 1787, June 25. — William Boles Pilbington : ia the chancel. 1788, Nov. 28. — Peter Gaussen, Esq. ; in the chancel. 1792, Sep. 17. — Mr. Eichard Goodhall : in Mr. Foot's vault ia the chancel. 1795, Aug. { — ). — Eev. John Naish, Vicar of this parish, aged 71 : in the chancel. 1796, Nov. 5. — Hector De Dompierre, aged 58 : in the Church. 1804, Dec. 14. — An-n a, Maria Gaussen, aged 70 : in the chancel. 1810, March 23. — Mary Ann Blenkarne, aged 6 years : in Mr. Eyles' vault in the south aisle. H % 100 CHAPTER VIL TESTEY RECORDS.* At a Vestrye kept by the pshioners of S' Hellens upon Sonedaie the seconde day of Octobre A" Domini 1558. Imprimis. It is ordeyned that a booke of paper be prepared wherein all orders concluded at any Vestrye may be entred and put in writinge. Item. That the yongest Church Warden for time being shal be bound to entre or cause to be entred the saied orders in the saied booke within xiiii. daies after upon paine of v s. Item. That the saide pshioners. shall yerelye assemble together upon the Sonedaie next after the feast of S' Michall the Archangell to eUecte and chose the Church Wardens for the yere following, the saied assemble to be duelye called by the Church Wardens upon the paine of v s. Item. That the Olde Church Wardens shall make yerelie a good and a perfect accompte of their office before the said pshioners upon Sonedaie next after the feaste of All Saints upon payne to forfeit and paye the some iii s. iiii d. yf he have no lawfiill excuse. And anye Sonedaie after asmuche untill they have made their saied accompte. The saide some or somes of money to be levyed to the use of the saide prsh Church. Item. That when at this lasper Umpton, Henrye Browne and Robert Spencer have found themselves greved with their assessement to the Clarke's Wages. It is agreed that at the next Vestrye to be kept, the matter shall be further ordeyned. Item. That yf any prshner of the saied prshe be duelie warned by the Church Wardens to come to any vestrye to be * Tte Vestry Eecords of St. Helen's from a.d. 1558 to a.d. 1812 contain so many parocMal references of interest that they are here given in their entirety without note or comment. Those between a.d. 1812 and the pre- sent time, containing very little matter of importance, are omitted. Vestries, a.d. 1558-60. 101 kept by the saied parishners, and doe make defaltCj That then he or they having no good lawful excuse, shall forfeite for anye suche defalt the some of ii d. to the use of the parishe. Item. That the Clarke that now serveth shall depart at Christe- mas next, and then to have a qters. wages, and in the meane season to provide an other. At a Vestrye holden the vi"" of flfebruarie A" 1558. Imprimis. It is agreade that Richard ffortune shalbe Ch\irch Warden for this yere followinge. Item. It is agreade that lermyne CioUe, Will" Hagar, Blase Saunders, andlasper Umpton shall take theaccompte of Mr.Browne betwene this and Sonedaie next, and then to make reporte thereof. And also to take accompte of the Collector of the XV and of the strangers, so that the remayner thereof may be brought in to the use of the parishe church. Item. It is agreade that Gregory Bacon shalle serve in the Quyer as a Conducte to playe and singe there, and to have £iiii by the yere for his wage to begynne at Christemas last, and that be shall give the prshe a yeres warnynge afore his departure. Item. That Thomas Parker shall serve the parish as Clarke at all tymes havinge yerelie xx s. to begynne at Christemas last, w* all comodities to the same except the Great BeU. Item. That Steven Derrom shall serve as Sexton, and have XX «. a yere to begynne at Christemas last paste. Item. That Thomas Parker shall washe the clothes of the Church and kepe the Clocke and have xiii s. iiii d. for the same. Item. That Will™ and George Graye shall shutte up their doores w* they have latelye made out of their houses into the close. Item. That W°* Hagar shall paye for his absence at this Vestrye ii d. At a Vestrye holden the Sondaie the xx*"" of Octobre A" 1560. It is this dale ordered that M' Goddolphyn and lohn Edwards shall be Church Wardens for this yere followinge. And that M" Goddolphyn shall have the charge of the Money this yere, and to go out at Michaelmas next, and the saied Edwards to remayne for the yere following w"" another to be chosen to him. For the Wardmote Quest. 102 Vestries, a.d. 1561-3. At a Vestrie holden the iiii"" dale of Maye. A" 1561, Thomas Odyll and George Lodge are elected to be Collectors for the poor people for this yere following. At a Vestrie holden the xxi"" daie of December. A". 1561. This daie were chosen comon officers for the yere following, viz. Thomas Colshill for the Comon Counsell. Richard Kirke Edmund Stone John Edwards Constable. George Gray Scavenger. Kylbye BedelL At a Vestrie holden the xxu"" daie of ffebruarie A" 1561. Raffe Skeres and John Edwards were elected to be Collectors for the secunde fiftenCj which was granted towards re-edifyinge of Powles Church. It is also agreade at the said Vestrye that M' Colshill, M* CioU, M' Saunders, M' Hagar, M' Lodge, M' Goddolphyn and M' Watson, shall upon the Wednesdaie then next following goe to the Leathersellers Hall, and ther to confer w"" the Wardens and Assistants of the saied Leathersellers concerning the repairing and amendement of certaine decayde places on the outside of the North He of the Church. The xxviii" of October 1563. At this Vestrie Will™ KnyU is choesen and appointed to be conducte in place of John Hailes to plaie on the Organes and to singe in the Quyer for the same Wage that hath heretofore bene accustomed from Michelmas last past. At the same Vestrie it is agread by consent of the prshonrs of this parish and the companye of the laborers that they shall contynue their resorte to this parishe church yerely on Trynitye Sonedaie as heretofore they have done, paying to the Parishe Church yerelie ii a. to the Church Wardens for the tyme beinge. The xxvii"' of June 1563. It is ordered and agreed that Rice Austen, Clockmaker shall have yerelye for thamendinge and lookinge to the Clocke the Vestries, a.d. 1563-4. 103 some of V s. and that he shall have xv d. for his paynes allreedie taken therein. The v"' daie of Mairche 1563, It is ordered from hencefurthe that none shal be buryed within the Churche or Churcheyarde of this parishe beinge not of the parishe and not departing this worlde within the parish unles it be otherwise ordered by consent of the parishe holden at a Vestrie. Item. That non shal be buryed within the Church unles the dead corpse be coflFened in wood, and also pay the ordeynarie charges to the Churche for the rynginge and toUinge of the Great BeU. Item. That Thomas Parker shall appear before the Auditors at the next Audit to be kept, ther to answer unto such things as shall be objected against him, and also to be ordered by the said Auditors. The x* of Julie 1564. It is agread by the worshipfull of the parishe w* other, that Thomas Parker, Clarke, now beinge not dwellinge in the parishe depted shalbe buryed in the Church porche paieing the duteies belonging thereunto. The xxx**- daie of Julie 1564. It is agreade that Thomas Underwood shall serve in the place of the Clerke, until Michelmas next havinge vi s. viii d. for his Wage and other advantage incident for the same. The first daie of October 1564. It is agreade that Thomas Underwood shall serve in the place of the Clarke untill Easter next having xx s. for his wage and all other advantage incident for the same. Quarto fi^ebruary 1564. It is agreade by the assent of the whole parish, that the Leas of the parsonage already granted to the use of the parishe shalbe sued furth, and the charge thereof to be paid by the Church Wardens out of the stock of the Church. And also they have appoynted M' Colshill, M' Saunders, M' Howe, M' Skegge, M' Hagar, and M'^ Watson to consider howe the said lease may be well assured to the use of the parish, and also to dispose how the profitts of the same from tyme to tyme shalbe collected and to determyn in aU things concerninge the same lease. 104 Vestries, a.d. 1564. The xx*** daie of Marche 1564. A° Septimo R. Elizabeth. It is agreade the said daie and yere, that for the first two yeres recepte of the revenues of the profitte of the psonnage. of this Church of S' Hellen, begyninge at the feast of S* Michaell the Archangell last past, shalbe collected and gathered by M' Thomas Colshill and Mr. Blase Saunders or their sufficient deputye or deputyes, and they to paie as well the Quenes grace rent as yt shalbe due goynge out of the same psonage, as also to paie the Curate and other ordynary charge from tyme to tyme as shalbe due. And the same to be allowed yerelie in their accompte, w"'' accompte shalbe yerelie made at the feast of S* Michaell tharch- angell or w4n x daies then next ensuinge at the farthest. Item. It is agread that the Curate shall furthwith make a perfect booke of all the names of the howseholders of this parishe w* their wyfe, children and servaunte, viz., suche as be of the age of xvi yeres or above, and the same booke, or a true copie thereof to be delivered to the said M' Colshill and M"^ Saunders. Item. It is agreade that M' Howe shall deliver unto M' Cols- hill out of the Church Stocke remayinge in his hands the some of Twentie Pounds towards the charge of the Lease and fyne for the said parsonage. xiiii January, A" Domini 1564. At a Vestry holden the saied daie and yere. It is ordered and agreade be the whole assent of the parishioners here present that the residue of owre roode lofte yet standinge at this daie shalbe taken downe accordinge to the forme of a certain writing made and subscried by Mr. MoUyns, Archdeacon of London* by the comandem* of my Lord Bishoppe of Londonf and others the Quenes ma"*' comission". And further that the place where the same doeth stande shalbe comelie and devoutUe made and gar- nished againe like to S' Magnus Church or S' Dunstone in the East as to the descrecon of the Church Wardens shall seme good. • John Mullins, Molens, or Molina, S.T.P., Prebendary of Kentish-town, collated December 13th, 1659, and died May 22, 1591. — Le Neve's Fasti, vol. ii. p. 323. Ed. Oxford (Hardy), 1864. t Edmund Grindal, S.T.P., elected July 26th, consecrated Dec. 21st, 1559; translated to York, May 16th, 1670; translated to Canterbury Jan. 10th, 1575-6; died July 6th, 1683, setat. 63. Id. vol. i. p. 26; vol. ii. p. 801. See above, p. 65. Vestries, a.d. 1565-75. 105 Quarto November, 1565. It is ordered that the Clarke shall have yerely for washinge the Church Clothes viiis. Item. It is ordered that no Vaulte nor Tombe hereafter to be made in any parte of the Church without composition had and made with the Church Wardens and parishe upon payne for breach thereof that the Church Wardens for the tyme beinge shall forfeit for every tyme in this offending £x. to be paid to the use of the Church. Item. That any person which shalbe buryed within the Church above the steppes, that is to say betwyne Sir Thomas Gresham's pew and the Vestrie dore, shall paye xv«. And betwyne the steppes unto the Quire dore in all the iles x«. And in the rest of the boddie of the Church vi«. Vnid. And in the Church porch iii«. iiii. It is ordered that none shall drye any clothes in the Church Yard. It is ordered that he or they that shall have the custodie and profitt of the little gardens about the Crosse shall see this last order for the drying of clothes executed accordingly upon pay- ment to lose the keping of the said garden, and another to be placed in the same. The XX daye of Marche 1568. At a Vestry holden thys daye ytt was bargayned and agreyd that ffyttler the Carpenter showlde have for mendyng the Church Roffe at the West ende of the Churche, and for the new greatt beame and for the wood plate and the tryander that lyeth uppon ytt and for so manye boardes as shalbe fownde rotten under the leade for all hys woorke in the same and for removing of the cloke howse to sett ytt upon the corner of the wall so as ytt shall be borne uppon the wall and not to beare any p' of ytt on the roofe of the Churche all which thyngs he must do at his own charge as well nayles as tymber & boordes so as the parish shalbe att no other charge butt onlye the leaddyng of ytt agayne, and for all the sayed worke, the sayed ffyttler must have syxteene nobles and besyde one noble thatt he hathe alreaddye in ernest. The xxv*" daie of februarie a" 1575. It is agread that Willi™ Kynll the Clarke shall have daie and 106 Vestries, a.d. 1576. tyme until the sixth daie of March next comynge to enquire and searche for the Register of the parish which as he sayth he lost neckligently. It is agread that the Church Wardens shall give notice to Mr. Colshill for to bring the books of accompte for the parish that they may remayne in the kepinge of the same Church War- dens and that the parishc desier to know how Mr. Colshill holdeth the lease of the parsonage. It is further accorded that there shalbe kepte on the first Son- daie of each Monethe one CommunyoUj w*"* Communyon shalbe so monethlie kept from tyme to tyme and that the Church Wardens w* two or three of them shall devide the prshe so equallie as to their discressions shall seeme expedient. It is also agread that vi. v. or fowre of the M" of the parishe shall cess the Cerate and Clarke's duties as well for Marriages as burialls, and to have nothinge for Christnynge. Moreover It is agread that the Church Wardens shall repair to the Parishioners of the pshe to what and howe much evre Man will contribute and paie for and towards a reader of a Lector; to be said in the same parish twice in the Weke and the surplussage of the Clarke's Wage to go to the same. It is informed that the parish priest receiveth the offeringe of the leathersellers & others w'*" of right ought to come to the poor men's box, of the w""" he must make restytution and from hence- forthe to receave no such ofiFeringes. The xi"" of Aprill a" 1576. At a Vestrye holden the same daie and yere, It is agread that M Thomas Barbor, or some learned Man shall evre Wednesdaie & fridaie duringe the whole yere reade a lecture in owre Churche the same lecture to begynne at v of the clock in the afternoone, & ende at Six of the Clocke. This however to be kept from our Ladye daie in March untill Mychelmas daie, and from Mychelmas to our Ladye daie, the same readinge to begyn at fowre of the Clock and to ende at fyve. And the said M'' Barbor to have for his paines xx' markes by the yere to be paid hym Quarterlye, the biggest bell to be knolled by the Sexton one Quarter of an howre before the Lector. It is also agread that there shalbe convenient railes and benches w"" matts uppon them set in the chancell for them that Vestries, A.-D. me-8. 107 shall receave the coraraunyon to kneele and rest uppon after such order as it is at S' Magnus. It is also agreed that the Organes and the scaffolde they stande on shalbe taken downe. It is also agreed that the two upper steppes where the Alters did stande shalbe taken awaie and made levell with the third stepp ymediatelie after Easter. The last dale of Septembre a° 1576. It is agread that Will™ Donne the Sexton shall have for his paynes takinge more then he was wont to doo, by reason of our lecture vi* viiii^ the yere begynnynge at Mydsomer last a 1576. A Vestry holden the v*^ dale of Octobre beynge the first Sondaie after Mychelmas dale 1578. Item, yf anye of the parishe will buy the Organes betwene thys and AlhaUow dale nextj thaye to have them before any other gevinge as the Church Wardens and he can agree, and yf none of the parishe do betwene this and hoUandtyde buye them as afore sayd then the Church Wardens after the sayed daie to sell them as they can for the benefit of the parishe. Item. The old roape to be soulde by the Church Wardens and a comlye clothe to be boughte for the pulpitt. Item for parishe clarke ytt ys agreyd that Robert Austyn shall serve for thys yere eusuying and so long after as ytt shall please the parishe, and to have for his wage thys yere four pounds from Mychellmas laste and the orddnarye proffytts. The xxvi of October 1578. At a Vestrye holden this daie tthat there shalbe a petition made unto the Governors of Chrysts Hospitall for to receave a chylde of Elizabeth Brownes w*" Elizabeth was borne in thys parishe and her parents wear of long contynuans therein and yf the sayed chylde may be relieved in the sayed hospitall, the said parish wyll take order for relievyng of the sayed Elizabeth who w*" her chylde are in sutche extreme povertyethattyf she and her chylde have nott present helpe they are lyke bothe to dye in the streets [The Vestry Records between 1578 and 1676 are lost.] 1676. ^^7 4. Proposed by Thomas Williamson, Upper Church Warden. That there be a Register Book wherein may be registered the Parish Accounts, the Gifts, Legacies, Bonds, &c. 108 Fesiries,A.D.1676-S2. That there be appointed a Chest to remain in the Vestry, with three locks and keys, wherein the Register Books and Books of Accounts, and Bonds and other writings shall be kept. Ordered. That some fitt person be desired to peruse the writings now in the Vestry, that gifts, and legacies, and other rights may be discovered. That the Vestry will be pleased to appoint where the Church Plate shall be kept, that the Church Warden may not be damnified. Ordered. That M"" Williamson shall keep the Church Plate at his own house without any detriment upon any casualty. 1676. December 15. That three keys be bought for the Chest and the Deputy to have one, and the Upper Church Warden one, M' Westcomb one, and when they are fixed, the bonds and all other things thereunto belonging be putt into it. 1677. December 17. That the interest for the 100^. left by M' Adam Lawrence twenty years since for charitable use and stiU. remaining in the hands of Sir John Lawrence the Executor to M' Adam Lawrence be refered to the generosity of Sir John Lawrence to give such sums of money as he shall think fitting for the damage thereof for these twenty years past. 1678. April 12. That M"" Pelling shall have ten shillings a sermon for all the gift sermons, that is to say, the two sermons of M'' Pryor and the one of M' fi'enner. That if M' Lemm doth not within a months time give M' Pelling satisfaction for the Vault he lately made in the Church Yard (the property thereof lying in the said E. Pelling as his glebe) and order a Tombe or Gravestone to be desently layd according to the good likeinge of the Church Wardens, that then the said Vault shall be filled up with earth and all things to be as they were before. September 27. That the Church Wardens do wait on the Dean and Chapter of S' Pauls, and acquaint them with the present vacancy (M"" Pelling having left the parish) and to pray them for to admit the inhabitants to nominate a Minister to them for their approbation and choice. November 11. M'' Hesketh chosen Minister having 18 votes out of 21. 1679. February 26. That M"" Hesketh shall have £20 given (him) by this Vestry, in consideration of the loss in subscription. 1682. March 29. Twenty shillings be paid to M'^ Houghton the Registrar Vestries, a.d. 1683-9. 109 of S' Pauls, for the draughts of the leases that were formerly made for two parcels of ground in the Church Yardj to build upon. 1683. December 22. Upon the proposal by M"" Hesketh for the setting up of an Organ in the Church, he giving encouragement to hope that it may be purchased, and sett up without diminishing the stock of the parish : The parishioners in Vestry declare their consent to the setting up of an Organ as is proposed. And they doe order a Comittee of the Parish to treat with M' Hesketh upon all occasions about the sayd Organ, and to conclude the whole matter relating to it, if they find good cause, and if any obstruction happen in the same to consult the Vestry for their further Order what to doe. The Gentlemen appointed for the said Comittee are these that follow : — Church Wardens. Langley Baker Paige, Coventry, Shutt, ffinch, Izard, or any five of them, 1684. April 3. That no more than ffifty shillings shall be allowed by the Parish to be spent upon Ascension days. 1685. December 18. That a doore bee made to the street goinge into Whyt Horse Ally, and that it be constantly lockt up, when it shall be dark, at the charge of John Gordon, and that there be keys for y® severall Inhabitants livinge therein. 1686. January 26. Joseph Lem deceased Executor had leave to lay a gravestone on him in the Church Yard. 1687. June 1. Lease for 25 years to Mr. Curke to build his house in Bishopsgate Street at £8 p' annum. N° 48. December 30. Eobert Mulcaster elected Parish Clerk with the consent and approbation of the Minister. 1688. November 21. Gate next S' Mary Axe repaired at the parish charge. February 15. The question being put. Whether upon the death of M'' John Mead late Church Warden (Upper) another should be chosen in his place. It was ordered. That none shall be chosen before Easter. 1689. May 7. That the Church Wardens for the tyme to come charge the parish only with £10 for the Ascension Dinner, and they give the parish creditt for the halfcrowns they receive of the 110 Vestries, a.d. 1689-91. Parishioners contributed by them towards the expense of the dinner. That in consideration of the great charge M"" Kirk hath been at, in defending the right of the parish in obtaining a stack of chimneys encroached on by M'' Bateman being the next house adjoining, they had conditioned to ad to his lease 25 years more. 1689. October 28. That the charge of covering the graves shall be discharged by the friends or executors of the deceased, and not to be at y* charge of the parish, and that intimation be given to the relations or executors whereby they may not pretend for want of notice. That the present Church Wardens provide in this Vacancy of a Minister, such able Ministers to preach at the charge of the parish as the Church Wardens shall think fitt, and that the several! parishioners then present were contented to pay their subscriptions for this Crissmas Quarter which was to the late M"^ Hesketh towards the discharge of the same. December 6. M' Hesketh's letter being read : It was agreed for a subscription and every one to subscribe whereby a competent sum may be raised for a subsistence for him, that he may be induced to preach constantly and remain Vicar of the parish of S' Helens. December 23. That a subscription be made for the Bishop of Killally for one year, provided that he is pleased so long to reside with us. That M' Paige, M' ffoot, M^ Allen, and M' Coventry Church Warden doe wait on the Bishop of Killally to acquaint him that M' Hesketh is contented that he shall supply the cure during his residence in the parish of S'. Helens and receive all the profitts. 1690. April 11. That the surplus which was collected in the last Xmas Quarter towards supplying the cure as also the other rents &c. due to the Vicar, be given to the Lord Bishop of KiUalla towards the charge of a Reader. April 24. The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of KillaUa our Minister Chairman. October 6. That aU strangers that shall come to bury in S' Helen's Church or Church Yard, that before ever the grave be made, they shall pay double dues to the Clerk or upon refusal of the same they shall not bury their corpse here. 1691. April 28. That M' Coventry doe pay to the Lord Bishop of Vestries, a.d. 1691-4. Ill Killalla out of the parish money in his hands the sum of twenty pounds for a year's allowance due from the impropriator M'ffreeman as by a decree in chancery and the said impropriator to be charged therewith, as also for a quarter's allowance more due from him at Christmas last, and the Church Wardens makedem and thereof. 1691. August 13. That fifteen pounds be given unto my Lord Bishop of Clogher* as his dues from Cap* fireeman and three pounds as a gratuity besydes. December 18. M'^ Hesketh presided. 1692. June 29. Legacy of £20 from Mr. Paige. April 1. That M"^ Charnack shall have power to reimburs IVr Joseph Lewis his five pounds seven shillings six pence, given by him to be excused from being Churchwarden. 1694. January 23. That the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, having on the 20th day of January sent for the Churchwardens and acquainted them that IVT Henry Hesketh had resigned the Vicaridge of S Hellens into their hands and that the place was voide, and the Church Wardens as was usuall having desired leave for the parishioners to recommend and choose a person to be admitted by them for their Minister, and leave being granted for the parishioners to proceed to an election, accordingly on this day, in a full Vestry called for that purpose, D"^ John Williams and M"" Thomas Willis being put in nomination, M' Thomas WiUis had the majority by about fifty persons. March 29. That the Church Wardens' accounts be audited within three months after his time is out at furthest. Warder's Coat not to exceed 30«. May 24. That it be a standing rule at aU times to be observed, that the Orders agreed upon in any Vestry shall be read over at the opening of the next Vestry, and that no order made in any Vestry shall be binding or valid without it be in the next suc- ceeding Vestry ratified and confirmed. That the Engine be brought into the Church, and that the old Engine House be pulled down for the better accommodation in burying the dead. * Richard Tennison, D.D., Dean of Clogher, became Bishop of Killala and Achonry, Feb. 18th, 1681-2, was translated to Clogher, Feb. 26, 1690-1 and to Meath, June 25th, 1697 ; he died July 29th, 1706.— Cotton's Fasti Eccl. Hibern., vol. iii. p. 80; vol. iv, pp. 71-2, 120. Ed. Dublin, 1848-51. 112 Vestries, a.d. 1694-6. That the Inhabitants on the north side of the Churchyard have liberty at their own charges (that.wall being to be pulled down) to build a wall and pallisadoes, provided they come no further with the foundation wall than the first row of trees upon the Churchyard. 1694. May 30. The above standing order was unanimously confirmed. December 18. That the Comon Counsellmen, with the two Church Wardens, do se the parish wrightings brought and put into the chest in the Vestry, and that they doe inspect and examen the same. 1696. March 28. That M' William Goodwin have leave to make use of the ground where the Stocks now stand for a conveniency to work in during the pleasure of the parish, leaving the same when required as he found it. April 17. A Motion was made and negatived, that one M' Armstrong, who is building a piece of ground in the street by S' Helen's Gate, is willing to purchase at an annual rent and present fine, the place where the Bells hang over S' Helen's Gate. That for the time to come, no Church Warden shall, upon any one extraordinary occasion, disburse above the sum of 40*. upon the Parish account without the consent of the Parishioners first consulted with in Vestry in order to it. That for the future the Church Warden do sumon the Parish- ioners to the Vestry to be consulted with once in two months at least, and as much oftner as he please and see fitting, And that whenever the Parishioners are so sumoned printed ticketts be left at every person's house intimating the time when that Vestry is to be holden, the day before it is held. April 20. That the Parish should admit of a fine for the service of the oEBce of Churchwarden. That the fine for Churchwarden and Overseer of the Poor shall be £30. That Mr. Bob' ffoot. Churchwarden elected, shall not be allowed a deputy. April 28. That Mr. Rob' flfoot shall pay £20 for a fine for Churchwarden and Overseer of the Poor, or else he shall be confined to hold itt himself, and the said moneys shall be appropriated to the repare of the Church. That the Steeple over against S' Hellen's Gate be lett by lease Vestries, a.d. 1696. 113 at the discretion of a Committee (there named), with power to treat and conclude with Mr. Armstrong concerning it. 1696, May 8. Mr. Churchwarden Woods acquainted this Vestry that Mr. Rob* ffoote, Churchwarden Elect, had paid him the fine of £20 for that office which was set on him by the last Vestry. Mr. John Woolfe was then chosen in his stead. May 15. Mr. John Wolf, Churchwarden Elect, appeared and submitted to the fine of £20 for that office, which being accepted, the Vestry proceeded to a new Election. Mr. Dan Allen was then chosen. May 22. Mr. Churchwarden Woods acquainted the Vestry that Mr. D. Allen, Churchwarden Elect, had p"* his ffine of £20 for y® s* office according to a former order of Vestry for admitting Gentlemen to fine for the office of Churchwarden and Overseer of the poor. Mr. Abraham Chitty was then chosen, who being present submitted to the fine of £20, and Mr. Churchwarden Woods acknowledged the receipt of it. That the Gentlemen who have already or hereafter shall pay y* fine of £20 for the Office of Overseer of the Poor and Church- warden shall have the liberty to pay a ffine of £10 for the Office of Constable and Scavenger when it comes to their turn, and that no other persons thall have the same liberty. That Mr. Abraham Chittey having paid his ffine of £20 for the Office of Overseer of y® Poor and Churchwarden, this Vestry do proceed immediately to the choice of a new Churchwarden. Mr. ffrancis Benzelin being chosen submitted to the ffine of £20, and Mr. Churchwarden Woods acknowledged the receipt of it. That Mr. fiirancis Benzelin having paid his ffine of £20 for the office of Overseer of the Poor and Churchwarden, this Vestry do proceed immediately to y" choice of a new Churchwarden. Mr. flfrancis Eyles was then chosen. May 25. Mr. Churchwarden Woods acquainted the Vestry that Mr. firancis Eyles had paid his ffine of £20 for the said office. Mr. Ed" Prideaux was then chosen. That the Gentlemen following, or any three of them, y' Churchwarden being one, doe wait upon the Gentlemen after- named, to know what they please to give towards the repair of the I 114 Vestries, a.d. 1696. Church in order to their being excused fr5 y* office of Overseer of y° Poor and Churchwarden. Committee of eight persons, with a list of twenty others who are to be waited upon for the above purpose. 1696. June 3. The agreement between the Parishioners of S* Helen's and M' Armstrong of S' Margaret's, "Westminster, Gent. It is agreed by and between the Church Wardens and Parishioners of S' Helen's, London, and Thomas Armstrong, that he, the said Thomas Armstrong, upon paying to y' Church Warden y° sum of One Hundred Pounds, and taking down the Bells, Wheels, and Ropes in the Bellfrey, and delivering them safe and sound into y" parish church of S' Helen's, at his own charge, shall have a lease of y" said Bellfrey for Sixty One Years, to comence from Michaelmas next, at y' yearly rent of Ten Shillings payable annually at y' Church Warden's House, and it is agreed that y' passage shall not be made any narrower than now it is, or any lower than y° passage going into Crosby Square is between y* pavement and ceiling, or brestsumer, and that he the said Armstrong pave y° passage under y'= said gateway, and keep the same so paved at his charge, and to the chanel in the street. Thomas Woods. George Bodington. Abraham Chittey. Clement Kettle. Tho. Hawes. George Heath. Robert Chamock. Rich. Bromley. The passage is to be eight flFoot, two inches and a quarter of an inch wide measuring the front to the street from inside to inside ; and eight fPoot three inches and half an inch wide measuring y® back part towards S' Helen's ; and ten ffoot and eight inches high from the under side of y* Brest Sumer to y' pavement. Mr. Willis the Vicar, and Mr. Edmund Prideaux were then added to the Comittee and Ordered, That all the Gentlemen of the Comittee sign the Lease when to be signed by Mr. Armstrong. June 18. That the Vault wherein Sir John Spencer was buryed (the Earl of Northampton taking no care for the repayre of it) be appropriated to the use of y' Parish. That three of the four Bells delivered into the Church by Mr Armstrong be sold towards the repayre of y® Church, and the best of the four to be kept for the use of y' Parish. Vestries, a.d. 1696-f 115 That Iron Pallisadoes be made round y' Churchyard by the Parishioners living thereabouts if they please without any charge to the Parish, like to those of AUhallows Church Yard in Lombard Streetj and to be painted in oyle colours once in three years. 1696. June 20. The Parishioners living near the Churchyard were to have six months time to consider and resolve in, whether they will be at the charge of the Iron Pallisadoes or not. That the Minister and Churchwardens be requested and desired to search the Court RoUs of Kennington Mannors, in the County of Surrey, at the Parish charge, in order to the discovery of a Gift some time since to our Parish by Joyce Featly, wife of the late Dr. ffeatly of Lambeth, and which has not yet been paid. At a Meeting held Oct. 8, 1696, It was agreed that Sir Christopher Wren be consulted about the repairs of the Church, and the Parliament be petitioned for an Act to repair the Church. July 8. A Comittee chosen to assist the Church "Wardens with their councell, advice, and directions in the repayre of the Church. Dec. 17. A report being made that the lease of Mr. Cropper's dwelling house was near expired, a Committee was appointed to enquire into the lease of y^ said Mr. Cropper's House, and to make report thereof to y' next Vestry, and to view y' said House and consider how it may for y° future be best lett for the service of y" parish. Dec. 18. That Mr. Williams shall have liberty to lay a Tomb- stone upon his ffather's grave even to the pavement, gratis. But in opposition to this order it was alledged that Mr. Williams was willing to give Ten Pounds to the Parish. However, carried in y* affirmative that he may lay one gratis if he please. 1694, ffeb. 7. That an humble petition be presented to the Honour- able House of Comons for some allowance out of y' duty to be laid on coals towards y' finishing the repairs of St. Helen's Church, and that those of the parishioners that are not now present to sign the said petition this day be waited on at their respective houses in order to their signing of it. . . . The Minister and Church Wardens, with seven other inhabitants, be desired to go with the petition to-morrow morning to the Parliament House and take care it be presented, March 4. A Lease of the House lately occupied by Mr. Tho' Cropper was agreed to be granted to Mr. Nathaniel I 2 116 Vestries, A.ry. 1697. Chewter for twenty-one years at £30 per annum Rent, and a present ffine of £50, and not to let it to a Tallow Chandler, a Cook, a Victualler, a Blacksmith, or a Baker. M' Nathaniel Chewter paid M"^ Church Warden "Woods ffive shillings in part of the ffivety pounds ffine which he acknowledged the receipt o£ 1697. April 20. A Committee was appointed To audit the accounts of the Church Wardens whose accounts are not yet audited, and the ensuing year are to be so. That an Inventory be taken of all Plate, Books, or other things belonging to the parish of S' Helens, and that it be entered in y° parish book where the Church Wardens Accounts are entered, and that every New Church Warden upon receipt of them sub- scribe his name to y® said inventory. May 20. That a rate of Six Pence in y* pound on Houses in y^ parish of S' Helens be raised in order to the finishing y° re- payres of y* Church and that y° Assessment be according to y° present rates of y* several Houses in the King's Tax, and that y' moneys so to be raised be paid by y^ parishioners to y® Church Warden before y® fieast of S' John Baptist next. June 5. That M' Thomas Woods late Church Warden having been oft called upon to adjust his Accounts with y® parish as Church Warden for y^ year last past, and not having yet done it, do gett his said accounts ready to be audited by y* first day of July next, or else be prosecuted for not doing so by y® present Church Warden in y° behalf of the parish. July 23. The accounts not being audited, the Church War- den was ordered to prefer a Bill in Chancery if they are not brought in before the 2 day of August. December 16. That the Church Warden do provide a Coat for the Warder and pay for it not exceeding forty shillings. The Auditors reported that they had examined the accounts of M' Hardy and M' Woods late Church Wardens and find that the sum of Twenty Nine Pounds and Two Pence is due to M' Hardy and that the sum of fforty Pounds is due to the parish from M' Woods. Ordered. That the sum of flforty Pounds be paid presently by M' Woods, or that the present Church Warden take care to recover it at the parish charge, and that M"" Hardy be paid out of the same money when it is received. Vestries, a.d. 16974. 117 1697. December 18. That M' Nath* Chewter doth give his Note for the payment of £20 in six months time to y" Churchwarden for a fine to be excused from serving the office of Churchwarden and Overseer of the Poor which he complied with accordingly. That M'' Naty Chewter do pay to y° Churchwarden Prideaux next weeke the sum of Ten Pounds for a fine in excusing him from y^ office of Constable and Scavenger for y° year ensuing. 1698. April 28. A Petition of M" Robert Mulcaster y" Parish Clerk was presented to y® Vestry and read, praying he might have an yearly salary settled on him for executing y® said office. The consideration of which was referred to the next Vestry No further — appears to have been taken upon it. December 16. That the Gates of S' Hellens towards S* Mary Axe be kept and repayred, and that the present Churchwardens doe desire M"" Jones to repair the same, and in default thereof, to prosecute the same at y" charge of y® parish. 169f. January 19. That it be a standing rule that the Bricklayer shall have five Shillings for every grave in j" Church, he keeping the pavement levell, and the lies whole, and that at the end of every year before his bill be paid the whole pavement be viewed by the Comon Councellmen and Churchwardens. This standing order to be fairly written and hung up in the Vestry. January 25. A Motion was made that a Watchman should be kept at the parish Charge at S' Helenas Gate leading to S* Mary Ax. Referred to another vestry. April 13. That for y® futer all uper Churchwardens give one hundred pounds security within fourteen days after he is elected to some person of y° parish who shall be appointed to receive and keep y® said bond and to deliver up y® said bond again to y* obleidged when his accounts are audited and ajusted. That a Book be provided in which shall be entered an Inven- tory of all the Wrightings, Plate, and other Movables belonging to the Church and Parish y" which Book for y® futer shall be delivered to all succeeding Churchwardens for the time being. April 25. That M' Decosta do pay as a fine for all Offices both of y® Parish and Ward, Twenty Five Pounds, by reason he has given warning to go out of his house at Michaelmass next and y* he gave a Noate of his hand to pay the said sum immediately. That the Belfry and Church be repaired and a Bell hung up 118 Vestries, a.d. 1699. to give notice of Burials, and that y^ Common Councell Men be desired to assist the Churchwardens in the same. 1699. August 9. That M' Heath y" Churchwarden have a Key to y" Church ; y' he may at any time come at y® Engine. August 28. A Vault being designed to be made in y' Chan- cell for a burying place for M' Joseph Jones of this parish and his family by y" sole order of M"^ Tho Willis the present Minister without y" knowledge or approbation of y^ parishioners, and a debate ensuing thereon the question was put .... Whether the Minister of this parish has a right to dispose of y^ ground in y' Chancell to make a Vault and appropriate it to particular persons without y" consent of y" parishioners assembled in y* Vestry, and it was carried that y" Minister has no such right. September 1 . M"^ Thomas Willis, Minister of this Parish appear- ing at the Vestry, and desiring the consent of this Vestry that M' Joseph Jones might build a Vault iu y® Chancell for himself and family Ordered. That upon M' Willis his request, this Vestry doe consent M' Jones may build a Vault in y* Chan- cell, provided he satisfy M'^ Willis and for y^ future at all tymes he keep y° pews and pavement over y^ said vault in good and sufficient repair. Mem. Sir Tho Pinfold, Ordinary to the Dean and Chapter of S' Pauls on y° 15 of December following this vestry viewed the abovesaid Vault after it was made, and then told M"^ Willis that he nor any Vicar of S* Helens had a right of appropriating any part of y° ground of y° Church or y" Chancell to any person or family. November 16. Upon y^ request of y" President, Governours & Assistants of y" Corporation for y" poor of y" City of London to y° Parishioners of this Parish ; that they would grant a place in y" Church for their Servants and Children to sitt together in during y^ tyme of divine worship — Ordered unanimously. That the President, Governors & Assistants of y" said Corporation shall have a convenient part of y° long pews on y° North Side of y" Church, for y° abovesaid use, Provided, That y^ Parish be not put to any cost or charge, and that y" said Governors give y' Parish a Covenant under their Common Seal to putt y° said pews into y" same condition they are now in, if hereafter they should discontinue to use y" same. Vestries, a.d. 1699-1700. 119 Be it remembered y' y® Pewes which are to be altered are in y® same fashion as those are, which are to y° Eastward in y° same range j only y* they are in three divisions j a passage going up between those two divisions next y° West End of the Church. 1699. December 15. Upon a Motion made to ascertain y^ Church Wardens Expenses on Publick Entertainments the ffoUowing Orders were unanimously made and agreed unto and ordered to be fairly writt and hung up in y® Vestry. Viz. : That all the parishioners (paying Scott & Lott) be -invited twice a year without any charge or contribution, viz, on y° -first clean Thursday in every Lent to an Entertainment in y^ Evening after Sermon, and on every Ascension Day to dinner. That y® Expenses on y° said Entertainment in Lent do not exceed fforty shillings. That y^ Expenses on Ascension Day doe not exceed Twelve Pounds, and y* y® charge of y" points. Bread and Drink ffor y* Children be included in y" said Twelve Pounds. 1700. January 3. That the Church Wardens, with y* assistance of y" Common Councellmen, doe forthwith hang up y' Gates of S' Helens leading into S' Mary Axe, or upon any opposition to y° contrary, take such course at law as shall seem proper. April 5. A Motion being made by M' Tho^ Willis, our Minister, y* there might be allowed him a Reader to read prayers, the matter was referred to y° next Vestry. The order of Vestry of y° 13th of Aprill, 1699, being read, importing that for y° future all Upper Church Wardens shall give One Hundred Pounds security, Ordered, That for y° future y^ Upper Church Warden Elect doe give such Bond of One Hundred Pounds, and lodge in y' hands of some one Inhabitant of y® Parish apointed by y^ Vestry, before he be presented at Doctors Commons to be sworn. That M' John Hanbury, Upper Church Warden elect, doe give a Bond of Security as above, and deliver it (to be kept) into y* hands of M' Geo. Boddington. June 4. That the sum of fforty shillings be payd towards de- fraying the charges of y® suit against Giles Hall, watchman, by M' Graham, and at y' Sessions against y" said Graham and Turner y* sayd Watchman's charges there also disbursed and payd. September 20. M' Bromley, Constable of this precinct, com- 120 Vestries, a.d. 1700-1. plained that y® Parish was taxed to y' Watchmen double to what is paid to them, and y* remainder sunk or converted to other uses, and that this part of y* Ward is not duly watched as it ought to be. A Committee was appointed to enquire into the same, and report thereon to the next Vestry. The Churchwarden also reported that, according to the Order of Vestry, he had sett up the Gates in that part of S* Helens leading to S' Mary Axe, and put locks on the same for y^ use of y* Parish, and that M' Joseph Jones, though he had a key of y* same delivered to him, break oflP y^ said Lock in contempt of y° order. That the Church Wardens procure another lock and put on y" said Gates in the room of those thus broken, and that M"^ Church- Warden Hanbrey doe goe to M"^ Joseph Jones and acquaint him that if he please to pay for the said new lock, the Parish are see kind as to pass by this offence, and if the said Jones doe refuse to do this, the said Church Warden have liberty to take such course at law against the said Joseph Jones as he shall be advised. That Knight and Jenkens be two whole bearers for the buriall of the dead, and have whole pay, and that the other four be at the nomination and apointed by the Clerk and Sexton, and if it so at any time happen that there be but two bearers employed, that the Clerk and Sexton have half pay, and they the other half. That the Minister be requested for to bring in the old Psalms, that they may be sung again in the Church. 1700. December 18. That the Church Warden do pay unto M' Rob* Mulcaster the sum of Three Pounds towards the buying him a fitt and decent gown, provided the said Rob* Mulcaster will read the severall lines of y* Psalms to be publickly sung, before they are sung, till contradicted by Order of Vestry. 1701. April. That whereas D' Fuller, lately deceased, who preached the Winter Lecture in S' Helen's Church (viz. : every Tuesday in the evening from Mich' to Lady Day following) being the gift of Sir Martin Lumley. It was moved in Vestry by the Inhabitants then there. That some persons of the sayd Parish should be nomi- nated to goe to Sir Martin Lumley and make application to him in behalf of M"^ Willis, present Minister of this parish, to be admitted and settled to preach the sayd Lecture Sermons for the future. That M' Hanbury be the Bricklayer for the Parish of S* Helen Festries, a.d. 1701. 121 doing the work as is expressed in the Orders hung up in the Vestry, at reasonable prices. 1701. April 17. A Bond given to M' Heath, late Church Warden, for £7^ balance due to him from the Parish. Signed by the present Church Wardens, who are indemnified by the Vestry. May 7. A Committee appointed to wait on the Impropriator to acquaint him with the death of M' Willis, the late Minister, and inform them where y^ right of presentation is. That for the future at all Vestrys y° Minnits that are taken be read and agreed to, and entered in the same words afterwards in the Vestry books and compared with the minnits. May 10. The above Committee having been with the Impro- priator, reported his answer, viz. : That y® right of presentation is in him, and said as the Parish is willing to let him quietly possess his right, he should always endeavour to gratify the Parish in their ancient usages of electing a Minister. Votes of thanks to the Committee, and their charges, £1 19*., allowed them. A message being sent to this Vestry from D' Harwood, that y Dean of S' Pauls* would in the vacancy provide persons to officiate and particularly to-morrow morning and evening : This Vestry has ordered y* two Church Wardens, with D"^ Hawes and M"^ Heath, to wait on y" Dean or his Commissary, and acquaint him that the Impropriator had ordered M' Cook to officiate to-morrow morning, and no other, except y® Dean be pleased to preach himself. June 4. In nomination for Vicar. M' Cooke. M' Canham. M' Pritchard. M' Estwicke. M' Holkomb. M' Hmiard. M' Sampson Estwicke chosen. That the two Churchwardens, with M' Allen, D\ Hawes, and M' Heath do wait upon the Dean of S* Paul's and'M' ffreeman to acquaint them of the choice of W Estwicke. That the Parish Eates for Leathersellers' Hall be agreed with according to the discretion of the Common Councillmen. * " William Sherlock, S.T.P., Prebendary of St. Panoras, was nominated 25tli April, and elected 12tli June, 1691, and installed on the 15th of the same month. He died at Hampstead in Middlesex 19th June, 1707, aetat 67, and was buried in St. Paul's."-Le Neve's Fasti Eocl. Anglican., vol. ii. p. 316. Ed. Oxford (Hardy), 1854. 122 Vestries, \.D. 1701-2. 1701. October 10. A Committee appointed to collect subscriptions for M' Estwicke. December 17. That the sum of Five Pounds be paid unto M' Soulby's daughter for wrighting the (parish) Books this year. 1702. April 7. M' Ay 1 ward, elected Church Warden, excused all offices on paying the fine of £30, the question having been put whether it should be £25 or £30. April 10. M' Crispe elected; excused on the same conditions. April 13. M" Tho' fifinch elected; excused on the same conditions. April 15. M' Cotton elected ; excused on the same conditions, April 13. That Mr. ffrancis Eyles shall have liberty, at his own charge, to make a vault in the Church underneath the Christning Pew, he paying of £30 for the use of the Parish, and the dimen- sions of the said vault are to be left to the discretion of the two Common Councilmen and the Church Wardens. That M"" Geo. Heath appearing this day with his Bond of £72 principle, and £4 6*. interest. Ordered, That the same be paid, which was done immediately, and the Bond cancelled. May 22. This Vestry being convened to consider of the con- dition of this Parish with respect to the books, deeds, and writings belonging to the same, and as to severall gifts, devizes, and bequests to this Parish and the poor thereof, and as to the number, condition, and charge of the poor. And the three keys belonging to the Parish Chest being lost, it is thereupon Ordered, That the said Chest now remaining in the Vestry be forthwith broken open, which was accordingly done. And in the said chest are found several deeds and writings belonging to the Parish, but upon strict search and enquiry, some of the Books relating to Vestry pro- ceedings in this Parish for many years past are wanting. It is therefore ordered : That strict enquiry be made thereof, and that a Committee be appointed to inspect the Parish writings and concerns now laid open, and report thereon to the next Vestry. That there be three locks and keys (as was usual) for the said chest, the Minister and two Church Wardens each to keep one, and that Srom time to time it shall be sett down (on every removal of the said keys) into whose hands they are put. That M' Stephen Locker, Clerk to the Leathersellers Com- Festries, A.D. \702-3. 123 pany be assisting to the said Committee, to reduce the writings into good order and to make a Catalogue and what else may be necessary concerning the same. And it is also ordered : That the said M"^ Stephen Locker be chosen to be Clerk for the drawing up and entering into the Vestry Book the proceed- ings of the Vestry, and for the stating and making up the Accompts and Books relating to this Parish. 1702. June 16. M"^ Churchwarden Bromley reported, as relating to the £4 p'' Annum given for ever by the Will of M" Joyce Featley, That he with Stephen Locker had searched the Court Books of the Manner of Kennington and that he had discovered the Houses and Lands subject to the payment of the said £4 p' Ann. and pro- duced Extracts he took out of the said Court Books, and also particulars of the said Houses and Lands which now are of the yearly value of £75 p'' Ann. And hath taken Copies out of the Petty Bag Of&ce, of the Inquisition and Decree made thereon. The matter was then referred to the Committee to prosecute and sue at law the persons liable to pay the said £4 p"^ Annum and for all arrears thereof. It is also ordered : ' That the said Committee shall take into their care and man- agement the demand this parish hath upon the impropriator for £20 p"^ Annum and reserved in a Grant from the Crown to the Preacher of this Church & do therein as they shall think fit and be advised. August 20. M"" Edmond Prideaux being desirous to interr his deceased daughter in Sir Julius Caesar's Vault : Ordered, That he shall have leave, on condition that he shall give Bond to the Parish for £200 to save harmless the Parish against all Suits, &c. which may arise in consequence of such interment. December 16. M" Aldworth prays a renewal of her lease for the term of her life, for a reasonable fine. 1703. March 25. The Churchwardens reported that they had inspected the WiU of Edward Fenner, by which is given the Moiety of the rents and profits of the house now held by lease heretofore made to Deputy Thomas Aldworth at £10 p' Annum, And find the sa^d house rested in the Minister and Church Wardens of S* Helens, and the Master and Wardens of the Carpenters Company and their successors for ever, " for such good uses as hereafter men- tioned, viz. That all such rents, issues and profits, that shall from 124 Vestries, a.d. 1702-3. henceforth for ever after be had or made, shall be from time to time parted and divided into two equal parts and portions; Whereof one equal part and portion I will that it be distributed yearly for ever to and amongst the poor people of the said parish. And the other equal half part and portion, I will that it be distri- buted yearly for ever, to and amongst the poor of the said Com- pany of Carpenters." And they do further find that the said house is now let by lease under M"' Aldworth at the rent of £32 p'^ Ann. And they are advised that the anticipating the full yearly rents & profits of the said house by taking a fine is repugnant to the intent of the donor's said Will and a breach of trust, and is injurious to the poor of this parish and the poor of the Carpenters Company, And they do further find that in the lease of the said house granted to the said Deputy Thomas Aldworth, dated Sep- tember 12, 1671, under which his widow claims, the Minister of S' Helens was no party, though the first person appointed a Trustee by the said Will. An Accompt was given to this Vestry that the part of the Ward within Bishopsgate pays for but twelve watchmen which at three shillings and six pence p^ week each man comes to £109.4 p' Ann. Of which sum this parish only is rated and pays near £60 p' Ann-, and as appears by the Beadle's Book tho' they have not above four Watchmen and these not entirely belonging to the service of the said parish, whose pay according to the abovesaid rate amounts to but £36.8 p'' Annum. And there being a neces- sity for one Watchman more at the East Gate of S' Helens, for the better securing that part of the parish : It is Ordered, That the Beadle of the Ward (who at this time collects the money rated upon every Inhabitant for the Watch) shall pay such Watch- man or Men, as is, or shall be placed at the said gate, And in case he refuse so to do : It is further Ordered, That the Constable of the Parish for the time being shall collect the several rates assessed on the Inhabitants of this parish and apply and pay the same to the respective watchmen who do duty for this parish. And that the Beadle of the Ward have a Copy of this Order. 1703. June 18. The Auditors directed to enquire into several abuses &c. practised by the Clerk and Sexton and of the perquisites and salaries claimed or received by them. Referred to the Churchwardens to give leave to erect a Monu- Vestries, a.d. 1703-4. 125 ment to M' White on the South Wall, behind the Font on payment of not less than £5 for the use of the parish before the Monument be put up. 1703. December 17. That M*^ Locker be paid Ten Pounds for such his Service done to this time, and that Six Pounds p' Annum be allowed to the said M' Locker so long as he shall duly per- form the office of Vestry Clerk of this Parish. December 18. That no person whatsoever shall be admitted to fine for any Parish or Ward Office without Special Order of the Vestry of this Parish in that behalf had, and made. 1704. April 20. That the number and charge of the Poor be entered in a Book, Entitled, " The Poors Book of this Parish" and that the Poors & Scavengers Rates be entered in the said Book to remain as a Register of such matters. That from henceforth there shall be paid Ten Shillings for every person not being a parishioner of this parish who shall be buried in the Church Yard of this parish : And, That no person shall be buried in the Church or Church Yard without notice thereof be first given to the Church Warden by the Clerk or Sexton of this parish. And That in case the said Clerk or Sexton shall neglect or refuse to give Notice to the Chiirch Warden before the burial of any person in the Church or Church Yard, he or they shall for every such offence be suspended and discharged fro his or their place or office. And That this Order shall be written fair & fixed in the Vestry House. The Decretal Order in Chancery touching the Gift of Joyce Featley being read : It was Ordered, that the Vicar shall be paid Twenty Shillings p' Annum for preaching a Sermon on the 3''* October yearly being the day on which the said Joyce Featley was buried in this Church pursuant to her Will. That henceforth Tent Wine shall be had and used in this Church for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and the charge thereof exceeding, or over and above Eighteen Pence Per Quart shall be paid by the Church Warden. June 21. That the Sexton shall be chosen yearly at Easter when the other yearly officers are chosen. That a Man, not a Woman shall be now chosen Sexton for the year ensuing until Easter next. December 5. The order of 13 April 1699 relating to the 126 Festries, a.d. 1704-5. Upper Church Warden giving security being read : Ordered That every Church Warden shall give Bond in like manner within fourteen days next after he is chosen. Agreement for a lease of the House in Bishopsgate late M' Aldworth to William Poole for £30 p' Annum from Lady Day 1705 for 21 years. First Year at a Pepper Corn on account of repairs. Half the rent to the Carpenters Co. That the Clerk shall not have a key to the Church and that the key he hath shall be delivered to the Church Warden. Permission granted to lay a Stone on Henry Rispe's grave in North Isle on payment of Two Guineas. The Stone to be about three feet long. 1704. December 18. That none shall have the keeping of a Key to the Church save only the Minister and Church Wardens, and such as they shall direct or give leave to have it. 1705. February 9, M' Richard Bromley chosen Church Warden until Easter, in place of M"^ Roger, Wardman, deceased. That upon payment of Twenty Five Pounds, the Vault of C. Chamberlain may be enlarged, and made not exceeding three feet longer and two feet wider, so that it does not intrench upon any particular vault. That Pallisadoes shall be set up on both sides of the walk in the middle of the Churchyard from the gate to the Church door, and a Committee appointed to agree upon the doing thereof. March 19. That the wall at the west part of the Church- yard, which was this morning taken down without any order or privity of Vestry, shall be rebuilt again in the same condi- tion it was, at the cost and charge of those who did take it down, or cause the same to be taken down. April 13. The Committee concerning the new Rales in the Churchyard report the work done. Ordered and Declared by this Vestry the approbation thereof. Thanks is given by this Vestry to Alderman Woolfe for the carpet and cushion he lately gave for the use of the Communion Table. A request being made to the Vestry on behalf of M' Reresby for a Monument against the wall of the Vestry for his father, who gave by his will a legacy of Ten Pounds to this Parish, it is Ordered, That the said M' Reresby be attended by the Church Vestries, a.d. 1705-7. 127 "Warden with the answer of this Vestry, That he may set up a Monument, but this Vestry doth expect some acknowledgment or sum to he given as he himself shall think fit. 1705. December 19. That the degree relating to the Tithes payable by the Inhabitants of this Parish, dated 9 February, 1662, and the rate now settled for the Tithes shall be both entered in the Book of Memorials and Bequests of this Parish, and a note of reference to the same shall be set up in the Vestry. 1706. January 2. The Quest having chosen a Chaplain who is a stran- ger, and noways concerned in officiating in any Parish within this Ward, and in respect thereof, request or caution was given to the Foreman of the Quest, That the Minister of this Parish, or his Deputy, hath time out of mind done such office for the Quest, and ought to have done it now, this precinct being by much the most considerable in the whole Ward Within. Resolved unanimously. That this Vestry do resent it, and resolve not to go to this Court of Inquest. July 5. M"" Chewter had leave to sink a place for laying in of dung or scavage in the ground on the north side of the Churchyard wall next to Sir Joseph Woolfe^s^ and to enjoy the same during the pleasure of this Parish. October 16. M"" Chewter ordered to pay one shilling per annum for the above place. December 23. This Vestry taking into consideration whether this precinct of S' Helen will go in a body to the Court of Inquest this year and attend them as formerly, and it being put to the Vote, it was unanimously resolved in the negative. And it was also resolved and ordered. That the Common Councilmen and Church Wardens of this Parish do wait upon the said Inquest the first day of their sitting to acquaint them that this Parish doth take notice of and resents the proceedings of the said Inquest in their deviating from the ancient custom of the Inquests of this Ward in the choice of a Foreman not of this Precinct. 1707. September 18, That the Church Warden do take care and order the necessary repairs of the Church as he shall think fit. That the Buckets for Fire belonging to the Church being but few and out of repair, be repaired and made up to the number of three dozen. 128 Vestries, a.d. 1708. That the Church Warden provide a decent cushion for the pulpit. 1708. April 8. Reported : That M" Prideaux had given to adorn the Pulpit, Vallens of Crimson Velvet, with a large gold fringe thereto, as an addition to the cushion which the Church Warden had provided for the Pulpit. Ordered, That the Church Wardens do wait upon the said Mrs. Prideaux, and give to her the thanks of this Vestry for her kind present. The Church Warden also reported to this Vestry that he had paid Thirty Shillings to Thomas Picketts, gardener, for putting into good and decent order the Churchyard and the trees planted therein, and had also agreed with the said gardener (if this Vestry approved) to pay him thirty shillings per annum for keeping it in like order. And has likewise agreed with Younge, clockmaker, for twenty shillings per annum to be paid him for his keeping in good order of repair the Church Clock. The same agreements are by this Vestry ordered to stand con- firmed. That twenty shillings shall be allowed to the Sexton yearly for his labour in winding up the clock and looking after it. That the Church Wardens for the time to come, before they shall be sworn into their office, do each of them give Bond of One Hundred Pounds penalty, with some fitting person as his respective surety (not being a parishioner of this parish), for his fidelity and rendering account for, and touching his receipts. and payments and doings in the afPairs and concerns of this Parish. See next Vestry. Number and incident charge of the Poor as it was — March 27, 1706— £64, 16«. 1707— £55, 14*. 1708— £61, 4«. April 21. The above resolution for Church Wardens giving security was altered as follows : — That the Church Wardens for the future shall each give his own Bond of the penalty of two hundred pounds, without other security, for fidelity, &c. &c. &c. May 5. M' Churchwarden Hathaway having bespoke a small Engine for the sum of Eight Pounds, this Vestry doth approve thereof. Vestries, a.d. 1708-10. 129 That the Church Wardens do enquire of the Town Clerk con- cerning agreement made by the proprietors in the Thames Water for their supplying fire Cocks with their water, for publick benefit, gratis. 1708. September 14. The Great Engine ordered to be repaired. Inventory of Goods, Books, Ornaments, &c., ordered to be entered in the Parish Book. 1709. April 29. That an Ejectment be commenced and brought for the Houses in lease from this Parish to Nathaniel Chewter in respect of the arrears due and owing to this Parish upon account of rent of the same premises. The Church Warden to contract with M' Warren for keeping the Engines in repair. M' Locker, Vestry Clerk, presented a Bill for business extra- ordinary done by him for the service of the Parish, referred to the Auditors to report thereon. September 30. The report of the auditors concerning M' Lockers being read, the same being in three Bills, several of which had the same sums entered in them, the same was fully considered by the Vestry, and the sum of ten pounds eight shillings and one penny being agreed upon by the same to be due to M"^ Locker to this day for all demands, besides what is due to him as Vestry Clerk, being this day three pounds, which said sums making together the sum of £13 8*. \d., to be paid to M"^ Locker, he giving therefore a discharge in full of all accounts to this day. And whereas the Parish are in arrears for several sums to be paid by them occasioned by some extraordinary charges. It is ordered. That M' Locker be discharged from his service as Vestry Clerk for the future. December 15. That £10 be lent to M' John Bellows to carry on his trade, as the only means to prevent his wife and children becoming chargeable to the Parish, That Eobert Mulcaster, Parish Clerk, do attend the Vestry, and enter the Orders. 1710. May 25. M' Richard Durley had leave to make use of part of the Churchyard to lay his timber in j provided any damage done he should make it good. October 23. The Church having been repaired at a charge of £155 105., the question was put whether it should be paid by a 130 Vestries, a.d. 1711-14. poors' rate or a pound rate. It was agreed for a pound rate at ninepence in the pound. 1711. December 13. That four pounds be paid to M' Munchaster for his service as Vestry Clerk to Christmas. Twenty shillings also to be given to the Sexton, as a gift, for keeping the way clean to the Church. March 15. M'' Robert Foot had leave to make a vault in the Church on payment of £35. The vault to be made 7 feet by 8 feet clear. December 7 . Copy of grant of a piece of ground for Rob* Foot's vault at the upper end of the middle isle on the south side thereof, near the communion table, over which ground the two pews adjacent to the communion table are erected. December 18. That four pounds be paid to Robert Mulcaster for his attendance as Vestry Clerk. 1712. March 17. Upon the representation of the Physicians of S* Bar- tholomew's Hospital, that a pauper of this parish cannot be cured vrithout his going to Bath, it was ordered. That a sum not exceed- ing four pounds be paid to the Treasurer of the said Hospital for the charge of the same. April 24. Upon the complaint of John Glover against M' Gibson for making the house next to him a public house, whereby his business is very much declined, It is ordered. That if the said Glover and Gibson cannot accommodate and adjust the diflPerence, that the said Gibson be prosecuted at the charge of the Parish for drawing drink vrithout a licence. December 17. Four pounds to Rob* Muleaster as Vestry Clerk. 1714, March 3. The children now in the Workhouse belonging to this Parish be continued there at two shillings and sixpence per week, until they can be provided for otherways. R. Churchhill and Charles Ball having given theii* Bond to the President, &c., of Bethlem Hospital to defray the charge of bury- ing, &c., William Miller, in case he should die there, and to pro- vide for him in case he should be discharged, the Church Wardens were ordered to give their Bond in behalf of the Parish to indem- nify them from any charge, &c., that may happen to them on account of the said W. Miller. April 22. Mr. Thomas Hall had leave to take down the Parish Boundary Stone in his wall, upon condition to put it up in the same place in the new wall which he designs to build. Vestries, A.D. MU-li. 131 That the Church Wardens do order the padlock which is now on the door betwixt Mr. Hall's yard and the Churchyard to be taken off, and M"^ Hall have leave to pass and repass during the pleasure of this Parish, 1714. May 21. That the Church "Wardens do wait on M' Hanger and M'' Lepiper and let them know that this Parish do expect an acknowledgment for permission of burying of Joseph Woolfe, Esq., now expected from France in ordered to be interred here. June 2. That Ten Guineas (exclusive of all dues) should be the sum paid for permission of Joseph Woolfe, Esq., to be interred in the vault where his father was buried, upon which M"' Woolfe's friends promised to pay the said ten guineas. June 5. A motion being made that Madam Hanah Wakeman (daughter of George Boddington, Esq., of this Parish) being dead, it is presumed that her father designs to have her buried in a vault which was Alderman Backhurst's in the North Isle. The question was put whether the consideration for leave should be Eight or Sixteen Guineas, and it was agreed. That Sixteen Guineas should be paid for the use of this Parish. December 24. Order in Chancery. That the several sums due from Joyce Featley's Gift should be paid at the Vicar's House or upon the Tomb Stone of William Kerwyn her Father in the Church of S* Helens. December 16. M' Backwell desiring to lay a Grave Stone where his Wife was interred near the Heading Desk, The Church Warden was ordered to treat and agree with him on the best terms. That if M'' Boddington will please to remove his daughter Wakeman from the place where she was buried into the Vault which was Alderman Backhurst, the consideration for leave should be but Eight Guineas and not Sixteen Guineas as was ordered in the Vestry June 5 last past. That the Modes or Accounts of Tythes payable quarterly to the Improprietor by the Inhabitants of this parish be transcribed and hung up in the Vestry that the said Inhabitants at any time may have recourse unto. 1715. February 10. That M' Seayers late Church Warden be paid Interest on the balance of his account (£28 lis. hd.) from the time K. 2 132 Vestries, a.d. 1715. his account was audited and passed, to the time the balance due to him was paid, being from 8 Dec. 1713 to Dec. 1714. The Vestry returned M' Durley thanks for presenting them with Ten Pounds to be excused from serving Constable and Scavenger when it came in course for him to serve. A Committee appointed to examine what damage the Great Engine had sustained at the fire in Thames Street. 1715. February 23, Agreed to be repaired for Three Guineas. Complaint was made to this Vestry respecting M' George Stinton the present Sexton of this Parish, and White (who was employed to clean the Church) M' Barrett the Eeader acquainted the Vestry that he had examined both, and by their confession the charge appeared to be fact. Upon which it is Ordered, That the said M' Stinton be forbid coming to this Church to officiate as sexton for the fature. That M' Mulcaster the Clerk do assist M" Stinton in opening the pews &c. during the ensuing Lent, and until the time for chusing the Parish officers at Easter, and that the profits which shall arise by preaching the Lent Sermons in this Church shall be equally divided^ share and share alike. April 21. If any which may be chosen for the Office of Church Warden shall think fitt to pay to be excused of serving said office, It was agreed To take Fines of any not exceeding Six Persons. A Letter was received from M' Stinton who complains that several false reports have been spread abroad of him, desires the Christian Compassion of this Vestry. The Church Warden ordered to go and let him known that he shall have all necessary assistance. May 3. M*" Manoel Ximenes complains of being elected Church Warden having been only three Years in the Parish, but offers Twenty Five Pounds to be excused from all offices, which was accepted ; the Church Warden stating he knew M' X. was looking out for a larger house and might remove very shortly. May 9. M' William Dare applied for leave to make a Vault in the Church Yard, which was refused. June 3. Edward Gibbins, Church Warden Elect, The present .Vestries, \.D. 1715-18. 133 Church "Warden, Ordered to take proper method to oblige him to serve the said office for this parish. 1715. June 16. Edward Gibbins being present, It was agreed in consideration of his being Church Warden of Putney to excuse him the said office here, upon his paying Ten Guineas, and if he continues Five Years in this Parish then to make up the Ten Guineas Twenty Pounds. 1716. April 6. John Stone requested to fine for all offices; -which was allowed on payment of Thirty Pounds. October 17. John Shreife Upper Church Warden died. 1717. July 29. The Auditors reported that having examined the Accounts of Mr. Wright late Church Warden, they find he has charged the parish with £7 2«. 6d. paid for one Boardman ; and they find no order of Vestry for his paying more than £3 IQs. Od. A further som of £14 5s. paid for beautifying the Church Warden's and Minister's Pew, and that £12 9«. Id. is particularly for the Church Warden's Pew, and they find £1 ISs. overcharged for Wine. The two first of these articles the Vestry voted to be allowed, but the allowance not to be a precedent for the future and that no Church Warden shall be allowed to lay out more than forty shillings at one time upon the parish without an Order of Vestry. August 14. The Vestry ordered a twelve month's extraordinary rate on the Inhabitants, for defraying the debts of the parish, and other duties arising touching the poor and the poor's rate, and that the assessment of such rate be made by the persons men- tioned in the Warrant for making the assessment for the present Year. 1718. April 17. That no parishioner or stranger that are brought to be buried in the parish of S* Helen's in the Church or Church Yard after the hour of Ten O'Clock at night from Lady Day to Michaelmas, but what shall pay double dues. That no parishioner or stranger that are brought to be buried here after the hour of Nine O'Clock at night from Michaelmas to Lady Day but shall pay double dues. M' Leithulein desiring to bury his lady in the same vault with her father Sir Joseph Woolfe, It was agreed : That he should be allowed to do so, on payment of Fifty Pounds, the parish dues included. 134 Vestries, x.-D. \7l9-20. M' Churchill appointed to look after the Engines at a salary of 30s. p' annum, 1719. April 2. Several parishioners that have served some offices being desirous to fine to be excused from all other offices, as the Parish is in debt and wants money — It is agreed to take Twenty Pounds of each of the following Gentlemen for that purpose : M' Edward Harris, M' Richard Reddaway, and M' Robert Dingley. Thanks were voted to M' Charles Goodman for taking the trouble to view the parish books, writings, &c., and making a register or memorial of the same in a parchment Book. May 1. Chesters allowed to build a Family Vault on North Side of Church, Ten Foot Long and Eight Foot Broad on payment of Forty Pounds, May 16. George Boddington having left Ten Pounds to the parish allowed to be buried in the same vault with his wife on pay- ment of the usual dutys, December 16. M' John May, M' Thomas How, M' William Simmons, & M' John Horseley allowed to fine for aU offices. Twenty Pounds each. 1720. June 2. Lease of (qy. 27 Bishopsgate) granted to M" Iveson for Twenty One Years at £40 a Year with a fine of Sixty Pounds. M' William Palmer a Parishioner had offered to take a lease for fifty years at £45 p' annum and fifty pounds fine. But he retracted therefrom and eluded the vestry, whereby this Vestry has deemed him, Injurious, Troublesome and Impertinent. The Church Wardens to pay and apply the sum of Ten Pounds to the use of Thomas Mashedo a distressed inhabitant as they shall think fit. That John Scott an Attorney be elected Vestry Clerk at a Salary of Four Pounds a year to commence at Midsummer next during the pleasure and good liking of this Vestry. That the Church Warden or Wardens be empowered to spend at this Vestry and every future vestry Ten Shillings and place the same to the parish charge and accounts. Then the Church Wardens in the name of this Vestry by their order returned their Thanks to M' Ptolomy James, Minister of this parish, for his care, kindness, and liberality in procuring the two branches belonging to and hanging in this Church. December 20. Edward Gibbon having been elected scavenger, Festries, A.J). nn-2. 135 was desirous of paying the usual fine for that office and constable, to which it was objected that he had not paid the balance of the fine for churchwarden, as agreed June 16, 1715, but M' Eichard Stert engaging that the several sums should be paid, M"" Gibbon was excused firom serving all offices whatsoever, after such payment thereof. 1721. February 28. M' Isaac Boddington, formerly an inhabitant, to be allowed to bury his deceased wife in a vault in this Church wherein several of his relatives are buried, on paying such sum as he shall think fit, and also paying the usual dues and fees in such cases. April 13. M"" Henry White, M"^ John Dare, and M' Gilbert were nominated for Upper Church Warden. M' White being elected, M'^ Dare, and M' Gilbert, and M' Colt were then nominated for under Church Warden ; M' Gilbert elected. November 18. That proper methods be taken to have and get 4000 rupees given by the will of M"^ Isaac Berkeley, who died in Calcutta, returned or remitted hither in pounds sterling by the East India Company. December 18. Four pounds to be paid to M' Mulcaster for or in lieu of salary claimed by him for acting as Vestry Clerk. Thanks given to M"^ Isaac Boddington for the sum of four guineas paid by him for liberty to bury his wife in a vault in the Church, as above. 1722. March 22. Benjamin Thompson and Henry Barnwell chosen Engineers in the room of M' Churchill, deceased, who are to exercise the office and have the salary annually by turns ; M' Thompson the first year. May 7. M' Thomas Edwards having at the last Vestry ofl'ered eight guineas for leave to lay a stone over his father's grave near the Pulpit, in the South Isle, which was referred back for inquiry as to the dimensions of the stone, It was at this Vestry resolved That M' Edwards have leave to lay a stone, six foot two inches long, and two foot six inches broad, on payment of the sum of ten guineas and the charge of this Vestry. That John Scott be discharged from being Vestry Clerk at Midsummer next, and that his salary do then cease. May 22. The Church ordered to be repaired at an estimate of £127, and a rate made for raising the money for such repairs. May 31. That the Church Wardens do employ such workmen 136 Vestries, a.d. 1722-3. as they shall think fit for the repairs of the Church, so that they employ those who will do their work hest and cheapest, and pre- ference to be given to such workmen as live in this Parish, That Iron Gates and Palisadoes be made and set up at the Front or West End of the Church Yard. That the money for repairing the Church and making and setting up the said Gates and Palisadoes he raised by a Pound Rate wherein each Parishioner is to be rated Ten Pence for every pound of the Annual Rent he or she pays for what he or she rents or occupies in this Parish. That Isaac Hellen be made free of this City at the charge of this Parish. 1722. October 11. The Bills for the repairs of the Church amounting to £24!'i 8«. 2i, were allowed and approved, and a rate of Twelve Pence in the pound made for the payment thereof. M' Samuel Guyon, late Church Warden, chosen Vestry Clerk till Easter. October 22. The Church Warden proposed that a Committee should be chosen to survey the late repairs. A Committee ap- pointed accordingly. October 31. The Committee reported that they had met together with M"^ Browne the City Bricklayer, and all are of opinion that the Tradesmen employed have done honestly and justly by the Parish, and that the Church Wardens have been diligent, industrious and frugal in the management of this affair committed to their care, which report was confirmed by the Vestry. December 17. M' Richard Loyd excused from serving his Ward OflSces on payment of Ten Guineas in consideration that by his business he is obliged to live chiefly out of town. 1723. April 9. M' Bedell appeared to treat with this Vestry on behalf of Francis Bancroft, Esq., for leave for the said Bancroft to build a Vault (a previous application had been made by M' Bedell, April 13, 1721, but without name or particulars, when M' B. was requested to deliver a proposal in writing stating the dimen- sions, &c.) for himself and such friends and relations as he shall under his seal appoint by his handwriting and to no others. It was agreed That M' Bancroft paying to the Church Warden the sum of Ninety Five Pounds shall have leave to make a Vault in the said Church, the walls to be 18 inches thick and the Vault to be Vestries, a.d. 1723-4. 137 9 foot square within^ and to erect a monument over the Vault and to fix such ironrails as he shall think fitj not exceeding 8 foot high all at his own charges, and the said M' Bancroft to make every- thing good that is altered in making the said Vault, &c. The Vault to he made as near M"" Robinson's Vault as conveniently can be under the seats where the workhouse children useth to sit. M' Bancroft to have free liberty to repair the Vault, &c. when he will. 1723. May 2. That the above Monument shall not exceed Eight foot in height and that the rails shall not exceed the height of Six foot, and that a sufficient space shall be left on the West Side to carry a corpse into the said Vault without obstruction. July 25. The Church Warden reported that he had received a BiU of Exchange for Five Hundred Pounds being the produce of M'^ Berkeley's legacy which it was agreed should be invested in South Sea Stock untU it should be settled how to lay it out in the strictest manner according to the will of the donor. Dec' 5. The Church Warden reported that the Five Hundred Pounds had' been laid out in South Sea Stock at 102f Per Cent. and that the Minister had filed a Bill in Chancery against the two Church Wardens relating to the disposal thereof. Upon which a Committee was appointed to take the advice of Counsel and that the case which the Church Wardens had stated to Counsellor Edwards with his opinion be copied into the .... Book of this parish. 1724. March 24. A deputation attended from the parish of S' Botolph Bishopsgate to request that this parish would accommodate them with seats &c. during the time of the rebuilding their Church upon such terms as shall be agreed to by a Committee to be chosen for each parish ; which was agreed to unanimously and the Committee appointed. April 9. The Bill and Answer which was lately given to the Court of Chancery respecting M' Berkeley's Will being read. The Vestry was well satisfied with the Church Wardens' answer to the said Bill. April 13. M' Penara excused all offices on payment of thirty pounds and the charges of the Vestry. The Ten Shillings charges fterwards allowed. April 16. Sir Biby Lake having been elected Church Warden 138 Vestries, a.d. 1724-5. informed them that he has been a Barrister at Law above twenty years and therefore excused from serving any Parish or Ward Offices. But in regard that he has a great respect for the parish, he would make them a present of Twenty pounds on condition that they give him no further trouble respecting parish or ward offices for the future. This oflfer was immediately accepted and thanks voted for his kind and generous present. 1724. Dec'^ 18. Lease granted jointly with the Carpenters' Company to M"" Poole for 21 Years from Lady 1 726 at £30 per annum £40 to be allowed for repairs. The Churchwarden ordered to proceed against the Leather- seller's Co'' for the payment of the rate made for the repairs of the Church amounting to £6 10*. Qd. as they shall be advised by Counsell learned in the law. Nathaniel Poole chosen Vestry Clerk (in the room of M' Samuel Guyon deceased) during the pleasure of the Vestry. 1725. April 2. Committee appointed to consider of the decree made by Sir Joseph Jekyll Master of the rolls relating to M'' Berkeley's legacy and to give their opinion in what manner, and for what use the money so given shall be laid out and applied. April 29. The Committee considered that it would be weU to allow the money to continue as at present invested until they shall agree how to lay out the same according to the intent of the donor. Excepting so much as shall be necessary to pay the costs of this suit. June 10. That the Five Hundred pounds given by M' Isaac Berkeley and the profits thereof, shall (as soon as conveniently may be) be laid out in the erecting and putting up an Organ in this Church, and that a proposal pursuant to the said resolution be drawn up, and the Churchwardens do wait on M"' Lightbourn the Master in Chancery to whom the matter concerning the said legacy stands referred for his opinion touching the same. June 14. That the Churchwardens and their successors shall not deliver out of their Custody any Books, papers, or writings to any person or persons whatsoever without taking a receipt for the same. Nov. 8. That the dividends on £500 be applied to the pay- ment of Costs of Suit and the principal money remain till its increase or the benevolence of the parishioners can and will enable the said Parish to build an Organ loft and Organ. Vestries, a.d. 1725-6. 139 1725. Dec. 1. The said South Sea Stock to be sold and so much South Sea Annuities to be purchased, the surplus Stock- and interest to be applied in discharge of the law expenses. 1726. April 27. John Gould excused all offices on payment of Thirty Pounds. All Under Church Wardens are hereby ordered to bring in their first Years account and state of the poor at the expiration of their first year. May 4. Moses Raper having been chosen Churchwarden informed them that he had let his House and was going out of the parish. Sir John Lock then being in nomination with other Gentlemen did freely, generously and voluntarily and before he was chosen, pay to the Churchwardens Thirty Pounds to be exempted from aU offices, which was accepted with the thanks for his generous act. Thanks to M"^ Tame Church Warden for his care and diligence in serving the parish. Five Guineas voted as a present to the Vestry Clerk for his great trouble in copying accounts not his business and many attendances on Committees &c." May 16. M"^ Peter Merchant proposed to give £25 as a fine for all offices, thereupon the Vestry considering that they were in want of money to reimburse M"^ Colt late Churchwarden who has been a long time out of his money (1724), and that they cannot chuse M"^ Merchant on any office 'till Xmas or Easter nextj agree to accept his offer. M"^ Henry Hamerton also offered Ten Pounds as a fine for Churchwarden, he having served all other offices. Thereupon the Vestry, considering his large family, accepted thereof. M"^ Colt's balance amounting to £32 18«. 9d., to be paid with interest. The Under Churchwarden allowed to take charge of the parish plate. The Upper not having a conveniency to take care of it. July 15. Henry .Desleborough of the parish of Lambeth having married the Widow of the late Warder, on the promise of the Church Warden to give him £5 with her The said £5 ordered to be paid on his bringing a Certificate from Lambeth parish that he has a legal settlement with them. Oct. 18. The Under Church Warden having removed out of the parish, a new one chosen for the remainder of the Year. 140 Vestries, ad. 1726-8. 1726. Dec. 15. That the Under Church Warden do provide for all the Pensioners of this parish proper Badges as the Law directs, and to give each pensioner a Badge, and order them to sow the same on each of their outward garment. And in case such pen- sioner after such Order shall not wear or refuse to wear such Badge at the time of receiving their pension, and at all other times, the said Churchwarden shall and may refuse paying such pensioner their pension. That in case the said Churchwarden shall pay to any pensioners their respective pension without his, her, or their badge as afore- said, shall be prosecuted as the law directs at the expense of the Parish. 172,7. April 6. M'^ Dufresney elected Churchwarden. Excused all offices on payment of £30, with the thanks of Vestry for his gene- rous act. June 7. Mr. Dufresney not being so generous as the friend who had agreed to pay the £30 thought him, would only give £28. It was therefore put to the vote whether his friend Captain Tame should pay the £30 or only the £28 which he had received. It was agreed to excuse him the said 40 shillings, considering the good intent the said Captain Tame meant for the parish. A Man named Blackburn proposed to marry M" Hanks, who is a very troublesome and chargeable pensioner to this parish, in case this parish would give with her Ten Guineas as a marriage portion, And that he would also take the said M"^ Hanks' daugh- ter as an Apprentice and by that means free the parish from any further expense; whereupon it was ordered, That the Church- warden do upon the solemnization of the said marriage, and when the said M" Hanks's daughter is bound apprentice to the said Blackburn pay him Ten Guineas as a consideration for his natural love and affection which he bears to the said M" Hanks. Dec. 15. The Churchwarden ordered to repair the pump and a Committee appointed to see that it is well and sufficiently repaired. Complaint against Mr. Mulcaster, the Clerk, for opening of Vaults and other grounds without asking of the consent of the Churchwardens. 1728. Feb. 21. A Fire Cock ordered to be made and fixed in the upper part of Great S' Helens. Vestries, a.d. 1728-30. 141 1728. Oct. 17. A motion was made by M' Jackson one of the Church Wardens that he should have liberty to enter a Caveat against any person that should be now chosen Parish Clerk, and that such person so chosen shall give such security to the Minister & Church Wardens as the parishioners in Vestry assembled, at any subsequent Vestry shall think fitt to order. Thereupon it was agreed and ordered That a Caveat be forthwith entered, and the person chosen Parish Clerk shall give such security to the Minister & Churchwardens as the Vestry shall think fitt to order. A motion was now made and the question put. That M' James the Minister would nominate and appoint a parish Clerk, There- upon he sincerely desired to be excused, and gave this reason, because he would disoblige none. Ordered, That the Election of a parish Clerk be by ballot and he that hath the majority on the first. ballot shall be duly elected. .... The Vestry proceeded to the Election of a Parish Clerk in the room of M'' Rob' Mulcaster when there appeared for Thomas Wooles 18, for Ja^ Ladyman 16, for J. Butler 15, R. Day 10 and for Richard Lowe, none. Thomas Wooles being declared to have the majority. M' James the Minister being then asked whether he agreed thereto, he approved of the same. 1729. April 10. The Church Warden reported that a surplus being due from M' Alex' Boucher on the Scavengers Rate collected by him in 1727 and he refusing to account with the Auditors for the surplus, he had summoned him before the Comm'° of Sewers, when he pretended he had lost his Book, whereupon the Comm™ had fined him £10 pursuant to Act of Parliament. The Auditors are now desired to make such end with the said M' Boucher as they shall think fit in relation to the said surplus. That for the future no Church Warden shall expend above Forty Shillings for the Oyster Feast, that being the gift of M' Prior to this parish. That the Church Wardens for the future shall not expend above £12 on Ascension day to defray all charges. May 7. The Bill of Costs relating to M' Berkley's legacy ordered to be taxed before a Master in Chancery. 1730. January 28, Whereas at the Election of Parish Clerk, Oct. 17, 1728, the Church Warden had liberty to enter a Caveat against any person that should be then chosen, and a Caveat was then 142 Vestries, a.d. 1730-2. entered against Thomas Wooles accordingly. Now this Vestry considering the said T. W. capable of serving this Parish as Parish Clerk, do hereby desire and order the present Church Warden and the Vestry Clerk to attend with the said Thomas Wooles at Doctors Commons and take oflF the said Caveat, That he may be at liberty to be sworn in Parish Clerk, and that the Church Warden do give him any Certificate that may be necessary. 1730. April 2. Samuel Green having been chosen Warder at the last Vestry, desired to decline the office, which was agreed to. M' Blackburn agreed to wind up the Clock and keep it in good repair for £4 '^ ann. April 10. M' Ruck fined £20 for Church Warden. That the Church Warden do pay M' Gathum, the Sequestrator, the half of Sir John Lawrence's Money, being £8 15«. as a present for serving the parish. April 15, M' Palmer fined £20 for Church Warden. 1731. Mar. 1. M' Webb having fined 40«. for Scavenger and M' Garrett having fined Twelve Pounds for Inquest, Constable and Scavenger, It was proposed, That they should give their notes of hand to serve the office of Church Warden when elected, the Vestry rather chose to have a minute made in the Vestry Book of their acknowledgment. Complaint being made against Thomas Wooles the Parish Clerk for misbehaviour in the duty of his office. It is ordered. That the order of the 28 Jan'' last year be dissolved. And that the said Caveat do still remain till further orders of this Vestry. July 14. Application was made on behalf of Richard Backwell for leave to put up a Monument between the Pulpit and the South Window annexed not exceeding 4 f* wide, 6f high, and the projec- tion not to exceed 9 inches. Agreed, That he should have leave on payment of Twenty Guineas. His Agent being informed thereof refused to comply and oflPered Ten Guineas, which this Vestry rejected. July 29. M' Backwell's Agent again attended and paid the Twenty Guineas, He making good all damages that shall be done by reason and consideration thereof. 1732. Feb. 9. Ten Guineas to be paid to M' Haywood, the Minister, as a voluntary present from this Parish. Vestries, a.d. 1732-3. 143 That the Church Wardens do endeavour to suppress the sup- posed disorderly house called the Mitre. 1732. March 10. A request being made by M' Nath' Gould, a parishioner, that this Vestry would grant to him and his family the liberty of sitting in the uppermost pew on the left hand of the middle Isle next the Communion Table; It was resolved. That permission be granted during the pleasure of the parish, but when the said N. Gould or his family shall not be at Church, then the said pew shall be filled at the discretion of the Churchwardens for the time being. April 13. The Caveat entered against Thomas Wooles ordered to be withdrawn, and the Church Wardens to sign any Certificate for discharging the said Caveat. That the Church Wardens take proper measures to oblige one David Knight to provide for a bastard child supposed to be his, which was some time since dropped in this parish. July 31. A fire in Little St. Helen's having been extinguished by the industry of M"^ Tho° Wooles and other persons, It is ordered That a reward of Three Guineas be given to them for their exertions. Complaint being made that the graves were not dug deep enough and therefore were very oflensive. It is ordered That for the future every grave shall be dug Seven feet deep, and that the gravedigger shall have two shillings for his trouble. That the Pavement from the Pump to the corner of the Church Wall shall be paved, and that the Church Warden do pay for the same so far as belongs to the Parish. 1733, Jan^ 24. The Church Warden ordered to pay the sum of £24 ] 7*. 8^. to the Treasurer of the London Workhouse, pursuant to an Act of Common Council Dec. 14 last past for raising the sum of £2443 14«. Qd. towards the further employing the poor of the City of London. Considering that a Workhouse would be the means of easing the rates and lessen the expense of the Poor, a Committee was appointed to look out for a convenient house for the purpose. March 29. That the Churchwardens for the future have liberty to expend the sum of Six Pounds at the Oyster Feast yearly (including the forty shillings left by M' Prior for that purpose). May 10. A Committee appointed to treat with the Church 144 Vestries, a.d. 1733-4. Wardens, &c., of St. Pulcher's Parish, touching their receiving and providing for the poor of this parish in their Workhouse. 1733. Dec. 17. Forty Shillings not being considered sufficient to buy a good Coat and Hat for the Warder, It was agreed That the sum of Three Pounds be allowed for that purpose. That the bill of M"' Poole, the Vestry Clerk touching the appeal of Ann Price being £4 Is. ^d. be paid. 1734. Feb. 5. M"" Clark, Executor to Major Gen' KeUum applied for leave to lay a Black Marble Stone over his grave, 6f' long and 4f broad, and to erect a monument on the South Wall 5f high and 3f' broad. Permission was granted on payment of Thirty Guineas of which M"" Clark took time to consider. The parish to have the liberty to bury any other person in the same grave. March 6. As M' Clark would not comply to give thirty guineas. It was agreed. That M' Clark should have leave on payment of Twenty Guineas to which he agreed. That for the future no person (except a parishioner) shall have liberty to lay down any grave stone in the Church without reserving to the parish the right of laying any other person under such grave stone. That Five Guineas be given to Mr. Haywood the Minister as a present, but with this particular order that it be no prece- dent. April 18. On the petition of the Vestry Clerk begging the favour of this Vestry to augment his Salary from £4 to £6 ^ annum The question being put whether he should have such advance, it was agreed to. It being reported that the Poor's Rates are not sufficient to support the Poor, by means whereof this Parish has been subject to overrates It is ordered. That the quarterly rates be raised from 10«. ^ Ann. to 15«. ^ Ann. and so in proportion in order to prevent the trouble of making overrates for the future. July 19. M' Clark attended and gave the Parish Ten Guineas on condition that no other person whatsoever should ever here- after be buried in the same grave where Major Gen' Kellum now lies interred. July 26. That Two Guineas out of the above Ten Guineas be given to the Rev'' M' Haywood with this particular order that it be no precedent. Vestries, a.d. 1734. 145 1734. July 81. That the Iron Gates and Rails round the Church Yard be new painted. September 19. Application was made on behalf of M" Mary Newland for leave to lay a Stone over the grave of her late husband M"^ Isaac Newland in the Church Yard and offered for such liberty the sum of Three Guineas which was accepted. September 26. An agreement was entered into with M' Thruckstone to receive and maintain all the parish poor, present and to come, and provide them good wholesome Meat and drink, "Washing, lodging. Clothes, Physic and all other necessaries whatsoever ; and to put the Children out as Apprentices and pay premiums with them — to indemnify the parish from all suits or charges concerning the provision or settlement of the poor or other matter in any wise relating to them. The Church Wardens and other parishioners to have liberty to inspect the House and see that the said poor are well and sufficiently provided for, at all times. They also agree to pay the said Thruckstone £130 p' Ann. for performing the above covenants, and if any of the poor shall die at his house, he is to be at the expense of burying them. All such poor as may be hereafter settled on the parish to be sent to his house. This agreement to be in force for twelve months and at its expiration the poor to be at liberty to depart with all the wearing apparel they have been provided with and to keep the same for their own use, and in case of any dispute between the said Thruckstone and the Parish, the case to be referred to the Lord Mayor, whose decision is to be binding on both parties. Bill of Fare. For dinners. Sunday. Hot Meat, Bread & Broth. Monday. Cold Meat Bread & Cheese or Butter. Tuesday. Boiled Wheat with Butter & Sugar. Wednesday as Sunday. Thursday as Monday. Friday. Thick Milk or ffirmity. Saturday. Bread & Cheese or Butter. Milk Porridge for Breakfast, Bread & Cheese or Butter for Supper. L 146 Vestries, a.d. 1735-6. 1735. April 10. That two Surplices be provided for the Eev" M' Haywood. Dec' 18. Twelve Months given to M' Thruckstone of their intention to take away the poor. Legacy of £100 left to the Parish by M" Clapham. M' John Dare elected Parish Clerk in the room of Tho^ Wooles, deceased, the Rev* M' Haywood consenting thereto. 1736. March 18. Notice was given that M™ Dorothy Lawrence would pay off the £350 and Int' left by Sir John Lawrence on which it was agreed that M™ Lawrence should be requested to retain the money on the same security and pay the parish but 4 p' Cent. An order given for borrowing £100 at 4J p' Cent, to pay off the debts of the Parish. That four black neats leather chairs be bought for the Vestry and that one of them be an elbow chair. April 29. The Church "Warden reported that he had received the above £350 and £8 15«. M. Int* which together with the £100 legacy of M" Clapham's were ordered to be invested in the 3 p' Cent Annuities. That two dozen of good bucketts be provided for the use of this Parish. May 28. A Committee having been appointed at the last Vestry to receive proposals for the several repairs wanting to he done to the Church and the several estimates or proposals being producedj It was ordered. That the Committee be impowered to treat with the several workmen in the best and cheapest manner they can. And that such workmen who shall be chosen shall be tyed down to perform his work according to such pro- The pavement of the Church ordered to be thoroughly repaired. July 28. The Grave Stones to be put down in their proper places as before. August 13. A Legacy of £10 left by M"" John Baker to he distributed among the poor was given forthwith among fifteen Persons as follows, 4 at £], 3 at 15*., 7 at 10*., and I at 5s. Notice ordered to be advertised twice in the daily Advertiser and London Evening Post, To persons claiming a right to any of the Monuments in the Church and are minded forthwith to send Vestries, a.d. 1736-7. 147 Workmen to repair and beautify the same ac their own expense, may have liberty from the Church Wardens to do so. That application be made to the Lord Chancellor for leave to apply the £500 left by M'' Berkley for and towards the building of on Organ and erecting an Organ Loft in this Church. 1736. October 15. The Committee appointed for the repairs of the Church presented the several Bills which they had carefully examined amounting to £550 3*. \d. which were referred back to the said Committee in order to have some abatement made on such Bills as seem to them unreasonable. That the above Sum be raised by a pound rate at in the £ of the Annual Rent each parishioner pays for what he or she occupies in this parish and that the said rate so intended to be made, shall be made in the vestry room of this Parish, and that all the parishioners are to be summoned to be present, who are desired to come prepared to give an account what rent they pay, by reason no inhabitant shall be dissatisfied with what they shall be rated. October 20. The above Church Rate made at 2s. Qd. in the £. November 24. That the Re"^ M' Haywood have Nine Pounds out of the interest of Sir John Lawrence's money. 1737. January 7. A Committee appointed to agree with some other Parish for the clothing and maintaining the poor of this parish in their Workhouse at a price not exceeding^ Four Shillings ^ Week for each person. That the Sextoness be paid in future the same sum for ringing the Bell for a burial in the Church as in the Church Yard, being Two Shillings and Sixpence. That a Table with the names of the Benefactors to this parish, done in gold letters be put up in the Church. That a surplice of strong holland be provided for the common use of this parish. That the Church Warden do take up or remove such Trees in the Church Yard and plant others in their room as he shall think fit. That the Minutes of every Vestry for the future be read over at the breaking up of the Vestry and signed by one of the Church Wardens for the time being. February 3. The Committee appointed at the last Vestry re- L 2 148 Vestries, a.d. 1737. ported that they had entered into an agreement with the Church Warden and Overseers of the Parish of S* Sepulchre for the maintenance of the poor in their Workhouse at four shillings each weekly. This parish to provide clothing and medicines. The agreement may be broken after the expiration of twelve months on giving three months notice. And for the due performance of the several contracts, the parties severally bind themselves in the penalty of Fifty Pounds. Which Agreement this Vestry do concur and agree to accordingly. The Church Warden reported the Leathersellers' Company and others had refused to pay the Church Bate. Upon which he was ordered to take such lawful ways and means as he shall be advised to oblige them. 1 737. April 20. Nath' Gould paid £20 as a fine for Church Warden. That the £100 legacy left by M" Clapham and invested in the 3 ^ Cent. Bank annuities be sold out to pay off the £100 borrowed at 4^ per cent. March 18, 1735-6. And that this Parish shall indemnify the Minister and Church Wardens for the time being, touching the several uses for which the said legacy was left to this Parish. August 4. That M"" Burdett and M' Parker be allowed to pay only half of the Church Rate in full of the whole, they having both gone out of the Parish. October 21. The Gresham Committee having refused to pay £15 the sum which they were assessed for Church Rate and offered £10 in lieu thereof, the Churchwarden was ordered to proceed against them for the recovery thereof, should they refuse on his again applying to them for that purpose. The opinion of Counsel had been taken by the Gresham Committee which was given in favour of the Parish. That a new Lease should be granted to M' Nath^ Ware of the house he now lives in belonging to this parish for the term of twenty-one years from the expiration of his old lease which will be at Mids' 1741, and to continue to pay the rent of £40 p' ann. The parish to allow one year's rent for repairs, which being agreed to, M"^ Ware paid One Shilling to the Church Warden for the use of the poor to bind him to his agreement. A new lease also agreed to be granted to M"^ Eliz" Kirk for twenty-one Years. To pay Ten Guineas fine, Twelve pounds p' Vestries, a.d. 1738-9. 149 annnm rent clear of Taxes and to lay out Sixty pounds in repairs, to commence from the expiration of the present lease at Lady Day 1739. The Vestry Clerk to prepare the Leases at the expense of the scTcral tenants. 1738. April 6. That the Tuesday's Lecture be continued from Lady Day last to Michaelmas next, but this parish is not to be at any expense for such continuance. The Church Warden taking such security as he shall think proper to make good all damages which may be done to the Church. August 11. M' Maynard had leave to build a Vault under his pew in the North Isle on payment of £20 — £5 5«. of which money to be given to M' Haywood. September 28. An account of M' Berkeley's Legacy amount- ing with interest to £521 6s. 4<^. and a Committee appointed to examine all papers and vouchers that have been paid touching the said legacy. 1739. February 9. A Motion being made whether the Women had a right to vote for a parish Clerk or not, and debates arising thereon, this Vestry was dissolved. February 15. M' Haywood having given his consent The Vestry proceeded to the Election of a parish Clerk in the room of M"^ John Dare, deceased, and It was agreed by a great majority That the Election should be by balloting and to be balloted for three times. Upon the first ballot there were for Ja^ Ladyman 25 Tho^ Hin 29 Tho' Cole 10 Cha" Garrett 8 who having the least number was left out on the second ballot when there were for James Ladyman 28 Thomas Hill 32 Thomas Cole 9 who having the least number was left out on the third ballot when there were for James Ladyman 45 Tho^ HiU 32. Whereupon the said Ja^ Ladyman was declared duly elected. March 8, The Committee appointed to examine M"" Colt's account touching M' Berkeley's legacy reported that the sum of £2 13«. Oi. was due from M' Colt, but there still remains unpaid to M' Emerson the Solicitor £21 0«. M. and to M' Wilson the Solicitor £7 I la. Qd. which Sums M' Colt was desired to pay as soon as the interest on the £500 Stock was sufficient to pay the same. 150 Vestries, a.d. 1739-40, A motion being made whether the Tuesday's Lectures should be continued during this Summer Half Year, a division was demanded and there appeared for the Lecture 21 and the Teller^ and against the Lecture 22 and the Teller, the Majority was therefore declared against the Lecture. Alderman Bernar, Church Warden. 1739. April 26. The question being whether this Vestry would allow M"^ Ladyman the Parish Clerk a certain Salary or not It was carried by a great majority that he should have a salary. It was then agreed That the Salary should be Eight Pounds a Year, but only during the pleasure of the Vestry. October 18. That the Church Warden do provide M' Gynand with a proper pew at his discretion with this reservation, that if the Vestry shall not think it a proper pew, then they may be at liberty to displace the said family again. 1740. February 28. Committee appointed to examine the Old Engine and if they find it as bad as represented, to sell it and contract for a new Engine of the modern fashion with all neces- sary utensils for working the same. Committee appointed to draw up a case touching the several decrees on M"^ Berkeley's Legacy and take some eminent counsel's opinion thereon. April 10. On the report of the above Committee y® £500 was ordered to be invested in the names of the Minister and Church Wardens. That a Church Rate be made of Two Pence in the £ April 22. It being represented to this Vestry, That M' Andrew Dehoes who was chosen Under Church Warden at the last Vestry is a Jew by religion and a very unfit person to execute that ofiice It was agreed that he should be excused from serving the said oflBce upon payment of Fifteen Guineas. April 25. M"^ Hodges paid the fine of £20 to be excused from serving the oflfice of Church Warden on condition that he should not be nominated for any other Ward ofiices previous to Christmas 171'3, having been elected Church Warden before his real turn according to seniority. M' Sparrow was then elected and not being at home to give an answer whether he would serve, the Vestry adjourned to Eight o'clock to-morrow morning. April 26. M'' Sparrow sent a note for £25 to be excused from Vestries, a.d. 1740-1. 151 serving the offices of Churchwarden, Constable and Scavenger, which offer was rejected, and it was carried That he should be excused on payment of £28, which M"" Bernard undertook for M' Sparrow should be complied with, and M' Smith was chosen Under Churchwarden. 1740. June 19. But notwithstanding the said undertaking of M. Bernard the said M' Sparrow would not agree to pay any more than £25 and insisted on being sworn into the office of Church- warden which he accordingly was on the 26"^ of April last Therefore this Vestry doth excuse the said undertaking of M' Bernard it being done in a friendly manner to serve M"^ Sparrow, and do also dissolve and declare void the said Election of M' William Smiths being chosen Under Churchwarden for the reason abo vementioned . Whereas a debate arose at this Vestry touching the Bearers for Funerals. For the better regulation of them this Vestry doth order the Bearers shall be settled in the following manner viz. That the Clerk shall have 3 when 8, 3 when 6 and 3 when 4. The Sextoness to have 3 when 8 2 when 6 and 1 when 4. The Warder 2 when 8, 1 when 6 and 1 when 4. August 14. Ordered that a New Rate be made for the supply of the poor not to exceed the sum of £65 for every quarter. Committee appointed to inquire after a proper house for the reception of the poor. October 21. Committee reported that they had agreed with the Churchwardens of S* Olave, after viewing five little tenements in Gunpowder Alley in Crutched Fryars to take a lease for Seven, Eleven, or Fourteen Years, at the yearly rent of Twenty One Pounds, clear of all taxes for a Workhouse for this Parish, and recommend that one M" Dodd who has a yard and washhouse part of the said premises may continue tenant who now pays £6 10«. ^ Ann" which will reduce the rent to £14 lU*. f ann. To which the Vestry agreed and ordered a lease to be prepared accordingly. 1741 /April 2. The Churchwarden ordered to sell out £130 £3 f C Ann" for the furnishing of the Workhouse &c. The legacy of £500 left by M' Berkley ordered to be laid out in South Sea Stock for the safety and benefit of the Parish. 152 Vestries, a.d. 1741. Full copies of all the Orders of Vestry and decrees on this subject. 1741. April 5. Eobert Dingley P requested leave to make a Vault for his father and family in the footway in the Churchyard 11 feet long by 8 feet wide. Permission granted on payment of £20, the Rev. M' Haywood to have £6 10«. thereof. July 23. The Workmen's Bills for fitting up the Workhouse amounting to about £160 ordered to be paid. Twenty-four poor in the Workhouse. Committee appointed to meet at the Workhouse every Wednesday. A Bill of Fare for the Workhouse produced by M' Hunt the Master thereof and approved. December 17. A Matron appointed at 30«. ^ Quarter during the pleasure of the Workhouse Committee. March 11. A Committee appointed to receive Subscriptions and proposals for the building an Organ and Organ-loft to be built from the pillar of. the North side of the Churchwardens to the South wall Proposals received from M' Griffin and M' Jordan. M' Griffin's proposal. I propose to build, (at my own proper cost & charge) set up, and completely finish a new Organ value Five Hundred Pounds and to consist of the following Stops and each stop of the number of pipes following. In the Great Organ. In the Choir C )rgan. One Stopt diapason . . 56 One Stopt diapason j by Open do. . 56 Open do. communi- do. principal . . . 56 do. principal cation. do. twelfth . . 56 do. Flute .... 56 do. fifteenth . . 56 do. Vox humane . 56 do. Terce • . . 56 112 do. Trumpet . . 56 do. Clarion . do. Sesquialtra . 56 In the Ecco and SweU. five rank s . 280 One Stopt diapason ... 82 do. Cornet „ . 135 Open do. ... SJ 863 do. Cornet five ranks 160 Choir Organ . . 112 do. Trumpet ... 32 Ecco & Swell . . . 288 do. Clarion ... 82 1263 288 Vestries, a.d. 1741. 153 That in the said Organ there shall be three new strong sound- ing boardsj and three new rolling hoards, and three new strong pair of bellows, of such length and breadth as to give wind sufii- cient to make the Chorus plump and bold, without any faintings, And that all the pipes and all the other materials of the said Organ shall be entirely new and such as have not already been made use of in any organ whatsoever. That the Keys shall be handsomely made and that the Touch shall be easy and free and not hard or deep. Item. There shall be an entire separate frame of suflBcient strength to support the sounding boards, and all other the inside work, and all the pipes Except those pipes of the open diapason and other pipes which appear in front and are to be afSxed in the outside Case or Frame, and that all the conveyances of wind from the sounding boards to the front pipes or from the Sounding boards to the Cornet or any other conveyances of wind from the sounding boards to any other pipes or stops, shall be of the most proper. And for the better security and preservation of the said organ, all parts of the said work which may at any time be necessary to be opened or taken asunder for the better cleaning, repairing, or amending the said Organ shall be fastened with Screws or Euttons without any Nails. Item. I will make or cause to be made a Compleat ButifuU outside case or frame of Mahogany, the work to be masterly finished with Beads, Mouldings, Carvings, frees, Cornishes and other ornaments, and that the front of the said Organ shall be of the shape and finished in the same manner as the inclosed plan. Item. I vnU make or cause to be made all the pipes which are to compose this Organ to imitate the natural tone of the several instruments and the Humane voice, and that all the stops in the said organ shall have the fulness of body, sweetness, and justness of tone which is proper to the said several different stops, and all other the several parts of the said Organ shall be so masterly finished as to render it a compleat instrument, and when finished will submit it to the judgment of such Organists as shall be agreed on. Item. I propose to keep the said Organ in tune, in repair, and to perform on it, or cause it to be performed on to the satis- 154 Vestries, a.d. 1741. faction of the parishioners^ or the major part of them during the time of ray natural life, for and in consideration of the sum of ^250, to be paid within after the Organ is opened, and £25 ^ Annum during the said term of my natural life ; and in case it should at any time happen that the said Organ should not be played on to the satisfaction of the Parishioners, and notice thereof given or left in writing pursuant to an Order of Vestry of the said parish. That then and for that time only, the said annuity shall cease and not be paid 'till the said Organ shall be played upon again to the satisfaction of the said parish. By your most obedient humble Servant Tho'. Griffin P.S. The. pipes in the front of the Organ to be guilt with Gold. The proposals of Abra Jordan, Organ Builder, John Harris & Co. to the Rev* the Minister and the Gentlemen of St. Helens for a New Organ to be erected in their Church. On the Great Organ the compass is from GG to E in Alt being 54 Keys 8ec. On the Chair or Choir Organ : — Open diapazon ... 21 pipes by communication . 33 otherwise. Stop'd diapazon . . 29 pipes by communication & 26 otherwise. Principal 21 by communication & 33 otherwise. Flute 64 Vox humane .... 54 640 199 Eccho's and swelling on y* third sett of Keys. Open diapazon 29 pipes Stop'd do 29 Trumpet 29 Hautboy 29 116 Tis to be observed that this Organ contains 855 valuable speaking pipes besides the advantage of 71 more that speak by communi- An open diapazon . . 54 speaking. Stopt do. . . 54 do. Principal 54 do. Great twelfth ... 64 do. Fifteenth 54 do. Bass Sexquialtra of four ranks . . . 104 Cornet of four ranks 112 Trumpet 54 Vestries, a.d. 1742-3. 155 cation. Here are no mixtures or supplemental stops of small pipes which serve for little else than to make the appearance of a number of pipes which will be subject to be out of Tune upon the least variation of the wind of the Bellows and are of little value and strength to an Organ. The above Organ if after you have heard it meets with your approbation, we will sett up free of all other charges y® gallery being prepared for the sum of £350. We are Gent Y' very humble Serv*^ Budge Row March y^ 2 A. Jordan & Comp. 1741. 1742. April 22. On the report of the Committee, the Vestry Clerk was ordered to prepare the draft of the Agreement between the Minister and Churchwardens on the part of the parish with M' Thomas Griffin, the Committee having contracted and agreed with him, for the building of the Organ, &c. December 15. Bond given to M"^ Alderman Barnard for the balance of his Accounts as Churchwarden £154 17s. Id. Interest at 4 ^ Cent f Annum. Committee appointed concerning a legacy of £100 left by M'' Eoe for the purchase or keeping in repair of a Parsonage House to be constantly inhabited by the Minister. Whereas severall poor persons who are not willing to go into the workhouse, have been very troublesome to the Churchwardens and have likewise applied to this Vestry for relief; This Vestry considering such practices detrimental to the Parish, Order That the present Churchwardens and all succeeding Churchwardens for the future shall not at any time or times hereafter, give any Sum or Sums of money whatsoever to any poor person belonging to this parish who shall not be in the parish Workhouse ; And this to be a Standing Order. 1743. November 3. The Committee concerning M' Rowe's Legacy re- ported that they had waited on Mr. Beechcraft Ex'or to the said M' Eowe who advised them that it would be proper to apply to Counsel touching the same, for that in his opinion they were deprived by the Mortmain Act to receive it. The Committe were then directed to apply to Counsel and to Act and do as they shall think proper, and if the said Committee think proper to pay £200 154 Vestries, a.d. 1741. faction of the parishioners, or the major part of them during the time of my natural life, for and in consideration of the sum of i£250, to he paid within after the Organ is opened, and £25 ^ Annum during the said term of my natural life ; and in case it should at any time happen that the said Organ should not be played on to the satisfaction of the Parishioners, and notice thereof given or left in writing pursuant to an Order of Vestry of the said parish. That then and for that time only, the said annuity shall cease and not be paid ^till the said Organ shall be played upon again to the satisfaction of the said parish. By your most obedient humble Servant Tho'. Gehtin P.S. The. pipes in the front of the Organ to be guilt with Gold. The proposals of Abra Jordan, Organ Builder, John Harris & Co. to the Rev* the Minister, and the Gentlemen of St. Helens for a New Organ to be erected in their Church, On the Great Organ the compass is from GG to E in Alt being 54 Keys &c. An open diapazon . . 54 speaking. On the Chair or Choir Organ : — Stopt do. . . 64 do. Open diapazon ... 21 pipes Principal 54 do. by communication . 33 otherwise. Great twelfth ... 54 do. Stop'd diapazon . . 29 pipes Fifteenth 54 do. by communication & 25 otlierwise. Bass Sexquialtra of Principal 21 four ranks . . . 104 by communication & 33 otherwise. Cornet of four ranks 112 Flute 54 Trumpet 54 Vox humane .... 54 540 199 Eccho's and swelling on y° third sett of Keys. Open diapazon 29 pipes Stop'd do 29 Trumpet 29 Hautboy 29 116 Tis to be observed that this Organ contains 855 valuable speaking pipes besides the advantage of 71 more that speak by communi- Vestries, a.d. 1742-3. 155 cation. Here are no mixtures or supplemental stops of small pipes whicli serve for little else than to make the appearance of a number of pipes which will be subject to be out of Tune upon the least variation of the wind of the Bellows and are of little value and strength to an Organ. The above Organ if after you have heard it meets with your approbation, we will sett up free of all other charges y^ gallery being prepared for the sum of £350. We are Gent Y' very humble Serv*^ Budge Row March y^ 2 A. Jordan & Comp. 1741. 1742. April 22. On the report of the Committee, the Vestry Clerk was ordered to prepare the draft of the Agreement between the Minister and Churchwardens on the part of the parish with M' Thomas Griffin, the Committee having contracted and agreed with him, for the building of the Organ, &c. December 15. Bond given to M' Alderman Barnard for the balance of his Accounts as Churchwarden £154 17«. Id. Interest at 4 f Cent f Annum. Committee appointed concerning a legacy of £100 left by M'^ Roe for the purchase or keeping in repair of a Parsonage House to be constantly inhabited by the Minister. Whereas severall poor persons who are not willing to go into the workhouse, have been very troublesome to the Churchwardens and have likewise applied to this Vestry for relief; This Vestry considering such practices detrimental to the Parish, Order That the present Churchwardens and all succeeding Churchwardens for the future shall not at any time or times hereafter, give any Sum or Sums of money whatsoever to any poor person belonging to this parish who shall not be in the parish Workhouse ; And this to be a Standing Order. 1743. November 3. The Committee concerning M' Rowers Legacy re- ported that they had waited on Mr. Beechcraft Ex'or to the said M' Rowe who advised them that it would be proper to apply to Counsel touching the same, for that in his opinion they were deprived by the Mortmain Act to receive it. The Committe were then directed to apply to Counsel and to Act and do as they shall think proper, and if the said Committee think proper to pay £200 156 Vestries, a.d. 1744-5. to the Augmentation of Queen Anne's Bounty, this Vestry do desire Mr. Alderman Barnard and Mr. John Lodge to lend £100 each to this parish at 4 ^ Cent ^ Annum, the Churchwardens to give two separate Bonds for the same. Church Rate to be made of Z* in the pound. Faculty to be procured for opening the organ. 1744. March 29. Committee appointed to consider of ways and means to discharge the parish debts. Ordered. That the Churchwardens do give directions to the Parish Clerk to give publick notice in the Church the Sunday morning before they intend to call a Vestry the week following, and also of the business intended to be done at such Vestry. William Carvell being in attendance, the Churchwarden re- ported that his wife and children were in the workhouse in con- sequence of his having run away from them to live with another woman : Whereupon It was agreed that he should be immediately taken into Custody and carried to the Compter that night as a Vagrant. The said Carvell was then charged with a Constable and taken to the Compter accordingly. June 7. N.B. £1-30 has been borrowed from Sir John Lawrence's money for the finishing the workhouse. On the application of Mrs. Sprackling the Sextoness it was agreed to raise her salary from £4 ^ Ann. to £6 ^ Ann. August 2. Robert Bradley chosen Organ Blower at a Salary of Forty Shillings f Ann. Alderman Cokayne Churchwarden.* December 12. Rev'' M' Willmott attended this and several following Vestrys for Rev"* M' Colton. 1745. December 16. Election for Parish Clerk in the room of John Ladyman deceased. Ordered. That the Election be by holding up of hands. In nomination, Thomas Hill and Thomas Londindine. It appearing to this Vestry that Thomas Hill had a very great Majority of Votes was now declared by Mr. Alderman Cokayne to be duly * Francis Cokayne, Ald» of Cornliill Ward, Sheriff 1746, Mayor 1761, Died 1707. "A Court of Aldermen was held at Guildliall, 17 Nov' 1767, when £100 was ordered to be paid to the Widow of the late worthy Alderman Cockayne, as a testimony of the sense they entertained of his ever being ready and willing to serve his fellow Citizens." — Qent. Mag., vol. xxxvii. p. 560. Vestries, a.d. 1745-6. 157 elected Parish Clerk who being called in promised to behave well in his office. 1745. February 17. This Vestry called to consider what method to take to make good the deficiences of Mr. Churchwarden Stevens, he being now under misfortunes. The Vestry Clerk reported that by desire of the Upper Churchwarden he had waited on M' Stevens to settle the account between him and the Parish, and it now appears by the said account laid before this Vestry, that M' Stevens had collected half a year on his Ppor Rate which amounted to £118 4*. Qd. and had paid on account of the parish the sum of £61 18*. hd. the balance whereof amounting to £56 5«. Id. he is not at present able to pay, but desires time to pay the same. M'^ Stevens also delivered up the Poor Rate Book and desired to be concerned no further in the collection thereof. M' Church "Warden Cokayne and M'^ Tuff were requested to meet M' Stevens's Creditors and impowered to act as they shall think proper for the benefit of the Parish. M"^ Tuff also agreed to collect the remaining half-year's Poor Rate. 1746. December 15. Whereas at a Vestry held the 17"* day of February last it appears by an entry then made that the balance on M"^ Churchwarden Stevens's account to this parish was £56 Qs, Id. but upon M"" Alderman Cokayne's settling the said account with M' Stevens he made it appear that there was but £47 12«. 8^. due from him to the parish, and M'' Alderman Cokayne being present at this Vestry reported that he had received the sum of £16 13*. M. by way of composition for the use of the parish in full for the said £47 12«. %d. and that he had given a receipt in full for the same on the behalf of this Vestry, which this Vestry now consents and agrees to, and accordingly this Vestry now returns the said M' Alderman Cokayne and M' Tuff thanks for the trouble they have had on this occasion. January 20. Vestry summoned at the request and expense of John Cooke who desired to take a new lease of the house he occupied formerly granted to M"^ Poole. Complaint and objection was made by several parishioners that the said Cooke fed and kept great numbers of Cattle in the Cellar and killed the same on the said premises and also suffered the Hides and Skins to lay in the shop for several days which occasioned a very great stench ; 158 Vestries, a.d. 1747. all which proceedings this Vestry think a very great nuisance. On which M' Cooke agreed to enter into a penalty in the said lease not to have any kind of Cattle killed on the said premises, nor to allow any Hides or Skins to lay there. Debate arising thereon, It was carried, Nemine Contradicente, That they would not let the house to the said Cooke, or to any other Butcher what- soever, It being deemed by this Vestry that the carrying on such a trade in a public street is a great nuisance. And therefore it is ordered by this Vestry, that in case any person shall sett up and follow the trade of a Butcher in this parish for the future, he or she shall be prosecuted for the same as the Law directs at the expense and charge of this parish. 1747. May 1. M^ Bernard, widow of Alderman Bernard a worthy In- habitant of this parish, desired leave to erect a Monument at heir own expense in memory of her late Husband, against the Wall adjoining to the Vestry Door. But a debate arising whether that part of the church was in the chancell or not It was agreed That if the parish have a right, to make M" Bernard a present of the said Grant, and that she have leave to erect a Monument there (subject to the above proviso) of the following dimensions — viz. 8 ft. in length, to project 2 ft. 10 in. and to be 15 ft. and a half in height. The Churchwardens were ordered to wait on M" Bernard with the above order, and (to inform her) that some Gentlemen think there is a more convenient place to erect the said Monument and to offer her a. place against the wall between M' Alderman Chamberlain's Monument and the pulpit.* September 10. Election for Sextoness determined by a great majority that it should be by balloting, and to be determined by one Ballot. Mary Green elected. October 28. Letter sent to the Churchwardens by M"^ Rob' Dingley stating that his mother had died intestate, but as he knew it was her intention that something should be given for the benefit of the Poor Proposed to give Twenty Guineas on their agreeing to allow twelve twopenny loaves to the twelve most * The monument waa erected against the wall adjoining the Vestry- door ; but, singular to say, during the restoration of the two Chapels of the Holy Ghost, and of the Virgin, in 1874, it was removed very nearly to the spot above mentioned. Vestries, a.d. 1747-8. 159 worthy persons every Sacrament Sunday for ever, over and above their present allowance. Also for permission to place a Tablet against the wall of the lower end of the Church not exceeding three foot square. It being considered that the interest of the said Twenty Guineas was not a sufficient allowance to defray the expense of the provision of Bread, that part of his proposal was rejected, and it was agreed, that he should be at liberty to erect the said Tablet whenever he pleased Gratis. 1747. December 17. It was reported that M' Dingley was willing to make some additions to his proposal : whereupon It was resolved That if M' Dingley would purchase so much Stock in the 3^0' annuities that the annual interest thereof should bring in Twenty- four Shillings ^ ann. clear to the Parish, the same should be laid out according to his proposals But would not accept the trust on any other Terms. Leave granted to M"^ Thomas Payne to place a Stone in the North Wall of the Church, between the Bread Table and the Old Tomb, the dimensions about 3 f * by 2 f. 1748. March 3. The above permission to M' Payne was excepted against at this Vestry and not confirmed ; and it is now Ordered That the said order be revoked. April 14. Leave given to the Trustees of Charity Schools for the Children to come to a public rehearsal to this Church. To make good aU damage, and also to be at the expense of cleaning the Church. May 19. Vestry summoned to prevent disputes between the Churchwarden and the Widow Blackborow who had the cleaning and taking of the Church Clock, which the Churchwarden considered he ought to do, being a Clockmaker. Leave given to him. December 15. The Fire Cock by the Pump ordered to be re- moved to another place and repaired. Robert Dingley by Letter now offered Thirty Pounds to the Parish on condition that the following entry be made on the Table of Donations. " M" Susannah Dingley gave Thirty Pounds to this Parish that two shillings be distributed in Bread every first Sunday in the month for ever to twelve poor parishioners who are most constant at the Sacrament, over and above their usual allowance." 160 Vestries, a.d. 1749-51. This proposal being taken into consideration was unanimously agreed to. 1749. March 28. The above sum of Thirty Pounds laid out in New South Sea Annuities. M' Walker had leave to lay down a Stone over his late wife in the passage to the Church, the Vestry reserving their right to the ground to bury any other person. M' Guynand fined £20 to be excused serving Under Chwarden. October 26. Rev* M' Perfect for Rev* M' Colton who has only attended one Vestry (April 3, 1746). M' Willimott previously. R. Margerum chosen Master of Workhouse at Twelve Guineas ^ Ann. in room of M' Hunt who had Fifteen Guineas. December 14. Richard Boyfield chosen Vestry Clerk. 1750. January 16. That M' TuEF late Churchwarden do pay the balance of this (his) account £52 16«. Zd. (M"^ Tuflf went out of office April 1747). Question being put that he should pay One Years Interest thereon was negatived. Rate made towards paying the debts of the Parish the said debts amounting to £259 6*. lOi. April 19. M' Marchant had leave to lay a flat Stone over the Grave of his late wife, reserving to the parish the right of the ground. M' Hale also had leave to lay a flat stone over his daughter's grave on the same conditions. December 18. This Vestry taking into consideration a method to regulate the holding of Vestrys for this Parish for the time to come, Do hereby Order, That for the future a Vestry to be held vrithin fourteen days after every Quarter day in every Year except Lady Day quarter. 1751. January 14. M' J. L. Berchere had leave to lay a Stone on the grave of his late wife, on the above conditions. February 19. M' Robert Dingley applied for leave to make a Vault in the footway in the Church yard Six feet and a half wide and Nine feet and a half from out to out, and in regard that JVT Ward was not an Inhabitant, It is ordered, That upon M' Dingley's paying the sum of Forty Pounds, he may have liberty to make such vault. . . . M"" Dingley refused to comply therewith. M' Tufi' acquainted the Vestry that the R' Hon"'" Francis Cockayne, Esq., the present Lord Mayor (Churchwarden 1745), Vestries, a.d. 1751-3. 161 intends coming to this Parisli Churcli on Sunday the 24*'" of March to hear a Charity Sermon. And therefore moved That a proper Stand for the Sword of State with his Lordship's Arms be erected at the expense of this Parish. Which is ordered accord- ingly to be erected agreeable to the directions of the Church- wardens and Common Councilmen. 1751. April 11. The Committee appointed to enquire into the affairs of the workhouse reported that for three years last past the average expenditure had been £239 \Zs. 8^. ^ ann. That the Annual Expenses of maintaining the Poor according to the agreement with one John Thruckstone amounted £195. The Committee directed to enquire if the parish of S' Olave's will make any abatement of the rent of the workhouse. 1752. January 8. Rev* M" Looker for M' Colton. M' John Lodge had leave to make a Vault in the Church under those two pews in the South Choir near the Chapel in the passage going to the Pulpitj eleven foot long and eleven foot wide from out to out, and eight foot long by seven foot wide clear inside and ten foot deep below the pavement of the Church on payment of Twenty Pounds. April 2. M' Chandler reported that he had searched the ground and that a Vault might be made agreeable to the foregoing order. October 19. Ordered That the duty of Constable be paid by the parish. 1753. July 26. The various sums of Money lying in different Stocks the property of the parish having been ordered to be transfered into one general account, and laid out in the purchase of Three ^ C* Bank Annuities, the account thereof was now produced as follows. Bouglit £550 Bank Amx' 1726 at 104^ f- 0'. . . 572 13 9 Brokerage 13 6 £110 3s. 2i. Sontk Sea St" sold at 120 f' C. . 132 3 10 £389 16s. lOi. New South Sea Arm' sold at 106 f- C 413 4 7 £30 New South Sea Ann- sold at 106 f- C . . 31 16 577 4 5 LessTransfer&Brokerage 1 5 £675 19 _5 Balance to Ch'' Warden . 2 12 2 £675 19 5 M 162 Vestries, a.d. 1754-5. £200 had been previously transfered by Aid" Bernard's Exe" making the whole of the parish Stock £750 3 f C Bk. Ann= 1726. 1754. January 10. M' Payne had leave to lay a Stone over his Wife's grave on the usual conditions. That all Certificates granted by this Parish be for the future registered in a Book. January 24. Committee appointed to treat for a new lease of the workhouse or for other premises suitable for the purpose. April 18. The above Committee reported that they had agreed with the Parish of S' Olave Hart Street for a lease of the Work- house for Seven, Eleven or Fourteen Years at £21 ^ ann. June 27. The Workhouse Committee agreed with M' Hawes an Apothecary for his attendance and medicines for the poor of this parish at £10 ^ ann. At the request of some of the Parishioners It was moved. That the Rev* M' Romaine might have the use of this Church for the reading of prayers and preaching a Sermon One day in a week. Consideration thereof adjourned to the next Yestry. October 10. The above Motion was given up by the Gentlemen on whose behalf it was made. The Upper Church Warden Clarke having removed out of the parish, the Under Warden M' Scattergood was elected Upper Churchwarden, and M' Knox and M' Craghead were successively elected Under Churchwardens for the remainder of the year and were excused on paying their fines. October 24. M' WiUiam Walker elected Under Church- warden. Committee appointed to meet and agree with M' Joseph Eyre about a new Lease of the premises over the Gateway upon the best terms they can for the advantage of this parish. 1755. April 3. Election for Sextoness, To be determined by one Ballot and the highest number upon the said Ballot to be the Sextoness in the room of Mary Green deceased. For Catharine Green 50 Margaret Lonondine 9 Amy Gwillan 2 Elizabeth Read M' Henry Guynand Sen' applied for leave to build a Vault in Vestries, a.d. 1755-6. 1G3 the Churcli near Bancroft's Monument which was granted on condition that he should pay the sum of Thirty Pounds and also have leave to fix a Tombstone flat against the North Wall. At the next Vestry this Order was revoked in consequence of M' Guynand refusing to comply therewith. Ordered. That when and as often as there shall be occasion for opening any Vault or Vaults belonging to any person or persons who heretofore have had or who hereafter shall or may have liberty to make a Vault or Vaults^ the person or persons giving directions for the opening such Vault or Vaults shall from time to time pay such and the like expense of breaking the ground and also pay such other fees as are usual and customary to be paid on the burial of every other person not having a Vault in this parish. 1755. April 15. Ordered. That no person or persons shall for the future have Hberty to build a Vault in the Church or Church Yard unless they pay £30 for the same. M"^ Dingley applied for leave to lengthen his Vault in the Church Yard, 7 foot 6 in. which was agreed to on his paying Twelve Pounds for the use of the Parish. That the Parish Clerk, Sextoness and Beadle have Twenty Shillings a year added to their Salaries in lieu of the Sacrament Money and Bread usually given them. October 9. M' Warrand complained of being overrated in the last rate made for the use of the Poor, on which the question was put Whether he should pay Fourteen Shillings or Eleven Shillings ; and on holding up of Hands it appeared that the majority are of opinion that M"" Warrand should pay Fourteen Shillings which was accordingly ordered. M' Boulter also complained of being overrated and the ques- tion was put whether he should pay Twenty Shillings or Sixteen Shillings. The majority decided that he should pay Twenty Shillings. 1756. January 15. M' Lord chosen Master of the Workhouse, in the room of M' Marjorum, deceased. That the Churchwardens distrain the goods of Benjamin Evans for a year's poor rate and a year's overrate due to this parish and that M' Boyfield (Vestry Clerk) do attend the Churchwardens at the time of making the said distress. M Z 164 Vestries, a.d. 1756-7. 1756. April 22. The above order annulled. October 14. M' Gardner had leave to lay a flat stone over his child's grave in the Church Yard; the parish reserving the right of burying there. M" Hawkins had leave to lay a flat stone over her late husband's grave in the Church Yard on the same condition. Notice ordered to be given to M' Lord the Master of the Workhouse to quit the service of the parish at Xmas. M^ Edward Bradley a practitioner offered to succeed M' Lord. Chosen at the next Vestry. Ordered, That the sense of the next Vestry be taken with respect to the Burial of Strangers in the Church Yard. 1757. January 13. Ordered. That if any application shall hereafter be made on behalf of any person having a Husband or Wife Son or Daughter before interred in this parish to be buried in or near their grave, then such fees shall be paid for opening the ground as customary, but if an application should be made on behalf of any person having any relation (except as above) before interred in this Parish to be buried in or near their grave, in such case double fees shall be paid for opening the ground, and if any application should be made for any person having no relation before interred in this Parish, then the sum of Four Pounds shall be paid for opening the ground in the Church and the sum of Forty Shillings for opening the ground in the Church Yard. That the Parish Clerk or his Successors shall not break or cause to be broke any ground in the Church or Church Yard for the burial of any person or persons without leave for that purpose first had and obtained from the Upper Church Warden and further That every grave where the ground will admit, shall be dug Seven feet at least from the surface of the Earth. Mary Moreton appointed a Searcher in the room of M" Saunders deceased. April 14. That the Table of Fees for Burials Christnings and Marriages be wrote in a strong legible hand and hung up in the Vestry Room. The Orders relating to the burial of Strangers and restraining the Parish Clerk also Ordered to be written in a strong legible hand and hung up in the Vestry. October 13. The Order of Dec' 1750 relating to holding of Vestries, a.d. 1758-60. 165 Vestrys repealed and it is Ordered That the Churchwardens shall and may for the future summon and call a Vestry or Vestrys at such time as they shall think proper. 1758. March SO. Ordered. That a fine of £30 shall for the future be paid by every person refusing to serve or desiring to be excused from serving tbe office of Church Warden of this parish. 1759. January 11. That the Vestry Clerk do wait on M'^ Farley and inform him that unless he sends the accounts of his late Church- wardenship to be audited and settled forthwith this parish must take proper measures to compel him. June 28. Edward Bradley chosen Parish Clerk unanimously in the room of Thomas Hill, deceased. 1760. January 31. M' Walker resigned the office of Engineer. April 10. Samuel Osborn chosen Engineer at the yearly Salary of Thirty Shillings and to have 5«. a Quarter to play the Engine four times every year to keep the same in order and the further sum of Ten Shillings and Six pence each time he shall be assisting at any fire besides the expenses he may be at upon any such occasion. That for the future the Upper Churcbwarden for the time being shall have the care and management of the Poor and that the Under Churchwarden for the time being shall have the care and management of the Church so far as relates to the receipts and payments thereof That for the future a Copy of the Minutes of every Vestry held for this Parish be delivered to the Churchwardens for the time being. July 10. Letter from the Comptroller of City Lands that the ground on which the workhouse stands will be required in making a Street 50 feet wide from Crutched Friars into the Minories, and requesting them to make a valuation thereof which they estimate at Sixty Pounds for the remainder of their Lease. And a Contract was entered into Oct' 30 with M' Solomon Pepper of Hoxton to farm the Poor. No further communication appears to have been made by the City Land Committee and on January 22 1761 the Goods &c. in the workhouse in Crutched Friars belonging to this Parish were ordered to be forthwith sold, and (Mar. 26) the Church Wardens are desired to treat with any persons for the disposal of the remainder of the Lease for such price as they shall think 166 Vestries, a.b. 1761-2. proper, and in case they cannot dispose of the same before Midsummer day, they are then to give notice to the Parish of S' Olaves to determine the said lease at Christmas day next ensuing. 1761. April 9. That a fine of Forty Shillings shall be paid by every person refusing to serve or desiring to be excused from serving the ofl&ce of Sideman of this Parish. M' Thomas Maynard proposed to fine for the Office of Church- warden notwithstanding his turn by rotation may not happen these Seven Years. It was agreed that he should be excused serving the said office on paying the sum of ^25. May 28. M' Dingley had leave to add a small border of Nine Inches round the Monument erected by him some years since to the memory of his family. M' Mills had leave to lay a flat stone over the Grave of a relation. August 27. Advertisements having been inserted in the daily papers to lett the premises lately exchanged with M' Eyre on a Building lease, several proposals were received and a lease was agreed to be granted to James Stone being the highest bidder for 61 years at a yearly rent of Twelve Guineas, M' Stone also agreeing to give Five Guineas for the use of the Poor. October 30. A Surveyer having been engaged to value certain premises to be exchanged with the parish and M"^ Eyre, reported that M' Eyre should have all the premises over and against the Gateway leading into Great S' Helens. The parish taking the premises on the North Side and paying him the sum of £20 10s. 1762. January 14. M' Jacob Hodgson had leave to lay a flat Stone over his Wife's grave, for which favour he gave Half a Guinea for the use of the Poor. The question was put and Negatived, That three children of M' Durand (a parishioner) buried in the Church Yard might be removed and buried in the Church. April 15. That for the future no part of the money that may be collected in the Bason for the use of the Poor on any occasion whatever shall be given to the Parish Clerk, Sextoness or Beadle. And further that the money given them out of the Collection received at the last Fast day for the Poor be refunded. That for the future there shall be no swearing in dinner pro- vided at the expense of this Parish (Swearing in Ch"* War"). Vestries, a.d. 1763-4. 167 Revoked at the next Vestry. Motion Negatived, That the Procession on Ascension Day be once in three Years only. That such Procession be continued annually and that instead of 2«. 6^. usually collected of the parishioners upon that day, a sum of Five Shillings be collected. The last part of this Order was repealed at the next Vestry. 1763. April 7. That an Inventory and Account of the several Writings, Plate, Books, and Papers, belonging to this Parish be made and taken by the Vestry Clerk and entered into a Book to be provided for that purpose, and delivered to the Under Church Warden and by him to his Successor in that Office and so from time to time upon any election of an Under Church Warden, such Book to be dehvered to the person so elected, to the end that such Book may remain in the custody of the Under Church Warden for the time being. July 26. That the Church Wardens do forthwith proceed against M'^ Cha^ Chandler late Church Warden for the recovery of the Moneys due from him to this Parish. October 6. Committee appointed to inspect the repairs of the Church reported. That the expense thereof would be £1000 or thereabouts, Whereupon it was ordered. That the Church be thoroughly repaired and the said Committee do raise the money necessary for that purpose by way of Annuities for Lives or otherwise as may appear most for the advantage of this Parish. Estimate to be taken and laid before the next Vestry of the expense of putting up a Screen or Partition (for keeping the Church warm at the lower end) under the Organ Loft. This Order revoked at the next Vestry. 1764. January 10. It is ordered. That M' Chandler have till the 1" day of March to pay the arrears due from (him) to this Parish and if not paid in that time This Vestry doth order the Church Wardens for the time being to proceed against him for the recovery of such arrears and that the Vestry Clerk acquaint him by Letter of this resolution. April 26. Sam' Osbom and Isaac Moses were elected Sides- men, but in case the said M' Moses shall desire to be excused from serving the said office, This Vestry doth consent thereto on his paying the fine of forty shillings. And in such case this Vestry 168 Vestries, a.d. 1764. doth declare M"" Thomas Coward to be duly elected Sidesman in the room of the said M' Moses. That there be no procession, nor any Taggs, Cakes and Ale given away on next Ascension Day, on account of the repairing of the Church, but the parishioners to dine together as usual. That the Money for repairing the Church be raised by Annuities upon Lives on the following terms, viz. — 40^ fears 5 to 45 Years at £7 0*.f C 45 » 50 7 5«. „ 55 » 55 7 10s. „ 55 53 60 7 158. „ 60 )> 63 8 Os. „ 63 93 65 8 10*. „ 65 )3 68 8 15*. „ 68 33 70 9 0*. „ and it is further Ordered, That in granting such Annuities preference shall be given to the parishioners of this Parish in case they or any of them shall be desirous to advance any money upon the terms aforesaid. Repealed January 8, 1765. 1764. July 12. Motion made to put up a Clock on the outside and a dial on the inside of the Church, Ordered That there should only be a dial put up in the inside of the Church in the front of the Organ loft, similar to the dial lately put up in the Church of S' Andrew Undershaft. August 7. Proposal of M' Thomas Smith. To make a dial under the Organ with a Silvered dial plate 18 inches diameter, a Mahogany Moulding to the case with carved and gilt ornaments like that of S' Mary Axe and in a good and workmanlike manner £9.9.0. Another estimate was received from Edward Pashley for the sum of £11.11.0. M' Smith's proposal was agreed to. Committee of Ten Gentlemen having been appointed to super- intend the repairs of the Church. Five of them to be a quorum. This Vestry being informed of the difficulty there is to get Five of the said Committee to meet upon business. It is ordered That any three of the said Committee have power to act Vestries, a.d. 1764. 169 1764. September. 18. M' John Dale had leave to lay a flat stone with an inscription over his Children's grave in the Church on the usual conditions. It was moved in the name of the Rev" M' Toovey, That the New Version of the Translation of the Psalms of David might for the future be sung in the Churchj which was ordered accordingly. M'' John Lodge in behalf of himself and Several other Inhabi- tants residing in Little S' Helens desired leave of this Vestry to open a door out of the Garden belonging to Leathersellers Hall into the Church at the East End thereof at their own expense which was granted accordingly. October 11. Particulars for rebuilding the Walls of the Church Yard on the North and South Sides and the East End thereof will come to £61.1 0. To take down and clear away the Brick Walls on the North and South Sides and East End and the Iron Work and dwarf Wall at the West End of the Church Yard and to pave the whole with Purbeck Squares to be done for £260.10. To take down the old Brick Walls on the North and South Sides and East end of the Church Yard and building New dwarf Walls, 3 feet high, and cope them with Portland Stone, and put new Iron Railing upon all the New Walls and paint it four times in Oil Colour will come to £189 Oak Posts & Planks 20 £209 The Churchwarden informed the Vestry that a Subscription was opened by several of the inhabitants in case this Vestry should order the said Church Yard Walls to be taken down and a new dwarf wall with iron rails to be built, towards defraying part of the extra expenses thereof. Resolved, That the Committee agree in such manner as they shall think fit, for and about the taking down the said Church Yard Walls and building new dwarf Walls with new Iron Railing, provided the Subscription beforementioned be not less than Seventy Pounds. October 19. Resolved that Mr. John Maynard (who was going to quit the Parish and therefore could no longer be of the Committee for the repairs of the Church without the consent of 170 Vestries, a.d. 1765. the Vestry) might be continued one of the said Committee till the repairs of the Church were finished. 1'65. January 3. This Vestry being informed of the difficulty of raising money upon the terms of the order of the ZG"" April last, do agree that the said order be repealed. That the Committee be empowered to raise such sums as they shall think necessary for completing the repairs of the Church upon the Parish Security by granting Annuities upon two or more lives not under the age of 40 Years. January 16. Mr. Jacob Marsom had leave to make a vault seven foot long and five foot wide in the clear and the walls to be one brick and a half thick, and to place a flat Tomb Stone even with the pavement over the said Vault in the Chancel of the Church on payment of the sum of £30. February 19. To the Churchwardens, &c. Gentlemen The advanced price of all sorts of provisions & all other necessarys obliges us to oflFer our present Situation to your consideration, and as every individual is acquainted with the truth of it, we don't doubt of relief. For twelve months past and daily advancing by which we have been considerable suflierers by maintaining your poor at the present prices, and which we cannot continue without manifestly hurting ourselves and expending the small matter we have got by care and industry. Therefore we humbly hope you'll grant us something extra for the time past and as soon as the price of provisions are fallen we shall willingly accept of our usual price. We are Gentlemen with respect Your most obedient humble servants John Hughes. Hoxton, ffeb. 16'" 1765. William Phillips. This Vestry taking the said Petition into consideration and also the great dearness of provisions, Ordered That a gratuity of £20 be paid to the said Mess™ Hughes and Phillips. The Church Warden acquainted the Vestry that the Rev. Mr. Toovey requested they would give leave for the Parish Clerk to Vestries, a.d. 1765-6. 171 have a Gown. It was ordered that a proper gown be provided for the Parish Clerk to wear during the time of Divine Service. That deal folding doors glazed be put up under the Organ Gallery and also a Sc/treen from the Sidesmen^s Pew to the North Wall so high as to range with the under side of the said gallery. 1765. April 11. M"^ Burdett had leave to put a flatt stone against the North Wall of the Church in memory of his late Father and Mother. That in case any Churchwarden or Wardens shall for the future neglect to receive of any parishioner or parishioners any rate or rates that shall or may hereafter be made or assessed, or shall omit to take and pursue all legal methods for recovering and receiving such rate or rates of and from any Parishioner or Parishioners who shall refuse to pay the same, That then and in either of the said cases, such Churchwarden or Churchwardens shall make good and pay to this parish all and every deficiency or deficiencys that shall or may happen in such rate or rates by such neglect or omission. October 24. That a New Surplice be provided for the Rev* M"^ Toovey. That for the future after every Vestry One Guinea be spent instead of Ten Shillings. November 13. That M' Cha' Chandler (Churchwarden 1761-2-3) be applied to, to know whether he has given in the accounts of his late Churchwardenship and to whom. And if he has not given in any, that he be required to deliver them to be audited forthwith. That M' George (Churchwarden 1762-4) be required to deliver in the accounts of his Churchwardenship within One Month. . (Here endeth Book A.) 1766. April 3. M"^ Thomas Smith a parishioner who put up the Dial in the inside of the Church and has looked after the same for One Year Gratis Applied for a salary of 40«. a Year for winding up the same, cleaning it when necessary and keeping the same in good repair, which was agreed to. M' Lubton proposed to clean the windows of the Church and Vestry room Once a Year at 865. p* annum which was Negatived. Elizabeth Moseley who was lately delivered of a Bastard Child applied for relief, and it appearing that the parish had received a 172 Vestries, a.d. 1766-7. sum of money from the person to whom the Child had heen sworn, for the care and maintenance of the said child, and that the said bastard child had died soon after its birth. It was ordered, That the Church Warden do give her the sum of Five Guineas. 1766. April 29. The late Churchwarden ordered to pay out of the surplus of the monies now in his hands, £50 a-piece to the present Churchwardens. Church Rate ordered of One Shilling in the £. September 4. Petition of Mess" Hughes & Philips, Fanners of the poor, requesting on account of the deamess of provisions to have the price advanced from 3«. &d. to 4«. ^ week which was agreed to, 1767. January 15. Churchwarden Wells moved That the Order of Vestry of 30'" March 1758 imposing a fine of £30 on persons refusing or desiring to be excused from serving the office of Church Warden be repealed, which was unanimously agreed to. And it was Ordered, That in future a fine of £20 shall be paid by every person refusing or desiring to be excused from serving the said office. June 18. On the application of M' MiUs to be allowed to pay the sum of £18 to be excused serving the office of Church Warden, the Vestry considering that his election into that office may be some years hence, agreed to accept thereof. July 2. The late Peter Gaussen deceased did in the year 1747 apply for leave to make a Vault in the Chancel but there being no room such application was rejected, but leave was given to the said Peter Gaussen to make a Brick Grave in the chancel, and in consideration thereof and as he did not by his Will bequeath any- thing to this parish, M"^ Peter Gaussen offered the Vestry £40 which was accepted M' Peter Gaussen then applied for leave to put up a monument ; and it was Ordered, That M"^ Peter . Gaussen or any of his family shall have leave at any time here- after, at his, or their e.\pense to put up a Monument in the Church either against the Nortli Wall between the monuments of Captain Bond and William Finch, or on the North Side of the pillar next Sir W. Pickering's Monument, or in any other vacant part of the Church Walls as with consent of a \'estry may be agreed on. The Churchwarden ordered to enquire whether M' Johnson is not liable to be prosecuted for refusing to take upon him the Vestries, a.d. 1768-70. 173 office of Sidesman, and the Vestry authorized the Churchwarden to carry on such prosecution against him as he shall be advised. 1768. June 2. Whereas by a former Order ,of Vestry, the number of persons appointed to constitute a Vestry was limited to 13. And it has been found that the business is often retarded or rendered difficult to be completed for want of such a number to attend at such Vestrys. It was agreed that such Order be re- pealed, and that for the future. Nine persons, inhabitants and householders of the said parish, be, and are hereby enabled to form and constitute a Vestry and are hereby authorized and Empowered to make such Orders and Regulations as shall or may be judged necessary or advisable to be made or done at any future vestries held for the said parish. Ordered. That before Gresham College is pulled down, some person or persons be employed to measure the ground on which the said College and the Houses in front thereof stand. June 16. That a flat stone with an inscription thereon be put over the grave wherein W™ Browne Esq. and his late Wife are interred, reserving to this parish the property of the ground over which the said stone shall be put and the right to bury therein. October 6. Churchwardens and Overseers Ordered to take proper measures for levying and recovering the Parish Taxes chargeable on the house in the tenure or occupation of Green, situate in Little S* Helens. 1769. January 5. That the Fire Engine shall not be taken out to assist at any Fire, except in the Wards of Bishopsgate Broad Street, ComhiU and Lime Street and that Bradley the Engineer be ac- quainted therewith. May 18. The Churchwarden ordered to pay M' Bishop the Proctor £20 on account of the cause Wells & Bartlett against Kendall. 1770. April 19. M' William Clarke was appointed to look after and take care of the Church Clock at the yearly salary of 40«., and it is ordered that the same be wound up at least once a week. Thomas Hanson Esq. late of Crosby Square deceased, by his Will bequeathed to the Minister and Church Wardens of this parish for the time being and their successors the sum of £500 upon trust to invest the same in the Public Stock or funds of this Kingdom, and pay and apply the interest thereof, unto and among 174 Vestries, a.d. 1770-1. such indigent and industrious inhabitants and parishioners (if any such there be) of the said parish who shall not receive Alms. The said M' Hanson's Benefaction ordered to be inserted in the list of Benefactions to this parish and to be entered in the Green Book. 1770. September 6. Election for Vestry Clerk in the room of Eobert Boyfield deceased. Candidates Thomas Trundle who had 42 Votes and Richard Atkinson who had 40 Votes. Election by Ballot. M' Trundle declared duly elected. September 27. Thanks of the Vestry given to John Smith Esq. of Great S' Helens for the service he has done this parish in getting several Children into Christ's Hospital. December 20. Resolved on the motion of the Church Wardens that there be no Ribon and Laces given to the Inhabitants of this parish on any Ascension day for the future. Minute ordered to be made in the parish books on the motion of M' Churchwarden Wells, That he had cited M' Henry Kendall in the year 1767 for not paying the Church Rate due to this parish and that he had obtained a Judgment and decree on such Citation for the arrears of the Church rate due, and the sum of £88 for Costs. 1771. April 4. Resolved, That M' Churchwarden Wells be allowed the sum of Twelve Pounds to serve the oflBce of Upper Churchwarden for the year ensuing M"^ Wells having been in office from April 1766. Agreement to pay Dod the sum of Two Guineas to cut the Trees and dig up the Church Yard and sow the same with Grass for one year. Copy of the decree. Wells and Bartlett against Kendall. Extracted from the registry of the Arches Court of Canterbury, Nov. 3 1770. Before the Right Worshipful D' George Hay, Official, Principal of the Arches Court &c. sitting in Judgment in the presence of John Green, Deputy Register. For information and sentence at the Petition of Bishop,* On which day the Judge having heard the Proofs read and Counsel on * The Parish Proctor. Vestries, a.d. 1771-2. 175 behalf of Bishop's Clients did at the petition of Bishop by this his interlocutory decree (having the force and effect of a definite sen- tence) in writing pronounce the rates Libellate to be just rates & condemned Henry Kendall, Althan's Client in the sum of Four Pounds Four shillings for such rates and also in the costs of Suit made and to be made on the part and behalf of Bishop's Client as well in the first as the second instance of this cause. Then Bishop corrected a Bill of Expenses and prayed, and the Judge at his petition taxed the same at the sum of Eighty Eight Pounds of lawfull money of Great Britain besides the sum of fourteen Shillings and Ten Pence of like lawful money for the expenses of the Monition and Execution thereof, and Bishop made oath that his Clients had and must necessarily expend the said sum taxed and prayed and the Judge at his petition decreed a Monition to issue under Seal against Althan's said Client to pay or cause to be paid to Bishop or his Clients the said sorts Principal and Costs taxed as aforesaid within fifteen days after the service of the Monition on him for that purpose under pain of the service of the greater excommunication. Present Althan dissenting. But the Judge ordered the said Monition not to go out in Fifteen days from this day which being done Bishop prayed and the Judge at his Petition decreed the Church Rates marked ABC, the five Books of Account numbered 12 3 4 5, and the two Vestry Books heretofore to Wit on the Byday after Hilary Term last brought into the Registry of this Court to be delivered out to Bishop or his Clients the said rates being first registered. Present Althans dissenting. Jn" Greene, Dep. Reg"". 1771. May 16. Church Rate Ninepence in the £. Situation of Organist being vacant by the death of M"^ Thomas Griffin, his nephew M' George GriflEin proposed to play, tune, and keep the Organ in repair for the sum of Twenty Five Pounds ^ annum, and was thereupon duly elected. Motion negatived. That there be provided some Warming Machine for warming the Church. June 5. Election for Churchwarden in the room of M"^ Wells deceased. 1772, February 19, That John Brown do nail up leads upon the walls 176 Vestries, a.d. 1772-3. and other places in and about the Excise Of&cs to denote the bounds of this pariah there, and that the same be placed as near the places where they were formerly nailed as may be. Leave given to lay a flat Stone over the grave of Thomas Burdett, Esq. on the offer of the sum of Five Guineas reserving to the parish the right of the ground, and also over the grave of John Tristram for the like sum of Five Guineas and on the same con- dition. Motion negatived. For a Warming Machine to warm the Church. 1772. May 7. New Damask Curtains ordered for the Organ Loft. June 11. Question being put whether the Buildings belonging to the Excise Office in this parish should be assessed at £1600 or £2000 f Annum. It was resolved That it should be at £2000. October 7. Mess" Phillips & Hughes applied to be allowed the further sum of Threepence 5p Head for the poor of this parish which was agreed to. That the old curtains belonging to the Organ Loft be given to M" Green the Sextoness. 1773. January 28. Churchwardens ordered to proceed against M"^ Booth the late Churchwarden unless he delivers his account within seven days from this time. Charles Chandler, Unanimously elected Beadle, Engineer and Organ Blower in the room of Robert Bradley, deceased. February 19. Some doubts having arisen as to the right of this parish to appoint a Minister for Sir Martin Lumley's Tuesday Evening Lecture vacant by the death of the Rev" M' Mapletoft An extract from Sir Martin Lumley's Will was read, by which it appears that the right of appointing the Lecturer is in the Heirs of Sir Martin Lumley and not in this parish. Some doubts having also arisen as to the right of chusing a Vicar for this parish in the room of the Rev* M' Coulton also deceased The Vestry Clerk reported that he had not been able to get a Copy of the Grant made by Queen Elizabeth to Michael and Edward Stanhope of this parish Church out of the office. The Churchwardens then informed the Vestry that they had searched the several Vestry Books belonging to this parish, and that it appears that this parish had chosen several Vicars, and that Vestries, a.d. 1773. 177 they had attended the Dean of S'. Pauls* with extracts from the said Books and requested that he would be pleased to give the parish leave to proceed to the choice of a Vicar, who informed them that the Impropriators had presented the Rev'' M' Naish to him, and that he had promised to approve him, that he was sorry he could not comply with their request and that in case they had applied to ' him first, he would have paid regard to their recommendation. M^ Churchwarden Fasson also informed the Vestry that the Rev* M'^ Naish took possession of this parish Church on Saturday last and informed him that he was properly authorised to do so. The Vestry Clerk then stated that in pursuance of an order from the Churchwarden who had been informed that a petition had been preferred to the Lord Chancellorf in order to obtain his Lord- ship's order to confirm the presentation of the Impropriators he had searched at the office of the Secretary of Presentations and found that no such petition had been preferred, and that he had attended M' Collins in Doctors Commons who (as he had been informed) is Deputy to the Dean of S'. Pauls and enquired of him by what authority M' Naish had taken possession of the parish church, when the said M' Collins informed him that the Dean sent for M' Naish on Saturday last and informed him that in case he would take immediate possession of this parish Church he would collate him thereto, that M"^ Naish agreed so to do, and the Dean thereupon collated him accordingly, that he then asked the said M' Collins if the Dean had collated the said M' Naish in his own right or on the presentation of the Impropriators, to which M' CoUins answered in his own right. M'' John Lodge then informed the Vestry that the Impropriators intended to take the opinion of a Civilian in respect to their right of presentation, and in case they shall be advised that the right of presentation is in them, they intend to commence an action of Ejectment, to eject M' Naish * "Thomas Newton, D.D., Bishop of Bristol (elected Dec. 8tli, 1761, con- firmed on the 24th, and consecrated on the 28th of the same month), ap- pointed Prebendary of Westminster, March 22nd, 1757, Dean of St. Paul's, Oct. 8th, 1768, and died Feb. 14th, 1782, setat. 77." See Le Neve's Fasti, vol. i. p. 220, vol. ii. p. 317, and vol. iii. p. 336. Ed. Oxford (Hardy), 1854. t "A.D. 1771. The Hon. Henry Bathurst, created Lord Apsley, Lord Chancellor, Jan. 23. Succeeded his father as Earl Bathurst, a.d. 1775; re- signed A.D. 1778." See Haydn's Book of Dignities, p. 105. Ed. Lend. 1851. N 178 Vestries, a.d. 1773-5. from this parish Church. The further consideration of this suhject was therefore adjourned. 1778. March 15, M' John Jennings had leave to make a Vault in the Church 7 ft. long and 3 ft, 6 in. wide at each end and 3 ft, in the centre, and also of fixing a Monument on the pillar of the Church next the Vault. The Monument not to exceed 21 inches in breadth, on payment of Twenty Guineas. That a sett of Ladders be provided and kept in the most con- venient place in this Church. April 15. Dod to have a gratuity of ten shillings over and above the two guineas allowed him for digging and sowing the Church Yard &c. for the last year. M' William Clark had leave to lay a flatt Stone in the church over the grave of his late wife, the parish reserving the right to the ground. That the Lord Mayor's Arms put up in this Parish Church be erased. June 10. Church Rate Sixpence in the £. Iron Rails round Church Yard to be painted. June 29. Present, Rev* James Naish, Minister. Resolved, That this parish do request M"^ Naish to continue M' Toovey his Curate upon the same terms he ofiBciated for M' Coulton, to which M' Naish agreed, and that he would do anything else the parish should ask of him, 1774. April 28. Further Church Rate of threepence in the £ for the last year to pay balance due to the late Churchwarden. June 9. Church Rate Sixpence in the £. That the thanks of this Vestry be given to M' John Fasson late Churchwarden for his just and prudent conduct during his Churchwardenship, October 6, The Beadle having attended Sir Martin Lumley's Lecture by order of the Churchwarden during the last Winter, he was directed to make him such satisfaction for his said attendance as in his discretion he shall think fit. 1776. January 12. Susannah Mynot, Singlewoman, now in the Work- house with child by one Cornelius Chartress of the parish of S* Margarets Westminster, but who was willing to marry her, if the parish would pay the Fees and give him the sum of Four Pounds, on which the Churchwarden was directed to enquire if he did Vestries, a.d. 1775. 179 belong to that parish and in such case to pay the Wedding Fees and advance him the sum of Four Guineas. February 33. That M"" Churchwarden Houston be at liberty to expend the sum of Four Pounds towards the expenses of the next Oyster Feast over and above the Forty Shillings given by the WiU of WilP. Prior. 1775. April 20. Edward Bradley Parish Clerk acquainted the Vestry that he would undertake to wash and mend the Surplices and Communion Linen for which he has hitherto received the sum of Five Pounds ^ Annum and to give up the yearly sum of fifteen shillings which he has heretofore claimed and received out of the devise made by the will of William Prior and the further sum of fifteen shillings which he has also received on the preaching of Three Sermons and not to collect any money for Christmas Box of the Inhabitants, provided the parish would pay him a salary of £24 ^ Annum instead of the sum of £9 heretofore paid him. Resolved, That his proposal be agreed to, on condition that in future he does not charge for Pens, Ink, and Paper for the Vestry, and do officiate as Clerk at Sir Martin Lumley's Lecture. To all which he agreed and returned the Vestry thanks. May 18. Church Rate One Shilling in £. Churchwarden ordered to take necessary steps for the defence of the Poors Rate against which an Appeal was stated to have been lodged at the Quarter Sessions by the Excise Office. July 6. It appearing that no Appeal had been lodged The Vestry Clerk ordered to have the opinion of counsel for the recovery of Poor and Church Rates. That an Hand Engine be provided and that M"^ Bristowe be employed efi'ectually to repair the old one. That a proper case lined with greenbaize be provided to put the Church Plate in. August 24. Counsellor Dunning's opinion having been read, and the Church Warden having stated that if sufficient power was given to the Church Wardens he thought the rates might be settled to the satisfaction of the Parish Authority was accordingly granted to them to settle the arrears of Curch and Poor Rates now due from the Excise Office. Thomas Maxwell applied to this Vestry and proposed to marry Mary Sandars a poor woman of this parish whom he stated was N 2 180 Vestries, a.d. 1775-6. with child by him, if they would give him forty shillingSj pay the Marriage Fees, and clothe her. And being asked if he had any settlement, he stated that he belonged to the parish of S* Luke's Old Street. The Church Warden directed to enquire into the truth of his settlement and if found correct to give him the sum of Three Guineas on his marrying the said Mary Sanders. 1775. October 5. The Churchwardens reported that they had received and settled the several rates due from the Excise Office at the rate of £1600 ^ Annum. At which it was in future ordered to be assessed instead of £2000 as heretofore. The Church Wardens empowered to contract with M' Bristowe to clean and take proper care of the Engines. December 29. Election for Beadle in room of Charles Chandler, deceased, by Ballot, when John Dickerson was elected the numbers being for John Dickerson 32 Thomas Bolwell 15 John Wells 2 Church Warden ordered to pay M" Chandler £3 for the Coat and Hat worn by her late Husband. 1776. April 11. That a Coat and Hat be provided for the Beadle not exceeding £3 and that he be excused from paying the poor's rate for the last year having pleaded inability to pay it. June 27. Poor's Rate 3d. in £. November 28. Thanks given to John Smith Esq.* for his Voluntary and Great Benefaction to this Parish, and that a copy of the deed of which the following is an Abstract, be deposited with the other deeds of the Parish and entered in the Vestry Book. This Indenture made the 25'" of September 16 George HI. A.D. 1776 between the Governors of the Hospitals of Christ Bride- well and S' Thomas the Apostle of the first part, John Smith Esq. of Great S' Helens of the Second part, and Thomas Burfoot, Treasurer of Christ's Hospital London and William Brockett and Thomas Misenor on the third part Whereas John Smith, one of the Governors of the said Hospital proposed to transfer the sum of £2500 3 f C South Sea Ann» of the year 1751, on condition * 1783, June 29. John Smith, Esq., formerly a Lisbon Merchant and many years one of the directors of the South Sea Company.— Ge»<. Mag-, p. 629. (Deaths.) Vestnes, a.d. 1776. 181 that the Governors of the said Hospital would engage to pay his Nephew William Webber of Fursley in the County of Devon, Gent, aged 43 years an Annuity of £100 during his life ; and after his decease to maintain and educate in the said Hospital two children perpetually to be taken out of the said parish of S' Helen and to be presented by a Publick Vestry, or by the major part of the Inhabitants present at such Vestry, which was approved by a Committee of the said Governors the 14*'' of August last and by them recommended to a General Court held for the said Hospital the 12'" of September and unanimously agreed to be accepted. And whereas the said sum has been transferred and doth now stand in the names of the said Tho^ Burfoot, W. Brockett & T. Misenor for the use of the poor Children educated in the said Hospital Now this Indenture witnesseth. That the said Governors in consideration of such transfer do hereby for themselves. Suc- cessors and Assigns, covenant with the said John Smith &c. that they will well and truly pay or cause to be paid to the said William Webber, one yearly payment of £100 clear of all deductions during the term of his natural life, by quarterly payments, the first pay- ment to be made at Michaelmas 1777. Provided and it is hereby agreed between all parties, that if the said William Webber shall at any time assign or dispose of such Annuity or any part thereof, that then such Annuity or such part or parts thereof as shail be so assigned or otherwise disposed of shall cease and the said £2500 applied to the benefit of the poor children in the said Hospital as if the said W. Webber was actually dead. And the said Governors covenant, that from the decease of the said W. Webber or after the said Annuity shall otherwise cease, they, shall and will from time to time for ever. Maintain and Educate in the said Hospital Two Poor Children of persons who shall be Inhabitants of the said parish of S' Helen, to be chosen by the majority of a Vestry of the said parish, and on the death or dis- charge or other removal of every such Child or Children within three months then next to receive and admit other or others, in his, her, or their room. Provided, that the parent or parents of such Child or Children so to be maintained and educated shall have been an inhabitant or inhabitants of the said parish One whole Year next immediately before such choice shall be made, and every Child so to be chosen shall be upwards of Seven Years 182 Vestries, k.v.llll. of age, Born in lawful Wedlock, of Honest 8e Reputable parents; And the Minister and Church Wardens of the parishes whereto such Child or Children shall respectively belong, shall comply with and be subject to the forms generally in use for the admission of Children into the said Hospital. In Witness whereof to the one part to remain with the said John Smith, the said Governors have caused their Common Seal to be affixed. And to the other part to remain with the said Governors, the said John Smith hath set his Hand and Seal, the day and year first above written. M"^ Church Warden Potter reported that on perusing one of the Books belonging to the parish, he had discovered that the application of the gift of Cicely Cyoll and also of Thomas Hutchins of Wheaten Bread to the poor of this parish had been discontinued from or about the year 1693. Resolved, That the benefactions above mentioned be restored to the several poor persons belonging to this parish under the descriptions mentioned in the said Wills. D' Orme applied for leave to cut away each side of the Steeple of the Church that he might have the benefit of a better view from the Top of his House, and M' Gosling assured this Vestry that the parts of the Steeple intended to be cut away would do no harm to the Steeple, and that in case leave should be given to cut away the same, he would make good and finish the Steeple in such manner as would be an ornament thereto, and he makes good the places that shall be so cut away. Thanks to Thomas Houston late Churchwarden for his great care and integrity in the execution of the said office. That W. Clarke's Salary for looking after and taking care of the Church Clock be raised from 40«. to 45«. ^ ann. 1777. January 2. The Church Wardens and Vestry Clerk having waited on M' Smith with the Thanks of the last Vestry, M* Smith desired them to give his best respects to the Inhabitants of this parish and thanked them for the respect they had shewn him, and that his motives for doing what he had done was on account of the great respect they had shewn him during 27 years that he had been an Inhabitant, and to make some provision from time to time for two poor children and that he thought he could not do it in a better way and requested that his Benefaction might not be inserted in the list of Benefactors at present. Vestries, a.d. 1777. 183 1777. April 3. William Sibley of the parish of S' Olive Tooley having by Bond dated July 14 1776 stood bound to the parish in the sum of £40 for a female Bastard Child which had been sworn to him by Sarah Bawcomb of this parishj and the child having become chargeable, the Church Warden has agreed to receive 3«. ^ Week for its support and had received £1 4s. Oaf. in full to the 4** Sep' last, but had not been able to get any more money by reason that the said Sibley has a wife and family and was very poor. And the wife of the said W. Sibley had informed him that in case this parish would accept of a sum of money and deliver up the Bond, she would endeavour to raise it provided time was given for that purpose. Resolved, That upon payment of £10 including the sum of £1 4«. 0^. already paid within the period of Six Months from this date, the said Bond shall be given up. May 1. Church Rate 9* in £. M'^ Bradley had leave to lay a flatt stone over the Grave of her late brother Joseph Bryant with an inscription in the Church Yard with the usual reservation. That John Jennings late an Inhabitant of this parish have leave to take away the cushions placed by him in the pew where he formerly sat in this Church. That Catherine Green, Sextoness be allowed from henceforth a salary of £18 p' annum in lieu of the salary heretofore paid her, and also of all other charges which she hath been accustomed to make, and likewise in lieu of the Annual Collection made for her at the Oyster Feast. That the parish Clerk and Sextoness do in future oblige all persons who shall hereafter bury in the Church or Church Yard to clear and take away all the rubbish that shall remain after the graves are filled up at their own expense. That the Common Council and Church Wardens consult with those of the adjoining parishes about the necessary steps to be taken to procure a constant passage through the Excise office at seasonable hours. May 39. Thanks given to John Smith Esq. the Church Warden having reported that M'' Smith had at his own expense painted the doors and door cases of the Church and also the Iron Rails round the Church Yard. July 17. That a New Surplice be provided for Rev* M' Toovey. 184 Vestries, a.d. 1777-8. 1777. October 2. William Sibley having paid Two Guineas since the Order of Vestry of April 3 being out of work and unable to pay any further sum, and the Child being dead, he was released from further payment and the Bond given up. The House occupied by M' Henry Ward held jointly by this parish and the Carpenters' Company being in bad repair which by estimate would require the expenditure of £80 and which he was willing to undertake to do, if they would grant another lease at the expiration of the present term for 21 Years with liberty to quit at the end of 7 or 14 years and allow him One Year's rent towards the said repairs. This Vestry agreed thereto and the Church- wardens were directed to wait upon the Carpenters' Company and request their concurrence. That for the future the Churchwardens have liberty to expend the sum of Six Pounds at the Oyster Feast over and above the 40«. given by M"^ William Prior and that in future the BiU of Expenses be called for and settled at Eleven of the Clock. 1778, January 8. The Carpenters' Company agreed to grant the lease for 21 Years at the rent of £34 per Annum on condition that £80 be laid out in substantial repairs within two years but without any other allowance to which M' Ward assented. The Churchwarden stated that he had unavoidably expended £1 11«. %d. at the last Oyster Feast more than is allowed. Ordered, That he be at libeity to charge the said sum in his account. That M' Bristow be discharged from the care &c. of the parish Engines and John Dickerson the Beadle be appointed thereto. John Dickerson was appointed to look after and take care of the Church Yard at the Yearly Salary of £2.12.6. Mr. Henry George had leave to lay a flat Stone in the Church over the grave of his late wife, with an inscription thereon, with the usual reservation. February 12. Plan and proposal was received from the Surveyor of the Excise oflBce for granting part of their Premises to make a passage for the accommodation of the inhabitants of S' Helen and of S' Peter le Poor, Broad Street Upon condition that the two parishes would purchase other premises named in the plan and grant them to the Excise in lieu of the other premises proposed to be granted for the passage ; the said plan Vestries, a.d. 1778. 185 and proposals being answer to the Petition which had been pre- ferred by the two parishes on the subject. To which the following reply was agreed on. " That having maturely considered the said plan and proposals are extremely sorry to find themselves obliged to decline them. The premises required to be purchased by the parishes greatly exceed those offered in lieu thereof and the expense of purchasing would greatly exceed the sum of £S000j exclusive of an Act of Parliament &c. &c. All that your Petitioners requested was that the time of the OfiBce Gates being kept open should be extended a few hours longer, and also on Holidays, and trust that upon reconsideration you will indulge them with the liberty they formerly enjoyed of passing through the office gates daily at seasonable hours.^' 1778. April 23. The Beadle to have £3 13s. Qd. f Ann. to look after the Engines, and that they be cleaned, oiled and played at least four times every year. That every Under Church Warden for the future do see that the Engines are kept in good condition and that the above order is complied with. The Beadle also appointed Organ Blower at a Salary of 40*. ^^ Annum. In reply to the Memorial, The Commissioners of Excise were sorry that they could not comply with the request set forth in their Memorial, as they did not think it consistent with the safety of the office. That John Smith, Esq., had promised to get Charles Oxtoby a poor boy belonging to this parish into Christ^s Hospital and had given the Churchwarden Five Guineas to divide among the poor pensioners also belonging to this parish, for aU which the Thanks of the Vestry were ordered to him. May 21. Church Kate Ninepence in £. Thanks of Vestry to Joseph Potter late Church Warden for his upright conduct and unwearied application in promoting the interest of this Parish. August 27. Thanks voted to John Smith, Esq., the Church Warden having reported that he had made the parish a present of a large folio Bible, also a Silver Cup and Cover Gilt with the following inscription engraved thereon, viz.. The Gift of John 186 Vestries, a.d. 1779-80. Smith, Esq., to the Parish Church of St. Helen, London, for the use of the Communion Service. 1778. That the two Silver Cups usually made use of at the Commu- nion Service be Gilt. 1779. January 21. Church Warden informed the Vestry that the Inhabitants present at the last Oyster Feast were very numerous, and on that account he had unavoidably expended £6 13*. M. more than is allowed, Ordered That he be at liberty to charge the same in his account. April 8. That John Smith, Esq., be excused from serving all parish offices in consideration of the many favours received by this parish from him. W. Clarke and Timothy Corp to take care of Church Clock at 45*. '^ Annum. June 16. That the time of any persons quitting or dying in this parish be entered in the Parish Book. August 5. Necessary steps to be taken to recover the arrears due from M" Martin of the Four Pounds '^^ Annum given by the will of Joyce Featly. October 14. M" Martin being dead, enquiry ordered to be made to whom the copyhold property at Kennington has descended. That the London Workhouse Rate be not paid out of the rate made for the support of the poor for the present year. Church Warden allowed to charge the extraordinary expenses at the last Oyster Feast amounting to £1 14«. 4c?. 1780. January 5. John Smith, Esq., having expressed his desire of having the remainder of the Communion Plate belonging to this parish Gilt, and having desired the Church Warden to acquaint this Vestry, That in case this parish would cause it to be done, he would be at one half the expense thereof. This Vestry taking into consideration the many benefits received by this parish from the said Mr. Smith, doth order that his said desire be complied with. Repealed next Vestry March 30. It appearing that a pint of wine only, was allowed by this parish for the Vestry on a Sunday, but of late a Bottle has beea constantly taken thereto. Ordered That a pint of Wino only be allowed the Vestry on a Sunday as heretofore from henceforth. Complaint being made of the foulness of the Pump Water in Vestries, a.d. 1780-1. 187 Great St. Helen's, Ordered That the Church Wardens do cause the well of the pump to be inspected, and give such directions as shall be found necessary to prevent the water being foul in future. That the sum of £20 f' annum be paid to the Rev* Geo. Toovey by the Under Church Warden by quarterly payments, and continue during the pleasure of this Vestry. The above grant is meant as a proof of the personal esteem which this Vestry entertain for the Rev'^ Mr. Toovey who has been Curate to this parish Twenty-two years, and is not to be considered as a precedent for any future Minister to expect the same. 1780. March SO. Timothy Cork to look after the Church Clock at 45«. ^ Annum. A Letter from Lord George Gordon President of the Protestant Association dated Welbeck Street January 1780 was read, and also a petition therein enclosed was also read, and Ordered to lie on the Table. June 15. That the thanks of this Vestry be given to John Smith, Esq. for having presented the Parish with three new Bells and the hanging thereof in the Steeple of this parish church. 1781. January 3. Tho' Sowerby had leave to lay a flat Stone over the grave of his late wife and children in the Church, with the usual reservation. March 29. That the sum of Three Guineas be distributed on Xmas day next amongst the poor belonging to this parish who shall not be in the workhouse. April 19. That a new Umbrella be provided for the use of the Minister. That the sum of £3 3«. 0^. ordered by the last Vestry and the like sum of £3 Zs. Qd. be given & distributed amongst such poor, yearly from henceforth in the following manner. That is to say. That there be given on Christmas Eve next and on every Christmas Eve in every year thereafter, unless Christmas day shall fall on a Monday & then on the Saturday preceding as follows. To every grown person including the Husband or Wife if ac- tually living with the pauper who shall apply for the same. Two Pounds of Good Beef or Mutton. One Two Penny Loaf . . . One Pound of Flour. 188 Vestries, A.D.nSl -2. Four Ounces of Suet . . . Four Ounces of Raisins. One Penny for an Egg . . . One Peck of Coals or Money to buy them. . . . One Pint of Porter or Two Pence to buy it. And for every Child actually living with & maintaining by the Pauper in addition to the above, Half a pound of good beef or Mutton, One Twopenny Loaf, and One pound of Flour. And that the said provisions be purchased & distributed by the Under Churchwarden for the time being, and that the Upper Churchwarden for the time being do furnish a list of the persons meant by the said Order, with the number of children each person has, and which are actually maintained by the said person one week before Christmas-day. And that no Servant of this parish receive any part of the said gift. And that the Beadle do give publick notice of the said gift to the poor, three several Sundays preceding Christmas Eve next ensuing and of the time of giving it away. 1781. May 17. A Bill of Costs presented signed E. Hughes for £4rl 17*. Od. for prosecuting Charles Oxtoby a pauper of this parish for assaults committed on two female children. Referred to the Vestry Clerk to peruse and give his opinion thereon. October 4. The Vestry Clerk reported that he had conferred with M' Hughes upon certain items in his Bill, which were con- sidered unwarrantable, and that M' H. had proposed to take £18 for this parishes proportion thereof, which was acceded to. 1782. January 17. Petition ordered to be presented to the Court of Common Council that this parish conceived themselves aggrieved by the election of M' W" Falkner to be one of the Common Councilmen for this Precinct and praying relief against the said election. April 4. Tho' Carrington to look after the Church Clock at 45*. ^ annum. May 30. That the Rev'' M' Naish do preach or cause to be preached the several Sermons directed by the respective wills of the Benefactors to this Parish on the several and respective days on which they are appointed to be so preached, and that M' Naish be furnished with a copy of this order. Vestries, a.d. 1783-4. 189 1783. September 18. The Auditors having refused to allow the late Churchwarden what he had unavoidably expended more than the £8 allowed by this parish for the Oyster Peast, Ordered That the Auditors do allow him the same. This Vestry being desirous of showing their gratitude and respect to the memory of John Smith, Esq. deceased, for the many favors received from him while living, Doth resolve. That in case his Executors shall at any time hereafter be desirous of erecting or putting up a Monument to his memory in any part of this parish Church, they shall be at liberty to do so without paying any sum of money whatsoever to this Parish for the same. Thomas Watkins elected Churchwarden for the remainder of the year. Vacant by the death of M' Henry Erome. October 1. The above election declared null and void. 1784. January 29. M' Churchwarden Butt reported that he had attended a jneeting of the Creditors of the late M"" Trome, when a proposal was made by the Executrix to give security for payment of Nine Shillings in the £ on their respective debts on the ZS**" of March next, and that it appeared to be the sense of the Creditors present to accept such proposal. Resolved, That the Churchwarden be at liberty to sign an agreement to accept thereof on the Balance of £55 2«. 4id. due to this parish, and on payment thereof to give a discharge in fuU for the same. That a Pick Axe be provided for taking up the Fire Plugs in this parish. February 12. John Smith, Esq. having by his Will left £20 to be distributed amongst the most necessitous poor Inhabitants of this parish at the discretion of a Vestry to be called for that purpose The following persons were recommended as proper objects and the legacy divided amongst them as follows : WiUiam Baker £4 15 EogerRobarts 2 2 Richard Whitehead .... 4 4 M'= Doxey 4 4 George Bertie 2 13 John Dickerson 2 2 This Vestry taking into consideration the distresses of the Poor who are not in the workhouse, on account of the severity of the 190 Vestries, a.d, 1784. Weather, doth order, That M' Churchwarden do give to Thomas Dod One Guinea, to Elizabeth Chipps One Guinea, to Matthew Bishop Three Guineas, to Mary Guy Half a Guinea, and to Catherine Sinclair Five Shillings. And that he do also give to each of the Pensioners One Shilling ^ week, and to such of them as have Children the further sum of Sixpence per Week for each and every Child, over and above what is at present paid them during the continuance of the present Frost. 1784. April 15. This Vestry request the Overseer to be aiding and assisting the Church Wardens in the management of the poor for the Year ensuing. Complaints having been made that Edward Bradley, Parish Clerk, had received more for Burials than the Table of Fees approved at a Vestry held April 8, 1681, or the Order of Vestry made January 13, 1757, warranted. Ordered That the said Order be repealed and that the Parish Clerk for the future make no other charge than what is mentioned in the said Table of Fees upon any pretence whatsoever. And that the Vestry Clerk do from hence- forth yearly and every year make and deliver to the Under Churchwarden a Copy of the said Table of Fees. June 3. Church Rate Is. Sd. in £. June 17. The Auditors having examined the Accounts of M' John Butt, there appeared a balance due from him of £199 9s. ^d., the whole of which he confessed he had applied in payment of his own debts, and that he was now unable to pay the said balance to this parish. Whereupon the Beadle was directed to desire M' Butt to attend the Vestry immediately. To which M' Butt returned answer that he could not think of coming to the Vestry. Whereupon the Vestry adjourned to that Se'nnight when they expect M' Butt will attend and propose such terms and security as they may approve, and in default thereof, the parish will take the most effectual steps against him to enforce payment. June 24. The Vestry Clerk stated that M' Butt had desired him to state that he could not attend the Vestry, but was ready to enter into an obligation to pay £100 at the end of 12 Months and the remainder at 12 Months after, and that was the utmost he could do. After consideration, Ordered, That the Vestry Clerk do forth- with proceed against M' John Butt late Church Warden for the Vestries, a.d. 1784. 191 recovery of the said balance of £199 9s. M. due from him to this parish. M' George Hickes had leave to erect a small Stone not exceeding 2 feet in height to the memory of his late Wife with an inscription thereon on the side of the footway leading to the Church in the Church Yard. Committee of Gentlemen who have passed the Chair, to inspect the Standing Orders relative to the expenditure of the Parish Money. 1784. October 14. The above Committee reported, That they were of opinion that the Swearing-in Dinner and Supper in future should be provided at 3«. 6^. ^ Head, including Bread, Beer, &c.. Wine and Punch only excepted. And that the Beadle and Sextoness should be allowed a Crown each instead of attending to receive the broken victuals. That on Ascension Day there should be only Wands and Favors provided for those Children of the Inhabitants who walked with the Gentlemen, and that Dinner and Supper on that day should be provided for the inhabitants at 4«. '^ Head including everything, excepting Wine & Punch. And that the Beadle and Sextoness be allowed a Crown each instead of attending to receive the Broken Victuals. Also, That the Supper at the Oyster Feast should be provided at 2«. Qd. ^ Head including everything except Punch and Wine, and on which the Church Wardens should not expend more than £4, And that the Beadle and Sextoness be allowed 2s. each instead of attending to receive the broken victuals. That the said Committee were also of opinion All Money collected by Virtue of Briefs or the King's Letter should in future be paid over to the person appointed to receive the same, and no part thereof be applied to any other use whatsoever. Ordered, That the several regulations proposed by the said Committee be carried into execution by the present and future Church Wardens of this Parish. The Committee having also caused extracts to be taken from the Vestry Books of Several Orders necessary to be known by the Church Wardens for the time being, they were Ordered to be fairly entered in two Books to be provided for that purpose, and delivered to each of the present Church Wardens and by them to their respective successors. 192 Vestries, a.d. 1785. That an Order of Vestry made April 15, 1773, for erasing the Arms of James Townsend, Esq. late Lord Mayor of the City of London, put up in this Parish Church be repealed. M' John Butt proposed to enter into a Bond together with Mess" John & William Felton as his Sureties for payment of £100 in twelve mouths from this time, provided the Parish would accept the same in full for the balance due from him. And to pay the costs of the Action brought by this Parish against him. Whereupon M' Houston moved and M' Greenaway seconded. That this Parish do agree to accept the offer now made, and the question was carried in the Affirmative. 1785. January 27. That no person whomsoever who is not an inhabitant of this Parish be permitted to remain in the Vestry Eoom at any Vestry hereafter to be held for the same Parish. March 10. Application was made on behalf of one Eichard Low who stands committed to the Poultry Compter .... and oflFering to pay £7 in case this Parish would release the said Richard Low and consent to his being discharged, but such oflFer was rejected. M' George Archdale Low had leave to lay a flat Stone over the graves of his father and mother in the Church Yard with the usual reservation. March 31. M' John Hardwicke and M' William Moore being put in nomination for. Under Church Warden and M' Hardwicke being elected, M' Moore informed the Vestry that it was impos- sible for M' Hardwicke to serve the said office on account of his business, but if they would elect M' Joseph Potter in his stead, he would enter into an obligation for his faithful discharge of the duties of the Office. Whereupon it was agreed. That the Election of M' Hardwicke be vacated. And that M"^ Potter be elected in his room. On condition that M^ Hardwicke doth enter into an obli- gation with this Parish for said M' Potter's faithful discharge of the duties of the said office. April 28. Church Rate "dd. in £. September 1. That no Churchwarden of this parish shall in future permit or suffer the Beadle of this parish in any manner to act in the discharge of tlie duties of the office of Churchwarden of the said parish. New Surplice for the Minister. Vestries, a.d. 1785-6. 193 785. October 27. A proposition was made by M'' Butt and his Sureties to pay the sum of £50 on account of their Bond for £100 and requested twelve months time to pay the remainder with interest, which was acceded to. .786. January 12. It appearing that Sir Martin Lumley's Gift of £4 tp Ann. had not for several years been distributed according to his Will, Ordered, That the present and future Churchwardens of this parish do from time to time from henceforth distribute and give the said £4 ^ Annum amongst the poor householders in- habiting within the said parish at the times and in manner directed by the said Will. March 30. Committee appointed to inspect the outside of the Church and Church Steeple, and to report the several repairs wanting thereto. M' Kuhff had leave to lay a flat stone over the grave of his child in the Church, with the usual reservation. That every person who shall hereafter be buried in the Church in Lead, and shall not be a parishioner and an Inhabitant of this parish, shall pay a sum of Five Guineas for the use of the said parish, over and above all other the accustomed fees now paid. April 6. The Committee having recommended certain repairs, M"^ W. Gosling and M' Schooling were added to the Committee for the Superintendence thereof, and they were directed to employ the following persons to do the said repairs. John Upwood, Throgmorton Street, the Plasterer^s Work. Wix & Poynder, Bishopsgate Street, Bricklayers. Booth, Lothbury, Painter. Phillips, Camomile Street, Smith. John Scidmore, Bishopsgate Street, Plumber. ' W. Gosling, Carpenters. M" Lupton, Old Broad Street, Glazier, and Tysen, Tooley Street, Slater. April 27. That the present and every future Under Church- warden of this parish, do deliver in an account of his Churchwar- denship, to the Auditors of this parish within fourteen days after he or they shall be out of the said office. June 29. That the present and all future Churchwardens of this parish do at the time their respective accounts shall be signed o 194 Vestries, a.d. 1786-7. by the Auditors, deliver up the Several Church and Poor Bate Books, and all the vouchers in their respective custody or power, relating to the said Accounts, and that the same be deposited with the records and other papers belonging to this parish. 1786. August 3. Negatived. That the Swearing In and Ascension dinner be in future discontinued. October 26. Mr. Churchwarden Potter stated that the Bene- factions given by Cicely CyoU, Tho° Hutchins, Sir John Lawrence, Mary Clapham, and Rob* Dingley amounted to £590, and that the moiety of the rent of the house given by Edward Fenner, and of the house given by William Prior, and also of the house given by Thomas Fenner had not for some time past been applied according to the Wills of the respective donors. Ordered That the Trustees of the parish stock do from time to time from henceforth pay the interest of the said sum of £590 (part of the sum of £650 3 f C Bank Annuities 1726 possessed by the parish) to the Church- wardens for the time being, to be by them and the Overseers of the poor applied as directed by the said Benefactors, And that the said Churchwardens from henceforth receive the rents and profits of the said Messuages or Tenements and apply the same as directed by the respective Wills of the donors. It appearing by a Computation made of the Interest of the said sum of £590 and of the rents of the said Messuages, there will be a surplus (after application of so much as is directed by the wills of the said donors) of £54 or thereabouts. This Vestry doth therefore further order and direct. That the Churchwardens and Overseers of the parish do from henceforth lay out £8 ^ annum in the purchase of Sea Coal and the further sum of £35 in Wearing Apparel out of such surplus and distribute the same amongst the poor of this parish, and also the remainder of the Surplus in such manner as they in their discretion shall think fit. Application having been made to Mess" Felton requiring pay- ment of the sum of £50 and In* and no answers having been received, the Vestry Clerk was directed to proceed against them for the recovery thereof. 1787. January 18. The Vestry Clerk reported that he had brought actions against John Felton and William Felton and in conse- quence thereof, had recovered the principal and interest amounting to £52 10*. which he was directed to pay to the Churchwardens. Vestries, a.d. 1787. 195 1787. June 7. That the several repairs wanting to the inside of this Church (and whereof particulars and estimates were produced at a former Vestry) be done forthwith. Committee appointed to see the several repairs effectually per- formedj and that they do employ the several Tradesmen who made out the particulars of the said several repairs to do the same. That the Churchwardens do provide and cause to be fixed up in this Churchj Two Stoves to warm the said Church so as the expense thereof doth not exceed the sum of £50. Church Rate 1*. Zd. in the £. That the Trustees of this parish of the sum of £750. 3 f C Bk Anns 1726 now standing in their names and belonging to the said parishj do sell out and transfer £160 thereof, being so much remaining after setting apart the sum of £590 for the purposes mentioned in the Order of Vestry of the 26"* of October last and pay the same to the Under Churchwarden. The Inhabitants of S' Peter-le-Poor Broad Street having of late years on their procession on Ascension day, gone through a considerable part of S' Helens Parish, and as the continuance of such practice might beget an idea of a right to do so, a Letter was written to the Church Warden of that parish, stating, that if the gentlemen of the parish of S* Peter-le-Poor could not con- veniently get a view of their Bounds within their own parish. The parish of S' Helens was willing to accommodate the Church Wardens and a few of the Gentlemen with a passage for that purpose on a request of the Vestry of S' Peter-le-Poor, the said request to be in writing, in order that it might remain among the records of this parish as an evidence of their right — At the same time the parish of S* Helens desired to assure the parish of S' Peter-le-Poor that a wish to prevent the possibility of any dispute arising between the said parishes in future, was the sole motive that induced them to make the said application. To which the following answer was returned and ordered to be entered in the Vestry Book and the Originals deposited with the records of the parish. Old South Sea House, Oct. 20, 1876. Sir, — M' Thornton Churchwarden of S' Peter-le-Poor having laid your Letter of the 26'" of September last to him before ^;he gentlemen of the Vestry of such parish, I have their directions to o 2 196 Vestries, a.d. 1787-8. inform you that it is their request that S* Helens parish will accommodate the Churchwardens and a few of the Gentlemen of the parish of S' Peter-le-Poor with a passage through S* Helens parish for the purpose of obtaining a view of their Boundaries on their annual perambulation. I am Sir, Your Most Obed* Servant To Mr. Joseph Potter, Nich. W. Lewes Churcliwardeii of tke Parish of Vestry Clerk of the Parish of St. Helen's, London. St. Peter-le-Poor. 1787. July 5. That the Vestry Clerk do deliver to M'^ John Hard- wicke his Bond bearing date the 1°' April 1785 in the penalty of £499 and executed by him to this parish for M' Joseph Potter's faithful discharge of the duties of the office of Churchwarden of the said parish in pursuance of an Order of Vestry bearing date the SI'*' March, 1785, the said M' Potter having executed the said office to the satisfaction of this Vestry. Mem. M"^ Potter was still in office and continued to March 1788. That the Churchwardens do pay the Rev* M' Naish 5 Guineas out of Sir John Lawrence's gift to this parish for the last yearj ending Lady- day last. That the annual payment of Ten Shillings to the Vicar of this parish and 25. &d. to the Clerk and claimed by them as the gift of Diana Astrey be from henceforth discontinued. It not appearing that the said parish has any funds to pay the same. October 11. The several Tradesmen's Bills for the repairs of. the Church amounting to £206 Is. %\d. having been examined and found correct, were ordered to be paid. 1788. January 10. That the Morning Service on a Sunday in this parish Church do in future begin at a quarter of an Hour before Eleven o'clk. March 27. The order of Vestry April 19 1781 that three guineas should be annually distributed among the poor was repealed, M" Mary Clapham having in the year 1736 left a fund for that purpose. May 23. Church Rate Sixpence in £. That the present and every future Church Warden do keep a distinct and separate account of all monies received and disbursed Fesiries, A.D. 1788-9. 197 on account of the charitable donations, and that the Under Churchwarden for the time being do receive as heretofore all rents and annuities on said account and thereout pay the gifts left by Sir Martin Lumley and M'' Hanson to poor housekeepers. The said Sir Martin Lumley's gift for a Lecture, the sums directed to be paid for sermons by the Wills of Joyce Featley, William Prior and Thomas Fennor, such part of Sir John Lawrence's gift as this Vestry shall from time to time order to be paid to the Vicar of this parish, the forty shillings left by William Prior for a drinking, the Insurance of the house left by the said William Prior, the Baker's bill for Bread left to the Poor by John Robinson, WiUiam Robinson, Joyce Featley, Cicely CioU, Thomas Hutchins and John Dingley, and that he do also pay to the Upper Churchwarden out of the before mentioned rents and annuities, the sum of £40 in the month of August and the further sum of £22 in the month of February following, and what shall remain in his hands after such payments as aforesaid in the last Week of his office as Under Churchwarden. That the Upper Churchwarden do apply the Several Sums received by him from the Under Church Warden on account of the said charitable donations in such manner as is directed by the Wills of William Prior, Edward Fennor, Thomas Fennor, Mary Clapham and an Order of Vestry of October 26, 1786. That the Under Churchwarden do annually pay the Rev'* M' Naish £5 5s. Od. out of Sir John Lawrence's gift during the pleasure of this Vestry. 1788. June 25. That a Vestry be held on Wednesday next to chuse a Sextoness in the room of Catherine Green, deceased, and that such choice be by ballot to commence at 5 and close at 7 o'clk. in the afternoon. i July 2. The Candidates having appeared and offered them" I selves for the place of Sextoness for the remainder of the Year, upon casting up the numbers found for Elizabeth Baylis . 31 Elizabeth Dickerson 16 Ann Whitehead . 30 Ann Green ... 2 Whereupon Elizabeth Baylis was declared duly elected. 1789. May 14. Election for Beadle, Engineer and Organ Blower vacant by the death of John Dickerson. Richard Whitehead being the 198 Festries, a.d. 1789-90. only Candidate was unanimously elected for the remainder of the year. 1789. June 18. Church Rate 9d. in £. That the sum of Five Guineas be paid to the Eev* John Naish for his attention to the wishes of this parish in the appointment of a Morning Preacher. That the like sum be paid to the Rev* M"' Edmonds as a testi- mony of this parish's respect and approbation. M' S. R. Gaussen applied for- leave to erect a Monument against the wall of the Church 10 f high by 5 or 6 wide, near the grave of the late Peter Gaussen, Esq. which was granted on his making good all damage that may be occasioned thereby, and paying all expenses attending the same. October 15. The order of April 15 1784 directing the Vestry Clerk to deliver yearly to the Under Churchwarden a copy of the Table of Fees was repealed. 1790. January 7. M' Sam' Margerum had leave to lay a flat stone over the grave of his late wife in the Church with an inscription thereon, with the usual reservation. That the Churchwardens of this parish do not in fiiture eiiforce the payment of the Church Rate against the Quaker Inhabitants more than once in two years unless occasion shall require it. June 11. This Vestry taking into consideration that the Rev* John Naish, Vicar of this parish, has ever shewn himself ready and desirous to oblige the Parishioners by employing such Clergy- men to officiate in this parish church as they have approved ; and that the Collection annually made by or for him the said Vicar has of late fallen considerably short of its former amount. Doth resolve and order that the said Collection be discontinued and that in lieu thereof, the Under Churchwarden do pay the sum of £50 to the said Rev* John Naish in the month of July next. And that the Under Churchwarden for the time being do pay the like sum of £50 annually in the month of July to the said Rev* John Naish until otherwise ordered by the Vestry of this parish. That the Under Churchwarden do in the month of July next pay the Rev* M' Edmonds the sum of Ten Guineas as a testimony of this parish's respect and approbation. July 22. The Church Rate Book being incomplete could not be signed by this Vestry which was therefore adjourned to the 28* Vestries, a.d. 1790-2. 199 Ins* and notice of such adjournment was ordered to be given in the church on Sunday nextj and summonses delivered out for such adjournment. 1790. October 21. That an additional Key of the doors of the Church be provided and delivered to M"^ Thomas Houston in order that Ladders provided in case of Fire may be more readily obtained, and a board with Notice where the same may be obtained to be put in some conspicuous place without the Church. 1791. June 23. Holmes Hall and C° ordered to be summoned for Poor Rates. August 25. Application made on behalf of Rose Christian Barnard who was old and infirm and (as was alledged) belonged to this parish, and proposed to pay to the use of this parish the sum of £100 of which she was possessed if this parish would accept the same and provide for the said Rose Christian Barnard with the rest of the poor belonging thereto. Agreed to. October 20. M' Houston moved, and was seconded by M'' Churchwarden Greenaway, That the swearing in dinner and the dinner on Ascension day be in future discontinued. Agreed to, but repealed at the next Vestry. That the sum of Ten Guineas be presented to Rev* M"^ Edmonds as a donation from this parish. That a reward of Two Guineas (increased to Five Guineas at the next Vestry) be given to any Watchman or other person, who shall apprehend any person or persons who has broke open, or shall be found in the act of breaking open the House, Shop, or Warehouse of any inhabitant of this parish, the same to be paid on conviction of the oflender or offenders by the Under Church- warden for the time being, and that Notice of such reward be fixed up in such conspicuous places within the parish as the Under Churchwarden shall direct. 1792. April 12. M' Geo. Grove appointed to look after Church Clock. June 14. Proceedings ordered to be taken against the repre- sentatives of Joyce Featley. July 12. That the Sextoness of this Parish for the time being do not in future place any Inhabitant of this parish or other person or persons in any Pew or Seat in this parish Church, but under the direction of the Under Churchwarden. September 27. M" Goodall, widow of Richard Goodall, Esq., 200 Vestries, a.d. 1793-5. had leave to lay a flat stone with an inscription over the grave of her late Husband in the Church with the usual reservation, 1793. April 4. New Lease granted to M' Ward for 40 years at £34 jp' ann. on his agreement to spend £250 in repairs, the parish allowing him the first year's rent towards the expense of the repairs. June 13. The Engines to be played twice only in the course of the Summer, in every year, instead of four times as heretofore. The Churchwarden stated that by virtue of a Pass Warrant, Rose Christiana Barnard aged 70 years had been removed from the parish of S' Ann Westminster to this parish. That the friends of the said pauper had applied to him and requested that the weekly sum which would be paid by this parish for her mainte- nance in the workhouse might be allowed to her, in which case her said friends would take due care of her. And this Vestry having taken the said request into consideration as also the age and in- firmities of the said Rose Christiana Barnard, Doth order that the sum of Four Shillings '^ week be paid for her during the pleasure of this Vestry. July 18. Ten Guineas to Rev* M' Edmonds. 1794. April 24. M"' Greenaway informed the Vestry that the Trustees of the Society called the Ethelberga Society with a view of pro- moting the interests thereof, requested leave of this parish that a part of the Charity Children belonging to the said Society might attend Divine Service in this Parish Church and be placed in the Gallery to sing the accustomed Psalms. The said Society being at the expense of providing and keeping necessary Seats for them and of any other incidental charges. And this Vestry having taken the same into consideration doth order that the said Society have leave to send such Children accordingly. October 9. Ten Guineas to Rev* W Edmonds. That in case the Rev* M"" Middleton shall think proper to preach the Lecture directed by the Will of Sir Martin Lumley at Six o'C"' in the Evening, there shall be allowed Candles for that purpose by the parish. Repealed at the next Vestry. 1795. January 8. In consequence of the high price of coals, the Poor Pensioners to be allowed Six Pence a Week extra. June 18. Pursuant to an Act of Parliament for raising a certain number of Men for the service of His Majesty's Navy Vestries, a.d. 1795. 201 and by an Order of General Sessions appointing three men to be levied and raised for this parish and the parish of S* Martin Outwich A meeting of the Inhabitants of the respective parishes ■was calledj and it was agreed that this parish should raise at its own expense, two of such men, and the parish of St. Martin Outwich should at its own expense raise the other of such men. That in consequence of such resolution, the Church Warden procured such two men and got them enrolled, and in order to defray the expences of raising them, a rate was made on the Inhabitants by virtue of the said Act. The application whereof appears in the Church Warden's Accounts. 1795. September 3. Rev* M"^ Naish late Vicar having departed this life and a debate arising on the right of presentation a Committee was appointed to wait on the Dean & Chapter of S* Paul's and request leave for the Inhabitants of this parish to name a minister to be collated and inducted to the Vicarage of this parish, and that Mr. Bradley the Impropriator be requested to accompany the said Committee. September 10. The Committee reported that they had attended at the office of M' Jenner the Register to the Dean and Chapter on the 4*'' ins*, but M"" Jenner not being in town, they acquainted his partner M'' Bush that they were a deputation appointed to solicit permission for the Inhabitants to nominate a Preacher for the approbation of the Dean and Chapter, to be by them collated to the living of S' Helen in the room of the Rev* M' Naish deceased, the living being exceeding small, unless aided by the generosity of the Parish towards the Incumbent. That M' Bush replied, the absolute right of presentation was completely vested in the Dean and Chapter by usage of more than a century,, and that they would not receive anything in the form of a nomination from the parish as that would imply a right, but , that he had no doubt of a recommendation from the Vestry meeting with a favourable attention. That on the same day the Committee also attended D'^ Jackson, one of the Canons Residentiaries of S* Paul's and requested his consent to such recommendation, when D' Jackson enquired whether they were prepared to recommend any particular person, which being answered in the Negative, he said he would confer with the Dean and Jenner, and give his answer accordingly. 202 Vestries, a.d. 1795. The Committee attended D' Jackson again this day who told them he could not give a final answer till a meeting of the Chapter had been held, there being divers applications and several interests in- volved in the business, and mentioned particularly the Minor Canons, and likewise that he had received a Letter signed Edw* Bradley in which as Impropriator but not presuming on any right of presenta- tion he desired to recommend the Kev'* William Edmonds (who had officiated for some years for the late Eev* M"^ Naish) to be collated to the Vicarage, he having the good wishes of the Parishioners. D' Jackson then desired to know who M"" Bradley was, and the Committee informed him that he was the Clerk of the Parish, who had also purchased the Tythes many years. That as to M"^ Edmonds it was true he had oflSciated as represented, but that the parishioners were not by any means unanimous respecting him. J)^ Jackson then informed them that as soon as the Dean and Chapter had determined on the business, they would transmit their sentiments to this parish. That the Five Guineas received on account of the interment of the late Rev* M' Naish in Lead, be returned to his repre- sentatives. 1795. October 8. Ten Guineas to M' Edmonds. That One Hundred Copies of the Table of the Tythes payable by the inhabitants of this parish be printed and distributed amongst such inhabitants. November 13. The Church Wardens reported that they had received a Letter from the Dean & Chapter of S' Paul informing them that Mr. Watts had been collated by them to the Vicarage of this parish, and that M' Watts had taken possession of the Vicarage in consequence thereof. That the sum of £4 4s. 0^. be paid to M" Naish Widow of the late Vicar as a proportion of the sum of £50 ^ Ann™ heretofcJre paid him from the month of July last to the time of his death. The Vestry then proceeded to consider of the right of the inhabitants to elect an afternoon preacher, and resolved, That the said inhabitants shall elect an afternoon preacher, and that the sum of £35 "^ Annum be allowed and paid as his salary. And that such persons as shall deliver in their names to the Church Wardens on or before the 29'" instant and no other shall be admitted Candidates for the said OfiBce, and that the Church Wardens do apply to the Vestries, a.d. 1796. 203 Vicar for the use of the Pulpit in the forenoon of those days on which the Candidates shall preach their probationary Sermons, and on the Thursday next after the preaching of the last of the said Sermonsj the Election of a preacher, by Ballot, shall take place. 1796. January 21. Mr. Churchwarden Boughey informed the [Vestry] that he had applied to Rev* M"^ Watts for the use of the pulpit for the Candidates for the intended Lectureship in preaching their pro- bationary Sermons, and received for answer that his patrons had desired he would not admit of any alteration in the duty of the Minister, and he being willing to do the duty as it had heretofore been done, could not acceed to their request. Resolved, That the Election of a Lecturer be postponed. That the Table of Fees for Burials, Christenings and Marriages be removed from the Vestry and placed in some conspicuous part of the void part of the Church. Repealed next Vestry. That the Parish Clerk do on all applications for Burials make out an account, particularising all the parish dues, and that such account be signed by the Churchwardens or one of them, and ren- dered previous to the breaking up of the ground for any funerals. That a fine of £30 shall be paid by every person who shall hereafter desire to be, and be excused from serving the office of Churchwarden. March 30. Order of April 20, 1775. Salary of Parish Clerk Repealed. Repealed at Next Vestry. In consequence of the increased price of provisions the allow- ance f Head for the dinners on Ascension Day and Swearing in day. Resolved, That in future the sum of 4«. Qd. f Head be allowed for the dinners and suppers on those days including every- thing except Punch and Wine, and that no invitations be given to the swearing in dinner to any persons who shall not have passed the Chair, except the Sidesmen, the late Sidesmen, and the Minister or Ministers Vestry Clerk and Organist, for the time being. George Venables to look after the Church "Aock. May 26. Church Rate Is. Sd. in the £. Five Guineas to be annually paid to Rev'' Mr. Watts out of Sir John Lawrence's gift. 204 Vestries, a.d. 1796. 1796. June 30. Letter of thanks from Mr, Watts "With his best wishes for the prosperity of the parish and an assurance of my faithful endeavours to discharge my duty towards them as far as my poor abilities will enable me." October 6. Letter from Mr. Thomas Trundle resigning the office of Vestry Clerk which he had held for 26 Years. Election to be on the 20* Ins*. The Ballot to be open from 4 to 6 o'clk. October 20. Election. For Mr. Abbiss. Bishopsgate S' Hardwareman . 53 Mr. Finch. Little S' Helens Attorney . , 17 Majority . . 36 Thanks of the Vestry to Mr. Trundle for the faithful discharge of the duties of the office for 26 Years to be fairly transcribed and presented to him. The Churchwarden having on consultation with some of the Senior Inhabitants allowed the Exe" of Peter KuhflF to make a brick arched grave in the Church on payment of £40 This Vestry approved thereof November 10. Leave given for a Monument on payment of the further sum of £20. The situation of Parish Clerk being vacant by the death of Mr. Bradley, the Rev. Mr. Watts was asked if he would accept the choice of the Vestry, who answering in the affirmative, the Election ordered to be by Ballot on the 24th Ins* from 4 to 6 o'Clk. December 8. Election postponed to this day. Candidates. Richard Whitehead, of Little St. Helen's. James Bradley, Sun Street. William Pocock, Bishopsgate Street. — Godson, Clerkenwell. Motion having been agreed to, Memorandum drawn up and signed by the Candidates. " We whose names are hereunto subscribed being Candidates for the office of Parish Clerk do sincerely and unequivocally promise that in case of the Election of either us to the said office, that we will not procure a licence to hold the same till the further pleasure of this Vestry is made known." Vestries, a.d. 1796-7. 205 Ballot for Whitehead 46 Bradley 27 Pocock 7 Goodson Whereupon Mr. Whitehead resigned his previous office of Beadle and an Election for Beadle ordered by Ballot on the IB*"" Ins' from 5 to 7 o'Clk. Some of the poor having pawned their Clothes, Ordered That the Linen and Apparel of the poor be in future marked or stamped, agreable to the order of the Churchwarden. Mess™ Blake, Hobson, and Allfrey had leave to erect a Tablet against the wall near Sir John Robinson's Monument to the memory of a West India Gentlemen, size 2 feet 6 in. by 2 feet, on payment of £10. 1796. December 15. Thomas Watkins being the only Candidate for the offices of Beadle, Engineer, and Organ Blower, was unani- mously elected. 1797. January 2. St. Helens parish having to furnish 3 Men for the service of His Majesty's Navy, resolved. That the Churchwardens procure the said Men on the best terms they possibly can. On account of the increased expense of the Oyster Feast, resolved. That in future every inhabitant attending at the Annual Oyster Peast, do pay the sum of 2«. 6d, Except the Minister Clerk, Organist and Vestry Clerk. March 7. This Vestry being of opinion That the Poor Law Bill now before Parliament, a great increase in the Poor's Rate must be the result. The Churchwardens & Overseers were authorised to sign in the name of the parish the petition to be presented to Parliament against the said Bill. April 20. That Mr. Tho^ Fasson takes his seat in this Vestry as Common Councilman of this precinct. June 1. Church Rate 9^. in £. August 3. This Vestry observing the good conduct of Richard Whitehead since the time of his being elected Parish Clerk and relying that his future behaviour will correspond with his past, are of opinion that he is at liberty to procure himself to be licensed. October 19. Committee appointed to inquire into the number of Vaults and where they are situated. 206 Vestries, a d. 1 797-8. 1767. November 23. The Upper Churchwarden being dead, M' Jon'' Punshon undertook the office for the remainder of the year, except collecting Poor Rate. 1798. March 1. Resolved Unanimously That at the present awful crisis^ when an inveterate and im- placable foe has openly declared a determination, not only to subvert the civil and religious constitution of our country, but also to annihilate its very existence as an independent nation It is the bounden duty of every Briton, whatever his rank or con- dition may be, to use his utmost efforts in order to frustrate the malevolent design of so determined an enemy, that thewagesand snb- sistance of the Servant, the "earnings of the Mechanic, the profits of the Shopkeeper, the capital of the Merchant, the funds of the Stock- holder, and the estate of the landed proprietor, are alike interested in the issue of the present contest, and that the exertions of aU are due to their country, their families and themselves. That it is the opinion of this meeting a Book be opened to receive the voluntary contributions of those Inhabitants who agree with the aforesaid resolution and remain in the Vestry room from Friday, March 2°" to Thursday March 8* inclusive, and that the aggregate amount be paid into the Bank of England as the Volun- tary Contribution of the parish of S' Helens, London. That a Committee be appointed for conducting the said busi- ness, and that they do attend every day Sunday Excepted from 12 to 2 o'clock in the Vestry room to receive the Subscriptions of the parishioners. That these resolutions be signed by the Chairman printed and distributed at every house in the parish, and also inserted in the Morning Chronicle, True Briton, and Johnson's Sunday Monitor. April 12. That this parish discontinue the Annual Perambu- lation of the boundaries of this parish and of dining together as heretofore on Ascension day, and that the same be from henceforth but once in every three years. That from henceforth the sum of Two Guineas be allowed for all Quarterly Vestrys, and the sum of One Guinea for all other Vestries. April 19. This Vestry being informed that a public notice had been given in the Church, whereby the hours of Divine Service are altered, and also that the Rev* M'' Watts had discon- Vestries, a.d. 1798-1801. 207 tinued the usual Sunday Afternoon Sermon highly approve of the same. 1798. June 28. £158 received as Fines in the last two years. That this parish do petition the Court of Common Council to widen the entrance of Great S* Helens into S' Mary Axe. Richard Sumner to look after the Clock. 1799. July 11. Ten Guineas to Rev* M' Ellis for his past services. August 29. R. Whitehead the parish Clerk applied to be excused paying the taxes for the house he resides in a part of, until the party Wall is rebuilt and the house put into a tenentable repair, which was agreed to. October 17. That the Land Tax on the house belonging to this parish and occupied by M' Whittenbury be redeemed. That the Trustees for this parish of the sum of £590 3 f C* do transfer so much of the said capital sum as shall be necessary to redeem the Land Tax. £126 16s. Stock for redemption of £3 6s. Qd. ^ annum. live Guineas to be paid annually to the Rev* J. Blenkarne out of Sir John Lawrence's gift. 1800. January 16. Church Rate M. in £. April 17. Ja^ Abbiss to look after the Clock, That this Vestry direct the Under Church Warden to pay the Rev* Jas' Blenkarne, Vicar of this parish, the sum of Seventy Pounds in the month of July next and also in the month of July in every year, during the pleasure of this Vestry, as a testimony of their esteem and approbation. That the dinner on the day of swearing in the Churchwardens be discontinued. June 5. First entry of Mr. Williams' Senr. name as present at Vestry. Church Rate Is. in £. 1801. January 15. That a petition be presented to the Hon*"^ East India C, That the Gates might be replaced at the entrance into S' Helens from S* Mary Axe as formerly, they being taken away by the said Company's orders. February 10. To which the East India Company returned for answer that in taking down the Old Ones aqd giving twelve feet of ground to the public, they had removed a considerable nuisance, and could not pay further attention to the application. October 22. That in case any Church Warden shall hereafter 208 Vestries, a.d. 1802-5. permit the respective rates to be in arrears and nninforced, he shall be proceeded against, as the Law has provided. 1802. February 4. The relatives of Tho° Carter permitted to make a Brick Grave in the middle Isle of the Church on payment of £40. July 22. Vote of Thanks to M' Powell late Churchwarden passed at last Vestry not confirmed. 1 803. April 1 4. Gift of John Smith, Esq. ordered to be inserted on the Table of Benefactors in the Church. October 27. New Lease for 21 Years to M' Whittenbury at £42 f annum. 1804. April 5. The Beadle Tho^ Watkins being very old and infirm the Church Warden was ordered to pay him 10«. Qd. ^ Week during pleasure, and the Vestry adjourned to Thursday nejEt the 12th ins' to choose a Beadle. To begin at One and finally close at 2 o'clk. the same day. April 12. There being no other Candidate John Ward was unanimously elected Beadle of this parish. 1805. February 14. It was prayed by M' Deputy Greenaway that this Vestry do grant him an extension of Seven Years in addition to the term in the lease heretofore granted to M' James Stone deceased which expires at Midsummer 1823, the said Thomas Greenaway having resided therein thirty years and the sole pro- perty for the residue of the present term being vested in him. Agreed to. April 19. That the Salary of the parish Clerk be increased from £25 to £30 ^ Annum, subject to the same restrictions as ^ order of Vestry April 20, 1775. That no Corpse be in future buried within the Walls of this Church, unless it is contained in a leaden Coffin. May 1 . J. G. Saggers, unanimously chosen Vestry Clerk in the room of M' Abbiss resigned. August 8. The thanks of the Vestry to M' Abbiss for his faithful discharge of the duties of Vestry Clerk and that the sum of £20 be presented to him as a further testimony of their appro- bation. September 5. That the assessment of the Church Rate on M' Whitehead the Parish Clerk and M" Baylis the Sextoness be in future discontinued during the pleasure of this Vestry. October 1 7 . The office of Preacher of Sir Martin Lumley's Vestries, a.d. 1 806-7. 209 lecture having become vacant and no appointment having been madcj the Churchwarden, appointed the Rev* M"" Blenkarne the Vicar to assume the^ duties^ of which the Vestry approved. 1806. April 10. Richard James had leave to place a Tablet to the memory of his two children in the void of the Church on payment of Three Guineas. That in future the sum of Two Guineas be allowed for the ex- penses of the Supper of every Vestry of this parish. June 19. Church Rate 1*. Qd. in £. July 24. That the Salary of the Vestry Clerk be in future £30 tp annum, but that no charge shall be made for examination of Paupers, or any other business than what is expressly ordered by the Churchwarden or the Vestry. 1807. April 30. The Rev" M"" Cooke having purchased the Tithes and made demands to the extent of is. 9^. in the £, a Committee ap- pointed to examine the records, &c. of the parish relative to the subject and to take such legal advice &c. as they shall deem necessary. June 11. The Committee having an interview with M'' Cooke he adverted to a copy of a decree of the Court of Exchequer made many years since, and which he requested to be permitted a peru- sal thereof. To which this Vestry resolved That his request cannot with propriety be complied with. July 1. A Committee having been appointed for the repairs of the Church appointed M' Chapman their surveyor who recom- mended that the several repairs should be done by contract & stated that the gross amount of the repairs of the church, the out- side being rough cast instead of cemented, and including the enclosure of the Organ Loft, would be £973. That such sums of money as should be necessary in addition to the Church Rate for the time being, to defray the charges of the aforesaid repairs, should be raised by loan of the Inhabitants in shares of £50 each, to be repaid from monies from time to time accruing in the hands of the Churchwardens with interest at 5 ^ C per ann. the priority of payment to be ascertained by lot. The opinion of M' Chitty an eminent special pleader as to the right of assessing houses which have been subdivided and inhabited by different families which becoming thereby several tenements were so rateable whilst so inhabited. 210 Vestries, a.d. 1807. 1807. July 16. Letter from the Impropriator Rev* M' Cooke in consequence of his not having been applied to respecting the re- pairs of the Church, denying the right of the parish to interfere •with the Chancel for repairs &c. without his previous consent and approbation, it being his personal freehold. October 15. Opinion of Sir The' Pluraer Solicitor General on a case submitted to him respecting the Tithes of this parish. The Impropriator has the same right as an Ecclesiastical Rector, and will be entitled under the statute of Henry 8*" and the decree* therein referred to, to the sum of 2«. 9d. in the £ upon the rent of all Houses &c. in the parish, unless the parish can protect themselves under the 17'" Article of the decree by shewing that at and prior to the S?"* Hen. VIII. a less Sum had been ac- customed to be paid for Tithes. The circumstances disclosed in this case, afford ground to contend that this was the case in re- spect to the ancient Houses in the parish, not including Crosby Square. The occupiers of these Houses should insist upon the unchangeable validity of these accustomed payments in lieu of tithes, and should offer to continue to render them. If refused, they can only stand on the defensive and resist any suit that may be instituted against them upon this ground. In their answer they should rely on this defence and set forth the proceedings in the suit referred to, for discovering which every search should be made. They should also state the further documents in support of their claim, some of which I think may be received in evidence, and all of which should be offered. The case and the Solicitor General's opinion were afterwards laid before M' Chitty to point out cases relevant to the Solicitor General's opinion. The case of Bennett « Trespass reported in 2 Gwyllim on Tithes 633, and 2 Browns Pari. Cas. 437, appears to me very favo- rable to the parishioners of the parish of S' Helen. In that case on a Bill brought for tithes of houses in London after the rate of 2». 9i. in the twenty shillings rent the Court of Exchequer directed an issue to try whether any less sum or sums of money than such customary payment set up by the defendants had ever been paid, • Exchequer, Feb. 9, 1662. Langham v. Lawrence and others. St. Helen's Tithes. Vestries, a.d. 1808. 211 and that too, though there was no jtroof of any regular Modus, and tho' the payments of the annual sums for tithes appeared to have varied, yet the Court of Exchequer considered the payments of less than 'Zs. Qd. in the pound though not proved to have been made for 8 years before the passing of the Act as sufficient evidence of accustomed payments within the meaning of the 18th Sec''. The decree alluded to, if it can be established in evidence will be conclusive, — See the observations in 2 Gwyllim 641, and I appre- hend that by minute search in the Court of Exchequer the Origi- nal decree may be obtained, but if not, I think the evidence referred to in the case will sufiice. It does not appear to me that any step is necessary to be taken by the parishioners, excepting that they should respectively tender the sums which they insist they are liable to pay, immediately after the days of payment. I apprehend the tithe at the rate of 2«. ^d. in the pound upon the improved rent is payable by the occupiers of all houses newl^ erected. Gwyllim 505 = 1426 = 1314. The Court of Chancery and the Court of Exchequer have jurisdiction immediately over the subject of Tithes in London. The Committee seeing the necessity of establishing the present payments as ancient ones went round the parish to collect the sums correctly then paid in order to assimilate to the ancient pay- ments. M"^ Cooke having summoned several Inhabitants before the Lord Mayor on the 2* September the Committee employed Counsel to attend, who insisted that the accustomed duties had never been denied as M"^ Cooke himself admitted. The complaint was dismissed with Costs and the 5*" Sepf was fixed for hearing any further Complaint, that thereupon M"^ Cooke served summonses on several inhabitants to answer on that day why they refused to pay the tithes, and on hearing Mr. Cooke and the Counsel for the respondents, his Lordship thought proper to declare it was a matter more fit for the decision of the Lord Chancellor and declined to give any judgment thereon. 1808 -A-pril 21. John Williams, Elected Sidesman. May 10. That in future the fine for Sidesman be increased to Five Pounds. July 1. Vestry's held in the room of the Leather Sellers Company in St. Helen's Place, the Vestry Room being under repair. p 2 212 Vestrien, a.d. 1809. 1809. February 9. That in consideration of the great inconvenience arising from Fryer's Bequest commonly called the Oyster Feast being kept as a Supper, the inhabitants shall instead thereof in future dine together on the first clear Thursday in Lent, the Under Churchwarden and each Gentleman attending to pay 5«. and the Bill to be called at 9 o'Clk in the Evening, and that the Vicar and Organists be the only non-residents invited. April 27. That a Vestry be held on Friday May 12* at 4 o'Clk precisely in the afternoon for the choice of an Organist for the remainder of the year (in the room of M' George Griffin deceased) by ballot to commence at the time above mentioned and close at 6 precisely. That the Upper Churchwarden have the casting vote if necessary. That the several Candidates do declare them- selves such on or before Saturday the 6*" May and be permitted to play probationary tunes a quarter of an hour each on Wednesday the 10th May to commence at 4 o'Clk precisely in the afternoon. May 12. Election. Master Cutler* .... 36 Miss Rodd 29 Miss Naish 1 Whereupon Master Cutler was declared duly elected. * " "William Henry Cutler, Mua. Bac. Oxon., was bom in the year 1792, of respectable parents, in the City of London. Shortly after the birth of this their second child, the father obtained a spinet at a sort of lottery sweep- stake, and after the business of the day was over would frequently stmm to his two little boys on this instrument. He had then, however, very little knowledge of music ; but, possessing industry and perseverance, overcame every diflSculty in the science, so as to enable him to superintend his second son through all his subsequent exertions in practice. A friend relates that, one time when he entered the father's parlour, he saw him with this httle boy on his lap, teaching him his notes ; at another time, the same friend has seen father and son on the carpet "playing with pieces of card, on which the notes of music and their names and lines, &c. appeared, corresponding with papers pasted on the keys of the spinet. At that time the chUd could not have been much above two years of age, certainly not three years old. His father, conceiving that the boy had a taste for music, next engaged a master to teach him the violin, when he improved so rapidly as to play a concerto of Jarnowich before he was five years old. He peidformed on the little Amati violin, which was once Dr. Crotch's, and which his father bought of the late Mr. Betts. Still, however, the spinet appeared to be the child's favourite, and J. H. Little was for some time his instructor on that instrument, which was at length changed for a pianoforte, G. E. Griffin being engaged as the boy's master. About the year 1 79P, the child had lessons of singing and thorough- Vestries, a.d. 1809. 213 That the sum of £5 5«. M. be presented by this Vestry to Miss Rodd. That the salary of the Organist for the remainder of the year be at the rate of Twenty Guineas ^ ann. That M' England be appointed to tune the Organ for the remainder of the year at a salary of Six Guineas "^ Annum. 1809. July 13. Application having been made on behalf of Mr. W. bass from Dr. Arnold, who expressed his approbation of his talent by re- peated gifts of small silver two-penny and three-penny pieoes. Shortly after this, he played a concerto of Viotti on the pianoforte, at the Haymarket theatre, for the Choral Fund Concert, and received universal applause : he has played concei'tos, &c. several times since for the same fund. He sang also at the oratorios under Dr. Arnold. " In 1801, when I>r. Busby took his degree of doctor of music, young Cutler went to Cambridge to sing the principal airs in that exercise ; and under this gentleman he would have been placed, but his father objected to his being other than a concert-singer, whUe the doctor wished him to be brought out in theatrical performances. In 1803, he was placed in the choir of St. Paul's. He sang also at Harrison's concerts, the concerts of ancient music, the glee club, (generally) Wykhamists, &c. &c., and private concerts. Pre- viously to this, he had also appeared before the public as a composer, his first publication being a march for the f uU baud of the sixth regiment of Loyal London volunteers, in the rifle company of which regiment his father was an officer. Soon after this, he sang in the solemn services, dirge, &c. of three of the greatest men of the day, being summoned to attend the funerals of Lord Nelson and Messrs. Pitt and Fox. After leaving the choir of St. Panl's, he was placed under the instruction of the late W. BusseU, Mus. Bac. Oxon., for the theory of music, and was, in 1818, elected organist of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate ; he also taught in several private families. In the year 1812, he took his bachelor's degree at Oxford, highly complimented by letter from the professor of that university [Dr. Crotch]. In 1818, when Logier came to England from DubHn, W. H. Cutler, influenced by Kalk- brenner's advertisement, applied to Logier and paid one hundred guineas to learn his system. He then took a house in Broad-street-buUdings, and opened an academy on the Logierian plan ; but, after between two and three years' trial, finding it not advantageous to keep np the requisite establish- ment, he relinquished that house, though he still teaches the theory of music according to Logier's system. In 1821, Cutler was engaged to sing at the oratorios at Drury-lane, under the direction of Sir George Smart ; but want of ■ nerve prevented his giving full power to his voice, and determined biin to relinquish altogether singing in pnbhc. In 1825, a part of the exer- cise for his bachelor's degree was performed at the oratorios under the direc- tion of Bochsa. He has lately resigned the situation of organist of St. Helen's, and been appointed organist of Quebec Chapel, Portman-square." —See " Dictionary of Musicians," vol. i. pp. 195-6. Ed. London, 1827. No record of W. H. Cutler's death has been discovered. 214 Vestries, a.d. 1809-10. Gosling on the death of his Wife for the purchase of a Vault in the void of the Church immediately behind the pew of the Church- wardens for himself and family and that in consequence the Churchwardens had agreed to sell the same to him for the sum of Fifty Guineas which sum had been received by them. This Vestry approved thereof and confirmed the Contract. 1809, October 12. A List of the persons who made advances by way of Loan of £50 each towards defraying the expense of the repairs amounting to £1200. Application having been made on behalf of the family of the late Mr. Morgan for the purchase of a Vault in the void of the Church near the small tomb of Robinson, the Churchwardens agreed to sell the same for Eighty Guineas. Application having been made on behalf of the family of the late Mr. Galindo for the purchase of a Vault opposite the Vestry door marked on the keystone with the letter E. The Church- wardens agreed to sell the same for One Hundred Pounds. This Vestry approved and confirmed the said Contracts and gave leave to lay a flat stone respectively with inscriptions thereon and also over the Vault lately sold to Mr. Gosling. That the two Guineas allowed for a Vestry Supper be retained in the hands of the Churchwarden and expended during the summer in a dinner, in lieu of Suppers to those Gentlemen who attend their duties in the Vestry four times in the Year. The Committee to whom it had been referred to consider of the propriety of increasing the Fees for Christenings, Marriages, and Burials, and making arrangements with respect to future interments in the Church reported that on due deliberation and having consulted Ecclesiastical Authorities, they were of opinion that any alteration should for the present be deferred. 1810. January 25. Ordinary repairs of the Church amounted to the sum of 2552 1 9 Surveyor's Commission and extraordinary expenses 392 15 6 2944 17 3 Of which had been paid in part .... 2852 16 6 Balance ... 592 9 Vestries, a.d. 1810. 215 It was the opinion of the Committee for repairs that the sum of £500 would be sufficient to enable the Churchwarden to defray such balance, and it would be advisable to raise the same in the manner the £1200 had already been raised. Agreed to. That the expenses of the Committee during the said repairs be allowed by the Auditors not exceeding £20. 1810. April 26. That the Sacramental Plate be insured by the Churchwardens to the amount of Two Hundred Pounds in the Eagle Insurance Office as doubly hazardous. That the Churchwardens do in future provide and deliver to the inhabitants, receipts, on payment of the Church and Poor Rates, respectively. May 2. That the names of the several Inhabitants be fairly transcribed in the Register Book of Parishioners with the period of their becoming resident, and that the Book be laid on the Table every Vestry. Eleven Gentlemen fined for Sidesmen. June 28. That the Under Churchwarden for the time being do pay the Rev* Ja^ Blenkarne the sum of Ten Pounds in the month of July next in addition to the £70 heretofore granted making £80 and the like sum of £80 in the month of July in every succeeding Year during the pleasure of this Vestry. The names of those who subscribed the add' £500. Particulars of repairs, &c. On the North side (External) a number of Stone Steps were discovered leading as supposed from the ancient convent into the Church, the roof was incrusted with Smoke, the Steps much worn and the Wall above extremely decayed, the whole was fitted up firm with Stone and brick. Interior. In stripping the South Side behind the Table of Benefactions a large Pointed Window was discovered completely glazed but stopt up by the Wall of the House immediately behind. — This Window was filled up with brickwork, and also another found on the west side from which the Glass had been removed. A large screen of timber covered with Stucco was erected to the ceiling of the Church and completely surrounded the external of the Organ loft. The pews were all taken down and erected on a complete new 216 Vestries, a.d. 1810-11. flooring on oak joists supported by brickwork and made single that all the congregation might turn towards the Minister, whose desk and that of the Clerk were removed and a new one erected on a more elevated plan. The pulpit also completely repaired and the sounding Board removed. The whole pavement of the Church was taken up and laid about 4 inches higher than before. Crosby^s . . . Gresham's . . . and I suppose Pickering's Vault, as it is not mentioned, were not opened. In Spencer's his Coffin was discovered. List of Bills for Repairs. Tyson & Co., Slaters . . Evans & Co., Ironmongers Dempsey & Co., Ironpipes A. Eoakell, Plumber . T. Clarke, Plasterer . T. Knight, Bricklayer W. Roper, Carpenter . J. Richards, Mason . Halaey, Painter. . . Stewardson, Glazier . Clarke, Smith . . . England, Organ Builder 2 10 44 72 464 311 818 296 245 68 230 66 Ashton, Stationer. Catherwood, Brazier Heriot, do. Cooper, Upholsterer Philp, do. Chapman, Surveyor Hayes, Oil Cloth . Tinkler, Hassocks Varty, Linen . . Abbiss, Silversmith Shepherd, Box Maker Saggers, Vestry Clk. "/a Contracts . . 27 5 9 14 10 32 15 7 96 9 2 65 5 6 44 17 6 3 17 6 2 15 5 4 9 5 6 2 1 6 18 17 8 That the Salary of M' Cutler the Organist be increased to £25 ^ ann™, and that the Salary of M" Baylis be increased from £1 8 to £23 5^ annum: 1810. July 12. That the Salary of the Beadle be increased to £10 ^ annum. 1811. January 31. Propositions from Rev* M' Cooke Impropriator. That in consideration of all Arrears being paid up to Mid- summer 1810, except in S' Helen's Place where the new rate takes place from the commencement of the occupation of each new house, and of an annual rent of £560 to be divided between the Rector and Vicar and to be made perpetual as the Rector and Committee shall determine, the Tithes be indefinitely leased to Trustees for the use of the parishioners at their expense. That if this be unanimously assented to, A piece of Plate not exceeding the value of £10 be given as a friendly present on each side. That Crosby Square be not included in this arrangement, but be allowed to accede to it, on contributing a proportionate share of annuity. Festries,K.v.lSU. 217 That if no general agreement could be effected M' Cooke was ready to treat with any individual for his own Tithes. Application having been made on behalf of Tho' Trundle Esq. for the purchase of Bond^s Vault, the Church Warden had agreed to seU it for £94 10*., which this Vestry approved and confirmed. ^11. March 6. Report of Committee on Tithes with Sir Thomas Plumer's further opinion on Case and questions submitted to him. That the inhabitants of S' Helen's Place could not defend them- selves against the claim of 2«. 9d. in the £. That the inhabitants of a house built upon and within the limits of an old site or sites will be protected by proving the customary payment in respect of such site or sites, or the building lately standing thereon. That in cases of customary payment there is no fixed period of time. Such a continued usage must be proved as tends to esta- blish the fact that the payment contended for was a customary payment at the time of the Statute and decree. That in case the original decree cannot be found the copy thereof which appears in the very old parish Book will not be admitted as evidence. That if it should appear that any of the customary payments although uniformly made for a number of years last past, yet differ from those stated in the old Lists of Documents, I think it very doubtful whether the variance between the old list and the practice in this case, will not be fatal to the plea of a fixed custo- mary, payment. The settled usage however would I should think be more likely to prevail than the old list without any usage in favor of it. The Committee conceive that such inhabitants as can prove an ancient payment for the premises they respectively occupy, and more particularly if such inhabitants identifying their premises, can shew such premises to correspond with the ancient Tithe Lists or Tables, will be a good answer to M'" Cooke's claim. March 14. On the recommendation of a Committee who had conferred with M'' Cooke it was moved. That the sum of £500 f ann. be paid to M' Cooke the Impro- priator and £60 ^ ann. to the Vicar in lieu of all tithes, oblations, offerings, and payments heretofore paid, such sums to be raised by an equal pound rate on the Inhabitants of this parish (except the 218 Vesfries, a.d. 1811-12. East India Company's Warehouses and Crosby Square) the amount to be regulated by the Assessment to the Property Tax Letter A, and that the said sums be legally and effectually secured without delay (at the expense of the parish) to the Impropriator and Vicar by equal quarterly payments, and that this motion be not put in the usual way by shew of hands, but that declarations of Assent and Dissent lay in the Vestry for the subscription of in- dividual inhabitants To-morrow and Saturday. 1811. April 18. The declaration of Assent was signed by Thirty Three Inhabitants (Fifteen of whom residing in S' Helens Place) and of Dissent by Thirteen. July 17. Population of the Parish. Families. Males. Females. Total. Inhabited Houses. 130 ... 295 ... 357 ... 652 ... 115 1812. January 30. That in future no Churchwarden of this parish shall grant the privilege to any individual (parishioner or not) to erect a Tomb over a Vault, affix a Tablet in or on the Walls of the Church, or lay a flat stone over any grave in the Church or Church Yard with any inscription on it, without first receiving the sanction of this Vestry. That this Vestry recommend to the Church Wardens to take an early opportunity of informing the friends of Pitts lately interred. That the leave given to them by the Church- wardens to lay down a flat stone with an inscription thereon cannot be acceded to or confirmed by this Vestry. April 2. M"^ Churchwarden Whittenbury become Insolvent. That the Overseers should once in every quarter visit the poor in the Workhouse. Application for the purchase of a Vault on behalf of Mr. Burrows. Negociation left to the discretion of the Church Wardens and three others. April 21. Mr. Rawson had leave given to put up a Marble Tablet 2 feet 6 in. by 1 ft. 10 in. on payment of £50, June 15. £311 3«. id. due from Mr. Whittenbury's Estate which was paid by his assignees in consideration of a lease of the house being granted to them or their nominee Mr. Arman who wished the lease to be extended to 21 Years and offering £50 ^ Annum, on which the parish had the opinion of a Surveyor Bs^tr acts from Church Wardens^ Accounts. 219 and agreed to grant the lease at £55 ^ Annum. The Assignees having paid for the use of the parish £390. 1812. August 13. Five Guineas to he paid to M' Abhiss for his Services in collecting Poors Rate &c. since Mr. Whittenbury's stoppage. That Twenty Guineas be presented to M'' Saggers the Vestry Clerk for his great attention and care in the late proceedings relative to the premises occupied by Whittenbury. August 20. Election for Sextoness in the room of M™ Baylis deceased. For Eliz" Bradley 41 Mary Wright 15 Rebecca Harvey 2 Whereupon Mrs. Bradley was declared duly elected^ and the Sum of Two Guineas ordered to be presented to each of the unsuccessful Candidates to pay her expenses on the present occasion. October 1. That the Under Churchwarden do provide a curtain for the Vestry Window. Extracts from Church Wardens' Accounts. 1563. Collections made in the Parish towards the relief and succour of the poor harboured in the Hos- pitals, £2 12s. Qd. out of the Collection allowed to the Parish for their poor. This was continued every Tear till 1571 and again in 1584. The first collection was £13 8s. AlA. 1565. Sexton's Wages Keeping of the Clock for a hole year , . . 1564. March 21. Paid Mr. Colshill for the charge of the Lease of this parsonage as appereth by his acquittance and according to an order taken in Vestry To Father Howe for his fee for the Organs for a hole year 1566. German CioU. 1567. Thomas Colshill, Church Wardens. Paid to Underwood the Clerk for his hole year's wages 1569. Paid ffetler the Carpenter for layeing the great beame in the west ende of the roofe of the Churchy and for ij. new pieces of timber on the syde wall and for removing the hole steeple to the corner of the Church .... 1 6 20 2 2 6 6 8 220 Extracts from- Church Warden^ Accounts. Mem. That the xxiii. daye of December 1570. By appointment of the parishioners of this parish, the Chalice that lately appertayned to this parish, wayinge 24j oz. which was sold for 5s. Aid. the oz. is now newly and altered into a newe Communion Cuppe of solid and gilt, which with the Cover, wayeth xx. oz. and a little more which with the 6«. %d. per oz. And as there is more layde out than the Chalice came to by 3*. Ad. which is paid by Peter Dod, Churchwarden. 1571. "William Kerwin, Church Warden. 1675.* Received of Sir Thomas Grresham, Knight, for his lycense to eat flesh, and put into the Poor Men's Box according to the statute 1580. Paid Mr. Gardener for the Lector .... 1581. Paid to Mr. Gardner and to the parson of St. Ethelborowe's parish for redding the Lector for one hole year 1582. Candles for the Lector 1584. Received towards Charge of the Lector, as appeareth by the booke appynted for the same 1585. Paid to Mr. Curtis for one Quarter for reading of the Lector Pain to Mr. Lewys for three Quarters . . . 1586. Laid out for Barber's sonne by consent of divers of the parish, for a Dublett, a pair of Stockinge, a pair of Shoes, & a Cap .... Itm. More paid for the keping of the said boye unto one Girton his Nourse for one month after he first brought him to the parish Itm. Paid more for the keping of the said boye unto Widow Eobinson for his meate, drink and lodging being sick the space of 36 daies Itm. More given unto the said boye when he went to my Lady Gresham's. A new shirt and his showea mended 1587. Proceedings commenced respecting Lease. 1589. Paid for Petition to the Lord Treasurer about the parsonage 12 12 12 * " 1550-1. The ix day of Marche was a proclainasyon that no man or woman shuld nott ett no flesse in lent, nor fryday nor Wednesday thrnght the yere, nor ymberying days, nor no days, nor no days that ys condemned by the chyrche up one payne of forfyte." — " Diary of Henry Maohyn," p. 4. Ed. Camden Society, Lond. 1848, Extracts from Church Wardens^ Accounts. 221 2 10 2 6 10 3 1589. Paid to a Pursuivant at Sir Walter Mildmey's that took paynes abo\it our lease .... Paid to Mr. Vagan for his dutys for the It ase of the parsonage 3 7 8 PaidMr.Lewis.Ministerfortherentof hiahouse 2 Paid Mr. Lewis for his half year's farme due at our Ladyday 10 1590. Lecture only Six Months 5 The charge of £20 for the Vicar, bringing the parish in debt. 1591. Lecture only three months 2 10 1592. Lecture the whole year 1591-2. Two Accounts of Under Church Warden. Paid for flttinge out of Soldyers as apeareth . 1594. Eeeeived for 4 Grrave Stones sold by consent . 1595. First Account of Money for Poor. In the Poor Men's Box 1598.* Itm. To the Soldier in his purse whom the parish sent out 1600. Mrst Collection for Tythes. Itm. he chargeth himself with the some of £14 15s. U. 14 15 Grathered for Tythes for half a yeare ending at the feast of S' Michael the Archangel last past as by the particulars appeareth. Paid Mr. Oliver for serving the cure one Q"^ . Paid to Mr. Stanhope for half a yeares farme ending at Mich last 4 8 1601. Tythes 30 8 1603. Item to a preacher when Mr. Lewis was in prison 5 Item given to Mr. Morley when preached • Mr. Lewis being suspended Item for our bot hire to Pulham, from thence to Braynford and back again for the procuring Mr. Ball to be our Minister 12 Church Wardens chosen at Michaelmas till after 1603, when the same Wardens served until 1605. Lecture discontinued. 1607. Item to Sir John Spencer Knight, or his farm rent for a Tere 8 16 1609. Item for vi. gallons and iii. quarts of Clarett Wyne at ijs & iiijd the gallon and ijs the rondlett 16 9 * "In an Assessment Roll for levying Subsidies dated Oct. 1st, 40th Elizabeth, 1598, the name of William Shakspeare occurs in connexion with that of Sir John Spencer and other inhabitants of the Parish of St. Helens with the sum of 6Z. 13s. 4£?., the Assessment against the Poet's name ; arising it is said from the Bull Inn." — Timbs' " Curiosities of London," pp. 238-9. 222 Extracts from Church Wardens^ Accounts. Item for a Sugar loafe waying vii lbs & x. ounces at xviijd the pound for my Lord Bishop of Gloucester 1613. Item of Mrs. ffountaine for a legacy given to the parish by her late Husband's Will . Sir Henry Eowe, K' and Mr. James Ellyott, Exe" of Mrs. CioU. Item for trymming the Yyne .... 1612. Dec' 23. First Account. The Accompte of the Poore's Stock. Imprimis receaved for the foote of the last accompte Item of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Wardner, Col- lectors for their foote Item gathered at the Church dore 27 Dec' . Item of Mr. Awdley for a free guift . . Item of Mr. Wardner for a free guift . Item receaved at vi Comunions beginning the 3 of January as by the Booke of Comunicants appeareth Item of the Company of Ironmongers . . . Item of Mr. Hickley from the Inquest . . . Item of Mr. Awdley for a free guift 3 April 1613 Imprimis. Given to the Poor 3 April 1613, being Easter Eve as by the books appeareth . . . Item, disbursed for the poor Children accor- ding to an order agreed uppon at a Vestry which is added to my former accompt £3 19*. 4rf Sum total 1614. Itm p Balance 1614. Itm for the guift of Mr. Edward Bryerwood, Reader of the Astronomy Lecture in Gresham Howse Itm of Mrs. Olyver for her husband's guift to our Poor 1616. Itm for a runlett of Canary Wyne presented unto my Lord Bishop of Worster, and for the runlett and carriage Countess of Pembroke lived here. 1620. Itm for vi dozen of points to give to the children Allowed for the Audit dinner 1622. Lecture 1 but no charge except for No Collection J Clerk 13s 4rf. Sexton 6s. 8^. 1624. Item for opening the grounde att Leathersellers Garden to see if the water offended not the foundation with the viewers of the Church 11 4 10 1 40 10 9 10 5 3 4 2 6 3 4 54 19 4 1 4 50 19 •4 10 2 1 16 6 1 15 6 7 4 Extracts from Church Warden^ Accounts. 223 1630. 1631. 1632, Paid the Bell Founder for changing our great Bell and New Mettell added Eeceived for the tithe of our parish and other things belonging to y* parson for one whole yeare endinge at Lady Day ...... Paid for y° remainder of yeares of our par- sonage (being 4^ yeares) unto Mr. Ball £160. The charges of a journey thither is £4 10s. 9rf. the drawing of wrighting £1 3s., and the charges paid for the whole yeare £30 2s. is the somme of Eeceived for the tithe of our parish over and above all ordinary charges concerning it The assessment made by the Committee ap- pointed by the Vestry in S' Hellens Parish towards y'' repairing of the Church .... The names of the Parishioners which have paide five years Tythes beforehand beginning at Christmas Anno 1632 Collected in free Contributions towards the repairing of our Church, of divers Companies and particular persons as followeth : — Out of the Chamber of London for Gresham College .... of the Companie of Mercers in respect of College of the East India Companie in respect of Crosbie House of y*' Companie of Merchant Tailors in respect they make so much use of our Church of y' Companie of Skinners in respect of their Almshouse in our parish of y® Companie of Leathersellers in respect their Hall is in our parish of Sir Julius Caesar a free gifte of Mr. Thomas Audley his free gifte at 3 several times . of Mr. Itichard coming from East India his free gifte . . of Mrs. Meynon her free gift before her death of Mr, Abell Gwilliams his free gift before -f assessment of Mr. Clutterbuck his free gift of Mr. Hatlie his free gift . . of Mr. John Blunt his free gift 69 195 37 372 205 15 10 66 13 4 66 13 4 50 20 10 25 20 18 4 5 2 4 1 1 2 293 224 Extracts from Church Wardens' Accounts. Additional Subscriptions : — 1632. Eeceived from Sir Henry Macbiu . . 10 „ from the East India Company over and above £50 formerly given 50 „ from the Company of Leathersellers 10 „ from Mr. John SI any . . . , 5 „ from y® wors* Companie of Mer- chants trading to y* East Indies, principall & interest since Nov' 1630 in all . 399 4 4 „ Daniell "Williams for his fine being free from all offices .... 13 6 8 „ Thomas Hutchin do. do. 13 6 8 „ by the book for the tithe this yeare cleare of y^ charge .... 29 9 5 Eepairs : — Paid for the New Font & Cover 20 to Mr. Boone for curing the laborer that broke his legge in our Church Work . . . 2 for 10| Ells of Canvas for y' Commandments .... 11 4 Bricklayers & laborers as apears by Bills 35 5 y* Carpenters for y^ roofe & Clock Tower as f Bills . . 122 9 y^SmithforlroaWork&Nails 35 17 for paving tiles for y'' Church 10 9 9 y® plummer in full .... 139 9 6 y* painters in full .... 78 1 6 in full for whiting the Church 6 6 8 y® masons in parte of their demand 299 13 5 y° masons for Church porch . 23 10 9 y" Joyner 463 9 11 y* Glass painter .... 15 16 6 y* Glazier in part of his work 16 for carving as by bills ap- peareth 10 5 6 for mending and painting divers tombs 5 unto two Men that sett up Queen Elizabeth ; tomb that was to be sold 2 y" Smith's bills for all woorke 3 19 2 for the Clock 21 for paveing the Church Yard and Street nere y" Church and for Gravell .... 7 2 4 the plaisteriug of the Church in part 6 6 8 1322 3 2 Extracts from Church Wardens^ Accounts, 225 1636. Eeceived of the Eight Hon'^i^ the Earl of Nor- thampton towards y^ repairinge of our Church Paid Earl of Northampton a years Eent for the Tythe of our Parish 1637. Eeceived of the Lady Ceaser for Composition for the setting up Sir Julius Ceaser' s Tomb . The Eeader paid £5 P"' Annum 1638. Eeceived of several persons for Pew monies 6s. 8rf. and 13s. 4rf. each 1643. Paid for taking down the Cross upon the Belfry Eeceived of Mr. North 200 of lead taken of the Cross on the Belfry Paid for writiug the names of those that tooke not the Covenant and carrying it to West- minster 1644. , Eeceived for 13^" of ould brass of Mr. Bromage at 5* fib Paide a Carver for defacing the superstitious inscriptions Paide for the Covenant vrhich hangs upp in the Church Paide for a Sunne Dyall and setting it uppon the Church 1647. Paide severall Ministers to officiate from Mich's 1646 to Mich's 1647 as f Ace' Paid Mr. BarumLecturer&Subscription Money Paid Mr. Barrum for his Ministry from the 29*'' of 7ber 1647 till the 25 March 1648 is \ a year and come to ^ Paid our Minister Mr. Barrum this Tear . Payd to Mr. Cokayne for curing the Sexton's head No charge for Vine after this period. Payd the Eingers and for a Bonfire & Paggots Payd for a Book Entituled the Bishop of Eochester's History of the Presbiterian's Plot Payd for a Coach to carry the Vestry Table to Doctors Commons Bm for Oyster Feast. Sir John Lawrence lived at Putney. Eev* Mr. Hesketh's kind gift from the parish f Ann 1699. Eate for Eepair of Church 1700. Poors Eate Eents, &c Sacrament Burials ........ Balanc3 due to Church "Warden 1648. 1681, 1685, 1686, 1690, 121 99 3 15 19 260 14 9 15 10 19 6 10 9 30 10 20 1 18 3 5 1 2 1 1 6 50 15 20 19 19 80 17 6 9 1 6 120 2 6 6 8 8 2 10 6 4 226 Extracts from Chwrch Wardens^ Accounts. 4 16 5 110 19 5 144 13 2 260 9 1700. Arrears of Poors Bate Paid for Poor . Paid for Parish . 1705. Mar. 25. Paid for a Banquet of Confectionary for the Bishop* Received upon a Six Months Assessment rated on this parish pursuant to a statute 13-14 Car. 2, for better reliefe of the poor, and an Act of Common Council 29 June 1704 for better putting that Statute in execucon by- raising money for a supply towards further employing y' poor of this City and liberties thereof: — of G-resham College City and Mercers 1 5 of the Leathersellers Co. . . 1 10 of Wellcome Eoblis & Co. . 17 of the East India "Warehouse .1 5 of Moses Newnes .... 1 10 Note. — The rest of the Inhabitants of the parish were eased of paying anything to that assessment in respect the parish by agree- ment in Vestry paid out of their Parish Stock the Quota enacted by the said Act of Comon Council for the Parish to pay. 1707. Collected only of unusefull Members of the Parish for the Corporation Poor : — Meeting 1709. of Gresham College of Leathersellers Co. Mr. Grosvenor's House .... Mr. Robinson's Meeting House East India Co Moses Newnes Received by a quarter of an Ell of Holland remainder of the Linnen bought for the Surplice more than was used An assessment made on the Inhabitants by a Pound Rate of Nine pence in the Pound for repairing the Parish Church 5 10 16 5 1 177 18 17 12 * "Henry Compton, youngest son of the Earl of Northampton, was translated from the Bishopric of Oxford to that of London, 18th Dec. 167<), and confirmed at Chelsea, 6th Feb. 1675-6. He died at Ftdham, 7th July, 1713, aged 81, and was buried in the churchyard there." Le Neve's Fasb, vol. ii. p. 304. Ed. (Hardy) Oxon. 1854. 237 CHAPTEU VIII. "worthies" connected with ST. Helen's. SIR JOmsr OROSBT. " "lis great pity Such a gentleman, as my master (for tliat title His being a citizen cannot take from Mm) Hath no male heir to inherit his estate, And keep his name alive. •7P "ff tP tF tP Happy were London, if, within her walls, She had many such rich men !"— Massingbe.* Among the many eminent citizens of London whose wealth and extensive dealings when trade was in its infancy contributed to lay the foundation of that commercial pre-eminence for which this kingdom is celebrated, was Sir John Crosby. That his family was ancient and highly respectable is certain, although a silly tradition respecting him was current in the time of Stow,t who says, " I hold it a fable said of him, to be named Crosby, from his being found by a cross." This absurdity is effectually negatived by the following pedigree : — Johan de Crosbie, King's Clerk in Chancery, temp. Edward II. Sir John Crosbie, temp. Edward III.j Knight, and Alderman of London. John Crosby, Esq., called, in a patent of Henry IV., the " King's Servant." Of the earlier members of the Crosby family. " In the year 1406, the 7th of Henry IV., the said King gave to his servant John Crosby the wardship of Joan, daughter and sole heir to JoAn Jordame, Fishmonger, &c. Stow considers this Crosby to have been the father or grandfather of the before mentioned Sir John Crosby. And in the reign of Edward III., Edward Prince of * " The City Madam," act i. scene 1, and act iv. scene 1, t Stow's Survey, vol. i. p. 435. Ed. Lond., 1764-6. Q 2 228 " Worthies" connected with 81. Helen's. Wales, Duke of Cornwall, granted to Thomas Rigby, ' the custody of the Manor of Haneworth, and the advowson of the Church of Haneworth, which was lately Sir John Crosby's/ which he held of the same Prince Edward, the day wherein he died, to have and to hold until the lawful age of John, his son and heir, called John Crosby/' This Hanworth is placed on the River Thames, not far from Hampton Court .... and was so pleasantly situated, that Henry VIII. delighted in it, saith Camden, " above any other of his Houses."* The first mention that occurs of John Crosbie in our records is in the will of Henry Lord Scrope, of Masham, who was beheaded at Southampton for being concerned, with Richard, Earl of Cambridge, the King's own cousin, and others, in the plot against Henry V., in 1415, and who left Crosbie " a woollen govm without furs, and one hundred shillings." In the records at Guildhall we find, under date April, 1466, 7th Edward IV., " In this Common Council, John Crosby, Grocer, was elected a Member of Parliament." The names of the four members stand thus : — R. Josselyn, Knight, Alderman ; Thomas Urswyk, Recorder; John Ward, Mercer, and John Crosby, Grocer, Commoners. In the same year, in this Common Hall, John Crosby, Grocer, was elected one of the auditors of the City and Bridge House." 1468.— 9th Edward IV.— In this Court of Aldermen, out of four persons named, John Crosby was elected Alderman of Broad-street Ward. He also served the office of Sherifi' in 1470 ; was twice warden of the Grocers' Com- pany, to which he made some considerable bequests in his will,t * Stow's Survey, vol. i. p. 435. See also Camden's Britan., vol. ii. p. 2. Ed. (Gough) Lend. 1789. f One instance of the distribution of Sir John Crosby's property remaina in tbe Church of Theydon Gernoii, in Essex, where there is the following, engraved in Mr. Pegge's Sylloge of Inscriptions from a copy taken by him Oct. 21, 1786. The first line probably began, Pray for the soules of which has been studiously erased, as has also been the sum given. It may be read thus: — * * * * # Arms Sir John Crosbie, Knight, late Alderman Arms of and grocere of London, and a . . . . of Grocers' Co. of Dame Anne and Annes his wyves of Crosby. whos godys was gevyn . . . . U towards the makyng of thys steepyll .... v. o. que d'ni 1520. Sir John Crosby. 229 and finally, was promoted to the important post of Mayor of the Staple at Calais. Although Sir John Crosby inherited a liberal patrimony, he early embarked in trade, and by his success considerably aug- mented his wealth. The extent of his dealings is proved by his intimacy and connexion with the Friscobaldi of Florence, who, with the Medici, were the great bankers and engrossers of the commerce of Europe. Sir John Crosby appears to have distinguished himself amongst the party attached to the House of York, and was knighted by Edward IV., May 21, 1471, when, as Alderman and Sheriff of London, he, with the Mayor, Aldermen, and other citizens, went out to meet that prince between Shoreditch and Islington on his coming to London. Stow says that he was knighted on the field with twelve Aldermen and the Recorder, for their brave conduct " when Thomas Nevil, the bastard Falconbridge, with a riotous company, set upon this city."* In the reprint of Heywood^s Edward IV., by the Shakspeare Society,t Crosby is represented as the Lord Mayor when Falcon- bridge, having raised a rebellion, marched on to London, encou- raging his forces to restore King Henry (who had been lately deposed) from the Tower. On arriving at the gates of London Bridge, they demand entrance, which is refused by the Lord Mayor and citizens, with the City apprentices, who enact prominent characters on the occasion. Matthew Shore, the goldsmith, is also of the party, and having answered Falconbridge's appeal, is asked his name, and Falconbridge replies, " What ! not that Shore that hath the dainty wife ? the flow'r of London for her beauty T' The rebels having been valiantly repulsed, the Mayor addresses the victors : — " Te have bestirred yourselves like good citizens, And sIlowh yourselves true subjects to the king. Tou worthily, prentices, bestirr'd yourselves. That it did cheer my heart to see your valour." In the second scene of act iv., at the Mayor's house. Enter * Stow's Survey, vol. ii. p. 222. Ed. Lond. 1754-5. And Chronicle, p. 425. Ed. Lond. 1631. t Il'irst Part, pp. 16, 23, 58. Ed. Lond. 1842. 230 " Worthies" connected with St. Helen's. the Lord Mayor (having been knighted by the King) who solilo- quizes : — " Ay, marry, Crosby ! this befits thee well. But some will m.arvel that, with scarlet gown, I wear a gilded rapier by my side." Jane Shore is represented as officiating as the Lady Mayoress, whereby the King first becomes acquainted with her. The whole play is very interesting, but, unfortunately for the facts. Sir John never sei-ved the office of Lord Mayor. Sir John Stockton, one of the Aldermen knighted with Sir John Crosby, was the Lord Mayor at this period. In the following year a most delicate commission was given to him, in common with Sir John Scott, Knight, Marshall of Calais, Master William Hatclefe, the king's secretary. Dr. John Russell, Archdeacon of Berkshire, and other eminent persons. Their chief ostensible object was to arrange various matters then in abeyance between the Duke of Burgundy (who had married Elizabeth of York, the king's sister) and the King of England, and we presume to form a treaty of alliance against France, which Edward then meditated attacking. From thence they passed to the court of the Duke of Brittany, where, besides concluding a similar treaty, they were, says Stow,* " To have gotten there the two Earls of Pembroke and of Richmond." Had they succeeded in this object, in what very dif- ferent channels might not the history of this country have run ! Soon after the defeat of the Lancastrians at the battle of Tewkes- bury, the Earl of Pembroke had fled with his young charge to France. A storm drove his vessel on the coast of Brittany, and the two nobles were detained by Francis, the reigning duke. Edward now claimed them as enemies and fugitive traitors, but in vain; he could get no other assurance than that they should never be allowed to disturb his Government. This was far from satisfac- tory ; hence the secret mission given to Sir John Crosby and his companions, who, by profession of friendship for the exiles, suc- ceeded at last in persuading both them and the duke of the pro- priety of returning to England. The future conqueror of Bosworth Field was already at St. Malo, on the point of embarkation, when Landois, the minister of the duke, suddenly arrived, and prevented * Stow's Chronicle, pp. 426, 429. Sir John Crosby. 231 his sailing on various pretexts^ till Eichmond took the alarm, and fled from the agents of the man who had probably the same fate in store for him that had awaited Henry VI. Stow,* in describing the magnificent house in Bishopsgate Street known by the name of Crosby Place, says, " It was built by Sir John Crosby, Grocer and Woolman" — ^in the time of King Edward IV. — " in the place of certain tenements, with their appur- tenances, let to him by Alice Ashfeld, Prioress of St. Helen's, and the convent, for the term of 99 years, from the year 1466 to the year 1565, for the annual rent of 11/. 6*. 8«?. This house he built of stone and timber, very large and beautiful, and the highest at that time in London." Sir John " died in 1475 : so short a time enjoyed he that large and sumptuous building I" The mansion is described as a residence fit for a prince, and soon after its founder's death was actually inhabited by royalty itself, in the person of the Duke of Gloucester, Lord Protector, afterwards Eichard III. Sir John -Crosby was twice married. By his first wife, Anney, he had several children, who are supposed to have died during his lifetime. Mention is, however, made of a daughter, whom he styles Johanna Crosbie, otherwise Talbot, who was living when he made his will, 6th March, 1471, four years before his death, and by which his affection for his first wife appears to have been much greater than for her who survived him. With reference to his widow he says, " And if the said Anne, my wife, hold her not con- tented or pleased with my bequest, then I will and ordain that all my said bequests to the said Anne, my wife, be utterly void, and that the said Anne have such part only as the law will then give her, without any other manner of favour to be showed to her." He also directs, " My body to be buried in the Chapel of the Holy Ghost, within the parish Church of St. Helen, in the same place where the body of Anney lieth buried, in case it fortune me to decease within the realme of England ; and I bequeath to every of the four, five, or six persons of the livery of my craft, that shall bear my body to the church, 6«. %d. ; and if it fortune me to de- cease out of the realme of England, then I will that my body be buried in some honest sepulture of Holy Church beyond the sea, * Survey, vol. i. p. 434. 232 " Worthies" connected vnth St. Helens. where it shall please Almighty God to provide for me. And if it fortune me to be buried within the Chapel of the Holy Ghost afore • rehearsed, then I will that my executors^ as soon as they can after my decease, provide an honest tomb of marble, to stand over the bodies of me and the said Anney late my wife, with Scripture, and images of me, my said late wife, and my children, to be made thereon, making mention of our persons, and of the day and year of my decease, and all other things according to our degree. And if I am buried beyond the sea, I will that my executors provide some tomb of stone in the place where it shall be my fortune to be buried, and one other tomb of stone in the said Chapel of the Holy Ghost, where my wife layeth buried, and that on my tomb be made an image and Scripture, according to my degree, and on her tomb an image and Scripture, making mention of her and our children there buried. And after that my body be buried and my debts paid, then I bequeath to the said high altar of St. Helen's for my offerings restrained or forgotten, if any so have been done, in discharging of my soul, 66/. 1*. 4^. " I will that all the torches and tapers that shall be occupied about my body the daye of my interment and months mind, be held by poor people without any other candlestick. Every man to pray for me, and to have for his labour IM." After bequeathing considerable sums to the nuns of St. Helen's, Holywell, Stratford, and Sion, the Friars, Minores, Preachers, and Carmelites, the Hospitals of St. Mary Spittle, Bethlehem, and gaols of London and Southwark, for their prayers and relief, he bequeathed " 400 marks sterling" (equal to about 5000^. of our day), for a priest of good fame " to say mass and to pray for my soul," and all Christian souls in the Church of St. Helen's, for forty years after my decease, and the said priest, or others suc- ceeding him, during all the time my wife resides in St. Helen's, to be obedient to her in all things lawful and honest, and give his attendance in singing divine service before her at such times as she shall desire him, and if the said priest be found debateful or of unclean life, to be removed by my executors and another chosen." The said obite to be holden every year on the anniversary of his death, and for it he bequeathed 100 marks sterling. The Master, Wardens, and all the Commonalty of the Grocers' Company, to attend the said obite yearly for the said forty years, and to be trus- John Leventhorpe. 233 tees of tlie said 500 marks after the decease of his executors. "Also considering the great damages that the prioress of St. Helen's and convent stand in by means of the great duties they owe ; of my pure charity and good zeal that I bear toward them, I bequeath Forty Pounds to be applied in diminishing their debts. Also upon the renewing and reforming the said Church 500 marks sterling." He further directs his executors to do the costs of the glazing, garnishing, and appariatying of the chancel of the parish church of Haneworth, Middlesex, though the cost extend unto 40^., or somewhat more; to the repairs of Bishop's Gate and the walls ad- joining, 100^. ; to making a new tower of stone at the south end of London Bridge, 1.00^. ; to the repairs of Rochester Bridge, 10^.; to the Grocers' Company, two large pots of silver, half-chased, half-gilt, weighing ISlbs. 5oz., troy weight, and desiring the same to remain in the treasury to the use of the Company, and to be occupied in the worship of God, and of the same Commonalty in their Hall, to the intent that the Commonalty might have mind of his soul. Various legacies are also left to his relations and friends, as well as to his apprentices and servants, and in the event of his leaving no child which should attain full age, or marry, &c., he directs the residue of his estate to be disposed of by his executors, for the benefit of his soul, " in deeds of charitie and pittie j in making or buying of books, chalyces, and other apparalment of the church, and to be given to poor churches ; in relieving of poor persons ; in marriage of poor maidens of good name and fame, to each 40«. ; to amending of broken bridges, and of foul, noyous, and perilous high waies, and in other deeds of alms." Thomas Rygby, of London, gentleman, and William Brace- bridge (M.P. for London 1478 and 1483), citizen and draper, were appointed executors, with a legacy of 60^. each, on condition that they undertook the execution of the will, which was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 6th February, 1475. JOHN LEVENTHORPE. The Leventhorpes of Hertfordshire were a branch of a most ancient family of that name, formerly seated at Leventhorpe Hall, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which migrated into 234 " Worthies" connected with St. Helenas. Herts so early as the reign of Richard the Second. The name of John Leventhorpe, of Sabbesford, Esquire, appears in the original roll of the Gentlemen in the county of Herts who could dispend 10^. per annum in the time of Henry VI., and also as having served in Parliament as member for the County in the first and third years of Henry V., and first of Henry VI. He bought the manor and lands of Shingey Hall, and was one of the execu- tors named in the will of King Henry V. John, his son and heir, was further enriched by Henry VI. by grants of neighbouring territory to a very great extent, with free warren in all his lands, so that no man might enter into those manors, to hunt and chase in them, or take anything that pertained to the warren, without his licence and good vrill. By another charter, dated Feb. 14th, 1447, the same king granted to him and his heirs a market to be held on every Wednesday in the week and two fairs in every year with all things belonging to such markets and fairs. Also licence to enclose 400 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, and 40 acres of wood, with pales or piles in Sawbridgeworth and Thorley to make a park, and to hold the same imparked to him and his heirs for ever. He died May 31, 1484, leaving a son, Thomas, who had issue, John, Leventhorpe,* who died in the first year of King Henry VIII., and was buried in St. Helen's Church, the inscrip- tion on his tomb describing him as one of the four keepers of the Chamber to King Henry VII. The estates descended in a direct line to Sir John Leventhorpe, who was knighted in 1603, and created a Baronet in 1622, and whose son and heir, Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, became the father of Mrs. Caesar. Her husband, Charles Caesar, Esq., being grandson of Sir Julius Caesar. SIR WILLIAM HOLLES. Sir William Holies was born at Stoke about the year 1471. He was made free of the Mercers' Company Sept. 17, 1499, and became Master of the Company in 1538. 21st Henry VIII. was chosen Sherifi" of Middlesex, by the Commonalty Aug. 31, 1627, for of the two Sheriff's of London and Middlesex, that for London was then chosen by the Mayor, the other by the Com- * His wife was Jane Clovell, of the county of Essex, descended from the heir of the Lord FitzAucher. Sir William Holies. 235 monalty. On the 31st March, 1528, he was elected Alderman of Aldgate Ward, in the room of John Rudston, who chose the ward of Candlewyck Street after the decease of John Kyme, late Alder- man there. The inhabitants nominated to the Mayor and Alder- men, Sir John Mylburne, Knt., Sir John Aleyn, Knt., William Hollyes, and William Roch, and they chose William Holyes, as the name is wrote in the register at Guildhall He received the honour of Knighthood 25th Henry VIII., and about six years after was elected Lord Mayor of London on St. Edward's Day ; which election, entered at large amongst the registers at Guildhall, sets forth, that William HoUeis, Mercer, and James Spencer, Vintner, aldermen, were nominated by a great and immense mul- titude of the Commonalty, and that the Lord Mayor and Alder- men chose the said William HoUeis Lord Mayor. During his mayoralty he caused the Moore ditch to be cleansed, which, as Stow observes, " happened in his remembrance, and not long be- fore from the Tower of London to Ealdgate."* At this time also Henry VIII. married the Lady Anne of Cleves, " who was received into London," says Baker, "Jan. 3 (a.d. 1540), by Sir William Hollice, then Lord Mayor, with orations, pageants, and all com- pUments of State, the greatest that ever had been seen."t Hall saith, " The 4th February next ensuing the King and she came to Westminster by water, accompanied with many nobles and prelates in barges, on whom the Mayor and his brethren in scarlet, and twelve of the chief companies in the City, all in barges garnished with banners, pennons, and targets, richly covered, and replenished with minstrelsy, gave their attendance," fecf And both HaU and Holinshed tell us that, the King issuing forth of the Park at Greenwich to meet the Lady Ann, then arrived at Blackheath, the Barons proceeded first after the King's servants, the youngest first, " and so Sir William HoUis, Knt., Lord Mayor of London, rode with the Lord Par, being youngest Baron."§ Hence may be observed the dignity of the Mayor of London, who out of his own proper jurisdiction was ranked amongst the Barons of England. Somewhat west of Sir Thomas Gresham's dwelling was another * Stow's Survey, vol. i. p. 13. f Baker's Ckroniole of the Kings of England (Henry VIII.), p. 60. Ed. Lond. 1643. J Hall's Chronicle (Henry VIII.), p. 837. Ed. Lend. 1809. § Id. p. 834. Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. iii. p. 812. Ed. Lond. 1807-8. 236 " WortUes" connected with St. Helen's. very " fayre house/' wherein Sir William Holies kept his mayoralty. Sir Andrew Judd also kept his mayoralty there. Somewhat more than a year after his mayoralty, and about a year before his death, Sir William Holies made his will whilst yet in perfect health and memory, as follows : — " In the name of God, Amen, the 25th day of the moneth of December, in the year of our Lord God 1541, and in the 33rd yeare of the Raigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord Henry VHL I, Sir William Holies, Knt., and late Lord Mayor of the City of London, whole of mind and of good and perfect remembrance (laud and praise be to Almighty God) make and ordeine this my present testament and last Will concerning the disposition of my movable goods in this wise following : — That is to say, First, I bequeath and commend my soule unto God Almighty, my Maker and Redeemer, to the glorious Virgin Mary his mother, our lady St. Mary, and to all the Holy Company of Heaven ; and my bodv to be buried in Christian burial (where it shall please God to pro- vide for it) at the discretion of my Executors underwritten; that is to say, of Dame Elizabeth, my well-beloved wife, of Mr. Andrew Judde, Alderman of the City of London, and mine especial friend, Mr. Anthony Bonewise, Merchant, whom I ordein and make my true and lawful executors. And I bequeath unto the said Andrew Judde and Anthony Bonewise for their paynes and labours in that partie to be had, and to accomplish this my present Testament and last Will as hereafter foUoweth, eyther of them Ten Pounds Sterling Item. I will that if any Person or Persons what degree he, she, or they shall be, will come after my decease to my Executors, which, upon a credible information by them- selves, or true and faithful witness, vviU or can depose by his or their oathes, how that they have suflFered, susteined, or had any hurt or harme, wrong or any losse by me, or my occasion : I desire, will and charge my said executors, that they will make to every such person or persons, due restitution and satisfaction of the same according to right and conscience in that behalfe. And • moreover I will and desire my said Executors to give unto certain Aldermen, and unto certain Commoners of the City of London, and to others of my lovers and frieudes (whom they shall think best and convenient) Black Gownes : and also to every one of my servants, meuscrvants, and women servants, black gownes, and every of them Five Shillinus. over and above their wages. And Sir William Holies. 237 furthermorej I give and bequeath unto the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Coventry, and to the Commons of the same £200 Stg. to this intent and purpose hereafter ensuing ; that is to say, to make a new Crosse within the said City Also I give and bequeath unto Sir Thomas Moore, my Chaplain, a black gowne and twenty marks in money, to be payd him, or his assigns, in full restitution and recompense of all old reckonings betwt en him and me. And whereas it hath alwayes beene, time out of minde, accustomed and used, that whensoever any freeman within the City of London departes out of this miserable worlde, the goods, move- ables and debtes of him or her so departed, ought and hath been alwayes used to be divided and parted into three parties, that is, th' one thirde parte to the wife, the seconde thirde to be equally parted and divided amongst the children, if they were not suffi- ciently advanced before; and the other thirde parte, for the accomplishment and fulfilling of the deathe's Will, Wherefore know all men unto whom my present will and testament shall come to see, heare, or read, that I the said Sir William Hollis, Knt. hath highly and singularly preferred and set forth my three sonnes in my lifetime : and I have given and assured unto every of them Manners, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, and which of them hath least, cost me fower thousande Marks, and above which I have already given them^ and assured them, for the full advance- ment of them my three sonnes ; and for that intent and purpose, that they, nor none of them, should hereafter, make clayme, nor demande any part of goodes, or debtes, nor at any time hereafter, sue, vexe, molest, nor trouble my said executors for no parte nor parcell of my goods, chattels, ne debtes; Forasmuch as I have singularly preferred, set forth, and advanced every of them in my life time. Yet, nevertheless, for the great zeal, love and favour that I beare towards my sonnes, and the unity, peace, and love hereafter to encrease betweene the right good lady their Mother, and them to be had, more and more. Therefore, I will, that the third parte of all my Goods, Chattels and debtes be equally truly and justly parted and divided amongst my sonnes according to the laudable custome of this Honorable City of London, although that they be highly advanced and preferred, as aforesaid. Furthermore I charge and command my said three sonnes, upon my Blessing, that they, and every of them during their lives, one to love another ; and in so doing, I doubt not but God himself shall worke in them 238 " Worthies" connected with St. Helen's. the world also shall prosper with them. And moreover, I will and heartily desire my trusty and well-beloved wife, and my singular good friends Mr. Andrew Judde and Anthony Bonewise to be good and favorable friendes unto my said sonnes, even as you would I should be to yours, in case I were as ye be now Also I give and bequeath unto the Parishioners of St. Helyns, towards the reparation and other Ornaments to the said Church belonging £20 sterling " Moreover, I will, that my said executors shall give to certain poor maydens marriages, such parcels of money as they shall think best for the welth of my soule, which I instantly desire them so to do, as they would be done unto. Also I will that my said Executors shall find an honest priest, not beneficed, of good con- versation, name, and fame, to sing and say Masse when he shall be disposed within the Church called Thomas Beckkets, or else within the Parish Church where it shall fortune my Body to be buried at the discretion of myn Executors; and other divine service, &c., specially praying for my soule, my wife's soule, and all Christian soulesj which priest to serve the term of Twenty years next after my decease, and I will that the said priest shall be always named, and put into the said service by Dame Elizabeth, my wife, she paying for him, for his salary and wages £6 13s. 4 and resided in the family of Henry Cromwell. In Dublin he con- * William Sancroft, S.T.P., Dean of St. Paul's, consecrated in West- minster Abbey, Jan. 27tli, 1677-8, deprived Feb. 1st, 1690-1, and retired to Fressingfield, in SufEolk, where he died, Nov. 24th, 1693. See Le Neve's Fasti, vol. i. pp. 27, 28. Ed. (Hardy) Oxford, 1854. t Athenae Oxoniens., vol. iii. col. 1234. Ed. (Bliss) Oxford, 1813-20. z % 340 Nonconformist Divines. tinued the exercise of his ministry about four or five years, being held in high esteem by the most serious and judicious Christians, of diiFerent denominations. While he resided in that City, it is apprehended, he received the degree of B.D. from Trinity CoUege. The Restoration putting an end to his ministry in Dublin, he re- turned to London, where he spent fifteen years in retirement ; and for his further improvement took a tour occasionally in France and Holland. At length, in 1675, he accepted a call to become joint pastor of the congregation in Crosby Square, with the Rev. Thomas Watson. In this connexion he continued till his death, which took place July a7th, 1680, in the fifty-third year of his age. On the 30th of the same month his remains were conveyed from White- chapel, the place of his decease, to Crosby Square, and thence to St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, where they were deposited, and ■where a funeral sermon was delivered on the occasion by his fellow collegian, the Rev. John Johnson. " Mr. Charnock was a man of excellent abilities, strong judg- ment, and singular genius. His attainments in learning were of the first order, having been through life a most diligent and methodical student, and a great redeemer of time, rescuing not only his restless hours in the night, but even time that was spent in walking, from those impertinences and fruitless vanities which 80 often fill up the minds of men, and steal away their hearts from those nobler objects that more justly challenge their regard." Mr. Charnock published nothing in his lifetime excepting a single sermon on " The Sinfulness and Cure of Thoughts," in the supplement to the " Morning Exercise" at Cripplegate. His other valuable writings were published after his death. Their merit can scarcely be rated too high, as for strength of reasoning, solidity of judgment, and sublimity of genius, they are equalled by few and excelled by none. Mr. Toplady says, " I have met with many Treatises on the Divine Perfections, but none equal to that of Mr. Charnock; it is indeed considered one of the most inestimable productions that ever did honour to the sanctified judgment and genius of a human being." The first collected edition of his works was published in two vols, folio, 1684. Sambel Slater, M.A. — This pious and excellent divine was the son of the Rev. Samuel Slater, Minister of St. Katharine's, near the Tower, who, after passing through his elementary studies, was sent to Cambridge, where he took his degree. The first place of Nonconformist Divines. 341 his stated labours was at Nayland, in Suffolk, where he continued several years j and thence removed to St. Mary^s, Bury St. Edmunds, where he exercised his ministry with great diligence and success till the first assizes after the Restoration, when he and Mr. Claget, his fellow-labourer in that town, were prosecuted for not reading the Book of Common Prayer. Thus early did he begin to feel the storm which on St. Bartholomew's-day, 1662, drove him and many other ministers of the Established Church into obscurity. Mr. Slater being vigorously opposed for Nonconformity at Bury St. Edmunds, removed to London, where he took advantage of the indulgence granted by the king, and cheerfully embraced every opportunity of public service and usefulness. On the death of Mr. Charnock he became pastor of this congregation, where he laboured with great acceptance and fidelity until his death. " The last Sacrament he administered,'" says Dr. Grosvenor in his Diary, " I received with him : he looked upon himself as near his end. At the close he took a solemn leave of the congregation, and ended with these words, which were delivered with the solemnity of a dying patriarch blessing his children and with the authority of an Apostle — ' I charge you before God that you prepare to meet me at the day of judgment, as my crown of joy, and that not one of you be found wanting to meet me there at the right hand of God.' " During his long weakness he enjoyed uninterrupted peace and tranquillity within, and like the bright luminary of the morning, who after cheering us for a while with his benignant rays, leaves us gradually at night, so did this good man calmly descend into the Valley of Death, and died May 24th, 1704, it having pleased God to prolong his life to an advanced period.^' John B,eynolds, at the Restoration, was Minister of Roughton, in Norfolk, from which preferment he was ejected for Noncon- formity. Coming afterwards to London, he was chosen colleague with Mr. Slater, at Crosby Square. He was one of the ministers who, on the part of the Presbyterians, went up to King James II. with the address of thanks for his indulgence in 1687. Mr. Slater, who preached his funeral sermon, speaks of him as a person of con- siderable abilities and learning, as a truly gracious, humble Christian, a profitable preacher, and a faithful friend. Mr. Reynolds died November 25th, 1691. Daniel Alexander.-'— With the history of this gentleman pre- viously to his settlement in Crosby Square, we are entirely unac- 342 Nonconformist Divines. quainted. In 1603 he was chosen assistant to Mr. Slater, and was happy in this connexion till Mr. Slater's death, when some uneasiness arising in the congregation occasioned his leaving Crosby Square. Of this circumstance he thus speaks — " I had the honour and advantage to be an assistant to Mr. Slater near eleven years, in all which time not the least tincture of jealousy or suspi- cion obtained to hinder our usefulness j but I wUs always treated by him with that unparalleled candour, aflPabiJity, kindness, and sincere respect, which rendered my work much more pleasant and desirable than it otherwise would have been, as is jiow mani- fest from the quite contrary treatment I have met with since his death.^' About 170 Ji Mr. Alexander removed to Armourers' Hall, where he preached to a congregation tUl his death, September 3rd, 1709, when he was forty-nine years of age. He was buried in Bunhill Fields. Benjamin Gkosvenoe, D.D. — This eminent and truly excellent divine was bom in London, January 1st, 1695. His father was an upholsterer. At an early age he became impressed with the importance of Divine things, which were strongly inculcated by his pious parents. When only ten years old he had such an awful view of the evil of sin, that his life became quite a burden; till at length, through the providence of God, he heard a sermon from a minister whose name he never knew, that satisfied his doubts and gave him clear views of the Gospel method of salvation. From this time his soul found its true rest, and henceforward the duties of religion were his greatest delight. He no longer relished the diversions of youth ; but after school hours retired to his closet, spending many hours in prayer and devout meditation. With the consent of his parents he entered upon a course of studies suited to the profession he had chosen ; and in 1693 was placed under the tuition of the celebrated Mr. Timothy Jollie, at Attercliffe, in Yorkshire. In very early life he connected himself with the Baptists, and continued with them for seven or eight years. Soon after his return from the Academy he declared his opinion in favomr of infant baptism and the Presbyterian form of Church government j also that unordained persons ought not to preach. These things moved the Church, and, after much time spent in controversy, they were necessarily obliged at his request to dismiss him from his membership with them. Nonconformist Divines. 343 In the year 1699 Mr. Grosvenor entered upon his public work, and was chosen assistant to Mr. Oldfield, at Maiden Lane, South- wark; and was ordained July 11th, 1704, to succeed the venerable Mr. Slater as pastor of the congregation in Crosby Square. The popularity of Mr. Grosvenor as a preacher recommended him to some of the most considerable of the Lectures about Lon- don. Besides the one at the Old Jewry, he was one of the first preachers of the Friday Evening Lecture at the Weigh House ; and in 1716 he was chosen into the Merchants' Lecture upon a Taesday morning, at Salters' Hall. The University of Edinburgh conferred upon him, in 1730, the Degree of Doctor in Divinity; and in 1735, when the nation was under the alarm of Popery, some Dissenting ministers undertook a course of sermons at Salters' Hall against the principal errors of the Church of Rome. It fell to the lot of Dr. Grosvenor to discuss the subject of perse- cution, which he exposed in very strong colours. Dr. Grosvenor continued in the faithful discharge of his pas- toral office tiU 1749, when age and infirmities compelled him to relinquish his charge, having been a minister in London during the period of fifty years. The remainder of his life he spent iu devout retirement, and being at the funeral of Dr. Watts, a friend said to him, " Well, Dr. Grosvenor, you have seen the end of Dr. Watts, and you will soon follow : what think you of death?" " Think of it V replied the Doctor ; " why, when death comes, I shall smile upon it, if God smiles upon me." He was con- fined to his chamber for seven weeks, with much suffering. He lost his speech some days, but not his senses, tiU. he slept in Jesus on Lord's-day morning, August 37th, 1758, in the eighty-third year of his age. His remains were interred in Bunhill Fields, and an excellent discourse upon the occasion of his death was preached at Crosby Square by the Rev. John Barker, who had been his assis- tant, and intimate friend for nearly half a century. Samuel Weight, D.D., Dr. Grosvenor's first assistant, a minister of great reputation and celebrity in the City of London, was born January 30th, 1682-3, and was the eldest son of the Rev. James Wright, of Retford, in Nottinghamshire. Mr. Wright having lost his parents at an early age, the care of his education devolved on his grandmother and Mr. Cotton, of Haigh, in Lancashire, his maternal uncle. By them he was put to boarding-school at Attercliffe, under Mr. JoUiej and at the 344 Nonconformist Divines. age of twenty-one he went to reside as chaplain with his uncle Cotton, at Haigh. But this gentleman dying, he removed to London, and was soon after invited by the congregation at Crosby Square to assist Dr. Grosvenor. He was also chosen, in conjunc- tion with Mr. Hood, to preach a Lord's Day Evening Lecture at St. Thomas's, Southwark. In both these connexions he officiated a few years with great diligence and success till 1708, when he was chosen pastor of the Church Meeting at Blackfriars, but which afterwards removed to a more commodious and handsome building in Carter Lane, which was opened by Dr. Wright, December 5th, 1734 ; and by the blessing of God upon his minis- try for the space of thirty-eight years, he had the satisfaction of preaching to as large an auditory and as distinguished for serious- ness and affection as any in London. About two years after his settlement at Blackfriars he married the widow of his predecessor, daughter of the B«v. Obadiah Hughes, of Enfield. Some years after he was chosen into the Tuesday Morning Lecture at Salters' HaU, and also into the Lord's Day Morning Lecture at Little St. Helen's. After a lingering illness. Dr. Wright entered joyfully into his rest, April 3rd, 1 746, aged sixty-four years. His liberality to the poor was regular and extensive. In his purse was found this remarkable memorandum : — " Something from aU the money I receive, to be put into this purse for charitable and friendly uses. From my salary as a Minister, which is uncertain, a tenth part. From occasional and extraordinary gifts, which are more uncertain, a twentieth part. From copy money of things I print, and interest of my estate a seventh part." John Barker. — Mr. Wright was succeeded in his office of assistant to Dr. Grosvenor by the Rev. John Barker, who was bom about the year 1682 ; and after passing through the custo- mary course of grammar learning, was placed for Academical instruction under the care of Mr. Timothy Jollie. In 1709 Mr. Barker was chosen assistant to Dr. Grosvenor, and formed an agreeable and useful friendship with that minister and other valuable persons ; and, after a lapse of more than forty years, publicly declared, " that he viewed their former connexion with pleasure, and accounted it his honour." Shortly after the death of the pious and excellent Matthew Nonconformist Divines. 345 Henry, in June, 1714!, Mr. Barker was chosen to succeed him as pastor of the congregation in Mare Street, Hackney, where his preaching, which was then without notes, was accompanied with a considerable share of popularity. Mr. Barker, to the no small dissatisfaction and surprise of the whole Church, resigned his charge in the year 1738,"and went to reside at Epsom in Surrey, where he lived about three years, without any stated employment, but was on all occasions'ready to assist his brethren. On the death of the Rev. John Newman, of Salters' Hall, in July, 1741, Mr. Barker, who was then nearly sixty years of age, was invited to preside over that congregation, with which invitation after a short time he complied. Mr. Barker retained his connexion with the congregation at Salters^ Hall so long as he was able to perform the duties of his office ; but severe affliction, which attended his declining years, compelled him to resign his charge in the spring of 1762. Hia death took place May 31st, 1762, when he was eighty years of age, and he was interred in Hackney churchyard, in a vault near the south wall Cleek Oldswokth, Dr. Grosvenor's next assistant, received his education in the College of Glasgow, upon what may be called Dr. Williams's foundation. He was ordained at the Old Jewry, January 11th, 1721. After this he continued to assist Dr. Grosvenor till his death, which happened in the prime of life about the year 1726. Edmund Calamy, B.D., son of the celebrated Dr. Calamy. — It is probable that he was educated for the ministry, first in Scotland and afterwards in Holland, at both which places his father pos- sessed considerable connexions. Eeturning to London, he was chosen in 1723 to preach a Tuesday Lecture at the Old Jewry, in conjunction with several other ministers of the younger class. In the year 1726 he was chosen assistant to Dr. Grosvenor, in which situation he continued till the Doctor's resignation in 1749, when hfe also declined preaching. After this he lived a few years in re- tirement, till his death, which happened in St. John's Square, June 13th, 1755. He was a learned and ingenious man, of great worth, and much respected in his day. John Hodge, D.D., received his academical education at Taunton under the learned Mr. Henry Grove, and the first years of 346 Nonconformist Divines. his ministry were spent, as we believe, at Deal, in Kent. Thence he removed to Gloucester, where he laboured with considerable reputation. Dr. Grosvenor having resigned the pastoral office in 1749, Dr. Hodge accepted an invitation to succeed him in Crosby Square. At this time the congregation was in a very low state ; and notwithstanding his discourses were very sensible and devo- tional, he was not so happy as to raise its numbers, but, as the old members died or families removed, it continued sinking. The in- firmities of advanced life obliged him to resign the pastoral charge about the year 1761 or 1762, After this he lived for some time in retirement, until removed by death, August 18th, 1767. Richard Jones. — Upon the resignation of Dr. Hodge the principal members invited the Rev. Richard Jones, formerly a pupil of Dr. Doddridge, to succeed him. Mr. Jones had been settled for some years with the Presbyterian Congregation in Green Street, Cambridge. Hopes were entertained that the con- gregation in Crosby Square would revive under his ministry, but the experiment did not succeed. The lease of the meeting-house expiring about six years afterwards, the state of the Society was too discouraging to warrant a renewal ; so that they agreed to dissolve their church state, and the remaining members dispersed into other Societies. This event took place October 1st, 1769, when Mr. Jones delivered a farewell discourse suited to the occasion, from Titus ii. 13, " Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." In this sermon, which was afterwards printed, Mr. Jones takes leave of his Church in the following words : " I close my public services among you with the profession of my sincere respect and esteem for you, and with my wishes for your happiness, temporal and eternal. With this discourse and the celebration of the Lord's Supper, my relation to you, as a pastor and teacher, will expire ; but there is one relation that I shall ever bear you, in whatever place or station of service I may be hereafter fixed ; for I shall always be yours to the utmost of my power, in all the offices of friendship, love, and gratitude. I have no doubt that the future charges of my life will be under the direction of that Great Being, in whose favour I hope to make my final remove out of it ; and if I had been more useful to you during the short time of my con- nexion with you, it would have afforded me a very exalted pleasure Nonconformist Divines. 347 at parting. Make a serious business of religion wheresoever you go, now that our gates are desolate ; nor let it ever appear that you have hitherto heard in vain Such of you as knew this place in its prosperous days must for many late years have ex- perienced similar emotions with those old men amongst the Jews, who wept at seeing the sad difference between the second Temple and the first. The Church of Christ, though not of this world, will in some measure partake of its changes and variations ; and we of this Society must be reconciled to the disagreeable altera- tions that time and death have made amongst us." Mr. Jones afterwards settled at Peckham, where he preached for many years, and was succeeded by the Rev. W. B. Collyer. Besides the assembly of Nonconformists in Crosby Hall, a meetiag-house existed in Little St. Helen's* — a building erected about the time of King Charles's Indulgence, in 1672 — of a mode- rate size, with three galleries, and being conveniently situated, was often made use of for Lectures and other public services among the Dissenters. The first public ordination held by the Non- conformists, after the Bartholomew Act, was performed at this place June 22, 1 694, and lasted from ten in the morning until sis o'clock at night. Hitherto, through the unfavourable spirit of the times, the ordination of Dissenting ministers had been carried on in private, and Mr. Calamy consulted several aged ministers in London respecting the propriety of a public service. Considerable difficulty, however, arose through the timidity of some of the elder ministers ; the great Mr. Howe absolutely refused taking a part in this service, through fear of offending the Government, and Dr. Bates urged some other reasons to excuse himself. At length, however, the matter was accomplished, and Mr. Calamy was pub- licly ordained with six other young ministers. This was the first public transaction of the kind amongst the Dissenters in London, after the Act of Uniformity took place, 1662, and was conducted with peculiar solemnity. The Priday Morning Lecture, founded by Mr. Coward, in 1726, was carried on at this place till the demolition of the meeting-house, when it was removed to Camomile Street. There * Wilson's History of Dissenting Cliurclies, vol. i. p. 363. 348 Nonconformist Divines. was also a Lecture here for many years, upon the Lord's Day Morning, at seven o'clock, during the summer season, in com- memoration of the happy accession of George I. to the throne of these kingdoms. The Catechetical Lecture on a Wednesday evening, formerly at Lime Street, was removed to this place, and a casuistical exercise, on a Lord's Day evening, was conducted here for some years, by Mr. Pike and Mr. Hayward, The congregation assembling in this place was collected hy Dr. Samuel Annesley, and continued in a flourishing state for many years after his death. At length the congregation so far declined, that after the death of Mr. Kello in 1790, they dissolved their church state. The meeting-house was then occu- pied by Mr. William Brown, who after preaching there a short time, removed his people, in 1792, to Cumberland Street, Shore- ditch. The place was then taken by the Rev. C. P. Triebner, a German Lutheran divine, who had raised a small society in Brown's Lane, Spitalfields, but in consequence of a division, con- ducted part of the people in 1792 to Little St. Helens. Mr. Triebner occupied the place about two years, when the lease expiring, he removed to the meeting-house in Eastcheap. A Mr. Underwood then occupied it for about a twelvemonth till the place was shut up. In October, 1794, a Lecture on a Sunday evening was opened here by Mr. David Rivers, who for a short time entertained his hearers with some pulpit essays, and then removed to Monkwell Street. The last sermon preached here was at Mr. Coward's Friday Lecture, May 15th, 1795, by the Rev. Samuel Palmer, of Hackney. This ancient building was then shut up for a few years; but in 1799 was entirely taken down, and some handsome houses erected on its site. The ministers of the old Presbyterian Congregation were as follows : — MINISTEKS. PASTOK ASSISTANT from to from to Samuel Annesley, 1672 1696 John Woodhouse, 1697 1701 Benjamin Robinson, 1701 1724 Havman Hood, 17— 1720 Edward Gddwin, 1722 1764 1721 1722 Ttomas Prentice, 1764 17— George Stephens, 17— 1780 James Kello, 1781 1790 Nonconformist Divines. 349 Samuel Annesley, LL.D., was born of religious pareuts at Kenilworthj near Warwick, Ann. Dom. 1620. He was first cousin to Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy Seal in the reign of Charles II. His father dying when he was only four years old, the care of his education devolved upon his mother, a prudent, pious woman. He was so early under serious im- pressions, that he often declared that he never knew the time when he was not converted, and this religious disposition strongly inclined him to the ministry from his very infancy. At Michael- mas Term, 1635, being fifteen years of age, he was admitted a student in Queen's College, Oxford, where he took his degrees in Arts, and was particularly remarkable for temperance and industry. In 1 644 he became chaplain to the Earl of Warwick, the Admiral of the Parliament's Elect. In process of time he was promoted to the valuable living of Cliff, in Kent, worth 400^. per annum. Here he succeeded Dr. Higges, the sequestered minister. At the com- mencement of his labours he met with considerable difficulties, the people being rude and ignorant. So high did they carry their opposition, as frequently to assault him with spits, forks, and stones, often threatening his life ; but he declared, " Let them use him as they would, he was resolved to continue with them, till God had fitted them by his ministry to entertain a better who should succeed him; but solemnly declared, that when they became so prepared, he would leave the place." In a few years his ministry met with surprising success, and the people were greatly reformed. In July, 1648, Mr. Annesley was called to London to preach the Fast Sermon before the House of Commons, which by their order was printed. But, though greatly approved by the Parlia- ment, it gave much offence to others, as reflecting upon the King, then a prisoner in the Isle of Wight. It was about this time that he was honoured by the University of Oxford with the title of Doctor of Laws, conferred on him at the instance of the Earl of Pembroke. August 25th, in the same year, he again went to sea with his patron, the Earl of Warwick, who was employed in giving chase to that part of the English navy which went over to the then Prince, afterwards Charles II. After continuing at sea more than three months^ he returned to London in the December following. 350 Nonconformist Divines. Some time after thisj having procured a suitable successor, lie resigned his Kentish living, much against the will of his parishioners. Not long after, in 1652, Providence directed his removal to London by the unanimous choice of the inhabitants of St. John the Evangelist, Friday Street. In 1657 he was nominated by Oliver, Lord Protector, Lecturer of St. Paul's, and in the following year the Protector, Richard, presented him to the living of St. Giles's, Cripplegate ; but this presentation growing quickly useless, he in 1660 procured another from the Trustees for the maintenance of Ministers, being also a Commissioner for the ap- probation and admission of Ministers of the Gospel after the Pres- byterian mode. His second presentation growing as much out of date as the first, he obtained, August 28th, 1660, a third presen- tation of a more legal nature from King Charles IT. Yet even this did not keep him there long, for on St. Bartholomew's-day, 1662, he was ejected for Nonconformity, having been removed from his lectureship at St. Paul's about two years before. Upon the indulgence in 1672, Dr. Annesley licensed a meeting- house in Little St. Helen's,* where he raised a flourishing society, of which he continued the pastor until his death, and as he possessed a considerable paternal estate he was enabled to do much good, not only providing for the education and subsistence of several ministers, but devoting a tenth part of his income to charitable purposes. In the early part of his life he is said to have been under darkness of mind, but he afterwards enjoyed uninterrupted peace, and laboured earnestly in the ministry for fifty-five years. At length he was attacked by a painful distemper, which after seventeen weeks of intolerable torture put a period to his life, December Slst, 1696, in the seventy- seventh year of his age. The last time Dr. Annesley entered the pulpit, being dissuaded from preaching on account of his illness, he said, " I must work while it is day." His zeal to do good was equal to his ability. * " There were also weekly meetings of ministers in a body, kept up at this time at Dr. Annesley's Yestry, at Little St. Helen's — now St. Helen's Place — in Bishopsgate Street. Once a month, there were Latin dispntations upon such heads of divinity as were agreed upon. These were declined, and at length wholly dropped, as the heats and debates among the ministers grew warmer." — Calamy's Life, vol. i. p. 325. Ed. Lond. 1829. Id. Account of Ordination of Seven Ministers, June 22nd, 1694, at Dr. Annesley's Meeting-house, Bishopsgate Within, near Little St. Helen's, p. 348. Nonconformist Divines. 351 The poor looked upon him as their common father. The cele- brated Richard Baxter says of him : — " He is a most sincere, godly, humble man, totally devoted to God." Dr. Annesley left a son, Benjamin, and two daughters. Judith, the eldest, married a Mr. James Fremantle, the other daughter, Ann, was married to the Rev. Samuel Wesley, father to the cele- brated John Wesley. She was a sensible, pious woman^ and bore nineteen children, of whom three were ministers. John Woodhouse, an eminent tutor and divine among the Nonconformists, received his education in the University of Cam- bridge J from thence, while but young, he removed into the family of Lady Grantham, as chaplain, where he resided several years. When the Uniformity Act took place, Mr. Woodhouse appears to have resided in Nottinghamshire, as he is enumerated among the silenced ministers of that county by Dr. Calamy. He after- wards removed to Sherifhales, in Shropshire, where he opened an Academy for training young men for the ministry, and the many excellent persons who were educated under him gave proof of his ability for his office. He married the daughter of Major Hubbard, of Leicestershire, a lady of singular piety as well as handsome fortune. Besides his employment as a tutor, Mr. Woodhouse exerted himself with great zeal as a minister of the Gospel. He dreaded a useless life^ and when some unhappy circumstances occasioned him to break up the Academy, it was his frequent complaint — " Now every field is unpleasant for fear I shall live to no purpose." Not long afterwards, however, he received an invitation to succeed Dr. Annesley at Little St. Helenas, where he continued in the faithful discharge of his ministry till his death. Within a few days of that event he took a solemn leave of his people, in a sermon delivered with his usual warmth and affection. He en- joyed the exercise jaf reason till the last, prayed with great fervour, was full of inward comfort, and died without a groan in the year 1700. Benjamin Robinson, a learned minister, and born of pious parents at Derby in the year 1666. His mother died a few days after his birth. At a proper age he was sent to the Grammar School at Derby, and was afterwards placed under the tuition of the Rev. John Woodhouse, at Sherifhales, where he finished his 352 Nonconformist Divines. academical studies, and from thence removed into the family of Sir John Gell, where he applied so closely to study as greatly to injure his health. He there became acquainted with that great and good man, the venerable Richard Baxter, After some time he removed into the family of Mr, Samuel Saunders, of Norman- ton, as domestic chaplain. The conversation of this family and a valuable library, to which he had access, rendered his situation very agreeable. Mr. Saunders dying, and Mr, Robinson altering his condition, he removed to Findern, in Derbyshire, where he was solemnly ordained to the work of the ministry, Oct. 10th, 1688. Notwith- standing the discouraging state of the times, he applied to his work with great labour and zeal. His learning, piety, and obliging be- haviour introduced him to many worthy persons among the clergy and others, from whom he received such offers of preferment in the National Church as were not to be resisted, except upon a prin- ciple of conscience. At Findern he set up a private Grammar School in the year 1693, for which he was cited into the Bishop's Court ; but upon personal application to Dr. Lloyd, then Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry,* with whom he was acquainted, he soon obtained relief. The good Bishop took this opportunity of enter- ing into an amicable debate with him on the subject of Noncon- formity, which continued till two o'clock in the morning, when Mr, Robinson was dismissed with particular marks of favour. About this time he became acquainted with the excellent Mr. John Howe, who, discovering his great worth, resolved to embrace the earliest opportunity of bringing him to London. From Findern Mr. Robinson was called to Hungerford, in Berkshire, which invitation he accepted upon the recommendation of Mr. Howe, who conducted his settlement with a solemnity peculiar to himself. He exercised his ministry in this place with great acceptance for seven years, and at the earnest request of some of his brethren, in 1696, set up a private academy. This procured him enemies ; and complaint being made to Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury,t he was sent for by that excellent prelate, then in his progress, on a visitation through Hungerford. Mr. Robinson gave the Bishop such satisfactory reasons for his Nonconformity, • See Le Neve's Fasti, vol. i. p. 668. f Id. vol. iii. p. 609. Nonconformist Divines. 353 and for that undertaking in particular, as laid the foundation of an intimate friendship ever afterwards. In the year 1700, upon the death of Mr. Woodhouse, who had recommended Mr. Robinson to his people as a fit person to succeed him, he received an unanimous invitation to take the pastoral charge of the congregation in Little St. Helenas. In 1705 he was chosen one of the preachers of the' Merchants' Lecture at Salters' Hall. As he approached his latter end his patience and resigna- tion, through much suffering, were surprising to all around him — continually rejoicing in God, until, after eight weeks' confinement to his bed, he departed this life, April 30, 1734, aged fifty-eight years, and was interred in Bunhill Fields. Harman Hood. — Mr. Robinson was assisted several years by a Mr. Harman Hood, who also preached an evening lecture at St. Thomas's, Southwark, in conjunction with Dr. Wright; but increasing illness compelled him to relinquish both the services about the year 1720. He survived Mr. Robinson, and furnished several particulars relating to his life. His name (H. H.) is among the subscribing ministers at the Salters' Hall Synod in 1719, but no further particulars are known concerning him. Edwatld Godwin was born at Newbury, in Berks, about the year 1695. Being intended for the ministry, he was sent to the Rev. Samuel Jones's academy at Tewkesbury ; and such was the high opinion entertained of him, that upon the death of his tutor he received a pressing invitation to succeed him in the impor- tant province of educating young men for the ministry. This, however, he modestly declined, and upon leaving the academy settled for a short time at Hungerford, and in the year 1721 became assistant to Mr. Robinson in Little St. Helen's. In the following year he was ordained co-pastor, and upon Mr. Robinson's death in 1724 succeeded to the whole charge. As Mr. Godwin was a very lively and ready preacher, the congregation, which had declined under his predecessor, soon experienced a considerable revival, and he was speedily called to preach at some of the most popular lectures among the Dissenters. The first he was called to engage in was at the Old Jewry on a Tuesday evening, about the year 1723; and upon the institution of Mr. Coward's Lecture in 1726, Mr. Godwin was one of the A A 354 Nonconformist Divines. first ministers chosen to conduct it. After some time lie was also chosen one of the Merchants" Lecturers upon a Tuesday morning at Salters' Hall, and likewise into the Friday Evening Lecture at the Weigh House. The latter years of Mr. Godwin's life were embittered by many bodily infirmities, and after labouring in this part of the vineyard upwards of forty years with reputation to himself and usefulness to others, the lamp of life was almost insensibly extin- guished on the 21st March, 1764, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. His remains were interred in Bunhill Fields, and Dr. Langford delivered a funeral discourse to his aflBicted Church, from John xii. 26 — "If any man serve me, let him foUow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be." Mr. Godwin married the widow of his tutor, Mr. Jones, and by her had two sons, the eldest, though not trained to the ministry, preached a short time in Mr. Whitefield's connexion, but died in early life. The other son was educated under Dr. Doddridge, and settled at Wisbeach. Thomas Peentice received his education at Mile End, under Drs. Conder, Walker, and Gibbons, and was chosen Assistant to Mr. Godwin in 1762, and succeeded him in the pastoral office. In this situation he continued but a short time, when embracing the Sandemanian sentiments his connexion with the Church was dissolved. After this he joined the Sandemanian Society in BuU-and-Mouth Street, but after a few years retired to Nottingham and carried on a manufacturing concern. George Stephens, M.A. — After the departure of Mr. Prentice, the Rev. G. Stephens, a Scotchman, was invited to undertake the pastoral office, which he accepted. In this situation he remained until his death, about the end of the year 1780. Mr. Stephens had the misfortune to be blind of one eye ; but this was not his greatest defect, he was an imprudent man, and became involved in his circumstances. James Kello, brother to Mr. KeUo, of Bethnal Green, was born about the year 1 755, in the City of London, and pursued his academical studies at Homerton. On leaving the Academy he settled with a congregation at Hertford, whence he removed to London to succeed Mr. Stephens. Here he preached for the space of eight years, when he was removed by death in the midst 'Nonconformist Divines. 355 of his days, February 4th, 1790, aged but thirty-five years. His remains were interred in Bunhill Fields, and with his death the Church over which he was pastor may be said to have died also. Not long after the dissolution of the Presbyterian Society in Crosby Square, the meeting-house was taken on lease by Mr. James Relly, the leader of a religious sect whose distinguishing tenets have received the name of Antinomianism. James Relly was born at Jefferson, in the county of Pembroke, North Wales, in the year 1720. His parents were respectable persons, and placed him for education at the Grammar School of that town. At the usual age he was put apprentice to a cow- fai'rier, in which occupation he is said to have excelled. Relly was a wild ungovernable youth, and addicted to bad company. On a certain Sunday he agreed, with some other lads of his own stamp, to go and hear Mr. Whitefield preach, that he might have an opportunity of laughing at the Methodists. They commenced their sport by making a noise and ridiculing the preacher, to the disturbance of the congregation. At length Mr. Whitefield's dis- course so riveted the attention of young Relly, that when his companions wished him to retire, he resolved to stay behind, and from that time became serious. He now had many conflicts with himself on his past life and future expectations. Mr. Relly having formed an acquaintance with Mr. Whitefield, became one of his most strenuous supporters, and in a little time commenced preacher. His first settled ministerial charge was in South Wales, where he continued to preach some years. During his residence in this place he took frtequent journeys to Bristol, and on his way would often stop at Kingswood and other places to discourse with the colliers. At this time he was extremely popular; but a separation taking place between him and Mr. Whitefield, gave a new turn to his connexions. After this, Mr, Relly came to London, where he soon united himself with the TJniversalists. His first preaching-place was Coachmakers' Hall, where he had a numerous congregation. At this time he wrote several of his works ; and his preaching and writings created no small stir in the religious world. The term Antinomian is said to have been first applied to him by Mr. John Wesley, and it has been fixed upon his followers ever since. The odium attached to A A 2 356 Nonconformist Divines. his opinions, on account of the immoral tendency which they were represented to have produced a great influence upon his followers, who gradually deserted him till he had but few left. In process of time he took the meeting-house in Bartholomew Close, where he continued till the expiration of the lease at Midsummer, 1769. Soon after which he removed into the old meeting-house in Crosby Square, where he continued to preach till his death, which took place on the 25th of April, 1778, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. His remains were interred in the Baptist burial-ground. Maze Pond, Southwark, where a neat monument was erected to his memory. In the vicinity of the Church in Great St. Helen's stood for- merly a meeting-house, used for that purpose in the time of the Long Parliament by the famous Mr. Hansard Knollys. What became of the meeting-house after he quitted it we no where learn, but of this eminent man and of the church he collected, we have the following particulars. Hansard Knollys was born about the year 1 598, at Chalk- well, in Lincolnshire. He had the advantage of descending from religious parents, who maintained a tutor for him in their house till he was fit for the University, when they sent him to Cam- bridge, on leaving which he was chosen Master of the Free School at Gainsborough. In June, 1629, Mr. Knollys was ordained. Soon after which he was presented by the Bishop of Lincoln to the living of Humber- stone, in Leicestershire ; but this he held only two or three years, when he began to scruple concerning the lawfulness of several cere- monies, and he accordingly resigned his living. About the year 1 636 he renounced his episcopal ordination, and joined himself to the Nonconformists, which exposed him to many hardships. Being followed by persecution he sought shelter in New. England, and is honourably mentioned by JNIather as having a respectable character in the churches of that wilderness. Upon his arrival at Boston, he was apprehended by virtue of a warrant from the High Commission Court, and confined for some time to a private house ; but by his serious discourse he so terrified the conscience of his keeper, that he set open his doors and suffered him to depart. Mr. Knollys remained about five years in America, but being Nonconformist Divines. 357 recalled to England by his aged father^ he arrived safely in London on the 24th December^ 1641. At this time he was in great poverty, and for his better support he took under his care a few scholars till he was chosen Master of the Free School in St. Mary Axe, where, in the course of one year, he had one hundred and fifty-six scholars. But the benefits resulting from this employ- ment he quitted to go into the Parliament army, and he preached freely to the common soldiers, till he perceived the commanders sought their own things more than the cause of God and his people, when he left the army and returned to London. Episcopacy being now laid aside, Mr. Knollys preached for some time in the parish churches with great approbation ; but the Presbyterians having gained the ascendancy, made as ill use of their power as their predecessors, proscribing all those who did not fall in with their particular sentiments j and Mr. Knollys being earnestly requested to preach at Bow Church, took occasion from his subject to speak against the practice of infant baptism : this giving offence, a complaint was lodged against him, and he was apprehended and kept several days in prison. At length being brought before the Committee, he was examined, and gave such satisfactory answers, that he was discharged without blame or paying fees. Not long after this, Mr. Knollys went into Suffolk, and preached in several places ; but being accounted an Antinomian, the virulence of the mob was excited against him by tlie High Constable. At one time he was stoned out of the pulpit ; at another time the doors of the church were shut against him, upon which he preached in the churchyard. This was considered too great a crime to be excused, and he was taken into custody, and afterwards sent a prisoner to London, with articles of complaint against him to the Parliament. On his examination he proved that all the disorders which had happened were owing to the violence of his enemies. His answers were so satisfactory that he was not only discharged, but had liberty to preach in any part of Suffolk. Mr. Knollys finding how much offence was taken at his preaching in the church, and to what troubles it exposed him, set up a separate meeting in Great St. Helen's, where the people flocked to hear him, and he had generally a thousand auditors ; but this gave greater offence to his Presbyterian brethren than his 358 Nonconformist Divines. former method. Now they complained that he was too near the church, and that he kept his meetings at the same times that they had their public worship ; and first they prevailed upon his land- lord to warn him out of the place. After this he had a large meeting-house in Finsbury Fields, and still continuing to preach, was summoned before a Committee of Divines at Westminster, who commanded him to preach no more. The life of this good man was a continual scene of trouble and vexation. Soon after the Restoration, Mr. Knollys was dragged to Newgate, with many other innocent persons, where he suffered eighteen weeks' impri- sonment till delivered by an act of grace upon the King's corona- tion. After removing into different parts of England, Mr. Knollys "went abroad, and on his return to London betook himself to his former employment of school teaching, by which he was enabled by the blessing of God to provide things honest and convenient for his family. He was also by no means negligent of that work ■which was the great labour of his life ; but he continued in the faithful discharge of the pastoral office to gather congregations in various places till his death, at which time his meeting-house was in Broken Wharf, Upper Thames Street. He also preached a Morning Lecture every Lord's day at Pinners' Hall. The malice of man, however, occasioned frequent interruptions to his work. By virtue of an Act against Conventicles, commencing May 10, 1670, he was taken at a meeting in George Yard, and committed by the Lord Mayor to the Compter in Bishopsgate ; but having favour in the eyes of the Keeper, was permitted to preach to the prisoners twice every week. Soon after, at the Old Bailey Sessions, he was set at liberty. He was, however, no sooner de- livered from this trial than he was called to endure severe bodily affliction, and afterwards some domestic trials — first by the loss of his wife, who died AprU 13, 1671, followed by the death of his only son. After this his household affairs were managed by his grand- daughter, whose prudent conduct rendered his declining years tolerably easy. He kept his bed but a few days, and dying Sept. 19, 1691, in the ninety-third year of his age, was buried in Bunhill Fields. APPENDIX. Page 6. — Basinfs Will. Prioratus S. Helense, juxta vicum de Bishopsgate-streete, in civitate Londoniarum. De constituendo Moniales in eadern. [Ex cod. ms. penes Dec. et Capit. Eecles. Cafch. S. Pauli, Lond., A. fol. 246.] " Sciant prsesentes et futuri, Quod ego Alardus EcclesisB S. Pauli Decanus et ejusdem Ecclesise capitulum, concessimus Willielmo fil., Willielmi Aurifabri patrono Ecclesise 8. Helenas, London., ut con- stituat in eadem Ecclesia moniales, Deo ibidem in perpetuum servi- turas, et CoUegio ibidem constituto jus Patronatus ejusdem Ecclesise, quod a prsedecessoribus nostris ei fuerat concessum, conferat. Ita quidem, quod quieunque ibidem nomine Priorissse ministrabit, post electionem ab eodem CoUegio factam, Decano et Capitulo London, prsesentetur, et juret fidelitatem Decano et Capitulo tam de ipsa Ecclesia, quam de Pensione dimidise Marcse annue, infra octo dies Paschse solvenda et de jure patronatus non alienando, et quod nulli alio CoUegio se subjiciet. Concessimus etiam, quantum in nobis est, quod CoUegium ibi statutum omnes obventiones supradictse Ecclesise, excepta dicta pensione in usus proprios convertat. Idem quoque CoUegium omnia onera Episcopalia ad Ecclesiam prsedictam perti- nentia sustinebit. Si autem in loco prsedicto aliquo casu fortuito, conversatio monialium esse desierit, concessimus ut ibidem yiri reli- giosi, absque contradictione, secundum formam de Monialibus superius expressam constituantur, et simili modo Decano London, et Capitulo obligentur. Ut autem hujus concessionis nostras, nee non et totiua conventionis tenor in perpetuum memoria firmiter teneatur, et firmiter observetur, ipsum totum sub forma Chirographi scribi fecimus ; cujus pars una nostro, pars vero altera ipsius W. et Monialium sigillis, ut omnis im'posterum toUatur malignandi occasio, ad mutuam, hinc-inde eautelam roborata est. Hiis testibus Alardo Decano, et aliis."* Page 6. — Benedictine Bules. St. Benedict, the founder of the order of the Benedictine Monks, was born at Nursia, in Italy, about a.d. 480. He was sent to Eome when very young, and received there the first part of his education. * Newcourt's Eepert. Eecles., vol. i. pp. 363, 364. Ed. Loud. 1708. See also Dugdale's Monast. Anglican., vol. iv. p. 553. Londoni, 1817-30. 360 Appendix. At fourteen years of age he removed to Subiaco, about fifty miles dis- tant. Here he lired a most ascetic life, having shut himself up in a cavern, where nobody knew anything of him except St. Eomanus, who used to descend to him by a rope and supply him with provisions. But being afterwards discovered by the monks of a neighbouring monastery, they chose him for their abbot. Their manners, however, not agreeing with those of Benedict, he returned to his solitude, where many persons followed him and put themselves under his direction, so that in a short time he was enabled to build twelve monasteries. In the year 528 he retired to Mount Casino, where idolatry was still pre- valent, a temple to Apollo having been erected there. He instructed the people in the adjacent country, and having converted them, broke in pieces the image of Apollo, and built two chapels on the mountain ; here he also founded a monastery, and instituted the order which in time became so famous and extended itself all over Europe. In this place he composed his " Regula Monachorum," so highly extolled by Pope Gregory. The period of his death is uncertain. He was looked upon as the Elisha of his time, and is reported to have wrought a great number of miracles. The monks of this order were obliged to perform their devotions, which had reference solely to the passion and death of Christ, seven times in the twenty-four hours ; they always went two and two to- gether ; every day in Lent they fasted until six in the evening, and abated of their usual time of sleeping and eating ; but they were not allowed to practise any voluntary austerity without leave of their Superior ; during meals they were obliged to attend to the reading of the Scriptures. Por small faults they were shut out from meals or excluded from the chapel, and incorrigible oflfenders were expelled. Every monk had two coats,* a table book, a knife, a needle, and a handkerchief, and their cells were furnished with a mat, blanket, rug and pillow. To the Benedictine Monks the greater numbe* of the English owe their conversion from idolatry. In the year 596 Pope Gregory I., called " the Great," sent hither Augustine with several other Bene- dictine Monks. Augustine became Archbishop of Canterbury, and founded several monasteries. Pope John XXII., who died in 1334, found after an exact inquiry, that since the first rise of this order it had produced 24 popes, near 200 cardinals, 7000 archbishops, 15,000 bishops, 15,000 abbots, above 4000 saints, and upwards of 37,000 monasteries. There have also been of the order 20 emperors and 10 empresses, 47 kings and above 50 queens, 20 sons of emperors and 48 sons of kings, above 100 prin- cesses, besides dukes, marquises, earls, &c., innumerable ; with a vast number of eminent writers and other learned men. The Benedictine rule insisted upon "obedience without delay, silence, no scurrility, idle words, or such as excite laughter, humility, * Loose gowns with large wide sleeves. Appendix. 361 patience in all injuries, manifestation of secret faults to the Abbot, contentment with the meanest things and employments, not to speak when unasked, to avoid laughter, head and eyes inclined downwards, to rise to church two hours after midnight, every week the Psalter to be sung through — light in the dormitory; to sleep cloathed, with their girdles on, the young and old intermixed — to serve weekly and by turns at the kitchen and table — refection in silence and reading Scripture during meals— two different dishes at dinner, with fruit. One pound of bread a day for both dinner and supper. No meat but to the sick. Three quarters of a pint of wine per day — particular abstinence in Lent from meat, drink, and sleep ; and especial gravity."* There is reason to believe that no nunneries were formed after this rule until the year 620 ; it was at first somewhat mixed with other rules, but in the year 817 the Eraperor Louis le Debonnaire caused the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle to be assembled, wherein an uniform dis- cipline was established. " St. Benedict did not decide of what colour the habit should be ; but it appears by ancient pictures that the gar- ment the first Benedictines wore was white and the scapular black." The nuns wore " a black robe, with a scapular of the same, and under the black robe a tunic of wool that had not been dyed. In the choir, or upon solemn occasions, they wore over all a black cowl," i.e., hood. The scapular was a garment worn during the time of labour. Page 11. — Kentwode's Constitutions. The following document, having been accidentally omitted at its proper place, with reference to the text, is here given from the Eev. Thomas Hugo's " Last Ten Tears of the Priory of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate :" — " A fragment of the seal is appendant, of dark brown wax. " The document is of parchment, measuring 20^ inc. by 15 inc. and is endorsed ' Seint Pout,' ' sub altare x",' ' Jniunccoes See Helene,' and, in a much later hand, ' Ordinances for regulation of the Nunnes of S' Helens, neere Bishopsgate, in London.' " Fastened to the upper left-hand corner is a small piece of the same material, on which is written, in a hand of the thirteenth century, a petition of the Prioress and Convent to the Dean, Archdeacon, and others, in defence of some contested property, belonging to the Priory. The Prioress ' D' was, I believe, the first of those dignitaries ; and the dean and archdeacon were respectively Alardus de Burnham, dean of S. Paul's, 1204-1216 ; and "Walter Pitzwalter, Archdeacon of London. The left edge is injured, but the following will be found a not inaccurate copy of a document, which, though hitherto un- published, is of special interest and importance to an historian of the earlier years of the House : * See Fosbrooke's British MoQachism, pp. 66, 67 ; and 286-8. Ed. London, 1843' and Townsend's Manual of Dates* p. 136. Ed. Lend. 1874. 362 Appendix. " ' Viris Ven^abiib3. °l dnis. A. dec'. W, Archid'. Lundon. % Cefis coarbi?s D. Hutnil. P^ orissa. 1 Conuent^ Ecciie See Helena Sal! % obedienc. Ditci nofe in dno W. fundatoris nri laborib3 *? angustiis quas ^ 9t°uer8ia coram voB mota. M. fila sym, sup ?ra. W. Wrhot dem irrogauit injuste. debita compassione deferentes tarn apUoi. q" phibicoi. p iure "? pos[sessio]ne nfa a. nob in?p6itis renuciam^. volentes. °l concedntes. vt jux* forma 9pmissi. in? gtes peedet arbiPii. Malum^. q* si oportuit carere fundo. q" amico. spantes. nicftomin^. de justicia [vf]a q' indemp- nitati Ecctie nfe q'ntu scdiii dfn poEitis. eritis puisuri. Vatt.' " T. H." Page 27. Adhuc de comib} plitis ten^ in Hustengo London die lune paf antefm Sci Dunstani Archiepi Anno JR. M. E. ^cij post conq: XLIX. Deis die & anno venlunt Gilbtus Chaumponeys Johes Fonmeux Panna' & Johes Yssher exec Test! Ade flfraunceys & pbar^ fece- runt testffi pdceAde quo ad artictos laicu feodu tangen? p Johem Sybyle & Wittm Shirbone tes? iur ac diligen? & cepatim exalaS qui dixunt qd psen? fuer' vbi dcus Adam suu condidit testm in hnc modu. In dei nomie Amen. Ego Adam feaunceys Ciuis & M-'cerus London compos mentis mee & sanis in corpora ordino & facio ^sena testm meu de ?ris ten & redditibj meis in Ciuitate Londofi in hunc modu vnm p omib3 in pmis lego & comendo aiam meam Deo omipotenti creatori & saluatori meo fee qz Marie Virgin! Matri sue ac omibz Scis & Angelis eius corpus qz meu ad sepeliendj in Capella Sci Spus in Ecctia see Elene infra Bisahope- gate London. Itm lego volo & ordino qd omia debita mea in quibz teneor quibuscumqz psonis de bonis & catallis meis pmo & pncipali? psoluan?. Et cum quidam Capellanus de cuiusdam denocoe p tempe sustentau totidie celebret & aKquandm celebrare conauevit vnam missam de Sea Maria p notam in ecctia conuen- tuali See Elene pdic? ad magnu altare mane videl? ante primam conuentualem ad quam quidm missam de Sea Maria sit calebran- dam quedam monialium dom*^ pdce totidie in?fint & consue9int in?esse. Ac cu quidam alius capellanus consimili? sustentat? totidie in dca capella Sci Spus infra eandin ecctiam vnam aliam missam sive nota simili? consuevit celebrare qui quidrii capellani Appendix. 363 semp hacten^ p al?ius voluntate fuerunt amobiles nee ad eorl sus- tentacoem ppetuam vnq'in pri? aliquid ordinatu fuat aut pvisum Tolens divini cultu put cuilt velle competit ad honorem Dei & ealutem fideKu eoi maxime qui iiiig'"runt a scto ampliari. In nomie sancte & individue Trinitatis & pcipue Sci Spus ob cuius honorem dcam capellam funda^i & in nomie be Marie Yirginis gloriose ac omi scoa Tt huiusmodi misse temporibz fu?is p aia mea & aiabz pris mei matris mee, Agnetis Txis mee, Simonis, Ade, Thome, Petri, Rogli, E.ici, Jobis, Matitt, Sarre, MargJte, Juliane, omi quibz iSito teneor & omi fideliu defunctoa in forma pdca imppm celebrent^ qd qz capetti missas pdcas & alia officia subscripta p aiabz pdcis celebraturi & facturi ppetui sint & dece?o p al?iua voluntate sive causa ronabili nequeant amoTeri quare lego & volo & in quanto Ciuiu pdcoa alicui p consuetudles laudabiles eiusdiii Civitatis hacten'' appbatas p testm suu dispone licet ex mea sincera & vltima voluntate ac denocoe integra lego ordina & assigno qd due Cantarie ppetue in forma sequenti iiant in Ecclia supdca quaa vnam cantariam be Marie in ecctia See Elene infra Bys- shopesgate London Alteram vo cantariam Sci Spus in eadiii Ecclia volo gpetuis temporibz nuncupari. Quaa quidjoi cantariaa pronat? executorib3 meis du vixint tin et post mortem eoadin executos Priorisse & Conventui pdce ecctie See Elene & Successorib3 suis in forma sbscripta lego imppin optinend et quas quidin Cantar fieri & fundari Capellanos qj eisdiii CantarJ deservituros onlari & dotari lego simili? in forma sbsequenti Isgo videit rolo & ordino qd statim postq"m obiero duo CapeUani idonei p executores meos pdcos vnus videit ad Cantar be Marie supdcam al? Vo ad Cantarl Sci Spus pdcam decano ecclie Sci Pauli London qui p tempo fu'it si decan'' time huiusmodi heat et vacante decanatu eiusdin ecctie Sci Pauli Capitlo psenten?. Qui quidiii Capetti ab eodm decano si psens f uit sui autem ab eiusdiii decani vicario si decan' hea? & vacante decanatu a p'fato capitlo admittant & in eisdin cantarj instituan? in forma iuris & sic quociens dcas cantarj p mortem ceesionem resignacoem pvacoem amocoem in forma sbscripta vel alio mode legitime vacar' contigit durante vita exec meo^ aut alicui^ eoadin p eos & p eii qui alios eo^dem supvixit post mortem alio* psenten?' duo capefti idonei ad easdin cantarj sepatim vnus simil? capeUanI idoneus psen? ad cantar) illam que ea^diii sic vacaPit al?a plena existente & fiat huiusmodi psentaco infra quadraginta dies post 364 Appendix. quamit huiusmodi vacacoem post mortem Vo dco^ exec meoj quo- ciens dcas catarJ sic vaoarJ contigit fiat psentaco ad easdm & ad u?mq3 eaadm cu vacav'int in forma pdca infra quadraginta dies simili? post quamtt huiusmodi vacacoem de Capellanis idoneis pdce ecctie Sci Pauli Decano si decan'' ilea? & vacante decanatu eiusdin ecctie Sci Pauli Capi'tlo p priorissam & conventu pdce ecctie See Elene qui p tempe fuint & p eoi successores impgm & in form pdca instituan? & institua? ille qui psentatus fuit ad unam easdrn al?a cantarj pdcaa plena existente p decanu si psens fuit sui autem p eiusdin decani vicarj si decan^ heat & vacante decanatu p capitliii supdciii aut p supiores suos ordinan gradatim & p succes- sores suos imppm si dci Decan'' Vicari? aut capitliii sic psentatu admitce noluint si vo dci execut durante tiiiio suo aut postmodu pdci Priorissa & convent'' aut successores sui negligentes fuint aut remissi ita qd infra quadraginta dies aliquam vacaconum pdcaa in forma pdca px^ sequentes ad Cantarias pdcas & ad u?mq3 eaxdm que sic vacav^it non psentavint in forma p^dca decanus supdciis si psens fu^it sui autem eiusdin decani vicar^ si decan? hea? sui autem Capitlrti supdciii & successores sui ea vite conferant can- tariam illam que eaxdm sic vacavit & ad quam p^sentacio in forma p^dca fca non fuit cmcnqj voluint idoneo capellano salvo semp alias p'fatis executor^ tota vita eosdm & postmodQ p'fatis Priorisse & Conventui & successorib3 suis iure suo p sentandi ad cantarJ p'dcas & ad eaadiii utmq3 in quatt alia vacacoe cu infra tempus dcos quadraginta dies post huiusmodi vacacoem idoneu capeUm voluint psentarJ. Volo insup lego & ordino qd dcus capellus ad cantarJ be Marie sic admissus & successores sui imppin unam missam de Sea Maria p notam ad magnu altarJ in ecctia p^dca vel ad aliud altar; ubi post dcm magnii altarJ in eadiii ecctia com- petenci'' fieri po?it totidie celebret dieb3 cene Pascenes & Safebi Sancti dumtaxat exceptis & post dcam missam anteq"m de Stola fuit exutus coiiiemoracoem omi fideliu defunctoa videlt Requiem etiiam & ceta eidin coinemoracoi incumbentia sine nota. Et post cvangeliu quod incipit Inp^ncipio &o. psalmii dcin De pfundis cu oracoe dnica pcib3 & alijs or6ib3 conse- quen? sequentib3 que coi? dici solent p defunctis & in fine anima Ade firaunceys & aie ofni fideliu defunctorx requiescant in pace mane hora videit consueta sciit ante horam ^mam monialiu dicat siiiter oiiii die cuius quidiii misse celebracoi & ad dcam Appendix. 365 memoriam p defunctis una cu toto residue ut pdioiS & quousq3 dcus capellanus de alba sua fuit exutus sex moniales de monialib} ecclie See Elene pdce p priorissam que p tempe fuit & p suc- cessores suos imppm in forma sfescripta limitandas volo lego & dispone totidie psonalit intesse quaa quidm monialiii limitacoem. p ?mi sic fieri dispone videit qd pxio die safebi postq"m dcus capellan'' ad cantarj be Marie sup"dcam pmo fuit institut^ limitenf p Priorissam ecclie supdce que p tempe fuit in capitlo sue sex moniales domus supdce ad deserviend j can tar' & capelio ^dcis in forma sequenti continue p septem dies sequentes et tunc in alio pxio die Sa^i tunc px sequenti sex alie moniales ecclie supdce simili? limitenf loco poa ad eisdm cantar & capetto similic deserviend p septem alios dies continue tunc sequentes. Et sic de Septimana iu Septimanam quott die Saffii imppiii limitenf sex moniales de monialib3 supdce ecciie que ultima septimana ante huiusmodi limitaffiem cantar & cape&o pdcis no deserviebant ad eisdm p septe dies tunc sequentes in. forma pdca deserviend si numus monialiu in dome pdca p tempe existen? ad tantas se extendat & utru iu dca dome tantus numus monialiu vidett qd sex moniales una septimana & sex alie sequenti septia cantarie illi deservire potunt heaf an non volo lego & dispone qd cantar' & capellan'' pdci p discrecoem Priorisse que p tempe fuit tali? a monialiab3 svianf et qd Hmitacie & divisio monialiu Ulas ita fiat qd iulabore eaadm quo ad cantarie & capetto pdcis sic p ?mi sviend hito respectu ad numu monialiu in domo pdca p tempe existem omes moniales eiusdm dom^ in quantu competen? fieri po?it sint equales. Et qd moniales Ule oniia que competunt monialib} dom'' pdce facienda in huiusmodi missis celebrand & que in alijs missis p notam ibidiii soJent fieri p alias moniales in pdce misse de S2a Maria celebracoe totidie honeste faciant & denote & post misse pdce celebracoem expectent in chore dicendo quicquid eis ptinet ad ^dcam cefnemoracoem p defunctis & ad totu residuu supius ordinatu & quousq} sacerdos pest dcm Evangeliu quod iucipit In^ncipio &c et post dcin psalmu dcm De pfundis pdixit anima Ade firaunceys & aie oini fideliu defunctors requiescant in pace et moniales Hie responderint Amen aliqualit n5 recedant alt vo capellan'' ad pdcam cantar^ Sci Spus sic admissus & successores sui imppm unam missam in ^dca capella Sci Spus una cu comemera- coe fideliu pdicia post dcam missam nisi de dca oommemeracoe 366 Appendix. celebravit et post dcum Evangeliu incipiens In principio etc totu psalmu dcm De profundis et oia Sbsequencia supdca put alteri capefto supius est iniunctu celebret omi die pro aiab} supdcis eisdm dieb3 cene Pascenee et Satibi Sci similit exceptis. Et qd u?q3 Capellanox pdcox et successos suoi imppm psonali? m?sit auxiliu suu et quod sibi imcumbit adhibendo decantacoi totidie vesperoi decantacois veaptine de salve regina cu nota matutinaa missa^ et alias singulas boras canonicas et omi alios diviaoj officio^ quae p pocbianis in ecctia pdca et scdum usus eiusdm in eadm con ti git celebrari quodq3 simili? u?q3 dcoa Capellanos et successor SU05 imppm totidie dicat officiu mortuos in ecctia Sas usitatu Aadett Placebo et Dirige ccmendacoem et omia aKa que eidem officio incumbunt septem spalmos (psalmos) penitentiales cii letania et quindecim psalmos g'duu silic p aiab3 supdcis dicti vo capeHi et eos utq3 et successores sui imppiii singtis annis p pdcmn DecanQ et si ipe absens fuit tunc p eius vicar^ et vacante Decanatu p psidentem capi?li supda infra tres dies pxos post fm Sci Miciiis visitenF et si in aliquo dcos capettos aut successos suos imppm septe defectus notorii p ipm anno tunc ptito ppetrari inveniant' ita vidett qd ipo omiserit vel facere necglent voluntarie id quod eidem in forma pdca fuit p istam ordinacoem iniunctii et sic p buiusmodi omissionem vel necgligenciam septem defectus in anno pcedenti comiserit nisi inde rofiabilem huit excusacoem et sic defect'' p Priorissam Suppriorissam Sacristam celerar* et capellanu pochialem ecctie See Elene supdce successores suos vel p tres dcas quinq3 psonas legitime pbenf et q"mvis in forma pdca no visitent tu decs capettos aut successos suos buiusmodi septem defect'' quos infra epacm uni'' anni voluntarie comiserit et defect'' illi ext° buiusmodi visitacoem p pdcos Priorissam Suppriorissam Sacristam celerar et capettm pocbialem qui p tempore fuit vt p tres dcas quinq3 psonas dco Decano vel ei'' Vicar vt vacante Decanatu psidenti Capilli supdci notificenf et p iuramentu triu easdm psonas bona vidett fide et 3elo justicie et non odii vel rancoris causa pbenf nisi ficus capettus qui buiusmodi defectus comiserit ronabilem ut pdicif inde beat excusacoem aut si quem dcos capettos aut successsos suos imppm enormir delinquere aut se male gerere contingat unde aliqua suspicio criminis in eodm po?it legitime suspicari que conjectis vesitifej consta®" po?it et p pdcos Priorissam Suppriorissam, Sacristam Celebrar^ ao Pocbialem Sacdotem aut successores suos aut Appendix. 367 p tres eaxdni quinq} psonax canonice ter monitu ipm non oorrige vel a tali suspicoe sive excessu ipni non Sbfliere tunc ille qnq3 psone vel saltern tres ea&dm dco Decano vel eius vicar vl jpsidenti supdco decanatu yacante dci capeffi qui sic deliquerit crimina excessus et suspicoem similit notificent ac eiusdm malos gest'' sibi exponant. Cum quidem Decano ei'' vicar^ sive psidenti si constar potit aliquem dcoa capettoa aut successes suoa g°vi? deliquisse vel male se buisse unde scandalu eidih doiiim S£e Elene ullo modo orisi po?it ex juramento easdiii quinq} psonaa vel triu eardiii dumtaxat accepto qd no odio vel rancore set una fide et, 3elo justicie et honestatis contra aliquem dcox capellos pponant tunc statim absq3 strepitu et figura judicii idm capettus tot buiusmodi defecf sic comittens delinquens vel suspectus hita buiusmodi inde ^bacoe p dcm Decanu vicar vel presidentem amoveaf et alius capellus idoneus loco sui ad psentacoem executoa meoi q''mdm vixint in forma pdca et postmodu ad psentacoem d£oa Priorisse et Conventus infra quadraginta dies post buiusmodi defectum deliccoa gest'' aut suspicois criminis notificacoem exposicoem et informa ^dca pbacoem fcas p dcm Decanu Vicar vel p capitim ad Cantar ill unde dcus Capellus qui buiusmodi defectus vel delicta sit comiserit extitit amota admittaf et instituat'. Et nisi dci exec mei du vixint et post mortem eordm nisi dci Priorissa & convent'' & successores sui infra pdcos quadraginta dies ad cantar' illam capellanii idioneii psentent tunc p pdciii Decaiiu si ^sens fuit & si absens p ei^ vicar aut p pdcm capitlin vacante decanatu cantar' ilia unde dcus capeSus sic amo? fuit ilia vice pp? negligenciam dcoa exe2 in vita sua & postmodu dcoa Priorisse & convent*! al?i capetto idoneo conferat' salvo semp iure dcoa exec in vita sua tm & postea dcoa Priorisse & convent'' & successes suos in omi alia buiusmodi vacacoe p sentandi ad vtmq3 dcas cantar cu necgligentes in forma pdca no fuint nee remissi. Et si dcQs Decanus vel ei? vicar? si decan? fuit aut dcus p sidens vacante decanatu capeltiii ittu qui buiusmodi defect? delicta vel causam suspicois sic ut pdcm est pbata comiserit statim no amov^it set buiusmodi amocoem distu- lerit p sex dies iuridicos po8tq"m de buiusmodi defectub} delictis aut causa suspicacois modo & forma p^dcis fuit informat'' tunc liceat dictis exec meis du vixint & postmodii dcis Priorisse & con- ventui & successorib} suis auctoritate ppia capettiii ittu qui buius- modi defect^ delicta vel causam suspicois comiserit expeller' & 368 Appendix. amovere a cantar' quam obtinuit & aliu capettm idoneu infra quadraginta dies px post huiusmodi ainocoem & expulsionem loco 8ui psentar^ dco Decano & vacante Decanatu dc5 capitlo qui quidiii capettus psentat? in forma pdca admittat et in Cantar' qua Capettus qui sic amotus fuit pri'' occupavit tanq°m vacantem instituaf ac si p mortem vel resignacoem illam pri'' occupantis de facto vacaret. Et si contingat aliquem dcox Capeftoa p huius- modi defectub} delictis vel suspicio p dcm Decanti Yicar^ vel vacante decanatu P'sidente vel p dcos exec Priorissam et Con- ventu post illos sex dies iuridicos in forma pdca fore -amo?. Et capettus ille ab huiusmodi amocoe sua vel p cessu inde hendo appellar & suam p sequi appellacoem tunc lego volo & ordino qd Capettus ille sic appellans tam a Cantar sua pdca pri? obtenta q"m ab oini coinodo quod p Cantar iUa aliquali? esset pcepturus eo no obstante qd ppetuus fuit seu in Cantar' sua p ordinal^ institute amoveaf & penit? excludaf & alius Capettus idoneus modo & forma supdcis loci ipius subrogati ad Cantar' qua sic amot'' occupavit p''sente?'' admittaf & instituaf oSa condiraes & pficua in psenti testo constituta subiturus facturus & pcepturus in forma pdca. Et sic fiat de utroq3 capeUoa pdcos & successor suoa imppin quociens in forma pdca huiusmodi defect? crimen excessus vel causam suspicois ipm incurrer contigit aut subire. Cui quidm cantar'' iUi vidett que Cantar' be Marie ut pdici? nuncupat" & capetto eidiii deservituro lego octo libra? annul & quieti redd J eidin cantar be Marie dco q3 capettno dee cantar' be Marie deservi?o & successorib} suis imppm obtinend' & pcipiend de omib3 Ulis ?r® redditibs & ten meis cu gardinis adiacen? & suis ptiii que quondam fuernt dni Johes de Veer Comitis Oxon & Dne Matitt Uxis sue in pochijs Sci Martini Oteswych, See Elene, See Alburge, & Sci Petri de Brade Strete in Ward de Bisshopegate & Bradestrete in Civitate London singlis annis ad quatuor ?mios pncipales & in civitate Londoii usuales p equales porcoes & q** bene liceat dco capeiio dee cantar be Marie deservito' & successorib} suis imppm p se & quoscnq} ministros sues distrigere in omib} ten pdcis cu ptin & in quait pte eoidiii & districcoes cap? asportar' abduce & retime quociens pdcm annu reddi? in pte vt in toto ad aliquem ?mioi pdraa aliquo modo imppin aretro fore contingat quousq) de eodin reddi? cu omib} inde arrerag & de dampn & expii occone huiusmodi Appendix. 369 detencois hitis dco capeftno de tempe suo & suocessorib3 suis de tempe suo imppm plenarie satisfiat. Alteri vo cantar' illi scilt que Cantar' Sci Spus sit vt ^dici? nuncupa? & capello eidm Cantar' deservito lego quendam alivf aniiu reddi? Sep? libra^ dee Cantar' Sci Spus & eidin Capetto eidm Cantar' Sci Spus deser- Tituro & successorib} suis imppm obtinend' & pcipiend singlis annis de omib} & singlis ten sup'dcis cu omib3 & singlis suis ptin equis porc6ib3 ad ?mios supadcos. Ita qd bene liceat eidm capeftno dee cantar* Sci Spus deservito' & successorib3 suis imppiii in omib3 & singlis ten supdce cu omib3 & singlis suis ptin silic? distringe & districcoes cartas asportar abduce & retime quociens dcin aliu annu redd' in pte vl toto in forma pdca ad aliquem ?mio^ pdcoi aliquo anno imppiii aretro fore contingat quosq3 de toto alio redd' supdco cu omib3 inde arrerag una cu dampii et expn occone detencois huiusmodi hitis dco capetto dee eantar Sci Spus deservito^ p tempe suo & successionib3 suis p tempe suo imppm plenar' satisfiat Quociens insup dci Annul redd' aut vn'' eo^dm in pte vi in toto p unu mensem px sequ aliquem tiiiioa pdcoa aliquo anno imppin & postq°m post tinl illii p capeftm ittu cui sic debef exact'' fuit apud ten pdca detineant J & no solvant' bene liceat iUi capetto cui'' reddi? sic sbftif aut detine't & utriq3 capettos ^dco& si ambos reddit^ sfetrahanf sepatim dis?nge in omib3 & singtis teii pdcis cu omife3 & singlis suis ptin post mensem illu & districcoes sic cap? abduce asportar^ & retiner^ quousq3 de dupl' itti? quod sic aretro fuit de reddit supdcig yt de uno eoadiii si un? tantu detinea? capettis pdcis sepatim vel uni eox iSi videtfc cui? reddit? sic detine? p tempe suo & successorib3 suis p tepe plenar^ satisfiat & imppfh. Item lego omia & singta teii pdca cii omib3 & singtis ptin suis pdcis in forma pdca de pdic? reddi? onlata Priorisse ecctie See Elene pdce & eiusdin loci conventui simii cu redditu hospic quod Margareta Marsshal tenet ad ?iiii annoa quod quidiii hospic pcella est eoj^d ten statim postq'm duo capefti in pdcas cantai? instituant' & ipi capefti sint in seisina reddi? pdcox ad eantar^ suas pdcas sic spectan? p solucoem dues denar* t1 ampli'' obtinend videtfc dels priorisse & conventui & successorib3 suis & tenend de capital dnis feodi p svicia que ad pdca teii ptinent imppin excepta advocacoe ecctie Sci Martini Oteswych pdic? quam heredis meis imppin volo spali? reservari Reddendo inde annuatim capettis pdcis & succes- B B 370 Appendix. Borib3 suis imppin reddit^ pdcos in forma ^dca ad ?mio8 supdras et solvendo quatt septia emit illa^ sex monialiu que p ministracoe celebracois misse be Marie supdce limitate luint & ^sentes ibm in forma ^dca ulHo die Sa^i cu '3viciu Cantar* illius p eeptimana ^cedentem comple^int modo supdco quatuo3 denarJ & sic quoit die sabbi de sepHa in septiam cuitt vidit sex monialiu que sic 'Svicio Can tar fee Marl supdce mint deputate si in?fuint & officiu illud complevint in forma supdca quatuo} denar solYenf per septi- mana ilia tnc finita p Priorissam dom'' supdce que p tempe fuit & p eiusdm loci conventu & successores suos imppm de ten supdcis. Et inveniendo yestimenta appat"! p altari caUces missaHa panem ■viiiu &luminar] p cantar^ pdcis & p capeUanis eisdm deservituris p successorib) suis imppm Inveniendo eciam & sustiaendo quandam lampadem die & nocte imppm continue ardentem coram altari in capflia Sci Spus supdca. Lego ptea & dispone qd ijdffi Priorissa & convent^ & successores suis singUs annis imppm in VigHia diei vidett annivsar^ mei faciant pulsacoem campanas modo p mortuis consueto ac plenu sviciu de Placebo & Dirige cu nota dicant in choro videit ea&dm & extius in ecciia pochiatl See Elena supdce cu nota simili? dici faciant p alios seculares & in crastino dieto videit annivsar^ die quot missas ronabili? po?unt & unam pcipue missam ad minus cu nota ad magnu altar^ ibidem de officio mortuoa p aiafe} pdcis imppin faciant cu denote solempni? celebrari. Volo insup lego & dispone q"* singiis annis eodm die anniVsar^ mei dci Priorissa & convent'' & successores sui imppm tresdecim paupos egenos in cibar^ & potub3 oportunis ad una repastu sufficien? in pdca domo See Elene p eisdm simili? aiab} cibar^ faciant competen?. Preterea lego volo & dispone qd quociens pdcos anu'' reddit'' Cantarijs pdcis & capeftis eisdm deservi- turis in forma pdca sepatim dispositos & legates ad aliquem ?mio^ pdco^ in pte vel toto aretro fore aut pdcos quatuor denar* quoit die sabbi singiis septimanis imppm cuitt sex monialiu que Cantar^ be Marie supdce p septiam diem Ulu px pceden? deser- vierint sic solvend alicui easdm sex monialiu detineri aut vesti- menta appat'' altar^ calices missalia panem vinu aut luminar^ p Cantar^ & Capeftis pdcis aut lapadem in forma pdca 56 inveniri vel pulsacoem aut sviciu pdca in vigilia die anni9sar^ mei singiis annis non fieri aut missas in crastino modo pdco no celebrari vel tot paupes quot pmitten? singiis annis modo sili? supdco no Appendix. 371 cibari aliquo tempe imppm contingat tunc bene liceat tarn oapeftis supdcis & vtriq3 eo»din & successoa suoa q"m eciam heredib3 meis imppm distringe in omib3 ten supdcis cu omife} suis ptiii & in qualt pte eoidin & districcoes cap? asportar^ abduce & retiSe quousq3 tarn vidett vtriq3 capetto^ ^dco» qui p tempe fuint de eo quod de reddi? illo sibi competit in hac pte aretro fuit & cuiit sex monialiu ^dcaa de eo quod de pdcis quatuor denar^ p quatt. septimana p quam Cantar^ be Marie supdce & Capefto eiusdin deservierit in forma pdca simili? sibi fuit detentu plenar^ fuit satisficm q°m eciam quousq3 vestimenta appat") caUices missalia panis vinu luminar^ & lapas sup°dca competent invenian? & eciam quousq3 p quott defectuu pulsacois & sviciu mortuoa in vigilia diei annivsar^ mei & missaa in crastino quadraginta solid & p quott defectu cibacois paupu eodin die viginti solidi p aiab3 supdcis p eosdin Priorissa & conventu aut successores suos imppSi alijs paupib3 erogenf. Et ne p necgligenciam monialiu aut successor suoj psens mea vltima voluntas in aliquo sup'' contentoi infringaf aut aliqua de pdict ordinat imppm casuali? omittat' vole lego & dispone qd tarn Priorissa q'm queit monialiu in pdca domo Sancte Elena existens sup Sea Evangtia corpale faciant iuramentd qd ipe et quett eaadm omes ordinacoes supdcas & singulas eaidm penes se facient & svabunt & quo ad alios quantu in ipis est facient similit fidelit observari & qd: ipe oines & singtas moniales que deceto de domo supdca babitu reHgionis assum^e & in eadin contingint pficeri- tanq'm p quodam article pfessionis sue sup eadm pfessione sua facient conferre consite iuramentu. Ita qd oines & single moniales in dca domo iam existentes ac omes ille que in futoro imppm moniales ifem fore contigint ad faciend tenend & observand oiiies & singias ordinacoes supdcas quantii in ipis fuit & qd facient imppin omes & singulas successores suos in & sup pfessione sua sup Sea Evangiia palam coram vidett Priorissa & toto conventu ecctie supdce consimile face iuramentu p buiusmodi iuramentu fideli? astringant. Itin lego pdcis Priorisse & con- ventu dom'' See Elene pdce totam shopam meam cii omib3 suis ptiS que quondam fuit WalSi le Bret Civis & Zonarij London & Cristine vxis eius situat in venella vocata Sopereslane in Lon- don videH in? ten Tboin de Granth''m ex ptibj boriali & orientali & quandam Sbopam ptinen? ecctie Sci Panorac London expte australi ad dcam venella voca? Sopeslane ex pte ocoiden? tenend B B 2 372 Appendix. eisdm Prior isse & conventui & eo^ successorife} imppm De capital dnis feodi illi'' p '§vicia inde debita & consueta solvendo inde annuatim Ka?ine WoK Moniali dom'' See Elene pdce ad ?ihi vite sue quadraginta solid s?ling ad quatuor anui ?mi6s pncipales & in Civitate Londoii usuales p equales porcoes. Itin lego eisdm Priorisse & conventui pdce dom'' See Elene omia Ula ?ras & ten cu omife3 & singtis suis ptiri que Johes de Cantebrigg Civis London & ego nup coniunctim feuiml ex dono & feoffiimento Thoine de Ecton Eectoris ecctie Sci Nichi de GeSlaco in Coiii Ebo^ executoris testi dni Jofeis de Ecton cilci & que quondam fue®" eiusdm dni Johis in Moggewelstrete infra Crepulgate London bend & tend omia pdic? ?ras & ten cu omife3 suis ptinJ pfatis Priorisse & conventui & eox successorife) de capital Dnis feodi illi'' p svicia inde debita & de iu®^ consueta imppm. Et quoniam piu & deo placabile fore constat aliquod quod ad honorem suu & sattiri fideliu competit stabiliri mai'' tamen piu repute & salubre buiusmodi stabilita si pfecta no fuiat pficj e et in augments divini cult'' & auxiliii univsale ut ppetuo sustententur talia ampUa®' volo igif lego & dispono in honorem Dni nfi Jhu Xpi oiniq} §co5 suo^ ac in salutem aias omi fideliii defunctorx spali?q3 p aia Petri ffanelo*" & in suas penaa alleviacoem quand''m Cantar^ de duob3 capettis una cu quodam lampade die ac nocte continue imppm ardento in quada capella infra ecctiam eosdm Stox Omi de Edel- meton quam idm Petrus de novo nup edificavat durat°m ppetuaHt ordinari. Et eandin Cantariam Cantariam Petri ffanelo^ ppetuis temporib3 nuncupari. Et eiusdiii cantarie Patronatu psentaraem & donacoem quantu ad patroiiu ptinent vicar^ eiusdm ecctie de Edelmeton & suis successorib3 qui p tempo fuint lego imppm possidend Lego eciam & ordino qd vicari'' eiusdm ecctie de Edel- meton qui p tempo fuit duos Capeftos idoneos ad canta®" iUam p nomen Canta(5' Petri ffanelo' in ecctia de Edelmeton celebrande p vba que in consimilib3 psentac6ib3 contineri solent Epo LondoS qui p tempe fuit psentet qui ad canta®' illam p eundiii Epm admittanf & in eadm canonice put in alijs Cantarijs institui moris est instituanf capetti de eadm Canta®" ppetuali? pmansuri. Et ijdm capetti extunc p aiab3 pdcis totide celebrent in capella pdca & omia & singtis officia ecctiastica ac oSa faciant & importent que p capellanos buiusmodi scdm sacras canones & singtas alias constitucoes in ecctia Sa^ usitatas fieri competiit in hac pte. Et Appendix. 373 cedentib} vt decedentibs capettis illis seu eox al?o duo alij idonei seu unus scdm casus exigenciam p vica®' dee Ecctie de EdelmeSon p tempe existente pfato Epo tunc simili? existenti q"mciti'' fieri po?it competen? psentenf aut psentef p eundm Epm admit- tendi & instituendi sive admittendus & instituendus in forma iuris. Et ipi eidm Canta®' deserviant & in forma pdca faciant & cele- brent ppetuali? in capetta pdca. Et sic imppm fiat quociens Capettos ^dcos seu altum eos cedere decedere resignare vt privari contingat. Ita qd Canta®' ilia nnq''fn cesset sec qd in eadiii capella fideli? a duob} capettis in forma pdca psentatis admissis ac institutis omia & singta pmissa facientib} & suppor- tantib5 cantaria ilia continue fiat et imppiii celebref. Quib} quidm capettis sic p ^dcm vica®" pmo psentandi p sustencoe eoadiii lego illas duas marca? & dimid J annul liberi & quieti reddi? cu ptin quas nup adquesivi coniunctim cu Johne Osekyn de Anna ReKcta Witti fit Witti de Leyr nup civis London Hugone Lu & Johe Montveron executorib3 testi pdci Witti fit "Witti que singlis annis ad ?mi63 in Civitate London usitatos levari debent & solui de toto illo ten cu domib} supedifica? & omifc} ptin suis quod Johes de Eedyng Allutar^ LondoS tenuit ex dimissione quondam Eadi BaJle & Isabett de Sco Albano vxis ei'' in poch Sci Martini Pome®'Londonl in Ismongereslane in quo quidin teii Adam Stable postmodii comoravit nee non & illas viginti solidac annui lifei & quieti reddit'' cu p?in quas similir adquesivi coniunctim cu pfato Johe Osekjm de pdcis exec pdc5 Witti fit Witti de Leyre que singtis annis ad ?mios antedcos levari debent & solui de toto illo ten quod Johes de Horsford nup huit in pochia onii Sees pvu Sup cela@'in vico de Thamestrete Londom quod quidiii teii situ est in? teii quondam Dne Johanne Parmenters ex pte orient & teii quondam Nichi ffamdon ex pte Occident. Et eciam sexdecim marca? annui reddi? pcipiend: singlis annis ad ?mi6s supdcos de omib3 ter(^ & ten cu p?in in London que quondam fue®' ^dci Witti fit Willi de Leyre nup civis Londofl quo^ 'quodam siSa sunt in pocbia Oini Scoa pvu sup cela®' in latiiudie videtfc in? venellam que ducit de cimi?io Sci Laurencij usq3 vicu Regni de Tbamestrete ex pte orien? & teri quondam Radi de la More ac teii hospital Sci Bar^fei de Smetbefeld London ex pte occiden? & extendiit se in longitudie a ten quondam Salamonis de la More Vsus aquilon V8q3 vicu Regni de Thamestrete vsus aus? quedam eciam & shope 874 Appendix. eisdm tenemen? ^astantes sita sunt in venella & pochia. See Laurencij in judaismo LondoS que p ^dciii "Wittm filiu Wifti de diio Rado Gorges Milite quondam fueriit adquesita sinuK? quedam sita snt in vico de Milkstrete in pochia See Marie Mag- dalene & quedam massenta quond tx "Witti de Wynton nug civis London ea tenuit ad tmi vite sue hend & tend tam pdcas duas marca? & dimidiam & viginti solida? annui life! & quieti redd*] q°m pdcas sexdecim marca? reddi? cu ptin & in forma ^dca ad ?mTos antedcos peipiend eisdm vidett capettis postq°m ab Ep5 admissi fuint & vt pdicif instituti & suis successorib} capeliis in dca Capella apud Edebneton sic celebratu®" imppetuum. Lego eciam eidra vica(^ ac pdcis Capettis quendam annuu reddi? tmi'' marce eisdiii sciit Arica®" & capettis & successorib} suis p ppetua invencoe & sustentacoe uni'' lampadis in eadm capella apud Edel- meton die & nocte continue ardentis imppm obtinend j & pcipiendT singtis annis ad ?niio8 antedcos de omifej & singtis ten & shopis supdciS cu ptiii in London! que fiie®' ^dci Witti fii Witti. Volo in sup lego & ordino qd bene Kceat eisdm vica®" ac capettis & eoa cuitt & successorib} suis imppm in omife} pdciS ten cu pHii que sic fuernt pdci Witti fii Witti dis?ng'e quociens ^dcm annuu reddi? sexdecim marcaa ad sustencacoem pdcoa capettoa sic dia- pocitu et eciam quociens pdcm annuu reddi? uni'' marce ad invencoem & sustentacoeiii uni'' lampadis ia forma pdca ardentis aretro fore contingat & districcoes sic cap? quocunqs voluint abduce asporta®" & retine®^ quousq} tam de pdco redd Sexdecim marcaa eisdiii scitt capettis q°m de pdco reddi? uni? marce p sustentacoe lampadis supdce eisdin scitt vica(^ ac capettis cu omit) inde arreragijs ac dampnis p detenffie seu no solucoe pdrojj eisdm plenar^ fuit satisfcm. Lego eciam omia ten supdca cii ptin que sic fue®' pdci Witti fit Witti de pdciii redd sexdecim mrca^ & uni'' m°rce sic oSate exec meis infra scriptis ad vendend ead^ ten cu plin postq"m ^dci capetti in Canta(^ pdca fuint instituti & possessionem pdce reddit? sexdecim marcax optinerint & postq°m pdca lampas ad ardend fuit constitute & dena®^ p ten pdcas sic vendendis pcipiendos volo & lego fore distribuendos in missis celebrandis aut alijs pijs opib} pficiend paia pdci Petri & aiafe} supdcis scdm dispocoem & arbitriu exe2 meox pdcos. Et cum Ka?ina que fuit ux Johis de Donyndon quondam civifl & appotecar LondoJil teneat ad ?mT vite sue septem libratis & duo- Appendix. 375 decim denara? reddi? de divsis ten in Civitate London! exeun? ac eciam cu Stepiius Kyng Civis & Zonar^ LondorJ & Alicia ux eius teneant ad ?mi vite eos quoddam ten cu domib} supedificat shop sola(^& suis ptin in venella & pochia Sci Laurencij in ve? Judiaisimo LondoS necnon cu Witts Goderich ffound' & ciyis dee Civitatis & Isabella ux eius teneant ad tmi vite eos quoddam ten cu shop Cela(^ sola®' & suis ptifi in venella & pocMa pdicos revsonibj dcoi reddi? & ten cu ptin michi & heredib} meis spectantib}. Que quidin sciit reddi? & ten cii ptin cii aliquali? acciderint lego Ade ffraunceys Juniori de London! filio meo & Margarete vxi eius tend eisdiii & bedib} de corpib} eo« legi?e pcrea? de capital dnis p svic inde debita & de iure consueta imppm. Et si idm Adam sive Lees' de corpe suo lie pc®" obierit lego dca reddit & ten cu p?in cu ut pdciii est acciderint Matitt fil mee tenend eidin & here- dib} de corpe suo iie pcrea? de capital dnis p svicia inde debita & de 'vi(S consueta imppin. Et si eadin Matitt sine he®" de corpe suo tie pcCj" obierit tunc volo & lego qd eadin reddi? & ten cu ptin cu acciderint ut supdciii est rectis hered meis Integra revtanf & remaneant imppm. Tenend de capital dniS p svicia inde debita & de iure consueta imppiii. Itiii lego Agneti uxi mee oiiiia ten mea cii ptin situata in poch See Mildreds in Poletria LondoS ao eciam totuillud teS cu ptin quod Johes de Metford de me tenet in pochia See Marie Magdalene in Westchepe LondoS. Teiid eadiii ten cu ptin eidm Agn ad ?iiii vite sue de Capital dniS feodi p svicia inde debita ^& de iure consueta. Que quidin ten cu ptiri post decessu pfate Agii lego pfato Ade ffraunceys Juniori. Lego eciam eidm Ade statim post decessu meii ce? terl mea & redd supius no legata scilt omia & singla cu suis ptiii de quib} seisit? su in dnic5 meo ut de feodo die Obi? mei in Civitate pdca & in suburbijs eiusdni Tenend tam dca teri cu ptin pfate Agneti ad ?mi vite sue legata cu post eius decessu acciderint q^m ce?a teii & reddit'' cii ptin pnoiata statim post decessS meu vt pdciii est eidiii Ade & heredib} de corpe suo lie pcrea? de Capital dnis p svicia inde debita & de jure consueta imppiii. Et si idiii Adam sine herede de corpe suo exeun? obieri tunc lego & volo qd tam dca ten cu p?in pfate Agneti ad ?ini vite sue legata cii post eius decessu acciderint ut ^dcin est q"m ce?a teii & reddit'' supdca cii ptiii integre remaneant pfate Matitt & her^ de corpe suo legie pcrea?. Tend de Capital Diiis p svicia inde debita & de iure 376 Appendix. consueta imppm. Et si eadm Matitt sine herede de corpe suo exeunte obierit lego eadm ten & reddit? cu omife) suis ptiii sciit tam ten cu ptiri pfate Agneti ad ?mi vite sue legata cu post eius decessu acciderint ut supdca est q'm ceta ten & reddit? omia & singta ^notata cu omife} suis ptiii executoribj meis aut eoa executorib} vel exec pdcoa exec p eosdiii vendenda p visu Maioris & Recordatoris London qui p tempo fuint & ad uffiu atiu usu fore convtenda Ita qd ijdiii exec vel eoi executo(S' g'datim nup eadni teri & reddit? cu ptiii sciit omia & singta p eosdiii ad venend ut pmitti? legata integre vendant q°m cito optima po?unt postq"m u?q3 dcoi Ade & Matitt obierint sine here- dib3 de corpib3 ebi legie pcrea? si eos tali? decode®' contingat et oiiies dena®^ inde pvenien? lego eisdiii exec-distribuendos p visu dcoi Maioris & Recordatoris qui p tsmpa fuint ut in missis celebrandis paupib} cibandis puellis e gentib) maritand Prison p debi? cap? & minus sufficientib3 delibandis ecctis ho8pitalib3 & domib3 religiosis ad inopiam divsis relevand Pontib3 & itenerib3 piculosis emendand & in alijs opib3 caritativis imponend sediii discrecoem exec pdcox & p visu dcos Maioris & Recordatoris qui pro tempo fuint, Ita qd omes dena^ illi circa aliqua alia nisi circa ea que ad honorem dei & salutem ^aias pdcas conceriint nullaten? expendanf Huius autem testi mei meos facio & constituo executores videlt Johem Piel, Wittm de Halden, Grilb^um Cham- poneys, Jobem ffoumey, Pannar, & Johem TJssher. In cuius rei testioiiu buic teste Sigillu meu apposui, Da? London Vicesimo Sexo die Augusti Anno Dni Millesimo tricentesimo Septuagesimo quarto. Et regni regis Edwardi ?cij post conquestu Anglie quad- ragesimo octavo. Page 39. — Eestoration 1865-8. Prom the several preceding statements of the text, it will be seen that various sums had from time to time been expended for substantial repairs of the fabric of St. Helen's, and which, judging from their mag- nitude, should have aflbrded but little scope for the labours of the Ee- Btoratioa Committee of 1865-8. Such, however, was not the case, and a description truthfully depicting the sad state of the Church at that time would be regarded as apocryphal. " The plaster walls, smoke- begrimed and saturated with damp, had in many places given way ; the decayed timbers of the roof had been mended with brown paper, painted to resemble wood — in one of the columns of the nave arcade no less than seventeen incisions had been made ; — the two westernmost bays were Appendix. 377 separated from the body of the Church by a clumsy, deep gallery con- taining the organ, many of the windows had lost their tracery, and the floor of the Church was so honeycombed with vaults tbat it was a matter for wonderment that the whole held together as it did. "To remedy this state of things a Committee, consisting of parishioners and other gentlemen (including the then Master of the Merchant Taylors' Company, Mr. Foster White) interested in pre- serving the fabric from becoming a thorough ruin, was formed, and subscriptions for that purpose were publicly solicited, and although the by no means inconsiderable sum of 1400Z. was through their in- strumentality collected, apart from the many stained glass windows that were introduced, yet this sum was totally inadequate to meet the requirements of such a heavy work. Then it was that the parishioners came forward, and by means of a rate collected upwards of 2000Z. to meet the deficiency. " To the labours of this Committee may be attributed the follow- ing works : — The removal of the organ gallery and screen, and of Sir John Spencer's* monument (a.d. 1609) from the south transept to the south side of the parochial nave, the substitution of the present oak benches in lieu of the previous high pews, the reparation of the carved miserere seats, and their adaptation for the use of the quire, the removal of the accumulated earth in the transept and Chapel of the Holy Ghost, thereby opening out the bases of the pillars and tomb of Sir John Crosbie, the repaving the Chancel and parochial nave with encaustic tiles, re-roofing one-half of the nun's quire, to- gether with the erection of a reredos and the organ. "Works of as great utility as these just enumerated and under- taken by the parishioners were the filling in and hermetically closing the large vaults which existed throughout the building, and the thorough repair of such portions of the roofs as the Eestoration Committee had been unable to accomplish, and also providing the apparatus for warming the Church. " The numerous stained glass windows must not be passed by without mention, in that they add materially to the beauty of the Church. The names of the donors are appended to this sketch. Other windows there are which require to be filled in a similar manner; and here it may not be amiss to reply to the criticisms which have been made by archsBologists and others, as to the texture and deep tones of some of the modem glass, whilst admitting that glass of a lighter texture, and approaching the ' cinque-cento' period, would be more in accordance with the style of the architecture of the building, and certainly more conducive to the transmission of the light so requisite in a city church, that the fact ought not to be overlooked that, as the pious gifts of individuals, it is frequently impossible to attempt interference with the cherished project of the donor. Could * This was done at the expense of the Marquis of Northampton (the lineal descendant of the Earl of Compton, who clandestinely married the only child of the deceased), and two splendid arches, highly decorated In rich blue and vermilion colours — now much faded — were exposed. 378 Appendix. it have been foreseen by the Committee that so many costly gifts would have been subsequently added, a scheme embracing a regular iconographic series might have been prepared for that purpose. " In addition to contributions to the Restoration Fund several of the City Companies with their characteristic liberality undertook the renovation of the monuments of their predecessors ; the "Worshipful Company of Q-roeers rescued from decay the beautiful tomb of Sir John and Lady Crosby; the Mercers' Company, that of Sir T. Gresham ; the Haberdashers, that of Captain Bond ; and the Skinners, the quaint little tablet to the memory of the founder of Tunbridge Grammar School, Sir Andrew Judde. " Such is the history (in outline) of the church of St. Helen's, until it became, under the Order in Council of 5th May, 1873, the church of the united parishes of St. Helen's and St. Martin's. Under the scheme for union, the glass of the east window of St. Martia's was removed to and placed partly in the window of the newly dis- covered Lady Chapel, and in the eastern dormer windows of the south transept of St. Helen's. All the monuments were also removed thither; and, as far as possible, were restored and replaced in St. Helen's, in sites shown on the ground plan of the church. The names connected with these monuments are as under : — " John Oteswich and wife, dr. 1400 ; Hugh Pemberton, cir. 1500 ; Richard Staper, cir. 1608 ; Langham, cir. 1694 ; Clutterbuek, cir. 1697 ; Goodman, cir. 1714 ; Teasdale, dr. 1804 ; Edwards, dr. 1810 ; Simpson, dr. 1827 ; Eose, dr. 1821 ; Grant, dr. 1836 ; EUis, dr. 1838 ; Atkinson, dr. 1847 ; Simpson, dr. 1849. " John Bruex, 1459, and Nicholas "Wotton, 1483, being the brass effigies of two rectors on a gravestone ; Thomas Wight, 1633, a brass plate on a gravestone ; Tufuel, 1686, a large gravestone. " The annual value of St. Helen's will be 800Z. and Easter offer- ings, and the patronage of the united benefice is vested in the Company by Part III., Sec. 3, which enabled the Master and Wardens as patrons to restore, as was much deserved, the Lady Chapel and that of the Holy Ghost. During the restoration, the vestry room, which had filled up the entire Lady Chapel, was pulled down, and there were brought to light two early perpendicular windows, temf. Richard I., several elegant niches, piscinas, sedUia, &c., aU of which have been carefully restored. "The monumental effigies of John Otewich and his wife (a.d. 1400 to 1428), being first cleansed and revived by Mr. Poole, have been placed upon a plain and simple table, between the two east Chapels, i.e., the Lady Chapel and that of the Holy Ghost. " The accession of these monumental effigies and tablets from the neighbouring Church of St. Martin Outwich, further enhance the quaint but solemn dignity of the fabric, rendering it still more worthy of its rightly-accorded title of ' the Westminster Abbey of the East.' Appendix. 379 traceried head : STAINED GLASS WINDOWS. Gifts of Kirkraan Daniel, and James Stewart Hodgson, Esqs., in memory of their late father, John Hodgson, Esq. „ ^ „ , , - iv Ti 1 r.1, 1 ( Made ud of ancient glass preserved from R_In the chapel of the Holy Ghost, \ ^^^ ^^^^^ windows, at the expense of three hghts* | churchwardens Kolfe and Richardson. Sitbjecta, "A. — In the parochial nave, east, consist ing of 7 lights with 'The Ascension' • ':} The Merchant Taylors' Company. C. — ^Three lights in the Lady Chapel: ' The Conversion of Constantine' * D. and E. — ^The upper part filled with Em- blematical Glass.* p. — ^A window of 3 lights G. — ^In the south aisle adjoining pulpit, 3 lights; 'SL Alban, St. Michael, and St. Edmund' t H. — In the same aisle over the south door, 3 half lights : ' Christ's Charge to St Peter't L — In the south aisle, by Sir John Spencer's monument, 3 lights: 'The Finding of the Cross by St. Helena't J. — In the parochial nave, west, 5 lights : ) Subscription window in memory of Alder- ' The Crucifixion'^ ... ... ... J man Copeland, M.P., &c. K. — ^In the north-west corner of the Nuns' Quire, single lancet : ' A Bishop in Pontificals' William Jones, Esq. ■ Mr. Alderman Colonel Wilson. Messrs. MacDougall. I William Meade Williams, Esq., in memory >- of his father and mother, John and I Susan Williams. J. F. Wadmore, Esq., in memory of Bishop Bobinson. "^ Hope,tnd° '" '"™°''y °^ ^ "^ >"' '=''''^"-^°- ChUdren't / N. — In the Nuns' Quire, 5 lights and tra- \ ceried head : ' St. Helena,' flanked by f The Gresham Committee, in memory of three of the Evangelists and their sym- ( Sir Thomas Gresham." bolst ; BRASSES ASJ) MONTJMBNTS TS ST. HELEN 8 OHUECH, BISHOPSGATE.§ l.^A brass of a mercliant and his wife, date about 1400, names unknown. See " Tairholt," p. 183. (Lost.) 2. Brass of Jbana, daughter of Henry Seamer, wife of Eichard, son and heir of Lord Poynings. The account of this brass given in Stow's " Survey," adds, " Died a virgin in 1420." This figure is now lost, but an impression of it taken by the late Mr. E. R. Mores when it was preserved in the Church chest, represents her habited in a mantle, surcoat, and kirtle with mitten sleeves, » By Heaton, Butler & Co. t By Gibbs. % By Powell & Co. § Supplied by Dr. Cox for Clode's Memorials of the Merchant Taylors' Company, pp. 341-4. Ed. Lond. 1875. 380 Appendix. and on her breast a large " I. H. U. Mercy," her headdress of the veil kind with the bosses of reticulated hair above the ears. Mr. Mores has written under it " Obiit Virgo, 1420." See Gough's " Sepulchral Monuments," vii. ii. p. 55. 3. Monument to Alderman Sir John Crosby and Anne, Ms wife, 1475-6. 4. Brass to memory of Thomas Williams, gentleman, and Margaret his wife. The former died January 16th, 1495. The date of wife's death not inserted. 5. Brass, very elaborate, of a Lady Abbess of the peroid of Henry VII., the costume that of the aged ladies of that day, who not uufrequently ended their days in a nunnery as Lady Abbesses or even as mere sisters, to the no small emolument of the Church. See " Pairholt," p. 238. 6. Monuments to Sir William Pickering — Father and Son, 1542—47. 7. Brass to memory of John Leenthorp [or Leventhorpe], Usq., one of the four Keepers of the Chamber to Henry VII. : died August 16th, 1510. 8. Brass to memory of Mr. Molert Sochester, Sergeant of the Pantry to Henry VIII., who died May Ist, 1514. 9. Thomas Benolte, sometime Windsor Herald to Henry VIII., otherwise Clarenceux King of Arms, died May 8th, 1533. Figure in Herald's Tabard, bearing arms of England and France quartered, on each side two female figures; that of later date in more elaborate costume than the former (lost, but stone remaining).* 10. Monument to Si/r Andrew Judd, Lord Mayor, Citizen and Skinner, 1551. 11. Monument to William Bond, Alderman, Sheriff of London, 1576. 12. Monument to Sir Thomas Qresham, Citizen and Mercer, 1579, and "William his Son, 1560. 13. Monument to Sir John Spencer, 1609. This monument before the restoration of the Church in 1865 stood on the west side of the Lady Chapel. 14. John Bohinson, Alderman and Merchant Taylor, Merchant of the Staple, 1599. 15. William Kerwin, Freemason, 1594. 18. Sir Julius Adelmair (alias Casar), Knight, Doctor of Laws, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, 1636. 19. Monument to Martin Bond, Captain of the City Train Bands. Commanded in the camp at Tilbury in 1588. Died 1634, aged 85. 20. Monument to Francis Bancroft, an OfiB.cer of the Corporation of London, 1727. * In Nuns' Quire, between No. 6 and No. 11, Appendix. 381 3rom St. Martin's. 22. The OtemcTt effigies. Eemoved from tte Churcb of St. Martin Outwich in 1874. 23. Bichard Staper, Alderman, 1608. Eemoved from the Church of St. Martin Outwich in 1874. 24 Sugh Pemherton, Merchant Taylor and Alderman, 1500. Also Katherine, his wife. This monument was removed from the Church of St. Martin Outwich in 1874. 25. William Bernard, 1746. Eemoved to this position in 1874 from the north wall of a Vestry which formerly stood on the site of the Lady Chapel, which Vestry was removed in 1874. 26. A Brass of John Breieux, Sector, 1459. '\ 27. A Brass of Nicholas Wbtton, Rector, 1483. An \,q^ Qjjg gtone Honorary Member of the Merchant Taylors' f Company. J Page 46. — An Act for Tithes in London. Where of late Time Contention, Strife and Variance hath risen and grown within the City of London, and the Liberties of the same, between the Parsons, Vicars and Curates of the said City, and the Citizens and Inhabitants of the same, for and concerning the payment of Tithes, Oblations,and other Duties within the said City and Liberties : Por appeasing whereof, a certain Order and Decree was made thereof by the most Eeverend Pather in Grod Thomas [Cranmer] Archbishop of Ccmterhwry, Metropolitane, Chief Primate of all England, Thomas Audley Knight, Lord Audley of Walden, and then Lord Chancellor of England, now deceased, and other of the King's Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council ; and also the King's Letters Patents and Proclamation was made thereof, and directed to the said Citizens con- cerning the same ; whereupon it was after enacted in the Parliament holden at Westminster by Prorogation the Pourth Day of Felruary in the Twenty-seventh Tear of the King's Majesty's most noble Eeign, by Authority of the same Parliament, that the Citizens and the Inhabitants of the same City should, at Easter then next coming, pay unto the Curates of the said City and Suburbs, all such and like Sums of Money for Tithes, Oblations and other Duties, as the said Citizens and Inha- bitants by the Order of the said late Lord Chancellor, and other of the King's most honourable Council, and the King's said Proclamation, paid or ought to have paid by Porce and Virtue of the said Order at Easter, which was in the Tear of our Lord G-od MDXXXV, and the same Payments so to continue from Time to Time, until such Time as any other Order or Law should be made, published, ratified and con- firmed by the King's Highness, and the Two and Thirty Persons by His Grace to be named, as well for the full Establishment, concerning the Payment of all Tithes, Oblations, and other Duties of the Inha- 382 Appendix. bitants within the said City, Suburbs and Liberties of the same, as for the making of other Ecclesiastical Laws of this Eealm of Englcmd, and that every Person denying to pay, as is aforesaid, should, by the Com- mandment of the Mayor of London for the Time being, be committed to Prison, there to remain until such Time as he or they should have agreed with the Curate or Curates for their said Tithes, Oblations and other Duties, as is aforesaid, as in the said Act more plainly appeareth : Sithen which Act divers Variances, Contentions and Strifes are newly risen and grown between the said Parsons, Vicars and Curates, and the said Citizens and Inhabitants, touching the Payments of the Tithes, Oblations and other Duties, by reason of certain "Words and Terms specified in the said Order, which are not so plainly and fully set forth, as is thought convenient and meet to be ; for appeasing whereof, as well the said Parsons, Vicars and Curates, as the said Citizens and Inhabitants, have compromitted and put themselves to stand to such Order and Decree touching the Premisses, as shall be made by the said Eight Reverend Pather in God Thomcbs Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitane and Primate of England, the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wryothesly Knight,. Lord Wryoikesly, and Lord Chancellor of England, the Right Honourable Thomas Duke of Norfolk, Lord Treasurer of England, the Right Honourable Sir William, Faulet Knight, Lord St. John, Lord President of the Council, and Lord great Master of the King's most Honourable Household, the Right Honourable Sir John Russet Knight, Lord Sussel and Lord Privy Seal, the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Hertford, Lord G-reat Chamberlain of England, the Right Honourable John Viscount lAsle, High Admiral of England, Sir Richard Lister Knight, Chief Justice of England, Sir Edward Montague Knight, Chief Justice of the Common Bench at Westminster, and Sir Roger Cholmely Knight, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, for a final End and Conclusion to be had and made touching the Premisses for ever. And to the Intent to have a full Peace and perfect End between the said Parties, their Heirs and Successors, touching the said Tithes, Oblations and other Duties for ever, be it enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, That such End, Order and Direction, as shall be made, decreed, and con- cluded by the forenamed Archbishop, Lords and Knights, or any Six of them, before the First Day of March next ensuing, of, for, and con- cerning the Payments of the Tithes, Oblations and other Duties within the said City, and the Liberties of the same, and inroUed in the King's High Court of Chancery of Record, shall stand, remain, and be as an Act of Parliament, and shall bind as well all Citizens and Inha- bitants of the said City and Liberties for the Time being, as the said Parsons, Vicars, Curates, and their Successors for ever, according to the Efi"ect, Purport and Intent of the said Order and Decree so to be made and inrolled ; and that every Person denying to pay any of his or their Tithes, Oblations, or other Duties, contrary to the said Decree so to be made, shall, by the Commandment of the Mayor of London for the Time being, and in his Default or Negligence, by the Lord Chancellor of England for the Time being, be committed to Prison, Appendix. 383 there to remain till such Time as he or they have agreed with the Curate and Curates for his or their said Tithes, Oblations and other Duties as is aforesaid. The DECREE. II. As touching the Payment of Tithes in the City of London, and the Liberties of the same, it is fully ordered and decreed by the most Eeverend Father in God Thomas Archbishop of Oanterbury, Primate and Metropolitane of England, Thomas Lord Wryoihesly, Lord Chan- cellor of England, William Lord St. John, President of the King's Majesty's Council, and Lord great Master of His Highness House- hold, John Lord Bussel, Lord Privy Seal, Edward Earl of Sertford, Lord great Chamberlain of England, John Viscount Lisle, High Admiral of England, Richard Lister Knight, Chief Justice of England, and Roger Ghohnely Knight, Chief Baron of His Grace's Exchequer, this present Twenty fourth Day of Eebruary, Anno Domini, secundum cursum et computationem Ecclesice Anglicance, millesimo quingentesimo guadragesimo quinto, according to the Statute in such Case lately pro- vided, that the Citizens and Inhabitants of the said City of London and Liberties of the same, for the Time being, shall yearly without Fraud or Covin for ever pay their Tithes to the Parsons, Vicars, and X)urates of the said City, and their Successors, for the Time being, after the Bate hereafter following, that is to wit, Of every x.s. Eent by the Tear of all and every House and Houses, Shops, Warehouses, Cellars, Stables, and every of them within the said City and Liberty of the same, xvi. d. ob. And every of xx. s. Eent by the Tear of all and every such House and Houses, Shops, "Warehouses, Cellars, and Stables and every of them within the said City and Liberties, ij. s. and ix. d. And so above the Eent of xx. s. by the Tear, ascending from x. s. to x.s. according to the Eate aforesaid. in. Item, That where any Lease is or shall be made of any Dwelling House or Houses, Shops, Warehouses, Cellars or Stables or any of them, by Fraud or Covin, reserving less Eent than hath been accustomedj or is, or that any such Lease shall be made without any Eent reserved upon the same, by reason of any Fine or Income paid beforehand, or by any other Fraud or Covin; that then in every such Case the Tenant or Farmer, Tenants and Farmers thereof shall pay, for his or their Tithes of the same, after the Eate aforesaid according to the Quality of such Eent or Eents, as the same House or Houses, Shops, Warehouses, Cellars or Stables, or any of them were last letten for, without Fraud or Covin, before the making of such Lease. IV. Item, That every Owner or Owners, Inheritor or Inheritors of any Dwelling House or Houses, Shops, Warehouses, Cellars or Stables, or any of them, within the said City and Liberties, inhabiting or occupying the same himself, or themselves, shall pay after such Eate or Tithes as is abovesaid, after the Quantity of such yearly Eent as the same was last letten for, without Fraud or Covin. 384 Appendix. V. Item, If any Person or Persons have taken, or hereafter shall take any Mease or Mansion Place by Lease, and the Taker or Takers thereof, his or their Executors or Assigns, doth or shall inhabit in any Part thereof, and have or hath within Eight Tears last past before this Order, or hereafter wUl or shall let out the Residue of the same ; that then in such Case the principal Farmer or Farmers, or first Taker or Takers thereof, his or their Executors or Assigns, shall pay his or their Tithes after the Eate aforesaid, according to his or their Quantity therein, and that his or their Executors, Assignee or Assignees, shall pay his or their Tithes after the Eate abovesaid, according to the • Quantity of their Eent by Tear. VI. And that if any Person or Persons have, or shall take divers Mansion Houses, Shops, Warehouses, Cellars or Stables, in One Lease, and letteth or shall let out One or more of the said Houses, and keepeth or shall keep One or more in his or their own Hands, and inhabiteth or inhabit in the same ; that then the said Taker or Takers, and his and their Executors or Assigns shall pay his or their Tithes after the Eate abovesaid, according to the Quantity of the yearly Eent of such Mansion House or Houses, retained in his or their Hands ; and that his Assignee or Assignees of the Residue of the said Mansion House or Houses, shall pay his or their Tithes after the Eate above- said, according to the Quantity of their yearly Eents. VII. Item, If such Farmer or Farmers, or his or their Assigns of any Mansion House or Houses, "Warehouses, Shops, Cellars or Stables, hath at any Time within Eight Tears last past, or shall hereafter, let over all the said Mansion House or Houses contained in his or their Lease, to One Person or to divers Persons ; that then the Inhabitants, Lessees or Occupiers of them, and every of them, shall pay their Tithes after the Eate of such Eents as the Inhabitants, Lessees or Occupiers, and their Assignee or Assignees have been or shall be charged withal, ■without Fraud or Covin. VIII. Item, If any Dwelling House, within Eight Tears last past, was or hereafter shall be converted into a "Warehouse, Storehouse, or such like, or if a Warehouse, Storehouse, or such like, within the said Eight Tears, was or hereafter shall he converted into a Dwelling House ; that then the Occupiers thereof shall pay Tithes for the same, after the Eate above declared of Mansion House Eents. IX. Item, That where any Person shall demise any Dyehouse or Brewhouse, with Implements convenient and necessary for Dyeing or Brewing, reserving a Eent upon the same, as well in respect of such Implements, as in respect of such Dyehouse or Brewhouse ; that then the Tenant shall pay his Tithes after such Eate as is abovesaid, the Third Peny abated ; and that every principal House or Houses, with Key or "Wharf, having any Crane or Gibet belonging to the same, shall pay after the like Eate of their Eents as is aforesaid, the Third Peny abated ; and that other Wharfs belonging to Houses having no Crane or Gribet, shall pay for his Tithes as shall be paid for Mansion Houses, in Form aforesaid. X. Item, That where any Mansion House with a Shop, Stable, Appendix. 385 Warehouse, Wharf with Crane, Timber Yard, Teinter Yard, or Garden belonging to the same, or as Parcel of the same, is or shall be occupied together, that if the same be hereafter seyered or divided, or at any Time within Eight Years last past were severed or divided ; that then the Parmer or Farmers, Occupier or Occupiers thereof, shall pay such Tithes as is abovesaid, for such Shops, Stable, Warehouses, Wharf with Crane, Timber Yard, Teinter Yard or Garden aforesaid, so severed or divided, after the Eate of their several Rents thereupon reserved. XI. Item, That the said Citizens and Inhabitants shall pay their Tithes quarterly, that is to say, at the Feast of faster, the Nativity of St. John Baptist, the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, and the Nativity of our Lord, by even Portions. XII. Item, That every Householder paying Ten Shillings Eent or above, shall, for him or herself, be discharged of their Four Offering- days : But his Wife, Children, Servant, or others of their Family, taking the Eights of the Church at Haster, shall pay Two-pence for their Four Offering days yearly. XIII. Provided always, and it is decreed. That if any House or Houses which hath been or hereafter shall be letten for Ten Shillings Eent by Year or more, be or hath at any Time within Eight Years last passed, or hereafter shall be, divided and leased into small Parcels or Members, yielding less yearly Eent than Ten Shillings by the Year; that then the Owner or Owners, if he or they dwell in any Part of such House, or else the principal Lessee and Lessees, if the Owner or Owners do not dwell in some Part of the same, shall from henceforth pay for his or their Tithes after such Eate of Eent as the same House was accustomed to be letten for, before such Division or dividing into Parts or Members : And the under Farmer and Farmers, Lessee and Lessees, to be discharged of all Tithes for such small Parcels, Parts or Members, rented at less yearly Eent than Ten SbiUings by Year without Fraud or Covin, paying Two-pence yearly for Four Offering-days. XIY. Provided alway, and it is decreed, That for such Gardens as appertain not to any Mansion House, and which any Person or Persons holdeth or shall hold in his or their Hands for Pleasure, or to his own Use ; that the then Person so holding the same, shall pay no Tithes for the same : But if any Person or Persons, which holdeth, or shall hold any such Garden, containing Half an Acre or more, doth or shall make any yearly Profit thereof by way of Sale ; that then he or they shall pay Tithes for the same, after such Eate of his Eent, as is herein first above specified. XV. Provided also. That if any such Gardens now being of the Quantity of Half an Acre, or more, be hereafter by Fraud or Covin divided into less Quantity or Quantities, then to pay Tithe according to the Eate abovesaid. XVI. Provided alway. That this Decree shall not extend to the Houses of great Men, or noble Men, or noble Women, kept in their own Hands, and not letten for any Eent, which in Times past hath c c 386 Appendix. paid no Tithes, so long as they shall so continue unletten : Nor to any Halls or Crafts or Companies, so long as they be kept unletten, so that the same Halls in Times past have not used to pay any Tithes. XVII. Provided always, and it is decreed. That this present Order and Decree shall not in anywise extend to bind or charge any Sheds, Stables, Cellars, Timber Yards, ne Teinter Yards, which were never Parcel of any Dwelling House, ne appertaining or be- longing to any Dwelling House, ne have been accustomed to pay any Tithes ; but that the said Citizens and Inhabitants shall thereof be quit of Payment of any Tithes, as it hath been used and accustomed. XVIII. Provided also, and it is decreed. That where less Sum than after Sixteen Pence Halfpenny in the Ten Shillings Eent, or less Sum than Two Shillings Nine-pence in the Twenty Shillings Eent, hath been accustomed to be paid for Tithes ; that then in such Places the said Citizens and Inhabitants shall pay but only after such Eate as hath been accustomed. XIX. Item, It is also decreed. That if any Variance, Controversy, or Strife, do or shall hereafter arise in the said City for Non-payment of any Tithes ; or if any Variance or Doubt arise upon the true Knowledge or Division of any Eent or Tithes, within the Liberties of the said City, or of any Extent or Assessment thereof, or if any Doubt arise upon any other Thing contained within this Decree ; that then upon Complaint made by the Party grieved, to the Mayor of the City of London for the time being, the said Mayor, by the Advice of Council, shall call the said Parties before him, and make a final End in the same, with Costs to be awarded by the Discretion of the said Mayor and his Assistants, according to the Intent and Purport of this present Decree. XX. And if the said Mayor make not an End thereof within Two Months after Complaint to him made, or if any of the said Parties find themselves aggrieved, that then the Lord Chancellor of England for the time being, upon complaint to him made within Three Months then next following, shall make an End in the same, with such Costs to be awarded as shall be thought convenient, according to the Intent and Purport of the said Decree. XXI. Provided always. That if any Person or Persons take any Tenement for a less Eent than it was accustomed to be letten for, by reason of great Euin or Decay, brenning, or such like Occasions or Misfortunes; that then such Person or Persons, his Executors or Assigns, shall pay Tithes only after the Eate of the Eent reserved in his or their Lease, and none otherwise, as long as the same Lease shall endure. Appendix. 387 Page 46. — An Act for the Relief of certain Incmnlents of Livings in the City of London. WHEEEAS by an Act, passed in the Twenty-second and Twenty- third Tears of the Eeign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled, " An Act for the better Settlement of the Maintenance of the Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, in the Parishes of the City of London, burnt by the late dreadful fire there. AETEE reciting, that the Tythes in the City of London were levied and paid with great Inequality, and were, since the late dreadful Eire there, in the re- building of the same, by taking away of some houses, altering the Foundations of many, and the new erecting of others, so disordered, that, in case they should not for the Time to come be reduced to a Certainty, many Controversies and Suits at law might thence arise ; IT was Enacted, That the Annual certain Tythes of all and every Parish and Parishes within the said City of London and the Liberties thereof, whose Churches had been demolished or in part consumed by the late Eire, and which said Parishes, by virtue of an Act of that Parliament, intituled, " An additional Act for rebuilding of the City of London, uniting of Parishes, and rebuilding of the Cathedral and Parochial Churches within the said City," remained and continued single as theretofore they were, or were by the said Act annexed or united into one Parish respectively, should be as foUoweth (that is to say) The Annual certain Tythes or Sum of Money in lieu of Tythes, Of the Parish of Alhallows Lombard Street, One hundred and Ten, Pounds ; Of Saint Bartholomew Exchange, One hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Bridget alias Brides, One hundred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Bennet Eink, One hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Crooked Lane, One hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Christopher, One hundred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Dionis Back Church, One hundred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Dunstaii in the Bast, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint James Garlick-Hythe, One hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Comhill, One hundred and Eorty Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Bassishaw, One hundred and Thirty-two Pounds Eleven Shillings ; Of Saint Margaret Lothbury, One hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Mary Aldermanbury, One hundred and Eifty Pounds ; Of Saint Martin Ludgate, One hundred and Sixty Pounds ; Of Saint Peter Comhill, One hundred and Ten Pounds ; Of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, One hundred and Ten Pounds ; Of Saint Sepulchre, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Alhallows Bread Street, and Saint John Evangelist, One Hundred and Eorty Pounds ; Of Alhallows the Great and Alhallows the Less, Two hundred Pounds ; c c 2 388 Appendix. Of Saint Albans Wood Street and Saint Olaves Silver Street, One hundred and Seventy Pounds ; Of Saint Anne and Agnes and Saint John Zachary, One hundred and Porty Pounds ; Of Saint Augustin and Saint Faith, One hundred and Seventy-two Pounds ; Of Saint Andrew Wardrobe and Saint Ann Blackfriars, One hundred and Porty Pounds ; Of Saint Antholin and Saint John Baptist, One hundred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Benet Gracechurch and Saint Leonard Easteheap, One hundred and Porty Pounds ; Of Saint Bennet Paul's Wharf and Saint Peter Paul's Wharf, One hundred Pounds ; Of Christ Church and Saint Leonard Foster Lane, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Edmond the King and St. Nicholas Aeons, One hundred and Eighty Pounds ; Of Saint George Botolph Lane and Saint Botolph Billingsgate, One hundred and Eighty Pounds ; Of Saint Lawrence Jury and Saint Magdalen Milk Street, One hun- dred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Magnus and Saiat Margaret new Fish Street, One hundred and Seventy Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Eoyal and Saint Martin Viutry, One hundred and Forty Pounds ; Of Saint Matthew Friday Street and Saint Peter Cheap, One hundred and Fifty Pounds ; Of Saint Margaret Pattons and Saint Gabriel Fenchurch, One hundred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Mary at Hill and Saint Andrew Hubbard, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Mary Woolnoth and Saint Mary Woolchurch, One hundred and Sixty Pounds ; Of Saint Clement Easteheap and Saint Martin Orgars, One hundred and Forty Pounds j Of Saint Mary Abchurch and Saint Lawrence Pountney, One hundred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Mary Aldermary and Saint Thomas Apostle, One hundred and Fifty Pounds ; Of Saint Mary Le Bow, Saint Pancras Soper Lane, and Alhallows Honey Lane, Two Hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Mildred Poultry and Saint Mary Cole Church, One hundred and Seventy Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Wood Street and Saint Mary Staining, One hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Mildred Bread Street and Saint Margaret Moses, One hun- dred and Thirty Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Queenhythe and Trinity, One hundred and Sixty Pounds ; Appendix. 389 Of Saint Magdalen Old Fish Street and Saint Gregory, One hundred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Mary Somerset and Saint Mary Mounthaw, One hundred and Ten Pounds ; Of Saint Nicholas Coleabby and Saint Nicholas Olaves, One hundred and Thirty Pounds ; Of Saiut Olave Jewry and Saint Martin, Ironmonger Lane, One hun- dred and Twenty Pounds ; Of Saint Stephen "Walbrook and Saint Bennet Sheerhog, One hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Swythin and Saint Mary Bothaw, One hundred and Forty Pounds ; Of Saint Vedast alias Forsters and Saint Michael Quern, One hundred and Sixty Pounds ; "WTiich respective Sums of Money to be paid in lieu of Tythes within the said respective Parishes, and assessed as thereinafter is directed, should be and continue to be esteemed, deemed, and taken, to all Intents and Purposes, to be the respective certain Annual Mainte- nance (over and above Grlebes and Perquisites, Gifts and Bequests to the respective Parson, Vicar, and Curate of any Parish for the Time being, or to his or their respective Successors, or to other Persons for his or their use) of the said respective Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, who should be legally instituted, inducted, and admitted, into the re- spective Parishes aforesaid : And that the said several Sums of Money for Tythes might be more equally assessed upon the several Houses, Buildings, and all other Hereditaments whatsoever within all the said respective Parishes, It was Enacted, That the Alderman of such re- spective Ward or Wards within the said City wherein any of the said Parishes respectively lay, and his or their Deputy or Deputies, and the Common Councilmen of such respective Ward or "Wards, with the Churchwardens and One or more of the Parishioners of such respective Parish wherein the Maintenance aforesaid was respectively to be assessed, to be nominated by such respective Alderman, Deputy, Common Councilmen, and Churchwardens, or any Five of them, whereof the Alderman or his Deputy to be one, should in the Manner therein directed, assemble and meet together ; and that they, or the major Part of them so assembled, should proportionably assess upon all Houses, Shops, "Warehouses and Cellars, "Wharfs, Keys, Cranes, "Waterhouses, (which "Waterhouses shoidd pay in their respective Parishes where they stood, and not elsewhere) and Tofts of Ground (remaining unbuilt) and all other Hereditaments whatsoever (except Parsonage and Vicarage Houses) the whole respective Sum by that Act appointed, or so much of it as was more than what each Impro- priator was by that Act enjoined respectively to allow, in the most equal way that the said Assessors, according to the best of their Judg- ments, could make it ; and such Eegulations were made for effecting the Purposes of the said Act as therein are mentioned : And it was amongst other Things further Enacted, That for the surer and better Payment of the said respective Sums of Money so to be assessed 390 Appendix. and taxed towards the raising of the said Maintenance of the respective Parsons, Vicars, and Curates of the said respective Parishes as aforesaid, all and every such respective Sum and Sums of Money so to be assessed and taxed as aforesaid towards the raising of the said Maintenance of the said respective Parsons, Yicars, and Curates of the said respective Parishes, should be paid to the said respective Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, and their Successors respectively, at the Four usual Peasts (that is to say) at the Annunciation of theBlessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the Peast of Saint Michael the Archangel, and the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour, or ■within Pourteen Days after each of the said Peasts, by equal Pay- ments : And in any Parish or Parishes where any Impropriations were, It was Enacted, That all and e.very the Impropriator or Impropriators of any of the said Parishes, should pay and allow what really and iona fide they had used and ought to pay and satisfy to the respective Incumbent of such respective Parish, at any Time before the said late Pire, and that the same should be esteemed and computed as Part of the Maintenance of such Incumbent, notwithstanding that Act or any Clause or Matter or Thing therein contained : And ■whereas, since the passing of the said recited Act the Eectory of the aforesaid Parish of Saint Christopher hath, by an Act passed in the Twenty-first Year of the Eeign of His present Majesty, been united to the Eectory of the aforesaid Parish of Saint Margaret Lothbury, and there is now but one Incumbent of the said united Kectories : And whereas the said recited Act hath failed in providing a proper Maintenance for the Parsons, Vicars, and Curates in the said Parishes, inasmuch as the respective Incomes being by the said Act fixed at very low Eates, the same are, by the decreased Value of Money, the en- hanced Price of all the Necessaries of Life, and by various other Circumstances peculiarly attached to the Incumbents of the City of X/ondon, become greatly insufficient for the due Support of their Situa- tion and Character ; it hath been therefore deemed expedient for their Eelief to make such Alterations in the said in part recited Act as are hereinafter expressed and contained ; Be it therefore Enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, instead of the Annual Tythes of all and every Parish and Parishes within the City of London and the Liberties thereof, whose Churches were demolished or in Part consumed by the Fire mentioned in the said recited Act, the Annual certain Tythes or Sums of Money in lieu of Tythes, of and for the Parish and Parishes within the said City and Liberties hereinafter enumerated, shall, from and after the Twenty-ninth Day of September One thousand Eight Hundred and Four, be as follows (that is to say) Of the Parish of Alhallows Lombard Street, Two Hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Bartholomew Exchange, Two Hundred Pounds ; Appendiw. 391 Of Saint Bridget alias Brides, Two Hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Bennet Fink, Two Hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Crooked Lane, Two Hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Dionis Back Churcli, Two Hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Dunstan in the East, Three Hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint James Garlick Hythe, Two Hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Michael Cornhill, Two hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Michael Bassishaw, Two hundred and Twenty Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Pour Pence ; Of Saint Mary Aldermanbury, Two hundred and Pifty Pounds ; Of Saint Martin Ludgate, Two Hundred and Sixty-six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Pour Pence ; Of Saint Peter Cornhill, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Sepulchre, Three hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Alhallows Bread Street and Saint John Evangelist, Two hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of AlhaUows the Great and Alhallows the Less, Three hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Albans "Wood Street and Saint Olaves Silver Street, Two hundred and Eighty-Three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Anne and Agnes, and Saint John Zachary, Two hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Augustin and Saint Paith, Two hundred and Eighty-six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Four Pence ; Of Saint Andrew Wardrobe and Saint Anne Blackfriars, Two hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Antholin and Saint John Baptist, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Bennet Grace Church and Saint Leonard East Cheap, Two hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Bennet Paul's Wharf, and Saint Peter Paul's Wharf, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Christ Church and Saint Leonard Poster Lane, Three hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Edmond the King and Saint Nicholas Aeons, Three hundred Pounds ; Of Saint George Botolph Lane and St. Botolph, Billingsgate, Three hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Lawrence Jewry and Saint Magdalen Milk Street, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Margaret Lothbury and Saint Christopher, Three hundred and Sixty-six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Pour Pence ; Of Saint Magnus and Saint Margaret New Pish Street, Two hundred and Eighty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; 392 Appendix. Of Saint Michael Eoyal and Saint Martin Vintry, Two hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Matlhew Friday Street and Saint Peter Cheap, Two hundred and Eifty Pounds ; Of Saint Margaret Pattons and Saint Gabriel Ten Church, Two hundred Pounds ; ^ Of Saint Mary at Hill and Saint Andrew Hubbard, Three hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Mary Woolnoth and Saint Mary "Woolchurch, Two hundred and Sixty-six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Eour Pence ; Of Saint Clement Eastcheap and Saint Martin Orgars, Two hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Mary Abchurch and Saint Lawrence Pountney, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Mary Aldermary and Saint Thomas Apostles, Two hundred and Eifty Pounds ; Of Saint Mary le Bow, Saint Pancras Soper Lane and Alhallows Honey Lane, Three hundred and Thirty-three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Mildred Poultry and Saint Mary Colechurch, Two hundred and Eighty -three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Michael Wood Street and Saint Mary Staining, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Mildred Bread Street and Saint Margaret Moses, Two hundred and Sixteen Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Pour Pence ; Of Saint Michael Queenhithe and Trinity, Two hundred and Sixty-six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Eour Pence ; Of Saint Magdalen Old Fish Street and Saint Gregory, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Mary Somerset and Saint Mary Mounthaw, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Nicholas Coleabby and Saint Nicholas Olaves, Two hundred and Sixteen Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Pour Pence ; Of Saint Olave Jewry and Saint Martin L-onmonger Lane, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Stephen Walbrook and Saint Bennet Sheerhog, Two hundred Pounds ; Of Saint Swithin and Saint Mary Bothaw, Two hundred and Thirty- three Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence ; Of Saint Vedast alias Posters and Saint Michael Quern, Two hundred and Sixty-six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Eour Pence ; And be it further Enacted, That the said respective Sums of Money to be paid in lieu of Tythes within the said respective Parishes, shall be and continue to be esteemed, deemed, and taken, to all Intents and Purposes, to be the respective certain Annual Maintenance (over and above Glebes and Perquisites, Gifts and Bequests, to the respective Parson, Vicar, and Curate of any Pariah for the Time being, or to his or their respective Successors, or to other Persons for his or their Use) of the said respective Parsons, Vicara, and Curates, legally in- Appendix. 393 stituted, inducted, and admitted into the respective Parishes afore- said. And in order that the said several Sums of Money in lieu of Tythes, may be more equally assessed upon the several Houses, Buildings, and all other Hereditaments whatsoever, within all the said Parishes ; BE it further Enacted, that the Alderman or Aldermen of such respective Ward or Wards, within the said City, wherein any of the said Parishes respectively lie, and his or their Deputy or Deputies, and the Common Councilmen of such respective Ward or Wards, with the Churchwarden or Churchwardens, if there should be only One, and any One or more of the Parishioners of the respective Parish wherein the Maintenance aforesaid is respectively to be assessed, to be nominated by such Alderman or Aldermen, Deputy or Deputies, Common Councilmen and Church Wardens, or Church Warden, or any five or more of them, whereof the Alderman or Aldermen, or his or their Deputy or Deputies, to be One or Two, shall at some con- venient and seasonable Time before the Thirty-first Day of July next after the passing of this Act, assemble and meet together in some con- venient Place, within every of the respective Parishes, wherein the Maintenance aforesaid is to be assessed, and the said Alderman or Aldermen, Deputy or Deputies, Common Councilmen, and Church- wardens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or Parishioners to be nominated as aforesaid, or the major Part of them so assembled, shall proportionably assess upon aU Houses, Shops, Warehouses, and Cellars, Wharfs, Keys, Cranes, Waterhouses (which Waterhouses shall pay in the respective Parishes where they stand, and not elsewhere), and Tofts of Ground remaining unbuilt, and aU other Hereditaments what- soever (except Parsonage and Vicarage Houses), the whole respective Sum by this Act appointed, or so much of it as shall exceed what each Impropriator is hereinafter by this Act enjoined respectively to allow in the most equal Way that the said Assessors according to the best of their Judgment can make it ; which said Assessments shall be made and finished before the twenty-first day of August then next ensuing. And be it further enacted. That if any Doubt or Variance shall happen to arise about any Sum so assessed as aforesaid, or if any Parishioner or Parishioners, or Owner or Owners of any House or other Hereditaments hereby directed to be assessed within any of the said Parishes, shall find himself, herself, or themselves aggrieved by the assessing of any Sum or Sums of money, in Manner and Form aforesaid, then upon complaint made by the Party or Parties aggrieved to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the said City, within Pourteen Days after Notice given to the Party or Parties of such Assessment made, the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen sum- moning as well the Party or Parties aggrieved, as the Alderman or Aldermen, or Deputy or Deputies, Common Councilmen, Church- wardens or Churchwarden, and such others as shall make the said Assessment, or the Survivors of them, shall hear and determine the same, in a summary Way, and the Judgment by them given shall be final and without Appeal ; and if no such Parishioner or Parishioners 394 Appendix. shall be nominated in the Manner and for the Purpose aforesaid, or being so nominated, if the said Alderman or Aldermen, Deputy or Deputies, Common Councilmen, Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or Parishioners so appointed, shall after Summons and Request made in that Behalf unto them, by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, or the Incumbent or Incumbents of any of the said respective Parishes, refuse or neglect to meet and make such Assessments as aforesaid, then and in either of such Cases it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the said City, and they are hereby required, on Application of the Incumbent or Incumbents of the said respective Parishes, to authorise and appoint any other Person or Persons to make such Assessment or Assessments for the Purposes aforesaid. And be it further Enacted, That if in all or any of the aforesaid Parishes, it shall appear necessary to the Parishioners specially convened by the Churchwardens or Churchwarden for the Purpose, and assembled in Vestry, at the End of Seven Tears from the Time of passing this Act, and so from Time to Time at the Expiration of every Seven Tears, afterwards to review and alter the respective Assessments to be made in pursuance of this Act, and to make in all or any of the said Parishes, a new Assessment and Bate, or Assess- ments and Rates, in lieu of the then preceding Assessments for the Purpose of raising the Sum and Sums of Money by this Act directed to be raised and paid as aforesaid, then that the Alderman or Alder- men of the respective Ward or Wards within the said City, wherein such Parish or Parishes shall respectively lie, and his or their Deputy or Deputies, and the Common Councilmen of such respective Ward or Wards, with the Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and One or more of the Parishioners of the respective Parish wherein such Assessment shall appear necessary (which Parishioner or Parishioners shall be nominated as before directed) shall in like manner as herein- before is mentioned, assemble and meet together within Pourteen Days after such Nomination, and they or the major Part of them so assembled shall then and there proportionably assess and rate upon the respective Houses and other Hereditaments hereby directed to be assessed, the respective Sums by this Act directed to be raised and paid as hereinbefore is mentioned, and that every such new Assess- ment and Rate shall be liable to the like Appeals as aforesaid, and shall be collected, levied, and paid in like Manner as the first Assess- ment or Rate mentioned in this Act may or ought to be collected, levied, and paid. And be it further enacted, That the said Assessors within Pour- teen Days after any Assessment shall have been made, and the respective Appeals (if any be) determined, shall make four Tran- scripts thereof in Writing, containing the respective Sums to be payable, or appointed to be paid out of all and every the Premises assessable within such respective Parish, and subscribe the same with their respective Names, and that within Twenty Days after such Subscription as aforesaid, One of the said Transcripts shall be sent to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and deposited in the Town Appendix. 395 Clerk's Office of the aaid City, and there kept and preserved among the Eecords of the said City, for a perpetual Memorial thereof; another of the said Transcripts shall be deposited in the Eegistry of the Consistory Court of the Lord Bishop of London, to be kept and preserved as aforesaid ; another of the said Transcripts shall remain and be kept in the Vestry of such respective Parish, for a perpetual Memorial, as before mentioned, and the remaining Transcript shall be delivered within Three Days after such Subscription to the Incumbent of such respective Parish, and the said Assessment shall continue in force and be acted upon until any new Assessment shall be made in pursuance of this Act. And, for the further and better Payment of the said respective Sums of Money so to be assessed or taxed, towards raising the Main- tenance of the said respective Parsons, Vicars, and Curates of the said respective Parishes as aforesaid ; BE it further Enacted, That all and every such respective Sum and Sums of Money so to be assessed and taxed as aforesaid, towards the raising of the said Maintenance, shall be payable to the said respective Parsons, Vicars, and Curates of the said respective Parishes, and their Successors respectively, or their Agents, Eeceivers, or Collectors, on the following Days in every Tear, that is to say, the twenty-fifth day of December, the twenty- fifth Day of March, the twenty-fourth Day of June, and the Twenty- ninth Day of September, or within Thirty Days after each of the said Days, by equal Payments, free and clear of aU Manner of Taxes, Assessments, and Deductions whatsoever, affecting the said respective Sums of Money. And whereas in certain of the Parishes hereinbefore named there are Impropriations ; and the Impropriators were, as hereinbefore is mentioned, by the said recited Act directed to pay and allow what really and hand fide they had used and ought to have paid and satisfied to the respective Incumbents of the said Parishes before the said Eire which s^id Payments were to be esteemed and computed as Part of the Maintenance of such Incumbents ; BE it therefore further Enacted That in the Parishes of Saint Bridget otherwise Saint Bride's, Saint Bennet Einck, Saint Mary Aldermanbury, Saint Stephen Coleman Street, AlhaUows the Less, Christ Church, Saint Lawrence Jewry Saint Lawrence Pountney, and Saint Mary Cole Church, the Impro- priators shall continue to allow and pay to the respective Incumbents of the same Parishes what they have been accustomed to allow and pay before and since the passing of the said recited Act of the twenty- second and twenty-third Tears of the Eeign of King Charles the Second, which said Sums shall be paid to the Incumbents of the same respective Parishes, in part of the respective Sums hereinbefore ap- pointed to be the certain Annual Maintenance of the same respective Incumbents. And whereas Two-third Parts of the Impropriate Tythes of the Parish of Saint Sepulchre are vested in Trustees, in Trust for the Parishioners of that Parish ; and the Vicar of the said Parish is endowed with the remaining Third Part of the said Impropriate Tythes j BE it therefore further Enacted, That the said Vicar shall 396 Appendix. from and after the twenty-ninth Day of September One Thousand Eight hundred and Four, receive the full Sum directed by this Act to be paid him for his Maintenance, in lieu of the Third Part of the said Impropriate Ty thes, to which by virtue of his Endowment he is entitled, from the several Inhabitants, of or from or out of, or for or in respect of the several Houses, Tenements, and other Hereditaments situated within that Part of the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre, which lies within the Liberties of the City of London, but exclusive of and over and above the Third Part of the Tythes to which he is entitled, from the Inhabitants, of or from or out of, or for or in respect of the several Houses, Tenements, or other Hereditaments situate within that Part of the said Parish which lies within the County of Middlesex; and that from and after the said twenty-ninth Day of September, One thousand Eight hundred and Four, the said Third Part of the said Impropriate Tythes, due from the Inhabitants, of or from or out of, or in respect of the several Houses, Tenements, or other Hereditaments situate within that Part of the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre which lies within the said Liberties of the City of London, shall cease and determine, and be no longer paid or payable. And whereas in several of the aforesaid Parishes divers Houses and other Buildings have been taken down, for the Improvement of the City of London, by Order of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the said City, or have been taken down or altered by other Corporate Bodies or Public Companies or Persons, for other Purposes ; and as a Compensation in respect thereof, certain Yearly Sums have been regularly paid by the Chamber of the said City, or by such Corporate Bodies or Public Companies, or Persons, to the Incumbents of the Parishes wherein the House and Buildings so taken down were respectively situate, which Yearly Sums are equal to the Yearly Sums paid under the before recited Act to the said Incumbents, in respect of the said Houses and other Buildings so taken down ; and it may happen that other Houses and Buildings may be hereafter taken down or altered for similar Purposes ; BE it therefore further Enacted, that the several Yearly Sums of Money, which such Incumbents respectively have been accustomed or are or may be entitled to receive from the Chamber of London, or from any other Corporate Body or Bodies, Company or Companies, or from any Person or Persons whomsoever, in respect of the said Houses and other Buildings so taken down, shall respectively be and continue to be paid and payable to the said Incumbents respectively, and their respective Successors, in Aid and as Part of the several Sums herein- before authorized to be raised by Assessments , for the Benefit of the said Incumbents respectively, but so nevertheless as not to exonerate any Dwellinghouse, Shop, Warehouse, or other Building, in the Occupation of any private Person or Persons, from the Payment of the Sum or Sums for Tythes or in lieu of Tythes to be assessed by virtue of this Act ; but that the said Sum or Sums to be so assessed and paid for or in respect of any such Dwellinghouse, Shop, Ware- house, or other Building, shall be received and taken by the Incumbent Appendix. 397 of any Parish in which the same shall be situate, in part of the Sum or Sums by this Act authorized to be raised for the benefit of such respective Incumbent. And be it further Enacted, That if any of the Inhabitants in any of the respective Parishes aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to pay to the respective Incumbents of any of the said respective Parishes any Sum or Sums of Money to him or them respectively payable, or appointed to be paid by virtue of this Act, or any Part thereof, con- trary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, (being lawfully demanded by the said respective Incumbents, or their Agents or Eeceivers, or Collectors, either in Person or by "Writing left at the House or Houses, Wharf, Quay, Crane, Cellar, or other Premises out of which the same is payable) that then it shall be lawful for the Lord Mayor or any other Magistrate of the City of London for the Time being, upon oath to be made before him of such Eefusal or Neglect, to give and grant Warrants for the Officer or Person appoiuted to collect the same, with the Assistance of a Constable, in the Day Time, to levy the same- Sums of Money so due and in Arrear and unpaid, by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Party or Parties BO refusing or neglecting to pay, or the Goods and Chattels of the Occupier or Occupiers for the time being of the Tenements or Here- ditaments in respect whereof such Arrears shall be due or owing, restoring to the Owner or Owners the Overplus of such Goods, or the Overplus of the Monies produced by such Sale, over and above the said Arrears of the said Monies so due and unpaid, and the reason- able Charges of making such Distress, which he is to deduct out of the Monies raised by Sale of such Goods. Provided always nevertheless, and it is hereby further Enacted and Declared, That notwithstanding any thing hereinbefore contained, in case, and when and so often as all or any of the respective Annual Maintenances or Sums by this Act appointed to be raised and paid, or so much of them respectively, or any of them, as shall exceed what the respective Impropriators before mentioned are by this Act enjoined respectively to allow, shall respectively be assessed and raised, by the Ways and Means and in the Manner hereinafter authorized and directed, and paid to the said respective Incumbents, or their respective Agents or Collectors, or Eeceivers, within Thirty Days next after the several Quarterly Days hereinbefore appointed for the Payment thereof, without any Deduction or Abatement whatsoever, then and in every such Case, from Time to Time, such of the same respective Annual Maintenances or Sums, or such Part or Parts thereof respec- tively as shall be so paid, shall not be raised or paid as hereinbefore is directed but by the Ways and Means, and in the Manner hereinafter authorized and appointed in that behalf. And be it further Enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Church- wardens or Churchwarden (if but one) of the respective Parishes wherein the Maintenances aforesaid are respectively to be assessed, and to and for any One or more of the Parishioners, to be Yearly appointed in Vestry by the Inhabitants of such respective Parishes (the first of such Vestries in each Parish to be summoned by the said 398 AppendisD. respective Churctwardens or Churchwardeu, and held within twenty- one Days next after the passing of this Act) to assemble and meet together Yearly and every Tear at some convenient and seasonable Time before the thirty-first Day of July next after such Appointment, in some convenient Place within every of the respective Parishes wherein the Maintenances aforesaid are to be assessed ; and the said Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and the Parishioner or Parishioners to be appointed as aforesaid, or the major Part of them, so assembled in and for each respective Parish, are hereby authorized and empowered Yearly before the twenty-first Day of August in every Year, by an equal Eate upon all Houses, Shops, "Warehouses, Cellars, "Wharfs, Quays, Cranes, "Waterhouses (each Waterhouse to be paid for in the Parish where it stands only) Tofts of Ground, remaining unbuilt, or other Hereditament or Hereditaments whatsoever (except Par- sonage and Vicarage Houses) within such respective Parish, to assess the whole of the respective Sum by this Act appointed to be paid in lieu of Tythes within such respective Parish, for or towards such Maintenance as aforesaid, or so much of it as shall exceed what the respective Impropriators (if any) are hereinbefore by this Act enjoined respectively to allow, together with the Charges of making such respective Eate or Assessment, and collecting the Money so assessed, and all other incidental Charges relating thereto, the same to be pay- able and paid Quarterly on the several Days first hereinbefore appointed for the payment of the said Maintenance ; and the said Churchwar- dens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or Parishioners, to be Yearly appointed as aforesaid, or the major part of them so assembled in and for each respective Parish shall and they are hereby further authorized to collect and receive the sums so by them to be assessed, as and when the same shall become due, and with or out of the same or otherwise, to pay and discharge the respective Maintenance for and in respect whereof the same shall have been assessed respec- tively, within Thirty Days next after each Quarterly Day of Payment first hereinbefore appointed for the payment of such Maintenance, without any Deduction or Abatement whatsoever and thereupon also to retain, pay, and discharge all such incidental Charges and Expenses as aforesaid. And be it further Enacted, That in case any Person or Persons shall think himself, herself, or themselves aggrieved by any Eate or Assessment to be made as last aforesaid, it shall be lawful for him, her, or them respectively, to appeal to the Court of Mayor and Alder- men of the said City, whose decision shall be final and conclusive : Provided always, that Notice of such Appeal shall be left in "Writing at the Office of the Town Clerk of the said City, and also at the House of the Churchwarden, or of the Vestry Clerk of the respective Parish for which the Assessment complained of shall be made, within Ten Days next after the Sum so rated and assessed shall be demanded, and such Appeal shall be made to the next Court of Mayor and Aldermen of the said City, after such Notice shall be so left as aforesaid. Appendix. 399 And be it further Enacted, That if the Owner or Owners, or Occupier of any House or other Hereditament which shall be rated and assessed by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, by the "Ways and Means and in the Manner last hereby authorized and directed, shall refuse or neglect by the Space of Fourteen Days next after his her, or their respective Bate or Eates, Assessment or Assessments shall be due, and shall be demanded by the Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or Parishioners to whom the same ought to be paid (such Demand being left in Writing, at the House, Shop, "Warehouse, Cellar, "Wharf, Quay, Crane, Waterhouse, Toft, or other Hereditaments or Premises possessed, rented, or occupied by him, her, or them so rated and assessed) to pay such Eate or Bates, Assessment or Assessments, so demanded as aforesaid, unless Notice of Appeal shall have been left as last before mentioned ; or if any such Notice be left, and if such Appeal shall not be made accor- dingly, to the next Court of Mayor and Aldermen as aforesaid, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for such Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or Parishioners, every or any of them, having a "Warrant or "Warrants under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Mayor, or any other Magistrate of the said City (which "Warrant or "Warrants the said Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or Parishioners, is and are hereby required to apply for ; and the Lord Mayor or any other Magistrate of the said City, is hereby authorized and required to grant,) and with the Assistance of a Constable, or any Peace Officer of the "Ward, County, City, or Liberty where the Person or Persons, Party or Parties, so refusing or neg- lecting, shall reside, there to seize and distrain any of the Goods and Chattels of the Person or Persons, Party or Parties so refusing or neglecting to pay, or to seize and distrain any of the Goods and Chattels of the Occupier or Occupiers for the Time being of the Tenements or Hereditaments, in respect whereof such Arrears shall be due or owing ; and if the same shall not be replevied, or such Eate or Assessment paid within Pive Days next after such Distress made, together with the Costs and Charges thereof, then to appraise and sell so much of the said Goods and Chattels as shall be sufficient to pay the said Eate or Assessment, and the Costs and Charges attending such Distress and Sale, returning the Overplus (if any) to the Owner or Owners of such Goods and Chattels, the said Costs and Charges to be settled and allowed by the said Lord Mayor, or other Magistrate who shall have granted such "Warrant or "Warrants respectively : Pro- vided always, that no such Distress shall by virtue of this Act be made out of the Limits of the said City and Liberties thereof, unless such "Warrant or "Warrants respectively shall be first backed or counter- signed by some Magistrate of the County, City, or Liberty where such Distress is proposed to be made ; which "Warrant or "Warrants any Magistrate, who shall be applied to for that purpose, shall forth- with and is hereby authorized and required to back or countersign without Pee or Eeward. And be it further Enacted, That when and so often as any 400 Appendix. Quarterly Payment of any Annual Maintenance or Sum by ttis Act authorized to be raised and paid, or so much thereof as shall exceed •what any Impropriator before mentioned is by this Act enjoined respectively to allow, shall happen to be in Arrear and unpaid to the said respective Incumbent entitled to the same, or his respective Agent or Collector, or Receiver for the space of Thirty Days next after any of the Quarterly Days hereinbefore appointed for the Pay- ment thereof, then and in every such Case, from Time to Time, every such Quarterly Payment so in Arrear and unpaid shall and may be raised or levied and paid by the Ways and Means, and according to the Assessment, and in the Manner first hereinbefore authorized and directed in that behalf. And be it further Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to compel or oblige any Person or Persons, being of the People called Quakers, to collect any of the Monies to be raised under or by virtue of this Act, but such Person or Persons is and are hereby excused and exempted from collecting the same. And be it further Enacted, That all and singular the Powers and Authorities in and by the said recited Act of the twenty-second and twenty-third Tears of King Charles the Second, given to and vested in the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London, shall be and the same are hereby from henceforth given to and vested in the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen for the Time being, for and in respect of all and singular the Matters and Things in this Act contained, or by this Act enacted, so far as the Case is or shall be applicable ; and that in case the said Lord Mayor and Court of Alder- men shall refuse or neglect to execute any of the respective Powers to them by this Act granted, or to perform all and every such Things relating either to the assessing or levying of the respective Sums aforesaid, as they are by this Act authorized and required to perform, either expressly or by Reference, that then it shall be lawful for any Two or more of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, by Warrant or Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to do and perform ■what the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, might or ought to have done, and by such Warrant either to empower any Person or Persons to make the respective Assessments as aforesaid, or to authorize the respective OflScers or Persons appointed to collect such Assessments, to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods of any Person or Persons that shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, in Manner and Form aforesaid. Provided always. That no Court or Judge Ecclesiastical or Tem- poral, shall hold Plea of or for any the Sum or Sums of Money due or owing or to be paid by virtue of this Act, or any Part thereof, other than the Persons hereby authorized to have Cognizance thereof; nor shall it be lawful for any Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Incumbent, to convent or sue any Person or Persons assessed as aforesaid, and re- fusing or neglecting to pay the same, in any Court or Courts, or before any Judge or Judges, other than what are authorized and appointed Appendix. 401 by this Act for the Hearing and determining the same in Manner aforesaid. And be it further Enacted, That this Act shall be deemed, ad- judged, and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken Notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and other Persona whomso- eyer, without specially pleading the same. Page 50. St. Helen in Bishops&ate Street in the Citt and Diocese OF London. Special Commission. liaid, before the Board 9th Feb. ■1778, and a Ticket ordered, made out Do. Lot, 6th February, 1810. No. Set aside same day Certified above £80. To THE Eet. WlLLIiM: MOEICE, D.D. „ „ GrEOEGE GaSKIN, D.D. „ „ Henet Fit, D.D. Mr. James Pearson, Mr. Thomas Loggin, Solicitors, and Mr. Thomas Simpson, Secretary to Sion CoUege. WHEEEAS the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, &o., have judged it necessary, pursuant to the statute of ] st George 1st, chap. 10th, to be more fully informed both of the nature and of the yearly value of the Yicarage of St. Helen in Bishopsgate Street in the City and our Diocese of London, and how such yearly value doth arise, with the other circumstances thereof, NOW KNOW TE, that for putting in execution the said Act of Parliament and by virtue thereof, we trusting to the Integrity and skill of you, the several Gentlemen above named, Do by these presents nominate, substitute, and appoint you, or any three or more of you Commissioners in our stead, as well by the oaths of two or more credible Witnesses as by other lawful ways and means to inform yourselves both of the nature and yearly value of the said Vicarage of St. Helen, as well such part thereof as is fixed and certain, as also such part thereof as is voluntary and gratuitous, distinguishing the same as far as may be, and how such yearly value doth arise, with the other circumstances thereof, agreeably to the printed heads of Inquiry hereto annexed, and having so informed your- selves, you are hereby required to certify to us, under your respective Hands, the several particulars above mentioned, by way of answer to the several printed Queries hereto annexed. To the end that we may Certify the same to the said Governors. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the 21st day of May, in the year of our Lord 1797, and in the tenth year of our Translation. B. London. (Seal D d 402 Appendix. Directions for the letter Execution of the within Commission. That the Commissioners take what care they can that the Wit- nesses, whether brought in by the Minister or called by themselves, be credible Persons, and that they do avoid as much as possible, giving any Oath to the Minister himself, and that in their Inquiry into the nature of the Living, they do ask only such Questions of the several "Witnesses upon their Oaths, as do relate to mere matters of fact. That in forming their Judgments touching such part of the value of the said Living as is fixed and certain, they do not consider voluntary subscriptions, gifts, or contributions, or anything of that kind, but only such things as are perpetually annexed thereto, and which can legally be demanded, and that in making deduction there- out, they do not consider the charges of the King's Tax, nor Poor Eates, nor Repairs, but only Pensions, Procurations and Synodals, and such other Things as are certain and perpetual Charges and out- goings. W±i whose hands are hereunto subscribed, and set, being four of the Commissioners nominated and appointed by the Commission hereto annexed, do humbly Certify unto the Kight Honourable and Eight Eeverend Father in &od, Beilby, Lord Bishop of London, that in pur- suance of such Commission, We, by the Oaths of Thomas Greenaway of Bishopsgate Street, in the Parish of St. Helen's, Hatter, and Jonathan Punshon of Bishopsgate Street, Oil and Colourman, and by all other lawful ways and means, have used our utmost endeavours to inform ourselves both of the Nature and of the yearly value of the Vicarage of St. Helen in the City of London, agreeably to the printed Heads of Inquiry annexed to the said Commission, and that the several answers subjoined to the several printed Queries do contain the beat and truest Information we have been able to get concerning the premises. In Testimont whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names this second day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. WiLLM. MOEICE, D.D. Geo. Gaskin, D.D. Hen. Flt, D.D. Thos. Loggin. \st Query. Is Saint Helen in London a Eectory, Vicarage, or per- petual Curacy ; or is it a Donative exempt from all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction P and who is the Patron ; or is it a Chapel of Ease to any, and what Church ? Answer. A Vicarage under the Patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Saint Paul's. 2nd Query. If a Rectory or Vicarage, Is it united to, or consoli- Appendix. 403 dated with, any other, and what Church ? If a perpetual Curacy or Donative, Is it a Parish of Itself ? If a Chapel of Ease, Is the In- cumbent of the Mother Church obliged to do the Duty himself, or to provide a Curate to do it for him ? Answer. It is not united to, nor consolidated with, any other Church. ^rd Query. What is the ancient and accustomed duty which has usually been done at Saint Helen ? By whom is divine service there performed, and how often, and at what particular stated times ? Answer. By the Vicar, on Sundays, in the morning and afternoon, and on Good Friday, Ascension-day, and Christmas-day. 4ith Query. If St. Helen is a Eectory or Vicarage, has the incum- bent been duly instituted and inducted thereto ? or does the present minister hold it by sequestration, and on what ground was such sequestration issued ? If it is a perpetual Curacy, or a Chapel of Ease, has the Minister been duly nominated by the Patron, and been thereupon licenced, by the Bishop ? And if a Donative, does the minister serve it by virtue of any grant or appointment in writing from the patron ? Answer. The Incumbent has been duly collated and inducted. 5tli Query. What is the present clear improved yearly value thereof, distinguishing what part is fixed and certain, and set forth bow the whole doth arise, whether from glebe land, tythes, composition of tythes, or in what other manner ? and what part is uncertain, as sur- plus fees, Easter offerings, &c. ; and in case there is any stipend, set forth by whom the same is paid, and for how long time past, and what security there is that the same will be continued ? Answer. The Vicar receives from Mr. David King, the Impro- priator, a yearly pension of Twenty pounds, reserved and made pay- able out of the rectory of St. Helen's by letters patent granted by Queen Elizabeth in the year 1599, for a stipend or salary to a sufficient preacher of the Word of Q-od from time to time in the said church to be allowed by the Bishop of London. Also from the Company of Skinners in the City of London a yearly payment of three pounds. Also, for preaching two annual sermons, in pursuance of the Will of William Prior, deceased, the yearly sum of thirteen shillings and four- pence. Also for preaching an annual sermon, in pursuance of the Will of Thomas Penner, deceased, the yearly sum of ten shillings. Also, for preaching an in pursuance of the Will of Joyce Eeatley, deceased, twenty shillings. Also, the yearly sum of twenty shillings for preaching a sermon, in pursuance of the Will of Francis Bancroft, Esquire, deceased. Also, the yearly sum of ten shillings for examin- ing and catechising the children of the Charity School founded by the said Francis Bancroft on the day such sermon is preached, in pursu- ance of his Will. Also, part of the yearly sum of Twenty pounds granted by Sir John Lawrence Knight, deceased, to the parish of St. Helen, to be applied towards the encouragement of the Minister, and for the use of the poor of the parish, at the discretion of the D D 2 The Minister of St. Helen is desired to add his proper Direction EoBEBT Watts, M.A., Sion College, London. 404 Appendix. parishioners in Vestry assembled, which part or proportion for the Vicar is at present by order of Vestry Five Guineas per annum, to be paid during the pleasure of the Vestry. ' The surplice fees arising to the Vicar for ten years last appear to have amounted on aa average to about seven pounds fifteen shillings. It does not appear that Easter Offer- ings have ever been paid to the Vicar. A subscription has been lately made for the present Vicar, which amounts to eight guineas. The Vicar is liable to pay to the Ca- thedral Church of St. Paul the yearly sum of six shillings and eight pence. So that the net certain annual income appears to be twenty-six pounds six ^shillings and eight pence. These are to Certify to the G-ovemors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, &c., that after due examination and inquiry by the Oaths of four credible Witnesses, and by other lawful ways and means, into the nature and yearly value of the Vicarage of St. Helen in Bishopsgate Street, in the City and our Diocese of London, the same appears to be of the yearly value of Twenty-six pounds six shillings and eight- pence. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal this fifth day of January, 1798, and in the eleventh year of our Translation. B. London. Page 50. — Q,ueen Anne's Bounti/. Por the augmentation of the Stipend of the Vicar of St. Helen, the following Commissions were issued by the Bishops of London, Drs. Beilby Porteous and William Howley : — " To the Eeverend Dr. Hamilton, Vicar of St. Clave, Jewry. ., „ Mr. Meen, Eector of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey. „ „ Mr. Watts, Eector of St. Alphage. Mr. Deputy Gbeenavtat, of Bishopsgate Street, Mr. Abbiss, of do. do. 1 Churchwardens of Mr. EuDD, of do. do. | St. Helen's. " WHEEEAS an Address of the House of Lords has been presented to his Majesty for an Account to be prepared and certified to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty of the clear improved yearly value of every Benefice with Cure of Souls in England and Wales, under the value of £150 per annum ; specifying how the same arises, and distin- guishing such as have been augmented by the said Governors, from Buch as have not ; and also such as have been discharged from the pay- Appendix. 405 ment of first fruits and tenths, from such as have not been so discharged. And whereas his Majesty has signified his pleasure, that directions be given for the said account being prepared and certified ; NOW KNOW YE, that for carrying his Majesty's pleasure into efiect, and in pursuance of the said Address, we, trusting to the integrity and sliU of you the several gentlemen above named, do by these presents nominate, substitute, and appoint you, or any three or more of you, Commissioners in our stead, as well by the oaths of two or more credible witnesses, as by other lawful ways and means, to inform yourselves both of the nature and of the yearly value of the Living of St. Helen's, in the County of Middlesex, within our Diocese of London ; as weU such part thereof as is fixed and certain, as such part thereof as is voluntary and gratuitous, distinguishing the same as far as may be, and how such yearly value doth arise with the other circumstances thereof, agreeably to the printed Heads of Enquiry hereto annexed ; and having so informed yourselves, you are hereby required to certify to us under your respective hands the several particulars above- mentioned, by way of Answers to the printed Queries hereto annexed, to the End that we may certify the same to the said Governors. In TESTiMoirr whereof, we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal, this eighth day of February, in the Tear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine. '' B. London. " Directions for the JExeeution of the within Commission. " That the said Commissioners do take what care they can, that the witnesses, whether brought in by the Minister or called by them- selves, be credible persons ; that they do avoid as much as possible giving any oath to the Minister himself ; and that, in their enquiry into the nature and value of the Living, they do ask only such ques- tions of the several witnesses upon their oaths as relate to mere matters of fact. That in framing their judgments, touching such part of the value of the Living as is fixed and certain, they do not consider voluntary gifts or contributions, or any thing of that kind, but only such things as are perpetually annexed thereto, and can be legally demanded. And that in making deductions thereout, they do not consider the charges of the poor-rates nor repairs ; but only pensions, procurations, synodals, and such other things as are certain and per- petual cl^arges and outgoings. That the Commissioners do give clear and direct Answers to the Queries, and that two at least of the clergy- men do act. " WE, whose Names are hereunto subscribed, being five of the Com- missioners nominated and appointed in and by the Commission hereto annexed, do humbly certify unto the Lord Bishop of London, that in pursuance of such Commission, we, by all lawful ways and means, have used our utmost endeavours to inform ourselves both of the nature and of the yearly value of the Vicarage of Saint Helen, in the City of London, within his Lordship's Diocese, agreeably to the fol- lowing heads of Inquiry annexed to the said Commission ; and that the Answers subjoined to the several printed Queries do contain the 406 Appendix. best and truest information we have been able to obtain concerning the premises. In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands, this sixteenth day of February, in the Tear of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nine. " E. Hamilton, Vicar of St. Olave, Jewry, London. H. Meen, Eector of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London. EoBEET "Watts, Eector of St. Alphage, London. m -n ' > Churchwardens of St. Helen's. Thos. Ettdd, ) " N.B. — As satisfactory documents were produced, we did not find it necessary to examine any person upon oath. " \gt Query. "What is the present clear improved yearly value of the Vicarage of St. Helen, London ; distinguishing what part is fixed and certain ; and set forth how the whole doth arise, whether from Glebe Land, Tythes, Composition for Tythes, or in what manner ; and what part is uncertain, as Surplice Pees, Easter Offerings, &c. : and in case there is any Stipend, set forth by whom it is paid, and how secured, and for how long time past the same hath been paid. " Answer. The Vicar receives from the Impropriator' a yearly pension reserved out of the Eectory of St. Helen's, by letters patent dated 1599, for a stipend or salary ... Por five Gift Sermons 3 13 4 For an annual payment from the Skinners' Company 3 £20 £26 13 4 Uncertain. As Surplice Fees, Sfc. Surplice Fees on an average for three years... ... £10 10 Part of the yearly sum of £20 granted by Sir John'\ Lawrance to the Parish of St. Helen : Anno 1684, [ to be applied towards the encouragement of the v 5 5 Minister, and for the use of the poor at the dis- 1 cretion of the Vestry ... ... ... . . . / An annual donation during the pleasure of the Vestry, which has varied at different times, but is at ' 70 present ... £85 15 " 2nd Query. Has it already been augmented by the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, and is it discharged from the payment of first- fruits and tenths ? " Answer. It has not been augmented, and is discharged from the payment of first-fruits and tenths. " The Vicarage pays to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's a yearly pension of Qs. 8rf." Appendix. 407 Page 50. St. Helen's in the City and Diocese of London. Pop. 1811. 652. m. . Lot. 1815. Pop. Approved by Committee 1st November, 1815, for two Lots. Cowftrmed '7th February, 1816. Printed, sent 19th April. WHEEEAS the Q-overnors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, fop the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy, intending to augment the Living of St. Helen's in the City of London, within my Diocese, if the same shall appear proper for augmentation, have desired me to certify to them the present nature and value of the said Living : Therefore in order that I may be able to make such Certificate, I do hereby desire you to make the necessary inquiries and answer the foUowing queries, and to return the same to me under your hands. To be directed to the Minister and one or two other Olergymen. Dated, the 12th day of July, 1815. W. London. To the Eev. James Blenkaene. „ E. Watts, Eector of St. Alphage. „ G. A. Hatch, Eector of St. Matthew. 1st Query. Is St. Helen's a Eectory, Vicarage, or Perpetual Curacy ; or is it a Donative, exempt from all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction ; and who is the Patron ; or is it a Chapel of Ease to any, and what Church ? Answer. It is a Vicarage, is in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and under their Ecclesiastical Juris- diction. 2nd Query. Is it united to, or consolidated with, any other, and what, Church ? Is it a Parish of itself ? If it is a Chapel of Ease, is the Incumbent of the Mother-church obliged to do the Duty himself, or provide a Curate to do it for him ; and, what distance is the Chapel from the Mother-church ? "What is the number of Inhabitants within the Parish or Chapelry, including the Hamlets, if any ? Answer. It is a Parish of itself, and not united to, or consolidated with, any other Church. The number of Inhabitants is generally considered about a Thousand. Sri Query. What is the ancient and accustomed Duty which has usually been done at St. Helen's ; and how often, and at what par- ticular stated times, is Divine Service there now performed ? Answer. Pull Duty on a Sunday, in the Morning and in the After- noon, and at the usual Sours : that is at eleven o'clock in the Morn- ing, and at three o'clock in the Afternoon. 408 Appendix. N.B. — There is no Lecturer ; and on account of the Gratuity by Vestry, that is £90 a year, there is a sermon in the Afternoon. 4ith Query. If St. Helen's is a Eectory or Vicarage, has the Minister been duly instituted and inducted thereto ; or does he hold it by Sequestration, and if so, on what ground was the Sequestration issued ? If it is a perpetual Curacy, or a Chapel of Ease, has the Minister been duly nominated, and by whom ; and been thereupon licensed by the Ordinary ; and whether as a perpetual Curacy, or only as a Chapel of Ease ? If a Donative, does the Minister serve it by virtue of any Grant or Appointment in writing from the Patron ? Answer. It is a Vicarage ; and the Vicar has been duly instituted and inducted and does the Duty in Person. 5th Query. Is there a House for the Residence of the Incumbent ; and does he reside therein, or in the Parish, or where else, and at what distance from the Living ? Is the Duty performed by the In- cumbent himself, or by a Curate P If by a Curate, is he resident in the Parish or Chapelry, or at what distance from it ? Answer. There is no House belonging to the Vicarage ; and the Vicar resides in the House appropriated for the Master of Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar School of St. Olave, Southwark, as Master of the said School ; which is about the distance of half-a-mile from the Parish of St. Helen aforesaid. And the Duty is performed by the Incumbent. Qth Query. What is the present clear improved yearly Value of St. Helen's, distinguishing what part is fixed and certain, and setting forth how the whole doth arise; whether from Glebe Landj Tithes, Composition of Tithes, or in what other manner ; and what part is uncertain ; as Surplice Pees, Easter Ofierings, &c. ? And in case there is any Stipend, by whom is it paid, and how secured, and for how long time past has the same been paid ? Answer. The Vicar receives from the Impropriator' a yearly Pension reserved out of the Rectory of St. Helen's by Letters patent, dated 1599, for a Stipend or Salary Eor five Gift Sermons ... ... ... ... 3 13 4 Eor an annual Payment from the Skinners' Company 3 £ 26 13 4 Uncertain. As Surplice, Fees, S(c. Surplice Fees on an Average for three years . . . £10 10 Part of the yearly sum of £20 granted by Sir John\ Lawrence to the Parish of St. Helen, Anno 1684, to be applied towards the encouragement of the I 5 5 6 Minister, and of the use of the Poor at the Dis- [ cretion of the Vestry ... ... ... . . ) An annual Donation, during the Pleasure of the Vestry which has varied at different times, but is ■ 90 at present £20 £105 15 6 Appendix. 409 N.B. — The annual Donation was not given to the last Incumbent. "We believe ^James Blenkaene, A.M., Vicar of St. Helen, the above to Eobeet Watts, M.A., Eector of St. Alphage. be an accurate Geo. Atert Hatch, M.A., Eector of St. Matthew, statement. ( Friday Street, and St. Peter's, Cheap. Dated, July I7th, 1815. The Incumbent of St. Helen's is) desired to add his proper Direction/ The Eeverend James Blenkabne, Tooley Street, St. Olave, Southwark. N.B. — £85 15s. from Pension, Sermons, an annual Donation and &c. I do hereby Certify to the said Governors that I believe the Answers to these Inquiries to be true. To be signed by the Bishop W. London. Page 50. — Amount of Capital cmd how Obtained. In 1815 the Governors gave by lot £400 — money — which in 1829 was invested in the purchase of £452 12«. 4id. Eeduced. Page 53. — The Advowson of St. Helen's. At the Court at Windsor, the 5th day of May, 1873. Pee SENT, The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Wheeeas the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, ia pursuance of the Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter ninety-eight, and of the Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty- two, duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council, a scheme, bearing date the first day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the words and figures following, that is to say : " "We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of the Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of your Majesty, chapter ninety-eight ; and of the Act of the twenty-third and twenty- fourth years of your Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty-two, have prepared and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following scheme for uniting the benefice (being a vicarage), of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, in the city of London, and in the diocese of London, with the benefice (being a rectory) of Saint Martin, Outwich, in the same city and diocese, and for efiecting certain other measures hereinafter specified with respect to the said benefices. 4 1 Appendix. " "Whereas the Eight Honourable and Eight Eeverend John, Bishop of the said diocese of London, has caused proposals for a scheme for effecting an union of the said two benefices to be laid before us, such proposals being prepared under the seventh and eighth sections of the lastly-mentioned Act, and being finally approved by the said John, Bishop of London, and being assented to by the patrons and by the vestries of the parishes to be affected thereby, that is to say, by the said John, Bishop of London as patron in right of his see of the said vicarage of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and by the Master and "Wardens of the Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of Saint John the Baptist, in the city of London (who are hereinafter called the Merchant Taylors Company) as patrons of the said rectory of Saint Martin, Outwich, and by the vestries of the two parishes of ^aint Helen, Bishopsgate, and St. Martin, Outwich. " And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that the said pro- posed union shall be effected, " Now, therefore, with the consents of the said John, Bishop of London (testified by his having signed and sealed this scheme), and of the said Merchant Taylors Company (testified by their having sealed this scheme with their common or corporate seal) and of the vestry of each of the said two parishes of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and Saint Martin, Outwich (testified in the case of each vestry by the signature attached to this scheme, in pursuance of a resolution to that effect of the chairman of a vestry meeting duly convened for the purpose of giving such consent), we, the said Ecclesiastial Commissioners, humbly recommend and propose all that is in this scheme set forth under the several parts or headings hereinafter mentioned, as follows : — " Piwt I. " As to the said proposed union itself and the immediate incidents thereof, we recommend and propose : — " 1. That the said benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and the said benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be united and consoli- dated into and shall become and be one benefice by the name and style of 'The "LTnited Eectory of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, with Saint Martin, Outwich.' " 2. That if, when this scheme shall have been ratified and con- firmed by an Order of your Majesty in Council,* both of the said pre- sent benefices of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be vacant, the union shall forthwith take effect, and if the benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, only shall be vacant, the union shall also forthwith take effect if the incumbent of the benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall consent to become the incumbent of the united benefice, but if he shall not so consent, then that the union shall take effect upon the then next vacancy of his benefice, if at the time of such vacancy the benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, shall also be vacant ; but if the benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, shall * Here are omitted contingencies wliich did not happen. Appendix. 411 not be then vacant, then that the union shall take eflfect upon the next vacancy of the said last-named benefice, and the then incumbent of the benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be the first incumbent of the united benefice ; and if, when this scheme shall be ratified and confirmed as aforesaid, the present benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, only shall be vacant, the union shall take efiect upon the then next vacancy of the benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate ; and if, when this scheme shall be ratified and confirmed as aforesaid, both of the said present benefices shall be full, then that the union shall take effect upon the next vacancy of the said benefice of Saint Helen, Bishops- gate, if the incumbent for the time being of the said benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall consent to become the incumbent of the united benefice, and that he shall be the first incumbent of the united benefice ; but if he shall not so consent, then that the union shall take efiect immediately upon the first vacancy of the benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, which shall happen after the avoidance of the said benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, and the then incumbent of the said benefice of St. Martin, Outwich, shall be the first incumbent of the united benefice ; and that in any case it shall be lawful for the Bishop to admit to the united benefice such first incumbent (if an incumbent for the time being of either of the existing benefices) without any form or fee of presentation, and he shall thereupon become the incumbent of the united benefice ; and that until the time of the union taking effect, the said two present benefices shall remain separate, and the rights and liabiUties of each of them, and of the incumbent of each of them as such, shall remain unaffected. " 3. That if after this scheme shall have been ratified and confirmed as aforesaid, the present incumbents of the present benefices con- tinuiug to be the incumbents thereof respectively, the present incum- bent of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, shall retire from the incumbency of that benefice in order that the union may take immediate effect, and the present incumbent of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be willing to become the first incumbent of the united benefice, the said present incumbent of the benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, shall be entitled, during the period hereinafter specified, to receive out of the annual income of the united benefice, and by way of compensation, the yearly sum of forty-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence (being a sum equal to the present net annual value of the endowments annexed to his incumbency), and also the Easter Offerings rendered in that portion of the united benefice which shall consist of or represent the present benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and also the further annual sum of three hundred pounds ; which annual sums of forty-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, and three hundred pounds, shall respectively commence as from the day on which the union shall take effect, and shall be payable by equal quarterly payments in every year, the first quarterly payment to become due at the end of three calendar months next after the day on which the union shall take effect. The said annual sum of forty-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, and the Easter Offerings above-mentioned, shall be respectively payable to the said present incumbent of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, during the 412 Appendix. joint lives of himself and the present incumbent of Saint Martin, Outwich ; and the said annual sum of three hundred pounds shall be payable to the present incumbent of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, so long as he shall be able and ready and willing to perform in person, or by a substitute to be approved by the Bishop of London, the duties of curate of the united benefice ; and whilst he shall so perform the duties of such curate he shall be styled and called the vicar in charge of the united benefice, but the performance of such duties by the vicar in charge shall not afiect the obligation of the incumbent of the united benefice to reside on the benefice, unless such residence shall be duly dispensed with by licence from the Bishop, and such annual sums and Easter Offerings shall continue payable until the quarter-day next after the avoidance of the united benefice by such first incumbent thereof (being the present incumbent of Saint Martin, Outwich). " 4. That if such first incumbent of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall vacate the united benefice during the life of the present incumbent of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, the annual sums and Easter Offerings afore- said shall continue payable to the present incumbent of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, until such one of the quarterly days of payment of the said annual sums as shall first happen after the united benefice shall so become vacant, and shall then cease to be payable ; and from and after such quarterly day the present incumbent of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, shall be entitled in lieu thereof to receive the annual sum of four hundred pounds during the remainder of his life, such annual sum of four hundred pounds to be payable by equal half- yearly payments in every year, the first half-yearly payment thereof to begin and be made at the end of six calendar months next after the quarterly day on which the said annual sum of forty-two pouuds nine shillings and ten pence, the said Easter Offerings, and the said annual sum of three hundred pouuds shall cease to be payable. " 5. That the said annual sums of forty-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, and three hundred pounds, and four hundred pounds re- spectively, shall be charged upon the annual income of the united bene- fice, and shall be payable out of the same by the incumbent for the time being of the united benefice ; and that, as between the incumbent for the time being of the united benefice and the retiring incumbent and his assigns, the said annual sums and each of them shall be a first charge at law and in equity upon the income of the united benefice, the incumbent of which benefice shall be deemed to have accepted the same, subject to a trust to pay to the retiring incumbent or his assigns the said annual sums out of the income of such benefice, and for that purpose shall use all due diligence to receive and collect the income of the said united benefice ; and that if such annual sum, or any part thereof, shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid for more than twenty-one days after any of the said half-yearly days of payment, and the fact of the same being so in arrear shall be verified by the declaration of the incumbent who shall have so retired or his assigns, or in such other manner as shall be required by the Bishop, then that it shall be lawful for the Bishop to make an order upon the incumbent for the time being of the united benefice, requiring him to pay the Appendix. 413 amount in arrear within a time to be specified in such order, and if the same be not paid within such period, then that it shall be lawful for the Bishop to sequester the profits of the benefice until all such arrears and the costs of the sequestration shall have been paid and satisfied ; but that the power to be so conferred upon the Bishop shall not in anywise abridge or interfere with the rights of the incumbent who shall have so retired or his assigns to recover the said annual sums and all arrears thereof by proceedings at law or in equity, or with the legal and equitable rights of the incumbent for the time being of the united benefice to recover from the preceding incumbent of the united benefice, his executors or administrators, any arrears of the said annual sums which ought to have been paid by such preceding in- cumbent. " 6. That upon the union taking efiect, the present church of the parish of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, shall become, and thereafter con- tinue to be, the parish church of the united benefice. " 7. That after the union shall have taken eifect, the expense of maintaining the fabric of the parish church of the united benefice, and providing the things requisite for Divine service therein, shall be de- frayed by the two parishes of the united benefice, and shall, as between the same two parishes respectively, be provided as if the same were one parish, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of ' The Church Eatea Abolition Act, 1868.' " 8. That upon thfe union taking efiect, the sacramental plate used in the church of the pariah of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be trans- ferred to the parish church of the united benefice, but that if the whole of the plate of the two churches be more than sufficient for such parish church, then the vestry of each parish shall be at liberty to select so much as it pleases of the plate originally belonging to its own parish, to be tranferred to such other church or chapel within the diocese of London as the Bishop shall select, and that the font and communion table of the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be transferred to such other church or chapel within the diocese as the Bishop shall select. " 9. That upon the union taking efiect, if the tables of fees used in the two churches be alike in all particulars, the table of fees used in the church which will become the church of the united benefice shall (until revised or altered by proper authority) be the table of fees for the two parishes of the united benefice ; but if such tables of fees be not alike in all particulars, then that the same shall be of no authority, and a new table of fees shall be made by the proper authority for the use of the united parishes as if the same were one parish. " 10. That upon the union taking effect, the persons who at that time shall hold the offices of parish clerk of the parish of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and parish clerk of the parish of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall without any further appointment become the joint parish clerks of the united benefice ; and that the persons who at the time of the union taking effect shall hold the office of sexton of the parish of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and sexton of the parish of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall, without any further appointment, become the joint 414 Appendix. sextons of the united benefice ; and that upon the death, retirement, or removal of either of the joint parish clerks, the other of them shall become the parish clerk of the united benefice, and upon the death, retirement, or removal of either of the joint sextons, the other of them shall become the sexton of the united benefice j and that the parish clerk of the united benefice shall afterwards, upon any vacancy in that office, be appointed by the incumbent of the united benefice, and that any future vacancy in the office of sexton shall be filled up by the joint vestry of the tvro parishes of the united benefice. " 11. That upon the union taking efieet, the persons who at that time shall respectively hold the offices of clerk and sexton of the parish of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and who shall respectively become one of such joint clerks or sextons of the united benefice shall respectively cease to hold the office of clerk or sexton respectively of such last- mentioned parish, and that the clerk so ceasing to hold such office shall by way of compensation, so long as he shall be one of the joint clerks of the united benefice, receive from the vestry of the parish of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, during the pleasure of such vestry, a salary equal in amount to his present salary ; and that in like manner the sexton so ceasing to hold such office, shall, by way of compensation, so long as he shall be one of the joint sextons of the united benefice, receive from the vestry of the parish of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, during the pleasure of such vestry, a salary equal in amount to his present salary, the receipt of such salary in the ease of the said clerk and sexton respectively to be conditional upon the performance by such clerk and sexton respectively of such duties appertaining to the office of parish clerk or (as the case may be) of sexton in the parish church of the united benefice, or otherwise connected with such parish church, and the performance of the services therein as the rector and churchwardens of the united benefice may from time to time require, but that no parish clerk or sexton of the united benefice shall have any larger estate or interest in his office than he possessed in his original office before the union. " 12. That so long as a salary shall, under the provisions of this scheme, be payable by the parish of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, to one of the joint clerks of the united benefice, that parish shall not be required to contribute any proportion of the salary of the other of the joint clerks of the united benefice, and that in like manner, so long as a salary shall, under the provisions of this scheme, be payable by the last-mentioned parish to one of the joint sextons of the united benefice, that parish shall not be required to contribute any proportion of the salary of the other of the joint sextons of the united benefice ; but that whilst such salaries, by way of compensation, shall continue pay- able to such joint clerk and joint sexton respectively, the salaries of the other joint clerk and joint sexton of the united benefice shall be paid exclusively by the parish of Saint Martin, Outwich. " 13. That upon the union taking effect, the persona who at that time shall respectively hold the offices of clerk and sexton of the parish Appendix. 415 of Saint Martin, Outwich, and who shall respectively become one of Buch joint clerks and joint sextons of the united benefice, shall respec- tively cease to hold the ofBce of clerk and sexton respectively of such last-mentioned parish, and that the clerk so ceasing to hold such office shall, by way of compensation, so long as he shall be one of the joint clerks of the united benefice, receive from the vestry of the parish of Saint Martin, Outwich, so much as the same vestry shall see fit to apportion to him of the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, which in the third section of the fifth part of this scheme it is recommended and proposed that we should pay to the said vestry, and that in like manner the sexton so ceasing to hold such office shall, by way of com- pensation, so long as he shall be one of the joint sextons of the united benefice, receive from the said last-mentioned vestry the remainder (after deducting the sum so to be apportioned to the clerk as afore- said) of the same sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, the receipt by the said clerk and sexton of the sums so to be apportioned to them respectively to be conditional upon their undertaking, to the satis- faction of the said vestry, to perform such duties appertaining to the office of parish clerk or (as the case may be) of sexton in the parish church of the united benefice or otherwise connected with such parish church, and the performance of the services therein as the rector and churchwardens of the united benefice may from time to time require. "14. That the present parsonage house of the said benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall become and be the parsonage house of and for the united benefice. " 15. That upon the union taking efiect as hereinbefore mentioned, all the properties which shall then constitute the endowments of the said present benefices of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and Saint Martin, Outwich, shall thereupon, without any conveyance or assurance in the law other than any duly gazetted Order of your Majesty in Council ratifying this scheme, become, and be the endowments of the united benefice, subject, nevertheless, to the annual payment thereout of the said annual sums of forty-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, and three hundred pounds, or, as the case may be, of four hundred pounds, which are respectively hereinbefore mentioned, and made pay- able out of the annual income of the united benefice, and subject also to the three several rent-charges hereinafter mentioned, and proposed to be created as hereinafter is specified, in favour of the three intended new cures hereinafter mentioned, and subject also and nevertheless to this further proviso, that is to say, provided always that if the Eeverend John Bathurst Deans, Clerk, now incumbent of the said benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall become. the first incumbent of the united benefice, he shall be entitled to receive and retain during such his incumbency the whole of the annual income of the united benefice, subject only to the said annual payment thereout of the said annual sums of forty-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, three hundred pounds, and four hundred pounds (one or more of these sums), which are hereinbefore mentioned. 416 Appendix. " Fa/rt II. " As to the endowment of certain intended cures : — " Whereas the aggregate endowments of the said present benefices of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and Saint Martin, Outwich, will, when they shall have become the endowments of the united benefice, as hereinbefore recommended and proposed, be in our opinion more than sufficient for the due maintenance and support of the incumbent of the united benefice and of any assistant curate or curates who may be by him employed. " And whereas we intend, so soon as conveniently may be, having regard to the contingencies afiecting the provision of endowments for such new cures as hereinafter mentioned, and with such consent as by law is required, to recommend and propose to your Majesty in Council the formation of three new cures within the diocese of London, that is to say, of a new cure to be taken wholly or partly out of the existing cure of Saint Philip, at Dalston, and to be called the District of the Holy Trinity, Dalston ; of a new cure to be taken wholly or partly out of the existing cure of Saint Dunstan, Stepney, and to be called the Disbrict of Christ Church, Stepney ; and of a new cure to be taken wholly or partly out of the existing cure of Saint Ann, at Limehouse, and to be called the District of Saint Peter Limehouse. "And whereas the recommendation and proposal next hereinafter made is in accordance with, and is contemplated by, the proposals upon which this scheme is based, for uniting the said two present benefices of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and St. Martin, Outwich. " Now, therefore, with respect to the endowments of the united benefice, we humbly recommend and propose : " That a specified part of such endowments, that is to say, that the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds* per annum (being the amount of the annual fixed tithe, payable under the pro- visions of ' The London City Tithes Act, 1864,' subject to revision as in the said Act provided), and now constituting the endowment of the present benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall over and beyond all payments thereout in respect of the three temporary charges (or any of them) of forty-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, three hundred pounds, and four hundred pounds respectively hereinbefore mentioned, and also after and subject to such incumbency of the said John Bathurst Deane in the said united benefice as aforesaid, be subject to the three annual rent-charges next hereinafter specified, that is to say, to a rent-charge of six hundred pounds per annum, commencing as from the day hereinafter in that behalf mentioned (being a day subsequent to that on which the said John Bathurst Deane shall have avoided the said incumbency of the said united * This presents a strange contrast to the value of the living as it was represented to the Company in 1603 by the then Vicar — viz., SOI. a-year. Mr. Lewis commenced a tithe suit which was stayed "by the mediation of divers worshipful and quiet men of the parish," upon the understanding that by contributions (the Company giving 51.) the income was to be made up to 501. per annum. See p. 54. Appendix. 417 benefice) in favour of the minister or incumbent of the said proposed district of the Holy Trinity, Dalston, and his successors ; to a rent- charge of three hundred pounds per annum, commencing as from the day hereinbefore and hereinafter in that behalf mentioned, in favour of the minister or incumbent of the said proposed district of Christ Church, Stepuey, and his successors; and to a rent-charge of one hundred and ninety-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, com- mencing as last aforesaid, in favour of the minister or incumbent of the said proposed district of Saint Peter, Limehouse, and his suc- cessors, such last-mentioned rent-charge, nevertheless, to be increased to five hundred and ninety-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, when and so soon after the avoidance of the incumbency of the said united benefice by the said John Bathurst Deaue, as the said annual sum of four hundred pounds hereinbefore proposed to be made payable to the present incumbent of the benefice of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, shall cease to be so payable : but if the said annual sum of four hundred pounds shall before the same avoidance have already ceased to be pay- able, then such last-mentioned rent-charge to commence and continue at the full amount of five hundred and ninety-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, each of the said three rent-charges to be payable half- yearly, and to arise and begin to accrue (subject as hereinbefore men- tioned) as from the day of the date of the publication in the London Gazette of the Order of your Majesty in Council, whereby the district in favour of the minister or incumbent of which such rent-charge is to arise and accrue shall be created, and no one of the said three rent- charges to have priority over any other of them : and the minister or incumbent in whose favour any one of the said three rent-charges shall have been created to have, and we hereby recommend and propose that he shall have, all such remedies for the recovery of such rent-charge, the same being in arrear forty days, or upwards, after any half-yearly payment thereof shall have become due, as landlords have for recovery of rent being in arrear and unpaid : but nevertheless, and we hereby also recommend and propose, that if in any year the gross revenues of the said united benefice shall by means of variation in the amount of the said annual sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds tithe rent-charge be increased beyond the sum of two thousand two hundred and ninety-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, or shall be diminished below that sum, then and in every such year the said three rent-charges of six hundred pounds, three hundred pounds, and five hundred and ninety-two pounds nine shillings and ten pence, and each of them shall be increased, or (as the case may be) shall be reduced in proportion to their respective amounts in such manner that in that and every year the aggregate of the same three rent- charges shall be equal to the excess of the total revenues of the said united benefice above the sum of eight hundred pounds, the said three rent-charges if and whenever they be so reduced in amount to be receivable by the ministers or incumbents in whose favour they respectively arise and accrue in full substitution and satisfaction for the sums which but for such reduction would in that year have been receivable by them respectively. E E 418 Appendix. "PaHin. " As to the patronage of the united benefice : — " "Whereas we intend with such consents as are by law required, and in consideration of the endowments to be provided as hereinbefore mentioned to recommend and propose to your Majesty in Council that the patronage of the said intended new cure to be called ' The District of Christ Church, Stepney,' shall be assigned to the Bishop for the time being of the said diocese of London, and that the patronage of the said intended new cures to be called respec- tively 'The District of the Holy Trinity, Dalston,' and 'The Dis- trict of Saint Peter, Litnehouse,' shall, in like manner, be assigned to the said Merchant Taylors' Company and their successors. " And whereas it is also a part of the consideration for such assignment in the case of the said intended district of Christ Church, Stepney, that the arrangement next hereinafter recommended and pro- posed should be effected. " Now, therefore, with such consents, and so testified as aforesaid, we further recommend and propose that, as from the day on which the union hereinbefore proposed of the said two benefices of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and Saint Martin, Outwich, shall have taken full legal efiect as hereinbefore mentioned, the patronage of the said bene- fice and vicarage of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, which patronage is now vested in the Bishop of the said diocese of London and his successors, shall, without any conveyance or assurance in the law other than such duly gazetted Order of your Majesty in Council, as is hereinbefore mentioned by virtue of which Order the said union will have been so effected, be transferred from the said John, or other the then Bishop of the said diocese of London, and from his successors, to and shall thereupon become and be absolutely vested in the said Merchant Taylors' Company and their successors in such wise, that as the patronage of the said benefice and rectory of St. Martin, Outwich, is already vested in the said Merchant Taylors' Company and their successors, the whole advowson and patronage of the united benefice hereinbefore proposed to be created may be wholly and absolutely vested in the said Merchant Taylors' Company and their successors for ever. " Part ir. " As to the Church of St. Martin, Outwich : — "With respect to the church of the said present benefice of Saint Martin, Outwich, we recommend and propose upon the said union taking effect as aforesaid : "1. That the same church shall (subject nevertheless to and in accordance with the provisions of the seventeenth section of the said Act of the twenty-third and twenty -fourth years of your Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty-two) be taken down, and its materials (except the glass in the east window) and site sold : the sale thereof, except so far as relates to that part of the premises which is to be Appendix. 419 purchased by the Commissionera of Sewers of the City of London under the provisions hereinafter proposed, to be by public tender or private contract, and to be made at one time, or at more than one time, as may be deemed most expedient by us, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the pulpit, bells, clocks, organ, and other furniture, and fittings (other than the glass in the east window) being reserved to be appropriated (if required) for the use of such church or churches within the said diocese of London as the Bishop of the same diocese may select, but if the Bishop shall think it undesirable so to appro- priate the same, then that the same (other than as aforesaid) be sold, and the produce dealt with in the same manner as the produce of the sale of the materials and site of the church. " 2. That before the said church of St. Martin, Outwich, is taken down, the glass in the east window thereof (which represents the armorial bearings of patrons and rectors of the same church) shall be carefully taken out, and shall be inserted in some window of the church of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, at the cost of the fund created or to be created by the produce of the sale of the materials and site of Saint Martin's Church. " 3. That before the site of the said church of Saint Martin, Out- wich, shall be sold as aforesaid, the said Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London shall have the option of purchasing at a price to be fixed as hereinafter mentioned, such a portion of the same site as the Surveyor of the said Commissioners of Sewers shall determine to be requisite or necessary for the purpose of widening the street fronting the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, but the said Commissionera of Sewers shall declare such option within fourteen days next after the Bishop of the diocese of London shall have notifl.ed to them that the time for declaring such option has arrived, and if the said Com- missioners of Sewers shall elect to make such purchase as aforesaid, the land so purchased shall be appropriated to the purpose of widening the street above mentioned, and to no other purpose. " 4. That the Surveyor of us, the said Ecclesiastical Commissionera for England, and the Surveyor of the said Commissioners of Sewers shall together determine and fix within fourteen days next after the said Commissioners of Sewers shall have elected to purchase under the option aforesaid, the price to be paid by the said Commissioners of Sewers for the land so to be purchased, and the said two Surveyors shall, before they proceed to determine and fix such price as aforesaid, agree upon a third surveyor to act as umpire between them, and to determine and fix the price as aforesaid, in case they are unable to agree, and the determination of such umpire shall be final, but if from any cause whatsoever the price to be paid as aforesaid by the Com- missioners of Sewers for the land so to be purchased as aforesaid shall not have been determined and fixed, and shall not have been actually paid by the said Commissioners of Sewers before the expiration of two calendar months from the day on which the said Commissioners of Sewers shall have received notice from the Bishop as aforesaid, the option of purchase hereby proposed to be given to the said Com- missioners of Sewers shall absolutely cease at law and in equity, and E E 2 420 Appendix. the site of the said church of St. Martin, Outwich, and every part thereof, shall aa from the expiration of the said two calendar months be absolutely discharged from such option and from all right or claim of the said Commissioners of Sewers in respect thereof, and this pro- vision shall take full effect notwithstanding that the cause of delay may have arisen from unavoidable accident. " 5. That the purchase money to be paid by the said Commissioners of Sewers for the land which they shall have the temporary option of purchasing as aforesaid shall, by the said Commissioners of Sewers, be paid to us the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and the land to be therewith purchased shall, immediately after such payment, be conveyed to the said Commissioners of Sewers for the purpose aforesaid by us, under the authority of the Order of your Majesty in Council whereby this scheme will have been before such purchase ratified. " Part V. " As to the proceeds of the sale of Saint Martin, Outwich, Church :* — " With respect to the monies to be realized by such sale or sales as aforesaid, of the materials, site, furniture and fittings (all or any of these things) of the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, we recom- mend and propose : " 1. That, in the first place, such a sum as we may think necessary and reasonable shall be set apart by us out of the amount (so far as the amount can at the time of such setting apart be ascertained) of all monies received or receivable in respect of such sale or sales, and shall be added to the fund mentioned in the twenty-second section of the hereinbefore mentioned Act of the twenty-third £ind twenty-fourth years of your Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty-two. " 2. That, in the next place, out of the monies received or receivable as aforesaid, there shall be purchased by us such an amount of Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated Bank Annuities as will produce annual dividends or income to the amount of two hundred and fifty- two pounds, and that the dividends on the stock so purchased, that is to say, a sum of two hundred and fifty-two pounds per annum shall be paid by us as and when the same dividends shall become payable to the churchwardens for the time being of the parish of Saint Martin, Out- wich, whose receipt shall be a sufficient discharge to us for every such payment ; every sum so paid by us to be applied by the said church- wardens in payment of the annuities which, for the time being, may be payable under the provisions of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the thirty-sixth year of His late Majesty King Q-eorge the Third, intituled ' An Act for Rebuilding the Parish Church of Saint Martin, Outwich, in Threadneedle Street, within the city of London,' and also, and equally in payment of a certain other annuity to commence and accrue as from the date of the publication in the London Gazette of any * The sale realized SS.im. 6s. 2d., leaving (without any deduction for legal expenses) 25,1851. 16s. 2d. for the other parishes. 8000J. was assigned to each of the parishes of Dalston and Stepney. Appendix. 421 Order of your Majesty in Council ratifying this scheme, to wit, an an- nuity of thirty-four pounds, to be payable and paid half-yearly by the said churchwardens to Louisa England, the present Organist of the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, during her life : Provided, neverthe- less, that no such payment by us to the said churchwardens shall ba held to create as against us any trust, except in respect of the said church- wardens only : And provided also, that we may, if. we shall see fit, sell from time to time any part of the stock so to be purchased as afore- said, and pay over to the said churchwardens the amount realized by such sale or sales of stock if and whenever we shall be requested by the said churchwardens so to do, and if we shall be satisfied that the money to be realised by such sale and so paid will be applied by the said churchwardens in redemption of the said annuities or some or one of them respectively : — " Provided also that if in any year the dividends for that year upon the stock then held by us under the investment aforesaid shall be more than sufficient (according to the testimony of the said churchwardens) to pay all the then subsisting annuities, the amount of the surplus shall be invested by us in the same securities and be added to the original principal sum thereof, and be subject to the provisions in this clause contained. And provided, lastly, that after the cesser, from whatever cause, of the said annuities, any balance remaining in our hands of the original and accumulated principal of the investment or investments made under this clause, shall be disposed of as in the eighth clause of this fifth part of this present scheme is provided with respect to the residuary monies therein mentioned. " 3. That, in the next place, out of or in respect of the monies received or receivable by or in consequence of such sale or sales as aforesaid of the materials, site, furniture or fittings of the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, there shall be paid by us to the vestry of the said parish of Saint Martin, Outwich, a sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, to be by the said vestry applied and apportioned as in the thirteenth section of the first part of this scheme is provided. " 4. That, in the next place, out of or in respect of monies received or receivable by us as aforesaid from the sale of the materials, site fmniture or fittings of the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, there shall be paid by us to the incumbent and churchwardens (whose re- ceipt shall be a sufficient discharge to us for the same) of the said united benefice, a capital sum of three thousand pounds, the same capital sum or the interest thereof only, or some portion of the capital, with or without interest, to be applied by the said incumbent and churchwardens at their discretion in repairing and keeping in repair the church of the united benefice, that is to say, the said church of Saint Helen, Bishopsgate, and in putting the same into a fit and proper condition to become the church of the united benefice as aforesaid, and in reseating the same under the provisions of the twenty-eighth section of the said Act of the twenty-third and twenty -fourth years of your Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty-two. " 5. That, in the next place, out of the monies to be received by us as aforesaid, such a sum as we may consider sufficient shall be set apart 422 Appendix. by us for, and shall be applied at our discretion in, the erection of a church within and for the said intended district of the Holy Trinity, Dalston : such church to be erected upon a site which shall have been duly conveyed to us in the manner provided by law. " 6. That, in the next place, out of the monies to be received by us as aforesaid, such a sum as we may consider sufficient shall be set apart by us for, and shall be applied at our discretion in, the erection of a church vrithin and for the said intended district of Christ Church, Stepney : such church to be erected upon a site which shall have been duly conveyed to us as last aforesaid. " 7. That, in the next place, out of the monies to be received by us as aforesaid, such a sum as we may consider sufficient shall be set apart by us for, and shall be applied at our discretion in, the erection of a church within and for the said intended district of Saint Peter, Limehouse : such church to be erected upon a site which shall have been duly conveyed to us as aforesaid. " 8. Provided always, and be it clearly understood, that with re- spect to the sums to be set apart and applied as aforesaid for and in the erection of churches for the said intended districts of the Holy Trinity, Dalston, Christ Church, Stepney, and Saint Peter, Limehouse, such sums shall be so set apart by us in the order in which the said proposed churches are hereinbefore mentioned, and shall be so set apart by us only if and when and so far as the monies actually in our hands in respect of the proceeds of the aforesaid sale or sales of the materials, site, furniture and fittings of the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be sufficient, having regard to the provisions of this scheme and of the said Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of your Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty-two, to provide the same. And provided also that interest at the rate of three pounds per centum per annum shall be allowed by us upon any sums so set apart, and upon all balances from time to time in our hands applicable to the erection of the said churches, and all such interest shall be added to, and constitute part of, the principal of the same sums. And provided also, that each of such siuns so set apart, when it has been increased by accumulation as aforesaid, and is therefore in excess of the sum set apart by us as sufficient for the purpose for which it was Bet apart may be by us reduced, if we shall see fit, to the amount ori- ginally set apart, but so that the surplus thus deducted may be by us, if we shall see fit, applied in aid of the sums or sum to be set apart and applied by us for and in the erection of the other two churches or one of them. And provided also, that if and when any of the said three sums shall have been by us set apart as aforesaid, the time for applying and expending the same sums or sum shall be ascertained by a certificate, to be addressed to us by the Bishop of the said diocese of London and by the Merchant Taylors' Company. And provided lastly, that all (if any) monies which, after satisfying the several ap- propriations in this fifth part of this present scheme mentioned and recommended and proposed to be made, shall remain out of or in re- spect of the proceeds of the sale or sales of materials, site, furniture and fittings of the said church of Saint Martin, Outwich, shall be by Appendix. 42 us added to the sum to be set apart by us under the first clause of thi fifth part of this present scheme, and shall be dealt with accordingly. " 9. And provided also, that the scheme hereby proposed shall no take effect until the consents and approval which, by the seventeentl section of the said Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years o your Majesty, chapter one hundred and forty-two, are made requisiti to the sale or letting or appropriation under the powers conferred bj that Act, of the site of any church shall be obtained to the sale anc appropriation hereby proposed of the site of the said church of Saini Martin, Outwich. " 10. And provided also, that nothing hereinbefore contained shall prevent us from hereafter recommending and proposing any othei measures relating to the matters aforesaid, or any of them, in accord- ance with the provisions of the said Acts of Parliament, or of either oi them, or of any other Act of Parliament." AJnd whereas the said scheme has been laid before both Houses of Parliament for the space of two calendar months. And whereas the said scheme has been approved by Her Ma,jesty in Council : now, therefore. Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her said Council, is pleased hereby to ratify the said scheme, and to order and direct that the same, and every part thereof, shall be effec- tual in law immediately from and after the time when this Order shall have been dxdy published in the London G-azette, pursuant to the said Acts ; and Her Majesty, by and with the like advice, is pleased hereby to direct that this Order be forthwith registered by the Eegistrar of the said diocese of London. Edmund Haeeison. Page 64. By an oversight the following particulars as to the monuments of "William Bond and Thomas Benolte were omitted in the text : — "William Bond. Here lyeth the body of "William Bond Alderman, and sometime Sheriff of London, a merchant adventurer and most famous — in his age — for his great adventures both by sea and land. Obit. 30 die Maii 1576. Flos mercatorum, quos terra Britarma creavit, Ecce sub hoc tamulo, Chdidmus Bondus, humatur. Ille mari maltum passua per aaxa, per undas, Ditavit patriae perigrinia mercibus eras. Magnanimum Qrceci mirantur Jasona rates ; Aorea de gelido retulit quia vellera Phaai, Gnecia docta, tace, Qraii conoedite vates ; Hie jacet ArgoUeo Meroator Jaaone major. Vellera multa tvdit, ma^s aurea vellere Phryxi, Et freta multa soidet, magis ardua Phcmdos v/ndia ; Hei mihi quod nuUo mors est superabilis auro, Elos mercatorum, Oulielmms Bondms, humatur.* * Behold, under this tomb William Bond, " the flower of the merchants" whicl the land of Britain has produced, lies buried. He having suffered much amongs waves and rocks, enriched the shores of his country by means of foreign merchandize 424 Appendix. Page 74. The following " circumscription" of the brass containing the effigies of Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms, and his two wives — long since removed — is thus given in Maitland's Hist, of London, vol. ii. pp. 1607, Ed. Lond. 1775 : — " Here under lieth the Bodi of Thorns Benolte, Squyer, sometyme Servat and Offycer of Armea by the name of Windsore Serault unto the right high and mighty Prince of most drade Soiiaye Lod Kyg Hery the viij, which Thoms Benolt, otherwyse namyd Clarenceux Kyg of Armes decesid the viij. daye of May in the Tere of our Lord God Mvcxxxiiij in the xxvi Tere of our said Soveraye Lord." Pages 67 and 248. — Mayor of the Staple. " As the seas became safer, and the mercantile spirit of the Plemings rose, the great free cities of Flanders became as it were perpetual fairs, and were known as staples, from the German ' stapeln,' to keep vp. In order that trade should be well under command, it was necessary that it should be carried on in few channels. The English Government had therefore chosen some of these Flemish towns, and ordered that all the chief productions of England, which have been already mentioned, should be sold in those towns, and nowhere else. These goods were therefore called staple commodities; the merchants who traded in them, the merchants of the staple. And this staple trade was put under an organization — there being a mayor, a constable, and courts of the staple. At these staple towns, the King's customers, or custom- house officers, by means of this organization, had every bargain under direct supervision ; and every bargain thus supervised was obliged to be made for a certain sum of actual coin, the government thus secur- ing a continual flow of silver into the hands of the English merchants. The staple towns were frequently changed. To reward any particu- larly faithful ally, or to raise the importance of any particular town, as for instance Calais, the staple was removed to that Prince's pro- vince, or to that town. The proportion of each bargain to be brought over in coin was also constantly varying. Indeed, the frequent in- terference of government in such matters was not among the least of the restrictions of trade. Edward III. was said, at one time of his life, to have had a different plan every month. Upon the whole, however, the principle was the same. Amongst the most remarkable plans of Edward III. was one for keeping the evident riches that Grecian poets admire the mighty Jason, for his having brought the golden fleece from the icy Phasia. learned Greece be silent ! Grecian poets yield the palm ! Hero lies a merchant far greater than the Grecian Jason. He carried away many fleeces more golden than those of Phryxis, and passed over many seas more rough than the waves of Phusis. Alas ! that death cannot be bribed by gold ! The Flower of Merchants — William Bond — is buried. Appendix. 425 accrued to the staple towns within the limits of England.* In the twenty-seventh year of his reign he named nine towns in England which were to be the exclusive selling places of the English staple commodities. For an Englishman to carry such commodities beyond the seas was punishable by death. As Edward could not protect the foreign merchants visiting his staples, and as -the additional trouble of purchasing goods at them naturally lowered prices, this plan did not answer. It was, in fact, suicidal for an island people, since it destroyed all object in the keeping up a mercantile navy. It was therefore speedily abandoned : and after the reign of Henry VI. Calais became the sole English staple town."t Page 249. — Merchant Adventitrers. " This celebrated commercial company, said to have originated in the London Mercers' Company, obtained privileges from John of Brabant in 1296, and established themselves at Antwerp under the title of the Brotherhood of St. Thomas Beckett. In 1358 they were encouraged by Louis, Count of Flanders, who permitted them to form an establishment at Bruges ; and in 1406 they received their first charter from Henry IV. of England. Edward IV. granted a new charter in 1466. Their importance was much increased by the cele- brated treaty known as the Intereursus magnus, which was concluded between Henry VII. and Philip, Archduke of the Netherlands, Peb. 24, 1406 ; and in 1497 the company began to assume the title of the Merchant Adventurers. Henry VIII. granted them a charter in 1513 ; Queen Elizabeth granted them a charter in j.560, and a second July 8, 1564, confirming all former charters and privileges. Owing to the opposition of the Hanse Towns, they were temporarily expelled from Germany in 1597, but they *ere soon invited to return. James I. granted them a charter in 1617, and their privileges were confirmed by Charles I. in 1634. They settled at Dort in 1647, and made Hamburgh their principal staple about 1651. After 1661 Ham- burgh became their only foreign station. In 1765 the company pub- lished a report, wherein they stated that their trade had been long declining.''^ * " Staple was regulated by 27 Edw. III. st. 2 (1353). The five chief or staple com- modities of the kingdom were wool, woodfells (sheep-skins), leather, lead, and tin (butter cheese, and cloth were sometimes added) ; which could only be sold for exportation by 1 corporation called Merchants of the Staple, and could only be sent from certain towns known as towns of the Staple. These towns were Bristol, Caermarthen, Calais Canterbury, Chichester, Cork, Drogheda, Dublin, Exeter, Lincoln, London, Middle- bnrgb, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Norwich, Waterford, and York. By 27 Edw. III. st. 2 0. 3 (1353), it was felony for any but authorised merchants to deal in staple goods. The Staple was the subject of numerous statutes." Townsend's Manual of Dates p. 932. Ed. Lond. 1874. + Bright's English History, vol. i. p. 257. Ed. Lond. 1875. X Townsend's Manual of Dates, p. 649. 426 Appendix. Page 271. — Qresham Family Pedigree. JOHN GEB8HAM, OF HOLT. Sir Richar d Greaham Six John Gresham Sib Thomas I Gbbsham. Elizabeth wife of Sir H. Nevill Sir H. Nevflle, ob. 1616 Sir H. NeviU, ob. 1629 Bicbard Nevill Kichard Nevill Catherine, wife of fiichard Aldworth Bichard Neville Aldworth Bichard Lord Braybrooke Bicbard Lord Braybrooke Charles Comwallis Neville, Lord Braybrooke. Margaret married Sir John Thynne from whom Sir John Gresham William Gresham of Titsey Sir Thomas Gresham Sir Edward Gresham 13 descended the Marquess of Bath. Thomas Gresham Sir Marmadoke Gh'esham Jane married John Lloyd of Dolobran. Sir Charles Gresham, Bart. Sir Marmadnke Gresham Sir John Greaham Catherine wife of W. L. Gower. William Leveson-Gower, Esq. of Titsey Park, Surrey. Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower, 1860. Page 284. — Abstract of the Will of Sir Thomas Gresham. This is the laste "Will written and disposition of me, Sie Thomas G-eesham, of the cittye of London, Knight, concerning all my mannors, landes, tenementes, and hereditamentes, mentioned and conteyned in one quadripartite indenture, made betweene me the said Sir Thomas Gresham and Dame Anne my wife on the one partye, and Phniippe Scudamore, gent., and Thomas Celey on the other partie, dated the 20th day of May, in the seaventeenth yere of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth. Pirst, concerninge the buildinges in London, called the Eoiall ExoHAiNGE, and the pawnes, and shoppes, sellers, vawtes, messuages, tenementes, and other whatsoever myne hereditamentes, parceU or adjoyninge to the said Eoiall Exchainge, I wiU and dispose, that after the expiration and determynation of the particular uses, estates, and interestes for life and entayle thereof, lymitted in the said indenture bearinge date the 20 of May, I will and dispose that one moietye thereof shall remayne, and the use thereof shall be unto the Maior and cominalty and citizens of London, by whatsoever especiall name or addition the same corporation is made or knowne, and to theire successors, for tearme of fiftye yeres then next ensuinge, upon truste or confidence and to the intente, that they doe performe the paiements and other intentes in these presentes hereafter lymitted, thereof by them to be done and performed. And the other moietye of the said buildings, called the Eoiall Exchainge, pawnes, shoppes, cellors, vawtes, messuages, tenementes, and other myne hereditamentes, with the appurtenances thereunto adjoyninge, shall remayne, and the use thereof shall be to the wardeins and cominalty of the mistery of tho Appendix. 427 mercers of the cittye of London, viz., to the corporate body and cor- poration of the company of mercers in London by whatsoever especial! name or addition the same corporation is made or knowne, and to theire successors, for tearme of fiftye yeres next ensuinge, upon truste and confidence, and to the intente, that they doe performe the paie- mentes and other intentes in these presentes hereafter lymitted, thereof by them to be done and performed. And I will and dispose, that after such tyme as the one moitye of the said Eoiall Bxchainge and other premisses, according to the intente and meaninge of these presentes, shall come to the said maior and corporation of the said cittye, and from thence so longe as they and their successors shall by any means or tytle, hould, or enjoy the same, they and their successors every yere shall give and distribute to and for the sustentation, mayn- tenance and findinge foure persons from tyme to tyme to be chosen, nominated, and appointed by the said maior and cominalty, and eittezens and their successors, mete to reade the lecture of divynitye, astronomy, musicke, and geometry, within myne nowe dwelling-house in the parishe of St. Helynes in Bishopsgate Streete, and St. Peters the Pore in the cittye of London (the moitye whereof hereafter in this my last will is by me lymitted and disposed unto the said maior and cominalty and eittezens of the said cittye), the somme of 200?., of lawful money of Englande, in manner and forme foll'owinge, viz. to every of the said readers for the tyme beinge the somme of 50Z. of lawfull money of England yerely for theire sallaries and stipendes, mete for foure sufficiently learned to reade the saide lectures : the same stipendes and sallaries, and every of them, to be paid at two usuall tearmes in the yere yearly ; that is to say, at the feastes of the Annunciation of St. Mary the Virgin, and of St. Mighell the Arch- angeU, by even portions to be paid. 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