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Tower Street Ward. St. Olave Hartstreet.
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| Donors. | Gifts. |
Tho. Leaver, of
the East
Indies,
Merchant. | 100l. for the
purchasing of
6l. per ann. for ever. To be di-
stributed every
Christmas to six
poor Men, and six poor Women,
that is, to each of
them 10s.
By his last Will. |
| Michael Darby | 50l. to buy three Gowns
eve-
ry Christmas for ever, for three
poor Men or Women of the
Pa-
rish. By his last Will dated Anno 1672. |
David Edwards
Merchant. | 30l. to the Use of the
Poor, to be laid out in Sea Coals, for ever, at the cheapest Rate in
Summer, and to be sold out in the cold time of Winter. Anno
1673. |
Tho. Wylson of
Chattham in
Kent,
Gent. | An Annuity of 5l. per
Ann.
for ever, to be issuing out of a
Messuage or Tenement in
Dow-
gate, to be distributed by 2s. a
Week in Bread every Lord's
Day for ever among the Poor of
the Parish. By his last Will dated
1676. |
Robert Richard-
son. | Gave the large Altar
Piece,
with all the carved Work, Paint-
ing and Gilding, Anno
1684. |
| Richard Burden | Gave the curious Wrought
Communion Table standing in the
said Altar Piece. |
Other Persons gave the Pulpit
Cloth and Cushions, and other
Ornaments: Whose Names are
set
down in a Table in the Vestry. |
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Besides these, certain yearly Sums of Money were given for
Sermons to be preached in this Parish: Which were as followeth.
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Gift Sermons to this Parish.
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| Donors. | Gifts. |
| Hugh Bullock. | Four Quarterly Sermons,
viz.
On Christmas Day, Lady Day,
Midsummer Day, and
Michaelmas:
Ten Shillings per Sermon, imme-
diately after
Preaching, payable
by the Church Wardens, from the
Bell
Alehouse in Mincing Lane.
By Will. |
| Mr. Aytel | 20s. out of the Rent of a
House
in Tower Street, for a Ser-
mon on the fifth of Novemb. |
| James Hixon | 20s. for a Sermon to be
preached on New-Years Day: Pay-
able by the Brewers Company. |
William Smith
late Curate of
this
Parish. | 20s. for
another Sermon, pay-
able by the Trustees of the said
Smith, from a
House of his Build-
ing on part of the Glebeland. The
two last lately
settled. |
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The Vicarage House was burnt down in the Fire. Rebuilt by Dr.
Layfield, then Incumbent upon Lease of 40 Years to his Son Dr.
Cha. Layfield. The House let some time for 70l. per ann. and the
reserved or Ground Rent 4l. In which is included the whole
Glebeland: Some of which lieth on the other side of the Church.
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Vicarage House.
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There is in this Parish a Free School, founded by Alderman
Hickson deceased, about the Year 1692. One Mr. Grasty is Master
of it: His Salary is 20l. per ann. and two Chaldron of Coals. There
belongs also a Writing Master to it, whose Stipend is 8l. per ann.
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Free School in this Parish.
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Somewhere in this Parish Licence was given in 44 Edw. III. for the
founding of an Hospital pro sustentatione Hominum in Frenesim,
&c. cadentium,
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An Hospital here for mad People.
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i.e. for the sustaining of People that fall into Phrensies, &c. ]
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Concerning the Bounds and Limits of this Parish according to our
precedent Order: They go Northward from the Church so far as
the Corner, where is the back Gate, some time belonging to Sir
Francis Walsingham, but now to Sir Nicholas Salter. Thence they
go on along by the Garden Wall belonging to the Lady Lumley, to
the East Corner; where going over, they pass on so far as the House
of one Peter Porter, right over against the great Gate of the Lady
Lumley's House. Where turning back down a Passage to the South
Part of Mr. Covell's Garden, in the midst whereof, Eastward, upon
London Wall, their Mark is fixed. Returning back that way again,
they cross Southward over Tower Hill, where some time stood a
Cross, distinguishing the Tower Liberty and Alhallows.
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Bounds of this Parish.
A. M.
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So they go on to the Tower Dock, to the House of Mr. Clay, Brewer,
where they go up Petty Wales, to the Custom House Gate. And
there they turn up Water Lane, on the East Side only, till they
come forth thereof, and cross over into Mart Lane, so far as Sir
Henry Baker's House, where they turn over East, and so pass on
that End of Mart Lane South, where turning again East to Sydon
Lane, they go up that Lane North, so far as Part of the House
belonging to Sir Nicholas Salter, and there fix their Mark;
returning to Chapel Alley, and there ending where they began.
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Here I confess my self beholding to Mr. Edward Abbot, Parson of
Alhallows Barking, and the Officers that there gave me friendly
Assistance.]
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By the West End of this Parish Church and Chapel lyeth Sydon
Lane, now corruptly called Sything Lane, from Tower Street up
North to Hart Street.
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Sydon Lane.
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In this Sydon Lane divers fair and large Houses are builded;
namely, one by Sir John Allen, some time Maior of London, and of
the Privy Council unto K. Henry VIII. Sir Francis Walsingham Knt.
principal Secretary to the Queen's Majesty that then lived, was
lodged there, and so was the Earl of Essex &c.
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I know not whether it were this very House, But I am sure
hereabouts was a capital Messuage called Sharington House,
forfeited to King Edward VI. from Sir Edward Sharington,
belonging to the Mint, attainted the 3d of his Reign: Which House
the King gave to Henry Earl of Arundel.]
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Sharington House.
J. S.
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The Church of St. OLAVE HARTSTREET.
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At the North West Corner of this Lane standeth a proper Parish
Church of St. Olave, which Church, together with some Houses
adjoyning, and also others over against it in Hart Street, are of the
said Tower Street Ward: The Church hath a Dial over the Street,
and a Churchyard behind it.
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Parish Church of St. Olave in Hartstreet.
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This Church in the many decayed Places of it (which indeed were
many and great) was repaired richly, and very worthily supplied
with whatsoever it wanted, and furnished with whatsoever might
farther deck and adorn it, at the proper Cost and Charge of the
Parishioners, in the Years of our Lord God 1632. and 1633. In the
former Year,
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Repaired and adorned.
R.
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Church Wardens.
Thomas Redding
Roger Dreyton
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Church Wardens.
Roger Dreyton
Christoph. Wigley
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