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[St. Michael Pater noster.] Vintrie Ward.
Mine uncunning
taketh benignely,
For Gods sake,
and hearken what I say.
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Then follow in like Metre 23 staves, containing a perswasion from losing of time
foolishly,
in lust and vice, but to spend the same in Vertue and in Godliness; as ye may
read in Geffry
Chaucer his Works, lately printed. The successors of those Vintners and
Wine-drawers,
that retailed by the Pottle, Quart and Pint, were all incorporated by the Name
of Wine-
tunners, in the Reign of Edward III. and confirmed the 15th of Henry VI.
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Chawcer, fol. 334, and 335.
Wine-tunners incorporated the 15 of Hen. 6.
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[Having thus much, not without Travail and some Charges, noted for Antiquity of
these
Vintners, about two years * since, or more, I repaired to the Common Hall of
that
Company, and there shewed, and read it in a Court of Assistance: requiring them,
as being
one of the Principal Companies in this City (of whom I meant therefore to write
the more at
large) if they knew any more, which might sound to their Worship and
Commendation, at
their Leisure to send it me, and I would joyn it to my former Collection. But I
was
answered by some that took upon them the Speech, that they were none of the
Principal,
but of the inferiour Companies, and so willing me to leave them, I departed; and
never
since heard from them, which hath somewhat discouraged me any further to travail
amongst the Companies, to learn ought at their hands. This Paragraph I thought
fit to
restore, being left out in the two last Editions.]
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The Vintners Company discourage Stow.
*Viz. 1596.
The Vintners one of the 12 Companies.
The readiest to speak, not always the wisest men.
J. S.
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Next is Palmers lane, now called Anchor lane. The Plummers have their Hall
there, but are
Tenants to the Vintners.
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Palmers lane, or Anchor lane.
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Then is Worcester house, someimes belonging to the Earls of Worcester, now
divided into
many Tenements. The Fruiterers have their Hall there.
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Plummers Hall.
Worcester House.
Fruiterer's Hall.
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Then is the Old Swan, a great Brew-house. And this is all, on the Thames side,
that I can
note in this Ward.
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Old Swan.
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On the Land side, in the Royal street, is Pater noster lane, I think of old time
called Arches:
for I read, that Robert de Suffolk gave to Walter Darford, his tenement with the
appurtenance, in the Lane called Les Arches, in the parish of St. Michael de
Pater noster
Church, between the wall of the Field called Winchester field, on the East, and
the same
Lane on the West, &c. More, I read of a Stone House, called Stoda de
Winton, juxta
Stodum bridge, which in that Lane was over Walbrooke water.
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Pater noster Lane.
L. S. Mary Overie.
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The Parish Church of St. MICHAEL, called Pater noster Church in the
Royal.
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Then is the fair Parish Church of St. Michael, called Pater noster Church in the
Royal.
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S. Michael de Pater noster, a College, one Alms-house or Hospital.]
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This Church was new builded, and made a College of St. Spirit, and St. Mary,
founded by
Richard Whittington, Mercer, four times Maior, for a Master, four Fellows,
Masters of
Art, Clerks, Conducts, Chorists, &c. and an Alms-house, called Gods house or
Hospital,
for thirteen poor Men. One of them to be Tutor, and to have 16d. the week, the
other
twleve each of them to have 14d. the week for ever, with other necessary
provision, an
Hutch with three Docks, a common Seal, &c.
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Whittington's College.
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These (as the manner then was) were bound to pray for the good estate of Richard
Whittington, and Alice his Wife, their Foun-
ders; and for Sir William Whittington, Knight, and Dame Joan his Wife; and for
Hugh
Fitzwaren, and Dame Molde his Wife, the Fathers and Mothers of the said Richard
Whittington, and Alice his Wife; for King Richard the II, and Thomas of
Woodstock, Duke
of Glocester, special Lords and Promoters of the said Whittington, &c. [It
follows in the
Wil, For Anne and Eleanor the Wives, of the said King and Duke. Furthermore
also for
the good Heel and Staat of our aforesaid Lord [King Henry VI. and Arch-bishop.
[Henry
Chichely] that now be, and the Conservators and Benefactors of the same House,
while
they live, and for our good Staat, while we live, and for their Souls and ours,
whan they
and we be passed out of this World; and generally for them, to whom the said
Rich.
Whyttington and Alice were byhold to, in any manerwise while we live; and for
all
Christen Soules.]
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R. Whittington. Son to Sir W. Whittington, Knight.
J. S.
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The Licence for this foundation was granted by King Henry IV. the eleventh of
his Reign:
and in the twelfth of the same King's Reign, the Maior and Commonalty of London,
granted to Richard Whittington a vacant piece of ground, thereon to build his
College in the
Royal: all which was confirmed by Henry VI. the third of his Reign, to John
Coventry,
Jenkin Carpenter, and William Grove, Executors to Richard Whittington.
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This foundation was again confirmed by Parliament, the tenth of Henry VI. and
was
suppressed by the Statute of Edward VI. The Alms-houses, with the poor Men, do
remain, and are paid by the Mercers.
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There be extant in Custody of the Mercers the Original Ordinances of Richard
Whittington's Charity, made by his Executors, Coventre, Carpenter and Grove,
fairly
written. Where on the first Page is curiously allumined the said Whittington
lying on his
Death-bed, a very lean consumed meagre Body: and his three Executors and a
Priest, and
divers others standing by his Bed side: Beginning thus:
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Ordinances of Whittington Colledge,
J. S.
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"
To alls the trew People of Cryst, that shalle se or here the Things
which be conteyned within these present Letters, John Coventre John Carpentre
and William Grove, &c. Executors of the Testament of the worthy and notable
Merchant Richard Whittington, late Citezin and Mercer of the Cite of
London and oftentimes Meyer of the same Cite, sending Gretyng in our
Lord God everlasting.
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"
The fervent Desire and help Intention of a prudent, wyse and devout man shal be
to cast
before and make seure the State and thende of the short liffe with Dedys of
Mercy and Pite:
and namely to provyde for such pouer Persons which grevous Penuere and cruel
Fortune
have oppressed, and be not of power to gete their lyving either by Craft or by
any other
bodily Labour: wherby that at the day of the last Augement, he may take his part
with hem
that shal be saved. This considering the foresaid worthy and notable Merchaunt
Richard Whittington, the which while he leved had ryght liberal and large
hands to the Needy and poure People, charged Greitly, in his Death-bed, us his
said
Executors, to ordeyne a House of Almes after his Deth, for perpetual
sustentacion of such
poure people as is tofore rehersed: and therupon fully he declared his Wyll unto
us. And
we wylling after our power to fullfil thentent of his commendable Wille and"
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