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[St. Mildred.] Cheape Ward. [The Bank.] | 33 |
[St. Mildred.] Cheape Ward. [The Bank.]
Year. Donor. | Gift. |
And to Christ's Hospital, that they should receive a Child
out of the Parish once in five Years | 130 00 00 |
Also, a Stock to be lent to young Freemen, to pay 4l. per
Ann. for the same | 100 00 00 |
And the said 4l. to be paid for four Sermons, per ann. | 04 00 00 |
And to the Clerk and Sexton, to each, per Ann. 10s. | 01 00 00 |
1659. Michael Best, gave a Silver Bason, weighing 50 Ounces and half. | |
1663. Sarah Tudman, gave for Employment, to produce 3l. per Ann. to be bestowed on poor Widows | 60 00 00 |
1668. Lady Eliz. Allington, gave towards rebuilding the Church | 200 00 00 |
1676. Henry Dixon, Fra. Edmonds, Thomas Mallory, each 10l. | 30 00 00 |
Robert Brabant gave the Font, &c. about | 40 00 00 |
1677. Lewis Newham gave the Branch, &c. about | 40 00 00 |
1693. Henry Dixon gave for ever, to put out poor Boys Apprentices; and when out, &c. per Ann. | 32 00 00 |
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This Church of St. Mildreds, was, after the great Fire, rebuilt at the publick
Charge: But
afterwards fully finished, in the Year 1676. by the joint Contribution of the
Parish and St.
Mary Colechurch, united to it by Act of Parliament. Repaired and beautified
1701.
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It hath no Pillars; the Cieling is plain, only adorned with a large Garland of
Fret-work. A
capacious Gallery at the West end.]
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In the Year 1594. Thomas Lane, Citizen and Scrivener of London, by his last Will
and
Testament gave his small Tenement, over against London-Wall, near Bishopsgate;
unto the
Church, towards the reparations thereof, and relief of the poor of the Parish.]
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T. Lane's Gift.
A. M.
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Of the Name of this Street, called the Poultry, I have before spoken; as also,
of the Lane
called Scalding House, or Scalding Wike, &c.
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On this North side, some four Houses West from this Parish Church of St.
Mildred, is a
Prison-house, pertaining to one of the Sheriffs of London, and is called the
Compter in the
Poultry; and hath been there kept and continued time out of mind; for I have not
read of the
original thereof. Somewhat West from this Compter, was a proper Chappel, called
of
Corpus Christi; and St. Mary, at Cony hope lane end, in the Parish of St.
Mildred, founded
by one named Jonyrunnes, a Citizen of London, in the Reign of Edward the IIId;
in which
Chappel, was a Guild or Fraternity, that might dispend in Lands better then 20l.
by Year.
It was suppressed by Henry the Eighth, and purchased by one Thomas Hobson,
Haberdasher; who turned this Chappel into a fair Warehouse and Shops towards the
Street,
with Lodgings over them.
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Compter in the Poultry.
Chappel of Corpus Christi.
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Johan. Clerk, Civis and Pulletarius, legavit Fraternitatis suæ in Capella
Corporis
Christi, in Pulletria Lond. 26s. 8d. An. 1397.]
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Chappel in the Poultry.
E. A.
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Then is Cony hope lane, of old time so called, of a sign of three Conies hanging
over a
Poulters Stall at the Lane end. In this Lane, antiently, was a Chappel
dedicated to the
blessed Virgin. So in the Bishop of Londons Re-
gister of Wills, Capella Beatæ Mariæ de Conyng hope Lane: London.
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Cony hope lane.
Lib. Brown.
E. A.
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Marteley's Alley in Conyhope lane.]
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Within this Lane standeth the Grocers Hall; Which Company being of old time
Pepperers,
were first incorporated by the Name of Grocers, in the Year 1345. At which time
they
elected for Custos or Guardian of their Fraternity, Richard Oswin,and Lawrence
Halliwel,
and twenty Brethren were then taken in, to be of their Society. In the Year
1411. the
Custos or Guardian, and the Brethren of this Company, purchased of the Lord
Robert
Fitzwaters, one plot of Ground, with the Building thereupon, in the said Cony
hope lane,
for 320 Marks; and then laid the Foundation of their new common Hall.
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Grocers Hall purchased and builded.
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Here at this Hall, is now kept the Bank of England, established by Act of
Parliament; first
for a term of Years, and afterwards, by another Act, for a longer. This Bank
serveth for
receiving in of Monies from any Person, where it is surely reposited, and a
consideration
of Increase allowed, while it remains there, especially, if Stock be bought with
it. Where
Monies are also lent out upon good Securities: and likewise, chiefly upon
occasion for the
supply of the Needs and Exigencies of the Crown; for which Exchequer Bills are
granted
out. And so it becomes of great and publick Use.
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The Bank of England kept at Grocers Hall.
J. S.
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In the Year 1707. Nathaniel Trench, Esq; a worthy and intelligent Citizen, wrote
a Defence
of this Bank; being a Reply to a Pamphlet, called Remarks upon the Bank of
England; also
to two other Pamphlets wrote against the Bank, one entitled, A short View of the
apparent
Danger and Mischiefs from the Bank of England: The other, Reasons offered
against the
continuance of the Bank, in a Letter to a Member of Parliament. These Remarks
and
Pamphlets were thrown abroad, to prejudice the Parliament against granting a
further
enlargement of Time to the Bank. The chief Purpose of this Defence, was to
vindicate a
Corporation, and the Management thereof; not so much from Crimes they had
already been
guilty of in the Experiment of Eleven or Twelve Years, as the fear of what they
might do
hereafter. For it was acknowledg'd by their bitterest Enemies, even in their
Treatises wrote
against it, That the Bank had been serviceable to the Government, and that the
Managers
thereof had not been guilty of those Villanies and Knaveries which they supposed
their
Successors might be. But that it was a neceassary Consequence, that by a
further
Enlargement of their Time (if any such they should have) either They, or their
Successors,
might for time to come so prevaricate, as to be guilty of those Crimes, which
they took
upon them to suppose; though hereof was not the least Proof brought.
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A Defence of the Bank, writ by Alderman
Tench.
Epist. to the Reader.
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This Vindication of the Bank thus concludes,
"That it might be with Truth
concluded,
that since their first Establishment, (which was then about Twelve or Thirteen
Years) they
never bought one Foot of Land, they never monopolized any one Commodity; that
they had
been so far from obstructing Trade, that they had very much incouraged and
enlarged it, by
discountenancing foreign and inland Bills of Exchange; and by lending Money upon
Notes,
to very great Sums, at very low Interest. That they had never put any Hardships
upon the
Government, as those Authors would insinuate; but had at all times served it to
the utmost
of their Power. That they had been so far from raising the Interest of Money,
that they
were the great, "
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