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Cheape Ward. [St. Mary Colechurch.]
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"
if not the only Cause, of lowering it. That they had never concerned themselves
in the
Election of any one Member of Parliament; nor never advanced a single Penny to
influence
any Election. Neither could any Man complain, that he did not receive his Money
on
demand, that called for it. In short, that notwithstanding the Clamour and
Noise their
Adversaries made against them, they had not brought any Instance, that they had
been
guilty of any base or unworthy Action, in any one Fact committed by them, since
their first
Establishment. So that all the Clamour of their Ill-Willers, had been raised
upon a bare
Suspicion of what their Successors might do hereafter."
But now to return to
the
Grocers.]
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About the Year 1429. the Grocers had license to purchase 500 Marks Land. Since
the
which time, near adjoyning unto the Grocers Hall, the said Company hath builded
seven
Alms Houses, for seven aged poor Alms People. Thomas Knowles, Grocer, Maior,
gave
his Tenement in St. Anthonines Church-yard to the Grocers, towards the Relief of
the poor
Brethren in that Company. Also Henry Keble, Grocer, Maior, gave to the seven
Alms
People, six Pence the piece, weekly for ever; which Pension is now increased by
the
Masters, to some of them, two Shillings apiece weekly, and to some of them less,
&c.
Henry Ady, Grocer, 1563. gave a Thousand Marks to the Grocers, to purchase
Lands.
And Sir Henry Pechy, Kt. Bart. free of that Company, gave them Five hundred
Pound to
certain Uses: He builded Alms-houses at Ludingstone in Kent, and was there
buried.
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Alms-houses by the Grocers Hall.
Tho Knowles.
Henry Keeble.
Henry Ady.
Sir Hen. Pechy.
All Benefactors to the Grocers.
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West from this Cony hope lane, is the Old Jury; whereof some portion is of
Cheape Ward,
as afore is shewed.
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Old Jury.
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The Parish Church of St. MARY Colechurch.
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At the South end of this Lane, is the Parish Church of St. Mary Colechurch,
named of one
Cole that builded it. This Church is builded upon a Vault above Ground, so that
Men are
forced to ascend up thereunto by certain Steps.
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Colechurch.
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This Church was repiared and beautified at the Charge of the Parishioners, in
February
1623.
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Repaired.
R.
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Church-wardens.
William Shamrock,
Thomas Pulcher,
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I find no Monuments of this Church, more than that Henry the IVth granted
License to
William Marshall, and others, to found a Brotherhood of St. Katharine therein;
because
Thomas Becket, and St. Edmond were baptized there.
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Becket and S. Edmond, christen'd here.
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Thus expressed in the Record in the Tower: In Eccles. de S. Maria de Colechurch,
juxta
magnum Aqueduct. in qua Ecclesia S. Thomas de Cantuar. & S. Edmund. Rex
baptizati
fuerunt. This foresaid Guild or Fraternity, was founded 1 H. IV. and confirmed
again 25
H. VI.
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The G ild in Colechurch.
J. S.
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The Living of St. Mary Colechurch was but a Curacy. The Impropriators are the
Mercers;
who, before the Fire, gave the whole Benefit to the Incumbent. It had no Scite,
but was all
vested in the Mercers by Act of Parliament. When the Church stood, it was built
above
Stairs. It is not rebuilt, but the Parish is laid to St. Mildred Poultry.
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Colechurch a Curacy.
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To this Parish belonged a Gift Sermon, to be preached on the 17th Day of
November: The
Benefit of which, the Rector of St. Mildred enjoys.
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A Gift Sermon.
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No House for an Incumbent.]
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Bardhawe Lane in the Parish of St. Mary Colechurch.]
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Bardhaw Lane.
E. A.
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More I read of Bordhangly Lane to be of that Parish. And thus much for the
North side of
the Poultry.
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Bordhangley lane.
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The South side of the said Poultry, beginning on the Bank of the said Brook [of
Walbrook]
over-against the Parish Church of St. Mildred, passing up to that geat Conduit,
hath divers
fair Houses, which were sometime inhabited by the Poulters; but now by Grocers,
Haberdashers, and Upholsters.
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South side of the Poultry.
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At the West end of this Poultry, and also of Buckles bury, beginneth the large
Street of
West Cheaping, a Market Place so called; which Street stretcheth West, till ye
come to the
little Conduit by Pauls Gate, but not all of Cheape Ward. In the East part of
this Street,
standeth the great Conduit of sweet Water, conveyed by Pipes of Lead under
Ground from
Paddington, for service of this City, castellated with Stone, and cisterned in
Lead, about
the Year 1285. And again new builded and enlarged by Thoms Ilam, one of the
Sheriffs,
1479.
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West Cheape, a large Market place.
Great Conduit in West Cheape.
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About the midst of this Street, without Hony lane, is the Standard in Cheape;
which John
Wells, Grocer, Maior, 1430. caused to be made with a small Cistern with fresh
Water;
having one Cock continually running, when the same is not turned nor locked..
This was
finished by his Executors, Thomas Knowles and John Chichely; who purchased
License of
King Henry IV. to convey Water, to make the Conduit.
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Standard in Cheape.
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The said King, by his Patent dated at Windsor, the 21st of his Reign, (which
Patent was
confirmed by Parliament, 1442.) granted License to Thomas Knolles, John
Chichley, and
others, Executors to the said John Wells, with his Goods to make new the
High-way,
which leadeth from the City of London, towards the Palace of Westminster, before
and
nigh the Manour of Savoy, parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster; a Way then very
ruinous, and
the Pavement broken, to the Hurt and Mischief of the Subjects.
"Which old
Pavement,
then remaining in that Way, within the length of Five hundred Foot, and all the
breadth of
the same, before and nigh the site of the Manour aforesaid; they to break up,
and with
Stone, Gravel, and other Stuff, one other good and sufficient Way there to make,
for the
Commodity of the Subjects. And further, that the Standard in Cheape, where
divers
Executions of the Law, before time, had been performed, which Standard, at that
present,
was very ruinous with Age; in which there was a Conduit, should be taken down,
and
another competent Standard of Stone, together with a Conduit in the same, of
new,
strongly to be builded, for the Commodity and Honour of the City, with the Goods
of the
said Testator, without interruption, &c."
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King Henry VI. his License for this
Standard.
The old Standard in Cheape with a Conduit
therein, taken down, and new builded.
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Now, whether the Standard in West Cheape, so oft spoken of in former times, be
the
same, and stood just in the same place, or elsewhere, or that the same were
removeable,
were some question. For it is manifest, that in the Reign of Edward the IIId,
and at other
times, when the great Justings, and their Runnings on Horseback, were practised
between
the great
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A Doubt of the Place of the old Standard.
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