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Bridge Ward without. St. Georges Benefactions.
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Which Men I doubt not but our God,
who seeth all things, shall find
True in dispensing of the same,
according to his Mind.
Ye Poor, thank Christ for Savage still,
extol God's Name with Praise,
That he to follow his good Act,
in time may many raise.
Anno Domini 1588.]
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The Persons of later Times interred in S. George's, with Monuments and Grave stones,
(or in former Times, but omitted) are these whose Names follow:
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Later Monuments.
J. S.
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In the Chancel. A Monument erected at the only Charge of Thomas Lenthal, second
Son of Sir John Lenthal of this Parish, Kt. in Memory of his dear Brothers and Sisters,
and others of his Kindred here interred, An. Dom. 1643.
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Captain Robert Morris, Citizen and Skinner of London, died 1675. The Monument
erected An. 1702. by the last Will of Margaret Morris his Widow.
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William Smith, Citizen and Skinner of London, 1678. within the Rails of the
Communion-Table.
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Sub hoc Lapide inhumatur corpus Johannis Jones, 1600.
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Etheldred Reynel, Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Edward Peacock of Finchly, Kt. Wife
to Sir Reynel, Kt. Marshal of the King's-Bench, 1618.
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Modest, humble, godly, wise,
Pity ever in her Eyes,
Patience ever in her Breast;
Great in Good, in Evil least,
A loving Wife, a Mother dear,
Such she was who now lies here.
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William Hobson, D.D. Parson of this Parish, together with the adjacent Bones of
Lancelot his Father, Augustin his Unkle, Robert his Brother, William and Bosvile his
Sons. The said Dr. William died 1668.
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South Wall.
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Captain Thomas Wenburne, Citizen and Skinner of London, 1685/6.
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Tho. Hudson, Justice of Peace and Coram.
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In the Body of the Church.
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Domina Elizabetha conjunx Domini Gulielmi Drumond, Baronis de Cromlix, &
Generalis militum Præfecti in Scotia, &c. Ob. apud Tunbridge, 10. Aug. 1679.
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Domina Margareta [dictæ] Dominæ Elizabethæ filia, & conjunx Domini
Thomæ Hay Baronis de Balhouse in Regno Scotia, &c. 1696.
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Thomas Russel, Norfolciensis. 1676.
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North Ile.
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Henry Rook, 1699. And Katharine Rook his Daughter, 1695.
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Ellen Wright, Wife of Daniel Wright, 1665.
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With their several Gifts bestowed on this Parish, as they are set down in a Table in this
Church, are as follow:
| Years. | Donors. | Gifts. |
| 1588. | James Savage
gave out of the Bridgehouse
near the Kings Bench, to be yearly
distributed
for ever | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1590. | William
Evance gave out of his Robin Hood
Rents in Blackman Street, in Bread
yearly for
ever | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1622. | Sir William
Cowper gave an House in Pright Alley in Tower Street. |
| 1630. | And an House
in Bishopsgate Stret for ever | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| Years. | Donors. | Gifts. |
| 1625. | J. Simon gave
out of Lands in Tilbury in
Essex, for ever, | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 1626. | Purchased in
the Parish the Spread Eagle
and three Houses adjoining, by the
Parish-
oners and others, for ever, | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 1626. | Henry Smith
gave out of the Manour of
Beahill in Sussex, for ever, per ann. | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 1627. | William
Brooks, Yeoman, gave out of thir-
teen Cottages, one Messuage and
Garden in
White Street, for ever, per ann. | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1633. | Sir John
Fenner gave, to buy Bibles and other
Uses, out of two Farms,
Truedoves and
Goodales, in Suffolk, | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 1635. | Humfrey
Williams gave eight Tenements,
(the same now, eleven) -- Acres of Land,
in Kent
Street, for ever, | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 1645. | Edward Martin
gave out of his Farm at
Low Layton in Essex, to buy Bibles
yearly for
ever, | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1648. | William Brook
gave out of Blew Boar Rents,
in White Street, yearly, for ever, | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 1679. | Tho. Grayson
gave out of the old Birdeage
yearly, for ever, | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| | Robert Shaw settled a burying Place, and an
Acre of
Land, whereon a House is
since built,
for ever, | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| | In Consideration of some Privileges granted him by the
Parish. |
| 1672. | Edmund
Dudson, Esq; gave out of two Te-
nements in Lower Tooting, 12d. each
Friday
in Bread, for ever,] | 2 | 12 | 0 |
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Charities.
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Then is the White Lion (a Goal) so called, for that the same was a common Hostery for
the receipt of Travellers by that Sign. This House was first used as a Gaol within this *
threescore Years last; since the which time the Prisoners were once removed thence to a
House in Newtown, where they remained for a short time, and were returned back
again to the aforesaid White Lion, there to remain, as the appointed Gaol for the County
of Surrey.
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White Lion a Gaol for Surrey.
*Forty Years.
First Edit.
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Next, is the Goal or Prison of the Kings-Bench, but of what Antiquity the same is, I
know not. For I have read, that the Courts of the Kings Bench and Chancery, have oft
times been removed from London to other Places, and so hath likewise the Goals that
serve those Courts; as in the Year 1304. Edward thd First commanded the Courts of
the Kings Bench and the Exchequer, which had remained seven Years at York, to be
removed to their old Places at London. And in the Year 1387, the eleventh of Richard
the Second, Robert Trisilian, Chief Justice, came to the City of Coventry, and there sate
by the space of a Month, as Justice of the Kings Benches, and caused to be indited in
that Court, about the number of 2000 Persons of that Country, &c.
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Kings Bench.
H. Knighton.
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It seemeth therefore, that for that time, the Prison or Gaol of that Court was not far off.
Also, in the Year 1392, the sixteenth of the same Richard, the Archbishop of York
being Lord Chancellor, for good Will that he bare to his City, caused the Kings Bench
and Chancery to be removed from London to York. But o're long they were returned
to London.
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The Prisoners in this Prison of the Kings Bench were formerly not only restrained of
their Liberty, but were further punished by reason of the straitness of room: there being
more a great many about the middle of Queen Elizabeth's Reign committed there than
before, as well for Debt, Trespass, as other Causes. By reason of which streightning
and pestering one another, great Annoyances and Inconveniences grew among the
Prisoners, that occasioned the Death of many. So that within six
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The Petition of the Prisoners of the Queens
Bench to the Lords, for more room.
J. S.
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