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Suburbs without the Walls. Monuments.
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A MAP of the Parish of St. KATHERINES by the
TOWER
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Church of blessed Mary, called Matfellon, without Aldgate of London, &c.
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And therefore it was a more probable Account of the Name Matfelon, ascribed to
St.
Mary the Patroness of this Parish Church, which I once heard given by a Reverend
Minister in Essex, viz. that the Word was of an Hebrew or Syriac Extraction;
xxx or xxx
i.e. Matfel or
Matfelon, signifying as much as, Quæ nuper enixa est, i.e. She that hath
lately
brought forth a Son: and so the Word is fitly applied to St. Mary; and it is as
much as,
St. Mary lately delivered of her holy Child. And it is probable her Image
anciently
stood in that Church with a Babe in her Arms, as sometimes she was wont to be
figured
or depainted. Nor ought any to say, that this is a far fetch'd Notion of the
Word, to
fetch it as far as Syria; considering that formerly such great Numbers of People
of out
these Western Parts, and particularly out of England, went to the Holy Land, to
visit the
Holy Sepulcher, and to fight against the Infidels. And that these Pilgrims and
Holy
Warriors brought home some smatterings of the Language with them. And that
divers
Oriental Words were used in England in former Times, appears from some old
Epitaphs. In St. Faiths under Pauls was this upon one John Abny, a Learned
Preacher
belonging to the Queen; Archilevita Dei Rabi Abnus alme Joannes, &c. where
he is
stiled Rabi or Rabbi, and Archilevita; Titles given to the Jewish Masters and
Priests.
And in the same Church, on another Monument, the Hebrew Word Adar for the Month
of March is made use of:
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An Account of the Name Matfelon.
J. S.
Mr. Wells, sometime Vicar of Hornchurch.
Dugdale's History of St. Pauls.
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X bis cum quinis in Adar bonus est sibi Finis.
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So that, in short, it is not unlikely (since in these Matters we can only
conjecture) but
that some Knight, that had dwelt in the Holy Land, was the Founder of this
Church of
Whitechapel, and dedicated it to St. Mary with the Babe in her Arms, which in
those
Eastern Countries was called Matfelon.]
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This Church, in many Parts of it greatly decayed, was repaired, and within,
without,
and in every Part of it richly and worthily beautified, at the Cost and Charge
of the
Parishioners, in the Year of our Lord 1633.
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R.
Repaired.
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Churchwardens for Whitechapel side.
Thomas Farrar,
John Wood,
John Mannering,
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Churchwardens for Wappin side.
Captain Hatch,
Master Allen,
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The Cost of this Repair amounting to 300l. and upwards.
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The Ground of the South Ile was added to the Church, and the new Ile built in
the Year
1591, and in the thirty fourth Year of Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Richard Gardiner,
Parson.
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A new Ile in the South built.
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[This Church hath been lately new built with smoothed Brick, and Galleried
round.]
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New built.
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To shew the never dying Love of these Parishioners, to their deceased Pastor Mr.
William Crashawe, take this Inscription from a very fair Gallery in the South
Ile.
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To the Honour of God, the Advancement of Religion, and in Thankfulness to God
for
the safe Return of our hopeful and gracious Prince CHARLES, from the Dangers of
his
Spanish Journey, this Gallery was erected at the Charge of this Parish Anno
1623. and
the seventh Year of Master Crashaw's Residence.
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As here, so in many other Places, his Name is remembred.
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A fair Monument on the North Wall.
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CHRISTO Opt. Max.
Pietati & Posteritati
Sacrum,
ELIZABETHæ Conjugis dulcissimæ
Fœminæ lectissimæ è claris Skinneriana
Et Emersoniana Familiis oriundæ.
In qua (rarâ felicitate)
Pietas cum Pulchritudine
Ingenium cum Virtute
Forma cum pudicitia
Mirificè conveniebant.
Quæ in primo puerperio, in ipso enixu,
Animam Deo, Memoriam mundo,
Vitam Naturæ, Carnem Terræ,
Patri puerulum, Amicis Luctum,
Conjugi mœrorem ineffabilem,
Ominbus ingens sui ipsius desiderium,
Moriendo reliquit.
W. CRASHAIUS hujus Ecclesiæ
Rector, Conjux longè mœstissimus,
multis cum lachrymis
Lugens, lubens,
Invitus posuit.
I know that my Redeemer liveth, Job xix. 25.
To the Honour of Jesus Christ, to the Praise of Piety, to the Example of
Posterity, and
for the Preservation of the godly Memory of ELIZABETH, his most worthily beloved
Wife; in whom (by a rare conjunction) Godliness with Comeliness, Wisdom with
Verture, Beauty with Chastity, Youth with Discretion, and Discretion with
Devotion
were most sweetly combined. Who, in the prime of her Years, upon her first
Child,
yielded up, by untimely Death (as her self had often foretold) her Soul to God,
her Life
to Nature, her Body to the Earth, her Memory to the World; and left to the
pensive
Earth a dear bought Son, to her Friends heaviness, hard to be removed: to her
Husband
Sorrow, not to be expressed; and to all that knew her, a longing desire after
her.
William Crashaw, her most sad and sorrowful Husband, Pastor of this Church, most
unwilling to part with her, but most willing to honour her with many Sighs and
Tears,
dedicated this Monument, in assurance of her glorious Resurrection. She died
Octob.
8. in the 24th Year of her Age.
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A handsome Monument with Iron Grates in the Churchyard.
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To the Memory of Alice Shelton, Daughter of Sir Ralph Shelton, of Shelton Hall
in
Norfolk, Kt. who had Issue by her first Husband, Thomas Waller, Esq; nine Sons
and
nine Daughters: And by her second Husband, William Wrove, of London,
Merchantaylor, had Issue two Sons and one Daughter. But had no Issue by her
third
and last Husband, Tobias Wilkinson, 1630.
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Another close by the former.
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Favour is deceitful, and Beauty is Vanity, but a Woman that feareth the
Lord, she shall be praised.
Here lieth buried that vertuous Thamozin, that gracious young Woman, the
faithful
Wife of Master William Eeles of Limehouse, Mariner. This mirror of young Women
departed this Life on the
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