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Tower Street Ward. Wharfs and Keys. | 49 |
Tower Street Ward. Wharfs and Keys.
returning back into the Cross Lane, so far as Sir Cuthbert Buckles
House, now in the Custody of Sir John Lemmin Kt. and Lord Maior
of London, they go home to the Place where they began. Here I
was favoured by Master John Childerlay Doctor of Divinity, my
worthy good Friend, and his diligent Officers.]
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Now for the two Church Lanes, they meeting on the South side of
this Church and Church Yard, do join in one; and running down to
the Thames Street, the same is called St. Dunstan's Hill: At the
lower end whereof the said Thames Street (toward the West, on
both sides almost to Billingsgate, but towards the East up to the
Water Gate, by the Bulwark of the Tower) is all of Tower Street
Ward. In this Street on the Thames side, are divers large Landing
Places, called Wharfs or Keys, for Cranage up of Wares and
Merchandise, as also for shipping of Wares from thence to be
transported.
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Wharfs and Keys.
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By occasion of the defrauding of the Queen of her Customs for
Goods and Merchandises brought in or carried out, by making use
of small obscure Creeks, or Places, where no Custom House Officer
was attending, or by the Corruption of those Officers, or by other
fraudulent and undue Practices; and so privately conveying them
away without paying the Custom or Subsidy due; there was an Act
made in the first Year of Q. Elizabeth, an. 1559. That no Goods
should be put ashore at any Place in the Kingdom, but where she
should assign and appoint by her Commission. In pursuance of
this Act, the Queen ordered her Lord Treasurer, her Under
Treasurer, and Chancellor of her Exchequer, to set forth and
publish her Pleasure for the divers Ports of her Kingdom. And for
the Port of London, the said Commissioners drew up this
Declaration; determining what particular Keys, Wharfs, and Stairs
should be for lading and discharging of all manner of
Merchandises: And what particular Goods should be landed at
Billingsgate, the Three Cranes, the Bridgehouse, and the Stilyard:
Where Newcastle Coals, Beer, Deal Boards, Ore, Corn, &c. should be
laid on Land: What Creeks, Wharfs, and Keys, from Gravesend to
London Bridge, should be no more used as lading or discharging
Places, but be debarred utterly from it for ever: And that no
Stranger, whether Denizon or not, should henceforth inhabit upon
any of the Wharfs allowed, except the Stilyard only: And lastly,
that all Keepers of Wharfs and Keys should be bound to the Queen
in certain Sums of Money, that no Goods should be landed at their
Keys or Stairs, or put thence upon the Water, to be carried abroad,
before the said Goods were entred in the Queen's Custom-Books,
and to be laden in the Presence of some Searcher. All these
Orders ran in this express Tenor following.
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Wharfs and Keys appointed for landing Merchandises.
J. S.
1 Eliz. c. 11.
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WHarfes and Keyes for Ladinge and
Discharginge Places, within the Porte of London, for Merchndises,
aswell to be brought thither from the Parties beyonde the Seas, as
from thence to the saide Parties, to be caried: Assigned, and
appointed the xxviijth Day of Auguste in the firste Yere of the
Rayne of our Soverayne Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God,
Quene of Englande, France, and Irelande, Defendour of the Faithe,
&c. By the Right Honorable William Marques of Winchester, Lorde
Treasorer of Englande; Sir Richard Sakevile Knight, Under-
Treasorer of the Quenes Highnes Courte of Theschequour; and Sir
Walter Mildemay Knight, Chancellour of the sayde
Courte, assigned for that Purpos by the Quenes Hyghnes Patente
under the Seale of the saide Courte of Theschequour, dated the
xiiijth of June, in the Yeare aforesaide, accordinge to the Statute in
that behalf made and provided, in the Parliament holden at
Westminster in the Yeare abovesaide. Scilt.
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The Order for the Wharfs.
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Old Wooll Key,
New Wooll Key,
Galley Key, Andro
Morris Key, Am-
brose Thurstan's Key,
Rauff's Key, Cock's
Key, Gibson's Key,
Haddock's Key, Dyce
Key, Bear Key,
Sommer's Key, But-
tolph's Wharf, Sabb's
Key, Young's Key,
Crown Key, Smart's
Key, Fresh Wharf,
and Gaunt's Key,
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Appointed to be general Lading and Discharging Places for all
manner of Merchandises. |
Billingsgate, |
Appointed to be an open Place for the landing and bringing in of
any Fish, Corn, Salt, Stones, Vi- ctuals, and Fruits, (Gro- cery Wares
excepted:) And to be a Place of car- rying forth of the same, or the
like; and for no other Merchandises. |
The Three Cranes
in the Vintry. Tho-
mas Johnson's Key,
and Busher's Wharf. |
The said Three Cranes ap- pointed to be an open Place for the
landing and discharging of all manner of Wines and Oyles. And
the same Three Cranes, Thomas Johnson's Key, and Busher's
Wharf, to be open Places for the land- ing or discharging of Pitch,
Tar, Flax, Iron, Wainscott, Clapboards, Deals, Ores, Rafters, Ashes to
make Soap, Os- munds Eeles, Cables, Halsers, Hemp, Stones, Chests,
Playing Tables; and all manner of Fish and Hops: And to be open
Places for the Ship- ping and lading of any Woollen Cloths of the
Price of six Pounds or under the Cloth, Cony Skins, and for no
other Merchandises. |
Newcastle Coals
to be carried over
the Seas. |
Appointed to be shipped in any Place within the Port of London, in
the Pre- sence of the Searcher of the said Port, or one of his
Servants sworn to serve in that Office, and not otherwise. |
Beer to be carr-
ed in the Seas.
It is by later Orders
provided, that Beer
shall be taken in at |
Appointed to be entred in the Customers Books, and then shipped
at any Stairs, Wharf or Wharfs within the City of London,
South- wark, and St. Katherines, in the Presence of the Searcher or
any of his said Servants.
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