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Ealdgate Ward. St. Katharine Creechurch.
My Life's first Hour proved the last to me;
My Day began, begun strait ceast to
be.
My Father unto Christ my first Prime meant:
Father no need; to our Father
Christ I went.
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In the Body of the Church, a flat Stone thus inscribed for Booker
the famous Astrologer;
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In oblivione conteretur urna JOHANNIS BOOKERI Astrologi. Qui
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Fatis cessit VIto Idus April. An. Dom. MDCLXVII.
Hoc illi posuit Amoris Monumentum Elias Ashmole Armiger
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Upon the Cieling of the Chancel is written SIR EDWARD BARKHAM
Maior, 1622. for a lasting Memory of him who was the great
Promoter of erecting this Church.]
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The Parish Church of St. KATHARINE CREECHURCH.
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The Parish Church of St. Katharine standeth in the CÅ“mitery
of the same dissolved Priory of the Holy Trinity, and is therefore
called St. Katharine Christ's Church.
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The Parishioners, as it appeareth, by a Leiger Book of Christ's
Church Priory, did at first meet together for Divine Service at the
Altar of St. Mary Magdalen in the South Part of this Conventual
Church. But afterwards an Inconvenience being found therein, per
Dissonantiam vocum; when Service was saying to the Canons in
another part of the Church, and at the same time to the said
Parishioners here in this part of it: Therefore by the Consent and
Agreement as well of the Prior and Convent, as of the Parishioners
aforesaid, the Chapel of St. Katharine was built in the Church Yard
of the said Church, at the Motion of the Lord Richard de
Graveshende Bishop of London [who was Bishop from the Year
1280. to 1303.] In which Chapel Service might be more quietly
performed. But there happened upon this much Contention and
Discord between Robert Exeter the Prior, and the Parishioners;
which continued to the Time of William Haradon Prior, and Lord
Richard Clifford, Bishop of London, who in the time of his ordinary
Visitation, (which happened anno 1414.) made an Agreement
between them by mutual Consent, in the Composition following:
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The Occasion of building St. Katharine Creechurch. J. S.
Lib. Trinit. penes me.
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That a Baptismal Font in the Church or Chapel should be erected
anew, for baptizing of Children, and other Things there necessary
or seasonable to be done. And that other Solemnities and Services
should be performed for perpetual future Times in their said
Church or Chapel.
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Composition between the Parishioners and the Priory.
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Also, that the Parishioners repair yearly to the Conventual Church
in the Festival of the Holy Trinty, and also in the Festival of the
Dedication of the said Conventual Church, falling out on the
Morrow of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, every year; and giving
due Reverence to the said Church, in token of Subjection and
Acknowledgment, each at least in the same Festivals, should offer
humbly and devoutly single Pence, Halfpence, or Farthings.
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But in case the same Parishioners were minded to celebrate the
Solemnity of the Dedication of the said Church or Chapel of St.
Katharine, in the same Church or Chapel, we kindly do not hinder
the Devotion and Will of the said Parishioners; yea, rather with a
Paternal Affection yield to it.
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That there be no Ringing to the Office of the Resurrection in the
Chrch or Chapel, till such Office in the Conventual Church, on the
usual time, be done.
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That Service be said to the Parishioners by one of the said Canons
in their said Church or Chapel, according to the Will of the Prior
and Convent, as was accustomed antiently before this Ordinance.
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To have to the said Parishioners all the Sacraments and
Sacramentals to be performed by him, or by some other Canon, or
secular Priest to be deputed in his Absence.
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The Prior and Convent not bound to find anew, or support any
Ornaments or Burthens to the same Church, on account of this
Ordinance, or having been enjoyned by any, may they be forced to
it. Given and acted in the Chapter House of the Priory, in the Year
of the Incarnation of our Lord 1414. Witness John Swayn Doctor
of both Laws our Chancellor, Peter Hynewick, &c.
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This Composition was confirmed by Pope Martin.]
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This Church seemeth to be a very old Thing. Since the building
whereof, the high Street hath been so often raised by Pavements,
that now Men are fain to descend into the said Church by divers
Steps, [seven in Number.] But the Steeple or Bell Tower thereof
hath been lately builded; to wit, about the Year 1504. for Sir John
Percivall Merchant Taylor, then deceasing, gave Money towards
the building thereof.
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Now concerning this Parish Church being now newly built, and
made a very fair Church indeed; the ascending into it is by four or
five Degrees. Very gladly would I have delivered further
Satisfaction concerning the new Structure thereof: But I was
answered, they would admit no meddling therewith, untill they
had new built the Steeple, and other necessary Occasions thereto
belonging.
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The new building of St. Katharine Christ's Church.
A. M.
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The Monuments formerly mentioned in the Edition of the Year
1618, I find (by their Report) to remain there still, with the Tomb
of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, and the rest there named; but I find
no newer to be spoken of.]
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There be the Monuments of Sir Thomas Flemming, Lord of Rowalls
[alias Rowles] in Essex, and Margaret his Wife, 1464.
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William Creswick Citizen, buried in St. Maries Chapel in
Creechurch. By his Will, about 1405. he gave his Manor of Heston,
and his Manor of Halls in the Town of Heston, &c. And to the Poor
of the Church of St. Augustin Papey, juxta Bewes Marks, London,
and to the Rector and Parishioners, of the same Church for the
time being, a Tenement, Garden, and Shops, with its
Appurtenances, &c. in the same Parish to the said Rector and
Parishioners and their Successors for ever, in augmentationem
sustentationis Rectoris ejusd. Ecclesiæ, ad orand. pro
animâ suâ: And also, to the Rector and Parishioners of
the Church of St. Sepulchre, and their Successors, for ever, 13s. 4d.
of yearly Rent, to be received out of his Lands and Tenement;
which he hath at a certain Inn, called the Castle, near Barram [the
Barrs] of West Smithfield, within the Liberty, pro sustentatione
Ornamentorum dicte Ecclesiæ.
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Wil. Crisewyk.
Regist. Lond.
E. Alex.
St. Augustin's Pappey.
St. Sepulchre.
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Henry Elvedon of London, Esq; buried in in Christ's Church within
Algate, Lond. by his Will dated Aug. 27. 1498. gave to Joyce his
Wife the third part of his Lands and Tenements lying in Brakking,
Mochel Hadham, Lytel Hadham, &c. and the Residue of his Goods
and Chattels after his Debts paid, requiring her to be a good
Mother to Florence and James his Children.
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Creechurch.
E. Alex.
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This Elvedon was Esquire of the Body to K. Henry VII.
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Richard Monnes of London, Scrivenor, by Will, dated 26. Apr. 5. of
Edw. VI. gives to the Re-
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Creechurch.
Reg. Lond.
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