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Bishopsgate Ward.
CHAP. VI.
St. Botolph Church.
A New Churchyard here.
A Persian Merchants Tomb.
St. Mary of Bethlem.
Fisher's Folly.
St. Mary Spittle.
Lolesworth, or Spittle Fields.
Urnes found there; and other strange
Things.
St. Ethelburgh's.
St. Helen's.
Crosby Place.
Sir T. Gresham's House.
The modern Estate of the
Ward.
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THE next is Bishopsgate Ward, whereof a part is without
the Gate, and of the Suburbs, from the Bars by St. Mary Spittle to Bishopsgate,
and a
part of Houndsditch, almost half thereof, also without the Wall, is of the same
Ward.
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Bishopsgate Ward.
The Compass of it.
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Then within the Gate is Bishopsgate Street, so called of the Gate, to a Pump,
where
sometime was a fair Well with two Buckets, by the East End of the Parish Church
of
St. Martin Oteswich. And then winding by the West Corner of Leadenhall, down
Grass Street, to the Corner over against Grass Church: And these are the Bounds
of
that Ward.
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Monuments there most to be noted, are these: The Parish Church of St. Botolph
without Bishopsgate, in a fair Churchyard, adjoining to the Town Ditch, upon the
very
Bank thereof, but of old time inclosed with a comely Wall of Brick, lately
repaired by
Sir William Allen Maior, in the Year 1571. because he was born in that Parish,
where
also he was buried.
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Parish Church of St. Boltolph without Bishopsgate.
Sir Will. Allen.
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An Anchoress (by Bishopsgate) received 40s. the Year of the Sheriffs of London.
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An Anchoress.
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The Parish Church of St. BOTOLPH BISHOPSGATE.
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The North Wall of this Church, with the Roof thereof, and the middle Roof
likewise,
were new built, and the Church begun to be repaired in the Year of our Lord
1617. Mr
Stephen Gosson being then Parson.
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Some part new built, the whole repaired.
R.
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Churchwardens.
William Whitwell,
Dominick Lomlie,
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The Repair of it, in Pewing the Church throughout, in painting, altering, adding
and
ordering to its greater Convenience and Beauty, continued to the Year 1620. in
which it
was fully finished.
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Churchwardens.
Samuel Fond,
John Day,
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The Charge of it amounting to 600l. and upwards.]
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The Monuments that I observed in the Church of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate,
were these:
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A. M.
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Johannes Threll Armig. nobili familia Sussexiæ ortus, hic jacet. Vixit
usque ad
annum sexagesimum tertium: Mortuus est sexto die Octobris. Anno Domini 1609.
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Fair plated Stones lying one by another on the Ground in the Chancel.
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Sub hoc Marmore jacet corpus Johannis Redman, quondam hujus Ecclesiæ
Rectoris bene meriti: qui ab hac luce migravit tertio die Julii, Anno Domini
1523.
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Hic jacet Johannes Picking, Magister Artium, nuper Rector istius Ecclesiæ.
qui
obixt 6. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1490.
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Here under lyeth the Body of Joane Wood, Wife of Robert Wood, Citizen and Brewer
of London, who had Issue, two Sons and three Daughters; viz. John, Richard,
Joane,
Anne and Frances. She deceased the 25. day of November, An. Dom. 1600. She
gave
large Gifts and Legacies to this Parish, as here under is expressed.
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At the Entrance into the Quire in the middle Ile.
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A Monument on the South Side of the middle Ile.
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Hugo Wicksteed Filius Hugonis Wicksteed, nuper Civis Mercatoris Scissoris
London,
& Aliciæ Uxoris ejus: Hoc Monumentum, & Lapidem inferius positum,
Parentibus suis, & sibi ipsi dicatum ultimo Testamento suo curavit fieri:
Fuit Juvenis
egregiæ indolis, mira suavitate morum præditus, erga Deum &
Parentes
summè pius, Flore Juventutis suæ arreptus, magnum dolorem amicis
reliquit.
Quis non, qui novit Juvenem,
Sua funera destet?
Terra tegit Corpus,
Spiritus astra tenet.
Obiit vicesimo septimo die Augusti, An. Dom. 1625, & ætatis
suæ, vicesimo primo.
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Gualterus Stonus, hanc Inscriptionem amici sui dilectissimi Memoriæ
consecravit.
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North Side of the Communion Table is a Monument for Sir Paul Pindar, his
Majesty's
Ambassador to the Turkish Emperor An. Dom. 1611. and nine Years Resident there.
A
Benefactor to this Parish. Deceased Aug. 22. 1650. Aged 84.
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Later Monuments.
J. S.
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Tho. Worall D.D. sometime Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Incumbent of this
Parish.
Nov. 22. 1639.
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Mary Rogers, Daughter of Rogers Rector of this Church, 1642.
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John Tutchin Merchant, Son of Will. Tutchin, Deputy of this Ward, Aug. 25. 1658.
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Mary Dashwood, late Wife of Francis Dashwood, Feb. 6. 1693/4. And two Sons by
her, Francis and Lewis.
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A Child of Sir Samuel Dashwood.
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Upon a Pillar in the lower part of the Church, is a Memorial for Andrew Willaw,
Esq;
June 10. 1700. By his Will he devised and gave to the Churchwardens and
Overseers
of the Poor, and their Successors for ever, all his Messuages, Tenements and
Ground
in Garland Alley in this Parish, to clothe 12 poor Men and 12 poor Women of the
same
Parish, on the first of Jan. yearly for ever. The Overplus of the Rents to be
divided
among such poor People.
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Also Elizabeth his first Wife; and Anne his second.
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In the Chancel, George Dashwood Esq; Mar. 8. 1682. Aged 65.
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