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| Billingsgate Ward. S. Mary Hill. | 168 |
Billingsgate Ward. S. Mary Hill.
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| 1604. | Richard Close, per Ann.
for a Dish of Meat for
the
Churchwardens. | 00 | 06 | 00
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| 1621. | Richard Smith, for a Dish
of Meat for the
Church-
wardens, | 00 | 05 | 00
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| 1624. | Mrs. Deedham, Relict of
the above Rich. Smith,
for
a Dish of
Meat for the
Churchwardens, | 00 | 04 | 00
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| 1625. | Jasper Hussey, per Ann.
for Maintenance of the
Poor, and
Sermonon
every Newyear's Day | 02 | 00 | 00
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| | Alderman Lamberd
and
Stiles, to be paid to the
Churchwardens once in
16 Years for the use of
the Poor, | 01 | 00 | 00
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| 1633. | Sir John Leman, per Ann.
for 12 pennyworth of
Bread, Weekly, | 02 | 12 | 00
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| 1650. | Maudlin Stokes, for a
Sermon to be
preached in
the Church every New-
year's Day, | 01 |
00 | 00
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| 1656. | John Wordal, per Ann.
to keep a
Lanthorn and
Candle; the Lanthorn
to
be fixed to the North
East Corner of
St. Bo-
tulph Church: To con-
tinue
burning from 6 at
Night to 6 in the
Morn-
ing, from S. Bartholo-
mew's to
Lady Day, | 04 | 00 | 00
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| And to the Sexton for
looking after
the same,
| 01 | 00 | 00
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| 1624. | Tho. Barbar, | 06 |
18 | 06
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| To 12 Poor Men
and
Women, | 12
Penny
Loaves.
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| To poor Maidens and
Widows that
shall be
married in the same Pa-
rish, each | 04 |
06 | 08
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| To the Churchwardens, | 00 | 06 |
04
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| To the Clark, | 00 | 01 | 00
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| To the Sexton, | 00 | 00 | 06
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| 1658. | Robert Fellows, Merchant,
to be kept
as a Stock:
The Interest thereof to
be disposed, viz. | 25 | 00 | 00
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| To a Minister for a Ser-
mon on the
25th of De-
cember yearly, | 00 | 13 | 04
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| To the Clark | 00 | 02 | 00
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| To the Sexton, | 00 | 01 | 06
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| To the Poor 4 Dozen of Bread.
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| To the Churchwardens
for a Dish of
Meat for
their Pains, | 00 | 05 | 00
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| 1659. | Will. Fellows, Citizen and
Cooper of London, to
the
Parish for
a Stock, | 25 | 00 | 00
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| The Interest to be thus
disposed: | |
| For a Sermon on the 5th of November, | 01 | 00 |
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| Somewhat to the Clark and Sexton,
and
the rest to be disposed by the Parishioners. |
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The Parsonage House was burnt Anno 1666. Rebuilt and let out by Lease for the
Term
of 40 Years, for the Sum of 6l. per Ann.
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Parsonage House.
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This Parish of St. Butolph is no great thing; notwithstanding divers Strangers
are there
harboured, as may appear by a Presentment, not many years * since made, of
Strangers
Inhabitants in the Ward of Billingsgate, in these Words:
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The number of Strangers lately increased in this City.
*That is before the Year 1598.
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In Billingsgate Ward were one and fiftie Housholds of Strangers; whereof thirty
of
these Housholds inhabited in the Parish of Saint Butolph, in the chiefe and
principal
Houses, where they give 20 Pound a Yere for an House lately letten for foure
Markes.
The neerer they dwell to the Water side, the more they give for Houses, and
within
thirty Yeeres before, there was not in the whole Ward above three Netherlanders,
at
which time, there was within the said Parish levied for the helpe of the Poore,
seven
and twenty Pounds by the Yeere; but since they came so plentifully thither,
there cannot
be gathered above eleven Pounds: For the Strangers will not contribute to such
Charges
as other Citizens doe.
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Thus much for that South side of this Ward.
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On the North side is Bosse Alley, so called of a Bosse of Spring Water
continually
running, which standeth by Billingsgate, against this Alley, and was sometimes
made
by the Executors of Richard Whittington.
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Bosse Alley, and the Bosse of Billingsgate.
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In this Ward there was a House called the Boars Head, inhabited by William
Sanderson, which came to King Edward VI. by the Statute about Chantries. Which
with the Shops, Cellars, Solers, and other Commodities and Easements, he sold in
the
second of his Reign, (together with other Lands and Tenements) to John
Sicklemore
and Walter Williams for 2668l. and upwards.]
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The Boars Head for Maintenance of a Chantry.
J. S.
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Then is S. Mary Hill Lane, which runneth up North from Billingsgate, to the end
of S.
Margaret Pattens, commonly called Rood Lane, and the greatest half of that Lane
is also
of Billingsgate Ward.
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St. Mary Hill Lane.
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The Paish Church of St. MARY HILL.
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In this St. Mary Hill Lane, is the fair Parish Church of St. Mary, called on the
Hill,
because of the Ascent from Billingsgate.
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This Church in the many decayed Parts and Places of it, was repaired richly,
and very
worthily beautified at the Cost and Charge of the Parishioners, in the Year of
our Lord
1616.
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Repaired.
R.
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To the continuing of which, the careful Overseers of it, every third or fourth
Year ever
since, have bestowed a new Trimming upon it. No sooner (as I am informed)
finding
any Defect, Failing, or Declining of it, than applying their Care to revive,
refresh and
restore it; which appears in its present Beauty.
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In this Parish of St. Mary at Hill, there was a Place called Septem
Cameræ; which
was either one House, or else so many Rooms or Chambers, which formerly belonged
to some Chantry. The Rent whereof went towards the maintaining of a Priest to
pray
superstitiously for the Soul of the deceased, who left those Septem Cameræ
for
that Use. These with other Lands and Tenements in the City and elsewhere, were
sold
by King Edward VI. to Tho. Heyburn and Tho. Brand for the Sum of 988l. 8. 12.]
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Septem Cameræ a Chantry.
J. S.
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This Church hath been lately builded, as may appear by this that followeth.
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Richard Hackney, one of the Sheriffes in the year 1322, and Alice his Wife, were
there
buried, as Robert Fabian writeth, saying thus:
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In the Year 1497, in the Month of April, as Labourers digged for the Foundation
of a
Wall, within the Church of St. Mary Hill, near unto Billingsgate, they found a
Coffin
of rotten Timber, and therein the Corps of a Woman, whole of Skin, and of Bones,
undissevered, and the Joynts of her Arms pliable, without breaking of the Skin;
upon
whose Sepulcher this was engraven:
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Alice Hackney found uncorrupted, more than 170 years after she was buried.
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