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Cordwainers Street Ward. [S. Mary Aldermary.]
the Church-wardens of Friarn Barnet for the Poor in an Alms-house there.]
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A more modern Account of the State of the Charitable Gifts belonging to this
Parish of S.
Antholins, both towards the maintaining the Morning Lecture, and also for the
relieving of
the poorer sort yearly, standeth thus, as I drew it from the Account of Mr. W.
Yer. late
Church-warden of the said Parish.
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State of the Charities given to this
Parish.
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To the six Morning Lecturers
paid | 87 | 0 | 0 |
Raised from these Gifts,
Viz. |
Houses in Queens street | 21 | 0 | 0 |
Interest of 200l. given | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Houses and Ground in
Whitechappel | 18 | 0 | 0 |
Rents in S. Stephens Alley, Westminster;
the Gift of William Wankys Esq; | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Mr Juxons Gift | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Mr. Parreis Gift, received from the
Com-
pany of Mercers | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Mr. Parkers Gift, received from the
Com-
pany of Drapers
for a year and a quar- ter | 7 | 10 | 0 |
Houses under the Parish
Church | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Houses in Badgers Ally | 7 | 0 | 0 |
The Lady Martins Gift | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Mr. Ludlows Gift | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Including Taxes and other necessary
Dis bursements | 87 | 0 | 0 |
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For the Relief of the Poor.
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Received from the Mercers Company, being the Lady Martins Gift 6 0 0
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For Bread 12d. per Week | 2 | 12 | 0 |
To the Pensioners 12d. per
Week | 2 | 12 | 0 |
To the Morning Lectures | 0 | 10 | 0 |
For cleaning the Tomb | 0 | 06 | 0 |
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More, from the Mercers Company being Alderman Dancies
Gift for Coals 2 10 0
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From the Merchant Taylors Company, being the Gift of Sir Will.
Craven, for Coals 2 11 0
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More from the Merchant Taylors, the Gift of Mr. Robert Parker 5 00 00
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Disposed of to several poor in part, the rest in Taxes.
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More from the Merchant Taylors, the Gift of Thomas Coventry, Esq; for the
putting forth
yearly two poor Children Apprentices, either born in the Parish, or such as
live in it. 10 0 8
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With which the said Mr. Y. put out a Boy and a Girl in his year.
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From the Skinners Company, the Gift of Mr. Tho. Draper 1 6 0
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Disposed in Mony to several Poor.]
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The Parish Church of St. MARY ALDERMARY.
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Next on the South side of Budge row, by the West corner thereof, and on the East
side of
Cordwainers street, is one other fair Church, called Aldermarie Church, because
the same
was very old, and elder than any Church of S. Mary on the City; till of late
years the
foundation of a very fair new Church was laid there by Henry Keeble, Grocer,
Maior.
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S. Mary Aldermary.
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In S. Anthonins Parish aforesaid, Sir Will. Craven, the great and wealthy
Alderman, (from
whence the Lords of that Name descended) had his Shop (though his dwelling House
latewardly was in S. Andrew Undershaft Parish.) Which
Shop with the House, he left to his Partners, Robert and John Parker. For so
his Will ran:
"My Will and Mind is, that the said J.P. and R.P. shal have and enjoy the
Lease of my
House in the Parish of S. Antholins in London, which I hold of the Mercers
Company; and
the full Use and Occupation of the Shop, Ware-houses, Hall, Kitchin, Chambers,
Parlours, and al other Rooms to the said Mese belonging, &c. for and during
their natural
Lives, &c. they keeping the said House in their own Possession, paying the
Mercers Rent
every half year, maintaining the House in necessary Repair, Paying the Parsons
Duties,
and other Cessements, &c."
And what his Trade and Calling was (which he
continued
to his Death) may appear in his said Will. Where ordering a Loan of some Mony,
he willed
it to be lent out of such Mony or Stock as he had then going in Trade; or
occupying in
Woolen Cloth or Clothes.]
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Sir William Cravens House and Shop.
J. S.
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Aldermary Church was repaired, richly and very worthily beautified at the Cost
and Charge
of the Parish, in the year of our Lord 1632.
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Repaired.
R.
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Church-wardens.
John Edwards
Thomas Archer
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But while we speak of the Love and Liberality of the Living, we must not forget
the Dead.
Whose Bounties (though They be Dust) are as fresh in this good Work, as theirs
that have
seen it finished. And first, Mr. William Rodoway, one born and buried in this
Parish,
though from his Youth to his End, he lived and dyed in another, Viz. Michael
Bassishaw,
at the time of his Death (which was in the year of our Lord 1626.) gave towards
the
rebuilding of the Steeple of this Church, then greatly decayed and perished, the
Sum of
300l. In the same year dyed in this Parish one Mr. Richard Pierson, who towards
the
better and more beautiful building of this Steeple gave 200 Marks, with this
Condition, that
this Steeple thus to be built, should follow its ancient Pattern, and go forward
and be
finished, according to the foundation of it, laid 120 years since, by the
Founder of this
Church, Sir Henry Kibbel. Which within three years after was so finished. The
Cost of it
amounting to 1000l. All which, except the Gifts of those two Worthy
Benefactors, was
raised by the Parish.]
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Henry Keeble aforementioned, deceased, and was here buried in a Vault by him
prepared,
with a fair Monument raised over him on the North side of the Quire: now
destroyed and
gone, he gave by his Testament 1000l. toward the building of that Church. And
yet was
not permitted a resting Place for his Bones there.
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Hen. Keeble.
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This noble Benefactor seemed to have no Monument set over his Body for divers
years, till
the year 1534, or 1535. But William Blount, Lord Mountjoy, who married Alice
the said
Keebles Daughter, by his last Will dated October, 1534, ordered a Stone to be
laid over
him, upon this Consideration, that there was no Stone upon him, and for that he
had been a
special Benefactor to the building of Aldermary Church, to the Value of 2000l.
and above:
Which was a great Sum of Mony in those Times.]
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His Monument appointed by his Son in Law, the L.
Mountjoy.
J. S.
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Thomas Romane, Maior, 1310. had a Chantry there.
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Richard Chawcer, Vintner, gave to that Church his Tenement and Tavern, with the
appurtenances in the Royal street, the corner of Kerion lane, and was there
buried, 1348.
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Richard Chawcer Father to Geffrey the Poet, as
may be supposed.
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