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[Aldermanbury.] Cripplegate Ward.
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CREPLEGATE WARD
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Then to turn back again through the said Postern Lane to Moor lane; which Moor
lane, with
all the Allies and Buildings there, is of this Ward. After that is Grubstreet,
more than half
thereof to the streightning of the Street. Next is Whitecross street, up to the
end of Beech
lane; and then Redcross street wholly. [Redecrouchstrete in proia de
Crepulgate. Reg.
Lon.] With a part of Golden lane, even to the Posts there placed as a Bounder.
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Moor lane.
Grubstreet.
E. A.
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Then is Beech lane, before spoken of, on the East side of the Redcross, and the
Barbican
street, more than half thereof, toward Aldersgate street; and so have you all
the Bounds of
Cripplegate Ward without the Walls.
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Now for Antiquites and Ornaments in this Ward, meet to be noted. I find, first,
at the
meeting of the corners of the Old Jewry, Milkstreet, Lad lane, and Aldermanbury;
there
was (of old time) a fair Well with two Buckets, of late Years converted to a
Pump. How
Aldermanbury street took that Name, many Fables have been bruted; all which I
overpass,
as not worthy the accounting. But to be short and plain, I say, that this
Street took the
Name of Alderman bury; which is to say, a Court there kept in their Bery, or
Court Hall,
now called the Guild Hall: Which Hall (of old time) stood on the East side of
the same
Street, not far from the West end of Guild Hall, now used.
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Antiquities and Ornaments in this Ward.
A Pump at the corner of Aldermanbury
street.
Aldermanbury, whence so called.
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Touching the Antiquity of this old Aldermans bury, or Court, I have not read
other, than
that Richard Renery, one of the Sheriffs of London, in the 1st of Richard I.
which was in
the Year of Christ, 1189. gave to the Church of St. Mary at Osney, by Oxford,
certain
Ground and Rents in Aldermanbury of London, as appeareth by the Register of that
Church; as is also entred into the Hoistings of the Guild hall in London.
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Liber Osney.
Aldermanbury Court or Guild Hall by Aldermanbury
Church.
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This old Bery, Court, or Hall, continued; and the Courts of the Maior and
Aldermen were
continually holden there, until the new Bery, Court, or Guild hall that now is,
was builded
and finished; which Hall was first begun to be founded in the Year 1411. and was
not fully
finished in Twenty Years after. I my self have seen the Ruins of the old Court
Hall, in
Aldermanbury street, which of late hath been imployed as a Carpenters Yard,
&c.
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Guild Hall, when built.
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In this Aldermanbury street be divers fair Houses on both the sides, meet for
Merchants or
Men of Worship: And in the midst thereof, is a fair Conduit made at the Charges
of William
Eastfield, sometime Maior; who took order, as well for Water to be conveyed from
Teyborne, and for the building of this Conduit not far distant from his dwelling
House: As
also, for a Standard of sweet Water to be erected in Fleetstreet; all which was
done by his
Executors, as in another place I have shewed.
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The Parish Church of St. MARY Aldermanbury.
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Then is the Parish Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury, a fair Church, with a Church
yard
and Cloister adjoining; in the which Cloister is hanged and fastened a
Shank-bone of a Man
(as is said) very great and larger by three Inches and a half, than that which
hangeth in St.
Laurence in the Jewry: For it is in length 28 Inches and a half of assise, but
not so hard and
Steel-like as the other. For the same is light, and somewhat pory and spongy.
This Bone
is said to be found amongst the Bones of Men removed from the Charnel House
of Pauls; or rather, from the Cloister of Pauls Church. Of both which Reports I
doubt; for
that the late Reyne Wolfe, Stationer, (who paid for the Carriage of those Bones
from the
Charnel to the Moorfields) told me of some Thousands of Carr Loads, and more to
be
conveyed; (whereof he wondred) but never told me of any such Bone in either
place to be
found: Neither would the same have been easily gotten from him, if he had heard
thereof,
except he had reserved the like for himself; being one of the greatest Searchers
and
Preservers of Antiquities in those parts, for his time.
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St. Mary Aldermanbury.
Shank-bone of a Man, 28 Inches and a half
long.
Reyne Wolfe, a G ave Antiquary,
collected the great Chronicles, increased, and published by his Executors, under the Name of Ralph
Holenshead.
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True it is, that this Bone (from whencesoever it came) being of a Man, as the
Form
sheweth, must needs be monstrous, and more than after the proportion of five
Shank-
bones of any Man now living amongst us.
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This Church, for the space of four Years past, hath, in one decayed part or
another, been
repairing: As the Steeple, Bells, Battlements; many decayed Places of the Walls;
two fair
Galleries built; many of the Pews new made; the rest being all in hand, it can
be no great
Offence to count them already done. Which granted, and the Church in this Year
finished,
we may conclude, as we began with the rest of these Churches, thus.
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Repaired.
R.
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This Church was repaired richly, and very worthily beautified, at the Cost and
Chare of the Parishioners, in the Year of our Lord, 1633.
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Churchwardens.]
Bartholomew Edwards,
Abraham Nuns,
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There lie buried in this Church, Simon Winchcombe, Esq; 1391. Robert Combarton,
1422. John Wheatly, Mercer, 1428. Sir William Eastfield, Knight of the Bath,
Alderman
and Maior, 1438. a great Benefactor to that Church, under a fair Monument.
[Where his
Coat was Sable, a Chevron Ermin, between Boys Heads, faced proper, Headed, Or.
Shouldered, Gules.
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Monuments of the Dead.
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He also builded their Steeple, changed their old Bells into five tuneable Bells,
and gave
100l. to other Works of that Church.
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Moreover, he caused the Conduit in Aldermanbury, which he had begun, to be
perfomed at
his Charges; and Water to be conveyed by Pipes of Lead, from Teyborne to
Fleetstreet, as I
have said. And also from High Bery, to the Parish of St. Giles without
Cripplegate; where
the Inhabitants of those parts, incastellated the same in sufficient Cisterns.
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Conduit in Aldermanbury.
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John Middleton, Mercer, Maior, 1472. John Tomes, Draper, 1486. William Bucke,
Taylor, 1501. Sir William Browne, Maior, 1507. Dame Margaret Jenings, Wife to
Stephen Jenings, Maior, 1515. a Widdow, named Starkey, sometime Wife to Mody.
Ralph Woodcocke, Grocer, one of the Sheriffs, 1586. Dame Mary Gresham, Wife to
Sir
John Gresham, 1538. Thomas Godfrey, Remembrancer of the Office of the first
Fruits,
1577.
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Thomas Digges Esquire, Sonne and heyre of Leonard Digges, of Wooton, in the
County of
Kent, Esquire, and of Bridget his Wife; Daughter to Thomas Wilford, Esquire;
which
Thomas deceased the 24. day of August, An. Dom. 1599 *.
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A. M.
*Al. 1593.
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Agnes, Wife to Thomas Digges, Esq; Daughter of Sir * William Sentleiger, Knight,
and of
Ursula his Wife; Daughter of George Nevil,
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A fair Tomb in the North side of the
Chancel.
*Al. Warham.
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