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Ealdgate Ward.
very mean and ordinary. Black Raven Court, an open Place, with
good new Brick Buildings, well inhabited: And here is kept the
Transport Office. Plough Yard; but ordinary built and inhabited.
Crown Court but small, with a Free Stone Pavement.
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Black Raven Court.
Plough Yard.
Crown Court.
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Tower Hill. The West Row of Buildings, with part of the Hill,
(which is in this Ward) is a handsome Structure, very well
inhabited, and pleasantly seated in an open Air, having the
delightful Prospect of the Thames, and the Tower: And in this Row
is Barking Alley, or Alleys; one leading into Tower Street, and the
other into Seething Lane; in both which the Buildings encompass
Barking Church on the North and East Sides. Then about the
middle of this Row of Buildings is Rose Court. both small and
ordinary. Further Northwards, is Muscovy Court, a curious large
open Place, with a Free Stone Pavement, and consisting of fair new
Brick Buildings, and they very well inhabited. Out of this Court is
a back Passage, with a Door into the Navy Office.
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Tower Hill.
Barking Alley.
Rose Court.
Muscovy Court.
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Formerly there were round the Tower old Buildings, which
enclosed the Ditch, or Moat; and
these stood until the Reign of King Charles II. But being found
incommodious, were all by Command from above (Sir John
Robinson being Lieutenant) pulled down, and the Moat cleansed
and enlarged, with Brick-work on the outside, even to the Ground.
So that now the Tower us not so choaked up, but stands open on
all Sides.]
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Thus much for the Bounds and Antiquity of this Ward. Wherein
are noted, first, the Tower of London, three Parish Churches, the
Custom House, and two Halls of Companies; to wit, the
Clothworkers and the Bakers.
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This Ward hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsellors 8,
Constables 13, Scavengers 12, Wardmote Men 13, and a Beadle: It
is taxed to the Fifteen at 26l. *.
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*It is taxed to the Fifteen at 46l. and accounted in the Exchequer at 45l. 10s. First Edit.
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There are to watch at the several Stands within this Ward every
Night, a Constable and the Beadle with forty Watchmen.
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The Jury Men returned by the Wardmote Inquest for this Ward,
are to serve as Jurors in the several Courts in Guildhall in the
Month of May.]
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R. B.
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The Alderman of this Ward is Sir Charles Peers, Knt.
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CHAP. IV.
The Priory of the Holy Trinity Christ-church,
now St. James Dukes-Place .
The Consecration thereof .
St Katharine Creechurch .
St. Andrew Undershaft .
St. Mary-Axe .
The House of the Crutched Fryers .
St. Katherine Coleman .
Blanch Appleton .
The present State of this Ward .
THE second Ward within the Walls on the
East part, is called Ealdgate [or Aldgate] Ward, as taking Name of
the same Gate. The principal Street of this Ward beginneth at
Ealdgate, stretching West to sometime a fair Well, where now a
Pump is placed. From thence (the way being divided into twain)
the first and principal Street, (called Ealdgate Street) runneth on
the South Side to Lime Street Corner. And half that Street down
on the left hand, is also of that Ward.
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Ealdgate Ward.
The Bounds thereof.
A fair Well anciently.
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In the mid way on that South Side, betwixt Ealdgate and Lime
Street, is Hart Horn Alley, a way that goeth thorough into
Fenchurch Street, over against Northumberland House. Then have
ye Bricklayers Hall, [used also now by the Company of
Silkthrowers] and another Alley, called Sprinkle Alley, of an holy
Water Sprinkle sometime hanging there, now named Sugar Loaf
Alley, of the like Sign.
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Hart-horn Alley.
Bricklayers-Hall.
Sprinkle Alley.
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Then is there a fair House, with divers Tenements near adjoining,
sometime belonging to a late dissolved Priory, but since possessed
by Mrs. Cornwallis, Widow, and her Heirs, by the Gift of King
Henry VIII. in reward of fine Puddings (as it was commonly said)
by her made, wherewith she had presented him: Such was the
princely Liberality of those times. Of later time, Sir Nicholas
Throgmorton Kt. was lodged there; which now is the African
House.
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Mrs. Cornwallis.
African House.
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Then somewhat more West is Belzeter's Lane, so called of the first
Builder and Owner thereof; now corruptly called Billiter Lane: [A
Place consisting formerly of poor and ordinary Houses, where it
seems needy and beggarly People used to inhabit;
whence the Proverb used in ancient Times, A bawdy Beggar of
Billiter Lane, which Sir Thomas More somewhere used in his Book
which he wrote against Tyndal.]
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Belzeters Lane.
A Proverb of Billitar Lane.
J. S.
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Betwixt this Belzeter's Lane and Lime Street, was, (of later time) a
Frame of three fair Houses set up in the Year 1590. in place where
before was a large Garden Plot, inclosed from the high Street with
a Brick Wall, which Wall being taken down, and the Ground digged
for Cellerage, there was found right under the said Brick Wall,
another Wall of Stone, with a Gate arched of Stone, and Gates of
Timber to be closed in the midst towards the Street; the Timber of
the Gates was consumed, but the Hinges of Iron still remained on
their Staples on both the Sides.
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Wall, Gate and Windows of Stone found under Ground.
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Moreover, in that Wall were square Windows, with Bars of Iron on
either side the Gate: This Wall was under Ground above two
Fathoms deep, as I then esteemed it, and seemeth to be the Ruins
of some House burned in the Reign of King Stephen, when the Fire
began in the House of one Aelward, near London Stone, and
consumed East to Ealdgate. Whereby it appeareth, how greatly
the Ground of this City hath been in that Place raised.
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The Ground raised here above two Fathom.
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On the North Side, this principal Street stretcheth to the West
Corner of St. Andrew's Church, and then the Ward turneth towards
the North, by St. Mary Street, on the East Side, to St. Augustine's
Church in the Wall, and by Buries Marks again, or about by the
Wall to Ealdgate.
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St. Mary Street.
St. Augustin's Church in the Wall.
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The second way from Ealdgate, more towards
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