Mediæval London, Volume 2_ Ecclesiastical

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Author: Besant Walter

Title: Mediæval London, Volume 2_ Ecclesiastical

Release Date: 2019-01-04

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Date added: 27 March 2019

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Transcriber’s Notes

The cover was created by adding text to a plain background and isplaced in the public domain.

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation and spelling remain unchanged except where in conflictwith the index.

The ancient documents reproduced, particularly in Appendix IX, contain abbreviations represented by symbols no longer in use.These have been represented by the tilde˜ .

Lower case Latin numbers surmounted by xx (a score) are shown thus iiij ∕ xx.

The two genealogical trees in volume 3 chapter 19 have beensupplemented with genealogical tables prepared by the transcriber.

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The Survey of London

MEDIÆVAL
LONDON
ECCLESIASTICAL

MEDIÆVAL
LONDON
VOL. II
ECCLESIASTICAL

BY
SIR WALTER BESANT

LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1906

PART I
THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON
CHAP.	PAGE
1.	The Records	3
2.	The Charter of Henry the Second	8
3.	The Commune	11
4.	The Wards	24
5.	The Factions of the City	35
6.	The Century of Uncertain Steps	66
7.	After the Commune	72
8.	The City Companies	108
PART II
ECCLESIASTICAL LONDON
1.	The Religious Life	127
2.	Church Furniture	159
3.	The Calendar of the Year	164
4.	Hermits and Anchorites	170
5.	Pilgrimage	179
6.	Ordeal	191
7.	Sanctuary	201
8.	Miracle and Mystery Plays	213
9.	Superstitions, etc.	218
10.	Order of Burial	223
PART III
RELIGIOUS HOUSES
1.	General	227
2.	St. Martin’s-le-Grand	234
3.	The Priory of the Holy Trinity, or Christ Church Priory	241
4.	The Charter House	245vi
5.	Elsyng Spital	248
6.	St. Bartholomew	250
7.	St. Thomas of Acon	263
8.	St. Anthony’s	268
9.	The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem	270
10.	The Clerkenwell Nunnery	284
11.	St. John the Baptist, or Holiwell Nunnery	286
12.	Bermondsey Abbey	288
13.	St. Mary Overies	297
14.	St. Thomas’s Hospital	309
15.	St. Giles-in-the-Fields	311
16.	St. Helen’s	313
17.	St. Mary Spital	322
18.	St. Mary of Bethlehem	325
19.	The Clares	329
20.	St. Katherine’s by the Tower	334
21.	Crutched Friars	342
22.	Austin Friars	344
23.	Grey Friars	348
24.	The Dominicans	354
25.	Whitefriars	360
26.	St. Mary of Graces	363
27.	The Smaller Foundations	365
28.	Fraternities	382
29.	Hospitals	385
APPENDICES
1.	List of Wards of London	391
2.	List of Aldermen	393
3.	Alphabetical List of Aldermen whose Names are affixed to Deedsin the Thirteenth Century	395
4.	List of Parishes	397
5.	Patronage of City Churches	400
6.	Festivals	401
7.	An Anchorite’s Cell	404
8.	The Monastic Houses	406
9.	A Dominican House	407
10.	The Papey	411
11.	Charitable Endowment	413
12.	Fraternities	420
INDEX		423

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ILLUSTRATIONS

		PAGE
Extract from Letter-Book E, dated 1316, relating to the Grocers’ Company		5
Obverse and Original Reverse of the Seal of the City of London, showing Figure of St. Thomas à Becket		13
Old Mayoralty Seal, Thirteenth Century		15
King John signing Magna Charta		Facing 20
Aldgate House, Bethnal Green		25
Parts of the South and West Walls of a Convent		30
The Tower of London about 1480		39
The Crown offered to Richard III. at Baynard’s Castle		Facing 56
King Richard holding a Council of Nobles and Prelates		61
Henry of Bolingbroke challenges the Crown		62
Richard II. consulting with his Friends in Conway Castle		63
Richard II. and his Patron Saints		69
Whittington and his Cat		73
Death of Whittington		74
Crossbowman		77
The Morning of Agincourt		81
Facsimile of Heading of Account, 1575-1576, showing Cooper at Work		85
South-East View of the Old House lately standing in Sweedon’s Passage, Grub Street		91
South-West View of Gerrard’s Hall		Facing 100
Facsimile of Surgeons’ Arms, 1492, with St. Cosmo and St. Damian supporting		101
Interior of the Guildhall		103
A Tally for 6s. 8d. issued by Edward I.’s Treasurer to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire		105
Election Garland given by Robert and Cicely Chamberlayn, 1463		105
A Bagpipe-Player		110
Illustration from Zeller’s La France Anglaise et Charles VII.		111
The Seal of the Vintners’ Company, 1437		112
Tombstone of William Warrington, Master Mason, at Croyland Abbey, 1427		113
Coopers’ Marks, A.D. 1420		114
Part of Facsimile of the Original Charter granted by King Richard III. to the Worshipful Company ofWax Chandlers of the City of London (16th February, 1 Richard III.)		116
Liverymen of London		117
Frontispiece to the Grangerised Edition of Brayley’s London and Middlesex		Facing 118
William Smallwood, Master of the Pewterers’ Company		121
St. Ethelburga’s Church, Bishopsgate Street		129
The Prioress		131
The Monk and his Greyhounds		131
Chantry Chapel of Henry V. in Westminster Abbey		133viii
Earl of Northumberland receiving Mass		135
Interesting Antiquities in Westminster Abbey		Facing 138
Savoy Chapel and Palace		141
The Lollard’s Tower, Lambeth Palace		149
Knights of the Holy Ghost embarking for the Crusades		151
A Priest called John Ball stirs up great Commotion in England		155
Embroidery of the Fourteenth Century, supposed to be part of a Frontal or Antependium		160
Archbishop of Canterbury preaching on behalf of Henry, Duke of Lancaster		161
Queen Margaret, Wife of Henry VI., at Prayers		168
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