A svrvay of London : contayning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that citie, written in the year 1598 / by Iohn Stow ; edited by Henry Morley.

Stow, John, 1525?-1605.

Date:: 1893

Credit: A svrvay of London : contayning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that citie, written in the year 1598 / by Iohn Stow ; edited by Henry Morley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1597. Richard Bancroft, doctor of divinity, consecrated at LanK beth on Sunday, the 8th of May, now sitteth bishop of London, in the year 1598, being installed there. This much for the succession of the bishops of London, whose diocese containeth the city of London, the whole shires of Middlesex and Essex, and part of Hertfordshire. These bishops have for assistants in the cathedral church of St. Paul, a dean, a chaunter, a chancellor, a treasurer, five archdeacons—to wit, London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and St. Alban’s, and thirty prebendaries. There appertaineth also to the said churches for furniture of the choir in divine service, and ministration of the sacraments, a college of twelve petty canons, six vicars choral, and choristers, &c. This diocese is divided into parishes, every parish having its parson, or vicar at the least, learned men for the most part, and sufficient preachers, to instruct the people. There were in this city, and within the suburbs thereof, in the reign of Henry II., as writeth Fitzstephen, thirteen great conventual churches, besides the lesser sort called parish churches, to the number of one hundred and twenty-six, all which conventual churches, and some others since that time founded, are now suppressed and gone, except the cathedral church of St. Paul in London, and the college of St. Peter at Westminster ; of all which parish churches, though I have spoken, yet for more ease to the reader I will here again set them down. \This list is omitted.'^ Thus have ye in the wards of London, and in the suburbs of the same city, the borough of Southwark, and the city of Westminster, a cathedral church of St. Paul, a collegiate church of St. Peter in Westminster, and parish churches one hundred and twenty- three. tn Citg, anh Sutebs tbcrwf, tfjat fiabe bem of olb 5Eim£, anb nobj prosentlg are, I reab of tjese as follotoet]^: Hospital of St. Mary, in the parish of Barking Church, that was provided for poor priests and others, men and women in the city of London, that were fallen into frenzy or loss of their memory, until such time as they should recover, was since suppressed and given to the hospital of St. Katherine, by the Tower. St. Anthony’s, an hospital of thirteen poor men, and college, with a free school for poor men’s children, founded by the citizens of London, lately by John Tait, first a brewer and then a mercer, in$