either pay inestimable treasure every year, or else exchange substantial wares and necessaries for them, for the which we might receive great treasure." Since the increase of commerce, and the rejection of prejudice, these sentiments have gradually vanished; and the "London shops" can boast of the glittering appearance of their costly articles, of home manufacture, superior to every other city in Europe. The HABERDASHER'S Company have been graced by many great characters, lord mayors of London, particu larly Sir George Barnes, 1553; Sir William Garrard, 1556; Sir Nicholas Woodroffe, 1580; Sir Hugh Hamersley, 1628; Sir William Billers, 1734; and Thomas Skinner, Esq. 1795. The corporation supports the following FREE-SCHOOLS: Bunbury, Cheshire; Monmouth; Newport, Shropshire; Bunhill Row; and Hoxton hospital. ALMSHOUSES. Monmouth; Newland, Gloucestershire; Snow Hill; and Hoxton. BENEFICES. Albrighton, Shropshire; Nigston, and Dyesworth, Leicestershire; Layston, Suffolk; and Awre, Glocestershire. LECTURES. St. Bartholomew, Exchange, every Tuesday afternoon; St. Giles, Cripplegate, every Sunday morning, and Thursday afternoon. EXHIBITIONS. A student at Sidney College, Cambridge, the gift of Lady Romney; four more at the same college, the gift of Mr. Jesson; and a pension of 51. per annum to a poor preacher in the university of Cambridge; besides various other pensions. Their charitable disbursements amount to 3500l. per annum. They are governed by a master, wardens, and court of assistants. Adjoining to Haberdasher's Hall, in Staining Lane, is a DISSENTING MEETING HOUSE, of which the late learned and reverend Dr. THOMAS GIBBON, was pastor. MAIDEN LANE was antiently called Ingene, or Ing Lane; from what circumstance we are unacquainted. WOOD STREET. Here was a house called BLACK HALL, in which it is probable that Sir Henry Percy, son and heir of Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, entertained king Richard Richard II. the duke of Lancaster, the duke of York, the earl marshal, and his father the duke of Northumberland, at a sumptuous-supper. Above Maiden Lane is HUGGIN, or more properly HUGAN LANE, from an old possessor, who was called Hugan in the Lane, as early as the thirty-fourth of Edward I. At the corner of this lane is the parish church of THE London Register of this church informs us, that Richard de Basingstoke, in the thirty-third of Edward III. A. D. 1359, by his last will and testament, gave all his tenements in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, to the rector of St. Michael, and four of the parishioners, to find two chaplains to say mass daily for the souls of himself and relations, &c. out of which, they were to pay them for so doing, eight marks each per annum. These chaplains, after the death of his executors, were to be presented from time to time by the rector and the four parishioners, who were to have half a mark yearly for their pains; the overplus of the rent to go towards the repairs of a chantry, which he had already founded here. 3 G VOL. III. No. 67. Joh John Ive, parson of this church; John Forster, gald smith; and Peter Fikeldon, taylor, gave two messuages, with shops and other edifices in this street and Ladle Lane, to the reparation of this church, chancel, and other works of charity, in the year 1392. This reparation is an argu ment that its foundation was many years before. Sharing the fate of other structures in the fire of 1666, the present fabric was built on the site. The structure is of stone, of the Ionic order; the roof flat and quadrangular, covered with lead; the windows only on the south side and east end; the floor paved with stone, and the chancel one step higher than the rest of the church; the body is divided into three aisles. The roof is adorned with fret work and crocket work, the walls with arches and imposts, the front toward Wood Street with spacious stone pilasters, their entablature and pitched pediment, of the Ionic order. The church is wainscoted eight feet high, and pewed with oak, of which also the pulpit is made, being veneered, and having enrichments of cherubims, festoons, &c. The altar piece is similar to most other, and requires no particular description. The tower seems to have been part of the old church, on which was a turret; this in a late repair has been altered to a very clumsy, inelegant spire. The length of the church within, is sixty-three feet, breadth forty-two, altitude thirty-one, and that of the tower and spire about one hundred and twenty feet. MONUMENTS mentioned by Stow. One in memory of the deputy of the ward of Cripplegate, William Harvey, ob. 1597, aged sixty-eight years; also his eldest son Robert Harvey, who was sometime comptroller of the Customs. Here was buried as follows: The head of James the IVth, king of Scots, who was killed in the battle of Flodden Field, September 9, 1513; and his body embalmed, and brought to Sheen, was, after the dissolution of the monastery exposed, and his head carried home by a glazier of this parish, on account of the sweet sweet smell that it afforded in consequence of having been embalmed. It was however afterwards buried. But Mr. Speed relates, that (for all John Stow's fair tale) Lesley, bishop of Ross, says, this was the head of the laird Bonehard; aud that king James was seen alive that night the battle happened at Kelso, whence he passed to Jerusalem, and there ended his days*. John Jonston, in his Historical Inscriptions of the Scottish Kings, makes the place of this king's burial uncertain; but from Lib. Monasterii de Walley, in Com. Lanc. it appears, that he was interred among the Carthusians, in the priory of Sheen at Richmond, from the testimony of one who saw his sepulchre there the same year of his death. And Weever says, this was, no doubt, the place of his bu rial, notwithstanding what the Scottish authors say. John Lambard; Draper, alderman, one of the sheriffs of London, who deceased 1504, " and was father," says Stow, to my loving friend William Lambard, Esq. well known by several learned books that he published." As SPEED seems to flout at honest John Stow, on account of his tale, it is but just to set down the tale, in Stow's own words; and it will be found that he was more cautious than his contemporary was civil. His words are," There is also (but without any outward monument) the head of James, the fourth of Scots of that name; slain at Flodden, and buried here by this occasion. After the battle, the body of the said king being found, was closed in lead, and conveyed from thence to London, and so to the monastery of Sheyne in Surrey, where it remained for a time, in what order, I am uncertaine, But since the dissolution of that house, in the reigne of Edward the Sixth, Henry Gray, duke of Suffolke, being lodged and keeping house there, I have been shewed the body, so lapped in lead, done to the head and body, throwne into a waste. roome amongst the old timber, lead, and other rubble. Since the which time, workemen there (for their foolish pleasure) hewed off his head and Lancelot Young, master glasier to queene Elizabeth, feeling a sweet savour to come from thence, and seeing the same dryed from all moisture, and yet the forme remaining, with the haire of head and beard red; brought it to London, to his house in Wood Street, where (for a time) he kept it for the sweetness: but in the end, caused the sexton of that church (St. Michael) to burie it amongst other bones, saken out their chancel, &c." John Medley, chamberlain of London. John Marsh, Esq. mercer and common serjeant of London; and, among others, John Allen, timber monger, 1441. After the fire, this parish was united to St. Mary, Staining. Among the rectors of eminence, were ARTHUR JACKSON, A. M. of Trinity College, Cambridge. His father was a Spanish merchant in London, where he died during his son's infancy; his widow afterwards married Sir Thomas Crook, bart. but, dying in Ireland, the education of her son devolved to Mr. Jackson, of Edmonton, his guardian, by whom he was placed at Cambridge. He continued at college till 1619, when he married; soon after which he was chosen lecturer, and afterwards rector of this parish. The character of a good curate was exemplified in this worthy man: When the plague broke out in London, during the year 1624, he sent his wife and children to her father at Stoneberry, in Hertfordshire, being determined to continue in the city, where he discharged all the duties of a faithful pastor; hazarding his own life to save the souls of his flock, often visiting persons infected with that dreadful disease, from which he was wonderfully preserved, though thousands expired around him. He preached constantly twice on the sabbath, and catechized the children before sermon. He also repeated a sermon every evening in his own family, to which many of his hearers resorted. During Lent he always spent two days in the week, examining and instructing men and maid servants and others, in order to prepare them for the Holy Communion: he had such a peculiar talent for catechizing, that he pleased as well as profited; so that many who were at first backward to attend this service, were so much delighted with his serious, affectionate, and familar method of instruction, that they were eager to enjoy the benefit of it. He likewise improved the leisure afforded on holidays in preaching to servants and other persons, who were not at liberty on other days; and his labours on these occasions were crowned with success in the conversion of many. For these eminent qualities he obtained the name of-a Puritan!- He |