fairs; of exemplary Piety, spotless Integrity, and diffusive Charity, having with his own Hand dispensed very considerable Sums to many charitable Uses, particularly to the Relief of poor Seamen, and educating of their children. He took to Wife Judith, eldest Daughter of Sir John Frederick, Knight, Alderman, and sometime Lord Mayor of London, his now sorrowful Widow, by whom he had divers Children, and left 3 hopeful Sons surviving, viz. Frederick, Nathaniel, and Thomas; to whose, and this City's and Nation's great Loss, as also to the Grief of all them that knew him, he departed this life, the 10th of August 1679.

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Length of the church seventy-eight feet, breadth thirtyfour, altitude thirty-six, the tower to the pinnacles about eighty-eight feet.

The living is an impropriation in the gift of the crown. In the church is preached a lecture sermon every Wednesday, in consequence of the gift of the Lady Weld; and farther encouraged by the benefactions of Mr. Vaughan, and Sir John Frederick.

The parish of St. Martin, Ironmonger Lane, annexed to St. Olave's Jewry, had their church at the corner of Church Alley, and on the east side of Ironmonger Lane; the site which remains now only as a burial place for the inhabitants of this parish. St. Martin's was a rectory, and a small church, originally known by the name of St. Martin in the Pomery, or Orchard, which probably might grow about it. The advowson was given by the founder to the convent of St. Bartholomew, in West Smithfield, and at the suppression of that religious house, the patronage fell to the crown. So that the king solely now presents to the two united livings of St. Olave, Jewry, and St. Martin, Ironmonger Lane.

To the east of this church-yard, is a very handsome house, formerly the residence of Sir Thomas Chitty, lord mayor of London, 1760.

At the bottom of Ironmonger Lane, CATEATON STREET, antiently CATTE STREET, crosses KING STREET, in which is situated the parish church of

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ST. LAWRENCE, JEWRY.

THE earliest account that we have received of this church informs us, that in the twenty-second year of the reign of Edward I. Hugo de Wickenbroke, gave the patronage to Baliol College, Oxford, recently founded by John Baliol, and Dergovilla, his wife, parents to Johu Baliol, king of Scotland; which gift was two years afterwards confirmed by Richard de Gravesead to the college, having first converted it to be a vicarage, the rectory having ceased.

The right of patronage continued in the college till the year 1636, when the parishioners purchased the right of patronage from the college, to whom it again reverted, and the members are the present patrons.

The church was repaired by the parishioners, in the year 1618, and the windows at the charge of several bene factors; but that fabric having been destroyed by the fire in 1666, the present church was built in 1677, the charge of the walls being defrayed out of the parish stock; and the interior decoration at the charge of Sir John Langham, bart. who gave 250l.

Edward, lord bishop of Norwich, also gave 50%. and the church was fully completed in 1706.

It is well built of stone, the roof flat; covered with lead, the windows below are arched, the upper are square.

The roof is adorned with fret-work; the pilasters on the south side, and the columns on the north, are beautiful specimens of the Corinthian order; as is also an entablament on the same side.

-The church is well coated about eight feet high with oak; the pews are of the same wood.

The pulpit is of wainscot, and highly enriched.

The altar-piece is decorated with, and the communion table sustained by, four cherubims, and beautifully carved in oak.

The three inner door-cases are of wainscot; those at the west end having columns, &c. of the Corinthian order, with each an angel finely executed; the door-case on the south side of the church is of the same order as the rest of the building, and adorned with pilasters, festoons, palm branches, &c.

The marble font is placed in a large carved pew; also three spacious brass branches, and a gallery at the west end, in which is a brilliant toned organ. The east end of the church, facing Guildhall yard, is adorned with four stone columns and two pilasters, with their entablature and pediment, of the Corinthian order.

The dimensions are, length eighty-one, breadth sixtyeight, altitude forty feet; and the steeple, which is a tower, Janthorn and small spire, terminated by a vane in the shape of a gridiron, about one hundred and thirty feet; in the tower are eight fine bells.

Here was buried, in 1471, Sir Geffrey Bullen, lord mayor of London, son of Geffrey Bullen, of Sale in Norfolk, Esq. He married Ann, eldest daughter to Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings, by whom he had issue Sir William Bullen, knight, father to Thomas Bullen, earl of Wiltshire, who was father to Ann Bullen, second wife to King Henry the Eighth, and mother of Queen Elizabeth.

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In this church were also buried Sir Tho. Skinner, who died lord mayor in the sixty-third year of his age, 1596. Gerrard Gore, alderman, aged ninety-one; and his lady seventy-five.

Tho. Henshaw, Merchant Taylor.

Sir William Stone, alderman; on whose tomb was cut the following quaint epitaph:

As the Earth the Earth doth cover,

So under this Stone lyes another, &c.
Grass of Levity;

Spain in Brevity;
Flowers Felicity;

Fire of Misery,
Winds Stability,
Is Mortality.

MODERN MONUMENTS.

On the south side of the church, a handsome white marble monument, adorned with cherub, urn, and this inscription:

M. S.

Charissimo suo Conjugi Christophero Goodfellow, ad Legem servienti alterius è curiis Vice Comitatibus in hac Civitate Justitiario, hoc faciendum curavis,

Uxor quæ superest maxime Luctuosa. Ob. 8 May An. Ætat. 74.

Dom. 1690.

Accedit Luctui quod idem ponendum est præ dilecto suo filiis natu Maximo. Johanni Goodfellow, Armiger, huic Civitati Olim à Consiliis dein communi Clerico. Ob. 26 Junii An. Ætat. 45. Dom. 1700. Uterq; juxta Jacet Sepultus.

Near the south-west corner of the church a marble monument, with this inscription:

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Infra Marmor hoc reconditum est quicquid Mortale fuit Elizab. Rawstorn, Filiæ Edvini Brown Mercatoris, & Uxoris Gulielmi Rawstorn, nunc Militis Vice-Comitis Londinensis, 1678.

Numerosum peperit illa prolem Fælix parens Octo Liberis Dictata quorum quatuor Defuncti sunt, viz. Hieron, Anna, Maria & Margareta, reliqui adhuc in Vivis nempe Eliza. Gulielm. Edwin & Samuel.

Deinde vero cum satis gloriæ suæ vixisset, non tunis sed virtutibus omnigenis plena, heu! invido fato succubuit Lectissima Fœmina, sed tamen ut exinde altius assurgeret jam tantum supra vilem nostram mortalitatem quantum & semper supra Laudes nostras Evecta. Obiit 14 die Aug. Anno tat. suæ 29. Annoq; Dom. 1675.

In eodem hoc conditorio quiescunt Cineres Rawstornum juxta atq; Baxteriorum, ut quas duas Familias Amor & Affinitas conjunxerant nefas esset disjungere sepultura.

At the west end, near the north corner of the church, is a spacious and noble monument, with this inscription:

In or near this Church lyeth interred the Body of William Halyday, Alderman of the City of London, with his Wife Susanna, Sister of Sir Henry Row, of Shacklewell in the County of Middlesex, by whom he had 2 Daughters, Ann married to Sir Henry Mildmay, and Margaret to Sir Edward Hungerford, below mentioned. He died the 14th of March 1623, being a worthy Magistrate of this City, who, for his Piety, Charity, and Prudence, deserves Immortal Fame,

Close by that above, on the same monument, this inscription:

Susanna, Relict of William Halyday, after married to Robert Earl of Warwick, Admiral of the Seas, she departed this Life, and was buried in this Church the 21st of January 1645.

Here is also this on the same monument:

Ann, eldest Daughter of William Haliday by Susanna his Wife, married to Sir Henry Mildmay, Knight, by whom he had 5 Children, 2 Sons and 3 Daughters; the 2d Daughter, named Diana Maria, was buried in this place, Sept. 26, 1643. This Ann departed this life about the 12th of March 1656.

Under are these words:

This Monument was erected by Dame Margaret Hungerford, Relict and Executrix of Sir Giles Hungerford, Knight, who was Executor to Dame Margaret Hungerford, Relict of Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight of the Bath his eldest Brother; which Dame Margaret appointed in her last Will, a Monument should be set up for her Family when this church was rebuilded, 1687,

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