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; and 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. Lane. 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 burial, 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 Lon. don, 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, aken 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 !

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He was, however, so moderate in his Puritanism, that archbishop Laud, when officious complaints were made to him against Mr. Jackson, replied, "Mr. Jackson is a quiet, peaceable man, and therefore I will not have him meddled with." Archbishop Sheldon passed similar encomiums on him, notwithstanding their difference concerning church government and ceremonies.

He continued many years in this rectory, though the income was so small that he expended 2000l. of his private property among his parishioners; and though he was chosen at Wapping, with the offer of 120. a-year, he yielded to the request of his former hearers to continue with them, on their promising him 100l. per annum. But in two years the sum fell so far short, that his best friends presuaded him to accept of any better situation that might be offered; he therefore soon after was appointed to the duty of St. Faith's parish, where he continued till he was ejected for non-conformity in 1662.

Granger gives the following character of him: "He strongly adhered to the parliament, upon the commencement of the civil war. He was a particular friend of Love*, and refused to give evidence against him; for which he was fined 500/. and committed close prisoner to the Flect. He at the head of the Presbyterians, presented the Bible to Charles II. when he made his triumphant procession through London. There was a particular propriety in choosing this person for that office, as he had written a Commentary upon several parts of it. He was a man of prodigious application. He died August 5, 1666, at the age of seventy-three.

CHRISTOPHER LOVE was minister of St. Anne's, Aldersgate, and St. Lawrence Jewry, and author of several sermons, and other pieces of practical divinity, which gained him a considerable reputation. He was convicted by the high court of justice of holding torrespondence with Charles H. and conspiring against the republican government; for which he was condemned to be beheaded The strongest interest was made to the parliament for his pardon, not only by his wife and friends, but also by several parishes in London, and by fifty-four ministers; who could only procure a respite of his execution for a month. He was beheaded in July 1651.

THOMAS

THOMAS PARSON, fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, was his successor in this living. This divine was much respected among the city ministers. He also was silenced; after which he took great pains in fitting Gouldman's Dietionary for the press. He also prefixed an excellent prefatory epistle, and an index of authors, which he had consulted and carefully examined.

At the south-west corner of Wood Street, was the parish church of

ST. PETER IN CHEAP.

THIS church was distinguished in records by the name of St. Peter in Wode Street, and in West Chepin.

Its earliest history goes no farther than the fifteenth century, when Thomas Wood, one of the sheriffs, was a principal benefactor, the roof being supported by images of woodmen. Sir John Shaw, goldsmith, mayor, in 1501, appointed by will, that the church and steeple should be re built, out of his estate, with a flat roof.

The presentation was antiently in the abbots of St. Alban's, and so continued till the Dissolution; it was afterwards granted by Henry VIII. to lord Wriothesley, ancestor to the earls of Southampton.

Having been burnt down in 1666, the site was converted into a church-yard, and the parish united to that of St. Matthew, Friday Street,

THOMAS GOODRYCHE, L.L. D. bishop of Ely, and lord chancellor during the reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. and also a great promoter of the Reformation, was rector of this church.

On the east side of Wood Street, stood one of the city prisons, called WOOD STREET COMPTER; this has however been removed to a more eligible and airy situation in Giltspur Street; and the site occupied by respectable houses.

LAD LANE was antiently called Ladle Lane, below which is the CASTLE INN, a respectable place for accommodation; as is the CROSS KEYS On the other side of the street, above Huggin Lane. The SWAN WITH TWO NECKS, in Lad Lane, is also famous for mail and other stage coaches.

In the area which is formed here by Lad Lane, Milk Street, Cateaton Street, and Aldermanbury, was an antient well with two buckets, built by Sir William Estfield, lord mayor, 1438; who also built the conduit at Cripplegate and in Fleet Street. In Stow's time it was converted to a pump.

MILK STREET. This is supposed to have been in old times a milk market, in which dwelt many respectable citizens; among others Gregory Rokesly, mayor of London, in the third of Edward I. A. D. 1275 to 1282, lived here in a house belonging to the priory of Lewes, in Sussex; he was tenant at will, and paid an annual rent of twenty shillings, without being liable to reparations or other charges;" "such," says Stow, "were the events of those times."

The church of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, the parish of which is annexed to St. Laurence Jewry, stood on the cast. side and towards the south end of Milk Street, near Cheapside, in the milk market, and was in the gift of the dean and chapter of St. Paul's as early as the reign of king Henry I. but so badly endowed, that there is a remark in Sir William Dugdale's History of St. Paul's, p. 273, which observes, "that the church of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, was of no value." The site of this church, after the fire of London, was, by act of parliament, laid into Honey Lane Market. But the parihioners still maintain their own poor, and have one churchwarden.

HONEY LANE MARKET.

This market is well served with provisions, and resorted to for the supply of many of the first families in its neighbourhood. The place taken up by this market is in length, from east to west, one hundred and ninety-three feet; and from north to south, ninety-seven feet. There are in the market standing stalls for butchers, with racks, blocks, and other necessarics, covered over, to shelter them from the injury of the weather; and also several stalls for fruiterers and fishmongers.