1624 Item, paid for two pieces of broad cloth for children's ...il. ijs. ixl. xivs. Item, paid for two pieces of cotton ... . xxvjl. ...xvijs. viijd. Item, paid for one hundred and six ells and a quarter of ... ... ... ... ... ... xvjs. viijd. xiijl. ivs. ijd. Item, to making forty-eight pair of sheets, at vjd. a pair il. ivs. Item, paid for seven dozen and four double bands, at iijd. a band il. ijs. Item, paid for two dozen of single bands, at iijd. a band... vjs. Item, paid for twenty-four pair of shoes for the children il. ivs. Item, paid for forty coyses, at ivd. a piece Item, paid for gartering for the children Item, paid for four and forty coats for children WORK ABOUT GREEN COAT HOSPITAL. [This was on the west side of Cobourg Row. Having received a measure of the King's favour, it found ardent supporters in the Duchess of Somerset, Emery Hill, Dr. Busby, and Rev. James Palmer. The site was sold in 1877, when the present "Westminster City School," in Palace Street, grew out of the proceeds of the sale. The foundation is noticed in the Parochial Charities of Westminster, 1890.] 1624 xivl. xviijs. xd. Item, paid to Robert Bishop, bricklayer, more at several 1626 Item, to the graves of 1447 poor people this year ijli. ixs. ivd. il. vs. vl. xvijs. vl. Item, paid to Walter Hall, bricklayer, for making and *This relates to the land surrounding the "New Chapel," on the site of which the present Christ Church was erected in 1842-3. The Churchyard was acquired and consecrated sixteen years before Item, paid to George Butt, for making a ditch about the ... ijl. xijs. vjd. Item, paid for twelve bundles of rushes to fit the church- ... Item, paid for herbes and spices to make diet-drink for the ... 1628 Item, paid to George Edgelie, by consent of the Vestry, .vl. vjs. xd ivl. .. vjl. Item, to Mr. Hennam, the husband of William Bowyer's ... ... vl. [The famous Dr. Busby, afterwards Head-Master of Westminster, who at one time could point to no less than sixteen bishops who had been educated at his school, and "who bred up the greatest number of learned scholars that ever adorned any age or nation." When he became prosperous he was found in the forefront of every movement for the education of the children of the poor of the parish.] 1629 Item, to Augustine Morgan, a constable in the Great Sanctuary being fined twenty shillings for suffering vagrants to wander in the streets, to him of his said fine being a poor man Item, to a poor man that lost DCCl. at sea by Dunkerkers 1630 Item, to John Martin, having his Majesty's privy seal to begg relief towards his travel to Persia ... xviijs. vjd. iijd. 1633 Item, of the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Man- the original church was finished, owing, as the entry against the year 1626 suggests, to the pressing need of more space for interments. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the burial ground was described as "the pleasantest churchyard all about London and Westminster "; but as it became surrounded by narrow streets of small houses it lost its distinction, and notwithstanding the curtailment of its dimensions by the formation of Victoria Street (1847-51) and the widening of "Chappell Street," the condition of the churchyard remained a disgrace long after the rebuilding of the new church, and well within the recollection of those who would still like to be called young. The erudite Walcott, in his Memorials of Westminster, ed. 1849, pp. 285 9, briefly describes some of the features of the original church and the present edifice. The former is stated to have been used as a stable for the chargers of the Commonwealth troopers, as a council room by Cromwell and his officers, and as a prison for the Scotch soldiers taken at the battle of Worcester, of whom 1200 are shown by the churchwardens' accounts for 1652 (q.v.) to have been buried in Tothill Fields, close by on the south. See the items under the year 1651 and 1652 at p. 61. [This Hospital became merged in the "St. Margaret's Hospital," or Green Coat School, and is now incorporated with the Westminster City School, mentioned at the year 1624.] 1634 1637 Item, paid for our part of the charges towards th' obteyn- ... vijl. xjs. xd. Item, for a pair of sheetes for Jane Clare, when wee sent ... iijs. vjd. ...il. viis. Item, to Mr. Anthony Cliffe, deputie clerk of the peace, ...il. xs. ... XS. Item, to the clarke of the counsell, for the coppie of an at four several payments, twoe hundred pounds towards ... Item, to Mr. Winter, keeper of the hospital at Knights- ... ... Item, to William Lynes, for removing the stocks from 1641 Item, paid to Joane Parkinson and Mary Clarkson for ... Item, given to the ringers that day xvjs. ...cc l. ....11. xijs. VS. is. vjd. VS. is. *The possibility of a person accumulating 1296 bad farthings will probably need but little explanation when the want which existed at the time of an authorised coinage as small change is called to mind. It is just possible, also, that those who resented the increasing compulsory levies regarded the parish treasury as a convenient receptacle for such spurious moneys as might have passed into their hands Although the farthing, or four-thing, had existed from the time of William the Conqueror, when it was literally the fourth part of a penny-a cross being deeply cut so that the penny could be broken in half or quarters-the few penny pieces which were cast by the Government were in silver, and were so small and thin as to cause considerable loss to traders. From this grew the private mintage of their own coins or tokens by innkeepers and other tradesmen, who exchanged each other's tokens as if they were small accommodation bills payable at sight. Attempts were made in the reign of Elizabeth and James 1. to supersede this pseudo moneta by a legitimate copper currency; but the remedy was not resolutely taken in hand until the Restoration. During the reign of Charles I. and throughout the Commonwealth, the private coinage' became so general that nearly every tradesman struck his own tokens "for necessarie change" They were prohibited by royal proclamation in 1674, and were not again brought into use until the end of the last century, when several of the Municipal Corporations issued them in their own Boroughs as a temporary expedient. 1643 Item, paid for twoe paper books, that were provided for ... ... [On 25th September, 1642, the Solemn League and Covenant was taken in the Church by both Houses of Parliament, the Assembly of Divines, and the Scottish Commissioners. The troubled times of the following forty years may be gathered from a perusal of the entries, many of which furnish confirmation of the contemporary history.] ... . vl. 1644 Item, of Edward Tasker, by the hands of his daughter ... Item, of Arthur Condall, in part of vl. for the screene ... ls. xjs. [Many such receipts as these are credited in the contemporary overseers' accounts, the moneys beng employed by them in the relief of the poor.] ... ... ... Item, for a quire of printed warrants for putting the ... 1647 Item, paid for rosemarie and baies, that was stuck about ... ... ... is. vjd. iijs. ixd. ivl. xviijs. ixd. is. vjs. is. vjd. xijs. vjd. Item, paid in fees unto Mr. Friend and Mr. Denham, 1650 Item, paid for herbs that were strewed in the windows of It was in this year that Milton wrote his sonnet "To the Lord General Cromwell," having just previously penned that “On the assault intended to the City." |