_St._ MARTIN’S OUTWICH, at the south east angle of Threadneedle street, in Broad street ward, owes its additional epithet to William and John de Oteswich, who were some time the proprietors thereof. The patronage of this church was indeed anciently in the family of the Earls of Surry; but afterwards coming to the de Oteswiches, they conferred it upon the company of Merchant Taylors, in whom it still remains. The Rector receives only 40l. a year in tithes. _Maitland._ This is one of those few churches that escaped the fire in 1666, and with some repairs has stood ever since, and may stand much longer, though it is already above 220 years old. This edifice is an old Gothic structure of the meaner style; it is sixty-six feet long, and forty-two broad; the height of the roof is thirty-one feet, and the height of the steeple, sixty-five feet. The body is of brick, strengthened at the corners by a massy rustic: the windows, which are large, are of the coarse Gothic kind, and the top is surrounded with plain square battlements. From the tower, which is extremely plain and simple, rises a turret, that is open, arched, and supported by four piers; and from the dome rises a ball and fane. The New View of London has the following epitaph in this church. In memory of John Wright, _anno sal._ 1633, aged 24. Reader, thou may’st forbear to put thine eyes To charge for tears, to mourn these obsequies; Such charitable drops would best be given To those who late, or never come to heav’n. But here you would, by weeping on this dust, Allay his happiness with thy mistrust; Whose pious closing of his youthful years Deserves thy imitation, not thy tears. _St._ MARTIN’S POMARY, or Ironmonger lane, Cheapside, is supposed by Mr. Stowe to have derived its additional epithet of _Pomary_, from apple trees growing about it; which is the more probable, as in his time there were large void spaces near it. This church stood at the corner of Ironmonger lane, and in Cheap ward; but suffering by the dreadful fire of London, the parish was united to the church of St. Olave’s Jewry. MARTIN’S _rents_, Queen street, New Gravel lane.† MARTIN’S _street_, Thames street. _St._ MARTIN’S VINTRY, stood in Thames street, near the south east corner of Queen street, and in Vintry ward. This church, which was a rectory, received its additional denomination from its being situated among the wine tunners, wine merchants, and coopers: but sharing the common fate in the dreadful catastrophe of 1666, and not being rebuilt, the parish was united to that of St. Michael’s Royal, and 120l. a year was settled upon the Rector in lieu of tithes. _Maitland._ MARTLET’S _court_, Bow street, Covent Garden.†