FITZSTEPHEN’S statement that “there are in London and the suburbs 13 churches belonging to convents, besides 126 lesser parish churches,” is not a very satisfactory one, as he does not proceed to name these several churches, or to tell his readers with what establishments they were connected. However, he was probably under the mark in putting the first figure at thirteen, for even in his time, and certainly very little later, there were many more than thirteen monastic and conventual buildings in London, and each had its church or chapel. The chief amongst these establishments which existed in London in the twelfth century, and which were made between that time and the dissolution of the priories in the days of Henry VIII., were:— _Inside the City Walls._ 1. The Greyfriars or Franciscans, succeeded by Christ’s Hospital. 2. The Blackfriars or Dominicans in the west. 3. The Crossed or Crutched Friars, by Fenchurch Street. 4. The Augustine Friars, by Broad Street. 5. St. Helen’s Priory of Nuns, Bishopsgate Street. 6. The Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate. 7. The Priory and Sanctuary of St. Martin’s le Grand. 8. Elsing Spital, London Wall. 9. The Priory of St. Augustine Papey. 10. St. James’s Priory, the Hermitage in the Wall, Monkswell Street. 11. The Priory of St. Thomas Acon, Ironmonger Lane. 12. The Fraternities who had the care of St. Paul’s Cathedral, including the brotherhood of All Souls, specially connected with the Charnel Chapel. _Outside the City Walls._ 13. The Whitefriars or Carmelites, south of Fleet Street. 14. The Abbey and the Convent of Westminster. 15. A Brotherhood of St. Ursula at St. Mary le Strand. 16. A Brotherhood of the Trinity, without Aldersgate. 17. The Knights Templars, in the Strand. 18. The Priory of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, at Clerkenwell. 19. The Black Nuns of St. Mary’s, Clerkenwell. 20. The Benedictine Priory of St. Bartholomew, with St. Bartholomew’s Spital, West Smithfield. 21. The Carthusian Priory of the Salutation, subsequently the Charterhouse. 22. St. Mary Spital, without Bishopsgate. 23. The Nunnery of the Minoresses of St. Clare, the Minories. 24. The Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary of Grace, beyond the Tower. 25. St. Katharine’s Hospital, by the Tower. 26. The Convent of St. Leonard, at Bromley-by-Bow. 27. The Priory of St. Mary Overie, Southwark, with a “House of Sisters.” 28. Bermondsey Abbey. 29. The Nunnery of St. John the Baptist, Holywell. 30. The Convent of St. Mary Rounceval, Charing Cross. A very complete list of the ecclesiastical institutions will be found in Brewer’s “Beauties of London and Middlesex,” vol. ii. p. 39.