London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Sources; London (England) -- Surveys
This church of St. Dunstone is called, in the east, for difference from
one other of the same name in the west; it is a fair and large church
of an ancient building, and within a large churchyard; it hath a great
parish of many rich merchants, and other occupiers of divers trades,
namely salters and ironmongers.
The monuments in that church be these:--In the choir, John Kenington,
parson, there buried 1374; William Islip, parson, 1382; John Kryoll,
esq., brother to Thomas Kryoll, 1400; Nicholas Bond, Thomas Barry,
merchant, 1445; Robert Shelly, esq., 1420; Robert Pepper, grocer, 1445;
John Norwich, grocer, 1390; Alice Brome, wife to John Coventry, sometime
mayor of London, 1433; William Isaack, draper, alderman, 1508; Edward
Skales, merchant, 1521; John Ricroft, esq., sergeant of the larder to
Henry VII. and Henry VIII., 1532; Edwaters, esq., sergeant-at-arms,
1558; Sir Bartholomew James, draper, mayor 1479, buried under a fair
monument with his lady; Ralfe Greenway, grocer, alderman, put under the
stone of Robert Pepper, 1559; Thomas Bledlow, one of the sheriffs 1472;
James Bacon, fishmonger, sheriff, 1573; Sir Richard Champion, draper,
mayor 1568; Henry Herdson, skinner, alderman, 1555; Sir James Garnado,
knight; William Hariot, draper, mayor 1481, buried in a fair chapel by
him built, 1517; John Tate, son to Sir John Tate, in the same chapel in
the north wall; Sir Christopher Draper, ironmonger, mayor 1566, buried
1580. And many other worshipful personages besides, whose monuments are
altogether defaced.
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