London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Sources; London (England) -- Surveys
William Dauntsey, mercer, one of the sheriffs, buried 1542. Henry
Collet, mercer, mayor, a great benefactor to this church; the pictures
of him, his wife, ten sons, and ten daughters, remain in the glass
window on the north side of the church; but the said Henry Collet
was buried at Stebunhith. Henry Halton, grocer, one of the sheriffs,
deceased 1415; Thomas Spight, merchant-tailor, 1533; and Roger Martin,
mercer, mayor, deceased 1573. John Grantham and Nicholas Bull had
chantries there.
Next on the south side of Budge row, by the west corner thereof, and
on the east side of Cordwainer street, is one other fair church called
Aldemarie church, because the same was very old, and elder than any
church of St. Marie in the city, till of late years the foundation of a
very fair new church was laid there by Henry Keble, grocer, mayor, who
deceased 1518, and was there buried in a vault by him prepared, with a
fair monument raised over him on the north side the choir, now destroyed
and gone: he gave by his testament one thousand pounds towards the
building up of that church, and yet not permitted a resting-place for
his bones there. Thomas Roman, mayor 1310, had a chantry there. Richard
Chawcer,[191] vintner, gave to that church his tenement and tavern,
with the appurtenance, in the Royal street, the corner of Kerion lane,
and was there buried 1348. John Briton; Ralph Holland, draper, one of
the sheriffs, deceased 1452; William Taylor, grocer, mayor, deceased
1483: he discharged that ward of fifteens to be paid by the poor. Thomas
Hinde, mercer, buried in St. Anthonies, gave ten fodder of lead to the
covering of the middle aisle of this Aldemarie church. Charles Blunt,
Lord Montjoy, was buried there about the year 1545; he made or glazed
the east window, as appeareth by his arms: his epitaph, made by him in
his lifetime, thus:
“Willingly have I fought, and willingly have I found
The fatall end that wrought thither as dutie bound:
Discharged I am of that I ought to my country by honest wound,
My soule departed Christ hath bought, the end of man is ground.”
Sir William Laxton, grocer, mayor, deceased 1556, and Thomas Lodge,
grocer, mayor 1583, were buried in the vault of Henry Keble, whose bones
were unkindly cast out, and his monument pulled down;[192] in place
whereof monuments are set up of the later buried. William Blunt, Lord
Mountjoy, buried there 1594, etc.
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