London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History -- 16th century -- Sources; London (England) -- Surveys
Now to begin again on the bank of the said Walbrooke, at the east end
of the high street called the Poultrie, on the north side thereof, is
the proper parish church of St. Mildred, which church was new built upon
Walbrooke in the year 1457. John Saxton their parson gave thirty-two
pounds towards the building of the new choir, which now standeth upon
the course of Walbrooke. Lovell and Puery, and Richard Keston, have
their arms in the east window as benefactors. The roofing of that
church is garnished with the arms of Thomas Archehull, one of the
churchwardens in the year 1455, who was there buried; Thomas Morsted,
esquire, and chirurgeon to King Henry IV., V., and VI., one of the
sheriff’s of London in the year 1436, gave unto this church a parcel
of ground, containing in length from the course of Walbrooke toward the
west forty-five feet, and in breadth from the church toward the north
thirty-five feet, being within the gate called Scalding wike, in the
said parish, to make a churchyard wherein to bury their dead. Richard
Shore, draper, one of the sheriffs 1505, gave fifteen pounds for making
a porch to this church. Salomon Lanuare had a chantry there in the 14th
of Edward II. Hugh Game had one other. Buried here, as appeareth by
monuments, John Hildye, poulter, 1416; John Kendall, 1468; John Garland,
1476; Robert Bois, 1485, and Simon Lee, poulters, 1487; Thomas Lee of
Essex, gentleman: William Hallingridge; Christopher Feliocke, 1494;
Robert Draiton, skinner, 1484; John Christopherson, doctor of physic,
1524; William Turner, skinner, 1536; Blase White, grocer, 1558; Thomas
Hobson, haberdasher, 1559; William Hobson, haberdasher, 1581; Thomas
Tusser, 1580, with this epitaph:--
“Here Thomas Tusser, clad in earth, doth lie,
That sometime made the Poyntes of Husbandrie;
By him then learne thou maist, here learne we must,
When all is done we sleepe and turne to dust,
And yet through Christ to heaven we hope to go,
Who reades his bookes shall find his faith was so.”
On the north side of the churchyard remain two tombs of marble, but not
known of whom, or otherwise than by tradition it is said, they were of
Thomas Monshampe and William, brothers, about 1547, etc.
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