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XIX.—Notes on the Augustinian Priory of St. Bartholomew, West Smithfield.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

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Abstract

Recent researches have brought to light various matters of interest concerning this priory; some relate to the dates to which certain portions of the building may be assigned, others to the topography of the priory close soon after the suppression of the monastery, whilst the acquisition of three bays of the eastern alley of the cloister by the Restoration Committee has brought to light work of the twelfth and fifteenth centuries hitherto concealed.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1905

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page 376 note a The horse market continued to be held on Fridays for over six hundred years. One of the duties of the parish beadle required by the vestry in 1774 was to “keep the horses out of the close on Fridays.”

page 376 note b Hospital Cartulary, f. 49.

page 376 note c Book of the Foundation, lib. i. cap. i.

page 376 note d When the hospital adopted these arms is not at present ascertained. At the College of Arms they occur in a collection of Venetian arms (Vincent, No. 171, pt. ii. p. 85.) under the name of “Renier.”

page 377 note a Hospital Cartulary, f. 39d.

page 377 note b Public Record Office. Memoranda Rolls, L. T. R. 1 Ed. III. Trin. Term, m. 46d.

page 377 note c Public Record Office. Augmentations. Particulars for grants, 927, m. 5.

page 378 note a Reg. Lond. Baudake, f. 6.

page 378 note b Book of the Foundation, lib. i. cap. xxii.

page 378 note c Dr. Norman Moore has drawn my attention to this fact.

page 378 note d Hosp. Cart. f. 46.

page 378 note e St. Paul's Lib. Box 25, No. 643. f Hosp. Cart. f. 53d.

page 378 note f St. Paul's Lib. Box 25, No. 644.

page 378 note g Hosp. Cart, f. 57d.

page 379 note a Calendar of Wills in the Court of Husting, i. 427.

page 380 note a C. C. L. Courtney, f. 288.

page 380 note b C. C. L. Courtney, f. 370.

page 380 note c Vol. vi. 151.

page 381 note a St. Paul's Library, Box 25, No. 645.

page 381 note b A great earthquake in England occurred in 1318.

page 382 note a Originalia Rolls, 36 Henry VIII. pt. 4, rots. 147, 148.

page 382 note b Close Rolls, 2 and 3 Phillip and Mary, pt. 11, m. 28.

page 383 note a New and complete Survey of the Cities of London, Westminster, ii. 921Google Scholar.

page 383 note b Londinium Redivivum, 288Google Scholar.

page 383 note c Vestry minute book of that date, p. 51.

page 383 note d They are signed by his father, Sir Aston Webb, R.A., as architect of the restoration.

page 384 note a Lansdowne MS. 6, art, 55.

page 384 note b Proceedings in Chancery C. c. 5, No. 34, D.d. 9, No. 46, and No. 54 Elizabeth.

page 385 note a When these notes were read before the Society last May, this seemed to me to indicate that the Smithfield arch was always, as shown in Agas's map, an entrance gateway into the monastic precincts, with rooms for the warden above; but since then, at the suggestion of Mr. W. H. St. John Hope, excavations in the west approach to the church have revealed the base of the south wall of the nave as being continuous to this arch, and that, together with the fact pointed out by Mr. Hope that the arch is seven feet thick, draws me to the conclusion that the church had a west front facing Smithfield flanked with towers, and that these “chambers anciently builded” were chambers in the south-west tower over the arched doorway, which led into the south aisle of the church. The pillars referred to are still there; the one on the south side unfortunately is covered by the shelves in a stationer's shop. The rooms above the arch are now very old, and although the wall appears to be of brick, it is in reality of timber faced with tile skilfully hung to resemble brick.

page 386 note a Public Record Office. Rentals and Surveys, 11, 39, 16 James I.

page 388 note a Reed's, Letter Founders, p. 217Google Scholar. Vestry Min. Bk. March, 1790, p. 2.

page 388 note b Dissertation on Eng. Typog. Founders, p. 58.

page 388 note c Mr. W. H. St. John Hope suggests that, as in the parallel case of Romsey Abbey, the transept formed the chancel of the parish chapel, and that westwards of it was a nave continuing westwards down Cloth Fair, parallel to and adjoining the north aisle of the priory church; but whether this was so or not there is not at present sufficient evidence to determine.

page 389 note a Vestry Minute Book, Feb. 1815, p. 344. As its weight was only 104 lbs. it may have been a “Sanctus” bell.

page 390 note a A “Simon Wynchecombe, prior of St. Bartholomew's, Smithfeld,” occurs as an executor in Pat. Roll. 16 Richard II. pt. iii. m. 20 and m. 19 (1392 and 1393); possibly he was acting as prior in the absence of John Eyton, who occurs again in 1394, and died prior in 1404.

page 390 note b Signed a lease of a glebe house as rector in 1655 though only inducted formally as rector in 1660.