. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. ndon, ii. p. 800. HISTORY OF LONDON. 149 sometime also an inn, called the Angel, from such a sign. Amongstthese said tenements was, on the same street side, an entry orcourt to the common hall of the said parish clerks, with alms-houses,seven in number, adjoining, for parish-clerks, and their wives, theirwidows, such as were advanced in years, and not able for of these, by the said brotherhood of parish-clerks was allowedsixteen pence the week ; the other six had each of them nine-pencethe week, acco
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. ndon, ii. p. 800. HISTORY OF LONDON. 149 sometime also an inn, called the Angel, from such a sign. Amongstthese said tenements was, on the same street side, an entry orcourt to the common hall of the said parish clerks, with alms-houses,seven in number, adjoining, for parish-clerks, and their wives, theirwidows, such as were advanced in years, and not able for of these, by the said brotherhood of parish-clerks was allowedsixteen pence the week ; the other six had each of them nine-pencethe week, according to the patent thereof granted. This brother-hood, being suppressed ; in the reign of Edward VI. the hall, withthe other buildings there, were given to Sir Robert Chester, aknight of Cambridgeshire; against whom the parish clerks com-menced a suit in the reign of queen Mary; and bemj; likely tohave prevailed, the said sir Robert Chester pulled down the hall,sold the timber, stone, and lead, and thereupon the suit was alms-houses remained in queen Elizabeths Bishopsgate. The exact date of the foundation of this gate is not known. conceives it was erected by Erkenwald, son of Offa kingof Mercia, and bishop of London, whom historians mention asthe founder of two religious houses, one at Chertsey, in Surrey,and another at Barking, in Essex, where he died, anno 685, andwas afterwards canonized. The most ancient notice of this gate, according to Stowe, wasthat William Blund, one of the sheriffs, in 1210, sold to SerleMercer and William Almaine, procurators, or wardens of Londonbridge, all his land, with the garden in the parish of St. Botolphwithout, Bishopsgate. Henry III. confirmed to the merchants of the Hanse, who hada house in the city called Guildhalla Teutonicorum, certainliberties and privileges on condition that they repaired this gate ;Edward I. also confirmed the same; but it appears they did notfulfill the agreement, for in this reign they
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