The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . nd Tarifh Churches. The antientand modern State of this Ward. Halls andother publick Buildings. The State of theLying-in Hofpital for married Liberty of St. Martin le Grand. ItsPrivileges, andfome Obfervations thereon. THOI cannot afcertain the Time when thisCity was at firft divided into Wards; yet Iam of Opinion, that the firft Divifion thereof wasnot on the Account of Government •, but, rather,that London, like the other Cities and Towns of theKingdom, was antiently held of the Saxon Kingsand Nobility in
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . nd Tarifh Churches. The antientand modern State of this Ward. Halls andother publick Buildings. The State of theLying-in Hofpital for married Liberty of St. Martin le Grand. ItsPrivileges, andfome Obfervations thereon. THOI cannot afcertain the Time when thisCity was at firft divided into Wards; yet Iam of Opinion, that the firft Divifion thereof wasnot on the Account of Government •, but, rather,that London, like the other Cities and Towns of theKingdom, was antiently held of the Saxon Kingsand Nobility in Demefne, and whofe feveral Pro-perties therein, being fo many Sokes or Liberties,were under the immediate Dominion of their re-fpective Lords, who were the Governors or War-dens thereof; whence, I imagine, arofe the SaxonAppellation, Ward, which fignifies a Quarter orDiftrict: This Opinion is not only corroboratedby the Wards of Baynards Cajlle, Farringdon,Colcman-Street, and Bafinghall or Baj/ifiaivs, ftillretaining the Names of their antient Proprietors, but ^ o^t- 76. Book II. ne History of london. 761 Uep. Mad Hift. but alfo by the other Wards of the City being k*ch alienable •, which, upon Alienation, the Purcha-fer or Purchafers became the Proprietor or Pro-prietors thereof, with the additional Epithets ofAlderman or What the Number of Wards in this City atfirft wasi does not appear upon Record •, how-ever, by the firft Account we have thereof inthe Year 1284, they appear to have been twenty-four ; and in the Year 1393, the great WardeeP- l • 0$ paringdon being very much increafed both inNumber of Houfes and Inhabitants, it was byParliament divided into the inward and outwardWards, whereby the Number was increafed to twenty-five ; and in the Year 1550, the Citizenshaving purchafed of King Edward the fixth the Seep. 242. Borough of Southwark, with divers Privilegesthereunto belonging, they erected the fame intoa twenty-fixth Ward; but it fee
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