. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. the gardens were made intobowling-alleys, and other parts into dicing houses ; but in Stowestime they were forsaken, and converted into a number of smallcottages for strangers and others. At the end of Gunpowder-alley, Crutched Friars, are ten alms-houses for poor men and their wives, being the gift of lord Banning,who bequeathed, in 1G25, 1220/. for buying land in the parish ofSt. Olave, for an hospital or almshouse. They were afterwardscalled the Oxford alms-houses, the earl marrying an heiress of theHannings
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. the gardens were made intobowling-alleys, and other parts into dicing houses ; but in Stowestime they were forsaken, and converted into a number of smallcottages for strangers and others. At the end of Gunpowder-alley, Crutched Friars, are ten alms-houses for poor men and their wives, being the gift of lord Banning,who bequeathed, in 1G25, 1220/. for buying land in the parish ofSt. Olave, for an hospital or almshouse. They were afterwardscalled the Oxford alms-houses, the earl marrying an heiress of theHannings. In Maitlands time it appears they had but smallallowances. They were sold to sir William Raw lings, knt.» in 1807,but a decree in Chancery has been obtained to place them on aregular footing. At the north end of Coopers-row, on the west side, are MMourn s Alms Houses. These alms-houses were founded in 1534 by sir John Milbourn,draper and lord mayor in 1521. Over the gate is an .ancient pieceof sculpture representing the assumption of the Virgin Mary, sup-ported by six Assumption of the Virgin,Atthe four corners are four shields of arms, two of which are theDrapers and Haberdashers company. Beneath the sculpture wasthe following inscription :— Ad laudem Dei et gloriose ViryinisMarie, Jioc opus crcxit Dominus Johannes Milbourn, miles etAlderman hujus civifalis, A. D. 1535. In one part of thebuilding the annexed piece of sculpture is let into the wall; it is a merchants mark, and probably that ofsir John Milbourn, the founder; very few of thosecurious monagrams exist at the present time inLondon, though there is little doubt, before the greatfire in 10G0,t!iey were very numerous. wzz
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