. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. he greatest pomp, and on themost costly delicacies that affluence could purchase. On the east side of Stocks Market, in the ward of Walbrook, wasanciently situated the church St. Mary Woolchurch-haw, which de-rived its name from its dedication to the Virgin, and the additionalappellation from a trone, beam, or balance in the cemetery thereof,for the weighing of wool; wherefore it was denominated Wool-church-haw. The patronage of this rectory was anciently in Hubert de Ria,and Eudo, his son ; who gave the same t
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. he greatest pomp, and on themost costly delicacies that affluence could purchase. On the east side of Stocks Market, in the ward of Walbrook, wasanciently situated the church St. Mary Woolchurch-haw, which de-rived its name from its dedication to the Virgin, and the additionalappellation from a trone, beam, or balance in the cemetery thereof,for the weighing of wool; wherefore it was denominated Wool-church-haw. The patronage of this rectory was anciently in Hubert de Ria,and Eudo, his son ; who gave the same to the abbot and canons ofSt. Johns abbey at Colchester, in whom it continued till theirsuppression by Henry the Eighth in the year 1539, when comingto the crown, it still remains therein: but in matters ecclesiasticalit is subject to the archdeacon, other than what relates to wills andadministrations, which belong to the commissary. This church being destroyed in the great conflagration of 166t»,and the same not being rebuilt, the parish was annexed to thatof St. Mary Foundation Stone St. Mary Woolchurch-haw. HISTORY OF LONDON. 773 In digging the foundation of the Mansion-house, on the site ofthe above church, the foundation stone was found in April, 1739. Adjoining to the church yard of St. Stephen, was Walbrook-house, the old mansion of the family of Pollexfen, which sharingthe common fate of the general conflagration in 1666, was rebuiltin the following year by sir Henry Pollexfen, chief justice of thecourt of Common Pleas in the reign of Charles II. It stood onlofty brick arches, of exquisite workmanship and great antiquity ;and was supposed to have been the town residence of the abbot ofTor tington. It was an elegant brick building, of the Corinthianorder, with double windows. In Walbrook was the residence of the notorious colleagues ofHenry the Seventh, Empson and Dudley. At the south east corner of Walbrook was a conduit, new builtin the year 1568, at the cha
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