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The churches of London: a history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis . hens is mentioned as a distinct parish, in adeed dated 1321. However this may be, we find that thechurch was again made parochial in 1456, and has con-tinued to be so to this The church is of very ancient foundation. Betweenthe years 1171 and 1181, it was given by the dean andchapter of St. Pauls, to the prior and convent of Butley ; 3—at the same time that St. Olaves also was given to thesame establishment,—and they enjoyed the patronage untilthe dissolution, when it devolved on the cro
The churches of London: a history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis . hens is mentioned as a distinct parish, in adeed dated 1321. However this may be, we find that thechurch was again made parochial in 1456, and has con-tinued to be so to this The church is of very ancient foundation. Betweenthe years 1171 and 1181, it was given by the dean andchapter of St. Pauls, to the prior and convent of Butley ; 3—at the same time that St. Olaves also was given to thesame establishment,—and they enjoyed the patronage untilthe dissolution, when it devolved on the crown. QueenElizabeth granted the patronage of the vicarage, together 1 Survey, B. III. p. 59. 2 Newcourts Repertorium p. 535. 3 Diceto mentions the church in his survey, made 1182. Ecclesia est canonicorum et reddit eis II. Sol. per manum Prioris deButeleia. 2 ST. STEPHENS, COLEMAN STREET. with the church and rectory to certain of the parishionerson the part of the whole of them, to hold the same in fee-farm of the crown. The parishioners have retained thepatronage ever The old church contained a numher of them was one, To the memory of that ancientservant to the city, with his pen in divers employments,especially the Survey of London, master Anthony Munday,citizen and draper of London. For more than forty years, namely, from 1580 to 1621,Munday arranged the city pageants and shows : and wasotherwise actively engaged in the metropolis. i The Rev. Josiah Pratt, B. D. is the present vicar. ST. STEPHENS COLEMAN STREET. 3 Besides his continuation of Stows Survey men-tioned above, he wrote many dramatic pieces. An inscrip-tion on the monument spoke of him as :— He that hath many an antient tomb-stone read,(Ith* labour seeming more among the deadTo live, than with the living,) that survaidAbstruse antiquities, and ore them laidSuch vive and beauteous colours with his pen,That, (spite of Time,) those old are new agen.— The church was dest
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