The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . fe for Six poor People inthe Parifh of S. Mims, in the County of Middlefex,and at his Death endowed the faid Almfhoufewith a Salary of Twenty-four Pounds per fome other Advantages. He alfo founded a School in Plough-yard in thisParifh-, [of which in Tower Ward.] He alfo gave to the poor Freemen of the Brew-ers Company Ten Pounds per Ann. To the poorof the Hamlets of Wapping, White-chapel, ThreePounds per Ann. and to Fifteen poor People ofthis Parifh Two Shifts, One Pair of Hofe andOne Pair of Shoes yearly. Al
The history and survey of London : from its foundation to the present time . fe for Six poor People inthe Parifh of S. Mims, in the County of Middlefex,and at his Death endowed the faid Almfhoufewith a Salary of Twenty-four Pounds per fome other Advantages. He alfo founded a School in Plough-yard in thisParifh-, [of which in Tower Ward.] He alfo gave to the poor Freemen of the Brew-ers Company Ten Pounds per Ann. To the poorof the Hamlets of Wapping, White-chapel, ThreePounds per Ann. and to Fifteen poor People ofthis Parifh Two Shifts, One Pair of Hofe andOne Pair of Shoes yearly. Alfo to the Minifter of this Parifh TwentyShillings/w Ann. for a Sermon to be preachedyearly on New Tears Day, and to the Clerk andSexton Five Shillings. For the performing of which he gave all hisManor of Williats, and certain other Lands andTenements in S. Mims aforefaid, in Truft to theworfhipful Company of Brewers in London. He alfo gave feveral other charitable Legaciesto be paid by his Executors. In Memory of whichpious and charitable Acls, and as a Teftimony of &>ok III. ISTORY of LONDON. 105: Stow. Ncwc. clef. Paroch. Ibid. of rheir Grai :, Elizabeth Peach and Dorothy Wright, Executors of his lall Will, erected thisMoawnent. Officers, &c. in this Veftry is felect, confifting of thirty-oneMembers, two Church-wardens, four Overfeersof the Poor : And here are three hundred andforty-one Houfes. Antiquities; &c. in this Parijh. ] ho the I ime when this Church was at firfterected be unknown, yet it appears to be of con-siderable Antiquity, by Richard I. having erecteda Chapel on the North Side thereof, towards theClofe of the twelfth Century. The Rectory of this Church, coming to theRep. Ec- Abbefs and Convent of Barking, the fame wasconverted into a Vicarage about Ann. 1389. In the Year 1639, divers Innovations were madein this Church, by removing the CommunionTable from its antient Place, and putting there-over the Portraiture of the Holy Ghoft
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