. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. e court, your said be-seechers think it much necessary that the said hall be still in thehands of this city, and to be surely kept by sad and discreet offi-cers, in such wise that it may always be ready to be used and oc-cupied, for the common weale of the said city when need shall re-quire, and in no wise to be letten to any body politic About 1534 an attempt was made to remove the burse for the ac-commodation of the merchants, from Lombard-street to Leadenhall,but after many common councils had been held resp
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. e court, your said be-seechers think it much necessary that the said hall be still in thehands of this city, and to be surely kept by sad and discreet offi-cers, in such wise that it may always be ready to be used and oc-cupied, for the common weale of the said city when need shall re-quire, and in no wise to be letten to any body politic About 1534 an attempt was made to remove the burse for the ac-commodation of the merchants, from Lombard-street to Leadenhall,but after many common councils had been held respecting the pro-priety of removal, the idea was abandoned. In the year 1546, when king Henrys corpse lay in state in hischapel at Westminster, in the month of February, about twelve days,here at Leadenhall, Heath, bishop of Worcester, the kings al-moner, and other his ministers and assistants, did daily distribute topoor people of the city great plenty of money, as well as at West-minster, and divers other places in the several wards, both in opendoles and by way of Leadenhall, 1790. The use of Leadenhall in my youth (says Stow) was this, In thepart of the north quadrant, on the east side of the north gate, werethe common beams for weighing of wool and other wares, as hadbeen accustomed. On the west side of the gate were the scales toweigh meal. The other three sides were reserved, for the mostpart, to the making and resting of the pageants shewed at Mid-summer in the watch.* The remnant of the sides and quadrants * Vide ante, vol. i. p. 199. 276. 700 HISTORY OF LONDON. was employed for the stowage of wool-sacks, but not closed lofts above were partly used by the painters, in working forthe decking of pageants and other devices, for beautifying of thewatch and watchmen. The residue of the lofts were lett out tomerchants, the wool winders and packers therein to wind and packtheir wools. Leadenhall was a very large building of free-stone, containingwithin it
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