. History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers of the City of London, otherwise the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass. afford little or no clue to the ichnography of thedistrict before that date. Stowe says : that upon the Eastern side of OldFish Street Hill stood a great House belonging to the Fishmongers whichwas afterwards let out to rent as, before the Fire, they had six Hall Motes,viz.: two in Bridge Street or New Fish Street, two in Old Fish Streetwhereof this was one, and two in Stockfishmonger Row or Thames authority for this statement is a document, temp. Richard I
. History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers of the City of London, otherwise the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass. afford little or no clue to the ichnography of thedistrict before that date. Stowe says : that upon the Eastern side of OldFish Street Hill stood a great House belonging to the Fishmongers whichwas afterwards let out to rent as, before the Fire, they had six Hall Motes,viz.: two in Bridge Street or New Fish Street, two in Old Fish Streetwhereof this was one, and two in Stockfishmonger Row or Thames authority for this statement is a document, temp. Richard II. Maitlandalludes to Fish Street Hill as a well-inhabited place. He also speaks of 40 GLAZIERS AND PAINTERS OF GLASS. a fair House in the Parish of St. Mary Mounthaw now letten out forRent, which house some time was one of the Halls pertaining to theCompany of Fishmongers, and incidentally mentions that on the northside of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey Church in the wall thereof was built aconvenient Cistern of Stone and Lead for receipt of Thames Water con-veyed in Pipes of Lead to that place for the use and commodity of the. Map of London, by Agas (temp. Q. Eliz., c. 1560), preserved in the Guildhall. (Glaziers Hall, to 1666, had a frontage to Fysche Streate Hill, and extended upon the East side ofFyve Foot Lane (marked with a *). It was either the building shown at the North-West corner abut-ting upon Old Fysche Streate or the one immediately below in Fysche Streate Hill. The entrance toFyve Foot Lane from Tames Streate, or Stockfishmonger Row, was apparently through an archway.) Fishmongers and the other inhabitants in and about Old Fish Street. Thiswas completed about 1583. With regard to the new property erected bythe Glaziers, the Fishmongers Company have documentary evidence thatthe Glaziers sought a lease of land adjacent to the Hall and offered to erectproperty upon it to the value of £200, but the City Authorities were notwilling to agree to the lease, deeming the money
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