40 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
pressed in the first year of Edward VI, and the revenues seized 
into the King’s treasury. The principal change which had hitherto 
been made within the parish church itself was the removal of the 
various images therein, before which it had been customary to burn 
tapers ‘‘for a remembrance unto prayer.” In 1549 the English 
Prayer Book was introduced, largely founded on the older Latin 
‘services. Meanwhile the extreme Reformers had commenced to 
destroy, sell, or steal the valuable plate and vestments which the 
requirements of the medizval ritual and the piety of parishioners 
had caused to be provided for the services of the church. A 
commission was therefore appointed in 1552 which ordered an 
inventory to be taken of all the parish church goods, and these 
were delivered to the churchwardens for safe keeping. The 
intention was to leave sufficient for the proper administration of 
divine service and to annex the remainder for the King’s use. 
Edward’s death probably prevented this, but to what extent is 
uncertain. The inventory for Lewisham was drawn up on the 16th 
November, 1552, by Richard Dyngly and Richard Howlett, gentle- 
men, the churchwardens. It tells us there were two silver chalices, 
one of 23 ounces the other of 14 ounces, altar clothes of yellow and 
blue; copes of blue velvet, blue silk and green silk, chasubles 
of white satin, red velvet, blue silk, red silk and black; crosses, 
candlesticks, censers, etc., of latten, a ‘‘paire of organes,”’ four 
great bells of brass in the steeple, and many other items. The 
inventory for Lee is equally full. Edward VI died on 6th July, 
1553, and in Queen Mary’s reign the old order was reverted to, 
when no doubt such of these vestments as remained came again 
into use, dying out gradually in Elizabeth’s time, although they 
probably lingered as long as Mr. Glynn was vicar. He died in 
1568, and in his will he gave little bequests to a very large number 
of his poorer parishioners, and left £100 to found a grammar 
school. His executors were David Morgan, a city merchant, and 
Mr. William Roper, of Wellhall, Eltham, whose wife was 
Margaret, the daughter of Sir Thomas More, and who was 
regarded as a ‘‘popish recusant.” 
It is in his bequest for a school that Mr. Glynn claims our 
interest. It laid the foundation of what we now called ‘‘Secondary 
Education” in Lewisham. WHis successor in the vicarage was 
Mr. John Bungay, a nephew of Archbishop Parker, by whose 
means a charter was obtained from Queen Elizabeth in 1574 for 
founding a Free Grammar School, which, refounded some seventy 
years later by the Rev. Abraham Colfe, has proved of incalculable 
benefit to many generations of Lewisham’s youth. 
Of Lewisham during the reign of Queen Elizabeth we have 
but little details. The manor belonged to the Crown, but was 
leased to Sir Francis Knolles as before related. The great Queen 
came frequently to Greenwich, and on May Day, 1602, went 
a-inaying to Sir Richard Bulkley’s at Lewisham. This may have 
been the occasion when she lunched under the shade of the oak on 
