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Londiniana. 



[Jan. 1, 



ST. avgus'tine's in the wall. 

 Among the churches of London that 

 arf no lonpe: known, was that of St. An- 

 guftine in the Wa.!. It ftaod juft within 

 Bifhopgate, in C .momile-ftreet, and was 

 deftroyed ift t>.e great fire of x666. In 

 14.30 the church and church-yard, with 

 the conlVnt of the Hrily Trinity Priory, 

 by Aldgate, who had been the patrons, 

 Vrere granted m the Brethren ofthePapey, 

 whole fraiernity h^d been jult founded by 

 William Clcve, Willian) Barnaby, and 

 John Stafford, chantry-priells in London. 

 The reSfory of St. Aullin's. it appears, 

 had becf me fo poor .0 f pport a prieft, 

 and had juft been united to the pari(h of 

 Allhallows in tht Wall. Papi'y appears 

 to have been a w rd I'yncninious with 

 piiefthood ; and the foundation was prin 

 cip.illy for the aiil and inauitenance of poor 

 priefts. It Lonlilfeii of a malter, waidens, 

 chaplains, chantry-pricfts, condii6fs, and 

 other breihrer and lil'trs ; and appears ti> 

 have been conHiiuted in hinoiir of Holy 

 Charity and St. John the Evangeliif. The 

 priefts being [inlicd in thurch-offices, were 

 Irequent'y ctlled upon to attend at fonip- 

 tooiis funerals, and had occafional lega- 

 cies bequeathed them to ^ riy for tht- iiiils 

 of the departed. Among the MSS. in the 

 Cottorr Library, now in t!ie Muleum, is 

 one (Vittll. F. xwi. 2, 3) which confairs 

 the deeds relating to the foundation, w\]\ 

 the rtatutcs, anil t lin of the rnaifers from 

 544.1 to 1548, wiieii, in the lecond vearof 

 Edward VI., it was. diffjlved. The 'cw 

 cxtraits made from this !ei;il'er in Stoi\e 

 are particularly valuable, as the manu- 

 I'cript was fodimsoed in the fireof 173Z, 

 that the vreater part of it is unintel- 

 ligible. I1 iS'^g, only nine years prrvions 

 to their dilTolu'ion, the piielfs obtained 

 leave to fell the burv liig.p;rcurid alj'oining 

 to their church for tlie lum of 2I. 135.6.-1., 

 to 'hr' paiilli oi St. Martin Outwich (Par. 

 Accoinpt ). 



C.'iMOMILE STREET. 



The hoi'oiial of p.or pricits in the loft 

 parilh of St. AuguHine Pspey, has been 

 alre«ly mentionci ; but near sij'oinirg to 

 it, en 'h>- lou'h llde of Camomile Ihei t, 

 (lo"d the houfe belonging to t le old inhe 

 tance of the De Veres, Eailsof OxJoro — 

 (St. Uugo. B<ir i 19s)- iio long .:ick 

 as ^.03 the lali will ot Agnes Laily Bar- 

 dolt- w as dated I'om ir ; and in 1417 we 

 f5n i R'chard de Vere its refident ownei — 

 (Store's S'.MV,, eri. 17^5. i. 419). In 

 1527, on 'he (leaih of John E;ni or Ox- 

 loti' wi'h ut iflue, the iintntiiiLd portion 

 ot the tai.nily-pr perty became vetted in 

 h.it :liree iiivers , one ot whom, Elizabeth, 



being married to Sir Anthony Wingfield, 

 carried the property of this hotife into an- 

 other family. Sir Robert, the immediate 

 luccofTor of Sir Anthony Wingfifld, fold 

 it to Mr. Edward Coke, at fat nme 

 Queen Elizabeth's attorney-general, but 

 who was afterguards better knoA-n as lord- 

 chief-juttice. Coke feems to have been 

 the laft owner of confeqnence. In fliort, 

 the honle became ruinated, was let out 

 for meaner purpofes, and about 1720 

 gave way to a lov of fmaller tenements. 



This however was not the only houfe 

 which the De Veres appear to have inha- 

 bited in London. Alberic de Vere, the 

 Conqueror's comp^inion, in 1066, gave his 

 houfe in Welfminfter-ftrret to the monks 

 of Abingdon— (Diird. Bar., i., i«8) ; 

 and Henry VII., in 1+85, gave to John 

 de Vere, Earl of Oxford, a h ule called 

 the Herber, in the par'fli of St. Mary 

 Both we, in ths w id of Dowgate, which 

 had been part of the pofTelVioris of the un- 

 happy Clarence — (Ibid., i., 198). 



ON THE USE OF SEA-COAL IN LONDON 

 FIRES. 



Among the defiderata of antiquarian 

 refeaich we have yet to notice many of 

 thofe minute deails by which alone the 

 fami i:u- lives and domedic econoniy of our 

 aiiccllors are laid open. 



1 he ufe of fe? coal, though a matter of 

 no vaff importance in regsrd to its hif- 

 tory, undouWtelly dsfeivcs notice in a 

 paoer like thi<. The compliints of its 

 nnheslrty trndtncy, it will be found, have 

 been made in almoft every jeri-id fince iis 

 in-roc'uflion ; and though in thel'e days a 

 fiiffijlent liili'Mrutc coi'lJ not eafily he 

 found, i;s ptin.nous effluvia might not 

 be an ohjcfi tof.lly ui. worthy the confide- 

 ra'ion ot medical men. 



Mr. Peonant, in whofe works we fre- 

 quently lee a (hong predileiVion for Welfh 

 antiquities, aflcrts, " That coals were 

 known to the Britons before the arriv.il of 

 the Roioans, wlui had not ev^n a name for 

 the >i : tet Thco|ihrafcus defcrlbes them 

 vtiy accuiUely at leaft thrte centuries be- 

 fore ;he time of C«lar, and even fiys 

 that thev we;e ulrn by workers in hrai",. 

 It is highy probaiile that the Britons 

 made u'c of them. It is certain they had 

 a primiiiv'e name for this toflii, that of 

 glo : .ind fS a farther proof I may add, 

 that a flint-axe, the inftrunient of tie ab- 

 origines o; our ifland, was difcovered 

 iinck in cer.aiii veins of coal, expofed to- 

 d V in Craig-y-Pyer in Monmoulhfhire." 

 — (Tour in Wales, Lond., 1778, 4to, 

 p. 16.) 



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