96 LONDON PARKS © GARDENS 
Decay of worldly Goods as by Sekenes or Hurt by the 
Warrys, or upon Land or See, or by any other means.” 
Those belonging to the Fraternity who had paid the full 
sum due, namely ios. 4d., in “ money, plate, or any other 
honest stufe,” were entitled to fourteen pence a week, 
house-room and bedding, “and a woman to wash his 
clothes and to dresse his mete; and so to continue Yere 
by Yere and Weke by Weke durynge his Lyfe,” like a 
modern benefit society. The fine old church contained 
many monuments, some of which were transferred to the 
new church when the removal took place. Among them 
the effigy of John Holland, Duke of Exeter, and one of 
his wives, dating from 1447, reposes under a fine canopy. 
The stalls and pulpit of the sixteenth century were also 
brought to the new building. Thus shorn of all its 
associations and all its beauty, the foundation remains, 
like a flower ruthlessly transplanted too late to take root 
and regain its former charm. 
The Master’s house makes a most delightful residence, 
and has always been let. Mr. Marley, the present tenant, 
who has filled the house with works of art, has made a 
very charming garden also, more like an Italian than an 
English villa garden, as the view reproduced in this 
volume testifies. 
Three Societies occupy pieces of ground within the 
Park. The most ancient and least well known is the 
Toxophilite. Archery has for many hundred years been 
practised by the citizens of London. The ground chosen 
for shooting was chiefly near Islington, Hoxton, and 
Shoreditch. To encourage the use of bows and arrows 
Henry VIII. ordered Sir Christopher Morris, Master of 
Ordnance, to form the “ Fraternitye or Guylde of Saint 
George” about 1537, and these archers used to shoot in 
