LON 
was afterwards confirmed by the earl-marfbal; and thefe 
apartments have been ever fince annexed to the refpedive 
offices. The iniides of the apartments were finifbed at dif¬ 
ferent times by the officers to whom they belonged.—The 
j n fide front of this building is ornamented with ruftic, 
on which are placed four Ionic pilafters that fupport an 
angular pediment. The fides, which are conformable to 
this, have arched pediments, which are alfo fupported by 
Ionic pilafters. Within is a large room for keeping the 
Court of Honour; as alfo a library, with houfes and apart¬ 
ments for the king’s heralds and purfuivants. 
This corporation confilts of thirteen members, viz. three 
kings of arms; fix heralds of arms ; and four purfuivants 
ef arms. They are nominated by the earl-marfhal of Eng¬ 
land, as minilters fubordinate to him in the execution of 
their offices, and hold their places by patent. Their 
meetings are termed chapters , which they hold once a- 
month, or oftener if necefiary, wherein all matters are 
determined by a majority of voices of the kings and he¬ 
ralds, each king having two voices. Thefe officers, befides 
the apartments annexed to their refpedive offices, have alfo 
a public hall, in which the earl-marfhal occafionally held 
courts of chivalry. See Court of Chivalry, vol. v. p. 
_Their library contains a large and valuable collec¬ 
tion of original records of the pedigrees and arms of fa¬ 
milies, funeral certificates of the nobility and gentry, public 
ceremonials, and other branches of heraldry and antiqui¬ 
ties. See farther Heralds’ College and Heraldry, 
vol. ix. and Knighthood, vol. xi. 
Oppofite to the Heralds’ College is a fmall court con¬ 
taining feveral houfes, over the entrance of which is a 
bold alto-relievo reprefenting St. George flaying the Dra¬ 
gon. It appears by the date, that this little monument of 
gratitude towards fome of the kings of arms and heralds, 
who probably had contributed to the building of thefe 
houfes, was erefted (bon after the fire of London. We 
have given a reprefentation of this on Plate VII b. Time 
has grazed it with his feythe ; but has not fo defaced 
it as to diveft it entirely of its charaderiftic f'pirit. 
Beino- on the narrowelt fpot of the hill, it has been very 
litt!e°noticed, and is confequently very little known ; 
fo that our bringing it into notice ferves nearly the 
fame purpofe as if we had raifed it from under ground. 
We were not able, after clofe enquiries, to find out 
the names the initials of which are placed at the top: 
they might have been thofe of the publican and his 
wife who kept a public-houfe near the place, under 
the name of the George, and which was probably 1 'uper- 
leded by the fign of the Ship, now there. 
At the bottom of the hill, and the f'outh-weft corner, 
on the north fide of Thames-ftreet, ftands the parifh- 
duirch of St. Bennet, Paul’s Wharf; fo called from its 
dedication to St. Benedift, and its vicinity to the wharf. 
It is of very ancient foundation, and appears in the regif- 
ter of Diceto, dean of St. Paul’s, under the year 1181. 
The old church being deftroyed by the fire in 1666, the 
prefent one was erefted in its (lead, fr.cm a defign of fir 
Chriftopher Wren. It is a very neat brick ftrufiure, or- 
namented with (tone; and the body is well proportioned. 
The tower, which is alfo of brick, with ruftic-work in ftone, 
at the corners, is furmounted by a dome, from whence 
rife a turret and a fmall fpire. It is a reftory, the patro¬ 
nage of which appears to have been always in the dean 
and chapter of St. Paul’s.—The old church, as deferibed 
bv Stow, contained feveral neat monuments, and particu¬ 
larly thofe of Dr. Shadwell, phyfician ; fir Gilbert De- 
thicke, garter principal king of arms; David Smyth, em¬ 
broiderer to queen Elizabeth. Another embroiderer to 
the fame queen was buried there, John Par, who died 
1607, aged 72. Perhaps in memory of his benefadfions to 
the church has the public houfe in Little Kniglurider- 
ftreet been kept to this day under the name of Par’s Head ; 
though the name is more apt to remind one of the fa¬ 
mous"old Parr.—In the prefent church, we have obferved 
the tomb, among others, of John Charles Brooke, York 
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herald, F.S.A. who was unfortunately crufhed to death 
at the little theatre in the Haymarket on the 3d of Fe¬ 
bruary, 1794.. See p. 125, 6. The Latin epitaph, written 
by one ot his brother heralds, is elegant and clallical. 
After thd fire, the pari fit of St. Peter, Paul’s Wharf, the 
church of which wets not rebuilt, was annexed to this pa- 
rifh. This is alfo a rectory, in the gift of the dean and 
chapter of St. Paul’s, and of equal antiquity with St. Ben- 
net’s, being found in the fame regiiter; but was anciently 
denominated St. Peter's Parva, from the fmallnefs of its 
dimenfions. Part of this parifh is in Caftle-Baynard ward, 
and part in that of (.-Jueenhitbe. 
Lower down, and clofe upon the bank of the Thames, 
was once the callle called by the name of its founder, 
Baynard, a foldier of fortune, it is laid, who came over 
with William the Conqueror. He received many tnarks 
of favour, and obtained from him the barony of Little 
Dunmow; which, being forfeited to the crown, in the 
year mi, by the felonious praftices of William Baynard, 
was given by Henry I. to Gilbert earl of Clare, and his 
heirs, together with the honours of Baynard’s Caftle. 
From him it defeended in the female line to Robert Fitz- 
walter, who was caftellan and banner-bearer of London, 
in the year 1213 ; about which time there arofe a great 
contention between king John and his barons, on account 
of Matilda, called The Fair, a daughter of the faid Ro¬ 
bert Fitzwalter, whom the king unlawfully loved, but 
could not obtain ; for which, and other caufes of the like 
fort, a war enfued throughout the realm. The barons, 
being received into London, did great damage to the king 5 
but in the end the king was fuccefsful, and not only ba- 
nifhed Fitzwalter, among others, out of the kingdom, but 
likewife caufed Baynard’s Caftle, and two other houfes 
belonging to him, to be demolifhed. King John being in 
France in the year 1214, with a great army, a truce w'as 
made between the two kings for rive years. There being 
a river or arm of the fea between the two armies, a knight 
among the Engliffi called out to thofe on the other fide 
to challenge any one among them to come and take a juft: 
or two with him : whereupon, without any delay, Robert 
Fitzwalter, who was on the French fide, ferried over, and 
got on 'horfeback, without any one to help him, and 
(bowed himfelf ready to face this challenger; and at the 
firft courfe (truck him fo violently with his great fpear, 
that both man and horfe fell to the ground; and, when 
his fpear was broken, he went back again to the king of 
Fiance. King John, feeing this, cried out, “ By God’s 
tooth (his ufual oath), he were a king indeed who had 
fuch a knight.” The friends of Robert, hearing thefe 
words, kneeled down, and faid, “ O king, he is your 
knight ; it is Robert Fitzwalter.” Whereupon he was 
fent for the next day, and reftored to the king’s favour ; 
after which a peace was concluded, and Fitzwalter was re¬ 
ftored to his eftates, and had permiftion to repair his caf¬ 
tle of Baynard. 
This Robert died, and was buried at Dunmow, in the 
year 1234; and was fucceeded by his fon Walter. After 
his deceafe, the barony of Baynard was in the wardfhip 
of king Henry, during the minority of another Robert 
Fitzwalter, who, in the year 1303, laid claim to his rights 
before John Blount or Blounden, the then mayor, in'the 
following terms. “ The faid Robert and his heirs ought 
to be, and are, chief bannerers of London, in fee, for the 
caltellary which he and his ancelfors had, by Caftle Bay¬ 
nard in the faid city. In time of'war, the faid Robert 
and his heirs ought to ferve the city in manner as fol- 
loweth •. that is, The faid Robert ought to come, he be¬ 
ing the twentieth man of arms, on horfeback, covered 
with cloth or armour, unto the great weft door of St. 
Paul’s, with his banner difpiayed before him of his arms. 
And, when he is fo come to the faid door, mounted'and 
apparelled as before is faid, the mayor, with his aldermen 
and tlieriffs, armed in their arms, (hall come out of the 
faid church of St. Paul unto the faid door, with a banner 
in his hand, all on toot; which banner ihali be Gules, 
