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whereby the clergy were defrauded of their juft demands, 
which occafioned repeated applications to parliament, and 
to the king and council; but no effectual 'redrefs was ob¬ 
tained until after the fire of London. By this event, 
eighty-four of the ninety-feVen parifh-churches within 
the walls were deftroyed ; and, their number being greatly 
reduced by the uniting of feveral pariflies into one, in 
purfuance of the aft for rebuilding the city, it was found 
neceflary to make a more certain provifion for the incum¬ 
bents of the feveral livings; in confequence of which an 
aft was palfed in 1671, for providing a fixed annual re¬ 
venue for the maintenance of the parlons, vicars, and cu¬ 
rates, of the refpeftive fingle or united pariIhes, to be 
railed by an equal afle Ament. This aft remained in force 
until the year 1804, when, in confequence of a petition of 
the London clergy for an increafeof their annual ftipends, 
a new aft was palfed, by which they were fettled as follows : 
Allhallows, Lombard-ftreet 
St. Bartholomew, Exchange 
St. Bridget, or St. Bride’s - 
St. Bennet Finck - - 
St. Michael’s, Crooked-lane 
St. Dionis Back-church 
St. Dunftan in the Eaft 
St. James, Garlick-hithe 
St. Michael, Cornhill - 
St. Margaret Lothbury, and St. Chriftopher 
St. Michael, Baffifhaw 
St. Mary, Aldermanbury - - 
St. Martin, Ludgate - - - 
St. Peter’s, Cornhill - 
St. Stephen, Coleman-ftreet 
St. Sepulchre’s - - - 
Allhallows Bread-ftr. and St. John Evangelift 235 
Allhallows the Great, and Allhallows the Lefs 333 
St. Alban’s Wood-ftr. and St. Olave’s Silver-ftr. 283 
St. Anne, St. Agnes, and St. John Zachary 233 
St. Auguftine and St. Faith - - 286 
St. Andrew Wardrobe, and St. Anne Blackfriars 233 
St. Antholine, and St. John Baptift - 200 
St. Benet’s Gracechurch, and St. Leonard Eaft- 
cheap - - - 233 
St. Benet’s Paul’s wharf, and St. Peter’s Paul’s 
wharf - 200 
Chrift-church, and St. Leonard, Fofter-lane 233 
St. Edmund the King, and St. Nicholas Aeons 300 
St. George Botolph-lane, and St.Botolph Bil- 
lingfgate — 300 
St. Lawrence Jewry, and St. Mary Magdalen 
Milk-fireet - 200 
St. Magnus, and St. Margaret, New Fifh-ftreet 283 
St. Michael Royal, and St. Martin Vintry 233 
St. Matthew Friday-ftreet, and St.Peter Cheap 250 
St. Margaret Pattens,and St. Gabriel Fenchurch 200 
St. Mary at Hill, and St. Andrew Hubbard 333 
St. Mary Woolnoth, and St.Mary Woolchurch 266 
St. Clement Eaftcheap, and St. Martin Orgar 233 
St. Mary Abchurch, and St. Laurence Poultney 200 
St. Mary Aldermary, and St. Thomas Apoftle 250 
St. Mary le Bow, St. Pancras Soper-lane, and 
Allhallows Honey-lane - - 333 
St. Mildred Poultry, and St. Mary Cole-church 283 
St. Michael Wood-ftreet, and St. Mary Staining 200 
St. Mildred Bread-lt. and St. Margaret Mofes 216 
St. Michael Queenhithe, and Trinity 
St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fifh-ftreet, and St 
Gregory - 
St. Mary Somerfet, and St. Mary Mounthaw 
St. Nicholas Cole-abbey,and St. Nicholas Olave 
St. Olave Jewry, and St. Martin Ironmonger- 
lane - - - - 200 
St. Stephen Wallbrook,and St. Bennet Sherehog 200 
St. Swithin, and St. Mary Bothaw - 233 
St. Vedaft, alias Fofter’s, and St. Michael le 
Quern „ 266 
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Thefe annual fiipends are over and above glebes, gifts, 
bequefts, and furplice-fees ; and the vicar of St. Sepul¬ 
chre’s is entitled to one third part of the appropriate tytb.es, 
in refpecl of that part of the parifh which is within the 
county of Middlefex. 
We learn from Fabian’s Chronicle, that, in his time, the 
number of parifh-churches in London amounted to one 
hundred and thirteen, and that there were alfo twenty- 
feven houfes of religion, monafteries, colleges, and chapels, 
which were not parochial'. 
The firft inftance of prefixing the word Saint to the name 
of the parilh, occurred in the weekly bill of mortality 
from January 15th to January 22d, 1634; but this was 
thought fo great a profanation, that in 1642, in the mayor¬ 
alty of alderman Pennington, the title of Saint was or¬ 
dered to be expunged for the future; and fo it continued 
till the reftoration of Charles II. when it was again brought 
into ufe.—The origin of the weekly bills of mortality is 
involved in great obfeurity. In a work entitled “ Reflec¬ 
tions on the Weekly Bills of Mortality,” publifhed in 
1665, it is faid that the keeping of them began in the year 
1592, being a great year of ficknefs; and, after forrie dilufe, 
was eflablifhed by order in the year 1603, the next year 
of ficknefs ; the firlt of the continued weekly bills of mor¬ 
tality commencing Oftober 29th, in the fame year be¬ 
ing the firft year of the reign of James I. Difeafes began 
firft to be diilinftly taken notice of in the year 1629. On 
this fubjeft, however, Strype fays, “ I meet with an older 
bill of mortality, viz. for the year 1562, and ending 1563, 
when a plague raged in the city.” The account whereof 
was as follows : 
Buried in London, and the places near adjoining, 
from the ift of January, 1563, to the lit of Ja¬ 
nuary, 15:63, in the whole number - - 2363a 
Whereof of the plague - 20136 
Here is fet down likewife, how many died in each pariih. 
This bill of mortality might be the firft of this kind ; at 
leaft it is much older than that mentioned by Capt. Grant, 
viz. 1592, 1593, which he feems to hold to be the oldeft. 
Of the LIVERY COMPANIES of the CITY of 
LONDON. 
Although the word livery is indifputably derived from 
the latin liber (anciently pronounced liver), “free,” yet 
the liverymen of London are a body diftinft from the 
freemen at large; and, befides the advantages they gain in 
their refpeftive companies, are invefted with the foie pri¬ 
vilege of elefting the magiftrates of the city, and its repre- 
fentatives to parliament. This privilege appears to have 
been obtained about the fifteenth year of the reign of 
Edward IV. when the matter, wardens, and liveries, of 
the feveral companies were taken in to alii ft at the eleftion 
of mayor, flieriffs, See. and has continued uninterrupted 
ever fince. They are all members of fome one of the city- 
companies, each of which is a corporation within itfelf, 
poffefled of the power of holding courts called hall-motes, 
for regulating the concerns of the company. 
Thefe companies were anciently called guilds ; a term 
which, in its earlieft ufe, was only applied in a fecular 
fenle to the body or community of a city or town; for 
there were alfo ecclefiaftical guilds. Afterwards we find 
the aggregate body of the merchants or traders of a city 
or town, called by the name of Gilda Mercatoria ; and the 
head officer thereof was ufually called alderman of the mer¬ 
chant’s guild, rvhofe office feems to have been fimilar to 
that of the Dean of Guild in the royal boroughs of Scot¬ 
land at the prefent day. In procefs of time, as trading 
towns increafed in number of inhabitants, the retailers and 
artifans in great towns obtained charters for incorporating 
their refpeftive callings; i. e. for engroffing and monopo¬ 
lizing all the bufinefs of their town, to the exclufion of 
non-freemen: they alfo obtained the names of guild, fra¬ 
ternity, and corporation. We find the laft-named kind 
of guilds in London pretty foon after the Norman con- 
quett: Mr, Madox, in liis Firma Burgi, takes notice of 
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