1807.] : 
For the Monthly Maxazine. 
LONDINIANA. 
No, X. 
ST. MARY MATFELON, OR WHITECHAPEL. 
MONG the certificates returned by 
the rectors aud wardens of various 
London churches to the lerd treasnrer’s 
remembrancer of the Exchequer, in the 
second year of Edward VL., it is particu- 
larly stated that, by covenant with the ab- 
bot and convent of St. Osithe in Essex, 
the vicar or parson of Whitechapel was 
to recominend the said abbot and con- 
vent, every Sunday, from the pulpit to 
the prayers of the parishioners, as espécial 
benefactors to the ehurch. 
NOBLE STREET. 
Tn Noble-street, by Aldersgate, stood 
Shelley House, built by Sir Thomas Shel- 
ley, in the first of Henry IV. Sir Nicho- 
Jas Bacon rebuilt it in the time of Queen 
Elizabeth, when it was called Bacon 
House. (See Pennant p. 251.) 
ST. JOHN ZACHARY. 
A. D. 1441, Wilham Bingham, rector 
of St. Jolin Zachary, trom tie paucity of 
graimmarians in that age, founded a little 
hostel contiguous to King Henry the 
Sixth’s College, at Cambridue, to be go- 
verned by a proctor aud twenty-five 
scholars, all to be men studying the 
refiuements of grammar; but, ‘the year 
after, Bingham surrendered up his hostel 
to the king, who united i¢ to his college 
of St. Nicholas , enlarging them both, and 
presenting thereto the church of St. John 
Zachary, (then belonging to Trimty-hall), 
m lieu whereof Hee gave to Trinity -hail 
the patrovage of St. Edward’s, in’ Cafn- 
bridge: founding one fair college, for a 
provost, seventy fellows, three chaplains, 
six clerks, sixteen choristers, and a mas- 
ter, sixteen oilicers of the foundation, 
twelve servitors for the senior fellows, and 
six poor scholars: in all, ene hundred 
and turty. 
FENCHURCH STREET. 
Hearn copied the following anecdote 
from a paper in the hand-writing of Dr. 
Richard Rawlinson. 
“ Of Danie! Rawlinson, my grand fa- 
ther, who kept the Mitre Tavern, in Fen- 
church-street, and of whose being seques= 
tered in the Rump-time, I have heard 
much, the Whigs tell this, that upon the 
Kine’s murder he hung his sign in mourn- 
ing. He certainly judged ‘right. The 
honour of the Mitre was murh’ eclipsed 
through the loss of so good a parent of 
the church of England. Those rogues 
say, this endeared “him so much to the 
r 
’ 
‘Wail, wreched Sy:non.” 
Londiniana.— No. X. 149 
church-men that he soon throve amair 
and got a good estate.” 
QUEEN STREET, CHEAPSIDE. 
Here lived Mr. Edward Hidder, the fa- 
mous pastry-cook, who died April 1739, 
aged 73. He is said to have taught neax 
Six thousand ladics the art of pastry; for 
which purpose be had two schools, one in 
Queen-street, near St. Thomas Apostle’s 
the other near Furmival’s-inn, Holborn, 
His head is prefixed to his receipts. 
HERMITS, 
That Hermits existed even within the 
limits of the metropolis in antient times, 
is an undisputed fact. Among the pa- 
teut rolls of the forty-seventh year of 
Henry the Third, it is particularly stated 
that when the Bishep of Landatf made 
visits to London, he lodged within the 
precincts of the Hermit’s residence at 
Charing, The Hermitage was dedicated 
to St. Katharine. 
Ti 1298, according to one of the ingui- 
sitiones post mortem, toe Prior. of St. 
Mary Bethlehem heid the advowson of 
the Hermitage at Cripplegate, which ap- 
pears to have continued til within a 
short time of the dissolution of religious 
houses; for Ames, in his Typographical 
Antiquities, nae three times, In 1514, 
1517, and 1532, ‘The Fruit of Redemp- 
tion, compyled _ the Anker of “London 
The Hermit 
of Highgate will be hereafter mentioned, 
it was however resolved by parliament, 
so early as the reign of Edward the 
Third, that the persons of old times call- 
ig bhewmenlves ilermits, were no other 
than vagrants and beggars. 
In an oid list of the chapels, churches, 
and monasteries in London, the follow 
lng hermitages are enumerated : 
“ A anker*, a priest, in the chapell of 
St. Osmond, by Allhalowyn, in London 
W: alle. 
4 A ankres, in a chapell, and a house of 
Seynte Botolfe, by St. Botolfis churche, 
without Byshopisgate. 
“ A ankres in a chapell, and a house of 
St. Clement, by Seynt Clementis church, 
without Tempil Barre.” 
ALLHALLOW&, LONDON WALL. 
The old church of Althallows was en- 
graved by Toms, in 1786. The upper 
part of the tower was of wood, and the 
body of the church of stone. Ata very 
ancient period the rectory was in the wife 
of the prior and convent of the Lfoly 
Trinity; but at the dissolution of relt- 
ee OI OL 
* An aacherite, 
gious 
