1808.) 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
VAXUE method of sweeping chimueys 
by the use of machines, which you 
have several times noticed, is likely to 
become more general, L have reason 
to imagine, than it has yet beeu; se- 
veral circumstances having occurred 
to favor it. One which L consider of 
importance is, that Mr, Smart, the in- 
ventor of a machine, has lately been em- 
ployed by the Prince of Wales to sweep 
with it the chuuneys of Carlton House, 
several of which his men have lately 
done, and have given great satisfaction, 
as to quautity of soot brought down, and 
cleanliness to the rooms. Another ci- 
cumstance which may be menuoned 1s 
the death of a poor boy, who was killed 
by the cold, on the 12th of last month, 
the morning the great quantity of snow 
teil. Ele had, as is stated, been sent from 
Lambeth, at three o’clock in the morn- 
ing, to Norwood, and im coming back, 
from fatigue and cold, could proceed no 
farther than Dulwich-hane: he was taken 
into, the Half Moun, near that place, 
where he died. 
Dulwich, You's, &c. 
March 11,1808. A Constant Reaper. 
Kor the Monthly Magazine. 
LONDINIANA., 
Waolcnl 
HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY ROUNCEVAL. 
I OUNCEVAL, says Peacham, (in 
’ his “* Compleat Gentleman,” ch. 
10.) was the name of a town in Spain, 
at the toot of the Pyrenean Mountains, 
where Rowland, nephew to Charlemagne, 
was slain ina battle against the Saracens. 
“The place, to this day, is ‘called Row- 
land’s Vallie, and was in times past a 
great pilgrimage; there bemg a chappel 
built over the tomb, and dedicated to 
our lady, called commonly, but corruptly, 
Our Lady of Renceval.” 
‘The hospital, however, of this name by 
Charing Cross, received its appellation 
more immediately trom the alien Priory 
of Rouncevall, or de Rosida Valle, in the 
diocese of Pampelon in Navarre, to 
which, among other estates, several te- 
nements, In the upper part of the Strand 
had been given in the time of Henry the 
Third, by Williarn Marshall Earl of Pem- 
broke. The English hospital is said, by 
Leland, in his “ Collectanea,” to have 
been suppressed among the Alien Prio- 
rigs in the reign of Henry the Fifth; but 
jt was restored either by Henry the Sixth, 
or Edward the Fourth, for a fraternity. 
Among the parish accompts of St, Mar- 
! 
Sweeping Chimnies.—Londinana, No. XJ. 
207 
garet, Westminster, 1494, is an entry of 
4s, received of :be brotherlwod of ‘ Ryn- 
syvale,” “ tor the plow-yere;” and auo- 
ther entry of 11s. under the year 1517. 
(See Tann. Not. Mon. Lel. Coll. vol. 1. 
p. 113; Stow’s Survey, Bui. p. 124, vi. 
p.4. Mon. Angl, vol. u. p. 443. Newe 
Rep. i, p. 693.) 
ST. MARY ABCHURCH. 
The present structure of St. Mary 
Abchurch, appears to have been erected 
in 1686. ‘The imterior was painted by 
Isaac Fuller, one of whose best works, 
the altar cloth at Wadham College, Ox- 
iord, is mentioned by Lord Orford. Ir is 
just brushed over for the lights and shades, 
and the colours melted in with a hot 
Iron, . 
In early times, the advowson appears 
to have belonged to the Priory of St. 
Mary Overy, in Southwark, whence it 
passed by exclrange for other property, 
in. 1455, to the College of St. Laurence 
Powntney, to which it was appropriated, 
about the 26th year of Henry the Sixth, 
(See Harl. MS. 744. f.629.) After the 
suppression of religious houses, it became 
vested in the crown, and continued so 
ull Archbishop Parker obtained the per- 
petuity of it for Benet College, Cam- 
bridge, 
Among the rolls belonging to the Har- 
leian Library of Manuscripts in the Bri- 
tish Museum, 18 one which contains a 
variety of evidences between the 49th 
year of Edward the Third, and the 19th 
of Richard the Second, relating to two 
tenements which afterwards formed the 
principal support of a chantry founded 
here, at the altar of the Holy Trinity, 
by Simon de Winchecombe, for two 
priests. By his will it was endowed not 
only with 121. a year issuing out of the 
two tenements here-mentioned in Can- 
dlewick-street, but with 81. issuing frona 
a tenement elsewhere. Stow mentions 
two other founders of a chantry here: 
viz. John Littleton and Thomas Hondon: 
probably about 1430. ‘The chapel of 
this chantry was dedicated to St. Mary. 
After the fire of London, the parishes 
of St. Laurence Pountney and St. Mary 
Abchurch were united, 
GRUB-STREET, 
The fletchers, bowyers, bowstring ma- 
kers, and of every thing relating to ar- 
chery, inhabited in old times Grub 
street, the last street, in this part of the 
town, in being about the time of Aggas’s - 
Map of London; all beyond, as tar as 
Bishopsgate Without, were gardens, 
fields, or morass. (Pennant, p, 262.) 
Grub-street, however, had been very long 
built 
