Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, in the City of London; and of its associated charities and institutions ... Compiled and selected by the Master of the Company for the year 1873-4 (C. M. Clode), etc

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Jyyryn/A<A/jyy yMe ca, M^J^AmJMM^nA) a/ .. y/Ai^y^^y/y is z?yA/>^eAy 0.C Sty, MEMORIALS OF THE fclLD 0Fi'1|eRCHMP$'aYL0RS OF THE Fraternity or St. John the Baptist, IN THE » AND OF ITS JSUsariaterf Ctoftritit* IfflMvAiw* " Certainly the great multiplication of virtues upon human nature resteth upon Societies well ordained and disciplined." — Lord Bacon. COMPILED AND SELECTED By the Master of the Company for the Year 1873-4. [Bting tjjt 574ti) 3fsts»trr in Sncctssion.] LONDON : HARRISON AND SONS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, printers in ©rbinaro lor $« itajestu. 1875- [PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.] Co tljt "LOVING BROTHERS OF THE MYSTERIE OF THE Guild of Merchant Taylors OF THE dfrattrmtg of £t. $o!)n tfjr Eaptfet, IN THE CITY OF LONDO N," WHOSE CORPORATE FUNDS HAVE FOR THREE CENTURIES MAINTAINED A SCHOOL "IN THE HONOUR OF CHRIST JESU, FOR BRINGING UP OF CHILDREN IN GOOD MANNERS AND LITERATURE," THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED (WITH SINCERE REGARD) BY CHARLES MATHEW CLODE, ifflasUr.

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Preface

. I AM anxious, in a few sentences, to explain the circum stances under which these Memorials have been printed for the use of the Fraternity. The expediency of collecting into one volume all the in formation which in several volumes had, from time to time, been laid before Parliament, often suggested itself to me, and upon my accession to the Mastership of the Company, the Court of Assistants very readily sanctioned an expenditure, and gave authority for such a work. During the investigation incident to its execution, I had frequent occasion to examine into the old Records of the Fraternity, and in doing so I came to the conclusion that some of these would, if printed, be a valuable contribution to civic if not to general history. Hence, therefore, I selected such as would in my judgment be read with interest by the Members of the Company.

These alone did not, however, appear to be all that was needed to make the work complete. It was essential that many facts, to be gleaned from other sources of information, should be compiled or brought together under such headings as I have adopted in these pages. Accordingly, I devoted such leisure as was available to me in prosecuting this under taking, of which the present volume is the result. It has been a self-imposed labour, which was entered upon without any anticipation that the materials would be so abundant as they have proved to be ; and if in the progress of the work I have felt regret, it has arisen from the wish that an Author rather than an Editor had engaged himself in the task, and that his knowledge had enabled him to blend the History of Guilds with that of the City, in which they have occupied so conspicuous a part for many centuries.

Preface. VI The Government of London, under its Chief Magistrate, was developed in a two-fold aspect,— territorial in regard to commorancy and personal in regard to art or employment. The first was the Ward, presided over by the Alderman, the other the Guild, presided over by the Master. Each of these subordinate authorities owed his allegiance to the Chief Magistrate; they were members of a larger corporation of which he was the Head, and the latter swore before him to govern " the art or mysterie " for his year of office according " to the rules and ordinances approved here," l — that is in the supreme Civic Court. As, therefore, every citizen, as a security to society, had to enter into frank-pledge for his good behaviour as a resident, so had he to enter a Guild for his honesty and competency as a trader or craftsman.

The ambition of these Guilds, aided by the wise policy of the Crown to increase its own influence over the citizens, led in time to their incorporation under Royal Charter. Yet, in these instances, it will be noticed that care was taken not to destroy the authority of the Lord Mayor, but in subordination to the higher sanction of the Crown to preserve his controlling power, by giving him a veto upon the rules and ordinances made and upon the judgments pronounced by the Master for the government of the Mysterie. Starting with the impetus of a defined constitutional existence the City Guilds gradually increased both in nuniber and in importance. Each member thereof individually, though it may be imperceptibly, realised the truth of Lord Bacon's aphorism, " that if the force of custom, simple and separate, be great, the force of custom, copulate and conjoined, is far greater, for there example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory raiseth" ; so that in these associa tions, and by then: influence, the industrious and honest crafts man passed through the gradations of employer, trader, merchant, Sheriff and Lord Mayor, until these Guilds, as seed plots for lame, reared men like "Whittington and Gresham, who, by their commercial adventure throughout the world, spread the renown of London and upheld the character of its citizens for integrity and benevolence. 1 " Liber Albus," pp. 425 and 451.

Preface. VII But these were results slowly attained, and the Guild is to be traced through many stages of development. Taking our own as an illustration of others, we may notice that it came into existence adopting as its emblem the highest type of humanity, " St. John the Baptist." No text or precept of divine truth is to be found anywhere scattered throughout its records, but this great ideal was ever before the Guild, for the incidents of the Prophet's life and death were pictured on the surrounding walls of thenplace of assembly, and were woven upon their vestments and burial clothes. Adopting Religion therefore as the basis of Union, the Guild was constituted upon the principle of a common sympathy between capital and labour, between the master and the artificer, for while the Master and Wardens, as repre sentative men, governed the Craft or Mysterie, they exercised thenauthority under the solemn sanction of an oath to act " without favour or partiality " to either of the litigants before them, the capitalist on the one side and the work man on the other.

The Court so constituted was one of con ciliation, and in that aspect supplied a want which a later civilization has hitherto sought for in vain. It was not, however, only in regard to the prosperity of its Members that the Guild supplied an existing want. At that, as at other times, men fell into decay or adversity. Against this evil, when no Poor Law existed, a Provident fund or Benefit society was established, supported by the stipulated contributions of all the members paid into the Common Box, or Treasury, of the Fraternity. No doubt it was a taxation of the rich for the benefit of the poor, but it savoured of benevolence when the more prosperous men of the Craft provided alms houses when alive, and left a larger provision at death, for their poorer Brethren than their own quarterly payments could supply.

As to the discipline of the Guild, in those days the best security for good conduct was deemed to be attendance at the pubhc services of the Church. Hence, at the Cathedral of St. Paul, and at their own Chapel at the Hall, the members of the Fraternity were summoned to worship upon anniversary Preface. VIII occasions — as the day of their foundation, and on other days when death severed the connection of some Brother with the Guild, and they were attendant upon his funeral. If, indeed, sterner measures were needed to protect society from any dishonesty in the members of the Mysterie, the powers of fine and imprisonment — which the Court of the Master and Wardens possessed — were freely exercised against the offenders. No one guilty of such practices would be permitted to trade, for as no shop could be opened without license, none could be obtained unless others of the Mysterie vouched for his integrity.

By these methods trade was governed, and first becommg honest, in time it became honourable. Viewed in its social and political aspect, the Guild was, if possible, of higher importance. At the time when the Sovereign ruled from, and resided in, the Tower of London, — when the houses of the nobles were scattered on the banks of the Thames and in Avays or streets ofthe City — trade being a despised occupa tion — it was of no mean importance that a Taylor, then (though not now) an insignificant social atom, should, by association, be able to hail from such a place as Merchant Taylors' Hall, and if oppressed by noble or by stranger, invoke the aid of a Company which, soon after its establishment, had managed to enrol within its membership the Sovereign, and others of no mean rank in the kingdom.

Nor was this only a nominal advantage. In a City "where Civic Independence flings The gauntlet down to Senates, Courts and Kings," the custom of early times was to summon all the Members of the Guild, at least four times in each year, to a common banquet ; and though a distinction of rank and table no doubt was recognised, yet the fact remained that high and low, rich and poor, did assemble together, sharing not only the name but (in matters common to them) the sympathy of a Brotherhood. The growth of wealth and independence, fostered by these institutions, gave the middle class political importance. If the nobles could serve the crown in elective office with hereditary Preface. IX wealth, the citizens, by common contributions, raised their Civic Monarch and Sheriffs to something more than an equality of splendour.

The yearly pageant in which they were proclaimed the supreme Governors for the civic year, brought into prominence many a man who by honest industry had reached this supremacy, while the experience gained in municipal government qualified them, as their example stimulated others, to serve the public interests of their fellow citizens in the wider arena of Parliament. No doubt these Guilds have discharged their primary duty of protecting and fostering trade until trade no longer needs any such protection; but corporate as well as individual life has other purposes for its existence. As wealth increased, so did benevolence, and the founders of many Charities have selected as thenfuture Almoners the Master and Wardens of the Fraternity. For centuries these trusts which the piety of their predecessors so confided to them have been fulfilled, while out of other funds strictly applicable thereto a liberal hospitality has been exercised in the City, where social absenteeism would otherwise prevail.

In the case of our own Fraternity, neither these nor other obligations have been ignored. As early as the year 1513 the necessity for education was recognised and provided for at Wolverhampton by a distinguished Member of the Guild, while in later years, at Bedford and elsewhere, Schools, and at Oxford (Sh- Thomas White's and Lord Craven's) Scholarships, were founded by other Members. So again, after the Reforma tion had secularised the objects and increased the revenues of these Guilds, the men who then governed our affairs realised the noble purpose of establishing a School in the City, which opened wide its portals to those whose lot in life it was to toil within the walls. And that the present generation are not ivholly unmindful of the traditions of the past, or unwilling to develop into greater usefulness the heritage that has descended to them, is evidenced in some degree by the new School that is being reared at the Charterhouse, and shortly to be opened by an Illustrious Prince, a member of our Guild.

Preface. X Nor is it only in corporate action that the members of the Fraternity manifest benevolence, for in the present year "A loving Brother of the Mysterie " has given a sum of money, not inconsiderable in amount, to promote the spiritual welfare of the inmates of our Convalescent Home, while their material comforts are attended to by others of the Mysterie with a liberality of labour and sympathy which is its own reward. Such are some of the benefits arising from Trade Guilds, and surely in the retrospect of European history for the period of six centuries their position is unique. All that the Crown ever conceded to the members of our Fraternity was the right of free assembly for the purposes of self-government, the liberty to hold in an honest manner their feast of meat and drink on St. John Baptist's Day, and to acquire real estate ; and yet out of these elements what a fabric of social order have the citizens raised !

How few institutions are now existent as they originated, for — during the period under notice — have not Kingdoms been annihilated, Thrones destroyed, Dynasties changed, and the elements of Religious strife let loose in Europe ? And yet in each of these trials — so far as they have fallen upon England — the Fraternity of St. John Baptist has been found acting in dutiful allegiance to the rulers of Church and State. Surely no one can examine these Memorials and not be struck with the continuity of government and authority, which is wholly without a parallel in any other than the Civic Throne ; while no better evidence can be famished — unless the Corporation of London be such — that the citizens are averse to change, and cherish, with something akin to reverence, their early institutions. I have hi conclusion only to add that the assistance I have received from others has always been acknowledged in the text or in a footnote, and the reader will see that it has been considerable.

In the Appendix much valuable information will be found which has been contributed by Mr. Martin, of the Public Record Office, by Major Newsome, R.E., a Warden of the Company, aud by Mr. N. Stephens, for many years con nected with it. Preface. XI With his usual liberality, Mr. Gardner, on hearing of my undertaking, placed his valuable collection of prints and sketches connected with the City at my disposal, and some illustrations have been taken from it. The work has required, and received, great care in printing, and Mr. Bullock (of Messrs. Harrison's establishment), to whom it was entrusted, has spared neither labour nor time in securing accuracy. C. M. C. 47, Phillimore Gardens, Campden Hill, W. xm TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Names op the Master, Wardens, Court of Assistants, and Fraternity of Merchant Taylors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv MEMORIALS OP THE FRATERNITY : I. The Company . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . 1 n. The Yeoman or Batchelors' Company . . . . . . . . 22 in.

The HaU 29 iv. The Chapel at the Hall 42 V. The Church of St. Martin Outwich 46 VI. The Almshouses at the Hall 47 vn. The ReligiouB Privileges of the Merchant Taylors' Company, as recorded in the earlier Ordinance Book . . . . . . . . 49 viii. " The Common Box ". . .. .. .. .. .. .. 52 is. The Manuscript Account Books of the Company . . . . . . 58 x. The Accounts for the Year 1399-1400 65 xi. The Treasury Accounts (Beceipts and Payments), 1489 to 1503 . . 69 XII. Inventory of Jewellery and Plate in 1491 .... . . . . 82 xm. Inventory of the Effects of the Company in 1512 . . . . . . 84 xrv. Inventory of Plate and General Effects, taken in 1609 . . . . 92 xv. The Eirst Grant of Arms, L480 96 xvi. The Second Grant of Arms, 1586 98 xvn. Payments for Superstitious Uses made by the Company in 1547. . 100 xviii.

Precept to the Company, and their Certificate of Real and Personal Estate, 1566 109 xix. Serche made at the Vigil of St. Bartholomew . . . . . . 110 xx. The Mace and Yard of the Company . . . . . . . . 114 xxi. The Mayoralty of Sir Thomas Rowe, Citizen and Merchant Taylor, 1568 115 xxn. Ceremonies upon the Election of Master and Wardens, 1573 . . 120 xxiii. The Annual Festivals of the Company . . . . . . . . 123 xxrv. Menu for a Dinner in 1430 . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 xxv. The Bishop's Bible placed in the Hall, 1578 126 xxvr. Minutes of a Quarterly Court, and Form of Prayer J J J I in 1607 .. 130 xxvn. The Burial of a Deceased Brother, and Prayer, 1608 . . . . 131 xxvin. Precept to Provide a Watch, 1571 . . . . . . . . . . PAGE Memorials of the Fraternity — continued. xxix. Precept to attend upon the Queen on May Day, 1572 .. . . 139 xxx.

The Lottery of 1585 . . 141 xxxi. The Plantation in Virginia in 1609 . . . . . . . . 143 The Banquet given to King James I. in 1607 (Court Minutes r 147 and Accounts) . . . . . . • ■ ■ ■ ■ • • ■ 1 164 XXXII. xxxin. The National Anthem . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 xxxiv. " The Loving Brother of this Mysterie, John Stowe " . . . . 183 xxxv. John Speed, the Chronicler . . . . . . . . . . 186 xxxvi. Ogilby, the Poet ' . . 1 87 xxxvn. Charter of the Merchant Taylors' Company . . . . . . 188 Charter of Edward III., A.D. 1326 189 Richard IL, a.d. 1390 190 Henry IV., a.d. 1407 191 Henry VL, a.d. 1439 193 Edward IV., a.d. 1465 194 xxxvin.

The Ordinances and Oaths of the Company in 1507 and 1613 : Ordinances . . .. . . . . . . .. . . 199 (1) The Ordynaunce for non-appearance upon a due and reasonable Summons . . . . . . . . . . 204 (2) The Ordynaunce for the Election of the Maister and Ffower Wardens . . . . . . . . . . 204 (3) Th' Ordynance for the givying of the Benefice of St. Martyn Oteswych 206 (4) The Ordynance for an whole Brother that desireth to be an A linesman of this Fraternity . . . . . . 206 (5) The Ordynance for them that Myseorder themselves in theire Apparell and Array . . . . . , . . 208 (6) The Ordynance for the presenting and admitting of Apprentices . . . . . . . . . , m% 208 (7) The Ordynaunce for the Clerk to make the Indentures 208 The Ordynaunce for all those persones that shalbe abled by the Maister and Wardeins to holde hous or shop open . . . . . . . . 209 A recytall of the graunte of Kyng Edward the iiijth unto the Company for their serche . . . . 209 (8) The Ordynaunce for the Search making . . . . 210 (9) The Ordynaunce for the Enrolling of Apprentices . . 210 Th'acte for Chambre-holders . . . . 211 Th'ordynaunce for foreyns straungers and fforeyns denizens .. .. .. t- • on Th'ordynaunce ayenst theym that make anylassemblees 212 Th'ordynaunce ayenst theym that hyre any tennaunt out of his dweUyng hous or any other tenure . . 212 (10) The Ordynaunce for them that Mysorder themselves in the presence of the Maister or Wardens . . 212 (11) The Ordynaunce for the Beadle . . ■ . . 213 Th'ordynaunce ayenst theym that denye to bere a broder or sister to buriyng . , , , 2i s PAHE Memorials of the Fraternitycontinued.

Ordinances and Oaths of the Company in 1507 and 1613 — cont. Ordinances — continued xxxvni.

(12) The Ordynaunce for Non-appearance of the Assistants 214 (13) The Ordynaunce for levying of the Duties appertayning to the said Maister . . . . . . . . 214 Th'ordynaunce for rebellious persones ayenst the Governours of their Company . . . . 214 (14) The Ordynaunce against Apprentices wearing Weapons within the Cittie . . . . . . . . . . 215 (15) The Ordynaunce for them that disclose the Secrets of this Mysterie . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 (16) The Ordynaunce for them that deny to beare the Charges concerning the profitt and worshipp of this Mystery .. .. .. .. .. .. 215 (17) The Ordynaunce for the Wardens that Mysbehave them to the Maister or Wardens being in Office . . 216 (18) The Ordynaunce against them that entice any Man's Apprentice from his Master . . . . . . . . 216 Th'ordynnaunce for kepyng of holydiys . . . . 216 (19) The Ordynaunce for the delyvery of Goods or other vendible wares to any Apprentice or Servaunt . . 216 20) The Ordynaunce for taking of a Stranger born, Apprentice . . , . . . . . . . . 217 (21) The Ordynaunce for the usaunce of the Comon Seale 217 Th'ordynnaunce for tbe olde Wardein and late Renter 217 Th'ordynnaunce for theym that associate theymself ■nith such persones that be brekers of ordynnaunces 217 (22) The Ordynaunce for him that goetb, from this Company to another .. .. .. .. .. 218 (23) The Ordynaunce for the Bachelor's Company when a Maior happen to be of the said Fraternity . . . . 218 Th'ordynnaunce for the iiijth Wardeyn . . . . 219 (24) The Ordynaunce for him that denyeth to be Maister 219 (25) The Ordynaunce for bun that denyeth to be Warden or Warden Substitute 220 26) The Ordynaunce for propounding of Suits or Motions at Courts of Assistaunts by any of the Assistaunts concerning themselves or any of their friends . . 220 (27) The Ordynaunce for the yielding upp of the Maister's Accompt 221 (28) The Ordynaunce for the viewing of the Lands . . 222 (29) The Ordynaunce for them that become another Servaunts with men of Mysterie . . . . . . 222 (30) The Ordynaunce for them that instruct Children of other Crafts, the Handycraft or Knowledge of this Mysterie 222 Th'ordynnaunce for the kepyng of the Quene's obite and of the Kynges when it shall happen 223 (31) The Ordynaunce against Maisters that suffer theire Apprentizes to buy and sell to theire owne uses . . 223 (32) Tbe Ordynaunce for the Maister and Wardens against partialitie . . . . . . . . . . . .

PACE Memorials of the Fraternity — continued. xxxviii. Ordinances and Oaths of the Company in 1507 and 1613 — cont. Ordinances — continued . (33) The Ordynaunce to distraine for Penalties . . . . 224 (34) The Ordynaunce that if any controversy happen betweene any Brother of this Company and his Apprentice, the same to be determyned by the Maister and Wardens for the tyme being . . . . 225 Th'ordynnaunce for the buyng of stuf perteignyng to reparations . . . . . . • ■ • ■ 226 Oaths (35) The Oath of the Master of Marchaunt Tailors at his first admission into the Office . . . . . • 227 (36) The Oath of the ffower Wardens of the foresaide Misterie . . . . . . • . ■ • • - 228 (37) The Oath of the Assistants, or Counsellors of the Mystery aforesaid . . . . . . . • • • 230 (38) The Oath of every whole brother admitted into the Livery . . . . . . • . • • ■ • • • 231 (39) The Oath of every Person at his first admyttance into this Misterie be it by way of Redemption or otherwise . . . . . . . . . . • • . • 232 (40) The Oath of the Comon Clarke of the said fraternitie 233 (41) The Oath of the Beadle of the said fraternity . . 235 (42) The Oath of the ffower Wardens substitutes of the Bachelors Companie . . . . . . . . . . 235 (43) Tbe Oath of the Sixteen Men or Sixteen Assistants to the Wardens Substitutes of the Bachelors' Company 237 xxxix.

The Ordinances of 1661 . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 XL. Documents from Town Clerk's Office : (1) Protest of the Recorder against the Company's Charter ' of Henry VI. (20th October 1443) . . ' . . . . 242 (2) Lord Mayor Billesdon's award between the Skinners' and the Merchant Taylors' Companies (10th April 1484) 243 (3) Supplementary award between the same parties (17th January 1521) . . . . 245 (4) Lord Mayor's Judgment in Newyngton's Case (27th January 1517) 245 (5) Summons on Complaint against Tailor Apprentices (5th November 1536) 246 (6) Fine for not taking office as Warden (21st October 1613) 246 (7) Fine for not taking up the Livery (4th March 1672) 246 (8) Scrutiny of the Poll on the Lord Mayor's election (24tb October 1682) 247 (9) Wardens of the Yeomandry abolished (14th January 1691) 247 • (10) Exemption from the Livery of the 12 Companies (27th July 1697) 248 (11) Bland discharged from taking up his Livery (27th May 1715) 248 (12) Kidd also discharged (1st October 1717) . . . .

PAGE Memorials of the Fraternity — continued. XL. Documents from Town Clerk's Office — continued. (13) As to right of Livery to Inspection of Charters, &c. (20th December 1751) - 249 (14) Petition of Liverymen, and Lord Mayor's Summons thereon (2nd June 1752) 250 (15) Hearing of the Company on return of the Summons (16th June 1752) 252 (16) Award of the Lord Mayor, 30th Juno 1752 . . . . 253 XLI. Report of Royal Commissioners (in 1837) on the Merchant Taylors' Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 MEMORIALS OF THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES : XLII. Peter Mason's charity (1412) 277 xlih. John Creek's charity (1418) 277 xliv. Thomas Sutton's charity (1432) 278 xiv. Hugh Candish's charity (1460) 279 xlyi. Ralph Holland's charity (1452) 280 xlvii. Sir John Percival's charity (1507) 280 xlviii. Dame Thomasin Percival's charity (1508) . . . . - . . 281 XLIX.

James Wilford's charity (1514) 283 L. John Tressawell's charity (1518 284 li. Alderman Heydon's charity (1519) . . . . . . . . 284 HI. John Howden's charity (1520) 285 LIU. Gerard Braybrooke's charity (1520-2) 285 LIV. John Wilford's charity 286 lv. Margaret Parson's charity (1563) 287 LVI. Sir Thomas Rowe's charity (1565 and 1569) 287 LVII. Thomas Thomlinson's charity (1567) 288 LVIII. Robert Donkin's charity (1570) 289 LIX. Sir William Fitzwilliam's charity . . . . . . . . 290 LX. Walter Fish's charity (1580) 290 LXI. Richard Hille's charity (1586) . . ... 291 lxii. John Conyer's charity (1591) 292 lxiii. The charities of Robert Hawes and others (1595) . . . . 292 lxiv. Nicholas Spencer's charity (1597) . . . . . . . . 293 LXV. Peter Blundell's charity (1599) 294 lxvi. Dame Mary Ramsay's charity (1601) 295 LXVII.

Richard Shepham' s charity (1604) .. 295 lxviii. John Hyde's charity (1604) 296 LXIX. Robert Dowe's charity (1605-10) 297 ixx. Reynold Barker's charity (1608) .300 LXXI. Frances Clarke's charity (1608) 300 LXXII. Richard Osmotherlaw's charity (1612) . . . . . . . . 301 LXXIII. Randolph Woolley's charity (1615-16) 303 lxxiv. Sir William Craven's charities (1615) . . . . . . . . 304 lxxv. John Vernon's charity (1615) . . . . . . . . . . 306 LXXVI. Robert Jenkinson's charity (1616) . . . . . . . . 310 b Table of Contents. PAGE Memorials of the Associated Charities— continued. lxxvii. William Parker's charity (1616) . . . . . . . . • ■ 310 lxxviii. Alderman Jeffery Elwes's charity (1616) 312 lxxix. John Wooller's charity (1617) . . . . . . • • • • 312 lxxx. John Harrison's charity (1618) .. .. .. .. .. 314 lxxxi.