Memorials of London and London life, in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth centuries : Being a series of extracts, local, social, and political, from the early archives of the City of London, A.D. 1276-1419 / Selected, translated, and edited by Henry Thomas Riley ... Published by order of the Corporation of London, under the superintendence of the Library Committee.

  • City of London (England). Corporation.
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1868
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    to various tenants: while in some instances a mere vacant patch of ground (placed) within the Seld is mentioned as being let. Survey, p. 98 ; the Parish Church of St. Osyth, or Sythe (whence now Sise Lane), is stated to have had “•—also an addition of Bennett “ Shorne (or Shrog, or Shorehog) for by all those names have I “ read it; but the most ancient is ‘ Shorne/ wherefore it seemeth to “ take that name from one Benedict Shorne, sometime a citizen and “ stockfishmonger of London, a new builder, repairer, or benefactor “ thereof, in the reign of Edward II., so that Shorne is but corruptly “ called c Shrog/ and more corruptly c Shorehog.’” Stow’s fancy or his memory must have misled him : Benedict Shorne was simply a fishmonger living near London Bridge, who insisted on repeatedly committing the offence of selling fish by retail at a stall instead of in a shop, a.d. 1322, and was suspended from the freedom of the City for so doing; see Letter-Book E. fols. 146, 149. The Church of St. Benedict Schorhog is found 1 mentioned from 30 to 40 years before that date ; and had its name probably from the fact of hogs wallowing in the c shores ’ or ditches in its vicinity, which discharged themselves into the Wall-brook. Survey, pp. 106, 107 ; Reginald Coleman, buried in the Church of St. Margaret Lothbury, 1483, is stated to have been son of Ro- bert, who “—may be supposed to have been the first builder or “ owner of Coleman Street .... so called of him.” In the early Letter-Books, Coleman Street is mentioned as existing nearly 2 two centuries before 1483 ; and it had its name, there can hardly be a doubt, from the Charcoal-burners, or ctColemen,” who settled in that extremity of the City, adjoining the Moor, at an early date. Survey, p. 108. Of the early history of Backwell Hall, in Bas- sishaw Ward, in connexion with the family of3 Banquelle, or Bac- quelle, Stow is evidently ignorant, tracing it no further back than the 36th of Edward III., a.d. 1362. Its transfer to this family in the year 1293 is mentioned, from Letter-Book C, in page xlii. of this Introduction. He fails to notice too that “Bassishaw” and tc Basinghall ” are probably names of 4different origin, the former derived from the “ haw ” or <c haugh ” (court-yard) of the Bassets there, and the latter from (Backwell Hall, as) the former hall of the Basings, an opulent5 London family of the 13 th century. Survey, p. 112 ; according to Stow, Monkwell Street, in Cripple- gate, was so called from the well of a Hermitage, or Cell, there, be- longing to the Abbots of Garendon, and thence called “The Monks’ “ Well.” This is quite imaginary; it is frequently named in the 1 See page xi. ante. 2 See page xiii. ante, and pages xlii. and xliv. post. 3 This name is generally written, from the earlier MSS., “ Banquellebut from the fact of its having been soon corrupted to “ Backwell,” it seems to be question- able whether it was not “ Bauquelle.” 4 See page 520, Note 2. 5 Salomon and Hugh Basing were Sheriffs in 1214; Salomon was Mayor in 1216; and Adam Basing was Sheriff in 1243.