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Article THE TOMB OF JOHN STOWE. ← Page 4 of 8 →
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The Tomb Of John Stowe.
years' devotion to an undertaking for the public benefit surely deserved a better requital than a brief or kingly authority for an honourable man to solicit alms from pillar to post like any common beggar . There is likeAvise a letter extant from the King , on the back of Avhich is endorsed the sum of seven shillings and sixpence as the contribution of the parish of St .
Mary Woolnoth to the support of the city historian ; and from the smallness of the amount Ave are enabled to form some opinion as to the sum total of the assistance obtained by the brief . StoAve's grandfather was a talloAV-chandler , and a man of some substance . In his will he left certain moneys for the repairs of St . Paul ' s Cathedraltogether with alms for several poor men
, and women on the condition that they should duly say prayers , both nosters , aves , and credes , for the repose of his soul , for a certain number of Sundays after his demise . That his son Avas a man of property , and of consideration in the city , is further evidenced by a dispute which arose between him and that crafty minister of Henry the Eihththe celebrated Sir Thomas
g , Cromwell , Avho subsequently became Earl of Essex . CromAvell built a palace in Throgmorton Street , and , wanting to enlarge the garden Avhich belonged to it , caused a small house which Avas standing therein to be moved into a plot of ground Avhich
belonged to Thomas Stowe , thereby greatly abridging the space devoted to his pleasaunce , and depriving him of a portion of it also . All remonstrances proving vain , the good citizen Avas compelled to succumb to the superior power , and leave an instance of the arbitrary and reckless way in Avhich property of all kinds was in those days disposed of .
The will above mentioned Avas made on the last day of December 1526 , and the early part of it is singularly pious and affecting : " Fryrst I bequayth my soul to Jesu Christ , and to our blessed Lady Seynt Mary the Virgin , & c . ; my body to be buryed in the little , grene . churchyard of the parysse of St . Myghel in CornhillbetAveene the crosse and the chinch Avail
, , nigh the wall as may be , by my father and mother , systers and brothers , and also my OAVU childrene . " He does not in any Avay allude to his grandson John in this testament , but mention is several times made of his son Thomas , Avhom , in conjunction with his Avife Elizabeth , he makes his executors . He appears to have been impressed Avith a due sense of the excellence and
utility of the trade to Avhich he belonged ; and he exhibits in a very curious manner his anxiety for the lighting of the altars of the various churches and chapelries in the immediate proximity of his residence . He leaves " 5 shillings to have on every altar a Avatching candle , burning from six of the clock till it be past
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Tomb Of John Stowe.
years' devotion to an undertaking for the public benefit surely deserved a better requital than a brief or kingly authority for an honourable man to solicit alms from pillar to post like any common beggar . There is likeAvise a letter extant from the King , on the back of Avhich is endorsed the sum of seven shillings and sixpence as the contribution of the parish of St .
Mary Woolnoth to the support of the city historian ; and from the smallness of the amount Ave are enabled to form some opinion as to the sum total of the assistance obtained by the brief . StoAve's grandfather was a talloAV-chandler , and a man of some substance . In his will he left certain moneys for the repairs of St . Paul ' s Cathedraltogether with alms for several poor men
, and women on the condition that they should duly say prayers , both nosters , aves , and credes , for the repose of his soul , for a certain number of Sundays after his demise . That his son Avas a man of property , and of consideration in the city , is further evidenced by a dispute which arose between him and that crafty minister of Henry the Eihththe celebrated Sir Thomas
g , Cromwell , Avho subsequently became Earl of Essex . CromAvell built a palace in Throgmorton Street , and , wanting to enlarge the garden Avhich belonged to it , caused a small house which Avas standing therein to be moved into a plot of ground Avhich
belonged to Thomas Stowe , thereby greatly abridging the space devoted to his pleasaunce , and depriving him of a portion of it also . All remonstrances proving vain , the good citizen Avas compelled to succumb to the superior power , and leave an instance of the arbitrary and reckless way in Avhich property of all kinds was in those days disposed of .
The will above mentioned Avas made on the last day of December 1526 , and the early part of it is singularly pious and affecting : " Fryrst I bequayth my soul to Jesu Christ , and to our blessed Lady Seynt Mary the Virgin , & c . ; my body to be buryed in the little , grene . churchyard of the parysse of St . Myghel in CornhillbetAveene the crosse and the chinch Avail
, , nigh the wall as may be , by my father and mother , systers and brothers , and also my OAVU childrene . " He does not in any Avay allude to his grandson John in this testament , but mention is several times made of his son Thomas , Avhom , in conjunction with his Avife Elizabeth , he makes his executors . He appears to have been impressed Avith a due sense of the excellence and
utility of the trade to Avhich he belonged ; and he exhibits in a very curious manner his anxiety for the lighting of the altars of the various churches and chapelries in the immediate proximity of his residence . He leaves " 5 shillings to have on every altar a Avatching candle , burning from six of the clock till it be past