vjs. viijd.
"1530. Item, payd to a labourer for helpying up the
Roode Loft into the stepull viijd.
"1534. Payd for a present for Mr. Alford and Mr.
Herytage for ther good wyll for tymber for
the newe Rode lofte ijs. ijd."
The fickle tyrant Henry VIII. dies; a more consistent reign happily ensues.
"1548. Item, for the takying downe of the Roode, the
Tabernacle, and the Images iijs. vjd.
Also payd to Thomas Stokedale for xxxv ells
of clothe for the frunte of the Rode Lofte
whereas the x Commandements be wrytten,
price of the ell vjd. xxiijs. iiijd.
Also payd to hym that dyd wryght the said
x Commaundements and for ther drynking
lxvjs. ixd."
Queen Mary succeeds the boy-king Edward VI., and restores the Ritual of her Church.
"1566. Item, payed for the Roode, Mary and John xl.
"1557. Item, for peyntyng the Roode, Mary and John
xls.
For makyng xvij candilsticks for the roode-light
xjs. iiijd."
Upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth once more, and this time for ever, the rood was destroyed, and the loft, though "reformed," did not long survive it.
"1559. Payde to John Rialle for his iij dayse work
to take downe the Roode, Mary and John
ijs. viijd.
For clevying and sawyng of the Roode, Mary
and John xijd.
"1560. Rec'd for the beame the Roode stood on, for
boords and other tymber parcell of the
Roode loft xlijs.
For the rest of the stuf belongying to the
Roode lofte ixl.
For the great clothe that hong before the
Rode xxs.
Item, paide to joyners and labowrers abowt
the takying downe and new reformyng of the
Roode Loft, &c. xxxvijl. xs. ijd.
Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and
other neccessaries belonging to the saide
loft xiiijl. xiijs. ixd.
Item, paide to a paynter for payntyng the
same xijd.
"1562. For bearinge stones for the muringe up of the
dore of the late rood lofte viijd."
The rapacious Puritans, of course, did not suffer any portion of the church-goods to escape their sacrilegious and itching palms, if convertible into money, so we read—
"1645. Received of Arthur Condall in part of 5li for
the screen and Organ-loft 1s."
S.M.W., Dec. 22. 1849.
NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON
The Bagnio in Long Acre.—Mr. Cunningham mentions the Queen's Bagnio in Long Acre. Query, was this the same as the Duke of York's Bagnio? S. Haworth published, in a small 12mo. volume, without date, "A Description of the Duke of York's Bagnio, in Long Acre, and of the Mineral Bath and new Spaw thereunto belonging."
Tavistock Street, Covent Garden.—Richard Leveridge, the celebrated singer, after his retirement from the stage, kept a tavern in this street. Here he brought out "A Collection of Songs, with the Music, by Mr. Leveridge. In two volumes. London, Engrav'd and Printed for the Author in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 1727." The frontispiece was designed and engraved by Hogarth.
Duke Street, Westminster.—Miss Hawkins, in her Anecdotes, p. 186., speaking of Lady Lucy Meyrick, says, "On quitting her husband's family, she came to reside in Duke Street, Westminster, and lived in that house which had been Prior's, and which exactly faces Charles Street."
Richmond Buildings, Soho.—Horne Tooke resided here in 1775. He afterwards removed to Frith Street.
Clare Market, originally called New Market, was established about the year 1660, by Lord Clare.
"The city and my lord had a great lawsuit, which lasted many years, to the great expence of the city; but from the inequity of the times the city and my lord agreed, and gave it up to the lord; and now it is become one of the greatest markets in the adjacent parts; and from the success of this noble lord, they have got several charters for the erecting of several others since the year 1660; as that of St. James, by the Earl of St. Alban's; Bloomsbury, by the Earl of Southampton; Brook Market, by the Lord Brook; Hungerford Market; Newport Market; besides the Hay Market, New Charingcross, and that at Petty France at Westminster, with their Mayfair in the fields behind Piccadilly."—Harl. MS. 5900.
London House Yard.—Here was formerly the town house of the Bishop of London, which, being consumed in the great fire, the house in Aldersgate Street, formerly called Petre House, was rented for the town residence of the bishop, since which it obtained the title of London House.
OLD PAINTED GLASS
For poor ignorant people like myself pray insert the following, as perhaps some of your heraldic correspondents may afford some information for the benefit of your very humble servant,
Newington, June 17. 1751.
To take an account of what Coats of Arms or other Paintings are in the windows of the House Mercer
