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A Short History of

Fleet Street and Fleet Lane Estate.

1566—Bequest.This Estate was bequeathed to the Cutlers Company by Mr. Thomas Bucke (Citizen and Cutler of London), subject to an annual charge of £11.

Fleet Street — One House.
Fleet Lane — Four Houses.

(The last-named four Houses have been sold to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company.)

Particulars of the charge of £11:—

£3  6s. 8d. Scholarship in St. John's College, Cambridge.
£2  0s. 0d. Poor of Fleet Lane.
£2  0s. 0d. Poor of the Parish of Wilburton.
£1  0s. 0d. Christ's Hospital.
£1  0s. 0d. St. Thomas' Hospital.
£1  0s. 0d. St. Sepulchre's Church.
£0 13s. 4d. Armourer and Braziers Company.
£11  0s. 0d.


The amount of the Scholarship has been increased to £30 a year.

Rental £120.


Belle Sauvage Estate.

1568—Bequest.This Estate was bequeathed to the Cutlers Company by Mr. John Craythorne (Citizen and Cutler, of London), subject to a life interest therein of his widow, Mrs. Margaret Craythorne (who, at his death, gave up such life interest to the Company), and to an annual charge of £19 13s. 4d.

Belle Salvage Yard—Hotel, &c., now Warehouses.

Naked Boy Court—House, now absorbed in the Belle Sauvage Yard Warehouses.

Ludgate Hill—House and Rooms over gateway.