RELIGIOUS HOUSES St. Andrew Eastcheap, St. Lawrence,^'^ All- hallows the Great, St. Martin (?) Queenhithe, and St. Christopher,*' besides its principal holding in the parish of St. Peter le Poor, where one of its earliest possessions was the ground on which the church of St. Olave had stood.*^ A piece of their property can still be identified, for Cromwell's house after his attainder was sold to the Drapers' Company,*' whose hall now occupies the site. The friars seem also to have had possessions in the counties of Essex and Sussex,** Priors of the Austin Friars John, occurs 1349*° William de Ainukelan, occurs 1364^' Thomas Asshebourne, occurs 1380*' Banchin, occurs 1387*' John Low, occurs c. 1430*' John Bury, occurs 147 1 '" R. Blenet, occurs 1475°^ Master Bellond, S.T.P., occurs 1522 George Brown, D.D., occurs 1532°' and 1533'* Thomas Hamond,'" surrendered the friary, ,538 56 There is a seal of the thirteenth century," in shape a pointed oval, which represents the Virgin half-length. She wears a crown and holds the Child on her left arm. On the left-hand side in the field a hand issues holding a censer. In the base, under a trefoiled arch, a friar to the right kneels in prayer between two stars. Legend : — S STINI • DE • LONDON. L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xix (i), 1035 (6).
- " Ibid, xix (z), 340 (34).
" Ibid, xix (2), 340 (5 1). " Doc. D. and C. of St. Paul's, Liber A. fol. 64 b. Their agreement with the archdeacon of London about dues from this land is dated 1 27 1. " L. and P. Hen. Fill, xviii (2), 231 (12). " The deed of surrender made mention of the house and all its possessions in counties Middlesex, Essex, Sussex, and elsewhere in England. Ibid, xiii (2), 806. " Doc. D. and C. of St. Paul's, A, Box 22, No. 1654. '"^ Cal. of Pap. Letters, iv, 43. " Cal. of Pat. 1377-81, p. 429. "Ibid. 1385-9, p. 324. " Stevens, Hist, of Abbeys, ii, 2 1 9. He became bishop of St. Asaph in 1433, and he was provincial before that. '° In the will of Sir John Crosby quoted in Guild- hall MS. 41, fol. 51. " Harl. Chart, ill, C. 23. " L. and P. Hen. VIU, iii (2), 2163. " Ibid, v, 1028. " Ibid, vi, 391. "He was sub-prior at the end of 1533. Ibid, vi, 1270. Brown was provincial in April, 1534 (ibid. vii, p. 233), so, probably, Hamond then became prior. '■'■ L. and P. Hen. Fill, xiii (2), 806. " B. M. Seals, Ixvii,- 8. A seal of the fourteenth century^' bears a representation of the Ascension with four friars looking upwards. In the base there is an ornamental scroll of foliage ; overhead, a cres- cent inclosing a star of six points, and wavy clouds. In the field is the word dipinitores Legend : — ORD A later seal of the fifteenth century ^' is a pointed oval. On this there are two canopied niches ; on the one to the left a saint stands holding a sword and book, on the other stands a sainted bishop with a pastoral staff in his left hand. In the base, under a carved arch, is a lion dormant. Legend : — SIGILLM • CSmUNE * FRM • ORDINIS * SCI * AUGVSTINI • LONDON. 15. THE FRIARS OF THE SACK OR OF THE PENANCE OF JESUS CHRIST It was in 1257 * *^^* *h^ friars of the Sack first appeared in London, where they were received and recommended by Peter of Tewkes- bury in the chapter of the Franciscans.^ They settled in a spot outside Aldersgate,' but after- wards removed to Coleman Street,*" evidently close to a synagogue, for in 127 1-2 they were said to be disturbed at their devotions by the howling of the Jews in their church. As a remedy Henry III gave the friars the synagogue to increase their house, and, while giving the de- spoiled Jews permi>sion to build another, ordered them to be less noxious to the friars.'"' At some date between 1265 and September 1 27 1,* they bought from Queen Eleanor, then warden of London Bridge, for the sum of 60 marks and the maintenance of the chantry of Richard le Kew, certain tenements in Cole- church Street, in the parish of St. Olave Jewry, and of St. Margaret Lothbury. They also possessed houses in Candelwyk Street (Cannon Street), in the parish of St. Mary Abchurch,' bequeathed to them by Gilbert de Tanyngton as the endowment of a chantry. In spite of the suppression of the smaller orders of Mendicants "Ibid. Ixviii, 10. " Ibid. Ixxiii, II. ' Engl. Hist. Review, ix, article by Mr. Little, who refers to Matthew Paris, Chron. Maj. v, 612, 621. ' Monumenta Francisc. (Rolls Ser.), 72. ' Stow, Surv. of Lond. iii, 53. The hospital of St. Thomas of Aeon held houses in ' Colchurche Strete,' opposite the church of the Friars of the Penance of Jesus Christ. See Cartulary printed in 'WsXne^y, Hospital of St. Thomas of Aeon, 256. "^ Tovey, Anglia Judaic a, 192. Tovey refers to Close, 56 Hen. Ill, m. 3.
- Sharpe, Cal. of Letter Bk. C, 61,
' Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, i, 14. 513 65
