1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (11)

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Date	1720
Author	Strype, John
Title	A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster
Mentions	Robinhood Alley, Borough High Street, Southwark

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Site of Robinhood Alley, Borough High Street, Southwark.

Church of St George the Martyr, Southwark / Gordon Joly, 27 Dec. 2007, Wikimedia Commons.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-28. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

The BENEFACTORS,

With their several Gifts bestowed on this Parish [of St George the Martyr, Southwark], as they are set down in a Table in this Church, are as follow:

Years.	Donors.	Gifts.
1588.	James Savage gave out of the Bridgehouse near the Kings Bench, to be yearly distributed for ever	3	0	0
1590.	William Evance gave out of his Robin Hood Rents in Blackman Street, in Bread yearly for ever	5	4	0
1622.	Sir William Cowper gave an House in Pright Alley in Tower Street.
1630.	And an House in Bishopsgate Stret for ever	9	6	0
Years.	Donors.	Gifts.
1625.	J. Simon gave out of Lands in Tilbury in Essex, for ever.	10	0	0
1626.	Purchased in the Parish the Spread Eagle and three Houses adjoining, by the Parishoners and others, for ever.	24	0	0
1626.	Henry Smith gave out of the Manour of Beahill in Sussex, for ever, per ann.	20	0	0
1627.	William Brooks, Yeoman, gave out of thirteen Cottages, one Messuage and Garden in White Street, for ever, per ann.	2	0	0
1633.	Sir John Fenner gave, to buy Bibles and other Uses, out of two Farms, Truedoves and Goodales, in Suffolk,	11	0	0
1635.	Humfrey Williams gave eight Tenements, (the same now, eleven) — Acres of Land, in Kent Street, for ever.	8	0	0
1645.	Edward Martin gave out of his Farm at Low Layton in Essex, to buy Bibles yearly for ever.	3	0	0
1648.	William Brook gave out of Blew Boar Rents, in White Street, yearly, for ever.	5	0	0
1679.	Tho. Grayson gave out of the old Birdeage yearly, for ever.	2	0	0
	Robert Shaw settled a burying Place, and an Acre of Land, whereon a House is since built, for ever.	5	0	0
	In Consideration of some Privileges granted him by the Parish.
1672.	Edmund Dudson, Esq; gave out of two Tenements in Lower Tooting, 12d. each Friday in Bread, for ever.	2	12	0

IRHB comments

IRHB's brackets. Uppercase as in web source. The 'Robin Hood rents' are in all probability the rents from houses in the Robinhood Alley aka Robin Hood Court long existing on the NW side of Borough High Street, then Blackman Street, Southwark. For another reference to this court or alley, see 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (12). It would be interesting to know if the original table still exists. The present church, dating from 1734-36, was built at the site of the Medieval church, which was then in a ruinous state.

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Editions

• John Strype's A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Book 4, Ch. 1, p. 18 (hriOnline).

Background

• Darlington, Ida, ed. St George's Fields (The parishes of St. George the Martyr Southwark and St. Mary Newington), Survey of London, vol. 25 (London, 1955), pp. 26-38. Web edition at British History Online (lacks page numbers).
• Wikipedia: St George the Martyr, Southwark
• Wikipedia: John Strype.

Also see

• Robinhood Alley (Borough High Street)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (01)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (02)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (03)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (04)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (05)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (06)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (07)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (08)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (09)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (10)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (12)
• 1720 - Strype, John - Survey of London and Westminster (13).

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  St George the Martyr, Southwark, East end / John Salmon, 1 Nov. 2014, Creative Commons.

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