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London in the Time of the Stuarts

Chapter 45: APPENDIX III ALMSHOUSES
By Walter Besant
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This work examines the city during the seventeenth century, tracing its close involvement in national politics from early Stuart rule through civil war, Commonwealth, Restoration, and subsequent reversals. It recounts recurring plague outbreaks and the Great Fire, and describes their effects on population, sanitation, urban rebuilding, and architectural change. Social life, religious conflict, municipal government, trade, and everyday manners are explored through contemporary documents and reports. The narrative shows how crises and reforms reshaped streets, public health, civic authority, and commercial life, yielding a markedly transformed urban landscape by the century’s end.

APPENDIX III
ALMSHOUSES

The following is a list of almshouses belonging to and founded in the seventeenth century:—

Alleyn’s 1614 Petty France 10 men and women £2 and clothes
Alleyn’s 1616 Old Street 10 men, 1 woman 26s. and clothes
Alleyn’s 1616 Deadman’s Place 10 men, 8 women 26s.
Amyas’ 1655 Old Street 8 men or women £5
Aske 1692 Hoxton 8 men, 20 boys £3 and clothes
Badger’s 1698 Hoxton 6 men and wives 20s.
Baron’s 1682 Shadwell 15 women 7s. a year
Bayning 1631 Crutched Friars
Parish Almshouses
Butler’s 1675 Wismount 2 men and wives £6
Camp’s
?
 Wormwood St. 6 34s. 8d.
Caron’s 1623 Vauxhall 7 women £4
Dewy’s 1684 Soho
?
  
Emanuel 1601 Westminster 20 men and women £10
Grey Coat Hospital 1698 Westminster
{ 80 boys
50 girls		                 }
£1457
Green Coat 1633 Westminster 20 boys £300
Graham’s 1686 Soho 4 women £10
Hammond 1651 Snow Hill 6 men £10
Haws’s 1686 Poplar 6 widows 30s.
Heath 1648 Islington 10 men £6
Hill’s 1677 Westminster 3 men and wives 1s. 8d. a week
Jackson 1685 Deadman’s Place 2 women 1s. 8d. a week
Lumley 1672 Old Street 6 women £4
Meggs 1690 Whitechapel 12 women £5:4s.
Melor 1691 Stepney 10 women £8:13:4
Monger’s 1669 Hackney 6 men £2
Newbury 1688 Mile End 12 women £5:4s.
Owen’s 1610 Whyton 10 women £3:16s. and clothes
Palmer 1654 Westminster 12 men and women £6
Parnell 1698 Mile End 8 women 1s. 8d. a week, etc.
Rogers 1612 Cripplegate 6 men and wives £4
St. Peter’s 1618 Newington Butts Fishmongers’ Company
Sion College 1623 London Wall 20 men and women £6
Southampton 1656 St. Giles
Spurstowe 1666 Hackney 6 women £4
Stafford 1633 Gray’s Inn Lane 4 men, 6 women £6 and clothes
Trinity Hospital 1695 Mile End 28 men £10:12s.
Walter’s 1651 Newington 16 men and women £3:10s.
Watson’s
?
 Shoreditch 12 women 20s. and coals
Whitcher 1683 Westminster 6 men and women £5 and a gown
Wood’s 1613 Ratcliffe 6 men £6 and coals
Young’s 1694 Southwark 2 women 1s. a week

From the almshouses turn to the schools. Those founded in the seventeenth century were as follows:—

Allhallows, Staining Will. Linton 1658
£26
 per annum 6 boys
Almonry Emery Hill 1677
7
   „      „    ...
St. Saviour’s Church Yard Applebea 1681
20
   „      „ 30  „
Dunhill Fields Trotman 1673
80
   „      „ 30  „
Castle Street Alf. Tenison 1685
1500
   „      „ 30  „
Cherry Tree Alley W. Worrall 1689
30
   „      „ 40  „
East Smithfield Sir S. Sterling 1673
20
   „      „ 16  „
Islington Dame Alice Owen 1613
20
   „      „ 30 children
Lambeth R. Lawrence 1661
35
   „      „ 20     „
Palmer’s School: see Almshouses
 
Grey Coat
Green Coat		 } see Almshouses
 
Parker’s Lane W. Skelton 1663
 
    ... 50 boys
Plow Yard J. Hickson 1689
£30
 per annum 20   „
Rotherhithe Hills and Bell 1612
3
   „      „ 8 children
Tothill Fields Emery Hill 1677
 
 20 boys
Whitechapel Davenant 1686
about £80
   „      „
{ 60  „
40 girls