CCOMPTE" of Stephen Brown, Alderman, Extract from the, 400-401.
ACCOUNT, Wardens', in the reign of Henry IV. anno 1401, 389-390.
for one year, in the reign of Henry VI. 394
respecting matters of Triumph, 405-414.
ACT, the five-mile, 281.
AFFAIRS, pecuniary, of the Grocers' Company in 1700, 158-159. ALDERMARY, Church of St., donation of £1000 to, by Sir Henry Keble, 237-238.
ALDERMEN belonging to the Grocers' Company in 1383, 58. Application to the Court of, for payment of the City's debt, and their answer, 133. ALLEGIANCE and Supremacy, oath of, to Charles II. 118; Declaration of, in 1792, 173.
ALLEYN, Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor of London and member of the Grocers' Company, knighted by Charles II. 117-118; Notice of, 274-276; He goes out to meet the king at the restoration, 274; Charles II. enrolled as fovereign master of the Grocers' Company, 275-276.
ALLHALLOWS, Honey-lane, Presentation of the Rectory of, 160-162.
ANALYTICAL REVIEW, the, 172.
ANGLESEA, Earl of, and the five-mile act, 281.
ANJOU, Duke of, his projected marriage with Queen Elizabeth; Stubbs' book on the subject, and order for its fuppreffion, 81-82.
ANTHOLINS, St., a meffuage in, bequeathed to the company by Sir Thomas Knolles, 205.
APPAREL, reftrictions concerning, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and James I. 90-93.
APPENDIX, 371-563. (For Particulars, fee Contents, pp. xv. and xvI.) APPRENTICES, rules concerning, in the Ordinances of the Grocers' Company, 47-54; rules concerning their dress, 91-92.
ARGUS the, feditious newspaper, 172.
ARMOURY of Grocers' Hall, 9-12; first notice of, in 1558; John Edwyn, the armourer, and grant of wages to him from the Company, 9; fupply of foldiers by the Company in 1557, 1562 and 1569; supply of gunpowder ordered to be kept in 1574, 11; fupply of men to Queen Elizabeth's navy; the gunpowder removed in 1650, 12.
ARMS of Queen Elizabeth at Grocers' Hall, 18-19.
ARRANGEMENT for debt with the Governors of Chrift's Hofpital, 138-139. ASHBY de la Zouche, 186.
ASSASSINATION of Mr. Percival, 343.
ASSOCIATION, London, for aiding the Civil Power, hold their meetings at Grocers' Hall; vote of thanks to the Company, 173-174.
AUBERY, Andrew, notice of, 191-193; thrice Mayor of London under Ed-
ward III., his measures for preferving peace in the city, his popularity
with the king, 191-192; extracts relating to his mayoralty from the
"Chronicle of London," 193.
AYLESBOROUGH, Thomas, Lord Coventry, of; notice of, 265-267: his birth
and entry at Balliol College, Oxford; his elevation to the peerage, 265;
his character as recorded by Lord Clarendon, his patent of nobility, 266;
Fuller's teftimony concerning his fuccefs, his death, 267.
Bank of England, its establishment, 31-33; the directors occupy Grocers'
Hall from 1694 to 1794, 157; its credit preferved by Sir G. Barnard, 315.
BARNARD, Sir John, Notice of, 313-315; his education at Wandsworth,
joins the Church of England, 313; his commercial ability, elected M.P.
for the city, knighted, and becomes Lord Mayor, 314; his services to the
Bank of England, his ftatue placed in the Royal Exchange, 315.
BARRINGTON, Lord Viscount, 322.
BEADLE of the Grocers' Company, 53-54.
BEQUESTS by Sir Henry Keble to the Grocers' Company, 235.
BERKELEY, George, Earl of, notice of, 285-287; his ancestry, his elevation
to the peerage, appointed CUSTOS ROTULORUM for Gloucestershire, 285;
figns the declaration in favour of the Prince of Orange, 286; his letter to
Sir John Moore, his death, 286-287.
BEVIS MARKS, Manfion of the abbot of Bury, 40-41.
BIOGRAPHICAL notices of eminent members of the Grocers' Company, fee No-
tices.
BOKEREL, Andrew, Mayor of London, 39; notice of, 179-182; his family,
179-180; Bokerel mentioned by Stow, 180-181; his mayoralty from
1231 to 1237 and its principal events; great fire in 1232, the citizens
fummoned to take the Chief Justice Herbert from Sanctuary, origin of the
quit rent of hobnails and horse-shoes, marriage of Henry III. with Eleanor
of Provence, foreign merchants purchase the liberty of landing goods in
London, 181-182.
BOLLES, Sir George, Kt., notice of, 259-262; his descent and family poffef-
fions, 259-260; his impartiality towards James I., 261; his death and
burial in St. Swithin's, 261; his epitaph, 262.
BONNER, Bishop of London, 246-247.
BOSVILLE, Lady Margaret, endows the Grammar School of Sevenoaks, 213.
Box, Ralph, elected Sheriff of London, 289-291.
BRALEY, E., his defence of Sir John Cutler, 306-307.
BREMBER, Sir Nicholas, Notice of, 194-200; knighted by Richard II., par-
tial and conflicting accounts concerning his character, 194-195; Riot in
confequence of Lord Piercey's committing a citizen to the Marfhalsea,
attack on the Savoy, the Mayor and Aldermen difmiffed and Brember
appointed, 196; confpiracy to murder the Duke of Gloucefter, brother of
Richard II., Brember impeached, unjustly tried, condemned and executed
at Tyburn, 198-199; extract from the "Chronicle of London," 199-200.
BROWNE, Sir Stephen, notice of, fends fhips to Pruffia for rye during a famine,
Fuller's account of this action, 223-224.
BRUIN, Walter Le, receives a grant of land, origin of the cuftom of counting
hobnails and horfe-fhoes by the Sheriff, 181.
BRUNSWICK-LUNENBURG, Charles William Ferdinand, hereditary Prince of,
notice of, 326-328; his ancestry, 326; his fervices in war, wounded at
the battle of Friedburg, recovers through skilful treatment, 327; his vifit
to England and reception in London, presented with the Freedom of the
city, enrolled as a member of the Grocers' Company, 327-328.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, John Sheffield, Duke of, fee Sheffield.
BURY, Abbot of, his mansion, now called Bevis Marks, 40-41.
BYE-LAWS, new, of the Grocers' Company in 1686, 148-149; of William
and Mary, 156.
CAMDEN, Charles Pratt, firft Earl, fee Pratt.
CAMPION, Edmund, the Jefuit, his life and martyrdom, 76-79.
CANCELLING of the Surrender of the Grocers' Company in 1688, 153.
CANNING, the Right Hon. George, his intimacy with Mr. Jenkinson, 342;
his duel with Lord Caftlereagh, 343; notice of, 347-357; his extrac-
tion, 347-348; his pedigree, 348-349; the parents of G. Canning, his
birth, his mother devotes herself to the theatrical profeffion, 350; his filial
affection, his education, 351; his political career commenced under Wil-
liam Pitt, 351-352; becomes a Cabinet Minifter, his duel with Lord
Caftlereagh, chofen M.P. for Liverpool, proceeds to Lisbon as ambassador,
353-354; becomes Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 355; Prime
Minilter, 356; his illness and death, 356-357; his character, 357.
CANNYNG, Sir Thomas, notice of, 224-229; his ancestors, 224-225; pedi-
gree of his family, 226; Sir T. Cannyng as Lord Mayor of London, puts
down a formidable riot, 226–229.
CEILING of Grocers' Hall, restored at the expense of Sir S. Soame, 255.
CENTENARY, fifth, of the Grocers' Company, fong compofed for, 36.
CERTIFICATE, funeral, of a member of the Grocers' Company, 94-95.
CHAPEL of St. Edmund, fold to his "Brethren of the Sack," 2; granted to
Lord Fitzwalter, and fold to the Grocers' Company, 3.
CHARLES Earl of Dorset, see Dorset.
CHARLES William Ferdinand, hereditary Prince of Brunswick-Lunenburg, fee
Lunenburg.
CHARLES I. loan to, by the Grocers' Company in 1626, 102-104; his inter-
ference in the Company's affairs, and his letters to the Company, 104-
108; his exaction of fhip-money, 108-109; forced loans, 109-111.
CHARLES II., his restoration, and feaftings on the occafion, 26, 117-118; his
writ of quo warranto, 139-146; receives the Company's petition, 143-
145; obtains a judgment against them, 145-146; his death, 147; his
charter granted to the Grocers' Company, 148; notice of, 268.
CHARTER of Incorporation of the Grocers' Company, 40: cost of obtaining,
&c., 60; new Charter obtained from James I., 86, 258; from Cromwell,
117; from Charles II., 148; from William and Mary, 157-158.
CHARTER, original, of Henry VI., 390-392.
CHARTER, city, confirmed by Richard II., 197.
CHEST, iron, at Grocers' Hall, 37.
CHICHELEY, Sir Robert, notice of, 208-211; account of the Chicheley
family, 208-209; Robert Chicheley rifes to wealth and importance, 209;
gives a plot of ground for the fite of St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook, his
charitable bequefts, 210; his death and epitaph as given by Weever, 211.
CHICHELEY, Sir Thomas, notice of, helps to re-build St. Stephen's Church
after the fire of London, note from The Builder, 211-212.
CHIKWELL, Hammond, notice of, his mayoralty and acts, feizes Stapleton,
Bishop of Exeter, and puts him to death, 188-190.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, governors of, take poffeffion of Grocers' Hall, 27; fix
scholarships purchased by the Grocers' Company, 37; arrangement with
the governors, 138-139.
CHURCHMAN, John, 59; notice of, 203-204; establishes the firft Cuftomhouse,
weighhouse, and king's beam, 203; Strype's account of these improve-
ments, 203-204.
CLARENDON, Lord, his character of Lord Coventry, 267.
CLERKS of the Grocers' Company, T. Hervey, 7-8; R. Gough, 8; J. Grove,
95; J. Bunbury, 95-96; Mr. Ravenhill, 151-152.
CLERKSHIP of the Grocers' Company firft inftituted, 95-96.
COMMITTEE of Corporation, 116.
of Safety, appointed in 1641, 15-16, 114-116.
COMPANY, the Grocers', 38-176; the Pepperers of London, 38-40; first
incorporation of Grocers, 40-43; ordinances of the Company from
1345 to 1348, 44-56; crowning the masters, 56; regulations in 1379,
57-58; Aldermen of the Company, 58; Lord Fitzwalter's house pur-
chafed, 59-60; 1429, the first Charter, 60; privilege of garbling, 60;
first tranflation of the ordinances in 1463, 61-63; the Reformation, 63-
64; a compulfory loan levied by Queen Mary in 1558, 64-65; final re-
storation of the Protestant religion, 65-66; pageant at Greenwich, 66;
the Company's ftore of corn, 66-67; James I.'s application to the Com-
pany for corn, 68-69; subscription of corn for the Proteftants in London-
derry, 71; Queen Elizabeth restores the coin to its standard value, and
fummons the Wardens of feveral Companies for extortion, 71-72; firft
lottery in England, 72-76; Campion the Jefuit, 76-79; confpiracy of
the Duke of Norfolk, 79-81; Stubbs' book, 81-82; the Company's
declaration of loyalty, 82-85; fhips of war furnished by the city, 85-86;
new Charter of James I., 86; vifit of the king of Denmark and pageant
on the occafion, 87-89; the Company's Irish eftate, 89-90; apparel
and laws thereunto relating, 90-93; funerals of members' wives, 93-94;
funeral certificate, 94-95; clerkship of the Company, 95-96; ancient
privilege of inspection and correction of abufes, 96-98; King James's in-
terference in the election of a cook, 98-102; loan to Charles I., 102—
104; unconstitutional interference of the king in the Company's affairs,
104-105; two letters from Charles I., 105-108; fhip-money, 108-109;
forced loans, 109-111; loan to the Parliament, 111-112; fale of the
Company's plate, 113; the Company's arms borrowed by the city, 112—
114; committee of fafety, 114-116; Colwall fchool, 116; committee
of corporations, 116; Cromwell's charter, 117; Restoration, 117-118;
oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, 118; ftewards at feftivals, 118-119;
coronation of Charles II., 119-120; Sir John Frederick, 120-121; Cor-
poration Act, 121-122; Allhallows Staining, 122-123; druggifts, 123;
loan to Charles II., 123-124; the plague, 124; the king presented with
a fhip of war by the city, 124-125; fire of London, 125-126; fire com-
mittee, 126-127; parlour and court-room built by Sir John Cutler,
127; general meeting of the Company in 1699, 127-128; petition to
Parliament, 128-130; a common hall, 130-131; the creditor's petition
to Parliament, 131-132; application to the Court of Aldermen, 133-134;
proceedings at law against the Company, 134-135; the Hall reftored,
135-137; increase of the court and livery, 137; a freeman by redemp-
tion, 137-138; arrangement with Chrift's Hospital, 138-139; writ of quo
warranto, 139-141; measures taken by the Company, 140-143; pe-
tition to the king, 143-144; interview with Charles II., 144-145; judg-
ment against the city, 145-146; death of Charles II., 147; charter of
Charles II., 147-148; new bye-laws, 148-149; acceffion of James II.
and his tyranny, 149-151; gratuity to Mr. Ravenhill, 151-152; the re-
volution, 152; the " quo warranto" declared illegal by Parliament, 152-
153; cancelling of the Company's furrender, 153; King William III.,
fovereign master of the Company, 153–156; charter and bye-laws of
William and Mary, 156-157; the Hall demifed to the Bank of England,
157; ftate of the Company's affairs in 1700, 158-159; prefentation to
the Rectory of St. Mary le Bow, 160; Allhallows, Honey-lane, 160-
162; profecution of the Company by the Corporation of London, 162-
163; addrefs and remonftrance of the citizens, 163-164; conduct of the
Grocers' Company, 164-166; decifion of the Mayor's Court, 166-167;
judgment reverfed, 167-168; Chief Justice de Grey's opinion, 168-
170; the French Revolution, 171-173; the Company's declaration of
allegiance, 173; London Affociation, 173-174; vote of thanks, 174;
King George III. and Mr. Pitt, 174-175; concluding remarks, 175-176.
COMPANY, the Mercers', Goldfmiths', &c., fee Mercers', Goldsmiths', &c.
CONEYHOPE LANE, fee Grocers' Alley.
CONSPIRACY of the Duke of Norfolk against Queen Elizabeth, 79-81.
of De La Pole and De Vere against the Duke of Gloucester, 179-
180.
CONWAY, Lady, her legacy to the Grocers' Company, 132.
Cook chofen by the Grocers' Company in 1622 and interference of James I.,
99-102.
CORN, ftore of, kept by the Grocers' Company, 66-67; precept concerning
the corn from the Lord Mayor, 67; James I. applies to the Company for
corn, 68-69; application to the Grocers' Company in 1631 for the pur-
chase of foreign corn, their refufal, 70-71; contribution of 100 quarters
of corn in aid of the Proteftants in Londonderry, 71; £1080 contributed
by the Grocers' Company towards a prefent of corn to Charles II., 71 ;
cuftom of keeping corn discontinued after the fire of London, 71.
CORNETT'S Tower, Bucklerfbury, 58-59.
CORNISH, Alderman, his trial and execution, 150-151.
CORNWALLIS, Charles, Marquis, notice of, 336-339; his ancestors, 336-
337; his birth, he enters Parliament, joins the army, ferves in the Ame-
rican war, in India, is created Marquis, 337; appointed viceroy of Ire-
land, his policy, governal-general of India, elected member of the Grocers'
Company, 338-339.
CORONATION of Charles II., 119-120.
COURT of Affiftants, meetings of, at various places, 27; their refolution of
thanks to Sir John Moore, 288.
COVENTRY, Thomas, Lord, of Aylesborough, fee Aylesborough.
CRANFORD, burial place of George, Earl of Berkeley, 287.
CROMWELL, Oliver, entertained at Grocers' Hall, 18; his charter to the
Grocers' Company, 117.
CROSBIE, Sir John, notice of, 229-234; pedigree of Sir J. Crosbie, 229-230;
Crofbie mentioned in the will of Lord Scrope, of Masham, 230; returned
to Parliament, and invested with important offices, appointed commiffioner
to treat with the Houfe loans, defcription of his house in Bishopsgate-
street, 230-238; charitable bequefts in his will, 232-234; Crosby
House, 231-232.
CROWNING the Masters, cuftom of, 56-57.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, firft, established by John Churchman, 203.
CUTLER, Sir John, rebuilds a portion of Grocers' Hall, 24-25, 134; notice
of, 298-307; ftrictures on his character by Pope and Pennant, 298-299;
his family, 300; created a baronet for his fervices to Charles II., his pedi-
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