The whole of Wales being thus subject to the crown of England, it followed that no Lordship Marcher could exist but such as was holden in capite before the conquest of Wales. Many lords had jurisdiction royal of their lands at periods long subsequent to this; but they were not Lordship Marchers but chartered rights, and many of them were held by tenants of the ancient Marchers; the prohibition of subinfeudation provided for by the statute Quia Emptores not being applicable to the king's tenants in capite, until the 34th year of the reign of King Edward III. The authorities which have been consulted, besides those to which reference has been made in the notes, are Canon Payne's book, The Treatise on the Government of Wales, Lansdowne MSS., No. 216 Brit. Museum; Powel's Hist. of Wales; Annales Cambriæ; Brut y Tywysogion, Rolls Ed.; Williams's Hist. of Strata Florida, &c. Wales and how Carmarthen and Cardiganshire came to be part thereof," which may throw some valuable light on this subject. NOTES ON SOME VANISHED BUILDINGS OF LONDON. PART I. BY ANDREW OLIVER, ESQ. (Read December 1st, 1897.) N these notes it is proposed to give some short description of some of the buildings of Vanished London. The history of a city is told by its views and maps. It is by their aid that we are enabled in one way and another to bring before us the city of past ages, and we can also trace the changes that have taken place at various epochs. These records are often the sole means of information that are accessible to us in these later days. We can in this way determine what buildings have been destroyed, and of what they consisted. They help us to see how the highways we now tread have been changed and altered in many instances out of existence. We can reconstruct them as they once were, and we can repeople them with the inhabitants of former generations. New streets spring up, sweeping away in the relentless march of modern improvements much that might have been spared, until at last no record is left but what we can find hidden away in the books, views and maps of Vanished London. In dealing with the subject of Vanished London in a short paper of this description, it would be manifestly impossible to treat of the subject at any great length; and all it is proposed to do is to lay before you some notes and views relating to the subject. The buildings I propose to deal with on this occasion are not many, but they are of some interest. FURNIVAL'S INN, HOLBORN. This building belonged, says Stow, to William Furnival, knight, " who had in Holborn two messuages and thirteen shops, as appeareth by Record of Richard II. in the sixth of his reign. It was an Inn of Chancery in the ninth of Henry IV., and was sold early in Elizabeth's reign to the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn. In Charles I's time the greater part of the old Inn described by Stow was taken down, and a new building erected. The Gothic Hall was standing in 1818, says Cunningham, with its timber roof, when the whole Inn was rebuilt by Mr. Peto, the contractor. It has recently been demolished, in order to enlarge the Prudential Assurance Company's premises.1 ELY PALACE. In Walford's Old and New London an account will be found of the rise and fall of Ely Palace. It is too long for insertion here, but a few extracts may perhaps be of interest. "The earliest notice belongs to the close of the thirteenth century. John de Kirkeby left to his successors in the See a messuage and nine cottages in Holborn, the next bishop, William de Luda, probably built the chapel. The next benefactor was John de Hotham, who added a vineyard, kitchen garden, and orchard. Bishop Arundel, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, erected a gate-house, the stonework of which bore his arms, to be seen in Stow's time. "In the reign of Elizabeth it was given by the Queen to Sir Christopher Hatton, in whose family it remained until the year 1772, when it reverted to the Crown on the death of the head of the Hatton family. An Act, 12 George III., was passed, which made over to the Bishops of Ely a house in Dover Street, Piccadilly, with an annuity of £200, payable for ever. 1 In The Antiquary, December 1898, will be found an account of Furnival's Inn. The whole of Wales being thus subject to the crown of England, it followed that no Lordship Marcher could exist but such as was holden in capite before the conquest of Wales. Many lords had jurisdiction royal of their lands at periods long subsequent to this; but they were not Lordship Marchers but chartered rights, and many of them were held by tenants of the ancient Marchers; the prohibition of subinfeudation provided for by the statute Quia Emptores not being applicable to the king's tenants in capite, until the 34th year of the reign of King Edward III. The authorities which have been consulted, besides those to which reference has been made in the notes, are Canon Payne's book, The Treatise on the Government of Wales, Lansdowne MSS., No. 216 Brit. Museum; Powel's Hist. of Wales; Annales Cambriæ; Brut y Tywysogion, Rolls Ed.; Williams's Hist. of Strata Florida, &c. Wales and how Carmarthen and Cardiganshire came to be part thereof," which may throw some valuable light on this subject. |