"Mr. Thomas Smith, chaplain to the earl of Pembroke, buryed 24 January 1623." This earl of Pembroke was father of the earl whose children were baptized in the parish, and proves that he also resided in St. Bennet's.
"Mr. Sadler, chaplaine to the earl of Carnarvon, buryed 23 October 1633."
In this parish stood Derby-house, now the Heralds' College, the town residence in former times of the Stanleys, earls of Derby; and Huntingdon-house, belonging to lord Hastings, stood in, or very near to this parish; and which Mr. Pennant acquaints us, in his very entertaining History of London, "became the lodging of Richard the IIId. in his second year."
I saw no other persons of title in the register, but some of the members of the Heralds' College, and of those I shall speak in an history of that college and its members, being a work I have now nearly completed, and of those gentlemen who belong to Doctors' Commons, except "Annabella, daughter of sir Robert Needham, baptized 10 June 1638," be an exception.
Of the Plague are these entries.
It began July 15, 1625. In July 7 died of it; in August 42; in September 23; in October 3; and in November 1.
It commenced again June 5, 1630, in which month two were buried, and there is no other entry until
August 8, 1636; in that month were five buried of this dreadful disorder; in September 31; in August 6; in November 4; in December 2, when the complaint ceased.
It broke out again August 28, 1643; one was buried of it in that month, and one in September.
It appeared again August 25, 1644;. 1 died in that month; inSeptember
