Part of the Borough of Southwark, with the South-end of London Bridge and St. Olave's Church; from a View of London, published by Rombout ÿ Vanden Hoeÿe, Antwerp circa anno 1632; showing a Gate House on the spot referred to in the foregoing Letter.
I will now pursue the chain of documentary evidence, although somewhat broken, relating to the house in Churchyard Alley, in the parish of St. Olave, Southwark, which forms the subject of Mr. Gage Rokewode's paper, and of my former communication to you; but I have not found anything referring to it from the date of the last document mentioned in my former letter (12th Edward IV.), until a mortmain licence, by letters patent of the 12th Henry VIII., confirmed by other letters patent of 1st Edward VI.
By the first of these letters patent, which bears date 5th December, 12th Henry VIII. the King granted licence to Richard Panell, John Clerke, John Lovekyn, and Adam Byston, to convey to James Denton clerk, Rector of the parish church of Saint Olave the King, in Southwark, and his successors, one messuage, two shops (opellas), and a certain parcel of land, with the appurtenances, containing in length, between north and south, 15 rods 7 feet and 6 inches; and in breadth, between east and west, 10 perches and 5 feet; situate and being in the said parish of Saint Olave the King, (having) a tenement of the Prior and Convent of Lewes towards the east and south, a tenement of William
