Identifier: someaccountofpar01dipr (find matches)
Title: Some account of the parish of Saint Clement Danes (Westminster) past and present
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Diprose, John, 1814-1879 Hopkins, John Baker, 1830-1888
Subjects: Westminster, England. St. Clement Danes (Parish) Elections -- London Westminster (England)
Publisher: London, Diprose and Bateman
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e isleft but 90 ; so that there are lost and dead in the said seven years, or neverwere, though paid for in their books, 109. 2. Note, that of 55 bound out apprentices in these seven years last past,which cost the parish ;^I09 8s., there are only left 32 ; and how many of the32 will stay to serve out their time is to be inquired further of. 3. Note, that 51 of the no were foundlings, all Clements, laid in theparish in six years last, and so take the name of Clement from the parish, 51 ;were then there, 16 ; in all, 67. Now, only 3 are bound out apprentices, and 13 are left of the number 16 ;and the 51, all Clements, are all lost and dead. Now, the parish books havebeen searched how many were christened of these foundlings or Clements, orIjuried, and very few appear upon the register. It is questionable if they everwere all there, though paid for. It is much that 51 should die out of 67 inseven years. The particular money paid for nursing of these children is;^i,943 9s. in seven years.
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PICKETT STREET. 195 The old Angel Inn, which had its galleries and gable ends,and large court-yard, was of great antiquity. Bishop Harper, thevenerated Martyr of the Reformation, upon his second committal to the Fleet Prison in 1553, refusing to recant his opinions, was con-demned to be burnt in January, 1555. After his condemnation, hewas aroused at four oclock in the morning, and being committed to the care of six of Queen Marys guard, they took him to the AngelInn, St. Clements, then standing in the fields; thence he was takento Gloucester, and there burnt on the 9th of February. In the Public Advertiser, March 28th, 1769, appears the fol-lowing advertisement:— To be sold, a Black Girl, the property of J. B , eleven years of age, who is extremely handy, works at her needle tolerably, and speaks Englishperfectly well; is of an excellent temper and willing disposition. Inquire ofMr. Owen, at the Angel Inn, behind St. Clements Church in the Strand. The Angel was an old estabUshed trav

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