have industriously searched through them for the illustration of Shakspeare and Dryden'; and Mr. Herbert most diligently for his improved edition of "Ames's Typographical Antiquities.” Many curious particulars relating to the uses made of Stationers hall may be found in Malone's Life of Dryden, and at the commencement of the last Century concerts were frequently given in it, similar to those now common in Hanover-square and other places. Numbers of funeral feasts and convivial meetings have besides been celebrated and held there, exclusive of those peculiar to the Company. The City wall extends along the West end of the Court-room of Stationers Hall, where a small piece of ground has recently been demised by the City of London to Messrs. Leech and Dallimore, proprietors of the London Coffee-house; for the purpose of enlarging their already extensive buildings (a part of which, a few years after the pulling down of Ludgate, was fitted up as a German chapel). The workmen employed discovered, in July 1806, one of the bastions of the old City wall, a circular staircase, and, worked in with the masonry, a mutilated female head as large as the life, with coarse features, a sexagon altar three feet ten inches and high, and width 2 feet 6 inches, thus inscribed: D. M. C. MARTIN NAE. AN. XL TVS PROVINC CONIVGI PIENTISSIME H. S. E. They found also an elegant broken trunk and thighs, of a statue of Hercules; the whole of which, correctly drawn by Mr. John Carter, was engraved by Mr. Basire, and published in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXXVI. p. 792. BENE BENEFACTORS TO THE COMPANY. Mr. Thomas Dockwray 1, Master, 1554-1557. Mr. John Cawood, Warden, 1554-1557 Mr. Dockwray gave to the Company one glass window in their new Hall, and "a spone of sylver, parcel gilt." He was Master from December 1554 to July 1558; and was buried in St. Faith's church, with this epitaph : "Here under thys stone restythe, yn the mercy of God, which Thomas deceased the XXIII daye of June, anno MCCCCCLIX, And the said Anne decessyd the ...... day Whose dethe have you in remembrance, calling to God for mercy." John Cawood was of an antient family in the county of York; as appears from a book at the Heralds'-office, William Grafton, VI A, B, C, London, wherein are the following words: "Cawood, Typographus Regius Regina Maria." He was three times Master of the Company; in 1561, 1562, and 1566. He gave them six yards of wainscote in their Council Chamber; and two new glazed windows in the Hall; a portrait of himself, and another of his master, John Raynes; a herse clothe, of clothe of gold, pouderyd with blew velvet, and borderyd abought with blacke velvet, embroidered and steyned with blew, yelow, red, and green." He also gave a salt and cover, weighing six ounces and a half, double gilt, with the Stationers arms on it; another salt, without a cover, weight 9 ounces; a spone, all gylt;" the Arms of England gravyn on stone, and set in a frame at the upper end of the Hall; and " a box with a patent given by Harolds to the Company of Stacyoners, concerninge their Armes, with Charges."-He was buried in St. Faith's church, where his tomb was thus inscribed: "John Cawood, Citizen and Stationer of London, Printer to the most renowned Queen's Majesty, Elizabeth, married three wives, and had issue by Joane his first wife onely, as followeth, three sons and four daughters; John his eldest son being Bachelor of Law, and Fellow in New College, in Oxenford, died 1570. Mary married to George Bischoppe, Stationer; Isabell married to Thomas Woodcock, Stationer. Gabrael, his second son, bestowed this dutifull remembrance of his deare parents, 1591, then churchwarden; Susanna married to Robert Bullok; Barbara married to Mark Norton; Edmund, third son, died 1570. He died 1 of April, 1572, he being of age then 58" [Gabriel Cawood was Master in 1592 and 1599.] 1557 Mr. Henry Cooke', Warden. 1563 Mr. Thomas Dewyxsell3. 1567 Mr. William Lambe 5. ' Mr. Cooke gave ten quires of Royal paper to make the two earliest accompt books, which were bound at the cost of Thomas Dewkswell (the value of the paper 11s. Sd.) Mrs. Toye appears to have been a courteous dame, contributing to all the Company's collections for the establishment of their corporation, and their public dinners. She also paid for one of the glazed windows in the Hall. In 1560, she presented the Company with a new table-cloth, and a dozen of napkins. 3 Mr. Dewyxsell, in 1563, gave by will one fourth of the residue of his property to the Company, for the use of the poor. "A cup all gilt, with a cover, called a maudelen cuppe, weighing 11 ounces,' was given by Mr. May; and at the same time "a spone all gylt," with the arms of the house, the gift of Mr. Jugge; and another, the gift of Mr. Irelande. 5 Mr. William Lambe, Clothworker, gave this Company an annuity of 61. 13s. 4d. charged on the chapel, or church, of St. James, lying near the Wall of the City of London, and within the gate of the same city called Crippelgate, and the churchyard to the said chapel, or church adjoining, confirmed by his last will, for perpetual relief of the poor in the parish of St. Faith under Paul's. Out of the annuity the Company undertook to pay 6s. 8d. for a Sermon at St. Faith's on the 6th of May; and also to give weekly to twelve poor men or women of that parish one penny in money, and one penny in bread; leaving to the Company 11. 28. Sd. towards a dinner. The Sermon is still preached, agreeably to the will of Mr. Lambe, on the 6th of May, when the twelve pensioners are regularly required to attend. Mr. Lambe died (saith Stowe) in 1577; which must be a mistake; but Mr. Newcourt very properly suggests, that it was about two or three years before that time; for his will, proved in the Prerogative-office, bears date March 10, 1579, and a codicil annexed to it April 1, 1580, both which were proved June 2, 1580; so that it is plain he died between the first of April and the beginning of June, that year. Stowe likewise tells us, that then (1577) he gave this Chapel to the Clothworkers of London. He was buried in the church of St. Faith: and near his grave a brass plate on a pillar was thus inscribed: "As I was, so are ye; WILLIAM 1567 Mr. Bacon 1. WILLIAM LAMBE, SO sometimes was my name, Henry the Eight, who, of his princely grace, By whose favour, from gentleman to esquire Which (all alive) true lovers were to me, Where I (poor Lambe) went from thy flock astray, Yet thou, good Lord, vouchsafe thy Lambe to winne Home to thy folde, and holde thy Lambe therein; That at the day, when Lambes and Goates shall sever, Of thy choise lambes, Lambe may be one for ever." Under which remembrance two lines are added, containing both a Petition, and an Injunction of Duty to the Poor, who weekly receive their allowance at the hands or appointment of the Company of Stationers; the which Mr. Lambe, bearing great affection, and having also a reasonable assurance in them; he made them his disposers and stewards in that behalf. "I pray you all, that receive bread and pence, In 1580 was published, in 8vo, "A Memoriall of the famous Monuments and charitable Almes-deedes of the right worshipfull Mr. Willm. Lambe, esquier, sometime Gent. of the Chapel in the reign of the most renowned Kinge Henry theight, &c. late Citizen of London, and free of the right worshipfull Company of Clothworkers, who deceased the xx1 of Aprill, 1580. By Abr. Fleming." See Herbert's Ames, vol. III. p. 1340. The Chapel of St. James, which had originally been a Hermitage dependant on the Abbey of Garendon in Leicestershire, was granted by king Henry VIII. in 1543; and, it is supposed, confirmed by (though Stowe says purchased from) Edward VI. to the said William Lambe, one of the gentlemen of the king's chapel, citizen and clothworker of London; from whom it hath been since generally called Lambe's Chapel. It contains the monument of Mr. Lambe, with four Saints, James, Matthew, Peter, and Matthias; engraved in the History of Leicestershire, vol. III. p. 843. See an ample account of William Lambe, and his various charities, Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LIII. p. 134. 'Mr. Bacon, in 1567, gave "a bowle parcell gylt".—In the same year Mr. Jugge and Mr. Daye gave, each a spoone all gylt." 1568 Mr. Arthur Pepwell. 1572 Mr. Reginald Wolfe?. 1573 Mr. Richard Jugge3. 1584 Mr. Ralph Newbery 4. 1591 Mr. Francis Coldock 5. 1593 Mr. William Norton 6. gylt."-Such bowls and spoons were at that period the usual gift of the Master and Wardens; and were inscribed either with their names, their arms, or a posey; and so continued till 1581, when it was agreed that every Master, on quitting his office, should give a piece of plate, weighing 14 ounces at leyst; and every Upper or Under Warden, on election, to give a piece of plate of at least three ounces. In 1604, Mr. East was excused from serving offices, on giving a piece of plate weighing 31 ounces. —In 1605, a silver salt, with a cover gilt, weighing 11 ounces, was presented by Mr. Dawson and Mr. Harris; and a silver salt, with a cover gilt, by Mr Edward Bishop. In 1607, two gilt bowls were given by Mr. White and Mr. Leake, late Wardens. In 1617, three silver cups were given by Mr. Mann, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Matthew Lane, late Master and Wardens, weighing 26 ounces wanting 12 grains. Mr. Arthur Pepwell (son of Henry, of whom see p. 546) gave 100l. for the use of the poor. 2 Mr. Wolfe gave, besides the usual silver bowl and spoons, "the Stacyoners armes standyng in a faire compartyment." 3 Mr. Jugge, beside the usual bowl and spoons, gave "eight gryne cushions for the Council-chamber." 4 Mr. Newbery was Master of the Company in 1598 and 1601. He gave a stock of books, and privilege of printing, to be sold for the benefit of Christ's Hospital and Bridewell. 5 Mr. Coldock gave "a silver college pot." He was Master in 1591, and again in 1595. On a pillar in St. Faith's church: "Near to this place lieth buried the body of Francis Coldock, twice Master of the Company of Stationers, who departed this life the x1 day of January, 1600, being of the age of threescore and twelve years; who married Alice, the widow of Richard Waterson; and had issue by her two daughters. Joane, married to William Ponsonby, Stationer; and Anne, who died young, The said Alice was the daughter of Simon Burton, Citizen and Waxchandler of London." 6 Mr. William Norton, a Printer of great note, and sometime Treasurer of Christ's Hospital, lived in St. Paul's Church-yard. He was Master of the Company 1581, 1586, and 1593, the year in which he died. By his will, dated Jan. 5, 1593-4, he gave 61. 13s. 4d. a year to Christ's Hospital; and the like şum (to be paid annually by the Governors of the Hospital) to the poor of the Company of Stationers. On a tomb in the old church of St. Paul was this inscription: "William Norton, Citizen and Stationer of London, and Trea surer |