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CELEBRATED SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON. 257
years it was filled with books to the value of £556, of
which Sir Richard contributed j£400, the rest being sup-
plied by Dr. Thomas Winchelsey, a friar. This was
about thirty years before the invention of printing. He
also rebuilt Newgate, and contributed largely to the repairs
of Guildhall.
Whittington, as well as his master, Mr. Fitzwarren, were
both mercers. How long he lived is uncertain, as his Latin
epitaph in the church of St. Michael, Paternoster, in the
Vintry, where he was buried, does not specify his birth.—•
His will, however, is signed December 21, 1423, and the
yere of King Henry VI. the thyrd after the Conquest of
France.
In this church of St. Michael, in the Vintry, Sir Richard
Whittington was three times buried; first by his executors,
under a fair monument; then in the reign of Edward VI.
when the parson of that church thinking to find great
riches in his tomb, broke it open and despoiled the body of
its leaden sheet, then burying it a second time. In the
reign of Queen Mary, she obliged the parishioners to take
up the body, and to restore the lead as before, and it was
ao-ain buried ; and so he remained till the Great Fire of
London violated his resting place a third time. This
church also, which his piety had founded, together with a
college and alms-houses near the spot, became the prey of
the flames in 1666 , though in 1630, the church cost the
parishioners T120 9s. for repairing and beautifying.
The capital house called Whittington College, with the
garden, &c. was z sold to Armagill Wade, in the second
year of Edward VI. for £92 2s. The alms-houses which
he founded for thirteen poor men, is still supported by the
Mercers Company, of which he vras a member, and in
whose custody there is still extant in fair writing, the origi-
nal ordinances of Sir Richard Whittington’s chanty, made
by his executors, Coventre, Carpenter, and Grove.—The
first page, curiously illuminated, represents the said Whit-
tington
years it was filled with books to the value of £556, of
which Sir Richard contributed j£400, the rest being sup-
plied by Dr. Thomas Winchelsey, a friar. This was
about thirty years before the invention of printing. He
also rebuilt Newgate, and contributed largely to the repairs
of Guildhall.
Whittington, as well as his master, Mr. Fitzwarren, were
both mercers. How long he lived is uncertain, as his Latin
epitaph in the church of St. Michael, Paternoster, in the
Vintry, where he was buried, does not specify his birth.—•
His will, however, is signed December 21, 1423, and the
yere of King Henry VI. the thyrd after the Conquest of
France.
In this church of St. Michael, in the Vintry, Sir Richard
Whittington was three times buried; first by his executors,
under a fair monument; then in the reign of Edward VI.
when the parson of that church thinking to find great
riches in his tomb, broke it open and despoiled the body of
its leaden sheet, then burying it a second time. In the
reign of Queen Mary, she obliged the parishioners to take
up the body, and to restore the lead as before, and it was
ao-ain buried ; and so he remained till the Great Fire of
London violated his resting place a third time. This
church also, which his piety had founded, together with a
college and alms-houses near the spot, became the prey of
the flames in 1666 , though in 1630, the church cost the
parishioners T120 9s. for repairing and beautifying.
The capital house called Whittington College, with the
garden, &c. was z sold to Armagill Wade, in the second
year of Edward VI. for £92 2s. The alms-houses which
he founded for thirteen poor men, is still supported by the
Mercers Company, of which he vras a member, and in
whose custody there is still extant in fair writing, the origi-
nal ordinances of Sir Richard Whittington’s chanty, made
by his executors, Coventre, Carpenter, and Grove.—The
first page, curiously illuminated, represents the said Whit-
tington