1  Or  arrowsmith  (Riley,  '  Memorials,'
p.  60,  n.).
2  The  will  of  a  Sir  John  "  Lambe,"
described  as  chaplain  of  the  chantry
of  Sir  Thomas  More  in  the  chapel  of
S.  Thomas  the  Martyr  in  the  cemetery
commonly  called  "  Pardone  Cherchhawe,"
adj  oining  the  cathedral  church  of  S.  Paul,
of  which  administration  was  granted  in
1434,  is  preserved  among  the  cathedral
archives.    The  same  archives  also  con-


tain an  ordinance  by  the  Dean  and
Chapter  of  S.  Paul's  and  the  thirty
chaplains  dwelling  in  the  mansions
called  "  Presteshouses,"  touching  the
habitation  of  the  three  chaplains
attached  to  the  chapel  built  by  Sir
Thomas  More,  late  Dean  of  S.  Paul's,
in  honour  of  S.  Anne  and  S.  Thomas
the  Martyr,  dated  8  July,  1424  (Hist.
MSS.  Com.,  Ninth  Report,  Appendix,
pp.  48  a-55  a).
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468  CALENDAR  OF  WILLS,

A.D.  in  a  certain  chapel  in  S.  Paul's  churchyard  called  "Pardon-
143a~4'  chirchehawe,"  founded  by  Thomas  More,1  clerk,  in  ^honour  of
S.  Anne  and  S.  Thomas  the  Martyr,  he  leaves  certain  "tenements
and  shops  in  Bowyerrewe  in  the  parish  of  S.  Martin,  Ludgate,
in  le  Bayly  without  Ludgate,  and  also  near  le  Jewen  gardyn  in
the  parish  of  S.  Botolph  without  Aldrichegate,  charged  with  the
maintenance  of  an  additional  chantry  priest  in  the  aforesaid
chapel,  and  with  certain  payments  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of
S.  Paul's  for  choristers  to  sing  daily  after  compline  the  psalm  De
profundia  with  versicles,  Requiem  eternam,  and  the  prayer
Inclina  Domine  at  the  tomb  of  the  aforesaid  Thomas  More.
Dated  London,  1  December,  a.d.  1429.  Eoll  162  (24).
