Europe, British Isles, England, City of London, St Helen's Church Bishopsgate
St Helen's Church Bishopsgate is in Bishopsgate [Map].
Around 1521 Robert Knollys (age 40) died. He was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 28 Aug 1533. The xxviij day of August ded ser John [Haryngton] (age 36) knyght, of Rottland-shyre, with-in Saynt Ellens, Bysshopgatt stret, and from that day that he ded tyll he was cared in-to ys contray, was mas and dirige evere day songe; and Monday the iiij day of September, [he] whent in-to the contray in a horse lytter, with ys standard and ys penon of armes, and after ys horsse .... with iiij pennons of armes borne a-bowt hym, and with a goodly helmet gylt, with targett, sword, and crest, and a x dosen of schochyons, and x dosen of pensells for a herse, and staff torchys, and a herse of wax, and a fere mageste, and the walans [vallance] gylded and frynged, and so to Ware, and so (forwards.)
Note. P. 43. Funeral of sir John Harington. Sheriff of Rutland the year before his death, and grandfather of John, created lord Harington of Exton in 1603. See Wright's History of Rutland, p. 148.
On 08 May 1534 Thomas Benolt died. He was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
On 13 Oct 1542 William Holles (age 71) died. He was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
On 13 Mar 1543 Elizabeth Scopham died. She was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
Before 19 Nov 1550 Agnes m Judde died. She was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 19 Nov 1550. The xix day of November was buried my lade Jude, ma[yress] of London, and wyff of sir Androw Jude (age 58), mayr of London, and bered in the parryche of saynt Ellen in Bysshope-gatt stret, for he gayff mony, gownes, and to the powre men and women ij C. gownes of mantyll ... and the Clarkes of London had the beryng of my lade, and then came ... with ij harolds a-for with iiij baners a-bowt her borne, and after my [lord] mayre and ys bredurne, and alle the stret and the chyrche wher hangyd with blake and with schochyons of ther armes, and a gret dolle and a grett [dinner.]
Henry Machyn's Diary. 14 Apr 1561. The xiiij day of Aprell a-for non was cared from sant Ellens in London, owt of a howse [where once] lyved old Clarenshus master Benolt the kyng at a[rms in the] tyme of kyng Henre viij. ser Arthur Darce (deceased), and cared [to saint] Botolffe with-owt Algatt [Map] to (be) bered by my lade ys [wife, with] a xx clarkes syngynge, and then cam the standard ... of armes and ys cott armur, ys target and sword and helmet, ... and ij haroldes of armes, on beyryng the elmett and nodur [the coat armour;] and the chyrche hangyd with blake and armes and raylles, [and the place] with blake and armes, and then cam the corse and vj of ys [servants] that bare hym, and mony mornars in blake; and he had a pall of blake velvett, and with armes of bokeram; and master Beycun dyd pryche ther.
In Jan 1565 William St Lo (age 47) died suddenly in the company of his brother Edward St Lo (age 46). He was buried in St Helen's Church Bishopsgate. Given that he had been suspected of poisoning William's wife Bess of Hardwick (age 38) five years before it is possible Edward had poisoned William. Edward St Lo (age 46) contested his brother's will unsuccessfully.
On 21 Nov 1579 Thomas Gresham (age 60) died of apoplexy. He was buried in St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
On 22 Mar 1610 John Spencer was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
Pepy's Diary. 18 Oct 1666. At noon with Lord Bruncker (age 46) to St. Ellen's, where the master of the late Pope's Head Taverne is now set up again, and there dined at Sir W. Warren's cost, a very good dinner. Here my Lord Bruncker (age 46) proffered to carry me and my wife into a play at Court to-night, and to lend me his coach home, which tempted me much; but I shall not do it.
Pepy's Diary. 14 Nov 1666. So took up my wife, her brother being yet very bad, and doubtful whether he will recover or no, and so to St. Ellen's [St. Helen's], and there sent my wife home, and myself to the Pope's Head, where all the Houblons were, and Dr. Croone1, and by and by to an exceeding pretty supper, excellent discourse of all sorts, and indeed [they] are a set of the finest gentlemen that ever I met withal in my life. Here Dr. Croone told me, that, at the meeting at Gresham College to-night, which, it seems, they now have every Wednesday again, there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dogg let out, till he died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own run out on the other side2. The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but, as Dr. Croone says, may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body.
Note 1. William Croune, or Croone, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, chosen Rhetoric Professor at Gresham College, 1659, F.R.S. and M.D. Died October 12th, 1684, and was interred at St. Mildred's in the Poultry. He was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society and first Registrar. In accordance with his wishes his widow (who married Sir Edwin Sadleir, Bart.) left by will one-fifth of the clear rent of the King's Head tavern in or near Old Fish Street, at the corner of Lambeth Hill, to the Royal Society for the support of a lecture and illustrative experiments for the advancement of natural knowledge on local motion. The Croonian lecture is still delivered before the Royal Society.
Note 2. At the meeting on November 14th, "the experiment of transfusing the blood of one dog into another was made before the Society by Mr. King and Mr. Thomas Coxe upon a little mastiff and a spaniel with very good success, the former bleeding to death, and the latter receiving the blood of the other, and emitting so much of his own, as to make him capable of receiving that of the other". On November 21st the spaniel "was produced and found very well" (Birch's "History of the Royal Society", vol. ii., pp. 123, 125). The experiment of transfusion of blood, which occupied much of the attention of the Royal Society in its early days, was revived within the last few years.
On 07 Feb 1677 Charles Edwin was baptised at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
On 01 Oct 1678 Stephen Anderson 2nd Baronet was born to Stephen Anderson 1st Baronet (age 34) and Judith Laurence Lady Anderson (age 30). He was baptised at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate on the same day.
On 26 Jan 1692 John Lawrence died. He was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
Before 05 Jul 1703 John Eyles died. On 05 Jul 1703 John Eyles was buried in St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
On 05 Jun 1716 Francis Eyles 1st Baronet was buried at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.
On 01 Nov 1768 John Haskins Eyles-Styles 4th Baronet (age 27) died unmarried. Baronet Eyles of London extinct. He was buried on 05 Nov 1768 at St Helen's Church Bishopsgate.