The Marland Family

History in print

From Historical Gazetteer of London before the Great Fire: Cheapside; parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St Martin Pomary, St Mary le Bow, St Mary Colechurch and St Pancras Soper Lane (1987)

pp. 24-9: All Hallows Honey Lane 11/4

By c. 1518 the tenement had passed to Henry Frowyk son of Sir Henry Frowyk. In 1518-19 he sold his 2 tenements, one in All Hallows Honey Lane and the other in St. Mary Magdalen Milk Street, adjacent to the church, to Sir Thomas Exmewe, kt., citizen and alderman, on behalf of the parish of St. Mary Magdalen Milk Street, for £140 (paid by the parish). William Marland, tenant of the Honey Lane tenement, paid his rent to the parish from 1519. He held the remainder of Hawe's lease, and when Frowyk's grant to Exmewe was confirmed by a common recovery in 1520, Marland objected that this was done with intent to defraud him of his term. He was assured that this was not the case and paid the £3 rent in 1520 and 1521. The parish repaired his hearth in 1521 [GL, MS 2596/1 (accounts and minutes, St. Mary Magdalen Milk Street 1518-1606), 1518-21; HPL 175, m. 8].

When Merland's lease expired in 1522 the parish did not renew it but began to demolish the tenement in order to extend the church. It is not clear whether William Merland, mercer, assessed c. 1522-4 for subsidy in the parish of All Hallows Honey Lane was still then occupying 4. Part at least of the plot in Milk Street seems to have been vacant, and in use as a churchyard. The parish sold a strip of Frowyk's late tenement to the Drapers' Company, who owned 5, and granted another part to Thomas or John Gresham to build a mansion on the W. side of the churchyard, between the church and the messuage lately inhabited by Exmewe. When the rebuilding was complete, the chancel had been extended to take in the whole of 4, but the cellars beneath, with access from Honey Lane, remained in secular use for some years and were let to John Gresham with the new tenement on the N. side of the church (111/1) from 1528 or 1530 [PRO, E179/251/156, f. 52v; GL, MS 2596/1; see 5].