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1616, for ten poor men and women;
who receive 6d. per week each, and every
other year coats and gowns.
Alleyn's Almshouse in Soap yard, Dead-
man's Place in Southwark, was also
founded by the above Edward Alleyn,
about the year 1616, for ten poor men
and women, with an allowance of only
6d. per week.
Allhallows Barking church, at the east
end of Tower street, is so denominated
from its being dedicated to all the Saints,
vulgarly called Allhallows; and its
anciently belonging to the Abbess and
Convent of Barking in Essex. It es-
caped the fire in 1666, and carries about
it the marks of that period when archi-
tecture was not well understood in Eng-
land. The church is of considerable
extent, and the steeple is a plain tower
with its turret. It is a vicarage in the
patronage of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. The Vicar, besides other advan-
tages, receives about 126l. a year in
tithes.
Allhallows Bread street. The old church
was destroyed by the dreadful confla-
gration which laid most of the other
churches in ruins; and the present edifice
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was erected in 1684. It consists of a plain
body, and a square tower divided into
four stages with arches near the top. It
is a rectory, and one of the thirteen pe-
culiars in this city belonging to the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury.
The advowson of this church is in
the Archbishop of Canterbury, and to
this parish that of St. John the Evangelist
is united. The Vicar, besides glebes, ca-
sualties, annual donations, and other
advantages, receives 140l. a year in lieu
of tithes. Maitland.
The following monumental inscrip-
ton in this church is worthy of a place in
this work. It is to the memory of Hum-
frey Levins, a citizen and grocer of Lon-
don, who died in 1682, in the fifty-
third year of his age, and his son Hum-
frey, a youth aged fourteen, who died
in 1677, and lies buried in the same
grave.
Which shall we weep? both merit tears; yet sure
Tears are but vain, where bliss is so secure.
Which shall we praise? our eulogy can't add
Unto the bless'd, who God's kind euge had.
Our duty's but to imitate and admire
This happy pair of the celestial choir.
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