Savage’s court, Widegate alley, Bishopsgate street.†
Savage’s rents, Black Friars.†
Savery’s alley, Farmer’s street, Shadwell.†
Savile row, near New Bond street.†
St. Saviour’s Bermondsey, a priory, and afterwards an abbey, founded by Alwin Child, a citizen of London, in the year 1082, in the place now denominated St. John’s court Bermondsey.
This priory was not only confirmed by the charter of William Rufus, together with all the benefactions belonging to it; but that Prince also conferred upon the Prior and Monks the manor of Bermondsey, and erected a handsome and spacious conventual church for their accommodation. This priory, however, being an alien and a cell to one in France, it was among other foreign foundations sequestered by Edward III. in the year 1371, who constituted Richard Denton, an Englishman, Prior thereof.
This priory was in 1391 converted into an abbey; and at the general suppression of monasteries in the year 1539 was surrendered to Henry VIII. when being granted to Sir John Pope, he demolished the old abbey, and erected in its room a stately edifice, which some time after came to the Earls of Sussex. Stow’s Survey.
St. Saviour’s dock, vulgarly called Savory dock, in Rotherhith, took its name from the above abbey, dedicated to the holy Saviour. Maitland.
St. Saviour’s Mill, vulgarly called Savory mill, also belonged to the above abbey, and was in the year 1536 let by the Abbot and Monks to John Curlew, at the yearly rent of 6l. which was then the value of eighteen quarters of good wheat; and he was also bound to grind all the corn used in the abbey.
In the place where this mill stood, is now an engine for raising water to supply the neighbourhood. Maitland.