APPENDIX VI
THE NEW BUILDINGS OF LONDON
The following is taken from a contemporary pamphlet:—
“A Particular of the new buildings within the Bills of Mortality, and without the City of London, from the year 1656 to 1677, according to the account now taken by the churchwardens of the several Parishes and the old account of New Houses from 1620 to 1656, and what they did amount to at one whole year’s value, as appears by the Duplicate in the Exchequer:
| 1677. | 1656. | Value. | |||
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| Westminster | 490 |
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| Martins in the Fields | 1780 |
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| St. Giles in the Fields | 889 | 141 | 4855 | 8 | 6 |
| Convent Garden | 59 | 342 | 10,859 | 4 | 0 |
| Savoy | 37 |
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| St. Clement Danes | 253 | 183 | 3794 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Dustan in the West | 72 |
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| St. Bridget | 126 | 146 | 1475 | 15 | 0 |
| St. Andrews, Holbourn | 550 |
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| St. Sepulchre | 35 | 127 | 725 | 11 | 2 |
| Clerkenwell | 199 |
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| Bartholomew Great | 11 | 47 | 205 | 15 | 0 |
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| Aldersgate | 102 | 30 | 390 | 0 | 0 |
| Criplegate |
| 517 | 3362 | 1 | 0 |
| Bishopsgate | 208 | 265 | 1925 | 7 | 0 |
| Algate | 50 | 520 | 2855 | 7 | 8 |
| Minories | 16 | 6 | 45 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Katherines | 24 | 51 | 370 | 7 | 0 |
| White Chappel | 423 | 291 | 2620 | 4 | 4 |
| Shoreditch | 144 | 348 | 1170 | 7 | 0 |
| Stepney | 2137 | 1625 | 11,719 | 6 | 10 |
| Shadwell | 289 |
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| Hackney | 51 |
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| Islington | 25 |
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| S. Saviours, Southwark |
| 339 | 2137 | 11 | 4 |
| S. Olave, Southwark | 385 | 147 | 963 | 12 | 4 |
| S. George, Southwark | 231 | 144 | 595 | 18 | 0 |
| S. Thomas, Southwark |
| 160 | 788 | 19 | 10 |
| Redriff | 219 | 59 | 397 | 7 | 0 |
| Bermondsey | 349 | 428 | 3669 | 9 | 10 |
| Christ-Church | 100 |
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| Newington | 107 | 247 | 995 | 2 | 8 |
| Lambeth | 185 | 383 | 1684 | 6 | 4 |
| 6646 | 57,606 | 1 | 10 | |
The total of the New Buildings from 1656 to 1677 is about Ten Thousand.
The Total from 1620 to 1656 was about Seven Thousand Five Hundred.
Their value at one year’s rent about Seventy Thousand Pound if it had been collected.
Though the particular makes the number but 6646, and the sum but 57,606 Pounds, some Parishes being wanting.
As there have been great mistakes about the Damage and Nuisance by the increase of New Buildings in the Suburbs: so by this we may see the mistake to be as great about their number and value; some reporting their number to be Twenty Thousand; others Thirty Thousand: though it is very plain to any man that considers that their number cannot be much above Ten Thousand, for that the Total of all the Houses, both New and Old, both in the City and in the Bills of Mortality, are not Threescore Thousand.