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 A HISTORY OF LONDON In 1540 the parishes of St. Margaret Westminster, St. Martin in the Fields, St. Clement Danes and St. Mary le Strand were included in the short-lived bishopric of Westminster, and on its abolition in 1550 were transferred to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London,*' though St. Margaret's seems later to have reverted to its peculiar status in respect to the Abbey or collegiate church of Westminster. In 1 8 10 the Bishop of London certified *^ the rectory of St. John the Evangelist and the ' curacy ' of St. Margaret as peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. These benefices were, however, annexed to two of the Westminster canonries in 1840 and placed under the jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Middlesex.*' The jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Westminster is now confined to the precinct of the Abbey. The old church of St. Mary le Strand *"' was pulled down by the Protector Somerset, and the present church was built in 1724.** While St. Mary's and St. Clement Danes have suffered from depopulation, like the churches in the City of London, the history of St. Margaret's and St. Martin's has been very different. To supply the needs of their growing population there have been successively built within the area of these parishes — in the 17th century the churches of St. Paul Covent Garden, St. James Piccadilly, and St. Anne Soho ; in the i8th those of St. George Hanover Square, and St. John the Evangelist Westminster; and in the 19th some twenty additional churches and chapels.*' Westminster now forms a deanery in the arch- deaconry of Middlesex ; the collegiate church of Westminster and the royal palaces are exempt from the ordinary jurisdiction. The pre-Reformation parishes of Southwark — those of St. George, St. Margaret, St. Mary Magdalen, and St. Olave — formed part of the deanery of Southwark in the diocese of Winchester. St. Saviour's was formed into a parish in 1540 by the amalgamation of the rectory of St. Margaret and the vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen.'" Christ Church and St. John's were erected as separate parishes by Acts of Parliament in 1671 and 1733 respectively,'^ and there are now in Southwark some thirteen ecclesiastical districts. The deanery of Southwark was transferred in 1846 from the diocese of Winchester to that of London, and in 1877 to Rochester." In 1904 the new diocese of Southwark was formed,'' with the church of St. Saviour as its cathedral. APPENDIX II PAROCHIAL RECORDS The records of many of the City parishes are both copious and ancient.^ About half of them" have been consulted for the part of the article on Ecclesiastical History dealing with the period between c. 1450 and 1666. In a few cases the search has been exhaustive ; in the others it has been conducted mainly with a view to elucidating special points or discovering something about the Pre-Reformation church and parish and the parochial history of the critical periods 1540-60 and 1640-60. A list of all the records used is given below. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are in the Guildhall Library and those marked with a dagger (t) at the respective churches to which they belong. It will be seen that a few are printed, wholly or in part. Extracts from many others are to be found in the numerous parochial histories and printed registers,' in the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, in J. Nichols' Illustrations of Manners, J. P. Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum, Sec* " By Stat. 3 & 4 Vic. cap. 113, sect. 29. "* The old church was in early times also known as the church of the Holy Innocents ; Stow, Surv. (ed. Kingsford), ii, 92 ; Harl. MS. 1708, fol. Hid. "' L. and P. Hen. Fill, xv, 498 (3), cap. 64; Wriothesley, Chron. (C.imd. See), i, I 13; Dollman, Priory of St. Mary Otery, 8 et seq. ; Chwdns.' Accts. St. Margaret Southwark, 1539-40. " r.C.H. Surr.'n, so. " Ibid. 52. " Stat. 4 Edw. VII, cap. 30. ' For contents of these see E. Freshfield, A disccurse on some unpubfished records of the City of London. ' Of the remainder a large proportion begin in the i8th century- ; see the Catalogue of the Guildhall Library. ' For these see the Guildhall Library Catalogue. References to several of them are given in the notes to the article above. dating, for which reference is necessary to the original MSS. The period for rendering the account (Lady Day, Christmas, etc.) varied in different parishes and in different years in the same parish and therefore the dates printed are often misleading and sometimes quite wTong. 404
 * Pat. 4 Edw. VI, pt. i, m. 23. *• Falor. Eccl. i, App. p. 460.
 * ° Seymour, Surv. of Land. (1735), ii, 682 ; Hennessey, Novum Repert. 313 " Ibid, passim.
 * Few of these collections of extmcts, however, are altogether accurate, especially with reg.ird to exact