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Excerpt from The Vestry Minute Books of the Parish of St. Bartholomew Exchange in the City of London, 1567-1676
In I 574, in the first assessment for the poor, there appear to have been 47 houses rated. In 1579 there were 67 rated, to pay the clerk's wages, in the main street, and 19 inhabitants in the three alleys, making a total of 86. At the same period there were 55 rated for the collection for the poor.
In 1602 there were 73 persons rated for the poor in the main street and 18 in the alleys. In 1664 there were 108 houses in the parish rated for the poor, besides apparently 4 poor houses and 6 parish children. In the year 1674 there were 94 houses rated for the poor, and in the year 1732 there. Were 118; from which figures it will, I think, appear that the parish gradually increased until just before the great fire, when it was as full as it could hold and that when completely rebuilt, between 1674 and 1732, It had as many inhabited houses as in 1664.
The family of Capel, from whose house Capel Court takes its name, was an important family in the reigns of King Henry the Seventh, King Henry the Eighth, and Queen Elizabeth. A member of the family built a chantry at the south-east end of the south aisle, which retained its name as the Capel Chapel long after the chantry had been abolished. The name of Capel Court is well known. The family of Shorter appears in the parish books in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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