^{page 140 note b} Stow records that Mr. Thomas Chapman was a “free and bountiful Benefactor” to the Church of S. Pancras, Soper Lane, when it was “repaired and beautified’ in the year 1621. In the year 1617 he gave to that Church “a fair and very costly Table, bearing the Figure of a Monument of that ever famous Queen Elisabeth.” His son followed in his footsteps, for in 1624, “to the further Beautifying of this Church, for the more graceful Entrance into it, he built a very fair Porch, at his his own proper Cost and Charges.” (Strype's Stow, i. 548.) Thomas Chapman the elder left an annuity of 3l. 10s. yearly to be paid for the preaching of three Sermons in his parish Church; to which amount Thomas Chapman the younger added a further sum of 40s. and also directed that a godly and learned sermon should be made on S. James' Day, being his Birthday, in every year. It was the younger of these two worthies who, by his Will dated 6 Sept. 1626, gave—

“For Sweeping the Pnlpit at Paul's Cross once a week … 2 12 0.” He was evidently a man of a social turn of mind, for he also left Two Pounds to be paid annually, “For a Dinner for the Parson and Churchwardens, with such relations of Mr. Chapman as might be in Town on the same Day.” Ibid. i. 549. The Church of S. Pancras, Soper Lane, was not rebuilt after the Great Fire.

^{page 140 note c} These words are interlined.