Nehemiah Wallington (1598–1658) was an English Puritan artisan (a wood turner ) and chronicler from Eastcheap . He left over 2,500 pages and 50 volumes on himself, religion and politics, 8 of which survive.
8-399: Born on 12 May 1598, he was the tenth child of John Wallington (d. 1641), a turner of St. Leonard's, Eastcheap , by his wife Elizabeth (d. 1603), daughter of Anthony Hall (d. 1597), a citizen and skinner of London. He recorded his ten suicide attempts of 1618–19; trying poison, hanging, and even contemplating drowning and cutting open his own throat– all because he took his lustful feelings as
16-641: A sign of reprobation. A little before 1620 Nehemiah entered into business on his own account as a turner, and took a house in Little Eastcheap, between Pudding Lane and Fish-street Hill. There he passed the remainder of an uneventful life. In 1639 he and his brother John were summoned before the court of Star-chamber on the charge of possessing prohibited books. He acknowledged that he had possessed William Prynne 's Divine Tragedie , Matthew White's Newes from Ipswich , and Henry Burton 's Apology of an Appeale , but pleaded that he no longer owned them. He
24-473: Is recorded as early as 1259. During the 19th century, excavations in Eastcheap for the new Metropolitan District Railway revealed the foundations of the church. They showed the remains of a long chancel and a nave, the masonry on the north side of which incorporated what was believed to be Roman brickwork. The patronage of the church belonged to the prior and abbey of Christchurch, Canterbury, and then to
32-475: The dean and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral . The church contained monuments to the members of the Dogget family, including John Dogget, who died in about 1456 and gave land to the church. In 1618 the church was badly damaged by fire. The steeple, with its lead-covered spire, and the west end of the church were so badly damaged that they had to be demolished, and reconstructed on new foundations. The south wall
40-610: Was a parish church in the City of London . Of medieval origin, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. The site of the church was retained as a graveyard. The church stood in Fish Street Hill, on the corner of Eastcheap , in the ward of Bridge Within . It was also known as St Leonard Milkchurch, a name, according to John Stow , derived from one of its builders, William Melker. Its existence
48-474: Was kept under surveillance by the court for about two years, but suffered no further penalty. In 1619 or 1620 he was married to Grace, sister of Zachariah and Livewell Rampain (Rampaigne). Zachariah was killed in Ireland on a plantation in 1641. Livewell was minister at Burton , near Lincoln , and afterwards at Broxholme . By her Wallington had several children, of whom only a daughter, Sara, survived him. She
56-555: Was married to a puritan, named John Haughton, on 20 November 1641. Wallington died in the summer or autumn of 1658. Wallington left three compilations of contemporary events. Wallington's Historical Notes were published in 1869 (London, 2 vols. 8vo) under the editorship of Miss R. Webb, with the title Historical Notices of Events occurring chiefly in the Reign of Charles I . St. Leonard%27s, Eastcheap St. Leonard, Eastcheap , sometimes referred to as St Leonard Milkchurch ,
64-647: Was then also rebuilt, and other repairs made. The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. Instead its parish was united with that of St Benet Gracechurch and the site of the church was retained as a graveyard. The parish now forms part of the combined parish of St Edmund the King and Martyr , and St Mary Woolnoth Lombard Street with St Nicholas Acons , All Hallows Lombard Street , St Benet Gracechurch , St Leonard Eastcheap, St Dionis Backchurch and St Mary Woolchurch Haw – usually shortened to "St Edmund & St Mary Woolnoth". It
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