Pardon Churchyard, Smithfield

   Said to have been purchased and a chapel built there for the burial of those who died of the Black Death 1348-9, by Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London. Enlarged by the addition of Spital Croft by Sir W. Manny (Hendrik' & Charterhouse, p. 16)

   The churchyard of the Priory of StPardon Churchyard, Smithfield Bartholomew de Smethefeld was called "le Pardonchirchehawe," 1368 (Ct. H.W. II. 115).

   Qy. = Newechirche hawe.

   See New Church Hawe.

   Malcolm says it belonged to St. John of Jerusalem in 1522 (Lond. Rediv. I. 381).