Funeral proceedings describing
Jonson
as walking next to Auditor Phillips
in the funeral procession for Sir John
Lemmon (or Leman, 1544-1632,
Lord Mayor
)
, 3 May 1632 .
Jonson
's stroke has been thought to disable him late in his life, possibly suggesting
that the
Jonson
named here is someone else, but Bland argues that in this procession '
Jonson
was in a group of
City
dignitaries with the Town Clerk, the Auditor, the Beadle, and the
Chamberlain', and was therefore occupying his role as City Chronologer in this context
(1998a, 169 and n.34). The
document comprises one folded sheet, with the list of mourners on pp. 1-4.
Eugene Giddens
[fol. 1]
The proceedinge at the funerall of Si
r ʌ ⎡Iohn⎤ Lemmon Knight somtimes Lord
Maior of
London
whose funerall was solemenised vpon Thursdaye the 3. of Maij 1632 . & proceeded from Grocers hall to St Michaells
church in Crooke [d] Lane where his Corps Lyeth interred
Lord Mayor Mourner
first the chilldren of the Hospitall
[fol.
2]
Esquires
M Ben Iohnson - Auditor Philips
Bibliography
Bland (1998a), 154-82
Francis Phillips held office as the auditor of circuit 3 (an exchequer position) from 11 Jan. 1619 to 15 Mar. 1643.
Lemmon was a member of the Fishmongers' Company, being prime warden in 1616; he had been elected an alderman for Portsoken Ward in 1605, was a sheriff the following year, and subsequently was alderman for Langbourn (1616) and Cornhill (1617-1632). He was mayor in 1616-17, and his mayoral pageant was Anthony Munday's Chrysanaleia, the Golden Fishing. He was the first bachelor mayor since 1491, leaving large bequests to charitable projects.