In the of Edward II. sir John Abel, knt. demised, or let unto Henry Stow, draper,

all that his capital messuage, called the Cold Harbrough, in the parish of All Saints

ad foenum

, and all the appurtenances within the gate, with the key which Robert Hartford, citizen, son to William Hartford, had and ought, and the foresaid Robert paid for it the rent of

33s.

the year. This Robert Hartford, being owner thereof, as also of other lands

in Surrey, deceasing without male issue, left

two

daughters his co-heirs, to wit, Idonea, married to sir Ralph Bigot; and Maud, married to sir Stephen Cosenton, knts. between whom the said house and lands were parted. After which John Bigot, son to the said sir Ralph, and sir John Cosenton, did sell their moieties of Cold Harbrough unto John Poultney, son of Adam Poultney, the

8th

of Edward III.

In the year , the of Richard II. John Holland, earl of Huntingdon, was lodged there, and Richard II. his brother, dined with him. It was then accounted a very fair and stately house. But, in the next year following, Edmund earl of Cambridge had this house, and was there lodged in the year ; notwithstanding the said house still retained the name of Poultney's-inn, in the reign of Henry VI. the of his reign. It belonged since to H. Holland, duke of Exeter, and he was lodged there in the year . In the year , Richard III. by his letters patents, granted and gave to John Writh, alias Garter, principal king of arms of England, and to the rest of the king's heralds and pursuivants of arms, all that messuage with the appurtenances, called Cold Erber, in the parish of All-saints the Less, in London, and their successors for ever. Dated at , the , , without fine or fee. In the reign of Henry VIII. the bishop of Durham's house, near , being taken into the king's hand, Cuthbert Tonstal, bishop of Durham, was lodged here.

This great house bishop Tonstal enjoyed even to the last year of king Edward VI. that is, to the year ; when, the bishop being under some cloud, and deposed from his bishopric, they took from him this house also; which the king granted to the earl of Shrewsbury, with the appurtenances to the said messuage belonging, together with houses or tenements in the parish of St. Dunstan in the east, and divers other lands in the county of York, to him and his heirs, to the yearly value of The teste of the patent was the , the king dying but or days after.

No remains of this celebrated building exist. The above view is taken from Hollar's long view of London, , .

On the south west angle of was Waterman's hall, a handsome brick building, situate with its front towards the Thames.