Editing Finsbury (section)

===Manor and parishes===
It is not entirely clear how the territory and rights of the Soke evolved into the subsequent administrative and ecclesiastical units.

The area covered by the Soke was served by two parishes; the little parish of [[St Botolph's, Aldersgate|St Botolph without Aldersgate]] served the extramural City Ward of [[Aldersgate|Aldersgate Without]], while the parish of [[St Giles-without-Cripplegate]] served the extramural City Ward of [[Cripplegate|Cripplegate Without]] and the Manor (estate) of Finsbury.<ref>Records of St Giles without Cripplegate, Chapter 6 see https://archive.org/stream/recordsstgilesc01dentgoog/recordsstgilesc01dentgoog_djvu.txt</ref> In the 17th century, Little and Lower Moorfields, previously in the Manor of Finsbury and Parish of St Giles, was transferred to the [[Coleman Street Ward]] of the City of London (and also to the parish of [[St Stephen Coleman Street]] for religious purposes). This meant that Coleman Street Ward also possessed an extramural area.<ref>The development of Moorfields [London], the historical background’, in Reclaiming the Marsh: Archaeological excavations at Moor House, City of London, 1998-2004 (ed. J Butler), PCA Monograph 6 (London)</ref><ref>Stow, writing in 1603 describes the boundaries of Cripplegate and Coleman Street Wards and the area is in neither at that time. The Ogilby and Morgan Map of 1676 shows the Little and Lower Moorfields as part of Coleman Street Ward</ref>

[[File:Map 1682 Bethlem in Moorfields.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Detail from London Map by William Morgan (1682), showing siting of new Bethlem Hospital (1676) built in Moorfields, North London|Lower Moorfields, [[north London]] in 1676, including the re-sited [[Bethlem Royal Hospital|Bethlem Hospita]]l. London's Wall and the [[Moorgate]] are clearly shown, and some of the administrative boundaries can also be discerned.]]

From mid-12th century the Manor of Finsbury was owned by St Paul's cathedral and managed as a [[Prebendary]] Manor to provide a prebend (a stipend of money or goods) to support an ecclesiastic person such as a [[canon (priest)|canon]], or an institution. For a long time the prebendary income went to [[Holywell Priory]] in nearby [[Shoreditch]], so the estate became known as the ''Prebend of Halliwell and Finsbury'',<ref>'Religious Houses: Houses of Augustinian canonesses', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, the Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes To 1870, Private Education From Sixteenth Century, ed. J S Cockburn, H P F King and K G T McDonnell (London, 1969), pp. 170-182. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol1/pp170-182 [accessed 13 August 2020].</ref> though the Priory itself did not lie adjacent to the prebendary manor or form part of it.

The prebendary manor of Finsbury was, from 1315,<ref>Remembrancia, compiled by W.H. and H.C. Overall p274</ref> leased by the [[Lord Mayor of London]], so that after that the formal title of the Mayors has been ''Mayor of London and Lord of Finsbury''.<ref>Online dictionary of heraldry https://www.heraldryclipart.com/dictionary/dm.html</ref> The mayoral manor house, ''Finsbury Court'', lay on the junction of [[Chiswell Street]] and Finsbury Pavement.

[[File:Ward Coleman Street plaque London.jpg|thumb| The parts of [[Coleman Street Ward]] north of the Wall, were part of the Manor of Finsbury.]]
In this way the part of St Giles parish, ''Cripplegate Without'', that was part of the city was also known as ''The Freedom'' and governed by the Mayor as a part of, or a dependency of the city. The remaining part, ''The Manor of Finsbury'', was also known as ''The Lordship'', where the Mayor's position was that of a lessee, albeit with the title ''Lord of the Manor of Finsbury''.

Other accounts suggest the Manor passed to the Lord Mayors later, being made over their use by [[Richard II of England|Richard II]], in gratitude for the killing of [[Wat Tyler]] by Mayor [[William Walworth]] at Smithfield in 1381.

In 1733, the growth of the local population, led to the part of St Giles-without-Cripplegate outside the city, the area which had been the Manor of Finsbury, being made an independent parish, known as ''St Luke's'', after the parish church.