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1639 charter

 * 97 parishes within the walls
 * All added 1603, except St James Duke's Place was added in 1626
 * 16 parishes outside the walls:
 * St Andrew Holborn
 * St Bartholomew the Great (parish), from 1604 (originally exempt for being a precinct)
 * St Bartholomew the Less (parish)
 * St Botolph Aldgate
 * St Botolph Aldersgate
 * St Botolph Bishopsgate
 * St Bride
 * Precinct of Bridewell, from 1604 (originally exempt for being a precinct)
 * St Dunstan in the West
 * St Giles Cripplegate
 * St Sepulchre (parish)
 * Holy Trinity Minories, from 1604 (originally exempt for being a precinct)
 * Southwark St George
 * Southwark St Olave
 * Southwark St Saviour
 * Southwark St Thomas

Expansions
charter of 1639 divisions changed 1660
 * 1604: (8) St Clement Danes (parish), St Giles in the Fields (parish), St James Clerkenwell (parish), St Katherine by the Tower (parish), St Leonard Shoreditch (parish), St Mary Whitechapel (parish), St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey (parish), St Martin in the Fields (parish)
 * 1606: Precinct of the Savoy
 * 1626: Westminster St Margaret
 * 1636: (6) Hackney (parish), Islington (parish), Lambeth (parish), Newington (parish), Rotherhithe (parish), Stepney (parish)
 * 1726: St Mary le Strand (parish) (and possibly intermittently earlier)

List of places within the bills
Parishes within the walls were grouped together. Parishes outside the walls that were at least partly within the "liberties of the City London" were grouped together, this included the borough of Southwark. Parishes in Westminster were grouped together. All other parishes were designated "out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey".

New parishes from splits

 * St Anne Soho
 * St George Hanover Square
 * St James Piccadilly
 * Westminster St John
 * St Paul Covent Garden
 * Southwark Christchurch
 * Horsleydown
 * Bloomsbury
 * St George the Martyr Queen's Square
 * Spitalfields
 * Limehouse
 * St George in the East
 * St John Wapping
 * St Lukes
 * St John Clerkenwell
 * Shadwell
 * West Hackney
 * All Saints Poplar

Exemptions
The following were within the outer boundaries of the bills of mortality, but did not give returns because of their status as liberties or extra-parochial areas.
 * Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place
 * Furnivals Inn
 * Gray's Inn
 * Lincoln's Inn
 * Staple Inn
 * Barnard's Inn
 * Thavies Inn
 * Liberty of East Smithfield
 * Precinct of Whitefriars
 * Liberty of the Rolls
 * Clifford's Inn
 * Serjeant's Inn Chancery Lane
 * Serjeant's Inn Fleet Street
 * Charterhouse, London
 * Clement's Inn
 * New Inn
 * Verge of the Palaces of St James and Whitehall
 * Close of the Collegiate Church of St Peter
 * Old Artillery Ground
 * Liberty of Norton Folgate
 * Tower of London/St. Peter ad Vincula (London) 1729/1730 included then removed following year
 * Old Tower Without
 * Middle Temple
 * Inner Temple