[1] The historian John Stow believed that the later dedication of "Benet Sherehog" was derived from a corruption of the name of Bennet Shorne, a benefactor of the church in the reign of Edward II.

[2] The patronage of the church belonged to the monastery of St Mary Overy until the Dissolution, when it passed to the Crown.

[3] Matthew Griffith chaplain to Charles I was rector from 1640 until 1642, when he was removed from the post and imprisoned after preaching a sermon entitled "A Pathetical Persuasion to Pray for Publick Peace" in St Paul's Cathedral.

[1] St Benet's was one of the 86 parish churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and it was not selected to be rebuilt when the 1670 Act of Parliament became law.

The parish was united to that of St Stephen Walbrook in the same year, but continued to be represented by its own churchwarden.