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STAGE-KEEPER.

[…] would not a fine Pumpe vpon the Stage ha’ done well, for a property now? and a Punque set vnder vpon her head, with her Sterne vpward, and ha’ beene sous’d by my wity young masters o’the Innes o’ Court? what thinke you o’this for a shew, now? […]

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Scr.1 ARTICLES of Agreement, indented, between the Spectators or Hearers, at the Hope on the Bankeside, in the County of Surrey on the one party; And the Author of Bartholmew Fayre in the said place, and County on the other party: the one and thirtieth day of Octob. 1614. and in the twelfth yeere of the Raigne of our Soueragine Lord, IAMES by the grace of God King of England, France, & Ireland, Defender of the faith. And of Scotland the seauen and fortieth.2 […]

It is further couenanted, concluded and agreed, that how great soeuer the expectation bee, no person here, is to expect more then hee knowes, or better ware then a Fayre will affoord: neyther to looke backe to the sword and buckler-age of Smithfield, but content himselfe with the present. […]

In consideration of which, it is finally agreed, by the foresaid hearers, and spectators, that they neyther in themselues conceale, nor suffer by them to be concealed any State-decipherer, or politique Picklocke of the Scene, so solemnly ridiculous, as to search out, who was meant by the Ginger-bread-woman, who by the Hobby-horse-man, who by the Costard-monger, nay, who by their Wares. Or that will pretend to affirme (on his owne inspired ignorance) what Mirror of Magistrates is meant by the Iustice, what great Lady by the Pigge-woman, what conceal’d States-man, by the Seller of Mouse-trappes, and so of the rest. But that such person, or persons so found, be left discouered to the mercy of the Author, as a forfeiture to the Stage, and your laughter, aforesaid. As also, such as shall so desperately, or ambitiously, play the foole by his place aforesaid, to challenge the Author of scurrilitie, because the language some where sauours of Smithfield, the Booth, and the Pig-broath, or of prophanenesse, because a Mad-man cryes, God quit you, or blesse you. In witnesse whereof, as you haue preposterously put to your Seales already (which is your money) you will now adde the other part of suffrage, your hands, The Play shall presently begin. And though the Fayre be not kept in the same Region, that some here, perhaps, would haue it, yet thinke, that therein the Author hath obseru’d a speciall Decorum, the place being as durty as Smithfield, and as stinking euery whit.

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LITTLE-VVIT. { To him } VVIN.

[…] well, goe thy wayes Iohn Little-wit, Proctor Iohn Little-wit: One o’ the pretty wits o’ Pauls, the Little wit of London (so thou art call’d) and some thing beside […] Win, Good morrow, Win. I marry Win! Now you looke finely indeed, Win! this Cap do’s conuince! youl’d not ha’ worne it, VVin, nor ha’ had it veluet, but a rough countrey Beauer, with a copper-band, like the Conney-skinne woman of Budge-row? Sweete VVin, let me kisse it! And. her fine high shooes, like the Spanish Lady! Good VVin, goe a litle I would faine see thee pace, pretty VVin! By this fine Cap, I could neuer leaue kissing on’t.

WIN. Come, indeede la, you are such a foole, still!

LITT. No, but halfe a one, Win, you are the tother halfe: man and wife make one foole, Win. (Good!) Is there the Proctor, or Doctor indeed, i’the Diocesse, that euer had the fortune to win him such a Win! (There I am againe!) I doe feele conceits comming vpon mee, more then I am able to turne tongue too. A poxe o’ these pretenders, to wit! your Three Cranes, Miter, and Mermaid men! Not a corne of true salt, nor a graine of right mustard amongst them all. […]

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LITT. Troth I am a little taken with my Wins dressing here! Do’st not fine Master Win-wife? How doe you apprehend, Sir? Shee would not ha’ worne this habit. I challenge all Cheapside, to shew such another: Morefields, Pimlico path, or the Exchange, in a sommer euening, with a Lace to boot as this has. Deare Win, let Master Win-wife kisse you. Hee comes a wooing to our mother Win, and may be our father perhaps, Win. There’s no harme in him, Win.

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WIN. Sir, my mother has had her natiuity-water cast lately by the Cunning men in Cow-lane, and they ha’ told her her fortune, and doe ensure her, shce shall neuer haue happy houre; vnlesse shee marry within this sen’night, and when it is, it must be a Madde-man, they say.

LIT. I, but it must be a Gentle-man Mad-man.

WIN. Yes, so the tother man of More-fields sayes.

WIN-W. But do’s shee beleeue ’hem?

LIT. Yes, and ha’s beene at Bedlem twice since, euery day, to enquire if any Gentleman be there, or to come there, mad!

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QVAR. Hoy-day! how respectiue you are become o’the sudden! I feare this family will turne you reformed too, pray you come about againe. Because she is in possibility to be your daughter in law, and may aske you blessing hereafter, when she courts it to Totnam to eat creame. Well, I will forbeare, Sir, but i’faith, would thou wouldst leaue thy exercise of widdow-hunting once! this drawing after an old reuerend Smocke by the splay-foote: There cannot be an ancient Tripe or Trillibub i’the Towne, but thou art straight nosing it, and ’tis a fine occupation thou’lt confine thy selfe to, when thou ha’st got one; scrubbing a piece of Buffe, as if thou hadst the perpetuity of Pannyer-alley to stinke in; or perhaps, worse, currying a carkasse, that thou hast bound thy selfe to aliue. […]

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QVAR. I, for there was a Blew-starch-woman o’ the name, at the same time. Anotable hypocriticall vermine it is; I know him. One that stands vpon his face, more then his faith, at all times;

Euer in seditious motion, and reprouing for vaine-glory: of a most lunatique conscience, and splene, and affects the violence of Singularity in all he do’s: (He has vndone a Grocer here, in New-gate-market, that broke with him, trusted him with Currans, as errant a Zeale as he, that’s by the way: by his profession, hee will euer be i’the state of Innocence, though; and child-hood; derides all Antiquity; defies any other Learning, then Inspiration; and what discretion soeuer, yeeres should afford him, it is all preuented in his Originall ignorance; ha’ not to doe with him: for hee is a fellow of a most arrogant, and inuincible dulnesse, I assure you; who is this?

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WAS. […] why, we could not meet that heathen thing, all day, but stayd him: he would name you all the Signes ouer, as hee went, aloud: and where hee spi’d a Parrat, or a Monkey, there hee was pitch’d, with all the littl-long-coats about him, male and female; no getting him away! I thought he would ha’ runne madde o’the blacke boy in Bucklers-bury, that takes the scury, roguy tobacco, there.

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OVER. I am content to be in abeyance, Sir, and be gouern’d by you; so should hee too, if he did well; but ’twill be expected, you should also gouerne your passions.

WAS. Will’t so forsooth? good Lord! how sharpe you are! with being at Bet’lem yesterday? VVhetston has set an edge vpon you, has hee?

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IOH. Tut, we’ll haue a deuice, a dainty one; (Now, Wit, helpe at a pinch, good Wit come, come, good Wit, and ’t be thy will.) I haue it, Win, I haue it ’ifaith, and ’tis a fine one. Win, long to eate of a Pigge, sweet Win, i’the Fayre; doe you see? i’the heart o’the Fayre; not at Pye-Corner. Your mother will doe any thing, Win, to satisfie your longing, you know, pray thee long, presently, and be sicke o’the sudden, good Win. I’ll goe in and tell her, cut thy lace i’the meane time, and play the Hypocrite, sweet Win.

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TRA. Charme me? I’ll meet thee face to face, afore his worship, when thou dar’st: and though I be a little crooked o’ my body, I’ll be found as vpright in my dealing, as any woman in Smithfield, I, charme me?

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KNOCKHVM. { to them.

VVHat! my little leane Vrsla! my shee-Beare! art thou aliue yet? with thy litter of pigges, to grunt out another Bartholmew Fayre? ha!

VRS. Yes, and to amble a foote, when the Fayre is done, to heare you groane out of a cart, vp the heauy hill.

KNO. Of Holbourne, Vrsla, meanst thou so? for what? for what, pretty Vrs?

VRS. For cutting halfe-penny purses: or stealing little penny dogges, out o’the Fayre.

KNO. O! good words, good words Vrs.

IVS. Another speciall enormitie. A cutpurse of the sword! the boote, and the feather! those are his marks.

VRS. You are one of those horsleaches, that gaue out I was dead, in Turne-bull streete, of a surfet of botle ale, and tripes?

KNO. No, ’twas better meat Vrs: cowes vdders; cowes vdders!

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MOO. What meane you by that, Master Arthur?

IVS. I meane a child of the horne-thumb, a babe of booty, boy; a cutpurse.

MOO. O Lord, Sir! far from it. This is Master Dan. Knockhum: Iordane the Ranger of Turnebull. He is a horse-courser, Sir.

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QVAR. Body o’the Fayre! what’s this? mother o’the Bawds?

KNO. No, she’s mother o’the Pigs, Sir, mother o’the Pigs!

WIN. Mother o’the Furies, I thinke, by her firebrand.

QVAR. Nay, shee is too fat to be a Fury, sure, some walking Sow of tallow!

WIN. An inspir’d vessell of Kitchin-stuffe!

QVAR. She’ll make excellent geere for the Coach-makers, here in Smithfield, to anoynt wheeles and axell trees with.

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KNO. Be of good cheere, Vrs, thou hast hindred me the currying of a couple of Stallions, here, that abus’d the good race-Bawd o’Smithfield; ’twas time for ’hem to goe.

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IVS. Harke, O, you sonnes and daughters of Smithfield! and heare what mallady it doth the minde: It causeth swearing, it causeth swaggering, it causeth snuffling, and snarling, and now and then a hurt.

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IVS. Looke into any Angle o’the towne, (the Streights, or the Bermuda’s) where the quarrelling lesson is read, and how doe they entertaine the time, but with bottle-ale, and tabacco? The Lecturer is o’one side, and his Pupils o’the other; But the seconds are still bottle-ale, and tabacco, for which the Lecturer reads, and the Nouices pay. Thirty pound a weeke in bottle-ale! forty in tabacco! and ten more in Ale againe. Then for a sute to drinke in, so much, and (that being slauer’d) so much for another sute, and then a third sute, and a fourth sute! and still the bottle-ale slauereth, and the tabacco stinketh!

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LEA. What do you lack? what do you buy, pretty Mistris! a fine Hobby-Horse, to make your sonne a Tilter? a Drum to make him a Souldier? a Fiddle, to make him a Reueller? What is’t you lack? Little Dogs for your Daughters! or Babies, male, or female?

BVS. Look not toward them, harken not: the place is Smithfield, or the field of Smiths, the Groue of Hobbi-horses and trinkets, the wares are the wares of diuels. And the whole Fayre is the shop of Satan! […]

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QVAR. I’le warrant thee, then, no wife out o’the widdowes Hundred: if I had but as much Title to her, as to haue breath’d once on that streight stomacher of hers, I would now assure my felfe to carrry her, yet, ere she went out of Smithfield. Or she should carry me, which were the fitter sight, I confesse. […]

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COK. Numps, here be finer things then any we ha’ bought by oddes! and more delicate horses, a great deale! good Numpes, stay, and come hither.

WAS. Will you scourse with him? you are in Smithfield, you may fit your selfe with a fine easy-going street-nag, for your saddle again’ Michaelmasse-terme, doe, has he ne’er a little odde cart for you, to make a Carroch on, i’the countrey, with foure pyed hobby horses? why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine, cheaping of Dogges, Birds, and Babies? you ha’ no children to bestow ’hem on? ha’ you?

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NIG. […] Alacke and for pitty, why should it be said?

As if they regarded or places, or time.

Examples haue been

Of some that were seen,

In Westminster Hall, yea the pleaders between,

Then why should the Iudges be free from this curse,

More then my poore selfe, for cutting the purse? […]

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NIG. At Worc’ter ’tis knowne well, and euen i’the layle,

A Knight of good worship did there shew his face,

Against the foule sinners, in zealè for to rayle,

And lost (ipso facto) his purse in the place. […]

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GRA. Faith, through a common calamity, he bought me, Sir; and now he will marry me to his wiues brother, this wise Gentleman, that you see, or else I must pay value o’my land.

QVAR. S’lid, is there no deuice of disparagement? or so? talke with some crafty fellow, some picklocke o’the Law! Would I had studied a yeere longer i’the Innes of Court, and’t had beene but i’your case.

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BVS. Sister, let her fly the impurity of the place, swiftly, lest shee partake of the pitch thereof. Thou art the seate of the Beast, O Smithfield, and I will leaue thee. Idolatry peepeth out on euery side of thee.

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TRA. A poxe of his Bedlem purity. Hee has spoyl’d halfe my ware: but the best is, wee lose nothing, if wee misse our first Merchant.

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COK. Would I might lose my doublet, and hose, too; as I am an honest man, and neuer stirre, if I thinke there be any thing, but thieuing, and cooz’ning, i’this whole Fayre, Bartholmew-fayre, quoth he; an’ euer any Bartholmew had that lucke in’t, that I haue had, I’le be martyr’d for him, and in Smithfield, too. […]

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WHI. As soone ash tou cansht shwet Vrsh. Of a valiant man I tinke I am the patientsh man i’the world, or in all Smithfield.

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VRS. Helpe, helpe here.

KNO. How now? what vapour’s there?

VRS. O, you are a sweet Ranger! and looke well to your walks. Yonder is your Punque of Turnbull, Ramping Ales, has falne vpon the poore Gentlewoman within, and pull’d her hood ouer her eares, and her hayre through it.

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ALE. The poore common whores can ha’ no traffique, for the priuy rich ones; your caps and hoods of veluet, call away our customers, and lick the fat from vs.

VRS. Peace you foule ramping Iade, you—

ALE. Od’s foote, you Bawd in greace, are you talking?

KNO. VVhy, Alice, I say.

ALE. Thou Sow of Smithfield, thou.

VRS. Thou tripe of Turnebull.

KNO. Cat-a-mountaine-vapours! ha!

VRS. You know where you were taw’d lately, both lash’d, and slash’d you were in Bridewell.

ALE. I, by the same token, you rid that weeke, and broake out the bottome o’the Cart, Night-tub.

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LANTHORNE. FILCHER. SHARKVVEL.

WEll, Lucke and Saint Bartholmew; out with the signe of our inuention, in the name of Wit, and do you beat the Drum, the while; All the fowle i’the Fayre, I meane, all the dirt in Smithfield, (that’s one of Master Littlewit’s Carwhitchets now) will be throwne at our Banner to day, if the matter do’s not please the people. […]

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COK. A Motion, what’s that? The ancient moderne history of Hero, and Leander, otherwise called The Touchstone of true Loue, with as true a tryall of friendship, betweene Damon, and Pithias, two faithfull friends o’the Bankside? pretty i’faith, what’s the meaning on’t? is’t an Enterlude? or what is’t?

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IOH. It pleases him to make a matter of it, Sir. But there is no such matter I assure you: I haue onely made it a little easie, and moderne for the times, Sir, that’s all; As, for the Hellespont I imagine our Thames here; and then Leander, I make a Diers sonne, about Puddle-wharfe: and Hero a wench o’ the Banke-side, who going ouer one morning, to old fish-street; Leander spies her land at Trigsstayres, and falls in loue with her: Now do I introduce Cupid, hauing Metamorphos’d himselfe into a Drawer, and he strikes Hero in loue with a pint of Sherry, and other pretty passages there are, o’ the friendship, that will delight you, Sir, and please you of Iudgement.

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LAN. Gentles, that no longer your expectations may wander,

Behold our chiefe Actor, amorous Leander.

With a great deale of cloth lap’d about him like a Scarfe,

For he yet serues his father, a Dyer at Puddle wharfe,

VVhich place we’ll make bold with, to call our Abidus,

As the Banke-side is our Sestos, and let it not be deny’d vs. […]

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PVP. L. Here, Cole, what fayerest of Fayers, was that fare, that thou landedst but now a Trigsstayres?

COK. What was that, fellow? Pray thee tell me, I scarse vnderstand ’hem.

LAN. Leander do’s aske, Sir, what fayrest of Fayers,

Was the fare thhe landed, but now, at Trigsstayers?

PVP. C. It is louely Hero.

PVP. L. Nero?

PVP. C. No, Hero.

LAN. It is Hero.

Of the Bankside, he saith, to tell you truthwith out erring,

Is come ouer into Fish-street to eat some fresh herring.

Leander sayes no more, but as fast as he can,

Gets on all his best cloathes; and will after to the Swan.

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LAN. Now gentles, to the freinds, who in number, are two,

and lodg’d in that Ale-house, in which faire Hero do’s doe.

Damon (’for some kindnesse done him the last weeke)

is come faire Hero, in Fish-streete, this morning to seeke:

Pythias do’s smell the knauery of the meeting,

and now you shall see their true friendly greeting.

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PVP. L. And sweetest of geese, before I goe to bed,

I’ll swimme o’re the Thames, my goose, thee to tread.

COK. Braue! he will swimme o’re the Thames, and tread his goose, too night, he sayes.

LAN. I, peace, Sir, the’ll be angry, if they heare you eaues-dropping, now they are setting their match.

PVP. L. But lest the Thames should be dark, my goose, my deare friend,

let thy window be prouided of a candles end.

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IVS. Master Winwife? I hope you haue won no wife of her, Sir. If you haue, I will examine the possibility of it, at fit leasure. Now, to my enormities: looke vpon mee, O London! and see mee, O Smithfield; The example of Iustice, and Mirror of Magistrates: the true top of formality, and scourge of enormity. Harken vnto my

labours, and but obserue my discoueries; and compare Hercules with me, if thou dar’st, of old; or Columbus; Magellan; or our countrey man Drake of later times: stand forth you weedes of enormity, and spread. […]

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QVA. Loke i’your boxe, Numps, nay, Sir, stand not you fixt here, like a stake in Finsbury to be shot at, or the whipping post i’the Fayre, but get your wife out o’the ayre, it wil make her worse else; and remember you are but Adam, Flesh, and blood! […]

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Notes

I.e., Scrivener. (KL)↑
James VI and I became King of Scotland in 1567 and King of England 36 years later in 1603. (KL)↑

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Research Assistant, 2012–2013. Cameron Butt completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and the geohumanities.
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Melanie Chernyk

MJC

Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.
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Kim McLean-Fiander

KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.
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Janelle Jenstad

JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).
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Janelle Jenstad is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Janelle Jenstad is mentioned in the following documents:
Janelle Jenstad authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
- Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650. Placing Names. Ed. Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2016. 129-145.
- Jenstad, Janelle. The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody. The Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L. Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. The City Cannot Hold You: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s Shop. Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..
- Jenstad, Janelle. The Gouldesmythes Storehowse: Early Evidence for Specialisation. The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment. Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage. Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London. GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?. Janelle Jenstad Blog. https://janellejenstad.com/2013/03/20/versioning-john-stows-a-survey-of-london-or-whats-new-in-1618-and-1633/.
- Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. U of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MV/.
- Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
Martin D. Holmes

MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
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Sir Francis Drake

(b. 1540, d. 1596)

Pirate, sea-captain, and explorer.
- ODNB
- Wikipedia
Sir Francis Drake is mentioned in the following documents:
James VI and I

James This numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 6VI This numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 1I King of Scotland King of England King of Ireland

(b. 1566, d. 1625)

King of Scotland 1567-1625. King of England and Ireland 1603-1625.
- ODNB
- Wikipedia
James VI and I is mentioned in the following documents:
James VI and I authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
- James VI and I. Letters of King James VI and I. Ed. G.P.V. Akrigg. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984. Print.
- Rhodes, Neill, Jennifer Richards, and Joseph Marshall, eds. King James VI and I: Selected Writings. By James VI and I. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Ben Jonson

(b. 1572, d. 1637)

Poet and playwright.
- ODNB
- Wikipedia
Ben Jonson is mentioned in the following documents:
Ben Jonson authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
- Chapman, George, Ben Jonson, and John Marston. Eastvvard hoe. London: George Eld for William Aspley, 1605. STC 4973.
- Chapman, George, Ben Jonson, and John Marston. Eastward Ho! Ed. R.W. Van Fossen. New York: Manchester UP, 1999. Print.
- Dekker, Thomas, Stephen Harrison, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton. The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment of King James through the City of London, 15 March 1604, with the Arches of Triumph. Ed. R. Malcolm Smuts. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Gen. ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 219–279. Print.
- Gifford, William, ed. The Works of Ben Jonson. By Ben Jonson. Vol. 1. London: Nichol, 1816. Remediated by Internet Archive.
- Jonson, Ben. The Alchemist. London: New Mermaids, 1991. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. Bartholomew Fair. Ed. E.A. Horsman. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1979. Revels Plays. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. Bartholomew Fair. Ed. Suzanne Gossett, based on The Revels Plays edition ed. E.A. Horsman. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. Revels Student Editions. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. Bartholomew Fayre. London, 1614. STC 14753.5.
- Jonson, Ben. Ben: Ionson’s execration against Vulcan. London: J. Okes for John Benson and A. Crooke, 1640. STC 14771.
- Jonson, Ben. B. Ion: his part of King Iames his royall and magnificent entertainement through his honorable cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603 so much as was presented in the first and last of their triumphall arch’s. London, 1604. STC 14756.
- Jonson, Ben. The Complete Poetry of Ben Jonson. Ed. William B. Hunter, Jr. New York: New York UP, 1963. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. The Complete Poetry of Ben Jonson. Ed. William B. Hunter. Stuart Edtions. New York: New YorkUP, 1963.
- Jonson, Ben. The Devil is an Ass. Ed. Peter Happé. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1996. Revels Plays. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. Epicene. Ed. Richard Dutton. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. Epicoene, or the silent woman. London, 1620. STC 14763.
- Jonson, Ben. Every Man Out of His Humour. Ed. Helen Ostovich. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. The First, of Blacknesse, Personated at the Court, at White-hall, on the Twelfth Night, 1605. The Characters of Two Royall Masques: The One of Blacknesse, the Other of Beautie. Personated by the Most Magnificent of Queenes Anne Queene of Great Britaine, &c. with her Honorable Ladyes, 1605 and 1608 at White-hall. London : For Thomas Thorp, and are to be Sold at the Signe of the Tigers Head in Paules Church-yard, 1608. Sig. A3r-C2r. STC 14761.
- Jonson, Ben. Oberon, The Faery Prince. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. Vol. 1. London: Will Stansby, 1616. Sig. 4N2r-2N6r.
- Jonson, Ben. On the Famous Voyage. The Works of Ben Jonson. 8 vols. London, 1875. 8:232–39.
- Jonson, Ben. The Staple of Newes. The Works. Vol. 2. London: Printed by I.B. for Robert Allot, 1631. Sig. 2A1r-2J2v.
- Jonson, Ben. The Staple of News. Ed. Anthony Parr. Manchester; New York: Manchester UP, 1999. Revels Plays. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. To Penshurst. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt, Carol T. Christ, Alfred David, Barbara K. Lewalski, Lawrence Lipking, George M. Logan, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Noggle, Jahan Ramazani, Catherine Robson, James Simpson, Jon Stallworthy, Jack Stillinger, and M. H. Abrams. 9th ed. Vol. B. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. 1547.
- Jonson, Ben. Underwood. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1905. Remediated by Internet Archive.
- Jonson, Ben. The vvorkes of Beniamin Ionson. Containing these playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The staple of newes. 3 The Divell is an asse. London, 1641. STC 14754.
Dame Overdo

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Dame Overdo is mentioned in the following documents:
- Bethlehem Hospital
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Adam Overdo

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Adam Overdo is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Lantern Leatherhead

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Lantern Leatherhead is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Leander

Lover of Hero in Greek mythology.
Leander is mentioned in the following documents:
Hero

Lover of Leander in Greek mythology.
Hero is mentioned in the following documents:
Bartholomew Cokes

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Bartholomew Cokes is mentioned in the following documents:
Hercules

Hero and god in Roman mythology. Famous for his strength.
- Wikipedia
Hercules is mentioned in the following documents:
Satan

Satan Lucifer

Principal devil in the Bible.
- Wikipedia
Satan is mentioned in the following documents:
Nero

Nero Emperor of the Roman Empire Imperator Nero Cladius Divi Claudius filius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

(b. 37, d. 68)

Emperor of the Roman Empire 54–68.
- EB
- Wikipedia
Nero is mentioned in the following documents:
Cupid

God of desire, erotic love, attraction, and affection in Roman mythology. Often depicted as the son of Mars and Venus. Equated with Eros in Greek mythology.
- Wikipedia
Cupid is mentioned in the following documents:
Adam

First man created by God in the Bible.
- Wikipedia
Adam is mentioned in the following documents:
Win Little-Wit

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Win Little-Wit is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
- Moorfields
Joan Trash

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Joan Trash is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Nightingale

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Nightingale is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Ursula

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Ursula is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Jordan Knockem

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Jordan Knockem is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Zeale-Of-The-Land Busy

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Zeale-Of-The-Land Busy is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Captain Whit

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Captain Whit is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Punk Alice

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Punk Alice is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
John Little-Wit

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
John Little-Wit is mentioned in the following documents:
Win-Wife

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Win-Wife is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
- Moorfields
Moon-Calf

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Moon-Calf is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Grace Wellborn

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Grace Wellborn is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Quarlous

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Quarlous is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
- Moorfields
Humphrey Waspe

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Humphrey Waspe is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Filcher

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Filcher is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Whetston

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Whetston is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Sharkwell

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair.
Sharkwell is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Damon

Central figure of the Damon and Pythias legend in Greek mythology.
Damon is mentioned in the following documents:
- Bankside
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Pythias

Central figure of the Damon and Pythias legend in Greek mythology.
Pythias is mentioned in the following documents:
- Bankside
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
John Beale

Printer.
- BBTI
John Beale is mentioned in the following documents:
- Elizabeth Allde
Bernard Alsop

Printer.
- BBTI
Bernard Alsop is mentioned in the following documents:
- Elizabeth Allde
Thomas Fawcett

Printer.
- BBTI
Thomas Fawcett is mentioned in the following documents:
- Elizabeth Allde
James Dawson

Printer.
Richard Meighen

Bookseller.
Thomas Walkley

Bookseller.
Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese explorer.
- Wikipedia
Ferdinand Magellan is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
Christopher Columbus

Italian explorer.
- Wikipedia
Christopher Columbus is mentioned in the following documents:
- Excerpts from Bartholomew Fair
- History of MoEML

Locations

The Inns of Court

The four principal constituents of the Inns of Court were:
Gray’s Inn

Inner Temple

Lincoln’s Inn

Middle Temple
The Inns of Court is mentioned in the following documents:
The Hope

For information about the Hope, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Hope.
The Hope is mentioned in the following documents:
Bankside

Described by Weinreb as redolent of squalor and vice (Weinreb 39), London’s Bankside district in Southwark was known for its taverns, brothels and playhouses in the early modern period. However, in approximately 50 BCE its strategic location on the south bank of the Thames enticed the Roman army to use it as a military base for its conquering of Britain. From Bankside, the Romans built a bridge to the north side of the river and established the ancient town of Londinium. The Bankside district is mentioned in a variety of early modern texts, mostly in reference to the bawdy reputation of its citizens. Today, London’s Bankside is known as an arts district and is considered essential to the culture of the city.
Bankside is mentioned in the following documents:
Smithfield

Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From 1123 to 1855, the Bartholomew’s Fair took place at Smithfield (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 842).
Smithfield is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again. An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would become the cathedral of St. Paul’s which survived until the Great Fire of London.
St. Paul’s Cathedral is mentioned in the following documents:
London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).
London is mentioned in the following documents:
Budge Row

Budge Row ran east-west through Cordwainer Street Ward. It passed through the ward from Soper Lane in the west to Walbrook Street in the east. Beyond Soper Lane, Budge Row became Watling Street. Before it came to be known as Budge Row, it once formed part of Watling Street, one of the Roman roads (Weinreb and Hibbert 107).
Budge Row is mentioned in the following documents:
Three Cranes Wharf
Three Cranes Wharf is mentioned in the following documents:
Mitre Tavern
Mitre Tavern is mentioned in the following documents:
Mermaid Tavern (Bread Street)

The Mermaid Tavern was a drinking and dining establishment located between lower Bread Street and Friday Street, with entrances to both. Its location corresponds to the place between these two streets on current day London’s Cannon Street (Glinert). John Stow records in his Survey of London that Bread Street was a location of diuers faire Innes and that the area was wholely inhabited by rich Marchants (Stow 1598, sig. T5r). The Mermaid Tavern was not far from Old Fish Street and the Blackfriars Theatre (Chalfant).
Mermaid Tavern (Bread Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Cheapside Street

Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.
Cheapside Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Moorfields

A low-lying marshy area just northeast of Moorgate and on the way to the Curtain, Moorfields was home to a surprising range of activities and accompanying cultural associations in early modern London. Beggars and the mentally ill patients of neighbouring Bethlehem Hospital often frequented the area. Some used the public space to bleach and dry linen, and the Honorable Artillery Company also used it as an official training ground. Moorfields was even a popular suburban destination for ice skating when its water froze during the winter. Moorfields was generally full of noysome waters (Stow 2:77) until 1605–1607, when it was successfully drained, levelled, and beautified with tree-lined pedestrian pathways. At this point, it transformed into a fashionable place for the genteel to see and to be seen. The history of Moorfields provides insight into social, political, environmental, and medical issues in early modern London.
Moorfields is mentioned in the following documents:
PLACEHOLDER LOCATION

PLACEHOLDER LOCATION ITEM. The purpose of this item is to allow encoders to link to a location item when they cannot add a new location file for some reason. MoEML may still be seeking information regarding this entry. If you have information to contribute, please contact the MoEML team.
PLACEHOLDER LOCATION is mentioned in the following documents:
Royal Exchange

Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in 1570 to make business more convenient for merchants and tradesmen (Harben 512). The construction of the Royal Exchange was largely funded by Sir Thomas Gresham (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 718).
Royal Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
Cow Lane

Cow Lane, located in the Ward of Farringdon Without, began at Holborn Street, and then curved north and east to West Smithfield. Smithfield was a meat market, so the street likely got its name because cows were led through it to market (Bebbington 100). Just as Ironmonger Lane and Milk Street in Cheapside Market were named for the goods located there, these streets leading into Smithfield meat market were named for the animals that could be bought there.
Cow Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Bethlehem Hospital

Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Stow tells us, Saint Mary of Bethlehem began as a Priorie of Cannons with brethren and sisters, founded in 1247 by Simon Fitzmary, one of the Sheriffes of London (Stow 1:164). We know from Stow’s Survey that the hospital, part of Bishopsgate ward (without), resided on the west side of Bishopsgate Street, just north of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate (Stow 1:165).
Bethlehem Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
Tottenham Ct. Road
Tottenham Ct. Road is mentioned in the following documents:
Panier Alley
Panier Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Newgate Market
Newgate Market is mentioned in the following documents:
Bucklersbury
Bucklersbury is mentioned in the following documents:
Pie Corner
Pie Corner is mentioned in the following documents:
Holborn Hill
Holborn Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
Turnmill Street
Turnmill Street is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Martin’s Lane (Strand)

St. Martin’s Lane (Strand) was located in Westminster and ran north-south between Tottenham Ct. Road and the westernmost end of the Strand by Charing Cross. It is not to be confused with St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand) or St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward).
St. Martin’s Lane (Strand) is mentioned in the following documents:
Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall is the only surviving part of the original Palace of Westminster (Weinreb and Hibbert 1011) and is located on the west side of the Thames. It is located on the bottom left-hand corner of the Agas map, and is labelled as Weſtmynſter hall. Originally built as an extension to Edward the Confessor’s palace in 1097, the hall served as the setting for banquets through the reigns of many kings.
Westminster Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Worcester House

Worcester House was located along the Thames between Queenhithe in the west and the Vintry in the east. According to John Stow, Worcester House belonged to the Earles of Worcester before it was divided into tenements (Stow 1633, sig. Z2v). The house was eventually used by the Fruiterers as their hall (Stow 1633, sig. Z2v).
Worcester House is mentioned in the following documents:
Bridewell

Bridewell was a prison and hospital. The site was originally a royal palace (Bridewell Palace) but was transferred to the City of London in 1553, when it was converted to function as an orphanage and house of correction. Bridewell is located on the Agas map at the corner of the Thames and Fleet Ditch, labelled as Bride Well.
Bridewell is mentioned in the following documents:
The Thames

Perhaps more than any other geophysical feature, the Thames river has directly affected London’s growth and rise to prominence; historically, the city’s economic, political, and military importance was dependent on its riverine location. As a tidal river, connected to the North Sea, the Thames allowed for transportation to and from the outside world; and, as the longest river in England, bordering on nine counties, it linked London to the country’s interior. Indeed, without the Thames, London would not exist as one of Europe’s most influential cities. The Thames, however, is notable for its dichotomous nature: it is both a natural phenomenon and a cultural construct; it lives in geological time but has been the measure of human history; and the city was built around the river, but the river has been reshaped by the city and its inhabitants.
The Thames is mentioned in the following documents:
Puddle Wharf

Puddle Wharf was a water gate along the north bank of the Thames (Stow). Also known as Puddle Dock, it was located in Castle Baynard Ward, down from St. Andrew’s Hill. Puddle Wharf was built in 1294 to serve as the main quay for Blackfriars Monastery. (Weinreb and Hibbert 68, 229). In the early modern period, Puddle Wharf would have been the main landing place for playgoers on their way to the Blackfriars theatre via the river.
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Old Fish Street
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Trig Stairs
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New Fish Street

New Fish Street (also known in the seventeenth century as Bridge Street) ran north-south from London Bridge at the south to the intersection of Eastcheap, Gracechurch Street, and Little Eastcheap in the north (Harben 432; BHO). At the time, it was the main thoroughfare to London Bridge (Sugden 191). It ran on the boundary between Bridge Within Ward on the west and Billingsgate Ward on the east. It is labelled on the Agas map as New Fyſhe ſtreate. Variant spellings include Street of London Bridge, Brigestret, Brugestret, and Newfishstrete (Harben 432; BHO).
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Old Swan Inn
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Finsbury Field

Finsbury Field is located in northen London outside the London Wall. Note that MoEML correctly locates Finsbury Field, which the label on the Agas map confuses with Mallow Field (Prockter 40). Located nearby is Finsbury Court. Finsbury Field is outside of the city wards within the borough of Islington (Mills 81).
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