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Candlewick Street Ward

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Introduction

Candlewick Street Ward is west of Bridge Within Ward. Its main street is Candlewick Street (Stow 1633, sig. X3v).
1720: Blome’s Map of Candlewick Street Ward and Langbourn Ward. Image courtesy of British Library Crace Collection. © British Library Board; Maps Crace Port. 8.29
1720: Blome’s Map of Candlewick Street Ward and Langbourn Ward. Image courtesy of British Library Crace Collection. © British Library Board; Maps Crace Port. 8.29

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Watercolour painting of the alderman and deputy in charge of Candlewick Street Ward by Hugh Alley. Image courtesy of the Folger Digital Image Collection.
Watercolour painting of the alderman and deputy in charge of Candlewick Street Ward by Hugh Alley. Image courtesy of the Folger Digital Image Collection.

1603 Description of Ward Boundaries

The following diplomatic transcription of the opening paragraph(s) of the 1603 chapter on this ward will eventually be subsumed into the MoEML edition of the 1603 Survey.1 Each ward chapter opens with a narrative circumnavigation of the ward—a verbal beating of the bounds that MoEML first transcribed in 2004 and later used to facilitate the drawing of approximate ward boundaries on our edition of the Agas map. Source: John Stow, A Survey of London (London, 1603; STC #23343).
CAndlewicke ſtreete, or Candlewright ſtreete warde, beginneth at the Eaſt end of great Eaſtcheape, it paſſeth weſt through Eaſtcheape to Candlewright ſtreete, and through the ſame downe to the north ende of Suffolke lane, on the ſouth ſide, and downe that lane by the weſt ende of ſaint Laurence Churchyard, which is the fartheſt weſt part of that ward. The ſtreete of great Eaſtcheape is ſo called of the Market there kept, in the Eaſt part of the Citie, as Weſt Cheape is a Market ſo called of being in the Weſt.

Note on Ward boundaries on Agas Map

Ward boundaries drawn on the Agas map are approximate. The Agas map does not lend itself well to georeferencing or georectification, which means that we have not been able to import the raster-based or vector-based shapes that have been generously offered to us by other projects. We have therefore used our drawing tools to draw polygons on the map surface that follow the lines traced verbally in the opening paragraph(s) of each ward chapter in the Survey. Read more about the cartographic genres of the Agas map.

Notes

  1. The 1603 Survey is widely available in reprints of C.L. Kingsford’s two-volume 1908 edition (Kingsford) and also in the British History Online transcription of the Kingsford edition (BHO). MoEML is completing its editions of all four texts in the following order: 1598, 1633, 1618, and 1603. (JJ)↑

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