Simon Eyre (Draper and Mayor)
¶Simon Eyre (Draper and Mayor)
¶The Early Years
Born in Brandon, Suffolk to John and Amy Eyre, Simon Eyre moved to London in his teens and
became an apprentice to an upholder (second hand clothes dealer), Peter
Smart. In 1419, Eyre ended his
short career as an upholder and transferred to the prestigious Drapers’ Company (Barron). Unlike Thomas Deloney’s and Thomas Dekker’s fictionalized portrayals of Eyre, the real Eyre was never a shoemaker.
As Caroline M. Barron notes in her summary of Eyre’s life, he soon became a distributor to
London merchants:
Unlike other successful merchants of this period Eyre did not make his money in overseas trade Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] but acted instead as a middleman, buying cloth in the countryside and selling it to the royal wardrobe and to other merchants, above all to Italians.At the same time, Eyre also purchased dyes and spices from the Genoese and Venetian merchants and redistributed them throughout England. As Italian merchants were forbidden to sell their own goods in London, Eyre saw high profits and few risks acting as a distributor. Due to Eyre’s increasing success, the Drapers’ Company elected him as Master in 1425 (Barron).
¶Eyre the Civic Benefactor
Despite Eyre’s protests of his
modest wealth, the City elected him as sheriff in 1434. In 1435, he was
elected as the Master of the Drapers for a
second time. Perhaps due to these two appointments, Eyre became deeply involved in civic projects
(Barron). In 1441, for
example, Eyre succeeded as a
common councilman who, as Barron reports, actively engaged in civic duties
serving on at least eight important joint committees of the common council and court of aldermen.Eyre also served as an auditor from 1437–39 (Beaven).
By the time the City elected Eyre
as the alderman of Walbrook Ward in 1444, he
was already engaged in rebuilding the Leadenhall granary. Eyre was indeed one of the granary’s primary financers and he
aided in the land negotiations for the granary at Cornhill (Barron). In
A Survey of London, John Stow recounts that
Eyre envisioned the granary
as a public space:
among other his works of pietie, effectually determined to erect and build a certaine Granarie vpon the soile of the same citie at Leaden hall of his owne charges, for the common vtilitie of the saide Citie(1.154). Perhaps due to his civic vision, business savvy, increasing wealth, and influential spirit, the aldermen elected Eyre as the Mayor of London in 1445.
Eyre was married a second time
between the years 1419 and 1457, but not much is known of his wife, Alice,
except that she gave birth to Eyre’s only son, Thomas. Throughout his life, Thomas frequently
squandered his money, so his father continually bailed him out of debt.
Thomas died only ten years after his father (Barron).
¶The Later Years
From 1446–58, Eyre continued to
serve as an alderman for various wards including Bread Street (1446–49), Cornhill
(1449–51), and Langbourn (1451–58) (Beaven). Barron infers from the
evidence of Eyre’s decreasing
civic involvement that he
lost interest in his civic careerafter the completion of Leadenhall: after ending his term as mayor, Eyre served on one last committee in 1454 and attended his last meeting in 1456 (Barron). Stow depicts Eyre as a public hero, recording his bequest of five thousand pounds for the release of the poor, his desire to release certain prisoners, and his contribution of over two thousand marks for various charities throughout the city (1.154). Instead of civic affairs, Eyre focused his efforts on improving the new Leadenhall by expanding its original function from a granary into a free school for young scholars. He not only began a curriculum to teach children Latin grammar, songs, and vernacular writing, but willed about two thousand pounds to his executors, the Drapers’ Company, to
establish schools, maintain buildings, and pay salaries(Barron). At his death in 1458, Eyre’s wealth was estimated between five thousand and seven thousand pounds. Although Eyre wished to build a
London dynasty,his dreams were thwarted. After his death, the executors did not implement Eyre’s vision; rather, they used the funds to maintain the church of St. Mary Woolnoth, the site where Eyre is buried (Barron). While Stow remarks that he had heard speculative
flying talesregarding the dispersal of Eyre’s wealth, the cause for the executors’ decision to deny the realization of Eyre’s dream remains unknown (1.155).
¶Eyre the Shoemaker
In his 1597 early novel entitled The Gentle Craft,
Thomas Deloney refashioned
Eyre into a shoemaker and a
draper. Although Thomas Dekker would draw on Deloney’s characterization of Eyre in his 1599 play The
Shoemaker’s Holiday, he re-scripted Eyre solely as a shoemaker. Michael Manheim
reasons that Dekker’s motivation
for shifting Eyre’s occupation
lay in his desire to combine historical and legendary elements of Eyre’s life:
The main plot—which follows the rise of Simon Eyre from humble cobbler, to Sherriff, and finally to Mayor of London, is rooted in folklore and was a very well known legend in its time(316). Alternatively, W.K. Chandler argues that Dekker
exercised reasonable historical accuracy in naming his characters-an accuracy which is at variance with the romantic spirit of the legend about Eyre, ’the mad shoemaker of Tower street’(175), while still setting the overall stage action in a
realistic Elizabethan setting(182).
Both Deloney and Dekker apply past historical knowledge to
contemporary conceptions (and in some cases, romanticizations) of Eyre’s life. In both works, Deloney and Dekker revise history by blending past and
present events. As Brian Walsh argues in his analysis of Dekker’s historicity, not only is Eyre an anachronistic figure in the
play, but his temporal displacement also beckons to
a more general idea of enacting pastness(328). Dekker deploys the real elements of Eyre’s biography alongside fantastical legends to create a
localhistorical imagination—a
pastnessthat the audience would find familiar and could reconcile with their contemporary experience (324).
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Dekker, Thomas. The Gull’s Horn-Book: Or, Fashions to Please All Sorts of Gulls. Thomas Dekker: The Wonderful Year, The Gull’s Horn-Book, Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish, English Villainies Discovered by Lantern and Candelight, and Selected Writings. Ed. E.D. Pendry. London: Edward Arnold, 1967. 64–109. The Stratford-upon-Avon Library 4.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Gul’s Horne-booke. London: [Nicholas Okes] for R. S[ergier?], 1609. Rpt. EEBO. Web.
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Dekker, Thomas. If it be not good, the Diuel is in it A nevv play, as it hath bin lately acted, vvith great applause, by the Queenes Maiesties Seruants: at the Red Bull. London: Printed by Thomas Creede for John Trundle, 1612. STC 6507. EEBO.
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Dekker, Thomas. The magnificent entertainment giuen to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, upon the day of his Majesties triumphant passage (from the Tower) through his honourable citie (and chamber) of London, being the 15. of March. 1603. As well by the English as by the strangers: with the speeches and songes, deliuered in the severall pageants. London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Man the younger, 1604. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, ypon the day of his Majesties Triumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London being the 15. Of March. 1603. London: T. Man, 1604. Treasures in full: Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Web. Open.
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Dekker, Thomas? The Owles almanacke prognosticating many strange accidents which shall happen to this kingdome of Great Britaine this yeere, 1618 : calculated as well for the meridian mirth of London, as any other part of Great Britaine : found in an Iuy-bush written in old characters / and now published in English by the painefull labours of Mr. Iocundary Merry-braines. London, 1618. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. Penny-wise pound foolish or, a Bristow diamond, set in two rings, and both crack’d Profitable for married men, pleasant for young men, and a rare example for all good women. London, 1631. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Second Part of the Honest Whore, with the Humors of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife: the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne Curtizan againe: her braue refuting those Arguments. London: Printed by Elizabeth All-de for Nathaniel Butter, 1630. STC 6506. EEBO.
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Dekker, Thomas. The seuen deadly sinnes of London drawne in seuen seuerall coaches, through the seuen seuerall gates of the citie bringing the plague with them. London, 1606. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Ed. R.L. Smallwood and Stanley Wells. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1979. The Revels Plays.
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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. 219–79.
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Dekker, Thomas. Troia-Noua Triumphans. London: Nicholas Okes, 1612. STC 6530. DEEP 578. Greg 302a. Copy: Chapin Library; Shelfmark: 01WIL_ALMA.
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Dekker, Thomas. Westward Ho! The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Vol. 2. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1964.
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Middleton, Thomas, and Thomas Dekker. The Roaring Girl. Ed. Paul A. Mulholland. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1987. Print.
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Munday, Anthony, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and William Shakespeare. Sir Thomas More. Ed. Vittorio Gabrieli and Giorgio Melchiori. Revels Plays. Manchester; New York: Manchester UP, 1990. Print.
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Deloney, Thomas. The gentle craft A discourse containing many matters of delight, very pleasant to be read: shewing what famous men have beene shoomakers in time past in this land, with their worthy deeds and great hospitality. Declaring the cause why it is called the gentle craft: and also how the proverbe first grew; a shoemakers sonne is a prince borne. London, 1637. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr. STC 6555.
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Bread Street Ward
MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.Bread Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cornhill Ward
MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.Cornhill Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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Langbourn Ward
MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.Langbourn Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Woolnoth is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tower Street
Tower Street ran east-west from Tower Hill in the east to St. Andrew Hubbard church. It was the principal street of Tower Street Ward. That the ward is named after the street indicates the cultural significance of Tower Street, which was a key part of the processional route through London and home to many wealthy merchants who traded in the goods that were unloaded at the docks and quays immediately south of Tower Street (for example, Billingsgate, Wool Key, and Galley Key).Tower Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Organizations
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Drapers’ Company
Worshipful Company of Drapers
The Drapers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Drapers were third in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Drapers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.thedrapers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and bibliography.This organization is mentioned in the following documents: