Jews’ Cemetary
Prior to being renamed
Jews’ Gardenaround the time of the thirteenth-century expulsion of the Jews, the location was known as the
Jews’ Cemetery.Victor Belcher and Martha Carlin note that the cemetery was
until 1177 the only Jewish cemetery in England(Carlin and Belcher 78). The cemetary was variously known as
le Juesgardyn
Jewesgardin,
Le Jewengardyn,and
Jewengardyn(Harben 322). Stow discusses the cemetery in his survey of Cripplegate Ward, nothing that the
Iewes Garden
is now turned into faire garden plots and sommer houses for pleasure(Stow i.241). The location was just outside of the City Wall, near the church of St. Giles without Cripplegate.
References
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Citation
Carlin, Martha, and Victor Belcher.Gazetteer to the c.1270 and c.1520 Maps with Historical Notes.
The British Atlas of Historic Towns. Vol. 3. The City of London From Prehistoric Times to c.1520. Ed. Mary D. Lobel and W.H. Johns. Oxford: Oxford UP in conjunction with The Historic Towns Trust, 1989. Print. [Also available online at British Historic Towns Atlas. Gazetteer part 1. Gazetteer part 2. Gazetteer part 3.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.This item is cited in the following documents:
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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. London: John Windet for John Wolfe, 1598. STC 23341. Huntington Library copy. Reprint. EEBO. Web.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online.This item is cited in the following documents: