Bishopsgate Ward
Agas MapList documents mentioning Bishopsgate Ward- Bethlehem Hospital
- Bishopsgate Street
- Broad Street Ward
- Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund the Bishop and Mary Magdalen
- Cornhill Ward
- Fisher’s Folly
- Historical Personography
- Houndsditch Street
- Leathersellers’ Hall
- Shoreditch
- St. Botolph without Bishopsgate
- St. Ethelburga
- St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate)
- Survey of London (1598): Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Lime Street Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Parish Churches
- Survey of London (1598): Suburbs Without the Walls
- Survey of London (1598): Table of the Chapters
- Survey of London (1598): The City Divided into Parts
- Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Cheap Ward
- Survey of London (1633): City of Westminster
- Survey of London (1633): Cornhill Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Lime Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Suburbs
- The Half Moon
- The Wrestlers (Lime Street Ward)
- Variant spellings
¶Introduction
Bishopsgate Ward shares its western boundary with the eastern boundaries of Shoreditch and Broad Street Ward and, thus, encompasses area both inside and outside the Wall. The ward and its main street, Bishopsgate Street, are named after Bishopsgate.
¶Links to Chapters in the Survey of London
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1603 (see below for excerpt)
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1618 (forthcoming)
¶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 boundsthat 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).
The next is Biſhopſgate warde,
whereof a parte is without the gate and of the ſuburbes from the barres, by
S. Mary Spittle, to Biſhopſgate, and a part of Hounds ditch, almoſt halfe thereof,
alſo without the wall is of the ſame Warde. Then within the gate is Biſhopſgate ſtreete, ſo called of the
gate, to a Pumpe, where ſometime
was a fayre wel with two buckets by the Eaſt ende of the parriſh Church of
S. Martin Otoſwich, and then winding by the Weſt corner of Leaden hall down Graſſe ſtreet to the corner ouer againſt Graſſe
Church, and this is the boundes of that Warde.
¶Note on Ward boundaries on Agas Map
The boundaries of Bishopsgate Ward, as drawn on the Agas map, are approximate. See
MoEML’s page on ward boundaries.
Notes
References
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Citation
Stow, John. A suruay of London· Conteyning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that city, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow citizen of London. Since by the same author increased, with diuers rare notes of antiquity, and published in the yeare, 1603. Also an apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that citie, the greatnesse thereof. VVith an appendix, contayning in Latine Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. London: John Windet, 1603. STC 23343. U of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus) copy.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. See also the digital transcription of this edition at British History Online.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
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. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written after 2011 cite from this searchable transcription.]This item is cited in the following documents:
