Fisher’s Folly

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Fisher’s Folly was a large house on the east side of Bishopsgate Street, within the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward and a few houses away from the Dolphin Inn. Fisher’s Folly is not marked on the Agas map. By 1620, the house was occupied by the Earls of Devonshire and was renamed Devonshire House (Harben 196).

Stow describes this house in lavish terms, calling it a large and beautifull house with Gardens of pleasure, bowling Alleys and sumptuously builded (Stow). He also adds that Jasper Fisher spent all his money building the house and owed money to many people. Fisher’s extravagance led to locals mockingly referring to the house as Fisher’s Folly.

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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918. [Available digitally from British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london.]
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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. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written after 2011 cite from this searchable transcription.]
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Adams, Neil, and Chris Horne. Fisher’s Folly. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 30 Jun. 2021, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/FISH1.htm. INP.

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Adams, Neil, and Chris Horne. Fisher’s Folly. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 30, 2021. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/FISH1.htm. INP.

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Adams, N., & Horne, C. 2021. Fisher’s Folly. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 6.6). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/6.6/FISH1.htm. INP.

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Jasper Fisher

(b. in or before 1528, d. 1579)

Clerk of the Chancery. Member of the Goldsmith’s Company.
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Bishopsgate Street

Bishopsgate Street ran north from Cornhill Street to the southern end of Shoreditch Street at the city boundary. South of Cornhill, the road became Gracechurch Street, and the two streets formed a major north-south artery in the eastern end of the walled city of London, from London Bridge to Shoreditch. Important sites included: Bethlehem Hospital, a mental hospital, and Bull Inn, a place where plays were performed before Shakespeare’s time (Weinreb and Hibbert 67).
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Bishopsgate Ward

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.
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Dolphin Inn (Bishopsgate)
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Documents using the spelling Devonshire house
- Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
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- Survey of London (1633): Portsoken Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Bishopsgate Ward
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- Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
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- Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
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- Survey of London (1633): Suburbs
- Survey of London (1633): Bishopsgate Ward
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- Fisher’s Folly
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- Stephens Lane

Fisher’s Folly

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