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Lime Street Ward

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Introduction

Lime Street Ward is west of Aldgate Ward. The ward is named after its principle street, Lime Street, which takes its name from the making or ſelling of Lime there, according to Stow (Stow 1603).

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Watercolour painting of the alderman and deputy in charge of Lime Street Ward by Hugh Alley. Image courtesy of the Folger Digital Image Collection.
Watercolour painting of the alderman and deputy in charge of Lime 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).
The next is Limeſtréete warde, and taketh the name of Limeſtréete, of making or ſelling of Lime there, (as is ſuppoſed) the Eaſt ſide of this Limeſtréete, from the North corner thereof to the midſt, is of Aldgate warde, as is aforeſaid: the weſt ſide, for the moſt part from the ſaid north corner, ſouthward, is of this Limeſtréete ward: the ſouthend on both ſides is of Langborne ward: the bodie of this Limeſtréete ward, is of the high ſtréete called Cornehill ſtréete, which ſtretcheth from Limeſtreete on the ſouthſide, to the weſt corner of Leaden hall: and on the north ſide from the ſouthweſt corner of Saint Marie ſtréete, to another corner ouer againſt Leadenhall.
Now for ſaint Mary ſtréet, the weſt ſide therof is of this Limeſtréete ward, and alſo the ſtréete which runneth by the north ende of this ſaint Marie ſtréete, on both ſides, from thence weſt to an houſe called the Wreſtlers, a ſigne ſo called, almoſt to Biſhops gate. And theſe are the bounds of this ſmall ward.

Note on Ward boundaries on Agas Map

The boundaries of Lime Street Ward, as drawn on the Agas map, are approximate. See MoEML’s page on ward boundaries.

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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