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T1 - Survey of London (1598): Honour of Citizens
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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Sheriff of London
Wife of
King of Britain and founder of London. Husband of
Prince of Wales and Aquitaine. Father of
King of England
King of England
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Biographer and clerk.
Sheriff of London
Mayor of London
Wife of
Benefactor of the Parish of St. Stephen, Coleman Street.
Wife of
Sheriff of London
Military commander. Appears in
Soldier and diplomat. Grandson of
Scotsman captured at sea and imprisoned in Scarborough Castle.
Wife of
King of Scotland
Sheriff of London
Son of
Pope
Roman poet.
God of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry, and the sun in Greek and Roman
mythology. Defined as the god of divine distance since the time of
Member of the
King of England
King of England
King of England
First Earl of Banbury. Led a large group of London citizens to Smithfield to assist
Poet and monk of Bury.
Gentleman. Commons Sergeant of London. Monument at and buried at St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street.
Sheriff of London
Apostle of
King of England
Historian and author of
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Printer.
Bookseller and printer.
Duke of Gloucester. Husband of
Sheriff of London
Politician and military commander of the Roman empire.
Sheriff of London
Father of
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in
Member of the
King of France
Sheriff of London
Emperor of the Western Empire
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Contested Queen of England
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Chronicler and Benedictine monk. Known for his works on the reigns of
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
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The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
St. Mary Spital was an Augustinian Priory and
Hospital on the east side of Bishopsgate Street.
The Priory dates from 1197. The old precinct of St.
Mary Spital is visible on the Agas map. The church itself was
demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in
Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Priorie of Cannons with brethren and
sisters
, founded in one of the Sheriffes of London
(Stow 1:164). We know from
Not labelled on the Agas map, the Conduit upon Cornhill is thought to have been located in the middle of Cornhill Ward and opposite the north end of Change Alley and the eastern side of the Royal Exchange
(Harben 167; BHO). Formerly a prison, it was built to bring fresh water from Tyburn to Cornhill.
The Stocks Market was a significant market for fish and flesh
in early modern London, located south of Poultry, north of Bucklersbury, and west of Walbrook Street in Cornhill Ward (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). The building of the Stocks Market was commissioned by
the only fixed pair of stocks in the city(Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). It was destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt, and then replaced in
Harben notes that the first known mention of the hospital, which is in the
calendar of the patent rolls, stated that a
license [was] granted to
(Harben 217). The aforementioned
Cripplegate was one of the original gates in the city wall (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 221; Harben). It was the northern gate of a large fortress that occupied the northwestern corner of the Roman city.
Tyburn is best known as the location of the principal gallows where public executions were carried out from the late 12th century until the 18th (Drouillard, Wikipedia). It was a village to the west of the city, near the present-day location of Marble Arch (beyond the boundary of the Agas Map). Its name derives from a stream, and its significance to In the yeare
Aldermanbury ran north-south, between Lad Lane in the south and Love Lane in the north and parallel between Wood Street in the west and Basinghall Street in the east. It lay wholly in Cripplegate Ward. This street is not to be confused with Alderman Bury, the former meeting place of the
Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in
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
(Weinreb and Hibbert
67).
Located in Farringdon Within Ward, Christ’s Hospital was a opened in
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THis Citie (ſaith
in manhoode: furniſhed with munitions:
populous with inhabitants, inſomuch that
in the troubleſome Stephen
hath ſhewed at a muſter twentie thouſand
armed horſemen, and
threeſcore thouſand
footemen, ſeruiceable for the warres. More
ouer ſaith hee, the Citizens of London,
whereſoeuer they become, are notable before all other
Citizens in
ciuillitie of manners, attire, table, & talke. The matrons of
this ci
tie are the very modeſt Sabine Ladies of Italy. The Londiners ſometime
called
Territa quæſitis oſtendit terga Britannis.
The citie of London
hath bred ſome, which haue ſubdued ma
ny kingdomes, and alſo
the Romaine Empire. It hath alſo
brought forth many others, whome vertue and
valour hath high
lie aduanced, according to
Brute, ſub . In the time of
chriſtianitie, it brought foorth
In the yere, Londiners: ſending out a Nauie, tooke
65. ſhips of Pirates and ſea robbers:
beſides innumerable others
In the yeare
Lady, called S. Mary the
Nicholas Brembar,
Iohn Filpot, Robert
Laund, Nicho, and
About the yeare
Dan
more then 2000. pound to charitable actions.
Alſo about the yeare Mary Ramſey
Thomas Ramſey
her inheritance to the yearely value of 243. pound, by his conſent
gaue the ſame
to Chriſts
Hoſpitall in London, towardes reliefe
of poore children there, and otherwiſe, as in
my ſummarie and a
bridgement I haue expreſſed, and as farith
by monumentes
erected in Chriſtes Hoſpitall: which
gift ſhe afterward in her wi
dowhode confirmed, and greatly
augmented.
In the yere
ter Conduite at Oldbourne Croſſe, to his
charge of 1500.l. and
did many other
charitable acts, as in my ſummarie.
In the yeare
Legacies, and more then 3000.l.
for releefe to the poore. In
the yeare
London, gaue and
deliuered with his hand 906.l. towardes
the
building of water Conduites, which was performed. Moreouer
he gaue by
his Teſtament 1000.l. to bee imployed in
deedes of
charity, but that money being left in holdfaſt hands, I haue not
Thus much for the worthineſſe of Citiizens in this Citie,
touching whom Bury, in the
of Henry the ſixt