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A1 - Halepuram Sridhar, Amogha
ED - Jenstad, Janelle
T1 - Dowgate Ward
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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PY - 2021
DA - 2021/06/30
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
LA - English
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Vintry Ward is west of Dowgate Ward. The ward is named after the a part of the banks of the Riuer of Thames
within Vintry Ward, used by the merchants of Bordeaux for the transporting and selling of their wines (Stow 1603).
Candlewick Street Ward is west of Bridge Within Ward. Its main street is Candlewick Street (Stow 1633, sig. X3v).
Dowgate Street is a high street that runs north-south from Candlewick Street to the Thames. According to Dowgate
(Harben, Dowgate Hill). According to downe going or descending
, because the street descends to the Thames (Stow 1633, sig. Y4r).
Dowgate was a watergate opening to the Thames in Dowgate Ward, near Walbrook (Harben). According to Carlin and Belcher, Dowgate was a place where ships unloaded (Carlin and Belcher 72). According to Harben, Dowgate was called Duuegate
, Douuegate
, or Douegate
, in the 12th and 13th centuries but because u
for an n
, the gate also became known as Downgate (Harben). According to Harben, the site is now occupied by Dowgate Dock (Harben).
Walbrook Ward is west of Candlewick Street Ward. The ward is named after the Walbrook, a river that ran through the heart of London, from north to south. The river was filled in and paved over so that it was hardly discernable by
Thames Street was the longest street in early modern London, running east-west from the ditch around the Tower of London in the east to St. Andrew’s Hill and Puddle Wharf in the west, almost the complete span of the city within the walls.
Dowgate Ward is east of Vintry Ward and west of Candlewick Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Dowgate Street, are named after Dowgate, a watergate on the Thames.
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The Anno Mundi (year of the world
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Research Assistant, 2020-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a third year student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, decolonialist writing, and Modernist poetry.
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Dowgate Ward is east of Vintry Ward and west of Candlewick Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Dowgate Street, are named after Dowgate, a watergate on the Thames.
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
DOwnegate warde beginneth at the ſouth end of Walbrooke warde, ouer againſt the Eaſt corner of Saint Iohns church vpon Walbrooke, and deſcendeth on both the ſides to Downegate, on the Thames, and is ſo called of that downe going or deſcending thereunto: and of this Downgate the ward taketh name. This ward turneth into Thames ſtreete weſtwarde, ſome ten houſes on a ſide to the courſe of Walbrooke, but Eaſt in Thames ſtreete on both ſides to Ebgate lane, or old Swan, the lande ſide whereof hath many lanes turning vp as ſhall bee ſhewed when I come to them.
The boundaries of Dowgate Ward, as drawn on the Agas map, are approximate. See MoEML’s page on ward boundaries.