Coleman Street Ward
¶Introduction
Coleman Street Ward is west of Broad Street Ward. It is named after its main street, Coleman Street (Stow 1633, sig. 2B6r).
¶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).
NExt to Chepe Warde on the North ſide
thereof is Colemanſtreete Ward, and
beginneth alſo in the Eaſt, on the courſe of Walbrooke in Lothbury, and runneth weſt on the South ſide to the
end of Ironmongers lane, and on the
North ſide to the Weſt corner of Baſſinges
hall ſtreete. On the South ſide of Lothbury is the ſtreete called the old Iury, the one half, and better on
both ſides towardes Cheape is of
this Warde. On the north ſide lyeth Colemanſtreete, whereof the Ward taketh name, wholy on both ſides
North to London wall, and from that
north ende along by the Wall, and
Moregate Eaſt to the courſe of
Walbrook. And again from Coleman
ſtreete weſt to the Iron grates: and theſe bee the boundes of this
Warde.
¶Note on Ward boundaries on Agas Map
Ward boundaries drawn on the Agas map are approximate. The Agas map does not lend
itself well to georeferencing or georectification, which means that we have not been
able to import the raster-based or vector-based shapes that have been generously offered
to us by other projects. We have therefore used our drawing tools to draw polygons
on the map surface that follow the lines traced verbally in the opening paragraph(s)
of each ward chapter in the Survey. Read more about the cartographic genres of the Agas map.
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: