Haberdashers’ Hall
The Company’s rising status was marked by the acquisition of a site for a Hall in
1458. By
a deed of 24th September 1458 Sir Richard Walgrave transferred property at the junction of
Ingen Lane (otherwise known as Maiden Lane, and now forming part of Gresham Street) and
Staining Lane to John Polhill, John Senecle, John Colred, and Robert Church, Haberdashers,
who were acting as feoffees for the Company. By a deed of 1471 Colred, surviving his
co-feoffees, entrusted the land to William Bacon and 14 other members of the guild. In 1478
they in turn released all their interest to Bacon who in turn bequeathed his interest in the
property to the guild by his will. The plot was measured in 1499 and found to be 138ft 2ins
on the west side along Staining Lane, 136ft 6ins on the east side abutting partly on to
Beaumont’s Inn, 71ft on the north side, and 88ft 6ins on the south side along Maiden Lane.
The property had been the site of two inns in the reign of Richard II which were rented for
13 marks (£8 13s 4d) per annum in 1384/5. This suggests that at that date the property had a
capital value of about £150. How the guild raised the money for the acquisition of
the site
is not known, but probably from contributions by members. A late sixteenth-century
record book
(Haberdashers MS, State of the Charities 1597) notes the outline of a contract with
Walter Tylney, carpenter,
to set up the frame of the Hall and the adjoining tenements in 1459, and says the costs were
met by assessment.
We know little about what the early Hall looked like, but another contract of 1461 (in the State of the Charities) with Robert Wheatley, carpenter, tells us that it comprised a hall,
parlour, kitchen, armoury, and on the upper storey, a room called the Raven Chamber.
The
Hall would have been used for dinners and gatherings of the membership, and the parlour
for
meetings of the Wardens. The use to which the Raven Chamber was put in the 15th Century
is
not known, but by the early seventeenth Century it was associated with the meetings
of the
Yeomanry. Although the fifteenth-century records do not refer to them, it is also
clear that the
above stairs area came to incorporate the Company’s almshouse accommodation. At some
date
before 1543 the rooms over the kitchens were allocated for the use of the almsmen although
the rather cramped conditions at the Hall were probably not the ideal solution. Loss
of the
Company’s records before the later Elizabethan period makes it impossible to trace
the
development of facilities at the Hall, but there is some evidence of considerable
adornment
in the Elizabethan period. William Smith, Rouge-Croix Pursuivant, in his
Breef Description of the Famous Cittie of London(c.1588), noted of the Haberdashers’ Hall that
for ye costly new wainskott it passeth all ye halls in London.The Hall was used by the Parliament Commissioners for meeting during the Interregnum. It was completely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
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Bartle, David.
Haberdashers’ Hall.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/HABE1.htm.
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Bartle, David.
Haberdashers’ Hall.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/HABE1.htm.
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Bartle, D. 2022. Haberdashers’ Hall. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/HABE1.htm.
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Richard II
Richard This numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 2II King of England
(b. 6 January 1367, d. 1400)Richard II is mentioned in the following documents:
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William Bacon
William Bacon Sheriff
Sheriff of London 1480-1481. Member of the Haberdashers’ Company. Buried at St. Botolph, Billingsgate.William Bacon is mentioned in the following documents:
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William Smith
Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary 1597-1618. Not to be confused with William Smith.William Smith is mentioned in the following documents:
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Robert Wheatley
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Walter Tylney
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John Polhill
Member of the Haberdashersʼ Company.John Polhill is mentioned in the following documents:
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John Senecle
Member of the Haberdashersʼ Company.John Senecle is mentioned in the following documents:
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John Colred
Member of the Haberdashersʼ Company.John Colred is mentioned in the following documents:
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Robert Church
Member of the Haberdashersʼ Company.Robert Church is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sir Richard Walgrave
Transferred property at the junction of Ingen Lane and Staining Lane to the Haberdashers’ Company in 1458.Sir Richard Walgrave is mentioned in the following documents:
Locations
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Maiden Lane (Wood Street)
Maiden Lane (Wood Street) was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood Street, andoriginated as a trackway across the Covent Garden
(Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s Lane.Maiden Lane (Wood Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Staining Lane
Staining Lane ran north-south, starting at Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the south and turning into Oat Lane in the north. It is drawn correctly on the Agas map and is labelled asStayning la.
It served as a boundary between Cripplegate and Aldersgate wards.Staining Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Beachamp’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Organizations
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Haberdashers’ Company
Worshipful Company of Haberdashers
The Haberdashers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Haberdashers were eighth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.haberdashers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and history of their hall.This organization is mentioned in the following documents:
Variant spellings
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Haberdashers Hall
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Haberdaſhers hall
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Haberdaſhers Hall
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Haberdashers’ Hall
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Haberdashers’s Hall