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The Green Gate was a house on the south side of Leadenhall Street, east of Leadenhall in Lime Street Ward.
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
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Research Assistant, 2010–2011. Neil Adams completed a BA (first class honours) in History at the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) in 2008, and an MA in History at the University of Victoria in 2010. His MA paper analyzed the historiography of Canadian conscripts during the Second World War. A keen historian of early modern London, Neil Adams was responsible for redrawing the ward boundaries on the Agas Map.
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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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Leadenhall Street ran east-west from Cornhill Street to Aldgate Street. All three form part of the same road from Aldgate to Cheapside Street (Weinreb and Hibbert 462). The street acquired its name from Leadenhall, a onetime house and later a market. The building was reportedly famous for having a leaden roof (Bebbington 197).
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
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The Green Gate was a house on the south side of Leadenhall Street, east of Leadenhall in Lime Street Ward. It appears that this house was in between Leaden Porch to the east and Leadenhall to the west (Harben; BHO and BHO).
Stow describes the house as a fayre house of olde time
(Stow). Stow’s
interest went beyond the building itself and its location; he was confounded by the
misdemeanours that occurred within it. The Green Gate was
the site of not one but two robberies. The first occurred in 1449 when Alderman Philip
Mulpas was there robbed and spoyled of his goods to a great value, by lacke Cade, and
other Rebels
. The second was sixty-eight years later in 1517. By that time the house was
owned by Iohn Mutas (a Picarde) or Frenchman [who] harbored in his house many
Frenchmen, that kalendred wolsteds, and did other things contrarie to the Franchises of
the Citizens
(Stow). the Prentizes and other spoyled his house: and if they could haue found Mutas, they would
haue stricken off his heade
(Stow). Fortunately
for the house, in
The notorious Green Gate does not appear on the Agas map, but the house would have been on the site of the rectangular-shaped house drawn immediately east of Leadenhall.