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Earl of Essex. Royal minister of
Queen of England and Ireland
Printer and historian.
Historian. One author of the
Chronicler.
Poet and playwright.
Playwright, actor, pageant poet, translator, and writer. Possible member of the
Grandfather of
Father of
Historian and author of
Brother of
Historian and author of
The
The parish church of St. Michael, Cornhill is located on the southern side of Cornhill Ward between Birchin Lane and Gracechurch Street. St. Michael, Cornhill was the parish church of the church has a long musical tradition, and is famous for its excellent acoustics
(Weinreb 799-800).
Throgmorton Street was in Broad Street Ward and ran east-west from Broad Street to Lothbury and Bartholomew Lane. Throgmorton Street appears unlabelled on the Agas map running west
from Broad Street, under the Drapers’ Hall.
Draper’s Hall was a livery company hall on the
north side of Throgmorton Street in Broad Street Ward. On the Agas map, Drapers’ Hall appears as a large house with three
round towers, thus resembling the architecture of Hampton Court Palace and some
of the college gates at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
A priory of Augustinian canons once encompassing St. Bartholomew the Great, St. Bartholomew the Less, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Dissolved by
Aldgate was the easternmost gate into the walled
city. The name Aldgate
is thought to come from one of four sources:
Eastern gate
(Ekwall 36), ale
, public gate
or open to all
, or old gate
(Bebbington
20–21).
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).
Fenchurch Street (often called pork and peas
after her sister,
St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
In
The first purpose-built playhouse in England, the Theatre, located in Shoreditch, was constructed in
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In the introduction to his 1971 critical edition of
the first painful searcher into the reverend antiquities of Londonand also describes
citizen of long descent(Kingsford 1.vii).
his father’s garden
(Kingsford 1.viii). bread, meat and drink
every day at many a halfpennyworth of milk hot from the kine
in Goodman’s Fields (Kingsford 1.viii).
must have been tolerable for his time and station. However, [
(Kingsford 1.viii). was a working tailor
for almost thirty years (Kingsford 1.viii). He was a member of the Yeomanry of the Company
(Pearl v). His home and business were by the well within Aldgate between Leadenhall and Fenchurch Street
(Kingsford 1.viii). According to Kingsford, must have prospered fairly
(Kingsford 1.viii-ix) and had enough money to purchase an assortment of manuscripts and books.
Over the next fifteen years, he appears to have educated himself in Latin, poetry, and the antiquities (Kingsford 1.ix). His first publication in
For many years prior to publishing
Kingsford also proposes that this rivalry may have been exacerbated by trouble in literary pursuits may have put him out of sympathy with his commercial kinsfolk
and that there may have been some religious difference, for
(Kingsford 1.xiii). The family discord seems to have reached its climax when I wax old and decay in my occupation and have a great charge of children, and a wife that can neither get nor save
(Kingsford 1.xv). His mother died without making the change. Kingsford suggests the sensational details of the family dispute are of the greatest value for the light
(Kingsford 1.xv).
In
(Kingsford 1.xvi) and the subsequent search of his house. Although dangerous books of superstition
phantasticall popishe bokes
. Nevertheless, the report concluded, his bokes declare him to be a great favourer of papistrye
(qtd. in Kingsford 1.xvii).
Though the Privy Council did not pursue the matter any further, point
(Kingsford 1.xviii). For example,
false accuser of his elder brother(Kingsford 1.xix) for his dishonesty. Kingsford proposes thathanged
popish inclinations(Kingsford 1.xix). In turn, he may have
triumphed over his enemies(Kingsford 1.xix) because of his associations with and recognition by other noted antiquaries of the period. He belonged to the Society of Antiquaries, whose members counselled and helped each other. He shared with
diverse rare monuments, ancient writers and necessary register books(Kingsford 1.xxi) from his extensive collection.
Though his writing had given him friendship and renown, he is reported to have spent his later life with very little income. The lack of money, a complaint endorsed by a number of contemporaries.
financial problems resulted from his difficulties in earning an adequate living from book sales and from his failure to attract a sufficiently generous patron
(Beer). However, the ample inheritance mural monument of Derbyshire marble and alabaster
in the parish church of St Andrew Undershaft
suggest that
After was tall of stature, lean of body and of a pleasant and cheerful countenance, sober, mild and courteous
(qtd. in Pearl v-vi). Although celebration of the City,
(Archer 19). Collinson, however, judges selective
(Collinson 28) and cites omissions that may not have agreed with Stage playes, hath beene vsed Comedies, Tragedies, Enterludes, and Histories, both true and fayned: For the acting whereof certaine publike places haue beene erected
(qtd. in Collinson 31). In the
Despite identifiable imperfections, district-by-district perambulation of the boundaries and monuments of the wards, liberties and suburbs of London
and his exposition of the traditional practices and values of the citizen class
(Manley 36) remains an admired work central to scholarship on early modern London.