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This large parish on the south bank of the Thames was part of the deanery of Southwark, in the diocese of Winchester and the province of Canterbury.

 Molly Rothwell Molly Rothwell MR

Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at MoEML, Molly primarily worked on encoding and transcribing the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey, adding toponyms to MoEML’s Gazetteer, researching England’s early-modern court system, and standardizing MoEML’s Mapography.

 Kate LeBere Kate LeBere KL

Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

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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, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.

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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Christopher Highley Christopher Highley

Chris Highley is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He grew up near Manchester in the north of England. After studying English at the University of Sussex, he earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California and Stanford University (1991) respectively. He specializes in Early Modern literature, culture, and history. He is the author of Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2008), and co-editor of Henry VIII and his Afterlives (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is currently working on two unrelated projects: the posthumous image of Henry VIII, and the history of the Blackfriars neighborhood in early modern London.

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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.

 Edward Allde Edward Allde 1555/56-1563/64 1627/28

Printer and bookseller. Husband of Elizabeth Allde. Son of John Allde. Father of Jonathan Allde.

ODNB Wikipedia Edward Alleyn Edward Alleyn 1566/67 1626/27

Actor with the Admiral’s Men. Husband of Joan Alleyn and Constance Alleyn. Son of Margaret Alleyn and Edward Alleyn. Brother of John Alleyn.

ODNB Wikipedia George Eld George Eld 1624/25

Printer.

BBTI Wikipedia Philip Henslowe Philip Henslowe 1555/56 1616/17

Theatre financier. Husband of Agnes Henslowe. Son of Edmund Henslowe and Margaret Henslowe. Brother of Edmund Henslowe and John Henslowe.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Wenceslaus Hollar Wenceslaus Hollar 1607/08 1677/78

Bohemian etcher. Moved to London in 1637 and etched a number of buildings and plans of the city.

ODNB Wikipedia William Kempe William Kempe 1610/11

Actor with the King’s Men. Buried at St. Saviour (Southwark).

EB ODNB Wikipedia Francis Langley Francis Langley 1548/49 1602/03

Businessman and moneylender.

ODNB Wikipedia Philip Massinger Philip Massinger 1583/84 1640/41

Playwright. Buried at St. Saviour (Southwark).

EB ODNB Wikipedia Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton 1580/81 1627/28

Playwright.

MoEML EB ODNB Wikipedia John Norden John Norden 1547/48 1625/26

Cartographer.

ODNB Wikipedia Nicholas Okes Nicholas Okes 1596/97-1645/46

Printer. Member of the Stationers’ Company. Business partner of John Norton. Father of John Okes.

BBTI Wikipedia William Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1564/65 1616/17

Playwright and poet.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Stow John Stow 1524/25-1525/26 1605/06

Historian and author of A Survey of London. Husband of Elizabeth Stow.

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Claes Jansz. Visscher Claes Jansz. Visscher 1587/88 1652-06-29

Cartographer. Drew a map of London in 1616.

Wikipedia John Fletcher John Fletcher 1579/80 1625/26

Playwright. Buried at St. Saviour (Southwark).

ODNB Wikipedia Jesus Christ Jesus Christ

Central figure of the Bible.

EB Wikipedia John Gower John Gower 1408/09

Poet. Friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. Founder of a chantry at St. Mary Magdalen (Southwark). Buried in the Chapel of St. John (Southwark). Not to be confused with John Gower.

Wikipedia ODNB Anthonis van den Wijngaerde Anthonis van den Wijngaerde 1525/26 1571/72

Artist known for his 1543 panorama of London.

 Thomas Ratcliffe Thomas Ratcliffe 1599/1600

Clergyman.

ODNB Augustine Ryther Augustine Ryther 1593/94

Cartographer, engraver, and translator.

ODNB Wikipedia John Okes John Okes 1644/45

Member of the Stationers’ Company. Ran a printing operation near Smithfield. Son of Nicholas Okes. See related Wikipedia entry for <name ref="#OKES1">Nicholas Okes</name>.

 Edmund Shakespeare Edmund Shakespeare 1580/81 1608-01-10

Actor. Brother of William Shakespeare. Buried at St. Saviour (Southwark).

Wikipedia Lancelot Andrews Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Chichester Bishop of Ely Bishop of Winchester 1555/56 1626-10-05

Bishop of Chichester 1605–1609. Bishop of Ely 1609–1619. Bishop of Winchester 1618–1626. Buried at St. Saviour (Southwark).

Wikipedia Simon St. Mary-Overies Simon St. Mary-Overies

Dramatic character in Thomas Middleton’s The Puritan Widow.

 William Simonds William Simonds

Parish lecturer.

 Edward Philips Edward Philips

Parish lecturer.

 John Overs John Overa

Dramatic character in The true history of the life and sudden death of old Iohn Overs, the rich ferry-man of London And how he lost his life by his owne covetousnesse. And of his daughter Mary, who caused the Church of Saint Mary Overs in Southwark to be built, and of the building of London-Bridge.

 Mary Overs Mary Overa

Dramatic haracter in The true history of the life and sudden death of old Iohn Overs, the rich ferry-man of London And how he lost his life by his owne covetousnesse. And of his daughter Mary, who caused the Church of Saint Mary Overs in Southwark to be built, and of the building of London-Bridge.

 James Roberts James Roberts

Printer.

Wikipedia Thomas Sutton Thomas Sutton 1584/85-1585/86 1623/24

Clergyman.

ODNB Sir Henry Yelverton Sir Henry Yelverton 1566-07-09 24 January 1630/31

Judge and politician.

ODNB Arnold Hatfield Arnold Hatfield

Printer. Freed from the Stationers’ Company in 1581.

ROLLCO Wentworth Smith Wentworth Smith 1571/72

Playwright.

ODNB Wikipedia Born digital. Boulton, Jeremy. Neighbourhood and Society: A London Suburb in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987. Print. Caldin, Winefride and Helen Raine. The Plague of 1625 and the Story of John Boston, Parish Clerk of St. Saviour’s. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 23 (1971): 90–99. Cerasano, S.P. The Geography of Henslowe’s Diary. Shakespeare Quarterly 56.3 (2005): 328–353. doi:10.1353/shq.2006.0004. Cerasano, Susan P. Edward Alleyn: His Brothel’s Keeper?. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 13 (2000): 93–100. Concanen, M. and A. Morgan. The History and Antiquities of the Parish of St Saviour’s, Southwark. 1795. Remediated by Hathi Trust. English Short Title Catalogue. British Library. Davies, Matthew, Tim Hitchcock, and Robert Shoemaker, eds. Locating London’s Past. U of Hertfordshire, U of London, and U of Sheffield. https://www.locatinglondon.org/. Malden, H. E., ed. The Borough of Southwark: Churches. A History of the County of Surrey. Vol. 4. London: Constable, 1912. 151-161. Remediated by British History Online. Nelson, Alan H.. Shakespeare and Southwark. Drama and Pedagogy in Medieval and Early Modern England. Ed. Elisabeth Dutton and James McBain. Tubingen: Narr, 2015. 159-72. Print. Norden, John. London. Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. Wherin are also alphabeticallie sett downe, the names of the cyties, townes,parishes hamletes, howses of name &c. W.th direction spedelie to finde anie place desiredin the mappe & the distance betwene place and place without compasses. By Norden, John. London: Eliot’s CourtP, 1593. Insert between sig. E1v and sig. E2r. [See more information about this map.] Northway, Kara. <q>Yow waded very low with hatred against us</q>: Nathan Field’s Epistolary Defense of Actor-Parishioners. Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, DC. 2019. Questier, Michael C. Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England: Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print. Raine, Helen. Christopher Fawsett against the Inmates: An Aspect of Poor Law Administration in the Early Seventeenth Century. Surrey Archaeological Collections 66 (1969): 179-85. Rendle, William. Old Southwark and Its People. London, 1878. Remediated by Google Books. STC. Abbreviation for A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. Compiled. by A.W. Pollard, and G.R. Redgrave. 2nd. ed. rev. and enl. 3 vols. Began by W.A. Jackson and F.S. Ferguson; completed by Katharine F. Pantzer. London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–1991. Roberts, Howard and Walter H. Godfrey, eds. Bankside (The Parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark). Vol. 22 of Survey of London. London: London County Council, 1950. Remediated by British History Online. Thomson, W. The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of St. Saviour. 1906. Remediated by Hathi Trust. Visscher, Claes Jansz. Londinum Florentissima Britanniæ Urbs; Toto Orbe. Amsterdam, 1616. [See more information about this map.] White, Paul Whitfield. Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn in Parish Politics and Service. Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, DC. 2019. van den Wyngaerde, Antony. Panorama of London as seen from Southwark: Westminster. London: 1543. [See more information about this map.] The Thames Information is not yet available. (THAM2.xml) Southwark Information is not yet available. (SOUT2.xml) London Bridge

As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until 1729, London Bridge was a focal point of the city. After its conversion from wood to stone, completed in 1209, the bridge housed a variety of structures, including a chapel and a growing number of shops. The bridge was famous for the cityʼs grisly practice of displaying traitorsʼ heads on poles above its gatehouses. Despite burning down multiple times, London Bridge was one of the few structures not entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.

(LOND1.xml) Lambeth Marsh Information is not yet available. (LAMB3.xml) Gray’s Inn

Gray’s Inn was one of the four Inns of Court.

(GRAY1.xml) St. Paul’s Cross

The Paul’s Cross outdoor preaching station is located in Paul’s Cross Churchyard on the northeast side of St. Paul’s Cathedral. During the early modern period, Paul’s Cross was a site of drama, since the interfaith conflicts of the time were addressed from the pulpit. These sermons were presented by prominent Reformation figures including Stephen Gardiner, Miles Coverdale, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, Gilbert Bourne, Edmund Grindal, Matthew Parker, John Jewel, John Foxe, Edwin Sandys, and John Donne.

(STPA6.xml) St. Saviour (Southwark)

St. Saviour (Southwark) dates back at least to 1106. It was originally known by the name St. Mary Overies, with Overies referring to its being over the Thames, that is, on its southern bank. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the church was rededicated and renamed St. Saviour (Sugden 335). St. Saviour (Southwark) is visible on the Agas map along New Rents street in Southwark. It is marked with the label S. Mary Owber.

(STSA1.xml) The Rose

Built in 1587 by theatre financier Philip Henslowe, the Rose was Bankside’s first open-air amphitheatre playhouse (Egan). Its foundation, excavated in 1989, reveals a fourteen-sided structure about 22 metres in diameter, making it smaller than other contemporary playhouses (White 302). Relatively free of civic interference and surrounded by pleasure-seeking crowds, the Rose did very well, staging works by such playwrights as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, and Dekker (Egan).

(ROSE6.xml) The Swan

The Swan was the second of the Bankside theatres. It was located at Paris Garden. It was in use from 1595 and possibly staged some of the plays of William Shakespeare (SHaLT).

(SWAN1.xml) The Globe

The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which William Shakespeare was a shareholder. It was one of the theatres at which the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later the King’s Men, regularly performed. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed at the Globe, along with the works of many other playwrights. It was an open-air, polygonal theatre with standing room around a thrust stage and three levels of gallery seating. It was built in 1599, burnt down in 1613, rebuilt in 1614 and closed in 1642. A modern reconstruction now stands a short distance from the site of the original in Bankside.

(GLOB1.xml) The Hope

For information about the Hope, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Hope.

(HOPE2.xml) Rochester House

Rochester House was a manor in Southwark that was given to the Bishop of Rochester in the eighth century (Lysons). Rochester House is not to be confused with Bromley Palace or Rochester Palace in the town of Bromley. John Stow notes that, in his time, Rochester House had fallen into a state of ruin (Stow 1633, sig. 2Q3r).

(ROCH9.xml) Winchester House

Located directly to the west of St. Saviour (Southwark) on the southern bank of the Thames, Winchester House, also known as Winchester Palace, was the London residence for the Bishops of Winchester from the twelfth century until 1626 (Sugden 567). John Stow notes that Winchester House was originally built by William Giffard around the year 1107 on a plot of land belonging to the Prior of Bermondsey (Stow 1598, sig. Y7r). The palace is labelled on the Agas map, Hogenberg and Braun’s 1572 map (<ref type="bibl" target="BIBL1.xml#HOGE1">Londinum Feracissimi Angliæ Regni Metropolis</ref>), and Visscher’s 1616 map (<ref type="bibl" target="#VISS1">Londinum Florentissima Britanniæ Urbs; Toto Orbe Celeberriumum Emporiumque</ref>).

(WINC1.xml) Bridge Gate

(BRID10.xml) St. Margaret (Southwark)

St. Margaret (Southwark) was a church in Southwark. The church was absorbed into the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark) during the Dissolution of the Monasteries (Howard and Godfrey). Stow also recalls this absorption (Stow 1598, sig. 2D6r). By Stow’s time, the site would hold the Southwark Counter (Stow 1598, sig. Y5v, Y7v). The church is not on the Agas map but would be just to the south of the map’s southernmost edge.

(STMA61.xml) St. Mary Magdalen (Southwark)

According to Stow, St. Mary Magdalen was originally a large chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, which was attached to St. Saviour (Southwark). St. Mary Magdalen was founded by Peter des Roches during the thirteenth century and later became a parish church (Stow 1598, sig. Y7v). During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, St. Mary Magdalen and St. Margaret were absorbed into the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark). The location that previously held St. Mary Magdalen was incorporated into St. Saviour (Southwark), the new parish church.

(STMA63.xml) Parish of St. Thomas Southwark

The Parish of St. Thomas Southwark was located between the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark) to the north and the Parish of St. Olave (Southwark) to the south (Boulton 10-11). According to Stow, the Parish of St. Thomas Southwark was one of five parishes in Southwark alongside St. Saviour (Southwark), St. George (Southwark), St. Olave (Southwark), and St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey), although modern accounts place St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) outside of the borough (Boulton 9). In 1550, Edward VI granted the Corporation of London rights over all waifs and strays, treasure trove, deodand, goods of felons and fugitives and escheats and forfeitures in the borough of Southwark, which included the Parish of St. Thomas Southwark (Malden).

(STTH104.xml) Parish of St. George (Southwark)

The Parish of St. George (Southwark) was located just south of the area depicted on the Agas map. According to John Stow, the Parish of St. George (Southwark) was one of five parishes in Southwark alongside St. Saviour (Southwark), St. Thomas (Southwark), St. Olave (Southwark), and St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey), although modern accounts place the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) outside of the borough of Southwark (Boulton 9). In 1550, Edward VI granted the Corporation of London rights over all waifs and strays, treasure trove, deodand, goods of felons and fugitives and escheats and forfeitures in the borough of Southwark, which included the Parish of St. George (Southwark) (Malden).

(STGE104.xml) Parish of St. Olave (Southwark)

The Parish of St. Olave (Southwark) was located on the southern bank of the Thames and to the east of the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark), running from London Bridge to Bermondsey (Boulton 9). According to John Stow, the Parish of St. Olave (Southwark) was one of five parishes in Southwark alongside St. Saviour (Southwark), St. Thomas Southwark, St. George (Southwark), and St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey), although modern accounts place the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) outside the borough of Southwark (Boulton 9). In 1550, Edward VI granted the Corporation of London rights over all waifs and strays, treasure trove, deodand, goods of felons and fugitives and escheats and forfeitures in the borough of Southwark, which included the Parish of St. Olave (Southwark) (Malden). Stow describes the Parish of St. Olave (Southwark) as an especially large parish that contained many impoverished individuals and aliens (Stow 1598, sig. Z2v).

(STOL101.xml) Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey)

The Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) was located to the east of the Parish of St. Olave (Southwark), just outside of the area depicted on the Agas map (Boulton 10-11). According to Stow, the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) was one of five parishes in Southwark alongside St. Saviour (Southwark), St. Thomas Southwark, St. George (Southwark), and St. Olave (Southwark); however, modern accounts place the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) outside of the borough of Southwark (Boulton 9). Jeremy Boulton notes that the Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) was technically an outparish, which did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Corporation of London (Boulton 9).

(STMA155.xml) Paris Garden Manor House Information is not yet available. (PARI1.xml) The Clink

(CLIN5.xml) London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

(LOND5.xml) Bridge Without Ward

Bridge Without Ward or the Borough of Southwark is located outside of the Wall south of the Thames. The ward, like Bridge Within Ward, is named after London Bridge.

(BRID4.xml) Bermondsey Abbey

According to Stow, Bermondsey Abbey dates back to the eleventh century. It was surrendered to Henry VIII in 1539 and subsequently demolished to be replaced with houses (Stow 1598, sig. Z4v).

(BERM3.xml) PLACE OUTSIDE OF LONDON

PLACE OUTSIDE OF LONDON. While this location exists within the boundaries of modern-day Greater London, it lies outside of the early-modern City of London and is beyond MoEML’s current scope.

(POOL1.xml) Watling Street

Watling Street ran east-west between St. Sythes Lane in Cordwainer Street Ward and Old Change in Bread Street Ward. It is visible on the Agas map under the label Watlinge ſtreat.

Stow records that the street is also commonly known as Noble Street (Stow 1598, sig. O4v). This should not lead to confusion with Noble Street in Aldersgate Ward. There is an etymological explanation for this crossover of names. According to Ekwall, the name Watling ultimately derives from an Old English word meaning king’s son (Ekwall 81-82). Watling Street remains distinct from the Noble Street in Aldersgate Ward.

(WATL1.xml) London Stone

London Stone was, literally, a stone that stood on the south side of what is now Cannon Street (formerly Candlewick Street). Probably Roman in origin, it is one of London’s oldest relics. On the Agas map, it is visible as a small rectangle between Saint Swithin’s Lane and Walbrook Street, just below the nd consonant cluster in the label Londonſton.

(LOND2.xml) Montague House

Located on the former site of St. Mary Overies Priory Close, Montague House was just north of St. Saviour (Southwark), on the southern bank of the Thames (Questier 1). In 1544/45, Montague House and the buildings surrounding it, which were collectively referred to as Montague Close, were formerly granted to Sir Anthony Browne (Howard and Godfrey). The property’s name originates from Sir Anthony Browne’s eldest son, Anthony, who was given the title Lord Montague during Mary I’s reign (Questier 1). The Browne family sold Montague House in 1625, however, the property remained a prominent fixture in Southwark until the nineteenth century, when it was demolished (Questier 1).

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Introduction

This large parish on the south bank of the Thames was part of the deanery of Southwark, in the diocese of Winchester and the province of Canterbury.

Location

South bank of the Thames in Surrey, between London Bridge to the east and Lambeth Marsh to the west (Boulton 9).

Name and Etymology

The Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark) was also known as the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark) and St. Mary Overy (St. Mary Overie; St. Mary Overies) I.e., over the river.

Significance

The parish had a reputation for religious radicalism and supported several puritan clergy and lecturers including:

Thomas Ratcliffe (active 1585-1599) Edward Philips (active 1589-1602) William Simonds (active 1605-1615/16) Thomas Sutton (active 1615-1623)

Lectures by these clergy members include:

Title Author Printer Date STC Number ESTC Citation Number A short summe of the vvhole catechisme. Wherein the question is propounded and answered, for the greater ease of the common people and children of <ref target="STSA101.xml">Saint Saueries in South-warke</ref>. First gathered by <name ref="#RATC2">Mr. Thomas Ratliffe</name> minister of Gods word in <ref target="STSA101.xml">Saint Saueries in South-warke</ref>. Thomas Ratcliffe Edward Allde 1619 20746 S119779 Certain godly and learned sermons, preached by that worthy seruant of <name ref="#JESU1">Christ</name> <name ref="#PHIL22">M. Ed. Philips</name> in <ref target="STSA101.xml">S. Sauiors in Southwarke</ref>: vpon the whole foure first chapters of Matthew, Luc. 11. vers. 24. 25. 26. Rom. 8. the whole, 1. Thess. 5. 19. Tit. 2. 11. 12. Iames 2. from the 20. to the 26. and 1. Ioh. 3. 9. 10. And were taken by the pen of <name ref="#YELV1">H. Yelverton</name> of <ref target="#GRAY1">Grayes Inne</ref> Gentleman. Edward Philips Arnold Hatfield 1607 19853 S114640 A heauenly voyce. A sermon tending to call the people of God from among the Romish Babylonians: preached at <ref target="#STPA6">Paules Crosse</ref> the <date>12 of Ianuarie. 1606</date>. By <name ref="#SIMO7">William Symonds</name>. William Simonds James Roberts 1606 23591 S100150 <ref target="ENGL2.xml">England</ref>s first and second summons. Two sermons preached at <ref target="#STPA6">Paules Crosse</ref>, the one the <date>third of Ianuarie 1612</date>; the other the <date>fifth of Februarie, 1615</date>. By <name ref="#SUTT9">Thomas Sutton</name> Batchelour of Diuinitie, then fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher at <ref target="#STSA1">Saint Mary Oueries in Southwarke</ref> Thomas Sutton Nicholas Okes 1616 23502 S105186

The parish was also the site of the Rose, Swan, Globe, and Hope playhouses, as well as bull and bear baiting arenas, and other places of public entertainment (Cerasano 3; Cerasano 93).

Maps and Images William Rendle’s <ref target="#REND2" type="bibl">Old Southwark and Its People</ref> (1878) includes a c.1542 sketch map of the parish within its Southwark setting at its beginning. Antony Van Den Wyngaerde’s <ref type="bibl" target="#WYNG1">Panorama of London, Westminster and Southwark as they Appeared A.D. 1543</ref> (1543) of the city and its suburbs. This detailed view looking from the south-east, shows major buildings in the parish including the church, and extends as far west as Rochester House on bankside. John Norden’s <ref type="bibl" target="#NORD3">London</ref> (1593) shows the parish to its western boundary at Lambeth Marsh, and includes the sites of a playhouse and Beare howſe. Claes Jansz. Visscher’s <ref type="bibl" target="#VISS1">Londinum Florentissima Britanniæ Urbs Toto Orbe</ref> (1616) includes detailed representations of the south sides of the church of St. Saviour (Southwark), Winchester House, and the gate to London Bridge. Augustine Ryther’s The Cittie of London (1633). Note what appears to be a cucking stool to the west of Winchester House. Wenceslaus Hollar’s S. Marie Ouer’s in Southwarke (1647). Wenceslaus Hollar’s Long View of London from Bankside (1647). Wenceslaus Hollar’s Ad Londinvm epitomen & ocellvm (1647).
Wenceslaus Hollar’s S. Marie Ouer’s in Southwarke. Image courtesy of LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection.
Wenceslaus Hollar’s Long View of London from Bankside. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Wenceslaus Hollar’s Ad Londinvm epitomen & ocellvm. Image courtesy of LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection.
History

The Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark) was formed in 1541 by uniting the parishes of St. Margaret (Southwark) and St. Mary Magdalen (Southwark). It is one of five parishes in the borough of Southwark (Surrey) according to Stow’s 1598 Survey. The others are the Parish of St. Thomas (Southwark), St. George (Southwark), St. Olave (Southwark), and St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey). Modern accounts place St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) in a different borough (Boulton 9).

At the dissolution, the church of St. Saviour was leased by the parishioners (a corporation made up of vestrymen) from the crown. In 1614, a group of wealthy vestrymen bought the church and rectory outright from the crown. This gave the vestry the right to appoint two ministers (or a minister and a lecturer).

In the west, the Parish of St. Savior (Southwark) included the Manor of Paris Garden or Paris Garden Liberty, and in the east, the Borough or Boroughside. Between these areas lay the Bishop of Winchester’s Liberty, also known as the Clink. Only the eastern, Boroughside, area of the parish was under City control. It formed part of London’s 26th ward (Bridge Ward Without), created in 1550. In 1671, the Manor of Paris Garden became the new parish of Christ Church.

Literary References Title Author Printer Date STC Number ESTC Citation Number Note The true history of the life and sudden death of old <name ref="#OVER8">Iohn Overs</name>, the rich ferry-man of <ref target="#LOND5">London</ref> And how he lost his life by his owne covetousnesse. And of his daughter <name ref="#OVER9">Mary</name>, who caused the <ref target="#STSA1">Church of Saint Mary Overs in Southwark</ref> to be built, and of the building of <ref target="#LOND1">London-Bridge</ref> NA Nicholas Okes and John Okes 1637 18922 S110189 In this didactic tale, the rich but miserly ferryman John Overs fakes his own death in order to save a day’s expenditure on food for his apprentices and servants. When Overs rises up in his shroud, he is struck and killed by a servant who mistakes him for the devil. As a usurer, Overs is denied Christian burial by the monks of Bermondsey, until his daughter Mary bribes them. However, when the abbot discovers this he disinters Overs’ body and throws it on back of his ass which dumps it near a gallows at St. Thomas a Waterings. The daughter puts her father’s wealth to pious uses by founding a church near the site of her former home: the church of St. Mary Overs. The work contains six distinct woodcuts. The puritaine or The vviddovv of <ref target="#WATL1">VVatling-streete</ref> Wentworth Smith but attributed to Thomas Middleton George Eld c. 1607 21531 S106337 This play satirizes a character named Simon St. Mary Overies—apparently an allusion to parish lecturer William Simonds.
Notable Residents

The theatrical entrepreneur Philip Henslowe and his son-in-law the actor Edward Alleyn both served as vestrymen and churchwardens and held other parochial appointments. Francis Langley, the owner of the Swan playhouse, also lived in the parish. The poet John Gower, William Shakespeare’s brother Edmund, and Bishop Lancelot Andrewes have tombs in the church. The clown Will Kempe along with the playwrights John Fletcher and Philip Massinger are also buried here. Until 1625, a prominent Catholic family, the Brownes (Viscounts Montague), had their London residence at Montague House that was located directly north of the church of St. Saviour (Questier 512-519).

Parish Records

A full set of parish records, including baptismal, marriage, and burial registers, as well as Communion Token Books, is on deposit at the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA): LMA P92/SAV.

LMA’s description of the records may be found here (enter the above reference in Reference Code on the Advanced Search menu). Many of these records have been transcribed and analyzed by William Ingram and Alan H. Nelson in their indispensible online resource: <ref target="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ingram/StSaviour/">The Parish of St Saviour, Southwark. Information about Parishioners, from Various Sources, 1550-1650</ref>. The site includes searchable transcriptions of Views of Inmates, Views of New Buildings, Parochial Presentments, Vestry Minutes, Sacramental Token Books, parishioner wills, and other primary documents in the LMA and other collections.

Further Resources Caldin and Raine Concanen and Morgan Malden Nelson Northway Raine Roberts and Godfrey Thomson White
Further Information from MoEML

William Ingram and Alan H. Nelson, in conjunction with the London Metropolitan Archives, have created an online database of the token books of the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark).