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A1 - Stow, John
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T1 - Survey of London (1598): Aldersgate Ward
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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DA - 2022/05/05
CY - Victoria
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Member of the
Buried at St. Leonard, Foster Lane.
Member of the
Buried at St. Botolph, Aldersgate.
Wife of
Possible founder of St. Martin’s le Grand.
Possible founder of St. Martin’s le Grand.
Monument at St. Anne and St. Agnes.
Member of the
Wife of
Nurse of
Lord Keeper
Sheriff of London
Wife of
Clerk of the Pipe. Buried at St. Anne and St. Agnes.
Surgeon. Husband of
Wife of
Wife of
Gentleman of Gray’s Inn. Monument at St. Anne and St. Agnes.
Clerk of the Treasurer. Co-founder of a fraternity for the Holy Trinity. Buried at St. Botolph, Aldersgate.
Buried at St. John Zachary.
King of England
King of England
King of England and Ireland
King of England
King of England
Biographer and clerk.
Lawyer and Antiquary. Queen’s Sergeant for
Sheriff of London
Mayor of London
Sheriff of London
Member of the
Printer and historian.
Esquire. Servant of
King of England
King of England
King of England
Esquire. Member of the
Sheriff of London
Monument at St. John Zachary.
Buried at St. Botolph, Aldersgate.
Sheriff of London
Wife of
Sergeant at Arms. Buried at St. Botolph, Aldersgate.
Duchess of Brittany
Wife of
Judge. Husband of
Earl of Northumberland. Owner of Northumberland House, Aldersgate.
Esquire. Monument at St. John Zachary.
Sheriff of London
King of England
Knight. Owner of Bacon House (also known as Shelley House).
Co-founder of a fraternity for the Holy Trinity. Not to be confused with
Historian and author of
Sheriff of London
King of England
Printer.
Bookseller and printer. Husband of
Possibly the same person as
Sheriff of London
Esquire. Monument at St. John Zachary. Not to be
confused with
Founder of a chantry at St. John Zachary. Monument at St. John Zachary.
Member of the
Member of the
Goldbeater. Master of the Kingʼs mints in London,
Calais, and York. Monument at St. John Zachary. See related
Member of the
Member of the
Sheriff of London
Wife of
Capper. Buried at St. Botolph, Aldersgate.
Buried at St. Botolph, Aldersgate. Not to be confused
with
Member of the
Bishop of Rome
Venerated saint and martyr.
Sheriff of London
Member of the
Sheriff of London
Owner of Pope Lane.
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The
Aldersgate Ward is west of Cripplegate Ward. Both the ward and its main street are named after Aldersgate, the north gate of the city.
Cripplegate Ward is east of Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward, encompassing area both inside and outside the Wall. The ward is named after Cripplegate.
Maiden Lane (Wood Street)
was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood
Street, and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden
(Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s 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 as Stayning la
. It served as a boundary between Cripplegate and Aldersgate wards.
Located at the junction of
Ingen Lane (otherwise known as Maiden Lane, and now forming part of Gresham Street) and
Staining Lane, the Haberdashers’s Hall was the meeting place for the
Wood Street ran north-south, connecting at its southernmost end with Cheapside Street and continuing northward to Little Wood Street, which led directly into Cripplegate. It crossed over Huggin Lane, Lad Lane, Maiden Lane (Wood Street), Love Lane, Addle Lane, and Silver Street, and ran parallel to Milk Street in the east and Gutter Lane in the west. Wood Street lay within Cripplegate Ward. It is labelled as Wood Streat
on the Agas map and is drawn in the correct position.
Oat Lane ran east-west, connecting Noble Street in the west to Staining Lane in the east. It is drawn on the Agas map in the correct position and is labelled as Ote la
. It was in Aldersgate Ward.
Noble Street ran north-south between Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the south and Silver Street in the north. It is all of Aldersgate street ward
(Stow). On the Agas map, it is labelled as Noble Str.
and is depicted as having a right-hand curve at its north end, perhaps due to an offshoot of the London Wall.
Noble Street is not to be confused with Watling Street, which bears Noble
as a variant toponym.
Foster Lane ran north-south between Cheapside in the south and Oat Lane in the north. It crossed Lily Pot Lane, St. Anne’s Lane, Maiden Lane (Wood Street), and Carey Lane. It sat between St. Martin’s Lane to the west and Gutter Lane to the east. Foster Lane is drawn on the Agas Map in the correct position, labelled as Forster Lane
.
Gutter Lane ran north-south from Cheapside to Maiden Lane (Wood Street). It is to the west of Wood Street and to the east of Foster Lane, lying within the north-eastern most area of Farringdon Ward Within and serving as a boundary to Aldersgate ward. It is labelled as Goutter Lane
on the Agas map.
Carey Lane ran east-west, connecting Gutter Lane in the east and Foster Lane in the west. It ran parallel between Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the north and Cheapside Street in the south. The Agas Map labels it Kerie la
.
Cheap Ward is west of Bassinghall Ward and Coleman Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Cheapside, are named after West Cheap (the market).
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
According to a small thing, and without any note-worthie monuments
(Stow 1598, sig. K3v). It was destroyed in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt (Carlin and Belcher 91).
St. Anne’s Lane ran east-west from Foster Lane to St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand). It was named after the Church of St. Anne and St. Agnes and is also called Pope Lane by so called of one
(Stow 1598, sig. K2v, K4r). According to Sugden, St. Anne’s Lane might have included St. Anne’s Alley as well, forming one long lane between St. Martin’s and Noble St
(Sugden). Because Harben and
St. Anne’s Alley ran north out of St. Anne’s Lane to Noble Street, passing from the church of St. Anne and St. Agnes to its churchyard (Harben). It now exists merely [as] a pathway through the churchyard to the church
(Harben). St. Anne’s Alley, according to Sugden, might have been a part of St. Anne’s Lane, forming one long lane between St. Martin’s and Noble St
(Sugden). Because Harben and
Originally built as a Roman fortification for the provincial city of Londinium in the second century C.E., the London Wall remained a material and spatial boundary for the city throughout the early modern period. Described by high and great
(Stow 1:8), the London Wall dominated the cityscape and spatial imaginations of Londoners for centuries. Increasingly, the eighteen-foot high wall created a pressurized constraint on the growing city; the various gates functioned as relief valves where development spilled out to occupy spaces
St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand) ran north-south between St. Anne’s Lane and Cheapside Street and was located at the western edge of Aldersgate Ward. The street takes its name from the church of St. Martin’s le Grand located to the east of the street. This portion of the Agas map is labelled
Aldersgate was one of London’s four original gates (Stow 1598, sig. C7r), labelled Alders gate
on the Agas map. The gate was likely built into the Wall of London during the Roman Conquest, marking the northern entrance into the city.
Running southeast from Bishopsgate Street to Aldgate Street outside the city wall,
Houndsditch Street passed through Bishopsgate Ward and Portsoken Ward.
It was first paved in (within the limits of Hounds-ditch)
dwell many a good and honest Citizen
(Stow 1633, sig. M1v).
Barbican was a historically significant street that ran east-west, connecting Aldersgate Street in the west with Redcross Street and Golden Lane in the east. Barbican was more then halfe
contained by Cripplegate Ward, with the rest lying within Aldersgate Ward (Stow 1:291). The street is labeled on the Agas map as Barbican
.
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The Aldgate Bars were posts that marked the eastern
limits of the City of London. They were located at the western end of Whitechapel and the eastern end of Aldgate Street.
A priory of Augustinian canons once encompassing St. Bartholomew the Great, St. Bartholomew the Less, and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. Dissolved by
According to
The London Charterhouse refers to a series of buildings located at the north-east end of Charterhouse Lane to the west of Aldersgate Street near Smithfield. Throughout the early modern period, the Charterhouse served many functions: prior to the Reformation, it was a Carthusian monastery; however, after the execution of
Westminster Hall is the only surviving part of the original Palace of Westminster
(Weinreb and Hibbert 1011) and is located on the west side of the Thames. It is located on the bottom left-hand corner of the Agas map, and is labelled as Weſtmynſter hall
. Originally built as an extension to
Farringdon Ward is the name of the larger, single ward predating both Farringdon Within Ward and Farringdon Without Ward. This ward was divided by
Farringdon Within Ward shares parts of its eastern and southern borders with the western and northern boundaries of Castle Baynard Ward. This ward is called
Gray’s Inn was one of the four Inns of Court.
According to
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THe next is Alderſgate Ward, taking
name of
that North gate of the citie: this Ward alſo cō
ſiſteth of diuers Stréetes and Lanes, lying aſ
well within the gate, and Wall, as without:
and firſt to ſpeake of that part within the gate,
thus it is. The Eaſt part
thereof, ioyneth vnto
the weſt part of Criplegate
Ward in Engain
Lane, or Maiden Lane. It beginneth on the North ſide of that
lane,
at ſtaining Lane end, and runneth vp that Lane, from the Haberda
ſhers
Hall, to S. Mary Staining church:
and by the church Eaſt,
winding almoſt to Woodſtréete. And Weſt through Oatelane, and
then by the South ſide of Bacon houſe, to Noble
ſtréet, and backe a
gaine by
Lilipot lane, (which is alſo of that Ward) to Maiden Lane,
and ſo on that North ſide, weſt to S. Iohn Sacharies church, and to
Faſter Lane. Now on the South ſide of Ingaine (or Maiden Lane)
it ſelfe (which
is of this Warde) and back againe into Engainlane,
by
the North ſide of the Goldſmiths Hall, to Faſter Lane: and this
is the Eaſt wing of this Ward.
Then is Foſter Lane almoſt wholly
of this Warde, and
beginneth in the South toward Cheape, on the
Eaſt ſide by the North ſide of S.
Foſters church, and runneth down
North weſt by the Weſt ende of Engaine Lane, by Lilipot
Lane,
and Oate Lane, to
Noble ſtréete, and through that by Shelly
houſe
(of olde time ſo called, as belonging to the
Shelleyes) for Thomas
Shelley
And on this Weſt ſide of Alderſgate ſtréet, by S. Buttolphes church,
is Briton
ſtréete, which runneth Weſt to a Pumpe, and then North
to the gate which entereth the church yard, ſometime pertaining to
the Priorie of S. Bartholomewe on the Eaſt ſide:
and on the Weſt
ſide towards S. Bartholomewes
Spittle, to a paine of poſtes there
fixed. And theſe be the bounds of
this Alderſgate Warde without.
The antiquities be theſe, Firſt in Staining
Lane, of olde time ſo cal
led (as may be ſuppoſed) of Painter ſtainers dwelling
there.
On the Eaſt
ſide thereof, adioyning to the Haberdaſhers Hall, be
ten Almes houſes pertaining to the
ced ten Almes people of that Company, euery
of them hauing eight
pence the péece euery Friday for euer, by the gift of
lowe 1539. And
Then is the ſmall parriſh Church of Saint
Mary, called Stai
ning, becauſe
it ſtandeth at the North ende of Staining Lane. In
the
which Church being but newly builded, there remaine no Monu
ment worth the noting.
Then is Engaine Lane, (or Mayden Lane) and at the North-
Weſt
corner thereof, the pariſh Church of S. Iohn
Sachary. A faire
Church, with the Monuments well preſerued, of Nicholas Twiford
On the Eaſt ſide of this Faſter Lane, at Engeyne Lane ende,
is the Goldſmithes Hall, a proper houſe, but not large. And therfore
to ſay that
1502.
Firſt I reade, that
Citie, in the Henry the 1
Fits
LeafſtaneRichard the
firſt
Then at the North ende of Noble ſtréete, is the
pariſh Church
of S. Olaue in Siluer
ſtréete, a ſmall
thing, and without any note
worthie
monuments.
On the Weſt ſide of Foſter Lane, is the ſmall
pariſh Church
of S. Leonards, for them of S.
Martins be graunde. A nomber of
Tenements beeing lately
builded in place of the great Colegiate-
Church of Saint
Martin: that pariſh is mightily increaſed. In this
Church
remaine theſe Monuments. Firſt without the Church, is
grauen in ſtone on the Eaſt
ende,
reedifier, or new builder thereof.
In the Quire grauen in braſſe,
bert
Purfet 1507.
When the belles be merily roong, And the Maſſe deuoutly ſung, And the meate
merilie eaten, Then ſhall Rober Trips his wiues And children be forgotten.
Then in Pope lane) ſo called of one
This church by caſualtie of fire, in the yeare 1548. was burnt, ſo
Then in S. Martins lane, was of old time a
faire and large Col
ledge of a Deane and
ſecular Cannons, or Prieſts, which houſe had
great priuiledges both of Sanctuary
& otherwiſe, and was called
S.
Martins le graunde: Founded by
ther, in the
yeare 1056. and confirmed by
Now without Alderſgate, on the Eaſt ſide of Alderſgate ſtréete,
is the Cookes Hall: which Cookes or Paſtelars were admitted to be
a
Company, and to haue a Maiſter and Wardens, in the 22. of Ed.
the
4
many faire houſes. On the
weſt ſide alſo be the like faire buildings,
till ye come to Longlane, and ſo to
Coſwell ſtreete. In Britten
ſtréet
is one proper pariſh church of S. Buttolphe, in which church, was
ſometime a brotherhood of
Fabian
yeare 1377.
the