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T1 - Survey of London (1598): Lazar Houses
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
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PY - 2022
DA - 2022/05/05
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
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Westminster Abbey was and continues to be a historically significant church. One of its many notable features is
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Originally called Kentish Street, Kent Street began at the north end of Blackman Street and ran eastward from the church of St. George Southwark (Walford). Kent Street was a long and narrow road that connected Southwark to the County of Kent (Stow 1633, sig. 2Q2v). Edward Walford notes that Kent Street was part of the great way from Dover and the Continent to the metropolis
until the early nineteenth century (Walford). Kent Street is now commonly referred to as Old Kent Road and is not to be confused with New Kent Road (Darlington). Kent Street is south of the area depicted on the Agas map.
Mile End was a hamlet located on the eastern edge of London, east of Whitechapel and exactly a mile east of Aldgate (Sugden).
Built over the River Lea at the behest of builded on Arches of stone
(Stow 1:253).
Shoreditch Street, also called Sewersditch, was a continuation of
Bishopsgate Street, passing
northward from Norton Folgate to the small town of Shoreditch, a suburb of London in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, for which the road was likely named. Shoreditch first appears in
manuscripts in ditch of Sceorf
[or Scorre]
(Weinreb and Hibbert
807).
A suburban neighbourhood located just north of Moorfields and outside Londonʼs City Wall, Shoreditch was a focal point of early modern theatrical culture. Following a boom in Londonʼs population
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and was of old time a fayre péece of work
(Stow 1598, sig. 2B3r). It stood for three and a half centuries, but by the beginning of the 17th century [the cross] had fallen into a very ruinous condition
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IT is to be obſerued, that leproſe
perſons were alwaies for auoi
ding the daunger of infection,
to be ſeperated from the ſounde:
God himſelfe commanding to put out of the hoſt euery
leaper,
&c. Wherevpon I
reade in a prouinciall ſinode holden at Weſt
minſter by HubertCanterburie, in the yeare of
Chriſt
Iohn
the inſtitution
of the Lateran counſaile, that when ſo many leproſe
people were aſſembled, that might
be able to build a church with a
church yarde for themſelues, and to haue one
eſpeciall Prieſt of
their owne, that they ſhould be permitted to haue the ſame
with
out contradiction ſo they be not iniurious to the old
churches, by
that which was graunted to them for pitties ſake: And further it
was
decréed, that they be not compelled to giue any tithes of their
gardens or increaſe
of cattell.
I haue moreouer hearde that there is a writte in our Law,
leproſo amouendoEdward the third
in the 20. yeare
of his raigne
and Sheriffes of London, to make proclamation in euery Ward,
of
the Citie and ſuburbes, that all leproſe perſons inhabiting there
ſuch leproſe perſon to abide within his houſe, vpon
paine to forfeite
his ſaid houſe, and to incurre the kinges further diſpleaſure: And
that they ſhould cauſe the ſaid Lepers to be remoued into ſome out
places of the
fieldes, from the haunt or Company of ſound people,
whereupon certaine Lazar houſes
(as may bée ſuppoſed) were then
builded without the Citty, ſome good diſtance, to
wit, the locke
without Southwarke in Kent ſtreet, one other betwixt the Miles
end, and
Stratforde Bow, one other at Kingeſland, betwixt
Shoreditch, and Stoke Newington, and an other at Knightes
Bridge, weſt
from Charing Croſſe. Theſe foure I haue noted
to be erected for the receipt of
Leprouſe people, ſent out of the City
at that time. Finally I reade that one
of the Crowne, being
ſtriken with a Leaproſie, was deſirous to
build an Hoſpitall, with a Chappell to the
honor of
for the releefe and
harborow of ſuch Leprouſe perſons, as were de
ſtitute in the
kingdome, to the end they ſhould not bée offenſiue to
other in their paſſing to and
fro, for the which cauſe Edward the
fourth12. of his raigne
the ſaid William
high way of Highgate, and Holloway, within the County of
Middleſex, contayning 60.
foot in length, and 34. in bredth.