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Silver Street was a small but historically significant street that ran east-west, emerging out of Noble Street in the west and merging into Addle Street in the east. Monkwell Street (labelled Muggle St.
on the Agas map) lay to the north of Silver Street and seems to have marked its westernmost point, and Little Wood Street, also to the north, marked its easternmost point. Silver Street ran through Cripplegate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward. It is labelled as Syluer Str.
on the Agas map and is drawn correctly. Perhaps the most noteworthy historical fact about Silver Street is that it was the location of one of the houses in which
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Silver Street was a small but historically significant street that ran east-west, emerging out of Noble Street in the west and merging into Addle Street in the east. Monkwell Street (labelled Muggle St.
on the Agas map) lay to the north of Silver Street and seems to have marked its westernmost point, and Little Wood Street, also to the north, marked its easternmost point. Silver Street ran through Cripplegate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward. It is labelled as Syluer Str.
on the Agas map and is drawn correctly.
The name Silver Street comes from the Old English of silver
and, indeed, of siluer smithes dwelling there
(Ekwall 76; Stow 1:299). The connection between Silver Street and the metal silver seems to have been well known to early modern Londoners. For example,
Region of money, a good seat for a Vsurer.(Jonson 3.Int.1-4). Important sites on Silver Street included Windsor House, a
great house builded of stone and timber, and St. Olave (Silver Street), a
small thing, and without any noteworthy monuments(Stow 1:315, 1:306). Perhaps the most noteworthy historical fact about Silver Street is that it was the location of a house in which
diuers fayre houses
on the street (Stow 1:299), in particular, above the Mountjoys’ head-dress shop. The Mountjoys’ business was nestled, as Charles Nicholl argues, on the eastern corner of Monkwell Street and Silver Streetlaye in the house
of the Mountjoys, a French Huguenot family whom he had known for the space of tenne yeres or thereaboutes
(Nicholl 288-89). one
, and one of the few surviving examples of his signature.
Silver Street no longer exist in modern London. While many sites, including the Mountjoys’ shop and St. Olave (Silver Street), were decimated by the Great Fire of London in dealt a final death-blow
during the expansion of the busy traffic-road called London Wall
in the early 1960s (Nicholl 49-50; Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 838).
For a detailed analysis of