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Falcon Inn was a tavern in the Bankside area and was a popular destination for many Elizabethan playwrights.
Described by Weinreb as redolent of squalor and vice
(Weinreb 39), London’s Bankside district in Southwark was known for its taverns, brothels and playhouses in the early modern period. However, in approximately
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.
The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which
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The Bear Garden was never a garden, but rather a polygonal bearbaiting arena whose exact locations across time are not known (Mackinder and Blatherwick 18). Labelled on the Agas map as The Bearebayting
, the Bear Garden would have been one of several permanent structures—wooden arenas, dog kennels, bear pens—dedicated to the popular spectacle of bearbaiting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
On the Agas map there are nine rectangular and square pike gardens, or artificial fishponds, located in the liberty of Southwark among the bear and bullbaiting arenas. These nine pike gardens, however, give only an approximate indication of the size, shape, and location of early modern London’s three major aquaculture operations—the Winchester House Pike Garden, the King’s (or Queen’s) Pike Garden, and the Great Pike Garden—each of which dates to the Middle Ages. These fishponds relied on two separate types of holding areas: the vivarium, or breeding pond, and the servatorium, or holding pond. To catch and sort fish, workers drained the shallow ponds through diversion conduits equipped with gates and sluices. Freshwater fish cultivated in estate gardens were considered a luxury dish well into the eighteenth century, especially the pike, an aggressive predator that was admired and feared in
Rose Alley was in Farringdon Within Ward between Newgate Street and Paul’s Cross Churchyard (Ekwall). Though referred to since the eighteenth century as Rose Street
, it was previously known as Rose Alley
(Harben).
The Molestrand Dock was a pier in Southwark located close to the Falcon Inn and was used primarily for passenger ferries. A row of tenement buildings stood near the dock.
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The Molestrand Dock was located in the borough of Southwark on the southern bank of the Thames, somewhere between Paris Garden and Bankside. It is included in a list of landing places used by watermen in
The area of Molestrand, from which the dock most likely gets its name, was the site of a number of tenement buildings, and records from the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark) mention various issues that arose concerning the residents. On the owners and occupiers of the houses and groundes att Molestrand ought to Clense and Scowre everie one his parte of the sewar there from the end thereof by
Signe of the ffalcon
mentioned in this document is most likely a reference to the Falcon Inn. The inn’s proximity to the Globe Theatre would suggest that some of the passengers disembarking at Molestrand might have been on their way to see a performance or indulge in any of the other less wholesome entertainments that Southwark had to offer, from bear-baiting to brothels. Another record from the London Metropolitan Archives mentions Molestrand and its tenements and their contributions toward the pollution of the Thames:
The jury presents
the Common sewar from the Arch by Drapers bridge to the Bearegarden, and soe to the Pikegardens & vp to Molestrand
and all and everie the pissers sewars and Dreyners issueing thereinto
. the sincke before his house att Molestrand
. The tenants of the bishop of Winchester att and neere to Molestrand
to wharf the Northside of the sewar there all alonge from the Signepost wch beareth the signe of the ffalcon to the head of the same sewar by the house of
. the sewar in Rose alley on the banckside
for soyle
coming out of his house into the said sewar
.
From this description in the Sewer Commissioner’s records, one can form a vivid picture of what sanitary conditions were like in Southwark in the early modern period, with soyle
overflowing onto the streets.
The
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
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Playwright and poet.
Land surveyor and cartographer.
Designer, engraver, and cartographer.
Denizen of London.
Denizen of London.
Tenant of Molestrand.
Tenant of Molestrand.
Widow. Tenant of Molestrand.