Survey of London (1598): Hospitals A suruay of London. Contayning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow citizen of London. Also an apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Author John Stow Author William fitz Stephen Printer John Windet Publisher John Wolfe Editor Janelle Jenstad Transcriber EEBO-TCP encoders (names not known) Transcriber Nathan Phillips First Encoders EEBO-TCP encoders (names not known) Editor of Original EEBO-TCP Encoding Paul Schaffner Creator of TEI Stylesheets for Conversion of EEBO-TCP Encoding to TEI-P5 Sebastian Rahtz Post-Conversion Editor Martin Holmes Managing Editor Kim McLean-Fiander Managing Editor Katie Tanigawa Encoder Nathan Phillips Encoder Sarah Milligan Encoder Jasmeen Boparai Toponymist Catriona Duncan Toponymist Kate LeBere Transcription Proofreader Kate LeBere Markup Editor Lucas Simpson CSS Editor Kate LeBere Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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 978-1-55058-520-9 23341 A13049 99853096 18464 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Stow, John A1 - fitz-Stephen, William ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Survey of London (1598): Hospitals T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1598_hospitals.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/stow_1598_hospitals.xml ER - Stow, John, and William fitz-Stephen. Survey of London (1598): Hospitals. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1598_hospitals.htm. Stow, John, and William fitz-Stephen. Survey of London (1598): Hospitals. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1598_hospitals.htm. Stow, J., & fitz-Stephen, W. 2022. Survey of London (1598): Hospitals. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/stow_1598_hospitals.htm. This semi-diplomatic transcription takes the University of Victoria copy (DA680 S87 1598) of STC 23341 (ESTC S117887) as its control text. For convenience, we began with the TEI-XML P4 file of the EEBO-TCP transcription of STC 23341(TCP A13049), available on GitHub). The names of the EEBO-TCP transcribers are unknown. Paul Schaffner edited the original EEBO-TCP markup in or before 2012. Sebastian Rahtz created the TEI Stylesheets to convert the EEBO-TCP file to TEI-P5 in or before 2012. Martin Holmes downloaded the XML file from the GitHub repository. Martin Holmes processed the file programmatically to bring it in line with MoEML’s TEI customization. Holmes added proleptic catchwords (based on the first word on the next page) and converted short s back to long s based on predictable patterns. MoEML Research Assistants at the University of Victoria performed the following additional tasks: supplied content for the gaps left by the EEBO-TCP transcribers; checked the transcription against digital surrogates of the UVic copy and against the copy itself; corrected the proleptic catchwords where necessary; transcribed the formeworks; added links to digital surrogates; and tagged all people, places, and dates. The text was then checked by Editor Janelle Jenstad. St. Mary Hospital (Barkingchurch)

According to Stow, St. Mary Hospital (Barkingchurch) was founded by Robert Denton in 1371. Stow writes that it was suppressed under either Edward III or Henry V (Stow 1598, sig. H3v). Elsewhere in the 1598 Survey, Stow mentions that after the hospital’s suppression, the location was given to St. Katherine’s Hospital (Stow 1598, sig. 2D6v).

(STMA62.xml) Tower Street Ward

Tower Street Ward is east of Billingsgate Ward and west of the Tower of London.

(TOWE4.xml) Parish of All Hallows (Barking) Information is not yet available. (ALLH102.xml) London

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

(LOND5.xml) St. Katherine’s Hospital

St. Katherine’s Hospital was a religious hospital founded in 1148. According to Stow, the hospital was founded by Queen Matilda. The hospital, the grounds of which contained a church, gardens, orchards, and residences, was at the southern end of St. Katherine’s Lane and north of the St. Katherine Steps, all of which is east of the Tower of London. Stow praised the choir of the hospital, noting how it was not much inferior to that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral] (Stow).

(STKA3.xml) Tower of London Information is not yet available. (TOWE5.xml) St. Anthony’s Hospital

St. Anthony’s Hospital was associated with the Parish of St. Benet (Fink) and was on the opposite side of Threadneedle Street from the church of the parish, St. Benet Fink. According to Stow, Henry III granted the construction of a synagogue in this space. The building was constructed for that purpose in 1231, but, as Stow writes, the christians obtayned of the king that it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady, and since an Hospital being there builded, was called S. Anthonies in London (Stow 1598, sig. K8v). The hospital consisted of a church, almsnouse, and school.

(STAN10.xml) Broad Street Ward

Broad Street Ward is west of Bishopsgate Ward. It is named after its principle street, Broad Street.

(BROA3.xml) St. Bartholomew’s Hospital

According to Stow, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital was located on the west side of Smithfield in Farringdon Without Ward. Originally a religious hospital, it was founded by its first prior, Rahere, in 1102 (Stow 1598, sig. X1r). It was dissolved under Henry VIII and reendowed and granted to the City of London in 1544 as a part of the civic hospital system.

(STBA2.xml) Smithfield

Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From 1123 to 1855, the Bartholomew’s Fair took place at Smithfield (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 842).

(SMIT1.xml) St. Giles in the Fields

St. Giles in the Fields was a hospital and parish church. It is marked near the western edge of the Agas map with the label S. Gyles in the Fyeld. According to Stow, St. Giles in the Fields was founded as a leprosy house by Matilda of Scotland during the reign of Henry I. The hospital was eventually suppressed by Henry VIII (Stow 1598, sig. 2D6v).

(STGI2.xml) St. John’s of Jerusalem

St. John’s of Jerusalem provided housing and care for pilgrims and crusading knights. It was held by the Knights Hospitallers and dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII (Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r).

(STJO3.xml) PLACEHOLDER LOCATION

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(LLLL1.xml) Savoy Hospital

Savoy Hospital was located along the Strand in Westminster. Henry VII founded the hospital in 1505 (Slack 229–30). Stow writes that the hospital was for the reliefe of one hundreth poore people (Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r). The hospital was suppressed by Edward VI and reendowed by Mary I. Savoy Hospital was finally dissolved in 1702, while its St. John the Baptist’s Chapel remains (Sugden 452).

(SAVO1.xml) Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate

Harben notes that the first known mention of the hospital, which is in the calendar of the patent rolls, stated that a license [was] granted to William de Elsyng to alienate in mortmain certain houses in the parishes of St. Alphege and St. Mary (Aldermanbury) to found a hospital for 100 blind people in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Harben 217). The aforementioned William de Elsyng was the hospital’s warden from 1330–1331, and the hospital derived its other commonly used name, Elsing Spital, from him (Harben 217).

(STMA58.xml) Bethlehem Hospital

Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Stow tells us, Saint Mary of Bethlehem began as a Priorie of Cannons with brethren and sisters, founded in 1247 by Simon Fitzmary, one of the Sheriffes of London (Stow 1:164). We know from Stow’s Survey that the hospital, part of Bishopsgate ward (without), resided on the west side of Bishopsgate Street, just north of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate (Stow 1:165).

(BETH1.xml) Christ’s Hospital

Located in Farringdon Within Ward, Christ’s Hospital was a opened in 1552 as a home for London’s needy children. Inspired by the preaching of Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Edward VI decided to charter the hospital days before his death in 1553 (Manzione 33). Although it began as a hospital, Christ’s Hospital eventually became known for its respected school (Pearce 206).

(CHRI2.xml) St. Mary Spital

St. Mary Spital was an Augustinian Priory and Hospital on the east side of Bishopsgate Street. The Priory dates from 1197. The old precinct of St. Mary Spital is visible on the Agas map. The church itself was demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. By the time the Agas map was drawn, many of the priory buildings had been removed and the area appears sparse.

(STMA12.xml) Bishopsgate Information is not yet available. (BISH2.xml) St. Mary Rounceval’s Hospital

According to Stow, St. Mary Rounceval’s Hospital was founded in the fifteenth year of Edward IV’s reign near Charing Cross. It was suppressed first under Henry V and then finally under Edward VI, after which the site was converted into tenements (Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r; Stow 1598, sig. E4r).

(STMA11.xml) Charing Cross

Charing Cross was one of twelve memorial crosses erected by King Edward I in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile. The cross was builded of stone 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 (Sugden). It, as well as the other crosses, was condemned in 1643 and demolished in 1647.

(CHAR1.xml) Mercers’ Hall

The hall of the Mercers’ Company was located on the north side of Cheapside Street by the Great Conduit.

(MERC1.xml) Cheapside Street

Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.

(CHEA2.xml) St. Thomas Hospital

St. Thomas Hospital was a hospital and parish church dedicated to St. Thomas Becket (Stow 1598, sig. Y7v). Originally located in St. Mary Overies Priory Close, St. Thomas Hospital was relocated to the eastern side of Long Southwark near Thieves’ Lane in the thirteenth century (Walford). The early modern location of St. Thomas Hospital is depicted near the bottom of the Agas map, though it is not labelled. It is also depicted on Rocque and Pine’s 1746 map (<ref type="bibl" target="BIBL1.xml#ROCQ1">A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings</ref>), where it is labelled "St. Thomas’s Hospital".

(STTH4.xml) Southwark Information is not yet available. (SOUT2.xml) Aldersgate

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.

(ALDE3.xml) Cripplegate

Cripplegate was one of the original gates in the city wall (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 221; Harben). It was the northern gate of a large fortress that occupied the northwestern corner of the Roman city.

(CRIP1.xml) Holborn

Holborn ran east-west from the junction of Hosier Lane, Cock Lane and Snow Hill to St. Giles High Street, and passed through Farringdon Without Ward and Westminster.

(HOLB1.xml) Whittington College

(WHIT21.xml) Newgate Market Information is not yet available. (NEWG2.xml) Greyfriars

Enduring for over three centuries, longer than any other London friary, Greyfriars garnered support from both England’s landed elite and common Londoners. Founded in 1225 on a tenament donated by London Mercer John Iwyn, Greyfriars housed London’s Franciscan Friars (known in England as the Grey Friars). The friary expanded from its original pittance of land on the west side of Stinking Lane to over four-and-a-half acres by 1354. With the patronage of Queens Margaret, Isabella, and Philippa throughout the fourteenth century, the Franciscans constructed a formidable church, London’s third largest after St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey. After the friary’s closure in 1538 pursuant to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the church became the centre of the newly established Christ Church parish, and the cloisters housed Christ’s Hospital (Holder 66–96).

(GREY2.xml) Bridewell

Bridewell was a prison and hospital. The site was originally a royal palace (Bridewell Palace) but was transferred to the City of London in 1553, when it was converted to function as an orphanage and house of correction. Bridewell is located on the Agas map at the corner of the Thames and Fleet Ditch, labelled as Bride Well.

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The Hoſpitalles in this Citie and ſuburbes thereof, that haue beene of old time, and now preſently are, I reade of theſe as followeth.

HOſpital of S. Mary in the pariſh of Barking church that was prouided for poore prieſtes, and others, men and women, in the Citie of London, that were fallen into frenſie or loſſe of their memorie, vntill ſuch time as they ſhould recouer, was ſince ſuppreſſed and giuen to the Hoſpitall of S. Katherine by the Tower.

S. Anthonies, an Hoſpitall of 13. poore men and colledge, with a frée ſchoole, for poore mens children, founded by citizens of London, lately by Iohn Tare, firſt a Brewer and then a Mercer, in the Warde of Brodeſtréet, ſuppreſſed in the raigne of Edward the ſixt the ſchoole in ſome ſort remayning, but ſore decayed.

S. Bartilmew in Smithfield, an Hoſpitall of great receipt, and reliefe for the poore, was ſuppreſſed by Henry the eight, and again by him giuen to the citie, and is endowed by the citizens beneuolence.

S. Gyles in the fields was an Hoſpitall for leproſe people out of the cittie of London, and ſhire of Middleſex, founded by Matilde the Quéen, wife to Henry the 1. and ſuppreſſed by K. Henry the 8.

S Iohn of Ieruſalem by Weſtſmithfield, an Hoſpitall of the knightes of the Rhodes, for maintenance of ſoldiers againſt the Turkes Of Lazar houſes. 413 Turkes and Infidels was ſuppreſſed by king Henry the eight.

S. Iames in the field, was an Hoſpitall for leproſe virgines of the cittie of London, founded by citizens for that purpoſe, and ſuppreſſed by king Henry the eight.

S. Iohn at Sauoy, an Hoſpitall for reliefe of one hundreth poore people, founded by Henry the ſeuenth, ſuppreſſed by Edward the ſixt. Againe new founded, indowed and furniſhed by Quéene Mary, and ſo remayneth.

S. Katherine by the Tower of London, an Hoſpitall with a Maiſter, brethren and ſiſters and almes women, founded by Matilde wife to king Stephen, not ſuppreſſed, but in force as afore.

S. Mary within Cripleſgate, an Hoſpitall founded by William Elſing, for an hundred blind people of the cittie, was ſuppreſſed by King Henry the eight.

S. Mary Bethelem without Biſhopſgate was an Hoſpitall founded by Simon Fitzmary a Citizen of London to haue béene a Priorie: and remayneth for lunaticke people, being ſuppreſſed, and giuen to Chriſtes Hoſpitall.

S. Mary without Biſhopſgate was an Hoſpitall & Priorie called S. Mary Spittle, founded by a citizen of London, for reliefe of the poore, with prouiſion of 180. beddes there for the poore, it was ſuppreſſed in the raigne of king Henry the eight.

S. Mary Rounciuall by Charing croſſe, was an Hoſpitall, ſuppreſſed with the Priories Aliens, in the raigne of King Henry the 5. then was it made a brotherhood in the 15. of Edwarde the fourth, and againe ſuppreſſed by king Edward the ſixt.

S. Thomas of Acres in Cheape, was an Hoſpitall for a Maiſter and brethren (in the recorde called Militia) it was ſurrendred and ſold to the Mercers.

S. Thomas in Southwarke being an Hoſpitall of great receit for the poore, was ſuppreſſed, but again newly founded, and indowed by the beneuolence and charitie of the citizens of London.

An Hoſpitall there was without Alderſgate, a cell to the houſe of Cluny, of the French order, ſuppreſſed by K. Henry the 5.

An Hoſpitall there was without Cripleſgate, alſo a like Cell to the ſaid houſe of Cluny, ſuppreſſed by King Henry the 5.

A third Hoſpitall was there in Oldborne, being alſo a Cell to the ſaid houſe of Cluny, and was ſuppreſſed by king Henry the 5.

The 414 Of Lazar houſes.

The Hoſpitall (or Almes houſe, called Gods houſe) for 13. poore men, with a Colledge called Whittington Colledge, founded by Richard Whittington Mercer, & ſuppreſſed, but the poore remaine, and are paid their allowance by Mercers.

Chriſtes Hoſpitall in Newgate market of a new foundation in the Greyfryers Church by King Henry the eight: poore fatherleſſe children be there brought vp and nouriſhed at the charges of the citizens.

Bridewell now an Hoſpitall (or houſe of correction) founded by king Edward the ſixt, to be a workehouſe for the poore and idle perſons of the Citie, wherein a great number of vagrant perſons bee now ſet a worke, and relieued at the charges of the citizens. Of all theſe Hoſpitals being twentie in number, you may reade before, as alſo of good and charitable prouiſions made for the poore, by ſundry well diſpoſed citizens.

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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.

 Tracey El Hajj Tracey El Hajj TEH

Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

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.

 Katie Tanigawa Katie Tanigawa KT

Project Manager, 2015-2019. Katie Tanigawa was a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation focused on representations of poverty in Irish modernist literature. Her additional research interests included geospatial analyses of modernist texts and digital humanities approaches to teaching and analyzing literature.

 Jasmeen Boparai Jasmeen Boparai JB

Research Assistant, 2016-2017. Jasmeen Boparai was an undergraduate English major and Medieval Studies minor at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included Middle English literature with a specific interest in later works, early modern studies, and Elizabethan poetry.

 Catriona Duncan Catriona Duncan CD

Research Assistant, 2014-2016. Catriona was an MA student at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included medieval and early modern Literature with a focus on book history, spatial humanities, and technology.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Nathan Phillips Nathan Phillips NAP

Research Assistant, 2012-2014. Nathan Phillips completed his MA at the University of Victoria specializing in medieval and early modern studies in April 2014. His research focused on seventeenth-century non-dramatic literature, intellectual history, and the intersection of religion and politics. Additionally, Nathan was interested in textual studies, early-Tudor drama, and the editorial questions one can ask of all sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts in the twisted mire of 400 years of editorial practice. Nathan is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at Brown University.

 Sarah Milligan Sarah Milligan SM

Research Assistant, 2012-2014. MoEML Research Affiliate. Sarah Milligan completed her MA at the University of Victoria in 2012 on the invalid persona in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. She has also worked with the <ref target="http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/">Internet Shakespeare Editions</ref> and with Dr. Alison Chapman on the Victorian Poetry Network, compiling an index of Victorian periodical poetry.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

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).

 Paul Schaffner Paul Schaffner PS

E-text and TCP production manager at the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), Paul manages the production of full-text transcriptions for EEBO-TCP.

 Sebastian Rahtz Sebastian Rahtz SR

Chief data architect at University of Oxford IT Services, Sebastian was well known for his contributions to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), OxGarage, and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP).

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

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 VI Edward VI King of England King of Ireland

King of England and Ireland 1547-1553. Buried at Henry VII’s Chapel.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Edward IV Edward IV King of England

King of England 1461-1470 and 1471-1483.

EB ODNB Wikipedia William fitz-Stephen William fitz-Stephen

Biographer and clerk.

ODNB Wikipedia Simon fitz-Mary Simon fitz-Mary Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1233-1234 and 1246-1247. Founder of Bethlehem Hospital.

EB MASL Henry VIII Henry VIII King of England King of Ireland

King of England and Ireland 1509-1547.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry I Henry I King of England Beauclerc

King of England 1100-1135.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Henry VII Henry VII King of England

King of England and Lord of Ireland 1485-1509. Buried at Henry VII’s Chapel.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry V Henry V King of England

King of England 1413-1422. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

ODNB Wikipedia Mary I Mary I Queen of England Queen of Ireland

Queen of England and Ireland 1553-1558. Buried at Henry VII’s Chapel.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Matilda of Scotland Matilda Queen consort of England

Queen consort of England 1100-1118. Wife of Henry I. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

ODNB Wikipedia Stephen I Stephen I King of England

King of England 1135-1154. Key figure during "The Anarchy", a civil war in England and Normandy 1135-1153.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Stow John Stow

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

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Sir John Tate Sir John Tate Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1464-1465. Mayor 1473-1474. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Father of John Tate. Buried at St. Anthony’s Hospital.

MASL Wikipedia Richard Whytyngdone Richard Whytyngdone Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1393-1394. Mayor 1396-1398, 1406-1407, and 1419-1420. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Financier of Greyfriars.

EB MASL ODNB Wikipedia John Windet John Windet

Printer.

BBTI Wikipedia John Wolfe John Wolfe

Bookseller and printer. Husband of Alice Wolfe.

MoEML BBTI ODNB Robert Elsing Robert Elsing

Benefactor. Son of William Elsing.

 Matilda of Boulogne Matilda Queen consort of England

Countess of Boulogne 1125-1151. Queen consort of England 1135-1152. Wife of Stephen I. Founder of St. Katharine’s Hospital.

ODNB Wikipedia Worshipful Company of MercersMercers’ Company

The Mercers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Mercers were first in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Mercers is still active and maintains a website at https://www.mercers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

The coat of arms of the Mercers’ Company, from Stow (1633).[Full size image]
Early English Books Online–Text Creation PartnershipEEBO-TCP

The EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online Database. Website.

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We’d also like to acknowledge students who contributed to MoEML’s intranet predecessor at the University of Windsor between 1999 and 2003. When we redeveloped MoEML for the Internet in 2006, we were not able to include all of the student projects that had been written for courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, and/or Writing Hypertext. Nonetheless, these students contributed materially to the conceptual development of the project.

These are all MoEML team members since 1999 to present. To see the current members and structure of our team, see <ref target="team.xml">Team</ref>.

 University of VictoriaUniversity of Victoria

The University of Victoria, writ large. Located in Victoria, BC, Canada. Website.