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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Smith, Justin ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Molestrand Dock 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/MOLE1.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/MOLE1.xml TY - UNP ER - Smith, Justin W. Molestrand Dock. 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/MOLE1.htm. INP. Smith, Justin W. Molestrand Dock. 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/MOLE1.htm. INP. Smith, J. W. 2022. Molestrand Dock. 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/MOLE1.htm. INP. Born digital. Fairburn, John. Map of London, Westminster and the New Docks 1802. 2001. London Metropolitan Archives. City of London. https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/history-and-heritage/london-metropolitan-archives. The Parish of St Saviour, Southwark: Presentments of the Sewer Commissioners. London Metropolitan Archives. Rendle, William, and Philip Norman. The Inns of Old Southwark and their Associations. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. Remediated by Google Books. Rocque, John. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: Printed by John Rocque, 1746. Reprinted as The A to Z of Georgian London. Introduced by Ralph Hyde. London: London Topographical Society, 1982. [We cite by index label thus: Rocque 15Db. Rocque, John, and John Pine. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: John Pine and John Tinney, 1746.[See more information about this map.] Southwark Information is not yet available. (SOUT2.xml) Falcon Inn

Falcon Inn was a tavern in the Bankside area and was a popular destination for many Elizabethan playwrights.

(FALC1.xml) The Thames Information is not yet available. (THAM2.xml) Paris Garden Manor House Information is not yet available. (PARI1.xml) Bankside

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 50 BCE its strategic location on the south bank of the Thames enticed the Roman army to use it as a military base for its conquering of Britain. From Bankside, the Romans built a bridge to the north side of the river and established the ancient town of Londinium. The Bankside district is mentioned in a variety of early modern texts, mostly in reference to the bawdy reputation of its citizens. Today, London’s Bankside is known as an arts district and is considered essential to the culture of the city.

(BANK2.xml) Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark)

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.

(STSA101.xml) The Globe

The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which William Shakespeare was a shareholder. It was one of the theatres at which the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later the King’s Men, regularly performed. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed at the Globe, along with the works of many other playwrights. It was an open-air, polygonal theatre with standing room around a thrust stage and three levels of gallery seating. It was built in 1599, burnt down in 1613, rebuilt in 1614 and closed in 1642. A modern reconstruction now stands a short distance from the site of the original in Bankside.

(GLOB1.xml) PLACEHOLDER LOCATION

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(LLLL1.xml) Bear Garden

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.

(BEAR1.xml) Pike Gardens

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 Izaak Walton’s 1653 angler guidebook.

(PIKE1.xml) Rose Alley

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).

(ROSE9.xml)

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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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 Survey, adding toponyms to MoEML’s Gazetteer, researching England’s early-modern court system, and standardizing MoEML’s Mapography.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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).

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Amy Tigner is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington, and the Editor-in-Chief of Early Modern Studies Journal. She is the author of Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II: England’s Paradise (Ashgate, 2012) and has published in ELR, Modern Drama, Milton Quarterly, Drama Criticism, Gastronomica and Early Theatre. Currently, she is working on two book projects: co-editing, with David Goldstein, Culinary Shakespeare, and co-authoring, with Allison Carruth, Literature and Food Studies.

Amy Tigner’s UTA profile Justin W. Smith Justin W. Smith JWS

Student contributor enrolled in English 5308: Shakespeare and Early Modern Urban/Rural Nature at the University of Texas, Arlington in Fall 2014, working under the guest editorship of Amy Tigner.

 John Webster John Webster

Playwright and poet.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Rocque John Rocque

Land surveyor and cartographer.

ODNB Wikipedia Daniel Crouch Rare Books John Pine John Pine

Designer, engraver, and cartographer.

ODNB Wikipedia Alexander Kippinge Alexander Kippinge

Denizen of London.

 Joseph Bryan Joseph Bryan

Denizen of London.

 Robert Clarke Robert Clarke

Tenant of Molestrand.

 Edward Griffin Edward Griffin

Tenant of Molestrand.

 Jane Thompson Jane Thompson

Widow. Tenant of Molestrand.

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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 1732 by Rendle and Norman in The Inns of Old Southwark and their Associations, which might indicate that its primary use was for ferries carrying passengers across the river (Rendle and Norman 323).

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 25 August 1624, it was written in the Surrey and Kent Sewer Commissioner’s court records that, 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 Alexander Kippinges house vnto the Signe of the ffalcon. LMA SKCS/025 The 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 one Carpenter, one Stokes, Robert Clarke, Edward Griffin, and Jane Thompson widow, for their houses. 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. John Webster for a grate of iron in 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 John Webster aforesaid. Joseph Bryan for the sewar in Rose alley on the banckside for soyle coming out of his house into the said sewar. LMA SKCS/028

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 Fairburn Map of London, Westminster and the New Docks, dated 1802 and printed by John Fairburn, shows the location of the Molestrand Dock adjacent to Willow Street, which ends at Bankside (Fairburn). The site is also depicted on Rocque and Pine’s 1746 map (<ref type="bibl" target="#ROCQ1">A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings</ref>), where it is labelled Moldſrand Dock. The exact origin of the name of Molestrand is currently unclear. There is a tributary of the Thames that runs through Surrey known as the River Mole, however, this River is nowhere close to the historic location of Molestrand, so any connection to these two places is questionable.