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PB - University of Victoria
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The Parish of St. Mary Magdalen (Bermondsey) was located to the east of the Parish of St. Olave (Southwark), just outside of the area depicted on the Agas map (Boulton 10-11). According to
Maiden Lane (Southwark) ran between Dead Man’s Place and Gravel Lane in Southwark and is alternatively referred to as Maid Lane (Sugden 328). It appears on the
Great Distaff Street ran east-west from Friday Street to Old Change and was located in Bread Street Ward. The main structure of note along the street was Cordwainers’ Hall. It was also known as Mayden lane
and is labelled Maidenhed lane
on the Agas map (Stow 1633, sig. 2L6r). According to Distaue, not Distar
(Stow 1633, sig. 2L6r; Harben). Great Distaff Street is not to be confused with Distaff Lane, the lane which ran south out of Great Distaff Street toward Knightrider Street.
Kerion Lane ran east-west from College Hill to St. James Garlickhithe and was located in Vintry Ward (Harben, Maiden Lane). It was also known as Maiden Lane (Harben, Maiden Lane).
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Maiden Lane (Wood Street)
was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood
Street, and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden
(Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s Lane.
According to Taylor, Maidenhead was a lodging house frequented by various carriers (Taylor A4v, B1r).
Taylor identifies the Maidenhead as being
in Cat-eatonſtreet,
neere the guildhall
(Taylor A4v). Norman
corroborates this account and adds futher specificity by stating that it stands at the corner of
Old Jewry and Gresham street [formerly Cateaton Street]
(Norman 247).
Being from
Edward H. Sugden describes the Maidenhead in Ram Alley as the worst of all dens of infamy in that notorious court
(Sugden 328).
Manor of the Rose was a residence on Suffolk Lane in Dowgate Ward.
According to
Barbican Tower was a watchtower or barbican to the northeast of the London Wall.
According to
Blanch Appleton was a manor on Fenchurch Street
next to St. Katherine Coleman in Aldgate Ward.
It is marked on the Agas map as Blanch chapelton
. discontinued,
and therefore forgotten, so as no-thing
remaineth for memorie, but the name of Mart Lane
(Stow 1598, sig. I1r).
The site was claimed by the Mayor and Commonality of the City in Blanch Appleton Court
(Harben).
According to
PLACE OUTSIDE OF LONDON. While this location exists within the boundaries of modern-day Greater London, it lies outside of the early-modern City of London and is beyond MoEML’s current scope.
Kennington was a region, originally a manor, south of Lambeth. In general impression
was of an area of meadow and pasture chequered by drainage
channels
(Sheppard, F.H.W.).
Whitehall Palace, the Palace of Whitehall or simply Whitehall, was one of the most complex and sizeable locations in the entirety of early modern Europe. As the primary place of residence for monarchs from [i]t lay on the left bank of the Thames, and extended from nearly the point where Westminster Bdge. now crosses the river to Scotland Yard, and from the river back to St. James’s Park
(Sugden 564-565).
Located along the Strand in Westminster,
Savoy Manor was initially the residence of
Savoy Hospital was located along the Strand in Westminster.
for the
reliefe of one hundreth poore people
(Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r). The hospital was suppressed by
The history of Hampton Court illustrates, in many ways, the history of England itself. Hampton Court was originally owned by
According to Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay, Hyde Park was the largest of the royal parks. The land was used as a hunting ground from
Established in held by [the]
(Carlin and Belcher 67-8). Lastly, in
(Carlin and Belcher 68).
Merchant Taylors’ School was a grammar school founded by
Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. It was for the most parte of this Towerstreet warde
(Stow). The north end of the street, from Fenchurch Street to Hart
Street was divided between Aldgate Ward
and Landbourn Ward. so called of a Priuiledge sometime
enjoyed to keepe a mart there, long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten,
so as nothing remaineth for memorie
(Stow). Modern scholars have suggested that it was
instead named after the mart, where oxen were fattened for slaughter (Harben).
According to
Also known as St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel Church was located on Whitechapel Street.
The Maypole Socket existed at least from
Milk Street, located in Cripplegate Ward, began on the north side of Cheapside Street, and ran north to a square formed at the intersection of Milk Street, Cat Street (Lothbury), Lad Lane, and Aldermanbury.
Mincing Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. All of the street was part of Tower
Street Ward
except the corner house[s] towardes Fenchurch
streete
, which were in Langbourn
Ward (Stow). tenements there sometime pertayning to
the Minchuns or Nunnes of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate streete
(Stow).
According to Sugden, the Mermaid Inn was located on the South side of Carter Lane, just north of Addle Hill (Sugden 342). MoEML consulted Taylor and Rocque 12Ca to locate this site on the Agas map.
The hall of the
Henry A. Harben decribes the Mercers’ Chapel as being located
(Harben 404). At one time part of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, the location was obtained by the
According to large, builded of Stone, with three arched Gates towards the street
(Stow 1:234).
The Mermaid Tavern was a drinking and dining establishment located between lower Bread Street and Friday Street, with entrances to both. Its location corresponds to the place between these two streets on current day London’s Cannon Street (Glinert).
diuers faire Innesand that the area was
wholely inhabited by rich Marchants(Stow 1598, sig. T5r). The Mermaid Tavern was not far from Old Fish Street and the Blackfriars Theatre (Chalfant).
Warwick Inn was located on Warwick Lane in Farringdon Within Ward. It was built by an Earl of Warwick about the
The Royal Mews was a royal horse stable at Charing Cross at the west end of the Strand.
According to
Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
Within the Middle Temple complex on the west side of Middle Temple Lane.
Part of the Middle Temple complex, repaired by Sir Amias Paulet in the reign of Henry VIII.
The Parish of St. Michael (Cornhill) was one of two parishes within Cornhill Ward. Although not much geographical information is known about the Parish of St. Michael (Cornhill), the births, marriages, and deaths of its parishioners were detailed in the parish register, beginning in
Mile End was a hamlet located on the eastern edge of London, east of Whitechapel and exactly a mile east of Aldgate (Sugden).
The location previously referred to as Mill Alley is now known as Great Bell Alley. Eilert Ekwall contends that the name after Wm. Mills, who lived there in the 16th century
(Harben 270). Former names include Great Bell Alley extended from Coleman Street across Moorgate to Little Bell Alley and beyond to the eastern boundary of the ward
(Harben 270).
Grub Street could be found outside the walled City of London. It ran north-south, between Everades Well Street in the north and Fore Lane in the south. Grub Street was partially in Cripplegate ward, and partially outside the limits of the City of London.
Founded in
Running south from Aldgate Street to Little Tower Hill, Minories derives its name from the Abbey of St. Clare, called the Abbey of the Minoresses of St. Clare, which stood at the street’s midpoint (Harben 416).
Located on the eastern boundary of Portsoken Ward (Harben 417), the Minories Bars are not featured on the Agas map.
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.
Westminster Abbey was and continues to be a historically significant church. One of its many notable features is
St. Saviour (Southwark) dates back at least
to S. Mary Owber
.
According to
Austin Friars was a church on the west side of Broad Street in Broad
Street Ward. It was formerly part of the Priory of Augustine Friars, established in 1253. At the dissolution
of the monastery in 1539, the West end [of the church] thereof inclosed from
the steeple, and Quier, was in the yeare 1550. graunted to the Dutch Nation in
London [by
(Stow). The Quier
and side Isles to the Quier adioyning, he reserued to housholde vses, as for
stowage of corne, coale, and other things
(Stow). The church, completely rebuilt in the nineteenth century and
then again mid-way through the twentieth century, still belongs to Dutch
Protestants to this day.
Located on the former site of St. Mary Overies Priory Close, Montague House was just north of St. Saviour (Southwark), on the southern bank of the Thames (Questier 1). In
Mountjoy’s Inn, known variously as Monte Jovis Inn or Montjufusyn was, according to Victor Belcher and Martha Carlin, founded by
(Carlin and Belcher 80). fair and large
(qtd. in Carlin and Belcher 81).
Montfichet’s Tower was a fortress on Ludgate Hill in London.
A low-lying marshy area just northeast of Moorgate and on the way to the Curtain, Moorfields was home to a surprising range of activities and accompanying cultural associations in early modern London. Beggars and the mentally ill patients of neighbouring Bethlehem Hospital often frequented the area. Some used the public space to bleach and dry linen, and the full of noysome waters
(Stow 2:77) until
Moorditch was the section of the City Ditch outside the Wall, which ran east-west from Bishopsgate to Moorgate (Sugden).
Moorgate was one of the major gates in the Wall of London (Sugden). It was situated in the northern part of the Wall, flanked by Cripplegate and Bishopsgate. Clearly labelled as More Gate
on the Agas map, it stood near the intersection of London Wall street and Coleman Street (Sugden; Stow 1598, sig. C6v). It adjoined Bethlehem Hospital, and the road through it led into Finsbury Field (Rocque) and Mallow Field.
Formerly Mountjoy’s Inn, the Doctors’ Commons, Knightrider Street was the
meeting place for the where they kept a common table and built up a precious library of
foreign law books
(Baker
180). Eventually, the Doctors’ Commons,
Knightrider Street housed five courts: the
The Green Gate was a house on the south side of Leadenhall Street, east of Leadenhall in Lime Street Ward.
The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.
The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes
referred to as
The Anno Mundi (year of the world
) calendar is based on the supposed date of the
creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different
creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).
Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch.
Our practice is to tag such dates with
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