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ER - 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
The Elephant was located in the ward of Southwark, south of the Thames and west of the London Bridge. It was part of a row of twelve licensed brothels or stewhouses along Bankside that reopened after for a season
in
Finsbury Field is located in northen London outside the London Wall. Note that MoEML correctly locates Finsbury Field, which the label on the Agas map confuses with Mallow Field (Prockter 40). Located nearby is Finsbury Court. Finsbury Field is outside of the city wards within the borough of Islington (Mills 81).
Bridewell was a prison and hospital. The site was originally a royal palace (Bridewell Palace) but was transferred to the
Bride Well
.
Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).
St. Peter upon Cornhill stood at the highest point of the city in the south east of Cornhill Ward. According to a tablet preserved within the church, St. Peter upon Cornhill was founded by not by what authority
(Stow 1:194) the tablet was written.
Swan Alley was a north-south alley that bordered Cornhill Ward’s north side and Broad Street Ward’s south end. It opened into Cornhill Ward and therefore was included within Cornhill Ward’s limits.
Cow Face, commonly referred to as [t]anners sold hides in this seld until
(Carlin and Belcher 71).
Pope’s Head Alley ran south from Cornhill to Lombard Street, and was named for the Pope’s Head Tavern that stood at its northern end. Although it does not appear on the Agas Map, its approximate location can be surmised since all three streets still exist. Although Imprinted by
(Stow 1598, sig. A1r). Booksellers proliferated the alley in the early years of the
Dudley’s House was located just north of Candlewick Street, before it meets Walbrook Street. According to
St. Peter’s College Rents were located on the west side of St. Paul’s Cathedral, next to the Atrium and northwest of the Stationers’ Hall. The building was, as Carlin and Belcher note, founded by
(Carlin and Belcher 92).
Running parallel to Dowgate Street, Grantam Lane spanned north to south from Thames Street to the Thames.
Brewer’s Lane
(Harben).
The Atrium near St. Paul’s Cathedral was located on the west side of the cathedral, adjacent to St. Peter’s College Rents and the Stationers’ Hall.
The King’s Wardrobe, built in the fourteenth century between St. Andrew’s Hill and Addle Hill near Blackfriars Precinct, was originally a repository for royal clothing, but later housed offices of the royal household and became a key seat of government (Sugden 557). In this houſe of late yeares, is lodged Sir
rer of the Exchequer, and one of her Maieſties Priuy
Councel. The ſecret letters & writings touching the eſtate of the realme, were
wont to be introlled in the kings Wardrobe, and not
in the Chauncery, as appeareth by the Records.
The Castle was a large stone house in Cornhill ward, located on the north side of Cornhill at the western side of the Royal Exchange. Part of it was removed for the expansion of the Royal Exchange in
The Barge was a tenement building located in Cheap Ward. The structure was the remains of a medieval manor house.
One of the most opulent sites in early modern London, Henry VII’s Chapel still stands in the eastern wing of Westminster Abbey. The structure was initially intended
to monumentalize
Little is known about Cokedon Hall, but Carlin and Belcher note that it was in existence around sometime at the South west end of Marte lane I reade of
(Stow 1:132).
Wood Street Counter had been removed there from Bread Street in
(Harben 166). Tracing its history back ever further, Carlin and Belcher note that the prison was initially located in the Broken Seld around
Initially named for its proximity to the Poultry Compter, Compter Alley is now Chapel Place (Poultry) (Ekwall 172). Directly south of the Grocers’ Hall, the alley ran from the Poultry Compter to Poultry.
Running north-to-south, Deep Ditch was the boundary between the Moorfields and Bethlehem Hospital. Henry Harben describes the history of the site as follows: In Agas’ map a stream is shown here flowing into the City Ditch, which may be the remains of the Walbrook, the bed of which has been found under Blomfield Street, and might be referred to by
Harben 195
The Almshouses of Wood Street were located on the east side of the street, south of Bowyers’ Hall. Carlin and Belcher note that the almshouses were built in by request to the
(Carlin and Belcher 64).
Located in Queenhithe, Ratten Lane spanned south from Timberhithe Street to the Thames.
Dark lane was a small street that was located just north of Queenhithe and was connected to Timberhithe Street.
There were a number of alleys named
Coldharbour Lane, or Colderherburghlane,
ran south from Thames Street to Coldharbour
on the east side of All Hallows the Less (
The Deanery at St. Paul’s Cathedral served as the residence for the dean of the cathedral from in
(Schofield 153).
Within the Middle Temple complex on the west side of Middle Temple Lane.
Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
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
Research Assistant, 2020-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth year student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, decolonialist writing, and Modernist poetry.
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Project Manager, 2020.
Research Assistant, 2020-2021. Managing Encoder, 2020-2021. Jamie Zabel was an MA student at the University of Victoria in the Department of English. She completed her BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 2017. She published a paper in University College London’s graduate publication
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Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
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
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Research Assistant, 2018. Carly was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included early modern literature, specifically drama and performance. She had a special interest in contemporary adaptations of early modern drama, especially the portrayal of onstage violence.
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focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of
Research Assistant, 2016-2018. Brooke Isherwood was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, concentrating on medieval and early modern Literature. She had a special interest in Shakespeare as well as lesser-known works from the Renaissance.
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Gordon Fulton is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria.
Tanya Schmidt is a PhD Candidate in the English Department at New York University. Her research interests include early modern epic and classical reception, Anglo-Italian literary exchange, and early modern literature and science.
Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte professor in the humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Author of several books, including
J. Caitlin Finlayson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research
focuses on
Chris Highley is a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He grew up near Manchester in the north of England. After studying English at the University of Sussex, he earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California and Stanford University (1991) respectively. He specializes in Early Modern literature, culture, and history. He is the author of
Joyce Boro is Professor of English literature at Université de Montréal, Canada. She is the editor of Lord Berners’
Briony Frost is an Education and Scholarship Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. Her teaching and research fields include: Renaissance literature, especially drama; Elizabethan and Jacobean succession literature; witchcraft; publics; memory and forgetting; and soundscapes. Her M.A. Renaissance Literature class (Country, City and Court: Renaissance Literature, 1558-1618) will prepare encyclopedia entries on many of the sites (numbered 1-12) on The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage.
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Una McIlvenna is Hansen Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches courses on crime, punishment, and media in early modern Europe, and on the history of sexualities. She has held positions as Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Kent. From 2011-2014 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Australian Research Council’s Centre for the History of Emotions, based at the University of Sydney, where she began her ongoing project investigating emotional responses to the use of songs and verse in accounts of crime and public execution across Europe. She has published articles on execution ballads in
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University of Texas, Arlington, and the
Editor-in-Chief of Early
Modern Studies Journal. She is the author of
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