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TY - ELEC
A1 - Stow, John
A1 - fitz-Stephen, William
ED - Jenstad, Janelle
T1 - Survey of London (1598): Langbourn Ward
T2 - The Map of Early Modern London
ET - 7.0
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/05/05
CY - Victoria
PB - University of Victoria
LA - English
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ER - Langbourn Ward is west of Aldgate Ward. According to a long borne of ſweete water
which once broke out of the ground in Fenchurch Street, a street running through the middle of Langbourn Ward (Stow 1603). The long borne of ſweete water
no longer existed at the time of
Fenchurch Street (often called pork and peas
after her sister,
Lombard Street was known by early modern Londoners as a place of commerce and trade. Running east to west from Gracechurch Street to Poultry, Lombard Street bordered Langbourn Ward, Walbrook Ward, Bridge Within Ward, and Candlewick Street Ward.
Aldgate Ward is located within the London Wall and east of Lime Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Aldgate Street, are named after Aldgate, the eastern gate into the walled city (Stow 1633, sig. N6v).
Lime Street is a street that ran north-south from Leadenhall Street in the north to Fenchurch Street in the south. It was west of St. Andrew Undershaft and east of Leadenhall. It appears that the street was so named because people made or sold Lime there (Stow). This claim has some historical merit; in the 1150s one Ailnoth the limeburner lived in the area (Harben; BHO).
Lime Street Ward is west of Aldgate Ward. The ward is named after its principle street, Lime Street, which takes its name from the making or ſelling of Lime there
, according to
Gracechurch Street ran north-south from Cornhill Street near Leadenhall Market to the bridge. At the southern end, it was called
New Fish Street
. North of Cornhill, Gracechurch
continued as Bishopsgate Street, leading through
Bishop’s Gate out of the walled city into the
suburb of Shoreditch.
The church is visible on the Agas map along Fenchurch Street. Before the
Cornhill Ward is west of Bishopsgate Ward and south of Broad Street Ward. According to corne Market
once held there.
Note: Cornhill and Cornhill Ward are nearly synonymous in terms of location and nomenclature—thus, it can be a challenge to tell one from the other. Topographical decisions have been made to the best of our knowledge and ability.
Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in
St. Dionis Backchurch was located on the southwest side of Lime Street on the border between Langbourn Ward and Billingsgate Ward (Stow 1633, sig. V1r-V1v). The church is dedicated to the patron saint of France, St. Denys or Dionysius, which, as Harben notes, is the only church in the City with this dedication, and suggests the French influence which prevailed in England during the 11th and 12th centuries
(Harben). The church was built in the
St. John’s of Jerusalem provided housing and care
for pilgrims and crusading knights. It was held by the
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
Birchin Lane was a short street running north-south between Cornhill Street and Lombard Street. The north end of Birchin Lane lay in Cornhill Ward, and the south end in Langbourne Ward.
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
The Stocks Market was a significant market for fish and flesh
in early modern London, located south of Poultry, north of Bucklersbury, and west of Walbrook Street in Cornhill Ward (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). The building of the Stocks Market was commissioned by
the only fixed pair of stocks in the city(Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). It was destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt, and then replaced in
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).
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).
Nicholas Lane, or, as
St. Nicholas Acon was located in Langbourn Ward, its parish extending into Candlewick Street Ward (Harben 437). While it was not depicted on the Agas map, Prockter and Taylor note that St. Nicholas Acon stood on the west side of St. Nicholas Lane towards the northern end
(Prockter and Taylor 51). According to Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay, Acons
is possibly derived from Haakon
, the name of one of the benefactors (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 802).
Abchurch Lane runs north-south from
Lombard Street to Candlewick Street. The
Agas Map labels it Abchurche
lane
. It lies mainly in Candlewick
Street Ward, but part of it serves as the boundary between Langbourne Ward and Candlewick Street Ward.
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Parson of St. Gabriel Fenchurch.
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LAngborne warde is ſo called of a long borne of
ſwéete water, which of old time
breaking out
into Fenchurch ſtreete, ran downe the
ſame
ſtreete and Lombard ſtreet, to the Weſt ende
of
S. Mary Woolnothes Church, where tur
ning ſouth, and breaking it ſelfe into many
ſmall ſhares, rilles or ſtreames, it left the name
of Share borne lane, or ſouth borne lane (as I haue read) becauſe
it
ranne ſouth to the riuer of Thames. This
Warde beginneth
at the Weſt end of Aldegate warde,
in Fenne church ſtréet, by the
Ironmongers hall, which is on the North
ſide of that ſtréete, at a
place called Culuer
alley, where ſometime was a lane, through
the which men went into Limeſtréete, but that being
long ſince
ſtopped vp for ſuſpition of theeues, that lurked there by night (as
is
ſhewed in Limeſtreet warde) there is now this ſaid
alley a ten
nis court, &c.
Fenne Church ſtreet tooke that name of
a Fennie or Mooriſh
ground ſo made by means of this borne which paſſed through it,
&
therefore vntill this day in the Guildehall of
this citie, that ward is
called by the name of Langborne, and fennie about and not other
wiſe: yet others be of opinion that it tooke that name of
Fænum,
that is hey ſolde there, as Graſſe ſtreet tooke the name of Graſſe
or herbes there
ſold.
In the midſt of this ſtreete ſtandeth a ſmall pariſh church cal
led S. Gabriel Fen
church, corruptly Fan church.
Edward the third
the
49. of his raigne
thereto belonging, and a garden with the entrie
thereto leading,
vnto Iohn Hariot
for euer, the houſe to bee a Parſonage
houſe, the garden to bee a
churchyard, or burying place for the pariſh.
Then haue ye Lombard ſtreete, ſo
called of the Longobards,
and other merchantes, ſtraungers
of diuers nations aſſembling 22. of
December in the yeare
1568
beganne their meeting in Cornehill at the Burſe,
ſince by her
Maieſtie named the Royall Exchange.
On the North ſide of this Warde is Limeſtreet, one halfe
whereof is of this
warde, and therein on the weſt ſide is the Pew
terers hall, who were
admitted to be a brotherhood, in the 13. of
Edward the fourth
At Limeſtreet corner is a faire pariſh Church of S. Dionys cal
led Back church, lately new builded:
bout the yeare 1446
the
ſouth ſide and was there buried: 1466
(beſides ſundry ornaments) his dwelling houſe, &
others, vnto the
ſaid pariſh Church,
there 1444:
Thomas Bryttaine, Robert Paget merchantaylor,
one of the Sherifs 1536.
1462. & the
WitchThomas Curteis
or 1557.
PeterſonEdward
Oſborne
Clothworker Mayor 1583. buried there.
Then in Lombardſtreet is one faire pariſh church,
called Alhallowes Graſſe Church in Lombardſtreet, I ſo reade it in
e
uidences of record, for that the Graſſe market went downe that
way, and was there kept,
but the ſtreet was far larger in breadth.
This Church was lately new builded.
and then Grocer Sheriffe 1494. builded the South
Ile, his ſonne
1516. The
terers
bell Tower thereof was finiſhed in the yeare
1544. about the
Henry the eight
church was brought from the late diſſolued Priorie of S. Iohn of
Ieruſalem, by Smithfielde, ſo was the frame for their belles, but
the
belles being bought, were neuer brought thether, by reaſon
that one olde
young
begunne, and appointed, ſo
that faire ſteeple hath but one bell, as
Friers were wont to vſe. The monuments in
this church be theſe, Warners and
Next to this is the pariſh church of S.
Edmond
the
King and
Martir in Lombard ſtréet, by the ſouth
corner of Birchouers lane.
This church is alſo called S. Edmond Graſſe
church, becauſe
the ſaid Graſſe market came
downe ſo low. The monuments in
this church are theſe: Iohn Milborne
ſed, 1535.
buried there by IoaneMargaret
wiues, vnder
a tombe of touch.
Mayor, 1477.
William Cheſter1560.
with his wiues
amongſt his predeceſſors. George Barne
Mayor, 1586.
&c.
From this church downe Lombards ſtreete, by Birchouers
lane (the one halfe of which lane is of
this warde) and ſo downe, be
diuers faire houſes, namely one with a very faire
forefront to
wards the ſtréete, builded by
Mayor of London, and then
one other, ſometime belonging to
14. of Edwarde
the
thirdSuffolke,
in the 14. of Richard the ſecond
market, lacking but ſome thrée houſes thereof.
The ſouth ſide of this Warde, beginneth in the Eaſt, at the
chaine to be drawne
thwart Mart lane, vp into Fen church ſtréet,
and ſo Weſt, by the North end of Minchen lane to S.
Margarets
Pattens ſtréet, or Roode
lane, and downe that ſtréet to the midway
toward S. Margarets church: then by Philpot lane, (ſo called
of Iohn
Philpot
downe that lane
ſome ſixe or eight houſes on each ſide, is all of this
warde.
Then by Graſſe church corner into Lombard ſtreet to S.
Clements lane, and downe the ſame to S.
Clements church: then
downe S.
Nicholas lane, and downe the ſame to Saint Nicholas
church, and the ſame church is of this ward.
Then to Abchurch
lane and downe ſome ſmal portion
thereof: then downe Sherborne
lane, a part thereof,
and a parte of Bearebinder lane bee of this
warde:
and then downe Lombardſtreet to the ſigne of the
angell
almoſt to the corner ouer againſt the Stockes
market: and theſe
be the bounds of this warde.
Alhallowes, com
monly
called Stane church, ſomwhat within Mart lane end, by the
which church ſometime paſſed a
lane called Cradocks lane, from
Mart lane, winding by the north ſide of Alhallows Stane church
afore ſaid, into Fen church ſtréet, the which lane being ſtraitned
by
incrochments, is now called church alley. In
this church there
haue beene diuers faire monuments of the dead, namely of
Coſtin
1244. his name remaineth painted on the church roofe, if it had
béene
in braſſe it would not haue remained there ſo long: he gaue
out of certaine
tenementes to the poore of that pariſh an hundred
quarters of charcoles yearely
for euer. Robert Teſle
of the holy ſepulcher, and Ioane1486
Iohn StewardAlice
Alice
William and
William Atwell, Fe daughter to
lixThomas
Giſers Trauers, Tho Eſquire,
mas Maſon
Eſquire,
William Frier, Iohn Hamburger Eſquire, Hugh Alderman,
Moresby, Gilbert
Prince
man, Iohn Writhalias
Garter, principall
King at Armes, ſometime laid vnder a faire tombe in the
quire,
now broken downe and gone.
ſleyIohn
Writheſley
to
to Alienor, Elianor ſeconde wife to
Iohn
Writheſley Thomas, Ag, firſt maried to
nes Arnold Ri, daughter to Sir
chard Warmeforde, Barbara
Hungerford
Iohn Writheſley, wife to
Thomas HungerfordDennampney in the countie
of Gloceſter: Iohn Boſtoke
Eſquire, Richard TateHenry the eight
1554. his monument
remaineth yet, the reſt being all pulled
downe, and ſwept out of the church, where
through the Church
Warden was forced to make a large accompt xij.
his owne charge. Then is
the pariſh church of S. Nicholas Acon
or
Hacon,
Iohn Bridges1520. newly repayred
this
church and imbattailed it, and was there buried:
yer1580. with o
ther of the Boyers. So was
derman mother of
in the high ſtreet a proper
pariſh church of S. Mary Woolnoth, of
the natiuitie, the reaſon of which name I haue not
yet learned:
this church is lately new builded. Hugh Briſe
Henry
the ſeuenth
London, and one of
the gouernors of the kings mint in the Tow
er of London, vnder 5. of Edward the
fourth1496. he builded in this church a chappell, called
the charnel, as alſo part of the bodie of the church and of the ſtéeple,
and gaue
money toward the finiſhing thereof, beſides the ſtone
which he had prepared: hee
was buried in the body of the church,
Ioan
William Peach
per 1396.
1459.
his wife in
S. Iohns chappel, Iohn Pierciuall
lor Mayor, 1504
Uinteners, &
Taylor
to Henry the eight1519. vnder the
chappell
of S. George, which chappell was builded by
Lufken
ſmith mayſter of the kings iewels: Martin
Bowes
buried 1569Langborne ward of all fiftéenes to be granted to
the King by
mentThomas Ramſey
Thus haue ye ſeuen
pariſh churches in this ward. One hall of a
companie, diuiers faire houſes for
marchants, and other monu
ments none. It
hath an Alderman his deputie, common Counſel
lors 8. Conſtables 15. Scauengers 9. men of the Wardemote
inqueſt 17. and a
Beadle. It is taxed to the fifteene in London
at xxj. pound. In the
Exchecquer at xx.£. x.