Foster Lane

Agas Map

Foster Lane ran north-south between Cheapside in the south and Oat Lane in the north. It crossed Lily Pot Lane, St. Anne’s Lane, Maiden Lane, and Carey Lane. It sat between St. Martin’s Lane to the west and Gutter Lane to the east. Foster Lane is drawn on the Agas Map in the correct position, labelled as Forster Lane.

Stow describes how Foster Lane lies almost wholy in Aldersgate Ward, but the northernmost section serves as a boundary for Cripplegate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward (Stow). It was known to Stow as both Foster Lane and Faster Lane. Its name is a corruption of Vedast after the Church of St. Vedast, which is on its south-eastern end (Harben). Other landmarks included: St. Leonard’s Church and Goldsmiths Hall, and a proper house, but not large (Stow; Harben).

Foster Lane survives in modern London.

References

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Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. British History Online. Reprint. Open.
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Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Reprint. British History Online. Subscription. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription. In the in-text parenthetical reference (Stow; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source.]
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Takeda, Joey. Foster Lane. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 20 Jun. 2018, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/FOST1.htm.

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Takeda, Joey. Foster Lane. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 20, 2018. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/FOST1.htm.

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Takeda, J. 2018. Foster Lane. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/FOST1.htm.

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Janelle Jenstad, associate professor in the department of English at the University of Victoria, is the general editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern London. She is also the assistant coordinating editor of Internet Shakespeare Editions. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. Her articles have appeared in the 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 Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, forthcoming). She is currently working on an edition of The Merchant of Venice for ISE and Broadview P. She lectures regularly on London studies, digital humanities, and on Shakespeare in performance.
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Locations

Cheap Ward

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Oat Lane

Oat Lane ran east-west, connecting Noble Street in the west to Staining Lane in the east. It is drawn on the Agas map in the correct position and is labelled as Ote la. It was in Aldersgate Ward.
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Lily Pot Lane
Lily Pot Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Anne’s Lane
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Maiden Lane

There were actually two streets in early modern London commonly called Maiden Lane, though only one was properly referred to by that name. The true Maiden Lane, to which this page refers, 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.
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Carey Lane

Carey Lane ran east-west, connecting Gutter Lane in the east and Foster Lane in the west. It ran parallel between Maiden Lane in the north and Cheapside in the south. The Agas Map labels it Kerie la.
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St. Martin’s Lane (Strand)
St. Martin’s Lane (Strand) is mentioned in the following documents:
Gutter Lane

Gutter Lane ran north-south from Cheapside to Maiden Lane. It is to the west of Wood Street and to the east of Foster Lane, lying within the north-eastern most area of Farringdon Ward Within and serving as a boundary to Aldersgate ward. It is labelled as Goutter Lane on the Agas map.
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Aldersgate Ward

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Cripplegate Ward

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Farringdon Within Ward

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St. Vedast
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St. Leonard

St. Leonard’s church—also known as The Actors’ church—is the burial place of many prominent early modern actors. The Burbages (James Burbage and his sons Richard Burbage and Cuthbert Burbage), Richard Cowley, William Sly, and many others are buried there (ShaLT).
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Goldsmiths’ Hall
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Variant spellings

Documents using the spelling Faster Lane
- A Survey of London
Documents using the spelling Faster Lane
- Foster Lane
Documents using the spelling Faster lane
- Aldersgate Ward
Documents using the spelling Fauster Lane
- A Survey of London
- Farringdon Within Ward
Documents using the spelling Fauster lane
- A Survey of London
- Farringdon Within Ward
Documents using the spelling Fausterlane
- A Survey of London
Documents using the spelling Fausters lane
- A Survey of London
Documents using the spelling Forster Lane
- Foster Lane
Documents using the spelling Foster Lane
- A Survey of London
Documents using the spelling Foster lane
Documents using the spelling Foster Lane
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- Sidero-Thriambos. Or Steele and iron triumphing

Foster Lane

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Cheap Ward is mentioned in the following documents:

Oat Lane is mentioned in the following documents:

Lily Pot Lane is mentioned in the following documents:

St. Anne’s Lane is mentioned in the following documents:

Maiden Lane is mentioned in the following documents:

Carey Lane is mentioned in the following documents:

St. Martin’s Lane (Strand) is mentioned in the following documents:

Gutter Lane is mentioned in the following documents:

Aldersgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:

Cripplegate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:

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St. Vedast is mentioned in the following documents:

St. Leonard is mentioned in the following documents:

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Variant spellings

Documents using the spelling Faster Lane

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Documents using the spelling Fauster Lane

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Documents using the spelling Forster Lane

Documents using the spelling Foster Lane

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