Somerset House

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Somerset House (labelled as Somerſet Palace on the Agas map) was a significant site for royalty in early modern London. Erected in 1550 on The Strand between Ivy Bridge Lane and Strand Lane, it was built for Lord Protector Somerset and was was England’s first Renaissance palace.

After the execution of Somerset in 1552, the house was given to Elizabeth I before her ascension, and was used by both herself and foreign ambassadors. In 1603 Somerset House belonged to Anne of Denmark and during this time the house served as the setting for courtly masques put on by Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones. Not only a place for celebration, Somerset House hosted the funeral for Oliver Cromwell in 1658 within its chapel. (Weinreb and Hibbert 849).

Two name changes have occured during the life of Somerset House. In 1606 the house was renamed to Denmark House in honour of Anne of Denmark’s brother, Christian IV of Denmark. After parliament claimed ownership of the house in 1645, the original name of the house was reinstated and has been maintained into present day (849). It is now a centre for arts and culture in London; for more information, see the Somerset House website.

References

Citation
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. New York: St. Martin’s, 1983. [You may also wish to consult the 3rd edition, published in 2008.]
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Duncan, Catriona. Somerset House. The Map of Early Modern London, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 20 Jun. 2018, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/SOME1.htm.

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Duncan, Catriona. Somerset House. The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 20, 2018. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/SOME1.htm.

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Duncan, C. 2018. Somerset House. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London. Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/SOME1.htm.

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Research assistant, 2014 to present. Catriona is an MA candidate at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests include medieval and early modern Literature with a focus on book history, spatial humanities, and technology.
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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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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present; Associate Project Director, 2015–present; 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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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth Tudor I Queen of England and Ireland

(b. 7 September 1533, d. 24 March 1603)

Queen of England and Ireland.
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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector

(b. 25 April 1599, d. 3 September 1658)

English soldier, statesman, and Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland who led parliamentary forces in the English Civil Wars.
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Inigo Jones

(b. 1573, d. 1652)

Architect and theatre designer.
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Ben Jonson

(b. 1572, d. 1637)

Poet and playwright.
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Edward Seymour

Edward Seymour Protector Somerset

(b. 1500, d. 1552)

Duke of Somerset.
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Anne of Denmark

Anne of Denmark Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland

(b. 12 December 1574, d. 2 March 1619)

Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Consort of James VI ad I. Daughter of Frederick II of Denmark and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. Sister of Christian IV of Denmark, Elizabeth of Denmark, and Ulric of Denmark.
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Christian IV of Denmark

King Christian IV of Denmark

(b. 12 April 1577, d. 28 February 1648)

King of Denmark and Norway, 1588—1648. Son of Frederick II of Denmark and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. Brother of Anne of Denmark, Elizabeth of Denmark, and Ulric of Denmark.
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Locations

The Strand

Named for its location on the bank of the Thames, the Strand leads outside the City of London from Temple Bar through what was formerly the Duchy of Lancaster to Charing Cross in what was once the city of Westminster. There were three main phases in the evolution of the Strand in early modern times: occupation by the bishops, occupation by the nobility, and commercial development.
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Ivy Bridge Lane
Ivy Bridge Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Strand Lane

Strand Lane was a narrow and rather winding thoroughfare leading to the Embankment a few yards to the east of Somerset House (Thornbury 63-84).
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Variant spellings

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Documents using the spelling Somerset house
- A Survey of London
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Documents using the spelling Somerset house
- Strand Bridge
Documents using the spelling Somerset Palace
- Somerset House
Documents using the spelling Sommerset house
- A Survey of London
- Excerpts from If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody, Part 2

Somerset House

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JJ

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TLG

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KMF

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JT

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MDH

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Elizabeth Tudor I Queen of England and Ireland

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Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector

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Inigo Jones is mentioned in the following documents:

Ben Jonson is mentioned in the following documents:

Edward Seymour Protector Somerset

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Anne of Denmark Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Anne of Denmark is mentioned in the following documents:

King Christian IV of Denmark

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Locations

The Strand is mentioned in the following documents:

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Strand Lane is mentioned in the following documents:

Variant spellings

Documents using the spelling Denmark House

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Documents using the spelling Somerset House

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Documents using the spelling Sommerset house