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Sites in early modern London.
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Janelle Jenstad
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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.Roles played in the project
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Kim McLean-Fiander
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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.Roles played in the project
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Joey Takeda
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Programmer, 2018-present; Junior Programmer, 2015 to 2017; Research Assistant, 2014 to 2017. Joey Takeda is an MA student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests include diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.Roles played in the project
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Martin D. Holmes
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Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.Roles played in the project
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Locations
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Alderman Bury is mentioned in the following documents:
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Amen Corner is mentioned in the following documents:
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Artillery Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Arundel House
Arundel House (c. 1221-1682) was located on the Thames between Milford Lane and Strand Lane. It was to the east of Somerset House, to the south of St. Clement Danes, and adjacent to the Roman Baths at Strand Lane.Arundel House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Asher House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Austin Friars
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 Edward VI], to be their preaching place
(Stow). TheQuier 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.Austin Friars is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bacon House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bangor Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Banqueting House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Barbican (Tower) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Barkley’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Barnards Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bath Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Battle Bridge (Tooley Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Baynard’s Castle
Located on the banks of the Thames, Baynard’s Castle was built sometime in the late eleventh centuryby Baynard, a Norman who came over with William the Conqueror
(Weinreb and Hibbert 129). The castle passed to Baynard’s heirs until one William Baynard,who by forfeyture for fellonie, lost his Baronie of little Dunmow
(Stow 1:61). From the time it was built, Baynard’s Castle wasthe headquarters of London’s army until the reign of Edward I (1271-1307) when it was handed over to the Dominican Friars, the Blackfriars whose name is still commemorated along that part of the waterfront
(Hibbert 10).Baynard’s Castle is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bear Garden
The Bear Garden was never a garden, but rather a polygonal bearbaiting arena whose exact locations across time are not known (Mackinder and Blatherwick 18). Labelled on the Agas map asThe Bearebayting,
the Bear Garden would have been one of several permanent structures—wooden arenas, dog kennels, bear pens—dedicated to the popular spectacle of bearbaiting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Bear Garden is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bedford House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bethlehem Hospital
Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As John Stow tells us, Saint Mary of Bethlehem began as aPriorie of Cannons with brethren and sisters,
founded in 1247 by Simon Fitzmary,one of the Sheriffes of London
(1.164). We know from Stow’s Survey that the hospital, part of Bishopsgate ward (without), resided on the west side of Bishopsgate street, just north of St. Botolph’s church (2.73; 1.165).Bethlehem Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bishop of Hereford’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bishops of Winchester’s Stairs is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bishop’s Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bishop’s Palace
Bishop’s Palace was located on the north-west side of St. Paul’s Church. It was bordered on the north by Paternoster Row and on the west by Ave Maria Lane. It is not labelled on the Agas map.Bishop’s Palace is mentioned in the following documents:
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Black Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Black Horse Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Blackfriars Precinct is mentioned in the following documents:
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Blackwell Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Blanch Appleton is mentioned in the following documents:
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Blue Boar
Cooks’ house.Blue Boar is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bread Street Market
Stow says that by 1302 the bakers in London were obligated to sell their bread at a central market, eventually giving its name to Breadstreet.Bread Street Market is mentioned in the following documents:
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Brewers’ Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bridewell Precinct is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bridge House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Broken Wharf
A wharf opposite of St. Mary Somerset Church.Broken Wharf is mentioned in the following documents:
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Broken Wharf Mansion is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bull Baiting is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bunhill Field is mentioned in the following documents:
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Burges Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Burley House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Camera Diane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cannon Row is mentioned in the following documents:
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Carter Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cecilelane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Central Criminal Court
Known by John Stow as the Sessions Hall, the Central Criminal Court sits on the site of the Newgate Prison on the east side of Old Bailey and the corner of Newgate Street.Central Criminal Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Charing Cross is mentioned in the following documents:
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Charlton House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Chartesey House
A house once belonging to the Abbots of Chartsey. Near Boss Lane.Chartesey House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cheapside Cross (Eleanor Cross)
If monuments could speak, the Cheapside Cross would have told a tale of kingly love, civic pride, and sectarian violence. The Cross, pictured but not labelled on the Agas map, stood in Cheapside between Friday Street and Wood Street. St. Peter Westcheap lay to its west, on the north side of Cheapside. The prestigious shops of Goldsmiths’ Row were located to the east of the Cross, on the south side of Cheapside. The Standard in Cheapside (also known as the Cheap Standard), a square pillar/conduit that was also a ceremonial site, lay further to the east (Brissenden xi).Cheapside Cross (Eleanor Cross) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Chertsey House
This messuage is not identified on the Agas Map but Prockter and Taylor label a house in this vicinityGhertsey House
(21). Stow talks about an inn used by the abbots of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey,wherein they were lodged when they repayred to the Citie
(2:11).Chertsey House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Christ’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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City Ditch (the Minories)
The city ditch was part of the old medieval defence system. The ditch for the east section of the city wall, west of the Minories, ran south from Aldgate to Posterngate.City Ditch (the Minories) is mentioned in the following documents:
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City Dog House
The City Dog House, located in northern London, was adjacent to Moorfields and was located outside of The Wall and the city wards. On the Agas map, it is labelled asDogge hous.
Built in 1512, the Lord Mayor’s dog house, as it was most frequently called, housed the Lord Mayor’s hunting dogs.City Dog House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Clements Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Clerkenwell is mentioned in the following documents:
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Clerkenwell Close is mentioned in the following documents:
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Clerkenwell Green is mentioned in the following documents:
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Clifford’s Inn
One of the Inns of Chancery.Clifford’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cock Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Coldharbour is mentioned in the following documents:
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College of Arms is mentioned in the following documents:
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College of Physicians is mentioned in the following documents:
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Compter Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cook’s Row is mentioned in the following documents:
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Covent Garden is mentioned in the following documents:
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Coventres Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cradle Court (Addle Hill) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cradle Court (Aldersgate Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Crosby Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cross Bones Graveyard
A graveyard for London prostitutes also called asingle women’s’ church yard
by John Stow. The Cross Bones served as a burial place for women deprived of a Christian burial because of their association with the brothels of Southwark.Cross Bones Graveyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Crown Court (Warwick Lane)
A court with a passage to Newgate Market to the north.Crown Court (Warwick Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Crown Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cuckold’s Haven is mentioned in the following documents:
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Custom House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Deep Ditch is mentioned in the following documents:
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Deputy’s Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Devonshire Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Doctors’ Commons (Knightrider Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Dowgate is mentioned in the following documents:
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Draper’s Almshouses is mentioned in the following documents:
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Drinkwater Wharf is mentioned in the following documents:
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Drury House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Duke’s Place is mentioned in the following documents:
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Durham House
Durham House was located in the Strand, west of Ivy Lane. It stood at the border between the Duchy of Lancaster and Westminster.Durham House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Dycekey is mentioned in the following documents:
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Dyers’ Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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East India House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Ely Place is mentioned in the following documents:
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Falcon Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Ficket’s Field is mentioned in the following documents:
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Finsbury Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Finsbury Field
Finsbury Field is located in northen London outside the The 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).Finsbury Field is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fisher’s Folly
Fisher’s Folly was a large house on the east side of Bishopsgate Street, within the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward. Fisher’s Folly is not marked on the Agas map. The site of the house later became Devonshire Square (Harben). The house stood a few houses away from the Dolphin Inn.Fisher’s Folly is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fleet Ditch is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fleet Hill or Ludgate Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fountain Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Furnivals Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Galley Row
Galley Row was a short quadrant on the south side of Tower Street between Harp lane and the eastern end of Church lane, so calledbecause Galley men dwelled there
(Stow).Galley Row is mentioned in the following documents:
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Garland in Little Eastcheap is mentioned in the following documents:
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Ghertsey House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Glass House (Blackfriars) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Golden Lion is mentioned in the following documents:
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Goodmans Field is mentioned in the following documents:
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Gray’s Inn
Gray’s Inn was one of the four Inns of Court.Gray’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Gresham House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Grey Friars’ Church is mentioned in the following documents:
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Greyhound Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Griste’s House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Guildhall Yard
Guildhall Yard was a square outside Guildhall.Guildhall Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Gunfoundry
The Gunfoundry was a large house and enclosed yard on the north side of Houndsditch where cannon andBrasse Ordinance
were made (Stow). It was in Portsoken Ward. According to Stow, it was set up in the reign of Henry VIII by the threebrethren […] surnamed Owens
(Stow).Gunfoundry is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hampton Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hand Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hare Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hare House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hatton Garden is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hermitage Dock is mentioned in the following documents:
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Highbury is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holborn Cross is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holborn Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Holborn Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Horner’s Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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Huntington House
Previously called the New Inn or Beaumontes Inn, this house once belonged to the Earls of Huntington. The Huntington house marks the eastern corner of Castle Baynard Ward.Huntington House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Hyde Park is mentioned in the following documents:
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Inner Temple
Inner Temple was one of the four Inns of CourtInner Temple is mentioned in the following documents:
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King’s Artirce is mentioned in the following documents:
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King’s House in Cornhill
Stow (1598 155) recounts a common belief relating to the Pope’s Head Tavern and the other stone buildings surrounding it: that it was at some point the property of the monarch, possibly as far back as King John. Sugden (418) accepts this as a possibility, but other writers have been skeptical; Joseph Moser, writing in The European Magazine, and London Review (14), says that...it has been said, that the Pope’s Head Tavern, Cornhill, was formerly one of King John’s palaces; but this suggestion arose merely from its having upon its front [...] the arms of England before the time of Edward the IIId [...] : therefore a much more probable conjecture is, that, even in those early days, this house was a tavern, and that the achievement which we have just noticed was intended for a sign.
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King’s Wardrobe
The King’s Wardrobe, built in the 14th 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). Stow explains its significance:In this house of late yeares, is lodged Sir Iohn Fortescue, knight, Maister of the Wardrobe, Chancellor and vnder Treasu
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.
(Stow 1598 299)King’s Wardrobe is mentioned in the following documents:
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Kirkebies Castle is mentioned in the following documents:
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Kitchens by the Guildhall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lambeth is mentioned in the following documents:
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Leaden Porch is mentioned in the following documents:
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Leadenhall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Leadenhall Manor is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lewes Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Library of Gray-Friars is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lincoln’s Inn
Lincoln’s Inn was one of the four Inns of Court.Lincoln’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lincoln’s Inn Fields is mentioned in the following documents:
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Little Bailey is mentioned in the following documents:
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Little Tower Hill
Little Tower Hill was a common northeast of the Tower of London, between East Smithfield and the Minories. According to Stow, it had becomegreatly diminished by building of tenements and garden plots
by 1593, flanked to the north and west bycertaine faire Almes houses, strongly builded of Bricke and timber, and couered with slate for the poore
(Stow).Little Tower Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Loders Well is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lollard’s Tower
A prison for bishops, Lollard’s Tower was made up of two stone towers originally meant for bells at two corners on the west end of St. Paul’s.Lollard’s Tower is mentioned in the following documents:
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London Stone
London Stone was, literally, a stone that stood on the south side of what is now Cannon Street (formerly Candlewick Street). Probably Roman in origin, it is one of London’s oldest relics. On the Agas map, it is visible as a small rectangle between Saint Swithin’s Lane and Walbrook, just below thend
consonant cluster in the labelLondonston.
London Stone is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lumley House
Lumley House was a large house on the west side of Woodroffe Lane, north of Tower Hill. It was built bySir Thomas Wiat the father, vpon one plotte of ground of late pertayning to the foresaid Crossed Fryers
during the reign of Henry VIII (Stow). For Stow, the house was an important boundary marker for Aldgate Ward; it was the most southern point. However, he did not record anything about the house itself.Lumley House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Lyon’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Maidenhead Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Mallow Field is mentioned in the following documents:
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Manor of Ponington is mentioned in the following documents:
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Manor of the Maze is mentioned in the following documents:
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Meg’s Glory is mentioned in the following documents:
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Merchant Taylors’ Almshouses is mentioned in the following documents:
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Middle Temple
Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of CourtMiddle Temple is mentioned in the following documents:
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Middle Temple Gate-house
Part of the Middle Temple complex, repaired by Sir Amias Paulet in the reign of Henry VIII.Middle Temple Gate-house is mentioned in the following documents:
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Miller’s Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Monte Jovis Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Montfichet’s Tower
Montfichet’s Tower was a fortress on Ludgate Hill in London.Montfichet’s Tower is mentioned in the following documents:
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Moorfields is mentioned in the following documents:
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Mount Calvary is mentioned in the following documents:
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Nettleton Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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New Exchange
The New Exchange was built by Sir Robert Cecil on the south side of The Strand between York House in the west and the Durham House gatehouse. It was also called Britain’s Burse by James I at the opening ceremony in 1609.New Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
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New Inn
One of the Inns of Chancery.New Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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New Seldam is mentioned in the following documents:
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Northumberland House (Aldersgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Northumberland House (Crutched Friars Lane)
Northumberland House was a stately home in Crutched Friars Lane, south of Aldgate. It was built by and named after Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, in 1455 (Harben). Stow records that by 1598, the house had been abandoned and that the gardens had been turned into one of the first bowling alleys, where all and sundry could bowl and gamble.Northumberland House (Crutched Friars Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Nunnery of St. Mary Clerkenwell is mentioned in the following documents:
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Old Barge is mentioned in the following documents:
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Old Swan Brewhouse
Three houses east of the cooks’ house Sign of King David.Old Swan Brewhouse is mentioned in the following documents:
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Ormond Place is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pardon Churchyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Paris Garden Manor House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Passeke’s Wharf is mentioned in the following documents:
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Paul’s Bakehouse is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pembroke’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Peter Key
Tenements on the northern corner of St. Peter’s Hill Lane.Peter Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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Petty France is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pickering House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pie Corner is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pike Gardens
On the Agas map there are nine rectangular and square pike gardens, or artificial fishponds, located in the liberty of Southwark among the bear and bullbaiting arenas. These nine pike gardens, however, give only an approximate indication of the size, shape, and location of early modern London’s three major aquaculture operations—the Winchester House Pike Garden, the King’s (or Queen’s) Pike Garden, and the Great Pike Garden—each of which dates to the Middle Ages. These fishponds relied on two separate types of holding areas: the vivarium, or breeding pond, and the servatorium, or holding pond. To catch and sort fish, workers drained the shallow ponds through diversion conduits equipped with gates and sluices. Freshwater fish cultivated in estate gardens were considered a luxury dish well into the eighteenth century, especially the pike, an aggressive predator that was admired and feared in Izaak Walton’s 1653 angler guidebook.Pike Gardens is mentioned in the following documents:
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Port of London is mentioned in the following documents:
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Porter’s Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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Powlet’s House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Prince’s Wardrobe is mentioned in the following documents:
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Queen’s House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Radwell is mentioned in the following documents:
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Ratcliffe is mentioned in the following documents:
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Red Lion Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Romeland is mentioned in the following documents:
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Rose, Manor of is mentioned in the following documents:
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Royal Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sabb’s Dock is mentioned in the following documents:
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Salisbury Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Salisbury House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Scotland Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sempringham Court
A residence once belonging to the Prior of Sempringham. Located in Cow Lane.Sempringham Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sentlegar House
A house once belonging to the Sentlegar family in Southwark, eventually divided into tenements. Near to the Bridge House.Sentlegar House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Serjeants’ Inn (Chancery Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Serjeants’ Inn (Fleet Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Service Tower is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sign of King David
A cooks’ house three houses west of the Old Swan Brewhouse.Sign of King David is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sion Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Smithfield is mentioned in the following documents:
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Soke of the Archbishop of Canterbury
A soke belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Stow locates this building near the Blackfriars, although its exact location is not known.Soke of the Archbishop of Canterbury is mentioned in the following documents:
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Somerset House
Somerset House (labelled asSomerset 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.Somerset House is mentioned in the following documents:
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South Wall of St. Paul’s is mentioned in the following documents:
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Southampton House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Spinilas Pleasure is mentioned in the following documents:
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Spitalfields
Spitalfields was a large area of open fields east of Bishopsgate Street and a good distance north of Aldgate and Houndsditch. Spitalfields, also recorded asSpittlefields
andLollesworth,
is unmistakable on the Agas map. The large expanse of fields is clearly markedThe Spitel Fyeld.
There have been many relics unearthed during archeological excavations in Spitalfields.Spitalfields is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Augustine Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Giles Churchyard (Cripplegate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. James Park is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. James’s Palace is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine Steps is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine’s by the Tower (Precinct) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine’s Hermitage is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Katherine’s Hospital
St. Katherine’s Hospital was a religious hospital founded in 1148 by Queen Matilda on land provided by Holy Trinity Priory. The hospital was at the southern end of St. Katherine’s Lane and north of the St. Katherine Steps on the Thames, all of which is east of the Tower of London and Little Tower Hill. Stow praised the choir of the hospital, noting how itwas not much inferior to that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral]
(Stow).St. Katherine’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary Spital
St. Mary Spital was an Augustinian Priory and Hospital on the east side of Bishopsgate Street. The Priory dates from 1197. The old precinct of St. Mary Spital is visible on the Agas map. The church itself was demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. By the time the Agas map was drawn, many of the priory buildings had been removed and the area appears sparse.St. Mary Spital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s Chapter House is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s Charnel House is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s Cloister is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s College is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s Cross is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Paul’s School is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Thomas’ Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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Staple Inn
One of the Inns of Chancery.Staple Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Star Chamber is mentioned in the following documents:
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Stone Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Swan Brewhouse is mentioned in the following documents:
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Thavies Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Angel is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Barge is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Castle
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 1566, and is mentioned by Stow as being named for the Castle Tavern sign. It is unmarked on the Agas map, but is said to have an alley passing through it, also named for the tavern sign.The Castle is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Elms (Smithfield)
Located between Horsepool and the Fleet River, the Elms, as John Stow notes, was a place of execution named after the once flourishing number of elm trees on site. Stow refers to the area asLe elmes
orle two elmys.
By Stow’s lifetime the expansion of London meant the namesake trees had been cut down.The Elms (Smithfield) is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Green Gate
The Green Gate was a house on the south side of Leadenhall Street, east of Leadenhall in Lime Street Ward. Stow’s interest went beyond the building itself and its location; he was confounded by the misdemeanours that occurred within it. The Green Gate was the site of not one but two robberies.The Green Gate is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Herber is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Inns of Court
The four principal constituents of the Inns of Court were:The Inns of Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Lamb
A brewhouse in Distaff Lane. Flourished in the reign of Henry VI.The Lamb is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Manor and Liberty of the Savoy is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Steelyard
The Steelyard was the chief outpost of the Hanseatic League in the city of London. Located on the north side of the River Thames, slightly west of London Bridge, the Steelyard was home to many wealthy German merchants from the thirteenth century to the end of the sixteenth. It was the central Kontor, or community, of the Hanseatic League in England. The League defined itself asa firm confederatio of many [German] cities, towns, and communities [designed] for the purpose of ensuring that business enterprises by land and sea should have a desired and favorable outcome and that there should be effective protection against piracies and highwaymen, so that their ambushes should not rob merchants of the goods and valuables
(Lloyd 7).The Steelyard is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Stew
A brothel in Queenhithe Ward, in the area around Salt Wharf.The Stew is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Vintry is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Wall
Originally built as a Roman fortification for the provincial city of Londinium in the second century C.E., the London Wall remained a material and spatial boundary for the city throughout the early modern period. Described by Stow ashigh and great,
the London Wall dominated the cityscape and spatial imaginations of Londoners for centuries. Increasingly, the eighteen-foot high wall created a pressurized constraint on the growing city; the various gates functioned as relief valves where development spilled out to occupy spacesoutside the wall.
The Wall is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Wrestlers (Lime Street Ward)
The Wrestlers was a house in Bishopsgate Ward located on the north side of Camomile Street, near the city wall and Bishopsgate (Stow; BHO). The house predates the Wrestlers Court located on the opposite (south) side of Camomile Street. Wrestlers Court was named after the house, which was later renamed Clark’s CourtThe Wrestlers (Lime Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
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Thorney is mentioned in the following documents:
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Timberhithe is mentioned in the following documents:
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Toulebooth is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tower Ditch
TheTower Ditch, or Tower Moat, was part of the Tower of London’s medieval defences. It was built by the Bishop of Ely while King Richard I was crusading in the Holy Land (1187-1192) (Harben). The ditch was used as a dumping ground for plague victim corpses, human waste from the Tower, and meat carcasses from East Smithfield market.Tower Ditch is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tower Hill
Tower Hill was a large area of open ground north and west of the Tower of London. It is most famous as a place of execution; there was a permanent scaffold and gallows on the hillfor the execution of such Traytors or Transgressors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Shiriffes of London
(Stow).Tower Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tower Royal is mentioned in the following documents:
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Town Ditch
A ditch to the north of Christ’s Hospital, filled in by 1552.Town Ditch is mentioned in the following documents:
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Trig Stairs is mentioned in the following documents:
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Trinity Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tyburn
Tyburn is best known as the location of the principal gallows where public executions were carried out from the late 12th century until the 18th (Drouillard, Wikipedia). It was a village to the west of the city, near the present-day location of Marble Arch (beyond the boundary of the Agas Map). Its name derives from a stream, and its significance to Stow was primarily as one of the sources of piped water for the city; he describes howIn the yeare 1401. this prison house called the Tunne was made a Cesterne for sweete water conueyed by pipes of Leade frõ the towne of Tyborne, and was from thence forth called the conduite vpon Cornhill...
(Stow 1598,Cornhill Ward.
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Vine Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
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Warwick’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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Weigh House
Weigh House was a building on the north side of Cornhill Ward that was used for weighing imported merchandise. While the house is not labelled on the Agas map, Mary Lobel and W. H. Johns suggest that it appears below the Merchant Taylor’s Hall (Lobel and Johns).Weigh House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Westminster Hall
Westminster Hall isthe only surviving part of the original Palace of Westminster
(Weinreb and Hibbert 1011) and is located on the west side of the Thames. It is located on the bottom left-hand corner of the Agas map, and is labelled asWestmynster hall.
Originally built as an extension to Edward the Confessor’s palace in 1097, the hall served as the setting for banquets through the reigns of many kings.Westminster Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Westminster Palace is mentioned in the following documents:
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Westminster School is mentioned in the following documents:
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White Bear Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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White Horse Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
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White Tower is mentioned in the following documents:
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Whitehall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Whittington College is mentioned in the following documents:
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Winchester House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Windsor House
Stow does not indicate what side of the street the house sits on, but the Dictionary of London points us to the two intersecting streets of Monkwell Street and Silver Street. This great house once belonged to the Nevill family, but later became Windsor House.Windsor House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Wool Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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Woolstable is mentioned in the following documents:
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Worcester House is mentioned in the following documents:
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York House is mentioned in the following documents:
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