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Personography

Janelle Jenstad

JJ

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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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.
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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.
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Locations

Abbey of St. Clare

The Abbey of St. Clare was an abbey of nuns of the second order of St. Francis set up in 1293 by Edmund, earl of Lancaster, who was King Edward I’s brother (Stow). The abbey itself was on the northeast side of the Minories. It occupied five acres of land. Both the pope and the king gave the abbey special privileges: the abbey and its inhabitants were exempt from paying tenths and lived in a liberty outside the jurisdiction of the City of London, a liberty that exists to the present day (Harben).
Abbey of St. Clare is mentioned in the following documents:
Dodding Pond

Dodding Pond may have been a lane somewhere east of the Tower of London and near the Abbey of St. Mary Graces (Harben).
Dodding Pond is mentioned in the following documents:
Abbey of St. Mary Graces

The Abbey of St. Mary Graces is a chapel built in around 1350 within the Holy Trinity Churchyard and later a large monastery controlled by the Cistercian order (Harben). The abbey was built within the aforementioned churchyard, east of Little Tower Hill and south of Hog Lane (East Smithfield).
Abbey of St. Mary Graces is mentioned in the following documents:
Holy Trinity Churchyard (East Smithfield)

A component of London’s pestilential past, Holy Trinity Churchyard in East Smithfield was a graveyard for victims of London’s first great plague. The churchyard was east of Little Tower Hill, south of Hog Lane (East Smithfield) and north of St. Katherine’s Hospital. As the number of plague victims increased, these graveyards ran out of space and Holy Trinity Priory was used to ensure that the dead were buried in holy ground.
Holy Trinity Churchyard (East Smithfield) is mentioned in the following documents:
Abchurch Lane

Abchurch Lane runs north-south from Lombard Street to Candlewick (Cannon) 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.
Abchurch Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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 the nd consonant cluster in the label Londonston.
London Stone is mentioned in the following documents:
Knightrider Street

Knightrider Street ran east-west from Dowgate to Addle Hill, crossing College Hill, Garlick Hill, Trinity Lane, Huggin Lane, Bread Street, Old Fish Street Hill, Lambert or Lambeth Hill, St. Peter’s Hill, and Paul’s Chain. Significant landmarks included: the College of Physicians and Doctors’ Commons.
Knightrider Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
Wood Street

Wood Street ran north-south, connecting at its southernmost end with Cheapside and continuing northward to Little Wood Street, which led directly into Cripplegate. It crossed over Huggin Lane, Lad Lane, Maiden Lane, Love Lane, Addle Lane, and Silver Street, and ran parallel to Milk Street in the east and Gutter Lane in the west. Wood Street lay within Cripplegate Ward. It is labelled as Wood Streat on the Agas map and is drawn in the correct position.
Wood Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Love Lane (Wood Street)

Love Lane, Wood Street ran east-west, connecting Aldermanbury in the east and Wood Street in the west. It ran parallel to Addle Street in the north and Lad Lane in the south. It lay within Cripplegate Ward, and is labelled as Lone la. on the Agas map.
Love Lane (Wood Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Silver Street

Silver Street was a small but historically significant street that ran east-west, emerging out of Noble Street in the west and merging into Addle Street in the east. Monkwell Street (labelled Muggle St. on the Agas map) lay to the north of Silver Street and seems to have marked its westernmost point, and Little Wood Street, also to the north, marked its easternmost point. Silver Street ran through Cripplegate Ward and Farringdon Ward Within. It is labelled as Syluer Str. on the Agas map and is drawn correctly. Perhaps the most noteworthy historical fact about Silver Street is that it was the location of one of the houses in which William Shakespeare dwelled during his time in London.
Silver Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Cripplegate Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Cripplegate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Castle Baynard Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Castle Baynard Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Love Lane (Thames Street)

Love Lane, Thames Street was situated within Billingsgate (or Belingsgate) ward (Hughson 91). Billingsgate ward is two wards to the west of the Tower of London. The Agas map shows that the lane goes from north to south—up to St. Andrew Hubbard and down to Thames Street. It runs parallel to the streets St. Mary-at-Hill and Botolph Lane.
Love Lane (Thames Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Milk Street

Milk Street, located in Cripplegate Ward, began on the north side of Cheapside, and ran north to a square formed at the intersection of Milk Street, Cat Street (Lothbury), Lad Lane, and Aldermanbury.
Milk Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Aldermanbury

Aldermanbury ran north-south, between Lad Lane in the south and Love Lane in the north and parallel between Wood Street in the west and Basinghall Street in the east. It lay wholly in Cripplegate Ward.
Aldermanbury is mentioned in the following documents:
Staining Lane

Staining Lane ran north-south, starting at Maiden Lane in the south and turning into Oat Lane in the north. It is drawn correctly on the Agas map and is labelled as Stayning la. It served as a boundary between Cripplegate and Aldersgate wards.
Staining Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Farringdon Within Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Farringdon Within Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Aldersgate Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Aldersgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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.
Oat Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Foster Lane

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.
Foster Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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.
Maiden Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Barbican

Barbican was a historically significant street that ran east-west, connecting Aldersgate Street in the west with Redcross Street and Golden Lane in the east. Barbican was more then halfe contained by Cripplegate Ward, with the rest lying within Aldersgate Ward (Stow 1:291). The street is labeled on the Agas map as Barbican.
Barbican 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.
Gutter Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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 as high 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 spaces outside the wall.
The Wall is mentioned in the following documents:
Farringdon Without Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Farringdon Without Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Hartshorn Alley

Hartshorn Alley ran north-south from Leadenhall Street to Fenchurch Street (Harben; BHO). Stow notes that Hartshorn Alley is mid way on that South side [of Leadenhall Street], betwixt Aldgate and Limestreet, and characterises it as a way that goeth through into Fenchurch streete ouer against [i.e., across from] Northumberland house (Stow; BHO).
Hartshorn Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Katherine Cree

St. Katherine Cree was an old parish church located on the north side of Leadenhall Street between Aldgate and St. Mary Axe. It was in Aldgate Ward. The parish of St. Katherine predates the Holy Trinity Priory, of which St. Katherine’s became a part in 1108, and the church survived the priory’s dissolution in 1531. According to a 1414 decree by the Bishop of London, the church was built so that the priory canons, who had previously shared Christ Church with the laity, had a separate place to worship (Harben; Weinreb and Hibbert 778). Stow reports that the church was so old that one had to descend seven steps to enter it.
St. Katherine Cree is mentioned in the following documents:
Whitechapel

Whitechapel was a street running east-west to the Aldgate Bars from the east. Stow comments that the street, like Aldgate Street, was fully replenished with buildings outward, & also pestered with diuerse Allyes, on eyther side (Stow).
Whitechapel is mentioned in the following documents:
Aldgate Street

Aldgate Street ran slightly south-west from Aldgate until it reached a pump, formerly a sweet well. At that point, the street forked into two streets. The northern branch, called Aldgate Street, ran west until it ran into Cornhill at Lime Street. At an earlier point in history, Cornhill seems to have extended east past Lime Street because the church of St. Andrew Undershaft was called St. Andrew upon Cornhill (Harben).
Aldgate Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
Houndsditch

Houndsditch was a street outside the city walls running slightly northwest from Aldgate Street (without Aldgate) to Bishopsgate Street. It was within the wards of Portsoken and Bishopsgate. The street was formed as people began to build houses on the bank of the city ditch. As the ditch became filled with rubbish and detritus, it was levelled off and turned into gardens (Stow) before finally being paved in 1503 (Harben). Stow mentions that the street’s name came from citizens throwing dead Dogges into the city ditch (Stow).
Houndsditch is mentioned in the following documents:
Soper Lane

Soper Lane was located in the Cordwainers Street Ward just west of Walbrook and south of Cheapside. Soper Lane was home to many of the soap makers and shoemakers of the city (Stow 1:251). Soper Lane was on the processional route for the lord mayor’s shows.
Soper Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Katherine (Aldgate)
St. Katherine (Aldgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
Cheapside Street

Cheapside, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.
Cheapside Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
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 as Spittlefields and Lollesworth, is unmistakable on the Agas map. The large expanse of fields is clearly marked The Spitel Fyeld. There have been many relics unearthed during archeological excavations in Spitalfields.
Spitalfields is mentioned in the following documents:
Cripplegate

Cripplegate was one of the original gates in the city wall (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 221; Harben). It was the northern gate of a large fortress that occupied the northwestern corner of the Roman city.
Cripplegate is mentioned in the following documents:
Billiter Lane

Billiter Lane ran north-west from Fenchurch to Leadenhall, entirely in Aldgate Ward. Nearby landmarks included Blanch Appleton facing the opening of Billiter Lane on the south side of Fenchurch and Ironmongers’ Hall to the west of Billiter Lane on the north side of Fenchurch. Nearby churches were St. Catherine Cree on Leadenhall and All Hallows Staining adjacent to the Clothworkers’ Hall) and St. Katharine Coleman on Fenchurch. On the Agas map, Billiter Lane is labelled Bylleter la.
Billiter Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Holy Trinity Priory

Holy Trinity Priory, located west of Aldgate and north of Leadenhall Street, was an Augustinian Priory. Stow notes that Queen Matilda established the Priory in 1108 in the parishes of Saint Marie Magdalen, S. Michael, S. Katherine, and the blessed Trinitie, which now was made but one Parish of the holy Trinitie (Stow). Before Matilda united these parishes under the name Holy Trinity Priory, they were collectively known as the Holy Cross or Holy Roode parish (Stow; Harben).
Holy Trinity Priory is mentioned in the following documents:
Aldgate

Aldgate was the easternmost gate into the walled city. The name Aldgate is thought to come from one of four sources: Æst geat meaning Eastern gate (Ekwall 36), Alegate from the Old English ealu meaning ale, Aelgate from the Saxon meaning public gate or open to all, or Aeldgate meaning old gate (Bebbington 20–1).
Aldgate is mentioned in the following documents:
Fenchurch Street

Fenchurch Street (often called Fennieabout) ran east-west from the pump on Aldgate High Street to Gracechurch Street in Langbourne Ward, crossing Mark Lane, Mincing Lane, and Rodd Lane along the way. Fenchurch Street was home to several famous landmarks, including the King’s Head Tavern, where the then-Princess Elizabeth is said to have partaken in pork and peas after her sister, Mary I, released her from the Tower of London in May of 1554 (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 288). Fenchurch Street was on the royal processional route through the city, toured by monarchs on the day before their coronations.
Fenchurch Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Leadenhall Street

Leadenhall Street ran east-west from Cornhill Street to Aldgate Street. All three form part of the same road from Aldgate to Cheapside (Weinreb and Hibbert 462). The street acquired its name from Leadenhall, a onetime house and later a market. The building was reportedly famous for having a leaden roof (Bebbington 197).
Leadenhall Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Bricklayers’ Hall

The Bricklayers’ Hall was east of Billiter Lane and stood on the south side of the street running west from the water pump near Aldgate. This street was named Leadenhall Street in the seventeenth century but was considered part of Aldgate Street when Stow was writing. Stow mentions the hall only in passing in his survey, so he neglects the hall’s appearance and history (Stow). The hall was incorporated in 1568 but by the eighteenth century the Bricklayers had abandoned it. Thereafter, it was used as a synagogue by Dutch Jews (Harben).
Bricklayers’ Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Crutched Friars

Crutched Friars was a street that ran east-west from Poor Jewry Lane to the east end of Hart Street above Seething Lane. When Stow wrote, most of Crutched Friars was known as Hart Street, so Stow only uses the name Crutched Friars to refer to Crutched Friars Priory (Harben). Since Stow does not name the street that ran from Aldgate to Woodroffe Lane, it could have been known as Hart Street, Crutched Friars, or something different.
Crutched Friars is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate)

St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate), is an old parish church absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108. According to Stow, the church was begun by Siredus (Stow). It is not to be confused with the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen in the Guildhall, the church in Cripplegate Ward or the church in Castle Baynard Ward.
St. Mary Magdalen (Aldgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
Aldgate Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Aldgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Botolph (Aldgate)

St. Botolph, Aldgate was a parish church near Aldgate at the junction of Aldgate Street and Houndsditch. It was located in Portsoken Ward on the north side of Aldgate Street. Stow notes that the Church hath beene lately new builded at the speciall charges of the Priors of the holy Trinitie before the Priory was dissolved in 1531 (Stow).
St. Botolph (Aldgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
Portsoken Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Portsoken Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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 a Priorie 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:
Bevis Marks (Street)

Bevis Marks was a street south of the City Wall that ran east-west from Shoemaker Row to the north end of St. Mary Axe Street. It was in Aldgate Ward. Bevis Marks was continued by Duke’s Place.
Bevis Marks (Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Mary Axe Street

St. Mary Axe ran north-south from the church of St. Augustine Papey to Leadenhall Street. Stow remarks that the east side of the street belonged to Aldgate Ward, while the west side lay within the boundary of Lime Street Ward (Stow). It was named after the church of St. Mary Axe, located near the northwest corner of the street.
St. Mary Axe Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Mark Lane

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. Stow says Mark Lane was 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).
Mark Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Woodroffe Lane

Woodroffe Lane ran north-south from Crutched Friars south to Tower Hill. The lane was in Aldgate Ward and was named after the Woodruffe family (Harben). Stow writes that the lane was a place of great benevolence. There were fourteen proper almes houses built from brick and wood in Woodruffe Lane and the tenants haue their dewllinges rent free, and ii.s. iiii.d. the peece: the first day of euery moneth for euer (Stow).
Woodroffe Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Katherine Coleman

St. Katherine Coleman was also called St. Katherine and All Saints and All Hallows Coleman Church (Harben). The church can be found on the Agas map, west of Northumberland House. It is labelled S. Katerin colmans.
St. Katherine Coleman is mentioned in the following documents:
Crutched Friars Priory

Crutched Friars Priory was a religious house on the southeast corner of Hart Street (later called Crutched Friars) near the northwest corner of Woodroffe Lane. It was in Aldgate Ward and was founded by Raph Hosiar, and William Sabernes, about the yeare 1298 (Stow). The priory stood for nearly 250 years before it was dissolved on 12 November 1539 (Stow).
Crutched Friars Priory is mentioned in the following documents:
Lumley House

Lumley House was a large house on the west side of Woodroffe Lane, north of Tower Hill. It was built by Sir 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:
St. Andrew Undershaft

St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of John Stow.
St. Andrew Undershaft is mentioned in the following documents:
Tower Street Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Tower Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Lime Street

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; BHO). This claim has some historical merit; in the 1150s one Ailnoth the limeburner lived in the area (Harben; BHO).
Lime Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Lime Street Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Lime Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Langbourn Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Langbourn Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Aldgate Bars

The Aldgate Bars were posts that marked the eastern limits of the City of London. They were located at the western end of Whitechapel and the eastern end of Aldgate Street. Stow makes no attempt to describe them in detail apart from mentioning their geographic importance as boundary markers (Stow). The bars were removed in the eighteenth century (Harben).
Aldgate Bars is mentioned in the following documents:
Broad Street Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Broad Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
All Hallows (London Wall)

All Hallows, London Wall is a church built east of Bishopsgate, near or on the City Wall. The church is visible on the Agas map northwest of Broad Street and up against the south side of the City Wall. The label All Haloues in y Wall is west of the church. In his description of Broad Street Ward, Stow notes only the location of the church and the three distinguished people interred therein by 1601.
All Hallows (London Wall) is mentioned in the following documents:
Broad Street

Broad Street ran north-south from All Hallows, London Wall to Threadneedle Street and to a Pumpe ouer against Saint Bennets church (Stow). Broad Street, labelled Brode Streat on the Agas map, was entirely in Broad Street Ward. The street’s name was a reference to its width and importance (Harben).
Broad Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Tower Street

Tower Street ran east-west from Tower Hill in the east to St. Andrew Hubbard church. It was the principal street of Tower Street Ward. That the ward is named after the street indicates the cultural significance of Tower Street, which was a key part of the processional route through London and home to many wealthy merchants who traded in the goods that were unloaded at the docks and quays immediately south of Tower Street (for example, Billingsgate, Wool Key, and Galley Key).
Tower Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Seething Lane

Seething Lane ran north-south from the junction of Hart Street and Crutch Fryers through to Tower Street. The lane, in Tower Street Ward, was marked by a church at each end; on the northwest corner stood St. Olave, Hart Street and on the southeast corner was All Hallows Barking. Stow describes the lane as one with diuers fayre and large houses (Stow).
Seething Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
All Hallows Barking

The church of All Hallows Barking is in Tower Street Ward on the southeast corner of Seething Lane and on the north side of Tower Street. Stow describes it as a fayre parish Church.
All Hallows Barking is mentioned in the following documents:
Chick Lane (Tower Street Ward)

Chick Lane ran north-south from Tower Hill into Tower Street. Stow confirms that it ran on the east of Barking church. It is likely that Chick Lane also featured the diuers houses lately builded, and other incrochmentes found directly above the lane on the west side of Tower Hill (Stow).
Chick Lane (Tower Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
Beer Lane

Beer Lane ran north-south from Tower Street to Thames Street in Tower Street Ward. Stow notes that Beer Lane included many faire houses.
Beer Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
All Hallows the Great

All Hallows the Great was a church located on the south side of Thames Street and on the east side of Church Lane. Stow describes it as a faire church with a large cloyster, but remarks that it has been foulely defaced & ruinated (Stow). It no longer exists in modern London.
All Hallows the Great is mentioned in the following documents:
Andro Morris Key

Andro Morris Key, also known as Andro Morris Quay or Andrew Morris Key, was one of the so-called Legal Quays that sat east of London Bridge and west of Petty Wales/Galley Row and the Tower of London. It was within Tower Street Ward and appears on the Agas map as Andrew morice kay.
Andro Morris Key is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (A)
- Variant spellings
Love Lane (Coleman Street)

According to Stow, on the East side of Coleman Street, almost at the North end thereof, is the Armourers Hall, which companie of Armourers were made a fraternitie or Guild of Saint George, with a Chantrie in the Chapple of saint Thomas in Paules Church, in the first of Henrie the sixt. Also on the same side, is kings Alley, and Loue lane, both containing many tenements. Both of these streets appear on the Map of Tudor London.
Love Lane (Coleman Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
King’s Alley

According to Stow, on the East side of Coleman Street, almost at the North end thereof, is the Armourers Hall, which companie of Armourers were made a fraternitie or Guild of Saint George, with a Chantrie in the Chapple of saint Thomas in Paules Church, in the first of Henrie the sixt. Also on the same side, is kings Alley, and Loue lane, both containing many tenements. Both of these streets appear on the Map of Tudor London. Ekwall (1965) notes that Kings Alley is Named from William Kyng, draper, who mentions John his father and William his grandfather.
King’s Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Swan Alley (Coleman Street)

There were a number of alleys named Swan Alley in early modern London. This Swan Alley ran east off Coleman Street, just south of the Armourers’ Hall. Various legal proceedings suggest that the alley bordered gardens and led to the properties of relatively affluent citizens (see links below to records transcribed in BHO). Harben notes that by 1799 the alley was known as Great Swan Alley at the west end and Little Swan Alley at the east end (Harben; BHO).
Swan Alley (Coleman Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (S)
- Variant spellings
Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund the Bishop and Mary Magdalen

The Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund and Mary Magdalen was a mortuary chapel in Bishopsgate Ward on the east side of Bishopsgate Street. Prockter and Taylor suggest that the Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund and Mary Magdalen is the long, solitary building within the walled compound northwest of the Artillery Yard on the Agas map. References to this chapel are sparse in historical records, but we know from Stow that it was founded about the yeare 1391. by William Euesham Citizen and Peperer of London, who was there buried (Stow).
Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund the Bishop and Mary Magdalen is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
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:
Arundel Stairs

Arundel Stairs provided access to Arundel House from the Thames.
Arundel Stairs is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Audoen

The Dictionary of London notes St. Audoen sits at the north corner of Warwick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within.
St. Audoen is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Peter le Poor

St. Peter le Poor was a parish church on the west side of Broad Street. It is visible on the Agas map south of Austin Friars, bearing the number 24. That it was sometime peraduenture a poore Parish gave it the name le Poor (Stow). Its name distinguished it from the other London churches dedicated to St. Peter. Stow mentions that at this present there be many fayre houses, possessed by rich marchants and other near the church, suggesting that the parish was no longer impoverished (Stow).
St. Peter le Poor is mentioned in the following documents:
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). The Quier 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:
The Pied Bull

The printshop of Nathaniel Butter (BBTI 11586), at St Austin’s Gate, Cursitors Alley. The 1608 quarto of King Lear (Q1) is known as the Pied Bull Quarto because it was printed in this shop.
The Pied Bull is mentioned in the following documents:
- Variant spellings
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:
Noble Street

Noble Street ran north-south between Maiden Lane in the south and Silver Street in the north. It is all of Aldersgate street ward (Stow). On the Agas map, it is labelled as Noble Str. and is depicted as having a right-hand curve at its north end, perhaps due to an offshoot of the London Wall.
Noble Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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 as The 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:
Trig Lane

Trig Lane was the lane leading down from Thames Street (now called Upper Thames Street) to the river landing place called Trig Stairs on the north bank of the Thames. Trig Lane was in a fairly rowdy area full of water traffic, sailors, and porters.
Trig Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
The Rose

Built in 1587 by theatre financier Philip Henslowe, the Rose was Bankside’s first open-air amphitheatre playhouse (Egan). Its foundation, excavated in 1989, reveals a fourteen-sided structure about 22 metres in diameter, making it smaller than other contemporary playhouses (White 302). Relatively free of civic interference and surrounded by pleasure-seeking crowds, the Rose did very well, staging works by such playwrights as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd, and Dekker (Egan).
The Rose is mentioned in the following documents:
Cardinal’s Hat (Southwark)

According to John Stow, the Cardinal’s Hat was a brothel in Southwark.
Cardinal’s Hat (Southwark) is mentioned in the following documents:
The Elephant
The Elephant is mentioned in the following documents:
The Swan

The Swan was the second of the Bankside theatres. It was located at Paris Garden. It was in use from 1595 and possibly staged some of the plays of William Shakespeare(SHaLT).
The Swan is mentioned in the following documents:
Bankside
Bankside is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
Bartholomew Lane

Bartholomew Lane was in Broad Street Ward and ran north-south from the junction of Throgmorton Street and Lothbury to Threadneedle Street. Bartholomew Lane is visible on the Agas map running southeast on the west side of St. Batholomew by the Exchange. It is labelled bar eelmew la. Stow was the first to record the street as Bartholomew Lane in the 1598 edition of A Survey.
Bartholomew Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Throgmorton Street

Throgmorton Street was in Broad Street Ward and ran east-west from Broad Street to Lothbury and Bartholomew Lane. Throgmorton Street appears unlabelled on the Agas map running west from Broad Street, under the Drapers’ Hall. Stow’s description of Throgmorton Street is somewhat more detailed than that of other streets because he had a personal connection to it: his father owned land there.
Throgmorton Street is mentioned in the following documents:
New Alley

New Alley was a north-south alley in Cornhill Ward and was one of three alleys that were destroyed in the construction of the Royal Exchange, alongside Swan Alley and St. Christopher’s Alley. While the Agas map does not label New Alley, evidence suggests that it did appear in the earlier variation of the map.
New Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Bassinghall Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Bassinghall Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Coleman Street Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Coleman Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Basing Lane

Basing Lane ran west from Bow Lane to Bread Street. The part from Bow Lane to the back door of the Red Lion (in Watling Street) lay in Cordwainer Street Ward, and the rest in Breadstreet Ward. Stow did not know the derivation of the street’s name, but suggested it had been called the Bakehouse in the fourteenth century, whether ment for the Kings bakehouse, or of bakers dwelling there, and baking bread to serue the market in Bredstreete, where the bread was sold, I know not (Stow).
Basing Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Pissing Alley (Basing Lane)

Pissing Alley or Pissing Lane ran east-west from the end of Basing Lane to Friday Street. On the Agas map, this location is named Pissing La. By the eighteenth century, this section of the street had been renamed Little Friday Lane. Modern Cannon Street replaced this street (Harben).
Pissing Alley (Basing Lane) is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (P)
- Variant spellings
St. Laurence Lane (Guildhall)
St. Laurence Lane (Guildhall) is mentioned in the following documents:
Baynard’s Castle

Located on the banks of the Thames, Baynard’s Castle was built sometime in the late eleventh century by 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 was the 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:
St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again. An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would become the cathedral of St. Paul’s which survived until the Great Fire of 1666.
St. Paul’s Cathedral is mentioned in the following documents:
The Curtain

In 1577, the Curtain, a second purpose-built London playhouse arose in Shoreditch, just north of the City of London. The Curtain, a polygonal amphitheatre, became a major venue for theatrical and other entertainments until at least 1622 and perhaps as late as 1698. Most major playing companies, including the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the Queen’s Men, and Prince Charles’s Men, played there. It is the likely site for the premiere of Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet and Henry V.
The Curtain is mentioned in the following documents:
Bell Yard (Temple Bar)

Bell Yard, Temple Bar ran north-south between Fleet Street in the south and what is now Carey Street in the north. It was to the north of Temple Church and Temple Bar, to the west of St. Dunstan in the West, and to the east of St. Clement Danes. According to Harben, the name derived from the tenement called le Belle (65).
Bell Yard (Temple Bar) is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (B)
- Variant spellings
Bell Inn (Gracechurch Street)

For information about the Bell Inn, Gracechurch Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT)’s article on Bell Inn, Gracechurch Street.
Bell Inn (Gracechurch Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (B)
- Variant spellings
Bell Savage Inn

For information about the Bell Savage Inn, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on Bell Savage Inn.
Bell Savage Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
Benbridges Inn

Benbridges Inn was a large house on the northwest corner of Lime Street. The Inn appears to be named after Ricardus de Pembrugge, a Knight and owner of a large piece of land in Lime Street Ward in 1376 (Harben; BHO). In 1454 the draper Ralph Holland bestowed the large messuage to the Master and Wardens of the Fraternity of Tailors and Linen Armourers of St John the Baptist (Harben; BHO). Soon thereafter they set up a fayre large frame of timber for a large house and built three other tenement buildings adjoining it (Stow; BHO).
Benbridges Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
Paul’s Chain

Paul’s Chain was a street that ran north-south between St Paul’s Churchyard and Paul’s Wharf, crossing over Carter Lane, Knightrider Street, and Thames Street. It was in Castle Baynard Ward. On the Agas map, it is labelled Paules chayne. The precinct wall around St Paul’s Church had six gates, one of which was on the south side by Paul’s Chain. It was here that a chain used to be drawn across the carriage-way entrance in order to preserve silence during church services.
Paul’s Chain is mentioned in the following documents:
Bridge Without Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Bridge Without Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Bishopsgate Street

Bishopsgate Street ran north from Cornhill Street to the southern end of Shoreditch Street at the city boundary. South of Cornhill, the road became Gracechurch Street, and the two streets formed a major north-south artery in the eastern end of the walled city of London, from London Bridge to ShoreditchImportant sites included: Bethlehem Hospital, commonly corrupted to the short form -bedlam, a mental hospital and Bull Inn, where plays were performed before Shakespeare’s time (Weinreb and Hibbert 67).
Bishopsgate Street is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Botolph without Bishopsgate

St. Botolph without Bishopsgate stood on the west side of Bishopsgate Street north of Bishopsgate. It was in Bishopsgate Ward. St. Botolph without Bishopsgate is featured on the Agas map, south of Bethlehem Hospital and west of Houndsditch. It is labelled S. Buttolphes.
St. Botolph without Bishopsgate is mentioned in the following documents:
Camomile Street (Lime Street Ward)

Camomile Street lay south of the city wall from Bevis Marks to Bishopsgate Street. Camomile Street is the seventeenth century name for a street that was nameless when Stow wrote his Survey of London. Stow merely calls it the streete which runneth by the north ende of saint Marie streete.
Camomile Street (Lime Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
Billingsgate

Billingsgate (Bylynges gate or Belins Gate), a water-gate and harbour located on the north side of the Thames between London Bridge and the Tower of London, was London’s principal dock in Shakespeare’s day. Its age and the origin of its name are uncertain. It was probably built ca. 1000 in response to the rebuilding of London Bridge in the tenth or eleventh century.
Billingsgate is mentioned in the following documents:
Smart’s Key

One of the Legal Quays, Smart’s Key was primarily involved in the trade of fish. Named after its original owner, a Master Smart, the key eventually came into the possession of London’s fraternity of cordwainers. It is perhaps most notorious for being the location of an alehouse that in 1585 was converted by a man named Wotton into a training ground for aspiring cut-purses and pickpockets. The key was an important landing place for merchant vessels throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Smart’s Key is mentioned in the following documents:
Botolph’s Wharf
Botolph’s Wharf is mentioned in the following documents:
Thames Street

Thames Street was the longest street in early modern London, running east-west from the ditch around the Tower of London in the east to St. Andrew’s Hill and Puddle Wharf in the west, almost the complete span of the city within the walls.
Thames Street is mentioned in the following documents:
New Fish Street

New Fish Street (also known in the seventeenth century as Bridge Street) ran north-south from London Bridge at the south to the intersection of Eastcheap, Gracechurch Street, and Little Eastcheap in the north (Harben; BHO). At the time, it was the main thoroughfare to London Bridge (Sugden 191). It ran on the boundary between Bridge Within Ward on the west and Billingsgate Ward on the east. It is labelled on the Agas map as New Fyshe streate. Variant spellings include Street of London Bridge, Brigestret, Brugestret, and Newfishstrete (Harben; BHO).
New Fish Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Pudding Lane

Pudding Lane is most famously known as the starting point of the Great Fire of 1666. Pudding Lane ran south from Little Eastcheap down to Thames Street, with New Fish Street (Newfyshe Streat) framing it on the west and Botolph Lane on the east. The only intersecting street on Pudding Lane is St. George’s Lane, and the nearby parishes include St. Margaret’s, St. Magnus’s, St. Botolph’s, St. George’s, and St. Leonard, Eastcheap. On Ekwall’s map it is labeled as Rother (Pudding) Lane after Stow’s account of the lane’s former title. Pudding Lane is contained within Billingsgate Ward.
Pudding Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Billingsgate Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Billingsgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Birchin Lane

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.
Birchin Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Michael (Cornhill)

The parish church of St. Michael, Cornhill is located on the southern side of Cornhill between Birchin Lane and Gracechurch Street.
St. Michael (Cornhill) is mentioned in the following documents:
Bow Lane

Bow Lane ran north-south between Cheapside and Old Fish Street in the ward of Cordwainer Street. At Watling Street, it became Cordwainer Street, and at Old Fish Street it became Garlick Hill. Garlick Hill-Bow Lane was built in the 890s to provide access from the port of Queenhithe to the great market of Cheapside (Sheppard 70–71).
Bow Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Cornhill Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Cornhill Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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 Court
The Wrestlers (Lime Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
Leathersellers’ Hall

The Leathersellers Hall was a hall belonging to the Leathersellers in Bishopsgate Ward east of Bishopsgate Street and north of St. Helen’s church. The Leathersellers Hall is not instantly recognizable on the Agas map. It is one of the houses north of St. Helen’s church and south of the walled garden by the west end of St. Mary Axe church. The hall is, however, featured on Richard Blome’s 1755 map of Bishopsgate Ward.
Leathersellers’ Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Ethelburga

St. Ethelburga was a church on the east side of Bishopsgate Street, south of Bishopsgate and east of St. Mary Axe. The church was in Bishopsgate Ward. St. Ethelburga, described by Stow as a small Parish Church (Stow), is located on the Agas map northwest of S. Elen and immediately east of the gate in the Busshopp gate Streate label.
St. Ethelburga is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate)

St. Helen’s was a priory of Benedictine nuns located in Bishopsgate Ward between St. Mary Axe Street and Bishopsgate Street. St. Helen’s is visible on the Agas map with the label S. Elen written in the churchyard. Stow and Harben inform us that the priory was set up in 1212 by William Basing, the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral (Stow; Harben).
St. Helen’s (Bishopsgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
Bishopsgate Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Bishopsgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Bishopsgate
Bishopsgate is mentioned in the following documents:
Gracechurch Street

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.
Gracechurch Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Threadneedle Street

Threadneedle Street ran east-west from Bishopsgate Street to Cornhill and the Stocks Market. It passed the north end of the Royal Exchange and was entirely in Broad Street Ward. Threadneedle Street, also called Three Needle Street, is clearly visible on the Agas map. It was apparently very well known for its taverns.
Threadneedle Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Shoreditch Street

Shoreditch Street, also called Sewersditch, was a continuation of Bishopsgate Street, passing northward from Norton Folgate to the small town of Shoreditch, a suburb of London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for which the road was likely named. Shoreditch first appears in manuscripts in 1148 as Scoreditch, meaning ditch of Sceorf [or Scorre] (Weinreb and Hibbert 807).
Shoreditch Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Mincing Lane

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). Stow notes that the street was named after tenements there sometime pertayning to the Minchuns or Nunnes of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate streete (Stow). Stow also makes a definitive link between the lane and London’s commercial history.
Mincing Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Paul’s Wharf
Paul’s Wharf is mentioned in the following documents:
Whitehall Stairs

The Whitehall Stairs were a historically significant site, providing access to the Thames from Whitehall Palace. The stairs are occasionally written as White Hall or Whitehal. While they are not labelled on the Agas map, the Whitehall Stairs were very much a part of everyday life in London. Few mentions of the Whitehall Stairs can be found in early modern literature, but they are memorialized in a number of accounts of life in London, from legal records to personal diaries.
Whitehall Stairs is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (W)
- Variant spellings
Carter Lane

Carter Lane ran east-west between Creed Lane in the west, past Paul’s Chain, to Old Change in the East. It ran parallel to St. Paul’s Churchyard in the north and Knightrider Street in the south. It lay within Castle Baynard Ward and Farringdon Ward Within. It is labelled as Carter lane on the Agas map.
Carter Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Puddle Wharf

Puddle Wharf was a water gate along the north bank of the Thames (Stow). Also known as Puddle Dock, it was located in Castle Baynard Ward, down from St. Andrew’s Hill. Puddle Wharf was built in 1294 to serve as the main quay for Blackfriars Monastery. (Weinreb and Hibbert 68, 229). In the early modern period, Puddle Wharf would have been the main landing place for playgoers on their way to the Blackfriars theatre via the river.
Puddle Wharf is mentioned in the following documents:
Castle Alley

The Agas map labels this small street Castell hill. In The A to Z of Elizabethan London, Prockter and Taylor label this street Castle Alley (21). There does not seem to be any information in Stow about this hill or alley. Stow does talk about a Castle Lane further west, between the Blackfriars and the Thames, near the Fleet River.
Castle Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Blackfriars Theatre

The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in 1276, when King Edward I gave to the Dominican order five acres of land.
Blackfriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
Shoe Lane

Shoe Lane, or Shoe Alley as it was sometimes called in the sixteenth century (Ekwall 110), was outside the city wall, in the ward of Faringdon Without. It ran north-south, parallel to the course of the Fleet River. Until 1869, it was the main route between Holborn (Oldborne, in Stow’s spelling) and Fleet Street (Smith 190). At its north end, on the west side, was the church of St. Andrew Holborn.
Shoe Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Lambeth Hill

Lambeth Hill ran north-south between Knightrider Street and Thames Street. Part of it lied in Queenhithe Ward, and part in Castle Baynard Ward. The Blacksmiths’ Hall was located on the west side of this street, but the precise location is unknown.
Lambeth Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
Queenhithe Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Queenhithe Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Whitefriars Theatre

One of the lesser known halls or private playhouses of Renaissance London, the Whitefriars, was home to two different boy playing companies, each of which operated under several different names. Whitefriars produced many famous boy actors, some of whom later went on to greater fame in adult companies. At the Whitefriars playhouse in 1607–1608, the Children of the King’s Revels catered to a homogenous audience with a particular taste for homoerotic puns and situations, which resulted in a small but significant body of plays that are markedly different from those written for the amphitheatres and even for other hall playhouses.
Whitefriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
The Cockpit

The Cockpit, also known as the Phoenix, was an indoor commercial playhouse planned and built by the theatre entrepreneur and actor Christopher Beeston. The title pages of plays performed at the Cockpit usually refer to its location in Drury Lane, but G. E. Bentley offers a more precise description: Beeston’s property lay between Drury Lane and Great Wild Street, north-west of Princes’ Street in the parish of St Giles in the Fields (Bentley vi 49). Herbert Berry adds that the playhouse was three-eights of a mile west of the western boundary of the City of London at Temple Bar (Berry 624), and Frances Teague notes that it was on the east side of Drury Lane and that [t]he site was long preserved by the name of Cockpit Alley, afterwards Pitt Court (Teague 243).
The Cockpit is mentioned in the following documents:
Bridewell

Bridewell, once palace, then prison, was an intriguing site in the early modern period. It changed hands several times before falling into the possession of the City of London to be used as a prison and hospital. The prison is mentioned in many early modern texts, including plays by Jonson and Dekker as well as the surveys and diaries of the period. Bridewell is located on the Agas map at the corner of the Thames and Fleet Ditch, labelled as BrideWell.
Bridewell is mentioned in the following documents:
Black Bull Inn (Bishopsgate Street)

For information about the Black Bull Inn, Bishopsgate Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on Black Bull Inn, Bishopsgate Street.
Black Bull Inn (Bishopsgate Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
The Boar’s Head

For information about the Boar’s Head, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Boar’s Head.
The Boar’s Head is mentioned in the following documents:
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Cordwainer Street Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Cordwainer Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Garlick Hill

Garlick Hill ran north from the Thames. Before it reached Cheapside, it became Bow Lane. The name Garlick Hill preserves a memory of the steep incline (now partially flattened) leading away from the river. Like Bread Street, Garlick Hill was built in the ninth century; it provided access from the haven of Queenhithe (just to the west of Garlick Hill) to the main market street of Cheapside.
Garlick Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
Cheap Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Cheap Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Bread Street Hill

Bread Street Hill ran north-south between Old Fish Street and Thames Street. The label for this street on the Agas Map reads Bread streat, but we know from Stow that Bread Street Hill falls between Huggen lane and S. Mary Mounthaunt (St. Mary Mounthaunt is another name for Old Fish Street Hill) (2.1).
Bread Street Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
Bread Street

Bread Street ran north-south from the Standard in Cheapside to Knightrider Street, crossing Watling Street. It lay wholly in the ward of Bread Street, to which it gave its name.
Bread Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Three Cups Inn (Bread Street)

The Three Cups Inn was located in Bread Street Ward at the southwest intersection of Bread Street and Watling Street. The Inn provided food, drink, and shelter for employees, guests, carriers and their horses. It was a hub for public transportation and shipping into and out of the capital and was a home to the inn holder, servants, and their families. It provided employment and a community meeting place. It acted as a landmark in the city for at least four hundred years.
Three Cups Inn (Bread Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Goldsmiths’ Row

Goldsmiths’ Row was a section on the south side of Cheapside, by Cheapside Cross. Goldsmiths’ Row and the shops and homes of other wealthy merchants made the street an elite and attractive one.
Goldsmiths’ Row is mentioned in the following documents:
Distaff Lane

Distaff Lane was in Bread Street Ward. There is some discrepancy between the Agas Map and the information in Stow. On the Agas Map, Distaff Lane (labelled Distaf la.) appears to run south off Maiden Lane, terminating before it reaches Knightrider Street. Stow tells us, in his delineation of the bounds of Bread Street Ward, that Distaff Lane runneth downe to Knightriders street, or olde Fishstreete (1.345). Our map truncates Distaff Lane before Knightrider Street.
Distaff Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Bread Street Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Bread Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Finimore Lane

Finimore Lane ran east-west between Old Fish Street Hill and Bread Street Hill in Queenhithe Ward. The lane is not visible on the Agas Map, but we have marked it running just south of St. Nicholas Olave church based on evidence from Stow.
Finimore Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Friday Street

Friday Street passed south through Bread Street Ward, beginning at the cross in Cheapside and ending at Old Fish Street. It was one of many streets that ran into Cheapside market whose name is believed to originate from the goods that were sold there.
Friday Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Sugarloaf Alley

Sugarloaf Alley ran north-south from Leadenhall Street to Fenchurch Street, on the west side of Bricklayers’ Hall. Stow indicates that it was called Sprinckle allie but had been renamed Sugarloaf Alley after a shop sign.
Sugarloaf Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Bridge Within Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Bridge Within Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
St. Martin Orgar

The church of St. Martin Orgar, named for Dean Orgar who gave the church to the canons, has been wrongly located by the maker of the Agas map. The church is drawn in Bridge Ward Within, south of Crooked Lane and west of New Fish Street on St. Michael’s Lane. However, the church was actually located one block northwest in Candlewick Street Ward, on the east side of St. Martin’s Lane just south of Candlewick Street.
St. Martin Orgar is mentioned in the following documents:
Lombard Street

Lombard Street runs east to west from Gracechurch Street to Poultry. The Agas map labels it Lombard streat. Lombard Street limns the south end of Langbourn Ward, but borders three other wards: Walbrook Ward to the south east, Bridge Within Ward to the south west, and Candlewick Street Ward to the south.
Lombard Street is mentioned in the following documents:
London Wall (street)

London Wall was a long street running along the inside of the northern part of the City Wall. It ran east-west from the north end of Broad Street to Cripplegate (Prockter and Taylor 43). The modern London Wall street is a major traffic thoroughfare now. It follows roughly the route of the former wall, from Old Broad Street to the Museum of London (whose address is 150 London Wall).
London Wall (street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Castle Alley
Castle Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Swan Alley (Cornhill)

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.
Swan Alley (Cornhill) is mentioned in the following documents:
Drapers’ Hall

Draper’s Hall was a livery company hall on the north side of Throgmorton Street in Broad Street Ward. On the Agas map, Drapers’ Hall appears as a large house with three round towers, thus resembling the architecture of Hampton Court Palace and some of the college gates at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Stow records that the hall was built by Sir Thomas Cromwell for his own use as a house. The Drapers bought the house from Henry VIII in 1543, the house having passed into the monarch’s possession after Cromwell’s execution in 1540.
Drapers’ Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Finch Lane

Finch Lane (labelled Finke la. on the Agas map) was a small north-south lane that ran between Threadneedle Street and Cornhill. The north half of the lane was in Broadstreet Ward and the latter half was in Cornhill Ward. It is likely that the lane is named after Robert Finke and his family (son Robert Finke and relatives James and Rosamund).
Finch Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Stocks Market

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 lord mayor Henry le Wales in 1283 and, according to the editors of The London Encyclopedia, is named after the the only fixed pair of stocks in the city (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, rebuilt, and then replaced in 1739 by the Mansion House, which is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.
Stocks Market is mentioned in the following documents:
Budge Row

Budge Row ran east-west through Cordwainer Street ward. It passed through the ward from Soper Lane in the west to Walbrook in the east. Beyond Soper Lane, Budge Row became Watling Street. Before it came to be known as Budge Row, it once formed part of Watling Street, one of the Roman roads (Weinreb and Hibbert 107).
Budge Row is mentioned in the following documents:
Walbrook Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Walbrook Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Candlewick Street

Candlewick, or Candlewright Street as it was sometimes called, ran east-west from Walbrook in the west to the beginning of Eastcheap at its eastern terminus. Candlewick became Eastcheap somewhere around St. Clements Lane, and led into a great meat market (Stow 1:217). Together with streets such as Budge Row, Watling Street, and Tower Street, which all joined into each other, Candlewick formed the main east-west road through London between Ludgate and Posterngate.
Candlewick Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Butchers’ Alley

Butchers’ Alley ran parallel to Pentecost Lane to the Butchers’ Hall on the east side of Christ Church. It is not labelled on the Agas map.
Butchers’ Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Stinking Lane

North out of Newgate, Stinking Lane runs parallel to both Pentecost Lane and Butchers’ Alley. Ekwall notes Stinking Lane as a euphemistic variant of Fowle Lane, while Stow notes Stinking Lane was also known as Chick Lane.
Stinking Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Nicholas Lane

Nicholas Lane, or, as Stow called it, St. Nicholas Lane, ran north-south from Lombard Street to Candlewick Street. It was probably named for St. Nicholas Acon, which stood on the lane. Nicholas Lane still survives in modern London, although it is now interrupted by King William Street.
Nicholas Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Candlewick Street Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Candlewick Street Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Cardinal’s Hat Tavern

Cardinal’s Hat Tavern was a tavern that likely sat at the meeting of Cornhill and Lombard Street. Stow mentions the Cardinal’s Hat Tavern only in passing, using the site as a reference for a path between the two streets.
Cardinal’s Hat Tavern is mentioned in the following documents:
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.
Carey Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Do Little Lane

Do Little Lane was a small lane that ran north-south between Carter Lane in the north and Knightrider Street in the south. It ran parallel between Sermon Lane in the west and Old Change Street in the east. It lay within Castle Baynard Ward. It is labelled as Do lytle la. on the Agas map.
Do Little Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
Chancery Lane

Chancery Lane was built sometime around 1160 by the Knights Templar on land they owned. It ran north-south between Fleet Street at the south end to Holborn in the North, and was originally called New Street. The current name dates from the time of Ralph Neville, who was Bishop of Chichester and Lord Chancellor of England (Bebbington 78). The area around the street came into his possession when in 1227 Henry III gave him land for a palace in this lane: hence Bishop’s Court and Chichester Rents, small turnings out of Chancery Lane (Bebbington 78).
Chancery Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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.
The Strand is mentioned in the following documents:
Charterhouse Lane

Charterhouse Lane was a narrow road that ran north-south between the London Charterhouse and St. John’s Street. The street earned its name due to its proximity to the London Charterhouse, which housed Carthusian monks. Following the dissolution of London monasteries between 1536 and 1541, Charterhouse Lane became a well known and documented site of poverty, crime, and drinking. After a series of demolitions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Charterhouse Lane was restructured as part of the modern-day Charterhouse Street.
Charterhouse Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Little Conduit (Cheapside)

The Little Conduit in Cheapside, also known as the Pissing Conduit, stood at the western end of Cheapside outside the north corner of Paul’s Churchyard. On the Agas map, one can see two water cans on the ground just to the right of the conduit.
Little Conduit (Cheapside) is mentioned in the following documents:
The Standard (Cheapside)
The Standard (Cheapside) is mentioned in the following documents:
Huggin Lane

Huggin Lane, Wood Street ran east-west connecting Wood Street in the east to Gutter Lane in the west. It ran parallel between Cheapside in the south and Maiden Lane in the north. It was in Cripplegate Ward. It is labelled as Hoggyn la on the Agas map.
Huggin Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Cow Lane

Cow Lane, located in the Ward of Farringdon Without, began at Holborn Street, and then curved north and east to West Smithfield. Smithfield was a meat market, so the street likely got its name because cows were led through it to market (Bebbington 100). Just as Ironmonger Lane and Milk Street in Cheapside market were named for the goods located there, these streets leading into Smithfield meat market were named for the animals that could be bought there.
Cow Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Westcheap

In the middle ages, Westcheap was the main market west of the Walbrook, so called to distinguish it from Eastcheap, the market in the east. By Stow’s time, the term Westcheap had fallen out of use. Stow himself, however, continued to use the term to distinguish the western end of Cheapside.
Westcheap is mentioned in the following documents:
Mercers’ Hall

The hall of the Mercers’ Company was located on the north side of Cheapside Street by the Great Conduit.
Mercers’ Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Grub Street

Grub Street could be found outside the walled city of London. It ran north-south, between Everades Well Street in the north and Fore Lane in the south. Grub Street was partially in Cripplegate ward, and partially outside the limits of the city of London.
Grub Street is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Christopher’s Alley

There may have been two alleys known as St. Christopher’s Alley in early modern London. The alley with this name on the south side of Threadneedle Street was destroyed to make way for the Royal Exchange, which opened in 1571.
St. Christopher’s Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
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 called because Galley men dwelled there (Stow).
Galley Row is mentioned in the following documents:
Church Lane (Tower Street Ward)

Church Lane was a semi-circular lane that wrapped around the south side of the parish church of St. Dunstan in the East, in Tower Street Ward. Both ends of Church Lane led south off Tower Street.
Church Lane (Tower Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
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 as a 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:
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 as Dogge 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:
Cloak Lane
Cloak Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Vintry Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Vintry Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Cockpit Alley (Pitt Court)

Cockpit Alley, later called Pitt Court, was one of a series of narrow alleys that ran southwest to northeast between Drury Lane in the west and Great Wild Street (now just Wild Street) in the east. It took its name from the Cockpit Theatre which was located in the alley or very nearby. It is not labelled in the Agas Map, but appears clearly on the Rocque map of 1746.
Cockpit Alley (Pitt Court) is mentioned in the following documents:
The Cockpit-in-Court

The Cockpit-in-Court, or The Cockpit-at-Court, was a private Caroline playhouse for members of the royal household, and was located within Whitehall Palace. Its name arose from the fact that it was formerly a cockfighting site at court. It should not be confused with The Cockpit Theatre, which was located near Drury Lane.
The Cockpit-in-Court is mentioned in the following documents:
Conduit (Cornhill)

Not labelled on the Agas map, the Conduit upon Cornhill is thought to have been located in the middle of Cornhill and opposite the north end of Change Alley and the eastern side of the Royal Exchange (Harben; BHO). Formerly a prison, it was built to bring fresh water from Tyburn to Cornhill.
Conduit (Cornhill) is mentioned in the following documents:
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 how
In 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.)
Tyburn is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Peter upon Cornhill

St. Peter upon Cornhill stood at the highest point of the city, on the south side of Cornhill street near the corner of Gracechurch Street. It lies in the south east of Cornhill ward and is featured on the Agas map with the label S. Peter.
St. Peter upon Cornhill is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Michael, Cornhill (Parish)

The parish of St. Michael, Cornhill is one of two parishes within Cornhill Ward. Although not much geographical information is known about the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, the births, marriages, and deaths of its parishioners is detailed in the parish register, which began in 1456 CE (Waterlow xvii). Notable parishioners include Alderman Robert Fabian, the physician to King Henry VIII, and John Stow. Stow’s mother and father, as well as his grandfather and great grandfather are buried in the churchyard of St. Michael, Cornhill (xx).
St. Michael, Cornhill (Parish) is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
Cornhill

Cornhill was a significant thoroughfare and was part of the cityʼs main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half. The part of this thoroughfare named Cornhill extended from St. Andrew Undershaft to the three-way intersection of Threadneedle, Poultry, and Cornhill where the Royal Exchange was built. The name Cornhill preserves a memory both of the cornmarket that took place in this street, and of the topography of the site upon which the Roman city of Londinium was built.
Cornhill is mentioned in the following documents:
Pope’s Head Alley

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 Stow himself does not discuss Pope’s Head Alley directly, his book was Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, Printer to the honorable Citie of London: And are to be sold at his shop within the Popes head Alley in Lombard street. 1598 (Stow 1598). Booksellers proliferated Alley in the early years of the 17th century (Sugden 418).
Pope’s Head Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
Pope’s Head Tavern

The Pope’s Head Tavern in Cornhill lay at the north end of Pope’s Head Alley, to which it gave its name. It was a substantial stone building dating back to the reign of Edward IV (Harben), and was commonly believed to have once been a King’s Palace, but this belief may have arisen purely out of the fact that its walls carried the arms of England (Sugden 418, Moser 14). It was bequeathed to the Merchant Taylors’ Company in 1615, and they were still drawing rents from the property in the early 20th century (Sugden 418, Harben). The tavern was in use until 1756.
Pope’s Head Tavern is mentioned in the following documents:
East Smithfield

East Smithfield is a district located east of the City of London and northeast of the Tower of London. Its name derives from smoothfield , with the prefix east helping to differentiate it from the Smithfield northwest of Cripplegate (Harben). As time progressed, it transformed from what Stow describes as a plot of ground with very few houses into a densely populated area by the mid-seventeenth century(Stow; Harben).
East Smithfield is mentioned in the following documents:
Cross Keys Inn (Gracechurch Street)

For information about the Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) page on Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street.
Cross Keys Inn (Gracechurch Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Crosby Hall
Crosby Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Cross Bones Graveyard

A graveyard for London prostitutes also called a single 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:
Hart Street

Hart Street ran east-west from Crutched Fryers and the north end of Seething Lane to Mark Lane. In Stow’s time, the street began much further east, running from the north end of Woodroffe Lane to Mark Lane (Harben; Stow).
Hart Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Dowgate Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. This page offers a diplomatic transcription of the opening section of John Stow’s description of this ward from his Survey of London.
Dowgate Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
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:
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:
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 become greatly diminished by building of tenements and garden plots by 1593, flanked to the north and west by certaine 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:
Eastcheap

Eastcheap Street ran east-west, from Tower Street to St. Martin’s Lane. West of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street, Eastcheap was known as Great Eastcheap. The portion of the street to the east of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street was known as Little Eastcheap. Eastcheap (Eschepe or Excheapp) was the site of a medieval food market.
Eastcheap is mentioned in the following documents:
Shaft Alley

Shaft Alley was near the northwest corner of Leadenhall Street and St. Mary Axe Street in Lime Street Ward. During the eighteenth century, the alley was directly opposite East India House. Stow says that the name for the alley came from a maypole laid [on iron hooks] along ouer the doores, and vnder the Pentises of one rowe of houses, and Alley gate, called of the shaft (Stow). As an eyewitness, Stow recounts that the alley retained its name long after the maypole was sawn into pieces and burnt following a particularly powerful sermon given at St. Paul’s Cross by Stephen, curate of St. Katherine Cree.
Shaft Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
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 as Le elmes or le 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:
Farringdon Ward

MoEML is aware that the ward boundaries are inaccurate for a number of wards. We are working on redrawing the boundaries. Farringdon Ward is the name of the larger single ward predating both Farringdon Within and Without.
Farringdon Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Fetter Lane

Fetter Lane ran north-south between Holborn Street and Fleet Street, in the ward of Farringdon Without, past the east side of the church of Saint Dunstan’s in the West. Stow consistently calls this street Fewtars Lane, Fewter Lane, or Fewters Lane (2:21, 2:22), and claimed that it was so called of Fewters (or idle people) lying there (2:39).
Fetter Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Holborn Bridge

Holborn Bridge or Oldboorne bridge (Stow; BHO) spanned the Fleet Ditch at Holborn Street. Located in the ward of Farringdon Without, the bridge was part of a major westward thoroughfare.
Holborn Bridge is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Andrew Holborn

St. Andrew Holborn was a parish church in Farringdon Without Ward, located on Holborn street between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane. It is located on the Agas map and is labelled as S. Andrews. According to Stow, there was a grammar school, as well a monument dedicated to Lord Thomas Wriothesley either within or nearby St. Andrew Holborn (Stow). The church was first mentioned in Charter of King Edgar in 951. This medieval church was rebuilt in 1632 and managed to escape damage caused by the Great Fire. Christopher Wren rebuilt the church in 1684 making it the largest of his parish churches, measuring 32 by 19 meters and costing £9,000 (Weinreb and Hibbert 741).
St. Andrew Holborn is mentioned in the following documents:
Ram Alley

Ram Alley, now known as Hare Place, was a small alley that ran north-south off of Fleet Street, opposite Fetter Lane. Once a conventual sanctury, Ram Alley developed into a chartered abode of libertinism and roguery (Beresford 46).
Ram Alley is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
John Rastell’s Stage

John Rastell built London’s first purpose-built stage on property fronting on Old Street in Finsbury (Giles-Watson 172). Although the name of the stage/playhouse, if it had one, is now lost, we find traces of its existence in the legal record.
John Rastell’s Stage is mentioned in the following documents:
Fleet Street

Fleet Street runs east-west from Temple Bar to Fleet Hill (Ludgate Hill), and is named for the Fleet River. The road has existed since at least the 12th century (Sugden 195) and known since the 14th century as Fleet Street (Beresford 26). It was the location of numerous taverns including the Mitre and the Star and the Ram.
Fleet Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Montfichet’s Tower

Montfichet’s Tower was a fortress on Ludgate Hill in London.
Montfichet’s Tower is mentioned in the following documents:
Temple Bar

Temple Bar was one of the principle entrances to the city of London, dividing the Strand to the west and Fleet Street to the east. It was an ancient right of way and toll gate. Walter Thornbury dates the wooden gate structure shown in the Agas Map to the early Tudor period, and describes a number of historical pageants that processed through it, including the funeral procession of Henry V, and it was the scene of King James I’s first entry to the city (Thornbury 1878). The wooden structure was demolished in 1670 and a stone gate built in its place (Sugden 505).
Temple Bar is mentioned in the following documents:
The Fortune
The Fortune is mentioned in the following documents:
Trinity Lane

Trinity Lane ran north-south between Old Fish Street (Knightrider Street) and Thames Street, between Garlick Hill and Huggin Lane, entirely in the ward of Queenhithe. On the Agas map, it is labelled Trinitie lane.
Trinity Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Chertsey House

This messuage is not identified on the Agas Map but Prockter and Taylor label a house in this vicinity Ghertsey 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:
- Variant spellings
London Bridge

From the time the first wooden bridge in London was built by the Romans in 52 CE until 1729 when Putney Bridge opened, London Bridge was the only bridge across the Thames in London. During this time, several structures were built upon the bridge, though many were either dismantled or fell apart. John Stow’s 1598 A Survey of London claims that the contemporary version of the bridge was already outdated by 994, likely due to the bridge’s wooden construction (Stow 1:21).
London Bridge is mentioned in the following documents:
The Globe
The Globe is mentioned in the following documents:
The Inns of Court
The four principal constituents of the Inns of Court were:
The Inns of Court is mentioned in the following documents:
Gray’s Inn

Gray’s Inn was one of the four Inns of Court.
Gray’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
Greenwich
Greenwich is mentioned in the following documents:
Guildhall Yard

Guildhall Yard was a square outside Guildhall.
Guildhall Yard is mentioned in the following documents:
Gunfoundry

The Gunfoundry was a large house and enclosed yard on the north side of Houndsditch where cannon and Brasse Ordinance were made (Stow). It was in Portsoken Ward. According to Stow, it was set up in the reign of Henry VIII by the three brethren […] surnamed Owens (Stow).
Gunfoundry is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (G)
- Variant spellings
Hare House
Hare House is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Olave (Hart Street)

The church of St. Olave, Hart Street is found on the south side of Hart Street and the northwest corner of Seething Lane in Tower Street Ward. It has been suggested that the church was founded and built before the Norman conquest of 1066 (Harben). Aside from mentioning the nobility buried in St. Olave’s, Stow is kind enough to describe the church as a proper [i.e. appropriate] parrish (Stow). Samuel Pepys is buried in this church.
St. Olave (Hart Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Henry VII’s Chapel

One of the most opulent sites in early modern London, Henry VII’s Chapel (CORA 700002991) still stands in the eastern wing of Westminster Abbey. Often referred to as the Lady Chapel, Henry VII Lady Chapel, Chapel of Henry VII, and Chapel of the Order of the Bath, the structure was initially intended to monumentalize Henry VI, who was ultimately not canonized (Condon 60). The Henry VII Lady Chapel is the resting place of Henry VII himself and his wife, Elizabeth of York. Additionally, it houses the tombs of Anne of Cleves; Edward VI; Mary I; Elizabeth I; Mary, Queen of Scots; Anne of Denmark; James VI and I; and other key figures of the English Royalty (Weinreb 1007). The political significance of this burial place was mobilized by James I when the body of Elizabeth I was disinterred in 1606 to make room for the tomb of Mary, Queen of Scots. 0 With relevance to the history of the location, Barbara Harvey notes that the history of the Henry VII Lady Chapel branches back at least to the thirteenth century: King Henry III, who was then a boy of thirteen, laid the foundation stone of the old Lady chapel on 16 May 1220.... The chapel was a necessity of the worship of St Mary the Virgin.... [T]he existing altar in the abbey church no longer seemed adequate for this purpose (Harvey 5). Toward the end of Henry VII’s reign, on 24 January, 1503, the first stone was laid for the new Lady chapel, which, as Tim Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer write, was literally fitted over an existing building, and over an existing institution nearly three hundred years old (Tatton-Brown and Mortimer 2). In the following centuries, Henry VII’s Chapel would remain the primary location for royal burials (Weinreb 1007).
Henry VII’s Chapel is mentioned in the following documents:
Hog Lane (East Smithfield)

Hog Lane ran east-west into the north-east corner of Little Tower Hill. It should not be confused with the Hog Lane north of Houndsditch. Hog Lane, also called Hog Street in Stow’s Survey of London, was renamed Rosemary Lane in the seventeenth century.
Hog Lane (East Smithfield) is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Michael (Aldgate)

St. Michael, Aldgate, was an old parish church that was absorbed by Holy Trinity Priory in 1108 along with the parishes of St. Mary Magdalen, Aldgate, and St. Katherine Cree. According to a papal bull written during the pontificate of Innocent III, it was located in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Priory (Harben).
St. Michael (Aldgate) is mentioned in the following documents:
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 it was not much inferior to that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral] (Stow).
St. Katherine’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
The Hope

For information about the Hope, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Hope.
The Hope is mentioned in the following documents:
Hyde Park
Hyde Park is mentioned in the following documents:
Inner Temple

Inner Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
Inner Temple is mentioned in the following documents:
Lincoln’s Inn

Lincoln’s Inn was one of the four Inns of Court.
Lincoln’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
Middle Temple

Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
Middle Temple is mentioned in the following documents:
Islington
Islington is mentioned in the following documents:
Somerset House

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.
Somerset House is mentioned in the following documents:
Joiners’ Hall

Joiners’ Hall was built on the company’s property in Thames Street, some time between 1518 and 1551. See the description of Joiners’ Hall at the company’s website.
Joiners’ Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Leadenhall
Leadenhall is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Mary Axe

The church of St. Mary Axe was a church on the west side of St. Mary Axe Street in Lime Street Ward. Stow asserts the church’s full name and dedication was S. Marie the virgine, Saint Vrsula, and the 11000. Virgins and believed that its common name, St. Mary Axe, derived from a sign near the church’s east side (Stow). However, a document written during the reign of Henry VIII suggests a different history of its name. The church, dedicated to 11,000 martyred virgins, supposedly contained the three axes that were used in their executions (Harben).
St. Mary Axe is mentioned in the following documents:
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 hill for 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:
St. Magnus

The church of St. Magnus the Martyr, believed to be founded some time in the 11th century, was on the south side of Thames Street just north of London Bridge. According to Stow, in its churchyard haue béene buried many men of good worship, whose monumentes are now for the most part vtterly defaced, including John Michell, mayor of London in the first part of the 15th century (Stow 1598 167). The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren (Wikipedia).
St. Magnus is mentioned in the following documents:
Ludgate
Ludgate is mentioned in the following documents:
The Maidhead (Ram Alley)
The Maidhead (Ram Alley) is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
Newington Butts

For information about the Newington Butts, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on Newington Butts.
Newington Butts is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (N)
- Variant spellings
Newgate Market
Newgate Market is mentioned in the following documents:
Pentecost Lane

Pentecost Lane ran north from Newgate Street past St. Nicholas Shambles, now Roman Bath Street. Pentcost Lane is not featured on the Agas map.
Pentecost Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Old Fish Street Hill

Old Fish Street Hill ran north-south between Old Fish Street and Thames Street. Stow refers to this street both as old Fishstreete hill (2.4) and Saint Mary Mounthaunt Lane (2.5).
Old Fish Street Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
Old Fish Street
Old Fish Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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.
King’s House in Cornhill is mentioned in the following documents:
Queenhithe

Queenhithe is one of the oldest havens or harbours for ships along the Thames. Hyd is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning landing place. Queenhithe was known in the ninth century as Aetheredes hyd or the landing place of Aethelred. Aethelred was the son-in-law of Alfred the Great (the first king to unify England and have any real authority over London), an ealdorman (i.e., alderman) of the former kingdom of Mercia, and ruler of London (Sheppard 70).
Queenhithe is mentioned in the following documents:
The Red Bull

For information about the Red Bull, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Red Bull.
The Red Bull is mentioned in the following documents:
The Red Lion

For information about the Red Lion, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on the Red Lion.
The Red Lion is mentioned in the following documents:
Royal Exchange
Royal Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
Salisbury Court Theatre
Salisbury Court Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
Sewersditch

Sewersditch is a heteronym for Shoreditch, the drainage ditch that gave its name to the marshy neighbourhood of Shoreditch. The ditch was built over by the early modern period, but was known to Stow, who mentions it in his Survey.
Sewersditch is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Nicholas Shambles
St. Nicholas Shambles is mentioned in the following documents:
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).
St. Leonard is mentioned in the following documents:
Smithfield
Smithfield 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).
Strand Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
Strand Bridge

According to Sugden, Strand Bridge was A bdge. that crossed the brookrunning from St. Clements Well across from the S. and down S. Lane, Lond. (Sugden 489). Stow (pp. 91-97) tells us that the bridge and a number of other features including several inns and tenements were pulled downe, and made leuell ground, in the yeare 1549. In place whereof he builded that large and goodly house, now called Somerset house.
Strand Bridge is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Mary Overie (Southwark Cathedral)

For information about St. Marie Overie (now known as Southwark Cathedral), a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on St. Marie Overie.
St. Mary Overie (Southwark Cathedral) is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Saviour (Southwark)
St. Saviour (Southwark) is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Augustine Papey

St Augustine Papey was a church on the south side of the city wall and opposite the north end of St. Mary Axe Street. The church dated from the twelfth century and in 1442 a fraternity of brothers was installed (Harben). The church and brotherhood were suppressed during the Reformation and Stow tells us the church was pulled down and houses built on the site (Stow).
St. Augustine Papey is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Christopher le Stocks

St. Christopher le Stocks was originally built on Threadneedle Street on the banks of Walbrook before 1225, and was dedicated to the patron saint of watermen (Weinreb and Hibbert 751). The church has been known by many names, which include St. Christopher upon Cornhull, St. Christopher in Bradestrete, and St. Christopher near le Shambles (Harben; BHO). Since the 14th century, the church has been known as some variant of St. Christopher le Stocks, which derives from its proximity to the Stocks Market. The church is not labelled, but is identifiable, on the Agas map.
St. Christopher le Stocks is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Giles (Cripplegate)

For information about St. Giles, Cripplegate, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on St. Giles, Cripplegate.
St. Giles (Cripplegate) is mentioned in the following documents:
Whitehall
Whitehall is mentioned in the following documents:
St. James Park
St. James Park is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Mary Whitechapel

Also known as St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel Church was located on Whitechapel Street.
St. Mary Whitechapel is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Nicholas Acon

St. Nicholas Acon is not depicted on the Agas map. Prockter and Taylor note that it stood on the W. side of St. Nicholas Lane towards the northern end (51).
St. Nicholas Acon is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Paul’s Theatre

For information about St. Paul’s Theatre, a modern map marking the site where the it once stood, and a walking tour that will take you to the site, visit the Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT) article on St. Paul’s Theatre.
St. Paul’s Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (S)
- Variant spellings
Westminster
Westminster is mentioned in the following documents:
Transcription of Poem on the Agas Map

NEW Troy my name: when first my fame begun / By Trajon Brute: who then me placed here…
Transcription of Poem on the Agas Map is mentioned in the following documents:
- Variant spellings
Transcription of Cartouche on the Agas Map

THis antient and famous City of London, was first founded by Brute the Trojan, in the year of the World two thousand, eight hundred thirty & two, and before the Nativity of our Saviour Christ…
Transcription of Cartouche on the Agas Map is mentioned in the following documents:
- Variant spellings
Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall is the 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 as Westmynster 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:
The Theatre
The Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
Three Cranes Stairs

Three Cranes Stairs provided access to the Thames from Three Cranes Lane.
Three Cranes Stairs is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (T)
- Variant spellings
Three Cranes Tavern

Three Cranes Tavern was a popular tavern in early modern London, located on Three Cranes Lane.
Three Cranes Tavern is mentioned in the following documents:
- Gazetteer (T)
- Variant spellings
Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey was a historically significant church, located on the bottom-left corner of the Agas map. Colloquially known as Poets’ Corner, it is the final resting place of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, and many other notable authors; in 1740, a monument for William Shakespeare was erected in Westminster Abbey (ShaLT).
Westminster Abbey is mentioned in the following documents:
Whitefriars

This page points to the district known as Whitefriars. For the theatre, see Whitefriars Theatre.
Whitefriars is mentioned in the following documents:

Variant spellings

Abbey of St. Clare

Abbey of St. Mary Graces

Abbey of Grace

Abchurch Lane

Addle Hill

Addle Street

Abbot of St. Alban’s Inn

Aldermanbury

Aldersgate Ward

Aldersgate

Aldersgate Street

Aldermanbury Conduit

Aldgate

Aldgate Ward

Aldgate Bars

Aldgate Street

Aldersgate Bars

Alderman Bury

All Hallows (London Wall)

All Hallows (London Wall) (Parish)

All Hallows Barking (Parish)

All Hallows (Bread Street) (Parish)

All Hallows (Lombard Street) (Parish)

All Hallows Staining (Parish)

All Hallows the Great (Parish)

All Hallows the Less (Parish)

All Hallows (Honey Lane) (Parish)

All Hallows Barking

All Hallows (Bread Street)

All Hallows (Lombard Street)

All Hallows Staining

All Hallows the Great

All Hallows the Less

All Hallows (Honey Lane)

Amen Corner

Anchor Lane

Andro Morris Key

Angel Inn

Angel Street

Angel Alley

The Angel

Annis a Cleare

The Antelope

Armourers’ Hall

Artillery Yard

King’s Artirce

Arundel House

Arundel Stairs

Asher House

St. Audoen

Austin Friars

Austin’s Gate

Ave Maria Lane

Axe Inn

Back Street

Bacon House

Bakers’ Hall

Blackwell Hall

Paul’s Bakehouse

Ball Alley

Bangor Inn

Bankside

Banqueting House

Barbers’ Hall

Barbican

Barbican (Tower)

The Barge

Barkley’s Inn

Barnards Inn

Bartholomew Lane

Bassinghall Ward

Basinghall Street

Basing Lane

Basing Hall

Bassishaw Alley

Bassett’s Inn

Bath Inn

Battle Bridge (Tooley Street)

Baynard’s Castle