Bishop’s Palace
Agas MapList documents mentioning Bishop’s Palace- A-Z index of all items in the document collection (published and unpublished)
- Gazetteer (B)
- Gazetteer (P)
- Paul’s Wharf
- Survey of London: Castle Baynard Ward
- Survey of London: Towers and Castles
- The Survey of London (1633): Castle Baynard Ward
- The Survey of London (1633): Farringdon Ward Without
- Variant spellings
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 (Harben). Agas coordinates are based on coordinates provided by Harben and supplemented by
Stow.
According to Stow, the palace was
a large thing for receipt, wherein diuers kinges have been lodged, and great housholde hath been kept(Stow 2:20). One of these diverse Kings was Henry VII, who in
the seauenteenth of his raingestayed at Bishop’s Palace with Queen Elizabeth (Stow 1:67). Clergyman and historian Peter Heylyn writes that in 1551 the Queen Regent of Scotland travelled through London, stopping at Bishop’s Palace (sig. Q1r). Upon arriving, she was presented with
Mutton, Beefs, Veals, Poultry, Wine, and all other ſorts of Proviſions, neceſſary for Her Entertainment(sig. Q1r).
Few literary texts reference Bishop’s Palace. Sugden lists two references:
In True Tragedy the messenger informs Q. that her son(Sugden 62).remains at Lond. in the B.P.. Milton, in Areopagitica, Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] pours scorn ona lordly Imprimatur Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] from the W. end of Pauls..
Bishop’s Palace no longer exists in modern London.
References
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Heylyn, Peter. Ecclesia Restaurata, Or, The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. London, 1660. Wing H1701. EEBO. Subscr.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Remediated by British History Online.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Sugden, Edward. A Topographical Dictionary to the Works of Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1925. Remediated by Internet Archive.This item is cited in the following documents:
