Pudding Lane
Pudding Lane is most famously known as the
starting point of the Great Fire of 1666. The origin of its name is contested by
historians but is most likely consistent with Stow’s explanation in his Survey of London:
Then haue yee one other lane called Rother Lane, or Red Rose Lane, of such a signe there, now commonly called Pudding Lane, because the Butchers of Eastcheape haue their skalding House for Hogges there, and their puddinges [entrails] with other filth of Beastes, are voided downe that way to theyr dung boates on the Thames(1.210–11). Henry A. Harben, Gillian Bebbington, and Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert support Stow’s account of the origin. However, Edward Waterhouse (1619–1670) gives a different explanation in his Narrative, understanding pudding as a favourite national dish rather than the medieval word for
guts and entrails(Weinreb and Hibbert 625). Edward Waterhouse introduces Pudding Lane as
a place so called, but for some eminent seller or sellers of Puddings living of old there,it being a regular practice to name streets after that which was produced or sold in the vicinity (as in Bread Street, Milk Street, and Candlewick Street). He dubs pudding
the general beloved diſh of Engliſh men(Waterhouse sig. C8r-C8v).
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) Laneafter Stow’s account of the lane’s former title. Pudding Lane is contained within Billingsgate Ward.
Eastcheap (the eastern counterpart to Westcheap or Cheapside, ceap meaning
originally to barter and eventually becoming
the noun for market) was the primary meat
market in London. Pudding Lane was lined with
butchers’ stalls (Bebbington 120).
Bebbington notes that in 1402 the butchers were granted an alley where they
might dispose of entrails known as puddings. Pudding
Lane ran conveniently towards the river from Eastcheap. Harben reports that butchers were licenced
to build a bridge over the Thames with houses thereon, whence they might cast offal into the Thames at ebb-tide(Harben).
In Stow’s time the lane was
chiefly inhabited by Basketmakers, Turners and Butchers(Stow 1.211). Waterhouse, writing later in the seventeenth century, remarks that
people of labour and poor condition plyin this
pittyful lane,working early in the morning and late at night
when the Tyde serves to bring up Fishermen, Passengers, and other Boats and Portages.They would then sell their puddings, hoping to
bring the place in requestwith travelers (sig. C8v). Al Smith remarks that the butchers have since relocated to Smithfield and Leadenhall markets (164–65), a progression that likely began in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The Great Fire began on Sunday, 2 September 1666 at around 2 a.m. in the house
of Thomas Farriner (also Farryner), the King’s baker,
at a site which is now occupied by 25 Pudding Lane(Smith 164–65). Due to a strong eastern wind, the flames spread quickly throughout the city and raged until Thursday 6 September, a full four days later, having consumed 89 churches, 13,200 houses and 400 streets (145–46). The fire proceeded south from Pudding Lane towards the bridge, where it crossed Thames Street, ignited St. Magnus’s Church, destroyed London Bridge, and then blew north again, heading westward down Thames Street (Vincent sig. E3v-E4r). Major buildings destroyed included St. Paul’s Cathedral, 52 of the livery company halls, the Guildhall, the Custom House, the Royal Exchange, Newgate prison, Bridewell, and the compters at Wood Street and Poultry (Porter).
There have been many speculations about who started the fire and how it began but
none has been sufficiently proven. Robert Hubert, an alleged arsonist, was one
of many accused of the crime. He confessed to launching fireballs at Farriner’s
house but his story was unconvincing and he was thought to be deranged.
Nevertheless, he was hanged at Tyburn on 27
October (Porter). For many years, the
Great Fire was considered a Catholic act of rebellion, potentially connected to
the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605. Thomas Vincent (1634–78) gives the
following account, seeing the disaster as an opportunity to spread hatred of the
Catholic religion to younger generations of Londoners:
this doth smell of a Popish design so hatcht in the same place where the Gunpowder plot was contriv’d, only that this was more successful. The world sufficiently knows how correspondent this is to Popish principles and practises; those, who could intentionally blow up King and Parliament by Gunpowder, might (without any scruple of their kinds of conscience) actually burn an heretical City (as they count it) into ashes: for besides the Dispensations they can have from his Holiness, or rather his Wickedness the Pope, for the most horrid crimes of Murder, Incest, and the like; It is not unlikely but they count such an action as this meritorious (in their kind of merit) Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] I believe that the people will now take more heed of them and their waies; and instead of promoting their cause, I hope that a contrary effect is produced; and that the before Indifferency of a generation more newly sprung up, who did not know them, is now turned into loathing and detestation of such a religion, as can allow of such practices. (sig. E4r-E4v)
Waterhouse cites one of the major causes of the fire’s spread: the sheer volume
of combustible materials surrounding the site, including
a Bakers stack of wood in the house, and [in] all the neighbouring houses,an Inn on New Fish Street Hill
full of Hay and other combustibles,and finally a lodge on Thames Street filled with
Oyl, Hemp, Flax, Pitch, Tar, Cordage, Hops, Wines, Brandies, and other materials favourable to Fire(sig. C8v-D1r). Farriner maintained that it was not negligence on his part that began the fire (Porter), and a committee set up to discover the cause concluded it was a combination of a very dry season, a great easterly gale, and an Act of God (Smith 145–46). Other contributing factors were
failure to isolate the fire by demolishing the surrounding houses,the
densely packed district,and fewer early morning witnesses than there would have been on a weekday (Porter).
Pudding Lane has been mentioned in some monumental
literary works. Andrew Marvell’s poem
Nosterdamus’s Prophecy(1689) makes reference to Pudding Lane, citing Hubert’s alleged claims of attacking Farriner’s house with fireballs:
FOR Faults and Follies London’s Doom ſhall fix,And She muſt ſink in Flames in Sixty ſix;Fire-Balls ſhall fly, but few ſhall ſee the Train,As far as from White-hall to Pudding-Lane,To burn the City, which again ſhall riſe,Beyond all hopes, aſpiring to the Skies.
(sig. B3r)
The lane appeared in dramatic works as well. For instance, the character Touch
of Nahum Tate’s farce Cuckold’s-Haven (1685), performed
at the Queen’s Theatre in Dorset, mentions a
blind Tap-housein Pudding Lane (sig. E4v). The following exchange in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (1583) tells us something about the types of trades and attitudes associated with Pudding Lane prior to the Great Fire of 1666:
Haukes: Be you not a Hosier, and dwell in pudding lane?M Hug: Yes that I am, and there I do dwell.Haukes: It would seeme so, for ye can better skill to eate a pudding and make a hose then in Scripture eyther to answere or oppose.
(sig. 4C5v)
Finally, John Griggs (1551/2–1598), a carpenter who built The Rose theatre for Philip
Henslowe in 1587, lived in Pudding Lane
in the parish of St. Margaret, New Fish Street—the
same parish as Thomas Farriner, and probably mere steps away from the very site
where the baker lived in 1649, and where the fire began only 51 years after
Grigg’s death.
See also: Chalfant 144.
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Little Conduit (Cheapside)
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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 432; 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 asNew Fyſhe ſtreate.
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St. George’s Lane (Billingsgate)
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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 churchyardhaue béene buried many men of good worſhip, whoſe monumentes are now for the moſt part vtterly defaced,
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Eastcheap
Eastcheap Street ran east-west, from Tower Street to St. Martin’s Lane. West of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street, Eastcheap was known asGreat Eastcheap.
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Candlewick Street
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Smithfield
Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From 1123 to 1855, the Bartholomew’s Fair took place at Smithfield (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 842).Smithfield is mentioned in the following documents:
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Leadenhall is mentioned in the following documents:
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London Bridge
As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until 1729, London Bridge was a focal point of the city. After its conversion from wood to stone, completed in 1209, the bridge housed a variety of structures, including a chapel and a growing number of shops. The bridge was famous for the cityʼs grisly practice of displaying traitorsʼ heads on poles above its gatehouses. Despite burning down multiple times, London Bridge was one of the few structures not entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.London Bridge is mentioned in the following documents:
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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 London.St. Paul’s Cathedral is mentioned in the following documents:
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Guildhall is mentioned in the following documents:
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Custom House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Royal Exchange
Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in 1570 to make business more convenient for merchants and tradesmen (Harben 512). The construction of the Royal Exchange was largely funded by Sir Thomas Gresham (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 718).Royal Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
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Newgate is mentioned in the following documents:
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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 asBride Well.
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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 asWood Streat
on the Agas map and is drawn in the correct position.Wood Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Poultry is mentioned in the following documents:
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Tyburn
Tyburn is best known as the location of the principal gallows where public executions were carried out from the late 12th century until the 18th (Drouillard, Wikipedia). It was a village to the west of the city, near the present-day location of Marble Arch (beyond the boundary of the Agas Map). Its name derives from a stream, and its significance to Stow was primarily as one of the sources of piped water for the city; he describes howIn the yeare 1401. this priſon houſe called the Tunne was made a Ceſterne for ſweete water conueyed by pipes of Leade frõ the towne of Tyborne, and was from thence forth called the conduite vpon Cornhill Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] (Stow 1598,
Cornhill Ward.
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Whitehall
Whitehall Palace, the Palace of Whitehall or simply Whitehall, was one of the most complex and sizeable locations in the entirety of early modern Europe. As the primary place of residence for monarchs from 1529 to 1698, Whitehall was an architectural testament to the shifting sociopolitical, religious, and aesthetic currents of Renaissance England. Edward H. Shugden describes the geospatial location of Whitehall in noting that[i]t lay on the left bank of the Thames, and extended from nearly the point where Westminster Bdge. now crosses the river to Scotland Yard, and from the river back to St. James’s Park
(Sugden 564-565).Whitehall is mentioned in the following documents:
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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:
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