Tower Street
Tower Street runs east-west from Tower Hill in the east to St. Andrew Hubbard church. It is 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). Like many London
streets, however, it had its adjacent seedier elements, which John Stow
tends to elide in his description of the street.
In his descriptions of Tower Street,
Stow usually focuses on the wealth of its inhabitants and the beauty of its
buildings. He mentions two
fayreparish churches on Tower Street. First, he describes
the fayre parish Church called Alhallowes Barking,which lies
at the East end of the streete, on the North side thereof(1.130). Stow tells us that it
standeth in a large, but sometime farre larger, cemitory or Churchyearde(1.130). It is typical of Stow to mention encroachments on churches and other fair buildings, but in this case he does not specify the nature of the encroachment. He does indicate that the north side of the churchyard boasted a
fayre Chappell, founded by king Richard the first,wherein the heart of the king was said to have been
buried there vnder the high Altar(1.130). Stow’s list of monuments in the church indicates that a number of drapers, mercers, civic leaders, and Merchants of the Staple were buried therein. Another figure of notoriety buried there was Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, known for his contributions to the English sonnet tradition, although Stow mentions only that he was
beheaded 1546(1.131). On the south side of Tower Street stood the
Church of Saint Dunstone Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] in the East,just east of
Fowle laneand
S. Marie Hill(1.134). The name was meant to distinguish the church from St. Dunstan in the West. Stow tells us that it was
a fayre and large Church of an auncient building, and within a large Churchyarde(1.134). The parishioners of the latter, Stow tells us, included
many rich Marchants, and other occupiers of diuerse trades, namely Saltars and Ironmongers(1.134).
Because Tower Street was the main
street of Tower Street Ward, Stow
follows the spine of the street as an organizing principle in his
description of the ward. He lists the streets opening off Tower Street, beginning in the east on the north
side. First is Seething Lane1 home to
diuers fayre and large houses(1.131). Further west are Mark Lane (called
Marte laneby Stow) and Mincing Lane (home to Clothworkers’ Hall). After Mincing Lane, Tower Street jogs north slightly towards St. Margaret Pattens, at the corner of Rood Lane. Running south from Tower Street towards Thames Street were Beer Lane,
Sporiar laneor Water Lane (Stow 1.133), and
Harpe lane(1.133). Next were two lanes Stow identifies as
both called Churchlanes, because one runneth downe by the East ende of Saint Dunstans Church, and the other by the west ende of the same(1.134). Prockter and Taylor label the first one
St. Dunstan’s Hill(26), although Stow tells us that only the conjoined Church Lanes running south were called Saint Dunstans hill (1.135). The final southbound street off Tower Street was St. Mary at Hill. Tower Street terminated at St. Andrew Hubbard, which was in Eastcheap in Billingsgate Ward.
Conspicuously absent from Stow’s description of Tower Street in A Survey of
London (1.129–38) are its
pubs, and the street’s history as a well travelled route for monarchs and
traitors alike. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford observes that
the compass of Elizabethan London was small Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] and with the whole of that small compass a single man could easily be familiar(xxx). Thus, Stow’s Survey is deliberately selective or
mythical,as Patrick Collinson observes when he asks,
did Merry England ever exist? And if it did, are selective memories of its fall, or demise, to be trusted?(27). In his description of Tower Street Ward, Stow’s personality and biases come through. We sense his anxiety when he refers to the defacing of monuments in churchyards (1.131, 135), or
incrochmentes, (vnlawfully made and suffered) for Gardens and Houses, some on the Banke of the Tower ditch, whereby the Tower ditch is marred(1.129). Such complaints by Stow are telling for they reflect the reality of a growing city, the
problem of heavy, uncontrolled traffic(Collinson 29), and the aspects of London that Stow is loath to portray. Indeed, he seems more concerned with
diuers fayre and large houses(Stow 1.131) than with the realities of a socially and economically divided ward.
Eilert Ekwall observes that Tower
Street, now called Great Tower
Street, is first recorded in 1259, and that the name probably
derives from vicus Turris (street tower) or
something similar (93). Tower Street is invariably associated
with both Tower Hill and the Tower of London. Tower Hill is located between the eastern end of
Tower Street and the Tower of London. Gillian Bebbington
(325), Al Smith, and Stow all
agree that Tower Hill was a location
for public executions, though Smith adds that executions also occurred
within the Tower of London (201). Stow observes that
[v]pon this Hill is alwayes readily prepared at the charges of the cittie a large Scaffolde and Gallowes of Timber, for the execution of such Traytors or Transgressors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Shiriffes of London by writ there to be executed(1.129–30). Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert report that seventy-five people are known to have been executed on Tower Hill surrounded by
thousands of spectators(Weinreb and Hibbert 870). Such widely viewed public spectacles no doubt helped to establish Tower Street as a significant locale in the public imagination. It is not implausible that the mere mention of Tower Street was enough to conjure images of both Tower Hill and the Tower of London.
Tower Street, however, was notable
not only for its association with Tower
Hill and the Tower of
London. It was also part of the route for civic pageants and processions, specifically
coronation processions. Anne Lancashire writes that it seems to have been
standard practice, beginning in the thirteenth century,
for the city to have decorated a processional route through the streetsfor coronations and for welcoming foreign monarchs. By the fourteenth century, street stages and mechanical devices were also employed (43). The general routes for such processions were established early on, with Cheapside figuring prominently, likely because they afforded wide streets (47). However, different types of processions drew upon the advantages, often symbolic, of different routes. For coronations,
the king or queen would spend the night before the entry at the Tower of London, and the next day, accompanied by the mayor, would proceed from the Tower along Tower St.following a specific route to Westminster (47). While coronation routes varied for a mixture of reasons and with the passage of time, Tower Street’s close proximity to the Tower, and its location as a wide street on an east-west axis, meant that it regularly figured in processional routes. In January of 1558/9, for example, Queen Elizabeth
rode from the Tower to Whitehall seated in a golden chariot Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] the streets were decorated with triumphal archways, and tableaux were performed at the street corners(Weinreb and Hibbert 875–76). The last monarch to make the procession was Charles II (Rollason).
Additionally, Tower Street or its
associated ward is mentioned in
several literary texts. Such a reference occurs in William Haughton’s English-men For My Money (1598):
Heigh. Come Gentlemen, w’are almoſt at the houſe,I promiſe you this walke ore Tower-hill,Of all the places London can afforde,Hath ſweeteſt Ayre, and fitting our deſires.Haru. Good reaſon, ſo it leades to Croched-FryersWhere old Piſaro, and his Daughters dwell Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…]
(sig. B1r)
This same Pisaro is a merchant of considerable wealth. He has thirty-two
ships
whoſe wealthy fraughts doe make Piſaro rich(sig. A2r). The play’s reference to the wealthy Pisaro, living in Tower Ward, in addition to Stow’s numerous comments pertaining to the ward’s wealth (1.133–34, 36) suggest the area’s relative prosperity and status.
A further literary reference to Tower
Street occurs in Thomas
Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday. The house of Simon Eyre, a
shoemaker, lies on Tower Street
(sig. A3r). Moreover, Sir Hugh
Lacie’s uncle, who is on intimate terms with London’s Lord Mayor, lives on
Tower Hill (sig. C1r). Stow mentions that, of the large houses
built in Seething Lane, one was
built by
Sir Iohn Allen, sometime Mayor of London, and of counsel vnto king Henry the eight(1.132).
Tower Street has also fallen within
the purview of another kind of chronicle. John Taylor wrote a reference guide listing all of the tavern
signs throughout London and the suburbs (1636). He mentions several taverns
on Tower Street, none of which were
mentioned by Stow. These include taverns such as the
Beare and Dolphin(sig. B2r), the
White Lyon at the end of Tower street, neere tower Hill(sig. C4r), and the
Rose against Barking Church(sig. D2r). Not included on Taylor’s list, but referenced by Bebbington, is Tower tavern
which survived until 1848(325).
The later history of Tower Street
includes its role in stopping the Great Fire of 1666. The fire burned for
over two days and consumed the Royal
Exchange and half the city. Weinreb and Hibbert report that
the Queen arranged to leave for Hampton Court Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] The navy were brought in to blow up houses with gunpowder in Tower Street and this succeeded in stopping the flames before the Tower(Weinreb and Hibbert 432). Today, Great Tower Street continues to be a well worn path, situated between Eastcheap and Byward St.
Notes
- Seething Lane was also known as
Sydon Lane,
Sidon lane,
andSything lane
(PH)↑
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Dekker, Thomas. Lantern and Candlelight. 1608. Ed. Viviana Comensoli. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007. Publications of the Barnabe Riche Society.
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Dekker, Thomas. Londons Tempe, or The Feild of Happines. London: Nicholas Okes, 1629. STC 6509. DEEP 736. Greg 421a. Copy: British Library; Shelfmark: C.34.g.11.
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Dekker, Thomas. Londons Tempe, or The Feild of Happines. London: Nicholas Okes, 1629. STC 6509. DEEP 736. Greg 421a. Copy: Huntington Library; Shelfmark: Rare Books 59055.
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Dekker, Thomas. Londons Tempe, or The Feild of Happines. London: Nicholas Okes, 1629. STC 6509. DEEP 736. Greg 421a. Copy: National Library of Scotland; Shelfmark: Bute.143.
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Dekker, Thomas. London’s Tempe. The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1961. Print.
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Dekker, Thomas. The magnificent entertainment giuen to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, upon the day of his Majesties triumphant passage (from the Tower) through his honourable citie (and chamber) of London, being the 15. of March. 1603. As well by the English as by the strangers: with the speeches and songes, deliuered in the severall pageants. London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Thomas Man the younger, 1604. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Magnificent Entertainment: Giuen to King James, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, ypon the day of his Majesties Triumphant Passage (from the Tower) through his Honourable Citie (and Chamber) of London being the 15. Of March. 1603. London: T. Man, 1604. Treasures in full: Renaissance Festival Books. British Library. Web. Open.
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Dekker, Thomas? The Owles almanacke prognosticating many strange accidents which shall happen to this kingdome of Great Britaine this yeere, 1618 : calculated as well for the meridian mirth of London, as any other part of Great Britaine : found in an Iuy-bush written in old characters / and now published in English by the painefull labours of Mr. Iocundary Merry-braines. London, 1618. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. Penny-wise pound foolish or, a Bristow diamond, set in two rings, and both crack’d Profitable for married men, pleasant for young men, and a rare example for all good women. London, 1631. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Second Part of the Honest Whore, with the Humors of the Patient Man, the Impatient Wife: the Honest Whore, perswaded by strong Arguments to turne Curtizan againe: her braue refuting those Arguments. London: Printed by Elizabeth All-de for Nathaniel Butter, 1630. STC 6506. EEBO.
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Dekker, Thomas. The seuen deadly sinnes of London drawne in seuen seuerall coaches, through the seuen seuerall gates of the citie bringing the plague with them. London, 1606. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Shoemaker’s Holiday. Ed. R.L. Smallwood and Stanley Wells. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1979. The Revels Plays.
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Dekker, Thomas. The Shomakers Holiday: or, The Gentle Craft With the Humorous Life of Simon Eyre, Shoomaker, and Lord Maior of London. London, 1600. EEBO. Reprint. Subscr.
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Dekker, Thomas, Stephen Harrison, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton. The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment of King James through the City of London, 15 March 1604, with the Arches of Triumph. Ed. R. Malcolm Smuts. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Gen. ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 219–79.
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Dekker, Thomas. Troia-Noua Triumphans. London: Nicholas Okes, 1612. STC 6530. DEEP 578. Greg 302a. Copy: Chapin Library; Shelfmark: 01WIL_ALMA.
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Dekker, Thomas. Westward Ho! The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. Vol. 2. Ed. Fredson Bowers. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1964.
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Middleton, Thomas, and Thomas Dekker. The Roaring Girl. Ed. Paul A. Mulholland. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1987. Print.
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Munday, Anthony, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and William Shakespeare. Sir Thomas More. Ed. Vittorio Gabrieli and Giorgio Melchiori. Revels Plays. Manchester; New York: Manchester UP, 1990. Print.
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Smith, Peter J.
Glossary.
The Shoemakers’ Holiday. By Thomas Dekker. London: Nick Hern, 2004. 108–110. Print.
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth This numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 1I Queen of England Queen of Ireland Gloriana Good Queen Bess
(b. 7 September 1533, d. 24 March 1603)Queen of England and Ireland 1558-1603.Elizabeth I is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sir Simon Eyre is mentioned in the following documents:
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Henry VIII
Henry This numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 8VIII King of England King of Ireland
(b. 28 June 1491, d. 28 January 1547)King of England and Ireland 1509-1547.Henry VIII is mentioned in the following documents:
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Henry Howard
(b. between 1516 and 1517, d. 1547)Earl of Surrey. Poet and soldier. Monument at All Hallows Barking.Henry Howard is mentioned in the following documents:
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John Taylor is mentioned in the following documents:
John Taylor authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
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Taylor, JohnAll the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet. London: J[ohn] B[eale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, Thomas Fawcet], and James Boler. STC 23725. Print.
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Taylor, John.
The Praise and Vertue of a Jayle and Jaylers.
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Taylor, John. Taylors travels and circular perambulation, through, and by more then thirty times twelve signes of the Zodiack, of the famous cities of London and Westminster With the honour and worthinesse of the vine, the vintage, the wine, and the vintoner; with an alphabeticall description, of all the taverne signes in the cities, suburbs, and liberties aforesaid, and significant epigrams upon the said severall signes. London, 1636. STC 23805. Web. EEBO. Subscr. EEBO
Locations
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Tower Hill
Tower Hill was a large area of open ground north and west of the Tower of London. It is most famous as a place of execution; there was a permanent scaffold and gallows on the hillfor the execution of such Traytors or Transgressors, as are deliuered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Shiriffes of London
(Stow).Tower Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Andrew Hubbard is mentioned in the following documents:
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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:
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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:
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Wool Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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Galley Key
Galley Key was a port on the north bank of the Thames, east of London Bridge, and south of Lower Thames Street in Tower Ward.Galley Key is mentioned in the following documents:
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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 afayre parish Church.
All Hallows Barking is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan in the East is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fowle Lane (Tower Street Ward)
Fowle Lane, Tower Street Ward was later known as Cross Lane. Harbin records it running west to east from St. Mary at Hill Street to Harp Lane (Harbin Cross Lane). Stow locates Fowle Lane, Tower Street Ward mostly in Tower Street Ward, though it is also in Billingsgate Ward (Stow 138, Harbin Cross Lane).Fowle Lane (Tower Street Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Mary at Hill Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan in the West is mentioned in the following documents:
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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 withdiuers fayre and large houses
(Stow).Seething Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Mark Lane
Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower Street. It wasfor 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 wasso 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:
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Mincing Lane
Mincing Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower Street. All of the street was part of Tower Street Wardexcept the corner house[s] towardes Fenchurch streete,
which were in Langbourn Ward (Stow). Stow notes that the street was named aftertenements 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:
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Christ’s Hospital
Located in Farringdon Within Ward, Christ’s Hospital was a opened in 1552 as a home for London’s needy children. Inspired by the preaching of Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Edward VI decided to charter the hospital days before his death in 1553 (Manzione 33). Although it began as a hospital, Christ’s Hospital eventually became known for its respected school (Pearce 206).Christ’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret Pattens is mentioned in the following documents:
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Rodd Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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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:
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Beer Lane
Beer Lane ran north-south from Tower Street to Thames Street in Tower Street Ward. Stow notes that Beer Lane includedmany faire houses.
Beer Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Water Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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Harp Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Dunstan’s Hill is mentioned in the following documents:
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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.
The portion of the street to the east of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street was known asLittle Eastcheap.
Eastcheap (Eschepe or Excheapp) was the site of a medieval food market.Eastcheap is mentioned in the following documents:
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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:
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Tower of London is mentioned in the following documents:
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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:
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Westminster is mentioned in the following documents:
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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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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:
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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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Hampton Court is mentioned in the following documents:
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- Excerpts from The Shoemaker’s Holiday
- Bethlehem Hospital
- Galley Row
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- Beer Lane
- London Stone
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