Bishop’s Palace
Agas MapList documents mentioning Bishop’s Palace- A Remembrance of the Worthy Show and Shooting by the Duke of Shoreditch
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- Survey of London (1598): Castle Baynard Ward
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- Survey of London (1633): Farringdon Ward Without
- Survey of London (1633): Towers
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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 (Heylyn sig. Q1r). Upon arriving, she was presented with
Mutton, Beefs, Veals, Poultry, Wine, and all other ſorts of Proviſions, neceſſary for Her Entertainment(Heylyn 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. [Available digitally from British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london.]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 containing the beginning, progress, and successes of it, the counsels by which it was conducted, the rules of piety and prudence upon which it was founded, the several steps by which it was promoted or retarded in the change of times, from the first preparations to it by King Henry the Eight untill the legal settling and establishment of it under Queen Elizabeth : together with the intermixture of such civil actions and affairs of state, as either were co-incident with it or related to it. London: H. Twyford, 1660. Wing H1701.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. See also the digital transcription of this edition at 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:
