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Printer.
Messenger of the sea in Greek mythology. Father of
Army captain. Participated in the liberation of Ghent during the Anglo-Spanish War.
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The
This page points to the district known as Whitefriars. For the theatre, see Whitefriars Theatre.
Aldgate was the easternmost gate into the walled
city. The name Aldgate
is thought to come from one of four sources:
Eastern gate
(Ekwall 36), ale
, public gate
or open to all
, or old gate
(Bebbington
20–21).
Henry Harben describes the location of Tower Wharf in noting that it is [s]outh out of and fronting the Tower
(Harben 588). The antiquated spelling of the name is
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 construction of the New Exchange in
As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until
St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In
Coldharbour was a mansion dating back to at least the
Three Cranes Tavern was a popular tavern in early modern London, located on Three Cranes Lane.
Bear Inn (Basinghall Street) was on Basinghall Street. It is not marked on the
Agas map but is next to the Girdler’s Hall on the
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.
Described by Weinreb as redolent of squalor and vice
(Weinreb 39), London’s Bankside district in Southwark was known for its taverns, brothels and playhouses in the early modern period. However, in approximately
Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Priorie of Cannons with brethren and
sisters
, founded in one of the Sheriffes of London
(Stow 1:164). We know from
Fleet Street runs east-west from Temple Bar to Fleet Hill or Ludgate Hill, and is named for the Fleet River. The road has existed since at least the
Cheapside Street, 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 Street 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 Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many
The largest and wealthiest friary in England, Blackfriars was not only a
religious institution but also a cultural, intellectual, and political centre of London. The friary housed
London’s Dominican friars (known in England as the Black friars) after their move from
the smaller Blackfriars precincts in Holborn. The Dominicans’ aquisition of the site,
overseen by
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 Within Ward. 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
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
The Cockpit, also known as the Phoenix, was an indoor commercial playhouse planned and built by the theatre entrepreneur and actor in Drury Lane
, but G. E. Bentley offers a more precise description:
(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).
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
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Loue, and Charitie, while they were rude stone, before they were painted, and burnish’d? No. No more should seruants approch their mistresses, but when they are compleat, and finish’d.
tower-wharfe, and kill him with the noise of the ordinance. Dis-inherit thee! hee cannot, man. Art not thou next of bloud, and his sisters sonne?
Braueries, though he be none o’ the Wits. He will salute a Iudge vpon the bench, and a Bishop in the pulpit, a Lawyer when hee is pleading at the barre, and a Lady when shee is dauncing in a masque, and put her out. He do’s giue playes, and suppers, and inuites his guests to ’hem, aloud, out of his windore, as they ride by in coaches. He has a lodging in the Strand for the purpose. Or to watch when ladies are gone to the China houses, or the Exchange, that hee may meet ’hem by chance, and giue ’hem presents, some two or three hundred pounds-worth of toyes, to be laught at. He is neuer without a spare banquet, or sweet-meats in his chamber, for their women to alight at, and come vp to, for a bait.
London-bridge, at a low fall, with a fine leape, to hurry you downe the streame; or, such a delicate steeple, i’the towne, as Bow, to vault from; or, a brauer height, as Pauls, or, if you affected to doe it neerer home, and a shorter way, an excellent garret windore, into the street; or, a beame, in the said garret, with this halter; which they haue sent, and desire, that you would sooner commit your graue head to this knot, then to the wed-lock nooze; or, take a little sublimate, and goe out of the world, like a rat; or a flie (as one said) with a straw i’ your arse: any way, rather, then to follow this goblin matrimony.
rs. OTna-ture ’hem ouer to Paris-garden, and na-ture you thether too, if you pronounce ’hem againe. Is a beare a fit beast, or a bull, to mixe in society with great ladies? thinke i’ your discretion, in any good politie.
rs OT
Taurus, or Bull, vnder correction, good Princesse.
rs. OT
French puppets, with the eyes turn’d with a wire? or some innocent out of the hospitall,
Tritons o’ the Thames.
mercury, and hogs-bones. All her teeth were made i’ the Blacke-Friers: both her eye-browes i’ the Strand, and her haire in Siluer-street. Euery part o’ the towne ownes a peece of her.
rs. MARY AMBREEStentors, out of my dores, you sonnes of noise and tumult, begot on an ill May-day, or when the Gally-foist is a-floate to Westminster! A trumpetter could not be conceiu’d, but then!
french cooke, and foure groomes.
China houses, and to the Exchange.
Westminster-hall, i’ the cock-pit, at the fall of a stagge; the tower-wharfe (what place is there else?) London-bridge, Paris-garden, Belins-gate, when the noises are at their height and lowdest. Nay, I would sit out a play, that were nothing but fights at sea, drum, trumpet, and target!