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Located on Old Bailey near Newgate, the Sessions House served as the meeting place for the Chamberlain of London’s court. The mayor and justices of the City also kept sessions in the building’s Sessions Hall (Stow 1598, sig. X6r). While the Sessions House was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, it was rebuilt in 1673 (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, History of The Old Bailey Courthouse).The courthouse is located in the center of the Agas Map, though it is not labelled. It is also depicted on Rocque and Pine’s 1746 map (<ref type="bibl" target="#ROCQ1">A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings</ref>), where it is labelled Sessions H..

 Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar ALHS

Research Assistant, 2020-present. Amogha Lakshmi Halepuram Sridhar is a fourth year student at University of Victoria, studying English and History. Her research interests include Early Modern Theatre and adaptations, decolonialist writing, and Modernist poetry.

 Molly Rothwell Molly Rothwell MR

Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at MoEML, Molly primarily worked on encoding and transcribing the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey, adding toponyms to MoEML’s Gazetteer, researching England’s early-modern court system, and standardizing MoEML’s Mapography.

 Lucas Simpson Lucas Simpson LS

Research Assistant, 2018-2021. Lucas Simpson was a student at the University of Victoria.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.

 John Rocque John Rocque 1704/05 1762/63

Land surveyor and cartographer.

ODNB Wikipedia Daniel Crouch Rare Books John Pine John Pine 1690/91 1756

Designer, engraver, and cartographer.

ODNB Wikipedia Born digital. Hitchcock, Tim, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard, and Jamie McLaughlin. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org. [We link to the direct page by date in the parenthetical citation.] Rocque, John. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: Printed by John Rocque, 1746. Reprinted as The A to Z of Georgian London. Introduced by Ralph Hyde. London: London Topographical Society, 1982. [We cite by index label thus: Rocque 15Db. Newton, Greg, dev. Vertexer: Mercator Vertex Generator. U of Victoria. https://hcmc.uvic.ca/people/greg/vertexer/. [This tool was developed by Greg Newton, programmer, Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) at the U of Victoria in 2014, and rewritten in 2021. For instructions on how to use this tool, see MoEML’s documentation for encoding GIS coordinates of locations.] Old Bailey

The Old Bailey ran along the outside of the London Wall near Newgate (Stow 1598, sig. U8v). It is labelled on the Agas map as Olde baily.

(OLDB1.xml) Newgate

The gaol at Newgate, a western gate in the Roman Wall of London, was constructed in the twelfth century specifically to detain fellons and trespassors awaiting trial by royal judges (Durston 470; O’Donnell 25; Stow 1598, sig. C8r). The gradual centralisation of the English criminal justice system meant that by the reign of Elizabeth I, Newgate had become London’s most populated gaol. In the early modern period, incarceration was rarely conceived of as a punishment in itself; rather, gaols like Newgate were more like holding cells, where inmates spent time until their trials or punishments were effected, or their debts were paid off.

(NEWG1.xml) London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

(LOND5.xml) Sessions Hall

The Sessions Hall was located inside the Sessions House. According to Stow, the mayor and sheriffs of London kept their sessions in this hall, both for the cittie of London and shire of Middlesex (Stow 1598, sig. X6r).

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Sessions House Sessions House

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Located on Old Bailey near Newgate, the Sessions House served as the meeting place for the Chamberlain of London’s court. The mayor and justices of the City also kept sessions in the building’s Sessions Hall (Stow 1598, sig. X6r). While the Sessions House was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, it was rebuilt in 1673 (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, History of The Old Bailey Courthouse). The building was reconstructed again in 1774 and in 1907 was expanded to its modern-day size (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, History of The Old Bailey Courthouse). The courthouse is located in the center of the Agas Map, though it is not labelled. It is also depicted on Rocque and Pine’s 1746 map (<ref type="bibl" target="#ROCQ1">A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings</ref>), where it is labelled Sessions H. The Sessions House is now called the Old Bailey, the Justice Hall, and the Central Criminal Court (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, History of The Old Bailey Courthouse).