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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Takeda, Joey A1 - McLean-Fiander, Kim ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Silver Street T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/SILV1.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/SILV1.xml ER - Takeda, Joey, and Kim McLean-Fiander. Silver Street. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/SILV1.htm. Takeda, Joey, and Kim McLean-Fiander. Silver Street. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/SILV1.htm. Takeda, J., & McLean-Fiander, K. 2022. Silver Street. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/SILV1.htm.

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 William Shakespeare dwelled during his time in London.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

 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.

 Ben Jonson Ben Jonson 1572/73 1637/38

Poet and playwright.

ODNB Wikipedia William Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1564/65 1616/17

Playwright and poet.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Stow John Stow 1524/25-1525/26 1605/06

Historian and author of A Survey of London. Husband of Elizabeth Stow.

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Born digital. Ekwall, Eilert. Street-Names of the City of London. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965. Print. London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre. MoLA. https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/collections/other-collection-databases-and-libraries/museum-london-archaeological-archive. Nicholl, Charles. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street. New York: Viking, 2007. Print. Egan, Gabriel, ed. Shakespearean London Theatres. De Montfort U and Victoria & Albert Museum. http://shalt.dmu.ac.uk/. Weinreb, Ben, Christopher Hibbert, Julia Keay, and John Keay. The London Encyclopaedia. 3rd ed. London: Macmillan, 2008. Print. 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. Noble Street

Noble Street ran north-south between Maiden Lane (Wood Street) in the south and Silver Street in the north. It is all of Aldersgate street ward (Stow). On the Agas map, it is labelled as Noble Str. and is depicted as having a right-hand curve at its north end, perhaps due to an offshoot of the London Wall.

Noble Street is not to be confused with Watling Street, which bears Noble as a variant toponym.

(NOBL1.xml) Addle Street Information is not yet available. (ADDL2.xml) Monkwell Street Information is not yet available. (MONK1.xml) Little Wood Street Information is not yet available. (LITT8.xml) Cripplegate Ward

Cripplegate Ward is east of Aldersgate Ward and Farringdon Within Ward, encompassing area both inside and outside the Wall. The ward is named after Cripplegate.

(CRIP2.xml) Farringdon Within Ward

Farringdon Within Ward shares parts of its eastern and southern borders with the western and northern boundaries of Castle Baynard Ward. This ward is called Within or Infra to differentiate it from Farringdon Without Ward and both wards take the name of William Faringdon, principle owner of Farringdon Ward, the greater ward that was separated into Farringdon Within Ward and Farringdon Without Ward in the 17 of Richard II.

(FARR1.xml) London

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

(LOND5.xml) Windsor House

Stow does not indicate what side of the street the house sits on, but the Dictionary of London points us to the two intersecting streets of Monkwell Street and Silver Street (Harben). This great house once belonged to the Nevill family, but later became Windsor House.

(WIND3.xml) St. Olave (Silver Street)

According to Stow, St. Olave (Silver Street) was a church on the corner of Silver Street and Noble Street at the western edge of Aldersgate Ward. Stow writes that the church was a small thing, and without any note-worthie monuments (Stow 1598, sig. K3v). It was destroyed in the Great Fire and was not rebuilt (Carlin and Belcher 91).

(STOL4.xml) London Wall (street)

London Wall was a long street running along the inside of the northern part of the City Wall. It ran east-west from the north end of Broad Street to Cripplegate (Prockter and Taylor 43). The modern London Wall street is a major traffic thoroughfare now. It follows roughly the route of the former wall, from Old Broad Street to the Museum of London (whose address is 150 London Wall).

(LOND3.xml)

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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.

The name Silver Street comes from the Old English Selvernestrate meaning of silver and, indeed, Stow remarks that Silver Street is so named because of siluer smithes dwelling there (Ekwall 76; Stow 1:299). The connection between Silver Street and the metal silver seems to have been well known to early modern Londoners. For example, Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News cites Silver Street as the Region of money, a good seat for a Vsurer. (Jonson 3.Int.1-4). Important sites on Silver Street included Windsor House, a great house builded of stone and timber, and St. Olave (Silver Street), a small thing, and without any noteworthy monuments (Stow 1:315, 1:306). Perhaps the most noteworthy historical fact about Silver Street is that it was the location of a house in which William Shakespeare dwelled during his time in London.

Shakespeare lived in one of what Stow calls the diuers fayre houses on the street (Stow 1:299), in particular, above the Mountjoys’ head-dress shop. The Mountjoys’ business was nestled, as Charles Nicholl argues, on the eastern corner of Monkwell Street and Silver StreetTo see Nicholl’s conjectured location of Shakespeare’s residence on the Agas map, click here. (ShaLT; Nicholl 47). Depositions from the Bellott-Mountjoy Dowry Lawsuit of 1612 indicate that Shakespeare laye in the house of the Mountjoys, a French Huguenot family whom he had known for the space of tenne yeres or thereaboutes (Nicholl 288-89). Shakespeare’s deposition from 11 May 1612 affords us two remarkable historical artifacts: a transcription of words known to have been spoken by one Mr. Shakespeare, and one of the few surviving examples of his signature.

Silver Street no longer exist in modern London. While many sites, including the Mountjoys’ shop and St. Olave (Silver Street), were decimated by the Great Fire of London in 1666, Silver Street itself was dealt a final death-blow during the expansion of the busy traffic-road called London Wall in the early 1960s (Nicholl 49-50; Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 838).

For a detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s life on Silver Street, see the biography, The Lodger: His Life on Silver Street, written by Charles Nicholl.