Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within Author (1603) John Stow Author (1618) Anthony Munday Author (1633) Anthony Munday Author (1633) Humphrey Dyson Printer Elizabeth Purslowe Publisher Nicholas Bourne Editor Janelle Jenstad Post-Conversion Editor Joey Takeda Post-Conversion Editor Martin Holmes Encoder Kate LeBere Encoder Chris Horne Encoder Janelle Jenstad CSS Editor Molly Rothwell Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Stow, John A1 - Munday, Anthony A1 - Munday, Anthony A1 - Dyson, Humphrey ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within 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/stow_1633_BRID3.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/stow_1633_BRID3.xml TY - UNP ER - Stow, John, Anthony Munday, Anthony Munday, and Humphrey Dyson. Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within. 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/stow_1633_BRID3.htm. Draft. Stow, John, Anthony Munday, Anthony Munday, and Humphrey Dyson. Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within. 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/stow_1633_BRID3.htm. Draft. Stow, J., Munday, A., Munday, A., & Dyson, H. 2022. Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within. 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/stow_1633_BRID3.htm. Draft. This semi-diplomatic transcription takes the University of Victoria copy (DA680 S87 1633) of STC 23345 (ESTC S117597) as its control text. Digital surrogates of this copy are available in UVic ContentDM (Collection 25, 993). For convenience, and only because STC 23345 has not yet been transcribed by EEBO-TCP, we began with the XML file of the EEBO-TCP transcription of the post-1640 STC 23345.5/Wing S5773A (TCP A13053), available on GitHub). The names of the EEBO-TCP transcribers are unknown. Paul Schaffner edited the original EEBO-TCP markup in or before 2012. Sebastian Rahtz created the TEI Stylesheets to convert the EEBO-TCP file to TEI-P5 in or before 2012. Martin Holmes downloaded the XML file from the GitHub repository. Joey Takeda and Martin Holmes processed the file programmatically to bring it in line with MoEML’s TEI customization. They added proleptic catchwords (based on the first word on the next page) and converted short s back to long s based on predictable patterns. MoEML Research Assistants at the University of Victoria performed the following additional tasks: transcribed the 1633 text from the UVic copy in those places where the post-1640 text differed; supplied content for the gaps left by the EEBO-TCP transcribers; checked the transcription against digital surrogates of the UVic copy and against the copy itself; corrected the proleptic catchwords where necessary; transcribed the formeworks; added links to digital surrogates; and tagged all people, places, and dates. The text was then checked by Editor Janelle Jenstad. Bridge Within Ward

Bridge Within Ward is west of Billingsgate Ward. The ward is named after London Bridge.

(BRID3.xml) London Bridge

As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until 1729, London Bridge was a focal point of the city. After its conversion from wood to stone, completed in 1209, the bridge housed a variety of structures, including a chapel and a growing number of shops. The bridge was famous for the cityʼs grisly practice of displaying traitorsʼ heads on poles above its gatehouses. Despite burning down multiple times, London Bridge was one of the few structures not entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.

(LOND1.xml) Southwark Information is not yet available. (SOUT2.xml) New Fish Street

New Fish Street (also known in the seventeenth century as Bridge Street) ran north-south from London Bridge at the south to the intersection of Eastcheap, Gracechurch Street, and Little Eastcheap in the north (Harben 432; BHO). At the time, it was the main thoroughfare to London Bridge (Sugden 191). It ran on the boundary between Bridge Within Ward on the west and Billingsgate Ward on the east. It is labelled on the Agas map as New Fyſhe ſtreate. Variant spellings include Street of London Bridge, Brigestret, Brugestret, and Newfishstrete (Harben 432; BHO).

(NEWF1.xml) Old Fish Street Hill

Old Fish Street Hill ran north-south between Old Fish Street and Thames Street. Stow refers to this street both as old Fishstreete hill and Saint Mary Mounthaunt Lane.

(OLDF2.xml) Gracechurch Street

Gracechurch Street ran north-south from Cornhill Street near Leadenhall Market to the bridge. At the southern end, it was called New Fish Street. North of Cornhill, Gracechurch continued as Bishopsgate Street, leading through Bishop’s Gate out of the walled city into the suburb of Shoreditch.

(GRAC1.xml) St. Magnus

The church of St. Magnus the Martyr, believed to be founded some time in the eleventh century, was on the south side of Thames Street just north of London Bridge. According to Stow, in its churchyard haue béene buried many men of good worſhip, whoſe monumentes are now for the moſt part vtterly defaced, including John Michell, mayor of London in the first part of the fifteenth century (Stow 1598, sig. M4r). The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren (Wikipedia).

(STMA1.xml) Parish of St. Christopher le Stocks Information is not yet available. (STCH101.xml) St. Margaret (New Fish Street) Information is not yet available. (STMA3.xml) London

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

(LOND5.xml) Pudding Lane

Pudding Lane is most famously known as the starting point of the Great Fire of 1666. Pudding Lane ran south from Little Eastcheap down to Thames Street, with New Fish Street (Newfyshe Streat) framing it on the west and Botolph Lane on the east. The only intersecting street on Pudding Lane is St. George’s Lane, and the nearby parishes include St. Margaret (New Fish Street), St. Magnus, St. Botolph (Billingsgate), St. George (Botolph Lane), and St. Leonard (Eastcheap). On Ekwall’s map it is labeled as Rother (Pudding) Lane after Stow’s account of the lane’s former title. Pudding Lane is contained within Billingsgate Ward.

(PUDD1.xml) St. Leonard (Eastcheap) Information is not yet available. (STLE2.xml) Eastcheap

Eastcheap Street ran east-west, from Tower Street to St. Martin’s Lane. West of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street, Eastcheap was known as Great Eastcheap. The portion of the street to the east of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street was known as Little Eastcheap. Eastcheap (Eschepe or Excheapp) was the site of a medieval food market.

(EAST2.xml) Little Eastcheap Information is not yet available. (LITT4.xml) St. Benet Gracechurch Information is not yet available. (STBE3.xml) Gracechurch Market Information is not yet available. (GRAC3.xml) St. Martin’s le Grand Information is not yet available. (STMA24.xml) St. John’s of Jerusalem

St. John’s of Jerusalem provided housing and care for pilgrims and crusading knights. It was held by the Knights Hospitallers and dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII (Stow 1598, sig. 2D7r).

(STJO3.xml) 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.

(THAM1.xml) Old Swan Lane Information is not yet available. (OLDS2.xml) The Thames Information is not yet available. (THAM2.xml) Fishmongers’ Hall Information is not yet available. (FISH2.xml) Old Fish Street Information is not yet available. (OLDF1.xml) Parish of St. Michael (Crooked Lane) Information is not yet available. (STMI105.xml) St. Michael (Crooked Lane) Information is not yet available. (STMI5.xml) Drinkwater Wharf Information is not yet available. (DRIN1.xml) Fish Wharf

In early modern London, Fish Wharf was an incredibly active area of commercial industry on the north bank of the River Thames in Bridge Ward Within. John Stow indicates that the wharf was On that south side of Thames stréete in the parish of S. Magnus (Stow 1598, sig. M5r). Additionally according to Henry Harben’s A Dictionary of London, the location of wharf was specifically selected to be adjacent, on the west, to the present London Bridge Wharf, and between that wharf and Fresh Wharf east (Harben).

(FISH3.xml) Parish of St. Magnus Information is not yet available. (STMA101.xml) St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward)

St Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward) ran north-south from the boundary between Candlewick Street and Eastcheap to Thames Street and was located at the western edge of Bridge Within Ward at its boundary with Candlewick Street Ward. The street takes its name from St. Martin Orgar, located on its eastern side. It is labelled S. Martines la. on the Agas map.

(STMA6.xml) St. Michael’s Lane Information is not yet available. (STMI2.xml) Crooked Lane Information is not yet available. (CROO1.xml) Lombard Street

Lombard Street was known by early modern Londoners as a place of commerce and trade. Running east to west from Gracechurch Street to Poultry, Lombard Street bordered Langbourn Ward, Walbrook Ward, Bridge Within Ward, and Candlewick Street Ward.

(LOMB1.xml) The reign of Edward III The reign of Henry VI

The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.

The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes referred to as New Style (NS). Years run from January 1 through December 31.

The Anno Mundi (year of the world) calendar is based on the supposed date of the creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).

Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch. Our practice is to tag such dates with calendar=regnal, and provide an equivalent date using a more systematic calendar (usually Julian) in a custom dating attribute.

 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.

 Chris Horne Chris Horne CH

Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

 Kate LeBere Kate LeBere KL

Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

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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.

 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).

 Paul Schaffner Paul Schaffner PS

E-text and TCP production manager at the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), Paul manages the production of full-text transcriptions for EEBO-TCP.

 Sebastian Rahtz Sebastian Rahtz SR

Chief data architect at University of Oxford IT Services, Sebastian was well known for his contributions to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), OxGarage, and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP).

 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.

 Nicholas Bourne Nicholas Bourne

Printer, bookbinder, and bookseller.

ODNB Humphrey Dyson Humphrey Dyson

Writer and book collector. Revised John Stow’s A Survey of London.

ODNB Wikipedia Edward I Edward I King of England Longshanks Hammer of the Scots

King of England 1272-1307. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Edward of Woodstock Edward the Black Prince

Prince of Wales and Aquitaine. Father of Richard II. Son of Edward III.

ODNB Wikipedia Edward III Edward III King of England

King of England 1327-1377. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Edward VI Edward VI King of England King of Ireland

King of England and Ireland 1547-1553. Buried at Henry VII’s Chapel.

EB ODNB Wikipedia William Brampton William Brampton Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1394-1395. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

MASL STEER John More John More Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1383-1384. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Not to be confused with John More.

MASL Walter Dogget Walter Dogget Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1380-1381. Member of the Vintners’ Company. Monument at St. Leonard, Eastcheap.

MASL Henry VIII Henry VIII King of England King of Ireland

King of England and Ireland 1509-1547.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry VI Henry VI King of England

King of England 1422-1461 and 1470-1471.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry IV Henry IV King of England

King of England 1399-1413.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry VII Henry VII King of England

King of England and Lord of Ireland 1485-1509. Buried at Henry VII’s Chapel.

ODNB Wikipedia John Lovekyn John Lovekyn Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1342-1343. Mayor 1348-1349, 1358-1359, and 1365-1367. Member of the Stock Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Michael, Crooked Lane.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia Anthony Munday Anthony Munday

Playwright, actor, pageant poet, translator, and writer. Possible member of the Drapers’ Company or Merchant Taylors’ Company.

ODNB Wikipedia Richard II Richard II King of England

King of England 1377-1399. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Stow John Stow

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

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Sir William Walworth Sir William Walworth Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1370-1371. Mayor 1374-1375 and 1380-1381. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Known for killing Wat Tyler. Founder of a college at St. Michael, Crooked Lane. Appears in Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London. Buried at St. Michael, Crooked Lane.

MASL Wikipedia Sir John Cornwall Sir John Cornwall

First Baron of Fanhope.

ODNB Wikipedia Nicholas Exton Nicholas Exton Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1384-1385. Mayor 1386-1387. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Mary at Hill.

MASL ODNB Jack Straw Jack Straw

Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.

 John Michell John Michell Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1414-1415. Mayor 1424-1425 and 1436-1437. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus. Not to be confused with John Micholl.

MASL Simon de Mordone Simon de Mordone Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1364-1365. Mayor 1368-1369. Member of the Stock Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Michael, Crooked Lane.

MASL John Pecche John Pecche Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1352-1353. Mayor 1361-1362. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia Elizabeth Purslowe Elizabeth Purslowe

Wife of George Purslowe.

BBTI Walter Turke Walter Turke Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1334-1335. Mayor 1349-1350. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company.

MASL Wat Tyler Wat Tyler

Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Wroth John Wroth Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1351-1352. Mayor 1360-1361. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company.

MASL Sir Thomas Hill Thomas Hill Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1474-1475. Mayor 1484-1485. Member of the Grocers’ Company. Monument at Mercers’ Hall.

MASL Henry Yevele Henry Yevele

Free-mason of Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV. Buried at St. Magnus.

ODNB Wikipedia John French John French

Yeoman of the Crown. Member of the Bakers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

 Robert Clarke Robert Clarke

Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

 Richard Turke Richard Turke Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1549-1550. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

MASL William Stede William Stede Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1500-1501. Member of the Grocers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

MASL Richard Morgan Richard Morgan

Judge and politician. Buried at St. Magnus.

ODNB Wikipedia Robert Belgrave Robert Belgrave

Member of the Girdlers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

 William Brame William Brame

Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

 Robert Hardyng Robert Hardyng Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1568-1569. Member of the Salters’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus. Not to be confused with Robert Harding.

MASL Simon Low Simon Low

Member of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

 William Melker William Melker

Builder of St. Leonard, Eastcheap.

 John Dogget John Dogget

Diplomat, scholar, and Renaissance humanist. Husband of Alice Dogget. Monument at St. Leonard, Eastcheap.

ODNB Wikipedia Alice Dogget Alice Dogget

Wife of John Dogget. Monument at St. Leonard, Eastcheap.

 John Harding John Harding

Member of the Salters’ Company. Monument at St. Benet Gracechurch.

 John Sturgeon John Sturgeon

Chamberlain and Member of Parliament. Member of the Haberdashers’ Company. Monument at St. Benet Gracechurch.

Wikipedia John Cavendish John Cavendish

Judge. Member of the Fishmongerʼs Company. Beheaded by rebels during the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381.

ODNB Wikipedia John Northampton John Northampton Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1376-1377. Mayor 1381-1383. Member of the Drapers’ Company. Buried at Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia Sir John le Blund Sir John le Blund Mayor

Mayor of London 1301-1308. Buried at St. Magnus.

MASL ODNB Sir William Garrarde Sir William Garrarde Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1552-1553. Mayor 1555-1556. Member of the Haberdashers’ Company. Father of Sir John Garrarde. Buried at St. Magnus.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia Sir John Garrarde Sir John Garrarde Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1592-1593. Mayor 1601-1602. Member of the Haberdashers’ Company. Son of Sir William Garrarde.

MASL Maurice Griffith Maurice Griffith Bishop of Rochester

Bishop of Rochester 1554–1558. Buried at St. Magnus.

Wikipedia Robert Blanch Robert Blanch

Member of the Girdlers’ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

 John Cooper John Cooper

Member of the Fishmongersʼ Company. Buried at St. Magnus.

 Mr. Wood Wood

Parson of St. Margaret, New Fish Street.

 Joannes de Coggeshall Joannes de Coggeshall

Buried at St. Margaret, New Fish Street.

 Philip Cushen Philip Cushen

Merchant. Buried at St. Benet Gracechurch.

 William Issex William Issex

Denizen of London.

 Richard Northbury Richard Northbury

Denizen of London.

 H. Knighton H. Knighton

Ecclesiastical chronicler.

Wikipedia H. Walsm H. Walsm

Denizen of London.

 Worshipful Company of MercersMercers’ Company

The Mercers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Mercers were first in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Mercers is still active and maintains a website at https://www.mercers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

The coat of arms of the Mercers’ Company, from Stow (1633).[Full size image]
Worshipful Company of GrocersGrocers’ Company

The Grocers’ Company (previously the Pepperers’ Company) was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Grocers were second in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Grocers is still active and maintains a website at https://grocershall.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

The coat of arms of the Grocers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Worshipful Company of FishmongersFishmongers’ Company

The Fishmongers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London, formed in 1536 out of the merger of the Stock Fishmongers and the Salt Fishmongers. The Fishmongers were fourth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers is still active and maintains a website at https://fishmongers.org.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

The coat of arms of the Fishmongers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Worshipful Company of GoldsmithsGoldsmiths’ Company

The Goldsmiths’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Goldsmiths were fifth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is still active and maintains a website at https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and explains the company’s role in the annual Trial of the Pyx.

The coat of arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Worshipful Company of HaberdashersHaberdashers’ Company

The Haberdashers’ Company was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Haberdashers were eighth in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers is still active and maintains a website at http://www.haberdashers.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company and history of their hall.

The coat of arms of the Haberdashers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]
Court of Common Council

The Court of Common Council was comprised of men elected from each ward. It was distinct from the Court of Aldermen.

 Salt Fishmongers’ Company

The Salt Fishmongers’ Company was the precursor of the Fishmongers’ Company, into which it merged with the Stock Fishmongers’ Company in 1536.

 Stock Fishmongers’ Company

The Stock Fishmongers’ Company was the precursor of the Fishmongers’ Company, into which it merged with the Salt Fishmongers’ Company in 1536.

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These are all MoEML team members since 1999 to present. To see the current members and structure of our team, see <ref target="team.xml">Team</ref>.

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The molstow prefix is used on facs attributes to link to the HCMC verison of the Stow facsimiles. Usually the first group is the year (1633) and then last is the image number (0001).

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The sb prefix is used on ref/target attributes to link to Stow’s Books URLs at UToronto.

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Bridge Ward within. BRIDGE VVARD VVithin.

BRidge Ward within, so called of London Bridge; which Bridge is a principall part of that Ward, and beginneth at the ſtulps on the south end by Southwarke, runneth along the Bridge, and North up Bridge-street, commonly called (of the Fish-market) New Fish-street: from Fish street hill, up Grasse-street, to the North corner of Grasse-church. All the Bridge is replenished on both the sides, with large, faire and beautifull buildings, inhabitants for the most part rich Merchants, and other wealthy Citizens, Mercers and Haberdashers.

In New Fish-street bee Fishmongers and faire Tavernes: on Fish-street Hill and Grasse-street, men of divers Trades, Grocers and Haberdashers.

In Grasse-street have ye one faire Conduit of sweet water, castellated with crest and vent, made by the appointment of Thomas Hill, Maior, 1484. who gave by his Testament a hundred marks towards the conveyance of water to this place. It was begun by his Executors, in the yeere 1491. and finished of his goods whatsoever it cost.

On the East side of this Bridge ward, have ye the faire Parish Church of S. Magnus, in the which Church have bin buried many men of good Worship, whose Monuments are now for the most part defaced. I finde,

Iohn Blund, Maior, 1307.

Henry Yeuele, Free Mason to Edward the third, Richard the second, and Henry the fourth, who deceased 1400. his Monument yet remaineth.

William Brampton.

Iohn Michell, Maior, 1436.

Iohn French, Baker, Yeoman of the Crowne to Henry the seventh, 1510.

Robert Clarke, Fishmonger, 1521.

Richard Turke, one of the Sheriffes, 1546.

William Steed, Alderman.

Richard Morgan, Knight, chiefe Justice of the Common Pleas, 1556.

Mauricius Griffith, Bishop of Rochechester, 1559.

Robert Blanch, Girdler, 1567.

Robert Belgrave Girdler.

VVilliam Brame.

Iohn Cooper, Fishmonger, Alderman, who was put by his turne of Maioralty, 1584.

Sir VVilliam Garrard, Haberdasher, Maior 1555. a grave, sober, wise and discreet Citizen, equall with the best, and inferior to none of our time, deceased 1571. in the Parish of Saint Christopher, but was buried in this Church of Saint Magnus, as in the Parish where he was borne. A faire Monument is here raised on him.

Robert Harding, Salter, one of the Sheriffes, 1568.

Simon Low, Merchant-Taylor, Equire, &c.

Then is the Parish Church of Saint Margarets on Fish-street Hill, a proper Church; but Monuments it hath none; onely one of note, and well worth the observation, being unknowne, and not found till very lately; whereof Master VVood (the reverend Parson of the Church, made mee acquainted by his Clerke, Bridge Ward within. Clerke, to have me come see it; which I did very thankfully. Finding it to bee the figure of a man of good respect, lying upon his Tombe, according to the manner of persons of Antiquity. And this inscription he delivered me, written with his owne hand:

Joannes de Coggeshall, Civis & Cordarius de Parochiae S. Margaretae de Bridgestreet, London. Anno 1384.

An. Reg. Richardi Secundi, Octavo.

Testamentum irrotulat. in Hustingo London, die Lunae in Festo S. Leonai di Abbatis. An. Reg. Richardi Secundi, 9.

He lyeth buried in the said Church wall, under the Marble stone in the Window, next to S. Peters Altar on the North side of the Church.

A foot-way passeth by the South side of this Church, from Fish-street hill into Rother-lane.

Vp higher on this Hill, is the Parish Church of Saint Leonard Milke-Church, so termed of one VVilliam Melker, an especiall builder thereof, but commonly called Saint Leonards East-cheape, because it standeth at East-cheape corner.

Monuments there be of the Doggets, namely;

VValter Dogget, Vintner, one of the Sheriffes, 1380.

Iohn Dogget, Vintner, and Alice his wife, about 1456.

This Iohn Dogget gave Lands to that Church.

VVilliam Dogget, &c. And none else of note.

This Church, and from thence into Little East-cheape, to the East end of the said Church, is of the Bridge Ward.

Then higher in Grasse-street, is the Parish Church of Saint Bennet, called Grasse-Church, of the Herbe Market there kept: this Church also is of the Bridge Ward, and the farthest North end thereof. Some Monuments remaine there undefaced:

As of Iohn Harding, Salter, 1576.

Iohn Sturgeon, Haberdasher, Chamberlaine of London.

Philip Cushen, or Corsine, a Florentine, and a famous Merchant, 1600.

The Customes of Grasse-church Market, in the reigne of Edward the third, as I have read in a Booke of Customes, were these: Every forraigne Cart, laden with Corne, or Mault, comming thither to be sold, was to pay one halfepenny. Every forraigne Cart bringing Cheese, two pence. Every Cart of Corn and Cheese together (if the Cheese be more worth than the Corne) two pence; and if the Corne be more worth than the Cheese, it was to pay a halfe-penny. Of two horses laden with Corne or Mault, the Bailiffe had one farthing: the Cart of the Franchise of the Temple, and of S. Mary le Grand,In the 1598 edition of Stowʼs Survey, this is called S. Martins le grand. paid a farthing: the Cart of the Hospitall of S. Iohn of Ierusalem, paid nothing of their proper goods: and if the corne were brought by Merchants to sell againe, the loade paid a halfe-penny, &c.

On the West side of this Ward, at the North end of London Bridge, is a part of Thames street, which is also of this Ward; to wit, so much as of old time was called Stock-fishmonger Row, of the Stock-fish-mongers dwelling there, downe West to a Water gate, of old time called Ebgate, since Ebgate lane, and now the Old Swan, which is a common staire on the Thames, but the passage is very narrow, by meanes of encrochments.

On the South side of Thames street, about the mid-way betwixt the Bridge foot and Ebgate lane, standeth the Fishmongers Hall, and divers other faire houses for Merchants.

These Fishmongers were sometimes of two severall Companies, to wit Stockfishmongers, and Salt-fishmongers, of whose antiquity I reade, that by the name of Fishmongers of London, they were for forestalling, &c. contrary to the Lawes and constitutions of the Citie, fined to the King at 500. Markes, the 18. of King Edward the first. More, that the said Fishmongers, hearing of the great victory obtained by the same King against the Scots, in the 26. of his reigne, made a triumphant and solemne shew thorow the Citie, with divers Pageants, and more than 1000. horsemen, &c. as in the Chapter of Sports and Pastimes. These two Companies of Stocke-fishmongers and Salt-fishmongers, of old time had their severall Halls, to wit, in Thames street twaine, X2in Bridge Ward within. in New Fish-street twaine, and in Old Fish-street twaine: in each place one for either Company; in all six severall Hals, the Company was so great, as I have read, and can prove by Records.

These Fishmongers have beene jolly Citizens, and sixe Maiors of their Company in 24. yeeres; to wit, Walter Turke, 1350. Iohn Lofkin, 1359. Iohn Wroth, 1361. Iohn Pechie, 1362. Simon Morden, 1369. and William Walworth, 1374. It followed, that in the yeere 1382. through the counsel of Ioh. Northhampton, Draper, then being Maior, William Issex, Iohn More, Mercer, and Richard Northbury, the said Fishmongers were greatly troubled, hindred of their liberties, and almost destroyed, by congregations made against them: So that in a Parliament at London, the controversie depending betweene the Maior and Aldermen of London, and the Fishmongers there, Nic. Exton, Speaker for the Fishmongers, prayeth the King to receive him and his Company into his protection, for feare of corporall hurt. Whereupon it was commanded, either part to keepe the peace, upon paine of losing all they had. Hereupon a Fishmonger starting up, replyed, that the complaint brought against them by the moovers, &c. was but matter of malice; for that the Fishmongers, in the reigne of Edward the third, being chiefe Officers of the City, had for their misdemeanors then done, committed the chiefe exhibitors of those petitions to prison. In this Parliament, the Fishmongers (by the Kings Charter patents) were restored to their Liberties. Notwithstanding, in the yeere next following, to wit, 1383. Iohn Cavendish, Fishmonger, craveth the peace against the Chancellour of England, which was granted, and hee put in sureties, the Earles of Stafford and Salisbury. Cavendish challengeth the Chancellour for taking a bribe of 10. l. for favour of his Case: which the Chancellour by oath upon the Sacrament avoideth. In further triall, it was found, that the Chancellours man (without his Masters privitie) had taken it. Whereupon Cavendish was adjudged to prison, and to pay the Chancellour 1000. Markes for slandering him.

After this, many of the Nobles assembled at Reding, to suppresse the seditious stirres of the said Iohn Northampton, or Combarton, late Maior, that had attempted great and heinous enterprizes, of the which he was convict; and when he stood mute, nor would utter one word, it was decreed, that he should be committed to perpetuall prison, his goods confiscate to the Kings use, and that he should not come within 100. miles of London during his life. He was therfore sent to the Castle of Tintegall, in the confines of Cornewall, and in the meane space the Kings servants spoiled his goods. Iohn More, Richard Northbury, and other, were likewise there convict, and condemned to perpetuall prison, and their goods confiscate, for certaine congregations by them made against the Fishmongers in the Citie of London, as is aforesaid; but they obtained and had the Kings pardon, in the 14. of his reigne, as appeareth of Record: and thus were all these troubles quieted.

Those Stock-fishmongers and Saltfishmongers were united in the yeere 1536. the 28. of Henry the 8. their Hall to bee but one, in the house given unto them by Sir Iohn Cornwall, Lord Fanhope, and of Ampthull, in the Parish of Saint Michael in Crooked-lane, in the reigne of Henry the sixth.

Thus much have I thought good to note of the Fishmongers, men ignorant of their Antiquities, and not able to shew a reason why, or when they were joyned in amity with the Goldsmithes, doe give part of their Armes, &c. Neither to say ought of Sir William Walworth (the glory of their Company) more than that he slew Iack Straw, which is a meer fable: for the said Straw was after the overthrow of the Rebels, taken, and by judgement of the Maior beheaded; whose confession at the Gallowes is extant in my Annales, where also is set downe the most valiant and praise-worthy act of Sir William Walworth, against the principall Rebell, Wat Tylar: as in reproofe of VValworth Monument in S. Michaels Church, I have declared, and wished to be reformed there, as in other places.

On that South side of Thames street, have yee Drinke-water VVharfe, and Fiſh Bridge Ward within. Fish Wharfe, in the Parish of S. Magnus. On the North side of Thames street is S. Martins lane, a part of which lane is also of this Ward; to wit, on the one side to a Well of water, and on the other side, as farre up as against the said Well. Then is S. Michaels Lane, part whereof is also of this Ward, up to a Well there, &c.

Then at the upper end of New-Fish-street, is a Lane turning towards Saint Michaels Lane, and is called Crooked-lane, of the crooked windings thereof. Above this Lanes end, upon Fish-street Hill, is one great house, for the most part builded of stone, which pertained sometime to Edward the blacke Prince, sonne to Edward the third, who was in his life time lodged there.

It is now altered to a common Hosterie, having the Blacke Bell for a signe. Above this house, at the top of Fish-street Hill, is a turning into Great East-cheape, and so to the corner of Lombard street, over against the North-west corner of Grasse-Church. And these be the whole bounds of this Bridge Ward within: The which hath an Alderman and his Deputy; for the Common-Counsell, 16. Constable, 15. Scavengers, 6. for the Ward-more Inquest, sixteene, and a Beadle. It is is taxed to the Fifteene in London, at forty seven pounds.

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