Map Of London

The Map of Early Modern London announces the publication of Paisley's Mann's essay on the early publication history of John Stow's A Survey of London.

Mann's essay was originally written for English 520, "Representations of London in Early Modern English Literature," at the University of Victoria. A companion list of all the editions of A Survey is forthcoming.

The Map of Early Modern London is pleased to announce the addition of a new category to the Index. The new category, "Livery Companies," list all of the twelve great livery companies of London and any of the lesser companies that are mentioned in the site. Items in the "Livery Companies" index link to a with a brief description of the company with links to the modern company's website.

The Map of Early Modern London is pleased to announce the publication of Dalyce Joslin's essay on the "Biography of John Stow(1524/5-1605)" and Sarah Mead-Willis's glossary entry on "The Rose Theatre."

The Map of Early Modern London is pleased to announce the publication of "Gossip and Gossips" by Sarah Mead-Willis. Sarah received her MA in English from the University of Victoria and has since taken up a post as Rare Book Cataloguer at the University of Alberta.

Amy Collins's essay on "Pudding Lane" has now been posted to the Map of Early Modern London at Pudding Lane, also accessible from the site index.

Posted July 28, 2009: an essay about Bethlehem Hospital by Sarah Mead-Willis. This essay triggered many new additions to the Sources database and the Personography.

I have posted a draft diplomatic transcription of Anthony Munday's Chruso-Thriambos to the Library. Chruso-Thriambos was the 1611 Lord Mayor's show sponsored by the Goldsmiths' Company to celebrate the installation of Sir James Pemberton to the mayoralty of London (1611-1612). The show was performed on the Thames and in the streets of London on Tuesday, 29 October 1611.

Made placeholder pages for the Topics page on Counters and for the library text diplomatic transcription of John Taylor's "The Vertue of a Jayle and Jaylers."

Posted the student project on "The Prison System of Early Modern London." This project was written by Tara Drouillard and posted to the closed University of Windsor site in 2001. I edited it lightly and re-encoded it for the mapoflondon.uvic.ca site. It is visible at http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/render_page.php?id=PRIS1. Bibliographic reference to Baker is not clear; will have CvdM check it out.