A lease (dated 10 Oct.
1586 ) granted to
William Penfold
containing a reference to
Robert Brett
(
Jonson
's stepfather) living in Hartshorn Lane
, from the Close
Rolls of the Chancery , 1585-6. Also mentioned are Charing
Cross
and Temple Bar
. Charing Cross and
Temple Bar are connected by the Strand
, the 'high street' referred to in the
document. This lease is found within a series of documents that are sewn together
to
form one roll.
Eugene Giddens
Indentureinter
[Trans.: between] Russett & penfolde & al
This
Indenture made the tenth daye of October in the eight and twentieth
yere of the raigne of our soueraigne Ladye
Elizabeth
by the grace of
god Quene of Englande Fraunce and Irelande defendor of the faith &c Betwene Iohn
Russett of the parryshe of saincte marten in the feildes in the
countye of middlesex gentleman of the one partye And
William Penfolde of the parryshe of saincte peter by powles
wharffe wythin the cyttie of london yeoman and Alice his wyffe of the other partye
wytnesseth that the saide Iohn Russett aswell inconsideracion of the
somme of fyve and fortye poundes of laufull money
of Englande to hym in hande contented and payde at the sealinge of theis Indentures
by the saide William Penfolde whereof the saide Iohn Russett doth
knowledge hym selfe fullye satisfyed contented and payde and the saide
William penfolde and Alice his wyffe their executors and
admynystrators thereof to be cleerelye acquited and discharged by theis
presentes ... and by theis presentes doth demyse graunte and
to ferme lett vnto the saide William Penfolde and Alice his wyffe all
those twoe mesuages ... nowe standinge and beinge ppon the wharffe called
Penfoldes wharffe otherwyse called Russettes wharffe and sometymes called Stowes wharffe in the parryshe of Saincte
marten in the
feildes aforesaide ... also all the saide wharffe wyth
thappurtenances and all the barnes stables edifices
buyldinges yardes gardens voyde
groundes diches and Sewers wyth the appurtenaunces sett lyinge and beinge in the parryshe of saincte marten in the feildes
aforesaide
betwene the waye or passage leadinge from the mesuage or tenan te nowe
in the occupacion of Oswell wowyn Sadler to the Thamys on the one
syde and the garden nowe in the occupacion of master Cooke and the
waye parcell of the saide wharffe latelye demysed to master Colshull deceassed and
nowe in the occupacion of the saide master Cooke on the other syde
And the lyttle garden latelye made over the Sewer or ditche by
Roberte Brett and the yarde or waie leadinge to
certaine newe stables latelye buylt by Iohn Trott deceassed nowe in
the occupacion of Oswell wowyn abuttinge on the vpper ende towarde
the streate there And the Thamys adioyninge to the otherende of the
premysses towardes the southeste parte And also
the Cartewaye footewaye and passage leadinge from the saide wharffe to the highe
streate leadinge from Charinge Crosse to Temple Barre
...
Bibliography
Gater and Godfrey (1939), 22
Bamborough (1960),
225
Hartshorn Lane was in Westminster , near Charing Cross.
Charing Cross was the last of twelve monuments or crosses erected by Edward I to mark the resting places of the funeral cortege of his queen, Eleanor of Castile, on the way to her funeral at Westminster in 1291. Charing was the name of the village; by the early modern period, the area was long urbanized.
Temple Bar was the gate marking the western limits of the City 's jurisdiction. In Jonson 's time it was a Tudor wooden structure. Temple Bar was the site of one of Jonson 's pageants in the King's Ent . (1604).