A parish register entry for
St Giles
Cripplegate
, 9 Dec 1599 , for the
birth of
Jonson
's son, Joseph. The register is an unfoliated volume covering
baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1561 to 1606.
Eugene Giddens
Christings In December 1599
Joseph, the sonne of Beniamyne
Johnson,
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Bibliography
Collier
(1846), xxii
Eccles (1936), 267
H&S, 11.575
St Giles Cripplegate is in Fore Street, Cripplegate, (in the City of London ) and is now the parish church of the Barbican development. 'Cripplegate' refers to the tunnel or covered way (Anglo-Saxon 'cruplegate') which originally ran from the town gate to the Barbican, or fortified watchtower. It was built in 1550 on the site of the Norman church (itself rebuilt in the Gothic style in the fourteenth century) destroyed by fire five years previously. Lancelot Andrewes was vicar from 1588-1604. Two of Shakespeare's nephews (sons of his actor brother Edmund) were baptised there.