Entry for the Parish of
St Anne
's, Blackfriars
, 14 May 1606 , citing
Jonson
for recusancy, from
A Book of Corrections
or Presentments of the Consistory Court of London
. The record
occupies one page of the register.
Eugene Giddens
[fol. 329]
BeniaminumIohnson
Sainte
Anne
in le blackfriers
321. b 1
Presented
that heis by fame a seducer of youthe to popishe religion / he was monished to
appeare to see farther proceding herin he having denyed bothe the
fact & the fame and the Church Wardens weare decreed to be here to specifie what
particulers they have to Chardg him with continuat
in hunc diem
[Trans.: ] .
Bibliography
H&S,
1.222
Fincham (1921), 103-39, no transcription
Stow, 321
Blackfriars was the former location of the Dominican foundation in London , south-west of St Paul's. It retained the right of sanctuary, and in the early seventeenth century was home to many fashionable people (including, for example, the earl and countess of Somerset , and Jonson 's patron and friend Esmè Stuart, Lord Aubigny), many of whom lived in converted monastic buildings. Two parts of the former monastery housed the first and second Blackfriars theatres, in 1577-1584 and 1596- respectively; a number of Jonson 's plays were first performed here by the resident boys' companies. Blackfriars was also known as a Puritan neighbourhood, with many of its Puritan residents being engaged in the trade of feathermaking.