A parish register entry of
St Giles without
Cripplegate
, 27 July 1623, for
Jonson
's
marriage to
Hester Hopkins
. (It is possible that another
Benjamin Jonson
is being
referred to here, but a likely candidate has not been discovered.) The register is
an unfoliated volume covering baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1606 to
1634.
Eugene Giddens
:1623:
Weddinges In
July
Cer. Beniamyne Iohnson and
Hester Hopkins
-
27
Bibliography
Collier (1846), xxiv
Eccles (1936), 271
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 actual town gate to the Barbican, or fortified watchtower. It was built in 1550 on the site of the Norman church 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.