Excerpts from The Devil Is an Ass

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SAT. For what? the laming a poore Cow, or two?
Entring a Sow, to make her cast her farrow?
Or crossing of a Mercat-womans Mare,
Twixt this, and Totnam? these were wont to be
Your maine atchieuements, Pug, You haue some plot, now,
Vpon a tonning of Ale, to stale the yest,
Or keepe the churne so, that the buttter come not;
Spight o’the housewiues cord, or her hot spit?
Or some good Ribibe, about Kentish Towne,
Or Hogsden, you would hang now, for a witch,
Because shee will not let you play round Robbin: Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…]

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INI. Child of hell, this is nothing! I will fetch thee a leape
From the top of Pauls-steeple, to the Standard in Cheepe:
And lead thee a daunce, through the streets without faile,
Like a needle of Spaine, with a thred at my tayle.
We will suruay the Suburbs, and make forth our sallyes,
Downe Petticoate-lane, and vp the Smock-allies,
To Shoreditch, Whitechappell, and so to Saint Kathernes.
To drinke with the Dutch there, and take forth their patternes:
From thence, wee will put in at Custome-house key there,
And see, how the Factors, and Prentizes play there,
False with their Masters; and gueld many a full packe,
To spend it in pies, at the Dagger, and the Wool-sacke.

PVG. Braue, braue, Iniquity! will not this doe, Chiefe?

INI. Nay, boy, I wil bring thee to the Bawds, and the Roysters,

At Belins-gate, feasting with claret-wine, and oysters,

From thence shoot the Bridge,1 childe, to the Cranes i’the Vintry,

And see, there the gimblets, how they make their entry!

Or, if thou hadst rather, to the Strand downe to fall,

’Gainst the Lawyers come dabled from Westminster-hall

And marke how they cling, with their clyents together,

Like Iuie to Oake; so Veluet to Leather:

Ha, boy, I would shew thee. […]

[…] So, this morning,

There is a handsome Cutpurse hang’d at Tiborne,

Whose spirit departed, you may enter his body: […]

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FIT. Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…] Today, I goe to the Black fryers Play-house,
Sit it he view, salute all my acquaintance,
Rise vp betweene the Acts, let fall my cloake,
Publish a handsome man, and a rich suite
(As that’s a speciall end, why we goe thither,
All that pretend, to stand for ’t o’the Stage)

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WIT. […]

[…] The Diuell-giuen Elfine Squire, your husband,

Doth leaue you, quitting heere his proper circle,

For a much-worse i’ the walks of Lincolnes Inne,

Vnder the Elmes, t’ expect the feind in vaine, there

Will confesse for you.

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FIT. […] I’ll goe bespeake me straight a guilt caroch,

For her and you to take the ayre in: yes,

Into Hide-parke, and thence into Black-Fryers,

Visit the painters, where you may see pictures,

And note the properest limbs, and how to make ’hem. […]

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MER. Tell Mr. Wood-cock, I’ll not faile to meet him

Vpon th’ Exchange at night. […]

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[…] MER. Ingine, when did you see

My cousin Euer-ill? keepes he still your quarter?

I’ the Bermudas?

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Mrs. FI. […] And wish him to for-beare his acting to mee,

At the Gentlemans chamber-window in Lincolnes-Inne there,

That opens to my gallery: else, I sweare

T’ acquaint my husband with his folly, and leaue him

To the iust rage of his offended iealousie. […]

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Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…] GVI. Boy, boy,
We liue, by finding fooles out, to be trusted.
Our shop-bookes are our pastures, our corn-grounds,
We lay ’hem op’n, for them to come into:
And when wee haue ’hem there, wee driue ’hem vp
In t’ one of our two Pounds, the Compters,2 streight,
And this is to make you a Gentleman! Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…]

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Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…] MER. Out vpon ’t!
And lose the laudable meanes, thou hast at home, heere,
T’ aduance, and make him a young Alderman?
Buy him a Captaines place, for shame; and let him
Into the world, early, and with his plume,
And Scarfes, march through Cheapside, or along Cornehill,
And by the vertue’ of those, draw downe a wife
There from a windo’, worth ten thousand pound!
Get him the posture booke, and ’s leaden men,
To set vpon a table, ’gainst his Mistresse
Chance to come by, that hee may draw her in,
And shew her Finsbury battells.

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MER. VVhy, I ha’ told you o’ this. This comes of wearing

Scarlet, gold lace, and cut-works! your fine gartring!

VVith your blowne roses, Cousin! and your eating

Phesant, and Godwit, here in London! haunting

The Globes, and Mermaides!3 […]

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[…] MER. That he will, sure,

But, these same Citizens, they are such sharks!

There’s an old debt of forty, I ga’ my word

For one is runne away, to the Bermudas,

And he will hooke in that, or he wi’ not doe.

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MER. I knew, thou must take, after some body!

Thou could’st not be else. This was no shop-looke!

I’ll ha’ thee Captaine Guilt-head, and march vp,

And take in Pimlico,, and kill the bush,

At euery tauerne! […]

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[…] FIT. Yes, here’s the ring: I ha’ seal’d.

But there’s not so much gold in all the row, he saies—

Till ’t come fro’ the Mint. ’Tis tane vp for the gamesters.

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[…] WIT. As can be;

Coach it to Pimlico; daunce the Saraband;

Heare, and talke bawdy; laugh as loud, as a larum;

Squeake, spring, do any thing.

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VVIT. VVee’ll see her Sir, at home, and leaue you here,

To be made Duke o’ Shore-ditch with a proiect.

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MER. Well, and you went to a whore? AMB. No, Sr. I durst (not
(For feare it might arriue at some body’s eare,
It should not) trust my selfe to a common house;
But got the Gentlewoman to goe with me,
And carry her bedding to a Conduit-head,
Hard by the place toward Tyborne, which they call
My L. Majors Banqueting-house. Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…]

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AMB. Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…] But, that which greiu’d me, was
The Gentlewomans shoes (with a paire of roses,
And garters, I had giuen her for the businesse)
So as that made vs stay, till it was darke.
For I was faine to lend her mine, and walke
In a rug, by her, barefoote, to Saint Giles’es.

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[…] PVG. There it is, Sir, leaue me.

To New-gate, brought? How is the name of Deuill

Discredited in me! What a lost fiend

Shall I be, on returne? […]

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Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…] ING. No, Child, in a Carre,
The charriot of Triumph, which most of them are.
And in the meane time, to be greazy, and bouzy,
And nasty, and filthy, and ragged and louzy,
With dam’n me, renounce me, and all the fine phrases;
That bring, vnto Tiborne, the plentifull gazes.

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[…] DIV. […] But, that I would not such a damn’d dishonor

Sticke on our state, as that the diuell were hang’d;

And could not saue a body, that he tooke

From Tyborne, but it must come thither againe:

You should e’en ride. But, vp away with him—

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SHA. O! such an accident falne out at Newgate, Sir:

A great piece of the prison is rent downe! […]

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Gap in transcription. Reason:  (KL)[…] SHA. Hee’s gone, Sir, now,
And left vs the dead body. But withall, Sir,
Such an infernall stincke, and steame behinde,
You cannot see St. Pulchars Steeple, yet.
They smell’t as farre as Ware, as the wind lies,
By this time, sure.

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Notes

See Shooting the Bridge for more information. (KL)↑
I.e., either the Compter, Poultry or the Compter, Bread Street. (KL)↑
I.e., victualling houses such as the Globe Tavern and Mermaid Tavern. (KL)↑

References

Drouillard, Tara. Executions. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/EXEC1.htm.

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Jonson, Ben. Excerpts from The Devil Is an Ass. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/DEVI1.htm.

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Jonson, Ben. Excerpts from The Devil Is an Ass. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/DEVI1.htm.

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Jonson, B. 2022. Excerpts from The Devil Is an Ass. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/DEVI1.htm.

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- Dekker, Thomas, Stephen Harrison, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton. The Whole Royal and Magnificent Entertainment of King James through the City of London, 15 March 1604, with the Arches of Triumph. Ed. R. Malcolm Smuts. Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Gen. ed. Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. 219–279. Print.
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- Jonson, Ben. Ben: Ionson’s execration against Vulcan. London: J. Okes for John Benson and A. Crooke, 1640. STC 14771.
- Jonson, Ben. B. Ion: his part of King Iames his royall and magnificent entertainement through his honorable cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603 so much as was presented in the first and last of their triumphall arch’s. London, 1604. STC 14756.
- Jonson, Ben. The Complete Poetry of Ben Jonson. Ed. William B. Hunter, Jr. New York: New York UP, 1963. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. The Complete Poetry of Ben Jonson. Ed. William B. Hunter. Stuart Edtions. New York: New YorkUP, 1963.
- Jonson, Ben. The Devil is an Ass. Ed. Peter Happé. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1996. Revels Plays. Print.
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- Jonson, Ben. Every Man Out of His Humour. Ed. Helen Ostovich. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. Print.
- Jonson, Ben. The First, of Blacknesse, Personated at the Court, at White-hall, on the Twelfth Night, 1605. The Characters of Two Royall Masques: The One of Blacknesse, the Other of Beautie. Personated by the Most Magnificent of Queenes Anne Queene of Great Britaine, &c. with her Honorable Ladyes, 1605 and 1608 at White-hall. London : For Thomas Thorp, and are to be Sold at the Signe of the Tigers Head in Paules Church-yard, 1608. Sig. A3r-C2r. STC 14761.
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Ambler

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Ambler is mentioned in the following documents:
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Iniquity

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Iniquity is mentioned in the following documents:
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Fabian Fitzdottrel

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Fabian Fitzdottrel is mentioned in the following documents:
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Mistress Fitzdottrel

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
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Everill

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Everill is mentioned in the following documents:
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Captain Guilthead

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Captain Guilthead is mentioned in the following documents:
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Wittipol

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Wittipol is mentioned in the following documents:
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Meercraft

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Meercraft is mentioned in the following documents:
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Ingine

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Ingine is mentioned in the following documents:
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Shackles

Dramatic character in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Shackles is mentioned in the following documents:
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Woodcock

Appears in Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass.
Woodcock is mentioned in the following documents:
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John Beale

Printer.
- BBTI
John Beale is mentioned in the following documents:
- Elizabeth Allde
Bernard Alsop

Printer.
- BBTI
Bernard Alsop is mentioned in the following documents:
- Elizabeth Allde
Thomas Fawcett

Printer.
- BBTI
Thomas Fawcett is mentioned in the following documents:
- Elizabeth Allde
James Dawson

Printer.
Richard Meighen

Bookseller.
Thomas Walkley

Bookseller.

Locations

Tottenham
Tottenham is mentioned in the following documents:
Hoxton

This location has been added to the MoEML gazetteer on the authority of Carlin and Belcher’s gazetteer of 1520 London.
Hoxton is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again. An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would become the cathedral of St. Paul’s which survived until the Great Fire of London.
St. Paul’s Cathedral is mentioned in the following documents:
The Standard (Cheapside)
The Standard (Cheapside) is mentioned in the following documents:
Cheap Ward

Cheap Ward is west of Bassinghall Ward and Coleman Street Ward. Both the ward and its main street, Cheapside, are named after West Cheap (the market).
Cheap Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
Hog Lane
Hog Lane is mentioned in the following documents:
PLACEHOLDER LOCATION

PLACEHOLDER LOCATION ITEM. The purpose of this item is to allow encoders to link to a location item when they cannot add a new location file for some reason. MoEML may still be seeking information regarding this entry. If you have information to contribute, please contact the MoEML team.
PLACEHOLDER LOCATION is mentioned in the following documents:
Shoreditch

A suburban neighbourhood located just north of Moorfields and outside Londonʼs City Wall, Shoreditch was a focal point of early modern theatrical culture. Following a boom in Londonʼs population from 1550 to 1600, the neighbourhood became a prime target for development. The building of the Theatre in 1576 and the Curtain in the following year established Shoreditchʼs reputation as Londonʼs premier entertainment district, and the neigbourhood also featured a growing number of taverns, alehouses, and brothels. These latter establishments were often frequented by local players, of whom many prominent members were buried on the grounds of nearby St. Leonardʼs Church. Today, Shoreditch faces the potential revival of its early modern theatrical culture through the efforts of the Museum of London Archaeology and the Tower Hamlets Theatre Company.
Shoreditch is mentioned in the following documents:
Whitechapel

Whitechapel was a street running east-west to the Aldgate Bars from the east. Stow comments that the street, like Aldgate Street, was fully replenished with buildings outward, & also pestered with diuerse Allyes, on eyther side (Stow).
Whitechapel is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Katherine’s Hospital

St. Katherine’s Hospital was a religious hospital founded in 1148. According to Stow, the hospital was founded by Queen Matilda. The hospital, the grounds of which contained a church, gardens, orchards, and residences, was at the southern end of St. Katherine’s Lane and north of the St. Katherine Steps, all of which is east of the Tower of London. Stow praised the choir of the hospital, noting how it was not much inferior to that of [St.] Paules [Cathedral] (Stow).
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Custom Key
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Woolsack
Woolsack is mentioned in the following documents:
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Billingsgate

Billingsgate (Bylynges gate or Belins Gate), a water-gate and harbour located on the north side of the Thames between London Bridge and the Tower of London, was London’s principal dock in Shakespeare’s day. Its age and the origin of its name are uncertain. It was probably built ca. 1000 in response to the rebuilding of London Bridge in the tenth or eleventh century.
Billingsgate is mentioned in the following documents:
London Bridge

As the only bridge in London crossing the Thames until 1729, London Bridge was a focal point of the city. After its conversion from wood to stone, completed in 1209, the bridge housed a variety of structures, including a chapel and a growing number of shops. The bridge was famous for the cityʼs grisly practice of displaying traitorsʼ heads on poles above its gatehouses. Despite burning down multiple times, London Bridge was one of the few structures not entirely destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.
London Bridge is mentioned in the following documents:
Three Cranes Tavern

Three Cranes Tavern was a popular tavern in early modern London, located on Three Cranes Lane.
Three Cranes Tavern is mentioned in the following documents:
Vintry Ward

Vintry Ward is west of Dowgate Ward. The ward is named after the Vintners’ Company and the Vintry, a part of the banks of the Riuer of Thames within Vintry Ward used by the merchants of Bordeaux for the transporting and selling of their wines (Stow 1603).
Vintry Ward is mentioned in the following documents:
The Strand

Named for its location on the bank of the Thames, the Strand leads outside the City of London from Temple Bar through what was formerly the Duchy of Lancaster to Charing Cross in what was once the city of Westminster. There were three main phases in the evolution of the Strand in early modern times: occupation by the bishops, occupation by the nobility, and commercial development.
The Strand is mentioned in the following documents:
Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall is the only surviving part of the original Palace of Westminster (Weinreb and Hibbert 1011) and is located on the west side of the Thames. It is located on the bottom left-hand corner of the Agas map, and is labelled as Weſtmynſter hall. Originally built as an extension to Edward the Confessor’s palace in 1097, the hall served as the setting for banquets through the reigns of many kings.
Westminster Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Tyburn

Tyburn is best known as the location of the principal gallows where public executions were carried out from the late twelfth century until the eighteenth (Drouillard, Wikipedia). It was a village to the west of the city, near the present-day location of Marble Arch (beyond the boundary of the Agas Map). Its name derives from a stream, and its significance to Stow was primarily as one of the sources of piped water for the city; he describes how
In the yeare 1401. this priſon houſe called the Tunne was made a Ceſterne for ſweete water conueyed by pipes of Leade frõ the towne of Tyborne, and was from thence forth called the conduite vpon Cornhill Gap in transcription. Reason: Editorial omission for reasons of length or relevance. Use only in quotations in born-digital documents.[…] (Stow 1598, sig. L3r)
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Blackfriars Theatre

The history of the two Blackfriars theatres is long and fraught with legal and political struggles. The story begins in 1276, when King Edward I gave to the Dominican order five acres of land.
Blackfriars Theatre is mentioned in the following documents:
Lincoln’s Inn

Lincoln’s Inn was one of the four Inns of Court.
Lincoln’s Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
Hyde Park

According to Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay, Hyde Park was the largest of the royal parks. The land was used as a hunting ground from 1536 to 1768, Henry VIII adopting Hyde Park for personal use after the dissolution of the monasteries. In the early seventeenth century, the park was opened for public use (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 423).
Hyde Park is mentioned in the following documents:
Royal Exchange

Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in 1570 to make business more convenient for merchants and tradesmen (Harben 512). The construction of the Royal Exchange was largely funded by Sir Thomas Gresham (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 718).
Royal Exchange is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Martin’s Lane (Strand)

St. Martin’s Lane (Strand) was located in Westminster and ran north-south between Tottenham Ct. Road and the westernmost end of the Strand by Charing Cross. It is not to be confused with St. Martin’s Lane (le Grand) or St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward).
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The Compter (Poultry)
The Compter (Poultry) is mentioned in the following documents:
The Compter (Bread Street)

Stow mentions two compters existing in his time: The Compter (Poultry) and The Compter (Bread Street). With relevance to the mobility of the place, Harben records that the Wood Street Counter had been removed there from Bread Street in 1555 (Harben 166). Tracing its history back ever further, Carlin and Belcher note that the prison was initially located in the Broken Seld around 1412 (Carlin and Belcher 70).
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Cheapside Street

Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.
Cheapside Street is mentioned in the following documents:
Cornhill

Cornhill was a significant thoroughfare and was part of the cityʼs main major east-west thoroughfare that divided the northern half of London from the southern half. The part of this thoroughfare named Cornhill extended from St. Andrew Undershaft to the three-way intersection of Threadneedle, Poultry, and Cornhill where the Royal Exchange was built. The name Cornhill preserves a memory both of the cornmarket that took place in this street, and of the topography of the site upon which the Roman city of Londinium was built.

Note: Cornhill and Cornhill Ward are nearly synonymous in terms of location and nomenclature - thus, it can be a challenge to tell one from the other. Topographical decisions have been made to the best of our knowledge and ability.
Cornhill is mentioned in the following documents:
Finsbury Field

Finsbury Field is located in northen London outside the London Wall. Note that MoEML correctly locates Finsbury Field, which the label on the Agas map confuses with Mallow Field (Prockter 40). Located nearby is Finsbury Court. Finsbury Field is outside of the city wards within the borough of Islington (Mills 81).
Finsbury Field is mentioned in the following documents:
London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).
London is mentioned in the following documents:
Globe Tavern
Globe Tavern is mentioned in the following documents:
Mermaid Tavern (Bread Street)

The Mermaid Tavern was a drinking and dining establishment located between lower Bread Street and Friday Street, with entrances to both. Its location corresponds to the place between these two streets on current day London’s Cannon Street (Glinert). John Stow records in his Survey of London that Bread Street was a location of diuers faire Innes and that the area was wholely inhabited by rich Marchants (Stow 1598, sig. T5r). The Mermaid Tavern was not far from Old Fish Street and the Blackfriars Theatre (Chalfant).
Mermaid Tavern (Bread Street) is mentioned in the following documents:
Banqueting House
Banqueting House is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Giles in the Fields

St. Giles in the Fields was a hospital and parish church. It is marked near the western edge of the Agas map with the label S. Gyles in the Fyeld. According to Stow, St. Giles in the Fields was founded as a leprosy house by Matilda of Scotland during the reign of Henry I. The hospital was eventually suppressed by Henry VIII (Stow 1598, sig. 2D6v).
St. Giles in the Fields is mentioned in the following documents:
Newgate

The gaol at Newgate, a western gate in the Roman Wall of London, was constructed in the twelfth century specifically to detain fellons and trespassors awaiting trial by royal judges (Durston 470; O’Donnell 25; Stow 1598, sig. C8r). The gradual centralisation of the English criminal justice system meant that by the reign of Elizabeth I, Newgate had become London’s most populated gaol. In the early modern period, incarceration was rarely conceived of as a punishment in itself; rather, gaols like Newgate were more like holding cells, where inmates spent time until their trials or punishments were effected, or their debts were paid off.
Newgate is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Sepulchre
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Locations

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