OR THE NOBLE AC compliſh’d ſolemnity, full of Coſt, Art and ſtate, at the Inauguration and Eſtabliſh ment of the true worthy and right nobly min ded ROBERT PARKHVRST, into the Right Honourable office of Lord Maior of
LONDON.
The particularities of every Invention in all the Pageants, Shewes and Triumphs both by Water and Land, are here following fully ſet downe, being all performed by the Loves, Liberall Coſts, and charges of the Right Worſhipfull and worthy Bro ther-hood of the Cloth-workers the 29 of October 1634.
Printer’s ornament TO THE MOST WELCOME AND expected Pattern and Patron of Vertue and Goodneſſe, the hopefull deſerver of all the Coſts and Honours which the Noble Fellowſhip and Brother-hood of Clothworkers and ample Love of
the whole City, in full and generous Bounty be ſtow upon him, the Right Honourable and Judicious ROBERT PARKHVRST,
Lord Major of the famous Ci
ty of London.
The firſt ſhew that is to be preſented on the
water is a veſſell like a Boat or Barge, adorned
with the armes and Impreſſes of the honoura
ble Citie and Company, with ſeeming pro
perties of being loaden, with Packs, dryfats,
and divers other commodities, that marchants and others
that are free of the Company of Cloth-workers, doe re ceive from foreigne parts by ſea; this Barge attends the
Lord Mayor and meets him about Pauls wharfe or attends
further up the River. Thetis (the Goddeſſe of the ſea) and
Thames, or Thamiſis (being one of her faireſt daughters)
ſitting In the head of the Boate; Thetis being habiliment
ed in a mantle of ſea-Greene, with a corronet of ſhels of
divers ſorts of ſea-fiſh on her head with a great whelk-fiſh
in her hand with adornments of ſtrange fiſhes and other
ſignificant repreſentations. Thamiſis being habited in
a white or ſilver coloured Robe, having on her head a
Chaplet of green Reeds, Flowers and Ruſhes, and about
her feet deck’d with Sedge, Bulruſhes and Flaggs, at which
preſentment Thetis ſpeaks this following ſpeech;
Then the Rowers (conſiſting of foure in number, being
two Saylours, two watermen) being ouer-joyed, pike
their oares, and every of them drinks his Kan as a health,
toſſing them up, and preſently falling into a Rugged
friskin daunce, returne to Pauls wharfe, and landing
the ſaid Barge, ſhe is carried as the formoſt Pageant in the
ſhew through the Citie.
The ſecond is a Pageant repreſenting the figures of
Time and Mercury (Time being habited in a blew roabe
with his Sithe in his hand) which do wait and attend the
Lord Mayor in Paules Church-yard, The ſpeakers being
Mounted on two Griphons (the Supporters of the Cloth workers Armes) which at the approach of my Lord,
Mercury (upon one of the Griphons) with his Caduceus
or charming rod in his hand, with wings on his head to
ſignifie quickneſſe of Invention, Acuteneſſe of wit, and
Volubility of tongue with Eloquence of ſpeech. He hath
alſo wings on his feet to ſignifie his ſwiftneſſe; as Meſſen ger to the Gods. Time ſpeakes as followeth.
Next and neere to this Pageant of Time and Mercury, is the forme of a Citie repreſenting London, with walls,
Battlements, Gates, Churches, Towers, Steeples and lofty
Buildings, and ſome Antique ſhapes here and there on the
tops of the higheſt Edifices: Alſo with ſhops and men at
worke upon cloth, as Cloth-workers, fullers, ſhermen, and
others, the walls of the Citie being adorned round, with
Armes and ſcoutcheons of the Cittie and company as
alſo divers figures, as 1 of Antiquitie, 2 Record, 3 Memo ry, 4 Wiſedome, and others the like; alſo an ancient
Matron in a civill grave robe with her haire long hanging
downe in trammels diſhevelled behind her backe, ſitting
in one of the Gates of the Citie, ſhee ſpeaks in the perſon
of London to the Lord Mayor and company as follow eth.
The next is a Pageant in the forme of a Tower, which
doth import a Tower of Honour, on the top of which
Tower ſits one in royall robes, with a majeſtique Impale ment on his head, a ſcepter in one hand, and a Ball in the
other: under him (in the next deſcent) ſit in equall
diſtances the figures of a Lord Mayor, a Biſhop, a Lawyer,
and a warlike Captaine or Generall. On the right hand of
the Lord Mayor is placed the figure or emblem of Ho nour: next the Biſhop is placed piety or the feare of God:
on the right hand of the Judge, a figure repreſenting
power is ſeated, and by the Generall or Captaine ſtands
victory. In the deſcent below the Lord Mayor is an appren tice, and by him ſtands obedience: beneath the Biſhop is a
ſcholler, and by him is placed patience, under the Judge a
clark, and by him diligence; & under the Lord Generall is
a Common Souldiour, and by him is placed vertue, which
ſhewes that by vertuous actions and true induſtry meane
men have aſcended and may be raiſed to Honourable
places, which is an encouragement and paterne for others
to purſue and follow thoſe moſt worthy wayes to
Honour and Renowne. The Tower being round or circu lar, and the Baſis or Ground-worke ſquare or Quadrangle,
on each corner whereof ſits, the foure prime or Cardinall
Vertues, namely Juſtice, Fortitude, Temperance and Pru dence, every one of them habited in Robes, ſignificant and
Emblematically ſhewing that thoſe vertues doe adorne
and dignifie the above preſented noble perſonages. This
Pageant attending my Lord Mayor, in Pauls Church yard or at the upper end of Cheapſide neere the little Con duit; he that ſits higheſt in the place and perſon of Honour ſpeakes this following Specch.
Joy crowne this day with Drums and Trumpets ſounding.
Then his Lordſhip being come to Saint Laurence
lane end in Cheapſide, he is ſaluted by Endimion, or a ſhep herd rideing on a Rams back, (the Ram being the creſt
of the Cloth-workers armes) there being neere or next
unto him an ancient monument of fame: at the approach
of my Lord the ſhepherd entertaines him with this ſpeech,
A dance of ſhephards with drinking in leather bottles to the monument.
Laſtly, at night, when his Lordſhip returnes from Pauls,
the Pageants being ſix in number, going all before him
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Pageant being an ancient Monument of Fame, ſhall pre ſent it ſelfe to his Lordſhip, in the front of which peece
is erected a figure repreſenting Fame, with a ſilver Trum
pet in her hand, the Monument being adorn’d with the
Armes, Eſcucheons, Hatchments and Impreſſes of divers
Lord Mayors that have bin of the worſhipfull company
of the Cloth-workers, whom (though Time hath inter red) Fame revives, ſounding their praiſes, and inforceth
Time to revive their noble Memory, encouraging his
Lordſhip to follow them in all their Honourable actions,
that when Time ſhall determinate, his Lordſhips ſhield
of Honour may be added to the reſt of his predeceſſors;
and as this Pageant of the Monument of Fame is a repre-
ſentation of the night, ſo the night, and this following
ſpeech at his Lordſhips Gate is a concluſion and dutifull
farewell to the daies Triumph and ſolemnity.
For a period to theſe Triumphs, (and to give deſert
her due) It were ſhamefull impudence in mee to aſſume
the invention of theſe Structures and Architectures to my
ſelfe, they being buſines which I never was inured in, or
acquainted with all, there being little of my directions in
theſe ſhewes; onely the Speeches; and Illuſtrations which
are here printed I doe juſtly challenge as mine owne,
all the reſt of the Compoſures and Fabricks were form ed and framed by the ingenious and induſtrious Master (MK)M’rRo bert Norman Citizen and Painter of London, who was
indeed the prime inventor proſecuter and finiſher of
theſe works, with the aſſiſtance of Zachary Taylor a
quaint and well knowne curious Carvar, which being
gracefully accepted & approved of, after good CHRIST MAS, the authors may be the more merry at the next.
THetis, daughter to the ſea-god Nereus, ſhe was wife
to King Peleus, alſo Thetis was the mother of
Achilles, who was ſeven cubits in height, and the moſt
valiant Captaine amongſt the Greekes at the ſiege of Troy.
Danubia is a great River that runs through Hungaria by the famous Cities of Buda, Brundufium, and Belgrad,
and ſo it paſſeth into Germany, by the Towne of Regenſ-
berg, and through Swabe, Bavaria, and Auſtria; it is alſo
called Donawe, but paſſing into Illyria it is at a part of
Thracia cald Iſtria changed into the name of Iſter, it
receives 60 rivers into it, the moſt part of which are na-
vigable, it falls into the ſea called Pontus Euxinus, or the
Euxine ſea.
Po a famous river in Italy. Seine a river in France which runs through Paris. Volga a river that runs through
the large Empire of Ruſſia. Ems in eaſt Frizland, from
whence the Citie of Emden hath name. Elve or Albe, is a
river that paſſeth from Bohem, through Saxony, Miſnia,
and ſo to the townes of Hamborough and Stoad, into the
German Ocean. Tanais, a great river northward, which
parts Aſia from Europe. Nilus a famous river that runs
through Ethiopia and Egypt, and becauſe it never raines
in Egypt, it is watered and made fruitfull once a yeare by
the overflowing of Nilus. Ganges is a mighty river that
runs through and divides India, it is one of the foure
rivers of Paradiſe, and is called by Moſes Phiſon. Tigris one of the foure named Hiddekell. Euphrates paſſeth by
Babylon, and was alſo one of the rivers of Paradiſe named
by MoſesPerah, and the Tyber a river that runs through
Rome. Iordan a river that runs betwixt Gallile and Iudea,
and fals into Mare mortuum or the dead ſea. Xanthus a river
in Phrygia neere Troy, of which it is ſaid that if ſheepe
dranke of the water, their fleeces became yellow. Indus a
great and goodly navigable river, that hath its head from
the mountaine Taurus or Caucaſus, it incompaſſeth India on the weſt, and falls by Aſia into the Lake called Pau lus Meotis, and part into the Indian ſea. Aſphaltites is
the dead ſea or Mare mortuum, it is in Siria, and it is held
to be the place where Sodom, Gomorah, and the reſt of the
five Cities ſtood which were conſumed with fire and
brimſtone from heaven.
The meaning of the ſecond Pageant being Time and Mercury.
2TIme hath ſeene 426 ſeverall daies of Mayoralty,
which is ſo many yeares ſince the Cities govern ment was changed (by King Richard the firſt) from
Portgraves, Provoſts and Bayliffs, to the Honourable title
and dignity of Lord Mayor. Men that come rightly to
places of Honour & dignity muſt make good uſe of Time.
Truth is the daughter of Time, who though falſhood may
obſcure her, yet Time will bring her forth at laſt, where her
bright vertue ſhall outſhine the Sun: there is nothing
goes beyond Time but Eternity.
LOndon doth expreſſe her duty and thankfullneſſe, in
acknowledging her happy preſervation and govern ment, when many of the goodlieſt Cities in the world are
either ruind, and confounded, or elſe far ſhort of her
peacefull and plentifull felicity. As firſt, Thebes was a
great Citie in Egypt, it was built by King Buſiris, it
had 100 gates about the walls, it was 40 miles in
compaſſe, the walles were 30 ſtads high, and ſix ſtads
in breadth; it is written that 200 watchmen watched at
euery gate: when it was deſtroy’d by Allexander the
Great, there were found the Toombs of 77 Kings, (and
good Kings they had bin) for the law was amongſt
them that bad Kings ſhould have no buriall. Alſo there
was another Thebes in Boetia built by Cadmus, and a third
Thebes in Cillicia, where it is ſaid Andromche the wife to
the worthy Hector was borne. Numantia was in Spaine,
and being beſieged by the brave roman Scipio, rather than
they would yeeld their Citie, they burned it with their
wives, children, goods and families. Carthage was a good ly Citie in Affrica, it was 40 Engliſh miles in circuit, it
was held againſt the Romans 44 yeares when Rome was in
her greateſt greatneſſe, it brought forth the valiant Cap taine Haniball, and was at laſt deſtroy’d by Scipio Affri canus 144 yeares before Chriſts birth; the place and coun try where it ſtood is now called Tunis, which is a harbour
or Receptacle for Pirats, ſea-Rovers and misbeleeving
Turkes. Ieruſalem the chiefe Citie of Iudea, where King
Salomons Temple was, and where our Saviour ſuffered his
paſſion, it is now a ruind peece under the ſubjection of the
Turk. There are two Babylons, one in Caldea, where Nim rods Tower was erected, and another Babylon there was in
Egypt, they being (as their names doe ſignifie) both in
confuſion under the Turk. Conſtantinople was the metro polis and the head Citie of the Grecian or Eaſterne Em pire, it was won from the Chriſtians the 29 of May 1453.
by the Turkiſh Emperour Mahomet the ſecond, which
Mahomet did alſo win the Empire of Trebizond, and tooke
12 Kingdomes and 200 Cities from the Chriſtians. Rome nor any Citie that holds Rome for chiefe, cannot declare
any ſuch true Reality in their happineſſe and government,
as London juſtly may doe.
Theſe few expreſſions I thought fit to ſet downe here
for the illuſtration of ſuch words and places as may ſeeme
hard and obſcure to ſome meane Readers.
Taylor, John. The Triumphs of Fame and Honour. 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/FAME2.htm. Draft.
Chicago citation
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Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the
Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests
included
American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant,
2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University
of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant
contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored
the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography.
She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working
on her masters in library and information science.
Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD
from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science
and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched
Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence
at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships
between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021,
Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in
the English Department at the University of Victoria.
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017.
Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department
of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in
English
(with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary
research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature,
critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Joey Takeda authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University
of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically
focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate
honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Research Assistant, 2013. Quinn MacDonald was a fourth-year honours English student
at the
University of Victoria. Her areas of interest included postcolonial theory and texts,
urban
agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She was the
director of community relations for The Warren Undergraduate Review and senior editor of Concrete Garden
magazine.
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Quinn MacDonald is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015.
Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander
comes
to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge
digital humanities project at the University of
Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union
catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the
curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare
Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on
paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor.
She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts,
and is
interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these
materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler,
Kim
has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able
to bring
her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.
Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director,
Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of
Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad
of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include digital
media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; and early modern drama.
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Mark Kaethler is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director
of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer
Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of
Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A
Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If
You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and
Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies,
Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan
Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance
Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book
chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early
Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage,
The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre
Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching
Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity
in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the
Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early
Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern
English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names:
Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making
Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking
Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies
(Routledge, 2018).
Janelle Jenstad authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.Placing Names. Ed. Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth
Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2016. 129-145.
Jenstad, Janelle. The
Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.The
Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L.
Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202.
Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. The City Cannot Hold You: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s
Shop.Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..
Jenstad, Janelle. The Gouldesmythes Storehowse: Early Evidence for
Specialisation.The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.
Jenstad, Janelle. Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil
Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373.
Jenstad, Janelle. Public
Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed.
Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Smock
Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine
Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Using
Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed.
Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah
Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print.
Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF
LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description
of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an
Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the
greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ &
nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the
second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and
the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
J. Caitlin Finlayson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at The University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research
focuses on Thomas Heywood, print culture, the socio-political
and aesthetic aspects of Early Modern pageantry and entertainments, and adaptations
of Shakespeare. She has published on the London Lord Mayor’s Shows and recently
edited mayoral shows by John Squire and by John Taylor for the Malone Society’s Collections series (2015). She is presently editing (with Amrita Sen) a
collection on Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early
Modern London for Taylor&Francis.
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J. Caitlin Finlayson is mentioned in the following documents:
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC).
Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database
implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the
project
and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant
on
MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Personification of fame. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows, Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London.
God of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry, and the sun in Greek and Roman
mythology. Defined as the god of divine distance since the time of Homer.
Personification of honour. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and
Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London.
James
This numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 6VIThis numeral is a Roman numeral. The Arabic equivalent is 1I
King of Scotland
King of England
King of Ireland
(b. 1566, d. 1625)
King of Scotland 1567-1625. King of England and Ireland 1603-1625.
John Taylor authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
Taylor, John. All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected
into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and
newly imprinted, 1630. London: Iohn Beale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet for Iames
Boler, 1630. STC 23725.
Taylor, John. All the
Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet. London: J[ohn] B[eale, Elizabeth Allde,
Bernard Alsop, Thomas Fawcet], and James Boler. STC 23725.
Taylor, John. The
carriers cosmographie. London, 1637. STC 23740.
Taylor, John. The colde tearme: or, the frozen age: or the metamorphosis of the Riuer of Thames. London, 1621. STC 23910.
Taylor, John. A full and
compleat Anſwer. London, 1642. Wing T461.
Taylor, John. The praise and vertue of a jayle, and jaylers. London: John Haviland for Richard Badger, 1623. STC 23785.
Taylor, John. The
resolution of the Round-heads. London, 1641. Wing R1157A.
Taylor, John. Taylors
travels and circular perambulation, through, and by more then thirty times twelve
signes of the Zodiack, of the famous cities of London and Westminster With the honour
and worthinesse of the vine, the vintage, the wine, and the vintoner; with an
alphabeticall description, of all the taverne signes in the cities, suburbs, and
liberties aforesaid, and significant epigrams upon the said severall signes.
London, 1636. STC 23805.
God of trade, heraldry, merchants, commerce, roads, thieves, trickery, sports, travelers,
and athletes in Greek mythology. Son of Maia. Equated with
Mercury in Roman mythology.
Perhaps more than any other geophysical feature, the Thames river has directly affected London’s growth and rise to prominence; historically, the city’s economic, political, and
military importance was dependent on its riverine location. As a tidal river, connected
to the North Sea, the Thames allowed for transportation to and from the outside world; and, as the longest river
in England, bordering on nine counties, it linked London to the country’s interior. Indeed, without the Thames, London would not exist as one of Europe’s most influential cities. The Thames, however, is notable for its dichotomous nature: it is both a natural phenomenon
and a cultural construct; it lives in geological time but has been the measure of
human history; and the city was built around the river, but the river has been reshaped
by the city and its inhabitants.
The Thames is mentioned in the following documents:
Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial,
crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil
war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and
the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).
St. Paul’s Churchyard is mentioned in the following documents:
In the middle ages, Westcheap was the main market west of Walbrook, so called to distinguish it from Eastcheap, the market
in the east. By Stow’s time, the term Westcheap had fallen out of use in place of
Cheapside Market. Stow
himself, however, continued to use the term to distinguish the western end
of Cheapside Street.
Cheapside Market is mentioned in the following documents:
The Little Conduit (Cheapside), also known as the Pissing
Conduit, stood at the western end of Cheapside Street outside the north corner of Paul’s Churchyard. On the Agas
map, one can see two water cans on the ground just to the right of the conduit.
Little Conduit (Cheapside) is mentioned in the following documents:
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:
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