Molestrand Dock
The Molestrand Dock was located in the borough of Southwark on the southern bank of the Thames, somewhere between Paris Garden and Bankside. It is included in a list of landing places used by watermen in 1732 by Rendle and Norman in The Inns of Old Southwark and their Associations, which might indicate that its primary use was for ferries carrying passengers across
the river (Rendle and Norman 323).
The area of Molestrand, from which the dock most likely gets its name, was the site of a number of tenement
buildings, and records from the Parish of St. Saviour (Southwark) mention various issues that arose concerning the residents. On 25 August 1624, it was written in the Surrey and Kent Sewer Commissioner’s court records that,
the owners and occupiers of the houses and groundes att Molestrand ought to Clense and Scowre everie one his parte of the sewar there from the end thereof by Alexander Kippinges house vnto the Signe of the ffalcon. (LMA SKCS/025)The
Signe of the ffalconmentioned in this document is most likely a reference to the Falcon Inn. The inn’s proximity to the Globe Theatre would suggest that some of the passengers disembarking at Molestrand might have been on their way to see a performance or indulge in any of the other less wholesome entertainments that Southwark had to offer, from bear-baiting to brothels. Another record from the London Metropolitan Archives mentions Molestrand and its tenements and their contributions toward the pollution of the Thames:
The jury presents Gap in transcription. Reason: (JWS)[…] one Carpenter, one Stokes, Robert Clarke, Edward Griffin, and Jane Thompson widow, for their houses.the Common sewar from the Arch by Drapers bridge to the Bearegarden, and soe to the Pikegardens & vp to Molestrandandall and everie the pissers sewars and Dreyners issueing thereintoJohn Webster for a grate of iron inthe sincke before his house att MolestrandThe tenants of the bishop of Winchesteratt and neere to Molestrandto wharfthe Northside of the sewar there all alonge from the Signepost wch beareth the signe of the ffalcon to the head of the same sewar by the house of John Webster aforesaidJoseph Bryan forthe sewar in Rose alley on the bancksideforsoylecomingout of his house into the said sewar.(LMA SKCS/028)
From this description in the Sewer Commissioner’s records, one can form a vivid picture
of what sanitary conditions were like in Southwark in the early modern period, with
soyleoverflowing onto the streets.
The Fairburn Map of London, Westminster and the New Docks, dated 1802 and printed by John Fairburn, shows the location of the Molestrand Dock adjacent to Willow Street, which ends at Bankside (Fairburn). The site is also depicted on Rocque and Pine’s 1746 map (A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous
Buildings), where it is labelled
Moldſrand Dock.The exact origin of the name of Molestrand is currently unclear. There is a tributary of the Thames that runs through Surrey known as the River Mole, however, this River is nowhere close to the historic location of Molestrand, so any connection to these two places is questionable.
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Fairburn, John. Map of London, Westminster and the New Docks 1802. 2001.This item is cited in the following documents:
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City of London. https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/history-and-heritage/london-metropolitan-archives.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Rendle, William, and Philip Norman. The Inns of Old Southwark and their Associations. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888. Remediated by Google Books.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Rocque, John. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: Printed by John Rocque, 1746. Reprinted as The A to Z of Georgian London. Introduced by Ralph Hyde. London: London Topographical Society, 1982. [We cite by index label thus: Rocque 15Db.This item is cited in the following documents:
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The Parish of St Saviour, Southwark: Presentments of the Sewer Commissioners.
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Dekker, Thomas, and John Webster. Vvest-vvard hoe As it hath been diuers times acted by the Children of Paules. London: [William Jaggard] for Iohn Hodgets, 1607. STC 6540.
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Webster, John. The dramatic works of John Webster. Vol. 3. Ed. William Hazlitt. London: John Russell Smith, 1897. Print.
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Webster, John. The Works of John Webster: An Old-Spelling Critical Edition. 3 vols. Ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and Macdonald P. Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.
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Webster, John. The Works of John Webster. Ed. Alexander Dyce. Rev. ed. London: Edward Moxon, 1857. Print.
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Rocque, John, and John Pine. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: John Pine and John Tinney, 1746.[See more information about this map.]
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Rocque, John, and John Pine. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: John Pine and John Tinney, 1746.[See more information about this map.]
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Alexander Kippinge
Denizen of London.Alexander Kippinge is mentioned in the following documents:
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Joseph Bryan
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Tenant of Molestrand.Robert Clarke is mentioned in the following documents:
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Widow. Tenant of Molestrand.Jane Thompson is mentioned in the following documents:
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Southwark is mentioned in the following documents:
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Falcon Inn
Falcon Inn was a tavern in the Bankside area and was a popular destination for many Elizabethan playwrights.Falcon Inn is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Thames
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:
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Paris Garden Manor House is mentioned in the following documents:
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Bankside
Described by Weinreb asredolent of squalor and vice
(Weinreb 39), London’s Bankside district in Southwark was known for its taverns, brothels and playhouses in the early modern period. However, in approximately 50 BCE its strategic location on the south bank of the Thames enticed the Roman army to use it as a military base for its conquering of Britain. From Bankside, the Romans built a bridge to the north side of the river and established the ancient town of Londinium. The Bankside district is mentioned in a variety of early modern texts, mostly in reference to the bawdy reputation of its citizens. Today, London’s Bankside is known as an arts district and is considered essential to the culture of the city.Bankside is mentioned in the following documents:
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The Globe
The Globe was the open-air, public theatre in which William Shakespeare was a shareholder. It was one of the theatres at which the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, later the King’s Men, regularly performed. Most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed at the Globe, along with the works of many other playwrights. It was an open-air, polygonal theatre with standing room around a thrust stage and three levels of gallery seating. It was built in 1599, burnt down in 1613, rebuilt in 1614 and closed in 1642. A modern reconstruction now stands a short distance from the site of the original in Bankside.The Globe is mentioned in the following documents:
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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:
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Bear Garden
The Bear Garden was never a garden, but rather a polygonal bearbaiting arena whose exact locations across time are not known (Mackinder and Blatherwick 18). Labelled on the Agas map asThe Bearebayting,
the Bear Garden would have been one of several permanent structures—wooden arenas, dog kennels, bear pens—dedicated to the popular spectacle of bearbaiting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Bear Garden is mentioned in the following documents:
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Pike Gardens
On the Agas map there are nine rectangular and square pike gardens, or artificial fishponds, located in the liberty of Southwark among the bear and bullbaiting arenas. These nine pike gardens, however, give only an approximate indication of the size, shape, and location of early modern London’s three major aquaculture operations—the Winchester House Pike Garden, the King’s (or Queen’s) Pike Garden, and the Great Pike Garden—each of which dates to the Middle Ages. These fishponds relied on two separate types of holding areas: the vivarium, or breeding pond, and the servatorium, or holding pond. To catch and sort fish, workers drained the shallow ponds through diversion conduits equipped with gates and sluices. Freshwater fish cultivated in estate gardens were considered a luxury dish well into the eighteenth century, especially the pike, an aggressive predator that was admired and feared in Izaak Walton’s 1653 angler guidebook.Pike Gardens is mentioned in the following documents:
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Rose Alley
Rose Alley was in Farringdon Within Ward between Newgate Street and Paul’s Cross Churchyard (Ekwall). Though referred to since the eighteenth century asRose Street,
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