Throgmorton Street
Agas MapList documents mentioning Throgmorton Street- A Survey of London
- Bartholomew Lane
- Biography of John Stow (1525–1605)
- Broad Street
- Broad Street Ward
- Drapers’ Hall
- Gazetteer (B)
- Gazetteer (D)
- Gazetteer (S)
- Gazetteer (T)
- Himatia-Poleos: The Triumphs of Old Drapery, or the Rich Clothing of England
- Historical Personography
- New Alley
- Survey of London: Broad Street Ward
- Survey of London: Cornhill Ward
- The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity
- Variant spellings
Throgmorton Street was in Broad Street Ward and ran east-west from Broad Street to Lothbury and Bartholomew Lane. Throgmorton Street appears unlabelled on the Agas map running west
from Broad Street, under the Drapers’ Hall.
Stow’s Survey is the first written source to
record the street as Throgmorton Street. The name,
of Tudor origin, honours Sir Nicholas Throgmorton (Harben). Before this time it was known as Broad Street (Harben). Stow refers to the street as a place where
many fayre houses are builded(Stow). His description of Throgmorton Street is somewhat more detailed than that of other streets because he had a personal connection to it: his father owned land there. For example, he tells of the unlawful acts of Sir Thomas Cromwell, who had a house built in the street and commanded his surveyors to build over garden plots owned by others. Stow adds, with a slight touch of bitterness, that his father lost twenty-two feet of his land but still paid the full rent of six shillings and eight pence a year (Stow). Stow’s father had no warning of the encroachment and received no explanation for the act. Stow uses the episode as a good example of how
the suddaine rising of some men, causeth them to forget themselues(Stow).
References
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Citation
Harben, Henry. A Dictionary of London. London: Henry Jenkins, 1918. British History Online. Reprint. Open.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Citation
Stow, John. A Survey of London. Reprinted from the Text of 1603. Ed. Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1908. Reprint. British History Online. Subscription. [Kingsford edition, courtesy of The Centre for Metropolitan History. Articles written 2011 or later cite from this searchable transcription. In the in-text parenthetical reference (Stow; BHO), click on BHO to go directly to the page containing the quotation or source.]This item is cited in the following documents:
