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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.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
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.
We’d also like to acknowledge students who contributed to
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Maiden Lane (Southwark) is not to be confused with Maiden Lane. Maiden Lane (SouthwarK) ran between Dead Man’s Place and Gravel Lane in Southwark and is alternatively referred to as Maid Lane (Sugden 328). It appears on the
There were as many as four streets in early modern London called Maiden Lane (Ekwall 122). The Maiden Lane to which this page refers
was shared between Cripplegate Ward, Aldersgate Ward, and Farringdon Within. It ran west from Wood
Street, and originated as a trackway across the Covent Garden
(Bebbington 210) to St. Martin’s Lane.
According to Taylor, Maidenhead was a lodging house frequented by various carriers (Taylor A4v, B1r).
Taylor identifies the Maidenhead as being
in Cat-eatonſtreet,
neere the guildhall
(Taylor A4v). Norman
corroborates this account and adds futher specificity by stating that it stands at the corner of
Old Jewry and Gresham street [formerly Cateaton Street]
(Norman 247).
Being from
Edward H. Sugden describes the Maidenhead tavern in Ram Alley as the worst of all dens of infamy in that notorious court
(Sugden 328).
Manor of the Rose was a residence on Suffolk Lane in Dowgate Ward.
According to
Barbican Tower was a watchtower or barbican to the northeast of the London Wall.
According to
Blanch Appleton was a manor on Fenchurch Street
next to St. Katherine Coleman in Aldgate Ward.
It is marked on the Agas map as Blanch chapelton
. discontinued,
and therefore forgotten, so as no-thing
remaineth for memorie, but the name of Mart Lane
(Stow 113).
The site was claimed by the Mayor and Commonality of the City in Blanch Appleton Court
(Harben).
Located along The Strand in Westminster, the site of Savoy Hospital was initially the manor of
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
Merchant Taylors’ School was a grammar school founded by
Mark Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. It was for the most parte of this Towerstreet warde
(Stow). The north end of the street, from Fenchurch Street to Hart
Street was divided between Aldgate Ward
and Landbourn Ward. Stow says Mark Lane was so called of a Priuiledge sometime
enjoyed to keepe a mart there, long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten,
so as nothing remaineth for memorie
(Stow). Modern scholars have suggested that it was
instead named after the mart, where oxen were fattened for slaughter (Harben).
Queenhithe is one of the oldest
havens or harbours for ships along the Thames. landing place
. Queenhithe
was known in the ninth century as Aetheredes hyd or the landing place of
Aethelred
. Aethelred was the son-in-law of Alfred the Great (the first king
to unify England and have any real authority over London), an
Stow says that by 1302 the bakers in London were obligated to sell their bread at a central market, eventually giving its name to Breadstreet.
Also known as St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel Church was located on Whitechapel Street.
Milk Street, located in Cripplegate Ward, began on the north side of Cheapside, and ran north to a square formed at the intersection of Milk Street, Cat Street (Lothbury), Lad Lane, and Aldermanbury.
Mincing Lane ran north-south from Fenchurch Street to Tower
Street. All of the street was part of Tower
Street Ward
except the corner house[s] towardes Fenchurch
streete
, which were in Langbourn
Ward (Stow). Stow notes
that the street was named after tenements there sometime pertayning to
the Minchuns or Nunnes of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate streete
(Stow). Stow also makes a definitive link between
the lane and London’s commercial history.
The hall of the
According to large, builded of Stone, with three arched Gates towards the street
(Stow 1: 234).
Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
Within the Middle Temple complex on the west side of Middle Temple Lane.
Part of the Middle Temple complex, repaired by Sir Amias Paulet in the reign of Henry VIII.
The parish of St. Michael, Cornhill was one of two parishes within Cornhill Ward. Although not much geographical information is known about the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, the births, marriages, and deaths of its parishioners were detailed in the parish register, beginning in
Grub Street could be found outside the walled city of London. It ran north-south, between Everades Well Street in the north and Fore Lane in the south. Grub Street was partially in Cripplegate ward, and partially outside the limits of the city of London.
Founded in
Running south from Aldgate Street to Little Tower Hill, Minories derives its name from the Abbey of St. Clare, called the Abbey of the Minoresses of St. Clare, which stood at the street’s midpoint (Harben 416).
Located on the eastern boundary of Portsoken Ward (Harben 417), the Minories Bars are not featured on the Agas map.
Westminster Abbey was a historically significant church, located on the bottom-left corner of the Agas map. Colloquially known as
St. Saviour (Southwark) dates back at least
to Overies
referring to its being over
the
Thames, that is, on its southern bank.
After S. Mary Owber
.
According to
Austin Friars was a church on the west side of Broad Street in Broad
Street Ward. It was formerly part of the Priory of Augustine Friars, established in 1253. At the dissolution
of the monastery in 1539, the West end [of the church] thereof inclosed from
the steeple, and Quier, was in the yeare 1550. graunted to the Dutch Nation in
London [by
(Stow). The Quier
and side Isles to the Quier adioyning, he reserued to housholde vses, as for
stowage of corne, coale, and other things
(Stow). The church, completely rebuilt in the nineteenth century and
then again mid-way through the twentieth century, still belongs to Dutch
Protestants to this day.
Montfichet’s Tower was a fortress on Ludgate Hill in London.
A low-lying marshy area just northeast of Moorgate and on the way to the Curtain, Moorfields was home to a surprising range of activities and accompanying cultural associations in early modern London. Beggars and the mentally ill patients of neighbouring Bethlehem Hospital often frequented the area. Some used the public space to bleach and dry linen, and the full of noysome waters
(Stow 2: 77) until
The Green Gate was a house on the south side of Leadenhall Street, east of Leadenhall in Lime Street Ward. Stow’s interest went beyond the building itself and its location; he was confounded by the misdemeanours that occurred within it. The Green Gate was the site of not one but two robberies.
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