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Section Dowgate Ward of stow_1598, pages 191–197.
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Sheriff of London
Seventh Earl of Hereford. Father of
First Duke of Clarence.
Pirate, sea-captain, and explorer.
King of England
King of England
King of England and Ireland
King of England
King of England
Biographer and clerk.
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Third Duke of Exeter. Lancastrian leader during the Wars of the Roses.
King of England and Ireland
King of England
King of England
King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine
First Earl of Huntington. Father of
First Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge.
King of England
King of England and Lord of Ireland
Historian and author of
Printer.
Bookseller and printer.
Master of the
Mayor of London
Sheriff of London
King of Arms. Father of
Owner of the building that would become Skinnersʼ Hall.
Lawyer.
Sheriff of London
Sheriff of London
Son of
Member of the
Donated funds to Bishopsgate.
Donated funds to Bishopsgate.
Donated funds to Bishopsgate.
Donated funds to Bishopsgate.
Donated funds to Bishopsgate.
Donated funds to Bishopsgate.
Sheriff of London
Preacher and author. Buried at All Hallows the Great.
Member of the
Member of the
Member of the
Knight.
Witness to a contract between
Member of the
Father of
Father of
Wife of
Wife of
Knight. Husband of
Son of
Knight. Husband of
Knight.
Husband of
Wife of
Wife of
Son of
Tenement owner in Cold Harbour.
Property owner and courtier. Founder of a chantry at All Hallows the Great.
Donated two dwellings to Coldharbour.
Bishop of London
Sheriff of London
Sixteenth Earl of Warwick and Sixth Earl of Salisbury. Son of
Lord of Raby. Nobleman and soldier.
According to Stow, a college of
priests who lived together in Dowgate Ward. (
German merchants who worked at the Steelyard.
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Dowgate Street is a high street that runs north-south from Candlewick Street to the Thames. According to Dowgate
(Harben Dowgate Hill). According to downe going or descending
, because the street descends to the Thames (Stow 248).
Thames Street was the longest street in early modern London, running east-west from the ditch around the Tower of London in the east to St. Andrew’s Hill and Puddle Wharf in the west, almost the complete span of the city within the walls.
Conduit upon Dowgate was a water conduit in Dowgate Ward. It flowed from the upper end of Dowgate Street to the Thames (Stow 248). Dowgate marks the end of the water conduit where it flows into the Thames. According to Stow, the conduit was built in
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
.
Joiners’ Hall was built on the company’s property in Thames Street, some time between
Running parallel to Dowgate, Grantam Lane spanned north to south from Thames Street to the Thames.
Brewer’s Lane
(Harben).
The Steelyard was the chief outpost of the
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
According to large, builded of Stone, with three arched Gates towards the street
(Stow 1: 234).
In the middle ages, Westcheap was the main market west of the Walbrook, so called to distinguish it from Eastcheap, the market
in the east. By
All Hallows the Great was a church located on the south side of Thames Street and on the east side of Church Lane. faire Church with a large
cloyster
, but remarks that it has been foulely defaced and ruinated
(Stow 1: 235).
Coldharbour was a mansion dating back to at least
Candlewick, or Candlewright Street as it was sometimes called, ran east-west from Walbrook in the west to the beginning of Eastcheap at its eastern terminus. Candlewick became Eastcheap somewhere around St. Clements Lane, and led into a great meat market (Stow 1 :217). Together with streets such as Budge Row, Watling Street, and Tower Street, which all joined into each other, Candlewick formed the main east-west road through London between Ludgate and Posterngate.
According to
We are awaiting further confirmation of this street’s position.
Merchant Taylors’ School was a grammar school founded by
Manor of the Rose was a residence on Suffolk Lane in Dowgate Ward.
According to
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DOwngate warde beginneth at the ſouthend of
Walbrooke warde, ouer againſt the eaſt corner of
S. Iohns Church, vpon Walbrooke, and
deſcen
deth on both the ſides to Downgate, on the
Thames,
and is ſo called of that downe going or
deſcending thereunto: and of this Downgate the warde taketh
name. This warde turneth
into Thames ſtreet weſtwarde, ſome
ten houſes on a
ſide, to the courſe of Walbrooke but eaſt in
Thames ſtreete, on both ſides to Ebgate or old ſwan, and
o
uer againſt Ebgate the land ſide hath many lanes turning, as ſhal
be ſhewed, but
firſt, to begin with the high ſtreete called Dow
gate at the vpper end thereof, is a
fayre Conduite of Thames wa
ter, caſtellated, and made in the yeare 1568,
at charges of the
Then was there a Colledge of Prieſts called
a houſe well furniſhed with braſſe, pewter, napery
plate, &c. be
ſides a fayre Library well
ſtored with bookes, all which of olde
mons there, and as one left his place by death, or
otherwiſe, an
other ſhould be admitted into his roome, but this order within
this
thirty yeares being diſcontinued, the ſaide houſe was diſſol
ued, and turned to Tenementes.
Down lower haue ye Elbow lane, and at the
corner therof
was one great ſtone houſe, called Olde
hall, it is now taken
downe, and diuers fayre houſes of Timber placed
there, this was
ſometime pertayning to
giuen to the Priorie of S. Mary Ouery in
Southwarke, in the
Henry the firſt
hall, and other fayre houſes: this lane runneth weſt, and
ſudden
ly turneth ſouth into Thames ſtreet, and therefore of that ben
ding is called Elbow
lane. On the eaſt ſide of this Downgate
ſtreete, is the great olde houſe, before ſpokn of, called the Erber,
neare to the Church of S.
Mary Bothaw,
held it, by the gift of
Edward the third
raigneRaby, then to
Warwicke,
Neuell, Earle of Saliſbery
was lodged there,
In Thames ſtreete, on the Thames ſide weſt from Downe
gate is Greenewitch
lane of old time
ſo called, and now Fryer
lane of ſuch a ſigne there
ſet vp. In this lane is the Ioynars hall.
and other fayre houſes. Then is Granthams lane ſo
called of
was
very large and ſtrong, builded of ſton, as appeareth by gates
arched yet
remaining,
Mercer Maior 1529.
dwelled there, and kept his Maioralty,
Then is Dowgate whereof is ſpoken in an other place.
Eaſt
ſinRicharde the
ſecond
diuers his Prediceſſors, Father, Grandfather, &c. had
done before
him.
riffes, in the yeare, 1306.
the
Of later time to wit, in the 6.
of Richard the 2
don in the 49. of Edward the 34. of Richard the
2
rebels of Kent, drawne out of that houſe, and
beheaded in Weſt
Cheape: this alſo was a great houſe
with a large wharfe on the
Thames, and the way
thereunto was called Windgooſe or Wild
gooſe
lane, which is now called Windgooſe
alley, for that the ſame
alley is for the moſt part builded on by the
ſtilyard marchants.
The Abbot of S. Albons had a meſſuage heere
with a Key gi
uen to him in the 34. of Henry the
6
houſe which ſometime pertained to
ger Mayor, and it was by him giuen to the Mayor, and commu
naltie to the end that the profits thereof
ſhould be diſpoſed in déedes
of pietie: which houſe in the 15. of Edward the
fourth
med vnto the
ſaid marchants in manner following vz. It is orday
ned by our ſoueraigne Lord and his parliament, that the
ſaid
chantes of
Almaine
Teutonicorū, that now be or hereafter ſhal be, ſhal haue
hold and
enioy to them and their ſucceſſors for euer, the ſaid place called, the
ſtele houſe, yéelding to the Mayor and communalty an annual rent
of 70. pound, 3.
ſhillings, foure pence, &c.
In the yeare 1551. and the
Then is church lane, at the
weſt end of Alhallows church cal
led Alhallowes the more in Thames ſtréet, for a difference from
Alhallowes the leſſe in the ſame ſtréete: it
is alſo called Alhal
lowes ad foenum in the
Ropery, becauſe hay ſold néere thereunto
at hey wharſe, and of ropes
of olde time made or ſolde in the high
ſtreet. This is a faire church with a large
cloyſter on the South
ſide thereof about their churchyard, but foulely defaced
& ruinated.
The church alſo hath had many faire monuments, but now defa
ced: there remayneth in the quire ſome
plates on graue ſtones on
theſe perſons, namely of
who deceaſed the yeare 1447. he was a great
ſtudent, and compi