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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 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.
Draper’s Hall was a livery company hall on the
north side of Throgmorton Street in Broad Street Ward. On the Agas map, Drapers’ Hall appears as a large house with three
round towers, thus resembling the architecture of Hampton Court Palace and some
of the college gates at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Stow records that the hall was built by
Leadenhall Street ran east-west from Cornhill Street to Aldgate Street. All three form part of the same road from Aldgate to Cheapside (Weinreb and Hibbert 462). The street acquired its name from Leadenhall, a onetime house and later a market. The building was reportedly famous for having a leaden roof (Bebbington 197).
Fenchurch Street (often called pork and peas
after her sister,
St. Andrew Undershaft stands at the southeast corner of St. Mary Axe Street in Aldgate Ward.The church of St. Andrew Undershaft is the final resting place of
In
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In the introduction to his 1971 critical edition of
the first painful searcher into the reverend antiquities of Londonand also describes
citizen of long descent(1.vii).
his father’s garden
(Kingsford 1.viii). bread, meat and
drink
every day at many a halfpennyworth of milk hot from the
kine
in Goodman’s Fields (Kingsford 1.viii).
must have been tolerable for his time and
station. However, [Stow’s] description of how in his youth he had yearly
seen on the eve of St. Bartholomew the scholars of divers grammar-schools
repair unto the church yard of St.
Bartholomew hardly suggests that he took part in their exercises
(Kingsford 1.viii). was a
working tailor
for almost thirty years (Kingsford 1.viii). He was a member of the Yeomanry of the
Company
(Pearl v). His home and business were by the well
within Aldgate between Leadenhall and Fenchurch Street
(Kingsford 1.viii). According to Kingsford, must have prospered fairly
(1.viii-ix) and had enough
money to purchase an assortment of manuscripts and books.
Over the next fifteen years, he appears to have educated himself in Latin, poetry, and the antiquities (Kingsford 1.ix). His first publication in 1561 was
For many years prior to publishing
Kingsford also proposes that this rivalry may have been exacerbated by
trouble in literary pursuits may have put him out of sympathy with
his commercial kinsfolk
and that there may have been some religious
difference, for
(1.xiii). The family discord seems to
have reached its climax when I wax old and decay in my occupation and have a
great charge of children, and a wife that can neither get nor save
(1.xv). His mother died without making
the change. Kingsford suggests the sensational details of the family dispute
are of the greatest value for the light
(1.xv).
In 1569,
(1.xvi) and the subsequent search
of his house. Although phantasticall popishe bokes
.
Nevertheless, the report concluded, his bokes declare him to be a great
favourer of papistrye
(qtd. in Kingsford
1.xvii).
Though the Privy Council did not pursue the matter any further, point
(1.xviii). For example,
false accuser of his elder brother(1.xix) for his dishonesty. Kingsford proposes thathanged
popish inclinations(1.xix). In turn, he may have
triumphed over his enemies(1.xix) because of his associations with and recognition by other noted antiquaries of the period. He belonged to the Society of Antiquaries, whose members counselled and helped each other. He shared with
diverse rare monuments, ancient writers and necessary register books(1.xxi) from his extensive collection.
Though his writing had given him friendship and renown, he is reported to
have spent his later life with very little income.
lack of money, a complaint endorsed by a number of contemporaries.BeerEdmund Howes [Stow’s literary executor (Pearl vi)] wrote thatStow never rode but travelled on foot as he visited old buildings and searched for historical records, whileBen Jonson remarked that when he andStow were walking together, they met two lame beggars whomStow asked whether they would take him into their order.
financial problems resulted
from his difficulties in earning an adequate living from book sales and from
his failure to attract a sufficiently generous patron
(Beer). However, the ample inheritance mural monument of Derbyshire marble and alabaster
in the
parish church of St Andrew
Undershaft
suggest that
After was tall of
stature, lean of body and of a pleasant and cheerful countenance, sober,
mild and courteous.
(qtd. in Pearl v-vi). Although celebration
of the City,
(19). Collinson, however, judges
selective
(28) and cites omissions
that may not have agreed with Stage playes, hath beene vsed
Comedies, Tragedies, Enterludes, and Histories, both true and fayned: For
the acting whereof certaine publike places haue beene erected
(qtd. in Collinson 31). In the 1603 publication,
however, the passing reference to the playhouses of the Curtain and the Theatre were removed (Collinson
31).
Despite identifiable imperfections, district-by-district perambulation of the boundaries and
monuments of the wards, liberties and suburbs of London
and his exposition
of the traditional practices and values of the citizen class
(Manley 36) remains an admired work
central to scholarship on early modern London.