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The City Dog House, located in northern London, was adjacent to Moorfields and was located outside of The Wall and the city wards. On the Agas map, it is labelled as Dogge hous
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The City Dog House, located in northern London, was adjacent to MoorfieldsDogge hous
. Built in
The hounds were looked after by an officer called the
By the early 1600s, the Dog House seems to have fallen into disrepair, being referred to as verie old and reuinous and not fit for habitation
as well as having stinking smelles
(Waller 34). The that it doth rayne into the rooms of the Dogge hous’e throughout, and that the same will, in short time,- fall downe
(Waller 34). The house, however, remained standing, though we do not hear about it for some time so perhaps some repairs were finally made. After some debate on the importance of the
The There was a great cry for a mile, then the hounds killed him [the fox] at St. Giles; a great hallooing at his death and blowing of horns; and the
(Strype 25).
The hounds were treated well. After a stag hunt, they were given choice pieces of meat from the dead stag, and on their return to the Dog House the hounds had their feet bathed and greased (Velten 89). The popularity of the
The Dog House was certainly well known in its day, as evidenced by references to it in period literature. In
nay my Lord Maiors Hounds at the dog-house being bidden to the funerall banquet of a dead horse, could not pick the bones cleaner(Dekker,
went away like a cupple of hounds from the dogge-house(Dekker,
stinkes more then the Lord Mayors dogge-house(G.M. 13). Others mention the Lord Mayor’s Dog House as a fanciful place to commit suicide by dogs or as a place to throw someone you are not fond of. The noise and smell thus made it a proverbially frightful place for early modern Londoners (Jessey 130; Rowley 64). We can guess at the hounds’ diets from a mention in