The Barge
Agas MapLocated in Cheap Ward, The Barge was, in 1270,
described as houses called Bukerelesburyas it was
formerly owned by Thomas Bukerel(Carlin and Belcher 65). Eilert Ekwall notes that
[t]he wealthy and influential Bukerel family is recorded in London from about 1100and
that the property had probably descended to [Thomas Bukerel] from Thomas Bukerel senior, his father, who probably died c. 1240(Ekwall 196). In 1414 the house began to be referred to as le Barge, and in Stow’s London, The Barge was described
as a manor or great house in a great stone building, then surviving [only] in part(Carlin and Belcher 65). Stow states that:
This Mannor or great house hath of long time béene diuided and letten out into many tenements: and it hath béene a common speech that when the Walbrooke did lie open, barges were rowed out of the Thames, or towed vp so far, and therefore the place hath euer since béene called ye Old barge. (i. 208)It is also stated that
The Mercers had houses [at The Barge](Harben 46). Lastly, the houses
[g]ave name to [the] street called Bokelersbury(Carlin and Belcher 65), and, according to Harben, this name seems to
have been formed early in the 14th century(Harben 113).
References
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Carlin, Martha, and Victor Belcher.Gazetteer to the c.1270 and c.1520 Maps with Historical Notes.
The British Atlas of Historic Towns. Vol. 3. The City of London From Prehistoric Times to c.1520. Ed. Mary D. Lobel and W.H. Johns. Oxford: Oxford UP in conjunction with The Historic Towns Trust, 1989. Print. [Also available online at British Historic Towns Atlas. Gazetteer part 1. Gazetteer part 2. Gazetteer part 3.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Ekwall, Eilert. Street-Names of the City of London. Oxford: Clarendon, 1965. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ &nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. London: John Windet for John Wolfe, 1598. STC 23341. Huntington Library copy. Reprint. EEBO. Web.This item is cited in the following documents:
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