Long Shop (Cheapside)

Long Shop in Cheapside was, according to Victor Belcher and Martha Carlin, built in 1401 (Carlin and Belcher 79). On the Agas Map, Long Shop is obscured by Cheapside Cross. Stow writes about the location in highly economic terms:
The long shoppe or shed incroching on the high street before this Church wall, was licenced to be made in the yeare 1401, yeelding to the Chamber of London 30. Shillings foure pence yearely for the time, but since 13 shillings foure pence. Also the same shop was letten by the Parish for three pound at the most many yeres since. (Stow i. 314)

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