Eastcheap
Agas MapList documents mentioning Eastcheap- Billingsgate Ward
- Bridge Within Ward
- Candlewick Street
- Candlewick Street Ward
- Cheapside Market
- Cheapside Street
- Excerpt from London Survey’d
- Excerpts from Eastward Ho!
- Excerpts from The Shoemaker’s Holiday
- Ironmonger Lane
- London Stone
- New Fish Street
- Pudding Lane
- St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward)
- Survey of London (1598): Billingsgate Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Bridge Ward Within
- Survey of London (1598): Candlewick Street Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Gates of this City
- Survey of London (1598): Orders and Customs
- Survey of London (1598): Parish Churches
- Survey of London (1598): Queen Hithe Ward
- Survey of London (1598): Walbrook Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Billingsgate Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Bridge Ward Within
- Survey of London (1633): Candlewick Street Ward
- Survey of London (1633): Orders and Customs
- Survey of London (1633): Queen Hithe Ward
- Teaching with MoEML: Three Parts of King Henry IV
- The Crown (Philpot Lane)
- Tower Street
- Variant spellings
List variant names and spellingsEast Cheap | East Cheape | East-Cheape | East-cheap | East-cheape | Eastcheap | Eastcheap Street | Eastcheape | Eaſt Cheape | Eaſt cheape | Eaſt chepe | Eaſt-Cheape | Eaſtcheap | Eaſtcheape | Eaſtchepe | Eschepe | Estchepe | Excheapp | Great East-Cheape | Great East-cheape | Great Eastcheap | Great Eaſtcheap | Great Eaſtcheape | Kissan | Little Eastcheap | great Eaſtcheape
Eastcheap Street ran east-west, from
Tower Street to St. Martin’s Lane. West of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street, Eastcheap was known as
Great Eastcheap.The portion of the street to the east of New Fish Street/Gracechurch Street was known as
Little Eastcheap.It is mislabelled as
S. Margarits Patens,a church that was actually located two blocks to the east (Prockter and Taylor 49).
Eastcheap (Eschepe or Excheapp) was the site of a medieval food market.
C[h]eapis an Anglo-Saxon verb that means
to barter, buy, and sell; to trade, deal, bargain(OED cheap, v.1). Hugh Alley sketched Eastcheap Market in A Caveatt for the Citty of London (see Folger Digital Image Collection).
The neighbourhood of Eastcheap is
best known to Shakespeareans as the location of Mistress Quickly’s inn, where Prince Hal drinks with Falstaff. In 1 Henry IV, Hal tells Poins that he has been drinking with the drawers and
learning their language. His familiarity with the commoners will ensure
their loyalty:
When I am King of England I shall command all the good lads in Eastcheap,Hal predicts (2.5.12–13).
See also: Chalfant 70.
References
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Chalfant, Fran C. Ben Jonson’s London: A Jacobean Placename Dictionary. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1978. Print.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford UP. https://www.oed.com/.This item is cited in the following documents:
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Prockter, Adrian, and Robert Taylor, comps. The A to Z of Elizabethan London. London: Guildhall Library, 1979. Print. [This volume is our primary source for identifying and naming map locations.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Eastcheap.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by , U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/EAST2.htm.
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Eastcheap.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. . Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/EAST2.htm.
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2022. Eastcheap. In (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/EAST2.htm.
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Hugh Alley
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Alley, Hugh. Hugh Alley’s Caveat: The Markets of London in 1598: Folger MS V.a. 318. Ed. Ian Archer, Caroline Barron, and Vanessa Harding. London: London Topographical Society, 1988. Print.
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Falstaff
Dramatic character in William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Mentioned in Henry V.Falstaff is mentioned in the following documents:
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Locations
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Tower Street
Tower Street ran east-west from Tower Hill in the east to St. Andrew Hubbard. It was the principal street of Tower Street Ward. That the ward is named after the street indicates the cultural significance of Tower Street, which was a key part of the processional route through London and home to many wealthy merchants who traded in the goods that were unloaded at the docks and quays immediately south of Tower Street (for example, Billingsgate, Wool Key, and Galley Key).Tower Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward)
St Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward) ran north-south from the boundary between Candlewick Street and Eastcheap to Thames Street and was located at the western edge of Bridge Within Ward at its boundary with Candlewick Street Ward. The street takes its name from St. Martin Orgar, located on its eastern side. It is labelledS. Martines la.
on the Agas map.St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward) is mentioned in the following documents:
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New Fish Street
New Fish Street (also known in the seventeenth century as Bridge Street) ran north-south from London Bridge at the south to the intersection of Eastcheap, Gracechurch Street, and Little Eastcheap in the north (Harben 432; BHO). At the time, it was the main thoroughfare to London Bridge (Sugden 191). It ran on the boundary between Bridge Within Ward on the west and Billingsgate Ward on the east. It is labelled on the Agas map asNew Fyſhe ſtreate.
Variant spellings includeStreet of London Bridge,
Brigestret,
Brugestret,
andNewfishstrete
(Harben 432; BHO).New Fish Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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Gracechurch Street
Gracechurch Street ran north-south from Cornhill Street near Leadenhall Market to the bridge. At the southern end, it was calledNew Fish Street.
North of Cornhill, Gracechurch continued as Bishopsgate Street, leading through Bishop’s Gate out of the walled city into the suburb of Shoreditch.Gracechurch Street is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Margaret Pattens is mentioned in the following documents:
Variant spellings
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East Cheap
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East Cheape
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Eaſt Cheape
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Eaſt cheape
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Eaſt chepe
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East-cheap
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East-Cheape
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East-cheape
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Eaſt-Cheape
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Eaſtcheap
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Eastcheap
- Survey of London (1598): Candlewick Street Ward
- Excerpt from London Survey’d
- Teaching with MoEML: Three Parts of King Henry IV
- Pudding Lane
- New Fish Street
- London Stone
- St. Martin’s Lane (Bridge Within Ward)
- Ironmonger Lane
- The Crown (Philpot Lane)
- Candlewick Street
- Cheapside Market
- Tower Street
- Eastcheap
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Eastcheap Street
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Eaſtcheape
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Eastcheape
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Eaſtchepe
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Eschepe
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Estchepe
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Excheapp
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Great East-Cheape
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Great East-cheape
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Great Eastcheap
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Great Eaſtcheap
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great Eaſtcheape
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Great Eaſtcheape
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Kissan
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Little Eastcheap
