MoEML: Liberties in early modern London. The term liberty was used to refer to suburban districts or other locations that were not under the jurisdiction of the City of London. For the generic place, see Liberty.

Liberties

Liberties in early modern London. The term liberty was used to refer to suburban districts or other locations that were not under the jurisdiction of the City of London. For the generic place, see Liberty.

Title	Points on Agas Map	Article status
Blackfriars (Farringdon Within)	Agas Map	Stub
Coldharbour		Empty
Fagswell Brook	Agas Map	Stub
Fuller Rents	Agas Map	Stub
Glasshouse Yard		Empty
Havering-atte-Bower		Empty
Inner Temple	Agas Map	Stub
Liberty of the Rolls		Published
Middle Temple	Agas Map	Assigned
Norton Folgate		Empty
Paris Garden Manor House	Agas Map	Empty
Salisbury Court	Agas Map	Stub
St. Martin’s le Grand	Agas Map	Empty
The Clink		Assigned
The Mint		Empty
Whitefriars	Agas Map	Stub

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MLA citation

The MoEML Team The MoEML Team, and Martin D. Holmes. Liberties in early modern London. The term liberty was used to refer to suburban districts or other locations that were not under the jurisdiction of the City of London. For the generic place, see Liberty. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/mdtEncyclopediaLocationLiberty.htm.

Chicago citation

The MoEML Team The MoEML Team, and Martin D. Holmes. Liberties in early modern London. The term liberty was used to refer to suburban districts or other locations that were not under the jurisdiction of the City of London. For the generic place, see Liberty. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/mdtEncyclopediaLocationLiberty.htm.

APA citation

The MoEML Team The MoEML Team, & Holmes, M. D. 2022. Liberties in early modern London. The term liberty was used to refer to suburban districts or other locations that were not under the jurisdiction of the City of London. For the generic place, see Liberty. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/mdtEncyclopediaLocationLiberty.htm.

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TEI citation

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Personography

Joey Takeda

JT

Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Roles played in the project
- Abstract Author
- Author
- CSS Editor
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- Conceptor
- Copy Editor
- Editor
- Encoder
- Geo-Coordinate Researcher
- Junior Programmer
- Markup Editor
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Joey Takeda is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
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Joey Takeda authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
- Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
Kim McLean-Fiander

KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.
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Janelle Jenstad

JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).
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- Course Instructor
- Course Supervisor
- Data Manager
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- Geo-Coordinate Researcher
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Contributions by this author
Janelle Jenstad is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:
Janelle Jenstad is mentioned in the following documents:
Janelle Jenstad authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
- Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650. Placing Names. Ed. Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2016. 129-145.
- Jenstad, Janelle. The Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody. The Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L. Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. The City Cannot Hold You: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s Shop. Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..
- Jenstad, Janelle. The Gouldesmythes Storehowse: Early Evidence for Specialisation. The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Public Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment. Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed. Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Smock Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage. Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Using Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London. GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed. Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print.
- Jenstad, Janelle. Versioning John Stow’s A Survey of London, or, What’s New in 1618 and 1633?. Janelle Jenstad Blog. https://janellejenstad.com/2013/03/20/versioning-john-stows-a-survey-of-london-or-whats-new-in-1618-and-1633/.
- Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Internet Shakespeare Editions. U of Victoria. http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MV/.
- 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. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
Martin D. Holmes

MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
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- Abstract Author
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- Encoder
- Geo-Coordinate Researcher
- Markup Editor
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Locations

Blackfriars (Farringdon Within)

The largest and wealthiest friary in England, Blackfriars was not only a religious institution but also a cultural, intellectual, and political centre of London. The friary housed London’s Dominican friars (known in England as the Black friars) after their move from the smaller Blackfriars precincts in Holborn. The Dominicans’ aquisition of the site, overseen by Robert Kilwardby, began in 1275. Once completed, the precinct was second in size only to St. Paul’s Churchyard, spanning eight acres from the Fleet to St. Andrew’s Hill and from Ludgate to the Thames. Blackfriars remained a political and social hub, hosting councils and even parlimentary proceedings, until its surrender in 1538 pursuant to Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries (Holder 27–56).
Blackfriars (Farringdon Within) is mentioned in the following documents:
Coldharbour
Coldharbour is mentioned in the following documents:
- Coldharbour Lane
- Gazetteer (C)
Fagswell Brook

Fagswell Brook became known as such by 1196 and was also known as the river of Fakeswell (Carlin and Belcher 73). It also [m]arked boundary of City liberty (Carlin and Belcher 73).
Fuller Rents

Fuller’s Rents (also known as Fulwood’s Rents) was a gated court north of Holborn, opposite Chancery Lane (Strype). It was not established until the reign of James I; the first reference is from 1618 (Cunningham 193). Although it postdates the Agas map, we have indicated the approximate location where the court was later established.
Fuller Rents is mentioned in the following documents:
Glasshouse Yard
Havering-atte-Bower
Inner Temple

Inner Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
Inner Temple is mentioned in the following documents:
Liberty of the Rolls

The Liberty of the Rolls was made up of the precincts associated with the official residence of the Master of the Rolls (also known as Rolls’ House) and of those associated with Rolls Chapel (Harben Rolls’ Office).
Liberty of the Rolls is mentioned in the following documents:
Middle Temple

Middle Temple was one of the four Inns of Court
Middle Temple is mentioned in the following documents:
Norton Folgate
Norton Folgate is mentioned in the following documents:
Paris Garden Manor House
Paris Garden Manor House is mentioned in the following documents:
Salisbury Court

According to Stow, the Salisbury Court was the temporary lodging house of the Bishops of Salisbury when called to London for various administrative duties (Stow 322).
Salisbury Court is mentioned in the following documents:
St. Martin’s le Grand
St. Martin’s le Grand is mentioned in the following documents:
The Clink
The Clink is mentioned in the following documents:
The Mint
Whitefriars

This page points to the district known as Whitefriars. For the theatre, see Whitefriars Theatre.
Whitefriars is mentioned in the following documents:

Liberties

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Personography

JT

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Joey Takeda is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

Joey Takeda is mentioned in the following documents:

Joey Takeda authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:

KMF

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Kim McLean-Fiander is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

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JJ

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Janelle Jenstad is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

Janelle Jenstad is mentioned in the following documents:

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MDH

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Martin D. Holmes is a member of the following organizations and/or groups:

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Locations

Blackfriars (Farringdon Within) is mentioned in the following documents:

Coldharbour is mentioned in the following documents:

Fuller Rents is mentioned in the following documents:

Inner Temple is mentioned in the following documents:

Liberty of the Rolls is mentioned in the following documents:

Middle Temple is mentioned in the following documents:

Norton Folgate is mentioned in the following documents:

Paris Garden Manor House is mentioned in the following documents:

Salisbury Court is mentioned in the following documents:

St. Martin’s le Grand is mentioned in the following documents:

The Clink is mentioned in the following documents:

Whitefriars is mentioned in the following documents:

Organizations

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