John Stow
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Giving the Walbrook the Elbow….
College Hill, Dowgate, Downgate Street, Edward III, Edward IV, Elbow Lane, F.J. Furnivall, flow, Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey Scrope, George Duke of Clarence, Henry I, John Nevill Lord Raby, John Stow, London, maps, Olde Hall, Richard of Warwick, River Walbrook, rivers, Roman era, sewage system, St Mary Overy, Thames StreetIn this article I wrote the following:- “….The Walbrook flowed quite swiftly [south] from its source, but on nearing the Thames the land flattened considerably, and the river seems to have indulged in a curve….” This curve or meander, when filled in and “improved” in the 15th century, for the river to flow more…
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THE ORANGE AND LEMON CHURCHES OF OLD LONDON
Blitz, burials, citrus fruits, executions, Great Fire of London, Great Plague, Grinling Gibbons, Hardicanute, Harold I, Hugenots, Hugh Lord Dowding, James Boswell, James Gibbs, John Smith, John Stow, Katherine Howard, London, Lord Mayors of London, Nikolaus Pevsner, nursery rhymes, Pocahontas, rugby, Rugby School, Samuel Johnson, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Richard Whittington, St. Clement Danes, St. clement Eastcheap, St. Dunstan’s and All Saints Stepney, St. Leonard’s Shoreditch, St. Martin Orgar, St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, St. Sepulchre’s Old Bailey, Thomas Culpeper, Will Somers, William Webb-EllisReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com Old London – City of Churches. Bow Church can be seen to the left. Part of the The Visscher Panorama of London, 1616. Image Peter Harrington Rare Books. Orange and lemons say the bells of Saint Clement’s You owe me five farthings say the bells of St Martin’s…
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THE ANCIENT GATES OF OLD LONDON
Aldersgate, Aldgate, Anne Sutton, Bastard of Fauconberg, Bethnal Green, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ealdred, Edmund the Martyr, Edward IV, Edward V, gates, Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Fire of London, Henry I, John Stow, London, Ludgate, Moorgate, Newgate Prison, Old London Bridge, past maps, Peter Hammond, Richard III, Southwark, Watling StreetREBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI THE ANCIENT GATES OF LONDON Old London Map c1572. Franz Hogenberg And so Dear Reader, we are going to take a break from murderous queens, scheming duchesses, bad kings, good kings, missing royal children and silly bishops. We are going to take a look at London’s Old Gates. Where were…
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Katherine Plantagenet, her burial in St James Garlickhithe.
Christian Steer, churches, commission of array, Elizabeth of York, George Lord Strange, Great Fire of London, Henry VII, illegitimate children, John of Gloucester, John Stow, Katherine Plantagenet, Mary Wydeville, Maud Herbert, Raglan Castle, Ricardian, Richard III, Richard Rothing, royal marriages, St. James Garlickhythe, sweating sickness, Thomas Benolt, Tintern Abbey, WE Hampton, widowers, William Herbert Earl of HuntingdonReblogged from here The Great Fire of London. The devastating conflagration that consumed so much of medieval London including St James Garlickhythe. Artist Lieve Verschuier This post will of necessity prove to be short there being a dearth of information on both Katherine and the pre-Fire St James Garlickhythe Church where she was buried. The church…
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OLD LONDON BRIDGE – A MEDIEVAL WONDER!
Anne Sutton, bigamy, Canterbury Cathedral, Chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, coronation procession, David Earl of Crawford, Dover, Drawbridge Gate, Elizabeth Wydeville, fire, funeral procession, Great Stonegate, Henry II, Henry V, Jack Cade, John Stow, jousting, Kentishmen, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Livia Visser-Fuchs, Lord Wells, Old London Bridge, Peasants’ Revolt, Peter de Colechurch, pre-contract, rebellions, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Southwark, Thomas Becket, traitors, Vikings, Wat Tyler, Westminster AbbeyREBLOGGED FROM sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri London from Southwark, c.1630. Old London Bridge is in the right foreground and Old St Paul’s Cathedral on the skyline to the left. Old London Bridge Antiquated, in a run down state, and at 600 years old, the old bridge had reached its self by date and was demolished in…
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The Priory of the Knights Hospitaller of St John at Clerkenwell and a visit by Richard III
Clerkenwell, Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of York, Great Fire of London, Henry VIII, Joanna, John Stow, Knights Hospitaller, Manuel, Mary I, Peasants’ Revolt, Portuguese marriage plans, Priories, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Rhoda Edwards, Richard III, Sir Thomas Tresham, Somerset HouseREPOSTED FROM sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/06/25/the-priory-of-the-knights-hospitaller-of-st-john-at-clerkenwell-and-a-visit-by-richard-iii/ The Great South Gate now known as St John’s Gateway as it is today Shortly after the death of his wife, Anne Neville on the 16th March 1485 Richard rode to the Priory of the Knights Hospitaller of St John at Clerkenwell. . On the 30 March 1485, which fell…
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Reconstruction of Christmas at Eltham 1482 – Historic England (illustration by Peter Urmston) In the 14th century it became a royal tradition to spend Christmas at Eltham, and by 1482, Edward IV also held his Christmas there. The top picture is an imagined scene of this Christmas in the great hall (pictured immediately above) with…
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AUSTIN FRIARS: LAST RESTING PLACE OF PERKIN WARBECK
“A survey of London”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, Austin Friars, Blitz, burials, churches, Drapers Hall, Dutch Church, Earls of Hereford, Earls of Oxford, Edward of Buckingham, Erasmus, Eustace Chapuys, executions, friaries, Great Fire of London, Humphrey de Bohun, John Stow, Marquis of Winchester, mtDNA evidence, Old Broad Street, Sir Thomas Cook, St. Augustine, tenements, Thomas Cromwell, WE Hampton, William CollingbourneUPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/austin-friars-last-resting-place-of-perkin-warbeck-2/ Austin Friars today. This section of road covers part of the perimeter of the Friary. With thanks to Eric, Londonist. Austin Friars in London, was founded about 1260 by Humphrey de Bohun 2nd Earl of Hereford and Constable of England d.1275. It was rebuilt in…
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We all know the legend that George of Clarence was drowned in a butt of Malmsey. I wonder how much such a butt would have cost at the time? I doubt it was as much as it became when Henry VII sat on his stolen throne. Henry was never one to miss an opportunity to…
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