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Coldharbour – An Important Medieval London House
Aldgate Ward, All Hallows the Less, Antony van den Wyngaerde, City of London, Coldharbour, Cuthbert Tunstal Bishop of Durham, Earls of Shrewsbury, Edmund of Langley, Edward III, Edward of Woodstock, Elizabeth of York, Great Fire of London, Henry VII, John Holland, John of Gaunt, John Stow, Kingsford, l’Erber, Lady Margaret Beaufort, London Topographical Society, maps, Marjorie Honeybourne, Mondial House, Pountney’s Inn, Reginald Bray, renovation, Richard II, Samuel Pepys, Sir Robert Cecil, Wolsey LaneReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com A segment of the Visscher Panorama of London 1616 showing Coldharbour after the earlier medieval house had been demolished by the Earl of Shrewsbury c.1585 and rebuilt up to the waterfront. The rebuild incorporated many tenements ‘now letten out for great rents to people of all sorts’ (Stow). …
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