VI.—Paris Garden and the Bear-baiting

C. L. Kingsford

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VI.—Paris Garden and the Bear-baiting

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C. L. Kingsford

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Paris Garden and the bear-baiting form a subject so hackneyed that I should not deal with it in a communication to this Society if I did not believe that I had something that was both novel and interesting to lay before them. I shall not, however, enter upon the history of either further than is necessary for the illustration and explanation of my new material.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 70 , 1920 , pp. 155 - 178

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900011073 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1920

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^{page 156 note 1} History of Dramatic Poetry, iii, 94.

^{page 156 note 2} Early London Theatres, 129-31. Collier's supposed source was the Regulations for the Household of Henry, 5th Earl of Northumberland, edited by Bishop Percy in 1770.

^{page 156 note 3} Cp. Harrison's Description of England, ii, Appendix I, p. iii.

^{page 156 note 4} Shakespeare's England, ii, 428.

^{page 157 note 1} P. 473, fifth edition.

^{page 157 note 2} He contributed 40 l. to the loan to the King in 1370 I: Letter Book, G, p. 276.

^{page 157 note 3} vol. i, p. 35.

^{page 157 note 4} Early London Theatres, pp. 128 and 203; see, however, pp. 247-8. The legend is accepted by Professor Adams, J. Q. in Shakespearean Playhouses, p. 122.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 1} Close Roll, 16 Richard II, m. II. See also the French version in Rolls of Parliament, iii. 306Google Scholar, and the abstract ap. Letter Book, H, p. 392.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 2} Letter Book, H, pp. 240, 332.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 3} That is for baiting. Though Henry III had a white bear, for which a long and stout cord was provided to hold him when fishing in the Thames. Bayley, , Antiquities of the Tower of London, i, 270Google Scholar.

^{page 157 note 4} Annales Monastics, iii, 432.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 5} Id., iii, 442-3.

^{page 158 note 1} Cartulary of St. John's, Clerkenwell, ap. Cotton MS. Nero E. vi, f. 55 ‘tota hida de Wideflete que est super Thamisiam contra Nouum Templum de feodo Roberti Marmyun cum molendinis et cum hominibus super eandem terram manentibus’. By a curious error ‘Gaufrido Archiepiscopo Cantuar.’ appears as the first witness. The charter was dated ‘apud Buru.’. For the date compare Eyton, Itinerary of Henry II, p. 282.

^{page 158 note 2} Cotton. MS. Nero. E. vi, f. 56.

^{page 158 note 3} Monasticon, vi, 818, 832Google Scholar from the Cotton MS.

^{page 158 note 4} Ancient Deeds, C. 4357 and C. 5214.

^{page 159 note 1} There is reference to a close called ‘e Wyles’ adjoining ‘Temple milnes’ in 1337, and to ‘molendinum nostrum de Wyles’ in 1394. Cotton MS. u.s. ff. 55, 56.

^{page 159 note 2} Statutes of the Realm, iii, pp. 675, 676, and 695Google Scholar. Collier (iii, 95) inaccurately states that Paris Garden was acquired by Henry VIII from Bermondsey Abbey.

^{page 159 note 3} Augmentation Book 232, f. 13, and Letters and Papers, xiii (i), p. 573.Google Scholar

^{page 159 note 4} Royal MS. 7 F. xiv,- f. 82^vo, Letters and Papers xii (ii), 975Google Scholar. Th e date is soon after Jane Seymour's death.

^{page 159 note 5} Catalogue of Alleyn MSS., p. 231, ed. Warner, G. F..Google Scholar

^{page 160 note 1} See p. 176, below.

^{page 160 note 2} Augmentation Book, 214, f. 39 b.Google Scholar; Letters and Papers, xvii, p. 700.Google Scholar

^{page 160 note 3} Augmentation Book, 217, f. 5Google Scholar; Letters and Papers, xxi (i), p. 779.Google Scholar

^{page 160 note 4} Ministers' Accounts, Henry VIII, 6026, at P.R.O.

^{page 161 note 1} Early London Theatres, p. 134. It had certainly disappeared before 1561.

^{page 161 note 2} Archacologia, xxiii, 354-5.Google Scholar

^{page 161 note 3} Select Works of R. Crowley, p. 16, E.E.T.S.Google Scholar

^{page 161 note 4} Two Notable Sermons.Google Scholar

^{page 162 note 1} Diary (Camden Soc), pp. 78, 198.

^{page 162 note 2} Collect. Top. et Gen. viii, 253.Google Scholar

^{page 162 note 3} Stow, , Annales, p. 696, ed. 1631Google Scholar.

^{page 162 note 4} Walford's, Antiquarian Magazine, viii, 35.Google Scholar

^{page 163 note 1} Early London Theatres, pp. 127, 141.Google Scholar

^{page 163 note 2} The reference quoted above, p. 162, is of a similar character.

^{page 163 note 3} See p. 177, below.

^{page 163 note 4} Catalogue of Alleyn MSS., p. 231.

^{page 163 note 5} See p. 170, below.

^{page 164 note 1} Interrogatories, p. 176, below. The deed of 1546 is recited in a Deed of Joan Payne, widow of William Payne, where the date is given. Ancient Deeds, A. 12582. There is mention of The Barge at Southwark adjoining the tenement called The Rose in 1417 (Anc. Deeds, D. 895).

^{page 164 note 2} I quote the Interrogatory, but Payne was of course only deputy for Cuthbert Vaughan.

^{page 164 note 3} Not, as Mr. Ordish (p. 139) supposes, the ‘Water-poet’, who was not born till 1580, whereas the witness was born about 1543.

^{page 164 note 4} p. 176, below.

^{page 164 note 5} p. 171, below.

^{page 164 note 6} Called Wistoe by Alleyn (p. 177, below), and Wistow or Wiston in the Interrogatories (p. 176 below).

^{page 165 note 1} See p. 174 below.

^{page 165 note 2} The scaffolds were new builded before 3rd Juty, 1583, Remembrancia, p. 16.

^{page 165 note 3} Early Theatres, p. 204.Google Scholar

^{page 165 note 4} See p. 172, below. The ‘Old Bear Garden’ must in this place refer to one of the earliest sites.

^{page 165 note 5} See p. 173, below.

^{page 166 note 1} See pp. 175-77 below. A pond appears in Braun'smap; it may have been one of the old fishponds; see p. 170.

^{page 166 note 2} See p. 178, below.

^{page 166 note 3} Bull, Beare and Horse, published in 1638. Since it is not very accessible I give the list here. ‘Hear e follows the Names of the Bulls and Beares at the Beare Garden now. The Bulls are: 1. Goldilocks. 2. Emperour. 3. Dash. 4. Jugler. The Beares are: 1. Ned of Canterbury. 2. George of Cambridge. 3. Don John. 4. Ben Hunt. 5. Nan Stiles. 6. Besse of Ipswich. 7. Robin Hood. 8. Blind Robin. 9. Judith of Cambridge. 10. Besse Hill. 11. Kate of Kent. 12. Rose of Bedlam. 13. Nan Talbot. 14. Moll Cutpurse. 15. Nell of Holland. 16. Mad Besse. 17. Will Tookey. 18. Besse Runner. 19. Tom Dogged.’ Mad Besse and Will Tookey were ‘White Beares’.

^{page 166 note 4} See p. 175, below.

^{page 166 note 5} Rye, England as seen by Foreigners, p. 45.

^{page 167 note 1} p. 432. ‘Tom of Lincoln’ is referred to in the Duke of Newcastle's play, The Humorous Lovers, in 1617.

^{page 168 note 1} Rye, W. B., England as seen by Foreigners, p. 61.Google Scholar

^{page 168 note 2} Collins, , Sidney Papers, ii, 194.Google Scholar

^{page 168 note 3} Catalogue of Alleyn MSS., p. 83. It appears to be one of Collier's forgeries.

^{page 168 note 4} Bull, Beare, and Horse, ap. Spenser Society, Third Collection.

^{page 168 note 5} I should mention, however, the quite recent article on ‘The Bear-Garden Contract of 1606 and what it implies’, by Mr. J. Lawrence and Mr. W. H. Godfrey, F.S.A., Architectural Revieiv, June, 1920.

^{page 169 note 1} See p. 177, below.

^{page 169 note 2} Walford, Antiquarian Magazine, viii, 57.

^{page 169 note 3} Early London Theatres, p. 201.

^{page 169 note 4} Id., p. 140.

^{page 169 note 5} Though not unnaturally in 1578 one of the buildings further west was so designated.

^{page 169 note 6} Edited by H. B. Wheatley and E. W. Ashbee in 1879. Th e London map is pl. xxviii.

^{page 170 note 1} See p. 172, below.

^{page 170 note 2} Anc. Deeds, C. 6362.

^{page 170 note 3} C. 5214.

^{page 170 note 4} C. 4200.

^{page 170 note 5} C. 3227.

^{page 170 note 6} C. 3419.

^{page 170 note 7} C. 4357.

^{page 170 note 8} C. 3221 and 4711. Payne's property had the prioress of Stratford's tenement on the west; see p. 176, below.

^{page 171 note 1} C. 7225 and 7403.

^{page 171 note 2} It will be observed how many of the holders of these pieces of ground were fishmongers. The explanation, no doubt, is that they had their stews in the ponds in the Pyke Garden. This suggests that the original meaning of ‘the Stews’ in Southwark was simply the fish-ponds. When the district became notorious for houses of ill-fame, the transition of the name to its other meaning would have been easy. I am disposed to hazard the conjecture that Bankside was the name for the row of houses towards the east facing the river, and Stewes-side for the row of houses further west backing on the Stews or fish-ponds of Pyke Garden.

^{page 173 note 1} 1 I copied the first three words when I first saw the deed: they are not now visible.

^{page 175 note 1} The MS. is defective.

^{page 176 note 1} See p. 164 above.

^{page 177 note 1} See p. 164 above.

^{page 170 note 2} See 165 above.

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