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Early Modern Literature in History General Editors: Cedric C. Brown, Emeritus Professor, University of Reading; Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English, University of Sussex, Brighton International Advisory Board: Sharon Achinstein, University of Oxford; Jean Howard, University of Columbia, John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge; Richard McCoy, CUNY; Michelle O Callaghan, University of Reading; Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield; Adam Smyth, University of London; Steven Zwicker, Washington University, St Louis. Within the period 1520 1740 this series discusses many kinds of writing, both within and outside the established canon. The volumes may employ different theoretical perspectives, but they share a historical awareness and an interest in seeing their texts in lively negotiation with their own and successive cultures. Titles include: John M. Adrian LOCAL NEGOTIATIONS OF ENGLISH NATIONHOOD, 1570 1680 Robyn Adams and Rosanna Cox DIPLOMACY AND EARLY MODERN CULTURE Jocelyn Catty WRITING RAPE, WRITING WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Unbridled Speech Patrick Cheney MARLOWE S REPUBLICAN AUTHORSHIP Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime Bruce Danner EDMUND SPENSER S WAR ON LORD BURGHLEY James Daybell and Peter Hinds (editors) MATERIAL READINGS OF EARLY MODERN CULTURE Texts and Social Practices, 1580 1730 James Daybell THE MATERIAL LETTER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512 1635 Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield (editors) THE RELIGIONS OF THE BOOK Christian Perceptions, 1400 1660 Maria Franziska Fahey METAPHOR AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA Unchaste Signification Andrew Gordon WRITING EARLY MODERN LONDON Memory, Text and Community Kenneth J.E. Graham and Philip D. Collington (editors) SHAKESPEARE AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE Teresa Grant and Barbara Ravelhofer ENGLISH HISTORICAL DRAMA, 1500 1660 Forms Outside the Canon Johanna Harris and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (editors) THE INTELLECTUAL CULTURE OF PURITAN WOMEN, 1558 1680 Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham (editors) THE LAW IN SHAKESPEARE Claire Jowitt (editor) PIRATES? THE POLITICS OF PLUNDER, 1550 1650

Gregory Kneidel RETHINKING THE TURN TO RELIGION IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE Edel Lamb PERFORMING CHILDHOOD IN THE EARLY MODERN THEATRE The Children s Playing Companies (1599 1613) Katherine R. Larson EARLY MODERN WOMEN IN CONVERSATION Monica Matei-Chesnoiu RE-IMAGINING WESTERN EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA David McInnis MIND-TRAVELLING AND VOYAGE DRAMA IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Scott L. Newstok QUOTING DEATH IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb P. Pender EARLY MODERN WOMAN S WRITING AND THE RHETORIC OF MODESTY Jane Pettegree FOREIGN AND NATIVE ON THE ENGLISH STAGE, 1588 1611 Metaphor and National Identity Fred Schurink (editor) TUDOR TRANSLATION Adrian Streets (editor) EARLY MODERN DRAMA AND THE BIBLE Contexts and Readings, 1570 1625 Mary Trull PERFORMING PRIVACY AND GENDER IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE Marion Wynne-Davies WOMEN WRITERS AND FAMILIAL DISCOURSE IN THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE Relative Values The series Early Modern Literature in History is published in association with the Early Modern Research Centre at the University of Reading and The Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex Early Modern Literature in History Series Standing Order ISBN 978 0 333 71472 0 (Hardback) 978 0 333 80321 9 (Paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England

Writing Early Modern London Memory, Text and Community Andrew Gordon University of Aberdeen, UK

Andrew Gordon 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-45167-8 ISBN 978-1-137-29492-0 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-29492-0 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements vi vii Introduction: Writing Early Modern London 1 1 Henry Machyn s Book of Remembrance 11 2 Contesting Inheritance: William Smith and Isabella Whitney 60 3 John Stow and the Textuality of Custom 110 4 Credit History to Civic History: Thomas Middleton and the Politics of Urban Memory 155 Conclusion 200 Notes 205 Select Bibliography 240 Index 256 v

List of Illustrations 0.1 A liuing remembrance of Master Robert Rogers (1601), reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California 7 2.1 William Smith, The Breffe discription of the Royall Citie of London, 1575, title-page, London Metropolitan Archive CLC/262/MS02463; reproduced by permission of the Corporation of London, London Metropolitan Archive 63 2.2 Annotated description of London s water supply from Smith, Breffe discription, fol. 24v 75 2.3 Description of the Court of Orphans from Smith, Breffe discription, fols 13v 14r 79 vi

Acknowledgements In a work addressing community and memory it is appropriate that I record here some of the debts I have accrued in the writing of this book. Research for this project was supported by an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and by grants from the University of Aberdeen. Thanks are due to librarians and curators at a number of institutions and particularly the staff at the British Library, the Huntington Library, the London Metropolitan Archive (and their predecessors at the CLRO), the Guildhall Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the University of Aberdeen Library and Special Collections. Sections of this work have been presented at the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Reading, St Andrews, Trinity St David (Wales), QMC (London), UCD, York and at the Bishopsgate Institute. I am grateful to my hosts and audiences on those occasions. I also thank the students on my Writing the City course for their willingness to explore some of the side streets of literary production. The concluding section of Chapter 3 first appeared as Overseeing and Overlooking: John Stow and the Surveying of the City, in Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie (eds) (2004) John Stow (1525 1605) and the Making of the English Past (London: British Library). This work has benefited from a variety of overlapping communities. I am grateful to my colleagues at the University of Aberdeen for the collegiality which has made working there a happy and productive experience. A wide community in Aberdeen and beyond has helped nurture the ideas explored here. For conversation and correspondence which has helped in various ways to inform the writing of this book I am indebted to: Ian Archer, the late Richard Bailey, Warren Boutcher, Dermot Cavanagh, Sarah Covington, James Daybell, Ian Gadd, Eliane Glaser, Paul Griffiths, Jerome de Groot, Suzanne Gossett, Derek Hughes, Ronald Hutton, Mark Hutchings, Piyel Haldar, Vanessa Harding, Tom Healy, Tracey Hill, Ralph Houlbrooke, Bernhard Klein, Claudio Lomnitz, Rachel McGregor, Andrew McRae, Steve May, Rob Maslen, Kirk Melnikoff, Peter Mitchell, Michelle O Callaghan, Jennifer Richards, Jason Scott-Warren, David Harris Sacks, Cathy Shrank, vii

viii Acknowledgements Ceri Sullivan, Peter Stallybrass, Stephanie Tarbin, Bob Tittler, Angus Vine, Phil Withington, Sue Wiseman and Heather Woolfe. For sharing with me unpublished work my thanks go to Pascal Brioist, Gary Gibbs, Claire Jowitt and Alan Stewart. This book has also profited from critical readers generous with their time. For reading and commenting on individual sections of this work at various stages I am extremely grateful to Lorna Hutson, Lisa Jardine, Tom Rist, Adam Smyth and Trevor Stack. I can t thank Alan Stewart enough for his detailed and insightful comments on the manuscript. The judicious advice and careful criticism of Cedric Brown has been invaluable and the anonymous reader provided productive feedback. My thanks also to Andrew Hadfield and, at Palgrave Macmillan, to Felicity Plester and Ben Doyle. At a personal level this book has also benefited from the bonds of friendship. For hospitality and good fellowship many thanks to Shane and Cassilda Alcobia Murphy, Jan-Willem van den Bosch, the Chick Family, Patrick Crotty, Hazel Hutchison, Jamie Isaacs, Ali Lumsden, Peter Mock, Wayne Price, Petra and Uwe Radtke and Bettina Weichert. Thanks also to Craig and all at Kilau s coffee-fuelled community. The wisdom and boundless enthusiasm of James Daybell through our collaborations on correspondence has been a rewarding distraction that has enhanced this work. The friendship of Tom Rist has provided great support along with rich critical engagement. My heartfelt thanks also to my family both here and in Austria for helping me experience the dynamics of community and the pleasures of conviviality. My greatest debt is to Heike Pichler, for the love, laughter and companionship that have sustained me through the writing process. This book is dedicated to my parents, Alastair and Elizabeth Gordon, with gratitude for their infectious combination of diligence and restless curiosity.