Fisher's Folly

51°31′00″N 0°04′50″W / 51.5168°N 0.0806°W / 51.5168; -0.0806

Fisher’s Folly was a house in Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without built by Jasper Fisher around 1580.[1] The Earl of Oxford owned it and sold it to William Cornwallis (c. 1545 – 1611)[2] in 1588.[3][4] By 1603, Roger Manars (presumably Roger Manners) owned the property.[5] In the Seventeenth Century, the Earls of Devonshire owned it,[1] and by 1773 it was gone.[6] Today the location is still called Devonshire Square.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "A Dictionary of London (1918): Fisher's Folly". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  2. ↑ "Sir William CORNWALLIS of Brome Hall, Knight". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
  3. ↑ Barrell, Charles Wisner (April 1945). "Earliest Authenticated "Shakespeare" Transcript Found With Oxford's Personal Poems: A Solution of the Significant Proximity of Certain Verses in a Unique Elizabethan Manuscript Anthology". The Shakespeare Fellowship Quarterly (American).
  4. ↑ "The Writings of Charles Winser Barrell". Retrieved 2009-04-13.
  5. ↑ Stow, John (1908). "Bishopsgate warde". A Survey of London, by John Stow: Reprinted from the text of 1603. Centre for Metropolitan History. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  6. 1 2 Noorthouck, John (1773). "Bishopsgate Ward". A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark. Centre for Metropolitan History. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/12/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.