District · London
Cheapside
Cheapside is a district of the London Commons with shops along its front and old-clothes wards behind. Rag Fair lies behind it, and Blind Nan Rolt, the best-known ballad singer in London, keeps her corner there. The Blossoms inn on its street serves commercial travellers. Goods are priced on the common scale of the Commons.
- Within
- Commons
- Holds
- 3 places
- Named in
- Living Britannia, Travelling Britannia
Where the volumes speak of it
- LiB2 › 1.1 Streets, Wards, and Quarters
- LiB1 › 8.10 Prices Town by Town
- LiB1 › 13.6 Feast Days
- LiB1 › 17.2 Cloth and Boots
- LiB1 › 21.4 Stages and Showmen
- LiB1 › Chapter 8 — Markets and Shops › 8.10 Prices Town by Town
- LiB2 › Chapter 1 — London › 1.5 Cook-Shops, Chop Houses, and Coffee Rooms
- LiB1 Addendum › A.3 Dress
Within Cheapside
Inn and venue The Blossoms The Blossoms is a Cheapside inn serving commercial travellers, kept by Landlord Humphrey Jupp. It lets sample rooms by the day, in which cloth, hardware and haberdashery… Market Rag Fair Rag Fair is an old-clothes market behind Cheapside in London, where coats worn to weddings are resold to men about to attend one. With Crowswell Court and the wards… Inn and venue The Round of Beef The Round of Beef is a Cheapside cook-shop kept by Robert Eades, who sends dinners out in whatever dish the buyer brings. The guide recommends it to plainer appetites… 