Fisher's Folly
51°31′00″N 0°04′50″W / 51.5168°N 0.0806°W
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[update] the location is still called Devonshire Square.[6]
References
- ^ a b "A Dictionary of London (1918): Fisher's Folly". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ^ "Sir William CORNWALLIS of Brome Hall, Knight". Retrieved 2009-04-14.
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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).
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "The Writings of Charles Winser Barrell". Retrieved 2009-04-13.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Noorthouck, John (1773). "Bishopsgate Ward". A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark. Centre for Metropolitan History. Retrieved 7 February 2010.