Fisher's Folly

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. ^ a b "A Dictionary of London (1918): Fisher's Folly". http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63125. Retrieved 2009-04-14. 
  2. ^ "Sir William CORNWALLIS of Brome Hall, Knight". http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/WilliamCornwallis.htm. 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". http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/library/barrell/index.htm. 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. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=60033. Retrieved 7 February 2010. 
  6. ^ a b Noorthouck, John (1773). "Bishopsgate Ward". A New History of London: Including Westminster and Southwark. Centre for Metropolitan History. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46751. Retrieved 7 February 2010.