1643 - Lithgow, William - Present Svrveigh of London and Englands State

Allusion
Date	1643
Author	Lithgow, William
Title	The Present Svrveigh of London and Englands State
Mentions	Pinder of Wakefield's Fort (Clerkenwell)

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The Pinder of Wakefield's Fort is believed to have been situated in the area now occupied by The Royal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office.

The Royal Mail Sorting Office at Mount Pleasant / Google Earth Street view.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

Descending thence [from a place near 'Islington hill'] to Holburne fields I accoasted a strength, named, Pinder of Wakefields Fort, being onely quadrangled, pallosaded, and single ditched, and enstalled with five great Ordonance and a Court du guard.

Source notes

IRHB's bracketed insert. Italics as in printed source.

IRHB comments

The passage occurs in Lithgow's account of the fortifications erected around the City in June and October of 1642 and in the following year. See further Pinder of Wakefield's Fort (Clerkenwell).

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
• Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• Lithgow, William. The Present Surveigh of London and Englands State. Containing a Topographicall Description of all the Particular Forts, Redoubts, Breast-works, and Trenches Newly Erected round about the Citie on both Sides of the River, with the Severall Fortifications thereof. And a Perfect Relation of some Fatall Accidents, and other Disasters, which Fell out in the City and Countrey, During the Authors Abode there. Intermingled also with Certaine Severall Observations Worthie of Light and Memorie (London, 1643), sig. B3r; bracketed insert from sig. B2v.

Also see

• Pinder of Wakefield's Fort (Clerkenwell).

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