the Painted Seld

Names

  • the Painted Seld
  • Peinteselde

Street/Area/District

  • the Painted Seld

Descriptions

from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)

the Painted Seld

It appears from the register of Clerkenwell Priory in the British Museum that a grant of rent "de pincta selda" in parochia sancti pancracii juxta vicum fori was made to the priory, C. 1239 (Cott. MS. Faustina B. II. f. 89).

Mentioned in will of Christina la Brune 1290–1 as "Peinteselde" (Ct. H.W. I. 95).

The "painted seld" in Westcheap 1310 (ib. 213).

No further reference.

See Selds.