Hog Lane
Names
- Hog Lane
- Hogg Lane
- Hogge Lane
- Worship Street
Street/Area/District
- Hog Lane
Maps & Views
- 1553-9 Londinum (Braun & Hogenberg, 1572): Hog Lane
- 1553-9 London ("Agas Map" ca. 1633): Hog Lane
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Hog Lane
- 1720 London (Strype): Hogg Lane
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Hog Lane
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Hog Lane
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Hog lane, on the W. side of Norton falgate, leading to Bunhil fields. L. 200 Yds.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Worship street, near Upper Moorfields.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Worship Street, Shoreditch—the second on R. north from the N.E. corner Finsbury -square, extending to 21, Norton-falgate.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Hog Lane, on the west side of Norton Folgate, leading to Bunhill Fields, now called Worship Street. In the burial register of St Leonard, Shoreditch, is the following entry:—
1598.—Gabriell Spencer being slayne, was buryed ye xxiiijth of September. Hogge Lane.
"Hogge Lane" denotes his residence. He was a player in Henslowe's company of actors, and was killed in Hoxton Fields in a duel with Ben Jonson.
Since his coming to England, being appealed to the fields, he had killed his adversarie, which [who] had hurt him in the arm, and whose sword was 10 inches longer than his; for the which he was emprisoned, and almost at the gallows.—Ben Jonson's Conversations with Drummond (Shaks. Soc. ed.), p. 19.