The Parish of St Saviour, Southwark Further Reading

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The Parish of St Saviour: a Selective Reading List

Specific:

• » Bankside (the parishes of St Saviour and Christchurch Southwark), vol.22 of the Survey of London series.  London: London County Council, 1950.
• » Blatherwick, Simon and Richard Bluer.  Great houses, moats and mills on the south bank of the Thames: medieval and Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe.  London: Museum of London Archeology, 2009.
• » Boulton, Jeremy P.  “The Limits of Formal Religion: The Administration of Holy Communion in late Elizabethan and early Stuart London”.  London Journal 10.2 (1984), 135-154. [Mostly about St Saviour]
• » — —.  “Residential mobility in seventeenth-century Southwark”.  Urban History Yearbook 1986, 1-14. 
• » — —.  Neighbourhood and Society: a London suburb in the seventeenth century.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.  [The ‘suburb’ is Southwark, including the Boroughside of St Saviour parish.]
• » Bowsher, Julian and Pat Miller.  The Rose and the Globe: playhouses of Shakespeare's Bankside, Southwark: excavations 1988-91.  London: Museum of London Archeology, 2009.  [Both playhouses were in St Saviour parish.]
• » Caldin, Winifrede and Helen Raine.  “The Plague of 1625 and the Story of John Boston, Parish Clerk of St. Saviour's, Southwark”.  Transactions of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society 23.1 (1971), 90-97.
• » Carlin, Martha.  Medieval Southwark.  London: Hambledon, 1996. 
• » Carlisle, Nicholas.  A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales.  2 vols.  London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818.  [The book has a section on St Olave's School and St Saviour's School.] 
• » Carrington, R.C.  Two Schools: A History of St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School Foundation.  London, 1971. 
• » Cockburn, James Swanston, ed.  Calendar of Assize Records: Surrey Indictments, Elizabeth I.  London: HMSO, 1980.
• » Cockburn, James Swanston, ed.  Calendar of Assize Records: Surrey Indictments, James I.  London: HMSO, 1982.
• » Concanen, Matthew and Aaron Morgan.  The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark; ...   London, 1795.
• » Court Rolls of the Surrey and Kent Commissions of Sewers, 1569-1579.  London: London County Council, 1909.  [Transcriptions of the minutes of the first two commissions whose records exist; includes many properties in St Saviour.]
• » Darlington, Ida.  “The Reformation in Southwark”.  Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London 19:3 (1955), 65-81.
• » Honigmann, E.A.J. and Susan Brock.  Playhouse Wills 1558-1642: An edition of wills by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the London theatre.  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.  [Includes several wills by St Saviour parishioners.] 
• » Index Library Publications (IL):
          •  Union Index of Surrey probate records which survive from before the year 1650,
              ed. Cliff Webb.  IL, vol.99 (1990).
• » Johnson, David.  Southwark and the City.  London: Oxford University Press, for the Corporation of London, 1969.
• » Mackinder, Anthony, with Lyn Blackmore, Julian Bowsher, and Christopher Phillpotts.  The Hope playhouse, animal baiting and later industrial activity at Bear Gardens on Bankside: excavations at Riverside House and New Globe Walk, Southwark, 1999-2000.  London: Museum of London Archeology Studies Series 25, 2013. 
• » Manning, Owen, with William Bray.  The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey.  3 vols.  London, 1804-1814. 
• » Mateer, David.  “Edward Alleyn, Richard Perkins and the Rivalry between the Swan and the Rose Playhouses”.  Review of English Studies n.s.60, no.243 (March 2009), 61-77. 
• » Nelson, Alan H.  “Shakespeare and Southwark”, 159-72, in Drama and Pedagogy in Medieval and Early Modern England, ed. Elisabeth Dutton and James McBain.  Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 31 (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2015). 
• » Raine, Helen.  “Christopher Fawsett Against the Inmates: an aspect of poor law administration in the early seventeenth century.”  Surrey Archaeological Collections 66 (1969), 79-85.  [Weblink]
•   [Inmates in St Saviour parish.]
• » Rendle, William.  Old Southwark and its People.  London, 1878. 
• » — —, and Philip Norman.  The Inns of Old Southwark and their Associations.  London, 1888. 
• » Seaver, Paul S.  The Puritan lectureships: the politics of religious dissent, 1560-1662.  Stanford University Press, 1970. 
• » Surrey Archaeological Collections (SAC), the journal of the Surrey Archaeological Society.  Click for online images of these volumes. 
          •  Wills: transcripts of some St Saviour wills appear in volumes 1, 10-13, 23-24, and 35.
          •  “Muster Roll of Troops Raised in Surrey to be Employed in the Low Countries, 1627”,
              ed. Alfred Ridley Bax.  SAC, vol.10 pp.280-282. 
          •  Click for online images of part 1 or part 2. 
• » Surrey Record Society Publications (SRS):
          •  Surrey Musters, ed Theodore Craib.  SRS, vol.iii, 1919.
          •  Surrey Wills: Archdeaconry Court, Herringman Register (1595-1608).  SRS, vol.iv, 1920.
          •  Surrey Probate Inventories 1558-1603, ed D.M. Herridge.  SRS, vol.xxxix, 2005.
• » Thompson, William.  Southwark cathedral; the history and antiquities of the cathedral church of St. Saviour (St. Marie Overie).  London, 1910.
• » Tiler, Arthur.  The history and antiquities of St. Saviour's Southwark; containing annals from the first founding, to the present time; ...   London, 1765.
• » Wooding, Barbara.  John Lowin and the English Theatre, 1603-1647.  London: Ashgate, 2013.  [Lowen was a long-time resident in the parish.]
• » Worley, George.  Southwark cathedral formerly the collegiate church of St. Saviour, otherwise St. Mary Overie.  A short history and description of the fabric, with some account of the college ... London, 1905.




General:



• » Beaven, Alfred B.  Aldermen of the City of London.  2 vols, London, 1908-13. [Weblink]
• » Forbes, Thomas Rogers.  Chronicle from Aldgate: Life and Death in Shakespeare's London.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971.
• » Foster, Joseph.  Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714: their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees.  Being the matriculation register of the university, alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated, by Joseph Foster...  Oxford and London, 1891-92.  [Weblink]
• » [ODNB]  The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  60 vols.  Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.  [Weblink]
• » Rappaport, Steve.  “Social Structure and Mobility in Sixteenth-Century London: Part I”.  London Journal 9.2 (1983), 107-135. 
• » — —.  “Social Structure and Mobility in Sixteenth-Century London: Part II”.  London Journal 10.2 (1984), 107-134.
• » [STC]  A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640.  Second edition, ed. K. F. Pantzer.  London: The Bibliographical Society.  Vol.1 (A-H), 1986.  Vol.2 (I-Z), 1976.  Vol.3 (Indexes, addenda, corrigenda), 1991.  [Weblink]
• » Venn, John and John Archibald Venn.  Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1751.  4 vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1922-27).  [Weblink]
• » Wing, Donald Goddard.  Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1972-88. 
• » a Wood, Anthony.  Athenae Oxonienses, third edition.  4 vols.  Philip Bliss, 1813. 
• » Wright, S J.  “Easter Books and Parish Rate Books: a new source for the urban historian.”  Urban History Yearbook 1985, 30-45.