Drury Lane

Names

  • Drury Lane
  • Drewrie Lane
  • Oldewiche Lane
  • Aldewyche
  • Drewrie Lane
  • Via de Aldwych
  • Prince's Street
  • Great Drury Lane

Street/Area/District

  • Drury Lane

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Descriptions

from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)

Drury lane; Great Drury lane, is a very spacious lane, betn St. Giles's str. NWly, and the meeting of Witch str. with Little Drury-lane, (near the Strand) SEly, L. 645 Yds, and from Cha+ [Charing Cross] NW 1000 Yds.

from The Tatler (1709-1711)

There is near Covent-Garden a Street known by the Name of Drury, which, before the Days of Christianity, was purchas'd by the Queen of Paphos, and is the only part of Great Britain where the Tenure of Vassalage is still in being. All that long Course of Building is under particular Districts or Ladyships, after the Manner of Lordships in other Parts, over which matrons of known Abilities preside, and have, for the Support of their Age and Infirmities, certain Taxes paid out of the Rewards for the amorous Labours of the Young. This Seraglio of Great Britain is disposed into convenient Allies and Apartments, and every House, from the Cellar to the Garret, inhabited by Nymphs of different Orders, that Persons of every Rank may be accommodated with an immediate Consort, to allay their Flames, and partake of their Cares.

No. 46. July 26, 1709

from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)

Drury Lane, which from the Horshoe Tavern on the East side, unto St. Giles street, and from Brownlow street on the West side also to St. Giles, is in this Parish. This Street or Lane as aforesaid is a very great Thoroughfare, as well for Coaches and Carts, as for foot Passengers. This Lane, taken in the whole, is of a great Length, coming out of St. Gils, and falling into the Strand, in which Extent it receiveth several Streets, Alleys and Courts as appears by the Mapps. For the generality it is well built, and inhabited by Shopkeepers and others.

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

Drury lane, between the Strand and St. Giles's Broad street. Drury, was the old word for modesty; but this lane received its name from the house of the noble family of Drewry being anciently situated at the lower end of Drury lane, and the upper end of Wych street. Vocab. to Chaucer, Maitland's Survey.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Drury-Lane,—at 326, by the New Church, where the numbers begin and end, viz. 1 and 119, it extends to Broad-st. St. Giles's, and the W. end of Holborn, about ⅔ of a mile in length.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Drury-Lane, Strand, turns off at the north side of the New Church, and extends to Broad-street, Bloomsbury, and the west end of Holborn.

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

Drury Lane, was so called, says Stow, "for that there is a house belonging to the family of the Druries. This lane turneth north toward St. Giles-in-the-Fields."3 Before the Drurys built here, the old name for this lane or road was "Via de Aldwych;" hence the present Wych Street at the bottom of Drury Lane. A portion of it in James I.'s time was occasionally called Prince's Street ("Drury Lane, now called the Prince's Street"),4 but the old name triumphed. In 1605 an Act was passed for "paving Drury Lane and the town of St. Giles," and it is stated in the preamble that "the lane called Drury Lane, leading from St. Giles-in-the-Fields towards the Strand and towards New Inn, is of late years by occasion of the continual rode there, and often carriages, become deep, foul, and dangerous to all that pass those ways."

April 6, 1615.—Lady Cope has sold her house in the Strand, and is removing to a smaller one of £30 a year in Drury Lane, the result of making too great a show before.—Cal. State Papers, 1611–1618, p. 282.
July 1618.—Petition of Edw. Fort, the King's servant, to the Council, to direct the Sheriff to forbear the pulling down of two fair houses, built by him in Drury Lane, begun by him during Mr. Ittery's patent for building Drury Lane. Has paved the street before his doors, according to command, for three years past.—Cal. State Papers, 1611–1618, p. 562.

In the beginning of 1624 Sir Arthur Chichester, the soldier and statesman, writes to Buckingham that "On Sunday the 18 of this present month of January the two Embassadors of Spain came to visit me at my house in Drury Lane."1 "In Drury Lane there are three families of Papists there residing for one of Protestants; insomuch that it may well be called Little Rome."—Mr. Whittaker's Speech in the House of Commons, June 5, 1628. Drury Lane was one of the earliest places visited by the plague of 1665.

June 7, 1665.—This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw.—Pepys.

Somewhat later Pepys has an entry respecting Drury Lane of a different order:—

May I, 1667.—To Westminster; in the way meeting many milkmaids with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them; and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings door in Drury Lane in her smock-sleeves and bodice, looking upon one; she seemed a mighty pretty creature.—Pepys.

[See Clare Court; Clare Market; Coal Yard; Craven Buildings; Lewknor's Lane; Prince's Street; Pit Place (so called from the Cockpit Theatre); Short's Gardens.]

Eminent Inhabitants.—Lady Jacob, wife of Christopher Brooke, the poet, respecting whose intrigue with Gondomar, and the present he sent her as antidote to the "emotion of her mouth," Wilson tells a long and sufficiently discreditable story.2 Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, the poet (1634–1637). The celebrated Marquis of Argyll (1634–1637). Oliver Cromwell in 1646.3 John Lacy, the comedian, from 1665 to his death in 1681; he lived two doors off Lord Anglesey, and near Cradle Alley. Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, and Lord Privy Seal, from 1669 to his death in 1686. Nell Gwynne in 1667. A tavern in Drury Lane was the meeting-place of some of the conspirators against William III.

All things are here quiet and well, only Captain Scrope, Porter, and Sir John Fenwick, and ten or twelve others, celebrating on Monday last the birthday of the pretended Prince of Wales at a tavern in Drury Lane, drew upon them, besides the officers of justice, the indignation of the populace, from which they very hardly escaped; one of them is since taken and in prison, and warrants are out against the rest who will have no occasion to brag of their ill-timed frolic.—Sir William Trumbull (Secretary of State) to Lord Lexington, June 14, 1695.

Macaulay tells with something more of detail how these reckless revellers, "when hot with wine, sallied forth sword in hand, headed by Porter and Goodman, beat kettledrums, unfurled banners, and began to light bonfires;" how they were put to the rout by the watch and the populace; "the tavern where they had feasted was sacked by the mob; the ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned, but regained their liberty in time to bear a part in a far more criminal design."1 Drury Lane lost its aristocratic character early in the reign of William III., and rapidly acquired a reputation of the worst description. Steele, in The Tatler (No. 46), describes it as a long course of building divided into particular districts or "ladyships," after the manner of "lordships" in other parts, "over which matrons of known abilities preside." "The purlieus of Drury Lane," wrote Dennis, "are called familiarly the Hundreds of Drury."2 Gay calls up all our caution and virtue in this place:—

O may thy virtue guard thee through the roads
Of Drury's mazy courts and dark abodes!
The harlots' guileful paths, who nightly stand
Where Catherine Street descends into the Strand.—Trivia.

In Drury Lane Lord Mohun made his unsuccessful attempt to carry off Mrs. Bracegirdle, the actress. [See Howard Street.]

Captain Carlo Fantom, a Croatian, spake thirteen languages, was a Captain under the Earle of Essex. He had a world of cuts about his body with swords, was very quarrelsome, and a great ravisher. He met coming late at night out of the Horseshoe Tavern in Drury Lane, with a Lieutenant of Colonel Rossiter, who had great jingling spurs on. Said he, "The noise of your spurres doe offend me; you must come over the kennel and give me satisfaction." They drew and passed at each other, and the Lieutenant was runne through, and died in an hour or two, and 'twas not known who kill'd him.—Aubrey, Anecd. and Trad., p. iii.

At a tavern in Drury Lane where was held a club of virtuosi, Laguerre (immortalised by Pope) painted in chiaroscuro round the room a bacchanalian procession, and made them a present of his labour. South of the theatre was the chapel of the famous preacher Daniel Burgess, and which he had to quit on the building being bought for the church. His chapel in New Court, Drury Lane, was wrecked, March 1, 1710, by the Sacheverell mob, who carried the fittings to Lincoln's Inn Fields and made a great bonfire of them.3

Where the tall Maypole once o'erlook'd the Strand,
But now, so Anne and Piety ordain,
A Church collects the saints of Drury Lane.—Pope.
Paltry and proud as drabs in Drury Lane.—Pope.
"Nine years!" cries he, who high in Drury Lane,
Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane,
Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends,
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.—Pope.
Where the Red Lion, staring o'er the way,
Invites each passing stranger that can pay;
Where Calvert's butt, and Parsons' black champaigne,
Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane;
There, in a lonely room, from bailiffs snug,
The Muse found Scroggen stretch'd beneath a rug.—Goldsmith.

"All this is taken from nature," wrote Goldsmith to his brother. In our own day Barley Court and other courts and purlieus of Drury Lane have been stigmatised by experienced police officers as containing some of the vilest and most dangerous dens in London. Much has been done under the Artisans' Dwellings Act towards clearing away some of the worst of the streets, and more is now (1889) being done.


3 Stow, p. 167.
4 Howes, ed. 1631, p. 868.

1 Cabala, p. 244.
2 Wilson, Life of James I., fo!. 1653, p. 146.
3 Carlyle's Cromwell, vol. i. p. 336.

1 Hist. of England, chap. xxi.
2 Dennis on Pope's Rape of the Lock, p. viii.
3 Wilson, Hist. of the Dissenting Churches in London, vol. iii. p. 497, etc.

from The London Encyclopaedia, 3rd Edition, ed. Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert, Julia Keay, and John Keay (2008)

Drury Lane WC2. An ancient highway, formerly known as Via de Aldwych (see Aldwych), which takes its present name from Sir Thomas Drury, who built a house here in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. John Donne had apartments in this house after his secret marriage to Anne More. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was a fashionable street. Residents included both the Marquess of Argyll and the Earl of Stirling 1634–7, Oliver Cromwell in 1646, the Earl of Anglesey 1669–86, and the Earls of Clare and Craven in 1683. Nell Gwynne had lodgings here. Pepys saw her standing at her door in 1667 in her smock sleeves and bodice. Lavinia Fenton, afterwards Duchess of Bolton and the original Polly Peachum in the Beggar’s Opera, lived in a coffee house here. In the 18th century, as Gay, Pope and Goldsmith all testified, however, it became a notoriously rowdy locality, notable for its brawls and drunkenness. Plate 3 of Hogarth’s The Harlot’s Progress is set in Drury Lane. Gin shops and prostitutes abounded here. Gay wrote:

    O may thy virtue guard thee through the roads
Of Drury’s mazy courts and dark abodes!

By the end of the 19th century the area was one of the worst slums in London. Most of these were cleared when Kingsway and Alwych were constructed. The Peabody Buildings constructed to house 1,470 people are at Nos 124–140 on the site of the Cockpit Theatre. The New London Theatre is on the east side. The entrance to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane is in Catherine Street.... On the opposite corner [with High Holborn] there has been a public house on the site of the White Hart at No. 191 since the 15th century.

from A Dictionary of London Place-Names (2nd ed.), by A. D. Mills (2010)

Drury Lane Westminster. Recorded thus in 1598, otherwise Drewrie Lane in 1607, named from Drurye house 1567, the home of one Richard Drewrye 1554. The surname itself is interesting; it derives from Middle English druerie 'a love-token or sweetheart'. The lane was earlier called Oldewiche Lane 1393, street called Aldewyche 1398, that is 'lane or street to Aldewyche ('the old trading settlement')', see Aldwych.

Publications associated with this place

  • Thirteen strange and wonderful new prophecies and predictions for the year, 1695. Foretelling sundry affairs in many empires, states and kingdoms. But more particularly presaging the ruine and downfal of the French greatness, and the utter overthrow of the Turks. Promising glorious success to the confederate army, and the happiness of England, Scotland and Ireland; as to plenty, increase of trade, and ensuing prospects of an honourable peace, by pulling down and humbling our capital enemies, and prevailing abroad by sea and land; to the recovering and restoring the antient British valour, under the conduct of our renowned and valiant King William. And other matters. By several eminent and learned astrologers of this kingdom. Licensed according to order. London : printed for S. Twister in Drury-lane, 1695. ESTC No. R219254. Grub Street ID 93814.
  • Instructions for children. London : printed for Tho. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, 1732. ESTC No. T222913. Grub Street ID 245633.
  • The counsels of wisdom or, a collection of the maxims of Solomon, Most Necessary for a Man towards the Gaining of Wisdom: With Reflexions upon the Maxims. with reflexions upon the maxims. Faithfully translated out of the French. The second edition.. London : printed for Tho. Meighan, Bookseller in Drury-Lane, MDCCXXXV. [1735]. ESTC No. T121995. Grub Street ID 172729.
  • A pious association of the devout servants of Jesus Christ crucify'd, and of his condoling mother the blessed virgin Mary; for the obtaining a happy death. London] : Printed for T. Meighan in Drury-Lane, 1738. ESTC No. T92694. Grub Street ID 312460.
  • The History of the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Newly and faithfully translated from the fifth edition of the French. By W..... C. London] : Printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, MDCCXXXIX. [1739. ESTC No. N9021. Grub Street ID 53919.
  • A christian directory, guiding men to their eternal salvation. Divided into three books: the first whereof, appertaining to Resolution, is contain'd in this volume, divided into two parts, and set forth now again with many corrections and additions. By Robert Parsons. London : printed by John Hoyles: and sold by Thomas Meighan in Drury-Lane, MDCCXXXIX. [1739]. ESTC No. T128157. Grub Street ID 177791.
  • A manual of prayers and other Christian devotions. Revised and corrected, with large additions, by R. C. D.D. London] : Printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, 1758. ESTC No. T79987. Grub Street ID 301346.
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  • A manual of devout prayers, and other Christian devotions: fitted for all persons and occasions, and corrected from the errors of former editions. London : printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, M,DCC,LX. [1765]. ESTC No. T123014. Grub Street ID 173543.
  • A manual of prayers and other Christian devotions. Revised and corrected, with large additions, by R. C. London] : Printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, 1764. ESTC No. T226578. Grub Street ID 248097.
  • Author of the Pastoral Instructions. A short historical catechism, collected from the holy scriptures. With an enlargement thereof in most controverted points, about faith and God's worship. To which are added, prayers and meditations, Fitted for all Persons and Occasions. By the author of the Pastoral instructions. London : printed, and sold by T. Meighan, Bookseller in Drury-Lane, Anno Dom. 1732. ESTC No. T124472. Grub Street ID 174662.
  • Bowes, Robert. Practical reflections for every day throughout the year. The fifth edition.. London] : Printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, 1752. ESTC No. N24482. Grub Street ID 13842.
  • Catholic Church.. The office of the holy week according to the Roman missal and breviary. Containing the morning and evening service from Palm-Sunday to Tuesday in Easter-Week. In Latin and English. With an explanation of the mysteries represented in the office and ceremonies of the holy week. Illustrated with cuts, representing the passion of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The second edition, corrected.. London] : Printed for T. Meighan in Drury Lane, 1729. ESTC No. N42145. Grub Street ID 28489.
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  • Catholic Church.. The evening-Office of the Church in Latin and English. Containing the vespers, or even-song for all Sundays and festivals of obligation. The fourth edition corrected, with the addition of all the new feasts, the old hymns, litanies of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Stabat mater, and Miserere psalm. London] : Printed for T. Meighan in Drury-Lane, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738. ESTC No. T191136. Grub Street ID 226137.
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  • Caussin, Nicolas. Entertainments for Lent, written in French by the R.F.N. Causin, S.J. And translated into English by Sir B. B. Adorned with sculptures. London : printed for Thomas Meighan, in Drury-Lane, 1741. ESTC No. T103912. Grub Street ID 157513.
  • Challoner, Richard. Think well on't; or, reflections on the great truths of the Christian religion. For every day in the month. The second edition corrected.. London : printed for Thomas Meigham, in Drury-Lane, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]. ESTC No. T103915. Grub Street ID 157516.
  • Challoner, Richard. The young gentleman instructed in the grounds of the Christian religion. In three dialogues, between a young gentleman and his tutor. In the First Dialogue, is demonstrated the Being of a God, against Atheists; with a Word of the Spirituality and Immortality of Man's Soul. In the Second, the Divine Revelation, both of the Old and New Testament is asserted, against Deists and Freethinkers. In the Third, the Divinity of Christ, and of the Holy Ghost is maintain'd, against Modern Arians and Socinians. London : printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]. ESTC No. T14208. Grub Street ID 189573.
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  • Gother, John. Instructions for the whole year. Part I. ... For Sundays, being practical thoughts on the epistles and gospels of all the Sundays and moveable feasts, from Advent to Whitsunday, excepting those of Lent. Faithfully Corrected. London : printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]. ESTC No. T193248. Grub Street ID 227451.
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  • Hornyold, John Joseph. The real principles of catholicks: or, a catechism for the adult. Explaining the principal points of the doctrine and ceremonies of the catholick church. By J- H- C.A-D.S. London : printed for Thomas Meighan, in Drury-Lane, M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. T106884. Grub Street ID 159967.
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  • L., P.. A manual of instructions and prayers useful to a Christian. Translated from the Italian. London : printed for T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane, M.DCC.LII. [1752]. ESTC No. T114542. Grub Street ID 166340.
  • Manning, Robert. The rise and fall of the heresy of iconoclasts; or, image-breakers. Being a brief Relation of the Lives and Deaths of those Emperors of the East, who first set it up and maintain'd it, or zealously oppos'd and finally crush'd it. From the Year 717 to 867. collected by R. M. London : printed for Tho. Meighan in Drury-Lane, in the Year, MDCCXXXI. [1731]. ESTC No. T10192. Grub Street ID 155765.
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