Viewing Event Record: Feltmakers' apprentices riot in Southwark

Abstract

The Lord Mayor writes to Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer, of a recent disorder in Southwark. The principal agents in the riot were certain feltmakers' apprentices, who, along with a number of "lose & maisterlesse men," had gone to Southwark on the pretence of seeing a play.

Date Event Recorded

Date
From: 12 June 1592 (Source of claim: original)

Date Event Happened

Date
From: Sunday 11 June 1592 (Source of claim: transcription)

Venues

Name
Rose

People

Name Event Role(s) Document Role(s)
Cecil, William correspondent Lord Treasurer
Webbe, William correspondent lord mayor of London

Event Type

  • cultural context
  • playhouse context
  • public disturbance