Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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The Rocque map reference for Shoe Lane is:
http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlatesFullb.asp?mode=query&artist=384&other=292&x=11&y=11
Shoe Lane is in the lower right corner.
Branching off it to the left is Cockpit Court — clearly an unsavory neighborhood!
Shoe Lane and Richard Lovelace Cavalier Poet
Perhaps there was a dash of thoughtlessness and extravagance about him also—for we must remember he was a poet. The end was, that Lovelace, the high-spirited cavalier, poet, and lover, died in obscurity and poverty in a lodging in Shoe Lane, Fleet Street—memorable in the history of another poet, Chatterton-and was buried notelessly at the end of Bride’s Church.
The Companion calls it a “considerable lane.”
It adds that the cockpit “is commemmorated by an undated token issued by Samuel Clever.”