Seething Lane
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Seething Lane is a street in the City of London. It connects All Hallows-by-the-Tower, Byward Street, with St Olave's Church, Hart Street. The street is named after an Old English expression meaning "
Seething Lane, viewed from Byward Street at its southern end.
Bust of Samuel Pepys in Seething Lane Gardens, by Karin Jonzen, 1983
The Knollys Rose procession enters Seething Lane in June 2019.
Francis Walsingham
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Sir Francis Walsingham was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
Seething Lane
…century. The Knollys Inn, on the west site of Seething Lane, was established in 1370 when Sir Robert Knollys purchased the estate from Thomas de Brandon. Sir Francis Walsingham lived in Seething Lane from 1580 until his death ten years later. Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset was born at the house in 1599. The Earl of…
c. 1585 portrait
Ruins of Scadbury Hall, seat of the Walsingham family, Chislehurst, Kent
Seventeenth-century engraving of Queen Elizabeth with William Cecil (left) and Francis Walsingham (right)
Famous portrait of Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada