Editing Southwark (section)

===Post-medieval===
Just west of the Bridge was the [[Liberty of the Clink]] manor, which was never controlled by the city, but was held under the [[Bishopric of Winchester]]'s nominal authority. This lack of oversight helped the area become the entertainment district for London, with a concentration of sometimes disreputable attractions such as [[bull-baiting|bull]] and [[bear-baiting]], taverns, theatre and [[brothel]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Institutes of the Laws of England|volume=Third Part|year=1644|last=Coke|first=Sir Edward|page=205}}</ref>

In the 1580s, [[Reasonable Blackman]] worked as a silk weaver in Southwark, as one of the first people of African heritage to work as independent business owners in London in that era.<ref name="Kaufman">{{cite book |title=Black Tudors: The Untold Story|last1=Kaufmann|first1=Miranda|author-link=Miranda Kaufmann|date=2017|publisher=OneWorld|isbn=978-1-78607-396-9|location=UK|page=121}}</ref><ref name="Bidisha">{{cite news |last1=Bidisha |title=Tudor, English and black – and not a slave in sight |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/29/tudor-english-black-not-slave-in-sight-miranda-kaufmann-history |access-date=29 July 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=30 October 2017 |location=London, England |author1-link=Bidisha }}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite journal |title=The prosperous silk weaver |journal=BBC History Magazine |date=9 November 2017 |url = https://www.pressreader.com/uk/bbc-history-magazine/20171109/282175061375411 |access-date=29 July 2019 }}</ref> In 1587, Southwark's first playhouse theatre, [[The Rose (theatre)|The Rose]], opened. The Rose was set up by [[Philip Henslowe]], and soon became a popular place of entertainment for all classes of Londoners. Both [[Christopher Marlowe]] and [[William Shakespeare]], two of the finest writers of the Elizabethan age, worked at the Rose.

In 1599 the [[Globe Theatre]], in which Shakespeare was a shareholder, was erected on the [[Bankside]] in the Liberty of the Clink. It burned down in 1613,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Globe {{!}} Shakespeare's Globe |url=https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/shakespeares-world/the-globe/ |website=Shakespeare's Globe |language=en-GB}}</ref> and was rebuilt in 1614, only to be closed by the [[Puritans]] in 1642 and subsequently pulled down not long thereafter. A modern replica, called [[Shakespeare's Globe]], has been built near the original site. The impresario in the later Elizabethan period for these entertainments was Shakespeare's colleague [[Edward Alleyn]], who left many local charitable endowments, most notably [[Dulwich College]].

During the [[Second English Civil War]], a force of Kentish Royalist Rebels approached London, hoping the lightly defended city might fall to them, or that the citizens would rise in their favour, however their hopes were quashed when [[Philip Skippon]], in charge of the defence swiftly fortified the bridge making it all but impregnable to the modest Royalist force.

On 26 May 1676, ten years after the [[Great Fire of London]], a great fire broke out, which continued for 17 hours before houses were blown up to create fire breaks. King [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] and his brother, [[James II of England|James]], [[Duke of York]], oversaw the effort.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Southwark Fire Court |url=https://londontopsoc.org/product/the-southwark-fire-court/#:~:text=On%2026%20May%201676,%20a,crises%20in%20seventeenth-century%20England. |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=London Topographical Society |language=en-GB}}</ref>

There was also a famous fair in Southwark which took place near the Church of [[St George the Martyr, Southwark|St George the Martyr]]. [[William Hogarth]] depicted this fair in his engraving of ''[[Southwark Fair]]'' (1733).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Southwark Fair by William Hogarth {{!}} Works of Art {{!}} RA Collection {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/southwark-fair-1 |website=Royal Academy of Arts}}</ref>

Southwark was also the location of several [[prisons]], including those of the Crown or Prerogative Courts, the [[Marshalsea Prison|Marshalsea]] and [[King's Bench Prison|King's Bench]] prisons, those of the local manors' courts, e.g., [[Borough Compter]], [[The Clink]] and the Surrey county gaol originally housed at the White Lion Inn (also informally called the Borough Gaol) and eventually at [[Horsemonger Lane Gaol]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Darlington |first=Ida |date=1955 |title=Southwark Prisons |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol25/pp9-21 |journal=Survey of London: Volume 25, St George's Fields (The Parishes of St. George the Martyr Southwark and St. Mary Newington) |location=Londres}}</ref>

One other local family is of note, the Harvards. [[John Harvard (clergyman)|John Harvard]] went to the local parish free school of St Saviour's and on to [[Cambridge University]]. He migrated to the [[Massachusetts]] Colony and left his library and the residue of his will to the new college there, named after him as its first benefactor. [[Harvard University]] maintains a link, having paid for a memorial chapel within Southwark Cathedral (his family's parish church), and where its UK-based alumni hold services. John Harvard's mother's house is in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]].