That no stewholder should receive a nun, or any man’s wife.
That no man should be drawn or inticed into any of these houses, nor any single woman take money for lying with a man, unless he lay all night.
That no stewholder should keep any woman that had the perilous infirmity of burning; [the venereal disease;] nor sell bread, flesh, fish, ale, wood, coals, or any kind of food; and that the constables, bailiffs and others should search every stewhouse weekly.
These and many other orders were to be observed, under the penalty of suffering great pains and punishments; and any woman leading a life of lewdness was forbidden the rights of the church, and denied Christian burial, if she was not reconciled before her death. And therefore there was a plot of ground called the single woman’s church-yard, appointed for these women at a distance from the parish church.
These stews were put down by order of Henry VIII. in the year 1546, when it was proclaimed by sound of trumpet, that this row of stews was no longer to be privileged, and used as a common brothel. Stow’s Survey.
Stichbone’s court, High Holbourn.†
Still alley, Bishopsgate street without.* 2. Bluegate field, Upper Shadwell.† 3. George street.* 4. Houndsditch.† 5. Long alley, Moorfields.* 6. New street, St. Thomas’s.* 7. Petticoat lane, Whitechapel.*
Still stairs, Pickleherring street.*
Still yard, 1. Liquorpond street, Leather lane.* 2. Maze Pond street, Southwark.* See Steel yard.
Stockdon’s yard, Vine yard, Horselydown lane.†