Seething Lane

[5] The Earl of Northumberland owned Walsingham House from 1603 to 1606,[6] and in 1604 it was visited by the priest Henry Garnet and the Spanish ambassador Juan de Tassis, 1st Count of Villamediana.

[1] Catherine Court, also by Wren, was a combined office and residential building on the east side of Seething Lane constructed between 1720 and 1725.

[8] Seething Lane was Samuel Pepys's home when he became the Navy Board's Clerk of the Acts,[1] and is mentioned in his diaries as the site of an erotic encounter with a Mrs Daniels, after which he bought her eight pairs of gloves at a nearby milliner's shop.

[1][10] An annual tradition held on the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist in June, is that a single red rose is cut in Seething Lane Gardens by the Company of Watermen and Lightermen and carried in procession to the Lord Mayor of London at the Mansion House.

It commemorates the fee of one rose annually, charged by the city to Sir Robert Knolles or Knollys, in compensation for his wife having constructed a wooden footbridge over Seething Lane in 1381.