Fisher's Folly

51.5168°N 0.0806°W / 51.5168; -0.0806

Fisher’s Folly was a house in Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without built by Jasper Fisher around 1580. The Earl of Oxford owned it and sold it to William Cornwallis (c. 1545 - 1611) in 1588. By 1603, Roger Manars (presumably Roger Manners) owned the property. In the Seventeenth Century, the Earls of Devonshire owned it, and by 1773 it was gone. Today the location is still called Devonshire Square.

References

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