If the Turgot 1739 map didn’t impress, how about Agas Map1572, London.

In the image above from the Elizabethan 1572 map you will see Somerset Place on the river, next to the Savoy.

I used Turgot to walk my characters around Paris and this map to do the same in London.

By 1625, when Marie de Rohan was quartered there, Somerset House had been renamed Denmark House. In honour of Anne of Denmark, wife of James I Stuart….oh, done that.

Anyway. Whilst staying there, and within a few days of giving birth to Henry Rich’s daughter (done that,) Marie swam across the Thames and back from the wharf at Somerset/Denmark House. Scandalising all the French Prelates who had accompanied Henriette Marie to England. They wrote a barrage of #disgusted letters to Richelieu telling him about Marie’s behaviour – at the same time as English Poets wrote admiringly about her antics.

P.S. The Lucy Hay here is the same Lucy Percy (maiden name) whom Dumas used as a character called Milady (done that one too)