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STREET WARD

       BASSINGS HALL WARD

       CRIPPLESGATE WARD

       ALDERSGATE WARD

       FARINGDON WARD INFRA, OR WITHIN

       BREAD STREET WARD

       QUEENE HITHE WARD

       CASTLE BAYNARD WARD

       THE WARD OF FARINGDON EXTRA, OR WITHOUT

       BRIDGE WARDE WITHOUT, THE TWENTY-SIXTH IN NUMBER; CONSISTING OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARKE, IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY.

       THE SUBURBS WITHOUT THE WALLS OF THE SAID CITY BRIEFLY TOUCHED. AS ALSO WITHOUT THE LIBERTIES MORE AT LARGE DESCRIBED.

       LIBERTIES OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER

       THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER, WITH THE ANTIQUITIES, BOUNDS, AND LIBERTIES THEREOF

       GOVERNORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON; AND FIRST OF ECCLESIASTICAL BISHOPS AND OTHER MINISTERS THERE

       PARISH CHURCHES

       HOSPITALS IN THIS CITY, AND SUBURBS THEREOF, THAT HAVE BEEN OF OLD TIME, AND NOW PRESENTLY ARE, I READ OF THESE AS FOLLOWETH

       NOW OF LEPROSE PEOPLE, AND LAZAR HOUSES

       THE TEMPORAL GOVERNMENT OF THIS CITY, SOMEWHAT IN BRIEF MANNER

       ALDERMEN AND SHERIFFS OF LONDON

       OFFICERS BELONGING TO THE LORD MAYOR’S HOUSE

       THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON; THEIR OFFICERS

       OF THE MAYOR’S AND SHERIFFS’ LIVERIES SOMEWHAT

       SOMEWHAT OF LIVERIES WORN BY CITIZENS OF LONDON, IN TIME OF TRIUMPHS AND OTHERWAYS

       A DISCOURSE OF THE NAMES AND FIRST CAUSES OF THE INSTITUTION OF CITIES AND PEOPLED TOWNS AND OF THE COMMODITIES THAT DO GROW BY THE SAME; AND, NAMELY, OF THE CITY OF LONDON

       THE SINGULARITIES OF THE CITY OF LONDON

       AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE EXAMINATION OF SUCH CAUSES AS HAVE HERETOFORE MOVED THE PRINCES EITHER TO FINE AND RANSOM THE CITIZENS OF LONDON, OR TO SEIZE THE LIBERTIES OF THE CITY ITSELF.

       FITZSTEPHEN’S DESCRIPTION OF LONDON

       OF THE SITUATION OF THE SAME

       OF THE MILDNESS OF THE CLIMATE

       OF THE RELIGION

       OF THE STRENGTH OF THE CITY

       OF THE GARDENS

       OF THE PASTURE AND TILLAGE LANDS

       OF THE SPRINGS

       OF THE HONOUR OF THE CITIZENS

       OF THE MATRONS

       OF THE SCHOOLS

       OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE AFFAIRS OF THE CITY ARE DISPOSED

       OF THE SPORTS

       INDEX

INTRODUCTION

       Table of Contents

      Stow’s Survey of London, from its first publication in 1598, has taken rank as the first authority on the history of London, but this very fame has been the cause of some injury to the unity of the work, owing to the additions of successive editors, whose words have often been quoted as if they were written by the original author, although often referring to occurrences long after Stow’s death.

      What the reader of to-day wants, is the original work as it left the hands of the veteran antiquary, or as nearly as the change of spelling allows, because this gives him a vivid picture of Elizabethan London—the city in which Shakespeare lived and worked among a multitude of the men and women of those “spacious days,” respecting whom we are all eager to learn something more. The Survey is a masterpiece of topographical literature written by a Londoner of ripe experience, who was interested in everything that occurred around him.

      Stow founded his work upon documents of great value collected by himself, and also upon the splendid series of manuscripts belonging to the city of London, to which he had access as “fee’d chronicler” of the corporation.

      The great charm of the book to the general reader is to be found in the personal touches by which we are informed of changes and incidents which occurred in Stow’s own experience. Of this special feature several instances have been singled out, such as the boy fetching milk from the farm attached to the abbey of the minoresses, for which he paid one halfpenny for three pints; and the staking out by the tyrannical Thomas Cromwell of part of the gardens of Stow’s father and others in Throgmorton Street to be added to his own garden, which after his execution came into the possession

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