The Survey of London

by John Stow

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Bibliography
  3. Norden’s Map of London 1593
  4. The Author to the Reader
  5. The Survey of London Containing the Original, Antiquity, Increase, Modern Estate, and Description of That City
  6. Wall About the City of London
  7. Of Ancient and Present Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Pools, Wells, and Conduits of Fresh Water, Serving the City, as Also of the Ditch Compassing the Wall of the Same for Defence Thereof
  8. The Town Ditch Without the Wall of the City
  9. Bridges of This City
  10. Gates in the Wall of This City
  11. Of Towers and Castles
  12. Of Schools and Other Houses of Learning
  13. Houses of Students in the Common Law
  14. Of Orders and Customs
  15. Of Charitable Alms in Old Times Given
  16. Sports and Pastimes of Old Time Used in This City
  17. Of Watches in This City, and Other Matters Commanded, and the Cause Why
  18. Honour of Citizens, and Worthiness of Men in the Same
  19. The City Divided Into Parts
  20. Of Portsoken Ward, the First in the East Part
  21. Tower Street Ward
  22. Aldgate Ward
  23. Lime Street Ward
  24. Bishopsgate Ward
  25. Broad Street Ward
  26. Cornehill Ward
  27. Langborne Ward, and Fennie About
  28. Billingsgate Ward
  29. Bridge Ward Within
  30. Candlewick Street Ward
  31. Walbrook Ward
  32. Downegate Ward
  33. Wards on the West Side of Walbrooke, and First of Vintry Ward
  34. Cordwainer Street Ward
  35. Cheape Ward
  36. Coleman Street Ward
  37. Bassings Hall Ward
  38. Cripplesgate Ward
  39. Aldersgate Ward
  40. Faringdon Ward Infra, or Within
  41. Bread Street Ward
  42. Queene Hithe Ward
  43. Castle Baynard Ward
  44. The Ward of Faringdon Extra, or Without
  45. Bridge Warde Without, the Twenty-Sixth in Number; Consisting of the Borough of Southwarke, in the County of Surrey
  46. The Suburbs Without the Walls of the Said City Briefly Touched. As Also Without the Liberties More at Large Described
  47. Liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster
  48. The City of Westminster, with the Antiquities, Bounds, and Liberties Thereof
  49. Governors of the City of London; And First of Ecclesiastical Bishops and Other Ministers There
  50. Parish Churches
  51. Hospitals in This City, and Suburbs Thereof, That Have Been of Old Time, and Now Presently Are, I Read of These as Followeth
  52. Now of Leprose People, and Lazar Houses
  53. The Temporal Government of This City, Somewhat in Brief Manner
  54. Aldermen and Sheriffs of London
  55. Officers Belonging to the Lord Mayor’s House
  56. The Sheriffs of London; Their Officers
  57. Of the Mayor’s and Sheriffs’ Liveries Somewhat
  58. Somewhat of Liveries Worn by Citizens of London, in Time of Triumphs and Otherways
  59. 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
  60. The Singularities of the City of London
  61. 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
  62. Fitzstephen’s Description of London

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