INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NORDEN'S MAP OF LONDON 1593
CONTENTS
THE AUTHOR TO THE READER
THE SURVEY OF LONDON CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL, ANTIQUITY,
WALL ABOUT THE CITY OF LONDON
OF ANCIENT AND PRESENT RIVERS, BROOKS, BOURNS, POOLS, WELLS,
THE TOWN DITCH WITHOUT THE WALL OF THE CITY
BRIDGES OF THIS CITY
GATES IN THE WALL OF THIS CITY
OF TOWERS AND CASTLES
OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER HOUSES OF LEARNING
HOUSES OF STUDENTS IN THE COMMON LAW
OF ORDERS AND CUSTOMS
OF CHARITABLE ALMS IN OLD TIMES GIVEN
SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF OLD TIME USED IN THIS CITY
OF WATCHES IN THIS CITY, AND OTHER MATTERS COMMANDED, AND THE CAUSE WHY
HONOUR OF CITIZENS, AND WORTHINESS OF MEN IN THE SAME
THE CITY DIVIDED INTO PARTS
OF PORTSOKEN WARD, THE FIRST IN THE EAST PART
TOWER STREET WARD
ALDGATE WARD
LIME STREET WARD
BISHOPSGATE WARD
BROAD STREET WARD
CORNEHILL WARD
LANGBORNE WARD, AND FENNIE ABOUT
BILLINGSGATE WARD
BRIDGE WARD WITHIN
CANDLEWICK STREET WARD
WALBROOK WARD
DOWNEGATE WARD
WARDS ON THE WEST SIDE OF WALBROOKE, AND FIRST OF VINTRY WARD
CORDWAINER STREET WARD
CHEAPE WARD
COLEMAN 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 SUBURBS WITHOUT THE WALLS OF THE SAID CITY BRIEFLY TOUCHED.
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
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
THE SINGULARITIES OF THE CITY OF LONDON
AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE EXAMINATION OF SUCH CAUSES AS HAVE
FITZSTEPHEN'S DESCRIPTION OF LONDON OF THE SITUATION OF THE SAME
INDEX
FOOTNOTES
Transcriber's Note
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STOW’S SURVEY OF LONDON
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