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A Survey of London By John Stow
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Published 1908
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Reprinted from the text of 1603 with introduction and notes.
Contents
VOLUME II
230
streete, fifteene, yeare
NOTES
269
gisors, cartulary, lethaby
SUPPLEMENT TO NOTES
389
anglicanum, monasticon, liber
GLOSSARY
398
skeat, soke, seisin
INDEXES
428
stondon, stocker, standon
Of Places
452
Of Subjects
467
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London - Page 199
WHATSOEVER is said of Cities generally, maketh also for London specially : Howbeit these thinges are particularly for our purpose to bee considered in ...
more pages: 30 41 48 125 202 204 209 215 367 383
Hackney - Page 136
Deane and Chapter of Paules the same day and yeare with exception of such lands in Southminster, Stebunheth and Hackney, as onely pertayned to them. ...
more pages: 75
Greenwich - Page 39
He gaue by his Testament to Christes Hospitall in London loo.li., to the Colledge of the poore of Queene Elizabeth in east Greenwich, 100. pound, ...
Islington - Page 370
I have heard 'em roar from the six windmills to Islington.' Six mills are shown on Faithorne's map in 1658. Windmill Street, now re-named Tabernacle ...
Lambeth - Page 362
23, 1503, the feast was kept at Lambeth, id. 260. 37,1. 19. Furniualles Inné. It occurs as an Inn of Chancery in the reign of Henry IV. ...
more pages: 402
Harrow - Page 27
&c. but this was not so indeed, as I haue beene credibly informed : true it is that this Bolton was also parson of Harrow, and therfore bestowed some ...
Barking - Page 143
HOSPITAL of saint Mary in the parish of Barking church, An hospital for that was prouided for poore priests, and others, men and {^T™wer°ple ...
more pages: 363
Canterbury - Page 193
The 29. of Edward the first, the saide king tooke to wife Margaret sister to Philip Le Bew king of Fraunce, they were married at Canterbury. ...
more pages: 88 103 135 137 358
Windsor - Page 32
but then the king cried hold, and so they were departed : the king made lohn Ansley knight, and the knight of Aragon offered his harnesse at Windsor. ...
more pages: 8 242
Oxford - Page 135
Richard Fitz lames fellow of Martin * Colledge in Oxford, in the raigne of Henry the 6. was made Bishop of Rochester, after Bishop of Chichester, ...
more pages: 4 39 134 136 183 201 294 325 333 410
Barnet - Page 110
lohn Bourchier, Lord Barners also slayne at Barnet, 1471. Sir William Trussell knight, Sir Thomas Vaughan knight, ...
Bolton - Page 27
&c. but this was not so indeed, as I haue beene credibly informed : true it is that this Bolton was also parson of Harrow, and therfore bestowed some ...
more pages: 26
Jerusalem - Page 48
And whereas at the first they had no certaine habitation, Baldwin king of Jerusalem granted vnto them a dwelling place in his pallace by the Temple, ...
more pages: 83 84 89 100 143 401
Norwich - Page 61
Henry Perde (beeing Marshall) kept his prisoners in the Citie of London, where hauing committed one lohn Prendergast, of Norwich, contrarie to the ...
more pages: 60 108
Poole - Page 79
Then had yee a fayre Poole of sweete water neare to the Church of saint Giles, wherein Anne of Lodbcry was drowned, as I haue before declared. ...
more pages: 29
Rome - Page 125
and that it so endured the space of foure hundred yeares, vntill the comming of Augustine the Monk & others from Rome, in the raigne of the Saxons. ...
more pages: 130 149 225 230 358 386
Hertford - Page 51
he died 1231. and Gilbert Marshall his brother, Earle of Pembrooke, slayne in a Turne- ment at Hertford, besides Ware, in the yeare 1241. ...
Cambridge - Page 178
Saltar : this William Home made knight in the field by Henry the 7. gaue to the repayring of high wayes betwixt London and Cambridge 500. marks, ...
more pages: 4 14 17 162
Paris - Page 130
the most part of this Citie, and therefore he laid the foundation of a new large Church, and hauing sitten 22. yeares, hee deceased 1107, saith Paris. ...
more pages: 30 131 402 412
Chichester - Page 134
1422. lohn Kempe fellow of Martin1 Colledge in Oxford, was made Bishop of Rochester, from whence remoued to Chichester, and thence to London : he was ...
Ashbourne - Page 377
1447), though her tomb has been supposed to exist at Ashbourne in Derbyshire (AE Cockayne, Cockayne Memoranda, i. ...
Wigan - Page 45
1596. but was by the high Commissioners forced to make it vp againe, and so it resteth. lohn Vlsthorpe, William Eues- ham, lohn Wigan, and other ...
more pages: 364
Kendal - Page 313
The transition of the name is shown in Nobody and Somebody : ' If my breeches had as much cloth in them as ever was drawne betwixt Kendal and Canning ...
Southampton - Page 87
It hath of late yeares belonged to the Earles of Southampton, and there-fore called Southampton house. Master Ropar hath of late builded much there, ...
Warwick - Page 261
INSERTS after Warwick : & others in other places 20. riding of] riding vpon . 9. INSERTS after Ware : twentie miles from London, was the thirde, ...
Exeter - Page 328
Mary Arches is uncertain, but it has Norman columns, and is the only parish church [in Exeter] with regular aisles. ...
Lancaster - Page 91
and this is the boundes of that libertie, which sometime belonged to Ertane Lisle, since to Peter of Sauoy, and then to the house of Lancaster, ...
more pages: 97 194
Salisbury - Page 134
Exchequer, translated to Salisbury, and from thence to Bathe, and lyeth buried at Wels. 1407. Richard Clifford, remoued from Worcester to London, ...
Lyon - Page 53
And the white Lyon, all in long Southwarke. Houses most notable be these. The Bishop of Winchesters house. The Bishop of Rochesters house. ...
more pages: 183
Colchester - Page 317
The possession of the church by Colchester was disputed by the monks of Westminster (see Eng. Hist. Review, xvi. 726-8). ...
Vienna - Page 50
by whose death it came againe to the hands of Edwarde the third, but in the meane time, to wit, 1334. by a counsell holden at Vienna, all the landes ...
Bury - Page 196
and inclosed dwelling, therefore our auncesters called their walled townes bunk or btJUJ, and wee now Bury and Borow, of the Greeke word Trvpyos, ...
more pages: 348
Chorley - Page 339
38) it reads Chorley. 300,1. 21. Robert Crowley. Stow, in his Memoranda, 139, writes of him under date 1567 as ' Somtym a boke sellar, ...
Cologne - Page 319
The merchants of Cologne had their house in London as early as 1157. This was probably identical with the Gilda Aula or Gildehalda Teutoni- corum, ...
York - Page 325
It is, however, noteworthy that in 1382 one William Warde, a ' cuteller ' of York, complained that he had been admitted as a blader instead of as a ...
more pages: 389
Genoa - Page 239
thirde of Henry the fift, by the name of hälfe pence of Genoa forbidden to pass as vnlawfull payment amongst the English subiectes. ...
Pembroke - Page 23
Sir Thomas Malifant or Nanfanf, Baron of Winnow, Lord saint George in Glamorgan, and Lord Ockeneton and Pile in the county of Pembroke, 1438. ...
Evesham - Page 364
Ulsthorpe in 1432, Evesham in 1351, and Wigan in 1360 (Cal. Wills, ¡. 652, ii. 25, 469). 46,1. 2. lohn Bale. He describes the introduction of the ...
Andover - Page 324
In 1299 William de Wulcherchehawe owned ' la Wyncestreselde', where the merchants of Andover came to deal in wool (Mun. ...
Florence - Page 289
Referred to as ' Piero Capony a gentleman of Florence ' in Acts of Privy Council, x. 67. 1. 23. Cokedon hall. It occurs in 1316 and 1342 (Cal. ...
Ferrara - Page 366
Ospay Ferar ' may perhaps conceal some Italian noble of Ferrara, who died and was buried in England. 61,1. 39. sir John Imivorth. ...
Dover - Page 328
To Dover io markes. To pore maydes mariages ico markes. To pore husbondmen in Oxfordshire and Warwikeshire 140 shares and 140 coultars of yron. ...
Warrington - Page 330
62, reads : ' Hooe ' for Hold, and ' Warmyngton ' for Warrington. 261, 1. 11. In this Church. The list in Harley MS. 6069, f. ...
Northampton - Page 169
Nicholas Brembar, Grocer. lohn Northampton, late Mayor of London, was committed to perpetuali prison, and his goods confiscated. ...
Lucani - Page 201
In Vrbe London, exceptions habet dinulgatum id per omnes œquè gentes Lucani prouerbium : Inuida fatorum scries sumtnisque negatum ...
Gloucester - Page 274
The east gate of Gloucester was known as ' Ailesgate ' from ' AL%el ' (Engl. Hist. Rev. xii. 491). 31, 1. 23. The eldest note, &c. ...
Caen - Page 401
Candlemas, Feast of the Purification Cane-stone, ie from Caen in Normandy, i. 137. canons, secular, ii. 307 ; regular, i. (Feb. a), i. 55, 97. ...
Naples - Page 94
Beatrix wife to Charles \ king of Naples, 5. lolianna wife to Philip king of Nauarre. To return again to the house of Sauoy, Oueene Eleanor, ...
Derby - Page 446
Derby, ii. 102. Stanton, Herveyde, ¡.325. Staple, see Stable. Stapleton, Hugh. ii. 47. Stapleton, John, i. 248. Stapleton, Walter, i. 265, ii- 75- ...
Glocester - Page 81
A great Pestilence entring this Hand, began first in Dorsetshire, then proceeded into Deuonshire, Somerset shire, Glocester shire, and Oxforde shire, ...
more pages: 235 245
St. Augustine - Page 293
This probably explains the name ' Papey ' as used to distinguish St. Augustine on the Wall from the church of St. ...
Saint Paul - Page 314
Crosse and sworde of Saint Paul. Stow is right. See the description of The Banner of St. Paul (on i. 63 above), which was the ancient banner of the ...
more pages: 127
Boston - Page 103
In the 44. of Edward the third, Quinborough, Kingston vpon Hull, and Boston, were made Staples of Wooll, which matter so much offended some that in ...
Hamden - Page 34
dyed without issue male, about Henry the sixt, and leauing foure daughters, they were maried to Postar, Barenfine, Wodham, and Hamden. ...
Fairfax - Page 299
in which he wrote, on July 21, 1578: 'John Kirby that buylded the fayre howse upon Bednall Greene is ded, so is Fairfax and Bower, all riche men. ...
Dalian - Page 267
"lames Dalian 1. 29, to page 195,1. 26. but hee being now . . . to traiteli further in this Worte. 204, 11. 23-5. in rewarde ... were knighted] in ...
Sabinas - Page 221
Vrbis matronœ ipsos Sabinas sunt. De Scholis. In Londoniis tres principales ecclesias ; videlicet, Sedes Episcopalis ecclesia Sancti Pauli, ...