The survay of London: containing, the originall, antiquitie, encrease, and more moderne estate of the sayd famous citie ... / Written in the yeere 1598 ... Since then, continued, corrected and much enlarged with many ... notes ... [to] 1618 [by Anthony Munday].

  • John Stow
Date:
1618
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Credit: The survay of London: containing, the originall, antiquitie, encrease, and more moderne estate of the sayd famous citie ... / Written in the yeere 1598 ... Since then, continued, corrected and much enlarged with many ... notes ... [to] 1618 [by Anthony Munday]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Lord Bifhop of London. The times of both in this Land and Citie, and confequently, how itfayled, or Pagan tyran - flonrtjhed from time to time, vnder the ancient Regiment of tyfrch- ny,and perfc- bifhops of London, as appeareth in the following Record, and fa dudOIconfide° frocee^:n&to Meliftus and luftus, who were the firft Bifhops thereof ted. n {each afterother) at fuchtimeas the Church of Saint Paul, front . >• being the prephane Temple of Apollo , and fo defhroyed, was fir ft founded to he a (fiathedrall Church in this Cilie of London , and in the time o/Ethclbert, King of Kent, thereinyou may be hereafter mtich better informed. All which Catalogue of thofelleuerend Fa¬ thers and Bifhops, how longtime each man fate, or happened to bee , thence removed, either by Death, or to a higher degree, is iuflly Jet downs i>, the five Regifler, andhumbty giuen to your great andgraue corf deration, to this end, that if 1 haue therein anyway failed, by peur aduife the fame may be reformed; or if any thing alfo be miftaken, 1. item ay lee the more dtrcftly ordered, you beeing the only Judge in this cafe, to whom Jfhould fin a matter fo important) appeale. Laftly, concerning a certatne inflruftion receiuedfromyour Lord- fhip by a Gent It man of much learning and re fie ft, for the times ofnew building, enlarging and repayring of many Churches in this Citieas alfo, the houfesfor dwelling of the learned Paftors to them belonging, wherein hath appeared no lacfe ofloue and bounty of the Parifbionert inthofe Purifies, and fime ofthem particular men, in very godly and ■liber all manner : 1 n.ofi humbly intreatyour Honor,at this timether- in to pardon and excufe mee, till a larger Volume may anfwere both yours cjr a! others expectations in that find with many other matters of great conference, not willingly,but confirainedly omitted at this time, As for fuch errors as haue efcaped in the Imprejfion, many of them, through the fault of not being wel acquainted with my crabbed, writing, more by mi flaking, but none (I dare prefume) by any willingr.es in the Printer to commit in the very leafl kind: I know that you, Reuerend Father, and the L earned,will louirgly correft, the vncapable eajity flip ouer, and the mofl malicious (yuen in their feuerefl fpleene) thinke me not fo ignorant as to write, or the Printer fo negligent ] wilfully to let pafle, albeit wee both mufl now fland fubieft to eucry cenfure* Your Lordftiipsin *11 dutic- At Aft .
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