Volume 1

A survey of London / by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

  • Stow, John
Date:
1908
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Credit: A survey of London / by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Then shall Robert Traps^ his wmes And children be forgotteii. Then in Pope lane, so called of one Tope that was owner Popelane, thereof, on the north side is the parrish church of saint Anne Anne'^^ in the willowes, so called I know not vpon what occasion: but the wiliowes. some say, of willowes growing thereabouts : but now there is no such voyde place for willowes to grow, more then the Churchyeard, wherin do grow some high Ashe trees. This church by casualty of fire, in the yeare 1548. was burnt, so far as it was combustible, but since being newly repayred, there remain a few monuments of antiquity, of Thomas Bcckhenton Clarke of the pipe, who was buried there, 1499. Raph Caldwell, Gentleman of Greyes Inne, 1537. John Lord Sheffelde, lohn Herenden, Mercer, Esquire, 1572. these verses on an old stone. % aiiTri$ o njul hs guls to pm p<erc uit k fan Chrif iiiiT inu la William Gregory Skinner, Mayor of London in the year 145I) was there buried, and founded a chauntrie, but no monument of him remayneth. Then in S. Martins lane was of old time a fayre & large Colledge of colledge of a deane and secular canons or priests, and was called S. Martins le graund, founded by Ingelricns and claimed priai- Edwardtis his brother in the yeare of Christ 1056. & con- sanct^uary, firmed by W. the Conqueror, as appeareth by his charter dated Lib.S. Martin. 1068. This colledge claymed great priuiledges of sanctuary and otherwise, as appeareth in a booke, written by a notary of that house about the yeare 1440. the 19 of H. the 6. wherin amongst other things is set down & declared, that ] on Pagt jio the I. of September in the yeare aforesaid, a souldier prisoner ’ Traps^ Harl. 538 ; Trips i6oj “ Bec/ehenton] 1603 ; I^khimpton 1633
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