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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    yeare the Colledge church being pulled downe, in the east part thereof a large Wine tauerne was builded, and withall downe to the west and throughout the whole precinct of that Colledge many other houses were builded, and highly prised, letten to straungers borne, and other such, as there claymed benefite of priuiledges, graunted to the Canons, seruing God day and night (for so be the wordes in the Charter of W. Conqueror) which may hardly be wrested to artificers, buyers and sellars, otherwise then is mentioned in the 21. of saint Mathezves Mathew 21. Gospel. Lower down on the west side of S. Martins lane, in the parish of S. Anne almost by Aldersgate, is one great house, commonlie called Northumberland house: it belonged to N. Percy. K. H. the 4. in the 7. of his raign, gaue this house with the tenements therevnto appertayning to Queene lane his wife, and then it was called her Wardrcpe, it is now a Printing house. Without Aldersgate, on the east side of Aldersgate street, is the Cookes hall: which Cooks (or Pastelars) were admitted Cookes Hall, to be a Company, and to haue a Maister & Wardens in the 22. of E. the 4. From thence along vnto Hounsditch or Barbican streete, bee many faire houses. On the west side also be the like faire buildings till ye come to Long lane, and so to Goswel streete. In Briten street, which tooke that name of the Dukes of Briton streete. Briton lodging there, is one proper parish church of S. Buttolph, o“s*Buttolph in which church was sometime a Brotherhood of S. Fabian & Sebastian, founded in the yeare 1377, the 51. of E. the 3. and confirmed by //. the 4. in the 6. of his raign. Then H. the 6. in the 24. of his raign, to the honour of the Trinitie, gaue licence to Dame loan Astlcy, somtime his Nurse, to P. Cazvod and T. Smith to founde the same a fraternity, perpetually to haue a M. and 2. Custos with brethren & sisters, &c. This brotherhood was indowed with landes, more then 30. pound by the yeare, and was suppressed by E. the 6. There lie buried, lohn de Bath, Weuar, 1390. Philip at Vine, Capper, 1396. Benet Gerard, Brewer, 1403. Thomas Bilsington founded a Chauntrie there, and gaue to that Church a house, called the Helmet vpon Cornhill. lohn Bradmore Chirurgion,]
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