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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$Cathedrall Church of S. Paule. Past S2J 324 Favingdon Ward within man, 1515, William Moncaster Merchant Taylor, /.524. William Holte Merchant Taylor, 1544 &c. Then is the North churchyard of Powles, in the which standeth the Cathedrall church, first founded by EtJulbart King of Kent, about the yeare of Christ, 610. He gaue thereto lands as appeareth. Aedelbertus Rex, Deo inspirante, pro anima; suce remedio, dedit episcopo inelito terrain quae appellatur Tillingeham ad monasterii sni solatium scilicet^, S. Pauli: et ego Rex Aethel- bertus ita concedo tibi presuli inelito potestatem eius habendi & possidendi vt in perpetuum in monasterii vtilitatc permaneat, &c. Athelstan, Edgare, Ed. the Confessor, and others also gaue lands therevnto. Wil. Conqueror gaue to the church of S. Patde, and to Mauricius then Bishop, and his successors, the Castle of Stortford, with the appurtenances, &c. He also confirmed the gifts of his predecessors, in these words: Rex. Angl. Clamo quietas in perpetuum, 24. Hidas quas Rex Aethelbert dedit S. Paido iuxta inurum London. &c. The Charter of King. Wil. the Conqueror, exemplified in the Tower, englished thus. William by the grace of God, ICing of Englishmen, to all his %velbeloued French and English people, greeting. Know ye, that I do giuc vnto God & the church of S. Panic of London, &' to the rectors 5f senators of the same, in all their lands which the church hath, or shall hane, ruithin borough df 'without, sack and sock, Thole & Theiiti), Lnfangthefc & Grith- briche, & all freeships by sea, & by land, on tide, and off tide, and all the rights that into them christendome byrad & more speake, &■ on buright hained, &• on buright 'workc, afore all the Bishopricks in mine land: and on each other mans land. For L 'will that the church in all things be as free as I 'wotdd my soule to be in the day of iudgement: 'witnesses Osinound our Chancellor, L^anfrank the Archbishop of Canterbury, & T. Archbishop of York, Roger Earle of Shreivesbury, Alane the county, Geffrey dc Magna villa, and Raph Peuercl. \ In the yeare 1087. this church of S. Panic was brent with fire, & therewith the most part of the citie: which fire began * sciltos] 160J ; scilicet coir. 1633$