The survey of London: contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe / With a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors. Begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stovv, in the yeere 1598. Afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A[nthony] M[unday] in the yeere 1618. And now completely finished by the study and labour of A. M., H[enry] D[yson] and others. This present yeere 1633. Whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables.

John Stow

Date:: 1633

Credit: The survey of London: contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe / With a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors. Begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stovv, in the yeere 1598. Afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A[nthony] M[unday] in the yeere 1618. And now completely finished by the study and labour of A. M., H[enry] D[yson] and others. This present yeere 1633. Whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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?8 (^ates of this Qitie. For Stephen Forftcr, late Malor^ heartily pray^ And Dame Agnes hu Jpoufe^ to Godconfecrate^ That ofpittyi f^^de for Londoners in Ludgate, So that for lodyini and water^ prifinershere noughtpay^ As their keepers f jailaU anfwer at dreadfull doomes-day. ; A breach inthcWall againft Sridfmll. Wturguts, Bloc][FyUrs. Fuddle wharfc* This place, and one other of his Armes, being 3. broad Arrow-heads, taken downe with the old Gatc^ I cau- ied to be fixed over the entry ofi|ie (aid C^adrant; but the verfes being unhap¬ py turned inward to the wall, procu¬ red the like in effedto be ingraven out¬ ward in profe, declaring him to bee a Filhmongcr, becaufe Tome, upon a light ocafion ( as a Maydens head in a glafle window ) had fabled him to be a Mercer, and to hav^egd thereat Lud- ^ate^S^c, Thus much for Next this, there is a breach in the Wall of the Citie, and a Bridge of Timber over the Fleet-dike ^ betwixt Fleet-bridge SiVid Thamesy direiflly over againfl: the, houle of Bridewell, Thus much for the Gates in the Wall, Water-gates on the banks of the Ri¬ ver Thames^ have beene many, which, being purchafed by private men, are al- fo put to private ule, and the old names of them forgotten. But offuch asre- maine, from the Weft, towards the Eaft, may be faid as followeth. The Blacke Friers ftayres, a free lan¬ ding place. Then a Water-gate at;»»dd4; wharfe, of one Puddleyhit kept a wharfe on the Weft fide thereof, and now of Puddle water, by mcanes ofmanyhorfeswa- tered there. Then Faules wharfe, alfo a free lan¬ ding place with ftayrcs,&c. Then Broken whsLik, and other fuch like. - But Bipa Reginay the ^ueenes Bankcy Slyyene hi the ^ may well be accounted the very chiefe and principall Water¬ gate of this Citie, being a common ftrand or landing place,yet equal! with, and ( of old time } farre exceeding Be- linfgatty as ftiall be (hewed in the Ward oi flueene Hithe, The next is Dmnimfo called of the ludden defeending, or downe goine of that way, from Saint Uhm Chmch up onwalbroks unto the River of Thames whereby the water in the Chanel! thcri hath fuch a fwife courfc, that in the ycere 15 74. on the fourth of September after a ftrong fhowre of raine, a Lad of the age of cighteene yecrcs, minding to have leapt over the Channcll, was ta- ^n by the feet, and borne downe with t c violence of that narrow ftreame and earned toward the Thames with IiKh a violent fwiftnefle, as no man againft a Cart-whcelc, that flood in the Watergate, before which time, he was drowned and ftarke dead. This was fbitietinie a large Water-sate frequented of (hips, and^other velds, like as the ^eenes mheyatid was a part thereof, as doth appearc by an inquifiti- on, made in the 2 8. yeere of Jlenry the third, wherein was found, Thatafwell come as fijhy ^d all other things comminr tothe Port ofDovfngztCy were to be ordt red after the cufiomes of the Queens Hith for the Kings ufe, jisalfoy that the come l^ri ving betweene the gate of the Guild- nail^ the Merchants of Cullen ; the (5til-yard) which is Eaft from Downe- portainincr to the Archbtjhop ofCmcrburyyWeftfrtm Bai- nards c^jile . tg meafured by the meafure^and meafurer of the ^t^enes Soke Queen Hithc. I read afi^in the 10’ of Edward the third. That cuftomeswere tf n to bee pa^ for fhips and other vef fils^eftmga^owngatcy asiftheyroade at Queene Hirh, and as they now doe at Behnfgate, But now it is fallen to fuch great decay, that not onejy there is no ufe made thereof, but alfo by reafon that the Water-gates are not repaired. It IS very dangerous to pafteneers travelling through in the night feafon. And thus much for Downegate may fuf- The next was called rvolfes gate in the Ropary, in the Parifti of Alhallowes the Icne, of later time called tvolfes lancy but now out of ufe : for the lower part was builded on by the Earle of ShrewsburyySVid the other part was ftop- ped up, and builded on by the Cham- hciUino of London, Thel A Lad of 18. yccrei old drow¬ ned in a Channcll iiDawnt- latt. AnlnquK ficioocoa* cerning DmntifUi. Merchant! of the Haafc, landed their corn betwixt their houle and the SltckFrkrh ir«tft$ga.te in thcX«* foiy.

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