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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$DifputJlci' on of fcbolars in Chrifis Hcffitall. AHtbonUt Pigs. P^eoni OfSchoolri arid'Houfes o/Learmfigy Lcfture in Chirur- gerie. - f^^njier, ofSaiflf^^;« ! fpiwl.and'ofSaint Amhornis Hofpiwll: i ihcriofthfclaft named,cominonlrpre- ! fcDtndthe bed Scholets, and had the prize in thoic dayw. ^ * Xhis Priorie of Saint Bartholomew bc- int furrendred to Henry the eighth, diQle dirputations df Scholars in that : plate furceaied, and was agaiire, onely for a yccre or twaine, in the rtignd of Mrdthe fixth,revived in the Ciomer ofqhrip ^ i C lersYriien ki\\ofS:'Unthonies Schbole) were rewarded with Bowes and Ar- rowes of (liver, given to them by Sir Martin Bowes NevertheiefTe, howfoever the encou¬ ragement failed, the Scholers of Paals^ meeting with them ot Szmt Anthonies, ^youldcall them Saint Anthonies Pigs, apd they againe would call the, other Pigeons ot^Pauls; becaule many Pige¬ ons were bred in P4ttls Church, and S* was alwaies figured with a |>ig following him: and mindtull ot the ufage, did for a long fealon, dif- ordjerly in^he openrftreet, provoke one ai;y)ther, with salve tu quoque-yplacet tm mecum difputare ^placet. And fo procee¬ ding from this to queftions in Gram¬ mar, they ufually fell from words to bloweSjWith their (atchels (till ot books, many times in great heaps, that they troubled the ftreets and paiTengers; fo that finally they were rellra.ned with the decay of Saint Anthonies Schoole, Outoti;his SchOole have fprung di¬ vers famous perfons,vvhereot although time hath buried the names of many, yet in mine owne remembrance may oe numbred thefe following: Sir Timas Moore, Knight, Lord Chancellour of Endand: Dodor Nicholas Heath^iomc- time BilTiop of Rocheflar, after of wor- <?cfeandIaftly,Archbi(hop of rorh, iand Lord Chanddloor ot En^and: Dodor lehnfvhitgift, Biflaop of ff'erVe- and after Arehoifnop of Canturhu- rv & c ' ’ Of later time, in the yecre of ^Chrifi: '1582, there was founded a publike Le- ! dure in Chirurgerie, to be rvad in the ICoiledge ofPhyfiGians in icnightmders- ^jlreet, tt> beginne in theyeero i5^4* ',the fixth of yli^^,and fo to be continued for ever twice a week,on ^ ? 6i Friday, by the honourable Baron, Idh'n, Lotd LomHey, and the learfied Ktchald] chadwell, Dodor in Phyficke: the Rea¬ der whereof to be Richard Porfier, Do, dor ofPhyficke, during hfs'dife. ^ Furthermore, about the fame time, there was allb begun a Mathematicall Ledure, t6be read inafaifoold Chap- j pell, builded by Simon Eayre,within thk Leaden-halt-, whereof a learned Citizen •borneiJnartied Thomas Hood, was the fifft Reader. But this Chappell, and other parts of that Hall, being imploy- cd for ffow^gc of goods,-taken out of a great Spamjh Caracke, thejaid Ledure ceafed any more to be,read, and was then in the' yeOre 1*5 .8 8v read in the houfe of Mailer Thomas Smith in GraJJe- Jlreet,Scc, Lafl pf all,Sir Thomas knight. Agent to Q^ecne Eltz^abeth, by his iaft Will and Te(laraent,made in theyeerc 157^, thQ Roydl Exchange, and all the buildiigs therunto, appertaining j that is;tQ fay, the one moity to the Mai- or and Qornmunalty of London, and their fuceefTors, upontruft, that they performeasfhall be declared: and the other moity to the Mercers, in like con¬ fidence. The Maiorand Communalty aretofindefoure,to reade Ledures of ■ Divinity,Aftronotriy, Muficke and Ge¬ ometry, within his dwelling houle in Bifhopfgate-Jlreetj and.to beflovve the fumme of two hundred potind » to wit, fifty pound apeecc, &:c. The Mercers likewifc are to find three Readers •, that is, in Civill Law, Phyficke and Rheto- ricke, within the fame dwelling houfe, the liimme of 15o.pound,to every Rea¬ der 50.,pound, &:c. Which gift was (fince that time) cotifirmed by Parlia¬ ment, to take effed, and beganne after thcdeceafeof the Lady Anne Grejham, which hapned in, the ycerc 155’^* is to continue for ever. W hcruponjthe Ledurers were accor¬ dingly chofen, and appointed to begin their Readings in the Mnheth of lune, 15P7- Whole names were, Mafter thonytvotton,^oxT)Wm\tyr’i Mafter Do¬ dor Mathew (7j^»,for Phyfick; Dodor Henry Mount low, for the Civiil Law; Dodor lohn Bull, for-Muficke-, Ma¬ iler Breerewood, for Aftronomicj Ma¬ iler Henric Bridges , for Geomerric 5: G a and Matliema- ticall Le- (Sure read. SitThtmas Gnjhim. X 9 . Lc^urcs to be read uxLendan, Names of the 7-. ftrft Lecturers,$

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