Copy 1, Volume 1

De rebus Britannicis collectanea / Cum Thomae Hearnii praefatione notis et indice ad editionem primam.

  • Leland, John, 1506?-1552
Date:
1774
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Credit: De rebus Britannicis collectanea / Cum Thomae Hearnii praefatione notis et indice ad editionem primam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Show, all on Horfeback, the Aldermen having round Caps on their Heads. Phe View it felf is fingular and. different from all that I have fcen, and was taken by Norden from the Pitch of the Hill towards Dulwich College going to Cam- berwell from London : in which College on the Srair-Cafe I had a Sight of it ia Company of Mr. Chriíftopher Brown. Mr. Secretary Pepys went afterwards to view it by my re- commendarion, and was very defirous to have purchafed it. But fince it is decayed and quite deflroyed by means of the moiftnefs of the Wall. 'D his was made about the Year 1604, or 1606. to the beft of my memory, and I have not met with any other of the like kind. L'here was no other Map of London done till the Year 1658. at which time came out, An exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Weftmin(ter and the Suburbs, together with the Burrough of Southwark, and all the 'T'horough-fairs, High-ways, Streets, Lanes and Common Alleys within the fame : compofed with a Scale, and ichnographically defcrib'd by Richard Newcourt of Somerton in the County of Somer- fet Gent. with a Genealogy from Brute, and alfo a Chrono- logy, together with the Arms of London, and the feveral Churches within the Walls, St. Paul's and Weftminfter-Ab- bey, as alío fix Windmills (for fo many there were at that time,) in eight Sheets, engraved by Mr. Will. Fathorne..- .'l'here was after this another Profpect of. London drawn by William Hallyer anno 1664. in fix Sheets, and etched by Robert Preck.. This fhews from. Eaft to Weft all the Views from Whitehall Garden, the Outfide Walls of Suffolk-Houfe, -. York, Savoy, Somerfet, Arundel, Effex, and Temple Houfes, all next the Thames. 'T'here is likewife a Site of the Bridge as it was before the Fir, a View of Nonfuch Houfe, with another fine Houfe; curions in it's Building, next Southwark. And on Southwark fide are the tops of the Houfes from St. ' Olave's Church Steeple, Winchefter-Houfe or the Palace of the Clink, with all the other Buildings thereto belonging, as alfo the Gardens, Fountains and Trees. 'Lhere is nothing exflant that fo exactly fhews the Buildings of old London before the Fire, and therefore many Obfervations may be inade from this View, and to very good purpofe. There have been feveral other Views taken, as that by james Howellin his Londinopolis: and Mr. Dunfton hath taken a View of this City before the Fire, underneath which is a Profpe&t of it, asit lay in it's Ruines. Mr. Hallyer was at. no. fmall] pains in taking tbe feveral Profpe&s, Views and Ground Plots of this City, particularly MP from.