REFERENCES TO THE MAP
ON PAGES xvi AND xvii

a Bushops gate streete.
b Papie.
c Alhallowes in the wall.
d S. Taphyns.
e Syluer streete.
f Aldermanburye.
g Barbican.
h Aldersgate streete.
i Charterhowse.
k Holborne conduct.
l Chauncery lane
m Temple barr.
n Holbourn.
o Grayes Inn lane.
p S. Androwes.
q Newgate.
r S. Iones.
s S. Nic shambels.
t Cheap syde.
u Bucklers burye.
w Brode streete.
x The Stockes.
y The Exchannge.
z Cornehill.

2. Colman streete.
3. Bassings hall.
4. Honnsditche.
5. Leaden hall.
6. Gratious streete.
7. Heneage house.
8. Fancshurche.
9. Marke lane.
10. Minchyn lane.
11. Paules.
12. Eastcheape.
13. Fleetstreete.
14. Fetter lane.
15. S. Dunshous.
16. Themes streete.
17. Lodon Stone.
18. Olde Baylye.
19. Clerkenwell.
20. Winchester house.
21. Battle bridge.
22. Bermodsoy streete.

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Author to the Reader[1]
The Antiquity of London[3]
The Wall about the City of London[7]
Of the Ancient and Present Rivers, Brooks, Bourns, Pools, Wells, and Conduits of Fresh Water serving the City[12]
The Town Ditch without the Wall of the City[19]
Bridges of this City[21]
Gates in the Wall of this City[27]
Of Towers and Castles[42]
Of Schools and other Houses of Learning[66]
Houses of Students of the Common Law[70]
Of Orders and Customs of the Citizens[73]
Of Charitable Alms in Old Times given[82]
Sports and Pastimes of Old Time used in this City[84]
Watches in London[91]
Honour of Citizens, and Worthiness of Men in the same[96]
The City of London divided into Parts[107]
Portsoken Ward[110]
Tower Street Ward[118]
Aldgate Ward[125]
Lime Street Ward[136]
Bishopgate Ward[148]
Broad Street Ward[157]
Cornehill Ward[168]
Langborne Ward and Fennie About[179]
Billingsgate Ward[185]
Bridge Ward Within[189]
Candlewike Street Ward[194]
Walbrook Ward[200]
Downegate Ward[206]
Vintry Ward[213]
Cordwainer Street Ward[224]
Cheap Ward[231]
Coleman Street Ward[248]
Bassings hall Ward[255]
Cripplegate Ward[260]
Aldersgate Ward[271]
Faringdon Ward Infra, or Within[277]
Bread Street Ward[307]
Queen hithe Ward[314]
Castle Baynard Ward[325]
The Ward of Faringdon Extra, or Without[331]
Bridge Ward Without (the 26th in number), consisting of the Borough of Southwark, in the County of Surrey[358]
The Suburbs without the Walls of the City, briefly touched, as also
without the Liberties, more at large described[374]
Liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster[393]
The City of Westminster, with the Antiquities, Bounds, and Liberties thereof[398]
Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Government[422]
Parish Churches[434]
Hospitals in this City and Suburbs[438]
Of Leprous People and Lazar Houses[440]
Temporal Government of this City[442]
Aldermen and Sheriffs of London[474]
Officers belonging to the Lord Mayor’s House[474]
Sheriffs of London; their Officers[475]
Mayor and Sheriffs’ Livery[475]
Companies of London placed at the Mayor’s Feast[476]
Liveries worn by Citizens at Triumphs[479]
An Apology, or Defence, against the Opinion of some Men, which think that the Greatness of that City standeth not with the Profit and Security of this Realm[482]
The Singularities of the City of London[485]
An Appendix[498]
Fitzstephen’s Description of London[501]
Index[511]

A
SVRVAY OF
LONDON.

Conteyning the Originall, Antiquity,
Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that
City, written in the yeare 1598, by Iohn Stow
Citizen of London.

Since by the same Author increased,
with diuers rare notes of Antiquity, and
published in the yeare,
1603.