A Survey of London : Reprinted from the Text of 1603, with Introduction and Notes, Paperback / softback Book

A Survey of London : Reprinted from the Text of 1603, with Introduction and Notes Paperback / softback

Edited by C. L. Kingsford

Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 15th & 16th Centuries series

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'Stow's Survey' is a historical work readily identified by this familiar name alone.

John Stow (c.1524-1605) was a Londoner, a member of the Merchant Taylors' Company, but spent most of his life accumulating manuscripts and other historical records.

His great work, A Survey of London, was published in 1603, and is reissued here in the two-volume version edited by C.

L. Kingsford (1862-1926) and published in 1908. Kingsford, a government education official, was also a writer for the Dictionary of National Biography, to which he contributed over 300 entries.

His Chronicles of London (also reissued in this series) was published in 1905.

Volume 2 continues the ward-by-ward account, and goes on to describe Westminster, the city's churches and hospitals, its government, mayor and sheriffs, and the guilds.

Kingsford provides notes, a glossary and comprehensive indexes, offering an accessible and accurate version of this vital source for the city's history.

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