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RENAISSANCE STUDIES icToRIA UNIVERSITY pr open jon foros ber f GE siti ACT OF STOW Ae fiea SURVEY OF LONDON BY JOHN STOW REPRINTED FROM THE TEXT OF 1603 WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES w (CHARLES LETHBRIDGE KINGSFORD, M.A vOUuME 1 OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON FRESS got A SURVEY OF LONDON BY JOHN STOW REPRINTED FROM THE TEXT OF 1603 WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES CHARLES LETHBRIDGE KINGSFORD, M.A. VOLUME 1 OXFORD AT TIE CLARENDON PRUSS 1908 HEYEY FROWDE, 1h, PREFACE To hundred years ago Thomas Hearne recom mended that Stow's Survey should be reprinted as a veaerable orizinal. No words could express better the intention of the present edlitin, The not in- frequent misprints and sotme obvious errors ave heen cotrected, and il has bee necessary al mes to vary the punctuation. But otherwise the text now given follows faithfully she edition of 1603, save that the list of Mayors and Sheritfs has been revised, since the original was in its earlier part so tangled with error that more close reproduction contd only have been mischievous, The edition of s603 was printed for the most part in black letter. In the present edition the Roman type represents the black letter of the original; the Italle type is used for those passages or phrasts which, in 1603, were pritted in Roman type. Occasionally it has been necessary in the intecest of uniformity to vary the type But the only changes of importance are the printing in Roman, type on i 117 of the paragraph beginning: “Hauing thus in generality’; and the princiog in Italics of che quotations on ii. 96 ann 105. ‘The pages of the ré03 edition are marked by « | in the text, and by the samber of the page (in Italics) ia the meegin, The text of 1603 is followed by a collation with che first edition of 1398, showing a'l the variations botween the two versions, Of the making of Notes to such a hook as the Swrngy there necd be no end. Critics may be dis- posed to ask once more: ‘Why have ye not noted this, or that?’ But some restriction was necessary iv Preface “Che chief ainrs of the Notes in this edition have therefore been: to correct any etrors of statement or fuct which might he found; to trace as far as possible the sources of Stow's information ; to supple- mont the text with fresh matter fiom Stow’s own callections to illustrace 7, within a reasonable com- pass, by quotations from conteraparary writers, There has been no intention to complcie Stow's history, Still less have 1 endeavoared to carry that history beyond bis own time. I have, however, added notes on places and placenames, especially in those cases where Stow had himsclf given some history, saggested a derivation, or cited obsolete forms, “The preparation of the text and its passage through the press have keen supervised by Mr. C. E, Doble. How mack care ad pains bis luhour has entailed, only one who has had some share it i can realize, For myself 1 have further to thank Mr, Doble both for suggesting to me the undertaking of this edition and for his constent advice and assistance in its per- formance. Me. Dable has also supplied the Glossary. ‘The map of London sire r60¢ has besa prepared by Mr. Emery Walker; it is based on a comparison of Stow’s text wich the maps of Hoefnagel in Braun and. Hogenberg’s atlas (civce 1560), of Faithotae (1638), and of Morden and Lea {1682}. The famous map of Ralph Agas was probably based on Hoefnuge’s map. L have to thank Dr. R, R. Sharpe, the Records Clerk at ee Guildha’, Mr W. H. Stevenson of St, John's College, Ostord, and Mr. J. A. Herbert of the British Museum for their assistance in various points of difficulty. COI 1K, Tanvany, 1908,
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