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The Survey of London

John Stow

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Men of trades and sellers of wares in this city have oftentimes since changed their places, as they have found their best advantage. For whereas mercers and haberdashers used to keep their shops in West Cheape,[92] of later time they held them on London Bridge, where partly they yet remain. The goldsmiths of Gutheron’s lane and Old Exchange are now for the most part removed into the south side of West Cheape, the peperers and grocers of Soper’s lane are now in Bucklesberrie, and other places dispersed. The drapers of Lombard street and of Cornehill are seated in Candlewick street and Watheling street; the skinners from St. Marie Pellipers, or at the Axe, into Budge row and Walbrooke; the stock fishmongers in Thames street; wet fishmongers in Knightriders street and Bridge street; the ironmongers, of Ironmongers’ lane and Old Jurie, into Thames street; the vintners from the Vin. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Docked one star, not for the wonderful work of Stow, but because they "translated" it and got rid of all the old variant spellings and assorted oddities. I wanted to de-code it and play with it, rather than be stuck with a simplified neutered text.

Again, how many happy hours have I spent wandering the streets of London with my hero, John Stow. Poor as a church mouse, the City of London eventually gave him a stipend for his chronicling of the greatest city on earth. Marvel at the names: Frying Pan Alley, Crutched Friars, Bleeding Heart Yard (t