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in mind (Newman 26). However, the
Subsequent editions of
finished:
The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down: with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors: as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.
The title informs us of
brought [the work] down to the present time by careful hands(Wheatley xiii). Additionally, this edition contained city and parish maps that are considered by many to be the work of
In accordance with the
straddles the generic space of social history, humanist etiological folktale, and guidebook(Newman 24). Ian Archer notes that
one manifestation of the celebration of the city’s traditions, its physical fabric, its great benefactors, and the role of its citizens as supporters of the crown, which flourished at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries(Archer 17).
sifting through records of all sorts
(Newman 122). In order to do this archival work, he used information from documents in his personal collection, and from manuscripts that the city of London possessed.
medieval past as a time ofand he looks back on this time as possessing acharity, hospitality and plenty
community spiritthat contemporary London was lacking (Archer 21).
a description of a city that had already disappeared(Merritt 1).