Survey of London (1633): Fitzstephen’s Descriptio Nobilissimae Civitatis Londoniae Author (1603) John Stow Author (1618) Anthony Munday Author (1633) Anthony Munday Author (1633) Humphrey Dyson Printer Elizabeth Purslowe Publisher Nicholas Bourne Editor Janelle Jenstad Post-Conversion Editor Joey Takeda Post-Conversion Editor Martin Holmes CSS Editor Molly Rothwell Encoder Chris Horne Encoder Janelle Jenstad Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Stow, John A1 - Munday, Anthony A1 - Munday, Anthony A1 - Dyson, Humphrey ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Survey of London (1633): Fitzstephen’s Descriptio Nobilissimae Civitatis Londoniae T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1633_fitzstephen.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/stow_1633_fitzstephen.xml TY - UNP ER - Stow, John, Anthony Munday, Anthony Munday, and Humphrey Dyson. Survey of London (1633): Fitzstephen’s Descriptio Nobilissimae Civitatis Londoniae. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1633_fitzstephen.htm. Draft. Stow, John, Anthony Munday, Anthony Munday, and Humphrey Dyson. Survey of London (1633): Fitzstephen’s Descriptio Nobilissimae Civitatis Londoniae. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1633_fitzstephen.htm. Draft. Stow, J., Munday, A., Munday, A., & Dyson, H. 2022. Survey of London (1633): Fitzstephen’s Descriptio Nobilissimae Civitatis Londoniae. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/stow_1633_fitzstephen.htm. Draft. This semi-diplomatic transcription takes the University of Victoria copy (DA680 S87 1633) of STC 23345 (ESTC S117597) as its control text. Digital surrogates of this copy are available in UVic ContentDM (Collection 25, 993). For convenience, and only because STC 23345 has not yet been transcribed by EEBO-TCP, we began with the XML file of the EEBO-TCP transcription of the post-1640 STC 23345.5/Wing S5773A (TCP A13053), available on GitHub). The names of the EEBO-TCP transcribers are unknown. Paul Schaffner edited the original EEBO-TCP markup in or before 2012. Sebastian Rahtz created the TEI Stylesheets to convert the EEBO-TCP file to TEI-P5 in or before 2012. Martin Holmes downloaded the XML file from the GitHub repository. Joey Takeda and Martin Holmes processed the file programmatically to bring it in line with MoEML’s TEI customization. They added proleptic catchwords (based on the first word on the next page) and converted short s back to long s based on predictable patterns. MoEML Research Assistants at the University of Victoria performed the following additional tasks: transcribed the 1633 text from the UVic copy in those places where the post-1640 text differed; supplied content for the gaps left by the EEBO-TCP transcribers; checked the transcription against digital surrogates of the UVic copy and against the copy itself; corrected the proleptic catchwords where necessary; transcribed the formeworks; added links to digital surrogates; and tagged all people, places, and dates. The text was then checked by Editor Janelle Jenstad.

The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.

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The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.

The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes referred to as New Style (NS). Years run from January 1 through December 31.

The Anno Mundi (year of the world) calendar is based on the supposed date of the creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).

Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch. Our practice is to tag such dates with calendar=regnal, and provide an equivalent date using a more systematic calendar (usually Julian) in a custom dating attribute.

 Molly Rothwell Molly Rothwell MR

Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at MoEML, Molly primarily worked on encoding and transcribing the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey, adding toponyms to MoEML’s Gazetteer, researching England’s early-modern court system, and standardizing MoEML’s Mapography.

 Chris Horne Chris Horne CH

Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

 Tracey El Hajj Tracey El Hajj TEH

Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Paul Schaffner Paul Schaffner PS

E-text and TCP production manager at the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), Paul manages the production of full-text transcriptions for EEBO-TCP.

 Sebastian Rahtz Sebastian Rahtz SR

Chief data architect at University of Oxford IT Services, Sebastian was well known for his contributions to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), OxGarage, and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP).

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.

 Nicholas Bourne Nicholas Bourne

Printer, bookbinder, and bookseller.

ODNB Humphrey Dyson Humphrey Dyson

Writer and book collector. Revised John Stow’s A Survey of London.

ODNB Wikipedia Anthony Munday Anthony Munday

Playwright, actor, pageant poet, translator, and writer. Possible member of the Drapers’ Company or Merchant Taylors’ Company.

ODNB Wikipedia John Stow John Stow

Historian and author of A Survey of London. Husband of Elizabeth Stow.

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Elizabeth Purslowe Elizabeth Purslowe

Wife of George Purslowe.

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Links to page-images in the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA).

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This term may also be used when more than one person or body bears such responsibility. MoEML uses the term author to designate a contributor who is wholly or partly responsible for the original content of either a born-digital document, such as an encyclopedia entry, or a primary source document, such as a MoEML Library text. Editor A person or organization who prepares for publication a work not primarily their own, such as by elucidating text, adding introductory or other critical matter, or technically directing an editorial staff. MoEML uses the term editor to designate a person who creates a modern edition of a work based on one of our encoded diplomatic transcriptions of a primary source. We use the term commentator to designate a person who adds editorial or explanatory notes to one of our diplomatic transcriptions. Markup editor A person or organization performing the coding of SGML, HTML, or XML markup of metadata, text, etc. MoEML uses the code mrk both for the primary encoder(s) and for the person who edits the encoding. MoEML’s normal workflow includes a step whereby encoders check each other’s work. We use the term encoder to designate the principal encoder, and markup editor to designate the person who checks the encoding. Publisher A person or organization responsible for publishing, releasing, or issuing a resource. MoEML uses the term publisher in two ways: to indicate the publisher of an early modern book (the publisher might also be the bookseller), and to indicate the publisher of a book, journal, or digital project. Project director A person or organization with primary responsibility for all essential aspects of a project, or that manages a very large project that demands senior level responsibility, or that has overall responsibility for managing projects, or provides overall direction to a project manager. MoEML’s Project Director directs the intellectual and scholarly aspects of the project, consults with the Advisory and Editorial Boards, and ensures the ongoing funding of the project. Programmer A person or organization responsible for the creation and/or maintenance of computer program design documents, source code, and machine-executable digital files and supporting documentation. MoEML uses the term programmer to designate a person or organization responsible for the creation and/or maintenance of computer program design documents, source code, and machine-executable digital files and supporting documentation. Printer A person or organization who prints texts, whether from type or plates. MoEML uses the term printer to designate the person named as the printer on the title page of a primary source text, or the person identified by scholars as the printer (e.g., in the English Short Title Catalogue database). In early modern printing practice, the roles of printer, bookseller, and publisher might coincide in one person, or be performed by different people. CSS editor MoEML uses the term CSS Editor for a person who adds CSS styling to the transcription of a primary source. We use CSS styling to describe the bibliographic features of the texts we transcribe. For further information, see our page on CSS styling. Added standardized renditions to tagsDecl. Added xml:ids to pb elements using utilities/add_sig_ids_to_shows.xsl. Added @xml:ids to div elements that have a child head element. Copied new sourceDesc into the teiHeader. Deleted legacy code from EEBO-TCP, including details of title from STC 23345.5, the biblFull element, and the projectDesc element. Updated respStmt elements. Deleted duplicate catRef. Created section file from stow_1633 document. Fixing erroneously spaced lb in file and add explicit lb elements (instead of just new line characters) throughout the file using XSLT. Added project publication statement link.
The Author to the Reader.

BEcause amongst other mine Authors I have oftentimes alleaged Fitz-Stephens, as one more choice then other, namely, for the ancient estate of this City, more then foure hundred yeeres since: and also the said Author being rare, I have in this place thought good by impression to impart the same to my loving friends, the learned Antiquaries, as the Author wrote it in the Latine tongue. And first to note in effect, what Master Bale in commendation of the said Author writeth.

William Stephanides, or Fitz-Stephen, a Monke of Canterbury, borne of worshipfull Parents in the City of London, well brought up at the first under good Masters, did more and more increase in honest condicions and learning: for ever in his young yeeres there appeared in him a certaine light of a Gentleman-like disposition, which promised many good things, afterward by him performed. Such time as others spent in brawles and idle talke, hee imployed in wholsome exercises for the honour of his Country, following therein the example of Plato: and was very studious both in humanity and divinity.

The City of London, his birth place, the most Noble of all other Cities of this Land, and the Princes Seate, situated in the South part of this Iland, hee loved above all the other, so that at length he wrote most elegantly in Latine of the site, and rites of the same. Leland in divers of his Bookes commendeth him for an excellent Writer. He lived in the Raigne of King Stephen, wrote in the Raigne of Henry the second, and deceased in the yeere of Christ, 1191. in the Raigne of Richard the first.

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DESCRIPTIO NOBILILISSIMAE Civitatis LONDONIAE.
De Situ ejusdem.

INter nobiles Vrbes orbis, quas fama celebrat, civitas Londonia, Regni Anglorum sedes una est, quae famam sui latiùs diffundit, opes & merces longiùs transmittit, caput altiùs extollit. Foelix est aëris salubritate, Christiana Religione, firmitate munitionum, natura situs, honore civium, pudicitia matronali, ludis etiam, quàm iucunda, & Nobilium faecunda virorum: quae singula semotim libet inspicere.

De Clementia aëris.

IBi siquidem emollit animos hominum clementia Coeli, non ut sint in venerem putres, ut ne feri sint & bestiales, potius benigni & liberales.

De Religione.

ESt ibi in Ecclesia beati Pauli Episcopalis sedes, quondam fuit Metropolitana, & adhuc futura creditur, si remeaverint cives in Insulam: nisi forte Beati Thomae Martyris titulus Archiepiscopalis, & praesentia corporalis, dignitatem illam Cantuariae (ubi nunc est) conservet perpetuam. Sed cum utramque urbium harum Sanctus Thomas illustraverit, Londoniam ortu, Cantuariam occasu: ipsius sancti intuitu, cum iustitiae accessu, habet altera adversus alteram, quod amplius alleget. Sunt etiam (quod ad Christianae fidei cultum pertinet) tum in Londonia, tum in suburbano, 13. maiores Ecclesiae conventuum, praeter minores parochianas, 126.

De Firmitate Vrbis.

HAbet ab Oriente arcem Palatinam, maximam & fortissimam, cuius & area, & muri à fundamento profundissimo exurgunt: cemento cum sanguine animalium temperato. Ab occidente duo castella munitissima: muro urbis alto & magno, duplatis Heptapylae portis intercontinuante, turrito ab Aquilone per intercapedines, Similiter{que} ab Austro Londonia murata & turrita fuit: sed fluvius maximus piscosus Thamensis, mari influo refluoque qui illac allabitur, maenia illa tractu temporis alluit, labefactavit, deiecit. Item sursùm ab occidente Palatium Regium eminet super fluvium eundem, aedificium incomparabile, cum autemurali, & propugnaculis, duobus millibus ab urbe; suburbano frequenti continuante.

De Hortis.

VNdi{que} extra domos suburbanorum Horti civium arboribus consiti, spatiosi, & speciosi, contigui habentur.

De
Stephanides. De Pascuis & Sationalibus.

ITem à Borea suno agri paseui, & pratorum grata planities, aquis fluvialibus interfluis: ad quas molinorum versatiles rotae citantur cum murmure iocoso. Proximè patet foresta ingens, salcus nemorosi ferarum, latebrae cervorum, damarum, aprorum, & taurorum sylvestrium: Agri urbis sationales non sunt teiunae glareae, sed pingues Asiae campi qui faciunt laetas segetes, & suorum cultorum repleant horrea cerealis ingere culmi.

De Fontibus.

SVnt & circa Londoniam ab Aquilone suburbani fontes praecipui aqua dulci, salubri, perspicua, & per claros rivo trepidante lapilles. Inter quos Fons Sacer, Fons Clericorum, Fons Sancti Clementis nominatiores habentur, & adeuntur celebriori accessu, & maiori frequentia scholarum & vrbanae iuventutis in scrotinis aestivis ad auram exeuniis. Vrbs sanè bona, cùm bonum habeat Dominum.

De honore Civium.

VRbs ista viris est honoratae, armis decorata, multo habitatore populosae, ut tempore bellicae cladis sub rege Stephano bello apti, ex ea exeuntes ostentatui, haberentur 20000. armatorum equitum, 60. mille peditum aestimarentur. Cives Londoniae ubicun{que} locorum prae omnibus aliis civibus ornatu morum, vestium & mensae, locutione, spectabiles & noti habentur.

De Matronis.

Vrbis Matronae ipsae Sabinae sunt.

De Scholis.

IN Londonia tres principales ecclesiae Scholas celebres habent de privilegio & antiquae dignitate. Plerunque tamen favore personae alicuius, vel aliquorum doctorum, qui secundum Philosophiam noti & praeclari habentur, & aliae ibi sunt Scholae de gratia & permissione. Diebus festis ad ecclesias festivas magistri coventus celebrantur. Disputant scholares, quidam demonstrativè, Dialecticè alii: alii recitant enthymematae: hi meliùs perfectis utuntur Syllogismis. Quidam ad estemationem exercentur disputatione, quae est inter colluctantes. Alii ad veritatem, ea quae est perfectionis gratia: sophisiae simulatores agmine & inundatione verborum beati iudicantur. Alii paralogizantur: Oratores aliqui quandoque orationibus Rhetoricis aliquid dicunt apposiiè ad persuadendum, curantes artis praecepta servare, & ex contingentibus nihil omittere. Fueri diversarum scholarum versibus inter se conrixantur: & de principiis artis Grammaticae, regulis praeteritorum vel futurorum contendunt: Sunt alii qui epigriimatibus, rithmis & metris utuntur, vetere illa triviali dicacitate, licentia Fescennina socios suppressis nominibus liberiùs lacerant, Laedorias inculantur & scommata, salibus Socraticis sociorum, vel fortè maiorum vitia tangunt, vel mordacius dente rodunt Theonino. Auditores muliùm, ridere parali ingemidant tremulos naso crispante cachinnos.

De dispositione Vrbis.

SIngulorum officiorum exercitores, singularum rerum venditores, singularism operarum suarum locatores, quotidiano mane per s. sunt locis distincti omnes, ut officiis. Praetereà est in Londonia supra ripam fluminis inter vina in navibus, & cellis vinariis venalia, publica coquina: ibi quotidiè pro tempore est invenire cibaria fercula, assa, frixa, elixa, pisces, pisciculos, carnes grossiores pauperibus, delicatiores divitibus, venationum, avium, avicularum. Si subitò veniant ad aliquem civium amici fatigati ex itinere, nec libeat ieiunis expectare, ut novi cibi emantur, cequantur, dant famuli manibus limphas panesque, interim adripam curritur, ibi presso sunt omnia desiderabilia. Quantal bet militum vel perigrinorum infinitas intrat urbem, qualibet dici vel noctis hora, vel ab urbe extitura, ne vel hi nimium ieiunent, vel alii impransi exeant, illuc si placeat divertunt, & se promodo suo singuli reficiunt: qui se curare volunt molliter, accipenserem vel aliam a vem Stephanides. vel attagen Ionicum non quaerant, appositis quae ibi inveniuntur deliciis: Haec equidem publica, coquina est & civitati plurimum expediens, & ad Civitatem pertinens: Hinc est quod legitur in Georgia Platonis, juxtae medicinam esse coquorum officium, simulantium & adulationem quartae particulae civilitatis. Est ibi extra unam portarum statim in suburbio quidam planus campus re & nomine. Omni sexta feria, nisi sit major festivitas prae ceptae solemnitatis, est ihi celebre spectaculorum nobilium equorum venalium. Spectaturi vel empturi veniunt, qui in urbe adsunt, comites, harones, milites, cives plurimi. Iuvat videre gradarios succussatura nitente suaviter ambulantes: pedibus later aliter simul erectis, quasi à subalternis, & demissis: Hinc equos, qui armigeris magis conveniunt, durius incedentes, sed expeditè tamen, qui quasi à contra dictoribus pedes simul elevant & deponunt: Hinc nobiles pullos juniores, qui nondum fraeno bene assueti, altius incedunt, & mollia crura reponunt: Hinc summarios membris validis & vegetis. Hinc dextrarios precioses, elegantis formae, staturae honestae, micantes auribus, cervicibus arduis, clunibus obesis.

In horum incessu spectant emptores, primo passum suaviorem, postea motum citatiorem, qui est quasi à contrariis pedibus anterioribus simul solo amotis & admotis, & posterioribus similiter. Cum talium soni pedum cursus imminet, & aliorum fortè qui similiter sunt in genere suo ad vecturam validi, ad cursuram vegeti: clamor attollitur, vulgares equos in partem ire praecipitur: Sessores alipidum pueri tres simul, aliquando bini ex condicto & bini certamini sepraeparant docti equis imperitare, indomitorum lupatis temperant frænis ora: hoc maximè praecavent, ne alteralteri concursum praeripiat. Et qui similiter pro modo suo ad certamen cursus illius attollunt; tremunt artus, morae impatientes, stare loco nesciunt, facto signo membra extendunt, cursum rapiunt, agilitate pervicaci feruntur: certant cißores laudis amore, spe victoriae, equis admissis subdere calcaria, & nec minus urgere eos virgis & ciere clamoribus. Putares omnia in motu esse, secundum Heraclitum, & falsam omnino Zenonis sententiam, dicentis, quoniam, non continget moveri, neque stadium pertransire. Parte alia stant serosim rusticorum peculia, agrorum instrumenta, sues longis lateribus, vaccae distentis vberibus, corpora magna boum, lanigerumque pecus: stant ibi aptae aratris, trahis & bigis equae: quarundam ventres foetibus tument: alias editi foetus obeunt pulli lasciviores, sequela inseparabilis.

Ad hanc urbē ex omni natione quae sub coelo est, navalia gaudent institores habere commercia. Aurum mittit Arabs, species & thura Sabaeus, Arma Scythes, oleum palmarum divite silva. Pingue solum Babylon, Nilus lapides preciosos. Seres purpureas vestes. Norwegi, Russi, varium, grisium, sabelinas: Galli sua vina. Vrbe Roma secundum Chronicorum fidem satis antiquior est. Ab eisdem quippe patribus Trojanis haec prius à Bruto condita est, quàm a Remo & Romulo. Vnde & adhuc antiquis eisdem utuntur legibus communibus institutis. Haec similiter illi regionibus est distincta: habet annuos pro consulibus vicecomites: habet senatoriam dignitatem & magistratus minores: Eluviones & aquaeductus in vicis: Ad genera causarum deliberativae, demonstrativae, judicialis loca sua, fora singula: habet sua diebus statutis comitia. Non puto urbem esse, in qua sint probabiliores consuetudines, in ecclesiis visitandis, ordinatis Dei honorandis, festis feriandis, eleemosynis dandis, in hospitibus suscipiendis, in desponsationibus firmandis, matrimoniis contrahendis, nuptiis celebrandis, conviviis ornandis, conivis hilarandis, etiam in exequiis curandis & cadaveribus humandis. Solae pestes Londini sunt, immoderata stultorum potatio, & frequens incendium. Ad haec omnes ferè Episcopi, Abbates, & Magnates Angliae, quasicives & municipes sunt urbis Londoniae: sui ibi habentes aedificia praeclara, vbi se recipiunt, ubi divites impensas faciunt, ad consilia, ad conventus celebres in urbem evocati, a Domino rege, vel Metropolitano suo, seu propiis tracti negotiis.

De Ludis.

AMplius & ad ludos urbis veniamus, quoniam non expedit utilem tantum & seriam urbem esse, nisi dulcis etiam sit, & iucunda. Vnde & in sigillis summorum Pontificum, us{que} ad tempor a Leonis Papae, ex altera parte Bullae, sculpto per impressionem piscatore Petro, & ſupra Stephanides. supra eum clave quasimanu Dei de coelis ei porrecta & circa eum versu,

Tu pro me navem liquisti, suscipe clavem.

Ex altera parte impressa erat urbs, & Scriptura ista, Aurea Roma. Item ad laudem Caesaris Augusti, & Romae dictum est:

Nocte pluit tota, redueunt spectacula mane,

Divisum imperium cum Iove Caesar habes.

Londonia pro spectaculis theatralibus, pro ludis scenicis, ludos habet sanctiores, repraesentationes miraculorum, quae sancti Confessores operati sunt, sea repraesentationes passionum, quibus claruit constantia Martyrum. Praeterea quotannis die, quae dicitur Carnivale, ut à puerorum ludis incipiamus (omnes enim pueri fuimus) scholarum singuli pueri suos apportans magistro suo gallos gallinaceos pugnatores, & totum illud antemeridianum datur ludo puerorum vacantium, spectare in scholis suorum pugnas gallorum. Post Prandium exit in campos omnis iuventus vrbis ad lusum pilae celebrem. Singulorum studiorum scholares suam habent pilam: singulorum officiorum urbis exercitores suam singuli pilam in manibus. Majores natu patres & divites urbis, in equis spectatum veniunt certamina juniorum, & modo suo inveniuntur cum juvenibus, & excitari videtur in eis motus caloris naturalis, contemplatione tanti motus & participatione gaudiorum adolescentiae liberioris. Singulis diebus dominicis in Quadragesima post prandia, exit in campos juvenum recens examen in equis bellicosis: in equis certamine primis: quorum quisque aptus & in gyros currere doctus equus. Erumpunt à portis catervatim filii civium laici, instructi lanceis & scutis militaribus, juniores hastalibus ferro dempto praefurcatis, simulachra belli cient & agonisticam exercent militarem. Adveniunt & plurimi Aulici, Rege in vicino posito, & de familiis Consulum & Baronum ephebi: nondum cingulo donati militiae gratia concertandi. Accendit singulos spes victoriae: equi feri adhinniunt, tremunt artus, fraenos mandunt, impatientes morae stare loco nesciunt. Cum tandem, Sonipedum rapit ungula cursum, sessores adolescentes divisis agminibus, hi praecedentibus instant, nec assequuntur hi socios dejiciunt & praetervolant. In feriis Paschalibus ludunt quasi praelia navalia: in arbore ſiquidem mediamna scuto fortior innexo, navicula remo & raptu fluminis cita, in prora stantem habet juvenem, scutum illud lancea percussurum: qui si scuto illi Linceamillidens frangat eam, & immotus persistat, habet propositum, voti compos est: si vero lancea integra fortiter percusserit, in profluentem amnem dijicitur: Navis motu suo acta praeterit. Sunt tamen hinc inde secus scutum duae naves stationariae, & in eis juvenes plurimi, ut eripiant percussorem flumine abscorptum cum primo emersus comparet, vel summa rursus cum bullit in unda. Supra pontem & in solariis suprae fluvium, sunt qui talia spectent, multum rideri parati. In festis tota aestate juvenes ludentes exercentur, in saliendo in arcu, in lucta, jactu lapidum, amentatis missilibus ultra metam expediendis, parmis duellionum. Puellarum Cytheræa ducit choros, & pede libero pulsatur tellus, usque imminente Luna. In hyeme singulis fere festis ante prandium, vel apri Spumantes pugnant pro capitibus, & verres falmineis accincti dentibus addendi Succidiae, vel pingues tauri Cornupetae, seu ursi immanes cum objectis depugnant canibus. Cùm est congelata palus illa magna quae maenia urbis aquilonalia alluit, exeunt lusum super glaciem densae juvenum turmae: Hi ex cursu motu captato citatiore, distantia pedum posita, magnum spatium latere altero praetenso perlabuntur. Alii quaſi magnos lapides molares de glacie sedes sibi taciunt: sessorem unum trabunt plurimi præcurrentes, manibus se tenentes: in tanta citatione motus aliquando pedibus lapsi cadunt omnes proni. Sunt alii super glaciem ludere doctiores, singuli pedibus suis aptantes, & sub talaribus suis alligantes ossa, tibias scilicet animalium, & palos ferro acuto superposito tenentes in manibus, quos aliquando glaciei allidunt: tanta rapacitate feruntur, quanta avis volans, vel pilum balistae. Interdum autem permagna procul distantia ex condicto, duo aliqui ita ab oppositis veniunt, concurritur: palos erigunt, se invicem percutiunt: vel alter, vel ambo cadunt, non sine laesione corporali, cùm post casum etiam vi motus feruntur ab invicem procul: & qua parte glacies caput tangit, totum radit, totum decorticat. Plerumque tibia cadentis, vel brachium, si super illud ceci Stephanides. ceciderit, confringitur. Sed aetas avida gloriae, juventus cupida victoriae, ut in veris praeliis fortius se habeant, ita in simulatis exercentur. Plurimi civium delectantur, ludentes in avibus coeli, Nisis, accipitribus, & hujusmodi, & in canibus milit antibus in silvis. Habentque cives suum jus venandi, in Middlesexia, Hertfordscira, & to a Chiltra, & in Cantia usque ad aquam Graiae. Lundonienses tunc Trinovantes dicti, Caium Iulium Caesarem, qui nullas nisi sanguine fuso vias habere gaudebat, repulerunt. Vnde Lucanus,

Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis.

Civitas Londonia reperit aliquos, qui regna plurima, & Romanum sibi subdiderunt imperium: & plurimos alios, quos mundi Dominos virtus euixit ad Deos, ut fuerat in Apollinis oraculo Bruto promissum:

Brute sub occasu solis, trans Gallica Regna, Insula in Oceano est undique clausa mari: Hanc pete: namque tibi sedes erit illa perennis, Haec fiet natis altera Troja tuis. Hic de stripe tua reges nascentur, & ipsis Totius terrae subditus orbis erit.

In temporibus Christianis nobilem illum edidit imperatorem Constantinum, qui urbem Romam, & imperialia insignia omnia Deo donavit, & beato Petro & Silvestro Papae, cui & stratoris exhibuit officium, & se non amplius Imperatorem, sed Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae defensorem gavisus est vocari: & ne pax Domini Papae occasione praesentiae ejus secularis strepitus tumultu concuteretur, ipse ab urbe Domino Papae collata discessit, & sibi civitatem Bizantium edificavit. Lundonia & modernis temporibus, reges illustres magnificosque peperit. Imperatricem Matildem, Henricum regem tertium, & beatum Thomam Archiepiscopum Christi Martyrem gloriosum, quali non candidiorem tulit, nec quo fuerit devinctior alter omnibus bonis totius orbis Latini.

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