Survay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description or That, Citie, Written in the Year 1598 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Survay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description or That, Citie, Written in the Year 1598Stow founded his work upon documents of great value collected by himself, and also upon the splendid series of manuscripts belonging to the city of London, to which he had access as fee'd chronicler of the corporation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.