A SURVEY OF THE CITIES OF London and Westminster

In the century following Stow’s death, however, the Tudor capital so lovingly depicted and recorded in Stow’s Survey was dramatically transformed. The huge growth of the metropolis, the devastation wrought by the Great Fire of 1666 and the subsequent rebuilding of the City made an updating of the Survey highly desirable. It was to answer this need that John Strype (1643-1737), the ecclesiastical historian and biographer, published a new, hugely expanded version of Stow’s Survey of London in 1720.

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the project has produced a full-text electronic version of John Strype’s enormous two-volume edition of 1720, complete with its celebrated maps and plates, which depict the prominent buildings, street plans and ward boundaries of the late Stuart capital.

STANDARD FORMS OF REFERENCE FOR STRYPE’S SURVEY OF LONDON (1720)

This work was originally published in two volumes. Volume One contains books 1-3 and Volume Two contains books 4-6, plus appendices. To reflect this, citations from the work normally take the form:

E.g. Strype, Survey, II.vi.22

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Stuart London Project gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the following in the preparation of this edition:

• The Leverhulme Trust
• The University of Sheffield

The Project also gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following in digitising images for this edition:

• The British Library
• MOTCO Enterprises Limited (Maps and Illustrations)
• With special thanks to the Old Bailey Project for its assistance.

Professor Caroline Barron (RHUL) receives our special thanks for lending her personal copy of Strype’s 1720 edition of the Survey of London for use by the project. All textual images derive from this copy.