IV. A SURVEY of the CITIES of LONDON and WESTMINSTER, BOROUGH of SOUTHWARK, and Parts adjacent. Containing, I. The original Foundation, and the ancient and modern II. An exact Description of all Wards and Parishes; Parish- III. A particular Account of the Government of London, Plates. In Two VOLUMES. LONDON: Printed for J. Read, in White-Fryars, Fleet-Street. Title-page as above, printed in black and red Ink. Dedication to the King. The Survey, printed in double Columns, [A 2-9Y] p. 3-822. Errors of paging :-pp. 174-5 for 170-1. PLATES. 1. Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark, with the new Buildings to the Year 1733. Folded. To face p. 3. * The real author of this book was John Motley, the more celebrated compiler of Joe Miller's Jests. He also wrote a Life of Peter the Great, as well as some pieces for the stage; and was the son of Colonel Motley, who fell at the Battle of Turin, 1705, in the service of Louis the Fourteenth. View of London. On the letter-press of p. 3. Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Moorgate, Cripplegate, Aldersgate, 15 to 21. 2. London Bridge. Tho. Gardner sc. p. 45. p. 56. 3. The Tower of London. Tho. Gardner sc. p. 450. p. 543. p. 402. 8. The Front, or West End of St. Paul's. Folded. T. Bowles SC. p. 651. The Old Cathedral Church. On the letter-press of p. 651. VOL. II. Title-page as in the First Volume, dated MDCCXXxv. The Survey of the City of London continued, beginning with Appendix and Index, the reverse of 10 G-10T. Errors of paging :-pages 237 to 257 are omitted, but the Signatures correspond. PLATES. Seventy-one Coats of Arms of the different Companies. On the letter-press from pages 337 to 407. Also a View of Westminster Abbey, engraved by T. Bowles. To front the Title-page. N. B. The first edition was published in 1736, with this Titlepage: "An accurate Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark; with a complete History of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, The whole being an Improvement of Mr. Stow, and other Surveys, by adding whatever Alterations have happened in the said Cities, &c. to the Year 1733, and correcting many Errors in the former Impressions. By ROBERT SEYMOUR, Esq. "LONDON: Printed and sold by the Booksellers in City, Town, and Country. MDCCXXXVI.” It is printed in quarto in double columns, containing 1298 pages, or signatures A-12B 4, and has the following errors of paging:p. 159 for 161-p. 237 for 327;-p. 606 for 609;-pp. 631 to 650 inclusive, are omitted, but the signatures and catchwords correspond ;-p. 561 for 861;-p. 89 for 895;-p. 485 for 985. Nineteen years after the appearance of the Second Edition of this motley performance (viz. 1734), which had evidently been neglected by the public, the remaining copies then unsold fell into other hands; and in 1753 it re-appeared with a new and striking title-page, in red and black ink, in which was omitted the fictitious name of "R. Seymour," and that of a "Gentleman of the Inner Temple" substituted, and containing the following additions or alterations: "V. The Antiquities of Westminster Abbey, with a Description of the Monuments, Tombs, &c. "VI. A View and Description of the Mansion-House and Westminster Bridge. Being an Improvement of Mr. Stow's and other Historical Writers and Surveys: to which will be added a New History of the County of Middlesex. In which is introduced Sir William Dugdale's History of St. Paul's Cathedral from its Foundation; beautified with various Prospects of the old Fabrick, which was destroyed by the Fire of London, 1666; as also the Figures of the Tombes and Monuments therein, as they stood in September 1641, with their Epitaphs neatly imitated, which were defaced in the Grand Rebellion: with an Account of the Foundation and Structure of the new Church till finished. To which is prefixed the Effigies of Sir William Dugdale. In Two VOLUMES. Dedicated to Sir Crisp Gascoigne, Knt. By a Gentleman of the Inner Temple. "LONDON: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster Row; W. Reeve, Fleet-Street; and C. Sympson, at the Bible in Chancery-Lane. MDCCLIII." Folio. With Twenty Plates; viz. Eight Engravings: 1. Plan of London to the Year 1733.-2. London Bridge. Tho. Gardner sc.-3. The Tower. T. Gardner sc.-4. Bethlem Hospital. T Bowles sc.5. The Royal Exchange. T. Bowles sc.-6. The Monument. T. Bowles sc-7. Guild Hall. T. Bowles sc.-8. West End of St. Paul's. T. Bowles sc.-and Twelve worn-out impressions from the coppers of Dugdale's History of St. Paul's, including the Portrait of Sir William Dugdale as a Frontispiece. The Second Volume contains Eleven Engravings, the whole from the same copper-plates as in Dugdale's St. Paul's. But this trick not succeeding, the next year, viz. 1754, recourse was had to another title-page, for the purpose of re-inserting the original name of "R. Seymour, Esq." to which was annexed that of "J. Marchant, Gent." This pretended New Survey, said to be "illustrated with upwards of an hundred copper-plates, by the most eminent Masters," was printed for "M. Cooper, in Paternoster Row, and C. Sympson, at the Bible Warehouse, Chancery-Lane, Fleet-Street, MDCCLIV."-These illustrations, in fact, consist only of the original plates for the work, most sedulously counted from the letter-press, being the corporate Coats of Arms given in the first edition, together with the worn-out impressions from Dugdale's St. Paul's. V. The HISTORY of LONDON, from its Foundation to the present Time: Containing, I. The original Constitution of London: the ancient and present State of its several Wards, Churches, Parishes, Liberties, and Districts: Accounts of all the religious. Foundations in London and its Suburbs, before the Reformation. The Names of all the Streets, Squares, Courts, Lanes, &c. within the City and Suburbs; with curious Calculations touching the Number of its Inhabitants, and Parallels between London and many of the most celebrated ancient and modern Cities, whereby it will appear that the Inhabitants of London, at present, are almost equal in Number to those of the Cities of Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome togegether, and superior in Number to any one City in the World. II. Historical and particular Accounts of the City Governments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, in all their Branches, with the several Charters rendered into English; wherein are set forth their many great and valuable Privileges, Immunities, and numerous Benefactions. III. History of the several Incorporations of Merchants and Traders; shewing the Institutions of their respective Companies; with their ancient Rights, Privileges, and Coats of Arms. IV. Description of the present State of Learning, and of V. Full and particular Accounts of all the Hospitals, Alms- VI. The ancient and present State of the Tower, and of the Curiosities therein contained; with a Description of the British Museum. Including the several Parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c. within the Bills of Mortality. By WILLIAM MAITLAND, F,R.S. and continued to the Year 1772 by the Rev. JOHN ENTICK, M.A. Illustrated with a complete Set of the Churches, Palaces, public Buildings, Hospitals, Bridges, &c. within and adjacent to this great Metropolis. The Plans of London, exhibiting its Appearance before the Fire; in its Ruins after that Conflagration in 1666; and as it is now rebuilt and extended: with a large Map of all the Villages and Country within Ten Miles circumference; exactly drawn, and curiously engraved on One Hundred and Thirty Copper-plates, by the best Hands, and on so large a Scale, that each Plate could not be sold separate for less than One Shilling: and improved with a great Variety of authentick Pieces relating to the progressive Alterations it has undergone from its first Foundation; and describing those charitable and other additional Buildings with which it has been lately adorned, and increased to its present prodigious Extent: wherein all the Defects in the former Edition of this Work, and in other Authors on this Subject, are supplied, their Errors corrected, and the History brought down, with great Care and Impartiality, to the present Time. In Two VoLUMES. By the King's Authority. LONDON Printed for J. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church Yard; T. Lowndes, in Fleet Street; G. Kearsley, in Ludgate Street; and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row. MDCCLXXII *. Folio. Title-page as above. VOL. I. In the year 1775, a new Title-page was given to the copies then remaining unsold, worked on a lighter-coloured and coarser paper, with the following imprint: "London: printed for J. Wilkie, in St. Paul's ChurchYard; T. Lowndes, in Fleet Street; and J. Bew, in Paternoster Row, MDCCLXXV," |