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4 unusual facts about John Stow


Arleigh Winston Scott

In May 1967 on the retirement of Sir John Stow (the last colonial Governor of Barbados), Dr. Scott was appointed Governor General by the Queen on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

Henry Yevele

His monument was extant in John Stow's time (the late 16th century), but was probably destroyed by the Great Fire of London.

St Saviour's Dock

John Stow, a 16th-century English historian and antiquarian had the following to say about the area,

Steelyard

Also there is a fine description of the Steelyard by John Stow.


Chorography

William Lambarde, John Stow, John Hooker, Michael Drayton, Tristram Risdon, John Aubrey and many others used it in this way, arising from a gentlemanly topophilia and a sense of service to one's county or city, until it was eventually often applied to the genre of county history.

Moses ben Isaac ha-Nessiah

The tombstone of a Rabbi Moses, son of Rabbi Isaac, was found at Ludgate, London, in the time of Elizabeth; John Stow, in his "Survey of London" stated that it came from the Jewish cemetery in Jewin Street at the time of the barons' revolt against King John in 1215.

Nicholas Charles

Thomas Milles commended Charles in his Catalogue of Honour; and Edmund Howes, the continuator of John Stow's Chronicle, acknowledged his assistance.

Pudding Lane

According to the chronicler John Stow, it is named after the "puddings" (a medieval word for entrails and organs) which would fall from the carts coming down the lane from the butchers in Eastcheap as they headed for the waste barges on the River Thames.

Thomas Tusser

According to John Stow's Survey of London, Cheape Ward, Thomas Tusser was buried in the now lost church of St Mildred in the Poultry.


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