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Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… Martin le Grand, which was a royal free chapel. William fitzStephen was probably thinking of the same three schools … Pat R 1441-6, p. 432; Rot Parl iii, 324. For the texts of fitzStephen's account, see H.E. Butler in F.M. Stenton, …
A Survey of London
… time broken into diuerse partes called wardes, whereof Fitzstephen more then foure hundred yeares since writeth …
A Survey of London
… Mathew Paris.; Liber Woodbridge.; Pallace repayred. W. Fitzstephen.; Record Tower.; The vse of great Hall was to …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… can be littleif anydoubt. John Stow, when referring to Fitzstephen's statement that in the reigns of King Stephen …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… his 'demesne possessions' 34 when referring to the priory. FitzStephen, 35 writing about the year 1174, describes the …
Old and New London
… in the present day, be considered as quite respectable. In Fitzstephen's time the Thames at London was indeed "a fishful … recreations on "the noble Thames" are of great celebrity. Fitzstephen tells us of the ancient Londoners fighting …
Old and New London
… As early as the reign of Henry II., according to Fitzstephen, cockfighting was the sport of school-boys in and …
A Survey of London
… water to passe into the Citie from the same More. Also Fitzstephen writeth of this More, saying thus: When the great …
A Survey of London
… the Bridge, and so assailed the walles of this Citie. W. Fitzstephen. The Citie of London walled round about by the Riuer of Thames. William Fitzstephen in the raigne of Henrie the second, writing of …