{"id":4951,"date":"2026-04-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:00:03","slug":"john-stow-londons-historian-22nd-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/john-stow-londons-historian-22nd-april\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stow, London&#8217;s Historian 22nd April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"483\" height=\"808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.23.png 483w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.23-179x300.png 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Stow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"624\" data-id=\"2189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.31.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.31.png 783w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.31-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.31-768x612.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">17th Century Print<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"520\" data-id=\"2191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.51.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.51.png 683w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-30-11.15.51-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">St Andrew Undershaft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the corner of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe in the City of London is one of the very few medieval Churches that survived the Great Fire of London is 1666. It was sheltered by the firebreak that was the Leadenhall, a big market building made of stone. This is where the great London historian John Stow is buried. His Survey of London is one of the best sources for Medieval and Tudor London. Every three years, there is a commemorative service and his quill is changed. Last year it was on the 22nd April.  The next is due in 2027, date yet to be announced. The Lord Mayor attends, and it is organised by Stow&#8217;s Guild &#8211; the Merchant Taylors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Stow, author of the <em>\u2018Survey of London<\/em>\u2018 first published in 1598. Available at the wonderful Project Gutenberg:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/42959\/42959-h\/42959-h.htm\">&#8216;https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/42959\/42959-h\/42959-h.htm&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Stow records that his father returned to his home at Austin Friars one day to find his house had been moved. He had no warning, nor payment for the loss of land. He had the misfortune to live adjourning the property of Thomas Cromwell.  This is what Stow wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8216;My father had a garden there, and a house standing close to his south pale; this house they loosed from the ground, and bare upon rollers into my father\u2019s garden twenty-two feet, ere my father heard thereof; no warning was given him, nor other answer, when he spake to the surveyors of that work, but that their master Sir Thomas commanded them so to do; no man durst go to argue the matter, but each man lost his land, and my father paid his whole rent, which was 6s. 6d. the year, for that half which was left. Thus much of mine own knowledge have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>St Andrew Undershaft<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Church is London&#8217;s Maypole Church as it was here the Maypole or the shaft was stored under the eves of the Church. Hence, St Andrew&#8217;s sobriquet of &#8216;Undershaft&#8217;. The May Day riot of 1517 put an end to the dancing around the Maypole but the pole itself survived until 1547. Then, in a Puritan riot, the &#8216;stynking idol&#8217; was destroyed. (see my May Day blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/may-2nd-this-stinking-idol-the-end-of-may-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for more more details.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a plaque to Hans Holbein, but no one knows for sure where he is buried. He died in London in 1543, possibly of plague.  The present church was built in 1532, but it is first recorded in the 12th Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/november-30th-st-andrews-day\/\">my post on St Andrew &#8211; look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-14.51.04-detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-14.51.04-detail.jpg 486w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2020-12-02-14.51.04-detail-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Agas Map 1561 showing St Andrews (right centre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On This Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is Earth Day. It was set up in 1970.  For more information click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Earth-Day\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016 &#8211; On Earth Day the landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris_Agreement\">Paris Agreement<\/a> was signed by 123 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.  The USA is the World&#8217;s the second largest emitter.  They withdrew from the agreement in 2020, rejoined in 2021, and withdrew again in 2026.  Iran has signed it but not ratified it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Published on 30th November 2022, Revised 2023, moved to April in 2024, and revised 2025, On This Day added 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the corner of Leadenhall Street and St Mary Axe in the City of London is one of the very few medieval Churches that survived the Great Fire of London is 1666. It was sheltered by the firebreak that was the Leadenhall, a big market building made of stone. This is where the great London &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/john-stow-londons-historian-22nd-april\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Stow, London&#8217;s Historian 22nd April&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112,116,119,118,115,324,4,10,259,12,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac-of-the-past","category-calendar","category-christian-heritage","category-events","category-folklore","category-history","category-london","category-medieval","category-scotland","category-tudor-stuart","category-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Stow, London&#039;s Historian 22nd April - And Did Those Feet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Stow and St Andrew Undershaft. 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