Fine plan of the vicinity of the Tower of London and St. Catherines church. The map is decorated with a baroque cartouche and the names of sixty-five alleys, lanes, courts, horse-yards, and wharves are given in a numbered key. Much of what we know today of Elizabethan London is due to the surveys of John Stow (1525-1603), the city's self-appointed surveyor and chronicler. The work was originally published in 1598 with many editions to follow. This is from the 1754 edition published by John Strype.