John Stowe

John Stowe was born in in 1525. Stowe was a London tailor who was very interested in history. In 1565 he published a book that was a summary of the information that he could find in various chronicles written during the Middle Ages. This included The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles , The Chronicles of England , The Annales of England and A Survey of London (1598).

John Stowe died on 6th April 1605.

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John Stowe

Primary Sources

(1) John Stow, A Survey of London (1598)

The lower classes divert themselves at football, wrestling, cudgels, nine-pins, shovelboard, cricket, stowball, ringing of bells, quoits, pitching the bar, bull and bear baitings, throwing at cocks and lying at ale-houses.