This antient and famous City of London, was first founded by _Brute_ the Trojan, in the year of the World two thousand, eight hundred thirty & two, and before the Nativity of our Saviour Christ, one thousand, one hundred, and 30. So that since the first building, it is 2 thousand 6 hundred 60 & 3 years. And afterward was repaired & enlarged by King _Lud_, but at this present so flourisheth, that it containeth in length from the East to the West about 3. English miles, from the North to the South about 2. English miles. It is also so plentifully peopled, that it is divided into a hundred and 22 Parishes within the Liberties, besides 16 Parishes that are in the suburbs. It is planted on a very good soyle: for on the one side it is compassed with corne & pasture ground, and on the other side it is inclosed with the river of Thames, which not only aboundeth in allkind of fresh water-fish, but also is so navigable, that it as well bringeth abundance of commoditities as the plentifulnesse of our Contry doth yeild us:which both augments the fame thereof abroad, and also increaseth the riches thereof at hom; so that as it is head and chief City ofthe whole Realm, so is it likewise head and chief Chamber of the whole Realm, as well for our outward as inward commoditites. God prosper it at his pleasure. Amen. New Troy my name, when firts my fame begun By Trajon Brute: who then me placed here: On fruitfull soyle, where pleasant Thames doth run Sith Lud my Lord, my King and Lover dear, Encreast my boundes and London (far that rings Through Regions large) he called then my name How famous since (I stately seat of Kings) Have flourish'd aye: let others that proclaim. And let me joy thus happy still to see This vertuous Peer my Sovereign King to be. _From a facsimile reproduction of the original map by Edward J. Francis, in the possession of John C. Francis._ _MAP ACCOMPANYING "LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS," BY SIR WALTER BESANT. PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, 1904_ * * * * * THE PARISH OF St. Giles in the Fields, LONDON. [Illustration] REFERENCES. _1. The first ST. GILES'S CHURCH._ _2. Remains of the Walls, antiently enclosing the Hospital precincts._ _3. Site of the Gallows and afterwards of the Pound_ _4. Way to Uxbridge now OXFORD ST._ _5._ ELDE-STRATE, _since called HOG-LANE_. _6._ LE-LANE, _now MONMOUTH ST._ _7. Site of the_ SEVEN DIALS, _formerly called COCK and PYE FIELDS_. _8._ ELM CLOSE _since called LONG-ACRE_. _9. Site of_ LINCOLNS-INN-FIELDS _formerly called FICKETS-FIELDS_. A VIEW _of part of the North-west Suburbs_ OF LONDON, _as they appeared, anno 1570. Including the whole of the parish of ST. GILES in the FIELDS and its immediate Neighbourhood, its_ PAROCHIAL CHURCHES _erected at different periods &c._