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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2016
Although in the book the monumental inscriptions are sometimes erroneously given, no one can see it, as he may almost every day, exposed on sale on stalls, but must regret that a work of such entertainment and utility is held so cheap.
Thus wrote Sir John Hawkins in the later eighteenth century of Edward Hatton’s New View of London, published in two octavo volumes in 1708. Despite the apparent disregard of the book by this time, Hatton (Fig. 1) has become a recognized name among historians of London and snippets from his New View have often been quoted for their up-to-date picture of the post-Fire metropolis. But although Hatton’s other writings have received brief attention, both the New View and the career of its author appear to have escaped detailed discussion.
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11 Parentalia, or memoirs of the family of the Wrens (1750).
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22 The supplement consists mostly of minor corrections, but adds to the churches section details of some twenty monuments, most of them dating from the 1690s onwards, as well as noting new furnishings or interior alterations of 1706-07 at St Dunstan in the East, St Lawrence Jewry, and the Temple church, and the completion of the spire of St Edmund the King.
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28 An Historical Account of all the cathedrals, churches and cliappels of the Metropolis of Great Britain (1722). Both these publications of 1722 were printed by W. H. and sold by J. Roberts at the Oxford Arms, respectively for 6d. and 4d.
29 A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster by John Stow . . . enlarged by John Strype (1720), preface.
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