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Referenced as the source for information about Newgate - 'according to our old friend, John Stowe, the Elizabethan antiquarian, it was called Newgate because it was built in the reign of either Henry the first or Stephen.'

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Referenced as 'the great Elizabethan antiquary' who wrote about the London Stone, quoted as saying 'the cause why this stone was set there, the time when, or other memory hereof, is none.' This refers to his antiquarian writings about London (likely A Survey of London)