John Stow

"A Survey of London" redirects here. For the architectural research project, see Survey of London.
For the governor of Barbados, see John Montague Stow. For the archdeacon of Bermuda, see John Stow (priest).

Monument with effigy of John Stow, Church of St Andrew Undershaft, City of London, with arms of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and Latin inscription:
"Either do things worth writing or write things worth reading"

John Stow (also Stowe; 1524/25 – 5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles, The Chronicles of England, and The Annales of England; and also A Survey of London (1598; second edition 1603). A. L. Rowse has described him as "one of the best historians of that age; indefatigable in the trouble he took, thorough and conscientious, accurate – above all things devoted to truth".[1]

  1. ^ Rowse 1971, p. 15.