John Stow, A survey of London, ed. C.L. Kingsford, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1971), I, 275, in his account of the church of St Lawrence Jewry describes `the shanke bone of a man (as it is taken) ... 25 inches in length by the rule, remayneth yet fastened to a post of timber ...', and adds the marginal comment `...of a man as is said, but might be of an Oliphant.'