John Stow, A survey of London, ed. C.L. Kingsford, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1971), I, 348-9, records how in `the high rooffed hall' of Gerard's Hall, on the south side of Basing Lane, `sometime stoode a large Firre Pole, which reached to the roofe thereof, and was sayd to bee one of the staves that Gerrarde the Gyant used in the warres to runne withall. There stoode also a ladder of the same length, which (as they say) served to ascend to the toppe of the staffe ...'. and he goes on to criticise Harrison (though not by name) as having `set down more matter then troth' in his `chapter of giants or monstrous men ...'.