cf John Stowe, The survey of London, ed. C.L. Kingsford, 2 vols (Oxford, 1971), 1, 26, on London Bridge: `... it is a work very rare, having with the draw bridge 20. Arches made of squared stone, of height 60. foote, and in bredth 30. foote distant one from another 20. foote, compact and ioyned togither with vaults and cellers, upon both sides be houses builded, so that it seemeth rather a continuall streete than a Bridge ...'.