John Dee and Christopher Saxton's Survey of Manchester (1596)

Review of periodical literature published in 2005

“…Popper examines Gabriel Harvey’s integration into networks of intellectual and practical assistance as a scholar of mathematics in the exciting intellectual firmament that was London in the 1590s. Bowd explains how John Dee, magician (and principal of Manchester College), initiated Christopher Saxton’s survey of Manchester in 1596 to record the town’s antiquities, and perhaps to revive his college’s finances. Martin explores the career of Henry Goodcole, chaplain of Ludgate and Newgate prisons in London, who exploited his position to become a successful ‘true‐crime’ writer, and the father of a new genre of urban literature.…”