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Below are the earliest extant depictions of London. They are from the front matter of Matthew Paris’ Historia Anglorum and Chronica Majora written between 1250 and 1259. In both cases they are parts of st*ip maps showing pilgrimage routes from London to Rome and on to While the view is obviously very figurative, it nevertheless contains several interesting details that make it more than a simple England, founded and named New Troy.” The idea that London was founded by the Trojan Brutus Ludgate, Neugate (Newgate), Crupelgate (Cripplegate), Bissopesgate (Bishopsgate), Bilingesgate (Billingsgate) and Alegate (Aldgate.) It The view from the Chronica Majora may be the older of the two images shown. It is somewhat more fanciful, showing the city wall as circular and extending beyond the south bank of the Thames, which of course it never did. It also only shows three, single-arched gates. The view from the Historia Anglorum shows six, although four are show in the walls, while two are squeezed in along the margin almost as a correction. They are also depicted correctly as double-arched. seventh.” Suzanne Lewis, in her book, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora, indicates that this reference to a seventh gate may either be a postern gate north of the Tower, or a barbican built outside of the Aldgate. > “And indeed, to this day one sees in Belgium a distinctive > ugliness, dating from the time when the Congo colony was exploited > without restraint and manifested in a macabre atmosphere of certain > salons and the strikingly stunted growth of the population, such as > one rarely comes across elsewhere. At all events, I well recall that > on my first visit to Brussels in December 1964 I encountered more > hunchbacks and lunatics than normally in a whole year.” >  > “At the far end of the room, in the dim light that entered by the > Belgian bulls’-eye panes, sat a hunchbacked pensioner. She was