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Earliest printed map of London, 1574. The palace at Westminster can be seen on the left, and the Tower of London on the right, with ships on the Thames. London Bridge was the only bridge over the river at the time. The new Royal Exchange, built in 1570, is shown, but so is St Paul's spire which had been destroyed by lightning in 1561. From the second edition of a German atlas of European cities by Braun and Hogenberg.