William Maitland (historian)

Born at Brechin, Forfarshire, about 1693, Maitland travelled as a hair merchant in northern Europe.

[1] In 1739 Maitland published The History of London, from its Foundation by the Romans to the present time.

within the Suburbs, the antient and present state of Leith, and ... a great variety of cuts of the principal buildings, Edinburgh, 1753.

[1] Around 1750 Maitland planned to write a general description of Scotland, and sent a printed letter and a list of queries to every minister in the country.

1437 ; and from that period to the Accession of James VI to the Crown of England, 1603, by another hand, 2 vols, London, 1757, was a posthumous work, with his first-hand experience used in the first volume.

The history and survey of London , by William Maitland, 1756.
Most of the print of Bethlehem Hospital by William Henry Toms for Maitland's History of London , published 1739.