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Bygone London

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Abbey of St. Mary of Graces, 208;

abbots of, 216

Aldgate, 22;

churches, 181;

attacked, 192;

barons in, 190

Aldersgate Street, 118;

Aldersgate, 24;

churches, etc., 123

Amusements, 285

Anne of Bohemia, 55

Annesley, Samuel, 112

Artillery company, 93

Audley, Sir Thomas, 193

Bailly, Harry, 169

Bakers punished, 48

Bancroft, Francis, 108

Basset, Fulco, 262

Baynard's Castle, 232

Bishop, a brave old London, 262

Bishopgate, 26;

in charge of Hanseatic merchants, 27

Bishopsgate Street, 76

Boadicea, 3

Braybrooke, Robert de, Bishop of London, 249

Brember, Sir Nicholas, 236

Bridgegate, 31

British village, the, 2

Burning heretics, 276

Butchers' price of meat fixed, 290

Canterbury pilgrims, 170

Canute attacks London, 13

Charter, the Conqueror's, 220

Chaucer and the Tabard, 165

Churches, 35, 38, 43, 80, 81, 86, 87, 126, 127, 146, 181, 188, 195

Conduits, 37

Convent of St. Clare, 197

Cooks, 136

Cooper, Sir Astley, 145

Coronation, Queen Eleanor, 44

Cottage hospitals, 195

Cripplegate, 28

Cromwell family, 84-5

Crosses and images burnt, 277

Crosby, Sir John, 99

Crown Field, 36

Curfew, 36, 125

D'Albret, Sir Perducas, 241

Diarist, an old London, 269

Ditch, London, 20

Dowgate, 26

Drowning, execution by, 229

Dunmow flitch, 224

Edward III. in peril, 208-9, 236

Eleanor Cross, the, 38, 71

Excise Office, 159

Executions, 37;

re Wyatt's rebellion, 274

Falcasius and the justice, 250

Fauconbridge, 23

Fires, incendiary, 138;

bellman at, 290

Fitzwalter, Baron, of Baynard's Castle, 219;

service and privileges, 225-6

Foreign merchants, 27, 61-64

Funerals, 278

Gates, 5, 22

Glass, 149

Gloucester, Duke of, 241-4

Gresham, Sir Thomas, 104;

Sir John, funeral, 280

Grossers' Company, 238

Helwood, Peter, 128

Henry III., 46

Henry VI., 56

Henry VIII., 57-60

Hoadley, Benjamin, 148

Holbein, Hans, 189

Holdsworth, Richard, 147

Hostelries, 136-8

Howard, Lord Edward, 65

Houses, historic, 99, 102-4, 106, 131-6, 143-6;

religious, and chapels, 87, 110-11, 113-15, 130, 153

Howell, James, 150

Hurricane, A.D. 1091, 35

Iconoclasm, 276

Inns, 96

Inscription, curious, 10

James I. enters London, 139

Jews, usury, massacre, etc., 49, 50;

synagogue, 115

Joscelyne, Ralph, re walls, 17

Katherine of Valois, 55

Knighten Guild, 185

Knollys, Hansard, 114

Knowles, Sir Robert, 241

Leathersellers' Company, 93;

charters, 94;

halls, 95

Lollards, 259

London, pillaged, 4;

fortified, A.D. 1643, 19;

Roman remains, 77

Longbeard, W. Fitzosbert, 42

Lord Mayor's Day, 66

Louis XIV., anecdote, 91

Lud, King, 25

Ludgate, 25

Lydgate, 39

Machyn, Henry, 269;

diary, extracts from, 274

Marching watch, 56-60

Margaret of Anjou, pageant, 55

Matilda the Fair, 222-3

Matilda, Queen, 179

May Day, the Evil, 62

Mayors and aldermen, 122

Merchants' lecture, 156

Miracle plays, 257

Moorgate, 30

Nevil, Sir Thomas, 192

Newgate, 28;

John Offrem's escape, 29

Norman, Prior, 183, 186

Norman, Sir John, 67

Old Bishopsgate, 116

Old Broad Street, 142;

public buildings in, 161

Old Jewry, 48

Pageants, 55, 68, 281

Pamphlets, 73

Papey, the, 87

Paulet, Sir William, 144

Pawnbrokers, 195

Pestilence, 191

Pickaxe Street, 118

Pillory, 276-7

Pinder, Sir Paul, 101

Pinmakers, 152

Plantagenet, Edmund, 200

Post Office, 99

Praed, 97

'Prentices, 39

Printers and publishers, 140

Priory and Hospital of Bethlehem, 88

Priory and Hospital of the Holy Trinity, 178

Punishment, 287

Radcot Bridge, affair of, 246

Richard II., 237

Riots, goldsmiths' and tailors', 51

Roman Catholicism—Queen Mary—275

Roman remains, 77

Royal Society, the, 105

Seals, St. Helen's, 83;

St. Mary of Graces, 217

Scott, John, D.D., 148

Sildham, 54

St. Augustine's, 153

St. Bartholomew, fracas at, 265

St. Clare, 199

St. Mary Spital, 86

St. Paul's, 256

Tabard, the, 166

Temple Bar, 32

Thames, Valley of the, 1

Tombs, St. Botolph, 81;

St. Helen, 84

Tournament in Cheapside, 52

Traitors' quarters exposed, 122

Tresilian, Sir Robert, 245

Trinity Hall, 129

Tyler, Wat, slain, 240-1

Villeins, 212

Walls of London, 3-18

Walworth, Lord Mayor, 241

Wardhoke, 164

Wesley, John, 130

Wesleys, the, 112

Wife, sale of a, 289

William builds the Tower, 14

Workhouse founded, 107

Wyclif, 254

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