Book 4 — INDEX

Abbot of Westminster, 258, 271

Abbot’s Mill, 11

Abridge, 154

Addle Street, 244

Ælfric, Dialogues of, 204

Æsc, 135

Agas’ map, 114, 117

Agricola, Julius, 22, 59, 60

Albinus, 60

Aldborough, 92

Aldeburg, 22

Aldermanbury, 116, 244

Aldersgate Street, 116

Aldrœnus, 145

Aldwulf, Bishop of Rochester, 164, 165

Alfred, King, 155, 165, 167, 168, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 180, 185, 191, 197, 198, 212

Alfred, son of Ethelred, 192

Algar, 323

Alhune, Bishop, 165

Allectus, 22, 64, 66, 67, 68

Alphage, Archbishop of Canterbury, 170, 173;

translation of remains of, 191-192, 234

Amesbury, slaughter of Britons at, 146

Ammandinus, Valerius, 35

Amphitheatre, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 139

Amusements: badger-baiting, 227, 315;

ball, 312;

bear-baiting, 227, 315;

bone-throwing, 173;

bull-baiting, 227, 312, 315;

casting stones, 315;

chess, 228;

cock-fighting, 312;

dancing, 227, 315;

dice, 228;

“flyting,” 172-173;

hawking, 227, 228, 317;

hunting, 227-228, 317;

ice-sports, 316;

juggling, 173;

jumping, 227;

leaping, 229, 315;

mock battles, 313;

racing, 313-314;

rowing, 227;

running, 229, 313;

sea-fights, 314;

shooting, 315;

skating, 227;

swimming, 227;

taeflmen, 228;

throwing the javelin, 315;

tumbling, 173, 226;

wrestling, 229, 315

Anderida, 135, 148

Andreds Wald, 4

Androgeus, 19

Angevins, 289, 290

Angles, 74, 145

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 132, 135, 148, 149, 155, 158, 165, 166, 167, 168, 173, 174, 175, 179, 180, 185, 189, 190, 191, 192, 200, 256, 270, 272, 273

Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, 334, 335, 336

Ansgar, 323

Antoninus’ Wall, 58, 60

Arles, Council of, British Bishops at, 74, 105

Armentarius, Galerius, 64

Armorica, 145

Army of Britain: extent of, in fourth century, 69;

character of, 73

Artesian Wells, 14

Arthur, King, 147, 148

Arts and Crafts: 41, 42, 45, 76, 93, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 201, 224, 261, 323, 327

Arundel, Earls of, 326

Asclepiodotus, 67, 68

Athelstan, King, 39, 133, 168, 179, 180, 191, 200, 205

Augustine, 147, 155

Augustus, 22, 53

Aurelian, 61

Aurelius, 145, 146, 147, 148

Ausonius, 89

Avienus, 41

Aylwin, founder of Bermondsey Abbey, 323, 328

Bagford, John, 96

Bamborough, 182

Bamfleet, 176

Bank of England, spring beneath, 29, 321

Barge Yard, 29

Barking Abbey, 212;

Charter of, 164

Basing, 323

Batavians, 64

Baths, 80, 83, 87, 88, 106, 133

Battersea, 26

Bawdwen, Rev. William, 262

Beaumont, Lord, 326

Becket, Gilbert, 289, 346, 363

Becket, Thomas, 289, 318, 363

Bede, 36, 39, 76, 77, 154, 155, 158, 161, 162, 163, 164, 208, 209, 210, 213, 232

Belgravia, 12

Belinus, 18

Bericus, 54

Berkhampstead, 250

Bermondsey, 26

Bermondsey Abbey, 212, 328

Berthwulf, King of Mercia, 166

Bevis, Sir, of Hampton, 133

Billeting, 287

Billingsgate, 18, 82, 125, 126, 153, 154, 156, 198, 244, 337

Bishopsgate, 121, 123, 124, 136, 244, 325

Bishopsgate Street, 81

Bitterne, 60, 61, 63, 65

Black, Mr. W. H., 98 note

Blackfriars, 88

Blackwell Hall, 18

Boadicea, 43, 46, 50, 57

Bonney, Prof. T. G., 24

Bonosus, 61

Bordeaux, in fourth century, 89, 90

Botolph Lane, 326

Botolph Wharf, 105

Boulogne, 62, 63, 64, 66

Bow Lane, 96

Bradwell, 64

Bread Street, 30, 245

Bretagne, 78

Bridge Creek, 26

Bridge Gate, 125

Bridges, 28, 55, 130, 132;

London, 45, 105, 106, 126, 127, 128-132, 154, 156, 185, 186, 187, 189, 194;

Stanstead, 177

Briset, Jordan, 277

Britain, anarchy, lawlessness and oppression in, 73;

disorder after Roman withdrawal, 135, 136, 165, 183;

division of, 69, 73;

famine in, 298;

government of, 69;

revolts in, 57;

spirit and character of its people, 75, 76, 77, 78;

under Cnut, 190, 191;

unrest in, 68, 290, 291, 292, 298

Brook Street, 11

Brunanburgh, Battle of, 179

Brute, 17, 18

Buchuinte, Andrew, 285

Buckerel, 323

Bull and Mouth Street, 116, 124

Burgred, King of Mercia, 165

Caerleon, 19, 58

Cæsar, Julius, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 53, 56

Cambridge, 167;

sacked and burned, 298

Camden, 119, 133

Camomile Street, 96, 118, 123, 124

Camulodunum. See Colchester

Candlewick Street, 133

Canterbury, 74, 147, 155, 166, 198

Canulf, King of Mercia, 165

Carausius, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69

Carpenters’ Hall, 96

Cars Dyke, 63, 64

Caruil, 21

Carus, 61

Cassius, Dion, 22, 54, 55, 128, 129

Cassivelaunus, 19, 20, 53

Catena, Paulus, 70, 71, 73, 113

Cedda, Bishop of London, 163

Chaffers, Mr. W., 99

Charmouth, 163, 166

Charter of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 260

Charter of Henry I., 200, 276, 279-288

Charterhouse, pump at, 13

Charters of William the Conqueror, 160, 253, 254, 260, 288, 292

Cheapside, 30, 96, 324

Chelsea, 26, 268

Chepe, 244

Chertsey Abbey, 212

Chester, 58, 74, 138

Chesters (Northumberland), 93

Chichester, 94

Chippenham, 173

Chlorus, Constantius, 64, 66, 67, 68

Cholera, 13

Christianity, 40, 74, 75, 85, 105, 108, 109, 110, 161, 162, 163, 164, 194, 195, 221, 222, 289, 290, 302, 327-329

Christ’s Hospital, 124

Chrysanthus, 73

Church, The, 105, 161, 201, 214, 215, 217, 219, 222, 230, 310-311,

335;

land held by, 262-271;

and William Rufus, 272, 274;

plundered by Stephen, 297

Churches, destruction of, 167, 211-212;

number of, in twelfth century, 302, 321;

Saxon and Danish, 214;

All Hallows, 115, 124, 244;

All Saints, 85;

Bradford on Avon, Saxon church at, 213;

Christ Church, Canterbury, 133;

Greenstead, Essex, 39, 213;

St. Alban’s, Wood Street, 164;

St. Andrew’s, Rochester, 155;

St. Botolph, 244;

St. Clement Danes, 192, 194;

St. Ethelburga, 244;

St. Giles in the Fields, 328;

St. John, Walbrook, 28;

St. Magnus, 173;

St. Martin’s, 212;

St. Mary le Bow, 29, 30, 137;

St. Mary Woolnoth, 96;

St. Michael’s, Crooked Lane, 85, 106;

St. Olave, Hart Street, 182;

St. Olave, Jewry, 182;

St. Olave, Silver Street, 182;

St. Olave, Tooley Street, 182;

St. Osyth, 244;

St. Paul’s, 36, 37, 96, 155, 161, 184, 190, 212, 259, 270, 318, 321;

St. Peter’s, Thorney (afterwards Westminster Abbey), 37, 38, 39, 40, 192, 194, 212, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 253, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 328;

St. Saviour’s, 328;

St. Stephen upon Walbrook, 28, 29

Cilcester, 22

Cingetorix, 21

Circus, The, 91

Cirencester, 173

City Ditch, 28

City Wall, 28, 29

City Wards, 157

Claudius, 23, 54, 55

Clausentum. See Bitterne

Clerkenwell, 27;

Benedictine Nunnery at, 260, 277, 328

Cnihten Gild, 206, 285, 329-334, 346;

Charters of, 330, 331

Cnut, 39, 183, 184, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 200, 228, 234, 251

Coinage, 42, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 111, 202, 243, 244

Coinred, King of Mercia, 164

Colchester, 23, 43, 56, 58, 74, 94;

massacre at, 57

Coldringham Abbey, 212

Coleman Street, 244

Collegia privata, 206, 207

Comius of Arras, 21

Commodus, 60

“Compter,” the, 122

Compurgation, 280, 286, 287

Conscription, 68

Constans, 70, 145

Constantine, 73

Constantine, brother of Aldrœnus, 145

Constantine, cousin of Arthur, 147, 148

Constantine the Great, 68, 69, 119, 120, 318

Conyers, John, 96, 110

“Cookery, Place of,” 306-307

Cooper’s Row, Crutched Friars, 121

Coote, Mr. H. C., 330, 331, 332

Corner, Mr. G. R., 118

Cornhill, 81, 96, 244

Coronation Service of Ethelred, 236-242

Crayford, Battle of, 132, 135, 148

Criminals, punishment of, 215, 216, 217

Cripplegate, 124

Crooked Lane, 127

Crosby Hall, 326

Crowland Abbey, 203, 212

Crusaders, 300

Cunningham, 261

Cunodagius, 18

Custom-house, the, 105

Danegeld, 276, 280, 286

Danes, 165, 166, 167, 168, 176, 177, 179, 182, 183, 184, 186, 191;

character of, 170, 171, 173;

in London, 169-175;

religions of, 170, 173

Danish Remains, 245

Deva. See Chester

Diana, Temple of, 95, 96

Diocletian, 61, 63, 64, 69, 105

Divitiacus, King of Soissons, 42

Dogs, 228

Domesday Book, 198, 212, 259, 262-271, 342

Domitian, 63

Dorchester, 138

Dover, 23, 34, 74, 94, 132

Dover Street, 38

Dowgate, 82, 125, 153, 156

Drinking, 220, 221, 226, 227, 311

Dryburgh Abbey, 203

Dubritius, Archbishop of London, 147

Duckworth, Dr. Dyce, 100

Dulcitius, Duke, 72

Dunstan, 212, 214, 232

Dunwallo, Mulmutius, 18

Dyfan, 36

Eadbald, King, 161, 163

Eadric, 184, 234

Eadwig, King, 331

East Cheap, 158, 337

Edgar, King, 39, 180, 185, 215, 219, 232, 233

Edgar the Atheling, 250, 251, 252, 253, 256

Edgware Road, the, 36, 129

Edmund, King of East Anglia, 167

Edmund, King of the English, 180

Edmund Atheling, 184

Edmund Ironside, 184, 190

Edred, King, 180

Edred’s Hythe. See Queenhithe

Edric the Fisherman, 38

Education, 58, 59, 224, 228, 229, 230, 303, 304

Edward the Confessor, 39, 192, 194, 234, 235, 236, 243, 260-261

Edward the Elder, 179, 200

Effeminacy, 76, 77, 274, 277

Egbert, Archbishop, 219

Egbert, King, 165, 166

Egyptian Rule, the, 40

Eia (? Ealing), 267

Elbow Lane, 326

Eleutherius, Pope, 36

Eli, King, 95, 96

Elton, Charles I., 41, 50, 160

Ely Abbey, 203, 212

Embroidery, Anglo-Saxon, 224, 225

Emma, Queen, 39, 224

Erkenwald, Bishop of London, 163, 164, 212

Ermin Street, 136

Ethandun, 173

Ethelbald, King of Mercia, 164, 165

Ethelbert, King, 155, 161, 180

Ethelred, Earl, 232

Ethelred, son-in-law of Alfred, 175, 176, 177

Ethelred the Unready, 39, 180, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 204, 219

Ethelwerd, 145, 148

Ethelwulf, King, 166

Evans, Sir J., 10

Execution, places of, 217

Exeter, 218;

“Fortress” of, 168

Fabyan, 134, 198

Famine of 1126, 277

Farringdon, 323

Fenchurch Street, 244

Ffagan, 36

Fire of London, the, 27, 81, 96

Fires, London, 130, 189, 197, 198, 234, 243, 259, 272, 277, 299, 311, 344

FitzAylwin, Henry, first Lord Mayor of London, 133, 336

FitzStephen, 115, 144, 301-320, 338, 339

Fleet Prison, 86

Florence of Worcester, 272, 334

Folkmote, 217, 230, 252, 280, 284

Fortresses, 64, 69

Fountains Abbey, 203

Frank Pledge, the, 217

Franks, the, 23, 64, 65, 68

Freeman, 180

Friday Street, 245, 320

Frith Guild, 205, 206

Fulham, 168, 173, 174, 264

Gallienus, 60

Garlickhithe, 244

Gauls, 43, 53, 62

Gavelkind, 158, 159, 160

Geoffrey of Monmouth, 17, 19, 145, 148

Germanus, 145

Gervase of Cornhill, 285, 332, 345, 346, 347

Gesoriacum. See Boulogne

Geta, Cneius Osidius, 54

Gildas, 73, 76, 105

Giltspur Street, 122, 124

Glanville, 159

Glastonbury Abbey, 212, 232;

lake-dwellings at, 33

Gloucester, 23

Godwin, Earl, 192, 194

Gomme, Mr. G. L., 142, 143, 144

Government, officers of, under Constantine the Great, 69

Gracechurch Street, 244

Granta, 64

Gratian, Emperor, 73

Great Dean’s Yard, Westminster, pump at, 13

Great Tower Street, 244

Green Arbour Court, 86

Green, J. R., 141, 275, 289, 290

Grossetête, Bishop, 240-241

Grunhilda, 182

Guest, Edwin, 54, 55, 94, 128, 129

Guilds, 76, 205-208, 224

Guithelin, Archbishop of London, 145

Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, 259

Gurbodus, 18

Hadrian, 60

Hadrian’s Wall, 57, 58, 60

Hales, Professor, 50, 142

Hallowing of St. Peter’s, Thorney, miracle of, 37, 38, 231

Hampstead, 24, 142, 266

Hampstead Barrow, 50

Hampstead Heath, 13

Harold, King, 183, 191, 192, 194, 251

Harthacnut, King, 191, 192, 220

Harwood, John, 96

Haverhill, 323

Hay Hill, 11

Hedge Lane, 95

Helena, 68

Hengist, 135, 145, 146, 147

Henry of Huntingdon, 145, 148, 292, 297, 298, 300, 334

Henry the First, 275-278

Henry the Second, 283, 284, 285, 286, 289, 300

Henry the Third, 318

Herlwins, the, 345-346

Himilco, 40

Holborn, 132

Holborn Hill, 88

Hollinshed, 299

Holy Trinity, Priory of the, 133, 277, 285, 328, 332

Honey Lane, 245, 320

Honey Lane Market, 30

Honorius, 73

Horn, 17

Horne, 323

Houndsditch, 115

Howell, James, 133

Hoxton, 265

Hurley, Benedictine Priory at, 293

Hustings, the, 194, 217, 280

Hythe, 23

Iceni, the, 57

Inheritance, Right of, 254

Inscriptions and sculptures, list of important Roman, 107-108

Invasions, Danish, 165, 166, 167;

Roman, 20, 21, 23, 53, 54, 60;

Saxon, 36, 37

Iona Abbey, 212

Ipswich, 185

Islington, 265, 270

Jacobs, Joseph, 260

Jarrow Abbey, 212

Jarumnan, Bishop of Lichfield, 183

Jews in England, 260;

cemetery of, 86;

debate with Christians, 273

John, King, 284

John of Cremona, Cardinal of Rome, 334, 335

Jonson, Ben, 27

Julianus, Didius, 60

Justus, Bishop of Rochester, 155, 162, 163

Jutes, 74, 145

Keltoi, the, 54

Kemble, J. M., 164

Kemp, Mr., 96

Ken Street, Southwark, 96

Kencester, 22

Kensington, 268-270

Kilburn, 26

King’s Street, 96

Knightsbridge, 26

Lactantius, 110

Lake-dwellers, 33, 34

Lambeth, 26, 34, 37, 56

Lambeth Hill, 244

Langbourne, 80

Language in fourth century, 70

L’Arche, Pont de, 326

Laurentius, Archbishop of Canterbury, 162, 163

Lazar-house of St. Giles in the Fields, 277

Leadenhall Street, 244

Lewis, Hayter, 138

Lincoln, 94, 138, 146

Lindisfarne Abbey, 212

Lisson Grove, 270

Living, Archbishop, 190

Locrine, 18

Loftie, Rev. W. J., 85, 222

Lollesworth. See Spitalfields

Lollianus, 60

Lombard Street, 244

London, agriculture in, 144;

an annual Fair, 48, 65;

and the Romans, 48, 49;

and William the Conqueror, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254;

appearance of, 197-200;

attacked by Olaf and Swegen, 182, 183;

besieged by Cnut, 184, 185;

Cnut’s trench, 184, 185, 187, 188;

Citadel of, 59, 79, 80, 84, 87, 88, 128, 130, 131, 132, 138, 147, 156;

described by FitzStephen, 301-318;

desertion and ruin of, 136, 137, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 153, 170, 174;

division of, 81;

first mentioned by Tacitus, 22, 23, 55, 68;

fleet at, 194;

food supply of, 50, 169, 229, 339;

Government and officers of Government, 75, 91, 215, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 310, 344;

growth of, and conditions governing growth, 12-14;

houses of, 229, 230, 322-324, 326;

importance of, in tenth century, 180, 181;

life in, 88, 89, 90, 91;

massacre at, 57, 59, 130;

overlord of, 158, 159, 160;

pen picture of, 83, 84;

plundered, 68;

poorer part of, 83, 84, 88, 93;

population of, 190, 230, 319, 320;

prehistoric monuments of, 50;

prehistoric settlements at, 33, 34;

public lands of, 143, 144, 199, 200, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283;

residential, 49, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 92, 271, 326-327, 339;

settlers in, 261, 289;

site of, 3, 4, 5, 23-32, 54, 55, 139;

social life of, 340, 341;

spirit of its people, 76;

taken by Alfred, 174;

by Danes, 166;

by Saxons, 146, 148;

the lake fortress, 34;

tradition of origin and foundation, 17, 18;

under Alfred, 177;

under Henry I., 276, 278;

under William Rufus, 273-274

London Stone, 80, 133-134, 156, 326

London Wall, 71, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 112-124, 128, 132, 133, 142, 153, 177, 210

Long Acre, 95

Lothbury, 244

Luard, 323

Lucius, King, 36

Lud, King, 18, 19

Ludgate, 18, 19, 50, 244

Lympne (or Lymne), 74, 92, 94

Lysons, Samuel, 91

Madox, 337-338

Magnentius, 70, 92

Maitland, 30, 124, 134, 164, 177, 179, 187, 189, 299

Maldon, 182, 185

Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 282, 283, 285, 293, 294, 296, 297, 298, 299

Mandubrace, 20, 21

Manners and customs, 43, 45, 49, 53, 219-230, 304

Marcellus, Ulpius, 60

Marcus, Emperor, 73

Marius, 60

Martial, 59, 63

Martinus, 70, 71

Marylebone, 11

Maryport (Cumberland), 93

Matilda, Empress, 282, 285, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 299, 318

Matthew of Westminster, 145, 148, 259, 335

Maude, Queen, 276, 277, 294, 295, 296

Maurice, Bishop of London, 259

Maurusius, Victorinus, 61

Maximian, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66

Maximus, Magnus, 72, 73

Measurement, Roman standard of, 119, 120

Medehamstede. See Peterborough

Mela, Pomponius, 22

Mellitus, Bishop of London, 147, 148, 155, 161, 162, 163, 194

Menapii, 64

Mercer’s Hall, 30

Merlin, prophecy of, 147

Middlesex Forest, 32

Mildred, Bishop of Worcester, 165

Milk Street, 30

Mincing Lane, 59, 125, 225, 244

Minters, under Edward the Confessor, 243;

under Harold, 244;

under Henry I., mutilation of, 276-277;

under William the Conqueror, 244

Miskennings, 287

Mithraism, 75

Monasteries, 201, 203, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212

Monkwell Street, 124

Montfichet Tower, 259

Morality, state of, 247, 276, 301-302, 305

Mordred, sons of, 147, 148

Murder, fines for, 286

Mutilation, 216, 217, 276-277

National Council at Westminster in 1136, 293

Nennius, 145, 148

Nero, 22

Newgate, 82, 85, 123

Newgate Street, 118, 132, 158

Niger, 60

Norman families, 345-347;

genealogies of, 348

Norman house, a, 326

Normans and English, fusion of, 338, 345

Norton, G., 286, 287, 288

Nunneries, 225

Nuns, costumes of, 225-226, 336

Ockley, 166

Offa, King of Essex, 164

Offa, King of Mercia, 38, 39, 164, 232

Olaf, King of Norway, 182, 185, 186, 187

Old Bailey, 118, 124

Old Broad Street, 244

Old Jewry, 260

Old Kent Road, 84

Ongar, 154

Orgar, 323

Osbert, Octodenarius (or Osbern Huitdeniers), 285, 363

Osborne, 190, 191

Oswy, King of Northumbria, 163

Othere, 203

Oxford Street, 79, 132

Oyster Gate, 351

Park (or Tyburn) Lane, 36, 129

Parks, Green, 13, 129;

Hyde, 13;

St. James, 13

Parliament, Acts of, 27

Paulinus, Suetonius, 22, 57

Paul’s Wharf, 326

Pax Romana, 68, 74

Penances, 214, 215

Pendragon, Uther, 145, 146, 147, 148

Pertinax, 60

Peter of Colechurch, 132, 189

Peterborough Abbey, 167, 212

Pevensey, 64

Picts, Raids of, 63, 65, 68, 71, 73, 112, 145

Pie Corner, 99, 100

Pirates, 62, 64, 65, 112

Plautius, Aulus, 23, 54, 55, 56, 128

Pluralism, 325

Plymouth, 166

Poor, feeding of, 219, 220

Population of Britain, 43

Porchester, 64

Portland, 166

Ports, London, 82, 83, 87, 125, 126, 129, 132

Portsoken, 206, 333, 346

Posidonius, 41, 142

Post Office, St. Martin’s-le-Grand, 115

Postumus, 60

Poultry, The, 245, 320

Prasutagus, 57

Prestwich, Professor J., 9, 13, 15

Price, Mr. J. E., 122, 123, 134

Priests, marriage of, 334-336, 345-346

Probus, Emperor, 61

Professional life in Bordeaux and London, 89, 90

Ptolemy, 84

Puddle Dock, 83, 327

Pytheas, 40, 41, 42, 45

Queen Street, 96

Queenhithe, 82, 83, 126, 198, 244, 325, 337

Rahere, 328

Ramsey Abbey, 212, 298

Reading, 167

“Recordatorium Civitatis,” 18

Reculver, 204

Religions, Pagan, 75, 81, 108, 109, 110, 161, 173, 221, 222, 223

Religious foundations, 208-215, 290, 328

Repton, 167

Ribchester, 22

Richborough, 22, 23, 64, 73, 85, 94, 204

Rivers: Effra, 26, 31;

Falcon, 23;

Fleet, 4, 12, 26, 27, 28, 29, 86, 321;

Lea, 12, 14, 26, 30, 31, 54, 55;

Ravensborne, 26, 31;

Severn, 56;

Thames, 4, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 29, 31, 34, 46, 50, 55, 100, 128, 129, 131, 139, 142,

155, 158, 166, 186, 302, 351;

Tyburn, 26, 27;

Walbrook, 26, 28, 29, 30, 34, 46, 55, 59, 81, 84, 85, 88, 321;

Wandle, 26, 31;

Westbourne, 26

Roads, 36, 42, 44, 49, 56, 58, 59, 79, 88, 94, 129, 132, 139, 202, 203, 204, 205, 245

Robert of Gloucester, 232

Robinson, Thomas, 159

Rochester, 74, 155, 166, 174

Rocque, 31

Roger of Wendover, 145, 147, 148, 297, 335

Roman occupation, 59;

end of, 73

Roman remains, 29, 30, 35, 46, 59, 80, 81, 88, 91, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 118, 119, 134, 137, 138, 353-355;

Strype on, 356-360.

Roman villa, 91, 92, 138

Round, Mr. J. H., 260, 277, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 292, 293, 296, 299, 330, 333, 345, 346, 347

Rowena, 146

Royal Exchange, New, 100

Rugmere, 265

Sabinus, Flavius, 54

Sacred relics, 39, 40, 210

St. Albans, 22, 43, 75, 147, 297;

massacre at, 57;

government of, 74

St. Alphege, Churchyard of, 115, 124

St. Bartholomew, Priory of, 277, 328

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 277, 328

St. Botolph’s Churchyard (Postmen’s Park), 116

St. Dunstan’s Hill, 96

St. Ethelburga, 164

St. Etheldreda, 224

St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, Churchyard of, 85, 115

St. Ives, sacked and burned, 298

St. John, Priory of, 277, 328

St. Mary Overies, 85, 326;

Priory of, 212, 277

St. Osyth, 163, 164

St. Pancras, 265

Sandwich, 22, 182, 185, 204

Saxon incursions, 74

Saxon remains, 243-245

Saxons, 145, 146, 147, 148, 155, 161, 162, 165, 166, 172;

characteristics of, 135, 136;

in London, 136, 137, 138, 139, 142, 143, 157, 158, 160

Schools: Holy Trinity, 303;

St. Anthony’s, 228;

St. Martin’s-le-Grand, 212, 228, 305;

St. Mary-le-Bow, 228;

St. Paul’s, 212, 228, 305;

Westminster, 243

Scots, raids of, 59, 60, 63, 65, 68, 71, 73, 112, 145

Seacoal Lane, 86

Sebert, King, 37, 39, 155, 161, 232;

sons of, 161, 162, 163

Sees of London, York, and Caerleon, creation of, 19

Seething Lane, 244

Segorax, 21

Selds, 320

Senate, British, 64

Seneca, 110

Serpentine, the, 26

Settlers, fusion of, 69, 70

Severus, 60

Shaftesbury, Nunnery at, 212

Sharpe, 293, 299

Sheppey, 166

Shops, 337

Shore, Mr. T. W., 158, 160

Sigebert, King of the East Saxons, 163

Sighelm, 168

Sighere, King of East Saxons, 163

Silchester, 80, 94, 137

Size Lane, 164, 244

Slaves, 44, 83, 85, 89, 92, 137, 160, 162, 170, 171, 201, 216, 217, 218, 230, 342, 343

Smith, Mr. C. Roach, 67, 74, 86, 99, 100, 101, 110, 111, 115, 118, 124, 125

Smith, Mr. Worthington, 10

Smithfield, 271;

fair at, 307-309

Soper’s Lane, 320

Southampton, 34, 166

Southwark, 12, 84, 88, 186, 188, 249, 250, 295

“Speculum,” 18

Spitalfields, Cemetery at, 96-98

Springs, 13, 29, 32;

Badewell, 27;

Clerkenwell, 27, 304;

Fagswell, 27;

Finchampstead, 27;

Godwell, 27;

Holy Well, 304;

Loderswell, 27;

Radwell, 27;

St. Chad’s Well, 27;

St. Clement’s Well, 304;

Shepherd’s Well, 26;

Skinnerswell, 27;

Well Walk, Hampstead, 13

Spurrell, Mr. F. C. J., 10

Staines, 185, 186

Stangate, 129

Stangate Street, Lambeth, 36

Stanley, Dean, 11, 256, 257, 258, 260-261

Stephen, 275, 282, 285, 289-300

Stepney, 262-264, 268

“Sticking,” 222, 223

Stokesay Castle, near Ludlow, 326

Story, Joseph, 143

Stow, 17, 29, 96, 97, 98, 115, 119, 121, 133, 245, 299, 329, 356-360

Strabo, 22, 23

Strype, 17, 96, 97, 98, 115, 133, 356-360

Stubbs, Bishop, 276, 284, 337-338

Stukeley, Dr., 62, 63, 64, 95

Sturbridge, 47

Sturleson, Snorro, 130, 186

Superstitions and credulity, 210, 211, 221, 222, 223, 274, 298

Swegen, King of Denmark, 182, 183

Sylvius, 63, 64

Synods, 334, 335

Taxation, 73, 190, 273, 276, 280, 286, 287, 288, 337

Taximagul, 21

Temples in Roman London, 81

Tertullian, 74, 105

Tessellated pavements discovered in London, list of, 103-104

Tetrici, the, 60

Thames Embankments, discoveries in, 351-355

Thames foreshore, 105, 106, 125, 126, 127, 198, 325

Thames Street, 82, 93, 124, 157, 198, 322, 326, 327, 337

Thames Valley, 3, 4;

ancient implements found in, 10, 11;

earth movements in, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11;

fossils of, 6, 9, 10, 11;

geological strata of, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Thanet, Isle of, 36, 41, 42, 166, 167

Theatre: in Roman London, 83, 85, 86, 90, 91;

miracle plays, 312

Theodosius, 71, 72, 73, 113

Theomantius (or Temanticus), 19

Theonus, Archbishop of London, 147, 148

Thorney, 11, 26, 27, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 46, 53, 129, 132, 135, 192, 231-236

Thorpe, Benjamin, 164, 215

Threadneedle Street, 81

Tin mines, 41, 42

Tintern Abbey, 203

Tite, Sir William, 28, 29, 30, 100, 105, 112, 124

Titus, 56

Tolls, 287

Tombs, 96, 97, 98, 100, 106, 107, 361-362;

as landmarks, 107

Tomlinson, Thomas, 30

Tothill, 26

Tower of London, 88, 259, 294, 296, 302

Tower Hill, 115, 124, 244, 327

Trade, 23, 34, 37, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 55, 58, 70, 74, 76, 79, 88, 93, 94, 110, 132, 135, 136, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 148, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 169, 170, 174, 175, 179, 180, 181, 198, 199, 200-208, 218, 261, 273, 306-307, 323-324, 337, 339;

and coinage, 42, 202, 203;

imports and exports, 46, 47, 132, 143, 310, 343-344

Trades Unions, 224

Traitors and rebels, punishment of, 171

Treves, Roman, compared with Roman London, 86-88

Trial by Ordeal, 215, 216, 286

Trials, criminal, 284;

civil, 286

Trinobantes, 20, 21, 54, 55

Turner, Sharon, 203

Tyburn, 11, 266

Tynemouth Abbey, 212

Tyrants, the Thirty, 60

Urbicus, Lollius, 60

Uriconium, 137

Valentinian, 71

Valentinus, 72

Vere, Aubrey de, 294, 332

Verulam. See St. Albans

Vespasian, 54, 56

Victorinus, 60

Village tenure, 143

Vortigern, 145, 146, 147

Vortimer, 146, 148

Walbrook, 30, 47, 56, 81, 85, 88, 125, 126, 198, 244, 325

Wall, river-side, 124-127, 153, 177, 184, 302, 320, 325

Walsingham, 232

Waltham Abbey, 251

Walworth, 84

Wandsworth Island, 31

Wantsum, the, 204

Wards, 323

Ware, 177

Wareham, 168

Warren, Sir Charles, 96

Water Companies, 13

Water supply, 13, 14, 15, 321

Watling Street, 36, 37, 53, 88, 128, 129, 132, 136, 139, 244;

Gate of, 124

Weapons, 42, 45, 172, 217, 218

Wearmouth Abbey, 211-212

Weever, 119

Westbourne Street, Chelsea, 26

Westbourne Terrace, 26

West Chepe, 158

West Chepe Market, 29, 30, 337

Westminster, 27, 56, 194, 266;

King’s House at, 195, 234, 235, 272, 303

Whitaker, W., 11, 13

Whittington, 326

Wihtred, King, 158

William of Malmesbury, 273

William Rufus, 272-274, 275

William the Conqueror, 249-261, 270;

coronation of, 256, 257, 258

Wilson, Archbishop, 219, 220

Winchelsea, 26

Winchester, 146, 147, 166, 167, 192, 296;

Nunnery at, 212

Windows, 110, 111

Witan, 183, 190

Witanagemots: at London, 165, 166, 180;

at Oxford, 191

Women: as courtesans, 274;

education of, 224;

morality of Danish, 171;

occupations of, 224, 230;

punishment of, 217, 222;

treatment of captured, 162

Wood Street, 244, 320

Woodchester, Roman villa at, 91, 92

Woodward, H. B., 15

Woodward, Dr. John, 96, 118

Wool Quay, 105

Wren, Sir Christopher, 107, 134

Wright, Thomas, 60, 72, 74, 75, 190-191, 201, 215, 218, 224, 225

Wroxcester, 22, 94

Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 261

Wulnoth, Abbot of St. Peter’s, Thorney, 234

Wyngaerde’s Map, 114

York, 19, 58, 63, 68, 69, 73, 74, 94, 146, 147, 198;

government of, 75

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PRESS OPINIONS

“Turn where you will in his pages, you get some interesting glimpse which opens up the past and illumines the present.”—The Contemporary Review.

“A handsome and very interesting book is the result, for which the curious reader and the student will alike be grateful.... Gives an admirable impression of the times.”—The Spectator.

“It is excellently planned, and very ably and agreeably executed.... The chief charm of this work is the pleasantness of the style in which it is written—easy, clear, and individual. To the accuracy of the ideal historian Sir Walter added the picturesqueness of the popular novelist.”—The Globe.

“A book full of entertainment and instruction for modern Londoners.”—The Daily Mail.

“To praise this book were superfluous. Sir Walter was ideally suited for the task which he set himself. He was an antiquarian, but not a Dryasdust; he had the topographical sense, but he spares us measurements; he was pleasantly discursive; if he moralised he was never tedious; he had the novelist’s eye for the romantic; above all, he loved and reverenced London. Though only a Londoner by adoption, he bestowed upon the capital a more than filial regard. Besant is the nineteenth-century Stow, and something more.... This remarkable volume.... It is a monument of faithful and careful research.”—The Daily Telegraph.

“Will be of the utmost value to every student of the life and history of London.”—The Standard.

“This handsome and really valuable volume.”—The Guardian.

“As a general survey of the eighteenth century this work has no rival.”—Glasgow Herald.

“It is indeed a living and fascinating book.”—The Yorkshire Post.

“It is a wonderfully complete history.... Will probably stand to all time as the brightest and most authoritative book on a period which is bound, by its very evils, to have a fascination for the student of customs and manners, and for the student of national development.”—The Liverpool Post.

“The reader will gather that this is a work which is of the highest importance. Beautifully written, beautifully produced and illustrated, it is in itself a monument to the steady industry and devotion of Sir Walter Besant, one of the best and sweetest influences this latter day has felt. The epitaph which honours Sir Christopher Wren might be inscribed, with a difference, on the title-page of London in the Eighteenth Century, for if we require a monument to Sir Walter Besant we need only look within.”—The Church Times.

“Altogether this posthumous work of the historian of London is one of the most fascinating books which he ever wrote.”—The Municipal Journal.

“The book is engrossing and its manner delightful.”—The Times.

“A work of great value and interest; ...profoundly interesting.”—The Westminster Gazette.

“Of facts and figures such as these this valuable book will be found full to overflowing, and it is calculated, therefore, to interest all kinds of readers, from the student to the dilettante, from the romancer in search of matter to the most voracious student of ‘Tit-Bits.’”—The Athenæum.

“Stimulating, edifying, interesting, horrifying, in turns, the book has not a dull moment.... As it is the best, it will surely prove the most prized and popular of modern books on London.”—Notes and Queries.

“The work is copiously illustrated with reproductions of old prints, and is altogether a delightful and fascinating guide to the Metropolis at an eventful period of its history.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Of the present lordly quarto volume it may be said that it fairly represents that ‘Survey’ which Sir Walter Besant conceived, and which he used to refer to as his magnum opus. It is a worthy literary monument to his deep knowledge and love of London.”—The Academy.

“Besant’s interesting and valuable book.”—Manchester Guardian.

“It is assuredly a delightful book to lose oneself in, and so to think one’s way back into a simpler and perhaps, after all, a merrier England.”—The Bookman.

“A book to be treasured and studied.... The work as a whole is a notable achievement, and will stand as the classical authority on eighteenth-century London.”—The Speaker.

“The vast mass of matter I have got together will open people’s eyes as to the extraordinary coarseness and brutality of that time.”—WALTER BESANT.

The second instalment of Sir Walter Besant’s “Magnum Opus.”

LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE STUARTS By Sir WALTER BESANT

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SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS

History

James I.—Sir Walter Raleigh—Persecution of Roman Catholics—New River—Booke of Sportes—Colony of Virginia—Charles I.—Outbreak of Plague—Forced Loan—Assassination of Buckingham—Exasperation in the City—The Short Parliament—Attack on Spanish Ambassador—Strafford’s Death—The Civil War—The Trained Bands—Execution of the King—The Commonwealth—The Fifth Monarchy Men—Cromwell’s Death—The Restoration—Execution of the Regicides—Act of Uniformity—Charles closes the Exchequer—Quarrels between the City and the Commons—Court of Charles II.—James II.—Titus Oates’ sentence—Rising of Monmouth—The Bishops sent to the Tower—The Landing of William of Orange—Capture of Jeffreys—William III.—Lord Mayor’s Day—Queen Anne—The Case of Sacheverell.

Religion, Government, and Trade

The Puritan Character—The Laudian Persecution—Abolition of the Book of Common Prayer—Fanaticism—Zachary Crofton—James Naylor—Conventicles become Churches—Superstitions—William Lilly—Services for the Cramp Ring and King’s Evil—Sanctuary—Social Distinctions in the City—Crimping—Saltpetre-’Prentices—Trade—Silkworms—Imports—The Bank of England—The Royal Exchange and the New Exchange—Coinage—City Companies in Debt—The Irish Estates.

The Great Plague and Fire

Former Plague Records—Desertion of City—Pest Houses—Pepys’ Account—Defoe’s Account—Regulations for the Plague-stricken—The Symptoms of the Plague—Strange Nostrums—Charms—The Aspect of the City before the Fire—The Beginning of the Fire—The Destruction of Property—Amount of Damage estimated—What the Fire left—Origin of the Fire—People camped on Moorfields—Plans for Rebuilding—Another Plot to burn the City—Contemporary Evidence—Evelyn’s Account—Pepys’ Account—London rebuilt—Ogilby’s Map—The Suburbs and the City—Confusion of Property after the Fire—The River—Insanitary Condition of the City—Shops glazed for the first Time.

Manners and Customs

Cost of Living—Rents—Furniture—Beer and other Drinks—No Forks in Use—Cost of Food—The Popularity of the Tavern—The First Use of Tea—The Virtue of Coffee—Coffee-Houses—Chocolate-Houses—Tobacco now universal—Puritanic Fashions—Dress of Gallants and Courtiers—Wigs—Pocket Mirrors—Patches and Powder—Kissing as common as Shaking Hands—Servants—City Tradesmen—Customs at Weddings—Funeral Ceremonies—No Coffins for Poor People—Places of Resort—Hyde Park and St. James’s Park—Spring Gardens—Leper Hospital at St. James’s—James I.’s Menagerie—New Spring Gardens at Vauxhall—Attractions of the Shop Girls—Theatres—The First Introduction of Women to the Stage—The Cockpit—Nell Gwynn—The Time of the Performances—Variation of the Plays—Wearing of Masks—Coarseness—Music very popular—The Fine Arts—Arundelian Collection—Raffaelle’s Work—Sports and Amusements—Puritan Suppression of Sunday Games—Bear-baiting and other Brutal Sports—Fairs—Athletic Sports—Hunting—Predilection of King James I. for the Chase—Bowling-Alleys—Fencing—Mohocks—Wrestling—St. Bartholomew’s Fair—Coaches—Tolls for Road Repair—Punishment and Crime—Severity of the Punishments—Branding, Pillory, Boring through the Tongue with a Hot Iron—Case of Alexander Leighton—Earl of Oxford’s False Marriage—Lord Sanquhar’s Revenge—Prisoners for Debt—Tricks—“The Brave Shifter”—Usurers—Brokers—Public Morality and the Lord Mayor’s Proclamation—General Notes—Scarcity of Public Inns—Gentlemen carried Large Fans—Strange Processions—Horn Fair.

Appendices

The Court of Charles II.—List of the London Clergy ejected—List of Almshouses founded in the Seventeenth Century—Composition of the Lords and Commons—The New Buildings of London—Rules for Enlargement of the Streets—Gardens.

SOME PRESS OPINIONS

“Most readable and interesting.... It is a mine in which the student alike of topography and of manners and customs may dig and dig again with the certainty of finding something new and interesting.”—The Times.

“No lover of London can fail to be grateful to the late Sir Walter for his many carefully studied pictures of its ancient life, pictures often quaint and amusing, and bearing always the mark of earnest and minute research.... The general reader will find in this volume a world of interesting suggestion.”—The Daily Chronicle.

“We are again reminded of the vast debt which London owes to the late Sir Walter Besant by the appearance of this sumptuously printed and beautifully illustrated book, the second volume of his great Survey of London—unquestionably his magnum opus, upon which his fame will chiefly rest.... A book which should be in the library of every one who takes an intelligent interest in the history and development of London.”—The Daily Telegraph.

“The pen of the ready writer here is fluent; the picture wants nothing in completeness. The records of the city and the kingdom have been ransacked for facts and documents, and they are here marshalled with consummate skill. In surveying the political history of London from James I. to Queen Anne, Sir Walter Besant reveals himself as an unsparing and impartial historian, and in this respect alone the work must command our admiration and our praise. But there is also included the most vivid presentation of the story of the Great Plague and the Great Fire that has ever been brought between the covers of one book.”—The Pall Mall Gazette.

“There is not a dull page in the book, and the fact that the treatment is somewhat discursive makes the volume more delightful. We can give no idea of its variety and its charm, but every one who wishes to know the London of two hundred and fifty years ago will feel, as he opens this volume, that he has stepped back into that world of great events, and will live again through its civil discord, its Plague, and Fire, and its strange superstitions.”—The London Quarterly Review.

“Nothing at all like it has ever been attempted before.”—WALTER BESANT.

The third instalment of Sir Walter Besant’s “Magnum Opus.”

LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS By Sir WALTER BESANT

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CONTENTS

TUDOR SOVEREIGNS

CHAP.

1. Henry VII.

2. Henry VIII.

3. Edward VI.

4. Mary.

5. Elizabeth.

6. The Queen in Splendour.

RELIGION

1. The Dissolution and the Martyrs.

2. The Progress of the Reformation.

3. Superstition.

ELIZABETHAN LONDON

1. With Stow.

2. Contemporary Evidence.

3. The Citizens.

GOVERNMENT AND TRADE OF THE CITY.

1. The Mayor.

2. Trade.

3. Literature and Art.

4. Gog and Magog.

SOCIAL LIFE.

1. Manners and Customs.

2. Food and Drink.

3. Dress—Weddings.

4. Soldiers.

5. The ’Prentice.

6. The London Inns.

7. Theatres and Sports.

8. The Poor.

9. Crime and Punishment.

PRESS OPINIONS

“Altogether it forms without question not only a monument to Sir Walter Besant’s affectionate enthusiasm for London, and devotion to what he regarded as the great task of his life, but an almost unrivalled popular presentation of English life and manners in the metropolis during the age of the Tudors.”—Glasgow Herald.

“A vivid and fascinating picture of London life in the sixteenth century—a novelist’s picture, full of life and movement, yet with the accurate detail of an antiquarian treatise.”—The Contemporary Review.

“Of books on London we hail all and every one, since none can be so wholly bad that nothing can be learnt from its perusal; of this exceptionally able achievement we believe that, whilst its high aim should act as a stimulus to further endeavour, it will be long before the literature of ancient London is enriched by a more fascinating work of introspection.”—The Times.

“There is not space to analyse this fine book to any adequate extent, and the temptation to enlarge upon it grows with the perusal of its fascinating pages.... For the student, as well as for those desultory readers who are drawn by the rare fascination of London to peruse its pages, this book will have a value and a charm which are unsurpassed by any of its predecessors.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“We know of no book that is calculated to interest lovers of this great city of ours to a greater degree than this posthumous contribution of a gifted writer to what he himself loved so well—the history of London.”—Daily Chronicle.

“This splendidly appointed volume, with its wealth of illustrations from the work of contemporary artists, as well as writers, is in keeping with its important subject, and, with its companion volumes, forms a monumental work that will assuredly go down to the far future.”—Aberdeen Free Press.

“I have been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.”—WALTER BESANT.

The fourth instalment of Sir Walter Besant’s “Magnum Opus.”

MEDIÆVAL LONDON Vol. I. Historical and Social · Vol. II. Ecclesiastical By Sir WALTER BESANT

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CONTENTS

VOL. I.

PART I.—MEDIÆVAL SOVEREIGNS.

1. Henry II. 2. Richard I. 3. John. 4. Henry III. 5. Edward I. 6. Edward II. 7. Edward III. 8. Richard II. 9. Henry IV. 10. Henry V. 11. Henry VI. 12. Edward IV. 13. Richard III.

PART II.—SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

1. General View. 2. Port and Trade of London. 3. Trade and Gentility. 4. The Streets. 5. The Buildings. 6. Furniture. 7. Wealth and State of Nobles and Citizens. 8. Manners and Customs. 9. Food. 10. Sport and Recreation. 11. Literature and Science in London—§ I. The Libraries of London; § II. London and Literature; § III. The Physician. 12. Fire, Plague, and Famine. 13. Crime and Punishment. 14. Christian Names and Surnames.

VOL. II.

PART I.—THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON.

1. The Records. 2. The Charter of Henry the Second. 3. The Commune. 4. The Wards. 5. The Factions of the City. 6. The Century of Uncertain Steps. 7. After the Commune. 8. The City Companies.

PART II.—ECCLESIASTICAL LONDON.

1. The Religious Life. 2. Church Furniture. 3. The Calendar of the Year. 4. Hermits and Anchorites. 5. Pilgrimage. 6. Ordeal. 7. Sanctuary. 8. Miracle and Mystery Plays. 9. Superstitions, etc. 10. Order of Burial.

PART III.—RELIGIOUS HOUSES.

1. General. 2. St. Martin’s-le-Grand. 3. The Priory of the Holy Trinity, or Christ Church Priory. 4. The Charter House. 5. Elsyng Spital. 6. St. Bartholomew. 7. St. Thomas of Acon. 8. St. Anthony’s. 9. The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem. 10. The Clerkenwell Nunnery. 11. St. John the Baptist, or Holiwell Nunnery. 12. Bermondsey Abbey. 13. St. Mary Overies. 14. St. Thomas’s Hospital. 15. St. Giles-in-the-Fields. 16. St. Helen’s. 17. St. Mary Spital. 18. St. Mary of Bethlehem. 19. The Clares. 20. St. Katherine’s by the Tower. 21. Crutched Friars. 22. Austin Friars. 23. Grey Friars. 24. The Dominicans. 25. Whitefriars. 26. St. Mary of Graces. 27. The Smaller Foundations. 28. Fraternities. 29. Hospitals.

PRESS OPINIONS

“Like its predecessors, it is a work framed in a style at once popular and erudite, embracing a historical sketch of each reign included, and supplementary chapters on the commercial and social conditions of the period. No book could be suited better than this is to occupy an honoured place on the family bookshelf.”—Globe.

“Each volume that appears not merely reveals more vividly the magnitude of the undertaking, but the skill and knowledge, the historic imagination, and the picturesque sensibility of the writer. Two volumes were wisely devoted to Mediæval London. The first set before us the historical and social aspects of the capital, and did so with the charm that belongs to a living picture; the second volume, which is now published, is also marked by movement and colour, and in its pages are described the ecclesiastical life of the community and the great religious houses which flourished long before any man had dreamed of such a movement as the Reformation.”—Standard.

“It is unquestionably one of the most valuable of the books that have been published this year. Every ‘London’ collector who can afford to do so, will, of course, buy it; but it is deserving of a far wider circle of readers, and it is to be hoped that it will be placed promptly upon the lists of every public library in the land.”—The Record.

“It is a mine of wealth to the student, a joy to the antiquary, and a kaleidoscopic picture of times that were full of moving and changing events that rendered the history of London, more than at any other period, the history of the nation that was in the making.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Written in the charming and fascinating style of which the author was a master. It is a mine of curious and interesting information for the historical student. It is a model of lucid arrangement, and presents a living and moving picture of days long gone by.”—Aberdeen Free Press.

“For the general reader, this work, for its liveliness and variety, will do what Chaucer and Langland do for the serious student of the Middle Ages.”—Tribune.

“This work fascinates me more than anything I have ever done.”—WALTER BESANT.

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NOTE A Survey of London, a record of the greatest of all cities—this was the work on which Sir Walter Besant was engaged when he died. He said of it himself, “This work fascinates me more than anything I’ve ever done. Nothing at all like it has ever been attempted before.” Two of the volumes in this great work were to be devoted to a perambulation of London, street by street, and enough has been done to warrant its publication in the form originally intended; but in the meantime it is proposed to select some of the most interesting of the districts, and to publish them as a series of booklets, interesting alike to the local inhabitant and the student of London, because it is in these street associations that the chief charm of London lies. The difficulty of finding a general title for the series was very great, but the solution has been found in the words of the man who loved London, and made himself her chronicler. The work “fascinated” him, and it was because of these historical associations that it did so; these links between past and present in themselves largely constitute “The Fascination of London.” SPECIMEN FRONTISPIECE VOLUMES CHELSEA CLERKENWELL AND ST. LUKE’S HACKNEY & STOKE NEWINGTON [in the Press. HAMMERSMITH HAMPSTEAD AND MARYLEBONE HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY KENSINGTON MAYFAIR BELGRAVIA AND BAYSWATER SHOREDITCH AND THE EAST END [In the Press. STRAND THE THAMES WESTMINSTER

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“We have here, in fact, just what will give people who do not know their London a new interest in every walk they take, and indicate to those who want more the lines on which their studies may be conducted.”—Times.

“It is scarcely necessary to write any words of commendation when the great knowledge of the editor and the literary charm with which he always writes of London are taken into consideration.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“The book, and the series of which it is a part, will be welcomed by those who already possess that detailed knowledge of London and its associations in which Sir Walter Besant delighted, and a perusal of its pages by those less fortunate will do much to add to the number of his disciples.”—County Council Times.

“This is a very pleasant little book, the work of a competent observer, who knows what to look for and how to deal with what he finds.”—The Spectator.

“Delightful guides. They are just the handbooks to make walks in London interesting, for they re-people every street with the figures which have lived in it in the past.”—The Pilot.

“We fancy that even the most observant and studious lover of the metropolis will find much in these dainty little volumes to instruct and surprise him. The glamour of bygone years and the spirit of to-day jostle each other on every page.”—Christian World.

“Well written, and valuable historically.”—St. James’s Gazette.

“These little volumes are of great value in the keeping of fact and tradition pleasantly alive.”-The Academy.

“Those who love their London, and are interested in its local history, should not fail to procure this interesting little volume.”—The Tribune.

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THE SCENERY OF LONDON PAINTED BY HERBERT M. MARSHALL, R.W.S. DESCRIBED BY G. E. MITTON CONTAINING 75 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

“None but a highly-gifted artist who was also a profoundly sympathetic student of the contributing factors of London’s wonderful appeal to the eye and imagination could have caught so much of its potent and infinitely diversified charm, or conveyed its colour and atmosphere and the many and various conditions with such almost invariable fidelity as Mr. Marshall has done in these delicate and delightful sketches; while Miss Mitton has here given fresh and most acceptable proof of that ‘extensive and peculiar’ knowledge of London which rendered her so valued a coadjutor of the late Sir Walter Besant.”—The World.

FAMILIAR LONDON PAINTED AND DESCRIBED BY ROSE BARTON CONTAINING 60 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

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LONDON TO THE NORE PAINTED BY W. L. WYLLIE, R.A. DESCRIBED BY MRS. WYLLIE CONTAINING 60 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

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“This charming work is in every way welcome, and every Londoner who reads it will prize it. The reproductions are exquisitely done.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

THE THAMES PAINTED BY MORTIMER MEMPES, R.I. DESCRIBED BY G. E. MITTON CONTAINING 75 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

“There is in it just the desired touch of historical reminiscence, with never a line of pedantry, nor a phrase in doubtful taste.... The pictures themselves are characteristic of their author’s happiest manner, which is but another way of saying that they are certain of popularity.”—The Standard.

“Rarely in the long series of coloured books have author and artist been so evenly matched. Miss Mitton writes as one who revels in the charms of the Upper Thames, and Mr. Mempes adds colour to the picture of beauty. Together they have produced a wholly delightful volume.”—Review of Reviews.

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WESTMINSTER ABBEY Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I. Text by Mrs. A. MURRAY SMITH Containing 21 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour.

“Alike as a guide for those who are about to pay a visit to the Abbey, and also as a very attractive memento of visits already paid, this volume provides what very many people will delight to see, and will greatly prize.”—Literary World.

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THE TOWER OF LONDON Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I. Text by ARTHUR POYSER Containing 20 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour and a Plan.

The Tower of London stands as an epitome of English history in stone and lime. It is, as it should be, a never-failing object of interest to all of us from the days when we went to see it as children to the days when we take our grandchildren to see it. But a hurried visit to the old buildings can never satisfy our desire to know more of the history and the romance, as well as the darker record, of the Tower and its surroundings. The existing books on the subject are either the small paper-covered guide-books, or the more costly descriptions in two and four volumes which cannot appeal, by reason of their bulk and high price, to every one. This new book on the Tower comes to fill the middle place. It can be used as a guide, and afterwards, when placed on the bookshelf, will, by the aid of Mr. Fulleylove’s delightful water-colours and the author’s sketches of the drama and romance of Tower history, be found to stand as a descriptive and pictorial record of one of the most interesting buildings in the world.

INNS OF COURT Painted by GORDON HOME. Text by CECIL HEADLAM Containing 20 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour.

WINDSOR Painted by GEORGE M. HENTON Described by Sir RICHARD RIVINGTON HOLMES, K.C.V.O. Containing 20 Full-Page Illustrations in Colour.

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For the first time there is offered to the public, at a price which puts it within the reach of all, an atlas containing a series of maps and plans showing the growth of London from mediæval times. These maps have hitherto only been obtainable separately, at high prices and in many sheets; they were reduced for the purposes of the Survey of London, Sir Walter Besant’s monumental work, and in response to a suggestion the publishers now issue them in a compact and convenient form. To trace the spread of the city from the reign of Elizabeth—to which the first map belongs—through the succeeding centuries, is a work of absorbing interest, and the student of Old London will learn more from such a study than by reading many folios of print. Every Londoner should possess this atlas and search out in it the growth and changes that have taken place in his own locality.

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Kew Gardens to-day contain what seems the completest botanical collection in the world, but before being given up to public pleasure and instruction, this demesne was a royal country seat, specially favoured by George III. This homely King had two houses here, and began to build a more pretentious palace, a design cut short by his infirmities, but for which Kew might have usurped the place of Windsor. For nearly a century it had a close connection with the Royal Family.

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