CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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Ancient London—the dawn of history—Roman London—Saxon London—old London Bridge—remains of ancient London—old roads and streets 17

CHAPTER II.

St. Paul’s Cathedral—Anniversary meeting of charity children—interior of St. Paul’s—the Times’ office—Doctors Commons—Prerogative Court—Examiners of wills—Shakspeare’s will—Porters of the neighbourhood—Paul’s Wharf—Knightrider-street—Old London thieves—Church of St. Mary Somerset—Cromwell and the clergy—Saracen’s Head, Friday-street—Baptism of John Milton—Gerard’s Hall—Painter-stainers’ Hall—Queenhithe—St. Mary, Aldermanbury—Bow Church29

CHAPTER III.

Cheapside—London thoroughfares—Southwark Bridge—Whittington—Bucklersbury—Walbrook—Roman remains found in Cannon-street—London Stone—The Mansion House—Lombard-street—London bankers—Bankers’ clerks—The Monument56

CHAPTER IV.

London Bridge Wharf—Billingsgate—Coal Exchange—Custom House—St. Dunstan’s Church—Mark-lane—Church of Allhallows Barking—East India House78

CHAPTER V.

The Tower—The White Tower—Hentzner’s description of the Tower in the reign of Queen Elizabeth—Anecdotes of lions—The Crown Jewels—The Armoury—Execution of Lady Jane Grey—Prisoners in the Tower—Regulations of the Tower103

CHAPTER VI.

London Docks—Emigrants—Canterbury colonists—London sempstresses—Emigration126

CHAPTER VII.

Whitechapel—Row of butchers’ shops—Articles sold in them—Rag Fair—Church of St. Catherine Cree—Crosby Hall—Four Swans’ Inn141

CHAPTER VIII.

Guildhall—Lord Mayor’s Banquet—Lord Mayor’s Show—Description of, in time of Charles II.—Duties of the Lord Mayor—Gog and Magog—The Sheriff’s Court—Monuments in Guildhall—St. Giles’s, Cripplegate155

CHAPTER IX.

Christ’s Hospital—Foundation of, by Edward VI.—Description of supper in—Description of Christ’s Hospital as it was two hundred years ago—Christ’s Church166

CHAPTER X.

Smithfield Market—Drovers and their dogs—Smithfield butchers—Countrymen in Smithfield174

CHAPTER XI.

Newgate—Scenes at executions183

CHAPTER XII.

Fleet Street—Whitefriars—St. Bride’s Church—Description of London Lodging-houses—St. Dunstan’s Church—the Cock Tavern191

CHAPTER XIII.

Church of St. Clement’s Danes—The Strand May-pole—Church of St. Mary-le-Strand—Somerset House—Church of the Savoy—The Adelphi—Arches at the Adelphi—Covent-Garden Market—Church of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden201

CHAPTER XIV.

Westminster Abbey—Monuments—Horse-Guards—St. James’s Park—Hyde Park—Regent’s Park—New Parks217

CHAPTER XV.

St. Giles’s—The Rookery—Church of St. Giles’s—Queen Anne’s Bath229

CHAPTER XVI.

London Fog243

CHAPTER XVII.

The Old Borough of Southwark—St. James’s Church—Tabard Inn249

CHAPTER XVIII.

Street Amusements—Punch and Judy—Organ-boys and monkeys—Fat boys—Tumblers—Stilt-dancers—Jack-in-the-green—Guy Fawkes254

CHAPTER XIX.

Spring-time in London262

CHAPTER XX.

London Cemeteries—Ancient mode of burying the dead—Intramural interments—Ravages of the cholera in 1849269

CHAPTER XXI.

Greenwich Park—Old pensioners—Telescopes—Gipsies—Blackheath283

CHAPTER XXII.

Holidays of the London Poor293