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.

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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.”

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