PART II

SOCIAL AND GENERAL

1. GENERAL VIEW 159

2. PORT AND TRADE OF LONDON 185

3. TRADE AND GENTILITY 216

4. THE STREETS 226

5. THE BUILDINGS 240

6. FURNITURE 255

7. WEALTH AND STATE OF NOBLES AND CITIZENS 259

8. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 264

9. FOOD 294

10. SPORT AND RECREATION 307

11. LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN LONDON—

§ I. THE LIBRARIES OF LONDON 327

§ II. LONDON AND LITERATURE 330

§ III. THE PHYSICIAN 336

12. FIRE, PLAGUE, AND FAMINE 341

13. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 349

14. CHRISTIAN NAMES AND SURNAMES 372

APPENDICES 379

INDEX 405

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Edward IV. and his Courtiers _Frontispiece_

Henry II. 3

Coronation of the “Young King” 5

Becket disputing with the King 7

Great Seal of Henry II. 8

First Seal of Richard I. 10

Cross of Knight Templar 12

King John 13

Henry Fitzailwyn, Knt., First Lord Mayor of London 14

King John hunting 16

A Portion of the Great Charter 17

Coronation of Henry III. 21

Jews’ Passover 27

A Pope in Consistory 29

Edward I. 35

Queen Eleanor of Castile 36

Charing Cross 41

Parliament of Edward I. _Facing_ 44

Great Seal of Edward I. 46

Head of Edward II. 48

Shrine of King Edward II., Gloucester Cathedral 56

Edward III. 58

A Joust or Tournament of the Period 63

Sir Henry Picard entertaining the Kings of England, France, Scotland, Denmark and Cyprus _Facing_ 70

John Wyclyf 76

Richard II. 78

King Richard II. and his Council go down the Thames in a Barge to confer with the Rebels 83

Wat Tyler for his Insolence is killed by Walworth, and King Richard puts himself at the Head of the Rebels 85

King Richard II. in Great Danger in the City of London 87

Henry of Lancaster brings King Richard back to London 90

How Richard II. resigned the Crown to the Duke of Lancaster _Facing_ 90

Henry IV. 92

Funeral Procession of Richard II. _Facing_ 94

“The True Portraiture of Richard Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor of London” 98

The Porch of the Church of St. Alphage, London Wall, formerly the Chapel of the Priory of Elsinge Spital 99

Henry V. 103

Ships at La Rochelle 106

Marriage of Henry V. and Katherine of France 108

Henry VI. as an Infant 111

The Duke of Bedford 115

Henry VI. 119

Henry VI. at the Shrine of St. Edmund 123

White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate Street 130

London Stone 131

Henry VI. and his Courtiers 133

Edward IV. 138

Ships of the Period 141

The Bastard of Falconbridge attacks London Bridge 143

“The Hierarchy of the Sciences,” as conceived by Mediæval Thought 149

Richard III. 152

North-East View of Crosby Hall 153

Interior of the Council Room, Crosby Hall 153

Sketch Map of London in the Fifteenth Century 159

The White Tower 160

St. Katherine’s by the Tower 161

Chaucer 163

The Old Fountain in the Minories, built about 1480, demolished 1793 175

North-West View of the Ancient Structure of Merchant-Taylors Hall, and the Alms-Houses adjoining, in Threadneedle Street 179

A South-East View of London before the Destruction of St. Paul’s Steeple by Fire, A.D. 1560 181

Temple Church, London 183

A Household Dining 203

The Steelyard, Thames Street 207

The Merchant 213

The Knight 219

Court of King’s Bench. Temp. Henry VI. 221

View of the Ruins of Part of the late Church of St. Leonard 229

View of the Crypt on the Site of the late College of St. Martin Le Grand 229

Arch of Blackfriars Priory, revealed by the Demolition of a Building in Ireland Yard, May 1900 238

Matthew Paris Dying 241

Embassy from the King of England to ask the Hand of the Lady Isabella of France in Marriage 243

Hall of the Knights of St. John 247

“The Ladies’ Bower” 249

Whittington’s House in Swithin’s Passage, Moor Lane 250

Builders at Work 252

Retinue of the Earl of Warwick 260

House Servant and Porter, Early Fourteenth Century 261

Earl Rivers presenting his Book to Edward IV. 262

Knights preparing for a Passage of Arms 265

Queen Isabella and her Ladies out Riding 269

Making Tapestry 271

Honi Soit qui mal y Pense _Facing_ 274

Westminster Hall 276

Parting of St. Thomas and the Two Kings 277

Beggar Importuning Noble Lady 285

Banquet in London. Temp. Edward IV. _Facing_ 296

A Banquet 301

A Hunting Party 311

Types of Chaucer’s Characters 313

A Banquet 315

King and Jester 316

Types of Chaucer’s Characters 317

Tournament of the Earl of Warwick 321

Coronation of Henry IV. _Facing_ 322

English Knights Travelling 323

A Tournament in London 325

John Lydgate presenting his “Life of St. Edmund” to Henry VI. 328

Page from Pleshy Bible 331

Lydgate at Work 335

The Doctor of Physic 336

An Operation 337

Surgeon Operating on the Skull 337

An Alchemist’s Laboratory 338

The _Couvre-feu_ 341

Prisoner being Sentenced and taken to Execution 349

The Tun, Cornhill 355

The Scold’s Bridle in Walton-on-Thames Church 356

A Beggar 363

A Hand-to-Hand Fight 367