Old And New London Volume I A Narrative Of Its History Its Peop

Buried London--Our Early Relations--The Founder of London--A Distinguished Visitor at Romney Marsh--Cæsar re-visits the "Town on the Lake"--The Borders of Old London--Cæsar fail...

Temple Bar--The Golgotha of English Traitors--When Temple Bar was made of Wood--Historical Pageants at Temple Bar--The Associations of Temple Bar--Mischievous Processions throug...

Frays in Fleet Street--Chaucer and the Friar--The Duchess of Gloucester doing Penance for Witchcraft--Riots between Law Students and Citizens--'Prentice Riots--Oates in the Pill...

Dr. Johnson in Ambuscade at Temple Bar--The First Child--Dryden and Black Will--Rupert's Jewels--Telson's Bank--The Apollo Club at the "Devil"--"Old Sir Simon the King"--"Mull S...

The "Green Dragon"--Tompion and Pinchbeck--The _Record_--St. Bride's and its Memories--_Punch_ and his Contributors--The _Dispatch_--The _Daily Telegraph_--The "Globe Tavern" an...

The Kit-Kat Club--The Toast for the Year--Little Lady Mary--Drunken John Sly--Garth's Patients--Club Removed to Barn Elms--Steele at the "Trumpet"--Rogues' Lane--Murder--Beggars...

The Asylum for Jewish Converts--The Rolls Chapel--Ancient Monuments--A Speaker Expelled for Bribery--"Remember Cæsar"--Trampling on a Master of the Rolls--Sir William Grant's Od...

Clifford's Inn--Dyer's Chambers--The Settlement after the Great Fire--Peter Wilkins and his Flying Wives--Fetter Lane--Waller's Plot and its Victims--Praise-God Barebone and his...

Removal of the Royal Society from Gresham College--Opposition to Newton--Objections to Removal--The First Catalogue--Swift's Jeer at the Society--Franklin's Lightning Conductor...

Dr. Johnson in Bolt Court--His Motley Household--His Life there--Still existing--The Gallant "Lumber Troop"--Reform Bill Riots--Sir Claudius Hunter--Cobbett in Bolt Court--The B...

The First Lucifers--Perkins' Steam Gun--A Link between Shakespeare and Shoe Lane--Florio and his Labours--"Cogers' Hall"--Famous "Cogers"--A Saturday Night's Debate--Gunpowder A...

Worthy Mr. Fisher--Lamb's Wednesday Evenings--Persons one would wish to have seen--Ram Alley--Serjeants' Inn--The _Daily News_--"Memory" Woodfall--A Mug-House Riot--Richardson's...

Origin of the Order of Templars--First Home of the Order--Removal to the Banks of the Thames--Rules of the Order--The Templars at the Crusades, and their Deeds of Valour--Decay...

The Temple Church--Its Restorations--Discoveries of Antiquities--The Penitential Cell--Discipline in the Temple--The Tombs of the Templars in the "Round"--William and Gilbert Ma...

The Middle Temple Hall: its Roof, Busts, and Portraits--Manningham's Diary--Fox Hunts in Hall--The Grand Revels--Spenser--Sir J. Davis--A Present to a King--Masques and Royal Vi...

Fountain Court and the Temple Fountain--Ruth Pinch--L.E.L.'s Poem--Fig-tree Court--The Inner Temple Library--Paper Buildings--The Temple Gate--Guildford North and Jeffreys--Cowp...

The Present Whitefriars--The Carmelite Convent--Dr. Butts--The Sanctuary--Lord Sanquhar murders the Fencing-Master--His Trial--Bacon and Yelverton--His Execution--Sir Walter Sco...

Three Norman Fortresses on the Thames' Bank--The Black Parliament--The Trial of Katherine of Arragon--Shakespeare a Blackfriars Manager--The Blackfriars Puritans--The Jesuit Ser...

An Ugly Bridge and "Ye Belle Savage"--A Radical Publisher--The Principal Gate of London--From a Fortress to a Prison--"Remember the Poor Prisoners"--Relics of Early Times--St. M...

London's Chief Sanctuary of Religion--The Site of St. Paul's--The Earliest authenticated Church there--The Shrine of Erkenwald--St. Paul's Burnt and Rebuilt--It becomes the Scen...

The Rebuilding of St. Paul's--Ill Treatment of its Architect--Cost of the Present Fabric--Royal Visitors--The First Grave in St. Paul's--Monuments in St. Paul's--Nelson's Funera...

St Paul's Churchyard and Literature--Queen Anne's Statue--Execution of a Jesuit in St. Paul's Churchyard--Miracle of the "Face in the Straw"--Wilkinson's Story--Newbery the Book...

Its Successions of Traders--The House of Longman--Goldsmith at Fault--Tarleton, Actor, Host, and Wit--Ordinaries around St. Paul's: their Rules and Customs--The "Castle"--"Dolly...

Baron Fitzwalter and King John--The Duties of the Chief Bannerer of London--An Old-fashioned Punishment for Treason--Shakesperian Allusions to Baynard's "Castle"--Doctors' Commo...

Early Homes of the Heralds--The Constitution of the Heralds' College--Garter King at Arms--Clarencieux and Norroy--The Pursuivants--Duties and Privileges of Heralds--Good, Bad,...

Ancient Reminiscences of Cheapside--Stormy Days therein--The Westchepe Market--Something about the Pillory--The Cheapside Conduits--The Goldsmiths' Monopoly--Cheapside Market--G...

A Tournament in Cheapside--The Queen in Danger--The Street in Holiday Attire--The Earliest Civic Show on Record--The Water Processions--A Lord Mayor's Show in Queen Elizabeth's...

Grim Chronicles of Cheapside--Cheapside Cross--Puritanical Intolerance--The Old London Conduits--Mediæval Water-carriers--The Church of St. Mary-le-Bow--"Murder will out"--The "...

The King's Exchange--Friday Street and the Poet Chaucer--The Wednesday Club in Friday Street--William Paterson, Founder of The Bank of England--How Easy it is to Redeem the Nati...

Goldsmiths' Hall--Its Early Days--Tailors and Goldsmiths at Loggerheads--The Goldsmiths' Company's Charters and Records--Their Great Annual Feast--They receive Queen Margaret of...

Wood Street--Pleasant Memories--St. Peter's in Chepe--St. Michael's and St. Mary Staining--St. Alban's, Wood Street--Some Quaint Epitaphs--Wood Street Compter and the Hapless Pr...

Milk Street--Sir Thomas More--The City of London School--St. Mary Magdalen--Honey Lane--All Hallows' Church--Lawrence Lane and St. Lawrence Church--Ironmonger Lane and Mercers'...

The Original Guildhall--A fearful Civic Spectacle--The Value of Land increased by the Great Fire--Guildhall as it was and is--The Statues over the South Porch--Dance's Disfigure...

The First Mayor of London--Portrait of him--Presentation to the King--An Outspoken Mayor--Sir N. Farindon--Sir William Walworth--Origin of the prefix "Lord"--Sir Richard Whittin...

John Wilkes: his Birth and Parentage--The _North Briton_--Duel with Martin--His Expulsion--Personal Appearance--Anecdotes of Wilkes--A Reason for making a Speech--Wilkes and the...

The Early Home of the London Poulterers--Its Mysterious Desertion--Noteworthy Sites in the Poultry--The Birthplace of Tom Hood, Senior--A Pretty Quarrel at the Rose Tavern--A Co...

The Old Jewry--Early Settlements of Jews in London and Oxford--Bad Times for the Israelites--Jews' Alms--A King in Debt--Rachel weeping for her Children--Jewish Converts--Wholes...

The Palace of the Lord Mayor--The Old Stocks' Market--A Notable Statue of Charles II.--The Mansion House described--The Egyptian Hall--Works of Art in the Mansion House--The Ele...

A Glance at Saxon London--The Three Component Parts of Saxon London--The First Saxon Bridge over the Thames--Edward the Confessor at Westminster--City Residences of the Saxon Ki...

The Jews and the Lombards--The Goldsmiths the first London Bankers--William Paterson, Founder of the Bank of England--Difficult Parturition of the Bank Bill--Whig Principles of...

The Kingdom of Change Alley--A William III. Reuter--Stock Exchange Tricks--Bulls and Bears--Thomas Guy, the Hospital Founder--Sir John Barnard, the "Great Commoner"--Sampson Gid...

The Greshams--Important Negotiations--Building of the Old Exchange--Queen Elizabeth visits it--Its Milliners' Shops--A Resort for Idlers--Access of Nuisances--The various Walks...

The Second Exchange on Fire--Chimes Extraordinary--Incidents of the Fire--Sale of Salvage--Designs for the New Building--Details of the Present Exchange--The Ambulatory, or Merc...

Halls of the Drapers' Company--Throgmorton Street and its many Fair Houses--Drapers and Wool Merchants--The Drapers in Olden Times--Milborne's Charity--Dress and Livery--Electio...

George Robins--His Sale of the Lease of the Olympic--St. Bartholomew's Church--The Lombards and Lombard Street--William de la Pole--Gresham--The Post Office, Lombard Street--Ale...

The Centre of Roman London--St. Benet Fink--The Monks of St. Anthony--The Merchant Taylors--Stow, Antiquary and Tailor--A Magnificent Roll--The Good Deeds of the Merchant Taylor...

London Stone and Jack Cade--Southwark Bridge--Old City Churches--The Salters' Company's Hall, and the Salters' Company's History--Oxford House--Salters' Banquets--Salters' Hall...

Budge Row--Cordwainers' Hall--St. Swithin's Church--Founders' Hall--The Oldest Street in London--Tower Royal and the Wat Tyler Mob--The Queen's Wardrobe--St. Antholin's Church--...

The Monument--How shall it be fashioned?--Commemorative Inscriptions--The Monument's Place in History--Suicides and the Monument--The Great Fire of London--On the Top of the Mon...

London Citizens in the Reigns of Edward III. and Richard II.--The Knight--The Young Bachelor--The Yeoman--The Prioress--The Monk who goes a Hunting--The Merchant--The Poor Clerk...

Buried London--Our Early Relations--The Founder of London--A distinguished Visitor at Romney Marsh--Cæsar re-visits the "Town on the Lake"--The Borders of Old London--Cæsar fail...

Temple Bar was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren, in 1670-72, soon after the Great Fire had swept away eighty-nine London churches, four out of the seven City gates, 460 streets,...

Frays in Fleet Street--Chaucer and the Friar--The Duchess of Gloucester doing Penance for Witchcraft--Riots between Law Students and Citizens--'Prentice Riots--Oates in the Pill...

Dr. Johnson in Ambuscade at Temple Bar--The First Child--Dryden and Black Will--Rupert's Jewels--Telson's Bank--The Apollo Club at the "Devil"--"Old Sir Simon the King"--"Mull S...

The "Green Dragon"--Tompion and Pinchbeck--The _Record_--St. Bride's and its Memories--_Punch_ and his Contributors--The _Dispatch_--The _Daily Telegraph_--The "Globe Tavern" an...

crossing), he carried round a basket of nuts and fruit to places of public entertainment, so that in time he laid by a considerable amount of money. Brutus Billy was brimful of...

The Kit-Kat Club--The Toast for the Year--Little Lady Mary--Drunken John Sly--Garth's Patients--Club removed to Barn Elms--Steele at the "Trumpet"--Rogues' Lane--Murder--Beggars...

The Asylum for Jewish Converts--The Rolls Chapel--Ancient Monuments--A Speaker Expelled for Bribery--"Remember Cæsar"--Trampling on a Master of the Rolls--Sir William Grant's Od...

Clifford's Inn--Dyer's Chambers--The Settlement after the Great Fire--Peter Wilkins and his Flying Wives--Fetter Lane--Waller's Plot and its Victims--Praise-God Barebone and his...

Removal of the Royal Society from Gresham College--Opposition to Newton--Objections to Removal--The First Catalogue--Swift's jeer at the Society--Franklin's Lightning Conductor...

Dr. Johnson in Bolt Court--His motley Household--His Life there--Still existing--The gallant "Lumber Troop"--Reform Bill Riots--Sir Claudius Hunter--Cobbett in Bolt Court--The B...

The First Lucifers--Perkins' Steam Gun--A Link between Shakespeare and Shoe Lane--Florio and his Labours--"Cogers' Hall"--Famous "Cogers"--A Saturday Night's Debate--Gunpowder A...

Worthy Mr. Fisher--Lamb's Wednesday Evenings--Persons one would wish to have seen--Ram Alley--Serjeants' Inn--The _Daily News_--"Memory" Woodfall--A Mug-House Riot--Richardson's...

Origin of the Order of Templars--First Home of the Order--Removal to the Banks of the Thames--Rules of the Order--The Templars at the Crusades, and their Deeds of Valour--Decay...

The Temple Church--Its Restorations--Discoveries of Antiquities--The Penitential Cell--Discipline in the Temple--The Tombs of the Templars in the "Round"--William and Gilbert Ma...

The Middle Temple Hall: its Roof, Busts, and Portraits--Manningham's Diary--Fox Hunts in Hall--The Grand Revels--Spenser--Sir J. Davis--A Present to a King--Masques and Royal Vi...

Fountain Court and the Temple Fountain--Ruth Pinch--L.E.L.'s Poem--Fig-tree Court--The Inner Temple Library--Paper Buildings--The Temple Gate--Guildford North and Jeffreys--Cowp...

The Present Whitefriars--The Carmelite Convent--Dr. Butts--The Sanctuary--Lord Sanquhar Murders the Fencing-Master--His Trial--Bacon and Yelverton--His Execution--Sir Walter Sco...

Three Norman Fortresses on the Thames' Bank--The Black Parliament--The Trial of Katherine of Arragon--Shakespeare a Blackfriars Manager--The Blackfriars Puritans--The Jesuit Ser...

An Ugly Bridge and "Ye Belle Savage"--A Radical Publisher--The Principal Gate of London--From a Fortress to a Prison--"Remember the Poor Prisoners"--Relics of Early Times--St. M...

London's chief Sanctuary of Religion--The Site of St. Paul's--The Earliest authenticated Church there--The Shrine of Erkenwald--St. Paul's Burnt and Rebuilt--It becomes the Scen...

The Rebuilding of St. Paul's--Ill Treatment of its Architect--Cost of the Present Fabric--Royal Visitors--The First Grave in St. Paul's--Monuments in St. Paul's--Nelson's Funera...

St. Paul's Churchyard and Literature--Queen Anne's Statue--Execution of a Jesuit in St. Paul's Churchyard--Miracle of the "Face in the Straw"--Wilkinson's Story--Newbery the Boo...

Its Successions of Traders--The House of Longman--Goldsmith at Fault--Tarleton, Actor, Host, and Wit--Ordinaries around St. Paul's: their Rules and Customs--The "Castle"--"Dolly...

Baron Fitzwalter and King John--The Duties of the Chief Bannerer of London--An Old-fashioned Punishment for Treason--Shakespearian Allusions to Baynard's Castle--Doctors' Common...

Early Homes of the Heralds--The Constitution of the Herald's College--Garter King at Arms--Clarencieux and Norroy--The Pursuivants--Duties and Privileges of Heralds--Good, Bad,...

Ancient Reminiscences of Cheapside--Stormy Days therein--The Westchepe Market--Something about the Pillory--The Cheapside Conduits--The Goldsmiths' Monopoly--Cheapside Market--G...

A Tournament in Cheapside--The Queen in Danger--The Street in Holiday Attire--The Earliest Civic Show on record--The Water Processions--A Lord Mayor's Show in Queen Elizabeth's...

Grim Chronicles of Cheapside--Cheapside Cross--Puritanical Intolerance--The Old London Conduits--Mediæval Water-carriers--The Church of St. Mary-le-Bow--"Murder will out"--The "...

The King's Exchange--Friday Street and the Poet Chaucer--The Wednesday Club in Friday Street--William Paterson, Founder of the Bank of England--How Easy it is to Redeem the Nati...

Goldsmiths' Hall--Its Early Days--Tailors and Goldsmiths at Loggerheads--The Goldsmiths' Company's Charters and Records--Their Great Annual Feast--They receive Queen Margaret of...

Wood Street--Pleasant Memories--St. Peter's in Chepe--St. Michael's and St. Mary Staining--St. Alban's, Wood Street--Some Quaint Epitaphs--Wood Street Compter and the Hapless Pr...

Milk Street--Sir Thomas More--The City of London School--St. Mary Magdalen--Honey Lane--All Hallows' Church--Lawrence Lane and St. Lawrence Church--Ironmonger Lane and Mercers'...

The Original Guildhall--A fearful Civic Spectacle--The Value of Land increased by the Great Fire--Guildhall as it was and is--The Statues over the South Porch--Dance's Disfigure...

The First Mayor of London--Portrait of him--Presentation to the King--An Outspoken Mayor--Sir N. Farindon--Sir William Walworth--Origin of the prefix "Lord"--Sir Richard Whittin...

they have expunged the record of a judicial proceeding." Soon after this act, on the motion of Welbore Ellis, the mayor was committed to the Tower. The people were furious; Lord...

John Wilkes: his Birth and Parentage--The _North Briton_--Duel with Martin--His Expulsion--Personal Appearance--Anecdotes of Wilkes--A Reason for making a Speech--Wilkes and the...

The Early Home of the London Poulterers--Its Mysterious Desertion--Noteworthy Sites in the Poultry--The Birthplace of Tom Hood, Senior--A Pretty Quarrel at the Rose Tavern--A Co...

The Old Jewry--Early Settlements of Jews in London and Oxford--Bad Times for the Israelites--Jews' Alms--A King in Debt--Rachel weeping for her Children--Jewish Converts--Wholes...

The Palace of the Lord Mayor--The old Stocks' Market--A Notable Statue of Charles II.--The Mansion House described--The Egyptian Hall--Works of Art in the Mansion House--The Ele...

A Glance at Saxon London--The Three Component Parts of Saxon London--The First Saxon Bridge over the Thames--Edward the Confessor at Westminster--City Residences of the Saxon Ki...

The Jews and the Lombards--The Goldsmiths the first London Bankers--William Paterson, Founder of the Bank of England--Difficult Parturition of the Bank Bill--Whig Principles of...

The Kingdom of Change Alley--A William III. Reuter--Stock Exchange Tricks--Bulls and Bears--Thomas Guy, the Hospital Founder--Sir John Barnard, the "Great Commoner"--Sampson Gid...

The Greshams--Important Negotiations--Building of the Old Exchange--Queen Elizabeth visits it--Its Milliners' Shops--A Resort for Idlers--Access of Nuisances--The various Walks...

The Second Exchange on Fire--Chimes Extraordinary--Incidents of the Fire--Sale of Salvage--Designs for the New Building--Details of the Present Exchange--The Ambulatory, or Merc...

Of Lothbury, a street on the north side of the Bank of England, Stow says: "The Street of Lothberie, Lathberie, or Loadberie (for by all those names have I read it), took the na...

Halls of the Drapers' Company--Throgmorton Street and its many Fair Houses--Drapers and Wool Merchants--The Drapers in Olden Times--Milborne's Charity--Dress and Livery--Electio...

George Robins--His Sale of the Lease of the Olympic--St. Bartholomew's Church--The Lombards and Lombard Street--William de la Pole--Gresham--The Post Office, Lombard Street--Ale...

The Centre of Roman London--St. Benet Fink--The Monks of St. Anthony--The Merchant Taylors--Stow, Antiquary and Tailor--A Magnificent Roll--The Good Deeds of the Merchant Taylor...

London Stone and Jack Cade--Southwark Bridge--Old City Churches--The Salters' Company's Hall, and the Salters' Company's History--Oxford House--Salters' Banquets--Salters' Hall...

Budge Row--Cordwainers' Hall--St. Swithin's Church--Founders' Hall--The Oldest Street in London--Tower Royal and the Wat Tyler Mob--The Queen's Wardrobe--St. Antholin's Church--...

The Monument--How shall it be fashioned?--Commemorative Inscriptions--The Monument's Place in History--Suicides and the Monument--The Great Fire of London--On the Top of the Mon...

The London of Chaucer's time (the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II.) was a scattered town, spotted as thick with gardens as a common meadow is with daisies. Hovels stood che...