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 Church.....29