Category: History - British
EVERY chronicler of London history who can lay claim to be called an antiquarian, from Fitzstephen, Stow, and Pennant, to the Rev. W. J. Loftie and Sir Walter Besant, has tried to gather up the fragmentary evidence which from time to time has come to light, and to form some pi...
EVERY chronicler of London history who can lay claim to be called an antiquarian, from Fitzstephen, Stow, and Pennant, to the Rev. W. J. Loftie and Sir Walter Besant, has tried...
2. CHAPTER II“Gone are all the barons bold, Gone are all the knights and squires, Gone the Abbot stern and cold, And the brotherhood of friars; Not a name Remains to fame, From those moulder...
3. CHAPTER III“The Saints are there—the Living Dead, The Mourners glad and strong; The sacred floor their quiet bed, Their beams from every window shed, Their voice in every song.” KEBLE.
4. CHAPTER IV.I HAVE already referred, in Chapter I., to the different areas occupied by the City of London at different periods. But the City, as we know it now, averages, roughly speaking,...
5. CHAPTER VTHERE are few spots in England more peaceful, more suggestive, and more hallowed than our village churchyards, when they are treated with that reverence which is their due. I ha...
6. CHAPTER VICONSIDERING that we have records of the visitation of London by direful plagues and pestilences at frequent intervals during ten centuries, and that these visitations always led...
7. CHAPTER VIIFOREMOST amongst the burial-grounds devoted especially to Dissenters is Bunhill Fields,—not the New Bunhill Fields in Newington, nor Little Bunhill Fields in Islington, nor the...
8. CHAPTER VIIIIT is only natural that in London, to which so many from other countries have fled, and where so many foreigners have lived, worked, and died, there should be evidences left of...
9. CHAPTER IXWHEN the Greyfriars, or Christ’s Hospital, was set aside for “poor children,” and Bridewell for “the correction of vagabonds,” St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City and St. Tho...
10. CHAPTER XTHERE are two chief senses in which the word “private” may be taken. It denotes what belongs to a particular person, family, or institution apart from the general public—thus we...
11. CHAPTER XI“These laugh at Jeat, and Marble put for signs, To sever the good fellowship of dust, And spoil the meeting. What shall point out them, When they shall bow, and kneel, and fall...
12. CHAPTER XII“Some young children sported among the tombs, and hid from each other, with laughing faces. They had an infant with them, and had laid it down asleep upon a child’s grave, in a...
13. CHAPTER XIII“With thy rude ploughshare, Death, turn up the sod, And spread the furrow for the seed we sow; This is the field and acre of our God, This is the place where human harvests grow...
14. CHAPTER XIVI ACKNOWLEDGE a hesitation in writing this chapter, because there are many people who feel very strongly upon the subject of the disposal of the dead, and whose feelings I wish...
15. PART IV.56. [Sidenote: A.D. 1885. Board to be the authority to enforce the Disused Burial-Grounds Act, 1884.]The Board shall be and they are hereby constituted the authority for prevent...
16. CHAPTER 32An Act for extending certain Provisions of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts, 1877 and 1881, with Amendments, to Sanitary Districts throughout England, Wales, and Ireland; and f...