CONTENTS
Walter Besant
PART I
THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON
CHAP.
PAGE
1.
The Records
3
2.
The Charter of Henry the Second
8
3.
The Commune
11
4.
The Wards
24
5.
The Factions of the City
35
6.
The Century of Uncertain Steps
66
7.
After the Commune
72
8.
The City Companies
108
PART II
ECCLESIASTICAL LONDON
1.
The Religious Life
127
2.
Church Furniture
159
3.
The Calendar of the Year
164
4.
Hermits and Anchorites
170
5.
Pilgrimage
179
6.
Ordeal
191
7.
Sanctuary
201
8.
Miracle and Mystery Plays
213
9.
Superstitions, etc.
218
10.
Order of Burial
223
PART III
RELIGIOUS HOUSES
1.
General
227
2.
St. Martin’s-le-Grand
234
3.
The Priory of the Holy Trinity, or Christ Church Priory
241
4.
The Charter House
245
5.
Elsyng Spital
248
6.
St. Bartholomew
250
7.
St. Thomas of Acon
263
8.
St. Anthony’s
268
9.
The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem
270
10.
The Clerkenwell Nunnery
284
11.
St. John the Baptist, or Holiwell Nunnery
286
12.
Bermondsey Abbey
288
13.
St. Mary Overies
297
14.
St. Thomas’s Hospital
309
15.
St. Giles-in-the-Fields
311
16.
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