CHAPTER I. |
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Ancient London—the dawn of history—Roman London—Saxon London—old London Bridge—remains of ancient London—old roads and streets | 17 |
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 |
CHAPTER III. |
Cheapside—London thoroughfares—Southwark Bridge—Whittington—Bucklersbury—Walbrook—Roman remains found in Cannon-street—London Stone—The Mansion House—Lombard-street—London bankers—Bankers’ clerks—The Monument | 56 |
CHAPTER IV. |
London Bridge Wharf—Billingsgate—Coal Exchange—Custom House—St. Dunstan’s Church—Mark-lane—Church of Allhallows Barking—East India House | 78 |
CHAPTER V. |
The Tower—The White Tower—Hentzner’s description of the Tower in the reign of Queen Elizabeth—Anecdotes of lions—The Crown Jewels—The Armoury—Execution of Lady Jane Grey—Prisoners in the Tower—Regulations of the Tower | 103 |
CHAPTER VI. |
London Docks—Emigrants—Canterbury colonists—London sempstresses—Emigration | 126 |
CHAPTER VII. |
Whitechapel—Row of butchers’ shops—Articles sold in them—Rag Fair—Church of St. Catherine Cree—Crosby Hall—Four Swans’ Inn | 141 |
CHAPTER VIII. |
Guildhall—Lord Mayor’s Banquet—Lord Mayor’s Show—Description of, in time of Charles II.—Duties of the Lord Mayor—Gog and Magog—The Sheriff’s Court—Monuments in Guildhall—St. Giles’s, Cripplegate | 155 |
CHAPTER IX. |
Christ’s Hospital—Foundation of, by Edward VI.—Description of supper in—Description of Christ’s Hospital as it was two hundred years ago—Christ’s Church | 166 |
CHAPTER X. |
Smithfield Market—Drovers and their dogs—Smithfield butchers—Countrymen in Smithfield | 174 |
CHAPTER XI. |
Newgate—Scenes at executions | 183 |
CHAPTER XII. |
Fleet Street—Whitefriars—St. Bride’s Church—Description of London Lodging-houses—St. Dunstan’s Church—the Cock Tavern | 191 |
CHAPTER XIII. |
Church of St. Clement’s Danes—The Strand May-pole—Church of St. Mary-le-Strand—Somerset House—Church of the Savoy—The Adelphi—Arches at the Adelphi—Covent-Garden Market—Church of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden | 201 |
CHAPTER XIV. |
Westminster Abbey—Monuments—Horse-Guards—St. James’s Park—Hyde Park—Regent’s Park—New Parks | 217 |
CHAPTER XV. |
St. Giles’s—The Rookery—Church of St. Giles’s—Queen Anne’s Bath | 229 |
CHAPTER XVI. |
London Fog | 243 |
CHAPTER XVII. |
The Old Borough of Southwark—St. James’s Church—Tabard Inn | 249 |
CHAPTER XVIII. |
Street Amusements—Punch and Judy—Organ-boys and monkeys—Fat boys—Tumblers—Stilt-dancers—Jack-in-the-green—Guy Fawkes | 254 |
CHAPTER XIX. |
Spring-time in London | 262 |
CHAPTER XX. |
London Cemeteries—Ancient mode of burying the dead—Intramural interments—Ravages of the cholera in 1849 | 269 |
CHAPTER XXI. |
Greenwich Park—Old pensioners—Telescopes—Gipsies—Blackheath | 283 |
CHAPTER XXII. |
Holidays of the London Poor | 293 |