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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

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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

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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

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CHAPTER IV.

London Bridge Wharf—Billingsgate—Coal Exchange—Custom House—St. Dunstan’s Church—Mark-lane—Church of Allhallows Barking—East India House

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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

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CHAPTER VI.

London Docks—Emigrants—Canterbury colonists—London sempstresses—Emigration

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CHAPTER VII.

Whitechapel—Row of butchers’ shops—Articles sold in them—Rag Fair—Church of St. Catherine Cree—Crosby Hall—Four Swans’ Inn

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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

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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

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CHAPTER X.

Smithfield Market—Drovers and their dogs—Smithfield butchers—Countrymen in Smithfield

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CHAPTER XI.

Newgate—Scenes at executions

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CHAPTER XII.

Fleet Street—Whitefriars—St. Bride’s Church—Description of London Lodging-houses—St. Dunstan’s Church—the Cock Tavern

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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

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CHAPTER XIV.

Westminster Abbey—Monuments—Horse-Guards—St. James’s Park—Hyde Park—Regent’s Park—New Parks

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CHAPTER XV.

St. Giles’s—The Rookery—Church of St. Giles’s—Queen Anne’s Bath

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CHAPTER XVI.

London Fog

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CHAPTER XVII.

The Old Borough of Southwark—St. James’s Church—Tabard Inn

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CHAPTER XVIII.

Street Amusements—Punch and Judy—Organ-boys and monkeys—Fat boys—Tumblers—Stilt-dancers—Jack-in-the-green—Guy Fawkes

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CHAPTER XIX.

Spring-time in London

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CHAPTER XX.

London Cemeteries—Ancient mode of burying the dead—Intramural interments—Ravages of the cholera in 1849

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CHAPTER XXI.

Greenwich Park—Old pensioners—Telescopes—Gipsies—Blackheath

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CHAPTER XXII.

Holidays of the London Poor

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