London in the Time of the Stuarts

by Walter Besant

CONTENTS

STUART SOVEREIGNS
CHAP.		PAGE
1.	[James I.]	3
2.	[Charles I.]	22
3.	[The City and the Civil War]	53
4.	[The Commonwealth]	64
5.	[The Restoration]	74
6.	[The Reign]	82
7.	[James II.]	103
8.	[William III.]	117
9.	[Queen Anne]	127
RELIGION, GOVERNMENT, AND TRADE
1.	[Religion]	137
2.	[The Church and Dissent]	154
3.	[Superstitions]	159
4.	[Sanctuary]	168
5.	[City Government and Usages]	172
6.	[Trade]	190
7.	[Irish Estates]	206
THE GREAT PLAGUE AND FIRE
1.	[The Plague]	215
2.	[Plague and Medicine]	233
3.	[Aspect of the City before the Fire]	240
4.	[The Fire of London]	244
5.	[Contemporary Evidence]	258
6.	[London after the Fire]	269
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
1.	[Food and Drink]	287
2.	[Dress and Manners]	298
3.	[Weddings and Funerals]	308
4.	[Places of Resort]	311
5.	[Theatre and Art]	318
6.	[Sports and Amusements]	328
7.	[Coaches]	338
8.	[Punishment and Crime]	345
9.	[Public Morality]	355
10.	[General Notes]	359
APPENDICES
1.	[The Court]	365
2.	[List of London Clergy ejected]	371
3.	[Almshouses]	374
4.	[Composition of the Lords and Commons]	376
5.	[Enlargement of the Streets]	377
6.	[The New Buildings of London]	380
7.	[Gardens]	383
[INDEX]		387
[KEY TO OGILBY AND MORGAN’S MAP OF LONDON, 1677]		397

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