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| [Charles I.] | Frontispiece |
| [James I.] | 3 |
| [Triumphal Arch erected at the time of the Coronation of James I.] | 4 |
| [The Gunpowder Conspirators] | 7 |
| [Gunpowder Treason] | 8 |
| [King James I. Entertaining the Spanish Ambassador at Whitehall] | 10 |
| [Henry, Prince of Wales] | 11 |
| [A Facsimile of the Order for the Burning of the Book of Sports] | 14 |
| [The Destruction of Cheapside Cross and the Burning of the Book of Sports] | 16 |
| [Charles I.] | 22 |
| [Cheapside—Queen Henrietta Maria’s Entry into London] | 23 |
| [Henrietta Maria] | 26 |
| [George Villiers, First Duke (Second Creation) of Buckingham] | 30 |
| [King Charles I. Thrown Overboard] | 36 |
| [“England’s Miraculous Preservation Emblematically Described”] | 38 |
| [“The True Maner of the Execution of Thomas Earle of Strafford” ] | 39 |
| [Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford] | 40 |
| [A Plan of London and Westminster after the Fire] | 41 |
| [A Soldier of the Time of King James the First armed with a Caliver] | 45 |
| [The Trial of King Charles I.] | Facing page 46 |
| [Sir Thomas Fairfax and his Wife] | 48 |
| [Trial of King Charles I.] | 49 |
| [Execution of Charles I.] | 51 |
| [Prince Rupert] | 60 |
| [Cromwell Dissolving Parliament] | 65 |
| [Hackney Coachman] | 66 |
| [Oliver Cromwell] | 67 |
| [General Monk, First Duke of Albemarle] | 69 |
| [View of General Monk’s House in Grub Street] | 70 |
| [Letter from General Monk to the Speaker of Parliament (facsimile)] | 71 |
| [Mob at Temple Bar] | 74 |
| [The Coronation of Charles II. in Westminster Abbey] | Facing page 76 |
| [Charles II.] | 77 |
| [Incidents in the Rebellion of the Fifth Monarchy Men under Thomas Venner, and the Execution of their Leaders] | 79 |
| [Hungerford Market, near York Buildings, Strand] | Facing page 88 |
| [“The Solemn Mock Procession of the Pope, Cardinalls, Jesuits, Fryers, etc., through ye City of London”] | 90 |
| [Lord Mayor and Aldermen] | 93 |
| [Nell Gwynne] | 101 |
| [The Coronation of James II. in Westminster Abbey] | Facing page 102 |
| [Titus Oates Flogged at the Cart Tail] | 103 |
| [Titus Oates in the Pillory] | 104 |
| [Duke of Monmouth] | 105 |
| [The Execution of Monmouth] | 106 |
| [James II.] | 109 |
| [The Seven Bishops on the Way to the Tower] | 111 |
| [Parliament in the reign of James II.] | 112 |
| [Judge Jeffreys] | 113 |
| [The Arrest of Jeffreys] | 115 |
| [Entry of the Prince of Orange into London] | Facing page 116 |
| [William III.] | 119 |
| [Mary II.] | 120 |
| [London Street Cries] | 123 |
| [Queen Anne] | 127 |
| [Thanksgiving Service in St. Paul’s] | 129 |
| [Henry Sacheverell, D.D.] | 132 |
| [St. Paul’s Cross] | 138 |
| [William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury] | 140 |
| [A Trimmer] | 142 |
| [Execution of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury] | 143 |
| [John Bunyan’s Meeting-house, Zoar-street, Gravel-lane, Southwark] | 154 |
| [Touching for King’s Evil] | 165 |
| [St. Bartholomew’s] | 170 |
| [Warwick House, Cloth Fair] | 173 |
| [Craven House, Drury Lane] | 174 |
| [Arundel House] | 175 |
| [Cornhill, London] | 180 |
| [Watchman—Bellman] | 181 |
| [The Apprentices’ Enforced Toilet] | Facing page 188 |
| [Custom House] | 191 |
| [“The Soveraigne of the Seas”] | 192 |
| [The First Royal Exchange—Exterior and Interior] | Facing page 196 |
| [Coins of the Period] | Facing page 200 |
| [Old Grocers’ Hall used for Bank of England] | 201 |
| [A Perspective View of the Bank of England] | 203 |
| [Paul Pindar’s House] | Facing page 211 |
| [Lord Craven] | 219 |
| [Rescued from the Plague] | Facing page 220 |
| [Samuel Pepys] | 221 |
| [Daniel Defoe] | 224 |
| [Part of Cheapside with the Cross, etc., as they Appeared in 1660] | 241 |
| [The Great Fire of London] | 245 |
| [The Cathedral Church of St. Paul as it was before ye Fire of London] | 247 |
| [A View of the Monument of London, in Remembrance of the Dreadful Fire in 1666] | 249 |
| [A Plan of the City and Liberties of London after the Dreadful Conflagration in the Year 1666] | Between pages 252 and 253 |
| [Sir Christopher Wren] | 254 |
| [Sir John Evelyn’s Plan for Rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666] | 255 |
| [Sir Christopher Wren’s Plan for Rebuilding the City of London after the Dreadful Conflagration in 1666] | 255 |
| [John Evelyn] | 259 |
| [The Great Fire of London] | Facing page 260 |
| [Temple Bar, the West side] | 263 |
| [London after the Fire] | Between pages 268 and 269 |
| [Somerset Palace, 1650] | 270 |
| [Durham House, Salisbury House, and Worcester House] | 271 |
| [The Charter House Hospital] | 273 |
| [Newgate, 1650] | 277 |
| [Remains of Prince Rupert’s Palace, Beech Street] | 279 |
| [St. Ethelburga within Bishopsgate] | 281 |
| [Specimen of Armorial Architecture] | 282 |
| [House in Great St. Helen’s formerly the Residence of Sir Jno. Lawrance, Lord Mayor of London A.D. 1665] | 288 |
| [Tavern Scene] | 292 |
| [Two Costume Portraits] | 298 |
| [An English Lady of Quality—Lady of the Court of England] | 300 |
| [Citizen’s Wife—Citizen’s Daughter] | 301 |
| [English Gentlewoman—Noble Gentlewoman of England] | 303 |
| [Maypole Dance in the Time of Charles I.] | 305 |
| [Merchant’s Daughter—Merchant’s Wife of London] | 306 |
| [Procession in the City] | 306 |
| [“Corpe Bearer”] | 309 |
| [St. James’s Park] | 313 |
| [Interior of St. Paul’s] | 316 |
| [Inside of the Duke’s Theatre, Lincoln’s Inn Fields] | 320 |
| [Inside of the Red Bull Playhouse] | 322 |
| [Musical Instruments of the Period] | Facing page 326 |
| [Sports of the Period] | Facing page 328 |
| [Dress of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London in 1640] | 333 |
| [Coaches in St. James’s Park] | 339 |