CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
[I.]Chelsea[1]
The Chelsea of Sir Thomas More—Crosby Hall—Cheyne
Walk—Sandford Manor—Chelsea
Hospital—Buns—Chelsea Old Church—The
Physic Garden—Ranelagh.
[II.]Knightsbridge to Soho[24]
Tattersall’s—Ely House—London Museum—St.
James’s Church—The Haymarket Shoppe—A
King in Soho.
[III.]Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street[38]
The Strand—Charing Cross—Water Gates—The
Adelphi—St. Clement Danes—Savoy
Chapel—Prince Henry’s Room—The Temple.
[IV.]Round about the Tower[68]
Roman Baths—London Stone—Great Tower
Street—All Hallows, Barking—St. Olave’s—Roman
Wall—Port of London Authority—Trinity
House—The Crooked Billet—The
Tower.
[V.]Round about Cheapside[84]
Bow Church—The Old Mansion House—The
Old Watling Restaurant—37, Cheapside—Wood
Street—The City Companies—The Guildhall.
[VI.]Round about Holborn[103]
Tyburn—Staple Inn—Tooks Court—Gray’s
Inn—Hatton Garden—Ely Place—St. Sepulchre’s—Panier
Alley.
[VII.]Down Chancery Lane[117]
Lincoln’s Inn Fields—Soane Museum—Lincoln’s
Inn—Record Office—Moravian Chapel—Nevills
Court—Clifford’s Inn.
[VIII.]The Charterhouse and St. Bartholomew’s[137]
Pye Corner—St. Bartholomew’s the Great—St.
John’s Gate—The Charterhouse.
[IX.]A Stroll in Whitehall and Westminster[158]
Whitehall—United Services Museum—The
Abbey Cloisters—The Chapter House—Ashburnham
House—Jerusalem Chamber—St.
Margaret’s.
[X.]Museums[172]
British Museum—Foundling Hospital—South
Kensington—Wallace—Geffrye.
[XI.]Parks[197]
Hyde Park—Kensington Gardens—Green
Park—St. James’s Park—Regent’s Park—Battersea—Kew.
[Index][217]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
[Cheyne Row][Frontispiece5]
[Crosby Hall][5]
[The Old Snuff House] [facing 34]
[Water Gate, York House] [facing 46]
[St. Clement Danes][51]
[Dr. Johnson’s Pew, St. Clement Danes][54]
[The Temple Church, The Round][61]
[London Stone, Cannon Street][71]
[The Tower of London. Byward Tower] [facing 76]
[The Tower of London][79]
[Traitors’ Gate, Tower of London][81]
[Guildhall] [facing 96]
[Staple Inn][106]
[Gray’s Inn Hall][108]
[Lincoln’s Inn] [facing 117]
[Lincoln’s Inn Gateway][119]
[Rahere’s Tomb in St. Bartholomew’s Church][142]
[Church of St. Bartholomew the Great][145]
[St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell][149]
[The Charterhouse from the Square] [facing 154]
[United Services’ Museum] [facing 160]
[Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey][163]
[Foundling Hospital][181]
[Peter Pan Statue in Kensington Gardens][205]

“Sir, the happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.”

Dr. Johnson