The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley

First Edition, May 1904. Second Editon, August 1905. Third Edition, October 1909.

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To the Memory

OF A LIFE-LONG FRIEND

DANBY PALMER FRY

(late Legal Adviser to the Local Government Board)

I dedicate this little book as a slight expression of the debt of gratitude I owe to him, and of the great loss I, in common with all his friends, have suffered by his death.

I especially wish to associate his honoured name with this book because he took the greatest interest in its evolution, and I have had the benefit of his acumen and wide knowledge in the consideration of most of the subjects discussed in its pages.

H. B. W.

PREFACE

‘History! What is history but the science which teaches us to see the throbbing life of the present in the throbbing life of the past.’—Jessopp’s Coming of the Friars, p. 178.