Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
[I.]The London into Which Milton Was Born[11]
[II.]Milton’s Life on Bread Street[42]
[III.]Milton at Cambridge[57]
[IV.]Milton at Horton[78]
[V.]Milton on the Continent.—In St.Bride’s Churchyard.—At Aldersgate Street.—The Barbican.—Holborn.—Spring Gardens[85]
[VI.]Milton at Whitehall.—Scotland Yard.—PettyFrance.—Bartholomew Close.—High Holborn.—Jewin Street.—Artillery Walk.[101]
[VII.]Chalfont St. Giles.—Artillery Walk.[112]
[VIII.]The Tower.—Tower Hill[126]
[IX.]All Hallows, Barking.—St. Olave’s.—St.Catherine Cree’s.—St. Andrew Undershaft[143]
[X.]Crosby Hall.—St. Helen’s.—St.Ethelburga’s.—St. Giles’s, Cripplegate[164]
[XI.]Gresham College.—Austin Friars.—Guildhall.—St.Mary’s, Aldermanbury.—Christ’s Hospital.—St. Sepulchre’s.[184]
[XII.]Charterhouse.—St. John’sGate.—St. Bartholomew’s.—Smithfield.[202]
[XIII.]Ely Place.—Inns ofCourt.—Temple Church.—Covent Garden.—Somerset House[221]
[XIV.]Whitehall.—Westminster Abbey[240]
[XV.]The Precincts of the Abbey.—WestminsterPalace.—St. Margaret’s[264]
[XVI.]Lambeth Palace.—St. Saviour’s.—London Bridge[277]
[XVII.]The Plague.—The Fire.—Wren.—London Rebuilt[293]

List of Illustrations

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John Milton[Frontispiece]
Old St. Paul’s Cathedral[47]
Christ’s College, Cambridge[62]
Part of Whitehall[101]
In Milton’s House at Chalfont St. Giles[113]
St. Catherine Cree Church in 1736[157]
Church of St. Andrew Undershaft in 1737[163]
Church of St. Giles Cripplegate in 1737[178]
The Charterhouse[203]
St. John’s Gate, Clerkenwell[209]
Somerset House[239]
Westminster Abbey as Milton Knew It[250]
Westminster Hall[274]
In Lambeth Palace[280]
The Royal Exchange[295]
Bow Steeple, Cheapside[304]