Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present

by Thomas Miller

INDEX.

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Z]

Abercrombie, [36].
Adelphi, by whom built, [205];
on what ground built, [205];
connected with it Lady Jane Grey, [206];
neighbourhood of it between Strand and river, [206];
to what purposes used, [207];
descriptive notes of, [208],
descriptive notes of neighbourhood in old times, [208].
Addle-hill, [37].
Aedd the Great, [18].
Aldgate, [26].
Alfred, [24].
Algigiva, [201].
Allhallows Church, [76].
Ancient bridge, [25];
only highway to Kent and Surrey, [25];
by what parties traversed at different times, [25].
Ancient lamp, [49].
Ancient names of headlands and harbours, hills and valleys, [18];
endeavour to discover language by, [18], [19];
mixture of sounds in, [19].
Andrew’s-hill, [37];
church and monument on it, [37].
Angel Inn, old, from whence Bishop Hooper was taken to martyrdom, [201];
where situated, [201].
Anthony, St., church of, built by Wren, [54].
Apothecaries’ Hall, [37].
Appearance of spot in ancient times where Westminster stood, [23].
Apsley House, [225].
Augusta, [17].
Bartholomew’s Church, [27].
Bartholomew Fair, [27].
Bartholomew, [79].
Basing-lane, [62];
Roman tessalated pavement discovered in, [62];
extent and composition of pavement, [62];
in what embedded, [63];
building and wall exposed by cutting, [63]; vessels discovered, [63];
circular shaft discovered, [63];
remains of piles discovered, [64];
site of these discoveries that formerly occupied by fortress of Tower Royal, [64].
Baynard’s Castle, [26];
various historical associations connected with detailed in 26 and [27].
Baxter, author of “Saints’ Rest,” where buried, [173].
Ben Jonson, [27].
Bennet’s-hill, [37].
Billingsgate, [79];
free trade in, 500 years ago, [80];
laws connected with fishmongers in, [80];
punishment for infringement of, [80];
stalls in, [80];
houses originating from, [81];
various descriptive notes of, [81], [82];
hawkers connected with, [82];
supplies from, [82];
railways in connexion with, [85];
old Billingsgate pulled down, [85];
new pile erected, [85];
allusion to Mayhew’s work, in connexion with it, [86].
Bird, sculptor, [35].
Bishopsgate-street, [149];
old-fashioned inn in, [153];
details and characteristics of, [153].
Bow Church, old, [54], [55].
Bridge, ancient characteristics of, [24], [25].
Broadway, [37].
Bucklersbury, [60];
descriptive details of, [60].
Canterbury Tales, [250].
Canute, [24].
Carter-lane, [44].
Catherine of Spain, [76].
Cheapside, [56];
effects of it on a countryman, [56];
splendid shops in, [56];
rent paid for, [56];
articles sold in, [56];
difference of London in the present day from that of old, manifested by shops, [57];
various characters described, [57], [58];
accident described, [58];
vehicles described, [58], [59].
Christ’s Hospital, [166];
custom connected with, [166];
allusion to founder of, Edward VI., [166];
monastery of Grey Friars repaired for reception of children, [166];
costume worn by, [167];
Stowe’s account of the origin of Hospital, [167];
Ridley Bishop of London, his connexion with, [167];
Lord Mayor’s connexion with, [168];
picture illustrative of [168];
sum voted by king for relief of hospital, [168];
notices connected with, hospital, [168], [169];
abuses incidental to, [169];
quotation from Illustrated London News of supper given in, [169], [170];
quotation from “London Spy” illustrative of hospital and its approaches, [171];
Christ’s church, [172];
story connected with hospital, [173];
illustrious parties there educated, [173].
Clement Danes, St., why so called, [201];
church of, by whom built, [201];
under whose guidance, [201];
old church, when pulled down, [201];
neighbourhood of, [202];
subjected to London cries, [202];
various ones noticed, [202];
diminution of them, [202];
noise of vehicles one cause of this, [202].
Clement’s Inn, where situated, [201].
Cloth Fair, [27].
Coal Exchange, new, [85], [87];
descriptions connected with the opening of the building quoted from the Illustrated London News, [87], [88], [89], [90];
coloured decorations of, worthy of admiration, [89];
various subjects forming them, [89];
architect of, [90];
builder of, [90];
decorator of, [90];
furnishers of ironwork for, [90];
Roman hypocaust found in connexion with, [90].
Cock Tavern, [200];
Tennyson’s, the poet’s connexion with, [200];
currency connected with, [200].
Coins of conquerors, where lying, [22].
College-hill, descriptive notice of, [59];
name derived from a college founded by Whittington, [59];
who resided there, [60];
Strype referred to, [60].
Country of Sea Cliffs, name of England, [18].
Covent Garden, [209];
flowers collected there in season, [209];
feelings awakened by a walk through it, [210];
images recalled by such, [210];
supplies furnished by, [210];
parties frequenting it, [210];
itinerant dealers connected with, [211];
places in which they grow flowers, [211];
enjoyment afforded to various parties by Covent Garden, [211];
portresses connected with, [211];
their honesty and strength, [211];
characteristics of, [211], [212];
hours at which Covent Garden market is attended, [212];
historical associations, [212];
original name, [212];
belonged to Westminster Abbey, [212];
walk to it a few centuries ago, [212];
walled round within three hundred years, [213];
description of its neighbourhood, [213],
foundations of old convent from which it is named exist still in Mr. Bohn’s house, [213];
Inigo Jones connected with first advances to improvement, [213];
under the direction of the Earl of Bedford, [213];
specimens of the architecture of the period in Lincoln’s Inn, [213];
supply of vegetables in old times, [214];
love of flowers habitual to Londoners, [214];
Henry VIII’s. visit to Shooter’s Hill in illustration of this, [214];
quotation from Illustrated London News describing the church of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, [215].
Coverdale, Miles, associated with earliest printed translation of the Bible, [78].
Crosby-place, [25];
one of the few places in the city where deeds historically recorded were plotted, [149], [150].
Crosby-hall, by whom built, [149],
lease obtained from prioress of convent, [149];
progress of purchaser, [149];
monument of same, [149].
Custom House, where situated, [90];
mention of in the reign of Elizabeth, [91];
long room in, [91];
parade of the quay, [91];
revenue derived from, [91].
Delware, statue of, [37].
Description of street across the Thames, [24].
Descriptive details of Canterbury settlement, [136].
Descriptive details of the borough, [25].
Dispensary poem, cause, and by whom written, [37].
Dissenting ministers, vindication of themselves, [76].
Doctors Commons, [37];
approach to, [37];
feelings of parties passing it, [37];
various parties described, [38], [39];
description and characteristics of, [37], [38], [41], [42], [43], [44];
prerogative and will office, [38];
detailed description of court of arches, [44];
court of faculties and dispensations, [44];
consistory court of the Bishop of London, [44];
high court of Admiralty, [44];
Herald’s College, [44].
Docks, [126];
Blackwall reach, [126];
neighbourhood of Tower, and state of society in, [126];
quotation from “London Spy,” illustrative of the same, [127];
description and characteristics of, [127];
origin of rural cemeteries in connexion with making the docks, [128];
hospital of Queen Matilda demolished, [128];
size of St. Catherine’s and London Docks, [128];
amount of ships capable of containing, [128];
West India Docks, [128];
value deposited in, [128];
wealth of London contained in docks, [128];
cost of walls surrounding, [131];
East India Docks, Blackwall, [131];
mast-house, [131];
time taken in delivering cargo of vessel, [131];
method of doing so, [131];
river robbery, [131];
opposition to docks in consequence of, [131];
also by Trinity House, [131];
difficulties met with in making docks, [131];
emigrants departing from, [132];
descriptive details of, [132], [133], [134];
Canterbury Association in connexion with, [135];
description and characteristics of, [136].
Dowgate, [26].
Eastcheap, [93].
East India House, [96];
where situated, [96];
when built, [96];
purpose of, [96];
court-room in, [96];
ornaments and size of, [96];
Tippoo’s elephant Howdah, [97];
statues of Clive, Hastings, Cornwallis, Coote, Lawrence, and Pococke, [97];
Library and Museum, where contained, [97];
latter is open on Saturdays, [97];
and well repays a visit, [98];
articles contained in, [98];
Tippoo’s Tiger, [98];
Hindoo idols, Chinese curiosities, [98];
description of Ajunta caves in India—copies of which have been lately added to the museum—taken from Illustrated London News, [98].
Edward I., [79].
Edward VI., [168].
Eels, rent of land paid in, [81];
not as good as formerly, [85];
affected by poisonous state of the Thames, [85];
evidence of Mr. Butcher in connexion with, [85].
Egbert, [24].
Elphitt’s dialogues, implements mentioned in, [81].
Emigration, [139].
England, description of at Aed’s landing, [21].
Erkennin, the Saxon, [23].
Etheldred, [24].
Ethelstane, [81].
Ethelwulf, [24].
Fat Ursula, [181];
still lives in the pages of Ben Jonson, [181];
in the same pages is memory kept of Bartholomew fair, [181].
Fenchurch-street, [76].
Fish-street Hill, [76];
monument on, designed by Wren, [77];
height of, [77];
distance from the spot where the fire commenced, [77];
ascent of [77];
interior of column, width of, [77];
suicides committed from, [77];
view from the summit, [77];
characteristics of it, [77].
Fishmongers, ancient, [79];
on what occasion they paraded the city, [79];
in what numbers and order, [79], [80];
manner of selling fish in olden time, [80];
characteristics of those engaged in, [80];
allusions to fishmongers, [87];
by Stowe, quotation, [87].
Fleet-street, [191];
characteristics of its neighbourhood, [191];
central situation of, [191];
Whitefriars in, [192];
alluded to by Sir Walter Scott, [192];
quotation from “London Spy” illustrative of various features connected with it, [192].
Fog, London, time of its occurrence, [243];
nature and characteristics of it, [243];
atmosphere of, [243];
appearance of city in, [243];
variety of accidents occasioned by, [244], [245];
appearance of tavern in fog, [245];
appearance of London at night in fog, [247];
accidents on the river in fog, [248].
Geology, revelations made by, [19];
and discoveries attendant on, [19].
Gerard’s Hall, mentioned by Stowe, [49];
Giant connected with, [49];
tale connected with, [50];
Gisor’s Hall, proper name of, [51];
swept away in the Great Fire, [51].
Gibbs, architect of St. Martin’s portico, [204].
Gracechurch-street, [76];
its conduit mentioned, [76];
pageant erected in to Catharine of Spain, [76];
primitive way of draining mentioned in connexion with, [76];
name changed in Elizabeth’s reign, [76];
ground for omnibuses at present, [76].
Great Fire, date of commencement, [77];
place of likewise, [77];
inscription detailing destruction caused by, made on the monument, [77].
Green Park, [224];
house of Samuel Rogers in it, [224];
parties associating there, [224].
Greenwich, beauty of Park, [283];
description of, [283];
London seen from One-tree Hill in, [283];
appearance of described, [283];
chief beauty of park appears in June, [283];
crowded by visitors, [283];
Observatory, [283];
pensioners, [284];
characteristics of, [285];
various amusements practised, [285];
refreshments, appetite for, and cheapness of, [287];
Gipsies connected with, [288];
characteristics of, [288];
advantages derived from the opening of the park, [288];
historical associations connected with, [288], [291];
Blackheath connected with, [291];
view from, [291];
palace of Eltham seen from, [291];
donkeys to be procured there, [292];
appearance of river from London to Greenwich, [292].
Guildhall, [155];
scarred by great fire, [155];
ancient hall, when erected, [155];
first king who dined there, [155];
historical associations connected with, [155];
descriptive details of the banquet, [156];
and procession attendant, plate, flowers, bill of fare, [157], [158];
description of Charles First’s entertainment, [159], [160], [162];
Lord Mayor’s election, [162];
forms connected with, [162];
heavy duties of office, [162];
amount of letters received by, [162];
crypt of Guildhall, [163];
length of Guildhall, [163];
architecture of, [163];
quotation from “London Spy,” illustrative of giants in Guildhall, [163];
monuments in, [164];
of whom in memory of, [164];
picture in Council Chamber, [164];
subject of, [164];
library, [164];
autograph of Shakspeare in, [164].
Hall’s Chronicle, description of fête, quoted from, [79].
Harold, [24];
notes connected with, [201].
Harrison, William, [76];
connected with pamphlet, [76].
Hastings, [24].
Henry VIII., abuse of consecrated vessels, [168].
History, opening of Anglo-Saxon, applicable to origin of London, [17].
History of the past, [17].
History of our island, [18];
darkness of early part, [18];
first dawning of it by what discovered, [18].
History of life and reign of Elizabeth, [121].
Historical associations connected with houses in Holywell-lane and Wych-street, [208], [209].
Holidays of the London Poor, [293].
Holy Trinity, church of, destroyed by fire, great, [51];
Holy Trinity, prior of, [26].
Honey Island, [18].
Houndsditch, [146].
House connected with Black Prince, [26].
House at the entrance of Whitechapel, description of, [25];
whose residence possibly, [25];
emblems and ornaments on, [25], [26].
House in which Sir Paul Pindar resided, [153].
Hyde Park, [225];
Apsley House, and statue of Achilles, [225];
character of in season, [225];
rural scenery of, [225];
in vicinity of “Tyburn tree,” [225];
Cromwell, Ireton, Bradshaw, in connexion with, [225];
escape of Cromwell in Hyde-park, [225], [226];
Hyde-park when first mentioned, [226];
mustering-ground for “May-day holidays,” [226], [227].
Illustrated London News, office of, where situated, [202].
Importation of fruit and cattle, [139].
Inhabitants of our island, early, very doubtful, [19];
reasons for this, [19].
Ironside, Edmund, [24].
King William-street, statue of William IV. in, [67];
by whom made, [67];
aspect of, [67];
cost of, and by whom voted, [67];
width and beauty of street, [67].
Knight-Rider-street, [44];
descriptive details of, [45].
Labour, thoughts connected with, [139], [140];

waste land in England and Ireland in connexion with, [139];
duty of England in connexion with, [139].
Laud, where beheaded, [148].
Leadenhall-street and market, alluded to by Stowe, [96].
Lodging-houses, [193];
variety of, [193];
descriptive details of a real lodging-house, [194];
various characteristics of the habits of servants in such, [194], [195];
various illustrations of diet, tenants, economy, furniture connected with such, [195], [196], [197], [198], [199].
Lombard-street, [69];
aspect of it, [69];
for what proverbial, [69];
appearance of, different now from what it was three centuries ago, [69];
in what respects, [69];
bear-baiting in it anciently, [69];
related by Ben Jonson, [69];
notices, historical incidents, [69];
Banks and his horse, [69];
opening of Exchange by Queen Elizabeth, [69];
details of street cries and various parties incidental to neighbourhood, [69];
characteristics of social state in olden time, [70];
Bankers of England in connexion with, [70];
characteristics of business done by them, [74];
and manner of doing it, [74];
old-fashioned banker, picture of, [75];
church in Lombard-street, built by a pupil of Wren’s, [75];
entry in old pamphlet connected with, [76].
London, when first peopled, unknown, [21];
first probable origin of, [21];
appearance of, in early times, [21];
during the occupation of the Romans, [21];
remains of ancient London, [27];
to be found still in neighbourhood of Smithfield, [27];
streets of London in olden time, [27];
state of roads in, [27];
by what evidenced, [27];
progress of passenger in, [27];
roads of London in William and Anne’s time, [28];
evidenced by characteristics of coachmen, [28];
numbers of lamps then used, [28];
old highway to London, poetically called “the road of the swans,” [28].
London cemeteries, [269];
custom of burying the dead in ancient times, [269];
from whence derived, [269];
opposite character of present customs, [269];
objections to, [270];
ashes of the dead only brought within the temples anciently, [270];
misplacing of our dead in cities, [270];
arguments in favour of open cemeteries, [270];
remarks on both, [273], [274];
different position of our churches when first built, [274];
proposed rating for burial of dead, [274];
opportunities offered for suburban cemeteries, [273], [275];
death less repulsive in a cemetery, [275];
allusion to and description of Joseph’s funeral, [276];
epidemic referred to in connexion with present subject, [277];
various characteristics of, [278], [279], [280], [281];
sexton and grave-digger how affected by, [280];
pure air to be agitated for in connexion with extra-mural interments, [282].
London poor, characteristics of, [136];
habits of life comfortless, [136];
neighbourhood of Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, inhabited by, [136];
associations connected with “Home” in their life, [136];
hunger, and work, and sleeplessness, modes of reckoning time, [137];
Mr. Mayhew’s work alluded to, [137];
their condition reflected on, [137];
emigration in connexion with, [138];
holidays of the, [293].
London Bridge, old, [25];
descriptive and historical references, [25].
Mansion House, [65];
when built, [65];
before which Lord Mayor resided in his own house, [65];
Egyptian Hall, where Lord Mayor entertains his guests, [66];
value of plate then used, [66];
princely style of Lord Mayor, [66];
allowance made him to support the dignity, sword of Lord Mayor described, [66];
mace likewise, [66];
collar and jewel, description of, taken from Illustrated London News, [66];
costume of Lord Mayor, [66];
Mansion House, where standing, [66].
Market held under name of Farringdon is still held, [66].
Markets, vegetable and fruit, [212].
Mark Lane, [94].
Mary Frith, where buried, [193];
her exploits, [193].
Mary Overy, or Mary of the ferry, [249].
May-pole in the Strand, [202];
by whom removed, [202];
at what time restored, [202], [203];
account of in the “City’s Loyalty displayed,” [203].
Merchant tailors’ school, [66];
connected with it Duck’s foot lane, corruption of Duke’s foot lane, [66];
eminent men there educated, [67];
among whom James Shirley, [67].
Mercers’ School, [60];
former situation of, [60];
said to be one of the oldest schools founded in London, [60];
what ground occupied by, [60];
by whom founded, [60].
Mermaid tavern, [49];
mentioned by Ben Johnson, [49].
Michael’s, St., College-hill, [60];
by whom built [60];
altar-piece contained in, [60];
what made by Whittington’s executors, [60];
who is there buried [60].
Mildred-street church, built by Wren, [49].
Milton’s baptism recorded on a stone in the wall beside a door in Allhallows, [48];
together with other names, [48].
Mincing-lane, [93].
Monument, descriptive notices of, [77].
Nelson’s monument, [36].
New parks, [227];
necessity of, illustrated by various details, [228].
New London Bridge, [67].
Newgate, [183];
neighbourhood peculiar to, described, [183];
crowd assembled to see execution in, [183];
of whom composed, [183];
time allotted for execution, [183];
cries attendant on, and caused by, [183];
characteristics of workmen erecting scaffold, [184];
characteristics of parties attending executions, [184];
exhibition of such devoid of any terror to them, [185];
effects of it on them, [185];
youthfulness of parties attending, [185];
various details illustrative of pernicious effects of thus witnessing, [188];
details of prisoner forexecution, [190].
Northumberland, Earls of, [26].
Objects dwelt on in this work, [191].
Octarchy, when and by whom destroyed, [24].
Olave, St., [96].
Old change and Watling-street, [46];
church of St. Austin, in connexion with, [46].
Old Fish-street, contains church of St. Mary’s Somerset, built by Wren, [46].
Old Mint, [251].
Old city moat, [153];
neighbourhood of land in description of, [153].
Paper-staining Hall, [51];
pictures and antiquities connected with, [51].
Parks, [222];
characteristics and purposes of, [222], [223].
Park, St. James’s, [223];
in the time of Henry VIII., [223];
chase added to it by him, [223];
localities comprised in, [223];
laws connected with, [223];
death of Henry soon after, [223];
few features of the old park remaining, [223];
connected with it Buckingham Palace, [223];
beauty of walks beside the canal, and water fowl nurtured in, [224];
fine trees connected with, [224];
spot for love-making since the days of Charles II., [224];
mention of the “Mall,” by Horace Walpole, [224].
Park, Green, [224];
possesses little interest—house in it, residence of Samuel Rogers, [224];
distinguished men who have been guests there during the last half century, [224].
Park, Hyde, various characteristics of detailed, [225], [226].
Park, Regent’s, attractions to, [227];
Zoological Gardens and Colosseum, [227];
old house of Mary-le-bonne in connexion with, [227];
bowling-green of the Duke of Buckingham, [227].
Paul’s wharf, [44].
Peter House, note connected with, [48].
Peter the Dutchman, [24];
works erected by, [24].
Pilgrim fathers, [135].
Poor, holidays of the London, [293].
Prerogative court, [37].
Pudding-lane, [79].
Punch, reference to, [193].
Purveyors of fish to the court, notices of, [80].
Queenhithe quay, [53];
notices connected with, [53].
Queenhithe, [79].
Queen-street, notice of, [59].
Queen of Henry VIII., pin-money furnished by customs from Queenhithe, [79].
Rag-fair, [146];
price of admission to, [146];
details descriptive of, [146];
exposure to weather in, [146];
scenes occurring in described, [146];
various characteristics of, [147].
Richard III. rebuilt the church of Allhallows-Barking, [95], [96];
great antiquity of it proved by pillars, inscriptions, monuments, brasses, [96].
Roman lamp, [49].
Roman hypocaust, [22].
Samian ware, where lying, [22].
Seething-lane, [94];
church of Allhallows, Barking, connected with, [94].
Shakspeare, [27].
Sheriff’s court, descriptive details of, [163], [164].
Shrine, silver-gilt, [95].
Simon’s report to commissioners of sewers, allusion to, [86].
Sir John Watts entertained James I., [155].
Smithfield, [174];
intended abolishment of market, of, [174];
descriptive notices of, [174];
eating-houses connected with, [174];
drover connected with, description of, [175];
dogs connected with, description of, [175];
descriptive notices of, [175];
characteristics of it on Sunday night, [176];
Smithfield butchers, capabilities of, [176];
Friday, day on which to see it, [176];
haymarket connected with it, [178];
characteristics illustrative of it, and incidental to it, [178], [179];
illustrative description of it, and connected with it, [179];
historical details connected with, [181].
Somerset House, [204];
to what purposes used, [204].
Southwark entrance to London, [252];
contained in former days Shakspeare’s theatre and Bear-garden, [252];
different feature presented by it at present day, [252];
specially in connexion with vehicles, [252].
Spital Sermons, where preached, [173].
Statue of Queen Elizabeth, anecdote connected with, [199].
St. Andrew’s-Undershaft, [147];
why so called detailed by Stowe, [148];
who is buried there, [147].
St. Catherine-Cree, [147];
by whose authority said to be buried there, [147];
Hans Holbein and Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, [147];
consecration of the same described by Prynne, [147].
St. Clement’s, [76].
St. Clement Danes, why so called, [201].
St. Dunstan’s church, [92];
Mr. Elmes’ notice of Sir Christopher Wren in connexion with, [93];
quarrel in it described by Stowe, [93].
St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, [164], [165].
St. Helen’s, [150];
monuments in, [150];
buried there Sir T. Gresham and the rich Spencer, [150];
allusion to nuns connected with, [150].
St. James’s and St. Giles’s, origin of wooden puppets—see “Douglas Jerrold’s Magazine,” [199].
St. Magnus, [78].
St. Mary’s-Mounthaw—the Saxon name of the hawthorn berry, [46].
St. Mary’s-Woolnoth, [75];
Dr. Shuite connected with, [75].
St. Mary’s church, Abchurch-lane, [76].
St. Maudlin, notice connected with, [47].
St. Michael and St. Peter’s churches, Cornhill, [67];
notices connected with, [67].
St. Mary-le-Savoy, [205];
of what it is the remains, by whom destroyed, [205];
present chapel when built, [205].
St. Nicholas’s Cold Abbey, [47].
St. Paul’s, [29];
appearance of, [29];
characteristics of, [29];
charity children connected with, [30];
festival, description of, [30];
appearance, contrasted with that of ancient amphitheatres, [34];
detailed description of the building, [35];
architect, [35];
size of clock, [35];
bell striking the hour, [35];
weight of it, [35];
whispering gallery, [35];
clock-room, [35];
library, [35];
model room, [35];
monuments in, to Nelson, [36];
Abercrombie, [36];
Lord Cornwallis, and various others, [36];
paintings in it by Sir James Thornhill, [36];
door in the dome, purpose of, [36];
shadow of St. Paul’s indicative of its size, [36];
hours of divine service, [36].
St. Paul’s school, [46];
by whom founded, [46];
trustees to it, [46];
notice of its connexion with Anne Boleyn, [46].
St. Saviour’s church, founded by Mary of the Ferry, a Saxon maiden, [249];
legend connected with her, [249];
buried there, Gower, Fletcher, and Massinger, [249];
Shakspeare attended brother’s funeral there, [249].
Stonehenge, [19].
Stone, Mr., [76].
Strand, early appearance of, [22].
Street amusements, [254];
a means of livelihood to many, [254];
Punch and Judy, [255];
illustrative description of their influences, [255];
descriptive details of Punch and Judy, [255];
descriptive details of spectators, [256];
organ-boy and monkey, [256];
descriptive details of monkey, [256-259];
caravan and fat boy, [259];
characteristics of, [259];
dancing girl, [259];
tumbler, characteristics of, [259];
balancers, description and characteristics of, [260];
stilt dancers, performances of, [260];
street telescopes, [260];
Jack-in-the-Green, [261];
Guy Fawkes, [261].
Surrey, earl of, where buried, [95].
Thames-street, [67];
notices connected with, and crowds witnessed in, [78];
steamers calling at places on Thames, [78];
evidencing population of London, [78];
Lower Thames-street, description of, [81].
Thames, poisonous state of, for fish, [85];
Mr. Butcher’s evidence in connexion with, [85];
James Newland’s evidence in connexion with, [85];
description by Stowe, [86];
traffic on it opposed to supply of fish, [86].
Three-cranes, Vintry-street, notices connected with, [59].
Times’ office, Printing-house-square, [37].
Tower, [103];
remains of London mentioned in connexion with, [103];
ancient foundation discovered in last century, [103];
Fitz-Stephen’s description alluded to, [103], [104];
various notices in connexion with this building;
defence of;
purposes for which used;
money expended on it, [105];
wall defended by Edmund Ironside where tower now stands, [104];
William the Norman, Rufus, and Henry I. in connexion with, [104];
architect of White Tower, Gundulph, Bishop of Rochester, [104];
Longchamp held the tower for Richard I.;
Henry III. beautified it, [105];
strengthened by Edward I., [105];
repaired by Edward III., [105];
description of by Paul Hentzner, a foreigner in the reign of Elizabeth, [105];
Nichols’ progress of James I.;
description of Lion tower, [106];
stories from “London Spy,” illustrative of lions’ habits, [109];
Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, imprisoned in Bell Tower, [110];
letter to Cromwell from him, [110];
Bloody tower, notices connected with, [111];
Salt tower, notices connected with, [111];
Bowyer tower, notices connected with, [112];
Rats’ dungeon, [113];
White tower, [113];
Jewel tower and description of regalia, [114], [115], [116];
description of horse armoury, [116];
description of Queen Elizabeth’s armoury, [119];
chronicle of Queen Jane, [120];
“Ende of Lady Jane Dudley.” [120];
quotations from, [120], [121];
names of celebrated persons confined in tower, [121], and anecdotes connected with them, [122], [123];
extract from Illustrated London News, [124].
Use of donkey, [177].
Various pageants at Lord Mayor’s Show in olden times, [160].
Vintners’ Hall, notices of, and historical details connected with, [53].
Virgin Mary’s Image set up by Edward I., [95].
Walbrook, descriptive notices of, [60];
church of St. Stephen’s connected with, [61].
Walworth, lord mayor, slew Wat Tyler, [80].
Waste land in England and Ireland, [139];
cost of reclaiming, [139].
Wat Tyler, picture of the death of, [160].
Westminster Abbey, associations connected with, and feelings arising from, [217];
Pix office, [217];
Saxon architecture of, [217];
various details, architecture, pavements, and other matters connected with the abbey, [218], [219];
its present aspect same as it was before Norman invasion, [218];
mosaic pavement, brought from Rome by Abbot Ware, [218];
great portion of abbey by Henry III., [218];
shrine of Edward the Confessor, [219];
tomb of Queen Eleanor, [219];
Richard II. and his queen, connected with Shakspeare’s mention of him, [219];
Bolingbroke, in connexion with, [219];
Henry the Fifth’s monument, feelings awakened by, [210];
want of harmony in monuments, [220];
art with reference to them better understood formerly than now, [220];
proved by the tombs of our kings in Westminster Abbey, [220];
and by the introduction of modern statues and ornaments, [220];
screen erected by Blore, [220];
monument of Sir Francis Vere in eastern aisle of the transept, [220];
Poet’s Corner, associations connected with, [220];
Chaucer’s monument, [220];
first poet buried here, [220];
Spencer next poet buried here, [221];
his funeral, by whom probably attended, [221];
Beaumont and Drayton, Ben Jonson, Cowley, Dryden, Gay, Prior, and Addison, buried here, [221];
monuments erected to poets buried elsewhere, [221];
the author of the “Pleasures of Hope,” the last true poet buried here, [221];