PART II.—SOCIAL AND GENERAL.

1. General View. 2. Port and Trade of London. 3. Trade and Gentility. 4. The Streets. 5. The Buildings. 6. Furniture. 7. Wealth and State of Nobles and Citizens. 8. Manners and Customs. 9. Food. 10. Sport and Recreation. 11. Literature and Science in London—§ I. The Libraries of London; § II. London and Literature; § III. The Physician. 12. Fire, Plague, and Famine. 13. Crime and Punishment. 14. Christian Names and Surnames.

VOL. II.

PART I.—THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON.

1. The Records. 2. The Charter of Henry the Second. 3. The Commune. 4. The Wards. 5. The Factions of the City. 6. The Century of Uncertain Steps. 7. After the Commune. 8. The City Companies.

PART II.—ECCLESIASTICAL LONDON.

1. The Religious Life. 2. Church Furniture. 3. The Calendar of the Year. 4. Hermits and Anchorites. 5. Pilgrimage. 6. Ordeal. 7. Sanctuary. 8. Miracle and Mystery Plays. 9. Superstitions, etc. 10. Order of Burial.

PART III.—RELIGIOUS HOUSES.

1. General. 2. St. Martin’s-le-Grand. 3. The Priory of the Holy Trinity, or Christ Church Priory. 4. The Charter House. 5. Elsyng Spital. 6. St. Bartholomew. 7. St. Thomas of Acon. 8. St. Anthony’s. 9. The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem. 10. The Clerkenwell Nunnery. 11. St. John the Baptist, or Holiwell Nunnery. 12. Bermondsey Abbey. 13. St. Mary Overies. 14. St. Thomas’s Hospital. 15. St. Giles-in-the-Fields. 16. St. Helen’s. 17. St. Mary Spital. 18. St. Mary of Bethlehem. 19. The Clares. 20. St. Katherine’s by the Tower. 21. Crutched Friars. 22. Austin Friars. 23. Grey Friars. 24. The Dominicans. 25. Whitefriars. 26. St. Mary of Graces. 27. The Smaller Foundations. 28. Fraternities. 29. Hospitals.

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