London in the Time of the Stuarts

by Walter Besant

[1] Volume on Tudor London now in the press.

[2] Brentford.

[3] Damiens in 1757 made an attempt on the life of Louis XV., for which he was first tortured, and then torn to pieces by wild horses. Brewer’s Dictionary.

[4] Sharpe, ii. p. 512.

[5] The Second Impression, Corrected and Enlarged, Price one Halfpenny. Sold by Samuel Keble at the Turk’s Head in Fleet Street, 1692.

[6] See Chelsea in the “Fascination of London Series.” A. and C. Black.

[7] Partly obliterated in the construction of the Chancery Lane Station of the Electric Railway.

[8] The strong room was generally a recess, large or small, in the stone wall of the cellar or crypt; it was provided with a movable stone slab for a door.

[9] Demolished since this was written.

[10] T. Delaune, 1681.