London

by Walter Besant

• Gaming temp. Elizabeth, [310]
• Gambling in the time of Charles II., [415]
• Gardens in Saxon and Norman times, [89]
• Garraway's Coffee-house, [477]
• Gascony wine, ingredients of, [473]
• Gates of the City closed at sunset until 1760, [433]
• Gay's Trivia, description of London in, [436]
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, [1]
• Gerrard's Hall in Basing Lane, [179]
• Gildas, [1]-[3], [25], [43]
• Gin-shops, number of, in 1736, [476]
• Girls, education of, thorough, in time of Elizabeth, [314]
• Gisors, John, [179]
• Glasse, Mrs., and her book on cookery, [475]
• Globe Theatre, Bank Side, [307], [356]
• Glovers' Company, laws and regulations of, [209]
• Government situations bought in time of George II., [482]
• Greenstead Church, Essex, [71]
• Greenwich Fair, [457]
• Gresham College, [301]
• — House, [288]
• — Sir Thomas, account of, [290], [301];
  • builds the Royal Exchange, [294];
  • crest of, [294]
• Grey Friars, foundation of, [113]
• — — Church, celebrated persons buried here, [267]
• Guildhall, remains of Roman London in, [48]
• Guilds, [50], [208]
• Guthrun's Lane, goldsmiths in, [217]

• Haberdashers' Company, [452]
• Hainault Forest, [233]
• Hampton Court, [288]
• Hanseatic League, [182]
• Harding, Stephen, founder of the Cistercian Order, [123]
• Harold at Waltham Abbey, [138]
• Hengist and Horsa, [9]
• Henry VI. erects new grammar-schools, [240], [303]
• Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, [129]
• Heralds' College, [162], [174]
• Herbalist, [474]
• Holy Trinity, Aldgate, founded by Queen Matilda, [64], [111]
• — — Church, Minories, [132]
• Holywell Nunnery, [132]
• Horsa, Hengist and, [9]
• Household accounts of a family, 1677-79, [416]
• — in time of George II., [465]
• — furniture, inventory of, of newly-married pair, temp. 14th century, [253]
• Hudson's Bay Company, [375]
• "Huffs," [415]
• Hutchinson, Lucy, [314]

• Ironmongers' Lane, ironmongers in, [217]

• Jamaica Coffee-house, [477]
• Jerusalem Coffee-house, [478]
• Jesus Commons, foundation of, [144]
• Jonathan's Coffee-house, [478]
• Jonson, Ben, [363], [365]
• Justice under the Plantagenets, [245]
• Jutes, the, [9], [27], [28]

• Kidnappers of the Georgian era, [486]
• Kingston-on-Hull, Trinity House at, [87]
• Knights Hospitallers, Church of, blown up with gunpowder, [266]

• Ladies' Bower, the, [89]
• — occupation of, in time of George I., [478]
• Latroon, Meriton, Life of, [414]
• Lepers, lazar-house established in St. Giles in the Fields for, [141]
• Life in the time of George II., [460]
• "Limitour," the, in Chaucer, [149]
• Lloyd's Coffee-house, [478]
• Loftie's History of London, [13], [22]
• Lombard Street, drapers in, [217]
• — — Gresham's shop in, [301]
• London a city of ruins, temp. Elizabeth, [263]
• — commercial centre of the world, temp. Elizabeth, [293]
• — conquest of, by the men of Essex, compared with that of Jerusalem by Titus, [40]
• — conversion of, A.D. 604, [45]
• — craftsmen of, [215]
• — described by William Fitz-Stephen, [48]
• — desolate state of, after the Roman period, [34]
• — drinking and fires the pests of, [52]
• — found deserted by the East Saxons, [34]
• — mediæval, description of, [157], [185]
• — merchant generally a gentleman, [200]
• — municipal history of, [91]
• — not mentioned in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, [12]
• — population of, temp. Richard II., [49]
• — rebuilding of, after Great Fire, [398]
• — Saxon and Norman, described, [92]
• — veritable mother of saints, [45]
• London Bridge, chapel on, [78]
• — — first stone, [77]
• — — songs on, [81]
• Londoners in the time of Elizabeth, [278]
• Long Bowstring-makers' Company, [454]
• Loriners' Company, [454]

• Mail-coaches, [464]
• Malpas, Philip, [238]
• Manners, City, in time of Charles II., [407]
• Manny, Sir Walter, [120]
• Matilda, Queen of Henry I., [65]
• — wife of King Stephen, founds St. Katherine's by the Tower, [65]
• Maurice, Bishop, [53]
• May-day in the City, [231]
• May Fair, [457]
• May-pole, the, [332]
• Mediæval furniture, [181]
• — London, description of, [157]
• — names, survival of, [19]
• Megusers' Company, [453]
• Mellitus, first Bishop of London, [39]
• Mercers' Chapel, [142]
• Merchant adventurers, the, [295], [296]
• — London, generally a gentleman, [200]
• — Taylors' School, [303]
• Misrule, feast of, [309]
• "Mithridate" water, [473]
• Mitre Tavern, [351]
• Monastery towns grow rapidly and prosper, [46]
• Monk in Chaucer, [150]
• Moorfields, people camped in, after the Great Fire, [399]
• More, Sir Thomas, and Crosby Hall, [170]
• Morris-dancing, [233]
• Mughouse, a kind of music-hall, [480]
• "Mumpus," the, [416]
• Municipal London, history of, [91]
• Mystery plays, [94]

• Nennius, [1]
• New Abbey, [133]
• — — pulled down, [263]
• Newspapers about 1750, [465]
• Nobility, residences of, in City, [177]
• Norman House, description of, [86]
• — London, monuments of, [52]
• Northumberland House, [288]
• — — site originally of Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, [141]
• Nunneries in Saxon times, [93]

• Old Jewry, branch of the Fratres de Saccâ established in, [139]
• "Oxford Clerk" in Chaucer, [150]

• Pads, [415]
• Pageants, City, [224]
• — Elizabethan, [305]
• Palaces of the nobility in the City, [174]
• Papey College, [144]
• Pardon Church-yard, [121]
• "Pardoner" in Chaucer, [153]
• Parish organization in time of George II., [439]
• Patten-makers' Company, [454]
• Pattens, [484]
• Pecock, Reginald, Bishop of Chichester, [194]
• Pembroke, Earl, and Baynard's Castle, [166]
• Pepys' Diary, [417]
• Pepys on the Great Fire of London, [395]
• — on the Plague, [377]
• Perranazabuloe Church, [75]
• Pewterers' Company, [454]
• Philippa, Queen, a benefactor of St. Katherine's by the Tower, [66]
• "Philo Puttonists," [415]
• Philpot, Sir John, [190]
• Picard, Sir Henry, [179]
• Pilgrims, [57]
• — consecration of, [60]
• — office of, [58]
• Pillory, the, [247]
• "Pimpinios," [415]
• Plague, the, [376]
• — at Astrakhan in 1879, [387]
• — at Marseilles in 1720, [387]
• — Daniel Defoe on, [377]
• — loss caused to trade by, [384]
• — Pepys on, [377]
• — remedies for, advertised, [408]
• — water, [473]
• Plagues, [376]
• — of London, [120]
• — of 1603 and 1625, [387]
• Plantagenet London, religious houses the most conspicuous feature of, [107]
• Poisoning, men boiled and women burned for, [318]
• Population of London according to Fitz-Stephen, [84]
• Post-office rates about 1750, [464]
• Prentice, London, temp. Charles II., [414]
• Prices of food about 1750, [462]
• — — in time of Charles II., [462]
• "Prioress," the, in Chaucer, [149]
• Punishments under the Plantagenets, [318]