OLD AND NEW LONDON.
OLD AND NEW
LONDON.
A NARRATIVE OF
ITS HISTORY, ITS PEOPLE, AND ITS PLACES.
Illustrated with Numerous Engravings
FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
VOL. I.
CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN:
LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK.
[Transcriber's Note: Although the Table of Contents is correct, the chapter heading for Chapter XLIII is used twice and Chapter XLVII missing with chapter headings offset by one in between. These have been corrected in this text document.]
CONTENTS.
PAGE
INTRODUCTION 1
CHAPTER I.
ROMAN LONDON.
Buried London--Our Early Relations--The Founder of London--A Distinguished Visitor at Romney Marsh--Caesar re-visits the "Town on the Lake"--The Borders of Old London--Caesar fails to make much out of the Britons--King Brown--The Derivation of the Name of London--The Queen of the Iceni--London Stone and London Roads--London's Earlier and Newer Walls--The Site of St. Paul's--Fabulous Claims to Idolatrous Renown--Existing Relics of Roman London--Treasures from the Bed of the Thames--What we Tread underfoot in London--A vast Field of Story 16
CHAPTER II.
TEMPLE BAR.
Temple Bar--The Golgotha of English Traitors--When Temple Bar was made of Wood--Historical Pageants at Temple Bar--The Associations of Temple Bar--Mischievous Processions through Temple Bar--The First Grim Trophy--Rye-House Plot Conspirators 22
CHAPTER III.
FLEET STREET:--GENERAL INTRODUCTION.
Frays in Fleet Street--Chaucer and the Friar--The Duchess of Gloucester doing Penance for Witchcraft--Riots between Law Students and Citizens--'Prentice Riots--Oates in the Pillory--Entertainments in Fleet Street--Shop Signs--Burning the Boot--Trial of Hardy--Queen Caroline's Funeral 32