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 and27.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 of168;sum voted by king for relief of hospital,168;notices connected with, hospital,168,169;abuses incidental to,169;quotation fromIllustrated London Newsof 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 theIllustrated 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 fromIllustrated London Newsdescribing 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 fromIllustrated 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 of77;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;