Mary to the see of Durham..New Exchange..Adel- Early mention of a Bridge over the Thames, by Dion Cassius.. Irruption of Olaf the Dane..Attack on the City by Sweyn.. Tolls at Bylyngesgate..Stow's Account of the Foundation of the Bridge.. Descrip- tion of the Bridge by Snorro Sturlesonius, and tri- umphal songs of the Norse Bards..Canute's Trench..Swept away by a Tempest.. The Bridge rebuilt by William Rufus, and again by Peter of Colechurch..Erection of a new Stone Bridge.. Death and interment of Peter of Colechurch.. Dreadful calamity by Fire.. Towers or Gates.. -Bridge in 1756.. Description of its condition at that period..Erection of a temporary Bridge of Timber .. Description of the Ancient Chapel.. Fish Pond in the Sterling.. Nonsuch House.. Applications to Par- liament for power to erect a New Bridge..The first Stone laid.. The New Bridge..Discoveries made in laying the Foundations..Coins, Seals, &c...Statue of Harpocrates..Manner of the construction of the Tower of London in Henry the Sixth's Reign-Charles, Oldest View of the Tower and City of London.. Ma- nuscript Volume of Sonnets, &c. by Charles, Duke of Orleans.. Illuminated Drawing of the Tower described.. Brief notices of the Duke of Orleans. Suffolk or Northumberland House, Strand Ancient Hospital of St. Mary de Rouncival.. Becomes the possession of the Earl of Northampton, who erects a splendid Mansion on its site.. Northampton Ancient Palace of the Kings of Scotland.. Residence of Margaret, sister of Henry VIII... State of, in the reign of Charles I...House of Sir John Vanbrugh. ..Anecdote of Lord Herbert of Cherbury. St. James's Church, Piccadilly Erected by Sir Christopher Wren..Made parochial.. The interior described-Baptismal Font..Notice of Black Friars, near Holborn-Lincoln's Inn Establishment of Black Friars near "Oldborne".. Their removal to the present Blackfriars..Site of their old house, granted to Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln ...Demesne of the Bishop of Chichester.. Lincoln's Privilege of holding a Fair, granted by Henry II. to Stepney-Residence of Dean Colet Dean Colet, founder of St. Paul's School..Declaims against Romish abuses .Colet Place. 301-309 Origin of the Society.. Dr. Hawes..Rewards offered Hospital for Leprous Maidens... Visitations of the Ab- bots of Westminster.. Palace erected by Henry VIII. ...Supposed Architect.. Additions made by Charles I. .. Gallery of Statues..Chapel Royal.. German Chapel..Friery..Becomes a general residence of our Sovereigns.. George IV. born here.. Royal Li- brary.. Buildings.. Margaret Nicholson..Queen LIST OF PLATES IN VOL. II. Proclamations to restrain building in London..Sapient LONDON, in 1657..To fuce the Title Page. signed by Inigo Jones Ditto, Western or Street Front 310-312 V Palace of Whitehall in Charles the Second's reign, anno 1680 vWhitehall, &c. from St. James's Park, about 1720 Merchant Tailors' Hall Westminster Abbey, Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor V Lodge of Sir Paul Pindar, about 1760 Clothworkers' Hall Ꮴ Vintners' Hall ✓ Remains of Sir Paul Pindar's Mansion, Bishopsgate Street, 1806. Christ Church Hospital, in 1720. V Christ's Hospital, within the Cloisters, 1800 ✓ Bridewell Hospital, in 1720. V Temple Bar, from Butcher Row, 1800, looking east about 1660. The Font in St. James's Church, Piccadilly " Buildings in Clerkenwell Close, in 1791 ✓ Salters' Hall y Dean Colet's House, Stepney St. James's Palace Council Chamber of King Henry VIII. The Charter-House, about 1720 Durham House, Salisbury House, Worcester House, about 1630 Old London Bridge, in 1825 Tower of London, in Henry the Sixth's reign ✓ Scotland Yard, 50. 56* 76 91 121 130 134 137 140 145 154 165 171 181 191 198 230 236 272 274 277 280 283 287 288 297 301 LONDINIANA. ENTERTAINMENT OF CHRISTIAN IV. CHRISTIAN the Fourth, King of Denmark, came to England on the 17th of July, 1606, on a visit to the Queen, Anne of Denmark, his sister; and he continued in this country till the 11th of the following month. During his residence here, he was treated with extraordinary magnificence and revelling. His entry into London was graced by the citizens with a similar display of pageantry as had been customary at the coronation of their own sovereigns. Both James and Christian rode through the city in grand procession, preceded by the Lord Mayor, bearing a golden sceptre, and followed by a most splendid train of British and Danish nobility. "Upon the Great Fountain, in Cheapside," Stow says, "was erected the Bower of the Muses; and near the Pageant, by the Goldsmith's-row, where sat the great elders of the VOL. I. B |
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