OR,
Reminiscences

OF TAB

BRITISH METROPOLIS:

INCLUDING

CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES,
ANTIQUARIAN, TOPOGRAPHICAL, DESCRIPTIVE,

AND LITERARY.

BY

EDWARD WEDLAKE BRAYLEY,

F.S.A. M.R.S.L. &c. &c.

" The Man who stood on the Acropolis,
And looked down over Attica ; or he
Who has sail'd where picturesque Constantinople is,

Or seen Tombuctoo, or hath taken tea
In small-eyed China's crockery-ware metropolis,

Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh,
May not think much of LONDON's first appearance,--
But ask him what he thinks of it a year hence ? "

LORD BYRON.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HURST, CHANCE, AND CO.

ANALYTICAL TABLE

ор

CONTENTS.

VOL. II,

Page

Entertainment of Christian IV., King of Denmark 1-5

Christian's visit to the Queen, Anne of Denmark. His

entry into London, and particulars of the Banquets

given for his amusement. .Sad disaster of the Queen

of Sheba.

Lord Mayors.

5-7

Exemptions from serving the office of Lord Mayor..

Impressing for Choristers

7-9

Ordinance in the time of Henry VI. for pressing Min-

strels. .Complaint of Thomas Tusser,

Henry the Sixth

Verses composed by him.

Monument of Gower, the Poet

9-11

Some account of Gower.. Editions of his poem “ De

Confessione Amantis”.. Description of his Monurnent

in St. Saviour's, Southwark

Queen Elizabeth

11-16

Character and Disposition of the Maiden Queen, by Sir

John Harington. . Her Subtlety, Fondness for Dress,

and Tyranny to her Ladies.

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Printing

Foreign Compositors in the reign of Elizabeth.

Westminster Abley.-Monument of Lady Nightingale 17-19

Lady Nightingale's Monument the work of Roubiliac.

.. The Subject described..Critical Remarks.

Sheriffs of London.

Particulars of the Sheriffdon, by Richard Hoare, Esq.

..Three Lord Mayors in one Year..Transportation

of Felons.. Custom of collecting Charity for the City

Prisoners..Origin of the Easter Entertainments..

Court Baron, and Court Leet..Court of Conservancy

..Exemption from serving the office of Sheriff..

Mode of Proclaiming St. Bartholomew Fair in 1741.

Whitehall, anciently called York Place

17*-56*

16-16

19-32

Hubert de Burgh erects a mansion on this site..Be-
queathed to the Black Friars..Sold to Walter
Gray, Archbishop of York, and made the Archiepis-
copal Palace of that see.. Splendid establishment
and pompous living of Cardinal Wolsey at York Place.
..Wolsey's disgrace and retirement to Asher..York
Place occupied by King Henry VIII., who erects
additional buildings there, and annexes the whole,
together with St. James's Park, to his ancient Pa-
lace of Westminster.... Marriage of that Sovereign
with Anne Boleyn, at York Place..Early occurrence
of the appellation Whitehall..Henry reviews a
grand muster of armed Citizens from the Gate-house.
..His death..Splendour of Whitehall in Queen
Elizabeth's reign..Erection of a Banquetting House
for the Entertainment of a French Embassy in 1581
..Gorgeous Triumph in the Tilt-yard..Hentzner's
Account of Whitehall in 1598..Anecdotes and De-
cease of Queen Elizabeth.. Diversions at Whitehall
in the reigns of James I. and Charles I..Masque of
"Blacknesse."..Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth
..Designs for a new Palace by Inigo Jones.. Ban-
quetting-house..Ordinances for selling the Pictures