Mary to the see of Durbam..New Exchange. . Adel. sel House and Bedford House. . Beaufort Buildings. 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- umpbal 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.. Drawbridge. Five arches carried away by the ice, ..Head of Wallace placed on the northern Tower. .. Grand Passage of Arms. . Entrance into the City 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 1 Tower of London in Henry the Sixth's Reign-Charles, Oldest View of the Tower and City of London.. Ma- Duscript Volume of Sonnets, &c. by Charles, Duke of Orleans. . Illuminated Drawing of the Tower described.. Brief notices of the Duke of Orleans. Suffolk or Northumberlund 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 House.. Suffolk House.. Northumberland House. Ancient Palace of the Kings of Scotland. . Residence of Marguret, sister of Henry VIII... State of, in the reign of Charles I.. .House of Sir John Vanbrugb. ..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 removal to the present Blackfriars. .Site their old house, granted to Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln ...Demesne of the Bishop of Chichester. . Lincoln's Ion., The Hall..Gate House..Chapel..Searle's Court, or Lincoln's Inn New Square. .Stone Build- ings.. Library.. Six Clerks' Office..Gardens. Clerkenwell Close-Cromwell Place 287-288 Reputed residence of Oliver Cromwell..Occupied by the noted Justice Blackborough..Cromwell Place. Salters' Company and Hall 288-291 Incorporation of the Company.,Government..Salters' Hall..Oxford Place.. The New Hall.. Election Hall.. Waiting Room..Curious record of Ancient Festivity, . Privilege of holding a Fair, granted by Henry II. to St. Bartholomew's Priory..Cloth Fair.. Court of “ Pied-poudre” ,. Reprint of a rare Tract. Stepney-Residence of Dean Colet Dean Colet, founder of St. Paul's School. .Declaims against Romish abuses .Colet Place. Origin of the Society..Dr. Hawes. . Rewards offered by him..Persons saved from premature death.. Processes for the Resuscitation of suspended anima- tion, particularly from drowning..Receiving Houses. 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 bere. . Royal Li- brary .. Buildings .. Margaret Nicholson.. Queen Caroline's Library.. Pictures. . Yeomen..Garrison Proclamations to restrain building in London. .Sapient LIST OF PLATES IN VOL. II. V London, in 1657.. To fuce the Title Page. Ditto, Western or Street Front 17* 30. . . . Palace of Whitehall in Charles the Second's reign, anno 1680 Whitehall, &c. from St. James's Park, about 1720 56* Merchant Tailors' Hall 76 V Westminster Abbey, Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor 91 v Fishmongers' Hall, in June 1827 121 Vintners' Hall 130 y Remains of Sir Paul Pindar's Mansion, Bishopsgate Street, 1806. 134 V Lodge of Sir Paul Pindar, about 1760 137 v Clothworkers' Hall 140 V Christ Church Hospital, in 1720. 145 Christ's Hospital, within the Cloisters, 1800 154 V Bridewell Hospital, in 1720 165 V Temple Bar, from Butcher Row, 1800, looking east 171 V Church of St. Mary Overie, or St. Saviour, Southwark, about 1660. 181 Council Chamber of King Henry VIII. 191 v The Charter-House, about 1720 198 Durkam House, Salisbury House, Worcester House, about 230 Old London Bridge, in 1825 230 v Tower of London, in Henry the Sixth's reign 272 V Suffolk House, about 1630 274 y Scotland Yard , 277 The Font in St. James's Churcb, Piccadilly 280 * Lincoln's Inn, about 1720 283 Buildings in Clerkenwell Close, in 1791 287 V Salters' Hall 288 Dean Colet's House, Stepney 297 VSt. James's Palace 301 1630 . . 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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