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Reminiscences

OF THE

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?"

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

LORD BYRON.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HURST, CHANCE, AND CO.

RD CO

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Chillip Gift.

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Sheriff's 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*

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

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