Chapter IV: Book 503: Chapter XLIV

NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE BANK:--LOTHBURY.

Lothbury--Its Former Inhabitants--St. Margaret's Church--Tokenhouse Yard--Origin of the Name--Farthings and Tokens--Silver Halfpence and Pennies--Queen Anne's Farthings--Sir William Petty--Defoe's Account of the Plague in Tokenhouse Yard 513

CHAPTER XLV.

THROGMORTON STREET.--THE DRAPERS' COMPANY.

Halls of the Drapers' Company--Throgmorton Street and its many Fair Houses--Drapers and Wool Merchants--The Drapers in Olden Times--Milborne's Charity--Dress and Livery--Election Dinner of the Drapers' Company--A Draper's Funeral--Ordinances and Pensions--Fifty-three Draper Mayors--Pageants and Processions of the Drapers--Charters--Details of the present Drapers' Hall--Arms of the Drapers' Company 515

CHAPTER XLVI.

BARTHOLOMEW LANE AND LOMBARD STREET.

George Robins--His Sale of the Lease of the Olympic--St. Bartholomew's Church--The Lombards and Lombard Street--William de la Pole--Gresham--The Post Office, Lombard Street--Alexander Pope's Father in Plough Court--Lombard Street Tributaries--St. Mary Woolnoth--St. Clement's--Dr. Benjamin Stone--Discovery of Roman Remains--St. Mary Abchurch 522

CHAPTER XLVII.

THREADNEEDLE STREET.

The Centre of Roman London--St. Benet Fink--The Monks of St. Anthony--The Merchant Taylors--Stow, Antiquary and Tailor--A Magnificent Roll--The Good Deeds of the Merchant Taylors--The Old and the Modern Merchant Taylors' Hall--"Concordia parvae res crescunt"--Henry VII. enrolled as a Member of the Taylors' Company--A Cavalcade of Archers--The Hall of Commerce in Threadneedle Street--A Painful Reminiscence--The Baltic Coffee-house--St. Anthony's School--The North and South American Coffee-house--The South Sea House--History of the South Sea Bubble--Bubble Companies of the Period--Singular Infatuation of the Public--Bursting of the Bubble--Parliamentary Inquiry into the Company's Affairs--Punishment of the Chief Delinquents--Restoration of Public Credit--The Poets during the Excitement--Charles Lamb's Reverie 531 CHAPTER XLVIII.

CANNON STREET.

London Stone and Jack Cade--Southwark Bridge--Old City Churches--The Salters' Company's Hall, and the Salters' Company's History--Oxford House--Salters' Banquets--Salters' Hall Chapel--A Mysterious Murder in Cannon Street--St. Martin Orgar--King William's Statue--Cannon Street Station 544

CHAPTER XLIX.

CANNON STREET TRIBUTARIES AND EASTCHEAP.

Budge Row--Cordwainers' Hall--St. Swithin's Church--Founders' Hall--The Oldest Street in London--Tower Royal and the Wat Tyler Mob--The Queen's Wardrobe--St. Antholin's Church--"St. Antlin's Bell"--The London Fire Brigade--Captain Shaw's Statistics--St. Mary Aldermary--A Quaint Epitaph--Crooked Lane--An Early "Gun Accident"--St. Michael's and Sir William Walworth's Epitaph--Gerard's Hall and its History--The Early Closing Movement--St. Mary Woolchurch--Roman Remains in Nicholas Lane--St. Stephen's, Walbrook--Eastcheap and the Cooks' Shops--The "Boar's Head"--Prince Hal and his Companions--A Giant Plum-pudding--Goldsmith at the "Boar's Head"--The Weigh-house Chapel and its Famous Preachers--Reynolds, Clayton, Binney 550

CHAPTER L.

THE MONUMENT AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

The Monument--How shall it be fashioned?--Commemorative Inscriptions--The Monument's Place in History--Suicides and the Monument--The Great Fire of London--On the Top of the Monument by Night--The Source of the Fire--A Terrible Description--Miles Coverdale--St. Magnus, London Bridge 565