Chapter I: Page

ANCIENT LONDON--the dawn of history--Roman London--Saxon London--old London Bridge--remains of ancient London--old roads and streets.....17

CHAPTER II.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL--Anniversary meeting of charity children--interior of St. Paul's--the _Times'_ office--Doctors Commons--Prerogative Court--Examiners of wills--Shakspeare's will--Porters of the neighbourhood--Paul's Wharf--Knightrider-street--Old London thieves--Church of St. Mary Somerset--Cromwell and the clergy--Saracen's Head, Friday-street--Baptism of John Milton--Gerard's Hall--Painter-stainers' Hall--Queenhithe--St. Mary, Aldermanbury--Bow Church.....29

CHAPTER III.

CHEAPSIDE--London thoroughfares--Southwark Bridge--Whittington--Bucklersbury--Walbrook--Roman remains found in Cannon-street--London Stone--The Mansion House--Lombard-street--London bankers--Bankers' clerks--The Monument.....56

CHAPTER IV.

LONDON BRIDGE WHARF--Billingsgate--Coal Exchange--Custom House--St. Dunstan's Church--Mark-lane--Church of Allhallows Barking--East India House.....78

CHAPTER V.

THE TOWER--The White Tower--Hentzner's description of the Tower in the reign of Queen Elizabeth--Anecdotes of lions--The Crown Jewels--The Armoury--Execution of Lady Jane Grey--Prisoners in the Tower--Regulations of the Tower.....103

CHAPTER VI.

LONDON DOCKS--Emigrants--Canterbury colonists--London sempstresses--Emigration.....126

CHAPTER VII.

WHITECHAPEL--Row of butchers' shops--Articles sold in them--Rag Fair--Church of St. Catherine Cree--Crosby Hall--Four Swans' Inn.....141

CHAPTER VIII.

GUILDHALL--Lord Mayor's Banquet--Lord Mayor's Show--Description of, in time of Charles II.--Duties of the Lord Mayor--Gog and Magog--The Sheriff's Court--Monuments in Guildhall--St. Giles's, Cripplegate.....155

CHAPTER IX.

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL--Foundation of, by Edward VI.--Description of supper in--Description of Christ's Hospital as it was two hundred years ago--Christ's Church.....166

CHAPTER X.

SMITHFIELD MARKET--Drovers and their dogs--Smithfield butchers--Countrymen in Smithfield.....174

CHAPTER XI.

NEWGATE--Scenes at executions.....183

CHAPTER XII.

FLEET STREET--Whitefriars--St. Bride's Church--Description of London Lodging-houses--St. Dunstan's Church--the Cock Tavern.....191

CHAPTER XIII.

CHURCH OF ST. CLEMENT'S DANES--The Strand May-pole--Church of St. Mary-le-Strand--Somerset House--Church of the Savoy--The Adelphi--Arches at the Adelphi--Covent-Garden Market--Church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden.....201

CHAPTER XIV.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY--Monuments--Horse-Guards--St. James's Park--Hyde Park--Regent's Park--New Parks.....217

CHAPTER XV.

ST. GILES'S--The Rookery--Church of St. Giles's--Queen Anne's Bath.....229

CHAPTER XVI.

LONDON FOG.....243

CHAPTER XVII.

THE OLD BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK--St. James's Church--Tabard Inn.....249

CHAPTER XVIII.

STREET AMUSEMENTS--Punch and Judy--Organ-boys and monkeys--Fat boys--Tumblers--Stilt-dancers--Jack-in-the-green--Guy Fawkes.....254

CHAPTER XIX.

SPRING-TIME IN LONDON.....262

CHAPTER XX.

LONDON CEMETERIES--Ancient mode of burying the dead--Intramural interments--Ravages of the cholera in 1849.....269

CHAPTER XXI.

GREENWICH PARK--Old pensioners--Telescopes--Gipsies--Blackheath.....283