Chapter I: Front Matter

_The Story of London_

_The Mediæval Town Series._

*ASSISI. By LINA DUFF GORDON. _5th Edition._

+BRUGES. By ERNEST GILLIAT-SMITH. _3rd Edition._

+BRUSSELS. By ERNEST GILLIAT-SMITH.

+CAIRO. By STANLEY LANE-POOLE. _2nd Edition._

+CAMBRIDGE. By CHARLES W. STUBBS, D.D.

+CHARTRES. By CECIL HEADLAM. _2nd Edition._

*CONSTANTINOPLE. By WM. H. HUTTON. _3rd Edition._

+DUBLIN. By D. A. CHART, M.A.

+EDINBURGH. By OLIPHANT SMEATON, M.A.

+FERRARA. By ELLA NOYES.

+FLORENCE. By EDMUND G. GARDNER. _8th Edition._

+LONDON. By HENRY B. WHEATLEY. _2nd Edition._

LUCCA. By JANET ROSS.

MILAN. By ELLA NOYES.

*MOSCOW. By WIRT GERRARE. _2nd Edition._

*NUREMBERG. By CECIL HEADLAM, M.A. _5th Edition._

+OXFORD. By CECIL HEADLAM, M.A.

PADUA. By C. FOLIGNO.

+PARIS. By THOMAS OKEY.

*PERUGIA. By M. SYMONDS and LINA DUFF GORDON. _6th Edition._

PISA. By JANET ROSS and NELLY ERICHSEN.

*PRAGUE. By COUNT LUTZOW. _2nd Edition._

+ROME. By NORWOOD YOUNG. _5th Edition._

+ROUEN. By THEODORE A. COOK. _3rd Edition._

+SEVILLE. By WALTER M. GALLICHAN.

+SIENA. By EDMUND G. GARDNER. _2nd Edition._

*TOLEDO. By HANNAH LYNCH. _2nd Edition._

+VERONA. By ALETHEA WIEL. _3rd Edition._

+VENICE. By THOMAS OKEY. _3rd Edition._

_The prices of these (*) are 3s. 6d. net in cloth, 4s. 6d. net in
leather; marked (+) 4s. 6d. net in cloth, 5s. 6d. net in leather._

(FROM WM. SMITH'S MS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM).]

_The Story of London=
by Henry B. Wheatley_

_Illustrated by W. H. Godfrey
K. Kimball, H. Railton etc._

_London: J. M. Dent & Co.

Aldine House, 29 and 30 Bedford Street

Covent Garden W.C. 1909_

_First Edition, May 1904._
_Second Editon, August 1905._
_Third Edition, October 1909._

_All rights reserved_

To the Memory

OF A LIFE-LONG FRIEND

DANBY PALMER FRY

(_late Legal Adviser to the Local Government Board_)

I dedicate this little book as a slight expression of the debt of
gratitude I owe to him, and of the great loss I, in common with
all his friends, have suffered by his death.

I especially wish to associate his honoured name with this book because
he took the greatest interest in its evolution, and I have had the
benefit of his acumen and wide knowledge in the consideration of most
of the subjects discussed in its pages.

H. B. W.