Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and spelling remain unchanged except where in conflict with the index.

Page numbers have been added to the index entries for City Police, the, and for Kingston-on-Hull

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+The Survey of London+

MEDIÆVAL
LONDON

HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL

_UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME_

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LONDON
IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS

_With 146 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Agas’ Map of London in
1560._

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“A vivid and fascinating picture of London life in the sixteenth century—a novelist’s picture, full of life and movement, yet with the accurate detail of an antiquarian treatise.”—_Contemporary Review._

LONDON
IN THE TIME OF THE STUARTS

_With 116 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Ogilby’s Map of London in
1677._

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LONDON
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

_With 104 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Rocque’s Map of London in
1741-5._

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From MS. in British Museum. Royal 15 E4.]

MEDIÆVAL
LONDON

VOL. I
HISTORICAL & SOCIAL

BY
SIR WALTER BESANT

LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1906

CONTENTS