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Execution of Perkin Warbeck...Decapitation of
Anne Boleyn, and Catharine Howard...Remark-
able instance of Sleepfulness...Court of Edward
VI....Imprisonment of the Protector Somerset...
Lady Jane Grey committed to the Tower...Court
of Queen Mary... Insurrection of Sir Thomas
Wyatt...Imprisonment of the Princess Elizabeth
...Decapitation of Lady Jane Grey, and her Hus-
band...Entrance of Queen Elizabeth into the
Tower ...
Prisoners confined here during her
Reign...Combats of Wild Beasts in the reign of
James I....Imprisonment of Lady Arabella Stuart,
and Sir Walter Raleigh...Murder of Sir Thomas
Overbury...Persons confined here in the reign of
Charles I....Murder of the Earl of Essex...Exe-
cution of the Duke of Monmouth. Jacobite
Prisoners in the reign of William III....Illustrious
Personages committed to the Tower for the
Scotch Rebellion in 1715, and 1745...Execution
of Lord Lovat...Imprisonment of Earl Ferrers...
The "patriot" Wilkes... Hardy, Tooke, and Thel-
wall...Sir Francis Burdett...Thistlewood and his
associates...Ancient Processions at Coronations
...The Custom discontinued by Charles I....Re-
vived by his Successor...Discontinued...Interior
of the Fortress...The Ditch...The Inner Ward...
The White Tower Observatory Volunteer
Armoury...Ancient Chapel of St. John... Council
Chamber...Chapel of St. Peter...The Beauchamp
and other Towers...Traitor's Gate...Collection of
Arms...Spanish Armoury...New Horse Armoury
arranged by Dr. Meyrick...Equestrian and other
Figures...Grand Store-house... Royal Train of
Artillery...Small Armoury... Royal Menagerie.
Roman Antiquities of London-St. Catherine's Chapel, 81-85
Statement of recent discoveries...Fragments, &c. of

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Original Hall in Alderman's Bury, described by
Fabian...Erection of the present Guildhall...Da-
maged by the Great Fire...The present façade
truly Gothic...Ancient statuary and verses by El-
derton...Description of the Great Hall...Monu-
ments of Wm. Beckford, Esq. W. Pitt, Earl of
Chatham, Adm. Lord Nelson, and the Right Hon.
Wm. Pitt...Inauguration Dinners of the Lord
Mayors...Account of the Visit of the Prince
Regent and Foreign Sovereigns, in June, 1813...
State Table and splendid Paintings...Baron of
Beef...New Law Courts...Common Council Room
...The Crypt...Guildhall Chapel and Library...
Vague charge against the Protector Somerset...
London College...Guildhall Library instituted...
Blackwell Hall...Basing Haugh, or Hall.

115-119

Antiquities of the See of London-Foundation of St. Paul's

Cathedral-Early Simony-History of the Cathe-

dral to the Norman times

Ecclesiastical Government of London...An Episco-
pal See before the year 326...St. Paul's founded
by Ethelbert, in 610...Relapse of the East Saxons

Priory and Convent founded at Clerkenwell by Jor
dan Briset and Muriel his wife...Original grant for
the Nunnery...Surrounding prospects...Benefac-
tors and revenues at the dissolution...Re-dedica-
tion of the Nun's Church in honour of St. James...
Mansion of Sir Thomas Chalkoner, and inscription
upon the frontispiece... Newcastle House
Anecdotes of Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle...
Her Epitaph in Westminster Abbey...Elizabeth,
Duchess of Albemarle...Her eccentricities, and
marriage with the sham Emperor of China...
Lord Ross's satirical lines on the marriage.

The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem

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church...Crypt... St. John's Gateway...Edward
Cave, and the Gentleman's Magazine.

Inns of Court in London

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Sites of the ancient Inns of Court, viz. Dowgate,
Fetter Lane, and Paternoster Row...Lincoln's
Inn...Thavies Iun...The Temple...Gray's Inn...
Clifford's Inn...Inns of Chancery...Serjeant's Inn...
Scrope's Inn... Clifford's Inn...Clement's Inn...
New Inn...Strand Inn...Furnival's Inn...Staple Ino
...Barnard's Inn...George's Inn...Ancient govern-
ment, discipline, and modes of study in the Middle
and Inner Temples...Regulations for long beards
and wearing apparel.

Berkeley Street, Clerkenwell

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Mansion of Sir Thomas Gresham...Pennant's error
respecting the Royal Exchange...Visit of Queen
Elizabeth to Sir Thomas, and traditionary anec-
dote of the Knight's loyalty ... Foundation ́of
Gresham College, under the provisions of Sir Tho-

Corruption of the name of St. Olave...Foundation
of the Church...Prior of Lewis...Walnut-tree
Court...Abbot of St. Augustine's Inne...Sellen-
ger's Wharf... Abbot of Battle's Inne

Bridge and Stairs...The Maze.

...Battle

Richard II. Monument erected in his lifetime...

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