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Transcribers Notes

The cover was created by adding text to a plain background and is placed in the public domain.

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

The ancient documents reproduced, particularly in Appendix IX, contain abbreviations represented by symbols no longer in use. These have been represented by the tilde .

Lower case Latin numbers surmounted by xx (a score) are shown thus iiijxx.

The two genealogical trees in volume 3 chapter 19 have been supplemented with genealogical tables prepared by the transcriber.

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LONDON
IN THE TIME OF THE TUDORS

With 146 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Agas Map of London in 1560.

For the student, as well as for those desultory readers who are drawn by the rare fascination of London to peruse its pages, this book will have a value and a charm which are unsurpassed by any of its predecessors.Pall Mall Gazette.

A vivid and fascinating picture of London life in the sixteenth centurya novelists picture, full of life and movement, yet with the accurate detail of an antiquarian treatise.Contemporary Review.

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LONDON
IN THE TIME OF THE STUARTS

With 116 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Ogilbys Map of London in 1677.

It is a mine in which the student, alike of topography and of manners and customs, may dig and dig again with the certainty of finding something new and interesting.The Times.

The pen of the ready writer here is fluent; the picture wants nothing in completeness. The records of the city and the kingdom have been ransacked for facts and documents, and they are marshalled with consummate skill.Pall Mall Gazette.

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LONDON
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

With 104 Illustrations and a Reproduction of Rocques Map of London in 1741-5.

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MEDIVAL LONDON
VOL. I. HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL

With 108 Illustrations, mostly from contemporary prints.

The book is at once exact and lively in its statements; there is no slovenly page in iteverywhere there is the sense of movement and colour, and the charm which belongs to a living picture.Standard.

One is struck by the admirable grouping, the consistency and order of the work throughout, and in none more than in this latest instalment.Pall Mall Gazette.

The Survey of London

MEDIVAL
LONDON
ECCLESIASTICAL

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MEDIVAL
LONDON
VOL. II
ECCLESIASTICAL

BY
SIR WALTER BESANT

Publisher's device

LONDON
ADAM & CHARLES BLACK
1906

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CONTENTS

PART I
THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON
CHAP.	PAGE
The Records	3
The Charter of Henry the Second	8
The Commune	11
The Wards	24
The Factions of the City	35
The Century of Uncertain Steps	66
After the Commune	72
The City Companies	108
PART II
ECCLESIASTICAL LONDON
The Religious Life	127
Church Furniture	159
The Calendar of the Year	164
Hermits and Anchorites	170
Pilgrimage	179
Ordeal	191
Sanctuary	201
Miracle and Mystery Plays	213
Superstitions, etc.	218
Order of Burial	223
PART III
RELIGIOUS HOUSES
General	227
St. Martins-le-Grand	234
The Priory of the Holy Trinity, or Christ Church Priory	241
The Charter House	245
Elsyng Spital	248
St. Bartholomew	250
St. Thomas of Acon	263
St. Anthonys	268
The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem	270
The Clerkenwell Nunnery	284
St. John the Baptist, or Holiwell Nunnery	286
Bermondsey Abbey	288
St. Mary Overies	297
St. Thomass Hospital	309
St. Giles-in-the-Fields	311
St. Helens	313
St. Mary Spital	322
St. Mary of Bethlehem	325
The Clares	329
St. Katherines by the Tower	334
Crutched Friars	342
Austin Friars	344
Grey Friars	348
The Dominicans	354
Whitefriars	360
St. Mary of Graces	363
The Smaller Foundations	365
Fraternities	382
Hospitals	385
APPENDICES
List of Wards of London	391
List of Aldermen	393
Alphabetical List of Aldermen whose Names are affixed to Deeds in the Thirteenth Century	395
List of Parishes	397
Patronage of City Churches	400
Festivals	401
An Anchorites Cell	404
The Monastic Houses	406
A Dominican House	407
The Papey	411
Charitable Endowment	413
Fraternities	420
423

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ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Extract from Letter-Book E, dated 1316, relating to the Grocers Company
Obverse and Original Reverse of the Seal of the City of London, showing Figure of St. Thomas Becket
Old Mayoralty Seal, Thirteenth Century
King John signing Magna Charta	Facing
Aldgate House, Bethnal Green
Parts of the South and West Walls of a Convent
The Tower of London about 1480
The Crown offered to Richard III. at Baynards Castle	Facing
King Richard holding a Council of Nobles and Prelates
Henry of Bolingbroke challenges the Crown
Richard II. consulting with his Friends in Conway Castle
Richard II. and his Patron Saints
Whittington and his Cat
Death of Whittington
Crossbowman
The Morning of Agincourt
Facsimile of Heading of Account, 1575-1576, showing Cooper at Work
South-East View of the Old House lately standing in Sweedons Passage, Grub Street
South-West View of Gerrards Hall	Facing

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