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Remote Antiquity of London...Said to have been
founded by Brute, and called Troy-novant, or New
Troy... Presumed to be a City of the Trinobantes
...Its Walls and Fortifications attributed to King
Lud...Arguments to prove it a British City...Error
of Ptolemy and Dr. Gale in placing Londinium on
the south side of the Thames...Embankment of
the River Thames by the Romans.

Etymology of the name of London

Origin of the name uncertain...called by Tacitus

Londinium and Colonia Augusta...Its various ap-

pellations, Llyn-Dyn, or the "Town on the

Lake"...Origin of the name Augusta.

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and Surrey to bring up his ships above London
Bridge...Presumed course of the trench...Assas-
sination of Edmund Ironside by Edric Streon, and
execution of the latter...The crown awarded to
Canute at a general council in London...Edward
the Confessor erects a palace at Westminster, and
rebuilds the Abbey Church. William the Nor-
man crowned at Westminster.

Charter granted to the City by William the Conqueror 57-58

Copy of the Charter from the original among the

Baptismal Coin of Constantine the Great, struck in London

65*-*68

Roman money...Constantine the Great born in Eng-
land...His conversion to Christianity, and Baptism
...Numismatic commemoration of that event.

Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, or Westminster

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Abbey

Extent of Thorney Island...Temple of Apollo...
Westminster Abbey founded by King Sebert...
Legend of its Consecration by St. Peter...Church

enlarged by Offa, and rebuilt by Edward the Con-
fessor...His burial and canonization... His remains
translated into a new Shrine after the partial re-
building of the Church by Henry III....Comple-
tion of the Edifice, and description of the same...
Surrender of the Abbey to Henry VIII. and value
of its possessions...Erection and dissolution of
the Bishopric of Westminster; and re-foundation
of the same as a Collegiate Church.

London in Queen Elizabeth's Reign

Plans of the Metropolis..."Prospect" of London in

the reign of Henry VIII. ... Plan re-engraved by

Vertue..." Civitas Londinum" published by

Ralph Aggas...Verse inscribed on the "Oxonia

Antiqua"...Lines on the plan in the Pepysian

Collection...Vertue's plan...State of the capital in

Queen Elizabeth's reign.

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