Danes attack London 40-massacre of

42

Dane-gelt levied 42

Dangerfield's plot discovered 449
Dearth in corn 253-through secret
exportation 288- excessive 312
Disorders in the city 95

Dispute between the lord mayor and
the bishop of Ely 285-between the
lord mayor and commonalty respect-
ing the election of sheriffs 357
Ditch (the common) cleansed 207-
city, repaired 309

Dolphin taken near London-bridge
143

Dudley, lord G. beheaded 250
Dutch enthusiasts appear in London
114

Earl of March arrives in London 173
-is crowned as Edward IV. 174—
flies to Holland 175-returns ib.
Earthquake in London 79, 316
Ecclesiastics rendered amenable to
civil law 200
Edge-hill, battle of, 363
Edward I. knights his son 97

Edward II, distrains the goods of the
mayor and aldermen 98-his oppres-
sions ib.

seizes the city liberties 104
deposed 106
Edward III. death of, 117
Edward IV. calls a parliament 178-
calls on the city for money 180
Edward V. brought to London 181
Edward VI. accession of 232

Edward, prince, returns from Wales,
and breaks open the treasury of the
Knights templars 84

Edward the Black Prince enters Lon-
don in great pomp 111
Elizabeth proclaimed 254- sends let-
ters to the city demanding men 300
-returns thanks at St. Paul's for
the defeat of the Spanish armada
804-death of 316-burial ib.
Ely-house, splendid entertainment at,
214-account of provisions ib.
Embassy sent to the pope
Enthusiasts appear in the city 305-
leaders of executed 306
Entrances to London closed 363
Environs of London fortified 364
Essex, earl of returns from Ireland
812-assembles a band at Essex-
house 314-attempts to raise the

city ib.-surrenders to the queen's
forces 315-condemned and executed
for high treason ib.

Estates, immense, of the Spencers 108
Etymology of London 5

Evelyn's account of the great fire of
London 413

Exchange, Royal, foundation of, laid
277-opened 285

Exchequer, king John removes the, 67
-shut up 443

Excise duty first introduced 368
Expedition against the Scotch by
a lord mayor 118-victory obtained
by him ib.

Explosion, dreadful, in Tower-street

374

Extent of the great fire 412, 425
Extortions of Henry III. 82

Fair at Westminster established 79
Famine in the city 82

Fete on the water 325

Fever rages in London, 41, 253
Fines, enormous, imposed on the city

142

Fines and imprisonment, general 461
Fires destroy great part of the city 52
54, 68, 76

Fire in Leadenhall 190
Fire, the great, in 1666 401-London
Gazette account of, ib. Lord Cla-
rendon's narrative 403-Vincent's
account 406-Evelyn's account 413
-Pepys' account 417-a preconcert-
ed scheme 427- evidence taken by
commissioners 429-a conspirator
executed on his own confession 431
Fires kept during the plague 386
Fish, new market for, opened 134
Fisher, bishop of Rochester, executed

220

Fitz-Stephen's account of London 58
Fleet fitted out to oppose the Danes 41
Flood, great 252

Folkmote described 82

Fords across the Thames 6

Foreign merchants, privileges of 115
Foreigners ordered to leave England

73

Foreigners encroach on the rights of
the citizens 252

Fortifications round London 364-de-
molished 371

Foundation of London by Lud 1
Fraud by the vicar of Barking 157
French invited over 70

Frost, great in 1269 89-in 1434 156

853

Habeas Corpus act passed 448
Hampden opposes the levying of ship
money 346

Hastings, lord, death of 182

Hawkers and pedlars restrained 316
Hengist lands 38

Henry III. enters London 72-tyrannic
conduct of 75, 79-interferes with
the election of mayor 78—with his
queen enters London 77-takes pos-
session of the Tower and calls a par-
liament 83-agrees to the terms of
the barons, retracts, and submits his
grievances to Louis of France 85-
death of 90

Henry IV. crowned 148-death of 150
Henry V. returns from France 151-
death 52

Henry VI. proclaimed 152-crowned

at Paris 153-knights the aldermen
for their gallant defence of the city
177-death of 177
Henry VII. crowned 190-marriage ib.
---borrows money of the citizens 191
--oppresses the citizens 192-death
of 197-immense wealth ib.

James I. enters London 317-corona-
tion of ib.-knights all the aldermen
ib.-borrows money of the city 318
—becomes a member of the cloth-
workers' company 324-borrows
money 325-protects archery 325-
proceeds to St. Paul's church in state
332- death of 334

James II. crowned 462 — attacks the
bishops 464-quits Whitehall 467
Janus marble found at St. Thomas a
Watering 36

Jews in London oppressed 71-massa-
cre of 1261 84-again in 1264 85—
-executed for clipping the coin 93
--synagogues destoyed 94-punish-
ed for usury 95

.

John grants the sheriffwicks of London
and Middlesex to the city 66
Just held at Westminster 286

Kent, the holy maid of, tried and exe-
cuted 219

Kings, four dine with the lord mayor

113

Kitchens erected at Guildhall 196
Knives, first making of, in London
276

Lambeth palace attacked by the ap-
prentices 847

Lamb's foundations 292

Lancaster, duke of, assumes the crown
147

Laystalls, dirty state of the streets

through, 140

Leadenhall plentifully stored with
grain 199

Leeds, origin of the noble house of

274

Lewis arrives in England 71-retires

-ib. the city lend him money ib.-
gives his award in favour of Henry
III. 86

Liberties of the city seized 81
Llewellen, king of Wales, death of 93
Loan of £15,000 to Elizabeth by the
city 305-from the city 336
Lollards oppressed 149, 151
London placed south of the Thames

by Ptolemy 3-deserted by the Ro-
mans 11-captured by Hengist 38-
recaptured by Ambrosius ib-sub.
jected to the kingdom of Essex 39-
appointed a royal residence ib.-in-
terdicted 67

London Stone 33-opinions of various
antiquaries thereon 34
Longchamp, bishop of Ely, tyrannic
proceedings of 63

Lottery, first ever drawn 277
Luxembourg, Ann of, arrives in Eng-
land 133

Luxury of the times 72-of the citizens
295

Lydgate's account of the pageants on
the arrival of Henry VI. from
France 154

Maces, grant to the mayor and sheriffs
to have them borne before them 111
Magistrate, the principal one of Lon-

don acts as chief butler at the coro-
nation 62-extravagant living of 251
Marshalls, city appoint two 280
Marshall provost appointed 310
Marriage proposed between Mary and

Philip of Spain 244-confirmed by
parliament 250

Marriage between Frederick and the
princess Elizabeth 326
Martial law established 309

Mary, queen of Scotland entertained
in the city 235

Mary, queen, proclaimed 241-corona-
tion 242-repairs to Guildhall and
addresses the citizens 245-death of
254

Massacre, dreadful, by the Britons 11
- of the Jews at the coronation of
Richard I. 61

Maud grants London, the Tower, &c.
to the earl of Essex 55
May-day evil 202, 298-games at
Greenwich 206

Mayor, the term first used in 1199 66
-appointed ambassador 93--com-
manded to attend in the Tower, re-
fuses, is imprisoned 95-prosecuted
by the parliament 373-appoints the
sheriffs 453-proceedings thereupon
ib

Meal-tub plot, discovery of 449

Meat, price of, fixed by the parliament

236

Members released by order of the

house of commons 350-the prose-
cuted, take refuge in the city 361-
and arrive in state at the house of
commons ib.

Men at arms demanded by Elizabeth
from the city 311-marched to Do-
ver 312-mustered before Elizabeth
274-assembled on Blackheath 297
Merchant-Taylors and Goldsmiths,
quarrel between 89 purchase
charter of the king 196

Middlesex, forest of, disafforested 72
Militia, city, appointed to guard the
house of commons 362
Monasteries dissolved 221

Money advanced by the city to Charles
I. 338, 350-by the city to the par-
liament 869,374

Monk enters the city 376
Monteagle, lord, receives a letter re-
specting the Powder-plot 320
Moorfields riot in 370-encreases ib.-
is quelled by Fairfax 371
More, sir T. executed 220
Mortality among the cattle 228
Mummery at Kennington, 1877 115—
explanation of the term 116

Murder committed in Bow church 94
-committed by the citizens 156-
infamous, by a priest 200-of sir T.
Overbury 327

Muster of the militia, by order of
James 1. 331

Naseby, battle of 369
Newbury, battle of 867
New River formed 327
Newspapers origin of, 280
Nicholas, the pope's legate, arrives to

receive the submission of John 68
Nobility, costly housekeeping of 99

Noblemen beheaded on Tower-hill

241

Numbers destroyed by the plague 390,

395

Oates, Titus, plots 445-sentence on
462

Orders by the lord mayor and alder-
men respecting the plague 282
Outrages frequent in the city 102-en-
quired into ib.

Oxford, statutes of, framed by the ba-

rons 82

Pageant in the city on the victory of
Edward over the Scotch 26-on the
water 1533 216-on queen Mary's
going to her coronation 242--exhi-

bited on queen Elizabeth going
through the city to her coronation

254

Pope's nuncio arrives in England 198
Parliament summoned by king John
67 of the white-bands 103-grants
aid to Henry VII 193-dissolved
by Charles I. 340-borrow money
of the city 356-both houses of, en-
tertained by the city 368-a new one
called by Charles I. 847-meet at
Oxford 451

Paving of Holborn commenced 219
Pave, act of parliament to, various
streets 228

Peace proclaimed 274
Penny of gold coined 84

Pepys' account of the fire of London 417
Perjury, laws enacted against, 192
Perkin Warbeck defeated by Henry
VII. 192-taken and conducted to
the Tower ib.

Pestilence ravages London 110, 180
Petition of Right agreed to by Charles

I. 338-shewing the grievances of
the city and country 849-signed by
15,000 citizens, presented to the
house of commons 361-contents of
ib.

Philip of Spain enters London 258
Phillippa, queen, arrives in London

Plan for rebuilding the city by sir C.
Wren 438

Plays, religious, at Clerkenwell 149-
suppressed 289-not to be acted dur
ing the plague 892

Plot, Gunpowder, discovered 319-
new, agitated 448

Police of the metropolis, great imper-
fections in 1175 57

Poll-tax levied 119

Poultry, price of 286

Prayer, common, first used in St. Paul's
church 239

Preacher at St. Paul's cross attacked
241

Present of money made by the city to

the king 1207 67

Presents made by the city to the prin-
cess Elizabeth on her marriage 326
Printing, introduction of 178
Procession, mock, through the city
449

Profligate conduct of Charles II. 443
Property consumed in the great fire 412,
426

Prosecution of sir W. Capel by Emp-
son and Dudley 197

Protector Somerset and the council
quarrel 234

Protestation of the commons 340
Provisions, price of, in the year 1000

42-in 1152 56, 91-scarcity of 101
in 1335 108

Prynne prosecuted for his Histrio
Mastix 841

Public offices removed after the great
fire 431

Queen Isabella received into London
145

Rain, great shower of 289

Raleigh, sir Walter, executed 331
Rapacious ministers of Henry VII.
tried and executed 198

Rebellion in Kent 244-Londouers
march to attack Wyatt ib.-go over
to him ib.

Rebuild the city, proclamation made
to 432

Reformation, advances of 215, 233
Regency appointed 90

Regicides executed 378

Regiments (two) sent by the city to the
parliamentary army 368

Rents of houses in 1549 235
Representatives, three returned to par-
liament 102

Requests, court of, first established 319
Revenge of the Danes for the massacre

of their countrymen 43
Richard I. expedition to Palestine of
62-appoints a regency 63-crowned
a second time 64-returns to Eng-
land-magnificent reception of, by
the citizens ib.

Richard II. crowned 117-demands mo-
ney of the city which they refuse 140
the mayor and sheriffs deposed by
ib.-the citizens reinstated in their
power 142-tyrannizes over his sub-
jects, who rebel 146-deposed 147
murdered ib.

Richard III. crowned 189-death 190
Riot in 1196 64-at Oxford 77-the
heads of the different colleges oblig-
ed to repair to London ib.-in the
city 105,107,150-in Cheapside 106,
150-in Fleet-street between the ci-
tizens and the law students 170-on
May-day 203-between the appren-
tices and the Tower warders 309-
in the city, 1628 336-at Guildhall
455
Roman remains discovered in St.
George's Fields 4-discoveries at
Coway stakes 7-camp at Islington
15-discoveries made there 16-
roads 16-stations in Middlesex 16
-discoveries made of Roman Lon-
don and its environs northward of
the Thames 19-remains, extensive,
discovered 1785 27-specula at
Cripplegate 33-remains discovered
south of the river Thames 35-pave-
ment found behind Winchester-
house 35-remains found near Kent-
street 36 remains discovered in
Saint George's-fields 36, 37-re-
mains discovered in various parts
of Southwark 37-utensil found near
Vauxhall 37-remains found at
Clapham 37-remains discovered in
Leadenhall-street 292

-

Scales, lord, enters the city 170
Schools, petition for founding four in
different churches 160-set up in
London 167

Sepulchral statue discovered 1669 21
Seymour, Ann, marries Henry VIII.
221

Shaw, Dr. preaches in favour of Glou-
cester's right to the throne 184
Sheriffs of London commanded to pro-
vide measures, weights, &c 66-em-
powered to empanel juries 200-
drinking, &c. custom of 295
Ships, sixteen manned and equipped to
go against the Spaniards 304
Ship-money writs issued for levying
344-city oppose it il.

Shooting-match, splendid, in Moor-
fields 296

Shops in London, order for shutting
up 363

Sickness sweating rages 190, 207, 214
237

Site of the battle between the Britons
and Romans A. D. 61, 13—of Ca-
sar's passage across the Thames,
conjectures on 5

Slander on the duke of York 457
Smithfield paved 330

Soldiers fitted out to go to the assistance
of the Dutch 297

Soldiers raised by the city 313
Somerset appointed protector 232-
duke of, tried 238-beheaded ib.--
ea:l of proceedings against, for the
murder of Overbury 328
Southwark granted to the city 237
Spanish ambassador's house attacked
354 privateers molest English
vessels 857

Spencers (the) executed 106
Spital sermon inciting the citizens to
rise 202

Splendour of the city 15
Sports practised by citins 59
Stalls in the streets, act of common
council against 340

Star-chamber, tyranni roceedings of
347

State, officers of, punised 95
Stationers' company, loss sustained by
in 1666 415

Stephen usurps the crown 54
Stews on Bankside abolished
Strafford, earl of, executed 357-lord,
executed 451

St. Martin's-le-grand, privileges of 157
Strangers, number of, taken 306