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| Extract from Letter-Book E, dated 1316, relating to the Grocers’ Company |
5 |
| Obverse and Original Reverse of the Seal of the City of London, showing Figure of St. Thomas à Becket |
13 |
| Old Mayoralty Seal, Thirteenth Century |
15 |
| King John signing Magna Charta |
Facing 20 |
| Aldgate House, Bethnal Green |
25 |
| Parts of the South and West Walls of a Convent |
30 |
| The Tower of London about 1480 |
39 |
| The Crown offered to Richard III. at Baynard’s Castle |
Facing 56 |
| King Richard holding a Council of Nobles and Prelates |
61 |
| Henry of Bolingbroke challenges the Crown |
62 |
| Richard II. consulting with his Friends in Conway Castle |
63 |
| Richard II. and his Patron Saints |
69 |
| Whittington and his Cat |
73 |
| Death of Whittington |
74 |
| Crossbowman |
77 |
| The Morning of Agincourt |
81 |
| Facsimile of Heading of Account, 1575-1576, showing Cooper at Work |
85 |
| South-East View of the Old House lately standing in Sweedon’s Passage, Grub Street |
91 |
| South-West View of Gerrard’s Hall |
Facing 100 |
| Facsimile of Surgeons’ Arms, 1492, with St. Cosmo and St. Damian supporting |
101 |
| Interior of the Guildhall |
103 |
| A Tally for 6s. 8d. issued by Edward I.’s Treasurer to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire |
105 |
| Election Garland given by Robert and Cicely Chamberlayn, 1463 |
105 |
| A Bagpipe-Player |
110 |
| Illustration from Zeller’s La France Anglaise et Charles VII. |
111 |
| The Seal of the Vintners’ Company, 1437 |
112 |
| Tombstone of William Warrington, Master Mason, at Croyland Abbey, 1427 |
113 |
| Coopers’ Marks, A.D. 1420 |
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| Part of Facsimile of the Original Charter granted by King Richard III. to the Worshipful Company of
Wax Chandlers of the City of London (16th February, 1 Richard III.) |
116 |
| Liverymen of London |
117 |
| Frontispiece to the Grangerised Edition of Brayley’s London and Middlesex |
Facing 118 |
| William Smallwood, Master of the Pewterers’ Company |
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| St. Ethelburga’s Church, Bishopsgate Street |
129 |
| The Prioress |
131 |
| The Monk and his Greyhounds |
131 |
| Chantry Chapel of Henry V. in Westminster Abbey |
133 |
| Earl of Northumberland receiving Mass |
135 |
| Interesting Antiquities in Westminster Abbey |
Facing 138 |
| Savoy Chapel and Palace |
141 |
| The Lollard’s Tower, Lambeth Palace |
149 |
| Knights of the Holy Ghost embarking for the Crusades |
151 |
| A Priest called John Ball stirs up great Commotion in England |
155 |
| Embroidery of the Fourteenth Century, supposed to be part of a Frontal or Antependium |
160 |
| Archbishop of Canterbury preaching on behalf of Henry, Duke of Lancaster |
161 |
| Queen Margaret, Wife of Henry VI., at Prayers |
168 |
| All Hallows, London Wall |
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| Wilsdon, Middlesex |
181 |
| The Tabard Inn, Borough |
187 |
| Boss from the Ruins of the East Cloister of St. Bartholomew’s Priory |
195 |
| Sanctuary Knocker, Durham Cathedral |
202 |
| The Martyrdom of St. Thomas |
203 |
| Brasses in St. Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield |
207 |
| The Sanctuary Church at Westminster |
209 |
| North-West View of the Ruins of the Bishop of Winchester’s Palace, Southwark |
215 |
| Torments of Hell |
219 |
| The Chapel of the Hospital for Lepers in Kent Street, Southwark, called Le Lock |
Facing 220 |
| Funeral Service |
223 |
| North View of the Oratory of the Ancient Inn situated in Tooley Street, Southwark, and formerly
belonging to the Priors of Lewes in Sussex |
229 |
| The Sanctuary of St. Martin’s-le-Grand |
235 |
| Plan of Holy Trinity Priory (Ground Floor Story) |
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Between 244 and245 |
| Plan of Holy Trinity Priory (Second Floor Story) |
| The Charter House |
246 |
| Conjectural Restoration of the Buildings of the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great as existing
in Prior Bolton’s time (about A.D. 1530) |
251 |
| Part of the Choir, with the Remains of the South Transept, of the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great |
252 |
| Tomb of Prior Rahere |
253 |
| The Gate of St. Bartholomew’s Priory |
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| St. Bartholomew the Less |
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| Interior of St. Bartholomew the Great |
259 |
| Eastern Cloister of St. Bartholomew’s Priory |
261 |
| Seal of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon |
263 |
| Becket receiving a letter from Henry II. constituting him Chancellor. Consecration of Becket to the
See of Canterbury. Becket approaching the King with Disapprobation |
265 |
| The Priory of St. John of Jerusalem, London |
271 |
| Crypt of St. John’s Church, Clerkenwell |
273 |
| “The Templars”: an Ancient House at Hackney |
275 |
| Knight Templar |
276 |
| Knight Templar: Temple Church |
276 |
| An Effigy at the Temple Church, erroneously described as that of Sir Geoffrey de Mandeville |
277 |
| Interior of the Temple Church |
279 |
| Ancient Cloisters in Clerkenwell |
285 |
| The Arms and Seals of the Prior and Convent of St. Saviour at Bermondsey |
289 |
| Bermondsey Abbey |
293 |
| A General View of the Remains of Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey |
Facing 294 |
| Figure of a Knight Templar |
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| Traditional Figure of Old Overie |
| Gower’s Monument, St. Mary Overies |
299 |
| Bishop Andrewes’ Tomb, St. Mary Overies |
301 |
| Gateway of St. Mary’s Priory, Southwark |
303 |
| Ancient Crypt, Southwark |
305 |
| North-East View of St. Saviour’s Church |
307 |
| South-West View of the Interior of the Church of St. Helen, Bishopsgate Street |
314 |
| South-East View of the Nunnery of St. Helen, Bishopsgate Street |
315 |
| The Crypt of the Nunnery of St. Helen, in Bishopsgate Street |
317 |
| Seals of St. Helen’s Nunnery |
319 |
| The Gothic Altar-piece in the Collegiate Church of St. Katherine, with the Monuments of the Duke of
Exeter and of the Hon. G. Montague |
335 |
| The Church of Austin Friars |
345 |
| Arms of Sir R. Whittington, Grey Friars, now Christ’s Hospital |
348 |
| Christ’s Hospital, from the Cloisters |
349 |
| “Ye Plat of Ye Graye Friers,” A.D. 1617 |
351 |
| Blackfriars’ Priory |
355 |
| A Column of the Hall of Blackfriars’ Priory |
357 |
| Crypt of Old Whitefriars’ Priory |
361 |
| Flagellants |
367 |
| Interior of Old Lambe’s Chapel, Monkwell Street |
369 |
| Exterior of the South Side of Old Lambe’s Chapel |
371 |
| North-East View of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Leadenhall, in the Parish of St. Peter-upon-Cornhill,
London |
375 |
| Hall of the Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity |
383 |
| Page of the Roll containing the names of the “Brethren and Sisters” of the Guild of Fraternity of
Corpus Christi, 1485, 1486, 1488 |
Facing 384 |
| North-West View of the Chapel and Part of the Great Staircase leading to the Hall of Bridewell
Hospital, London |
386 |
