Westminster.
From the Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

The Strand.
From the Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde.

St. Paul’s Cathedral.
From the Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde.

London Bridge.
From the Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde.

Billingsgate.
From the Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde.

The Tower of London.
From the Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde.

The Palace at Greenwich.
From the Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde.

The Palace of Greenwich, from the Observatory Hill, with the Spire of St. Paul’s in the Distance.
From a Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Roman Bath in the Strand, discovered in 1841.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1841.
British Museum.

Bastion of the City Wall, in the Churchyard of St. Giles’s, Cripplegate.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1841. British Museum.

The Crypt of Guildhall.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1842. British Museum.

Crypt of St. Michael’s, Aldgate, destroyed in 1870.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1841. British Museum.

Crypt under Merchant Taylors’ Hall, destroyed in 1855.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer. British Museum.

Garden House, Canonbury, built by William Bolton, last Prior of St. Bartholomew’s, Smithfield.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1841. British Museum.

Austin Friars.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1842. British Museum.

A Cell in the Lollards’ Tower, Lambeth.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1841. British Museum.

Entrance to the Lollards’ Tower, Lambeth.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1841. British Museum.

The Guard Room, Lambeth Palace.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1841. British Museum.

Crypt of St. Stephen’s, Westminster.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1842. British Museum.

The Palace of Whitehall.
From a Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Gateway of the Bloody Tower.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1847. British Museum.

Machinery for raising the Portcullis, Tower of London.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1850. British Museum.

Warders’ Lodgings, Tower of London.
From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer, 1847. British Museum.

Footnotes:

[1] One of the “properties” still remains in Ironmongers’ Hall, an ostrich on which a black boy was seated in a seventeenth-century Mayoralty pageant. The beautiful drawings of Anthony Munday’s “Chrysanaleia,” a pageant prepared for Sir John Leman’s Mayoralty procession in 1616, are preserved at Fishmongers’ Hall.

[2] “Piepoudre, so called from the dusty feet of the suitors; or, according to Sir Edward Coke, because justice is there done as speedily as dust can fall from the foot.”—Blackstone’s Comment., vol. iii., chap. 2.

[3] This extract from Fitzstephen is from the translation in Thoms’ edition of Stow, 1842.