London, a city of palaces, 157 and the Danes, 140-2 Fire of, 181-192 fires in, 25, 151, 181 fogs, 23 foundation of, 123-9 Friars in, 195-8 Hospitals, 233 in Norman days, 143-6 in Middle Ages, 157-65 in Roman days, 130-6 in Saxon days, 137-40 Plague in, 183-4 reasons for position of, 126-9 remains of Roman Wall, 133-6 Tower of, 166-80 London Bridge, 147-156 a great procession on, 155 a tournament on, 154 its dangers, 151 its relation to the City, 128-9 L.C.C. County Hall, 232 London Dock, 110-1 London Stone, Yantlet Creek, 35 Lower Reaches, 19-23 Macfarlane, Charles, 42 Maidenhead, 46 Marshes on banks, 16, 64-76 Mandeville, Geoffrey de, 171-2 Matilda, Empress, 170-2 Maud of Boulogne, 105, 171 Medway, River, 40-51 Merton, Walter de, 251 Millwall Dock, 112 Minster-in-Sheppey, 32 Monument, The, 181-2 Morris, William, 241-2 Mortlake, 338 New Bridge, 242 Nore Lightship, 15, 118 Northfleet, 65-6 Northumberland House, 207 Old Windsor, 287 Oxford, 246-262 Bodleian Library, 255 Castle, 256 Colleges, 251-5 founding of the University, 249-51 its origin, 247-8 Tom Tower, 254 Pangbourne, 279 Peasants’ Revolt, 60 Pepys, Samuel, 34, 77, 186 Peter of Colechurch, 148 Pett, Peter, 47 Pilots, 55 Placentia, Palace of, 89 Plague, the Great, 183-4 Pool, The, 26-8 Port Meadow, 243 Port of London, 23-6, 101-19 Authority, 15, 118-19 Port Victoria, 35 Princes in Tower, 171 Purfleet, 68 Putney, 338-9 Queenborough, 35 Queenhithe, 101 Radley, 284 Ranelagh Gardens, 343 Reading, 271-8 Abbey, 272-6 and the Civil War, 275 modern, 277-8 Regent’s Canal Dock, 111 Richmond, 326-31 River police, 116-8 Rochester, 49-51 Roding, River, 71-2 Roman remains in London, 132-5 Rosherville Gardens, 65 Rotherhithe, 113 Royal Albert Dock, 113-4 Victoria Dock, 113-4 Savoy Palace, 204-5 Saxon Kings crowned at Kingston, 319-20 “Scholar Gypsy,” 261-2 Scotland Yard, 207 Shadwell, 105 Sheen, 327 Sheerness, 34 Sheppey, 31-3 Shoeburyness, 37-8 Shooter’s Hill, 77-9 Silvertown, 114 Sion House, 332 Somerset House, 203 Sonning, 279-80 Southend, 36-7 St. James’s Park, 207 St. Katherine’s Dock, 102, 105 St. Paul’s Cathedral, 124, 188, 191, 211 St. Saviour’s Dock, 102, 108 St. Thomas’s Hospital, 233 Staple Inn, 159 Stephen, King, 170, 256, 267 Stow, 161, 179 Strand, The, 193 Streatley, 268 “Stripling Thames,” 237-45 Stroud, 49 Surrey Commercial Dock, 112 Swale, The, 41 Tea, 106 Teddington, 325 Temple Bar, 232 Church, 201 Gardens, 202 Temple, The, 199-203 Thame, River, 265 Thames Haven, 68 Thames Head, 237 Thames River, early tributaries of, 239 geology of, 267-70 locks on, 243-5 material brought down by, 64-5 origin of, 2-5 reasons for importance, 11-14 terraces of bed, 283-4 the basin of, 7-10 the sources, 237-9 tunnels under, 113 Thorney Island, 130, 211-2 Tilbury, 57-63 Docks, 71, 104 Fort, 57 Elizabeth at, 57-8 Tower Bridge, 231 Tower of London, 166-80 Trewsbury Mead, 237-9 Twickenham, 325