We have seen London from age to age. It has changed indeed. Yet in one thing it has shown no change. London has always been a city looking forward, pressing forward, fighting for the future, using up the present ruthlessly for the sake of the future, trampling on the past. As it has been, so it is. The City may have reached its highest point; it may be about to decline; but as yet it shows no sign, it has sounded no note of decay, or of decline, or of growing age. The City, which began with the East Saxon settlement among the forsaken streets thirteen hundred years ago, is still in the full strength and lustihood of manhood--perhaps as yet it is only early manhood. For which, as in private duty bound, let us laud, praise, and magnify the Providence which has so guided the steps of the citizens, and so filled their hearts, from generation to generation, with the spirit of self-reliance, hope, and courage. INDEX Abergavenny House, 177 "Abram Man," the, 416 Agas, Ralph, map of, 274 Ale-houses, number of, in 1736, 476 Alfune, founder of Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate, 63 Alien priories suppressed, 240 Alleyn, 364 All Hallows the Great, Church of, Thames Street, 441 Almshouses in the City, 238 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, 85 Alsatia, 120 Amusements in Saxon and Norman times, 90 Anderida destroyed, 29 "Angler," the, 416 _Angliæ Metropolis, or, The Present State of London_, 1690, quoted, 400 _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, 1, 8, 13; London not mentioned in, 13 Antwerp at commencement of Elizabeth's reign, 293 Apothecaries, 474 Apprentices, London, 334 Assessment of London in 1397, 184 Augusta, fate of, after the Romans left, 8 Aulaf and Swegen, 85 Austin Friars Monastery, 112; distinguished persons buried there, 264 Bagnigge Wells, 492 Baltic Coffee-house, 477 Bank Side, 356 Barber-surgeons, 474 Barnard's Castle, 288 Bartholomew's Fair, 457 Bassing Hall, 83 Bath, ruins of Roman temples at, 6 Baynard's Castle, history of, 163 Bean tansy, 476 Bede's Ecclesiastical History, 1 Beer-drinking, 419 Beer the national drink, 83, 481 Bermondsey, Abbey of, 134, 267 -- Spa Gardens, 496 Bethlehem Hospital, 131 Black Friars Church destroyed, 267 Blackfriars Theatre, 308 Blackwell Hall, 83 Blakeney, William, story of, 249 Blue-coat School, 115, 303 Bonvici, Antonio, 170 Bow Church, Mile End Road, 135 Bowyers' Company, 454 Bradford-on-Avon, description of Church of St. Laurence at, 71 Bread a luxury in time of Charles II., 421 Brewer, Dr., and his estimate of mediæval London, 155 Breweries along the river, 50 Bridewell Palace, 83 Briset, Jordan, and Muriel, his wife, 65, 128 Buildings small and mean until long after the Norman conquest, 47 Bull-baiting, 356, 361, 408 "Bully," the, in the Georgian period, 489 Burghley House, 286 Butcher Row, 446 Calleva Atrebatum destroyed, 29 Card-makers' Company, 454 Card-playing _temp._ Elizabeth, 310 Carmelites, the, 119