London (England) -- History; London (England) -- Social life and customs
Carpenter, John, founder of the City of London School, 193
Carthusians, House of the, 120
Castellan and standard-bearer to the City of London, 164
Cedd, Bishop, 53
Champneys, Sir John, 311
Chapter Coffee-house, 477
Charing Cross, 141
Charles, King, deplorable morals of Court of, 371
Charter House, 128, 266
-- -- School, 303
Chaucer, 149
Chepe, 334, 337
-- East, butchers in, 217
-- of mediæval London, 185
-- the chief market of the City, 50
-- West, mercers and haberdashers in, 217
Chester, battle of, in 607, 111
Chichele, Sir Robert, 194
Christ Church, built by Wren, 115
Christian symbols and emblems found on site of Roman towns, 5
Christ's Hospital, 115
Church of England in time of George II., 436
Churches, the thirteen large conventual, 54
-- penalties for absence from, 442
Cistercian Order, 123
City companies, formation of, 208
-- foreign trade of, 190
-- holidays, 236
-- of London School founded by John Carpenter, 193
-- residences of the nobility, 174
-- wall, 81, 111
-- water supply of, 83
-- wealth of, 184
-- worthies, 194
"Clapperdozen," the, 416
Cloth Fair, 63
Clubs, 477
Cnut, 85
Coals, duty on, to rebuild public buildings after the Great Fire, 400
Cock-fighting on Shrove Tuesday, 224
Cockpit Theatre, 308
Coffee-houses, business carried on at, 477
-- first started _temp._ Charles II., 411
Cold Harborough, house built by Sir John Poultney, 166, 289
Companies, City, formation of, 208
Congreve's "Way of the World," 410
Cordwainer Street, shoemakers in, 217
Cornhill, drapers in, 217
Court of Judicature created after the Great Fire, 399
Craftsmen of London, 215
Cranmer and Waltham Abbey, 139
Cromwell House, 265
-- Lord, 325
Crosby Hall, 170, 289
-- Sir John, 169
Crutched Friars' Church turned into a carpenter's shop and
tennis court, 265
-- -- Priory of, 111
Cuneglass, King, 3
Curfew bell, the, 243
Curtain Theatre, Shoreditch, 307
Daily Life, Elizabethan, 303
Dances in time of Elizabeth, 310
Danes, the, 47
Debtors' prison in the Georgian era, 496
Debts, like property, destroyed by the Great Fire, 402
Defoe, Daniel, and his account of the Plague, 377
-- trades enumerated by, 380
Derby House, 163, 289
Dick's Coffee-house, 411
Dominicans, first settlement of, in Chancery Lane, 118
"Dommerer," the, 416
Dover, St. Mary's Church at, 75
Dress of the time of George II., 458
Drinking and fires the pests of London, 52
-- habits in the time of George II., 475
-- in time of Charles II., 407
Dryden, John, on the Great Fire, 404
D'Urfey, Tom, songs of, 412
Durovernum destroyed, 29
East India Company, the, 297
Eastland Company, the, 297
Eastminster, 133
-- pulled down, 263
Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, founds Holywell Nunnery, 132
Education of girls, thorough, _temp._ Elizabeth, 314
Edward II. and the City, 205
Edward IV. and Baynard's Castle, 164
Elbing, merchants of, 296
Eleanor, Queen, a benefactor of St. Katherine's by the Tower, 66
Elizabethan Daily Life, 303
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