Jonson, Ben, 363, 365 Justice under the Plantagenets, 245 Jutes, the, 9, 27, 28 Kidnappers of the Georgian era, 486 Kingston-on-Hull, Trinity House at, 87 Knights Hospitallers, Church of, blown up with gunpowder, 266 Ladies' Bower, the, 89 -- occupation of, in time of George I., 478 _Latroon, Meriton, Life of_, 414 Lepers, lazar-house established in St. Giles in the Fields for, 141 Life in the time of George II., 460 "Limitour," the, in Chaucer, 149 Lloyd's Coffee-house, 478 Loftie's _History of London_, 13, 22 Lombard Street, drapers in, 217 -- -- Gresham's shop in, 301 London a city of ruins, _temp._ Elizabeth, 263 -- commercial centre of the world, _temp._ Elizabeth, 293 -- conquest of, by the men of Essex, compared with that of Jerusalem by Titus, 40 -- conversion of, A.D. 604, 45 -- craftsmen of, 215 -- described by William Fitz-Stephen, 48 -- desolate state of, after the Roman period, 34 -- drinking and fires the pests of, 52 -- found deserted by the East Saxons, 34 -- mediæval, description of, 157, 185 -- merchant generally a gentleman, 200 -- municipal history of, 91 -- not mentioned in _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, 12 -- population of, _temp._ Richard II., 49 -- rebuilding of, after Great Fire, 398 -- Saxon and Norman, described, 92 -- veritable mother of saints, 45 London Bridge, chapel on, 78 -- -- first stone, 77 -- -- songs on, 81 Londoners in the time of Elizabeth, 278 Long Bowstring-makers' Company, 454 Loriners' Company, 454 Mail-coaches, 464 Malpas, Philip, 238 Manners, City, in time of Charles II., 407 Manny, Sir Walter, 120 Matilda, Queen of Henry I., 65 -- wife of King Stephen, founds St. Katherine's by the Tower, 65 Maurice, Bishop, 53 May-day in the City, 231 May Fair, 457 May-pole, the, 332 Mediæval furniture, 181 -- London, description of, 157 -- names, survival of, 19 Megusers' Company, 453 Mellitus, first Bishop of London, 39 Mercers' Chapel, 142 Merchant adventurers, the, 295, 296 -- London, generally a gentleman, 200 -- Taylors' School, 303 Misrule, feast of, 309 "Mithridate" water, 473 Mitre Tavern, 351 Monastery towns grow rapidly and prosper, 46 Monk in Chaucer, 150 Moorfields, people camped in, after the Great Fire, 399 More, Sir Thomas, and Crosby Hall, 170 Morris-dancing, 233 Mughouse, a kind of music-hall, 480 "Mumpus," the, 416 Municipal London, history of, 91 Mystery plays, 94 Nennius, 1 New Abbey, 133 -- -- pulled down, 263 Newspapers about 1750, 465 Nobility, residences of, in City, 177 Norman House, description of, 86 -- London, monuments of, 52 Northumberland House, 288 -- -- site originally of Hospital of St. Mary Rounceval, 141 Nunneries in Saxon times, 93 Old Jewry, branch of the _Fratres de Saccâ_ established in, 139 "Oxford Clerk" in Chaucer, 150 Pads, 415 Pageants, City, 224 -- Elizabethan, 305 Palaces of the nobility in the City, 174 Papey College, 144 Pardon Church-yard, 121 "Pardoner" in Chaucer, 153