London (England) -- History; London (England) -- Social life and customs
Parish organization in time of George II., 439
Patten-makers' Company, 454
Pattens, 484
Pecock, Reginald, Bishop of Chichester, 194
Pembroke, Earl, and Baynard's Castle, 166
Pepys' _Diary_, 417
Pepys on the Great Fire of London, 395
-- on the Plague, 377
Perranazabuloe Church, 75
Pewterers' Company, 454
Philippa, Queen, a benefactor of St. Katherine's by the Tower, 66
"Philo Puttonists," 415
Philpot, Sir John, 190
Picard, Sir Henry, 179
Pilgrims, 57
-- consecration of, 60
-- office of, 58
Pillory, the, 247
"Pimpinios," 415
Plague, the, 376
-- at Astrakhan in 1879, 387
-- at Marseilles in 1720, 387
-- Daniel Defoe on, 377
-- loss caused to trade by, 384
-- Pepys on, 377
-- remedies for, advertised, 408
-- water, 473
Plagues, 376
-- of London, 120
Plagues of 1603 and 1625, 387
Plantagenet London, religious houses the most conspicuous feature of, 107
Poisoning, men boiled and women burned for, 318
Population of London according to Fitz-Stephen, 84
Post-office rates about 1750, 464
Prentice, London, _temp._ Charles II., 414
Prices of food about 1750, 462
-- -- in time of Charles II., 462
"Prioress," the, in Chaucer, 149
Punishments under the Plantagenets, 318
Quacks, 474
Queen's wardrobe, 174
Quintain, the, 304
Rahere, 55, 56, 60, 63
Rainbow Coffee-house, 411
Rainwell, Sir John, 197
Ranelagh Gardens, 494
Red Bull Theatre, St. John Street, 307
Red Cross, Order of, 111
Reeds, floors covered with, 87
Reformation, the, and destruction of ecclesiastical buildings, 270
Religious houses the most conspicuous feature of Plantagenet London, 108
Rents about 1750, 461
Richard of Cirencester, 1
Richard II. and the City, 206
Riley's _Memorials of London_, 21
Robins's Coffee-house, 478
Rogues and vagabonds, _temp._ Elizabeth, 314
Roman customs, no trace of in London, 21
-- remains, 42
-- London, City wall about three miles long, 17
-- -- dependent on supplies from without, 24
-- -- description of, 12-18
-- -- probable population of, 17
-- -- the only port in the kingdom, 18
-- street, no trace of, in London, 20
-- town, construction of, 20
Rooks, 415
Royal African Company, the, 297
-- Exchange, 334
-- -- _temp._ Charles II., 410
-- Society, Institution of, 375
"Ruffins," 415
"Rufflers," 415
Russian Company, the, 297
Rutupiæ destroyed, 29
St. Alphege Church, 145
St. Anthony, patron and saint of the grocers, 208
St. Bartholomew's Priory, 267
St. Bartholomew the Great, built by Rahere, 55
St. Botolph, church dedicated to, 46
St. Clare, abbey of, called the Minories, 132, 263
St. Dunstan, church dedicated to, 46
St. Dunstan's in the East, church of, built after the Great Fire, 400
St. Edmund the Martyr, church dedicated to, 46
St. Erkenwald builds Bishopsgate, 45
St. Ethelburga, 45
St. Giles, Cripplegate, founded by Alfune, 63
-- -- in the Fields, church of, 140
St. Giles's Hospital, founded by Queen Matilda, 63
St. Helen, church of, 112
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