St. Helen's Nunnery becomes the property of the Leathersellers' Company, 266 St. James, Clerkenwell, parish church of, 131 St. John of Jerusalem, priory of, 65, 128; destroyed by rebels under Wat Tyler, 130 St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, 128 St. Katherine's by the Tower, 65 St. Magnus, church dedicated to, 46 St. Martin, the patron saint of saddlers, 208 -- -- Outwich, church of, 297 St. Martin's le Grand, a house of Augustine Canons, 113 -- -- church of, tavern built on site of, 267 -- -- sanctuary and collegiate church of, 55 St. Mary Axe, 328; skinners in, 217 -- -- of Bethlehem, hospital of, 131 -- -- Overies, legend of, 67 -- -- Rounceval, hospital of, at Charing Cross, 141 St. Mary's, or Bow Church, 135 -- -- Spital, hospital of, 131 -- -- destroyed, 266 St. Michael's Church, choir and aisles rebuilt by Sir William Walworth, 143 -- -- College, Crooked Lane, 143 St. Olaf, church dedicated to, 46 St. Osyth, Queen and Martyr, 45 St. Paul's, Cathedral of, 53, 54, 109, 346 -- -- Cross, 344 -- -- first church of, destroyed by fire, 48 -- -- School, 303 St. Swithin, church dedicated to, 46 St. Thomas of Acon, College of, 142 St. Thomas's Hospital, 134, 146 St. Vedast, church of, 76 Salutation of the Mother of God, house of the, 120 Saxon house, description of, 86 -- London, destroyed by fire 1135, 48 Saxon London, darkest period of any, 48 -- -- foreign merchants in, 44 -- -- no remains of, 53 -- women, employment of, 92 Saxons, East, 35 -- -- before and after conversion to Christianity, 44 -- fond of vegetables, 87 Schools, Grammar, erected by Henry VI., 240, 303 -- -- in time of Elizabeth, 302 -- of the alien priories suppressed, 240 Sebbi, King, 53 Selds, 186 Sernes Tower, 83 Servants, ladies used to beat, 310 -- troop of, a mark of state, 310 "Setter," the, in the Georgian period, 489 Sevenoke, Sir William, 194, 216 "Shabbaroons," 415 Shakespeare, William, 364 Sion College, 269 Smithfield, horse-fair in, 51 "Sompnour" in Chaucer, 150 Soper's Lane, pepperers and grocers in, 217 Southwark Fair, 457 Sports, 51, 223 Stage-coaches, 465 Staple, Sir Richard, 297 Steelyard, the, 182 Still-room, importance of the, 473 Stodie, Sir John, 179, 238 Stow, John, the antiquary, 320 Sunday amusements in the Georgian period, 490 Sutton, Thomas, 266 Swan Inn, Dowgate, 368 -- with Two Necks, the, 465 Taxes of a house about 1750, 462 Tea becomes cheaper, _temp._ Charles II., 410 Tea-drinking, 467 -- John Wesley on, 470 Temple Bar, 433 -- Church, the, 67 Thames, River, in Tudor times, 366 -- Street, fishmongers in, 217 Theatre companies, _temp._ Elizabeth, 307 -- first, built in 1570, 307 Theatres at end of sixteenth century, 307 Tobacco, use of, spreads rapidly, 313 Tofig, the royal standard-bearer, 136 Tom's Coffee-house, 411 Torgnton, Desiderata de, hanged for theft, 247 Torold, Roger, imprisoned for speaking disrespectfully of the mayor, 247