London (England) -- History; London (England) -- Social life and customs
Tournaments, _temp._ Elizabeth, 304
Tower of London, 82
"Town Parson" in Chaucer, 150
-- Royal, 82
Trade, foreign, of City, 190
-- great advance of, in time of Elizabeth, 289, 295
-- loss and injury caused to, by the Plague, 384
Trades carried on in the City, 218
-- enumerated by Daniel Defoe, 380
-- of the City allotted their own places of work and sale, 50
Tradition, continuity of, 20
Turkey Company, the, 297
Vegetables as part of daily diet reintroduced, 313
Venice treacle, 473
Vicinal Way, 23
Vintners' Hall, 179
Vintry, the, 179
_Vox Civitatis_, tract on the Plague, 392
Wages of the craftsmen, 243
Walls, City, 433
Waltham Abbey Church, 135
-- -- Cranmer at, 139
-- -- Foxe's _Book of Martyrs_ written here, 139
-- -- Harold at, 138
-- -- history of, 136-139
-- -- Thomas Fuller wrote his _Church History_ here, 139
Walworth, Sir William, 194
Wardens of Companies, 211
Washington, arms of, in Holy Trinity Church, Minories, 132
Water, supply of, 83
Watling Street, 23
Weavers, Guild of, 208
Wells, Sir John, 197
Wesley, John, on tea-drinking, 470
Wethell, Richard, 311
Wheat, price of, in time of George II., 482
"Whip Jack," the, 416
Whitawers' Company, 453
White Friars, the house of the Carmelites, 119
Whitefriars Theatre, 308
Whittington, Richard, 180, 199, 290, 301
-- College of, 143
"Wild Rogue," the, 416
William of Wykeham, 55
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 297
Winchester House, 264, 269, 289
Window-tax, 462
Wine-drinking, introduced by Normans, 88
Women, English, excel in embroidery, 92
_Wonderful Year, The_, pamphlet on plague, 387
Wood Street Compter, a prison, 497
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