Durham House, Salisbury House, and Worcester House 271 The Charter House Hospital 273 Newgate, 1650 277 Remains of Prince Rupert’s Palace, Beech Street 279 St. Ethelburga within Bishopsgate 281 Specimen of Armorial Architecture 282 House in Great St. Helen’s formerly the Residence of Sir Jno. Lawrance, Lord Mayor of London A.D. 1665 288 Tavern Scene 292 Two Costume Portraits 298 An English Lady of Quality—Lady of the Court of England 300 Citizen’s Wife—Citizen’s Daughter 301 English Gentlewoman—Noble Gentlewoman of England 303 Maypole Dance in the Time of Charles I. 305 Merchant’s Daughter—Merchant’s Wife of London 306 Procession in the City 306 “Corpe Bearer” 309 St. James’s Park 313 Interior of St. Paul’s 316 Inside of the Duke’s Theatre, Lincoln’s Inn Fields 320 Inside of the Red Bull Playhouse 322 Musical Instruments of the Period _Facing page_ 326 Sports of the Period _Facing page_ 328 Dress of the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London in 1640 333 Coaches in St. James’s Park 339 SOVEREIGNS CHAPTER I JAMES I James found the City, after a hundred years of Tudor rule, reduced to an admirable condition of submission and loyalty. He was proclaimed in the City and by the City, the citizens of London claiming once more a voice in electing an accessor to the crown. The King returned thanks to the Mayor and Aldermen in a letter which lacks, one perceives at once, the royal style of Elizabeth. [Illustration: JAMES I. (1566–1625) After the portrait by Paul von Somer.]