"From any part of London it was possible to get into the country in a quarter of an hour. One realizes the rural surroundings of the City by considering that north of Gray's Inn was open country with fields; that Queen Square, Bloomsbury, had its north side left purposely open in order that the residents might enjoy the view of the Highgate and Hampstead Hills. On the south side of the river Camberwell was a leafy grove; Herne Hill was a park set with stately trees; Denmark Hill was a wooded wild; the hanging woods of Penge and Norwood were as lovely as those that one can now see at Cliveden or on the banks of the Wye" (_London in the Eighteenth Century_, pp. 77-79). * * * * * [Illustration] 1. The Palace of Westminster. 2. St. Stephen's Chapel. 3. Westminster Hall. 4. Westminster Abbey. 5. Old Palace Yard. 6. The Clock Tower. 7. The Gate House. 8. St. Margaret's Church. 9. The King's Stairs. 10. Star Chamber. 11. Lambeth Palace. 12. Stangate Horse Ferry. 13. St. James's Hospital. 14. St. James's. 15. Whitehall. 16. Holbein's Gate. 17. Scotland Yard. 18. Charing Cross. 19. King's Mews. 20. St. Martin's Church. 21. St. Mary's Hospital. 22. St. Giles's Church. 23. Convent Garden. 24. The Strand. 25. York House. 26. Durham House. 27. Savoy Palace. 28. Somerset Place. 29. St. Mary Le Strand. 30. St. Clement's Dane. 31. Lincoln's Inn. 32. Lincoln's Inn Fields. 33. Gray's Inn. 34. Ely House. 35. Fetter Lane. 36. Rolls Place. 37. St. Dunstan's Church. 38. The Temple Church. 39. The Temple. 40. Fleet Street. 41. Grey Friars. 42. Palace of Bridewell. 43. St. Bride's. 44. St. Andrew's Church. 45. St. Sepulchre's Church. 46. Fleet Ditch. 47. St. John's Hospital. 48. Smithfield. 49. St. James's, Clerkenwell. 50. Newgate. 51. Ludgate. 52. Blackfriars. 53. The Wardrobe. 54. Baynard Castle. 55. St. Paul's Cathedral. 56. St. Paul's Cross. 57. St. Bartholomew's the Great. 58. Grey Friars. 59. Queen Hythe. 64. The Standard. 66. Rochester House. 69. The Stews. 128. Bank Side. From the Panorama of "London, Westminster, and Southwark, in 1543." By Anthony Van den Wyngaerde. (Sutherland Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.) _For continuation see pp. 234 and 350._ _pp. 218, 219._ * * * * * [Illustration]