_From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1841. _British Museum._] [Illustration: CRYPT UNDER MERCHANT TAYLORS' HALL, DESTROYED IN 1855. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer. British Museum._] [Illustration: GARDEN HOUSE, CANONBURY, BUILT BY WILLIAM BOLTON, LAST PRIOR OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S, SMITHFIELD. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1841. _British Museum._] [Illustration: AUSTIN FRIARS. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1842. _British Museum._] [Illustration: A CELL IN THE LOLLARDS' TOWER, LAMBETH. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1841. _British Museum._] [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO THE LOLLARDS' TOWER, LAMBETH. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1841. _British Museum._] [Illustration: THE GUARD ROOM, LAMBETH PALACE. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1841. _British Museum._] [Illustration: CRYPT OF ST. STEPHEN'S, WESTMINSTER. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1842. _British Museum._] [Illustration: THE PALACE OF WHITEHALL. _From a Drawing by Antonie van den Wyngaerde. Bodleian Library, Oxford._] [Illustration: GATEWAY OF THE BLOODY TOWER. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1847. _British Museum._] [Illustration: MACHINERY FOR RAISING THE PORTCULLIS, TOWER OF LONDON. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1850. _British Museum._] [Illustration: WARDERS' LODGINGS, TOWER OF LONDON. _From a Drawing by J. Wykeham Archer_, 1847. _British Museum._] FOOTNOTES: [1] One of the "properties" still remains in Ironmongers' Hall, an ostrich on which a black boy was seated in a seventeenth-century Mayoralty pageant. The beautiful drawings of Anthony Munday's "Chrysanaleia," a pageant prepared for Sir John Leman's Mayoralty procession in 1616, are preserved at Fishmongers' Hall. [2] "_Piepoudre_, so called from the dusty feet of the suitors; or, according to Sir Edward Coke, because justice is there done as speedily as dust can fall from the foot."--_Blackstone's Comment._, vol. iii., chap. 2. [3] This extract from Fitzstephen is from the translation in Thoms' edition of Stow, 1842. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Mediæval London, by William Benham and Charles Welch