Budge Row--Cordwainers' Hall--St. Swithin's Church--Founders' Hall--The Oldest Street in London--Tower Royal and the Wat Tyler Mob--The Queen's Wardrobe--St. Antholin's Church--"St. Antlin's Bell"--The London Fire Brigade--Captain Shaw's Statistics--St. Mary Aldermary--A Quaint Epitaph--Crooked Lane--An Early "Gun Accident"--St. Michael's and Sir William Walworth's Epitaph--Gerard's Hall and its History--The Early Closing Movement--St. Mary Woolchurch--Roman Remains in Nicholas Lane--St. Stephen's, Walbrook--Eastcheap and the Cooks' Shops--The "Boar's Head"--Prince Hal and his Companions--A Giant Plum-pudding--Goldsmith at the "Boar's Head"--The Weigh-house Chapel and its Famous Preachers--Reynolds, Clayton, Binney 550 CHAPTER L. THE MONUMENT AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. The Monument--How shall it be fashioned?--Commemorative Inscriptions--The Monument's Place in History--Suicides and the Monument--The Great Fire of London--On the Top of the Monument by Night--The Source of the Fire--A Terrible Description--Miles Coverdale--St. Magnus, London Bridge 565 CHAPTER LI. CHAUCER'S LONDON. London Citizens in the Reigns of Edward III. and Richard II.--The Knight--The Young Bachelor--The Yeoman--The Prioress--The Monk who goes a Hunting--The Merchant--The Poor Clerk--The Franklin--The Shipman--The Poor Parson 575 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Introduction of Randolph to Ben Jonson (Frontispiece) 40 The Old Wooden Temple Bar 6 Burning the Pope in Effigy at Temple Bar 7 Bridewell in 1666 12 Part of Modern London, showing the Ancient Wall 13 Plan of Roman London 15 Ancient Roman Pavement 18 Part of Old London Wall, near Falcon Square 19 Proclamation of Charles II. at Temple Bar 24 Penance of the Duchess of Gloucester 25 The Room over Temple Bar 30 Titus Oates in the Pillory 31 Dr. Titus Oates 36 Temple Bar and the "Devil Tavern" 37 Temple Bar in Dr. Johnson's Time 42 Mull Sack and Lady Fairfax 43 Mrs. Salmon's Waxwork, Fleet Street 48 St. Dunstan's Clock 49 An Evening with Dr. Johnson at the "Mitre" 54 Old Houses (still standing) in Fleet Street 55 St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, after the Fire, 1824 60