48. The Globe Theatre 179
49. Civil Costume about 1620 181
50. Costume of a Lawyer 181
Ordinary Civil Costume; _temp._ Charles I.:
51. A Countryman 185
52. A Countrywoman 185
53. A Citizen 187
54. A Citizen's Wife 187
55. A Gentleman 189
56. A Gentlewoman 189
57. Lud-gate on Fire 190
58. Paul Pindar's House 191
59. London, as Rebuilt after the Fire 193
60. Coach of the latter half of the Seventeenth Century 195
61. Waggon of the second half of the Seventeenth Century 195
62. Ordinary Dress of Gentlemen in 1675 197
63. Dress of Ladies of Quality 199
64. Ordinary Attire of Women of the Lower Classes 199
65. Group showing Costumes and Sedan Chair, about 1720 202
66. Temple Bar, London 203
67. Fleet Street and Temple Bar 205
68. A Coach of the Middle of the Seventeenth Century 207
69. View of School connected with Bunyan's Meeting House 209
70. Grenadier in the time of the Peninsular War 211
71. Uniform of Sailors, about 1790 213
72. Costumes of Gentlefolk, about 1784 215
73. Vessels unloading at the Customs House, at the beginning
of the Eighteenth Century 217
74. The Old Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, 1803 221
LONDON
1. THE FOUNDATION OF LONDON.
PART I.
'In the year 1108 B.C., Brutus, a descendant of AEneas, who was the son
of Venus, came to England with his companions, after the taking of Troy,
and founded the City of Troynovant, which is now called London. After a
thousand years, during which the City grew and flourished exceedingly,
one Lud became its king. He built walls and towers, and, among other
things, the famous gate whose name still survives in the street called
Ludgate. King Lud was succeeded by his brother Cassivelaunus, in whose
time happened the invasion of the Romans under Julius Caesar. Troynovant,
or London, then became a Roman city. It was newly fortified by Helena,
mother of Constantine the Great.'
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