references to, in _Piers Plowman_, 71, 72; right to a voice in selection of king during the Saxon period, 13; round the town with Chaucer and the poets of his time, 71-89; sanctuary, 370-372; schools, 372-374; seal, 261; seat of trade in Eastern luxuries, 280; sports, 131-136; streets first lighted by lanterns in 1415, 23; stringent regulations relaxed under Henry I., 23; suburbs, 385, 386; tower of, as a fortress, 112-114; as a palace, 113-125; as a prison, 125-130; victualling and clothing trades' antagonism, 235-238; walled town and its streets, 21-70; water fetched from conduits, 383; westward growth of, 387; London and Londonburgh, use of the names in the Saxon Chronicle, 4; Roman, 3; Saxon Chronology, 3-20; from mediæval to modern times, 375-403. London Bridge, 100-107; destroyed by Olaf, 11, 12; wooden bridge, 100; first stone bridge, 100; built on piles, 102; weight of buildings on, 105; the chief sight of London, 105; waterway obstructed by, 107. London Stone, 230. Lord Mayor, first use of title, 239-241. Ludgate, 23, 31. Lydgate (John), a visitor to London, 78, 79. M Mace-bearers of London, 272. Manners of the Londoners, 131-160. Markets; _see_ Fairs and markets. Martin's (St.) le Grand, curfew tolled from the church, 24. Mayors of London, 231-235; position at coronation banquets, 246-248; position in the city, 242-245; summons to Privy Council on accession of sovereign, 245, 246. ---- pageants connected with election of, 248, 249. ---- skivins assistants to the mayor, 227. Medical skill in the Middle Ages, 164. Medicine and surgery, faculty of, 170, 171. Mercers' Company, London, 315. Merchant Taylors and Linen Armourers, London, 315. Middle Temple Hall, 396; _Comedy of Errors_ played in, 396. Military orders, 356, 357; Knights Hospitallers, 356, 357; Templars, 356, 357. Minoresses by Aldgate, 85, 364. Minories, derivation of the name, 28. Monks (Benedictines) in Westminster, 352-359. ---- Cluniac reform, 352-354; Carthusians, 355; Cistercians, 355, 356. Montfichet, Tower of, 268. Morestede (Thomas), King's surgeon, 176, 177. Murage, a tax for keeping the walls in repair, 33; Hanse merchants freed from payment of, 33. Music on the ships in the Thames, 95. N New Road, formation of, 398. Newgate erected in reign of Henry I., 24; prison, 24; its rebuilding, 24; its earlier name Chamberlain's gate, 24. Night-walkers in London, 43, 44. Northampton (John of), feud with Nicholas Brembre, 236. O Officials of the City, 264-274; Castellan and Bannerer, 264-270; Chamberlain or Comptroller of the King's Chamber, 271, 272; Common Hunt, 272; Common Sergeant, 270; Coroner, 271, 272; King's Butler, 271; Mace-bearers, 273; Recorder, 270; Remembrancer or State Amanuensis, 272; Sword-bearer, 272; Town Clerk, 270. Olaf, London Bridge destroyed by, 11, 12. Old Jewry, 324. P