_The Governors of the City_ 218 CHAPTER IX _Officials of the City_ 264 CHAPTER X _Commerce and Trade_ 277 CHAPTER XI _The Church and Education_ 330 CHAPTER XII _London from Mediæval to Modern Times_ 375 _Index_ 405 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE _Map of London in 1588, from William Smith's MS. of the 'Description of England' (Reproduced in Colours by Lithography)_ _Frontispiece_ _Heading to Chapter I_ 1 _Norden's Plan of London, 1593_ _facing_ 21 _Aldgate and Priory of the Holy Trinity, from Newton's Map of London_ _facing_ 28 _Chaucer's Pilgrims issuing from the Tabard, from Pennant's 'London'_ 71 _Old St. Paul's, from a Drawing by Walter H. Godfrey, reconstructed from information obtained from leading authorities_ _facing_ 86 _Visscher's View of London, 1616_ " 90 _Old London Bridge from St. Olave's Church, from a Drawing by Herbert Railton_ _facing_ 102 _The Tower of London, from a Drawing by Hanslip Fletcher_ 108 _St. John's Chapel in the Tower, from a Drawing by Katharine Kimball_ 122 _Duke of Orleans in the Tower, from a copy of MS. in British Museum_ _facing_ 126 _North or Inside View of Traitor's Gate, from a Drawing by Herbert Railton_ 129 _Cheapside Cross, from a Painting of the sixteenth century_ 138 _Seal of St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Obverse of the Common Seal of the City of London, cir. 1225_ _facing_ 180 _Rahere's Tomb in St. Bartholomew's Church, from a Drawing by Hanslip Fletcher_ 184 _St. Giles' in the Fields, from Plan in the British Museum_ 193 _'London Stone,' Cannon Street, from a Drawing by Walter H. Godfrey_ 230 _Seal of Fitz-Ailwin, first Mayor of London_ 231 _Seal of Robert Fitz-Walter_ 269 _The Crypt of the Guildhall, from a Drawing by Walter H. Godfrey_ 273 _Cloth Fair, from a Drawing by Katharine Kimball_ 283