Westminster (London, England) -- Description and travel
---- church, relics in, 24
---- the, 98
---- Henry III.’s alterations, 145
---- tombs in, 162
---- coronations, 165
---- ---- Henry IV., 165
---- ---- Elizabeth, queen of Henry VII., 167
---- ---- Henry VIII., 168
---- ---- Elizabeth, 168
---- ---- George III., 170
---- ---- Victoria, 170
Aix Cathedral, 27
Almshouses, 341
Anchorite, the, 132
Apollo, Temple of, 20
Archers, Richard II.’s, 41
Aristocracy, history of, 325
---- caste, 330
Bacon, 64
Bailly, Inner and Outer, 48
Banquet, royal, 269, 277
Bardwell’s accounts of Westminster, 5
Barton Street, 338
Benedictines, 110
Black Friars, 253
Blue Coat School, 353, 357, 361
Breaking of sanctuary by Richard III., 182
Broken cross, 201
Brother Ambrosius, 111
Burdett, Sir Francis, 375
Burtt and Harrod, story of robbery of King’s Treasury, 150
Caxton, 211
---- birth and origin, 217
---- apprenticed, 219
Caxton at Bruges, 223
---- house of, 231
---- marriage of, 234
---- at Westminster, 235
---- death of, 246
Charles II., Court of, 381
Charter, Edgar’s, 29
Chaucer, 162
Chaucer’s monk, 126
Chess, 235
Chivalry, 38
City without citizens, 1
---- without industries, 2
---- without Folk’s Mote, 2
---- of the Abbot, 2
Civil Government, 382
Clock Tower, 82
Cnut, King, 35
Cnut’s “Hus Carles,” 41
College buildings, 53
Consecration, service of, 139
Coronation of Elizabeth, 168
---- of George III., 170
Coronations in Abbey, 165
Court, itinerant, 40
---- of Requests, Whitehall, 49
---- of Exchequer, 54
---- under Elizabeth, 267
---- in reign of Elizabeth and James, 267
---- of James I., 277
---- of Charles II., 381
Cromwell’s prisoners, 374
Cross of Neath, 155
Crypt of St. Stephen’s Chapel, 53
Cunningham, Peter, 216
Dean, authority of the, 4
“Desert” of Westminster, 363
Destruction of first church on Thorney, 20
Dissolution, 4
“Domus Anglorum,” 223
Drokenesford, John de, 156
Dyfan and Ffagan, 20
Eagle Tavern, 207
Edgar’s charter, 29
Edward the Confessor, 40
Elections: that of 1741, 294
---- ---- 1784, 294
Elizabeth, queen of Henry VII., in Abbey, 167
---- in Abbey, 168
---- coronation pageant, 168
Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV., 182
Emanuel Hospital, 345
Essenes, rule of the, 30
Evil May-day, 87
Execution in Tothill Fields, 370
Extent of King’s Palace, 61
Fair of St. Edward’s Day, 372
Ffagan and Dyfan, 20
Fight between London and Westminster, 78
First church on Thorney, founding of, 20
George III. in Abbey, 170
Gourdemains, the witch, 370
Great College Street, 337
Great Seal, seizure of, 306
Green Coat Hospital, 346
Grey Coat Hospital, 351
Gunpowder Plot, 78
Harrod and Burtt, story of robbery of King’s Treasury, 150
Henry II., 40
---- IV. in Abbey, 165
---- VIII. in Abbey, 168
Historical associations of the Palace, 62
Holbein Gate, 262
Horseferry Road, 359
Hospital, Green Coat, 346
---- Grey Coat, 351
House of Lords, old, 49
Houses of Parliament, 291
Hugh de Steyninge, 100
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