LONDON DOCKS--Emigrants--Canterbury colonists--London sempstresses--Emigration.....126 CHAPTER VII. WHITECHAPEL--Row of butchers' shops--Articles sold in them--Rag Fair--Church of St. Catherine Cree--Crosby Hall--Four Swans' Inn.....141 CHAPTER VIII. GUILDHALL--Lord Mayor's Banquet--Lord Mayor's Show--Description of, in time of Charles II.--Duties of the Lord Mayor--Gog and Magog--The Sheriff's Court--Monuments in Guildhall--St. Giles's, Cripplegate.....155 CHAPTER IX. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL--Foundation of, by Edward VI.--Description of supper in--Description of Christ's Hospital as it was two hundred years ago--Christ's Church.....166 CHAPTER X. SMITHFIELD MARKET--Drovers and their dogs--Smithfield butchers--Countrymen in Smithfield.....174 CHAPTER XI. NEWGATE--Scenes at executions.....183 CHAPTER XII. FLEET STREET--Whitefriars--St. Bride's Church--Description of London Lodging-houses--St. Dunstan's Church--the Cock Tavern.....191 CHAPTER XIII. CHURCH OF ST. CLEMENT'S DANES--The Strand May-pole--Church of St. Mary-le-Strand--Somerset House--Church of the Savoy--The Adelphi--Arches at the Adelphi--Covent-Garden Market--Church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden.....201 CHAPTER XIV. WESTMINSTER ABBEY--Monuments--Horse-Guards--St. James's Park--Hyde Park--Regent's Park--New Parks.....217 CHAPTER XV. ST. GILES'S--The Rookery--Church of St. Giles's--Queen Anne's Bath.....229 CHAPTER XVI. LONDON FOG.....243 CHAPTER XVII. THE OLD BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK--St. James's Church--Tabard Inn.....249 CHAPTER XVIII. STREET AMUSEMENTS--Punch and Judy--Organ-boys and monkeys--Fat boys--Tumblers--Stilt-dancers--Jack-in-the-green--Guy Fawkes.....254 CHAPTER XIX. SPRING-TIME IN LONDON.....262 CHAPTER XX. LONDON CEMETERIES--Ancient mode of burying the dead--Intramural interments--Ravages of the cholera in 1849.....269 CHAPTER XXI. GREENWICH PARK--Old pensioners--Telescopes--Gipsies--Blackheath.....283 CHAPTER XXII. HOLIDAYS OF THE LONDON POOR.....293 [Illustration] LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. [Illustration] PAGE Frontispiece. Vignette in Title. Roman Hypocaust, Thames-street 22 Roman Remains, found in Thames-street 23 St. Paul's Cathedral.--Charity Children's Anniversary Festival 31 Prerogative Court.--Doctors' Commons 39 Saracen's Head, Friday-street 48 Roman Lamp 49 Gerard the Giant 50 Gerard's Hall Crypt 52 Bow Church, Cheapside 54 St. Stephen's, Walbrook 61