Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present

John Stuart Mill · en
Descriptive details of the borough, 25.

Dispensary poem, cause, and by whom written, 37.

Dissenting ministers, vindication of themselves, 76.

Doctors Commons, 37;
  approach to, 37;
  feelings of parties passing it, 37;
  various parties described, 38, 39;
  description and characteristics of, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44;
  prerogative and will office, 38;
  detailed description of court of arches, 44;
  court of faculties and dispensations, 44;
  consistory court of the Bishop of London, 44;
  high court of Admiralty, 44;
  Herald's College, 44.

Docks, 126;
  Blackwall reach, 126;
  neighbourhood of Tower, and state of society in, 126;
  quotation from "London Spy," illustrative of the same, 127;
  description and characteristics of, 127;
  origin of rural cemeteries in connexion with making the docks, 128;
  hospital of Queen Matilda demolished, 128;
  size of St. Catherine's and London Docks, 128;
  amount of ships capable of containing, 128;
  West India Docks, 128;
  value deposited in, 128;
  wealth of London contained in docks, 128;
  cost of walls surrounding, 131;
  East India Docks, Blackwall, 131;
  mast-house, 131;
  time taken in delivering cargo of vessel, 131;
  method of doing so, 131;
  river robbery, 131;
  opposition to docks in consequence of, 131;
  also by Trinity House, 131;
  difficulties met with in making docks, 131;
  emigrants departing from, 132;
  descriptive details of, 132, 133, 134;
  Canterbury Association in connexion with, 135;
  description and characteristics of, 136.

Dowgate, 26.


Eastcheap, 93.

East India House, 96;
  where situated, 96;
  when built, 96;
  purpose of, 96;
  court-room in, 96;
  ornaments and size of, 96;
  Tippoo's elephant Howdah, 97;
  statues of Clive, Hastings, Cornwallis, Coote, Lawrence, and Pococke, 97;
  Library and Museum, where contained, 97;
  latter is open on Saturdays, 97;
  and well repays a visit, 98;
  articles contained in, 98;
  Tippoo's Tiger, 98;
  Hindoo idols, Chinese curiosities, 98;
  description of Ajunta caves in India--copies
     of which have been lately added to the
     museum--taken from _Illustrated London News_, 98.

Edward I., 79.

Edward VI., 168.

Eels, rent of land paid in, 81;
  not as good as formerly, 85;
  affected by poisonous state of the Thames, 85;
  evidence of Mr. Butcher in connexion with, 85.

Egbert, 24.

Elphitt's dialogues, implements mentioned in, 81.

Emigration, 139.

England, description of at Aed's landing, 21.

Erkennin, the Saxon, 23.

Etheldred, 24.

Ethelstane, 81.

Ethelwulf, 24.


Fat Ursula, 181;
  still lives in the pages of Ben Jonson, 181;
  in the same pages is memory kept of Bartholomew fair, 181.

Fenchurch-street, 76.

Fish-street Hill, 76;
  monument on, designed by Wren, 77;
  height of, 77;
  distance from the spot where the fire commenced, 77;
  ascent of 77;
  interior of column, width of, 77;
  suicides committed from, 77;
  view from the summit, 77;
  characteristics of it, 77.