Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present

John Stuart Mill · en
Guildhall, 155;
  scarred by great fire, 155;
  ancient hall, when erected, 155;
  first king who dined there, 155;
  historical associations connected with, 155;
  descriptive details of the banquet, 156;
  and procession attendant, plate, flowers, bill of fare, 157, 158;
  description of Charles First's entertainment, 159, 160, 162;
  Lord Mayor's election, 162;
  forms connected with, 162;
  heavy duties of office, 162;
  amount of letters received by, 162;
  crypt of Guildhall, 163;
  length of Guildhall, 163;
  architecture of, 163;
  quotation from "London Spy," illustrative of giants in Guildhall, 163;
  monuments in, 164;
  of whom in memory of, 164;
  picture in Council Chamber, 164;
  subject of, 164;
  library, 164;
  autograph of Shakspeare in, 164.


Hall's Chronicle, description of fête, quoted from, 79.

Harold, 24;
  notes connected with, 201.

Harrison, William, 76;
  connected with pamphlet, 76.

Hastings, 24.

Henry VIII., abuse of consecrated vessels, 168.

History, opening of Anglo-Saxon, applicable to origin of London, 17.

History of the past, 17.

History of our island, 18;
  darkness of early part, 18;
  first dawning of it by what discovered, 18.

History of life and reign of Elizabeth, 121.

Historical associations connected with houses
     in Holywell-lane and Wych-street, 208, 209.

Holidays of the London Poor, 293.

Holy Trinity, church of, destroyed by fire, great, 51;
  Holy Trinity, prior of, 26.

Honey Island, 18.

Houndsditch, 146.

House connected with Black Prince, 26.

House at the entrance of Whitechapel, description of, 25;
  whose residence possibly, 25;
  emblems and ornaments on, 25, 26.

House in which Sir Paul Pindar resided, 153.

Hyde Park, 225;
  Apsley House, and statue of Achilles, 225;
  character of in season, 225;
  rural scenery of, 225;
  in vicinity of "Tyburn tree," 225;
  Cromwell, Ireton, Bradshaw, in connexion with, 225;
  escape of Cromwell in Hyde-park, 225, 226;
  Hyde-park when first mentioned, 226;
  mustering-ground for "May-day holidays," 226, 227.


Illustrated London News, office of, where situated, 202.

Importation of fruit and cattle, 139.

Inhabitants of our island, early, very doubtful, 19;
  reasons for this, 19.

Ironside, Edmund, 24.

King William-street, statue of William IV. in, 67;
  by whom made, 67;
  aspect of, 67;
  cost of, and by whom voted, 67;
  width and beauty of street, 67.

Knight-Rider-street, 44;
  descriptive details of, 45.


Labour, thoughts connected with, 139, 140;
  waste land in England and Ireland in connexion with, 139;
  duty of England in connexion with, 139.

Laud, where beheaded, 148.

Leadenhall-street and market, alluded to by Stowe, 96.

Lodging-houses, 193;
  variety of, 193;
  descriptive details of a real lodging-house, 194;
  various characteristics of the habits of servants in such, 194, 195;
  various illustrations of diet, tenants, economy,
     furniture connected with such, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199.