becomes the residence of Queen Henrietta Maria,
whose repair of the buildings is poetically com-
plimented by Waller...A peep into the Queen's
Presence Chamber, from the Pepysian Manu-
scripts...embarkation of the Queen for France,
with her second husband, Jermyn, Earl of St.
Alban's, and her daughter Henrietta Maria, who
was poisoned when Duchess of Orleans... Monck,
Duke of Albemarle, lies in state here...Bestowed
in jointure on Queen Catharine, of Braganza...
Description of the buildings in George the First's
reign...appropriated to the use of the Royal
Academy by George the Third, in 1769...Moser's
account of the apartments and furniture...com-
meucement of the present magnificent pile in 1775,
from the design of Sir William Chambers...pro-
gress of the Edifice as stated to the House of Com-
mons in May, 1780... Description of the buildings
as they now stand...arrangement of the offices...
Some particulars of the old chapel.

Pardon Church Haugh and Chapel, St. Paul's.—The
Dance of Death
169-174
A Chapel founded here by Gilbert Becket, father of
the sainted Archbishop...and re-edified by Dean
Moore...Curious Monuments, and painting of the
Dance of Death in the surrounding cloisters...
Origin and application of the Death-Dance...its
prevalency throughout Europe.-Painted at St.
Paul's at the expense of Jenkyn Carpenter, Town-
Clerk of London.

Pardon Church-yard, Clerkenwell

174-178

Dreadful Pestilence in Edward the Third's reign...

Purchase of the ground, now the Charter House
and its demesne, by Sir Walter Manny, for a bu-
rial-place; and of No Man's Land, afterwards
Pardon Church-yard, by Bishop Stratford, for a

similar purpose...appropriated for the interment
of Suicides...its probable situation on the north
side of Wilderness Row...Singular particulars re-
specting the Pardons granted at the hour of death
by the Romish Church, and buried with the dead.

London Fashions.-Rainbow Ruffs

178-179

Female adornments in James the First's reign...
Woman's rigging compared to a Ship.

London Sights. - The Giant and Dwarf

Serjeants at Arms, attendant on the Lord Mayor

179-180

. 180-183

The ancient Corporation Serjeants privileged to
carry the mace in presence of the King and Royal
Family...the Lord Mayor of York appointed Chief
Serjeant at Arms to Richard the Second...the
Lord Mayor of London bears the City mace at Co-
ronations.

Serjeant at Arms, attendant on the Speaker of the House of

Commons

184-186

The Speaker's Serjeant anciently an especial servant

of the King...Some particulars of his office and

fees.

Parliamentary Anecdotes of James the First's reign.-Se-

vere Punishment of a Member for free speaking 186-192

Arbitrary notions of King James...tells the Parlia-
ment that he has piped, but they have not
danced...Opinions of the Members of the House of
Commons on Edward Floyde for speaking sedi-
tious words...Floyde's atrocious punishment.

Epitaph on King James the First

192-193

Adulatory sepulchral Verses on this Monarch by the
historian Sanderson.

Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey.-The Popish

Plot.-The Meal Tub Plot.-Burning the Pope 193-211

Proceedings relating to the Catholics, and discovery
of the Popish Plot by Titus Oates...Godfrey's
body found in a ditch near Chalk Farm...Disbelief

of the reality of the Popish Plot by the Right
Hon. C. J. Fox.. Public Funeral of Sir Edmund,
who is sworn by Bedloe to have been murdered
at Somerset House.. The Queen and Duke of York
implicated...particulars of Sir Edmund's murder
..Execution of several Jesuits at Tyburn..The
Meal-Tub, or Dangerfield's Plot..Mock ceremony
of burning the Pope.. Portrait of Sir Edmund
Berry Godfrey in St. Martin's Church..An ac-
count of his murder from a scarce pamphlet..
Medals representing that event.

Great Plague in the year 1665

211-224

Narrative of a Wood Street Grocer during that cala-

mity..His prudent conduct to preserve His family

from infection, and supply them with provision

..Great increase of the pestilence..shutting up of

infected houses, and collection of the dead bo-

dies in carts..Anecdotes of individual sufferings

...Decrease of the weekly burials, and reviving

hopes of the people..Cessation of the Plague.

May day-Mayings in Henry the Eighth's reign-Evil

May-day

224-242

Foetical Account of the May Festivals from Spenser

and Herrick..Stow's Account of the Mayings in

London in ancient times..May Pageantry in Henry

the Eighth's time..Robin Hood, the Lord of the

May Festivities, on May-day, at Greenwich and

Shooter's Hill..Evil May-day.. Insolence of Fo-

reigners and merchant strangers in London, and

consequent dreadful tumult after Dr. Bell's Spital

sermon exposing their encroachments..Rising of

the 'Prentices and lower classes.. Suppression of

the riots, and punishment of the offenders.
"Ten

payre of Gallowes" set up in the City..King Henry

pardons four hundred of the prisoners at the inter-

cession of three Queens.

May Pole in Cornhill.— Fanaticism of Sir Stephen, Cu-
rate of St. Catherine-Cree Church-Execution of
the Bailiff of Romford
242-245
Chaucer's account of the Great May Pole, or Shaft,
in Cornhill..St. Andrew Under-Shaft, why so
called.. The shaft stigmatized as an Idol, in a Dis-
course at St. Paul's Cross, and sawed into pieces..
Sir Stephen, the Curate, accuses the Bailiff of
Rumford of spreading false news, who is, in con-
sequence, hanged near the well at Aldgate.

The Strand May Pole-Congregation of Charity Chil-
dren
246-256
Puritanical Misanthropy particularly scandalized
at the setting up of May Poles.. Manner of "bring-
ing home the May" and probable origin of the
custom.. Parliamentary order against May Poles
..Ordinances of James the First and Charles the
First, for May Games and Sunday diversions.. Ac.
count of the Strand May Pole, and extract from
Pasquil's "Palinodia"..The Strand Shaft 134 feet
high, erected of cedar, after the Restoration, by
consent of Charles the Second and the Duke of
York..Congregation of the Charity Children of
London near the May Pole, n Queen Anne's
reign, with the Hymns sang on that occasion..
Veirtue's Print of the Machine wherein the Chil-
dren were seated.. Removal of the Strand May Pole
to Wanstead Park, for the purpose of supporting
Mons. Hugon's vast Telescope..Doggrel lines on
that occasion.

Church of St. Mary le Strand

257-260

Erection of the Church by Gibbs.. Its architectural
character and arrangements.

Anecdotes of General Monck and Anne Clarges-Monu-

ments of the Dukes of Albemarle in Westminster
Abbey

260-263

Anne Clarges, Daughter of John Clarges, a farrier in
the Savoy, marries Thomas Radford, and with
him resides at the Three Spanish Gipsies in the
New Exchange, where they sold wash balls, pow-
der, &c....Becomes Monck's sempstress, mistress,
and wife, in Radford's life-time...bears a child,
Christopher, afterwards the second Duke of Albe-
marle, who was suckled by Honour Mills, an apple
and oyster woman...Description of the Monument
erected by Scheemakers, in pursuance of Duke
Christopher's will, in Henry the Seventh's Chapel.

The Book of Sports

263-269

Reprint of the Proclamations of James the First
and Charles the First, usually called the Book of
Sports, respecting the lawful recreations of the
People on Sundays and Holydays.

Canonbury Tower and Tavern

1269-272

Descent of the manor of Canonbury...becomes the
property and residence of Sir John Spencer, whose
only daughter and heiress is clandestinely carried
to William, second Lord Crompton, she having
eloped from her father's house in a Baker's Basket
...Her reasonable requests for allowances to her
husband...The mansion of the Prior-of Bartho-

lomew...Beautiful prospects from the summit of

the Tower...Literary residents here...Account of

Canonbury Tavern.

272-290

St. Mary's, or the Round Church, Inner Temple

Spenser's Red Cross Knight...Foundation and Pro-

gress of the Order of the Knights Templars...The

Knights establish themselves in London near Old-

Bourn, and in Henry the Second's reign erect the

New Temple... Pride of the Knights, and anecdote

of Richard Cœur de Lion. The Master of the New

Temple summoned to Parliament as a Peer...The

Order basely persecuted by Pope Clement the