OR,
Reminiscences

OF THE

BRITISH METROPOLIS:

INCLUDING

CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES,
ANTIQUARIAN, TOPOGRAPHICAL, DESCRIPTIVE,

AND LITERARY.

BY

EDWARD WEDLAKE BRAYLEY,

F.S.A. M.R.S.L. &c. &c.

“ Before the geud Wolk of this

Kingdom be undone,
Shall Highgate Hill stand

in the middle of Lundun.” .

Motler Shipton's PROPHECY.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:
HURST, CHANCE, AND CO.

Page.

Poetical Description of London in Henry the Seventh's time 1.4

Inhabitants... Antiquities...Pleasantness and Strength

...River and Bridge...Merchants and Women...

Superior dignity of the Mayor.

Bucklesbury, ani Cornet's Tower . . . . 4-7

Buckle's Mansion...Cornet's Tower...the King's

Exchange...Bucklesbury famous for Drugs, Herbs,

and Indian Goods.

Duck Lane, now Duke Street, West Smithfield . 5-7

Celebrated for refuse Book-shops.

Old Bethlehem, or Bethlem Hospital . . . 7-9

Bethlehemites ... Maniacs and Proctors ... Burial

Ground in Moorfields.

Bethlehem Hospital, Moorfields . . . . 10-11

Description of the Hospital...Statues by Colley Cib-

ber... Demolition of the old building.

Puritanical Regulations . . . . . 11-13

Mulcts for Drunkenness, Tipling, Brewing, Scold-

ing, Trimming Beards, and Travelling on the

Lord's Day.