London in the Time of the Stuarts
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About This Book
...Abundant as is the mass of material for the study of history andmanners in the sixteenth century,[1] there is even a greater abundancefor the history, political and social, of the century of the Stuarts.There are, however, two difficulties to be faced in such an inquiry.The first is that the history of London is far more closely connectedwith the history of the nation during the seventeenth than during thesixteenth century. It may, indeed, be advanced that at no time, noteven when London deposed Richard II. and set up Henry IV., was the Cityso closely involved in all the events of the time ...
Chapters (447)
- LONDON IN THE TIME OF THE STUARTS
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- SOVEREIGNS
- CHAPTER I JAMES I
- CHAPTER II CHARLES I
- CHAPTER III THE CITY AND THE CIVIL WAR
- CHAPTER IV THE COMMONWEALTH
- CHAPTER V THE RESTORATION
- CHAPTER VI THE REIGN
- CHAPTER VII JAMES II
- CHAPTER VIII WILLIAM THE THIRD
- CHAPTER IX QUEEN ANNE
- RELIGION, GOVERNMENT, AND TRADE
- CHAPTER I RELIGION
- CHAPTER II THE CHURCH AND DISSENT
- CHAPTER III SUPERSTITIONS
- CHAPTER IV SANCTUARY
- CHAPTER V CITY GOVERNMENT AND USAGES
- CHAPTER VI TRADE
- CHAPTER VII THE IRISH ESTATES
- THE GREAT PLAGUE AND FIRE
- CHAPTER I PLAGUE
- CHAPTER II PLAGUE AND MEDICINE
- CHAPTER III The Fire I. ASPECT OF THE CITY BEFORE THE FIRE
- CHAPTER IV II. THE FIRE OF LONDON
- CHAPTER V CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE
- CHAPTER VI LONDON AFTER THE FIRE
- MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
- CHAPTER I FOOD AND DRINK
- CHAPTER II DRESS AND MANNERS
- CHAPTER III WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS
- CHAPTER IV PLACES OF RESORT
- CHAPTER V THEATRE AND ART
- CHAPTER VI SPORTS AND AMUSEMENTS
- CHAPTER VII COACHES
- CHAPTER VIII PUNISHMENT AND CRIME
- CHAPTER IX PUBLIC MORALITY
- CHAPTER X GENERAL NOTES
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I THE COURT
- I. Its Government—Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military
- II. The Civil Government
- APPENDIX II LIST OF LONDON CLERGY EJECTED
- APPENDIX III ALMSHOUSES
- APPENDIX IV COMPOSITION OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS
- APPENDIX V ENLARGEMENT OF THE STREETS
- Rules for the Pitching and Levelling the Streets
- APPENDIX VI THE NEW BUILDINGS OF LONDON
- APPENDIX VII GARDENS
- INDEX
- OGILBY AND MORGAN’S MAP OF LONDON, 1677 (In Pocket at end of Volume.)
- The several Marks and Names of the Wards, Parishes, and Liberties
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS IN OGILBY & MORGAN’S MAP, 1677 COMPILED FROM THE MAP AND KEY
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