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Description:PREFACEIn the following chapters it has been my endeavor to present pictures of the City of London—instantaneous photographs, showing the streets, the buildings, and the citizens at work and at play. Above all, the citizens: with their daily life in the streets, in the shops, in the churches, and in the houses; the merchant in the quays and on 'Change; the shopkeeper of Cheapside; the priests and the monks and the friars; the shouting of those who sell; the laughter and singing of those who feast and drink; the ringing of the bells; the dragging of the criminal to the pillory; the Riding of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen; the river with its boats and barges; the cheerful sound of pipe and tabor; the stage with its tumblers and its rope-dancers; the 'prentices with their clubs; the evening dance in the streets. I want my pictures to show all these things. The history of London has been undertaken by many writers; the presentment of the city and the people from age to age has never yet, I believe, been attempted.The sources whence one derives the materials for such an attempt are, in the earlier stages, perfectly well known and accessible to all. Chaucer, Froissart, Lydgate, certain volumes of the "Early English Text Society," occur to everybody. But the richest mine, for him who digs after the daily life of the London citizen during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, is certainly Riley's great book of Extracts from the City Records. If there is any life or any reality in the three chapters of this book which treat of the Plantagenet period, it is certainly due to Riley.As regards the Tudor period, the wealth of illustration is astonishing. One might as well be writing of the city life of this day, so copious are the materials. But it is not to Shakespeare and the dramatists that we must look for the details so much as to the minor writers, the moralists and satirists, of whom the ordinary world knows nothing.The reign of Charles II. directs one to the Plague and to the Fire. I was fortunate in finding two tracts, one dealing with the plague of 1603, and the other with that of 1625. These, though they are earlier than Charles II., were invaluable, as illustrating the effect of the pestilence in causing an exodus of all who could get away, which took place as much in these earlier years as in 1666. Contemporary tracts on the state of London after the Fire, also happily discovered, proved useful. And when the Plague and the Fire had been dismissed, another extraordinary piece of good fortune put me in possession of certain household accounts which enabled me to present a bourgeois family of the period at home.CONTENTSAFTER THE ROMANSSAXON AND NORMANPLANTAGENETTUDORCHARLES THE SECONDGEORGE THE SECONDILLUSTRATIONSStowe's Monument, in North Aisle of St. Andrew UndershaftRoman Marble Sarcophagus. GuildhallStatues of Mercury, Apollo, and Jupiter or Neptune: found in the Thames, 1837Bronze Articles for Domestic UseBronze Fibulæ and other Ornaments: found in LondonRoman Pavement: Leadenhall StreetBronze Bust of the Emperor Hadrian: found in the Thames. British MuseumA Bit of Roman Wall. From a Photograph by W. H. Grove, 174 Brompton RoadLamps and Lamp-standSepulchral Cists, etc.: found in Warwick Square, Newgate Street, 1881. British MuseumRoman Keys. GuildhallToilet Articles—Hair-pins; Hair-pin (Sarina, Wife of Hadrian); Bone Comb and Case (Cloakham); Bone Comb (Lower Thames Street)Statuettes: found in Thames Street, 1889. GuildhallRoman AmphoræLondon Stone, Cannon Street, as it appeared in 1800Battle between Two Armed KnightsRiver Tilting in the Twelfth CenturyCrypt: Remains of the Collegiate Church of St.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with London by Walter Besant : (full image Illustrated). To get started finding London by Walter Besant : (full image Illustrated), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: PREFACEIn the following chapters it has been my endeavor to present pictures of the City of London—instantaneous photographs, showing the streets, the buildings, and the citizens at work and at play. Above all, the citizens: with their daily life in the streets, in the shops, in the churches, and in the houses; the merchant in the quays and on 'Change; the shopkeeper of Cheapside; the priests and the monks and the friars; the shouting of those who sell; the laughter and singing of those who feast and drink; the ringing of the bells; the dragging of the criminal to the pillory; the Riding of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen; the river with its boats and barges; the cheerful sound of pipe and tabor; the stage with its tumblers and its rope-dancers; the 'prentices with their clubs; the evening dance in the streets. I want my pictures to show all these things. The history of London has been undertaken by many writers; the presentment of the city and the people from age to age has never yet, I believe, been attempted.The sources whence one derives the materials for such an attempt are, in the earlier stages, perfectly well known and accessible to all. Chaucer, Froissart, Lydgate, certain volumes of the "Early English Text Society," occur to everybody. But the richest mine, for him who digs after the daily life of the London citizen during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, is certainly Riley's great book of Extracts from the City Records. If there is any life or any reality in the three chapters of this book which treat of the Plantagenet period, it is certainly due to Riley.As regards the Tudor period, the wealth of illustration is astonishing. One might as well be writing of the city life of this day, so copious are the materials. But it is not to Shakespeare and the dramatists that we must look for the details so much as to the minor writers, the moralists and satirists, of whom the ordinary world knows nothing.The reign of Charles II. directs one to the Plague and to the Fire. I was fortunate in finding two tracts, one dealing with the plague of 1603, and the other with that of 1625. These, though they are earlier than Charles II., were invaluable, as illustrating the effect of the pestilence in causing an exodus of all who could get away, which took place as much in these earlier years as in 1666. Contemporary tracts on the state of London after the Fire, also happily discovered, proved useful. And when the Plague and the Fire had been dismissed, another extraordinary piece of good fortune put me in possession of certain household accounts which enabled me to present a bourgeois family of the period at home.CONTENTSAFTER THE ROMANSSAXON AND NORMANPLANTAGENETTUDORCHARLES THE SECONDGEORGE THE SECONDILLUSTRATIONSStowe's Monument, in North Aisle of St. Andrew UndershaftRoman Marble Sarcophagus. GuildhallStatues of Mercury, Apollo, and Jupiter or Neptune: found in the Thames, 1837Bronze Articles for Domestic UseBronze Fibulæ and other Ornaments: found in LondonRoman Pavement: Leadenhall StreetBronze Bust of the Emperor Hadrian: found in the Thames. British MuseumA Bit of Roman Wall. From a Photograph by W. H. Grove, 174 Brompton RoadLamps and Lamp-standSepulchral Cists, etc.: found in Warwick Square, Newgate Street, 1881. British MuseumRoman Keys. GuildhallToilet Articles—Hair-pins; Hair-pin (Sarina, Wife of Hadrian); Bone Comb and Case (Cloakham); Bone Comb (Lower Thames Street)Statuettes: found in Thames Street, 1889. GuildhallRoman AmphoræLondon Stone, Cannon Street, as it appeared in 1800Battle between Two Armed KnightsRiver Tilting in the Twelfth CenturyCrypt: Remains of the Collegiate Church of St.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with London by Walter Besant : (full image Illustrated). To get started finding London by Walter Besant : (full image Illustrated), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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