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Ceremony of Burning the Pope.-The Green Ribbon

Club

Origin and Progress of the Ceremony...Tumultu-
ous Proceedings in 1679, extracted from a scarce
Pamphlet, &c....Procession from Moor-gate to
Fleet Street, and burning of the Pope at Chancery
Lane end... Roger North's account of the " Pope-
Burning Tumults," in Charles the Second's time,
and of the Green Ribbon Club by which they
were promoted ... The Protestant-Flail Pope-
burning Procession of 1680, aud conduct of the
Mob, as the rabble were then first called... Pre-
parations for the Ceremony of 1681...The Pa-
geantry seized and the Procession suppressed by
the City Magistrates...The Duke of York's Mar-
riage with Mary D'Este, a papist, assigned by
Evelyn as a cause of those tumults.

Episcopal Residences in London in Queen Elizabeth's

Reign

Epitaph on Sir James Pemberton, Knt.

Descent and Marriage of the Countess of Lenox...
Marriage of Henry, Lord Darnley, her second Son,
to Mary, Queen of Scots...Description of her

Monument and Effigy...Account of the Countess
of Richmond and Derby, and of her foundations
at Cambridge...Her Tomb, supposed to be the
work of Torrigiano...Description of her Effigy...
Her monumental Inscription, written by Erasmus.

Stealing of the Crown by Colonel Blood

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Particulars of the Robbery, and of the apprehen-
sion of the Offenders, from the London Gazette
...Residence of Colonel Blood in Tufton Street,
Westminster.

English Actresses.-Brandenburgh House

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Opinions of Prynne and Evelyn on the appearance

of Women Actors upon the English Stage...

Licentiousness of Actors in Charles the Second's
reign...Nell Gwynne..Brandenburgh House, given
by Prince Rupert to Madame Hughes his Mistress.

Westminster Abbey. - Monument of Mary, Queen of

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Scots

Account of the Queen of Scots, and her successive
marriages to Francis, Dauphin of France; Henry,
Lord Darnley; and James, Earl of Bothwell...Her
imprisonment and decapitation... Description of
her Monument and recumbent statue.

Game in the Neighbourhood of London

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108-109

Proclamation of Henry VIII. for preserving the

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and St. Paul's Church-Yard.-Paul's Walks, 111-119

Imprints on old Books...Booksellers' shops in front

of St. Dunstan's Church, and in St. Paul's Cathe-
dral... Paul's Walks Illustrated... Characteristic
description of "Paul's Walke "...The Si quis
Door...Hiring of Clergymen.

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Palaces of the Protector, O. Cromwell

Westminster Abbey.-Historical Frieze in the Chapel of

St. Edward the Confessor

Screen in St. Edward's Chapel described.-Fealty
sworn to St. Edward when in his Mother's womb
...His Birth and Coronation...Remission of Dane
Gelt...Admonition to the Thief...Miraculous ap-
pearance of our Saviour to King Edward...Ed-
ward's vision of the Drowning of the Danish
King, and of the Turning of the Seven Sleepers...
Quarrel of the Sons of Earl Goodwin at the King's
Table...Appearance of St. John the Evangelist...
Restoration of Sight to the Blind...Conjectures
as to the period when the Screen was executed.

Grocers' Company and Hall
134-139

Grocers originally called Pepperers...Committee of

Parliament at Grocers' Hall...The Hall described

...Sir John Cutler.

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Chapel of the Pix described...Exchequer Records,
&c. kept here...Origin of the word Pix...Par-
ticulars of the Investigations, called Trials of the
Pix, or Processes by which the due weight and
fineness of new Coins are ascertained.

Haberdashers' Company and Hall

merly called Hilainers...Origin of that name...
Articles of Haberdashery...Great Trade in Pins...
Haberdashers' Hall described.

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152-160

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Incorporation of the Ironmongers...Description of
the Hall... Price of Ale in 1494...Curious Entries
in the Court Books.

St. Paul's Church-Yard.

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Description of the Bell Tower...Won at Dice, by

Sir Miles Partridge...Execution of Sir Miles and

others on Tower Hill.

Lollard's Tower at St. Paul's. -Murder of Richard

Hunne; and Imprisonment of Peter Burchet, 166-168

Murder of Hunne, by Dr. Horsey, Chancellor of
St. Paul's, and a Bell-ringer...His condemnation
as a Heretic, after death, for having had a Wick-
liffe's Bible in his house... Proceedings against
his Murderers...Burchet assails Sir John Haw-
kins... His Imprisonment and Execution for mur-
dering his Keeper.

Monument of Lord Mansfield

Adelphi-Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manu-

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170-174

factures, and Commerce

Origin of the Society, and where held...Description
of the Edifice...Account of Barry's celebrated
Pietures.

Erection of St. Katharine's Chapel...Remarkable
Contest for Precedency between the Archbishops
of Canterbury and York...Ceremony of Anathe-
matization in Henry the Third's reign.

College of Physicians, Warwick Lane

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177-182

183-202

Institution of the College by Henry the Eighth...
Ignorance of Practitioners... Erection of the Col-
lege in Warwick Lane...Anecdote of Sir John
Cutler...Description of the Building...Removal
of the Society to a new College in Pall-Mall East.

Westminster Abbey. — Monument of King Henry the

Seventh, and Elizabeth, his Queen

Henry's Compunctious Visitations, and his esta-
blishment of Masses and other superstitious rites
...Pompous Solemnization of his Obsequies...His
conduct on his Death-bed, as related by Bishop
Fisher in his Funeral Sermon...Henry's Monu-
ment executed by Torrigiano...Description of
the Tomb, and of the Statues of Henry and his
Queen...Correct signification of the word Avoures,
or Avouries...Explications of the Medallions on
the north and south sides of the Tomb...Sur-
rounding Screen described... Injunctions of Henry's
Will in respect to the Altar of Christ adjoining
the Tomb... Reliques of the Holy Cross, and Leg
of St. George...Garniture of the Altar.

St. Magnus' Church, London Bridge

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