WARWICK.
THE FALL OF SOMERSET.
THE CITY AND THE ROYAL HOSPITALS.
ALDERMAN DOBBS AND CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.
CHAPTER XVI.
NORTHUMBERLAND'S CONSPIRACY, 1553.
MARY PROCLAIMED QUEEN IN THE CITY.
THE MASS RESTORED.
CORONATION OF QUEEN MARY.
WYATT'S REBELLION.
QUEEN MARY AT THE GUILDHALL.
SUPPRESSION OF THE REBELLION.
MEN AND MONEY DEMANDED OF THE CITY.
THE QUEEN'S MARRIAGE.
RECONCILIATION WITH THE POPE.
THE MARIAN PERSECUTION.
FOREIGNERS IN THE CITY.
DECLARATION OF WAR WITH FRANCE.
SOLDIERS FURNISHED BY THE CITY.
THE LOSS OF CALAIS.
DEATH OF MARY.
CHAPTER XVII.
CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.
RESTORATION OF THE PRAYER BOOK.
THE WAR WITH FRANCE.
THE LOSS OF HAVRE OR NEWHAVEN.
THE RESTORATION OF ST. PAUL'S.
THE INCEPTION OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.
SIR THOMAS GRESHAM.
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE COMPLETED.
INSURANCE BUSINESS AT ROYAL EXCHANGE.
GRESHAM COLLEGE.
THE CITY FLOODED WIH POLITICAL REFUGEES.
THE FIRST PUBLIC LOTTERY.
SEIZURE OF SPANISH VESSELS.
THE DUKE OF ALVA'S ENVOY IN THE CITY.
MEASURES OF RETALIATION AGAINST SPAIN.
THE RISING IN THE NORTH.
THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO.
FURTHER CALLS FOR MONEY AND MEN.
COUNT CASIMIR ENTERTAINED BY GRESHAM.
CHAPTER XVIII.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
JESUITS IN THE CITY.
SPECIAL PREACHERS FOR THE CITY.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.
THE FALL OF ANTWERP.
THE BABINGTON CONSPIRACY.
PREPARATIONS TO MEET THE ARMADA.
THE ADVENT OF THE ARMADA.
RICHARD TOMSON AND HIS EXPLOIT.
THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT ST. PAUL'S.
THE CAMP AT TILBURY.
THE CITY AND DISBANDED SOLDIERS.
THE CITY AND THE EARL OF ESSEX.
PRIVATEERING AGAINST SPAIN.
ALDERMAN SIR JOHN SPENCER.
THE CAPTURE OF CADIZ.
THE CITY REFUSES FURTHER SUPPLIES.
THE TYRONE REBELLION.
INSURRECTION OF EARL OF ESSEX.
MOUNTJOY IN IRELAND.
THE LAST DAYS OF ELIZABETH.

CHAPTER I.

(M1)

The wealth and importance of the City of London are due to a variety of
causes, of which its geographical position must certainly be esteemed not
the least. The value of such a noble river as the Thames was scarcely
over-estimated by the citizens when, as the story goes, they expressed to
King James their comparative indifference to his threatened removal of
himself, his court and parliament, from London, if only their river
remained to them. The mouth of the Thames is the most convenie