he Mosaical Rods.

9. The Miniature.

10. The Duel.

BOOK THE SECOND.--May, 1665.

1. The Progress of the Pestilence.

2. In what Manner the Grocer Victualled his House.

3. The Quack Doctors.

4. The Two Watchmen.

5. The Blind Piper and his Daughter.

6. Old London from Old Saint Paul's.

7. Paul's Walk.

8. The Amulet.

9. How Leonard was cured of the Plague.

10. The Pest-house in Finsbury Fields.

11. How the Grocer shut up his House.

BOOK THE THIRD.--June, 1665.

1. The Imprisoned Family.

2. How Fires were Lighted in the Streets.

3. The Dance of Death.

4. The Plague-pit.

5. How Saint Paul's was used as a Pest-house.

6. The Departure.

7. The Journey.

8. Ashdown Lodge.

9. Kingston Lisle.

BOOK THE FOURTH.--September, 1665.

1. The Plague at its Height.

2. The Second Plague-pit.

3. The House in Nicholas-lane.

4. The Trials of Amabel.

5. The Marriage and its Consequences.

6. The Certificate.

BOOK THE FIFTH.--December, 1665.

1. The Decline of the Plague.

2. The Midnight Meeting.

BOOK THE SIXTH.--September, 1666.

1. The Fire-ball.

2. The First Night of the Fire.

3. Progress of the Fire.

4. Leonard's Interview with the King.

5. How Leonard saved the King's Life.

6. How the Grocer's House was Burnt.

7. The Burning of Saint Paul's.

8. How Leonard rescued the Lady Isabella.

9. What befel Chowles and Judith in the Vaults of Saint Faith's.

10. Conclusion.

OLD SAINT PAUL'S.

BOOK THE FIRST.

APRIL, 1665.

I.

THE GROCER OF WOOD-STREET AND HIS FAMILY.

One night, at the latter end of April, 1665, the family of a citizen of
London carrying on an extensive business as a grocer in Wood-street,
Cheapside, were assembled, according to custom, at prayer. The grocer's
name was Stephen Bloundel. His family consisted of his wife, three sons,
and two daughters. He had, moreover, an apprentice; an elderly female
serving as cook; her son, a young man about five-and-twenty, filling the
place of porter to the shop and general assistant; and a kitchen-maid.
The whole household attended; for the worthy grocer, being a strict
observer of his religious duties, as well as a rigid disciplinarian in
other respects, suffered no one to be absent, on any plea whatever,
except indisposition, from morning and evening devotions; and these were
always performed at stated times. In fact, the esta