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Title: Memorials of Old London
Volume I

Author: Various

Editor: P. H. Ditchfield

Release Date: May 9, 2009 [EBook #28742]

Language: English

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MEMORIALS OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND

General Editor:

REV. P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., F.R.Hist.S.

MEMORIALS OF OLD LONDON

VOLUME I.

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[Illustration: OLD BELL INN, HOLBORN, 1897

_From the painting by Philip Norman, LL.D._]

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MEMORIALS
OF OLD LONDON

EDITED BY
P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A., F.S.A.
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY

AUTHOR OF
_The City Companies of London and their Good Works_
_The Story of our Towns_
_The Cathedral Churches of Great Britain_
_&c. &c._

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON
BEMROSE & SONS LIMITED, 4 SNOW HILL, E.C.
AND DERBY
1908

[_All Rights Reserved_]

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TO
THE RIGHT HON.
SIR JOHN CHARLES BELL, BART.
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
THESE MEMORIALS OF THE ANCIENT
CITY OVER WHICH HE RULES
ARE DEDICATED, WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S
KIND PERMISSION,
BY
THE EDITOR

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PREFACE

In the year of grace one thousand nine hundred and nine the citizens of
London are celebrating their Pageant, a mighty spectacle representing
some of the stately scenes of splendour and magnificence which London
streets have witnessed from the days of Alfred to the nineteenth
century. It is perhaps fortunate that these volumes of the MEMORIALS OF
OLD LONDON sh