CHAP. III.
THE CASTLE 62
CHAP. IV.
THE MARKET-PLACE 117
CHAP. V.
THE GUILDHALL 179
CHAP. VI.
PAGEANTRY 227
CHAP. VII.
SUPERSTITIONS 282
CHAP. VIII.
CONVENTUAL REMAINS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 311

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CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.

Who that has ever looked upon the strange conglomerations of architecture
that line the thoroughfares of an ancient city, bearing trace of a touch
from the hand of every age, from centuries far remote,--or watched the
busy scenes of modern every-day life, surrounded by solemnly majestic, or
quaintly grim old witnesses of our nation's' infancy,--but has felt the
Poetry of History that lies treasured up in the chronicles of an "Old
City?"

We may not all be archaeologists, we may many of us feel little sympathy
with the love of accumulating time-worn, moth-eaten relics of ages passed
away, still less may we desire to see the resuscitation of dead forms,
customs or laws, which we believe to have been advances upon prior
existing institutions, living their term of natural life in the season
appointed for them, and yielding in their turn to progressions more
suited to the growing wants of a growing people; but there are few minds
wholly indifferent to the associations of time and place, or that are not
conscious of some reverence for the links connecting the present with the
past, to be found in the many noble and stupendous works of ancient art,
yet lingering amongst us, massive evidences of lofty thoughts and grand
conceptions, which found expression in the works of men's hands, when few
other modes existed of embodying the imaginations of the mind.

It is not now my purpose to draw comparisons between the appeals thus
made through the outward senses to the spirit