The Coronation Procession of Edward VI. 50
St. Peter ad Vincula, overlooking Tower Green 57
Execution of Lady Jane Grey _Facing page_ 58
_Feus de Joye_ in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s Entry into London 69
Sir Philip Sidney and his brother Lord Lisle 75
The Spanish Armada (the first engagement) _Facing page_ 76
Queen Elizabeth going in Procession to St. Paul’s _Facing page_ 94
Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral _Facing page_ 102
Popish Plots and Treasons _Facing pages_ 148 and 149
Latimer preaching before Edward VI. at Westminster 178
Bridewell Palace and Entrance to the Fleet River 186
Londinium Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis 187
Plan of the City of London in the time of Elizabeth 189
Parish of St. Giles in the Fields _Between pages_ 190 and 191
Panorama of London and Westminster _Between pages_ 218 and 219
Medals struck in Commemoration of the Armada _Facing page_ 232
Panorama of London—London Bridge _Between pages_ 234 and 235
Tittle-Tattle; or, the several Branches of Gossiping 295
Court of Wards and Liveries in the time of Elizabeth _Facing page_ 310
John Clinch, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 311
Sir Edward Coke, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench 311
The Bear Garden and the Globe Theatre 342
Bankside, Southwark, in 1648, with a view of Holland’s Leaguer _Facing page_ 346
Panorama of London—the Tower and Greenwich _Between pages_ 350 and 351
Engravings taken from Henry VIII.’s Armour 383
From the painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London.]
On stepping out of the fifteenth into the sixteenth century one becomes conscious of a change; no such change was felt in passing from the twelfth to the thirteenth century, or from the fourteenth to the fifteenth. The world of Henry the Sixth was the same world as that of Edward the First; it was also the same as that of Henry the Second. For four hundred years no sudden, perceptible, or radical change took place either in manners and customs, language, arts, or ideas. There had, of course, been outbreaks; there had been passionate longings for change; men before their time, like Wyclyf, had advanced new ideas which sprang up like grass and presently withered away; there had been changes in religious thought, but there was no change, so far, in religious institutions. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, however, we who know the coming events can see the change impending, change already begun. Whether the Bishops and Clergy, the Monks and Friars, were also conscious of impending change, I know not. It seems as if they must have been uneasy, as in France men were uneasy long before the Revolution. On the other hand, Rome still loomed large in the imagination of the world: the Rock on which the Church was established; the Throne from which there was no appeal; the hand that held the Keys. We have now, however, to chronicle the part, the large part, played by London in this great century of Revolution.