RICH MERCHANT AND HIS WIFE, 14TH CENTURY 165
PEDLAR 175 _From the Stained Window in Lambeth Church_
GREENWICH PARK ON WHITSUN MONDAY 187 _From an Engraving by Rawle, 1802_
NORTH-EAST VIEW OF ST. SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK, 1800 194
GATEWAY OF ST. MARY'S PRIORY, SOUTHWARK, 1811 197 _From a Drawing by Whichelo_
REMAINS OF THE OLD PRIORY, ST. MARY OVERIES 199
TOMB OF BISHOP ANDREWS, ST. MARY OVERIES 201
THE GLOBE THEATRE 209 _From the Crace Collection_
THE BEAR GARDEN AND HOPE THEATRE, 1616 221
A FÊTE AT HORSELYDOWN IN 1590 231 _From the Painting by G. Hoffnagel, at Hatfield_
VIEW NEAR THE STORE-HOUSE, DEPTFORD 235 _From an Engraving by John Boydell, 1750_
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL 250 _From an old Print_
SOME ANCIENT HOUSES IN THE LONG WALK, BERMONDSEY 251
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL 253
ANCIENT BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET, BOROUGH 254 _From a Drawing by T. Higham, 1820_
JOHN BUNYAN'S MEETING HOUSE, BANKSIDE 257
ST. GEORGE, SOUTHWARK: NORTH-WEST VIEW 269 _From an Engraving by B. Cole_
REMAINS OF THE MARSHALSEA: N.E. VIEW. A, CHAPEL; B, PALACE COURT 273 _From 'The Gentleman's Magazine,' September 1803_
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE KING'S BENCH PRISON 277
VAUXHALL GARDENS 283 _From the Engraving by J. S. Müller_
LITTLE DORRIT'S WINDOW IN THE MARSHALSEA 321
ALCOVE FROM OLD LONDON BRIDGE, NOW AT GUY'S 323
A FORMER ENTRANCE TO ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL 327
I propose to call the series of chapters which are to follow by the general name of 'South London.' Like their predecessors on 'London' and 'Westminster,' they will not attempt, or pretend, to present a continuous history of this region--or, indeed, a history at all: they will endeavour to do for this part of London what their predecessors have already attempted for the Cities of London and Westminster: that is to say, they will present such episodes and incidents, with such characters, as may serve to illustrate the life of the place; the manners and customs of the people; the characteristics of the Borough and its outlying suburbs. So far as history means the march of armies and the clash of armour, we shall here find little history. So far, also, as history means the growth of our liberties, the struggles by which they were won; the apparent decay, or defeat, from time to time, of the spirit of freedom, with its inevitable recovery: the reader and the student may be referred to the pages of a Stubbs or a Freeman--not to my humbler page. Great is the work, and worthy to be held in the highest honour, of those who trace out the irresistible march of national freedom: I cannot join their company; I must be contented with the lowlier, yet somewhat useful, task of showing how the people, my forefathers, lived, and what they thought, and how they sang and feasted and made love and grew old and died.