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,--the Royal Assent was given to ‘_An Act for the Rebuilding of London Bridge, and for the improving and making suitable approaches thereto_;’ which is printed in ‘_A Collection of the Public General Statutes_,’ London, 1823, folio, pages 478-536. It commenced by noticing the title of the Corporation of London to be Conservator of the Thames, and its right to the Bridge-House Estates for the benefit of London Bridge; and after referring to the Acts for its improvement and removing the Water-works, the evils of the present building, and the expedience of a new one, it then proceeded to give the following powers, to remain in force for 10 years. To take down, and sell the old Bridge; either leaving it till the completion of the new one, or erecting a temporary structure before removing it: to build a new edifice of Granite, either on the present site, or within 180 feet Westward, with convenient approaches, according to the designs of John Rennie, Esq., with any alterations, being, with the Engineer and Contractor, previously approved by the Lords of the Treasury; the new building standing in the parishes where its abutments are placed, and marking the extent of any jurisdiction instead of the old one: to embank the River in a straight line, from the centre of the abutments of the present Bridge, to the distance of 180 feet West, and 110, East; to raise and lower, new pave, alter, or stop up, streets, &c. in the approaches; and close them during the execution of the Act, to the distance of 300 yards from the present edifice; to land materials free of duty, and to occupy places for storing them, also within 300 feet; to take down houses, &c. beside those entered in the schedule, upon recompense being previously made; to occupy the burial-ground of St. Magnus’ Church, providing another; to set back houses on the Western side of Grace-Church Street, Fish-Street Hill, and High-Street, Southwark, between Lombard-Street and St. Margaret’s-Hill; to sell, or grant leases of, ground not wanted, and apply the produce to the purposes of the Act; to receive from the Lords of the Treasury the sum of £150,000; additional funds being raised on credit of the Bridge-House Estates by mortgages, annuities, bonds, &c.; to set apart the yearly sum of £12,000 from the Bridge-House rents, for payment of existing charges, and expenses; and to form a sinking-fund for redeeming the monies borrowed; the residue of the rents being deposited with the Chamberlain, for paying of interest, &c.; the expenses of the Act, designs, &c. being discharged from other sums belonging to the Bridge-House Estates. It was also provided, that the Corporation should be answerable for the misuse of these funds, a yearly statement of accounts being laid before Parliament; though it is not to be liable for failure of the rents, &c. on which money is borrowed, for damage occasioned by removal of the Bridge, nor for the work being left unfinished, by the funds proving insufficient. The Act closed with powers for appointing Committees, with Clerks, &c., to execute it, saving interested persons; and with the usual clauses for lighting, watching, making compensation for tithes, &c. &c. The schedule of houses to be taken down contained the particulars of 43 buildings on the City side, and of 109 in Southwark.

“It being determined to retain the old edifice till the completion of its successor, the site of the new Bridge was fixed at about 100 feet Westward of the present, St. Saviour’s Church standing above it; though the perfect plan of its approaches can scarcely yet be traced. The first Pile of the work was driven near the Southern end of the old Bridge, opposite the Arch called the Second Lock from the Surrey shore, at the East end of the Coffer-dam, of which it formed a part, on Monday, March 15th, 1824. About the same time, too, the whole of the open spaces between the ballustrades on the Western parapet of the present edifice, were closely boarded up; as well as those square recesses, open at the top, which would have allowed spectators to climb upon the cornice. The houses and other buildings abutting on London Bridge on the Western side of the Borough High-Street, were also rapidly sold, and some parts only of the lower fronts allowed to remain.

“It might have been expected that, in excavating the new foundations, several interesting antiquities would be discovered, illustrative of London history, and of the ancient Bridge in particular; though, if we consider the impetuous rush of the River at this place, it is not surprising that but few articles of value have been yet brought up. The most numerous have been, defaced brass and copper coins of Augustus, Vespasian, and later Roman Emperors; Venetian Tokens; Nuremburg Counters; and a few Tradesmen’s Tokens, very perfect; though I have seen none of persons dwelling on the Bridge itself. There have also been found, an old red earthen pitcher, or bottle, nearly perfect; various rings and buckles of wrought and engraved brass, and silver; some very ancient iron keys, and silver spoons; the remains of a dagger which had once been engraven and gilt, and an iron spear-head, engraven on the shaft; most of which are in the possession of Robert Finch Newman, Esq., the Bridge-House Comptroller; whilst in the City Library, at Guildhall, are some ancient carved stones with dates, found in taking down the Arches of the old Bridge. There has also been discovered a particularly fine bronze lamp, representing a head of Bacchus, wreathed with ivy; standing upon the neck, which is made flat, and on its forehead a circular lid, raised by the two curling horns, whilst a handle is attached to the back of the head. This beautiful antique is in very excellent preservation. One of the most interesting reliques, however, which I have yet seen, is a small SILVER EFFIGY OF HARPOCRATES,

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which was presented to the British Museum, by Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, of Ludgate-Hill, November 12th, 1825; and is preserved in the Hamilton Room, No. xii. of the Gallery of Antiquities, Case, No. 11, under the care of Mr. J. T. Smith. The figure is about 2-1/2 inches in height, and one in breadth, and represents the son of Osiris as a winged boy, with his finger pointing to his mouth, as God of Silence; the horns, emblematical of his mother Isis, on his head; and at his feet his other attributes, of a dog, a tortoise, an owl, and a serpent twined round a staff; by the number of which we may guess the figure to have been made in Greece, after the time of Alexander the Great. The style of sculpture is firm and massive; and on the back is a strong rivet, through which pass a large ring and a very delicate chain of pure gold, crossing like four belts in front; it being probably of that class of figures which Winckelmann states to have been worn as amulets, or the attributes of Priests.

“To proceed, however, with New London Bridge, I should state, that, Mr. Rennie, senior, having died in 1821, the works have been principally superintended by his son, Mr. John Rennie; and that the builders, who have contracted to erect it, are Mr. William Jolliffe, and Sir Edward Banks; the original amount of whose contract was £426,000, and £30,000 for making alterations in the present structure; the whole to be completed in six years, from March 2nd, 1824: which contract is now increased to £506,000, by the addition of £8,000 for a new set of centering for the 4th Arch; and of £42,000 granted by the Treasury in 1825, for making the Bridge 6 feet wider; namely, 2 feet in each foot-path, and 2 feet in the carriage-way. The exterior of the edifice will be of three sorts of Granite; the Eastern side being of purple Aberdeen; the Western, of the light-grey Devonshire Haytor; and the Arch-stones of both, united with the red-brown of Peterhead: the heartings of the Piers being of hard Brambley-Fall, Derby, and Whitby stone. These materials are roughly shaped at the quarries; and after being carefully wrought at the Isle of Dogs, are finally dressed and fitted to their places, at the Bridge. The Pier-foundations are formed of piles, chiefly beech, pointed with iron, and driven about 20 feet into the blue clay of the River, about 4 feet apart; having two rows of sills, each averaging about a foot square, and filled in with large blocks of stone, upon which is laid a six-inch beech planking, bearing the first course of masonry. The proposed form of the Bridge is a very flat segment, the rise not being more than 7 feet; and it is to consist of 5 elliptical Arches, having plain rectangular buttresses, standing upon plinths, and cutwaters; with two straight flights of stairs, 22 feet wide, at each end. That on the Western side, at the City end, will, however, cut so deeply into Fishmongers’ Hall, that it is to be taken down, the Corporation paying £20,000 to the Company. My narrative is now so near a termination, that I have to add only a few notices concerning the Bridge-Officers, and a more particular and exact account of the measurements of the new edifice than has yet been recorded. Which dimensions, from high-water line, are as follow:--

Feet. Feet. Inches.

“Centre Arch of the New London Bridge, _Span_ 150 _Rise_ 29 6 Piers to ditto, 24 Feet. Second and Fourth Arches ---- 140 ---- 27 6 Piers to ditto, 22 Feet.

Land Arches ---- 130 ---- 24 6 Abutments at the base, 73 Feet.

Total width of water-way, 690 feet; Length of the Bridge including the Abutments, 928 feet; Length within the Abutments, 782 feet; Width of the Bridge from outside to outside of the Parapet, 56 feet; Width of the Carriage-way, 36 feet, and of each Footpath, 9 feet; and the total height of the Bridge on the Eastern side, from low-water, 60 feet.

“All which particulars, however, are much better illustrated by A GROUND-PLAN AND ELEVATION OF THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE.

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“The Officers of old London Bridge, and its estates, are, firstly, Two Masters, or Wardens, who receive and pay all accounts of the Bridge-House, oversee its concerns, watchmen, labourers, &c., summon and attend the Auditors, and Committees, and meet the Corporation on Midsummer and Michaelmas days. The yearly salary of the senior is £250, and a house; and that of the junior, £200, with £86 for house-rent and taxes: their incomes being further increased by some trifling official fees. The Comptroller of the Works and Revenues of London Bridge receives a salary of £300, with other emoluments; and attends all Committees, keeping their journals, and preparing their reports, leases, contracts, and all other documents; he has also the custody of the records, &c., and, being a solicitor, conducts all the Bridge-House law-proceedings. The Clerk of the Works is occupied as a general Architectural Surveyor, attending Committees, arbitrations, &c., and making surveys, valuations, designs, and estimates. He superintends all new buildings and alterations on the Bridge-House lands, inspects the covenants and dilapidations of the tenants; as well as the time and bills of the trades-men, and the Bridge-House stores, of all which he makes reports to the Committee: his yearly salary is £500. The Assistant Clerk at the Bridge-House resides in the upper part of that building, with a salary of £200; assisting the Bridge-Masters in keeping and copying their accounts. The Superintendent of the Works at London Bridge overlooks and directs the repairs, the measuring and examination of the articles, and certifies their quantities, &c., his yearly salary being £100. The Bridge-House Carpenter is foreman of those works, with a residence and £200 per annum; he keeps the workmen’s accounts, and receives and portions out building stores; he also sets up marks on the Bridge-House estates, and repairs such water-stairs as they support. The Bridge-House Messenger is employed in summoning and attending the Auditors and Committees; in delivering notices to the tenants, and in various other duties at the Bridge-House, his salary being 36 shillings per week. To these officers is added a Collector of Rents of Tenants at Will in St. George’s Fields, who resides in a house belonging to the estate, and is paid by a commission of 5 per cent. The manner of letting premises pertaining to the Bridge-House, is, on the expiration of a lease, to have them viewed by the Committee and Surveyor; when, if the Committee and tenant agree, it is so stated to the Common Council; and, if not, the premises are put up to auction. Finally, the Committee of Bridge-House Estates is composed of a certain number of Aldermen, and a Commoner from each Ward; but no payments exceeding £100 are made without the sanction of the Common Council, a brief statement of the accounts being annually laid before the Court, a copy of which is sent to every member. The accounts and vouchers are then examined by four Auditors, annually elected by the Livery, to whom a report is made; the documents being sworn to by the Bridge-Masters; and these statements, fairly transcribed on vellum, are deposited, one copy in the Chamber of London, and another in the Muniment-Room at the Bridge-House. And now, having observed, that these particulars were given in evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, in April 1821, and are printed much more at large in the tract of ‘_Reports and Evidences_,’ pages 72, 73, 135-138, here I conclude with a parting libation, and many thanks for your long-tried attention.”

Such, then, were Mr. Barnaby Postern’s historical notices of old London Bridge; in which the reader may perceive, that he evinced a fair proportion of antiquarian learning, and rather a large share of reading and memory. When he had arrived at this period, however, as I thought that my own information would enable me to add some curious modern

## particulars to his narrative, I addressed him with, “My best thanks

are due to you, worthy Sir, for your interesting CHRONICLES OF LONDON BRIDGE; for, although you have sometimes been prosy enough to have wearied a dozen Dutchmen, yet, by my patience and your perseverance, the story is safely brought down to the present day. You have steered it, slowly enough, certainly, but surely, through all the intricate navigation of the Record Rolls, and have carefully avoided several of those rocks of error, upon which so many former historians have been wrecked. And since the narrative has now reached the building of a New London Bridge, pray allow me, so long your grateful hearer, to relate the ceremony of Laying the First Stone thereof, from my own observation, sketches, and memoranda.”

“My very hearty thanks are your’s for that most excellent proposal, Mr. Geoffrey,” said the old Antiquary; “for I am now too far declined into the vale of years, to describe modern ceremonials and festivities with the spirit of a younger Citizen: whilst you are ‘not clean past your youth;’ having yet only ‘some smack of age, some relish of the saltness of time in you;’ therefore the story, good Mr. Barbican, the story.”

“You shall have it, Sir,” replied I; “you shall have it, and with all the skill I can; though, after your highly-finished ancient historical pictures, my modern delineations can appear only faint and imperfect.

“The Coffer-Dam, in which the ceremony of Laying the First Stone took place, was erected opposite to the Southern Arch called the Fourth Lock, and was constructed of three rows of piles, planks, and earth, substantially secured by timbers of great strength and thickness; and when the day for performing it was fixed, it was officially announced by the following notice:--

“‘LONDON BRIDGE. MANSION HOUSE, 23rd May, 1825. The Committee for Rebuilding the New London Bridge having appointed Wednesday, the 15th day of June next, for Laying the First Stone of the New Bridge, Notice is hereby given, that the Foot and Carriage-way over the present Bridge will be stopped on that day, from Eleven o’clock in the Forenoon until Four o’clock in the Afternoon.

‘By Order of the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR.

‘FRANCIS HOBLER.

‘N.B. Southwark Bridge will be open free of Toll during the above hours.’

“As the intervening space passed away, the preparations for the ceremonial proceeded on a scale of equal celerity and magnitude. A Steam Engine, with a high funnel, was erected against the City side of the Coffer-Dam, for exhausting it of water, an entrance to which was made through a covered stone recess of the old Bridge, on the Northern side of the Dam. The rude and intricate walling of piles and other erections now began to assume a more regular appearance; a platform and flight of steps connected them with the parapet of the old edifice; a broad raised passage surrounded the area in the centre, and the whole was covered with an awning, above which rose numerous lofty flag-staves. These, then, were the earlier preparations for this splendid water-festival; and now let us proceed to recount the wonders of the day itself. A finer and more freshly-breathing air was certainly never abroad, than that which cooled the atmosphere and blew out the gaily-coloured flags around old London Bridge, on the morning of Wednesday, the 15th of June. At a very early hour, the workmen began erecting the barriers, which were double, and at a considerable distance apart. Across the whole space of Fish-Street Hill, from Upper and Lower Thames Street, and again at Tooley Street, there stretched wide wooden railings, having a moveable bar at each pavement, with an opening wide enough for one person only; whilst the centre of the Street was divided with posts and bars, allowing carriages to pass between them also, but in single lines. Within these, at each end of the Bridge, was erected a strong screen of rough planks, about fourteen feet high, having four gates, answering to the former foot-paths and carriage-ways. So long as the barriers continued open, the old Bridge was crowded with gazers; who were especially collected opposite that part of the parapet which was to form the grand entrance to the Coffer-Dam; while on the roofs of the houses, and other buildings in the vicinity, were platforms of seats, and awnings preparing, which were afterwards crowded with spectators; as well as the Monument, St. Magnus’ Church, the towers of St. Mary Overies’, and St. Olave, Fishmongers’ Hall, and the Patent-Shot works. Many scaffolds were also erected for the purpose of letting, the prices varying from 2_s._ 6_d._ to 15_s._ each, according to their accommodations; and the following is a specimen of their announcements. ‘Seats to be let for viewing the Procession, No. 2, Bridge Foot, for Laying the First Stone of the New Bridge. Tickets 7_s._ and 5_s._ each:’ though more moderate exhibitions were set forth in the words, ‘A full view of the whole works, Admission 6_d._’ Another bill of entertainment, also issued on that morning, stated, that ‘This Evening, Wednesday, June 15th, the Monument will be superbly illuminated with Portable Gas, in commemoration of Laying the First Stone of the New London Bridge, by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor. Admittance Sixpence each, at Nine o’clock.’ And in the evening a lamp was accordingly placed at each of the loop-holes of the column, to give the idea of its being wreathed with flame, whilst two other series were placed on the edges of the gallery; though the wind seldom permitted the whole of the gas to remain lighted at the same instant.

“Long before the time appointed for the closing of old London Bridge, the River and buildings around it were fully occupied with visitors; the vessels were decorated with flags; and crowded pleasure-boats, some carrying bands of music, floated round the Coffer-Dam. At eleven o’clock, the Bridge was begun to be cleared, and that of Southwark opened, for the first and only time, toll free. The various entries were guarded by constables, who ascertained that every person was provided with a ticket; and before noon, this famous passage across the Thames had so completely changed its character, that the very striking contrast to its usual appearance must have been seen to be appreciated. The building of the New London Bridge having been entrusted to the following Committee, the ceremonies of this day were also placed under the same direction; the Members being distinguished by painted wands, surmounted by the Arms of London and Southwark. These were,--

“THE LORD MAYOR, all the Aldermen, and Jonathan Crocker, Chairman of the Sub Bridge-House Committee; Robert Fisher, of the Ward of _Aldersgate within_; John Lorkin, of _Aldersgate without_; Samuel Favell, of _Aldgate_; Henry Hughes, of _Bassishaw_; William Austin, of _Billingsgate_; James Davies, and Sir William Rawlins, of _Bishopsgate_; William Mathie, of _Bread Street_; John Locke, of _Bridge_; Richard Webb Jupp, of _Broad Street_; Thomas Carr, of _Candlewick_; Robert Slade, of _Castle Baynard_; Charles Bleaden, of _Cheap_; Josiah Griffiths, of _Coleman Street_; Charles William Hick, of _Cordwainers_; Spencer Perry Adderley, of _Cornhill_; Hugh Herron, of _Cripplegate within_; Richard Lambert Jones, of _Cripplegate without_; James Ebenezer Saunders, of _Dowgate_; Josiah Daw, and Adam Oldham, of _Farringdon within_; William John Reeves, and James Webb Southgate, of _Farringdon without_; Joseph Carter, of _Langbourn_; Thomas Price, of _Lime Street_; Robert Carter, of _Portsoken_; William Routh, of _Queenhithe_; Peter Skipper, of _Tower_; Thomas Conway, of _Vintry_; and William Richardson, of _Walbrook_.

“The Tickets of admission to the Coffer-Dam were also issued by these gentlemen, and were, of course, in great request; but their number being limited, and the general arrangements peculiarly excellent, there was ample accommodation for even a more numerous company. The Tickets themselves--and how will they not be valued by the curious collectors of a future day?--were elegantly engraven, and printed on stout cards, measuring about five inches by eight: they consisted of an oblong elevation of the New Bridge, looking down the River, ‘_Perkins_, _St. Mary Axe_, _Sculpsit_,’ having beneath it the following words:

‘ADMIT THE BEARER TO WITNESS THE CEREMONY OF LAYING THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE, ON WEDNESDAY, THE 15TH DAY OF JUNE, 1825.

Seal of the City Arms.

(_Signed_) HENRY WOODTHORPE, JUNR. _Clerk of the Committee._

N.B.--_The Access is from the Present Bridge, and the time of Admission will be between the hours of Twelve and Two._ No. 837.’

These, however, admitted only to the galleries of the Coffer-Dam, the lowest floor being reserved for the bearers of a second Ticket, printed in letter-press, on a pale pink card, of an ordinary size, and containing the following words.

‘NEW LONDON BRIDGE. -------------------- ADMIT THE BEARER TO THE PLATFORM SEATS, ON PRODUCING THE TICKET OF ADMISSION WITH THIS CARD.’

“The general passage was along the outer gallery, but the latter admissions were conducted down a staircase, lined with crimson, opposite to the principal entrance. Both these Tickets, however, were required to be _shewn_ only, being intended for preservation as memorials, and they were admitted at each end of the Bridge. Having passed the barriers, the visitors proceeded to the GRAND ENTRANCE TO THE COFFER-DAM,

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which was formed by removing part of the stone parapet of the Bridge, adjoining the fourth recess from the Southwark end, on the Western side; the break being most expeditiously made just as the Bridge was cleared. It was then that the extreme elegance of this entrance became perfectly visible. Several steps, covered with crimson cloth, led up to a kind of tent formed of flags, gathered in festoons, with roses of the same, and surmounted by a white flag bearing a red cross, and having the Union in the first quarter, the Sword of St. Paul in the second, and the Saltire of Southwark in the fourth. The roof of this entrance was also formed of two immense red ensigns, charged with the Union in their quarters; the sides were elegantly divided into arches, richly festooned and entwined with flags; and, on the left-hand of the entrance, at the edge of the pavement, was erected a board, which stated, that ‘All Carriages, not in the Procession, are, on setting down the company, to pass on into Southwark, and return from Southwark to take up.’ Round the whole of the Dam itself was a broad stage; which formed a most delightful promenade, secured from the heat of the sun by the tent above, whilst the air, light, and prospect, might be enjoyed through the Arches. THE WESTERN END OF THE COFFER-DAM

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terminated in a circular form, and presented a peculiarly beautiful object from the water; whence a series of substantial ladders led to the platform: over which floated the Union Jack, and a St. George’s Ensign. THE SOUTHERN EXTERIOR OF THE COFFER-DAM

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formed, however, its most magnificent prospect; especially when seen from a point of sufficient elevation to comprise the whole extent of its splendid and capacious amphitheatre. The nearest objects were the thick and irregular walls of discoloured piles standing in the water, from which all boats were kept off by persons stationed for the purpose; and on the interior row was the outer gallery of the tent, with its decorated arches. The awning above was raised on a little forest of scaffold-poles, which would have appeared of unusual strength any where but by the side of the huge blocks of timber immediately beneath them: and, over the whole, the breeze unfolded to the sun the several banners. In the centre waved the Royal Standard of England; at the Western top of the tent was the flag of the Navy Board; at the opposite point that of the Admiralty; and above these a rope extended the whole length of the building, decorated with about five-and-twenty signal-colours, furnished, like all the others, from the Royal Dock-Yard at Woolwich.

“This erection was divided into four principal parts, consisting of a floor and three galleries, the whole being capable of containing 2000 persons; nearly which number was probably present. The floor was laid 45 feet below high-water mark, and measured 95 feet by 36, being formed of four-inch beechen planks, resting upon Piles headed with iron; upon which was a layer of timber two feet thick, and a course of brick-work and stone, each of 2-1/2 feet deep. It was surrounded by three rows of seats, excepting at the entrance at the Eastern end; and on the North side was a chair of state, covered with crimson cloth, having behind it the seats appropriated to the Lord Mayor’s family and private friends. The whole floor was capable of receiving 500 persons, and was entirely covered with red baize, excepting at a rectangular space in the centre, within which appeared a cavity, cut in stone, of 21 inches by 15, and 7 in depth, for the coins, &c., over which the First Stone was suspended by a strong fall and tackle, secured to the upright timbers of the Dam. Above the floor was a gallery, containing three rows of covered seats, sufficient to hold 400 spectators; and over it were two others; the lower one, of two rows for 400; and the upper tier for 300 more. Three other galleries also stretched along the cross beams above; whilst a still more lofty one, at the Western end, was appropriated to the Ward Schools of Bridge, Dowgate, and Candlewick. The general character of the Dam was strength and solidity; the tiers of seats being supported by massive cross-beams, wreathed and decorated with flags and rosettes; along the centre passed another very thick timber, bearing the uprights and their respective supporters; and from the roof several large flags hung heavily downwards. The taste and ingenuity which were exerted in the arrangements, had indeed left nothing to be wished for; whilst the general security was everywhere so palpably apparent, as to dispel the apprehensions even of the most timid. Such was the appearance of the INTERIOR OF THE COFFER-DAM, AND THE POSITION OF THE FIRST STONE,

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which was of the best hard Aberdeen Granite, weighing 4 tons. Its measurement was, 5 feet 5/8 of an inch long, 3 feet 6-3/8 inches broad, and 2 feet 10 inches deep; containing 50 feet 7 inches in cubic measure; and its situation as nearly as possible the centre of the First, or South Pier, on the Southwark side. The Company continued rapidly to arrive until the barriers were closed at 2 o’clock, when most of the seats in the Coffer-Dam were occupied; and where, to lighten as much as possible the interval of waiting, the bands of the Horse-Guards, Red and Blue, and of the Artillery Company, which were stationed in a gallery at the entrance, were employed to furnish frequent entertainment: Refreshments of Tea, Coffee, Champagne, &c., being also liberally supplied by the Committee. About a quarter before three o’clock, the Lady Mayoress, and her family, came to the Dam in the private state-carriage; and at four, a signal-gun announced that the Procession had left the Court-yard of Guildhall, nearly in the following order; passing through Cheapside, Cornhill, and Grace-Church Street, to the Bridge, where it was received by the Committee, and other members of the Common Council; the principal persons being in their own carriages.

A Division of the Artillery Company, with their Field-pieces.

Constables.

Band of Music.

Marshalmen.

The Junior City Marshal, Mr. W. W. Cope, on horseback.

Nathaniel Saunders, Junr., Esq., the Water-Bailiff, and Mr. Nelson, his Assistant.

Barge Masters.

City Watermen, bearing Colours.

Remainder of the City Watermen.

Bridgemasters and Clerk of the Bridge-House.

Contractors, William Jolliffe, Esq., and Sir Edward Banks.

Model of the Bridge, borne by Labourers.

Architect and Engineer, John Rennie, Esq., F. R. S.

Members of the New Bridge Committee.

Comptroller of the Bridge-House, Robert F. Newman, Esq.

Visitors and Members of the Committee of the Royal Society.

High Bailiff of the Borough of Southwark, John Holmes, Esq.

Under Sheriffs, George Martin, and John S. Tilson, Esqrs.

Clerk of the Peace of the City of London, Thomas Shelton, Esq.

City Solicitor, William Lewis Newman, Esq.

Remembrancer, Timothy Tyrrell, Esq.

Secondaries of Giltspur Street and the Poultry Compters.

Comptroller of the Chamber, Lewis Bushnan, Esq.

Common Pleaders, Wm. Bolland, Esq., George Bernard, Esq.

Hon. C. E. Law, and John Mirehouse, Esq.

Judges of the Sheriff’s Court.

Town Clerk, Henry Woodthorpe, Esq.

Common Serjeant, Thomas Denman, Esq., M. P.

Deputy Recorder, Mr. Serjeant Arabin.

Chamberlain, Richard Clark, Esq.

Members of Parliament and other Gentlemen, Visitors.

Sir Humphrey Davy, President of the Royal Society.

The Sheriffs, Anthony Brown, and John Key, Esqrs., Aldermen.

Aldermen below the Chair.

The Recorder, Newman Knowlys, Esq.

Aldermen past the Chair.

Visitors, Privy Councillors.

Visitors, Peers.

Officers of State.

Music and Colours, with the Court of the Lord Mayor’s Company, the Goldsmiths.

Marshalmen.

The Senior City Marshal, Mr. Neville Brown, on horseback.

The Lord Mayor’s Household.

The Lord Mayor’s Servants in their State Liveries.

The Lord Mayor in his State Carriage, accompanied by His Royal Highness the Duke of York.

Carriage of His Royal Highness the Duke of York.

The remainder of the Artillery Company, as a guard of honour to the Lord Mayor.

“The streets through which the Procession passed, were all thronged; every window was filled with spectators; and, on arriving at its destination, the River, the Wharfs, the most distant buildings, and even Southwark Bridge, were equally crowded with thousands of impatient gazers. It was not, however, until a quarter before five, that the field-pieces of the Artillery Company, at the old Swan Stairs’ Wharf, announced the cavalcade’s actual approach, when the bands played the famous Yäger Chor of Weber’s ‘_Freyschutz_.’ The City-Watermen, bearing their richly emblazoned standards, soon afterwards entered the Coffer-Dam, when, after the colours had been very ingeniously passed between the timbers, and grouped around the Stone, it being found that they would materially obstruct the view, they were, with similar difficulty, conveyed back again. The narrow and winding passages of the Dam destroyed much of the stately order of the Procession; but nearly the whole Court of Aldermen, and a large party of the Common-Council, in their scarlet and purple gowns, having appeared on the floor beneath, they were followed by the City Officers; the Lord Mayor, in his robes of state; and His Royal Highness the Duke of York, in a plain blue coat, wearing the Garter round his knee, and the star of the order upon his breast. In the same part of the Procession also came the Earl of Darnley; Lord James Stuart; the Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, President of the Board of Controul; Admiral Sir George Cockburn, M. P.; Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart, M. P.; Sir George Warrender, Bart, M. P.; Sir Peter Laurie; Sir Robert Wilson, M. P.; Thomas Wilson, Esq., M. P.; William Williams, Esq., M. P.; George Holme Sumner, Esq., M. P.; and several other personages of distinction.

“The Lord Mayor and His Royal Highness having arrived at the state chair, amidst the waving of handkerchiefs, and the loudest cheers, and having both of them declined that seat of honour, they remained standing during the whole of the ceremony; which then commenced by the Ward Schools and the visitors singing ‘_God save the King_,’ verse and chorus, in which the Duke also joined with great enthusiasm. The Lord Mayor then removed towards the Eastern end of the Platform, in the centre of the Coffer-Dam floor, where there was a small stage covered with crimson cloth, attended by four members of the Bridge Committee, bearing the bottle for the coins, an inscription incrustated in glass, the level, and the splendid SILVER-GILT TROWEL FOR LAYING THE FIRST STONE.

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This elegant instrument, which was designed and executed by Messrs. Green, Ward, and Green, of Ludgate Hill, measured 15 inches in its extreme length, and 5 inches at the widest part of the blade; the handle being 5-1/2 inches long, composed of wrought laurel, terminating in very rich acanthus foliage at the end; and its depository, a green Morocco case lined with white satin. The upper side was embossed with a reclining figure of the Thames, with a vase, swan, and cornucopia; beneath which was a shield, charged with the impaled arms of London and Southwark, and surrounded by the supporters, crest, motto, and badges of the City. The other side was perfectly flat, and was decorated with a border of flowers; the armorial ensigns, crest, and motto, of the Lord Mayor; and the following Inscription, engraven in ornamental characters:--

‘THIS TROWEL WAS USED IN THE LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE, ON THE 15th DAY OF JUNE, 1825, IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH, BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN GARRATT, LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON: WHO WAS BORN IN THE WARD IN WHICH THE BRIDGE IS SITUATED, ON THE 15th DAY OF DECEMBER, 1786; ELECTED A MEMBER OF THE COMMON COUNCIL FOR THAT WARD, ON THE 3rd DAY OF AUGUST, 1809 ALDERMAN THEREOF, ON THE 10th DAY OF MARCH, 1821; AND SHERIFF OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX, ON THE 24th DAY OF JUNE FOLLOWING.’

“Mr. John Rennie having exhibited to the Lord Mayor and the Duke of York a large and excellent drawing of the elevation of the New Bridge, Richard Clark, Esq., the venerable Chamberlain of London, next produced a white satin purse, containing a series of new coins of the reign, each separately enveloped, which being uncovered, and deposited by the Lord Mayor in an elegant square bottle of cut-glass, were placed in the cavity; four glass cylinders, 7 inches long and 3 in diameter, intended to support the engraved Inscription-plate, being fixed at the corners in plaster-of-Paris. Another member of the Committee then handed to the Lord Mayor a block of solid glass, 7-1/4 inches broad, 3-1/2 in height, and 1-1/2 in thickness, enclosing these words, in Messrs. Pellats’ and Green’s Ceramie Incrustation:--

‘THE FIRST STONE OF THIS BRIDGE WAS LAID BY THE RIGHT HON^{BLE} JOHN GARRATT, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, IN JUNE, 1825: AND IN THE 6TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE 4TH.’

‘PELLATS & GREEN.’

“The Town-clerk, Henry Woodthorpe, Esq., who had recently received the Degree of LL.D., then came forward with the brass Depositum-plate, and read aloud this very fine Inscription, composed, at the request of the Bridge Committee, by the Rev. Edward Coplestone, D.D., Master of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Professor of Poetry in that University; whose ‘_Prælectiones Academicæ_’ have so excellently illustrated the beauties of the ancient Classic Poets.

‘PONTIS VETVSTI QVVM PROPTER CREBRAS NIMIS INTERIECTAS MOLES IMPEDITO CVRSV FLVMINIS NAVICVLAE ET RATES NON LEVI SAEPE IACTVRA ET VITAE PERICVLO PER ANGVSTAS FAVCES PRAECIPITI AQVARVM IMPETV FERRI SOLERENT CIVITAS LONDINENSIS HIS INCOMMODIS REMEDIVM ADHIBERE VOLENS ET CELEBERRIMI SIMVL IN TERRIS EMPORII VTILITATIBVS CONSVLENS REGNI INSVPER SENATVS AVCTORITATE AC MVNIFICENTIA ADIVTA PONTEM SITV PRORSVS NOVO AMPLIORIBVS SPATIIS CONSTRVENDVM DECREVIT EA SCILICET FORMA AC MAGNITVDINE QVAE REGIAE VRBIS MAIESTATI TANDEM RESPONDERET NEQVE ALIO MAGIS TEMPORE TANTVM OPVS INCHOANDVM DVXIT QVAM CVM PACATO FERME TOTO TERRARVM ORBE IMPERIVM BRITTANICVM FAMA OPIBVS MVLTITVDINE CIVIVM ET CONCORDIA POLLENS PRINCIPE ITEM GAVDERET ARTIVM FAVTORE AC PATRONO CVIVS SVB AVSPICIIS NOVVS INDIES AEDIFICIORVM SPLENDOR VRBI ACCEDERET. ---------------------- PRIMVM OPERIS LAPIDEM POSVIT IOANNES GARRATT ARMIGER PRAETOR XV DIE IVNII ANNO REGIS GEORGII QVARTI SEXTO A. S. M.D.CCC.XXV. ---------------------- JOANNE RENNIE S. R. S. ARCHITECTO.’

“The following English translation of this truly elegant composition was also engraven on the reverse of the plate; though not then read.

‘THE FREE COURSE OF THE RIVER BEING OBSTRUCTED BY THE NUMEROUS PIERS OF THE ANCIENT BRIDGE, AND THE PASSAGE OF BOATS AND VESSELS THROUGH ITS NARROW CHANNELS BEING OFTEN ATTENDED WITH DANGER AND LOSS OF LIFE BY REASON OF THE FORCE AND RAPIDITY OF THE CURRENT, THE CITY OF LONDON, DESIROUS OF PROVIDING A REMEDY FOR THIS EVIL, AND AT THE SAME TIME CONSULTING THE CONVENIENCE OF COMMERCE IN THIS VAST EMPORIUM OF ALL NATIONS, UNDER THE SANCTION AND WITH THE LIBERAL AID OF PARLIAMENT, RESOLVED TO ERECT A BRIDGE UPON A FOUNDATION ALTOGETHER NEW, WITH ARCHES OF A WIDER SPAN, AND OF A CHARACTER CORRESPONDING TO THE DIGNITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THIS ROYAL CITY: NOR DOES ANY OTHER TIME SEEM TO BE MORE SUITABLE FOR SUCH AN UNDERTAKING THAN WHEN, IN A PERIOD OF UNIVERSAL PEACE THE BRITISH EMPIRE FLOURISHING IN GLORY, WEALTH, POPULATION, AND DOMESTIC UNION, IS GOVERNED BY A PRINCE, THE PATRON AND ENCOURAGER OF THE ARTS, UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES THE METROPOLIS HAS BEEN DAILY ADVANCING IN ELEGANCE AND SPLENDOUR. ---------------------- THE FIRST STONE OF THIS WORK WAS LAID BY JOHN GARRATT, ESQUIRE, LORD MAYOR, ON THE 15th DAY OF JUNE, IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF KING GEORGE THE FOURTH, AND IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1825. ---------------------- JOHN RENNIE, F.R.S. ARCHITECT.’

“Printed copies of these Inscriptions, with an embossed border, were presented to each person on entering the Dam; as was also another edition of the Latin, engraven on copper, of the same size as the admission-ticket, and having the same view of the New Bridge above it. The brass plate was then placed upon the glass pillars, when Mr. Richard Lambert Jones, Sub-Chairman of the Committee for erecting the edifice, presented the splendid Trowel to the Lord Mayor, with this address: ‘My Lord, I have the honour to inform your Lordship, that the Committee of Management has appointed you, in your character of Lord Mayor of London, to lay the First Stone of the New London Bridge; and that I am directed to present your Lordship with this Trowel, as a means of assistance to your Lordship in accomplishing that object.’ Upon which the Lord Mayor turned towards the Duke of York, and thus addressed His Royal Highness, and the other witnesses of the ceremony.

“‘Though it is not essential for me to speak at any length upon the purpose for which we are this day assembled, since its importance to this great commercial City must be clearly evident; yet I cannot refrain from offering a few observations, feeling, as I do, more than an ordinary interest in the accomplishment of the undertaking, of which the present ceremony is only the primary step. I cannot consider the present a favourable moment for entering into any chronological history of the present venerable Bridge, which is now, from the increased commerce of the country, and the rapid strides made by the Sciences in this Kingdom, found inadequate to its purposes; but would rather advert to the many advantages which must naturally result from the completion of this great national enterprise. Whether there be taken into consideration the rapid, and consequently dangerous, currents arising from the obstruction incidental to the defects of this ancient edifice, which have proved so destructive to human life and property, or its difficult and incommodious approaches and acclivity, it must be matter of sincere congratulation, that we are living in times when the resources of this highly-favoured country are competent to a work of such great public utility. If ever there were a period more suitable than another, for engaging in national improvements, it must be the present; governed as we are by a Sovereign, the munificent and accomplished Patron of the Arts, beneath whose mild and paternal sway, by the blessing of Divine Providence, we now enjoy profound peace; living under a government, by the enlightened policy of which, our trade and manufactures so extensively flourish; and represented by a Parliament, ever ready to foster, by the most liberal grants, any plans for the improvement of the Empire; to which the present undertaking is so deeply indebted for its munificent support. Thus happily situated, it is impossible to hail such advantages with other feelings than those of gratitude and delight; and it is to me a source of unqualified pride and pleasure, that this great undertaking should have occurred in the year when I have been honoured by the office of Chief Magistrate of this great, this greatest, City, not of England only, but of the world; and that this important ceremony should take place in the Ward which I have the honour to represent in the Civic Councils. I cannot conclude without acknowledging how highly complimentary I feel it to the honourable office which I now fill, to meet such an auditory as now surrounds me; in which I see the illustrious Prince, Heir-presumptive to the Throne of this Kingdom; many of His Majesty’s Ministers, and the distinguished Nobles of the land; my active brother-magistrates; my kind fellow-citizens; and, above all, so brilliant an assemblage of that sex, whose radiant smiles, this day, shed a lustre on our meeting. Under such auspices, I rejoice to lay the Foundation-Stone of a structure, which, I trust, will, through all future time, prove an ornament to the Metropolis; reflect credit on the Architect; and redound to the honour of this Corporation: and I offer up a sincere and fervent prayer, that, in executing this great work, there may occur no calamity; that, in completing what is most particularly intended as a preventive of future danger, no mischief may overcloud the universal rejoicings on the undertaking.’

“The very warm applauses which followed this most appropriate address subsided only upon the commencement of the Masonic ceremonies, by a portion of fine mortar being placed around the cavity of the Stone, by several of the Assistants, and spread by the Lord Mayor with his splendid Trowel; after which, precisely at 5 o’clock, the First Stone was gradually lowered into its bed by a brazen block of four sheaves, and the power of a machine called a crab. When it was settled, it was finally secured by several Masons, who cut four sockets close to it on the stone beneath, into which were fitted strong iron clamps, cured with plaster of Paris. The Lord Mayor then struck it with a mallet, and ascertained its accuracy by applying the level to its East, North, West, and South surfaces. The work being thus perfected, the City Sword and Mace were disposed in Saltire upon the stone; successive shouts burst from the numerous spectators; the bands again played the National Anthem of England; and a flag being lowered as a signal on the top of the Dam, the guns of the Artillery Company, and the carronades on Calvert’s Brewery Wharf, fired a concluding salute. The declining Sun, also, contributed to shed a golden glory upon the closing ceremony; for, as the day advanced, its radiance streamed through an opening in the tent-covering above, and, gradually approaching the Stone, shone upon it with a dazzling brilliancy, at the very moment of its being deposited. The whole ceremonial terminated with an universal repetition of ‘_God save the King_,’ and three series of huzzas, for the Duke of York, Old England, and Mr. Rennie; after which, when the Procession had left the Dam, amidst similar acclamations to those which first greeted it, many of the visitors went down to the floor, to view the Stone more closely, and to boast to posterity that they had stood upon it, or walked over it.

“To conclude the festivities of the day with appropriate Civic hospitality, the Lord Mayor, at his own private expense, gave a most sumptuous banquet to the Corporation, and his noble visitors, at the Mansion House. The dinner and wines included Turtle, Venison, Champagne, Claret, and every other luxury; to which the following card of Invitation, thus commemorated the event:--

‘THE LORD MAYOR REQUESTS THE HONOUR OF ---------------------------------------- COMPANY TO DINNER AT THE MANSION HOUSE, ON WEDNESDAY THE 15th OF JUNE, AT SIX O’CLOCK PRECISELY, ON THE OCCASION OF LAYING THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE.

_The favour of an answer is particularly requested by the 6th of June._

_Mansion House, May 25th, 1825._’

“A Royal dinner at Carlton Palace, on the same day, deprived him of the presence of the Duke of York, who quitted the Bridge through Southwark, immediately after the ceremony. His Lordship’s guests, however, amounted to a greater number than had ever before dined within the Mansion House, since, in addition to upwards of 360 in the Egyptian Hall, nearly 200 of the Artillery Company dined in the Saloon; the whole edifice being brilliantly illuminated with gas, both within and without, and the entertainment superintended by a Committee of his Lordship’s private friends.

“To mark the very deep public sense of the Lord Mayor’s munificent conduct upon this memorable occasion, at a Court of Common Council held on the following day, Thursday, June 16th, Adam Oldham, Esq., Deputy of the Ward of Farringdon Within, called the attention of the Court to the very splendid manner in which his Lordship had conducted himself towards the Members of the Corporation, at the recent ceremony of Laying the First Stone of the New London Bridge; and suggested that the Court should make some early and suitable acknowledgment of his Lordship’s distinguished liberality. In consequence of which, at a subsequent Court held on July 28th, a motion was made by R. L. Jones, Esq., ‘That a Gold Medal be prepared, with a suitable Inscription, commemorative of the circumstance of Laying the First Stone of a New London Bridge, and presented to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in the name of this Court:’ which was unanimously agreed to, and its provision referred to the said Committee.

“This Medal, however, has not yet been presented; and of two others which were prepared, as memorials of this work, one had the die break in the hardening, and the other was struck for private distribution only: as their extreme rarity is, therefore, not to be questioned, I shall give a short account of each of them; at the same time, expressing my surprise, that so important an event has not called forth an host of these classical memorials. The first private Medal was executed by Peter Rouw, and William Wyon, Esquires, Modeller, and Die-sinker, to his Majesty; the obverse containing a MEDALLION OF THE LORD MAYOR AND LADY MAYORESS;

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and the reverse being occupied by the following Inscription:--

‘TO COMMEMORATE THE LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE OF LONDON BRIDGE BY THE RIGHT HON. JOHN GARRATT, LORD MAYOR, ON THE 15th OF JUNE 1825, IN THE PRESENCE OF H.R.H. THE DUKE OF YORK, VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE NOBILITY, AND THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY, AND IN TESTIMONY OF HIS LORDSHIP’S PUBLIC WORTH AND PRIVATE VIRTUES, THIS MEDAL WAS DESIGNED AT THE REQUEST OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS, BY JOSEPH YORK HATTON.’

“The other Medal had about twenty impressions struck in silver, which were distributed to the Engineers, assistants, &c., on the day of the foundation. These were 2-1/2 inches in diameter, and nearly 1/8 of an inch in thickness. The obverse consisted of a fine head of the elder Mr. Rennie, from a former Medal; and the reverse contained a design, by Mr. William Knight, of the New London Bridge Works, consisting of an elevation of the edifice, with representations of the First Stone, Mallet, and Trowel: the Inscription being as follows:--

‘. LONDON . BRIDGE . . THE . FIRST . STONE . OF . THIS . . WORK . WAS . LAID . BY . THE . . RIGHT . HON. . JOHN . GARRATT, . . LORD . MAYOR . OF . LONDON. . . ON . THE . XV . DAY . OF . JUNE, . . MDCCCXXV . AND . IN . THE . SIXTH . . YEAR . OF . THE . REIGN . . OF . GEORGE . IV. . . JOHN . RENNIE . ESQ. . F.R.S. . ENGINEER . . JOLIFFE . & . BANKS . CONTRACTORS.’

“Such are the few remaining reliques of this Ceremony, which have been provided for posterity; for, with the exception of a slight etching of the Western end of the Coffer-Dam, in a Memorandum Book, and an Indian Ink Drawing, by Dighton, of some of the principal persons standing about the First Stone, there is no other representation to record it. There are, indeed, several prospects of the finished Edifice; though of its exact features, it is probable we can form no very correct idea, until we are a few years older; so then let us here take our last VIEW OF THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE;

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for such are all the particulars and memorials which I can give you concerning this interesting Civic ceremony; and if the Italian of old could give his famous ‘ESTO PERPETUA!’ to his water-seated Venice, how much rather shall every true-hearted citizen bestow it upon this rising edifice, beneath whose expansive arches,

‘The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind; Earth’s distant ends our glories shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old!’”

I concluded these lines of Pope’s “_Windsor Forest_” with so much enthusiasm, that I did not immediately remark the silence which followed; but upon looking up to wish my auditor a good night, how greatly was I astonished to find myself alone! with only a few dim lights in the empty coffee-room, and the waiter sleeping in a distant box. Hastily starting from my seat, I inquired what had become of Mr. Postern, when, to my great surprise, he absolutely denied that he had seen him either come in or go out. Since that time, too, I have everywhere, but in vain, sought “the learned Pundit” who had so long conferred with me. I certainly cannot discredit the evidence of my own senses, but, upon reconsidering all the circumstances, it appears to me that I must have seen and conversed with the shade of Peter of Colechurch, the original Architect of London Bridge! Our narrative, however, rests upon more solid foundations; for, as I have verified every authority referred to, these CHRONICLES are presented to posterity as the collected memorials of that once-famous edifice, which within a few years will exist no longer.”

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GENERAL INDEX.

A, Book in the City Records so marked, 123, 124.

Abel, Alderman Richard, 389.

Abjuration of the Realm, ceremony of, 217, 218.

_Acta Sanctorum_, (1643-1786,) 28, 29, 300.

_Acts of Parliament_ concerning London Bridge, 460, 461, 475, 565, 624-626.

Agarde, Arthur, Anecdote of the Easterlings and London Bridge, 587.

Alban, St., Wood Street, Bridge property in the Parish of, 264.

Alexander, Daniel, plan for enlarging London Bridge, 613.

All Saints, Barking, Bridge property in the Parish of, 259. ---- Gracechurch, ditto, 260. ---- the Less, ditto, 262.

Ames, Joseph, on dates found at London Bridge, 302.

Antwerp, Arms of London painted at, 181. _Antwerp View of London_, 406.

Andrew Hubbard, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 259.

Antelope, used by the English Kings in their Arms, 229, 230.

Antiquities found at London Bridge, 302, 308, 514, 515, 627-629.

Arches of London Bridge, various particulars of the, 451-453, 505, 541, 542, 555-560, 563, 564, 612.

Ardern, Thomas de, his gift from the Bridge Rents, 52.

Arms of London, discussion on the, 176-184.

Arnold, Richard, his _Chronicle_, &c., 289-296, 300.

Arthur, King of Great Britain, his arms, 179. ----, Prince of Wales, rejoicings on his marriage, 305.

Assize Rents, 120. ---- Pleadings, 121.

Aubyn, Sir John, his portrait of Sir Edward Osborne, 314.

Audery, Mary, notices of, 34, 38, 41-44. ---- John, _vide_ Overs.

Augustine, Gate of St., its ancient site, 132.

Aunger, Peter, evidence of his Jurors on the keeping of London Bridge, 117.

Austin Pappey, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 261.

Ayloffe, Sir Joseph, his account of London Bridge, 90, 98.

Bagford, John, antiquarian illustrations from his collections, 9, 11, 99, 100, 374.

Baily, Dr. Thomas, his _Life and Death of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester_, (1655,) 340.

Baker, Sir Richard, his _Chronicle of the Kings of England_, (1733,) 176.

Bakers of Southwark, notice concerning the, 124.

Bale, John, his character of Leland, 322.

Banks, Miss, her collection of Shop Bills, 378, 381.

Banner of the City of London, device on, 177.

Barbican, nature and use of the, 99, 100.

Bardolf, Lord Thomas, his head on London Bridge, 214, 215.

Barking Abbey, gifts to, from London Bridge, 143.

Bartholomew the Less, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 264.

Basing, Thomas de, evidence of his Jurors on London Bridge, 118.

Basinghall, or Bassishaw Ward, evidence of the Jurors on London Bridge, 116.

Battle Abbey, Sussex, Grant to, by King Henry I., 53, 54.

Benedict, St., Gracechurch Street, Bridge property in the Parish of, 260.

Bentham, Sir Samuel, 600, 608; his design for a New Bridge, 601, 602.

Bermondsey Abbey, gift to, from London Bridge, 52. _Register_ of, 53, 58.

Billingsgate, ancient tolls taken at, 30.

Black, James, his design for a New Bridge, 598.

Blackfriars’ Bridge, its erection, &c., 506, 568, 571.

Blakethorne, John de, evidence of his Jurors on London Bridge, 117.

Blanket-Fair, papers and prints relating to, 466-471.

Bloome, Richard, his _Continuation of Stow’s Survey_, 208, 404, 451, 454.

Boethius, Hector, his _Scotorum Historiæ_, (1575,) 187, 192, 199.

Bolingbroke, Roger, his treason and execution, 272, 274.

Books published on London Bridge, 374-378.

Borough Water-Works, 560.

Bossewell, John, his _Workes of Armorie_, (1591,) 179.

Botolph, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 258.

Bow, Church of St. Mary le, London, dreadful damage done to, 48.

Bowles, John, his Prints of London Bridge, 500, 519.

Boydell, J., his Perspective Views, 500.

Braun, George, his _Civitates Orbis Terrarum_, (1523,) 362.

Brand, Rev. John, his _History of Newcastle_, (1789,) 150.

Bray, William, his _History and Antiquities of Surrey_, (1804-14,) 120, 386, 512.

Brethren of London Bridge, protection granted to the, 106.

Bridge-House and Yard, historical notices of the, 103, 104, 308, 360, 361. Estates and Rental of, 271, 286, 290-295, 313, 336, 337, 358, 393, 414, 475, 489, 495, 496, 577, 614, 619, 620. Revenues of for building the New Bridge, 625. Manner of letting the property of, 633. Offices, &c. of the Bridge Masters, 139-144, 295, 519. Bridge-House Committee, proceedings of, 616, 617, 622-624, 633.

Bridges, ancient one near London, 10. General destruction of, 50, 51. Building of, an action of piety, 66. Ancient taxes for erecting, 68. Chapels built upon, 91, 93. Various ancient uses of, 121, 122.

Bridge Street, custom of Fish paid at, 112. Disturbance in the, 214. Penance of the Duchess of Gloucester, 273.

Bridget, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 264.

Briggs, John, London Bridge fired from his house, 394, 398.

Brompton, John, his _Chronicon_, 29, 30, 48.

Bulmar, Bevis, his Water-Works at Broken Wharf, 350.

Bulmer, Capt. John, his plan for blowing a boat over London Bridge, 424-428.

Bunyan, John, his residence and death, 389.

Burnet, Dr. Gilbert, Bp. of Salisbury, his _History of the Reformation_, (1681,) 319.

Butchers, Ancient City Ordinances for, 168-171.

Butler, Rev. Alban, his life of St. Olave, 28.

Cade, John, his Insurrection, 278-285.

Cæsar, Julius, his Landing at London, 8, 9.

Camden, William, Clarencieux King of Arms, his _Anglica_, (1603,) 174.

Canaletti, Antonio, his View of the Monument, 519.

Canot, Peter Charles, his engraving of Old London Bridge, 499.

Capell, Sir Edward, his order for Stocks and Cages, 336.

Carpenter, J., his compilation of City Customs, 123.

Carthusian Monks executed for denying the King’s supremacy, 340.

Catherine Cree Church, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 260.

Challoner, Dr. Richard, Bishop of Debora, his _Catholic Book of Martyrs_, 370, 371, 420, 421, 428.

Chambers, Susanna, her bequest to St. Magnus’ Church, 415.

Chapel on London Bridge, 83-90, 304, 392. Taken down, 515, 516. Chapels on other Bridges, 91, 93.

Chapman, William, his plan for enlarging London Bridge, 613, 620.

Charles II., King of England, his entry into London, 433-435.

Chapter House, Westminster, Records there, 119, 121, 139.

_Chevy Chace_, the tune of, 413.

Christmas Carol, London Bridge mentioned in, 149.

Ciaconio, Alphonso, his _Vitæ et Res Gestæ Pontificum Romanorum_, (1630,) 61.

Clarendon, Edw. Hyde, Earl of, his _History of the Rebellion_, (1819,) 419, 422, 433.

Clement, Eastcheap, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 261.

_Close Rolls_, references to the, 72, 103.

Coffer-Dam, for laying the First Stone of the New London Bridge, 635, 636, 638-646, 649.

Coinage, historical notices of the English, 382-384.

Coke, Sir Edward, historical illustrations from, 52, 67, 68.

Cold Harbour, ancient festivities there, 14.

Colechurch, St. Mary, its site, 60.

Colechurch, Peter, the Chaplain of, rebuilds London Bridge, 58, 59. His death, 70, and burial in the Bridge Chapel, 87.

Coleman Street Ward, evidence of the Jurors of, respecting London Bridge, 117.

Commons, House of, proceedings concerning London Bridge, 614-617, 623.

Common Council of London, proceedings concerning London Bridge, 123-125, 168-171, 295, 553-555, 557-560, 661.

Concannen, M., his _History of Southwark_, (1795,) 44, 560.

Conder, James, his _Arrangement of Provincial Tokens_, (1798,) 386.

Coplestone, Rev. Dr. Edward, his Foundation-Inscriptions for the New London Bridge, 653-655.

Corn-Mills at London Bridge, 352-356.

_Cosmo III., Grand Duke of Tuscany, his Travels through England in 1669_, (1821,) 464.

_Cottonian Manuscripts_, 46, 47, 222-226, 587.

Coventry, Walter and William of, 101.

Coventry, Ancient House of the Mayor at, 347.

Courts of Justice, origin of, 137.

Cowdray Hall, Sussex, ancient Paintings at, 362.

Crawford, David Lindesay, Earl of, his Passage of Arms on London Bridge, 187-196, 198-200, 202.

Crosses anciently used in Arms, 179, 180.

Crowle, J. Charles, his _Illustrated Pennant_, 462, 469, 481, 515, 570, 574, 596.

Crypt of London Bridge Chapel, 86, 87.

Culham Bridge, Oxfordshire, verses on, 66.

_Curia Regis_, account of the, 137, 138.

Custom of Fish paid at the Bridge Street, 112.

Dagger in the City Arms, 176-184.

_Daily Courant_, (1722,) 484.

Dance, George, his Reports on London Bridge, 502, 511, 574, 576, 577, 613, 617. Design for a Double Bridge, 596, 597.

Danes, their invasions of London, 16, 18, 21-23, 31.

Defoe, Daniel, his _Journal of the Plague Year_, (1722,) 441.

Desmond, James, Earl of, his execution, 350.

Dewes, Sir Symonds, his Manuscripts, 72.

Dion Cassius, his _Historiæ Romanæ_, 10.

Dodd, Ralph, his Drawings of Old London Bridge, 593, 603. Designs for a New one, 591, 592.

Dodsley, Robert, his _Annual Register_, 574. _Collection of Old Plays_, (1780,) 582.

Dolphin taken at London Bridge, 203.

_Domesday Book_, (1783,) concerning Southwark, 35, 36.

Douce, Francis, his _Arnold’s Chronicle_, (1811,) 289.

Douglas, Sir Robert, his _Peerage of Scotland_, 202.

Douglass, James, his designs for an Iron Bridge, 594, 595, 599.

Dowgate Ward, evidence of the Jurors of, respecting London Bridge, 118.

Drayton, Michael, his _Polyolbion_, (1613,) 455.

Draw-Bridge and Draw-Lock at London Bridge, 326, 450, 483, 544, 616. Tower on, 236.

Drought in the Thames, 135, 359.

Droitwich, Worcestershire, Bridge and Chapel at, 91.

Dryden, John, his _Annus Mirabilis_, 583, 584.

Ducarel, Dr. Andrew Coltee, notices of, 64, 90, 392.

Du Cange, N. L. du Fresnoy, Seigneur, his _Glossarium_, (1733-36,) 121.

Dugdale, Sir William, Garter King of Arms. His _Monasticon Anglicanum_, (1661, 1723,) 33, 35, 38, 352. His _Baronage of England_, (1676,) 201.

Duncomb, Sir Charles, his gift to St. Magnus’ Church, 456.

_Dunmow Chronicle_, 101.

Dunstan, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 258.

_Dunthorne_, a book in the City Chamber so called, 178.

D’Urfey, Thomas, his _Wit and Mirth_, (1719,) 413.

Easterlings, anecdote of the, 587.

Edmund, St., Lombard Street, Bridge property in the Parish of, 261.

Edward I., King of England, custom of wool paid to, 67, 68. Inquisitions made by, 115-119. Patents granted to London Bridge, 127, 129, 133, 154.

Edward IV., King of England, his chapel on Wakefield Bridge, 91. Crosses London Bridge, 285.

Edwards, Edward, his _Anecdotes of Painting_, (1808,) 390.

Edwards, John, his bequest to London Bridge, 251.

Eleanor of Provence, Queen of Henry III. insulted at London Bridge, 108, 109. Custody of the Bridge granted to, 112. Inquisitions concerning, 116-119.

Elizabeth, Queen of England, splendid book belonging to, 63. Her Statutes against Papists, 369.

Elmes, James, his _Memoirs of Sir Christopher Wren_, (1823,) 451, 458.

Elmham, Thomas of, his _History of Henry V._, 225.

Entick, Rev. John, his edition and Continuation of _Maitland’s History of London_, (1772,) 19, 31, 33, 35, 36, 53, 70, 72, 87, 96, 97, 99, 113, 119, 120, 122, 123, 127, 133, 134, 136, 165, 166, 207, 216, 286, 295, 456, 460, 465, 478, 486, 488, 489, 494, 497, 502, 503, 507, 508, 510, 511, 513, 521, 529, 535, 545, 550, 563, 566, 568.

Ethelred II., King of England, makes a peace with Olaf, 17. Defended by the Citizens, 18. Battle with the Danes, 21-23. Laws of, 30.

Evans, J., on the music to the Ballad of London Bridge, 152, 153.

Evelyn, John, his _Diary_, (1819,) 443, 465.

Exchequer Chamber, Westminster, Records there, 115, 121. Excheq. Rolls, 105.

Fabyan, Robert, his _Chronicles_, (1559,) 206, 234, 238, 288, 307.

Faith and Gregory, SS, Bridge property in the Parishes of, 265.

Falconbridge the Bastard’s attack on the Bridge, 287.

Fall of the Thames at London Bridge, 542.

Feckenham, John, his bequest to the Bridge, 249.

Ferries over the Thames, 10, 16.

Fesecock, Walter, Gate-keeper of the Bridge, 186.

Fire of London, 441-445. Fires at the Bridge and its vicinity, 50, 54, 100, 394-402, 486, 521, 545.

Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester, his execution, &c., 340-342.

Fishmongers, ancient City Ordinances concerning, 168-171. Their Hall and Company, 1, 175, 446-448, 630.

Fitz-Stephen, William, his _Description of London_, 7, 8, 12, 15, 54, 55, 99.

Fleetwood, Dr. William, Bishop of Ely, his _Chronicon Preciosum_, (1745,) 52, 53.

Floods in the Thames, 48, 49, 540, 541, 551, 553.

_Flying Fame_, tune of, 413.

Foesoe, Island of, Monumental Bridge there, 122.

Fordun, John de, his _Scotichronicon_, 197.

Fords over the Thames, 9.

Fore-Street Ward, evidence of the Jurors of, respecting London Bridge, 117.

Forests near London, 7, 8.

Fosbrooke, Rev. Thomas Dudley, his _Encyclopædia of Antiquities_, (1825,) 305.

Foulds, John, his Soundings, &c. at London Bridge, 576, 579, 585.

Fowle, Bartholomew, his account of the First building of London Bridge, &c., 33-35.

Fox, John, his _Acts and Monuments of Martyrs_, (1610,) 335, 581.

Friars Minors, their gift to London Bridge, 172.

Frisell, or Fraser, Sir Simon, his execution, 163.

Froissart, Sir John, his _Chronicles_, 212.

Frosts and Frost-Fairs, (1091,) 49, 50, (1281,) 135, (1564,) 338, (1608,) 371, (1683,) 465-471, (1709, 1715,) 481-483, (1740,) 490-494, (1768,) 566, (1789,) 569-573, (1814,) 609-613.

Funeral of King Henry V., 232-234.

Gale, Dr. Thomas, his _Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores_ xv. (1691,) 49, 110.

Garnet, Henry, his execution, 370.

Garratt, Alderman John, (Lord Mayor,) Lays the First Stone of the New London Bridge, &c., 638-663.

Gate of London Bridge, 99, 110, falls down with two Arches, 276. Medalet of, 387. Burned, 486. Rebuilt, 487, 488, 518.

Gates of London thrown into the River at London Bridge, 534.

_Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser_, 553-555, 558, 560, 566, 567.

_Gentleman’s Magazine_, references to, 90, 147, 149, 302, 402, 490, 510, 514, 516, 521, 534, 546, 555, 593.

George, St., Southwark, Bridge rents in the Parish of, 266.

Giffard, William, Bishop of Winchester, his gifts to St. Mary Overies, 35.

Gifford, William, his censure of London Bridge, 583.

Giles, Francis, his Survey of the Great Arch, 618.

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, his disputes with Cardinal Beaufort, 234-236.

---- Eleanor, Duchess of, her penance, 272, 273.

Godwin, Earl of Kent, his passage of London Bridge, 32.

---- Dr. Francis, Bishop of Landaff, his Book _De Præsulibus Angliæ Commentarius_, (1743,) 62, 65.

Goodall, Walter, his _Fordun’s Scotichronicon_, (1759,) 198.

Gough, Matthew, his defence of London Bridge, 282.

---- Richard, his _British Topography_, (1780,) 92, 336, 355, 362, 373, 395, 416, 469, 481, 499, 527. His _Sepulchral Monuments_, (1786-96,) 44, 230, 303. His _History of Pleshy_, (1803,) 211, 305.

Grafton, Richard, his _Chronicle at large_, (1569,) 176.

Great Arch of London Bridge, 531, 533, 537, 540, 554, 567-575, 579, 603-605, 618, 620.

Green, M., on the Ballad on London Bridge, 147-149.

Grey, Hon. Anchitell, his _Debates in Parliament_, (1763,) 607.

Grose, Capt. Francis, his _Antiquities of England and Wales_, (1773-87,) 45.

Grove, John, his ancient View of London, 337.

_Guilda de Ponte_, notices of, 580.

Guildhall, Arms in the Crypt of, 183.

Guillim, John, his _Display of Heraldry_, (1724,) 179.

Guthrie, William, his _Peerage_, (1742,) 315.

Gwynn, John, his _London and Westminster Improved_, (1766,) 553.

Hall, Edward, his _Chronicle_, (1550,) 274, 282, 301, 305.

_Harleian Manuscripts_ cited, 15, 53, 72, 101, 163, 182, 210, 215, 219, 221, 227-229, 233, 234, 237, 239-247, 252-271, 276, 323, 374, 480.

Harpocrates, effigy of, found at London Bridge, 628.

Harrison, Walter, his _History of London_, (1776,) 472, 498, 513, 521.

Hatton, Edward, his _New View of London_, (1708,) 184, 345, 471.

Hawkins, Sir John, his dispute respecting the Bridge House, 360, 361.

Hawksmoor, Nicholas, his _Historical Account of London Bridge_, (1736,) 76-79, 91, 95.

Heads erected on London Bridge, 165, 274, 284, 301, 339, 340, 350, 370, 371, 420, 421, 428, 582-584, 587.

Hearne, Thomas, his _Collectanea_, 9, 11, 99. His _Leland’s Itinerary_, 60, 66. His _Liber Niger Scaccarii_, 70, 72, 103, 111, 112, 127, 129, 130, 133, 155, 166, 167, 186, 271, 285. His _Thomas of Elmham_, 225, 226. His _Letter to Bagford_, 322. His _Collection of Curious Discourses_, 587.

Heath, Henry, his execution, 421.

Henry I., King of England, his grant to Battle Abbey, 53, 54.

---- III., ----, his impositions on the Citizens, &c., 106, 112, 114, 116-119.

---- V., ----, builds Culham Bridge, 66. His victorious return to England, 220, 221, 227. Pageants at London Bridge, 222-225, 228. Antelope used as his supporter, 229, 230. His funeral, 234-236.

---- VI., ----, his return after his coronation in France, 238-247. Marriage to Margaret of Anjou, 275. Deposition, &c., 286.

Hentzner, Sir Paul, his _Itinerarium_, 327, 329.

Heralds’ College, Manuscript there, 182, 316.

Herbert, George, his letters, 374.

---- William, a resident on London Bridge, 380-382, 514. His view after the fire, 527.

_Hero and Leander, The Loves of_, (1653,) Poem, 409-412.

Hewit, Sir William, 313, 314.

Hoffmann, John Jacob, his _Lexicon Universale_, (1698,) 94, 474.

Holbein, Hans, a resident on London Bridge, 389.

Holinshed, Raphael, his _Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland_, (1585-86,) 176, 197, 288, 289, 307, 348, 581.

Hollar, Wenceslaus, views of London engraved by, 406.

Horn, John, evidence of the Jurors of his Ward concerning London Bridge, 118.

Horne, Andrew, his _Mirroir des Justices_, (1624,) 218.

----, Rev. Thomas Hartwell, his _Account of the Rotuli Scotiæ_, (1819,) 189.

Hoveden, Roger de, his _Annales_, 23, 48, 49, 51.

Howell, James, his _Londinopolis_, (1657,) 197, 429-432.

Howes, Edmund, his edition of _Stow’s Annales_, (1631,) 135, 174, 187, 203, 206, 210, 216, 219, 221, 231, 232, 234, 237, 271, 275, 288, 301, 305, 333, 338, 348, 350, 359. His _Continuation of Stow’s Chronicle_, (1611,) 371, 373.

Hugo, Cardinal Deacon of St. Angelo, 61, 62.

Hugo, the Illuminator, his account of the Chapel on London Bridge, 88.

_Hundred Rolls_, explained and referred to, 115-119.

Hutton, Dr. Charles, 599, 601. His _Mathematical Tracts_, (1812,) 504.

Illuminated Manuscripts, 56, 57, 304, 305.

Ingram, Rev. J., his _Saxon Chronicle_, (1823,) 17.

Inquisitions of the Wards of London, concerning London Bridge, 116-119.

Inscriptions on the New London Bridge Tickets, 630, 660; on the Trowel, 652; on the Glass-block, 653; on the Depositum-plate, 654, 655; on Medals, 662, 663.

Isabel, Empress of Germany, her dowry, 104.

Isenbert of Xainctes, 70-72.

James I., King of England, his Statutes against Papists, 369.

James, John, his etymology of the word Starling, 586.

Joceline, Alderman Ralph, his defence of the Bridge, 288.

John, King of England, recommends a new Architect, and gives the custody of the Bridge to his Almoner, 70, 72, 73.

Johnes, Colonel Thomas, his _Translation of Froissart’s Chronicles_, (1803,) 212-213.

Johnson, Maurice, his Sepulchral Monuments, 44.

Johnstone, Rev. James, his _Antiquitates Celto-Scandicæ_, (1786,) 20-24.

Jones, Richard Lambert, Chairman of the New London Bridge Committee, 639, 656, 661.

Jonson, Ben., his _Staple of News_, 583.

Joseph of Arimathea, his Son’s banner, 179.

Jovius, Paulus, Bishop of Nocera, his _Descriptio Britanniæ_, &c., (1548,) 327.

_Journals of the House of Commons_, 511, 512.

Julius III., Pope, his death, 336.

Jousting on London Bridge, 186-193.

Kempe, Alfred John, his _Historical Notices of the Sanctuary of St. Martin’s le Grand_, (1825,) 218.

Kempson, Peter, his Medalets of London Bridge, 387.

Kennet, Dr. White, Bishop of Peterborough, his _Historical Register_, (1744,) 434.

Killegrew, Anne, her verses on London Bridge, 551.

King’s Bench, origin of the Court of, 139.

King’s, or Prince’s lock, state of, in 1814, 612.

Kitching, John, his evidence on London Bridge, 618.

Knight, William, on the construction of London Bridge, 536-539, 620. His medal of the New Bridge, 663.

Knute, King of Denmark, turns the River’s course, 31, 96.

Knyghton, Henry, his Book _De Eventibus Angliæ_, 206.

L., anciently borne in the City arms, 181.

Labelye, Charles, his plans for altering London Bridge, 502, 503.

_Lady’s Fall_, Tune of the, 412, 413.

Laguerre, John, his supposed residence on London Bridge, 391.

Lambarde, William, his _Dictionarium Angliæ Topographicum et Historicum_, (1730,) 34.

Lambeth, Archiepiscopal Library, Manuscripts on London Tithes, in the, 297.

Lands, &c. of London Bridge, survey of, 252-270.

Lawrence Pountney, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 262.

Lee River, Ancient Inquisitions concerning, 140-144. Mentioned in a song on London Bridge, 145, 146-148, 150.

Leeds, Duke of, 316, _vide_ Osborne.

Leland, John, his _Itinerary_, (1768-69,) 60, 61, 66, 320. Biographical notice of, 319. His _Cygnea Cantio_, 320-326.

Leonard, Eastcheap, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 259.

Lethullier, Smart, his classes of Sepulchral Monuments, 44.

Lewisham Manor, held by London Bridge, 253, 254.

_Liber Albus Transcriptum_, 123, 124.

Linsted, Prior, _vide_ Fowle.

Lists for Joustings, order and measure of, 191, 192.

Livius, Titus, an historian of Henry V., 234.

_Lloyd’s Evening Post_, 514.

Lodge, W., his engraving of Wakefield Bridge and Chapel, 91.

Lollards, execution of, 231.

LONDON, Alterations in, 1-3. Ancient forest near, 7. Notices of British and Roman London, 8, 9, 11. Landing of Cæsar at, 9, 13. Ancient Bridge near, 10. Tavern on the River banks, 12. Festivities on ditto, 13. Ballad of _London Lickpenny_, 15. Ferry at, 10, 16. Captured by the Danes, 21. Surrendered to Ethelred, 23. Tolls at, 30. Great part burned, 50, 54. Public works at, 50. Impositions on, by Henry III., and custody taken from the Citizens, 106. Inquisitions concerning, 116. Evidence of the Wards of, on London Bridge, 116-119. Ancient Records of, 123-125. Waste places in, given to the Bridge, 131-133. Ordinances for Stocks Market, 167-171. Enquiry into the arms of, 175-184. Its Charter seized, 205. Pageants in, 206. Charter restored, 207. Quit-rents of the Bridge, 256. Tithes anciently paid in, 297, 415. Stocks and cages placed in, 336. Notices of ancient views of, 337, 362, 366, 406. Fortified, 351, 352, 421-423. Great Fire of, 441-445. Its ruins covered with flowers, 584. Act of Parliament for rebuilding, 460, 461. Gates of, sold by auction, 534. Registry of the Bishop of, in St. Paul’s, 250.

LONDON BRIDGE, (994,) Notices of the first wooden one, 17, 19, 33-37. (1008,) Snorro Sturleson’s description of, 21. Destroyed by Olaf, 23. Norse songs mentioning, 24. Tolls at, 30. (1013,) Dilapidated state of, 30. (1016,) How avoided by Knute, 31. (1052,) Earl Godwin’s passage at, 32. (1067,) Its original situation, 46, 47. (1091,) Destroyed by a flood, 48, 49. (1097,) Tax for rebuilding, 50. (1114,) River dried at, 51. (1122,) Rents given to, 52. Work of, remitted, 54. (1136,) Burned, _ibid._ (1163,) Rebuilt of wood, 58. (1176,) First stone one commenced, 59. Benefactors to, 61, 62, 67. Tradition concerning, 67. (1201,) King’s letter for a new Architect, 70, 71. (1205,) Death and burial of Peter of Colechurch, 70, 87. Custody given to Brother Wasce, 72, 73. (1209,) Finished, and Description of, 73. View of the Southwark end, 74. Objections to, 75. Defence of, 76-78. Ground-plan and measurements of, 80-82. Chapel on, 83-87. Engravings of, 89-91. Account of its piles, &c., 97. Earliest buildings on, 98, 102, 110, 127, 207-209. (1212,) Dreadful fire at, 98-102. (1283,) Toll for repairing, 103. Bridge House and yard, 103, 104. (1247,) Rents of exempted, 105. (1249,) Custody taken from the Citizens, 106. (1252,) Protection to the Brethren of, 107. (1263,) Queen Eleanor assaulted at, 108, 109. (1264,) Earl of Leicester opposed at the gate of, 110. (1265,) Custody given to St. Catherine’s, 111. (1269,) Transferred to Queen Eleanor, 112. (1275,) Inquisition concerning her keeping, 113, 116-119. (1278,) Ancient rents paid at, 120, 121. Market on, 122, 124, 125. (1280,) Patent for repairing, 127. (1281,) Customs granted to, 129, 133, 134. Waste places in London given to, 130, 131. Five Arches broken, 135. (1302,) Mills belonging to, at Lee, 139-144. Song and music of, 145-149, 151-154. (1305,) Pontage granted to, 154-159. Heads erected on, 162-165. (1320,) Patent for Collection, 166. (1323,) Revenues in Stocks Market, 167-172. (1368,) Land given by the Friars Minors, 172. (1381,) Entry of Wat Tyler, 174. (1385,) Patent for the gate-keeper, 186. (1390,) Passage of arms on, 187-193, 197. (1391,) Dolphin taken at, 203. (1392,) Richard II. received at, 205, 206. (1396,) Fatal crowd on, 209, 210. (1397, 1400,) Heads erected on, 213-215. (1415,) Triumphs for Henry V. at, 221-225, 228. (1416,) Lollards’ heads erected on, 231, 232. (1422,) Funeral of Henry V., 232, 233. (1425,) Tumult at the gate, 234-236. (1426,) Drawbridge Tower erected 236. (1428,) Duke of Norfolk’s barge lost at, 237. (1431,) Heads of rebels placed on, 238. Entrance of Henry VI. at, 238, 241-247. (1433-36,) Bridge Chapel, 247-249, 270. Bequests to, 249, 250. Survey of Bridge lands, 252-270. (1437,) Fall of the gate and five arches, 271. (1440,) Bolingbroke’s head placed on, 274. (1445,) Margaret of Anjou received at, 275-277. (1450,) Cade’s entry at, 280. Battle on, 282, 283. (1451,) Heads of the rebels set on, 284. (1465,) Rents of, 286. (1471,) Falconbridge’s attack on, 287. (1481,) Building destroyed on, 288. (1483-94,) Rents and payments of, 290-298, 300. (1497,) Rebels’ heads on, 301. (1500,) Illuminated drawing of, 304. (1501,) Pageant at, 305. (1504-14,) Fire and dates of repair of, 307, 308. (1521,) Polydore Vergil’s account of, 310. (1533,) Rents and payments of, 313. Anecdote of Osborne, 313-316. (1539-40,) Chapel, Rents, and Seal of, 317, 318. (1545,) Leland’s verses on, 321-327. (1547,) Ancient view of, 362. (1548,) described by Paul Jovius, &c., 327, 328. (1554,) Pageants on, 581. Wyat’s attempt on, 331-333. (1555,) Cage on, 336. (1556,) Rents and ancient view of, 337. (1562-65,) Rents and payments of, 358, 359. (1577,) Drawbridge Tower rebuilt, and heads removed to Traitors’ gate, 339. (1579,) Southwark Gate and Nonesuch House, 343-347. (1582,) Water-Works erected, 348. (1583,) Desmond’s head placed on, 350. (1586,) Standards hung on, 352. (1588,) Corn mills and Water-works at, 352-357, 362-367. (1605,) Heads of Catholics erected on, 370, 371. (1616,) Views of, 395. (1619,) Houses, Signs, Tradesmen, &c. of, 373-382, 384, 385, 387-393. (1624,) Rents, &c. of, 393, 394. (1629,) Views of, 396. (1633,) Fire on, 394-414. (1636-38,) Rental and Tithes of, 414, 415. (1640,) Bequest to, 415, 416. (1641,) Extraordinary tide at, 416-419. (1642,) Heads of Catholics at, 420, 421. Gate taken by the Parliament, 424. (1643,) Capt. Bulmer’s scheme for blowing a boat over, 424-428. (1645,) Jesuits’ heads set on, 428. (1647,) Views of, 406. (1657,) Howell’s verses on, 429-432. (1660,) Entry of Charles II. at, 433. (1661,) Vision seen on, 435-439. (1663,) Notice of, by M. de Monconys, 440. (1665,) The Plague, 441. (1666,) The Great Fire, 442-445. View of, 407. Repairs, 449. Drawbridge at, 450.

## Particular arches of, 452-454.

Water-works at, 460-462. (1669,) Notice of by Signor Magalotti, 464. (1685,) Street widened, 471-474. (1689,) Suicide at, 474. (1693,) Made free of Orphanage, 475. (1701,) Value of Offices belonging to, 476. Arches let for the Water-works, 478. (1710,) Nicholls’ print of, 479-481. (1722,) Thames dry at, 482. Conviviality on, 483. Act for the widening of, 484. Tolls and measurements of, 486. Fire at the gate of, _ibid._ New Gate erected, 487, 488. (1727,) Rents, &c. of, 489. (1753,) Rents, &c. of, 495. (1754,) Plan and Acts for repairing of, 497, 502-504. Depth of water at, 505. State of in 1746, 505. (1755,) Tolls and improvements of, 508-510. Dangerous state of, 511. (1757,) Temporary Bridge, 513. Houses taken down, 514, 515. Views and accounts of the buildings on, 516-519. Bridge-Masters, 519, 520. (1758,) Fire on the Temporary Bridge, 520-530. (1759,) Great arch constructed, 531-532, 604, 605. (1760-61,) Dangerous state of, 533. Alteration of various parts of, 534-539. Tides at, 540, 541. Passage of the Locks, 541, 542. Drawbridge removed, 544, 545. Houses and square removed, 548-550. (1763,) Damaged by floods, &c., 552. (1766,) Alterations finished, 553, 554. (1767,) Increase of the Water-works, 555-564. Ground-plans of, 577, 578. Soundings at the Great Arch, 579. Guilds connected with in 1179-80, 580. Noticed in ancient dramas, 582-584. Flowers growing on, 584. Etymology of the word Starling, 585-587. (1800-1801,) Plans for new Bridge, 589-601, 623. Eastern view of, 604. Prince’s Lock in the Frost of 1814, 612. Plan for enlarging, 613, 614, 620-622. Dangers of its navigation, 615, 616, 622. Survey of the Great Arch, 618. State in 1821, 618. Revenues of, 619, 620. Construction of its piers, 620, 621.

LONDON BRIDGE, NEW, Abstract of the Act for erecting, 624-626. Antiquities discovered at, 627-629. Ground-plan, &c., 629-631. Coffer-Dam for laying the first Stone, 635, 636, 638-646. Civic Procession and Ceremonial at, 650-659. Inscriptions for, 653-655. Medals of, 661-663.

London, Committee for Improving the Port of, their proceedings concerning a new Bridge, 597-601.

_London before the Great Fire_, (1818,) 338, 396.

_London Chronicle_, 514, 523, 525, 531, 569, 572.

_London Daily Post_, 493, 494.

_London Magazine_, 531.

Lords Mayors, ancient portraits of, 314.

Lottery, notice of an ancient, 373.

Lydgate, John, 226. His Poems on Henry V. and VI., 227-229, 239-247. Verses to Margaret of Anjou, 276, 277. Character of his Writings, 278.

Macpherson, David, his _Wyntown’s Chronicle_, (1815,) 198.

Madox, Thomas, his _History and Antiquities of the Exchequer_, (1711,) and MSS., 105, 112, 580.

Magalotti, Lorenzo, his notice of London Bridge, 464.

Magna Charta, illustrations from, 67, 68, 139.

Magnus, St., Church of, 48. Bridge property in the Parish of, 256. Tithes and Benefice of, 296, 415. Ancient Church of, &c., 298, 299. Medal of, 388. Bequest concerning, 415.

## Particulars of the Church of, 455-458.

Fire at, 545. Opening of the Steeple of, 546.

Maitland, William, _vide_ Entick.

Malcolm, James Peller, his _Londinium Redivivum_, (1802-1807,) 75, 239, 458, 509, 512, 547. His _Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London_, (1808,) 483.

Malmesbury, William of, his account of Sweyn’s Invasion of London, 18. Remarks on, &c., 19, 20, 48, 49.

Mandeville, William, his insurrection and execution, 238.

Mansion House, Festival given at the, in honour of the New London Bridge, 660.

Manuscripts, notices and descriptions of various, 46, 47, 53, 55-57, 101, 123, 124, 164, 178, 182, 210, 222, 225, 226, 250, 251, 277, 297, 303, 397.

Margaret, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 259.

----, Southwark, rents paid to London Bridge from, 266.

Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI., her marriage, coronation, and entry at London Bridge, 274-277.

Market on London Bridge, ancient orders concerning, 122-124, 168-171.

Marmion, Shakerley, his _Antiquary_, (1641,) 582.

Martin, St., Ludgate, Bridge property in the Parish of, 264.

Martin Outwich, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 261.

Mary, Abchurch, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 263.

----, Aldermanbury, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 265.

---- at Axe, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 260.

---- at Hill, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 258.

---- Bothaw, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 263.

Mary, Queen of England, description of a Manuscript belonging to, 55, 56. Pageants exhibited to, on London Bridge, (1554,) 581.

Maskelyne, Dr. Nevill, 599, 601.

Matilda Fitz Empress, Queen of Henry I., her gifts and buildings at Stratford &c., 142, 143.

Medalets of London Bridge, 386.

Medals of New London Bridge, 661-663.

Meyrick, Dr. Samuel Rush, his _Critical Enquiry into Ancient Armour_, (1824,) 192.

Michael, St., Bassishaw, Bridge property in the Parish of, 265.

----, Cornhill, Bridge property in the Parish of, 261.

----, Crooked Lane, Bridge property in the Parish of, 262.

----, Queenhithe, Bridge property in the Parish of, 264.

_Mist’s Weekly Journal_, (1725,) 486.

Monamy, Peter, his residence on London Bridge, 390.

Monconys, Balthasar de, his notices of London Bridge, 440.

Money, illustrations of the ancient value of, 52.

Montfort, Simon de, Earl of Leicester, opposed at London Bridge, 109, 110.

Monument illuminated with gas, 637, 638.

More, Sir Thomas, his head erected on London Bridge, 342.

----, Thomas, his _Life of Sir Thomas More_, (1726,) 342.

Moris, Peter, his Water-Works at London Bridge, 348-350, 478.

Morison, Robert, his _Præludia Botanica_, (1669,) 584.

Morse, Henry, his head set on London Bridge, 428.

Mortimer, Edmund, Earl of March, his claim to the Crown, 214.

Motraye, Mons. Aubri de la, his _Voyages_, (1727-32,) 461, 474.

Mountague, James, his plan for enlarging London Bridge, 613; evidence concerning, 619.

Music to the Ballad on London Bridge, 152. To a song on the Fire on London Bridge in 1633, 414.

Mylne, Robert, his account of the building materials of Old London Bridge, 78. Reports on ditto, 552, 559. Drawings relating to, and opening of the Great Arch, 604, 605. Design for a New Bridge, 593.

Nasmith, James, (_Vide_ Tanner,) his _Itineraria Symonis Simeonis et Willielmi de Worcestre_, (1778,) 89.

Nelson, John, his execution, 370.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, similarity between its Bridge and that of London, 150.

Newcourt, Richard, his _Repertorium Parochiale Londinense_, (1708,) 25, 48, 248, 298, 415, 451.

Newman, Robert Finch, his evidence concerning London Bridge, 618, 619. Antiquities in his possession, found at London Bridge, 627.

New River Company, London Bridge Water-Works transferred to, 565.

Nicholl, Anthony, his evidence on London Bridge, 616.

Nicholls, Sutton, his print of London Bridge, 479-481.

Nichols, John, his _Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, (1812,) 90, 392.

Nichols, John Bowyer, his _Brief account of the Guildhall_, &c., (1819,) 183.

Nicolson, Dr. William, Bishop of Carlisle, his _English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries_, (1736,) 30, 101, 109, 320.

Nonesuch House on London Bridge, 344-346. Probable time of its erection, 347. Modern inhabitants of the, 393. Inscription on, 472. Modern prospect of, 517.

Noorthouck, John, his _History of London_, (1773,) 521.

Norden, John, his view of London Bridge, 358, 363-366.

Norfolk, John Mowbray, Duke of, his barge lost at London Bridge, 237.

Northampton, John de, evidence of the Jurors of his Ward concerning London Bridge, 118.

Nyauncer, John, his murder and abjuration, 219.

Offices and Officers of London Bridge, 476, 632, 633.

Olaf, St., King of Denmark, his invasion of England, 16. His truce with Ethelred II., 17. His destruction of London Bridge, 22, 23. Norse Songs to his memory, 24. Churches dedicated to, and Legend of, 25-28. Hymn to, 29.

Olave, St., Church of, in Southwark, 25, 27, 28. Bridge property in the Parish of, 266.

----, in the Wall, Bridge property in the Parish of, 265.

Oldcastle, Sir John, Lord Cobham, his zeal as a Protestant, 231.

Old ’Change, origin of its name, 132.

Orford, Horace Walpole, Earl of, his _Anecdotes of Painting_, (1799,) 390, 499.

Orleans, Charles Duke of, illuminated copy of his Poems, 303.

Orphans’ Fund of London, 475.

Osborne, Sir Edward, his gallantry at London Bridge, 313-315. Notices of his family, 315, 316.

Overs, John, his supposed monumental effigy, 39, 44, 45. _History of the Life and Death of John Overs_, (1744,) 40-44.

Overies, Church of St. Mary, historical notices of, 33-39, 44, 101.

_Owen’s Weekly Chronicle, or Universal Journal_, 530.

Packington, William de, notice of, 100.

Pageants at London Bridge, 206, 221, 223-225, 228, 238, 242-247, 275-277, 305, 581.

Pancras, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 264.

Papists, statutes enacted against, 369. Execution of, 370.

Paris, Great Bridge of, made an Exchange, 121, 122.

Paris, Matthew, legend from his _Historia Major_, (1644,) 180.

Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury, his Book _De Antiquitate et Privilegiis Cantuariensis, &c._, (1572,) superb copy of, 63.

Parsons,----, Great Arch of London Bridge opened by, 604, 605.

_Patent Rolls_, references to the, 67, 70, 106, 111, 112, 116, 127, 129, 130, 133, 135, 136, 155, 166, 167, 172.

Paul, St., Patron of the City of London, 177.

Pegge, Rev. Dr. Samuel, his _Fitz Stephen’s Description of London_, (1772,) 7, 12, 15, 55, 99.

Pellat and Green, Messrs. their Incrustated Glass Block for the New London Bridge, 653.

Pennant, Thomas, (_vide_ Crowle,) his _Account of London_, (1791,) 14, 35, 314, 472, 475.

Pepys, Samuel, his _Diary_, (1825,) 408, 423.

Pepysian Library, Magdalen College, Cambridge, ancient Drawing of London Bridge in the, 355-358.

Percy, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Dromore, his _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_, (1794,) 413.

_Philosophical Transactions_, 479, 563.

Philpot, John, Somerset Herald, his MSS. 182. His tract of _The Citie’s Advocate_, (1629,) 183.

Piers of London Bridge, how constructed, 535, 536, 623. Section of one at the Great Arch, 537. Opened and examined, 615. Of the New London Bridge, 630.

Pinkerton, John, his _Essay on Medals_, (1789,) 386.

_Placita Rolls_, their nature and contents, 138, 139. Extracts from, 139, 141-144.

Plague, notices of London Bridge during the, 441.

Playfair, John, 599, 601.

Plays, mention of London Bridge in old English, 582, 583.

Plutarchus, his account of the Pontifices, 93.

Poetry, various pieces of, connected with London, London Bridge, &c., 8, 15, 24, 29, 66, 146-150, 163, 175, 198-201, 227-229, 239-247, 276, 277, 321, 326, 409-412, 431, 432, 455, 466, 468, 491, 492, 571, 610.

Pontage granted to London Bridge, 154-159.

Pontifices, their institution and offices, 93.

Poter, Walter le, evidence of the Jurors of his Ward concerning London Bridge, 117.

Prince’s or King’s Lock, London Bridge, view of, in the Frost of 1814, 612.

Printing on the Frozen Thames, 466-468, 481, 482, 491, 492, 570, 571, 610, 611, 612.

_Protestant Mercury_, (1700,) 457.

Proverbs on London Bridge, 433.

Provisions, ancient prices of, 52.

_Public Advertiser_, 497, 502, 514, 515, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 551, 552, 555, 569-571, 573.

_Public Ledger_, 544.

Queenhithe, ancient market at, 451.

---- Ward, evidence of the Jurors of, concerning London Bridge, 118.

Quern, Church of St. Michael le, its ancient site, 132.

Quintain on the Thames, 55, 57.

Rastall, William, his edition of the _Statutes_, (1594,) 218. His _Pastimes of People_, 283.

Ray, Rev. J., his _Collection of English Proverbs_, (1737,) 433.

Raynewell, Sir John, his Arms, 236.

Rennie, John, 599, 601, 608. Evidence and works of, 609. His plan for building New London Bridge, 620. Design of adopted, 623, 624, 648, 653-655, 659. Medal of, to commemorate the work, 663.

Rents anciently paid for buildings on London Bridge, 120.

_Reports on the Public Records_, (1801,) 115.

_Reports and Plans for the Improvement of the Port of London_, (1799-1801,) 575-577, 579, 585, 590-594, 597-604.

_Reports and Evidences relating to London Bridge_, (1821,) 614, 615, 617, 620, 634.

_Reresby, Sir John, Travels and Memoirs of_, (1813,) 474.

Richard II., King of England, Treaties for his marriage, 185. His magnificence, 204. Fines the City, and enters at the Bridge, 205, 206. His marriage with Isabel of France, 209. Charged with the Duke of Gloucester’s murder, 211. His friends executed, and his own murder, 211, 213.

Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury, his contribution to the Bridge, 61. His life, character, and death, 62-65.

Richardson, William, Canon of Lincoln, his edition of Godwin’s Book _De Præsulibus Angliæ Commentarius_, (1743,) 62.

Ritson, Joseph, Song from his _Gammer Gurton’s Garland_, (1810,) 146. His _Ancient Songs_, (1790,) 165. His censure of Lydgate, 277.

Roadway of London Bridge, its formation, 538, 539.

Robeson, John, 599, 601.

Robertson, Rev. A., 501, 601.

Rochester Bridge, destruction of, 135.

Rocket, London, growing on London Bridge, 584.

Rock Lock at London Bridge, 452, 518.

Roe, Bartholomew, his execution, 420.

Romans, their arrival at London, &c., 9-11.

_Rotuli Scotiæ_, extracts from the, 188-191, 194-196.

_Royal Library_, Illuminated MSS. in the, 55-58, 303, 304.

Rouw, Peter, his Medal of Alderman Garratt, 661.

Ruding, Rev. Rogers, his _Annals of Coinage_, (1819,) 386, 588.

Safe Conduct, various instruments of, translated, 189, 194-196.

St. Catherine’s Hospital, custody of London Bridge granted to, 111.

St. Martin’s le Grand, foundation of the Sanctuary of, 218.

St. Mary’s Lock, danger of, 616. Sterlings of, 618.

_Salve Regina_, Guild of, in St. Magnus’ Church, 298, 415.

Sanctuary, ancient law of, 217, 218.

Sannazario, Giacomo, his Sonnet in praise of Venice, 430.

Savile, Sir Henry, his _Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam_, (1596,) 18, 32, 48.

_Saxon Chronicle_, (1823,) 16, 17, 20, 31, 32, 50.

Scots, Mary, Queen of, her sentence proclaimed in London, 350.

Scott, Samuel, his picture of Old London Bridge, 499, 515. Copy from, 501. Views of buildings from, 516-518.

Scott, Sir Walter, his edition of _Dryden’s Works_, (1808,) 584.

Scott, William, his fac-simile of Norden’s View of London Bridge, 366.

Scotus, Marianus, his _History of England_, 20.

Seal of London, notice of an ancient, 176.

Serres, Dominic, his residence on London Bridge, 390.

Service-Books, alterations made in the, 318.

Seymour, Robert, his _Survey of the City of London_, &c. (1734,) 393, 453, 473, 476, 485, 486.

Shakspeare, William, historical references to his Dramas, 272, 281, 284, 582.

Sheriff’s, custom of drinking to the, 350.

Sheuteman of London Bridge, order for the, 428.

Shop-Bills of London Bridge, 379, 380, 382, 549, 550.

Signs and Shop-keepers on London Bridge, 374-380, 382, 384, 385, 549, 550, 581.

Singer, Samuel Weller, his _Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey_, (1825,) 311.

_Sisymbrium Irio_, growing on London Bridge, 584.

Skidmore, Peter, his Medalets of London Bridge, 388.

_Sloanian Manuscripts_, 105.

Smeaton, John, his plan for strengthening the Bridge, 533. His Reports on London Bridge, &c., 534, 552, 559, 563, 579. His plan for strengthening the Great Arch, 605.

Smith, John Thomas, his _Antiquities of London_, (1791,) 45, 550, 612, 613. His _Ancient Topography of London_, (1810,) 392, 395, 491, 499.

Smith, William, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, his account of the Arms of London, 181.

Snorro Sturleson, 20. His account of London Bridge, &c., 21-24.

Southern, John, his plan for strengthening a Cast-iron Bridge, 600.

Southey, Robert, his _Specimens of the Later English Poets_, (1807,) 551.

Southwark, ancient market and fortifications in, 21. Battle of, 22, 23. Songs on, 24. Church of St. Olave, 25, 27, 28. Church of St. Mary Overies, 33-39. Dreadful Fire in, 101. Presentments concerning the Bridge, 120, 121. Orders of the Common Council concerning dealers in, 122, 124. Rents paid to the Bridge from, 266. Cade’s residence in, 280-283. Arms of, 307. Fair in, 329, 330.

---- Bridge, erection, &c., 608, 609, 636, 638.

---- Gate and Tower on London Bridge, 343, 518.

Sparruck, Bartholomew, his account of London Bridge, 97.

_Spectator_, advertisement from the, 457.

Speed, John, his _Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain_, (1611,) 176.

Stadler, F. C., his engravings of London Bridge, 603.

Statutes cited, 475, 485, 507, 509, 512, 565, 624.

Stephen, St., Coleman Street, Bridge property in the Parish of, 265.

----, St., Walbrook, Bridge property in the Parish of, 263.

Sterlings of London Bridge, 77, 535-537, 566, 574, 576, 585-587, 615, 616, 618.

Stocks Market, City Ordinances concerning, 167-171. Description and Rents of, 268-270.

Stones of New London Bridge, 629, 630. First Stone described, 646, 647, 659.

Stow, John, (_vide_ Howes, and Strype,) his MS. collections, 15, 101. Procures Leland’s papers on London, 324.

Stratford, Essex, possessions of London Bridge at, 140, 255, 619.

----, Abbey of, dispute with that of Barking, 143, 144.

Strutt, Joseph, his _Sports and Pastimes of the People of England_, (1801,) 55, 57.

Strype, Rev. John, his _Stow’s Survey of London_, (1720, 1754,) 14, 33, 38, 46, 51, 53, 58, 59, 60, 62, 73, 94, 98, 100, 101, 104, 113, 116, 118, 125, 127, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 139, 142, 165, 167, 174, 176, 177, 182, 183, 187, 218, 236, 248, 286, 287, 288, 295, 298, 308, 313, 318, 319, 330, 339, 343, 351, 352, 354, 358, 394, 403, 447, 448, 449, 451, 454, 456, 460, 461, 478, 581.

Suffolk, William de la Pole, Duke of, various acts of, 272, 274. His banishment and execution, 278, 279.

Supremacy, persons executed for denying the King’s, 340, 370.

Sutherland, Mrs., her illustrated copy of Clarendon’s History, 363.

Sweyn, King of Denmark, his invasion of London, 18-20.

Swythin, St., Bridge property in the Parish of, 263.

Symon Fitz Simeon, his notice of London Bridge and Chapel, 88.

Tanner, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of St. Asaph, his _Notitia Monastica_, (1787,) 35, 36.

Telford, Thomas, his designs for a Cast-Iron Bridge, 594, 595, 599.

Temple, Hon. Mr., his suicide, 474.

Temporary Bridge at London, 513, 521-528.

Thames, Fords and Ferries over, 9, 10, 16. Ancient Bridge on the, 10. Eating-House and Festivities on its banks, 12, 14. Its course turned by Knute, 31. Violent inundation of, 49. Ancient sports on, 55, 57, 58. Ancient Channel of, 94-96, 98. Remarkable Droughts in, 135, 359, 482. Praised by Polydore Vergil, 309. Frosts and tides in, 371, 373, 465-471, 609-613. Guard on, 419. Sir C. Wren’s plan for a Quay, 458-461. Various depths of water at and above London Bridge, 505, 590, 591. Soil of there, 585. Inclination and velocity of, 621, 622. Survey of, 623.

Thomas à Becket, Chapel on London Bridge dedicated to, 83-90, 304, 392.

Thoresby, Ralph, his _Ducatus Leodiensis_, (1715,) 91.

Thorn, William, his _Chronicle of the Acts of the Abbots of St. Austins_, 28.

Tides at London Bridge, accounts of remarkable, (1608,) 373. (1641,) 416-419. (1767,) 566.

## Particulars of the, 540, 541.

Tilting on the Thames, 57, 58.

Tithes anciently paid in London, 297, 415.

Todd, Rev. Henry John, his _Catalogue of the Archiepiscopal Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace_, (1812,) 64. His edition of _Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary_, 586.

Tokens, Tradesmen’s, 382-386.

Tolls on London Bridge, 508, 510; on Blackfriars’, 568.

Tower of London, Records there, 70, 72, 103, 106, 111, 112, 115-119, 121, 127, 129, 130, 133, 155, 166, 167, 172, 186, 189, 194-196.

Tower Ward, evidence of the Jurors of, on London Bridge, 116.

Tradesmen living on London Bridge, 374-380, 384, 385, 549, 550, 581.

Traitors’ Gate on London Bridge, 339.

_Traytors’ Perspective Glass_, (1662,) 489.

Trinity House, report from, on building Corn Mills at London Bridge, 354. High-Water mark of the, on London Bridge, 540.

Trowel for laying the First Stone of the New London Bridge, 651, 652.

Twiss, Colonel, 599, 601.

Twysden, Roger, his _Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem_, (1652,) 28, 29, 206.

Tyler, Wat, his entry at London Bridge, 174.

Upcott, William, his collection of ancient shop-bills, &c., 378, 466-468, 549.

_Valor Ecclesiasticus_, account of and references to the, 317.

Vauxhall Bridge, 608.

Vergil, Polydore, his _Historiæ Angliæ_, (1570,) 102, 103, 309, 310.

Vertue, George, his engravings of Old London Bridge, &c., 75, 79, 89, 90.

Vincent, Thomas, his account of the Fire of London, 443.

Vision on London Bridge, account of, 435-439.

Visscher, John, his View of London Bridge, 395.

Wakefield, Yorkshire, Bridge and Chapel at, 91.

Wale, Samuel, drawings, &c., of, 315, 521.

Walker, Anthony, his view of London Bridge after the fire, 528.

----, James, Vauxhall Bridge built by, 603. His account, &c. of a pier of Old London Bridge, 620.

----, Ralph, his _Report_, (1823,) 541.

Wallace, Sir William, his execution, 161-164.

Walleis, Henry le, houses built by, belonging to London Bridge, 133. Erects a house called the Stokkes, 168.

Wallington, Nehemiah, his account of the Fire on London Bridge, 391-402.

Walpole, Horatio, Earl of Orford, his translation of _Sir Paul Hentzner’s Journey into England_, (1757,) 327. His _Anecdotes of Painting_, (1799,) 390, 499.

Walsingham, Thomas, his _Chronica_ and _Historia Brevis_, 174, 204, 206, 214.

Walton, Dr. Brian, Bishop of Chester, his _Treatise on Tithes in London_, (1641,) 279.

----, Izaak, his _Lives_, (1675,) 374.

Walworth, Sir William, his statue in Fishmongers’ Hall, 175.

Wardens of London Bridge, 291, 295, 330, 414, 632.

Wasce, Frater, custody of London Bridge given to, 73.

Waterloo Bridge, 608.

Watermen’s petition concerning London Bridge, 554.

Water-House at London Bridge, 337, 460-464.

Water-Works at London Bridge, 348-350, 357, 478, 554, 556-571, 598.

Watt, James, 599, 601.

_Waverley Abbey, Annals of_, 49, 59, 87, 102, 115.

Wells, Lord John, his passage of arms on London Bridge, 187-193, 198-201.

West, Friar, mistake concerning, 72, 73.

Westminster, Matthew of, his _Flores Historiarum_, (1570,) 108-110, 161, 162.

Westminster Bridge, 497. Pamphlet concerning, 516. ---- Hall, overflowed, 95.

Whitelocke, Bulstrode, his _Memorials of English Affairs_, (1732,) 424.

Wikes, Thomas de, his _Chronicon_, 110.

Wilkins, George, his _Miseries of Inforced Marriage_, (1607,) 582.

Willement, Thomas, his _Regal Heraldry_, (1821,) 230.

William I., King of England, his Charter to the Monks of Westminster, 46, 47.

---- II., ----, taxes and public works of, 50.

Wilson, Thomas, his design for a cast iron Bridge, 593, 594, 602.

Winchester, Henry Beaufort, Bishop of, his disputes with the Duke of Gloucester, 234-236.

_Wine and Walnuts_, (1823,) 388-392, 483, 499.

Wiseman, Samuel, his _Description of the Burning of London_, 442.

Wolchurch, Church of St. Mary, its ancient site, 132.

Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, his procession over London Bridge, 311.

Wood, Thomas, his view of London in 1599, 366.

----, John Philip, his edition of _Douglas’ Peerage of Scotland_, (1813,) 202.

_Woodfall’s General Advertiser_, (1739-40,) 493.

Wool, ancient duties on, described and considered, 67, 68.

Worcester, Florence of, his _Chronicon_, 31, 48.

----, William of, his _Annales Rerum Anglicarum_, 271.

Works of London Bridge, Officers of the, 632, 633.

Wormius, Olaus, his _Monumentum Danicorum_, (1643,) 122.

Wrangham, Archdeacon Francis, his _Langhorne’s Translation of Plutarch’s Lives_, (1813,) 93.

Wren, Sir Christopher, his belief concerning the Thames being turned, 96. His plan for a quay, 458-461.

Wyat, Sir Thomas, his rebellion and attempt on London Bridge, 330-335.

Wyatt, Samuel, his design for a new London Bridge, 593.

Wyntown, Andrew of, his _Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland_, 198-201.

Wyon, William, his Medal of Alderman Garratt, 661.

Xainctes, Isenbert of, 71, 72.

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Page 481, “Perpectives” changed to “Perspectives”. (Prints and Mapps, Surveys, Ground Plotts, Uprights, and Perspectives, are there Drawn and Coloured at reasonable rates.)

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