Bills, Bank, sealed, daily interest | Bombay, Island of, bestowed as a
claim a jurisdic- tion over Westminster Abbey, 187. set aside by ar-
bitration, ib. Bishopsgate without, what formerly composed of, 43. Bishopsgate without, description of, in Q. Elizabeth's time, 46. Bishopsgate ward, why so called, 336; precincts of, ib.
Black Friars, on the jurisdictions of the precints of, 155.
Black Hole at Calcutta, shocking de- scription of, 726.
Blackman Street, state of, in Stow's time, 60.
Blacksmiths, Company of, when in- corporated, 427.
marriage portion with Charles II. 653.
granted in perpetuity
great encouragement
to settlers, &c. ib. Bombay invaded by the Siddee, or Admiral, 665.
Bombay, garrison of, 659; keep pos- session of the island eleven months, ib.
Bonfires, some account of, 37. Bonds, Royal, never paid, 632. Boreman, Sir William, portrait of, 364.
Bonner, Edmond, Bishop, 192; high priest of blood, 193; dies in pri- son, ib.
Bonner, Bishop, temporary triumph of, 234
Book presented to the Lords of the Council respecting apparel, &c. in Queen Elizabeth's reign, 55,
Books, what species of the stationers were privileged to sell in the reign of James I. 432.
accursed burnt in St. Paul's church yard, 313.
Boughton, Mr. Gabriel, surgeon, re- sident at Agra, 634.
---- his influence in extending the Company's territory, ib. Borneo, ilsand of, diamond and gold trade ruined by the first factors,
Bourdeaux, merchants of, their com- plaint respecting the want of com- inodious houses, or cellars for their stores, 26. Bourdonnais, M. de la, besieges Ma- dras, 709; confined in the Bastille, 712.
Blacksmiths' Hall, short account of it, Bone, on the use of the, 426.
Boydell, Mr. Aldermau, 448, 461, 463, 464; portrait by Sir W. Beechey, 465.
Brass plates on doors first introduced,
Brass table, a curious, 217. Braithwaite,
Major General, Sir
John, 301. Bread, wheaten and household, 414; what occasioned the magistrates to fix the price of, 415; price of the quartern loaf from 1760 to 1811, 415; assize of, 416.
Broken Wharf. had formerly a vast engine for supplying the western parts of the city, 61. Brown Bakers, when incorporated,
Bruce, Mr. 609; annals, ib. Bublub, Rajah, resolves to attack Calcutta, 725,
Buckingham, Duke of, Lord High Admiral, 619.
Building on any new foundation, pre- vented, 63.
--, near the Royal Exchange prohibited, 487.
Bread Street Ward, why so called, Buildings on those which form the
Breda, the treaty of, 653.
Brewere, John le, beheaded for re- sisting the mayor, &c. 110. Brewer's Company, by whom incor- porated, 400; patrons of, ib.; arms of, ib. their petition to the Lord Burleigh, 402.
Brewer's Hall, its situation, 404; de- scription of the front, ib.; of the interior, 404, 405; court room, 404; withdrawing room, 404, 405. Brewing, 12.
origin of the art and mys-
tery of, 400. Brick made first in Moorfields, 33. Bricklayer's Hall, situation and de- scription of, 426.
Bricks prescribed for building, 91; bad quality of, ib.
Bridge at Blackfriars, first stone laid, 88.
——, opened in 1769. Bridge, George, Parliament street's
Capital of the British Empire, 1; to what the augmentation of in London is to be attributed, 3; much increased, and by what means, 21.
proclamations against by Queen Elizabeth, 50.
augmention of, in Queen Elizabeth's time, 57.
—, act for regulating, and to prevent fires, 90. Bull-baiting, building, &c. appropri ated to, 48, 49.
Bullion, account of ships laden with in 1620, 621.
Bullion Court at the Bank, 565, 566.
Bulls, bears, and lame ducks ex- plained, 582.
Bumboat act, how evaded, 783. Burgess, Captain, monument to the memory of, 285.
Burgesses of London, what formerly called, 335.
Burning and firing of houses, statute to prevent, 70.
Burial places should be without the city, 315.
Burke, Mr. his eloquence unavail- ing, 740.
Burke, Mr. inveighs with severity
against ministers, 735.
Burse, a, directed to be built at Leadenhall, 479.
Bushnell, his satues of Charles the First and Second, 489.
Bussy, M. defeats the Pitan Nabobs, 721, 722.
Burying place, the ancient Roman, and excavation, 247.
Butchers, Company of, considerable antiquity, 419. Butcher's Hall, short history of, 419.
Cabinet work, the manufacture of pe- culiar to London, 12.
Cabot, John, his voyage to India, 588.
Cade, Jack, some account of the in-
surrection of, 166. Caelland, Colonel, succeeds Lord Clive, 730.
Cambaya and Masulipatam goods, where disposed of, 612. Camp at Tilbury, 171. Canada merchant, rance of, 781. Candles, or lights in lanthorns order- ed to be hung out, 72.
the bearing of in churches first left off in the whole city, 233. Candlewick Street Ward, from whence it derived its name, 337. Canning Street, &c, woollen trade removed from, 73. Canons, thirty, or prebendaries, 197. Canoul, Nabob of, kills Murzafa Jing, 722.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, 153, 163; politic conduct of, to the insurgents, 166.
Canterbury, formerly surpassed Lon- don in its building, 20.
Canton, first arrival of the English there, 628; quarrel with the Chi- nese, 629.
Cape of Good Hope, right of the Bri- tish crown to, the principle of pre- Occupancy established, 616. Capel family, from whom sprung,
and march towards Seringapatam, 742.
Carmen, Company, when first incor- porated, 44%.
Carpenter's Company, when first ins corporated, 419.
Carriages, gentlemen's, chiefly manu. factured in London, 12. Carpenter's Hall, situation and de- scription of, 419; portraits, 420. Carter, Captain, commands at Canton,
Carts and carmen, regulations of, 78. Cash, average balance of kept at the Bank, 541.
and bullion in the Bank, table of the scale of, 526. Cashier, chief, of the Bank Office of, 566.
Castle Baynard Ward, how it b tained its name, 343.
Castlereagh, Lord, his speech on the innovotions proposed in the trade to the East Indies, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795. Cathedral service, regular, re-esta- blishment of, 210.
of St. Paul, 66, 67.
of St. Paul's, by whom
mostly finished, 82.
-, the old of St. Paul's de- stroyed by fire, 297.
--, a new, determined upon,
Chancellor, Captain, enters the mouth Charles the First grants the East India Company à new charter,
of the Dwina, 59.
travels to the Court of Ivan Basilovitch, ib.; and is fa- vourably received, 590. Chancellor, the, or Magister Schola-
Chancery Lane, statute for paving,
Chandernagore attacked, 727. Chantry chapels in St. Paul's, 224. Chapel of Jesus in St. Paul's, 216. of Henry VII. when found-
ed, 34. Chapels, chanteries, various in St. Paul's, 218.
Cattle act for probihiting the slaugh- tering of within the city, 33. Cat hanged in derision of the Catho-
lic worship, 234; taken down by order of the bishop, ib; shewed at Paul's Cross, ib.
Cavalry Volunteers, 178. Cavendish, Captain, Thomas, passes
the straits of Magellan, 593. Cavendish family, from whom sprung,
Companies, impartial view
of them, 791. Charter of Edward the First respect ing the citizens, 148; of Edward I respecting bited footmen, 150; of Edward III. 150, 151; of Rich ard II. 152; of Henry IV. ib.; of Edward IV. ib.; of Henry VII. 153; of Henry VIII. ib. Charters of Edward VI. 154; of James the First, 155; of Charles the First, 156.
Charters confirmed by William the Conqueror respecting London, 144; of Henry the First, ib.; of Henry II. 145; by King John, ib. ; nine granted by Henry III. 146. Charlotte Street begun, 93. Charnel House, a spacious, near the
north door of St. Paul's, $19. Charter, first, East India, receives the royal signature, 399.
of the Company, with en- larged privileges, 605. Charity children of the metropolis, annual meeting of at St. Paul's, 307.
Chatham, Earl of, his monument de- scribed, 456; inscription upon, 457.
Chatham Place erected, 88. Chaucer's monk, remarks on, 413. Cheap Ward, its situation, 339; and
Cheek bone of St. Egwin, 183. Chelsea, Physic Garden at, 437. Chemical preparations, elaboratories for, 438.
Chemists, impositions of, 438. Cheque Office, the, at the Bank,
Child, Sir John, nominated Captain General of all the Company's forces by sea and land, 661; death of, 665.
Child, President, King's Lord Ad-
miral in India, 660. Children of freemen under the guar- dianship of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, 142. Chilier, 145.
Chimmies not in use formerly in Lon- don, 25.
China trade to remain under restric- tions, 758.
Chine of beef, King Charles II. en- tertained with, 486.
Chinese, printed books of the, 767; rock work, ib.
Junks plundered by the Eng- lish, 605. Chiswell, St. statute for paving, 42 ; formerly an open road between wooden houses, 43, (note) Chittagong on the Bay of Bengal,
662; seizure of prevented, 664. Choir of St. Paul's rebuilt, 209. specimen of ancient
architecture, 215. Choir, the upper, in St. Paul's broken down, 234.
of St. Paul's, and its aisles sci- entifically described, 257, 273. Christ Hospital, singular custom re- specting it, 326.
Christianity, introduction of in India,
observations upon, 796.
St Augustine, ib. Church goods, commissioners ap- Churches in London, mostly built of pointed for collecting, 234. stone, 6.
eighty-four destroyed,
Cibber Gaius Gabriel employed upon the model of the Phoenix, 249.
recommended for making the statues for the Royal Exchange, 487.
Circular staircase leading to the Whispering Gallery described,
Cisterns, new constructed in 1471, 269. 33.
Cites thronged with starving multi- City of London, the most crowded tudes, 734.
parts pointed out during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 46. City conduits, on the spoiling of,
-, marring of, the making of the suburbs, ib.
had a respectable force of arm- ed men in the reign of Edward II. 163.
of London supplied the royal army with a hundred men at arms, &c 165.
of London, a lieutenancy graut- ed to it by Charles I. 174.
feasts, short account of in the,
gates pulled down, 28.
lands, committee for letting,
Christmas feasts, some account of in
the reign of Henry VIII. 36.
Christopher church, St. purchased by
the Bank, 555; taken down, 556. Church of St. Martin's in the Fields,
short account of, 45.
Church of St. Paul burnt, 185.
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