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Bills, Bank, sealed, daily interest | Bombay, Island of, bestowed as a

paid upon, 511.

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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

to the Company, ib.

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,

56.

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,

613.

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.

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Boydell, Mr. Aldermau, 448, 461,
463, 464; portrait by Sir W.
Beechey, 465.

Brass plates on doors first introduced,

92.

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.

Bread, 152.

Broken Wharf. had formerly a vast
engine for supplying the western
parts of the city, 61.
Brown Bakers, when incorporated,

414.

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

341.

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

origin of, 86.

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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.

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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,

Butchers, Company of, considerable
antiquity, 419.
Butcher's Hall, short history of, 419.

C.

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.

useful perseve-

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,

116.

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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,

628.
Carts, 69.

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.

214.

--, a new, determined upon,

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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-

rum, 197.

Chancery Lane, statute for paving,

42.

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,

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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

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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,

556.

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.

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St Augustine, ib.
Church goods, commissioners ap-
Churches in London, mostly built of
pointed for collecting, 234.
stone, 6.

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fifty new, act for

erecting

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,

74.

-, 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.

council, 138.

feasts, short account of in the,

554.

gates pulled down, 28.

lands, committee for letting,

Christmas feasts, some account of in

143.

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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