city prisons examined with respect to their conduct in the discharge of their duty, their punishment; 361.-Six Indian chiefs or kings of the Cherokee nation visit the metropolis; 363.-Salutary regulations re- specting watermen enacted; ibid.-Citizens petition to parliament to permit them to fill up Fleet ditch; ibid.-Peculiar privilege enjoyed by the city of London with respect to the presentations of petitions to parliament; ibid, n.-Inhabitants of Blackfriars claim a privilege of exemption from the jurisdiction of the city of London; 372;-which is tried at Guildhall, and the inhabitants non-suited; 373.-Acts of parliament for the better lighting of London and its vicinity; 374, 375;-supposed number of lamps at this period; 375.-Act of parlia ment against the sale of spirituous liquors in less quantity than two gallons without license; 377.-Another, for limiting the number of play- houses, for subjecting all the writings for the stage to the inspection of the lord chamberlain, and for compelling authors to take out a license for the same; ibid.-Further improvement of the city watch; 378.-Westminster bridge erected; 381;-and also the Mansion- House; 382.-Foundling hospital erected; 383. (See Foundling Hos- pital.)-Royal charter to the city of London, empowering the whole court of aldermen to act as justices of the peace; 388.-Interesting cause respecting livery-men tried in the Common Pleas; 391.-Act of lord mayor and court of aldermen limiting the keeping of Bartholomew fair to three days; 392.-Street robberies so numerous at this period as to be the occasion of an address to his majesty; 394.-Small-pox inoculation hospital founded; 400.-Dreadful fire in 1748; 412. -Act of common council, altering the mode of electing city magistrates; ibid.-Riot at the little theatre in the Haymarket, in consequence of the non-appearance of the Bottle Conjuror; 417.— Peculiar privileges of the city of London with respect to toll con- tested and ascertained; 419.-Interesting cause in the lord mayor's court between the masters and journeymen of the city; 421.--Shock of an earthquake in 1751, with its effects; 424.-Act of parliament for the improvement of the roads in the vicinity of London, and the borough of Southwark; 425.-Ludicrous trial of a poulterer for exercising his trade, not having served an apprenticeship thereto; 427.-Sir Hans Sloane's collection of curiosities, &c. purchased by parliament, 428.--Recital of the various beneficial acts of the year 1755, respecting the city; 437.-Act passed for building Blackfriars bridge, and permit- ting a toll to be taken on the same; 438, 443.-Marine Society founded; 439.-Citizens of London petition parliament for an act to vest them with the controul of the river Thames and its fishery; ibid,—granted; 440.-London bridge burnt down, 441;-grant of 15,000l. from par- liament to rebuild the same;-statement of the expence, &c. attending its erection; 443.-Citizens of London petition parliament for a further improvement of their city, and obtain an act for that purpose; 447. -First stone of Blackfriars' bridge laid, 456.~Cock-lane Ghost, full ac- count of it, 515 to 519.-Act passed for the regulation of the fishery, and for the better supply of the metropolis with its produce; 519.-Public entry of the Venetian ambassadors into London; 524.-Apprehension of John Wilkes, Esq. for a supposed libel; 526, n.--his trial and ac- quittal; 528, n.-Acts of parliament passed for rebuilding Newgate; 531;-another act for the more effectual prevention of fires in and about the metropolis; 532;-instance of the dreadful effects of a fire in a single house; ibid.-Violent storm of thunder, lightning, and rain in the metropolis; 537.-Example of British benevolence, in the humanity of the citizens to the unfortunate German emigrants; 538. -Silk weavers, their distress, in consequence of the importation of foreign silks into England;542; -petition parliament for relief; ibid. n.
-in despair, they attack the houses of the supposed enemies of their trade; 543.-Great fire at Rotherhithe, in 1765; ibid.-Lord mayor enforces certain statutes against the use of false measures; 544.-Another fire in 1765; 545.-Society of Artists of Great Britain founded; 546.-Commissioners of sewers petition the lord mayor and court of common council for a further improvement in the paving and cleansing of the metropolis; ibid.-Act of parliament for in- creasing the tolls on the turnpike roads round London; 553.-Hard frost in the metropolis in the year 1767, followed by a violent hurri- cane; 559;—court of common council subscribe sums of money for the sufferers of this inclement season; ibid.-Government purchases Gresham college of the city, and erects the Excise office on its site; 570.-Another hard frost in 1768, 572.-Mr. Wilkes offers himself as canditate to represent the city of London; 573;-is rejected; 574; -but returned for Middlesex; ibid.-Prince of Monaco (at whose court the duke of York died) visits the city of London; 575.-On the arrival of the king of Denmark at St. James's the citizens of London invite him to an entertainment; 579.-Royal Academy of Arts insti- tuted; 583.-Long expected cause between Mr. Wilkes and the earl of Halifax tried in the court of Common Pleas; 586;-and determined in favour of the former; 587.-Correspondence between the lord mayor and the secretary at war, on the insult offered to the city by the march of a military body through the streets with drums and fifes playing; 592.-Lord mayor and sheriffs go in state to the Old Bailey, and lay the first stone of the present building called Newgate; ibid.-The lord mayor and Alderman Oliver committed to the Tower by the house of commons for a supposed breach of the privileges of that house; 559, n. they are addressed and applauded by the several wards in London, -An information of disfranchisement filed against the companies of Gold- smiths, Grocers, and Weavers for refusing to obey the lord mayor's precept for a common hall; 602.-Upright conduct of Messrs. Wilkes and Bull, with respect to the prisoners in Newgate; 602.-Dreadful effects of a fire in a house in Bishopsgate street; 604.-Remarkable instance of mortality among the city magistrates in the course of four years; ibid. Cause tried at Guildhall between the common Serjeant of the city of London and the master of the company of Goldsmiths, for disobeying a precept of the lord mayor; 605.-Act of parliament "for preventing the mischiefs from driving cattle in London, West- minster, and within the bills of mortality;" ibid;-salutary provisions of that act; 608.-Number of cattle sold at Smithfield in the year 1774; ibid. Further proceedings with respect to the disfranchisement of the master of the company of Goldsmiths, 608 to 610.-Court of aldermen vote their thanks and a sum of money to John Wilkes, Esq. late lord mayor, for his wise, upright, and impartial adminis- tration of justice, during his mayoralty; 611.-Statement of the expences attending the mayoralty; 614.-Lord mayor refuses per- mission to the admiralty to impress men in the city; 615.-The city proceeds against the admiralty in the court of King's Bench; ibid.-issue of the trial, and speech of lord Mansfield; 617.-Press- gangs still molest the citizens; 618;-four of the assailants brought before the sitting magistrates; 619; and committed to prison; 620. -Privilege of exemption from the payment of tolls in any part of Eng- gland contested and ascertained by the citizens of London; 624. -Citizens assert a claim to the duty of six-pence per load on all hay sold in Smithfield, not the property of freemen of London; 625; -trial thereon, and issue in favour of the citizens; 626.-First stone of the New Sessions House, Clerkenwell, laid; ibid.—Mr. Alderman
Wilkes elected chamberlain of the city of London; ibid. Riots of the protestant association in London, in 1780; 627.-The king's great illness and recovery, and the grand procession of their majesties, &c, to St. Paul's cathedral, to return thanks for the same (A. D. 1789,) 642. Great fire at Ratcliffe-highway, in which 630 houses were con sumed; 644.-St. Paul's church Covent Garden, burnt down; 645. -Celebrated trial between Mr. Croome, auctioneer, (plaintiff) and the late alderman Le Mesurier, then lord mayor (defendant), for false imprisonment; ibid, n.-On a threat of invasion from France, the citizens of London enter into subscriptions, and form themselves into armed as- sociations for the defence of the country; 647, 648.-The king reviews the different corps in and about the metropolis; 649.-Return of the strength of the volunteer forces at the different stations; ibid.-His jesty visits Drury lane theatre, and is fired at by a maniac; 650.— London bridge, first mention of it, 51, n.-repaired and strengthened; 58.-gets out of repair, and is first built of stone; 62;-mode of its erection; expence attending it, and how defrayed; ibid, n.-its, water-works erected; 150;-and destroyed in the great fire of 1666. 221.-London bridge rebuilt in 1754; 421;-and burnt down in 1759; 441;-grant of 1500l. from parliament to rebuild the same; 443; the expence attending its erection; ibid. Lord mayor of London, the creation of that title; 78;-permitted the privilege of having gold and silver maces carried before him; ibid; -the present mode of electing him established; 104.-Act of com- mon council restraining the extravagance and luxury of civic feasts; 134.-Expences attending the mayoralty; 614.-1500l. per year added to the salary of the lord mayor; 652.
Lottery, the first one mentioned, and duration of its drawing; 143. Lovat, lord, his execution in 1747, for rebellion; 407;-levity of his conduct previous to that awful event; 408.
Maces, when first carried before the lord mayor; 78.
Mansion-house, its erection; 382;—and expence attending it; 383, n. Market-places, first used by the Romans, 11-as also mile-stones, 21, n. Merchants, German, a company of, settled in London; their designation, and singular payment to the king; 52,
Newgate, previously a miserable dungeon, rebuilt by sir R. Whittington, 92;-first stone of the present building laid; 596.
Norwich, singular custom on the election of its sheriffs; 137, n.
Old Street, one of the most ancient Roman military ways; 21.
Parliament, when first summoned; 44:-bill for enlarging the term of its continuance, called the Septennial act; passed; 334.
Party-walls, first mention made of them; 63.
Favement, description of a beautiful Mosaic discovered in 1803, before the East India House; 34.
Picard, Henry, mayor of London, entertains four kings; 80.
Plague, introduced by commerce, in 658; 44; and depopulates the
metropolis; ibid;-its ravages in 1361, and preventions employed on that occasion; 79;-its re-appearance in 1604; 168.
Printing, art of, when introduced into England, and by whom; 104; -title of the first book printed; ibid, n.
Procession by water on lord mayor's day, its commencement; 101. Provisions, price of, in the reign of Henry II. 63;-in that of king John; 67-their remarkable cheapness in the reign of Edward I. 75, n.-their value in the reign of Henry VIII 120;-first regulated by act of parliament, and the prices enumerated; 132. -Dearth of provisions and their high price induce the lord mayor and com- mon council to pass an act restraining the luxury of civic feasts; 134.-Price of poultry in the reign of queen Elizabeth; 145.-Number of cattle killed in 1767 for the use of the metropolis; 570.
Ransom of Richard I. great sum contributed by London towards that purpose a strong proof of her opulence in that prince's reign; 64. Romans (according to Hearn, the antiquary) first landed at Dover, from thence proceeded by easy journies towards London; 16;-were the first who used stone and brick, tiles and slates, in the formation of their buildings; they also introduced the use of chimnies; 12.- they are attacked by queen Boadicea, and defeated; 31. Royal Academy of Arts instituted by the king's authority; 583. Royal Exchange built; 142;-consumed in the great fire; 232.-Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding the same; 246, 250. Royal Society, its institution and object; 191.
Sadler's company, supposed to be one of the most ancient guilds; 88. Saunders, Sir Edmund, anecdotes of him: 269, n.
Savoy hospital founded; 68.
Secker, Dr. archbishop of Canterbury, his death and will; 578. Sedan chairs, when first used; 175;-grant to sir Sanders Duncomb of the emoluments to be derived from them, for a certain number of years; ibid;-their number in 1712; 326.
Sessions house, Clerkenwell, its erection; 626.
Sheriff, the creation of their office; 45, n.-singular custom observed when they are sworn in; 68, n.-present mode of electing them esta- blished; 104;—when first empowered to empannel jurors for the city courts; 114.-The ancient form of nominating them described, its singularity; 150.-Act of the common council of London, altering the mode of their election; 412.
Ships of war, when first built; 45, n.—their great increase in size and metal in the year 1608; 171.
Sion college founded; 81.
Small-pox hospital, its institution; 400.
Smithfield, East, formerly a vineyard; 32;
West, the place for public executions; 59;-period when first paved; 171.
Society of Antiquaries, its incorporation; 426.
Artists of Great Britain incorporated; 546.
for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, Commerce, &c. its establishment; 431.
Somerset House, its erection; the inauspicious circumstances attending it; and the illicit means employed to complete it; 126.
Southwark, borough of, grant of it to the city of London; 129;-form of
the instrument confirming the same; 130;-rights and privileges of the city over the borough; 131.
St. Giles's in the Fields, Hospital of, singular custom observed at it in the reign of Henry I. 60, n.
St. James's palace, (originally an hospital for lepers), erected; 75. St. Lukes hospital, for incurables, its erection; 423, n.
St Paul's cathedral destroyed by fire, A.D. 961;-re-edified by bishop Maurice; 58;-again destroyed in the great fire of London, A. D. 1666; 222;-but afterwards rebuilt by sir Christopher Wren in its present form; 245.-Grand procession to this cathedral in 1789, by the king, queen, and the royal family, the members of both houses of parliament, and the municipal bodies of the metropolis, on the re- covery of his majesty's health; 642.-Another grand procession to re- turn thanks for the three great victories obtained over the French by lords Howe, St. Vincent, and Duncan (A. D. 1797); 647. St. Stephen's chapel built; 81.
St. Thomas's hospital, account of; 132.
Streets of London, partial pavement thereof; 112;-more general pave- ment; 171.—(see London.)
Surgery, wretched state of, at the commencement of Henry the Eighth's reign; 113;-ludicrous description of the surgeons attending the armies of that prince in his campaigns; ibid, n.
Swift, dean, ludicrous anecdote of him; 322, n.
Thames, river, frozen over, booths erected, and converted to a fair; 352; -the same occurrence in 1739; 387;—and again in 1767; 569. Tithes, their first establishment;-102.
Tobacco, its introduction into England; 151.
Towns, British, anciently not places of general residence, but of refuge; 10-formerly, planted in the centre of woods; ibid.
Tower, formerly a Roman fort, containing a mint and treasury; 34;~ much enlarged by William I. 58;-further enlarged by William II. ibid;-encompassed by a wall and ditch in the reign of Richard I. 64, n. Turnpike roads, first mention of them; 77.
Union of Scotland with England; 318.
Vines, first planted by the Romans;-32.-Vineyards in East Smith- field, Hatton-garden, and St. Giles's in the Fields; ibid.
Wall of London, first built by the empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great; 15;-its subsequent boundaries described; 36.
Wards, when first mentioned, 45, n;-their extent, population, and opu- lence in the reign of Edward III. 76; n.
Watch, for the protection of the city, first permanent one established; 143;-act for its improvement; 378.
Watches, their first invention; 246, n.
Water-works, London bridge, their erection; 150;-are consumed in the great fire of London in 1666;-236.
Watling-street, one of the ancient Roman military ways; 11. Weaver's company, supposed to be one of the most ancient guilds; 88. Weights and measures, first standard for; 65;—again adjusted; 184.
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