- The New Whitechapel Art Gallery
(The building to the right is a free library.) Some of the people, but not many, go off westward and wander about the halls of the British Museum. I do not know why they go there, because ancient Egypt is to them no more than modern Mexico, and the Etruscan vases are no more interesting than the “Souvenir of Margate,” which costs a penny. But they do go; they roam from room to room with listless indifference, seeing nothing. In the same spirit of curiosity, baffled yet satisfied, they go to the South Kensington Museum and gaze upon its treasures of art; or they go to the National Portrait Gallery, finding in Queen Anne Boleyn a striking likeness to their own Maria, but otherwise not profiting in any discoverable manner by the contents of the gallery. And some of them go to the National Gallery, where there are pictures which tell stories. - Milton’s Cottage, Chalfont St. Giles
Chalfont St. Giles lies down in the valley of the Misbourne, across the high road which runs left and right, and past the Pheasant Inn. It is a place made famous by Milton’s residence here, when he fled London and the Great Plague. The cottage—the “pretty cot,” as he aptly calls it, taken for him by Thomas Ellwood, the Quaker—is still standing, and is the last house on the left-hand side of the long village street. The poet could only have known it to be a “pretty cot” by repute, for he was blind. - Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel
- Flowers, penny a bunch
- Troope every one
- Fine Large Cucumbers
- Sw-e-e-p
- New Laid Eggs
- Fine Oysters
- Sweet Lavender
- Three Rows a Penny pins
- Stinking Fish
- Letters for post
- Fine Writeing Ink
- The New Model Dwellings
- Antique Ballads
- All a blowin
- Curds and Whey
- Ow-oo
- Past one c'clock, an' a fine morning
- I love a ballad in print
- Fresh Cabbidge
- "Buy a fine Singing Bird?"
- Six bunches a penny, sweet bloomin Lavender
- Large silver eels
- Fresh and sweet
- Cabbages O Turnips
- Any Earthen Ware, buy a jug or a tea pot
- Tiddy Diddy Doll
- Remains of the Wall
The City was thus protected by a great wall pierced by a few gates, with bastions and towers. At the East End after the Norman Conquest rose the Great White Tower still standing. At the West End was a tower called Montfichet's Tower. - Royal Arms of England from Richard I. to Edward III
(From the wall arcade, south aisle of nave, Westminster Abbey.) - Sixpence a pound, Fair Cherryes
- Buy my sweet Roses
- Dust, O
- Chairs to mend
- Young lambs to sell
- Songs, penny a sheet
- O' clo
- Great News
- Milk below, Maids
- Sand 'O
- Buy a Live Goose
- Wat d'yer call that
- Fresh Oysters, penny a lot
- Old Cloths
- Knives to Grind
- Ripe Cherries
- Pots and Kettles to mend
- Ere's yer toys for girls an boys
- Buy a doll, Miss
- Cat's and Dog's Meat
- Fine Strawberries
- Knives and Scissors to Grind
- Cherries, O ripe cherries, O
- Hot Spice Gingerbread
- London before the Spire of St. Paul's was burned; showing the Bridge, Tower, Shipping, &c
- City Gates
Let us examine into the history and the course of the Wall of London, if only for the very remarkable facts that the boundary of the City was determined for fifteen hundred years by the erection of this Wall; that for some purposes the course of the Wall still affects the government of London; and that it was only pulled down bit by bit in the course of the last century. You will see by reference to the map what was the course of the Wall. It began, starting from the east where the White Tower now stands. Part of the foundation of the Tower consists of a bastion of the Roman wall. It followed a line nearly north as far as Aldgate. Then it turned in a N.W. direction just north of Camomile Street and Bevis Marks to Bishopsgate. Thence it ran nearly due W., north of the street called London Wall, turning S. at Monkwell Street. At Aldersgate it turned W. until it reached Newgate, where it turned nearly S. again and so to the river, a little east of the present Blackfriars Bridge. It ran, lastly, along the river bank to join its eastern extremity. The river wall had openings or gates at Dowgate and Bishopsgate,{39} and probably at Queen Hithe. The length of the Wall, without counting the river side, was 2 miles and 608 feet. This formidable Wall was originally about 12 feet thick made of rubble and mortar, the latter very hard, and faced with stone. You may know Roman work by the courses of tiles or bricks. They are arranged in double layers about 2 feet apart. The so-called bricks are not in the least like our bricks, being 6 inches long, 12 inches wide and 1½ inch thick. The Wall was 20 feet high, with towers and bastions at intervals about 50 feet high. At first there was no moat or ditch, and it will be understood that in order to protect the City from an attack of barbarians—Picts or Scots—it was enough to close the gates and to man the towers. The invaders had no ladders. - Part of the Roman Wall at Leicester
- The Lepers Begging
Leprosy is supposed to have had its origin in Egypt: the laws laid down in the Book of Leviticus for the separation of lepers are stringent and precise: it was believed, partly, no doubt, on account of these statutes in the Book of the Jewish Law, that the disease was brought into Western Europe by the Crusaders; but this was erroneous, because it was in this country before the Crusaders. Thus the Palace of St. James stands upon the site of a lazar house founded before the Conquest for fourteen leprous maidens. - Buy the fair ballads I have in my pack