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                               MEDIÆVAL
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                            ECCLESIASTICAL




                               MEDIÆVAL
                                LONDON

                                VOL. II

                            ECCLESIASTICAL

                                  BY

                           SIR WALTER BESANT

                            [Illustration]

                                LONDON
                         ADAM & CHARLES BLACK

                                 1906




                               CONTENTS


                                PART I

                       THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON

  CHAP.                                                             PAGE

   1. THE RECORDS                                                      3

   2. THE CHARTER OF HENRY THE SECOND                                  8

   3. THE COMMUNE                                                     11

   4. THE WARDS                                                       24

   5. THE FACTIONS OF THE CITY                                        35

   6. THE CENTURY OF UNCERTAIN STEPS                                  66

   7. AFTER THE COMMUNE                                               72

   8. THE CITY COMPANIES                                             108


                                PART II

                         ECCLESIASTICAL LONDON

   1. THE RELIGIOUS LIFE                                             127

   2. CHURCH FURNITURE                                               159

   3. THE CALENDAR OF THE YEAR                                       164

   4. HERMITS AND ANCHORITES                                         170

   5. PILGRIMAGE                                                     179

   6. ORDEAL                                                         191

   7. SANCTUARY                                                      201

   8. MIRACLE AND MYSTERY PLAYS                                      213

   9. SUPERSTITIONS, ETC.                                            218

  10.  ORDER OF BURIAL                                               223


                               PART III

                           RELIGIOUS HOUSES

   1. GENERAL                                                        227

   2. ST. MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND                                          234

   3. THE PRIORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY, OR CHRIST CHURCH PRIORY        241

   4. THE CHARTER HOUSE                                              245

   5. ELSYNG SPITAL                                                  248

   6. ST. BARTHOLOMEW                                                250

   7. ST. THOMAS OF ACON                                             263

   8. ST. ANTHONY’S                                                  268

   9. THE PRIORY OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM                            270

  10. THE CLERKENWELL NUNNERY                                        284

  11. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, OR HOLIWELL NUNNERY                      286

  12. BERMONDSEY ABBEY                                               288

  13. ST. MARY OVERIES                                               297

  14. ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL                                          309

  15. ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS                                        311

  16. ST. HELEN’S                                                    313

  17. ST. MARY SPITAL                                                322

  18. ST. MARY OF BETHLEHEM                                          325

  19. THE CLARES                                                     329

  20. ST. KATHERINE’S BY THE TOWER                                   334

  21. CRUTCHED FRIARS                                                342

  22. AUSTIN FRIARS                                                  344

  23. GREY FRIARS                                                    348

  24. THE DOMINICANS                                                 354

  25. WHITEFRIARS                                                    360

  26. ST. MARY OF GRACES                                             363

  27. THE SMALLER FOUNDATIONS                                        365

  28. FRATERNITIES                                                   382

  29. HOSPITALS                                                      385


  APPENDICES

   1. LIST OF WARDS OF LONDON                                        391

   2. LIST OF ALDERMEN                                               393

   3. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALDERMEN WHOSE NAMES ARE AFFIXED TO DEEDS
   IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY                                         395

   4. LIST OF PARISHES                                               397

   5. PATRONAGE OF CITY CHURCHES                                     400

   6. FESTIVALS                                                      401

   7. AN ANCHORITE’S CELL                                            404

   8. THE MONASTIC HOUSES                                            406

   9. A DOMINICAN HOUSE                                              407

  10. THE PAPEY                                                      411

  11. CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT                                           413

  12. FRATERNITIES                                                   420

  INDEX                                                              423




                             ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                    PAGE

  Extract from Letter-Book E, dated 1316, relating to the
  Grocers’ Company                                                     5

  Obverse and Original Reverse of the Seal of the City of London,
  showing Figure of St. Thomas à Becket                               13

  Old Mayoralty Seal, Thirteenth Century                              15

  King John signing Magna Charta                             _Facing_ 20

  Aldgate House, Bethnal Green                                        25

  Parts of the South and West Walls of a Convent                      30

  The Tower of London about 1480                                      39

  The Crown offered to Richard III. at Baynard’s Castle      _Facing_ 56

  King Richard holding a Council of Nobles and Prelates               61

  Henry of Bolingbroke challenges the Crown                           62

  Richard II. consulting with his Friends in Conway Castle            63

  Richard II. and his Patron Saints                                   69

  Whittington and his Cat                                             73

  Death