Old and New London, Volume I: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places

· 1876

Buried London--Our Early Relations--The Founder of London--A Distinguished Visitor at Romney Marsh--Caesar re-visits the "Town on the Lake"--The Borders of Old London--Caesar fails to make much out of the Britons--King _Brown_--The Derivation of the Name of London--The Queen of the Iceni--London Stone and London Roads--London's Earlier and Newer Walls--The Site of St. Paul's--Fabulous Claims to Idolatrous Renown--Existing Relics of Roman London--Treasures from the Bed of the Thames--What we Tread underfoot in London--A vast Field of Story 16 Temple Bar--The Golgotha of English Traitors--When Temple Bar was made of Wood--Historical Pageants at Temple Bar--The Associations of Temple Bar--Misc…

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