LONDON
IN MODERN TIMES;

Or, Sketches of

THE ENGLISH METROPOLIS

DURING THE

SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.

New York
PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER,
SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 200 MULBERRY-STREET.

1851

CONTENTS.

Chap.
	INTRODUCTION
I.	LONDON UNDER THE FIRST TWO MONARCHS OF THE STUART DYNASTY
II.	LONDON DURING THE CIVIL WARS
III.	THE PLAGUE YEAR IN LONDON
IV.	THE FIRE OF LONDON
V.	FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE CITY TO THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY
VI.	LONDON DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
VII.	LONDON DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

LONDON
IN MODERN TIMES.

INTRODUCTION.

This history of an old city opens many views into the realms of thepast, crowded with the picturesque, the romantic, and thereligious—with what is beautiful in intellect, sublime in feeling,noble in character—and with much, too, the reverse of all this.Buildings dingy and dilapidated, or tastelessly modernized, in whichgreat geniuses were born, or lived, or died, become, in connection withthe event, transformed into poetic bowers; and narrow dirty streets,where they are known often to have walked, change into green alleys,resounding with richer notes than ever trilled from bird on brake.Tales of valor and suffering, of heroism and patience, of virtue andpiety, of the patriot's life and the martyr's death, crowd thickly onthe memory. Nor do opposite reminiscences, revealing the footprints ofvice and crime, of evil passions and false principles, fail to arise,fraught with salutary warnings and cautions. The broad thoroughfare isa channel, within whose banks there has been rolling for centuries ariver of human life, now tranquil as the sky, now troubled as theclouds, gliding on in peace, or lashed into storms.

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