istianity. Constantinople is named after him, and was made
by him the capital of the Empire.

~Geoffrey of Monmouth~ was a British historian of the twelfth century.
He was made Bishop of St. Asaph in 1152. His 'histories' are largely
made up of stories, such as that about Brutus, which nobody believes
now.

~historical document~: a piece of writing that can be used to prove some
event in the history of past times.

~architecture~: the art of building; the style in which houses are
built.

~Cornhill~: a street in the City of London running west to east from the
Royal Exchange into Leadenhall Street. It was probably named after a
family of that name, and not from any corn market on the site.

~bastion~: a strong turret or tower at the corner of a fortified
building.

~Walbrook~: a small stream that crossed the City from north to south. It
flowed near where the Mansion House now stands (Walbrook is a street at
the side of the Mansion House), and fell into the Thames at Dowgate,
near where Cannon Street Railway Station now stands.

~Fleet River~: a small stream which fell into the Thames near where
Blackfriars Railway Station now stands.

~Moorfields~ was a piece of moor land lying to the north of the City,
outside the walls. The City gate which led to this district was the
Moorgate, a name which still survives in Moorgate Street.

~Ken Wood~, in Hampstead, ~Hainault Forest~, a small piece of wood in
Essex, about eight miles north-east of London, and ~Epping Forest~, a
larger portion, also in Essex, to the west of Hainault Forest, are all
remaining portions of a great forest that once stretched away from
London far into the country.

~Chelsea, Bermondsey~: in all such words _ea_ or _ey_ is an old word for
island. In this way are formed Winchelsea, Battersea, &c.; ~Thorney~
(where Westminster is now) is the Island of Thorns; and ~Jersey~,
Caesar's Island.

~Southwark~: a district of London opposite the City, on the south side
of the Thames. It was the South work, or fort, and is spoken of as a
village as late as 1327, the accession of Edward III.

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~Malarious~: causing the air to be bad, and so giving rise to fevers;
unhealthy. (Latin _malus_, bad; _aer_, air.)

~Weybridge~, in Surrey, near where the river Wey, after flowing past
Godalming and Guildford, falls into the Thames.

~entrenching~: making a trench or ditch. The earth dug out was formed
into a mound. The m