On Change (from an Old Print, about 1800) 487

Inner Court of the First Royal Exchange 492

Sir Thomas Gresham 493

Wren's Plan for Rebuilding London 496

Plan of the Exchange in 1837 497

The First Royal Exchange 498

The Second Royal Exchange, Cornhill 499

The Present Royal Exchange 504

Blackwell Hall in 1812 505

Interior of Lloyd's 510

The Subscription Room at "Lloyd's" 511

Interior of Drapers' Hall 516

Drapers' Hall Garden 517

Cromwell's House, from Aggas's Map 520

Pope's House, Plough Court, Lombard Street 523

St. Mary Woolnoth 528

Interior of Merchant Taylors' Hall 529

Ground Plan of the Church of St. Martin Outwich 534

March of the Archers 535

The Old South Sea House 540

London Stone 541

The Fourth Salters' Hall 546

Cordwainers' Hall 547

St. Antholin's Church, Watling Street 552

The Crypt of Gerard's Hall 553

Old Sign of the "Boar's Head" 558

Exterior of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, in 1700 559

The Weigh-house Chapel 564

Miles Coverdale 565

Wren's Original Design for the Summit of the Monument 570

The Monument and the Church of St. Magnus, 1800 571

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LONDON AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS.

Writing the history of a vast city like London is like writing a history
of the ocean--the area is so vast, its inhabitants are so multifarious,
the treasures that lie in its depths so countless. What aspect of the
great chameleon city should one select? for, as Boswell, with more than
his usual