MEDIÆVAL LONDON
 
 

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London Bridge and the Tower.
from a MS. of the Poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans. British Museum.
 
 
MEDIÆVAL LONDON
 
By
WILLIAM BENHAM, D.D., F.S.A.
Rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street,
and Honorary Canon of Canterbury,
AND
CHARLES WELCH, F.S.A.
Librarian to the Corporation of London.
 
 
LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1901
 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
London Bridge and the Tower.
From a Manuscript of the Poems of Charles, duke of Orleans. British Museum, 16 F. ii.		Frontispiece
A Tournament.
From a Manuscript of the Romance of the Sire Jehan de Saintre. British Museum, Nero D. ix.		P. 10
Richard II. riding out of London to the War in Ireland.
From a Manuscript of Froissart’s Chronicles. British Museum, Harl. 4380.		P. 18
Richard II. delivered by Bolinbroke to the Citizens of London.
From a Manuscript of the Metrical History of Richard II. British Museum, Harl. 1319.		P. 34
The Funeral of Richard II.
From a Manuscript of Froissart’s Chronicles. British Museum, Harl. 4380.		P. 74
The Principal Parts of a Pen Drawing of London from Westminster to Greenwich, by Antonie van den Wyngaerde.
Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Of this Flemish artist very little is known. There exists a rescript of Philip II.addressed to Margaret of Parma, regent of the Low Countries, giving him permissionto remove with his goods and to settle in Spain, from which it is supposed that hewas in the King’s service. The drawing was made, probably for Philip, before thefall of the spire of St. Paul’s in 1561. It is unfinished, blank spaces being left forWhitehall, Bridewell, and some other buildings. There ar                        
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