PUBLISHERS' PREFACE ΤΟ THE SECOND EDITION. form. HE reception accorded to the first edition of the present work has induced the Publishers, at considerable expense, to have it reproduced in a more complete and popular The present edition has, therefore, been carefully re-edited, revised, and enlarged to three volumes, by a gentleman acquainted with the subject; the Appendix has been incorporated into the body of the book; the Counties have all been re-arranged, and grouped, as nearly as may be, in each volume, into Southern, Midland, and Northern; and all the added articles have as little of the merely archæological and as much of the more interesting historical, biographical, and traditionary elements in them as possible. With these changes, the Publishers trust the work will be found more useful and attractive than before. BEDFORD STREET, COVENT Garden, December, 1872. CONTENTS The Tower, Fortress, Palace, and Prison, and its Memories +Legendary Stories, and Ballads of Old London Bridge Bermondsey Abbey, and its Memories Founding the Priory of St. Bartholomew the Great The Beggar's Daughter of Bethnal Green |