Excerpt from Popular History of London There are many books about London, and I have used them so freely, that the preparation of this addition to their number has been to some extent a work of abridgment and selection rather than one of research or original expression. In writing about the London of Shakespeare, I have made excerpts from the gossipy little volume by Edwin Goadby in referring to Sir Richard Whittington, I have depended on the recent concise and excellent life of that worthy by Mr. Walter Besant, a ...
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Excerpt from Popular History of London There are many books about London, and I have used them so freely, that the preparation of this addition to their number has been to some extent a work of abridgment and selection rather than one of research or original expression. In writing about the London of Shakespeare, I have made excerpts from the gossipy little volume by Edwin Goadby in referring to Sir Richard Whittington, I have depended on the recent concise and excellent life of that worthy by Mr. Walter Besant, a biography which has transformed the great Lord Mayor from a shadow of tradition into a definite personage in endeavoring to picture the old 'prentice boys, I have quoted from the Fortunes of Nigel, believing that as far as the background is concerned, Scott's story is more graphic than any other account of these demonstrative young citizens, and at the same time historically accurate in speak ing of London as it was during the reigns of Charles the First and Charles the Second, I have dipped into Macaulay's splendid History; and in relation to the Plague, I have done little more than condense the picturesque Journal of Daniel Defoe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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