LONDON: PRINTED BY D. S. MAURICE, FENCHURCH STREET. Chronicles OF LONDON BRIDGE: BY AN ANTIQUARY. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, AND CO. CORNHILL. M.DCCC.XXVII. M.DCCC.XXVII. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL JOHN GARRATT, ESQ. ALDERMAN OF THE WARD OF BRIDGE WITHIN; WHO, AS LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, LAID THE FIRST STONE OF THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE, ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15th, 1825; These Chronicles ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED....

The plan of narrative adopted in the ensuing pages, is recommended by both the sanction and the example of very learned antiquity; since, without referring to the numerous classical volumes, which have been written upon the same principle, two of the most ancient and esteemed works on English Jurisprudence have honoured it with their selection. Of the accuracy of the historical events here recorded, the authorities so explicitly cited are the most ample proofs; and, that they might be the more g

“This is a Gentleman, every inch of him; a Virtuoso, a clean Virtuoso:—a sad-coloured stand of claithes, and a wig like the curled back of a mug-ewe. The very first question he speered was about the auld Draw-Brig, that has been at the bottom of the water these twal-score years. And how the Deevil suld he ken ony thing about the auld Draw-Brig, unless he were a Virtuoso?” Captain Clutterbuck’s Introductory Epistle to the Monastery. Ground plan of the first stone Bridge At London: commenced A. D.

Vertue makes the extreme length of this Pier but 115 feet only. Vertue makes this space 30 feet broad. The Piers and Arches were both measured from the squares of the latter, the triangular ends being left un-noticed, excepting in the instance of the Great Pier. The length of the whole Bridge was 926 feet; its height, 60; and the breadth of the Street over it, 40 feet. “Let us now then, my good Sir,” continued Mr. Postern, “ascend to the Platform or Street of the old London Bridge, erected by Pe

Views in India. SCENERY, COSTUMES, and ARCHITECTURE, chiefly on the Western Side of India. By Captain Robert Melville Grindlay , of the East India Company’s Army, Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and of the Society of Arts, &c. Publishing in Parts, each containing Six Plates, with descriptive letter-press. Atlas 4to. price £2: 2 s. From the extreme delicacy of the aquatint Engravings of this Work, a limited number of Impressions only can be taken from them. “This is a work, which bid