Stranica 25 [25]
CHAPTER I—ORIGIN OF THE CITY
Some curious old Fables—Billingsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate—Story of Brutus—King Bledhud’s Flight
— King Lear—Brennus—Belinus—King Lud—Good King Cole—St. Helen
Opinion—A few Facts—The Medieval Chronicles
Augusta—Roman Remains—Modern Theories
St. Lucius—Guest’s
Aulus Plautius—Constantine—The Wall—
Alfred the Great.
Every one who has endeavoured to make a serious study of London
history has been struck by the same fact:—in order to attain any
information he has to read an immense quantity of what is either