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CHAPTER 11 THE GROWIH OF THE CITY "The first Settlement—London as it appeared before 1066—The Walls—Westcheap—Eastcheap—The Bridge— Billingsgate—London in 1266—The Gates—New Suburbs—Houses on the Bridge Billiter Square—Domestic Life—London in 1466—Improvements—St Paul’s—Costume—The Variations of the Population. Plague—Changes in 1666—The New River LONDON once firmly established, girt with an impregnable wall, and filled with citizens who were men of enterprise, very soon began to show signs of growth. The few early names with which we meet seem to prove that Alfred chose among English, Danes, French and German settlers, almost indifferently. We cannot be quite sure of this for the first few years, but the conditions of citizenship did not necessarily imply birth, and wealthy adventurous spirits, willing on the one hand to cross even the terrible Bay of Biscay, or the almost equally terrible German Ocean, and on the other, to help as BENNETTS CLOCK IN CHEAPSIDE
