AN

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

CURIOSITIES

OF

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER,

IN THREE PARTS.

PART 1.

Containing a full Description of the Tower of LONDON,

and every Thing curious in and belonging to it.

PART II.

Contains the History of WESTMINSTER-ABBEY, from its

Foundation to the present Time; with its Antiquitics,

Tombs, and Inscriptions.

PART III.

Treats of the OLD CATHEDRAL of St. PAUL's, and the

New ; together with a full Account of the MONUMENT,
LONDON-STONE, the City.WALL, GATES, and other
Antique Remains.

L O N D ON:
Printed for THOMAS CARNAN, in St. Paul's Church-Yard.

MDCCLXXXV.
Price Two Shillings and Six Pence bound,

AN

Historical Description

OF THE

TOWER OF LONDON,

AND ITS

CURIOSITI E S.

Giving an ACCOUNT 3. Of its Foundation, gradual

tillery; comprehending the Increase, and present State. various Engines of Deftruo. 2. Of its Government, Cuf- tion used in War.

toms, and Privileges. 8. Of the Horse Armory; with 3. Of its Antiquities, Records, curious Anecdoces relating and Curiosities.

to the Kings that fit there 4. Of the Lions, and other wild on Horseback in full Are

Beasts, kept there; their Na- mour, from William ibe Con. ture and Properties.

queror, to his late Majesty. g. Of the Spoils of the Spa- 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and

nijh Armada, with the Hif- the Regalia, used at the tory of the Spanish lovasion

Coronation of our Kings; in 1588.

and the story of Col. Blood's 6. Of the small Armory; in attempting to steal away the

which, at one View, may be Crown

seen Arms for 80,000 Men. 10. Of the Mint, and the Ma. -7. Of the Royal Train of Ar- ner of famping Money.

Written chiefly to direct the Attention of Stranger's to

what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

L O N D ON: Printed for THOMAS CARNAN, in St. Paul's

Church-yard. 1784.

[Price Six Pence.]

Prices of seeing the CURIOSITIES.

Lions, each Person,

Şix-pence. Foot-Armory,

Three-pence. Train of Artillery,

Two-pence. Horse Armory,

Three-pence. Spanish Armory,

Two-pence., Regalia, in Company, each' 'Perfon, One Shilling.

Single, One Shilling and Six-pence.

N. B. But if a îngle Perfon is foewn the Foot

Armery, Train of Artillery, Horse-Armory, and Spanish Armory, he pays for each double the Price above-mentioned

These four sums are all to be paid at the Spanish

Armory, viz. Ten-pence.