. London . r front had been taken down tomake way for ware-houses and quays:the Royal Palacestood without the City,but connected with itby a populous who lived in the suburbs—that is, about Chancery Lane and Holborn—had spacious and beautiful gardens ; there were also on thisside pasture and meadow lands, with streams and water-mills :beyond the pastures was a great forest filled with wild crea-tures : many springs of water rose on the North side. TheCity was so populous that of those who went out to a muster,20,000 were chosen as horsemen and 60,000 for the foot. Wewill discuss t
. London . r front had been taken down tomake way for ware-houses and quays:the Royal Palacestood without the City,but connected with itby a populous who lived in the suburbs—that is, about Chancery Lane and Holborn—had spacious and beautiful gardens ; there were also on thisside pasture and meadow lands, with streams and water-mills :beyond the pastures was a great forest filled with wild crea-tures : many springs of water rose on the North side. TheCity was so populous that of those who went out to a muster,20,000 were chosen as horsemen and 60,000 for the foot. Wewill discuss the question of population later on. Meantimeone may remark that a force of 80,000 always ready to becalled out means a population of 320,000 at least, which isindeed absurd, especially when we consider that the populationof London, as shown by the poll-tax of Richard II., was onlyabout 40,000. There were three principal schools, but sometimes otherschools were opened by favour and permission. We arc not. BATTLE BETWEEN TWO ARMED KNIGHTS 42 LONDON told what schools these were ; but there was always a schoolof some kind attached to every monastery and boys were taught Latin verse, grammar, and rhetoric;they disputed with each other in the churches on feast-days,especially about the principles of grammar, and the rules ofthe past and future tenses—truly an agreeable pastime. The different trades of the City were allotted their ownplaces of work and sale. Fitz Stephen docs not name thevarious quarters, but they can be easily ascertained from Stow,though the place assigned to each was sometimes , the chief market and trading-place of the City wasalways Cheap, a broad, open place with booths and sheds forthe exposure of wares, on the north and south. The namesof the streets leading out of Cheap indicate the trades thatwere carried on in them. The streets called Wood, Milk,Iron, Honey, Poultry, mark the site of certain markets on thenorth. Those named aft
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