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CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Vestrymen, List of 7
Officers of Vestry, List of 9
Guardians, Westminster Union, List of 10
Governors and Directors of the Poor, List of 11
Commissioners of Public Baths and Wash-houses, List of 12
Report of the Vestry:—
City and Liberties of Westminster—Introductory :—
Burgesses of Westminster 16
First Ordinances of Burgesses 17
Watchmen 24
Leet Jury 25
Annoyance Jury 25
Paving Acts 26
Westminster Sessions 26
Arms of Westminster 27
A Retrospect:—
Political condition of England in 1685 27
Legislation in latter half of Seventeenth Century 29
Condition of Prisons 33
Punishments for Crime 33
Banking and Pawnbroking 35
Taxation 37
Revenue of Charles II. 38
Colonial Possessions 39
Early Newspapers 39
Literature 41
Education 41
Amusements 41
Means of Communication 42
State of the Roads 43
Condition of Labouring Classes 45
Condition of the Metropolis 46
The Plague of 1665 48
Bills of Mortality 50
Physicians and Surgeons 53
Public Hospitals 54
Old Bethlehem Hospital 54
Water Supply 55
Fashionable Promenades 55
Public Lighting 57
Conveyances 58