List of Illustrations
(Betweenpages 268 and 269 )1. Map of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, with
their suburbs. Oliver John ( 1680 ). [Guildhall Library Print Room]
2. Map of London, Westminster, and Southwark showing the growth of the metrop-
olis since the late seventeenth century. R. and J. Dodsley ( 1761 ). [Guildhall Library
Print Room]
3. St. Bartholomew’s Fair, Smithfield (c. 1715 ). Illustrating what was thought to be the
immorality of the Fair and the dangers of crowds. [Guildhall Library Print Room]
4. Work and punishment in the House of Correction. William Hogarth, The Harlot’s
Progress(Plate 4, 1732). [Guildhall Library Print Room]
5. View of Cheapside. Thomas Bowles ( 1757 ). [Guildhall Library Print Room]
6. The Guildhall Magistrates’ Court. William Hogarth, Industry and Idleness(Plate 10,
1747 ). [Art Gallery of Ontario]
7. A City of London watchman, drawn and engraved by John Bogle, 1776. [Guildhall
Library Print Room]
8. ‘The Punishment of the Whipping post for Vagrants and Sturdy Beggars,’ from
A Booke of the Punishments of the Common Laws of England(n.d., dated 1678? by the Guild-
hall Library, where this collection of eleven illustrations is at shelfmark AN. 18.3.25).
[Guildhall Library Print Room]
9. ‘The manner ofWhipping at the Carts Tayle for petty Larceny and other Offences.’
From the same collection as no. 8. [Guildhall Library Print Room]
10. ‘Mode of punishment for Branding, or burning on the Hand, at the New Sessions
House.’ An illustration in The Malefactor’s Register; or New Newgate and Tyburn Calendar
( 5 vols, 1778 ) V, at p. 322. [Guildhall Library Print Room]
11. Sir William Thomson, Recorder of London, 1714‒39, by Enoch Seaman.
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