London. Walter Besant

of Britain. The old ideas change; what is to-day faith becomes to-morrow superstition; but the new order is built upon the old. It was a part of the training necessary for the English people that they should pass under the teaching of the Friars.

      In the south-western corner of the City Wall were lodged the Dominicans or Black Friars.

      1

      See The Two Lost Centuries of Britain, by W. H. Babcock. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1890; an excellent little work on this subject.

      2

      See Loftie's History of London, Appendix N, "List of Buildings which existed before the Great Fire."

      3

      A hat or bonnet. Du Cange.

      4

      Fosbrooke's Monachism.

      5

      Fosbrooke.

      6

      Lo

1

See The Two Lost Centuries of Britain, by W. H. Babcock. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1890; an excellent little work on this subject.

2

See Loftie's History of London, Appendix N, "List of Buildings which existed before the Great Fire."

3

A hat or bonnet. Du Cange.

4

Fosbrooke's Monachism.

5

Fosbrooke.

6

Loftie calls attention to the name of our Church St. Mary Staining, i. e., built of stone, as if that was an exceptional thing.

7

Morley's English Writers, vol. i., p. 760.