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IDONIA:

A ROMANCE OF OLD LONDON

BY

ARTHUR F. WALLIS

ILLUSTRATED BY

CHARLES E. BROCK

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1914

Copyright, 1913,
By LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

All rights reserved

THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The irregular pile of buildings known as Petty Wales, of whichconsiderable mention is made in this book, formerly stood at thenortheast corner of Thames Street. The chronicler, Stow, writes of"some large buildings of stone, the ruins whereof do yet remain, butthe first builders and owners of them are worn out of memory. Some areof opinion ... that this great stone building was sometime the lodgingappointed for the princes of Wales when they repaired to this city, andthat therefore the street, in that part, is called Petty Wales;" and hefurther adds: "The merchants of Burdeaux were licensed to build at theVintry, strongly with stone, as may yet be seen, and seemeth old thoughoft repaired; much more cause have these buildings in Petty Wales ...to seem old, which, for many years, to wit, since the galleys lefttheir course of landing there, hath fallen to ruin." It appears tohave been let out for many uses, some disreputable; and a certainMother Mampudding (of whom one would like to know more) kept a part ofthe house for victualling.

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