Today's free book is The romance of London by John Timbs (1865). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.
The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Historic Sketches.
Story Of The Ferryman's Daughter, St Mary Overs, and The First London Bridge
The Ballad of. “London Bridge Is Broken Down”
Noted Residents On Old London Bridge
Smithfield And Its Tournaments
Plantagenet Pigs
Whittington And His Cat
Crosby Place, Shakspeare, And Richard III
Sorrows Of Sanctuary
The Hungerfords At Charing Cross
Jane Shore: Her True History
Story Of A King's Head
Queen Elizabeth By Torchlight
Romance Of The Beauchamp Tower
Traitors Gate, In The Towre
The Bloody Tower
Two Prisoners In The Bell Tower
What Became Of The Heads Of Bishop Fisher
Sir Thomas More
Execution Of Lady Jane Grey
Where Was Anne Boleyn Buried
Sir Walter Raleigh Writing His “History Of The World"
Sir Walter Raleigh Attempts Suicide In The Tower
The Execution Of Sir Walter Raleigh
The Poisoning Of Sir Thomas Overbury
A Farewell Feast In The Tower
The Gunpowder Plot Detected
Two Tippling Kings
Funeral Of James I
Historical Coincidences
Queen Henrietta Maria Doing Penance At Tyburn
" Old Parr "
George And Blue Boar Inn.—The Intercepted Letter
Lord Sanquhar's Revenge: A Story Of Whitefriars
Martyrdow Of King Charles I
The Story Of Don Pantaleon Sa
Sir Richard Willis's Plot Against Charles II
Mansion Of A City Merchant Prince
Treasure-Seeking In The Tower
Colonel Blood Steals The Crown From The Tower
The Story Of Nan Clarges, Duchess Of Albemarle
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey: His Mysterious Death
Colonel Blood's Attack Upon The Duke Of Ormond, in St. James's Street
The Heroic Lady Fanshawe
Cromwell's Skull
A Story Of Middle Temple Gate
The Story Of Nell Gwynne
Francis Bacon In Gray's Inn
Lord Craven And The Queen Of Bohemia
Addison’S “Campaign.”
Ladies Excluded From The House Or Lords
Jemmy Dawson
Secret Visits Of The Young Pretender To London
The Riots Of 1780
Alderman Beckford And His Monumental Speech
Royalty Deduced From A Tub-Woman
Unfortunate Baronets
The Victory Of Culloden
Suicide Of Lord Clive
Funeral Of Nelson
Lord Castlereagh’s Blunders
Accession Of Queen Victoria
The Royal Exchange Motto
London Residence Of The Emperor Of The French In 1847-8
The Chartists In 1848
Apsley House
Remarkable Duels.
Trial By Battle
The Field Of Forty Footsteps
The Famous Cheshire Will Case
Duel Between The Duke Of Hamilton And Lord Mohun
Duel Between Lord Byron And Mr. Chaworth
Duel Betwfen The Duke Of York And Colonel Lenox
“Fighting Fitzgerald”
Primrose Hill
Lord Camelford, The Duellist
A Literary Duel
A Terrible Duel
Notorious Highwaymen.
Heroes Of The Road
Claude Duval
Jemmy Whitney, The Handsome Highwayman
Dick Turpin
M‘Lean, The Fashionable Highwayman
Metropolitan Highwaymen
Rogueries, Crimes, And Punishments.
Ancient Civil Punishments
Cage And Stocks At London Bridge
Flogging At Bridewell
Witchcraft Penance On London Bridge
Striking In The King's Court
Torture.—The Rack
Pressing To Death
Discovery Of A Murder
Origin Oe The Coventry Act
Rise Of Judge Jeffreys
Stories Of The Star-Chamber
Persons Of Note Imprisoned In The Fleet
The Rising Of Sir Thomas Wyat
The Story Of George Barnwell
Volume 2
Rogueries, Crimes, And Punishments, continued
Lady Henrietta Berkeley
Assassination Of Mr. Thynne, In Pall Mall
Murder Of Mountfort, The Player
Two Fxtraordinary Suicides At London Bridge
Extraordinary Escape From Death
Human Heads On Temple Bar
Adventure With A Forger
Eccentric Benevolence
The Execution Of Lord Ferrers
Baltimore House
The Minters Of Southwark
Stealing A Dead Body
The Execution Of Dr. Dodd
The Story Of Hackman And Miss Reay
Attempts To Assassinate George III
Trial And Execution Of Governor Wall
Case Of Eliza Fenning, The Suspected Poisoner
Wain Wright, The Poisoner
Ratcliffe Highway Murders
The Cato Street Conspiracy
Vaux, The Swindler And Pickpocket
A Murderer Taken By Means Of The Electric Telegraph
Stories Of The Bank Of England
Love And Marriage
Stories Of Fleet Marriages
Story Of Richard Lovelace
Wycherley And His Countess
Story Of Beau Fielding
Beau Wilson
The Unfortunate Roxana
Mrs. Centlivre, And Her Three Husbands
Stolen Marriages At Knightsbridge
“The Handsome Englishman”
A Mayfair Marriage
George III. And “The Fair Quakeress”
George III. And Lady Sarah Lenox
Love And Madness
Emma, Lady Hamilton
Breaches Of Promise
Marriage Of Mrs. Fitzherbert And The Prince Of Wales
Flight Of The Princess Charlotte From Warwick House
George IV. And His Queen
Supernatural Stories
A Vision In The Tower
The Legend Of Kilburn
Omens To Charles I. And James II
Premonition And Vision To Dr. Donne
Apparition In The Tower
Lilly, The Astrologer
Touching For The Evil
David Ramsay And The Divining-Rod
Lady Davies, The Prophetess
Dr. Lamb, The Conjuror
Murder And An Apparition
A Vision Of Lord Herbert Of Cherbury
A Vision On London Bridge
Stepney Legend Of The Fish And The Ring
Dream Testimony
A Mysterious Lady
Story Of The Cock Lane Ghost
A Ghost Story Explained
Marylebone Fanatics: Sharp And Bryan, Brothers and Southcote
Hallucination In St. Paul's
The Ghost In The Tower
Sights And Shows, And Public Amusements
The Puisne's Walke About London
The Walls Of Roman London
The Danes In London
City Regulations In The Plantagenet Times
St. Paul’s Day In London
Christmas Festivities In Westminster Hall
London Cockpits
Story Of The Book Of St. Alban's
Races In Hyde Park
Old Pall Mall Sights
Romance Of Schomberg House
Origin Of Hackney-Coaches
Dr. Graham And His Quackeries
The Parish Clerks Of Clerkenwell
Sedan-Chairs In London
A London Newspaper Of 1667
Ambassadors' Squabble
Dryden Cudgelled
Funeral Of Dryden
Gaming-Houses Kept By Ladies
Royal Gaming At Christmas
Punch And Judy
Fantoccini
Mrs. Salmon's Wax-Work
The Ragged Regiment In Westminster Abbey
The Pig-Faced Lady
Count Boruwlaski And George IV
The Irish Giants
A Norfolk Giant
Celebrated Dwarfs
Playing On The Salt-Box
A Shark Story
Topham, The Strong Man Of Islington
The Pope's Procession, And Burning Of The Pope
The Giants At Guildhall
Lord Mayor's Day
Volume 3
Sights And Shows, And Public Amusements, cont.
Presentation Of Sheriffs
Lord Mayor's Fool
King George III. And The Barclay Family
Carlton House And The Regency
The Prince Regent And The Author Of Waverley
The Coronation Stone And Championship
Musical Celebration Of St. Cecilia’s Day
The Beggar's Opera
The Opera In 1747
A Fashionable Rout In The Last Century
Wauxhall Gardens
A Ridotto At Wauxhall
Marylebone Gardens
Jubilee Masquerade At Ranelagh
The Bottle Conjuror
Mrs. Cornelys At Carlisle House
Bartholomew Fair
Belzoni At Bartholomew Fair
May Fair A Century Ago
Men Who Played Female Parts On The Stage
Nancy Dawson
Puffing On The Stage
Garrick's Acting
John Bannister’S Acting
A Partisan Actor
The. Minister And The Player
Milkmaids On May-Day
Swfeps' Holiday At Montague House
Mermaid Hoax
The Portland Vase
Unburied Ambassadors
Watch-Face At Somerset House
Lord Stowell's Love Of Sight-Seeing
Hogarth's “Industrious And Idle Apprentices”
Sir Joshua Reynolds's Zenith
Harlow's Picture Of The “Trial Of Queen Katherine”
The Lansdowne Family And Lansdowne House
An Astronomical Curiosity
Downing Street
Curiosities Of The Patent Offices
Opera-House Speculation
Humours Of Epsom Races
The Four Indian Kings
The St. Margaret's Painted Window At Westminster
Painted Window Of “The Field Of Cloth Of Gold”
Going To Fires
Strange Adventures And Catastrophes.
A Memorable Explosion
Earthquakes In London
The New Zealander Visiting The Ruins Of London
Dangerous Classes In The Last Century .
York Buildings, A Site Of Mischance .
The Burning Of Montague House.
Sir Thomas Gresham's Shop In Lombard Street.
The Bursting Of The South Sea Bubble
Runs Upon The Bank Of England
Theodore, King Of Corsica
Worth Of A Queen Anne's Farthing
Ireland’S Shakspeare Forgeries
Lotteries In London
Fashion For Flowers
Flooding Of The Thames Tunnel .
Burning Of The Houses Of Parliament
Hudson, “The Railway King”
Remarkable Persons
Sir William Petty And The Lansdowne Family.
Praise-God Barebones
Marlborough House And Sarah Duchess Of Marlborough
Gulliver's Travels
The Duke Of Newcastle's Eccentricities
Celebrated Physicians
A Quack Oculist
Voltaire In London
A Scene In Middle Temple Hall
Nat Lee's Madness
Dirty Dick, Of Leadenhall Street
The Crossing Sweeper
A Mock Prince
An Errant Journalist
Death Of Flaxman, The Sculptor
Death Of Newton, The Painter
Charles Lamb At The Play
“Corner Memory Thompson"
Deville, The Phrenologist
Monk Lewis
The Penalties Of Avarice
Coleridge's Opium-Eating
Sir Joshua Reynolds's Last Lecture
Eccentricities Of Cobbett
Eccentricities Of Lord Byron
How Robert Bloomfield Wrote His “Farmer's Boy”
In The Heart Of London
Dr. Dibdin, The Bibliomaniac
Samuel Rogers, The Banker Poet
A London Recluse
Philip Astley, The Rider
The "O. P. Riot"
Charles Mathews, The Elder
Miscellaneous.
Jack Cade In Southwark
Shakspeare's House In The Blackfriars
Prisoners In The Tower
The Ancient Watch And Ward
Robbing The Royal Treasury
Migration Of Citizens Westward
