91, 92, 111. Bridgehead on the main Essex road, a mile east of Mile End and in 1665 a hamlet of Stepney, but independent of it in 1719.

BOW CHURCH p. 189. Probably St Mary’s, Bow Road, which dates from 1311.

BROMLEY pp. 92, 111. In 1665, a suburban village; formerly part of the manor of Stepney and called Bromley-by-Bow.

BULL-HEAD TAVERN p. 168. Probably a conflation of the Bull’s Head Inn at Clare Market and the Bull Inn, just off the junction of Leadenhall and Gracechurch Streets.

BUNHILL FIELDS pp. 33, 64, 69, 156, 198. An open field adjacent to the Artillery Grounds and Upper Moorfields, it housed the chief burial ground for those (including Defoe) who refused to use the Book of Common Prayer. Walled in 1665, the burial ground does not appear to have been used for plague victims.

BUTCHER ROW (Ward 2) pp. 56, 88. Schonhorn finds that there was no ‘butchers’ district’ here until 1720. Within sight of St Botolph’s, the Defoe family’s church, it extended along the south side of Aldgate High Street. Defoe’s father, the tallow chandler James Foe, was a member of the Butcher’s Company; Defoe himself nominally joined in 1688.

CAMBERWELL p. 99. Well into the eighteenth century, a village to the south-east noted for its flowers and fruit trees.

CHEAPSIDE p. 161. Formerly the City’s most significant market and still a significant commercial centre in 1722, when it was home to haberdashers, goldsmiths, and drapers.

CLERKENWELL pp. 14, 111, 114, 198. A place of considerable social change after the Restoration, when the movement of fashionable society westwards left space for merchants and craftsmen in this overspill district beyond Smithfield. Home to watch and clock-makers, jewellers, printers, brewers, and distillers, it welcomed many Huguenot refugees and saw several fine new town houses in the 1720s.

COLEMAN STREET (Ward 12) pp. 47, 70, 75, 77, 78. Centre of the warren of alleyways where H.F.’s brother lives, to the north-west of his own home, and probably the home of Defoe’s father for two separate periods. See also Bell Alley.

COMPTER (Ward 12) p. 80. Compters existed to detain debtors, among others. In the area Defoe refers to, there was one on Wood Street and another at the Poultry in Cheapside.

CORNHILL pp. 87, 161. Site of the medieval grain market and in Defoe’s time the home of numerous coffee houses.