87, 189. Roman street between Aldgate and the Royal Exchange, towards which it became Cornhill.

LIME HOUSE pp. 95, 98, 104, 108, 186. The fast-growing eastern fringe of London in 1722, home to sailors, shipbuilders, and associated trades.

LINCOLN’S INN p. 16. South of High Holborn and one of twelve Inns of Court and Chancery, for the legal and social education of young men, including Oliver Cromwell. Untouched by the Great Fire, it was extended in 1682–93.

LONDON WALL p. 79. The street called London Wall extends east from Aldersgate Street to Bishopsgate, along the northern reach of the second-century wall, with Cripplegate at the Aldersgate end. Defoe’s piper, taken for dead when he was merely sleeping off a big dinner, had walked about 200 yards north-west from Coleman Street.

LONG ACRE pp. 3, 6, 79, 97, 167, 175. A street of fashionable residences before the Civil War that had started to go commercial by the time plague broke out near the junction with Drury Lane. A centre for coach-making and, in the 1720s, furniture.

LONG REACH p. 96. The bend of the Thames near Gravesend, just after Blackwall Reach going seaward.

LOTHBURY (Ward 12) p. 70. North of Cornhill and parallel to it; in the midst of change between 1665 and 1722, from metal trades to banking.

LUDGATE PRISON p. 80. Defoe may have meant the Fleet Prison, just north of the junction of Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill. It was destroyed in the Great Fire and rebuilt soon afterwards, with Wycherley and Penn its most celebrated inmates. But there was also a small prison for petty criminals above Ludgate itself, demolished after being damaged in 1666 and then, in the words of the Tour, ‘beautifully re-built’.

LUSUM p. 99. A colloquial spelling of Lewisham, South London, originally called Leueseham and still referred to locally as ‘Loosiham’ or ‘Loosham’.

MIDDLESEX pp. 33, 61, 81, 128. The county was both part of London, subject to aspects of City authority and appointments, and outside it. Middlesex sessions of the peace were held at Clerkenwell and Westminster and there was no separate county town.

MILE END p. 68. In 1665 a hamlet of Stepney, east of the City; the western end developed so fast between then and 1722 that it acquired a separate identity as Mile End New Town, home to tradesmen and labourers.

MINORIES (Ward 22) pp. 42, 54, 74, 88, 211. Running south from Whitechapel to Tower Hill and named after the abbey of St Clare Minories, dissolved in 1538.