City life

The topics in this section include:

• London
• The value of money
• The markets
• The Guilds (associations of tradesmen)
• Trades
  • Bakers and cooks
  • Water, beer and wine
  • Weavers and dyers
  • Armourers
  • Labourers
• The life of a soldier
• Beggars and madmen
• Outsiders: black and Jewish
• Taverns and brothels
• City sports: bear-baiting and bull-baiting
• The sewers
• The plague