The Ravenmaster's Revenge- The Return of King Arthur by Jacob Sannox

Author:Jacob Sannox [Sannox, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-22T22:00:00+00:00

July 1665

Arthur harboured no affection for London. He was unaccustomed to places such as these from the time of his youth. This, he pondered, bore little resemblance to his ideas for the capital city he had never had the chance to build, little in common with his vision of Camelot. London was a walled city in those days, and its four hundred thousand inhabitants dwelt in closely-packed buildings. Sewage sullied the streets, flies buzzed in the air, and smoke hung all around. Arthur passed folk who held scented handkerchiefs to their noses. He doubted it did them much good.

Even the old town houses abandoned by exiled Royalists during the Interregnum were divided up into tenements, packed with poor families. Beyond the walls, shanty towns had sprung up to accommodate the influx of people from the countryside, situated all too near the heaps of sewage that the rakers cleaned from the city streets only to dump them outside the walls.

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