From the mid-16th century the rich and successful usually had a London house, and often a country estate; but more important in many ways was the suburban house within easy reach of London, where they could send their families for the summer and from which they could keep in contact with their business or the court. This book is the first to address the history of these houses, concentrating on those that still exist, while giving some indication of the major lost ones as well. Includes plans and images of most houses listed. Includes information on owners, architects, landscape design, building materials and styles. The area covered by this book extends from London to the M25, which sliced through the country round London in the late 20th century.

Le tome IV des Mysteres de la procession de Lille contient ledition critique de vingt-et-un mysteres inspires du Nouveau Testament. Ces pieces dramatiques sont connues par un manuscrit unique conserve a la Herzog August Bibliothek a Wolfenbuettel, qui renferme en tout soixante-douze mysteres joues a loccasion de la grande procession annuelle de Lille. Les mysteres presentes par Alan E. Knight dans ce tome traitent des evenements de la vie de Jesus et de ses apotres, y compris des episodes de la vie de Jean-Baptiste et de la Vierge Marie. Sil est surprenant de ne pas y trouver de scenes de la Passion, cest que les echevins de la ville avaient accorde a lune des compagnies de jeunesse, les compagnons de Saint-Sauveur, le droit exclusif de representer ces dernieres sur des chariots qui defilaient dans la procession. Le cinquieme et dernier tome de la serie donnera ledition des mysteres inspires de lhistoire romaine et des legendes chretiennes; il sera accompagne de la reproduction en couleurs x des illustrations du manuscrit sur CD-rom.