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He is probably wearing a wig

Bawds and pickpockets around a trader at Covent Garden piazza

Hot Chestnut hawker in Leicester Square

View of two doorways on Laurence Pountney Hill

View of Bridewell

London's Nightmare mb-code PG-1122 He is probably wearing a'London's Nightmare', 1866. A man holding banner with the word Bumbledom on it, sits on the chest of a woman representing London. He has a particularly stupid expression on his face. Bumbledom was the term used to encapsulate 'the conflicting jurisdictions of folks who ought to have no jurisdiction at all, and who job, blunder, squabble, and utterly misgovern the metropolis of the world'. Bumbledom was thus seen as stifling the capital. From Punch, or