Renaissance London

Demarcate: mark out

Investor: a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage

Beneficiary: a person or group who receives money, advantages, etc. as a result of something else

Sanitary: clean, hygienic

Sewer: passage for waste

Vermin: pest

Flux: continuous change

Groundling: (theatre) frequenter of pit

Pit: (theatre) the place in the theatre in front of the stage where the orchestra sits and plays

Gallery: (theatre) highest theatre parts

Accession: (leader) coming to power

Thatch: roof covering with straw

The Puritans: The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.

Tenement: a large building divided into flats, especially in a poor area of a city

Lent: Christian season of fasting

Attire: clothes