The City of London in the Seventeenth Century

This era is often spoken about as the one of gunpowder, fire and plague. Why was it such a central hub at this time of events that affected the ent ativ england? There's been really interesting demographic analysis of just the sheer numbers of people who at some point in their lives would have spent time in london. And i think that's another theme of the book, is the sort of very difficult andn often outrightly adversarial relationship between particularly the city of london,. and the stuart monarchy.