Abingdon, Mrs., “Nosegay Fan,” 318
Adam, the Brothers, their design, 96;
joke against their Scotch workmen, 103
Adam, Robert, death and funeral of, 104
Addison, the “Cato” of, 311;
Booth’s representation of “Cato,” ib.
Adelphi, site of the, 97;
the residence of Garrick, ib.;
Johnson and Boswell at, 98;
prowlers in its arches, 448
Adelphi Rooms, the, 449
Adelphi Theatre, first success of, 180;
Terry and Yates as its lessees, ib.;
appearance of “Jim Crow” in, ib.;
the elder Mathews manager of, ib.;
last great successes at, 185
Akenside, at Tom’s Coffee-house, 38
Albemarle, Duke of. See Monk
Albemarle, Duchess of, 93;
anecdotes of, 301
“All the Year Round,” 170
Ambassador, Spanish, attack of an anti-Catholic mob on his house, 277
Ambassadors, French and Spanish, affray between the retainers of, 134
Amiens, proclamation of peace of, 18
Anderson, Dr. Patrick, his Scotch pills, 53;
story of Sir Walter Scott relating to, ib.
Anne of Denmark, her masques and masquerades in Somerset House, 58;
accident at the funeral of, 195
Anstis, John, Garter King at Arms, 43
Antiquaries, Society of, 70
Apollo Court and Room, 6
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, 11
Arnold, Dr., and the Lyceum, 171
Art, English, institutions for promoting, 75
Arts, the Society of, its place of meeting, 99;
Barry’s paintings, 100, 449;
premiums and bounties distributed by, ib.;
Barry at work on its frescoes, 101;
foundation and object of, 449;
Barry’s application to, ib.
Artists’ Club in Clare Market, 346
Arundel House, Strand, 39;
occupants of, 40;
death of the Countess of Nottingham in, 41;
the Marquis of Rosney’s description of, ib.;
Thomas Howard’s treasures of art in, 42;
neglect of antiquities in, ib.;
rooms lent to the Royal Society in, 43;
streets erected on the site of, ib.;
Gay’s remarks on its glories, ib.
Arundel Street, Strand, its residents, 43, 164
Astronomical Society, 71
“Athenæum” (Newspaper), 170
Atterbury, Bishop, 155
Bacon, Lord, his ingratitude, 32;
birthplace of, 127;
events of his life connected with York House, 127-8;
anecdotes of his early life, 128;
verses addressed to him at Durham House, 129;
his early legal studies, 130
Balmerino, Lord, an anecdote of, 234
Baltimore, Lord, infamous conduct of, 176
Banks. See Coutts, Child, and Drummond
Bannister, Jack, 325
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, the death of, 232
Barry, his violence, 101;
his diligence at work, ib.;
his paintings in the Council Room of the Society of Arts, ib.;
effect produced by his paintings, 449;
his poverty and death, ib.
Barry, Mrs., her theatrical career, 433
Barry, Spanger, an actor, 315
Basing House, an adventure at, 279
Beard, singer and actor, 249
Beauclerk, Topham, 98
Beaufort, House, Strand, 83, 447
Beckett, Andrew, works of, 99
Beckett, Thomas, bookseller, 99
Bedford, the Earls of, the old town house of, 185;
streets named after his family, ib.
Bedford Street once fashionable, 186;
Half Moon Tavern in, ib.;
residents of, 187;
Constitution Tavern in, 197
Bedfordbury, 236, 459
Beefsteak Club, 172;
badge of, ib.;
members of, 173;
Peg Woffington, president of one at Dublin, ib.;
another started by Rich and Lambert, ib.;
its place of meeting, ib.;
distinguished members of, 454;
sale of its effects, 174
Bell, Mr. Jacob, 225
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Bellamy, George Anne, actress, 317
Berkeley, Dr., 155
Bermudas, the Justice Overdo’s allusion to, 235
Berties, the, 417
Betterton, the “Garrick” of his age, 433;
the parts he represented, ib.;
his death, ib.
Betty, Master, 321
Billington, Mrs., 333
Bindley, James, father of the Society of Antiquaries, his burial-place, 164
Birch, Dr., the antiquary, 36;
his books and literary remains, 48;
Dr. Johnson’s remark on, ib.
Birkenhead, Sir John, 245
Bishop, operas produced by, 334
Black Jack, 348, 440
Blake, the mystical painter, 83
Blemund’s Ditch, 353
Bohemia, the Queen of, 293;
reports concerning, 295;
Sir Henry Wotton’s lines to, ib.;
memorial of her husband, 296
Boleyn, Anne, at Temple Bar, 21
Bonomi, 78
Booksellers, their shops the haunts of wits and poets, 219
Booth, Barton, 311
Boswell, James, admitted into the Literary Club, 17;
the supposed Shaksperean MSS., 47.
Bowl-yard, its name, 373
Boydell, Alderman, 258
Bracegirdle, Mrs., 49;
her abduction, 50;
her charity, 347;
her popularity, 434
Braham, John, 333
Bristol, Earl of, 264;
particulars concerning, 459
Britain’s Bourse. See Exchange
Brocklesby, Dr. Richard, friend of Burke and Johnson, 45;
attends Lord Chatham when he fainted in the House of Lords, ib.
Brougham, Lord, 396
Buckingham, the first Duke of, 130;
his residences, ib.;
patronage of art, 131;
Dryden’s lines on, 132;
Pope’s lines on, ib.;
Clarendon’s view of his character, 133
Buckingham, the second Duke of, 133
Buckingham Street, 135;
distinguished residents in, 136, 137;
Mr. David Copperfield’s visit to, 451
Bull’s Head, the, Clare Market, 346
Burgess, Dr., a witty preacher, 159;
successors of, ib.
Burleigh, Lord, his residence, 179
Burleigh Street, site of, 179
Burley, Sir Simon, 218
Burnet, Bishop, 44
Burton St. Lazar, 350
Bushnell, John, the sculptor, 7, 8
Butcher Row, 148;
Lee’s death in, 150
“Cabinet” Newspaper, see “Pic-Nic”
Caermarthan, Lord, 136
Cameron, Dr., burial place of, 120
Canary House, 452
Canning, George, 395
Carey Street, 428
Carlini, 65
Carlisle, the Countess of, 178
Catherine of Braganza, 61;
her return to Portugal, 62
Catherine Street, its newspapers and theatre in, 166;
Gay’s description of, ib.
Cavalini Pietro, works attributed to, 203
Cavendish, William, Earl of Devonshire, 90
Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 89, 153
Cecil Street, its residents, 88
Celeste, Madam, 184
Centlivre, Mrs., 230;
her hatred to the Jacobites, 231;
Pope’s dislike to, ib.;
Leigh Hunt’s treatment of, 232
Ceracchi, Giuseppe, 66
Chambers, Sir William, 65
Chapone, Mrs. Hester, 428
Charing, village of, 201;
population under Edward I., ib.;
the Falconry or Mews at, 218
Charing Cross, tradition concerning, 201;
Peele’s lines on, 202;
tradition of Queen Eleanor connected with, ib.;
erection and demolition of, 204;
a Royalist ballad on, ib.;
executions at, 205;
introduction of Punch into England at, 208;
Titus Oates, in the pillory at, ib.;
the royal statue at, 209;
Waller’s lines on the statue, 210;
Andrew Marvell’s lines on the Cross, 211;
loss of parts of, 212;
a tradition concerning, ib.;
the pedestal of, ib.;
a rogue exposed in the pillory at, ib.;
punishment of Japhet Crook at, 213;
old prints of, 215;
poetical eulogiums of, ib.;
coffee-houses in the neighbourhood of, 226;
Locket’s ordinary at, 227;
Milton’s lodging at, 232;
other memoranda, 248;
a strange scene at, ib.;
a remark of Dr. Johnson’s on, 234;
site of the post office at, ib.;
ancient hospital at, 235;
former improvements at, ib.;
the “Swan,” and verses by Johnson, 236
Charing Cross Hospital, 233
Charles I., letter written by, 58;
his statue at Charing Cross, 209;
strange story regarding the statue of, 212
Charles II., his progress through London, his coronation, 22;
the two courts in the reign of, 61
Chatterton, 80;
story concerning, 197
Chaucer, his marriage, 108;
favours obtained, 109;
royal post held by, 218
Chesterfield, Earl of, 187
Child’s Bank, 6
Christian Knowledge, Society for Promoting, 414, 464
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Chunee, the elephant, 95, 419
Cibber, Colley, 312;
characters originated by, 316;
his success as actor and manager, ib.
Cibber, Theophilus, his fate, 317;
his wife, ib.
Clare House Court, 298
Clare Market, 339;
Orator Henley’s appearances in, ib.;
artists’ club at the Bull’s Head in, 346;
Mrs. Bracegirdle’s visits to, 347
Clarges, John, farrier, 93, 301
Clarke, William, proprietor of Exeter Change, 177
Clement’s Inn, 156;
a tradition concerning, ib.;
the hall of, 157;
the New Court and Independent Meeting-house in, 159
Clement’s, St., Church, improvements round, 152;
general dislike to, ib.;
a ferment in the parish of, 153;
distinguished men baptized and buried in, ib.;
adornments of, 155;
Dr. Johnson’s attendance in, ib.
Clement’s, St., Well, 156;
Cleopatra’s Needle, 145
Clifton, bridge over the Avon at, 451
Clifton’s Eating-house, 149
Clinch, Tom, the highwayman, 373
Clive, Kitty, 315
Coaches and coach-stands, 166, 167
Coal Hole, the, 85
Cobb, the upholsterer, anecdote of, 258
Cock and Pye Fields, 356
Cock Lane ghost, the, 196;
the contriver of, 214
Cockpit, or Phoenix Theatre, its site, 304;
Puritan violence against, ib.;
its reopening at the Restoration, 305
Coffee, 36
Coffee-houses, 36;
mentioned by Steele in the Tatler, ib.
Coleridge, S. T., 170
Commons, House of, 101
Congreve, William, 53;
Pope’s declaration regarding, 51;
the successful career of, ib.;
Voltaire’s visit to, ib.;
Curll’s life of, 52
Congreve, Sir William, 88
Conway, Lord, memoranda of, 270
Cooke, George Frederick, 321
Cooke, T. P., 174
Cottenham, Lord, 395
Coutts’s Bank, the strong room of, 86, 87;
the first deposit in, 87;
story of one of the clerks of, ib.;
the site of, and additions to, ib.
Coutts, Thomas, his origin, and marriage, 86;
anecdote of, 448
Covent Garden, 93
Covent Garden Theatre and Sheridan, 328
Coventry, Secretary, 245
Cowley, enmity of the Royalists to, 115;
occasion of “The Complaint” by, ib.;
beautiful lines by, 116;
his death at Chertsey, ib.
Cox, Bessy, 282
Craig’s Court, Charing Cross, 227
Craven, Lord, his life, etc., 294;
miniature Heidelberg erected by, ib.;
his services to the Queen of Bohemia, 295;
patronage of literature, ib.;
employment in King William’s reign, 296;
Miss Benger’s estimate of, ib.;
Quixotic character of, 460
Craven Buildings, fresco portrait at, 297
Craven House, 292, 459
Craven Street, residents of, 139;
diplomatic consultation in, ib.;
epigrams by James Smith and Sir George Rose on it, ib.
“Cries of London,” the, 167
Crockford, his shop in the Strand, 148;
his club, ib.
Cromwell, Oliver, residences of, 226, 279
Crook, Japhet, his punishment, 213;
lines by Pope on, 214
Crouch, Mrs., the singer, 333
Crowle, bon mot on Judge Page by, 217
Crown and Anchor, the, 152, 153;
the great room of, 444
Cumberland, George, Earl of, 120
Cuper’s Gardens, 43
Curl, Edmund, 212
Curtis, Mrs., visits Mrs. Siddons, 91
Davenant, Lady, 404
Davenant, the actor, 429
Davies, Moll, 430
Dawson, Jemmy, 15
Denham, Sir John, works written by, 393;
a drunken frolic of, 452
Denzil Street, 460
Deptford, and Peter the Great in, 45
Design, the School of, 446
De Sully, Duc, 41
Devereux Court, 36;
duel in, ib.;
death of Marchmont Needham in, 37;
relic of Pope at Tom’s Coffee-house, ib.
Devereux, Robert, Earl of Essex, 28;
Spenser’s relation to, ib.;
his house near the Temple, 29;
his plot against Elizabeth, ib.;
his running a-muck in the City, and flight to Essex Gardens, 30;
his capture and death 31;
his mother and sister, 32;
his crimes, 34
Devonshire Club, 148
Dibdin, Charles, his entertainments, 34
Dickens, Charles, 170;
on Seven Dials and Monmouth Street, 385;
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 241;
Ben Jonson’s lines on, ib.
Dilke, Sir C. Wentworth, 170
Disraeli, B., 400
Dobson, Vandyke’s protégé, 200
Dodd, the actor, 328
Doggett, the actor, 310
Donne, Dr., the tomb of his wife, 154;
[Pg 470]his want of self-respect, 289;
strange circumstance recorded, 290;
vision seen by, ib.;
conceits of, 291;
his picture in his shroud, 292;
a divine and a poet, 390
Dowton, the actor, 323
Doyley, 168
Drinking-fountains, the first, 445
Drummond’s Bank, 227, 457
Drury family, 288
Drury House, secret meetings there arranged by Essex, 29;
outbreak decided on at, 288;
site of, 237
Drury Lane, origin of its name, 288;
residents in, 297 et seq.;
a strange scene in, 298;
a duel in, ib.;
pictures of, 299;
the poor poet’s home in, ib.;
its bad repute during the Regency, 460
Drury Lane Theatre, 305;
Pepys’s visits to, 306;
scuffle in the king’s presence in, ib.;
distinguished actresses of, 309 et seq.;
plays produced at, ib.;
Garrick’s first appearance at, 313;
Dr. Johnson’s address on its re-opening, 322;
a riot in 1740 in, 324;
Charles Lamb’s description of, 324, 325;
the rebuilding of, 329;
competitive poems for the opening of, 330;
Byron’s opening address at, ib.;
statue over its entrance, ib.;
pecuniary statements relating to, ib.;
revival of its fortunes by Edmund Kean, 331;
Grimaldi at, 334;
various actors of, ib.;
pictures of royalty at, 338;
recent productions at, ib.
Drury, Sir Robert, 288
Dryden, his lines on the death of Buckingham, 132;
his squabbles with Jacob Tonson, 54;
attack on, 280;
established jokes against, ib.;
Mulgrave’s lines on, 281;
Otway’s defence of, ib.
Dudley, Sir Robert, 369
Dudley, Duchess of, 369
Duke Street, 135
Duke’s Theatre, 429
Durham House, residents of, 92;
sufferings of the Princess Elizabeth in, ib.;
its last occupants, ib.;
banquets given by Henry VII. at, ib.;
mint established at, 95;
Lady Jane Grey’s marriage in, ib.;
the scene of an old legend, 96;
Raleigh in his turret study at, ib.;
purchased by the brothers Adam, ib.
Durham Street, 91
Dyot Street, 462
Eccentrics, club of, 259
Edward III., 110;
his conduct on the death of John of Gaunt, 114
Edward VI. at Temple Bar, 21
Egerton, Lord Chancellor, 391
Eleanor Cross, model of, 138
Eleanor, Queen, crosses in memory of, 138, 202;
tombs of, 203;
the preservation of her body, 204
Elizabeth, Queen, procession on the anniversary of her accession, 9;
adornment of her statue at Temple Bar, 10;
her reception at Temple Bar, 21;
the plot of Essex against, 29;
her relations with Admiral Seymour, 39;
story of the Essex ring, 40;
her favour for Raleigh, 92
Ellesmere. See Egerton
Elliston, Robert William, 326;
stories told of, 327
Epigram, an, a legacy gained by, 139
Erskine, Lord, 424
Essex House, 29;
occupants of, 31;
the Parliamentary general a resident in, 33
Essex, Robert, Earl of, Ben Jonson’s masque on his marriage, 33;
divorce of his countess, and her marriage with Robert Carr, ib.;
general for the Parliament, ib.;
attempts to seize his papers, 34
Essex Street, Strand, 25;
residents in, 34;
Johnson’s club at the Essex Head, 35;
Unitarian chapel in, 443;
memoranda of, ib.
Estcourt, 452;
Steele’s compliments to, 180
Etherage, Sir George, 301;
play by, 431
Etty, residence of, 136
Evans’s Hotel, Covent Garden, 460
Evelyn, John, 134
“Examiner,” the, 123
Exchange, the New, 93;
a tragedy in, ib.;
legends about, ib.;
the White Widow, 94;
the walks of, ib.;
a frequenter of, ib.;
its destruction, 95
Exeter Change, 175;
exhibitions in, ib.;
last tenants of, 176
Exeter Hall, 178
Exeter House, 179
Exeter Place, 261
Exeter Street, 178
Faithorne, William, 148
Fanshawe, Lady, 423
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, 421
Farren, Miss, the actress, 318
Farren, the actor, 335
Faucit, Helen (Mrs. T. Martin), 337
“Field” newspaper, 168
Finch, Lord Chancellor, 265
Finett, Sir John, 240
Fletcher, his execution, 14
Folkes, Martin, 272
Folly, the, 82
Foote, the actor, 315
Fordyce, George, 34
Fortescue, Judge, 394
Fortescue, Pope’s lawyer, 37
Fountain Club, the, 84
Fountain Court Tavern, 84;
the Coal Hole in, 85
Fountain, the, King Street, 381
Franklin, Benjamin, 139;
his landlady and the charitable nun, 275;
[Pg 471]extravagance of his fellow-pressmen, 276;
his visit as ambassador of Massachusetts, 277
Freemasons’ Hall, the, 274
Friend, Sir John, 13
Fuseli, 76;
his residence, 259
Gaiety Theatre, 452
Gardelle, the artist and murderer, 251
Garrick, David, 96, 99;
Johnson’s esteem for, ib.;
his “Chinese Festival,” 185, 186;
anecdote of, 273;
Zoffany’s portrait of, 304;
his career, 313;
his first appearance at Drury Lane, ib.;
his varied talent, 314;
appears on the stage with Quin, ib.;
his death, 315
Gatti’s café, 189
George, Madame St., 59
Geological Society, the, 69
George III., his patronage of art, 73;
his coolness, 338
George IV., Chantrey’s statue of, 226
Gerbier, Sir Balthasar, 72
Gibbons, Grinling, 139
Gibbons’s Tennis Court, 429
Gibbs, the architect, 162
Giles, St., tradition of, 353;
a scurvy worshipper of, 463
Giles’s, St., ancient toll in, 350;
hospital for lepers in, 350;
death of Sir John Oldcastle in, 351;
the gallows in, 352;
site of the hospital, 353;
the manor of, 352-3;
gradual growth of, 355, 356;
its progress after the Great Fire, 356;
settlement of foreigners in, 357;
its increase in Queen Anne’s reign, ib.;
resort of Irish to, ib.;
entries in the parish records of, ib.;
increase of French refugees in, 357;
relief to well-known mendicants in, 359;
the plague in, 360;
the plague-cart of, ib.;
rates levied in consequence of the plague, 361;
hospital church of, 363;
Dr. Mainwaring rector of, ib.;
new church of, 364;
Dr. Heywood, the rector of, ib.;
celebration of the Restoration in, 365;
church extension in, ib.;
a sexton’s bargain with the rector of, 367;
the Resurrection Gate in the churchyard of, ib.;
churchyard of, 367, 368;
new burial-ground of, 368;
celebrated persons buried in the churchyard of, 369, 370;
the oldest monument in the burial-ground of, 370;
persons relieved in, 371;
erection of the new almshouses and school for, ib.;
Hogarth’s studies and scenes in, 372;
Nollekens Smith’s description of, ib.;
the whipping-stone of, ib.;
the Pound in, 373;
the inns of, 374;
resort of Irish beggars to, 376, 377;
the cellars of, 378;
lodgings in, ib.;
beggars, conjurors, and pickpockets of, 379;
the mendicants of, 381;
low Irish in, 385, 386;
persons connected with several streets in, 463;
the author’s visit with a missionary to houses in, 463
Giles’s, St., Hospital, criminals at its gate, on their way to Tyburn, 373
Giraud, his quarrel, 93;
execution, ib.
Globe Theatre, 165
Glover, Mrs., as an actress, 336
Godfrey, Sir E., murder of, 61;
residence of, 142
Godwin, William, 444
Golden Cross, the, 232
Goldsmith, Oliver, a quotation of Dr. Johnson’s cleverly capped by, 18;
lines on Caleb Whitefoord by, 141;
his friends, 197;
an earl’s patronage of, 198;
anecdote of, ib.;
his visit to Northumberland House, ib.
Gondomar, Spanish ambassador, 298
Goodman, and the Drury Lane Company, 308
Gordon, Lord George, 278
Gorges, Sir Ferdinand, 30
Graham, Dr., a London Cagliostro, his rooms and their chief priestess, 102;
his “celestial bed” and “elixir of life,” 103
Grange Inn, 440
Gravelot, the drawing-master, 250
Gray’s Inn, Bacon’s chambers in, 130
Grecian, the, Addison’s description of, 36;
a quarrel at, ib.;
meetings of savans at, 37;
the privy-council held at, ib.
Greenhill, John, 271
Green Ribbon Club, the, 8
Gresham College, 68
Grimaldi at Drury Lane, 334
Gwynn, Nell, her last resting-place, 244;
the birthplace, life, and character of, 301;
a descendant of, 302;
Pepys’s allusion in his “Diary” to, ib.;
her death, ib.;
a memorandum of Evelyn’s regarding, ib.;
Pepys’s estimate of the other actresses associated with, 307;
her last original part, 308
Hackman, the Rev. Mr., the murderer of Miss Ray, 160;
his execution, ib.
Haines, Joe, a clever actor, 308
Hale, Sir Matthew, an eminent student of Lincoln’s Inn, 390
Hare, the murderer, the lamentable condition of, 461
Harley, John Pritt, actor, 336
Harrison, General, the Anabaptist, the brave end of, 205
Haverhill, William de, Henry III.’s treasurer, his mansion and the various uses to which it was put, 388
Haycock’s Ordinary, 443
Haydon, anecdote of, 1;
another, of his early life in London, 77
Hayman, Frank, a St. Martin’s Lane worthy, amusing anecdotes of, 255
Haymarket Theatre, the, Fielding’s “Tom Thumb” brought out at, 438
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Hazlitt, William, his criticism of the elder Mathews, 182
Heber, Bishop, 397
Helmet Court, memoranda of, 447
Hemings’ Row, St. Martin’s Lane, origin of its name, 458
Henderson, the actor, 319
Henley, Orator, sketch of his life, 339;
his defence of action in a preacher, ib.;
his correspondence with William Whiston, 340;
the shameless advertisements issued by, 340, 341;
lines by Pope in the “Dunciad” on, 342;
his controversy with Pope, ib.;
a contemporary description of, ib.;
his plans for raising money, 343;
a joke on Archbishop Herring by, ib.;
his appearance before the privy-council, ib.;
Hogarth’s two caricatures of, 344;
beginning of one of his sermons, 345;
overawed by two Oxonians, 346
Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I., the insolent conduct of her French household, and the king’s difficulty in getting rid of them, 58;
her last masques at Somerset House, 59
Henry VII., hospital founded on the site of the Savoy by, 114
Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, a Quixotic quarrel of, 194;
commencement of his work, “De Veritate,” 265;
a remarkable vision which is said to have appeared to, ib.;
reflections on passing the residence of, 266
Herring, Archbishop, Swift’s opposition to, 344
Hewson, the supposed original Strap of “Roderick Random,” 136
Heywood, Dr., rector of St. Giles’s, Puritan petition against, 365
Hill, Captain, a well-known profligate bully, his drunken jealousy of Mountfort the actor, 49;
his attempt to carry off Mrs. Bracegirdle, 50;
cowardly murder of Mountfort, by, 51
Hill, Mr. Thomas, the supposed prototype of Paul Pry, 103
Hilliard, Nicholas, Queen Elizabeth’s miniature-painter, 244
“Histriomastix,” the, Prynne’s punishment for a scurrilous note in, 59
Hodges, Dr., his account of the commencement and progress of the plague, 262
Hogarth, 72;
his picture of “Noon,” 372
Hog Lane, St. Giles’s (now Crown Street), 371
Holborn, gradual extension and first pavement of, 355;
allusions to a doleful procession up the Heavy Hill of, 374
Hollar, the German engraver, description of a scarce view of Somerset House by, 63;
the residence of, 157
Holmes, Copper, a well-known character on the river, 247
Holy Land, the, a part of St. Giles’s, 386
Hone, Nathaniel, 258
Hood, Thomas, his “Bridge of Sighs,” 450
Hook, Theodore, 102
Howard, Lady Margaret, Sir John Suckling’s fantastic simile in lines on her feet, 195
Howard, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, discovery of the cipher used by—his treason and death, 27
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, an amateur of art, Clarendon’s description of, 42;
Vansomer’s portrait of, ib.;
his devotion in the pursuit of objects of art, 43;
disposal of his statues, marbles, and library, ib.;
remarks made by him in a dispute with Charles I., ib.
Howard, Philip, Earl of Arundel, a letter to, 27;
memorial in the Tower of, ib.
Hudson, the portrait-painter, 272
Hungerford, Lord Walter, first Speaker of the House of Commons, 137
Hungerford, Sir Edward, founder of Hungerford Market, 137
Hungerford Market, the site of, 137;
the origin and object of, 138;
vicissitudes of, ib.;
an unlucky speculation at, ib.
Hungerford Suspension Bridge, 138;
the purchase of, 451;
the new railway bridge in place of, 138;
the railway station at, ib.
Hunter, Dr. William, O’Keefe’s description of him lecturing on anatomy, 78
Hunter, Dr. John, particulars of his professional life, 420, 421
Hunt, Leigh, the imprisonment of, 123;
his critical remarks on the elder Mathews, 182
“Illustrated London News,” the proprietor and staff of, 55
Ingram, Mr. Herbert, proprietor of the “Illustrated London News,” career and death of, 55
Ireland, Samuel, father of the celebrated literary impostor, the residence of, 46;
his belief in the genuineness of “Vortigern” as a work of Shakspere’s, 47
Ireland, W. H., the true story of the Shakspere forgery committed by, 46;
effect of the extraordinary praise lavished on, 47;
supporters and opponents of, ib.;
damnation of his play of “Vortigern,” ib.
“Isabella,” Southerne’s tragedy of, effect of Mrs. Siddons’s acting in, 91
Ivy Bridge, narrow passage to the Thames under, and mansion near, 91
Jacobites, the cant words used by, 15
James I., pageants on his passage through the city, 21
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James Street, Adelphi, No. 2, the residence of Mr. Thomas Hill, the Hull of “Gilbert Gurney,” 103
Jansen, an architect, works by, 191
Jekyll, Sir Joseph, his obnoxious bill, and the fury of the mob against, 410;
his bon-mot on Lord Kenyon’s spits, 423
Jennings, Frances. See Widow, the White
Jerdan, William, 83
John, King of France, his entrance as a captive into London, 112;
his honourable return to England after having been liberated on parole, ib.;
his death at the Savoy, ib.
John of Padua, Henry VIII.’s architect, 57
John, Saint, the foundation of the hospital of, 114;
abuses of, transference of its funds, etc., 115;
Dr. John Killigrew appointed master of, ib.;
Strype’s description of the old hall of, 117
John Street, Adelphi, 99
Johnson, Dr., his conversation with Goldsmith on Westminster Abbey, 17;
club formed at the Essex Head by—its principal members, 35;
his high estimation for Garrick, 97;
Garrick’s remark on the philosopher’s friendship for Beauclerk, 98;
his three reasons for the black skin of the negro race, 149;
an Irishman’s opinion of, ib.;
his pleasant evenings at the Mitre with an old college friend, 150;
Boswell’s account of his solemn devotion during divine service, 155;
extract from a letter written to Mrs. Thrale by, 156;
his first residence in London, 178;
an eccentric habit of, 187;
beginning of his address for the re-opening of Drury Lane Theatre, 322
Johnstone, Irish, 335
Jones, Colonel, his execution, 205
Jones, Inigo, his plan for laying out Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 402
Jones, the actor, 323
Jonson, Ben, dialogues, speeches, and masques by, 22, 33;
his residence when a child, 142;
a story of, 251;
early life of, 399;
tradition of, ib.;
his exploit in Flanders, ib.
Jordan, Mrs., 326
Kauffman, Angelica, 76
Kean, Charles, 338
Kean, Mrs. Charles (Miss Ellen Tree), 338
Kean, Edmund, habits of, 85;
his early success in London, 88;
his origin, early life, and first triumphs in London, 331;
Hazlitt’s remarks on, 332
Keeley, Robert, the actor, 337
Keelings the, 405
Kelly, Michael, 334
Kelly, Miss, actress, 336;
attacks on, ib.
Kemble, Charles, 321
Kemble, John, 320;
generous act of the Duke of Northumberland to, ib.;
Leigh Hunt’s picture of, ib.
Kenilworth, Lord of, 28
Kennington Common, execution of Jacobites on, 14
Kensington, South, transfer of pictures from the National Gallery to, 224
Kent, the rising under Wat Tyler, 112
Kenyon, Lord, jokes on, 423;
his stinginess and bad Latin, ib.
Killigrew, Dr. Henry, 119
Killigrew, Mrs. Anne, 119
Killigrew, Thomas, 119;
actors in his company, 308
King, Dr., Principal of St. Mary’s Hall, Oxford, 36
King, Dr. William, lines on the Beefsteak Club by, 174
King, the original Sir Peter Teazle, 321
King’s College and its museum, 66, 447;
models and instruments presented by Queen Victoria, ib.
King’s College Hospital, 438
Kirby, Mr., 73, 74
Kit Cat Club, 51;
institution of the, 85;
origin of its name, ib.;
the summer rendezvous of, 86;
Lady Mary Wortley Montague the toast of, ib.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 72;
his life and character, 267;
the witty banter of, 268;
his vanity, 269;
how Jacob Tonson got pictures out of, ib.;
his conviction of the legitimacy of the Pretender, ib.
Knight Templars, the, 25
Knollys, Lettice, Countess of Essex, afterwards Lady Leicester, 31
Knowledge, Christian, the Society for Promoting, 461
Königsmark, Count, 193
Kynaston, Sir Francis, 71, 187
Kynaston, the actor, 187, 432
Lacy, a favourite actor, 308
Laguerre, the French painter, 246
Lamb, Charles, tragedy in his family, 285;
his devotion to his sister, 286
Lancaster, the Earl of, 107
Lancaster, John, Duke of, favours Wickliffe, 109;
his peril from the London mob, 110;
his escape, ib.;
amende of the Londoners to, ib.;
his marriage and connections, ib.;
his unpopularity and violence, 119;
clause aimed by Wat Tyler against, 112;
destruction of his London palace, etc., 113;
his death and burial, 114
Lancaster, the Duchy of, 122, 450
Lander, Richard, 120
Langhorne, Dr., 396
Law Courts, new, 147
“Law Times,” Office, 168
Layer, Christopher, 17
Learning, Society for the encouragement of, 49
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Lee, the poet, his death, 154
Lepers, 354
Lewis, the comedian, 274;
his acting, 323, 324
Lillie, Charles, the perfumer, 84
Limput, Remigius van, 187
Liston, the comedian, 323
Lincoln’s Inn, origin of its name, 387;
the Chancery Lane side of, 388;
the gateway of, ib.;
the chapel, 388, 389;
distinguished students of, 390 et seq.;
persons buried in the chapel, 392 et seq.;
old customs and laws of, 397, 398;
disposal of Hogarth’s picture, “Preaching before Felix,” at, 398;
the new hall, library, and garden of, ib., 464;
Mr. Disraeli’s studies at, 400
Lincoln’s Inn Field, part of Fickett’s field, 401;
King James regulates building in, 401, 402;
Inigo Jones’s plan for laying out and building, 402;
state in the time of Charles I. and Charles II.;
Gay’s sketch of its dangers, 403;
Earl of Rochester’s house in, 404;
execution of plotters against Elizabeth in, ib.;
procession of Thomas Sadler, the thief, through, ib.;
Lord Russell’s death in, 405;
improvements in 1735 in, 410;
Macaulay’s picture of, ib.;
distinguished inhabitants of, 414 et seq.;
Tennyson’s chambers in, 418;
Mr. Povey’s house in, 428
Lindsey, Earl, 416, 417
Lindsey House, 417
Literary Club, Boswell and Johnson at, 17
Literary Fund Society, 427
Literature, Royal Society of, 259
Locket’s Ordinary, 227
London, growth and changes of, 2;
points of departure for tours in, ib.;
start for the author’s tour in, 3;
banks in, 7;
the rebels under Tyler in, 112;
King William at the celebration of the peace of Ryswick in, 23, 24;
a bishop beheaded by the mob of, 26;
cruel treatment of a Spaniard by the mob of, 213;
the street signs of, 237;
foreigners in 1580 in, 356;
a glance at an ancient map of, 356, 357;
Pennant on its churchyards, 367;
crusade against Irish and other vagrants, 377;
royal fears as to its increase, 401;
its history an epitome of that of the world, 441;
its newspapers and periodicals, 454
Long Acre, the plague in, 262;
Oliver Cromwell’s residence in, 279;
Tory tavern Club in, 284
Lord Mayor’s Day, 23
Loutherberg, De, 167
Lowin, John, 154
Lyceum, the, 171;
exhibitions in, ib.;
experiment in, 172;
Mathew’s entertainment in, ib.;
Beefsteak Club meet in, ib.;
Mr. T. P. Cooke’s early triumphs in, 174
Lyndhurst, Lord, 395
Lyons, Emma (afterwards Lady Hamilton), 102
Lyon’s Inn, 165;
sale of its materials, ib.;
murder of Mr. Weare, ib.
Lyttelton, Sir Thomas, 44
M’Ardell, Hogarth’s engraver, 251
Mackintosh, Sir James, 464
Macklin, the actor, 436
Macready, William Charles, 337
Maginn, Dr., ballad by, 232
Malibran, Madame, 334
Manos, Gannee, and other beggars, 382
Mansfield, the Earl of, 394
Mardyn, Mrs., the actress, 335
Marlborough, the Duchess of, Congreve’s legacy to, 52;
her regard for Congreve, 53
Martin’s St., Lane, residents of, 239 et seq.;
Beard, the singer, 249;
Old Slaughter’s Coffee-house, ib.;
houses built by Payne in, 252;
curious staircase in No. 96, 253;
a house favoured by artists in, ib.;
Roubilliac’s first studio in, 257;
old house of the Earls of Salisbury in, 256;
changes in, 261
Martin’s-in-the-Fields, St., 242;
the church of, 244;
the dust enshrined in, ib.;
J. T. Smith’s visit to the vaults of, 246;
the parochial abuses of, ib.;
the old watch and stocks of, 256
Marvell, Andrew, 209;
the grave of, 370
Mary, Queen, 21
Mary, St. Savoy, the Chapel of, the dead interred in, 121;
its destruction by fire, 122;
its restoration, ib.
Mary, St., Roncevalles, the hospital of, 235
Mary-le-Strand, St., 162;
construction of, ib.;
allusions by Pope and Addison to, 163;
tragedy at, ib.;
interior of, ib.
Mathews, his entertainment, 140;
his “Mail-coach Adventures,” 172;
his bargains with Mr. Arnold, 181;
his various entertainments, ib.;
failure of his health, and death, 182;
his first attempts as an actor, 298;
his first appearance in London, 323
Matthews, Bishop of Durham, 98
Mayerne, Sir Theodore, 239;
story of, 240;
his death, 260
Maynard, Mr. Serjeant, 404
Mainwaring, Dr., 363, 364
Maypole in the Strand, the, 160;
its fall and restoration, 161;
removal of, 162
May’s Buildings, 259
Mellon, Miss, the actress, 87;
her first and second marriages, 88;
her first appearance at Drury Lane, 448;
leaves her fortune to Miss Burdett Coutts, ib.
Mendicants’ Convivial Club, 462
Mews, origin of the name, 217;
notes concerning, 218;
old bookshop at the gate of one, 219
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Michael’s, St., Alley, Cornhill, 36
Milford Lane, 38
Millar, the publisher, 56
Miller, Joe, his burial-place, 348;
his début on the stage, 439;
his last success, ib.;
his haunt, 440
Milton, John, 232
Misaubin, Dr., 253
Mitre, the, 150
Mohun, Lord, 50, 245
Monk, General, his death, 65;
the Restoration effected by, 61;
his vulgar wife, 301;
invited to a conference by the Earl of Northumberland, 200
Monmouth Street, 385;
Mr. Dickens’s description of, ib.;
modern civilisation in, 463
Montague, Lady M. W., 86
Montfort, Simon de, 107
More, Sir Thomas, 164
Morgan, the Welsh buccaneer, 264
Morley’s Hotel, 456
“Morning Chronicle,” 167;
the end of, 168
“Morning Post,” 170
Mortimer, the English Salvator, 46
Moss, the engraver, 63
Mottley, the actor, 439;
origin of his jest book, 440
Mountfort, Mrs., 434
Mountfort, the actor, 50;
his career, 435
Munden, Charles Lamb on, 327
Murphy, Arthur, 394
Murray, Major, 143
Mytens, Daniel, 240
National Gallery, opening of, 219;
the paltry design of, 75;
the first purchase of pictures for, 222;
the gems of, 223, 224;
purchases and donations for, ib.;
Turner’s bequest to, 224;
proposed removal of the pictures from, ib.;
Jacob Bell’s bequest, 225;
enlargement of the, ib.
Needham, Marchmont, 37;
his burial-place, 155
Nelson, Admiral, a tradition of, 71
Nelson Column, the, original estimate for, 220;
bassi relievi on, ib.;
adornment of the pedestal of, 221
Newcastle, the Duke of, his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 410;
his levees, ib.;
the porter’s reply to an intruder on, 411;
impertinence of his cook, 412;
anecdote of, ib.;
Smollett’s and Walpole’s sketches of, 413;
Walpole’s review of his career, ib.;
his reply to Lord Bute, 414
Newgate ballads, 463
New Inn, 164
Newspaper offices, 454
Nisbett, Mrs., 335
Nivernois, the Duc de, 18
Nokes, James, 432
Nollekens, the sculptor, 379
Norfolk Street, 44 et seq.;
Charles Dickens’s sketch of, 445
Northampton, the Earl of, 191
Northampton, Algernon, tenth Earl of, 192, 195
Northumberland, the wizard Earl of, his marriage 192;
treason, etc., ib.
Northumberland, the Duke of, 192
Northumberland House, 191;
the oldest part of, 195;
accident at, ib.;
the letters and date on its façade, 196;
destruction of the Strand front by fire, 197;
Sir John Hawkins’s and Goldsmith’s visit to Mr. Percy at, 198;
Goldsmith’s account of a visit to, 199;
pictures in the gallery of, ib.
Northumberland Street, 142;
demolition of, 200
Nottingham, the Countess of, 39, 40
Noy, Attorney-general, 389
Oates, Titus, 208, 302
O’Keefe, the dramatist, 18, 258
Oldcastle, Sir John, Lord Cobham, 352;
his imprisonment, escape, and death, ib.
Oldfield, Mrs., actress, 186;
her merits as a comedian, 310;
her death, 311
“Old Slaughter’s,” the frequenters of, 249;
Hogarth and Roubilliac at, ib.
Olympic, the, 164;
Mr. Robson’s representations at, 165
Oratory, Henley’s, 339
Oxberry, the actor, 335
Oxburgh, Sir John, 13
Oxford, the Earl of, 137
Page, Judge, 217;
the “Dunciad” on, ib.
Paget, Lord, 26
Paintings, the first exhibition in London of, 75
Palsgrave Head Tavern, 148, 151
Parr, Dr., 47
Parr, Old, 91
Parsons, parish-clerk of St. Sepulchre’s, 214
Partridge, the charlatan cobbler, 90
Pasquin (Williams), Anthony, 142
Patterson, Samuel, bookseller, 34
Payne, Mr. James, collector of MSS., 459
Payne, Roger, bookbinder, 457
Pendrell, Richard, his tomb and epitaph, 368
Penn, the Quaker, 44
Pepys, residence of, 135;
his career, 136;
residence of his father-in-law, 282;
visits Drury Lane Theatre, 302;
Lord Cottenham, a descendant of the author of the “Diary,” 395
Perceval, Spencer, 394
Percy, the Earl Marshal, 109
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Percy, Elizabeth, her marriages, 192
Perkins, Sir William, 12
Perry, James, 167
Pest-houses, 297
Peter the Great, 45;
his evenings in York Buildings, 136
Peters, Hugh, 207
Petty, William, 42
Philips, Ambrose, 248;
Pope’s lines on, ib.
Physicians, the Royal College of, 225
Pickett, Alderman, 148;
street named after, 147
“Pic-Nic,” the, London newspaper, 139
Pidgeon, Bat, barber, 160
Pierce, Edward, sculptor, 49
Pine, the engraver, 252
“Pine Apple,” the, 178
Plague, the Great, 143;
its origin in London, 262;
its progress, 263
Poitiers, the victory of, 111
Pope, the, 9
Pope, a relic of, 37;
lines on the death of Buckingham by, 132;
insolence of, 248;
reply of Sir Godfrey Kneller to, 268;
his dispute with Orator Henley, 342
Pope, Miss, the actress, 273;
her manner on the stage, 321
Porridge Island, 236
Porter, Mrs., the actress, 43
Portugal Row, 403, 421
Portugal Street, 429 et seq.
Precinct of the Savoy, 122
Precinct Club, the, 169
Prior, his boyhood, 229;
his attachments, 282;
his death, 283
Pritchard, Mrs., actress, 317
Proctor, student of the Royal Academy, 80
Prynne, William, 398
Punch, the puppet-show, 208
“Punch,” the periodical, 303
Quakers, the, 44
“Queen” newspaper, 168
Queen Street, Great, 263;
residents in, 264 et seq.;
residence of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in, 266
Quin, the actor, 187, 271;
appears on the stage with Garrick, 312;
his career as an actor, ib.;
appears at Portugal Street Theatre, 437
Radcliffe, Dr., 347
Radford, Thomas, 93
Railton, designer of the Nelson Memorial, 220
Raimbach, the engraver, 258
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 92;
Durham House unjustly taken from, 96;
costly dress worn by, ib.
Rann, John, “Sixteen-stringed Jack,” 374
Rawlinson, Dr., 16
Ray, Miss, murder of, 160
Rebecca, Biaggio, 76
Reddish, Samuel, the actor, 318
Reeve, John, 184
Rejected Addresses, the, 140
Rennie, John, architect, 124
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his club in Essex Street, 35;
his adherence to the Spring Garden Society, 73;
his lectures, 83;
lying-in-state of, 79;
residences of, 274
Rhodes, the bookseller and actor, 233, 305
Rice, Mr. (“Jim Crow”), 180
Rich, Penelope, 31
Rich, the actor and manager, 435;
legend regarding, 436;
Garrick’s lines on, 438
Richardson, the humourist, 187
Richmond, the Duke of, his gallery at Whitehall, 72
Rimbault, the clockmaker, 303
Rivet, John, a brazier, 212
Roberts, the solicitor, 143
Robin Hood Debating Society, 443
Robinson, Mrs., 318
Robinson’s Coffee-house, 215
Robson, Mr. Frederick, 165, 236
Roman Bath, in the Strand, 169
Roman Road, ancient, 349
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 400
Rookery, the, 463
Roubilliac, his burial-place, 246;
his studio, 255;
a pupil of, 257
Royal Academy, the, Somerset House, 65;
the germs of, 71;
its service to English art, 75;
its first officers, 74;
catalogue, etc., 75
Royal Academicians, the, 74
Royal Society, the, 68;
its portraits of Newton, and other curiosities, 69
“Rummer,” the, 229;
the scene of Jack Sheppard’s first robbery, 230
Russel, Lord William, 285;
his alleged plot, 405;
his appearance before the Council, 406;
his interview with French agents, ib.;
petition presented for his life, 407;
the last days of, ib.;
his execution, 408
Russel, Lady Rachel, her petition for her husband’s life, 407;
her letter to Dr. Fitzwilliams, 408
Rutland, the Earls of, 91
Ryan, the actor, 272
Rymer, the antiquary, 43, 154
Saa, Don Pantaleon de, his quarrel with Giraud, 93
Sacheverell, Dr., 409
Sadler, Thomas, the thief, 404
St. Leonards, Lord, 396
Sala, G. A., 122
Sale, George, 49
Salisbury, Earls of, old house of the, 256
Salisbury House, Little, 89
Salisbury House, Old, 89
Salisbury Street, 89
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Sandwich Islands, the king and queen of, 102
Sandwich, Montague, Earl of, 415
Savage, Richard, 216;
his escape from execution, ib.
Savage Club, the, 460
Savoy, Peter, Earl of, 107;
Henry III.’s grant to, ib.;
transfer of his manor to the chapter of Montjoy, 108
Savoy, the, moonlight meetings in, 106;
derivation of the name of, 107;
occupants of the palace of, 108;
Chaucer’s marriage in, ib.;
the vicissitudes of, 109;
attack of the mob of London on, 110;
a residence of John, King of France, 111;
its destruction by Wat Tyler, 112;
erection of an hospital on its site, 114;
its suppression and removal, 115;
Conference of the Savoy, 116;
a French church in, 117;
a sanctuary for debtors, ib.;
Strype’s description of it, ib.;
clandestine marriages in, 118;
its state in the reign of George II., ib.;
portions of it remaining in 1816, ib.;
the destruction of, 119;
Mr. G. A. Sala’s description of the Precinct of, 122;
traditions still lingering in, 123
Savoy Street, 116
Scheemakers, 333
School of Design, 446
Serle Street, origin of its name, 464
Serle’s coffee-house, Addison’s visit to, 464;
a curious letter extant at, ib.
Seven Dials, the, Mr. Dickens’s description of, 385;
Gay’s description of, 461;
the degraded state of, 462
Seymour, Lord Thomas, 39;
the mint established in aid of his designs, 95
Seymour, Sir Edward, anecdote of, 234
Seymour Place. See Arundel House
Shadwell, son of the poet, 135
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 179
Shallow, the revelry of, 158
Sheppard, Jack, the burial-place of, 246
Sheridan, Thomas, 187
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, produces the “School for Scandal,” 322;
his extravagance, 328;
sang froid exhibited in the House of Commons by, ib.;
his death, 329
Shipley, Mr., founder of the Society of Arts, 100;
his pupils, ib.
Shippen, “Honest,” 45
Shipyard, the, gable-ended house in, 148
Shorter, Sir John, 22
Siddons, Mrs., 91, 319;
the homage of distinguished men to, 320
Signs, the suppression of, 237;
adornment of old London by, 238
Simon, Old, 379-80;
portraits of, 380;
anecdotes of his dog “Rover,” ib.
Singers, theatrical, 333 et seq.
Slaughter’s, Old, 249;
Hogarth and Roubilliac at, ib.
Slaughter’s, New, 253
Sloane, Sir Hans, 284
Smith, the brothers, 330
Smith, James, 139;
epigram by, 140
Snow, the goldsmith, 151, 443
Soane, Sir John, 427
Soane Museum, the, curiosities in, 424;
impediments thrown in the way of visitors to, ib.;
its treasures, 425 et seq.;
its pictures and engravings, 426;
a satire on, 465
Sœur, Le, French sculptor, 209
Somerset, the Protector, 57
Somerset House, 56;
Elizabeth’s visits to Lord Hunsdon in, 58;
Anne of Denmark’s masquerades in, ib.;
pranks of Henrietta Maria’s French household in, ib.;
Puritans offended by Henrietta Maria’s Roman Catholic chapel in, 59;
tombs under the great square of, ib.;
death of Inigo Jones in, ib.;
the celebration of Protestant service in, ib.;
the lying-in-state of Cromwell in, 60;
Pepys’s description of a strange scene in the presence-chamber of, 61;
lying-in-state of Monk, Duke of Albemarle, in, ib.;
the murder of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, ib.;
Waller made drunk at, 62;
apartments for poor noblemen, ib.;
erection of new Government offices on the site of the old palace of, ib.;
scene witnessed by Pepys at, 63;
old prints of, ib.;
the architect of the modern buildings of, 64;
demolition of the old palace of, ib.;
Edward VI.’s furniture, and Catherine of Braganza’s breakfast room in, ib.;
dimensions of the building completed by Sir William Chambers, 65;
retirement of the Royal Academy to, ib.;
figures on the Strand front of, ib.;
Government clerks and public offices in, 66;
statue and figure in the east wing of, ib.;
office for auditing public accounts in, ib.;
learned societies sheltered in, 67;
distinguished men who must have frequented the halls of, ib.;
a legend of, 71;
a tradition of Nelson at, ib.;
accident during Reynolds’s lecture at, 78;
day-dreams in the great quadrangle of, 81
Somerset Coffee-house, 446
Somerset House Stairs, 63
Southampton Street, 185;
Garrick’s house in, ib.
Sparkes, Isaac, Irish comedian, 274
“Spectator,” office of the, 124
Spelman, Lady, 40
Spelman, Sir Henry, 391
Spenser, his death and burial, 28
Spiller, James, comedian, 154;
his death, 438
Spring Gardens Academy of Art, the, 72;
dissimulation of the king in relation to, 73;
intrigues against, ib.
[Pg 478]Stage, the, reform of declamation and costume on, 325;
first appearance of actresses, in London, on, 429
Stapleton, Walter, his death, 26
Steele, Sir Richard, his coffee-houses, 36;
his residence, 135;
his allusions to Lincoln’s Inn, 398
Stone, Nicholas, sculptor, 278
Storace, operas written by, 334
Stothard, the artist, sketch of his career, 283
Strahan and Co., bankers, 151, 451 (note)
Strand, the:—
Essex Street, 25;
Exeter House, 26;
Exeter Place, ib.;
Essex House 29;
Milford Lane, 38;
Devereux Court, ib.;
Arundel House, 39;
Arundel Street, 43;
Norfolk Street, 44;
Surrey Street, 48;
Howard Street, 49;
Strand Lane, 53;
Anderson’s pills in, ib.;
Turk’s Head Coffee-house, ib.;
residence of Jacob Tonson in, 54;
occupants of No. 141, ib.;
office of the “Illustrated London News” in, 55;
Somerset House, 56;
Haydon’s first London lodgings in, 77;
Beaufort House, 83;
the residence of Blake, in, ib.;
office of the “Sun” newspaper, 83;
Coutts’s Bank, 86;
Cecil Street, 88;
Salisbury Street and House, 89;
Mrs. Siddons’s residence in, 91;
Durham Street and House, ib.;
Buckingham Street, 135;
Villiers Street, ib.;
Duke Street, ib.;
York Buildings, ib.;
Hungerford Bridge and Market, 136;
Craven Street, 139;
Northumberland Street, 143;
the strata of, 146;
the footway in Edward II.’s time, 147;
discovery of a small bridge in, ib.;
houses on the north side of, ib. et seq.;
Butcher Row, 148;
Palsgrave Place, 151;
the Maypole in, 160;
St. Clement’s Danes, 152;
a scene of Elizabeth’s time in, 161;
St. Mary’s-le-Strand, 162;
New Inn, 164;
Wych Street, ib.;
Lyon’s Inn, 165;
Catherine Street, 166;
Doyley’s warehouse in, 168;
Wellington Street, ib.;
Lyceum Theatre, 171;
Exeter Change, 175;
familiar sounds to the old residents in, 177;
Exeter Street, 178;
Exeter Hall, ib.;
a resident in, ib.;
Exeter House, 179;
Burleigh Street, ib.;
Adelphi Theatre, 180;
Southampton Street, 185;
Bedford Street, 186;
Gaiety Theatre, 452;
memoranda relating to the south side of, 443;
do. relating to the north side of, 452
Strand, Bridge, the, 169
Strand Lane, 53;
mentioned by Addison, 169
Strand Theatre, 444, 446
Streets, the nomenclature of, 103
Strype, the antiquary, 117
Suckling, Sir John, 195;
his death, 241
Suett, the actor, 321
Suffolk House, 194
Sullivan, Luke, engraver, 251
“Sun,” office of the, 83
Surrey Street, 48
Surgeons, College of, 419
Swan, the, Charing Cross, 236
Tart-Hall, 43
Taylor, the water-poet, 279;
his complaint regarding carriages and tobacco, ib.;
epitaph on, 280
Tempest, Peter Molyn, engraver, 167
Temple Bar, its erection, 4;
description of, 5;
threatened destruction of, 6;
fixing the heads of traitors on, 11;
curious print of, 13;
heads of Fletcher, Townley, and Oxburgh, exposed on, ib.;
apprehension of a man for firing bullets at the two last heads exhibited on, 16;
Counsellor Layer’s head blown by a terrible wind from, ib.;
removal of the last iron spike from, 17;
a quotation of Dr. Johnson’s at, ib.;
proclamation of peace at, 18;
its adornment on public occasions, 19;
opening its gates to the sovereign, 20;
reception of Queen Elizabeth at, ib.;
reception of royal persons at, 21;
pageants on the passage of King James, ib.;
the mournful celebrity of, 22
Temple Club, 453
Tenison, Dr. Thomas, 247
Tennyson, Alfred, 418
Terry, an actor, 183
Thames, the, scenery on its banks, 136;
embankment of, 190;
old watermen on, 247;
Copper Holme’s ark on, ib.
Theatres, an old custom at, 172;
a riot in one, 186
Theatre, the Duke’s, 429;
a sword-fight between two factions in, 430;
the principal ladies of, ib.;
Pepys’s visits to, 431;
the principal performers at, 432 et seq.;
plays of Congreve produced at, 434;
Steele’s account of an audience in, 435;
the last proprietor of, ib.;
riot at, 436;
Macklin’s performance at, 437;
Quin’s appearance at, ib.
Thomson, the music-seller, 177
Thornbury, the Rev. Nathaniel, 47
Thornhill, Sir James, 72
Thurloe, Secretary, 392-393
Thurtell, the murderer of Weare, 165
Thynne, Tom, 193
Tillotson, Dr., 390
Tobacco, introduction of, 96
Tom’s Coffee-house, 37
Tonson, Jacob, 54
Tories, they establish tavern-clubs, 284
Townley, execution of, 14
Trafalgar Square, 220;
statues and fountains in, 221, 456
Trojan Horse, Bushnell’s, 7
Tunstall, Bishop, 92
Turk’s Head Coffee-house, 53
Turk’s Head, Gerrard Street, 72
Turner, J. W. M., anecdote of, 78;
[Pg 479]his opinion of the Thames scenery, 136;
characteristics of his works, 224;
his bequests to the nation, ib.
Tyburn, criminals on their way to, 373
Tyler Wat, 112;
a mistake of Shakspere regarding, 114 (note)
Tyrconnel, the Duchess of. See Widow, the White
Twinings, the Messrs., 35, 152
Ussher, Archbishop, 396
Union Club, the, 457
Vanderbank starts an academy of art, 72
Vane, Sir Harry, 200
Vere Street, Clare Market, 345
Vernon, Robert, 224
Vertue, 8
Vestris, Madame, 175
Via Trinovantica, 349
Victoria embankment, 191
“Ville de Paris,” the Olympic Theatre partially built of its timbers, 164
Villiers Street, 135
“Vine,” the, in St. Giles’s, 375
Vine Street, origin of the name, 300
Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, 300
Voltaire rebukes Congreve’s vanity, 52
“Vortigern,” by W. H. Ireland, 46
Waagen, Dr., 199
Waldo, Sir Timothy, 412
Wallack, the actor, 334
Waller, the poet, Saville’s saying of, 62;
lines by, 210
Wallis, Albany, residence of, 46
Walpole, a circumstance to surprise, 78;
visits the Cock Lane ghost, 196
Warburton, Bishop, 397
Ward, Dr., inventor of “Friar’s Balsam,” disposal of his statue by Carlini, 100;
attends on George II., ib.
Ward, Edward, 281
Waterloo Bridge, Dupin and Canova’s declaration respecting, 124;
chief features of, ib.;
anecdote of Old Jack, a horse employed to drag the stone to, ib.;
the dark arch of, 451
Watling Street, 349
Weare, Mr. William, 165
Webster, Benjamin, as an actor, 184
Wedderburn, his insincerity, 415;
Lord Clive’s reward to, ib.
Welch, Judge, apprehends a highwayman, 378
Wellington Street, newspapers and periodicals in, 167, 168, 454
West, anecdote of, 73;
his patronage of Proctor, 80
Westminster Fire Office, 257
Whetstone Park, 400
Whitefoord, Caleb, 141;
Adam’s room in the house of, 142;
Goldsmith’s lines on, ib.
White Horse livery stables, 257
Whitelock, Bulstrode, 234
Whittington Club, the, 152
Wickliffe, John, refuses tribute to the Pope, 109;
appears before the Bishop of London, ib.
Widow, the White, the story of, 94
Wild House, 277, 459
Wilkes, Robert, actor, 311
Wilkinson, Tate, 123
Willis, Dr. Thomas, 241
Wilson, the painter, 189, 283
Wimbledon House, Strand, and Doyley’s warehouse erected on the site of, 168
Winchester House, 271
Wither, George, 120, 121
Woffington, Peg, president of the Beefsteak Club, 173;
her career, 316
Wolcot, Dr. (Peter Pinder), 84
Wollaston, Dr., discoveries of, 88;
anecdote of, 85
Woodward, the actor, 315
Wych Street, 164, 454
Wynford, Lord, epigram on, 415
Yates, Mr., the actor, 183
Yates, Mrs., actress, 317
York House, old, 126;
river view of, 127;
celebrated men connected with, ib.;
Lord Bacon’s life here, ib.;
pictures, busts, and statues at, 131;
paintings placed in it by the Duke of Buckingham, ib.;
Pepys’s visit to, 132;
streets built on its site, 135
York Stairs, description of, 134
York Buildings, waterworks, 135, 445
York Buildings, Water Company, 445
Young, Charles, the actor, 323, 335
Zoffany, the artist, 303;
Garrick’s patronage of, 304
THE END.
Footnotes:
[1] Tom Taylor’s Life of Haydon, vol. i. p. 49.
[2] Strype, B. iii. p. 278.
[3] It was pulled down in January 1878.
[4] The steepness of Holborn Hill was abolished by the new viaduct in 1869.
[5] Cunningham’s London, vol. i. p. 260.
[6] Archenholz, p. 227.
[7] Beautifully reprinted in 1863 by Mr. J. C. Hotten.
[8] Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. p. 274.
[9] Pamphlet “The Burning of the Pope,” quoted in Brayley’s Londiniana, vol. iv. p. 74.
[10] Roger North’s Examen, p. 574.
[11] Ibid. p. 574.
[12] For a further account of these Anti-Papal proceedings the reader may refer to Sir Roger de Coverly, with notes by W. H. Wills.
[13] State Trials, x. pp. 105-124; Burnet, ii. p. 407.
[14] Hume, vol. vii. p. 220.
[15] Evelyn, vol. ii. p. 341.
[16] Temple Bar, the City Golgotha (1853), p. 33.
[17] Cobbett’s State Trials, vol. xviii.
[18] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 375.
[19] Annual Register (1766), p. 52.
[20] Nichol’s Literary Anecdotes.
[21] Brayley.
[22] Boswell, p. 258.
[23] Ovid, de Art. Amand., B. v. 339.
[24] Recollections of the Life of John O’Keefe, vol. i. p. 81.
[25] O’Keefe’s Life, vol. i. p. 101.
[26] London Scenes, by Aleph (1863), p. 75.
[27] Stow’s Annals.
[28] Hall’s Chronicle (condensed in Nichols’ London Pageants).
[29] Leland’s Collectanea, vol. iv. pp. 310 et seq.
[30] Holinshed.
[31] Nichols’ Progresses, vol. i. p. 58.
[32] Nichols’ London Pageants, p. 63.
[33] London Gazette.
[34] Nichols p. 83.
[35] Dugdale.
[36] Holinshed’s Chronicles, vol. iii. p. 338.
[37] Sharon Turner’s Hist. of England, vol. xii. p. 276.
[38] Hygford’s Exam. Murd., 57.
[39] Ibid.
[40] Pennant.
[41] Camden, p. 632.
[42] Hepworth Dixon’s Story of Lord Bacon’s Life (1862), p. 120.
[43] Hepworth Dixon’s Story of Lord Bacon’s Life (1862), p. 121.
[44] Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 160.
[45] Dr. Birch’s Memoirs of the Reign of James I.
[46] Ben Jonson’s Works (Gifford), vol. vii. p. 75.
[47] Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, x. 80.
[48] MS. Journal of the House of Commons.
[49] Smith’s Nollekens.
[50] Boswell’s Johnson (1860), p. 751.
[51] Jeaffreson’s Book about Doctors, p. 97.
[52] Boswell, vol. iv. p. 276.
[53] J. T. Smith’s Streets of London (1846), vol. i. p. 412.
[54] The Intelligencer, Jan. 23, 1664-5.
[55] Disraeli’s Curios. of Lit., p. 289.
[56] Evelyn, vol. i. p. 10.
[57] Dr. King’s Anecdotes, p. 117.
[58] Thoresby’s Diary, ii. 111-117.
[59] British Bibliographer, vol. i. p. 574.
[60] Pope’s Works (Carruthers), vol. ii. p. 379.
[61] Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, pp. 207-244.
[62] Jeaffreson’s Book about Doctors (2d edit.) pp. 207, 208.
[63] Stow, p. 161.
[64] Dryden’s Misc. Poems, iv. 275, ed. 1727 (Cunningham).
[65] Latimer’s Fourth Sermon, 1st ed.
[66] Strype, B. iv. p. 105.
[67] Earl of Monmouth’s Mem., ed. 1759, p. 77.
[68] Lysons.
[69] Dr. Birch’s Mems. of the Peers of England.
[70] Lingard’s History of England.
[71] Hughson.
[72] Cunningham (1846), vol. i. p. 38.
[73] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 292.
[74] Lilly On the Life and Death of King Charles I., p. 224.
[75] Walpole’s Anecdotes, ii. 153.
[76] Smith’s Streets, vol. i. p. 385.
[77] Thoresby’s Letters, ii. 329.
[78] Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, p. 208.
[79] Spectator, 329-335.
[80] Ireland’s Authentic Account, etc. (1796), i. p. 42.
[81] W. H. Ireland’s Vindication, p. 21.
[82] Ireland’s Vindication, p. 19.
[83] Boaden’s Life of Kemble, vol. ii. p. 172.
[84] Andrews’s History of British Journalism, vol. ii. p. 285.
[85] Strype, B. iv. p. 118.
[86] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 391.
[87] The Mourning Bride.
[88] It is doubtful whether it was not the duchess. (Wilson’s Life of Congreve, 8vo, 1730, i. p. 1 of Preface.)
[89] Cibber’s Lives of the Poets (1753).
[90] Stow, p. 165.
[91] Spectator, No. 454.
[92] Malachi Malagrowther’s Letters.
[93] Croker’s Boswell, vol. i. p. 475.
[94] Scott’s Dryden, vol. i. p. 388.
[95] Johnson’s Life of Dryden.
[96] Strype, B. ii. p. 508.
[97] Hume.
[98] Dugdale, vol. ii. p. 363.
[99] Mitford, v. 201.
[100] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 756.
[101] Stow, p. 149.
[102] Burleigh’s Diary in Munden, p. 811.
[103] Wilson’s Life of James I.
[104] L’Estrange’s Life of Charles I.
[105] Certain Information, etc., No. 11, p. 87.
[106] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 755.
[107] Essay by John D’Espagne.
[108] Ludlow’s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 615.
[109] Pepys, 2d. edit. vol. i. p. 309.
[110] Pepys, vol. i. p. 357.
[111] Aubrey’s Lives and Letters.
[112] Stow, p. 1045, ed. 1631.
[113] Pepys’s Diary, vol. i. p. 16.
[114] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 166.
[115] Ibid. p. 168.
[116] Dryden’s Essay on Dramatick Poesy, 1668.
[117] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 756.
[118] European Magazine (Mr. Moser).
[119] Smith’s Life of Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 205.
[120] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 22 (Notes by Northcote and Mr. Wornum).
[121] Chalmers’s British Poets, vol. vii. p. 101 (Ode to the Royal Society).
[122] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 26.
[123] Ibid. p. 757.
[124] Ibid.
[125] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 282.
[126] Galt’s Life of West, pt. ii. p. 25.
[127] Ibid. pp. 36-38.
[128] Strange’s Enquiry into the Rise and Establishment of the Royal Academy (1775).
[129] Pye’s Patronage of British Art, p. 134.
[130] The original thirty-six Academicians were—Benjamin West, Francesco Zuccarelli, Nathaniel Dance, Richard Wilson, George Michael Moser, Samuel Wale (a sign-painter), J. Baptist Cipriani, Jeremiah Meyer, Angelica Kauffmann, Charles Catton (a coach and sign painter), Francesco Bartolozzi, Francis Cotes, Edward Penny, George Barrett (Wilson’s rival), Paul Sandby, Richard Yeo, Mary Moser, Agostino Carlini, William Chambers (the architect of Somerset House), Joseph Wilton (the sculptor), Francis Milner Newton, Francis Hayman, John Baker, Mason Chamberlin, John Gwynn, Thomas Gainsborough, Dominick Serres, Peter Toms (a drapery painter for Reynolds, who finally committed suicide), Nathaniel Hone (who for his libel on Reynolds was expelled the Academy), Joshua Reynolds, John Richards, Thomas Sandby, George Dance, J. Tyler, William Hoare of Bath, and Johann Zoffani. In 1772 Edward Burch, Richard Cosway, Joseph Nollekens, and James Barry (expelled in 1797), made up the forty.—Wornum’s Preface to the Lectures on Painting.
[131] Pye’s Patronage of British Art, 1845, p. 136.
[132] Royal Academy Catalogues, Brit. Mus.
[133] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 381.
[134] Life of Haydon, by Tom Taylor, vol. i. p. 30.
[135] Ibid. p. 20.
[136] Thornbury’s Life of Turner.
[137] O’Keefe’s Life vol. i. p. 386.
[138] Knowles’s Life of Fuseli, vol. i. p. 32.
[139] Irvine’s Life of Falconer.
[140] Smith’s Life of Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 129.
[141] Hatton, p. 785.
[142] Postman, No. 80.
[143] Life of Blake, by Gilchrist.
[144] Andrews’s History of Journalism, vol. ii. p. 85.
[145] Strype, B. iii. p. 196.
[146] Glover’s Life, p. 6.
[147] Dennis’s Letters, p. 196.
[148] Procter’s Life of Kean, vol. ii. p. 140.
[149] Dr. King’s Art of Cookery.
[150] Spectator, No. 9.
[151] Memoirs of the Kit-Cat Club, p. 6.
[152] Defoe’s Journal, vol. i. p. 287.
[153] Letters of Lady M. W. Montagu, edited by W. M. Thomas, Esq.
[154] Annual Obituary, vol. vii.
[155] Monthly Repository, by Leigh Hunt, 1836.
[156] Procter’s Life of Kean.
[157] The Temple Anecdotes (Groombridge), p. 50.
[158] Strype, B. iv. p. 120.
[159] Ibid.
[160] Dixon’s Bacon, p. 227.
[161] Appendix to the Tatler, vol. iv. p. 615.
[162] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. iv. p. 244.
[163] Egerton Papers, by Collier, p. 376.
[164] Strype, B. vi. p. 76.
[165] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 283.
[166] London Gazette, No. 897.
[167] Pepys, vol. i. p. 137, 4to ed.
[168] Horace Walpole.
[169] Otway.
[170] Spectator, No. 155.
[171] Tatler, No. 26.
[172] Nouvelle Biographie Univ., vol. xxxviii. p. 19.
[173] Ducatus Leodiensis, fol. 1715, p. 485.
[174] British Apollo (1740), ii. p. 376.
[175] Oldys’s Life of Raleigh, p. 145.
[176] Aubrey, vol. iii. p. 513.
[177] Gough’s British Topography, vol. i. p. 743.
[178] Walpole’s Mems. of George III., vol. iv. p. 173.
[179] Elmes’s Anecdotes, vol. iii.
[180] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 83.
[181] Boswell, vol. i. p. 225.
[182] Hone’s Everyday Book, vol. i. p. 237.
[183] Pye’s Patronage of British Art (1845), pp. 61, 62.
[184] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 161.
[185] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 3.
[186] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 203.
[187] Haydon’s Life, vol. iii. p. 182.
[188] Book about Doctors, by J. C. Jeaffreson, p. 221.
[189] Archenholz, p. 109.
[190] Colman’s Random Records.
[191] See the Percy Society’s Publications.
[192] Rymer, iii. 926.
[193] Chaucer’s Works.
[194] Dugdale’s Baronetage, vol. 1. p. 789.
[195] Scala Chron., p. 175; Froissart, c. 161.
[196] Rymer, vi. 452.
[197] Froissart, lix.
[198] Walsingham, p. 248.
[199] Holinshed, vol. ii. p. 431.
[200] Shakspere incorrectly makes Jack Cade burn the Savoy. He has attributed to that Irish impostor the act of Wat Tyler, a far more patriotic man.
[201] Stow.
[202] Cowley’s Works, 10th edit. (Tonson), 1707, vol. ii. p. 587.
[203] Letter to Evelyn. Cowley’s Works (1707), vol. ii. p. 731.
[204] J. T. Smith’s Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London (1846), vol. i. p. 255.
[205] Baker’s Chronicle (1730), p. 625.
[206] Cunningham’s London (1849), vol. ii. p. 728.
[207] The Postman (1696), No. 180.
[208] Strype, B. iv. p. 107, ed. 1720.
[209] Hughson’s Walks through London, p. 207.
[210] Hughson’s Walks through London, p. 209.
[211] Dryden’s Works (1821 ed.), vol. ii. p. 105.
[212] Athenæ Ox. vol. ii. p. 1036.
[213] Cunningham (1849), vol. ii. p. 537.
[214] Wood’s Athen. Ox. ii. 396, ed. 1721.
[215] The Shepherd’s Hunting (1633).
[216] Macaulay’s History of England, vol. ii. chap. v.
[217] Buckingham’s Works (1704), p. 15.
[218] All the Year Round, May 12, 1860 (The Precinct).
[219] Andrews’s History of British Journalism, vol. ii. p. 83.
[220] Smiles’s Lives of the Engineers, vol. ii. p. 187.
[221] Smiles’s Lives of the Engineers, vol. ii. p. 186.
[222] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 93.
[223] Hepworth Dixon’s Story of Lord Bacon’s Life (1862), p. 14.
[224] Montagu, xii. 420, 432.
[225] Aubrey’s Lives, vol. ii. p. 224; Dixon’s Bacon, p. 315.
[226] Character of Lord Bacon.
[227] Dixon’s Story of Lord Bacon’s Life, p. 33 (1862). Pearce’s Inns of Court.
[228] Sir B. Gerbier.
[229] Bassompierre’s Embassy to England.
[230] Whitelocke, p. 167.
[231] Peacham’s Compleat Gentleman, ed. 1661, p. 108.
[232] Pepys, 6th June 1663.
[233] Dryden (Scott), vol. ix. p. 233.
[234] Pepys’s Diary. vol. i. p. 223.
[235] Evelyn’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 530.
[236] Rate Books of St. Martin’s.
[237] Cole’s MSS., vol. xx. folio 220.
[238] Gilchrist’s Life of Etty, vol. i. p. 221.
[239] Barrow’s Life of Peter the Great, p. 90.
[240] Ballard’s Collection, Bodleian.
[241] Pennant.
[242] Strype, B. vi. p. 76.
[243] Cunningham, vol. i. pp. 402, 403.
[244] Rate-books of St. Martin’s.
[245] Memorials of Franklin, vol. i. p. 261.
[246] Smith’s Comic Misc. vol. ii. p. 186.
[247] Memoirs of James Smith, by Horace Smith, vol. i. p. 32.
[248] Memoirs of James Smith, by Horace Smith, vol. i. p. 54.
[249] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 340.
[250] Ibid. vol. i. pt 302.
[251] Harl. MSS. 6850.
[252] Rate-books of St. Martin’s.
[253] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, pp. 281, 282.
[254] Cal. Rot. Patentium.
[255] Brayley’s Beauties of England and Wales, vol. x. part iv. p. 167.
[256] Father Hubbard’s Tale, 4to, 1604.—Middleton’s Works, vol. v. p. 573.
[257] Archer’s Vestiges of Old London (View of Crockford’s shop).
[258] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 911.
[259] Malcolm’s Londinum Rediviv. vol. iii. p. 397.
[260] Hughson’s Walks (1829).
[261] Boswell’s Life of Johnson, vol. i. p. 383.
[262] Boswell, vol. iii. p. 331.
[263] Censura Literaria, vol. i. p. 176.
[264] Spence’s Anecdotes.
[265] State Poems, vol. ii. p. 143 (“A Satyr on the Poets.”)
[266] Leigh Hunt’s Town (1857), p. 135.
[267] Hughson’s Walks, p. 184.
[268] Leigh Hunt’s Town (1859 ed.), p. 134.
[269] Strype, B. iv. p. 117.
[270] Boswell.
[271] Walpole’s Anecdotes (ed. Dallaway), vol. ii. p. 315.
[272] Leigh Hunt’s Town (1859), p. 145.
[273] Brayley’s Beauties of England and Wales, vol. x. part iv. p. 166.
[274] Malone’s Shakspere, vol. iii. p. 516.
[275] Nichols’s Hogarth, vol. ii. p. 70.
[276] Cunningham (1849), vol. i. p. 210.
[277] Hughson’s Walks through London, p. 188.
[278] Chalmers’s Biog. Dict. vol. v. p. 64.
[279] Boswell, ed. Croker, vol. ii. 201.
[280] Stow, p. 166.
[281] Sir G. Buc, in Howes (ed. 1631), p. 1075.
[282] Fitzstephen, circa, 1178: the quotation refers, however, more to the north of London.
[283] Tennyson.
[284] Malcolm’s London, vol. ii.
[285] Knox’s Elegant Extracts.
[286] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 146.
[287] Henry IV. second part, act iii. sc. 2.
[288] Prot. Dissenters’ Magazine, vol. vi.
[289] Smith’s Life of Nollekens, vol. i. 365.
[290] Cradock’s Memoirs, vol. iv. p. 166.
[291] Garrard to the Earl of Strafford, vol. i. p. 227.
[292] Citie’s Loyaltie Displayed, 4to, 1661.
[293] Pepys.
[294] Aubrey’s Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 457.
[295] Malcolm’s Streets of London (1846), vol. i. p. 363.
[296] Parish Clerks’ Survey, p. 286.
[297] Cunningham’s Lives of the Painters, vol. iii. p. 292.
[298] Pope’s Dunciad.
[299] Addison’s Freeholder, No. 4.
[300] J. T. Smith’s Streets of London (1846), vol. i. pp. 366, 367.
[301] Sir G. Buc (Stow by Howes), p. 1075, ed. 1631.
[302] Roper’s Life of Sir Thomas More, by Singer, p. 52.
[303] Spectator No. 2, March 2, 1710-11.
[304] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 606.
[305] Sir G. Buc, in Howes, p. 1076, ed. 1631.
[306] Trivia.
[307] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. i. p. 338.
[308] Hone’s Every-day Book, vol. i. p. 1300.
[309] Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 612.
[310] No. 102.
[311] Pennant’s London (1813), p. 204.
[312] Spectator, No. 454.
[313] Spectator, No. 454.
[314] Andrews’s History of Journalism, vol. ii. p. 8.
[315] Brayley’s Theatres of London (1826), p. 40.
[316] Brayley, p. 42.
[317] Chetwood’s History of the Stage, p. 141.
[318] Spectator, No. 468.
[319] Ward’s Secret History of Clubs, ed. 1709.
[320] Victor.
[321] Edwards’s Anecdotes of Painting, p. 20.
[322] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 110.
[323] P. Cunningham.
[324] Dr. King’s Art of Cookery, humbly inscribed to the Beef-steak Club. (1709.)
[325] Leigh Hunt’s Town (1859), p. 191.
[326] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 297.
[327] Delaune.
[328] Strype, B. iv. p. 119.
[329] Leigh Hunt’s Town, ch. iv.
[330] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 281.
[331] Ibid. p. 269.
[332] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 276.
[333] Cunningham, p. 187.
[334] Whitelocke.
[335] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, vol. vi. p. 20.
[336] The Stage, by Alfred Bunn, vol. iii. p. 131.
[337] Life of Mathews, by Mrs. Mathews (abridged by Mr. Yates), p. 211.
[338] Life of Mathews, by Mrs. Mathews.
[339] Critical Essays (1807), p. 140.
[340] Hazlitt’s Criticisms of the English Stage, p. 98.
[341] Hazlitt’s Criticisms of the English Stage, p. 98.
[342] Cole’s Life of C. Kean, vol. ii. p. 260.
[343] Strype, B. vi. p. 93.
[344] Stow.
[345] Davies’s Life of Garrick, vol. x. p. 217.
[346] Strype, B. vi. p. 93.
[347] Cunningham’s London (1850), p. 219.
[348] Whyte’s Miscellanea Nova, p. 49.
[349] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 597.—Rate-books of St. Martin’s.
[350] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 248.
[351] Dixon’s Story of Lord Bacon’s Life, p. 204.
[352] English Causes Célèbres (edited by Craik), vol. i. p. 79.
[353] Memoirs of the Peers of James I., p. 240.
[354] Autobiography of Lord Herbert, p. 110
[355] Suckling’s Poems.
[356] Camden’s Annals of King James.
[357] Londinum Redivivum.
[358] Walpole to Montague, Feb. 2, 1762.
[359] Dix’s Life of Chatterton, p. 267.
[360] Foster’s Life of Goldsmith, p. 216.
[361] Irving’s Oliver Goldsmith (1850), p. 90.
[362] Dr. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, vol. i. p. 394.
[363] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 354.
[364] Walpole, vol. i. p. 277.
[365] The Famous Chronicle of King Edward I. (4to., 1593).
[366] Bosworth’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary.
[367] Hamlet.
[368] Diversions of Purley.
[369] Peele’s Works (Dyce), vii. 575.
[370] Rymer, ii. 498.
[371] Heming, 590.
[372] Walpole, vol. i. p. 32.
[373] Gleanings from Westminster Abbey, 2d edition, p. 152 (W. Burges), Roxburghe Club.
[374] Lilly’s Observations.
[375] Carlyle’s Cromwell, vol. i. p. 99.
[376] State Trials, vol. v. pp. 1234-5.
[377] Narcissus Luttrell.
[378] Overseers’ Books (Cunningham, vol. i. p. 179).
[379] Harl. MSS. 7315.
[380] Carpenter (quoted by Walpole, Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 395).
[381] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. ii. p. 394.
[382] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. i. p. 139.
[383] Archenholz, Tableau de l’Angleterre, vol. ii. p. 164, 1788.
[384] Burnet, vol. ii. p. 53, ed. 1823.
[385] Annual Register (1810).
[386] Cobbett’s State Trials, vol. xvii. p. 160.
[387] Archenholz, vol. i. p. 166.
[388] Daily Advertiser, 1731.
[389] Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. i.
[390] v. 85.
[391] Hogarth’s Works (Nicholls and Steevens), vol. i. p. 162.
[392] Smith’s London, vol. i. p. 141.
[393] Notes and Queries (vol. vi., 1858), p. 364.
[394] Dunciad, B. iv. 30.
[395] Pope’s Works (edited by R. Carruthers), vol. ii. p. 314.
[396] Stow, p. 167.
[397] Report, May 16, 1844.
[398] Smith’s London, vol. i. p. 133.
[399] Dr. Waagen, vol. i. p. 6.
[400] Waagen, vol. i. p. 322.
[401] Ibid. vol. i. p. 331.
[402] Cunningham, nearly always correct, says £10,000 (vol. ii. p. 577).
[403] Waagen, vol. ii. p. 329.
[404] Cunningham’s London, p. 428.
[405] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. i. p. 153.
[406] Rate-books of St. Martin’s (Cunningham).
[407] MSS., Birch, 4221, quoted in the notes of the Tatler.
[408] “Country Wife.”
[409] “The Scowrers.”
[410] State Poems.
[411] “The Hind and the Panther Transversed.”
[412] “The Relapse.”
[413] The Art of Cookery.
[414] Weekly Journal, Nov. 21, 1724.
[415] London Gazette, June 4, 1688.
[416] Dunciad, B. ii. v. 411.
[417] Flying Post, June 23, 1716.
[418] Pope’s Works (Carruthers), vol. ii. pp. 309, 310.
[419] Leigh Hunt’s Essays on the Theatres (1807), p. 64.
[420] Philips’s Life of Milton, p. 32, 12mo, 1694.
[421] Cunningham (1850), p. 107.
[422] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 163.
[423] Royal Guide to the London Charities, 1878-79.
[424] Life of Dr. John North.
[425] Whitelock, p. 470, ed. 1732.
[426] Burnet, vol. ii. p. 70, ed. 1823.
[427] Boswell (Croker), vol. iii. p. 213.
[428] Willis’s History of the See of Llandaff.
[429] Bartholomew Fair (Ben Jonson).
[430] Gifford’s Ben Jonson, iv. p. 430.
[431] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 505.
[432] The World, Nov. 29, 1753.
[433] Robson: a Sketch (Hotten, 1864).
[434] Aubrey, iii. 415.
[435] “Treacherous Brothers,” 4to, 1696.
[436] St. James’s Chronicle, April 24, 1762.
[437] Ibid. May 26, 1761.
[438] Edwards’ Anecdotes, pp. 116, 117.
[439] Rate-books of St. Martin’s.
[440] Lord Orford’s Anecdotes of Painting.
[441] J. C. Jeaffreson’s Book about Doctors, p. 109.
[442] Ath. Ox. vol. ii.
[443] Gifford’s Ben Jonson, vol. ix. pp. 48, 63, 64.
[444] Aubrey’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 332.
[445] Recital in grant to the parish from King James I.
[446] Cunningham’s London (1849), vol. ii. p. 526.
[447] Burnet’s Own Times, vol. i. p. 327, ed. 1823.
[448] Allan Cunningham’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 290.
[449] Biog. Brit.
[450] Smith’s Life of Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 233.
[451] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, pp. 251, 252.
[452] Prologues to the Satires, v. 180.
[453] Dr. Johnson’s Life of Ambrose Philips.
[454] Smith’s Nollekens and his Times, vol. ii. p. 222.
[455] Cunningham (1850), p. 450.
[456] Smith’s Streets, vol. ii. p. 208.
[457] Smith, vol. ii. p. 97.
[458] Smith, p. 211.
[459] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 212.
[460] Smith, vol. ii. p. 224.
[461] Smith’s Streets of London, vol. ii. p. 226.
[462] Wine and Walnuts, vol. i. p. 178, a curious and amusing book, the truth in which is spoiled by an injudicious and eccentric mixture of fiction.
[463] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. pp. 93, 94.
[464] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 233.
[465] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 238.
[466] Ibid. p. 241.
[467] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 143.
[468] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 244.
[469] Ibid. p. 250.
[470] Recollections of O’Keefe, vol. i. p. 108.
[471] Knowles’s Life of Fuseli, vol. i. p. 57.
[472] Passages of a Working Life, by Charles Knight, vol. i. pp. 114, 115.
[473] Hume’s Learned Societies, pp. 84, 85.
[474] Dr. Hodges’ Letter to a Person of Quality, p. 15.
[475] Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year.
[476] Dr. Hodges’ Loimologia, p. 7 (from the reprint in 1720, when the plague was raging in France).
[477] Ibid. pp. 19, 20.
[478] Howes, p. 1048.
[479] Bagford, Harl. MSS. 5900, fol. 50.
[480] Walpole’s Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii. p. 25.
[481] Evelyn’s Diary (1850), vol. ii. p. 59.
[482] Evelyn’s Diary, vol. ii. p. 153 (1850).
[483] Life of Lord Herbert (1826), p. 304.
[484] Horace Walpole.
[485] Aubrey’s Lives, vol. ii. p. 387.
[486] Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting (Dallaway), vol. ii. p. 593.
[487] Richardson.
[488] Walpole, vol. ii. p. 563 (partly from Dallaway’s version of the same story).
[489] Dallaway.
[490] Walpole, vol. ii. p. 594.
[491] Spence.
[492] Aubrey, vol. ii p. 132.
[493] Dallaway’s Notes.
[494] Clarendon, B. ii. p. 2117.
[495] Ibid. B. i. p. 116.
[496] Clarendon, B. viii. p. 694.
[497] Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 452.
[498] Doran’s Her Majesty’s Servants, vol. ii. p. 51.
[499] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 226.
[500] Ibid. p. 226.
[501] Hazlitt’s Criticisms of the English Stage, p. 49.
[502] O’Keefe’s Life, vol. i. p. 322.
[503] Leigh Hunt, p. 226.
[504] Life of Benjamin Franklin (1826), p. 31.
[505] Life of the Duke of Ormond (1747), pp. 67, 80.
[506] Macaulay, vol. ii. p. 560.
[507] Bramston, p. 339.
[508] Annual Register (1780), pp. 254-287.
[509] Life of Inigo Jones, by P. Cunningham, p. 22 (Shakspere Society).
[510] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 90.
[511] Cibber’s Lives, vol. ii. p. 10.
[512] Ibid. p. 11.
[513] Cunningham’s London, vol. ii. p. 501.
[514] Dryden’s Works (Scott), vol. i. p. 204.
[515] Scott’s Dryden, vol. xiii. p. 7.
[516] Cibber’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 293.
[517] Wine and Walnuts, vol. ii. p. 277.
[518] Cibber’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 47.
[519] Cibber’s Lives, vol. iv. p. 47.
[520] Mrs. Bray’s Life of Stothard, p. 47.
[521] Defoe’s Journey through England.
[522] Wine and Walnuts, vol. ii. p. 167.
[523] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 27.
[524] Times, Sept. 26, 1796.
[525] Talfourd’s Final Memorials of Charles Lamb, vol. i. p. 56.
[526] Burke’s Landed Gentry (1858), p. 320.
[527] Pennant.
[528] Lingard, vol. vi. p. 607.
[529] Walton’s Lives (1852), p. 22.
[530] Angel in the House, by Mr. Coventry Patmore.
[531] Dedication to Translation of Juvenal.
[532] Donne’s Poems (1719), p. 291.
[533] Miss Benger’s Memoirs of the Queen of Bohemia, vol. ii. p. 322.
[534] Miss Benger’s Memoirs of the Queen of Bohemia, vol. ii. p. 428.
[535] Sydney State Papers, vol. ii. p. 723.
[536] Benger, vol. ii. p. 457.
[537] Ibid., Preface.
[538] Brayley’s Londiniana, vol. iv. p. 301.
[539] Walpole’s Anecdotes, p. 210.
[540] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 204.
[541] Wilson’s Life of James I. (1653), p. 146.
[542] Aubrey’s Anecdotes and Traditions, p. 3.
[543] Trivia.
[544] Rate-books of St. Martin’s, quoted by P. Cunningham.
[545] Granger’s Biographical History of England (1824), vol. v. p. 356.
[546] Pepys’s Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 75.
[547] Curll’s History of the English Stage, vol. i. p. III.
[548] Miscellaneous Works by the late Duke of Buckingham, etc., p. 35 (1704).
[549] Miscellaneous Works by the late Duke of Buckingham, etc., vol. i. p. 34.
[550] Burnet’s History of his own Times (1753), vol. i. p. 387.
[551] Leigh Hunt’s Town (1859), p. 282.
[552] Evelyn’s Mems. vol. ii. p. 339.
[553] Collier, iii. 328.
[554] Prynne’s Histrio-Mastix (1633).
[555] Pepys (May 8, 1663).
[556] Cibber’s Apology, p. 338. ed. 1740.
[557] Doran, vol. i. p. 57.
[558] Dec. 7, 1666.
[559] Jan. 23, 1667.
[560] April 20, 1667.
[561] Doran, p. 97.
[562] Doran, vol. i. p. 79.
[563] Leigh Hunt, p. 267.
[564] Cibber’s Apology, 250.
[565] Doran, vol. i. p. 466.
[566] Tatler, No. 182.
[567] Doran, vol. i. p. 464.
[568] Cumberland’s Memoirs, p. 59.
[569] Davies’s Miscellanies, vol. i. p. 126.
[570] Doran, vol. ii. p. 126.
[571] Ibid. p. 149.
[572] Doran, vol. i. p. 511.
[573] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 7.
[574] Dr. Doran, vol. ii. p. 277.
[575] Dr. Doran’s Knights and their Days.
[576] Elia, p. 217.
[577] Doran, vol. ii. p. 330.
[578] Leigh Hunt’s Essays on the Theatres, p. 124.
[579] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 47.
[580] Elia, p. 216.
[581] Moore’s Sheridan, p. 140.
[582] Ibid. p. 181.
[583] Murphy’s Garrick.
[584] Doran, vol. ii. p. 489.
[585] Leigh Hunt’s Essays on the Theatres, p. 124.
[586] Ibid. p. 78.
[587] Hazlitt’s Criticisms of the Stage, p. 441.
[588] Elia, p. 221.
[589] Doran, vol. ii. p. 476.
[590] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 47.
[591] Hazlitt’s Criticisms, pp. 49, 50.
[592] Elia (1853), p. 206.
[593] Elia, p. 232.
[594] Ibid. p. 213.
[595] Moore’s Life of Sheridan, p. 637.
[596] Moore’s Sheridan, p. 637.
[597] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. ii. p. 113.
[598] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 51.
[599] Ibid. p. 212.
[600] The Georgian Era, vol. iv. p. 43.
[601] Hazlitt’s Essays, p. 49.
[602] Lounger’s Commonplace Book, vol. ii. p. 137.
[603] Dunciad, B. iii. p. 199.
[604] Lounger’s Commonplace Book, vol. ii. p. 141.
[605] The Intelligencer, No. 3.
[606] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 248.
[607] Fly Leaves (Miller), vol. i. p. 96.
[608] Disraeli’s Miscellanies, p. 77.
[609] Wine and Walnuts, vol. ii. p. 150.
[610] Jeaffreson’s Book about Doctors (2d ed.), p. 85.
[611] The very earliest was granted to Philip the Hermit, for gravelling the road at Highgate.
[612] Rymer’s Fœdera.
[613] Fuller’s Church History.
[614] Vaughan’s Life of Wickliffe.
[615] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 11.
[616] Ibid. (1829), p. 2.
[617] Pennant (4th ed.), p. 3.
[618] Butler’s Lives of the Saints.
[619] Aggas’s Map, published in 1578 or 1560.
[620] Stow’s Survey, 1595.
[621] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 46.
[622] Evelyn’s Diary.
[623] Brayley’s Londiniana.
[624] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, pp. 58, 59.
[625] Defoe’s History of the Plague.
[626] Maitland’s History of London.
[627] Dr. Sydenham.
[628] Dr. Hodgson’s Journal of the Plague.
[629] Dr. Hodges on the Plague.
[630] Fuller’s Church History.
[631] Hume.
[632] Fuller.
[633] Parliamentary Report.
[634] Ralph.
[635] Rowland Dobie’s History of St. Giles’s, p. 119.
[636] Pennant’s London, p. 159.
[637] Cunningham’s London, vol. i. p. 339.
[638] Annual Register, 1827.
[639] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 367.
[640] Strype.
[641] Strype.
[642] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 225.
[643] Cunningham’s London, vol. i. p. 384.
[644] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, p. 21.
[645] Stow, p. 164.
[646] Pennant.
[647] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, p. 29, date 1774.
[648] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day is one of the best works of a clever London antiquarian, to whose industry, as well as to Mr. Peter Cunningham’s, the author is much indebted, as his foot-notes pretty well show.
[649] Dryden’s Limberham.
[650] Love for Love.
[651] Stow.
[652] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 66.
[653] Parton’s account of St. Giles’s.
[654] Parton.
[655] Smith’s Nollekens, vol. i. p. 130.
[656] Archenholz, p. 117.
[657] Smith’s Book for a Rainy Day, p. 74.
[658] Dobie’s History of St. Giles’s, p. 204.
[659] Bell’s Life in London, July 12, 1829.
[660] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 565.
[661] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 566.
[662] Sketches by Boz, p. 44.
[663] Sketches by Boz, p. 45.
[664] Dobie’s St. Giles’s, p. 362.
[665] T. Hudson Turner, Archæological Journal, Dec. 1848.
[666] Sir G. Buc in Stow, by Howes, p. 1072 (ed. 1631).
[667] Pennant, p. 176.
[668] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 480.
[669] Walpole, by Dallaway, vol. ii. p. 37.
[670] Lloyd’s State Worthies.
[671] State Trials, iv. 445, fol. ed.
[672] Hudibras, part iii. c. 3.
[673] Granger’s Biography in art. “Margaret Roper.”
[674] Dr. Birch’s Life of Tillotson.
[675] Hale’s Life, by Burnet.
[676] Biog. Brit., by the Hon. and Rev. F. Egerton.
[677] Preface to Thurloe’s State Papers, 1742.
[678] Biog. Brit.
[679] Session of the Poets.
[680] Johnson’s Lives.
[681] Ath. Ox. vol. ii.
[682] Foote’s Life of Murphy.
[683] Campbell’s Lives of the Chief Justices, vol. iii. p. 221.
[684] Dr. Johnson.
[685] Pennant, p. 176.
[686] Evelyn’s Diary, vol. ii. p. 60 (1850).
[687] The Devil is an Ass.
[688] Aubrey.
[689] Gifford’s Ben Jonson, vol. i. p. 9.
[690] Fuller’s Worthies, vol. ii. p. 112.
[691] Gifford, vol. i. p. 14.
[692] Moore’s Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 211.
[693] Poems on Affairs of State, vol. i. p. 147.
[694] Cunningham.
[695] Rymer’s Fœdera, vol. xvii. p. 120.
[696] Wilkinson’s Handbook for Egypt, p. 185.
[697] Cunningham’s Life of Inigo Jones, p. 23 (Shakspere Society).
[698] Canting Academy, 1674 (Malcolm).
[699] Cunningham.
[700] Rate-books of St. Clement’s Danes (Cunningham).
[701] Wharton’s Works.
[702] Life of Lord W. Russell, by Lord John Russell, 3d ed. vol. ii. p. 18.
[703] Fox’s History of the Reign of James II. (Introduction).
[704] Lord John Russell, vol. i. p. 121.
[705] Raplin, vol. xiv. p. 333.
[706] Burnet’s History of his own Times (1725), vol. ii.
[707] Letters of Lady Russell, 7th ed. 1819.
[708] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 522.
[709] Daily Journal, July 9, 1735.
[710] Ireland Inns of Court, p. 129.
[711] Macaulay’s History of England, vol. i. p. 353.
[712] Walpole’s Anecdotes, vol. iii. p. 167.
[713] Pennant, p. 238.
[714] Lady M. W. Montague’s Letters.
[715] Burney’s Hist. of Music, vol. iv. p. 667.
[716] Lord Chesterfield (Mahon), vol. ii. p. 264.
[717] Hawkins’s Life of Johnson, p. 192.
[718] Pugh’s Life of Jonas Hanway (1787), p. 184.
[719] Lounger’s Commonplace Book, vol. i. p. 361.
[720] Macaulay’s Essay on Walpole’s Letters.
[721] Walpole’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 169.
[722] Campbell’s Lives of the Lord Chancellors, vol. vi. p. 105.
[723] Campbell’s Chief Justices, vol. ii. p. 563.
[724] Pepys, vol. ii. p. 272.
[725] Ibid. p. 282.
[726] Hatton’s New View of London (1708), p. 627.
[727] Clarendon, vol. vi. pp. 89, 90.
[728] Grosley’s Tour to London, vol. ii. p. 309.
[729] Walpole’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 137.
[730] Walpole’s Letters, vol. vii. p. 223.
[731] Ibid. vol. ix. p. 307.
[732] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 228.
[733] Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs, p. 92.
[734] Ibid. p. 94.
[735] Lady Fanshawe’s Memoirs, pp. 300, 301.
[736] Moore’s Diary, vol. iv. p. 193.
[737] Ibid. p. 35.
[738] Coleridge’s Table Talk.
[739] Townsend, vol. i. p. 91.
[740] “The Alabaster sarcophagus of Oimeneptah I., King of Egypt, now in Sir John Soane’s Museum. Drawn by Joseph Bonomi, and described by Samuel Sharpe.” London: Longmans and Co. 1864.
[741] Annual Register (1837).
[742] Chapone’s Letters, vol. ii. p. 68.
[743] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 237.
[744] Malone, pp. 135, 136.
[745] Grammont’s Mems. (1811), vol. ii. p. 142.
[746] Doran’s Her Majesty’s Servants, vol. i. p. 80.
[747] Pepys, vol. iii. p. 136.
[748] Pepys, vol. iv. p. 2.
[749] Cibber’s Apology, chap. v.
[750] Ibid.
[751] Doran, vol. i. p. 119.
[752] Doran, vol. i. p. 149.
[753] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 245.
[754] Cibber’s Apology, 2d. ed. p. 138.
[755] Baker’s Biog. Dram., vol. i. p. 270.
[756] Doran, vol. i. p. 542.
[757] Doran, vol. i. p. 424.
[758] Ibid. p. 446.
[759] Leigh Hunt’s Town, p. 427.
[760] Cunningham (1850), p. 406.
[761] Doran, vol. i. p. 327.
[762] Whincop’s Scanderberg, p. 80 (1747).
[763] Fly Leaves, by John Miller, p. 20.
[764] The name of Strahan, Paul, and Bates’s firm was originally Snow and Walton. It was one of the oldest banking-houses in London, second only to Child’s. At the period of the Commonwealth Snow and Co. carried on the business of pawnbrokers, under the sign of the “Golden Anchor.” The firm suspended payment about 1679 (as did many other banks), owing to the tyranny of Charles II. Strahan (the partner at the time of the last failure) had changed his name from Snow; his uncle, named Strahan (Queen’s printer?) having left him £180,000, making change of name a condition. It is curious that on examining Strahan and Co.’s books, it was found by those of 1672 that a decimal system had been then employed. Strahan was known to all religious people. Bates had for many years been managing clerk. The firm had also a navy agency in Norfolk Street. They had encumbered themselves with the Mostyn Collieries to the amount of £139,940, and backed up Gandells, contractors who were making railways in France and Italy and draining Lake Capestang, lending £300,000 or £400,000. They finally pledged securities (£22,000) to the Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Prebendary of Rochester. Sir John Dean Paul got into a second-class carriage at Reigate, the functionaries trying to get in after him; the porter pulled them back, the train being in motion! Paul went to London alone, and in spite of telegraph got off, but at eight o’clock next night surrendered. The three men were tried October 26 and 27, 1858.
[765] Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings (1863), pp. 6, 7.
[766] Harleian MS., 6850.
[767] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 378. I may here, as well as anywhere else, express my thanks to this careful and most industrious antiquary.
[768] Mrs. Cornwall Baron Wilson’s Memoirs of the Duchess of St. Albans (1840), vol. i. p. 331.
[769] Kippis, Bio. Brit. iv. p. 266.
[770] Thornbury’s British Artists, vol. i. p. 171.
[771] Gentleman’s Magazine, August 1783, p. 709.
[772] David Copperfield (1864), p. 208.
[773] The Clubs of London, vol. ii. p. 150.
[774] The Clubs of London (1828), vol. ii.
[775] Notes and Queries, vol. vi. 2d series, p. 131.
[776] Hatten, p. 24.
[777] Cunningham, vol. i. p. 378.
[778] Notes and Queries (Bolton Corney), vol. viii. 2d series, p. 122.
[779] Burnet, vol. i. p. 338.
[780] Pepys, vol. v. p. 436.
[781] Pennant, p. 215.
[782] Trivia.
[783] Anecdotes of Painting, iv. 22.
[784] Malone’s Dryden, ii. 97.
[785] Mr. Rimbault in Notes and Queries, Feb. 1850.
[786] Clubs of London, vol. ii. p. 263.
[787] All from Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 731, and how much else.
[788] Notes and Queries, 2d series, vol. xi. p. 289.
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